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New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Several Public Requests
I'm Miss Wilkes's " i'll
Hospitals and Charitable So
cicties Among BeneGcia-ies
Named for S30OsOO0 Estate

Several public institutions are bene-
ticiaries under the Will of Miss Grace
Wilkes. fled yesterday in the Surro-
gates Court. Miss Wilkes died August
at 6 Washington Square.
Miss Wilkes created trust fund
which is to yield an income of $4,000 a
year for Katherine L. Walsh, upon
whose death the principal of the fund
is to be distributed as follows: $4,000
to the Domestic and Foreign Mission
ary Society of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, $4,000 each to the Associa-
tion for Improving the Condition of the
Poor. Children's Aid Society, st. Johns
Guild, New York Eye and Ear Infir-
mary, Cathedral Of st. John the Divine,
Church Of the Ascension and Society
of st. John; $50 each TO st. Luke's
Home for Aged Women. New York
Charities Aid Association; the balance
Of the fund going to the New York City
Protestant Missionary Society.
To the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Miss Wilkes left several paintings and
pieces of old china Marchesa Rita
Stlozzi. OF Florence, Italy, cousin re-
ceives $4,000. Several cousins get be-
quests of $4,000 and $4,000 each. Miss
Wilkes remembered her servants with
gifts of from $500 to $4,000 each
The rcsiduary estate is left to the
Protestant Episcopal Sisterhood of ST.
Mary for its hospital children, to be
known as the Wilkes Fund. Miss
Wilkes left an estate valued at more
than 100000.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
John G. Luke, Paper
Manufactures, Is Dead

John G. Luke, a we'll known paper
manufactures and president and di-
rector OF the West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company, died yesterday in St.
Luke's Hospital. whore he underwent
an operation for appendicitis two
weeks ago.
Mr. Luke was born in Rockland, Del,
and was educated in the public schools
there and at Jacksons Academy in
Wilmington, Del At the age Of six
teen he entered the mills of the Jessup
and Moore Paper Company, at Rock
land. where his father was then en-
ployed as uperintendent
Mr.. Luke subsequently worked in
several Of the largest paper mills in
this country and was finally made
superintendent in the Richmond Paper
Company, Of Richmond. Va. one Of
pulp in the United States. With the
experience which he gained in this
plant. Mr.. Luke organized company
Of his own at Piedmont. ". Va This
was the beginning OF the West Nir-
ginia Pulp and Paper Company.
Resides being president and director
of this company at the time of his
death Mr.. Luke also was director Of
the Irving National Bank, the Mer-
chants Insurance Company and sov-
eral other corporations. He was a
member of the Ardslev. Sleepy Hollow.
Union League and Aldine clubs. He is
survived by three sons and two daugh-
ters. Funeral arrangements viii be an
nONncpd lator
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Art Sale at Anderson
Galleries Nets Sl3,87O

The sale Of art and furniture be
longing to Dr. George Roe Lockwood.
of this city, and Harry Hubbard, of
Greenwich, Conn. which closed 4
three day session at the Anderson gal
leries yesterday, realized a total of
S13,S7S.5O. The closing session brought
$9,2295O.
CHIEF in interest and value among
the objects sold yesterday was a lac
quered satinwood baby grand piano
from the collection OF Clyde Fitch, the
playwright. The piano was purchased
on the order of private buyer for
S1.225. Everett Shinn, the noted artist
was commissioned by Mr.. Fitch 20 dec
done in an elaborate all-over decora-
tion OF flower fcstoons and With me
dailions encircNng dancing figures in
the manner Of Watteau. The top has
painting Of an eighteenth century
outdoor festival in the characteristic
painting of Mr. Shinn. Another OBJ
Ject of interest. large Kirman rug
from the Lockwood collection, sold to
c. A. Peet for $6i0
Other sales were
Mahogany grand piano to a f. Wise,
$500; mahogany library desk. copy of
the George Washington original. p II.
Noycs, S1lO; eros and petit point arm
chair. Flemish. seventeenth century
to {. A. Poet. $3.50; WOODEN Shirnz rug
to A. FIorahan, $S3o; pair of carved
ainut cabinets. Forcntine. to DR.. A.
kahnnnmez, $3.50; marouetry buffet
decorated with bronzes, Louis XVI
style, to s. Whitney, $500; Greek
bronze statue, II. Claman. $3.50; ma
hogany secretary. Sheraton model, to
GinsberG q Levy, $3.50.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Going On To-day

