Chicago Sanatorium Fires Trigger City Inspections
Chicago inspectors from the City Building Department will examine every hospital and sanatorium in the city after ten inmates died at the St. Luke Society Sanatorium on Monday. The probe, led by Deputy Building Commissioner Timothy O'Shea and Chief Inspector Barry, began at the Washingtonian Home for addicts, noting lack of fire escapes and few fireproof stairways.
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Chicago
City Building Department
St. Luke Society
Washingtonian Home
Timothy O'Shea
Pector
Barry
Hollandsche Kermess Opens Amer ica Day Festivities at Borough Park
Captain Hobson attends as guest of honor at the Hollandsche Kermess in Borough Park Club House Brooklyn. Amerika Day features an American luncheon at noon and dinner at six with songs and speeches by prominent men. William C. Redfield presides as Masonic members attend. Theodore A. Taylor delivered the welcome. The scene blends Holland festival décor with a market and street entertainment, including a windmill, canalboat, tulips, and Dutch delicacies.
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Captain Hobson
Borough Park Club
Brooklyn
William C. Redfield
Masonic
Theodore A. Taylor
Perk
Netherlands
Hollana
Standing Nuisance Protest in Open Streetcars
West End Women’s Republican Association debated a resolution urging action against standing and crowding in Metropolitan Street Railway cars. Members favored influencing public opinion with mass meetings and petitions, noting discomfort and insults felt by women. Copies will go to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West End
Clarence Burns
Secor Tonjes
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Board of Aldermen
Edgewood Dutch Reformed Church Kermess Funds Build Project
The festival features a fashion display and dining as volunteers raise money for Edgewood Dutch Reformed Church of Borough Park. Mrs William Carlisle leads a luncheon and tea service while decorated rooms showcase tulips and roses. The 1891 founded church plans a new building with lots bought and initial funds raised, driven by the Ladies' Aid Society under Mrs R B Fithian. Community women and Holland Society members support the effort, with a list of local contributors and organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Carlisle
Edgewood
Borough Park
R. B. Fithian
Ladies’ Aid Society
Edgewood House of Prayer
Dutch Reformed Churches of
Brooklyn
Holland Society
Drea
Aoe Garner
Kate Cowenhoven
A. J. Er
George A. Allen
G.L. Allen
Mortimer
Bernard Lanzeler
Reid
Henry Dull
J. W. Perkins
A. C. Wart
A. Williams
Cook
Alder Men and Metropolitan Railway Chair Plan Talks
The aldermen and the Metropolitan Railway Company president discussed next season’s programme. Informal summer talks on government departments will occur on the second and fourth Thursdays, with ping pong interludes. Mrs. E Wilson, club president, showed skill at both steering sessions and table tennis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Railway Company
Adele
E. Wilson
Summer entertainment and classes for YMCA women
The YMCA at 7 East Fifteenth Street offers free weekly summer diversions for women and girls starting Monday June 16 with a dramatic recital by Minnie Marshall Smith and music by Frank J. Smith G Morgan Strickett and Frederick Wheeler. Moving pictures follow next week. Subsequent nights feature physical culture music parlor and games Wednesday nights, fancy work and millinery Thursday, and singing with sight reading and gymnastics Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Women’s Christian Association
East Fifteenth St
Minnie Marshall Smith
Frank J. Smith
G. Morgan Strickett
Frederick Wheeler
Baeso
Vitagraph
San Francisco Council Builds Active Women’s Group
The Local Council of Women of San Francisco, though only a few months old, is working actively with thirty affiliates. They align with the Consumers' League on sweatshops and child labor concerns. Americans visiting Europe can buy The New-York Tribune at hotels, reading rooms, and major railroad stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council of Women of
San Francisco
Consumers’ League
New-York Tribune
Europe
Great Britain
Pass It On and Frail Things in Sunshine Society Notice
A mixed notice page includes an exhortation Pass It On verses for kindness and a poem Frail Things by Charles S Newhall. It also lists Sunshine Society correspondence details and member requests including Bible games chairs and clothing donations to T. S. S. president, with names and addresses in New York New Jersey Massachusetts Illinois Indiana and North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
5. E. Gillum
Massachusetts
Asbury Park
F. S. Lufburrow
New Jersey
Frank Thompson
Thomas Buck
Wallace Hamiston
Lebbens Ferguson
Philippines
J. J. Guernsey
A. J. McQueen
Alfordsville
N. C
E. Boynton
Tennessee
B. Carow Thomas
George O. Dresser
Illinois
Thomas
Bishoprick
Brooklyn
Blanche Sawyer
Minnie M. Elliott
Indiana
Phillip
Little Falls
T. S. S. President
Sunshine Society member thanks friends for support during illness
Mrs. William Jebb of Manhattan Avenue cards reveal deep gratitude for Sunshine greetings during a four month illness. She notes improvement, able to sit up part of each day and hopes to go out soon, praising fellow T S B members for cheerful Sunshine deeds.
