Fifty Paintings Gift Boosts National Gallery in DC
A gift of fifty American master paintings valued at $125,000, donated by William T. Evans, will hang at the Corcoran Gallery before a permanent National Gallery building is funded. Secretary Walcott thanked Evans on behalf of the Smithsonian and National Gallery, noting the collection’s importance to the capital and the push for a unified public building.
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Corcoran Gallery
Congress
Walcott
Charles D. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
National Gallery
William T.evans
New York
Smith-sonian Institution
National Museu
Freer
Harriet Lane Johnston
Corcoran
Evana
Francis J Murphy
Cornfield
Connecticut Woody
Henry W. Ranger
Walter Shirlaw
Walliam Smedley
Dwight W
Dwight W. ‘Tryon; “the Torrent” and "the Little Bridge,”” By John A. Twachtman
Arcady
He Oliver Walker
J. Alden Weir
Carleton Wiggins
Irving Ft Wiles
Little Halls
J. H
F. Ballard Wiliams
Arkville
Housatonio Valley
Adrondacks
Alexander H
Senator Dixon Buys Grand Home in Washington
Joseph M. Dixon successor to Senator Willam Clark purchases 1818 Ninth Street residence from George C. Sonson for 18000 through Moore & Hill. Dixon, a Montana attorney and Republican, is slated to be the youngest U S senator next term, part of a notable “Senators row” of Spanish style houses along Ninth Street near Wood Dann & Dem ig.
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Joseph M. Dixon
Willam A Clark
Congres
George C. Sonson
Moore & Hill (Incorporated
Nineteenth Street
Dixon
House of Representatives
Montana
Wood, Dann & Demig
Burkett
Nebraska
Jones
Arkansas
Ralph Hall
Snator Gorman
G. Bowie Chinman
Dison
Moore & HL
Washington
WANTS TRANSPORT FOR FOOD RELIEF OFFER
Louis Klopsch editor of the Christian Herald offered to supply a cargo of food if the United States government provides transport to Ching. Assistant Secretary Bacon, a Red Cross executive, referred the offer to Secretary Pratt who could not act without an act of Congress to use an army transport. The North China Herald dispatch from Shanghai dated March 13 reports rising distress and sickness with mortality increasing and relief urged.
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Louis Klopsch
Christian Herald
Bacon
State Department
Red Cross
United States
Pratt
Congress
Klopsch
Building lots in demand in southeast and Lanier Heights
The spring market opens with renewed activity in building lots as investors and builders seek new property. Stone & Fairfax sold ten parcels on Fifteenth Street SE for about 40,000 dollars to a local investor who plans ten moderate houses. Additional lots on Poplar Avenue Lanier Heights and Clifton Street Columbia Heights were sold for residential development.
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Lanier Heights
Stone & Fairfax (Incorporated
Fifteenth Street
B Street
C Bel
Ots
Poplar Avenue
Ontario
W. P. Ramsey
Stone & Boltfax
Clifton Street
Columbia Heights
Barbour
Beyer
Cosmopolitan Plans Mammoth Dictionary Drive for Readers
Cosmopolitan Magazine offers exclusive control of 1907 Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia and Atlas output in a single mammoth edition sold at about one third typical price. Sets include two years of Cosmopolitan and are distributed direct to buyers, cutting book agent commissions. Washington alone receives about 2,000 sets through Woodward & Lothrop. total value near two million dollars with substantial public savings.
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Cosmopolitan
Washington
Woodward & Lothrop Book Department
Seniors to Try Swift Court Martial Over Connecticut Loss
State Department announces only officers ranking Capt Swift will serve on the court martial to try him for negligence in the Connecticut accident. Trial date not fixed. ship expected to return from the West Indies soon and the trial will follow. West Indian waters cannot host the trial due to lack of officers of sufficient rank.
