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F.W.Woolwortli
Dies in Home
On Long Island
Head of Nation-Wit?e Chain
of Stores Succumbs to
Influenza at Glen Cove;
Widow Is Seriously 111
Merchant Once Office Boy
Worked for Nothing in His
First Job; Failed Many
Times Early in Career
Frank Winfield Woolworth, origina?
tor of the five-and-ten-cent store, died
early yesterday morning at his summer
home, Winfield Hall, Glen Cove, Long
Island. Ho was in his sixty-seventh
year and had been ill since Saturday of
influenza.
Mrs. Woolworth is dangerously ill
at her home here. She has been in
poor health for some time. Her con?
dition became so serious that when it
was decided last Friday to move her
husband to the country she v.v. i
to accompany him.
Mr. Woolworth was born in Rodman,
Jefferson County, N. Y. He was con?
sidered one of the greatest merchants
in the world. He was oresident of the I
, F. W. Woolworth Company and organ- '
i iaer of the great chain of 1,050 retail
! stores throughout the United States and
i Canada. The Woolworth Building, on
| lower Broadway, is among the world's
i greatest structures and a monument to
the man who started his career by sell
! ing five-cent articles on the top of a
sewing table in a store at Water
town, N. Y.
Mr. Woolworth leaves his widow, Mrs.
Jennie Creighton Woolworth; two
daughters, Mrs. Charles E. F. McCann
and Mrs. James P. Donahue, of New
York, and a brother, C. S. Woolworth,
of Scranton, Penn. The funeral ser?
vices will be held in his late city resi?
dence, 090 Fifth Avenue, to-morrow at
11 o'clock. Burial will be in Woodlawn
Cemetery.
Irving National Bank Director
Besides owning control of the Wool
worth Company, Mr. Woolworth was
one of the largest stockholders and a
director in tho Irving National Bank
and the Irving Trust Company; presi?
dent of tho Broadway Park Place Com
1 pany, which owns the Woolworth
Building and other properties in the
city. He was a member of tho Chamber
of Commerce of New York, the Union
League Club, Lotus Club, Hardware
Club and a director of the Pennsyl?
vania Society.
The stories of Mr. Woolworth's ca?
reer, from the timo he attended the
district school between harvesting
times on the farm, is a scries of fail?
ures and successes which might have
discouraged a less courageous man.
lie was the son of John H. and Fannio
McBrier Woolworth and was born
April 13, 1852.
A few weeks before his death, Mr.
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comPAnv
ccJhe (Store of ue-rVice
BROADWAY at 70th. ST.
new York
il EASTER GIFTS
AN APPEALING SELECTION OF EXQUISITE ARTICLES?
(Mostly or.e-of-a-kind) including:
Fitted Work Baskets?Boudoir Dolls?Brocaded Cigarette and Sweetmeat
Boxes?Guest Room Powder Puffs?Boudoir ?acheta?Engagement Pads
?Decorated Fruit or Candy Boxes?Decorated Basket Jardinieres, etc.
Prices range from
$2.25 to $15.
$?5?^fr -Aiso
A large assortment of
Inexpensive Boxed
Gift Novelties at $1 C$?
(anrl Jess.) *% T^jJ;
* Tho A Ion
Sweetmeat Boar ?
=^as??^r?:
F. W. WOOLWORTH
Woolworth dictated a short story of
his career. Other than tho education j
he received at the country school, his ;
only training later was in a business I
college at Watertown which ho at- |
tended two terms. "Tho education I
got in that business school did me ?
more good than any classical college j
training 1 might have got," he wrote.
Ran Errands for Nothing
"In March, 1873, when I was twenty
one years old, I commenced as an er?
rand boy with the dry goods firm of
Augsbury & Moore, in Watertown. 1
was pretty old for an errand boy. I
worked for nothing." Two years later
Mr. Woolworth obtained a position as
salesman with another firm at $10 a
week. This was reduced to $8 because
ho didn't show satisfactory results.
Worry over his failure caused illness
and he returned to the farm for a year.
In 1877 Mr. Woolworth again tried
to be a merchant. He was given another
position as salesman at a wage of $10
a week, with the firm of Moore & i
Smith, in Watertown. He had married!
and his first child had been born when
his wages wer? cut to $8.50 a week.
In spito of this, he had saved $50 by
the end of 1878.
Mr. Woolworth developed tho five
and-ten-cent idea from the top of a
table. One of the first of his bargain
[successes came when he placed an
array of articles on tho table marked,
"Your choice for five cents." The pur?
chasing power of a stipulated price
mark had been demonstrated and he
never abandoned the idea, even in the
face of obstacles and reverses.
First Store in Utica
The first five-and-ten-cent store was
opened in Utica with Mr. Woolworth's
savings of $50 and a small loan from ;
his father. The business was success-,
ful at first, but he later sold out part,
of the store for $170 and sent the'
remaining stock, valued at $-100, to ?
Lancaster, Penn. The store started in ?
that city in June, 1879, was Mr. Wool-;
worth's first successful mercantile en?
terprise. The first day's sales amount?
ed to $127.64. Last year's profits of;
the F. W. Woolworth Company totalled j
$107,175,000.
