The Unofficial Ne^vspaper of Nassau County
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VOL 1 NO. 40
FREEPORT, NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 24, 1914
PRICE THREE CENTS
TOREDISTRiaiOWN ON NEXT MONDAY
EAST ROCKAWAY'S FOURTH OF JULY
District Committeemen Of All
Partiei Invited to Take Part
In Diicussion
BOARD WILL HEAR ANY SUGGESTIONS
Gilbert, EiProgressive Leader, Pro¬ test* Before Tuesday's Meeting— Should Consult Politicians
Wben the Town Board meets lo •onslder the reapporlloning of the •lection dlstrtcts of Hempstead Town¬ ship, Id compMance velth the new elec¬ tion law on next Monday aflernoon, the inemt^ers of the town coiuuiitti*ea of the several political parties will be
Baseball Came With Lynbrook Civics and Patriotic Exercises
In connection with the Independeno; Day celebration at East Rockaway baseball teams representing tbe Civic Association will cross bats with the Lynbrook Civic Club at three o'clock In the afternoon. That the game will he lively goes without saying. Both associations hae among their members some real "baiters who have mado their presence known on baseball dia¬ monds and In civic forum. The ganif; will be played on the Civic i'ark grounds.
Although the baseball match will be a feature of the day's observance. It is ph.nned to Include in the program ri the day patriotic txercl.scs In whicii ithe school children and sevt-ral prom Inent speakers will take part. Thcrc- wlll bo a flag raising at the ICvlc A.s¬ sociation and flreworku at night. Dur¬ ing the afternoon Coah Ulrlch, ot th^' recent minstrel show will be present ed with a gift from the association.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF NASSAU COUHTY COURT H0USEt'J^'2J[^,'^, AS IT WILL LOOK WHEN ADDITIONS ARE COMPLETED
Guest Day at Rockville Centre Club First Authentic Picture of Building, on the second floor of this building
present and take part In the discus¬ sions. The meeting will be called at ' CIVIC CLUB HOLD ANNUAL MEETING | ], 1.30 o'clock. NotlflcaUons have been sent to the various politicians.
The decision of the Town oBard to accept suggestions from the members o folher than Republicans Is doubtles:; due to the protest of Frederick H. Ollbert, formerly chairman of the
County Judge Neimann Fixes
Rate In Case of Miss Raynor
Against Traction Co.
^CONSTRUES AU FRANCHISES ALIKE
, Decision Affects Entir* Route along I South Side of County To i City Lini
Prominent Speakers Heard
The Rockyllle Centre Civic Club
held tbeir annual meeting recently la |
the Auditorium of the Rockville Cen- j
tre Club on Lincoln avenue, it waa |
Progressive Town Committee in also guest day and oer three hundred i
Made From Architect Tubby's
persana were present and hard a well arranged and excellent program.
The speakers were Mrs. Eugene (Irand, president of New York State Federation of Women's Clubs, and Mrs. K. F. Griffiths, chairman of the Reciprocity Bureau. Mrs. S. W. Con¬ ner was chosen prepldent; Mrs. C. VV.
L.
Hempstead, at their meeting yester¬ day afternoon. Following Mr. vJll- berl's address to tbe members, a res¬ olution was passed calling the special meeting and designating Us purpo'^e.
