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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 26

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BROOKLYN LIFE i6 Glen Cove's cottage colony has also been augmented by the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. William V. Hester, of 158 Rein-sen street, and Mr. and Mrs.

Henry F. Noyes and the Misses Noyes, of 90 Remsen street. Mrs Austin Corbin closed her town house, 76 Park avenue, last week Wednesday, and is now at her country seat, Newport, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs.

James Matthews, of 208 Berkeley place, have opened their country place at Southold, Long Island, for the season. Mrs. David H. Gildersleeve, of 104 Montague street, opened her country house at Cranford for the summer early this month. Her sister, Mrs.

Robert Proddow, who spent the winter with her, and Mr. Robin Proddow are at the Hotel St. George for the present Next week Friday Mr. and Mrs. Jesse D.

Crary and Masters Paul Stuart Crary and Jesse Dayton Crary, junior, of 16 Fort Greene place, will go to their country house, "Alongshore," Mystic, Connecticut, for the summer. Mrs. Sylvester L. Blood, of 273 Henry street, has taken rooms at Poland Springs for the month of July. The Robert Low Pierreponts, of 12 Pierrepont street, opened their country house at Bay Shore for the season this week.

Mr. and Mrs. John Smithers, of 32 Pierrepont street) are now at "Marjametha," Huntington. Recent arrivals at Woodmere include Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Timpson, of 36 West Fifty-third street, Manhattan. SOCIAL NOTES. AT the final meeting for the year of the Associate Alumnae of Adelphi Academy, which was held at the home of Mrs. J.

W. Hollenbeck, 460 Washington avenue, last week Friday afternoon, the annual election of officers took place, the result being as follows President, Miss Jenny I. Pfeiffer; vice-president, Miss M. Louise Munson; recording secretary, Miss Edith Ray; corresponding secretary, Miss Josephine S. Bacchus; treasurer, Miss Juliette G.

Hollenbeck; registrar, Miss Use V. Brunn alumna? editor, Miss Katharine E. Whitney; alumnae fund committee, Mrs. Theodore Lutkins, junior, Mrs. Frank H.

Douglas, Miss Addie B. Murr, Miss Helen Ray and Miss Anna Maud Harrison; directors, Miss Alice M. H. Pfizer, Mrs. J.

M. Loretz, Miss Alice M. Tuthill, Miss Christine Van Cleve and Miss May Gelston. Following the business meeting the alumnae was entertained by Mrs. Minnie Marshall Smith, who by the variety of her selections gave her audience an opportunity to admire her dramatic as well as humorous ability.

As a wind-up to its season the E. 0. F. Euchre Qub held a theater party at the Montauk last week Friday evening and despite the fact that the meeting was scheduled for a day and date well calculated to make the superstitious members of the club uneasy, the predetermined arrangements worked out most favorably. After enjoying the new comic opera, "Red Feather," the party went up to Edgett's where supper was served in a private dining-room.

The attendance comprised Mrs. A. Parker Hamilton and Mrs. Borgmeyer, the chaper-ones; Mr. Howard Hamilton, Miss Mollie Smith, Mr.

Amos W. Taylor, Miss Ethel Shadbolt, Mr. Arthur M. Springer, Miss Grace G. Furman, Mr.

Hugh P. Shilstone, Miss F. Edna Saddington, Mr. Wilfred Harker, Miss Edith Neumann, Mr. William Hamilton, Miss Angela Harker, Mr.

Elmer Rams-botham, Miss Adelia Baldwin, Mr. Joseph Renton, Miss Henrietta Borgmeyer, Mr. Alfred B. Cadley, Miss Ada Holste and Miss Jennie Ferre. Many of the features of the fete, "Two Gardens in Old France: the Petit Trianon of Marie Antoinette and the Tuil-eries of Empress Josephine," which has been continuing throughout the week at the parish rooms of St.

Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church, Fourth avenue and Fiftieth street, are duplicates of the affair given under the same name early in the season at the Pouch Gallery for the benefit of St. John's Church. Among those who took part in the musical program, which was the feature of Tuesday evening, were Miss May Muller, Miss Louise Duvenry, Miss Violet Ros-botham, Miss Ethel McDonough, Miss Margaret De Vyse, Miss Sadie Cuttle, Miss Lizzie Price, Miss Alice Wilks, Miss Alice Dickerson, Miss Genevieve Duffy, Miss Lillian Char-tres, Mrs. W. N.

Ackley, Miss Harriet L. Lawrence, Miss Elsie Lehrenkrauss, Dr. Ralph Williams, Mrs. W. W.

Ackley, Mrs. James Dixon Roman and Mrs. Ralph Williams. THERE were many expressions of regret at the annual election of officers of the Laurier Musical Club, last week Monday evening, when Miss Elsie Ray Eddy tendered her resignation as president. Miss Eddy, who has been the president of the club for ten years, and one of the chief workers since its inception, will be succeeded by Doctor Edward W.

