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1 14 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900. be sworn in as county clerk of Suffolk County, and William R. Duvnl, who has held the office for six years, win retire private life. Mr.

Keteham is a descendant of Edward Kef.eham, who located at Ipswich, in In ItMS his son Krfwm Keteham, SOME JMGIEN I HITS OF LONG ISLAND HIS NEW CATHOLIC CHAPEL TOBEfiOILTATBELLPORT REVIlLUTIOii? RELICS OF MANOR ST. GEORGE. MEW YEAR'S CHANGES AMONG QUEENS OFFICIALS over to the 'old Every one know who was meant by it, ar.d so in time it came to be tb.e only name of the settlement." Half way to the harbor nv roads iuter witn two or three dwellings in sight. was Old Place." said Mr. Wilson.

"where the first school house in this part of 1 the country was built, because it would serve both bid Man's and Browned Meadow." Shortly after he turned into a footpath leading "through a young forest of oak mil chestnuts on a. smooth, level platform, "There are indications of an Indian villas lure." he said. "This land has never been ploughed. It ever should be there ought 1 1) be some rich finds." Almost immediately the land I abruptly Robert Wodohouse, pastor, who with Mr. Wode houso starts ln Janunry for missionary work ln Africa.

Tbo annual meeting of the Freeport M. E. Chuich will bo held on January T. Watch night sorvlc will be held In the Ilemp 8toad M. K.

Church on New Year's Kve. Tho Kev. Samuel H. Seem of tbo Central Presbyterian Church, Huntington, went to (he home of his parents In Bangor, p.i., for the holidays. Electric liBhtn aro to be placed In the parsonage of St.

Paul's M. K. Church. Northport. The Rev.

Oeorgc W. West, rector of Grace Kpis eopal Church, Riverhead. has organized a temperance society wltli a good mcmberhii) of lim under 21' years of hrc. The pastor of th(; letnpHtcad Itaptlst ('tiurcli, the Itov. H.

H. Marcy, will observe the eio.il ng of tho century with nn appropriate i At St. Mary's and St, Muntea'H Catholic churches, at Jamaica, thero lll hs mldniKht musses on Monday night. At the Christmas afTcrluc taken up In SI. Monica's Catholic Church, at Jamaica, over $'Jtt were received.

I John H. Sutphin Will Retire From the County Clerk's Office After Thirty Years of Service. m. Ingram will succeed him Sheriff Joseph De Bragga. Who Follows William C.

Baker, Will Find the Income Greatly Reduced. (Special to the Eaglet Jamaica. I Dec ember County John li. Sutphin and Sheriff William rk C. Baker of Queens County are making lin.tl arrangements for turning ever their offices to their successors on January 1 next.

when James Ingram, ice county clerk elect and Joseph De Uragga, sheriff elect, will enter! upon tlie discharge of the duties connected with the positions. County Clerk Sutphin i has. by working day and night, orotigh! all the business of the cfli. right up to da'c. and every deed, mortgage ctlier paper of record is now copied as s.h as it comes in.

When Mr. Ingram enters tiie ol'ieo he will fin I no back business to engage his at leution. James Ingraham. the County Clerk elect, is one the most tirring and energetic young business men of the Astoria sec ion of jng island City ami says that he iil luti ltt the i my office on business principles. T.

ill probably be very in the cfrice employe? and polities v. iil ii.ive iittie to ilo with the conduct of the bus in Joseph iiragia has bv in the Sheriff's office for many years, having been a protege of Sheriff Baker. He has risen from a low position to tae office o. an saerii! tarouga his own exertions. cestry and is a hard prudent ofilcial.

He is is or oi tuaaese an working, careful and in every was for me position. I I i 1 1 removed to Huntington, and If is the nn I eestor of all the Ketehmns ef the island. Solomon Ketchain was born at Amityvillc In and attended tbo public schools of that nt" age oi 1. he began to learn the trade ot i nt i i i TTTiit nr til i nftT foor 1 HiCi years' apprenticeship cneaced the manu facture of carriages In his native town, con It inning in the business for Bcwnteeti years. ills next, venture was iu the real and lum t.

er business and after a fow years he started his present, business of Insurance and real with John K. Ireland its Ins partner. Mr. Ketcbam has always been an ardent Republican, casting his first vote fur Lincoln. He hay been identified with the political in terests of his town ever since at: I has served as overseer of the Towns of Huntington and Babylon.

As a delegate to his party's con ventions he won the esteem ot those wno called upou him for counsel an I advice. In Solomon Keteham, The Now Clerk of Suffolk surancc Company Mr. Keteham takes a lively interest in fraternal circles, being a member of the local branch of the Knights of Pythias, having filled all the chairs, therein. He is a member of the Church, and has served as a trustee and as superintendent of the endav school. He was married in 1S63 to Miss Phcebe Pearsall.

Mr. Ketchain is very popular in his village, which he was large lv instruinentr.l in having incorporated, lie is interested in all local improvements and for the advancement of his county and tat Mr. Keteham will retain Deputy Clerk Flanagan as his assistant at Riverhead. YOUNGS MEMORIAL CEMETERY. In It Are Tombstones of Oyster Bay's Dead Dating Back to 1640.

