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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1908
Page
6
A long notice debunks rumors that Prince Eitel Frederick studied Magyar to press for a Hungarian throne and refutes Alsace Lorraine independence talk. It also traces Lord Blythswood’s transfer of Blythswood and Douglas estates to Archibald Campbell’s heir and the ensuing name changes and lineage facts.
The piece details the wartensleben case with Count Botho zu Eulenburg linked to a Great Bell article on jewel theft. It notes alleged motives, aristocratic gossip, family feuds, and a libel suit against the Berlin newspaper editor as the court drama unfolds.
The Rev Sholto Douglas rector of All Souls Marylebone becomes Baron Blythswood amid name shifts within the Campbell Douglas family. Origins trace to Sir Colin Campbell of Lochow and Margaret Drummond with estates Blythswood in Renfrewshire and Mains in Dumbartonshire changing hands through generations.
At a King Edward levee in St James's Palace, Imre Kirally, director general of the Franco English Exhibition in London, was presented with honors by the French government and King Leopold. Once a famed Hungarian dancer, he demonstrated a past acrobatic pose, recalling his youthful leg trick and a playful salute to the King as shoulder arms.
Carrére & Hastings report revised New Theatre design limits capacity to eighteen hundred with a drop wall hiding rear rows to create a full house illusion. The lower floor offers nineteen rows. Construction progresses with eighteen foot walls and rising iron framework. Managers may be selected this fall with a preference for an American candidate.
William Morris and Charles E. Blaney agreed to operate the Lincoln Square Theatre as a first class music hall for five years. Morris already controls the American Theatre and plans a remodel of the theatre, with Ivan Abramson's grand opera company to fill it for a few weeks starting September 7. Harry Lauder is slated to appear under Morris's banner.
The Grand Street Theatre opens for 1908 09 season under A H Woods with Convict 999. Coban and his happy family resume The Yankee Prince at Knickerbocker a week hence. Milliken writes The Divorce of the Belmonts for next season. Grace Merritt may join vaudeville. New York Theatre to reopen soon with Cohan and Harris minstrels. Atlantic City hosts their first show tonight by the same troupe. Cohan Mack Donnelly Hawtrey and others star at a Hebrew Infants' Asylum benefit in Arverne Long Island Thursday. Hazel Cox appears in School Days now rehearsed for future run.
Sixteen countries sent 360 delegates to the seventeenth Universal Peace Conference in London starting tomorrow. American attendance includes 42 signatories from groups such as the Massachusetts Board of Trade and the American Peace Society. Main events span morning to evening with speeches by Lloyd George and other ministers, and a major labor-led demonstration at Trafalgar Square on Saturday.
Roosevelt meets Harvard dean to map a study plan for Kermit Roosevelt who will begin Harvard freshman year this fall and aims to complete as much work as possible before the East Africa hunting trip next April. Quentin Roosevelt starts summer studies tomorrow with Waldo Parker hired to tutor him. The President seeks the best education at the earliest opportunity for his two sons.
Black and purple drapes mark yesterday services in many Protestant Episcopal churches as prayers for the afflicted are read following Bishop Potter’s death. With bishops away on vacations, visiting clergy led most services and talk of burying him at St John the Divine awaits Bishop Greer’s return around August 15.
Brighton Beach will host a three day festival starting July 29 titled Festival of Pastimes. The program opens with water sports, continues with children's activities highlighted by a floral parade from Sunday school pupils, and ends with miscellaneous diversions. Henry J. Pain will present The Destruction of Jerusalem.
Prominent guests checked in at leading New York hotels. At the Albermarle Bishop Thomas B Neeley from Buenos Aires and R B Job from St Johns NS. At the Grand Captain H P Hathaway and G B Dixon from London. Also A Kolland Wolfg Job from Frankfurt. Murray Hill hosts L W Walker from Glasgow. Victoria hosts Senator H Pugh of Wisconsin. Waldorf Astoria lists William Strang from Glasgow.
Official Weather Bureau record notes moderate temperatures overall with continued rains in Middle and Southern districts for three days and fair conditions in the Northern states. Sunday brought showers and storms from the Mississippi and Ohio valleys to the middle Atlantic and Gulf coasts, with a sharp cool spell in the Missouri Valley.
