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GEORGE L ROSS IS DEAD AT 7 5
Former Deputy Fire Chief Retired in 1939.
Former Deputy Fire Chief George L- Rosa, W * » retired on June 2,1939, after flftjMms years of service, died today In St. dares Hospital, 415 West Fifty-first street. Mr. Rosa, who was 75 years old, was stricken Thursday in Ms suite In the Astor Hotel where he lived for many years.
Fire Commissioner John J. Mc* Eiligott was at one time chauffeur for Mr. Ross and the two men have been close friends for years.
Mr. Ross was bom in Tivoli, Dutchess county, N. Y„ in 1866, the sen of John E. Rosa, who at one time was postmaster of Albany. He was a descendant of Betsy Rosa, the colonial seam-stress who sewed the first American Hag.
Mr. Ross was running a cigar Itore here when he was persuaded by an uncle to Join the Fire Department in 1888. Promotion came rapidly and In twelve years
'., ' "" H " l " W • *»«• *»»•»«* • THE NEW YORK SUN, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1941.
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IN THE NEWS OF SOCIETY AT TUXEDO PARK •
The late at Tuxedo Par
Steell, playwright, novelist and n ewspaper man, who died yesterday after a brief illness. He was 82 years old.
Mr. Steell, who worked on the Sunday section of the old New
he had risen to the rank of Batjyork Sun at one time, retired talion Chief. In 1918 he was from active newspaper work in
a Deputy Chief and as- j 1932 after serving for eight years made signed to the Third Division, covering the area from 14th to 69th street between the Hudson and East Rivers.
In 1908 Mr. Ross was awarded the James Gordon Bennett medal for the rescue of Deputy Chief Thomas Langf ord in the Parker Building fire on January 10 of that year. Both men were knocked down by falling debris. Langf ord was unconscious, but Chief Ross was able to drag him to a stairway and to safety.
Mr. Ross is survived by a son and a daughter.
— — C E. F. McCann.
West Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 1. -Charles Edward Francis McCann, who retired in 1983 from the law firm of Douglas, Arm-ttage * McCann in New York, died yesterday In Good Samaritan Hospital here. He was 84 years old.
Mr. McCann was the husband of the late Helena Woolworth McCann, daughter of the late F. W. Woolworth who founded the chain of 5-and-10-cent stores,
he was attorney for the Woolworth estate and president of a company that mice owned the Woolworth Building.
He wan born in New York, attended St. Francis Xavier'a College, graduated from Columbia University, class of *94, and received his law degree there, class of "97.
He -was a board member of the Museum of the City of New York and former board member of the Catholic Youth Organization. He was a member of several clubs, sports and racing associations and of the Friendly Sons of S t Patrick. He resided at Oyster Bay, L. L, and at 4 East 80th street in New York.
Mr. McCann leaves a son, Frazier W. McCann, and two daughters, Mrs. Winston Guest and Mrs. Wytts R. Betts. Funeral services will be held in New York on Monday at 11 A. M. in the Church of S t Jean Baptiste, Lexington avenue and 78th street.
WiinTstoell. Funeral services will be held
at 8:30 P. M. tomorrow at Universal Funeral Chapel, 83d street and Lexington avenue, for Willis
aa a Sunday editor of The Paris Herald, European edition of the New York Herald Tribune. Since that time he has been living here with his daughter, Miss Susan Steell, his only survivor, at 171 East 81st street His wife, Mrs. Emily Steell, died In November, 1929, in Paris.
He was born in Detroit Attended the public schools there and was graduated from Albion College in Michigan In 1889. Three years later he came to New York to become a reporter for the New York Herald. In 1880 he Joined the staff of the old New York Daily News. Ten years later he Joined the Morning Telegraph and became manager of the Chicago office, remaining there until 1903 when he resigned to devote himself to playwntlng.
He had already written a number of them, including "The Kindergarten,'* "A Juliet of the People," "Battle of the Strong," and "Consuelo." In 1909 he collaborated with Reginald DeKoven on a musical comedy, "Girt of the Golden Horn." In 1912 his play, "TCue Prospector," was piodtKM In Pittsburgh. 'Lionette" was produced in New York in 1914. The New York Picture Company made a film from another of his plays, The Gift of the Madonna," in 1914.
