South Side Messenger 19100708

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Big Fire at Bellmore Park Dedicated at Ocean Side
Two Killed in Auto at "Talty-ho Crossing"
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL  PAPER, NASSAU  COUNTY
Vol 2» Number 51
Merrick
Miss Julia .Kent haa gone to take charge for a period of the summer home of the Church of the Transfigura¬ tion, "The Little Church Around the Comer," near Peekskill, N. Y. Miss Lucy Kent has accompanied her sister over Sunday.
A baby girl came to celebrate the Fourth with Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Livingston of Brooklyn. Mrs. Living¬ ston is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter G. Muller.
The Rev. Roy F. Farrell Duffield, Archdeacon of Queens and Nassau, will be the preacher at the Church of the Redeemer on Sunday morning, the 24th, and tell of the mission work of the church in this part of Long laland.
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer Sunday, the seventh after Trinity, at 7:;}0 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Commun¬ ion at the early service and morning prayer and sermon at the second serv¬ ice. The use of leaflets at the evening service has beten favorably commented upop iis adding to the more {general participation in the servici;. The Sun¬ day School m>6t9 in the Parish House regularly at Kj a. m. The study 'is of the last week of the Saviour's life -a continuation of Tueaday'.s events: "Jesus' I^ast Message to His Enemies;" Mt, 22:12-23:39. No further meetings of the Woman.'s Auxiliary will be held until October. The Junior Auxiliary will meet throughout the summer at 2:30 p. m, and the Boya' Brigade un- dir command of Capt. Lawson on Wed¬ nesdays at 2 p. ni. A cordial invita¬ tion is extendetl to all to attend the services of this church.
Every Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. JULY 8. 1910
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$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 CenU
Civil Service Examina- Freeport
UOnS Single   copies of the Messenger can
'. ^ I be secured at Greenblatt's news  store
For the State and County Service— | on Railroad avenue.
To be Held July 23
Farrell F. O'Dowd, of New York City, is now a permanent resident of Freeport, residing with Mrs. L. Woods, who recently moved from the city to the   house   formerly  occupied   by Mr.
The State Civil Service Commission will hold examinations on July 23, 1910, for the following position^:
Accountant, Public Service Commis-1 Woodhouse's family, sion, $1801 to $2400.    Men only. ' 	
Chief of Examinations Division, Education Department, $4000. Men only.
County Sealer of Weights and Meas¬ ures, various counties.    Men only.
Editor and Statistician, male or fe¬ male. Education Department, .$2000.J
Editorial Clerk, Department of Ag¬ riculture, $1000,    Women only.
Expert, Department of Labor, $1800. Men only
L I. R. R. Big: Increase
Ten Per Cent.  More Commuters June 1910, Than 1909-14304 Monthly Tickets Sold This Month Between Western Terminals and Vari¬ ous Stations
Bellmore
Wantagh
> Single copies of the Messenger can be had at William Wolfe's drug store and from Anderaon Bloomer, news¬ dealer, at 5 cents per copy. tf
At about 2:45 Tuesday morning the fire department was called out to ans¬ wer analarm of fire at the residence of Frank Galet on Bellmore avenue. The company responded quickly, but owing to the apparatus refusing to pump water, both Mr. Galet's house and his fruit store were  burned to the ground.
The cake sale given by Mrs, Thomas The increase in the sale of railroad J. Hayes at her home on Ocean Ave,, commutation tickets on Long Island is jhe fire was not diacovered until the Friday afternoon, netted a sum of ! usually considered by real estate agents flames had gained considerable head- $130. The procecsd are for the build-1 a pretty good indication of the growth way, and the occupants of the house ing fund of the new Catholic Church. ! of the Island, which for fifty miles out ; had great difficulty in getting out with-   from   Manhattan   is a portion   of   the , out  being  burned.    Mrs.   Galet,   who
George A. Fanjoy of 516 S. Bayview suburban zone--an area within which a j had been up nearly all night, .suffering avenue, attended the annual reunion of I large proportion of the residents have with a toothache, was awakened by the his regiment, the One Hundred and | their principal places of business in the dense smoke in her room. She notified Seventy-Sixth New York Volunteer | city and travel back and forth daily. the rest of the family of the fire and Infantry, at their old camp ground] The total jiumber of commutation they quickly escaped, some of them near   Dunton,   L.   I, Saturday   after-j tickets sold by the Long Island Railroad | with   hardly any clothing.      As it was
Mrs. Edward Sidney Berry of Hart¬ ford, Conn., is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jones, on the Merrick Road.