American Museum of Natural History.
metropolitan Museum OF Art. admission
free.
Aquarium. admission free
New York Historical Society, admission
Van Cortlandt Park Museum. admission
geological Park. admission free
Hall of Fame OF Now York Universitv.
University Heights all day admission n
Lecture by pr Henry Nenmann on rs
Main Street True Picture of
Amctica2 brooklyn Society for Ethical
Culture, Academy Of Music ii o'clock
Lecture by Alfred W Martin on '"rhc
Ethical Message of the Divine Comedy -
Ethical Culture Meeting House, West
Sixtv- Fourth street. II O'Clock.
l2S West Forty third Street II O'Clock
Address by pr stephen a. Wise on "Pui-
pit Srnsat tIonslism." Carnegie Hall,
10 IS o'clock.
Exhibition by the American Federation OF
Arts or prints in color and Photographic
Tor school and library decoration SAKE
Foundation building, Twenty -second
street and Lexington Avenue. O'Clock.
Lecture by Lieutenant Colonel Diijah W
Haitord on Men Have Met" Wcat
SID" Y NJ. e. A. O'clock
story hours for children by Anna C.
politan Muaeum OF Art. and O'Clock
LAYING OF the cornerntono Of the Synn
KoKuo building, concourre Center OF
lsracl. 2a2J Grand Concoursc. the Bronx
? O'Clock.
Lecture by Or. Wn Durant on .'st.ndh.l
Master Psychologist" Labor Temple
Tourteon,h street and Second Avenue
o'clock.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Woman, 100, Gets Proposal
To Marry From Suitor, lO3
Mrs. lie Vapresco, of Staten Island, Who Did Day ys
Washing She Reached Century Mark, Admits
She Has Not Decided W neither She Wiil cd Again

Mrs. Francois lie Vaprcsco is 100
years old. She is tanned by the sun
and wind and wrinklcd by the passage
of years. She lives b. herself in a
low, white cottage not far from the
railroad station at Grant City, S. |. A
man has come into her life. He is l03
years old and he wants to marry her
Mrs. lie Napresco is in a quandary.
She had always thought that when she
reached the age of 100 she would no
longer be troubled with proposals of
marriage. But no. a friend of her
youth. one F. Lindsey, is sure that he
and she could live together in peace
and harmony, and has written from
Baltimore to tell her so.
For all her 100 years. Mrs. lie Va
presco blushed quite noticeably yestcr-
day when asked whether she had &C
cepted the proposal OF marriage. She
was too tired however, to make any
definite statement. She had been busy
cleaning the front room, and said that
she had not decided yet.
Having been married twice who
should know better than she that such
a state is not to be entered into lightly
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
DR.. Charles ]. Hexamer Dies

PHILADELPHIA, Oct Is. Or.
Charles J. HeXamer, who was severely
attacked in many quarters during the
war because Of his activities as pres-
dent Of the National German Ameri-
can Society. died at his home here to-
day.
Deeply affected by the attacks made
upon MIN, DR.. HeXamer withdrew from
vigorous public life to one of complete
retirement. Prior to the war he was
decorated by the ruling Emperor OF
Germany' and was highly honored by
the German Ambassador. Count Won
Bernstorff, upon the occasion Of mis-
fifteth birthday.
DR.. Hexamer was born in this city in
1862 and was graduated from the Uni
vorslty Of PennsNlNania in 1890
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Miss Minerva o. Beebe
Bride of J. III. Hamline

LENOX, Mass, Oct 15.-The. Great
harrington Congregational Church was
decorated with dahlas and autumn
leaves for the wedding tonight of Miss
Minerva Olive Beebe. daughter of Dr..
and Mrs. John B. Beebe, of that town,
to John Henry Hamine. Yale 20, of
Lake Forest, Iii. The Rev. c. Thurs
ton Chase otficiated and the bride was
given in marriage by her father
The bridal gown was OF rose point
lace over white satin, court train and
tule veil, with lace crown and orange
blossoms. She carried orchids and Ill
ies-o the valley. Miss Virginia Tick
nor, Miss Margaret Oates, of Memphis,
Tenn; Miss Elizabeth Steck. Of Win
chester, Va; Miss Mary Church and
Miss Louise Durant. of Great Barring
ton, We're bridesmaids; Miss Jane John
son, of Boston, flower girl
Newell Anger, of Chicago, was best
man, and the ushers were Collier Platt
and Churchill Peters. of New York;
Jay Morse Ely and Russell Kelly, Of
Lake Forest; James S. Hemingway, Of
New Haven, Conn; Charles Garland
of Pittsburgh, and Richard r. Beebe
of Great Darlington.
Seventeen hundred invitations were
issued for the wedding and a reception
for two hundred persons was held at
the Berkshire Inn.
Among the wedding guests were Mrs
William Hall Walker, Mr.. and Mrs.
Denison D. Dana, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Ives Mackie, Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Church, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Turlay
Mackie, Mr.. and Mrs Frederick A.
Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Ran
som, Miss Harriet D Ransom, Miss Tacie
Bell Houston, Of New York; Mrs. John
Henry Hamline, Mrs. c. Morse Ely,
Mrs. Wheaton Anger, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward B. Butler, Miss Theresa and Miss
Lee Hlgginson, Of Chicago, and Mr..
and Mrs. Frederick B. Robins, of Ridley
Park, Toronto.
Mrs. Hamlinc is a graduate of the
National Cathedral School at Wash
ington, D. c. The couple will reside at
105 Lake Avenue. Lake Forest. Ill
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Women Registration Clerks Shut
Book Of Ages to Curious Sisters

