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12 BROOKLYN LIFE. ANNOUNCEMENT has been made of the engagement of Miss Marion Benedict, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. R.

Dillingham, of 14 South Oxford street, to Mr. Frank H. Cothren, of 173 South Oxford street. Miss Benedict is a graduate of Vassar, 1900, and Columbia, 1901, while Mr. Cothren is a member of the class of 1962 at Bowdoin.

LAST Saturday's departures for Europe included Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bruce, who sailed on the Columbia for a six weeks' visit to Scotland. Mr. Noah L.

Cocheu left on the St. Paul the previous Wednesday, to be gone until early October. Mr. and Mrs. Pomeroy Burton sailed on the Kaiserin Maria Theresia on Tuesday of this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Amory S. Carhart were booked to sail on La Lorraine on Thursday, and Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Young on the Fuerst Bismarck the same day. ON Thursday of last week members of the Atlantic Yacht Club and their guests took a trolley trip from Sea Gate to the Manhattan Beach Theater, where they attended the performance of "Florodora." The party was about the same as to personnel as that which went over to see the Primrose and Dockstader Minstrels the week before, and again numbered two hundred. Next week, probably on Tuesday, the same number will' repeat the journey to Manhattan Beach. There will be a special Atlantic Club program in the fireworks enclosure, and later in the evening the performance of "Maid Marian" will be attended. AMONG the August visitors at the Hotel Aspinwall, Lenox, are Mr.

and Mrs. George W. Beaver, Miss Genevieve Beaver, Miss Evelyn Beaver and Master Charles W. Beaver, who arrived early in the month. The Beavers formerly lived in Brooklyn, but have been residents of Washington for several years.

Miss Genevieve Beaver is prominent in the tennis contingent, which she joined with the prestige of four medals and a cup won elsewhere. Mrs. A. K. Weaver is at the hotel to remain until late in the' autumn.

Mr. Benjamin Adriance has recently joined Mr. John Murphy, who is there for the season; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Harter and Mrs.

G. G. Young are also at the hotel. The Manhattan contingent includes Mrs, Sallie Hargous Elliot, Mr. and Mrs.

H. P. Marble, Miss Marble, Judge and Mrs. Ernest Hall and Miss Edna Hall. Mr.

and Mrs. Harlan Page, Miss I. Page, Miss Edith M. Derwin, Miss M. CondeS and Dr.

S. McCuren Smith are there from Philadelphia, and the Pages have brought their horses and carriages with them. Dr. F. H.

Whitteniore, of New Haven, who arrived early in the month, has since been joined by his family. Mrs. Arthur Kemp, who is in the Lenox cottage colony, has been at the hotel almost daily, being a very close friend of Mrs. Elliot. Mr.

and Mrs. William A. Taylor were registered at Curtis's last week. LAST week at Southampton was brought to a brilliant close by the dinner given at the Meadow Club by Mr. and Mrs.

T. Wyman Porter, who have been among the most prominent entertainers of the season. More than seventy covers were laid for the dinner. The pony races of the same afternoon attracted a fashionable gathering only equaled by the throng at the tennis tournament of the first half of the week. For this week Friday was set the opening of the annual horse show, which is to be continued on Saturday.

Mr. Oliver S. Campbell, who was at Southampton for tennis week, has gone to Newport. THERE have been more happenings in Newport the past week than fall to the lot of the average summer resort in a whole, season. Naturally, the Robert Remington suicide and the death of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles L. Fair cast a shadow over everything; but except in the circles of the families affected there was little change in the social schedule, and none of the large entertainments planned for the next two weeks is likely to be canceled. The weather, notwithstanding a bright day or two, continues to be disagreeably unseasonable, the nights being sharp enough for frosts. So few entries have been received for the races of the Jockey Club, September sixth and seventh, that the whole affair has been declared off, and unless the meteorological conditions become more favorable it is likely that the small number of events due the second week in September will be given up and the season hurried to a close.

As might be expected in a period of prosperity, the season has run to weddings, but there is little else for which it will be remembered. Another engagement was announced this week, that of Miss Frances Coster Jones, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Quentin Jones, and Mr. Harry S.

Kip, all of Manhattan." The annual tourney'season began Tuesday with'" the opening of the national tennis matches, the most colorful occasion of the year at the Casino. The eighty-three entries are not only the largest number on but include all the crack The prospect for the polo tourney, which was to start on Friday, is hardly as flattering. Interesting games are expected, It seems to be impossible for polo and tennis not to conflict, although such overlapping puts every one to no end of trouble. Absolutely nothing is heard of the annual golf tourney, which will no doubt prove a very tame affair; nor is a word said regarding a coaching parade or auto mobile races. The yearly turnout of coaches is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, none being held last year.