Ovstor Bay. L. December 20 The Youngs Memorial Cemetery at the Cove is one of the oldest landmarks on Long Island. This burial ground was established over two hundred years ago. and in it repose the ashes of some of the best known old lime residents of Oyster Bay.

In these grounds are tombstones dating back to the year 1640. Many old slaves, faithful and trusted servants of past generations, found a resting place here. The descendants of those who are buried in this cemetery recently organised a corporation under the title of the Younga Memorial x. 1 ne act to nururiJuidc 26 last with the approval of Governor Koose velt. The incorporators were Thomas Youngs.

William .1. Youngs, secretary to the Governor: Edward M. Towuscnd, Edgar G. Youngs. Samuel Youngs, the Rev.

George R. Vandewater. the chaplain who figured in the .1 rnrtf.v rtT nner i Mr. Sutnhin has held the ofTiee for thirty aad has seen the business expand i Mar of Keteham was appointed mauv fol.i during his administration. There I postmaster at Amityville and cominued in are at oreseat emploved in the olfice besido 'a nearly eight years, and during the chief Mr.

Sutphin. his deputv Charles bis incumbency he had the salary of the office Downing, who has served in that capacity i raised from SlJiOO to $1,400 per year. He twentv one vears. Thomas Seaman, clerk i has served on the town and. county eommu the court.

'two office clerks and light ecnv te? of his party and once, when nominated ists. There is an average of between flftv for supervisor, refused to run. and sixtv deeds, mortgages and other naper's He is secretary, treasurer and supenuten copie.1 in the books cf the office everv da I oent of the Amiiyville Water Company and and scores of other papers are filed and in I hollls tDe same positions in the Amityyille dexd everv twentv faur i Electric Light Company, having assisted in There are l.iM'l 'large volumes of deeds. SM'I the organization of both companies. He also of mortgages, oti of lis ptniens.

VZi of (its helped the AmityviUe Bank, ot charge of mortgages, lib of judgment orders, which he is vice president. He is a director So oi records of notices of action, and ".0 of of the Brunswick Home corporation, treas indexes. There are not less than rt.ooii of uivr of tho AmityviUe school district and a these volumes in all. oecunying not less than I director of the Amiiyville Laud Improvement 730 lineal ot" shelf room. There nr.

also Company and the Suffolk County iiutual ln One of the Finest Properties the Village, Secured by the Rev. J. J. Cronin, in DEEDED TO BISHOP MC BONNELL Successful Pastorate of an Energetic Priest Anniversary of St. John's, landenhurst.

(Special to the Eagle. I Patchogue, L. December Tlie formal transfer of the property at Bellport for the erection ot a chapol as an out missiun of St. Frances de Sales Catholic Church at Patchogue, was completed this week by the signing of the deed conveying the property to Bishop McDonuell of Brooklyn. The property includes one of the finest pieces of real estate in the Village Bellport, at the corner of Rector and Bell avenues, which was bought for the pastor, the Rev.

J. Cronin, by Thomas Reynolds of Bellport. The site is a central one and the plot has SO feet frontage on Rector avenue and is 230 feet deep on Bell avenue. Father Cronin hopes to begin the erection of a fine chapel that will be a credit to the parish about the first of April and the plans will be prepared at once for contractors' estimates. The new building will be finished by the first next July, at which time it will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies.

The purchase of this fine property and the promise of the chapel by next summer marks an era in the pasturate of the energetic Father Cronin. When he first, came to Patchogue, a little over three and one half years ago, he found anything but a harmonious parish, but with his tact and rare good judgment he has reconciled differ ences and brought St. Frances to the fore as one of the leading churches in the diocese of Brooklyn. It was largely due to lather Cronin that Frank A. Otis presented the church with a sum of money sufficient to cancel a heavy debt which it had been car rying for a number of years, and to day St.

i ranees has no indebtedness. Shortly after coming here Father Cronin saw the necessity of having services at Bellport. where the large summer population were without a Catholic church. He in stituted a mission there and said mass every Sunday during the summer in a temporary chapel over Hawkins arug store. For three years the mission struggled along in its small and inadequate quarters, but Father Cronin was undaunted and with the assistance of his parishioners finally raised the money for the purchase of the above mentioned site, and he has also a snug sum in hand toward the ex pense of building.

There are very few members of the parish at Bellport during the winter months, but during the summer there are about 200 attendants. Silver Anniversary. Lindenhurst, L. December 29 The twenty fifth anniversary of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, in this village, occurs next September, and at the annual Congregational meeting held on Wednesday evening, the following were made a committee to arrange for a suitable celebration: Philip Strack.

Charles Hirsch, William F. Wild. G. W. Irmisch, Peter Bundrich, Frederick Tarns, F.

O. Schneider, William Rail, George Tarns. The pastor, the Rev. Edward Standermann, is ex offlcio president of the committee, and Christopher Heyer secretary. Christmas Exercises.

