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I THE newly elected officers of the Prospect Club for 1899 and 1900 are as follows: Mrs. Ernest Keller, President; Mrs. George Brewster Bretz, First Vice-President; Mrs. J. E.

Lloyd, Second Vice-President; Mrs. Edwin H. Close, Recording Secretary Mrs. Edward B. Jordan, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs.

Theodore Conron, Treasurer. The regular club meetings will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month. BROOKLYN LIFE. affairs, no outsiders being admitted. At these meetings all business will be transacted, papers written by members of the club will be read, and an informal reception, at which refreshments are to be served, will follow.

HON. SAMUEL M. JONES, Mayor of To-ledo, and known as "Golden Rule Jones," has been invited to address the members of the Civitas Club at their first general meeting, which is scheduled for the afternoon of the twenty-second of November. The regular work of the club will begin November eighth, when a study of "The Issues of the Twentieth Century" will be begun. The general subject for the month will be "New Citizenship." Then will follow in turn "New Industrial Conditions," "New Science," "New Phases of Religious Thought," and New Organization of So-ciety." An active member of the club will, as usual, have charge of each program.

The club has certainly laid out for "itself an ambitious scheme of work, but in the light of past experience the members will be quite equal to it. AT a recent meeting of the Women's Health Protective Association the following officers were re-elected: President, Mrs. James Scrimgeour; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Camden C. Dike, Mrs.

S. W. Bowne; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Jeremiah A. Johnson; Treasurer, Mrs.

Arnold H. Wagner. The election of a secretary to replace Mrs. Walter H. Goater, who has declined to serve again, was deferred until later in the season.

At the meeting referred to it was resolved to ask President Rossiter, of the Rapid Transit Company, to have the order pro- WITH THE WOMEN'S CLUBS. THE Woman's Club began the season's work last Monday, when the Committee on Economics had charge of the program. Mme. Sophie Friedland, a native of Russia, was the chief speaker, the subject of her talk being "The Past and Present of Russian Women." The club's program for November and the months to follow is: November 13, Science Committee, "Some New Features in Agriculture;" November 27, Music and Drama Committee, "Demonstration of the Fletcher Method in Music;" December 11, Literature Committee, "Nineteenth Century Fiction;" December 18, Education Committee, "The Education of the Little Child;" January 8, Art Committee, "Art Interests in Brooklyn;" January 22, Home and Social Relations Committee, "Home Literature;" February. 12, Science Committee, "Birds, Mosses and Ferns;" February 26, Economics Committee, "Government Reformatories for Women;" March 12, Music and Drama Committee, "Cran-ford" (drama); March 26, Literature Committee, lecture on "King Lear;" April 9, Education Committee, "The Duty of the State Toward Its Children; April 23, Art Committee, "How Shall We Beautify Our City?" May 7, Home and So-cial Relations Committee, lecture by Professor Edward H.

Griggs. AT the residence of Mrs. Andrew J. Perry, 30 First place, next Tuesday afternoon, the Urban Club will resume its regular monthly meetings. The general topic of the season will be "Leading Cities of the World." The plan of study will comprise (1) history, geo- KNICKERBOCKER FIELD CLUB.

THE Progressive Euchre held last Wednesday evening at the Knickerbocker Field Club, Flatbush, was well attended by many members of the club and their guests. The latter included a number of Brooklyn people. Twenty-five tables were filled. The play continued for two hours, and was followed by dancing. A few of those present were: Mr.

and Mrs. F. R. Boocock, Mr. and Mrs.

Archibald Boyd, Miss Gertrude Dougherty, of Manhattan; Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Evans, Mrs. Edmund Driggs, Mr. and Mrs.

George Boardman, Miss Blanche Morrison and Mr. A. D. Matthews. THE POUCH MANSION.

IT is announced that the death of the late A. J. Pouch will not remove the! Pouch Gallery from its present position as ah important factor in the social gatherings of Brooklyn. The handsome and spacious mansion will continue to be used for balls, receptions, banquets and other large affairs. i V'.