I Mrs. Mary J. Jackson who has been ! for ap extended trip in the south re¬ turned here last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Krause and fam¬ ily have taken   possession of their cot- ' tage here for the summer.
On the Fourth of July the Gun'^Club I held a clay pigeon shoot, but there were only 5 members at the shoot. The followingare the scores m'^de: Class A, William Dean, 19; Walter Ash- : down, 12. Class B: Elliott Van Nos- j trand, 18; George Seaman, 13; Harry ' Braithwaite, 10.
Inspector of Weights and   Measures,
$750 to $1200.    Men only. noon.    Originally, when  the  regiment! during thc   month of June   this year ia impossible   to get water,   and   as   the
Inatructor,   State    Library   School, waa mustered into service, it numbered | 14,301; the   number   sold during   the flames were so far   advanced,   nothing
Women only, $1500. more   than   one   thousand  men, but it j same month last year was 12,9.^1, again could be done to save the building from
Junior  Accountant,   Public   Service left 5G9 dead on fourteen bloody South-  of 1,353, or over 10 per cent. destruction.    The building of Nicholas
Commission,   $1200   to   $1500.     Male ern battlefields,   and all the reat   havel     Following is a list of   some   of   the Meyer, which is only   about   100  feet
and female. since passed away  withthe  exception | most prominent stations on   the line of north of Mr,   Galet'.s  place,    was   the
Library Attendant, Supreme   Court, of thirty-six men who out of one thous-; the railroad and the number of commu- only place in danger,  and all efTorts on
Rochester, $000.     Women only.
Prison Guard.    Men only, $660.
Record Clerk, office of the Commis¬ sioner of Records, Kings County, $900 to $1200. Open to men only, legal residents of Kings County.
Satisfaction Clerk, Hegister's Office,
and are known to be living.
Freeport Airdome, Open Air Thea¬ tre, every night. Motion Pictures, Band Concert, Illustrated Songs by Mias Myra B. Oliver, late with Keith Proctor's;   Violin     Solos   by   Mr,
tation   tickets   sold   at each   for   the   the part   of   the   firemen   were   used month of June, 1910, and   the   corres-   there.    Ladders  were   placed   against
ponding month of 1909:
Stations. East Rockaway RockviUe Centre Merrick
New York County, $3400. Open to Marat Mesten. Admission, 10 cents;; Amityvilie men only, legal residents of New York I children, 5 cents ; reserved seats, 5 ; Bay Shore County, .i cents extr«.     Get to coming,   then for-  Sayville
Searcher  and Examiner,   Register's  get to stop. It; Westhampton
Office, New York County, $2000.   Open to men only,   legal   residents  of   >lew A safe and sane   Fourth   was   cele-1 York County.
brated here with a base ball game con¬ ducted by the Men's t^lub between the married and the single men. The mar¬ ried men were successful by a score of 10 to 16. We take off our hata to the married men. They were not 'ike Jeffries thjpy "came back," thoueh with a team of a different personnel than when they were beaten on Me¬ morial Day. And, alas, the refuge of wounded nride was not for the single men. the umpiring of Me.ssrs. Iron¬ monger and Lawson was flawless. The only conaolatioo for the unmarried men is their single state and that'.s a thing one can't bank on. Two men, a mar¬ ried and a single, were disputing as to the advantages of their respective states when the married man claimed that those of his clas.s lived the longer but the single man replied thiit it served them right. The players and positions follow: .Married Men- A. Anthony, 3rd, C.; E. Wolfe, P., 3rd; E.Miller, 1st., B.; W. C. Mepham, 2nd; C. Bowne, S. S. : G. Carpenter, C, L. F. ; E. Carpenter, L. F., Ist.; G. Broadhurst, C. F. ; Single Men—R. Rowe, P, C, 2nd; J. Nolan, lat 2nd, C. ; H. Colvin, S. Littebrandt, Srd ; C. Rowe, L. F.; J Higgins  and   H.   Muller,   L.   F.;   A.
