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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1908
Page
6
The article argues for cautious, sober bank lending and sound business practices over reckless speculation, noting improved worker relations since social reforms favor wage earners. It compares industrial progress in Germany with advances in electric plants and chemical industries around Frankfurt, implying a steady path to social and economic stability.
The Fresh Air Fund advances with 1 145 children to be sent to rural hosts. Four party days deliver 234 children to Shephard Knapp, Kromm Farm, Margaret ite, and Chapel Hill homes while Tuesday through Friday schedules move hundreds more to Ardsley, Litchfield, Binghamton, Pittsfield, Warwick, Water Town Goshen and Interlaken. Every child receives a bath and cleanliness is stressed. a family in East 40th street shows the program’s reach, as six displaced children await a new home, while donors in multiple towns fund the effort.
James K Hackett, the actor, is back in New York aboard the St Louis with his wife Miss Mery Mannering suing for divorce. He declined to discuss details and said he would wait for cable messages before stating his future plans. Quarantine friends aided his baggage to hasten his arrival.
Archbishop Fenney sails for Rome on Saturday with his secretaries the Rev James Lewis and the Rev Dr D J McMackin to deliver the Peter's peace offering of the Archdiocese of New York. He will brief Pope Pius X on the centenary celebration and present a book about it. Cardinal Gibbons also sails next Saturday, first to Rome then to London for the International Eucharistic League convention hosted by Cardinal Vannutelli.
Miss Leary and Dr George C Fahey wed in St Marys Roman Catholic Church in New Heaven today with about fifteen hundred attendees. Rev Philip Mooney officiated. Best man Edward L Greene, ex Penn football captain, served as usher John Hallenback, noted Penn football player. The couple plan to sail to Africa on Tuesday.
Popperstown reports Bishop Henry Codman Potter had a restful day with improving condition. A physician issued a late evening bulletin noting a very hopeful outlook and satisfactory signs of recovery following medical attention.
President Theodore Roosevelt held a conference with Secretary of State Root and Assistant Secretary Bacon at Sagamore Hill after they traveled from White Plains and Westbury. The trio discussed Venezuela tensions among other issues, with Root remaining overnight and Bacon returning home. Roosevelt and Root also visited Cold Spring Harbor for a bath before continuing discussions.
A reader argues that genius is latent in all when society and an artificial environment foster development. Cites M Odin on literary genius in France and implies freedom of action in America creates many able individuals, reducing the aura of singular geniuses. South Nyack, July 10, 198.
Letter to the editor from L. E. Mason of New York dated July 8 1906 protests plans to flood Hetch Hetchy Valley in California to create a reservoir for San Francisco. He urges preservation of the canyon as national property and calls for protest to prevent destruction of a natural wonder.
Official record and forecast describe a Sunday heat wave with Maryland New Jersey and New England experiencing high temperatures up to 99 in Washington and 96 in Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The forecast calls for warm conditions in the Ohio valley to the Atlantic coast with showers and thunderstorms likely from Mississippi to the coast and lighter winds along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Local records note yesterday's high of 93 with a 70 low and provide the forecast for the next two days including New England Eastern New York and the District of Columbia under variable winds and scattered showers.
Pittsburg marks its 150th anniversary with a survey of the Pitt family roots from Cornwall and the Great Commoner to Lady Hester Stanhope. The tale threads through Lord Camelford, Lady Hester, and the Shelley's faded estates, noting vanished heirs and the Salt of ancestral homes amid 18th century memory and 19th century titles.
The King created four new peers on Premier Asquith's recommendation linked to his birthday celebrations. Two are wealthy Yorkshire manufacturers, I Holden & Sons and George Whiteley. The other peers include John Wynford Phillips, a tall baronet's son and barrister, and Sir Antony Macdonnell, a former Ireland Under Secretary.
Sir John Shelley, active in ballooning and recent ballooning appearances at Avington Park, Hampshire, should not be confused with the Devonshire Shelley's branch. Two baronets bear the same heraldic devices, one based at Avington Park and the other in Devonshire. Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, was a granduncle of the Avington Park Sir John.
Horatio S. Stewart of Brooklyn died Saturday at his home 2205 Newkirk Ave from neu ralgia of the heart after a relapse following a Coney Island trip. Born 1843 in Johnstown, he moved to Brooklyn in 1886, entered real estate after dry goods, led church and civic groups, educated many youths, and supported four hundred men weekly through the Sunday Breakfast Association. He leaves wife Sarah E. Wooley and one daughter.
