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it THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. JANUARY 22. 1911.

BOROUGH AND LONG ISLAND WOMEN WILL ARGUE FOR A QUEENS SUBWAY Addresses by Fair Exponents of Tube Feature of Richmond Hill Mass Meeting. GREAT CROWDS EXPECTED. Woodruff and Littleton on Speakers' List--Arrangements Are Made for Overflow Meetings. There isn't a hall big enough in Queens to hold the crowd that will assemble next Friday, in Richmond Hill, to demand subways for Queens, 80 provision is being made for overflow meetings in many halls in the The main meeting will be Hall and the colorabis, speakers will go from hall to hall, and, it necessary, make outdoor speeches. The of the crowds is indicated in the request for seats by persons all over the borough.

While the meeting is called by the Jamaica Subway Association, it will advocate no route nor plan, but just demand subways and rapid transit for Queens. One of the features of the meeting will be short addresses by two of the best known women in the borough, who have become interested as taxpayers in the movement. This will be the first time in the history of the city that women have discussed "a civic matters in public from the rostrum. One the most interested workers in the movement is Joel Fowler of Richmond HIll. He said: "Queens will get subways and extensions of the elevated railroads.

the Queens Borough line and then condon't a care if they bring the subways to tinue them as elevated lines, as in the Bronx. It is rapid transit that Queens needs, and whether it is by elevated roads or depressed subways, it is all the same. "It is absurd to continue the subway syr em up towards Albany, when there is Do much 1 available and appropriate lands to develop in Queens, so near Manhattan. For the past five years we have been listening to the same songs of railroad men and officials of the Public Service Commission lamenting that it costs so much to haul long-distance passengers. And now these same persons are proposing to extend the lines further away from the centers of trade and amusements because of the long haul passengers.

To Show That Queens Will Not "Stand for Anything." refused to see Queens in this fact is these, people have ter. They don't want to see Queens. 'Queens will stand for is their cry. It is true that Queens has stood for a good many things, but she won't stand being jilted in this rapid transit business. Why that was the very reason that Queens voted to come into the Greater City, If the people of Queens could have foreseen what has happened, Queens would have remained a separate community of 325,000 and have gotten along fairly well, They got us in under false pretenses and made us help pay for subways for the Bronx and Queens will stay in the game and will see to it that the cards are not stacked against her.

As it 18, we have a good chance for our ante and that chance will be elaborated on at the mass meeting hext Friday night. "Six years ago the Rapid Transit Commission planned A subway for Queens with lateral complements of rapid transit. That body saw that the whole solution of congestion in Manhattan was in Queens. The idea is to get away from and into Manhattan by the quickest and most diverse routes. Queens solves the problem.

More lines to the Bronx swells and accentuates the congestion. That's the whole story. The people are educated in this subway matter and they won't be fooled." Ex-Lieutenant Governor Woodruff and Representative- elect Littleton will speak. will be made that 75 per cent. have consented to the assessment plan of subway construction.

TRYING NEW SYSTEM. Trolley Cars of Ocean Electric Railroad May Be Run by Third Rail in Future. 4 are being made by the Je Long Island Raiiroad with operating the trolley cars of the Electric Railway, running between Belle Harbor and Far Rockaway, by means of the third rail. The experiments are being made on the stretch of track from Hammel Station, at Rockaway Beach, to Far Rockaway, the trolley cars using the railroad tracks between these two points. A shoe, similar to the one in use on the electric cars of the Long Island Railroad system, is attached to the trucks of the car, and is put in contact with the third rail in the same manner.

The offclals are well pleased with the tests thus far. MAYOR CANNOT ATTEND. Secretary Adamson Will Represent Him at Flushing Banquet. Mayor Gaynor, owing to his not over robust health, has been obliged to decline an invitation to attend the Flushing Business Men's annual dinner next month. He will be represented at the banquet by Secretary Robert Adamson.

Bourke Cockran has accepted, and will be one of the speakers, as will Representative-elect Littleton. Formal invitations will, during the coming week be sent to Controller Prendergast, President Mitchel, of the Board of Aldermen. T. P. Shonts and other promipent men.

BABYLON'S HEALTH IS GOOD. (Special to The Eagle.) Babylon. L. January 21-According to the bulletin of the State Department of Health. there were no deaths in this village during the month of November, a record that no other place in the state equaled.

Added to this cause for selfcongratulations on the part of the boomers of Babylon, there were five births in the village during the month. MISS GOEHUS ENGAGED. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Goehus, of 65 Union avenue, Corona, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Johanna, to Gustave Kiohs, of Berlin, Germany.

