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Her father: William Hurlbut Force (May
11, 1852 – May 19, 1917) was an American merchant who owned the successful
shipping firm William H. Force and Co. (established in 1873) at 78 Front
Street, NYC, and was also director o the Staten Island Rapid Transit R.R. Co.,
and United Casualty Co., and the New York Board of Trade and Transportation.
The Force family was part of Brooklyn High Society. (source Wiki)
Her mother: Katherine Arvilla
Talmage (1863–1930) Madeleine's maternal grandfather was New York State
Assemblyman Tunis V. P. Talmage and her great-grandfather, Thomas G. Talmage,
was Mayor of Brooklyn.[4] She is also distantly related to Col. Benjamin
Tallmadge, who served directly under George Washington in the American War of
Independence. (source Wiki)
Luncheon for Debutantes
Miss Gladys Robbins of 958 Madison Avenue gave a luncheon yesterday for debutantes. The guests were seated at one large table, decorated with pink rosebuds, and those invited included the Misses Leta Pell Wright, Carol Brown, Helen Johnson, Henrietta Thaw, Katharine Oakley, Margaret Kemp, Katharine Shaw, Sara McAlpin Pyle, Eva Ingersoll Brown, Marjorie Dodd, Thelma Violet, Jeannette McAlpln, Anita Merle Smith, Katherine and Madeleine Force, Eloise Talcott, Helen Hoffstot, Alice Guernsey and Julia Dick.
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Miss Madeline Force a Debutante.
Mrs. William H. Force gave a reception at her home, 18 East Thirty-seventy Street, to present her second daughter, Miss Madeleine T. Force.
Mrs. Force, Miss Katherine Force, and the debutante had assisting them the Misses Margaret Mackay, Beryl Kane, Henrietta Thaw, Julia Dick, May Vogel, Nathalie Kelley, Harriet Coleman Glover, Lydia Coit Butler, Katherine Shaw, Mary Killbreth, Alice Damrosch, Dorothy Cramp and Miss Reba Samuel of Philadelphia.
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performs Neidhart von Reuenthal's "Mai ist Wunniglich Entsprossen", from their marionette concert "Das Wachtelmäre". Barbara Kriegl plays the dancer Ginkerl, Scott Wallace plays the psaltery-harp.
DEBUTANTES ACT IN A PANTOMIME
Junior League Members Appear in "The Mistletoe Bough" at the Plaza for Charity. ROSTAND PLAY ALSO GIVEN Amateurs Cleverly Play "Les Romanesques " — Miss Ruth Welsh Charming Sylvette — May Dance in Pantomime.
The ballroom at the Plaza was filled with an appreciative audience yesterday afternoon at the first performance of the Junior League, which is made up of this year's debutantes, for charity, and last night's performance was given before a large and brilliant assembly. The plays interpreted by the debutantes, assisted by some young men, were Edmond Rostand's "Les Romanesques" and "The Mistletoe Bough," the latter a pantimome in five scenes.
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COL. ASTOR TO WED MADELEINE FORCE
Father of 18-Year-Old Debutante in Society Announces the Engagement.
MET JUST A YEAR AGO
Col. Astor's Marked Attentions Soon
Gave Rise to Rumors of Betrothal
Wedding Plans Not Yet Made
Formal announcement was made yesterday of the engagement of Miss Madeleine Talmage Force, the debutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Force of 18 East Thirty-seventh Street, to Col. John Jacob Astor, grandson of John Jacob Astor, and the recognized head of the Astor family in this country. The announcement was made by Mr. Force after many months of vague rumors that an engagement did exist between Col. Astor and his eighteen-year-old daughter who have been seen together at numerous social affairs ever since their first meeting in Bar Harbor, last Summer. Col. Astor is 47 years old.
In making the announcement at his office at 78 Front Street, the father of the bride-to-be said that owing to the continued rumors of the attachment between Col. Astor and his daughter, which were not backed up by any public announcement of an engagement, he feared that unpleasant gossip might arise.
"Therefore I insisted on making the formal announcement," Mr. Force continued. "I called Col. Astor on the telephone to-day and we discussed the matter. He accepted my point of view and it was agreed between us that I should make the announcement. No date has been set yet for the wedding. All that will come later on."
Col. Astor came here from Newport on Monday on his new yacht Noma, which is now lying at the station of the New York Yacht Club at the foot of the New York Yacht Club of East Twenty-third Street. His son Vincent is at Beechwood, his father's house in Newport, where many of the cottagers received the news of the engagement yesterday from Col. Astor. It is said at Newport that Mr. and Mrs. Force and their daughters, the Misses Katherine and Madeleine Force, are soon to visit Col. Astor at Beechwood. Last night the Colonel entertained them at dinner.
Miss Force a Debutante.
Miss Madeleine Force was introduced to society on Dec. 22 last and was graduated from Miss Spence's school in this city in June of last year. She had previously studied in Europe and also at Miss Ely's school at Greenwich, Conn. Miss Katherine Force, her sister, is not yet 20 years old.
The future Mrs. Astor is a rather tall, graceful girl with brown hair and strong, clean-cut features. She is very popular in the younger set and took part last season in many of the society amateur theatricals. She belongs to the Junior League, an organization for debutantes, and among her girl friends are the Misses Leta Pell Wright, Margaret MacKay, Henrietta Thaw, Alice Damrosch, Dorothy Cramp, Carol Brown, Sara McAlpin Pyle, and Nathalie Kelley.
Col. Astor has been very attentive to Miss Force ever since their first meeting at Bar Harbor, where the young girl's family were spending the Summer. They were seen together at nearly all of the social functions of last season, and society fully expected to hear the formal announcement of their engagement at the large dinner dance which Col. Astor gave at his town house, 840 Fifth Avenue, on Feb. 6. For several months previous to this, Col. Astor and his son had been abroad. During their absence and later in the season, the Astor box at the Metropolitan Opera House, No. 7, in the "golden horseshoe," was frequently occupied by Mrs. Force and her two daughters. At various times during the season the Colonel entertained the family at dinner at the fashionable restaurants.
