The evening world. Newspaper, June 5, 1918, Page 9

“om spacial mission to the United I RR EDRT S ET u , «Say [eae eee READING, LANSING, -ANDT,973 OTHERS Exercises Celebrating Universi- ty’s 164th Anniversary— Pulitzer Prize to Louisville. Commencement exercises celebrat- ing the 164th anniversary of Columbia University took place to-day in the gymnasium. were awarded to 1,975 Reading, British High Degrees and diplomi persons. Lord Commissioner States; ’ Secretary of State Robert Lansing; M. Godert, Under Secretary tor War of France; Francis Markoe Seott, former Supreme Court Judge of New York; Fernald Professor at the Sorbonne; Paul Pert- gerd, @ Lieutenant in the French Army and L'Abbe Cabanel, Chaplain of the 66th division Alpine Chasseurs, wers among those who received honorary degrees. There were eight honorary degrees and 1,495 conferred in course. War certificates were awarded to 58 students of Columbia University who have answered the country’s call. ‘There; were 415 diplomas awarded in| the teachers’ college. The university was ablaze with the} blue and white streamers as the] BEAUTY SPECIALIST TELLS SECRET A Beauty Specialist Gives Simple Home Made Recipe to Darken Gray Hair. | Baldensperger, Mrs. M. D. Gillespie, a well known | beauty specialist of Kansas City, re- cently gave out the following state- ment regarding gray bair: | “Any one can prepare a simple | mixture at home, at very little cost, that will darken gray hair, and make it soft and glossy. To a half pint of water add 1 ounce of bay rum, a small box of Barbo Compound and ounce of glycerine. These ingredien can be bought at any drug store at) t, or the druggist will | u. Apply to the hair iesired shade This will make @ gray | look twenty years It does not color the scalp, icky or greasy and does not -Advt. put it up fo! twice a week until the d is obtained. haired person vounger. THAT IS SEE THaT 10 for 12 Cents | cept the offer. a . THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1918, graduates marched through the por- to the gymnasium. Lord Reading marched by the side of President Butler of the university at the head of the procession, Tha last to file Into the gymnasium was the Rev William T. Manning, rector of Trinity Church, who is serving as chaplain In place of the Rev, Raymond C. Knox, now in France. The Rev, Mr. Manning offered prayers, and then President Butler began his address to the graduates. It was @ war-time address with ro- marks containing practical and everyday helps for those receiving diplomas, He placed particular em- phasis on the lessons the great war was teaching, Thirty-five prizes and honors were awarded for specialization in various subjepts, Including the Pulitzer prize in journalism, which went to the Louisville Courier-Journal, Kentucky The class of 1893 presented a set of chimes to the univ@sity, The Fac- ulty Club presented a. faculty service | flag, while the class of 1891 unveiled | 4 memorial gateway at the West | 117th Street entrance: a gift to the| university, | —e VANDERBILTS OFFER ESTATE, IDLE HOUR, FOR HOSPITAL Long Island Mansion and Ground Is Tendered to Red Cross tor Convalescent Soldiers, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt » have offered their beautiful Idle Hour estate at Oakdale, L. I, to the American Red Cross to be used as a convalescent | L« hospital for soldicrs M The estate, composed of thousands of Brooklyn, ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT OF MISS MARIE L. DORSEY TO CHESTER W. SMITH . . Miss . MARIE ° DORSEY. Brooklyn Girl, Prominent in Society There, to Wed United States Navai Reserve Officer. The engagement of Miss Marie vuise Dorsey, daughter of Mr. rs Richard Martine in society acres, 18 rituated on Great River, with and prominent the mansion located almost at the|there, to Chester Wolford Smith, U. water's edge, and it is estimated willls x 4 &, a son of Mr. and Mrs accommodate fifteen hundred patients. Red Cross officials have made an in spection of the property, but it f# not {ha known whether the Red Cross will ac Many acres of the estate are planted and it is said enough produce could be rajsed to practically supply the hospital. |f For many years Mr. and Mrs. Vander- | dg Dilt have scarcely visited the place be. cause, it is said, an the climate does