Amusements Column Selections From The City Listings
A cluttered program of theater and amusement items lists numerous shows and venues. Entries include Colonial, Empire, Majestic, Manhattan Opera House, Savoy, and XEW theatres with various titles such as The World in Wax, The Witching Hour, The Girl Behind the Counter, and Cavalleria Rusticana. Also noted are skating at St Nicholas Rink and a circus act. The list combines performances, times, and locations in a dense, period-voice card.
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Criterion
Miss Hook
Hoelane
Epex Museer
Wax Empire
Doktor Kisus Hackettt
Vauderilice Herald Square
Port Arthur
Talk of
New York
Bancannaland
Manhattan Opera House
Amsterdam
Jerry Wider
Terim
ST. Nicholas
Wai Lack
WERER
New York Daily Tribune masthead and publication details
The March 16 1908 issue of the New York Daily Tribune lists The Tribune Association as owner and publisher with principal office at Tribune Building 154 Nassau Street New York. Code Mills is president and Nathaniel Tuttle serves as secretary and treasurer.
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The
Tribune Association
New York Corporation
Tribune
Nassau Street
New York
Coden Mills
Nathaniel Tuttle
News Summary From Congress To City Notes
A broad morning summary reports Senate debate on Bailey's currency substitute, House adjournment after mourning Mr Meyer of Louisiana, and foreign reports of Moorish battles and a barbed press on imperial diplomacy. Domestic items include Evans wireless messages, Albany charges reply, Lilley corruption inquiry, magnesium life work tests, racetrack gambling delays, and a North Adams balloon ascent. City notes cover stock activity, Governor Hughes remarks, bank receivership, electric franchise valuation, and a looming subway project financing issue with liquor dealer protests. Weather indicates fair today with a high near 1 degree and low around 28.
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Congress
Senate
Bailey
House
Meyer
Louisiana
Amade
William
Lerd Tweedmouth
Lord Rosebery
Alfonso
Barcelona
Madrid
M. Beernaert
Leopold
China
Japan
Navy Department
Evans
Pensacola
Fla
Jerome
Albany
Metropolitan Street Railway
House of Representatives
Lilley
A. G. Mayer
Carnegie Institution
Judiciary Committee
Joy A. Holland Forbes
North Adams
Mass
Monson
Hingland
Chicago
Sims
Hughes
New York
American Museum of Natural History
Oriental Bank
Justice O'Gorman
Long Acre
Consular Service Reforms Move Through Congress
A Senate approved consular reform bill advances to the House. The plan strengthens tenure and merit based promotions, ending the old system of political influence and private fees. It marks continued progress in building a professional U S consular corps amid expanding foreign trade.
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Consular Service of
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Root
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Congress
Mouch
Consular Service Reforms Aim to Realign Posts Abroad
The State Department seeks to extend and tighten a reform program to boost efficiency in collecting and distributing commercial information. It would close about twenty posts and create new consulates where commerce is growing, abandoning obsolete sites like Port Stanley and St Helena. The move aims to end the old lax system and provide a trained consular corps to support American manufacturers and producers.
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State Department
Root
Congress
Punta Arenas
Strait of Magellan
Port Stanley
Falkland Islands
St. Helena
Jerome’s Answer Stirs Calls for Fair, Unbiased Review
The piece defends District Attorney Jerome amid weak or ill defined charges and argues that a fair hearing before Governor Hughes as judge could restore public confidence. It notes Jerome’s insistence that many acts were morally wrong but not indictable and questions whether failures stem from law or personal flaws.
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Jerome
Hughes
Mr. Jerome
British Imperial Trade and Tariff Reform Debate
The article analyzes tariff reform in England within the British Empire framework, arguing that protectionism affects the empire as a unified fiscal entity. It contrasts UK trade data with imperial totals, noting shifting import export balances, rising empire self sufficiency, and changing food versus raw material trade from 1895 to 1906.