He was abroad during the part of May and June, and, returning to this side, went to his estate at Rhinebeck-on-Hudson. During the boat races at Poughkeepsie in July he entertained Mrs. Force and her younger daughter (Madeleine) at luncheon. For a brief period Mr. and Mrs. Force were at Bar Harbor, but they have not closed their house in East Thirty-seventh Street, as have the majority of their neighbors.
Miss Force's mother was Miss Katherine E. Talmage, daughter of the T. V. P. Talmage, and a granddaughter of ex-Mayor Talmage of Brooklyn. She was married to Mr. Force in January, 1889. The family is well known in Brooklyn, where they lived on Remsen Street prior to coming to Manhattan. Mr. Force who was born on May 11, 1852, is now the head of the extensive shipping and forwarding firm of William H. Force & Co. with offices at 78 Front Street. He is a prominent driver and cross-country rider and is a member of the Riding and Driving and Hamilton Clubs of Brooklyn also the New York Yacht and the Down Town Clubs.
Col. Astor's Career.
Col. Astor has held a prominent place in the life of this city for many years. Not alone has he been a conspicuous clubman and leader of society, but he has engaged in vast business activities that gave him place of rank, apart from his immense fortune and social attainments. He has put up and owns more hotels and skyscrapers than any other New Yorker. His fortune is estimated at over $100,000,000.
He was born at Ferncliff, Rhinebeck-on-the-Hudson, July 13, 1864. His school days were passed at St. Paul's, Concord, NH., and he graduated from Harvard, class of '88. After an extended tour of Europe and of the West Indies, he became a student of the business details connected with the vast estate which at the death of his father, William Astor, came under his direction. He has always been an enthusiastic yachtsman; was one of the earliest believers in the automobile, and has recently displayed a keen interest in air navigation.
In 1891, three years after leaving Harvard, Col. Astor married Miss Ava L. (Lowle) Willing, (https://househistree.com/people/ava-lowle-willing-1868-1958) daughter of Edward S. (Shippen) Willing, of Philadelphia, who obtained a divorce from him in November 1909. They had two children, William Vincent Astor, who was born in 1892, and Miss Ava Alice Muriel Astor (http://www.elisarolle.com/queerplaces/a-b-ce/Ava%20Alice%20Muriel%20Astor.html), who is about 10 years old, and who is at present with her mother in London.
Shortly after his marriage, Col. Astor began his plans for building large hotels and among these which he [pu-illegible] the Waldorf-Astoria, the St. Regis Hotel, Knickerbocker, and the Astor House. (https://magazine.stregis.com/the-house-that-jack-built/). He owns the Astor House, one of the most famous hotels in its day.
Col. Astor first received his title through appointment to the staff of Gov. Morton, but later received the commission of Colonel in the Spanish-American war. Col. Astor's bent of mind has been toward mechanics and general scientific research. Several patents for useful inventions have been issued to him. He has, also published several books. His first, "A Journey in Other Worlds," was published in 1894. He belongs to more than forty clubs, including the Knickerbocker Union, Metropolitan, New . York Yacht, Brook., Riding, Tuxedo. Country, Racquet and Tennis. Automobile Club or America, Army and Navy, Military Order of Foreign Wars, and Society of Colonial Wars.
When the Spanish-American war broke out Col. Astor had just returned from a cruise in his yacht to Cuba and was in, Washington when the declaration of war was made. He went at once to the War Department and offered his service in any capacity.
The Astor battery which he equipped for the United States forces cost $100,000. The battery did effective work at Santiago and later in the Philippines.
When the Colonel received his discharge, from the army, in September, 1898, Major General Shafter recommended to the Secretary of War that the young officer be advanced to the brevet rank of Colonel "for faithful and meritorious service." This rank was therefore conferred on him.
At the death of Mrs. William Astor, the Colonel's mother, who lived in one of the big twin houses at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-fifth Street, the leadership of New York Society fell upon Col. Astor's wife. The divorce proceedings instituted by Mrs. Astor in 1909 were shrouded in much mystery. The interlocutory decree was filed on Nov. 10 of that year in the office of the Dutchess County Clerk, at Poughkeepsie. The papers were sealed. The decree was signed by Supreme Court Justice Isaac N. Mills of Mount Vernon.
At the time the interlocutory decree was granted in November, Col. Astor and his son Vincent, were cruising in Southern waters in the Nourmahal. A great gale swept over the West Indies and for a time it was believed that the yacht had foundered and all on board had perished. At the height of the excitement the Nourmahal came into the harbor at San Juan. Porto Rico, unharmed.
Wedding May Be Out of Town.
The Wedding of Col. Astor and Miss Force will be a very quiet one, it is said, and will probably take place late in the Fall out of town. Besides his magnificent home on Fifth Avenue, which has been recently remodeled, and which is architecturally a chateau of the time of Francois I., the couple will occupy Beechwood, at Newport, during the season and spend the early Spring and late Fall at the Colonel's country seat at Rhinebeck, which is called Ferncliff, being a house of great architectural beauty, set down in the centre of 2,000 acres of woodland and meadows.
The original Astor came here from Baden, when the new city was a century old, with a capital of $75, and from thee hour of landing to his last illness never ceased to work. He learned the languages of the Senecas, Mohawks, and Oneidas, and within ten years he had a regiment of men trapping for him. He married Sarah Todd, who brought him a dowry of $300. Meanwhile he was buying real estate on Manhattan Island. From his investments grew the tremendous fortune that Col. John Jacob Astor found waiting for him when he finished his college days.
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COL. ASTOR'S FIANCEE TO LIVE IN NEWPORT
Miss Force and Mother Are House-Hunting There as the Colonel's Guests.
NEWPORT, R.I., Aug. 3. — Miss Madeleine Talmage Force, fiancée of Col. John Jacob Astor, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. William H. Force, and Mr. Florum of the Swedish Legation arrived from New York early this morning aboard the steam yacht Noma, where the party was joined by Vincent Astor, son of Col. Astor, for breakfast on board.
