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VOL. XIII
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1908
NO. 21
FREEPORT NEWS
Monday evening, March 30, Daughters of Liberty will hold social.
the
pie I
The Jr. .S. C. E. will meet in the Presbyterian Parsonage Thursday af¬ ternoon at 3:15.
TWES LOWEII llEIIF.
Freeport Property Costs Less for
Taxes than a Neighboring
Village.
We received the following letter Next Wednesday evening the Hearons j ^^om a Freeport subscriber Monday : Sisters Concert Co. will appear at the j EdiW Review : Freeport Club House. ' You always publish any article to
; boprn our village. Please read page 4
World and Eagle Almanacs, Review | of "this week's Observer, where you Stationery Store, 62 South Main wHi find a comparison between the Street. ¦ i tfijfes of this village and of Rock-
I vitJe Centre. Can you help to free us F. Marlow of Brooklyn is to erect j fjjBm the indictment contained in that another hotel corner Merrick and Mil-1 letter'.' burn Roads; H. L. Trubenback, archi-! - Yours truly
tect. ' J"
ing your ta.x on the same valued prop¬ erty $21.28 or again taxes at Rock¬ ville Centre are actually 32 per cent ; higher than at Freeport.
Then again we might remark that the amount to be raised by tax at Rockville Centre, a village of :iOOO jiopulatiory; is $18,-UK, while Free- port, a much larger village, only has $23,717, with -1700 population and only 29 per cent more money appropriated for 56 per cent more inhabitants.
These figures given for tax rates are higher than they actually will be as the assessments will be increased this' ,year, but the proportion will probably I remain about a§ it is.
We regret being compelled to call attention to the high taxes in our neighboring village, and only give the
At last the unsightly sign board fence has been removea rrom in "front of the property of C. A. Sigmond on Brooklyn Avenue, revealing his up-to- date real estate oflfice. This is a big improvement.
¦ The article is toii long to quote in full hut it sumtnad up quite fuU in its clos¬ ing, paragraph:
j '"The Taxpayers of Rockville Centre 1 will pay $11,748.45 less for taxes this j year than will the taxpayers of Free- i port, yet we get fully as much if not
All are invited to attend a pound .sale ' "^^^^ *^^" *'^^y ^^ ^^^ ^^ '^^^ ^^^" for the benefit of the Mineola Hospital, I ^^^^^ sevenths of their taxes." Wednesday, April 1, from 3 to 6 p. m., { We regret that such articles appear at the home of Mrs. B. M, Knobel, : in a presumably reputable paper. The 124 N. Long Beach Avenue. Contri- I villages of Freeport and Rockville Cen- butions gladly received. | tre were for years antagonistic to each
• ' other but lately have both been work-
— Reserve Friday evening, March 27, ; ing for a greater Long Island and the for the lecture by State Fish, Forest! increase in population has been at al¬ and Game Commissioner Whipple in | most exactly the .same ratio in the two the M. E. Church on "Bird and Animal' places.
Life in the North Woods." I Rut the Observer bason its office i force two or three men who have a
We have received an interesting poet ^ mania for writing communications to card from Whitson Colyer. at Tacoma, j their paper, and we do not beleive that Washington. Mr. Colyer is on a trip i this present "communication" was for several months covering the north-! seen by anyone outside their office un- westem section of the United States. | til it appeared in their last issue. It ~ I is to be regretted that the writer of
The Nassau Trust Company is to sell i this article, who we verily beleive the Imperial Hotel and grounds under! lives in Freeport, should so seek to stir foreclosure sale on Friday, May 1. i strife between the two villages, as he
They hold a second mortgage on the' property, subject to a mortgage for $14,000 held by the Freeport Bank.
Col. Geo. W. Bain, "The .Silver-! Tongued Orator of Kentucky," will lecture in the M. E. Church on Monday evening, March 30, on "The Safe Side of Life for Young Men." Mr. Bain haa a wide reputation as an orator and the church should be crowded one this occasion. No adniission will be charged, but a collection will betaken.
tiardeii Seeds at DaSilva's.;
.Saturday afternoon of this week the cake .sale for the benefit of Nassau Hospital will be held at Mrs. R. IL Mayland's, corner Main St. and Ran¬ dall Avenue. Mrs. Mayland is also arranging for a musical to be given for the same cause. Freeport people are certainly doing their .share toward })ut- ting the hospital on a firm financial basis.
