South Side Messenger 19130425

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Freeport School Meeting To-Night
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SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
Vol S, NumlMr 39
Etwt Friday
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE. N. Y^ FRIDAY. APRIL 25, 1913
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Merrick
Single copies of the Measenger can be bftd at Max Trfllitzsdi' news stand Merrick. L.L "    tf
GOOD WORD FOR THE SPIDER.
Even thoae little weather prophet ¦pider$ that build their nest on the grass are of great value. It is claimed that if many of such webs are seen in the morning on the lawn, it will not rain, as these spiders know enough not to build them when it is about to rain.
These same spiders capture hundreds of flies, and they are especially valu¬ able in catching mosquitoa.    The webs
RooseTelt Men Hit School Board
Fde Complauit Whk SUte Educa¬ tion Pepaituieat MUldiig ScTerd Quurget
Bellmore
Samuel Kilpatriek and son James have returned from Port Orange, Flor¬ ida, where they spent the winter months.
Robert Peterson, who recently moved
Roosevelt, L. I., April 19- The local [ '"*o ^^^^ ^- Bedell's house on Bedford
Board of  Education has been  notified | Avenue,   has   been  quite ill for a few
by  the  State Education   Department  °^y'     At last reports he is recovering
that a complaint has  been   filed  with \ "jf«'y  ""^er  the  care  of Dr.   M. H.
them  by  John E.   Griffiths,   Henry I. ; S*"*"-	
Bauer   and   others,   alleging that the I     ., ,     ,„,,,.    ,.,,.
school   trustees,   consisting of Edward j,   John J. Bedell   is  building a bunga-
Uhe,   Henry F. Smith,  Edwin D. Sea-1 '°* 0[» L'nden Street,   adjoining  Clar-
_ -— „      -,  bury and Charles Edwards,   had  given ^"*=«"»"V ^™^''*^'    ^has. Johnson
are   harmless, as are the spiders,   and | a contract to Otto Nelson, a contractor,' "** '"* contract^	
should never be destroyed. j without properly  advertising for bids.
Further, that they made payments to Otto Nelson on the contract without first obtaining the certificate of the architect.
Services at the Church of the Re¬ deemer on Sunday, the fifth after Easter, at 7:80 and 11 o'clock a. m. and 8 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Communion at the early service and Morning Prayer and sermon at the 11 o'clock service. The School meets in the Parish House at 10 a. m. The Confirmation class meets in the church at 4 p. m. and in the Rectory on Tues
The members of the board are among the leading cicizena in the community, but there has been friction between them and a few residents, which one of the board declares has grown out of politics, pure and simple. The board claims  that it contracted to put up a
The receipts of the firemen's fair were about $225, instead of $2.26, as stated in our last issue. A period ' ac¬ cidentally got in between the figures which was the cause of the mistake.
Mrs. G. Lambert was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Green of Wilson Avenue last week.
days at 7:80 p. m.    Thursday,   Ascen- building,   estimated   to cost   between
¦ion Day, there will be a Celebration of the Holy Communion at 10 a. m. The Woman's Auxiliary meets each Thursday at 2:30 p. m. and the Junior Wk'^l-rury each Saturday at 8 p. nv Thj?' "C<)Ok+iig' School" wiU4M>?d.ita .laat, session for the season tomorrow, Sat¬ urday, 12 3. A cordial welcome is extended to all to attend the services of this church.
Merrick Grammar School will hold its annual Arbor Day exercises on the morning of May 2. An excellent pro¬ gram has been arranged and the public is invited to attend.
$1,500 and $1,800. It was not put in the budget, as the board had a surplus from which to draw the  amount.    Ad-
The meeting of the T. Y. L. D. C. will be held Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Grace Hodgson, where they will initiate Miss Clara Peterson.
The demand for summer residences here this season has been anore than the supply could meet. A week, now, will see the return of many of the sum¬ mer colony. Garages are being built for the new house of Frank Crary, Merrick Ave. and |Jyron Road, and for the house occupied last year by Mr. Welling on Byron Road.
