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VOL. 9, No. 23
FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY. JULY 12, 1918
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
HOTELNASSADTAKEN|^'»«» '''""^^ ^'^ras FOR ARMY HOSPITAL "¦•Z^T^fTXo^""'
Gooemment Acquires Famous Long
Beach Bailding for Use After
September 5.
Announcement was mudfi on Mon¬ day that aft«r a series of negotiations, the War Department of the United States had entered into a contract with Willard H. Barse, lessee of the Hotel Nassau, Lon(( Beach, to acquire it for hospital purposes after Septem¬ ber 5.
The contract between the grovern- ment and Lessee Barse was announc¬ ed as approved by the authorities in Washinirton.
Beyond an admission that he had received a letter on July 2 from Washington in which it was stated that the United States would take over the hotel on September o or shortly after, Mr. Barse waa non-committal. The communication wa.s siijned by Surgeon-General W. C. Borges.
It is reported that the hotel will be tran.iformed into a hospital for con¬ valescent soldiers returned from the battlefields of Europe, and that sev¬ eral new buildin<fs adjoining it will be I constructed for ffovernment use.
"Soon after the United States en¬ tered the war, Mr. Barse expressed the ' opinion that the Nassau would be an i ideal place as a hospital and declared i his willingness to turn it over to the^j government for whatever use it saw ; fit. Early this year army engineers j imade surveys of the property, as well ! as of other buildings at the beach, and j soon after government representatives j were sent to secure data on every piece . of improved property for the purpose ; of leasing. I
At that time it was said that the | War Department intended turning the entire beach into a training station for aviators, and negotiations for the tak- • ing over of certain properties were started. This plan did not materialize, the government taking the Mineola Fair Grounds.
The Hotel Nassau is one of the largest resorts on the Atlantic coast. It was built nine years ago by its ipresent owners, the Westiipgihouse, Church, Kerr Company, at a cost, in¬ cluding the site, of over $1,000,000. It is an absolutely fire-proof structure, constructed of brick and steel. There are over 400 guest rooms, most with baths, and sleeping accommodations for about 300 employees. The La Salle Yvette, or main dining room, has a seating capacity of 2,000, and is on a f oor level with tho boardwalk. Its kit¬ chen facilities are modern in every respect.
Army officials who recently visited the beach were favorably impressed with the idea of turning the big ho¬ tel into a hospital, claiming it sur¬ passed several other contemplated properties for that purpose. Its prox¬ imity to New York City is also in its favor.
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Sockdologer Blue Fish.
iBluefish have already appeared in the bay, quite a few being caught this week. Some real "<Sockdologers" were caught outside this week, averaging about eight pounds each.—Bay Shore Journal.
Mineola ("Special.)—A sunnTrariza- tion of the lists of the enrolled elec¬ torate of Nassau County, including both males and females, was made at the election commissioner's oflke on Saturday, last. The figures show that there are a total of 21, 969 people of the county who will be entitled to vote «t the prinvary on September 3. The division of those enrolled by political parties in the respective townships is as follows:
Town of Hempstead—Republican, 8,986; Democrat, 3,360; Prohibition, 180; SocialHi^, 118.
Town of North Hempstead—Repub¬ lican, 2,308; Democrat, 1,417; Prohi¬ bition, ir>; Socialist, 16.
Town of Oyster Bay—'Republican, 3,087; Democrat, 2,32.5; Socialist, 66; Prohibition, 61.
The enrollment this year is light, owing to it being what is known as an "off-year." In 1916 those who enrolled for the Presidential election numbered 18,970 in the county and this number was made up entirely of male voters.
The figures showing the number of women registrant? v/ere publisheJ in the Post last week.
GOVT. AGENTS HUNT ^Nassau County Firemen
TICKET PROFITEERS
Working to Stop Money Making
Scheme-Nearly 100 Comma-
tations Reported Seized.
\?AR UNITES SISTER AND TWO BROTHERS
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BOUQUET
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VIOLET
An especially smooth, non- ahining toilet powder, delightful¬ ly perfumed.
You will like it 25 cents a can at
CHUBBUCK'S
Quality Drug Store
FKE£POHT
Induction into the war service of' Joseph and William Hunter, age 21 j and 18 years, respectively, and their locating in Camp Mills, brought about a reunion with their sister, Jennie, the adopted daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Fulton, who resides in Freeport, after a separation of ten years.
