The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • 3

1 I- i v-ptm'i BROOKLYN EAGLE WEDNESDAY OCT 9 1940 Fire-Torn 1 Mansion rr 'A 'r i i I 14 Vt I st- -4 -After bearing such prominent names as Ctarfcaon Kantian Onion League Club and mom reoently tba home of the Flatbuah branch A the 104-yearold building at 1U Xjtnmam Place hu been sold to make way for the contraction ef a modern apartment home Lawrences Aviaon executive secretary ef the Ratbush A Mr sh 0 VApi i 1 A 1 If Its place in the top ranks untS the original members had died or moved from the community According to officials of the flati bush A It was determine! that the cost of neonetraeUng tint building which wu known aa Sperry Memorial Building following -tha fire wu beyond the means of the organisation Since tha fire the Ratbush hu occupied a frame dwelling at BOT Ocean- Ava Thud the property wu arid and ended thehlstory of the Clarkaon Mansion Continuing at tha Ocean Ave ad-' dreie temporarily at least the P1at4 bush sriU etrantaa a project by which Ratbush wilt be divided Into four local: arvU'wUh four hlglt achoott the' center ef activity The eriwols are Erasmus BOB James Madison Mid wood and Samuel TUden 1 Prominent men and warned will serve on tha district boards It will be officially organtoed at a dinner-meeting to bo held IT at the Oaaan Ave headquarters which need the building aa Its headquarters for ths last three yeara announced that the property had been sold "regretfully Destroyed by a four-alarm flmJast Jan SI efforts to gall unction of the governing body of the Breoklyn-Queens A to neenstract the building foiled Center ef Serial Life The Clarkson Mansion soon besoms the center of social Ilfs In the old village of Ratbush upon its construction 104 years ago on ths spa- Plalbush to Ocean Aven Atop high terrace the aunekMi with- Its huge etiumna circular atolteuee foam basement to cupola attracted wide attention Later Xenmors Piiaee or Slat St wu cut through and the valuable property fronting both avenue wae raid for builnem and apartment house devriopmenta A group of prominent Platbuah men got together and after forming the' Midwood Chib purchased the building Us headquarters Constructed in ths basement wen an rid Dutch room with tllee imparted from Holland and a log cabin room with side walls ef toga and ahuge fireplace Social gatherings of Plat-bush society wen held there for aumy years Bseame UaiM LeagM CM The Brooklyn union League Chib having sold tie clubhouse on Chant Square designated the late Richard Young Frederick J' racks and leaders to purchase the Midwood chib- the taking omiot the-hto-tcrie' building by thd union League Club many interior improvements were made tind ooce again it became one of the outstanding social clubhouaee lh Brooklyn with many of Its functions being highlighted by the presence of prominent State' and national-figures Jbr manyyeark the riuh held VV m- i J' wV -K Aqs1 Reds and Bundisls EligibleJorDrait Memben of the Communist party arfd-theOennan-American Bund wtube aocepted into the United States Army on the same footing aa members ef any ether political group if certified for mUltary service by the Selective Draft boards according to an official announcement Men with first dtianuh papers win be accepted through Selective Service although the Army does not accent them as vohmtoctk Allens pho hsvs pot taken out thiS papers will not be certified and therefore will Mi be taken by the Army It wu announced Permanent headquarters win bo opened tomorrow by CoL Arthur McDermott city director of Selective Service at SSI Madleen Ave Manhattan Temporary offkei have been in the Municipal Budding Manhattan British Auto Pionoor Dim of Air Raid Shack London Oct (R Atr raid hock wu blamed today for the death of Santlar credited with building the tint automobile in Xogland in HOT tempt to deievieiiriettvrpewer to a single person" The shoq-cauu order obtained by BmU Mils eounsel to tba oommittee wu signed by Supreme Court Justice John Carew IL w- watbi DUST AND FUMES Because the second floor at the Brooklyn Central Library has not yet been completed members of the extension department have taken quarters in the library garage where they are looking forward to a chill Winter A group is shown at work Ji I -1 mm i 1 -j Korn Must Show Causa 1 For Ignoring Subpana Paid Kern presldentcf Municipal Clril Servioo Commission was ordered yesterday toshow cause next Friday in Court why be