Antique Greek Dance and War Era Art Volumes
Published today by Maurice Emmanuel and edited by Harriet Brauley. The Antique Greek Dance offers Gaudier Brzeska’s sculpture notes and letters from the front, with Belgian and French war context, in cloth edition net $23.50. A companion volume by Pierre Mille, detailing French soldier vaux and domestic colonial perspectives, cloth net $1.25. Anatole France companion work by Pierre Noziere, tracing Paris childhood and travels, cloth net $1.75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maurice Emmanuel
Harriet Jean Brauley
Emmanuel
Paris Conservatoire
Gaudier- Brzeska
Pierre Mille
Vaux
M. Mille
Anatole France
Sylvestre Bonnerd
Pierre Noziere
Paris
France
Charging Under Fire at the Ditch: A Soldier's View
An unnamed frontline narrator recalls advancing through a dust-filled, smoke shrouded battlefield as shells explode overhead. The sky darkens with flame and smoke, metal fragments rain down, and the line presses toward a wall of enemy fire with steady resolve amid chaos and fear.
Spies and threats cited in cloakmakers strike
Officials of the Cloakmakers Union charged manufacturers use spies to demoralize 50000 striking needle workers. Benjamin Schlesinger of the ILGWU said agents urged demoralization, while leaders of the Manufacturers Protective Association denied wrongdoing. A strike picket, William Shapiro, was jailed after a complaint by striker Samuel Bloom. Mayor Mitchel urged arbitration and a clergy-led question on arbitration was planned. A free milk depot for strikers babies was opened at 43 East Twenty Second Street by the Women’s Trade Union League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cloakmakers’ Union
Benjamin Schlesinger
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Manufacturers’ Protective Association
William Shapiro
West Twenty-second Street
Samuel Bloom
Shapiro
Jefferson Market
E. J. Wise
E. Charles Heineman
The
Manufacturers’ Association
Mr. Heineman
Newark
Iniom
Heineman
Lucien Breckenridge
Mutual Cloak, Suit, and Skirt Manufacturers’ Association
Allan Robinson
Citizens’ Committee For the Relief
C i
Garment Workers’ Union
Mutual Association
Mitchel
Protective Association
McAlpin
Schlesinger
East Twenty Second Street
Women's Trade Union League
Fight With Strikebreakers at Edgewater Plant
About 7,000 workers went on strike at the American Can Company plant in Edgewater New Jersey last Wednesday. Strikers transported replacement workers by a chartered steamer to West Ninety-sixth Street. Last night near a New York pier, some 50 strikers attacked men with bricks and clubs. Police opened fire to scatter the clash, arresting two men who could be identified as Edward Failling of 179 West Eighty-ninth Street and an unnamed companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Can Company
Edgewater
N. J
West Ninety-sixth Street
New York Pier
Reilly
West 100Th Street
Pelligerents
West Forty-seventh Street
Edward Failling
West Eighty-ninth Street
City’s Men in Red Cross Enroll Over 1000 Members
Employees from twelve city departments reported more than 1,000 Red Cross members after a Thursday Municipal Building meeting. The Department of Correction led with 250 enrollments, Health 104, and Brooklyn Parks with 163. Police hopes to enroll 2,000 as Lieutenants’ Association backs the drive, following the Commissioners’ endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Atlantic Division
American Red Cross
Fourth Avenue
Department of Correction
Department of Health
Brooklyn
Department of Parks
Police
Lieutenants’ Association
First National Conference on Church Advertising Planned in Philadelphia
The first national conference on church advertising will be held in Philadelphia from June 25 to 27 as part of the annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. About 500 ministers are expected to attend and hear talks on publicity for churches, with a view toward forming a permanent organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Associated Advertising Clubs
Chicago Advertising Club
Chicago
Rogram
Convention of Associated Advertising
Clavs
Church Conference
Christian F. Reisner
Tor
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
Reisner
Methodist Episcopal
Lutheran
Unitarian
Christian Science
Police Commissioner seeks private schools aid for city play leaders
Police Commissioner Woods appeals to over 800 private school pupils in New York City to fund play leaders for 167 playground streets this summer. Each street needs a leader for a week at 12 dollars, aiding up to 500 children daily while Parks and Playgrounds Association coordinates. Woods notes the effort aims to reduce street accidents and keep city children safe and entertained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Woods
Police Department
Parks and Playground Association
Pla
James A. Renwick
Parks and Playgrounds Association
Broadway
UR Woods
Pushin g Guard Inquiry Causes Public Row
Maurice Simmons of 198 Broadway accuses the National Guard of not conducting a real investigation into alleged Jewish discrimination. He says high officials expect a cosmetic hearing and that some units remain exclusive social clubs funded by taxpayers. Simmons seeks access to regiment records he claims are public property to present his side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Maurice Simmons