Freeport, L. December 29 The Tres byterian Sunday school Christmas exercises on Wednesday evening were characterized by an electric display in the church by Harry Walling. "In Santa Claus Land" was presented in good style, C. P. Heyward appearing as Santa Claus.

Professor R. H. Mayland played several selections on the chimes in faultless style. Pastor Keteham and his wife were presented by the ladies of the church with a substantial check. End of the Century Services.

Sag Harbor. L. December 29 An end of the century service will be held in the Sag Harbor Methodist Episcopal Church. Monday evening, under the auspices of the Epworlh League. There wall be a musical and literary programme, the installation of league officers by the pastor and a prayer service continuing until the close of the century, aud the dawn ot 100L Young People's Meeting.

Sag Harbor. L. December 21) The young people's societies of Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor will hold a special service of prayer and conference at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, Monday afternoon. William C. Greene of Sag Harbor will address the meeting.

End of the Century Services. Jamaica, L. December 29 A special devotional service for the presbytery of Nas sau will be held in the Jamaica Presbyterian Church on the afternoon of December 31 to commemorate the end of the century. Every clergyman in the presbytery Is expected to attend with several members of his congregation. Two Memorial "Windows.

Whitestone, L. December 29 Among the many improvements be made in Grace Episcopal Church, the Rev. Rockland T. Unmans, rector, will be two memorial windows. One will be erected in memory of the late Joseph Titus by his family.

The other window will be in memory of the late Dr. Edward Bleecker. for many years senior warden in )hn church. The money for its construction has been collected by public subscriptions. Religious Notes.

At th annual moc tlng of the Patehogu" Methodist Chureh a memorial to the late Ellb; Smith was passed and placed on tli church records. At the rani') mec tliiK 9olutlc.ns cif condolence were pass eo to tlm Rev. Joseph Pullman or Stamford. a former pastor of the church, on the recent death I. 1 nls ron.

The Rev. L. W. Jackson, a pastor of the First iptl.it iUl ch. Pat.

hngue. was tendered a re ritUin by Ids parishioner on Frlcluy, 11 beins the third anniversary of Ida marriage. A mass will eelehi ited by llf Rev. Father Cionln at fit. Frances cu Catholic Church at Patehoijue on Monday night next, to icher In the new century.

Watch night services win he held In the Harbor Pentecostal Church. The first wnitrh r.lKbt eervloc ever held In 'hri. Church. Isllp. will le or, Jloailay The ton of the Fast ruh M.

K. 'liui. ii lul niRllt save a i'aiew. II lo ihe ft. v.

CEMETERY, OYSTER BAY Sites of Many Villages Found on the North Shore by Frederick M. Wilson. SHELL MOUNDS RICH IN RELICS. An Active Business Man Who Finds Time to Gather Large and Valuable Collections of Indian Curios. (Special to tlic llaglc Port Jefferson.

L. Dei ember 2:1 One of the most careful and indefatigable collecors of Indian renin ins on i ho island i probably, Frederick M. Wilson of this place. Although Mr. Wilson has been in active business all his life, lie has found time to satin the large and valuable Wilson ion of Indian relies from Port and vicinity now in the museum of tlie Long Island Historical Society, beside a valuable contribution to the Museum of Natural His'ory and a large private collection of his own.

Mr. Wilson is also an authority on Hie weapons. 11 its F. Ml. Wilson, Antiquary and Coll tools and implements of the Long island Indians, and on the sites of former Indian villages in this vicinity.

tne coast line trom Smuntown tiay easr ward to Miller's Place was once thickly dot 1n( With Inrlinn 1 1 i W'an I recently in conversation with ati Eagle rep resentative. "The distance rcav be twenty! miles in a straight line, and 'is doubtless I three times that if the windings of the shore! line are followed. It would be difficult to find a coast of equal extent showing greater sin uosities. Stonv Brook Harbor. Port Jeiie i son Harbor, with its tributaries.

Conscience! Bay and Setaukct Bay. and Mount Sinai Har bor are all wide and "deep indentations iu tlie hold coast line of ibp north each with i a water front of from ten to tifteen miles. "On the shores of these sheltered bays the red men loved to build their villages both because of the beautiful outlook, as 1 like to1 think, and because of the ease with which i They could gather their food from the waters before the.m. All kinds of fish. oysters.

clams, scallops, mussels and even the peri "winkle w.ore food for the Indian, while their! shells made his money and their 'nones bis arrow and spear her.ds. And most of the 1 chicks, geese and all sorts of water fowl swarmed in the sedgy marshes. "ft is quite easy now to determine tb sites of many of those villages by ihe shell mounds in their vicinity or by the arrows, spear heads, domestic implements and hips from the workshop of the arrow mak rs found near them. Every village had its heap of refuse near by. composed principally of shells and of the bones of animals killed and eaten, and when I find I know I am on the site of an Indian village encampment.

When ibe shells have lair, for centuries, the lime h3s v. ashe 1 av.av. leaving! a black earthy material rich in fertilizing I qualities. Some of these shell mounds were! carted on to their lands by the tarlier settlers i ior fertilizers and are lost to us. I have 1 OLD FIELD located Indian villages at lioa i the River.

