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TUESDAY, FEBRUApV 10, 1914
Publi*h«<l Tu«iMl»y» «nd Friday* by
TUB NAi«A«; POM fUSLfDHINO WMPANr.
tt-tt Boatb Grove »tr»«t, Fnwpoft, Ksssa
County. Ntw York.
BAND "W. St-THERI.AND. Editor JAMES E. STILES. Builn»» Manager
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We're Unofficial
Having no Interest In the matter either v ;y we may with frankness ex- pres sour regret that the Owl of Rock- | ville Centre has apparently lost out ' in the controversy over the designa¬ tion as Official paper In Nassau Coun ty.
If there is to be a Republican offi clal paper there certainly oug it to be a 1 rogresiive oSicial paper. The the ory of th':! law is to keep newspaper; In line with the luaclmies. Now when some of the more important cogs pf a mac'ilne break away and_ set up 8 vigorous Independent mechanism and win with It, the Insurgent organization ought to have a say In regard to whal line of thought la official for the com¬ ing twelve monlhs.
Seriously there Is a lot of bum- combe In the way papers are by des¬ ignation made official this and official that.
THE NASSAU POST occupies a pro^d position ot being the unofficial newspaper of Nassau Couuiy. 11 Beeksi to speak for the civilian. If at any time It should happen to be "desig nated" It will due not lo the persist¬ ent pervaying of party platitudes, but to the BucceHS with which Its holds to ita purpose of serving all the people.
' to be abolished under the scheme and I whose scheme la it anyway? I The post office bas always been ac- , cepted as eatablishllRg a town's entity. I It la aa necessary as a railroad ata- ; tion. It Identifies a communiiy wltb 1 government It connects communities I as nolhing else may. It is an essen- i tlal of modem life and a montunent ! to civilization.
A man who aiislsts in tbe creation I of a post office perloinis a worthj service, and beiore one Is aboUsbed ..le cummimliy snould hav^ a hearing iueie are real problems demaudii.c ihe intelligent euoria apd best enei ^les of the post office department, there Is need of Jacking up bureau chiefs and bringing the general ser¬ vice to a higher degree of efficiency. There is a need of reform in a dozen directions in the Interest of tbe mass lit the people for whose use and con¬ venience the post office system solely exists.
The post master-general and his as- .ilst&nts, even unto the third and lourtb, can be In mor^ important busi- iess than abolishing post offices. The> .liight try building them up.
There is something misleading In the announcement of the "Long Island Jinner of the Suffolk County Associa- lon" which will be held In the IJote. .Vstor In Now York on the evening oi i'ebruary 14. If It is to be a Long .iilaud dinner that will be made up oi .'ourses such as Long Islanders de ijjat to see set beiore them. Al ahi .ate we hope mat eveiybody will liavt . good time.
THB PIPE LINE PROBLEM
With the completion of the Catsklll acqueduct system New York City will be called upon to decide whal shall be done with the original Brooklyn sys- teiK) of water supply, now part of the general service of the cily.
It will be many months before the new service Is coniplete*t but ther* is evidence even now that the exlstini- systera is to bo worked on the mosi economical basis until it may be deem ©d advisable to draw on the Catskll supply for Ol ook lyn.
To Ber\e tlio needs of our urba; neighbor at the western eud of Lonj. Island, Nassau County and particular¬ ly Us South Shore villages have had tr make many sacrifices. The pipe line highway cuts through moat desirable territory. The property thus taken is not Bubiect to the control of the villages. Its use Is restricted. It is only by concession that the towns en- Joy the use of this Important highway
The time la not far distant when It will bo Incumbent upon the officials ol Freeport, Rockville Centre and other villages of the water work zone tc come toifether with a view to asking an enlargement of vlliage prlvllegee with respect to the pipe line highway.
Important Improvements of neces- •Ity must Include bringing the water works line Into the general scheme of street uniformity.
No possible good object Is served 60 far as the Integrity of the watei works system is concerned, In keepnit the vrtfle belt ceded lo the wate; works, fore'.-er ur.raved, forever wit! out sidewalks and forever unalghtl) In ts stretch of alternating mud and dust
A Committee of strong citizens. Qualified to urge the Join claims of tbe villages with dignity and earnest- ;pea8 would command attention, and aa there Is no hostility between the city and the villages. New York might be made lo see the matter tbrougb Iriendly eyes.
