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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1916
Page
3
A collage of notes on free verse, literary misreads, and Benedictine musings. It cites Joseph Conrad Nostromo letters, counts Har Ris Merton Lyon’s death, and mocks Senator Newlands critique of Brandeis. A running quip on Justice Hughes and a British sea dominance reference conclude the item.
Engagements and upcoming weddings fill the social page. Margaret A. Thompson of Yonkers and St. Paul broker Theodore Schulze with Yale ties. Elinor Bulkeley to John Avery Ingersoll. multiple ceremonies planned at Newport and local country places. Fieldston Red Cross spring festival to feature dances and costumes.
One hundred and Mitty newspoys attend the annual woman suffrage baseball game between the Giants and Cinemas at the Polo Grounds. They ride from Park Row, cheer loudly, and hope to sway at least 500 converts to the cause while wearing orange and blue sashes. After the game they return for pies and chops.
Miss Pauline Wilber Class, daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Glass, marries Edgar Stanley Clark at the Apthorp Apartments Broadway and Seventy-ninth Street. Rev Dr Charles J Goodell officiates. After a reception they go to Canada and plan to reside at Seventh Avenue and 126th Street.
Miss Helen Morgan Hamilton will wed Police Commissioner Arthur Woods in St. Luke's Chapel Sterlington on Saturday June 10 with Bishop Rhinelander officiating. Attendants include Elizabeth Sehuyl Hamilton flower girl and Pierpont N Hamilton as best man. Bride’s brothers and ushers, plus nineteen police inspectors led by Chief Inspector Max Schmittberger, will travel by special train to Sterlington.
The Stevens Institute of Technology alumni in Hoboken heard member Ernest Peabody advocate universal military service as President Alexander Humphreys announced the institute showed its first surplus, $80,000, against last year’s $20,000 deficit. Humphreys urged $1,000,000 for new laboratories and workshops.
At 82 Bayard Street Anna Bartone seven wheeled a three month old cousin Michael in a baby carriage when the run away cart rolled into a horse drawn express. The infant died from suffocation while the girl suffered a crushed toe after a failed rescue attempt. Bystanders failed to halt the carriage before the horse struck.
Burglars forced entry to 162 West 121st Street afternoon, removing plated silverware and valuables. After a thorough search they set fire to the dwelling, escaping across a neighboring roof. flames were contained before reaching upper floors, leaving bureaus, furniture, and carpets showing the thorough search.
The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage released the Chicago conven tion agenda set for June 6 8 at Blackstone Theatre Miss Maudy Younger of California to open as temporary chairwoman Lucy Burns will present the Democratic record on suffrage Ida Finney Mackrille of Sacramento will speak on the political outlook A large New York group led by Mrs Robert Adamson and Mrs O H P Belmont will attend Maryland Virginia and PA delegations will join Only equal suffrage state women may vote at the convention The aim is to push the Federal suffrage amendment through Congress in the current session not to sway any party by itself
National Guard ends a thirty day drive reporting 2176 enlisted with remaining returns expected to meet the 3000 member goal. Officials say no peace time accumulation has matched this scale.
Bernstorff's goods arrive at Rye and household effects of Court von Torf are being installed in the Bender house, to serve as the German Embassy headquarters this summer. The ambassador and staff are due in a few days. A second house on the Boston Post Road is rented for an office, and a nearby small building rises as a telegraph office. Several senior attaches will be housed in the Cowles Inn in Milton.
Three thousand invitations issued for Monday program at Windsor Irving High School presenting Constance D Arcy Macys Pageant of Sunshine and Shadow under the National Child Labor Committee. Girls prepared pageant, printed programmes and made their own costumes.
Haven June 2 Mrs Johanna Gadski attracted protests from Yale graduates as she led the Yale Bowl rehearsal of Die Walkure for an open air production next week. Other stars including Ernestine Schumann Heink and Meinhard Kurt arrived with a 100 member Met orchestra. Kronberg directs staging and acoustics while Bodanzky leads rehearsals. Cost is projected over 100000 with a large crowd expected and direct sightlines for all spectators.
Dr F W Gunsaulus, president of Armour Institute in Chicago, declares the Middle West the heart and soul of preparedness. He cites a $600000 Armour gift for chemistry research and natural resource conservation and urges technical schools to help rebuild world energy on an American foundation.
National Republican delegates and alternates from New Jersey will depart Sunday afternoon from Penn Station at 2 05 pm on the Panhandle Express. Stops include Milker Street Newark 2 20 pm Elizabeth 2 55 pm and Trenton 3 26 pm with South Jersey delegates boarding in Philadelphia. Newton A. K Bughee Hamilton F. Kean and Ian Bacharach are among those traveling. They expect to reach Chicago by 8 00 o clock Monday evening.
Barnard College seniors staged Dust Mad or Hermes and the Shepherdess a pastoral masque in Millbank Quadrangle last evening. Katherine McGiffert wrote the piece with Ruth Salem providing music. Florence Gerrish directed the production and Helen Smith choreographed the dances.
Sixty five men and women who attended the Panama Missionary Congress gathered for a reunion dinner at the Hotel St Denis. Delegates spoke on cooperation of Protestant churches in the United States and Canada with South American Protestants. Speakers included Rev Oldham Rev Inman Rev Barnes Rev Halve Joseph F McAfee Harry Wade and James H Post. Three men were buried after a sulphur vat accident at the National Sulphur Company plant in Brooklyn Frank Engen 24 fell into boiling sulphur. John McFadden and Patrick Smith were also buried. Engen died later at Williamsburg Hospital.
