South Side Messenger 19100211

              Merrick Men Organize
SmithviDe Athletes
Stroller on the Job
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL  PAPER,  NASSAU   COUNTY
Every Friday
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Goud have   been spending the last week in Brooklyn
Vol 2, Numl>er 30
Wai Keep Hofstra Trophy
If Any Other Company Wants It, Protection Hose Company's Rec¬ ord Most Be Beaten—Other Hempstead Items
The  stereopticon  enterl^nment   on  ^^^^^  g The First in Lent, at I
Monday evening last for the benefit of I J ^ ^ and 7.30 p. m. The Sunday ' the Catholic Sunday School was a very | g^^^, ^^^^ .^ ^j^^ \^^^.^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ pleasing affair.
" Ash Wednesday came in on the 9th this year. Ashes were given out be¬ fore eight o'clock mass Wednesday, and in the evening at the church of "Our Lady of Loretto."
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y;, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1910
$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cento
^^^^K^Jl^^^^^^^^^^ Advance  Hook, Ladder dnd  Engine Company
Has a Big Ball To-Night
Freeport Talkings
To-morrow,   Lincoln's   Birthday, the Messenger Office will be closed all day.
Roosevelt Firemen Bum Their Mortgage
The Merrick Gun Club will hol^i a holiday shoot on their grounds on Sat¬ urday.
Mr. Curtis Bowne has purchased a Buick automobile for use here upon his retum in the spring.
Services  at  the   Church  of the Re-;
'After a serious illness, Dwight Case
a. m. ; lesson subject, "Retum to Ca- pprna|^m,',',Mt. 17: 24-18: 35. Lenten services are held on Wednesday even- i ings at 8 o'clock. The Woman's Aux¬ iliary meets in the Parish House every Thursday at 2.30 p. m. and the .lunior Auxiliary every Saturday  at  3   p.   m.
Shrove  Tuesday   was   a day enjoyed i The interest of  the public is cordially by the young iieople. ! invited in all the services and organiza-
Pancake parties  were very  popular  tions of this church.
here,   the  finding  of  the ring making ,    j      j   i-      , e
tf "^^- I cter Wieland and   family   suf-
*^ ¦ fered   the   complete loss of their home
There are a number of prominent and furniture by fire on Monday morn- sufTrage advocates of "votes for wom- ing about 7 o'clock. No alarm was en" living in and about Hempstead, of given. The house was situated on Park course the most prominent one being Ave. outside the Merrick Fire limits. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. but had an alarm been .sent in, the     — Company would have responded glailly.
For the first time in three years, the The cause of the fire is unknown, prob- Hempstead girls basket-ball team of ably being due to an overheated range, the school here, was defeated on Jan. | The house was insured but there is con- 29 on their home court. The very . siderable loss upon furniture and cloth- proud victors were the Rockville Cen-; ing and in the destruction of tobacco •''o"^'''ii''' tre H. S. team. supplies which were in the house, worth i pictures
$300.00.
f)n February Iti,' Rev.   A.   S.   Kava¬ nagh,    Geiioral     Superintendent    and!     Francis L. Walker took the examina- Chaplain   of   the  Methodist  Episcopal   tion Saturday last at the   High   School
., William Raynorwas pleasantly sur¬ prised by a number of liis friends, who
I gave him a surprise party at his home  i^^ slowly improving at his home, on South Main St., last Thursday night. —
_     ,,. _        , "        ,   ,, ,        A new barn is being erected on  the
The  Misses  Reynolds   and   Kremel-   property of .1. J. Boston by   David   H. berg,   and   Fred   Hunt,    T. J. Moran,   ''   *^   ^ ^
, Clifford Reynolds and Bernard Kremel¬ berg, enjoyed themselves at a theatre party Tuesday night at the Broadway Theatre. They were chaperoned -by Mss May McGonigle.
C. M. Flint is a director in the Cres¬ cent Land Co., incorporated with a capital of .$20,000.
William Schuhman of Brooklyn, a former Freeporter, visited here, look¬ ing after his property, Friday.