Meanwhile, he was also writing books, among which "Benjamin Franklin of Paris,"
i-Forgotten People," T4se Long Walk of SambU D l o n f . **Pa-rerga," "Art and the New Rett' gion," "We're Ready!55 (1915) and 'The Prospector
Miss Strobhar Becomes Bride.
In Philadelphia Marriage to Bayard
Stockton. 2d Takes Place in Church.
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Princeton, N. J., Feb. 1.—The marriage of Miss Anne Strobhar, daughter of Thomas S. Strobhar of Brick House, Newtown Square, Pa., and the late Mrs. Strobhar, to Bayard Stockton 2d of Princeton, son of Mr. ajid Mrs. Richard Stockton 3d of Princeton and Bay Head, Is taking place today in the rectory of Holy Child Church, Philadelphia. The Rev. Charles B. McGlniey, rector, Is performing the ceremony, following which a reception is to be held at the home of her father.
The bride is being given in marriage by her father, and her sister, Miss Elisabeth M. Strobhar, will be maid of honor. Mrs. E. Traael Rowland, the former Miss Mary Baer of Ardmore, Pa., is matron of honor, and the bridesmaids are the Misses Barbara Strobhar, another sister; Sarah V. Newlin, Natalie R. Wood of Pfgypi frtr* W* * T/wrel W W#MT
Jeanne d'Ambty of Ardmore and the bride's cousin, Miss Mary Ann DJ of Newark.
Robert Tyler Gatehell of Princeton and Baltimore is best man. The ushers are Richard Cooley, Cleveland Crudgtngton, Steven K.
Sumner Ruloo-Mffler, Frank Strobhar, brother of the bride; John H. Thatcher sad Richard W. Warflekt, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, of Princeton.
The bride is a member of the {Philadelphia Junior League. Mr. SUthtcm is a member of the Nas-In 1918 Mr. Steell returned to,
newspaper work, Joining the Sun- |»as .^hib of Princeton and was day tftaff of the old morning Sun. graduated from St James's In"l924 he became a member of iBsfasol. Washington county, Md. the Sunday staff of the New York Herald Tribune and a short time later went to Paris where he remained for the next eight years until his retirement
Upon returning to the United States he delivered a series of lectures on poets and poetry at the Little Picture Theater at Ma Bast 50th street.
On his mother's side Mr. Stock ten is a descendant of Wittlan Armlstead. who settled in Virginia about 1838; of Miles King, first Mayor of Norfolk, Vs., and captain of a company of Minute Men in the Revolution, and other early Colonial settlers. On his
Mia* Katharine P. Lamed and Albert Foster Winslew. The engagement of Miss Lamed, a daughter of Mrs. J. Nelson Borland 2d, to Mr. Winslow, a son of Mrs. Herbert R. Lawrence,
was announced last September, — * - — - . . . . . . .- 1
BY WAY OF MENTION
NEW TORS. marriage of Mrs. The marriage of Mrs. Kath-
[father*e side he is descended from|erme Simmons Davis to Marshall j Richard Stockton Of Morven.;Murat Halstead Dana, both of
ntAVKEL-JoMph, on February 3. 1*41; husband of the late Claudia Fiankal, at his home, S Bast <*th •treet. Funeral private.
•EXMBN-Dr. William Davison, on January at, 1M1. SerricM at the Universal Chapel. S2d at. and Lexington ave., Sunday. 2:*D P. M. Interment Woodlawn Gematary.
KcALEXB—Gerald Raymond, suddenly, on January SO, 1*41, lata of 1304 Hudson street, Hoboken. K. J.; loving husband of Dorothy <noe Connolly), devoted father of Gerald Jr. and Raymond, eon of Mrs. Catherine sfeAlesr, an employee of Pandick Press, Inc., for ssvsatean years, In rsesnt years as an executive. Solemn funeral mans of requiem at Our Lady of Grace Church, Fourth and Willow streets. Hoboken, on Monday mornroa; at 10:30 o'clock. Interment Her/ Ctuae Cemetery.
l o s s George L., retired deputy Ate chief; beloved husband ef the late Adele, devoted father of John. R*» posing In the Regency Salts of the Abbey. 133 Bast TOth street, ftswuai aotire latar. Pteaee .esnlt flewess.
