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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1908
Page
1
A New York City Fourth of July recounts four deaths and 253 injuries from fireworks and stray bullets. Ambulances, tetanus shots, and hospital care rushed to aid, while police note fewer fires than last year.
Nine of ten balloons started in the Chicago to the Ocean race from Chicago. The Fielding delayed two hours. the last, Chicago, rose at 7:50. Balloon United States led north eastward as crews hoped to reach Labrador and beat the Pommern’s 980 mile air line. Kalamazoo reports balloons passing overhead in signal of the race.
Hammondsport N Y July 4 The Aerial Experiment Association's Aerodrome 3 the Curtiss June Bug earned the right to have its name inscribed on the Scientific American trophy by flying one kilometre in a straight line from takeoff. It then flew six hundred yards past the finish flag and landed near the railroad. The craft crossed three fences and traced an S shaped route about two thousand yards long all in one minute forty two and a half seconds at thirty nine miles per hour following a nine hundred yard flight in fifty six seconds.
Charles Thompson of Shore Road and 76th Street Bay Ridge died in the Norwegian Hospital after an unconscious period since Memorial Day due to a fractured skull. Neighbor Arthur Wardell, 29, was rearrested on a homicide charge at Fort Hamilton station. Thompson, a Manhattan clothing maker, was found May 30 near Second and Bay Ridge avenues after a drunken dispute over alleged theft. Wardell said Thompson attacked him and he pushed back, leading to the fatal fall. The case drew wide medical attention.
Wandering showers made the Elkwood Park track slippery and caused multiple crashes in the 50 mile free-for-all for the Frederick Lewisohn cup. Arthur Warren suffered four broken ribs and James Crawford an amputated leg risk as Bert Bellows and Arthur Myers were flung from a Renault. Ralph de Palma led the 50 mile race to win in 55 5 seconds, with Michener second and Anderson third, while other races saw De Palma repeat in stock cars and Stewart Elliot win the amateur 10 mile event. Governor Fort attended the rain-postponed program amid waters and skidding turns.
Boys fired a firecracker at the Post Graduate Hospital on 26th Street and Second Ave, igniting the awning near the superintendent Ann M. Rykert's office. A watchman doused the flames with water before they spread, and nurses were advised to stay vigilant while all 300 patients remained unaware of the incident.
Denver dispatch details William Jennings Bryan’s biting attack on Colonel James M. Guffey during a Pennsylvania Bryan League event. Guffey hints at future statements. Murphy Cohalan and New York delegates influence anti Bryan efforts as tensions rise.
A narrow gauge local train from Alameda Mole to Oakland collided with a Santa Cruz train at 1st and Webster streets. The smoker car of the Santa Cruz train was demolished and six people were killed with thirty injured. responders removed the wounded.
Private dispatches from Buenos Ayres claim Asuncion endures fifty six hours of street fighting as revolutionists recruit nationwide. Casualties exceed two thousand with government near collapse due to heavy losses. The main railway sits idle as workers join insurgents and foreign legations come under shelling.
Kermit Roosevelt son of the President visited Geneseo with Major Wadsworth for Independence Day events. He rode Playmate and helped his team win the cavalry event but suffered a bad fall in the manikin race. He rose quickly and completed the race with no serious injuries.
Charles H. Bond president of Waitt & Bond Incorporated was found dead in a bath tub at his Swampscott summer home on Puritan Road. Medical Examiner Pinkham filed a death certificate listing drowning as the cause, uncertainty remains whether accidental or suicide. Bond, aged sixty one, resided at 128 Commonwealth Avenue Boston and leaves a wife and two daughters.
A three month old girl was found buried alive at the Hackensack Golf Club grounds during a presidents cup contest. Ex president H M Bogert uncovered a moving foot in a sand heap and rescuers worked for hours but the baby died that evening. A woman who arrived on the midnight Jersey City train with a baby was seen walking toward the grounds.
On July 4 in Independence Hall Oklahoma presented a forty six star flag to Philadelphia, made by Oklahoma’s Betsy Rosses. Philadelphia gifted a flag to Oklahoma as gratitude, with a street parade to the Cradle of Liberty and Independence Day exercises hosted by the city and the descendants of the signers society.
Ocean City Maryland July 4 Bishop Alfred A Curtis of the Baltimore diocese and former Wilmington bishop is critically ill with stomach cancer.
Bryan hones strategy at Denver with a majority of delegates backing his agenda. He aims to dictate platform and select the national committee chair, while rival factions push Gray or a New York pick for vice president.
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