The Freeport Candy Kitchen, also D. Ferara. barber, both on Railroad Ave¬ nue, are enlarging for the coming sea¬ son's business.
Brown.
Mrs." Hannah Plowright and family are moving into their newly completed cottage on Centennial Avenue.
Mrs. Jane VanNostrand of Glen Cove is visiting at the home of her sister, Mrs.   Fred Mollineaux, in this village.
While playing in a rocking chair at his home on Wednesday afternoon, George Chi I son, the three-year-old .son of Mr. and Mrs. William Chilson, fell and fractured the bone of his left fore¬ arm. Dr. Warner of Hempstead was called and set the fracture.
Present Quarter* of Advance Hook, Ladder and Engine Co., No. 1.
the   st)ii-
Harry A. Walling is commencing a new dwelling .south of his home on i-Jast Ave.
On Wednesday evening about twenty members of the newly organized Dem¬ ocratic Club of the Fifth Election Dis¬ trict of the Town of Hempstead held a
IT    1      J I    11      /'                .• X   r .L             ,                   •      , n^i    I-           . .> • I       J /.      *      . meeting  in Brockman's   Parlors, when
Advance Hook and Ladder  Company   list of these is also  given   in   the  st)ii- The Freeport Brick and Construction > (.j^gy  elected   Bert Cook as   President
has a big (lance at its hall   tonight,   to   venir program. Company has   been   incorporated  with j^^^,         -^^g,, .^.     j^^^ ^.^J^j^j^j^g ^^^^
raise money to apply toward the  erec-      The present ofiicers of   the  company the Secretary of State, with  a  capital sitting  of  Thomas Mulranan    Charle*
tion  of a new fire hall.    Ii; connection   are: of  $10,000,   and  the  following direc- DeLap and Geoi-n-e Anthonv
Foreman, .lohn Adel; first  assistant, tors:    Stephen   P.   Pettit,  C. M. Van- '                    "                •'
iam Riper and Stephen W. Hunt,   of   Free-
rec. port.
with this event they have issued a real program, which contains the of its first foreman and its present foreman, with the present headfiuarters of the company, as pub¬ lished on this page. It has also a very nteresting article running through the
ohn Adel; first Walter   Frisch: second   ass't. Wi Valentine;   3d,    Geo.     Palermo;    rec. sec'y., Harry A. Self; fin. sec'y, Chas. W.Smith;   .sergeant-at-arms,   liatfield Smith. Trustees—Robert H.   Frisch,   chair-
Hospital of Brooklyn, will   deliver  his in   Freeport with eighteen or   nineteen pages on the organization and advance-   man; Wm. Brockman, H. B. Valentine,
lecture on "The Anatomy of  Achieve- others   who  have  a  desire to  "count ment of the company with other  inter-   Robt. T. Wilmarth, Eddie Ascoli.
ment,"   in the Sunday School room   of noses"   in  a  portion   of   the  Town of esting notes.    In  looking  through   we       Hou.se Committee-   Robert H. Frisch,
the M. F]. Church here. Hempstead for the   l.'lth   Federal c en- ! find the following interesting extracts:   Walter Frisch and H. B. Valentine.
> sus.     Mr. Walker reports that only   he       The   first meeting of   the organizers       Finance Committee—Harry A.  Self,
At the last meeting of the Board  of and one other took the examination for was  held on June 21, 1897, at  Samuol   Chas. W. Smith and Robt. H. FVisch.