TAUPE aiNO WITH THE MAILS
Tbe scheme now under considera¬ tion in Washington to abolish certain Independent post offices on Long laland and estabUsh In their place branehea of nearby larger offices may work out finely, but considering It In a bread way It seems like tampering T?ith the mails. ^
Tbe offices at Douglaston and Little Neck are first on the list. Under the plan there is to be at Douglauton a carrier station, served by Plushlng. At Little Neckjthere lu to be contract •tatlon—Bimllar to tbos& 4n drug stores—with carrier service also from Flusblns.
Wbat other tovms are on tbe list
BAYNOHTOWN
The Raynors made claim to our Fre"e-
pori's name; This raised John Randall's pity. So he came one day In a" one-horse
shay To build forth hence a city.
'rA.
Just three shanty stores with single
floors. Was how Johu Randall found us. Our woe came betimes when rose
flaming lines Of hundreds of stores around us.
Two churches here then, like our Jack
and Ben, Played crap with one another: -Vow with silent taps, and love's Utile
rajis, A many comes to bother.
One poor little school, run by a poor
fool, .\Iado rules for two score children: .NOW In this sad age, a thousand kids
rage O'er Algebra and German.
.\nd no lawyers then lay In their snug
den, i'o set the people itching To fljid vast estates, whose donors'
mistakes
LUOX TO THBK AI.L To every man wbo batt entered fair¬ ly apon the duties of public office as the servant of tbe people of Nassau County elUier< as a new officebolder | or otberwise, THE NASSAU POST j extends 4ts felicitations. j
Pubilc office Is not a bed of roses. Tbe people are not easily satisfied. Few commend; many criticize. Lucky .he man who can maintain a poise in ifflce wblcb will make the public as inxlous to glev a dinner In his honor At the end of his term as tbey are to banquet him at tbe beginning. |
Many an otberwise excellent citizen j 11*4 permitted himself to get tbe no-j tfdb upon taking office tbat Incidental i to being on the payroll, be in some (vay became a dweller In an exclusive ! itmosphere, and tbat bis opinions on w^hatever topic should be accepted as ! ^ ^hose of an Oracle.
fln
flmcpican Boy
at Oxford
By HBRBERT Ul. CLOCK
In my first sketch I mentioned some¬ thing of the phy¬ sical risks Incurred while obtaining an education during the centuries which saw the birth of Oxford University.
Not only were fierce battles wag-
MERBCTCr ir. ajOCK> ed between the stu OtheA have assumed to act as po- j dents and the townsmen, but dlssen- lllcal guides too, and Instructors of, be general public upon the theory of
30uc§e tbat a part of tbeir duty is to .^eep tbe electorate from going wrong.
These obseravtions do not necessar¬ ily apply to the man who lately enter- ad upon the duties of their several jfflces, still, It Is not amiss to point jut that the people of Nassau County lave shown on many occasions tbat hey. were not In need of political iuldance, or In doubt as to Just what (.hey wanted.
^l any man Is uncertain as to what ais platform should be in office, be need not heritate to accept this one, which should be approved by men of whatever parly:
Honesty.
Efficlesi^.
Economy.
And to thoe hlmple planks may be added, Franlmekb. When a public of¬ ficial Is honet.l, efficient and econom¬ ical he can aflord to be perfectly can¬ did and ope;\ly frank.
Again, good luck, to them all.
lade clients' bones worth picking. ¦'' ^^® Southland hare been collected
"^ And saved for posterity. The refrains
And all of our men were like women
then, .N'o policemen were on duly. Today there's plenty—Judges' beads
empty. And all^f that tutU fruttl.
With no news rakers for our news¬ papers,
-N'o false stories to sell,
All real estate men knew their fate then,
.Vll bad men went to bell.
No bankers then groaned for tbe
money they loaned So protest met a check, -N'o axe for to chop at the borrower's
block. Like the chicken—In the neck.
For giving out pills without any frills,
.here were but two physicians.
<ow over a score, all killing galore.
.vll dangerous"magicians.
Good old Raynor Town wore Its rag¬ ged gown,
Restful and not growing.
When John Randall came wltb ""his eyes aflame
.\nd set the dredges golni^
Dear whiskered "Old Nick" and clam
alley Dick, Old Jo«)i and^l and Clem, Tho' dead, could relate the follies of
. fate— The dredges Jtuigjed them.
