New Hospital for City Manhattan Maternity
Ground will be broken within ten days for Manhattan Maternity Hospital cited as a charitable, educational hospital of surgery and midwifery. Architect Oscar Co. Rixson. Dr Russell Bellamy leads planning. site at 327 533 East Sixty first Street near First Avenue. Gift from a patient of Dr Fellamy. donor anonymous. Board includes Moses Taylor.
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Oscar Co. Rixson
Board of Governors
Russell Bellamy
Sixtieth St
Firstave
Blackwells Island Bridge
Manhattan Maternity Hospital Planned for East Sixty Fifth Street
Dr. Russell Bellamy leads an effort to establish the Manhattan Maternity Hospital a philanthropic institution to aid destitute women in tenement districts. The four story building to be near East Sixty Fifth Street will feature an amphitheatre for lectures, private observing areas, and specialized wards, with a focus on serving immigrants from Southeastern Europe.
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Manhattan
Mothers and Babies’ Hospital
Lexington Ave
Manhattan Maternity Hospital
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Jr. Cutter Edgar
Europe
Battery
Forty-second-st
Bronx
Broomest
Little Italy
Philanthropic donor backs New York hospital and dispensary
The speaker praises a civic benefactor for proposing a hospital and dispensary to aid mothers and children in overcrowded quarters similar to the Lying-in Hospital. He notes last year over twenty-five thousand birth certificates were returned by unlicensed midwives and congratulates the city on this public health gift.
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Bureau of Vital Statistics
New York
Junger Minnerchor Wins Kaiser Prize at Stingerfest
Baltimore June 17 Kaiser Prize awarded to Junger Minnerchor of Philadelphia for the Minnesinger statue. Arion of Brooklyn close second. Columbia Philadelphia third. Brooklyn Sangerbund fourth. Mendelssohn bust won by United Singers Newark. Handel bust to United Singers Washington. About 30 000 attended Volksfest at Riverview Park with trips to Gettysburg and Annapolis planned.
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William
Junger Minnerchor
Philadelphia
Arion
Brooklyn
Columbia
Brooklyn Sangerbund
Philadelphia Quartet Club
United Singers of
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N. J
United Singers
Washington
Long Island
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Wilkesbarre
Hichenkranz
New York
Allemania
Arions
Jersey City
Orpheus Liederkranz
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Fairmount Liederkranz
Riverview Park
Gettysburg
Annapolis
Greene Named Civil Service Commissioner Succeeding Garfield
Washington June 17 Henry F Greene of Duluth Minn appointed Civil Service Commissioner to succeed James R Garfield Greene is a lawyer and former Gold Democrat now affiliated with the Republican party He championed Civil Service policy adoption in Duluth while on the City Council.
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Washington
Henry F. Greene
Duluth
Minn
James R. Garfield
Miss Bishop Injured in Electric Car Accident
Miss Bishop daughter of Mrs Heber R Bishop of New Lodge Belle vue avenue Newport was driving an electric automobile on Thames street when the car suddenly backed then surged forward colliding with a horse and wagon. The horse had to be shot due to injuries. A bystander assisted and Miss Bishop later drove off in a gasoline racer along Bellevue avenue.
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R. I
Miss Bishop
Heber R. Bishop
New Lodge
T. F. Cushing
Bellevue-ave
Thames-st
Bishop
Bellevue
Notes of the Stage Behind the chilly spell and plans for warmth at the Garden
The column reports on theater figures Oscar Hammerstein and Duss seeking warming schemes for audiences as Venice becomes a winter retreat. It notes public meetings at College Hall with Miss Blanche Walsh, the 15th performance of The Earl of Pawtucket, and guests Sir Percy Sanderson Schwab Captain Wringe and Mark Twain. It also covers management changes for De Wolf Hopper and a marital clarification involving Raymond Hubbell and Miss Helen Lord, plus Clyde Fitch choosing Fletcher Norton for Miss Fay Templeton’s next musical.
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the Earl of
Bridge Plans for Brooklyn Bridge Terminal Drawn by Hornbostel
Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal selects Henry F Hornbostel to prepare plans for the Manhattan end railroad terminal of the Brooklyn Bridge. If accepted, Hornbostel will prepare detailed drawings. plans to be submitted in about two weeks as multiple railroad companies advance track arrangements.
