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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. STEW TQKK, SATXJRDAY, OCTOBEK 6, 1900. IS HUNTINGTON'S GALLOWS HILL. TRAVELED WITH STANLEY. 111 OFFICERS' DUTIES DREDGING PECONIC BAY ISLAND'S WOMEN'S CLUBS READY FOR WINTER IHORK GOOO YIELD THIS YEAR OF ISLAND PEACH TREES.

a scallop shop of his own, and there he carries his catch at the end of his day's scalloping. In the afternoon and evening the scallops are opened. They are shipped to market on the early morning train on the Long Island Railroad. Opening scallops is very much of a frolic sometimes that is, when a party of young folks are engaged at it. Many of the young men and young women of New Suffolk are among the openers, and while they are separating the eatable part from the shell they make the" scallop shops ring with laughter and song.

This is particularly so when some musical youth comes in with his banjo, guitar or violin. Winter nights, when a glowing lire heats thie little scallop shop, singing and playing are much indulged in. At one side of each scallop shop is a long, high table, at which the openers stand or sit on high stools. In front of each opener a square hole is cut in the table. Under this hole is a barrel.

At the right a wooden box rests on the table. On the left hand is a pile of scallops. The opener takes a scallop in the left hand, deftly separates the shells with a knife held in the right, and before an observer knows what has happened removes the growth, known as the rim, around the heart and flips the latter, which is the eatable part, into the wooden box at the right. The sKls are dropped through the square hole inU he barrel. Some of the openers are so expert that they seem to keep a steady stream of scallops flying into the box.

It takes about a bushel an4 a half or two bushels of scallops to produce a gallon of the opened ones that are sent to market. The openers receive 16 cents a gallon for their work. The price received for scallops in the market varies a great deal. There are times when they bring as high as $2.50 a gallon, and it is not seldom that the figure is as low as 50 cents a gallon. The average price for some time past has been about 75 cents or $1 a gallon.

Out of this the scalloper must pay for opening and shipping his catch, as well as a commission to the merchant How a Suburb of the Village Received Its Uncanny Name. Huntington, L. October 6 That section of this town on the fine plateau just east of the old town site, where, in 1660, the principal portion of the Village of Huntington was located, has been known for generations as Gallows Hill. The old town site, which is a mile east of the post office, is now known as the East End. Gallows Hill is now known as Fort Hill, the change having been made by the residents of that section recently.

Gallows Hill was the name given to the locality way back In the times when the British redcoats baked their bread on the tombstones in the old burying ground of Fort Golgotha. To enforce the new name on the villagers and traveling public, an Immense white signboard, stretching an arm to the east and west, was placed on the brow of the hill, and painted upon it, in letters visible a long way, are the words, "Fort Hill." It seems that in the war times of 1776 a miniature embankment had been thrown up and a small fort erected. There is no mention of it ever having been garrisoned, and it was of so little importance as to remain in obscurity until, in the search for a tiame to supersede the old one, the fact of the existence of the forts was unearthed and the hill named accordingly. But the townspeople generally call it Gallows Hill yet. An old tradition showing how Gallows Hill got Its name comes through James Hart, son of Priest Hart, a noted char acter in the Revolutionary War, and an outspoken patriot in the cause of the Americans.

The good old Presbyterian dominie was arrested for declaring his allegiance to George Washington and his hatred for King George. He was taken to New York and imprisoned. May 28, 1777. His companion in captivity was Colonel Ethan Allen, the famous patriot. Documents in the town clerk's office stare that Hart was taken sick and that "Colonel Ethan Allen kneeled down and made so fervent a prayer by his side, and otherwise cheered him up, that he recovered and was admitted on parole in New York City, October 25.

1777." Priest Hart's tradition was that when the British army had its headquarters on Lloyd's Neck of the two soldiers were found guilty of some flagrant offense and death was the penalty they were sentenced to suffer for their crime. The place where they were hanged was called Gallows Hill, and the name has stuck to It ever since. MARBLES FROM ITALY. Southampton, L. October 6 A large consignment of Italian marbles has been received from Venice at the Art Museum here during the past week.

The collection consists of columns, vases, od. capitals and Venetian wells and a reproduction of the famous lion of St. Marco. Some of the pieces are for inside use and others for exterior decorations. Another consignment is soon expected from Florence.

