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TBE KASSIU POST. FKEKPOBT, Ji. Yw FBUlAY FERBUAST 3, 1*17
HOLDING UP THE ROCKAWAY FORTS
Justice was full and adequate and { that title did not rest in the United; States.''
General Weaver declared that the terms upon which the Government now desires to close with the South-
the Twenty-third Regiment Armory, Bedford and Atlantic avenues, Brook¬ lyn on Washington's Birthday Eve, February 21 next, have already been
MASONIC BAU TO BE FINE AFFAffi
The plarini: of big gnqs at Rock- c-"" !'«''*«<= represent a smaller sum Over five thousand tickcs tor th:
. n- IT 1. Ihan the original option, and le-s^ Maaonic ball which is to be-held in
awav for the prote<:tion of N«w Vork
*^ than the amount paid for land on -i
City and I/»ng Island is being held ,„,,,,,^ hji,. to lhe same people by the up by red Upe in the War Depart- city of New York, menl is the claim by a correspondent Although the Rckaway Beach site in the Eagle, may bc equipped with 12-i!:ich K^m' j,^,^, ^^^d it is a conservative estiiuato Although funds were provided in within the next year or twn, it 'v^ill ' „f t^e cominittee in charge of th-j last year's fortifications bill for the be considerably longer than that be-, ^^f^^^ ^^^^^ f„„y ^^^^ thousand persons purchase of a Rfx kaw.-.y site as well fore the ^Ya.t• Department will have ^,jj, jj^^c^jj t|,p ^^^^ jij^t il will ais for the building of gun emplace- any 16-inch guns to mount there. The - p|.^^,p ^^^ ^^^ „j^, 1^^^^^^ brilliant .social ments, nothing has yet been done in Government has made no contract yet juncjong py,,, ^^^.^^ i„ tf,e big armory, either direction. All that has been for any of these guns One Pt'iva*''- „-|,ioh has a long and eventful list done thus far toward the construction compnny offrted te build one gun 'i <,f „otal>le events, is evident by the of a battery that will constitute i thirty-eight months and the second p„n,„3iaa,„ hring shown by the Ma- part of the defenses of .New York one in forty-two months; anothe. City is som.- surveying of proposed (-onpany wmted thirtv and thirty-six boundaries months resiieciively. The War De- One of the (hief (riti( ism.-i niadi is iiartnieni thirefore expects to build
LONG ISLAND R. R. SHOWS BIG GROWTH
.ions of Great .New Vork.
Miiiiy features are beini; planned n,r lhe committee, chief aniong them be¬ an elal)orate reception of ilie high
Ihe fact thsi the War Department tlnse -.iitns at its own Watervleit Ar- fjigniiaries ot the Order in the State
has done nothing toward providin, emplacement for guns. When Con¬ gress autlioriz('d the establishnient of a battery al Ho)-kaw'av in last year.s hill it was d((-ided llial I6-iii(h gun^ .'.nd mort.ir;-! -ihoi'ld constiliife the ul¬ timate e<jiifj)iiient. But. recognizing the tact that it would take sever.il years to get the.se guns, il was decid¬ ed iu the ¦qiieantime to eipiip the bat¬ tery with several twelve-inch guns, 'Which could he s'lpplied at once.
senal, and thinks it ean build both Wllhin thirty-six inonths.
ALL STAR CAST IN "GETTING MARRIED
The 12-inch guns were to remain un til the 16-incli guns were ready There were to be seven of the 12- inch guns .inst.nlled at Rockaway a-? a lemporary battery.
It develoiied recently before the Fortifications Committee of the House Ihat nothing has been done about tbe 12-inch gun em placements despite the authoriza'ion and the money pro- vid(^ in the last bill. Colonel Win¬ slow, assistant to the Chief of army engineers, explained that after the ap¬ propriation was innrie General Wood commanding the Department of th-^ East, raised the question a,i to wheth- •¦r it was Iiol desirable to contriK't lhe 12-incb (miplaccmi^nts so that they could subsequently he changed into IR-iiich battery emplacements Tho Army Board of Review look it up and the iirohlem went the round of different bureau chiefs in the War Department, Tbe chief of ordinance was against it. Only a few we«-k-; ago &fter a long period of red tape It was decided lo stick to the original plan.
