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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
4
One company in the city presents the musical comedy Florodora at English's tonight tomorrow and Saturday with a chorus and orchestra. The show has played in New York for over a year and features librettist Owen Hall and composer Leslie Stuart.
The article notes Woodruff, once seen as a rising star, is not expected to be a headliner soon. Kirke La Shelle, Frank Daniels's manager, plans to place Woodruff at the helm of a company for a college life comedy called Rex later this season. Woodruff impressed as the Imp in When We Were Twenty-one and joined the musical Miss Simplicity to keep him occupied until his star debut. He spent years at Harvard and has a broad circle of admiring friends there.
Mrs. Charles Martindale rests as Hon. Will Cumback and wife visit the city. Numerous society events fill December with receptions, dances, dinners, and weddings including Findlay Thornburgh and Lewis Connor marriages as well as a Christ Church service and a German House event.
Prominent Cleveland New York Boston and Washington society guests attend events in Irvington. Maids of honor and best men named at a Washington secretary of state daughter wedding. Local residents and visitors from Elwood Shelbyville Knightstown Bloomington Goshen Kokomo and Danville are noted over a week. Church and literary society meetings include a Downey avenue Christian Church reception and Irvington Woman's Club papers on Jane Austen.
The Musikverein presented a second season concert of light modern works conducted by Ernestinoff amid mixed vivacity from players and singers. Highlights included Saint-Saens ballet music, Massenet Picturesque Scenes, and gypsy life narration with solos by Mrs. F. M. Black and Oliver Isensee. The Propylaeum Matinee featured Hasselberg and Mendelssohn selections, Schumann pieces, and Grieg Sonata. John H. Stein announced strong demand for two Lohengrin Carmen performances at Tomlinson Hall with half-fare rail rates. seats go on sale at Starr piano store.
Tickets for the first Thomas Orchestra concert at Tomlinson Hall go on sale Saturday morning at the Starr piano store in the new Claypool building. The season sale has been active all week and the single concert tickets are expected to move quickly, with buyers urged to apply early.
Deputy Constable Newhouse went to Lawrence last night to arrest a person. While inside the house his horse and buggy were stolen. He walked into the city and did not report whether he brought the prisoner with him.
J P Mullally of 3 Monument Place advertises 1 000 sterling silver heavy thimbles at 15 cents each and selling on next Friday and Saturday December 6 and 7 with items priced at 1 20 and 2 Be each following the sale.
City Board of Health assigned next year’s staffs for City Hospital and City Dispensary. The lists cover many departments and sub specialties with monthly start dates for each physician, from General Medicine to Pathology and Bacteriology, and include staff rotations at both facilities.
Thomas Sheerin entertained his fraternity the Hykyas while the Hana Batake group was hosted by Miss Ada Bowen. Students work on gas engines and steam engines as the Puritans adopt new pins. The Athletic Association monogram committee will name the football captains. The M. T. H. & Literary Club discussed Artemus Ward and Mark Twain with biographical sketches. Manola Pickett hosted the squad at 204 North New Jersey, celebrating the season’s success. New societies in Room G include the Scotch Lassies of Glen Heather and the Ryceteans with officers Edna Murray, Nellie Howe, Alma Kech, Nell Blair, and Marle Taylor.
The Elks carnival drew a large crowd and steady giving at last night’s event. Patrons emptied wallets, with one member noting donations of 2.75 dollars and others noting similar gifts as entertainers Pauline Sullivan J. Russell Powell the Cope land sisters and Norman McDermott performed. The organizers expect to close Saturday night to avoid exhausting contributors, while promising ongoing attractions through the week.
A delegation from New York arrives in Camden to inspect the Lake Garden site offered by the Camden lodge for a national Elks home. The group includes Charles E. Pickett Jerome Fisher Meade Detwiler and other grand lodge trustees from Iowa Jamestown Baltimore Indianapolis Lynn Mass.
