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relieved that this proving of the map is done.

Friday Nov. 22" 1889. Down town. Weather threatening, rain in the evening. Have gone over the maps of our property and rearranged some of the lots, corrected the map Girard has in his office and today he took it back to his office. This afternoon I put up Sara's curtain rods and Tom and I put on the double windows. It grew dark before we finished but there are only four to put on. I have ben busy all day. I wrote to Eastman Johnson to come up and spend Sunday with me. Sara and I have arranged our china in the book case I brought over from my house to the dining room and it is now quite a feature of the room. Mr. DeForest who was buried today was an old and esteemed friend and though he has been an invalid many years I was shocked at this announcement of his death. In the death of Schutt a familiar figure disappears from an old haunt in the Kaatskills. Stedmans mother I did not know only having seen her once. Schreiber was a cabinet maker but seemingly a rather superior man, and one who enjoyed his work. He restored for me the little mahogany table in the sitting room. He reminded both Sara and me of Charlie Osman.
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Saturday 23" As busy as a bee today. Sent my check to M. Rock for my bill in full $65. Down town in the morning. Finished putting in the storm windows. Mrs. Coffin, her sister Miss Lawton, Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Coffins daughter called with Julia Dillon and were delighted with our place. I have been putting in glass and doing many odd jobs, getting ready for the winter. We have had N.W. wind today with fine skies but mild temperature.

Sunday 24. Have been visiting almost all day. Finished my letter to Mrs. Taylor, wrote to Janette Hubbard, a note to Mr. Jacob Palmer at Tiffanys who had a letter of introduction to me from Mr. Bachelder, a note to Mary Gifford, one to the secretary of the Art Guild, one to Capt. & Mrs. Anderson acknowledging the receipt of their announcement of Nathalie's marriage. To Mrs. DeForest a letter of condolence and a short letter to Church. We called over to see the Van Deusens who start for California tomorrow, on account of his health. Later in the evening he called to bid us good bye.

Monday 25. I made a copy of that part of the map representing the proposed changes in Calvert St. and took the original map and went down town where I found a letter from Eastman Johnson saying he could not possibly come up. A picture which Savory bought of him several years ago "Corn Husking at Nantucket" had been shown a few evenings ago and sold for three times what he had paid for it, which necessarily made him feel very good. I went up to Kingston to consult Kenyon about getting Woods consent to narrowing Calvert St. to 20 ft. East of Wills St. I saw them both and left the maps and explained it to them and they are to complete some kind of an arrangement with him. I authorized them to say that if his barn which is in the street had to be moved we would agree to do it, if necessary. I then asked Judge Kenyon if I should buy this place how I could acquire title. He told me I could not buy it, that being an executor I could not buy it directly nor have any one buy it for me indirectly. I asked him if Sara could buy it and he said she could. Advised her writing to Laura and Gertrude stating fully the price she was willing to pay, what other portions of the property had sold for and all information. That she could assume $8000 of the $10.000 Booth Mortgage which would leave only $2.000 on the rest of the property. Advised me to go and talk with Mr. Lindsley after I told him he and Edward Tomkins had had an influence in restraining Joe from objecting to the probate of my fathers will. I came home and after dinner took the map and went down to the Cement Co's office. On the way I stopped at John McEntee's office and told him of my interview with Kenyon and what I proposed to do. I found Mr. Lindsley and Mr. E. Tomkins both at the office and told him in detail illustrating by the map what Sara had offered for the place and that the other

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OBITUARY.
HENRY G. DE FOREST,
Henry G. De Forest, age sixty-nine, died suddenly of heart failure at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island on Monday evening. He was one of twelve children of Lockwood De Forest, of this city, all of whom lived to maturity, and of whom only one, James G. De Forest, now survives. He was graduated at Amherst College in the class of 1839. Among his classmates were the Rev. Dr. Storrs, Bishop Huntington, and Dr. Hewitt, of the Paulist Fathers. He studied law at Yale and later in the office of his brother-in-law, Daniel Lord, sr. He practised his profession as a member of the firm of Weeks & De Forest until the death of his eldest brother forced him to leave the law for a time and continue the business of W. W. De Forest & Co. In 1873 he resumed practice as counsel for the firm of De Forest & Weeks, but failing health compelled him of late years to abandon active work. He was for twenty-two years an elder in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and has been connected with the Presbyterian Hospital, the American Bible Society and numerous charitable institutions.

Mr. De Forest was highly regarded professionally and was esteemed for his many charitable deeds. His wife, three sons and one daughter survive him. The funeral will be held at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, Friday morning, at 10 o'clock.

J. L. SCHUTT.
Kingston, N. Y., Nov. 18 (Special),-J. L. Schutt the owner and manager of the Laurel House at Kaateskill Falls, in the Catskills, died on Saturday, after an illness of several weeks. He was nearly sixty-seven years of age, and the oldest manager in the range having been at the falls for about half a century.

The Death Record.
Mrs. Elizabeth Clementine Kinney, mother of Poet Edmund Clarence Steadman, died yesterday at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. N. S. Easton, at Summit, N. J.

The Vicinity Mortuary Record.
The funeral of the late Frederick L. Schreiber was held this afternoon. The interment was in Wiltwyck Cemetery and with Masonic honors. The deceased was a member of Kingston Lodge, No. 10.
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