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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
11
Advertises a Yellowstone visit urging a summer trip with vivid scenes of geysers pools falls and wildlife. Claims personal planning help through Burlington Service by W J Berger agent at Panser dept B and Q RR New York with color map and full description offered.
The ceremony occurred at the Hotel Gotham ballroom with Rev Allen Macy Dulles officiating. Bride Edith Rutledge Dulles wore white tulle with orange blossoms, aided by her sister Dorothy Winslow Dulles. Attendants included Dudley Fowler and Leon Fraser among others. The couple plans a Havana honeymoon and a temporary home there after.
June brings a spree of ceremonies. Miss Eloise F Bloodgood to Lt Delavan B Downer at Church of the Transfiguration with Rev Wibbert and Rev Houghton assisting. Other weddings include Miss Anne Eastman to Reginald E Wigham at Church of the Messiah and Miss Helen Marie Stuart to Ernest Stephen of London at St Bartholomew's with a reception at the home of Mr and Mrs James McLean. Beatrice Rossire to George P. Butler Jr at St Thomas's Chantry with reception on East Sixty seventh Street. Edna Anna Burr to James S Barron at 812 Carroll Street Brooklyn. Jewel Inez Loebinger to Nicholas M Rip at Holland House in Shakespearean costume. Dorothy Schulman to Edwin R Mansbach at Temple Beth-El with Ritz-Carlton reception. Edwin Daniel Hays of New York to Ruth Freedman at her New Haven home. Hays a Harvard graduate and Revolu tos member.
Announcement from Bro Walter B Saunders of Ivy Lodge Overbrack Fenn and Philadelphia reveals the engagement of Miss Emily B Saunders to Charles O Perkins son of Mrs Edward C Perkins of New York and Windsor Vermont. Perkins Harvard graduate and relative of William M Evarts Harrison Tweed and W M E Perkins. Autumn wedding anticipated.
The wedding of Miss Gladys B Poillon daughter of Mr and Mrs J Edward Poillon of New York and Shippan Point Conn and Francis Querrlich will be on Thursday June 8 at 4 oclock in the Church of the Divine Paternity on Seventy sixth Street and Central Park West. Miss Poillon a sister of Captain Arthur Foilion United States Military Attaché at The Hague Holland has no attendant. Mr Guerrlich is a Stamford Yacht Club and Bankers Club member, graduate of New York Law School, and partner in Horace Ely Co. The wedding is a family affair with no invitations issued. Engagement announced in March.
Miss Mabel T. Boardman praises New York for a broad Red Cross membership drive. She notes posters at the railroad station and widespread enlistment across banks churches and stores, saying the city has almost mobilized like a military advance. She predicts a potential million members and says the drive will continue through June.
Representatives of about 100 Knights and Ladies of Honor lodges in and near the city met at Kreutzer Hall to press the State Insurance Commissioner for clarity on solvency. Speakers alleged misused dues totaling 74 000 over years by grand officers in Indianapolis and criticized high salaries and wasteful expenses.
At 120 Central Park South Percy J. King, newly elected Club President, hosted a dinner saluting outgoing and incoming Board of Management members. He praised Michael J. Mulqueen who retires next month after five terms. Attendees included F. F. Lisiecki Andrew J. Connick Jr. Alfred M. Barrett and others.
The annual memorial for U S navy personnel buried at sea will be held next Sunday at 3 PM on the Parade Ground in front of the Marine barracks at the Brooklyn Navy Yard instead of the public pier. A parade of patriotic societies will precede the exercises, reflecting the high turnout for invitations issued by the Central Memorial Committee Sons of Veterans of Brooklyn and Long Island.
Mme Frances Alda held a birthday gathering at her Alwyn Court home last evening inviting Lady Colebrook Sir Oliver Harriman Mr and Mrs Leonard M Thomas Mr and Mrs Otto H Kahn Mr and Mrs George Gould Mrs W Astor Chanler the Misses Barbara Rutherford Susan Fish Dresser Marion Hollins Malvina Hoffman Messrs Robert Goelet Philip Henkard Charles Wetmore Andrea de Segurola Cyril Hatch William Hoffman Hamilton Fish Jr Antonio Scotti Raymond Orinsby and John J Curtis.
