Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

Announcements suitable for these columns are desired. Contributions must reach this office by Tuesday morning to appear in the current issue and must be signed to receive attention. Weddings Aug. 26 Mary Christy Tiffany, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

George S. Tiffany, to Mr. John T. Pratt, St. Mary's-of-the-Isle, Islesboro, Me.

Sept. 5 (Sat.) -Miss Margaret Copley Thaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Thaw, to Mr.

Newbold Morris; St. Andrews Dune Church, Southampton, L. I. Sept. 12 Constance McCall, daughter of Mrs.

Edward Everett McCall, to Mr. H. H. Ramsay; East Hampton, L. I.

20 Frances Darling Arthur, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Arthur, to Mr. George Henry Dayton; Park Lane, Man.

Oct. 27 Madelyn Waterman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Waterman, to Mr.

Tracy Higgins; Park Lane, Man. June 21-Oct. 1-Exhibition of Recent Accessions of Prints and Lithographs; Brooklyn Museum. Tune 28-Oct. 1-Paintings by James J.

Shannon, R. Decorations by Henri Caro-Delvaille; Paintings of the Carlsbad Cavern, New Mexico by Will Shuster; Recent Accessions; Brooklyn Museum. Aug. 10-31 Richard Newton, portraits and sporting paintings; Philip Duval Galleries, Main Street, Southampton, L. I.

Art Exhibits Music Aug. 30 by Miss Harriet Cady; Mrs. William Woodin's home, East Hampton, L. I. Horse Shows Aug.

22 Horse Show; Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Diercks, Pond Lane, Southampton, L. I. Sept.

4 the benefit of the East Hampton Settlement House and Gun Club; Riding Club, East Hampton, L. I. Sept. 17-19-Far Hills, N. J.

Sept. 19. Greenwich, Conn. Sept. 19 -Smithtown Horse Show.

Sept. 26-Cross Country Horse Show; Plainfield, N. J. Sept. 30-Oct.

2 Horse Mineola, L. I. Oct. 12-17 Horse Show, Manhattan. Oct.

24-Cranford, N. J. Yacht Races Aug. 24 -Midget Championship; Seawanhaka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I.

Sept. 5 Regatta, all Classes; Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I. Sept. 5 Annual Stratford Shoal Race, open to all one design and rating classes.

Sept. 7 Races; Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I. Garden Days For the benefit of the Wayside Home for Girls, Valley Stream, L. Sept.

3 (Thurs.) William J. Matheson's gardens, Lloyds Neck, Huntington, L. I. Miscellaneous Aug. 10-17 -Forty-second annual invitation tournament; Meadow Club, Southampton, L.

I. Aug. 24 and Mah Jongg for the benefit of the Vanderbilt Clinic; Mrs. William Woodin's home, East Hampton, L. I.

Sept. 3 (Thurs.) Costume Street Carnival, for the benefit of the Village Improvement Society; Southampton, L. I. Sept. 14-19 -Second Radio World's Fair; 1 P.

M. to 11 P. 258th Field Artillery Armory, Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue, Bronx. Dances Aug. 21 Spencer Fullerton Weaver's Ball; Devon Yacht Club, East Hampton, I.

Aug. 21 for Miss Jean Leonard; East Hampton. Aug. 29 given by Mrs. Harry Hamlin for Miss Judith Hamlin; East Hampton, L.

I. Dog Shows Sept: 5 -Ridgewood Kennel Club, Ridgewood, New Jersey. 11 (Fri.) -American Fox Terrier Club, New York. Sept. Sept.

19 (Sat.) -Paterson Kennel Club, Paterson, New Jersey. Sept. 26 (Sat.) -Chow Chow. Club of America, Tuxedo Park, New York. Sept.

26 -Tuxedo Kennel Club, Tuxedo, New York. Oct. 3 (Sat.) -Englewood Kennel Club, Englewood, New Jersey. Oct. 12.

