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15 NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1900 mrrTTi DTDnnxTT vr i i fit lUV i i JAMESPORT CAMP MEETING A BANK'S LARGE EARNINGS. each other the orchard must be thinned by cutting out the trees to a stand of 40 feet each rARMPRQ CPTQAAAI I RETURN! i ACTOR'S REMINISCENCES GRADE CROSSINGS MUST GO. I nillllLIIU ULI UllinLL IILI Ullll Will Be Held From August 6 to 10, With a Fine Programme. way. This system 01 piauung gives more profitable returns from the earlier years of J.

P. ing 75 to 80 per cent, of the young fruit should be picked off and the practice should be pursued during the subsequent years of the orchard's life. There will then be average yearly crops and no off bearing seasons. As soon as the apples ripen they should be First National of Hempstead Ha3 Nearly Doubled Capital in Seven Years. Keefe, an Old Timer, Talks of the Theatrical Pro fession.

Competition From Southern Market Gardens Has Cut Profits to Small Figures. The Long Island Railroad Company's Contest for Their Elimination. carefully gathered ana put. at once into tne packages in which they are to be sent to market and placed in an even temperature until Jamesport, L. July 28 The Jamesport camp meeting will be held in the grove at this place during the week of August 6 to 10, and a fine programme has been prepared for the occasion.

The grove las been put in first class condition and a large gathering is expected. The cottages around the circle are already open and some of the tents are being placed in position. Mrs. Anne Albertson of Riverhead has a new cottage at the grove this year. The Rev.

w. A. Lay ton of Brooklyn and family are occupying their cottage and expect to keep it open for some weeks after the camp meeting. Other families will do the same. Th fniinwinz is the week programme: A FINE NEW BANKING HOUSE.

EARLY DAYS IN BOSTON. shipped. No portion of the country is better situated for fruit culture than Long Island. With New York on its western end and Boston only SMALL FRUITS OFFER RELIEF. OPPOSITION OF FARM OWNERS.

a few hours distant from its eastern extrem Has Nearly $450,000 on Deposit Lis of Officers Includes Financial Men of High. Standing. ity, it has the oest mantels ar. its commanu; and not only has it the great advantage of quick delivery to them for the benefit of good condition for its products, but also a large savinc in the freight charges inseparable from Barn Storming in New England Fanny Davenport as a Song and Dance Artist. location of Long Island Farms Admirably Adapted for Their Growth.

Over 600 Public Highways to Be Closed and 300 Private Roads A Work to Cost Millions. On Monday, at P. the sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered, followed by prayer aU Conference meetujs On 18,810 feet east of Quogue; Mill lane, 1,305 feet east of Hicksville; South Country road, 16,310 feet east of Quogue; Lawrence street, Flushing, near Bridge street station; Oak view avenue, 950 feet east ofrrFanntusdaie station; Newbridge road, 330 feet west of Hicksville station, and Huntington road, 1,425 leet west of Farmingdale station. A large number of new applications will be presented to the State Railroad Commissioners next fall. Among those cases still to be reported are several in which the Commission has already recommended a change to the overhead or underneath crossing, and engineers of the board are preparing plans for presentation to the railroad and town authorities for the required work in connection with such changes.

In all the cases named above the crossings are dangerous, either because of the highway and tracks, one or both, passing through deep cuts; because of one or both being hidden by steep hills, close to the crossing, or by trees and buildings. The opposition as developed among a number of the property owners to the closing of the crossings and the diversion of traffic to other existing highways was based mainly upon the inconvenience caused to one or half a dozen property owners, without regard to the safety and welfare of the community for several miles about or to the safety of the hundreds of people traveling in the trains. In most of the cases it was only necessary to make a detour of a few rods to reach another crossing to be left open. Where a farm lies on both sides of the crossing the company is obliged to place farm gates at a private crossing, which gates must be kept closed except when the travelers are passing over the track. Thus opposition in such cases is avoided.

The various town highway commissioners and other officials on Long Island, sensitive in the matter of offending voters, almost Invariably have come out at the hearings in opposition to the closing of any highways. The counsel engaged by the individual prop long distance transportation. SHINNECOCK ART SCHOOL. (Special to the Eagle.) Slk. '1 A.

8n Cut in Rev E. Hller of Southold will preacn in the morning, the Rev. George Adams. I'h ot Brooklyn in the afternoon and the Iie a. Layton of Brooklyn In the eveninR.

