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Ml 13 BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1935 HEART VICTIM Arthur S. Roche, i Mr, and Mr. EDWARD H. BERONER announce the birth of a SON, Edward H. on Sunday, Feb, 17, 1935.

Deattj0 Kate U. Clark, Grand Old Lady Of Boro, Dead Noted Author, Lecturer and CivicLeaderWould Have Been 84 Friday CONDON On Saturday, Feb. 16, JAMES beloved husband of Nora Condon and dear father of Theresa Qulnn and Nora Condon, Funeral from his home, 432 Court St, on Wednesday, 10 a.m.; thnece to St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered. CONKLIN EMMA (nee Horn) ol 102-22 88th Ave, Richmond Hill, on Feb.

17, beloved wife of Albert Conklin and devoted daughter of Emma Horn. Services at chapel, 107-12 Jamaica Richmond Hill, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 9 p.m. Interment Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Lutheran Cemetery.

CROWN On Feb. 18, 1935, MARTIN CROWN of 7920 4th Ave, beloved husband of Agnes Crown; he Is also survived by two sons, one daughter, two sisters and three brothers. He was born at Drum Keeran, County Leitrim, Ireland. Funeral Wednesday from St. An-selm's R.

C. Church at 9:30 a.m. Interment Calvary Cemetery. CUNNEEN On Feb. 17, 1935, MARY CUNNEEN, widow of John, and beloved mother of Helen Cun- nssn.

Piinerai Wednesday. 9 a.m.. GeorgeEbinger Burial RitesSet For Tomorrow Founded Bakery Firm Which Now Operates Fifty Retail Stores Funeral services for George Ebinger, 77, whose three sons, George Walter D. and Arthur C. Ebinger, operate the chain of 50 bakeries in Brooklyn of the Ebinger Baking Company, will be held at the home, 412 Marlborough Road, at 8 p.m.

tomorrow, Mr. Ebinger died Saturday night at his home after a short illness. Burial will be private in Greenwood Cemetery. Mr. Ebinger was born in Kingston, N.

and came to Manhattan when he was a young man to work in a small bakery on the upper West Side. He later came to Brooklyn, where he operated his own store. He retired In 1915. When he settled in Brooklyn there was no single retail concern which controlled any considerable share of the baking business. Mr.

Eblnger's sons developed the chain bakery business here with a central office at 2290 Bedford Ave. One of his sons, Walter Ebinger, has long been an active figure in the Noted Writer of Mysteries, Dies Heart Ailment Is Fatal to Novelist at Home in Florida He Was Special to The Eagle Palm Beach, Fla, Feb. 18 Arthur Somers Roche, well known to thousands through his many novels and short stories, died at his home here yesterday from a heart ailment after an Illness of two weeks. He was 51 years old. Funeral services were to be held late this afternoon, with George Creel, close friend and also an au- i thor, coming from Washington to speak the eulogy.

Interment will be at Castine, Me, where Mr. Roche i spent many Summers. The novelist is survived ty his wife, the former Ethel Pettlt, and two sons, Jeffrey and Clyde, both of whom are at the Lawrenceville School. In 1910 Mr. Roche gave up newspaper work to become one of the country's most prolific fiction writers.

He wrote 23 novels, two plays and a number of short stories, most of them of the mystery type characterized by fast-moving action and Intricate plots, His fiction work quickly became very popular, and when one of his novels, "The Day of Faith," appeared on Nov. 1, 1921. it so pleased Governor Thomas C. McRae or Arkansas that he declared the day a legal holiday in the State. Among his best-known books were "Plunder," "Ransom," "Find the Woman," "Uneasy Street," "The Eyes of the Blind," "The Pleasure Buyers," "The Great Abduction," "Slander" and "Among Those Pres-sent." Among the most recent of his novels to be adapted for the motion pictures was "Penthouse." The novelist was an ardent and able golfer.

Among his clubs were the Players, Dutch Treat, Authors, Sleepy Hollow Country, St. Botolph of Boston and Bath and Tennis of Palm Beach. Mrs. II. C.

Abrams Rites Tomorrow Special to The Eagle East Rockaway, Feb. 18 Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie Combs Abrams, wife of Mayor Al.mson, Abrams 102 Melrose Ave, will be held tomorrow night at the Bethany rnnm.urnlinnnlil.owl. died of spinal meningitis yesterday in Nassau Hospital, Mineola, where she had been taken several days ago. Mrs.

Abrams was born in Oceun-slde on March 13, 1877, and married 38 years ago. She had lived in this village since 1922 and was a member of the Women's League of Bethany Church, the Bethany Circle of King's Daughters and the Lvnbrook Women's Republican Club. Besides her husband she is survived by two daughters. Laura Kreuger and Myrtle Bourguigon; a I son, narvey, uuee uiuuieia, uiuiuaa jonn ana wmiam uoiiids, ana a sister, Mrs. William Foley.

