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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1910
Page
12
A long survey of the Ghika and Radziwill families, detailing Natalie of Servia, Liane de Pougy, and George Ghika in dynastic scandal. It recounts Wallachian ties, royal titles, legitimation fights, and a string of marriages across Romania Austria Russia and France, ending with Anthony Albert Radziwill’s future prospects.
A weather report from Washington details a disturbance bringing showers to the mid Atlantic New England and Great Lakes regions with local rains in the south Atlantic Gulf states and Arkansas. Warmer conditions are spreading from the Ohio Valley to the West with fair weather expected in most areas Wednesday and Thursday.
London June 28 audience at Haymarket watched the premiere of Countess von Arnim's Priscilla Runs Away. Miss Neilson Terry played Priscilla with charm, while Julia Neilson sat in a box observing her daughter's triumph and the Terry family dominance.
Harvard and Yale baseball teams and many students attended a performance of The Follies of 1910 at the New York Theatre after a game at American League Park. The college girls chorus drew cheers from Yale and Harvard supporters with repeated curtain calls for the Yale and Crimson performers.
Mme Bertha Kalich rehearses for three new Shubert season plays in a natural amphitheatre on her Highmount estate New York. Guests include actors in her company as A T Worm sails to Europe to view the works and report back. William Morris closes Plaza Music Hall for summer Aborn Comic Opera revivals at American Music Hall Seaside Rockaway Beach opens with Nina Payne. Blanche Walsh returns to Broadway September 15 in Barbaroza with George Howard. The Mikado stars attend Fourth of July matinees at Shubert theatres. Marie Dressler appears at Herald Square Tillie's Nightmare and The Summer Widowers at Broadway. Louis Mann stars in The Cheater at Lyric tonight. Bobby North Lambs Quartet perform for Hebrew Infant Asylum benefit at Arverne Pier Theatre. Three anniversary couples see Girlies at New Amsterdam and are invited to Luna Park by Frederic Thompson.
On alumni day at Wesleyan University the trustees announce plans to raise scholarship and admission standards. Some high schools will lose the certificate route to admission. Funds raised toward a $1,000,000 endowment reach 211,00 with further donations expected. Governor Weeks attends alumni dinner as guest of honor. Abram W Harris of Northwestern presides as toastmaster. George Greenwood Reynolds, class of ’41, is the oldest alumnus present.
The Baron De Hirsch School issued diplomas to its last graduating class of forty five as trustees conclude no longer needed due to public school expansion. Founded over twenty years ago from a $12 000 trust, the fund is managed by the Educational Alliance of New York with Isidor Straus as president and Dr Henry Fleischman as administrator.
Baltimore June 28 Mrs James S Sherman wife of Vice President Sherman is reported improved at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is said to be suffering from a nervous breakdown. The Vice President visited the hospital for several hours this afternoon before returning to Washington.
Free admission is offered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the American Museum of Natural History and the Zoological Garden. A Democratic League of New York State meeting convenes at Hotel Astor at 2 PM with a reception at 8 30 PM. Wadleigh High School holding graduating exercises on Seventh Avenue at 14th Street.
One hundred one children from crowded New York tenements arrived by West Shore ferry and train to Shokan New York for a month in the Fresh Air Fund. The initiative aims to strengthen undernourished, disease-prone youngsters with country air milk and farm produce, while social workers assess families and needs.
Miss Helen Augusta Bangs daughter of Dr and Mrs L B Bangs of New York City married John Nevin Sayre of South Bethlehem Penn at a fashionable Stockbridge ceremony. Sayre, Harvard divinity student and Princeton Class of 07 descendant of late Robert H Sayre, will be ordained next year. They plan a honeymoon on a Big Timber Montana ranch. Francis N Sayre was best man with several ushers. Mary E Bangs served as maid of honor. The service was led by Rev Dr William M Grosvenor and Rev Thomas H Yardley with blessing by Pinhap Ethelbert Talbot.
The New York Botanical Garden announces free summer lectures in the Museum Building Bronx Park on Saturdays at 4 PM. Speakers include Dr. N L Britton, F J Seaver, Dr C C Curtis, Dr Arthur Hollick, Dr W A Murrill, Norman Taylor, Dr M A Howe, George W Nash, and J H Barnhart with lantern slide illustrations.
Justice Keogh of the Supreme Court orders the sale of Clara Morris’s Yonkers homestead under foreclosure. Referee Lanman Crosby will conduct the sale next month after publication notices. The mortgage totals 25000 dollars with a second mortgage of 1500 dollars held by William R. Hearst.
William Neilson McVickar, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island, died at his Beverly Cove summer home after a long illness. Born 1843 in New York, he was educated at Columbia and General Theological Seminary and passed from pastor to bishop, known for his broad church views and progressive stances on state marriage restrictions.