Miss Goehus is a teacher in Public School No. 16, Corona. CARD PARTY FOE HOSPITAL. Next Wednesday evening the second of the series of euchres and bridge parties given under the Aid Society and Junior Auxiliary for the benefit of St. Joseph's Hospital at Far Rockaway will be held at the hospital, and is expected that there will be a large attendance.

SPEAKS IN ANCESTOR'S PULPIT. The Rev. Azel H. Fish will preach this morning and evening in the Elmhurat Presbyterian Church. Mr.

Fish is a descendant of the Rev. Peter Fish. who WAS the pastor of this church from 1785 -to 1789, NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. RAYMOND AT LYNBROOK. LYNBROOK CATHOLICS DEDICATE NEW CHURCH Handsome Edifice in Atlantic Avenue Consecrated by the Bishop of the Diocese.

PROMINENT DIVINES ASSIST. Building Is of English Gothic tecture-Cost Altar a Memorial. (Special to The Eagle.) Lynbrook, L. January 21-Catholics of Lynbrook will rejoice to -morrow in the dedication ceremonies of the church of their faith to be erected In this lage, the Church of St. Raymund of Pennafort, in Atlantic avenue.

The building will be formally dedicated by the Rt. Rev. Charles E. McDonnell, D.D.. Bishop of Brooklyn, and the master of ceremonies will be the Rev.

Joseph E. Brady, acting pastor of St. Malachy'8 Church of East New York. The sermon will be preached by the Rt. Rev.

Mgr. Edward J. McCarty, rector of St. Augustine's Church of Sterling place and Seventh avenue, Brooklyn, and mass will be sung by the Rev. Thomas E.

Carroll, rector of St. Vincent de Paul's Church, in North Sixth street, Brooklyn, who was the Arst pastor at Rockville Centre, where the Catholics of Lynbrook were wont to attend before a church was established in Lynbrook. The Rev. James F. Flood, rector St.

Savior's Church of Eighth avenue, Bookis to act as deacon, and the Rev. William Dwyer of St. Peter's Church of Hicks street, Brooklyn, will be subdeacon. Church a Handsome Gothic Structure. St.

Raymund's is built after the English Gothic style, with buttresses and storied windows, and its total cost is $15,000. It is 40 feet in width and 120 feet long, and will seat between 400 and 500. The main altar is a memorial to Edward J. Gormley, who died on October 22, of last year, in his early twenties. HUn The Rev.

D. R. Carroll, Pastor of St. Raymond's R. C.

Church, Lynbrook. The altar is Anished In gold and white and presented by the parents of the deceased young man. Both of the side altars are also gifts of parishioners. The Roman Catholic Church in Lynbrook has had a short but rapid growth. The Rev.

Dennis R. Carroll, the founderrector of St. Raymund's, said the first mass in Lynbrook on Sunday, August 8. 1909. The service was held in the fire house, in Earl avenue.

More than 100 attended, and the little hall was so taxed that on the next Sunday the congregation moved to Lyceum Hall, in Union avenue, where the attendance tripled. A house with a large garage attached was next rented and the garage was converted into a chapel, while the house served as a rectory. The Catholics of Rockville Centre had previously seen the need of establishing a church of their faith in Lynbrook, and 3 with that idea in view they purchased the site of the new church about five years ago. But it was not until April of last year that ground was broken for the new edifice, and its cornerstone was Jaid in June, 1910. TAXATION UPS AND DOWNS.

Flushing Property Owner Finds Assessment Increased 250 Per Cent. in Three Years--Lowered This Year. According to James H. Quinlan, a real estate dealer of Flushing. an increase of 250 per cent.

in the assessment on his property at 87 and 89 Main street has been made in the past three years. The property In question has a frontage of fifty feet, and 011 it one twostory frame store and and one dwelling, one-story store. In 1907 they were assessed at $7,000, and in 1910 they jumped to $25,000. This year the assessment is only $24.000. SECRETARY THE HOST.

(Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L. January 21-Usher B. Hewell, secretary of the Riverhead Savings Bank, dined his fellow officers, the trustees and a few other friends at the Griffin House last night. The party was a large one and the fair was highly eujoyed. tots.

wouldn't 'let me leave the things where they could get them. Once saw Le Grand a ways off, but he wouldn't come any nearer. Finally I decided to bring no more toys for the children. For two or three years I made trips down on the boat from New York to Northport, just to see the childrentwo or three trips a year. Sometimes overnight I would stay with some friend, but at times I stayed all night in the woods, waiting for the time the boat DROUGHT DAMAGE ON L.