Tben here's to old Jobn, bis name
shall live long. '
Dance and sing this ditty. ' Leap upward, old flame, rourd ^dhn
Randall's uame, For building us a city.
s Refrain (Yankee Doodle.) When John Randall came to town Riding in bis shayses Stuck a feather In his cap « Uow taxes soared Uke blazes.
—Parmer Poet. ]
LONG ISLAND MELODIES; WHERE ARE THEY GONE
The happy suggestion that Freeport ought to have a choral society comes al a time when there Is a revival of interest m songs and ballads native to'localltles. John A. Lomax, who Is not unknown to Nassau County, re¬ cently accepted for himself the inter¬ esting task of gathering from ranch and camp the words and music of ¦-he cowboy songs. Through tbe In- erest of another the Quaint melodies
of the hardy folk who travelled over¬ land to California before tbe days of che railroads, as well the songs more or less Indentlfied wltb states have likewise been placed together while there still remained here and there a person to whom tbe words and at least some of the music were not fa¬ miliar.
But what of the songs of Long Island? To be sure the Dutch were aol a musical people, but they cer- lalnly must bave sang one once in d while. What did they sing?
At Sag Harbor, not long ago, tbe writer of this neard a weather-beaten old man singing a song of life on a whaler. It was spirited as to lyrics and tuneful, albeit a bit monotonous as to melody. It bad inspiration and aope and the color of tbe deep sea.
It must be that at l^brt Jefferson, Greenport, as well aa at Bag Harbor xnd a hundred otber places locfdlty .ongs of other days are still remem¬ bered. In the Interest of the preser- ¦ atlon of music closely linked wltb i.he history of the seaport towns will jome one not take the trouble to score .he melodies and set down tbe words ot the songs of tbe s^a?
What songs did tbe English sing when they dominated Long Island? Surely many of these have been band¬ ed down from mother to dauj^bter or from father to son. "Who can repeat the words of some of those old songs? Who can bum the tunes?
The Indians certainly sang. There Is plenty of evidence to prove that What of their songs? Wh&t did the Rockaways sing at tbeir ceremonials? When the Pequots sailed across tbe Sound to attack the wampum banks at Glen Cove tbey very likely chanted a war song. Somewhere there must be someone wbS knows tbe key and meter of It "The songs ot tbe Matta- woks and tbe Sbinnecocks cannot bave been loat forever.
When the Freeport cboral society ia organized It ahouid intereat Itaelf in collecting and preserving tbe songs of Long Island. How deligbtXul it wotild be to bear tbe society In a program 4uade up of melodies with ttae history of Loas'lsUuid.
slons tore at the ranks of the students themselves. Men from Scotland and the north haled the sons of the South and many a bloody conflict between tbe two factions were waged In the meadows around Oxford.
The student body was composed of representatives from every class of society. Beggars—for that time beg¬ ging was a reputable calling—filled the city, seeking alms al the corners, or gathered at the lectures of teachers as poor as themselves. Y'oung lords with armed retainers at their backs rode through the streets fighting out the feuds of their houses. Youths— mere boys—sat dicing in the taverns or reeled along the passages, darken¬ ed by the overhanging houses of the medieval town. A word would pass, a blow would be struck—and then the rush of feet and the clash of arms aa the bell of St. Mary's and St Mar¬ tin's summoned student and towns¬ man to the deadly fray. Everywhere was filth, squalor, seething humanity. How different at Oxford!—the High street, the beautiful river and Its tri¬ butaries bordered by the giant elms, the ancient colleges, the chiming bells. But slowly order succeeded chaos. Qualifications were fixed for admls- aion of applicants to the privileges of the University. The year 1274 mark¬ ed the beginning of that system which has since made both Oxford and Cam¬ bridge famous. This was the found¬ ing of Merlon Colleges by Walter de Merton. In the following ages others were founded until now there are twenty-one colleges for men and four for women.. Diplomas, however, and not degrees are awarded women stu¬ dents.
These colleges coming Into exist¬ ence at different times, often under strange circumstances, bave had var¬ ied histories. Through them the Uni¬ versity authorities received their first roai control of the students. Some of the colleges bave beon richly endowed by their founders.
