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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
10
An old style veranda luncheon emphasizes homegrown foods and simple decor. A pineapple strawberry centerpiece leads into cream of spinach soup, salmon cutlets with tartare sauce, cottage cheese, and a clover hunt with a four-leaf treasure prize.
A reception at the Pelham Manor Clubhouse featured Mrs. Hazen's school pupils presenting As You Like It. The decor used blossoms and greens, costumes were pretty, scenic effects notable, and the show drew many prominent local residents.
Knettel at No 1 East Thirtieth Street announces a limited time sale offering $75 suits for $5. The offer includes golf, wheel, and pedestrian costumes with high quality cloths, refined finsish and meticulous workmanship highlighted by the tailor.
The Long Island Women's Council gathers Saturday at Long Beach with welcomes by Mrs. Mary Haight and Miss Elizabeth Brenton. Speakers cover civic life ethics patriotism home life industrial training settlement work and related topics. Luncheon runs 12:30 to 2:39 p.m. musical interludes featured by local clubs.
Chic summer styles feature a four-brooch shirt waist set and a bathing wig in Angora hair with waterproof caps. Silk mousseline boas, Persian chamelion ta f ta jackets, four yard crépe de chine sashes, and velvet bow sets offer varied decorative options for neckline and waistlines, enhancing outfits with small flowers and tiny ornaments.
The New York State Teachers Association plans its annual convention in Buffalo the first week of July with a July 1 start for New York City teachers. A Niagara Falls excursion is planned and the program emphasizes teaching methods, courses of study, and social gatherings with discussions on grading, school management, natural history, manual training, psychology, and commercial education. Members or renewals should contact treasurer W. H. Benedict in Elmira and NYC joiners should reach transportation agent James H. McInnes at 45 East Twelfth Street.
The New York Flower Mission opens its thirty second season on Mondays and Thursdays at 104 East Twentieth Street to receive and distribute flowers fruit and delicacies for the sick in hospitals and tenement houses. Express companies offer free box delivery within a hundred miles of the city aiding friends to send fruit berries or fresh eggs. Donations for running expenses or delicacies are welcomed by the secretary at the mission rooms and volunteers are sought for making up and distributing bouquets. Women leaving town are asked to remember the mission with jellies or preserves and palm leaf fans are useful for hospitals.
Summer prep begins with a novel outside Venetian blind by James G. Wilson at No 5 West Twenty-ninth St. The device folds from inside the room to create an awning while preserving light and airflow. It withstands storms and includes piazza blinds as an improvement on the common Japanese design.
A spring East Side flower exhibit drew attention when a teacher heard a boy exclaim toward a dicentra plant calling it German pants. The remark highlighted inappropriate humor linked to a plant’s look.
A Western town hosts a Darning Club of young matrons who meet to mend stockings and linen while discussing art music literature and philanthropy. Prizes awarded for best needlework in darning include official club positions. The president is chosen for darning skill rather than speaking prowess.
Poignant verse by Bessie Hart Adams laments that people offer many prayers of asking yet scarcely voice gratitude when joy returns or sorrow is spared. The piece contrasts daily petitions to the throne with scattered, singular thanks.
A Rhode Island member requests sunshine for a Southern family who lost their home and all possessions in a previous fire. They now live in a remote area with no schooling. The appeal seeks reading material, schoolbooks for children aged six to fifteen, and religious items.
Mrs. S Bernstein state president of Pennsylvania reports receiving thirty eight communications about Sunshine matters in May and distributing good cheer to 1% members. The cheerful gifts included books letters flower seeds plants bulbs pictures silk pieces embroidery and clothing meant to spread warmth of sunshine and remembrance to every recipient.
The correspondence lists items received for a charity effort including unfinished fancy work by Mrs Walter 8S Comly and Mrs H J Fieron illustrated reading, plus booklets, cards, scrap pictures from E A Tompkins, and three generous bundles of clothing, shoes, hats, games from Mrs Anna S McClure.
Miss Ella Antrim reports regular mailings of reading material to Mrs Wood since January, with three appreciative letters received and pleasure from the T. S. S. acquaintance. Mrs H L James directs distribution of large woollen samples from her husband’s mill to three invalid members who can use the material.
