Burial of the Unknown Soldier - 1921

America's Unknown Hero Is Laid to Rest As Harding Calls on World to End War



Such Sacrifice Never Must Be Asked Again, Nation's Chief Pleads in Solemn Ceremony at Arlington
---
All Nation Silent As Grave Is Sealed
---
Nameless One Entombed, Amid HIghest Honors in All History, as Symbol of the Country's Fallen
---
By Boyden R. Sparkes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.--The unidentified body of an American who died in a battlefield in France was entombed to-day in Arlington Cemetery, to live forever in the hearts of patriotic countrymen as the Unknown Soldier. Perhaps he was a homesick boy on that day when his life faded out, but if his spirit eyes saw the spectacle on that Virginia hilltop, if he heard the cry against war uttered there to-day, he knows he did not die in vain.

If his mother, unknowing, was among the sorrowing women who wept as nations honored her son, she, too, must know that his life was not a wasted sacrifice, for the President of the United States, standing beside the Silent One, voiced a pledge that American energy be dedicated to the cause of everlasting peace.

Light-hearted, his spirit may have hovered over that funeral procession as it tramped to the slow cadence of a dirge the seven miles from the capital across the Potomac to the heights where America's dead heroes have their bivouac. Rushing on ahead, an impatient, glorious spirit, he could have looked down from above on all the ceremonies in that white, unroofed amphitheater…….

--New-York Tribune, November 12, 1921

By the end, the article was saying what the dead soldier's spirit DID know and see. Very weird stuff.

"His Sacrifice Shall Not Be in Vain"
---
President Harding Calls for Commanding Voice of Civilization Against Warfare

President Harding, speaking at the burial of the Unknown Soldier yesterday, said:

"Standing to-day on hallowed ground, conscious that all America has halted to share in the tribute of heart and mind and soul to this fellow American, and knowing that the world is noting this expression of the Republic's mindfulness, it is fitting to say that his sacrifice, and that of the millions dead, shall not be in vain.

"There must be, there shall be, the commanding voice of a conscious civilization against armed warfare."

--New-York Tribune, November 12, 1921

President Harding took advantage of the day to spin the disarmament plan.

10 YEAR NAVAL HOLIDAY, U. S. PROPOSES TO POWERS

Hughes Surprises Conference With Concrete Plan for Ridding World of Huge Warship Burden
---
Harding Says Humanity Cries Out for Relief
---
Tells Armament Conference War-Wearied World Demands Assurances of Lasting Peace--Hopes for New Era

SCRAP 66 GREAT WARSHIPS NOW, HUGHES URGES
---
Calls for Immediate Fleet Cut by Britain, Japan and America
---
DISPLACEMENT AND NUMBER OF ARMED VESSELS FIXED
---
Gives London and Washington Nearly Equal Figures, Tokio Less
---
REDUCE IN THREE MONTHS
---
Secretary Presents Detailed Plan Covering Wide Range of Sea Disarmament
---

--Evening Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA), November 12, 1921

All this would be work so well if no countries were ever bad.

A bit more info is at http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Arms-Control-and-Disarmament-Between-the-world-wars-1919-1939.html

Texas flooding, Hollywood Scandal, Raisin Pie - September 10, 1921

There were several tragedies reported in the newspaper for September 11, 1921. I'm not feeling so great today so I'll just post the headlines.

150 Believed to Have Perished in San Antonio Flood; Bodies of 42 Are Recovered; 5,000 Made Homeless

Millions in Damage; City In Darkness
---
Cloudburst Seeds Flood of Water Down River, Inundating the BUsiness and Residence Districts
---
Troops on Guard To Foil Looters
---
Majority of Victims Thus Far Accounted For Are Women and Children

--The New York Tribune, September 11, 1921

Also a bridge collapse in Chester, Pennsylvania:

27 Persons Drowned As Bridge Collapses
---
Men, Women and Children, Watching Attempt to Rescue Boy, Are Dropped, a Struggling Mass, Into River at Chester, Pa.

--The New York Tribune, September 11, 1921

And a story that was on the BBC recently:

Arbuckle Is Held as Girl Guest Dies
---
Film Comedian Detained in San Francisco Pending Investigation of Fatal Party in His Rooms
---
Victim is Virginia Rappe, an Actress
---
Became Hysterical and Then Grew Violently Ill After Taking Drinks

--The New York Tribune, September 11, 1921

In happier news, this raisin pie is suppose to refresh your tired man:

--The New York Tribune, September 11, 1921

Ford Production, Asylum Lawsuit, 92-year-old Groom

Quick look back today; I need to get to writing!

