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BROOKLYN LIFE. GRAVESEND society to the number of more than one hundred was in evidence at the Bellwood Club dance which took place at the residence of Mr. Richard De Nyse, 149 Van Sicklen street, last week Friday evening. The dance was by all odds the most successful affair in the three years' existence of this organization. The plans were also on the most extensive scale in its history, and these were finely carried out by a committee consisting of Mr.

Frederick W. Strong, Mr. George S. Bennett, Mr. Walter I.

Stillwell and Mr. Frederick R. De Nyse. The reception-hall, where the patronesses-Mrs. William H.

Strong, Mrs. John S. Bennett, Mrs. Charles R. Stillwell and Mrs.

Richard De Nyse received, was attractively decorated. In the second floor hall there was an effective arrangement of high-school and college flags, while the spacious attic was made bright with Japanese lanterns and bunting. Mutter's Orchestra, divided between the first and third floors, furnished the music. For those who did not care SOCIAL NOTES. THE piano and song recital which Mr.

William G. Hammondthe well-known composer and organist of the First Reformed Church and David Bispham are to give at Memorial Hall, on the evening of May second, is to be one of uncommon attractiveness. Mr. Bispham will sing five of Mr. Hammond's songs which are new here, but which have met with success elsewhere, and eight songs by other composers.

Mr. Hammond will play, among other numbers, three of MacDowell's shorter compositions. LAST week Thursday, at Middletown, New York, Miss Jen- nie Mapes, daughter of Mr. Oscar Winfield Mapes, of that city, was married to Dr. Alfred E.

Shipley, of 239 Keap street. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride in the early afternoon. Dr. Shipley was attended by Mr. John Sutphin Broach, of this borough.

WITH next Tuesday evening's concert and dance at Crosby's Hall, 421 Classon avenue, the season's activities will be brought to a close. The Hoadley Orchestra, which for fifteen years has been a considerable factor in Brooklyn's musical life, will be heard in the beautiful "Peer Gynt" suite of Grieg and half a dozen other numbers. The Original Swedish Ladies' Quartette will assist at the concert, which, as usual, will precede the dance. THIS season's last concert of the Apollo Club at Association Hall, last Tuesday evening, called forth the usual large and representative audience. The club sang John Hyatt Brewer's cantata, "The Birth of Love," the vocal arrangement of "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" and its several other numbers with fine effect Maud Powell played the violin with great brilliancy, and in general the concert was one of the best in the history of the club.

IN the concert given at Historical Hall last Saturday afternoon the ouoils of the Misses Mollenhauer and Mr. Henrv to dance, the billiard-room was open. During the evening supper was served by Spadavecchia. BESIDES those already mentioned there were present at the dance Mr. and Mrs.

H. V. D. Voorhies, Mr. and Mrs.

Ludlow Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. C. Stryker, junior, Mr. and Mrs.

Lewis Schweimler, Mr. and Mrs. James Van Sicklen, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R.

Van Buskirk, and Mrs. Jaques S. Stryker, Mr. and Mrs. William B.

Lake, Mr. and Mrs. E. Stillwell, Mr. and Mrs.

H. S. Vanderveer, Mr. and Mrs. William Lott, Dr.

and Mrs. Stephen C. Pettit, Mr. and Mrs. William Dunlay, Mr.

William H. Strong, Mr. Richard De Nyse, 'Mrs. D. S.

Van Sicklen, Mrs. John H. Bennett, Miss Alice Strong, Miss Bessie Stillwell, Miss Florence Read, Miss Ethel Mitchell, Miss Sarah B. Lake, Miss Elizabeth H. Lake, Miss Lelia Johnson, Miss Kate Crandall, Miss Frances Sheka, Miss Alida V.

Storm, Miss Irene Storm, Miss Grace Dodson, Miss Joan Kowenhoven, Miss Maude Lott, Miss E. Kern, Miss Curren, Miss Phebe Williamson, Miss Ada Hendrickson, Miss Ria R. Hendrickson, Miss Augusta Bogart, Miss M. E. Vanderveer, Miss Josie Vanderveer, Miss Joanna D.

Jenkins, Miss Etta Cook, Miss Annie Petrie, Miss Hazel H. Lott, Mr. William H. Jenkins, Mr. Walter Miller, Mr.

Samuel Livingston, junior, Mr. William Williamson, Mr. John H. Ryerson, Lester R. Van Sicklen, Mr.

McGowan Curren, Mr. George R. Stillwell, Mr. D. V.

B. Lott, Mr. Stryker Bergen, Mr. Harland Crandall, Mr. L.

Holmes Jenkins, Mr. Ira Van Sicklen, Mr. John R. Lake, Mr. Wallace W.

Goodfellow, Mr. Arthur Wright and Mr. Clarence A. Porter. THE Bellwood Club is a very limited organization, consisting of the sons of Gravesend's most prominent citizens.

Mr. Frederick R. De Nyse is the president and the other members are Mr. George S. Bennett, vice-president Mr.

Walter I. Stillwell, secretary; Mr. John R. Lake, treasurer; Mr. Frederick W.

Strong, social director; Mr. W. W. Goodfellow, Mr. Arthur Wright and Mr.

