THE NAMAU l>0»T: FREEPORT, N. Y, THURSDAY, OCTOBER. 15, 1«14
380 UYES ARE LOST IN NASSAU COUNH
Four Year's ToU of Great White Plague—Apparent Need for Hospital—Voters of Nassau County to De cide on Election Day If One Should Be Erected To Cost $100,000
FACTS ON THE HOSPITAL REFERENDUM.
On Nov. 3, elcf'tlon day, every voter 111 thi.s coiinty, not merely taxpnyern, may vote "Yes" or "Nil" on tlii.s [iniiiosilion:
"Shall the county of Nassau appiopriate )«ilOtJ,«KX) for the es- taMlshnicnt of n (.ounty tuber- <,ulo8l8 hospital?"
This proposition will be sub- inltte<l on n small ballot s('i)arate from the liiive one on which to vote for eaiulidates.
The lnvcstl)ratlnK nurse eni- ployod by the Nassau County UKMOclatioii has discovered that there were riSO dea* ^^ from coii- Huniptloii in this county during the last four years, an uvernge of ninety-live eaoh year.
Scientists have leanied thnt there are* nt least ttve living eases of consuuiptlou for each reporte<l death.
This means that there are nearly iVJO llvlnif eases In this county, many of them, the nurse says, \\itliout the care of a phy¬ sician.
Nassau <ouiity Is tho sixth county in the state In Its a.ssess- ed iini|itM'ty value and Is seven¬ teenth in the order of i)opulatlon. Seventeen cotiiitles in the state •which are smaller in popidatlon have, or have decided to have, hoHpltiils for the tivatment of tlieli" tnliei'cnlous sick.
Hospital cine of the tubercu¬ lous Is belli}; provided In twenty- four counties In this state which have a lower assessed valiuitlon than Nassau.
One of the inllnentiiil men of the county active in tho canipal;.'n for tlic api)roprlation fiir a county IiospHm! pointed ont recently that Nas^iau coun ty's re<-onl in the fiVf.it worldwide enuipai>;n a.iralnst iidierciilosis was not one In which a public spirited citizen could take pride.
"We are permitting on tha average ninety-five human beings a year to d^:: from a preventable disease," he srid. "If .we did not know how to prevent this terrible waste of human life wo might excuse ourselves, but we da know. Science has been shouting at us for years, and we are still asleep. Valuo of Human Life.
"Tho !?1P<J,1M(I which this instiiution Is to cost will mean a tas of .Sl.ni un a thousand of assessed valuation. I heard an opponent of fin- proposilion urnue the other day that this would f'lll most heavily tm the small taxpayer.
"Now, voler.s of Nassau couuty. think a minute! AVho slitters iiujst hardship from tuberculosis? The small land¬ owner and the rent i)ayer, of course— 'fiot the rh'h man. It Is the sm:ill own¬ er of property who losi>s most heavily when a lonj; spell of .sickness comes, ' - A Sick Man.'
"A locomotive eujjrlueer cllml>e<l down out of his cab oue night with a chill an<l a high fever. lie had been loslDK tlesh for montha nnd had felt sick. Ile had kept this from hla wife because he did not want to worry her. Their two children were becoming more nnd more of it liurden on his In¬ come, and the expected third one ¦would soon add to this burden. So for two reasons he had kept at work. But now he hnd to go to a doctor.
"lie was told he had tuberculosis, but that couuty had a hospital, and In two days the engineer wns In It. In six months he climbed back Into his cab practically a well man, with his lost weight und ten pounds additional regulned.
A Man Saved.
"That six months had made a new man out of a poor, sick human und bud saved a father nnd a wage earner Jo his family.
"Tha same period in Nassau county, w^ith its lack of humane facilities for earing for the consumptive, would have left us what? A gravs, a stricken home ¦nd a dependent family.
"Besides being a humane enterprise, tbls institution will actually save this coDnty money. It Is safe to say that nearly half of the dependent children supported by the oounty have lost either one or both of their parents from tuberculosis.
"The question of the cost of a coun ty hospital is largely u question of bookkeeping. The money we spend tbere will be made up In future sav iag tor the support of orphans and other dependents.
"I feel, however, even though the dollara and cents end of it is all in fa¬ vor of the hospital, that the most com¬ pelling argument fbr a vote YES on this question is the claim of tbe un¬ fortunate on our sympatUes—baman« csre la place at inhoouuie neglect."
