The Negroes Opportunity in the South Letter
A Philadelphia Times reader defends Southern race relations and argues that education and property qualifications at the polls reflect progress. The letter cites W. H. Council and Booker T. Washington, praises southern benevolence, and asserts the black community is integral to the region’s past, present, and future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Philadelphia Times
THE
W. H. Connell
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Normal
Ala
Republican Party
Philadelpha Times
W. H. Council
Booker T. Washington
Booker Washington
Europe
America
Wu Ting-fang a Friend of America in Philadelphia
A historical letter praising Wu Ting-fang and the Philadelphia effort to invite the Chinese minister. The writer credits a local committee, especially Mr. Hammond, for inviting Wu Ting-fang last year and this year, condemns opposition, and notes Wu’s promise to seek communication with Mr. Conger through the State Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wu Ting-fang
America
Philadelphia Times
Committee of Councils
Hammond
Philadelphia
Frm
State Department
Conger
Death of the Innocents in British South Africa Camps
Bertrand Shadwell denounces British concentration camps in South Africa, detailing May deaths of 98 adults and 318 children. He asks whether England can claim liberty and justice while women and children suffer in fire, ruin, and famine as a warning of divine judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
House of Commons
Lords and Commons
England
Bertrand Shadwell
Time urges inland navigation like New York in Delaware depth
William C. Heinle of Harrisburg praises The Philadelphia Times for backing a thirty foot depth in the Delaware River and urges Pennsylvania to follow New York’s lead. He expresses trust the Times will succeed in its inland navigation stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Philadelphia Times
Delaware River
Pennsylvania
New York
Times
Prosperity tied to Delaware River channel work urged
George A Ware writes from Harrisburg on June 25 praising The Philadelphia Times for its coverage of deepening the Delaware River channel. He emphasizes public focus on the project as essential to the city’s prosperity and welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Philadelphia Times
Delaware River
George A. Ware
Must Have the Channel Stirs Harrisburg Merchants
A letter from Joan M. Scorr of Harrisburg on June 26 1901 urges relentless effort to secure a deeper channel in the Delaware River to aid city commerce. She warns that without the improved channel trade will languish and calls for continued agitation to achieve the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
Philadelphia Times
Delaware River
Joan M. Scorr
Harrisburg
Naval Reserves Return After Seven Day Cruise on Shearwater
After a seven day voyage interrupted by a machinery mishap the government yacht Shearwater with thirty five members of the A Division of the Pennsylvania Reserves returned to Pier 35 South Wharves. Commander Ruschenberger and Lt H H Smith praised the crew for drills and marksmen on the quarterdeck. The ship briefly used as a dispatch boat features two one pound Hotchkiss guns and rapid drill success. The boiler feed pump failure forced a port call, a new pump was shipped and the cruise resumed the same night. A twelve oared cutter race with the second division will settle rivalry during the Schuylkill regatta on July Fourth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shearwater
Pennsylvania Reserves
Delaware
St. Louis
Ruschenberger
H. H. Smith
Capes
Wilmington
John S. Muckle
Governor Stone
Schuylkill River
Dedication of St. Peter's Church in Lafayette Hill
St Peter s Evangelical Lutheran Church Lafayette Hill will be dedicated today. Sermon by Rev Dr W 8 Freas Baltimore. Afternoon address by Rev Joseph F Hartman. Evening brief sermons by Rev F W Staley and Rev M S Cressman. Tomorrow addresses by several reverends and talks by former pastors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Lafayette Hill
W 8. Freas
Baltimore
Joseph F. Hartman
F. W. Staley
Middletown
M. 8. Cressman
Lewistown
D. H. Detrick
Flourtown
A. Albert
Germantown
Dr. Hay
All Saints’ Church
Herbert Allman
The
Messiah Church
Hashour
Bethany
T. Hallman
Mount Airy
J. C. Donn
Susquehanna University
T. C. Prichard
Phillipsburg
N. J
Philadelphia Christian Endeavor Picnic Draws 2000 Attendees
The Strawberry Mansion hosted a gala Philadelphia Christian Endeavor Union picnic with about 2,000 Endeavorers present for an evening song service. Addresses were given by John C. Hershey and V. J. Mead. Music direction was by H. Linco and the conductors led the service with energy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strawberry Mansion
Philadelphia Christian Endeavor Union
John C. Hershey
V. J. A Mead
H. Linco
Hum of City Streets Across Cape’s Naval and Civic Life
A Philadelphia reading records casual remarks from Russian officers aboard ship at Cramps on mast rake and ship design, plus locals lamenting flagpole costs and Fourth of July displays. It notes a magistrate's handling of a youth case, a patent-age view on time-saving inventions, a Camden child found and returned by police, and reflections on Willow Grove on Petty's Island as Penn era historic ground.
