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I FEATURES SPORTS BROOK EAGLE THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1940 LINE ON LINERS by FRANK REIL Ellis Island, Gateway to America, Marks Golden Anniversary Today Next to the Statue of Liberty, the most famous landmark in the harbor is Ellis Island. To millions who have come to the New World from other lands its pile of towered brick buildings has meant but one thing the Gateway to America. Once Ellis Island was a busy place but today, as it cele The Ladies, Bless 'Em, Are FILL IT UP! For Brooklyn Club doesn't have a diamond jubilee to celebrate every day. Here ore members of the diamond jubilee committee, from left to right: Charles H. Pulis, president; former Justice Peter B.

Hanson, Walter F. O'Malley, chairman; Surrogate George A. Wingate and Jacob C. Klinck. Other committee member not shown is Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink.

In Brooklyn Club's Graces EARS TO THE GROUND By CLIFFORD EVANS So They'll Be at Big Party, Come April 20, to Help Celebrate Diamond Jubilee HEFFERN AN says Reporter In Armor Crashes 400 To Find Society Likes Bit O' Spice 'Park' Is the Name, Fame Comes To Abraham Mandel; They Got Prizes Anyway I Maurice Rubin. Brooklyn liberty, some of them successful even though it is a hard swim to the mainland. In Mr. trhl time there have been hunger strikes, claims that bogus sausages were served the Immigrants, and even a "silence" strike in which certain people refused to answer questions put to them by the authorities. But stranger still are the fantastic characters who have bobbed up at Ellis Island either on their way into or oat of the United States.

Emma Goldman, the motherly anarchist, was deported from there and sent to Red Russia. The Countess Cathcart was a lodger while the nation was learning the phrase "moral turpitude." Then there was the Emir of Kurdistan, who regularly stopped at Ellis Island when he was shuttling back and forth between the United States and England because neither country wanted this self-stvled ruler of 18.000,000 Kurds. He finally did get in when it was established that he was born in Detroit. Prince Escaped Twice Another one of Mr. Uhl's frequent guests at the island was Prince Michael Romanoff.

The erstwhile pants presser, who was born Harry Gerguson, was a constant stowaway while he was trying to establish his contention that he is an American citizen. He made two escapes from Elis Island that won him short-lived periods of freedom in which he frequented high-class restaurants, speakeasies and the homes of wealthy people on Park Ave. Suites for Families Once the island used to house and feed 5,000 people a day, but with restricted immigration and more careful Inspection on the other side, the average population of the island is around 200. When the 600 sailors from the scuttled Columbus were landed at Ellis Island recently they practically swamped the place, which hadn't seen a crowd like that in over 15 years. Immigrants who have to stay at the Island these days are treated gently and kindly.

Living conditions have greatly improved and 'here are even suites so that fam-lies can live together instead ot jping broken up as they once were. Mr. Reimer, who has been commissioner since 1934, has done considerable to humanize the island. A man of action, he has done much to cut red tape Involving the problems of immigration. He Is always ready to listen to the sad stories of refugees and give comfort and ad vice when he can.

TELL ONE Words Indianapolis, April 11 (Pi As if one needed to be told, with the thermometer st degrees above zero. Dr. Herman G. Mor- of a man, undoubtedly telling the trutn, wno was complaining to his counsel. By JANE CORBY To the ladies! For 74 years, as the birthdays of the Brooklyn Club There have been times in have felt more comfortable "I can't understand it," he all day and nobody called out zoomed by, the members have been giving that toast to 6 it's a common enough experience with those who go news hunting as a steady job.