The brothers and sister parted when they lived in Corona, the boys going west to Sebetha, Kansas, where they located on a farm, and the sister, not yet in her teens, locating with her adopted parents. 5he corresponded with her brothers at intervals until they entered the war service and were sent to a camp in Tennessee. Then their letters were not so frequent.
One night, recently, Miss Fulton was much surprised to receive a tele¬ phone call from "Joe" in Camp Mills, telling thajt he had just arrived. Upon going to camp to see "Joe," Miss Ful¬ ton was overjoyed when she met him and was told at the same time that he had discovered "WiU" in camp. Neither brother knew of the other's presence in camp until after their ar¬ rival. The trio had a happy reunion and the brothers visited their sister in Freeport before going across the sea. "Joe" is with the Seventeeth Machine Gun Company and William with the Fifty-first Infantry, head¬ quarters staff.
PUBLIC HEALTH STATION
Freeport Relief Agency Willing to Aid the Needy Sick.
The regular clinic of the Freeport Public Health Station was held on Friday, July 5. Dr. Rhame, Dr. Run- cie and Dr. Dean were in attendance. There were two mothers with children seeking medical advice.
It is apprehended that the people who need t^e clinic most do not know of its existence. If everyone reading The Nassau Post would spread thfe news among the needy neighbors that there is a health station in Freeport, which offers medical advice to those unable to pay, a great deal of relief could possibly be extended and many homes made happier. The clinic ia open every Friday between 9 and 11 a.m., under auspices of the Freeport Neighborhood Workeis.
ProrfVteering from the rentals of Long Island Railroad commutation tickets will soon be broken up, it is expected, through activities by gov¬ ernment agents, now at work in va¬ rious sections and co-operation by the company.
This week it was reported that near¬ ly 100 of»thc tickets which had been issued to various parties and utilized by business people engaged in the rental game, haci been Seized by the federal investigators and many more are expected to fall into their pos¬ session.
The activities of the government men, it is claimed, have alarmed a number of the ticket dealers, who have been making from $2,000 to $3,000 a year from rentals. The Long Isl¬ and Railroad is now under govern- nent control, ¦ and profiteering from tickets or any other offense would be against the United Stages and not the railroad. Fear that federal prose¬ cution would be drastic and convic¬ tion result in heavy sentences has led some speculators, it is reported, to ?ive up the i)ractice of dealing in tick¬ ets for the acconmiodation of people who wanted to travel to the city at a "cheap John" rate.
From various sources, it 'is de¬ clared that the custom of using com¬ mutation tickets possessed by the pro¬ fiteers has been practised as much by women as by men and that the .Mon- tauk Division has been a fertile field of the activities. Recently on one train, it is claimed that four women had commutation tickets that they did not own, and the federal agents in¬ sisted that tJhe conductor take posses¬ sion of them. At first the trainman is said -to have balked on the proposi¬ tion, but before the train reached Jamaica he took the tickets from the women i
Barber shops, dry goods and cigar stores have, it is said, been the prin¬ cipal headquarters for rental of the commutations, some places holding as many as thirty to peddle among peo¬ ple at a rate, about one-half the regu¬ lar fare.
The Nassau Post recently called at¬ tention editorially to the profiteering from commutations, and put the ques¬ tion of stopping it squarely up to the railroad, asserting that it seemed un¬ fair to other commuters who adhered to their contracts not to let anyone else use their tickets, while the renters were peddleing them promiscuously.
at Woodmere July 24
Arrangements are rapidly ap- proaaliing completion for the annual parade and tournament of the Nas¬ sau County Volunteer Firemen's As- s-ocialion, to be held in Woodmere Wednesday, July 24,. The Woodmere firemen are making preparations for handling tt.e csowd of visitors expect¬ ed for tlie Jay. From present indica¬ tions, there will be between sixty and eeventyjfive Sre companies from all psrts of the county present to parti- cipa:« in the parade and tournament. Tne *• enxs will l>e divided into three divisions, hand drawn, horse drawn, ¦nnd mjL.)r driven apparatus. The pa¬ rade will «tart at Hewlett and pass tiirough Hewlett and Vyoodrere, dis¬ banding in front of the grandstand and pirch, which will be erected in Broadway at Conklin avenue. The tourriament events will be run off in Broadway, beginning promptly at 2 p.m.
k feature of the parade will be a participation by all of the fire de¬ partments, Red Cross, Boy Scouts, New York Guard, and two com¬ panies of soldiers from Gamp Mills.
The-local committee plans to turn the proceed.s from the affair over to a committee to purchase an ambulance which is to be donated to the Wood- mere Branch of the Nassau'County Red Cross.