Ford Builds 317,587 Cars And Trucks in 3 Months
---
Plants Break Record for Any Similar Period Since Organization, Officials Announce

Special Dispatch to The Tribune

DETROIT, Aug. 26.--Official announcement from the Ford Motor Company to-day showed that during May, June and July the company turned out more cars and trucks than in any other three months period during its history. Total production was 317,587 cars and trucks, a monthly average of 105,862….

"There are twenty-seven working days in August, and it is expected that June's record of building 108,962 will be eclipsed…The schedule for August calls for 109,700 cars and trucks."

--The New-York Tribune, August 27, 1921

Sales for Ford in third quarter 2010 were 1.3 million units.

Frivolous (?) lawsuits have been around since the 1920s.

Woman asks $50,000 of State Hospital Head
---
Arrested as Insane on Dr. Heyman's Affidavit, She Sues When He Fails to Appear

Mrs. Elizabeth M. Downey, of 2914 Eighth Avenue, wife of a former policeman, filed suit in the Supreme Court yesterday against Dr. Marcus B. Heyman, superintendent of the Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's Island, asking $50,000 damages for causing her arrest on an affidavit that she was insane.

Mrs. Downey's husband suffered a sunstroke while on duty, which affected his mind. He was committed to Ward's Island, where his wife visited him. On July 31, 1920, a warrant was issued in the Magistrates' Court for her arrest on the statement of Dr. Heyman that she was suffering from delusions and that his life was in danger. He asserted that she visited Ward's Island to see her husband without a pass.

This latter statement was denied yesterday by counsel for Mrs. Downey, who said she had a pass. Dr. Heyman asked that Mrs. Downey be sent to Bellevue Hospital for observation. There were seven adjournments of scheduled hearings of the case, and finally, Dr. Heyman failing to appear, Magistrate Levine discharged Mrs. Downey from custody.

--The New-York Tribune, August 27, 1921

And how funny that this was news!

Man 92 Gets License to Wed
---
Prospective Bride of 64 Assists Him From Automobile
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

MANCHESTER, N. H., Aug. 26--Dan Merrill, of Chelsea, Mass., ninety-two years old, and his bride-to-be, Jeanette W. Savary, of Nahant, Mass., sixty-four, drove up to the City Hall here last night in a limousine. The prospective bride when in to file a declaration of the couple's intention to marry, but when the City Clerk insisted that the prospective husband appear before him she had to go out to the car and help Merrill into the building.

Merrill has been married twice before.

--The New-York Tribune, August 27, 1921

Female Mountain Climber and Milk - 1921

Rather sad story. I was surprised to read about a husband and wife climbing a mountain together in 1921.

Mrs. Stone Tells of Struggle To Save Husband on Mountain
---
Wife of Purdue President Saved by Chance as She Lost Grip Trying to Rescue Him From Abyss and Struck on Ledge on Bare Cliff
---
BANFF, Alb., July 29.--The theory of how Mrs. W. E. Stone, wife of the president of Purdue University, dangled at the end of a rope in mid-air and then dropped exhausted on a four-foot ledge, the only break in a precipitous cliff hundreds of feet high, after an unsuccessful attempt to save her husband, who had fallen into a crevice below, was revealed to-day in a dispatch received here from the correspondent of The Calgary Herald.

Mrs. Stone is now in an improvised camp on the mountain side recovering from the experience of lying on the tiny ledge for eight days without food or water until rescued by Rammer, a Swiss guide, who carried her down the steep mountainside to safety.

The correspondent told how she had watched her husband fall as they were attempting to climb Mount Eanon, and then attempted to lower herself with the rope in the hope of rescuing him.

The rope, however, was too short, and after hanging alongside the mountain and finding she was unable to pull herself back up, she let go, expecting to plunge to her death in the abyss below. Fate intervened and she landed on the narrow ledge, a drop of ten feet.

Members of the party that rescued Mrs. Stone are busy building a raft to convey her down the Marvel Lakes, the first stage of the fifty-five-mile trip to civilization....

