End cloak lockout forces cloakmakers to pickets and return to work
The six week cloak and suit makers strike pits 80 000 workers against manufacturers as shops prepare to reopen on employer terms. Union leaders urge workers to stay out while Citizens Committee notes alleged excesses, evictions rise, and a drive for arbitration continues amid fears of starvation pressure and potential clashes with pickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Citizens’ Committee
Jacob H Schiff
Isaac N. Seligman
Schifff
R. Fulton Cutting
Haley Fiske
Benjamin Moeun
Learned Hand
Darwin R. James, Jr
James Lees Laidlaw
Sam Lewisohn
Alfred E. Marling
Ruth Morgan
Frederick Nathan
Eugene H. Outerbridge
Gifford Pinchot
Ogden Mills Reid
Allan Robinson
Willard Straight
Nelson R. Spencer
Citizens Committee
F Protective Association
F Adier
Manufacturers’ Association
Samuel Semeces
American Federation of Labor
Schlesinger
Whic
Operators Split On Strike At Western Union Convention
The Commercial Telegraphers Union held two sessions at the Hotel Continental, split between radicals urging immediate strike against Western Union and conservatives seeking mediation by United States Conciliation Commissioner Rowland B. Mahany. Mahany met with Western Union President Newcomb Carlton but offered no signs of willingness to permit union organization. strike action appears more likely as locals in Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Chicago press for decisive action before the June 6 Republican National Convention. The convention planned to resume at 9 o'clock this morning with possible strike if terms fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
Manufacturers Protective Association
Guodation
Ayers Council of Conciliation
Board of Arbitration
Louis PD. Hrandéis
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Continental
Western Union
United States
Rowland B. Mahany
Mahany
Newcomb Carlton
Western
Chicago
Roosevelt couple to sail from Panama for New York
Mr and Mrs Kermit Roosevelt plan to leave Panama for New York next Wednesday. Mrs Roosevelt, formerly Miss Belle Wyatt Willard, has recovered from a second bout of typhoid. She was visited by her mother in law Mrs Theodore Roosevelt during illness. Accompanied by W J Price the American Minister to Panama Kermit Roosevelt toured nearby native towns in the jungle today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York Times
Panama
Kermit Roosevelt
New York
No Rule On Sunday Show At Sheepshead Bay
Court case against United Service Corporation and Sheepshead Bay Speedway Corporation over operating a Sunday show at the Militia and Naval Tournament adjourned for a week. Attorneys sought a Friday date for a ruling to guide next Sundays Liberty Day celebration but Magistrate Voorhees refused. J Gardner Stevenson of the Sunday Observance Society pressed the request after being away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheepshead Bay
United Service Corporation
Sheepshead Bay Speedway Corporation
Coney Island
Voorhees
Prg Tooneard
J. Gardner Stevenson
Sunday Observance Society
War Profit Suit Filed Over Furness Withy Partnership
Harold Basil Jayne editor of The Pacific Marine Review sues in the Supreme Court to dissolve Furness Withy & Co of 82 Broadway and to account for profits and assets from a 1915 partnership for selling munitions and war supplies. He alleges contracts for cartridges rifles shells and projectiles and seeks his share of refits. His attorney is James Seth Morse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Basil Jayne
Pacific Marine Review
Supreme Court
Furness, Withy & Co
Broadway
Jayne
Basil Crisp
Anglo-Russian Trust Company
British Bank For Foreign Trade
James Seth Morse
Denial of Yuan Shih-kai Illness Report
Washington May 31 the Chinese Minister Wellington Koo said a cable from Peking denies any illness of President Yuan Shih kai. Earlier reports from Tokyo and Shanghai claimed Yuan Shih kai had been poisoned and gravely ill.
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Yuan
Washington
Wellington Koo
Peking
Yuan Shik-kai
Tokio
Shanghai
Yuan Shih-kai
Morgenthau to Address Chamber On Near East Trade
Henry Morgenthau will speak at the Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting outlining opportunities for American commerce in the Near East after the war. The address is part of the chamber's program for today.
Walt Whitman Fellowship Holds Twenty Third Annual Meeting
The twenty third annual meeting of the Walt Whitman Fellowship international was held yesterday at the Hotel Brevoort. Frank Harris spoke on Foreign Opinion of Whitman, joined by Jessie Rittenhouse Philp Dalmas Alexander Harvey Everett Martin Hamlin Garland and Frank Howard Warner. After a dinner there were informal talks on Whitman in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walt Whitman Fellowship, International
Brevoort
Frank Harris
Whitman
Jessie Rittenhouse
Philp Dalmas
Alexander Harvey
Everett Martin
Hamlin Garland
Frank Howard Warner
Sleeping sickness killed Dr. Perveil five years after tsetse bite
Dr. Albert C. Perveil, who contracted sleeping sickness in Africa after a tsetse fly bite, died at Roosevelt Hospital. Funeral services were held at his Brooklyn home with interment in Greenwood Cemetery. His illness sparked debate among physicians about the illness's role in his death.
