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VOL. XIV
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1908
NO. 3
FREEPORT NEWS
Single copie'^ of tho Review for sale aj Gohetz's, DaSilva'H and, Review Bailding. . '^
See what Thomas JohuMton has to say about drugs this week. * U.
You cau now pay your achool ta-xes at the Review Building; see adv.
Ed. Olsen wiil establish a furniture and carpet .store in Mayer's store on Main St., fonnerly occupied bj'^Chas. •J^ggs.
A. B. Wallace announces that he is
Quarterly (Conference will be held in the M. E. Church Monday evening?. Rev. Chas S. Wing, presiding elder, • will preside.
The time table of the Long Island Railroad hns heen changed for the Winter. The corrected table will be found in this issue of the Review.
About thirty members of the Free- port Fire Department attended the au¬ nual dinner of the Nassaa County Fire¬ men's Aesociation at Mineola Wednes¬ day evening.
Game Protector E. A. Dorlon ha.s succeStled in breaking up an illegal
not a candidate fof re-election as Chief scheme of netting ducks in Shinnecock Engineer of the Freeport Fire'Dejiart- Bay. On Saturday he with hiaa^- ment. _^
Village Ta.x Collector E. A. Dorlon must turn in his h^)oks before Dec. 1, after which thoTaxfcs will h«ye to be paid at the Villajpre Treasurer's office.
sistants located a seine at Good Ground in which were 433 dead ducks.
The W.H. M. S.'of lhe M.E. Church gtore is to be re-opened by R. will hold their monthly meeting this Houteu. i
(Friday) afternoon at 3 o'clock al the home of Mr.s. "S. R. Smith, 13.5 Smith Street. ,
Windel'a candy store was closed thia week and an auctioneer's notice ap¬ peared in the window for a couple of; , , ., , ^ ,^, ,.,,,, days, when it was removed and the |«"^.|\« ^^''i'?.'!^.^^^.I\'".^f^f.^y,^'^^^^
Discuss School Site
Board of Trade Favor Purchase of Additionnl 5cliool (Jround
Railroad Matters Discirssed
The monthly meeting of the Freepurt Board of Trade wa.s held Wednesday evening when several village affairs were actively discussed, especially the matter of buying a new .school house site corner of .Long Beach Aveuue ami Archer .Street.
Wm. P. .Jone.s, chairman of the e.x- ecutive committee, introduced the sub¬ .ject, stating that the price a.ske(i for thi.s lot, $8,000, was a rea.sonable one
Van
CJne of the greatest cold weather comforts procurable is bein.tr adver¬ tised by Smith & Bedell Co., elsewhere claims hi¬ in ' this paper. It will be worth your ^roes. while to find out about this article.
acquired v»'hile it could be; -that there
was no iut'jntioii of building the school
[row but merely to hold the land till it
An Italian uamed Barbuto As as- . was ncedeu. Ho moved that the Boar.l
saulted Sunday night and stabbed in .go on record as favoring the purchase.
the abdomen, making three serious { Thomas Burleigh th.night the Board
wounds. He was on hia way home in ;of Education .should have given the
the eastern part of the village and | voters a choice of at least three sites
was attacked by several ne-
In the M. E. Church Sunday evening the paster will begin a series of inter¬ pretative sermons on "Great Teachings of the Bible." The topic of the (irst on Saturday, Novei of these discourses will be "The Judg- p P- '";.. Orders fo ment Day, WiJI There Be One?"
' The Church Improvement .Society will hold a sale of home-niadd pies, cakes, candy, bread and {ireserve.s iu the chapel of the Presbyterian Church mb'er 21, from 2 to r the above cau be left with any member of the society.
I-"^ The regular monthly busine.ss meet¬ ing and social o: the Young Peojilu's Association of the Presbyterian Churcli will be held this Friday evening at 8 p. m. at the home of Mr, R. Archibald Miller, 275 Smith St. All members of the Aesociation are urge.l to be present.
Dr. William (j. Smith has opened a dental office in the litjuse' formerly oc¬ cupied by Arthur Wilson at 61 \V. Merrick Road and is now ready for business. Dr. Smith came here from Carthage, N. ¥.,• vihere he has been practicing dentistry for the past 20
years. ¦-, ,
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A movemont'is now on foot to secure the signature of> sulficient number of voters m t;lie TiWvn of Hempstead, to a petition, for ^^ vote kt the coming spring electiori, on tiw» question of continuing the litensiag of saloons. Blanks for signature are at the office of C. M, Flint, Railroad .'Ave., Thursday, Fri
The Church Improvfetnent Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet at the Parsonage next Wednesday. ^No-
' vember 18, from 10 a. m. to 5 ]\ tn.
. The women of the congregation will be most welcome at this meeting.
Justice of the Peace Tatem, acting coroner, has renderajJ a decision iu the I case of George Cooper, \yho was found dead at head of Freeport River several weeks ago J verdict, accidental drown¬ ing. The "analysis of tiie .stjmach showed no trace of jjoiaoning. ¦ \Vhich some suspected. . *
' In our repo.'t of election returns in ¦ Freeport last week we gave Hughes 227 majority in the Fourth Distriet when tho number should have been 273. The number we gave was good but the right one was better and shows evi¬ dence of hustling work done by the Republican leaders in this district.
ll^v. Charles drtrhart Schohiy will prea.ih iu the Pr.?sbyterian Ciiapil of day aud Saturday, of this week, from Roosevelt Sunday at ;!jl"> p. m. 'Speeiul 6 to 9 o'clock in t(je evening. About l»«'iphi»g services have been arranged 800 names will be needed in the entire
town.
for Sumlay afteruoou.s at R'>)sevelt, propar.ition for a week of evangolisti.^ meetings to begin on Dee. 1st, under the joint leadership of Rev. Selmley and R'3V. A. H. Rennie of Oee^iiside. The evening theme of Rnv. St^holey in the FrBo{)ort Pre.sbytorian Cluireh this Snn- 'Heroism in Advewity."