$1200 to $1500.     Men only
Statistician, Public Service Commis¬ sion, $1801 to $2400,    Men only.
Superintenilent, State Reservation at Niagara, $2400.     .Men only.
Supervisor of Agricultural Educa¬ tion., Education Department, $2500._ Men only.
Trained Nurse, State Institutions, .$420 to $600 and maintenance.
Applications should be filed on or be¬ fore  July 16, 1910.    For detailed   cir¬ cular and a])plication blank, address, STATE   CIVIL SERVICE    COMMIS¬ SION, Albany, N. Y.
The Long Island   Railroad   sold   ten ! per  cent more commutation   tickets in j
but Freeport bought  fifteen more.
Hill, R. F. : H. Muller, J. Mulcahy, S.; W. H. C. Rowe, L. F, Muller,   L.   F. ;
Union Courae Morris Park . Jamaica Statistician,   Department  of Labor,   June, 1910, than   the   previous   year, j Hollis
per  cent \ Queens
i Floral Park r^    .       , .¦      , I Garden City
During the year ending June 30 last; Hempstead our public library in the Freeport High i Mineola School building has lent   without   any j fjoslyn ch.irge 6438 volumes to adults, 5467 of! g^Jj qjjjy which   wore fiction, and   2013 to child-, Qje,, fjovg ren,   of which 1415 were of fiction,   or ] Oyster Bay altogether 8451 volumes f(ir home uae at I We.stbury different  times during the  year.    The I Hicksville total   number of registered   borrowera ¦ Huntington is 1065, an  increa.se of 193  during the ' Northport year.    17 leading periodicals and news- \ py,.{ Jefferson papera   are   currently   received.    Tho, i^,aldwin library is opon every   week day except; Freeijort Saturdays   from   2:30 to 5   p.m,   and; j^gUmore from 7 to 9  on   Wednesday  evenings ; i j^jj]_,,,[„n care   is taken to keep it up  to date   in   islip methods and   literature   provided,   and i p3tchoei..e the advantage of auch a library is much ; Farmingdale appreciated by our reading public. j Elmhurst'
-   - i Corona
Mr.   Bennett,     bookkeeper   in   the ¦ Flushing Columbian   Brass  Foundry,   and Miss ! College Point Minnie  Aldridge,^ stenographer in the ; Whitestone Loretta   Coker is visiting  her  same office, are married.    Thoy met at; Whitestone Landing uncle, Mr. and   Mrs,   David   their work in January, mutual admira- i Murray Hill tion terminating in an accepted propos- and marriage in June.
Roosevelt
Hempstead Crescents were defeated last Sunday by Roosevelt by the score of 13 to 0.
Miss  Gertrude   North is visiting the home of Mj^s Marjorie Dixon,
Miss aunt  am Coker,
at
Charles   Delap   spent   the week at Herkimer, N, Y,, visjting friends.
Unclaimed mail advertised at the post office this week is: Mr. Frank Aim, Mr. Leslie Ager, J. (). Olbrecht, S. Johnston, Mr. Martin Kakke, B. Kahn, Rev. W. R. Houston, Mrs. Par- rott, Mrs. W. D. Noons, Mrs. George Wells, Miss K. Schumann, Mrs. J. B. Morin.
The Long laland Branch of the Na¬ tional Letter Carriers' Association will be the guests of the carriers of the lo¬ ca] office Sunday at the Wide Awake Engine Company House, corner Pine and Church St.
