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a THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JULY 31, 1913. HITS BACK AT HIS ACCUSERS "Some One Is Going to Jail, and It Won't Be Haff. ACCUSES POLITICAL ENEMIES.

Declares That He Was Informed 1f He Gave Up $1,500 the Matter Would Be Dropped. Haft today: "Someone Is Going to Jail in This Matter," Says Haff, Lynbrook, L. July 31-Replying to the serious charges made against him by EL young woman, who declares him to be father of her William P. W. Haft, today, through his counsel, Edward Levy, issued a statement in which he blames political enemies for the cusation.

states that "some one is going to jail in the matter, and it won't be W. P. Haff, Mr. Haff has intimated to his close friends that he will be able when the time comes (maybe Saturday morning) 10 place sufficient alibis before the court, to meet any accusations the young woman in the case may make. The accuser is Miss Florence Haff, widely known in this village, in Freeport and other villages on the south side of the island.

Half, who is noted as editor of the Rockaway Times, as an eloquent preacher and evangelist, as a millionaire coal inerchant and philanthropist, says he met the girl accidently and only on of sympathy. dermis is the statement given out by Mr. "In view of the published statements in various papers emanating from political enemies, which 1 I consider very unfavorable and misleading, I feel constrained to make this statement. "I am not guilty, and I will prove this beyond a question of doubt, and I promise that someone is going to jail in this matter, and it won't be W. P.

W. Huff, jr. "This is a blackmail scheme pure and simple, and my attorneys know who is behind it, and when the proper time comes they will be exposed and the proper proceedings taken. "This present proceeding Is not the first step that my enemies have taken to make me give up or destroy me, and I will be destroyed before I will submit to their nefarious schemes. was informed if I would give up $1,500 the would be dropped, and upon my refusal steps were taken to 1m- mediately threaten my good name and inJure my business, and I intend to see the matter through.

Says Florence Haff Was in a Bad Way When He Found Her. "I did not know of Florence Haff until April of 1912, when I was informed by some men that a young girl was hanging around the hotels of Lynbrook claiming to be my cousin, and I immediately investigated, and went to see her, and found her to be in a very bad state, and told her that she must get out of Lynbrook and not portray herself as my cousin, and she said her condition was due to poverty alone, and if she had the chance she would do better. "I finally induced her to go home to her aunt, whom I visited and found was in dire need of coal and wood to keep warm. I gave the aunt some work on the promise she would keep her niece home and off the street, and I believed that I bad succeeded in doing some good and lid not see the girl at any time alone. "I only saw her three or four times altogether.

She disappeared from Lynbrook and Freeport some time in June, and the first thing I knew was in December, when I received a letter asking for money, which I refused to give, and then a certain man, whose name I will not mention at present, came to Lynbrook and demanded $1,500 of me and charged me with being responsible for the child. drove him away and told him I would have him arrested if he annoyed me further. Then began the long line of annoyances, which will be proven in detail at the trial. "I have gone over this thoroughly with my attorneys, Edwards Levy of Freeport, and am convinced that the guilty blackmailers will be brought to the bar of justice in due time, and that I will be wholly exonerated not only to the satisfaction of the court, but to that of the public. "This is a very hard blow to me, my family and to my business, and all that I ask is suspension of judgment until such a time as the court may decide my guilt or innocence." BAY SHORE FIREMEN Prepare to Make Tournament a Record-Breaker.

Bay Shore, L. July 31--The firemen and the citizens of this place are preparing for the annual tournament of the Suffolk County Volunteer Firemen's Association, which is to held on Wednesday, August 27, and they purpose to leave nothing undone. They desire to make it the best of its kind ever held in the county, which is "going some." M. W. Drake, the firemen's secretary, informs The Eagle correspondent that in all probability the tournament and parade will be perpetuated by a movng who resides in Bay Shore, is expected to picture concern; De that Allan Pinkerton, have a force of his sleuths on duty for the protection of visitors; that Brooklyn firm has the contract to decorate the grand and other stands, and that the Long Island Railroad will make an excursion rate of one fare for the round trip, and that all apparatus will be transported free.

All companies which intend using the railroad are requested to communicate at once with the general senger agent. LET GOSSIPERS BEWARE. Magistrate Leach Threatens to Jail Some Flushing Women, Flushing, July court intends to stop the wagging of women's tongues and I intend to investigate every case that comes before me and if I find these people guilty I will send them to jail." Magistrate J. A. Leach made 'this statement in the Flushing Police Court yesterday after three women had been brought before him on a charge of annoying their neighbors.

"I had a women before, me in Long Island City last continued, "on a similar charge and I let her off easy. That night she was murdered." The murdered woman magistrate referred to was Mrs. Louist of Long Island City. Robert Brochinski is accused of shooting her. FACTORY AT SAG HARBOR.

Sag Harbor, L. July 31-A representative of 3 manufacturing New York City was at Sag Harbor Wednesday afternoon to look over the municipal block, now available for manufacturing purposes. Conferences were held with the Board of Trade and Board of Village Trustees, custodians of the building. The only question to be settled is whether Sag larbor can supply sufficient help. A special meeting of the village trustees will be held to act on the proposition.

