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THE BBOOKLYN BAJXY EAGLE. NEW YOB3 SAtUBDAY, NOVEMBEB 17, 1900. 15 THE OLD SAKMIB INN. A GENEROUS BEQUEST. HAVEMEYER'S NEW VENICE AT BAYBERRY POINT.

"HOLY GHOST ID OS A SOCIETY AT SHIU. "Jr. 1 Mrs. Parsons Provides for a Building for the Hempstead Library. MIneola, L.

November 17 The will of Julia M. Parsons, wife of C. Chauncey Parsons, has been probated in Surrogate Sea bury's court. Mrs. Parsons was a prominent worker for the Hempstead Subscription Library and desired to see It have a substantial building and attached to her will was the following codicil: "Being about to undertake a journey in company with my husband, Charle3 Chauncey Parsons, and my sons, Theophilus and Geoffrey, the beneficiaries in my said will named and bearing in mind the possibility of tho happening of a catastrophe involving them and myself, thereby giving rise to doubts ai tp which of us may be survivors or survivor, it is my will and I do hereby declaro that in case of the death of my said husband and children and myself in the said catastrophe and that in order that I may not die intestate that this codicil shall become operative in place of my said will.

"Predicated upon such a condition I give, devise and bequeath unto the Hempstead Subscription Library of Hempstead, Queens County, New York, one square acre of land en Front street and lying west of the tennis court at my home at Hempstead aforesaid as a site for a library building to be erected as hereinafter provided, and I do give and bequeath unto the sard Hempstead Subscription Library the sum of $20,000 dollars for the building and erection of a suitable library building upon said plot of land, the same to be known and designated as the Parsons Memorial Library and to be built and erected under the direction and with the approval of Samuel A. Goldschmldt, of the City of New York. "I direct that in or about said building there shall be placed a tablet bearing the names of Charles Chauncey Parsons, Julia Warth Parsons, Theophilus Parsons and Geoffrey Parsons, of whom the said building and land shall be a memorial. "All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real personal, I give, devise and bequeath unto Allen T. Simp kins, one of the executors in my said will tamed in trust to divide the same into three equal parts, shares or portions.

One to Catharine ParsOn3 and at her death to Sabra Parsons, and at the latter's death to th Hempstead Subscription Library. One to Caroline Louisa Paraons, at her death to the Hempstead Subscription Library. One to Catharine Parson3, at her death to the Hemp sicad Subscription Library." LONG ISLAND BREVITIES. A cycle path from Islip to Oalcdale was surveyed and laid out this week by Eugene R. Smith and Siciepath Commissioner Samuel A.

Higble. Suffolk Council So. 571. Royal Arcanum, Bay Shpre. paid S3.CCG to Mrs.

Somerlndyke. the widow of William Allan Scmerin'dyke. in less than thirty days after his death. The widow will spend the winter in Brooklyn. Carle's big recreation pier, foot of Pleasant avenue and Jamaica Bay.

Rockaway Beach, has been turned into a storage berth for launches the winter months. A NINETEEN HUNDRED TON at 'her 'residence in Richmond Hill, in honor ot i Caroline Hulse, who is suffering from cat illss Kale Bond, the Dhl'anthrcnlat. The silver i aracts in the evep. anrl thrpfltpnprt with mr In Course of Construction at Mather Wood's Ship Yard, Port Jefferson. THE KEEL WAS LAID RECENTLY.

Ship Being Built on Socialistic Lines, Most of the Stockholders Being Poor Men and Not Capitalists. (Special to the Eagle.) Port Jefferson, L. November 17 There was laid recently in the ship yard of Mather Wood of this village the keel of a four masted, 1,900 tcn schooner, which, when built, will be the largest vessel ever turned out in the ship yards of Port Jefferson, and probably of Long Island. For nearly a year preparations for the event have been going forward. The first step was to form a joint stock company to provide the sinews of war; the next, to make a model of her hull in wood, drawn to a scale which should show her projections in miniature and also every timber, plank, trunnel and bolt In her.

This was, done by Owen Wood of the firm, and is in itself a beautiful piece of workmanship. The next thing was to assemble in the ship yard the huge oak, chestnut, cedar and pine timbers for her frame, and locust for her truunels, the wooden pieces that hold the framework and planks together. It required skilled men to select the timbers, because many of them needed to be cured In a greater or less degree, while the knees, which fasten the deck timbers to the frame, described a half circle. The Arm seat its own men into the neighboring forests, and they cut and hewed some of the timber. For the rest, oak was ordered from dealers in Ohio, yellow pine from Florida, chestnut and oak for the frame from Stratford and New London, in Connecticut, and from Cold Spring, on the Hudson, and white pine from Michigan.

