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a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. JUNE 25. 1911.

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BROOKLYN SOCIETY UNE'S last week has four bridegrooms and brides, one wedding each Monday and Thursday and two for Wednesday. Miss Emily Kaltenbach is morrows bride, her marriage taking to her home, 2405 avenue, and her bridegroom being Joseph H. Bragdon. Wednesday Charles Frederick MacKay, son of the late Philip MacKay, marries Miss Annette Louise Martin of 20 Kinney street, Newark, at her home at 7:30 o'clock, and in Brooklyn there is to take place, in St. Francis Xavier's Church, Sixth avenue and Carroll street, at 6:30, the bridal of Miss Mary Josephine Poland of 362 First street, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. J. Charles Duffy, and Robert Gerard Williams. Thursday there will be solemnized the marriage of Albert H. Tag, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Casimir Tag of 243 Hancock street, and Miss Claire Van Wynen of Manhattan. This latter will be an afternon wedding, at 5 o'clock. Dr. Stuart Close's Son, Bernard Wells Close, Engaged to Miss Gertrude Drake.

One of the newest of the of June is that of Bernard Wells and Miss Drake. Mr. son of Dr. Stuart Close Gertrude, Hancock street. Miss Drake maids or ushers.

This bride and bridegroom are not to have any reception, but after the ceremony. in St. Francis Xavier's Church, Brooklyn, there will a wedding supper for the bridal party at the Waldorf-Astoria. Robert Gerard Williams, to whom Miss Poland is to be married, makes his home at 177 St. Mark's avenue, and is a son of the late Joseph Williams.

Miss Marguerite Cleveland Married to George Dudley Tilley Yesterday Afternoon. There was a quiet bridal yesterday afternoon in St. John's Church on St. John's place, the wedding of a Brooklyn girl, Miss Marguerite Crawford Cleveland, to a former Brooklynite, George Dudley Tilley. Mr.

Tilley now resides at Darien, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Heath Tilley, who were for many years Brooklyn people. Miss Cleveland Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Menzies Case Cleveland, and her home is at 134 Sixth avenue. The ceremony's hour was 3:30 o'clock, and only a small reception followed at the bride's residence. Dr. French of Noroton, officiated, Dr. Frank Page of St.

John's assisting. Miss Cleveland had two bridesmaids, and attending Mr. Tilley were a best man and four ushers. Miss Cleveland's maids were two young girls, nieces of the bridegroom, Miss Dorothy Tailor and Miss Elizabeth Daskam of Stamford, Conn. An interesting feature of this wedding was that these bridesmaids' fathers, Judge Frederick Tailor and Walter Duryea Daskam, were two of the ushers.

Miss Tailor, the elder of the two maids, was in a frock of chiffon over satin and carried marguerItes and corn flowers. Miss Daskam wag in white mull and Irish lace. She had a bouquet of old fashioned posies. The bride's wedding gown was of white satin veiled with marquisette and trimmed with old family lace. She wore a pearl and diamond pendant, the gift of her bridegroom and a tulle veil caught up with orange blossoms.

Dr. Douglas McDonald was best man and the ushers, in addition to Judge Tailor and Mr. Daskam, were Wells Curtis of Southport, and Robertson Skeel of Manhattan. Judge and Mrs. Marean's "Motor Meet" at Their Country Home, "Daybreak." It is difficult to invent a new idea for social life, but Judge and Mrs.

Josiah T. Marean have accomplished it in their yearly "Motor Meet," which is now traditional and which nobody has copied. The task of copying would not Indeed, be easy, for it would require just such another country seat of the Mareans' have, the shore of Connecticut, at Greens Farms, with its wonderful rose garden, quaint house, its fine view and its central position as regards other country homes. "Daybreak" is the name of the Mareans' place. This year's "Motor Meet" took place there a week ago yesterday, and was attended by very nearly two hundred people, Brooklyn playing a leading part.

As last year the old fashioned garden, with its box borders, WAS the feature and where the guests were chiefly to be found through the afternoon. It was a perfect day, and the peonies and roses, the great charm of "Daybreak" at this season of the year, were In full bloom, and made a riot of color. The country roads and avenues near "Daybreak" were lined with cars. 'The' guests came from all nearby Connecticut and even New York State -New Canaan, Port Chester, Greenwich, Rye, Fairfield, Southport and of strawberries were the Norwaltio Judge's gardens, in which he takes great on as decorations, and the trays were of pride. leaves were left bulls, silver.