However, until today I never heard- lg- -le nd tem hm But the da nrn pnnH hnmo Qfter tho arf "Maybe you got your dates mixed," the counsel sug ppstpd. of a reporter actually attired in coat of mail, corselet, greaves, gaunts and presumably all the rest of the attire of a gentleman in, let's say, the 16th brates iUs golden anniversary with flags and harbor salutes, it 's merely a temporary stop-over for a few. And most of them are those who are departing from the country, as up until recently emigrants have outnumbered the immigrants. It was Commissioner Rudolph Reimer, a Brooklynite, who, in poring over some old records, discovered that President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill just 50 years ago today which made Ellis Island an immigration station. I'hl There for 48 Years Actually the isiand not used for immigration purposes until two years later and that was when Byron H.

Uhl, an 18-year-old stenographer, first reported to Ellis Island. He has been there for 48 years, even longer than the present buildings, most of which date from 1900. Since the present Director of Immigration and Naturalization his full title first went to Ellis Island, over 28,000,000 immigrants have passed through the Port of New York. Mr. Uhl has seen 14 Commissioners come and go and he has itnessed the epic battles that have raged over the conduct of the island.

He has watched immigration mount to more than a million a year and then fall off until less than 8.000. Just Goes On Forever For over 20 years he has been assistant commissioner, lending a helpful hand to commissioners, who are political appointees and who often have not the vaguest notions of the job. They come and go but Uhl goes on forever. There isn't any one who could write a better history of Ellis Island than this man who has been its oldest commutlng-resident. But Mr.

Uhl hates to talk about himself and abhors personal publicity. And what stories he could tell! Once Landed at Aquarium He goes back to the days when the Immigrants landed at Castle Garden, now the Aquarium. This was whei. immigration was under State supervision. Battery Park WM wUn crooks and snarps who took advantage of the newly-arrived people.

Not understanding the language of the gountry, the were easy victims and were robbe left and right, Ellis Island did much towart" protecting the immigrants, but still, in the early days, conditions were pretty bad the I'land. There were several Congressional Investigations concerning graft and moral conditions. Many who have been detained i the Hand have made breaks for AND NOW YOU Flea Hunt Forest Grove, April 11 () Dr. C. Anderson Hubbard's 5-year itch for a flea is over.

He caught it. The Pacific University biologist, noted for his contributions to the British Museum flea collection, found an unfamiliar "skipper" on a deer mouse. It was there by some mistake of nature, so he decided to look for the original carrier. Five years later he found another on a mole shrew. Several moles, all carrying the same strange flea, indicated they were the true hosts.

Hubbard named the new flea "corypsylla Jordan!" In honor of Dr. Karl Jordan, famous flea authority and curator of the British Museum. Election Columbia, April 11 All the printers had to do to set up forms for an election was change the dates on the forms PUT Jtl ciJlA MU" used four years ago if they still had the forms. Three candidates ran, unopposed, to succeed themselves In office, for which they were opposed in 1 -i lawyer-author, tells the story: was saying. "I was in court my case.1 an actress was complaining that she had been commanded to go on a diet.

"I've been ordered to 15 pounds." she pouted, "but I don't ie it. I guess I'm a bad loser!" George Raft is flying in from Hollywood to attend the opening of The Hurricane night spot next Wednesday. Jerry Cooper tei of a pigeon which should be in- vestigated by the Dies seems its a jcn-winger. wooi i worth's is selling wedding cake: now made up to order at jour directions. The Hartmans met authoress Beth Brown at a swank Biltmnre party.

"Darling, your gown is a poem," Grace Hartman enthused. "Three poems and a short stor.r, to be exat," Beth corrected. Fame Comes at 69 An oil painting now on exhibition in the Brooklyn Museum may not cause, any expression of awe when you see the artists name because he never has been linked with the great painters of today The painting, two feet by three feet. entitled, "Eternal Riddle," and the artist is Abraham Mandel of Flatbush. But Mandel is an interesting personality because he Is fi9 years of age.

has been painting for the past five and one-half years, never took a lesson in his life, does not know the artistic formula for mixing colors, spent several years of his youth as a weight lifter in a circus and in vaudeville, was a women's clothes designer until ten years ago and began painting when some one told him he has "the soul of an artist." Cooey and Everett M. Clark, all prominent singers. Brooklyn Club birthday dinners are always held as near to April 24 as possible, because it was on April 24, 1865, that the papers ol incorporation of the club were taken out. Dr. A.

