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II WfH tjV WIwSoVy. OCT. 30. 1940 6 8 1 ISIil mm m.r "MT Tl 2 II I il KkJ Fort Greene Neighbors AlwaysSay 'Good Morning' 1 WW THE DRAGOS Louis Drago with Mrs. Drago and their daughter, June, at home at 100 Adelphi St.

Mr. Drogo's hobby is the Police Athletic League. As first president of the Fort Greene Neighborhood Council his work resulted in the opening of three separate community centers. lug the neediest members to the 4 .000 children, stand as a monu- ment to Americanism, the kind of Americanism which builds charac- ta 'wy striving to better conditions for underprivileged children, Mr. Drago is Commander of Person Post No.

14 of the American Legion, which under his leadership has shouldered much of the PAL work of the neighborhood. The post Joined the Neighborhood Council of the PAL In a body, contributed workers, contributed time, money and effort to conteracting subversive influences to which the children of the section were exposed, to providing them with recreational facilities, and to send- Legion poets have 1 winded chairmanship of the Kings County Oratorical Contest last year, and several others; he is one of King's County's most prominent Legion-alres. Fort Greene section, he says without qualification, is "the finest in the world," pointing out that its two parks make it an Ideal residential district. The City Park, which has recently been equipped and which has handball courts and a jplendid swimming pool, among otter recreational facilities, was a few months ago the fity's most neglected, though one of its oUest park spaces. American Legion camp for unaer nourished N.

Y. Children st Cornwall, PAL Prevents Crime It was as a criminal lawyer that Mr. Drago first became Interested in the activities of the PAL, which is an outgrowth of the Juvenile Aid Bureau, the Police Department agency which Is designed to curb criminal tendencies among the adolescent. He is prominent in many lawyers' groups, has been treasurer and vice president of the Kings County Criminal Bar Association and editor of 'The Pleader," a monthly legal magazine. His FORT GREENE is a memorial, a tomb and a playground.

The towering monument is a memorial to the Americans who died a horrible death in the prison ships in Wallabout. And here, on a slope, is the tomb where their bones have been interred with jonor, The playground covers 30 acres. Fort Greene Harbors Traditions of 2 Wars It Was There Washington Watched His Armies Meet Defeat; Prison Ship Dead Buried There la i- at If ti il X', -t4 1 J- -j MSSai 4 i -3i i i by Washington, who was with him several times while they were in the course of formation, and It must be remembered that Greene was forced to take to his bed, having been seized with fever, before his defense work had been completed. He was so 111 that he couldn't even discuss his plans with General 8ulllvan, who was appointed temporarily to the military command of the island. Sullivan was brave man, but he knew little of strategy, and they say he was careless at times and ignorant regard-In mathematical calculations, which are so Important in war.

But none deny that he was a magnifi cent leader of onslaught. It should be remembered that a system of spies was carefully maintained by both sides, and the Americans knew just about when the descent on Long Island was to be made. Reinforcements were sent over from the main army on Manhattan as the time drew near. Next came the news that the British had actually crossed and landed at what is now the Bath Beach Section between New Utrecht and Grave- send. History tells us what happen- ed from then on.

The terrible ordeal, the Americans during the onslaught of the British showing marked courage and making such a gallant fight, worthy of the splendid cause which meant their very lives, Moaunynt to That Rattle We have Fort Greene Park, on the very land where, during part of the awful battle of Aug. 27, 1776. General Washington stood and Jt. 1 WHEN YOU SEE AND DRIVE THE NEW 1941 DODGE Green section, happen be the Police Athletic League. The Mth precinct, where Mr.

Drago lives, Is place where the PALS have done such good work that other neighborhoods throughout the city have hard work keeping up with thm Cant William Cl Af this precinct, becoming interested in i this work several years ago orig- lnated the idea of Neighborhood Councils, composed of residents of given neighborhood who co-operate with the Police Athletic League providing recreation and guidance for youngsters ln crowded areas. Louis E. Drago was first president the Fort Greene Neighborhood Council, and his work resulted in opening of three separate community centers Kelly Center, Bommer Center and Brooks Center, within the district. Today the Captain Jones-Louis Drago group PALS and the three centers, with their weekly attendance of MAKE A DATE 4jgvJ HOW FORT GREENE GOT ITS NAME During the Revolution It wai known a Fort Putnam, an Integral part of the defense of Long Island. In the War of 1812 It again formed a link in the chain of defense and was officially named Fort Greene.