I. Large Falling Off in Crops Indicated by Railroad Traffic. How seriously the recent drought affected the farm crops on Long Island 1s indicated by the Long Island Railroad freight traffic report of the six months. There were carried in taste period 9,415 tons of cauliflower as compared with 17.770 tons in same six months of 1909; 42,988 tons of potatoes, as compared with tons in 1909, and 2,200 tons of cucumbers as compared with 2,683 tons in There was an increase in berries from 328 tons in the last six months of 1909 to 373 tons in 1910. There were carried 1,149 tons of fish by freight and 7,615 tons by express; 21,626 tons of oysters by freight and 3,510 tons by express, and 451 tons of other shell Ash by freight and 1,532 tons by express, during the last six months.

FAREWELL TO MR. WOOD. Jamaica Veteran Firemen Wish Bank Manager a Pleasant Journey and Give Him a Fob. A farewell reception was given the members friends of the Jamaica Veteran Volunteer Firemen's Association by William Wood, manager of the Corn Exchange Bank of Long Island City, at the veterans headquarters In North Washington street, Thursday evening. Mr.

Wood goes soon on an extended tour of the United States and Europe. He 1s an honorary member of the veterans. President McGuire called a special meeting of the association for Thursday night. William E. Everitt, Joseph L.

Ashmead and John Tator composed the lcompelches of were made arrangements. by Mr. Wood, Joseph H. Cummin, of Bay Shore; Carl Vogel, of Queens: George L. Powell, the oldest living ex-chief of the Jamaica Fire Department, and others.

Lester Clerke read a poem written for the occasion by William F. Hendrickson, and Robert J. McMahon, in behalf of the association, presented Mr. Wood with a solid gold watch fob, bearing the emblem of the veterans and an appropriate inscription. Refreshments were afterward served.

and songs were rendered by "Happy Joe" Frey, William E. Everitt, Whalen and "Uncle Dan" Gaitings. Remarks made by George Jones, Harry 9. Rushmore. Harry Sutphin, Thomas Daily, John E.

Tator, William F. Hendrickson and others. 2D PORT WASHINGTON FORUM Is to Be Held This Afternoon With Managing Editor of Independent as Speaker. It is expected that there will be another large attendance at the second meeting of the Port: Washington Forum this afternoon, Hamilton Holt, managing editor of the Independent, will deliver AD illustrated lecture on "The Federation of Peace." Prior to the meeting at the hall, Mrs. Martin W.

Littleton, the organizer of the forum, will entertain at luncheon at her home 8 number of Long Island clergymen and school officials. Mr. Littleton will be at the luncheon and will preside at the meeting and introduce Mr. Holt. Mrs.

Littleton yesterday expressed surprise at learning that the proposition to form a Long Island Editorial Association originated at the luncheon she gave on January 8, and said that she was extremely gratified to know the plan had its inception there, and wished the undertaking every success. QUEENS MARRIAGE LICENSES. The following marriage licenses have been issued during the past week by Deputy City Clerk Frenz of Queens: John Puschin, 31, of 606 Hamilton st, Long Island City, Minnie Popp, 24, of 606 HamIlton st, Long Island City, Stanislaw, Anna Morlusz, 30, Witkowska, of 66 22, of Bradford 66 Brad- av, ford av. Flushing. George Kipgen, 80, of 126 Railroad av, Corona, Frances Boritus, 33, of 65 Crown st, Corona.

Charles Wagner, 37, of 349. Fresh Pond av. Evergreen, Anna Birkmeyer, 27, of 37 Cooper av, Evergreen. Salvatore Riviezzo, 45, of 147 Vernon AV, Long Island City, Anna Maria Brancas, 27, of 161 Vernon Long Island City. William Lent, 31, of 33 Prospect av.

Elmhurst, Frances Kranitz, 24, of 218 Grand st, Maspeth, Nicholas Camizzi, 29, of 424 East Fourteenth st, New York City, Josephine Louise Cabasino, 27, of Baylies st, Corona. Stephen Cavagnaro, 26, of 62 Fourth st, Long Island City, Maria. Casassa, 27, of 62 Fourth st, Long Island City. Paul Lipski, 22, of 4.029 Grafton av, Woodhaven, L. Beleslawa Lyniewaka, 20, of 4,029 Grafton av, Woodhaven, I.

George Roth, 23. of 1,075 Decatur at, Brooklyn, Louise Braun, 25, of 23 Ferry st, Woodhaven. Carleton Beynell. 25. of 327 Jamaica av, Long Island City, Minnie Schoonmaker, 21, of 365 Jamaica av, Long Island City.

Anastarzy Crimkowski. 28. of 65 Pearsall st, Blissville, L. 1.. Wladialawa Donkowski, 22.

of 53 Greenpoint AV. Blissville, L. I. Isidor Kleinmann. 23, of 106 Goreck st, New York City, Bessle Fiensod, 22, of 72 Washington st, Flushing.

Charles Murray, 22. of 492 Grove st, Ridgewood, L. Mary Heffernan, 19, of 20 Foxall st, Glendale, L. I. Francis Wolenisk1, 28, of 108 Clinton AV, Maspeth, L.