Education, George S. F]mory and  John this particular district.    The enumera- Self's  hall,   and  on   June  2S, oHicei.s
W.   B.    Vandewater    resigned.      Mr. tor is appointed in March by the Direc- were elected ; in August uniforms wern
Emory   was    comfielied    by   increased tor  of   the   Census  at Washington   on procuretl; Sept. .'1 the company received
businesa ami Mr.   Vandewater   is  soon recommendation   of   the supervisor   of
Deputy National Councilor of N. Y. State, Thos. H. Walters of Philadel¬ phia, Pa. ; National Secretary Wood, and several visitors from Brooklyn,  in-
A meeting of the Roosevelt Board of Trade was held in their home ou Woods Avenue, Tuesday evening, when a cem- mittee consisting of William J. Ellison and several others was appointed to in¬ vite  civil   engineers  and others inter-
Membership Committee—Eddie Asco¬ li, R. T. Wilmarth an<l George Pa¬ lermo.
to move to the upper [lart of N. Y. State, with his family. The demand for more ro<Jin for the scholars ol' our school is becoming urgent.
First of all the Masonic fair was a very great success. Col. Martin cer¬ tainly did a great work. (Cohen's Hall was crowded nightly.    Saturday   night
beiUo Volunteer F^iremen's night, the ' men's Hall on Thursday evening, F'el fair presented perhaps the most gala [ 3rd, for the purpose of organizing some appearance of the week. The wheel 1 sort of a civic body which would repre- of fortune brought amile.s to the ^face j sent the concerns of Merrick in mat- of the winnerjl frowns to the loser. The I ters of general public interest. 3.5 cit- Masonic temfde is to be built direclty izens attended and much enthusiasm in the rear of the new Hempstead was shown. Mr. W. H. Dowling called Bank, on Fulton Street, which is a; the meeting to order and Mr. W. J. grand site.    Charles Wallace   Warner, i Kenny was elected temporary chairman
the census in the county, Mr. Wm. Liebermann. The work begins on April l.'jth and the enumerator is allowed 30 day."* to enciuire of every person in the district concerning about 30 questions. A census of farms as well as of popula¬ tion is to be taken.
A   imblic   meeting was held in F'ire-
a veteran of the 13th   Reg.,   Brooklyn, j was of great assistance to Col.   Martin in the fair.
and Mr. Harojd Bunker, temporary secretary. Mr. Kenny stated the pur¬ pose of the intended organization to be an association for the mutual benefit of all citizens of Merrick without distinc¬ tion as to property ownership or other- I wise. The name chosen for the body .lis "Merrick Citizens' League." Per- fore becoming permanent property of ^.^np^t officers were elected as follows: any company, will remmn with Protec-, pj.pgi,,p^t ^^gj Midmer; vice-pres., tion Hose Company, which won it twice Leon DeLisle; sec-treas., F. W. Walk- and claimed a third vicU.ry. according ^^ ^^ fj„^„j of Directors of 9 mem- to a decision of Supreme Court Ju.stice | j^^,.^ ^..,^ ^,^^.^^^5 consisting of Mes.srs. Frederick L. Crane. Protection Com-] ^ , ^^,„, q Bowne, W. H. Litte- pany will hold it until some other com-
The silver trophy which W. S. Hof¬ stra, a resident of this village, donated ^ to the Fire Department in 1907, to be j contested for and won three   times  be-
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest K. Sorrenson of New Y'ork City were in town last week visiting Mrs. Sorrenson's parents, Mr. and Mr.s. Wm. E. Bowne.
('harles Mohrman, formerly with the firm of Betz (i Co., contractors, has gone to Brooklyn, where he will reside.
.\ regular meeting of Advance H., L.
eluding  Past  Deputy State   Councilor   ested in the triangulation of the Island Joseph Tunison, will be the   guests  of   preparing to invoke legislation for   the
erection of monuments throughout the state of New '^'ork nnd also to see As¬ semblyman Miller in reference to pre¬ paring a bill to he pre.-ented tothe Legislature.
A comi)laint was m:ifle at the meet¬ ing against a firm of butchers who it is w.'iM ciaimed were killing beef with¬ out a license and the Secretary was instructed   to  communicate  with    the
Freeport Council No. 57, Jr. 0. U. A. M., at their meeting this F''riday even¬ ing, F'eb. 11.