not agree with Mrs. Vanderbilt's h M The Vanderbi been in France | N since th id two of thei houses ov pe turned over to t pital purposes. eon elt NEW HAVEN FLYER DERAILED | Twilight Express From Boston Has |) Mishap at Mott Haven, M Lu already been “ross for hos- |in Rp While going at a high rate of speed the tender of the Twilight Express of the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad, from Boston to York, left the rails at Mott, Haven aight, tearing up the track for mi yards and badly shaking up passengers in the ten cars, The train was due at Grand Central Terminal at 10.07 but did not arrive un- tll 11.37, N A), THE EMBODIMENT OF A GOOD IN TOBACCO = PAOKE NR 1—We take 1,000 Ibs. of high grade, selected and blended tobaccos 2—We use the greatest care in the selection of the finest leaf of each variety for this 1,000 lbs. 3—Uniformity of this 1,000 Ibs. assured by the careful weighing of each grade contained in blend, 4—Mellowness and mildness of this 1,000 Ibs, made perfect by the proper ageing of the tobacco, 5—Evenness of smoke and taste of this 1,000 lbs, i, preserved through careful and suitable fer- 10—The filler in each Piccadilly from the 1,000 Ibs. is encased in agolden-brown, silk-like wrapper. @ base. mentation. Gueranteed by and Mrs. Edward L ma Mr, and Mrs, Jacob Sch 11.37 789 West E William E. R. Smith, of East Orange, as been announce Invitations have been issued by Mr. id, N. J., for the marriage of thetr hughter, Miss Marie Louise Finch, nd William Bowne Parsons, son + r. and Mrs, Robert E. Parsons of ‘ew York City. The erformed at Grace emony will be piscopal Churc and Dorsey of Finch, of Plain- of this otty at Delmontoo's, @ married last evening Miss Gabrielle M. C. Poix, daughter of BE. F, Potx, and N. Irwin Yerkes, both of Brooklyn, were ma in the St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, 1 night, | Miss Buctle Jean Wood, daughter of | Mr. and Mrs, Oakley Wood of No, 22 | ast 624 Street and Donald Elinore Dietz of this city will be married | Saturday afternoon in the Chapel of | |St. Ambrose of the Cathedral of St. | |John the Divine. Miss Alice Braun, daughter of Mra. Frederick Braun, will be married to | Reginald Dewitt Smith to-day at the home of her mother, No, 139 West Tith Street. BENNETT MAY BE “FIRED” |Refused to Distribute Red Cross | Cireulars or to Buy Liberty Bonds. | would be followed by drastic action. GOBBDEFENDSPLAN mI ~ SERVGE.AT NT at B. R. T, Inquiry. The Brooklyn Grind Jury to-day Hatened to testimony in the Investl- gation of the B. R. f, conductorettes. ‘About twenty-five witnesses appeared, at of them being lady conductors. ¢ inquiaitorial bedy heard of one sion where a conductorette made love to and had hes love returned by A” motorman in the latter's stall in a Four avenue subway car while the | train wae in motion Two girls befor the Grand Jury admitted that ther were addicted to Railways Attorney Asks Board if Confiscatory Schedules Are Not Imposed. John Can Cabb, the New York Railways Company director who sug- the use of narcotics, One maid that she had taken her firat dose of drug service, to-day issued another state | after being seriowly Injured and had ment, It is in answer to the Public contracted the heroin habit. She was Service Commission's threat that the | abolition of late surface car service trying to cure hersetf, she said. It was aleo testified that many girls in the employ of the road were under twenty-one years old, and it was brought out that not @ few of them were put to work iate in the after- noons and compelled to stay on the care till early morning hours. The Grand Jury adjourned to next Tuea- day when the investigation will be resumed. —_—>——___ STRIKE FOLLOWS BLAZE. Chicago Stock ¥. Fire Is Betn, CHICAGO, June 6.