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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1915
Page
5
Ex Governor John M Slaton and Mrs Minton depart Atlanta by Southern train to begin a trip to the West amid a tense scene with plainclothes guards and drifting protests. Governor Harris calls for an orderly end to demonstrations and urges Georgia to preserve the state’s honor.
Suffolk County Sheriff Charles J. Odell announced plans to assign deputies to investigate the Southampton home robbery of Sher wood Aldrich. A thief took a seventy one pearl necklace and a marquise diamond ring, with a reward posted by Lieber & Co. Jewelers. Aldrich, president of the Bay Consolidated Copper Company, stated he had no further comment.
Col Nathaniel B Thurston longtime fireman and president of their order was made an honorary officer of the Fire Department with the rank of Chief of Battalion to serve without pay He reported to Chief Kenton for assignment in recognition of decades of drill work and the fiftieth anniversary celebration Also named honorary officers include Dr Archer with Battalion Chief rank and Jerome Siegel and Robert Maizner as honorary officers without ranks
Dreadnought Wyoming is ordered to depart Brooklyn Navy Yard Thursday for Narragansett Bay to join other Atlantic Fleet vessels. Destroyers Warrington McCadlewan Hentham Drayton Balch Waike and Henley also move to Narragansett, with a separate course set for July 7.
Royal G Bird learned his eighteen year old brother Eugene W Bird had died at their parents home after a pneumonia and tuberculosis battle. Coach Charles Courtney had asked his death be kept secret until after the race to avoid affecting the crew. Eugene had attended De Witt Clinton High School previously.
Mrs Alfred J Eno head of the Queens County Woman Suffrage Party reports a large suffrage banner disappeared from the Fulton Street headquarters in Jamaica Queens. The banner was last seen Sunday afternoon at 4 and only the Eno couple held keys to the second floor offices. Detective Sergeant White investigated possible anti suffrage involvement.
Valerie Demon de Blois sues Ferdinand Pinney Earles’ brother William P S Earle a Fifth Avenue photographer in Brooklyn Supreme Court for divorce. Sumons served at Flatbush moving picture studio. Wife, daughter of Julia de Blois of Brooklyn, alleges affinity rumors fueled public chatter.
Bernard Heilfeld, a 62 year old resident of 2386 Cornelia Street Ridgewood Queens, died yesterday by self inflicted gunshot wound to the temple while alone in his dining room. His daughters Martha and Charlotte Heilfeld found him after returning from work about 6 PM.
In Passaic New Jersey on June 21 Paul Basket a youth seen on a feed store roof hurled a bomb toward Annie Barnes after she refused his marriage proposal. The device exploded causing roof damage but no severe injuries. Basket held on $5000 bail on attempted murder charges after confessing and admitting he made the crude bomb.
William Passe, 56 Westervelt Avenue New Brighton S I and an Inspector of Licenses died Sunday night after swallowing his false teeth while coughing. He was married.
Washington reported a dispute between Army and Navy legal chiefs over whether officers can resign in peace time. Brig Gen Crowder says War Secretary must accept proffered resignations, while Capt Ridley McLean argues Navy Secretary has discretionary power to accept or reject. Secretary Daniels has often declined resignations. Attorney General decision awaited.
Citizens reported seeing an aeroplane above the Essex County Jail as William Lafler, held for armory dynamiting, faced possible transfer. The Sandwich Company of the 21st Essex Fusiliers mobilized, with Captain F E Lovegrove in command. Witnesses said the craft hovered for about fifteen minutes before heading toward Detroit. Governor Harmon requested a military guard at the jail.
A car carrying Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Miller and three others plunged from a bridge into the Connecticut River canal near Turner’s Falls Massachusetts. Mr. Miller drowned while Mrs. Miller died soon after of shock. Miss Edna Locke and the younger Miller escaped uninjured. The guard rail was missing amid construction on the bridge at night.
Charles R. Knight, the artist, finishes a fifty foot long preliminary study for a four panel mural decoration at the American Museum of Natural History. Funded by J. P. Morgan, the work portrays Pleistocene climate and fauna in Europe with vivid color and expressive reconstructions.
Mayor Mitchel appointed Morris Koenig Edgar V Frothingham and O Grant Esterbrook as City Magistrates. Koenig a deputy district attorney and brother to Republican County Chairman Samuel S Koenig faced criticism as a political appointment though backed by senior jurists. Frothingham former Manhattan Public Works Commissioner will take over for J A L Campbell and Esterbrook Vice Chairman of the Board of Aldermen fills the expired Kempner seat.
Dr Elizabeth Hamilton Muncie of Brooklyn told members of the American Institute of Homeopathy in Chicago that indiscriminate raising of children fills the world with the unfit and endangers national stamina. She urged remedial legislation and physician authority to guide family size, arguing current law blocks necessary family limitation.
Dr. Charles Hendricks former physician and friend of actress Laura Biggar filed in Jersey City before Vice Chancellor John Kiffin an objection to Biggar paying 2500 dollars in counsel fees to A J Leonard. Leonard billed under an agreement with Biggar, while Hendricks argued 150 dollars would suffice. The suit referenced prior Bennet estate litigation and a 30000 dispute over alienation of affection. The matter’s decision was reserved.
M. J. Gratsch of 540 West 14th Street New York City was sentenced to one year in the State Prison by Judge Haights in the United States District Court in Newark for concealing the assets of a bankrupt. Gratsch and Ansey Birnbaum of Bayonne ran a Nassau Street jewelry business. about $10 000 of assets disappeared. Birnbaum testified as a witness after pleading non vult, and Gratsch was sentenced while Birnbaum remains unsentenced.
Miss Minnie Smith of Jersey City, visiting sister Mrs. Annie Biegel at 272 Irving Avenue Williamsburg, was hospitalized at German Hospital with bichloride or mercury poisoning. Police say she attended a picnic Sunday with a young man and returned in a very low state, her groans waking Mrs. Biegel after midnight.
A historical clipping lists multiple individuals associated with the Parisian garment trade. Names include Agnes Beer Buzenet Jeanne Lanvin Margaine Lacroin and others, reflecting a roster or roster-like mention within the couture sector. The text presents a sequence of surnames and given names without narrative context.
Countt Judge James I. Niemann suspended sentence for Ruth Taylor Conlin and Donald Clapham who pleaded guilty to burglaries from summer homes in Sea Cliff. The judge cited family physicians notes of mental handicap and possible weakness influenced by nervous relatives. He advised enlistment for the boy and noted navy scrutiny for all applicants despite wealth or backing.
A mob in Watchung Avenue Plainfield drives out a band of Holy Jumpers after a tent meeting. Speakers flee to a drug store. Patrolman Browner helps one escape on a trolley. He is lightly injured by a stone. Woman protesters escape un harmed.
Staten Island opened baby week yesterday at the milk station in Stapleton. More than one mother brought babies to compete for two prizes as physicians from the Bureau of Child Hygiene examined infants and prepared records for judges. The top two babies to be named Thursday. Tomorrow the Health Department will take 1,000 mothers and their children on an excursion up the Hudson River.
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