The various committees are as fol¬ lows:
Parade—.7. Krumland, Woodmere, chairman; Eugene P. Parsons, Hemp- .stead; George Ebling, Lynbrook; J. D. O'Keefe, Woodmere; Jacob Frerk, Woodmere.
Tournament—'George H. Hoffman, Mineola, chairman; David H. Todd, Hempstead; Edward Dagnan, Lyn¬ brook; John J. 'McCarthy, John Boyce, George H. Schiffmacher and Robert Murray of Woodmere.
Prize—'Charles A. Schiffmacher, chairman, Woodmere; H. A. Town- send, Oyster Bay; Arthur L. Nichols, Hempstead.
The officials for the day will be: Judges, Joseph Eaton and Henry von Wheeldon. Babylon; Joseph Cum- mings, Brightwaters; Charles P. O'Donnell, Jamaica; Judge John M. Cragen, Corona; John L. Havens, Centre Moriches,
Timers—'Carl E. Burr, Jr.,. Com- mack; William H. Harris, Jamaica; Philip Peter i, Maspeth.
Starters—Clarence Boyd, Jamaica;
Warren K. Ha'i'.and. ElmTurst; Fr»d- erick Scheide, I.indenhurst.
President William Stoffcl of Hemp¬ stead, who foi years was chaiman of the prize committee, has been work¬ ing hard with Secretary Schiffmacher to make the coming parade and tour¬ nament a success, and from present indication it will be such. Both offi¬ cials are well-known for their thor¬ oughness in looking after details, which is an assurance that all firemen
SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARYCHANGED
Freeport and Roosevelt Alter For¬ mer's North Line to Conpeniemee Attendance.
WILLIAM STOFFEL President Nassau Oo. Firemen's .^ss'n
who go to Woodmere on the 24th will find arrangements for convenience, comfort and pleasure satisfactory in every way.
The Board of Supervisors last Fri¬ day voted to close Broadway, between Hewlett and Woodmere all the after¬ noon of July 24, to insure against accidents while the contests are being held. • The board voted $50 so that police protection could be-provided by the sheriff.
After,working for several years on a proposition to straighten the boun¬ dary lines between the Freeport and Roosevelt schooF districts, an agree¬ ment was recervtly arrived at, and beginning August 1, next, the line between the two districts will became altered at the northerly Freeport boundary or south end of the Roose¬ velt district The new arrangement will in future make it obligatory for some c'hildren who have been attend¬ ing the Freeport schools to attend in Rooaevelt and some who have been attending school in the latter village to attend in Freeport commencing the September term.
Heretofore the boundary lines be¬ tween the districts at the south end of No. 8, Roosevelt, and the north end of No. 9, Freeport, took an ir¬ regular course after it left Main street to the east. The boundary was in the vicinity of Forest avenue near Main street, nearly a half mile north of the Freeport village line, but near the Hempstead-Babylon turnpike, at the eastern end.' The boundary cut off a ntnnber of children who lived within a short distance of the Seaman ave¬ nue or Columbus avenue schools near the easterly line. These were obliged to attend in Roosevelt, a distance of more than a mile. Dissatisfaction was expressed at times by both parents and children and remedial action urged.
The boards of education serving Freeport and Roosevelt entered into a discussion of the plan to change the boundary line, and after much delib¬ eration and upon recommendation of District Superintendent W. C. Meph- am, it was decided to establish the di¬ viding line in the middle of Evans avenue and 'Colonial avenue.
Neither district will suffer any losses nor acquire any material gain in assessed valuation by the new ar¬ rangement, the exchange being about even.
It is anticipated that the arrange- iments will result in a satisfactory termination of a preplexing problem which existed for years.
SOLDIERS ENTERTAINED
Nearly 400 Have Enjoyable Time, at Freeport Rooms. I
Two Iflilitary Aviators Killed.
Sergeant Gianfelicio Gino, a noted Italian aviator, was killed while at¬ tempting the "tail spin" last Sunday at the Hazelhurst Aviation Field, Gar; den City.
Gino's accident was the same as that which caused the death of Mayor John Purov Mitchel.
Bruce N. Culner of Martindale, Ind., a radio expert at Hazelhurst .Aviation Field, was killed Wednesday afternoon while Hying with Cad«t Forster. The plane which Foster was driving dashed to the ground and Cul¬ ner, who was in the front seat, land¬ ed beneath the wreckage. Forster es¬ caped with a few bruisea.
Ttwn Koad Money Received.
