(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dr. J. H. Koerner, founder and president of the famous Viennese Jewish sport club, Hakoah, will leave for the United States in a few days. The purpose of Dr. Koerner’s trip is to complete arrangements for the second tour of the Hakoah soccer team in the United States.
Following the success of the Hakoah’s first tour, the Executive Committee of the Hakoah is considering plans to include in its next United States tour other teams of the Club besides the soccer team.
PHILIP COWEN RETIRES AFTER 21 YEARS. IN U. S. IMMIGRATION SERVICE
Philip Cowen, of the Boarding Division of the Immigration Service, will retire tomorrow, after twenty-one years of service. Mr. Cowen has already had two extensions under the law since reaching his seventieth year.
Mr. Cowen will give a dinner tomorrow night to a group representing the various branches of the Immigration Service and to his associates in the Customs Boarding Division, the Traveler’s Aid Society and other organizations.
Entering the Immigration Service in 1905, by appointment of President Roosevelt, Mr. Cowen was inspector in charge of the Night Division and of the Information Division and also of the Labor Employment Division when it was first organized.
In connection with the People’s Institute, he conducted an Immigration Inquiry Office, which was an experiment to show the value of the Government keeping in touch with the immigrant while on his way to citizenship.
For the last twelve years or more he has been attached to the Boarding Division except when serving on the Board of Special Inquiry.
Mr. Cowen conducted many investigations of importance, among them one leading to an improvement of conditions and treatment of immigrants at railroad depots whence they are sent North, West and South, and another on the causes of the large immigration from Russia and other European countries, a study that took him abroad for six months in 1906.
Mr. Cowen, who was born in New York City, was one of the founders, and for twenty-seven years, the publisher of “The American Hebrew,” He was one of the first group of members of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association established over fifty years ago. He was one of the founders and for many years an officer of “The Judeans.” and was Supervisor of the City Record under Mayor Low.
A new contract, renewing in effect the old agreement between the cloakmakers and the jobbers in the garment industry, was signed on Wednesday by Morris Sigman, president of the International Ladies’Garment Workers’ Union, and Joseph Engel, president of the Merchant Ladies’ Garment Association.
Mr. Sigman withdrew his demands that the wholesalers restrict their purchases to unionmade products.
The jobbers have obligated themselves to give their work to union recognized sub-contractors. The union, in turn, has abandoned its demand for a limitation of sub-manufacturers.
The agreement provides for the retention of the impartial machinery for the settlement of disputes, About 30,000 workers are affected.
After standing more than two hours in line waiting for his second citizenship papers in the Brooklyn Federal Buildingon Wednesday, Louis Fisher, 46 years old, of 73 Melrose St., Brooklyn, drepped dead.
Others in the line complained of the long wait they were compelled to endure belore they received their citizenship papers. One man said the applicants were not allowed to smoke, and added that he had left the line twice to keep from fainting. He said the wait was invariably two hours or more. Paul Tannis of Long Island City, collapsed on Tuesday after waiting more than an hour and a half in the line. He was revived and went to his home.
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