From this beginning a ?.tore was j
opened in Harrisburg. Then followed ,
stores in Philadelphia and other \
cities. Three out of five were failures.
according to Mr. Woolworth's story. I
He had brought in his brother, C. S.
Woolworth, who managed the Lan?
caster store, and later went back to
Watertown and hired Carson C. Peck,
an old associate, who later came to
New York to become general manager
of the Woolworth stores. Mr. Wool
worth went to F.uropo and other mar?
kets to survey the buying fields for his
five-and-ten-cent articles.
Tho tremendous amount of book?
keeping for this enterprise required
figuring profits down to mills. Where
such articles as tacks and hairpins and
countless household articles were in?
volved, the profits depended solely on
largo distribution.
250 Tons of Hairpins a Year
More than ?4,000,000 pounds of
candy are sold by the chain stores each
year. Three largo factories work all
year to supply the stores with 250
tons of hairpins. Moro than 20,000
employes are required to operate the
stores. It is estimated tho stores have
3,000,000 customers daily.
Seymour II. Knox, Mr. Woolworth's
cousin, joined him in 1884. Their first
failure was in Newark, N. J. Later
they were successful in Erie, Penn.
Mr. Knox afterward withdrew to open
stores of his own. The Knox stores
became successful, and in 1912 were,
amalgamated with 112 Woolworth
stores. F. M. Kirby, another former
partner of Mr. Woolworth, also joined
him in that year, with 96 stores. E.
P. Charlton, another of tho former
five-and-ten-cent store associates,
joined tho amalgamation of 1012 with
53 stores.
In the first ten years of his career
Mr. Woolworth opened twelve stores,
with a partner in each storo. He was
unsuccessful in the larger cities until
1905, when ho incorporated tho F. W.
Woolworth Company, with 318 stores,
with a capital of $10,000,000.
Storo Managers Share Profits
"One of the big factors in my suc?
cess," wrote Mr. Woolworth, "has al?
ways been my willingness to let tho
men associated with mo make all the
money they could. Extraordinary
values for minimum prices have built
the business. The policy has been all
along to keep tho unit of profit small
and to put all our effort into volume
of sales.
"All of the men, from the storo man?
agers up, excepting tho president and
three vice-presidents, have no salary,
but are compensated on a profit shar?
ing basis.
"I have had plenty of discourage?
ments all my life, but I never took my
eyes off tho goal, and I say to young
men that there is just as good a chance
? to-day as there was when I started in
' business."
Important Announcement
Black
ite and Town
regrets that the strike of its drivers has caused so much
inconvenience to its many patrons. The strike has now
happily terminated to the satisfaction of the Company,
and the cabs are again in operation.
Town Taxi Division (de luxe service)
City ordinance rates
Phone Plaza 6200
ite Division (popular service)
Ten cents first quarter mile
Ten cents each quarter mile thereafter
Ten cents each four minutes waiting time
Phone Columbus 5000
Only pay what is on the meter; the company accepts full
responsibility for all meters out of order.
Drivers are not authorized to make flat rates; they must
be made through the office.
If a driver demands more than amount on meter, and you
pay same, get a receipt from driver and mail to Company.
Help and co-operate with the Company and its drivers to
run a clean taxi service.
Look for monogram on door, the sign of organized re?
sponsibility and efficiency. ^?,iu
Head Office
227 Ea*t 64th Street, New York City
Business Men
Ready for Fifth
Loan Campaign
Craig Colgate Chosen as
New Chairman of Ad?
visory Trades Committee
Make New Bond Appeal
Relation of Prompt Pay?
ment of Nation's War
Deht to Commercial Pros?
perity Will Be Stressed
The organization which will weld the
workers and omoloycrs in the principal
trades of the city into an organic unit
during tho forthcoming Victory Lib?
er'y Loan campaign is nearly com
pleted. Benjamin Strong, chairman of
the Liberty Loan Committco, an?
nounced last night that sixty-two of
tho eighty-four men whom he had in?
vited to :ict as chairman of the sub?
committees of the advisory trades
mittee had already accepted.
"Tho Rainbow Division," as tho busi
ness committees were popularly known
during tho previous drives, reaches
more than 120,000 firms, and purposes
in tho next campaign to canvass moro
than 3,000,000 persons and bring to
them a new message of patriotic duty.
Craig Colgate, who during the last
campaign was vice-chairman of this
committee, will net as chairman dur?
ing tho Victory Liberty Lonn cam?
paign, which opens on April 21.
and George B. de Greene, formerly
its chairman, is now chairman of the
New York City Liberty Loan Commit?
tee, which includes the advisory trades
committee.
In explaining precisely how the busi?
ness men's committee fits into the gen?
eral strategy of the drive, Mr. de
Groenc said:
"There is nothing spectacular in the
work of the advisory trade committee.
Our work is largely a matter of dig?
gings?of keeping eternally at it. It is
our task to seo that every business man
is approached and solicited to do his
share in raising the money tho gov?
ernment needs. Previously we have
used tho argument that it was his duty
to back up the 1'ighters. This time we
shall endeavor to convince him, ns a
matter of good business, ns well as pa?
triotism, that the war hills must bo
paid promptly, in order to bring back
normal -business conditions at the
earliest date."