CANNING FACTORIES Mattituck, L. October 6 Hudson who have a large canning factory in thi3 place, are breaking all tomato records at their factory this year. Some days they put up over ten thousand cans of fine stock, and as soon as the frost put an end to tomatoes will begin work on squash. The factory is a blessing for the farmers in this locality. W.

J. YOUNGS' COUNTRY HOME. Brookhouse Is Located in Oyster Bay on the Road to Sagamore Hill. Oyster Bay, L. October 6 One of the most attractive country seats on Long Island is Brookhouse, at Oyster Bay, the summer home of William J.

Youngs, formerly Dis trict Attorney of Queens County and now secretary to Governor Roosevelt. It is con spicuously located in the summer colony at the cove, on the road to Sagamore Hill, the home of the Governor of the Empire State. The change In this property has been most striking and pleasing. ago an unsightly marsh fronting Brookhaven gTeeted the eye. The old Huntington road ran FOR DAINTY SCALLOPS.

How the Baymen Get the Popular Shell Fish and Prepare Them for Market. ACTIVE DAYS IN NEW SUFFOLK. It "Was in That Little Town in 1857 That Scallop Catching Began in Long Island. (Special to the Eagle.) New Suffolk, L. October 6 These are the days when the sturdy baymen of the east end of Long Island all go scalloping in Peconic Bay.

For a month now they have been supplying the Manhattan and Brooklyn markets with this dainty shell food. Like many of the other products of Long Island, its scallops are easily among the best in this country. They are always in great demand and the city restaurant that is not able to offer a tempting dish of Long Island scallops to a patron Js looked upon as surely behind the times. From September to April scallops are in season, and during that time the East End baymen are never idle except when the bay is frozen over, as sometimes happens in the coldest part of the winter. It was in this little Town of New Suffolk that the scalloping Industry had its origin in Long Island more than forty years ago.

The pioneer scallopers are Captain George I. Tut hill and his brother, Captain Hull Tuthlll, both of whom are still residents of this place. How New Suffolk came to bo a scalloping town is an interesting story as told by Captain George I. Tu thill, who is now SO years old. "It was In 1S57 that the first scallops were caught here," said Oaptain Tuthlll the other day.

"One day a schooner from Norwalk, came in here. After a while she sailed around the bay, and it wasn't long before we saw that she seemed to be dredging for something. Some of us went out to her and found that she was pretty well loaded with scallops. Her captain told us he was going to take his catch to Connecticut and sell it there. It seems they had been catching scallops in Connecticut waters, Lut the captain of thin schooner believed there were scallops in other places, too.

And so while he was making a sort of a prospecting trip he came across a bed of them in the bay right off New Suffolk. Soon after this my brother and I fixed up some old dredges we had and we started out scalloping. We bad pretty good lfick. The Connecticut captain had shown us how to open the scallops and take out the part that's good to oat, and we opened all we had caught and shipped them in a box to a Fulton Market commission merchant. I believe that was the first time scallops were put on sale in Fulton Market.

It seems no one cared to try the new thing, and so in about a week we got a letter from the commission merchant saying he had not been able to sell any of our scallolps, and that all of them had been spoiled. He told us, though, to ship some in the shell. We sent him a barrel that way. These he sold. Then we sent him more.

In this way people in New York began to get acquainted with scallops and. liked them. It wasn't long before we were Bhipping opened scallops as fast as we could catch them and get them ready. Then others beside us went into the business of catching scallops. That's how New Suffolk became the first town in the east end ot Long Island from which scallops were sent to the New York market.

That was in 1857. fortv three years ago. For a long time scallops were caught only out in the bay near here. Later they were discov ered in other places. Tnus scalloping ue came quite an industry down here, and in time manv of the towns on Peconic Bay sent out fleets of scallop boats.

Now from River head to Greenport on both sides or tne Day scallops are sent to market." The activity of tne iew ounoiK uajmm nowadays is typical of that which character izes the other towns on i econic any. daylight in the morning the scallop fleet sets sail from here. Each boat is usually manned by two men, although sometimes one man performs all the duties that fall to the lot jot tne scaiiops. dul ue muai in active citizen. The boats all mane lor a spot where it is known scallops are 10 found When the scallop bed is reached the dredges are thrown out, usually three on a side.