Reverend Iliowizi Leaves City for European Study
The Rev Dr Henry Iliowizi who just ended thirteen years at Adath Jeshurun on Seventh Street leaves for New York with his wife and sails Tuesday for Europe via the Azores. They will stay about two years abroad while he studies Arabic language to fuel future literary work. Rabbi elect B C Ehrenreich of Atlantic City will assume duties late in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Iliowizi
Seventh Street
Columbia Avenue
New York
Europe
Azore Islands
Illowizi
Ilowizi
B. C. Ehrenreich
Atlantic City
Frederick Bart Berger
Rebecca G. Smith
Wilmington
Boston
J. Ernest Smith
Lena Pennypacker
Helen Pennypacker
Colorado
Alfred Elliott
Poland Springs
Mary Carey Jackson
Martin Walker
Miss Jackson
W. A. la Motte
James A. Draper
Levi C. Bird
W. N. Barnard
E. Tatnall Warner
Alfred 8. Elliott
Huxley Harvey
James P. Winchester
Buffalo
Seawell
Chevy Chase
Scribner
Wadsworth
Miss Wadsworth
Geneseo
N. Y
Burrows
Senator Burrows
Merriam
Minnesota
Mra. Herd Townsend
Mary R. Goff
George W. Atkinson
Elizabeth Florence Minnick
Asbury Park
Clarksburg
W. Va
Washington
Mre
A. F. Bloomer
Jess Bloomer
Bethlehem
N. H
Typhoid rising in city with 428 deaths for week
For the week ending at noon yesterday 428 deaths were recorded, down 69 from last year. Typhoid cases rose to 119 from 61 last week, with spread across the city. Other figures include 3 smallpox, 55 diphtheria, 75 scarlet fever and principal deaths listed for various causes.
Fourth at Germantown Independence Day Parade
Germantown citizens arrange a Vernon Park celebration with events starting at 9 45 in the morning including a children's program and a Declaration of Independence reading. In the evening the Second Regiment Band will provide music.
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Germantown
Vernon Park
Second Regiment
The Summer Parks Concerts at Willow Grove
Mr. Damrosch and his orchestra present special programmes at Willow Grove with Beethoven’s Third Symphony and the Erotica planned for tomorrow. Bach’s concerto for two violins is featured by the Mannes quartet, alongside world music and daytime fireworks. Evening illumination and electric fountain displays accompany news projections. Ombardo’s Band headlines Chestnut Hill while Woopsipz hosts Tasch Band and an opera troupe with Independence Day extras.
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Willow Grove
Damrosch
Beethoven
Messrs. Mannes Ok
Artists Abroad And European Art News And Collecting
Drexel Institute director Clifford P. Grayson is in France visiting Paris and Auvers while painter Davis Wilson Jordan works outdoors in Phoenixville. Miss Pauline Neidhard and Miss Mathilde Weil spend a month in Newcastle NH. Berlin hosts forty five Wagner memorial designs with symbolic figures and a dramatic chair motif. The Duchess of Devonshire portrait by Gainsborough resurfaces with a complex sale history, now owned by J Pierpont Morgan. Samuel Murray paints James M Dodge and a relief panel for Charles Jarvis for local musical societies. Eva Lawrence Watson and Martin Schutze marry in Bethlehem on July 2. Katherine Schmitz exhibition closes at Roxborough Library. Arthur Evans reports Knossos finds with new architectural details and inscriptions. Victorian artists’ prices shift with old masters commanding high sums while modern prices fall. Miss Archambault completes miniatures for Kendrick and Wagner. The Yellowstone summer, Island Heights sketches, and Wares’s Hawaiian life study plans are noted. A German Emperor memorial museum on Museum Island will host Renaissance works and new bridges. James L Wood travels Europe for lectures at Drexel. Pope Leo purchases Papal coins from Cardinal Randi, expanding the Vatican collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Grafly