The mone.v for tliis c ,iipl,ic( iucni work was available ou July ('). la>t year. Tbe (iiiestion of a chaiiHc vvas raised in September, aud 'here w;;s no decision until two months after¬ ward. After listeniim to several ex¬ planations of the delay. Represen ta¬ il vc Sherley, chairman of the sub- coiiimittee on fort itic;) t ion k, reiiuirkel,
"The fact remains that somebody, somewhere, has sufficiently delayed thia niatter so as lo lose ])ract ical l.v a year. It&nt year il was stated by Colonel Winidow that it would take about a year to build emplacements for these 12-inch high-angle fire guns and presumably the work was to b-^ started as soon as the nioney was available. We made the money a- vailable for seven of them on July li and then in the middle of December we are told that only recently wai-i the matter iu such shape that the cu Rineers soutd start work."
Concerning the delay iu obiainitig IJie site Itself, General Black, cliiei ftt lhe Army engineers, has iv. idc this explanation:
",N'egotiatioiis arc lu pio.Lircs;; thi'ou^'h an agent employiHi hy th- United States, who is lhoi'(iiiu;l;!y cou- servaut with the coiuliiioiis of k;;) estate purcluise jind sale on l.on-; Island and vicinity. We decided noi IO take advantage of was given, deeming
of New York as well as promiiieni Masons from other .States and public offlcials. Preceding the dancing there will be a concert and entertainnieni in whicii some of the leading artists iu the country will be heard.
It i.s the intentions of the triistee'^- aiid ofllcers of the Masonic Guild un-
d(-r whose .-viispices the affair is being
Williiiui Favershams production of licld. to make the Ma.ionic ball an an- I'.iiivAo Bernard Shaw's comedy, ""•-»'>^^nt ^^'^ '« '« H>cir further in- "Getfing Marjied" has heen described 'i'"''"" <" "-ake the first annual ball
"" ' ' ' ¦ remembered and
ial and Masoni(
.serthm sine;- the play is generally hi»")ry. Tie- trustees of the Guild ((,nc(xh-d to be the. wittiest effort from f*'"'^: Ge/iru-e Friefelrt, Theodore A Shaw's brilliant pen and the organi ' Taylor, Fred C, Lemmermann, Rufnn /ation is undoubtedly the mo.st not- '¦ Scott, Jr., Frank W. Robbins, Abel able ever as icmbled for a comedy in f^'-""'<. •'"hn A. Cherrie, CC. Mollen this country. It is certainly entitled '''"i'"^''' 'T'lstico Willi,-im I). Mped and to the often mi.sapplied title of "all R'>i"^''' -I- Kenwoitby, star cast." since it includes such pro- The procei^ds of the ball are to h-2 inineni names as Henrietta Crosma!n.''''«'^"»«''' " payin? of the mnrtg.ip? Charles Cherry. Hilda Spong. I,iim.»- indebtedness on the Brooklyn Mason- den Hare. John Harwood. Arleen i'' Temple, al Lafayette and Clermont Hackett, George Fitiiigerald, Marjorie -ivenues, and also to creatine: a fund
This was to iiuet Ihe urgent need of , ' - , , ,. ,, .in afr.-iir lon-' lo he i
as the season s superlative success, ¦'" aii.iii loii,, lo o. i
better defenses for ,New York t iiy, , r .i.- ' one notable in .^ocia
Ihere are uood reasons for this as- '"" "oianii in so) i.i
Eggleston, Hugh DiUman, Mrs, Ed¬ mund (lUrney, Edwin Cnshnian, Her¬ bert Belmore .ind Mr, Faversham,
I'or several months "Getting .Mar¬ ried" lia,-^ in-on ('i"ow"ding the the Booth Thcitie in .New Ynrk at every perforiiiance. On accoilnl of tbe ex¬ pensive nature of the orgiini'/aiion the price of orehcidra seats al the BootI) wire raised lo ii2.i,n. .-M tbe .Ma.iestic 'llieaire v.'hei'i "Ccltiiii,' ^Mai'i'iid" will hi SI ('11 dm ill'.; the week of Febru :iiv :"). l!ic p iccs vvill range from i!,"i cents to $1,.".'i. Box seats $2.00, Tbis vvill he an advance in the regulai luice; of Ih)^ theatre and il will h- llie firsl ati'l duly lime this sciiso'i wher. till' sclKiiiile if prices vvill h.' changed.