should not be held in contempt for refusing to answer a subpena requiring him totesttfy before a ooie-man subcommittee of the Clty Council Committee that to investigating tha commission In refusing to honor the sub-penaMr Kara reiterated previous offer to appear before the fun committee at' a public hearing but refused to he examined privately on the ground that such an action "violates the firmly rooted public policy la America against the star chamber and aleo involve an at- Work in Dusty Garage Lackf Funds Forces Extension Unit! To Share Quarters With Noisy Trucks Licking space In the es yet im- floors Is dust and aUehee-Mnot Tt even j'5 ss: buttsr inside the mndwicErDr Ferguson Mid able rioargpeec While more than 11000 square ftet of floor space on the second floor stand Idle the extension department serving thouaanda of barmen throughout tha borough forced to usurp not only a comer of the garage but aleo valuable floor space In tba main reading mom tha Ratbush Are wing and part of tha book stacks below1 Dr Ferguson said that tha library last year had requested an appropriation of $10000 to complete the building in accordance with the plana drawn up by trends bally andAlfredkiartaivOUhens "the architects This year the library modified tta request far $300000 for ecmpletion of the second floor $110000 far additional book ataekk and $30100 for archltsctural and tngtnesring coats This request is now bring considered by the City planning Comrnls-Mon for Inclusion in the 1M1 capital outlay budget opened Raymond Ingenoll Manorial Library the Central build-lof of the Brooklyn PubHe Library Witem the extension department tha unit has taken up residence Ja the concrete garage eC the library Them exposed to dint tad drafts Oafened by the clamor of a car -peater shop sharing its quartern sad mailed by the fsaoUne fumes a( trucks moving hi and out do-pitfiii and cdlseting young women of the department deck traveling libraries Ttk like asking school teachers to to down cellar to read examine tta papers" Sr Milton Perga-too chief Ubrariaorsald today Net Bneagh Fends Be explained that the plight of toe extension department was due to the failure of the city eo far to appropriate funds for the eomplc-boo of tha second floor' The central building was begun to UU and rebuilt in INI-SI at a total cost of about HAMM' Urn third floor hu been occupied for a year by administration office and departments tba first floor equipped to serve tha public to a limited extent after completion of kng-ddayed contract work la between the first and third Pi rJli lit Vi 5T" 4k dty Takes Over 1 Vvrr CYS 3m 3 At K-)ri6demomansi: iii wTvy rTw i DINNER AND 3m In EVENING GOWNS if KV wiliioi to 2995 'f specially priced group of gowns to make remembered! Trumpet pencil and Tbs new $404000 civil Aeronaut tin Board Building at LaOuardla RS4 beoomes dty property today with Mayor XaOuardla accepting toe two-etory structure from li OoL Bnhon Somervell local YPA administrator at brief Mries at the municipal air center Under a lease netting the city HAM a yeu in isnt tha Mayor rill turn the keys to Assistant foeretwy of Commerce Robert Btortley head of the CAB and rt the stags foy Immediate les of LaOuardla Reid aa the CAB headquarters for II Horth riera States Measuring 130 by feet tha Molding toward the construction I which tha etty contributed $130 AS 111 house the CAB offices now to Newark Rooievrit Reid Royd taaett Field and Church St Muhattsn well seven CAB phnei in a built-in hangar John Sommers regional super-t of the CAB announced that I toe am ja officii bring about to tbe Horth Beach tofori Re added that CAB In-towton however will continue to -MiitUoned- at-Newszk -Airport Jjd Roosevelt and Reyd Bennett Mb revealed by Dock' Com-totowr John McXeuto that the 9 eonstruetlon Job remaining at fOoutUa Reid tha $10000 Be a to be need by Eastern wrtn probably be by Dee or 11 daya ahead to schedule U- Japan War HaM Likty by Yaniall Oct dUJB war "Mem the United etatoa and Ukriy Rear Ad-y! Harry Yararil former of the Aslatle fleet be better prepared tor with Japan now than a be rixyeen from now when tltorr PowM 4 tha night auppert a nation with a1 -for misses and women I TRose' rand plgm31! blue and aquaryf WW-'' V- 'trX 4 i evening weak specially priced $18 Military capes wool and rayon velvet wraps Some ermine trims Misses sizes IITTU 4IC0MD FLOOR )1 r- VV 4 i l'- 5 i tokhdridlMfiMablfcJtaM I klMAtTlN FULTON 1RQOKLVN:.