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1911. QUEENS BOROUGH AND LONG ISLAND MANY ROADS REPAIRED IN QUEENS BOROUGH President Connolly Has Several Sections of Main Highways Resurfaced. WERE IN BAD CONDITION. Important Thoroughfares in Flushing and Jamaica Made as Good as New in Two Months. The amount of good roads work that has been done in Queens since President Connolly's administration begun, early in October, and all of it with the regular employes of the Highway Department, and a reduced force at that, has surprised and delighted the property owners of that borough.

One of the most important pieces of work is the resurfacing of the Shell road from Elmhurst to a point about three and one-half miles beyond the Flushing boundary line in the town of Flushing. This was finished just at the time the recent snow storm came. The work resurfacing Broadway from Murray street, Flushing, to Tenth street, Bayside, was within one week of completion when the snowstorm came, and simiJar progress had been made on the College Point Causeway. As soon as weather conditions permit work on both the above named a highways will be rushed to completion. The resurfacing of a section of the Merrick road, from Fulton street, Jamaica, to Central avenue, one and onehalf miles, is completed.

Hillside avenue, Jamaica, has been resurfaced with tarvite and screenings, from Creedmoor nearly to Jamaica. The above makes a total of eight miles or more than has been completed in the last two months, since the new administration came into power. This is as much work as has been done in a year heretofore. The above named highways would have been impassable had the repairs been made, and Theta are now practically as good as new should last a It is not pretended that these improvements are permanent, but Mr. Connolly does not believe in letting the roads all go to pieces because he cannot get money for permanent high class pavements, the appropriations and contracts for which are tied up because of the suit brought by the Broadway-Flushing taxpayers, but the present repairs will probably last until the legal tangle is unraveled.

Howland Leavitt aided very materially section between Harry Hill's pavilion and Flushing bridge, by loaning the department two steam road-rollers. The extra appropriation of several thousand dollars that President Connolly received from the Board of Estimate, enabling him to keep his men at work up to Christmas, assisted him greatly in his resurfacing work. The entire highway appropriation for the year was exhausted when President Connolly took office. RITTER CASE AGAIN. Justice Kelly, Angered by Agreement, Will Investigate Again.

After considering the evidence given 11 the application of Mrs. Doris Ritter, daughter of Emil Riesenburger of College Point, for an absolute divorce from ner husband, Julius Ritter, a teacher in the public schools of Manhattan, and also considering the agreement presented to the court at the time -of the hearing which was alleged to have been signed by both parties, Justice Kelly of the S'1- preme Court decided he is not eatisfied and will not decision that, until he has examined the defendant. The agreement which figures in this case was commented upon severely by Justice Kelly when it was handed up. It provides in detail for all arrangements between the couple after the divorce. Attorney Price, who represented Mrs.

Ritter, told the court that there was 1.0 collusion on the part of the husband and wife. In a decision just handed down Justice Kelly remarks: "The stipulation made by the parties upon the eve of the trial indicates clearly that an arrangement was made by which the defense was withdrawn in consideration of certain agreements made as to the custody of the minor child of the parties and as to the amount to be allowed for the support of the plaintiff and her child. Of course the court is not in any, way bound by such a stipulation, and if the defendant habitually spends his time in the manner indicated by plaintiff's witnesses, I do not believe be should be intrusted with the care of this child or any other child for that matter. The testimony of the plaintiff's witnesses ds not satisfactory, and before deciding this issue I will reopen the case to, enable the plaintiff to subpena the defendent. that he may be produced in court and explain the making of the stipulation.

For this purpose I will hear the case on Friday morning, December 8.1 A PROGRESSIVE FARMER. With Modern Equipment, Mr. Hallock Gets Big Returns. Orient, L. December 7-Lucius H.

Hallock of this village has a large force men from New York installing a cold storage system at his famous Holyoke Farm. plant is being placed in a large concrete basement capable of holding, seventy-five thousand bushels of produce. Mr. Hallock had installed last year at considerable expense an irrigating sy3tem which, together with the other modern equipment, makes his farm the most practical to be found anywhere in this section. At Holyoke Farm, which consists of about ninety acres, three crops are raised each year, and the production for acreage is second to none in the country, HORSE CASE DECIDED.

Patchogue, L. December TIt took the greater part of four days dispose unusual horse case in the 10- of a rather cal court. The latter part October, Harry Gordon, a local Hebrew merchant, purchased a horse from Israel Katz, A other Hebrew. Two days later the animal was ordered killed by a veterinarian because of symptoms of glanders. Thereupon Gorden brought an action againat Katz to recover $50, the price of the horse, and an additional $50 for damages.