In Smithtown. at Stony ilro.k. i 1 i i 'ield. near the jiresent ligliihottsr. at tip 1,.

Conscience Bay. on Vtatikes Bay. the site now occuided by th hous' ot Seuuicct Village: on Strong's Xe. on DycUrrV; Mc near the residt nee of Mr. One stood on Thompson so in of Port Jefferson, on pro i ty now owo.

.1 n. i'. row i. raise. b.i Orchard and side of Port continuously Sinai Harbor.

Ilotr.an's il: around tin tin ail t'ar r. i.e. on slid cs I hav ii: arrow and spear lp ad. implements, but only i.r have I found their burial Tills was quite a ilisappfiininicn. for Ik Iiolian warrior died bis weapons nd in the chase were buried v.ith hi it the future happy hunting Is burial ground will Uier.

f. vi cf for in A Indian l.ci cad in; cT csi ing whi h. if 1 of valuable and curious thipp.e. shell mounds: I have relics. Here is a piece bono am not mistaken, is tin bum It is split iongittidinallv.

as von a in. ip. to tract the marrow and would iiidicaf i aborigines were sometimes, ai least, bals. aaui ii you win ta! a wan; wttii to (Mount rdnai Harbor. I will how you e.c sites of Severn! Indian villap.es." The morrow proved to be one of those mellow Indian summer vouchsafed ny Nature ere she resigns acre.l!' to the icy arms of winter.

The route was by ihe "lower road," as it is now cnlh'ii. the old post road between Grcciiport and Nov York. "There were three of tbus.e roads opened through the island tin day," said Mr. Wilson. "Ihe South Country ion i.

he Middle Country road tec North "ount' road. This road was the northernmost. 'I mail stage ran over il. Port Jefferson was then a mere sett lemeni known as Drowned Meadow. Mount Sinai was another, and called Old Man's.

Tradition says it derived its name lrom the fact that its first settler, and the only inhabitant feu some time, was a very old man. The people in familiar conversation would speak of going mi i i Hwmnmm kyi ill: lipKffiiSii' i 'j j' i i to Memento of One of the Few Island Battles in Which the British Pflet Defeat. AN OLD FORT ON SMITH'S POINT. Cannon on Its Site by a Party of Tourists Relics in the Old Homestead. (Special to tho Eagle.) Mastic, L.

December 29 One of the most interesting historical places on Long Island is Manor St. George and the remains of Fort St. George, at Smith's Point, Mastic, on the Great South Bay, the home of the Smith family. Up to the year 1780 the English held possession of the fort. At dawn on November 23, Major Benjamin Tallamadge, unper ceived by the British, rushed in three on their works at Fort St.

George. With the cry of "Washington and Glory)," the three detachments scaled tho PalisadeX? ST. GEORGE. and entered, carrying the work, at the point of the bayonet, in less than ten minutes. Recently Miss Martha Tangiers Smith, a direct descendant of the first William Tan giers Smith, escorted a party of friends over the site of the old fort.

It is on a slight elevation, commanding a grand view of the bay for many miles. The groundwork of the fort can be faintly traced by irregular grass covered mounds of earth, in the center of which may be found part of an old cannon, brown with rust, resting on a stone, half hidden in the grass. Miss Smith says that part of the walls of the fort, up to the second story, was standing in her grandfather's time, when he had it torn down, as it interfered with his view. Manor St. George is a fine old colonial farmhouse, with many large windows, on the ground floor having twenty four small panes of glass.

It is square, broad and two stories in height, standing well up from the beach among tali oak trees. The original homestead burned down many years ago; the present one was erected in 1S24. There is a wide hall extending through the center of the house, from north to south, opening onto wide porches. Entering the hall from the south porch there is an old square, stiff backed armchair, brought from Tangiers. Midway in the hall is an arch, draped with a large American flag, and at the left of the south door is a large hall table, on which', in close proximity lay past and present.

Golf clubs, bells and the dally paper, sur rounded a curious wooden writing desk, over a hundred years old, also from Tangiers. The original patent on parchment, granting the estate lo William Tangiers Smith, yellow and faded by time, bangs framed on the parlor wall. The estate comprises about Old Cannon Found on the Site of Fort St. George, Smith's Point. seven hundred and fifty acres of upland in the southeastern part of Brookhaven Township and half of East Bay.

The estate, under its patents, controls the entire right to fish in the waters of the westerly half of the bay, and to shoot wild fowl there. This grant was bestowed upon William Tangiers Smith, for his good services to the British crown, as governor of Tangiers, Africa. Among the relics shown by Miss Smith are some Indian arrowheads, found on their land, and a number of almanacs of as early as 1752. A square cut steel shoe buckle of the style worn in Revolutionary days. Miss Smith found wrapped in old English paper that is not manufactured at the present time, in a barrel in tho attic.

Tho thick paper in which it was wrapped bad preserved it in such perfect condition that it was as bright as when tho owner discarded It. A few fields away from the house is the old family graveyard. One of the earliest inscriptions was that of "Mrs. Mary Smith, consort, of Judge William Tangiers Smith, born at Smithtown, May 23. 1735, O.