Mineola (Special.)—<3ounty Treas¬ urer Luyater has received from the state treasurer a check for |112,646.- 52, which the state this year contrib¬ utes toward the maintenance of town roads in Nassau County. The sum is based upon the wmount which the towns raiae for town roads.
'I^e money will be divided among tihe three towns as follows: Town of Hemp.>(tei<d, $49,500; town of North Hfiii(Mt< ad, |30,6U0; towa of Oyster Bay, 133,146.52.
Last Sunday a very enjoyable lime was spent in the Soldiers' and Sail¬ ors' iRest Rooms in BnoOklyn avenue, Freeport, by nearly four hundred of the "boys" who were entertained dur¬ ing the afternoon and evening.
.\n interesting program was fur¬ nished by Miss Bertha Pilsner, violin¬ ist, and Miss Edith Mills, pianist, both of Springfield; Miss Anna Smith, vi¬ olinist; Miss Elizabeth Patterson, pi¬ anist; Helen Leonard and Dorothy Valentine, vocalists, and Albert K. Henry of Medical Department, Sixty- third Artillery.
The committee in charge of enter¬ taining consisted of: Mesdames Jes¬ sie L. Smith, Elber Walters, Charles Lush, John Frenger, Oscar Toombs and Anna Wolf- Mrs. Hartmann, whom the "boys" all come to know and esteem, gave valuable aid to the committee.
PHALANX OF STARS FOR BENEFIT SHOW
Seldom, if ever, has such an excel¬ lent array of professional talent been avaHable for an ent«»rtainment in Freeport as will appear at the big annual vaudeville in aid of the Church of Our Holy Redeemer at the .\meri- 1 can Theatre, South Main street, this (Friday) evening, July 12, at 8.15.'
The phalanx of stars who will ap-' pear in aid of the worthy cause are ; members of the actors' cok>ny in | Woodcleft, and have established repu¬ tations as head-liners. I
An exceptional vaudeville treat is assured and no one should m'laa it. Tickets of admission have been placed . at the reasonable price of $1, and may be obtained at the Arcade Phar-1 niAcy, opposite the Freeport railroad j statkxn, Railroad avenue; from mem-; bers of the committee, or at the ths-1 atre box office on Friday evening. The artists who will appear at the su-1 perb entertainment are: i
James €. Morton A Co., r>eig4iton | Brothers, Revo Daviss, McKay A Ar-| dine, Georgv Clark, Johnnie Ellsworth, Harry Breen, Albert Von Tilier, Har¬ ry McComiack, Frank Moore, Emil Suiers, Harry Puck, and others; oilil- eial aBBouncer, L«w Jlslly.
TOWN BOARD LEARNS OF LIQUOR ORDER
State Promulgates Restrictive Man¬ date-Pound Fishing Investi¬ gation—Other Matters.
Hempstead (Special).—The Town Board on Tuesday was petitioned by over a score of Freeport residents to place five buoys in Ned's Creek, lead¬ ing from Freeport to the bay. The pe¬ tition was referred to Engineer Bird- sail Jackson, with power to place the buoys.
Supervisor Smith report-ed that he was invesitigating the fish pounds lo¬ cated near Jones' Inlet. It is said that a few pounds are trapping most of the fish that come into the bays. Several complaints to this eflfect have been made. It is currently reported that 150 barrels of mackerel were tak¬ en in one of the pounds in one day.
The matter of laiying gas mains in Fulton avenue, Roosevelt, was refer¬ red to Supervisor Smith. A petition for the mains was recently filed.
Town Clerk Gilbert reported that the original records of the town had been rebound, and also vital statistics.
The board received a communica¬ tion from State Commissioner of Ex¬ cise Herbert S. Sisson, advising that the latter, with the approval of Gov¬ ernor Whitman, had promulgated an order suspending privileges under liq- or tax certificates and directing that during the present war Ihe sale of alcoholic beverages within the limits of the township shall be exclusively to be drunk on the premises where sold, and that holders of liquor tax certi¬ ficates at present conducting a whole¬ sale or distributing business in the township may continue the sale of li¬ quors in >>ottles or packages to other holders of liquor tax certificates in the township. The order directs that no akoholic beverages shall be sold to anyone who at the time of sale shall be in a bathing suit.
The board received an invitation from Hempstead village officials to attend services on July 14 in com¬ memoration of the national French holiday.
TOP-HEAVY AUTO UPSETS AT BALDWIN
Injures Men and Boy Occupants
—Father McGoldrick Rescue
Worker.
