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TME MAMAU ^OtT: PRKtFORT, N. V., FRIDAV. JANUARY 2, 1fl14
NORTON IN OFHCE DESPITE FEELING
Nassau Bar Asssociation to
Investigate Charges
Against Justice
GRIEVANCE COMMnTEE ACTS
Town Ofhcer Acquitted at Trial
May Be Removed For
Incompetence
The Nassau County Bar Association has begun through its grievance com¬ mittee an Investigation of tbe two charges of which Justice of the Peace Corodon Norton, of Wantagh, was ac¬ quitted before Judge James P. Nei¬ mann and a Jury In the County Court leas than two months ago, and upon the findings, It Is asserted, an appeal may be made before the Appellate Dl- Tlslon for his removal' from office. Despite this aimouncement however, Norton held court In Bellmore on Fri¬ day and gave evidence of his compe¬ tence by deciding a knotty problem In law and rearresting a man whom he dismissed upon motion of connsel.
Norton resigned from his seat on the bench and as a member of the
FREEPORTS NEW SCHOOL
AN ARCHITECTURAL MODEL
MRS. MILBANK TELLS OF WOMMS MnJTIA
Head of Columbian Movement
Interviewed By Nassau Post
at Freeport Home
MIUTARY TRAINING NEEDED
"Respect Each Other's Ideals'
Her Advice to Husbands
and Wives
ever, are thoroughly able to pick and choose, and. furthermore, me Lords and gintlemen, to turn ye down.
"There wi 1 neyer come a time when to us women pubHc applause will equal the touch of a baby's hand, and In this movement for balancing our forces we are becoming more happily wives and mother's, because we are getting from the training that steadiness of nerve which marks the efficient part¬ ner In any combination.
"The enlightened women are glad to progress by the paths you men have blasted out. We are marching rapidly and when in these mental ways we are marching together, there will be clearer and more kindly interpretation between the sexes. We'll really har¬ monize above the collar button, and then—yell the ColBtablan army be poii'erful.
will
Hart's Plans Approved By Schoo
Board. Building to Cost
$70,000
The Board of Education of Union Free School District No. 9, has ac¬ cepted the plans and specifications of Charles M. Hart, of Bayshore, and Freeport, for the new $70,000 school Hempstead Town Board upon his in-1 ^^^^^ ^^j^.j, ^^^ authorized by a vote
of the people at the last school meet-
dlctment under two counts for grand larceny and a felony. Both charges grew out of an incident In his court, where he fined several New Yorkers for speeding In automobiles. It was alleged that he did not turn over the moneys thus collected to the proper authorities of the County and Slate, latter and the fc'-mer charge was dis¬ missed without trial. At this time Norton had just been elected for a sec¬ ond term aa Justice of the Peace and had taken his oath of office. On Jan¬ uary 1 Norton qualified and again as¬ sumed his duties on the bench.
...There has been considerable feeling among the legal fraternity of Nassau County concerning Norton's return to office in view of the disclosures made at his trial. This opposition bas been n)fL(ilfested at various times, but not until he took office did it take definite shape.
The announcement of the Bar Asso¬ ciation's intention to inquire Into the cases was made by its, President, Ed¬ win G. Wright, of Rockville Centre, &*. Mineola on the day Norton began his second term. A complete tran¬ script of the evidence taken in the trial will be examined by the grievance committee, which Includes President Wright, Eugene W. Denton and Theo¬ dore N. Rlpson.
Ing In Freeport. The building, which will occupy a site at the corner of
The building will be of semi-fireproof construction throughout. It will con-! m(jygmgjj( • ¦y^iiich may tain eleven class rooms, office and an i familiar if ib,is called l)y the less eu- auditorium with a Seating capacity ofiphonlc title of woman's niilitia. She 400. This assembly hall will be equip-I^Pe*'^^ ""'^^ decision, always kindly
"Either by luck or good judgement, men have steadily and quite gradually been doing the things winch minim-[
ize the Ego, by putting the whip with i CONTROL OF NASSAU the Altro, and military drill is the j PASSES INTO HANDS most available method for us women j to mentally get where men have got."