S. died at Manor St. George, April 23, 175S, N. age only 23 years." About a mile inland In a grove of oaks, overgrown with a network of wild grapevine, is nn Indian burying ground. ELECTRIC LIGHT SCHEME.

Valley Stream, L. December 29 There is serious opposition to the application of the New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company to bo permitted to extend its lines from Jamaica limits and furnish electric lights to this and several surrounding villages. The project which the town board of Hempstead is asked to sanction, should sufficient signatures bo secured to a petition now in circulation, is practically a revival of the Lynbrook lighting district, as established by tbo town board in 1898. The contract for furnishing lights was awarded to John N. Williamson ot Jamaica, who afterward assigned it to the Suburban Electric Light Company.

A taxpayers' suit was brought and tho courts declared the town board's action illegal. Tho electric light plant built by the company has been idle since the contract was annulled by the courts. two hundred feet or more to the level of Meant Sinai Harbor. A corn field with the XV i si Crystal Brook Pond, and washing the! base of the dam the reedy channels of the harbor. On the left covering the entire west side of the harbor lay the great Strong ex tale.

Oak wood, with its line old manor house plainly visible a quarter of a miie above. "This bay must have fairly swarmed with led men in their day." said Mr. Wilson. "You see that great promontory a short distance above the manor. There was the largest shell mound I have found in my researches.

Leads upon loads of shells were carted from it by the first settlers and spread as fertilisers over their fields. You can see the deep chasm it: the hill now. I found a few arrow heads only there, bur have never had an opportunity to dig. From that point all aiound the sweep of the bay to Hopkins on the east were Indian villages, or perhaps summer camps of families from the interior as is indicated by the shell heaps found aloa, the shores. In this corn field before us 1 found numerous arrow and spear heads ami a beautiful specimen of hawk." A search of the corn field discovered many chips of quartz and one arrow head of red sandstone.

"This is a rare find." said Mr. Wilson, referring: to the latter, "and is very old. represents the primitive stage of Indian an. Whoa they improved in handicraft they used these quartz pebbles picked up on the beach, innumerable chips of which you can find in this field showing that it was a favorite workshop of the arrowmakers. I'ntioubtedly the latter formed a guild by themselves.

A powerful guild, too. and they carried on a commerce in weapons with distant tribes. how they made their arrows has been a subject of dispute among scholars. 1 have solved the problem to my own satisfaction. It was done by chipping the pebble with horn or a harder stone, and smoothing down the chip into an arrow or spear head." He stopped speaking and picked up a round, smooth pebble once worn by the waves "This illustrates ray contention." he said.

'Yon see that fully one half of this pebble las been chipped away, and when the workman could no longer 2rt chips of sufficient size he discarded it. I have found many of them, some showing the marks of the chisel, only proving that they would not chip." Tie led the way along the pretty woodsy rou.l forest on one side, and tr.ngb swamo r.i.liag pretty Crystal Brook Pond on 'tie other. Soon 'he came to Crystal Brook Hollow, a deep ravine running down to the sea from near Middle Island, eight miles distant in the tenter of the island. Us bed is ne.v 06 dry as a bone, and yet." said Mr. Wilson.

"Captain Dayton, who would be about JOO Uo'oi'f considerable stream Uowed here and! itT niCT ri i mo i nar jo n'ti nnv that there were stepping stones across it for Hie convenience of font nas iwnsers. nm confident that a stream once flowed herp large t.lilil.l i 1 1 toll Crtll whv. Follow the ravine to its head at Floyd Edwards' house, near Middle Island, and you will find two ponds, one on either side of the! house. Between the two. in old day, an In dian path from Miller's Place to Island used to run and Mr.

Edwards said he had heard his grandmother tell of seeing In i dians going back and forth on it with packs on their backs. I once dug down four feet in to the bank of these ponds and found depos i its of shells of unknown depth. As it is i quite seven miles there from the sound, it is evident the red men did not carry them there 011 their backs, and the only reasonable explanation is that a creek once flowed from the ponds down this hollow to the ground, up which the Indians paddled their canoes laden with shell fish." On the east bank of the hollow, stretching for half a miie around the arc of the harbor, are the extensive grounds of the Crystal Brook Park Association, a Brooklyn colonv. the head ot wnich is Lr. Jerome walker, a well known physician of Brooklyn.

He purchaser! the property of the Payne heirs it. was formerly known as Payne's cut. a few roads through it. laid it out in building lot, and offered it as a desirable residence for quiet folk, who love nature and seclusion, and ilo not ooject to oeing niree miles trom railroad. Beside the Central Club House, or dining hall sixteen cottages have already been built, and two or three more have been contracted for.