.Altlioiigh laidly >'' word has y..( he.11 piibli'-hcd about the Brooklyu eiig.agemeTit, the news of the comin.ii; of .Mr. I'"av(-i sluiin and his wonderful c()iii|)iiiiy ill "CetUng Married" has cci ill the air and there is already ;i large demand for seats.
The play deals humorously with a!! the phases of the mari"iage question the problems that beset young lovers iiboiil lo cro.-'.s the matrimonial ruhi- then southwest to Nanning on the West
for the biiildin.g of a Masonic Home on Lone Island, to be devoted to the care of .lued Masons of thf Create: N'ew Vork district.
Because of this fiicl tbe Mai«ons in the di«lricts embraced in the Greater N'(-vv York tcrriioiv have taken an aclivo interesi in the affair and are (-()-()p(-r''itinu: with the Ma,-ilei's of th"-
NEW RAILRO-^D FOR CHINA
Work to Begin at Once on Hunan-
.Kwangsi Line, Which Is Financed
by Americans.
Pekintr,—^\'ork VAill begin at once on the rallvva.v which the American Inter- iiiiilonal Corporation Is to finance in Hiiniiii i)tid Kwtingsi jirovinces.Tlirough nn agreement between the Chinese gov- eriiineiit and the American contractors a r'lUle oriu'iuiill.v ugreed on for this line Is to he .-loinevvhat modified. The railway will start from Chiichow in 11 una n province. Cbiichow Is the south¬ ern t(-rminiis nf a riiilway which now extends south from Chtingshn. fhe cap¬ ital of Hunan province. The line to he built by Americans will extend south through Heiigchovvfii. and from that point vvill run snnihwi^st to Kweilin,
That the I,«ng Island Railroad will Wllhin the present year, become the greatest carrier of commuters of all the railroads serving Greater -New ¦ York was predicted today, by Ralph ^Peters, president of the company. .Mr, Peters Lased his prediction upon the greatly increased traffic during the month of January UilT.followin.'? the record-i)i caking results of last year.
"The coiiiuiiita<ioi) traPI'' of the Ixing Islan'l Railr(ia(l continurd to show a remarkable growth," said .Mr. Peters. "In 1!»05 the average num- iicr of monthly commutation or six- . ty-ride licktt.-i sold was 6.387: in t'lVi •» was 11.S63: in 1015, 18,866, and in 1916 it jumped to 21,23",
"Fi'i'ii piesent indications 1!<17 bid,i fair to surpass these figures. Tlie month of January 1H17, already shows an im rease of 2,677 tickets over the .-same month of t'itf,. the total being lli,2S:i. This is nearly four times the numher of commutation tic- k'-is sold in January IfJC"). There is an incriase o;i prai tically every di¬ vision of the road, XHiile the num¬ ber of tickets to Pennsylvania sta- iioii shows r.n increa.'^e of 1,180, the increase to Brooklyn and Ixjng Isl¬ and City ta 3.103, This January in¬ crea.se means the carrying daily of over i'y,?,nt) additional passengers, ro- (piiring nine extra trains of nine car.? l-ach with 600 iiassengers to a train.
"This growth is rapidly placing th.' r,oiig Island Railroad at the head of the iist of New Vork railroads in commutation traffic. If 1,^ estimated that onr monthly average of commu¬ ters for 1017 will he about 24,000 and as tbi^ compares with 23,000 commuters on the next highest road, tbe Long Island Railroad w"ill ^he- c'line the greatest commuting rail¬ road in lhe Fiupire Stato."