Ten witnesses were examined for the plaintiff and nine for the defendant, the result being the prolonged sessions and adjournments. Yesterday Justice Greene rendered a decision for the plaintiff, allowing him $89 damages and costs. The caB6 will be appealed by the defendant, it is said. ENJOYED 'COON SUPPER. Riverhead, L.

December 7-Henry R. Talmage, president of the Long Island Potato Exchange, entertained a number of Riverhead business men 'coon supper at his bungalow on Sound shore a day or two ago. Mr. Talmage shot the raccoons himself. The supper was 8 novelty and the diners declared 'coon meat most delectable to palate and the affair.

a pleasant social one fu every respect. REMINISCENCES FLY AT FIREMEN'S DINNER Freeport "Vamps" Have Enjoyable Time at Their First Annual Banquet. CROKER DID NOT ATTEND. Many Speakers Talk Over Early Days of the Department and Prophesy Great Future. (Special to The Eagle.) Freeport, L.

December 7-Reminiscences of old days in this village were revived at the first annual dinner of the Freeport Fire Department, held at the Anchorage, Woodcleft, last night. In the absence of Ex-Fire Chief Edward F. Croker and Deputy Police Commissioner James E. Dillon, who' sent letters of regret, local orators filled their places. The principal speaker of the evening was P.

A. Whitney, formerly deputy fire commissioner of New York, who spoke briefly. Chief William F. Cornell presided. The speakers all harked back those days when they were compelled to play horse and then pump the water themselveseven history of the butcher store fire, when the "vamps" fought the fire by throwing snowballs at it was repeated.

dinner was in the form of a testimonial to Chief Cornell and to the firemen and to the village "fathers" for their support in voting to purchase new apparatus for Freeport, which makes the department among the best on Long Island. An excellent programme of music was furnished and the souvenirs were glass loving cups with gilded edges. The Rev. Dr. Scholey, pastor of the Presbyterian Church and chaplain of the department, was termed the youngest member in regard to service.

He spoke, saying it was a privilege to be called the first chaplain of the President Gunning One of the Speakers. John D. Gunning, president of the village, lauded the taxpayers for standing by the firemen, saying they always voted for any measure a that made for the general improvement of the department and the advancement of firemanic progress. "Sandy" Rhodes, the man to ring the first fire alarm bell in the village, spoke. "The bell didn't break on the occasion of that first fire in Billy Patterson's, the ringer was asleep," he said.

R. H. Mayland, a trustee of the Fireman's Home at Hudson, proudly boasts that Freeport has never had a complete loss of a building. He has been seventeen years a fireman. He believes that the village should have better fire houses and should own them.

Archer B. Wallace, president of the Southern New York Firemen's Association, was installed Saturday last, and was not in a position to give a complete report from that body, but he spoke of the benefits the volunteers derive from the body he represents. Instead of meeting quarterly in Brooklyn, "Chief" Wallace has arranged that the association will meet in the seven counties, and the January meeting will be held in Freeport. The committee in charge of the arrangements of the affair was J. Huyler Ellison, chairman; Archer B.

Wallace, Stephen W. Hunt, Robert A. Patrick and A. C. Ackerman.

Those Who Attended. Among those present were: Vigilant Hose Company--Chief William G. Cornell, John D. Gunning, J. Huyler Ellison, the Rev.

H. Scholey, E. S. Mayland, E. S.

Randall, W. B. Cozzens, L. H. H.

Rose, Seth D. Smith, H. E. Bacon, C. S.

Branen, John Schmidt, H. S. Starr, H. E. Kellum, Nelson Montross, W.

M. Raynor, F. B. Hornbeck, R. H.

Mayland, Paul Morrison, Gilman Raynor, Frank E. Rose and Frank John. Ever Ready Hose William S. Merrill, George Helm, Thomas Lucus, N. H.

Ashdown, William E. Loonam, George Wallace, R. Rhodes, Fred W. Greves, and 'Sylvester P. Shea.

Hose 4-Albion N. Johnson, Hilbert Johnson, Fred Howell, Frank E. Rose, Fred Patterson, John J. Randall, Forest S. Dunbar, Robert Miller and William H.

Ryder. Excelsior Company-J. A. Ash, C. A.

Fulton, Roland M. Lamb, A. R. Rhodes, Juan Garcia, Edward A. Spiegel, Henry C.

Schluter, John J. Boland, William C. Raynor, Orton Smith, Lyman W. Taft, Owen E. Smith, Arthur W.

Friend, Charles E. Stook, Stephen W. Hunt, Howard E. Pearsall, C. O'Neil, W.