Cooke Hull Is conceded to have been the man with the Brooklyn Club idea, back in those days of top-hatted busi- I ness men aim wewinsKtrcu pnysi- clans. Life in Brooklyn had be-: come hectic, with the boom brought 1 on by the Civil War, and Dr. Hull yearned for a quiet plate where he and a few friends might meet, without benefit of feminine con and do a little talking I Four other early Brooklynltes saw eve to eve with Dr. Hull, and with him they became the ln- corporators of the club. Their namer, are now enshrined in Brook Ivn Club memories, and were: John Winslo.

Charles J. Rowley. Ethel-bert S. Miils and Giorge W. Par sons, my reportorial career when I'd in a suit of armor I suppose1 Irish eye picks out Dr.

OToole and Thomas Emmet of the family of Robert Emmet, the Irish patriot boy whose speech in court belongs among the examples of imperishable oratory. "Some surprise was expressed at seeing in the crowd a man in the habit of a knight In armor a Mr, Attree, reporter and one of the editors of an Infamous penny paper called The Herald." Bennett, the principal editor, called upon Mr. Brevoort to obtain permission for this person to be present and to report in his paper, an account of the ball. He consented, as I be lieve I should have done, under the same circumstances, as by doing so a sort of obligation was imposed on him to refrain from abusing the house, the people of the house and their guests, which would have been done in case of a denial. Surveillance 'Intolerable' "But this Is a hard alternative; to submit to this kind of surveillance is getting to be intolerable, and nothing but the force of public opinion will correct the insolence, which, It is to be feared, will never be applied as long as Mr.

Charles A. Davis and other gentlemen make this Mr. Attree 'hail fellow, well as they did on this occasion. Whether the notice they took of him, and that which they extend to Bennett when he shows his ugly face in Wall Street, may be considered approbatory of the daily slanders and unblushing impudence of the paper they conduct, or is Intended to purchase their forbearance toward themselves, the effect is equally mischievous." Tame and Tasteless Stout old Whig! But on the following day he notes: "The Herald of this morning contains a long account of the ball, with a diagram and description of Mr. Brevoort's house; but as it was an implied condition of the reporter's admission that it should be decent, it was tame, flat and tas'te-less." Stout old Whig! But he had a sneaking relish, after all, for a bit of spice in his dally newspaper.

Batter Up! Our Dodgers (first place this year fellows) come home tomorrow to show thoso Yankees (we walloped 'em, didn't we!) how to play ball in Flatbush. And there will be plenty of youngsters outside wishing they could get into Ebbets Field. Weil, the Knothole Gang is getting ready to take care of those youngsters. That's tomorrow's story a this page. I "Oh, no," the client replied, "here's the card I got from the court." And he displayed the notice a court." And he displayed the notice of trial mailed to litigants who ap- pear without counsel.

On the not.ire was printed the name of the case Smlijewski vs. Czpyrk. How do you pronounce these names?" the lawyer a gleam in his eve. 'Lijinsky versus Park." was the man's answer solving the situa- don. Wedding Bells Mack Peerce.

whose brother Jan is the Music Hall singer, will wed Freddy Koenigsberg. the rayon heiress, this month. The Flatbush Theater may offer Summer stock afler May 1. That was Bor- ough President Cashmore, County Cierk Sinnott and Manager Dave Martin huddling in the Hotel Bos- sert Lounge. Irony: Movie scouts from MGM, RKO and 20th Century-Fox have been looking over I.eni Bouvier, dancing star at the Rainbow Room.

They claim she has a film future. But what they don't know is that although a young girl, Leni already has a movie past having spent five years of her childhood in Vienna as the Austrian Shirley Temple. But Good Time Was Had A local organization recently ran a charity affair, but there were no profits-because the first prize for iest of was trip for tw0 to Western resort and the second prize cash nree fiures' B' that i was nothing left for 1 charily At, the Club Gaucho cey, of George W. Chauncey, one of the club's most popular former presidents; Jay S. Jones, James F.

