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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
12
Lovell of Scranton Pennsylvania led the graduating class procession at Vassar College in the class day parade photographed by Paul Thompson of New York.
Reports from Yucatan indicate Maya Indians have launched a violent uprising. Federal forces, hundreds strong, push toward Valladolid to quell the revolt as tension rises across the peninsula. Some accounts claim attacks on government workers and harm to women and children, while other sources downplay the danger and emphasize cautious progress of troops.
In Berlin the Prussian Diet sent to committee a government plan to boost the king's annual allowance by 500000 dollars plus 375000 for royal theatres. Socialist Hoffman denounced luxuries and urged elected chief state officials, prompting protests and charges of high treason. All other parties supported the measure.
London June 7 The second day of the international horse show drew good attendance. Miss Lulu Long of Kansas City rode The King to second in Class I for novice single light harness horses. William H. Moore's park team four-in-hand repeated last year’s victory in Class 61, taking the Mackay gold challenge cup, now the permanent possession of Judge Moore.
Havana reports the Cuban revenue cutter Baire detained and searched the British schooner Marion May for suspected smuggling near Cape Maisi. A boarding officer examined the manifest and cargo. no evidence found and the vessel was allowed to proceed to Kingston Jamaica. The captain protests the search, saying it occurred outside Cuban waters. Kingston informed authorities. An inquiry has begun.
Berlin authorities prepare a winter City Council measure establishing a broad unemployment insurance scheme for the metropolis suburbs. The plan, one of the most extensive social legislation moves, aims to ease winter distress among workers with funding from both employers and employees to a common fund.
The John Wanamaker Commercial Institute held its first commencement last night in the Wanamaker store auditorium at 10th Street and Broad Street. About three hundred employees attended as one third were away from duty. The graduating class numbered thirty one: eleven boys and twenty girls. Diplomas were presented by John Wanamaker who spoke on education and honest dealing. The program included rifle and hoop drills, a cantata Violet in Fairyland with the school orchestra, and a minstrel show that kept the audience in good humor.
The Vassar College commencement week opened with a daisy chain carried by twenty four sophomores led by Miss Elizabeth F Ralston and Miss Elizabeth W Thomas. Governors Hughes praised by the junior song praising honest committeemen. the day featured senior gowns, sodality colors, and a class day program culminating in a tree song. Commencement follows with a president's reception tonight.
About two thousand Brooklyn orphans toured Luna Park in a five hour event organized by the Long Island Automobile Club. Home groups included St Vincent's, St John's, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Newsboys' Home and St Mary's. The caravan started at Bedford Avenue and Eastern Parkway with 200+ cars and three bands.
Vladivostok June 7 reports an anti Japanese rising of serious proportions is being plotted in North Corea by Coreans opposed to annexation by Japan and enemies of Japanese.
In Central Park Manhattan, thousands of girls from public schools join a second folk dance festival of the season. Three thousand in the girls' Public Schools Athletic League danced around Maypoles, with diverse national dances, amid summer attire and city bustle.
The piece describes striped checks and squares in various shades rivaling silk fabrics. It notes silk organdies, described as silk malls with printed gingham patterns, as particularly alluring and fashionable.
A collage of notes on shantungs from Shanghai and Shantung pongees, a wall art technique, and a party with dancing led by Miss Elizabeth Burcheral. The story also recalls a Brooklyn event where school officials and notable guests observe a marching, games and walking program, with Miss Jessie Bancroft weighing in on the plans.
The league executive secretary noted many East Side children cannot walk beyond their block and have never seen an elevated train. She announced plans to begin two mile walks for the children next fall to broaden their horizons and expose them to longer walks and new experiences.
In Rome on June 7 the Congregation of Rites, led by the Pope, examined the possible beatification and canonization of Marguerite Bourgeois of Marquette Michigan, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lord.
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