Miss Viola Peterson entertained a number of her friends at her home on New York Avenue last Thursday even¬ ing. The time was pleasantly spent.
well his 'hold water.
"indictments"
foregoing to, as our reader says "free when one hundred eighty children, out
of an enrollment of less than four hun¬ dred, perished, their young lives crush¬ ed out by thtv frenzied mob or .smother¬ ed in fiames. in a two story and attic, brick building, but recently erected, it is the imperative duty of all school officers and teachers to take the utmost precautions to prevent a similar disas¬ ter in any building under their care.
As the supervising school ofiicer of Nassau County. I desi^ire to call your immediate and most careful attention to the following matters:
EIRE DHILLS .VI' SCilOIII.
School Commissioner Writes To
School Teachers and
Principals,
Schocjl Commissioner Cooley has .sent out to all the public school authorities and principals in Nassau County a let¬ ter urging compliance with regulations
for tiie safety of life and property in about the first thing we do is to per- the schools. It is as follows: ' feet the fire drilh
To the School Authorities and Sehool dren are new to Principals of Nassau County : - ' goes .slowly, but
In view of the fearful tragedy at the drills they get to burning of the Collinwood School, near Cleveland, Ohio, a few days since.
the heels of the one in front of her."
1 would also commend to you the fol¬ lowing words of a city school principal: "Discipline means everything with children. Once impress them with the fact that if they do something tho wav they are told it is all right and there¬ after they will do it mechanically. Even the littlest ones have come to look upon the tire drills as fun, a sort of pleasant relief from the routine of school work. At the beginning of every term
ATTEIISIIN .\MI ELLISON
Big "Vote at "Village Election. Propositions Carried.
All
At first the chil- their places and it after two or three working perfectly.
knew full would not
Yes, we could, we think, easily "free us from the indictment," but .preferred to wait until the tax rates were fixed. The comparison is not as our reader says "between taxes," but between budgets, and the budget in the latter j)lace is considerably lower than ! the tax will be. In the meantime we I would say that it does not take so much to run a little village as it does a village tbe size of Freeport. I
For instance, we have an appropria- I tion of $5000 for streets, while Rock-' vilie Centre needs apjiarently but $2,000"-(?frey probably have 20 miles of streets to our fifty. i
Then we spend four tiiousand dollars j from our water system and $5,000 from our lighting system in exten-! sions, while at Rockville Centre they ' only appropriate $2500 for the two funds and take that by direct tax.
In the same way they only appro¬ priate $910 for their fire department but ask for $1250 for extra hose; our
Freeport from the indictment" in the comparison made.
Easter Post Cards, Review Stnfion- ery Store, 62 South Main St.
Clarence VanRiper wishes us to an¬ nounce that he is in the race for Second [ Assistant Chief in the Fire Depart¬ ment and to contradict rurnors to the contrary.
On April 2 Mystic Rebekah Lodge will initiate 11 candidates from Rock¬ ville Centre, who will subsequently institute a Rebekah Lodge in that vil¬ lage.
The Ladies' Guild of St. Paul's Church, Roosevelt, held their annual meeting March 12, followed by a sup¬ per and social evening at the residence of Mrs. Germeroth.
The ladies of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration will hold a cake sale at the residence of Mrs. Charles R. Loa, West Merrick Road, Saturday afternoon, March 28.
Elvin N. Edwards has found his law business in this local territory growing so fast that he has abandoned his New York work and now has his office en¬ tirely in the Ross & Randall building.
All friends of Rev. D. A. Jordan and Mrs. Jordan are invited to attend the farewell reception to them, in the M. E. (-hurch, this Friday evening. A short iirogram has been arranged, and refreslm^'uts will be served.
Sunday evening the M. E. Church was crowded when the pastor. Rev. I). A. Jordan, preached on the topic: "Should the Bible be read in the p\ib- lic schools?" Five seats in front were filled by members of P>eeport ("ouncil. No. 57, Jr. O. U. A. M.
Faster Post Cards. DiiSilv.i.
W. J. Dawkins has leased ofiice in E. R. Brindel's building at 7 Brooklyn Avenue, where he can be consulted about jiainting and decorating work. Mr. Dawkins has been doing work in this vicinity for several years and will furnish references to interested parties.