On Tnursday Patchogue, L. July 28 There is now summering at Patchogue an old actor, in whom the present day stage man must feel more than an ordinary interest. The actor is J. P. Keefe, who for the past forty five vears has been on the stage.

Mr. Keefe can Jamaica, L. July 28 Chairman Cole of the State Railroad Commission says there (Special to the Eagle.) Hempstead. L. July 28 The First National Bank of Htmpstead is the only national bank in Nassau County.

It was organized) early in 1893 with a capital of $50,000 and commenced business March 25 of that year. Although in operation but seven years it has earned a surplus of $33,000 and its undivided) profits are $11,150.85. Its deposits at the last report on Wednes day, July 25, were $445,507.42. It has a fin are over 900 unprotected grade railroad crossings on Long Island, which number includes Daily Work in the Open Air, With Sharp Criticism From Mr. Chase.

both private and public highways crossing railroad tracks at grade. Over 600 these are public highways. This, says the same authority, is a greater number than the grade crossings of any other railroad of the state, Syosset, L. July 28 Long Island vegetable farmers are considerably disheartened by the small profits which attend a large portion of their operations. From their easily worked and fertile soil they have no difficulty in raising large crops of vegetables, but when the time arrives to realize upon them they find that the markets are filled with similar products from the South and that their worth has been reduced to the lowest midsummer values.

The condition has bene steadily working up in, late years through the effects of southern market gardening. The old time profit which Long Island farmers enjoyed before the spread of that enterprise reached its present dimensions has disappeared, and with the low prices their successors are now obliged to accept, the season's work at the North for the most part results in little beyond bare livelihood; and indeed many of the West End vegetable growers are obliged to The Long Island Railroad runs through a (voung peoples day t.w of Orient will preach In the morning, emne it ministers of other denominations will make addresses in the afternoon, and the Rev Dr. L. A. Jordan of Brooklyn will preach the On Friday the Rev.

F. D. Walter of Huntington will preach In the morning, the P.e. I. A.

Mars land of Riverhead In the afternoon and the Rev. Dr. L. Poulson of Corona in the evening. Ine preaching services will be at 10:30 A .1 P.

M. and 8 M. Praver meetings will be held dallv a' 'O i and 1:50 P. and young peoples meeting" at' 7 P. M.

The Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Lavton.

assisted by a volunteer choir will conduct the singing. On Thursday Christian En deavorers and Epworth Leaguers are expected to be present in large number. REPAIRINgTqUEENS SCHOOLS. thickly populated region, in a section extend truly be called one of the landmarks of the American stage, as he has had an experience that rarely falls to the lot of the average actor, of having played with every prominent actor of the American stage since 1S35. Mr.

Keefe is full of reminiscences, and in reply to the Eagle reporter's request for an audience readily fell into reminiscences of his experiences before footlights. "To begin with," said Mr. Keefe, "I became stage struck when I was a lad of 12, and I have been on the stage ever since, and I feel almost as young now as then. I began as a super in a stock company, embracing the first opportunity that came to me in my native town of Boston, Mass. It was the romantic Scotch drama.

'Rob which was playing at the Boston Theater. I shall never forget the feelings I experienced upon entering the stage door, and meeting the old back door tender, as he was then called. This particular personage, at this ing fifteen miles out from Long Island City and Flatbush avenue, Brooklyn, and passes through a chain of villages extending from Jamaica to Easthampton, on the south sid6 of the Island, and to Port Jefferson on the north side. This entire country is traversed Shinnecock Hills, July 2S Although the school was advertised to open on June 1 of this year, and although the studios, the Porter Cottego and a few of the other cottages in the Art Village were opened on that date, yet the term can hardly be said to have begun until July 2, when Mr. Chase arrived and gave his first public criticism.

What with his studio work, bis classes in New York in winter and at Shinnecock in summer, the artist was suffering from overwork and went abroad on June 1 for rest and recuperation. During June the studios were in the care of his assistant manager. C. P. Townley, and the students employed the time in preparing work for the first criticism.

The number of students enrolled this year is larger than Placed in confess that they would now be better off had they confined their operations to raising their erstwhile profitable crops, simply Fire Alarm. Is to Be Every School House. sufficient for the subsistence of their fami lies. From this state of affairs it is evident that some change in character of cultivation must be adopted by Long Islanders and the most promising that now presents itself is tne sun time, was a stern old tenow, namea iveiiy. He would mark us supers on his note book as we came in.

and never an opportunity was given us to slip by him without our record being taken. Jack Taylor was our drill captain, and he put us through a course of stitution of fruits for vegetables. To be sure ever before, the entnusiasm tuny as great, aim everything points to the most successful season the school has ever known. The student on arriving here finds the methods and manner quite different from that of any other art school ho or she has ever attended. Its chief object is to afford facilities for studying art in the open air.