WI?fCH«8T»eV-Bdgar, on January ffl. 1*41, in New *»***^ ®***/ Funeral services. St. Jesses SfbMO pal Chare*, Jtsw London, Sunday,
' February 3. 7 JO P. M. kOORB-Chartes H„ on Friday. Jan
uary Si. 1941, husband ef the lata Kartha Lee Moors. Berries* at St. Agnes ChapaJ, 130 West Md st. on atonday, February t. at 0:39 A, M. Interment. PottsvlOa, Pa.
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Dr. William D. Hennen. Dr. William Davison Hennen,
regimental surgeon for the Seventeenth Inf antry, New York Guard, and an associate at Wlckersham Hospital died yesterday at his heme, 116 Central Park South, where he also maintained offices. He was 82 years old.
Dr. Hennen was graduated from Harvard and received his medical degree from Columbia University, class of '04. He served as a captain in the medical department of the Seventy-first Regiment from 1917 to 1923, when he became a major in the 102d Medical Regiment la 1934 he became regimental surgeon of the 166th Infantry, the osd Fighting Sixty-ninth.
Ho was a member of the New York Athletic Club He had been a hammer thrower and was an intimate friend of Inspector Matt MeOrath, Olympic weight-thrower, who died last Wednesday.
Rabbi SoTiveitchtk. Rabbi Moses Solovettchlk, senior
professor of Talmud at Yeshlva College, died yesterday in Mount Swat Hospital. Dr. Soloveltchlk, who was 62 years old, resided i t 4QD Fort Washington Bom In Russia, he headed the
signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey and one of the members of the first graduating class from Princeton University.
Miss Barnard Engaged To Dr. €. S* Welch
Mr. and Mrs. Chester I. Barnard of South Orange today are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Miss Frances Bar nard, to Dr. C. Stnart Welch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 3. Welch of DamrUk, N. H.
Miss Barnard was graduated from Miss Beard's School, Orange. and is now a senior at Smith College. Her father Is president of the Maw Jersey Ben Telephone
New York, is taking place this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the chapel of the First Unitarian Church, Philadelphia. The en Igagement of the couple was an-[nouncad in October by Mrs. Davis's aunt, Mrs. Charles Andrew Fife, at whose home, 3421 Powelton avemie, Philadelphia, a reception will be held following the ceremony.
Mrs. William Jefferson Kitehell of Wilmington the former Miss Irene du Pont Carpenter, is the bride's only attendant
Stephen F. Dana of Cincinnati is serving as his brother's best
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Mtt. Welch received his medical degree In 1982 from Tufts, was eonrjcted with the Boston City (Hospital from 1933 until 1934, and then became a fellow in surgery at the Mayo Foundation of the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, during which period he received the
of M J. and Ph.D. 1987 ne has been an Into surgery at the Albany
(N. Y.) Medical College of Union Tachkemoni Rabbinical CoDege [University and is a Junior attend-in Warsaw before Joining the mg surgeon at the Albany Hos-Yeshrvn faculty hi 1939.
Frank B. Stoneman. Miami, FU., Feb. 1 (A. P l -rank B. Btoneman, editor m
Jpitai-
chief of the Miami Herald, died early today of organic poisoning. He was at his editorial desk until he became ill a few days ago. Ha was 93 years okt
A former Miami municipal judge and active etvte and fraternal worker for many veers, he was a
hi South
Marion Devant Prewatt. Marion Devant
years old, assistant aft of Lord tt Taylor, died earty day hi BeDevue Hospital of in* juries received when he was
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Bavis 's a daughter of the t h e l r daughter, Mib3 <4 and Mrs. Joseph Irving rjewart, to Ian Scott! ia of MonteUir, N. J, and \ot M r mA M r s . Scotl
Mrs. Davis late Mr, Simmons Southwest Harbor, Me
by a taxieab at Lswington ^venue near Thtrtyntegi s»eet en January 18- Mr. Prewetts legs, oiMMnp and skuD wers .^" tured, and a brain operation
Miss Fjsher Is Bride Of W. A, Swart man
Miss Josephine Fisher, dsugh-ter of Mrs. H. B. Pomeroy of Buf • [falo, hi being married this afternoon In the Little Church Around the Corner to William A. Swart-
. son of Mrs. W. A. Swartman „ . of Wttat Pfttston, Pa, The ceremony wffl be followed ay a reception and su pper at the Btek-man Tower HotaL The bride'i rnakt of honor Is her stfter, mm Martha Fisher of New York, said
, Swartman to attended wj R. A. Wright Jr. of New York as beat man. Robert J. Donovan of New York and WfBfeam B. Me* Outre of WukeavBarre are ushers.
