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BROOKLYN LIFE Brooklynites at St. Lawrence University Among the large number of students registered at St. Lawrence University this fall the following Brooklynites are prominent: Class of 1921, Miss Jessie Mather Barclay of 1444 Glenwood Road; Miss Helen Maude Trundy of 460 East Nineteenth Street, and Mr. Van Horne Gledhill of 1797 East Eighth Street. Class of 1922, Mr.

Seth Rogers Brooks, 377 Jefferson Avenue, and Miss Edna Marie Ringe, 166 Clarkson Avenue. Class of 1923, Miss Audrey Beatrice Brown, 542 Mansfield Place; Miss Marion Benson Cater, 817 Prospect Place; Miss Elizabeth Gaines Crisler, 681 East Fifth Street; Miss Mary Eaton Gunnison, 599 East Eighth Street; Miss Dorothy Marie Thompson, 784 Prospect Place; Miss Geneva Van Bergen, 1228 Dean Street, and Mr. Wells Le Roy Mitchell, 323 Sixth Avenue; Class of 1924 -Miss Elizabeth Arnold, 622 Mansfield Place; Miss Ruth Kirk Herzig, 1330 Pacific Street; Mr. Paul Elmer Warburg, 205 East Ninth Street; Miss Antoinette Atkinson, and Miss Hope Atkinson, 480 Eighty-fourth Street. Autumn Activities at St.

Lawrence On the evening of September twenty-third Beta Beta Chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma entertained the freshmen of Saint Lawrence University at a formal reception at the Kappa Lodge. Among the hostesses were Miss Jessie Mather Barclay, Miss Elizabeth Gaines Crisler, Miss Mary Eaton Gunnison, and Miss Dorothy Marie Thompson, all of Brooklyn. Miss Elizabeth Arnold, Mr. Joseph Milton Colon, Miss Ruth Kirk Herzig, Miss Alice Elin White, Miss Antoinette Atkinson, Miss Hope Atkinson, and Miss Evelyn Harding were the Brooklynites who were invited. At a welcoming reception given by Beta Chapter of Delta Delta Delta on September twenty-fifth Miss Edna Marie Ringe was a hostess.

The same Brooklynites attended. Miss Marion Benson Cater of Brooklyn helped entertain at a reception given by the Pi Beta Phi Sorority on September twenty-fourth. Miss Hope Atkinson and Miss Antoinette Atkinson, were guests of Pi Beta Phi at a tea given on September twenty-fourth. Beta Chapter of Delta Delta Delta entertained Miss Antoinette and Miss Hope Atkinson, Miss Ruth Kirk Hetzig, and Miss Geneva Van Bergen at a picnic in Russell, N. Y.

on September twenty- fourth. 0. 0. F. Theatre Party at Montauk The Woman's Board of the Church Charity Foundation of Long Island, of which Mrs.

Divine F. Burtis is president, is planning a theatre party for Monday evening, October twenty-fifth, at the Montauk Theatre, when "Shavings" will be the attraction. The members of the board, in response to many suggestions, decided on a comedy and in consequence have selected one of the hits of Broadway last season. The proceeds of the evening will be for the benefit of the various benevolent and educational institutions of the organization which includes St. John's Hospital, the Orphan House, the Sisters' House, the Home for the Aged, the Church Home for the Blind and the Training School for Nurses.

The officers of the Woman's Board include beside its president, Mrs. Edwin Beers, Mrs. Clinton A. Belden, Mrs. Otto Heinigke, Mrs.

John Birdsell, Mrs. E. A. W. Wilson, Mrs.

Charles S. Kennedy, Mrs. John Anderson and Mrs. Margaret C. Hunter.

Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin Candidate for Office Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin has been indorsed by Brooklyn club women for the office of third vicepresident of the State Federation of Women's Clubs.

Mrs. Coffin is at present director of the Second Judicial District. Five clubs have indorsed her and are placing her name for the convention, -the Brooklyn Women's Club, Long Island Council, with a membership of Long Island Daughters of the American Revolution, Women's Auxiliary of the Children's Museum and the Brooklyn Colony of New England women. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs will take place in Utica, October eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth, according to an announcement made recently by Mrs. George D.

