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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
22
The Cuban governor’s policy yields extensive road building and public works, plus a push for a workable fundamental code. He curbs conspiracies through evidence-led action, expanding civil governance and boosting general welfare over personal gain.
H Granville Berker ex manager of Court Theatre London since 1904 arrived aboard the Celtic to discuss directing the New Theatre at Central Park West and 62d street. He knows little of the venture, plans a sampling visit, and will stay about ten days while touring New York drama. He favors repertory Greek classics Shakespeare and Shaw as a lasting influence.
Mrs. Humphry Ward will be the guest of honor at a Playgrounds Association dinner at the Waeldors tomorrow evening. The event aims to launch a Playground movement for city children with speakers including the Duchess of Marlborough and Jane Addams. The duchess will address The Responsibility of Women.
Rear Admiral Arthur B. Speyere retired, dislocated left shoulder from Friday streetcar collision. He rested easily by night at St Luke's Hospital after being taken from his home near Central Park. Dr H M Lyle attended and admitted him to St Luke's.
The article discusses the delay in the new Duke of Devonshire taking a seat in the House of Lords due to an old rule on posthumous heirs, notes inclinations of dukes toward or away from the premiership, and recounts the Spanish Hermandad de la Paz y Caridad’s duties in aiding prisoners before execution, highlighting aristocratic traditions and public duty.
General Count Robilant named head of the international gendarmerie in Macedonia. He is the son of the one armed Count Robilant, Rome’s former foreign minister, and a line of Savoy and Hohenzollern ancestry. The elder Robilant lost an arm at Novara and married a Clary princess. his widow resides in Turin.
Royal naval artifacts recount Edward VII and Duke Alfred collecting nefs a seventeenth century silver Warship model Felicitas travels with William on Corfu and features in Buckingham Palace entertainments rare antique nefs valued for historical accuracy and scarcity.
The Times editorial from London on March 30 lauds Roosevelt for a unprecedented political shift in the United States. It says party lines blur as three candidates imitate his policy and emphasizes Roosevelt’s personal victory and influence on national affairs.
The body of Gregory Gerschunin, Russian terrorist leader, was buried at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris. Four thousand mourners attended the funeral, including French Socialist Deputies and national delegates of the social revolutionists. A wreath laden procession led by the hearse faced police to maintain order and suppress red flags and songs.
Boston March 29 Professor Charles Zeublin of the University of Chicago announced after speaking on Democratic Religion at Harvard that he has resigned from the university faculty. He is expected to join a Boston civic organization.
Professor William Morris Davis of Harvard has been chosen by the German government as exchange professor for next year. He will lecture at the University of Berlin in the second half of the year.
William Archer English dramatic critic and Mrs Alice Muriel Williamson arrived aboard the White Star liner Celtic from Liverpool. Archer plans to attend a Simplified Spelling Board meeting in April and notes English publications are already dropping the letter U in labor and harbor. Williamson, American by birth, has lived in Surrey since marrying Williamson thirteen years ago.
Ex-State Senator William J. La Roche remains bedbound at his Brooklyn home after a prolonged illness began before Christmas. He briefly traveled to Florida in late January but did not improve and has not left his bedroom since returning from Albany in 1898 1899 era. He is fifty six years old and formerly ran the Metropolitan Hardware Company in Manhattan.
Philadelphia March 29 The condition of United States Senator Penrose, who is ill at his home here, continues favorable, and his recovery is hoped for.
Paris faces a multi-front crisis as navvies on the underground tube project strike for a higher wage and amid a pushback from employers and the city. The Place de la Concorde risks collapse, shops along Avenue de la Motte Picquet suffer, and a broad building-trades strike looms with potential 150000 to 200000 workers, amid sabotage fears and a threatened bonfire of palisades.
The Metropolitan Opera House plans a free school for its chorus next season. Courses cover elementary music sight reading languages and stage work under expert instructors. The aim is thorough musical training leading to chorus roles with a salary that rises with experience and advancement.