-Bronx County Kennel Club, New York. Flower Shows Sept. 25 -Annual Dahlia Show of the Nassau County Horticultural Society; Horticultural Building, Pratt Estate, Glen Cove, L. I. Tennis Aug.

17 -Women's National Turf Championship; West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, New York. Golf Sept. 4, 5 -Club Tournament, open to members, subscribers and their guests; Shinnecock Golf Club. Births HANNA-Mr. and Mrs.

Donald (Virginia Hall), of 315 Lincoln Place, a daughter, Long Island College Hospital, August 4th. Deaths BURRELL- Mrs. Alice Maude Thackray, Southampton Hospital, Southampton, L. August 6th. Mrs.

Burrell was the wife of Frederick A. M. Burrell, of 1409 Albemarle Road, who survives her with two sons, Mr. Harold A. and Mr.

Frederick D. Burrell, Miss Katharine T. Burrell and another daughter. Funeral services were held in the Presbyterian Church at Quogue, the Burrell's summer home being at Westhampton Beach. Mrs.

Burrell was well known in women's civic organizations in Brooklyn. CLAPP- -Mr. Arthur 11 Schermerhorn street, August 8. Mr. Clapp, who was one of Brooklyn's most popular clubmen and sportsmen, passed away suddenly of heart failure at his home.

He was born July 4, 1861, in Bridgeport, the son of the late Stillman Sprague and Mary Louise Stagg Clapp, but came to Brooklyn with his parents when he was seven years of age and has ever since been resident of Brooklyn Heights. He was graduated from the Polytechnic Institute and entered the dry goods commission business when he was seventeen years of age with the firm of Taylor Clapp and Bealls, of 100 Worth Street, Manhattan, of which he became a member, and remained identified throughout his entire business career. Mr. Clapp was noted for his very appearance as well as for his keen sportsmanship. He was particularly identified with the group who maintained the old Excelsior Club at the corner of Clinton and Livingston Streets, which sprang into existence as one of the pioneer amateur baseball clubs of Brooklyn in the early seventies and afterwards became an exclusive social club.

He was a very keen yachtsman and flew the pennant of the New York Yacht Club, of which he was an active member, at the mast-head of the several sailing crafts of which from time to time he was the owner, Mr. Clapp also was one of the earliest Brooklyn converts to golf and rated high as a player among his contemporaries. He was among the oldest members of the Crescent Athletic Club and the Garden City Golf Club and was a subscriber to the celebrated National golf links on Peconic Bay. Mr. Clapp, who had been a bachelor up to that time, married a year ago last January Miss Florence Alexander, whose family are of Ottawa, the Canadian though she has been a resident of Brooklyn for a capital, number of years.

He leaves, besides his wife, a sister, Miss Sarah S. Clapp. His brother, Mr. William G. Clapp, who was also well known in Brooklyn, died several years ago.

Mary Agnes Thomson, Spring Lake, N. 9th, Mrs. Corlies, who was the widow of Mr. August Edmund Williams Corlies, used to live at 160 Columbia Heights with her sons, Mr. Arthur and Mr.

Howard Corlies, who survive her. She was a sister-in-law of Mrs. Thomas Brooke, Adams (Anna Corlies) of Summit, N. J. Funeral services were held on Tuesday at Holy Trinity Church, Lake, and interment was to be in Greenwood.

Spring Anna 251 Hicks Street, August 8th. Mrs. IRVINE-Mrs. Irvine was a lifelong resident of Brooklyn Heights, having born on Columbia Heights, and lived there during her been She was the daughter of the late Alexander and youth. Howe.

She is survived by two daughters, Miss Sarah Florence B. Irvine and Mrs. Grace McKenny, wife of Col. Richard McKenny, who has just been appointed military attache to Warsaw, Poland. Mrs.

