Photo of "Peaches" Browning
Posted inBiographical Culture & Society

Peaches Quits Husband ‘On Vacation’

NEW YORK—Romance has gone on a vacation from the love nest of Frances (Peaches) Browning, the “Cinderella girl,” and Edward W. Browning, her wealthy Prince Charming.

Peaches has gone with her mother to a secluded cottage in New Jersey.

Back to Hotel.

Browning bas gone back to his bachelor quarters in an exclusive hotel.

The apartment where the two have lived and within which they told everyone was an ideal domestic life, has been re-leased.

Illustration of the revenue cutter firing a warning shot at the Northern Light.
Posted inMaritime & Naval History Ship Histories

The Arrest, By United States Authorities, Of The Northern Light

Our city was thrown into a fever on Monday, the 24th inst., by the rumor that the steamship Northern Light belonging to the Nicaragua Transit Company would be detained by the United States authorities. About one o’clock large crowds began to collect on pier No. 3, North river, from which the steamer was advertised to sail. Mr. MeKeon, United States District Attorney, and a number of his Marshals were present and proceeded on board of the Northern Light and took formal possession in the name of the government. The act of seizure was not known to the passengers till about half-past two, when the news was circulated and the greatest commotion took place in consequence. They were all acquainted with what had taken place on Saturday, but it was not believed that the government would order the vessel to be detained, and they supposed that she would sail at the appointed time. At two o’clock there were between four and five hundred persons on board the Northern Light, and over that number on the pier. Of the passengers, three hundred and fifty were, it was said, destined for the army of General Walker in Nicaragua. There were a considerable number of children also, and there was nothing in the appearance of anything on board to justify the suspicion that they were engaged in a hostile expedition. The greatest bustle and confusion prevailed on the steamer, which increased as the hour of departure drew near, and it was reported amongst the passengers that the vessel had been seized, and should not sail that day.

Illustration of troops on parade as a large crowd looks on.
Posted inCulture & Society Local Histories

Evacuation Day

The seventy-second anniversary of the return of Evacuation Day was celebrated on Monday by an imposing military parade and review in the Park by the authorities.

As the Common Council made no appropriation this year for the proper observance of the day, what was done in the way of parading and festivities was the result of voluntary enthusiasm on the part of our citizens. Flags, banners and appropriate devices adorned nearly all our hotels, theatres and public buildings, and in many instances the ships in the harbor were gaily decked with flags and streamers. A holyday was given to all the scholars in the public schools, and many old Knickerbockers abstained from business in honor of the day.

Posted inUS Civil War

Reception Of The New York Regiments

NEW YORK, June 8.-A grand reception of the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth regiments took place this afternoon. The escort comprised the Second, Seventy-first, Sixty-ninth and Fifty-sixth Infantry regiments, together with a regiment of cavalry, a battery, and the City Government.

Posted inDaily News Politics

Onlooker Group Resent “Blackshirts” In New York Parade

New York, May 31.-(AP)—Jeers, catcalls and shouts of “down with Mussolini,” caused by the presence of 200 Fascisti marchers, created a disturbance in New York’s Memorial Day parade. Mounted police charged and dispersed the disturbers whose ardor, undampened by the soft rain which fell on ceremonies throughout the east, at first threatened serious trouble.

Attired in black overseas caps with black tassels, black puttees, black breeches and shoes and the symbolic black shirts, the Fascisti gathering fell in behind a band of boy scouts.

Posted inDaily News Immigration Labor & Unions

Over 175 Women And Children Are Burned To Death At New York Fire

Hurl Themselves From Upper Floors of 10-Story Down Town Fire Trap

Bodies Piled By The Score In The Street

Blaze Started in Triangle Shirt Waist Co.’s Plant

Worst In The City’s History

Chief Croker Blames Municipal Building Department

New YorkYork, March 25.—A fire that spread like a spark in a powder train, trapped 2,000 employes of the Triangle Shirt Waist company, on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 10-story loft building at Waverly place and Greene street, at 5 o’clock this after noon.

More than 175 lives were lost. The police figures at midnight were 150 dead and 75 injured. One hundred and fifty had been taken to the morgue up to midnight. There were at that hour still 12 bodies on the ninth floor, according to Chief Croker, who was directing the work of removal. Three victims had died in St. Vincent’s hospital; three in Bellevue and one in the New York hospital. There were still a number of bodies in the basement and sub-basement of the structure, but it was said by the chief that it would be impossible to tell before morning just how many as the sub-cellar was completely filled with water and the cellar was waist deep. The water was being pumped out but this was an all night task.

Posted inDaily News

Deny Wine Served By A Nude Girl In A Bath Tub Full Wine

New York. Feb. 24.—(AP)—While Broadway gossiped today of a bacchanalian party reported to have been given Monday night by Earl Carroll, theatrical producer, on the Great White Way, the official investigations to ascertain the facts were started. Police Commissioner McLaughlin took steps to determine whether there was a display of nudity and prohibition agents made preparations to learn whether a bathtub full of wine was served, as had been reported.

Published accounts of the supposed supper party said that wine was served from a bathtub in which a nude chorus girl reposed, dispensing the beverage to the guests, it was reported that approximately 200 guests at tended the party, in the Earl Carroll Theatre.

Mr. Carroll issued a flat denial of the bathtub-wine report. He said the party was entirely orderly and one which any man, even a minister, might have with propriety attended with his wife.