At the Presbyterian Church Sunday ! at 2:30 p. m., a special review of tho
Every child is taught exactly when to rise from his seat, when to step into the aisle, how fast to march and by what exit to go. The fire drill in every New York school is a perfect example of diycifO'ne "
Yours for the safetv of the bov.-^ and girls,
.lames S. Cooley,
School Conunissioner.
(ilen Cuve, .N. Y.
See adv. for Iniildint^ lot.s at Oakdale for sale.
Magazines, .Stationery Department, Nassau Counuy Review : .\pril Smart
1. Make at once a thorough personal Set, New Idea, Delineator, Designer, examination of every exit from your Argosy, Young's, Metropolitan, Short school building and see that all exit, Stories, People's, Smith's, Ainslee.'s. doors open outwards; that the bolts or
Daniel B. Raynor has sold his resi¬ dence property on West Merrick Road to L. D. Amermann of Brooklyn, who will make it his summer home. Mr. Amermann owns another house on .South Ocean Avenue, where he has spent his summers for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Raynor and their daughters Nina and Natalie, will
With TIT votes cast, the largest number in the history of the village, William 11. Patterstm and J. Huyler Ellison won out in the three cornered fight with Frank H. Stevens for the office of trustee. Thi' vote was : Ellison, in l'atter.<on, 441 Stevens. 306 Tliere were lots of .--})lit ballots and the vote for the other officers whose names ajipeared on both columns, re¬ sulted:
For President, Daniel Morrison, 504. For Treasurer, John E. Golding, 497. For Collector. Elvin .'V. Dorlon, 489. There were ll!t .straight "People's Tickets" cast and 27n for the "Citi¬ zen's."
.\\\ tht- ]iropositions were carried by good majorities, as follows:
PROPOSITION NO. 1 Shall the sum of seven thousaiul dollars ($7000) or as much thereof as may be necessary, be riiised by ta.xa- tion u{x)n the taxable property within the incorporated Village of Freeport. to meet the expenses of Street Light¬ ing on an all night schedule, iiuluding repairs to nlant'.'
__ ' Ye.s, IKS No, 119 Majority, 9(i PR()POSITIC.\ Shall the sum of (1000) dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, be raised by taxa¬ tion upon the taxable property within the incorporated Village of Freeport, to be used for the payment of one-third (1-3) of the co.stof granitoid sidewalks whenever the owner or occupant of land idjoining a street in said Village,
NO.
one
thousand
fastenings are such that these doors
may be easily and quickly opened, and
that these doors are never fastened,
bolted or locked when the pupils are
in the building. 2. If the enrollment of your school
is one hundred or more and no bells or
other means of giving an alarm have
been placed in your building, take , • , , ,
prompt and effective steps to provide, ^V^''^ several months in Brooklyn.
some method by which the whole; Mrs. Amelia John.son, an aged resi
school may be warned or notified of dent of this village, was severely in-1 shall, with the consent of the Board of
fire, and test the .same, frequently, jured Monday evening by a folding j Trustees, construct such sidewalk.
bed, which she was about to prepare I Yes, 172
for the night, falling on her. She j No, 133
was knocked senseless by the blow. A j Majority, 39
physician was summoned, and revived] I'ROPOSITIO.N .NO. '¦>
her. He. found no bones broken, only j .shall the Boanl of Village Tru.stoes a .severe bruise on Mrs. .lohnson's side I ^.f i\^^> incorporated Village of Free- and back. She will be laid uji several j j„„.t, acting in their ia|)acity as Water days by the accident.
Much synijiathy is expressed ior mail carrier Schmidt of North Bay- view Avenue, whose young wife died last week, anrl was buried Tuesday o this week at Patrhogue. Funeral ser-1 vices were held Monday evening. Rev. Pelham St. George Bissell, rector of ; the Episcopal ("hurch of the Trans- j figuration, officiating. Besides her j husband, she is survivetl by two srnal children.
that you may be sure that it is jiwlays in working order.
3. As required by the following statute, organize your school for fire- drills, if you have not already done so, and insist upon practicing the fire drill until your building can be emptied raii- idly and in good order.
Section 1. It shall be the duly ol" the princijjal or other jierson in charge of every jiublic or private shcool or ed¬ ucational institution within the state, having more than one hundred pupils, to instruct and train the p'upils by means of drills, .<o that they may, in a sudden emergency, be able to leave the school building in the shortest ])o.ssible time and with<jut confusion or panic.
