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1, NUMBEB 9
BELLMORE, L. I., I^ Y.f FRIDAY*
'TEMBER 18, 1908
PRICE, 5 CENTS
FREEPORT
BELLMORE
R. T. Wilmarth announces that he will he at High Hill beach until Octo¬ ber 15 and possibly later and that he will be at Bellmore Dock at 9:30 a. m., Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays for all who wish to go to the heach. Wilmarth states tnat he has accommodations for gunning par¬ ties arid that the season is exceptional ¦ ly good for this kind of sport.
The grounds surrouning the Bell¬ more Congregational Church have been put in order, which is a decided im¬ provement. The grass has been cut, shrubbery trimmed and the foot-path cleared of the weeds that so long found a home there.
A representative of the Messenger __i)t the following statement from a
prominent attomey of Freeport which
will be of interest to its readers in this
village.    The situation in Freeport at
present regarding the water question is
this: the village as a municipality has
no legal right to question the location
of the pipe line,   whether on the north
side or southside of the track.    It has
heen the prevailing opinion that be¬ cause the village of Freeport has de¬ cided to accept the strip of land to  be
taken for water purposes as utreet,
that the village has acquiesced  in  the
plana of the city.    This is an entirely
erroneous view.    The village has not
a<|uiesced  in  the plans of the   city.
They  simply have taken the position
that nothing can be done in the matter .until  the actual digging has begun.
The village claims the right to prevent
aiiy interference either directly or in¬ directly with its municipal water plant
and will therefore immediately enjoin
the City of New York from driving any
wells or from putting in any infiltration
Ifalleries'that will in any way affect the
source of water supply of its water
plant.    The grounds for this position
are that any such interference ia con¬ trary  to the letter and spirit of  the
Legialative enactment under which the
City of New York derives its authority
to condemn land for water purposes.
fh"tlSr!,'aLu°thSete Sy  „ ™e L.d,e, A.,,n.ry. held a d.nce .t
5°N,^ York to  intorfer. ^>t>; .«y i:,^^^^^^!'^^!'.'^^' "¦"*  "" Other municipal water plant, such Leg
Mr. Francis W. Zeiner, musical di¬ rectory of the Liberty Theatre Stock Co., is a guest of his brother, Han-y Zeiner.
The Democratic Association will have a banner raising Sept. 23rd on Bellmore Ave., south of the R. R. tracks near Brown's Hotel. A gen¬ eral jollification is planned in which it is expected that all Democrats will be on hand to take part in.
Wm. F. Kraft has been appointed school tax collector for school district No. 4.
MERRICI
I<'red Vonderau has ^rchased an Oldsmobile from Isidor >jayer of Free- port. ^
SMITHVILLE lOUTIf
Dear Editor: This h^ been a very fine season for grapes.^all vines are bearing large quantitie^of the fruit. This seems to be the ca^ all over this section.    Smithville So^h Subscriber.
All right, glad to h^r it. Would like a generous sample l^t at the oflice. Ed. ^
School principal and Mrs. Hilton are located with their five \ffeeks old baby at the residence of Cha^J Von du Heydt for the winter. Miss^Ella Gorman, anotber teacher, in also stopping there.
SEAEORD
the usual successful affair.
isaltive enactment is unconstitutional.
Last Saturday at 8:30 a. m., Mrs. Emma Fream of Church St., while Xoing down the cellar stairs of her bome slipped and broke her hip and collar bone. She was attended by Dr. Denton and will possibly be a cripple for life. Mrs. Fream is the mother of August Fream of this village.
Steve Pettit and Isidor Mayer report that their new theatre on Main St. will be ready to open by January 1 st.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Maylancl and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gunning are spending a week in the Catskill Mountains.
Mrs. Wemys and daughter Edna have retumed from Strawford, N. Y., to their home here.
Miss Clara Gideon of the far, far West, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. D. Kiefer of Main Street.
Pinochle players no doubt will be pleased to learn that they will be given a chance to enjoy their favorite game at the euchre. Pinochle and dance to be lield at Firemen's Hall Friday even • ing, Sept.^ 26. This "affair" is being run unde/the auipicea of the Bellmore Catholic Society for the benefit of the new Catholic Church which will be erected in the near future.
The Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements stated that no expense has been spared to make this the best affair of its kind ever held here. There are numerous prizes which are to be divided between the winners of the Euchre and Pinochle games, also prizes for non-players.