Later Col. Astor and the party landed at Wellington Avenue, where the Colonel's automobile was in waiting, and they whisked away to Beechwood, the home of Col. Astor where many cards for social affairs, congratulations by cable and telegraph, and many others from the Colonel's friends here awaited them. A drive about Ocean Avenue and a stop at Balley's Beach took up the entire forenoon. Between this time and luncheon Col. Astor and his guests were house hunting, as Mr. and Mrs. Force will come to Newport for the Summer. Between this and Fall the marriage may occur, although Col. Astor would not commit himself as to when or where the ceremony would take place, but society believes Newport will be the location and before long. Miss Force looked radiant in a pongee outing dress, with a coat effect, and wearing a small black straw hat, with red roses. Mrs. Force wore black, and a pretty black silk shoulder cover and black ostrich hat Beechwood was filed with flowers from all over the Summer colony.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon Col. Astor brought his fiancée, her mother, and Mr. Florum to the Wickford boat bound for New York, the Colonel waiting until the steamer had departed and then going back to Beechwood, joining his son, Vincent.
Mr. and Mrs. Force and Miss Force are due at Newport on Saturday. Already the Summer residents are planning for a number of affairs in honor of Col. Astor and Miss Force. The latter was delighted with Newport, and so was her mother. Col. Astor told some of his friends today that as yet he had hardly time to arrange or his marriage details, and could not say when or where the marriage would take place. The coming of Mr. and Mrs. Force to Newport as cottage occupants appear to every one to mean that the marriage is surely for Newport.
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Miss Madeleine Force Colonel Astor's Fiancee, Wins the Praise of the Newport Set.
NEWPORT, R.I., Aug. 12 — Newport is delighted with Mr. and Mrs. William H. Force and their daughters, the Misses Force of New York, who have been here since the engagement of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine Talmage Force was recently announced in New York. The Forces are finding numerous acquaintances from New York and Bar Harbor here.
Entertainments have been given for Col. Astor and Miss Force in goodly numbers since their engagement and others are to follow. There is no definite date for their wedding, so far as known outside the immediate family, but the Summer residents believe the ceremony will take place in Newport during the Fall or perhaps sooner.
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NEWPORT, Aug. 21. — Col. John Jacob Astor and his fiancee, Miss Madeleine Force and her father intend, apparently, to prolong their yachting cruise for some days. Col. Astor and Miss Force before they departed from Newport Saturday, refused invitations for all the Newport social affairs up to and including the 23 of August. Many of the summer residents are still of the opinion that Col Astor and Miss Force will be married at Beechwood, Col. Astor's Newport residence later in the season as the earlier report had it.
Mrs. Force, the mother of the young woman, it is now said is still visiting Mrs. Harry S. Glover, at Fairfield, Conn., but Miss Katherine Force, her sister has gone to Sea Bright, N.J.
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SAY ASTOR WEDDING IS NEAR AT HAND
Friends Confidently Expect the Ceremony to Take Place Within a Few Days.
HIS YACHT IN READINESS
Miss Force, the Bride-elect, Apparently Doing Her Final Shopping - Ceremony Probably in Connecticut.
There was an impression last night among the friends of Col. John Jacob Astor that his marriage to Miss Madeleine T. Force would not be delayed more than a few days. The Astor yacht Noma was hurriedly coaled and provisioned, and there arrived at the Force home sundry big boxes containing purchases made by Miss Force during the day. Col. Astor himself declined to say even that the marriage would not take place to-day.
It was reported yesterday that a clergyman had been found who was willing to perform the ceremony, and that it would probably take place in Connecticut, but no record of the issue of a. license for the wedding could be traced in that State.
Col. Astor was in and out of the Force home during the day and evening. Shortly after 8 o'clock last night he called and took his fiancee out in a taxicab. They were gone for two hours. On their return Col. Astor stayed about twenty-minutes. When he came out he was asked what arrangements had been made for the wedding.
"As yet," he replied, "we have made no definite arrangements in regard to our marriage. In fact, matters stand just as they did yesterday."
Col. Astor went to his town house at 840 Fifth Avenue, where it was said he would spend the night.
The Noma, lying off Eightieth Street, had been coaling during the day and was taking on provisions until late last night. The Captain and both mates went ashore indicating that the yacht would not sail last night. It was learned, however, that the intention was that she should leave this morning. Her prospective destination is kept secret.
Indications that something more than usual was astir were in evidence about the Force home yesterday morning, when Col. Astor called two houra ahead of his usual time. Soon after he left Miss Force made a round of the Fifth Avenue shops, the result of wblch was apparent last evening when two big hat boxes and five other boxes arrived at her residence from a store where millinery and other things feminine are dispensed.
Before Miss Force bad finished her shopping tour Col. Astor was back at her house. He got there a.bout 1 o'clock and found nobody at hfme. After he had waited an hour and a half Mrs. Force came in With her dog. Twenty minutes later Miss Katherine Force entered the house, and after twenty minutes more Miss Madeleine got back from her shopping expedition.
After his long wait Col. Astor greeted hls fiancee enthusiastically He called a taxicab and started off with the two young women. Miss Katherine Force was dropped at the Grand Central Subway station and Col. Astor and Miss Madeleine Force went on to the St. Regis, where they had tea. Col. Astor saw Miss Force at her home again in the evening.
William H. Force, father of the bride-to-be, had an encounter with a. photographer when he went out for his morning walk yesterday, He started off with the photographer following him, on the alert for a good opening. Mr. Force noticed the photographer's manoeuvres, turned around, and made a gesture indicating that he would not be p11otographed. The young man continued to advance on him but stopped when Mr. Force raised his cane and rushed at him. The photographer The photographer had no trouble in keeping ahead of the irate Mr. Force. Suddenly he turned, halted an instant, got a good snapshot of his man, raised cane and all, and was off.
Mr. Force, disgusted, walked back home.
No arrests.
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PASTOR IS CONGRATULATED.
Clergyman Who Refused to Marry
Astor Gets Approving Messages.
Special to The New York Times.
NEWPORT, R . I., Sept. 7.-The Rev. Edward A. Johnson. pastor of the First Baptist Church here, received many congratulations as he walked through Newport to-day because he declined to perform the wedding ceremony for Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine Force for a $1,000 fee.
Some members of his church said he should have taken the money and performed the ceremony. Others offered congratulations to Dr. Johnson for his stand in refusing to marry the pair.