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Lindenthal
Henry F. Hornbostel
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Low
Hornbostel
McClellan and Sheridan Statues Approved Rejected
Washington June 17 The Mac Clellan Statue Commission unanimously rejected all competition designs after advisory letter findings. It may invite an external sculptor for a model. Sheridan Statue Commission chose Sheridan Circle as site in northwestern Washington with completion hoped early next year.
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French
McKim
McClellan
Sheridan Statue Commission
Sheridan Circle
Sheridan
La Petite Maison proves bright operetta at Opéra Comique
Paris June 9. A lively three act operetta La Petite Maison by Bisson and Docquois, with Chaumet music, revived at Opéra Comique. Pichon the jeweller, his wife Gabrielle, Florence the dancer, and the Chevalier de Fargis plot to tempt them, a hoax impersonating the Regent leads to near ruin and a staged reunion. Mutual forgiveness follows, the Regent returns to grant court custom, and the piece closes happily with spirited performances by Fugére and Marguerite Carré.
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Alexandre Bisson
Georges Docquois
William Chaumet
Opéra Comique
Ak J
Pichon
Louis XIV
Gabrielle
Chevalier
Florence
la Petite Maison
la Parabére
Fugére
Mme
Marguerite Carré
Macedonian Call For Help From England and America
An appeal published in The Tribune urges relief for Macedonian refugees amid Turkish brutality. Arnold de Lisle and Mrs Freeman-Gray solicit donations and volunteer aid from readers, detailing massacres, flight, and distraught civilians, with directions for contributing to a relief fund.
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Universal Brotherhood and Justice
England
Sofia
Arnold de Lisle
Judge
Freeman- Gray
Eae Dudley
Worcester
Poison ivy warning in Central Park prompts caution
A New York reader asks if ivy poisoning warnings can be shared to prevent others from brushing against poison ivy in Central Park. She notes a light rash after two walks and urges forewarned walkers to avoid vines with three-leaf clusters, easily recognized even by children.
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the Tribune
Central Park
New-York
Hold ups and strikes question editorials
A reader in Flushing Long Island questions your June 13 1903 editorial equating bandits stopping travelers with labor strikes and suggests strikes are another form of hold ups. The letter argues that workers in coal fields and fair disruptions show that those in the fray do not lose, prompting reflection for thinkers.
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the Tribune
St. Louis
Obituary: William J. Lyon Auditor in New York Office
William J. Lyon, auditor in charge of the law department in Controller Grant's office, died at his Lyons New Jersey home. Born December 9, 1848, he graduated from Princeton and practiced law in the city until 1883 before rising to private secretary to Controller Hastings Grant. He later became auditor and deputy controller, serving as expert accountant under Coler, and headed law department audits in the present administration. A member of several clubs and the Kappa Phi Fraternity, he also served as trustee of Park Avenue and recently Basking Ridge Presbyterian Churches.
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William J. Lyon
Law
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Death of Colonel James W. Cronkite in Plainfield New Jersey
Colonel James W. Cronkite deputy collector at New York Custom House died at his Plainfield home aged veteran of the Civil War who served in Upton's regulars and won rapid promotion He held a post at Cienfuegos and returned last year A Brooklyn resident for 33 years he belonged to the Union League Club Rankin Post G A R will hold a military funeral Friday Arlington burial in Washington City
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James W. Cronkite
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Rankin Post No. 10
Colonel Cronkite
Perernoo
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Arlington
Washington
Obituary Notes for Alvin Wilkins Promoter
Alvin Wilkins promoter of No Broadway died suddenly at home No 6 West 158th St age 81 death due to apoplexy or paralysis native of Pittsburg banker and contractor built Mineral Range Railroad in Michigan and Charleston water works came to this city twenty years ago and was in moderate circumstances at death
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Thomas F. French Dies After Stroke in Scranton
Thomas F. French died yesterday at his brother Percy H. French’s home in Scranton after a long paralysis stroke. A native of Ohio he studied in Cincinnati where his father promoted railroads. He worked in New York with the Produce Exchange and for Gouverneur Rogers in grain. He later helped organize Mount Vernon banks and worked as a public accountant. Burial will be private in Scranton.