Tho plan, it was pointed out, is to
divido the various trades of the city
into classes, according to their re?
sources and potential subscribing
power, as was done in the previous
campaigns. To each group a quota is
assigned, based an its share of tho de?
sired total. The competitive instinct
is to be called into play by setting ono
group off against another. In the
fourth loan campaign the "Rainbow
Division" placed subscriptions amount?
ing to $1,060,907,408 through the work
of its solicitors. <
The various trades will be divided
into classes, according to their re?
sources. Class A will include those
graded at $10.000,000 and upward;
Class B those from $2,WO0,000 to $10,
000,0Hi>; Class C those up to $2,000.0,10.
Uiuler the chairman of tho commit?
tco works a group of eight sponsors,
each in charge of a number of trade
groups. In tho Victory Loan these
sponsors will be Arthur B. Holden, of
Hathaway, Smith, Folds & Company;
Cecil D. Landalo; Morris K. Parker,
vice-president of the Equitable Trust
Company; Miss Virginia Pottor; Ar?
thur J. Rosenthal, of Bernard, Scholle
& Co.; Arthur Sachs, of Goldman
Sachs & Co.; Walter N. Stillman, of
Evans, Stillman & Co., and Jacques
Weinberger, of William Salomon &
Co.
A new committco has been added in
this campaign to tho group for which
Miss Potter is sponsor?the Committee
on Commercial Schools. Mrs. Josephine
Davis is chairman of tho committee.
Other chairman appointed by Governor
Benjamin Strong, of the Federal Re
servo Bank, who have undertaken to
organizo their trade committees nd are
now at work are:
M. L. Morgenthau, confectionery,
chocolato and supplies; Daniel Kops,
ci r : i and corset materials; Julius
1?. Mahr, butter, choose, etc.; Alfred
K. Toichraan, dyers and cleaners; M.
.1. Spiegel, leather goods; T. W. Decker,
milk and dairy supplies; Frank S.
Flugg, shoo industry, wholesale; John
Slater, shoo industry, retail; William
Skinner, silk industry, J. A. Chippcr
liold, laundries and allied industries;
L. F. Strauss, yarns and art goods; W.
J. Drummond, contractors and civil
engineers; Otto Eidlitz, building and
allied trades.
Theodore I'.oran, electrical industry;
L. J. Robertson, hides and leather;
Charle.i S. Morris, storage warehouse
and nuning vans industry; Mrs. John
Purroy Mitchel, hospitals and sani?
tariums; Cortlandt Barnes, patriotic
household league.
Mrs. Jacob A. Riis, the business
women's committee; Mrs. William A.
Campbell, women's clubs; Mrs. Joseph?
ine Davis, commercial school-;; L. S.
Hinman, china, glass, toys, etc.; Arthur
D. Wolf, cloak, suit and skirt trade;
Bertram II. Borden, drygoods, whole?
sale; William II. Farmer, fane.;,- goods
and notions; William Losenblum, mil?
linery and dress trimmings; Leo
Lewek, women's neckwear; M. B. Mct
calf, woollens and worsteds.
A. C. Knothe, belts, suspenders and
garters; John W. Nix, country produce
and fruits; Truly Warner, hats and
caps; J. C. Good, meats and meat prod?
ucts; Arthur Lehman. New York Cot?
ton Exchange; Paul E. Vernon, paper
industry; Alfred Bamborger, umbrellas,
parasols and canes.
Bennett If. Tobcy, carpets, rues and
floor coverings; Louis Stewart, depart
menl .-tore;; Harry Bailey, icu; J. R.
Wildman, public accountants; Sidney
Blumenthal, upholstery and lace cur?
tains.
O. M. Brown, automotive industry
and accessories; F. J. Hildobrandt,
bakers; William Goldman, men's cloth?
ing; John W. Edmonds, coffee, tea and
spico3; August Goldsmith, jewelry;
Charles Hayden, mining; Benjamin
Fox, pawnbrokers; Alfred E. Marling,
real estate; E. I-'. Albee, theatres and
motion picture houses.
Hardware anil metals, W. H. Tay?
lor; insurance. Ore and allied, Elbricfgo
,1. Snow; potroleum and allied, Howard
H. Cole; stationery, etc., Edward E.
Hubert; chemicals, drugs, etc.,
William S. Gray; Fish, F. W. Wilkis
son; poultry and game, August Silz;
fur industry, Frederick Kaufman;
lumber, cabinet, woods, A. II. Dykes;
toilet goods, Nfortham Warren; chil?
dren's and infants' wear, L. J. Gold
berger; coal trade, LcBaron S. Wil
lard.
Brokers Get Ready
Vor Loan Drive
William IL Remick, a member of the
Governing Committee and also chair?
man of the Liberty Loan Committee of
tho New York Stock Exchange, will
Hcnd a letter to-day to all members of
tho committee urging them during the
Victory Liberty Loan drive to exem?
plify the "higher type of patriotism."
The letter follow ;
"Tlw spirited resolution of tho Gov
rrniiiR,- Committee has pledged the Ex
change's unqualified support to tho
Vie' -i y Liberty Loan.