Justice Darius Baker of the Superior Court, who lives here, is in the South on his vacation, so if Col. Astor and his fiancée came here to be married, they would meet with disappointment, although they might get another Justice of the same court to come here from Providence and tie the knot. The Rev. Mr. Johnson said to-day:
"I weighed the matter thoroughly and decided I could not afford to marry Col. Astor and Miss Force, no matter what the fee might have been raised to, and it was $1,000 that was offered me."
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 7. — The Rev. Edward A. Johnson of Newport, who is quoted as saying he refused a $1,000 fee to marry Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine Force, is well known to Baptists in this city. According to their records, he was expelled from the Philadelphia Conference, following his dismissal as pastor of the East Allegheny Baptist Church on charges of "falsehood and conduct unbecoming a minister."
Dr. Johnson is a Philadelphian. He was graduated from the Crozier Theological Seminary, and was unanimously called to the Allegheny Avenue Church in December, 1890. Toward the close of 1891 his wife died, and again, according to the records, a short time later he is said to have slipped away to Camden with a Miss Reed to be married. Dr. Johnson at first denied the report. At the same time a girl at the house where he boarded in Frankford Avenue, near Stella Street. made charges against him. After a hearing before the church Trustees, he was dismissed from the pastorship. The case was then reported to the Philadelphia. Conference, which upheld the church Trustees.
Philadelphia Baptist ministers say that since that time Dr. Johnson had not to their knowledge been in Philadelphia. The action of Dr. Johnson in making public the often said to have been made on behalf of Col. Astor was generally condemned by them.
"Suppose Dr. Johnson was offered $1,000 to marry Col. Astor and Miss Force," said one minister. "A good man of the Gospel would not turn around and publicly announce that fact. If Dr. Johnson refused $1,000, that is what he should have done: but no good minister announces broadcast his good acts."
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Greenwich Expected the Wedding.
Special to The New York Times.
GREENWICH. Conn., Sept. 7.
The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of New York came to Greenwich this evening and is the guest of J. H. Flagler in North Street, where he has often visited this Summer. A rumor was circulated to-night that he had come to Greenwich to marry Col. Astor here. Mr. Grant said that was nonsense. He had never been approached by any member of the Astor family or the Force family or their representatives in the matter of the marriage.
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BLAMES HOME ENVIRONMENT
Miss Clara B. Spence Comments on Worldly Influences of Mothers.
Miss Clara B. Spence of this city expresses her opinion of Col. John Jacob Astor's approaching marriage to Miss Madeleine Force in a letter to the editor of The Evening Post. Miss Spence writes:
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MISS FORCE AIDED ASTOR YACHT RESCUE
Col. Astor's Fiancee Cheered Noma's Lifeboat Crew as They Took Men Off Disabled Zingara.
HELPED HOIST THE BOAT
Col. John Jacob Astor's stem yacht Nom, which about midnight last night rescued five men from the sloop yacht Zingara, disabled in a gale off Norton's Point, arrived here to-day, having aboard the rescued men, Col. Astor, Miss Madeleine Force, Col. Astor's fiancée, and her father, William H. Force. Col. Astor, Miss Force, and Mr. Force, watched from the bridge while the Noma's life boat took off the men, and afterward Miss Force and Col. Astor helped hoist the boat to the deck, and Miss Force herself served the rescued party with coffee and sandwiches.
The names of the men on the Zingara are given as Lester Bauer, who is described as the owner, and James S. Mann, William Humphreys, Herbert Hendrickson, and James McDonough, all of whom are said to be bank clerks of New York.
The Astor yacht was steaming through the gale and rough seas from New York to Newport last night. Capt. Richard Roberts was on the bridge and the owner and his guests had retired, the Noma making good speed through the storm, to make Newport at 8 o'clock, the time Col. Astor had set for his arrival. At 11:30 Capt. Roberts heard the faint cries of men off the port bow.
Capt. Roberts rant for half speed and turned on the searchlight, with which he quickly picked up, a short distance away, the sloop yacht Zingara, her sails torn to ribbons, her hold half filled with water, her flag union down as a signal of distress, and five men clinging to the wreckage, over which the sea was breaking. While Capt. Roberts kept the searchlight on the wreck, he rang down his engines and ordered a life boat swung out and manned.
Disturbed by the stopping of engines and the scurrying of many feed on deck, Col. Astor dressed and ran on deck. Learning the facts he summoned Mr. Force and his fiancée.
Miss Force came on deck wearing a heavy polo coat. She was on the bridge with Col. Astor and her father in time to see the lifeboat oi the Noma lowered and a volunteer crew go off to the wrecked sloop, and to watch the skillful maneuvering of the lifeboat as it came under the lee of the wreck when the men aboard were taken into the lifeboat.
"Hurry and save the men," cried Miss Force. When Mate Maurhoff finally got alongside the yawl, and her men were taken in the Noma's boat, she shouted: "Beautiful, boys! Nobly done!" Miss Force was the first to take hold of the boat ropes as Capt. Roberts ordered it hoisted, and with Col. Astor and her father assisted the crew in getting the boat up.
As soon as the rescued men were on deck, Miss Force poured hot coffee for them and served them sandwiches with her own hands, adding a cheery word for each.
Warm clothing was then given the shipwrecked men, and Colonel Astor gave orders that everything possible be done for them.
While she was standing on the bridge watching the rescue or the men Miss Force exclaimed that she had many times heard and read of rescues at sea but this was her first sight of such a thing and she would never forget it. She remained an hour on deck and only went below again after saying good night to the rescued young men and thanking Captain Roberts for his efforts and those of his crew.
The Zingara's men told of their experiences.
"We lost everything," said James Mann, "but we do not mind that. We were saved."
The Zingara left New York Aug. 12, and, after leaving Duck Island Friday morning, was running to New Haven when a sudden squall struck her, carrying away her sails and all but capsizing the craft.
"When the Noma was twelve miles off Horton's Point,'' said Capt. Roberts, "which is about opposite Bridgeport, I heard the call of the men in the Zingara, and had the search light quickly turned on. The sea was rough and the wind was blowing strong. It was quick work alone which saved the Zingara's owner and guests. Miss Force was delighted with the, experience after we had taken the men from the sea, and until the Noma's lifeboat picked them up was deeply concerned.
