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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 16

Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 16

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Brooklyn Lifei
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16 BROOKLYN LIFE. Garden City, has as its representatives Miss Mary Louise Martin, chairman; Mrs. Paul F. Swett, Mrs. Walter Marsh, Mrs.

John Austen, Mrs. William Martin and Mrs. Benjamin Bleeck-er, who will preside at a fancy table in Dutch costumes. St. George's, Flushing, is to be represented by Mrs.

E. W. Rocsiter, chairman; Mrs. Piatt Stratton, Mrs. E.

F. Thompson, Mrs. Herbert H. James, Mrs. George W.

Paple, Mrs. George N. Webster, Mrs. Robert S. Bowne; Mrs.

Van Wicklen, Mrs. N. J. Finlay arid Miss Lydia N. Peck, Mrs.

Frank Call, of the parish of Bay Shore, is to run a fancy table with the assistance of Mrs. John Newberry and the Misses Addie and Jessie Gerhardy, Lillian Call and Elsie Doud. St. James, Elm-hurst St. Stephen's Chapel, Port Washington the Church of the Redeemer and St.

George's, Astoria, have combined to manage a china table under the chairmanship of Miss Gertrude Rapelje. St. James's Church is to provide a cake table for home-made products, of which Miss Genevieve Howell will have charge, assisted by the primary juniors of the church in Quaker costume. A table for the sale of articles made by the orphans of the Foundation will be managed by Frederick C. Cocheu.

The Church Charity Guild will provide a lemonade well and a Chinese laundry, Mrs. Frank McKee being in charge. The attendants at each will be in appropriate costume. A "home table'' has been arranged by Mrs. Christopher Joost, who will have as Mrs.

Sarah Taylor, Miss Mary Faulkner, Mrs. Milton Je wesson, Mirs Mary Worthington, Mrs. G. B. Goodwin and Sister "Phebe Wooley.

The restaurant, which promises to be one of the distinguishing features of the kirmess, is to be in charge of Mrs. Harry Salter and Mrs. Edward Howell, and the serving room, under the management of the "New England Circle," which has established its reputation on many similar occasions. A table d'hote luncheon will be served between noon and two o'clock and dinner from six until eight. A string orchestra is to play during dinner, with occasional violin fiftlns' TlincA nrJcVi a-'M j-- FURTHER details of the kirmess for the benefit of the Church Charity Foundation, which is to take place on Wednesday and Thursday, November eleventh and twelfth, in the new Academy of Music and is engaging widespread attention throughout the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, are to be noted.

In general, the affair is to have a Dutch setting in harmony with the traditions of the Brooklyn end of Long Island, in which the strongest and most populous parishes of the diocese are situated, and many of the stronger parishes are to have booths or tables in charge of their own representatives. -The management in general is in the hands of a committee of which Mrs. Hugh McBride is chairman and which includes Mrs. Clinton Belden, Mrs. James Augustus Hewlett, Mrs.

Otto Heinigke, Mrs. John Anderson, Mrs. Frederick Chester Cocheu, Mrs. J. Eliott Langstaff, Mrs.

Henry A. Fairbairn, Mrs. Warren Seabury Simmons, Mrs. Divine Burtis, Mrs. Ralph Brydges, Mrs.

Beverly R. Betts, Mrs. Edward Van Wyck Rossiter, Miss Phoebe Van Nos-trand, Mrs. John Howard Melish, Miss Brush, Mrs. William Martin, Miss Donnellon, Mrs.

Reere F. Alsop, Mrs. Colin Campbell Walker, Mrs. Paul Flynn Swett, Miss Mary Louise Martin, Mrs. A.

D. Goddard, Mrs. Robert Rogers, Miss Irene De Witt, Miss Margaret Hunter, Mrs. Florence Murphy, Mrs. Edward I.

Horsman, Mrs. Frank Page, Mrs. Spencer Roche, Mrs. J. Sherlock Davis, Mrs.

George Ball, Mrs. Walter De Forest Johnson, Mrs. E. I. Howell and Mrs.