The scene was much like an English garden party, the guests strolling over the lawns and among the old-fashioned flowers. There were many smart gowns, and the picture was exceedingly attractive. It is a matter of interest to all country, home developers. that In five "Daybreak" has been built up to Its present charm from an old onion farm. Brooklyn Women Show Flowers and Win Prizes at New news of the hour seems to cor- cern Connecticut very largely.

The Mareans' "Motor Meet" 1s spoken of above. The same afternoon there was a flower show at the Country Club of New Canaan, given by the New Canaan Garden Club, which has become an institution and has in great part been developed by the Brooklyn women who are prominent In the New Canaan country colony. New Canaan has been, ever since Its first rise into popularity, as do matter of fact, particularly a neighborhood of Brooklyn summer homes. The Garden Club is made up. of women who love flowers and cultivate them extensively, and once a year compete in a gay way for prizes, turning the exhibition into a fete.

Vegetables are shown as well as flowers, and every show brings up from the city- a great number of men. Some of the Brooklyn people who figured at this Garden Show were Mr. and Mrs. David H. Lanman, A.

Victor Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. George S. Frank (Mra. Frank's little daughter, Miss Alice Frank, took a third prize), Miss Bertha Stockwell, Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert H. Knox (Mrs. Knox is vice president of the club, and won two prizes, a second for iris and A first for peas), Miss and Mrs. Woodruff Leeming (little Miss Honor Leeming took two prizes in the wild flower classes), Mr.

and Mrs. Wendell Phillips Colton, Channing 'Frothingham, Mr. and Mrs. H. Day Atwater, Miss Helen McWilliams.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Grout (Mrs. Grout carried off the first prizes in peonies and iris), Mr.

and Mrs. Philip G. Gossler (little Miss May Gossler won a first prize for doll table decoration), Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence P.

Frothingham, Miss Alice Driggs, Dr. and Mrs. Philip Hiss, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Greene (Mrs.

Greene was the record winner of the afternoon), Edward Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. McWilliams, Mr. and Mrs.

William H. Cary (Mrs. Cary is on the club's executive committee), Isaac H. Cary, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles L. Snedeker, Miss Mary Campbell, Mrs. Philip H. Hiss, jr. (another prize winner.) Miss Jessie Dick's Luncheon and Shower for Miss Ella Folger.

Miss Ella Folger of Stuyvesant Heights, who recently announced her engagement to Thomas W. Welsh of Baltimore, had a luncheon and a shower recently given in her honor by Miss Jessie Dick at her home, 545 Macon street. The girls at this festivity, in addition to the hostess and her guest of honor, included Miss Edith Stevenson, Miss Eleanor Halstead, Miss Virginia Craig, Miss Gertrude Mehnken, Miss Grace Farber, Miss Lura Currier, Miss Anna Remsen, Miss Hodgson, Miss Edna Coffin, Miss Marguerite Way, Miss Edith du Souchet, Miss Ethel Campbell, Miss Juliet Thayer, Miss Marie Limeburner and Miss Isabel Shepard. 494 Hancock street, and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Augustus M. Drake. Dr. Close's daughter and the coming bridegroom's sister, Miss May Close that was, was recently married to Ralph Kirkman, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alexander S. Kirkman. Miss Gladys Laighton, Now of Flatbush, Engaged to Herbert Godwin of Larchmont. Another of the new fiancees of the hour is Miss Gladys Laighton of 392 East Seventeenth street, formerly of the Eastern District. Miss Laighton is a very wellknown Brooklyn girl, and she has figured a good deal in the social world.

She 1s the daughter of the late Charles F. Laighton. Her sister, Miss Lollita Laighton, married Charles W. Gerstenberg. Miss Laighton's fiance is Herbert Godwin, a Larchmont man, whom she is to marry in the autumn.

Mr. Godwin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Godwin. Wedding of Miss Poland and Robert Gerard Williams on Wednesday.

engagements named here as Josephine, of this coming Poland, already Close Wednesday, is to have but a single maid Close is a her--Miss Mildred A. Francis. of 240 Joseph Poland, will be attending, resides, at best man, and there will be no brides- Work Starts To-morrow on $5,000,000 000 Brooklyn Library the new Astor Library in Manhattan. The growth of the Brooklyn Public Library since its formation, almost a decade ago, has been remarkable, and is an incident and an example in library work that has not been equaled. The Brooklyn system has often been taken as model by other communities, and even foreign nations are really more appreciative of its progress than the citizens are.

