New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-28
Refuse Approval to Fl1
for Men, but Suffrag.s.5
Say It's Permissible.
FIFTfi AVENUE
ENDORSES STRAP
Advocates Point with Pride to
Soldiers, Av:atCrS and Sail
Ors Who Wear Them.

. Silently the American National Re
tail jewelers. Association unbuckled the
strap of style and stripped from Fash
ions slei der arm the wrist watch yes
terday. Time "a la mode" popularized
by returning European war correspond
ents. approved by ;hc United States
army and hurled boldly in New York's
face By citizen rockies" at the Platts-
burg camp. had no defenders except
Second Vicc-Pres dent G.. +. Manahan,
of Chicago.
In view of ,he publicity given the
wrist watch by the press, he MADE a
motion that the convention indorsc II.
Immediately all was still in Grand Cen
trail Palace. You could have heard a
pearl drop.
Then Louis from St. Louis, with the
last name of Ebcling, arose. twirled
his watch fob nervous!y and said: The
wrist watch will never be hmepiece'
While it is stylish. it is going to give
Ms a lot of trouble, and / think we
ought to let matters stand as they
are" IL
After A few other delegates Lad
iumped into the "them's my sentiments
too" class, Mr. Manahan's motion was
permitted to die "A natural parliament
airy death.
Fifth Avenue Likes II.
"Cu,aIl town stuff right from Hicks
vile" pooh -poohed the Fifth Avenue
iewelry emporium, where wrist CLOCKS
retail. roughly speaking, at prices rang
ING from $40 to 81. 500. In his hand the
salesman held little platinum halle
rut anchored wit, diamonds in brace,
let of the same material. The tag sara
"s1 .45O" in writing as fine as the watch.
Where were the opponents OF wrist
watches. Fifth Avenue wanted TO Know
where were they when their 1avorlte
timepiecc was assailed and denounced
VIII Irwin was somewhere IN the war
zone but Irwin Cobb, where was he with
his recommendation of jerking the coat
sleeve or flirting the cuff to know the
hour?
And where were Percy Hudson. OF {.
Hudson e. Co., and Charles +. Knob
lauch. who introduced the wrist watch
70 Wall Street; Colonel Frank II. Hines,
Superintendent of the Bureau OF Pubic
Rnildinps and Offices of Manhattan, who
tolls time by his wrist in the Municipal
building and a score of army officers
on Governors Island, aviators, chauf-
feurs, golf players, surveyors, mining
engineers and horseback riders VINO nhu
utility rather than style in the wrist
watch?
The army furnishes them free to men men
in the signal corps who cannot nlV
their hands from telegraph or radio IN
struments to tug a watch out oil thelr
trousers pocket. .,..
Quite apart from any utilltaran mo-
tive or Interior consideration OF the
decreased demand for chains and fops'
Fifth Avenue shops declare tnat tne
wrist watch is in style. That's all there
is 10 if WHY try to figure out the
whims of style in jewelry? they ask.
Boer War Started II.
During the Boer war, English army
officers learned to use small. cheap,
eilver dustproof watch attached TO the
wrist with leather strap. From Eng
land 10 Paris and thence across 70
America the latest thing IN tlmepleces
travelled. II was adopted gingerIy at
first. Cartoonists and humorists lam
basted the new whim with INK and
verses; man caught wearing a wrist
watch was branded as sissy, molly
coddle, or something equally effeminate'
But all this antagonism spent ITS
force severa! years ago." said the sales
man. as he returned the bracelet watch
with potential value of building lot,
Trim 10 Europe or a little car, TO its
plush tray. 1--WE are selling more wrist
watches to-day than ordinary pocket
watches. Women buy most of them, but
men are buying more every year, red
blooded men in all professions, | mean.
They find them practical and they IKE
them after the first few weeks of KID
ding are over. There must be hundreds
of them represented in the Piattsourg
camp"