Reynolds
Smith Memorial
Albert Laessle
Pennsylvania Company
Chestnut Street
Island Heights
N. J
Theodore Wares
Honolulu
Japan
Paris
London
New York
Islands
Educators to Confer in Philadelphia Three Day Session
The State Educational Association will hold a three day meeting at the Philadelphia Normal School on July 2 3 and 4 marking its fifty year history since 1852. Leaders from Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania will discuss public education amid ceremonies, papers, and departmental conferences led by Dr Edward Brooks and John E Staler with a patriotic address by Congressman James E Watson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Educational Association
Philadelphia Normal School
Harrisburg
John H. Brown
Zane Street
Philadelphia
Edward Gideon
Dr. Brooks
Pennsylvania
John 8. Staler
Franklin and Marshall College
Williamsport
Educational Association
James E. Watson
Congress
Indiana
L. Jones
Enoch W. Pierson
Anna W. Cheston
Normal School
General Brooke at Alderbrook on Sunday Visit
Major General John Br. Brooke commanding the Department of the East at Governor's Island New York with Mrs Brooke spends Sunday at Alderbrook Howard B French country seat near King of Prussia Montgomery county
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John BR. Brooke
Department of the East
Governor's Island
New York
Mra. Brooke
Alderbrook
Howard B. French
King of Prussia
Montgomery County
Social life notes from Philadelphia area 1900s page
Numerous Philadelphia and Delaware Valley residents plan summer stays at Ocean City Long Branch Cape May and hotels in Philadelphia. Guests at the Ringstatten include Car roll Potter Hewitt Lavens and Wetherill families. Engagements marriages travel plans and social events populate Bryn Mawr Atlantic City Long Branch and Newport areas.
Smith Memorial near Fairmount Park set for year-end dedication
Work resumes on the Smith memorial at the Forty first street entrance to Fairmount Park. Delays stem from stone supply but progress now allows the two side sections to advance toward a dedication before year’s end. The plan features Doric pillars, statues of Meade and Reynolds, equestrian figures of McClellan and Hancock, eight busts, and a 170 foot front with a 65 foot central driveway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Forty-first Street
Fairmount Park
Windrim
Meade
Reynolds
McClellan
Hancock
Keystone's Exchange Building Awarded to Kessler Firm
Architects Seymour and Paul A Davis award the Keystone Telephone Company exchange building contract to George Kessler. The brick and stone three story structure will rise at Sixteenth and Summer, with plans for three additional city buildings at Thirty third and Market, North Broad, and southern city areas. Huson or Windrim expected as architects for the Broad and Arch street office building.
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Keystone
Exchange
Seymour and
Paul A.davis
Keystone Telephone Company
Sixteenth
Summer Streets
George Kessler
Market Streets
North Broad Street
Kessler
Arch
Joseph M. Huston
John H. Windrim
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M. P. Walsxh
United States
China
Independence Square
University of Pennsylvania
Francis Tracy Tosiin
William C. Heinle
ST. Peter’s
Christian Endeavor Picnic
South Broad Street
House of Correction
Mamie Doran
Kalghn Avenue
Mt. Vernon
Camden
John Anderson
Mamie
Anderson
Admiral Dewey
Bob’ Ingersoll
Mercantile
Joseph D. Barth
Robert Barr
Barr
Reo BP
Petty
Henry Illiowizi
Health Board
Chestnut-Hill
Ombardo
Woopsipz
Tasch
Clifford P. Grayson
Drexel Institute
