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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 63

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 63

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1018. JAMAICA DOUBLES reexport's Industries Doing Their Bit to Win War; jojjg isiandi NEW QUEENS TUBES ITS QUOTA; OTHER Submarine Chasers Built There Do Effective Work HOW BEING DRIVEN TOWNS OVER TOP! i 1 Br. UNDER AIR PRESSURE Liberty Loan Campaign Big Success Throughout Long I Island. WOODHAVEN CETS $200,000 Depth Requires 47 Pounds to Square Inch Greater Force Than Hurricane. ARE BUILDINC FOUR TUNNELS THE BROOKLYN DAILY RAGLE.

NKW YORK. SUNDAY, HAY The work on the Kan Kivtr way tunnel unneci mir the Uoroi i Qneeai aith Rigtletti street, ji mattan. reached a lejulraag renipreea peaaagM vccllci.l liartiorat shipbuilding. shafts of Jamaica passed iho $1,010,000 innrk in the Liberty Loan drive at 4 clock yesterday afternoon. I-ate last night George S.

Downing, president of the Jamaica Liberty Loan Committee, declared that while returns were not yel all in. he was certain that Jamaica quota of has been more than doubbri. The Jamaica committee wound up Us cam pais yesterday afternoon. For two solid Mum tiie Inur-Minute Men of Jamaica and other spoke in front of 1he Jamaica Branch of the Title Guarantee it Trust Company. Music i furnished bj tin ottiiic orphan Home Kau, I.

While the speeches were 1" progreu Uoy Scouts circulated in the crowd and obtained subscriptions. Among the speakers were Lawyer Kuward J. Kielv. Lawyer H. O.

Wood, Ur. Herbert Noble. Lawyer 11. Yoris, Kichard Duvckinck and the Ucc Wilfred II. Hobey.

The Woodhavcn district has passed its quota of $181. 01'. It was stated last night by Charles 11. Kohroeder, chairman of the Woodhavcn Liberty Loan Committee, that $1100.000 had 1 subscribed. The Richmond Hill quota of which was passed a week ago, is likely to be more than doubled.

Chairman Lee A. Hartshorn said last niffhl that he whs much pleased with the showing that has been made, flushing Nearly Triples (Junta. The Liberty Loan in Hushing has gone over It, 000,000, although the nuota was 1400,000. All of the returns were not ill last night. The total sub-scription equals a $.10 bond to every loan, woman and child in the town.

Ami lijornson is chairman of the Hushing committee. In the first loan flushing residents subscribed over ami in the second their total was It is estimated that over $1,000,000 was subscribed by Flushing people in New York and Brooklyn, so that the total subscriptions for the three loans will total almost $6,000,000 in Flushing. rrerport subscribes 125.000. 1 Special to The Haglo. i Irrcpori.

L. I. May -t Kreeport Subscribed 1426,000 for the Loan mure than double its quota of capable of making 31 knots an hour and carrying a rapid-tire gun forward. This craft was equipped with three powerful high-speed motors and Iho test showed that tor thtee hours this type iii, hem than wa.s expecle.i. boats were being turned out at the rate of one every three weeks and were consigned to the F.nlcnte Allies for war against the deadly submarine which at that stage of the looked bad fur the transportu- entercd the fray the drafting room of the c.ri enport Uasm and Contsrueiion Company was a busy place.

Architect I lessee had ami had under construction a chaser, while not so long as the original chaser, it was of going through the water at the rate of forty-one knots. This boat carried a rapid-fire anti-aircraft gun. While all of these light craft have been used to advantage by the Navy, that this particular type was too light land the Kay of Biscay. This change a reorganization to build a heavier type of boat. The Government immediately placed an order for several mine layers.

These boats are 70 feet in length and are constructed of the neaviesi pnssioie material, or the rest of the lot are nearly ready for launching. Besides constructing this special tvpe, thn company has had a large force of men at work finishing up and installing the engines of patrol boats built at Rochester. N. which we! i neP' '1 t- 111 or: This particular shipyard before the. known in the yachting as the home the taring yael.