I Broadway i Bayside ] Douglaston I Great Neck ; Manhasset ; Port Washington 1 Richmond Hill j Springfield i Valley Stream i Woodmere
I Cedarhurst Misa Grace Andrews,   who was oper-1 Lawrence ated upon at the Albany City Hospital, i Far Rockaway j^^g j^pg^ spending the past three weeks  Arverne Charles Whitehouse's new residence ; with Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bentley | Ozone Park on Wood's avenue   is  near   completion j for the recuperation of her   health, re-1 Rockaway Beach and  will be ready   for   occupancy in a i turned home  Friday   accompanied by! Lynbrook
few days. Arthur Keeos, jr., who is enjoying the I — —
,   ~ ., ,   ,      beautiful mountain scenery  aud   trout
About thirty of the residents of this figging with his friend,   James Hamil- village attended the flag raising at the ^on, Sandgate, Vermont, new reaidence of Martin Kane on Men- :
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the building and by meana of a bucket 1909 brigade the firemen kept the flames 71 from spreading to Mr. Meyer's store. Great work was done here, and had it not been that the wind started to blo'vv from the northeast, which kept the heat away, Mr. Meyer's store would have been burned in spite of the efforts
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A man employed by Mr. Ultsch, known as John, returning from Free- port on tho 9:10 train Saturday night, fell from the train before it stopped, rendering himself unconscious. Dr. Rhame had to be called and dressed his injuties.
Mrs. Walter Sherer of Irvington, N. J., has been staying for a week with Miss Alice Sutherland.
There will be regular services in the Memorial Church next Sunday morning and evening at the usual hours with sermons by the pastor. In the evening the sermon will be the ae\'enth in the course on Paul; subject "Paul, the Be¬ liever in the Present and Future Life."
About three o'clock Tuesday morn¬ ing the firemen were called out to a fire in Bellmore opposite the oost office. Nothing could be done to save the building, but getting hose connec¬ tion with the City conduit the boys suc¬ ceeded in putting out the fire.
of the firemen.    Had the flames reached , 'phe  Simday  School   will meet at two- Meyer's store there   would   have  been   thirty in the afternoon.
at   least a dozen houses   destroyed   in	
that locality unless assistance could have been obtained from neighboring villages, to keep the fire from spread¬ ing. .
The Wantagh Fire Department ar¬ rived at the scene after all ilanger waa passed, bnt were unable to render any assistance, although the fire company anil the people are thankful to them for their good-will. After their arriv¬ al they started in to make a test of their now pump, but were unable to get any water for aome time, as the suction hose which was placed in the Brooklyn City conduit line did not have a strainer attached to it, and aa soon as the engine started i)umping, sand got into the pump and prevented it from working. After the sand ,had been cleared out, and a strainer at- taehi'd to the suction, tfhey started pumping a good stream, and put out what fire there waa left at Galet's place.
The cause of the fire is unknown, but Galet claims it started from under¬ neath the front stoop. It is the gen- feral belief that the fire was   caused by
The picnic of the Memorial Sunday School held last Friday was very suc¬ cessful and much enjoyed by the chil¬ dren, especially the ride in automobiles to and from Mr, Powell's groj'e, Mr. Cowles provided sport for the young¬ sters who succeeded in carrying off many prizes. The pastor and officers of the school wish to thank all those friends who conveyed the children to the grove, also Mr. Van No.strand for his wagon and Mr. Cowles for superin¬ tending the games and Mr. Powell for the use the grove.
Valley Stream
Tally ho crossing, between Lynbrook and  Valley   Stream,   waa   again    the
Seaford
Hewlett, R, F.; time of game, 2 hours; collection, $2.07; umpires, Messrs. Lawson and Ironmonger; scorer, Mrs, W. C. Mepham.