Empire bill balance shapes self sufficiency and empire dependence
The text argues the empire runs a fully balanced or surplus bill for food versus raw materials, influencing its self sufficiency as an industrial and commercial unit. It notes growing outer-world dependence on British raw materials and frames tariff reform as an imperial question affecting the entire British Empire, including Canada and Australia, with colonies seeking rebates.
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England
Hell
British Isles
United Kingdom
British Empire
Great Britain
Cobden
Australia
Commonwealth
Canada
Dominion
Lord Tweedmouth explains German Emperor letter
The British Lord of the Admiralty describes a private letter from the German Emperor to him and says it was personal and not an official communication. He shared it with the Foreign Secretary, who agreed, and he refused to publish it before Parliament, arguing it aims to foster good Britain Germany relations.
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Lord Tweedmouth
Admiralty
Ruie
Sound and Sense on Fort Local Option Debate
The piece mocks fiery clerical rhetoric toward Governor Fort and warns against pressuring him to push local option without statewide support. It notes his pledge to enforce the Bishops' law and suggests only a clear public verdict could justify local option. Clergy support for the governor is praised as prudent and rational by many New Jersey readers.
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New Jersey
Fort
Furioso
Unequiviwg
Canal Jeremiahs decries Panama project by Stevens
Former Panama Canal chief engineer John F. Stevens argues against building the canal, contending it serves Europe but not the United States. He warns it will cost more than expected, fail to pay, and misuses funds. He questions naval value and future trade shifts to rail and Pacific routes.
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John F. Stevens
Andes
Pacific Islands
Asia
California
Panama
China
Siberia
India
Stevens
Britons debate canal value for Pacific trade and navy
The article argues that a western route via a canal would shorten the Pacific gap between coasts and bolster naval reach. It cites Suez economics and warns that opponents misjudge long term gains, contrasting European interest with American and Asian competition while noting high long term profits from canal shares.
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Europe
Suez
Asia
Mr. Stevens
Asian
San Francisco
Atlantic
Gulf
Pacific
Stevens
Suez Canal
Representative Meyer Dies. Politician and Naval Aide
Representative Adolph Meyer of Louisiana, who died in New Orleans, served seventeen years in the House, notably on the Naval Affairs Committee, where his work benefited his state and the nation. The piece also notes long-serving members and a critical cartoon about Bryan and Johnson, plus Florida peonage remarks and DOJ inquiry implications.
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Adolph Meyer
Louisiana
New Orleans
Congress
H. H. Bingham
John Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Cannon
Serena E. Payne
J. S. Sherman
New York
W. P. Hepburn
Meyer
Committee On Naval Affairs
Befri seed touted as famine food in India and Berlin jokes
Consul General William H. Michael reports a jungle seed called befri discovered west of India and proposed for storage to fight famine, claiming higher protein than wheat or oatmeal. The note appears amid a collage of cultural tidbits and European commentary on aging writer Spielhagen, American family life, and German views on youth.
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William H. Michael
Calcutta
India
Baroda
Bombay
Befri
Frankfurter Zeitune
America
Tommie
Social notes from The Tribune Bureau Washington March
The President declined an invitation to Pittsburg Americas Club dinner on April 27. New York Business Men's Association memorial opposed to Aldrich currency bill. Secretaries Root Taft Jusserand and others called at the White House. Mrs Clarence H Mackay hosts dinner for the Duchess of Marlborough and Italian Benevolent Institute event at the Manhattan Opera House. Various society engagements include engagements for Miss Corinne Douglas Robinson, Dr George Draper marriage rumors, and Cardinal Bayley? Correction: Nathalie Lorillard Bailey to wed Lewis Gouverneur Morris April in Madison Avenue. Travel plans include Dana and Miss Collier engagement. others prepare for Europe and Palm Beach.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
The
Americas Club
Pittsburg
Business Men's Association of
New York
Fowler
New Jersey
White House
Loeb
Philadelphia
Clarence H. Mackay
Madison Avenue
Duchess of Marlborough
Manhattan Opera House
Benevoent Institute
Ernesto G. Fabbri
R. Fulton Cutting
William P. Douglas
Seth Low
Pierpont Morgan
W. Pierson Hamilton
Howard Mansfield
Nathalie Lorillard Bailey
Lewis Gouverneur Morris
J. Muhlenberg Bailey
The German Diplomatic Corps Visit and Dinners
The German Ambassador and Baroness von Sternburg, visiting Cuba, will reach St. Augustine Thursday and then the South before Washington. Invitations for a March 15 dinner were tested, and a dinner party tonight included guests such as Miss Coleman Miss Grace Jarvis Miss Le Garde Miss Stockton Miss Seymour Count Torok Austrian attaché Major Fournier French military attaché Mr de Thal Russian second secretary W H Kennard British second secretary and W A Reynards Netherlands chargé d affaires.