These gifts were generally In the form of land. A nobleman, a church¬ man or a rich burgher would present the new college with property from which a heavy revenue acruedj. Dur¬ ing the course of the centuries, the value of these benefactions have alter¬ ed with the changing times imtll now a strange thing has come to pass. One college may be poor, almost bankrupt; Its neighbor may possess almost un¬ heard of wealth. For example—one college was endowed with corn lands, these have greatly depreciated In val¬ ue; another was presented with prop¬ erty which now forma part of the docks at Southampton, and which command )auge rental.
Each college is a separate organiza¬ tion by itaelf. It has its own "head" —Headmaster—its own "dons"—pro¬ fessors—its own buildings, servants, athletic teams, rules and everything lhat pertains to individual life.
The colleges come under tbe head of tbe University In a general way. Examination are given by the Univers¬ ity, degrees are conferred by tbe Uni¬ versity, and tbe best men are picked from tbe various college teams to re¬ present the Unlversltr in sports.
The undergraduates are disciplined by both tbe college and University authorities. The imlverslty as a body returns two men to parliament
In tbe next article I aball tell the experiences of a freshman as be ar¬ rives at Oxford.
150 WOIILD MARRY AGED WAR VEHRAN
Captain Sam Shannon, of Nor-
wood, is Besieged by Letters
of Proposal
MOST LEITERS ARE FROM THE SOUTH
Three Daughters of West Virginia
Offer Themselvcs-One's Mother
Nursed a Captain Shaimon
THROUGH BY DA YLIGHl
Its Bice to get aboard the train Before Tbe Sun Goes down And ride tbe whole way bome again Before Tbe Sun Goes down It makes a person want to aing And carol like a lark awing: There's even chance to talk of spring Before The Bun CKH* down (Penned on s~ Expreea by W. L •.}
Captain Samuel Shannon, the aged recluse of Norwood, la overwhelmed today with repUea to bia advertise¬ ment for a housekeeper and wife which appeared a fortnight ago in a Rcokvllle Centre weekly newspaper. Up to this morning he had received no less than 150—only lialf of which he has ben able to read with tbe as¬ sistance of friends and neighbors— and douoiiess oiners are on tbe way lo his bom':) in Ocean avenue.
To say tbe remarkable old man of seviay-elgnt who points with pride to bis record as a veteran of Cbancellors- vllle and Bull Run, is non plussed, is putting it mildly. Since be received the fiist Ibtter from Mrs. L. D. Fer¬ ine, of Tarrytown. N. Y.. a widow who has known "better times." be bas had time for little else than reading the volumes of letters that each mall has brought.
The grizzled Captain Is reticent con¬ cerning these proposals of marriage. He admits, however, tl\at most of tbem are from the south. One envel¬ ope contained three separate letters from three daughters of a West "Vir¬ ginia widow—all of them maidens, besides a btlef note from the widow herself explaining that there is a scarslty of men fn the hamlet In which they live.
According to Captain Shannon the widow" Is willing to send ono of her daughters to New York on trial, but she conditions that If the girl is not acceptable that her carfare be paid. In the event of her marriage to the Captain the West Virginia widow agrees to wave all claim for carfare In lieu of a wedding gift
Beselged by the appalling piles of mall, Captain Shannon does not de¬ spair. Ho takes keen enjoyment in reading eac hletler over sometimes twice before destroying It. Those that ai^ most favorable he keeps un¬ der lock and key.
Among the most Interesting letters that have come to him is one received yesterday from a woman in "Virginia whose name he declInlBs to mentio*. The writer states that ber mother
UPTON^NEWCBA^ LOSSES
Shamrock IV a Marvel in CAUSE HIGH PRICES
Yacht Contruction --- WiU
Come to American Waters' Freeport Business Men's Asso- in August. ciation Advances Solution
for High Cost^f Living
It Is of general Interest to a large j ...,
majority' ot yachtsmen of the South i
Side to note that Sir Thomas LiPton ig^yg ^^y^ j^^ ,y^ REMEDIES
will send as a cup challenger this i ivuiw .«« •%*»»- •¦»•"¦«-'¦•«<'
year a yaul rigged, seventy-flve foot, I
built according to tbe designs pre¬ pared by Charles Nicholson, the fa-' WiU Advertise Judgement Debtort mous English yacht builder. She will
be of extreme type and the first boat and Issue Drafts on
ever built for the International race
under the American rule of measure- Employees
ment And she will still be a Sham¬ rock—this time No. 4.
