Amusements Under Broadway Lights and Stages
A compact listing of daily showings across New York venues. Vaudeville acts, operas, burlesque, and dramatic performances fill theatres from the Academy of Music to the Metropolis, with times ranging afternoon to late evening and featured titles including The Rose of the Rancho, Miss Hook of Holland, The Merry Widow, and Die Meistersinger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Academy OF Music
Rancho
Belasco
Warrens
Virginia
Broadway
Casino
Criterion
Hammersteins
Herald Square
Hippodrome
Port Arthur
Hudson
Knick Prbocker
New York
Liberty
Polly
The
Circus Lyceum
Madison Square
Madison Square Garden
Majestic
Manhattan Opera House
la Traviata Mendelssohn Hall
Metropolitax Opera House
Die Meister
NEW Amsterdam
NEW Circle
SAVOY
S&t Nicholas Rink
Stuyvesant
Wallace S
Weber
Music Hall
New York Daily Eriborne Editorial Data and Leadership
The 1905 issue reveals ownership by The Tribune Association, a New York corporation, with offices at Tribune Building, 153 Nassau Street. Ogden Millis serves as president, Nathaniel Tuttle as secretary and treasurer, with officers’ addresses listed at the newspaper office.
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The
Tribune Association
New York
Tribune Building
Nassau Street
Ogden Millis
Nathaniel Tuttle
Offi
Congressional and World News Snapshot
Senate clash over Panama bond issue and Ohio postmasters. House charges over penal code bill. Foreign notes include Rio de Janeiro naval visit and a Japanese premier resignation bid. Domestic items cite rail talks, Panama Canal cost figures, Cuba handover plan, stock boosts, banking news, Thaw trial, and Fourth Avenue subway safeguards. Weather: fair and warmer with yesterday’s high 36, low 27.
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Congress
Senate
Culberson
Ohio
Foraker
House
Representative Payne
Rio de Janeiro
Penna
Dudley
Marquis Saionji
Finance
Communications
Justice
Interior
Count von Kanitz
Reichstag
Senate Committee On Finance
Hansbrough
Rhoades Opera House
Boyertown
Penn
Goethals
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Panama Canal
Taft
Cuba
Paul Milyoukov
Russia
Carnegie Hall
Hughes
S. L. Butler
Automobile Club of America
Kenneth Hay
H. K. Thaw
Fourth Avenue
New Way to Collect Arrears Proposed by Advisory Commission
The Advisory Commission on Taxation and Finance recommends a reform to arrest arrears collection. Previous penalties were overly severe and impractical, with three year unpaid taxes triggering leases of a thousand years or fee simple sales that yielded few bidders. The commission seeks an expedient approach to compel delinquent taxpayers to resolve balances.
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Advisory Commission On Taxation and Finance
Brooklyn
New York
Advisory Commission
Weller
City proposes lien based tax plan as mortgage like sale
A proposed plan treats unpaid taxes as a lien on the property. After three years, the lien can be auctioned to the lowest interest bidder at up to 12 percent. The lien acts like a first mortgage with foreclosure rules, ensuring prompt tax recovery while the owner retains ownership.
Turn on the light and fire hose scandal inquiry
A city editor-style critique urges a rigorous inquiry into the fire hose scandal mirroring prior probes of the Ahearn case. It links defective hoses, faulty contracts, and graft to the Parker Building fire, warning that poor equipment risks lives and property while questioning spending and bid practices by Tam many insiders.
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McClellan
Ahearn
Murphy
Lantry
O’brien
New York Board of Underwriters
Croker
Board of Underwriters
Tammany
Steadying Power of Exports in 1907 Trade Rise
The article reviews export trade gains in November and December 1907, noting record values for staples like breadstuffs meat and dairy products cotton and oils. It highlights a $14.7 million December over 1906 increase and a $70.5 million rise for 1907, with imports of gold offset by grain and agricultural exports.
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Europe
the Tribune
National Prosperity Tied to Diversified Trade Growth
The passage notes losses from overspeculation, a better balanced foreign trade, and reduced dependence on agricultural exports. It highlights 1907 as a year when exports of manufactured goods exceeded imports, signaling healthy growth in trade and industry and a stability not seen when wheat and cotton dominated. It argues that current conditions imply no long or severe breach in national prosperity.