Mrs. Birch's house on Merrick Ave. is adorned with a new shingle roof put on by her son, Thos. Birch, carpenter and builder, of Bellmore.
Mr. and Mrs W. A. Grant of Lyon Avenue are entertaining Mrs. V. S. Strail of Manhattan.
A Sunday School will be conducted during the months of May-August in the Camp Grounds by ReV. Wm. H. Littebrandt, rector of the Church of the Redeemer. The first session will be held at 3 o'clock May 4. The sub¬ ject will be "The Life of Our Lord ' and will be taught from the desk. The secretary of the school is Wm. Otto.
The Grammar School baseball team easily defeated Smithville South in their match on McCord Field, the acore being 12 to 0. The batteries were: Merrick, Shebee, Mulcahy; Smithville, Snyder, McVey.
A meeting is announced to be held in the Parish House on Thursday even¬ ing at 8 o'clock. May 1, for the in¬ formal discussion of matters to come before the Annual School Meeting to be held in the school building on Tues¬ day, May 6. The meeting is an indi¬ cation of the spirit abroad to be better informed concerning matters of public interest in general and to encourage an intelligent civic life. All are in¬ vited to attend this meeting to listen to or enter the dlsciissjon. Those es- - pecially will be iavited to attend who can give the public information in par- ticalar. 	
W. C. Mepham is having his Miller Avenue residence painted.
The residents of the northern part of the village attempted to have the Town Board accept a petition for a lighting district at the meeting in Hempstead on Monday. Opt of possi¬ bly 160 resident taxpayers there were 116 names upon the petition request¬ ing that the district mapped out be lighted by electricity. The attorney of the Naasau & Suffolk Gas Lighting Company, Theodore M. Ripsom, op¬ posed the petition^ The Board refused to receive the Merrick petition until farther inveatigation. The Merrick petitioners met Ikst night. Thursday, to hear the story of the proceedingt. before the Board. The petition will 'be presented to the Board again on Monday. 	
The Men's Club special Athletic CommittM OB Field Day,  H.  J.  Mc-
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The Ladies' League met at the home vertisements were inserted in the pa-i of Mrs. Albert Dean Tuesday after- ju:.-,   but   the   !::west b:4  was   oveii'jrt»Am.    v     ''**--«-"-••'«**'^^^^^
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cesriary to increase the facilities, and j Misis Grace Hodgson spent last week sanitary requirements compelled the | in Cypress Hills with her aunt, Mrs. immediate    construction   of    ioilets.   John Steele.
Workmen went to work, under the low- j 	
est bid, to install the toiltts, but the { The Ladies' Aid of the M. E. Church work was unsatisfactory and had to be | will meet at the Parsonage on Centre done over again, ^ida were ac^vertised i Avenue next Thursday afternoon, May again, and the same contractor got the i 1, at 2:30 p m.; annual election of job, at the lowest bid. Other difficul- {officers; a large attendance is request ties arose, and a complaint   was  filed ! ed.
Miss Gladys Self fell down the cellar stairs and injured her knee Wednesday afternoon.
against the board in connection with alleged improper protection against fire.
William Mepham, superintendent of schools in Nassau County, visited the school and reported, according to the trustees, that the fire conditions in the school are as good as in any other place in the county.
Through the law firm of Edwards & Levy and under the personal super¬ vision of former Judge Elvin N. Ed¬ wards, the trustees deny the allega¬ tions and state that they have careful¬ ly looked after the interests of the taxpayers and have lived up to the let¬ ter of the law. The complaint alleges that the alterations and modification of the plans and specifications of the con¬ tract  under consideration  were  made
without the   knowledge of and consent      ^his   Sunday at 3:30 p. m. the Bell- of the State   Department of  Euduca- ^^^^6 Baseball Team will start the sea-
H. B. Warner's Wife Dies in Aoto Crash
Boned Under Aaother Machbie in Anto Acddeat
Mrs. Henry B. Warner, wife of H. B. Warner, an actor, was killed on Merrick Road near Seaford Sunday af* temoon when the automobile in which she was riding was struck by another machine which attempted to pass. The first machine skidded to the side of the road, turned half around and turned over.