: The local branch of the ^nternatioIlal Sunshine Society is havidg urgent and frequent calls made on its resources. Donations of money, clothing, grocery daywill be orders, etc., are solicited from all peo¬ ple intetested in the Society's work. Constable S. Pettit went to Long With a hard winter almost upon us. Island City Saturday morning and and many needy among us, the Society brought three young men to this vil- hopes for generous contributions from 'aK^, where they were arraigned be- all, fore Justice of the Peace Tatem,
ArtJcJea will ^e received by the Pres- charged with assault in the first de-
icfent of tke local branoh. Mra. Fred E. Kree. It was stated that on the night
Story, 188'W. Merrick Road. of Saturday, October 31, they entered
the home of George Bloch, at Boll-
Mrs. Jennie C. Smith, through her more, and assaulted him. attorneys. Clock and Seaman, haa The three were Jacob Shaide, 20 aerved on the attorney for Samuel P. years of age, who at one time was em- Smith, who .is suing his wife for di- ployed by Bloch, Frederick Dittner, 20 voroe and custody of one (rf the child- y^arJ o^ age^, both of Glendale, and ren, who has been living with her, a Lindsay (ilenn, a twelve-year-old bgy, notice of motion, returnable at Mineola grandahn of Mrs. Fisher, Bloch's on. November 14, when the attorneys housekeeper. Each of the boys state for the defendant, Mrs. Smith, will that they only succeeded in getting be- m&k that the plaintiff pay $15 a week tween four and fivajiullars each. It is for her -support during the pending of thought that thia is a plan to go out on the action, $100 counsel feea and $15 a pettit larce.nf ebarge instead of grand for wjtiieises' fees to enable her to ile-. larceny.
jin the section designated, and didn't j favor the Board of Trade, going on 1 record for this proposition; it might bi! j poH.sibIe to get a'cheaper site. I Henry L. Maxson v,'as opposeu to I further increasing the ¦ obligation of I the di.strict, and thought the matter j should hu held in abeyance until the . j effect of the recent dull time had passed off.
Alexan.ler K. Rhodes was also .strong¬ ly against siiending any more money for schaol purposes aa the tax was too liigh already. Mr. .lones withdrew his res¬ olution and a motion was passed that the Board favor the purchase of a .site south of the railroad track.
C, D. Baker said he was sorry Mr. Jones had withdrawn his original mo¬ tion as tho Board of Education ha.l un¬ doubtedly used their best judgment in selecting this "site, and more school ac¬ commodation must be arranged t'or, tv/o rooms being now in use outside the two school houses.
It was nioved to thank the General Passenger .^gent of the Lone: Island Railroad for the excellent Winter time table provided -the best Freepurt has had.
_A. R. Rhodes complained of it taking five days to send a barrel of oysters by L. I. R. R. to I'hiiadelphia; Mr. Baker, who. is chief clerk to General Traffic Manager Langdon, said that he thought if Mr. Langdon's attention was called to this the trouble would be remedied. ,
The proposition of free express de¬ livery in the Bayview section was also brought up. Mr. Baker said this also should be referred to Mr. Langdon and he did not douUt the service would be extended as desired.
Wm. P. Jones made an interesting report of the inland waterway hearing before the Federal Commission Wednes¬ day afternoon; he said a great deal of creilit was due Elvin N. Edwards for having nmde that meeting so great a auccess.
Through the Financial Secretary, J. 1). Kiefer, A. C. Ackerman com¬ plained that he was obliged to light matchea to tind his way home from the late train on cloudy "moon light" nights \Vhen the street lights were not burning. Mr. Keifer said that a Busi¬ ness Men's As.sociation had recently been organized {o work on lines similar te the Board of Trade and one of the first matters they would bring up would be the iniproviiig of lighting facilities in the Village, both on streets and in the stores and. hotnes.
The next meeting wil4 be held Dec.
y.
! Can't Make Roacis Now
The Village Trustees at their meet¬ ing I-Yiday evening discus.sed at length I the question of grading certain village streets in accordanco with the resolu¬ tion pas.sed last Spring at the village election.
The Boartl was of the unaiiininus opinion that the work shoul'l be done at once but also agreed with Street Com¬ missioner Pine that it was not a wiso plan to attempt to build the roads at this time of the year, e.spccially under the peculiar existing conditions.
The handicaps the Board has had to work against have been discouragin;.-. In the first place when estimates were procured they were all too high for tlto amount appropriated; the plans wero then altered but again the (iriie was too high, ?o the Bpard decided t* em¬ power Air. Pine to go aljoad witli ll;e wtwk as long as the money lastel.
The Village I-^ngineer was tlien- in¬ structed to plan the grades but by the time things were in working order the roads wore so hard owing to th.; lack of rain that it was thought liest to wait for rain. As we all know there has been practically no rain unlii week before last and that only went in three or four inches. The roads conse.juently would bo twice as hard to work as they will be in the Siiring, and furtiier, they would be almost itnuassible this win¬ ter, as the dirt would not "knif'j boing hard v/here undisturbed and in lumps where moved.
A rnan pre.sent at this meeting stated that it was almost impossible to mak^? wages at digging now because the ground was so hard and cak-id owing to the long dry spell.
