The Unofficial Newspaper of Nassau County
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VOL 1 NO. 47
FREEPORT, NEW TORK. SATURDAT, JULT 18, 1914
PRKE THREE CENTS
PLAN BIG DAY AT ROCKVILLE CENTRE
Labor Day to be Given Over to Firemen For Home Par¬ ade and Tournament
IWIU. CHOOSE TWO SCHOOL TRUSTEES
MANY FEATURES IN VARIED PROCRAJI
Course in Observer St. Where Can- tests Will be Held in Afternoort^ and Demonstration at Night
Lynbrook Taxpayers Will yote on Budget of $26,375
Two truslbe» to takes the places of Jobn C. Barrle and Charles A. Brow- |er, are to be selected and a bud.j"i amounting in the aggregate to |26,37.'i, probably the largest of the past dec¬ ade. Is to be voted on at the annual meeting of the Lynbrook School Dis¬ trict which has been called for Tues¬ day evening, August 4, In the Atlantic avenue school house. The terms of the two trustees expire on the date of the meeting, but it Is probable that j thy win be re-elected if tbey run.
The itemized budget is given here ill full:
Teanhers' salarier, 118,100; Janitor'n salary. $1,200; library, f.lO; ipiprovlnj; Hite, 1150; fuel $1,050; supplies, |300. interest on bonds, $2,100; bonds m.i- turing, $1,500; Incidental.s, $250; ap¬ paratus. $150: repairs, $250; Insur¬ ance, $100; medical attendance, $100; water tax. $50; clerk, $75; treasurei, $50; furniture, $250; text books, $650 lotal, $26,375. Estimated public mon¬ ey to be received, $4,000. Amount \o
NORTH HEMPSTEAD DEMOCRATS' OUTING
Gambol For Whole Family on July 23 at Rockaway Beach
The Democratic Associations of the Town of North Hempstead have con- pleted the tinal arrangements for th^^ir sixth annual outing lo be held at Rock¬ away Beach, on Thursday, July 23rd.
These outing.s during the past years have been of unusual interest and en¬ joyment, furnishing recreation for the whole family from father to the young¬ est. Games and athletic sports havt; bt-en arranged for which fifty prizes will be awarded.
In order that there may be at least one triumphant march Seaman's i and Drum Corps nas been engaged. The occasion, frora all indications, will long call form the praises of the cliiefs
SPRAGUE A FOUR TUNE WINNER
While tilt.' full program I.s not yt-t announced and probably will not be for another week, the fourth annual home parade and tournament of the Kockville Centre F'ire Department on Labor Day will in many notable re¬ spects surpass anything of its charac¬ ter that has been attempted hereto¬ fore by the vamps of the vlllage.-.The
athletic and flremanic events of thej^^ ""a'sf^ ^y ^^x, $22,375 day will include a full card of track and fleld sports while tbo evening will be devoted to a demonstration by the flre laddies and an inspection by the Board of Trustees.
The tournament course will be laid out this year for the flrst time on Ob¬ server street between Park and Mor¬ ris avenues. A grand stand will be erected for the accommodation • of sightseers during the afternoon but will be converted into a band stand in tbe early evening. Between twilight and dark a concert will be given.
In the parade of the flremen, the vnew hook, and ladder truck recently purchased from thp I.a France Com¬ iiany of Manhattan will probably be •ixbiblted for the flrst time when li Board of Trustees will review the firemen. Later It will be Inspected by the village fathers with the other apparatus of the department.
The feature of the afternoon's card of events will be the tug-o-war con¬ test in which tbe Reliance Ho.se Com¬ pany's team, champions of Nassau County, will pull against others teams of the department. Kor these compe¬ titions the judges will be cho.sen from a group of men who are familiar witli sports. "Big Tom" Thorp, the former Columbia football player; John W. t'roBS, coach of the Itockville Centre basketball team and A. J. MacElroy will be among them.
Elaborate preparations have already been made for the day by Timothy J. Shanahan, who has been elected as chairman of general committee. The committees include the following:
Tournament—H. Pallme. chairman; C. P. Farrington, H. Middleworth, H. McMann, B. Brenan, Ray Wood, J. Klelnfeller, R. E. Mals, F. T. Verity, W. Kllelee, W. Behrens.