H. Patterson, Hiram R. Smith, S. Foster Sprague, Platt Conklin, Robert S. Ander-10 son, Stephen P.

Pettit, Sidney H. Swezey, C. E. Jones, F. S.

Snedeker, Franklin Pedell and William F. Cornell. Wide Awake Hose-E. V. Baldwin, James F.

Madison, C. E. Cozzens, George B. Raynor, W. B.

Barton, M. Jonas, George P. Bedell, R. Wright, Karl Kranz, Frank Southard, John W. Meyer, A.

C. Ackerman, Louis Verbeeck, William A. Cooke, C. T. Connors, H.

Schloss, J. E. Finch, F. E. Cooke, J.

W. Ritchie, Edwin Rise, Frank Stevens, Marshal Smith, Henry B. Hazen, John R. Matthews, Andrew J. Murley, James Hanse, Thomas Forbes, Charles J.

Belzig, Harry Glasen, William DeMott, William Horsfeld, John J. Collins, Thomas Farrell. Bay View Hose No. 3-W. W.

Fullager, H. R. Bedell, J. H. McCloskey, Louis J.

Comellas, Theo. A. Lessel, Archie Verity, Carl Daunberg, Robert A. Patrick, George Alexander, C. Bedell and Fred Engroff.

READ NEXT SUNDAY'S EAGLE FOR SPECIAL STORIES on CLARENCE MACKAY'S BOY SCOUTS and OLD FAMILIES OF COLD SPRING JOE CASSIDY MAKES RETORT Just the other day Joe Cassidy, Queens County Democratic leader, had a sale of building lots in Far Rockaway, and for some reason the sale was not what might be termed a "howling success." As he was returning from the sale he was met by an old-time supporter, who is now identified with the new antiCassidy movement in Joe's home trict. "How are you, Mr. Cassidy? Were there many at the sale?" was the greeting of his one-time supporter. "Just as many as there were at your old meeting the other night," was the leader's quick reply. FORMER FACTORY SUPT.

LEAVES LARGE ESTATE Value of August D. Schlessinger Estate May Exceed $150,000. The will of Auguste or Augustus D. Schlesinger, late of College Point, disposing of an estate the value of which is given as "over $5,000 in real and over $5,000 in personal property," but the actual value of which is said to exceed $150,000, was fled for probate, yesterday, with Surrogate Noble of Queens County, at Jamaica. The testator, who was, at the time of his death, about 85 years of age, was for a long time superintendent of the can Hard Rubber Company.

He had been with that company since its establishment at College Point, in 1853. The will, which takes up about eight typewritten pages, bears date of April 7, 1911. The testator died on October 31. The deceased leaves to his son and daughter, Alfred H. Schlesinger and Anna Schlesinger, executor and executrix of the will, all his books, pictures, silver, jewelry, bric-a-brac, furniture, fixtures, horses, carriages, stores, clothing, household and personal effects, to be distribluted by them among themselves and their brothers and sisters.

The testator states that he had already given $12,500 to each. of his daughters, Anna and Ellen Schlesinger, and he bequeaths to each of them a further sum of $12,500, "in consideration of their long and faithful care of their mother during her lifetime and as a mark of the testator's appreciation of their constant and loving devotion to her during so many years. The testator states that his daugher, Emily S. Dow, is already sufficiently provided for, but as a token of his love he bequeaths her the sum of $1,000. The daughters, Anna and Ellen, are to have the use and possession of the house and ground where.

the testator lived, without paying any rent therefor, until the same shall be sold. I The executor and executrix are to retain in their hands out of the residuary estate the sum of $60,000 until all the real estate shall be sold, but no longer than until the death of both Anna and Ellen, and to use the income and, if necessary, the principal, to pay taxes, assessments, etc. One-sixth of the residuary estate is to be invested and the interest paid semi-annually or oftener, to Bessie Mitchell Schlesinger, widow of the testator's deceased son, Charles W. Schlesinger. At the final disposition the children, or their descendants, are to divide the residuary estate between them.

The deceased, who was a widower, left the following children: Emily S. Dow of Central Park West, Manhattan; Anna Schlesinger of College Point, Mary de Neufville of Frankfort, Germany; Ellen Schlesinger and Alfred Schlesinger of College Point. PUBLIC SCHOOL LECTURE. Tomorrow evening Miss Gertrude O'Reilly will speak in Public School No. 79, in Whitestone, on "Ireland TodayThe Gaelic League and Industrial Development There will also be a programme of music.