New Jersey Governor Stokes Seeks Continuity in State Policy
The governor’s message to the New Jersey Legislature emphasizes a prudent farewell approach due to term limits while praising three years of reform. It notes defects in laws, highlights achievements in good government, and expresses confidence that the next governor will sustain a rational, beneficent policy for a further three years.
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Stokes
New Jersey
Size of the canal locks and future needs
Secretary Taft favors widening Panama Canal locks from 100 to 110 feet, arguing larger ships will be built and that the extra $5,000,000 cost now is prudent. The piece warns against short sighted limits and urges building for all time to accommodate future vessels and avoid costly post completion changes.
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Taft
Panama Canal
Oregon
Indiana
Campania
Lucania
Panama
Tax on culture and the case for art tariff repeal
The piece argues against tariffs on imported art, contending they harm culture and fail to protect American artists. It cites opposition from college presidents and civic groups, notes art’s unique individuality prevents real competition with foreign works, and asserts free art could boost demand for American creators.
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Congress
American Free Art League
Inness
Whistler
Boecklin
Mauve
Luxury and forest reserves frame a tariff debate
The piece argues that the meaning of luxury versus necessity varies by tastes and intelligence, warning against strict readings of tariff theory. It cites President Roosevelt praising forest land acquisition for Appalachia and White Mountain reserves, while noting how policy can be delayed by political obstruction despite broad approval.
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Metropolitan Museum
Roosevelt
Appalachian National Forest Association
Appalachian
White Mountain
Congress
Political squabbles and sharp rhetoric across states
A compendium of editorials mocks North Carolina Governor Glenn, Kentucky senatorial bids, a London scientist’s claim about insects blushing, and St Petersburg Port Arthur defenses. It cites rail fare fights, political tactics, and the exchange of harsh words among radicals and officials.
Old Boots and Shoes Repurposed Into Combs and Dye
A British trade journal explains old leather footwear are cut up and treated with chlorine to harden then ground to powder. Mixed with resins or glue, pressed into molds to form combs buttons and other articles. Also describes making Prussian blue dye from leather scraps. The rest surveys jokes, letters, and European cultural notes from various outlets.
President declines Indiana monument dedication invitation
The Tribune Bureau reports the President, invited by the Vice President, to attend the Benjamin Harrison monument dedication in Indianapolis next summer, declined. A January 27 conference is set with major railroad representatives on legal and legislative questions upon a request from Senator Warner and R. Gray of the St Louis San Francisco Railroad.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Warner
R. Gray
St. Louis
White House
Aldrich
Flint
Boral
Dixon
Long
Maltby
New York
Sims
Chicago
Hoggatt
Alaska
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Orchestra
Longworth
Hobson
William Corcoran Eustis
Tuckerman
Cabinet Dinner Hosts Roosevelt and Root Pair
The President and Mrs Roosevelt attended a cabinet dinner hosted by Secretary of State Root, the first such event of the season. Guests included Justice Holmes, Justice Moody, Senator Lodge, and multiple other high officials and their spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Root
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Justice Moody
Senator Lodge
Knox
William Sheffield Cowles
Robert Bacon
the Treasury
Beekman Winthrop
Cameron
Hope Slater
George Vanderbilt
Edward Tiffany Dyer
Thomas Nelson Page
the Interior
Garfield
Great Britain
James Bryce
Wilson
J. Franklin Bell
William J. Boardman
Herbert Wadsworth
Bayard
Diplomatic Corps Hosts at Philadelphia Orchestra Event
The British Ambassador and Mrs Bryce entertained guests in their box to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra. The French naval attaché and Mme de Blanpré hosted dinner for the Ambassador from Russia, and other dignitaries including the third Assistant Secretary of State and Mrs Huntington Wilson, Mr and Mrs Crowninshield, Prince Koudacheff, Miss Elizabeth Kean, Miss Lucy Kean, Baron Schlippenbach, the Russian consul at Chicago, and Captain Fournier, military attaché of the French Embassy.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Bryce
Mme. de Blanpré
Russia
Huntington Wilson
Crowninshield
Prince Koudacheff
Elizabeth Kean
Lucy Kean
Baron Schlippenbach
Chicago
Fournier
Washington Society Hosts Double Dinners Tonight in D.C.