The Board accordingly decided it would be bast to make what temporary repairs were possible and proceed with thts gradinLT early in tho Spring, wlien it will be necessary to ask for a fur¬ ther appropriation to eoini)l..>LL> tho work.
iray the cOat and expensea of defend¬ ing the action. The motion will come up at the Suplfwrae Court seesion on that day. vA
All three were held tor the Grand i Jury without bail and locked up in the Na'isau Couuty JaU at Mineola. The Nassau County and tlj* Town of , Hempatead o^ciaU are confident that
Thankagiving Post Cards now on in the arrest of these three men they aale at the Review Stationery Store, 62 bave three desperate charavtera. It South Main St, Freeport. 2t. i ia atat«d that wlien tbay called on
¦~^i.^ ' ' '' ^'***^^ **" ^''® night of the 2Ist they had
~^h© Ladis^' Aid Society of the M. a loadafi revolv«r and a butcher knife, E. Churcb is working industriously for which apparently they intended to use tha aucceaa of ita annual fair, Nov. if /lec-aaaary. One of the prisoners in IT at^ 18, The following aro the , hia confeaaion told about the revolver haadaateoaxmltiaim: Candy booth. aiMi knife. The officer* found the ar- Mfa. H. «;, tf axon; dinii^^ room, Mra. ; tidea whera tiw priaoner stated they if. J. jrJonnelly. Mra. W. F. Umis, do-1 had baan tJu^wn. raeatie booth. Mrs. C%. Wabar; dolU I The ftndimr of tha knife and ita con-
a«d tojra. MIm Mina Hathm, Mias Maria JenntJifs; fimeyboath. Mm. S. V. Qibaon; groM»ry baptii. lim. ClMa. RayaoK. Mra. F. W. WrMit; iMndkw- ohimi booth, lira. W. A-lS^aKl; m*. tpiaiit. tfia. W. <1, mUmt, Mia. H. L. ^m>m.m^O. W. ^mafhaar. U^
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Witfi^f^aa aMa avsNiiaiF*
naction with thia caaa'oonviBce the oAciaJf tliat ooa af ths thtam young aaaa wsm caaaaatad witiN. tlie aailault on
tCmEi. it ia alatad. ^oa^ftaaai at
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The girls of the classes of Mrs. Lea and Mrs. Bissell of the Episcopal Sun¬ day School will have a cake .sale aiid tea at the residence of Mrs. Lea, W. Merrick Road, Saturday afternoon of thia week from 2 to 6 o'clock.
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We had the pleaaure of a visit from Mr. Lemuel B. Green of the Patchogue Argus, Irving J. Long ol the Bay Shore Journal, Chaa. F. Delano of the Amityville Record and W. W. Hulae, President of the Bay Shore BoanJ of Trade, Wednesday aftertK>on.
Sunday evening, Nov. 22, will be the sixth anniveraary ot the aervi:« of the preaant paator. Kev. Pelham St. Umtx^a Biaaall, at the £piacopal Church of/the Tranatlgiuratiun, and at eveusoog Vary Bav. Oaan Moaaa of tba Catba- ^«1 arill pnack.
^ Tha foOawiag Sunday avaaian (AA- aaat Snadn) Wamtxat QaacmO, No. W. *r. OU. A.1I.. will vicaa at tlw tlUMfth
Village Trustees
A full board was present at che. meeting of the Village Trustees Friday : evening. " j
The license fee for .Meeson's Cine-: matograph was reduced to .$25 per month during the Winter with the un¬ derstanding that Mr. Meeson would keep a fireman on duty at his own ex¬ pense.
Ross & Randall have been losing lumber lately and have placeji a man in the yard as night watchman ; upon their recjuest this man, Frank McFar¬ land, wa4 appointed a village officer.
J. W. Holbrow made complaint of the sidewalks on Main St., just above Brookjyn Avenue, that on the west side being too high and thu east side too losv. It vvas decided to place a stone step on the west side, and to ask Mr. Mead, the owner, to fill in the walk on the east side.
Village Treasuier Golditig reported the following balances in the various funds:
General fund, $2510.tid; street fund, $2-4tH).:U; water fund, $1102.;jy; light fund, $1270.20; Board of Health fund, $258.t)'); interest fund, $2;i5.r);j; tax arrears fund, $()0U.94; fire department fund, $814..j(): street light fund, $1,- t;2i).;M; light extension fund, .$4t!7.Sl; water fund, $ti2t>.8C; water sinking fun.l, $2bS.2;j; sidewalk I'un.l, $222.51); street grado fund, $2247.17.
James R. Smith reported thut he had inspected all village fire hydrants and found them in good (;onciition with the excepti'>n of eight; these the water committee has arranged to have fixed at once. There are I7« .hydrants in use now.
Tax collector E. A. Dprlon reported
; having collected $t)14.77 since last »e-
port, making a tqtal of $20,234.24. It
; waa decided to call in his books on
' Dec. 1.
I The following applications for water
1 were granted: Jacob Post, North Main
;St., and Jacob Munzinger, Madison
• Ave. For light, Chester A. Fulton.
j A draft was ordered drawn in favor
, of George Wallace, attorney for Leslie
1 Brown, for $3205.64, beinvr amount of
i judgment againat tha village, with in-
taraat and>MMts. This was the action
for damage* for the loaa of an eye, by
being hit by a limb projacting over the
roadway ou a village street.
A taw mimbar of routine billa wara also aaditad-
Axtbwr Wilaon baa BBovadiato hia MwfaraamMMdbmiaa ea Waat M«w wiakmaai*
For Inland Water Way
Hnthusiflstic /Weetin^ir Meld at
Opera hall--*>tron}5 Argu-
meiit.s Pre^ented
Speakers Irom ull Sections
. An entiiuaiastic meeting wjis held Wt.'dnesday afternoon at Opera Hall for the Jiurjiose of submitting data and statistics before the Board of Army Engineers nf Rivers an.l Harbors, in reference to the neeil of a proposed In¬ land Waterway beginning at Jamaica Bay, through (Ireat South Bay. to Pe- jonic Bay, ineluJing channels thr.iugh Parsonagt? and .Sumpwanis Kivcrs and F'reeport and MassajRvjua Creeks, thu waterway to be one hundred feet wirie and six fct deep at low water.
