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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 15

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Brooklyn Lifei
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BROOKLYN LIFE. 13 Massachusetts, accompanied by their daughter, Miss Maude W. Longmire Shirley, are among this week's arrivals in town. Mrs. Emilie Barnes Turner, who sailed for Europe the last of April with General Alfred C.

Barnes, is now at her home, 114 Pierrepont street She "returned late in August, her brother preceding her by about a fortnight. Mr. arid Mrs. Edward I. Horsman, who have been spending the summer at Green Inn, Monmouth Beach, have returned to 223 Berkeley place.

Mr. and Mrs. R. Wilmarth Appleton (Mary Horsman), who have been occupying the McWood cottage at Monmouth Beach for the past two seasons, will not return to town until late this autumn. They have just purchased the Herter cottage, on Ocean avenue, and will stay down to personally superintend the remodeling and decoration of the house, in which they intend to do considerable entertaining next season.

Mrs. Maria B. Chapman, of 47 Pierrepont street, arrived in town this week from Rogers Rock, Lake George, New York. Mrs. William Westlake, of 379 Sterling place, has returned from Shelter Island.

Further arrivals in town from Shelter Island include Mr. and Mrs. Horace M. Carleton, Mr. Howard Carleton and Miss Kate Carleton, of 11 72 Dean street, who have been spending August at the Prospect House.

Mrs. J. Read Patterson, of 123 Park place, returned this week from The Oxford, Avon, New Jersey. Mrs. Thomas B.

Martin has returned to 204 Washington park from Cape May, New Jersey. Recent departures from Huntington for town include Mrr and Mrs. Henry F. Crosby, of 37 South Portland avenue. Mrs.

J. Stuart Brown has returned to 419 Clinton, avenue from Manchester, Vermont, where she has been for the summer. Dr. and Mrs. Edwin A.

Lewis and Miss Marion E. Lewis have returned to 102 Pierrepont street from Dwight, Muskoka, Canada, where they have been spending July and August. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.

Sexton are to close their cottage at South Nyack next week and will return to 29 Garden place. Mrs. F. E. Walbridge has returned from Jackson's Point, Ontario, Canada, to 287 Garfield place.

The Alfred P. Browns, who have had a house this summer on Bay Thirty-third street, Bensonhurst, have now returned to 513 Third street. The Rev. and Mrs. Spencer S.

Roche have recently opened their house at 200 Adelphi street, after an absence of some weeks at Stony Brook, Long Island. Mrs. Frank L. St. John returned this week to 163 Hicks street from Port Washington, where she passed the summer.

winner, Little Rhody, of the Rhode Island Yacht Club, at the Brooklyn Yacht Qub, this week Friday evening. The presentation speech was to be delivered by Judge Cornelius Ferguson. In recognition of his kindness in presenting the cup, Sir Thomas has been elected an honorary member of the organization. The second and third prizes, which were won by the yacht Fanshaw and the sloop Ray II, were also to be presented to their respective owners. AMONG those who returned to town this week were Dr.

and Mrs. David J. Fuller, of 162 Clinton street, who have been spending their third summer at the Shattuck House, Jaffray, New Hampshire. The Fullers' stay at Jaffray was made particularly agreeable by the presence there of several friends, including Mr. Lyman A.

Ely, of Worcester; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll D. Galvin, of this borough, and Miss Adele Schroeder and Miss Ellen Fiske, of Boston. The party was augmented in August by Baron Frederic Tann, of Munich, and Lieutenant Reif, of the Czar of Russia's Chevaulegers Regiment, who are making a two years' tour of the' world.

On their way home Dr. and Mrs. Fuller paid their annual visit to Mr. Ely, at Worcester, arriving there last week Tuesday. Mr.

Ely's guests further included Mr. and Mrs. Galvin, Miss Schroeder, Miss Fiske, Baron Tann, Lieutenant Reif and Mrs. CI Stone, of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Among the various entertainments given for the house party was an elaborate dinner at the Hotel Overlook, at Charleton, an hour's ride out of Worcester, the host being Mr. Stephen Salisbury. This took place on Tuesday and was followed by an evening at the well-known Vaughn-Reed-La wton studio. On Wednesday Mr. Ely entertained his guests at a luncheon at the Lake Quinsigamo'nd Boat Club, followed by a sail on this attractive lake, and in the evening was host at a dinner of fifteen covers, his guests going afterwards to the studio.

The house party was also entertained at dinner on Friday evening by Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bliss. Baron Tann and Lieutenant Reif left last Saturday for Saratoga, whence they will go to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

By the Christmas holidays they will be in New York, and later are to be entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Fuller. Mrs. Fuller, who has not been very well for a year past, and who before leaving Jaffray was unable to take part to any extent in the social activities of the place, returned to Brooklyn much improved in health.

CARDS are out for the wedding of Miss Marion Elizabeth Booth, daughter of Mrs. William W. Booth, to Mr. Albert Carrier Bunn, which is to be celebrated next Tuesday at St. Paul's Church, Vergennes, Vermont.