"As tho burden of this pledge rests
Jiirgciy upou Lhu shoulders of. Hau,
Stock Exchange Liberty Loan Commit?
tee, I take It for grante/ that you, an
n member of that committee, will exert
your efforts in the Victory Loan cam?
paign with tiie sume degree of fidelity
n.nd zeal that you displayed in the last
Liberty Lonn campaigns, and to that
end I reappoint you on the Victory
Loan Committee.
"It seems to me that it especially
devolves upon our committee more
fully to appreciate the bearing of the
success of the Victory Loan on the
business and commercial interests of
the country in the readjustment pe?
riod immediately before us.
"Secretary Glass said truly that 'we
have a right to invoke the patriotism of
the people, and to-day it takes a higher
type of patriotism to serve the nation
than was required in the delirium of
war.' I take pride in the faith that
the work of our committee will, with?
out exception, exemplify the higher
type of patriotism' in the important
work we are about to undertake."
Rosalskv Thinks
Limit Sentences
Will Check Crime
J-M.f_;e Expresses This to
Reporters, Then Imposes
Maximum Prison Terms
on 20 Young Prisoners
After a man of twenty-one had been
arraigned before him for robbery yes?
terday afternoon in General Sessions,
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky called news?
paper men before him and pointed out
the serious situation that confronted
him because of the age of most of the
offenders he had remanded for sen?
tence,
"I have before mo youths whose
agos rango from sixteen to twenty
one and who have entered pleas to
various degrees of robbery, burglary
and larceny. T am sorry for them, but
if the maximum penalty is imposed I
believe we shall be able to check all
potential offenders of their age."
In imposing maximum sentences,
Judge Rosalsky said the public was
startled when it read, for example, of
a twenty-year penalty, but ho Baid
such a sentence is cut in two by good
behavior while in prison.
The youth in this case was Frank
Palumbo, 21, of 450 East 116th Street.
He told the court ho had entered the
grocery store of Abraham Lestch, at
:;.">?_ East 123d Street, with three com?
panions. The owner was held up at
the point of a revol.er and ?10 was
stolen.
Judge Rosalsky asked the prisoner
why ho committed the crime. He re?
plied that he wanted to buy a silver
.skull plate because of a fracture of
the skull, suffered in a munition plant.
"Didn't you know that if you went
to a hospital you would receive atten?
tion?" the court asked.
"I got tired of applying to hospi?
tals, They wouldn't do anything for
me," was the reply.
During the arraignment of twenty
young men yesterday morning Judge
Rosalsky discussed the work of tho po?
lice.
"I hold no brief for the Police Com?
missioner, but I am satisfied that
Commissioner Enright is doing his ut?
most to suppress crime and restrain
the criminal elements in tho commun?
ity, and that he has been successful,"
he said.
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OBITUARY NOTES
SE?ORA DE MARQUEZ BUSTILLIOS,
wife of the Provisional President of Vene?
zuela, died .Saturday at Curacas, the capital
of Venezuela.
MONSIGNOR EMILE ROY, fifty-nine,
vicar general of the Roman Catholic Arch?
diocese of Montreal, Canada, died in Atlantic
City Monday night. He was born at
L'Arcadie, Quebec.
LEWIS CARMAN, seventy-five, who
served in the Civil War with tho 1st New
Jersey Light Artillery, died at his home, in
Bloomingdale, N. J.
DR. MARCUS ERNEST PETERSEN.
foi?ty-seven, Is dead at 261A Monroe Street,
Brooklyn, after a Ion?: illness. He was
graduated from tho Long Island Medical
College and served on the staff of the Bush
wick Hospital.
FRANCIS ARMSTRONG MIDDLEDITCH,
twenty, u graduate of Princeton University,
who served at Brest, France, with the ?
lean Express Company, is dead of tubercu?
losis.
JOHN B. BRYDEN, of Newark, N. .T.,
superintendent of tho investigation depart?
ment of tho Prudential Life Inaurnnco Com?
pany, died yesterday of heart disease at
Decatur, 111.
FRANCES H. KNAACK, twenty-five, died
Monday at her home, 802 Nassau Avenue,
Brooklyn.
FRANCES MARGARET SECOR TOWNS
END, eighty-nine, widow o? Richard G.
Townsend, died of pneumo li . nt tho home of
her daughter, Mrs. Kichard 15. Freuer, at
411 A McDonough Street, Brooklyn.
AARON DAVID RHKAD, sixty-five, for?
merly superintendent of tho Park Avenue
Hotel, is dead of heart trouble.
ROBERT PHILLIPS, fifty-thve?, two of
whoso son? are '"\ tho British army In
Franco, died Monday of pneumonia at 1 l^ill
Flatbush Avenue. Brooklyn.
ARTHUR FRIEDRICH, fifty-two, n mem?
ber of the Amalgamated Lithographers of
America, Columbia Lodge of Odd Fellows and
the Semenfieder Benevolent Society, is dead
of pneumonia.
DON M. NICKERSON, thirty-five, teacher
of mathematics at the high school In Glen
Rid < . N. J,, died Monday, Ha was an honor
graduate of Oberlin College,
DANIEL BING, eighty, n retired retail
drygoods merchant of New Brunswick, N. J.,
died yesterday as a v.'suit of the shock cause
by the recent death of his wife. He was
one of tho first officers of the New Bruns?
wick Board of Trade.
