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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1914
Page
5
The Brooklyn Store at Loeser’s invites shoppers to take advantage of mid June events with a notable sale tomorrow offering summer outfitting bargains.
The season's clean-up from a maker of Boys' Suits, long sold at the Loeser Store, features handsome sailors, Russian blouse styles, middys, Dutch Suits and novelty models in white and colors. A fine variety of materials for 2 to 4 grade suits, a good-luck chance of the summer in boys' clothes. Don't miss it.
An advertisement touts a full size hammock with steel spring and cotton wool stuffed mattress priced at $7.50 with folding iron stand and other couch ham mocks offered without stands from $6.75 to $24.50. Adjustable wind shield and galvanized chains are highlighted as features.
Many families send winter garments for storage. Bachelors can secure moth, fire, and theft protection at a moderate charge. Call Fur Storage or request a wagon call to see how little it costs for safe care of your wardrobes.
The piece notes stripes dominate women's fashion in many forms from tunics and gowns to suits and dresses. It lists stripe widths and blending styles, and mentions fabrics such as crepes voiles ginghams perales challis mohair serges in colors from gray to bold Roman stripe tones.
Bags of all sorts from inexpensive matting to real seal pigskin or alligator. Matting Oxford Bags one dollar. Light and neat grass suit cases two dollars. Strongly made twenty four inch leather suit cases five dollars. Russet and brown cowhide twenty four or twenty six inch cases.
Elbow length white and black silk gloves with double tipped fingers offered at a very low price for such quality and style.
Traveler's conveniences include photograph frames priced from $1.29 to $3.75 in a stiff case for one to three pictures. Also stiff folding cases from 59c to $2.25. Jewel cases of leather with moire silk lining and velvet, spring catch and lock. Grain rou sse leather priced around $2.50.
Fraulein Bruinhilde Wilden a 20 year old daughter of wealthy parents faces a murder charge in Elberfeld. She says the death of Dr Nettelbeck was an accident and that her second fiancé Dr Nolten bought the revolver and coached her in its use.
The hospital ship Maine, a gift to Britain from American women, ran aground in the Firth of Lorne on Scotland’s west coast during fog. Many patients were aboard and evacuated to other vessels by wireless alert. The vessel, attached to Britain’s home fleet, had served in the South African war and in China during the Boxer uprising.
The Dominican Government calls for the immediate withdrawal of American Consul Frank Anderson Henry at Puerto Plata, accusing him of siding with the revolution. U S officials say Henry, in service two years, has not been found to have violated duties. Naval reports note tensions as Dominican forces threaten no firing into neutral waters.
French columns under Generals Baumgarten and Gouraud, after four days of hard fighting at Oudja, dispersed the Riata tribe. The action left hundreds of tribesmen killed or wounded while French losses were eleven killed and fifty-three wounded.
June 17 dispatch reports Mussulman insurgents attacking Durazzo repulsed. Albanian forces and other troops on outlying hills claim victory after fierce fighting.
London reports the Commons approved a resolution for the Admiralty to invest 11 million dollars in the Anglo Persian Oil Company. Winston Churchill argued oil supplies must be secured at fair prices amid global trusts. The plan aims to prevent the ring of Shell Royal Dutch and Standard Oil dominance, with oil powering many ships. The vote passed 254 to 18.
Leut Gran of the Norwegian Navy and Scott Antarctic expedition fame intends a Scotland to Norway crossing of over 300 miles in an ordinary Beirut monoplane equipped with air cushions. The craft, buoyant enough to stay afloat for twenty four hours if it enters the sea, may take to the air at night when winds subside.
In London on June 17 a group of suffragettes parading with sandwich boards were attacked by a crowd of working girls in Whitehall. Two militants were knocked down and others were badly treated. A second militant chained herself to the Duke of Wellington statue at the Royal Exchange and urged businessmen to intervene for imprisoned women before police removed her amid boos.
White Wolf the brigand and about 1,000 followers elude a 5,000 strong pursuit after breaking the circle of troops surrounding Lily Mountain, 100 miles south of Lan-Chow. The Christian and Missionary Alliance in New York confirmed Kan-Su stations were rioted but missionaries are safe.
Special Cable to Tup New York Times reports painter Sir Francis Powell age 81 marrying Annie McNab age 23 in Glasgow. Powell is President of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolors and tied the knot with a household servant, daughter of a gardener, before the Sheriff.
Court sessions reveal Storstad officers claim Empress reversed toward them while the Storstad held course. Captain Andersen and crew emphasize fog limits and misjudgments as the collision occurs with both ships in close proximity and Empress allegedly stationary.
Special to The New York Times from Quebec reports divers from the British cruiser Essex, with Admiralty consent, have been sent to Rimouski to use a specially fitted diving apparatus. They aim to recover additional bodies from the submerged liner Feimpress of Ireland as the official inquiry resumes.
Paris show by the Boston Opera Company in aid of Empress of Ireland victims drew a brilliant audience. President Poincaré was absent, represented by his household officials, with ambassadors from the United States Germany and Britain in attendance.
Paris endures storm devastation with sixty feet of Rue de Belleville sidewalk giving way. Rescue workers pull two children from a Place Saint Philippe du Roule pit and extract a man from the Rue du Havre wreckage after hours of digging. Hats and umbrellas found, two tied to missing persons.
Major Julien Felix who led the aeroplane depot at Chartres died testing a new self righting aircraft. At sixty feet the craft tipped and plunged to the ground. cause unknown though engine was reportedly stopped to test gliding. Felix organized the Moroccan aviation squadron and had recent successful tests.
Christie’s will auction 282 letters by Admiral Nelson to Lady Nelson from 1785 to 1800. The collection, not fully published, includes many references to Emma Lady Hamilton after the Aboukir battle and the estrangement that followed. The cache passed to Lady Nelson’s cousin and was sent to Christie’s by A. J. Webbe.
At Christie's London on June 17, buyers paid strong sums for tapestries porcelain and furniture from Arthur Maitland Wilson Sir Luke Fildes R A the late Capt Ernie Warriner and others. Top bidding reached 25200 for a Kang-Hé beaker with landscape motifs and 23100 for a similar cylindrical beaker. Other notable sales included a seventeen th century Brussels tapestry panel 18900 and a pair of Kang He porcelain pieces 4830, with additional Chelsea vases and panels completing the auction.
A catalog of decorative pieces with prices lists Watteau subjects on a blue ground, Dresden beakers and vases with coastal and hunting scenes, Louis XV marqueterie tables and bureaux, a Ludwigsburg dinner service of 237 pieces, Louis XVI commode, Delft vanes, and several Flemish tapestry panels. Prices range from 1,040 to 4,725 dollars.
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