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Albert C. Perveil
Africa
Roosevelt Hospital
Hancock Street
Brooklyn
A. W. E. Carrington
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Incarnation
Gaved Avenue
Franklin Avenue
Greenwood Cemetery
Peryeil
Lee Raed
Perveil
Ater
Hottie
Pervell
Clara Kellogg Strakosch will filed no public bequests
New Hartford Conn May 81 Mrs Clara Louise Kellogg Strakosch will admitted to probate provides no public bequests. Residence Elp stone with furniture ornaments goes to Mr Strackosth with a letter directing distribution of paintings silverware and wardrobe to named parties but no letter found ruling clause void. Jewels from European tours valued about 20000 while estate total 100000 to 200000. Strakosch gets life use of residue then remainder to Mira Louise M Parsons and Julia Strakoasach Lee per death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hartford
Conn
Clara Louise Kellogg Strakosch
Elpstone
Strackosth
Mr. Strakosch
Miss Kellogg
Mira Louise M. Parsons
Brooklyn
N. Y
Julia Strakoasach Lee
Cheadle
England
Newark Pageant Draws 50000 At Weequahic Park
The second performance of Newark's historical pageant drew about 50 000 spectators in Weequahic Park Newark. Thomas Wood Stevens cut the third movement from last night's show to shorten the program to three hours focusing on the masque's vivid scenes and the grand light finale. Theodore Roosevelt Jr visited Newark for the industrial exposition and met city recruiters from the Plattsburg camp while Colonel Roosevelt was slated to headline the show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weequahic Park
Newark
Thomas Wood Stevens
General Lafayette
Seth Boyden
Abraham Lincoln
Stevens
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Plattsburg
Roosevelt
Fish Prices Take Big Jump From Fulton Market To Uptown
Market report shows sea bass 4 cents a pound in Fulton Market and 25 cents uptown. tilefish 8 cents downtown and 15 cents uptown. codfish 6 cents downtown and 20 cents uptown. Prices varied by store and neighborhood with wholesale and retail gaps.
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Fulton Market
Upper West Side
Columbus Avenue
Uptown
Amsterdam Avenue
Fulton
Seventy Ninth Street
McADOO Hails Prosperity in Raleigh Speech
Secretary McAdoo told the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce that the United States enjoys its greatest era of prosperity with the Federal Reserve Act as a key factor. He cited national bank resources at $15.838 billion in March 1916, deposits totaling $10.7 billion, and comparisons to major European and global banks to illustrate the boom.
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Raleigh, N
United
Bank of England
Bank of France
Bank of
Russia
Reichsbank of
Germany
Bank of the Netherlands
Swiss National Bank
Bank of Japan
National Bank
Japan May Increase Guard Tokio
Reports from May 31 indicate high interest in Japan Peking talks over Shan tung disturbances. The cabinet held a long session as officials denied plans to extend Japanese guards beyond current Chinese railroad positions. A decision hinges on Chinese protection of Japanese lives and property in Shantung amid anti Japanese demonstrations.
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Tokio
Japan
Peking
Shantung
Hunan
Szechuang
Rebuilding in Dublin Dominates Home Secretary Trip
London reports Home Secretary Herbert Samuel has traveled to Dublin to oversee reconstruction of homes destroyed in the recent revolt and to arrange compensation for owners of damaged properties. Officials say Lloyd George has not yet completed inquiries with Irish leaders, despite press speculation of a forthcoming announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Herbert L. Samuel
Home Secretary
Dublin
David Lloyd George
Lloyd George
Governor orders extradition of Guy Bidinger to Chicago
Chicago governing officials obtain extradition of former detective Guy Bidinger from New York. He is sought as a witness in a police graft case and will be returned to Chicago for questioning and testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dunne
Guy Bidinger
Biddinger
New York
Lyman Indicted in Fraud Case Over Oil Shares
John H Putnam trial unfolds in Federal District Court with Lyman defending himself against charges of fraudulent use of the mails. Prosecutor Edwin M Stanton outlines alleged schemes selling Ohio Oil and California Standard Oil shares on installments, using Harkness as a lure and placing securities under various aliases and in wifes names. Witnesses detail misleading letters and collateral practices as Lyman challenges parts of testimony and questions the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Grant Lyman
Wolverton
Federal District Court
John H. Putnam
Broad Street
Edwin M. Stanton
Lyman
Stanton
Ohio Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of California
Mr. Stanton
John Florence
Lillian A. Hambler
Lillian A. Drago
Putnam Company
Harkness
Putnam
Miss Drago
Leonard Nessell
