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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1908
Page
17
The document lists numerous figures and groups offering condolences after Grover Cleveland’s passing. It includes statements from William Jennings Bryan, Booker T. Washington, Cardinal Gibbons, governors of Wisconsin and Mississippi, Prince Roland Bonaparte, the Princeton Club of St. Louis, Tyringham selectmen, and other dignitaries and former officials, all expressing sorrow and respect.
Preparations by exchanges and organizations mark today as Grover Cleveland is to be buried at 5 PM. The New York Stock Exchange and Consolidated Stock Exchange close at 1 PM, while the Cotton Exchange remains open to send sympathy telegrams to Mrs Cleveland. Resolutions praise Cleveland’s work for the Equitable Life Assurance Society and his Democratic leadership. The Essex County Freeholders and several clubs issue condolences. flags at half mast for 30 days. Yachts in the New York Yacht Club fleet fly ensigns at half mast today. Mayor McClellan hints at a larger ceremony in the fall if weather allows.
The Manhattan Republican Club in the district held a ratification meeting at 66 Seventh Avenue last night. Delegates endorsed Taft and Sherman with enthusiasm and adopted resolutions mourning Grover Cleveland as a foremost citizen and ex president, praising his public service and condoling his family.
Friends in New York and Princeton urged Mayor McClellan to have church bells tolled during Grover Cleveland's funeral as was done for McKinley. The mayor, late to respond, announced the funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon with services from 4: to 5:39 o'clock and asked ministers of 21 churches to toll their bells for a half hour.
The Taft Organization of New York postpones the Waldorf dinner for William Howard Taft due to the death of ex President Grover Cleveland. Chairman Louis J. Hay explained the postponement honors Cleveland and that attendees will join in paying respect to the late president.
Official tribute paid to Grover Cleveland memory in Annapolis and at the Naval Academy with flags lowered to halfmast. Naval Academy fired a 21 gun salute at noon as an extra mark of respect.
Washington announces nationwide and international mourning for ex President Cleveland. Telegraphed orders require half mast flags for 30 days, thence mourning through July 25, with gun salutes at sunrise and sunset. Brazil honors include wreaths to Princeton and half mast on ships and public buildings. Secretary Straus to Princeton for funeral, Costa Rican minister also offers condolences.
St Petersburg papers praise Grover Cleveland as a reorganizer and regenerator of the Democratic party and commend his independence and work capacity. Paris’s Temps calls him one of America’s greatest figures, noting character over talent and his firm integrity as a model for statesmen.
Dr Henry van Dyke of Princeton University called at Westland to comfort Mrs Cleveland and agreed to officiate at the funeral ceremonies. He issued a statement praising Mr Cleveland for friendship loyalty and his service to Princeton noting his instinctive harmony with the university and the deep loss his passing leaves in its leadership.
In South Manchester Connecticut the state Prohibition convention declined to praise Grover Cleveland. Rev William F Davis proposed a tribute to Cleveland's statesmanship but nominating candidate Matthew J OBrien and Oliver W Stewart defeated the measure saying Cleveland supported rather than denounced the liquor traffic.
Adjutant General Brillnhall orders a thirteen gun sunrise salute tomorrow for ex President Cleveland’s funeral with hourly gunfire all day and a forty five gun sunset salute from the river bank behind the State House. Andrew West of Princeton informs Governor Fort of Mrs Cleveland’s request for his presence, and Fort will attend. Fort meets Roosevelt at 4 45 pm at the Princeton station to accompany him to Cleveland home. Governor Fort issues a death proclamation for Mr Cleveland.
Ann Arbor reports Mrs Susan Yeomans sister of Grover Cleveland will not attend the Princeton funeral because of grief. She visits her son Theron Grover Cleveland a senior at the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan and lives in New York City. Other relatives in Toledo Omaha and Hartford also forego attendance as the ex president’s death is noted.
The text notes that Mrs. Anna Cleveland Hastings cannot attend due to age, but her daughter Miss Mary Louise Hastings will represent the Hartford branch. It also mentions the possible attendance of Mrs. I F Wood, wife of Professor Wood of Smith College in Northampton.
Governor Hughes departs for New York tonight then to Princeton for ex President Cleveland's funeral. He will join a Hotel Astor meeting of the state buildings board at 10 o clock tomorrow to review nine bids for a proposed state educational building in Albany near the Capitol, estimated at 3 million dollars.
Republican Vice Presidential candidate James Sherman shows rapid recovery with no operation needed. Doctors say he is hourly improving and could leave the hospital for home next Monday after a very comfortable day. Mrs Sherman stays by his side as private secretary Devendorf returns to Utica.
Washington talks on Sherman’s role amid Republican power shifts. A July sub committee meeting may fix whether he stays as chairman or moves to a different post. Tawney, McKinley press for him to remain, while Sherman prefers delaying until a national chair is chosen and health factors enter consideration.
Washington June 25 Elmer Dover secretary of the Republican National Committee is due tomorrow to resume active campaign preparations. The RNC rooms reopened today as the committee readies for Dover's return and the kickoff of campaign activities.
Fargo North Dakota dispatch notes the wartime Republican stalwart wing appears to have named the state ticket with Supreme Court Justice possibly an exception. Early returns show United States Senate candidates Marshall Johnson Little Hansbrough leading by margins of hundreds to thousands in the counted counties. The outcome seems unlikely to shift significantly.
Oswego N Y June 25 Frank L Smith was nominated for the Assembly today by the Republican convention Delegates to the state convention were elected as follows John T Mott Merrick Stowell F G Whitney Thomas D Lewis P W Cullinan T M Costello C LB Benson J S Parsons J W Burt Edward Quirk A D Corse and FE E Frost
Governor Hughes commented on a near miss when a bolt of lightning flashed past the automobile he rode in near Albany while returning from Cohoes. The vehicle’s isinglass front pane split as the bolt passed. Adjutant General Nelson H. Henry and Colonel George C. Treadwell were in the car.