The meeting was ealled to order at ¦T."0 ]). rh. by Col. Lockwood of the Doard, who road a report of the rejec¬ tion of the uiidorta!:iiig on the i)arl oi the IJoard on a jiriiir inve.^tigation, stating that the meeting vvas ioy (he Jiurpose of rehearing and reconsiiieiini.' the jiroject.
Counselor Elvin .\'. Edwards, who had charge of Na.-aau dunty, anu who has during tho past month been active in obtaining a great ampuiit of data showing the amount of tonnage carried per year, both by rail and water, was called upon by Congressman W. W. Cocks of the First District to address the ('ommi.ssion am! act as clii'.irman of the meeting.
Congressman Cocks, then in a few well chosen words showed tho ("omniis- sion the great need of the undertaking and also stated that in carrying out the jj'opased Jiroject, it would only need the dredging of one and one half miles of the so-called ujdand of Long Island, and that the remaining dista.iice would bo through the meadows belonging to the City of New York and the various bnvns along the route.
Representatives of nearly every civic organization on tho south side were present at the meeting, there being over a hundred delegates, representing ' .ajiproximately twenty thousand people of Long Islaml, all favoring the project enthusiastically.
W. W. Hulse, president of the Bay Shore Board of Trade, jiresented some strong reasons for building the water way and urguiLihe Commission to fav¬ orably consider the jietition.
Counselor Edwards stated that he . represented the Freeport Board of Trade and the Allied Boards of Trado and submitted to the Board signed statements from over a hundred merchants of tbe village of Freeport, showing that the tonnage of freight received in the Village tif Freejiort alone was between two hundred and three hundred thousand tons per year and that only about .si ¦.'y-thousand tons of this was carried by water, owing to the Jioor facilities.
Mr. Edwards also filed with the Com¬ mission a jjetition setting forth in full the needs of this waterway, showing the great advantage to manufacturers that the water way would be; he showed what with very little difficulty and that at a very slight cost, consider¬ ing the great improvement, and the great growth, it would mean to Long Island and the Federal Government,as a , safe means for the trans|jortatioii of supplies and light draft gun boats ini ca.se of war; he also showed the great | danger oi boats of any kind coming in [ the pre.sent inlets which havo a ten¬ dency to shift with every heavy .storm. Ho also sjioke of the fact that when the project of making Fort I'ond Bay a jMirt of entry was carried out, this in¬ land waterway would make it possible to carry all freight for New York City by water, while overland freight cuuld be carried by rail through thu Penn- tiylvania Tui|mels on to the West.
I. S. Ftemlen, the well-known Brook¬ lyn manufacturer, stated that hu was there as a representative of several Civic Associations and the Jamaica Bay Improvement Ass'n and tlie Manufac- I turing Association and that he was ! heartily in favor, as were his organiza¬ tions, of the propoaed inland waterway, and tliut it was the une great need of Long Island; he stated that he wanted j to appeal to the Buard, asking them tu ! give this great proposition a considerar tion that it should justly receik'e. "No ; estimate could be giveu as to the amount of tonnage through the new waterway if it is made a reality." aaid Mr. Ramsen.
Asaausblynuui William G. Millar at thia tima askad Col. Lockwood why the proftaaltlon bad baan rajecUKl before, •o tbat tba paofila praaant could maat tha objaction. Opl Laekwoed raad tba
giaaa whttb atalad tbat at tbat rinia thaf aaaa daubtfal if tha CapaMvea at
the four rivers mentioned in j)roject would justify the exjienditura liy the Government.
Congressman t/ocks tlien took tjfiQ Moor and sh.iwed tho great need of the project for jiieasure cr.nfts, as well as fyr freight traffic; he showed that in getting the jdeasure craft here, it would bring jieojile t.) the shores of Long Isl.md who W(Aild build homes where there woul.l be neo.l of lumber and other building material: al.«o pro¬ visions of every kind ; tlie Congressman also stated that tlio dirt dre.lged from the rivers would lill in much uf the meadow lands and thus make thom very valuable; Col. I/ickwo<Kf ijuirkly asked' if that would not be a land deal; Con¬ gressman Cocks showed the Colonel that it would be a land deal in ona sense of the word : that pr.iv ision should be made to carry the material for buildings on the Island.
Counselor Fdwards spolce of one business man in Freejiort who handled more than forty-eight tlrcuHiihdn(.r.tf"8f**• coal in a year ami that there were sev¬ ei-al sucli dealers wlio carry almost as mu.'h ill Freejiort, not sjieaking oi' the same conditions existing in all lhe p! incijml towns on tho South side.
Elbert Pasch of Bay Shore made a strong hit in favor of the proposition by showing tho dangers of the inlets and the delay cau.sed in shijjpiiig by waters, a"Hl cited an incident at F"ire Island inlet, whi'i-e nine ve.s.'-els were forced to lay at anchor eleven days be¬ cause of rough weather an.l the impas¬ sibility of the inlet; ho '^tated that' Long Island was in its infancy an-i that it would blossom out like a park with i.rojjer water facilities.
Counselor Seaman of Wantagh stated that he had walked with tl.e chain for the first .-urveys of the L. 1. Kailroad, and that this undertaking al this time was of gr( ater imjiortance to Long Isl¬ and than that was at that time; and also that many lives were lost on ac¬ count of the bad inlets.
E'litor Delano of the .\niilyville Record staled that he ha.l "lieen obtain¬ ing data in that '^owii f.n- the Bay Shore Hoard and that he thought thoro was no better way to imjiress the imjiortance of this .'ubject up¬ on the mind.-: of the Board of Engineers thnn to take them througii each .if the villages on the South shore, froir Ja¬ maica to Greenport.
N. B. Kilmer of lirooklyn, secretary of the Jamaica Bay Imjjrovement As¬ sociation, stated that the purvey i^rdered by Congress in that imjirovemeiit vvould be ready in a few days and would ojien a jjathway to this great (iroject before tbe meeting; he said that in repre.sent- ing the allied Boards of Trade of the City of Brooklyn he wanted the jieople of Long Island to know that they were strongly in favor of this neetied im- jiroveuient.