The bolts and other iron work are from Ohio rolling mills, the masts are of Oregon pine and the small spars of spruce. Preparations for laying the keel began last July by excavating the yard next the bulkheads for the lower part of the keel, but there were so many ships on the firm's ways to be repaired that it was not until recently that the keel was finally laid, the workmen beginning at the lower part and working up, laying oak timber on oak timber and bolting the whole until it is as strong as if of one piece. The keel is 185 feet long. Thirty men go down to Mather Wood's shipyard every morning now to work on the snip, ana sue win pruu.my utr retiuy iuj launching la year or a year ana a naif. To expedite the progress ct tbe work, the firm built a two story saw mill adjoining their engine house, to which power is furnished by a thirty horse potfer engine.

In this they have set up a Williamsport Machine Cumpany's band saw, specially adapted for ship work, which can be set to any angle. This saw cuts through huge timbers that require six and eight men tj handle as if they were lath, and saves the labor in scoring and hewing of many men. Adjoining the saw mill, at the stern of the keel, is a steim derrick and holster, which will swing the heavy timbers into position in the frame of the ship as the work pr They have albo provided a machine for cutting bolt lrtn. a bolt cutter and other labor Ecving devices formerly unknown iu ship building. One of the most interesting things about the new ship is that she is built on true socialistic lines by associated poor men comparatively, and not by capitalists.

A great deal of her stock is owned by small shareholders not wealthy, who will share in the profits she may make and or course bear the loss. If any. The firm of Mather Wood, the builders of the big ship, is one cf the inot vigorous and enterprising In the port. It was formed a little over twenty years ago by RAISE Brooklyn Grocers Ready to Take All That Could Be Grown on the Island, IF THE SUPPLY WAS RELIABLE. The Delicacy in High Favor and Would Command Good Prices How One Venture Failed.

(Special to the Eagle.) Babylon, L. November 17 During the past week the representative of a Brooklyn grocer doing business on the Heights visited this place In search of a supply of mushrooms. He said his customers are fond of that delicacy and whenever the price of it Is reasonable or when it can be sold at not over 50 cents per. pound, he has a large call for It. The wide fluctuation In the price of mushrooms at one time 30 or 40 cents and at another 75 to 90 cents a pound however, interferes greatly with regularity of demand for them.

They are essentially a luxury and not a necessity and, consequently, when he is obliged to charge dollar a pound, even those people most partial to them say they must wait until they are cheaper. The dealer had read in the Eagle a few years ago the account of the installation here by W. H. Barley of a very considerable plant for growing mushrooms and supposed that by this time must have reached large proportions. He was greatly disappointed to learn that the undertaking which had started off with such promising prospect had been "abandoned, the plant wiped out of existence and the projector engaged in mercantile pursuits in Manhattan.

Why Mr. Barley gave up his enterprise here Is, of course, his own affair. Certain it is ljowever; that from his own accounts It was not because he considered it unprofitable. He grew mushrooms with success in Detroit, before coming to Babylon, and very recently declared that their artificial production can be made to pay handsomely at the sale price of 25 cents and evqji less per pound. The greengrocers in the cities say "give us a steady supply which we can offer at a steady price and we can make a steady market for them the year around." They have been pronounced by scientists wholesome and nutritious as diet.

Their culture calls for no especially skilled knowledge and all Dong Island farmers could raise them as easily as they do greenhouse products of any description. The wholesale dealers who have been consulted upon the demand for mushrooms say it is continuous and increasing. They, though, like the Brooklyn grocer, say, that because of the irregularity of the supply heretofore, it has been an objectionable trade to handle. Chief demand is during the Winter months, when especial attention is given by well to do people to delicacies for the table. Then prices have run up to a dollar and over per pound, when there have been instances of florists and all gardeners rushing into growing mushrooms under their flower benches and in all conceivable places and overloading the market, after the demand has been satisfied or killed off by exorbitant prices.

Following that the greater portion of such produces will drop out and another dearth ensues. They conclude with the remark, "glve 4is a steady, adequate supply and we will take care of the marketing part." Long Island farmers If they will can make up, and to their profit, the deficiency of which the dealers complain. Mushrooms are now at wholesale 65 cents per pound. Terryville Farmers Satisfied. Terryville, L.I., November 17 Terryville Is a little community of prosperous and pro gressive farmers about two and one half miles out of Port Jefferson, which very nearly ap proaches the ideal of some sociological reformers.

Here none are very rich or very poor but" all are in comfortable circumstances "with good, houses and farms and something Jaia oy Tor a rainy day. General farming is carried on, hut special attention is paid to berries and market Kar denlng for the Bridgeport market. The fields are level almost as a prairie and free from stones and easily worked with the labor saving appliances which have proved such a boon to the American farmer. The crops nave an Deeu noused now except cabbages, turnips and cauliflowers and the general feeling is one of satisfaction with the result. The cabbage is now being gathered and great wagons loaded to the top boards with them go down to the Bridgeport boat every morning.