In the spring Ihe famous yachts, auch the Clemti.i I AUantte others, tilted out there in Iheir or hauled out at irernport Basin and Construe- Hon Company largest concern and employs no in the machine shops. -hops I Bar Visitors from Mills; Now Embarkation Point When the story is written of those Long Island nun who at the outbreak of hostilities immediately foresaw the urgent need of their organizations as a cog in the giant wheel of preparation that was to be constructed for the great struggle with the iron claw of Pi Mil II autocracy, the facts will stand Out I they will show among larger corpora-tic-a that Hrcenport shipyards were second to none in commandeering their organizations lor txc.lusive war The mere mention of shipyard in the minds of some causes a thought of sheet alter sheet ol lilue prints, hundreds of thousands of dollars appropriations from the Tinted States Shipping Hoard, extensive plans for tlio thousand and one problems that It may seem casual observer yard will turn out so many ships a in Creenport this has not been the ease. For the past three generations shipbuilding has been the bread and utter industry of the Hast F.nd village. Since the stage of the whaling industry along this seaboard Ireen-port has been a port of construction and repair. In keeping with the pace and strides of progress these industries have seen the different stages of the industrv: The coasting schooner, the sloop, the oyster boat.

the fishing steamer, the racing yacht, that industry. ore of organization Before Political Paragraphs From Nassau County Ileaeh. has been practicing diplomacy have been two factions in Long I teach ever since Ihe village was inrorpor- ated. Members of Ihe tw faction have had repri sen on Hie board nt all times. It required all or Au- mug i.eep me off too much, hence i I vine -ved 00 Sec- I as tab- and ong equipment to repair or type of ngin- of the aboye-iiu any way to pleasure yachta, but conditions have naturally retarded this part of ihe industry.

As neighbois to TuttUll Thorn, the boat shops of the 1 1, Beebe Company keep a force of m. constantly building lifeboats for the 1'nited States Coast fluard. II iiuiHIs the type of lifeboat known as the ISccbc-McClellan self-bailer. This kind is known in all of Hie stations along the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard, and in fact some have been shipped tO Alaska and to Beebe, hi. inventors of this self-hailing lifeboat.

On the western part of the shore front, near the terminal of the Long Island Bailroad Company, the shipyard of Wood H- Chute, in connection with its largo machine shop, is by all means a vital concern to the Montauk fisherman, the ovsternian. the ferrv- ihe esealoper and the Layman. the pleasure v. 7. mav rl to men h-- mas "rder that Im mav 'reduce the cost of At the machin, -hops icern you may purchase a tor of ibis company's own re.

While not a shipyard. iportance thai one realizes rd of the marine motors built in the shops of the J. S. Caffgn i if boats and give i in their different work ring the coast. Bach ol rp, i rations under direct management with eresi and with national pride to se ihe pi-it cr They are i SOLDIER LOSES EYE, BUT GETS CHEVRONS Sayville Boy Well Pleased Over1! Exchange.

BONO CLEANER INJURED LOCK BOSS IN BARN THEN STEAL HIS CAR ByS CaptUr6d at Manorville on Wav to ftitu tiih: TABLK TOR TOMORROW. lag. made in management of fore hostilities the ari was of soon hat a Tutbill, Be- in tins yard than then- neighbors. the boats of the larva pyatt companies wi re kept ill repair, hi re boats of that type were built. If a I lii schooner needed rebuilding, it was brought to tins yard in preference to a.

concern who specialized in new-work. Many a boat has been severed in two and several reel built in the middle. Such a Jul, could not be guaranteed by the average shipbuilder. Following a decision of the naval departments that the belt type of submarine chaser was what is now commonly known as the "Ufl footer," the Oovernment placed an order with the Kastern Shipyard Company for three of this type. The company immediately adapted its plant for this work, and started construction.

The three boats are now In the hands of the Navy, having passed exceptionally high In their lests. and it is known that one of them is now in foreign V'tii. patrol boats in and about the waters of Long island Sound fr boats on the other ,1,, i i uftcr 'I, V''' built in this country in large numbers and have gone across the Atlantic under low, and in some cases iindei their own power. Tin- statement hat as the American destroyer. 1 i rn on pai.y nploys in the neighhorl I laa of Tin hill Thor eminent work din welfare ihe sloop ie lishing working I ma" vi'r" jntall busy Morris Park Boy Wounded; In Canadian Regiment rf 111 I for bUS r.

i spring where great stride. JOHt GOOPREY fW Is- MEKAH I Private John Ondlroj Monah, aged 23. son of Mr. anil Mrs. JotM Mcnah of llnniilK'ii nveniir.

Morris I I Park, has he WOUni.cd twice. He is a member of Ihe Ci.nadhm Dragoons, a crack cavalry regiment. Mcnah was a homesteader Saikatehowan, I Canada, when lie enlisted. lias1 1 I paewda to ihe aauara inem, high eel in tunnel constn. ici L.