The Public Service Commission dismissed several West End Board of Trade complaints against Brooklyn Union Elevated, Brooklyn Heights Railroad, and Nassau Electric. The Bay Ridge elevated terminal at 65th Street and Third Avenue will see improved service with trains of at least three cars during rush hours and better connections to the elevated trains. The commission will monitor conditions and require the trolley lines to coordinate with the Bay Ridge terminal.
The Long Island Railroad announces major investments over the coming months. A large terminal will be built at Jamaica serving traffic from seventeen tracks, with two new tracks between Long Island City and Jamaica. The North Shore division will be double tracked from Flushing to Port Washington, grade crossings abolished and curves eased.
Eight persons were injured early this morning when a Milwaukee Road freight train struck the Wagenbeck and Wallace circus train in the St Paul yards.
Samuel Koenig and ex-Senator Elsberg led supporters praising Taft and Bryan’s clash as the party’s path. Delegates hailed Taft as loyal, capable, and unshaken while backing his platform and naming his Vice Presidential pick. The meeting adjourned after honoring Cleveland via a resolution and a telegram from Governor Fuller.
The Republican organization of the 12th Assembly District will meet at 283 Third Avenue to ratify nominations. The Jacob A. Newstead Association, Republicans of the 4th District, will meet at 404 Grand Street to ratify Chicago nominations from last week.
In Ninth District Municipal Court the Sommers Mercantile Co. sued Frances A. Harris for possession over unpaid May rent. Testimony shows Harris leased a fifth floor workroom later moved to a basement space, a change she says hurt her millinery business. The court’s verdict favored the defendant, a significant landlord tenant ruling.
Five people escaped serious injury after an overturned car trapped them beneath it at Avenue P and Ocean Avenue near Sheepshead Bay racetrack. Victims include Dr. J Birmingham and Dr. C A McConville with broken ankle and clavicle. chauffeur John Fredericks and Mrs. Birmingham injured. treated at E J Albright’s home by Dr. Michaelis. Motorman and conductor fled before police arrive.
Charles J. Glidden of Boston and A. Holland Forbes of New York flew the big balloon Boston from North Adams today. They passed Northampton at 11 a.m. and landed at Wilbraham Centre after about sixty miles. The ascent lasted two and a half hours reaching 7400 feet with no incident reported.
Judge Ward granted release of Girolamo Asaro alias Vincenzo Fudera after Italian extradition request for the 1898 killing of Giuseppe Costa in Castella mare del Gola. Martino’s alleged role deemed hearsay. Italian government has ten days to appeal the decision.
Lincoln Neb June 25 The Denver platform will likely call for strict railway regulation and avoid government ownership. Norman F Mack reaffirmed that no government ownership plank will appear. Mack also backed Chanler of New York for vice president and predicted Bryan Kern ticket dynamics. Contests for seats in New York Ohio and DC will be addressed July 6 with Taggart clarifying he will not seek reappointment as national committee chair.
Theodore A. Bell a Napa attorney and former Governor nominee will be temporary chairman of the National Democratic Convention in Denver a Bryan letter indicates. The letter hints at major platform planks including a strong stand against child slavery and rising illiteracy in the United States.
Washington June 2 The Democratic Congressional Committee faces a tight fund situation two months early in the campaign. Chairman Lloyd plans a trip to New York to press Democrats in whom he has confidence for support. The committee must secure funds now or halt distribution of literature.
Senator McCarren announces plan to leave Brooklyn on Wednesday July 1 to confer with state leaders en route to the Denver convention. He files notice with the DNC as Kings County regulars contest the seating of Carnegie Hall delegates. Rumor links Borough President Coler to travel West to push for a possible Vice Presidential nomination.
Senator P H McCarren submitted election inspectors to the Kings County Board of Elections but the board rejected them by a 2 1 vote. Isaac M Kapper filed a mandamus petition before Justice Kelly to force recognition under primary law versus election law. The dispute centers on conflicting rules for organization officer selection and which faction should be seated.
A major fire today ripped through Summit Hill House in Catskill New Jersey, damaging one of the largest summer hotels. The fire started in the tower shaft corner. no fatalities reported as guests saved belongings and fled.
A fragment describes a hotel able to house MO, with a fire at a site where one structure was erected forty years ago and tied to Milton Broker. The text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or outcomes.
James T Bennett once a cafe trade figure and former chain owner shot himself at his Brooklyn home. Family found him dead in the bathtub with a pistol. Dr J B Kevin said death was instantaneous. Financial reverses and health issues were cited as likely causes.
Dederick D Cristede of Cristede Brothers, Harlem grocers, died in his No 112 East 110th street store after a midnight fire. Fire damaged a three story building with a synagogic upper floor, and firefighters found the proprietor's burned body during cleanup. Loss estimated about 1900 dollars. cause and manner of entry unknown.
Seven year old Simeon Meditich of No Christopher Avenue Brooklyn was struck by a car while playing in the street. His left leg was so severely crushed that amputation at the knee was performed by Dr. Evans at St Marys Hospital within two hours. Motorman George Beasley carried the boy to a drug store, a crowd briefly threatened him, and Patrolman John Tomford applied a tourniquet that Dr. Evans credited with saving the boy's life.
Wiliam J Harriman age 21 of 212 West 8th Street is jailed at East 228th Street station after a wild cab ride through Harlem. Raymund Loomie of 7 Morningside Avenue, a taxi driver, is charged with grand larceny while others face malicious mischief assault and related offenses.
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