Irvine's death followed a long illness. Funeral services were held on Monday with interment in Greenwood Cemetery. LUSCOMB- -Colonel Charles Harris, 731 Argyle Road, August 5th. Colonel Luscomb was formerly Park Commissioner of Brooklyn. He was born in Salem, and was educated at.

City College and the Columbia Law School. He was sixtynine years old. Colonel Luscomb served with the 15th Regiment, National Guard, as major and lieutenant colonel, and in 1902 was! trusted with reorganization of it after internal quarrels. In the days of bicycle clubs he was president of the League of American Wheelmen. His term was in 1894, He was an active Mason and the Masons conducted the funeral at Aurora Grata Cathedral.

Burial was in Green wood Cemetery. His wife, a son and a daughter survive. -Mrs. Emma Peck Memorial Hospital, August 7th. Mrs.

Metcalfe was the widow of Dr. Ernest G. Metcalfe, and was in her seventy third year. She had been ailing for some time, but was taken seriously ill ten days ago, which necessitated an operation. She apparently recovered when the heart suddenly failed, causing her death, She was born in Philadelphia and lived in Brooklyn for sixty years.

She was a member of All Souls Universalist Church, Flatbush, and the Universalist Women's Alliance. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Robert Meiklejohn, and two sons, Mortimer D. and A. Harold Metcalfe.

Funeral services were held at her late home, 535 East Eighteenth Street, with interment at Bedford, N. Y. -Miss Grace, 12 Monroe Place, August 8th. Miss Newman passed away last Saturday evening after an illness of several months, at her home, which she shared with her sister, Miss Louise Newman. She was the daughter of the late.

Theodore. Newman, one of the pioneer dry goods merchants of Brooklyn and Elizabeth Pettit Newman, and was born and lived all her life in Brooklyn. On her mother's side she was a descendant of some of the oldest families of Brooklyn and the western end of Long Island. She was a great granddaughter of Simeon Pettit, whose ancestors were among the Huguenot settlers of Hempstead, L. where he was born, though he afterwards settled in Brooklyn, His wife was Phoebe Van Nostrand, of one of the most influential early Brooklyn families of Dutch descent, and their sons, Joseph, Robert and Martin Pettit, were among the foremost citizens of Brooklyn in the early part of the last century and pillars of old St.

Ann's, the first Anglican Church in Brooklyn, The late Theodore Newman, who founded the old dry goods establishment bearing his name, which is now carried on by his son, Dr. Robert P. Newman, who abandoned the medical profession in order to do so, was of English descent. For many years the Newmans lived on Washington Street, which half a century ago was one of the finest residential streets in Brooklyn, and the Misses Newman were almost the last of the old residents to be driven out of their spacious old-fashioned home by the encroachments of an alien population. Miss Newman was a lifelong communicant of the Church of the Holy Trinity and with her sister was very active in the work of the church and the diocese.

She leaves two brothers, Mr. Theodore Newman, of 302 Park Place, and Dr. Robert P. Newman, of the Hotel Bossert, and her sister, Miss Louise M. Newman.

Though of a quiet, retiring nature, her sincerely kindly, amiable and courteous disposition won her a host of friends, and she will be greatly missed by many, TOWNSEND- -Rev. John Hardenbreck, Mount Carmel, August 9th. He was born at Matinecock, L. 70 years ago, a member of the Cocks and Townsend families, for generations residents of Long Island. After his graduation from the General Theological Seminary he spent seven years in Camden, N.

and later was for nineteen years rector of the Church of the Ascension in Atlantic City, returning to St. John's in Camden in 1915. He was the father of Commander Lloyd Woolsey Townsend, U. S. John H.

Townsend, of Panama; John Farley Townsend, of Mount Carmel, at whose home he died, and Mrs. F. C. Nicholson, of Smithtown, L. with whom he had made his home during the past few years.

His first wife was the daughter of Townsend Cox, former Charity Commissioner of New York. His second wife was a sister of Admiral Wilson, Commandant of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Both are dead..