In Washington on January 14 Mrs Richard H Townsend hosted a dinner for a company of young society figures at her Massachusetts Avenue residence. The guest list included Miss Townsend Miss Sanger Miss Elkins and many notable names such as Count Raoul D Adhemar Signor Cora Baroness Moncheur and the Belgian Minister among others. Later Mr and Mrs John E Wilkins hosted at dinner the Sixth Couple Cotillion at the New Willard with guests including Baron Haymerle Rep Gillett and Mrs John R McLean.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Richard H- Townsend
Massachusetts Avenue
Miss Townsend
Edgar
Charles O’donnell Lee, Jr
Sanger
Elkins
May
Mlle
Des Portes
Meyer
Alice A. Meyer
Cameron
le Bourgeois
Helen Patten
Don Ramon Pina
Count von Hatzfeldt
Kroupenaky
Signor Cora
Raoul D’adhemar
Jerome Bonaparte
Lieutenant McCauley
Captain Gilmore
William Hitt
Bayne
Ned” McLean
John E. Wilkins
Baroness Moncheur
Clarence Edwards
McCawley
Hugh Legare
Pierre Lorillard
J. Henry Purdy
John Story
Woodbury Blair
Ethel Robeson
Josephine Patten
Baron Haymerle
Representati Gillett
John R. McLean
Arthur Lee
Charles H. Campbell
Errol Brown
Louise Chase
Mark Brooke
New Willard
Debutante Dinner Dance Hosted by New York Society Women
New York Society staged the second dinner dance for debutante daughters last night at Sherry's. Hosts included Mrs. John E. Alexandre Mrs. Charles Henry Coster Mrs. Charles D. Dickey Mrs. Adrian Iselin Mrs. E. D Morgan Mrs. Archibald Rogers Mrs. Campbell Steward and Mrs. Paul Tuckerman. The guest list featured many of the young women presented this season.
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Sherry
John E. Alexandre
Charles Henry Coster
Charles D. Dickey
Adrian Iselin
E. D Morgan
Archibald Rogers
Campbell Steward
Paul Tuckerman
George Washington Linked to English King Edward I Lineage
Boston January 14 A English genealogist reports that George Washington the first U S president is a lineal descendant of King Edward I This find traces Washington ancestry to Margaret Butler wife of Laurence Washington and through Sir John Sutton to Edward I marking a royal connection across generations The research highlights Acton le Walls Northamptonshire and the Sutton lineage back to the Plantagenets.
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Boston
George Washington
United States
Edward I
Washington
Frederick W. Ragg
Royal Historical Society
Ragg
St. Leonard
Acton-le-Waills
Northamptonshire
Washingtons
Margaret Butler
Laurence Washington
Sulgrave
Shakespeare
John Sutton
Dudley
Acton-le- Walls
John
Tiptefts
Charitons
Thomas Holland
Earl of Kent
Edmund of Woodstock
England
Margaret
Philip III of
France
Harvard Almost Lost Eliot Teaching as a Profession
President Eliot told the Harvard Education Club that teaching is an altruistic profession and lifelong commitment. He recalled choosing teaching over a higher salary offer, noting early pay of 1500 dollars and later offers of 5000 and 7000 dollars a year before accepting an assistant professorship in chemistry at Technology.
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Boston Herald
Eliot
Harvard Education Club
University
Merrimac Mills
Lowell
Technology
A Theatrical Experiment At Bournemouth Hall
From The London Globe an experiment at Bournemouth adds a grand hall to the Theatre Royal for pre show waiting and intermission ventilation. Audiences retire there between acts as the orchestra plays and tea is served during intervals.
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London Globe
Bournemouth
Theatre Royal
Vanderbilt couple mark seventh wedding anniversary at Newport
Social notes from Newport report Mr and Mrs Alfred G Vanderbilt celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary with a dinner at Oakland Farm Portsmouth. Pauline French left after visiting, several figures from Newport society including Surgeon and Mrs Lewis Morris and Colonel C L F Robinson were noted returning to or visiting New York and Washington.
