New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-06
GOSSIP Of THE BOROUGH
Funds for New Building for
RidgeWOod Day Nursery Needed.


Nursery are trying to raise fund Of $780,
100 for a new building. They already have
received $4,000 in public subscriptions. The
present nursery. at No. Z27 Knickerbocker
avenue. is overcrowded
Justice AspinaI. of the Supreme Court.
Is spending his vacation on the St Law
renee River In his power boat Wa-Wa II
he is scooting IN and out among the Thou
sand Islands The justice is staying with
DR.. William II. Taylor, also Of Brooklyn.
who owns ST. Margaret's Island. In the st.
Lawrence.
Statistics show that Brooklynites are
averse to self-destruction. The national sui
eide rate for q hundred American cities for
1910 was 1871 per 10000 OF population.
Brooklyn stands $40 points below this
average. The Brooklyn record Of suicides
for 1910 was 2is.
The FIVE city owned terraces in Brooklyn
Heights, facing the East River. are bloom
Ing like the rose. The gardens at clark
Pineapple and Middagh streets slope at an
angle of IS degrees TO the Furman street
retaining wall The gardens al orange
and Cranberry streets are on level with
the TOP Of the wall. Charming color ell
fects are 10 be seen in all Of these gardens.
The gardens we're presented to the CITY
by property owners along the Heights
Tba blind Wonan's Club, the only or
sanitation of its kind In the borough Is
planning 10 erect new clubhouse
o,uh Is composed Of twenty women ana
A. is self-sustaining and independent me
officers are: Mrs. Josephine L. AUSTIN
nresldent: Miss Florence Carroll VICE
president: Miss Maybene Decker. secre-
tsrv. and Miss Amelia MeyerdlercKs'
treasurer.
pisbon Mcdonnell is on his way TO Eu-
y,one In company with the Rev. james D.
Coan. chancellor OF the diocese. Since 'he
,,antAr the bishop has not been In the oest
az health. He first will go 20 ireland
~vbArs he will visit MCns,gnor Mcnamara
rbo e trving TO regain his health IN
county Clare. The bishop also Will
spend some time in Germany. and IN the
ian will 90 10 Rome for an audience WITH
tbA Pone. On his return to Brooklyn the
bishop win dedicate several churches-
bungalows are springing up ike mush-
,oorns on Coney Island sands. From west
o9a street 10 Sea Gate. where formerly
+berA were hotels and places of amuse-
went miniature bungalow city OF WOOD
snd 81 canvas is growing larger day BY
dav The owners have cut streets through
tbe Mace. Most Of the bungalows are lifted
,n with electricity, cold and warm running
water gas ranges. and. in fact. all the
4hings 10 be found IN a modern apartment
There are two bathing pavilions within
@f+v feet Of the beach. The colony has
organized several baseball teams and
games are played every fine day on the
sands the members using their bathins
suits as uniforms.
One of the most interesting characters
an BROOKLYN is Colonel Lewis r Stegmah
q former Sheriff of Kings County. Beyond
the Biblical threescore and ten. the colonel
Is as spry as the youngest OF his colleagues
in the Highway Bureau, where ne is en-
Moved. With his inevitable black cigar
between his teeth he walks as erect as ar
Indian and with a rapidly which attracts
attention. For thirty-ive years he mas
been more or less active in the politics OF
Kings County. In 1876 he was under
sheriff Of Kings. in 1873 he was elected tc
the Assembly and In 1881 the hepuohCdhs
made him Sheriff by majority Of 5cN
over Frank White. his Democratic oppo-
nent
Colonel Lew" as his friends call him
has been a surveyor, a civil engineer anc
a soldier in the Civil War. In September
1861. he enlisted in the 1920 New York Vol
unteers. serving with that regiment unit
October 1864, in all its campaigns he
commanded the regiment at Gettysburg IL
1853 and al Pine Mountain in 1854.