Two clergymen will officiate at the funeral services, the Rev. George Wilson, pastor of Bethany, and the Rev. Paul S. Hill, pastor of the Church of the Nazarene. Interment will be In the Rockville Cemetery.

Lynbrook, Wednesday. W. E. FitzSimons Special to The Eagle Glen Ridge, Feb. 18 William E.

FitzSimons, 74, formerly for 50 years connected with the National Meter Company in Brooklyn, died at his home here Friday night. He was mechanical engineer of the company at the time of his retirement. Forty- i five years ago he Invented a glass i dial to hold gears at the top of meters, keeping them from erosion. A similar dial is generally used on water meters. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Eugenia FitzSimons, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles Weyant. Services were held yesterday. Aloysius Farrell Aloyslus J. Farrell, 50, of 1210 E.

46th St. a court attendant for the past 21 years at the 1st District Municipal Court and previously for years a member of the staff of The Eagle, died Saturday at his home after an illness of two months. Mr. Farrell was born in Brooklyn and was formerly an attendant of St. Peter's R.

C. Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret M. Farrell.

A requiem mass will be offered tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St, Vincent Ferrer's R. C. Church and burial will be in Holy Cross 51 from residence, 675 Dean St. Solemn renulem mass at St.

Josephs Church. Interment Calvary Cemetery. DENNING WILLIAM on Feb. 17, 1935, at Lynbrook, L. I.

Survived by his wife, Katherlnc, and son, Harold E. Denning, and daughter, Mrs. Helen E. Coburn. He was a member of Modern Woodmen of America, Jamaica Camp.

Funeral services at the residence of his daughter, 224-35 93d Road, Queens Village, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 8 pjn. Interment Wednesday morning in Flushing Cemetery. EBINGER Entered into rest, GEORGE EBINGER, beloved husband of Mary C. Ebinger and devoted father of George Walter D.

and Arthur C. Ebinger, In his 77th year. Services Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at his residence, 412 Marlborough Road. Funeral private, Wednesday morning. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.

FARRELL On Feb. 16, at his home. 1210 E. 46th St, ALOYSIU3 J. FARRELL, beloved husband of Margaret M.

Funeral Tuesday at 9:30 a.m.; requiem mass at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer at 10 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. FITZPATRICK ALBERT HAROLD, aged 7 years, on Feb. 16, 1935, beloved son of Francis Harold and Henrietta McPhlllips Fltzpatrlck.

Holy mass Tuesday, Feb. 19, at St. Mary's R. C. Church, Manhasset, L.

at 10 a.m. Interment Holy Rood Cemetery, Westbury, L. I. (Mobile. Ala, papers please copy).

FROMMEYER On Sunday, Feb. 17. 1935. CHARLES beloved husband of Matilda B. and devoted father of Charles A.

Frommeyer brother of Lawrence Leo, John Sarah Anna.M. and Mary Frommeyer, Mrs. Ella M. DeLacy and Mrs. Charles A.

Mullens. Funeral from his residence 7124 10th Ave, Brooklyn, Wednesday morning, Feb. 20, at 9:30 o'clock. Solemn mass of requiem Church of St. Ephrem, Fort Hamilton Parkway and 74th St.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. HARING On Feb. 18, 1 9 3 5. ELLSWORTH, beloved husband of Lillle Redding Haring. Services private.

Kindly omit flowers. HILL On Friday, Feb. 15, 1935, FANNY wife of Harry B. Hill. Services at her home, 23 Kenilworth Place, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock.

HOWARD On Monday, Feb. 18, Adey, Nellie Best, Anton Birmingham, Mary E. McC. Bottjer, Henry Byers, Joseph Chatterton, Wm, Clark, Catherine U. Cohen, Frank Collery, Derendah K.

Colyer, Isaac Condon, James F. Conklin, Emma Crown, Martin Cunneen, Mary Denning, William Ebinger, George Farrell, Aloyslus Fltzpa trick. A.H. Frommeyer, C. A.

Harlng, Ellsworth -Hill, Fanny Howard, W. B. Joyce, Thomas King, Mabel I. Luther, Elizabeth Merrill, Charles Miller, James J. Myers, Agnes Newell, Stanley Olsen, Alice Powell, Jeannette M.

Powers, Julia E. Small, James R. Slocovlch, Wm, P. Stertefeldt, Mary M. Sweeny, Nana Walsh, Sister Mary Martina Wardell, Mary B.

Wicks, Perry S. Worth, Caroline ADEY On Sunday, Feb. 17, 1935, NELLIE W. (nee Wagenbach), beloved wife of Alexander Adey. Funeral services at the Harris Funeral Home, 5012 4th Tuesday, Feb.

IB, at 8 p.m. BEST On Feb. 16, 1935, ANTON, fceloved brother of John Louis and Anna M. Best. Funeral services at his home, 205-12 112th Hollis, Tuesday evenfng at 8 o'clock.

