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...Ashfield, Mass., or a visiting Russian watercolorist's impressions of early 19th Century Night Life in Philadelphia (some young fops and a floozy gathered around an oyster barrel...
Died. Albert Henry Stanley, first Baron Ashfield of Southwell, 73, rags-to-riches London transit mogul, President of the Board of Trade in Lloyd George's World War I cabinet; following an operation; in London. Son of an English railway worker who emigrated to the U.S. in 1879, he started out at 14 as a messenger boy in the Detroit streetcar system, rose to be manager, returned to England in 1907 to reorganize London's subways, finally (with the Labor government's help) unified the city's whole transport system into a single $1 billion public...
Alice Brandeis Gilbert '49, of New York City and Eliot Hall, won the position of first NSA delegate, while Mary Hall '50, of Ashfield and Briggs Hall was elected as alternate. Margaret Mayer '51, of Glencoe, Illinois, and Briggs Hall, gained the post of Sophomore representative on the Student Government...
...Ashfield, tucked in the Massachusetts hills, has only two churches, but even they are more than the town (pop. 900) can afford. Last October it found a way: one shepherd for its two flocks. Philip Humason Steinmetz, rock-hewn rector of tiny, white-framed St. John's Episcopal Church, took over as minister also of the Congregational Church that, with its Greek Revival portico and bell tower, dominates Ashfield's elm-bordered main street...
...this working example of Christian unity, the vicar-minister said last week: "I can think of the whole community . . . and not feel that I'm poaching someone else's ground." Said Episcopal Bishop William Appleton Lawrence, father of the Ashfield project: "I heartily approve and enthusiastically endorse. . . . It's a good idea and significant in finding a solution to the problem of overchurched communities...