Martha Przybylska, 21, of 176 Maspeth AV, Maspeth, L. I. John Pisciotta, 23, of Railroad de Jamaica, L. 1.. Angelina Lope, 22, of Charlotte st, Jamaica.

L. I. John Winiarz, 25, of 128 Rockaway road, Jamaica, L. Antonina Kusak, 18, of 128 Rockaway road, Jamaica, L. I.

Nicholas Christiani, 21, of 21 Smith st, Evergreen, Caroline Christiani, 18, of Prineville, Ore. Eugenio Scuderi, 26, of 472 Hamilton st; Long Island City, Casterina Vincenza, 16. of 472 Hamilton st, Long Island City. William Lindsrom, 23. of 22 Canal st.

Woodhaven, Laura Oakland, 28. of 22 Canal st, Woodhaven. George Martin, 21, of 699 Woodbine st, Ridgewood, Margaret Siebert, 21, of 187 Covert av, Ridgewood. William Hunold, 21, of 500 Flushing av. Long Island City, Anna Andree, 24, of Bowery Bay road, Long Island City.

Michael Szustek, 26, of 214 Perry av, Maspeth, Antonina Bukawee, 20, of 214 Perry av, Maspeth. John Maj. 26, of 128 Rockaway road, Jamaica, Mary Pawlowska, 20, 128 Rockaway road. Jamalca. Charles Geis, 22, of 792 Gates av.

Brooklyn, Marie Krause, 18, of 57 Woodhaven av. Woodhaven, L. 1. Alexander Buczkowski. 24, of Great Neck.

Helen Brokopowicz, 18, of Second st, Bayside. Louis Friedman, 21. of 200 Manhattan av. Brooklyn, Hattle Gillise Banks, 19, of 1.026 Jamaica av, Woodhaven. Antonio Fischelli, 26, of 116 Seventh st, Long Island City, Maria Fiere, 23, of 116 Seventh st, Long Leland City.

Otto Rainer. 26, of 122 Hull av. Maspeth, Hul. da Luck, 19, of 35 Broad st. Maspeth.

John Malazdra, of 13 Pacife st. Jamaica, Mary Woz, 19, 13 Pacific st, Jamaica. Gustave Gustaveeon, 27. of 977 Third av. New York City, Ellen Johnson, 27.

of 248 Lincoln st. Flushing. Harry Miller. 20. 40 Perry av.

Maspeth. MarRaret Henny, 19, of 1,650 Metropolitan av, Middle Village. Voltto Grondahl, 22, of McNeal av, Far Rockaway, Minnie Saarela, 28, of 169 Cedar Far Rockaway, Frederick Vonderau, 24, of Camp AV. Merrick. Julia Kammerer.

20, 161 Onderdonk av, Ridgewood. William Paulsen. 91, of 215 Onderdonk a.V, Ridgewood. Ethel Grandner, 18, of 149 Harmon st. Ridgewood.

Albert. Rice, 21, of 77 Moffat st, Brooklyn, Charlotte Starck, 20, of 913 Chestnut st, Richmond Hill. George Tranauskas, 28, of 95 Clinton av. Mas peth. Elizabeth Korsak, 19, of 95 Clinton av, Maspeth.

John L.lepkowiez, 25, of 114 Perry av, Maspeth, Petronolo Skubin, 22, of 174 Perry AV, Maspeth. Edgar Sibley. 29, of 115 Henry Brooklyn, Bessie Anne Gall. 26. 120 Guion place, Richmond Hill.

Charles Emil Keen. 23. of 400 West Fifty-seventh st. New York City, Margaret Fredericks, 22, of 05 Franklin st, Maspeth. started back to the city.

Has Been a Palmist for 14 Years. "Finally I decided to come no more. My heart was broken and I went awny and stayed away. First I lived in Williamsburg with Richard Smith, my husband's brother. I got work sewing and embroidering and work as a nurse.

At other times I acted as housekeeper and did general housework. All of the timo I was studying palmistry, and that has been my means of livelihood for the past fourteen years. For ten years I was in Forty-fifth street, Manhattan, and later in Forty- second street. Now I am living with my granddaughter. No, I have never signed a paper giving up my rights in the property in question." On -examination Mrs.

Smith stated that the first time she came back to see her little ones was the following spring after she left in the fall; "Just as the trees and flowers were she said. "I came on the steamboat. There was 00 train to Northport in those days." Mr. Miles tried to get her to admit knowing a. man named Robert Dickerson and that she had made a trip to california.

