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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1918
Page
3
At a regional conference the American Association urged heightened support for civilian hospitals. Delegates warned neglect of civilian medical facilities could harm national health and war effort, calling for sustained funding and policy action.
Delegates from the American Red Cross War Service Committees met at the Academy of Medicine yesterday to press federal health authority support for civilian hospital needs during wartime. The proposals include federal direction for medical education, extended training for students of medicine, nursing and allied fields, and coordination of surveys by government and private agencies to ensure medical manpower for both civilian and military needs.
Peter William Ostrander, oldest member of the Kings County Bar, had funeral services at St Pauls Protestant Episcopal Church in Brooklyn after dying at his home on Woodruff Avenue. Born November 1829 in Manhattan, he practiced law in Manhattan, helped found the Brooklyn Light Club and the Republican Party, served in the Civil War, and aided in erecting the Bull Run battlefield monument.
Notice from Martin Conboy director of the draft for New York City details registration for men who turn 21 between June 5 1917 and June 5 1918. Registrants must act by June 5 1918 with 7 am to 9 pm local board hours or send cards to the board or mayor or county clerk. All registrants must identify their local board and register. failure carries a misdemeanor and possible immediate induction.
National Coal Week begins with a push for New York residents to order next winter's coal by next Saturday. Officials say delivery unknown and current supply insufficient. About 90 percent have ordered, but less than 20 percent delivered. two thirds now and the rest later follow first come, first served.
John Aloysius Connolly a noted ship designer behind the Grand Republic and ill fated General Slocum died Sunday at his home 99 Kent Street Brooklyn He was born November 5 1880 at 64 Prince Street Apprenticed to a shipbuilder he became chief designer then set up an independent business on Greenpoint shore His works include gunboats Seneca Chenango Adirondack for Hudson River Line and most early Fall River Line craft He served Brooklyn as supervisor and alderman and was a Presidential elector for Grover Cleveland He is survived by three daughters three sons and eight grandchildren.
Thomas H. Bacon a prominent horseman and longtime Nassau Queens Fair official died at his home. Born April 8, 1844 in Flatbush he served on the New York State Public Association executive committee and was general manager and treasurer of the Nassau Queens Fair at Mineola for 35 years. Survived by his widow two daughters and a son.
Financial and educational officials will meet next Monday to discuss funding higher salaries for teachers. President Somer and Mayor Hylan support a 1,000 minimum, affecting about 7,000 teachers and increasing annual outlays. Debate focuses on fair distribution, balancing younger teachers’ gains with experienced staff.
Miss Annie Gilbert daughter of Mrs Riley Miles Gilbert married Donald Fairfax Cammann son of Mr and Mrs Henry J Cammann yesterday afternoon at her mother's home on Park Avenue The Rev Dr Tirne t M Stires of St Thomas Church performed the ceremony Frank Lyon Polk Counselor of the State Department gave the bride away A reception followed and the couple will reside at Lawrence, Kansas for the summer.
Vanderbilt and Nay Baker, whose engagement was announced last week, will wed on Wednesday afternoon June 12 at Homewood Villa Lenox Massachusetts. Baker will arrive from Washington and they will apply for a marriage license at the town clerk’s office. Honeymoon begins at Mrs Vanderbilt’s lodge on Racquetin Lake Adirondacks.
Miss Ellen W Warren to wed Danforth Geer Jr son of Mr and Mrs Danforth Geer of this city. Warren a granddaughter of the late William Windom once Secretary of the Treasury in Garfield and Harrison cabinets. Geer graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School and is now serving in the Legal Service of the Ordnance Department in Washington.
Boxes for the Metropolitan Opera House Navy Music Festival to be held next Monday will be auctioned Thursday at the Japanese tea garden in the Ritz Carlton. Mme France Alda directs the event with hostesses including Mrs Oliver Harriman and Mrs E T Stotesbury. A notable feature is a group of society women posed by Ben Ali Haggin in gray, with lists of prominent names in attendance. Caruso John McCormack and Lt. John Philip Sousa will perform, Francis Crwninshield acts as auctioneer with help from stage celebrities.
Representatives of the New York Allied Electric Light and Power companies appeared before the Public Service Commission and announced they would maintain the seven cent per kilowatt hour rate for six months despite war conditions. They disclosed a revenue drop of $941,664 in the first four months of the year and indicated a prior practice of tungsten lamp pricing would end with new tariff sheets. The commission accepted the proposal, allowing the rate to continue with a review later.
Plays and players shift across houses with John Charles Thomas leading a special cast for Chicago. Dolly Sisters stay with Elliott Comstock Gest for three more years and join Oh Look with Harry Fox next edition. A war fund testimonial enlists notable figures at Gristerion Theatre June 1. Lambs hold rehearsals for the Ladies Public Gambol at Hudson Theatre with weight notes for entrants. seat auction postponed to June 7 at Belasco.
Columbia University trustees announced the annual Pulitzer prizes totaling nine thousand dollars for journalism. Minna Lewinson and Harold A. Littledale shared a thousand dollars for best public service history by the American press. The Times won a gold medal for public service. Other journalism awards went to The Louisville Courier Journal and Marcia A. Littledate for editorials and reporting. Additional prizes include one thousand dollars for American novels, plays, and US history, awarded to Ernest Poole, Jesse Lynch Williams, James Ford Rhodes, and William Cabell Brice, with music scholarships to Samuel Gardner and Bushan M. Rusiteh. Prizes will be awarded tomorrow during Commencement Day ceremonies following Columbia College class day events.
The American Yvette Guilbert title fits Trene Franklin who writes her own costumes and has her husband compose and play piano. Her Palace songs this week include Santa Claus a child’s view, Red Head and You're Passing Through. Sophie Tucker plus Seabury and Shaw acts, Georgy MeKas Ottley Ardone and Maxine Brotha are billed with violin and piano numbers. vaudeville features continue.
The Colonial Alanx Morton bill features Miss Morton performing “The Soul of Pocahontas” with chorus and piano while Bust Rarle and the Purrell-Taylor Company back her. The program includes banjoist Burt Kerio and a group of young female performers on saxophone violin and piano. Other acts include Marie Fite gibbon, Pollard company, Hugh Herbert with Sam Fries and Sam Rose, Artie Mehlinger and George Meyer, Permane and Shelley, and Edward Marshall the chalk artist.
Getting Together drew a capacity crowd at the Shubert Theatre last night as a nervous audience voiced strong patriotism during the recruiting drama. Blanche Bates and Hobrook Blinn starred in the March production, joined by American, English and French soldiers who saw service at the front, provoking wild applause at a dramatic moment. The play, written by Beith Hartley Manners Percival King and Claude Bastock, has widely boosted recruiting during its tour.
The Park Theatre screens Stolen Orders a William Brady melodrama featuring Montagu Love and Kitty Gordon with Elvidge and Blackwell as leads, plus a tale of stolen papers and a Kaiser’s intrigue. The Model's Confession follows as a stronger feature at Broadway, with Mary MacLaren and Edna Earle in a mystery about a model heiress and a cliff scene reveal.
John R Mott outlined a $100 million fundraising goal for next autumn to sustain the Y M C A war effort. The organization reports one quarter of its 850 huts in Picardy and Flanders have fallen to German forces, with funds used to build new huts and support 215,000 overseas personnel and 2,088 home secretaries.
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