than fifty seamstresses and an office staff. The company was pervaded by the "Spirit of the Church and the Brotherhood." The Company kept going during the first years of the Great Depression, but in 1933 the Company had to close down. Public recognition Both of Rochester's newspapers, the morning Democrat and Chronicle and the afternoon Times Union, carried a story with a photograph about Mrs. Crapsey's eightieth birthday on March 7, 1935. Mrs. Crapsey had a busy day. She answered messages and opened letters and telegrams of congratulation. Former employees of the Adelaide T. Crapsey Company "were among the first to extend their greetings." Two of the most appreciated letters came from an elevator man and from some elderly men who lived in the County Hospital. Mrs. Crapsey had visited them every Sunday and holiday until the winter of 1034–1935, when illness prevented her visit. She had also "secured many comforts" for the men. Representative James P.B. Duffy sent a telegram, saying, "Permit me to join all the people of Rochester in extending to you felicitations on this your 80th birthday. Your life has been an inspiring example and a blessing to us all.". Mrs. Crapsey told the Democrat and Chronicle reporter "that her only claims to distinction are the facts that she never has had her picture in a newspaper and that she never has been in a bank." On her eightieth birthday, she gave up her first claim to fame. She posed for a newspaper picture. She told the Times Union reporter that "she was most deeply touched yesterday, she said, by the fact that persons of all religions remembered her." Armistice Day, 1941 On Armistice Day 1941, Mrs. Crapsey wrote a letter to the editor of the Courier-Gazette newspaper in Newark, New York, a town about thirty-five miles from Rochester. She enclosed a check to be used to send the paper to men in the armed services from Newark. The letter explained why she cared so much about soldiers: "A very young and beloved Uncle was in the Mexican War and killed in his first battle. My husband was in the Civil War. Two of my Sons were in the Spanish–American War and my youngest Son was in the World War." On March 7, 1948, the Rochester newspaper the Democrat and Chronicle reported that Mrs. Algernon S. Crapsey was ninety-three, that she had "recently recovered from a