The bride, who H%m been living in New York, ia a graduate of the University of Wisoonsui and at-
Mr. and Mrs. Darwin R. James, son-in-law and daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbttt Barton, are at the Beekman. Mr. and Mrs. Barton of the Beekman are at Palm Beach for the season.
Mr. and Mrs, Robert G. Elbert, who were at the Waldorf-Astoria, departed yesterday for a visit in Washington, D. C, prior to going to South Carolina and Miami.
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Well* of Southbridge, Mass., are at the BUtmore Mrs. William MeCon way la at that hotel from Pitts-burgh.
Mrs. James Lincoln Ashley en* tertained at luncheon tn the Oval Room of the Rltx-Cariton yester day for Mrs. Bmil J. Stehll.
Mrs, Hugh D. Auchincloss of McLean, Vs., who was at the St. Regis, has returned to her home
WASHINGTON. The Attorney-General and Mrs.
Robert H. Jackson have returned from Norfolk, Va.,' where the latter christened the new liner, President Adams, yesterday.
Mrs. Reverdy Wadsworth Is expected to arrive next week from Genesee, N. Y., for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Henry Latrobe Roosevelt
Miss Dewart Engaged to Wed
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The Reverend and Mrs. William H. Dewart of Crowhaven, Man-eheeter-by-the-Sea, Mass., have
I announced the engagement of Elisabeth
Kllvert son Scott-KUvert of
89 Fltzjohn's avenue, Hampstead, London, England.
Miss Dewart attended Milton Academy, and Malvern Girls' College in England. She was a student at Newnham College, Cambridge University, until the outbreak of the war and Is now living at 149 East 61st street this city.
Mr. Scott Kllvert attended Bar* row and Is a graduate of Cataa College, Cambridge, He is now serving with the S t John's Am-bulance Corps.
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Miss Frederics Winslow steps to adjust a skate and, at the top, Miss Jalia Montgomery, on a sled.
Gift-laden Birthday Cake Planned As Bundles for Britain Party Feature
Lieut. ProuttoWed Miss Uppercu
Mr. and Mrs. Inglls Moore Uppercu of 993 Park avenue today announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Virginia Marriott Uppercu, to Lieut. William W. Preut ajo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boyd Prout of Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Miss Uppercu attended the Todhunter School In tins city and was graduated from the West-over School, Middlebury, Conn. the is a sister of Mrs. Philip Moss Dlnkins, Mrs. George Win-throp Height Mrs. George W. Hill Jr., and Miss Isabel Uppercu.
Lieut. Prout, a member of the 101st Cavalry Regiment Squadron A, attended the Greenough School in Boston and was graduated from Harvard, where he was a member of the Hasty Pud ding Club.
The feature of the First Anniversary Party to be held on Wednesday, February 12. at the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf Astoria for the benefit of Bun
cott G. W. Andrews, Mrs. John B. Aspegren, Mrs. Gerald E. Cave, Mrs. Bruce F. E. Harvey, Mrs. Goodhue Livingston. Mrs. James Russell Lowell, Mrs. Hugh Bui-
dies for Britain, will be a large I lock, Mrs. Eric L. F. Archdeacon. tiered birthday cake, filled to ] Mrs. Henry P. Cole, Mrs. John P. overflowing with unusual sur-j Duncan, Mrs. George G. Walker, prises. Proceeds from the cock-1 Mrs. H. Dunscomb Colt, Mrs. A.
r S S a d " V t e T k 4 a t " e f ^ k ' S ^ a d Piatt:Hattitute in Brook his Bfe. ^ ^
are Ma pa*ents, D.
