New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-04
BOROUGH GOSSIP
KouWenhoven'S Purchase Of
FIatIandS 70 Be Celebrated.

Wolphert Garretse Kouvenhoven's put-
chase Of Flatlands from the Indians III 100
will be celebrated on June Is. 10 and 10 IN
the Dutch Reformed Church. IN Amerstort
Place. near Avenue 6. Flatlands was the
frst land in Long Island purchased by
White man Antiques and heirlooms VIII
The celebration will be similar 10 me
quaint one held few years ago ~ fNi
Souls Church. Flatbush.
Adelpni College IS celebrating its hlteeh'h
anniversary. which will be continued uh'l
commencement evening. June 10. Inc ceie-
bration began last week, when reception
vas given 10 the German Club Of the col
lege. commonly known as the Borenru i,las.
h. Professor Coar and Mrs. Coar IN llsi
Washington avenue home, where the 5Ilil-
oess Kiku'' was presented by the students
~ the normal school of the INSTITUTION.
There viii be on Alumni Day celebration
on Saturday. followed by an exhlpltlon ol
che school OF arts. the baccalaureate ser
~,icss in Plymouth Church. with sermon
~ the Rev DR. Newell Dwight HllnS, the
Cias Climb concert the class DAY exercises
OF the senior class and later the con- ~
1,enCanosnt exercises in the Academy OF
1Iusic when the Rev. DR.. Wnnam Ieors7
Knox, OF the Union Theological seminary
will speak. g., 20 .selDht
,0Oo6 OF the $4,000 required already mas
been raised.
The osteopsths OF Brooklyn and OF Man
haitian are planning the establishment 'l
o hospital IN Manhattan ana cnhi. ii
prool,I,o Dr {. T Bandel Of BROOKLYN
$50 ~ a nronoinent man OF the city has
Y,yon1ised 70 endow such hospltal WIN a
,,oiIlion dollars II Is unlikely. hoWeNe;,
4hst this osteopaths will DO mucn IN tnls
respect until they have secured the ete So
reSoCnition for which they have been ask
ing
Beginning on June 10 and continuing TOT
week there Will be Pure Food and Man
euspices OF the Flatbush Merchants AssG.
rietion The exhibit will be on the grolh1s
a. Flatbush and Snyder avenues. ne 49, an
hush Fairgrounds Association rs worsii,s az -,
conjunction with the merchants assoCla' iO'i
"a make the affair success.
e,rrsn,A Court Justices Samuel T. Mad
dog. william ]. Kelly and Isaac NJ. kap-
ner left Brooklyn 2 couple Of DAYS ago ,,, 20
4oin Tus+ice Frederick E. Crane al Bluii
point on Lake Champlain. where they VIII
ettend rhe coming meeting Of the supreme
Court justices OF the state, On . Zee t s,s5
town Justice Kapper SAID. ms Is w -. ;:
vacation we have had since last OCIopei'
T, is not generally known perhaps, but
,bA recent celebration Of the birth or
Thomas Moore recalled that Mary Ann
Dyks. the poets first love and the one VIZ 10
summer is buried in Greenwood CemeIe,ry'
After rejecting the poet she became ME-
John r. Duff. and moved 70 AlnerlGa VII
tr-er+v-6ve wears She appeared upon the
stage under the name of Mrs. mary Dun
gaining renown as tragic actress. Aiter
Du@'s death her second husband was J. y:
Sevier. Of New Orleans. She died at NO; 80
wet OH street Manhattan. on September
. 1851 Miss Elizabeth Dyke. whom me
poet married in March, 1911. survived her
lister eight years. Moore died on tebru-
AIRY g. 1852.
II is not unusual for citizens who have
names which Americans ind hard TO pro-
nounce 70 have them chaged, but II Is rare
for those who have had their names once
changed 70 call upon the court 10 give
them pack their original cognomen. judge
Dixie Of the County Court had such q
case before him last week. On June D. lSCS'
samuel Ragovsky changed his name 70
samuel Rogers. Last week he took MS
d~st name back. with the judges perms-
sion The applicant explained that ne had
Lsd his name changed in the first instance
because nobody seemed able 10 pronounce
IT, His relatives. however. ortnodoX he
brews Of the conservative type were lneA-
rressiblv shocked. He became an outcest
AZ last his mother came 70 America. she
added hers 10 the anger of the others and
won the day.
Workmen are putting the hnishins
touches on the new wing OF Erasmus Han
high School. The wing IS about 100 yards
vide on Flatbush avenue. and runs back
$40 feet nearly 70 Bedford avenue. II Is
four stories high. The wing contains q
gymnasium with a swimming pool which
UiU be used by both boys and girls;
museum. an art studio and forty class
rooms The gymnasium takes the place or
the old one. The floor will be used for
balls and other school entertainments. The
school IS now half complete. II is seven
vears since the work was started. The
school is modelled after some of the old
English schoolhouses. and is considered to
~ ore OF the best designs OF SUperlntend,
emf SNYDER, Of the Bureau Of Buildings Of
tie Department of Education-the father or
he modern New York school structure.