W. W. Hulse. THE various committees in charge of the different departments of the Church Charity Foundation are to have tables of their own and many of the attendants will be in Dutch costumes. A general utility table will be managed by the Senior Committee of the Home for the Blind Mrs.

Divine F. Burtis, chairman; Miss Alexander, Miss E. E. Butt, Mi A. C.

Chapin, Mrs. W. W. Court, Mrs. A.

J. Delatour, Mrs. A. K. Harrison, Miss M.

A. Hodgson, Miss M. E. Hosier Miss M. S.

Henderson, Mrs. Frederick Jones, Mrs. R. S. Place, Mrs.

S. E. Rose, Mrs. E. L.

Smith, Mrs. C. F. Underbill and Mrs. H.

M. Wheeler. THE candy table is to be in charge of the Junior Committee of the Foundation: Mrs. Warren S. Simmons, chairman; Mrs.

George P. Kennedy, Mrs. Frank H. Knight, Mrs. C.

E. Lee, Mrs. Charles Smyth, Mrs. George C. Taft and the Misses Katherine Whitney, Grace Broadhurst, Gladys Belden, Jane Davis, Florence Goodwin, Hazel Howe, Jeanette Hutchinson, Ethel Luyster, E.

B. Peterson, Marianna Potter, Mildred Ryder, Anna C. Robinson, Susan Riggs, C. B. Winter, May Waldron and Marjory Wells.

The Hospital Committee is to manage three tables: Mrs. G. A. White, chairman Mrs. J.

Davis, Mrs. H. A. Fairbairn, Mrs. W.

S. Lane, Mrs. D. 0. Mackay, Mrs.

William McKinny, Miss Emma Neale and Mrs. Emma L. Pratt are to preside at a photograph table. Mrs. Henry Drisler, chairman; Mrs.

C. R. Christopher, Sifter Dora Dawson, Mrs. J. H.

Dykeman, Mrs. R. G. GHdden, Mrs. Francis Manfred, Mrs.

A. D. Goddard, Mrs. Henry J. Mason, Mrs.

Q. R. McKendrick, Mrs. George Schaper, Mrs. David S.

Wells and Mrs. Charles F. Willard at a utility table. Miss Irene De Witt, chairman Mrs. E.

F. Barnes, Mrs. R. B. Boaz, Mrs.

Franklin Chase, Mrs. H. R. Elliot, Miss Alice -Fairbairn, Mrs. C.

F. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Frederick Little, Mrs. W. A.

Morris, Mrs. F. H. Way and Mrs. R.

Whitney will preside at a white goods table. Three booth-, at which toys, dolls and handkerchiefs will be sold, are to be in charge of the Orphanage Committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. John Anderson. The Nurses' Committee is to have" charge of -an orange grove inhabited by two expert palmists, Mme. Leslie and Miss E.

J. Wilron, and a silhouette cutter, Miss Helen S. Gtaef. Mrs. Otto Heinigke is chairman of this committee.

wv-wm, vuv nj wh iju iw 1 1 ri I -n 1 1 1 r- if it- i innpr parties may be served in one of the galleries overlooking the banquet hall. Many who will attend the concert in the music hall on Tuesday evening, which promises to be one of the fines features of the kirmess, will dine at the kirmess that evening. HURSDAYS, the fifth, twelfth and nineteenth of No-1 vember, from four until seven o'clock, at 725 St. Mark's Avenue, are announced by Mrs. Eugene Gilbert Blackford and Mrs.

Joseph Henry Colyer, Jr. honoV of Miss Helen Reichman, who is to be married in November, a handsome luncheon was given last week Thursday by Mrs. Frank Barnett Whaley of 172 Elm Street. The guests included Mrs. Schlesinger, wife of Judge Schlesin-ger of New Rochelle; Mrs.

George Mohr, Mrs. Clayton A. Tanner, Mrs Cox, Mrs. Clay Best and Miss Reichman. HE wedding of Miss Anna Bell Englis, daughter of Mr.