Hewitt of Carthage, president, who at the same time made known arrangements for the convention. The convention will be of unusual importance this year, as a complete new staff of officers will be elected. At present there are two candidates in the field for president, Mrs. Walter Comly of Portchester, who has received the indorsement of nearly every district in the Federation, and Mrs. F.

E. Bates of Ithaca. Mrs. John H. Booth -of Plattsburg is apparently the leading candidate for first vice president.

The Helmuth Fellowship dinner, in honor of the late Mrs. William Tod Helmuth of New York City, will take place Monday, October eleventh, in the Hotel Utica. Following the dinner, the celebration of the tercentenary year of the Federation will be featured. Miss Harriet F. Somers Engaged Dr.

and Mrs. Elbert M. Somers of 33 Lefferts Place, Brooklyn, N. announce the engagement of their daughter, Harriet Ford, to Mr. Barton Duncan Miller of Deansboro, N.

Y. Peripatetic Personals Mr. and Mrs. James H. Post, who spent the summer at Brookhaven, L.

have returned to their home, 88 Remsen Street, for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. Walter D. Stuart have returned to 161 Henry Street, from Sayville, L.

where they spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert K. Twitchell and family have returned to their home, 353 Clinton Avenue, from their country home at L.

I. Mr. and Mrs. Edward P. Morse have opened their city home, 47 Plaza Street, for the winter.

Mr. Henry Bowers and his, son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Loomis Carter, have returned to 57 Montgomery Place from Bay Shore, L. I.

Mr. and Mrs John C. Zimmermann, who spent the summer at Shippan Point, have returned to 876 President Street. Mrs. Nelson G.

Carman closed her country home at Babylon, L. on Friday and returned to 54 Miss Katharine A. Pell returned on Friday to the Pierrepont Street for the winter. Hotel Bossert from The Sharon, where she spent the summer. Mr.

Matthew Hinman and. Miss Jennie Hinman will close Bullet Hill Farm and sail October twentyfirst on the Caronia. They will remain in Paris until the middle of December, when they will go to London to attend the marriage of Miss Eleanor Guggenheim and Viscount Castlestewart. They will be at their apartment, 350 Park Avenue, for Christmas. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry W. George of 458 Rugby Road returned this week after spending the summer at their country place in Larchmont, N. Y. Mrs.

Maurice O'Meara and Mrs. William T. Lyons have returned to their home at 83 Eighth Avenue from Sea Bright, N. J. Mrs.

John E. Tousey and Miss Elizabeth Tousey of 250 Henry Street left the Mountain View House at Whitefield, N. last week for Mohonk Lake, Ulster County, N. where they expect to stay until the middle of October. Mrs.

George Brewster Bretz and Miss Margaret Bretz returned to their home, 276 Garfield Place, last week from Camp Taconnet, Belgrade Lakes, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Rich G. Hollaman returned to 936 President Street from the Hotel Aspinwall at Lenox, where they spent the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fique of 128 De Kalb Avenue have returned from Atlantic City. Mrs. Lewis Luckenbach has returned to her home, 190 Riverside Drive, Manhattan, from Lake Placid, N.

Y. Dr. Charles C. Albertson and Mrs. Albertson have returned to their home, 180 Washington Park, after spending the summer in Rochester, N.

Y. Mr. and Mrs. Crittenden H. Adams of 43 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, are now at 281 South Avenue, Morristown, N.

J. Mrs. William A. Read and her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Read, have returned to their house at Purchase, N. from the Adirondacks.

Mrs. Arthur E. Waterhouse and her daughter, Miss Cornelia Waterhouse, left Monday night for a three months' trip to California and the Yellowstone Park via Montreal, Lake Louise and the Canadian Rockies. Miss Waterhouse was graduated from Packer last June. Mr.

and Mrs. Waterhouse have given up their home at 142 Midwood Street, Flatbush, and will live at a hotel this winter. Dr. and Mrs. William H.

Bayles of 1901 Bedford Avenue have returned from New London, where they occupied a bungalow this summer. Judge and Mrs. Alfred E. Steers, who sold their home on Bedford Avenue, are now in their new apartment, 170 East Seventeenth Street. Mr.

and Mrs. Chauncey Leeds Mitchell are at the Marwyl, 1204 Pacific Street. Their son, Chauncey Leeds Mitchell, has entered the Classon Military Academy. Mr. and Mrs.