General Leonard Wood military governor of Cuba with his secretary and Mr. Gonzalez Quesada met senators at the Capitol to press Cuban reciprocity. He said sugar and tobacco concessions are essential for stability and prosperity following the U S seizure of Spanish rule. Wood denied that U S influence favors Estrada Palma, noting such influence is overstated.
New York December 4 The Tribune reports that James J Hill plans retirement from the Great Northern Railway presidency he has held for years and will be followed by his eldest son J N Hill who was recently elected first vice president.
A vintage Ivory Soap ad extols value and purity, claiming dollar for dollar it offers more than other household soaps. It highlights vegetable oil base, no costly packaging, affordability, and the famous floating soap as its core selling points.
Patrick L. Sweeney, Jasper resident and Republican, visits Sherman House while promoting Okey Burial Vault Co. He notes St. Joseph's Church in Jasper, its eight foot thick walls, built since the 1870s at about 250000 dollars, and a near-complete Protestant presence in town. He cites Du Bois County’s debt-free status and strong Democratic strength locally.
Bloomington financier W T Hicks, agent for the State University, pursues funds loaned from an 800000 endowment once held by the state. The state keeps about 144000 and pays interest while the remaining funds were loaned as common school loans. Foreclosures have swept through Denison Hotel area as Hicks disposes of mortgaged properties to satisfy the loans.
Charles B. Rogers, United States consul at Zanzibar, visiting Shoals Indiana on business, says he has not resigned and has been on leave since October 1. He notes talk of him becoming a state senator to represent Martin Lawrence and Orange counties and touts Martin County’s coal, clay, kaolin, glass sand, and coal reserves. A Shoals business group aims to attract factories and offers coal to nearby manufacturing sites for about one dollar per ton.
Representative Owen a Parke county lumber dealer visited the Columbia Club yesterday and indicated he has not yet decided to seek reelection. Rumor places Howard Maxwell of Rockville as a Fifth district congressional hopeful, but Owen doubts Maxwell will run unless incumbent Holliday faces rivals.
W P Masters, recently appointed post master at Seymour, stayed at the Hotel English last night with ten companions. He is a cousin of actor Crane and came from Seymour to attend the matinee of David Harum and visit Actor Crane after the show.
Lieutenant Governor Gilbert of Angola is in the city. Ex-Senator Joseph Shea of Seymour visited the Grand Hotel last night. Thomas B. Nicholson, Carl Scott and John Snyder, young businessmen of prominence, were noted in town events.
Detroit residents E. D. Findlay and wife stayed at the Denison Hotel after attending a local theater in Crawfordsville. They were married in Richmond, Indiana, and Mrs. Findlay was born Mytae May Thornburgh. Mr. Findlay works as a cabdriver for a Chicago house.
Robert Leck, a repeat offender with prior insanity claims over cigarette use, was arrested for grand larceny after stealing baker Philip Heisel’s horse and wagon from Roller's saloon. He sold the horse for 22.50 to a liveryman, obtained cigars at Steffen's store through a false father's claim, and was tracked by detectives Kinney, Lancaster, and Mee Guft, found at Dave Fair's saloon. He left a carriage with John Nurse and asked for 1. Ift, but detectives intervened before completion.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers began its session in New York with three papers read. Prof. F R Hutton discussed The Cost of Running High speed Trains. Stephen W Baldwin spoke on The Disadvantageous Jarring of the Colled Sort and the Easter Motion of the Bulkier Spring. F F Nickel presented a new decimal system of measurements. Edwin Reynolds of Milwaukee was elected ident. W F N Goss of Lafayette elected one of the vice presidents.
Irving B. Dudley United States minister to Peru was operated on for an ailment at Mercy Hospital on Saturday. Hospital spokesman Murphy said the patient was out of danger and soon expected to recover. The news was kept quiet to avoid alarming friends while Dudley and Mrs. Dudley visited his brother in Chicago for a month.
In Ishpeming Michigan on December 4 a dynamite blast at the mine and quarry works midway between Ishpeming and Negaunee leveled the building. Two workers named John Nelson and Linus Shively were killed. Windows shattered in nearby business houses and homes from the blast.
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