Hr. Gilbert slated that he came io the meeting in the Interest of the Pro¬ gressive Party, ,^nd suggested that in
fairness to all ^tilltical interests In tho I'lnkham, vice president; Mrs. \V township, the leaders and committee-, Merry, recording secretary; Mrs. S men should be preeent. He called at- , W. Glfford, corresponding secretary, tentlon to the fact that the Town of and Mrs. William Benedict, treasurer. North Hempstead had adopted a qlm- j The musical and literary program ilarilar plan which had worked out | consisted of soprano solos by Miss satisfactorily. | Frances Haggerty; reading by Mis.s
"If your board adopts this sugg3s- Whittemore; piano solos by C. Poller tion there is no Question but that tho ^ and violin solos by .D. Kohlen. The reapportionment w!U be Btrlctly on afternoon closed with refreshments the level, he said In substance, "I do and a social hour, not believe that the Town Boar.l j
should consUtute Itself into a PoH"" JISS CHILD IS PAINFULLY INJURED
cal party to redlstrlct the town from
a partisan standpoint"
In answer to Mr. Gilbert, Superviv, Freeport Charity Worker Under or Uiram R. Smith said that it wan Physician's Care at Brookhaven the intention of the Toown Board to j , For a week Miss Helen Child, who hold a general meeting and invite the '^s been Intimately associated with committeemen from al Iparties in thu ' charity work In Freeport for the pas: districts affected. two years, has been under the care of
"The Progressives have never been Dr. A. Baldwin, of Brookhaven, L. I. notified of such an arrangement,' sail ^ suffering from Injuries she received Mr. Gilbert. by an automobile in that village. Miss
Justice of the Peace Walter R. Jones '¦ Child was on the way to the railroad of Hempstead and the Progressive station to take a train for Maryland chairman discussd the advisability of where she expected to spend the sum including all the committeemen of the ' mer when the accident occurred. township In the dlscuslons.., It was She was picked up by the driver of suggested that tho chairman' of the i the car and taken to the physlclan'r, several town committees might ac i home where she has been under trea',- for their respective parties. But Su-' ment since. Her injury, while not ser- pervlsor Smith declared than any tax- j lous, has been extremely painful. She. payer might take pert In the meeting j was badly bruised about the body and and offer suggestions. He said tha'.' limbs.
I It Is expected that she will start on her vacation journey some tinu' this week.
Was Saved By Elimination of Gingerbread Construction
j When the two adidllons to the Min- j eola Courthouse are completed early I In the coming year, Nassau County j will possess probably the most com¬ plete county building- In the State I outside the Greater City of New York. The wings upon which work has al¬ ready begun win ocupy sit.'is to the north aud south of the present court¬ house, connecting with It by arcades. The plans have already been approv¬ ed by the Board of Supervisors and a bond issue of |275,000 has been au¬ thorized for the construction.
The wings will be about sixty feet from the present courthouse and oc¬ cupy a ground space of sixty feet by eighty-three feet. In th south annex
the meeting would be public.
Following th edlBcussions of the re districting of the town, routine busi¬ ness was taken up. A petition signed by a dozen residents of Lakewood Park, aBldwin, protesting against c^r- Uiln obstructions in Brooklyn avenue, alleged to have been placed there by Francis aGlely, was presenld. Tho petitioners asserted that the strc^ot hnd been a public highway for twon-
On the second floor of the niian
building the present Supreme Court
will be used as a court room for th«
Surrogate and County Judge. The
Surrogate's office will be transferred
to the rooms now occupied by the
Grand Jury and District Attorney. The contracts for the two additions
to the present courthouse were
awarded at a special meeting of the
Board of Suprvlsors on Tueslay, Ma.v
12, and the financing of the work plac¬ ed In the hands of the law flrm cf tions will have their quarters. Tlir-| jjawjkns, Dalefield & Longfellow, of Commislsoner of Jurori and several'20 Exchange place, Manhattan, who. 1 h ir
unassigned roomes are provided the. 'Ipaaawf on the validity of the proceed j^ original buiidmg. also. The basement will be utlllzid ings. The entire \^ork will cost con- When Hiram R. Smith assumed of¬ fer the atorag of ballot boxes and p * slderably less thaa was originally ex- - fice as supervisor of the Town cf i)t;s, Kpate uiin.i; jjunidi'd for e.xua peeted, the bond Issue to cover the Henipslead, he at once revived th«; janitor's quarters and boiler room. Un j construction being ?275,000, i project of addition'; to the courthouse.