Beautiful views of harbor and open sound beyond may be had from many hill tops on this tract. "The whole purchase where it borders on the harbor." said Mr. Wilson, "was once an almost continuous Indian village. There are snell mounds acl other indications all around LIGHT. and on oe in ne rear ol it I have iouiid me ing th: ir arrow a.i:s and indicat r.t i ii.r,.." The rp turf in cub riy near the Hub house, pvovi v.

or ls. If the arc nn 'I shoal i spots pill i he truth ever he iilfjuiTiieii sonic par: iculy rly ri' migb' rev i j). rif f. oip.ctor. SINKING PUNS To Iilset Hempstesct's Big Debt for I'lacadam Eoads.

fb I I. (.. f)c iif (. ''l of which full dti ir: Ihrid. lain i tie puy road bonds, proving a quest ion ol iniporta id the present Town Hoard.

de irous of creating a v. hfisi nie.r.bers sinking itiiid ar lion wii. not be purpose. that taxa i deiisome when demand is made for tin canceling of Up. bonds.

Tlie Hoard has present. derive. 1 from the sale of Long Beach, and this amount is suggested as the us a sinking litn i. spting aut. iorpy )M, asked the townspeople to appropriate the moiicv toward the macadam i bunds.

A prnpo. 1 1011 is also oii. ddi lai loo to sell all tne town as was. done the plain lauds for support of the poor year. ago.

and by that mean: derive possibly Taking the entire and other mone derived from lenses, until the sale oo eurriil. wwild furnish a large part of the required amount and make taxation light. The Hoard is now as rcrtaining what power it has to create a sinking fund, and will probably take definite action before January 7 to inaugurate some plan. Tlie original issue of macadam read bonds was 54 211. OlM).

Now York city will pay aim, it. one third of this amount, as roads then in tile town arc now in city limits. A puzzling feature of the bond issue is that they all mature tlie same year instead of bv series. Th. ijn i.

hav. l.c bv inn ..1 'In mil. ur Jamaica i i Ip.ya! i invited t. a smoker, l.e in 'ouncil of Brooklyn on the ev. i i I i i i i i i I i i i Watch ntirht service will iu; li.

ltt In the Church of the Resurrection, at. Hlehiuond Jlill, on xiomUy night. Th? Rev. J. Howard Hobbs.

pastor of tlie Ja maica Presbyterian Church, will preach to mor row ovcnliiK on "Jhe CIohiiik t.vntury. A men's meetlnc will he held in tins Jamaica Methodist Church to morrow afternoon. Urotlicr Shevera will ua.v charge. The young men of St. Mary 'si Catholic Church.

have organized a lyeer Boelety unci will hold a meeting at the going out of the century and watch tbo new year In. The Rev. L. K. Moors of Jamaica will nrcacii in the Morris Park Methodist Church to niorrow morning.

At the Elmont M. K. Church to morrow the J. Taylor wiii preach. Miss Mattle Cuktv.

the Boston cvanRelist. has concluded her series of meetings on Long Island ami returned to Boston for tlie winter. The Kev. Kobcrt Wodohouse of Fast Meadow will give niispionary addrcK.s in the Hempstead Presbyterian Church to morrow afternoon. An admission of members on probation and fuii membership will take place at the Fast Meadow M.

F. Church to morrow mornlnff. Revival services were commenced in tlie Seuford Baptist Church Thursday night. At tlie Sea Cliff Methodist Church watch meet OLD MANOR OF ings will be held on Monday evening. The services will open at and from 11 to 12 there will be a love feast.

The services ill be under the direction of John O. Jenkins of Brooklyn. Special end nf the century services are to lie held at St. Luke's Church, Sea Cliff, on Monday evening. There will be a special form of services with an appropriate addreas by tlie rector, th3 Rev.

W. D. Morgan. The service at St. Luke's Church, Sea Cliff, tomorrow evening will be given up to tlie Sunday school children, who will repeat their Christmas music.

The cabinet of the Sea Cliff Kpworth League will conduct tlie prayer meeting at tlie Methodist Church to morrow night. Revival services will he held in the Sea Cliff Methodist Church next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. A New Year's praise service will be rendered by the choir of the Sag Harbor Methodist Church Sunday evening. A series of gospel temperance meetings, under the leadership of H. Spear, is in progress in the Methodist Church.

Babylon. The Christmas offering of the Young Ladies' Society ot the First Presbyterian Church was two boxes of clothing and valuables, one of which was sent to the Rev. John Currie, at Cray. the other to the Industrial School at Hot Springs, C. In the Church of Our Ladv of Loretto.

Hempstead, of which the Rev. Father illiam B. Far rell is rector, high mass will be e. lcbrated New Year's Dip hy Father Farrell. with tlie Rev.

Waiter Kerwin as deacon mid the Rev. John Farrell as sub deacon. The Christmas music will be repeated at this service. West's musical service, that, has been presented in this countrv but twice, will again be repeated on Januarv ti in Ihe arden City Cathedral, under the direction of r. W.

W. Woodcock, the cathedral organist and choirmaster. Midnight mass will be held In St. Mary's Catholic Church. Fast Islip.

on Monday night by toe rector, the It v. iidw. ird Duffy. Dr. Joseph Wild, having passed over fifty years in the ministrv.

in Canada. Brooklyn and California, will preach In the Bay Shore Congregational Church Sunday morning. January ti. High mass, before the Blessed Sacrament, will he by tlie Kev. Joseph P.

