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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Conservation Wednesday
Other Protestant Churches
and Eastern Orthodox
Bishops Will Participate

The Rev. DR.. William 7. Manning,
who on Wednesday is TO be consecrated
.eath Bishop OF the Episcopal Diocese
Il New York. announced yesterday that
he viii continue as rector of Trinity
Church for several months. The rector
shin recently was declined by the Rev.
Or. Samuel Smith Drury, of st. Paups
school, Concord. N. H., who was elected
April 8.
Just before sermon, preached by
the venerable DR.. William Montague
Geer, yicar emeritus of St. Paups
Chanel, DR.. Manning stepped 30 the
ehshcel front and said:
1T is . great happiness to me to be
able to say to you that the event which
ID to occur this week will not take
me away, FOR the present, from the
rectorship OF Trinity. At the request
81 the vestry I shall continue to hold
this Office until autumn and so long
As may be necessary, so that the vestry
may have all the time it desires to
take action. know that you will offer
your constant prayers this week for
the diocese and for me in the wider
field in which I have been called TO
act.
Or. Geer Pays Tribute
DR.. Geer sketched the work o. the
Rev DR.. Manning as rector of Trinity
and urged the congregation to follow
the leadership he had established.
"Whle DR.. Manning will remain
titular chief of Trinity pending the
choice Of successor" said DR.. Geer,
we can to-day pay tribute to his long
record Of faithful service his un-
swerying steadfastness, his kindly but
irm discipline and his gentleness of
heart, which has taught us all, clergy
and Iaity, TO love him as leader and
as Kan of God"
Discussing DR.. Manring's social serv-
ice, Dr.. Geer spoke of what he had
lone to assist in solving the tenement
and housing problems. He referred to
Or. Manning's successful efforts to
re free the pews Of Trinity as a
remarkable event, which, he said,
meant that any one had the right to
ceme and worship, NO matter if he
were Of the humblest in the land or
socially among the elect
Conservation To Be imposing
Arrangements have been completed
Tor inc conservation Of DR.. Manning
next Wednesday morning at the Cathe-
dral Of st. John the Divine.
The event will be the most imposing
religious spectacle seen here in many
years More than 10000 persons have
made application fer tickets, but only
800 can be seated in the Cathedral, It
was announced yesterday by Dean
Howard G. Robbins, chairman of the
committee Of arrang ements.
Those who do not hold tickets, how
ever, wiiI be able to view the process
sion which will precede the consecra-
5on ceremony and in = hich will 1aarch
several hundred bishops and clergymen,
vested in cassock, surplice, stole and
academic hood besides lay officials of
Trinity and the Cathedral.
at 1925 4, m. the procession will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Bishop Harris Of Japan
And Corea Dies i'm Toxic
Acknowledgements Fatal to Aged
Preiate of Methodist Epis-
copal Church

TOXIC, May s.-Bishop Merrirnan
Colbert Harris died tonight at Aoyama
College, q Methodist Episcopal insti-
tuition in Tok D. His death was due
to arterio-scierosis.
Merriinan Colbert Harris was elect
ed Bishop Of Japan and Corea in May,
1904. He retired in 1915 and was APP
pointed Bishop Emeritus. He was born
at Beallsville, Ohio, in 1916. He served
for three years in the 18th Ohio Cay
airy in the Civil War. he joined the
Pittsburgh Conference OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church in 1869, was in pas
torate from 1869 to 1873 and was ap-
pointed TO Japan in the latter year. /.
From 1886 TO 1904 he was member
OF the Japan annual conference and su-
perintendent of the Japanese mission
Of the church in San Francisco, es-
tablishing Japanese missions in Hawaii
and on the Pacific Coast and organizing
them into Pacific Japanese mission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Backer, Indicted i'm
Lockwood Inquiry.
Dies OF Pneumonia
Builder, Who Told of Being
Agent in S25, 900 Trans
fer go End Strike, Made
Fortune i'm Construction