With the one exception of the New York Library, the Brooklyn Library system does a larger work than that of any other city in this country, not leaving out Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston. Fourteen years ago Brooklyn had no public library. Then the city did not have a book or a place to house a library, The free library was started with an appropriation of $5,000 and has been growing ever since at a pace that caused the whole literary world to appreciate the fact that Brooklyn people were booklovers and wanted the best in literature. Ex-Mayor David A. Boody has contributed largely to the success of the venture.

A comparison with the first year of the free library and the great system now Armly established is startling. To-day the Brooklyn Public Library has nearly 700,000 books. It has twenty-six branches in various sections of the borough and many of its recent additions are separate buildings, up to date in every detail. Sites for three more branches have been selected, but a are awaiting the consideration and approval of the Carnegie committee, which has final judgment in the matter, the three remaining completing Mr. Brooklyn's share of the fund devoted by Carnegie to libraries in New York City.

Of these twenty-six library branches, seventeen are owned by the system, and cost on an average of $80,000 each. There an annual circulation of books in Brooklyn exceeding 4,000,000 volumes. Next year this will be larger. The directors have asked for an annual appropriation of $400,000 for maintenance of libraries in this borough, and this has been expended in keeping the vast machinery of lending books to the public in good working order. Central Library an Imperative Need.

The rapid growth of the library system made it apparent to the trustees from the first that the need for a central library building was imperative. It would be used for the housing of books, for reference purposes, for administration needs and for the reception and care of constant donations always being made by public spirited citizens to a great library system. Indeed, such building was needed as an education in itself, to stimulate a further interest in literature and art, in culture and higher education generally. Notwithstanding its vast and rapidly increasing population, Brooklyn ORK will be started to-morrow on WI Brooklyn's new Central Library Building, which is to occupy a commanding site on the Prospect Park Plaza. No event in recent years so closely affects the daily life and active interests of the people.

The structure will be a magnificent monument such as Brooklyn deserves for the use, in perpetuity, of all its citizens. The first contract has been let for making necessary borings, to determine what sort of foundations shall be used. This will be the first step in the erection of the first wing of the library, which it is calculated will be completed in about six years, at a cost of nearly $5,000,000. Manhattan recently dedicated its wonderful new central library building at Fifth avenue and Forty-second street, and thousands are daily gazing at its architectural splendor, its greatness and priceless literary and art relics. Brooklynites who have inspected the new central library of the New York Public Li brary may have the satisfaction of knowing that Brooklyn's proposed central 11- brary will be a monument fully worthy of Brooklyn and its incalculable future.

Brooklyn has more than 300,000 readers enjoying the privileges of its free library system and the army is increasing at a remarkable rate. The new Central Library for Brooklyn, work upon which will progress rapidly hereafter, is to be a most important part general plan to make the Plaza one of the most notable civic centers in this or any other city in the world. It will be the beginning of a general deavor to beautify the city in that vicinIty and will be one of the most important structures in a section already marked by the architectural grandeur of the Institute Museum and the imposing water tower, to the east of the stately Memorial Arch to the northwest, and of the entrance to Prospect Park' to the west. Plot in Prospect Park Plaza Contains 2 1-4 Acres. umes.

It will, in reality, have even a has very few such municipal structures. of their foresight. The development of have each given up much of their time people interested and to see that larger capacity for library work than It is interesting to note that the Plaza the city certainly has not weakened in for the betterment of the system. Mr. I obtain the books they want.

THE PROPOSED BROOKLYN CENTRAL LIBRARY AND ITS RELATION TO OTHER IMPROVEMENTS DESIGNED FOR PROSPECT PARK PLAZA. Raymond The site on which this elementary work is to be begun is in the form of a quadrilateral, admirably suited for the purpose. The location is familiar to everyone. The plot measures 69 2-3 feet on the Plaza proper, 332 feet on Eastern Parkway, 486 feet along the reservoir fence and 498 1-3 feet along Flatbush avenue. This incloses a total of acres, or 6,900 square feet.