Walter Flushing, a house on street, Bay Manhattan. SELF DEFENSE IS PLEA IN KANE SHOOTING CASE Counsel of Man Who Shot Brother Raises Novel Question. HELD FOR GRAND JURY. Magistrate Fitch Refuses to Enter. tain Counter-charge-Will Not Put Plaintiff Under Bonds.

If a man's home is his castle, to be defended against intrusion with bloodshed if need be, is, not the room in which a man sleeps also to be considered sacred in the same way? This novel question was raised in the Jamaica police court yesterday by Counselor George C. Norton, defending Martin J. Kane, the young man who is charged with shooting his brother, Frank J. Kane, at the home of their father, in Woodland avenue, Woodhaven, early on the morning of November 14. It is the contention of the defence that Martin J.

Kane was awakened out of a sound sleep on the morning in question, about 1:30 o'clock; that he heard startled voices in the outer hall; that he heard his younger brother, James, cry out to his father asking if he were hurt; and that when there was a heavy battering on his bedroom door as of someone (he alleges he did not know at first who) bent upon doing him an injury, he armed himselt with a repeating rifle and fired. Frank, the plaintiff, is declared to have tried to force his way into Martin's room, armed with a stove shaker, Martin shot him because he at first believed him be a burglar. But it was not explained to the satisfaction of Magistrate Fitch why, after the shooting, Martin deliberately tied one end of a bathrobe to his doorknob, swung the other end out of an open window and by this improvised rope escaped to ground and fled, giving himself up to the police more than twenty-four hours later. After hearing a lot of evidence in the case Magistrate Fitch decided he would hold Martin J. Kane in $1,500 bail for the Grand Jury.

Counselor Norton then told the judge his client would like to make a counter charge against Frank for an attempted felonious assault. But Magistrate Fitch refused to entertain such a charge. Neither would he place the plaintiff under bonds to keep the peace, as requested by Norton, who declared that since the shooting Frank J. Kane had threatened the life of the defendant. Martin J.

Kane, the accused, who is manager of the photo-engraving department of the American Press Association, said on the witness stand yesterday that he and Frank had not been on good terme for a long time. Frank, he said, had tried to defraud his father in business deals and Martin, who was his father's bookkeeper, was the stumbling block. Martin explained the presence of the loaded rifle in his bedroom by saying that he kept it there for fear that his mother might get it at night and do some harm with it. He also said that he shoved his bed against the door each night before retiring as Dr. Comstock had told him his mother was temporarily deranged, and might become violent at night.

It was the arrest of Mrs. Kane for intoxication on the night of November 18 that caused Frank to leave his house in Benedict avenue, Woodhaven, after midnight on November 14, to go to his father's home in Woodland avenue, and upbraid his father and brother for what he considered an outrage. He was shot while trying to enter his brother Martin's room. LONG ISLAND OBITUARY. Mrs.

Amelia Pidgeon. Northport, L. December. 7-Mrs Amelia, Pidgeon, wife of Nelson L. Piddistrict superintendent of the Long Island Lighting Company, died at her home on Main street Tuesday.

Beside her husband, she is survived by two daughters and one son by a former marriage. The funeral services were held from her late residence, this The Rev. A. Warren Merrick, rector of afternoon. Trinity Episcopal Church, officiatel.

Enoch G. Miller. East Moriches, L. December 7-Relatives here have been notified of the death, in his seventieth year, of Enoch G. Miller at his residence in East Orange, N.

J. He was the youngest one of the children of Enoch Miller, who came here from Easthampton nearly a century ago. Several brothers and one sister are still living. Mr. Miller entered the employ of J.

C. Hoe Co. when a boy and remained with the firm through life. He spent his vacations at his boyhood home here. He leaves a widow, two sons, William of Manhattan and Harry of East Orange, and a daughter.

Mrs. Norman Moore, of East Orange. BIG OYSTER SHIPMENT. West Sayville, L. December 7-Captain Jacob Ockers, one of the leading Hill, oyster men in the country, on Monday made the largest shipment of the season of from his West Sayville plant.

and Third More than four hundred barrels of the Schmidlapp of bivalves went out. They retailed at from $10,000. $5 to $7 per barrel. NOTES AND COMMENTS NOTES Editor Robbins of the Smithtown Megsenger is eloquent in the following note: "James 0. Davis kindly appreciated the assistance of those who has made it possible for him to send his wife to Florida for her health, and at the latest report is improving." The hobby of District Attorney- -elect Ralph C.