George Backer, builder who testi-
fed before the Lockwood committee
that he acted as intermediary in the
transfer of $4,000 to end strike on =
building he was constructing for Eph-
RAIN Levy, died OF pneumonia yester-
day at his home, 1877 Riverside Drive.
An Indictment charging perjury was
found against him because of alleged
discrepancies in his testimony before
the investigating committee.
he was fortysix years old and ca4ne
60 this country from Russia in 1887. His
first business was that OF selling sun
plies TO building contractors. He then
entered the real estate field and about
fifteen years ago started in the con-
struction field on his own account.
The business is believed TO have
yielded Backer fortune. The value
Of buildings which he has put up is
estimated at sl00, 0G0, 900. His wife and
five children survive him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
w omen Discuss National
Civic Foundation To-day
City Societies Interested i'm
Move to Coordinate Work
THROUGHOUT Country

Women prominent in civic affairs
and women's club work will meet this
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Francis
Burial Hoffman, 90 East Seventy
ninth Street, to discuss plans for the
establishment of the Women's National
Civic Foundation.
The step is being urged for the pur-
pose of co6rdinating numerous women's
organizations in the country. The
movement is headed by Mrs. C. C. CAL
houn, of Washington.
Headquarters Of the foundation will
be located at Washington, where q
building is to be ertcted on tract at
Sixteenth Street and Connecticut Ave
nue.. The tentative plans call for q
theater, club assembly room and
various executive quarters. It is said
the building scheme will call for an
expenditure Of S1,0o0;0o0.
This afternoons meeting will be at
tended by representatives of various
societies that intend to become a part
of the foundation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
u. s. Jews Denounce Attacks
Born of Racial Hate, Birth
Abraham Master Declares

ATLANTIC CITY, n. J., May 8.-De-
Tense of American Jews against anti
Semitic attacks was made by Samuel
Dorf, grand master of the United States
Grand Lodge, Order of Birth Abraham,
in a message delivered to members Of
the order at their annual convention
here to-day.
The message declared it was "amaz-
ing that in this country, where our ma
tional boast is civil and religious lib
erty, there should be persons engaged
in the work of spreading the poison of
anti-Semitism."
Attacks upon the Jewish race made
within the United States, the grand
master said, were "most barefaced and
shameful falsehoods, born mostly of
bigotry and racial hatred, and are the
outgrowth Of ignorance"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
LOUIS O. IvEY

MONTCLAIR, N, j., May 8.-Louis O..
Ivey, sixty-four years old, treasurer Of
the Whitlock Cordage Company, of &c
South Street, New York City, died to-
day at his home here, 36 North Noun
tain Avenue. He was born in New
York City, where he attended Trinity
School. Later Mr. Ivey was graduated
from Columbia University in the class
o. '76. For eleven years he was pres
ident Of the Montclair Athletic Club,
and at the time Of his death was q
member of the Montclair Club, the
Montciair Golf Club, Columbia Uni
versity Club and the Republican Club
OF New York. Mr.. Ivey, whose wife
died in 1902. was 8 vestryman in st.
Luke's Episcopal Churcn, Montclair.
He is survived by three sisters.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
American Searnen's Friend
Society Observes o3d Year

The American Seamen's Friend So
ciety, which maintains the sailors
home and institute, yesterday observed
the ninety-third anniversary Of its
work with service at the Mount Nor
ris Baptist Church, Fifth Avenue and
126th Street.
The Rev. John D. Calvert, president
of the society, and the Rev. DR.. George
Sidney Webster, secretary, represented
the organization at the service. Dr..
Webster said that the work of the
society had been carried on throughout
the last year with deficit of only
$500. The sermon was preached by
the Rev. DR.. Carl Wallace Petty, pastor
Of the church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
James W. Perry, Lawyer,
Dies ait PfainfieId Home
Was Direct Descendant of Fa-
raous Commodore and Assoc
ciate of President Arthur

PLAJNF1ELD, N. j., May s.--James
w. Perry, direct descendant Of Com
modore Perry and lawyer formerly
associated in practice with the late
President Chester "A. Arthur, died at
his home here to- day Mr.. Perry was
born in New Ycrk City seventy three
years ago and was graduate of
Brown University and Columbia. He
was an intimate friend Of the late
president Roosevelt and also an assoc
ciate of the late President Garfield
Mr.. Perry was che Republican norai-
nee for Congress in the 18th Congress
sional District in 1898, running against
John Sabine Smith. whom he defeated.
His early life was spent in Williams
burg, where he attended the old Will
son Street public school. He moved to
New York with his parents in 1862 and
attended the Forty seventh Street Pub
lie School. He prepared for college ut
the English and Classical Academy of
Providence and entered Brown Uni
versity in 1870, where he received his
degree.
After leaving college he studied law,
taking course at the Columbia Law
School, from which he was admitter to
the bar in 1875.
Mr.. Perry gssocil ted himself with
the law firm OF Knevals, which be-
came Knevals e. Perry. The late Pregi-
the firm, which also had among its
members the late Benjamin K. Phelps,
once District Attorney, and Restus S.
Ransom, formerly Surrogate.
He was a member of the Union
League, Racquet. Lawyers and Plain
field Country clubs. He is survived by
his wife.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
1AMEs pHINNEY BAxTER