SOMMER- The marriage of Miss Elinor Cavanaugh to Robert W. Sommer has just been announced. The bridegroom is a resident of! Jamaica, and the bride comes from Ridgefield Park, N. where the wedding took place on Saturday last. The bridegroom is prominent in Jamaica, where the young couple will reside.

The bride is a daughfor of Jeremian Francis Cavanaugh. SUFFRAGISTS TO FLY AT AVIATION MEET "The General" Devises New Stunts to Advertise "the Cause." GREAT DAY AT MINEOLA. Mrs. Leslie to Lead Her Cow to the Grounds, to Milk It Herself and Sell the Product. Freeport L.

July 31-Miss Rosalie G. Jones, famous leader of the "hiker" squad of suffragists, visited this village yesterday, and, as usual, took it by storm. She was accompanied by Irene Davison, of East Rockaway. Miss Jones had to Bellmore, Seaford and other vilunises a east working of leader Freeport, for endeavoring to the cause in those sections. She reported much success, but nothing Miss Jones did yesterday compares with the next thriller she has under consideration.

Through the courtesy of the Mineola Aviation Association, which conducts all its aviation feats at Plains, the suffragists have Hempstead, possession of the field on September 6, man the place, and hold supervision of the plains all day. More than 60, perhaps more than 100, will march from various villages, in groups, to the plains, on the evening of September 5, and will camp out in the hangars, upon beds of straw, until following morn, when a bugler will sound the reveille. Hurried breakCasts will be eaten and the fair suffragists will prepare for an exceedingly busy day. They will not be restricted to any one part of the plains or to any one thing. They will have carte blanche to the nangars and may use the dying machines if they choose.

There will be several suffragist aviators in the group, who will make several ascensions and will carry aloft. The latter will carry messages from one end of the field to suffragists on the other end. Other passengers in airships will carry the "voiceless speech" up with thim. As al large crowd is expected on that day, special arrangements have been made by the suffragists to handle them. of the traffic squad, a and she will have Mrs.

Herbert Carpenter will act as chief many young and pretty suffragists under her charge. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt will attend the exercises as the guest of honor. The Brockolt Suffragist Club, of Hempstead, of which Mrs. O.

H. P. Belmont is a leader, will attend in a body and act in various capacities. Miss Addie Tydeman and Mrs. DeMott Robinson will direct the mounted squad and will convey inessages from groups distributed at all sides and corners of the large fleld.

One of the latest converts to the cause is Mrs. Louise Leslie, of Central Park, L. I. Mrs. Leslie recently became the proud owner of a pretty bovine, and she regards the milking hour as the merriest of the day.

Miss Jones has invited her to lead the cOW to the plains, milk it there, and supply the suffragists with milk. Mrs. Leslie will be present. DAN CRAWFORD TO PREACH. African Missionary Will Be Heard First at Westhampton Beach.

Westhampton Beach, L. July 31- Dan Crawford, who has spent the past twenty-two years in Central Africa and who is the author of "Thinking Black," upon the invitation of his Rev. Thomas Coyle, will pretchend, the Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. Mr. Crawford arrived from England yesterday.

He will g0 to Winona, Northfield, and other conferences and make addresses in various churches, until midwinter, when he goes to Australia, and from there back to his work in Africa, and never expects to return to civilization again. QUANTUCK INDIANS REGATTA To Be Held on Quantuck Bay on August 16. Westhampton Beach, L. July 81- An annual event here that is looked forward to with a great deal of pleasure is the regatta of the Quantuck Indians, an association of young people of Quiogue, who the past six years have held the regatta. It will be held off the Beach Docks, on Quantuck Bay, Saturday, August 16, morning and afternoon, and the order of events are as follows.

Morning--Men's doubles, one- quarter mile; ladies doubles, one-quartr8 mile; canoe tilting, first round; ladies' swim; men's swim; novice doubles, one-quarter mile handicap, for those who have competed unsuccessfully in former Quantuck Indian regattas. Afternoon--Obstacle race (canoe); canoe tilting, second round; blindfolded canoe race; crab race; launch race handicap (no professionals allowed aboard); canoe tilting, final; war canoe, half mile. Charles DeHart Brower, Bailey Brower and John J. Atwater have been made a regatta committee. MRS.

RANSOM'S WILL FILED. She Left $75,000 to Her Relatives and a Friend. Mineola, L. July 31--The will of Mrs. Edith M.

Ransom of Plandome, L. which was filed for probate yesterday in the Surrogate's office of Nassau County, disposes of an estate valued at 000. Mrs. Ransom was the widow of Porte V. Ransom, who for many years was attorney for the New York State Controller.

By the terms of the will $25,000 goes to 8. sister, Emily Bleiman of Manhattan, and $10.000 1s bequeathed to Edna Harwood of Roslyn, L. I. Jewelry and her wearing apparel were left to a sisterin-law, Mrs. Frances Tetu of Portland, while the residue of the estate is left to a brother, Albert L.