"Never had my nose in California. Don't know where it is, and I never told Robert Dickerson I had been there," she tartly answered. She discussed with Mr. Miles all of the old families of Northport and showing that she knew them perfectly vicinity: one time and knew many of their chilwas so heartbroken when I left that I dren. She stated she didn't know her daughter a had died until a year ago.

did not care to find out anything about the family or anyone else," she declared. and she admitted that during the past half century she has lived in or near New York and has never taken the trouble to inquire after her family or her husband's property. Lawyer's Effort to "Play Horse" With Old Men Failed. The defense also introduced a number of old men from up Northport way, who swore they knew an Enfly A. Smith half a century ago, and that she was a girl of not very good character, and that they could not recognize the plaintiff as being that girl--that is.

not from facial features. On cross-examination Mr. Davis sought to have a lot of fun with these lows, but they were pretty sharp, and at least one of them "got back" at him in good shape. "Served with a subpoena to come down here and testify as to the bad character of this plaintiff, Mr. Heartt?" he asked, with biting sarcasm of James F.

Heartt of Northport, aged 80, and who at one time lived in Brooklyn, "The only papers I was ever served with in this case were those you served on me three or four months ago. when you made me ride 90 miles and paid me only 50 cents for all my time, trouble and the expense of paying my own carfare," quickly replied the witness. TRUSTEES TO BE "SHOWN." Freeport Village Fathers Want to Know Why Firemen Need $10,000 to Improve Service. (Special to The Eagle.) Freeport, L. January 21-For the purpose of making a more detailed investigation as to what the wants of the Freeport Fire Department are before authorizing the expenditure of $10,000 in increasing its efficiency, village board of trustees decided at the meeting last night to hold a jo'nt meeting with the fire council at 'adquarters of the latter on next Fr night.

As told in last shes Eagle, the firemen presented a resolution to the board of trustees requesting 1 that a bond issue of $6.000 be put before the people for a vote, and that $4.000 more be appropriated for maintenance expenses during the coming year. The trustees were averse to sanctioning the resolution until they had looked into the matter more fully, and although the firemen, in their petition, requested an immediate answer, they consented to the arrangement of a joint meeting as the most practicable means of settling the matter. SIGMOND HEADS COMMITTEE. Will Try to Raise Funds for Creation of Proposed Depot Park at Freeport. (Special to The Eagle.) Freeport, L.

January 21-At last night's meeting of the village board, Trustee Charles A. Sigmond was appointed chairman of a committee, with power to solicit funds for the proposed park improvement of the old pipe line of the Brooklyn City Water Works north of the Freeport railroad station. Mr. Sigmond was given power to choose the remainder of his committee from the taxpayers, and authorized as representative of the village board in the matter. The park plan, as described in The Eagle recently, is to this strip of land, 100 feet wide, from Main street, on the east, to Long Beach avenue on the west, into a public park.

To do the necessary work it is estimated that between $1.000 and $2.000 will be required. LONG ISLAND WEDDINGS. -BRAUN. Miss Katharine Braun of 77 South 1190 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn, were street, Evergreen, and Adolph Kirsch of married on Friday night by Rev. George 0.

Israel, pastor of the Evergreen Reformed Church. WAGNER-BIRKMEYER. Miss Anna Birkmeyer of 37 Cooper avenue, Glendale, and Charles Wagner of 349 Fresh Pond a road. that place, were married on Friday night at the parsonage of the Middle Village Lutheran Church. Christopher Birkmeyer was the best man, and Miss Amelia Birkmeyer was the bridesmaid.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. D. W. Peterson. FINE CONCERT PLANNED.

A fine programme is being arranged for the concert to be given in the Elmhurst Methodist Episcopal Church, under the direction of Mrs. W. M. Hughes, director of the choir, for the evening of Washington's Birthday. The programme will consist of a large chorus, which is now being drilled, and other numbers will be selections by members of the famous Rubinstein Club of Manhattan and also of the Dramatic Art Society.

LAWRENCE TO HAVE SEWERS. (Special to The Eagle.) Lawrence. L. January 21-After discussing the matter of sewerage disposal for many months, the village trustees have at last decided to have a system of sewers installed throughout the village and to erect a disposal works that will be capable of carrying off all the sewage that it might be tested to. The trustees have placed the entire matter in the hands of a committee, and if plans can be prepared In time work may be started before next summer.

TRAPPING NOT A LOST ART. (Special to The Eagle.) Yaphank, L. January 21-Trapping is not a lost vocation by a great deal on Long Island. In many villages boys and young men make considerable money by setting steel traps in swamps and ponds for muskrats and other fur-bearing animals whose skins are sold to dealers. One resident of this village, David Jones, has already this winter netted $30 by the sale of skins.

