This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E0D39F3B8F7DD01B38F94EF3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just forwarding from another list! --------------E0D39F3B8F7DD01B38F94EF3 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com ([207.113.245.30]) by mtiwgwc05.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with ESMTP id <19990209223847.LOCB18930@bl-30.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:38:47 +0000 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20589; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:30:06 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:30:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990209173131.0069d140@pop.snet.net> X-Sender: ppfaff@pop.snet.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:31:31 -0500 Old-To: NYC-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: Peter & Nancy Pfaff <ppfaff@snet.net> Old-Cc: NYWESTCH-L@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: [NYWESTCH-L] 5 Jun 1905 NY Times Resent-Message-ID: <"eKiid.A.cBF.qbLw2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: NYWESTCH-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <NYWESTCH-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/379 X-Loop: NYWESTCH-L@rootsweb.com To: NYWESTCH-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Errors-To: NYWESTCH-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: NYWESTCH-L-request@rootsweb.com X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 >From the 5 June 1906 New York Times: PARADISE GARDEN OPENS With a bill of rare excellence, Hammerstein's Paradise Roof Garden began another Summer season atop the Victoria Theatre last evening. The fine weather invited an audience that packed the open-air auditorium. The hit of the evening was made by Lalea SELINI, "La Belle Baigneuse" a French woman who lived up to her reputation for beauty. She gave a clever bicycle and juggling act clad in a bathing suit. Selma BRANTZ, a young juggler, also gave an excellent exhibition. BAR NOMINATING COMMITTEE The committee of lawyers which is to make independent nominations for Justices of the Supreme court and other judicial officers for the coming election are; John M. BOWERS Wallace MACFARLANE A. von BRIESEN David McCLURE Charles F. BROWN James McKEON John L. CADWAINDER John G. MILBURN Joseph H. CHOATE Alton B. PARKER William N. COHEN John E. PARSONS Robert W. de FOREST Eugene A. PHILBIN John F. DILLON Harrington PUTNAM William G. CHOATE John McL. NASH B.F. EINSTEIN Hamilton ODELL Austen G. FOX G.L. RIVES Paul FULLER Elihu ROOT William D. GUTHRIE James R. SHEFFIELD William B. HORNBLOWER Henry W. TAFT Charles E. HUGHES Leopold WALLACH Adrian H. JOLINE John DeWitt WARNER Joseph LAROCQUE Edmund WETMORE WHAT IS DOING IN SOCIETY Engagment of Isabel FANSHAWE to Van Sinderan LINDSLEY. [there is much more info] Engagement of Eleanor FORRESTER to Guy CUSHMAN. Her grandparents M&M Cortlandt PARKER M&M George H. MORGAN of E. 40th will open their country place at Lenox about June 15. [A description of a wedding] REYBURN-KELLEY Amedee Valle REYBURN, Jr. of St. Louis and Miss Florence Adele KELLEY, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Tevis KELLEY, were married at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon in St. Ann's Church, in East Twelfth St. Miss KELLEY wore a robe of white satin and point lace, and was led to the altar by her father. Her attendants were Mrs. Evermont Hope NORTON, matron of honor; Miss Nathalie HILLYER, maid of honor; and Misses Anna BEST and Julia CALHOUN. All of the attendants wore large picture hats with plumes, and carried roses. William HUNT was Mr. REYBURN's best man. The ushers were S. Barclay LATIMER, Arthur CORBETT, Valle REYBURN, a brother of the bridegroom; Frank PHIPPS, Don M. KELLY, a brother of the bride, and Stuart MacDONALD. A receoption followed at the residence of the bride's parents, 602 Madison Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. REYBURN are booked to sail for Europe on Tuesday