Miss Agnes Gnade's Sunday school class in Rutherford New Jersey offers ten trimmed hats for Little Mothers and a day trip with a train meet, outdoor games, luncheon and tea then return at five. The general office covers transport. A box of exquisite pansies from Mrs S Lord was given to a member ill with nervous prostration.
At Peekskill State Camp on June 4 Major John M. Smith notes welcome good weather as cavalry drills proceed smoothly under Major Bridgman and General Roe. Troops 1 and 2 play a 12 to 8 ball game, polo ponies arrive for tomorrow’s match, and a new regimental drill is planned under General Roe. A second staff game is arranged with Lake Mohegan chatter among officers.
Three smallpox cases were reported in Worcester Massachusetts on June 4. Victims include Dr Charles B Stevens a leading Worcester physician Dr Campbell a Worcester City Hospital house officer and Alfred Guibert a Boston vaudeville performer who arrived in Worcester two weeks ago.
Four of five West Point cadets dismissed for insubordination sailed yesterday on the Panama Railroad steamship City of Washington. They head to Ecuador to join the engineering corps of the Guayaquil and Quito Rail, a project spanning the Andes. Names include Rirchie O. Mahaffery of Texas, R. A. Linton, F Keller of New York, and H. L. Bowlby.
A patient ill with chicken pox was diagnosed after hospital rounds as having smallpox. Dr. Campbell and Dr. Stevens also fell ill after attending Guibert, who has stayed in isolation. Doctors conducted continuous rounds, exposing many ward patients to the disease.
New Pullman parlor cars are now being placed in service by the Pennsylvania Railroad between key terminals, expanding passenger comfort and service enhancements on the route. The move signals ongoing modernizations in the railroad’s rolling stock program.
The camp announces a polo match with no head contact penalties except deliberate hits. Commissioned staff includes G. Howard Davison as captain and John N. Stearns Jr. as commissary, with assistants and a hospital cadre. Non commissioned staff led by Sergeants Major and surgeons will join. Major Bridgman referees. A post dinner prize in New York awaits the winners.
A German society supports financially strapped actresses by providing costumes. Now a year and a half old, it has branches in Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Mannheim. Local committees of wealthy women and leading actresses run each branch. demand exceeds supply, spurring greater effort.
An American doctor announces a method for living to great age by maintaining absolute conscientiousness throughout life, presenting ethics as the key to longevity.
Pattern No 3799 for a girl's long waist dress suited to warm weather and adaptable with variations. Requires specific yardage by fabric width and includes bertha tuck, insertion, edging, and sizes for ages four, six, eight, ten, twelve. Pattern mailed on receipt of 10 cents plus optional 2 cent rush stamp.
Philadelphia and this city. They have been constructed upon designs furnished by the Pennsylvania Railroad officials, and will be known as the Pennsylvania standard Pullman parlor car. The cars are seventy feet long with Tuscan red exterior and gold trimmings. They feature wide vestibules, burnished mahogany interiors, marquetry decorations, and very wide main windows with self raising shades. The roof upper deck is wide to give an impression of size and aid ventilation.
The Ward liner Morro Castle brought passengers including Michael J. Cady and Dr C E Finlay son of the mosquito theory proponent. He explains that yellow fever is spread by the common house mosquito culex, not contagion, and outlines experiments where bitten subjects developed fever.
Former Cadet Cleveland was summoned to Tennessee on Monday due to the serious illness of his fiancée. A crowd including Linton's father and Keller's family gathered to bid them farewell as they left for the journey in the second class.
Chicago reports a two week rise in beef prices focused on cheap stock like loins ribs and chuck. Retail butchers pass higher costs to customers while Armour & Co. notes carcasses up about one dollar per hundred pounds though seasonally expected. Warm weather delays grass fed cattle and pushes packers to seek better prices from farmers.
Rev. E M Stires plans to insure his life for one dollar through Mutual Life Insurance Company to support Grace Church Chicago. The Church Endowment Society led by Rev. W Hunter aims to fund diocesan bishops’ support via endowments and reduce annual diocesan assessments. The society seeks endowments for any object and locality with no diocesan expense.
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