Mrs. J. Hungerford Milhariy, of Free-! Continued from page 1
port, was discussing wiiti a reporter j exceptional ability with long experl- for The Nassau Post her Columbian I ence. Back In 1894 he was a member und more
REV. CARRINGTON wooDttEFT B A TO LEAVE freeport! "^^^^ ^
—— i Freeport Actor Colony Barren
Episcopal Rector Accepts Call i and Desolate During Winter To Church Where Pastoral j Season
Career Begzm Only the sea intoning,
Only the wainscot mouse,
BROOKLYN' 0"'y *•»« '^"•l "^^^^ moaning I Over the lonely house.
Although the epic verse of T. B. Aldrich quoted above was written back in the war times half a century ago, It aptly applies to the southern borough of Freeport—Woodcleft, a E. Carrlngton for truly deserted village at this season, of the Episcopal Perhaps in no single commimity along the South Shore of Long Island does the population Increase and decrease" with the comings and goings of sea-
WILL GO TO
Long Island Friends Are Numer¬ ous. Many Men in Siinday Congregations
The Rev. A. W. three years rector Church of the Transfiguration In Free port, will enter upon his duties aa rector of the Church of the incarna-
OF RFPIIRI ICANS *''^"' ^^^^^ Avenue, Brooklyn, on Feb- """s as this colony of professionals. KJtr KC.rUDL«..Al'M3 ^^^^^ ^ ^^ successor to the Rev. J G. '^"^t summer there were more than a
Backus, who retires from active ser¬ vice.
By an odd coincidence, the Kev. Car-!
of the Constitutional Convention and Hngton is called to return to the
for many years has served the public church In which he began his pastoraL ^lo^li^g "^ theatres until late in Sep-
in a responsible capacity In Queens
and Manhattan. He was Treasurer of
thousand persons living in Woodcleft; al present ther^ Is a scant half a hundred. During the summer months from the
ped with a large stage, and landings will be metal.
The class rooms will be 24 x 28 in
The stairways ! *°^ enthusiastically, especially about of stone and^'^'^** forming army of whi, h she is the I undisputed commander-in-cliief.
The interview which slie readily con-
Queens County when it included Nas¬ sau and following consolidation be¬ came an attache in the Department of Finance.
Claude C. VanDeusen, of Rockville
each Instance and will be healed and *^«"*«'' '" ^''^« ^o"*^ P"*"' '" *° ""^^^^ , aired by an approved sysiem widely '^'"'1^^"^ '"""'•^ ^''^'''^ " '"'^a'* fireplace i Centre, who is well remembered as an used throughout the State. The ^'^""^ which two dogs and a tiger cat j Overseer of the Poor Is the new Coun school will accomodate about 3."i0 pu¬ pils. It will be used exclusively for
Columbus and Grand avenues, will JDe grade classes.
an imposing Colonial structure of two i The new school house will be of a stories. The plans and specifications ; distinctive type. II will be built of art will be put out to contractors for bids i brick and Indiana limestone, with a within the next two months, and It ia | heavy coping above the windows of expected that the building will be com-' the second story. The entrance will pleted before the close of the year. I face on Columbus avenue.
