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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
23
The 1843 schism led to two major paths Voluntaryism versus Establishment. The United Free Church forms a unified front against state aid while the Established Church argues for retained funding and broad national reach. Both claim historical legitimacy and note reforms and demographic leadership.
Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison arrived yesterday to be near his brother William Preston Harrison who faces an appendicitis operation at Dr. W. T. Gibbs's home. William Preston, famed for travel, once became a Samoan chief after a cannibal tribe ordeal. Mayor Harrison, staying at the Holland House, had not returned by late night.
A Rome dated letter to Archbishop Corrigan announces Rev. John Edwards of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in New York has been made a monsignor by Pope Leo. Corrigan planned to return via Florence and Naples, with the Golden Jubilee of New York Archdiocese on July 18 to be presided over by the Archbishop. The Pope is said to be in good health and warmly received Corrigan and Cardinal Rempolla.
The Court of Appeals affirmed lower court rulings taxing the Vanderbilt trust fund of 5 million dollars created by W. H. Vanderbilt for Cornelius and his children. The decision relies on a 1897 amendment to inheritance law granting taxation to pre act trust funds held with power of reappointment. A tax of 6,000 has been paid pending final outcome, with David Dow estate of Brooklyn also affected.
London reports a Glasgow bear market rally as investors bid up pigiron prices without securing iron. Warrants remained scarce and stocks neared an irreducible point. Pigtron rose briefly at midday before closing at 6.2 and a fee of two shillings. Mod-Sucka noted as done.
Brown University announces a total fundraising of 1 096 106 dollars including cash and pledges after a period of anxiety. Major gifts from Marsden J. Perry Frank A. Sayles Robert Ives Gammell and William Gammell helped secure the Rockefeller conditional gift of 250 000 dollars. Commencement featured 184 bachelor degrees and several honorary doctorates with a large attendance and remarks by Wheeler and others. The General Alumni Association elected new officers and a Sayles Memorial Hall dinner followed with remarks by Wheeler. An upcoming forestry meeting will discuss Adirondack forest problems and fires. Thousands are invited to support national forest conservation efforts.
Lafayette College closed its commencement with 55 degrees conferred and many master’s degrees awarded to earlier graduates. Honorary MA went to Judge Henry Scott. Alumni banquets featured major gifts including a $60 laboratory from James Gayley and a $5 from Henry S. Oliver for chemical uses. Professor Hart donated books valued over $1,500, Baker & Adamson Chemical Company offered a $2,000 chemical museum, and the class of 1889 pledged $20 to support tuition for its members’ sons.
Geneva N Y June 2 The commencement week featured the farewell of Professor Hamilton I Smith after 31 years of service in astronomy microscopy and photography The seventy fifth commencement saw cornerstone laying for Medbery Hall with an address by Herbert J Pease The alumni dinner included W C Maybury mayor of Detroit and several honorary degrees were awarded to John Jay Chapman W C Thayer Thomas B Lovell Algernon Crapsey Charles F J Wrigley Charles R Wilson Byron H Andrews New trustees elected Frederick I Proctor Elwood Worcester The Cosmos politanism lecture by John Jay Chapman closed Hobart Chapter Phi Beta Kappa"
Lexington Virginia June 3 Washington and Lee University conferred the honorary degree of LL D on General William F Draper United States Minister to Italy Professor Thomas H Somerville University of Mississippi and William L Prather president University of Texas The ceremony honored three distinguished individuals for their contributions to education and public service.
Holyoke Mass June 2 Special Mount Holyoke received six thousand percent? from Dr B K Pearsons of Chicago toward the endowment fund and zeros percent from John Dwight of New York for the erection of a memorial art building on the site of the old Dwight homestead on the campus.
Amherst Mass June 20 graduates received diplomas from President H H Goode in a large crowd at Stone Chapel during the exercises of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.
Medford June 20 The forty fourth annual Tufts College commencement honored 127 graduates the largest class Medford has seen. Degrees were awarded in English for the first time plus 44 dentistry 33 medicine 31 A B 16 B S B 3 B D 3 M B and 5 A M. Honorary Litt D went to Le Grand Powers census chief S D Waldo editor of The Bridgeport Standard and Frederick G Peargon superintendent of the Metropolitan Traction Co New York.
Ithaca N Y June 20 The Cornell Board of Trustees held its annual June meeting with out of town members H R Ickelheimer Walter C Kerr and others. Kerr was elected to fill the vacancy created by Governor Flower s death while the Associate Alumni meeting in Barnes Hall heard reports and elected Willard Bealand and L O Howard as alumni trustees for five years.
The American Forestry Association plans its principal summer meeting at Columbia University on Monday and Tuesday in affiliation with the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Notable speakers include Henry Gannett F H Newell H B Ayres from the US Geological Survey Charles W Garfield president of the Michigan Forestry Commission Professor William P D Clark Johns Hopkins University Dr B E Fernow director of the New York State College of Forestry Colonel William F Fox superintendent of State Forests New York Ernest Eruncken Secretary.
The Committee of One Hundred on India Famine Relief listed yesterday’s receipts from numerous donors. Contributions include amounts from Miss D. L. Edge, Mrs. K. D. Chester, Rev. Samuel Unsworth, J. Gordon Baugh, Jr., and many others via The New York Times, The Journal of Commerce, and The Washington County Post. Total to date reaches 77,429.4. The Tribune also notes additional $10 from M. A. Morristown and $15 via The Tribune through Baltimore, with funds to Brown Bros. & Co. as treasurers.
