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Show A SUBSTANTIAL RECOGNITION OF SERVICE. Recause she has been a model servant. ser-vant. Kate Pi row n has received from her employer. Mrs. Julia Dewlndt Thompson, wife of Dr. Thompson of Ferris Iane, a suburb of Poughkeep-sle, Poughkeep-sle, a gift of a new house on a lot of ample slzo next to the Thompson property fr e and clear of all e ncumbrances. ncum-brances. This novel recognition of the services ser-vices of a servitor became known today when the deed conveying the property from Mrs. Thompson to Kate . I'.rown was filed In the Dutchess county coun-ty clerk's office. Dr. Yon R. Thompson said tonlnht ' that his wife was not well and c.mld not be interviewed, but that he was i willing to sny thst Mrs. Kate Urown ,' hud been Invaluable as a cook In hi home for II 0 year. Her daughter ; was born there, and is also a fam- lly servant in the Wilderness, which I the name by which the Thompson j mansion Is known. The Thompsons i are not willing to lose Mr. I'.rown I or her daughter, and both will re- I main with them. The deed to Kate P.rown shows that the consideration for the property given to her Is "one dollar ami the I friendship and esteem I feel for her." ' The fact Is, Mrs. Hrown did not even j pay a dollar for the property. Mrs. : Thompson tent for If njamln Hrevort, a surveyor, and bad h I in measure off ' a generous strip of land from her es- i tato. She built thereon a substantial ' and nttractlve house, nd when it was ! finished fbe surprised Kale by walk- j Ing into the kitchen and giving her . the deed. The Thompsons are wealthy New York people. - New York Sun. |