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BROOKLYN LIFE. 13 Our Portrait Gallery. fir i- -t 'JK zm 1 1 pre-eminently successful. I am glad to state that the Columbian Club is well established in its new house, 81 Hanson place, and that it is on a splendid financial footing. There are now over 296 members on the roll and a large balance in the treasury- Certainly there should be room in this city for a distinctively Catholic club which should equal in -equipment and size any of the other social organizations of the city.

The Columbian bids fair to occupy this position. THE much talked of Grant dinner came off at the Union League Club on Wednesday evening. It was given by the club in conjunction with the U. S. Grant Post G.

A. and the date was the seventieth anniversary of the birthday of the late renowned general. The toasts were responded to as follows: "General U. S. Grant," the Rev.

R. R. Meredith "Grant as President," Mr. Murat Halstead "Personal Reco-lections of the Great Commander," General George H. Sharpe The Regular Army," Colonel Loomis L.

Langdon, First Artillery, U. S. A. "The Navy," Benjamin F. Tracy; "The Volunteers," Calvin E.

Pratt The Grand Army of the Republic," Captain John Palmer, Commander-in-Chief G. A. Department of New York; The City of Brooklyn," Mayor David A. Boody The Associate Society of the U. S.

Grant Post," Stephen M. Griswold. About three hundred covers were laid, and the dinner proved an occasion of great patriotic enthusiasm. i A PROPOS of an item published by the Rider and Driver suggesting the probability of a troop of dragoons being formed in this city as an outcome of the exhibition given by Troop A some weeks ago at the Riding and Driving Club, I spoke recently on the subject to Mr. William N.

Dykeman, vice-president of the club and a West Point graduate. He said he had heard of no steps being taken toward such an end, and further, remarked that such an enterprise was much easier talked of than executed. "Few," he said, "have any idea of the amount of work which would be involved. To make a success of it would require an officer at its head possessing both unusual enterprise and energy and plenty of leisure. Captain Roe of Troop A is a remarkable man, whose equal it would be difficult to find.

I therefore doubt that the formation of a troop in Brooklyn is a possibility of the near future." A the supper tendered to Troop A at the Montauk Club after their exhibition a great deal of enthusiasm was developed over the dragoons, but one of them told me privately that the rigorous work they had to go through was no joke. He said that numbers of men who had joined the troop had been obliged to resign on account of strains and other injuries sustained through the exercises. He did not deny their excellent effect on the physique and the pleasure involved, but said that many would have been staggered had they suspected in the first Mr, William W. Goodrich. MR.

WILLIAM W.GOODRICH, chairman of the Kings County Republican General Committee and head of the leading law firm of Goodrich, Deady Goodrich, New York, was born in Havana, New York, August 23, 1833, rnd has lived in this city since 1854. Mr. Goodrich's ancest rs came to this country in 1629, and his great-grandfather owntd the entire territory now occupied by the town of Pittsfield, building the first house to be erected there. He was a captain in the Revolutionary Mr. Goodrich graduated at Amherst College in 1852 and has been president of the New York alumni of that institution.

-Graduating from the Albany Law School in 1853, he continued his studies in the Albany law firm of Hill, Cagger Porter. Although Mr. Goodrich's firm is engaged in general practice, he is regarded as the head of his profession in this country on subjects relating to marine law. In consequence of this recognition he was appointed by President Cleveland chairman of the United States conference which sat in Wash--ington in 1889, its object being to formulate the laws of the sea and to consider all matters relative to marine subjects. Other important cases in which Mr.

Goodrich has figured prominently as counsel have been the Itata case recently tried in California, the Turkish arms case brought against the Sultan of Turkey, involving the east side park land cases, in which he was counsel for property owners, and in the Rag Ring suitf in which he was counsel for Health Officer Smith and Mr. E. B. Bartlett. Mr.

Goodrich was one of the counsel employed by the Bacon investigating committee temporary chairman of the Republican State Convention in 1891 was member of the Brooklyn Board of Education some years ago, and is president of the Brooklyn Homeopathic Hospital. place what was before them. There is, however, no reason why in time a good troop may notje formed here. At all events it is a subject worth advocating. ON THE ANXIOUS SEAT.

MRS. WINTERBLOOM: I hope you enjoyed the dinner. 1Vl Mr. Stuffer. Stuffer Thoroughly so.

But I always experience a troubled sensation when I am eating one of your good dinners, Mrs. Winterbloom. Mrs. Winterbloom Indeed. How so Stuffer: I never quite know when I am going to have another..