Mrs. Warner was taken to the hos¬ pital at Babylon, where she died there shortly after from a compound frac¬ ture of the skull.
In the automobile with Mrs. Warner were her husband; Maurice Campbell, a New York theatrical producer, hus¬ band of Henrietta Grossman; Miss Fay Wheeler, and George Sedly-Brown, jr., of 188 West Forty-second Street, New York, a stepson of Campbell.
In the second automobile were Ed¬ ward Baker, of 721 Albert Street, Brooklyn, his wife and three children. The machine is owned by G. C. Stein- way of New York. Baker ia employed as chauffeur for Mr. Steinway.
Both automobiles were going east on Merrick Road at a fair speed, when Baker attempted to pass the machine driven by Campbe^'. As Baker turned the rear wheel of his car struck the front wheel of Campbell's machine, sending it skidding to the side of the road. Campbell threw on the emerg ency brakes, the machine swerved to the jefi and turned over, burying Mrs. Warner under the tonneau. The oth¬ ers were thrown into the road.
The three men tried to release Mrs. ; Warner, but were unable to move the I heavy machine.    Wilbur   Southard, in
Freeport
Treel's FoUy', Still a Gigantic Sieve
Single copies of the Messenger can be secured at Greenblatt'a or Braith-
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The time-toble of the Oakland Steamboat Co., which runs ferries for autos between Rye and Sea Cliff, L. j I., appears in this issue.    This will in-
tre that Ledtcd aod Leaked- Maj Yet Be a Stadhon
Rockville Centre, L. I., April 21.— One of the largest artificial  reservoin
terest automobilists, wishing to take a  in tbe United   States is that  covering trip  across  Long  Island   and then up  nearly eighty acres of land immediate-
New York State.
The minstrel show of the Club was held at the Opera House Wednesday evening. The house was about half filled and the Club will benefit finan¬ cially from the evening's entertain¬ ment.
tion.
The complaint further states that Contractor Nelson was not to receive any payments until he had obtained a certificate from the architect; that the payments were made without such cer¬ tificate ; that the trustees caused to be levied and collected for school purpos¬ es, taxes far in excess in amount of the funds required or expended for school purposes, and in these events the board has been negligent of the duty it owes the village, in not obey¬ ing the Education Law The trustees are prepared to meet every charge.
—Eagle.
R. Samet is wearing a broad smile; he has a daughter.
"Farmer," one of the twins of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K4ppauf, has been quite ill this week, but is improving under tho care of Dr. Skou.
Samuel Seaman has purchased a new motorcycle.      ________
Don't forget the dance Saturday night. May 3, by Independent Willing Workers for the benefit of the. Bell¬ more Baseball Club.
Hempstead
At a the meeting of the Fire Depart¬ ment Council, Frederick S. Baldwin and W. V. S. Happener were re-ielected secretary and treasurer respectively.
Arthur L. Nichols was elected as delegate to the Southern Association Convention to be held at Patchogue in June.
The engagement of Miss Emma M. Schnitzler and G. William Peters has been announced.
The date of the Holy Name Society Euchre, for the benefit of the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, has been set for April 30, at the Church Hall, on Greenwich Street.
Adam Pfleging is grading his prop¬ erty on Atlantic Avenue, raising side¬ walk grade and constructing a cinder path.
A committee is formlating plana to submit to the Board of Education, hav¬ ing for its purpose improvement of school grounds.
Daniel A. Eldredge has secured a po¬ sition with Doubleday, Page & Com¬ pany, Garden City.