and intend to remain abroad until late in the summer. CUTTER-TOWNSEND George Pratt CUTTER and Olga TOWNSEND, dau of M&M Ralph TOWNSEND, West End Avenue. [Article] BEGGED TO KEEP HER BOY John LARKINS, a detective employed in a Sixth Avenue department store arrested three women for shoplifting yesterday afternoon. All were married, one woman having with her at the time her five-year-old boy. One of the prisoners said she was Mrs. Mary STRONG, 450 West Forty-sixth Street. She was charged with taking $6 worth of goods from the store. The others were Mrs. Julia HARVEY of 313 Fifty-fourth Street, Brooklyn, and Mrs. Lizzie WHITE of the same address. When the women were brought before Sgt. McCARTHY of the Tenderloin station, Mrs. HARVEY wept bitterly. She said she did not know why she shoplifted and pleaded to be let go. Her little boy, about 5 years old, with long curls, kept back his tears until his mother was being led away. "Only let me take my little boy, Buster, to the cell with me and I don't care what happens" the woman said to Sgt. McCARTHY. Her told her that was impossible. The boy clung to his mother's skirts, but was finally carried away crying loudly. He was taken to the rooms of the Children's Society. NEW BRONX ROUTE APPROVED A report favoring the construction of the proposed Van Cortlandt Park rapid transit rounte was filed yesterday by the Commissioners appointed byt the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court. The Commissioners are James A. DONNELLY, Paul L. KIERNAN and Julius G. KREMER. The route is substatially an extension of the present west side subway systerm. It will begin on Broadway at 230th Street, in the Bronx, and run north along Broadway to a point beyond 242nd St, and opposite the entrance of the park. It is to be an elevated structure, like the elevated portions of the present west side subway. The estimated cost is $742,000. GROGAN LOVES TO SMASH PLATE GLASS WINDOWS [long article, edited] John GROGAN has a passion for smashing plate glass windows, and he admits it. Also, he just loves to smash the windows of the Mercantile Building at Fourth Avenue and Twenty third Street. Policeman FICHTEL of the East Twenty-second Street station ..heard the moan of glass in the throes of disintegration. He found Jack the Glass Smasher at work on the plate glass show windows of the Mercantile Building. Jack had a hatchet. He had just finished the last of sixteen windows. Jack had been arrested for smashing the same set of windows but was turned loose and did the same thing over the next month, for which he was sent to Blackwell's Island for six months. "I can't bear the them windows in that building" [said] GROGAN "I ain't nutty but I won't have any plate windows in that building - that's all." Married LANGMUIR, Charles Herbert to RUGGLES, Edith Bulkley, both of NYC LONG, Augustus White, Princeton NJ to PENNINGTON, Catharine Colt, Bayhead NJ PHILLIPS, William Howard, of NY to LEDYARD, Helen Scott of Philadelphia Obituary MOONEY, John H., 119 West Seventy-sixth st, 58 years old Obituary notes (smaller obituaries) RICHARDS, Dr. J. Wesley, E. 86th GORSUCH, Robert B, Brooklyn VAN CLEAF, J. Elizabeth (MEGILL) LA ROE, Dr. James G. CLARK, John W., W. 17th St, age 62 BURGESS, Miss Elizabeth FUERBASS, Rev. Alto CARPENTER, Eliza Ayres, wife of Rev. Frederick STROUD, John Charles Edwin Death notices ALLEN, Miss Elvira May BRUSH, Annie (HOLMES), wife of Charles CARPENTER, Eliza H., wife of Rev. Frederick CARY, Howard DAVIDSON, Julia (BERRY), widow of Dr. Daniel DICKINSON, Col. A.G. FRANCIS, Kellogg GEER, Katharine (THROOP), wife of Rev. William Montague MOONEY, John H., husb of Lizzie MURPHY, Ann, wife of Henry NEWMAN, Mary Elizabeth (BLEEKER), widow of Clement Davison POOR, Charles Longstreet, 10 months RUMANOS, James VAN CLEAF, Elizabeth, wife of John C. WANGERMANN, A. Theo E. WESTERVELT, Richard Henry TREASIDDER, John R., notice of meeting of Kane Lodge (Masons) for service Please e-mail if you need more info. Nancy Pfaff --------------E0D39F3B8F7DD01B38F94EF3--