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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
27
A literary notice surveys Dumas’s Memoirs Volume V, praising its lively passages on actors and plays, especially Antony, with vivid theatre anecdotes. It compares Carlyle and other contemporaries, notes Galton and Miss Sinclair critiques, and previews the final volume as a valuable record of character and art.
A candid visitor exposes a villainous husband, claiming the man is Count Fosco in disguise, while noting the wife of Edward Bulwer Lytton is the observer and source of the claim. The exchange centers on character and motive within a domestic confrontation.
A special Tribune correspondent surveys Canada’s party system, noting strong British sentiment within the Liberal heritage and the Conservatives’ fusion of graft charges with reform aims. The piece outlines Laurier era policies, Borden’s anti corruption platform, and the volatile 1907 contest shaped by finances, patronage, and imperial ties.
A. Holland Forbes and Augustus Post, the American aeronauts, arrived on the Kronprinzess in Cedilic recounting a 6 minute balloon ascent in the Conqueror from Berlin on October 11. Forbes recalled an eight thousand mile journey for six minutes aloft and a 3000 foot drop in the final two minutes. He cannot explain the cause.
W G McAdoo president of Hudson and Manhattan Railroad announced plans to extend from Jersey City Pennsylvania station to Communipaw station of New Jersey Central on the bay shore. The extension would allow Jersey Central passengers to reach Jersey City without double river crossings. He noted Cortlandt street tunnel advancement at ten feet per day and Fulton street slower. cutting should finish by February 15 with trains running about ninety days after.
The City Club committee on the police issued a letter to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment urging that policemen assigned to court service have their salaries charged to the courts rather than the Police Department. The patrolman salary total of $538,000 funds various court and city offices. The committee notes lower paid court staff could handle the work.
The Merchants Association of New York reports multiple thefts of imported goods entering public stores for customs examination. Four complaints have surfaced, including an $8 loss to one merchant. The association seeks investigation and correspondence with the Port Appraiser and the public cartman under government contract. Merchants urged to write with details.
President Davis outlined proposed site and design for expanded Normal College facilities. Plans call for square layout around the campus with four sides, two inner quadrangles and a chapel. The goal is modern, brighter labs and classrooms to accommodate 3,000 to 4,500 pupils while using the current site.
Suffragettes vow to vote on Election Day despite Justice Truax and the Supreme Court. They will march from headquarters at 122 East 234 Street to the Colonial Theatre with torches and banners, then vote in women only ballot boxes set for matinee and evening performances.
The twenty sixth annual meeting of the Woman's Synodical Society of Home Missions of the Synod of New York opens today at First Presbyterian Church Kingston New York. Sessions run morning and afternoon today and tomorrow with programs planned.
The New Yorkers led by Mrs Edyth Totten McGrath president will hold a day out of doors at Van Cortlandt Park next Friday meeting at 11 a m at the park subway station If stormy the picnic will be postponed to Tuesday and new arrangements announced.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson argues in Woman's Home Companion that five year olds lack paternal feelings and traditional morality. He suggests morality develops through environment and example, not forced sermons, and that early imitation shapes self-control, civic virtue, and kindness as children grow.
The Council of Jewish Women faces possible eviction of its Lakeview Home for Wayward Girls at Brigh ton Heights Staten Island unless it raises 10 000 within two weeks. Owner will not renew lease due November 1, forcing relocation or purchase of the property for 19 000. Mrs Charles H Israels reports eighteen admissions last month, with four girls married and one engaged since April. Jelly bags and dress bags sold to raise funds as Miss Henrietta Szold urges cautious Jewish representation in schools and on stage.
An afternoon mass meeting for women only will discuss child marriage in India at 2:30 PM at Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church Brooklyn. Speaker Mrs. Caroline P. Wallace, who studied the practice in India, will present the principal address. Miss Carrie A. Tennant of California will sing. Two prior meetings have been held at Mott Haven Reformed Church and Calvary Baptist Church.
The Tribune Pattern describes a Deep girded Directoire inspired blouse in crepe de Chine with appliqué, chemisette and lace sleeves, messaline satin girdle, suited to seasonable fabrics and adaptable in many ways for the season.
The pattern No 6143 offers fabric requirements for medium sizes including various yardages and widths for a chemisette and sash girdle. It specifies measurements in yards and inches and is mailed to any address on receipt of a dime or two cent stamp for postage. Pattern Department New York Tribune.
An article notes Paris police stationing officers to enforce hat removal in theatres. It contrasts French theater etiquette with British views on women and beauty, linking debates over propriety to broader suffrage tensions and gender expectations.
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