Combined families — Buddy can you spare a car — and a chauffeur

This is the latest in an occasional series of posts about the daughters of Samuel Pruyn and their families that lived in the three houses that now are the campus of The Hyde Collection art museum in Glens Falls.

What do highway superintendents do for entertainment during a convention?

Why, inspect highways, of course.

Louis Hyde was among Glens Falls residents that donated use of personal vehicles for a tour of highways in Warren County when the New York Association of County Highway Superintendents held its convention in Glens Falls the last week of June in 1916.

“Many of the superintendents inspected the concrete pavement which is being done on South Street,” The Post-Star reported on July 1, 1916.

Louis Hyde and Maurice Hoopes also lent their shared chauffeur to Uncle Sam.

The chauffeur was among members of the National Guard Company K unit deployed in June during the Mexican border conflict.

Hyde and Hoopes continued paying the regular salary to the chauffeur’s family while the chauffeur was deployed, the Glens Falls Times and Messenger reported on July 21, 1916.

In other Combined Families history news:

The Lake George Mirror reported on July 26, 1919 that Maurice Hoopes attended the Friday dinner at the Lake George Club. “After the supper a dance was held and the members enjoyed an all-round good time.”

The Post-Star reported on Dec. 31, 1919 that Louis Hyde was elected first vice president of the new Warren County Council of Boy Scouts of America.

The Post-Star reported on Dec. 24, 1919 that Louis Hyde and Maurice Hoopes contributed $10 each to the first annual Glens Falls Community Christmas celebration at the Glens Falls Armory.

The Post-Star reported on Dec. 23, 1919 that Mary Hoopes was a patroness for the college men’s dance, “a very elaborate evening of entertainment,” at Haviland Hall with music by Beaton’s Society Orchestra.

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