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State Department
Swift
Connecticut
West Indies
United States
West Indian
Ogthers
Capt
Ecuador's Minister to U S Returns Home to Ecuador
Ecuador's Minister to the United States Senor Carbo called at the State Department to bid farewell to Secretary Root and departed Washington for Ecuador where he will serve temporarily as minister for foreign affairs. He left the post in charge of his son, wife not accompanying, and expects to return within nine months.
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Senor
Atic Wenpe Carbo
United States
State Department
Root
Washington
Temporar Jy
Senor Carbo
Legation
Ecuador
Charities Seek 2000 More to Sustain Work Plans
Board members discussed raising an additional 3000 to sustain Associated Charities until November 1. An educational campaign and parlor meetings were proposed to engage citizens, churches to fund a nurse and worker aiding 500 to 600 families. February activity included 2009 applications, aid to 1281 cases, 560 employments, and 936 family reports.
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Associated Charities
Board of Managers
Archibald Hopkins
David J. Brewer
Citizens’ Reliief Association
Herbert Wadsworth
Boyd Taylor
John Joy Edson
Westy Hour
Torrace
Natchez Honors Uniform Visitors from Des Moines
A Natchez, Mississippi letter extols the welcome given by Natchezians to Navy sailors aboard the Des Moines. It praises respect for the uniform, recounts prior visits by Navy ships, and notes a Mardi Gras ball and luncheon the sailors hosted for local citizens at the skating rink.
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Navy Department
Lemuel P. Canner
Natchez
Des Moines
Conner
United States Navy
India
Army
Navy
Plymouth
Reliance
Concord
Nashville
Scorpion
Atlanta
Arkansas
Howard BR
Jackson
U. N
MY. Conner
Natchen
Army Orders and Naval Movements Reported
Army orders list Second Lieut Harry Morse and others rotating to duties at Fort Trumbull Fort Michie Havana and Cuba. Movements of naval vessels include arrivals at Guantanamo Norfolk Hampton Roads and San Diego. Georgia to present silver service to the battleship June 10 at Hampton Roads. Col A C Sharp named judge advocate general of US troops in Cuba.
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Harry JL Morse
Artilery Corps
George McC
Derby
Engineer Corps
Douglan Donald
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Fort Trumbull
William HK. Tachappat
Ord
Marca Department
United States Powder Depot
Dover
N. J
Tagle
Guantanamo
Standish
Norfolk
Stowls
Hampton Roads
Princeton
Acapulco
Helena
Cavite
New Jersey
Tholpin
Washington
Charleston
Boston
Preble
Paul Jones
San Diego
Magdelena Bay
Georgia
Terrell
Navy Department
Georia
Feudal estate plans and society notes mingle in Gossip
Social gossip details a feudal style 200 foot long house with ground walls and turreted cement fences as the Dick family estate expands to 20 acres by the river. Cleopatra at the Wendorf Astoria and a Harvard Church wedding in Brookline highlight society chatter with Vanderbilt travels and fashion lectures at the Waldorf Astoria.
Mrs Longworth Invited To Benefit Play In Baltimore
Mrs Henry Barton Jacobs chairing the Lyceum benefit committee for the Hospital for Consumptives announced that she invited Mrs Nicholas Longworth and her husband to attend the April 8 performance. If they accept, Mr and Mrs Longworth will be entertained by Dr and Mrs Jacobs and share their box. Mrs Longworth has not visited Baltimore socially before, and plans are underway for an April visit.
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Mia
Perry Belmont
New Hampshire Avenue
Washington
United States
Worth and Redfern Creations
Mrs. Whitney
Baltimore Paint and Powder Club
The
Washington Post
Baltimore
Henry Barton Jacobs
Paint and
Lyceum
Hospital For
Nicholas Longworth
Alice Roosevelt
Former Husband Denies Engagement to Geraldine Farrar
Johan Dochms, ex-husband of singer Nordica, now in Munich, denies a New York report that he plans to marry soprano Geraldine Farrar. He has authorized a Munich paper to deny the tale.