In 1147 the people petitioned the Lerialature for the necessary authority to purchase all the land generally known as Fort Greene, so that It might reserved as a public park. used It for yeara in pursuit of a hobby, which, fortunately for the youngest generation of the Fort HELEN WORTH Seei No Advantage In Marriage Over Job Dear Helen Worth From all I've read about you and by you, I realise you're hipped on marriage for women. Hence and therefore your answers to "On the Fence" and J. Many men. Many maids.

However any single woman with brains enough to answer life's challenge, can get a darn good kick out of life, and drink of its intellectual, physical, spiritual, natural Joys with no regrets about missing this so-called wedded bliss. 'Life's so full of a number of things, we should all be as happy as kings." Wedded bliss? Ha, ha, ha. You exchange your good Job at $40 per for pots, pans, diapers, brooms, dishes, squalling in the middle of the night, four walls, humdrum existence, and a man who, if he's like most men, loves himself first and you as far as you satisfy his creature needs. Recall the letter of Buddl Romance? Love? I admit to liking these. But.

marriage especially for a single woman with a good job? Nix. brothers, nix. Not unless you are the exceptional man and there aln none such. SUSY Q. Has Its Finer Side My Dear Susie "Speak as you find." I KNOW that marriage, for the normal man and woman, offers a greater chance for happiness than any other design for living.

Against the liabilities that you list, let me name some assets. Pri- marlly, the real Woman wishes to be cherished. She Is willing to earn a living in the world of business, to come home at the day's end to cook and to put her home ln order if I these services go toward making her husband more comfortable, her children better off. She MUST BELONG: psychically she is not complete unless secure ln the love of the man she loves. i Often enough women, through their eagerness to procure those things, mistake brass for gold, and find themselves tied to some one I very unlike the ideal long visual-lied.

More's the pity. Doesn't the single woman face four walls also? And empty ones? I But a room is not empty If some one else sits In it, reading quietly under the light placed beside his easy chair, or taking a nice little after dinner snooze on the divan, i an occasional snore breaking the silence. Needs Two Hearts II. takes a man and a woman to make a home the skills are different, both are needed. But why continue? "A man convinced against his will" or a woman cither! You are truly more to be pitied than censured, Susy Q.

and I mean It I HELEN WORTH. Killed by Subway Train James McKay, 75, of 852 Fulton wasifatally Injured yesterdey when he fell or Jumped In front of an Rth Ave. subway train st the Clinton Ave. station. I the a is of the all of i By JANE CORBY Speaking of Fort Greene section and you're liable to be, If you're talking to Louis E.

Drago, who lives there it's a district where the neigh- bors say "Good morning" to cacti other. It a iriendly rea. Mr. Draco, rioted crlmlnil lawyer, has Drago, done his part to make it so. His home at 100 Adelphi where he lives with his wife and small daughter, June, is the place the neighborhood kids think or first when they've broken somebody window and want a little informal legal ad- vice- i Like most busy people, Mr.

Drago has plenty of free time, and he has REPORTS MARRIAGE '50 UNSUCCESSFUL' A person who contemplates forsaking single blessedness has "one out out of two chances of being happily married," Dr. Louis A. Warsoff, professor of government at Brooklyn Collete, said last ln dtribin "50 percent unsuccessful" In a lfCiurt the Alumni Brooklyn Federating of Jewish Charities in the Hotel Granada. Dr, Warsoff, noting that 20 percent of the marriages in the nation end In divorce, advocated "open discussion" of marriage and its problems In churches, schools and synagogues. ship anchored in the Wallabout was the Whitby, moored, near "Remsen's Mill," about Oct.

JO, 1778. Bad provisions, bad water, no medical attention disease reigned unrelieved. One writer states: "I saw the sand beach between the ravine in the hill and Mr. Remsen's dock become filled with graves in two months; and before the 1st of May, 1777, the ravine itself was occupied the same way." Two other prison ships were brought into use and burned, It is said, by the prisoners, some of them perishing with the fires, preferring this death to living on the prtson ships. Later on they were all transferred to the Old Jersey.

Two other ships, the Hope and the Falmouth, anchored near each other about 200 yards east of the Jersey. The two latter were called 1 hospital ships, but they were also known as "ships of and few, very few prisoners ever left them except sewed up in a blanket for that last journey to be buried ashore in a shallow grave. One record states: 'The whole shore from Rennie's Point to Mr. Remsen's dock-yard was a place of graves; as were also the slope of the hill near the house, the shore from Mr. Remsen's barn along the been removed twice from former places of interment.