-it: i X1 A NEW CHAPTER-HOUSE. THERE has just been completed for the use of the members of the Columbia Univer-. sity Chapter of the Delta Psi Fraternity a chapter-house, which is probably the best appointed and most costly building that has ever been erected in the United States. It stands on Riverside Drive, south of One Hundred and Sixteenth street, where there is a curve in the roadway, and it not only is imposing in itself, but affords its occupants a magnificent view of drive and river. It is; four stories in height, and will be used as a dormitory as well as a clubhouse, its proximity to Columbia University making it most convenient for the members of the society.

The cost of the structure has been somewhat in excess of eighty thousand dollars, but the appreciation of the land since it was purchased by the society has been so marked that the building and grounds are estimated to possess a value now closely approximating one hundred thousand dollars. The building is after the style of Henry and is built of Indiana limestone and red brick. It has a frontage of twenty-eight feet on the street, the remaining seven feet being taken up with an arcade through which the building is entered. For purposes of light and ventilation there are two courts in the center on each side, and the Jouse has been so planned that, however it is surrounded by adjoining buildings, there will always be light for all the rooms. The first floor contains a large club-room in the front and the dining-room in the rear.

There is a main central hall and main and servant stairways. There is also a reception-room, coat-room, and other smaller rooms on this floor. On the second floor there is a large study in the front which opens on a balcony over the arcade, while there is a billiard-room in the rear. A board-room is also placed on this floor, which, with the floor below, contains the club features of the building. The third, fourth and a portion of the fifth floors are used for bedrooms, and there can be accommodated in them between twenty-two and twenty-five men.

Evening Post. SCENE FROM "THE Amphion. graphical situation, natural advantages; (2) form of government, religion and politics (3) sanitary conditions and philanthropic organizations; (4) art and architecture, great buildings and galleries; (5) social life, manners and customs. At the opening meeting Mrs. J.

J. Schoonhoven will read a paper on "Literary Coteries of London and Edinburgh," and Miss Annie Burt Phelps one upon "Literary Coteries of Paris." The subjects of the subsequent meetings will be: November 14 "Pekin and Tokio;" December 12 "St. Petersburg, Stockholm and Christiania;" January 9 "Vienna and Italian Cities;" January 23 "Berlin;" February 20 "Paris;" March 20 "London;" April 17 "Dublin and Edinburgh;" May 15 "Madrid and Amsterdam." THE Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club expects shortly to resume its activities, but with some changes from the order of former hibiting expectorating in the cars of that line more strictly enforced. An expression of sympathy with the movement to keep Congressman-elect Roberts out of his seat was also favorably passed upon. THE Colcnia Club's announcements for the current season are as follows Literature Committee: October 19, "American Naturalists," "Nature Poets," "What We May Gain from a Study of Nature;" February 1, "American Wit and Humor." History and Civics Committee: December 7, "Beginnings of Civil Government in: the United States," "Trusts and Franchises." Home and Social Relations Committee: November 2, "What is Sociology?" "The Responsibilities of the Rich;" March 1, of the Home and School Rooms;" "The Art of Entertaining," "Evolution in the Kitchen." Science Committee: January 18, "In Forest and Afield," "Trees, Ferns, Mosses, Culture." Education Committee December 21, "The.

Widening Influence of Education;" April 19,. debate, subject, Music and Art Committee January 4, "American Music;" May 3, "Slavonic Music." The anniversary meeting of the club will take place on February 15 and the annual meeting with election of officers on April 5. The meetings are held at members' homes. McGorry: I'll buy yez' no new hat, d' yez moind that? Ye. are vain enough ahlriddy.

Mrs. McGorry-: Me vain? I'm- not! Shure Oi don't t'ink mesilf half as good-lookin' as Oi am. Judge. years. Instead of the lectures being given in the afternoon they will be a feature of the morning meetings, held at the Young Women's Christian Association.

The lecturers will be all well-known speakers and the members of the club are to have the privilege of bringing a friend to hear them. The afternoon meetings will be held, as before, at the homes of the members, but it has been decided to have them strictly club "How did he escape?" inquired the detective. "Well," replied the turnkey with the damaged eye, "he sort o' nicknamed himself out." "What?" "He pried his cell door open with a jimmy. Then he knocked me down with a billy." "Yes?" "And then he sallied out." Chicago Tribune..