There will be a representative at Wide Awake Engine Go's, house, Lin¬ coln and Washington's Birthday after¬ noons, to explain and demonstrate the Gamewell fire alarm system installed there for that purpose. All interested are invited to witness this tion.
demonstra-   town Board of Health on the matter.
Progressive ("ouncil No. 1.., entertained their State Mrs. Josephine Darling and staff of State and National officers on Monday evening, at Mechanics' Hall.   The room
Miss Irene Di.von of Brooklyn is (iti, D. of visiting at the home of .Miss Julia (^e- Councilor,   voiserat in Whitehouse Villa.
E. Co. was held Monday evening.    The   w'*^ fi"*^^' .^'^^ visitors from neighbor
following gentlemen were elected mem bers: Walter Gangloff, Adam Emeigh, Jr., Alva R. Smith, Sr., and John H. Rehberg. The boys of the company have organized a basket-ball team to be known as the Advance Basket-Ball team, and would like to arrange games with teams for the remainder of the winter. On Tuesday evening, the con¬ tract  for   the  purchase of the new lot  well pleased with Progressive   Council
on Grand Avenue from John G. Deubert
ing Councils, and members. The hai presented a gala appearance decorated with fiags and draperies of red, white and blue. A supper was served in the bamiuet room and the State Councilor received a very handsome token of remembrance as well as our own Na¬ tional Representative, Mrs. John Dun¬ bar.    The visitors left at a  late  hour.
pany lowers the time made by the former body of firemen. The juatice denies an application of the local coun¬ cil and William R.   Seaman,   as   presi-
brandt, L. Richards, W. H. Dowling, P. G. Muller, D. V. Lawson, F. Wolfe, E. Miller. A committee of three was appointed to draw up by-laws and re¬ port   at  a  meeting  to  be  held in the
WILLIAM   B.   WALTERS First Foreman of   the Company
its engine; in December the company was incorporated ; January of the fol¬ lowing year the ground for a house was purchased; June, 1908. company moved into its new   house.     The   corn-
was signed, and as soon as the lot paid for, the Company wiil erect building to cost about $5,000.
A meeting of the Bellmore base-ball club will be held at Smith Bros, store Friday evening, Feb. 18, at 8  o'clock.
detit.   to  have   the trophy turned over | p3,.i^h   Hou.se on Thursday, Feb.   17th.
A cimimittee of three was appointed to report upon a permanent meeting place. It is hoped that any of the citizens who were detained from attending the first meeting will make a point of being at the second meeting in the Parish House on Thursday evening at 8 o'clock.
PEOPLE'S COLIMN
CorreipoDdence addressed to tbe Messenger will be printed under above beading ai receiTcd. No attention paid to unsigned conununications. Letters can be signed witb a non de plume, bnt name mnst accompany tame as vreli, not to be printed I>ut as evideBce of good faith.
to it.
The retention of the trophy by Pro¬ tection Hose Company has caused quite a controversy in the department and some feeling, as it was contended that the company had not won it three times consecutively, but only twice, the third victory being termed a "fluke" by thofv who held the negative view of the situation. Justice Crane, in his opinion, sustains this contention that no third official contest has yet taken place for it.
The court says that if. at the next official contest, the trophy be won by another company and Protection refus¬ es to give it up, then the application can be renewed or the appropriate remedy sought.
X    People's Column -Mess. Mr. Editor: —
Kindly correct error in last Satur- igeiicy I (jay'g issue in regard to Mr. Samuel Seaman's accident. The article stated that Mr. Will Decker was Mr. Samuel Seaman's hanily man. Now as a mat¬ ter of truth, Mr. Will Decker has never served as handy man for Mr. Seaman, or any other person, but being Mr. Sea-
^      . ,.    „ , .     , , man's nearest neighbor he very  kindly
Franklin Street  is engager! in the con-1 ^^^^^j ^^^^^ ^jj ^^   ^^^^  j^j^^g^j    .^.j,^,,
tn:ction of a $25,000 house at Hewlett  ^j^  g^^^^^ ^^^ ^j,.,, ^-^ p^j^^^, ^^^j.