Clarence A. Porter. MR. and Mrs. Earle C.

Bacon, of 1036 Bergen street, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Eloise Munroe Bacon, to Dr. J. A. Garfield MacPhail, now a resident of Manhattan, though originally from Nova Scotia. THE original plans for the wedding reception of Miss Mary Elizabeth Selden, daughter of Mr: and Mrs.

William C. Selden, of 313 Washington avenue, and Mr. Charles Henry Shipman, on Wednesday, April the twenty-seventh, have been abandoned, owing to the recent death of a brother of the groom. The wedding will be solemnized at five o'clock, with only members of the family present. Miss Clara Driggs will be the maid-of-honor and the best man will be the bride's brother, Mr.

William C. Selden, junior. On April twenty-sixth Mr. and Mrs. E.

C. Humbert, of 225 Clermont avenue, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with a family reunion. LAST Tuesday evening the annual art exhibition of the "Six Associates" Miss Mae Hoppins, Miss Edith L. Mead, Miss Esther Stone, Miss E. Louise Munger, Miss Anna G.

Hillman and Miss Madeleine O'Brien was opened with a reception in Miss O'Brien's studio in the Ovington Building on Fulton street. Invitations were necessarily limited to ar-tists and a few friends. Assisting the associates in receiving were Mrs. Willet Denike, Miss Grace O'Brien, Miss Geraldine O'Brien, the Misses Mead and Miss Albertini Pinckney. A delightful feature ol the evening was contributed by Mrs.

Wilson Young, of Washington. District of Columbia, soprano soloist of the Brick Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, who A Mollenhauer acquitted themselves with much credit in a long and. well chosen program. There was the usual large gathering of friends at the concert, at which Miss Mollenhauer varied the program by REV. Dr.

and Mrs. Robert R. Meredith, formerly pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, who has been in Pasadena, California, for the past year and a half, has greatly improved in health, and has recently accepted a call to the permanent pastorate of the First Congregational Church in that city, the pulpit of which he has frequently filled. It is stated that the two Congregational churches of Pasadena have united and will build a modernly equipped structure, with Doctor Meredith as pastor. PREPARATIONS for the production of E.

G. Lankester's three-act farcical comedy, "The Guv'nor," by the Poly-technique Dramatic Association, at Memorial Hall, next Tuesday evening, are practically completed and a very smooth performance may be looked for. The sale of seats is already such as to insure a very large audience. Mr. A.

F. Holmes, '05, is to be the Mr. Butterscotch, and the remaining parts will be distributed as follows: Freddy (his son), Mr. W. F.

Stohlmann, '04; Theodore Macclesfield, Mr. R. B. Clapperton, '04; Theodore Macclesfield, junior, Mr. J.

V. Miller, '04; Jellicoe, Mr. J. Donovan, '05 No. 3047, Mr.

L. M. Carney, '04 Gregory, Mr. G. A.

Hughes, '05; Mr. Vellum, Mr. J. B. Warner, '06; The MacToddy, Mr.

C. J. Werner, '06; Ullage, Mr. L. W.

Young, '04 Aurelia Butterscotch, Mr. E. H. Bigelow, '04; Kate Butterscotch, Mr. W- S.

Marvin, '06; Mrs. Macclesfield, Mr. C. V. Graham, '05; and Carrie Macclesfield, Mr.

0. O. Widmann, '05. THE unique Japanese house which is such a conspicuous architectural feature of Prospect Park South will be thrown open again next week Thursday from two until ten o'clock for the entertainment of the Hill society, the Volente, of which Mrs. William Chandler Smith is the president.

Besides a sale of many useful and ornamental articles there will be marionettes and vaudeville acts to divert the visitors. FOR the second time it has become necessary to change the date and place of the performance of "A Night Off" by the Boys' High School Dramatic Society. The play will be given at the Grand Opera House May twenty-third. AN "Evening of Music and Readings" is announced for Thursday, April the twenty-eighth, by Miss Alice Josephine Post, the accomplished reader, and Mr. Oliver M.

Denton, the pianist, at Memorial Hall. They will be assisted by Mrs. Tirzah Hamlen-Chapman and Mr. Legrange, the tenor soloist of Grace Church, Manhattan. This will be Mr.

Denton's formal introduction to Brooklyn, though he is well known to society through his drawing-room appearances on both sides of the river, in which he has made a great hit. Miss Post's talents as a reader are too well recognized in Brooklyn to require comment. Among the patronesses of the affair are Mrs. J. Elliott Langstaff, Mrs.

Robert Haff, Mrs. A. J. Dela-tour, Mrs. Leonard Moody and Mrs.

Calvin E. Hull. was accompanied on the piano by Miss Geraldine O'Brien. THE Edward L. Rossiters expect to leave Brooklyn on the second of next month for Greenwich, Connecticut, which they will make their permanent home, Mr.

Rossiter having sold his house at 781 Carroll street. Among those who were in Atlantic City over last Sunday were Mr. Charles W. Jones, Miss Nellie Jones and Miss Annie Jones, of 850 President street, and Mr. and Mrs.

Charles L. Rickerson, of Eighth avenue. They returned this week after an absence of about ten days. The Chronicler..