PORTLAND, Me-, May s.-James
Phinney Baxter, father of Governor
Percival p. Baxter, of Maine, and wide
ly known as an historian, died at his
home here to-day. He was horn in
Gorham ninety-one years ago. Mr.. Bax-
ter was the author OF several works
on the early history of New England
and wss president Of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, He was
an overseer of Bowdoin College, which
had awarded him the honorary degrees
of Master Of Arts and Doctor Of Laws.
He served four terms as Mayor OF
Portland and for many years was en-
gagged in the packing business.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Ethical Society Celebrates
DIR. Adler Speaks at 45th An
niversary Meeting

Or, Felix Adler, senior leader and
founder Of the Society for Ethical Gull
ture of New York, Sixty-fourth Street
and Central Park West, was the prin-
cipal speaker yesterday at the society's
forty-ffth anniversary celebration
He told the members he did not de-
sire to make the ethical movement
worldwide. but wanted to have it de-
velop the deepest and truest things in
human nature. He said he preferred
to see the ethical culture movement
progress slowly and deeply, rather
than to spread like wildfre." He char
acterized the society as "a company of
souls, assisting and encouraging one
another in their ascension from the
lower to the higher spiritual levels"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
Blind SalesgirI Succeeds

a large Department store IN Boston
has employed as salesgirl young
woman who is totally blind. II the ex-
pertinent proves successful it will prob
ably be the means of extending ire
mendously the present restricted field
of employment for the blind. At the
end of the first two weeks the store
management reported that the work of
the blind salesgir! was up to the aver
age standard of new employees.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
SAMUEL LASH FINLAY

Samuel Lash Finlay, president Of the
international Provision Company and
member of the New York Produce Elk
change, died at his residence, 220
Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn, Saturday,
For many years he was prominent in
g tbs raye sss Ba se Yaeht Raeng As
ISOLATION and chairman of the regatta
committee of the Atlantic Yacht Club.
He is survived by his wife, son snd
daughter.
The funeral will be held this after
noon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in
Greenwood Cemetery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
La Cuardia's Baby Daughter
Dies and Mother IL Frustrated

Fioretta Thea La Guardia, one-year-
old daughter of Major and Mrs. F. H.
La Guardia, died yesterday in Roose-
welt Hospital of spinal meningitis.
AS result OF the illness and death
of her child Mrs. La Guardia has suf-
feped nervous breakdown and is now
undeg the care of physicians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09

The only woman who ever has re-
ceived the degree Of Doctor of Music
from Oxford University is DR.. Emily
Daymond, who is a member Of the stan
of the ROYAL College Of Music.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
DR.. Manning to
Serve Trinity
Until Autumn

Announces He Will Remain
as Long as Necessary SO
yestry May Take Time in
Choosing His Successor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
DEATHS

BEEBtER-At Yeukers, n. Y, Friday, May
q, James Gage Beensr, aged ~ years.
Funeral service at hts late residence, I7a
Shonnard Terrace, Yonkers, Monday eve
ming, May 9, at 5 o'clock. Internsnt
Greenwood Cernstery at convenience Of
family.
BIxBY~-As the residence OF her niece, Mrs
Minnie It. Phelps. 1ss East Is4th ST. on
SATURDAY, May 7. Mary Elmira Btxby,
year. Funeral from Reformed Church
Fordharn. Monday. May .. at 4 O'Clock
BRoNs0S--Anna r. Campbell Funeral
Church, Busy. ssth 81. Funeral later,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-09
MARRIAGES

EING--LoGKwooD--o Saturday, May 7,
1921, at st. Georges Church. by the
Right Rev. DR. RaineIander, Bishop OF
PennsylRanfa, assisted by the Rev. Or.
Reiland, rector Of ST. Georges, Mary
Isabel, daughter Of MrE. II. I. Lockwood,
TO lie Roy King.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08
Watch the Pea!