BIRMINGHAM MARY E. Mc-COLWELL, on Feb. 17, at her home, 100 Adelphl beloved wife of Edwin J. and devoted mother of Brother Edmund, C. S.

R. and John, Mary E. Cotter, Florence M. Kcevers and Eleanor also survived by one brother and six grandchildren. Requiem mass Wednesday, Feb.

20, 9:30, at R. C. Church of the Sacred Heart. Interment Calvary Cemetery. BOTTJER Suddenly, on Feb.

16, HENRY BOTTJER, late resident of 117 Flatbush Ave, beloved husband of Wilhelmlna (nee Krieke), and father of John. Funeral services on Monday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m. at the Boyertown Funeral Parlors, 38 Lafayette Ave. Interment on Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Lutheran Cemetery. BYERS On Feb. 16, 1935, JOSEPH BYERS, aged 74, Of 308 Palmetto St. Funeral services at B. J.

Thuring Funeral Parlors, 1178 Bushwlck on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Interment Evergreens Cemetery. CHATTERTON Suddenly, on Feb. 16. at 6609 Avenue WILLIAM CHATTERTON, son of the late William and Caroline Postlcn Chatter-ton, brother of Thomas and Harry and Mrs.

Thomas Kearns. Funeral services 8 p.m., Tuesday. Funeral will be held Wednesday, 10 a.m. Interment New York Cemetery, New Jersey. CLARK CATHERINE U.

(Kate Upson Clark). On Sunday, Feb. 17, 1935, at her home, 464 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, after a long Illness, In her 84th year, CATHERINE PICKENS UPSON CLARK, widow of Edward Perkins Clark and mother of Charles Upson Clark, John Kirkland Clark end George Maxwell Clark; sister of Edwin M. Upson of Englewood, N. aunt of Mrs.

O. C. Avery of Charlemont, Mass. Funeral services at the Classon Ave. Presbyterian Church, Classon Ave.

and Monroe at 2:30 p.m, Tuesday, Feb. 19. COHEN On Sunday, Feb. 17, 1935, FRANK, beloved husband of Hattle Cohen. Funeral services at his residence, Chichester Ave, Center Moriches, L.

on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 2 p.m. COLLERY DERENDAH on Feb. 16, 1935; beloved wife of the i late John Collery. Survived by two daughters, Catherine M.

P. and Rose A. V. Funeral fron her home, 878 E. 34th St, Tuesday, Feb.

19, 1935, at 10:30 a.m. Thence to St. Vincent Ferrer R. C. Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. COMMONWEALTH LODGE. NO. 409, F. A.

M. Brethren: It Is with profound sorrow we announce the death of Brother ISAAC 8. COLYER, which occurred in Los Angeles, California, on Feb. 1. Masonic funeral services will conducted at Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Feb.

19, at 2:30 p.m. Please attend. FREDERICK G. HARRIS, Master. John H.

Wacker, Secretary. COMMONWEALTH LODGE, NO. 409, F. A. M.

Brethren: It Is with profound sorrow we announce the death of Brother ELLSWORTH HARING. Masonic funeral services will be conducted at his home, 684-A Hancock St, Brooklyn, on Tuesday, Feb. 19. at 6 p.m. FREDERICK G.

HARRIS. Master. John H. Wacker, Secretary. Sure Yon Know tho Total Cost The many details of funeral arrangement often came misunderstanding regarding coat.

Onr Estimate Plan avoids this became it ran be adapted to each family'! needs. Note its 6exibility in the cost of our last thousand serriees. DEAD AT 77 George Ebinger Marian De Forest Rites Tomorrow Buffalo, Feb. 18 Funeral services will be conducted In Trinity Church tomorrow afternoon for Miss Marian De Forest, pioneer news paperwoman, playwright and dramatic critics. Miss De Forest, best known for her dramatization of Louisa M.

Al-cott's "Little Women," died yesterday after a long illness. She was believed to be about 70 years old. Through her column "As I Go to the Play" on the old Buffalo Commercial, she became widely known in the theater and numbered among her friends Sarah Bernhardt, Caruso, Lily Langtry and Minnie Madden Fiske. Bernhardt always made It a point on her visits here to take tea with Forest. Obituary MRS.

EVELYN MELVIN MrALONAN dlfd Snlurdiy at her home, 202 Nelson St. She Is survived br Her husband, John Mc-A'onnn; tvo dauchtert, Mn. Charlef Cordei and Mrs. John Giles; a son, James Moonty; two sisters, Mrs. John leaner nnd Mrs.

Robert Feenej, and a brother. rrnk Melvln. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. from the home; thenc. to St.

Mary Star of the Sea R. C. Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated. Interment will be In Cal vary Cemetery. MISS CATHERINE FOX died Saturday nt her home, 780 Henry St.

She was born in Gt. Michael's parish, Bay Rldee, daughter of Mary and the late John Fox. and Is i4rvlved by her mother and a brother. John Fox. Th.

funeral will be held Wednesday at 30 a rn. from tho home: thence to St. Mary of the Sea R. C. Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated.