THE FASHION SHOP
M. STEIN, Prop.
LADIES^ and MISSES' OUTFITTERS
TELEPHONE 145-J HEMPSTEAD
We beg to inform you that our
JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE
the great event you have been looking for
Opened THURSDAY, JANUARY 11
with as rich a feast of bargains you have ever enjoyed.
Remember there are still three wintry months ahead of us, but we must begin this SALE early to prepare for Sprin.ir as onr stock is extrs large. In order to effect a complete clearance, the Prii es have beeu made Exceptionally Low-So Very l,iiw in fact you can'l afford to stay away from this .Matchless .'Vloney i-aving Opportunity,
Ihiirt Delay. Ele among the firnt lo come and take advantag*- of the ( -nception values in our
,Siiits Dresses >Vnl«ts Furs IDnti^ Skirls Corsetc >lillluer.v For i.adies and .MInsis
The FASHION Shop
44 Main Street Hempstead, L. L
No Danger. ^
"I ought to go and see a doctor, bnt I'm iifriiid he'll order me to give up smoking." "Don't let that worry yoiL I know a doctor who owns stocii in the tobacco trust."
Took Remark Literally,
'Maria, .vou'll never be nble to irive that nail with n tlatiron. For heaven'i^ sake use your head," ndmonisbeil Mr. Stnbkins. .-Vnd then he wondered why she would not speiik to bim again,— i'uck.
Nobody Will Deny It.
The easiest way to arouse a man'.-' eiilliiisiusm is to .«li()vv him a way lo get iiiouey vvit;ioui )':u'ni[.'g it.
Shall Woman Judge?
A New YorU Portia telU why her tex should be represented on the Bench
NEW YORlT HERALD ilj
StJNDAY, FEB. 4 |
Is Your House Piped for Gas?
Are yoo enjoying the soft "Easy on the Eyes" Gas Light
SPECIAL OFFER
During the month of February we will do all piping for $2.00 per outlet, either concealed or exposed, and will give a dU- count of 15 per cent, on all Fixtures, Domes, Semi-lndirecU and Table Lamps ihnt are to be used in conjuaction with the piping we put in.
Here is an opportunity lor you lo SAVE MONEY
The NASSAU & SUFFOLK LIGHTING CO.
<.| O. Mai IIONAlll. rresident.
HI >ii'M I, All. I i.'iri'our. i.MMisi V11 1. Mi>i:oi,\ 4«id
R0( K> Illl, (IM Ki:
con. the perplexing conditions an-l lemptations of the actually married and the inevitable issue of divorce,
rommcntii'.;; on the exi laordinaiy success ol lb) pi'iy in New York, the l^veiiiiii; T('le'.;raiii isaued this piece of advic- t') theatre-goers: "rrcttinir Married" iS' a play to he visited again and acaiu bv ibi^ iinm.arried, the mar- vied, 111)' div-uced and tbe remarrjcd "
FARMERS IN FAVOR OF STATE POLICE
Tic S'l'ie ]):)!!'(' Lica.'Uio vvliiit: '¦
he iill rodiiced ai this session -!
ipiion tb'at I )e Le',is',iliire, vvill have the backin;;
price loo of tlic .N. w Vork State ,\griciiltiiral
river, A spur of the railroad will ex¬ tend to Yaii.'Iiovv, In Kwangtung pro¬ vince, n port of considerable coinmer- <*lnl iiniiortance on the Gulf of Tong- klng.
The extension of this railwiiy to the sea makes it of far greater Importance than 111)' original line which vvas to have XMiiiiug as its terminus.
At (^liuchovv the railway will con¬ nect with nil important line the Eng¬ lish have partiall.v constructed townrd the enst. which will eventually be ex¬ tended to Niiiil;in;:, The Rritisli line taps a very rich mineral section, and tbe line whicb the .Aniericans are to build ill-.!)) nuw through territory in llu- n,-ii\ proviccc which is heavily niiner- IIlilted. In Kvvangsi province the new line vlll Irav "rsi- a very rich ii',;riciil- lural cotii'iry i;lvliig railway connection to many iiuportant district.'? which are now .served chielly.hy water t^'iinspor- tiitlon on small streams Incapable of acconinio(!-iting steam craft.