The additions will harmonize with , It was moie than ever apparent that
the general architecture of the mair, office space for tne housing of coimty
the Graud Jury rooms wllh lob¬ bies and lavatories^ for ^each, three Plans—Arrangement of County rooms for the District Attorney and
.'one Woman's room, wilh lavato'ry ac- Offices-How Enormous Expense ' ^^^jj^odatlons. In the basement un¬ der one of the courts, will be a lan;-;' meeting room, two extra jury rooms, ,1 lunch room, janitor, boiler and fnn rooms.
lu the north building the entire fli. r. floor will be occupied by the County Clork and above it t'le oBard of Eltv-
-Manhattan, was awarded the contriC for the heating and ventilating at $10,- J)80 and the electrical contract wenr to the Commercial oCnstruction Com¬ pany, of 8 Bridge street, Manhattan their bid* being ?3,S23.
The additions to the courthouse hav • been under consid'ii ation by the Boa d of Supervisois for sOmo seven years. Originally elaborale plans were made aud Iho cost of tiie construction nn'. at about |400,t»t>0. These plans, pro- pared at a cost of some 120,000, are still mouldering In the masement of
.lir t.vitU of tbe aicades leading from thc main building will be passage way-- connecting wllh tho wings.
Under the new arrangement, the County Clerk and cne of the small.*: rooms will be used as a telephone cen¬ tral office. The room adjoining th.> present chambers of the Board of Su¬ pervisors will be occupied by tlie su¬ pervisors as a private office. Tb :
on the flrst floor, the court rooms o'I Comptroller will occupy the offices
the Supreme Couit, the justice's li¬ braries, two judic'al chambers ani lav¬ atories Supreme Court Clerk's, law¬ yer's and witness offices will be lo¬ cated.
vacated by the County Treasurer and the present private office of the treas¬ urer will bcome tne "Prss" room. The comptroller's offices will be given ov¬ er to the use of the Shrlff.
building. There was little rivalry among the bidders for the contract covering the whole construction. Th.- Libman oCnstruction Company, of ISO West Forty-sixth street, Manhattan, was some $12,000 below Its neare'it competitor. The ccntract was award¬ ed lo them in the sum of $136,880, and arrangements made to begin the work at once.
The Wells & Newton Company, of 292 avenue B, Manhattan, received the (¦ontracl for the plumbin at $10,855, James H. Merrlt, of 48 Cliff Streel,
officials was essential. Many of them were occupying offices in other build¬ ings. The subject under discussion but a short time. Largely through the initiative of Mr. Smith the great cost of addition was reduced to a minimum by the tliminalion of gi.i
.'Ve decision reudeied by County .ludge James P. Nieman, in the Coun- tj Court on Monday will effect tb-i <'Uilru fare zone between Mineola and the City Line on tbe division includ¬ ing th villages of Hempstead, Itoone- >elt, Freeport, Oceanside, Baldwm, Rockville Cenire, Lynbrook and Vil. ley Stream.
The acUon was that of Lucy Ray nor, of Baldwin, brought through her counsel, ex-Judge i^lvlu N. Edwards, of Freeport, against the New York aud Long Island Traction Company. as a test case lor the purpose of con¬ struing the friuichise vsest of Freeport, the claim beiuj; made ihat the Hemp¬ stead fninchlse bhould be construjd upou the same batjis as tbe Fr«ep9rl Iranchlse.
Uu September J, 1914, jMisBjRayaol^ who was employed in the publishing housu of Doubleday Page and Com¬ pany al Garden Cll}, ^^aB a passenger ou one of the Company's cars. She paid a fare of ten cents, telling the conductor she wished to go to tk« Garden iCty publishing house. Un th* arrival of the car at porrles Corner. tbe extreme northerly limits of Hemp¬ stead village, the passengers wer* told by four inspctors that an addi¬ tional fare of live cents would be ex¬ acted from those who wished to go tu Doubleday Page's, a distance ot lif¬ teen hundred feet. All the passengers either paid tho extra foie or left lh? car voluntarily with the exception of Miss iiay nor. She insisted that she
perbread construction. The plans or ' '^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ '"'^^'^ '<* '"^'^^ ^^ ^^^ <*""¦
W. B. Tubby, of Fullon sireet, Manhat¬ tan, were fmnlly accepted. The ttc~ cornpanylng picture of the cumpletf • building, the flrst of its ind over pub¬ lished, is made from a prospective drawing of Mr. Tubby's plans.