After the playing the floor is to be cleared tor dancing, which will con¬ tinue until a late hour.
Nelson   S.    Raynor,    a   promising young man  of this villnge,   aged 28
A number of young men have or¬ ganized a Gun Club which will doubt¬ less gain in favor as soon as it be¬ comes known that there is such a club in the village. Albert Dean is the secretary, who will furnish full infor¬ mation to all who desire to join.
It is expected that next season the base-ball club will erect a grand-stand
years, passed to his final rest Saturday morning after six weeks' illness of ty-
phoid fever. He \9a^ a member of | on their grounds here Vigilant Hose Co., whose members paid their former foreman a last tribute by attending his funeral in uniform. Services were held in the village M. E. Church, conducted. by Rev. Dr. Richards, interment in Greenfield Cem¬ etery ; funeral arrangements were in charge of Undertaker Fulton. He leaves a wife and one child.
The Aliabama Students Co. gave an excellent shew at the Y. M. I. G. Hall here this week to a full house. The per¬ formance was welj liked.
After the buainess meeting of the Seaford H. & L. & Engine Co. Mon¬ day, the members enjoyed a smoker at the fire house. Preparations were made for a dance to be held at the hall the 30th of Sept. All who attend will be invited to draw for a prize without charge.
The Unity Club dance and recep¬ tion Tuesday was well attended and a good time enjcQred by all.
The Repul^ican Club here are look¬ ing for larger quarters. Posters "will be displayed around the town stating when and where the next meeting will take place.
Mr. Ormsbee and Mrs. Snedeker have left Massapequa for their homes in the city.
ROCKVILLE CENTRE
A meeting of the  Village  Board of Trustees will be held Friday evening.
"Matter" will be the lesson-sermon at the Christian Science Church on Sunday next. The Golden Text will. be "Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be root¬ ed up."
Sonday morning the crew of the ear¬ ly moming newspaper train found the body of an unknown man in the tracks near Bayvie>* Avenue crosssing. He had probably been struck by a night train. The headlwas entirely|^severed from the body. Judge Tatem held an inquest and gave permission for the removal of the body to Fulton's morgue. Buried in Greenfield Cemetery Monday ^^temoon.
Lyman F. Gardner died in Nassau <3ounty Hospital Sept. 9, after an op¬ eration for appendicitis. Interment in Freeport Cemetery, Rev. Dr. Scholey officiating. Puneral arrange¬ menta were in charge of Undertaker Fulton.
At its special meeting Friday even¬ ing the Freeport Fire Department de¬ cided unanimously to instruct Chief
' Wallace to request the  Village Trus-
. tees on behalf of the department to in¬ vite the Southern New York Volun¬ teer Firemen's Association to hold the next annual convention at this place, (October 1909). Chief Wallace stated that the new theatre building on Main Street will be completed by that time
" and the firemen will have every ad¬ vantage in liandling the targe crowd.
The department voted unanimously to go to the parade and toumament at Hicksville on October 22.
The steamer of the Wide Awake Elngihe Company, which is no doj|ibt one
; of the fineat and most efficient steam¬ ers on Long Island outside of Greater New York, is entered in the steamer contest.
Nassan Giants
Duryea, c
Brazier, 3b, p
Horton, cf
Magee, 2b
Thompson, rf
MoLane, lb, p
Crawford, If
Corse, ss
Donkon, p, 3b
Bellmore
Levy, ss
Seaman, p, 3b
Hnnt, lb
Smith, c
Giangloff, cf
Vooris, 2b
Self, If
Merritt, 3b, p
Sobinder, rf
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School re-opened for the Fall term on Monday, with a large attendance. Owing to the condition of the primary school building, the children attending that school will practically be com¬ pelled to have half day sessions for a short period.
Rev. Owen Reber was formally in¬ stalled as pastor of the Lutheran Church Sunday evening in the pres¬ ence of a large congregation. The in¬ stallation ceremony was performed by Rev. Lewis Happ and Rev. G. A. Baetz, both of Brooklyn, who preached the sermons of the occasion, one in English and the other in German. They also asked the usual questions^ which were responded to by the pastor. A number of selections were rendered by the Ladies' Quartette, and by a large delegations frora the Con¬ cordia Singing Society.