Tht b«t wsy to fifhl Ihs Ml «4« Uh* is by fcniliai ymm wmtimakum umi swUi yeJr lar^Ht to sHke a pwr.   AinttUm h Ikis
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If y«H want te pmisIi the p««|il« rt In tlM "M««Mnf«r.*'
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son of 1913, when they will have for their opponents the Hickory Field Club of Brooklyn. This team has been vis¬ iting Bellmore for a number of yearS, being one of the strongest semi-pnofes- sional teams of Brooklyn. This is the only game they will play here this sea¬ son. Manager John J. Jacobs writes that as his team is greatly strength¬ ened he will be unable to come here again for the guarantee offered by the local team, but will come this Sunday to show his appreciation of the treat¬ ment he has received here in former years. The local team will be a great deal stronger than in former years, and the boys feel that they will have a ban¬ ner season. To attain this end it is hoped that the fans will be as gener¬ ous as they have been heretofore. The Club has had new seats placed on the ball grounds which will seat a great number of people.
Harry J. Apeler, the secretary, who has had charge of arranging the sched¬ ule, reports the following games for the season:
April 27, Hickory F. C. May 4, Rockville Centre
11, Bell wood A. C. 18, Hempstead Giants
26, Richmond Hill Professionals
80, Clarion A. C, 2 games June 1, Cathedral Club of N. Y.
8, Springfield
16, Brooklyn Blue Sox 22, Rockville Centre 29, New York Stock Exchange July 4, Hempstead Qianta, 2 games
6, Richmond Hill Professionals .
18, Hempstead Field Club
20, Bellwood A. G.
27, Clarion A. C. JAug. 3, Bronx Emeralds 10, Garden City
17, Rockville Centre 24, St. Anselms A. C.
81, Richmond Hill Professionals Sept. 1, Bellwood A. A., 2 games
7, Clarion A. C. 14, Hempstead Giants
21, Royola B. B. C.
28, Garden City Oct. 5. Open
12, Open
19. Open 26, (^>en
front of whose house the accident oc¬ curred, brought fence rails, the ma¬ chine was lifted and Mrs. Warner dragged from beneath it. They car J ried her into the Southard home.
Dr. William Rhame of Wantagh and Drs. Rumsey and and Van Winkle of Amityville, who were called, saw that Mrs. Warner was injured fatally and hailed a passing automobile driven by Archie Patterson of Hempstead. Mrs. Warner was taken to the Babylon Hos¬ pital.
Warner, who had been badly cut and bruised about the face and body, re¬ fused to be treated until the party reached the hospital.
Mrs. Warner died a few minutes after she was carried into the operat¬ ing room.
The story that Baker told Justice Corodon Norton, acting Coroner of Nassau County, differed from that of Campbell. According to Baker he had safely passed the Campbell machine before the accident occurred. He be¬ lieved that Campbell must have in¬ creased the speed of his jnachine and then after he had caught him from be¬ hind lost control of the steering geier.
Warner is an Englishman, the son of the late Charles Warner, who made a world-wide reputation in the play "Drink." He came to the United States in 1905 and played various parts until he made his reputetion a few years ago as the reformed crook in "Alias Jimmy Valentine."
Mr. Warner is playing in New York in "The Ghost Breaker."
Unclaimed Letters
(Freeport Poit Offics)
Bedell, Miss, Bedell St.
Corbin, John
Colyer, Miss Mary
DuGelleke, Prin.
Dihitrig, Mrs. A.
Gluesing, Mr. H.
Gellatly, Mr. John
Goirlanie, Piertro
Hewitt, Mr. and Mrs. Randolph
Koch, Mrs. A.
Miller, Paul
Murphy, Irene
Pendleton, Frank
Reilly, Mrs. T.
Rorke, Mr. J. F.
Storm, Mrs. G. J.
Sharble, Mr. F. G.
Stevens, Master
Vengroski. Ignaz
Wilson. Mr. M. E.
McQueen, Mr. G.