When our searchlight picked up the Zingara her ensign was hanging from the main sail union down, showing she had been signaling for assistance lung before the Noma came to the rescue.
"The men were made very comfortable, but they lost everything they had on board."
It was impossible to tow the Zingara in the weather conditions which existed and she was set adrift and a wireless message sent out as warning to all craft to be on the lookout for the derelict which was in the track of navigation. When the Noma dropped her anchor Saturday morning the rescued men after a good breakfast were taken ashore. When they had bidden good-bye to Col. Astor and his guests and offered their thanks for the rescue to owner, officers, and crew they stood up in the launch which took them off and gave three rousing cheers.
In the afternoon the shipwrecked yachtsmen returned home to New York.
Capt. Roberts, who figured in 1902 in another rescue, was with difficulty persuaded to admit that a gold watch and chain was given him by the President of the crew of the American bark Ella in the Atlantic Ocean on Jan. 17 of that year, when Roberts was first officer of the steamer Coronda. For this action the British Government have him a Lloyds medal. There are but eighty-four Lloyds medals in existence.
Col. Astor. accompanied by Miss Force and Mr. Force, landed at Wellington Avenue after breakfast for a short automobile drive to Beechwood. After a short stay there the party motored back to the landing. Col. Astor himself steered the motor boat which took the party once again on board, and the Noma put out to sea at noon for a trip of two days, part of which will be given over to fishing. Col. Astor declared his intention of returning to New York Monday.
Miss Force looked radiant as she stood on the after deck of the Noma, wearing. a cream colored yachting suit with a single American Beauty rose. Miss Force did not show any signs of illness to-day, but the sea trip is taken solely for her benefit.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 9 - The yacht Zingara, which was abandoned oft Duck Island last night after the crew had been taken off by Col. Astor's yacht, drifted into East River, in Madison, during the morning. Before it drifted on the rocks W. P. Leete of that place put off in a launch and anchored the Zingara in a sheltered place. The yacht's condition was fair. The Zingara was off here Tuesday and while sailing close to the shore ran on a reef. The next day a dug hauled the sloop free. Duck Island is a few miles further east, near the mouth of the Connecticut River.
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Greenwich Expected the Wedding.
Special to The New York Times.
GREENWICH. Conn., Sept. 7.
The Rev. Percy Stickney Grant of New York came to Greenwich this evening and is the guest of J. H. Flagler in North Street, where he has often visited this Summer. A rumor was circulated to-night that he had come to Greenwich to marry Col. Astor here. Mr. Grant said that was nonsense. He had never been approached by any member of the Astor family or the Force family or their representatives in the matter of the marriage.
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COL. ASTOR WEDS MADELEINE FORCE
Early Morning Ceremony at Beechwood, the Bridegroom's Newport Home.
NEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 9. — Col. John Jacob Astor, head of the Astor family in America, and one of this country's wealthiest men, was married at 9:55 o'clock this morning to Miss Madeleine Talmage Force, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Force, of New York, at the Newport home of the bridegroom, Beechwood, on the Cliffs and Bellevue Avenue.
The Rev. Joseph Lambert pastor of the Elwood Temple Congregational Church of Providence, officiated. The ceremony was performed in the white and gold ballroom which the late Mrs. William Astor had built seven years ago.
The ceremony was very short. Mr. Force gave his daughter in marriage and Miss Katherine Emmons Force, sister of the bride. was maid of honor. Vincent Astor was his father's best man. Mrs. Force. mother of the bride, stood near her husband and the bridal couple while about them were Col. William P. Sheffield of this city, the attorney who arranged the details for Col. Astor; Mrs. Elder of New York, a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Force; William A. Dobbyn, Col. Astor's Secretary, and Thomas Hade, Superintendent of Beechwood, who served the bridegroom's parents for many years.
After the ceremony Col. Astor kissed the bride, as did her parents and sisters, and the other guests extended their congratulations. Col. Astor then led the party to the dining room. where a hasty wedding breakfast was served and the health of the b ide and bridegroom was drunk. Less than a quarter of an hour after the ceremony had been concluded Col. Astor and his bride departed on the Astor steam yacht Noma.
Astor's Views on Remarriage.
Before Col. and Mrs. Astor left Beechwood he gave out this statement:
1911 September 10 – Marriage of Madeleine and Col. John
Jacob Astor (New York Times, 1910)
Time: 8:00 AM breakfast before
ceremony, 9:55 AM ceremony
Venue: Astor’s Beechwood home, on
the Cliffs and Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI, in the white and gold ballroom
which the late Mrs. William Astor had built seven years ago. The ballroom was
adorned with American Beauty roses – one of which Madeleine took as a corsage
on her way to her honeymoon.
Officiated by: Rev. Joseph Lambert,
pastor of the Elwood Temple Congregational Church of Providence – following a
long search for a clergyman willing to wed the recently divorced Astor to a
bride so much younger than himself (at 20, she was younger than his son). This
wedding was very controversial and its specifics were kept in secrecy.
Madeleine wore: ‘semi-hobble skirt
effect of blue cloth, with a peach basket hat to match’ (for example of
hobble-skirt see https://forenseek.app/10-bizarre-deaths-by-victorian-fashion/)
Katherine Force (bridesmaid) wore:
‘a steel gray dress and a black picture hat’
Col. Astor wore: a dark sack coat
suit, straw hat, and carried a cane.
Vincent Astor (his son) was his
best man.
Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Force
(Madeleine’s parents), Col. William P. Sheffield of this city, the attorney who
arranged the details for Col. Astor; Mrs. Elder of New York, a friend of Mr.
and Mrs. Force; William A. Dobbyn, Col. Astor's Secretary, and Thomas Hade,
Superintendent of Beechwood, who served the bridegroom's parent for many years.
Mrs. Force wore a black Empire gown of crêpe de chine with a string of pearls
around her neck.