--The New York Tribune, July 30, 1921

President Stone was almost 60 when he died, and the New York Times says Mount Eanon was over 10,000 feet high, and that Dr. Stone and his wife "virtually" made it to the top (being the first person to do so...he climbed ahead of his wife before he fell). Pretty impressive! The article paints a different picture of Mrs. Stone's journey, saying it as caused by hallucinations... They did retrieve his body, though.

Lighter news! Milk prices back in the day.



--The New York Tribune, July 30, 1921

Per this currency calculator, 18 cents in 1921 converts to $2.27 today. That works out to $9.08/gallon...I think that's more than milk costs even in New York today. (Though I reckon it was may have been fresher back in 1921, with the home delivery and all.)

1920s Unemployment, Old Wallpaper, Breakfast Robes

I'd expected some sort of spread on Independence Day, but not much of anything in the New York Tribune!

Unemployment Benefits, 1920s style:

Girls Asking Funds for Jobless Jailed; Judge is Indignant
---
Sweetser Calls Arrest of Trio in Ferry Crowds Outrage; Two Locked Up for Night on Obscure Complaint
---
Three young girls were arrested by the police while they were soliciting funds in the ferry crowds on Saturday for an institution that is aiding the unemployed. One of the girls was able to procure bail, but the other two, failing to get a hearing at the Women's Night Court, were locked up in a station house all night. Yesterday, in the Tombs court, Magistrate Sweetser characterized the arrests as outrageous.

The girls are Daisy Russell, eighteen years old; Marcia Phillips, twenty, and Winifred Millard, twenty-one, and they were arrested, respectively, at the Christopher Street, Chambers Street and Desbrosses Street ferries. They had tin boxes for collecting coins from the crowds. Patrolman Albert Dittmar made the arrests.

At the Charles Street station a friend of Miss Millard's put up bail. Miss Russell and Miss Phillips were taken to the Women's Night Court, where their lawyer was unable to get a hearing, and were then sent back tot he Charles Street station and locked up for the night.

Yesterday Magistrate Sweetser, to whose court the girls were taken, paroled them for a hearing on Wednesday, saying that the cause of the arrests seemed obscure.

Harry C. Messervy, of the Timely Service Society, 13 West Forty-sixth Street, for which the girls were collecting, said yesterday that the society had a farm at Blackwell's Mills, N. J., where unemployed men could stay until work was found for them. Farmers came there from all directions, he said, to engage farm help.

--New-York Tribune, July 4, 1921 (page 3)

So men without jobs had to leave their families, it appears, but then found farm jobs of the variety that migrants often do today. Interesting...

Too cute to pass up.

Wallpaper on 100 Years
---
Collector Seeks Hand-Painted Decoration in Old Home
---
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
LEE, Mass., July 3.--A collector of curiosities has offered Mrs. George Beach, of this village, $200 if she will let him take the wallpaper off of the walls in her parlor. The room was papered more than one hundred years ago.

The paper was painted by hand in France. It is in a series of panels, depicting the adventures of a knight in armor.

Mrs. Beach has not decided whether she will sell.

--New-York Tribune, July 4, 1921 (page 7)

And tons of clothes in this ad from Saks & Company! --New-York Tribune, July 4, 1921 (page 5)



I am loving the term "breakfast coats" for "robes." (Interestingly, the kimono looks fairly authentic.)

Firetrap Schools and Food Prices

The big headline of Saturday, June 18, 1921:

Thousands Imperiled in Dank, Dirty, Firetrap Schools, Survey Shows

Meyer Calls Enright Bluff by Supboena

--

Graft Investigators End Pussyfooting and Order Police Head in Monday; May Call Hylan Next

---

Clubwomen Blame Hylan for Shocking Condition of Buildings Where Pupils Crowd Classes

---

Menace Revealed In All Boroughs

---

Squalid Structures, With Leaky Roofs, Called Breeders of Pestilence

---

--New-York Tribune, June 18, 1921

I didn't actually read the article...I hear enough about horrible schools in the present day...

Retail Food Prices Drop 4.8P.C. in Month
---
WASHINGTON, June 17.--Retail food prices to the average family declined 4.8 per cent in May, as compared with April, while wholesale food prices dropped 5 3/4 per cent in the same period, according to statistics made public to-day by the Department of Labor. General wholesale prices, including farm products, food, building materials, metals, house furnishings and miscellaneous commodities, declined approximately 2 per cent during the month.