They bring 8 cents a head in Bridgeport and net the growers 2 cents a he.ad. Cauliflower growing here is an experiment and the result so far is not encouraging. SCHOOL NOTES. Principal "William M. "Wood of the Southold Union school has received from the regents of tho State of New York an appropriation of $133.71 being the amount earned by the academic students last year.

Miss Buck, the teacher of the Sea Cliff Primary School, has taken an examination for a New York State teacher's certificate. The Queens BOrot frh School Board will make an attempt to introduce thermostats in the public schools of this borough and School Commissioner Anton Schulthels of College Point has already made to have one placed In the new school building at that place as an experiment. The young women of the Huntington High School have formed basket ball teams. The captains are. MIks Helen May and Miss Esther Tllden.

The old Rlverhead school house property that was offered for sale at auction was bid in by the district, rather than to George W. Cooper for $2,025. The Bay Shore High School was honored with a visit from Dr, D. E. Smith, principal of the Erookport Normal School, this week.

He Inspected the rooms and classes and highly commended the arrangement of the building and the school system: In his honor a fire drill was given. Captain I. J. Merritt says, that the new school building now In the course of erection In Whitestone will Increase the value of land In the neighborhood to three times Its present worth. A special school meeting to elect a board ot trustees for Greenwich Point In place of James Westneld; R.

Molllneaux and John all of whom resigned, will be hold to night. A proposition to establish a union free school district in will be determined by vote next It Is meeting with' favor from taxpayers. Proffessor Hitchcock, principal of the TTnlondalc public school, has recovered sufficiently to go to his home in Oneonto. The Patchogue Board of Education has rovlewed the tax list for. the ensuing year.

The rate will be 48 and the district will raise the sum of $15,805 for school purposes for the year. DOMESTICATED BROADBILLS. Eastport, L. November 17 W. C.

Pye, the duck grower, has a curiosity, which is contrary to all preconceived Ideas among old gunners. It Is a brood of domesticated broad till ducks. The broadblll is a diver and old gunners, while frequently domescicadng black duck, mallard and other non dlvlng feeders, had the impression that the div ere would not thrive if kept from their natural feeding grounds In deep water. Mr. Pye haB easily disproved this with his broadblll brood.

He secured tho eggs from a bayman last summer and hatched them in an Incubator. Tho ducks are now nearly full grown and seem as contented and happy, on the land under Mr. Pye'e treatment, as their wild coueinB at largo in the bay, and they take aB kindly to a feed of wheat middlings and beef scrap mixed as their parents did to little clams and bay fleas. A PROMISING CYCLIST. L.

November 17 Carroll F. Hutchcson, one of the youngest bicycle riders on Long Island, bids fair, from past performances, to be one of the best men In the profession within a few years. Already, ho has lowered the honors of suoh fast men as W. A. La Due of Cold Spring, N.

Y. George Schofleld of Richmond Hill, L. the one milo national champion; John Bedell of Lynbrook, the twenty five mile interstate champion; George Homan of Lawrence, L. and others. AMERICAN EXPANSION.

Southampton, L. November 17 At tho first meeting of the Southampton Literary i Society for this season Samuel L. Parrlsh gave an address on "American Expansion Viewed From a Historical Standpoint." At tho meeting next Thursday evening the prolamine will be in charge of Mrs. Henry H. Hlldreth.

Mrs. David Burnett and Henry A. Built Two Hundred Ago and Washington Was Once a Guest. 17 On the corner of Main and Fulton streetB," this village, is the ancient and historical Sammis Inn, where George Washington stopped for a time while on his way to the Federal celebration In New York City, in 1788, and where many generations of travelers and visitors to Hempstead have received hospitality and good cheer. This ancient structure has been standing on its present location without much alteration for over 200 years.

Its present proprietor, Henry Sammis, is the heir of many generations of proprietors of the old inn, which has remained the property of the Sammis family since its original construction. In speaking of the history of the old nlaee Mr. Sammis says he thinks that the history of the proprietorship of this hotel eclipses the record of any in the country. For six generations it has remained in the same family. It was built some 200 years ago by orie of his ancestors and during the Revolutionary period It was occupied by British officers.

The Sammis Inn has low, old fashioned rooms, with beautifully hand carved mantels and wainscoting which has been the envy of many an unsuccessful imitator. The chamber which Washington occupied still shows its windows with little square panes, but the great fireplace, where once the black log blazed and sputtered so merrily, has been covered by panels of wood, but. Mr. Sammis still possesses the triangles that were suspended there which held the pots and other utensils used for cooking. The tavern's ancient sign board, protected by the superior paint of a hundred years ago, is still in ex istance, though so worn by wind and weather that its letters stand out as If carved in relief.