Col. Astor’s statement after the
service: ‘Now that we are happily married, I don't care how difficult divorce
and remarriage laws are made. I sympathize heartily with the most
straight-laced people in most of their ideas, but believe that remarriage
should be possible once, as marriage is the happiest condition for the individual
and the community.’
Astor arrived at the venue on his
yacht, Noma. Shortly before departing, Deputy
Sheriff Frank P. King of Newport boarded the Noma to pass the Colonel a writ of
summons in a suit for $30,000, brought by Bridget A. McCrohan and Mary B.
McCrohan, sisters of Eugene P. McCrohan, who was killed at Beechwood in the
Summer of 1910, while repairing telephone wires. McCrohan touched the electric
light wires in the cellar and was killed instantly.
A newspaper reporter allowed Col.
Astor and his bride to use his hired taxicab to go to Wellington Avenue pier,
since the Astor automobile was not on hand, the chauffeur evidently believing he
wasn’t needed until later in the day. The correspondent whose taxicab was used
as the bridal car was brought back to Newport in Col. Astor’s automobile.
Col. Astor took the helm of the
Noma. Capt. Roberts and his officers
greeted the couple as they came aboard. The cabins were decorated with American
Beauty roses sent from Beechwood’s greenhouses. Noma weighed anchor at 10:29,
heading westward and running at fast speed, supposed to be bound for Rhinebeck
on the Hudson, where Col. Astor has another Summer home, or New York City.
In addition to his statement
concerning his views on remarriage, Col. Astor sent this formal marriage notice
to the newspapers to-day: Married on Sept. 9, at Newport, R. I., by the Rev.
Joseph Lambert, Madeleine Talmage, daughter of William H. Force of New York, to
John Jacob Astor of New York City.
Vincent Astor remained at Beechwood
until departing for Harvard. He was
happy throughout the day and spoke to addressed talked on the false reports
which have been printed of his engagements to at least three young ladies since
the Summer opened: “I do hope the party writing such stories will stop, as
there is absolutely no truth in these reports,” he said. “Besides, every time
the report is mentioned, the name of another young lady is heard. Just at
present I am thinking very much of my entering Harvard.”
Mr. and Mrs. Force and Miss Force
and Mrs. Elder were entertained by Vincent Astor at the Muenchinger-King for
luncheon. They departed for New York at 1:00PM.
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CRITICISE PASTOR WHO MARRIED ASTOR
Bought to Do a Nasty Job, Says the Rev. Mr. Richmond, and Others Join Attack.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10. — The Rev. George C. Richmond, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, who was the first minister to criticise Col. John Jacob Astor when his engagement to Miss Madeleine Talmage Force was announced, denounced in his sermon to-day the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lambert of Providence, R.I., who officiated at the Astor-Force wedding yesterday in Newport.
"It has remained for a 'Demas' to forsake our standards," he said. "One minister has at last been bought to do the nasty job. He was offered his price. Worse than Judas. He has taken his 'thirty pieces of sliver' and in a few weeks, I hope, instead of being driven by his own conscience (of which he is lacking) he will be driven from his sacred office and set to tending an Astor garage or cleaning out an Astor stable.
"The pastor of the Elmwood Congregational Church in Providence is a disgrace to Congregationalism."
Dr. Moseley H. Wi1liams, clerk of the Congregational Ministers' Association, also criticised Dr. Lambert.
"Of course. I can speak only for myself," he said, but I unhesitatingly say that it was a shame and an outrage. I was exceedingly sorry to hear that a Congregational minister performed that marriage ceremony. It was a union which no conscientious minister should have had anything to do with. I do not think that any Congregational minister in this city would have married Col. Astor."
Special to the New York Times.
NEWBURG, N. Y., Sept. 10.
The Rev. M. Seymour Purdy delivered a sermon from his pulpit at the Dutch Reformed Church this morning on "Christianity's Treasurers." Incidentally, he referred to the marriage of Col. Astor and Miss Force as one of the incidents that would seem to show that, while good Is gaining a foothold, wrongdoing also holds its sway, and he expressed regret that any man professing to be a Christian minister could be found to solemnize a union or this type.
Referring to Col. Astor. the preacher said he had been married contrary to the laws of his State, hence he was not a patriot. He had violated the rules of his Church, therefore was not a good Churchman; had married contrary to the injunction of Jesus Christ, hence was not a devout Christian. The preacher expressed regret and sorrow for any young woman who would permit her eyes to be blinded by the glitter of gold, but hoped that out of what was an apparent wrong good might yet come.
PROVIDENCE. R. I. Sept. 10.
Providence clergymen generally took occasion to-day to condemn from the pulpit the Astor-Force marriage, and indirectly the action of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Lambert, pastor of the Elmwood Temple Congregational Church, who performed the ceremony. As a preliminary to his sermon the Rev. Gaius Glenn Atkins, pastor of the Central Congregational Church, the largest and wealthiest Congregational parish in Providence, referred to the marriage.
"I hesitate," said Dr. Atkins, "to speak about the matter, but I regret exceedingly that the Congregational Church generally and the Congregational churches in Providence in particular were called upon to bear the odium of the solemnization of the marriage of Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Force.
"As far as I personally know the temper, either of the Congregational ministers or the Congregational Church as a whole, I want to say emphatically that I do not believe that the thing which has been done represents either our attitude or ideals."
The Rev. M. S. Kaufman, Ph. D., pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, linked the Astor marriage with the Beattie murder case.
[famous contemporaneous trial of husband murdering wife but sparing young child, covered in same NYT paper]
"It is seldom that I refer in my pulpit to sensational and cloudy subjects," he said. "but the Beattie and Astor offenses against the holy marriage relation, the sacredness of family life, the purity and blessedness of the normal home, have been so notorious and so astounding that I will depart from my usual custom and seek to emphasize some truths that cannot be too strongly impressed.
"It speaks volumes for the Protestant ministers of the East that it was so difficult to find one who was willing to marry Col Astor and Miss Force. For a financial reward they would not become party to an act which outraged the moral sense of America's higher public view of decency and righteousness."
The Rev. Edward Holyoke, D. D., pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, remarked during his sermon that "Divorces can be bought. Sometimes even ministers can be bought, but money can purchase only things temporal and not eternal happiness."