Interment, will be In St. John's Cemetery. Events Tonight "Byrne Nittht" at meeting of Mtdwood Board nf 1701 Avenue M. 8. Card party and fashion show under auspices of Association of Catholic Teachers or the Diocese of Brooklyn, at Columbus Club.

1 Prospect Park West, 8. V-vting of Queens County Young Hp-publican Club, at Hotel Franklin. BOth Avr uml 163d 8. Arrangements committee for Purtm Ball of Temple Beth Elohtru meets at Temple "louse. 8th Ave.

and Garfield Place. 9. Illustrated lecture on "A Voyage to the Ire Inferno of Alaska," by Father Bernard Hubbard, 'the Glacier at Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 15. Lecture-concert on "The Enjoyment of Music." conducted by Olin Downes, Lotte Lehintin.

soprano, assisting artist, Institute of Arts and Sciences, B.15. Dr. Hcln. Lelomann speaks on Nazi Cermnny at Free Synagogue, 40 W. 68ih Msnhattan.

8:30. Dinner of Boy Scout Troop 212. nth A D. Republican Club, Ovington and 3d 7 30. Dr.

Louis I. Harris, former Health Commissioner, speaks at Monday night forum Voune Israel of Brooklyn, 563 Bedford Ave 8 30. Missionary benefit card party and reception at Trommer's Hall, Bushwlck Ave. and Conway James Waterman Wtse speaks on Russian experiences at Brooklyn Jewish Center. Eastern Parkway.

8:30. Occupational Round Table dinner of tha American Woman's Association, 353 W. Manhattan. 7. Dr.

Everett Dean Martin, at Packer Collegiate Institute. 8 Course in effect ive speaking opens at Brooklyn Engineers Club, 117 Remsen 61.. 8 Brook Ivn Chamber of Commerce directors' meeting. Brooklyn Club. 131 Remsen Card party and bunco of Clarendon Democrntlc Club at Rlvoll Restaurant, 109S Flalbush 8.

Class In astronomy, American Museum of Natural History. 8. Dr. J. B.

Mailer speaks on "The Pscho-loaical and Social Backgrounds of Metropolitan Neighborhoods." at American Museum of Natural History. 8 15. Free plays on Actors Project of tha Works Division Emergency Relief Bureau: 'The Mikado." at Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association, 331 E. "Oth Man-t-Btlan. 8'30.

The Yiddish King Lear," at Congregation Beth Israel. 102d St. and 88th Richmond Hill. 8.30. "Abraham Lincoln." at Broadway Tabernacle.

Sfiih St. and Broadway. Manhattan. 8:15. scheduled services took place.

Masonic rites were conducted by Edwin H. McCabe, master of Hyatt Lodge, In the flower-banked chapel, crowded with more than 200 mourners. Mr. Harding had been affiliated with the Masonic Lodge since 1898. The interment was at Cypress Hills Cemetery.

KEEP YOUR HUSBAND'S LOVE THE bet of meo get tired of irritable, complaining wives. If you are weak, nervous and rundown you cannot do your share lo make a happy home. Take Lydia E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound. Barbara Spears of Akron, Ohio, says.

"I had no pep, and was in poor spirits. Your Vegetable Compound eliminated that awful tired feeling. My husband says 1 am my old self again." I 'EN'm I Mr 1 BROOKLYN'S LOSS Mrs. Kate Upton Clark Caroline M. Worth Dies Here at 83 Miss Caroline Morgan Worth, 83, of 205 Hicks one of the oldest graduates of Packer Collegiate Institute, died Saturday at her home after an Illness of several weeks.

Miss Worth was born in Brooklyn, Oct. 12, 1851, a daughter of the late Paul and Harriet Mather Worth, and was graduated from Packer in 1871. She Is survived by two slsters.Mrs. Marie Mygatt, of Brooklyn, and Mrs. James E.

English, of Lynn, and a brother, Howard Worth, of Brooklyn. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2:30 p.m, tomorrow. 1 Deatbs OLSEN ALICE, on Fob. 17, in the New York Hospital, of 123 Congress St, Brooklyn. Survived by one daughter, Mrs.

Alice Malone, and one son, Christian Olsen. Funeral on Wednesday, Feb. 20, from the Funeral Chapel, 187 S. Oxford St, at 9:30 a.m. Mass of requiem at 10 a.m, R.

C. Church of St. Peter. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. POWELL JEANNETTE on Sunday, Feb.

17, 1935, beloved wife of the late Henry Powell and mother of Mabel Mary E. and Henry R. Powell and Mrs. Garrison Lowe Funeral services at her residence, 124 Washington St, Hempstead, L. Wednesday, Feb.

20, at 2 p.m. Interment Greenfield Cemetery, Hempstead. POWERS JULIA E. POWERS, on Sunday, Feb. 17, at her residence.

1183 New York Ave. Survived by her brother and four sisters. Requiem mass Wednesday. Feb. 20, St.

Jerome's R. C. Church, 9:30 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. SLOCOVICH Feb.