Its legend reads as follows: ENTERTAINMENT by I KEHEMIAH SAMMIS. Of the many other interesting features of the Sammis Inn probably the most noticeable are deep impressions of horses' hoofs upon the broad and spacious oak stairways. Legend has it that after Washington's evacuation of Long Island and while the red coated Britishers were in possession of this section and in celebrating their victories, in a spirit of fun, one evening, walked their cavalry steeds up and down the stairways to the terror of Proprietor Sammis. WHITESTONE'S NEW SCHOOL. It Will Be One of the Handsomest and Best Appointed in Queens and Will Cost $132,970.

Whitestone, L. November 17 The new public school building now in the course of erection on Seventh avenue, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, Whitestone, will be one of the handsomest and best buildings yet constructed by the Department of Public Instruction in this borough. While care and skill have been employed in the preparation of plans to the end that the practical purposes which are to be subserved may best be met, an eye has been had to the imi WHITESTONE'S tation in Queens Borough of an artistic form of public school architecture. The new building is to be erected to relieve the overcrowded condition of the old school building on Nineteenth street, near Eleventh avenue. The architecture is modern renaissance.

The walls are of red brick, terra cotta and Indiana limestone, and the roof will be covered with deep green slate. The entrances for the pupils are at either end of the building, and a large broad staircase of fireproof material will provide splendid means of communication between the three floors of the building. The first floor is to contain eight class rooms, disposed on either side of the main corridor, and the principal's room across the corridor from the reception hall, which communicates directly with the vestibule. There are to be eight class rooms on the second floor and on the top floor four class rooms and a large assembly hall with a seating capacity of about 500, the seats being arranged in a semi circle facing the rostrum. This room will be used for the morning exercises, commencements and lectures.

The basement will contain the boiler room, coal bins. and two large indoor play grounds. The main entrance will be on the front of the building and the main corridors will be reached through tho hall, on both sides of which will be seats. The pupils' entrances are arranged at either end of the building, one for boys and one for girls, ana lead directly to double staircases of iron and stono running to the top floor. In this, as In all school buildings erected within recent times, the windows are high ana Droaa ana tne pupils' desks will be so arranged that the light will reach the scholars over their left shoulders.

The heating and ventilating will be car ried on by the Plenum system, air is brought into tho chamber by electric fans and Is forced from this out through horizontal galvanized iron to vertical flews or stacks, in the lower walls of which are placed steam colls. In this during cold weather, warm fresh air Is brought to every class room in the building. The fresh air is introduced into the room near the ceiling and the vitiated air is forced out at apertures near the floor, whence It escapes through the roof. It Is estimated that the plans installed In this building wit? be sufficient to produce an entire change of atmosphere about every six minutes. The rt ardrobes or cloakrooms are largo and are open to the outside air.

The children reach them directly from the class rooms without going Into the corridors. There are also many book closets throughout the school. The building will he completed next bep teniber and the cost will be $133,970. A PATRIARCHAL SWAN. Huntington, L.

November 17 An old swan, tho last of a line nock introduced to Huntington Harbor by the late Lewis M. Thurston, has returned. He is a patriarch and must be more than thirty years old. Last winter the old fellow spent In North port Harbor. In the summer he coasted down the Long Island shore as far east as Port Jefferson.

Last Wednesday he camo back Into the harbor after a long absence. DRAKE'S TIMELY INSURANCE. Bay Shore, L. November 17 Mosea Drake, who was thrown from his horee during one ot tho Republican parades, sustaining an Injury to his hip, had obtained a policy ot $1,000 from an accident insurance company throe hours prior to the accident. He will accordingly receiv weekly indemnity during his illness.

Strange Stories Told About These Faith Curists and Their Leader, the Rev. Frank Sanford. CONVERTS FROM STONY BROOK. Letters Received by the Rev. W.

ML Fanton Criticising the Methods in Vogue in the Institution. (Special to the Eagle.) Stony Brook, L. November 17 At tha last meeting of the trustees and other officers of the local Methodist Church, the pastor, the Rev. W. M.

Fanton, read three the vicinity of Shiloh, where the Rev. Frank Sanford has organized a faith curiBts colony, under the title of "The Holy Ghost and Us Society." The contents ot the letters were strongly denunciatory of the methods employed by the head of the society and fell; like a bombshell upon the listeners, several prominent members of the local unurcn naa joinea or were aooui to join this colony. Chief among them are: Captain Edwin Smith and his eldest daughter, Stella, Miss Lulu Blydenburgh, second daughter of Captain George Blydenburgh, one of the richest men in the village, and Miss TIIHe Smith, who has some $16,000 in her own right, with prospects of inheriting much more. Captain E. Smith was long the most prom tueui ui iiiu emotional znemDers 01 lae Methodist Church here.

He was what waej, called the Sanctified Methodist, or' one who. has so much grace that he cannot sin. For: years he has suffered with an internal complaint and of Tate he has taken much Interest in faith curing, especially in the way the Rev. Mr. Sanford of Shiloh expounded it.