ty Superintendent of the Poor. He is the son of Thomas VanDeusen, who held the town office before him. Wal-
I ter Raynor of Baldwin, better known
LOCK-UP UNSAFE; ' ROMANTIC LEGEND
HOTEL FOR DRUNK I RECALLED BY FIND
crouched as the General seated her¬ self. She is a woman of perhaps thirly-tive. of athletic iiuild and singu¬ larly pleasing manner. .^
"When you get all the women drill-i as "Tot" Raynor, has long been a Ing, Mrs. Miilbank, or supposing your | figure in Republican i)olillcs. Phlneas idea becomes a worldwide movement—| A. Seaman, formerly of Freeporl, was what good Is It going to ,\o'!" queried j looked upon as the likely Republican the reporter. 1 candidate for Sheriff. He was defeat-
Mrs. Miiljank surveyed the dogs and i ed In the primary and now looms up cat asleep on tjhe heart ll lug and when I in a position which carries the she spoke it was to ask "why don't j experience of a previous term. lie is
REV A.Vv/. c./^^?>^.s>l^v,^TON career under circumstances that are
they fight?" Then own question—"Ease ol Jiablt has given them under;stat!i^^'. In ail I things they are treah/lTegualiy; they
Rockville Centre's President Colonial Relics Dislodged in; ^a^e the same iiiy/t .1 on the same Treats Pearsall's Wounds- Old Oceanside Mansion in ^"^''"^'"^'^
n.swered her j the new County Detective as fearless strikingly slm;iar to those that mark-
Plays Cood Samariton
Process of Moving
The heartli iiii; belongs as much to one as to the other, and all hands are conifortabl<'. tlierefore, they are amiable. Men ami curious not uhderslood each oi
he looks. The new Assemblyman, LeRoy J. Weed, of Garden City, begins his work In the Stale Legislature with the de¬ termination to at least do his part to¬ ward revising its iniquitous rules that have thwarted honest legislation for women have-tyeara. He Is an up-Stater arid" gradu- I think, and %te of Union College, who has built up
If the way has been hard and the j Through the linding of road rough and you're fairly well un-j newspaper package concealed behind |o„t of that misunderstanding trouble ! his life largely upon an ability to ac- der the weather or commonly Intoxi- a Colonial mantleplece in the old ' ^as arisen. You see 1 dmi't agree that I coniplish where others have failed, cated and looking for a comfortable | Mount Homestead In Lincoln avenue, i the* other side has coia ied the angel He has a keen insight Into conditions place to spend the night, fall down j Oceanside, a romantic legend of Rev-i habit. I and has pledged himself to introduce a
and get mussed up and then stroll; olutionary times Is revived. The pack- Into Rockville Centre. Village Presi-1 aire was found by Alexander Soper, dent Dr. Devlllo N. Bulson will pul | of East Rockaway, a carpenter, who
you up al a hotel and aid nature In
restoring you to your sober senses.
Then the following morning an officer
It Is probable that I will call at about nin(> and lake you
witnesses will be examined by the committee and at the conclusion of the Investigation the matter will be brought before the association for final action. If there Is sufficient warrant for their action the case will be taken l)efore the higher court.
The original charges against Norton of which he was acquitted can never be opened again In a criminal court, but It Is pointed out lhat upon a charge of incompetence an action for removal
"There is no such a tlur.g as undilul-1 bill authorizing the erection of a Stale ed wisdom among nvn -nolhing like j normal sclio'oi on Long Island, whlcIi
it is generally hoped will be passed.
has been at work on the building! since it was removed from its original j site In Oceanside road to Lincoln ave-
to the judge's office, and If your luck holds out till ihen you will be sent home.
Dr. Bulson, in the fullness of his | heart, made such an accommodation I for Charles Pearsall, of Woods avenue,
it—but the alertness of eye and ear,
the quickness demanded by military
training has all combined to give you
that wonderful gift—eilu iency, as no nue. It contained a course, half-i olher conjunction of hahits will bring' knitted sock with the needles still In j ft |
place, two pennies Issued by the Colon-] "Nine hundred and niiiety-nine wo-j
Ial government In 1827, a silver-backed j n,en out of every thousand have no j ,^ AvrP«; of fhiraan Off«>r<! remarkable growih. Its congregation comb, hairpins and a seed pearl of '.oncepllon of leam work. Those wo-{'V^'SS >^yres OI l..niCagO, '-'"erS^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^^ numbers over 2r,0.
$1 TO COLLECT FOR
$2 HAIR SWITCH
ed the beginning of the ministry of Rev. Dr. Backus. Both graduated from Manhattan theological seminar¬ ies, entered the same churcrh In Brook¬ lyn as assistants, accepted ca.is to other churches and returned lo it. Dr. Backus has severed his connections with the Brooklyn church after forty years of service.
"1 am sorry the Diocese believed lhat it was better for me to return to Brooklyn than to remain in Freeport where the pleasant work of building up a church Is still Incomplete," said the Rev. t'arrington recently. "I have been sigularly blessed with friends here whom I regret exceedingly to leave. I doubt if I will <'ver make such friendships no matter where 11 may be called."