A. W. Brierley's real estate has sold nine lots on the north  siile  of Jerusalem Avenue, corner of Catherine Street,   for  the   Nassau Lumber Com- : pany, to a local   purchaser ;   I'onsidera- tion $3500.
Contractor  John   H.   Whritenour ofi
C. S. Braren has secured a position as bookkeeper for Ross & Rnadall Com¬ pany.
Ever Ready Hose Company is look¬ ing for a big c-owd at its masque carn¬ ival at Sigmond Opera House this eve¬ ning. The judges are Village Presi- It is hoped that all members will be'dent Daniel Morrison, Trustees Frank- present, aa officers for the coming sea- lin Bedell, William H. Patterson, J. son will be elected. The club will be Huyler Ellison and Charles A. Sig- under entirely new management this mond. An orchestra of seven jiieces summer and conducted on strictly busi- will fumish music for dancing, ness principles. Already several games •    -
for the season of 1910 have been ar- E. S. Randall and wife have gone to ranged, and the club has a few open Daytona, Florida, to join Mr. Randall's dates, all games to be played  at  Bell-' father, John J. Randall.
more;   guarantee   given   to   first-claas 	
teams.
has  placed   new  lights on their  gates Last   FViday   afternoon Harry John-   »* the Main Street crossing.    In  place
Martin Kane and Flugene Eldridge are having new homes erected in Whitehouse villa, ancl the new cottage being erected for Frank F^jsmire on Charles Street is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy in about two weeks.
Miss Meliee Horton of Brooklyn was visiting her cousin, Asa Chilton, the early part of the week, but was called home on account of the serious illness of her sister.
John Dixon of Trenton. N. J., was in Town during the week visiting his many friends here.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Roose¬ velt Board of Trade is arranging for an entertainment to be held in the Board of Trade building on the evening of March 25; the proceeds will go to the piano fund of the Public School. The entertainment will be Mrs. Jar¬ ley's Wax Works.
A lighted match was applied  to   the
mortgage  of  $600  against   the   truck
house of Alpha Hook and 1-adder Com-
rrv.    J I 1    J   r.  -1       I c^ P*"y Monday evening,  while   those  at
The  Long Island  Railroad Company   ^^e tables arose and gave three rousing
cheers  for   the  company.    The  silver tray,   on   which    the    mortgage    was
JOHN   ADEL Our Present Foreman
'Come   Boys,
Follow   Yoor   Leader And  Fear No   Danger"
son, of Smithville South, while waiting of the ordinary white lantern, used , burned, was held by Trustees Thomas at the depot for hia father, left his ; heretofore, they are using a red and ^ Mulranan and Royal Mollineaux while horse standing alongside the station white signal lantern. The white side \ the foreman of the company George platform. As the train arrived, the shines along the track, while the red j Anthony started the fire horse took fright and ran away. The faces the roadway. It is claimed that { The affair started with one hundred animal was caught on Oak Street. No the lights are being used on account; ^f the members and their friends pres- damage    was    done    either   horse   or  of the great automobile trafTic. ^^t, and the Alphas were entertainers,
wae^n. 0.     ,^ .   . ^    , ..    ,, The supper consisted of oysters, tc-mpt-
School Commissioner Cooley   visited ; jngjy  served.    The   toastmaster    was Chas. H. Russell was   initiated   into   the school last Friday. James A. Stiles.