He VlKlTPfl trrrrx mnntha rm nr turned two weeks later, claiming that he, was cured, and he was quite convinced of the efficacy of cure by prayer. His fervor be came so contagious that Miss Lulu Blydenburgh went to Shiloh to be educated healing missionary. Then Miss Tillle Smith became a strons believer and took her young niece; Mis plete blindness. 'to but nn nar wna effected, owing, so Miss Smith claimed, to the child's father, Cornelius Hulse of Echo, riot being as Christianlike as he ought to be. Tiiea Captain Smith induced his 19 year old daughter, Stella, to join the missionary healing community, and only last weeftr ho resigned his membership from the local ii ami amiuunceu nis intention ot Joining the Shiloh colony, too.

Captain Smith was married a couple of years ago for the third time and has a young son about 7 months old. Both he and his wife own considerable property hero and in Manhattan. Before any one can join the Holy Ghost and Us Society, all worldly goods must be turned over to the general fund. The difficulty wltbi Captain Smith so far is said to be his Inr ability to obtain his wife's signature to a deed of conveyance until their son grows older. These facts and certain well founded rumors that the Rev.

Mr. Sanford institute on Beulah Kill, near Lewlston, was not a congenial place for an innocent woman, induced the Rev. Mr. Fanton to write for the tacts in tne case, rne taree ministers re ferred to above whose names the Rev. MK Fanton refused to disclose beyond statins that two were Methodists aDd one a Baptist, denounced oamcra in tne strongest termq and warned all people to keep away from Shiloh.

The letters stated that converts were compelled to part wun an tnoir properuon aJd moneys and were later treated most shamefully when further funds were not forthcoming, that young women were being persecutes arm insuitea, ana tnat it was wen known there that the cruelties heaped upon certain young women had driven them to" sane. The letter of the Baptist minister declared boldly that the Kev. jrans oaniora who a lunatic as was his father before him. When seen by an Eagle reporter the Rev. Mr.

Fanton said: "The reports published In some of the newspapers about tbe terrible condition of affairs at Shiloh are true, I be lieve. People are obliged to turn over ail they possess to a fund. Some women have been shamefully treated." Contain Edwin Smith when asked to give his version of what he had seen at Shiloh replied: "There is nothing wrong there, everything is all right, sir. What's done there goes according to the Bible. Yes, sir: It all right.

They're doing God's worts there, working as tho Bible directs them to. I have nothing to say further." nl rtTTT TTT IIIUU Port Jefferson, L. November 17 The heavy waves of the recent gale washed up l. ousneis oi large uyaieis uu me An extraordinary low tide laid bare flats that had not been exposed in years. Several bushels ot big fellows were dug witnin a few yards of the steamboat dock where ordinarily there are several feet of water at low tide.

The low tides of the past week have proved a bonanza to the baymen who make' a living in part by digging clams lor'tne Bridgeport market. The shores of the harbor are lined with soft clams, but they are nowhere so abundant and of such fine fla for as on tne Hats, on tne moutn oi oeiauKos and are usually covered at low tide "but haTB been bare the past week. As the clam diggera go in every variety of water craft, from a dugout to a catboat, and dress in every variety of costume, the flats on a sunny afternoon present a picturesque and animated appearance. The clams, after being washed are packed in barrels and sent by the Pack City to Bridgeport, whajra they eell for about a barrel. INVENTOR OF BALL BEARINGS.

O. H. P. Robinson of Bellpovt Waa tho Tirst to Use the friction Reducing Device. Bellport, L.

November 17 Mr. and Mrs, O. H. P. Robinson of this village recently celebrated the sixty seventh anniversary ot their wedding at their home on Main street, surrounded by their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and a host of friends Mr.

Robinson Is still hale and hearty, anilj. judge him to be S7 ears old, which he is, atf he was born at L. on October 1S13. Mrs. Robinson, who was a Miss Brown;" was born at Middle Island, June 23, 1816.

builder up to 1894, when he decided to retire from active work. During his day he built several church steeples and also built many fishing boats for the Long Island ocean fishermen, his boats having been used from Mon tauk Point to Coney Island. He is famous as the inventor ot the ball bearing mechanism, now so generally used, and he obtained a patent on It March 13, 1S66. tho number of the patent being While working at his bench he accidentally hit upon the plan oil using balls to reduce friction. A number of bird shot that had rolled utulcr a board ho was using in hte work gave the idea to him, and he at once set about to elaborate a plan for using them.

He built a crude vehicle, using two ordinary wagon wheels, which he attached to a small cart, and he found It wcrked successfully. Not having the funds to carry out his plans at the time his idea was taken advantage of by Arthur Bowen, an Englishman, who made a slight improvement upon Mr. Robinson's plans, and secured the results that should have come to the original inventor. Mr. and Mrs.

