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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
3
A Brookyn scene inspires musings on police cautions to motor drivers and crowd noise, then shifts to personal vignettes of Marian and Archie's letters. It recalls public patriotism, grand opera talk, and ad copy about cameras, oils the era’s social commentary winding through memory and politics.
A rapid marriage took place in Plainfield as David Ogden Rogers of Troop D National Guard of New Jersey prepares to depart for the Mexican border with his fiancée Miss Mildred C. Mordaunt. The ceremony was at Grace Church with Rev. Stevenson and Rev. Weir officiating. the couple will reside in Plainfield after the southern post. A series of musicales at Rumson to feature prominent society figures opens today hosted by Mrs. Wallejam Barbour, with artists including Loraine Wyman and Constance Binney among others.
Mrs Edward B McLean of Washington announces the marriage of Miss Browning to Lieutenant Raymond Potter at Central Presbyterian Church in Orange New Jersey. The ceremony was led by Reverend John Fulwood with attendants including Miss Marjorie Murchia as flower girl and Lieutenant G Sidney Andrew as best man. A reception followed at the bride’s home and guests plan Newport summer visits for July onward.
The Beacon Light Mission will relocate to 2350 Third Avenue in Harlem between 127th and 128th Streets after the National Idle Institute purchased the property from Colona Realty Company through Shaw & Co. and Charles H. Farwell. The new brick and iron building will be expanded with dormitories, private rooms for about a hundred men, reading rooms, and a large dining hall. the mission now operates near 120th Street.
The Rev Frank Pletcher urged daylight saving at a Manhattan merchants gathering. Read by John Warren Adama, with remarks by Mr Marks. Leopold Mat presided as the committee considered national adoption and education campaigns. Resolutions urged Congress to act.
Plainfield New Jersey June 29 A Baptist minister 81 from North Plainfield died yesterday at Newton High He was a graduate of Colgate University and served in the Civil War with the 11th Regiment New York Volunteers The article notes a daughter and a woman named Minnie Miller from Queens visiting and being mentioned as confidant attendant for the court and a salary of 1500 a year
Robert Ferguson to build a 625000 thirteen story apartment on a plot at the southeast corner of Eighty seventh Street and Amsterdam Avenue Architects Schwartz Gross prepared the plan yesterday. Meanwhile Metropolitan Insurance sold the six story apartment house at the southeast corner of 46th Street and Seventh Avenue to Monarch Building Company. The buyer assumes a $50000 mortgage for three years.
Appellate Division reverses verdict against widow Elizabeth Warden Pell in the auto wreck case linked to 1913 Pell family, granting a new trial after findings about whistle signals and conflicting evidence. The long case recalls the fatal party to Long Beach and prior civil and personal losses.
Mrs. Cornelius Van derbilt hosts meetings that form the Active Service Auxiliary of the National Guard of New York State. Adjutant General Louis W. Stotesbury and other officers attend as the group aims to relieve families of militiamen. Contributions go to United States Mortgage and Trust Company.
Louis Picot, executor under Almira R. Hancock’s will, seeks court guidance on the disposition of a George W. Childs fund created in 1880 for General Hancock’s family. The trust, once $141,532, dwindled after J P Morgan’s involvement. only one Hancock grandchild remains alive, with income previously paid to the grandchildren.
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund operates today and tomorrow with dozens of groups of boys and girls departing from New York City for five homes in Connecticut Massachusetts and New York. Nearly 400 children travel to fresh air lands with two weeks or more in the countryside at no cost to families or participants. Contributions fund the program and payments cover the approximately 90000 needed for the season to send 12000 children away.
The Dixiex and the Yankees teams from the West Side Y M C A plan a cross country contest this summer. Teams will score by Bible class attendance and other YMCA activities in principal cities, with the early arriving team hosted by the other. Weekly meets at the open air gym and a Van Cortlandt Park camp are planned by the West Side Brotherhood.
Workers active in the American Ambulance Fund will be guests at a reception in the Hotel Majestic on Wednesday evening July 5. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will attend. The event is directed by former Ambassador Robert Bacon and other sponsors. A feature will be motion pictures showing the Ambulance Field Service at work at the firing line.
Peace reached between Calvary Church deacons and Edmund J. Tinsdale, a church member and lawyer. Supreme Court actions halted as temporary injunctions and the case were dismissed by stipulation approved by Justice Whitaker. Tinsdale invited deacons to divorce proceedings to learn evidence rules, prompting internal church investigation cited as prejudicial to church interests.
The Chamber of Commerce votes tonight on a report from Harbor and ShippingCommittee endorsing a contract with the New York Central Railroad to eliminate West Side surface tracks. The panel cites city officials’ study and argues riverfront improvements and river park aims justify the project despite some local opposition. It predicts temporary West Side inconvenience but long term freight access and waterfront use will improve, with final city control after work. Signed by Irving T. Bush and others.
Conflicting reports followed a collision between a Long Island Railroad eastbound train and a car driven by Mrs Ellen Langer of Freeport Long Island. Mrs Langer says she crossed at Rockville Centre where no gates or guards existed as the train struck and lifted her car into a meadow. The chauffeur Rudolph Novak escaped, while engineer George Van Nostrand claimed the car struck his engine and he was not to blame. This marks the third non fatal accident at the same crossing this year.
Misa Ida Commina, protégée of Rev Maud B Booth and wife of General Ballington Booth, quietly marries Alred Noel Lucas at 5 pm in the Booths Blue Point summer home rose arbor. Both from Montclair New Jersey. Rev Mrs Booth officiates.
Ambiguous OCR text shows a meeting of the Old Colony Chamber of Commerce in New York or nearby location. Names like Be, Wongtrow, and Peebles appear, with unclear roles. The fragment mentions a session Tuesday and a list of individuals connected to a pro clan or committee.
N E A leaders in Madison Square Garden as the 1920 conference opens. Robert J. Aley of Maine and Calvin Noyes Kendall of New Jersey are frontrunners for the presidency, which would tilt toward the East. Miss Grace Strachan’s bid weakens amid policy shifts and lack of New York educators on the program. The convention features Taft and Governor Whitman addresses with morning assemblies and group conferences in hotels and schools, plus a July 4 folk dancing exhibit by 10000 school children at City College.
John McArthur of Rutherford identifies his son injured in a June 17 Rahway truck collision. The boy, 12 days in Elizabeth General Hospital, had been semi conscious and identified by his father yesterday. A separate local notice reports marriages and obituaries, including Rogers Mordaunt and several family notices with names and addresses.
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