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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1900
Page
4
A concise record notes multiple Manhattan addresses including 258 Broadway at Warren, 7 and 9 Warren Street, 669 Broadway near Prince, and 1260 Broadway beside West 334th Street, indicating a cluster of parcel or listing references in the area.
A village investigating committee clears a rumor about Samuel Mc Andless’s vote on Larchmont Horse Railway. Elizabeth Vaughn visits Orienta Point. Heathcote Hill near Mamaroneck to be sold at public auction, linked to Revolutionary War sites and Cooper lore. Echo Bay to add a five hundred bath pavilion and free baths open three days weekly. A fete at Neptune Park supports Pelham Summer Home for Poor Children. Salem Baptist Church youth host bicycle fete and lantern parade in Locustane tonight.
Ex Secretary of State Frederick Cook visited Lake Mohegan as August Zinser’s guest. Mrs William F Borden heads to Syracuse to preside at Pocahontas Great Council session. Rev Alvah Grant Fessenden delivered baccalaureate to cadets at Peekskill Military Academy and Mohegan Lake School. Charles A Lamos named superintendent of construction at Iona stone naval magazine. Government plans 500000 dollars in improvements including a stone brick house for Lieutenant Dugan and new dock and magazines. Eight brick cottages for workers and a 200000 pound ammunition storage vault near the old baseball ground. Yonkers residents raise funds for destitute orphans of John A Whyte killed at Ashburton ave crossing. Cory Cohen, local athlete, dies of consumption. active in Y M C A and Mount Vernon baseball. David O Neal pleads guilty to beating his wife Jessie O Neal. she shows injuries. Judge Schatz sentences him to six months and fines.
Home News notes prominent arrivals at New York hotels including W D Lent and G D Court from Shanghai. Brigadier General John M Wilson Chief of Engineers US Army. C P Storrs of Richmond. Prof H G Oppert of Berlin. W P Wooten and Capt G W Dunning of the US Army. Capt Henry L Waite. Arthur C Pell of London. Anthony N Brady of Albany. Rev F W Oakes and Dr J N Near. Grance Sard of Albany. Archbishop Travers Lewis. F D Kilburn. John Frothingham. Rev John Cornell. Rev Dr James H Lamb. Senator John C Spooner. Loring Andrews. Willard R Green.
Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange election and Charter Revision Commission meetings.葎 Society of St John the Baptist celebration at Hotel Majestic. Gravesend racing at 2 30 p m. Music in Washington Square and Corlears Hook parks. Diplomas for Deaf Mutes ceremony at New York Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. Rev L H Schwab preached the baccalaureate to 12 graduates in chapel 163rd St and Boulevard Lafayette. Cadet corps, 200 strong, led a press parade after service.
David Dorsey a thirty year old colored man from Baxter street visited Bellevue Hospital yesterday claiming he was held up beaten and robbed by four men in James Slip near Water street early yesterday morning. Oak Street station police doubt the story and give little credence to his account.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall of Union Theological Seminary gave the baccalaureate sermon at Columbia University. He extolled religion as a completing element in liberal education, urging the Christian university to exalt Christ and to foster faith, prayer, and the ideals of Christianity to renew the ancient university and purify public life.
At Princeton June 10 the 1534 annual commencement continued with a baccalaureate sermon by President Patton in Old North. He spoke on "Business and the Three Professions" urging wise choice between business and law medicine or theology and stressing moral aims and unselfish living for graduates. The Philadelphia mockery annual meeting followed in Marquand Chapel with Rev. Dr. Paxton presiding and Dodge Hall being decorated.
Poughkeepsie June 10. President James M. Taylor opened Vassar College commencement with a sermon on Permanency of Spiritual Truth referencing today’s political questions. He warned that unrestrained ambition brings the decline of empires and urged statesmen to recall lessons of history to avoid war and injustice.
The University of Pennsylvania held its commencement week with the baccalaureate sermon at Calvary Church. Rev. Dr. John Sparhawk Jones, class of 1862, delivered the sermon as students and faculty gathered on campus for the ceremony.
The Rev. Dr. Curtis of the Board of Visitors preached the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of cadets in the cadet chapel at West Point New York this morning.