the
For political shell going
at Washing The tn bill framed
public debt and setting aside fund for
ri borrowings
administration
borrowing called
section that has moth
ms whatever to do with axes-at eastw
the
s5oOoooooo "to
authorized by law"
question whether the burden under
caught the significance
uat
the bunch In make
apparently proposing
he public money o bills
to will
- o meantime is obvious
accomplished
he tax "a a generation would be increased
pubncw want lower
Blu does increased public debt?
believed
bills full
a The spint the and IS notw
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08
Woman Replies to Delvin

Editor The stars
certainly am proud The Star In
not afraid 70 publish tho truth. !
have a few words 10 say TO this. our
friend ana n-ighbor, N. T.. Delvin.
n r. d. Auburn. wash.
Yes. I live at Enumciaw. wash.
and am proud Of a. for 4, il begin
ming 60 wake up, Last March when
the white River Lumber company
started It's large mill camps and
pinnery. they employed more japa
than whites, hub The owners Of the
mill works arc white people. and !
didn't know n u was the lectures
they received from hungry ex.aervice
men or n their conscience had just
awakened them. but anyhow. was
told tho other day that II Is now
white mans camp.
Now. Afr. Dclyin. 7 think your
wishhons II where your backbone
should be. Maybe you are like fel
low I know Of whose wifo did .ew.
ting. washing and cooking for board,
rrs. while he helped old John Barley.
corn ruin our boys and girls. Now
you ray look at all the hoidups and
murders. whose fault II ~ People
Just like you. for when n white will
turn down the white man 10 hire the
lap he should be painted with
dark brown coat Of paint and q Jap
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

name applied.
You evidently own a lot Of the
valley where you arc and no doubt
lease II 70 the Japs for a few paluy
dollars more than our white race
would pay for 4, can point out
dozens OF farms where m. Japs have
fine gardens and dairy and live In a
chicken coop. eat rice and firh. u
would mako fellow sick Just 10 10
IN their houses. hope 10 soo every
so called white person who hires 6
Jap Ia preference 20 whifs taken
on, IN mid ocean and dropped In
God said. Go ye. and teach the
gospel 20 all nations" He didn't
say that they should be brought into
another land.
l hope to see tho label on al goods
made by white labor. AZ see the
Diamond Match company. Of Chico.
Cal, have on their boxes OF tooth.
picks. no when buy tooihpicks and
matches demand the Diamond
Match company brand.
wonder II Deivin didn't have hops
on his ranch before prohibition be
came effective.
Well and good. friend. voted for
prohibition.
a constant Star reader.
MRS. T.
Enumeiaw. Wash.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

miitloHhife 1iuD'
notice In the papers that you In.
vito suggestions regarding the best
manner OF supplying the unemployed
and needy people OF Seattle with
work. food and clothing this winter,
Here Is my beat guess. ! think n
will accord with the famous Seattle
Spirit" OF old. and II Il goes. II should
be known as the Seattle Way"
There should be syndicate
formed. or corporation. II neces.
sary. OF people who would be salts.
fled with small Interest or nothing.
for the use OF their money up to
500. 900 or more. TO be drawn upon
wlNn needed. Then. whatever else
tho club might do 10 help the un.
employed. heads Of families and able
and willing. suggest the following:
Search the city for Lots for Sale"
Go TO the owners or agents and say:
We want 70 beautify your lot, plow
H. grade II and SOW II 10 grass; plant
fruit trees. berries. flowers or what
not; set out trees along the street.
etc. etc. In other words. we want
10 set the unemployed to work beau.
tfylng the city.
II seems 10 me plain that every
lot that is thus improved and fixed
up adds 10 its value, not only the
Intrinsic value Of expense. but a
greatly enhanced value due, 10
growth. beauty and dcsirabIlity. A
man asks 81 900 for lot. let us say.
There is 500 worth OF improvements
added. That is 10 say, that In the
cost; but Its enhanced value and its
salable value is considerably more
SO that. presumIng tho value before
Improvement 10 be 81 900. II II now
worth 1890 or more, and should be
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