These dredges consist of an Iron triangle, to which is attached a bag made of net When the dredges are cast from the bolt they sink to the bottom of the bay. It is there the scallops rest. Then as the boat sails along slowly, pulling the dredges after it. the scallops are scooped into the net bag part. When It is thought the dredges have been pretty well filled they are hauled in.

Sometimes a dredge may contain nearly a bushel of scallops, and other times it will have in it mere sea weed than anything else. Scallop beds are sometimes quite extensive, a mile or more square in area. The The Interesting of Lewis H. Noe of' Sayville. Sayville, October 6 Few people' are aware that the modest war veteran, Lewis H.

Noe, of Foster avenue, was one of the traveling companions of the famous African explorer, Henry M. Stanley. Mr. Noe formed the acquaintance of the famous explorer during the Civil War. Stan 'A'dH lewis H.

Hoe. ley was ship's clerk on board the United States frigate Minnesota and Mr. Noe was messenger boy to Commodore Joseph Landman. Stanley became attached to young Noe and after the war took him as a traveling companion in foreign countries. During the recent reception to Admiral Dewey at Sayville, Mr.

Noe, while conversing with the Admiral, learned that they were together at the two day 3' bombardment of Fort Fisher. N. during the Civil War. Stanley was also with the Admiral in that particular engagement. While aboard the Minnesota, young Noe gained the position ae first boy, through good behavior, and agility as a climber.

Upon one occasion young Noe climbed to the top of the main topmast of the lofty rigged Minnesota and stood up straight on top of the topmast truck, waving his hat to the several foreign man of war vessels anchored in Fortress Monroe Harbor. One of the meet hazardous feats he ever performed was that of walking across one of the stays leading from the ship's mainmast to the foremast. Of late years Mr. Noe has traveled considerably in the far Western states. He is now permanently settled In his native village.

LIGHT FOB, POET WASHIH'GTOIT. Port Washington, L. October 6 Robert La Porte, an electrician from Tremont, N. visited this village last week for the purpose of establishing an electric light plant. An electric light company was formed here over a year ago, but after getting the franchise they were compelled to let the matter drop as they could not secure the necessary capital.

Mr. La Porte says if he can secure the franchise from the old company he will build a plant and not only light this village, but he will extend the line to Manhasset and Sands Point. AN ARTIST IN SOD. Intricate and Beautiful Designs in Grass Made by a Long Island Railroad Flagman. Flushing, L.

October 6 The beautiful and ingenious designs in gra3s. sodding seen at the Long Island Railroad station In Flushing are the handiwork of Flagman 'Thomas Kelleher. His ornamental flower bed and sod designs are inclosed in a space 80x18 feet. The upper border is a mass of brilliant flowering plants; the sides and lower border are grass. In the center are groups of blooming KELCHER, and Flower Beds.

plants, one between each design. Each year the sod artist arranges new designs, and this year work's has, so far, certainly surpassed all his previous efforts. One of his designs is a beautifully formed star, with bars inside the points representing the flag. Another is a correctly formed anchor, with a rope gracefully and deftly intertwined. The third Is a deer, well formed, with good antlers; the fourth is a full moon, entwined with two crescent moons.

The fifth is a largo heart, with three smaller hearts interlaced, in a very good and unusual design. The sixth and last is the most unique and Ingenious; it represents the recent eclipse of the sun. The sun, moon and earth, and the rays of light forming the eclipse are formed by outlining with sod 2 inches wide; it is a very beautiful and intricate piece of work, which can hardly be realized as being accomplished so perfectly with strips of sodding. Air the work, with he exception of the doer's body, the star points and the eclipsed earth, Is done by outlining with narrow strips of sod, cut with a trowel and knife, laid carefully on a shovel and placed In the position of the designs. The portions not outlined are of solid sod.

All the sod designs are first traced on the smooth earth with a sharp pointed stick, much as an artist sketches out his subject. Some of the more intricate de signs are first made on paper and then sketched on tho ground. Flagman Thomas Kelleher, who has dis played so much talent and taste, is of Irish birth, coming from the town of Ballymacar barry, Clonmel, Ireland. He received suffi cient education to command the three and then became field laborer. Early in llfo working in the capacity of a farm hand, his mechanical Ingenuity began to develop in his quick and dexterous handling of farm tools and rapid work in tho harvest fields.