Tetu, at whose home at Portland, Mrs. Ransom died on July 14. INNKEEPER BENT BANKRUPT. Baldwin, L. July 31-Joseph A.

Bent, owner of the Craig Manor Inn, on Merrick road, has filed a petition of bankruptcy today in the United States District Court. The assets are giver. as $2,000 and the liabilities $3,500. Messrs. Edwards and Levy are his attorneys.

and they are meeting the creditors. The hotel was at one time the most popular on the south side. It was the later for automobilists. Since the introstop-off place for many bicyclists in and duction of larger and heavier cars autoists have gone on longer trips, and Long Island has lost much of the trade. The building is one of the pretty sights along the famous old road.

MISS ATWATER ENGAGED. Westhampton Beach, L. July An engagement of note here a among the summer colony is that of Miss Margaret Atwater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. liam C.

Atwater of Manhattan and Westhampton Beach, to George D. Olds, of Boston, Mass. Mr. Olds is the son of Professor Olds, dean of the faculty and head of the department of mathematics of Amherst College, and a graduate of that college. As the Atwaters have no town residence the wedding will probably take place from their home here.

FROM QUEENS BOROUGH AND ALL LONG ISLAND CAMPAIGNERS RESTING. They Have Collected $11,485 for St. Joseph's Hospital. Far Rockaway, July 31-A total of $674.75 was added yesterday to the fund which is being raised in the Rockaways for the the beneft of St. Joseph's Hospital in twelve days campaign that has for its object the collection of $90,000.

Yesterday's contributions bring the total up to $11,485.95. The campaign ends 011 August 6. Again yesterday the teams of women workers brought in the largest contributions, their subscriptions reaching $496.75. The team captained by Miss Mary Daily turned in the largest amount, $100.50. The men's teams brought in $178, John Both's team leading with contributions of $161.

CURFEW AT SAG HARBOR All Children Must Be Off Street at 9 P.M. Sag Harbor, L. July 31-At the monthly meeting of the village trustees, held on Tuesday night in Warden's Hall, a resolution was passed making a curfew law effective on and after September 1. Mrs. Ida Smith, representing the W.

C. T. 1 appeured before the board and urged the passage of the law, to apply to all children under 16 years of age. The village hall bell will be rung nightly at 8:45 p.m. Trustees Schaefer, Woodward, Kiernan, Cleveland and Beckwith voted for the ordinance.

Mrs. H. H. Leavitt addressed the board on behalf of the Ladies Village Improvement Society, asking for more oil on the village highways. The of fixing the curb and safeguarding Bay street, at the corner of Rysam street, was taken up and left to a committee; likewise the improvement of the road leading to Noyack.

A committee of the Fire Department asked that the fire-alarm system be put in working order. At present the village depends upon notification through the telephone central office in case of fire and orders to blow the factory siren for the district endangered. The village will pay part of the expense of laying a concrete sidewalk in front of the Christ Church rectory lot. $51,690 FORECLOSURE SALE. Jordan Place at Jamaica Bid In for Miss Annie Wyckoff.

Jamaica, July 31-The Jordan place, which has a frontage of 125 feet on Fulton street and 150 feet on Division street, this place, was sold under foreclosure yesterday, from the Jamaica Town Hall steps by Auctioneer James C. Archer. The Jordan place, with the old Jordan home. constituted a part of the property of William F. Wyckoff advertised for sale under foreclosure.

Auctioneer Archer sald the property at the very least Wag worth $80,000. The mortgage on it amounted to $45,000, and the first bid was for that sum. The bidding went about $6,000 above this. Conrad J. Milliken, attorney for Miss Annie Wyckoff of Jamaica, a of William F.

Wyckoff, bid it in at $51,690. The sale of the Clinton avenue restdence and property of William F. Wyckoft was also to have taken place yesterday, but was postponed until August 14. "GENERAL" JONES A GUEST. Will Speak on Suffrage at Sea Cliff Card Party.

Sea Cliff, L. July 31-The Suffrage Study Club of Sea Cliff will be the hoste8s at a five hundred and bridge party tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Herman G. Wahlig. It is to be given to raise additional funds to meet the necesexpenses of the garden party to be sary held at Marden farm, summer home of Dr.

and Mrs. 0. S. Marden on August 30. Tomorrow, Miss Rosalie Jones, better known as General Jones, and Mrs.

Edna B. Kearns, will come to the card give talks on suffrage from the veranda of the Wahlig home. General Jones will come in her yellow "votes for women" wagon and Mrs. Kearns will come in her "1776" wagon, both timing their arrival to co-terminate the intermission period for refreshments. COLONEL WAGSTAFF RETURNS.

Sag Harbor, L. July 31-Colonel Alfred Wagstaff, who has been in the Moose Read Lake country, and making an auto tour of the New England States, passed through Sag Harbor, Wednesday, on his way to his country home at Babylon, L. I. NOTES AND COMMENTS NOTES The small but thriving and progressive village of Mattituck is to supply one of the faculty of the New York University at its next term, Edmund R. Lufton, who recently graduated from Yale, having been selected to take the chair of instructor in commerce.

