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BROOKLYN LIFE. id Winslow, Mrs. J. Hussy, Mrs. Ethel Mrs.

Lucy Penboss, Mrs. Vera Perrjn Lane and Mrs. Clinton Braine. Among the Sunshine Girls who attended were Miss Charlotte Allison, Miss Marion Allison, Miss Mary Allison, Miss Dorothy Andrews, Miss Phyllis Andrews, Miss Dorothy Angell, Mrs. W.

B. Anderson, Miss Dorothy Barker, Miss Helen Barton, Miss Margaret Barthel, Miss Marjorie Bart-lett, Miss Mary W. Barry, Mrs. A. Clarke Bedford, Miss Betavia Beech, Miss Grace Birmingham, Mrs.

Bertram Blake, Miss Florence Blake, Miss Helen Blunce, Miss Hazel Bath-well, Miss Eloise Butler, Miss Jean Caird, Miss Catherine Canfield, Miss Josephine Carpenter, Miss Jane LeeCarr, Miss Margery Carshaw, Miss Marian Cook, Miss Dorothy Cragin, Miss Helen Crandall, Mrs. Lester Du Bois, Miss Francis Duncan, Miss Marie Eicke, Miss Margery Fairfax, Miss Helen M. George, Mrs. Howard Miss Harriet Greenman, Miss Charlotte Haddonhorst, Miss Ruth Harmon, Miss Pauline Haviland, Miss Lassie Honeyman, Mrs. Walter Hough, Miss Hattie Hussy, Miss Dorothy Jennings, Miss Eleanor Jennings, Miss Katherine Jennings, Miss Mildred Jennings, Miss Edna Jones, Miss Maude Jones, Miss Adele Katz, Miss Theda Kenyon, Miss Ruth Kine, Miss Edna Lawler, Miss Helen Lay, Miss Est elle Leopold, Miss Catherine Lott, Miss Dorothy McDonald, Miss Elizabeth McDonald, Miss McFarlane, Miss Beatrice Malette, Miss May Merrilees, Miss Mabel Mettler, Miss Clara Miles, Miss Ellen Miles, Miss Lillian Morgan, Miss Edna Nolan, Miss Ada Ogden, Miss Hazel Ogden, Miss Marion Peterson, Miss Clarissa Pettit, Miss Dorothy Phinny, Miss R.

Phinny, Mrs. Arthur D. Pinkham, Miss Grace Powers, Miss Constance Raboteau, Miss Irene Raymond, Miss Lulu Raymond, Miss Hermina Ross, Miss Beatrice Scarborough, Miss Gertrude Schell, Miss Edith Shaw, Miss Anita Snow, Miss Norma Stevens, Miss Anita Sutton, Miss Elizabeth Taft, Miss Ruth Taft, Miss Katherine Townley, Mrs. Mabel Tucker, Miss Kathryn Tuttle, Miss Marie Tyrrell, Miss Elsie Van Buskirk, Miss Florence Van Nostrand, Miss Harriet Van Wyck, Mrs. Robert L.

Waring, Miss Emma Warren, Miss Helen Warren, Miss Lillian Wells, Miss Maud Wheeler, Miss Viola Whaley, Miss Madeline Woodworth, Miss Eleanor Wright and Miss Marjorie Wright. Latest News from Sergeant Alfred Busch, A.E.F In a letter from Sergeant Alfred B. Busch, dated November twelfth, which was written to his mother, Mrs. George Frederick Hummel of 974 St. Mark's Avenue, Sergeant Busch stated that he was then at a recreation camp, recuperat-' ing from his experience on October seventeenth, when he was gassed.

He expected, at the time of writing, to leave soon to join Company of the 105th Machine Gun Battalion, of which he is a member. He is a sergeant in the transport division and was recently promoted from a corporal. He stated that it would take about ten days for him to reach his division. Sergeant Busch was gassed on-October seventeenth, when a shell exploded six feet away from him. Three companions were wounded, two others gassed and six horses killed.

On November second he wrote from General Base Hospital 73 in France that he expected to be sent to a recreation camp for a month, as the gas had affected his lungs. Sergeant Busch was born in Brooklyn twenty-three years ago. He attended Poly Prep and joined the First Cavalry in 1916, when he saw service on the border. He had been back only one week when he was sent to St. Elmo to patrol the aqueduct.

Later, while at Spartanburg, he was transferred to Co. 105th M.G.B., and last May he left for France from Newport News, Va. In France, Sergeant Busch attended a Machine Gun School before engaging in active service. In July his company was brigaded with the Fourth British Army under General Haigi Two of his brothers are in the service. Lieutenant Carl C.

Busch is an aviator instructor at Brooks Field, San Antonio, Texas, and Lieutenant Arthur C. Busch has been acting captain at Camp Upton, where he is stationed. Victory Ball at the 71st Regiment Armory Tonight. Governor Whitman and Mrs. Whitman, General Bell, and Admiral Gout of the French Battleship Gloire have accepted invitations to be present at the great Victory Ball for the Army and Navy which is to be held tonight, Saturday, at the 71st Regiment Armory in Manhattan under the auspices of the Vacation Association.