Coming to America, ho found ho could work at the masons' and carpenters trades easily without learning by apprenticeship. In many other occupations this remarkable gift of me chanics has helped him, without instruction or education. He Is constantly planning new designs for his wonderful bed, and next year will have a railroad car nnd an engine In sod. While being a watchful and faithful flagman, bold lng for several years his present position, he finds time between trains to execute and complete his designs, which are the wonder and admiration of all who see them. CRANBERRIES ON BEACH SAND.

Long Beach, L. October 6 The low olaces In the bench cast of the cottages are being slowly covered with cranberry vines and tho crop of berries this year was very large. One couple, a man and his wife, picked a bushel and a half In a few hours. Tho' discoverers of the cranberry beds have tried In every way to koep a' knowledge of their location from the baymen, but without success and dozens ot cranberry ptckors may be seen on the beach whenever the weather Is favorable. i UNDER THE STATE Li.

Overseers of Highways Must Re turn Their Road Warrants Verified by Affidavit. POINTER FROM UP THE STATE. Official Document From Oneida's Dis trict Attorney That Is Not "Without i 1 .1 (Special to the Eagle.) Ctlca, October 6 It may interest the road officials of Long Island to know that they incur a penalty for not complying with certain sections of the law passed by the last Legislature. The matter is of such importance that the District Attorney of Oneida County has thought proper, to call the attention of the road officials there to their duty and this is the first time in the history of the state that the chief prosecuting officer of a county has given notice to the highway commissioner and overseers of the duties required from them by the law. The principal is new in its application to highway law, but is exactly the same principal used some years past by the Attorney General of the State of New York in notifying all assessors throughout, the state that unless they did their duty steps would be taken to indict them; and in several counties, notably in Westchester indictments were found against assessors.

Following is District Attorney Curtin's letter, which he sent to all the highway commissioners in Oneida county: Highway Commissioner of the Town of My dear sir I inclose a copy of a letter from the secretary of the Oneida County League for Good Roads for your information, and; while it is not strictly within my duty to call the attention of the highway commissioners to the law stated in the letter, yet I believe it is the duty of every citizen, whether holding public office or not, to assist in the benefiting of his community by bringing around a betterment of the highways and the highway system of the state. If you will, therefore, notify your over seers to return, under oath, their road warrants as required by section 6D of the high "way law of the State of New York, notifying them at the same time that failure so to do exposes them to a penalty of $10 fine, also the possibility of being Indicted for a misdemeanor, and further that the verifying of such report in case the facts are not true would constitute perjury. The inattention paid to our highway law for years past requires in all fairness to the highway commissioners and overseers a notice of the demands of the law, and I therefore most cheerfully call your attention to the above and I remain, Respectfully yours, TIMOTHY CURTIN. The information on which the District Attorney acted was furnished him by William Pierrepont White, secretary of the Oneida County League for Good Roads in the following statement: fy 'dear sir I would respectfully beg to call your attention as District Attorney of the County of Oneida to the following matters of fact: First There is throughout this entire county, a desire for the improvement of the highways and a demand for the enforcement of the present law. Second The present system of working the roads known as 'the labor system, has been in operation for upward of one hundred years, without providing us with any permanent roads, and for more than thirty years has been almost a dead letter on our statute books.

The persons charged with the administration of the statute have gradually become unfamiliar with its requirements. Third The demand of our citizens that FLAGMAN An Artist in Sod the statute should be enforced requires In fairness that all parties having charge of the highways should be informed from time to time as to what the law is and what their duties are. Fourth The roads of each town are under the charge of a highway commissioner or commissioners, who appoints overseers in charge of various districts. The highway commissioner sends to each overseer his road warrant with the highway law printed thereon. At the end of the year it is the duty of each overseer of highways to report to one of the commissioners of his town: First The names of all persons assessed to work on the highways in the districts in which he is overseer.

Second The names of all those who have actually worked on the highways and the number of days they have so worked. Third The names of all those from whom penalties have been collected and the amounts thereof. Fourth The names of all those who have commuted and the manner in which the moneys arising from penalties and commutations have been expended by him. Fifth A list of all persons whose names he has returned to the supervisors as having neglected or refused to work out their highway assessment, with the number of days and amount of tax so returned for each person, and a list ot all lands which he has returned to the supervisors for non payment of taxes, the amount of tax on each tract ot land Bo returned, etc. All of the above facts are to be returned to the commissioner of highways in writing ycrlflod by the oath of the overseer.