Louis A. Wells
Erie
Penn
John H. Putnam & Co
Company &N
Ohio Ofl
Oklahoma Cl
Tombs
N. Y
Hearing on Fire Escapes Rules and Sanitation Amendment
Commissioner Louis Wiard of the State Industrial Commission held a public hearing at 200 Fifth Avenue on proposed fire escape specifications and a sanitation rule change. The rule would standardize exit equipment and apply to buildings over five stories unless grandfathered, with hearings in Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and Utica on upcoming dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Wiard
State Industrial Commission
Fifth Avenue
Bureau of Standards
Unis
Bureau
Wiard
Commission
Syracuse
Rochester
Utica
Go Westward to Russia Trade Mission and Ford Replication
Dr. W C Huntington sailed for Copenhagen en route to Petrograd as Commercial Attaché to the U S Embassy to study Russian business methods and foster postwar contracts. He sees Russia as a prime future market and aims to prep Americans for peace era deals. Also aboard was Gaston Plant, Ford personal representative, headed to Europe to set up tractor assembly depots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. W. C. Huntington
Copenhagen
Frederik VII
Petrograd
United States
Henry D. Baker
New York
Russia
Dr. Huntington
Gaston Plantiff
Henry Ford
Europe
Ford
Erratic behavior cited in Amos F. Eno will case
Mary Phelps Morgan, a niece, testified that Amos F. Eno displayed erratic conduct and disliked suffrage leaders. She described opinions voiced by him and questioned his soundness when he made a will leaving the residue of an estate valued at about 5 million dollars to Columbia University. Real estate dealer Joseph P. Day said Eno’s New York holdings exceeded six million dollars. Day, who spoke in the afternoon, would resume testimony the following morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos F. Eno
Columbia University
Cohalan
Mary Phelps Morgan
Mr. Eno
Joseph P. Day
China seeks $5 million loan for public works in China
The American International Corpora tion engages the China government to purchase 5 million dollars in three year Treasury notes to fund public works in China. Proceeds expected mainly for the Shantung Canal project. Details withheld as premature. Earlier in April a Chinese loan rumor circulated in financial districts but was not confirmed. London wool market steady with 3000 bales offered. Queensland merinos and New Zealand and Victorian crossbreds sold at specific shillings per hundredweight.
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American International Corporation
Chinae
Treasury
China
Shantung Canal
Lee, Iigainsan & Co
London
Queensland
New Zealand
Gift of Bowery Building to Miss Virgilia Sears
Miss Virgilia Sears of Beverly Mass has received the Bowery parcel at 259 Bowery from her father Herbert M Sears. The deed shows the property was transferred April 4 and recorded recently.
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Virgilia Sears
Beverly
Man
New Eurland
Herbert M. Sears
Fourwiory
Bowery
Fourth Street
Register
Sears
Bayard Warren
Back Bay
Boston
Francis Bartlett
St. Regis
New York Yacht Club
Knickerbocker Club
Relatives Seek Commission Testimony in Suydam Will Case
Mrs Exther Bertine, grand niece of Lambert Suydam, asks Surrogate's Court to allow taking testimony by commission from her sister Mrs Vestiana Hurxthal and from Mrs Olive Van Leer and Captain Samuel Van Leer to show the testator Lambert Suydam’s mental incapacity. The estate is valued around 1 million dollars and the will favors Lambert Jr who allegedly influenced the bequests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exther Alice Bertine
Lambert Suydam
Vestiana E. Hursthal
el Paso
Texas
Olive W. van Leer
Sanuel van Leer
Fort Keogh
Montana
Bertine
Hurxthal
van Leer
War Picture Album Captures Front Line Scenes And Shrines
A feature spread presents Sacred Structures wrecked by shells and a double-page look at Our Troops in Mexico. Arras revisited as the City of Invasions with sketches by Charles Johnston. Images show Death figures, British Recruiting Posters, Mosul in Mesopotamia, and scenes of victims and Arc de Triomphe at Marseilles. Many other fronts are featured in vivid, frame-worthy photographs.
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Mexico
Arras
Julius Caesar
Charles Johnston
Marseilles
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Woaders
KH. J. Wise
Ent
Hillquit
Citizens’ Relief Committee
Quete Volitical Economists
Kermit Roosevelt Saile
Walt Whitman
Clara Kellogg
T. Roosevelt, Jr
Dale
West 13Th Street
Dale Lighting Fixture Co
Mcadoo
Gays Bank
Shantung Province
Guy Biddinger
Broker
Jared Flagg
Standard Oil
Wallach Bros
Chambers
Third Ave
West 125Th
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Jared Jagg
America
Eno
Miss Morgan
Long Island
Jile Guarantee ‘and Trust
Suydam
Tred
S. S. McClure
Carnegie
Carnegie Hall
Lee Keedick
New York City
Countess Markiewicz
Roger Casement
Death
Mosul
Mesopotamia
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