Such drills or rapid dismissals shall be held at least once in each month.
The following from a recent daily . well illustrates how a fire-drill can be made effective in every school:
"William McAndrew, the princijial,
of Washington Irving School, at 34
East Twelfth Street, jjut his jiujiils to
' the severest kind of a test. The Wash-
; ington Irving is an old school building.
i Comniissionei's. be authorized to ex- ! jicntl from the Water Fund tlu^ sum of
four thousand dollars sion of tht.' Water Sv!
d' ; 1:'^"
Fn
of
Shai the
S|.aMi
HalKi
|)a.<ilva.
from thii-
., , .• ,-. " ¦ , I xiuiii Luia amount; and so on through
among the features being soprano solos | ^^^ list. We will again speak of this by Miss Julja Peterson, recitations by ; ^.^ter when the tax rateS are fixed in Miss Mane Parkerson and Viola Peter-, ^^^ ^wo villaees
ison, and piano solos by William Ray-i p^^.t^er, the'village Board of As- nor Supper was served about m.d- ,,,3„„ ^^ Rockville Centre assess night. Among those present were Misses Parkerson, Miss K. Duffy, Misses Stutsky, Anderson R. Gunder- on, William Raynor, William Parker-
so, Frank Cotlo Jr.. andClilTord Smith.
The meeting of the Friday Knights j Club was held at the home of Misses | Dusenburg, 231 Pine Street, laat Fri-1
¦dayi A very enjoyable evening was i ap^nt with games, music, etc. St. : I'atrick's Day being ao near the decora-'
^ tions and favors were green. There I were seventeen members present, ! MislseB Betzig, Brotheridge, Chapman, \ Dorlon, Dusenburg, Garrison and > Hibbard, and Messrs, Ketzig, Chap-1 man, Denton. Donaldson, Earle, Mac- \ Cary, MacDonald, B. and IJ. Osterhout. \ The next meeting will be a ghost; party held at the home of M iss Betzig, '¦ North Grove Street, March 27, i
I
Patriotic decorations predominated | in the drapery of the lodge room in Fraternity Hall of Progressive Coun¬ cil. No. 66, Daughters of Liberty, at their meeting Monday evening in "non
sessors at Rockville Centre property a great deal higher according¬ ly than the Freeport Board does, which still more complicates the matter.
The law only allows a certain per- cejitage of the assessed valuation to be spent in taxes, and the valuations in our neihgboring village are according¬ ly higher in order to keep within that limit.
The Town Board of Assessors do not copy the vllage figures but make up their own books, fixing the valuation in each village at the same ratio.
This gives us these figures, roundly :
Village Assessments:
Rockville Centre, $1,255,000 Freeport, 1,450,000
Town Assessments:
Rockville Centre, $960,000 \ Freeport. 1,570,000
j Thus it will be seen that while in j the case of Freejjort the Town Assess- j rhents are about 7J per cent higher, in ! Kockville Centre they are nearly 31 ' per cent lower. In other words.
struction is hardly modern. In the main building there are 612 girls. Soon after the day's work began Prin¬ cipal McAndrew touched the electric button that sounded the fire alarm and in just 45 seconds his jiupils were in the street.
An hour later Principal .McAndrew j George Wallace, and .seven sounded another alarm, a hurry call John IL, George, William
board consistently puts i" $2000 and ;,y^,^j g^,^^^, les^ons for the quarter ' built for a grammar school in 1865, and will purchase their ^"PPjy ^f^ J«^«e | will lie given. Mrs. J. M. Baxter, , while it has been remodelled its con-
Mrs. ("harles H. Reach and Roswell Davis will be the speakers. The Home Department and all other mem¬ bers of the Sunday School are urged to be present.