In but very fow instances In this county are those returns made by tho overseers to the highway commissioner, and where the returns are made they frequently fall to be verified. The law imposes a line of $10 on the overseer for their neglect or refusal to render such account. Section 154 of the penal code provided that wherever any duty 19 or shall be enjoined by law upon any public officer or upon any person holding a public trust or employment, their willful omission to perform such duty where no special provision shall have been made for the punishment of such delinquency, Is punishable as a dlsdcmeanor. Under tho above section, any highway commissioner falling to insist upon his overseer making his return is guilty of a misdemeanor, and the overseer himself is guilty of a misdemeanor in falling to make his return. I respectfully ask that tho attention of all highway commissioners ho called to the above statute, In order that their overseers may bo made acquainted with tho law and avoid tho fines and penalties ns provided.

As Boon as It is understood by the people In general that the responsibilities of an overseer and highway commissioner demand bis imperative' attention to his duties as a state there will be more highway improvements under the present law. Some of Them Already Reorganized, While Others Will Hold Meetings Next Week. 20TH CENTURY THE YOUNGEST. Scope of the Work Laid Out for Its Committees Civic Pride and Village Improvements Promoted There is bustle and activity among the. women's clubs and some of them have al ready reorganized for the season, while a number will have their first meetings next week.

Plans are being made for the winter's studies and for the philanthropic work which forms no inconsiderable part of the duties these Long Island women impose upon themselves. The Twentieth Century Club of Richmond Hill, while one of the youngest, is also one of the largest and most active of all the clubs. Beside meeting regularly as a body for the instruction and amusement of the members, this club has several important sub committees, which meet on regular dates. There is the library committee, which has charge of that part of the club work which pertains to the public library. The club does a great deal toward the library's support and its committee assists the librarian whenever" pressure of work makes it necessary.

"The philanthropic committee looks after the poor of the town, conducts an exchange for the sale of women's work and a bureau of information, which finds work for needy persons, free of charge. The library committee has classes for special studies and literary work. The civic committee works to promote the beauty and healthfulness of the place. Two new committees have been appointed this season, namely, music and art. The club 'meets regularly, on the second Monday in the month, in the afternoon.

The Jamaica Woman's Club is the oldest on Long Island outside of Brooklyn. It meets on the second Wednesday of each month, devoting its time to the study of some special subject. The meetings are held at the home of Mrs. S. L.

Spader, one of Its charter, members. The women who will have charge of the club's workings this season are Mrs. Robert W. Hlgble, president; Mrs. W.

W. Gillen, vice president; Mrs. Annie F. Belknap, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. Emily Manning Smith, M.

Mrs. George K. Meynenand Mrs. Philip M. Wood, trustees.

The Hempstead Woman's Club will "hold its first meeting of the season next Tuesday. The programme for the year's work ha3 not yet been decided on and the first meeting will be more of a reunion after vacation than a business meeting. The Oyster Bay Woman's Club will reorganize on October 18, when words of greeting may be expected from the The club will meet regularly on the first and third Thursday of each month. Its officers for the season are Miss Sarah C. Frye, president; Mrs.

Andrew Snouder, vice president; Miss Julia L. Thurston, secretary and treasurer; Miss Fannie P. Nichols, Miss May Howard and Mrs. Jennie Cheshire, directors. The Huntington Culture Club had Its first meeting of the season last Tuesday.

It Will meet every other week throughout the season and will make a study of the literature, art and music of Italy. The club has twenty members. The Glen Cove Woman's Club will soon resume its sessions and lay out a programme. These officers will direct club affairs during the season Mrs. James R.

Luyster, president; Miss Mary M. Whltson, vice president; Miss. Helen M. Coles, secretary; Mrs. Arthur Sleigh, treasurer.

The Flushing Good Citizenship League la preparing for an pet plan of the league at present is to erect a building ot its own and it has about $2,000 already raised. The league will meet twice a month during the winter. Its meetings are devouted to different subjects, such as education, art, music, science, civics, literature and philanthropy. Its officers for this season are: Miss Eliza Macdonald, president; Annie C. Murray, vice president; Louisa D.

James, recording secretary; G. Isabelle Howells, corresponding secretary; Mary A. Dykes, treasurer; Katherine D. F. Frame and Hattie P.