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Mount Vernon
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Death of Robert C. Cook, Jersey City contractor
Robert C. Cook died at his home 28 Fairmount Avenue Jersey City on Tuesday from a ruptured brain blood vessel. He was a retired contractor who built Public School No. 2 in Ernest about 1850, which was torn down four years ago.
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Death of Dr. J. W. Hathaway in Pasadena
East Orange New Jersey special report says Rev. Dr. Israel W. Hathaway secretary of the American Sabbath Union died yesterday in Pasadena after an appendicitis operation. He resided at 16 Routledge avenue East Orange and was in California with Mrs Hathaway to attend the Presbyterian General Assembly. Survived by his wife a son in Elizabeth and a daughter in Philadelphia.
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Ruitledge Ave
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Philadelphia
Dr Edwin S Lines Hesitates On Newark Bishopric
In New Haven on June 17 the Rev Dr Edwin S Lines rector of St Pauls Church said he has not decided whether to accept election as Bishop of the Diocese of Newark. A notifying committee will come to formally inform him, with the House of Bishops to act later. It is unlikely he will accept.
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Replica of Nathan Hale Statue Presented in Connecticut
East Haddam Conn June 17 The New York Society presented a bronze statuette of Nathan Hale at the Connecticut Society Sons of the Revolution annual meeting Colonel Richard Henry Greene accepted the gift and ex Governor Morgan G Bulkeley replied The statuette mirrors New York Citys City Hall Park statue A gold medal for the best student patriot was awarded to Wilson D Beebe of the Hale School where the meeting occurred.
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Sons of the Revolution
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New-York
Morgan G. Bulkeley
Hartford
City Hall Park
New York City
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Eee Hale
Weather Report Signals Varied U.S. Showers and Heat
Washington reports last twenty four hours brought local showers in the lower lake region Middle and South Atlantic states New England and the North Pacific coast Elsewhere mostly clear temperatures cool in some areas warm in the northwest with 6 to 18 degrees above average highs over 90 and a hundred at Miles City Montana Forecast calls for more showers Thursday in several regions and fair conditions elsewhere winds mostly light to variable on coasts and Grand Banks showery weather for steamers to European ports
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Local Weather Summary for New England and Mid-Atlantic Regions
The Tribune notes showers in New England with Friday fair and warmer conditions, and similar trends for Eastern New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Western New York and Pennsylvania expect cooler north portions, while Delaware and the District of Columbia area see fair to partly cloudy skies and warming with variable winds.
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Mayor subscribes to paper after ten year old sales pitch
Ten year old E B Hesser of 741 Wendover Avenue in The Droox persuades the Mayor to subscribe to a weekly paper. He cites famous backers from New York and asks for cash terms. The Mayor laughs then signs a receipt and pays one dollar with a quarter. Burnett's Cocoaine advert follows.
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Marriages Recorded at Christ Church in 1903 and 1908
Notices show a 1908 Davenport Rambo wedding at Christ Church Brownsville Pennsylvania officiated by Rev William E Rambo. bride Jennie Woolston Rambo. A 1903 Smith Johnson marriage at Christ Church Pelham Manor New York officiated by Rev A F Tenny, Janet P Smith of Louisville to Frederick Morgan Johnson of New York City.
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New York
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N. Y
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Janet P. Smith
Louisville
Frederick Morgan Johnson
New York City
Multiple Obituaries Amid June 1908 Funerals Listed
In Greenwich and Mount Vernon for various individuals including Hiram Armstrong aged 824 years and Alfred Bell aged 53, with funeral details from West 73d Street and Mount Vernon. Also Crawford John S. of Mount Vernon aged 60, Fish Bayard of Scarsdale aged 76, and Mary Jane Radway aged 75. Sterling Richard T. and Mary Amelia Starr Taylor are noted with service times and addresses. Public notices mention Woodlawn Cemetery availability and train access from Grand Central.
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West T5th St
Portland
Arbitration plan for Building Trades in New York
The Building Trades Employers Association of New York outlines a plan of arbitration to resolve disputes between employers and employees. It proposes a two-tier system with trade boards and a General Arbitration Board, appointing arbitrators from both sides, a Court of Appeals, and rules to prevent strikes or lockouts until these boards decide. It also describes complaint handling, umpire selection, and binding judgments.
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Postal Union Rates and Office Listings for The Tribune
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