According to plans that have been prepared, it will provide accommodation for 2,500,000 Mugging Law Protects Crime, Hampering Police Governor Expected to Sign Bill Resulting From the Duffy Case. COPS WOULD BE JAILED "Third Degree" Confessions No Longer Possible, Says Detective. The fuss that Mayor Gaynor made about the Duffy case is probably primarily responsible for the law now before the Governor of the state which prohibits police officials from "mugging." The new law, which will probably be signed by the Governor, makes it a misdemeanor for any police official to take the picture of a person arrested and have it made a part of the criminal "rogues gallery' before conviction is secured. The does not prohibit the police from taking the pictures and ertillon measurements of prisoners who have been convicted before a jury, or who have pleaded guilty to a felony. But the police must not, hereafter, picture, or subject to Anger -printlug or a close physical examination, persons who are arrested for any crime who have not been proven guilty of such crime, There to a rule in the police book now.

prohibiting persons from taking the photographs of suspects. Mayor Gaynor has terrorh ed the members of the police foren 10 such a degree that a police captain would rather have his right hand dismembered than to run counter to the Mayor's wishes In that respect. The warning example of the fear of punishment is August Kuhne, a lieutenant of the detective bureau, who was sent to prison for mugging one of the Jenkins family, charged with wrecking the Williamsburgh Trust Company. Justice Joseph Burr of the Supreme Court had ordered that the prisoner should be brought before him forthwith, yet Kuhne, who was at that time in charge of the local headquarters detective bureau, did not believe that the Jenkins before him was the Jenkins that the writ called for, and so disregarded the Justice's mandate and sent Jenkins up to the top floor to be pictured and fingerprinted. For this interference with personal liberty and the orders of the Supreme Court Kuhne was sent to prison, and for thirty days lived in a stuffy cell, and looked at the world through prison bars be had put others behind.

Mayor Gaynor awfully nice to Kuhne after he got through with his term of imprisonment, Police Commissioner Baker to deal kindly with him, and not to lose sight of him as a possibility for a captainship. He was re- Almirall, the architect; Mr. Boody, sev-; eral other of the trustees and the consulting architects and the chief librarian, Mr. Hill, went abroad and made a careful and critical examination of buildings erected for library purposes and of buildings erected upon sites of a similar shape, and inspected many In this country. The libraries at Bale, Cassel, Heidelberg, Amiens, Leipzig and Stuttgart were visited.

These showed a variety of style and emphasized the propriety of a picturesque treatment. To the architects, the proximity of the Institute Museum and the memorial arch, however, imposed on the designer of the library the adoption of a stately classic handling of the building or at least one of the Renaissance versions of classic architecture. They saw practically every important library building in the world. Appropriation Made of $300,000. The whole work, however, is not to be done at once, and it is the construction of the first wing that has been started.

The first appropriation made last year and it was for $300,000. The estimated cost of the central library complete will be $4,810,000. The trustees have asked an appropriation of $532,500 for next year, with the understanding wat the same sum will be appropriated the year following. The frat wing will give the library just the accommodation it needs just now and the rest will be availed of by the end of six years, when the building in its entirety is to be finished. Mr.

Boody said that with its foundation of Lenox, Astor and Tilden, the New York Library could get along better without its central library building than Brooklyn can without a similar provision. The central building is not intended especially for daily use. The branches throughout the borough take care of the exchanging and loan of books, and the central library will be largely for reference and administration purposes. It will have all the rooms, departments. auditoriums, catalogues, club, exhibition and collectors rooms which are found in the largest of libraries, such as that recently opened in Manhattan.

Many people are identified with the workings of the Brooklyn Public Library, and countless families are interested in its development. Nothing, outside of rapid transit, Mr. Boody said, contributes so much to the thought and education as the libraries. Speaking of transit, the new library is well located, so far as accessibility to other parts of the city is concerned and will be more 80 when the subway up the Eastern Parkway is in operation. A station will be located very near the entrance of the library.

The Brooklyn Library employs 350 people and has a civil service system of its own. The aim of library work is to bring the facilities to the doors of the people. Librarians, who serve first as apprentices, are trained to get the people interested and to see that they obtain the books they want. stored to duty after he got through with his imprisonment and ig now two removes from promotion. He is to be the second of the new captains, and the fatherly head of the city, it is said, will not lift a hand to prevent him from reaching the present summit of his hopes.