Walter S. Funnell, of lhe Hrooklyn Daily Times, stated that in his twenty years'experience in iiew.-iiaiier work; that every week he wouhl lieaji' argu¬ ments in favor of such a Drojjo.^iiioii,;^^ he was also in a jjo.sition where he continually heard of the loss of lift'and projierty due to the bad inlets and the necessity of boats having to go out in¬ to the Ocean to get to NewYork ; he said that he had been in direct communica¬ tion with the baymen and (ishennen, vvho, if they had projjer facilities, could shiji the goods by wateT much cheajier than by the present way; he also stated that he knew the Board of Engineera were always ready to act squarely in these matters and it was uji to the peo¬ ple of Long Island to furnish them with facts, and he hoped the peojile would take advantage of this.
L.B.Green, President of t'le I're.i.-. As¬ .sociation of Sufl'olk County, .said thaf this Jiroject would be greater to Long Island than the Hud.son liner was to New, York Cily. He also spoke of tha jjo«jr railroad fa< ilities and the control uf thu L. I. Railrua«l, stating that Jan¬ uary 1, the railroad intended, he waa informed, to raise tlwir rates ten per cent over the present prices.
Col. Lockwiiud nald that the Govern¬ ment had had .some trouble over ob¬ taining right of way, before, in projects of this character, and it had cust coiifiiderable money; he wanted tO know wouhl thu j>eople in thia instanca donate the laixl.
Assemblyman Miller stated that much uf the way belonged to the Tuwna and while he could nut apeak with au* thur ity he thought tlte necessary rigirt of way cuuld easily be gotten.
Congressman Clicks replied that if the Board wuuid recommend tlie under¬ taking; he thought the pttople w<«ikt taka car* of that end all right,.
Counsalor Alexander Rhodas aiao, mada a good argument fur tlie prupuai- tiori and aai<i tha Guvamment hiid apaot BUMpy BsillioBa ol ^aUara aaviatf tha plMkOTi as tha MbMinipfi asi that hk woaUi ba BMpa TthwhU m tko govan^ oMmt to bavt thia pMpMad watar iCaotfasaad oa pa^a S)
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VOL. XIV FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1908 NO. 3 FREEPORT NEWS Single copie'^ of tho Review for sale aj Gohetz's, DaSilva'H and, Review Bailding. . '^ See what Thomas JohuMton has to say about drugs this week. * U. You cau now pay your achool ta-xes at the Review Building; see adv. Ed. Olsen wiil establish a furniture and carpet .store in Mayer's store on Main St., fonnerly occupied bj'^Chas. •J^ggs. A. B. Wallace announces that he is Quarterly (Conference will be held in the M. E. Church Monday evening?. Rev. Chas S. Wing, presiding elder, • will preside. The time table of the Long Island Railroad hns heen changed for the Winter. The corrected table will be found in this issue of the Review. About thirty members of the Free- port Fire Department attended the au¬ nual dinner of the Nassaa County Fire¬ men's Aesociation at Mineola Wednes¬ day evening. Game Protector E. A. Dorlon ha.s succeStled in breaking up an illegal not a candidate fof re-election as Chief scheme of netting ducks in Shinnecock Engineer of the Freeport Fire'Dejiart- Bay. On Saturday he with hiaa^- ment. _^ Village Ta.x Collector E. A. Dorlon must turn in his h^)oks before Dec. 1, after which thoTaxfcs will h«ye to be paid at the Villajpre Treasurer's office. sistants located a seine at Good Ground in which were 433 dead ducks. The W.H. M. S.'of lhe M.E. Church gtore is to be re-opened by R. will hold their monthly meeting this Houteu. i (Friday) afternoon at 3 o'clock al the home of Mr.s. "S. R. Smith, 13.5 Smith Street. , Windel'a candy store was closed thia week and an auctioneer's notice ap¬ peared in the window for a couple of; , , ., , ^ ,^, ,.,,,, days, when it was removed and the «"^. \« ^^''i'?.'!^.^^^.I\'".^f^f.^y,^'^^^^ Discuss School Site Board of Trade Favor Purchase of Additionnl 5cliool (Jround Railroad Matters Discirssed The monthly meeting of the Freepurt Board of Trade wa.s held Wednesday evening when several village affairs were actively discussed, especially the matter of buying a new .school house site corner of .Long Beach Aveuue ami Archer .Street. Wm. P. .Jone.s, chairman of the e.x- ecutive committee, introduced the sub¬ .ject, stating that the price a.ske(i for thi.s lot, $8,000, was a rea.sonable one Van CJne of the greatest cold weather comforts procurable is bein.tr adver¬ tised by Smith & Bedell Co., elsewhere claims hi¬ in ' this paper. It will be worth your ^roes. while to find out about this article. acquired v»'hile it could be; -that there was no iut'jntioii of building the school [row but merely to hold the land till it An Italian uamed Barbuto As as- . was ncedeu. Ho moved that the Boar.l saulted Sunday night and stabbed in .go on record as favoring the purchase. the abdomen, making three serious { Thomas Burleigh th.night the Board wounds. He was on hia way home in ;of Education .should have given the the eastern part of the village and voters a choice of at least three sites was attacked by several ne- In the M. E. Church Sunday evening the paster will begin a series of inter¬ pretative sermons on "Great Teachings of the Bible." The topic of the (irst on Saturday, Novei of these discourses will be "The Judg- p P- '";.. Orders fo ment Day, WiJI There Be One?" ' The Church Improvement .Society will hold a sale of home-niadd pies, cakes, candy, bread and {ireserve.s iu the chapel of the Presbyterian Church mb'er 21, from 2 to r the above cau be left with any member of the society. I-"^ The regular monthly busine.ss meet¬ ing and social o: the Young Peojilu's Association of the Presbyterian Churcli will be held this Friday evening at 8 p. m. at the home of Mr, R. Archibald Miller, 275 Smith St. All members of the Aesociation are urge.l to be present. Dr. William (j. Smith has opened a dental office in the litjuse' formerly oc¬ cupied by Arthur Wilson at 61 \V. Merrick Road and is now ready for business. Dr. Smith came here from Carthage, N. ¥.,• vihere he has been practicing dentistry for the past 20 years. ¦-, , ^/—.