Services in the Episcojial Church of the Transfiguration:, Fridaf, 'even- .song, 5 p. m.; Sunday, holy communion, 8 a. m.; matins, litany and sermon, 10:30 a. m.; evensong and sermon, 7:30 p. m.; Wednesday, litany, 10 a. m.; Thursday, evensong and sermon at 8 p. m.; when Rt. Rev. Frederick Burgess, D. D., Bishop of Long Island, will administer confirmation; the fol¬ lowing Thursday evening, April 2,
Rev. Duncan McPherson Genns, rector < possible demonstration of the system/s of St. Thomas' Church, Brooklyn, is ^alye-the best possible outside of a announced to preach. '"^*' "'"^' ^"^t is:
,,, .-; , . , .... A second after he stepjied to the
We are considering cne advisabi ity i .. ,, , ., * i ¦
,, .,,. jjt- i. .» • switchboard there were tour clanging
of building an addition to our Main . * r ^.i. • ^u • u n
£,..., ^ . ., , . , beats from the gong in the main hall.
Street atore in the near future, and, . ¦ ¦ e e . i
,, . , I.U t then a scraping of feet, a murmur and
would be pleased to hear from anyone ^ ^
desiring to rent a store with or with-
OBITUARY
.lohn H. Raynoi- .liihn 11. Kaynor, <i;ie of the oldest residents of the village, died a week ago Thursday night after a brief ill¬ ness, jiossibly brought on by a fall three weeks previous. lie was a cfe- scendant of one of the original settlers of Freeport (formerly Raynortown), his Jiarents being Benjamin Riley and Jane Raynor. He followed the bay for a living until about ten years ago, when he retired. Ht; is .survived by one brother, James B. ^ynor, two sis ters, Mrs. Carman Pearsall and .Mrs.
¦hildren, C, and
this time, which meant that the chil- i Thomas Raynor, Mrs. Edward Smith I dren were to leave the building with- i and Mrs. Arthur Wilson oi this village, I out their hats and coats. It is so sel- I'and Mrs. Girdell V. Brower of Rock- ]
I dom that two fire drills are held in the j same day, or follow one another in an I hour's time, that Mr. McAndrew be¬ lieved the second test would be the best
house assessed for $1000 in Freeport i dence of Mrs. R. H. Mayland (Bell [by the Village Assessors, using the | Oaks) North Main St. and Randall
or of the official visit of Ida M. Fulton, I town assessment for comparison, is as- Avenue, for the benefit of the Nassau | second floor, and rapidly the column
State Councilor, officers.
and her staff of
sessed $1400 at Rockville Centre.
Hospital.
Now the budget with appropriations ' vited and interesting addresses relative to the' '"akes juat $18,418 at Rockville Centre j amount may b« order were delivered by the State i '"^tead of $7928 as this writer claim-1 committee is Hi Councilor, State Vice Councilor, and a ^^^*° *23,717 at Freeport for taxing
number of other prominent officials. The initiatory degree was conferred
upon four candidates, and the State CkHiQeilor and State Vice Councilor w«!« presented with handsome sou- -venin.
Bread Box, special 80c, DaSilva's.
The result will be, as near as an est¬ imate goes, using the last assessments: Freeport tax rate, |1.61 Rockville Centre tax rate. 11.52 Then where you pay 116.10 for your property tax at Freeport, you will pay 40 per cent nore at Rockville Centre, owinc to your higher aaaeoMnent, mak-
ville Centre. The funeral was held on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Dr. Jordan officiating; interment in Freejiort ('em- etery.
Letter to Daniel B. Raynor
Freeport, L. I. Dear Sir: A new word has come intfi use in jiaint; it is strong. Strong paint is paint as strong as jjaint can be. Weak paint is jiaint not so strong. If one jiaipt takes 10 gallons to dq a job and another 15, the 10-gallon pai^ is the stronger.
The strongest jiaint is the one that takes least gallons and wears h/ngest. But do such differences exist'.' Yes and greater. Devoe is the strongest of all. A job that takes 10 gallons De¬ voe takes more thar> 20 of some. And a job of Devoe wears .several times as long as a job of some paints. The public is coi-dially in-i from the first floor followed down the ^- ^- P*^''''y' East 8th St., Erie, Pa., it is hojied that a goodly ; stairways. They were marching four painted two houses same size; .same abreast as column fell in with column time; with two paints same price; tooic
in the main hallwav on the second and first floors. In a second or two less than a minute the building was emp¬ tied.
In spite of the »uddennes3 of the
out the rooms above. Building will be about 16 ft. front and 50 to 70 ft. deep. Smith F. Pearsall.