member unpleasant experiences the
first time they voted and are unwilling
to venture again. Sometimes this is
their first vote. and they still have the
old anti suffrage prejudice against a
man-flled polling place. If they can
be reassured that there are women on
the board they feel this is guaranty
of courtesy, and are more easily per
suaded to register.
AS for the eternaL controversy over
the question of women's ages it is the
consensus Of opinion among the wo-
men registration c.er6s that the femi-
nine voters are no more reticent about
their age than men are.
81 had laan-a prominent business
man, too-come in here this morning
and register as over forty. while his
wife registered as over thrty'" said
one woman yesterday in a Park Avenue
polling place where the -Four Hun
dred" perform their political duty.
Neither sex is anxious to have too
much known about ace. had woman
turn over the page OF the book to the
name Of friend of hers, so she might
see how Old she was. OF course, l
didn't do it,
The Republican leader of certain
downtown district dashed into head
quarters in despair yesterday after
noon, saying there was a group Of
twenty voters in working giri's nome
who had refused to regis this year,
because the women on the election
board lived in their house and had
told their ages after Election Day last
year.
"she was GOOD clerk. too," sighed
the captain, but she'll never get the
chance to give away the voters ages
again. III see to that
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16

The only allwoman registration
board in the city has been discovered
at l191 Third Avenue. the 23d Election
District of the 14th Assembly District
Here Mrs. Lillian Turbervllle. an
alert little woman in fuJs and bright
green sweater, acts as chairman Of the
board in place of Jacob Solins who
had reigned over the district for the
last twenty years. With her at the
Mrs. Anna Levy and Miss Emily krtil,
all old hands at the game. and ready
to stake their books against those pre-
pared by any men clerks in the dis
trict
This year has seen the woman regis
tration clerk in greater numbers tnan
ever before. When women first re-
ceived the vote a few were put on
boards in favored districts, as an ex-
pertinent. Now they are on the boards
as a permanent part of the political
men.
1t was estimated at the Board Of
Elections yesterday morning that there
were about $500 women clerks working
in the registration boards OF the great
er city. In Manhattan. where there are
9TS election districts, there are 1856
women clerks.
The presence of women on the boards
is considered very important in getting
out the woman vote. Mrs. Charlotte
Farrar. secretary of the Women's Co.
operative Anti-Tammany Campaign
Committee commented on this yester-
day after a tour of inspection of the
registration boards Of Manhattan and
the Bronx.
There are many women still who
are tinid about entering a polling
place" she said "Sometmes they re
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Rockefeller .Jr.
Gives Home for
Alien Students
international House To Be
Erected on Riverside
Drive With Residential
Accommodations for 500
Club Features Provided
Social Rooms, Gymnasium
and Swimming Pool to
Add to Its Attractiveness