Greene of Suffolk, seems to produce some coin for his pocket -occasionally, least. He raises chickens, fancy ones, at that, and a week or so ago he sent three blooded fowl to Rio de erio and got a check for $50 for them. Residents in several Suffolk towns say that Babylon is to be congratulated on her foresight in having a village nurse, a professional that can be engaged by the day, week, or hour. In many of the larger towns it is quite difficult to obtain a nurse on short notice. Hence Babylon's scheme is a capital idea.

A recent sale in Huntington marks the passing of a firm that has been identifled with the development of the village since April 10, 1875. It is the general store of H. S. J. M.

Brush, which has sold its business to a syndicate. The business was established by the Brush family, all the members of which have been prominent in the affairs of Huntington. The suggestion to have bloodhounds, owned by Suffolk County, to use as detectives of postoffice yeggmen, is meeting with approval in some sections. "In view of the fact that the supervisors are paying to one detective agency alone from $500 to $1,000 at frequent intervals and getting no results, the bloodhound idea is worth says one man. "Surely they would cost no more and could do no less." -nine years without a vacation is a remarkable record.

and thanks to modern conditions it is getting more remarkable every day. That is the reclord, however, of Joseph K. Rudyard, station agent at Northport, who has just re turned from a two weeks breathing spell Mia singe 1872. There is probably APPEAL IS LATE. Mr.

De Groot Will Exercise Right, However, Within Three Weeks. FREED FROM CHARGES. Insufficient Evidence in Case of Cornelius Burke of Queens. On the application of his attorney, Clarence Edwards, Cornelius Burke, former superintendent of sewers of Queens, has been freed from the indictment found against him the Queens County Grand Jury in connection bet with the investigation into public affairs in Queens County. An indictment for attempted grand larceny was returned against Burke by the Queens County Grand Jury on July 14, 1910.

He was then admitted to bail and he has never been brought to trial. The ground on which the application for the dismissal of the indictment was made was that of insuffcient evidence. The application was made to Justice Garretson, who has just handed down a decision granting the motion. WATER DISTRICT HEARING. At the Manhasset Town Hall on Friday morning, at 11 o'clock, the Conservation will hold a hearing on the Commissithe Manhasset-Lakeville Water District.

All who objected to the execution of the plans, in order to be heard had to their objections in writing at the office of the Conservation Commission in Albany yesterday. THEORY PROPOUNDED Did Kelby and Ketcham Lose Votes by Position of Names? A unique and quite probable theory explaining why Herbert T. Ketcham, Democrat, and Charles Kelby, Republiboth ran behind their tickets as can, Court Justice has been preme thought out by several candidates, Borough politicians, and facts as discovered in at least one election district bear out their theory. The names of both these candidates were at the heads of the columns of their respective parties, and above each name were two lines of small type reading matter designating the office and number of the judicial district. Separating the names of the other Supreme Bench candidates from the first ones were light lines, which, as they crossed the column wherein the elector made his cross, became heavy black lines.

Thus while tho squares opposite the names of the second and third candidates were heavily denoted with relation to the candidates' names, the demarkation of the first space was not so sharp, and as the voter, intent on splitting his ticket, glanced down the column this first space seemingly had no meaning, unless he particularly noted the name beneath the reading matter, and appeared at first glance to be an accidental space opposite the heading. Therefore he marked a cross against the names he voted for, unintentionally Ignoring the first name, and consequently voting for but two justices. Of course if he voted a straight ticket he put his cross in circle and did not become confused by the division lines. That this mistake might have occurred was mentioned to one the election ofAcials in the Fo -thind Election District of the Third Assembly District in Ear Rockaway. The politician took the trouble to make a recanvass of the ballots cast in that district and it was Tound that there were twenty ballots on which the first names had been ignored entirely and consequently the electors making the mistake had voted for only two of the candidates for Supreme Court honors and the names heading the columns, which were Ketcham and Kelby, thus lost that many votes.

between them. Investigation in another Far Rockaway election district revealed the same mistake among the ballots to the number of about fifteen. Ketcham ran behind Callahan by 8.662 and behind Willett but 198 votes, despite the fact that Willett judicial scandal bad cost him many votes while there wa9 no such scandal directly affecting Ketcham personally. Likewise Kelby, whose name headed the Republican ticket, ran behind Benedict by 980 votes and behind Van Siclen 6,272 without any apparent cause for such a decided loss. There are.

1,000 election districts in the Second Judicial District, and politicians argue that if as many as twenty such mistakes could be found within one election district, many more of like character were probably made elsewhere, and they believe that this accounts for many of the lost votes of the two leaders of their tickets. TAXPAYERS INVITED. Local Board Meetings Will Be Open to All Concerned. Borough President Maurice E. Connolly proposes to institute a change in the hour of holding local board meetings in Queens, and hereafter these meetings will be held in the evening instead of the daytime in order to allow working people an opportunity to be heard in regard to proposed improvements.