--New-York Tribune, June 18, 1921

And, just one quick ad. I thought it looked cute.

--New-York Tribune, June 18, 1921

Hot Dog Strike! - 1921 - Also Coney Island Con

I found this fascinating. 1920s sarcasm, too.

Famine Barks in Coney's Wake as Frankfurter Makers Strike
---
10 Hours Too Long, $37 a Week Too Little for Their Art, Say Stuffers of Familiar but Ever-Mysterious Refetion, Solace of Bleacher and Boardwalk
---

A general strike became effective yesterday in the frankfurter industry in this city which, it is believed, will spread want and famine in Coney Island. Hot dogs are delicate creatures and age rapidly. The strikers are confident that when to-day's supply is exhausted the red-hot man will have to get a job with the Weather Bureau or some other place where his cry of "Here y'are! Red hot! Red hot!" will cause no mouths to water.....

The decision to strike followed ineffectual attempts to adjust a dispute enused by the announcement of the Meat Packers' Association of New York that frankfurter men's wages would be reduced from $44 to $41 a week to $37 and $34 and their hours increased from eight hours a day to ten....The meat packers insisted that they and the hot dog could survive only if hours were lengthened and pay rolls shortened. The frankfurter stuffers asserted that they would stuff frankfurters eight hours a day and not a minute longer, nor would they take a penny's reduction in their pay.

They regard themselves as the true scientists of the meat packing business, synthetic chemists, secure in their position by reason of the recondite knowledge of the structure and anatomy of the hot dog which they alone possess.

Their confidence of success is based upon knowledge of their power. No amateur, they assert, could turn out a genuine hot dog even though he worked with text books at his elbow and devoted an entire ten-hour day to the task.

A hot dog to the professional frankfurter stuffer is art of the highest type. It savors of the poetical, but no mere poet ever achieved one; its harmony is as delicate and definite as that of the composition of a supreme composer, but no mere musician ever stuffed a perfect frankfurter; the creative vision and precision of the painter are required in the efficient stuffer of hot dogs, but the painter would be helpless with the implements of the master stuffer at his hand.

With their very art and science in peril, the frankfurter men are determined to fight ruthlessly, even though Coney Island starve.

--New-York Tribune, June 11, 1921, page 18

Hot Dog Reserves Feed Coney Multitude Despite Strikers
---
Veterans of Many a Gridiron Rush to Front When 300,000 Visitors Clamor; New Acquaintance Robs Two Girls of $1,000 in Jewels and Cash
---
Undaunted by the strike of the frankfurter stuffers, 300,000 persons made their way to Coney Island yesterday by trolley, train, motor, afoot and boat, and for the first time this season the bathhouse establishments were taking them as they came....

To be sure, there was the usual number of children lost only to be found by frantic mothers, but Coney Island is one place where children simply will get lost--and found.

The water was warm and unusually free from banana and orange peels. So as the good word went from one to another, the beach by mid-afternoon began to resemble a bathing beach rather than a picnic ground....

The hot dog bazars fooled every one and went about selling their wares as if there was never such a thing pending as a scarcity of woofers due to the strike of the aroused frankfurter makers. At one booth alone it was estimated that 35,000 pounds of frankfurters were sold during the day. The keen-sighted venders (sic) had laid in an extra large supply to carry them over any emergency. Whether they will have anything in that line to sell next Sunday is something to be worried about next Sunday.

So if it had not been that a dapper young man, introducing himself by the odd yet serviceable name of John Smith made off with Miss Mary Frimerman's engagement ring and other jewelry and money amounting to $1,000, the day as it fell upon Coney Island would have been perfect.

It was Miss Rose Frimerman who met Mr. Smith yesterday in a restaurant. She had never seen him before, it is said, but his manner while offering to pay her check was so irreproachable that she took him around to the house and introduced him to Mary and Joseph Yacker, Mary's fiancé.

Mr. Smith, unfortunately, did not have a bathing suit, so when the others decided to saunter over to the beach for a dip, he departed.

Before starting for the water Rose and Mary put their rings and money in a beaded bag and hid the receptacle in one of the rooms. Seventy-four dollars belonging to Yacker also was put in the bag. Then they went out.

What prompted Rose to worry about the safety of the bag is not known. But she did, and returned to find Mr. Smith in the room.