Kuhne used to be a flute player in a band before he became a policeman, and he is a handsome man, with many friends. The Mayor believed that he had paid dearly for his temerity in disobeying the mandate of Justice Burr. Policemen Who "Mug" Must Go to Jail. But the new law will not take into consideration any department rule concerning the question of "mugging." It 1s a violation of the law to "mug" and that is all there is about it. The policeman who sends a man to the gallery to have his picture taken will have to settle with the law and go to jail for it.

The members of the police force did not think that there would be such a drastic enactment, and they are surprised, but not worried over the situation. The police, from 8 purely professional standpoint, deplore the adoption of the bill as a state measure of law, for they have an Idea that in cases where there is no question about the guilt of a prisoner, even although he has not been convicted, they should be given the liberty of taking his picture. A case in point might be the picturing of A man who was caught red-handed in the commission of a murder, or a burglary. There might be no question of the man's guilt, and it might be for the benefit of the police, in case that he might escape from prison, to have his picture, but no policeman, under the new law, could ever snaphsot him without laying himself open to personal imprisonment. "The rule works both ways," said police expert the other day.

"It 18 all right to protect the man who is arrested on suspicion, but it is not all right to protect the criminal. The French law says that a man who is arrested for a crime is not arrested until there is 2 strong reason to believe that he is guilty. The American and English law holds that a man arrested must be considered innocent until he is convicted by incontrovertible -evidence proving guilt. The Frenchman quizzes his prisoner and 'mugs' him. The Briton does no such thing, but he 1g not hampered by questions of personal liberty, and he can do what he pleases with a prisoner.

The police of this country are not willing to convict innocent persons, and there is no place on the face of the globe where a for his liberty than in this country. man a better chance for his life a or has Take the case of the man in England, for example, who was executed for killing his wife, the little woman from Ridgewood. There was no body found that could be identified as that of the missing wife, but yet an English jury condemned the man to die. In this country he would have been thrown out on the streets, but in England he was executed without even the presence of a 'corpus Everybody was convinced that the man killed the woman, and that Ethel LeNeve, his partner in his escape to this continent, must have known something about it. "The police in this country will be badly handicapped by this law," continued the critic, "because over and over again they get in their clutches persons who are unquestionably guilty of crime, persons who are habitual criminals, and persons who will be convicted, if they do not escape by the law's limitations." Law Would Abolish "Third Degree." The law also makes "third degree" investigations a misdemeanor on the part of the police.

There is much that is apocryphal in the "third degree" as applied to! the police. It is an investigation, in many instances, of the sensational reporter, who does not know what 1s going on behind the barred doors of the detective bureau and who simply guesses. A man who has been close to the police for thirty-nine years and who knows a lot about their methods--and they are stumbling, blind methods at that--was asked by a reporter yesterday what he had to say about the "third degree." A fake, a fiction, the baby of reportorial invention," was his reply. "I have been close to the detectives of New York and Brooklyn for nearly two. score of years and yet I never knew of the 'third degree' as It has been pictured by imaginative reporters in the newspapers.

Tom Byrnes, who was the model of heads of detective systems, got an impression that this 'third degree' system, which was so much written about, might be a good thing, and he tried it once or twice. He had a theatrical scheme one day in the case of a murderer, whom he expected to 'give You remember the old basement of 300 Mulberry street. It had a flagged quadrangle where something theatrical in the shape of a tableau viviant might be framed up. One murky night Tom Byrnes had a murderer cooped up in the basement, and he made him look out on the dismal, dripping flagstones. And before his affrighted eyes the inspector paraded men with some of the things used in the murder, and finally he produced the corpse.

But it was a fizzle. The man, who may or may not have been the murderer, never flicked an eyelash and Tom lost his is game. Detective Tom Byrnes Used Theatrical Methods. "He tried the same dodge again and again. Once or twice it succeeded with other prisoners, but it was so palpably theatrical that even the biggest dub of a criminal could see through the purpose of it, and he did not feaze a bit.