ERNEST TOWLE, a lawyer, formerly of
Neu- York. Bon of Henry and Justine De
Clplet Towle, died yesterday at New Bruns?
wick, N. .1.
BISHOP J. EDMONDS, president of the
First National Bank of National City, Cal.,
and a member of the Common Council of
New Brunswick, N. J., died yesterday at his
homo in Chulavista, Cal.
JOHN J. GOWEN, superintendent of th?
Clinton Stone Company, of New York, died
of pneumonia yesterday at New Brunswick,
N. .1.
JOHN RYAN, fifty-seven, who represente?!
the Conoy Island district in the Board of
Aldermen, died yesterday .afternoon. He had
served two tenus in tho Board of Aldermen
and was its Democratic leader last year. Ho
was bom in Gina. Tippernry, Ireland.
WILLIAM C. CHAFFEE, fifty-eight, lead?
er of the Millbum (N. J.) municipal hand,
died Sunday after an illness of three weeks.
MARY H. KIRBY, forty-eight, ?lied .Mon?
day in East Orange. N. J.
ELIZA A. BROWN, ninety, died Monday
night at the homo of her granddaughter,
Miss Mabel Merrell, 184 Bellevue Avenue,
Upper Montclair, N. J.
WILLIAM HILL, sixty-nine, formerly n
hat manufacturer of Orange, N. .t., is dead
in Cleveland, Ohio.
RUDOLPH C. BURKARD, thirty-eight, an
electrician employed by the Pennsylvania
Railroad, is dead in Jersey City.
THE REV. CARL E. HYDSTROM, fifty
four, pastor of the Swedish Methodist Epis?
copal Church of Mount Vernon, N. Y., died
ENSIGN DONALD F. WALKER, twenty
one, the son of Mrs. Edmund H. Walker, of
East Orange, N. .!., died Monday night in
tho Nnvai Hospital at Key West. Fla, His
leg was badly fractured last Tuesday, when
he and another aviator fell into .Miami Bay
while testing a new .?aplane. He was a
freshman at Yale when he enlisted.
HAROLD JIMESON MARSH, twenty-four,
pon of George A. Marsh, is dead in North
Plainfield, N. J. He was employed by tho
Stand Aircraft Corporation.
ALICE CULT, fifty-one. formerly an act?
ress in n Philadelphia Btock company and
later associated with the Fox Film Corpora?
tion, died of apoplexy yesterday at 04 West
in;u. Street. Her mother. (Mara Reed, was
the first to play Little Eva in tho play
"Uncle Tom's Cabin."
,1 HI.ITS VOSEN, for more than thirty
years chef of Bellevue Hospital, died yes?
terday at his home, 821) Rhinelunder Ave?
nue, The Bronx. Statisticians estimate that
Vosen served 65,700,000 meals to patient
and employes of the hospital.
COLONEL ROBERT ANDREWS, eighty
four, formerly president of tho Safety Car
Heating and Lighting Company, of Man?
hattan, is dead al his home, 'n East Orange,
N. J., where he lived for thirty years. Dur?
ing tho Civil War ho serv.I in the 2d Regi?
men) Delaware Volunteers.
ALIDA STOUT WALLING, wife of Po
??M i?)*v-___- J?lw-ud Ai. V.'..Hing, of the
Herbert Street station, Brooklyn, dir?* Mon- j
?: uay nlebt after n lingering limes?.
PEW CROAK, flfty-stx, husband of
I at his boma, 1198
Pulton 81 i- :; Broi klyn.
CARRIE FIS1 EB i ughter of Alfred and
Annie Pister, died at her borne, 1054 Fifty
; ninth Street. ': ooklyn.
JOHN" PETTIT, thirty-nine, a toolmaker.
mj ? fi for )vnr< ir. Holy Oroaa Cemetery,
di '. Monday after a brief illness.
> ANNA BLIGH. thirty-nine, is dead at her
horno. 68 Jewell Street, Brooklyn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHERWOOD,
-two, .if 202 Penn Street, Brooklyn,
died of apoplexy on Sunday, the forty-fifth
-, anniversary of his marriage to Katherine
Schwalb.
EVELYN BISHOP BETTS, sixty, of 675
: Vanderbilt Avon.-.", Brooklyn, widow of
as J. Betts, is dea<Dof paralysis.
MARY A. STAITE LIHOU, eighty-seven,
di I rlonday at her home, 197 East First
She wus born it-, Glouces?
ter. England, ami was for many years a
member of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed
Church.
GEORGE FREDERICK SMITH, sixty-five.
nn investigator for the Western Union Tele
; graph Company, is dead of pneumonia at
Westminster Avenue, Brooklyn.
CHARLOTTE T1LESTON SPOKFORD
VANDERBILT, widow of Lefferts '
bilt, died Monday of paralysis at 1412 Eaton
A-. : u". Flatbush. She was on'' of the old?
est members of the Flatbush Dutch Reformed
Church.
PHILIP ALOYSIUS BECKER, sixty-two. :
a manufacturer of plateglass cases for
? cigar stores, Is dead at his home, 24 South !
Elliott Place, Brooklyn.