22 23 27 12 2 Nassan Cubans —00000030 0—28 Belhnore —2 0 7 11 2 0 0 0 x— 2
Two-base hits. Smith; sacrifice hit. Seaman; stolen bases. Hunt, Levy, Schneider; double play, Gangloff and Levy; struck out, by Seaman 7 in 5 innings, by Merrit 5 in 4 innings,. by McLane, 3 in 2 innings, by Donkan, 3 in 7 innings; base dn balls, off Sea- 1, off Merritt 1, McLane 1; left on bases, Bellmore 3, Nassau Cubans 4; time of game, 2 hrs.; umpires, Durea and Bafter; scorer, Apeler; next Sun¬ day Hempstead F. C. at Bellmore. ^
!_!_?_?! Notice to Messenger Subscribers and Readers
BALDWIN
Last'Su'nday a card game, a quarrel, three shots and a murder was committ¬ ed on Grand Ave. The murdered man was Antonio Norf, an Italian, and he was shot by Rocco Garotzoni of Staten Island, wbo was placed under arrest and identified by Norf at tbe hospital before his death.
Attorney Leo Fishel of Freeport has been appointed counsel to defend thb prisiHier.
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Freeport, Kiefer's Art Store, Main St.
Merrick, J. W. Buxsh.
BeUmor^, Sinith Bros.
SmithvUle South, Oluw. Wao^	
Wantagh, FusseU Bros.   ;
Seaford, General Store (^ost Offlce).
Massapeqna, General Store (P. O.)
Baldwin, Miss Marion Seaman. Rockville Centre,   Maguinness'   Ne^s
Depot and William Merdes. Bellmore, Wm. E Bowne.
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGEH Bellmore, hang Island, N. Y.
PEOPLE'S COLUMN
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Alameda, Cal. Ekl. Messenger:
(f (MM wants to get an idea of the geogriiphical position of San Francisco and the suburban towns let him im¬ agine he's standing in upper New York City, ithen take New York for San FranO^Ko, the Harlem river for the Goldefi'pate, two miles wide, the Hud¬ son rhier for the Pacific and the East river ifyt San Francisco bay five miles acros». Harlem would be Sancaiito, New Bochelle would be Tiberon and Long &land City, Berkeley. Oakland, the laijrest and almost equal to San Frans»ico in size and importance would'!« as north Brooklyn and south Brooklvn would answer for Alameda. Theae lowns are all on level ground between the bay and mountains. The houses are very pretty in design, strik¬ ingly different from houses at home. They ;are profusely ornamented and only porches in place of piazzas. No one aite outnide as it is too cool. Very ||rge palms, higher than the roofs, ivy geraniums "covering the fejQces, flowering geraniums six feet high, hedges of calla lilies and rosea everywhere, but, very little skill dis¬ played in their arrangement. "Put it where there's room" seems the plan. This cesPtainly is the country for sweet peas. They are to be seen seven and eight feet high covered with fiowers with tSiJnch -stems. I eaw one rose plant 0r*y feet high. All this to be seen fe»w hot in winter we atS'JtOld is' the time for flowers.
Oakland has an immense railroad depot from where most of the travel to all points starts.
"• Berkeley haa the California Univer¬ sity, with its numerous buildings and botanical gardens, also the Greek the¬ atre.
The lawna and gardens at all these places are only kept growing and fresh by constant watering as no rain ever falls at this season. All the fields and vacant lots that are not irrigated are yellow, dry and covered with dust. The trees in such places are the only green relief. The aoil is rich, however, and when the rainy aeason begins all surface vegetation rushes ahead rapid¬ ly and the valleys and mountains are beautifully green and flowery. On the market stands at this date (Sept. Ist) may be aeen strawberries and other small fruits, also fresh figs, nectarines, apricots and other fruits not common in the eaat. The peaches, plums, pears and grapes are in great abundance and very cheap. It is too cool for good corn, tomatoes and egg plant, conse¬ quently they do not come up to our eastern standard. There are fine po¬ tatoes in the market now and they grow a fine crop of them in winter on the mountain farms surrounding the bay valley.
The cause of the cool climate is the constant inflow of cool air off the ocean through the Golden Gate to supply the rapid rise of heated air from the out¬ lying valleys. The cold and warm air when coming in contact cause a dense fog which sometinftos obscures the sun for days in San Francisco. Start from Alameda at twelve o'clock in warm sun¬ shine and in less than an hour, the time taken to get to Golden Gate, you will need overcoats and furs. The cold fog comes in like smoke. Aside from the fog the sky is entirely cloudless until in September when a few real clouds begin to appear. At no time do they have thunder and lightning.