Undoubtedly the strongest work which Miss Gay Zenola MacLaren has done in her four appearances in imita¬ tive recitals at the Parish House was accomplished on Wednesday evening when she gave "The Sign of the Cross," before a small but apprecia¬ tive audience. Much was the wonder and admiration of this young woman's ability to depict the nineteen distinct characters with such vividness pf por¬ trayal as to make them as actually live as if each part were taken by an individual !)nd that individual a star. The rioble Marcus, the beastly Nero the drunken Clabrio, the cruel Pop- pea, the loving-hating Berenice, the butterfly DaCia, and the voluptuous Ancraia; wno can forget them soon! In Mercia and Stephenus were  shown
very  realistically the  awful  suffering; ening in the Board of Trade  Hall,   at and  the sacrificing   and    triumphant! tracted fully three hundred people.    It  Clerk's office   each Monday to receive ! owned by N. Merritt
faith of the early Christians, the blood' was an   entire   success   all   the   way ! taxes,    'fhe rate   after   next Monday i .        |
of the martyrs that became the .seed of, through and the  ladies   cleared  about will be 5 per cent for collection. I     William   Post spent   Saturday   andi
the Church.    The only regret is that a | $50.   ! Sunday with friends in Jamaica. j
      , . "^.1 «'« I    A rare treat will be afforded the peo-1     . „ ,t    ,  . .',..'
Railroad Offices  Move ^'^ °^ ^'"^^p"'"* °" *^^ ®^^"'"^ °^ ^'¦'    A""* wcHugh is entertammg miss
firecrackers,   as   several   boys    were -     ^     ... •,    ^        „     ,
around the place late Monday night i «^,!"^ °^ ^ ^ern^'^ ;Y^"^,*=",'°" Sunday shooting off fireworks. Besides lo.sing ' afternoon shortly after 1 o clock when all his furniture, a large stock of i ^ ''^""g^ P^"^^'"'' t"™'"K '=^'- ^^erein fruit, vegetables and canned goods, Mr, Galet had about $172 in bills in a trunk which he was unable to get out of the burning building.    Mr.   Galet's
were seated Andrew Crawford, a walthy cloak manufacturer at 38 West Twenty-sixth street, Manhattan, resid¬ ing on Riverdale Lane, West 253rd street, the Bronx, New York; his two daughters, Charlotte M,, aged 19 years and Jeanette T., aged 17 years, and his chauffeur, Charles Mengabauer, was struck by an Oyster Bay express bound for Rockaway Beach. The en¬ gine struck the rear end of the automo¬ bile,   smashing  it  into   kindling  and
day   morning!    Short   exercises  were \ held with  plenfy of refreshments  for everybody.
John  W. i prize in the
203
271   son-in-law   of   Amityvilie,    who   waa
89 , stopping   with him at  the   time,   was
98 ¦ quite badly cut about the face and 103 i arms by glass in an attempt to get out 237 ', of the house. Mr. Galet and his fam- 198 ! ily are at present stopping at Amity- 1490 ville. He will erect a brick building 764   on the property soon to replace the one I •      .,., i_. ... ...
56 burned The total loss was about ^f'T''"iit^!'"^^^h'"^Jl"'tA.^ ^''*T^ 930 1 $2000, mostly covered by insurance. «'""« *^« ^^f- ^J'/^ the inmates ^q"! _        I were  thrown  fully  fifty    feet.     Mr.
__ ! There will be a special service and ' Crawford escaped with alight injuries, I sermon for children Sunday morning at; ^^^^^ ^^^ chauffeur, but theJ;wo unfor i 10:30   o'clock in the   Bellmore  M. E.   '"' ''' ' " '' '
Church; 2:30 p.m., Sunday School; 7:30 p. m., Epworth League. At 7:45 p, m. the Sacrament of the Lord's Sup¬ per will be administered.    All are cor-
Hendrickson won   second second   class   apeed  boat Village Tax Collector D. Frank Sea- j races held  under thp^ auspices   of the man is now receiving taxes at the Vil-; South  Shore   Yacht Club at  Freeport  dially invited to these services.
