The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-04

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 there will be a banquet after the meet
 ing.
 Robert Meachen of Forbes avenue left
 on Monday for Georgetown, s. C., to re-
 main about seven weeks on a lumber ing trip.
 w. B. Curtiss has begun work on | three two-family houses on Chatham
 street for Moorhead & Donnelly, and
 a similar house on Lombard street for
 F. W. Donnelly. w. Dygert is doing
 the mason work, and J. H. Coffey, jr,
 will do the plumbing.
 Captain George Hultz died early yes
 terday morning at his home, 399 Lenox
 street, in the ninety third years of his
 age. He was prominent oyster dealer
 in the early days of that industry and
 was thus engaged for fifty years and | formerly commanded several coasting
 schooners. His parents were the late
 John and Sarah Barnes Hultz. He was | twice married, his second wife dying
 about six years ago. Four children died 1 in their youth. He was a member of | Grace P. E. church. He leaves half | sister, Mrs. Amos Hotchkiss of Gull | ford.
 | Clouded by the lapse of many years | there came to the people of this gener- ation in this part of the city traditions
 that in "Auld Lang Syne" the suppers
 and bazars of the ladies of the East Pearl street Methodist church were a
 sort of way mark in the times enjoy
 able, sort of epoch long to be remem- bered and from which to reckon other
 notable events.
 hox tta ttro t1, years since such an one has been held
 therefore the progressive ladies thought
 this the first year of the twentieth cen
 tury was a good time to initiate some
 of the younger element in this knd of an enterprise.
 Consequently the ladies' aid society
 under the lead of their efficent chair
 man, Mrs. Stewart H. Morgan, have for month past been perfecting the necessary arrangements.
 Polar Star hall had been engaged for December 3, and 5, and on Tuesday afternoon and evening it was busy place indeed.
 Entering the hall you meet first the typical Rebecca at the well, which is handsomely decked out with ever greens. Albeit, instead of the water which Rebecca of old so gracefully ten dered to EleaZer of old this Rebecca will invite you to quench your thirst with a draft of perfect lemonade-none of your circus kind either. The Rebec- ca, however, is best known to the world as Mrs. Bertice Diver. Passing little further we behold an octagonal booth trimmed in pink and white in charge of Mrs. Serena Hopkins, loaded down with every style and variety of fancy ar ticles necessary to tempt the most sor did utilterian into purchasing for Christmas presents, and cause most anyone to exclaim God pity the man that does not want to make Christmas presents"
 Turning to the left we for the mo- ment imagine we are transferred to tropical Florida for here is a tree load ed with an hundred oranges and close to it booth which from it's decorative color might be called Princeton, but the versatile presiding genius, Mrs. George i, Stevenson an ex-New Jersey citizen, | calls it "the mystery" It would be breach of confidence on our part to tell | more; you must speak to her about the rest, like the true palmist, a piece of | silver in her hand will tell the story.
 Hard by we find still greater mys- tery, that is, how such a beautiful and | extensive display of dolls can be of- fered for any such money as may be | found in the green and white. Here also is beautiful flower display booth, which is in charge of the Kings Mrs. H. A. Stevens chair man.
 At the further end of the hall is the grocery counter, so fully stocked we wonder who could have got all these things together. We learn, however, that the chairman is Dr. Streeter, and our wonder ceases, for who that knows him can resist his requests?
 At the right of the grocery depart ment is the apron booth Mrs. Fannie Bradley in charge. Decorated in red, white and blue, and if you don't look put she will have every man, woman and child decked out with an apron be- fore they leave the hall.
 Of course an occasion of this kind would not be complete without an ice cream department. This is at your left IS you enter the hall decked with green md white, and in charge of Mrs. John 5. Sanford. On the right of the hall, as you enter, is a booth very tastefully decorated in pink, at which Mrs. Street. IT, the wife of the pastor, presides, and will accommodate all corners with Next beyond we see a , booth enclosed in green and white lat ice work, where Mrs. Jennie Robinson, assisted by a circle of Kings Daugh- , CTS, will dispense candy in any and very shape to charm the most fastid- ous purchaser. With an eye to appropriateness next ( 0 the candy is the fruit and cake booth, 6 eautifully clad in loyal red, white and i lue, at which Mrs. J. H. DeBaur, as- I isted by a committee from the Wo- I nans Foreign Missionary society, may | e found ready to serve all that are q wiling to part with their legal tender.
 In the further corner of the hall hrouded from the idle curiosity of the rowd, the Misses Bristol, some call l. hem the three graces, have an art gal F ery. If you desire to investigate some F f the choicest works of both old and r ,,1oc cfn,,C jIIcf iy,fr y;r,.r