There are at least two of Huntington's residents who have an idea that a town park is not such a good thing, after all, for they lost their roll while in swimming the other day. However, some think that anyone foolish enough to leave real cash in an unguarded public bathhouse ought to have it stolen. It must come hard on Dr. Jackson of Babylon, who loves horses and administers to ills, to have to travel in an auto. We can imagine that it rather goes against the grain to have to adopt this modern means of getting around to see his patients.

Yet the jolly old vet is bound to have some evidences of a horse and buggy about him, even if he does not need to use them on his "beat," for Creosote tells us that on the dash of his car he has a whip socket and a whip in it, and in the rear of the car he carries a horse blanket and a tie rope. There is an old saying that the Lord helps those who help themselves. This apears to be true in Huntington, as between the village and the federal powers. Huntington is shown to be aggressive in public improvements and SO State and federal aid seems to be cheerfully proffered at divers times. Now the town is to receive another bouquet from the federal government in the shape of dredging the, Inlet, 150 feet wide and eight feet deep, which will make a nice improvement.

Our old friend, the Newtown Register, edited by Charles White, son of its founder, bright and entertaining as as newsy, is 40 years old, but doesn't look it nor act it, either. The paper has seen many great changes in that section, and has aided and abetted all the good ones. It has a good policy, to wit: That a good neighbor is a very good man and a bad neighbor will confer favor by moving on. Long may it live to advocate such policies. WIll Riley, proprietor of the Mattituck House, is some gardner.

In some countable way he has managed to make his garden grow luxuriously these dry, hot days, so nicely in fact that he has been dining his friends on green corn, while FINDS A CEMETERY ON HIS 20 ACRES Joseph H. Dowd of Farmingdale Gets a Real Surprise. HEBREWS CLAIM TITLETO LAND It's at South Huntington Says He'll Eject Occupants if He Has to Use Dynamite. (Special to The Eagle.) Huntington, L. July 31-Joseph H.

Dowd, a wealthy retired merchant of Farmingdale, L. is indeed wroth, and bis friends say he has a perfect right to be, over the fact that he found a Hebrew cemetery on a fine piece of property, on the Old Country Road at South Huntington, which he believed he owned for over seven years. It was just the other day when he made the discovery. A friend came to him and said: "Say, Dowd, I see you sold that good piece of yours over in Huntington, What did you do that for?" "Sold it? First I knew about it." "Sure, there's a Hebrew cemetery on it now." And so Mr. Dowd took a little trip to South Huntington in his auto, and sure enough, the first thing he saw when he came to the ground was a One big brick pillard archway, and over it read: "Hebrew Congregation of Huntington." The plot was fenced off and inside were a lot of white gravestones, eighteen of them.

Mr. Dowd didn't say much, but 1m- mediately summoned his lawyer, George Walker, also of Farmingdale, and together they went to Bee I. Goldstein, president of the congregation, which 1s incorporated. The result was a lawyer's summons, on which the matter will go to the Supreme Court. The whole thing is rather mixed up, and "there's a nigger in the woodpile somewhere." The story dates back to 1902.

The property was then assessed in some name, which cannot be learned at present, and, according to the contention of Mr. Walker, the wrong person was being assessed. This person then evidently failed to pay the taxes and a tax sale was held. A man in Brooklyn bought the property. He sold it to a Huntington man, who in turn was relieved of the a land by the congregation, who wanted it for cemetery.

The corporation had received permission of the Board of Supervisors of Suffolk County to bury their dead on the plot, which comprises twenty acres. Dowd Acquired Property in 1906 by Foreclosure. And all this time, according to Mr. Walker, a woman, whose name is not known, owned the property. Mr.

Dowd had a mortgage on the land and foreclosed it in 1906, buying in the twenty not see the property again until the other acres himself. a After that time he did day, when he came to behold the cemetery. said Mr. Dowd last night, "if have to come over here with a few sticks of dynamite, I'll make those people move. My property a graveyard? guess not." I.

Goldstein's version is a bit different. He claims that the congregation took over the property after the tax sale it was advertised in accordance with the law for six months in the papers of the county, to see if any one else had a claim the land, and there was no answer to on the advertisement. "It has always been our burying ground," said Mr. Goldstein. We have been burying people there for a long time.

And we don't propose to move. We'll fight this fellow to the finish. It is a question of whether his deed or ours is legal. Tomorrow (Thursday) we will tion hold a to special decide how meeting we will answer congrega- this of the lawyer's summons, which has been served It is the Hebrew law that the on us. dead shall not be disturbed, and there is no law on earth that can move those bones." The congregation has twenty days in which to answer the complaint.