Morrison Hellen of Chicago recalls Easter Sunday bull fights in Madrid. He describes the arena, the parade of toreadors, the wooden safety fence, horse and rider tactics, and the final kill sequence ending with the matador’s sword strike and the bull’s death, followed by removal of the carcasses.
Samuel P. Molenaer Ph D, a French language instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, dies after a three month illness from heart disease. Born in St Petersburg, he taught at Columbia University and Wittenberg College before joining Penn two years ago. Baron Loch dies in London at age seventy six, a veteran diplomat and colonial administrator with service from the Bengal Cavalry to the Cape and Victoria.
A cable from Dinard France reports Mahlon Ogden Jones once of this city died there on Monday. He lived in Paris recently at No 3 Bois de Boulogne and previously engaged in American yachting with New York and Beawanhaka Corinthian Yacht clubs. He leaves wife Musduie DT Katle and a son and daughter, Miss Vera de T. Jones, with a Wood's Hole Massachusetts country home noted.
The funeral of Margaret Livingston Middleditch wife of the Rev Dr Robert T Middleditch and mother of Rev Robert A Middleditch will be held at her home 24 Spencer Place Brooklyn this afternoon at 2 oclock. She was born in Dutchess County New York seventy five years ago, married in 1847, and leaves four daughters and a son Livingston Middleditch who lives in Manhattan. The Rev Dr Middleditch is a well known Baptist minister formerly editor of The Inquirer.
Miss Ada Rehan sailed for England aboard the Teutonic and avoided interviews, unsure of acting plans. George W. Lederer and several troupe members also voyage, with twenty five more Broadway players aboard the New England from Boston. A stage version of Jerome, a Poor Man, is planned with Walter Perkins leading. Klaw and Erlanger engage Miss Hilda Clarke for next season’s Bostonians. Miss Della Fox improves at River Crest Sanitarium and may soon leave. Dr. Kindred confirms her steady recovery and future full health.
In Canandaigua New York on June 2 Frank Rice for the prosecution finished his summing up in the Benham case around 6 pm. The defense objected to several statements and one insinuation about the defendant not testifying drew a rebuke. Judge Houghton, asked to defer the charge till morning, consented. Jurors will receive the case before noon.
A Tribune Fresh Air Fund party of fifteen convalescent children from the New-York Infirmary for Women and Children left Jersey City for Goshen New York, where they will be hosted by Middletown and Goshen residents for a two week stay. They toured a hillside farmhouse, played in orchards, and rode to Midway Park. The Middletown Goshen Convalescent Children's Home supports the program with church backing and annual grants.
The Fresh Air workers will meet at the Tabernacle No 3 Broome St at 4 p m Friday June 22. All who seek assistance from The Tribune Fresh Air Fund should attend to learn how aid is provided and contribute to the program.
Special report from Columbia S C describes a black ring around the sun seen between noon and 12 18 pm. Onlookers note reduced sunlight and an apparent shadow passing the sun though skies were clear. Local observers report alarm among black residents.
James Stillman, president of the National City Bank, hosted a dinner for M. Rothstein the Russian financier who arrived in New York from Europe. About twenty guests attended including J Pierpont Morgan, D O Mills, P Huntington, F D Tappen, H H Rogers and James T Woodward, head of Hanover National Bank.
The passage lists multiple marriage announcements from June 1900 including IpáricioBrun and others at various churches with names like Maria Luisa Brio and Alberto Aparicio. It also records obituaries and funeral notices for Harriet Hunter Allen, Joseph Baker, Louis P Berry, Anne Flemming Blauvelt, George A B Cleneay, Edith Dalrymple Graham, and others with addresses and service details.
Yesterday's record and today's forecast indicate temperatures 20 to 25 degrees above normal in northern districts with a 104 degree maximum in Robe City, Idaho. Heat will persist across the central states and Rockies through Thursday, with showers in the Middle Gulf and Pacific coast. no broad rain anticipated.
Maine to New Hampshire Vermont and nearby states expect fair to Friday with warming in many eastern areas. Fresh southerly or southwesterly winds noted in several regions including Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut and New York. Partial notes show Tribune local observations with pressure graphs and a Perry’s Pharmacy temperature chart.
In Bemis Ue Tetues June 18, waes Willam Hughes funeral at Church of the Heavenly Rest with interment Kensico. Jones Mahlon Ogden Jones died June 18 in Dinard France. Middleditch Margaret Livingston died June 19 at age 75. Page E N Page died June 19 at Waterford. Tucker Cornelia Tucker died June 20 at Altamont aged 19. Webb Henry Walter Webb died June 18 at Beechwood Scarborough with funeral at St Marys Church and special train from Grand Central.
Single copies daily and weekly scent editions offered by early mail train routes. Available across the United States excluding Greater New York Canada and Mexico.
Post office notices list daily and weekly closing times for various forwardings. It covers Newfoundland via rail to North Sydney and Miquelon, Cuba via Tampa and Miami, Mexico City overland, Central American routes, Transpacific mails to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and the Far East. It notes connected closes, special steamer dispatches, and registered mail cutoffs, with dates indicating June and July deadlines. Cornelius Van Cott signs the notice from New York, dated June 15, 100Q.
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