McCInley. in St. Patrick's Church. Bay Shore, on Monday night, with special music by the choir. There will be a special League service in the Methodist chapel.

Bay Shore, to morrow night, with exorcises appropriate to the closing of the year. Henry ID. Brewster. Charles W. Vail and George C.

White have been re elected trustees of the Day Shore Methodist church. The South Side Cleiicus will meet Monday at the D. miny House. Bay Shore, the essayist being tlie Rev. James W.

Higgles of Patchogue. Parents' Pin will ho observed in the Methodist Sunday school. Bay Shore, to morrow afternoon. Watch night services will he held in tho Methodist and gatiunal churches. Bay Shore, on Mondav night, each having a varied programme of exercises, including a love feast and a consecration service.

Quarterly conference will be held in the Seaford M. K. Church by Presiding Elder Chadwick nest Wednesday evening. The Hempstead Presbyterian Sunday school 13 to be renovated and Improved. PATCHOGUE HARBOR.

Bill for an Appropriation That Is Ea vored by Secretary Root. Patchogue, L. December 29 Considerable pressure Is being brought to bear upon the Washington authorities to have inserted in the river and harbor bill nn appropriation for the deepeuing of ihe channel in the Great South Bay, from Fire Island to Patchogue and Patchogue River. It is learned here that the river and harbor committee, in their endeavors to present the bill to Congress during the present session, are giving no hearings aud will not allow even a Congressman to appear before the committee. A large delegation was refused an audience by the committee last week.

Every member of the engineer corps is heartily in favor of the plan and it. is understood that Secretary of War Root is pushing it alt.ng. The Eagle's Washington correspondent explained In detail the plan of the proposed work as recommended by Major Ruff ner of the Engineer Corps, as follows: Major Ruffner made a survey of the Patchogue River for the purpose of determining tho cost of Ihe proposed improvement. He estimates that bv an expenditure of $66,000 and an annual appropriation of $2,000 for maintenance, a channel can be obtained 10 feet deep and 200 feet wide from Firo Island Inlet to the central basin in Great South Bay, at the mouth of Patchogue River, and thence feet deep and 100 feet wide up the Patchogue River to Patchogue. Major Ruffner savs that there is urgent need for this Improvement and says that the traffic over the waters involved merits the expenditure of the money covered bv the estimate.

Tho present channel is broken by shoals which limits the draft, of vessels desiring to approach Patchogue'. The entrance to Fire Island is so narrow at present and crooked as well that the tidal flow is greatly contracted. Major Ruffner estimates also that lo secure the channel desired would require tho dredging of about 400,000 cubic yards through a distance of some two miles In the; bay and one mile in the river. JIB AND MAINSAIL CRUISER. Amityviile, L.

December 29 One of the largest and finest pi easure boats built in this section Is now under way at Warren Purdy's shops, for George Schard, sr. The craft will have both sail and motor power, and will draw but 20 inches of water. The water lino will bo 2" feet; deck, 38 feet, and beam, 12 feet. Mr. Schaid has classed the new yncbt as a jib and mainsail auxiliary cruiser.

Comfort, rather than speed, Is embodied in tho plan of construction, and thero will be ample room and complete equipment. Tho cabin will be paneled In oak and finely finished. Ample sleeping accommodations will be provided for the owner, his guests and It Is expected to launch the new craft in March. in the offlee judgmeut rolls. rum cf saenn.

certiheates and certiticates 'Ju oi County property. The town records ot every icwn of Queens and of what is now ihe Coun a. aie uisu iitesui is tne omce. Queens County as one o. the three original I3' Kings Queens and sui havmg been termed in has a o.

history in 113 olu county records tDat vvotild delight an antiquarian, Tne avfl iu'e ln tao handwriting 01 DeY at Nieolls. county clerk. The little old yellow volume A. entitled "Book cf Enterys. contains a record of all ot Pabiie and private business, ineiud ing colonial grams and Indian deeds signed with the peculiar chief and tribe marks.

The first entry in this initial 'volume, which i5 as neatly written as those of any of the records in the 1 243 succeeding volumes, is concerning the appointment on February 1, 1683. of John Bowne of Flushing to be county treasurer of Queens, according to an act of the colonial legislature, "and according to us under.vritten by order of every to.vu of said signed by the following supervisors of the townfi: John Seaman. John Carpenter. Thomas Townsend. Thomas Wil lett.

John Jackson. Daniel Whitehead. Thomas Stovonson and Nathaniel Colts: per DeWitt N'icoils. county clerk. The above name! persons composed the first board of supervisors of Queens County ine nrst private paper reeoraed is a dis charge of James icke of Flushing of all the debts and obligations held by him against the estate ox M.

Mary Teke. This is the only paper of this sort recorded as a transaction of the year 16815. although there are records oi transactions that occurred in preceding vears entered at that date. The fnilo in a tier r.r 1 1 e'erks of Queens who have succeeded Mr. 1 Mr.