Logan, directors. The Sea Cliff Good of the Village Auxiliary is an all the year round club, most of its important work being done in the spring and summer. Some of the club members who attended the last federation meeting at Glen Cove, have been planning "ever since to invite the Council of Women's Clubs to meet at Sea Cliff next May. While it is a great undertaking for a young club, the progressive members feel that the benefit to be derived from such a visit would be of great good to the club, and will probably carry their point regarding the invitation. The club work this year is in charge of these officers: Mrs.

W. H. Friday, president; Mrs. A. M.

Brown, vice president; Mrs. W. Oakford. corresponding secretary; Mrs. Helen Combes, recording secretary, and Mrs.

Coles A. Carpenter, treasurer. The Fortnightly Club of Rockville Center resumed its work for the season on Thursday and will meet every other week during, the winter and early spring. There are several other bodies of women whose work Is being resumed with the advent of cooler weather. Among them are the Women's Improvement Societies of Riverhead and Westhampton.

These clubs work almost entirely along the line of village improvement and reform. The Village Improvement Society of Port Jefferson will give a course of five entertainments this season and although not prepared to announce the talent it has fixed the prlco of course tickets at and single tickets at 35 cents. The society has voted to place a retaining wall on the shore property recently acquired from the town. The wall will' be placed twenty feet from the street and the commissioners of highways will bear a portion of tho expense. OFFICERS ELECTED.

Youne People's Society ot Christian Endaavor, Central Presbyterlnn Church. Huntlnston President. Sara Mnyber; vice president. Arthur C. Conklln: secretary.

Miss Nettle Pcnraall; treasurer, Hiram A. Buylls. Youns People's Society of Christian Endeavor, First Presbyterian Church. Iluntlnttton President, Brewster O. Snmmls; vice president.

Abraham L. Field; recording secretary. Everett Bain mls; corresponding secretary. Miss I'lorcwe IS. Beers; treasurer, Lewis B.

Smith. Bay Shore Hose Company No. 1, Bay Shore Foreman, F. E. Rltch: assistant ward Blydcnburgh second assistant foreman.

John Hill; secretary and tr asurcr, II. Malta Burr; trustees. Alden M. Hallock. Philip Helbls ana Lewis Hubbard.

Summer Boarders and Farmers' Wives Saw That None of Them Reached City Markets. S0LDAT HOME FOR GOOD PRICES Fine Fruit in Plenty From the Orchards of the North Side Peach District Bordering on the Sound. (Special to the Eagle.) Half Hollow Hills, L. October 6 Notwithstanding that Long Island was almost the only territory on which a peach crop was produced in 1899, there has been again a good yield gathered on the Island this season. Wherever trees not too young or old to bear exist, they have fruited.

In this neighborhood, the Reve and the Carman orchards have borne thousands of baskets of large size, fine quality peaches. At Huntington the condition has been the same. In the vicinity of Port Jefferson, Wading River, Centerville and other districts bordering on Long Island Sound, peaches have turned out satisfactorily. The central sections of Yaphank have also furnished their quotas, while on the South Side, at Hempstead and elsewhere, profitable gathering of the favorite fruit has rewarded the farmers. More money for the quantity produced has been obtained for the Long Island crop than for that in other portions of the country.

That fact was brought about by the island having a superior home market. The many thousands of visitors to the various attractive places for summer boarding which fringe the continuous coast line boundaries of the island, purchased the fruit, which being ripened on the trees, was in the most perfect condition possible, and as they consumed it all no Long Island peaches are procurable In the markets of the city. The farmers load the peaches into their long spring wagons, which carry fifty to sixty baskets each and drive through the villaces and to the hotels and boarding houses, where they are quickly sold out. This gives the Long Islander the advantage of preserving the basket and covers for repeated use, the peaches in this disposition being turned into receptacles belonging to the purchasers and the farmer journeys homeward with 75 cents to $1.25 per basket for his fruit in his pocket and his empty baskets and their covers in his wason. Last year, in consequence of the scarcity of peaches and the high prices obtainable for good fruit specie, the Hempstead crop was sent to Wallabout Market and was the first to sell and at the" best figures.