They will also be held in localities as near as possible to the property affected. The Jamaica board will meet at Jamaica and the Newtown board at Newtown and Long Island City alternately. All civic associations to be furnished an advance copy of the calendar and an effort will be made to have the calendar advertised in the 1 local newspapers. of the greatest evils of the said President Connolly, "is that the boards' of local improvements have not been as important as they should be." "One reason is that sufficient opportunity has not been given to persons interested in proposed improvements to express their views. The meetings were held at Borough Hall in the day time when poor people Were unable to attend." "Besides that the calendars have not been suffciently advertised and only those who kept posted on these matters would be aware of the fact that an improvement Wils projected for which they would be required to pay an assessment.

"In many vases the actions taken by local board have to be rescinded because the oppositton was not present. many cages these matters had to be killed even after they had gone to Board of Estimate. In many the first information received by the taxpayer was a bill for the assessments that staggered him. have decided to hold these meetings in various parts of the borough AS near as possible to the sections affected. propose also to secure the names of various taxpayers associations and send them copy of the calendar in time to formulate their objections or points of approval, and if any taxpayers associations are omitted from the list and will make application they will all be inThe eluded.

new order will go into effect January 1." "We are going to try to get an appropriation to publish every local board calendar in local papers." SOROSIS OFFICERS. L. Patchogue, December 7-Patch- ogue Sororis, flourishing women's club of this has -elected officers for the ensuing term of two years as follows: President, Lilite M. Conklin; recording secretary, Miss Lillian A. Davis: corresponding secretary, Miss M.

Sharp: members executive board. Mrs. John J. Roe. Mrs.

Frank A. Potter Mrs. H. S. second dent for one Mrs.

Clarence Vrooman. The officers the hold over until next year, William A. De Groot, who was a candidate for the -position of municipal judge at the election of 1909, and who was defeated by half a dozen votes by Judge James M. McLaughlin, has not yet given up fighting for the position. Although there has been a recanvass of the vote and a recount before Justice Aspinall of the Supreme Court, Mr.

De Groot intends to tak an appeal. When the case was decided by Justice Aspinall last spring he gave Mr. De Groot until December 5, 1911, to take his appeal. Mr. De Groot and his attorneys have been An working on it ever since, but they have been unable to complete their briefs.

They appeared before Justice Garrets -sked a furthec 2 oh of time, and Justice handed down a decision granting them an extension of three weeks. Mr. De Groot expects to be ready by tha: time. MINISTERS TO TAKE TURNS. As a result of the criticism in regard to the absence from Flushing of the pastors of the Reformed, Methodist, Congregational and churches at one time, last arrangemens will Baptist, probably be made by which a minister of one those denominations will alvans.

be Flushing. of. plan proposed is for the vacation to extend over the months of July and August, each minister to remain in Flushing two St. George's Episcopal and St. Michael's Catholic Church, each of which have assistants, are never without a minister to officiate.

MUST REVIEW SITUATION Van Tuyl Ordered to Go Over Affairs of Defunct Sea Cliff Bank. Sea Cliff, L. December 7-It was announced last night at a meeting of the depositors of the Sea Cliff Bank, which was closed on November 23, by George C. Van Tuyl, State Superintendent of Banks, that an order was signed on Monday, in the Kings County Supreme Court, compelling the State Superintendent to review the bank situation. The action is brought by the directors of the institution in trouble.

The meeting held last evening was called under the auspices of the Taxpayers Association, recently organized, and over a hundred representative residents were present. Its president, Russell Sturgis, acted as chairman of the depositors meeting. The situation the residents of the village are placed in, incident to the bank's closing, was gone over and an open discussion was held. Two of the directors of the embarrassed bank were in the gathering, but neither gave any information concerning the situation, this being left solely to the depositors themselyes. F.

H. Maidment stated that he believed that the bank would pay every dollar due to depositors. Mr. Maidment said negotiations were pending whereby the tion would be brought to a point where the depositors would know in about a week what position they were in. William E.

Fellendorf also spoke as a depositor and asked for immediate' tion. Following a motion made by him, a committee of five was appointed to investigate matters and if possible learn the causes of the bank's closing and the chances for reopening, if any. The committee chosen includes John Muller, village trustee; F. H. Maidment, August Ganzenmuller, Howard North and C.

Sackett Chellborg. The committee will report at a meeting to be held at Central Hall next Tuesday evening. MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Application of Lester W. Roche's Wife Is Granted.