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the Tribune
Newport
R. L
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Oakland Farm
Portsmouth
Pauline French
Alfred Vanderbilt
Lewis Morris
Naval Torpedo Station
New York
Pembroke Jones
James A. Swan
J. C. Mallory
Newport House
George Peabody Wetmore
Admi French E. Chadwick
Washington
C. L. F. Robinson
New York. Mr. and Mrs. Lorillard Spencer, Jr
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer
The Logic of Teachers Salaries Debate
A letter to the Tribune analyzes Superintendent Maxwell’s logic on teacher salaries. It argues that men in higher grades justify higher pay for equal quality, while women teachers remain cheaper. The piece cautions against basing salaries on men’s pay, urging merit-based consideration free from sentiment. New York, January 13, 1908.
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Denver
Ernesto Nathan
Rome
Nathan
Jacor
Pius
the Tribune
Maxwell
Port
Board of Education
Hughes
New York
Proposes curb on the cabinet in Senate referrals
A Rules Committee report will push a Lodge drafted resolution to end cabinet officials sending bills to the Senate for passage. The plan replaces Heyburn’s measure and requires Cabinet requests to go through official reports to Congress, addressing Secretary Garfield’s draft bill submission.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On
Lodge
Heyburn
Garfield
Congress
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Oes Bankers & Prokers
van Boerg
Gankboo
Oes
Purchase & Exchange
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Tribune
New York Daily
Eriborne
Cers
Jersey
Glenn
North Carolina
Napoleon
London
Beckham
Kentucky
J. C. S. Blackburn
J. “C. W. Beckham
St. Petersburg
Philadelphia Press
Ménestrel
Franz Abt
Johann Sebastian Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Handel
Haydn
Liszt
Mozart
Raff
Rubinstein
Schubert
Schumann
Czerny
Diabelli
Puck
Philadelphia Ledger
Ernest Iselin
Archibald S. Rogers
Monson Morris
Eleanor Alexander
Harriet Alexander
Frances Alexander
Hel Alexandre
Nathalie Lorillard Bailey
Deborah Brock
Philadelphia
Lucy ©. Brown
Laura Chanler
Elizabeth Cutting
Mildred Carter
Helen Coster
Margaret Dix
Frances Dickey
Lucy Dodge
Lionel Guest
Frances Fell
Julia Hoyt
Theresa Iselin
Louise Iselin
Lydia Mason Jones
Ina Kissel
Ethel Kingsland
Antonella Kane
Linda Morgan
Helen Morgan
Starr Miller
Beatrice Mills
Lacy Margaret Roosevelt
Margaret Steward
Katherine Steward
Emily Stoane
Mildred Sherman
Irene
Buell Hollister
Emmet Harris
O’donnell Iselin
Phenix Ingraham
Bradish G. Johnson
Marshall Kernochan
Stephen Landon
Robert le Roy
J. Cooper Lord
Julian Peabody
Percy R. Pyne
Roger Poor
Francis Riggs
Rae H. Rogers
Harry Pelham Robbins
Thomas Slidell
Malcolm Sloane
H. Walter Webb
George Wagstaff
H. Coster Wilmerding
Worthington Whitehouse
Sheldon Whitehouse
William F. Whitehouse, Jr
Chalmers Wood, Jr
Orme Wilson, Jr
Thornton Wilson
Lanier Winslow
George Woolsey
Murray Young
Judith W. Dousman
N. Sturgis Dousman
Samuel T. Skidmore
Arthur F. Cosby
Fifth Avenue
Charles B. Alexander
West 58Th Street
Marguerite Pierson
Mrs
Charles Astor
William Douglas Sloane
Rutherford Stuyvesant
Paris
Fritz Kreisler
Emilio de Gogorza
Sherry’s. Charlies 5
Sampson
Evelyn van Wart
State Department
the Diplomatic Corps
IN Washington Society
NEW York Society
George Washington and
Royalty
Harvard
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