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Nordica
New York
Spenal
Washington Post
Berlin
Mer
Johan Dochms
Munich
Geraldine Farrar
Mission: Mrs Tower Returns From Europe Amid Diplomatic Ties
Mrs Tower wife of Charlemagne Tower ambassador to Germany sails from Cherbourg to New York aboard the Iron Prince Wilhelm. Mrs Mary Doubleday dies at Richmond Hotel aged seventy. to be buried at Arlington beside Gen Abner Doubleday with services at St Johns Church. Richard 3 Harden Camp members attend the funeral of Thomas M Boucher. camp held a special meeting and adopted condolence resolutions with pallbearers named.
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Katie
Washington Post
London
Tower
Charlemagne Tower
Germany
Timothy Woodruff
New York
Cherbourg
Ironpring
Wilhelm
Mary Doubleday
Richmond Hotel
Arlington Cemetery
Gen
Abner Doubleday
St. John’s Church
Richard 3. Harden
Hdward L. Cogan
Thomas M. Boucher
Remains, society events, fires noted in city items
The city consumed with notices of James Dayers funeral at Mra Catherine Messer's home, Oak Hill Cemetery burial, and a Woman's Presbyterian Home Missionary Society session at Metropolitan Church. Reports mention a Georgetown College boat house towed back upriver, and the 30th annual International Association of Fire Engineers convention due in town this fall. A fire at C F Lathem’s home was extinguished by Engine No. 10, and a counterfeit check case was reported.
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James Dayers
New York
Catherine C Messer
E Street
I O'Slock
Bitlinger
Oak Him
Woman‘s Presbyterian Home Missionary Society
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church
Georgetown
Second Streat
International Association of Fire Engineere
C.F. Lathem
Maryland
A New Baby Mothers Duty to Protect Health
A reflective piece celebrates the mother’s bond with a newborn and urges careful selection of medicine for infants. It emphasizes patience, hope, and the crucial role of a mother in safeguarding a child from narcotics and unknown drugs.
One Fleet in the Pacific Rear Admiral Brownson to Command
The Navy reveals a plan to consolidate Asiatic Fleet and Pacific Squadron into a single Pacific fleet led by Rear Admiral Brownson. Swinburne Bayton Juniors to assist as part of the new command structure with Dauphin? The restructuring targets end of month activation and Docking at Cavite and Olongapo for repairs while battleships remain in the Atlantic.
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Pacific Ocean
Navy Department
Browngan
W. T. Swinpurne
J. H. Dayton
Pacific
South Atlantic
Atlantic
Pacific Coast Navy Yards
Asiatic
Cavite
Olongapo
West Virginia
Colorado
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Chattanooga
Galveston
Charleston
Milwal
Navy divisions and coast defense flotillas listed in terse note
The document lists multiple city and division names such as Albany New Orleans Cincinnati Raleigh Rainbow Concord Helena Wil mington Callao Quiros Villalobos Parcagua Pampanga Panay Arayat and assigns coast defense vessels Monterey Monadnock and several submarine and torpedo flotillas including Bainbridge Barry Dale Decatur Chauncey Paul Jones and Preble to the divisions. The exact context appears administrative and fleet organization oriented.
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Kkee
St. Louis
Chicago
Albany
New Orleans
Cincinnati
Raleigh
Rainbow
Concord
Helena
Wilmington
Sbeth
Hei Cano
Callao
Quiros
Villalobos
Parcagua
Pampanga
Panay
Arayat
Monterey
Monadnock
Bainbridge
Barry
Dale
Decatur
Chauncey
Paul Jones
Preble
Conductor Fritz Scheel Dies of Pneumonia in Philadelphia
Philadelphia obituary notes the death of Fritz Scheel born in 1852 in Luebeck Germany conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra who fell ill after a monthlong sickness. He had led major German ensembles before emigrating to the United States in 1893 organized the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1900. He leaves a wife three daughters and a son.
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Philadelphia
Fritz Scheel
America
Europe
Bremerhaven
Chemnitz
Germany
San Francisco
New York
Scheel
Protest Against Church Suppers At New Jersey Conference
A strong rebuke of lax church finance methods and reliance on suppers and entertainments for support was read at the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference's seventy diet annual session in the First Church today. The report was delivered by the presiding elder of the Trenton district.