In the application of Mrs. Emma Roche of Washington Park, Brooklyn, for the annulment of her marriage to Lester W. Roche, the son of James: H. Roche of Brooklyn, and who is now in the asylum at Kings Park, Justice Kelly has given judgment annulling the marriage tie. The testimony in the case was that Roche was mentally unsound at the time of his marriage, and was suffering from "mental confusion.

Although he had gone with Mrs. Roche for eight years nefere his marriage she did not discover his mental ailment until two months after marriage, when he left their apartments and went to his father's home. Justice Kelly has also given a decision granting an interlocutory decree of divorce to John Burkhardt of Jamaica, from his wife, Mrs. Pauline H. Burkhardt.

GARRETSON HONORED. Will Be First Presiding Justice in New Appellate Division. Justice Garret J. Garretson of Queens County has been honored by the judges the Appellate Division by being designated as the first presiding justice for the new Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Second Judicial Department, which was created by the act of the last Legislature. This court will convene on the first Monday in March and Justice Garretson's associates in the court will be Justice Luke J.

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I. EXPRESS SALE One "Brick" Was Parcel Addressed to -It Brought Eighty Cents. SMITH BOUGHT AN ELEPHANT. That Real Bargains Came Occasionally Was Shown When Wells Got a Gold Watch. (Special to The Eagle.) Riverhead, L.

December 7-A package addressed to "the Hon. William -Willett, Far Rockaway, L. was among the many sold at the year -old baggage and express sale conducted here yesterday by Auctioneer Corwin for the Long Island Railroad Company. A Sound avenue farmer, Howard Wells, invested 80 cents in the package that Mr. Willett had refused to pay the express on, and found that he had purchased a handsome folio of San Francisco views, together with a letter sent to the then Congressman by the San Francisco Board of Trade.

"I'll give you a quarter for the book," said a man near. "No; when I can buy. Willett for 23 cents think I'll keep him," was the reply. 'This is the second time I've helped get his goat," added the purchaser. As usual, the sale was of fun.

Men in all walks of life came from miles around-rich men, poor men, church deacons, farmers, merchants, attracted by the element of chance in the sale; just to enjoy the fun of "buying a pig in a bag." There were gold bricks galore and some real bargains in the sale. People apparently had as much fun in getting "stung" on year-old sandwiches, soiled clothes -and the like as they did in opening a real The sale was attended by real circus and human interest features. Hats and Shoes of Past Vintage Sold High. "Hey, Bill; look what I've got," shouted a man on opening a package of old shoes, women's hats of a past vintage, a few calico dresses and such things that 'he paid high prices for. Then the crowd would surge his way and laugh heartily or applaud, as the case.

warranted. "Say, Jim, didn't know you needed them was another salutation overheard as a bachelor blushingly and hurriedly snapped 'shut a suitcase full of baby clothes. The packages, over 3,500 of them, were mostly so wrapped that their contents were unknown to anyone until bid in and opened. While some got trash, others yesterday picked out excellent bargains. Reuben Loomis bid in for $1.65 a package of loaded gun' shells worth $16.

E. A. Puckmuller of East Quogue bid $1 on three likely looking packages. The first contained medicine almanacs, of course, out of date. The second had some greasy overalls.

Puckmuller, discouraged, opened the third. Wonders, it contained as beautiful a cut glass vase as was ever seen here. "Worth $20, at least," said a man who handles them. On the other hand, a New York man, looking for bargains, paid $11 for what he thought was a package of fine clothes. There were two or three second-hand suits.

This man bid in a large quantity of stuff. He got some castoff ball slippers, some women's finery out by age, some babies shoes, well worn, a package of whisky samples, less than "a dose" in each one just an aggravation; some old-fashioned straw hats, a box of old shirts, and many other similar articles, "too numerous to mention," as auction posters generally read. For $5 Riverhead Man Bought a Coincidence and Human Interest Story. FINE NEW HOUSE. Gassner of Queensboro has begui the construction Lamartine avenue Side, for Mrs.

The house will cost no better known railroad man on Long Island than Joe Rudyard, and he is popular with every traveler with whom he comes in contact. A pretty and unusual custom is that of the Jedlicka family of Sayville, of having all marriage ceremonies performed on Thanksgiving Day. The custom was followed last Thursday when a member of the family was married to Miss Polak, and it was the eleventh ceremony that has been performed in the family on Thanksgiving Day. On this occasion Mr. and Mrs.