There are no the South produces fruits as well as vegeta bles, but from the long time necessarily occu piod jn transportation from the larger area of that territory, they must In order to ar rive in salable condition, be gathered beforo they are sufficiently ripened to possess tne palatable flavor and wholesomeness nature requirements xor auuuiuu tu nuj classes. Every Monday morning in the studio Mr. Chase holds a public criticism of all work done by the students during the week. These are very interesting, for the master does not hesitate to point out defects, and condemn August Belmont, Flushing, L. July 28 Probably the busiest of all city departments just now is the Department of Buildings of Queens Borough, over which Frank A.

Collins, the deputy superintendent, has jurisdiction. Every school house in the borough is receiving attention and undergoing thorough renovation preparatory to the opening of the schools in September. Workmen are now engaged in every school building in the Third Ward. At the Flushing High School the old composition blackboards in four of the high school rooms are being replaced by fine slate boards and mauy other desirable improvements are being made, not only to the High School, but to the other four buildings as well. For the coming year Superintendent Collins has planned arid prepared specifications for extensive repairs to the yaTds surrounding all the new Flushing buildings.

The grounds, all except in front of the buildings, are to be surrounded bv high, light board fences. The lawns are to be graded and sown with grass seed. Trees and ornamental shrubs are to be plant designs for them. Take, for instance, i lor ida strawberries. Very little do they resemble in color, fragrance, taste and lusciousness the few strawberries grown on Long Island.

It is the same wifch other small fruits, melons and peaches. All must be gathered before they are fit to use, or they would reach New York in a decidedly melting condition. hasty, slovenly, or inartistic wore, wnue even the meritorious he has but scant praise. When all come in for some share of criticism there is little room for heart burnings and the often sharp words of the master are taken in good part. Every morning except Monday a costume mode! poses in the open air free of expense to the students, in some interesting spot, President of the National Bank oi Hempstead.

banking house at 51 Main street, which, with the furniture and fixtures, valued in the report to the state superintendent at $13,500, is a stone and brick, fireproof building and contains safe deposit compartments. A reading and reception room adjoins tho safe deposit vault and a coupon room and all the conveniences of a first class banking establishment. Its officers are: August Belmont, president; Chauncey Bedell, vice president; Carroll F. Norton, cashier; other directors, H. Van Rensselaer Kenedy, Theodore A.

Carman, Fred Ingraham. and Sidney Dillon Ripley, men ot high standing and well known in Manhattan business circles. A special department foe interest is kept by the bank. ed. Graveled driveways will be laid out and concrete walks will be extended across the lawns.

The new building at College Point, occupied onlv last fall, needs but little attention. The lawns have been graded and sown with grass seed. The steam heating apparatus is being overhauled. School No. 28.

on Sixth street, will not be occupied. School No. 29 is now being fitted up for three classes. POLITICS IN SUFFOLK. OLD LAWRENCE STREET CROSSING, FLUSHING.

After the high prices which are obtained for the first of those products from the demand which insists upon having so called luxuries out of season, they fall to figures somewhat low enough to represent their little worth. Very different is it with Long Island berries. From every district of the Island can its products be delivered in New York in from two to five or six hours after they have been gathered. Consequently, all fruit grown there can be left to ripen naturally and in such condition will command remunerative prices and be beneficial instead of detrimental to the health of the consumer. Receivers of produce are ready to make contracts at high figures for such fruit and the few of the Island's horticulturists who are cultivating the proper varieties, shipping only good fruit and using packages which transport it in perfect condition, obtain for strawberries, for instance.

18 to 25 cents per quart. Such values make their cultivation highly profitable and a similar system adopted with other fruits would secure for them correspondingly good results. From the diversified surface and soii of Long Island its territory is adaptable to each of the several fruits belonging to a temperate climate. Berries and other of the small varieties are perhaps the more likely to be successful for the plain lands, although many fine peaches are grown in Hempstead township of this county. For apples, pears and other tree fruits no better conditions could be found than exist in the stronger soils ot this vicinity and the rolling northside lands of Suffolk County.