While it is thought that the matter will be adfinancially, if Mr. Dowd wins his justed case, yet the merchant made it plain that he would get satisfaction. He will SuE for ejectment and damages. BIG MEETING OF EXEMPTS To Boom Duff of Elmhurst for State President. Rockaway Beach, July 31-Great preparations are under way to entertain the members and guests, at the next meeting of the United Exempt and Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association, which will be held in the rooms of the Fifth Ward Veterans, Pachinger's Hall, Boulevard and Hammels avenue, Rockaway Beach, on Saturday, August 9.

The committee having the arrangements in hand have Invited as the guests of the association the following: Fire Commissioner Johnston, of the Relief Fund of the New York Fire Department Peter J. Quigley, President of the State Fire Association Fred A. Davis of Fort Edward, Second Vice President John A. Sel of Westchester County, Secretary Thomas Hohohan of Frankfort, Trustees of the Home Will1am H. Schwarthout, Rowland H.

Mayland, Mayor William H. Frank of Poughkeepsie, George T. Kelly of Yonkers, Ernest H. Sechusen of Staten Island, Daniel Bradley of New York, President Charles J. Schnellar, Vice President Arthur L.

Bracefeld and John H. Behrmann, Secretary Joseph H. Downing, Treasurer tors Leahy, Thomas, Versen and LangPhilip Peters, on ex-Presidents Haviland, Byrnes, Frischkorn and Wallace, Direcstine, all of the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association. Action will be taken as to the mode of attending the State convention in Utica. It is expected that the party will accompany the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association upon its special train, which leaves the Grand Central Station on Monday, August 18.

One of the vital matters to be acted upon at the meeting is the plan of procedure to elect P. J. Duff of Elmhurst, president of the State Association. Mr. Duff is in line for the honor.

Among the other candidates who have the support of the United Exempts are John A. Sells of Westchester, candidate for first vice president; Rowland H. Mayland of Nassau and Daniel Bradley of New York, candidates for trustees of the home. The officers of the association are P. J.

Duff, president; Thomas J. Brennan and Frank Baldwin, vice presidents; James McCron, secretary; William O'Donnell, treasurer; John Conzet, Joseph T. Allen and Thomas F. Mulvehill, trustees, ACCOUNTING FOR THE BLUE. Bacon- see exhaustive tests by Belgian chemists showed that the purest water that it was possible to obtain by distillation still retained its blue color.

Egbert--Probably didn't get all the milk out of Statesman. AFFECTING TIDES. AFFECTING TIDES. Teacher-Do you know what effect the moon has on the water, Tommie? Tommie-Yes'm. Makes it moonlight.

-Yonkers Statesman. I GEN. JONES' MOTHER A BELLIGERENT ANTI BURNED CHILD DIES; INJURED BOY DYING Four-Year-Old Was Playing With Matches -Dress Caught Fire. BOY STRUCK BY AUTOMOBILE. He and a Companion Were Playing on an Astoria Street-Child Falls From Second Floor.

Long Island City, L. July 31-Tessie Vanerbanto, old, of 150 Vernon avenue, Long Island City, was so badly burned when her dress caught fire while the child was playing with matches, yesterday afternoon, that she died at 1 o'clock this morning at St. John's Hospital. Her grandmother, Latartha Cuchitz of 158 Vernon avenue who ran to the child's rescue, was aiso burned, but not seriously. The little girl was with a number of her playmates in the yard in the rear of 142 Vernon avnue.

One of the children had a box of matches and was delighting her playmates. In some way Tessie's dress caught fire. The children screamed and the child's grandmother, who was a short distance away, ran to her aid. She ceeded in beating out the flames, but not until she herself was burned about the hands and arms. The surgeons at St.

John's Hospital do rot hope to save the life of Edwin Bon Trott, 7 years old, of 673 Seventh avenue, Astoria, who is under their care. Edwin and other boys were playing on the street at Steinway and Flushing avenues, when ho was struck by an auto, owned and driven by Robert Dendell, 747 East 168th street, the Bronx. The boy's skull was fractured and he is still unconscious. At the same time the auto also struck Daniel Driscoll, also 7 years old, of 667 Seventh avenue, He got off with contusions of the left shoulder. There was no arrest.

Edna Wilkinson, A two year old child, was playing in the kitchen of her home, on the second floor of 64 Vernon avenue, when she climbed a chair and fell out of the window. She was taken to St. John's Hospital, where it was found that she had shock and many bruises, but was not fatally injured. SUFFRAGISTS DANCE That Held at Patchogue Was a Big Success. Patchogue, July 31-The big suffrage ball held in the Auditorium here, last evening, was a big success, notwithstanding the heat and the threatening weather.

The vaudeville performance, which preceded the dance, was lively and entertaining. "General" Rosalie Gardner Jones, who led the "hikes" to Albany and Washington, was present as the guest of honor. The vaudeville performance consis ed of some excellent dancing by Mrs. Samuel Frederick Streit, who, last year, as Miss Holmes, won special favor at Southampton, and also in New York, by her graceful dancing. Miss Everett, planist, played for her.