Henry McLeer and family have returned from New London, to their home, 1309 Glenwood Road, Flatbush. Justice and Mrs. David F. Manning have returned to their home, 91 Remsen Street, for the winter, from Rockland, Me: To the Memory of William H. Ford If to any one man can be given the credit for the founding and establishment upon a permanent basis of any human institution, the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn owes its origin, fame and position among the clubs of the metropolis to the late William Hall Ford, who passed away at his lifelong home, 61 Second Place, last week, Wednesday evening.

Other men figure prominently among those to whose courage, fidelity and enterprise it owes its success. Conspicuous among these may be mentioned Mr. Charles M. Bull, Mr. H.

L. Langhaar and Mr. Campbell C. Broun, but it was through the instrumentality of Mr. Ford that the interest of these men was enlisted, and of him alone can it be said, that without him the club would neither have come into being, or having existed come successfully through the critical periods in its history when there was no choice between the alternatives of extinction and expansion.

Tacit recognition of this fact was accorded him in the appellations, Father of the Crescent Athletic Club and Number One, by which he was monly alluded to among the members. It was he who was the prime mover in the organization in 1884 of the Crescent Football Club, out of which the athletic club evolved, and it was the prestige of the football teams of which he was the captain and center rush that gave the club its initial impetus and upon which it was built up. For more than a decade the Crescent football teams figured as the most formidable outside the big universities, and repeatedly won the championship of the American Football Union. They were composed chiefly of university graduates, and no one whose memory goes back to those days, the later eighties and early nineties, will fail to associate the name of their captain with that of the redoubtable Lamarche and Vernon brothers. The practice grounds of the team at the outset were vacant lots; but in 1886 the football club was expanded into the Crescent Athletic Club and an extensive plaving field was leased, embracing the large city block at Ninth Avenue and Ninth Street.

Mr. Ford, in spite of the fact that he was the mainstay of the club and the mainspring of its activities sought no personal prominence and invariably kept himself in the background so far as possible. The first president of the club was his college mate, Mr. Walter Camp, the famous Yale football authority and coach, and Mr. Ford did not yield to the demand that he accept the presidency until three years later, or 1889.

After serving out this term he was not again prevailed upon to take the presidency until 1900, when he was re-elected, and served three consecutive terms; but he was vice president for three terms, and served many terms on the board of, governors. But for his efforts and the loyal co-operation of a body of young men whom he always declared had no peers since the earth began, the club would never have survived, the crisis which presented itself about 1889, when the club was notified that its lease on the Ninth Street grounds would not be renewed, and there was no more available land to be leased suitable for the club's purposes. The purchase of grounds, or the dissolution of the club, became then the only alternatives, and there is no earthly doubt that but for the inspiration afforded by "Father Bill" Ford and the energy and determination with which he set to work to solve the problem, the Crescent Athletic. Club would have been but a memory to-day. It was then that he rallied to his support Mr.

H. L. Langhaar, who brought the famous and exclusive Neried Boat Club into the organization in a bodv, secured the loyal and enthusiastic co-operation of Mr. Charles Bull, through him obtained an option on the Van Brunt property at Bay Ridge, now the club grounds, and fired the youthful members with enthusiasm enough to mortgage their salaries far in advance to buy club bonds. This was by no means the end of his services to the club, for in every step in its progress he was an important factor, but it is enough to prove the original proposition that to him the club owes its existence.

Unshakable loyalty to his country, his college, his friends and the club which he founded, indomitable courage, cast iron convictions, whole-hearted generosity and out and out frankness and sincerity, were the dominant or outstanding characteristics of William Hail Ford. If ever a man held with hooks of steel to those who had once won this, his confidence or affection, it was "Bill" Ford. He was graduated from Yale in the Class of '77, and subsequently, from the Columbia Law School and was for many years counsel for the Brooklyn Life Insurance Company, succeeding his father in that position. His wife and a son and daughter as well as his brother Mr. George H.

Ford and his sister, Mrs. Tudor Jenks, survived him. He was descended from the best colonial stock and was a member of the Sons of the Revolution and other patriotic societies..