An automobile spill caused by the top-heaviness of a road car fitted up as a truck, occurred Sunday morning in the Merrick road, nearly opposite iSt. Christopher's Church, and injured some of the occupants, numbering nearly a dozen, and included several children. The car was badly damaged and some of the occupants thrown be¬ neath it.
iRev. J. A. McGoldrick, pastor of St. Christopher's Church, rushed from the rectory upon hearing screams of the autoists. He was soon joined by others, and the car lifted to free those beneath it. Finding Nathan Schloss- berg, age 30, of 157 East 113th street, Manhattan, unconscious, and others cut, bruised and shocked. Father Mc¬ Goldrick helped carry Schlossberg to the rectory porch and telephoned Dr. iI.eo Halpin of Freeport. He respond¬ ed quickly, revived Schlossberg, and treated the others injured.
These included Leo Schlossberg, age 6 years, son of Nathan; David Schlossiberg, age 9, another son; C. Abrahamson, age 6; Walter Diamond of 117 East 111th street. Max Fore¬ man of 215 East 112th street, Man¬ hattan, owner and driver of the car.
All members of the party except Schlossberg, went to Leighton's Gar¬ age, where another auto was obtained to take them home. Schlossberg board¬ ed it at the rectory.
It was learned that the autoists were bound for Camp Upton to see friends, and had their lunches in the wrecked car, which was towed to the garage for repairs. The wheeu of the auto, it is claimed, struck in a Sandy spot b'eside the Merrick road as :he driver pulled out to avoid another ma¬ chine, and the top-heavy load caused it to tumble over on its side.
OIL FOR NASSAU ROADS
Assemblyman McWhinney Gets Of¬ ficial Pledge ol Large Quantity.
Mineola (iSpecial.)—Assembly.man McWhinney, who recently returned from Washington, D. C, where he saw the federal fuel administration offi¬ cials, with a view to getting an allot¬ ment of oil and material for Nassau County roads, obtained official prom¬ ise that Nassau County would be sent as soon as possible 3,000 gallons of petroleum, 117,000 gallons of tar- via, and 691 tons of asphalt for use on county roads.
Recently the government ordered that no oil should be given to coun¬ ties for road purposes unless the roads to be oiled are used for military pur¬ poses.
The assemblyman pointed out to the officials the peculiar needs of Nas¬ sau County and the exceedingly heavy traflfic that passes over the county roads.
300,000 DRAFT MEN CALLED FOR AUGUST
TUity-Tviro Bakers Summoned. | All Towns Overtop in Loan Drive
iState draft executives have been di¬ rected to Provost 'Marshal General Crowder to have local boards call up for physical examination immedi¬ ately all new registrants under the selective draft law who have been placed in Class 1.
District and local boards and medi¬ cal advisory bodies will be instructed to speed their work so as to have new Class 1 men available for call to the colors in August.
j Draft executives were also asked I to report at once the approximate I number of registrants broug^it into Class 1 from the deferred classifica¬ tions by the recent combing out and rectification of those classes under the work or fight order.
It is esti'mated that large percent¬ age of the nearly 800,000 men whrj registered last June 5, will go into Class 1, since relatively few men Just attaining 21 have dependents.
The draft program thus far made public indicated ths.t it was planned to call at least 300,000 men next month, and most of these will come from the class which enrolled last June &•
A. D. Weekes, Jr., deputy food ad¬ ministrator for Nassau County, has sumnfoned thirty-two bakers to ap- {)ear before him on complaint of vio- latin|f tlie baking regulations. Upon conviction a baksr may kM« his li¬ cense, which means the discontinuance of his bu«t i;-^ss for the duration of the war, and '< * any evidence of hoard¬ ing is dUclos^ it may Isad to his prosecution under ths U. S. Food Ad¬ ministration Act,
I Acosta Nichols, chairman of the
Long Island district, including Nassau
, and Suffolk Counties, in the recent
I Liberty Loan drive, has made public
{ a summary, giving quotas and sub-
I scriptions for banking and non-bank-
j ing towns in both codnties. The sum-
! mary shows thst ev«ry town went,
I "over the u>p" !n subscription returns.
I Th« lowest percentaii[e in quotas raised
is ld2 per cent, while the highust is
1,834.
Hildreth Sells Freeport Business.
Hildreth's lunch room and restau¬ rant on Railroad avenue, Freeport; has heen sold to C. H. K«rr, a resident of the village. A. Slatsr-iPrice, who has been in the empk>y of Mr. Hil- dreth, will be manager for the new proprietor.
Hildreth will continue his eating places in Hempstead and RuckvUls Centre.