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William Jebb
No. 2
Manhattan Ave
Manhattan
Sunshine Society
T H
Jebh
Appeals for second hand baby carriages flood office
The paper notes a surge in appeals for second hand baby carriages to ease overworked mothers. It highlights the president’s list of two families needing such aid and invites readers to help by contacting the office. A reader also requests a country outing for a poor widow and two children, offering to pay a small board amount and providing the requester’s address.
Yonkers woman packs Sunshine gifts for many sun shiners
L P of Yonkers New York arranged 41 Sunshine packages in an express box sent Tuesday. Girls received sheets of paper dolls furniture and pictures to color with scissors crayons and paste. Other packages contained photogravures paintings stories and scrapbooks for gardeners and invalids.
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L. P
Yonkers
N. Y
Protect the Song Birds Declares Regional Alarm
A joint plea cites The New Orleans Times-Democrat urging protection for mocking birds and other song birds fleeing north. It warns habitat loss from trapping, shipment and indiscriminate shooting, calling for stronger laws, fines, and enforcement to prevent further declines across the South.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Miss Pattern for Pleated Tucked Skirt No 1153
The New York Tribune Pattern Department offers a Misses Pleat Tucked Skirt No 1153 for 19 cents. Pattern details describe a 27 inch wide fabric cut with sizes for fourteen to sixteen years, suitable for wool, linen, and cotton. Send 10 cents with pattern number or an extra 2 cent stamp for letter mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cera
New-York Tribune
Two Women Hurt in Runaway Accidents
Mrs. Adelaide Cahn wife of Julius Cahn manager of Charles Frohman was badly injured in a runaway at Mount Vernon while meeting her husband. A high stepping cab struck by a car wheel in trolley track caused a partial upset and she sustained scalp wounds facial cuts and leg bruises. Police took her to Mount Vernon Hospital. Mrs. T. F. Stephenson of Mount Vernon also suffered severe bruises after her horse bolted at Woodlawn Cemetery ending in a lamppost crash and a two mile dash before capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide Cahn
Julius Cahn
Charles Frohman
Mount Vernon
New Haven
Third-ave
First-st
T. F. Stephenson
Woodlawn
Harlem
Dr Olmsteins Election Bishop Coadjutor Olmsted
The Rev Dr Charles T Olmsted Vicar of St Agnes Chapel Trinity Parish has been unanimously elected Bishop Coadjutor of Central New York if he accepts the vote will move to a region with long family ties His father was born in Onondaga Valley now a Syracuse suburb and both grandfathers were Col David
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Olmsted
St. Agnes Chapel
Trinity Parish
New- York
Onondaga Valley
Syracuse
David
English clergyman Olmsted elected Bishop Coadjutor
Vicar of St. Agnes Chapel in West Ninety-first Street has been unanimously chosen for the Diocese of Central New York. Olmsted of Ridgefield Connecticut and Colonel Comfort Tyler of Ashford Connecticut are noted pioneers in early settlement. Olmsted, born in Cohoes, is a Trinity College alumnus with BA MA and has held positions at St Stephens College and Trinity Parish. He served Grace Church Utica fifteen years before returning to Trinity Parish. He holds the ST D from Hobart College and has not decided on accepting the election.