The board of directors has also invited the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy to be guests of honor, and naval representatives of France, England, Belgium and Servia have also been invited. Invitations have also been extended to the soldiers and sailors of these allied countries and some of the recently landed wounded boys are to be guests of honor. The music will be continuous, as there are to be two celebrated bands, the Pel-ham Bay Band, which is to play through the kindness of Admiral Usher, and the Fort Hamilton Band, which Colonel W. C. Jacobs secured for the ball.

Chairman of the Committees for the Victory Ball. The following members of the association have accepted the chairmanship of committees: Miss Gertrude Robinson Smith, chairman of the ball committee Mrs. George Barton French, hostess committee Mrs, Joseph Fish, ticket committee, and Mrs. A. Klein, canteen committee.

On the hostess committee with Mrs. French the following members will serve Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Charles Farnham Collins, Mrs. New-comb Carlton, Mrs.

Ponsonby Ogle, Miss Anne Morgan, Miss Maude Wetmore, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Miss Gertrude E. Lachlan, Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. Prescott Slade, Mrs.

Franklin C. Hoyt, Mrs. Wendell Baker, Miss Mabel Beards-ley, Mrs. Roger W. Straus, Mrs.

John Harsen Rhodes and Mrs. Dudley D. Roberts. Captain Leslie Oliver will be the chairman of the men's committee Mr. John F.

Kelley, chairman of the men's reception committee, and Mr. Timothy Healy will be the chairman of the floor committee. Serving under Mrs. Klein on the canteen will be Mrs. Ralph H.

Pomerby, Mrs. John T. Winkhaus, Mrs. Theodore Reynolds, Mrs. Charles Shrady, Mrs.

L. Middleton, Mrs. A. Steyne and Miss Jean Middleton. The Travelers.

Major Glentworth R. Butler of 226 Gates Avenue has been visiting Camp Custer, Michigan, as consultant. Mrs. Glentworth R. Butler has been at the Post Tavern, Battle Creek, Michigan.

Major and Mrs. Butler are now at Camp Great, Rockford, 111. Miss Anna M. Robertson of 154 Eighth Avenue and Miss Agnes H. Davis are spending a week at the Marlborough-Blenheim, Atlantic City, N.J.

Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stanley are spending a few days at Atlantic Gty. Miss Florence Stuart and Miss Dorothy Ward are spending two weeks at the Hotel Dennis at Atlantic City. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Prescott Berdell were recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Van Tassel at Hartsdale. Mr.

and Mrs. Berdell have arrived recently from their country place at St. James, L.I., and have a small apartment near Washington Square, in Greenwich Village. Mr. and Mrs, Ranald Macdonald were recent guests at the Greenwich Country Club with Mr.

and Mrs. E. C. Converse. Mr.

and Mrs. Gomer Reese have moved to Greenwich, where they have rented a house in the same neighborhood as Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Goepel and Mr. and Mrs.

Robinson Leech. Mrs. Spencer Jennings has been a guest at the Maples in Greenwich recently. In fact, Greenwich boasts quite a Brooklyn colony. Mrs.

James McCoy is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Perry Bogue, at Greenwich for this week. Arrivals in Town. Mrs. David Thornton of 257 Hancock Street has returned to the city from Montclair, N.J., where she has been staying since her return from the Poland Spring House, South Poland, where she spent the summer Dr.

and Mrs. Grant Baldwin have returned to their home, 28 Schermerhorn Street, having closed their country home in Huntington, LI. Officers Dance at the Hotel Imperial. The Sunshine Girls of the Woman's Naval Service, all of Brooklyn, were the partners of the officers of the French, English, Canadian and Italian armies and our own Army and Navy men who attended the dance given at the Hotel Imperial, Manhattan, Saturday evening of last week, by the Woman's Naval Service in co-operation with the War Camp Community Service. The Army and Navy Club rooms, which were the scene of the dance, were decorated with flags of the Allies.

It was Britain's Day and the playing of the British national anthem preceded "The Star-Spangled Banner," with which the dance closed exactly at midnight. Mrs. Maude Canfield, chairman of the Woman's Naval Service for Brooklyn and Long Island, was in direct charge, Mr. A. Remsen Boerum directing the dancing.

Assisting Mrs. Canfield were Mrs. Remsen Boerum, Mrs. Frederick Birch, Mrs. D.

E. Barber, Mrs. George F. Allison, Mrs. Francis S.

Howard, Mrs. William M. Seabury, Mrs. Matthew J. Mrs.

J. M. Pratt, Mrs. Louis von Hasslacher, Mrs. Frederick B.

Haviland, Mrs. John Springer Turner, Mrs. Frederick B. Snow, Mrs. George C.

Taft, Mrs. Benjamin H. Knowles, Mrs. H. Tuttle, Mrs.

Charles H. Changes of Residence. Mr. and Mrs. R.

Freeman Harrison (Elsie M. Wood) are now in their new home, which has recently been completed on Mt. Pleasant Avenue, Livingston, N.J. Mr. E.

S. Avis of 150 Lincoln Place has moved to 426 Sterling Place. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lindley Johnston, who lived for a time at the Hotel Gramatin, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, are now in their own home at Alger Court West, Bronxville.

Mr. Johnston is engaged in Government work..