It was a poor kind of a criminal who could 1 be caught with such clap-trap." "Tom Byrnes was a good policeman, but he got a lot of his reputation from some of the bright newspaper men who were invited into his office day by day. And he had the science of mystification down to the nicest of niceties. He bamboozled A lot of good citizens with his theatrical clap-trap, but as for a 'third degree' it was a phantasy of a reporter's brain." Easy to Force Aliens to Confess. The only people the third degree can be worked on with success, according to the opinion of an old -time policeman, are the aliens, and more particularly the alien Sicilians. The Sicilian who is murdering and stabbing in the back, and who is cutting crescents in the faces of his fellow countrymen, with razors, is the man who may be forced.

by means of a show of physical power, into a confession. The man who assaults from behind is coward, but he manages, unless the police get hold of him, to get, away with his outrages. Get one of the cowards in a close room with 8 stalwart policeman, and if nobody interferes he will give up his dearest friend, and himself, if the screws are properly put on. It is not case of inquisition 50 far as he is concerned. He will adhere to a string of 11ea until somebody hurts him.

The man who hurts him is usually one of his own kind, for a plain, American pollceman can make no headway with an Italian bandit. Get an Italian detective with his knuckles in an Italian criminal's neck, and let the detective give a twist to his neckerchief once in a while, and threaten strangulation, and pretty soon the culprit will teil something. He knows the power of force and he is a coward every time. His acts are cowardly and he is the first to be cowed when he is in dire personal straits. The law which forbids working "the third degree" will fall hardest on the detectives of the Italian bureau who are honestly trying to rid this country of the thieves and blackmailers who toil not, and who do not spin, but who wear the best raiment and drink expensive wines at the cost of the decent tradesmen who are terrorized by their threats.

Law Will Hamper War on Black Hand. The "third degree" was never needed seriously in cases where native Amerlcans, or Irishmen or Scots, or Englishmen, French or Germans were involved. But the Italian criminal is a serious proposition, and it the law is passed which makes it A misdemeanor for al policeman to question a prisoner in the absence of his counsel, the efforts that are being made to get rid of the Italian Maternity Dress (Patents Pending) The latest ideas in fashionable attire carried out in these one -piece Dresses. Adapted for wear during the entire period and laier. While a dress will expand from 27 to 55 inches without alteration, it is 80 cleverly made that not a hook need be moved at any lime.

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Many Brooklyn young women journeyed to St. Elizabeth's College at Convent Station, N. last week to attend the annual commencement exercises of their Alma Mater. Some of the features of the elaborate programme for the week were held on the beautiful grounds surrounding the convent and a number of the Brooklyn graduates of other years remained in the vicinity of the convent all week to take in the entire programme. Among the most important events of the week was the production on Wednesday of the French opera, "Tolbiac," presented by the members of the Societe Fenelon and pupils of the vocal school.

The cast included one hundred and ten members. The chorus numbered ninety-five and the drilling was excellent. The part of Queen Clotilde was sung by Miss Regina Byrne of Newark, N. in a pleasing soprano of much promise. Miss Genevieve Morris of Atlanta, a charming soloist, led the graceful "Dance of the Leaves.

Miss Lucia O'Connor of Newark, N. sang tha part of Saint Genevieve a in a clear volce, with simple, unaffected dignity. Other soloists deserving praise are Miss Isabelle Brooks of New York and Miss Alice Reynolds of Trenton, N. J. The work of the cast was evidently appreciated, since this, the second performance of on "Tolbiac' at the College of Saint Elizabeth, Was attended by a large and appreciative audience.

The stage settings were designed by Miss Mercy Hillmann of 2303 Clarendon road, Flatbush, a graduate of St. Elizabeth's College. was selected in 1888, nine years before the present library was organized, by a special committee of the board of park commissioners, to which the question of the East Side lands had been referred as the most fitting site for a large public library. That committee was composed of the Rev. Dr.

Richard S. Storrs, who was a loyal and public-spirited citizen; General John B. Woodward and Daniel M. Ex-Mayor Boody, Who Has Given Much Time and Energy to the Development of Brooklyn's Somers, then park commissioner. Dr.

Storrs, who wrote the report, declared that it was a matter of no inconsiderable public interest that by retaining this tract of land and improving it a8 a public pleasure ground, the city would be "able to furnish really superb sites for at least two or three public institutions, which it greatly needed, and by the establishment its people will be instructed and gratified, and its good reputation in the country be advanced. "When a large public library 1s established free to all comers, no place could be more fitting for it than on the large triangle facing the Plaza and in front of the reservoir grounds, accessible from different quarters and passed already by thousands of people every day." Committee Twenty Years Ago Started Development, This committee, over twenty years before, suggested the location of a museum, an observatory tower and a botanical garden, which are now living evidences any degree the force of the arguments advanced by that committee. When the subject of the best library site was taken up by the library trustees, the plan of Dr. Storrs was renewed to attention and eventually adopted. The site was finally located by an act of the Legislature in 1905, which provided that a committee composed of the Mayor, then Mr.