There will be a cake sale and Kaffee
Klatsch on Saturday afternoon, next,
a ^ from 2 to 5 o'clock, p. m., at the resi-
then the orderly tramp, tramp, tramp, as the children began to make their way by two by two toward the exits. A column from the top ^oor, the third, took precedence on the main stairway, following the routine of the drill which prescribes that the pupils from the rooms on the upper floors must make their way first to the stairs. Next came the long column from the
($4000) in exten- tein in the- Vil- rt'.' ' Ves, 203 .\'o. S'.l .Maj(;rity, 111 PROPOSITION .NO. 1 the Board of Village Trustees incorporated Village of Free¬ jiort, acting in tlu-ir cajiacity as Light ("ommis.sioners, he authorized to ex- jiend from the Light Fund the sum of five thousand dollars (.$500(11 in exten¬ sion of the Lighting Systcni. Yes, IK't No, 99 .Majority, 9<) PROPOSITION NO. r. Shall the sum of three thousand dollars (.$.'1000) or as much thereof as may be necessary, be raised by taxa¬ tion ujioii the taxable jirojierty within the Incorjiorated Village of F'reeport for the purjiose of grading jiortions of Pearsall, Long Beach, Brooklyn, Mad- i.son Avenues, Wallacf Street, Porter¬ field Place, Broadway, Pine Street. North Ocean Avenue and .North Grove Streets'.'
Yes, 162 No, 131 ."Vlajority, 31 With all the.se imjirovements jdanned' and voted tor the tax rate this year will probably be about $1.45 per $100, which is about 10c higher than last year.
NOTICE
.Several shields and caji badges of the Freejiort Fire Department have been mislaid or lost. As,they are val¬ ueless to any one but a Fireman, any one having found any of them are re¬ quested to leave same at the Review office, where the Secretary may get them.
W. H. Sammons, Seecretary.
VV. B. (Jozzens, Chief.
be realized. The local ram R. Smith, Mrs. R. H. Mayland and Mrs. Fred Story. Mr. Smith has been invited to serve as one of the directors. The South side has not heretofore been given any repre¬ sentation in the Hospital work, but it j gecofni alarm the pupils were as cool is to be hoped that Mr. Smith will ac- | gnd \influrried as if they were marching cept this directorship and that Free- i o„t to a picnic. They didn't seem a port will respond generously to this j bit nervous, and every child kept ber wofthy call for help.
.'> gallons Devoe to 4 of the other; and in three years Devoe was the better looking job.
There are strong and weak paints; we all want the strongest; paint can't be tocj strong.
Yours truly,
F. W. Devoe & Co. P. S. C. Milton Foreman sells our
exact place in Ium without treading on P*>i>t.
^
H<innMia(h' Candies af DaSilva's.
Rev. James N. (irace of RoHlyn will jireach Sunday morning and evening in the Presbyterian Church.
O. W. Svenson is again among our advertisers. See his jirices on gro¬ ceries thia week;
Those whose sweet Uxith demands' the best in confectionery will find some¬ thing to interest them in Smith & Be- delPs ad^ in this issue. It.
Dr. G«». G. Kelley, V. S., Im Htillwitli: the Fre<'i>ort VeU'rinary HoKpitai at 76 V. Main St.; tel., 13fj-L-l; hijavuis, cnrba and spUntK treate«l wbih- the anioud workK. / tf.