The new challenger will bave a tre-, By an original method of deduction, mendously long overhang, an abnor- ' the Freeport's Business Men's Assod- mal spread of sails and lofty spars. | atlon has hit upon a novel solution to Sir Thomas falls to mention anything j the knotty problem of the high cost of
living which It advances to merchants, tradesmen and people who do not pay their bills—or pretend to—as a sub¬ ject for serious ihoughl. And by ex¬ actly the same process an equally unique remedy has ben discovered
about its distinguishing features In
the impresBlonate forgllmpse of the
newest Shamrock which was sent to
bis yachting friends in the United
Statea a short time ago. The picture
of tbe new boat ia on a post card. It
shows the newest "green hope" on her which the association has solemnly
trans Atlantic voyage to American resolved to test by persistent applies-
waters j Hon,
It Is Bald in favor of the new boat j The keynote of both of these re- that she will be ready by April and } markabie discoveries Is credit—cred- begin sailing trials In May. The i It from the standpol.ii of the consumer
Shamrock HI wlli be her running mate In these trials. W. P. Burton will be In general charge of the uew yacht and CaiialH Gould will be her skipper. She Is due In America In August and the races will take place in September off Sandy Hook. A large part of the course Is visible from Long Beach and places along the shore.
To tbe tars of the South Side the history of yachting Is always of keen Interest The Naaaau Poat publishes here a brief sketch of the sporl with some interesting data concerning yacht rat^g In America.
Yachting Is one of the most an¬ cient of sports, yet Us general devel¬ opment Is modern. The word "yacht" comes from the Dutch "Jacht" mean¬ ing "chase boat.
The first American racer was the schooner "Wave" launched in 1832. The first fin-keel yacht was the "Glm- crack." It was in her cabin on July 30, 1*44 that the New York Yacht Club, the pioneer yacht clpb of Ameri¬ ca, was organized.
Tho premier yachting trophy, "The American Cup," was given by the Royal Ilacht Squadron for a race around the Isle of Wright on August 22, 1851. Th. American schooner yacht "America" won the race. Since that time there have been twelve races for the cup. American yachts have won every series.
Following Is a list of the cup de¬ fenders and tbe dates of their respec¬ tive races they own: Magic August 8, 1870
nursed a wounded soldier at Chan-' C°l"°i'''^ August 16, 1871
cellorsvllle whose name was Captain Shannon, and asks whether he is tbe man. But the aged veteran denies tbat be waa a commissioned officer during the war and hints tbat the wo¬ man who writes him Is looking for Information.
He will answer some of tbe In¬ quiries and probably ask for pictures.
Pasteur Institute Anniversary
To the Editor of the Nassau Post:
It may be of real intereat to your readera to know that clvlllEed peoplea are quite appropriately celebrating at this time tbe twenty-fifth annlvresary of the founding of the Pasteur Insti¬ tute, the world's greatest life-saving station, made possible by tbe remark¬ able experiments and investigations of Louis Pasteur, the father of bacteriol¬ ogy and modem preventative medi¬ cine.
The Institute bas experienced a phe- nomlnal growth within tbe quarter of a century ef Us existence, and it is Im¬ possible to set a limit ux)on tbe ntmi¬ ber of people who owe tbeir lives to its accomplishments. Tbe relation of bacteria to disease is very important There never has been a science of medicine, for the study of bacteria is for the first time putting the science of medicine on a firm basis.
Our Intelligence bas enabled us to distance all ordinary enemies, and our struggle for existence now la centred on tbe minute living organlBms,wblcb owe tbeir power of Injuring to an ex¬ traordinary power of reproduction. We can't flgbt tbem aa we can fight the largdr admals. Only for a abort time have we known tbat this ia our greateat flgbt and tbe Paateor Inati- tute haa been helping ua win It with extraordinary rapidity. ThrouiA tbe work of Paateur and tbe Institute bearing bis name tbe science of medi¬ cine has become largely preventative inetead of merely curative.
Cordially Toars,
A Laef4«m. U. Ti. New Tork Q\ty.
or discredit as well from the angle of the man who sells things upon tbe promise that they will be paid for within a certain limited time. And by the regulation of this element In com¬ mercial dealing the nHsoclalion hopea to make Fieeport a twentieth century Utojla.