lage Clerk's office with 1 per cent fee. i Monday.    The  prize was a silver  lov- ' 	
The vaudeville and barn dance given  After Monday   the fee will be five  per I jng cup. Nelson   Merritt  and   family of Sea-
by the Ladies'   Guild of the St. Paul's  cent for collection. The rate is $1.1226. j   ford have moved into Sylvester Smith's
Episcopal Church on last Saturday ev-      For   accommodation
Mr.   Beaman   will  be
tunate young ladies sustained fractured ; skulls and died shortly after the arrival
of Dr. J. Mansfield Foster, of Valley I Stream,   who was on the scene within
a few momenta of the accident. Act- j ing Coroner Daniel DeMott, of Hew- ! lett, who was sunimoned, issued a re- : moval permit and the bodies were re- ' moved to Ronald's morgas
of   taxpayers, I    Norris   Weeks   and   son  now  have  house on Bellmore   avenue.    Mr. Mer-   ^^^^  which place they were removed at the Village i charge of   the   fruit   store   formerly | ritt  will   continue his fish   business in'*<> their late home early Monday morn-
I this village. < 'ng.
<; larger number did not lend the encour ; agement of their presence at an enter-1 tainment so superior.    The   proceeds ': were for thc cause of missions.
I At the annual meeting of the Altar i; Society held on Thursday last the fol- ( lowing officers were re-elected for the t coming year: Mrs. Laura Corlies, pres- r, ident; Mrs. Arthur Anthony, vice- l president, and Mias Florence  Hewlett,
f secrteary and treasurer.
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^ The monthly meeting of the Men's \Club will be held in the Parish Honse I on Tneaday evening at 8:30 p. m.
Charles Wetterman his summer residence road.
stopping at! I Newbridge '
I    Do You Want to Buy or Soil? |Cvorybo4y's Column.
Um
George Lush and family have
day. July 15, when the Clafjin Univer-: J«""'e Kovaltaik of Bay Shore
On July 11, 1910, the offices of the ; sity Student Singers (colored), will Traffic Manager and General Freight give a concert in the Methodist Church. Agent and of tbe General Passenger Accompanying the quartet will be Es- Agent will be located on the third floor sie Massey, violinist, and Willie As- of the Pernsylvania Station, NewYork bury, dialect reader and humorist. City, entrance on Eighth avenue, be-; These singers have the higheat com- tween 31st and 33rd streets. mendation  from   men like Dr. J. Wil-
The Room Numbers   are 302, Traffic , bur Chapman,    Bishop  Hamilton,   and
Fire Company Incor¬ porated
i     Jake   Vooris of Jeraey,  formerly of i ! this   village,   is spending a few days '
to Monticello for a short vacation.^'"' i Slwb'ridge R^oad'^'"''' "" '"'"'"''' " ' *»>-«-1*"'*-?-"*^ -' ^-^ -^joining the
Upon the petition of the residents of
Miss Mabel and Charles MacArthur ,. Fred Chapin is spending a short va- spent the Fourth witb their grandmoth-j cation in town with J. E. Place on er, Mrs. John Albro. Merrick Road.
Manager and  General Freight Agent;, Dr. J. M.   Buckley.    Admission   free, | hold   their
The Epiacopal   Sunday   School  will       Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Sorenson of Cy-
303, General Passenger Agent A. L. LANGDON, Traflic Manager and General Freight Agent.
H. M. SMITH, General Passenger Agent.
with a collection for the   School. j erybody will be welcome.
(continued on page 8)
Ev-
excursion   to High Hill  press Hills spent tho   Fourth with Mr.
'I aaw it in tho MoaMngorl"
Beach on Tuesday, the 9th.
The Ladies' Guild of the Episcopal Chruch will hold their annual fair on the 27th and 28th of July in the Guild room.
and Mrs. William E. Bowne.
July   20th will be a big day   for thd Democratic Association of this district.
(continued dn page 4)
Village of Hempstead, presented by Maxaan & Jonecr, counsel for the South Hempstead Volunteer Hook & Ladder & Bucket Co, No. 1, the Board ot Sup¬ ervisors have passed a resolution creat¬ ing a Fire District in the territory, the centre of which is the fire hou^e. The flfW election of fire commissioners and a treasurer wiil ije held on July 26 at the fire house. The vicinitjr has long been in need of proper fire protection and there was no trouble in getting sigherB to the application. '