During Rev. Carrington's pastorate in Freeporl, the church has known a
considerable value. The famous old
on Friday night. Also he dressed a | moved to its present site a week ago rather Irregular cut on his face and | and is being completely renovated attended'him again next day—without I preparatory lo its occupancy. Soper cost of course. j was working in the drawing room on
Pearsall Is one of forty men who | the lower floor when he made the have been dropped from the water j discovery. The package was wrapped
men will be quick to take exception homestead was to my statement ami Reiio-et-al will be
could be opened. Such a case could \ works along the South Side during the , In an old English newspapar bearing
only be brought upon the ground that Norton had failed to remit fines to the Supervisor in proper season. And this seems unlikely, for it Is known that such violations of the statutes are common throughout the State.
Justice Norton's first case in his new term was one that was carried over from the time he resigned his office. Richard Briggs, a negro liv¬ ing in Gates avenue, Brooklyn, was charged with improper guardianship of two children at a house In Bellmore, which is maintained by the Alpha and Omega Home of Bergen street, Brook¬ lyn. Norton was succeeded by Archer B; Wallace, who empaneled a Jury to hear the case. Briggs' counsel moved for dismissal on Friday and Norton granted it. But he rearrested Briggs and set his trial for January 8 at Bell¬ more.
"I have no knowledge of any further proceedings against me," said Justice Norton to a Nassau Pott reporter In the Bellmore couj;^troom, "1 have been acquitted in a court of record and feel that I am free to continue where I left off. Whatever else Is said for me must come from my counsel,George M. Levy or Theophilus Parsons."
past few days. His dismissal was the crowning sorrow of the new year, and he sought to "drown it at the bowl." At nine o'clock he had met with phe¬ nominal success and came tacking along near the railroad. Then he got Into trouble and someone—It is be¬ lieved—struck him in the face with a brass knuckle. At any rate, his fac^ was badly disfigured when Officer John KIrcher brought him to the village of¬ fice shortly thereafter.
It so happens that there is no chim¬ ney on the Rockville Centre jail, and panes of glass In two of Its windows
the date of 1812.
The legend, which has been handed down through long generalions, pic¬ tures a fair young woman who was held a prisoner by her English parents during the campaign of Long Island in 1812. She was devoted to a young lieutenant in the Colonial army, and despite the opposition of her parents she knitted socks for him and sent them lo the American camp by house¬ hold servants.
At the conclusion of the war she is said to have died from broken heart. Her lover, returning to Oceanside, was
are broken. Ordinarily It will not hold ] directed lo her unmarked grave In a
a prisoner longer than he wants to remain In It, and Pearsall certainly didn't care about jail.
So KIrcher called Dr. Bulson, who, in his dual capacity of village surgeon and chief of police, took care of the prisoner and made provision for his comfort during tho night.
Pearsall readily consented to accom¬ pany the officer to a hotel.
local cemetery. The Incident of her death Is believed lo have formed the theme for the song of "Ben Bolt," by many who have heard it, although DuMaurla, in whose drama, "Trilby It was Immortalized^ Justly claims Scotland as the place of Its origin.
Charles Aldrich, of Brooklyn, who spends week ends at a picturesque bungalow on the banks of East Rock¬ away River, found a chest of silver on his property only a fortnight ago while digging up a small cedar tree. The chest contained, some fifty pieces of silver strangely embossed with the escutcheon of an early English family, and several French gold places dated 1737. The chest Is believed to have been hidden there by smugglers.
I againsi this movement ot the woman s
militia, but after all, lite as 11 Is Is a
whole day's work for iis a'l.
"It has always seemed lo me that men and women to go in to win must first of all be restful to each other. The man who smiles before the world and takes out his l»i;^v spite on his wife—the only employee who can't chuck her job, is committing slow mur¬ der, and the woman who is a coward before the c,Ook and takes it out In poisoning her husbands hours with slathers of bombast while posing with a tin halo, is just contt mptable in her way.
"What reason or excuse Is there for marriage where the simple rules of "fair-is-fair" which govern In the sireet are left outside the front door. Wo¬ men are inclined lo he emotional, but they cannoi be b ame 1 over much. Re¬ member she has been switched around so that she isn't reall.N herself at all —she's what's left.