Yale announces Otto T. Bannard renominated without opposition to continue on the Yale Corporation. The annual election will occur during commencement week, reflecting alumni praise for his six years of service. The season in New York closes soon with The Wire Parable in Forty fourth Street Theatre concluding after a long run since August.
Princeton New Jersey June 2 the senior council today elected nine juniors to serve next year half the council will be new members Captain Hogg Moore Cochran were among the selections The list includes Alvin Behrer Robert A Cochranville Sam Dempsey Charles Donahoe Frank Trevor Hogs Norris D Jackson Alexander L McKaig William Moore and George W York all from various cities and colleges
The Kehillah Jewish Community convention starts this evening at the Hebrew Trade School for Girls in New York. It will run through Sunday. Dr J L Magnes, president, will preside. Delegates are expected to attack Jacob Schiff’s remarks on Jews in Russia and a contest over eliminating delegates of the Jewish Committee from Kehillah affairs. Louis Marshall heads the American Jewish Committee.
At Port Chester the Suffragists in session moved a record yes on Senator George A. Slater's proposal to require military training for schoolboys. Mrs. J H Watkins presided as district leader with officers elected including Mrs J J Watkins Miss Adelaide Joan Katonah and Mrs George Huntington Rye treasurer Mrs E W Moore White Plains secretary Mrs Roswald Tripp Rye and other educators and press staff named. Addresses were given by Mrs Carl Osterheld Yonkers and Mrs Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hi
The will of Mrs. Anna Louise Garland, lost when the steamer Arabic was sunk by a U boat, was filed yesterday at the Surrogates Court. She died August 10, 1915, in England. The will bequeaths $20,000 to the Ax vetution for Improving the Conditio nf the Poor and $15,000 to the Children's Nid Locks, with other personal effects to the Protestant Episcopal Mission Se at. Her residuary estate is left to the Society for the Relief of the Rup tized and Crippled to establish a trust in her name.
Clarence C Minzesheimer died May 4 2010 and left an estate appraised at 1111. Debts reported in the transfer tax appraisal in the Surrogates Court total 78249. The largest debt is 60000 to the firm he helped found and of which he was a member. He served as a director of Nevada Smelting and Mines Corporation and other companies. He died after an operation for appendicitis.
Dick Ralph, veteran minstrel man famed for laughing eleven years onto life, died at his home in Rockville Center at seventy one from cancer. Though retired years ago, he still enjoyed playing the banjo and entertaining friends until illness forced his end.
Stephen M Griswold eighty years old former State Senator died suddenly at his home 787 Carroll Street Brooklyn yesterday. Survived by wife a son one grandson granddaughter and nine nephews. Funeral at his home tomorrow 3:30 PM. Born Windsor Connecticut came to Brooklyn at sixteen became a jeweler and banker. Plymouth Church member sixty years and active in Civil War days. Recalled auctioning a slave girl from the pulpit with Hoecher as auctioneer money and jewelry poured in until shortly after.
A fragment lists events at major institutions including the American Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art. It mentions zoological park, gardens, fashion show, and various exhibits with unclear dates and venues. The text reads like a mangled calendar of attractions and performances with several distorted proper nouns.
A community drive raised 1500 dollars, exceeding the needed amount by 300 dollars. Mr Wold, accompanied by friend Mark Tai, led a group of supporters on a trip later incorporated in efforts by Innocents who participated actively in Brooklyn.
Harris Merton Lyon, short story writer and magazine editor, died yesterday at 31 West 135th Street. Born December 22, 1883 in Santa Fe New Mexico, he graduated from the University of Missouri where he founded a Short Story Club. He later worked in newspaper circles in Western cities before moving to New York eight years ago to join The Broadway Magazine and remained as assistant editor after its conversion to Hamptons. His fiction appeared in Reedy's Mirror and in Smart Set, The Red Book, The Blue Book, and The Green Book. Two volumes of his work, Graphics and Sartonics, were published, and his tale The Weaver Who Clad Summer appears in The Best Short Stories of 1918. He kept a home on a Connecticut farm, with winters spent elsewhere. survived by his wife and one child.
John K. Stewart, inventor of the Stewart speedometer and head of the Stewart Warner company, died suddenly in his apartment at 12 East Eighty-seventh Street. He left a wife and two children and headed several manufacturing firms including Chi cas Flexible and Chicago Die Casting Machinery. He had bought Beloit’s Warner Speedometer for about 1 750 000 dollars and divided summers between New York and Altadena California while planning a Centreport New York home and a new speedometer factory in Lily adjacent to the Ford plant.
David S. Stewart eighty three died at his son's Brooklyn home. He served twenty eight years on the Old City of Brooklyn Board of Aldermen and was its last president. Funeral Monday at St Patrick's Church. He started as shipbuilder then entered Republican politics, was alderman in 1870, and long active in real estate at 14 Court Street. He leaves two sons ten grandchildren four great grandchildren and two brothers.
Frederick C Breakspear a pioneer in athletic goods died suddenly in Chicopee Falls on Thursday night. He joined Peck Snyder in 1875 rising to wholesale manager, later headed A Ge Ring & Bron Chicopee Falls factory, and served as president of the local Manufacturers' Association. He died in office at age around 60s.
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