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m I VOL. XIII FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1908 NO. 21 FREEPORT NEWS Monday evening, March 30, Daughters of Liberty will hold social. the pie I The Jr. .S. C. E. will meet in the Presbyterian Parsonage Thursday af¬ ternoon at 3:15. TWES LOWEII llEIIF. Freeport Property Costs Less for Taxes than a Neighboring Village. We received the following letter Next Wednesday evening the Hearons j ^^om a Freeport subscriber Monday : Sisters Concert Co. will appear at the j EdiW Review : Freeport Club House. ' You always publish any article to ; boprn our village. Please read page 4 World and Eagle Almanacs, Review of "this week's Observer, where you Stationery Store, 62 South Main wHi find a comparison between the Street. ¦ i tfijfes of this village and of Rock- I vitJe Centre. Can you help to free us F. Marlow of Brooklyn is to erect j fjjBm the indictment contained in that another hotel corner Merrick and Mil-1 letter'.' burn Roads; H. L. Trubenback, archi-! - Yours truly tect. ' J" ing your ta.x on the same valued prop¬ erty $21.28 or again taxes at Rock¬ ville Centre are actually 32 per cent ; higher than at Freeport. Then again we might remark that the amount to be raised by tax at Rockville Centre, a village of :iOOO jiopulatiory; is $18,-UK, while Free- port, a much larger village, only has $23,717, with -1700 population and only 29 per cent more money appropriated for 56 per cent more inhabitants. These figures given for tax rates are higher than they actually will be as the assessments will be increased this' ,year, but the proportion will probably I remain about a§ it is. We regret being compelled to call attention to the high taxes in our neighboring village, and only give the At last the unsightly sign board fence has been removea rrom in "front of the property of C. A. Sigmond on Brooklyn Avenue, revealing his up-to- date real estate oflfice. This is a big improvement. ¦ The article is toii long to quote in full hut it sumtnad up quite fuU in its clos¬ ing, paragraph: j '"The Taxpayers of Rockville Centre 1 will pay $11,748.45 less for taxes this j year than will the taxpayers of Free- i port, yet we get fully as much if not All are invited to attend a pound .sale ' "^^^^ *^^" *'^^y ^^ ^^^ ^^ '^^^ ^^^" for the benefit of the Mineola Hospital, I ^^^^^ sevenths of their taxes." Wednesday, April 1, from 3 to 6 p. m., { We regret that such articles appear at the home of Mrs. B. M, Knobel, : in a presumably reputable paper. The 124 N. Long Beach Avenue. Contri- I villages of Freeport and Rockville Cen- butions gladly received. tre were for years antagonistic to each • ' other but lately have both been work- — Reserve Friday evening, March 27, ; ing for a greater Long Island and the for the lecture by State Fish, Forest! increase in population has been at al¬ and Game Commissioner Whipple in most exactly the .same ratio in the two the M. E. Church on "Bird and Animal' places. Life in the North Woods." I Rut the Observer bason its office i force two or three men who have a We have received an interesting poet ^ mania for writing communications to card from Whitson Colyer. at Tacoma, j their paper, and we do not beleive that Washington. Mr. Colyer is on a trip i this present "communication" was for several months covering the north-! seen by anyone outside their office un- westem section of the United States. til it appeared in their last issue. It ~ I is to be regretted that the writer of The Nassau Trust Company is to sell i this article, who we verily beleive the Imperial Hotel and grounds under! lives in Freeport, should so seek to stir foreclosure sale on Friday, May 1. i strife between the two villages, as he They hold a second mortgage on the' property, subject to a mortgage for $14,000 held by the Freeport Bank. Col. Geo. W. Bain, "The .Silver-! Tongued Orator of Kentucky" will lecture in the M. E. Church on Monday evening, March 30, on "The Safe Side of Life for Young Men." Mr. Bain haa a wide reputation as an orator and the church should be crowded one this occasion. No adniission will be charged, but a collection will betaken. tiardeii Seeds at DaSilva's.; .Saturday afternoon of this week the cake .sale for the benefit of Nassau Hospital will be held at Mrs. R. IL Mayland's, corner Main St. and Ran¬ dall Avenue. Mrs. Mayland is also arranging for a musical to be given for the same cause. Freeport people are certainly doing their .share toward })ut- ting the hospital on a firm financial basis. Miss Viola Peterson entertained a number of her friends at her home on New York Avenue last Thursday even¬ ing. The time was pleasantly spent. well his 'hold water. "indictments" foregoing to, as our reader says "free when one hundred eighty children, out of an enrollment of less than four hun¬ dred, perished, their young lives crush¬ ed out by thtv frenzied mob or .smother¬ ed in fiames. in a two story and attic, brick building, but recently erected, it is the imperative duty of all school officers and teachers to take the utmost precautions to prevent a similar disas¬ ter in any building under their care. As the supervising school ofiicer of Nassau County. I desi^ire to call your immediate and most careful attention to