This year the growers would not send any to the city, though the commission merchants who handled them last year would have been more than pleased if they could have controlled them again. Mr. Robinson's New Potato, the Admiral Dewey. Mineola, L. October 6 The blight which this year attacked potatoes on many portions of Long Island with varying severity and which on some fields in Riverhead and South old townships so damaged the prospects of that crop that the potatoes were plowed under and the ground set with cauliflowers, appeared at one time to seriously threaten the island's erstwhile prestige as a superior potato producing territory.

There was, however, exhibited at the Riverhead and Mineola fairs, a new variety of potato, propagated some three years ago by C. M. Robinson, at Manorville, Suffolk County, to which has been given the name of Admiral Dewey, and which beyond being most prolific in yielding, is said to be free from most of the ills to which potatoes have in the past been heir. The propagation of a new variety of the potato family is brought about by planting the seed of some good potato already under culture. By the seed is meant the small green balls which occasionally grow upon the vines of potatoes.

This seed is planted in the same manner as potatoes and such as germinates is transformed by a season's growth into potato vines and tubers. The tubers produced the first year are small and few in number, but the most promising of them are again planted and become, during a second culture. Improved in size and quality. The process is then repeated until a desirable variety is obtained or the experiment abandoned for want of success. In 1898 small lots of the Admiral Dewey propagation were sold to farmers about the island at 75 cents per pound.

The results in all instances reported were extraordinary, the yield being sixty to one hundred fold. Mr. Allen of Floral Park, from one medium sized potato, raised nearly a half bushel. The quality was pronounced excellent in each case. Last year the extent of planting was increased.

Specimens of that season's production were sent to the fair of the Suffolk County Agricultural Society and were awarded a first premium. This year the Suffolk County judges again awarded the Admiral Dewey a first premium and a like result attended its appearance at the fair here. John Duryea of Hempstead was attracted to the neiv variety from his first knowledge of it and steadily increased the extent of his plantings until this year he has five acres of it. which he Is about to harvest. The peculiar weather of the present season has been unfavorable to the development of a full crop, yet Mr.

Duryea estimates his yield at 400 bushels per acre. It was his exhibit at the Mineola fair which captured the first premium. ilr. Duryea has dealt for many years in New York extensively In potatoes of all varieties. He says he considers the Admiral Dewey the best he has ever handled.

That it is free from blight or other disease and Is less affected by grubs or the Colorado beetle than the other varieties. He expects to dispose of all his crop and more which he has purchased, for seeding purposes. As this should put a large supply upon the market, and as the price is likely to fall to reasonable figures. Long Island farmers, should the good qualities or tne new proauci prove will have an opportunity to recover their lost laurels In the potato growing field. DARLING'S HOUSE BURNED.

Smithtown Branch, L. October 6 The house occupied by Albert Darling, near Smithtown station, was burned down yesterday with part of its contents. Mr. Darltng'B family was away and he was alone in the house. It is not known how the fire originated.

The piano and some other things wore saved. The house was owned by Mr. Barner, formerly ot New York. DECLINES TO RUN. Patchoguc, L.

October 6 Dr. Hugh Halsey of Brldgehampton, tho Democratic candidate for Coroner of Suffolk County, who was nominated at Riverhead last month, sent a letter to the County Committee yesterday declining to accept the nomination upon a silver platform. John V. Bliss, a well known contractor of Brooklyn. Is hnvlng a large brick barn built on his country property at Southold, at a cost of K.MO.

It will replace the torn destroyed recently by Ore. BROOKSIDE, The Oyster Bay Home of W. J. Youngs, the Governor's Secretary. SHOP MADE FROM WHALER CABIN who handles them in market.

From the sale of the scallop shells every spring not a little revenue is derived. The shells are bought for 2 or 3 cents a bushel by men who plant them in oyster beds. New Suffolk has some quaint scallop shops. One is made out of the cabin of a whaler that was commanded more than half a century ago by Captain George I. Tuthlll.

New Suffolk, like many other east end towns, was then a whaling port. When Captain Tuthlll started out as a scalloper he transformed the cabin of an old whaler into a scallop shop. The captain having retired, his son in law. Captain Herbert A. Hortori, now uses the, historic scallop shop.

This year the scallop season promises to be a good one. Reports from many places down here say that large yields are expected. It is believed that prices will be favorable. The men who go scalloping earn their money by very hard work, and they are greatly discouraged when prices are quite low. They have to endure many hardships, especially In the winter.