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St. Agnes’s Chapel
West
Ninety-firstst
Central New York
Olmsted
Ridgefield
Conn
Comfort Tyler
Ashford
Dr. Olmsted
Cohoes
Trinity College
Hartford
St. Stephens College
Annandale
Trinity Chapel
Trinity Parish
Grace Church
Utica
Trinty Parish
St. Agnes Chapel
Hobart College
Answer Filed In Steel Corporation Suit Over Bond Issue
The United States Steel Corp answer in Miriam Berger of Sullivan County New York seeks to block conversion of 20 million dollars of preferred stock into bonds. Vice-Chancellor Emery will hear arguments. a temporary restraining order remains. The defense claims stockholder and director actions followed charter and law, with approvals by majority excluding certain Morgan interests, and that no plan intended to convert new bonds into common stock. Affidavits from George Perkins and Richard Trimble accompany the filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Steel Corporation
Miriam Berger
Sullivan County
N. Y
Emery
Newark
New Jersey
Steel Fells
Finance Committee
Gun & Uo
Mtr
More Than & Matjority & al
J. P. Morgan & Co
George W. Perkins
J. P. Moresa & Co
Richard Trimble
Political Women to Meet at Queens Lyceum Convention
The sixth annual convention of the Queens and Nassau Counties Political Equality League will be held at the Lyceum, Queens, N Y, today. Speakers include Mrs William S Nichols, Mrs C C H Craigie, Mrs Priscilla D Hackstaff, Mrs Mariana W Chapman, Rev Jr S N Demarest, and Miss Kate M Gordon, with possible addresses by Rev Anna Shaw and Miss Alice Stone Blackwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queens and
Nassau Counties Political Equality League
Lyceum
Queens
N. Y
William S Nichols
C. C. H. Craigie
Priscilla D. Hackstaff
Mariana W. Chapman
N. Demarest
Kate M. Gordon
Anna Shaw
Alice Stone Blackwell
College Regattas at Poughkeepsie Preview
The crews set to row in annual contests at Poughkeepsie are photographed and described, with full coverage planned for next Sunday’s Tribune.
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Poughkeepsie
Tribune
Arrest in big shark case tied to deranged prisoner
Legal Aid Society advances the De Rosa case in Kings County against East Side instalment dealers Isaac Stromberg Richard Roe and John Doe. Two Strombergs held on extortion charges while John Doe aka Big Tom was arrested. Marino, jailed for failing to meet a contract, shows mental strain and concern for his family. An attempt to tamper with De Rosa was thwarted and bail set at 1.00 each.
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Legal Aid Society
de Rosa
Clark
Kings County
East Side
The
Tribune
Isaac Stromberg
Richard Roe
John Doe
Samuel Stromberg
Isaac
Richard Rue
John Dee
Big Tom
Brooklyn
Vincenzio Marino
Ludlow Street
Marino
Strombergs
Grand Jury
Garbage removed by trolley in Brooklyn plan
Major Woodbury head of street cleaning nears a plan with Brooklyn Rapid Transit to haul ashes and garbage by trolley cars. Central stations will collect waste across the city, then carts will load and deliver to dumps awaiting rail approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Woodbury
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Brooklyn
Juror claims Waldorf room 49 disputed in suit
In a Supreme Court action by Frank Carnes against partner Arthur N Hanson to recover 5.04 damages for the alleged with Mrs Carnes, jurors disagreed. Liam Churchill said fellow juror William Bley blocked a verdict for the defendant citing testimony about no room No 49 at the Waldorf Astoria used by Hanson and Mrs Carnes as Dr Walton and wife Riley. Churchill said he found no such room and planned to report it but chose to drop the matter as retrial loomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Frank Carnes
Arthur N. Hanson
Coffee Exchange Considers ByLaw Change on Fees
The Coffee Exchange faces a June vote on a proposed bylaw change to set membership and initiation fees. The plan would set a $1,000 fee until 30 memberships are reached, then rise to $5,004, with the present membership around 312. The proposal has been reviewed by the board of managers for some time.