Miss Emily Rich of New York and Bellport sang a solo. Miss Bessie Foster and Elliot T. Sherman gave, in costume, the California campaign song, "Reuben and Rachel Up to Date." Mrs. Raymond Brown of New York and Bellport showed some suffrage pictures with a few words of explanation. Although the ball was arranged by Miss Portia Willis, who represents the New York State Woman Suffrage Association and who is organizing all Long Island into a systematic band of workers, no speeches were made.

It was a pleasant social affair. The various committees were as follows: General committee- Mrs. Raymond Brown. Miss Portia Willis, Mrs. John R.

Vunk, Miss Lillian Davis, Miss Dorothy Canfield, Miss Louise Canfleld. Floor committee-Mrs, Wilmot Smith, Edward Ermond Brunn, George Overton, E. F. Hanson, William R. Sinn, Dayton Hedges.

Nat Roe, Austin Roe, Dr. H. Dearest, Leroy Ackerly. Not Swezey, Norman Roe, Russel Van Tuyl, George Kraemer. Vaudeville committee-Mrs.

Raymond Brown. chairman. Programme-Miss Portia Willis. Tickets- Mrs. John R.

Vunk, the Misses Canfleld. Mrs. Ernest Payne, Miss Sadie Ginocchio, Miss P. Willis, treasurer. Patrons and patronesses-Miss Lillie M.

Conklin, Dr. Milton B. Davis. Mrs. Davis, Dayton Hedges, Mra.

Hedges. Mrs. Jesse Hiscox, Mrs. Fredrick Newins, Frank A. Potter, William A.

Riley, Mrs. Riley, Mrs. Sherman Robinson, Miss Susie Sharp, Mrs. Henry W. Smith, Mrs.

H. Skinner, Allen Miss Tenny, Margaret James R. Skinner. Mrs. Garrard, Mrs.

Wilson Smith, Miss Rosalle Gardiner Jones. that of his neighbors is hardly above ground, and there remains stationary for lack of moisture. Apparently all the real farmers are not on the farms. The misplacing of a head in last week's Watchman made, queer reading. For instance, Brother Reeves listed as a casualty the fact that Oliver Robinson, a Republican, had appointed to a political job at Patchogue, when as a matter of fact Democrats would liked to have had it.

We have no doubt but that Mr. Reeves thinks the appointment a real calamity, but he didn't mean to list the Item under the casualties heading. Under the same heading the fact that Rear Admiral Sigsbee is summering at Sea Cliff is likewise termed a casualty, and we presume that Sea Cliff will seriously object to any such imputation regarding its pretty place. It's a good thing that the West Patchogue custom of shooting a gun every time a baby is born, according to a witness in the Gentile-Palmer case, isn't followed throughout the Island, for in some sections of late the stork has been kept pretty busy, and if the shotgun serenade was in vogue some of us would be more disturbed of our rest than at present. That is a very sensible determination of the Ellsworths, oystermen, to aid the baymen in getting their rights to certain natural grounds off Shelter Island.

This constant warfare between baymen and oystermen would have been ended long ago if the oystermen had taken the trouble to recognize that the baymen did have some rights. The present case is a flagrant misuse of their power on the part of the commissioners, and even the purchaser of the land in dispute ought to be able to see it, and reconvey the land without sult. The Amityville tars made a happy selection in the choice of commodore for their yacht club. William T. Louden is capable and popular to a large degree.

He will make a worthy successor to that other royal good fellow, Commodore Fred B. Dalzell, who declined further honors, but who, while he was commodore, was a power for good in the club named. The Babylon Board of Education Is to be congratulated on its decision to ploy five "home girls" as teachers for the coming term. Long Island young women have been found to be fully as capable as instructors as those from any other section. Riverhead has tried hiring "home talent' and found it a on of the teach question.

Babylon DR. VAN DEINSE RECOVERS. First Had Cataract and Then Was Operated On for Appendicitis. Sayville, L. July 31-Dr, Adrian P.

Van Deinse, who for a number of weeks has been a patient in Trinity Hospital, Brooklyn, following an operation for appendicitis complicated with peritonitis, arrived at his home here this afternoon. Dr. Van Deinse had scarcely recovered from an operation for the removal of cataract from his eyes, which had been the cause of blindness for a number of years, when he was stricken with appendieitis. His recovery from both operations is a cause of much rejoicing on the part of his many friends here. OIL MEN IN COMPETITION But It Was at Golf, and New York Team Beat Jersey.

(Special to The Eagle.) Glen Cove, L. July 31-To prove there is real competition between subsidiaries of the old Standard Oil Company of New York, as demanded by the United States Supreme order, the Standard Oil Company York and court, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey met in active and open competition, yesterday. at the Nassau Country Club. It was the occasion of the annual playtime revel of the Standard Oil men, and they turned out thirty strong for the fun. Golf, of course, was the leading commodity 1-practice matches in morning and a match between the two companies and an 18-hole medal handicap in the afternoon.