Robinson have lived at Bell port all their married life. Their family Included eight children, four of whom are now living; ten grandchildren and nine great gtui children. EMU'S LONG ISLAND VENICE. His Bayberry Point Colony Social Experiment for the Wealthy ON THE CO OPERATIVE PLAN. Ten Moorish Houses With Palatial Appointments Waiting for Occupants.

Miles of Waste Land Reclaimed. (Special to the Eagle.) Islip, V. November 17 Horace Have meyer'3 New Venice at Bayberry Point, is Eometimes called "Havemeyer's Felly," as it has involved an outlay of millions and has given employment to hundreds of men during the past two years. A flat waste of sand has been transformed into solid land houses, waterways, gravel driveways, but the place is yet uninhabited. Ten Moorish houses, with their palatial appointments have been completed, but so far only one has been occupied, that by Mr.

Havemeyer and his family. The walls of the house are double to insure NEW SCHOOL. warmth in winter and coolness in summer. Modern plumbing has been installed and a perfect system of sewerage adopted. Built in sideboards and buffets, an innovation for this section, tiled bathrooms, gas and electrical fixtures, quaint fireplacc separate servants' quarters, all go to make up the interior of these houses.

The view from the point is grand, however, for those who love marine scenery. Fire Island, with its lighthouse throwing its rays upon the colony at night, and the Great South Beach, are directly opposite, while to the east and west are the Vandcrbilt estate, Roberts estate, Wayawanda Club and the Penataquit Yacht Club. Mr. Havemeyer lives in the house on the western end of the colony, nearest the bay, and he intends the little colony to be an advanced social experiment on an expensive cooperative plan, and the price set upon the villas, which varies from $20,000 to $25,000 each, does not approach the real cost. The idea of this colony was conceived by its projector in the early ninettes, when he decided upon establishing an ultra fashionable cooperative exclusive summer colony.

He purchased miles of waste laud and several prominent architects were pressed into service including James Erown Lord, Louis C. Tiffany and Grosveneer Atterbury. Two hundred acres of land were bought before work was started and then for two years the dredges were kept at work digging canals and making new land from the bay bottom that was thrown up. Thousands of loads of loam and clay were brought to cover the sand and then the masons and carpenters were employed to worn out the designs of the architects. In reference to the project Mr.

Havemeyer has this to say: "Bayberry Point, on the Great South Bay, a bold projection confronting Fire Island, seemed to me to offer unusual possibilities as a site for a charming all the year round place of rest, health and recreation and the charm is enhanced by the composite architecture a selection of the very best from many sources. Trees and vegetation are conspicuous by their absence, ns they would not onlv detract, from the harmony of the design, but would servo to draw mosqultos and other pests and it is hoped to keep the point freo from all suen winged insects. "Tho seaward end of the polut has been elevated, adding to the sea view. Boat houses and pergolas will add to the beauty, as will also bath houses. At the landward side there will bo five to ten stables and a yard.

Each will stable four It is proposed to sell them at cost and to rent them to villa owners at a nominal rental. "The little colony will be an advanced social experiment, nn co operative plan, entitling each participant to voice. Membership will be very select and all elements will be congenial. The grounds will be administered co operativoly. It Is believed the utmost expense for administration will not exceed $100 yearly for each member.

"Each villa may be treated according to individual tastes, subject to the approval of a majority of the villa owners. This will lir cludo erection of bath and boat houses, pergolas and ornamental additions. The architect has prepared plans fob. these, which he will furnish free from further cost. "A custodian will always remain at Bayberry Point, whose duty will be to take care of all property In the common Interest.

During absenco of tonants all keys can be intrusted to him. Ho will put and keep each place In thorough order, so that should the tenant return, winter or summer, noondav or midnight, whether announced or not, ho shall find his house by the bay ready for his coming. This Is done with the Intention of relieving all Of the several nnrt nwnorn nt pvacv hit of care, trouble and iwslt7 cosn'Mo." YE MANOR OP ST. GEORGE. Copy of an Original Deed Showing Its Ancient Boundaries.

Southold, L. November 17 Orvllle B. Ackerly has a copy of the original title to the old map showing; the manor line, a well known boundary line of Riverhead Township. Its title reads as follows: "A Draught of a Tract of Land on ye North side of Peconic River, being part of ye Manor of St. George, in ye County of Suffolk, in ye Colony of New surveyed, laid out and divided ly ye subscribers with the consent of ye owners thereof in writing, dated' ye ten day of March in ye sixteenth year of his Majesties Reign, Anno Domini 1742." The names of the original owners are written in each lot, together wth the number and width, in chains and links.

The plot of Und is triangular in shape, bounded on the south by the Peconic River, north by the manor Une, running easterly from a pep perldge tree at Wading River, coming to a point at the cast end. where the manor line strikes the Peconic River, and the distance on the west line from the pepperldge tree to the river is 432 35 100 chains, while the manor line is 680 chains. The tract was laid cut Into sixty lots numbered from the west, increasing in width and shortening In length as they went easterly. The lots were awarded to the following: Caleb Hortcn, David Corey, Thomas Reeve, Richard Terry. Samuel Conklln, John Salmon.