18, 1935, WILLIAM beloved husband of Edith Zander Slocovich. Services private at his home, 65 Marlborough Road, Wednesday at 2 p.m. Please omit flowers. SMALL-On Feb. 17, JAMES R.

SMALL, beloved husband of Katherine Small. Services at Moad-lnger's Funeral Parlors, 1120 Flat-bush Ave, Tuesday, 8 p.m. (Boston and Maine papers please copy.) STERTEFELDT On Feb. 17, 1935, at her residence. 85-50 Forest Parkway, Woodhaven, MARY beloved wife of the late Frederick W.

Stertefeldt, dear mother of Emma M. and Harry F. Funeral services at J. J. Gallagher's Sons Funeral Home, 25 Aberdeen St, Brooklyn, Wednesday, 8 p.m.

Interment Thursday, 10 a.m. Greenwood Cemetery. SWEENY On Sunday, Feb. 17, 1935, NANNA C. SWEENY, sister of the late Elizabeth Fleming and beloved aunt of Sister Muriel Gertrude, S.

S. J. (Fleming). Funeral from the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.; thence to St. Agatha's R.

C. Church, 7th Ave. and 49th Brooklyn, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered at 10 a.m. WALSH On Friday, Feb. 15, 1934, Sister MARY MARTINA WALSH of the Sisters of Charity of New Jersey, beloved 3ister of Mrs.

George Taylor, and aunt of the Rev. Thomas Taylor. Cecelia and Mary. Requiem mass Monday, Feb. 18, at 9:30 in the Chapel of the College of St.

Elizabeth, Convent, N. J. WARDELL On Sunday, Feb. 17. 1935, MARY widow of Tylee W.

Wardell and daughter of Sldny Wlntringham. Funeral prhate. Kindly omit flowers. WICKS On Feb. i6, PERRY S.

WICKS, father of Bradford Wicks, Almee Wood, Lorena Knox and Myra Glutzbeck. Friends may view remains on Tuesday, Feb. 19, between 3 and 4 p.m, at the South Side Bank, Bay Shore, L. I. Interment tallowing at Oakwood Cemetery.

WORTH On Saturday, Feb. 16, 1935, CAROLINE MORGAN, loving daughter of the late Paul and Harriet Mather Worth, in her 84th year. Services at her residence, 205 Hicks St, Brooklyn, on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Jit Cgemorfnm BENNETT WILLIAM J. In sad and loving mpmory of my dear husband.

JOSEPHINE H. BENNETT. BOHL In loving memory of our dear father, FREDERICK S. BOHL, who passed away Feb. 18, 1928.

A loving thought, a silent tear, A beautiful memory ever dear. DAUGHTERS. McLOUGHLIN In loving memory of the Rev. THOMAS P. McLOUGHLIN, late rector of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament.

New Ro-chelle, N. who died Feb. 17, 1913. Requiescat in pace. MURRAY A loving tribute to the memory of mv devoted husband, JOHN A.

MURRAY. Ninth anniversary mass at St. Augustine's Church Tuesday, 6:30 a.m. MARY A. MURRAY.

SCHMITT Mass was offered for the repose of the soul of NICHOLAS SCHMITT, who departed this life Fob. 17, 1026. May he rest in peace DAUGHTER, It A Sr Mrs. Edward Perkins Clark, "the grand old lady of Brooklyn," is dead. She had a stroke of paralysis last March and the end came early yesterday at her home, 464 Clinton Ave.

She would have been 84 years old next Friday, Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. in the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, Classon Ave. and Monroe St. Author, editor, lecturer, clubwoman, clvio worker and even political campaigner was Catherine Pickens Upson Clark, whose pen name, Kate Upson Clark, was well known to half a century of readers. Mrs.

Clark was born on Feb. 22. 1851, at Camden, Ala, but lived for the last 50 years or more in Brooklyn. She was the daughter of Edwin Upson, proprietor of a book store at Camden, and- Priscilla Maxwell Upson, who was principal of the Eutaw Female seminary there. Both parents came of families which had settled in the Connecticut Valley before the middle of the seventeenth century, or about 1640.

Catherine was still a young girl when her mother died and the family moved to Milwaukee. The girl spent much of her childhood with two aunts in the village of Charlemont, in western Massachusetts, and attended school in Milwaukee and graduated from the Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass. The seminary has since become Wheaton Coiiege, which awarded Mrs. Clark the Lltt. D.

degree in 1919 and of which she was for many years trustee. Taught in Cleveland She attended State Normal School at Westfield, Mass, and taught in the Cleveland High School. Early In 1874 she married Edward Perkins Clark, a Yale graduate, and at that time managing editor of the Springfield Republican. He died In 1903 when he was acting editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post. Mrs.