The prize for the low gross score in the handicap went to Frank Hoyt runner-up in the Massachusetts State champlonship, who covered the course in 78. Herbert L. Pratt, president of the Nassau of New York, had the lowest net score, Club and official of the Standard Oil returning a card of 79--8, 71. Judge Martin Carey, chief counsel, and A. W.

Gilmore tied for the secc-d net. at 72 and will play off at Deal, N. next week. The Standard Oil of New York team took the honors for the team contest, winning by two points. The score was: Standard Oil of New Standard Oil Company York.

of New Jersey. 2. E. Bemis 2. A.

C. Teagle W. R. King 01 1. C.

Bedford 0: 3. H. L. Pratt 31 8. J.

'S. M. Carey H. Paine 5. R.

C. Beit 0 5. B. A. Barstow 6.

Frank Hoyt C. Black 7. W. Gilmore 3 7. J.

G. 8. F. S. Fales 8.

G. Fay 9. J. H. Howell C.

T. White Total Total As a result of the match the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey paid for the dinner, which concluded the day's fun, last night, at the clubhouse. At it Judge Martin presided as toastmaster. Besides those mentioned above, the gathe.ing included W. W.

Pilkington, L. W. Chase, C. 0. Swain, Henry Fisher, Edward Prizer, George W.

McKnight, H. S. Hull and Donald McGee. "GEN." JONES AN ATTRACTION. Will Take Part in Port Washington's Firemen's Parade Saturday.

Port Washington, July 31-At the meeting of the fire board, held last night, final arrangements were made for the Firemen's Day celebration on Saturday. Many handsome prizes have been donated for the tournament. As an added attraction General Rosalle Jones, who is making a tour of Long Island, will be here. She 1s expected to arrive about 10 o'clock and will in all probability take part in the parade. In the morning she will address a meeting of the North Hempstead Equal Franchise League at the home of Mrs.

Clarence L. Thompson. At noon the local league and General Jones will be entertained at luncheon at the home of Mrs. James L. Laidlaw, at Sands Point.

Following the firemen's tournament, General Jones will address an open-air meeting. The cotnests will be about the same as last year. W. N. Mullon and Fred Sauter of Great Neck Station and J.

F. Stapleton of Roslyn, will be judges. William Kirchner of Roslyn, an ex-captain of the Brooklyn Fire Department, will be starter. AUTO ABLAZE AT JAMAICA. Jamaica, July 31-Fire occurred at about 2:20 o'clock this morning in an automobile owned by Charles Hoag of 2301 Avenue Brooklyn, at Locust avenue, near Rockaway Plank road, Jamaica.

The blaze was caused by a back fire, and damage to the amount of about $1,000 Was done. girls ought to be fully as capable as those at the county seat, and there seems no reason why they should not give just as good satisfaction. If they do, Babylon will be glad of the decision reached by the Board of Education. Well, we dam road is going to be widened seouthe This is not meant to be profanity. The dam road is a part of the South Country road at East Patchogue.

It runs over Robinson's pond, and automobilists have damned it often because it was too narrow. Now, it is to be improved. Good. Here's a prosperity item from Sag Harbor that sounds good for business conditions generally: "'The Fahys watchcase people are so busy that they could not allow the customary July vacations. The plant is working night and day and is turning out 1,100 cases daily.

In this connection, too, arises the thought, what becomes of all the millions of watchcases made each year. A fellow does not buy a watch every day, yet there seems to be a big demand, judging from the quantity manufactured in Sag Harbor alone. Bay Shore has a lot of good things on tap. It is making great preparations to give the Suffolk County fremen the time of their lives at the annual tournament on August 27, and it is talking incorporation again. And, of course, there's dozens of other things, too, but just at present these seem of chief importance in that busy town.

Edward States of Brooklyn thinks there is no sport quite like riding "centuries" on his bicycle over Long Island roads. A week or so ago he completed his 300th century. Years ago such runs the craze. Now, in this day of automobiles and motorcycles, particularly when it is hot, we are apt to think a man crazy when we see him plodding along on a century run. In fact, such runs are SO unusual now that they excite comment.

But Mr. States says he enjoys it, and really finds his bicycle provides recreation. Can someone please tell us what we have done out on eastern Long Island to be denied those drenching, refreshing I rains that are falling on the ungodly city of New York? The deluge that visited the big city Monday afternoon passed us up disdainfully, Rain is said to be a poor thing with which to purge graft, and "sich," but it is A1 for making crops grow. Long Island will have to turn itself around -put its cities at Montauk Point and its crops on the other end. Makes a Scene on Huntington Streets Over One-Horse Shay.

ALSO OFFENDS THE HEWLETTS Declares That Former Owner of Ancient Vehicle Was a Tory, and Not a Revolutionist. Huntington, L. July 31-The war between the apostles of woman suffrage on Long Island and the antis is now raging about a curiously built antique wagon made at Huntington 140 years ago by an ardent patriot of the Revolutionary days. This vehicle, which had a prominent part In a Suffrage parade and open air meeting in front of the First National Bank, corner Main and Wall streets, last Saturday night, carried Mrs. Wilmer Kearns and Miss Irene Davison of Rockville Centre, the principal speakers of the evening.