him MS much ne any OF them.
hut thls know. that no was not
the only one 20 blame. IFS wife
kept up with his financial prosperity
so far a. wearing better clothes wss
concerned. but that was all. In
every thing slee she lived on the level
OF tho years when they had 20 count
every cent.
lie would come home AZ night. and
she would meet him with woe be
gone look because the cook was de
mandinz an ertrn dollar n week
We can't afford H." she said.
She knew that shs could afford
diamonds and fur coats. but she
never know that she could afford
anything that would brosdep her
mind or enlarge her sympathies.
do not suppose hs was mr. patient
with her as he should have been. and
yet ! know he was more patient
than some people thought He tried
TO widen her horizon. but did not sue
coed. His home life was one round
OF petty nsrBings. and most Of them
about petty little meannesses In
money matters.
And 40 they were divorced, and
he has married again. and lives with
a younger and more stylish woman.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08
A Letter From Avridge Mann

For while We iuggio local names.
old foxy California claims TO be tho
Garden OF tho West. and does her
ievei,headed best % tell the Eastern
tourist host that she's the whole Ia.
clfic coast.
SO lot us meet on common ground
20 boost the whols OF Puget Sound
and concentrate upon n name that
we eau jointly bring 10 fame. 10 let
them know. from coast 10 coast. the
giofies that we jointly boast
'-rhr Mountain That Was God
won't care n we should call u every
where Mount Puget, then We can
acclaim a common. typifying name.
until they know. the world around.
Mount Puget and the Puget
SoundT' AvRfDCE MANN.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Futile to Write to Governor

TO see only those communications
that have flattsrinx words for HIM
The columns OF The Star are bot
ter medium for getting wrongs
brought before the public. The
dreadful deeds OF brutality. told by
tho ones who suffer from them.
rouse all the chivalry and compass.
sion In our hearts which We are
capable Of feeling.
We ask. IN all Justice, cannot
some remedy be suggested that viii
rouse our lawmakers TO a sense OF
their responsibility sincerely
hope The star will be the means
OF rouslng public opinion TO It's
highest point OF endurance, then
somsthing will happen.
MRS. CLARA SMITH.
Anacorteh. Wash.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

I have noticed with much interest
your reports OF the Happenings" at
the state insane institutions
worked AT both institutions dur.
Ing my vacation period some years
ago. arm n teacher.
This I will sny from my personal
observation: The physicians mean 10
b. kind. and in fact practice kind
ness. but arc Handicapped by an in.
ferior class Of help. Many are in the
institutions number Of years and
speak and act unkindly TO tho poor
unfortunaieS
II they do no, like new attendants
they make u difficult for them TO re-
main by telling untruthfuI stories TO
tho physicians or the matrons-in
other words. tale bearers"
While tho physicians show kind.
ness TO tho patients they are most
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

and shs lives on her siinony ana
drives a big car. and probably v
wssteful in big things and stinsy In
little things.
There are sins grsnt and Sins littlA
but one Of the sing for which no us9
will forgive a woman In that OF petty
nsgsing.
And women are not quite the only
ouss who nag.
Whoever does n ought 20 stop n
The divorces court is only one OF ~
erai sad ways OF stopping IT. There
are other ways that are cheaper, and
much moro satisfactory.
Sagging In emo OF the unpardon'
able sins. Stop II.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

unjust 20 new attendants By beiiev.
ing false statements without a hear.
ing. Many sad incidents came under
my observation educated
women compelled 20 work and un.
justly discharged.
Ny first day on one OF the wards,
or rather. In tho bath room Of the
ward. saw an attendant push q
soapy cloth In patients mouth be.
cause the poor unfortunate did no,
get into tho bath for her. remon.
s,rated at once. often wonder II
tho attendant IL stIil there. II looks
would kill. would not be writing
this letter. She made II unbearsble
for me after spoke 10 her that
morning. did not report the mat.
ter. feeling Il was useless TO do so.
The matron was an ignorant woman.
always chewing a toothplck.
Sincerely yours.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-09-08

Editor The Star;
The work your paper IL doing 10
help clean out the rotten condition
Of our public institutions. such as
the insane asylums at sedro. Wool.
ley and Steilscoom, IL n grand one
and only trust that good results
viii follow.
One thing n certain; agitation
carried on dotermincdly and con.
unuously does effect many lasting
reforms.
Tho disclosures made concerning
these two institutions alone make
the blood boil. Indeed. We lovers OF
unfortunate humanity would write
TO the governor N wo knew he
would see, or hear about. our let
tiers. But hts secretary permits him