The announcement was made last
night at the opening reception Of the
intercollegiate Cosmopolitan Club in
Earl Hall, Columbia University, that
John D. Rockefeller ir. has donated
funds sufficient for the building OF a
residential center in New York City
for five hundred students from foreign
countries.
The proposed name for the new
building is international House" It
will be erected on twelve lots adjoin-
ing Claremont Avenue, opposite Grants
Tomb, and will have a frontage of 150
feet on Riverside Drive. During the
period of construction the following
committee Will have charge of the gift:
Frederick Osborn, chairman: Cleveland
Y. Dodge. Raymond h. Vosdck. Mrs.
William ". Rosster and Harry E. Ed
monds, present director Of the Cosmo-
pol.tan Club, the work Of which the
foregoing committee Will be respon-
sible for carrying on.
The building viii accommodate FIVE
hundred students in residence. Its as
sembly and social rooms, cafeteria,
gymnasium and swimming pool will
provide for several times that number.
"A polLioH Oi lne UOfUllOFy VIII Ue re-
served for women students, who will
have their own separate entrance, ele-
yator and social rooms.
With the announcement Of the new
building an accompanying statement
was made of the activities of the Cos
mopolitan Club, which is "the improve
ment of the social, inte ellectual, spirit
ual and physical condition Of the men
and women students from every land
who are studying in the colleges, uni
versities and professional schools of
the City of New York.
Its principal social activities. in
cluding Sunday suppers, have been
held in Earl Hall, but there has been
long recognized need for suitable
quarters of residential character.
Housing in New York is difficult at
best for Americans. 1t is infinitely
worse for students from other lands.
Last year there were 400 students
from seventy countries sSudying in
forty higher institutions of learning
in the city. The migration of students
from one land to another has never
been so great, and is increasing. 1t
represents great force for the pro
motion OF international understanding
aud good Will; also for building up
light relationships in commerce, in
dustry and trade
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Health Contest 10
Mark Bronx Baby
Show This Week
ZOO Infants Entered in
Competition a, Bazaar of
Physicians Club TO Found
A ca d envy Of Medicine

The Bronx will give to New York
City new tyhe of baby show this
week at the l05th Field Artillery Ar
mory, Franklin Avenue and l66th
Street, where the Bronx Physicians
Club last night opened a seven day
bazaar as part Of an effort to raise
funds for the organization Of Bronx
Academy of Medicine.
This baby show takes the aspect Of
baby health contest, in which the en-
trants will be Judged on both physical
snd mental development. 1t is baby
contest in the strictest sense of the
word, only infants from three months
to three years of age being admitted.
For determination Of their mental
development seven tests have been de-
vised for the entrants Of various ages,
these tests ranging from facial express
sion and irritability to the repeating
of sentences composed of simple words.
About 1000 infants have been en-
tered in the contest to date. Six gold
medals, three for boys and three for
girls, will be awarded the winners,
while each child who realizes per
centage of ninety Will be given GER
tfcate of award by the club. There
Is also talk Of the creation of q Baby
Hall Of Fame in the new Academy Of
Medicine. where the winners pictures
will be hung.
Nine OF the most prominent baby
specialists in the Bronx have been Sc
lected as judges in the contest, and it
is announced that they will take ad-
vantage of the occasion to compile i'm
portant statistics regarding childbirth.
The entire arena of the armory has
been converted to bazaar uses Sixty
booths have been erected, from which
$4,000 worth of merchandise, ranging
from operating tables to teddy bears,
viii be vended for the cause.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
Ernest Greene Marries
Miss Helen Culver Kerr
Ceremony Performed in Apple
Orchard Under Canopy of
Chrvsanthemums

One of the most picturesque wed
dings Of the autumn took place at noon
Yesterday when Miss Helen Culver
Kerr, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Clapperton Kerr, of 10 East Fifty
fourth Street, became the bride Of
Ernest Greene, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Ernest Greene, of IA East Sixtieth
Street, at New Canaan. Conn. The
bridal party walked from the house
through the garden to thc edge Of an
old apple orchard. where the ceremony
was reformed on the edge of terrace
under a canopy OF white chrysnnthe-
NUNS, with q background of old
cedars. The entire terrace was covered
with autemn leaves and chrysanthe-
NUNS. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev Theodore f. Russell Bourne,
of the Church of the Resurrection. this
city The bride wore ner mothers
wedding gown Of ivory white satin and
seventeenth century Bruges lace. Her
Belgian lace veil, edged with Brus-
sells applique lace, also belonged to her
mother.
The bridal attendants were Mrs.
Alfred Clark Bedford. Of Brooklyn,
metron Of honor, and the following
bridesmaids: Miss Jessie Culver Tired :
well. Of Washington. cousin of the
bride; Miss Margaret Dorothy Greene,
sister Of the bridegroom; Miss Clara
Elizabeth Livingston, of Porto Rico
Miss Charlotte Edwards Hibbard and
Miss Mary Osborn Polak. OF Brooklyn;
Miss Josephine Dorsett Bedle, Miss
Jeanette Blake and Miss Beatrice Helen
Fairbanks. Elizabeth Hiss and Helen
Hatfield were flower girls
Lawrence Suydam Greene served as
his brothers best man, and the ushers
were George Bunker, Of Yonkers;
Wadsworth Clark Dunn, Samuel Lloyd
ir. william Blake Nichols, Irwin
Auchincloss Sprague. Wisner Robert
son Townsend jr., Roger Culver Tired
we'll, Of Washington, and Keith Faulk-
ncr Warren
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
New School of Art To Be
Opened Here Tomorrow