Xieolls. who served until 1G8S ith the date their terms cf office lrew etibb lames S. Row. i'. .1 An trew f'lark Wiiit.

hea 1 flicks The.T.as Jcncs S. Abra i re. S'kiraer Iiari. WiiUer Unriins iw. jr 1 r.r rnia i.s A.

L. Smith If rr St I A J.istus G. Sitlinian H. lwin l. s.

P'oS rc. I. lTi'il i i ITP. i iM IM iti tst ih' ltS ItwP' r. iiii'as John ii.

Set: a 1,71 Sheriff 'William C. Baker, his friends "'ill tire from (he sheriff's offiee on Moi'i nay nigiu next sense of tief. 'i ho income of the offl' his' been stea li'lvl dwindling unti! it. can no longer be remur.cra 'nless retrr hm jn: is rric oct. Sheriif Baker ha paid out to eni ploves salaries, end hioi ii r.oi bc ii for Vh si.dC'i received last year for the hoard of prisoners from Nassau County.

fTi' would not have paid Next the ne Artau jau v.iii 00 Ci tl (. jpjir roe of revenue will be ci: off. or it4" i iTW is'14 i I Church in this village: George A. Da vid Nash. Graham Voungs.

William T. Mc mi minim it I Conn. Sidney McCoun. Samuel S. Van yck Fiect.

John Maaon. James tt.ent viason, vvin iam L'ndcrhill Joseph William Underhill, Seaburv S. Jones. John J. Jones, Daniel Underhill.

Samuel Y. Bayles. Captain Charles II. Bavles. Frederick Kane, Amos M.

Knapp, Thomas linker. Frederick Baker, Pri3cilla Browt r. James II. Ludlam and Frederick Ludiam. The officers: having the affairs of the ceme tcrv in charge comprise M.

Townseud, president Charles. II. Bayles. treasurer, and Wiliiam J. Youngs, secretary.

These officers. tcgether with uenrge vanuewater and James M. Ludlain. also constitute a board of ti unices. liin a radius of one miie is clustered around this country some of the oldest and finest conniry seat" in the country, including that of Vice President elect Theodore Roose reU.

It i'i located on a hillside facing the highwav leading from Oystr Bay Cove to Cold Spring Harbor and is bounded on the made in th lots or The corpora lion may also acquire by deed or devise land adjoining lots. The Your.y.j Memorial Ccni'tcry is practically tip; oaiy eer.ie:. ry available to the people ot Bay. a there is no burial grounds in or very the village. Dr.

Peter i the bos Frye and Janie' J.udlam. two of known Tiicn their lime in this Town. we: lyuriefl in iliis spring it proposed te. mar eel improvements about the remotery. some changes trounds.

THE YOUNGS MEMORIAL the onti act bet ween the City of Xi.w York north, west and south by the lands of Will r.rol the office of the sheriff of Queens for iam J. Youngs and Susan M. Youngs, tlie botr.l of prisoners at per week ends Since the incorporation lot owners can now with Sheriff iiaker's term. Tills contract v. ns transfer lots by deed cr devise to the ceaie ratef into by the Queens Cauntv Hoard of I tery corporation, wheth' iniritils have been Supervisors with tr.c sheriff before tba bodv uu'.

omce, ano tn city, as stiec; ssor to the powers ar.d duties of ihe supervisors, had carry out the contract full. It is sail to he very doubtful whether the city authorities wiii in the future pny any sticli rate for i lie i orrd of Queens County re ison The prico usually paid hy tlie citv, it said, is from $2 to S2.2". per week. Tliw will noi lie more than from 0 te ers In the jail after ivxl year. prison The operaticm of the United.

States P.ank raptey 'sir has rved to greatly dti'" n'tmber of slit riffs' sa les. and the citv shals now do ov half the usi pes. in th way of seizing and selling it a. iK an 1 jrhniTels that was formerly tirely by the. sheriff, and it in saiit that this i wlrch.

during Shri iff iu iai iien'y. save an income to its. possessor of from S40.O0O to per y. ar. will, in a few mourns more, narely pay It is said that Sheriif eleet Dc P.ragea has engaged William Ronnei.t of Astoria as "liner sheriff and clerk, at a salary of where Sheriff Baker paid S2.iioti sheriff.

51 .200 for a cleric and St iiO for an assistant. The foilo is a lisi of ihe sheriffs of Queens County since 1.S21 mil: all Saii.c tt J. lm im.a. si.i rp.it.cis Ti II Tt Tr dw Jonathan T. I'urman John A.

Se.arlst; Wlll. us RolieC Seat. Ore C. I t'ownim; Human! us 1 lend rich sod J. ph urtis i.

oi, I'. WUiP.nl liurland (Pomp Ijllilaud W. c. lt nrv Charles A. Sainmis li.

itusl A. IJ. Wi ildil iPiiieir. i'ticniali J. Mi I'.

Mit. li Matthf .1. Cold i. irMii Il nrv William ('. linker 1 I 14 PJM7 i iv i I l.c Tl I ive: lv.j i Suffolk's New County Clerk.

I AmityviUe, L. December 29 On Tucs I day next Solomon Kefeham of Amiiyville will 1.