Automobiles have been taking their places. It is now too late to arrange for auto races, and, besides; there is more bad feeling than ever between owners of the machines and the public and police. Several small fines have been, imposed this week for minor misdoings of chauffeurs, in one case a machine being moved too slowly from the front of the Casino to suit a patrolman. LAST week brought the first of the large dinner-dances of the summer. Unquestionably the most elaborate and enjoyable was that of Mrs.

Pembrooke Jones at "Friedheim." The dancing pavilion was decorated with ten thousand water lilies, there was a woodland supper tent, while the favors were symbolical of many nations. The Berwind ball had the elements of a surprise party. Although much less extensive than the function which last season formally opened the new villa, it was one of the events of the summer. Anything more entrancing than the view from the piazza of the sunken gardens and electric fountains of "The Elms" would be hard to imagine. Mrs.

Berwind, as was the case last year, succeeded in keeping the matter quiet until the invitations were issued. Mrs. W. Storrs-Wells's dinner-dance at her new villa was another noteworthy event of the week. Miss Alice Roosevelt left Newport last Monday for Maine, tired out Her father, the President, will arrive on Saturday for one night's, stay.

It has been requested that no reception be tendered him, his visit being wholly of a private character. WHILE the arrival of the Duchess of Marlborough at the end of -this week has been awaited with the greatest interest by the Newport colony, the death of the Fairs will naturally take the edge off from her reception. Secretary Moody had a busy stay, being tendered a dinner by Senator Wetmore, also a sham battle at the Training Station. The navy might almost as well be a thousand miles off shore, so far as social gayeties are concerned, the officers getting little leave, owing to the strenuous nature of the maneuvers. Next week will be the busiest of the season, bringing Mrs.

William Astor's great ball at her enlarged villa, "Beechwood." Thus far she has not given a single entertainment, something never before known in the history of Newport. The next most important affair will be the performance of parts of "The Wild Rose" on the lawn at "Beaulieu," a local innovation. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, junior, as was expected, found she could not get together enough society talent to give a variety show, and so resorted to another expedient. Mrs.

Spotswood D. Schenck is down for a dinner-dance at Berger's next week Wednesday. Dr. and Mrs. Alexander S.

Clarke were among the guests at Mrs. J. Afden Harriman's recent dinner at Berger's. ONE of the smartest events of the week was the yellow luncheon given by Mrs. William Bloodgood, who is this season occupying the John Jay Knox villa at Monmouth Beach.

Japanese chrysanthemums, which seem to have taken the lead over nasturtiums as the favorite flower at the Beach, were used in the table decorations, and Mrs. Bloodgood's guests included Mrs. F. Pearsall Field, Mrs. Walter Watson, Mrs.

Franklin W. Sanger, Miss Clara Byron, Mrs. H. W. Taylor, Miss Ljllie Dickson and Mrs.

de Grove. Mrs. Wilbur Bloodgood has gone to Newport for August, as is her custom. She has been occupying her dainty cottage, "Fairie Lea," at Seabitight for the early summer months, and upon her return will continue the series of house parties for which she is justly famed. Mrs.

Bloodgood has such admirable taste and unfailing gayety that she is a most popular hostess. A BOUT two hundred guests were present at the dinner il given at Pleasure Bay Thursday of last week to celebrate the fifteenth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rohdc. Music was furnished by the Landon Orchestra, of Manhattan, and some of the members of the Pleasure Bay Opera Company were engaged to sing between the courses.

Every table in the large dining-room of the Arvejne was taken for the occasion and the one at which Mr. and Mrs. Rohde sat was elaborately decorated with flowers and a floral wedding-bell suspended above it by ropes of smilax. The guests presented the happy couple with a pair of rare Japanese vases as a souvenir. The Phillips cottage at Monmouth Beach is this year occupied by Mrs.

Carolyn Hazleton, who last week had a large house party in honor of Colonel and Mrs. Richard Henry Savage. The guests comprised Colonel and Mrs. George Laird, Mrs. L.

L. Duke, Mrs. E. B. Young, Mr.

Meredith Brooks Miller Mr. Thomas A. Bronson, Mr. Robert Francis French, Mr. Charles Cunningham, Mr.

Charles Potter Kling and Mr Franklin Ellsmere Duff. Among the amusements provided for their entertainment were several automobile and driving trips, a sail on Pleasure Bay and a clambake at West's Another house party was that of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Guy Catlin, who, by the way, spent, the greater part of the winter at their cottage on the Beach. Their guests were Mr.

and Mrs. I D. Lewis, Mrs. George Scarlett, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Hubert Sackett, Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hanna, Eugene Holstrom, Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Frinley, Miss Lily Tillot-sen and Mr. Albert Crum..