the following matters: EIRE DHILLS .VI' SCilOIII. School Commissioner Writes To School Teachers and Principals, Schocjl Commissioner Cooley has .sent out to all the public school authorities and principals in Nassau County a let¬ ter urging compliance with regulations for tiie safety of life and property in about the first thing we do is to per- the schools. It is as follows: ' feet the fire drilh To the School Authorities and Sehool dren are new to Principals of Nassau County : - ' goes .slowly, but In view of the fearful tragedy at the drills they get to burning of the Collinwood School, near Cleveland, Ohio, a few days since. the heels of the one in front of her." 1 would also commend to you the fol¬ lowing words of a city school principal: "Discipline means everything with children. Once impress them with the fact that if they do something tho wav they are told it is all right and there¬ after they will do it mechanically. Even the littlest ones have come to look upon the tire drills as fun, a sort of pleasant relief from the routine of school work. At the beginning of every term ATTEIISIIN .\MI ELLISON Big "Vote at "Village Election. Propositions Carried. All At first the chil- their places and it after two or three working perfectly. knew full would not Yes, we could, we think, easily "free us from the indictment" but .preferred to wait until the tax rates were fixed. The comparison is not as our reader says "between taxes" but between budgets, and the budget in the latter j)lace is considerably lower than ! the tax will be. In the meantime we I would say that it does not take so much to run a little village as it does a village tbe size of Freeport. I For instance, we have an appropria- I tion of $5000 for streets, while Rock-' vilie Centre needs apjiarently but $2,000"-(?frey probably have 20 miles of streets to our fifty. i Then we spend four tiiousand dollars j from our water system and $5,000 from our lighting system in exten-! sions, while at Rockville Centre they ' only appropriate $2500 for the two funds and take that by direct tax. In the same way they only appro¬ priate $910 for their fire department but ask for $1250 for extra hose; our Freeport from the indictment" in the comparison made. Easter Post Cards, Review Stnfion- ery Store, 62 South Main St. Clarence VanRiper wishes us to an¬ nounce that he is in the race for Second [ Assistant Chief in the Fire Depart¬ ment and to contradict rurnors to the contrary. On April 2 Mystic Rebekah Lodge will initiate 11 candidates from Rock¬ ville Centre, who will subsequently institute a Rebekah Lodge in that vil¬ lage. The Ladies' Guild of St. Paul's Church, Roosevelt, held their annual meeting March 12, followed by a sup¬ per and social evening at the residence of Mrs. Germeroth. The ladies of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration will hold a cake sale at the residence of Mrs. Charles R. Loa, West Merrick Road, Saturday afternoon, March 28. Elvin N. Edwards has found his law business in this local territory growing so fast that he has abandoned his New York work and now has his office en¬ tirely in the Ross & Randall building. All friends of Rev. D. A. Jordan and Mrs. Jordan are invited to attend the farewell reception to them, in the M. E. (-hurch, this Friday evening. A short iirogram has been arranged, and refreslm^'uts will be served. Sunday evening the M. E. Church was crowded when the pastor. Rev. I). A. Jordan, preached on the topic: "Should the Bible be read in the p\ib- lic schools?" Five seats in front were filled by members of P>eeport ("ouncil. No. 57, Jr. O. U. A. M. Faster Post Cards. DiiSilv.i. W. J. Dawkins has leased ofiice in E. R. Brindel's building at 7 Brooklyn Avenue, where he can be consulted about jiainting and decorating work. Mr. Dawkins has been doing work in this vicinity for several years and will furnish references to interested parties. At the Presbyterian Church Sunday ! at 2:30 p. m., a special review of tho Every child is taught exactly when to rise from his seat, when to step into the aisle, how fast to march and by what exit to go. The fire drill in every New York school is a perfect example of diycifO'ne " Yours for the safetv of the bov.-^ and girls, .lames S. Cooley, School Conunissioner. (ilen Cuve, .N. Y. See adv. for Iniildint^ lot.s at Oakdale for sale. Magazines, .Stationery Department, Nassau Counuy Review : .\pril Smart 1. Make at once a thorough personal Set, New Idea, Delineator, Designer, examination of every exit from your Argosy, Young's, Metropolitan, Short school building and see that all exit, Stories, People's, Smith's, Ainslee.'s. doors open outwards; that the bolts or Daniel B. Raynor has sold his resi¬ dence property on West Merrick Road to L. D. Amermann of Brooklyn, who will make it his summer home. Mr. Amermann owns another house on .South Ocean Avenue, where he has spent his summers for several years. Mr. and Mrs. Raynor and their daughters Nina and Natalie, will With TIT votes cast, the largest number in the history of the village, William 11. Patterstm and J. Huyler Ellison won out in the three cornered fight with Frank H. Stevens for the office of trustee. Thi' vote was : Ellison, in l'atter. |
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