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Tribune
Washington
von Sternburg
Cuba
St. Augustine
Frau Nebbinghaus
Miss Coleman
Grace Jarvis
Mr. de Thal
W. H. Kennard
W. A. Reynards
Netherlands
Washington Society Highlights Duchess of Sutherland visit
Washington society notes a duchess and guests including Mr and Mrs Benjamin Guinness returning to New York in a private car. They attended a dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs John R McLean after calls at the White House and British Embassy events with notable figures such as Senator Depew and officers, and various social gatherings across the capital.
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Benjamin S. Guinness
Washinston Square North
Mme
Lina Cawaittert
Metropolitan Opera
Mario Roses
Seins
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Duchess of Sutherland
Benjamin Guinness
New York
E. R. Bacon
John R. McLean
Rourke Cochran
White House
Roosevelt
McLesun
Depew
Robert Shaw Sliver
Edwards
Bromwell
Woodbury Blair
Frank Ellis
Hanna
Daniel Manning
Cruger
Ide
Helen Patten
James Pinchot
Amos Pinchot
Carol Newberry
Brazilian Ambassador Hosts Dinner for Supreme Court
The Brazilian Ambassador Joaquim Nabuco hosted a formal dinner at the Brazilian Embassy honoring Supreme Court members. Secretary Root attended and offered a sentiment praising constitutional guardianship as America's greatest contribution to political science and noting judicial prestige as a sign of the nation’s legal spirit.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Joaquim Nabuco
Supreme Court of the United States
Root
Progtess
America
Supreme Court
Columbia Varsity Show at Waldorf Astoria
Columbia University students staged their annual varsity show at the Waldorf Astoria last night. The comic opera Mr. King spoofed Colonial citizens and British soldiers with songs by Emil Breitenfeld. W. E. Kelley starred as King while the pony ballet The Ideas of March drew praise. proceeds benefited players and needy athletic groups.
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Columbia University
Waldorf-Astoria
Mr. King
Emil Breitenfeld
W. E. Kelley
King
Nast Art Collections To Be Sold At Auction Night
The Anderson Auction Company will auction paintings and drawings by Thomas Nast and works by other artists collected by Nast tonight and tomorrow night at its temporary gallery on Fifth Avenue and 29th Street. The sale marks Nast’s final dispersal of his pictures including watercolors pen and ink wash drawings cartoons and twenty seven oil canvases such as Saving the Flag and a General Lee portrait.
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Thomas Nast
Metropolitan meeting adjourned over quorum issue
The annual stockholders meeting of the Conned Metropolitan Opera Company was adjourned yesterday due to lack of a quorum and rescheduled for March 19. The session will address matters including the potential removal of the prefix Conried from the corporate title.
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Metropolitan Opera Company
Conried
Immigration Talk by National Liberal Immigration League
Officers committeemen and friends of the National Liberal Immigration League meet at Edward Lauterbachs office 22 William street this afternoon at 4 o clock. The program includes an address by the president and a discussion on deportation of alien criminals probationary citizenship lengthening and distribution of immigrants Americanization and discrimination against Southern Italian and Japanese immigration.
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National Liberal Immigration League
Edward Lauterbach
William Street
Italy
Virginia
North Carolina
Bishop of London appeals to City at crowded St Michael's
The Right Rev Arthur Wingram bishop of London addressed a packed St Michael's Church Cornhill telling bankers and city leaders that London needs spiritual work and money. He urged support for the bishop of London's fund stating without work and money London would become pagan.
