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up will now be broken up I presume and these young men will have no home, so essential to young people as well as old. I recalled how kind our dear mother had been to her in her struggling days, and now it was all over and she was at rest. It was a beautiful, bright day and not cold.

Monday Mar 10" 1890. The colored man of whom I engaged a dog for Royal Reed came this morning just as I had finished breakfast bringing a very good looking bull terrier which he said was about ten months old. It was a cold, bright morning only 5° above 0. I made an arrangement to have him get a good box and put him in it and I went down town about 10 o'clock. He had him all boxed and in the express office and had some dog biscuits provided for the journey. I marked the box and paid the charges of $3.40 and he went about 1 o 'clock and will be at Mattawamkeag tomorrow. I sent him to the care of Tim Reed and wrote to him and to Royal. I paid the man $5 for him and a dollar for boxing him and providing the food, so that it has cost me $9.40 rather more than I intended to spend, but I thought it might be a tax to Royal to pay the expenses and so I paid it. Then I went by appointment around to the bank to see Sharpe to decide upon the bronze emblems for the monument, full sized drawings of which were there. Came home to lunch and then planted the hot bed which Tom had prepared. Came away by the 4:05 train which was half an hour late but arrived in N.Y. on time. Went to the Century and had some milk and eggs and after reading Jeffersons statement of his autobiography in the March Centry and a chat with Armstrong and Yenill came to my room. They were to cut some ice in the bays today, about 6 in. thick but the wind was S and a prospect of warmer weather.

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Many people in New-York society will be interested in a wedding, which took place on January 1 at Cobourg, Canada. The bride was Miss Grace Armour, a sister of Mrs. Grosvenor P. Lowrey, of New-York, and the bridegroom Steward Gordon, a nephew of Robert Gordon, who for many years lived in New York, but is now with his family in London, where he is a partner in the banking business of J.S. Morgan. The wedding took place in the Church of St. Peter in the afternoon. The bride was given away by her father, Chief Justice Armour, and was attended by two bridesmaids, Miss Elsie and Miss Nora Armour, and a little maid of honor, her niece and namesake, Miss Grace Armour Lowrey. The best man was Stuart Armour, a brother of the bride. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Will live in Portland, Ore. Mrs. Gordon has often visited her sister, Mrs. Lowrey, in New-York.
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DIED.
BRODHEAD-At New-Paltz, March 7, 1890, at the residence of his son, John C. Brodhead, Charles Brodhead, of this City, in the 84th year of his age. Funeral from his residence, corner Clinton avenue and St. James-street, on Monday March 10, at 1 P.M.

Relatives and friends are invited without further notice.

DECKER-In this City, on March 6, 1890, Mrs. Jane Clark Decker, widow of the late Daniel L. Decker, aged 68 years.

Funeral from the Church of the Holy Spirit, Rondout, on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.
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Tuesday 11" one of New Yorks worst days, rain and fog and a most depressing atmosphere. I have felt very badly and could not force myself to work until nearly 2 o'clock when after looking over a lot of my sketches I finally drew in a picture from a mountain brook from a study Whittredge and I made in the mountains up back of Winnes in Traver hollow. I got it laid in and then dressed and went over to Brooklyn to dine at Mr. Van Ingens with Mary Gifford. Such a crowd as I encountered at the Bridge cars! I feared I would be pushed over upon the track. I took an hour and reached there just in time. I was not feeling well and came away early. Mrs. Johnston sent her man with a note this forenoon asking whether Mrs. Winter were still alive and if so what was her share of the expense of her keeping. I had to tell her I really did not know that her son John had assumed the responsibility of looking after her and therefore I had not been to see about her. Later she wrote me not to trouble about and virtually telling me she would be taken care of. I feel very weak and exhausted tonight.

Wednesday 12" A very warm day, uncomfortably, so in my studio with the window open and the fire all shut off. I painted on my brook picture but it does not please me. Mary came in the afternoon bringing Agnes, Bowyers wife the first time she had ever been in a studio. In the evening went to the Century to see scenic views of the Grand canion of the Colorado thrown on a screen and a talk by Rossiter Raymond. It was very interesting but I thought the views might have been better selected artistically. They were interesting geologically. After the lecture Johnson, Pinchot, Knox and I

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Mattawamkeag is where they vacation in Maine Rossiter Worthington Raymond was an American mining engineer, legal scholar and author Gifford Pinchot ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-06-24 13:06:52 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-06-24 13:25:22