Miss Alice Burke daughter of Dr Richard F Burke and Harold F Oyer son of Mr and Mrs George Oyer of Easton Pennsylvania marry this evening at Mrs James C King s home 1155 Park Avenue ceremony by Rev Father Galligan maid of honor Constance Burke sister of the bride host father Dr Burke to give her in marriage about 200 guests expected
Mr and Mrs Henry F Boardman of Troy announce the engagement of their daughter Misa Wynanda K Boardman to H Duncan Bulkley son of Dr and Mrs L Duncan Bulkley of 531 Madison Ave New York The groom a Columbia University 1901 graduate belongs to the University and Quadr on clubs The wedding is set for September in Bennington Vermont
Robert Grimshaw, chairman of the Speakers' Bureau of the National Securities League, will address the Men's Club of Washington Heights on preparedness this evening at 9 o'clock at the club house on West 182nd Street. Residents of Washington Heights are invited to attend.
General Federation of Women's Clubs delegates voted for federation officers in New York City. Results would be announced at the close of today’s business meeting in the Hotel Astor Grand Ballroom. The race centers on Mrs. Cowles of California and Mrs. Sneath of Ohio, with observers noting dissatisfaction and a large but uneven balloting turnout.
The funeral for rail builder James J. Hill prompted five minute stoppages on the Great Northern Pacific systems as trains and ships halted. Public schools closed and thousands lined Twin Cities streets while services were held at Summit Avenue and burial near North Oaks Farm. In Portland Oregon, Hill memorials mirrored the tribute with railroad wheels and ship propellers stopping for five minutes.
Leading women suffragists consider snubbing the Women’s Congressional Union as the Woman’s Suffrage Convention nears in Chicago. A blue book lists 125 guest names for Mrs Cyrus H McCormick’s East Huron Street dinner, excluding H P Belmont and other CU members, while NAWSA’s executive board is invited.
A consortium of eight London banks extended the $50,000,000 credit arranged last December for exchange operations in the United States by one year. The interest rate rises from 4.5 to 5 percent due to changed money conditions. The fund remains intact and is held as insurance against need. The banks deposit of £11,000,000 in British government bonds backs the loan, and participation certificates will be offered to the original lenders.
George D Smith buys 1701 Increase Mather The Blessed Hope for 126 dollars at Heartman sale on Lexington Avenue 88. Auction lists Providence Rhode Island 1778 1779 items and early Canticles Cotton 1648 1647, King Philip War plates by Paul Revere, and other colonial holdings. The total sale price reaches £ u,017.80 with multiple items sold to Smith.
The May 31 Christie’s auction in London reported a total of 6 060 across four lots on day three. An eggshell bowl sold for 1 075 featuring a center scene of ladies a boy and rabbits. A pair of powdered blue kylin enameled bottles fetched 1 890. An altar vane and cover and a turquoise monster figure with copper mounts realized 1 575 and 1 520 respectively.
About 4000 students and alumni from Washington Irving High School traveled yesterday aboard the Hudson Day Line steamer Washington Irving to Newburg for the annual outing. President E. E. Olcott joined the voyage, which featured dancing on deck and a salute near Sunnyside. Notables included Principal Dr Edward Zabriskie and several faculty members and chaperones.
Albany May 1 Thomas Mott Osborne would return to Sing Sing Prison as Warden if exonerated of all charges. Governor Whitman hinted Osborne should resume the wardenship upon exoneration, honoring the prior understanding with Kirchwey Riley and Supt Carter, though Carter cautioned against department being “played horse.”
Dr Edwin A Goodridge aged 76 died last night of heart disease at his Maple Avenue home in Flushing. He leaves a widow and son Dr Malcolm Goodridge. Born in St Lawrence County he graduated from Princeton and served in the Civil War. He belonged to George Washington Post G A R and the Sons of the American Revolution. He was five years president of the Flushing Board of Education and longtime trustee of the public schools, retiring from practice in 1905.
The Most Rev Dr Enos Nuttall archbishop of the West Indies and Jamaica's leading figure died in Kingston at age 72. He aided post quake recovery in 1907, helped ease US Britain tensions, and secured aid and loans for rebuilding. He will have a state funeral.
Hugh F. Coyle, General Superintendent of the Grand Trunk Railway, died suddenly of heart disease on his private car attached to an Erie train near Kennedy Station between Jamestown and Kennedy, while en route to Buffalo. He had been visiting his son E. B. Coyle, Erie Chief Dispatcher at Meadville, and was formerly an Erie official at Meadville.
Edward F. Slayback a Stock Exchange member since 1888 died of angina pectoris at his home 161 West Eighty sixth Street in his fifty second year. He graduated from the College of the City of New York and was associated with Pearl & Co a stock brokerage firm.