Jedlicka, parents of the bridegroom, celebrated at the same time their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Greenport residents are justly indignant over the treatment that has been accorded the village recently. It was bad enough when the Long Island Railroad reduced its train service to the lowest point it has reached in years, but when this was followed by the taking off of the steamer Wyandotte from the route to New York, the residents were peeved indeed. The Watchman says "this unjust and oppressive treatment naturally provokes strong language and revives the old talk of an opposition boat service." A boat run years ago on the same route paid good dividends to the local owners, and in the face of an Increased business, the people are skeptical about the statement that the present boat does not pay. Babylon negroes must be of a singularly nature, or have acquired a contempt for the law through familiarity.

The latest complaints from that village tell of a peculiar spot the colored residents have picked out AS a loitering place. It is in the rear of the village lockup and the South Side Signal has this to say about the situation: "The village authorities should take some action toward stopping the carousing of negroes and others at the rear of the lockup, which is a disgrace to the village, Women folks are afraid to pass through the grove extending from Grove place to Cottage row at night, and it is the geueral condition of affairs in that vi which has been known for Albert W. Conklin of Riverhead invested $5 in a good looking trunk. He got. his money's worth, a coincidence, and human interest story, all for the one price.

In the trunk he found a marriage certificate showing that Frank J. Keenan and Johanna H. O'Connor of Gravesend had been married on September 17, 1907, by the Rev. L. K.

Moore, a Methodist pastor who used to preach at Southampton, and a relative of Mr. Conklin. This is the only real coincidence noted in the auction. In the trunk also was a lot of nice clothes for a baby, some real silverware, fine table covers, linen, but the thing that held Mr. Conklin spellbound was the certificate bearing his relative's signature.

One Man "Thought" Gold Brick, and He Got Them. a long while, should be changed. "The practise of negroes and others sleeping in the Fire Department headquarters at night should also be stopped. This has before been called to the attention of the local authorities, who to have paid no attention to the That the eastern end of Long Island is growing almost as rapidly as the western part is shown in some figures compiled by County Treasurer Fitz of Suffolk and which he presented to the Long Island Railroad officials in asking that certain trains be restored to the schedule. He pointed out that cottages costing over a half million dollars are now being built in Southampton Village; that workmen from other towns were employed on and that in addition to providing means of getting the workmen to the houses the trains he asked for would also give the owners better opportunity to come out frequently to inspect them as well as give prospective cottage renters better opportunity to look over cottages same section.

"Over 300 cottages in the Hamptons will be rented between now and March 1," he told the railroad offcials. Mr. Fitz's argument was so conclusive that the trains were restored. The value of advertising has been shown in many ways, but an altogether new phase of the situation appears in the following letter the news columns of the South Side Observer: "To the Public: "In regards to my advertisement last week, I wish to make an explanation. We have been married eleven years, and never had any serious disagreement until the behavior of one of our children came into dispute.

Each side took a stand that they considered was the most honorabla to themselves, the child in question and the community. Neither one would give in until the advertisement brought a third party into the question and everything was settled. If any apology is deemed necessary for my action, I heartily make credit it. my and wife I am might ready to possibly indorse need. any thank the editor for his patience and space.

"CHARLES "Pretty near time I bought my gold brick," jokingly said one man. "Things seem to be running good just now-real prizes- guess I'll take a flyer." He did, and the crowd roared (and the purchaser good-naturedly joined in) when he opened his package, for it contained a choice collection of cement bricks that someone bad refused to receive. Still there were bargains left, as the very next purchase proved, for a woman this time bid in for 40 cents a good raincoat on the covering of which was marked C. 0. $13.

Simpson Thomas, who paid high for a woman's hat, got "hunk," though, for he soon after bought a good set of carpenter's tools for $3.50. "Seems to me they've sold everything but an elephant here," casually remarked Bert Smith, as he looked over the array of articles. "Elephants, why, 'pears to me most on em's buying white elephants, now," remarked his friend. "I never did buy anything at one of these sales," said Smith; "guess I'll try Iny luck, all hands appear to be doing So well." 4 This was at a time when there seemed to be a run of luck in the packages. Smith bid quite energetically on a large package.

He run it up to $3.50. He was all sand, though, for he opened it while the crowd looked breathlessly on. He had his wish. He had bought an elephant--the nicest plaster elephant, about 18 inches high, that one need become acquainted with. His friends haven't stopped laughing yet, for it was he who suggested that everything but an elephant had previously been sold, Thus the sale continued.

producing alloyed fun for all and real value for their money to some. The annual baggage sale has become a fixed and pleasing feature of winter life here, and as a fun producer it is better than a high-priced admission show. It is said that the railroad people do better out here with this sale than they do in New York. It 13 figured that the recelpts yesterday were over $1,000, thus getting rather better than the mere cost of the express on! the goods they had been keeping for year..