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ENGAGEMENTS
SCHARFF?ADLER.?Mr. und Mrs. Sam M.
Adler, of Birmingham. Ala., announce the
engagement of their daughter. Joanne, to
Captain Maurice R. Sch?rft, of Pittsburgh,
Penn. C : tain returned
from France, after eighteen months' serv?
ice there. Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Adler
are at the Vanderbilt.
BIRTHS
FRANKEN'.?Dr. and Mrs. Sigmund W. A.
Franken announce the birth of a son,
Lenox Hill Hospital, April 6.
ISRAEL.?To Mr. and Mrs. Sidney S. Is?
rael (nee Herz), Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, a
son.
ORNAN.?Dr. and Mrs. Jules Oman (nee
Engel) annour.ee tho arrival of a baby
girl on Sunday, April C, Lenox Hill Hos?
pital.
PODELL.?Mr. and Mr?. M. Podell (nee A.
Katz) announce the birth of a girl,
April 6.
ROSENMAN.?Mr. and Mrs. Maurice (nee
Leah Levy) announce the birth of a Bon
on March. 6, at New York Nursery and
Child's Hospital.
MARRIAGES
HYDE?CLARKE ? George Gamer Hyde to
Elizabeth Lloyd Clarke. April 7, by the
Rev. George iienson Cox. at St. Paul's
Chapel, New York.
JEFFREY.WHITING?Howard Jeffrey to
Agnes May Whiting, April S, by the Rev.
jlr. Jackson, at St. Faul'a Church, Brook?
lyn, N. Y.
DEATHS
BACON On April 7, 1919. at her resi
dence, 247 5th av., Virginia Purdy, widow
of Walt* r Rath! one Bacon. Funeral ser?
vice at St. Thomas's > hurch, Dtli uv. and
53d st., Wednesday morning, April 9, at.
o'clock. London, Bordeaux and
Paris papers please copy.
BARKLAGE.?On Sunday, April 6. M.
Wilhelmina Barklage (nee Ahaus), widow
of John 11. Barklage, in her 88th
year. Relatives and friends, also mem
bei i of the Ladies' Aid Society of St.
Luke's Evangelist Lutheran Church, are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
services at her ia'e residence, Edgewood
Lane and Bluff Road, Palisades, N. J..
on Wednesday, at 8:110 p. m. Funeral
private.
CANTOR At her residence, 2345 Broadway,
on April 7, L919, after a brief illness,
Lydia Greeneboum, beloved wife of Jacob
A. Cant r and darling mother of Margaret,
Ruth and John Andrew Cantor. Funeral
?ees Wednesday, 1.' p. m., private.
CARPENTER.?At Boonton, N. J.. April 8,
1919, Dr. A. E. Carpenter, in his 66th
year. Funeral services from his late resi?
dence, 204 Church st., Boonton, N. J., on
ThurFday, at : :30 p. m. Interment at
Boonton Cemetery.
DAY. George Edwin, D.D., M. D., in his
86th year, on April 7, at the residence of
his son, Horace L, Day, 252 West 85th St.,
New York. lhs wife and seven children
survive him. Funeral services will be
held at the First Baptist Church, Broad?
way and 79th St. at 2:30 p. m. Wednes?
day.
DOWS Ai his r -, Denver, Col., April
3, 1919, Kenneth, son of Jane S, and the
late David Dows, jr. Funeral service
the residenco of his uncle, Dr. Carroll
Dunham, Broadway, Irvington-on-the-Hud
son, Thursday, April 10, at 10:45 o'clock.
on the arrival of the 9:45 train from New
York. Returning, train leaves irvington
u,t 11:3.1. Interment at the convenience
of the family.
EGAN At Muhlenberg Hospital, Platnfleld,
N. J., April 7. 1919, S. Harris Egan, hus?
band of Anna Affleck and son of Hettie
Thompson an i ti o late Berry Egan. Fu?
neral service at St. Pair's Episcopal
:h, Wcstfleld, N. J., Thursday. April
at ? p, m. Interment at Fairvlew
Cemetery, Wcstfleld.
EITINGON On Monday, April 7. at bis
lence, 0 West End av., Walderoar
Eitingon, beli red husband of May Korn
bluth. Funeral service will be held at the
Templo Emanu-El, 5th av. end 43d st.. on
Wednesday, April 9. at lu o'clock.
WHEREAS, In the death of Waldemar
Eitingon the Fur Tre.de of the United
i-.?o lost <uio of its most brilliant
members and one whose integrity, o '?
fastness, high purpose and fortitude com?
bined to make him an outstanding and
honored figure in the business world, while
still you- g In j ears ; and
Whereas, lLs unusual talents were asso
ciated with a courtesy of manner and n
kindliness o? disposition bo admirable as to
endear him to his colleagues in every
branch of this industry; and
Whereas, In his enthusiastic and whole?
hearted Americanism, his unbounded
charity and his willing coop?ration in every
effort tor th< of others he has
b en a power for good in this business
community ; be i'.
Resolved, That this Board of Directors
of the Associated Fur Manufacturers. Inc..
hereby records its profound regret for his
untimely ?loath ; and be it further
Resolved, That these resolutions he
B] read as a permanent record upon our
minutes and communicated to hi? family
and bu ?neas associate?; and lie it further
Ri solved. That this Board shall, in token
of its respect and esteem, attend the fu?
neral i ervice i in a body.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ASSO?