"Oh, hello," she said. "What are you doing here?"

Mr. Smith blushed modestly while he explained that he had a few pounds of unnecessary sand in his shoes and had come in to get rid of it.

That was all there was to that. Mr. Smith left once more, and when Rose looked for the bag it was gone. She was able, however, to give a good description of him to the police.

--The New-York Tribune, June 13, 1921

Couldn't find any other reference to the strike in later issues of the paper. But there was this little tidbit in August, dateline Boston:

...Frankfurter sandwiches, popular with those who patronize quick lunches, cost an average of 2 4-10 cents, including mustard, and usually sell for 10 cents, the report said.

--The New-York Tribune, August 27, 1921

Murder (thugs hired by midwife!) and Ads

So if you didn't notice last week, I found a new source for news, Chronicling America at the Library of Congress website!

From Saturday, June 11, 1921:

Wife Admits Hired Thugs Slew Kaber
---
Charges Midwife She Paid to Have Husband Beaten Got Pair of Assassins to Stab Him Instead
---
Woman She Accuses Arrested in Ohio
---
Widow Breaks Down in Grilling here; Absolves Her Daughter of Blame
---
CLEVELAND, June 10.--Withthe arrival late to-night of Mrs. Eva Katherine Kaber, widow of Daniel B. Kaber, wealthy Lakewood citizen, and Miss Marian McArdle, Mrs. Kaber's daughter, three generations were in the county jail here facing trial fir the first degree murder of Kaber two years ago. Mrs. Mary Brickel, sixty-nine, mother of Mrs. Kaber, has been in jail several days in default of $5,000 bail....

Midwife Seized
One of the women under arrest, a midwife, according to Mrs. Kaber's confession, as related by Prosecutor Stanton, planned the murder of Kaber, who was stabbed twenty-four times. She was taken into custody at Sandusky, Ohio, and is alleged to have concocted a poison, later hiring the assassin. The man figures in Mrs. Kaber's confession, according to Stanton, as one of the agents who hired the two other men to stab Kaber, while the second woman, according to Mrs. Kaber's statements, knew of the plot to commit the murder. The two men at large, Stanton declares, are the actual hired assassins.

In her confession Mrs. Kaber declared the men were hired to "beat up" Kaber "to make him treat her better." The poison was given him, according to the confession, "as medicine to cure his bad habits." She did not know it was poison, Mrs. Kaber insists, declaring it was given to her as medicine.

Although Mrs. Kaber declared she refused to pay the hired foreigners when she learned they had murdered her husband, one of the men being sought is alleged to have left behind in his flight an automobile said to have been given him in payment for his part in the crime. The men were to act as "ghosts," Mrs. Kaber's confession states.

Thinks He Fought
She said Kaber had never believed in ghosts or spirits, and that he probably fought with the men when he awakened and found him by his bedside, the stabbing resulting.

Prosecutor Stanton was prepared to confront the three prisoners with Mrs. Kaber and her daughter to-night in the hope that the prisoners would tell what they knew of the murder.

Mrs. Kaber's aged mother, Mrs. Mary Brickel, who confessed that her daughter knew who had committed the murder, is fretting in her cell here and waiting to be released, seeming to believe that her responsibility is at an end now that the information which she gave has resulted in the clearing up of the murder mystery. She is named in an indictment for murder jointly with hr granddaughter, Miss McArdle, Mrs. Kaber's indictment having been handed up separately....

Quiet on Return Trip
Mrs. Kaber spent the long afternoon on the train gazing out of the car window. She was quiet and apathetic. The wrist into which she jabbed the manicure file in the Harlem prison on Tuesday was bandaged, and a close watch was kept on her to prevent any possible attempt to jump out of the window.

Her daughter seemed to be in good spirits. She passes the time with magazines and in telling Mrs. Christensen's fortune with cards. The cards foretold a happy future for the police chief's wife, which seemed to afford Miss MacArdle some melancholy amusement.

The article mentions the police know the hired men are "Italians," and said the interrogation of Mrs. Kaber went from 2 o'clock PM Thursday through 4 o'clock Friday morning! It also mentions, if you believe it, that Mr. Kaber was a paralytic.

When the time for the train arrived a touring car took the prisoners and police to the Grand Central station. The two women bought books and some candy before boarding the train.