Pievce County Judge John J. Fitzgerald, Charles L. Schenck, Andley Clarke, Fredenc S. Martyn, Fred W. Sparks, Almet Reed Lat-son, D.

Irving Mead, John J. Kuhn, James M. Gray, Charles G. Ray-nnr. Herbert.

Berri and President Pulis r.imself, who joined the club in 1910. No Speeches! Birthoay festivities are scheduled to begin at 6:30 in the evening of the 20tn, and from then on there will ba all the concomitants of a 1 gala celebration except speeches, Sneech.maklng has en ruied fm. Phali''v this party Is going to be good! The entertainment will be strie'ly home talent, in the best Brooklyn Club tradition. Musical numbers will be given by Mrs. Charles E.

Pulis, daughter-in-law of the president; Charles G. Raynor and members Everett Mc- tell their wives all about it, heads to the "no W.en allowed" decree of the clubi nanagers have been liquidated. When the club celebrates its diamond jubilee with open house on April 20 the women will be right there. "Ladies were invited to a club affair for the first time In the history of the Brooklyn Club a few weeks ago, when we had our annual beefsteak dinner," said Charles H. Pulls, third-term president of the organization.

"We liked It. The women liked It. But the beefsteak was just a sample of what a party at the Brooklyn Club can really be a mere preview of the 75th birth- day party that is no- coming up." Menu Already Prepared He called for the steward to bring the menu, pointed out such items as a mountainous birthday cake, with 75 lighted candles; clear, green turtle soup, bouillon with marrow, stuffed lobster thermidor, chicken and sweetbread lucullus, galantine of capon imperial, toneless royal squab and similar delectablcs, enough to crowd a 40-foot table. He promised champagne magnums and even jereboams of champagne to wash it all down. It's a repeat performance of the club's famous New Year's open house, with a panorama of edibles in all kinds of fancy guises.

The only for the New Year's menu will be in cases of unseasonable dishes. Their Parties Are Tops Charles H. Pulis makes no secret of it he thinks the Brooklyn Club parties are tops in Brooklyn entertainment and tops to him in Brooklyn is really ace high, for he's a Brooklyn booster and mighty proud of it. "Always have been a Brooklyn booster," he rumbled from the depths of his favorite chair in the club library. If the screen should be looking for a club president type it could hardly do better than hunt for the double of this Charles H.

Pulls. A real estate broker and one of the State's most prominent Masons, the Brooklyn Club president is big and good looking in a belligerent masculine way, wears eye glasses anchored with a black ribbon and talks in a gruff, rather frightening machine-gunnish manner but says the pleasantest 'things! They Want Things Different "Yesyesyes," he admitted, "now that we've opened the doors to the ladies they want things different new decorations and all that. Ofcourseofcourse! They're right, they're perfectly right. The women and tne Brooklyn Ciuo are getting along Just fine. We've tapped a new source of vitality by letting them in." Thati the 1940 attitude of the and have them bow docile whole Brooklyn Club now ladies welcome.

Nothing's too good for them! The committee in charge of arrangements is turning hand- springs to have everything ust right and the committee is made up of a group of members who have, individually, tidy records of achievement in their lines. There's Surrogate George A. Wingate, Supreme Court Justice Meier Steinbrink, Jacob C. Klinck, president of the Kings County Savings Bank; former Children's Court Justice Peter B. Hanson, and Walter O'Malley, attorney, who is chairman of the committee.

Judges in Profusion There was no strain Involved in getting so large a proportion of judges on the committee. Judges are a dime a dozen at the Brooklyn Club so are bank presidents, for that matter, and lawyers are under foot all over the place but the judges are outstandingly numerous. The whole Appellate Division belongs, in a body, and there are all kinds of assorted Judges besides, representing every judicial angle. Leading industrialists, first-flight professional men, including many doctors, prominent business men make up the roster of the club it's a wonder, considering that the membership is restricted to prac- jnn n. I "l7 BU, sentation ot Brooklyn community leaders can be included.