They were gathered first rom common graves on the shores of the Wallabout and Interred In downtown Brooklyn wiih much ceremonial and a me morial by the Tammany Society, In the latter part of the 18tli century. The memorial wa.s neglected and Ihe present monument was erected above the final resting place of the patriots in Fort Greene In response to the efforts of patriotic cltiiens. 2 Boro Firms Get Comforter Contracts Washington, Ocl. 30 The War Department has awarded contracts for comforters to two Brooklyn firms, the Konens Alrllght Quilt Company, which will receive $52,826 for S.530, and the Buchman Com- fort Products Company, which will rerelve nn 034 for U.nnrt. FOR A RIDE IN TODAY'S (UCjt Port Greene Park has been one Of Brooklyn's recreational spots so long that it has given its name to the whole section, It was named for a real fort, with traditions of two wars.

It was Port Putnam during the Revolution, and during the War of 1812 it was put into commission again and renamed Fort Greene. In the desperate times when 3 Washington was preparing his defense against the military and raval forces of the British, the de- fense of Long Island was pushed with all haste. The fort on Red Hook was strengthened, and, as I Fort Defiance, wa.s expected to challenge any ship or landing party before the guns on the Grand Battery became available. Gen. Nathanael Greene took charge of the defense of the Island, and rushed the work toward completion.

Port Greene, at first called Fort Putnam, was one of a series of forts built extending from the Wallabout to Red Hook, behind a natural breastwork of hills. Those foru were i Fort Stirling, commanding the water front, at what is now the 1 Junction of Hicks and Pierre- pont Sts. Fort Pu'nam now Fort Greenei. Fort Greene, npar the present Intersection of Nevin.s and Df-an BU. Fort Putnam and Greene were connected by an oblong redoubt.

Cork Screw Fort was on the spare now lying between Atlantic, Pacific, court and Clinton Sts. There was also a small redoubt eastward of Fort Putnam, near the Jamaica Fort Box, a rorioubt 'four guns on the slope of Bergqn HC1 west of Smith not far from Hoyt and Carrol! sts. Pefense Skillfully Planned Noone ran look at an early map of Brooklyn without that these I defenses were skillfully planned, so far as their situation goes, to prntec! the toun behind them; but i he main purpose of General Greene was to prevent, any passage across the chain of hiiLs which na'urc hart placed ready to his hand purposes of defense. His arniv too fmail to guard any extent'. strcu-h of territory, and there was no way of knowing when or where the enemy would land, If they landed at all.

The was no telegraph or radio to warn Instantly of aoproach, so that a large force could be massed at a given point. General Oreene troops were rot numerous enough lo do more than guard the defenses built, so he wisely determined to concentrate his attention on them and leave the landing to fate. General Greene not, only had the hills that, encircled Brooklyn' thoroughly covered by his defenses, but It is also said that he prepared for the eventuality that, the British might land on Long Island, pass his chain of defeases, and, by making a detour, endeavor to gain the narrow passages towards Hells Gate, and so gain possession of the tipper part of Manhattan Island. Th military value of Greene's elffriiws has been much discussed. tut hti plans were fully approved a I watched the conflict with agonized mii.p0nd to Rapeljes farm and the heart as he realized, only loo surely, ftndv isandi between the flood-that victory was not to rest with his Ralcs and tne min.dam; while a forces.

In 1847 the people petitioned i (ew were DUrl(d on the sllore tne the Legislature for the necessary east side of the Wallabout." authority to purchase ail the land Teeth examined from skulls lying generally spoken of as Fort Greene, on the shore, washed out of their so that it might be reserved as a graves by the tides, showed they park. As soon as this authority was had belonged to men In the. prime obtained the land was secured and 0r life. These ships remained in laid aside fo- public uses. It con- the Wallabout until New'York was tains 30 acres, and has cost the evacuated by the British, eight city, for land.

Improvements and years later, maintenance, upward of $2 000.000. Chief Justice Ckarles Evans It is at once a memorial, a tomb Hughes of the United States Su-and a playground. In the war of preme Court laid the corner stone 1812 it again formed a link in the of the Martyrs' Monument, which chain of defenses, and it was then cost $200,000, on Oct. 26. 1907.

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