William Benjamin. David Horton, James Horton. James Reeve. Elijah Hutchinson. Jonathan Goldsmith.

Solomon Well3. John Tuthill, John Conk lyn. Jonathan Horton. David and Israel Parshall. Joshua Tuthill.

Zebulon Hallock. Joseph Wick ham." Naihaneel Ynungs. Joshua Wells. William Albertson and Noah Hallock. excelsufTofreeport.

Reminiscences of a Crack Organization. Its First Eire Was in the Home of Its Eounder. Freeport, L. 1., November 17 The present efficient and well equipped fire department of this village has no company with a longer career or a more honorable record at Ores than Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company, which next month will round out twenty six years of active service. During that period nearly ninety of tho best citizens have been on the company's roster; many serving the allotted time to givo them honorable discharge, a few still remaining active.

When the company waa formed, December 5, 1874, was but.fl. small fishing. hamlet. William H. Patterson, now a village trustee," with half a dozen neighbors, talked up the project and soon had the organization successfully launched.

Mr. Patterson was formerly a member of the famoue Live Oak Engine Company of New York and the trumpets now used by Excelsior were secured from that organization through Chief Jack Sprague, who died recently at Rockville Center. By a singular coincidence the first fire the Excelsiors were called upon to attend was In Mr. Patterson's own butcher shop. The truck was kept in a shed back of Mead's bakery, near the burned shop, and in telling of the fire, Mr.

Patterson said: "It seemed an age before the boys got around. I pulled the truck out with one of the night bakers and got the buckets to work. We had no water supply other than house wells. The night was bitter cold and water froze in tho buckets in carrying it to the fire. The building could not be saved, but by heroic work my house was prevented from being devoured." The charter members of me company were Piatt Conklin, who was elected Its first foreman; Jacob B.

Smith, who succeeded him in that office: William H. Patterson, James H. Nicholc, William Raynor, Henry T. Bedell, Valentine Ketcham, Nelson H. Smith, Franklin Bedell.

David Whalty. Martin Rhodes, James B. Raynor, T. Smith. C.

B. Raynor, James R. Smith. Daniel R. Southard, Oliver J.

Smith, Napolecn B. Mulliner. Frank Smith, John Edwards and Jere Robbins. All of them are living at present except William Raynor and David Whaley. Those still active aro William H.

Patterson and James R. Smith, although the latter Is In another company. The boys often exchange some queer reminiscences when enjovirg an evening In their comfortable headquarters. One of them recently told the story how at the school house fire ten years ago they had to adopt the plan of throwing snow balls at the burning building and others adjoining, because the water was so scarce. A number of fine trophies have been won in years past at tournaments which are highly prized "by the members.

In getting to fires, the Excelsiors are generally first and they lose no time In' getting to work. Some of the best fighters In the village department have been schooled in tho parent organization and not a few of its oldest members, including D. Wesley Pine, Hiram R. Smith and James Y. Cheshire are ex chiefs of the department.

The present foreman of the company is Charles W. Bedell, who never falls to run with the boys to a fire and seldom misses a company meeting. He Is assisted by B. Frank Golder. nn enthusiastic fireman.

The first truck purchased by the company is still iii use. It was rebuilt two years ago and looks fit for many more years of service. LONG ISLAND PERSONALS. Bayard Cuttinr pent a short time this week on hie estate at Groat River. Mr.

and Sirs. Frank C. Ijawrence. havinsr returned from nn extensive European tour, arc now at their Bay Shore residence. Frederick C.

Truslow recently at his summer home at Great River for a few days' outlnff. Danlal Tetcrr. Bay Shore, has published a volume entitled "Poems of Nature." AUKUStus Rollers of Bay Shore will ppond the winter in South Carolina and will make the trip In the thirty eight feet naphtha launch belonging to William Ryorson Kissam of Brooklyn. Albert Boyce of Bay Shore will spend a few weeks In Cuba, after which he will (ro to Florida, whore he will remain to the end of the winter. Mr.

and Mrs. Prescott Hall nutler hava closed Ihelr country seat at St. James and lett for the city. C. Fred Chellbork of Brooklyn will make Ills home at Sea Cllft In the future.

Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Doscher have closed their Siiyvllle cottage and bave returned to Brooklyn for the winter.

County EnRlneer 13. Harper Ftrth has been granted leave of absence by the Nassau Supervisors and will go West for the benefit of his health. J. E. Brolln.

a Hempstead shoemaker of this village, has fallen heir to a fortune of $7,000 left by a relative who died recently. Walter E. Frew of Hempstead has been elected chairman of the executive committee of Group No. 7 of tho New York Stute Bankers' Association. Mr.

and Mrs. H. C. Grltman of Hempstead moved to Freeport this week. Georite St.