These fruits are now with the exception of peaches, to the cultivation of which upon a small scale fair attention is being given growing themselves Situation Getting Warmer, With Plenty of Candidates for All the Offices. where there is opportunity to study the figure in connection with the landscape. On Tuesdays a model poses all day in the open air and Mr. Chase personally supervises both figure and landscape work. If the Tuesday should chance to be rainy Mr.

Chase either paints for the students or criticises their work in the studios. These studios are opc daily from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M.

for the use and convenience of students. A portrait class has been formed this summer for those desiring to study portraiture and meets in the studios every afternoon from 2 to There is also a studio sketch class that meets on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. The preparatory class in elementary drawing and painting is taught this year by Miss Alice M. Simpson, who is also in charge of the Porter cottage. On Monday afternoons Mr.

Chase holds a reception at this private studio for the students, which is highly appreciated by them, and on the last Saturday evening of each month he gives an informal talk on art. This summer through the generosity of Mr. William R. Beal a prize of is offered for the best study made by any member of the school for the season of 1900. As to ways and means students do not fin.l the cost burdensome.

Mr. Chase's fees for tuition are $20 a month, or $55 for the session. Board and lodging may be had in the Art Vulage, or in neighboring houses, for from to $8 per week. In the Porter cottage, which is for women only, double rooms with two beds for two persons only may be bad for $8 per week and single rooms for A NEGLECTED GRAVEYARD. erty owners in almost every case refused to make any compromises, and opposed radically the closing of the crossings and diversion of the travel to any other highways.

These difficulties the railroad company has had to contend with in its hearings before the commissioners and in any attempt to arrive at an equitable settlement in the various cases. The company will persist in its policy of having all the crossings possible closed and travel diverted to other existing highways until the applications are allactedupon. In all cases where such applications are denied the commission will undoubtedly upon the application of the company order the highway to be carried under or over the tracks. In carrying out the work the state pays one fourth the expense, the town one fourth and the railroad company, one half. The state appropriated last year only $100, 000 for the work of which Long Island's share J.

P. Keefe, An Old Time Actor Still on the Stage. sprouts in carrying the spear and holding a gun. I was one of the MacGregor clan. "In the year 1S50 I went to the Howard Atheneum.

which was under the management of K. L. Davenport, father of Fanny Davenport. They had in their company such players as Barrett. Dan Setchell.

Frank Harden berg, Josie Orton, Annie Clarke, J. A. Smith, W. L. LeMoyne, Walter Lennox a first class company playing a different bill every night, consisting of tragedy, comedy and a farce, and there was not a man or woman receiving which will occupy it at the opening oi scnooi.

These classes are the overflow from the big building. New floors are being laid and the walls are being retinted. The Whitestone school is receiving but little attention. It is expected the work in the new building will be commenced soon, as the contracts for the building were let last December. The opposition that has been made to the location of the new school house has hindered the operations there somewhat, and nothing can be done until a report is received from the commission now appraising the land and from the Controller.

As soon as the new building is completed the old building will be thoroughly overhauled. Superintendent Collins has already prepared plans for this work. The schools at the Head of the Vleigh. Blackstump. Bay Side and Little Neck, are also receiving attention.

Suneiintendent Collins is making prepara by a network of highways crossing the Long Island Railroad and level with the tracks, and the problem of providing against accidents is such a serious and important matter as to engage the attention of the officers of the road most earnestly for a large portiou of their time. The problem of doing away with accidents at such crossings is not met by providing signs and warning bells, nor yet by gates and flagmen at all prominent crossings. The road already has 543 gatemen and flagmen in its employ at the various protected crossings, but it is said by the officials that there are fully as many accidents at the protected crossings as at the unprotected ones. Many instances are reported where people in sight of an approaching train have rushed their teams under the gates as they were being lowered, in spite of the warning of gate men, and have sometimes been imprisoned between the gates; or where wheelmen have more than $30 a week. Business was so bad that Davenport had to give up the theater.

"The war broke out just about then. I was still a super. Governor Andrew promised a commission to any man who would raise a com nan of 101 men. Lawrence Barrett, who was the leading man. took it upon himself to raise a company.

Of course I enlisted. Le Moyne was first lieutenant, and Stuttering tions to locate a fire alarm box in every school house. The work has been completed in the First Ward, Long Island City, and in several scnools in the Second Ward. Newtown. These boxes wil be placed in all the schools in the Third Ward.

