The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-12-01
MANY NOTED PEOPLE DIE.
Million Dollar Anti-Tubcrculosis Pos
ter Campaign is to Cover the
Whole Country.

Richard Watson Glider. editor-in-
chief of the Century Magazine for
over a quarter of a century, died sud-
denly of angina pectoris at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Schuyler Van REM
salaer in New YORK. He had been
taken i'll in the delivery of Il lecture
on Tennyson at South Orange two
weeks before, but his illness was not
thought to be serious at the time.
Mr.. Glider has played an important
part in literary history of the coun-
try being a critic and poet of rep
utation. His sister, Jeanette l.. Gill
der, is also a writer and enitor of
THE Critic magazine
Nathan Strauss of New York, who
has probably done more than any one
man to help the children of the poor
in, the metropolis, has just donated the
Lakewood hotel at Lakewood, N. j..
for a tuberculosis preventorium for
children. The gift represents some
100000 in money. The cottage be-
longing to Mrs. Grover Cleveland,
near by, has been used for this pur-
pose during the past summer and has
cared for 80 children. The hotel will
accommodate 400. 1t was Mr. Strauss
who inauguratod and financially sup
ported the pure milk crusade i'm New
York Il few years ago. establishing
depots where mothers in the Sums
could get the proper nOurishment for
their babies at a cost within their
means.
Women on School Board.
H..
bers of the school board, Mrs. Meta
Berger and Mrs. G. 3. WhitnaH. Mrs
Berger is the wife Of Victor Berger,
one of the leading socialists of the
country and editor of a socialist pa
per which has a wide circulation. Mrs
Berger has severm healthy, we'll
brought up children and these chill
dren, remarkably enough, have never
been allowed to eat any candy She
is paying special attention to the man
ual training work in the schools ana
to the trade school which has been
recently established. Mrs. Whitnall's
interest in the schools has been of
long standing and shown through her
connection with the School Alliance
which has supplemented the work Of
the board of education.
The Rev. John B. Tabb, known as
Father Tabb and the author of sew
eral small volumes of verse of rare
quality, has just died in Baltimore,
Md.
KcnncwicI< Wants Library.
Women of the KenneWick clubs
have banded themselves together for
the purpose of getting a library and
reading room for their home town.
The Thimble Club has voted to turn
all its money into a library fund and
a meeting has been called at which
leading men and women of the city
will speak on the value of a library
and how to get it. Each person at
tending the meeting is asked to bring
book or magazine to form the nu-
cleus of a library. The Kennewick
Women's club and the Ladies Literary
society have united with the Thin Bile
club to form a library association
The Rev. H. M. Bartlett was chosen
president; Mrs. c. o. Anderson, vice
president. and Mrs. 8. z. Henderson,
secretary.
The Dowager Duchess of Manches-
New York. and before er marriage
nrominent member Of New York
society. has just died in London of
heart failure. induced by neuritis.
The duchess was a cong time friend
of King Edward. who hac the greatest
respect for her wit and intelligence
A New Soprano.
Nine. Marietta Mazarin. a new So
prano from Brussels. has just been
given an enthusiastic reception at her
first appearance in New York as Aida
at the Manhattan opera house. Mines.
Louise Home. Gadski nd Geraldine
Farrar are singing VIII the Metro
y.