The cattle and horses look fat and healthy. The cured standing vegeta¬ tion in the fields seems ample nourish¬ ment for them. All the level fields above tide water around the bay are planted with vegetables and grown by irrigation. All vegetables are sold by the ponnd. Lima beans in the pod, "two bits (25c), three pounds" is the price. Seldom any pennies used. You must arrange your purchasea so as to count nickels. They do not like paper money and when a bill is offered you are spotted for an easterner at "once. The people here are as kind and pleas¬ ant as can be. They are very anxious to have eastern people settle here and they offer many inducements. In fact they are nearly all descendants of east- em people, there being very few Span¬ ish here as the names of towns and streets would imply. To meet them ia to like and admire them and one is proud to own them as relations from a sister state. One can not help feeling sad on passing so many blocks of rqins not yet built up but they are^doing wonders in that line and in many ways are a wisec people for tbe calaptity.
The feeling here for Japanese is not of i one happy  here in California except
the best, but you hear many good words spoken for the Chinese especial¬ ly for their honesty. I must say how¬ ever that a Chinese woman looks odd in the way of dress or rather trousers, I guess that's what they call them, they have blue stripes around the bot¬ toms anyway. They wear a sensible hat to for it ie pnly a comb in their sleek black hair so prettily coiled on the back of the head.
In the immense ferry building in San Francisco there is an extensive ex¬ hibit of Califomia products and every afternoon there, a free lecture is given on the state's resources.
Golden Gate park on the west side of the city is extensive and beautiful in natural growth as well as in fine drives and paths. There is a fine Egyptian museum and horticultural building, also a fine music stand and abundant room for all outdoor sports which are  largely indulged in.     The
rain*" He gave me siich a look that I wished I was home, and said, "Why man, that would mean three million dollars loss to our state. It would spoil our fmit drying and our grapes." At San Mateo, thirty miles south of San Francisco, are some grand old homestead and ranches. Palma with trunks four feet in diameter and fifty feet high, and a live oak whose trunk I mea<ired,six feet in diameter and one hundred feet spread of the branches; begonias lived out all winter. Hedges of geraniums aix feet high and the flowera touching were common. He¬ liotrope, like lilac buahes,and what de¬ licious figs! Century plants with flow er stalks thirty feet high, Lantanas and Lemon virtenas as big as peach trees at home, and Araricarias, those little trees we use at home in jar- deniers, sixty feet high and most sy- metrical specimens. On these ranches- the Califomia quail were so numerous
children's play ground is well fitted up \ that they were destroying the vegeta- for their amuaement too.    A fine bat- | bles.
tleship in plants with the words "Wel¬ come to our fleet" is well  worked out on a sunny slope.    No signs "keep off the grass" are seen and very few  po licemen are needed.   For these reasons
A ride by train to Santa Cruz, by way Of San Jose, a distance of eighty miles, takes one through a great fruit raiaing valley. Acres of trays of dry¬ ing fmit out in the sun, and the sun is
perhaps, the park is not quite as tidy j hot after you get away from the bay
as our Central Park but  the pleasure this freedom givea is well appreciated.
Sutros Heights, once a private home, most lavishly decorated with statuary, shrubs and flowers and over¬ looking Golden Gate and the seal rocks, is one of the moat beautiful apots in San Francisco. The beach here is rather disappointing. The wavea are not aa high as in the Atlantic at home, and the sand is of a dull gray color. Not a shell to pick up, and whon walk¬ ing along the surf one gets so thoroughly chilled that all thoughts of a s#im' quickly yfinteh. ThiriBeh who have boats to let here in the bay tell you of wonderful catches of fish, but we failed to get the "proper bait" or the "right spot" and we have to go to the Alameda market on Fridays. There we do not see much display of native fish except salmon and soles, a fish something like our little flat fish with big black eyes. A few smelt are caught. Oyaters are much inferior to those at home and the soft clams are off color. No hard clams are found. Further down the coaat the fish are lar¬ ger and more plentiful and these may be found in the San Francisco market. There must be a "fish" story in this however and it will be about the crabs weighing from ten to fifteen pounda and selling for one dollar and fifty cents each! A little one about ten inches-long with the claws folded cost thirty-five cents, but there was enough in it for a salad for aix persons. I'll bring the shell home to ahow you.