Clark Is survived by three sons, all Yale graduates: Charles Upson Clark, professor of modern languages and director of Summer session of City College; John Kirk land Clark, president of the New York State Board of Law Examiners, and George Maxwell Clark, president of the office furniture firm of Clark Gibby. Other survivors are Edward M. Upson of Englewood, N. brother; Mrs. Oscar C.

Avery of Charlemont, Mass, a niece, and eight grandchildren and three great-granddaughters. After living for four years In Springfield and then, for short periods, in Milwaukee, Washington and Philadelphia, the Clarks and the three children who had been born to them, came to Brooklyn, where Mrs. Clark had made her home ever since. Here she became a leader in intellectual, literary and civic life, continuing a varied activity Into her 70s and 80s and earning the title, given by Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, of "th? Grand Old Lady of Brooklyn" Wrote Poetry as Girl Her literary activities began when, as a schoolgirl, she contributed poetry to the Springfield Republican and thus met a young editor there who later became her husband.

During the 1880s she edited a monthly magazine. Good Cheer, published In Greenfield, Mass, which attained a circulation of more than 100.000. She wrote for children's magazines St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion and Harper's Young People and wrote a number of books for or about children. Among her published volumes were: "Bringing Up Boys." "That Mary-Ann." "The Blackberry KinK," "How Dexter Paid His Way." "Up the Witch Brook Road" and a volume of short stories, "White Butterflies." She was also, over a long period of years, a frequent contributor to The Brooklyn Eagle and the Philadelphia Press.

It was after her husband's death In 1903 that Mrs. Clark turned to the lecture platform, appearing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, at Columbia University and on numerous Chautauqua circuits. She also spoke at meetings of the National Association of Women's Clubs and before State and local conventions. She founded the Wheaton Club of New York and was for many years Its president She was one of the founders of th Women's Republican Club of Brooklyn, was a member of the Browning Club and for more than 50 years of the Meridian Club. Had Prominent Friends At her Brooklyn home she entertained outstanding figures in the literary and educational worlds and among her friends were such as Booker T.

Washington, Dr. Truman J. Backus of Packer Institute, Dr. David H. Cochran of polytechnic Institute, Professor Phelps, Senators Beveridge of Indiana, Spooner of Wisconsin and Crane of Massachusetts, the late St.

Clair McKel-way, editor of The Eagle. Peter F. Dunne, Ambassador Walter H. Page and others. She had a wide circle of friends extending to all parts of the country, Which was constantly Increased by her unflagging energy and active Interest In all sorts of things.

She had fought vigorously for woman suffrage and prohibition, was keenly disappointed at the advent of repeal and. though she was thru 83, took the stump for the LaGuardla-Fusion ticket in the Fall of 1933. She was a member in turn of the old Puritan Church while Dr. E. P.

Terhune was its pastor: then of the Plymouth Church undpr Dr. Lyman Abbott and for the lat 25 years of the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church, In addition to the clubs alreadv mentioned she was a member of the Cosmopolitan Club of New York and honorary member of the New Era Club of' Brooklyn and Sorosis and Clio of Manhattan. Arthur Somers Roche Matthew Pollock, U. S. Submarine Expert, 66, Dies M.

I. T. Graduate Enlisted as Carpenter, Retired as Lieut. Commander Matthew B. Pollock, 66, of 225 Parkslde Ave, retired lieutenant commander In the Construction Corps of the United States Navy, died early yesterday morning of a heart ailment at his Winter home in Lake Worth, Fla.

He was born In Belfast, Ireland, but came to Brooklyn with his parents when he was a child. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and became a recognized expert on the construction of destroyers and submarines. He supervised construction of the Navy's first submarine. During the World War he was placed in charge of the construction of a large number of these vessels. Enlisted as Carpenter His naval career started when he enlisted as a carpenter just before the Spanish-American War.

During the next 34 years he saw service In the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican campaign, the Dominican campaign, and the World War, and he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in June, 1931. Before retiring, he was senior member of the Board of Inspection at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Veronica Pollock; a daughter, Mrs. Edith Rolland of New York; a son, i M.

Crawford Pollock of Farming-i dale, and five sisters, Mrs. Sybil Boland, Mrs. Avalon Kirkover. Miss Emma Pollock and Miss Mabel Pollock of New York and Mrs. Edith Gagnon, Lake Worth.

Fla. Funeral services will be held at i 10 a.m. Wednesday morning at the M. J. Smith Memorial Chapel, 243 Prospect Park West, and burial with military honors will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

D. Breckinridge, Publisher, Dies Lexington. Ky, Feb. 18 W) Desha Breckinridge, Kentucky publisher, I political leader and sportsman, died at his home here today after a long illness. He was 67 years old.

Breckinridge had directed the i Lexington Herald since 1897 when he became manager, during the editorship of his father, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge. The next year he bought the paper and became its editor on his father's death in 1904. The publisher owned a racing stable, ACTRESS DIES Jnne Wheatley, an actress for 33 years, died yesterday at the Memorial Hospital, Manhattan. Miss Wheatley, whose family name was Simpson, was born In Roslyn 56 years ago and was educated at Drew Seminary, Carmel, At 18 she made her first appearance on the staco with Viola Allen In "The Christian," and subsequently played in "When We Were Twenty-one." She had the role of Mrs. Cor-telyou in "The Second Mrs.