Hopke, while the other officers chosen were Mrs. Franklin P. Good, as vice-president; Miss Mabel Cowtan, as secretary, and Mr. William Howell Edwards, as treasurer. Judging by the.

advance sale of seats the success is already assured of the presentation of the comic opera, "Mikado," which is to be given by the Church Choir Company next Wednesday evening at Payton's Lee Avenue Theater. The funds raised by this will be used for the benefit of the new guild house of Christ Church. TRAVEL NOTES. EX-MAYOR and Mrs. Low, who went abroad early in the year, are now in London, where they were guests-of -honor at a dinner given by Ambassador Choate at the American Embassy last Saturday.

At the luncheon of the Pilgrims Society on the second of June, Mr. Low will again be the chief guest. Until the end of June General and Mrs. Stewart L. Woodford, who recently closed their residence at 13 West Twelfth street, Manhattan, will be at the Kent House, Greenwich.

On July second they will sail for Europe, where they expect to remain until the latter part of September. Aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II, which sailed for Bremen on Tuesday, were Mr. R. C. Bachofen von Echt, the fiance of Miss Alice M.

H. Pfizer, and Mr. Hermann Hagedorn and Miss Else Hagedorn, of Manhattan. There was the usual large contingent of Brooklyn people at the Garden City Hotel for the week's end. Recent arrivals there include Mr.

and Mrs. William N. Dykman, Judge and Mrs. Josiah T. Marean, Mrs.

George J. Browne, Miss H. P. Corlies, Mr. H.

L. Clapp, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D. Sherman, Mrs.

J. R. Nesbit, Mrs. M. M.

Bemis, Miss Louise and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Joost. On Saturday several members of Troop rode down from town and spent Sunday at the hotel, those taking part in the trip being Mr. H.

Hammutt, Mr. C. C. Mr. M.

D. Bryant, Mr. Paul Grout, Mr. Arthur S. Moore, Mr.

Eliot D. Moore, Mr. G. M. Clarke, Mr.

F. H. Pollock and Mr. G. F.

Aiders. As usual, Mrs. John W. Mason, of 138 Hicks street, is it the Laurel House, Lakewood, for the late spring season. Mrs.

Mason left town last week Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Montgomery, junior, expect to give up their home at 59 Montgomery place very shortly and go abroad for an extended stay. Mr.

Montgomery retires from business on the first of June and it is his intention to remain in Europe for about two years. He will place his two young sons at school in Germany and the rest of the family will travel. Miss Marguerite Shelley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rowe Shelley, of the Touraine, is at Great Barrington for the spring season.

Mr. John S. James expects to remain abroad until the autumn. He recently returned to Paris after a two weeks' stay in Rome, but left at once for a tour of the chateau country. Mr.

James Parsons, Mr. Samuel W. Bennett and Miss Eugenie E. Bennett expect to spend a part of June in Paris, reaching home in July. They are now journeying through northern Italy and Germany.

Among last Saturday's arrivals at the Hotel Marlborough, Atlantic City, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bulkley Hubbell. The Right Reverend William A. Leonard, Bishop of Ohio, and Mrs.

Leonard, and the latter's sister, Miss Sullivan, arrived from Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse last Tuesday, and left the next day for Cleveland. The Dr. and David Gregg, who came on from DEPARTURES FOR THE COUNTRY. MR. J.

VICTOR WILSON, of 182 South Oxford street, has recently purchased a tract of some forty-five acres running from the main highway to the bay at Aquebogue, Long Island. His purchase includes an admirable frontage on the bay, and ground is to be broken immediately for a large summer cottage. After this week, Green's Farms, Connecticut, will be the address of Mrs. F. E.

Mendes, of 206 Hancock street, for the next four months. On Tuesday Mrs. John F. Edwards, of 119 St. Mark's avenue, left for Bay Shore, to open her house at 136 Bay Shore avenue.

Mrs. Albert Haley and her daughter, Miss Lucy Haley, who spend their winters at the Hotel Margaret, are now settled in their summer home at Mystic, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. William M.

Van Anden, of 65 Pierrepont street, are now settled in their house at Islip. Last Monday Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hine closed their town house, 4 West Fifty-third street, Manhattan, and opened their Glen Cove country place for the summer. Mrs.

Hine's eldest son, Mr. Ethelbert Ide Low, will be with them until his marriage to Miss Gertrude Herrick, on the ninth of June. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gibb, of 12 Monroe place, have recently opened their country home at Glen Covfc.

Allegheny City by way of bt. Louis last week Friday, sailed for Europe this week. Last week Thursday the George J. Goulds and Mrs. Charles D.

Kingdon left "Georgian Court," Lakewood, for a short stay at "Furlough Lodge," in the Catskills. The Goulds will remain there until the second week in June, when they will sail for Europe. Mrs. Irving Day was in Albany last week a the guest of Miss Beatrice Manning..

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