New Members The club takes in a few new members annually. This vear the list includes Cyrus P. Julien, senior partner of the law firm of Wingate Cullen; Edwin P. Maynard, chairman of the board and ex-vice president of the Brooklyn Trust Company; George P. Kennedy, president of the Lafayette National Bank; Joseph Hanley, chief assistant to District Attorney William Dwyer; F.

Earle Fairchild, son of Frank K. Fairchild and a member of the firm of Fairchild Sons, and Pierre J. Sherry, attorney. All ot these new members and others will Join members of the "Old Guard" who will be on the receiving line for the Diamond Jubilee celebration. Thomas F.

Mag-ner is he dean of Brooklyn Club members, dating his membership from 1R95. Edward C. Blum, chair- man of the board of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, is next, with a membership that started in 1896, and then come Richards M. Cahoone, prominent attorney; Fred H. Timpson.

club secretary, and William J. McCon- vlll, ill members since 1901. Also lined up with the "Old Guard" will be Georg', 8. Chauu- Century. Just as a prelude to the yarn, let me mention a letter I got not many weeks ago from Mr.

Thomas F. Meehan of Greene distinguished Catholic historian and one of my bosses when he and I were on the Herald under the second James Gordon Bennett. When There Was a '400' Referring to my tale of a music critique I once wrote for the Herald, Mr. Meehan spoke of the then head of our society department, which included musical events In the upper register opera, grand concerts and the like. It was the newspaper society page incomparable; to have one's name mentioned in it meant that one was of the "400" and Mr.

Ward Mc-Alister, social arbiter thereof, approved. How it became that way may be Inferred from the story of the reporter In armor. From Philip Hone's Diary Where did I find this remarkable tale? In the famous diary of Philip Hone, the delightful old reactionary who was Mayor of New York In 1829-30, a Whig of high degree who hated all Republicans the Democrats who met at Tammany Hall were so called then a host and a diner-out, theatergoer and historian who had a profound contempt for James Gordon Bennett, the dour Scotchman who had started a newspaper that Mr. Hone regarded as exemplary of all that was cheap, scandalous and despicable In journalism. It Was a Fancy Bait And now we'll let Philip Hone tell the story as he wrote it down In his diary 100 years ago.

On Feb. 25, 1840, Mr, Hone, went to the Fancy Ball" at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brevoort: "My family contributed a large number of actors in the gay scene. 1 went as Cardinal Wolsey In a grand robe of new scarlet merino, with an exceedingly well contrived cap of the same material Mary and Catherine as Night and Day; Margaret, Annot Lyle In 'The Legend of Montrose'; John as Washington Irvlng's Royal Poet; Schermerhorn as Gessler, the Austrian Governor who helped to make William Tell immortal; Robert, a Highlander, and our sweet neighbor, EUza Russell, as Lalla Rook," Great and Near Great There follows a sprightly description colorful dance In which 500 of the elite, whose names lire memorialized in the street nomenclature of New York of today, took pvt.

Among those present my Ran, city health officer, advised: "Although Spring is here officially, the weather is too cold to permit changing to too light apparel yet." Purchase Ionia, April 11 OP) The city of Ionia recently bought its own city dump for non-payment of taxes. The property, included among other parrels offered at a sale of tax delin-1 quent land, was discovered to be owned by two citisens. The latter had paid no taxes for 15 years, believing the city owned I the property. The city thought it owned the property, too. So, I to make sure.

City Clerk Ray-, mond Coon bid in the dump. Litter I Crane, April 11 P) Three I of the pigs born to Jim Conner's sow died. Maybe because Jim lives 13 blocks south of Main St. and the sow chose the lPith day of thr month to bear a litter of 13 pigs. 1.