Flushing, shortly. MEMORIAL AT POINT 0' WOODS. John Browne was one of the sergeants. The company was attached to the Twenty eighth Weeds Several Feet High Hide the View of Some Old Graves. Yaphank, L.

July 2S Politics in Suffolk! County are getting warmer as the dog daya approach. All the would be candidates are out on the warpath and some lively times are) the result. William McKinney of Huntington is confN dent that he will land the Republican senatorial nomination. He saye he has the east end solid and will have twelve of thev thirteen; delegates of Huntington Town and will divide the Town of Isiip with Assemblyman Post, who is also seeking the senatorial nomination. To an Eagle reporter Mr.

McKinney said ha believed that there was something in tha French boom for County Clerk and remarked that sometimes slates are broken. Solomon Ketcham of Amityville is slated by the leaders for the nomination. Assemblymon Post is lying quiet on tha political fence just now. His senatorial boom is awaiting developments and his frienda say he will show McKinney a thing or two before the nominations are made. Former Assemblyman Carl S.

Burr of Com mack has denied the report that he is out of the race for the senatorial nomination on tha Republican ticket and says he is strong in the race. With McKinney, Post and Burr fighting for the nomination, it will be certain to be a lively convention. Rumors are rifa that before the race time of making the nominations Burr will withdraw and throw his strength to Poet. Burr and are from Huntington Town, while Post is from Islip. For the Assembly nomination in the Second District Dr.

G. A. Robinson of Sayville seems to have the inside track. Should Post land the senatorial plum. Robinson may not get the Assembly nomination, as the leaders say Islip Town cannot have both nominations.

In that case, unless Mr. McKinney would ba Massachusetts volunteers, ana was Known at the Faugh a Ballah, meaning, Clear the Way. When the company was mustered out a benefit was tendered Barrett, the stirring war drama. 'The Siege of Fort Sumter' being put nn the boards that evening, together with To Be Erected for Margaret Fuller Os soli, Drowned There Fifty one Years Ago. the patriotic Irish drama, 'Robert Flushing, L.

July 28 Probably the most neglected place in Flushing is the old Methodist burying ground, and few persons are aware ot its existence. It is situated on Washington street, bounded by Main, Union and Lincoln streets. The graves are marked off by indentations in the surface and by small marble slabs. Weeds several feet high hide the graves, all of which are now level with the ground. There are only a few tombstones left, and on some of them are carved inscriptions which are moss covered.

There are about 100 graves in all. Many of the Point o' Woods, July 28 At a meeting held here recently, presided over by Mrs. Lillio Devereux Blake, a committee of the prominent women of the place was appointed to receive funds for the erection of a memorial to Margaret Fuller Ossoli, who was drowned off these sands fifty one years ago. In 1S49 the authoress, with her husband. Count d'Ossoli, and her young son, embarked at Genoa, Italy, in a small sailing vessel called the Eliza I didn go to the war because my mauigent parent said I was too young and that I would make a more suitable member of the home guards.

The regiment returned with about twenty men and W. J. Fleming in command. "Just about now I began to think I was in need oE a better position, and wrote to J. C.

Meyers Providence. He replied, offering me $3 a week and my board. I jumped at the chance. I bought a pair of tights, for all actors had to have a pair of tights, russet shoes, hats and feathers, and, in fact, if he could afford it. he furnished everything complete.

My first opening was in the drama 'Time Tries playing as a servant. I soon was promoted to be prompter. Then I began to think my salary was not sufficient to keep up with the boys who attended after the performance at Meyers' saloon, which was beth, bound for New York. In a terrific July storm most unusual on this coast the Eliza performed the same teat, orten witn laiai results. Pedestrians, seized apparently by an uncontrollable impulse, will run around gates to make their way across tracks ahead of a train, saving a second of time at the imminent risk of losing limbs or life.

Not less than a score of such accidents have occurred during the past year. The futility of signs and warning bells and the blowing of the locomotive whistle were plainly shown at the scene of the Valley Stream disaster. In the words of one of the prominent railroad officials, it is the fear of these things that makes the business 1 of railroading on Long Island such a constant care and anxiety. And this in spite of the fact that 513 gatemen are employed at the various protective grade crossings, and warning bells and signs are used at the others, and notwithstanding that the engineers are instructed to whistle at the various crossing signal posts and to keep a sharp lookout at such places. The fastest speed possible cannot be made on the Long Island Railroad until all such crossings are done away with.

