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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1909
Page
3
The Fifth Avenue Branch at 475 Fifth Avenue near 41st Street offers deposit accounts with interest. It acts as custodian of personal property and manager of real property, provides Travelers' Letters of Credit, foreign money and express checks, and vault boxes for customers.
The article discusses seasonal dress guidance focusing on a man in a serge suit, whether single or double breasted. It highlights fabric choices, timeless cuts, and the balance between classic tailoring and current style cues.
In the New York separation case of Mrs Viola Katherine Gould v Howard Gould, the defense rested without the husband taking the stand. Judge Dowling presided as witnesses including Capt Henry Bankhead and Alice Bankhead testified Mrs Gould showed refinement and no intoxication. The trial may finish by Wednesday or Thursday with Mrs Gould expected to testify again.
The Hudson Fulton Celebration Committee approved a large appropriation for an exhibition of airships and airplanes. William J. Ham mer will help plan the program and organizers hope the Wright brothers will join. The event aims to launch airships on the Hudson as models of Fulton’s steamboat and Hendrick Hudson’s Half Moon appear on the river.
United States District Attorney Henry A Wise will travel to Paris to examine witnesses in the Panama Canal libel case against The New York World. He plans to sail June 30 and stay about five weeks, aiming to press the Heinze matter swiftly during the Sanford Robinson demurrer argument.
In Children's Court Adolph Deutsch Sr and another father argued for word training over corporal punishment. Judge Olmsted insisted on a $2 fine or whipping for their sons for signaling to women and playing cards on a stoop. Deutsch paid the fine along with Samuel Green’s father. another father chose the strap.
Due to juror illness the Brandenburg case on grand larceny arising from a Times published article attributed to Grover Cleveland was postponed. Witness Hastings, executor of the Cleveland estate, testified for the defense and will be used later. Brandenburg visited a boarding house in Irving Place to review letters from Cleveland.
Health Commissioner's weekly report shows total deaths of 1,234, up 94 from last year but a lower rate due to population growth. Child deaths under 1 total 222, ages 2 to 5 reach 372, tenement deaths 546, scarlet fever 21. Tuberculosis deaths rise to 145 from 143. measles and diphtheria see small increases. Week’s death rate 14.10 versus 14.45 the prior year.
Salama Du Ghan of 261 West Eighteenth Street an Arabian photographer lin guist and tourist guide committed suicide Sunday morning by swallowing cyanide of potassium in a Fourteenth Street drug store cellar. He was once prosperous but financial reverses led to his death. In a letter to his wife he said he was tired of life and would die in peace. Born in Jerusalem he guided tourists in Palestine and spoke five languages. He had recently moved from upscale apartments to his Eighteenth Street home. A friend recalled his remark about life saying to the desert you sometimes meet with human kindness here never. The body went to Mercer Street Station and was claimed by relatives.
A canvas vestibule between two cars on the Chicago Fast Mail left Grand Central at 12:50 yesterday and caught fire between Eighty sixth Street Park Avenue and 116th Street. Passengers were alarmed and the train halted at 125th Street. Firemen and crew extinguished the blaze. the train resumed with about a fifteen minute delay. Damage was slight.
The Vaderland from Antwerp signals the Nantucket lightship has a disabled wireless system. While passing the lightvessel it hoisted flags asking the Vaderland to report the incident to Newport naval station.
Supreme Court Justice Guy grants John Vincent Smolensky of 223 East 100th Street and J. Harry Nicholson & Co. at 1 Madison Avenue permission to change his name to Smolen after July 24. He claims the current name interferes with business and causes embarrassment at public gatherings.
A Brown University committee reports in Providence on June 21 favoring elimination of denominational requirements in the charter for trustees, fellows, presidents, and faculty. It cites Carnegie Foundation benefits, but emphasizes broader aims to avoid religious tests, broaden eligibility, reduce public misperception, and align with modern age.
Oscar S. Straus ex Secretary of Commerce and Labor is recovering after an appendectomy performed Saturday morning in a relative’s apartment in New York. He had been staying with relatives in Long Branch and this city since leaving Washington. Doctors were uncertain of the diagnosis but the operation was successful and he is expected to be out within a week. His planned ambassadorship to Constantinople next month remains on schedule.
The Baptist Ministers' Conference of Chicago expelled Prof. George Burman Foster of the University of Chicago after a stormy session marked by hisses and shouting. The vote followed a clash over his denial of Christ's divinity and involved prominent figures including Rev. A. C. Dixon and Rev. Johnston Myers. The meeting ended with Foster officially dropped from the conference.
The People's University Extension Society in New York ran 23 free physical training classes for crippled children with over 350 enrolled, plus 96 manual and domestic classes for about 900 crippled youths and 24 for mentally defective children. Classes cover basketry, bookbinding, cooking, sewing, carpentry, and more. Donations to 105 East Seventeenth Street support the effort led by President Dr. Rossiter Johnson and Treasurer J Eugene Whitney.
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