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Brooklyn Lifei
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The Week Society. to take place at St. Thomas's Church, Mamaroneck, New York, on Saturday, April twenty-seventh, at three o'clock. As was mentioned last week, the bride-elect, who is a daughter of Mr. Ulysses D.

Eddy, will have as her bridesmaids, Miss Elizabeth Cushman, of Manhattan and Miss Mary Stewart Towle, of Mamaroneck. Mr. Danford N. Barney, of Farmington, Connecticut, is to serve as best man, while those who will act as ushers are the groom's brother, Mr. Reginald P.

Walden, of Mamaroneck, who married Miss Eddy's sister Mr. Philip Golden Bartlett and Mr. Henry B. Eddy, of Manhattan; Mr. Sherman of Windsor, Vermont; Mr.

J. Benjamin Dim-mick, of Scranton Mr. William M. Lovering, of Taunton, Massachusetts and Mr. E.

W. Dixon, of Omaha. A small reception will follow the ceremony at "The Anchorage," the home of the bride on the Brevoort Farm at Mamaroneck. Mr. Walden and 4iis bride are to spend their honeymoon abroad and will, sail for Europe by the Cretic on May ninth.

This trip will take in Italy, Switzerland, France and England. AT the Classon Avenue Presbyterian Churchwhere her father, the late Rev. Joseph T. Duryea was for many years pastor, will be solemnized next Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock, the marriage of Miss Frances Stebbins Duryea to Mr. William Ferguson Leggett, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles F. Leggett; of this borough. The invitations to the ceremony are in the name of the bride's brother-in-law and sister, Mr, and Mrs. William Croghan Denny, of Washington, D.

and Miss Stebbins will be given away by Mr. Denny. Miss Mary Duryea, sister of the bride, will be her maid-of-honor and only attendant, while Mr. Leggett' best man will be his brother, Mr. Frederick Leggett.

Those who have been selected to usher are Mr. James R. Harris, Mr. Harry Mc-Gowan, Mr. Theodore Brown, Mr.

Rome Richardson, Mr. Frederick McDonald and Mr. Fanchot Paige. IN honor of Mrs. William Pike, of Saratoga, a bridge party of eleven tables was given by Mrs.

Sylvester L. Blood, of 273 Henry street, last week Thursday afternoon. The prizes were handsome silver purses and. among the winners of these, were Mrs. Edward Hinman, Mrs.

William Beard, Mrs. Edward Vernon, Mrs. Frederick Truslow Mrs. Charles A. Murphey, and Mrs.

Frederic Browa The attendance further included Mrs. William M. Van Anden, Mrs. Henry Cannon, Mrs. David F.

Manning, Mrs. Alden Swan, Mrs. Samuel Doughty, Mrs. E. D.

Griswold, Mrs. Henry Coffin, Mrs. J. Howard Cowperthwait, Mrs. Almet F.

Jenks, Mrs. Edward Grout, Mrs. S. Edwin Buchanan, Mrs. David Boody and Mrs.

George H. Coutts. The drawing-room was effectively decorated with quantities of Killarney roses. ON the previous afternoon Mrs. Russell E.

Prentiss, of 51 Willow street, gave a bridge party of ten tables. Among the guests at this affair were Mrs. J. Adolph Smy-lie, Howard Frederic Whitney, Mrs. Edward Hinman, Mrs.

Frederic5 Brown, Mrs. Howard S. Hadden, Mrs. Mrs. Crowell Hadden, junior, Mrs.

William L. Moffatt, Mrs. Frank Day Tuttle, Miss Blanche Barclay, Mrs. S. Edward Vernon, Miss Hinman, Mrs.

George S. Frank, Mrs. William Harris Cary and Mrs. Richard M. Dorsey; WHILE a great barn of a room the sail loft in Building Twenty-three at-the Navy Yard makes a capital place for large entertainments on account of its floor space, but even this extensive area was none too adequate last week Thursday evening on the occasion of the reception tendered to Rear-Admiral Joseph B.

Coghlan and Mrs. Coghlan by the officers of the yard. Though Admiral and Mrs. Coghlan are not due in Washington, where he has been ordered, until the first of June the reception was a sort of official farewell to their hosts of friends both in and out of the service. The loft was divided into two sections, the reception being held in the first half and the second half being used for dancing.

Admiral and Mrs. Coghlan, the latter wearing a princess gown of pale blue silk, were assisted in receiving by Lieutenant Henderson, the admiral's aide, and Captain Reeder, of the Hancock. Among the many present were General and Mrs. Stewart Woodford, General Horatio King, Count and Countess Rabundi Massiglia, Mr. Ebray, French Consul-General; Rear-Admiral F.

J. Higginson, Commodore J. W. Moore, Mr. and Mrs.

James L. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. John V. B.

Thayer, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Prentiss, Mrs. James E.

Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Noyes, Dr. and Mrs.

Thomas R. French, Mr. and Mrs. James Stokes, Pay Director and Mrs. Boggs, General and Mrs.

Charles E. Roe, Rear-Admiral Thomas, Colonel Paul St Murphy, U. S. M. Dr.

Walter Truslow, Mr. Layall Farragut, Dr. and Mrs. B. M.

Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Benjamin, Mrs. Daniel Butter-field, Mrs.