Mr. Bunn is the son of the Rev. Albert Carrier Bunn, formerly of this borough, but now living at Richmond Hill, Long Island. LAST week Tuesday evening the Bellwood Club, of Graves-end, which is to entertain at least once a month during the coming season, gave a successful dance at the home of Mr. William B.

Lake, at 2 Lake place. This dance, which was a shirt-waist affair, was managed by a committee composed of Mr. Frederick R. De Nyse, Mr. Walter I.

Still well, and Mr. George S. Bennett. Among those present were Miss Elizabeth H. Lake, Miss S.

Bertram Miss Hazel Lake, Miss Bessie J. Stillwell, Miss Alice S. Strong, Miss Alida V. Storm, Miss Irene E. Storm, Miss L.

Edith Sharkey, Miss Florence Read, Miss Edith Bainbridge, Mr. Frank Sharkey, Mr. George R. Stillwell, Mr. John H.

Ryerson, Mr. Wallace W. Goodfellow, Mr. John R. Lake, Mr, Clarence A.

Porter and Mr. Frederick W. Strong. For this season the officers of the club are to be: Mr. John Lake, president Mr.

Wallace W. Goodfellow, vice-president; Mr. Walter I. Stillwell, secretary; Mr. George S.

Bennett, treasurer, and Mr. Frederick R. De Nyse, social director. The Chronicler. TRAVEL NOTES.

LAST Monday Justice and Mrs. Josiah T. Marean, who have been abroad all summer, left Steephill Castle, Vent-nor, Isle of Wight, for London, with the intention of embarking on the Deutschland in a few days. On the twenty-eighth of last month they were guests at a dinner-party given at Steephill Castle by Mr. and Mrs.

Morgan Richards. Among the other guests were Mrs. Henry Clay Evans and Miss Evans, the wife and daughter of the American consul, and tDuke de Chartres. Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes), assisted her mother in entertaining the dinner guests, revisit the United States next January, rs.

Craigie has been at Steephill Castle for about three weeks, but her young son, Master John Churchill Craigie, is at present visiting Lord Tennyson. As usual, the week-end parties at the castle have been a delightful feature of life there all summer. The guests for the first September week-end included George Moore, the author of "Evelyn Inness; Mrs. Godfrey Baring, niece of Lord Coleridge, and little Lady Eileen Grimston; the Due de Chartres, Mrs. Evans and Miss Evans.

Ventnor, by the way, has had an unusual number of American visitors this year. The Stewart L. Woodfords, Mrs. James M. Fuller and Miss Doris Fuller are among the latest to register at The Crab and Lobster.

Mr. and Mrs. Cro well Hadden, who returned recently from a four-months' European trip, were there last month. Last Monday's arrivals on the Grosser Kurfuerst include Mr. G.

L. Hoppenstedt and Miss Anita Hoppenstedt. They left Mrs. Hoppenstedt in northern Germany. Miss Christina Rounds, of 525 Clinton avenue, who spent the summer in Italy dividing the time between Florence, Casentino and Lake Como sailed from Genoa on the Koeni-gin Luise last week Thursday, and is due here early next week.

Mr. Henry and the Misses Sloane expect to keep their country place at Dark Harbor, Maine, open until the twenty-second of this month, when they leave for Tuxedo. The Lowell M. Palmers, who spent the summer abroad, returned on the Majestic last week Wednesday. Mr.

William A. Nash, Mr. Theophilus Olena and Mrs. Albert Waldron Gunnison, were among the arrivals from Europe on the Oceanic on Wednesday of last week. Dr.

Jennie Van Holland Baker, of 512 Bedford avenue, and Dr. Lottie A. Cort, of 89 Division avenue, have returned from their trip to the City of Mexico. On their way North they visited the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. ARRIVALS IN TOWN.

WHILE the general tendency is to stay in the country later each year, the time is never likely to come when the tide will not turn towards town in early September. Already quite a number of houses have been opened for the winter. Among the arrivals in town the latter part of last week were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H.

Troy. They spent most of the summer at the Essex and Sussex, SpringVLake, where Mr. Troy was a prominent figure in the recent very successful carnival. In fact, his valuable suggestions, based on long experience in providing pleasing and novel entertainment for others, were snapped up so readily that he was practically the leading spirit. Mr.

and Mrs. George F. Elliott arid Mrs. Amanda J. Riell, of 299 Clermont avenue, also returned last week.

Mrs. Harriet Isaacs and Mrs. S. W. Taylor, of 214 Hicks street, returned from the Deer Park Hotel, North Woodstock, New Hampshire, early this month.

The-Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Locke, of 11 Hanson place, have returned to town. During Doctor Locke's stay on the Pacific Coast he made the ascent of Mount Hood.

Mrs. Henry Dalley, who has been spending the season at the Equinox House, Manchester, Vermont, has returned to 9 East Sixty-ninth street, Manhattan. The William G. Longmires, of St. John's place, who have been spending the summer at the Red Lion Inn.

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