Broadway
Louis W. Brotesbury
Simmons
Ward Prevents Use Of Park Pump House
The Board of Water Supply built a temporary pump station in Morningside Park near 121st Street as part of the Catskill Aqueduct. Commissioner Cabot Ward deemed it permanent and unsightly, refused a conduit permit, and demanded a definite removal timeline. The board argued Ward blocked progress, while Ward stood by his final denial until a timed plan is provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Water Supply
Morningside Park
121St Street
Cabot Ward
New York Times
Ward
Gutzon Borglum
Supreme Court
Edward R. Finch
Department of Parks
The
Municipal Art Commission
Justice Finch
Park Domain
Morningside Avenue
Piercy
Municipal Building
New York City
Shaft 11
Commissioner of
Arks
Art Commission
Manhattan
Richmond
Catskill Aqueduct
Charles Strauss
Serbian orphans detained face unclear fate at Ellis Island
Five Serbian orphan girls aged two and a half to twelve arrived on the Vasi less Constantinos and were held at Ellis Island pending Labor Department decision on their care. Officials provided limited details, noting private records were confidential and some guidance came from a Serbian nurse and an Athens export. Names given include Elizabeth Gruich, Yella Rakovich, Lubitza Velesatekvich, Liiia Karamfilivich, and Danitza Stoyanivich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellis Island
Vasiless Constantinos
America
Ellis
Island
Department of Labor
Athens
Alabama
Elizabeth Gruich
Yella Raykovich
Lubitza Velesatekvich
Liiia Karamfilivich
Danitza Stoyanivich
New York Society Targets Birth Control Pamphlets
Secretary John H Sumner of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice announced a campaign against birth control pamphlets. Stephen Kerr and Peter Marmer, both two years old, were held for trial in $1,000 bail after being arrested in Union Square for distributing the pamphlets to a crowd including school children. Emma Goldman Ben Reitman and others have been arrested by police, with society agents to continue patrols. Sumner argued there is a legitimate field for responsible discussion, but condemned the sales to youths and insisted on stricter action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John 8. Sumner
New York Society For the Suppression of Vice
Sumner
Aera
Stephen Kerr
Stebbins Avenue
The
Bronx
Peter Marmer
Emma Goldman
Ben Reitman
Salesman Henry Jacobs injured by falling street pole
Henry Jacobs of 221 East Fifteenth Street was removed to New York Hospital last night after a falling arc light pole from a near Fifth Avenue area struck him as a southbound bus skidded on a slick street. He suffered shock and contusions from the impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Jacobs
East Fifteenth Street
Fifth Avenue
New York Hospital
Eighteenth Street
Jacobs
Make July 4 Safe Plea to Governors Safeguard Lives
National Fire Prevention Committee meeting at City Club backs a plan to urge President Wilson to designate October 9 as National Fire Prevention Day. Governors nationwide urged to issue proclamations and enforce stricter fireworks rules to reduce Fourth of July deaths and injuries. Case studies show 1,862 deaths and 42,139 injuries over thirteen years from careless handling of fireworks. Newark and Syracuse cited as safe leaders. Kingsley to seek Wilson’s designation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Fire Prevention Committee
Safety First Federation of America
City Club
Whison
Chicago
William Guerin
New York Fire Department
Walter W. Nicholson
Safety
Syracuse
Thomas Ryan
Syracuse Fire Department
Stitt
New York City
Guerin
Pe Carder Reverss J. Es
Newark
Kingsley
Wilson
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Gaudier Brzeska
the Studio
Louise
Barnavaux
Soun Lane CO
New York
the Legion
Sy Edward Morlae
Tfe
Vereign Legion
A Co
E. 40Th St
Scribner
48Th Street
Murray Hills
Sram
Amali
Inc
John St
N.Y
John Cowper Powys
Arnold Shaw, Publ
West 96Th Street Pier
Commissioner Woods
Permanen
Water Department
Okie Bridge
City Hall Park
Department of State
Sinclair Spencer
Washington
By Natalie Sumner Lincoln
New York World
D. Appleton & Company, Publishers
By Hermann Fernau
New York Globe
E. P. Dutton & Company
Vice Society
Fire Prevention Federation
Wilson Willl
Safety Firet Federation
Federation
Commonwealth
England
Humphry Ward
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Soldier Boy
C. Lewis Hind
GC. P, Putnam's Sons
Iny New Library
Nature
Nature Library
Doubleday Page & CO
Garden City, L. L, N. Y
Garden City, L. L
N. Y
Ernest Hamilton
London Spectator
Wythe Williams
N. Y. Times
Herrick
Clemenceauc
Christian Mallet
New York Herald
M. Mallet
Boyd Cable
Action Front
Ag Englandae
E. P. Dutton & CO
Fifth Ave
Thomas Dixon
Amn
Erner
Everyman's
Blackmore
Lorna Doone
Dana
Dickens
Two Cities
Green
Pepys
Proteero
Shakespeare
Everyman’s Library
German Republic
Walter Wellman
E. P. Dutton
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