Northfield Mass June 10 The baccalaureate service for the graduating class was held at the Congregational Church. Rev C L Scofield delivered the address while Estey Chorus and the congregation led by Professor A J Phillips sang passionately. The service contained numerous references to Mr Moody life and impact.
Salem Va June 10 The forty seventh commencement exercises began with a baccalaureate sermon by Rev Dr Charles S Albert of Philadelphia on Royal Givers and Great Servants The evening address by Prof James A Quarles of Washington and Lee University followed on The Golden Rule Monday night will feature the Literary Society medal oratory contest and Tuesday evening General Stewart L Woodford of New York will give the annual oration before the literary societies
Bayonne on June 10 reports William A. Eddy found three quarters of the electric force entering a kite wire dissipated by the reel woodwork. A six foot kite at eight hundred feet produced tiny sparks. Silk cord insulation prevented current across the gap until a grounded iron rod approached, yielding half inch sparks and an inch brush discharges. Eddy notes no storms nearby and cites Smithsonian silk cord use as a first.
Thomas McGrath the wheelman ran over three year old Josephine Nordone in North Fourth-ave. A crowd of about one hundred Italians pursued him shouting Kill him Do not let him escape. Police officer Walters intervened to rescue McGrath and he was arrested for the event.
Georgius Steveando a 40 year old colored man living at 231 West Sixty second street reported threats from a crowd. Police say Steveando appeared demented and yesterday afternoon he rushed into the street firing a revolver at a man. Policeman William Keegan restrained him and took him to the station house noting Steveando said he sought police aid as the other man tried to kill him.
A Central Labor Union meeting heatedly debated recent talks between the Boards of Delegates and the Building Trades Council aimed at halting long running conflicts. Delegates denounced the move as an effort to crush the Knights of Labor, while others warned of broader AFL union retaliation if war is declared. District Assembly No. 263 denied aiding Electrical Workers No. 3. The union body urged Knights to be ready for emergencies as tensions linger.
The West Point chapel dedication occurred with Bishop Farley presiding and Rev. Dr. Mc Cready, Rev. O'Keefe, and Rev. McLaughlin assisting. George Deshon delivered the dedicatory sermon as a Holy Cross and Paulist choir provided music. Secretary Root, Paymaster-General Bates, Col. Mills, and cadets attended with Army officers and their wives present. The granite chapel sits prominently at the post.
The Summer Art Schools in the American Fine Arts Building at 215 West Fifty seventh street run from June to October 1. Daily sessions from 9 am to 1 pm cover oil water color pastel life and antique drawing led by Bryson Burroughs with Friday critiques by J H Twacht man. This marks the league's first year offering year round classes.
The week showed ongoing weakness in both crude and refined petroleum with a further 15 point drop in refined product prices. Field work persisted on a fairly liberal scale, and despite notable strikes there were no extraordinary developments. Attention centered near Garner Penn where South Penn Standard Oil drilled a well reportedly producing two thousand barrels daily, touted as the greatest strike to date.
The report notes multiple oil discoveries and rising output across fields in Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. It cites a seven hundred barrel gusher near Alexandria North Dakota and a seventy barrel per day well, with May totals: 859 wells and 11 842 barrels produced in Pennsylvania, plus 630 wells and 10 229 barrels in Buckeye and Hoosier regions. Overall Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana May totals reach 1 483 wells and 22 071 barrels. The Oil City Derrick compiles April versus earlier months.
Sunrise and sunset times listed for coastal locations with moon phase and height of tide indications. Mentions Sandy Hook and Gov. Island with morning and evening high water and moon age notes.
Shipping reports from Leith to Genoa list arrivals at the Bar with passenger and cargo details for Steamer sites including Griffin, Forest Castle, Mark Lane, La Gascogne, Georgia, Pawnee, Curitya, Capst, Cyprian Prince, Vigilancia, Cherokee, Martinique, Jefferson, and more. Notices cover ports like Hamburg, Marseilles, Genoa, Naples, Catania, Havana, Callao, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, and Montevideo with dates and passenger counts.
On June 10 several ships arrived or passed listings include Bremen from Germany to New York via Cherbourg with Nierich New York for Bremen, Grosser Kurfurst heading to New York via Dover, Westernland Mills Antwerp to New York, Foote Boston to London, Columbian Bry Masters New York to Liverpool, City of Rome Baxter to Glasgow, and Quito Belee from New York for Bombay after repairs.
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