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Coffee Exchange
Board of Managers
Mount Holyoke Commencement Week Honors Helen Gould
Miss Helen Gould will guest of honor at Mount Holyoke College commencement with a 4 PM Tuesday reception. Dwight Memorial Art Building dedication follows on Wednesday, gift from John Dwight of New York. Alumnae Association meeting Tuesday at 10 AM with luncheon at 12:30. Baccalaureate Sunday by Rev Joseph H Twitchell and Wednesday oration by Professor George Herbert Palmer of Harvard.
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Helen Gould
Mount Holyoke College
Dwight Memorial Art
John Dwight
New York
Mount Holyoke
Joseph H. Twitchell
Hartford
George Herbert Palmer
Harvard University
Cornell Fraternities See New Buildings and Social Events
Cornell University Greek letter fraternities feature handsome new buildings and upcoming social festivities planned for next week as outlined in the Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Tribune
Naval Militia Convention Opens in Baltimore
The National Naval Militia Association holds its annual convention aboard the battleship Dale in Baltimore with about seventy five top naval reserve officers. State naval militia groups will be represented and First Assistant Secretary of the Navy Darling will attend, accompanied by several naval officers. The gathering focuses on naval militia reorganization, drawing delegates from Atlantic and Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes, with Darling and Captain Swift of the general board attending.
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Baltimore
National Naval Militia Association
Warsloop Dale
Naval Reserve
Darling
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Great Lakes
Navy Darling
Captain Swift
General Board
Navy
Rush For School Lands Opens After Court Ruling
Fort Worth Texas June 12 More than one million acres of Texas school lands are opened by the State Supreme Court ruling that renewal of leases was illegal. A rush forms from Sweetwater Colorado City Roscoe and other towns as home seekers race to secure claims. More than five thousand claims of one to four sections each will be filed within thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
State Supreme Court
Sweetwater
Colorado City
Roscoe
Oklahoma
Teutonic Arrives Without Complete Cargo Manifest
The White Star steamer Teutonic arrived with no complete manifest aboard due to a missed Queenstown submission. Purser could not read cargo details, prompting clerks to reconstruct the manifest from bills of lading after the ship’s arrival. This delay caused unease among consignees awaiting shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teutonic
Confignees
Queenstown
China
Building for Santos-Dumont at Brighton Beach
Plans were completed for a 150 foot long building at Brighton Beach to house Santos-Dumont on his return. The aeronaut flights will be by the Aero Club, a new local group with Tesla and other inventors among its pledged members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Santos-Dumont
Brighton Beach
Aeronaut
2 Club
The
Aero Club
Thomas
Nikola Tesla
Rev Dr Samuel D Wconnell joins All Souls Church
The popular rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Brooklyn has accepted a call from All Souls Church at 66th Street and Madison Avenue Manhattan. A sketch of the doctor with views of his new church appears in next Sunday's Tribune. He also gets 23500 from a trolley company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
All Souls’ Church
Madisoen
Manhattan
Tribune
Jury Verdict Hits Child in Yonkers Trolley Case
Mildred Sutton, eight, of Yonkers, hurt when a trolley struck her after she dropped a glove near the Yonkers line. Lawyers call this the largest award ever in a child damages suit against a corporation. The jury in White Plains awarded her plaintiff’s verdict against the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
White Plains
Mildred Sutton
Yonkers
Steel chiefs discuss pig iron supply for next year
The operating chiefs of United States Steel Corporation discussed the pig iron supply for the ensuing year. Nine percent of the pig iron used by the corporation comes from its own plants, while the remainder is produced at Shenango and Mahoning furnaces. At those furnaces prices rose from 1975 to 2 per ton, a level the Steel Corporation calls excessive. A month earlier the company paid 163 tem for a three months supply.
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United States Steel Corporation
Shenango
Mahoning Leys
Steel Corporation
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Colgate
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Charles
Newhall
Tribune Sunshine Society
Miss
DR. Olmsteins
Central New-York
G. S. Steels
DR. Woodbury
Waldorf
Vount Holyoke
Cornell University
Naval Militia Convention
Santos-Dumont
Samuel D. Wconnell
Trolley Company
London
England
Windsor
Victoria Street
Westminster Abbey
J. BR. Cleave & Co
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