France
Auvers
Davis Wilson Jordan
Phoenixville
Pauline Neidhard
Mathilde Weil
Newcastle, New Hampshire
Berlin
Wagner
Richard Wagner
Duchess of Devonshire
Mainsborough
Australia
Gainsborough
Lord Clifden
J. Pierpont Morgan
Dupont
Samuel Murray
James M.dodge
Charles Jarvis
Eva Lawrence Watson
Martin Schutze
Church of the Nativity
Katherine Schmitz
Roxborough
Arthur Evans
Crete
Knossos
Evans
Etty
Frith
Cooper
Goodall
A. L. Egg
A. Hart
W. G. Frost
W. C. T. Dobson
W. Muller
Birket Foster
J. Downman
A. M. Archambault
George W. Kendrick, Jr
Louis M. Wagner
Elizabeth F
Mary Bonsall
San Francisco
Yellowstone Walk
Benjamin Hawley
Chelsea
Frederick
Museum Island
Schloss
August Vogel
James L. Wood
Italy
Holland
Alice Cushman
Bampton Marches
New Hampshire
Frank Copeland
Rockford
Signor Lanciani
Athenaeum
Rome
C. Flaminius Atticus
Clodius
Vasa Clodiana
Lanciani
Canuleius Zosimus
Caeratura Clodiana
King
Cardinal Randi
Pope Leo
Vatican
Pius
Simon Gratz
Board of Education
Edward Brooks
E. T. Jeffers
Collegiate Institute
York
Samuel Hamilton
Braddock
George Edward Reed
Dickinson College
Carlisle
J. =? rock
Hareristurg
Pas
Lon
Johnstoess
Prostans School
Monroe Wier
Mecmala
J. George Becht
Muney
Samuel
Jobo
Franklin and Marshall Co
N. C. Schaeffer
Rozborough
H. H. Goddard
Pate
Weat Cheser Kindergarten
Letitia C. Wilson
Free Kindergarten Association
Art
George
George Bechregan Grammar
Fkeeedinss
Cheirman, Achools
W. Deltrick
Keystone Normal Sutseren
Mra
Frederick Schof
Iphia
Mbar Ndairman
Isaac
Beera Haverford College
Haverge
I. Pattie Mickey
Eee
Eee A
D. Bisen“power
Perocipal Norristown School
Norperio Pees
G. C. Watson
Girls’ Normal School
Flon
Torthe Seanbore
Brooke
F. C. Lewin
Ringstatten
Undine Barge Club
Carroll Potter
Charles Hewitt
Lavens
Miss West
Edward Wetherill
Samuel Wetherill
J. B. Lavens
Bond Valentine
Graham Elliott
West Price Street
Prescott Adamson
Ocean City
Bayard Hodge
West Walnut Lane
Longport
Ross Smith
Hotel Chelsea
Duncan Lawrence Buzby
Idlewilde
Samuel Bell
York Harbor
W. Carver Glass
Bryn Mawr
May Townsend
Florence Townsend
Isaac Starr
Huntingdon Valley Country Club
Bryn Mawr Hotel
F. L. Ely
Shedaker
Carolyn D. Spedaker
Jefferson Street
Henry Deringer
Arch Street
Long Branch
Saratoga
Lillian Needles
Cape May
Levi Berliner
Charles M. Sullivan
Doylestown
Lancaster
Bristol
Mount Holly
Burlington
George W. Shirley
Bertha Shirley
James Hutchinson
Murray Bay
Canada
Newport
R. I. Gammell
Gooseberry Island
W. Storrs Weils
Edward King
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Elisha Dyer
W. Watts Sherman
S. Townsend Burden
George Peabody Wetmore
Francis J. Higginson
George Crocker
Royal Phelps Carroll
Charles Marshall
Stuyvesant Fish
W. P. Thompson
J. B. Coghlan
Charles C. Ayres
John A. Lovell Hubbard
Henry W. Bull
Henry F. Eldredge
Joseph Widener
George Widener
Josephine
P. A. B. Widener
William E. Carter
Alexander
Lily Oelrichs
Charles M. Oelrichs
Peter D. Martin
St. Joseph's
St. Mary's Catholic
Thomas EB. Stillman
East B&eventy-eighth Street
Hie
Stillman
Lepox
Mase
Mary BR. Callender
East
Seventy-second Street
Young
Oyster Bay
L. L
Seth M. Milliken
Madison
Miss Milken
Elbene N. J
Simon W. Glazier
East Sixty-seventh Street
Benjamin Knower
East Seventy-seventh Street
Scarsborough
the Hudson
William T. Wilson
Germany
Marla Manly
Arundel Club
Frederick von Kapft
Mary L. Brown
Buffalo Exposition
Thomas Whelan
Edith Whelan
Calvert Street
Wilson Marriott
Chapel Hill
N. C
E. Calvin Williams Wll
Narragansett
Adelaide
Corine Williams
J. L. Brent
Nanchie
Watin Hill
R. 1
Ares
Miller’s
S. 3d Street
John Wanamaker
Strawbridge & Clothier
Gimpel Brothers
Snellenburg
William Kane
Chestnut ST
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