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8 BROOKLYN LIFE Society in Brooklyn Mrs. Harry Armstrong Clarke, whose Clarke, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. wedding took place on 9th of July, Thomas H. Clarke of 390 Riverside is the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Drive, Manhattan. The bride and James J. Kennedy of 510 East Seven- groom are spending the summer in teenth Street and Northport, L. I.

Mr. Europe. Ira L. Hill R. AND MRS.

MERLIN of the counted one of the most talented young women in LATE ARRIVALS at Stamford, N. include Mr. Hotel Bossert sailed Friday, July 26th, on the Brooklyn having distinguished herself as an amateur Mrs. Thomas Dempsey of 1100 Ocean AveS. S.

Ile de France for a European tour. They will actress with the famous Amateur Comedy Club of Man- nue at Maple Rest, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dedreux at the visit England, France and Germany, returning on the hattan and being noted for her social tact and wit. The Hotel Belvedere, Mr.

and Mrs. G. S. Ledyard of 2050 S. S.

Bremen about the 12th of September. bridegroom's father at that time had recently been Eighty-fifth Street and Dr. and Mrs. James Watt of graduated from Yale where he had won a place for Little Neck at Churchill Hall, and Dr. H.

P. McTague himself on the honor role of Yale's football heroes. of 583 Fourth Street, Mrs. T. W.

Downing and Alfred THE ANNUAL MEETING the past week of AT the famous Ekwanok Country Club at Manchester, Vermont, Dr. Clark Burnham of 182 Clinton Street and Mr. James L. Taylor of 777 Carrol Street were elected as governors for the ensuing year and at a meeting of the Board of Governors Mr. Taylor was re-elected to the presidency of the Club.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Magner of 66 Eighth Avenue, whose country home is located at Huntington, L. have been spending the past two weeks in Manchester at the Equinox House.

With them were their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. McDonald (Miss Katherine Magner) of 39 Plaza Street. RUSSELL C.

IRISH will return at midnight. July 27th, from a trip through the west. With him was his wife, Mrs. Irish and their son Mr. Bruce Barston Irish acompanied by Mrs.

E. G. Turpish, and Mrs. R. A.

Kinkele. Among the places they have visited are Mommoth, Old Faithful, Grand Canyon, Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pikes Peak. On July 11th Mr. and Mrs. Irish and their son left the party at Colorado Springs to go through New Mexico and Arizona.

Mrs. Irish rejoined Mrs. Turpish and Mrs. Kinkele at Colorado Springs and will return the ninth of August by the way of Kansas and St. Louis.

Mr. Irish returned by the way of Niagara Falls which he visited. MARRIAGE of Mr. Eugene Lamb Richards, 3rd, to Miss. Katharine Burns, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas R. Burns of 38 West Fifty-ninth Street, Manhattan, which took place in the Lady Chapel of St. Patricks Cathedral last week Thursday morning, must have revived recollections among those who go back to it of what may perhaps be called the elegant eighties if not "the age of innocence" as Mrs. Wharton described the preceding decade.

Mr. Richards is the son of Mrs. Florence Whittier Elmendorf Richards, daughter of the late Dr. E. Elmendorf of 368 Adelphi Street, who when she married the late Eugene Lamb Richards 2nd was a reigning belle in Brooklyn society and ac- At that time he was State Bank Examiner and he was an intimate friend of Walter Camp and the football players who organized the Crescent Football Club which evolved into the Crescent Athletic Club.

During the World War he was State Superintendent of Banks. During the earliest years of their married life Mr. and Mrs. Richards lived with her father, Dr. Elmendorf, but they took up their residence at New Brighton, Staten Island, shortly after the latters death and lived there for the rest of their married life.

Mrs. Richards the groom's mother--now lives at 131 East Ninety-third Street, Manhattan. The bridegroom's grandfather the first Eugene Lamb Richards was for forty years professor of mathematics at Yale University from which his grandson was graduated, having previously attended Taft School. One of his great grandfathers' was General John Lamb one of the founders and first officers of the Society of the Cincinnati. On his mothers side he is descended from the Randalls, original proprietors of Randalls Island.

The bride, after being graduated from the Convent of the Holy Child took a course in English literature and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania and afterwards made a long sojourn in England and France from which she only returned last December. Miss Burns wore an attractive gown of old ivory satin made on simple lines with a long circular train. Her tulle veil was fastened at the sides of the head with clusters of tiny orange blossoms. She carried a prayer book and over her arm a garland of valley lillies and maidenhair fern. Mrs.

John Moylan Hayes and Miss Mary Paul Burns, sisters of the bride, were only attendants. They wore tea rose colored chiffon gowns with white picture hats banded with the chiffon and carried white summer flowers. Mr. Lawrence Morris Pritchard acted as best man. The ushers were the Messrs.

Elmendorf Carr, J. Moyland Hayes and Thomas R. Burns a brother of the bride. Mr. Richards and his bride sailed last week Friday on the Pennland and will visit in England and France.

On their return they will live at 400 East Fifty-eighth Street, Manhattan. E. Downing of B. McIntyre of and Miss Ruth Spring Farm Inn. 59 Livingston Street, Mr.

and Mrs. R. 404 Ninth Street and Mrs. F. L.

Sparks Sparks of 130 Bainbridge Street at Cold META HARMS of 463 First Street, who has just retired as head of the German Department of the Packer Collegiate Institute after thirty-six years' service as a teacher at Packer, sailed Thursday on the Westphalia of the Hamburg-American Line. She will first visit Germany, but plans to return to America sometime in November. It is not her intention to give up her Brooklyn residence. AND MRS. WILLIAM REDFIELD and MR.

Judge and Mrs. Frederick Evan Crane will be at the Quogue House, Quogue, L. I. for the month of August. THE WEDDING last Monday afternoon in the chapel of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Miss Elizabeth Amelia Boorum, daughter of Mrs.

Elizabeth Milligan Boorum of 115 East Eighty-sixth Street, Manhattan and the late William B. Boorum to Mr. Edward Carrington Avery son of Mrs. Charles I. Avery of Auburn, N.

Y. had some peculiar remniscent interest for Brooklyn, though the bride is more closely identified with Englewood, N. which was the home of her parents until after the death of her father in 1918. Her father was a representative of one of the old Dutch families of Brooklyn and he was born in the old Boorum homestead on Clinton Avenue. He was the eldest son, by his first marriage of the late William Burger Boorum of 458 Clinton Avenue who afterward married Miss Lucy E.

Chase daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Chase of the Heights and sister of Mr. Paul Chase of 39 Remsen Street, who after Mr. Boorum's death married Mr.

Osgood Putnam of San Francisco. She, by the way, was a remarkably fine musician and had a beautiful soprano voice. The ceremony was performed at 4.30 P. M. by the Rev.

Fisher Howe Booth of Englewood, whose name also suggests relationship to a family which figured prom-.