It is genially conceded that one of the primal facts In the high cost of living is due lo losses suffered by bus¬ iness in unpaid bills. ¦ These losses havo been reduced to a percentage basis almost universally and the con¬ sumer pays for losses with Ills butcher or grocery bill on Saturday night. Al¬ so he--or she- contributes a share to a general fund for payment of extra¬ vagant bills contracted without and denotes a pleasure i thought of payment.
Having thus solved the local prob¬ lem of high prices, the association has decided lo carry Into effect at once these two methods of correcting 11:
To advertise for sale Judgments ob¬ tained by menibora, setting forth the name and residence of the Judgment debtor and tho amount of the Judg¬ ment. It Is convincing enough tbat with debtors who incur bills with im¬ punity and brazenly defy the creditor to do his worst so long as the matter of a private nature, will wince at the thought of being chronicled as a "bad debtor." ,
In working out this progressive and coinprehenflve plan for the collection of bills, the association doffs Ua bat to Colonel Roosevelt and his full pub¬ licity theory, for It was upon it that this method was based.
"It would bo a sad thing for friends and neighbors to read as an open book the record of another's transacllons," said Albin N. Johnson, secretary and counsel for the Association to a Naa-
Madellne August 11-12, 1876
Mischief Nov. 9-10, 1881
Puritan Sept 14-16, 1886
Mayflower Sept 9-11. 1886
Volunteer Sept 27-30, 1887
Vigilant Oct. 7-13, 1893 I •*" Post rtporter. This plan had ad
Defender Sept 7-12, 1895
Columbia Oct lC-30, 1899
Columbia Sept 28 to Oct 4, 1901
Reliance Aug. 22 to Sept 3, 1903
REARRANGING ROOSEVET UGHTS
Lighting Committee Undertakes
Work—Posts to be at Corners
The Lighting Committee of Rooae¬ velt, which since the establishment of a street light district in that village has acted aa an intermediary between the Uxpayers and the town authori¬ ties, haa undertaken the rearrange¬ ment of tbe lamps throughout tbe village. In numerous instances It bas beeu found that lampa bave been placed away from tbe corners of atreeta in euc^ a way that they serve only to light tbe crossing. These will be corrected and the lamp posts placed st points of intersection wherever possible and equipped with signs bearing tbe names of tbe streets.
Tbe Lighting Committee waa organ¬ ized in 1910. Ita memberabip in- cludea: Robert A. a->rrigan, Chair¬ man; William J. Gllle'apie, Secretary: William VanWicklen, Henry J. Bauer and E. V. Baldwin.
TAXPAYERS, ATTENTION Joseph T. Hall, receiver of taxes of tbe Town of Hempstead, bas issued his annual notice to taxpayers to tbe effect that taxes are due and tbat tbe same will be collected at bis office <in the Town Hall. Hempatead, every day from Tuesday of this week until and inclodlog Wedneaday, March 11, with the exception of Sondays and boli- dayi, trooi f a. in. to 4 p. m.
vantages. I'eople shrink from news paper notoriety, and doubtless would pay their bills rather than have It"
The second remedy which will doubtless prove Us effectiveness upon its first application contemplates tha Issuance of sight drafts upon the em¬ ployers of delinquents requesting and authorizing such employer to deduce the amount of the claim from the sal ary of the employed.
The Freeport Business Men's Asso¬ ciation wa» organized In April, 1912. with a charter membership of 34. Following the Initial meeting a com¬ mittee waited on Albin N. Johnson, the well known lawyer, and be out¬ lined tho plan upon which tbe associ¬ ation has based Us varied activities. From its inception Mr. Johnson bas acted as legal advisor and secretary, and it has ben due to his untiring efrorts that the association bas ad¬ vanced to Us present position.
The Idea of such sn association was advanced by James F. Campion, tbe present ex«scutlye, through whose en- terprlisA and Influence the large in¬ crease in membership is largely due. At present the Association's members ¦ uunit)er seventy-six. During tbe year about 120,000 bas been collected by means of "first notices" sent out by members; |8,000 wa* returned to the» Association as a last resort and 12,600 collected. The balance of claims is being reduced gradually.
East Rockaway Civics Campalgninf
The Civic Aseocialion -of Eaat Rockaway is meeting every Thursday night in tbe club house on Atlantio aveiiue f0 • the puiposo of promotion the candidacy or Dr. w. A. Stroat. for village president, and brioclaf' before the people tbe vital Issues of tlM Mjupalgn ter vlUace omoera.