CIATED FUR MANUFACTl RERS ENC
By F. KAUFMAN. President,
FREE -Entered into rest, at Peekskill, N.
Y? April X, 1919, Julia A., wife of Henry
S, Free and daughter of tho late Rev.
John W. Crumb and Roba Find-. Crumb, in
the 74th year of her age. Funeral servio?
will be held at her late residence, 1126
Howard st., Peekskill, Thursday, April 10,
, at 2 p. m. '
FRIEDLANDER?Samuel, at residence. 562
West 148th st., beloved husband of Esther
Friedlander, father of Aida Sbarfman,
Janet Barber, Morton, Jesse and Albert. -
GALBRAITH- On April 7. 1919, Lieutenant
Jam? ' S. Galbraith, U, S. A., in bis L'?th
son of Mr. and Mrs Samuel !'. Gal?
io-..e.h. of 218 Edgecombo av., recently re?
turned from the air service in France.
Funeral services at St. Nicholas Avenue
Ian Church, 111..; Street nod St.
Nicholas av., Wednesday, 2:30 p. m.
HALLIDAY. Frank, on April 7. Service.
!H?. Fl NERAL CHI RCH, Broadway and
-. (Frank 1 . ( urn] b< IP?), Thursday,
n. m.
HAKKE1 : ' ? Daytona, Fin . on Wednes?
day, April 2, I 119, Prank \V Haskell, hus?
band of Clai i I,. Seymouro and son of Ben.
jamin Haskell and the late Ilattie E.
Seele, Funeral services at. the residence of
hia brother, Leonard C. llaakoll, -7 Morria
DEATHS
Place, Blcomfield, N. J., Wednesday aft.*
rocn, April 9, on arrival of 2:30 train from
lfoloken. Interment at B?oomfield C_?.
tery. VBm*
HEGEMAN?Suddenly, at Rosedene v?
maroneck, Sunday, April E, John Bot?-,
liegeman, in the 7.1th year of hUaj?
Funeral services at Salem Baptist Church"
New Rochelle, on Wednesday, April 9 ?i
11:30 a. m. '
HEIN EM AX?Suddenly, on Monday. April
7, Moses, beloved husband of Louis? and
father cf Percy Heineman. Funeral ser?
vice at his late residence, Woodmere, Long
Island, on Wednesday morning, April 9 ?t
10 o'clock, and at the chapel of Saicm
Fic'.ds Cemetery at 11 o'clock.
JACOB -William, beloved husband of Caro?
line and dear father of Minnie. Ray
Greenbaum, David, Goldie, Esther, ?oman
Florence, Lidian and Silvester.
Funeral freu his late residence, _.;> We?
' 12th st., Wednesday, April 9, at _: p. n?
Denver papers picase copy. 2
KAEPPEL Bertha Matilda, on Tuesday.
April S\ 1919, at hi'r residence, P2fl par?
av., apartment T. Funeral sendee Thurs?
day evening at the above address,. S:3>
o'clock. Interment Friday morning, Wo??,
lawn Cemetery, private.
KEATING-- Mary (ne? Ca.hman). on April
7, beloved wife of Joseph Keating M(j
daughter of the late William and Ellea
Cashman. Funeral from her late ws?.
dence, 316 West tSth st.. Wednesday
Apr:! '?. at 1 ' a. m. ; thence to St!
Michael's Church, West 34th st., where
a requiem mass will be offered for the
of her soul.
LYON At Port Chester, N. Y.. April 7,
191 I, Sarah C . daughter of the late Gill
bert and Anna Crawford Lyon. Funeral
at her late residence, 22 Westchester ?v.,
Wednesday, 9th in.'.., at 2 :?0 p. m.
MACHIN- John J.. suddenly, on Sunday,
April 6, beloved husband of Elizabeth V.
(nee Golden). Funeral from his late resi?
dence, Ige, on
Wednesd ?. A rii ? at 10 a. m. ; thence
?red Heart Church, 169th st and
Shakespeare av.. Bronx. Solemn nsauiem
mass. Automobile cortege.
MERRITT?At Port Chester, N. Y., April 7.
1919, Jame_ S., eon of the late Clark S.
and Emily Parker Merritt, in the 60th
year of his age. Funeral service at St.
Peter's Episcopal Church, on Thursday,
10th in. t., at . p. m.
PALM:::: April 7, 1919, Emma
Lacy, wife of the Rev. Abraham J. Tal
mer, of New York Conference. .Service*
at residence of her daughter, Mrs. William
L. Andru. . 137 Riverside Drive, corner of
86th St., New York, Wednesday, April 9,
at 4 p. m. Interment at CedarnDl Ceme?
tery, N.wburph, N. Y., April in, ?t
12 :_0 p. m. Newburgh, Kingston. Pough
keepsie and Yonker . papers please copy.
REYNOLDS?On Monday, April 7, at his
home, 67 South Munp av., East Orange,
N. J., James E. Reynolds, in the 82d year
year of his age. Services at his lato homo
on arrival of 1 :51 train from Hoboken on
Wednesday, April 9. Interment private.