The article profiles a priest who began as rector of Holy Trinity Church New York then Philadelphia city leadership, rising to Bishop Coadjutor and later Bishop of Rhode Island in 1903. It notes his missions work at Bijou Theatre, numerous church roles, and honorary degrees from Kenyon Columbia and Brown. It also cites his controversial spring remarks backing restrictions on marriage to curb disease and crime.
United States Senator Samuel Douglas McEnery has died at his New Orleans home after arriving from Washington with indigestion. The sudden death ends a prominent political career in Louisiana and national service. News follows his return to the city and the health crisis preceding his passing.
Senator McEnery, age 74, died after indigestion weakened his heart. He rallied briefly but worsened, with his wife Elizabeth Phillips of Monroe La and daughter Mrs Warren B Park at his bedside. Funeral set for Thursday. Governor Jared Y Sanders to succeed him in the Senate as Louisiana legislature meets. Dr Douglas W McEnery of Washington en route.
Samuel Aldrich Crozer, president of Crozer Theological Seminary and prominent Philadelphia area industrialist, died of heart disease at his villa in Upland near Chester. He owned coal lands in Virginia and mills in Chester and Upland, and supported Baptist philanthropy. A Republican, he served 30 years on the Upland Council and recently married at age 80 to Mrs. Josephine Stowers Grier, widow of Rev. Samuel Grier.
Lucius Warner Hoyt, president of the Colorado Bar Association and longtime dean of the University of Denver Law School, died in Denver. Born 1860 in Hartford Michigan, he studied at Paw Paw and Grand Rapids public schools, earned a BS from Michigan Agricultural College in 1882 and an LLB from Columbia Law School the same year. He taught at Denver University from 1892, became professor in 1903, and served as dean for years. Hoyt was a member of the American Bar Association and a delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists in St Louis in 194.
Dr Henry Harris Aubrey Beach a long time leading Boston surgeon and Harvard Medical School lecturer died at his home. Born 1843 in Middletown Connecticut he served as sergeant of ordnance in the U S Army before graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1868 and practicing in Boston. He married Alice C Mandell in 1871 and Amy Marcy Cheney in 1886.
Worcester Massachusetts reads that General Robert H Chamberlain a noted Mason and Civil War veteran died of paralysis at age seventy two He served as brigadier general commanding the Third Brigade of the Massachusetts militia from 1868 to 1876 He was grand commander of the Knights Templar for Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 1892 and served as Worcester County Sheriff for eighteen years resigning recently.
John McCormick a Civil War veteran died at his home 764 Halsey Street Brooklyn. A requiem mass will be said in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel at Putnam and Ralph Avenues tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. Mr McCormick served with Admiral Farragut.
During the fort's storming on the Mississippi a frigate grounded and drew heavy fire from batteries. Lieutenant George Dewey and Mr. McCormick leapt overboard and swam to shore as the ship burned.
Daniel W. Hoegg Jr a pioneer in U S canning who owned twelve Canadian canneries died in Portland aged 83 born Cambridge Mass He was said to be the oldest packer of canned goods in the United States Margaret Dougherty died of apoplexy at 174 West Teth street She leaves three children Thomas N Dougherty Edward W Dougherty and Mrs Allies Downs all residents of the city.
Twenty four young dancers from Mme Cavallazzi school at the Metropolitan Opera House completed their first season. The show featured elementary steps and a divertissement with Eva Swain hailed as premier danseuse. Directors Gatti Casazza and Dippel eyed future roles in Chicago and beyond.
Supreme Court Justice Kelly ruled that William Faversham and Julie Opp’s two children, William Faversham Jr and Philip Faversham, have a vested right to the house at 337 Central Avenue Brooklyn. The income will go to the children until the younger reaches twenty one. The property was left by Eliza Graf, an aunt of Julie Ore, requiring judicial interpretation.
Andreas Dippel director of the Chicago Opera Company sailed yesterday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm. He will try to persuade Mme Tetrazzini not to restrict her appearance here next season to concerts. He plans an auto tour between Nice and Vienna for rest.
Fiske Brown and Henry Met calf Fiske wed at Zion St Church with Rev Henry Lubeck officiating. Huntington Bogert wedding to E Irving Huntington performed by Rev Alexander M Bostwick at Graces Chantry. Moffatt Swift ties knot with Irene Battel Swift at Olivet Presbyterian Church Atlantic City with Rev N W Cadwell officiating.
A list of death notices and funeral details for Joseph Bechtold Susie Dunne Adrian Gillam Earle Hance Louise Hornung John Humphryes Patrick McDermott William McVickar Joseph Megarr Louise Stillwell and others. The notices include residences burial times and funeral locations in Brooklyn and New York with remarks on private or public services and undertaker arrangements.
Special notices announce a newly installed file of applications for selected aspirants across various jobs. Located at THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE Up town Office 1864 Broadway between 36th and 37th Streets. Office hours 9 am to 6 pm.
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