As the procession, headed by a fife and drum corps, was about to come to stop, Miss Oliver Livingston Jones, a wealthy society woman of New York City and Cold Spring Harbor, a bitter anti and the mother of "General" Rosalle Jones, the well -known suffrage hiker, who led the Albany and Washington marches, halted the parade and demanded to know by what right they were putting to such base uses a wagon owned by the Hewlet family, who are her relatives. She then began to assail the two women speakers in such a vigorous manner that they were badly frightened, fearing, as they said, bodily injury, not knowing but their assailant was a militant. The broad Main street was filled with automobiles and a throng of a thousand persons, mainly Saturday night shoppers, who were drawn quickly to the spot under the glare of the big arc lamp and hundreds of other electric lights in nearby stores that helped illumine the localIty. "You are boasting of this wagon as a Revolutionary relic and yet the Hewletts were all Tories," said Mrs. Jones.

"What right have you to associate their names with this movement?" The Hewletts, who are intense antis, are equally as bitter as their cousin, Mrs. Jones, about their ancient family wagon being drawn about the streets Long Island villages with the name of a Hewlett blazoned in letters on its side and are going to see if some legal action cannot be had to restrain the suffragists from using the vehicle. Moreover, they do not relish the notoriety Mrs. Jones gave to their ancestors as Tories, and retort that the Jones ancestors were of the same ilk, Judge Jones having been kidnapped by the patriots and taken to Connecticut for a ransom. The wagon was bought a number of years ago of Jacob Hewlett's family of Cold Spring Harbor, by I.

S. Remson, a well-known Brooklyn dealer and manufacturer, who after considerable pains and expense in looking for the oldest. wagon on Long Island, ferreted out the antique vehicle and exhibited it in his warerooms in Brooklyn. He afterwards gave it to Mrs. Wilmer Kearns of Rockville Centre, for the Women's Political Equality Leagues of Long Island.

The Suffragists have since that time had the "old one-horse shay," as they affectionately call it, a prominent feature of their parades as a relic of Revolutionary days, when its maker fought against "taxation without representation." It is expected that the Jones and Hewlett familles will make an effort to buy the vehicle if they cannot succeed in inducing the Suffragists from using it in their parades. General Rosalie occuples the palatial home at Cold Spring Harbor with her mother and held a Suffrage meeting right in that village Monday night, in spite of her mother's animosity against the cause. OPPOSES ART TARIFF. Queens Artists Against Proposed Tax of 25 Per Cent. Duty.

Queens, July 31-At a recent meetIns, the Queens Borough Society of Ailied Arts and Crafts passed a resolution against a tariff on art. The organization declared that it "earnestly opposed all legislation that prevents the importation to the United States of foreign works of art and protests at this time against the proposed tax at 25 per cent. duty upon paintings, statuary, produced within the past fifty years, as' being distasteful to the profession and measure unbeltting this enlightened and progressive The Underwood bill for free art was unanimously approved. Copies of the resolution will be sent Congressmen Dennis O'Leary, Lathrop Brown and Senator Root. HEALTH OFFICERS SALARIES.

New Law Provides Them, Except in Greater New York. Albany, N. July 31-The law enacted this year reorganizing State Health Department makes it the duty of the various boards of health throughout the State, except of in local Greater health New York, officers. to fix the salaries opinion to this effect was rendered today by the Attorney General's office. In the same opinion it is held that the provisions of local statutes relative to the appointment and organization of local boards of health are superseded by the reorganization law, and that the appointment of boards of health in third class cities should be made by the common council upon nomination by the Mayor.

$10,000 HAS BEEN RAISED. Captain Brennan's Team Leads the Men Collectors for Hospital. Far Rockaway, L. July 31-Monday's subscriptions for St. Joseph's Hospital the twelve-day campaign to raise $90,000 brought the total up to about $10,000.

The reported yesterday morning $6,999.60. Mrs. amount, Joseph Diver is the captain of the women's team, which made the best showing for the day, her team handing in subscriptions amounting to $445. The women's total was as $1,206.60. men's team turning in the largest amount of pleuged money was the team captained by T.

J. Brennan, which reported subscriptions to the amount of $2,580. This included $1,000 from Mr. Brennan bitself and $1,000 from Everett Haney Lawrence. JONES OFF FOR SARANAC.

Jamaica, July 31-Joseph Jones of Campion avenue, this place, for whom beneft baseball game was played last Saturday on Jamaira Oval, left this morning for Saranac Lake, in the Adirondacka, where he hopes to be 0 able to regain his health. Mr. Jones, who will go to Dr. Troddeau's Sanitarium, wishes through The Eagle to thank the members of the Jamaica Council of the Royal Arcanum, the committee in charge of the beneflt ball game and all others who assisted him. Mr.

Jones left early this morning in the automobile of John P. Crawford, a local hotel man, for the Grand Central depot, and took the Empire State express as far as Albany, where he will change trains..