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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1917
Page
3
Fragmented column mixes brimming water imagery with World War I notes and local life. It threads weather, meals, theater gossip, enlistment tales, and a mother’s letter, then ends with a librarian tease about autographed copies. The piece blends personal rapture for water with wartime duty and small-town anecdotes.
Rebel provinces Yunnan and Canton withdraw secession moves and back President Li Nuan Zhang. A Tokyo-Tientsin accord under Hau Shih-ching stabilizes the Provisional Government, easing fears of civil war with the southern provinces. Militarists and Nationalists clash over power as China moves toward wartime unity with the Allies.
A charity fair at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Payne Whitney in Manhasset features livestock gifts including four pigs a Pekingese dog antiques and garden items. Proceeds go to the babies milk fund of New York and Nassau County Association.
Ottawa and Washington debates expose German propaganda claims and press tax issues. Publishers urge fairness, warn against higher postage, and seek exemption rules while Congress and Senate Finance Committee consider war taxes, newsprint shortages, and broader profit levies affecting newspapers, magazines, and religious papers.
War time measures open two new fields for women as thirty Staten Island car cleaners replace conscripted men and two Women War Work League members begin elevator operation training at 120 Broadway under Chief Starter Gilford S. Simonson. If successful, women operators may become permanent at Equitable. effort aligns with equal pay advocacy from the American Association for Labor Legislation.
Weather observations describe lower temperatures and rising humidity in the Washorgie region with mention of cold fronts and mild winds. Forecast notes likely indicate varying conditions across nearby towns, with tension between mild daytime warmth and overnight cooling affecting agriculture and river levels.
Cardinal OConnell asks the War Department to justify its ruling on chaplain allocation by church membership. He contends the Roman Catholic Church should have fifty seven chaplains, versus the department’s June figure of thirty four. Currently seventy four chaplains serve, with sixteen Catholic priests. He argues for forty one additional Catholic chaplains if the ruling follows proportional church membership across the country.
W. M. Brittain, 60, earned his degree in the seventy-first commencement of the College of the City of New York. He completed his course via night sessions and received a Liberty Bonds gift for the fund. Absent graduates in khaki or sailors’ uniforms also received diplomas.
New York’s cricket team defeated Merion Cricket Club in a high scoring Halifex Cup match on Merion grounds. The final score was 223 to 245 in favor of Merion, despite New York scoring the season’s first century.
War service keeps half of Harvard College's 420 seniors from attending in person as 1,284 degrees are conferred at Sanders Theatre. President Lowell announces honorary degrees to Hoover Hibben Spring-Rice and others while the Harvard Officers Reserve Training Corp parades on the Widener steps. The twenty-fifth year class pledges a $100,000 Liberty Bond as the alumni gift.
Justice in the Supreme Court denied dismissal of Sire Sara S McQuaide’s action seeking an accounting of 1250 shares of the trust fund from her husband I McQuaide. The Pittsby millionaire’s estate centers on a Twickenham acquisition and the legacy payments tied to dividends and other income.
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