REVEALS MYSTERIES OF THE TELEPHONE
C. A. RYDER, COMMERCIAL AGENT AT FREEPORT, DELIVERS LEC TURE IN ROCKVILLE CENTRE
An audience that went away feeling repaid heard C. A. Ryder of the New York Telephone Company deliver a Btereoptlcon lecture entitled "The Wonderland of the Telephone," Mon¬ day night at the Rockville Centre Bap¬ tist Church.
Nearly 80 colored stereopticon slides were used by the lecturer to picture the points he made In his talk. "A witty Irishman," said Mr. Ryder, once struck the nail on the head with the remark, 'That the telephone busi¬ ness Is the most simple and the most complicated thing I ever saw in my life' " That remark was well proven
MEREDITH TO BE IN TOWM
Evangelistic Servioes to Besin at Methodist Church Moixiay Evening
The Freeport Methodiat Chareh and' Its pastor are planning a si>ecial se¬ ries of evangelistic meetings. Mr. I. H. Meredith, widely known as a most effective singer of gtnpel songs, and especially gifted with the ability to in¬ spire choirs and great congregations with the spirit of song, 1b to have charge of the music, and will be pres¬ ent at the two preparatory meetings which will be held on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week.
The meeting this evening will take the place of the regulai* mid-week prayer service. Dr. Curtice wlll_ make a brief address, Mr. Meredith Will sing gospel solos and lead the congre¬ gation in hymns and songs and will apeak briefly. At the close of the service Mr. Meredith will meet all those who are willing to join the chorus choir for the series of meet¬ ings, and a little time will be spent
be,ore Mr. Ryder closed his remarks.
From trs early .stages to its present 1 jjj rehearsal developmenc, the telephone buslncc*. | Friday evening the service will be has appeared simple to the outsider, j ;„ the nature of a conference on the The huge tasks thnt the telephone j ^.Qrk of the two weeks that will fol- man must cope with in order to give j ,o^. ^r. Meredith will sing and there
will be brief talks from several of
the public the best possible telephone service arc unappreciated and .seldom understood.
I'ictuies were thrown on the screen -showint; various sizes of telephone cables holding from 25 to 800 and as high as 1200 wires. Each wire is wrapped separately in thin paper, and a pair of wires are needed for every telephone.
A typical cable vault in one of the large New York City exchanges con¬ taining 50 cables carrying 45,000 wires was shown, on which "talk trains" run in and out of the city and to all points of the compass. "These cables are simply buried treasure," said Mr. Ryder. In Manhattan and the Bronx alone 14 million i)ounds of copper and 35 million pounds of- lead are stored beneath the surface."
After seeing the cables, the audi¬ ence went to the wire chief's desk, where sits the man who constantly watches tho whole system. II is his duty lo keep the vast networW of wires in working order. The back of a large switchboard was shown. "When you see a switchboard," said Mr. Ryder, "you see where the money ts spent. One board will cost as much as the Statue ot Liberty in New York luirbor. The total cost of the switch¬ boards in the 67 exchanges la New York City alone is more than ten mil¬ lion dollars." One such exchange, the Cortland I-Jxchange, where 200 girls handle 200,000 calls In a single day, was .shown and it aroused much en¬ thusiasm.
To contrast tho American operator with her foreign sisters, Mr. Ryder I'lsed slides showing the latter at work. lOnglish, German, Hungarian, Dutch, Korean, Chinese, Chin-American aud tliree the demure Latin American girl, all were depicted In their native/ ex¬ changes, industriously answering the calls of subscribers.
One of the most interesting 'parts of the lecture was Mr. Ryder's descrip¬ tion of the company's three training schools, where they prepare young iiien and women for work
the workers as to the spirit and plans of the work to be undertaken. The chorus will hold a special meeUng for a fow minutes of drill.
On Sunday next the two weeks' se¬ ries of meetings really begins. The services will be at the usual hours.
Services will be held every evening of the week, following Saturday, at 7:45 o'clock. They will be varied, full of song and the pastor will have the help of ministers and laymen.
The sermons of the pastor for the first week, beginning Sunday next, will each present a question of the Christ to those about Him when He was on earth, and will aim to give, in brief form, some great truth of a prat tical nature. The application of these truths will have due reference to the sins and sinners of Freeport.