—, A movemont'is now on foot to secure the signature of> sulficient number of voters m t;lie TiWvn of Hempstead, to a petition, for ^^ vote kt the coming spring electiori, on tiw» question of continuing the litensiag of saloons. Blanks for signature are at the office of C. M, Flint, Railroad .'Ave., Thursday, Fri The Church Improvfetnent Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet at the Parsonage next Wednesday. ^No- ' vember 18, from 10 a. m. to 5 ]\ tn. . The women of the congregation will be most welcome at this meeting. Justice of the Peace Tatem, acting coroner, has renderajJ a decision iu the I case of George Cooper, \yho was found dead at head of Freeport River several weeks ago J verdict, accidental drown¬ ing. The "analysis of tiie .stjmach showed no trace of jjoiaoning. ¦ \Vhich some suspected. . * ' In our repo.'t of election returns in ¦ Freeport last week we gave Hughes 227 majority in the Fourth Distriet when tho number should have been 273. The number we gave was good but the right one was better and shows evi¬ dence of hustling work done by the Republican leaders in this district. ll^v. Charles drtrhart Schohiy will prea.ih iu the Pr.?sbyterian Ciiapil of day aud Saturday, of this week, from Roosevelt Sunday at ;!jl"> p. m. 'Speeiul 6 to 9 o'clock in t(je evening. About l»«'iphi»g services have been arranged 800 names will be needed in the entire town. for Sumlay afteruoou.s at R'>)sevelt, propar.ition for a week of evangolisti.^ meetings to begin on Dee. 1st, under the joint leadership of Rev. Selmley and R'3V. A. H. Rennie of Oee^iiside. The evening theme of Rnv. St^holey in the FrBo{)ort Pre.sbytorian Cluireh this Snn- 'Heroism in Advewity." : The local branch of the ^nternatioIlal Sunshine Society is havidg urgent and frequent calls made on its resources. Donations of money, clothing, grocery daywill be orders, etc., are solicited from all peo¬ ple intetested in the Society's work. Constable S. Pettit went to Long With a hard winter almost upon us. Island City Saturday morning and and many needy among us, the Society brought three young men to this vil- hopes for generous contributions from 'aK^, where they were arraigned be- all, fore Justice of the Peace Tatem, ArtJcJea will ^e received by the Pres- charged with assault in the first de- icfent of tke local branoh. Mra. Fred E. Kree. It was stated that on the night Story, 188'W. Merrick Road. of Saturday, October 31, they entered the home of George Bloch, at Boll- Mrs. Jennie C. Smith, through her more, and assaulted him. attorneys. Clock and Seaman, haa The three were Jacob Shaide, 20 aerved on the attorney for Samuel P. years of age, who at one time was em- Smith, who .is suing his wife for di- ployed by Bloch, Frederick Dittner, 20 voroe and custody of one (rf the child- y^arJ o^ age^, both of Glendale, and ren, who has been living with her, a Lindsay (ilenn, a twelve-year-old bgy, notice of motion, returnable at Mineola grandahn of Mrs. Fisher, Bloch's on. November 14, when the attorneys housekeeper. Each of the boys state for the defendant, Mrs. Smith, will that they only succeeded in getting be- m&k that the plaintiff pay $15 a week tween four and fivajiullars each. It is for her -support during the pending of thought that thia is a plan to go out on the action, $100 counsel feea and $15 a pettit larce.nf ebarge instead of grand for wjtiieises' fees to enable her to ile-. larceny. jin the section designated, and didn't j favor the Board of Trade, going on 1 record for this proposition; it might bi! j poH.sibIe to get a'cheaper site. I Henry L. Maxson v,'as opposeu to I further increasing the ¦ obligation of I the di.strict, and thought the matter j should hu held in abeyance until the . j effect of the recent dull time had passed off. Alexan.ler K. Rhodes was also .strong¬ ly against siiending any more money for schaol purposes aa the tax was too liigh already. Mr. .lones withdrew his res¬ olution and a motion was passed that the Board favor the purchase of a .site south of the railroad track. C, D. Baker said he was sorry Mr. Jones had withdrawn his original mo¬ tion as tho Board of Education ha.l un¬ doubtedly used their best judgment in selecting this "site, and more school ac¬ commodation must be arranged t'or, tv/o rooms being now in use outside the two school houses. It was nioved to thank the General Passenger .^gent of the Lone: Island Railroad for the excellent Winter time table provided -the best Freepurt has had. _A. R. Rhodes complained of it taking five days to send a barrel of oysters by L. I. R. R. to I'hiiadelphia; Mr. Baker, who. is chief clerk to General Traffic Manager Langdon, said that he thought if Mr. Langdon's attention was called to this the trouble would be remedied. , The proposition of free express de¬ livery in the Bayview section was also brought up. Mr. Baker said this also should be referred to Mr. Langdon and he did not douUt the service would be extended as desired. Wm. P. Jones made an interesting report of the inland waterway hearing before the Federal Commission Wednes¬ day afternoon; he said a great deal of creilit was due Elvin N. Edwards for having nmde that meeting so great a auccess. Through the Financial Secretary, J. 1). Kiefer, A. C. Ackerman com¬ plained that he was obliged to light matchea to tind his way home from the late train on cloudy "moon light" nights \Vhen the street lights were not burning. Mr. Keifer said that a Busi¬ ness Men's As.sociation had recently been organized {o work on lines similar te the Board of Trade and one of the first matters they would bring up would be the iniproviiig of lighting facilities in the Village, both on streets and in the stores and. hotnes. The next meeting wil4 be held Dec. y. ! Can't Make Roacis Now The Village Trustees at their meet¬ ing I-Yiday evening discus.sed at length I the question of grading certain village streets in accordanco with the resolu¬ tion pas.sed last Spring at the village election. The Boartl was of the unaiiininus opinion that the work shoul'l be done at once but also agreed with Street Com¬ missioner Pine that it was not a wiso plan to attempt to build the roads at this time of the year, e.spccially under the peculiar existing conditions. The handicaps the Board has had to work against have been discouragin;.