While the clergymen denounced the marriage from their pulpits, the Rev. Edwin S. Straight, the aged carpenter-clergyman, who says he was engaged by Col. Astor's attorney to perform the marriage ceremony, remained at home today.
He feels that he has more of a grievance than any of the others who are talking about the marriage, for he has been held up, he says, to the ridicule of the country as the man who was selected and then shelved. Furthermore, he got nothing out of it more than the bare fact that his expenses were paid to Newport and return.
Mr. Straight was taken to Newport the night before the ceremony and installed in a hotel there. He then waited. for the call which he expected the next morning to perform the ceremony. He was ignored, for he said tonight:
"I have not heard a word from Col. Astor or his attorney since they left me in the hotel."
"No I shall not sue Col. Astor. I wouldn't descend to that, even though I was treated very shabbily. I wouldn't go to court to force a man to pay me. What I feel most humiliated about is that I should have been passed around like an article for sale and then left on the counter as not wanted.
"I suppose my name has gone all over the country. What will people think? I do not apologize for being willing to marry Mr. Astor, but I am sorry to have been so publicly and suddenly turned down in favor of another.
"There is no reason under the sun that I know of why I was not called upon as agreed. Now I am waiting to hear from them."
Dr. Lambert preached his regular Sunday sermon today. but was silent on the Astor-Force wedding.
PRIEST BLAMES 'OTHER WOMAN'
Calls One Who Breaks Up a Home a Commercial Vampire.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept 10. — David S. Phelan, editor of The Western Watchman, and a Catholic clergyman, states editorially, anent the wedding of Col John Jacob Astor and Miss Madelaine Force that, "like the cuckoo who lays its eggs in another bird's nest, the young girls who corral married men are commercial vampires, who rob the rightful owner of her nest."
"Well brought-up girls," he says, "who are at all ambitious, go in for a married man these days when luxury is necessary, because a married man has an established income. They can, as the French say, step into a settlement.
"The old wife is divorced and the new one steps right into his home, position, and money. These girls don't care for a, young man who has his way to make. They want one ready made."
The women who prey on the homes of married men Father Phelan finds analogous to the Beattie murder trial in an elaboration of his editorial to an Interviewer.
"The human monster must be destroyed according to common law," he said.
"What is the woman who makes merchandise of herself but a human monster?
Beattie murdered his wife. Better man should kill an innocent woman than immolate her in the divorce court. Beattie was merciful to his young wife. And no doubt she now thanks him for it that he killed only her and spared the child.
"The other woman is typical of the woman in every divorce case. She is a commercial vampire, who in cold blood enters the sanctuary of a happy home and drives out the wife to despair and death. Surely such women ought not to live."
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SPEAKS ON ASTOR WEDDING.
Henry Frank Wonders at the Pulpit Clamor Caused by It.
Henry Frank, whose Sunday lectures are sermons of a decidedly liberal cast, spoke yesterday morning in Lyric Hall, at Sixth Avenue and Forty-second Street. He launched forth upon an oratorical discussion of divorce in general, and of the Astor-Force marriage in particular.
He afforded his audience no little amusement by the way he pictured the perplexities of States and churches in handling the problem, and for his own part he had no condemnation of Col. Astor to make. Quite the reverse. It was the substance of his brief that the churches had been silent through many years only to burst into clamorous disapproval at a time when Col. Astor proposed to do something really worthy.
He spoke of the criticisms launched from one "hiding behind the surplice and pulpit" of a Philadelphia church, and I was led to express his wonder if the criticisms from that Quarter had not been invoked by the "itching palm of notoriety." He admitted that he did not know.
But the thing that amuses me," said Mr. Frank. "is to see the Episcopal Church-of all Churches-leading on all this clamor. Let them remember that the Anglican Church was founded on a desire for divorce."
And he ran hastily over the story of Henry VIII divorcing Catherine of Aragon.
Mr. Frank propounded the theory that marriage was better off before it was interfered with by the Church, and would be better off when the Church learned to let it alone as something outside its province. He gave it as part of his belief that divorces will grow fewer as the more perfect marriages, the more indestructible unions between man and woman, are made more frequent by changing social conditions. He held forth the hope that such unions will abound in the days of woman's greater economic equality with man's. In closing he said:
"The only perfect shrine and the only perfect chancel are the fireside, and the only divinities are little children."
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CENSURE ASTOR MINISTER.
Marriage Termed an Affront to Decency
in Chicago-Action at Providence
CHICAGO. Sept. 18.-The recent marriage of Col. John Jacob Astor to Miss Madeleine Force is termed an "affront to decency and the sanctity of the marriage relation," and the Rev. Mr. Lambert, the Congregational minister who performed the ceremony, is censured in resolutions adopted to-day at the weekly meeting of the Congregational Ministers' Union of Chicago.
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PROVIDENCE. RI, Sept. 18.
The action of the Rev. Josepn Lambert, a Congregational minister of this city. In marrying Col. John Jacob Astor and Miss Madeleine T. Force. was discussed at a meethig of the Providence ministers of the denomination to-day.
It was decided to leave the matter in the hands of a committee of three who will report at the next meeting of the State Society of Congregational Ministers on Oct. 16.
Mr. Lambert spoke briefly in defense of his act.
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REFUSED ASTOR'S $10,000.
Pastor Offered This to Wed Him, Says Bishop Hamilton.
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1912
1912 April 15 The Astor Airedale dog, Kitty, died when the
Titanic sank.
The millionaire John Jacob Astor
lost his Airedale, Kitty, in the disaster. (Reisen, 2020)
New York Tribune, Graphic Section Part VI, Sunday, January
9, 1916
Source: https://youtu.be/uF89xKNWbow?t=710
and https://youtu.be/Zy4bLdlmGrg?t=999
1912 February 24
Cars registered in Brooklyn and
Long Island included William K Dick owned 3 Simplex and William Dick of 156
Ninth Street owning a Healey (Brooklyn Life, 1912)
Figure Caption: Todd D. McIntyre is seeking your assistance in identifying the
car in this photo of his grandfather Henry F. McIntyre Sr. (right) and William
K. "Will" Dick (left). Henry was William Dick's chauffeur. Source: https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/six_degrees_of_separation_a_mystery_photo_the_1908_vanderbilt_cup_race_and_
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AUTO BUS CRASHES INTO ASTOR HOME
Plunges Into Areaway Under Window of Mrs. Madeleine Astor's Room.