MRANDMRSCARRAGAN HONEYMOONING IN DIXIE
TENNIS CLUB ORGANIZING AT BALDWIN: VOTING MACHINES FOR HEMPSTEAD?
Former Rockville Centre Belle and
Brooklyn Man Were Wedded
on Wednesday
Arrested By Sheriff Pettit William (::ollln, ,1 bartender in Free port, regulated traffic on Saturday an.l ty-one years and wished it to be kep*. j might have been engaged in tliat pa>- open. They asked that the board give ! tlnio for a longer time had 11 not beeo tto« petition their prompt attention, I for the arrival of Stephen P. Pefit. Supervisor Smith for the board slat- who rudely Interrupted his program. •d that the matter was already in tho Collin voluntarily took the place of
Somewhere south of the Mason and Dixon line, Mr. aud Mrs. Sidney Bu¬ chanan Carragan, the former 01' Brooklyn and the latter of Rockville Cenire, aie spending the first days ot a June wedding journey in the roman tic atmosphere of Di.\ie land. They
'*^'^re married at the home of Mr. and i regulation tennis play ground, hant"
[Mrs. James Frederick While, In Rock-: bail courls and all tlie features of :i Voluntarily Took Officer's Place—.^ille Centie, last Wednesday. Theijr^neral athletio fleld. There are al
ceiemony was perfornid by tho Rev. j^,eady a uumber of applicants for th,'
HOW COLUN REGULATED THE TitAFHC!
Ideal Courts To Be Located In Harbor Section
Following the example of its sister villages of Freeport and Rockvllh j Centre, Baldwin will soon have som*' I Unely laid out tennis courts and opoi' I to the public the opportunity to be¬ come membera of a forming tenni.^ club. The new courts will be sltuat- 1 ed in the Baldwin Harbor develop¬ ment in thc southern section of th-? : village.
j Tlie site of the courts will probably ' I be near one of the recently dredged i canals. They will Include beside lot I
Town Board Considers Offerto In¬ stall Ihem on Easy Terms
An interesting proposition from the U. S. Standard Voling Machine Co., offering to instal voting maehln'« diiougnout tne Hempaieao icwn.suip, at a cost of $600 apiece, has been rw- c Ived by the town board. The ma¬ chines may be paid for from the sav-
DR. HAMMOND'S NARROW ESCAPE IN CDLUSION
D. Herbert O'Dowd, rector of the Church of the Ascension.
The ample parlors of the \Vlilt'.i home were profusely decorated wllh spring flowers, the yellow and while predominating. It was a daisy wed¬ ding. Mrs. Carragan, who was for-
new club and Georf^e T. Meech, Is re¬ ceiving oihers almost dally. Applica¬ tions sliould be lui'.de to him.
S. ABRAMS MADE A CLEAN SWEEP
tuinds of Jeremiah Wood, of counsel | Traffic Officer C. T. Van Riper, who ^ "lerly Miss Ella Seaman, was attend-
to the board who had brought It to was called from hl^ post to make an thfl attention of Glrdell V. Brower, • arrest.
Superintendent of I'onds and Conduits lor the City of New York. He stated that there would be no delay in ad¬ justing the differences between thc poplo of Baldwin.