1 and Mrs. John Englis of 196 Clinton Avenue, and Mr Warren Irving Glover was a noteworthy incident of Thursday evening. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride at eight o'clock by the Rev. Dr. David Gregg, formerly of the Lafayette, Avenua Presbyterian Church.

Miss Englis. ma bridal robe of satin royal trimmed with round point lace and white and silver embroidery, and carrying lilies-of-the-valley and white orchids, was attended by Miss Amelia Jarvie of Bass Rocks, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. William Jar- vie, anu mus JLocKwood of Essex Fells, N.J., both wearing frocks of white chiffon over white satin, blue satin sashes and carrying bouquets of pink rosebuds. Mr.

A. Milton Napier was the groomsman. The rooms were effectively decorated with chrysanthemums, autumn leaves and palm The. ceremony. was followed by a rather large receotion.

I AST Wednesday at Fishkill on Hudson, Miss Kathleen De, Forest Montgomery, daughter of Mr. Archibald Montgomery was quietly married at the home of her grandfather, Mr John P. Rider, to Dr. Keith Sears. Only the immediate family was present at the ceremony, which was performed 5, GeT0Trge A- Green' rector of St.

Andrew's Church ot Hshkill-on-Hudson. Miss Montgomery, who was unattended, wore a dark-blue traveling suit A brother of the groom, Mr. Woodward Sears of Buffalo, was best man. Dr. and Mrs.

Sears left immediately after the ceremony for a wedding trip in the South. Since the death of her mother, Miss Montgomery has been living with her grandfather. Mr. Archibald Montgomery has been temporarily residing at the Crescent Athletic Club and his son, Mr. Kenneth R.

gomery, is an undergraduate at Harvard. which comprises Mrs. Fred C. Cocheu, Mrs. William Martin, Mrs.

Henry Blatchford, Mrs. A. D. Goddard, Mrs. F.

C. Dexter, Mrs. Mary Ronsier, Mrs. Frank Goddard, Mrs. Frank L.

Sniffen, John Van Every, Mrs. Pigot, Miss L. M. Eddy, Mrs. Raymond Barnes and the Misses Hazel Jones, Rita Clark, Olive Boyd and Florence Greenwood.

'RACE CHURCH on the Heights is to have a book table, v-I with the attendants in caps and gowns and the committee consists of Miss Cornelia Grade Henshaw, chairman; Miss Margaret Hunter, Miss Thyrza Benson, Mrs. Bayard Sands Litchfield, Miss Marion Litchfield, Miss Adelaide Chauncey, Miss Madelaine Chauncey, Mirs Carol Chauncey, Mrs. F. Valdemar Henshaw, Miss Muriel Goepel and Miss Josephine Drakeley. The Church of the Holy Trinity is represented by a large committee, of which Mrs.

Frederick E. Haight is chairman, and will have an table. St. Ann's-on-the-Heights will have a table for toilet articles, at which. Miss Jennie Donnellon, with a large corps of assistants, will preside.

St. Philip's Church, represented by Mrs. Margaret Nicholas, Mrs. John P. 'Stackett, Mrs.

N. Peterson Boyd, Mrs. Patrick Henry, Mrs. Andrew J. Carr, Miss Harriet Wal-ley and Miss Mabel Jackson, is to have a grocery table.

Grace Church, Jamaica, is to have a Colonial table, which will be presided over by Mrs. Beverly Betts, chairman; Mrs. Philip K. Meynen, Mrs. James Lothian, Mrs.

Edward Bedford and Mrs. William Nagle in Colonial costumes. The Cathedral, 1 cF tvtn'ne, at the Church of the Good i ilep rr' ss Florence E. Wessels, daughter of Mr and Henry. E.

Wessels of 382 McDonough Street, and Mr. Percival Fordham Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs William M. Watkins of Hancock Street, were married. The church was very prettily decorated in green and white, while Hie br.de five attendants were gowned in pink and white.

The ceremonv was nprfnrmeA if -ii, 1 n. Dr. Robert Rogers. Miss Wessel's robe of white satin and rose point lace and bridal veil of lace caught with lilies-of-.

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