Dr. William H. Hale posts a Brooklyn ad offering 60 to take all 25 cats or 8 for one cat as his wife, Mrs. Hale, pledges to feed and supervise each home. She questions the plan and stresses she will not part with any cat without visiting and inspecting the home.
The article reports on how large New York hotels such as the St. Regis Manhattan and Astor reflect rising business optimism. Managers note stronger salon patronage, luncheon traffic, and stable wine consumption as prosperity returns, with London comparisons highlighting differing guest profiles and hotel sizes.
Warren W. Philips a wealthy Essen farmer fifteen miles south of Pittsburg has left instructions to be buried by the side of his gray horse Phil Sheridan on his farm. The will was opened after a man who drew it suggested delaying burial in a cemetery.
The Newport lawn tennis season opens with an invitation women’s tournament at the Newport Casino led by Mrs. Barger-Wallach. Entries include Mrs. Lorillard Spencer Jr and Miss Therese Iselin. Social events abound with luncheons, dinners, and yacht entertainments as notable visitors arrive and arrange fall weddings and dances.
Lenox Mass July 26 Villa owners urge harmony with Lenox Colonial surroundings as town adopts a new high school plan by John C Greenleaf despite objections from a school board minority and a labor leader. Indignation grows among cottagers over the outcome. Churchgoers attend Trinity Church with prominent residents in attendance.
Captain Coppers, commander of the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II, reports that wireless communication guided the ship in dense fog near Plymouth on the return eastward trip. Signals from Marconi Station on the Lizard, and delayed fog whistle tests, allowed safe landing of tenders with passengers mail and baggage without entering port.
In Waukesha Wisconsin on July 26 Harry Dailey was rewarded for carrying a wounded officer to medical aid. He later met the executor of the officer's estate and in England received one third of the officer's $150000 estate, about $50000.
Leslie E. Snow died at his home in St Louis today. He was brother of E G Snow president of Home Insurance Company of New York and had served as president of the Fire Insurance Protection Bureau and was a member of the firm Delafield & Snow, insurance agents.
James Foster president of James Foster & Son died yesterday at his Quogue summer home. He was born in Montreal in 184 and came to New York in 1870 to start in insurance. He led James Foster & Son for decades, supervised Courtlandt Palmer estate work, and held multiple posts including trustee of City Savings Bank and director of the International Pulp Company. He married Emily Hart in 1875 and leaves three children. His Brooklyn home was at 40 Berkeley Place. He was active in veterans groups and arts clubs and supported animal protection. Funeral arrangements not yet announced.
Oyster Bay July 2 Willie Loeb Jr president Roosevelt's secretary plans a month long vacation. He will begin with a camp in Maine then travel west to Jackson Hole Wyoming for roughing it big game hunting and brook fishing.
Batcheller George Sherman Batchellor died July 2 2008 in Paris France. Funeral from 20 Circular St Sara Springs New York July 23. Carson Laura A. Carson died July 1908 Milford Connecticut. Funeral July 28. Clark Emma Purdy Clark died June 25 New Rochelle New York. Foster James Foster died July 26 Quogue Long Island. Smith Sydney Hoyt Smith died July 24 1908 Brooklyn New Jersey. Walbridge Anna H Ryckman Walbridge died July 25 Glen Cove Long Island. Funeral July 27 in Brooklyn and Clinton Remsen streets chapel.
The Woodlawn Cemetery is easily reachable by Harlem trains from Grand Central and by Webster and Jerome Avenue trolleys or carriage. Lots start at $150. For a Book of Views or representatives call 4969 Gramercy. Office at 20 East 231 Street, New York City.
Frank E Campbell 2413 West 234 Street Chapelm advertises private and public ambulances with telephone contact 1324 Chelsea.
Do you want desirable help quick save time by consulting the file of applications of selected aspirants for positions of various kinds at THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE Uptown Office. Located at No 1364 Broadway hours 9 am to 6 pm.
The notice outlines mail subscription options for the Daily, Tri weekly, Weekly Farmer, and Sunday Tribune with domestic, Canadian, and foreign rates. It lists offices in New York and abroad including London Paris Geneva and other cities, plus hotel reading rooms where editions are on file.
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