BARASCH ENLARGES SHOP
From 500 to 800 Handkerchiefs
Are Put Out in Freeport Man-
ufactury Each Week
Tork City, where andiences of yotms | of the Morton Lodge, F. and A. M., to and old get genuine enjoyment and p^y their last respecU to an honored abondant laughter out ot this corned/
of elopement, youthful ideality, eccen¬ tric characterization and theatre ro¬ mance. Ann Murdock has lifted her¬ self with touching distance and star¬ dom by her performance of "Helene." Mr. Cherry is splendidly vigorous as "Andre" and Mr. Lawford was never more delightfully grotesque tba^ as "Valentin" and Mrs. Whiffen Is per¬ fect just because she is Mrs. Whitfen. Beginning where most plays end, "The Beautiful Adventure" is just that for everybody who sees it.
Empire Theatre Wiiiiam Gillette, Blanche Bates, and Marie Doro open in the revival of "Diplomacy" Tuesday evening, Oc¬ tober 20.
member, and one wbo had served them as Past Master anu^ther offices. Mr. Firth was about 75 years of age and during tbe war was a member ot the 2nd New Y^ork Harris Light Ar¬ tillery, and was promoted to the office of Quarter Master Sargeant.
MIm Stanton Soon to Wsd Announcement of the betrothal ot her daughter. Miss Beatrice Sliza- beth Stanton to John F. Oermerath, well-known to the theatre going peo-1 Mrs. Sam Smith who has been tx pie as Johnny Qoer, waa made by ill is Improving.
Mrs. Florence Stanton at frae^ early this week. The nuptial^t i probably be celebrated next montt
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POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS
Regular Progressive and Democratic Candidate
for STATE SENATOR
Joseph E. Firth
Last week the D. B. P. Mott Post of this village attended the funeral of •lorseph E. Firth, a veteran of th^ Civil War and resident of Roslyn. He was buried at Greenfield Cemetery and about 30 comrades were in attendance from this Post, Moses Baldwin Post, Daniel Downing, of Hempstead, and the Elijah Ward, of Roslyn.
There were also some 50 members
Antonio Palermo
General Contractor and Build¬ er. Steel Structural Work All Kinds of Concrete Work Elstimates Cheerfully Furnished
TeL 52-J Wantagh
Office & Residence Bel[mcre,L. I.
Edwauxl Smith Maurtin F. Murphy
SMITH & MURPHY
PRACTICAL PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS
Hot Air, Steain and Water Heaters, Tin, Copper, Iron Work
15 Bedell St, Freeport, L. I.
Telephone 366
THE
Local Telephone Directory
Goes to Press Thursday, Oct. 22, 1914
M'
LeKoy J. Weed
of Garden City
Democratic Candidate
FOR CONGRESS
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENTS
II. Barish, of the Barish department store on Main street, purchased some property on East Olive Boulevard some time ago. He erected one build¬ ing and is now completing two more, one of which is already rented. He utilized the first oue erected by plac¬ ing machinery therein for making the Swiss embroidery designs on hand¬ kerchiefs.
The lower floor is occupied by two niachines ot about 15 feet in length. Kach machine holds four frames w-Wtt"
dozen handkerchiefs in each frame, making 12 dozen at a time. Then the operator, with the design before him, begins the'operation of cmluoldering this design on the fab¬ ric.
It is stitched by a process similar
to a shoemaker sewing leather. The
frames carrying the threaded needles
n various j stitch through the cloth. This pro-
Republican Candidate
FOR ASSEMBLY
departments. Oue school is for young women who are studying the art of telephny; another for young men stu¬ dents of plant work, which deals with the many technical intricacies of a telephone seystem; in thi,rd young men are mouded into efficient sales¬ men. While attending these achools the students are on the campany'.s pay roll.
Throughout the whole lecture Mr. Ryder tried to impress upon the audi¬ ence that every department of the Telephone Company were co-operat¬ ing most cordially with the other and all with the single aim of giving the subscriber the very best service that was possible, and showed the human side of the telephone industry in a way that 'has not been heretofore un¬ derstood.
Freeport's Restaurant Restaurant means a place to re¬ store.. The Frank John's place on Railroad avenue has the location all right, but it never seemed to quite grasp the restoration business. Moses Osborne has bought it out, cleaned it out, and js going to make it all the name implies. Mr. Osborne himself is a fine cook and will look after this end of the business personally, and will see that the patrons get what they desire and pay for.
Herring vs. Bedell Last Saturday the. big leaguers of local fame met at the Seaman Ave¬ nue grounds. Big Bill Herring, for¬ merly of the New York Giants, and Fred Bedell, who will twirl for a big league team next season, opposed each other. Herring won 4 to 3. It was & pitcher's battle, each having flfteen strike-outs to his credit. Both boys are capable of doing flne work in the box and will be heard from in the future.
cess takes from one to four hours. The goods are then taken out and a new set clamped into position. The output is from 500 to 800 dozen per week.