Tanqucray," at the Con in 1924 and a year later played In "Arms and the Man" for the Theater Guild. Her most recent role.i were in 1932 as Pomposia in "The Warrior's Husband" and ns Maud Mockridge In "Dangerous Comer'' at the Umpire Theater. Miss Wheatley lived at the Hotel Woodward, Manhattan. Her husband. Oalway Herbert of England, and two brothers, William T.

and Waller Simpson, survive. Flatbush Boys Club and was formerly president of the Flatbush Chamber of Commerce. Mr. and Mrs. Ebinger celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1931 at which time the couple were feted by more than 100 relatives and friends, Mr.

Ebinger was an ardent baseball fan and was a familiar figure at Ebbets Field. Mr. Ebinger is survived by his wife, Katherine; his three sons, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. A sister, Mrs. Catherine Herrlich, also survives him.

First Illness Fatal For Mrs. Haslaf Special to The Eagle Port Washington, Feb. 18 Mrs. Mary Saunders Haslaf, 87, of 30 Monroe Place, died yesterday afternoon from a heart attack after a three-month illness, the first of her lifetime. She is survived by her husband, Thomas.

94. and six children. Dr. Edward Haslaf of Brooklyn, Mrs. Caroline Aston, Mrs.

Alice Keevil, Mrs. Elizabeth Fullagher, Mrs. Florence McKee and H. Vickers Haslaf, all of Port Washington. She also leaves 12 grandchildren.

A resident of this village for 30 years, she was an active worker In the Ladies Aid of the Methodist Episcopal Church here. Funeral services will be held at the home at 3 p.m. tomorrow. Interment will be in Nassau Knolls Cemetery here. HIGH WATER I High Water I A.M.

P.M. Low Water A.M. P.M. 8:18 8 41 2:13 2 41 FEBRUARY 19. New York 8 50 9:14 2:52 I 31S SUN RISES AND SET3 February IS Rlscs.fl:48 8ets.5:3.1 February 19 Rlsps.ti 4 Sets.S-.3S ADVERTISEMENT WEAK KIDNEYS Stop Getting Up Nights To harmlessly flush poisons nnd acid from kidney and correct Irritation of bladder so that you cun stop "getUm up mshU" get a 35 cent package of Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capaules and take aa directed.

Other symptoms o( kidney and bladder wenknesseft are scant, burning or smart tni passage backar he leg cramps puffy eyes. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS ON WORK TO BE DONE FOR OR SUPPLIES TO BE FURNISHED TO THJS CITY OF NEW YORK. The person or persons making a hid for any service, work, materials or tuppliea lor The City of New York or tor any of its departments, bureaus or offices, shall furnish the same tn a sealed envelope, Indorsed with the title of the supplies, materials, work or service for which the bid is made, with his or their name or name and the date of presentation to the President of the Board or to the head of tht Department, at his or Its office, on or before the date and hour named In tha eoV vertlsement for the same, at which U.na and place the bids will be publicly opened by the President of the Board or head of said Department and read, and tha a-vard of the contract made according to law aa soon thereafter as practicable. Each btd shall contain the name and place of residence of the person making the btd and the names of all persona Interested with him therein, and it no other person be so Interested It shall distinctly state that fact, a)o that It Is made without any connection with any other person making a bid for the same purpose, and Is in all respects fair and without collusion or fraud, and that no member of tha Board of Aldermen, head of a department, chief of a bureau, deputy thereof or clerk therein, or other officer or employee of The City of New York. is.

shall be or become interested, directly or Indirectly, as contracting party, partner, stockholder, surety or otherwise, tn or In the performance of the contract or In the supplies, work or business to which It relates, or in any portion of the profits thereof. Ths btd must be verified by the oath in writing of the party or parties making the bid that the several matters stated therein ars in all respects true. No bid shall be considered unless, as a condition precedent to tho reception or consideration of such btd. It be accompanied by a certified check upon one of the State or National banks or trust companies of The City of New York, or a check of such bank or trust company signed by a duly authorized officer thereof, drawn to the order of ihe Comptroller, or money or corporate stock or certificates of Indebtedness of any nature Issued by The City of New York, which the Comptroller shall approve as of equal value with the security required in the advertisement to the mount of not less than thrrp nor more than five per centum nf the bond required, ns provided In Section 420 of the Greater New York Charter. All hids for supplies must be submitted in duplicate The cerulied clink or money should not be inclosed In the envelop containing ths bid.

but should he either inclnied In a separate enveinpc addressed to the head of the Department- President or Board, or submitted personal5 upon the presentation of the bid. For particulars 11 to the quantity and duality of the supplies or the nature and extent of the work reference must, be mads to the schedules, plans, on file in the office of the President, Board or DepnminMit. No bid shall b' rrpted from or contract awarded to anv person who is in arrears to The City nf New York upon debt or contract or who is a delimiter, as surety or otherwise, upon anv obluat mn to the City The contracts must be bid lor separntely. The right is ironed in ench case to re.tect all Inris v. Is deemed lo he for the Interest of the Citv so to do.