Thaddeus M. Ma, a former congressman from the Fifty-third and Fifty-ninth Congresses, has become a Republican in Pennsylvania with a home in Chambersburg. The notice lists deaths and obituaries from Boston to New Jersey, including Joseph Bennett of Boston and George Bennett of Brooklyn, with ages and brief details of their lives and survivors.
Eugene N. Robinson age 43 died Tuesday in his apartments at 6 W 45th St. He was a relief worker aiding Americans stranded in Europe at the war outbreak. He served on the Adriatic relief committee and held titles in the New York Naval Battalion and several clubs and orders.
Moses Winkelspiel a longtime Democratic organizer in the city died at his home 226 West Ninety Seventh Street. Born in New York sixty one years ago he studied in public schools and was admitted to the bar. A Tammany Hall member he served eight years as Assemblyman from the Eleventh Ward. He is survived by his widow a daughter Mrs Edwin Nathan of 0 West 116th Street and a son Edwin Denene of 226 West Ninety Seventh Street.
Daniel O Day son of the late Daniel O Day former Vice President of Standard Oil of New Jersey died of pneumonia at his Rye New York home. He was born in Titusville Pennsylvania forty six years ago and leaves a wife a daughter and two sons. A Yale graduate class of 183 he belonged to Yale Apawamis Golf and American Yacht clubs and was active in petroleum fields in West Virginia and Pennsylvania with an office at 101 Park Avenue.
Notices announcing marriages and deaths intended for the New York Times insertion are to be telephoned to the 1000 Bryant address for submission. The terse instruction emphasizes direct contact rather than mailed materials.
Mrs. Cornelius C. Billings announces the engagement of her daughter Alice Louise Dresel of New York City to Mr. Thaddeus Reynolds Beal of Newburg New York.
A sequence of obituary briefs lists numerous individuals by surname, with rolling funeral details. Entries name Reverend Ithamar W Heard, George Bennett, W F Blauvelt, Charles Edward Borden, Frank Champlin Clarke, Louis Cohen, Moses Dinkelspiel, Hannah Saxe Eaton, George Waldron Elder, Adolph Ellison, James Feeny, Richard A Finn, Edwin G Goodridge, Mary Grebenberg, Georgiana Louise Hall, Abbie Harris, Sarah Hayden, Katherine Howard, and others, giving dates, ages, residences, and funeral arrangements across New York and New Jersey streets and churches.
Patrick Divver former police judge and Tammany leader of the Second Assembly District left a gross estate of 11005 and a net of 8575.95 after dying intestate January 28 1908. Debts included funeral costs of 1204. Widow Catherine administered until her May 2 death. Estate valued at 8370 in Standard Gas Light shares plus 2100 cash and 487 jewelry to be divided among three sons and two daughters.
Brooklyn businessman and civic figure Thomas Edwards Clark died at his Bensonhurst home A343 Bay Parkway aged 57. He championed the Fourth Avenue Subway project and led the Brooklyn City Safe Deposit Company turning president before retirement. He held posts with Allied Civic Association of South Brooklyn and Brooklyn Civic Club and ran as a Republican candidate for Congress. He is survived by his wife and daughter.
George Waldron Elder a former Havemeyer and Elder sugar refiner died suddenly Tuesday night while visiting John W. Hoffbauer at Maxwell Avenue Bayside Long Island. Elder was widowed and aged. He lived with his son George W. Elder Jr. at 770 Madison Avenue. He was brother in law of the late H Havemeyer and long retired from business. His clubs were the Appenthony and the Westminster Kennel.
Funeral and interment details for numerous individuals across Atlantic Highlands Jersey City Rahway Hoboken New York City Westfield and other areas dated May 1918. Notices include dates May 29 to June 3 with private or private services and listed survivors and affiliations with lodges churches and cemeteries.
A lengthy list of obituaries and funeral notices dated May with names, addresses, and service times. Multiple residents from Brooklyn Hoboken Jersey City Newark and surrounding areas are listed for private or public services, with numerous May dates and times including May 30 and May 20. Funeral details indicate locations such as East 46th Street West 13th Street and West 64th Street as well as hospitals like Catharine's and references to South Amboy.
Fragmentary obituary note mentions names Sarahmares Pompherty and John W. Lyon with a memorial time and place referenced as church remarks. The readable text lacks a coherent event date or full context but indicates a religious remembrance.
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