Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-15
CURRENT EVENTS

Fifty-ninth street, was concluded
a few days ago.
Four thousand dollars was paid by
A. S. w. Rosenbach for George Wash
| ington's collection of all the treaties
of peace. alliance and commerce be-
| tween Great Britain and other pow
ers from that signed at Munster in
| in 1888. This work, which is in one
| volume, was General Washington's
own copy, with autobiography on
| each title page and his book plate on
the inside of each front cover.
Charles Scribner Sons bought a
| fine caption of Henry r. School
| crafts work on the Indians for $3.50.
| The Edinburg edition of Robert
! Louis Stevenson's works, in twenty,
eight volumes, went to J. P. Horn &
The total for the afternoons sale
was $7,427S5. The total for the en-
tire sale was $14,595.
Additional subscriptions. have
| brought the Princeton endowment
| fund up to $7,262, 1872, according to
an announcement made by Henry B.
| Thompson, chairman of the endoW-
| ment committee.
There have been $3.50 subscribers.
| The New York district has subscrib-
| ed $2,883,732; New Jersey, $905,637;
| $659,295; Cincinnati, s46O,950; st.
| Louis, $788,39S; Baltimore, $214,628;
New England, S181,SS6, and Califor-
MIA, $101,736.
The body of Lieutenant Richard W.
| Thompson, who was killed April ~
| at Rockaway Point, when his air.
plane, fell into Jamaica bay as.e was
by A. Kahlou while fishing about 200
| yards from the scene of the accident.
| He notified the RockaWay Point Air
station, where Lieutenant Thompson
| was stationed. and DR.. J. F. New
| berger identified the body, The body
hospital for burial. Lieutenant
| Thompson's father and brother live
at Raleigh, N. c. He was not dual
| flied aviator and was making his first
| fight alone which would have quail
| fed him, when the accident happened.
According to a dispatch from
Strasbourg,- Walter Damroseh ana
had a remarkable ovation On their
arrival from Milan. An audience
which crowded Strasbourg's largest
| hall received each number with loud
| applause and recalled Mr., Damrosch
| five times after Beethovens Heroic
| Symphony" 1t also liked John Pow
eiPs "Rhapsodie Negre" and had
| plenty of enthusiasm for the Mar
seillaise" and THE Star-Spangled
The Americans came from Null
house. and some doughboys journey
ed from CoblenZ.
Fernand Baldensperger, who. was
the Sorbonnes exchange professor
at Columbia during the war, repre-
scented the University of Strasbourg.
Miss Mary D. Uline,. Of Chicago,
| headed a contingent Of Alsatian girls
| in the costume of the province, who
/ came from the Franco-American So
! cial center to give Mr.. Damrosch a
bouquet of American Beauties. Amer
! lean flags beckoned from many win
| and the people gave them hearty
| welcome.
| A statement from Havana, Cuba.
| informs US the Havana Chamber of
| Commerce petitioned the Cuban gov
eminent to take necessary steps TO
see that 100000 sacks OF sugar OF
| the present crop be retained on the
| island and withheld from export;
| The chamber of commerce explained
! that unless this measure was taken
| the shortage of sugar in CUBA Wouio
| be very acute.
! BLANCHARDVILLE, Wis. June 2.
-(By Associated Press "A severe
| Windstorm which struck Blanchafd-
| Vile section caused a property Joss
| "o~@
| estimated While there was no loss
of life, a hundred or more barns ana
| other farm buildings were wrecked
Hundreds of cattle were killed.
Checks for 100000 are not COM
| mon in the morning mail. That was
| why Miss Virginia c.. GildersleeVe,
dean Of Barnard COLLEGE CO. J. had ID to
for the somewhat shaky signature
which adorned their diplomas.
at took me at least twenty-five
! signatures to get control of nay
nerves." she explained at an alumnae
luncheon after the =, co TaGIa et4si, I
check for 100000 was from the
Carnegie Foundation, to be added TO
our endowment fund"
Mrs. Edith Mulhall Achilles, presi-
dent of the Alumnae association, an
nouneed that the fund had reached
the morning mail. This. with $780,
900, promised from the general edur
cation board, brings the fund almost
| to its total of 100000.
The Anna Howard Shaw Memorial
! committee, which proposes to raise
| 100000 for memorials at Bryn
| Mawr and the Woman's Medical col
| lege of Pennsylvania, was organized
Yesterday at OUTRAGE headhquarters,
! as chairman.
Thus far 23O delegates have ar
| rived for the international suffrage
congress in Geneva. They include
Mrs. Josephus Daniels. wife of the
secretary of the navy. The confer
ence opens Sunday, with a sermon IN
| Geneva Cathedral by Miss Maude A.
Royden, of London.
William H. Edwards, collector Of
| internal revenue in New York city,
was in Washington, consulting with
treasury officials regarding an in
crease in pay for his 500 employees.
| Mr.. Edwards said that his force was
in a deplorable condition and had
| been badly diSorganized because out
side employers were willing to pay
from $500 to 200 more than the
| government.
The collector ventured the opinion
that $1,000 was. the minimum wage
upon which a single man could live
decently during these days of costly
necessaries. He also said that his
men deserved credit. for through
their work $1,000,000 had been col
lected in taxes for the government
A school dress for spring and
fall which cost $2.87 and which was
Aline Johnson. of Boston. has won
| first prize in a statewide high
school girls clothing contest con
! Quoted by the University of Texas, 1t
was announced recently. There were
| fifty entries.
The Standard Oil company's sta
ton in Greedy, Kas., valued at more
than $1,000,00O, was destroyed by
fire recently, and efforts were being
directed toward keeping the flames
from reaching two $4,000 barrel stor-
| age tanks, both of which are prac-
tically full
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