"That every male has a right lo a definite goal Is a point conceded the world over; and that the woman in ihls
emotional path and picking up his wreckage Is the wife and mother busi¬ ness everywhere this ^ide of Elysium. So there Is room foi improvement.
"If anybody In our mother's day had fired thai gun about women and mili¬ tary training it woiiiil have been fool¬ ishness, for only in the last twenty years have the mental shackles been off women, and not until now has the time been ripe for women to take the next step in her evolmlonary progress and reap its fair advantages.
'"'The greatest fighting iinit In the world, if properly trained Is ajnap and woman who love each other and respect each other's ideals. Really that la the crux of tlie whole matter. If we take from life our dreams we defeat progress. So the Columbian movement is a step forward; the vle^ tory that comes with ideal living.
"(t^is not the matter with the high cost Tof living that gives us so many bachelor girls, no: i.s It the lack of personal charm. Some of the hand- Romest women I ki ow are at the fore¬ front of big movementa today and un- wedded. Our educued women, how-
Proposition to Rockville Centre Cop
«)
preser
111 has been a matter of considerable
I comment that at Sunday services the
I,congregations'^have been largely com-
I posed of men. In no olher church In
How an advertisement in a ladles' | Freeport do the male communicants
magazine brought its quota of replies i form so large a proportion of the con-
and how a chestnut grown switch gregatlon.
nearly a yard long was sent to a Long ; Dr. Carrlngton declined lo make any Island woman on ten days' approval | comment upon Freeport as a religious and neither money nor false hair re-1 center, and was reticent concerning turned, are features of a heart-rending j his own activities here, story which Miss Anna Ayers, of 222 j
West Quiiicy streei, Chicago, 111., has unfolded to the police of Rockville ('entre in a letter appealing for aid In the collection of the bill on a "fifty- fifty" basis. The cost of the switch is 12.
Miss Ayers does a sort of mail order business in hair goods and advertises
extensively. Early In May she re-j eniertainmeiits thai ceived a letter from a Rockville Centre have been features
Calenderi at Bel more
Ca'endars In profusion and a no¬ ticeable absence of midwinter social activities mark the season In Bellmore. The calendars are being widely dis¬ tributed among the residents by mer¬ chants of the village and the dances, in former years of the holidays.
woman in(|uiring about a switch and j are conspicuous by their absence. The promptly sent one that matched a ! fact Is that Bellmore and its environs
has the "movie" craze.
Borrows School Taxei
sample of hair inclosed to Long Island. Then she waited for a remittance. But when none came she sent a slerotyped
"second letter" asking for a payment. y^^ Board of Supervisors has
Later .she wrote more letters, the last. thorlzed County Treasurer Daniel J.
of which Is in the hands of Officer Hegeman to borrow |39,.026.49 for
case puts her life sweeping h's j g^,^.^^,, Temme. It says in part: ;On j j^p purpose of paying to the various
May 13, 1 sent one hair switch on ten
days' approval to^ of your village.
1 have written repeatedly about it but as yet have received no response. Do you not think it your duty to help me? The bill Is $2 and if you succeed in forcing——^ to pay this amount you may deduct half for your trouble. Should the switch be offered In place of the money do not accept it."
Officer Temme has resolved to aid Miss Ayers. ^
school districts amounts due on school taxes which have long remained un¬ paid. The money will be borrowed for eight monlhs, and in the meantime a school tax sale will be held, from which a large sum is expected. All property upon which laxes have noi been paid for 1911 will be sold.
teiHber)there is no livelier play ground for actors than Woodcleft. Several hundred of them find their recreation during the long summer vacation there, following the natural pastimes of boating, bathing, fishing and auto- mobiling. ^The nights are enlivened by "parties" of a varied kind and many an act that later is accepted by the theatre going public is "staged" in the crude while its cast is "resting." ing."
But when winter comes around, ike Aul)urii in Goldsmith's "Deserted X'iilaire." Woodcleft becomes a barren desolate comnuinity of houses and streets. And it is just such a place lo-da V.