--New-York Tribune, Saturday, June 11, 1921, page 1

There's a summary of the whole (graphic) story at Lakewood History Files. According to that story, he died with 24 stab wounds and a lot of arsenic in his system, and Mrs. Kaber finally was found guilty in July 1921.

On a brighter note, here's a nice ad from Saks & Company. I wish they had a picture of the "Misses' Fairy-like Dance Frocks Of Georgette Crepe"!



Stop back tomorrow. The back of that same issue had a great story on hot dogs (!) that I just couldn't hide away here.

Marie Curie and a Bihn at Columbia; Coney Island Murder; Orphans - 1921

Sorry about the length, but wow, the world is so interesting!

More on Marie Curie:

COLUMBIA TO AWARD DEGREES TO 2,457

Mme. Curie, With Six Americans, Will Receive Honors From University Today.
---
GOV. MILLER TO GET LL.D.
---
Others Are Judge Mayer, President Angell, Robert Grant, J.C.Merriam and Dr. Lambert.
---
COL. DONOVAN A TRUSTEE
---
Alumni Name College Athlete and War Veteran to Represent Them on Board.


--The New York Times, June 1, 1921

Oddly, the headline used the specific number "2,457" while the article said "about 2,450." This notes that the honorary degrees are one of the last events of Commencement, which started with a procession (assembled at 10 o'clock AM and marching at 10:20). It was to be finished a bit after noon.

William J. Donovan was the "college athlete and war veteran" noted above.

But what really caught my eye is that in the looooooong list of names of graduates, under "Teachers College" and "BACHELOR OF SCIENCE" is

Bihn, Louise E.

Bihn is a fairly unusual name. Pretty neat!

I have a fascination with Coney Island. No idea why. I even have a side blog on historic Coney Island. So, Coney Island mystery! (Warning; the story below is a little graphic)

Dead in Lot, His Head Almost Severed With Ax
---
Fifty Cards on Brooklyn Victim Bear Name of Owner of Cafe Just Closed

...Michael Mommones, watchman for the Independent Coal Company, whose yard adjoins the lot, saw the body and telephoned for the police, thinking that the victim was intoxicated and had fallen.

The body was that of a man about twenty-five years old, apparently an Italian. He wore a new grey suit and new black oxford shoes. Fifty cards inscribed "Venezia Restaurant & Café, 19-21 Kenmare Street. Proprietor, Silvio Melchiorre," were found in his pocket. Silvio Melchiorre has run a café at that address for three years, but the place was closed last night.

--New-York Tribune, June 6, 1921

Assuming the streets today are the same as they were in the 1920s, Neptune Avenue and West Twentieth Street was more or less a couple blocks north of where Steeplechase was/where the ballpark is now.

SLAIN MAN IDENTIFIED.

Coney Island Victim Had $1,200 Ring, Which Was Missing.

--The New York Times, June 7, 1921

The man was Ernesto Melchiorre, Silvio's brother. The end of the article mentions Ernesto had been arrested for being a "confidence man." But when it comes down to it, it sounds like Silvio, and probably Ernesto, were dealing with bootleggers. Things did not end well for Silvio either.

A SECOND BROTHER VICTIM IN TWELFTH RUM FEUD MURDER

Restaurant Owner Shot in Crowded Street Six Weeks After Kin Is Found Slain.
---
CHILDREN AT PLAY NEAR-BY
---
Confederate Holds Man in Conversation as Assassin Creeps Up and Fires Five Shots.
---
BOTH WALK CALMLY AWAY
---
Police Ascribe Killings to Revenge by "Roughnecks" Against Leaders Who Cheated Them.

--The New York Times, July 24, 1921

The article mentions that Silvio made statements to imply that Ernesto had been killed resisting robbers, but now police think Ernesto was lured by a friend from the Venetian Restaurant to the Harvard Inn on Coney Island, and eventually lured to another address and killed.

But ending with something happy:

300 ORPHANS SEE CONEY.; Get Free Taxi Ride, Gifts and Supper--Mayor Reviews Them.

--The New York Times, June 2, 1921

Interestingly, the article actually starts out describing four "negro" or "colored" orphans. It's my understanding that there hasn't been all that much research done on segregation in Coney Island. The orphans were brought to Steeplechase "and were given toys, candy and supper." They came from 7 different orphanages, including "the Dominican Asylum, the Chinese Mission (and) the Colored Orphan Asylum."