A new school of art devoted to the
furtherance and practice Of the princi-
pie discovered by Jay Hambidge.
Known as dynamic symmetry" will be
opened at 208 West Eleventh Street to-
morrow. A series of lectures for stu
dents in the various arts will be begun
then and continue throughout the win
ter. The first lecture will be TO ad-
vertising men, applying the hambidge
principle, and will be open to the pub
lie.
The school, it was announced yes
terday. will open in temporary quar-
ters pending the erection of large
new art school in the Washington
Square section, plans for which have
already been made.
The plan embodied in the new school
embraces the study of all the arts of
design and will be modelled after the
schools of ancient Greece in the matter
oil teaching.
Courses in the following subjects
will be given by Mr.. llnmbidee and as
sociates: Advertising and book plan
ning; applied craftsmanship; monu-
mental, civic and domestic art; sym
metry of the figure; painting and dec
oration interior and furniture design;
engineering construction.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
PersIlingg Departs To-day
On Trip TO Honor Briton

PARIS, Oct. 15.-General John
Pershing Will depart in & special o.,
for Havrc on Sunday forenoon m h,
journey to present the Congressional
Medal of Honor to Great Britain's "u,
known Warrior" He vii be accom-
panied by only ono a:3 and an order,,
lie will return from England on boa,s
a destroyer. arriving in Havre Tues,
day morning and driving by motor fror,
that city TO PariS.
Two important functions in hi,
honor viii be given on Wednesday. Ths
first viii be a luncheon at the Martins
League, during which he viii be pre.
sented with gold commemorate,
medal. Later in the day a recention
will be given al the City Hall It viii
be attended by President Millerana
members of the Cabinet and many
prominent residents of France. Thers
will be an elaborate program Of entsr.
tsinment. artists from the National
Opera being engaged for the occasion
General Persning will leave for Cher
bourg Thursday morning to board tho
George Washington for his trim n
America.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16
DR.. Farrand Will
Be lnauag,arafeel at
Cornell Thursday
University 10 Enduct It's
Fourth President With a
Series Of Ceremonies: Del
egates Due From Abroad

Dr.. Livingston rarrand, fer two
wears chairman Of the central com
mittec Of the American Red Cross, viii
be inaugurated fourth president o.
Cornell University on Thursday. Oc
tober 20, which has been set aside as
university holiday
The inaugural exercises viii take
place in Bailey Hall in the morning
In the afternoon the cornerstone of
the new chemical laboratory viii be
laid This event is second in impor-
tance in half week of unusual actv-
ity at Ithaca.
Universities in America and abroad
are sending delegates to the inaugural
monies. which really begin Wednes-
day evening. Then there Will be an IN
formal supper, at which the delegates
and other distinguished visitors will be
Welcomed This affair will be followed
hy an equally informal reception by
Acting President and Mrs Smith.
An academic procession is to start
the ceremony Of induction The in
vocation will be delivered by President
H'bben Of Princeton, Of which Dr.. Far
rand Is an alumnus. There viii be an
address of Introduction by Judge His
cock. and then Acting President Smith
IS to deliver to ident-elect Far
rand the emblem Of his new Office the
charter and seal of the university.
Official greetings from Harvard for
Eastern colleges VIII be delivered by
President Lowell. President Alderman
Of the University of Virginia Will speak
similarly for the colleges Of the South.
President Burton OF the University Of
Michigan for the Middle West and
President Wilbur of Leland Stanford
for the West. In addition, Governor
Miller will deliver official greetings
from the State of New York.
Friday the College Of Architecture
celebrates its semi-centennial. and on
Saturday, by way of completing the
ceremonies, Cornell will meet Colgate
en- the 9ridiron.
New-York tribune., 1921-10-16

and withou, considerable thought. She
hasn't seen Nh Lindsey for-she could
not remember how long many years.
He says in his letter that he is willing
and able to take good care of her and
awaits an invitation
Mrs. lie Vapresco would be glad to
see him. but she does not wish to have
him come dashing into Grant City on
the Staten Island local ON any vain
quest, with a package of incense under
one arm and a phonograph under the
other She doesn't approve of the way
people get married and then divorced
in these merry days, and she is more
careful Of the affections Of her admir-
ers than many contemporary youth
full beauty.
Mrs. lie Vapresco is said to be the
oldest woman on Staten Island. She
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
on October 4 by doing an extra heavy
days washing and taking her custom
airy glass of vim rouge. She claims it
is regular hours. plenty of work and a
good glass of wine, now ana then, that
have lent vigor to her years. She had
two daughters and ten grandchildren.