The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25
CRANFORDS EUCHRE ROW.
DID THE FIRST PRICE REALLY COST
p1.98, Or DID IT Co6T 81 LESg7

Mrs. Damon says sho Paid Two Cents Less
than 90 FOR tho vnse-Mrs. Watkins who
won II, Says NJ Can ne Duplicated FER n
Cents, ana Resigns from the Country Cl.b.
The baleful effect Of progressive euchre on
suburban towns has long boon recognised. An
other case is now reported from New Jersey,
and a peaceful village is disturbed by n revela-
tion which Is distressing two of the leading
families and dividing tho others into rival
camps. The commencement of the feud has ac-
complished this much. What the end may be
nobody will know until the governors Of the
Crawford Saturday Night Euchre Club hold
their noxt meeting and decide whether or not
Mrs. Herbert Watkins was right when she said
the vase she got as q prize was worth only 90
cents. The governors will officially act on her
resignation. but the real question at issue is the
price Of one blue Japanese vase scheduled in
the records of tho Euchro Club at $1.9s.
Tho first intimation that any trouble existed
in the Country Club came from this paragraph.
which appeared in the Crawford papers:
HI OUT OF HER RIGuTsI
Aliyely time is expected Mt the next meeting Of tho
Board Of Governors Of the CRAWFORD Country Club,
when certain charges growing out OF the fascinating
Tn. story Is that at a recent game a lady who lives
on quality Hin won first prize. When tho trophies
was the second prize. and the nrst prize was given to
another. This favoritism caused her to write . very
emphatic letter to a member OF the Board OF Gov
ernors. She and her husband have also vented their
opinions outside the club walls. The result Is that
some ugly charges are waiting action OF the gov.
ernors.
Nobody imagined from tho mild tone of the
statement that the Country Club was so excited
as it really Is. Long before this tepid allusion
to the matter reached the public the members
of tho euchre branch of the Country Club found
themselves with such q row on their hands as
they had never known before.
Tho Country Club Of Crawford now occupies
900 -, l., Nha nnara In.,aA lI1Alr
while the new clubhouse Ia in course of con-
struction. The old clubhouse burned down. last
been in the habit Of playing progressive euchre
on Saturdays, and they paid a fee Of 10
cents . 4 MEEK 70 for q, the pgIfiiE,ill ss The W Ws%sn S1 thsbs
prizes Will the money and asked their husbands
in to play. with them. Ono of these games took
George Damon and his wife are old residents Of
Crawford. and have been members OF the Country
HlSb f fotsfp 1In Sis almo in i june. "t 80 w We sns SM inS a1 Dd
! Mrs. Herbert Watkins, who have only lived in
Crawford for little more than a year. Both Mr..
Damon and Mr.. Watkins are in business in New
York.
At the gamo an umbrella and a knife were
ing conquered. But the rewards distributed to
the women were the cause Of intense and en-
during discord. Mrs. Damon had spent a day In
New York selecting the prizes for the women.
She bought two vases. one of them china, for
$l.2s. and another OF green glass. In imitation
as Mrs. Watkins, got the vase somebody told
her that II could be duplicated for SO cents in a
store on Twenty-third street. Evidently Mrs.
Watkins had faith in that person, for the vase
came back two days after the game with this
note:
To the Committee Of the Saturday Night Euchre Club:
Herewith you will have hand d to you the so-called
nrst prize which l won on Thursday evening. June 10.
mt the euchre club party held at the clubhouse. Re
suits prove that not on y was II a game OF euchre with
cards, but was also carried out in the distribution OF
the prizes. ] nv concluded that not only was my
intcilig nee insuited. but l was robbed OF my
II my name ia included in your list of members you
will obiige me by considering this my Resignation.
Yours, respectfully. MRS. II. WATKINS.
JUNE l2, ~.
1t did not take long for tho letter to travel
through the club. and as to the 9S
cent part OF the business was willingly supplied.
So the only thing remaining for Mr.. Damon, was
to bring the vase to New York and find out II its
mate could be bought for % cents. He returned
in triumph, bearing a document from the Twen-
ty-third street store to the effect that no such
vase could he bought there. and that vases OF
that kind. moreover, were not In the market.
A month passed, but the vase question was
still alive in Crawford. On July IL Mr.. Damon
wrote as follows to the Governor Of the Country
Club:
believe that he is circulating stories which are false
and untrue, and for the purpose or inJuring the club.
l ask for a thorough and searching Investigation by
your honorable board.
Aug. IL, and preparations for that important
event In CranfOrd's history are now being made.
Tho matter NAV be finally submitted to a higher
jurisdiction. In any event 1t is certain that
friends OF the Damons. On Friday night Squire
Mendell was summoned to Mr.. Damon's house,
and there he found eight men waiting TO make
sworn statements in regard to MIR. Damon
made known on Aug. IL, when the famous diff.
ference comes to O trial.