Freeport   Lodge,   I. O. O. F..   Monday " „       ,   , The hall was prettily  decorated.    J.
night. Henry   C. Stamm. well and   favora-   Huyler  Ellison,    ex-President of  the
  bly known in Freeport,   was  run^ over^ Nassau    Countj  Volunteer  Firemen's
For the first time in about ten years, I by a west-bound train at Bushwick ; Association, and Archer B Wallace there is good skating on the old Jones J^^^^tion Saturday-evening, and h.a arm gecond Vice President of the Southem pond on the Merrick Road, and the boys cut off, besides which he received other : j^ew York Association, were the fimt are taking advantage of the sport. injuries, resul ing in his death Monday : speakers of the evening.    R   H    Mav-
--     Mr. Stamm was stepping from I j^^^j^ ^x-chief  of the Freeport Depart iU >     .LU      L    , ¦¦ ment,   gave those present a   brief but
Smithville   South,  nearly met death at   thrown under the wheels. interesting   outline  of the work  being
the R. R. Station here. Mr. Hubbell Mr. Stamm had been employed Ij ,,,„e at the Firemen's Home on ti^l came home from work on the 5.13 east ^^^l^"/ ^°^^ ^"^^r by Ross &, Hudson, of which he is the Chairman bound train.    As the train  atopped   at   f^^l'l'^'^,^'^.';.^^';'^ P^^.^A^'/.*? P^*"^.  ""*'' ^ of    the    Board    of   Trustees     Frank
night. Tuesday evening, Wilbur Hubbell, of   the  train
for Harold  Stebeigh, in the Bay section, to be completed May Ist.
Park
the station he jumped the fence  which   |««t year, when he decided to  give  up , gtevens of Freeport was also one of the dent and had it not been for his prompt  pany is now out of debt, with its house  separates the two tracks, in front of   a   "is worK, out came oacK again the brst • _      .   _
act in binding the  wound  and  driving j and apparatus  paid   for,   with  nearly  westbound express, which only  cleared   of the year, and was commuting.    The
Contractor John S. Dugan has the contract to bui Id a large addition to the residence of Counselor Fred In¬ graham on Front Street. Operations have already begun.
Mrs. William Siegel and grand¬ daughter from Saranac, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Minshull of Fulton Avenue.
hm   at   top  speed   to   Doctor  Carman j in   Freeport  the   accident  might iiave
proved a more serious one for Mr. Sea-  also the entire building furnished. I man, who by the way  should  take off I    The company has an enviable record I his  hat   ih   acknowledgment to   his at tournaments,   its  record of 23 sec- friend   M^.  Decker,   for his quick   wit; onds  in   tbe  hand  enigne contest re- and kindly aid, in so  serious  an   acci-1 maining unbroken.    The company  at-
a thousand feet of new   hose,   50  new  him by a few inches.    Better be  more  employees and firm of Ross &   Randall buckets,   new ladders   and  fire  hook;   careful in the future, "Blil" and   take   Company looked up to Mr. Stamm aA a
the time to walk «found this fence. personal friend and feel personally be-
  reaved   in    his   sudden    death.    Mr.
Stamm was 62 years old.
Advertis* in Everybody's Ceiumn.
dent.
Miss A. B. Decker, 152 Herkimer St,, B'klyn City. February 9th, 1910.
Don't  forget to attend the masque and  civic  ball to-night, given by  Ad-1    Next Wednesday at 8:15 at the Pres- vance H. L., and E. Co., No. 1, in their | byterian Church, the Junior S.  C.   E.
! tends  the  tournaments  each year and  hall.    There will be dancing and other 1 will  nresent Valentine   tahleanv   nnH always brings home one or more prizes,   amusements for young and old.    A fine I ^ Valentine   tableaux   and
And when it comea to fighting fires j supper will be served.        - "
I the Advance boys have had real  work	
' at fourteen fires and made good.    The        "I saw U in the Measengerl" (continuea on page 8)
[ "Courtship of Miles Standish," in pan¬ tomine ; admission, 25 cents.
speakers. Frank Wood, of the Alphas, thanked all present for the interest they had shown in the fire company.
Seven prizes, won at various tourna¬ ments by the company, were on exhibi¬ tion. Dancing waa( enjoyed, and dur-i' ing the evening ex-Foreman Charles' DeLap asked that all the children be sent to the fire house Tuesday evening, when the members of the gave them an oyster supper.
company
Do You Want to Buy er 8oll7  Um Everybody's Colunnn.