Bids for the construction of the now ¦teel and concrete bridge over Pow- •I'a Creek, Oceanslde, were opened. Th Hurrel oCnstruction and Contract- lug Company bid fi,184; K. H. Payne CODitructlon, of Baldwin, $1,485; Le¬ on M. Stark, ot Valley Stream, $1,375, Mott BedeU. of Lynbrook, $1,620; U. H. Brown, of Hempstead. $1,400. Be¬ fore the opening ot tbe bids, Mr. Payne said tbat hla company was one of tbe bidden and he thought tbat tbo •uccessful bidder should put up a t>ond guaranteeing tbe work for at leas- five years as some of tbe bridges had be«n washed away a short time after they had been built Justice Jone4 •iked if a certifled check had aecoxu- (OwiKhimw! •» 9M» ^>
Although Collin was not exactly clear headed, he performed his duty without a hitch. A number of cara stopped at his signal and were per¬ mitted to proceed slowly across the trolley tracks. There was no confu¬ sion during tho time he was there.
Whn Sheriff Pettit came along, how¬ ever, he recognized at once that 'ue flgure of Collin was strange, and that he was not entirely sober. So he stop¬ ped his car and took Collin in as a passenger. The bartender was brought to Police Headquarters where be was arraigned before Police Jn-*- tlce Clinton M. Flint and dismissed.
ed by Miss Dorothy Kirkman, of Brooklyn as maid of honor, and Les¬ ter Carragan, a brother of the groom acted gs best man. Tlie couple were united before an altar of flowers.
The bride carried a shower bou- QUt of orchids and lilies of the valley and sweet peas and the maid of hon¬ or wore a bouquet of yellow roses.
But Brooo^s Were Restored to Rein hardt After Court Scene "A clean sweep for Oceanslde," sai 1 Sidney Abrams, of Terrell avenue. Oceanslde, carrying a bundle of brooms on his back, making his way down Lincoln avenue, Rockville Cen¬ tre at nine o'clock on Saturday night. Just then the bulky form of OfficPi' John Kircher appeared on the spo
ing. No action was taken at Monday'^ meeting.
Clerk Glib, rl read a communication from the Slate Hiu'hway Comnilssioa- or concerning fttuli roads. It stated that the specifications of the Baldwin ntid Oceanslde road called for a cou- «iele surface of I'j feet wide. If thf town autliorillep demanded a wider Kiace It would have te be at the ex¬ pense of the town The Stale pa.vs; (i'o per <'ent and tho county 35 per cent ot !n» cost (bf improving the highways.
Following the ceremony a collafloa ' and arrested him on tbe complaint vt
was served, and ai the conclusion of a brief reception the bridal coupl* de¬ parted.
W'hile tbe large auto truck of Job*: Shea of Manhattan, was delivering .1 load ot meat to the Nassau Market Village avenue, Rockville Centre, yes¬ terday momlng it crashed into one of the Iron lamp posts breaking oae BiHmiiAAaii
.French Club on Moonlight Sal* The members of the French Club of the Freeport High School, and about thirty of their friends were partici¬ pants in perhaps the first moonlight sail of the season on Saturday night. The party left the Woodcleft dock at 5 o'clock, sailing to Point Looko'it where supper was served on tbe beacn. A gmae of ball in tbe twilight was a feature. Following the repast the youas lott taMad at ttia baaeb p*-
William Relnhardt, who Identified tho brooms as his property and said the/ had been taken from the side walk In front of hla store on the Merrick road about ten minutes before.
With Abrams was Bertha Hendrick¬ son and her brothsr, Wilbur, of Ocean- side. The trio was taken before Po¬ lice Jnstlce Wright, who, after a se¬ vere lecture repreraanded him. Abrams
His Auto Damaged As It Is Hit By Touring Car In Hemp¬ stead Road
Dr. A. H. Hammond, a well known ing over the present system of vot- j dentist of Freeport, had a narrow e.i-
cape from perhaps serious injury oi fatality on Saturday night when an Overland touring car, owned by Johi; Ivlelner, of Ilambuig avenue, Brook¬ lyn, collided with Ihe maciilne in which he was driving, with another on the Iienipstead road a thort distance from the Hicksville road, it it believed that the drivers of either machine were blinded by tlie strong lights of tho other.