Edwin C. Low a longtime Brooklyn lawyer died of Brights disease in Glens Falls New York He was counsel for Hamilton Trust Company and had offices at 215 Montague Street He leaves a wife and two sons Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw Jr playwright author died at his father's home on West 53d Street He leaves his father and a brother Professor George Frederick Laidlaw Mrs Anne Jean Short wife of the late Professor Charles Short of Columbia College and Kenyon College died July 4 at Fairlee Vermont in her eighty ninth year Her husband helped revise the New Testament in 1881 and died in 1886
Nesta Neilson also known as Mrs Edward Axtell died ten days ago in St Elizabeths Hospital at 415 West 51st Street. She was buried beside her father in Salem cemetery with only her second husband present. Her career spanned Broadway and London with roles in A Midnight Bell Ninety Days and The Golden Ladder. Her first husband George Wasson separated years earlier. their son Cecil Wasson attended a Boston school preparing for Harvard.
The Rev. Hugh P. Smyth, praised by Pope Leo XIII as the Church Builder of America, died tonight at St. John's parochial residence in Boston. Born in Ireland sixty nine years ago, he arrived in Boston at age twelve and was ordained in 1866 after training at Niagara Seminary. He built about twenty churches, schools and convents in the area before handing control to new pastors and seeking fresh fields.
Mrs Hetty Green informs tax assessors she will resume residence in Bellows Falls Vermont and pay back taxes. She plans to reopen and renovate her old house and transfer her personal estate to the city, a move expected to bring a large sum to the treasury.
The engagement of Miss Mary Eustis, Boston socialite, to Donald Scott of New York City is announced. The couple plans a September wedding. Miss Eustis is spending the summer at Cataumet on Cape Cod.
A Brooklyn campaign to reduce infant mortality rolls out mapped districts Green Point East New York Brownsville and river front south of the Brooklyn Bridge. Twenty five health nurses will report births and illnesses while Society doctors offer free care to those unable to pay.
The body of Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, who died July 3 in Del Monte California, was buried in Berkeley Memorial Chapel Middletown with full military honors. Services were at Trinity Church and conducted by Rev. Stanley C. Hughes with Chaplain William G. Cassard assisting. Attending were army and navy officials, local residents, detachments from Narragansett Bay forts, battleships New Hampshire and Mississippi, cruiser Montgomery, and naval apprentice brigade detachments. Pallbearers included Rear Admirals Luce Chadwick Merrell, Captain Frank Fletcher, and Lt. F D Berrien. eight chief petty officers were body bearers. Naval apprentice brigade escorted the body to Middletown for the grave ceremony with volleys and taps.
At the Auditorium in Chicago the Iroquois Club hosted a memorial for Grover Cleveland with Jacob H. Dickinson delivering the keynote. He praised Cleveland for upholding federal power during a crisis and shaping national governance a century ago.
Showers cooled Lenox to 73 this afternoon while motorists flocked to hotels and lakeboating thrived under moonlight. Tax notices inform residents of a 162 dollar per thousand valuation rise due to state and county levies, naming George Hall Morgan and other notable taxpayers. Mrs Sturgis announces a Clipston Grange fair Friday to fund winter manual training for Lenox pupils. George H. Quincy leaves for New York tomorrow.
A Newport rumor says Herbert M. Harriman may marry Mrs. Mary Brady Hall soon after her divorce from Major Charles Spencer Hall. The report, unconfirmed, places the ceremony within a week. Other Newport visitors include Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt and guests sailing for Europe. Paul Rainey returned to the season and registered at the Newport Casino along with several naval officers.
The Outer Fountain Club met at the Clambake Club for a luncheon today. Mrs. Augustus Jay traveled to New York for a short visit. Mrs. Krebs of New York is guest of Mrs J R Busk.
Among arrivals yesterday from Europe on steamers the St Louis brought J R M Bunn R E Mansfield United Mrs W A Hamilton Mr and Mrs E H White Miss Rosalie S Hill States Consul at Lucerne Mrs R E Mansfield The Bretagne from Le Havre carried Mrs Peter Dudley Sidney J Finney Miss Helen Dudley Mrs Mercedes de Lara 5 J Fowler T WW White
Death notices from The Tribune list multiple individuals with services and burial details. Among them are Baldwin of Yonkers James Burnet of New York Laidlaw of New York Millett of Chehalis Patterson of Summit Van Vechten of Albany Ward of Oyster Bay Short of Vergennes noting funeral times and locations including St Bartholomew’s Madison Avenue Kensico Cemetery Sleepy Hollow and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery dates July 11 12 1908 and related train arrangements.
The Woodlawn Cemetery is readily accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central, Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys, and by carriage. Lots priced from 150 dollars. telephone 4858 Gramercy for Book of Views or a representative. Office at 20 East 23rd Street, New York City. Undertakers Frank F. Camprese. 2413 West 23rd Street. Chapela Private and public ambulances. Tel 1274 Chelsea.
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