Under a recently passed law no new public highway can be laid out across a railroad at grade, and President Baldwin and the other directors and officials of the Long Island Railroad made a start last year under authority of chapter CO of the new railroad law in the work of doing away with ail the existing grade crossings on Long Island. Applications were made to the Stale Railroad Commission to have thirty three grade crossings eliminated. The commission spent two or three days in viewing the crossings and hearing the arguments of property owners in the matter. Of these applications twelve were denied, two private crossings were closed, and farm gates were placed at six others. Division avenue, Patchogue; Smith road, one mile, east of Freeport; Atlantic avenue.

Arverne; Jones avenue, 4,710 feet east of Bellmore: Swamp road, 7,430 feet east of Valley Stream station; Lafayette place, Woodmere, and two crossings of the road from Smithtown to Sunk Meadow were all ordered closed and travel diverted to existing highways by means of new connecting roads. An overhead crossing was ordered tor Trotting Course lane, Town of Newtown, stones have been mutilated by time and the elements. In this place lie the remains of some of the early settlers of Flushing. From its present condition no one would think the burial Inclosure other than a vacant and neglected piece of ground. An Eagle reporter visited the place the other day.

The first tombstone discovered was lying under a cherry tree, in the corner COLD SPRING VALLEY ROAD. The Road Seen on the Right is to be Abandoned and Depressed Under the Tracks This Side ot the Curve. of the plot. It had been erected to the mem on such lands, and this year about every apple and pear tree is loaded with fruit. It ory of Maria Elizabeth, daughter of llham and Elizabeth Stevens, who died July known as What uneer inn.

we am nut have the money it was charged up and most generally it was charged and taken out of our salaries. "While under the Meyers management I played under a number of stars. In those days the stars traveled without a supporting company and were supported by the stock companies in all of the large cities. We had Maggie Mitchell, Barney Williams, Edwin Forrest. Billy Florence.

Joe Proctor and Matilda Heron. We shortly afterward began a barn storming tour of the New England States. Meyers was the first to enter that section. There were no theaters and we had to utilize the public town meeting halls, and many times had to erect our own stage. The The bovs who frequent the place had dragged the stone to the cnerry tree, ana, leaning against the treet it had formed a convenient means of climoms into tne orancnes.

ooine distance away, standing erect, was another is $12 000. This appropriation, it is thought, will be largely Increased next year, on account of the increased demands for underhead and overhead crossings. The company itself is ready to spend large sums to carry out this work, which will probably run up into millions. The cost of these crossings with stone abutments and iron bridges on Long Island varies from $5,000 to $10,000. where advantage can be taken of cuts and fills.

In cases where a very long and substantial approach is re auired over a level country, necessitating in some instances the raising or lowering of the track, and the highway for a considerable distance, the cost may exceed the above mentioned figures. If the work is to proceed with suitable rapidity the state appropriations will have stone, which marked the grave of William Carpenter, son of Samuel and Ann Ellis, who was drowned July 12, 1849, while swimming in Flushing Creek. Here, also, was a stone marking the grave of Almeda. the wife of Joshua West, who died March 6, 1S4S. Mrs.

West was the mother of Joshua West, who lives on Union street. A stone that is almost falling over marks the last resting place of Ellas O. Woodhull. He died April 11, 1S53. This stone contains the only bit of poetry to be seen, and it is as follows: "Friends or physicians could not save This dying body the grave." may be argued that apples are grown in abundance all over the United States.

Nevertheless, large, fair apples so put up that they run of satisfactory size and condition throughout the barrels, ever command remunerative value. Besides, the foreign demand for American apples is large and increasing. It would have been greater at present but for the foolishly dishonest practice of many producers and packers ot putting trash in the centers of barrels topped and bottomed only with good fruit. A guide to the proper system to be pursued in apple culture may be found in tho points set forth in a lecture on "Apple Culture for Profit," delivered before the Horticultural Society of Massachusetts recently, by J. H.

Hale of South Glastonbury, one of America's most advanced horticulturists and a recognized authority. The difference between what Mr. Hale says is necessary and the way in which apples are left to hustle for themselves on Long Island is most pronounced. Mr. Hale's instructions embrace frequent and thorough tillage of the soil of the orchard.