-. In the first place when estimates were procured they were all too high for tlto amount appropriated; the plans wero then altered but again the (iriie was too high, ?o the Bpard decided t* em¬ power Air. Pine to go aljoad witli ll;e wtwk as long as the money lastel. The Village I-^ngineer was tlien- in¬ structed to plan the grades but by the time things were in working order the roads wore so hard owing to th.; lack of rain that it was thought liest to wait for rain. As we all know there has been practically no rain unlii week before last and that only went in three or four inches. The roads conse.juently would bo twice as hard to work as they will be in the Siiring, and furtiier, they would be almost itnuassible this win¬ ter, as the dirt would not "knif'j boing hard v/here undisturbed and in lumps where moved. A rnan pre.sent at this meeting stated that it was almost impossible to mak^? wages at digging now because the ground was so hard and cak-id owing to the long dry spell. The Board accordingly decided it would be bast to make what temporary repairs were possible and proceed with thts gradinLT early in tho Spring, wlien it will be necessary to ask for a fur¬ ther appropriation to eoini)l..>LL> tho work. iray the cOat and expensea of defend¬ ing the action. The motion will come up at the Suplfwrae Court seesion on that day. vA All three were held tor the Grand i Jury without bail and locked up in the Na'isau Couuty JaU at Mineola. The Nassau County and tlj* Town of , Hempatead o^ciaU are confident that Thankagiving Post Cards now on in the arrest of these three men they aale at the Review Stationery Store, 62 bave three desperate charavtera. It South Main St, Freeport. 2t. i ia atat«d that wlien tbay called on ¦~^i.^ ' ' '' ^'***^^ **" ^''® night of the 2Ist they had ~^h© Ladis^' Aid Society of the M. a loadafi revolv«r and a butcher knife, E. Churcb is working industriously for which apparently they intended to use tha aucceaa of ita annual fair, Nov. if /lec-aaaary. One of the prisoners in IT at^ 18, The following aro the , hia confeaaion told about the revolver haadaateoaxmltiaim: Candy booth. aiMi knife. The officer* found the ar- Mfa. H. «;, tf axon; dinii^^ room, Mra. ; tidea whera tiw priaoner stated they if. J. jrJonnelly. Mra. W. F. Umis, do-1 had baan tJu^wn. raeatie booth. Mrs. C%. Wabar; dolU I The ftndimr of tha knife and ita con- a«d tojra. MIm Mina Hathm, Mias Maria JenntJifs; fimeyboath. Mm. S. V. Qibaon; groM»ry baptii. lim. ClMa. RayaoK. Mra. F. W. WrMit; iMndkw- ohimi booth, lira. W. A-lS^aKl; m*. tpiaiit. tfia. W. <1, mUmt, Mia. H. L. ^m>m.m^O. W. ^mafhaar. U^ £iLX!L5***' AMt»PparwiU Witfi^f^aa aMa avsNiiaiF* naction with thia caaa'oonviBce the oAciaJf tliat ooa af ths thtam young aaaa wsm caaaaatad witiN. tlie aailault on tCmEi. it ia alatad. ^oa^ftaaai at ¦OS has haaa sohauouaA aa a The girls of the classes of Mrs. Lea and Mrs. Bissell of the Episcopal Sun¬ day School will have a cake .sale aiid tea at the residence of Mrs. Lea, W. Merrick Road, Saturday afternoon of thia week from 2 to 6 o'clock. ¦Kk«-i We had the pleaaure of a visit from Mr. Lemuel B. Green of the Patchogue Argus, Irving J. Long ol the Bay Shore Journal, Chaa. F. Delano of the Amityville Record and W. W. Hulae, President of the Bay Shore BoanJ of Trade, Wednesday aftertK>on. Sunday evening, Nov. 22, will be the sixth anniveraary ot the aervi:« of the preaant paator. Kev. Pelham St. Umtx^a Biaaall, at the £piacopal Church of/the Tranatlgiuratiun, and at eveusoog Vary Bav. Oaan Moaaa of tba Catba- ^«1 arill pnack. ^ Tha foOawiag Sunday avaaian (AA- aaat Snadn) Wamtxat QaacmO, No. W. *r. OU. A.1I.. will vicaa at tlw tlUMfth Village Trustees A full board was present at che. meeting of the Village Trustees Friday : evening. " j The license fee for .Meeson's Cine-: matograph was reduced to .$25 per month during the Winter with the un¬ derstanding that Mr. Meeson would keep a fireman on duty at his own ex¬ pense. Ross & Randall have been losing lumber lately and have placeji a man in the yard as night watchman ; upon their recjuest this man, Frank McFar¬ land, wa4 appointed a village officer. J. W. Holbrow made complaint of the sidewalks on Main St., just above Brookjyn Avenue, that on the west side being too high and thu east side too losv. It vvas decided to place a stone step on the west side, and to ask Mr. Mead, the owner, to fill in the walk on the east side. Village Treasuier Golditig reported the following balances in the various funds: General fund, $2510.tid; street fund, $2-4tH).:U; water fund, $1102.;jy; light fund, $1270.20; Board of Health fund, $258.t)'); interest fund, $2;i5.r);j; tax arrears fund, $()0U.94; fire department fund, $814..j(): street light fund, $1,- t;2i).;M; light extension fund, .