As there must be a great many needles, each one carrying its thread, it was formerly a serious problem to thread these, but it is now done by an ingenious machine that takes each needle from a hopper, threads it, mea¬ sures off its strand to a uniform length, cuts it and there they are ready for the machine, and done as fast as one can count. Most of these goods are shipped here from New York, embroidered and returned, and are then distributed to the markets of the world.
If you arrange for telephone serv- ice on or before that date your name will appear in the book.
OST of your friends, your business associ- ates, doctor, lawyer, druggist, dentist, grocer, —practically everyone with whom you have
business or social relations—have telephone service.
Their names appear in this most useful and most
used directory.
Why not get your name in the new directory?
Don't wait until an accident or emergency causes you
'to regret that you have no telephone. Arrange now
to have one installed and enjoy its benefits every
day in the year.
Advertisers who would reach the "pick of the population" find that the Telephone Directory is a profitable advertising medium.
Oar tiearest Commercial OtHce mil gladly give yoa Ml information aboat rates, classes of service, and advertising space.
NEW YORK
TELEPHONE CO.
51
C. A. RYDER, looal Commercial Manager, 26 South Grove Street, Freeport, I.
Millinery and Hair Goods
Your own combings made up in any style you desire NOTIONS EMBROIDERY LADIES' WARE
Lathrop Brown
Wanted, For Sale, To Let, Board, Etc.
Thos. A. MeWhinney
for Nassau County
Regular Democratic and Progressive Candidate
FOR ASSEMBLY
"A Mark Of Dislinction On Eocry Hal" Renovating and Re-curling Feathers
Mrs. Kate Osborne
18 West Merrick Rd.
Freeport
Telephone 895-W
Post little want "ads" get the goods while the getting's good. Tel. 61
Two cents a word for first insertion, minimum ten words, one cent a word for successive insertions
HOUSE TO 1.KT—-Completely furnish¬ ed for winter. All improvements. .MUUItAY, 401 South Ocean avenue, Freeport.
-:®I|^atriral:-
Knickerbocker Theatre Julia Sanderson, Donald Brian, Jo¬ seph Cawthorn and their companion players in "The Girl From Utah," as everybody km ows, fill the Knicker¬ bocker Tbeatre, New Tork City, at every performance. Next Monday they begin their ninth week. With the entire field before her, "The Girl From Utah" is not only the best of all Charles Frohman's annual musical eomedy productions, but is practically tbe only first-class musical comedy production of any popularity now in New York. Once haying seen "The Girl FVonji Utah," people book their seats weekly.
Lyceum Theatre "The Beautiful Adventure" next Monday night starts upon the seventh week ot its highly popular engage¬ ment at the Lyceum Theatre, New
Franklin G. Hifl
of Merrick
I'OSITION WANTBD—A young lady wishes position as child's nurse, or mother's helper; handy at sewinp. BECKER, care of Mr. Wooley, Bald¬ win.
FOR SALE CHEAP—A large, well
constructed, attractive dog house,
for $5.00. Inquire Nassau Post, Box L.
FOR SALE—Five passenger Maxwell Touring automobile, equipped with lamps, top, curtains, prest-O-lite, speedometer, and windshield. In good running order. Inquire, COMISKEY, Southside avenue, Freeport, corner East avenue, telephone 86.
Telephone 567-W Freeport
"YOUNGS"
Ice Cream Parlor
30 S. Grove St. Freeport, N. Y.
Not only serves all kinds of drinki at the fountain and cream in the parlor, but caters to Churches, Families and Parties. Cream iced and delivered anywhere in Freeport on short notice.
TO LET—8-room house, water aud gas, with or without barn, corner Smith and Church streets, Freeport. Inquire W. H. PATTERSON, 127 S. Main street.
TO LET—First-class butcher shop and general store, with fixtures; 123 South Main street, Freeport. Inquire W. H. PATTERSON," 127 S. Main street, Freeport.
FOR SALE OR TO LET—8 room house, all modern conveniences, storm sash on all windows, porch and windows all screened. Plot large and appropriate. Inquire J. S. DE¬ MOTT, Leonard avenue, Freeport.
Morning Shopping
is always pleasant at this Store
We carry the C hoicest resh Fruits and Vegetablet besides
Fancy and Staple Groceries
"SEAMANS"
27 W. Merrick Roa'l Freeport, L. I. Telephone 710
