Staten Island Cricket Club Fête Champêtre News Clips
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Description
Staten Island Cricket Club Fête Champêtre News Clips
Overview
This digital collection comprises newspaper clippings documenting the grand fête champêtre and fair held by the Staten Island Cricket Club and its Ladies’ Club on June 29, 1892. The event, staged at the club’s grounds in Livingston, was abruptly halted by a severe storm. The collection is part of the Alice Austen House Museum’s archival holdings and is presented in English.Background
The Staten Island Cricket Club, a prominent social and sporting organization in late‑19th‑century New York, regularly hosted public entertainments. In 1892, the club and its Ladies’ Club organized a fête champêtre—a rustic garden party featuring a fair, music, and illuminated Japanese lanterns. The event was interrupted by a storm the previous afternoon, during which lightning struck a nearby tree and damaged the lanterns. The fair was relocated to the men’s club house, and the festivities resumed that evening.Contents
- Photographic Scan: A high‑resolution JPG of a June 29, 1892 newspaper clipping (source: PINAX).
- OCR Text: Transcribed content of the clipping, detailing the storm’s impact, the lightning strike, and the subsequent relocation of the fair.
- Metadata: Structured JSON describing the event, participants, and physical context (e.g., location, date, subjects such as “Storm,” “Lightning,” “Japanese lanterns”).
- Supporting Entities: Descriptions of the Staten Island Cricket Club, its Ladies’ Club, the Livingston grounds, and related objects (tree, lanterns).
Scope
The collection covers a single social event in 1892, focusing on the interruption caused by a storm. It includes primary source material (newspaper clipping) and associated metadata that situates the event within the broader social and cultural milieu of Staten Island’s upper‑middle‑class society. The collection is limited to English‑language documents from the period and does not encompass subsequent editions of the fête or related club activities.Raw Cheimarros Data
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@ladies_club:organization {description: "Ladies' Club associated with Staten Island Cricket Club"}
@livingston:place {city: "Livingston", borough: "Staten Island", state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
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@storm:event {description: "Storm that interrupted the fête", when: @date_1892_06_28, location: @livingston}
@lightning:event {type: "lightning strike", when: @date_1892_06_28, location: @livingston}
@tree:object {type: "tree"}
@japanese_lanterns:object {type: "Japanese lanterns"}
@mens_club_house:place {description: "Men's club house of Staten Island Cricket Club", location: @livingston}
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@ladies_club -> organized -> @fete_champetre
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OCR Text
THE STORM STOPPED THE FETE. The grand fête champêtre and fair given under the auspices of the Staten Island Cricket Club and the Ladies' Club, at their beautiful grounds at Livingston, S. I., were brought to an abrupt and unfortunate stop by the storm of yesterday afternoon. A tree near the tent in which the articles of the fair were being sold was struck by lightning and the fair occupants in their fright to reach a place of safety got drenched to the skin, although it was not over fifty yards to the men's club house, where they got shelter. The beautiful Japanese lanterns, &c., that were to have illuminated the grounds at night were reduced to a pulp. Nothing daunted, however, the plucky ladies have removed all their articles to the club house, and the fête and fair will be continued there to-night, when Staten Island, it is hoped, will turn out en masse to endeavor to make a successful ending to an entertainment so unfortunately interrupted.
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