I'rlze and Finance—F. II. Griffin chairman; T. J. Shanahan, H. Pallme, J. Bucken, Jr., M. Kllelee, F. Verity, F. Richmond, G. Dilltneir, Rev. D. H. O'Dowd.
Grand Stand—John P. Meeker, chairman; Jouis Neff, John Miller, Q, Feddey, sr., W. Payn, H. Middle- worth, Ralph Wood, J. Buckley.
Music—F. Griffin chairman; T. J. Shanahan, H. Pallme.
Parade—F. H. Erisman, chairman; H. DiUmeler, Joseph Matthews, W. Winne, W. Wayne, J. Klelnfeller, C. P. Farrington.
Pres8--F. Grlttlln, chairman, C. Macevoy, W. Winnie, F. M. Mais, O. Glroux, H. Curie);, - Police—Edward Wallace, chief.
RELEASED ON BAft, JMrs. Florence Carman,Who Was Indicted
MRS CARMAN SAYS SHE IS INNOCENT
Talks With Newspapermen in Sitting Room of Merrick Rd. Home in Which Mrs. Bailey Met Her Death on Evening of June 30—Returns After Visit to East Rockaway Rela¬ tives Where She Was Taken by Husband From Mineola Jail
DR. CARMAN ARRANGED INTERVIEW WITH REPORTERS OVER TELEPHONE
Physicians Wife Garbed in a Span White Frock Sat Beside Husband on Green Plush So fa--Rested up in Prison But Dissappointed Because Grand Jury Would Not Hear Her Story -Denounces Burns and Manhattan Newspapers -Talks Freely About Plans
' Elka Benefit Holy Redeemer Church A group of inimitable vaudevillians connected with Freeport Lodge of Blka will appear in a vareity show which is to be given at the Colonial Theatre on August 3, under the aus¬ pices of the Church ol_Our Holy Re¬ deemer as a beneflt. The program will include many of the Woodcleft colony as well aa some Broadway stars wbo haven't yet developed the habit Ot living in Preeport.
Florida Priest Vialting jt Farminfldale The Rev. Joseph Haldmeier, O. S. B., of St. Leo Abbey, Florida, has been the guest of the Rev. Michael, O. S. B., at the St. Kilian rectory, Farming- dale, for aeveral days past. He irill leave about August 1 for Europe.
Sunday Maaaea Haid at Long BMch Three maaaea are being said on eaofa Sunday at the Church of St. Mary ot tbe Isle, Long Beach. Bishop Mundel- ein and tbe priests of the Cathedral "Otampel. Brooklya. attend these aer- yimm.
Captures Contests at Baldwin M.£. Church Outing-Crowds at Beach
The recent outing of the Baldwin MthodisL Episcopal Church was large¬ ly attended despite the uncertainty of the weather. High Hill Bach was fig¬ uratively captured by the young peo¬ ple. In the afternoon athletic games were the principal diversion. Among the winners were the following:
100 yd. dash, grown young men — Won by Wesley Sprague.
100 yd dash, boys—Won by Fred Westfall.
50 yd sack race for young men— Won by Wesley Sprague.
50 yd. three legged race—Won by Cliarles Miller and Wesley Sprague.
Relay race—Won by Charles Miller and Wesley Sprague.
Young women's race—Won by Ed- Guenther.
Ladies' racjR—Won by Dorothy Bock
Little girl>f^ race—Won by Elizabeth Southard.
100 yd men's race—Won by F. So- bey.
Piping Rock Horse Show in October The announcement comes from the Piping Rock Horse Show Association tbat the twelfth annual exhibition will be held on the grounds of the Piping Rock Club, Locunt Valley, L. I., on October 1, 2, and 3. The show will be conflned to bimters, backs, mill tary horses, polo ponies and children's ponies to be shown in harness and under the saddle. Professional riders will be prohibited except in the classes of jumpers, hunters and polo ponios
"Billy' Karn to Qtt $300 Salary.
"Smiling Billy" Karn, who bas la¬ bored in the vineyard of love during the )?a8t six months as Street Com¬ missioner of Lynbrook village, will hereafter work for pay. Yes, indeed, $300 a year. The Board of Trustees voted this amount to the commission¬ er at a recent meeting and at the same time commended bis zeal and nter- prise. He was granted permission to purchase 4,000 gallons of oil wtaich he will sprinkle over the streets wherev¬ er and when be likes.
