The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-03
A Days SOCIAL D0INCS
Scrantoa Club May Temporarily Oc-
cupy N. ". Scrant0n's House.
TWO BACHELORS ENTERTAIN
G. b. Mair and r. C. Whitmorc Receive
In Their Quincy Avenue Home.
They Leave the City Tomorrow.
Mr.. Msir Goes to Africa.

| AhC Auohudy oAlCAhooA WilSl SiuO AAASS
yesterday at the home of Mrs. George
b. Jermyn, 2l9 Jefferson avenue.
|
The directors and other officers of the
recently organized Scranton club are
considering the wisdom of engaging the
w. w. Scranton house, Monroe avenue
and Linden street. for temporary quar-
ters. and will hold meeting during this
week to decide the matter. Before then
they will secure the opinions of all the
members, and if Is per cent. favor the
plan, it will probably be carried out.
There are many expressions favoring
and disappearing the plan. 1t is be-
lieved by some that of the one hundred
members, not more than fifty or sixty
would approve the collection of the
500 initiation fee and $50 dues until
during late next year on the completion
of the new board Of trade building.
which will contain the club rooms. and
when 1t was expected the collection of
dues and initiation fees would begin.
Then there are others who would disap-
prove purchasing furniture and the
like which might not be at all in keep
ing with the decorations and arrange
ment of the rooms in the board of trade
structure.
While the officers and directors seem
to personally favor the Scranton house
idea they are not disposed to acquire
the property for temporary home If
the project is not almost unanimous.
They will conduct a careful canvass
among the members and come to
quick decision. The rent of the house
Will approximate only about $3.50 per
year.
A tea was given last night from Z to
10 o'clock by George r. MAR and Fred
erick c.. Whitmore in their bachelor
home. on Quincy avenue. The affair
might have been termed a farewell
tea," as Mr. Mair will within two or
three months leave for the gold fields
in South Africa on business connected
with the setting up of machinery to be
shipped by the General Electric COM
pany, Of which he and Mr.. Whitmore are
the local managers and Mr. Whitmore
will tomorrow leave to assume a more
important position in the main office of
the company in Philadelphia. Mr..
Mair will go with Mr.. Whitmore to
Philadelphia, where he will remain un-
til his departure for Africa.
The young men were assisted in re-
ceiving by Miss Mcclure, who chap
eroned the affair. Misses Belin, Arch
bald, Welles, Chauncy Reynolds, Dale
and Jermyn assisted in serving tea,
chocolate and punch and in entertain
ing Among those present were Miss
Raymond, of Chicago; Miss VoOrhis, of
Auburn, N. Y; Mrs Hall, of Elmira;
Miss Hopkins, of New York city; Miss
Noaker, Of Easton; Miss Jeanette Law,
of Pittston; Miss Augusta Archibald,
Miss Mcleod, the Misses Matthews,
Mrs. Mary A. Pennypacker, Miss Pen
nypacker. Miss Simpson, Miss Clara
Reynolds. Mr.. and Mrs. II. b. Reynolds,
Miss Hunt Miss Dimmick, Mrs. B. II.
Pratt Mrs. J. L. Fordham, Mrs. N. Y.
Leet, Mrs. F. II. Jermyn, Mrs. G. B. Jer-
myn, Mrs. Norton, the Misses Norton,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Penman, DR.. and
Mrs c. L. Frey, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Platt, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Phillips.
Mrs. J. N. Phelps, Mrs. Barnard, Mr..
and Mrs. David Taylor. Miss Foster.
Miss Parke, Miss Anna L. Davis. John
Brooks, Theodore Fuller, Frank Fuller,
w. d. Boyer. w. A. Avery, Charles
Williams, w. E. Davis. Edward Gear
hart, Willis kirkpatrick, Russell DIM
mick, Frank Platt, George Leighton,
r. M. Poore, B. ]. Watson, A. Z. Hunt,
w. M. Curry, T. G. Won Storch. Joseph
Boies, DR.. r. NJ. Stratton, H. w. Row
ley, H. B. Cox, 8. P. Allen, James Blair.
jr, George b. Davidson.
Mr.. MAR will leave for Africa prob
ably in February and will be accom-
panied by John J. Kinney, another en-
ploye Of the General Electric company
in Scranton. They will be preceded by
A. W. X. Pierce. an instructor in elec-
tricity for the Colliery Engineer, who
will leave here in about two weeks.
Mr. Mair's native city is Boston; Mr..
Kinney lived in Towanda before COM
ing to Scranton, and Mr.. Pierce's home
is in Plymouth, Mass. Although each
was secured to assume charge. Of the
erection of electrical machinery which
the General Electric company has sold
to the Consolidated Gold Fields of
South Africa, they will. as soon as
their first duties in Africa are COM
pleted. become employees of the Gold
Fields corporation. and will be per-
manently located in Africa.
The destination of the three young
men will be johannesburg, one of the
most important settlements in the
gold fields of the South African
Republic. The Republic lies inland
from the southeast coast, and
is reached by railroad by the
across-continent line running from
Cape Town on the extreme southwest
coast. Cape Town will be the seaport
destination of the Scranton young men
on sailing from Liverpool.