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Archdeacon and Mrs. William West Kirkby, of Rye, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, at the Rye rectory on the afternoon and evening of Thursday. Arch deacon Kirkby, who is 75 years old, enjoys the distinction of having founded six missions and churches in the Arctic and Alaska regions. He was married in London on May 29, 1852, and ordained as a minister at Red River by Bishop Andrews, in 1854. He is now rector of Christ Episcopal Church at Rye, which is one of the richest parishes in West chester County; it numbers among its parishioners many millionaires who have country seats along the northern shore of Long Island Sound. Men of millions and their wives paid their respects to the aged couple and they were the re cipient of many costly gifts in honor of the fifty years of married life. The New Rochelle Yacht Club has just elected several millionaires as members of the club, among them being Edwin Gould, who owns the fast yacht Aileen, and Commodore Frederick T. Adams, owner of the yacht Sachem, the flagship of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Frank J. Gould has also joined the Club, and it is expected that his new yacht, the Helenita, will be made the flag ship of the club. It is reported that Mr. and Mrs. Gould may live at Larchmont during a part of the sum mer. He will take part in the races of the club. An order of Supreme Court Justice Keogh, approving the report of Ref eree James H. Moran, of this village, granting the right of little Alice An tille Bacon, the heiress to the estate of her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Lathrop R. Bacon, through her guardian, to sell the Bacon country Mansion at Tarrytown, was filed with County Clerk Sutherland, Mon day. The estate is to be sold to for mer Controller Ashbel P. Fitch, of New York, for $22,000, and the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company of Manhattan is appointed guardian of the orphan’s money. Besides this, the heiress is entitled to $10,000 from the New York Stock Exchange for insurance on the life of her father, who was a banker and broker. When she reaches proper age she will re ceive from the two estates bonds and cash worth more than $100,000, with interest on railroad bonds for over twelve years. Mr. Fitch paid cash for the property and will make it his country home. In the heavy thunderstorms which passed over Westchester County on Sunday last, two barns were struck by lightning and burned, and three flagpoles on the grandstand of the Empire City Race Track were split into splinters. A tree near Sodom Dam, under which three fishermen sought shelter, was struck, and the men were stunned. A dog that lay near the tree was killed. Lightning struck the pole on a trolley car when it was opposite the Sherwood Park Hotel, at Mount Vernon, and the motor set fire to the woodwork. There were only a few passengers on the car, and they jumped from it panic stricken, as a blue flame blazed up from the motor box. The fire was put out without anyone being injured. A Huckleberry trolley car at New Rochelle was also struck; all the incandescent lamps were burned out and the motor was crippled. The lightning also descended a chim ney in a house in Third street, Mt. Vernon, knocked the stove lids off, and split the oven in two parts. Shortly after one o'clock hailstones as large as lima beans fell in Mount Vernon. The Brooklyn Y. M. C. A. has ac quired a beautiful tract of land on the shore of Lake Waccabue, N. Y., and there will establish a camp to be known as Camp Waccabue for the use of members of the association. Campers will live in tents and, at low rates will have the advantage of an excellent cuisine. Three women escaped from the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Station on Saturday last. They were subse quently captured at Pleasantville. They are Julia Hughes, Fannie Webberly and Carry Keane. It is said that each is serving a sentence of three years. The authorities at the Reformatory are reticent about the escape, but it is said the women obtained their liberty by picking the se of a door with the prong of a ork. St. Christopher's hame, Dobbs Herry, under the auspices of the New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, broke ground last Saturday for a new school building on its property. The institution is for the care of destitute children of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The present number of children in care of the home is about one hun dred and thirty. The superinten dent is the Rev. C. N. Skinner. The school will cost $20,000. An ‘extinct volcano” is about is bad a thing to get mixed up with, on terms of personal intimacy, as a “dead wire” lying in the street. To Let. — Very desirable second floor; four rooms; all improvements, Steam heat; electric light. Apply to P. H. Carpenter, Nutgrove Street, near Lafayette Street.
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Eastern State Journal
White Plains, New York, US
Sat, May 31, 1902
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