Helena, Ark. His
ball party and entertainment will be used by the American war relief organization to send warm knitted garments, surgical instruments, medlcsl and hospital supplies to England for the relief of suffering British seamen and refugees whose homes have been destroyed.
Details of the surprise birthday cake are in charge of the entertainment committee, which is under the chairmanship of Mrs. John T. Lawrence. Other members of the committee are Mrs. Frank Longfellow Crocker, Mrs. Casimir de Rham, Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo, Mrs. Dwight F. Davis Jr., Mrs. Kenneth A. Ives, Mrs. Goodhue Livingston Jr., Mrs, John Davis Lodge, Mrs. Sidney B, Wood Jr., Mrs. G. Francklyn Lawrence Jr. and Mrs. Orson D, Munn, as vice-
Also Mrs. Kelvin C. Vanderltp, Mrs, J. Randall Creel, Mrs. Wol-
Maidstone Club at East Hampton To Observe Golden Jubilee
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The Maidstone Club at East] dunes, overlooking Its own swim-Hampton, L. L, Is making plans! ***lPg P°o*. and cabanas on one for its golden Jubilee In the
Mam, Cecil Barret of Km, Ardmore, Pa^ has Jotted Mr. Barwt at the Carlyle.
Mrs Salmon P. Halle of Shaker Heights, Cleveland. Ohio, la at the Rita-Carlton.
Mr. and Mrs. WBusBn F. C. String are at the Carlyle from Bedford. N. Y
Mr. and Mrs. G. Lister Carlisle of Norfent, Conn., area! the N«w4 Weston.
son of 1941. President Juan Terry Trtppc of 117 Bast 72d street, and A p a q u o g u e Road, East Hampton, has set Thursday evening. May 8, for the opening of the fiftieth anniversary festivities with a golden jubilee dinner-dance at the Starlight Roof of the
aide, and the golf courses on the other, was opened In 1934, Two earlier chibhousea, standing on the aits now occupied by the tennis hones, were destroyed by fire in 1901 and 1932.
The story of the Maidstone Club's fifty years is virtually a social history of the last half century In New York and the Hamptons. Men of distinction in every walk of life have been attracted
quiet
Philippe von Hemert Mrs. Enos W. Curtln, Mrs. Nathaniel B. Wales Jr., Mrs. Charles Parker Stone and Miss Edna Brokaw.
RJ.OrbetoWed MissMarjorieAdair
Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Adair of Teaneck, N. J., today announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Marjorie Jane Adair, to Norman John Orbe 01 Passaic, N. J. The wedding Will take place hr the spring.
Miss Adair was graduated from the Centenary Collegiate institute of Hackettstown, N. &, and attended the Katharine Gibbs School, this city. Her father is head of the Metropolitan Advertising Company of New York.
Mr. Orbe, a son of Laurence F. Orbe, president of the New Jersey Flour Mills Company, Inc* of Passaic, was graduated from the Princeton Preparatory School and ctiended Princeton University, where he was a member of the Cannon Club.
Waldorf Astoria. Club rr^bemwiUUke part injto «qumillt, queer,
a program Julians. Myrlck, f o r j H | i m t o n , . * , \ mer Maidstone Club president and former president of the Vested States Lawn Tennis Aa*
nasi nonorary com-for the ocaeafon.
Mr. Triype has also designated lek of July 4 to 12 as golden
at the etab in Bast and
shipsiand Invitation during the season will all have
The club at Bast Hampton pre-dates the Ineurpoiatlon in 1891 by at least a decade. Dr, ~ Herrick, an uncle of Dr, Faugeres Bishop of tkes president of the Lawn Tennis Club In the early •ttys; and was the Maidstone Club
caned by a newspaper writer of 1893,
Mra. Walter White Honored at Supper
Mr. and Mrs. L, Gordon Ham* ersssy of 1910 Fifth avenue en-tertained at supper last night in the Rainbow Room of RockefeBer Canter In honor of Mra, l i s . White and her daughters, the Misses Mary and Anne White.
The other guests were Mr. and Mrs, Martin van Buren Morris, Mr. and Mra. John Claiborne,
Morris, Cynthia Ferguson, Cyril j
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