—Federal oMctals began an induiry to-day into a mya- terious fire last night at the stock yards, the second dangerous fire to take place there ince the first of the year, The lant followed an explosion and de- atroyed the hay barns of the Union Stock Yards Transit Company and caused Jose estimated at upward of $100,000 before being brought under con- trot, An unheralded strike of scalemet, feedmen and dockmen at the yards to-| now rea! ny stopped trading In livestock. the death. Mr. Cobb saya Alexander Magnus Bennett, thirty- |{our years old, of No. 84 Clinton Ave- Woodside, L. 1, who has been a policeman for eleven years and who ad- titted that he was born in Hamburg and carried a German name until he was eight years old, was recommended to-day for dismissal from the force by Third Police Commissioner John W. Goff jr. for refusing to distribute Red Cross circulars. When asked what his plea was he aid that he wouldn't plead anything. that he had resigned from the force, He told his captain that he wouldn't deliver the circulars because he thought was hypocricy and not policemen's work. When he refused to subscribe for the Third Liberty Loan, he wrote as his reason in the circular for the police irive: ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill." He told the Commissioner that he had got re- igion some time ago and didn’t believe » war, because Jesus Christ didn't each it YONKERS POLIGE SERGEANT 1S REPORTED MISSING Alarm Sent Out for Higgins, Who Started for New York Plainfield, Saturday afternoon Five Days Ago. une 22. Yonkers police, who conduct seqrches oi datly for missing children, mi. I~ Announcement has been made of the|/ verware, ete., started a hunt to-day for arriage of Miss Katherine 8. Laugh-|one of their own members, Sorat. Mi- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George|chael F. Higgins, absent for five days. Laughlin jr, of Pittsburgh, and | Sergeant Higgins ts 45 years old, has a jeut. Elgin R. L. on of Mrs. Elgin R. L. Gould of No. 14 East 60th Street, in Pittsburgh last urday and was last seen headed for aturday. ¢ York City. While police officials — say they cannot explain his dia =| Miss Sadie Schenck, ughter of|ance, they state he has made a number nek of No. Reason No. 2— crowd more fine bigger sizes. value is there! Process. Piccadilly Process for 1,000 lb. Havana Blend 6—Smoothness of thi thorough intermixing of the tobacco after careful shredding. ing process. 8—Harmony of fragrance of this 1,000 Ibs. main- tained by storing tional part of this Gould, U. 8. N. R. d Avenue, and Moe Kass You get real goodness in quality rather than quantity. The smoke- tion is safeguarded from the leaf to the box, 7—Absolute cleanliness of this 1,000 Ibs, guarded by an automatic sifting and purify- temperature registered by thermometers. 9—Each Piccadilly is made of an exact frac- wife and seven children, on the force eighteen ye He failed to report for and has been 8. duty last Sat lof important arrests and that foul play while not suspected, Ia possible, It is not possible to tobacco into small shape. You actually receive a greater proportion of choice leaf in these little cigars than you find in many Piccadilly perfec- Read the is 1,000 lbs, produced by a fe- of tobacco in containers and 1,000 Ibs, “The reported personal attack on jme by a member of the Public Ser is so uncalled for that {t needs no reply. I expressed no intention of ing otherwise than in a legal and orderly manner. Judge Ransom is quoted as to legal ques \tions in a manner I agree with, so far as he goes, but [ would like to isk him to answer categorically two questions. “1—Has the Public Service Com mission the right to impose on the New York Railways Company a con- fiscatory schedule? ‘is it not a fact that the present schedule is confiscatory? vice Commission West 42nd Street Between 5th and 6th Avenues clared, “hi U. S, Cannot Let Germany Devélog Man Power and Resources’ f for Use in War. 3 CEDAR RAPIDS, June 6. be necessary for the United States not only to send an army to the western front,” declared former President Taft in his address here Inst night, “but thie country will be obliged to send an army into Russia. “We must send an army to Russie soon,” said Mr, Taft. vent Germany from developing man power and the mineral and agri- cultural resources of Russia to enable hor to carry on this war, “The purpose of Germany,” he dee as been made plain by her conduct In Russia, Every allied nation Stern Brothers West 43rd Street We request the strict observance of the seven day limit for the return of merchandise to ensure war-time efficiency and economy. “We must ‘The fact is that all the companies could give better day service at less cost if not required to give night ser- vice. In other words, over 80 per cent. of our patrons in going to and | from their useful and necessary avo- [eations can have better service if | night service is given up. I want this | 80 per cent, to appreciate this fact The direct and indirect saving of coni | which would be very large is more than likely to be the determining fac |tor and necessitate a curtailment of |wervice, All I want is a seriou: lic consideration for the guidance of the Public Servige Commission and | ourselves in making our schedules.” —— “JUNE 21 FIRST GOVERNOR'S _ DAY TO VIEW JERSEY TROOPS Edge Announces Time by Counties When He Will Have Represen- tatives at Little White House. TRENTON, N. J., June 5.