Now and then they are caught out in heavy storms, and then it is demonstrated what able seamen these baymen are. Some years ago two scallopers from here were lost In a storm. The old school scallopers were many of them men who had learned seamanship on whaling vessels, and a little thing like a heavy storm never kept them in port when there was a demand for scallops. These old baymen are all retired now. But their sons are made of as hardy scuff.

WISSEL FOB SENATOR. Flushing, L. October 6 The Democrats of the Second Senatorial District of Queens and Nassau Counties held their convention at the Shinnecock Club house. Flushing, yesterday afternoon and nominated Charles A. Wissel, the proprietor of the Ridgewood Park.

He represented the First Assembly District of Queens in the last two Legislatures, where he made a record as the friend of labor organizations. THE ELMHTJEST BANK. First Financial Institution Established in the Old Town. Elmhurst, L. October 6 The Elm hurst Bank, a branch of the bank of Jamaica, opened its doors on Tuesday for the first time and since the opening day has done a large amount of business.

This bank is the first that the old town of Newtown has had within its borders and the needed innovation is favorably looked upon by the townspeople and business men who, in the past have either had to go to Brooklyn or Long Island City to make their deposits. Since Tuesday sixty two depositors have been entered upon the books. The bank is located in the new Meyer building at the junction of Broadway and Whitney avenue. The interior is handsome ly and artistically decorated and the furnishings are elaborate and suited to the needs of the bank and its patrons. The bank has a capital of $500,000 and a surplus of $500,000.

Tho deposits yesterday amounted to nearly $23,000. Tho advisory board consists of David Springsteen, John Alvln Young, William J. Hamilton, John E. Backus, F. M.

Hass Sim onson, Frank Monteverde, Cord Myer and Bernard Suydam. W. E. Stecher is acting cashier. through the premises, and the original house was upward of seventy years old.

In 1S89 the place was greatly improved, and the house and grounds have since been transformed by the present occupant into a modern country seat. Where was once an unsightlv marsh is now a spacious and beautiful pond, entirely inclosed by a substantial circular stone wall, with flower pots artistically arranged along its borders. Swans float on the water, a picturesque bridge has been thrown across the south road leading to the house, wide driveways and winding paths constructed and all arranged with a view to srtistic effect. Brookhouse is arranged within with a view to comfort. The library, Mr.

Youngs' favorite nook, is an ideal spot for the tired man of affairs, and wben at home he makes good use of it. He is a genial host and his latch string is always on tb" The ancient bridge over the north road, leading to Brookhouse, Is built of old ship timbers, and is a curiosity. Just below is the old Youngs family homestead, occupied last year by the Smithers of Brooklyn. The homestead is over two hundred and fifty years old, and has an Interesting history by itself. George Washington stopped over night there with Squire Daniel Youngs, grandfather of Secretary Youngs.

It is historical ground, as most, if not all, of the cove land was at one time in the possession of the Youngs family, and some of it has been handed down from generation to generation. Brookhouse overlooks the west harbor and is so situated as to appear suddenly to the vision of all travelers along the highway. During the last cyclone many of the noble old trees were wrecked, much to the sorrow of Mrs. Youngs, who took great pride In them, as she prides herself on everything about the place. This Is true also of Miss Mary F.

Youngs, a daughter, who Is developing considerable literary ability, several of her poems having appeared in some of the leading magazines. A glance at Brookhouse will demonstrate that Mr. Youngs' Inclinations do not run entirely to business and politics. NEV7S FOR THE FISHERMEN. Small Boston mackerel have made their appearance In the Sound off Southold in large schools.

Several gangs are setting draw seines for them dally and In most instances the catch Is large. Robert Raynor of Greenport on Monday caught over two wagon loads at one draw. STRAWBERRIES OUT OF SEASON. Hollls. L.

October 6 Mrs. P. Miller, residing at Evergreen Park, Hollls, exhibits a lot of strawberries picked from her garden yesterday, It being a second crop this season. The fruit is sound and solid and has a good taste, oven though it is out ol season. THE ELMHURST BANK.

boats with their dredges out circle round the bod like gulls, nnd from a distance they present a pretty picturo with their white sails standing out against the sky. When a boat has secured a pretty fair load of scallops the start for home Is made. The earlier the scalloper gets home tho better, for then his catch Is the sooner opened and packed in boxes ready for shipment to market. At New scallops are opened in little houses built along the beach. These are called scallop shops.

Each boatman has Si :5.