Bidders wtll sir out the amount of their bids in addition to inserting the sums in fiaures. Bidders air to make their hlds itpon the tiinr-K trn.s prepmed and fur-nishrd bv thf Cry. a rnpv nf which, with 'he p-oprr in which to Inclose the bid. tnif'hr rh ropv of th contract. Including the penf tcnMons.

In the form approved th Corpora' ion Counsel, ran he obtained upon up pi teat inn therefor at 'h office of -ne pepur' rnrnt for which ths work Is to ha done or the service ars Mi he furnished, run nnd drnwlngs ol COD 'strucuoa oik siaj bo seta tUais, 3 Civil War Veterans Read Ritual at Harding Funeral 1935, at his residence, 46 Shellbank Place, Rockville Centre, N. WILLIAM BABBINGTON HOWARD, father of May Howard Black. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 2:30 p.m. JOYCE On Feb.

16, 1935, THOMAS, beloved husband of the late Mary Joyce; dear father of Sadie and brother of Mrs. Nora Gallagher. Funeral from his residence, 131 Bedford Ave, Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.; solemn requiem mass Church of St. Vincent de Paul, N. 6th St.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. KING MABEL ISABEL CRO-ZIER, Feb, 17, beloved wife of C. Archibald King and mother of Gertrude and Lionel, the former the wife of Arthur Bayles of Kew Gardens. Services Tuesday evening, at 8, at her late residence, 175-28 89th Ave, Jamaica. Interment Northport, Genola Cemetery, Wednesday at 1L LUTHER On Sunday, Feb.

17, 1935, ELIZABETH, beloved Wife of George W. Luther. Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, Wednesday at 2 p.m. MERRILL On Saturday, Feb. 16, 1935, CHARLES beloved husband of Gertrude Merrill and father of Gertrude Kennedy.

Services at the Fairchild Chapel, 86 Lefferts Place, on Monday at 8 p.m. MILLER JAMES on Feb. 16, at his residence, 401 76th St, beloved husband of Vera Barron, father of Anna, Rose, Theresa and Angela, brother of Mrs. Elizabeth Barry, Margaret Bruce, Florence Tanner of Nova Scotia, Louis Miller of Newfoundland and William Miller of Los Angeles. Funeral Tuesday from his residence at 9:30 a.m.; thence to Our Lady of Angels Church, where a mass of requiem will be celebrated.

Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Kindly omit flowers. Masses appreciated. On Feb. 18, 1935, AGNES E.

MYERS, beloved sister of Anna Martin of 135 Lincoln Ave, Cypress Hills. Funeral services at B. J. Thuring Funeral Parlors, 1178 Bushwlck Ave, Wednesday evening, Feb. 20, at 9 o'clock.

Interment Evergreens Cemetery. NEWELL STANLEY NEWELL, on Saturday, Feb. 16, 1935, at a local hospital, at the age of 62. He was a Spanish-American war veteran and member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Lodge No. 829.

He Is survived by his wife, Martha; two sons, Lawrence and Wesley. Funeral services Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Interment at National Cemetery Tuesday 2 p.m., from his 108 Gain Court, Gerrittsen Beach. Ill iMrts win ir lot 22Stomtwin(rwWI1t'MSI 21J Iwrm win frH51ti 1501 171 (Nsnb tin Itm till titUI lit Imnh $711 if trw Masonic and G. A.

R. funeral rites were conducted for Richard H. Harding, 93, commander of U. S. Grant Post, A.

who died Thursday at his home, 117 Hooper St. Services were held at the Falr-riiiici Dhanpl. SR Lefferts Place. One of Mr. HardinR's last requests ns fnr n.

A. R. ritual at his serv ices, but this ts decided to be Impracticable since the remaining eight of his post were not thought strong enough to attend. However, three of Mr. Harding's Civil War brothers-in-arms insisted upon attending and together, in full uniform, they read the ritual over their late comrade, before the Cuticura Soap For the Daily Care of Your Hands Prolong the youthful appearance of your handg by giving them the urn care you give your face, list ('tlenras Soap every time you wash your bands; it will do much to prevent redness and roughness, caused by daily taaks, and to keep the bands soft, smooth and lovely.

fries Jc These rosts included EVERYTHING: cemetery cost; all the neoessary automobiles; newspaper notirca, etc There were no extras. Surf for imw co.1 fcoeMw Fairchild Sons MORTICIANS 86 Lefferts Place, Brooklyn 9-M l(54th Strrrt Jamaica Franklin Awine Girden Cirf UM Northern Bird, Flushing.

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