Prominent arrivals reported at key hotels include F. L. Moore and Lee Manhattan in San Francisco, F. W. Van Sicklen. Murray Hill guest Joseph J. Thorndike of Peabody, Massachusetts, Plaza hosts Mr. and Mrs. R. Fitzgerald of Chicago, Victoria welcomes J. A. Osborne of Philadelphia, and Waldorf-Astoria with J. H Mengs Jr. of New Orleans.
Passengers arriving yesterday from Europe include Mr and Mrs James Hiraun Frank W Dodd and Mr and Mrs William J Gibson. From Southampton arrive Mr and Mrs Foster Coates EF M Lewis Frederick Paine 58 C Mabon F Smith. From Liverpool voyage lists L I Wilson William G Jones C R H Warnock Mr and Mrs Westmoreland Arthur Tracey Davis Mr and Mrs Samuel Dade Mr and Mrs Roger Clark.
Carnegie Hall hosts the fifth of six concert installments as Walter Damrosch leads the New York Symphony in Beethoven's works including the eighth symphony and four Scotch songs. The public shows renewed interest in Beethoven amid shifts in contemporary music trends and anticipates the ninth symphony and Benedictus next Sunday.
A large audience attended the Metropolitan Opera House for the final Sunday concert. Soloists included Mme Kirkby Lunn Mme Eames George Lucas Riccardo Stracciari and a young Russian violinist Koltarsky. Musicians performed pieces from Stabat Mater Carmen Faust and Fedora with full orchestra and chorus.
Today features free admission to the American Museum of Natural History and a full slate of lectures and demonstrations across city schools and cultural venues. Notable programs include illustrated talks on the spheroidal state, physics of seeing, and various nation and art topics at public schools and venues like the Waldorf Astoria, Hotel Astor, and St. Denis.
The fourth week in March was wet with heavy rains in the Gulf and South Atlantic states and lighter rains elsewhere. Temperatures were below average in the upper Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys and the northern lake region, while other areas ran above average, especially recently in the East and South. A secondary Ohio Valley storm brought general rains to Sunday in the Middle Atlantic and New England. Temperatures fell in New England, the Middle Atlantic, and the Ohio Valley. Fair weather expected Monday and Tuesday in most districts, except Gulf states with rain and cooler temps. Winds: northwest along New England and Middle Atlantic coasts, fresh northwest along South Atlantic, and light to variable then northerly along Gulf coast. Steamers bound for Europe may have fresh to brisk northwest winds and fair weather to the Grand Banks. Local forecasts: New England and Eastern New York: fair today and Tuesday with fresh northwest winds. Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware.
Local Official Record reports the Weather Bureau data with changes in temperature over the last twenty four hours. It notes highs around 61 degrees and comparisons to last year’s 66 degree chart. Forecast predicts fair skies with northwest winds.
The engagement of Phebe Lee Prout to Van Davis is announced by their families in Nutley New Jersey. Prout is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Gosien Nutley and Davis is the son of Mr and Mrs Frank Powasd Davis of Elizabeth New Jersey.
Death notices appear in the Tribus with reruns in the Tri-Weekly Tribune. Names include Barrett Thomas H Browning Annie B Chambers Frederick F Ford William J Everadon Fannie J Husted Charles 5 Browning Anne 5 Brower and others. Interments scheduled in Baltimore Missouri New York Somerville and New York. Details give dates March 2 1968 1969 and 1999 with funeral plans and addresses.
Classified ad fragment shows travel and ambulance services with contact numbers and addresses. Mentions Hariem trains from Grand Central Webster and Jerome Avenue, carriage lots, Book of Views, office at 20 East tid Street, and ambulances with telephone numbers 4855 and 1836.
The New York Tribune announces an Employment file of applications at its Uptown Office No 1364 Broadway for quicker hiring. It lists daily and Sunday mail subscription options with rates for domestic and foreign mail, plus various weekly and monthly plans and international postage terms.
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