The proiio.-ed line will form a link In nn all rail route from Peking directly south fo the sea by way of Hankow.
SETON C. BEN5
Chartered Accountant
il
COLUMBIA TO GET BIG BELL
htgh.i 'We lopcncd up negotiation.-; Society. .Vi il.'i annual session.;
-with the owner of the land, and, as this wn-:: it adopted by a unanimous
1 nnderatand it, have come to an vole a re-olntion eiiilorsinc the Statc
agreeinent as to the price for th" police picposal
high land. The question of title as The n.-olution iiiuing a Stale (ou-
tf) land that ia under water, which stabularv follows:
ik respectively claimed hy the Citv Wherea-i, The rural sections ot the
of New 'York and the owners of the suite ar not adefpiately protected,
high land, has not been determined, aud rural (rime, hy reason of defec-
It Is iidw being considered between tive aud inadequate luachinery, is not
the owner and the city, and I am in- inevented, detected or punished with
formed that this matter will be set- the certainly and efliciency which the
tied in the near future," s.-ifety of our people demands; and.
The high land In question is owned Whercn--. The improving of our
by the Southern Pacific, and there highway-; ;.i'd the increasing cominoT?
kas been a qiie.stlon as to whether its . u.^e of t'l, automobile are together
title was good a's against that of the making even our remote.country dii-
Ilnlted States. On this point General tricts acce:5sible to the criminal class
Black says; cs of the city; and.
"The question was referred to the Wherea.---. I'etty thieving and law-
Jiidge advocate general as to whether lessness a:.' i^teadlly increasing in i!i.
proper search had originally been i I'liral dist'lc.'s: and,
made as to ihe validity of that title. Whereas The .lafety of users of oc
•nd as to whether the court proceed- highways is increasingly menaced ''
#lngB had been so conducted as to '•eekle«s motorists, speed fiends, in- — ^- ~^-
make it imnrohahle that any change '-ivic-'ted .irivcrs. and d'-ivers witho.i* therefore, be It
irould be made In the decision on ap- lifhts; and. Resolved, That, we, the oflflcers and
peal. The judge advocate general, AVlierers. There is before the I esr- members of the Ne»'York State Agri-
tn a written opinion, stated that after islature a measure for the better p" cultural Society, do heartily endorse
a careful examination Into the entire j lieing of the rural dtstrlcfs and high-1 the establishment of such a force and matter ho was convinced that thelirays through the cniatlon of Sta' urge upon the Legislature the enact-
aearch made by the Department of constabulary like Pennayl'vania's; meut of an appropriate statute.
Class of '93 Will Present 2,000-Pound
Memorial to University as Twetity-
fifth Anniversary Gift.
New Y'ork.—Poliimbia university la to receive a 'J.OOO-pound memorial bell to toll ont the hours on Mornlngside height.-* ns the t'wenty-flfth anniversary gift of the I'hiss of ISO."?.
A formal olTer of the "Ninety-three , Memorial bell" was made to Dr. Nicho- j las Murray Hutler recently, and a re-1 sjvinse has iust been received indicat- ] ing the unr.nlmous acceptance of the proiiosed gift by the university's trus- -. tees. I
'I'he iD^w bell will be mounted over, the portico of St. Paul's chapel, on the campus. It will he oiierateil by n clock niechiinisui uud will sound every hour, as well as ai prnjer tinx'.
I am prepared to enter into contracts to do auditing and accounting at a fixed annual charge, under which contract arrangements are contemplated for a monthly audit and the rendering of monthly state¬ ments showing progress, profits, etc., also the intro¬ duction of time and labor saving devices as well as for any efficiency work that may have been done. Should you have this work, I will be pleased to call and go over the ^ame with you at your convenience and arrange to do the same.
Executors and Income Tax Reports
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