Then the trees must have sufficient space between them to readily admit air and sunlight. They must also be well and intelligently fertilized. Apples need potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen. Lands most suitable to apple orchards, like those of the north side of Long Island, possess naturally enough potash and phosphoric acid and the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF HEMPSTEAD. men memuers or.

tne company mwsfu uut; side of the stage and the women on the other. No audience would permit an actor to appear on the stage in his ordinary clothes, for the people wanted to see tights and spangles. You would not have been patronized if you attempted to appear in the present day stage costumes. We had no grease paints and a little chalk and a nickel's worth of vermillion was the extent of our make up box. I have often seen the actors dig the plaster out of the walls and use a burnt match.

"In 1SG 1 and 1S65 I divided my time between the Howard Atheneum and the Boston Theater, playing at the Howard under the management of Henry Willard. with such melodramatic stars as Joe Proctor, Kate Vance. Helen Western. Kate Fisher, Adah Isaacs Menken and Leo Hudson. It was during that season that McKee Rankin made his first appearance in Boston, and he was actually hissed by the 'boys' in the gallery, in his part of Claude Meinotte.

"Soon afterward followed the original production of 'The Black Fanny Davenport and Kitty Blanchard giving the Cinderella burlesque. It was one of the best companies in Boston. Then came the original production of 'East Lynne," which had a long run. Then came Edwin Adams and Edwin Forrest in all of their plays. Since then I have been with Tom Keene with Haverly in 'Michael Jane Coombs in 'Pique' and Joe Murphy, Marie Wainwright.

W. A. Brady and Stuart Robson in his famous 'Jucklins' playing the General Lumlsford of that piece." In the lSfiO 7 production of "The Black Crook." Fanny Davenport had a song and dance act. In IS61 the far West to the profession was Detroit, and when Mr. Keefe announced his intention of going to Detroit there were dire prophecies as to his ever coming back.

At that time the greatest emotional actress was Charlotte Cushman. Among Mr. Keefe's recollections were the female parts played by Stuart Robson, as Captain Crosstree in "Black eycil Susan" and Tilly Slowbov in "Cricket on the Hearth." When but 10 Keefe played with Edwin Forrest in "The Gladiator," and was wounded on the thumb in one of the duel scenes by Forrest. Mr. Keefe regards Forrest as the greatest actor that ever lived.

STYLE OF BRIDGE TO BE USED FOR UNDERGRADE CROSSINGS ON LONG ISLAND BY STATE RAILROAD COMMISSION. Near the center of the inclosure is a stone lying flat on the ground. The boys have used it frequently as a homo base in playing ball. Only the name "Eliza" can be deciphered. The rest of the inscription is worn away.

Over in the corner, lying flat on the ground is another stone that once marked the grave of David Thorp. The inscription was all gone, excepting the name. It is said that the remains of many people prominent in the early history of Methodism in Flushing, still rest here. This property was purchased by the Methodist congregation in 1822. It is still the property of the local Methodist society, and is under the care of the official board.

The property has never been disposed of, because it would require an act of the Legislature, and to secure this would cost more than the property is worth. The property purchased by the Methodists in 1S22 extended out to Washington street. On it were, erected two buildings, a church building, which stood near the street, and a school house, which stood in the rear. In 1S43. tho congregation decided to move to Main street.

The land, all excepting the graveyard, was afterward sold, as well as the two buildings. The graveyard continued to be used for years afterward, until no more space was left. The schoolhouse was purchased by George Stlllwagon. who moved it to Monroe street. He turned the building into a dwelling house and he still occupies it.

The church building was sold to William Smart, the father of Frederick Smart of Jamaica avenue. For some time after Mr. Smart purchased the building It was used for public and political meetings. There were lively times here during the Know Nothing agitation in the early '50s. Mr.

Smart afterward had the building torn down and used the lumber to build a barn on the Van Bergen property on Jamaica avenue. These buildings were burned down several years ago. plowing unner ot clover and other leguminous crops grown on the orchard land will supply nitrogen necessary to render the potash and phosphoric acid available. Spraying with fungicides and insecticides is necessary for the prevention and extermination of scale, fungus and ir.sect pests and should be done' both in summer and when the trees are dormant. Old orchards should be pruned of dead wood and a portion of smaller new branches.

This would bo judiciously done by being distributed over two or three years to secure satisfactory heads to the trees. All old bark should be scraped off. Every means should be employed for the eradication of sod from the orchard soil and much benefit will result from allowing sheep, swine and poultry the run of the orchard to assist in keeping down insect propagation. When the trees begin to feel tho benefit of good treatment thinning out of the young fruit will be found necessary in order to have better sized apples and yearly yields. In starting a new orchard, the land should be as thoroughly prepared beforehand as when Intended for a vegetable or grain crop and he kept cultivated after the trees are set, during the growing season.