Johns of Baldwins, who enlisted in the United States Navy an apprentice, has pusscd a successful examination on board the receiving ship Vermont and has been transferred to tho Constellation at Newport, K. I. The Southold Town Board has appointed Charles Glover as constable of Fishers Island. A Herles of four subscription concerts will be Slvon in the Garden City Casino on tho oven Insra ot Friday, November S3; Wednesday. December Saturday, January 19, and Saturday, March 3, under the dlrootlon 'Zmry K.

Hdley. lovinsr cun. just pr.nid to Mr. Hinds as the champion ot the Richmond Goif Club, fas use3 as a table centerpiece, filled with carnations. A Cox hur.l took place from the Fourth Avenue Hotel, Bay Shore, yesterday afternoon.

LONG ISLAND WOMEN'S CLUBS. Some Members Had Important Places at the State Federation. Quite a number of Long Island club women have been in Albany during the past week attending the State Federation of Women's Clubs and some of them have occupied important places on the programme. Mrs. E.

A. Goodrldge, who until recently was president of the Flushing Good Ciitzensaip League, was a speaker. Mrs. John Lewis Chllda, president of the Hempstead and Floral Park Women's Clubs, was chairman of the nominating committee, a position always honorable, but not always enviable. The Jamaica Woman's Clui elected Mrs.

Higbie as its representative at the Federation. The 1 Glen Cove Woman's Club delegates were Miss Frances S. Cocks and Miss Jessie Yarrington. Various other clubs were represented. The Flushing Good Citizenship League is taking an active interest in the endeavor to keep the Flushing Library an independent organization Instead of allowing It to con solidate with the Queens Borough Library.

emi league, is one ot a committee to see how the financial question can be solved so as to keep an independent organization. The town has a good librarv. of which it is with good reason proud, and the fact that no provision has been made for its separate maintenance is not pleasing to the residents. The most important club meeting of the week was that of the Rockville Center Fortnightly, held on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Chapin.

Fifty women attended and listened with interest to a talk by Mrs. Mary E. Craigie of Brooklyn. Mrs. Craigie's i was "Women in Literature.

The Sea Cliff Good of tbe Village Auxiliary, at a meeting held on Tuesday, decided to take up as its (special work for the winter the laying out and beautifying of Clifton Park. This park is the largest and best located In the village and the women have long hankered after a chance to put it in order. There has, however, been a lively dispute as to its ownership, the widow of the late Henry DuBois claiming title to it. The matter now seems to bo dennitely settled and lhe wom 2n prcpoe to spend both time and money in turning it into a beauty spot. An ,11.

lu lAiai: iu. jjhi Patchogue Scrosls had a business meeting on Monday evening, attending to an accumu liUiou of affairs and dispensing with the usual programme. On Wednesday cfternocn. the weekly oocial gathering was held, the hostesses being Mrs. and Miss Eaton.

Next Monday night tere is to be a lecture by Miss Carolyn F. OSer. The Twentieth Century Club of Richmond Hill had Its regular monthly meeting on Mon afternoon. There was a large attendance and the talk op by Miss Kate Bond, was listened to with interest. There were some fine musical selections in addition.

The Oyeter Bay Woman's Club met on Thursday evening, with Mrs. William E. Townsend. The opening "Shakspeare" programme was given, Mrs. Cheshire, Mrs.

McQueen and Mrs. Hutchinson being in charge. There will be no meeting on the 29th, the next being the club reception, on December 6. Under the auspices of the Fortnightly Club, H. B.

Fullerton of the Long Island Railroad will give his Illustrated lecture on "Unique Long Island" at Library Hall, Rockville Center, next Wednesday evening. Tho Glen Cove Woman's Club met with Mrs. Sallle P. Coles on Monday afternoon. The programme was In charge of the committee on historic landmarks.

The club work for tbe season, beside the study already mentioned, includes home and child study, literature, music, history, art, and current topics. Meetings are held on the second and fourth Mondaya. I i i KEEL OF THE 1,900 TON SCHOONER LAID AT PORT JEFFERSON. John T. Mather and Owen B.

Wood. Mr. Wood learned his trade with the well known ship builder, Joseph Rowland of Setauket, and as an apprentice helped build the famous yacht Wanderer, of which an account was given in the Eagle some weeks ago. Later he entered into partnership with Emmet Darling In the yard now owned by John F. Hawkins, and later still formed the partnership with Mr.

Mather. The Arm has built one yacht, but its work has been confined largely to tugs and steamers. It built the Nnnowantuc and the Park City of the Bridgeport Line, admirable sea boats and speeders. It has the largest marine railway on Long Island outside of Brooklyn, capable of tak ing out a two thousand ton and does a great deal of work in overhauling vessels..