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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
2
Professor Abby Leach of Vassar College receives a rare honor from the Mikado of Japan. The imperial custom grants cups of gold, silver, or lacquer to those they wish to honor, a distinction seldom accorded to an American woman.
A solid gold cup presented by the Mikado through Viscount Kaneko honors Professor Abby Leach of Vassar for services to education. The cup arrives wrapped in Hakutai silk with a chrysanthemum box, engraved with the imperial emblem, reflecting imperial recognition from Japan.
The Barnard Chapter of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society held its second open meeting with Moffett, former editor of The Bricklayers Journal, arguing against socialism. Despite anti socialist aims the audience largely supported socialist views as outsiders from Columbia raised quotes from socialist texts. The lively debate featured Christian socialists aligning with Columbia and intense exchanges over democracy, labor unions, and regulation.
A shopper can find miniature French court portraits in gold filigree, lace pin cushions priced around 65 dollars, and artistic calendars like the Zuyder Zee series. Imitation ferns baskets sell for 22 dollars, with a 97 dollar lace and table cover noted as a premium gift in a 23rd Street shop.
Don’t eat too much editor’s advice. Overeating and overdrinking invite diseases and infections. If one exceeds intake, best to stay in the open air until effects pass. Fresh air is recommended for a loaded stomach. The Pickwick group’s long walks are cited as a remembered cure.
Richmond detectives recover jewels lost by Mrs Sue W in a Pullman sleeper on the Coast Line. The thief Tucker, held on suspicion, claims he found the jewel case in Bire Busk’s berth and hid it under his house awaiting reward. The case valued at about 0 pounds is involved in the inquiry.
Miss Ethel M Arnold spoke on The Religious Novel at the League for Political Education. She linked modern Catholicism’s drift, the rise of modernism in England and Italy, and the fading hold of the Church to state support. She contrasted Lambeth with the Vatican and foreseeing a faith in each blade of grass as civilization shifts. She will share memories of her grandfather Dr Thomas Arnold of Rugby Wednesday.
The Mount Loretto Messenger for November is printed on a real press, a distinction for a journal usually typewritten. It honors the silver jubilee of Mount Loretto on Staten Island, recounting Father Drumgoole’s founding moves from Warren Street to Lafayette and Great Jones, then to Staten Island, notes the first Thanksgiving at Mount Loretto twenty five years ago, and features poems by old boys including Thomas J. Reynolds with lines about the graveyard and the founders. Reverend Father Dougherty and Father Drumgoole are highlighted as guiding minds and hands.
A softly draped waist design praised for versatility across materials. The illustration uses soft katins with heavy lace, but it also suits chiffon crepe de chine marquisette and similar fabrics. It features a Directoire sash and a close fitting short silhouette.
Advertises pattern No 6,181 for a draped evening waist with sleeves. Details fabric needs for sizes bust 32 to 40 inches and lace and appliqué quantities. Pattern mailed to any address on 10 cents, extra 2-cent stamp for letter mail. Pattern Department New York Tribune.
Miss Mary G. Pinkney ranked as the top taxpayer in arrears, owning sixty five parcels with unpaid realty taxes dating back to 1885. Tax officials say the estate paid a large sum to avoid an arrears sale, as area land values surged, and expect Executors to settle remaining debts.
Justice Marean in Nassau Supreme Court Mineola ordered the case heard before a referee. Mrs. Foxhall Keene and Foxhall Keene agreed to private hearings with referee H Selden Weller of Jamaica. Neither party appeared in court and no date was given for the hearings.
Mrs. Alice Crowinnshield Rogers Pierce, once wed to Thomas W. Pierce, freed after four weeks in Connecticut sanatoriums. Adele Ritchie and lawyers pressed habeas corpus. Dr Homer Gibney signed release papers. In Norwalk Probate Court Pierce promised not to sue those who confined her. She left for New York with Ritchie.
Berlin December 9 The weekly return of the Imperial Bank of Germany shows cash on hand down 18 563 000 marks loans down 13 164 000 discounts down 16 786 000 treasury bills up 21 932 000 notes in circulation down 21 151 00 marks deposits down 8 754 00 marks
A large Audubon Park section bought by Max Marx Sonn Brothers and Adolph Bendheim was resold. The Marx syndicate sold to Fleischmann Brothers a block front on Broadway between 156th and 157th streets. Buyer plans two high class elevator apartments. Other trades included Fifth Avenue retail shop activity and multiple Manhattan building plans filed, including six story flats on First Street and a $75,000 flat house on First Street East of Broadway.
The 50 by 99.11 foot vacant plot at 529 and 31 West 158th street sold at Real Estate Exchange rooms to George D Judson for 21750, with about 16300 due. Other offerings include multifamily and office buildings across Manhattan, listing amounts due, taxes, and mortgage subjections, with further auctions planned for today.
Real estate brokers report extensive leasing across Manhattan. James L. Libby for Metropolitan Life leases three stores at East 23d Street to J Jungmann Inc. Bourne & Co. take Wall Street Exchange Place offices, Humane Society rents Fulton Chambers space, Heuer estate sublets Chambers Street store to Gustav Keppler, Shoninger Building offices leased for Shoninger Brothers, plus 50,000 square feet at Grand Street for Dobson group. Other deals include 10,000 square feet at West 14th Street and 5,000 square feet at East 12th Street. complete rent of 18-20 West 21st Street building.
Samuel Weil purchased from the Marsh estate the three story building at the southwest corner of Canal and Greenwich streets. The plot measures 23.11 by 30.4 feet and Weil already owns an adjoining parcel, expanding his downtown holdings.
Frederick Zittel sold for George Macculloch Miller the four story dwelling at 12 West 0th Street on a 200 by 100 foot lot. Rich and Brand sold for Gans and Altman the five story tenement at 253 Stanton Street on a 25 by 76 foot lot opposite Hamilton Wish Park near Sheriff Street. HG Senior and Co. completed a sale for Tooh Realty.
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