$4t!7.Sl; water fund, $ti2t>.8C; water sinking fun.l, $2bS.2;j; sidewalk I'un.l, $222.51); street grado fund, $2247.17. James R. Smith reported thut he had inspected all village fire hydrants and found them in good (;onciition with the excepti'>n of eight; these the water committee has arranged to have fixed at once. There are I7« .hydrants in use now. Tax collector E. A. Dprlon reported ; having collected $t)14.77 since last »e- port, making a tqtal of $20,234.24. It ; waa decided to call in his books on ' Dec. 1. I The following applications for water 1 were granted: Jacob Post, North Main ;St., and Jacob Munzinger, Madison • Ave. For light, Chester A. Fulton. j A draft was ordered drawn in favor , of George Wallace, attorney for Leslie 1 Brown, for $3205.64, beinvr amount of i judgment againat tha village, with in- taraat and>MMts. This was the action for damage* for the loaa of an eye, by being hit by a limb projacting over the roadway ou a village street. A taw mimbar of routine billa wara also aaditad- Axtbwr Wilaon baa BBovadiato hia MwfaraamMMdbmiaa ea Waat M«w wiakmaai* For Inland Water Way Hnthusiflstic /Weetin^ir Meld at Opera hall--*>tron}5 Argu- meiit.s Pre^ented Speakers Irom ull Sections . An entiiuaiastic meeting wjis held Wt.'dnesday afternoon at Opera Hall for the Jiurjiose of submitting data and statistics before the Board of Army Engineers nf Rivers an.l Harbors, in reference to the neeil of a proposed In¬ land Waterway beginning at Jamaica Bay, through (Ireat South Bay. to Pe- jonic Bay, ineluJing channels thr.iugh Parsonagt? and .Sumpwanis Kivcrs and F'reeport and MassajRvjua Creeks, thu waterway to be one hundred feet wirie and six fct deep at low water. The meeting was ealled to order at ¦T."0 ]). rh. by Col. Lockwood of the Doard, who road a report of the rejec¬ tion of the uiidorta!:iiig on the i)arl oi the IJoard on a jiriiir inve.^tigation, stating that the meeting vvas ioy (he Jiurpose of rehearing and reconsiiieiini.' the jiroject. Counselor Elvin .\'. Edwards, who had charge of Na.-aau dunty, anu who has during tho past month been active in obtaining a great ampuiit of data showing the amount of tonnage carried per year, both by rail and water, was called upon by Congressman W. W. Cocks of the First District to address the ('ommi.ssion am! act as clii'.irman of the meeting. Congressman Cocks, then in a few well chosen words showed tho ("omniis- sion the great need of the undertaking and also stated that in carrying out the jj'opased Jiroject, it would only need the dredging of one and one half miles of the so-called ujdand of Long Island, and that the remaining dista.iice would bo through the meadows belonging to the City of New York and the various bnvns along the route. Representatives of nearly every civic organization on tho south side were present at the meeting, there being over a hundred delegates, representing ' .ajiproximately twenty thousand people of Long Islaml, all favoring the project enthusiastically. W. W. Hulse, president of the Bay Shore Board of Trade, jiresented some strong reasons for building the water way and urguiLihe Commission to fav¬ orably consider the jietition. Counselor Edwards stated that he . represented the Freeport Board of Trade and the Allied Boards of Trado and submitted to the Board signed statements from over a hundred merchants of tbe village of Freeport, showing that the tonnage of freight received in the Village tif Freejiort alone was between two hundred and three hundred thousand tons per year and that only about .si ¦.'y-thousand tons of this was carried by water, owing to the Jioor facilities. Mr. Edwards also filed with the Com¬ mission a jjetition setting forth in full the needs of this waterway, showing the great advantage to manufacturers that the water way would be; he showed what with very little difficulty and that at a very slight cost, consider¬ ing the great improvement, and the great growth, it would mean to Long Island and the Federal Government,as a , safe means for the trans jortatioii of supplies and light draft gun boats ini ca.se of war; he also showed the great danger oi boats of any kind coming in [ the pre.sent inlets which havo a ten¬ dency to shift with every heavy .storm. Ho also sjioke of the fact that when the project of making Fort I'ond Bay a jMirt of entry was carried out, this in¬ land waterway would make it possible to carry all freight for New York City by water, while overland freight cuuld be carried by rail through thu Penn- tiylvania Tui mels on to the West. I. S. Ftemlen, the well-known Brook¬ lyn manufacturer, stated that hu was there as a representative of several Civic Associations and the Jamaica Bay Improvement Ass'n and tlie Manufac- I turing Association and that he was ! heartily in favor, as were his organiza¬ tions, of the propoaed inland waterway, and tliut it was the une great need of Long Island; he stated that he wanted j to appeal to the Buard, asking them tu ! give this great proposition a considerar tion that it should justly receik'e. "No ; estimate could be giveu as to the amount of tonnage through the new waterway if it is made a reality." aaid Mr. Ramsen. Asaausblynuui William G. Millar at thia tima askad Col. Lockwood why the proftaaltlon bad baan rajecUKl before, •o tbat tba paofila praaant could maat tha objaction. Opl Laekwoed raad tba giaaa whttb atalad tbat at tbat rinia thaf aaaa daubtfal if tha CapaMvea at the four rivers mentioned in j)roject would justify the exjienditura liy the Government. Congressman t/ocks tlien took tjfiQ Moor and sh.iwed tho great need of the project for jiieasure cr.nfts, as well as fyr freight traffic; he showed that in getting the jdeasure craft here, it would bring jieojile t.) the shores of Long Isl.md who W(Aild build homes where there woul.l be neo.l of lumber and other building material: al.«o pro¬ visions of every kind ; tlie Congressman also stated that tlio dirt dre.lged from the rivers would lill in much uf the meadow lands and thus make thom very valuable; Col. I/ickwo |
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