New-York tribune., 1909-02-07
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
National Bank for the Ridgezcood
Section.

Torar- under Tor the organization o.
p national bank in the Ridgewood section. OF the
so ga carstal znore than $4,000 mas already been
subscribed II is expected that the rest Of the
money vii be forthcoming within the next ieW
weeks.
7,rs site ot the bank viii be just over the border
sn Queens County. Several locations are under
consideration The name OF the institution viii be
Ire Ridgewood National Bank The bank is being
organized by the people Of the H2ldgewOod' EFer-
.-reen and Glendale sections chiefly. The bank viii
have surplus % 5000 The stock IS 70 be issued
st KS share, s25 OF the price being credited 10
The surplus fund. There viii be 2oD shares A
hoard with Louis Berger al its head, has charge
ot he organization OF the bank
rec,IIar thing happened last Sunday, according
20 William Dunniag. who has been reporting ser
mons and speeches for various newspapers ana ioT
zuzstious In Brooklyn for the last thirty years
Two ministers speaking in different churches, one
sa The morning and the other II the evening
preached upon the same text: Z am come that
they might have LIE and that they might nave IL
mere abundantly' CJohn. X, le)- The ministers
were the Rev. Dr.. Marion Le Roy burton VINO
smoke at the Church OF the Pilgrims. and the Kew
11r Thomas Day Hall who spoke at Plymouth
church Although II has been his custom 10 take
1Uo sermons On Sunday for years, he has never
before heard exactly the same text preached from
~ tbe same day IN different churches when the
..-+s have besu chosen by chance merely, and not
fy any previous understanding in connection with
sorrs Church movement
Services VII be conducted n ElyTnouth OL1ICA
shts morning al the unveing OF E tablet which
rnzrks o new fhax was occupied by Abraham LIN
.,olr while he was President The Rev Or. NeWeA
Dwight Hills VIII deliver Lincoln Grafton Inc
Ioua society VII attend the services IN a body
LINCOLN occupied the pew on the Sunday before ne
rnade his famous address at Cooper Union in the
.au ct Isso He had accepted Henry Ward
reechers Invitation 10 speak in the church, but
Henry c Bowen, chairman CT the Republican
rou11sttes decided that II would be better 10 have
The address made at COOPER Union Mr.. Lincoln
was Mr. Bowsn's guest On Sunday. and occupied
his Dew IN Plymouth Church IN the afternoon he
took 4 roam 81 the .Asror House so IS 20 get a
euiet place % prepare his speech In the evening,
however hs returned TO Brooklyn Unexpectedly.
sfte= the services had begun and occupied the
Bowen pew sEain- II is this pew that has been
marked with tablet and which Will hereafter be
known Is the Lincoln pew.
The Brooklyn committee On the prevention OF
tuberculosis VIII its travelling exhibit from
Ne 20 Hanover Place II another week. and carry
81 about 20 various eongested sections. that
greater number OF people may have chance Of
studying IL The COMMITTEES Is most anxious to
Feaeh the people who live IN the crowded tene-
znents end most subject &C the disease. Ac-
cora5ng 20 TIE statistics upon which the COMMITTEES
his relied IN preparing its map there al least
stx thousand cases Of consumption in the thickly
settled 1iSt4cts The regions whore the disease is
most prevalent shown the map by clumps
of lSckS
Bedford svenDs and Halsey street. VIII stand in
z~zt 2scvs TIA old burial ground Of The Lenerts
<sR1x. which once owned many acres In this