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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
1
Harvard crews win a bloodless victory as Yale’s stroke collapses at three miles. Thousands watch the Crimson shell finish the big varsity race with Harvard alone in front.
Ex President Cleveland’s funeral planned for tomorrow will be stark and brief with no eulogy or sermon. A small, official gathering is expected at Westland with limited attendees including Roosevelt and three governors. Relatives arrive as city police and guards prepare for a restrained service and cemetery transfer.
The article notes Grover Cleveland's death mask being made by Edwin Wilson of Princeton, and outlines Roosevelt's funeral visit details. It describes official security, processions, and church rites, with pallbearers including politicians and professors from New York and Princeton. The piece also covers Mrs. Cleveland's composed demeanor, the emotional moments with her children, and the reception of telegrams from figures such as Baron Takahira.
Harvard's eight-oared crew beat Yale by nearly a mile on the Thames River. Yale collapsed mid race with Griswold unable to sustain the stroke and Hunt fading. Yale finished with seven oars as Harvard led from start to finish. Taft attended, watching Yale endure a stunning upset.
Cambridge June 25 total Harvard gifts for last year amount to 624000 with 106365 from the class of eighty three A Massachusetts Hall dinner heard President Eliet outline a new annual survey under Professor Lowell to compare after life prospects of high ranking scholars versus others The data indicate the top four scholars in twenty seven classes have one in five chance of entering Who's Who versus one in 13.3 for lower ranked students.
New London June 25. Freak bets populated the Harvard Yale race scene as Taft and Yale alumni ties sparked wagers. A Democratic judge agreed to vote for Taft if Yale won, Harvard man to back Bryan otherwise, amid a rush for Teddy bears after the race.
Pittsburg reports H W Tiers former First National Bank clerk arrested on an information charging $51,000 embezzlement from February to July 1906. Bail set at $10,000 for hearing. Tiers had left banking for real estate work and partially restitution was noted.
At Casino Hall Kansas City on June 2 doctors joined a playful fundraiser when Dr Hamilton Fisk Biggar offered to kiss any woman who donated $100 to the homeopathy fund. The stunt drew about $1000 in pledges with women physicians among the contributors. Dr Mabel Spencer was the first to be kissed, while Dr Anna Cline narrowly escaped. The event ended with the convention singing the Doxology.
London on June 25 lists government pensions for the year including 1230 dollars yearly to Professor Edwin Ray Lankester, director of the Natural History Museum, and 250 dollars yearly to Paul Fountain, an American traveler and writer, for contributions to literature and his straitened circumstances.
A Windhoek dispatch reports a vast diamond field near Luderitz Bay in Damara Land, German Southwest Africa, spanning about ten square miles. The ad also promotes a Denver return fare via West Shore and New York Central rail lines, with travel dates in July and a contact telephone.
William H Taft and his son Charles greeted Yale's victory at the rowing race from an observation train, leading cheers for Yale and sharing good humor over the outcome. Taft mingled with Harvard and Yale supporters, accepted compliments, and posed with Yale blue decorations. Officials and crowds praised him as trains moved on, with Taft refusing a smoke and accepting a kiss from a Palmer child.
Taft Sherman ratification night at Murray Hill Lyceum featured Rep. J Sloat Fassett Elmira ex Senator Elsberg and others. A resolution mourned Grover Cleveland praising his patriotism and sent sympathies to Mrs Cleveland. dedications by Herbert Parsons and John Henry Hammond followed by strong support for Taft Sherman. Two prominent Democrats attended reacting favorably. The piece ends noting an ad for $60 Denver excursion.
Brattleboro Vermont June 25 William Murphy and Charles Rigaman were arrested on charges of assault with intent to kill in connection with a rifle firing at the balloon Boston and balloonist Leo Stevens over Brattleboro last Friday Attorn ey General Clarke C Fitts filed the complaint Glidden and Stevens reported two bullets fired from a white barn one grazed the balloon the other pierced it forcing descent without gas danger
Mrs Mary A Yerkes widow of Charles T Yerkes faced a serious injury incident when her car struck Dominick Pasquale eleven in Washington Park The chauffeur Edward Roshong was arrested on a technical assault charge and later paroled by Magistrate Moss He will appear in Jefferson Market court with Tammany leader Thomas E Rush present in night court attendance
Dennis Murphy, a sailor aboard the Roosevelt bound for the North Pole under Lieutenant Peary, fainted from heat in the ship hold last night and may remain in Bellevue Hospital until departure. He says he is from Newfoundland and prefers cold weather, calling New York heat unsuitable.
Leo Raphael a bookkeeper of 27 Boston Road The Bronx was killed when struck by a motor wagon owned by Henry W Boettger Silk Finishing Co at Third avenue and 188th street. The two wagons towed a broken down vehicle. Men in charge John W Priest and Patrick Mc Connell were arrested charged with homicide. The Boettger firm sought parole for them but they remained in custody.
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