A Fifth Avenue bus running northward became entangled with a department store delivery car at the corner of Sixty-fifth Street about 7 o'clock last night, and, pitching across the sidewalk, plunged into the areaway of the Astor home at 840 Fifth Avenue, directly under the room of Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor. The crash of the big car as it struck the building and the cries of its occupants, more frightened than injured, brought the Astor household to the windows in alarm. The throng which during the last few days has loitered around the house formed the nucleus for a crowd which soon numbered more than a thousand and blocked traffic on the three sides of the house.
Both cars were proceeding northward when the accident happened. At the corner of Sixty-fifth Street is an excavation, where the workmen have ceased operations so as not to disturb Mrs. Astor. In passing this the Central Park bus swerved out into the middle of the roadway just as the department store car tried to pass from behind. The wheels of thr latter struck the front axle of the motor bus, throwing it to the right, toward the Astor home. Mathew Mullin, the driver off the bus, was thrown to the floor unconscious, and without control the bus plunged across the sidewalk through the heavy imported stone ballustrade and iron railing. and against the building itself, where it hung in the areaway.
Six Riders on the Bus.
Only six persons were on the bus at the time and none inside. These, with the driver and conductor, were tossed about on the floor, but were not thrown off.
Astor servants rushed forth and helped extricate the passengers from the wreckage. Mrs. Astor, who watched the rescue work from her window, ordered that the injured be brought into the house and cared for there. Dr. Edwin B. Cragin, who for the last two days has been in constant attendance, sent down word that unless there had been serious Injury he could not leave Mrs. Astor.
In ·the meantime the victims had been taken from the car and led to the servants' entrance on Sixty-fifth Street, where everything was done for their comfort. All refused to have an ambulance called. Mr. and Mrs. Astarita, of 824 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, sent tor their family doctor, but before his arrival they had a taxicab called and went away. Both were suffering from shock and slight bruises and cuts.
Miss Attig of 312 East Thirty-third Street sustained slight bruises and a sprained ankle. Jack_ W. Brown of 315 West. Forty-second Street, an actor, formerly of the Little Theatre company, had contusions and cut on his face and back. Both departed after being attended to in the Astor house for a few minutes. The two other passengers, an elderly couple who refused to give their names, received some scratches.
Auto Crush Raises Din.
At the time when the accident happened there were hundreds of automobiles coming up Fifth A venue from the downtown business district, and as these piled up in the crowd berore the Astor house a hubbub started of cars coming to a halt, starting up again, horns blowing, and men shouting for a clear way. Fearing that the noise might disturb Mrs. Astor, Dr. Cragin telephoned to the police station and six policemen were sent from the East Sixty-seventh Street Station to keep order before the house.
Within half an hour the crowd was cleared away, and all that remained was a score or so of the curious and the big bus hanging over the areaway, with a Utter of stone and broken iron lying around.
Dr. Cragin sent down word that he believed that the shock which Mrs. Astor sustained on hearing the crash and cries below her window would have no ill consequences and that his patient was doing nicely.
At the police station, where the drivers of the two cars were taken, Mullin lodged a complaint for reckless driving against Paul Pincus, chauffeur of the store car.
Pincus was later arraigned before Magistrate House in the Men's Night Court and was fined $10, which he paid.
1912 October 4 - Sister of William K. Dick is married.
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Miss Dick Wed Under Rose Canopy
Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Dick is Married to William Kingsland Macy.
SERVICE AT ALLEN WINDEN
Bridal Breakfast on Veranda of Country Home at Islip, Long Island
Off on Honeymoon
Miss Julia A. Dick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Dick of 20 East Fifty-third
Street and William Kingsland Macy, son of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Macy o this city, were married yesterday at 12:30 at Allen Winden, the country home of the bride's parents, at Islip Long Island.
The bride, who was unattended, wore a white satin gown, trimmed with rose point lace, and a veil of rose point lace, which was caught up by a coronet of orange blossoms., the gift of her father. She carried a shower boquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley.
The ceremony was performed under a canopy of bridal roses and Autumnal flowers and greens by the Rev. Charles J. Smith, rector of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of this city, who was assisted by the Rev. William H. Garth of St. Mark's Episcopal Church at Islip. William K. Dick acted as best man.
The wedding was a uiet one, owing to the recent death of William Dick, the bride's grandfather. After the ceremony a breakfast was served, some o the tables being placed on the veranda, which was screened with awnings and chrysanthemums. Van Baar's orchestra played.
Later the couple left on their honeymoon, and upon their return they will occupy the Dick town house, in East Fifty-third Street, as Mr. and Mrs. Dick, the bride's parents, are leaving shortly for an extended visit to Arizona.
1914
1914 August 12 – Advertisement or Manufactures-Citizens
Trust Company
·
Offices at 774-776 Broadway, Corner Sumner Ave;
84 Broadway, Corner Berry Street. Myrtle Avenue, Corner Bleecker Street.
Brooklyn: The Largest Eastern District Business Banking Institution
Conservative-Liberal-Courteous Business may be transacted at either office as
may be most convenient. Capitol $1,000,000. (Brooklyn Times Union, 1914)
·
Lists William K. Dick as one of 4 Vice-Presidents
·
Lists William K. Dick and J. Henry Dick as on
the Board of Directors
1915
1915 July William K. Dick on Winning Team for the Eagle
Trophy in Polo
At the Islip Polo Club Eagle Trophy
event Team Freebooters (Mr. Harry T. Peters, Mr. Allan Plinkerton, Mr. Horace,
Havemeyer and Mr. W. K. Dick) defeat Team Wanderes (Mr. J. H. Minnich, Mr. A.
D. Pratt, Mr. J. E. Meyer and Mr. M. Fleischman) by 7 ½ to 5 ½. ‘Mr. Dick was
thrown heavily during the seventh, but seemed uninjured when he arose to go
back into the game.’ (Brooklyn Life, 1915)
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