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Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 14

Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 14

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14 OX LYN LIFE L.1 Two Views of West Neck untington Home of Mr. George McKesson Brown i ft shown, in the. upper picture. Below is a view of the front of the house and terrace. The beautiful shaded lawn, with if effective landscape, grouping of trees is well 7 I MR.

AND MRS. FREDERIC PRATT will go to Northeast Harbor, about August 1st, after passing the early part of the summer at their new country home at "Dosoria." Their son-in-law and daugh- ter, Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Emmett, are having a new, country home erected on the mausoleum road 1 for their future occupancy Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert L. Pratt will i probably be at "The Braes" a greater part of the summer. week-end at Huntington was a particularly active one, rivaling that of the Fourth in the number of dances, and house parties that took place. Saturday was especially full day crowded with activity, with the tea dance given by Mr.

arid Mrs. Lester Lehrenkrauss at their summer place, "Villa Tess," in the afternoon, and the regular Saturday night dance in the ballroom of the Huntington Bay Club in the evening. rr rTHE STEAM YACHT Whileaway" returned to the harbor on Tuesday from Marblehead, with Harry. Payne Whitney on boards 'i MR. JAMES B.

CLEWS and Miss Leta Clews will be among the colonists in Glen Cove this season, having leased Mrs. E. I. Eldredge's country home on Lattingtown Road. Mrs.

Eldredge and her three children will pass the summer abroad, joining her mother, Mrs. Walter Gibb, in France. Clews has occupied a country house in the North Shore section every season for 'a number of years. 1 THE GUESTS at the party included Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Lehrenkrauss (Arline French), Mr. and Tracy Higgihs(Madelyn Waterman), Mr. and Courteney Nixon Aten (Helen Page), Mr. and Mrs. Donald R.

Baylis (Elizabeth Vernon), Mr. and Mrs. Oliver G. Carter, Mr. and Mrs.

George A. Vaughn, and Mrs. Walter St. John Benedict, Jr. (Louise Tumbridge), Mrs.

Stanley Judd, Mr. and Mrs." John Hathaway, Mr. and Mrs. Charles O'Donohue, Mrs. C.

L. Matthews. The Misses Katherine I. Magner, Margaret Pray, Barbara Bailey, Virginia Fuller, Winifred Horwill, Ruth Hauser. Evelvn Kellogg.

Marion Scoville, Olive Scoville, HllHtillQl'tOH Adelaide Cozzens, Winifred Cozzens, and the Messrs. William H. Calder, John Campbell Ingersoll, Davies Roulston, Kellogg Brumley, Donald Ross, Charles Lorenzo Woody, Finley B. Krause, Norman S. Baylis, William Horwill, Richard Diebold, Charles Heath, William Little, Otto A.

Schreiber, Theodore Pellens of Manhattan, Letcher Coe, Kimball Benedict, Morgan O'Connor, and Donaldson S. Wean of Plain-field, N. J. IVT' AND MRS FRANK BAILEY, members of the Locust Valley colony, 1 recently made a gift of a new building to Union College to cost about $150,000 and to be known as Bailey Hall. It will be used as a home for the department of fine arts.

Mr. Bailey was graduated from Union in 1885, and in 1908 received the degree of Doctor of Arts. Mr. Bailey is Treasurer of Union His gift was in celebration of his twenty-five years service in that capacity. 'TVfRS.

MARSHALL FIELD, who had been at Lloyd's Neck since the spring, sailed last week on the Pan'-America for South America, with the party of (scientists who will explore some of the unknown sections of that Continent for the Field Museaum of Chicago. Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton will also be in the party, which will include Mr. Cher rie, who accompanied Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. Kermit Roosevelt on their1 expedition to Eastern Turkestan and Tibet last year.

Mr. Field not go on the tripn While it is expected the scientists will remain for about six months, Mrs. Field will probably return during September. Set auket' JUSTICE AND MRS. SELAH B.

STRONG of Se-J tanket announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Elinor Morris Strong, to Mr. John Arthur; Bogar-dus. Through her father Miss Strong js defendant of the Mayflower settlers. She graduated. frojftMjss Chapin's School in 1923 and was a the, following winter.

Her maternal grandmother il Frederic R. Lefferts of Flushing. Mr. is also a member 'of an old New York family and is the son of Mrs. Robert Francis Bogardus.

He, was an officer in the -Engineers during. the-War and served overseas. jVflSS JANET MacKAY was winner. in the prelimi-nary match of the putting contests for women which are being held weekly through July and August at the Huntington Bay Club. The score follows Janet Mackay 39 Mrs.

Courtney Aten. 43 Mrs. O. S. 43 Mrs.

Robert Lee 58 Mrs. Joseph P. Lantry i 51 Losee. 49 Mrs. J.

48 Mrs. H. D. Roosen. 51 Miss Winifred Horwill, .46 Mrs.

Simmons 47 Mrs. J. N. Carpenter. 51 In the mixed foursome Mrs.

Courtney Aten and Mr. John C. Ingersoll were the winners with a net of 40, winning by only one stroke from Miss Winifred Horwill and H. W. Bousfield.

In this competition the players used three-eights of their total handicap. The score, was I Mrs. Courtney Aten and JC Ingersoll 50 10 40 Miss Winifred Horwill and H. W. Bousfield.

48 7 41 Mrs. William Kennedy and Joseph P. Lantry 51 9 42 Mrs. O. S.

Eldredge and W. D. Martin, 62 12 50 Mrs. Robert C. Lee and F.

Koehler, Jr. 55 9 46 Mrs. E. Newton, and Mrs. H.

I. Losee 71 12 59 Mrs. H. I. Losee and O.

S. 68 11 57 Mrs. Simmons and Courtney Aten 60 10 50 Miss Janet MacKay and William Horwill. .55. 8 47.

Jn the ball sweepstakes, A. R. Southwill won with a net score of 69; A. D. Corwin with a score of 70, second; and G.

W. Baker, score of 72. third. AMONG THOSE PRESENT at the Huntington Bay; Club dance in the evening were: i The Misses Janet French MacKay, Lisbeth: Higging, Regina Patterson Kiely, Winifred. Horwill, Eleanor Burr Folger, Katherine I.

Delphis -Bainbridge King, Margaret Pray, Dorothy Virginia- Eldredge Fuller. -1 Mr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Jadwin, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank C. B. Page, Mr. and Mrs.

William Mr, -and Mrs. Charles Newton, Frederick D. Mac Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Higgins, Mr.

arid Mrs. J. Goodwin Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Seymour- K.

Fuller, -Mrs. Edward T. Horwill, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Eldredge, Mr and Mrs.

Herman D. Roosen, Senator and Mrs. William M. Calder, Mr. and Mrs.

Robert Corwin Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Baylis, Mr. and Mrs.

Lester Lehrenkrauss. Captain J. Tupper Cole, the MessrsJohn K. Birch, Robert Parker Thomas, William Horwill, John Campbell Ingersoll, Finley B. Krause, Otto A.

Schreiber, Lester Y. Baylis, Norman Baylis, W. Burroughs McGuire, Cornelius McGuire, Richard Diebold, Walter Robin-'son, Frank C. B. Page, William Calder, Jr..

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