Robt G. Anderson, P. M. April 21, 1918	
Marriage Licenses
The following marriage licenses have been granted by Town Clerk Gilbert:
April 14—Hart Htirley of Glen Core and Elizabeth M. Smith of Rooeevelt
1?—Harold Boyd of Jamaica luod Ethel L. Bishop of Lawrence.
18—Theo. A. Chihowski and Fran- eiika Selezynska, both of Hempstead.
21—Walter B. Hickox, Woodmere, j and Florenee L. Potter, Hewlett.
ly adjoining the tracks of the Long Island Railroad midway between this village and Baldwin, to the eastward, and though its capacity is 400,000,000 gallons, at present not a single drop of water is stored there, the property having been practically abandoned as a part of the great watershed from which Brooklyn gets its water supply.
The high walls lined with   masonry, the  flood  gates and other   portions of
Clarence A. Edwards  had   a narrow escape yesterday afternoon   when  the
rear axle of his auto   broke, as he was i ^,^. ,        ,       , .   -
driving near the First National Bank , **"" '"a'^mouth undertaking represent building. Fortunately he was going fj™ expenditure of over $5,000,000 by slowly and was not thrown out. **>« '«™«/ ^ity of Brwklyn, and com-
; pose 'vhat  natives of Rockville Centre
At the  last  regular meeting  of the ' familiarly term, "Freel's Folly."   The Village  Board of Trustees the  follow-; vist reservoir  measures  fully  half a
\ng sidewalk applications were grant¬ ed:
J as. E. Rosen, South Bay Ave.
Benj. Fairbrother, 115 N. Bergen PI.
Lillian R. Wood, Miller Avenue.
Chiis E. Gerard, 92 Whaley Street.
Warranty Kealty Co., Seaman Ave.
Gew. GoBselin, Rutland Road. '
Martin Brail, Rutland Road.
Clarence A. Edwards, Ray Street,
Katherine A. McGlynn, Ave. and Archer Street.
Chas. H. Nichols, 47 East Ave.
Marshal C. Smith, Columbus Ave.
Edith R. Sigmond, 119 Graffing'PI.
Martha Neumeister, Hillside Ave. •—'——-—¦
At the Plaza Friday, April 25, "Pauline Cushman—The Federal Spy," in two reels. The most timely, elabor¬ ate and thrilling subject of its nature ever produced. Mammoth battle scenes, thrilling incidents, vivid real¬ ism, historic correctness of detail, spectacular effects, all woven into an absorbing romance in which over 1000 people take part.
  Advertlsamstat
Reports of condition of Rev. Charles Herbert Scholey, pastor of the Presby¬ terian Church, are favorable. While it will be a considerable time before he will fully recover, his physicians are sanguine that his recovery will be so complete that he will return to his con¬ gregation and the people of Freeport, in due time.
Great times are expected at the an¬ nual meeting and banquet of the Free- port Business Men's Association, Inc., which will be held next Tuesday even¬ ing, /l^ril 29, at 8 p. m. at the Crys¬ tal Lake House. Aside from electing officers and enjoying toasts, those pres¬ ent will be entertained by Malcolm Shackleford, of Alonzo Foster's Ly¬ ceum Bureau, with songs, stiories and banjo selections.
f Harry M. Kohn of this village has secured admission to the Mt. Hermon School, Mass. He expects to go from there to a Western university to take up journalism. He will leave Freeport Monday.  .
A cake and apron sale will be held by the Epworth League of the M. E. Church tomorrow, Saturday, afternoon and evening in the vacant store in the Sigmond Theatre Building.