McClellan, the Borough President of Brooklyn, Martin W. Littleton, and the Park Commissioner of Kings and Queens, Michael J. Kennedy, should designate the Plaza location, if they thought it desirable. It was an impossible task to please I everybody, so that the various hearings which followed were characterized by many controversies over the advisability of locating the library near the park, but the site was Anally authorized by the city officials and the work begins to-morrow. In the selection of the site the trustees of the library were very desirous that the library building should be considered as part of the plaza scheme.

The opinion of well known architects and men who had studied the problem gave unqualified indorsement and an abundance of reasons why the plaza site was the most advantageous. Professor A. D. F. Hamlin, the consulting architect for the committee; Frederick Law stead, who submitted his report to the Brooklyn League, and Messrs.

Carrere and Hastings, who reported to the Mayor, and other architectural experts, delved into the subject and defended the choice of the trustees, telling why and how it was the very best possible location in Brooklyn for a central library building. Raymond F. Almirall was appointed the architect and Professor Hamlin the consulting architect, while the assistants of Chief Librarian Frank P. Hill, whose knowledge of space required and other library accessories, was needed in drawing the plans. That important phase of the work has been completed and nothing now remains to hinder a speedy completion of the first wing of the building.

Ex-Mayor Boody a Militant Factor in Development Scheme. No man has taken a greater interest or a more active part in the growth of the Brooklyn Public Library than exMayor David A. Boody, who has been its president for many years in the past. In his residence at 206 Berkeley place, Mr. Boody told an Eagle reporter he had always been greatly interested in library work, because he had few of the advantages a library offers when he was a boy.

He described the long campaign for the erection of such a central library as was finally authorized, which preceeded the crowning event of to-morrow. It has been the work of his life for the past fourteen years, he said, and he greatly enjoyed it. The board of trustees has held about 200 meetings during the past few years and the members BETA OMEGA BETA DANCE. The members and friends of the Beta Omega Beta Sorority celebrated the frat day of summer (June 21) by giving their annual summer dance at the Farmhouse in the Park. The committee in charge was composed of Miss Edna Wilson Bennet, Miss Helen M.

Maguire, Miss Agnes P. Porter and Miss Regina Ursula Schultz. The patronesses of the evening included Mrs. Richard Bennet, Mrs. Frank B.

guire, Mrs. Arthur Porter, Mrs. Richard Rhatigan, Mrs. Frederick J. Schultz.

The dancers included Miss Lillian V. Schultz, Miss Alice Loble, Miss Roakes, Miss Dorothy Tracy, Miss Ida Wilson, Miss Ida Keck, Miss Leonie Hallinan, Miss Edna Kelly, Miss Honor Gelson, Miss Marguerite Schultz, Miss Marie McGoldrick, Miss Florence Streetor, Miss Louise Nelson, Miss Adele Du Cret, Miss Norma Stevens, Miss Dot Little, Miss Sara Ryan, Miss Edith Manly, Miss Kitty McCrystal, Miss Nell Flattery, Miss Ella Du Cret, Miss Lillian Cahill, Miss Bertha Peper, Miss Cathleen Rhatigan, Miss Gertrude Pettus, Miss Gladys Reeves. Robert Seaton, Joseph Dune, John Anderson, Thomas Swift, Russel Coughliu, Lester Ring, Stewart Richardson, John Maguire, Richard Rhatigan, A. Paul, S. Schmidt, William Curran, Arthur Newland, Charles Havens, Perry Charles, Richard Bennet, James McCrystal, William Henshaw, Archie Duncan, James Hart, John McArdle, A.

Stewart White, Leo O'Meara, M. Maloney, Judson Meyers, Stanley Quinn, William J. Gardner, Arthur Kid, Everet Cole, William Peterson. THEIR SILVER WEDDING. Mr.

and Mrs. Willard J. Woodcock of 13 Cambridge place entertained a dinner party, on Friday evening, at the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan, to celebrate the twenty anniversary of their marriage. PARIS FASHIONS UP TO DATE. From The Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy of Abraham Straus.

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