A most interesting excursion from San Francisco is a trip up Mount Ta- malpias, 2600 feet elevation and just across the Golden Gate by way of S^n salito. You go up in cars drawn by a locomotive built purposely for climbing- It is said to be the most crooked rail, road in the world and no one would doubt thkt surely. Take ten miles of letters of various sizes, join the ends and then tie the string in a double bow-knot with long lose wavey ends and one can thus get some conception of its course. It has only four hundred feet of straight track in the entire^ length. Many times in the ascent you face all points of the compass without moving in your seat. Of course these numerous curves are to reduce the grade in a given space. There are higher mountains but never one where a better view is before you. Distinct¬ ly aeen are the city and towns, the bay, the Golden Gate, the ocean and the distant mountains across the bay as well as the canyons, valleys and peaks of its own. This mountain has a fine grove of redwood trees, the "big" trees that are the last of an ancient variety, and, like the buffalo, if not protected, will soon disappear. The crest is coevred with"beauti ful shmbs entirely different to those in the east
At Niles, a town about twenty miles from Oakland, 1 was well entertained by a nurseryman and fruit grower who owned six hundi-ed acres of level land covered with general California nursery stock and large orchards of fmit trees heavily laden with fine large fmit. Peaches, plum, apricota» figs, oranges in variety, apples, peaifs, and even bananas were there. They drive in a huggy with you under the trees and sample as *yoa go. "Take horae all you want if you pure to carry them" is the cheerful invitation. In this nursery they have a f*)W trees that bear the locusts of "Bible history. It was fmit, not insects, that was eat^n with the wild honey and really woulc" not he a bad meal after all. As I wss parting reluctantly with my friend ] wanted to say something nice, so I sa A as t glanced at a patch of dry gras '/
Santa Cruz is another large town or city, the dwellings of which are of the same highly ornamented order. Their gardens are perhaps a little more lux¬ uriant, but the shore and the "big trees" are the wonders here.
There is a large showy pavilion near the surf where one can be  refreahed,
I buy curioa and poatal cards and get a bathing auit  if you dare  venture in,
I but it looked too cool for me, although a few were apparently havng a good time standing up in the shallow water... I noticed the sun shining very brilliant¬ ly and the water off in the ocean waa beautifully 'blue. Thia short stretch of beach was gently sloping but nearly" all the coast j§ bald and rocky with curious wave washed carvings, caves and grottos. A shoit ride it is to the valley of the "big trees." The larg-- est aingle tree in the world is in this group. Twenty-two feet in diameter and over 300 feet high. Many of the so-called giant trees are measured in a way that is deceiving and this ia the way they do it. They measure around the cluster that haa grown up around an old atump. It ia one root of course and makea a big diameter hut atrictly not one tree above five or aix feet high. We might do the aame with our chest¬ nut and oak clumps in our woods. There is a tree in one of these stump clumps that is three hundred and sixty feet high but its diameter is compara¬ tively small. This variety is the red¬ wood of lumber yards (Sequoia sem- pervirens). Its foliage resembles our hemlock, only more rigid in the young growth. In the Yosemite valley there are more big trees, some of the stumps and disfigured trees larger than the ones at Santa Cruz and they are of another variety (Sequoia gigantea) with foliage resembling coarse Arbor vitae.     . y
In a fpw days we leave for Los" An¬ geles and if we see the wonders they say are there, I'll endeavor to give you some idea of them.
Wm. F. Jeffrey.
New York City. Editor South Side Messenger. Editor Review:—
I have organized the Inventors' Pro¬ tective Aaaociation & Mfg. Compahy which will be incorporated next week with a capital of $100,000.
We intend to build a plant some¬ where on Long Island and I would like to ask in your paper, if some Vil¬ lage would offer us a Town site and we would erect our plant, specially manufacturing our own patented in¬ ventions of all descriptions at such place, where the best offer we would receive.
We think to employ from 50 to 500 men.
^ Respectfully Yours,
Chas. A. B. Von Eschenbach, Gen. Mgr., Room 3, Labor Temple, East 84th St.
N. Y.
WANTAGH
School opened here Monday with a good sized attendance. Mrs. Corodon Norton is teaching in place ofr Miss Lawlor, who is detained at her bome by illbess.
The Ladies' Aid Society held their first meeting with Mrs. John T. Cowles M Wednesday of this week.
Rev. Thomas Braithwaiie will preach Text Sunday moming and eivei^JIng at "You seem to have' everything to mai p j -he Memorial Churchft