Ottavian Fabbricotti, Mrs. A F. Whitney, Pay Director and Mrs. Denniston, Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas L. James, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Payson Goodrich, Mr. and Mrs.

George M. Burleigh and Colonel H. O. S. Huestood.

ONLY relatives and intimate family friends are to be present at the wedding of Miss Anna Gansevoort Chittenden and Mr. Charles Martin Thayer, of Worcester, which is to take place at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Baldwin Chittenden, of 212 Columbia Heights, at half past eight o'clock, on Tuesday, April ninth. Miss Chittenden 'will be attended by her cousin, Miss Katherine E.

Blossom, as maid-of-honor. The ceremony will be followed by a reception. Mr. Thayer is a son of the late Judge Adin Thayer, of Worcester, and like his father, is in the law. He is a Harvard graduate.

NEXT week Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock will be solemnized the marriage of Miss Edna Morris Wemple, eldest daughter of the late Alonzo Earle Wemple, to Mr. Howard King Coolidge, of Manhattan. Though Miss Wemple and her mother reside at The Dakota, West Seventy-second street, Manhattan, the ceremony will take place in this borough at the home of the bride-elect's grandmother, Mrs. Jay C. Wemple, of 198 Washington Park.

Miss Wemple will be attended by a matron-of-honor, MrsDudley S. Harde, of Manhattan a maid-of-honor, Miss Madelaine Earle Wemple, also of Manhattan and one bridesmaid, Miss Sallie Coolidge, of Madison, New Jersey. Mr. Burritt H. Shepard, of Manhattan, will officiate as best man while those chosen as ushers are Mr.

William Tyson Hayward, junior, of this borough; and Mr. George Greer Coolidge, of Pittsburg. Mr. Coolidge is the oldest son of Mr. Henry Coolidge, of the New York Stock Exchange, and a grandson of Mr.

J. Howard Wright, connected: for many years with the Standard Oil Company. He is a veteran of the Spanish-American War, where he served in the U. S. Navy as a warrant officer.

Mr. Coolidge has been in the steel business for some years. The ceremony will be followed by a reception at half past four o'clock. AN important April wedding on the Park Slope will be that of -Miss Elizabeth S. Emerson, daughter of Mrs.

Charles F. Emerson, of 125 Park place, and Dr. Judson Philbrook Pendleton, of 95 Sixth avenue, son of Mr. W. S.

Pendleton, of Ilesboro, Maine. The ceremony is to take place at the bride's home, on the evening of the seventeenth and will be followed by a reception at eight Miss Emerson will be attended by two cousins, Miss Blanche Torrey, of Philadelphia and Miss Orlena A. Zabriskie, of Carroll street. The groom's brother, Mr. Bowdoin Pendleton, of this borough, is to be best man, and those to serve as ushers are Mr.

E. S. Pendleton and Mr. Warren S. Lewis, also of this borough; and Dr.

William Herrick, of Manhattan. ONLY relatives and intimate friends are to be invited to the wedding of Miss Florence Tappen Mills and Mr. Frederick Carl Rawolle which is to take place on Tuesday afternoon, April sixteenth, at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.

Franklin Mills, 145 West One Hundred and Twenty-second street, Manhattan. Following the ceremony, however, there will be a large reception. Miss Mills's cousin, Miss E. Constance Fairchild, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel N. Fairchild, will be her only attendant The groom-elect, who is the son of Mrs. Frederick Rawolle, formerly of the Hotel Margaret, this borough, but now residing at the Hotel Marie Antoinette across the river, will be attended by Mr. Donald McLean Sommers as best man. Those chosen to usher are Mr.

John Bright Lord, of this borough Mr. Julian Burgess, of Garden City Mr. Tappen Fairchild and Mr. Oscar Lichtenstein. PRECEDING the Primrose Dance next Monday evening, Mrs.

John Shepard 1 Stanton, of 54 South Portland avenue, will give a dinner for her daughter, Miss Jessie Stanton, one of the most popular debutantes of the season. The guests are to be Miss Ethel J. Adams, Miss Katharine Dauchy, Miss Orlena A. Zabriskie, Miss Olga Doughty, Mr. Donald Abbott, Mr.

Ernest Draper, Mr. William Pratt, Mr. Paul Koechl, and Mr. Edward Dunn, the latter of Manhattan. Following the dinner Mrs.

Stanton will chaperone the party to the dance. FROM Tuxedo announcement was made last week by Mrs. Price Collier of the engagement of her daughter, Miss Muriel Delano Robbins, to Mr. Cyril Martineau, of London. Miss Robbins, who is a daughter of the late Charles Rob-bins, will be the second granddaughter of the late Daniel Robbins, of Monroe place, to rnarry, the first having been Miss Jessie Sloane, now Mrs.

William Earl Dodge. She is a niece of Mrs. James O. Cleaveland now living in Florence; Mrs. Peter Lynch, of Paris and Mrs.

Perry Belmont Mr. and Mrs. Collier and Miss Robbins have recently returned from abroad and it was on this trip that the latter met Mr. Martineau. TWO nieces of Miss Matilda Stewart Eddy, the Misses Jane and Nancy Walden, are to act as flower-girls at her marriage to Mr.

Howard Talbot Walden, of this borough, which is.

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