If You Are Fond of a glass of good old Ale, and like it with a deep froth, mellow flavor and sparkling brilllancy, order A Bottle of EVANS' ALE EVANS ALE It pours out just as natural as if drawn direct from the cask. and retaing its briskness and goodness to the last drop. Make the test anywhere. C. H.

Evans Sons, Hudson, N.Y, TALES OF "AUNT PATTY," AN OLD-TIME TEACHER MISS BAYLES INDORSED. Her Appointment as P. M. at Oyster Bay Is Asked by Republican Town Committee. (Special to The Eagle.) Oyster Bay, L.

January 21-A special meeting of the Republican, Town Committee was held afternoon to indorse Miss Florence Bayles for the appointment of postmistress to succeed Miss Annie Larrabee, who died a fortnight ago. Last week, at the meeting of the county committee, a of petition, the Oyster signed by Bay three postpatrons office, including ex-President Roosevelt, was presented to the county committee for its indorsement of Miss Bayles' application. Because the petition did not bear the indorsement of the Oyster Bay Republican Town Committee, the County Committee would take no action, as its rule! requires that all petitions must first be indorsed by the town committee. The matter was referred back town committee and yesterday's indorsement followed. The county committee's recommendation will ensue, with Miss Bayles' probable subsequent appointment.

Miss Bayles, who has been assistant at the post-office for eighteen years, was the only applicant for the position, and her appointment will be A popular one. 88 she is well-liked by the patrons of the office. BIG DAMAGE SUIT DISMISSED. (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L. January 21-Although John H.

Banton had the side of his head stove in when a plank fell upon him from a height of 45 feet, he cannot just yet recover a verdict of $25,000 for his injuries. The Terry Tench Co. was named as defendant, Banton holding that it WaS through the negligence of a foreman of that company that he received his injuries, and so he asked a Suffolk County jury in Justice Scudder's court to award him $25,000. At conclusion of the plaintiff's case, the though, it was shown that there was an essential element lacking to conclusively connect the defendant company with the negligence, according to the complaint, so on motion of the defendant's attorney the complaint was dismissed. It is understood.

however. that the complaint be rectified and a new proceeding started. 71.43% RAISE OPPOSED. Rockaway Beach Taxpayers to Meet and Voice Their Disapproval of Tax Increase. To-morrow evening the Rockaway Beach taxpayers will hold a mass meeting in Arion Hall, at which the matter of excessive assessments will be discussed and a plan arrived at to bring about either a reassessment of the real property in Fifth Ward or a big reduction in the figures, as it is plain to every one that the assessment is out of all proportion whew compared with other sections of the city which ejoy improvements.

In 1910 the Fifth Ward, which comprises the Rockaways, was assessed for $27,699,030, and by the new assessment the figures are $46,456,575, an increase of 71.43 per cent. When it is considered that the Rockaways have received very little from the city in the form of improvements since consolidation for the $1,200 paid into the city's strong box in taxes daily, they feel that they have been discriminated against and that the inequality is unjust. HELPFUL TO FARMERS. Wives, Too, Will Find Mineola Insti. tute Programme of Interest and Value.

(Special to The Eagle.) Mineola, L. January 21-A large attendance is expected at the farmers institute to be held in the court house on Monday and Tuesday, conducted by Edward Van Alstyne and in charge of Elwood V. Titus, as local correspondent of the State Department of Agriculture. The programme for Monday, beginning at 10 A.M., consists of opening address by the conductor and talks on "Leguminous Plants and Their Use," F. A.

Sirrine, Riverhead. and "How We Grow Potatoes in Ohio," Cary Montgomery of Newark, that state. The question box will be a feature of the afternoon session, to be followed by an illustrated talk on "Care of the Horse's Teeth," Dr. C. W.

Brodhead of Montrose, Pa. It will conclude with an address on "How to Make Clean Milk in a Practical Way," by Mr. Van Alstyne. On Tuesday morning the question box will be first on the programme. Then Mr.

Sirrine will talk on "The Root System of Plants--Their Function and Treatment." Mrs. George E. Monroe of Dryden, N. will discuss "Home Sanitation." In the afternoon. besides the question bor.

Dr. Brodhead will tell of Care of Horses' using specimens to illustrate his points, and the Session and the institute will close with a talk 011 "Farm Poultry" by Mrs. Monroe. SIREN IS LOUDER NOW. (Special to The Eagle.) Amityville, L.

January 21-In spite! of the fact that it had been practically decided to return the siren, which was recently: installed at the electric power plant for use as a fire alarm, to the manufacturers on account of the unsatisfactory showing that it made on its trials, it hag been giving better results of late, and will in all probability be kept. Several adjustments have been made to the whistle, and it is claimed that villages eight or more miles away can hear it when It is blown, curfew fashion, each evening at 6 o'clock. PLEASURE CLUB AT THE PLAY. (Special to The Eagle.) L. January 21-The Unity Pleasure Club of Seaford and qua held its annual theater party 011 Thursday night.