—A Gove nor’s y for Atle Cumber ‘apo May, Salem and Gloucester Cou tles when the Ist Battal canvas at Sea Girt on June nounced to-day from Gov It was also stated that Exsex, Passale and Bergen Counties will be enterta on July 8 and Monmouth on Ju joy. Edge has arranged to have rep resenta t from the various counties at the Little White House on the « day as units of the State Militia, re special note i senting the same counties are unde the Ps canvas at the State Camp. Other Governor's Days announced ar as follows Somerset, Mercer, Camden, Burling and Hunterdon Counties, June along with the 2d Battalion; M Union, Sussex and Warr ve 4th Battalion Is in ¢ Passaic and Bergen, J when t sizes, novelty handles and tops, th and 6th Battali one th Battalion will be unde anvas a that time." — - Sun and Rain Silk Parasols and Umbrellas, small and medium at oe FAIRBANKS FUNERAL FRIDAY Rody to Lie in Stn Capttal, Indiana State INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, June 5.—Ar raugements were made to-day for the body of Charles W. Fairbanks, former Vice President of the United State who died at his home here last ni Parasols and Umbrellas Arve displayed in interesting assortments on the Main Floor. The following are special price opportunities: Sun & Rain Silk Umbrellas Sport sizes, wide satin and Ottoman tape edges; sport handles and tops, $4.95 A Sale of Knitted Underwear Comprising well-made garments of Summer-weight silk or lisle, provides these excellent values: ests, Made with French band tops; ecial price of Continuing the Extraordinary Sale Thursday, on the Third Floor WOMEN’S SUMMER DRESSES Including an additional assortment of styles taken from our regu- lar stock, composed of such favored materials as embroidered voiles, crepes, novelty tissues, ginghams, ratines aod linens, $5.50, 7.75, 9.75 and 12.50 Also a large collection of Women’s Washable Skirts Smart effects in gabardines, piques, Bedford cord and linens, at $2.95, 3.75 and 5.00 Worthy of ure the very smart new shapes and coverings among asols for both sport and dress occasions. 69c Lisle Combination Suits le in State in the . .* y . . SIONAL teak eels Glove Silk Vests, ! Silk Lisle V The funeral will be Bodice style; elastic top; in ied | ASrteBhtann Butta white and pink..........at L.75 | at the very spe y i Glove Silk Vests, Bodice top; hemstitched silk French band to Pauirbaake — MORE MAIL BY AEROPLANE. Wen Lent. om with shoulder strap; pink only, at 1.89 Glove Silk Bloomers, special at $2.25 Made in full sizes; pink and also white; heavy quality. adelphia and Washing » Webb left Belm Park at this morning in Spana plane, carrying five bags of tail pounds ladely and y-flive pound Washington, and panied by | Culve eut. Miler, w ight mail from was detailed t in the aertal postal STEEL NEEDS FIXED, pancil to ential Lint 7 U.S. War The Semi-Annual Sale of | SILK REMNANTS Is now in progress on the Second Floor extra sizes; usual value $1.00 ie regular or @ fate of Wa day and tormor HINGTON, Jun sential indust nation at a with Pre election inspectors of the Fourth Which affords well-worth-while price inducements in practi- cally every black and colored weave, in lengths of 1 to 6 yards, | at 55ce, 75c, 95e, 1.25 to 14.50 yd. Printed Silks, Silk Voiles, Silk Crepes, Satins, Taffetas and Washable Silks are included, and in many instances THE SAVING IS FULLY ONE-THIRD. 85c n District of the Third Assembly t in Brooklyn, to-day pleaded before Judge May ne Brook minty Court to charges of fraud Riegelmann-Coler teat at the tes last Septembe n Stoddart, No. John Kt, Gallaghe Patrick J. O'¢ Street. Sim: rt Sueet. pbaues en Tt wif = ree the izes that it must be a war to ;