RODMAN?On Sunday, April 6, at the War
rinKton. 161 Madibon av., Harriet Sargent,
wife of William Barbour Rodman, of
Frankfort, Ky.. und daughter of the lata
Rev. Charles and Anna Mason, of Boston,
Mass. Funeral and services in Boston, at
convenience of family.
BOSENSTOCK?Officers, members of the
Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society are re?
quested to attend the funeral of our lata
? r, William l?o enstock, who died m
the service of his country at Miami. Fla.
Service? Thursday morning, !i o'clock, at
Washington Cemetery, Bociety ?.rounds.
JOSHUA KANTBOWITZ, President
LEON A. RAINS. Secretary.
SCHAEFFER?Mary Virginia. April 4, at
Newell, Penn., mother of Mrs. George A.
Boehm, of Mount Vernon, N. Y.
S?NSEL?On April 7, 1919, Laura F., widow
? late John W. Sinsel and daughter
of Dr. Edward Bennett, deceased, and
sister of Dr. Edward C. Bennett, of Brook?
lyn. Funeral from 406 Went .''.-Uli ht ,
Wednesday, April :?. Requiem mass at Si
Michael's Church, .24 West 34th st., at
a. m. Interment in Calvary.
STURGES?On Tuesday, April 8, at his
home, 1C60 Washington av., Scranton.
Penn., in the 7ith year of his aye, Ed?
ward Laker Sturges, husband of Marion
Sanderson Sturge_. Notice of funeral
hereafter.
VANDERBILT?On Monday, April 7, 191*.
Charlotte 'Jileston Spofford, ivife of th$
late Lefferts Vanderbilt. Funeral pervic?)
at her late residence. 412 Caton av..
Brooklyn, on Wednesday, April .?, at 4
p. m. Please omit flowers.
WITTENBERG?On Sunday, April 6. 1919.
in Philadelphia, after a short illness,
Agnes Scheitel, widow of Charles J. Wit?
tenberg, in the 4-Kth year of her age.
Funeral private from her late residence,
33 West 50th 8t.
WOOLWORTH?At Glen Cove, on April 8,
'?'rank Winfield. beloved husband of
Jennie Craighton Woolworth and father
of Helena W. McCann and .le_s:e W. Don?
aban. Funeral services will be held from
his ?ate residence, 9 10 5th av., Thursday,
April 10. 1919. Funeral private. Inter?
ment Woodlawn Cemetery- Out-of-towa
papers please copy.
JOINT RESOLUTION adopted by the
Board of Directors of the Irving National
Bank and the Irving Trust Company,
April 8, 1919:
The Directors of this Bank, in meetiajf
assembled, learn with profound repret this
morning of the sudden death of their fei?
. i rank W. Woolworth, with
many of whom he was affiliated for almost
a score of years.
P v.;.. impossible to know Mr. Wool
worth well without being struck by hi?
? togrity
and his keen and intuitive judgment of
men and of affairs. He was a man of
ideas and ideals, and he was as tennetou*
of tho one as he was inflexible In clinging
to I h ' ??'.her. Ho coi ?' with
creative gifts of n high .?v.l.r. and they ex?
plain in some measure his rapid rise in?m
farmer's boy ?n Jefferson County, in this
state, to one of the great merchants in the
?A'Orl '.
Tenacious of purpose, strong of will,
i ?:!. he never lost Bight of the end to
i ?' atti ?nod and to reach it.
And yet he did ull this without sacrifica of
correct, homely and good old-fashionsd
principles instilled by his I.." er and
mother, to whom he frequently n torred.
Throughout his life he was devoted to
his liome, to his wife and to his eh
He found relaxai
himself with beautiful things and with la?
? - in music. At this horn" he wa?
wont to gather with th to whom
he felt attached and with bis co-laborers.
anxious that they shot ' te with
him in the enji yment of that art in which
he found ?lelittht.
Unspoiled by Buccess and loyal to asso?
ciates, he never I b who worked
with him in the building of his career. HI?
interest in his em] ' ' tical ex
pression in making it possible for them to
participate in his ?bounding Buccesd.
His breadth of vision , Ightod?
nos. . whether applied to
to those of others, led hii ' s nom?
for this Bank in the building he reared u*
hou ? the he.1 Iquarters of
enterpri.se, anil the
forever as a monument to his genius ana
creative skill. . w
olved. That, th? sympathy of e?fn
member of this Board be conveyed to tfi?
membera of Mr. Woolworth's family;
lie: olved further. That these resolutions oe
spread upon our records, that they be put*
lished and that they be sent to the fami.y
of Mr. Woolworti . .
Resolved furtlier, That the OTtct. nnt
Directors of this Institution attend in ?
b dy the funeral services of their late
friend ami fellow director.
In Case of Death
Call "Columbus 8200"
FRANK" K. CAJ'PnlObt,
"THE FUNERAL CHURCH"
(Non-Sectarii n)
Broadway at 66th St.
Downtown Offl.o. 23-J St. A 8th A?.
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HERBERT H. BAXTER
Funeral Director
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H. H. Jackson, Sexton Emeritu?
( l_Ot< II OF 4SI ENSIO-i
funeral Director. '?".'.'elr_<*'
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