The members, to the number of about one dozen, attended the New York Theater, where "Naughty Mariatta" was enjoyed. RETURNS AS FROM DEAD AND WINS HER LAW SUIT Aged Emily Smith, Missing From Northport 50 Years, Establishes Dower Rights. SON THOUGHT SHE WAS DEAD. Land She Claims Is Very Valuable. Defendants Will Not Yield Without Carrying Case Up.

(Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L. January 21-Probably one of the most interesting suits ever tried in Suffolk County is that which a jury in the Supreme Court decided this afternoon. It was that of Mrs. Emily A. Smith, 73 years old, vs.

James Cockroft, Harry F. Burns other prominent Northport men. won the suit, but an sand appeal will be taken by the defendants. Mrs. Smith sued to recover her dower rights in the property of her husband, Epenetus Smith, long since deceased.

"She left him and the Northport section more than fifty years ago. Subsequent to her departure her husband sold his property (he owned much realty), and later died. The property has for some been owned by James Cockroft, F. Burns and many 'Harry others, and is very valuable. For over fifty years nothing was heard of the widow, and it was believed she was dead.

Even her own children had not heard from her or about her, and thought she was dead. Suddenly last summer she appeared in Northport, where she had a granddaughter, Mrs. George Walker, living. She was able to establish her identity and subsequently brought the suit. Frank F.

Davis of Brooklyn has been attending to the legal end of her claim. Son on Stand Swears He Believed Mother Dead. LeGrand Smith, son of the plaintiff, was one witness for the plaintiff. saw my mother once or twice in the a 60s, but only for a few moments," he said. "I and she were not living together.

That was only 12 years old then. he My father was the last time I saw her until last year. I supposed she was dead. I had been living in North Carolina, and I got 8 letter one day and because of that letter I came to New York and met my mother. I have no reason to doubt that sho is my mother." answer to Mr.

Miles, Mr. Smith admitted there was nothing about her features through which he could have identified her. For the defense, Miles introduced the judgment a divorce Rowland, granted Epenetus Smith from Emily A. Smith, in October, 1857. There was a long argument on the part of Mr.

Davis to keep this from the record. He claimed the paper was faulty, Mr. Miles contended that even though it was faulty, it could not be corrected after 80 many years. It was a fine point of law that was involved, and finally Justice Scudder admitted the judgment. Mrs.

Smith testified that she was never served with papers in a divorce proceeding, and was under age in 1857, when the judgment was pr procured. This judgment was the strong card of the defense. Jury Decides Old Divorce Was Illegally Procured. The jury came into court at 3 P.M.. with a verdict for plaintiff.

It found, in effect, that the divorce obtained so many years ago was not a legal one, and that Mrs. Smith still has a dower right in all property left by her husband. Epenetus Smith. Rowland Miles, the defendants' counsel, will, it is understood, appeal the case. Mrs.

Smith is 73 years old. She is well preserved. and is still good looking. One of the old men sworn, as noted above. was David Wood.

Mrs. Smith's counsel asked him: "You're a farmer, I belleve. Mr. Wood?" "Oh. I'm a part of one: you know can't work as smart as I used to," was the laughing answer of the white-haired old man.

"Yes, I'm the husband of Experience Wood, who just testified. We've been married and lived together since August 8. 1852. Yes, I knew Epenetus Smith, and knew his wife, this plaintiff here, 'way back in '51. Her maiden name was Emily Pierson.

I saw Mrs. Smith last September for the first time in nigh fifty year. I should say. Yes. I knowed her.

Met her on the road, and we stopped and talked. She talked a lot about the neighbors that used to live there." The question was raised by the detense that this was not the real Emily Smith. SO the "old timers" were introduced to prove that she is. John F. Wood practically corroborated his brother.

Mrs. Smith Told a Remarkable Story of Her Life. The simple and homely narrative of Mrs. Smith's life and how she eked out a living was an attractive one to many in the court room. It was a tale running all the way from housework to the science of palmistry.

She was born in Virginia in 1837, moved to Mattituck when very young. and just after her father widowed. and lived with an aunt until she was 13 years of age. Then she went to Northport to "work out." being first engaged in the family of David Buffett. and later with other families.

She was married when she was 14. and had four children and was divorced before she was 20. The first child was born when she was 15, the next when she was 17, the next when 18, and the next before she was 20. To test her recollection she told all about her, children, when each was born and when 011e or two of them died. left the home of Epenetus Smith in the fall of she said.