Detective Wm. J. Bums in "The Ex¬ posure of the Land Swindlers," in three reels. Detective Burns person¬ ally appears in the production which vividly portrays the scientific methods of criminal investigation that have made him the greatest sleuth of all times. The story is based on actual experiences in his career. Miss Alice Joyce, Kalem's celebrated leading lady, heads the supporting company, ^^mitted. At the Plaza Tuesday, April 29. '   AdvartlssrasBt
The Neighborhood Workers will en- terUin the Arts Club. W. C. T. U., Home Missionary Societies and any in¬ terested in the social uplift of our vill¬ age, Monday, April 28, at 8 p. m., at the home of Mrs. Fred £ Story. Mfas O'Connor, Social Worker, of Roiekville Centre, will speak.
Vinton Bedell, who has been work¬ ing in the art department at Doable- day Page St, Co., for some time, has se- enred a position in the art department of Zeeae—Wilkinson Co., in New York City.      	
Mrs. Carman and daughter, from Blue Point, have been visiting Mrs. Etta J. Carman, of Brookfyn Avenue.
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mile across and is twice as long, its centre forming the largest amphithe¬ atre in the world.
For four years, between 1890 and 1894, it was under construction, and at is completion proved a complete fail- ore. Water plimpcxl Suttf'tt,'sttp,^ through th» walls'and bc44om and^ood- ed the surrunding country for a radius of half a mile, inundating the railroad Long Beach • tracks which skirt its southern bound¬ ary. After various experimente it was condemned as unsafe for the stor¬ age for water, and has remained a bar¬ ren waste in which the small boys of ths neighborhood find an ample play¬ ground. Plans of turning it into a stadium or race track have been con¬ sidered, and it was rumored that Sulli¬ van and Corbett would fight their championship battle there.
The unused^illbum Reservoir is known as Section 2, of the extension of the old Brooklyn City Water Works east of Rockville Centre. The first plans and specifications were prepared in 1889, and on December 16, of the same year a contract was awarded to Edward Freel, of Brooklyn. The work was begun in the spring of 1890, under the supervision of L. R. Clapp, assist¬ ant chief engineer.
In the preliminary report in 1888, a smaller reservoirat Rockville Centre was proposed, but in 1886, the location of the terminal basin was changed and a large storage reservoir on the plat¬ eau midway between Rockville Centre and Baldwin was recommended. The purpose of this reservoir was to store water for emergencies. It was shown at that time that a number of the sta¬ tions were not obliged to operate con¬ tinuously in order to keep up the sup¬ ply at Ridgewood, and the idea of the storag^'on high ground was to afford a two w three days' supply in the event of a tie-up along the line.
The original plans for the great tank specified that the water face was to be paved from the crest to within ten feet of the bottom with 12-inch stone pav¬ ing, laid on a 12-inch backing of brok¬ en stone and washed gravel. The low¬ er ten feet were to be covered with> concrete. The walls were to be pro- tooted from undermining by heavy pil¬ ing and their elevation, along the wat¬ er line, was given as 47 feet.
In the plans submitted in 1889 the concrete lining of the lower portions of the sides of ^e reservoir was omitted and dry paving substituted. Its thick¬ ness was increased to fifteen inches instead of a foot and the stofflT back was also increased. The plana were submitted by the chief engineer to W. E. Worthen, A. Fetley and Col. Julius W. Adams and approved.^ Work waa begun shortly afterward.
On August 11, 1898, in order to teat the reservoir, 8.8 feet of water were Upon closing the gates it waa found that the water leaked away so fast that the entire reservoir was emptied in twelve days. Rain 0.8 feet deep fell during this period, making the total leakage about 4.1 feet and equivalent to more than 6,000,000 gal¬ lons daily. In test wells nearby the water rose to the flooding point as the reservoir emptied.
On September 8, in the same year, another test was made, six inches of water being pomped in. In two days tbe bottom was dry, the average Isak- i age having been Si million gallons » day. Following this trial the bottom was examined and tbe paddling re- warked with spades. On January 4, 1894. water was again pomped into a height ot 10 inches, eight of wfaieh leaked out in three days or at tbe rate of 8,000,000 gallons daily. At three different times daring Janoaty and W^hnuaj,   1894.   tiiniUr teats
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