As trees progress all improperly sprouting young shoots must be pinched off as discovered, and the trees keDt beth drove on the outer bar off Point o' Woods. The sea was so high no boat could reach them and after being lashed to the rigging for two days the Countess died. All the passengers were lost, but the crew escaped. The present monument is largely due to the efforts of Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, a summer resident here for the past seven years, who from the first has advocated a memorial to the authoress on the spot nearest to where her sad life came to an end.

It was decided at the meeting that a literary and reading room to be known as the Margaret Fuller Memorial Library would be the most appropriate form that the memorial could take Point o' Woods Association promptly donated a lot. It is thought that authors and publishers will be pleased to donate books, and that the modest sum of $1,000, which it is thought will be sufficient to erect the needed building, will be contributed by friends of the authoress and of literature. COLORED CAMP MEETING. Moriches, L. July 2S An old fashioned colored camp meeting is to be held at the grove of Hamilton Robinson on August 18 and will continue for ten days.

A watermelon festival will be one of the opening features. The Rev. S. H. V.

Gumbs, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church, for which church the meeting is to bo held, is in charge. Regular services will ibe held every afternoon, and on Sunday morning, afternoon and evening.

willing to accept the Assembly nomination, which is unlikely, the Assembly nomination may go to Smithtown, or a choice from Babylon Town. Among the Democrats the general opinion is that Senator Havens should be renominated. Supervisor Smith of Smithtown is mentioned as a likely candidate by the Democrats for the Assembly in the Second District. In the First Assembly District Assemblyman Joseph N. Hallock will be given another chance for a third term by the Republicans.

The district is so hopelessly Republican that the Democrats will have hard work to find a candidate to run, especially with the load of Bryan and silver at the head of the ticket, which fact will also hurt any Democrat who tries for the county clerkship or any other office in the county. TOURING ON BICYCLES. Whitestone, L. July 28 Mrs. A.

O. Griffin and Mrs. J. C. Wallace of this placa are touring awheel up the state.

They rode from Albany to Lake George, stopping at Saratoga Springs, Glens Falls and Easton. Mrs. Griffin writes that the roads are not up to the Long Island standard, but there ar miles of very good cycle paths. SAIL POSTPONED. Freeport, L.

July 28 The Freeport Band has decided to postpone its moonlight sail, set for August 7. to the 8th. Four large lattBchea have been chartered for the occasion. to be largely increased. Massachusetts has appropriated several millions for the abolishment of grade crossings in that state.

SUMMER AT MILLER PLACE. Miller Place, July 28 The boat of the Working Girls' Club again floats on Willow Lake, to the great delight of the small boys. Holiday House and Holiday Harbor opened at tho usual time, and have thoir full complement of guests. Barn entertainments are given every Friday evening. The girls were assisted by the young men from Camp Hege man lust Friday evening in entertaining the ponple of this and nearby villages.

A cake walk and clog dance were features that elic near Forest Park, 100 feet east of the present grade crossing. Two underneath crossings were ordered, each twenty two feet in width, at Butler lane and North Sea road, Southampton, and these have been completed in accordanco with the plans prepared by the Commissioners. A warning bell has been placed at Fifth street, Brentwood. This year application was made in the matters of closing forty six crossings. The Railroad Commi'ssion spent, a week in going over the route viewing the situation of the crossing, listening to the sworn testimony of 240 properly owners of the localities alfected and in talking with a thousand different Individuals concerning tho desirability of a change in tho crossings.

Twenty one of the applications have been acted upon thu far. Twelve havo been denied. The following have been ordered to ho ited repeated rounds of applause. The music osed and travel diverted to existing high headed low to facilitate spraying. Long keeping winter varieties of apples should be mostly selected, though there is good demand for choice early season red apples.

The trees should be set twenty feet apart each way. In later years when, the branches grow to touch ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. Hollis. L. July 28 The engagement Is announced of Miss May, daughter of Samuel Durland.

of Sagamore avenue, and Henry Brower of Brooklyn. and dancing were enjoyed by all. An entertainment will bo given at the Hotel Arverne on Wednesday night for the benefit of the Hebrew Infant Asylum of Now York. Isidore Wllmurk will bo director. ways: trip Willis lane, syossot, uaitoviow avenue, iou Mr.

Houghton contemplates a business to England, his former home. east of Springfield; Pine Neck road,.