Cake and Br«»d Sale at Baldwin M. E. A cooking demonstration followed by a sale of cake and bread was given at the Baldwin Methodist Bpiscopal Church on Wedneaoay afternoon and evening. The cooking was done in 11- luminum vrare utensils. Tbose pres¬ ent received little sauce pans as sou-
To an anxiously awaiting people, many of them her friends or at least her acquaintances by newspaper in¬ troduction, there came this morning through the morning prints a messaue from Mrs. Florenoe Carman, wife of Dr. Edwin Carman, in whose office on the evening pf June 20 Mrs. Lulu Bailey of Hempatead was shot and killed by a bullet flred through a rag¬ ged aperature of a broken window. The message was delivered to the four points of the compass. -It was the same that Mrs. Carman had herself given to a little group of four report¬ ers, three of them from Manhattan and one representing the Nassau I'usi, in the reception room of her honje on Merrick road last evening between eight and nine o'clork. And it con- talnd all that she felt or had felt since she was hurried from the thresh¬ old of her home in an automobile a week ago under arrest charged with having caused the death of the Hemp¬ stead woman by criminal means.
But last night she was a free wo¬ man, in the sense that she was back among her friends in Freeport and with her family. Earlier in the after¬ noon she had stood before the bar of justice in the Supreme Court at Min¬ eola charged in an Indictment with manslaughter in the first degree by the Grand Jury of the county. Her plead was not guilty; it has been un¬ changed since the day when she was flrst submitted to the cross question¬ ing of the Nassau County prosecutor. Oeorge M. Levy, her counsel, spoke for her; she was from all outward ap- pearani es too depressed to give utter¬ ance to the things she doubtless would have liked to say. She merely stood there, erect, stately, dignified, all that sbe has appeared to b at any lime before. But she was deeply af¬ fected.
As she stood in front of the rail before Supreme Court Justice Van Slclen, there were deep circles be¬ neath her eyes, the outward marks of a long endured inward strain. If any¬ thing she was a handsomer, keener and broader woman than she was on the day she sat in the dingy little court house at Freeport, the center of attraction on a crude witness stand and matched her wits afainst a relent¬ less District Attorney. She was trium¬ phant tben; she was triumphant yes¬ terday, though she was crushed, cha¬ grined and depressed by the very at¬ mosphere in which she was forced >o move. Yet withal sh* was brave as every woman is brave In crises.
Following the Brief proceedings at Mineola, Mrs. Carman was hurried away in an automobile with her hus¬ band and counsel. No one followed. Tlie newspaper men, who bave con- staaUy dosged ber steps, by an hon¬ orable agreement with ber husband, abandoaed the chase after her white clad figure disappeared tbrougb the ^pMi door ef tbe awaiting macbine. Sb WM tak«a to th* bome of relatives
On Charge of Manslaughter Yesterday
WUl CARRY HGHT
FORREDUCED FARES
ITOAPPEIIATECOURT
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Ex-Justice Edwards Obtains ; Writ in George Case to Re¬ view Former Proceedings
ORDER IS TO BE SERVED ON iONOAY
UnCair Discrimination Alleged in
Complaint—Claim Wreck Lead
is Favored Over Freeport
Despite the adveri<e action of tlie Publii: Service ('ouiniission, upoa tbe application of Harvey J. George, for il reduction of the fare charged by tlie l.oaii Island Railroad from Freoport to its terminals in Manhattan and Urooklyn, the case will not rest. Through ex-Justice Elvin N. Edwards the complaint will be carried to the Appellate Division of tho Supreme Court for review.
An order ha.s been is.sued by Su¬ preme Court Justice Blackmar for a I writ of rertinniri which will be serv- ! eel on the j'uhljc Service Commission ' at AVbany ^/.i» Muutfay. It is by this tnea (IS ih:ir the former proceedings I will bf iittsciiied before the higher . court.