According to Dr. Hammond be waj traveling south at about twenty-flve I miles an hour. Kleiner, accompanied j by his brother was moving north at a speed estimated at more than forty 1 miles. The road at the point where th cars mot is about twenty feet wid3 ;
Dr. Hammond waa driving at the extreme right aad Klelnert was well ' to the left, but apparently fearing a j ditch Bteerd Into th center. The cars ; etruck each other glancing blows. Dr. ;
Kornout Off to Visit Fatherland Hugo Korngut, formerly associated with the Freeport Tailors, will start tomorrow on the S. S. Pennsylvania of the Hamburg-Anieiican line for Ham- burj:, Germany. He will travel over¬ land from that seaport to Budapest. Iluiipary, where he will visit his nioth- ei, -Mrs. Sadie Korngut, who Is a res¬ ident 9f that city. Thla Is Korngut'.' first visit to Fatherland in thirteen yeara. He will remain about three months, returning lo iVeeport, he will Hammond's car war partially wrecked i that I cannot evidence my gratitude
lination for the ten cents. Tbe Ut- speciors removed her from the car.
At the trial it was ahown that shv.> had been bruised about the shoulders aud neck. It was conceded that no unnecessary force was used, however, the assumption being that the com¬ pany had a right to do it.
On Monday Judge Nieman handed down a decision covering thirt'j'jn pages, upholding Mr. Edwards contou- tlon and awarding Lucy Raynor $500 damages.
This Is the third victory for the peo¬ ple In which Judrje Edwards has fig¬ ured. The original action in bis own name decided by the Public Service CommisBlon in 1909, was bis first case. The second was brought by his flrm, Edwards aud Levy, Freeport, to glvo the people of Roosevelt, mostly the employees of Doubleday, Page aud Conipany, a flve cent fare to Garden City. The decision on Monday means a flve cent car fare for five miles in the future, for the people of Baldwin, aud affects the whole system.
In an interview with a representa¬ tive of the "Nassaii Post" on Tuesday, Ml. Edward.'i said, "tlie Traction Com¬ pany complains of the harshness of this franchise, but they cannot be heard to complain of its terms because they accepted Its Leneflts and condl- tlons and should live up to them."
It is likely that the Trolley companr will appeal from the decision.
Appreciates Work of Firemen To the Editor of The Nassau Post:
I desire to take this opportunity of expressing my hearty appreciation of tbe efficient and painstaldng efforts of tbe flremen of Freeport at the re¬ cent destruction of my property on Brooklyn avenue. They are courage¬ ous men, all of thep, I only regret
engage In business.
t
Post Qraduate Class at Frstport High When the flrst class is graduatid
from the Freeport Training School In
January, it is probable that amon^
them will be a number of studenti
who are completing tbeir high school
courses this month. It is planned tnat who had been drinking, said that he ' if there are enough of the graduate* f^ees will result from the accident un- had taken the brooms for a Joke and | that are willing to carry over into thc less there is a settlement meanwbll.^ intended to walk around the block and \ tail term, a class will be made up. Al- The Freeport dntlst claims ^hat he was bring them back to the store. He also j ready a number luive signified their ', h't while on the right side of the road claimed an intimate acquaintance with | intention of spending tke extra sli I <^d that Klelucrt was out of hU Belmbardt^ TMa BaiUftardt da»M. | awatf^ •> aakaal jcoors*.
and the touring car damaged. Tho colllBion broke the steering gear the larger machine and It swerved to the side of the road, turned complete¬ ly about and back'3d through a ditch Into a corn field, more than a hundrel feet from the point where the colllsioa occurred. 'Mo one was hurt.
It Is probable that a suit for dam-
in a more eubstantial way.
Very truly youra, Oeorge- Howard Randall
Missionary Society's Latt Meetlni The last meeting of the Womaa'e Foreign Missionary Society of the Baldwin M. E. Cburcb, before the cus¬ tomary adjournment for the summer, waa held on Friday afternoon In the church cbapeL Tbe musical program was excellent Yearly and monthly reports of officera were read and ac cepted. FoUowlng the buaineaa mae*^ Inc. ralraahBants vara MrraA.