"No. I didn't take any of mv children with me. came back four times the next year, just to see the children. and they wouldn't let me see When giving this part of her story the old woman wept copiously. "I always brought the children something.

some little memento, but they wouldn't let me give them to the little She Taught at Cold Spring Harbor Sixty Years Ago. HAD A TWO-FAMILY: SCHOOL Possessed a Glass Eye: Was Fond of Dumb Animals, and Had Learned the Shoemaker's Trade. A former resident of Cold Spring Hare bor recently told of a little private school he attended there when a lad of 12 years -that was sixty years ago--and not only by comparison with schools of to-day way it quaintly primitive, but its little school mistress was a most original character and her methods of training unique. With one exception, the pupils were of the Jones and Hewlett families, and the school was held in a room on the main floor of a house owned by the late Charles Jones, at the west end of the milldam near the Episcopal Church. There were about twelve pupils, girls and boys, and they played together in a rare spirit of comradeship, even such games as baseball--the girls as enthusiastic as the boys.

Probably it was because of such boyish sport that "Aunt Patty," as the little teacher was lovingly called, found the deportment of the girls lacking in what she called "ladylike manners," and their ungraceful attitude called forth the reproof, "Don't sit like a cow." This language was perhaps as inelegant as the postures, but it is quite safe to say that it made an impression that a more conventional rebuke would not have done. Some Facial and Other Characteristics of "Aunt Patty." "Aunt Patty," who was otherwise Misg Martha Turner, was 70 years of age when she taught at Cold Spring, but was DOSsessed of such youthful vigor that she was fully equal to the position. She had a glass eye, which, when she became cited, had an odd fashion of turning round, and gave a most bewildering appearance to her plain, little face. She taught French, not, perhaps, with correct accent, but her pupils learned to read the language well, and later easily acquired the pronunciation. To elocution she gave much time, regarding it as quite as important as other studies, and having made her selections, the boys who were to recite were sent outside to climb trees and declaim to the silences, and it was no unusual thing for one lad, high up in a chestnut tree, to be shouting out while in a neighboring tree of lower growth, "Life is real, life is earnest," would be shouted with equal vigor, and with apparently no hension of the ludicrousness of the incident, every one in hearing taking it As a matter of course.

"Aunt Patty" had a most unusual complishment for a woman. She was Al expert shoemaker, making all her own shoes, and as she "bearded at the homes of her pupils, going in turn to each family, and carrying her kit of tools, many of the Cold Spring women also became adepts at shoemaking. The writer remembers seeing a palr of gray linen gaiters, laced at the side, of Cinderella proportions, made by one of "Aunt Patty's" clever pupils. Little Old Teacher Fond of the Brute Creation. The little teacher was so fond of mals that she made a point of teaching gentleness and consideration for every, kind of creature, especially domestic animals.

An amusing incident told by tis pupil of "Aunt Patty," who has outlived all his school companions, was that at the time he became a member of the school a son of one of the leading families held over the others and laid down supremacy his law for the others to obey. This was, disputed by the new boy, who refused to be dominated. and when, after fighting it out, he was the victor, the deposed boss boy called his sister. bade her pack up her books and both left. When the school was later dismissed the door was found to be locked, and the boy who had refused to be climbed out a window and unlocked the door.

A truce was declared between the lads after a family discussion, and the two later became lifelong friends. "Aunt Patty" had a lot of sentiment and wrote verses on various little incidents of school life, mixing in just enough French to make them exciting. Her forceful personality has survived in treasured memories, and in one home, the various changes of lite, a through little chair she sat in and a small set of drawers, like a child's chiffonier, have been beloved objects of a past connected with her simple, earnest and honest life, To the one survivor of that faraway there is something almost uncanny past which go SO far back in reminiscences half a century. making him feel over "stranded on the shores of isolated, not by distance or time." separated, from those with whom he cumstances, such intimate terms, but by the lived on which SO often entirely obe mystery literates. RECEIVER FOR BABYLON R.

R. Another of J. S. Robin's Enterprises Is the Subject of Court Proceedings. Judge Chatfield in the United States Court in Brooklyn has appointed Paul Th Brady and Willard B.

King receivers for the Babylon Railroad Company, a sub4 sidiary line of the South Shore Traction which 'was recently put into the Company, hand of the same receivers. Both companies were controlled by Joseph Ch Robin. The Babylon Electric Light Company which the railroad company owed $12,4 000 for power furnished, threatened to cut off the supply of electricity, which would stop the operation of the line, and it was alleged by William R. Spencer, the petitioner and a stockholder and ident of New Jersey, that the property would suffer. Arthur C.

Hume And Harold B. Weaver, brought in bills of $4,500 each against, the company for legal services; $200 was due A8 wages and 1 miscellaneous bills were estimated at. $1,000. The capital stock of the company 18 $25.000. The road wa4 turned over to Robin by the Long Island Railroad CONDA pan, two years ago,.