The fir.^t cumplaln for h fare rednc- ) lion was fihd wilh the Public Service Conimisslon on November 10. 1913. ' The railroad an,swered iu April of this j year. The c.nsi! wa.4 tried befoie tho i Hon. William Ttiiiple Emmet, a men- ; ber of the f onuiiisbion, both sides pre- I seiitins evidenre, Oeorge wa.s repre- I sented by the Kreeport attorney and I the railroHd by C. L. Addison, assis- ; tant to President Peters. The decl-
The reporters were received in thm doctor's office—the same office in which Mrs. Bailey fell dead—whi-re they awaited with Dr. CarinHn for several women to conclude a bri-^f visit with Mrs. Carman in tlie lec'^i- tion robtti of llie house, just anoss the broad colonial hall. As the wo¬ men passed out through the from door Dr. Caiman turned to the ncv.s- paper men.
"Couie on bovf." he .said in a i'rifirl- ly tone, "she is ready to receive you." The new.spaper men passed through the recy)tion room and acros.s the li;ili into a room whose predominating col¬ or was green—a mottled green. Tlie furniture harmonized with the Httings At one side was a heavy green i)luKh sofa, and a group of old fashioned ' chairs were arranged about a Jarse [ center table upon which was stack^'d
"1 have been vo-\- (|U!fi during; tin <i' ll<r nftrratixe was dramatic. She sai'lt IhmI three or four days," she rcjili'Ml, j the detective had limed his speech ,13; .still smiling, "I have been treated very ' he strutted aboul the room. i
liiiully Ht the jail, I liave had a ihMn« f j .she pau.'^cd and Ik r lips were closely ' to IPBI up there." I touipressed. 'I'lifn nhe proceeded
During the Interview Mr.s. Carman more slowly. .smiled ol'ipn, and not Infreiinenily slie j "Ak he tame in iroui of me," she broke Into audible laUKtilHr. ^ci ronlinued. -lie slopped suddenly, limes when nin- becani,'' iiuiist his bull doK lace toi ward to¬ ward nil' aud said. I've loiiie 10 titn you.' "
'"riiai wa* one of the mosl unpleas¬ ant experience.s of llie whole affair.' .Mr.s ('arii)aii said with emphasis.
inning all the lime she was talking aboul Buina, .Mrs. Carman sat eie'..i. her arms extended rigidly to ber knees. She was visibly moved by he;- owu references to the evening of I tun convinced iliai it was very •in- the detectives visit. Sli^ said she be- fair Uiat Ihey sbould have beard oniy lieved that Farrell had been "planted" in Kast Rockaway —relatives of tbe hy him and spoke of the Frank case
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a number of magazines and soft-cov-l(jji,,,,„. where stie waited until ninlii j in Aiiania in which ered books. Thc doors leading to the, fail lo "jC^'The camera mn and the ' erediled.
hall and dining room were obscured niorbidl>\curlous crowds which .¦^hejwhcn she was asked whetlier she had hy heavy portiers. About the walls f,.]| .s5„re would he gathered about her ' were groups of (Jibson pictures aud , hoine.
an antique mantle braced the wall it | ipou i,or areturn to Freepoit Dr. tlie east side. Upon it stood and or- .Carman, in accordance with his agree- nate clock and several pieces of plas-t„Hni, phoned to the newspaper men ter and bronze statuary. The apart- iat the .Nassau Po.st office, menl was sombre and still. | ••.\)hs. Carman is, back home," he
As the newspaper men entered the
any fear as to the outcome ot the case, and lier eyes turned intuitively to her husband who at the moment was sit¬ ting with liis right hand partially cov¬ ering his face.
"No, I have no fear if I'm given a square deal," she said, "1 bave no fear
EX-JUSTICE buvn^
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voice of the doctor again resounde'l It was more cheerful in its tone than before.
"She will be right here," be said.
When the group was seated Mrs.
j said, "slie will talk with some of yon Mf they aon't frame me np." lioys 1 would suKuest that say three! "But everybody's been unfair," she or lour of you come down lo the ' continued, "District Attorney .Smith,
house. She will be glad to see you."
Among the gro.ip, already at work
on llie story of the day's developments
(Jftrnian, more striking in appearance j there was n hasty drawing of lots. the curtains at the dining room en- i'I'hree men from ibe Manhattan uroui) trance and stepped into tlie room. She and one from the "home office" were was the .same lail figure that had pi< ked. They set out together armed stood in the Supreme Court room in I with pencils and ^8peI^ Inspired wiih the afternoon, though she appeared .it | the hope of a complete interview, her ease and ber bearing was markei lone side of Ihe case. I cannot undei-- wilh a familiar grace. She was still ' stand wyh tbey should have taken the clad in tlie span white gown she wore ' word of a tramp like Farrell or a col-
ai the courthouse, save that the yoke at the neck was missing. For all the world she looked like a matron at a summer resort. Her eyes sparkled beneath a group of electric blubs that
(ued maid like Celia C'oleman as aL'ainst that of a white woman."