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London
Arthur F. Wingram
St. Michael's Church
Cornhill
Wall Street
New York
Sunday opening at Yale museums proves popular
Yale officials report a successful Sunday opening of the art and natural history museums in New Haven. Three weeks into the move the public was welcomed with twenty visitors viewing the exhibits yesterday.
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New Haven
Yale
Edwin Forrest 102nd Anniversary Observed at Philadelphia
Memories of Edwin Forrest careers filled the Edwin Forrest Home for Old Actors as the 102nd anniversary was marked. William H. Bartholomew presented Tondler with veteran players. John Jack supported Forrest in roles including Pelonius and the King, while Kate Ludlow Littell Hackett and Charles J. Tiff assisted as cast and Libarian of the Home.
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Philadelphia
Edwin Forrest
William H. Bartholomew
John Jack
Forrest
Pelonius
King
Hamlet
Kent
King Lear
Falstaff
Kate Ludlow Littell
Mrs Roosevelt Invited To St Louis Visit
A formal invitation from St Louis women, drafted by Mrs Otto E Forster, was sent to Mrs Theodore Roosevelt inviting a visit during her Mayflower pleasure tour to the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River. Mrs George J Frankel, president of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, will convene the executive board to add the invitation to the existing one.
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St. Louis
Otto E. Forster
Theodore Roosevelt
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
George J. Frankel
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
Forster
Dinner for J. B. Reynolds Hosted by East Side Friends
A dinner for James Browser Reynolds will be held at Clinton Hall on Wednesday evening March 11 hosted by East Side friends. Speakers include W. Cooley Congressman Henry M Goldfogle ex Judge Charles S Whitman David Blaustein Henry George Edward King and Meyer Bloomfield. No political discussion will take place.
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James Browser Reynolds
East Side
Clinton Hall
W. Cooley
Henry M. Goldfogle
Charles S. Whitman
David Blaustein
Henry George
Edward King
Meyer Bloomfield
Japan Society Dinner Tonight at Hotel Astor
The Japan Society plans a dinner tonight honoring Baron Takahira with Governor Fort of New Jersey Senator Depew ex Major Seth Low Reverend Joseph D Burrell and Professor T Ladd among speakers who has recently returned from Japan
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Japan Society
Hotel Astor
Baron Takahira
Governor Fort
New Jersey
Senator Depew
Seth Low
Joseph D. Burrell
T. Ladd. Wie
Japan
Swarthmore Bequest Decision On Athletics Gift
Philadelphia report states the Swarthmore College board will decide tomorrow whether to accept Anna T. Jeanes’s bequest with the condition that the institution abandon athletics. President Swayne says options include accepting the gift with the condition or refusing it, and that no proposals to bypass the clause have been considered. The college has been coeducational since its charter and faculty have not raised questions about coeducation.
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Philadelphia
Swarthmore of
Anna T. Jeanes
Swayne
Swachimore College
Swayn
Swartmore
Circulation Club Dinner Plans in New York
The Circulation Club of New York will hold its annual beefsteak dinner on Wednesday at Bruckenstein's Cliff Cafe in Manhattan. The event entertains New York newspaper men and the big out-of-town newsdealers special agents at least once a year, with nearly all local circulation expected to attend.
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Circulation Club
New York
Bruckensteim
Cliff Cafe
Nos 4
Ferry Street
Manhattan
Wedded Without Waste of Time in Philadelphia
Frank H. Tract of Chicago and Miss Genevieve West of New York wed after a brief courtship. The couple, with friend Waite Bliven, obtained a marriage license at City Hall then wed at the Bliven home. They planned to sail to Ireland the next day.
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Philadelphia
Frank H. Tract
Chicago
Genevieve A
West
Gd Street
New York
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Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Richand Irvin
West 38Th Street
William Pelleck
David T. Dana
Georgette Collier
M. Dwight Collier
Grace Church
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