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Washington Post Red Bank
N. J
New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference
Trenton
Leyland Line withdraws Canadian and Cestrian steamers
Boston reports Leyland Line will withdraw the steamer Canadian bound for Liverpool on April 3 and the Cestrian on April 4. A further withdrawal of tonnage from Boston is under consideration as rail congestion blocks quick freight transport, with exporters attributing the decision to railroad bottlenecks.
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Boston
Leyland Line
Liverpool
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Dizon
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China
Magazine Enterprise
Citizen
A. Buchanan
Ohio
A. W. Hinds
Virginia
R. A. Dawes
Vermont
BM Robinson
United Staton Navy
M. L. Mc Sheehy
W. Lignett, Jr
B. H. Grown
W.T. Lightle
W. H. Lasuing
HF. Leary
G. W. Haines
B. Kays
Haegh
B. M. Fawell
B Dutton, Jr
L. Dortch
A. B. Cook
J. M. Ferguson
W. P. Gaddis
L. Cresap
A. ¥. Carter
Carter
R. B. Comey
H. Brown
H. G. Bowen
W. S McCiinic
T. Church
J. C. Gawne
H.C Laltg
C A Lohr
J. A. Mandeville
Hooper
R B Ingersoll
B.S Fusber
Gc, Farley
LF Davis
Dowell
Vy H. Frankenberger
N. H. Gosn
BL. Cannga
Cox
F J Caldwell
A. T. Court
W. L Guiberton
A. K. Adin
A. Beall
Crosis
Virgina
Walker Do
McGlin, Do
FW Smith
Naval Hospital of
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Citizens? Relief Association
G Street
David J. Brew John Joy
B. T. Janney
Archibald
WM. H. Baldwin
Cuno H. Rudolph
Geo. M. Kober
Frederic L. Moore
Johm & Sleman
Helen Nigolay
Milton E. Ailes
Fer
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GEO, Truesdell
W. Woorpward
GEO, Wilson
Florence P. Spofford
Sofie A. Nordhoff-Jung
WM. H. DE Lacy
Cleopatra
Weldorf-Astoria
Columbia University Players
Huntington Clark Atwater
Reuben Mapelsden
Brutus
Joseph Leo Hgan
Cassius
George Humes Reaney
Caius J. Cassar
Vance Bishop Murray
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Esse
Ernest C. Thompson
Fievius
Donald M. Mac-Arthur
Trebdorus
Harry W. Fienea
Cinna
Rudolph 8. Adler
Genevieve
T. Albert Gannon
Sophronia Hicks
Hoboken
Caesar
Rome
Columbia
Little Christy
Molly
Ides
Marca
Egypt
Tem
Cleopmfra
Republic of
Harvard
Brook- Wine
Jean Couden
Dickinson
William Carey Marble
Los Angeles
Cal
Amherst
Mr. Marble
Cupid
Gaini
Valentine
California
Tima
William H. Couden
Third Universalist
Somerville
Reuben ‘Thomas
Ascreted
Miss Dickinson
Henry N. Couden
National House of Representatives
M. F., Dickinson
Marble
Ike Miss Dickinson
Brookline
John Marbie
Bartlet Berry
Hudson, N. C
Mises
Barbara Kauasman
Esther Schwartz
Helen Hay
Ruth Woodward
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Mas Grace
Cornelius
Avimte
Mner
Milas Grace
Vanderbilt
Newport
Mrs
Duchess of Roxburghe
Floors Castle
Jules §. Bache
George M. Pullman
Slater
Baroness Des Planches
Baronesa
Italy
Liebig
South America
BOATS
Eae
Mrs. Longworth
Miss Farrar
Mrs. Tower
Brownson
Swinburne and
Bayton
Masic
Aly
Murray ST
Philadelphia Orchestra
Dr. Lyon
Runkel’s
Willam P Dasts
Hotel
St Regis
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-fifth St
St. Regis
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