It was at this point that Mrs. Car¬ man entered Into a bitter denuncia¬ tion of Detective Burns, his men, ni.i
burned in the chandelier abovo her | nieihods. his own personal manner and
and her face was lighted with a half smile. Thre was something just a triflle different about her looks. *t may have been the snow white sho<;s and stockings, or mayhap the absence of the glasses. Her hair was arran? ed closely in an artistic coiffeur. She was beautiful to look at and inspiring to talk with. Her rejuvinated appear-1 ance at once struck tbe group of men seated aboiit tbe room.
"You look bette."," aaid one of them, as she seated herself beside Dr. Car-
acf redited to him while her quiet gray eyes suddenly snapped fire, the pro- ducticm of the prosecution's star wit- nes.s, Farrell, who told of seeing a woman break the office windpw and fire a shot through it on the night of the murder.
Then witb a characteristic deliber- ateness, Mrs. Carman told of her liru meeting with Dums, explaining that the District Attorney had told her of bis coming as a man and a friend w.'io wished to talk with her about the case.
"I bave come here to investigate
man on tbe sofa and half carelessly
placed her band npon bis knee in a this case." she averred he said to ber,
reassuring manner. ^"I am (olng to find tbe murderer."' i
jthe Grand Jury, ' the metropolitan I newspapers. Ves, very positively, the newspapers. I am even considering cancelling my Subscription to one of them that I liave read ever since I WHS a little girl.
"Tbo newspapers should now take their attentions ot me and look for the real murderer. Tliey should look up Farrell. He's a liurnH man l.,«t the papers InvestiKate him and Jind how be came into the case.
"Have you any theory as to how the murder was committed?" one of the reporters asked.
"Me," she replied < oyly, "How could I?"
"It you had been allowed to tell your story to the Crand Jury, wkat would you have sijld'/" came the next quizz. "I could have told only the same story that L told before tbe Coroner at Freeport," she replied, "I would would have said that I was ill and upstairs on the night of tbe murder and that I heard a commotion down stairs. Hnt I paid little attention to It and was not at first curious. ^ Then, later, I did go down stairs and into thc waiting room, but I did not see into the doctor's office.
"Why did I not look Inlo the office or go inV she repeated, "Well, 1 liad (Continued on page 2)
sion of lhc coimiiinsion was jeiidered on May 12.
In his roinplalni (ieorge alleged ih.'it the Long Island Railroad had been- charging an evcessive rale of fare be¬ tween Freeport and the terminals al Flatbush avenue, Urooklyn and tho I'ennsylvania slalion, Manhattan. He set forth that the round-trip rate to the former terminal was |1.14 and 10 the latter 11.24 and that the distauve lo the former was 22.7 miles and <o the latter 24.8 miles. He substantiat¬ ed his contention tbat there was a discrimination, by alleging that tho distance from Wreck Lead to the Flat¬ bush station was 24.1 miles and to the Pennsylvania station 26.2 mile.'!.
It was upon the.se facts that Ceorge pressed his case. He showed that the rate of fare was more to l-'ieeport than to Wreck Lead despite the fad that the distances were about the Bam<'. Specifically, the tare to Freel port was shown to be twenty-nine cents more than to Wreck L<Mid, und it was alleged thai the railroad de- Hired to aid in the development of tt^ I latter place and Long Heach which Is at the terminal of the division on which Its station is located.
In hlH answer the railroad admitted that the village of Wreck Lead, a sta¬ tion practically the same distance from New York and Urooklyn as Free- port, received a preferential rate of fare of twenty-four cents per round trip less.
The evidence produced at the triad showed Freeport to be a waterlog place of more than 7,000 inbablUnta from wbich the railroad received a greater revenue than frora Wreck Lead, i flshlng station. It was alleged by George that passengers were Induu- ed to go by way of Wreck I^ead to reach fishing banks to the south of Freeport by r«ason of tbe profereO' (Continued en pag* *)
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