New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-24
ON THE LOWER EDGE or KINGS.
NEWS AND NOTES FROM BENsoNHuRsr AMI
ALONG THE BAY SHORE.

NEWS AND NOTES FROM BENsoNHURsr AMI
ALONG THE BAY SHORE.
The new sunday-school building OF ST. juices
Protestant Episcopal Church, bytheoourne' Voc
opened and dedicated with special services o
Wednesday evening. The Rev A. McCori'a.~'
ST AIMS Church; the Rev. j. AcAeriey' o. OF ~
drew's Church, and the Rev. A. b. kihso"'ns' "
C,hr,st Church. OF Brooklyn, and the pastor tns
Rev r. b. Snowden took part In the exercises anu
made appropriate addresses. The building, "hioa
has been carefully constructed, VIII also De u'e'
for concerts and entertainments.
Candidates for the football team OF the fhoeniA
Club are being put through course OF sprouts ~
,be;r nractice field in Twentieth-ave., van feit
Noror nv Captain William Hoover The applicants
are Waiter Tsne, F. Zerbe. Thomas Muivey' )r'
CASTOR Tisne, G. Conrady, Mr. Tuscano' "eorse lie
Salvage j. Goding G.. Bynner, william Orahe
NJ. Hoskns and K. way
DR. s. Fleet speir has been quite III FOR se'era'
weeks in his Bensonhurst summer home. The doc
tor recently underwent a paihlui suisieai oPN'~
ton and Is slowly convalescing.
Miss Louise De Mund. OF Twenty -second-ave, has
returned from trip to New-London Conn.
Ex-commissioner Elisha Klngsland was the dele.
gate from the Liberty Hook and Ladder Company
TO the Volunteer F.remen's State Convention IN
Troy this week. A number OF other members also
attended the meeting.
F. r Barnltz OF Bath-ave.. Bath Beach, has
home
Hero Island the shores of Lake cha mpia' MS
health has been greatly improved by the trip.
Next Saturday the first open regatta OF the
Gravesend Bay Yacht Club will be held. Besides
tie feet Of the club the following yacht ciuDs
will also contest Canarsie, Pavonia. Shrewsbury,
BROOKLYN Marine and Field. Staten Island, Newark
gay XIII Won Kull. Yonkers Corinthian Atlantic.
Jersey city and Columbia. The yachts Will be
divided into eight classes and prizes OF silver cups
will ba offered OF the value OF S5 for caoln cats
ana 500 FOR omen boats An entertainment on the
CAPTAINS pier will be given in the evening
Plans have been approved and are in the hands
OF the builders for the erection OF new DITCH
ire-house at Eighty-sixth-st and Bay Tnirty-se''
enth-st South Bensonhurst. The building Is u eos'
sisO0 and the work will be rapidly pushed
Dr. John E. De Mund. OF Twenty second-ave.'
Bensonhurst sails for Europe to-day. as attending
physician to lie Comte Locqueneuviiie' VINO Is iii
with consumption While abroad the doctor VIII
take a run through Italy, France and England
On Thursday evening DR.. DE Mund was the guest
at farewell dinner at the Avoca Villa given ~
number o. friends, Felix McClosky preS,,u na
Among the guests were ex-cSnsrsssmah1 -A Mis-
Cummings and ex-Sgeaker OF me A neaaant occa
lam Sulzer' oi Ne" ioih' u "~S p'S"9
sion.
At the meeting of Blytheb9urne Council r; A.
Wednesday evening. c. NJ. Johnson was inltiate1
into the good fellowship and mysteries OF v VI -
Since the dumping Of New York's garbage IS nnaiy
accomplished a, sea- insteAd OF near sny ssy 10
in much better and cleaner condition than it has
been for years Little ohsl oas IN on rae
OF mind when indulgiag in their customary plunge
Mrs Hooper, OF Twenty-second-ave., Bensonhurst,
will entertain the iSensonnurst Ladies huchre
club next Thursday afternoon. Succeeding meet
ings will be held every fortnight instead OF every
third week
Bath Beach has volunteer life-saving corps.
composed Of number OF yEYs maven e ana cNe
ventured too o" far in he wafer ami a
rescued Mrs. Eliza Perell. wife Of DR.. Perelli. OF
Bay Ridge Park. Mrs Pereh had got beyond her
screams were heard by tho young men. who hast
ened to her assistance and brought her ashore IN
an exhausted condition.
The engagement Is announced OF Miss Gertrude
Carman. daughter Of Thomas C. Carman sr NEIL
To-day the cricket eleven OF the Crescent Club
will play its first game OF The season Win , me
second eleven OF the staten island Cneke, S'uD'
on the formers grounds In Bay Ridge
on THURSDAY afternoon Lawn party was %Ssr cesH1
at for the bene, OF so1 5nf yese
day and ends this evening.
On Monday evening meeting OF the newly organ
will be held at Fort Hamilton
To-day the New-Utrecht wheelmen will hold
s IS% the ana
and % a ins Bsh BeacS Five
prizes will be awarded for the best uniformed
ing club etc The start will be made at p. IN.
In the evening a reception will follow.
The amateur long distance swimming champion
Rlankey by Luke Johnson Thursday afternoon.
1t was three-quarter-mile race johnson covering
two minutes The winner also received silver
medal The course from Ulmer Park to
Shields landing In Bath Beach.
Mr. and Mrs o. w. Place. OF Mapleton. have
returned from a trip, by carriage. through tho
northern part Of New Jersey and the Delaware
Water Gan and home by way OF the Catsk!lls and
down the Hudson.