Turner, chief Itidgway, engineer union, and the per- During the oonatruotiea of the gas main tunnel under Hie Last River a yri mure of pound! was bin such a pressure hae tinea be-n prohibited bv law. Keen under pressure of po-m-ls the 'men arc Working under tail increase oyer the norm 11 preaaure of ga per eent Ai 47 pound Ihe air exerts a pressure of more than three tons to the square from Ihe fan ilia' York' are planned resist a pressure ot pounds a quart far greater pressure than is exerted ny any that it, likely visit this city. A hurricane develop-, nig the pressure under which the men in the Sixteenth afreet tunnel arc now -li iu mow lireater New The pendou! air ssitate.l 1 tunnel must be built. The tidal irrent of the Basl River are such at channel of great depth in ex- it feet haa been scoured our Between me eaneriy snore or Manhattan and the -esterly shore of Blackwell'I Island, hile the ens' channel between Blackwell'I island and the. Queens ah ore is relatively shallow The tunnel must go below both channel.

Tide Offered Kraaeotj Problem. Adjacent rock formations have offered a sere -us problem for the Pin- I far down ivoid poaaib around the 1.0.1 hnteo Both 2 TOO MANY HOTELS Owners Are Wondering Who Will Be Weeded Out. II WM til II ni. 6 GOOD WAGES will be paid for a woman to do plain an i laundrv work at an Ovstcr Bav 'home. Address Box' 10, Eag'; Rt to the froni ust as was dot was I the Civil U'i will escape An Willi Hie Devil.

The ,,) tor Df mnatead 'Hiircr is having an argument with the1 regions, Inn the boy who washes the roib-r- the md perform! other duties of a similar nature In the Office. The editor recently n.lcd the teaching of ihe Herman language is a I ot one, f. gives in excellent Knglish the reasons for "the faith that In him" and concludes as follows: "That there are local citi zens of Herman ancestry, and even of Herman birth, we know. We accord them due respect; the more, because iiieir position is a bitterly hard one But the sad fact remains that this is no time for a defense of anything Herman; ihts is no time for a loyal American to advocate the spreading of Herman Kultur among the chil-; drei, of the public N. and I re- gri deeply Hun such advocacy should have appeared in the columns a paper which I have reason to know is run by Americans and for Americans and 1 trust.

Mr, l-Mitor. that you will the Inquirer's staff, to voice my vigor- especlfull tirn of the a. go ing the edit. BUILDING BIG GARAGES THREE NURSES INJURED MECHANICS RESPOND are' performed by the Key Di I'rcscott. Metironl Passes Its llig Quota.

ISpecial to The Kagle.) Medfor.l. L. L. May I Men. worn, Rally llowts llikawn, Camp Wadsworth sides.

Cm; Uuard. ha duty with ermaster Corps, National ieen relieved from fnrlliei ijfhcers Training School A- Taylor, tOStl Infantry; Ueul Tuck. 108th In Tiains. A leave of absence, under excep. t.een first' and ordered toy, of the camp, ad.

is the buaif L. Clark of Hemp- istanl every request or the soldiers he hundreds of visitors who come They tind homes for soldiers' 1. convey information to soldiers ie various regimental headquar- assist in the war camp comniu- service, direei thousands to trains the grounds weethearta were ippointed upon PeK eras hich was oh- 1 been ellm-m embarka- The of Hempstead with trm inr uo.tru alt wilh tin. when the other tOWm itv look the Hon share fund Lhe detriment of Hi property within the boundaricH of the outside the ritv and the town claims property within the city limits. An adjudication of claims will he made.

Supervisor Cornelius E. Hemsen of the Town of North Hempstead sipated the oft-repeated calm of the aitvoeaies of the two-supervisor bin Nortt'i' pst ca in 3 Ueinscn vtfd measure lhat brings a linanciai gain 1,1 Ihe town Whether supervisor Houghtt figures; I titli ihei the most t.n serve tvhei. car comes, but in the county. After each panel been ,1" 1:1:1 1 drawn commissioner Anderson spends uad hp the onrts nbserv- i. Ihe turymen.

When talesman ete falls short, in Ins nnswers and does r' no, display a l.tth- more than nrSl, ary mtellil-eiice his name is- withdrawn 1 Ihe jury box and be no 7, nSr trvc it, that township. The capaciLt or JOTJ man. aminer cannot understand how Inhere Supervisor Remson arrived morning, c.eorge arrived. Supervisor William H. Samnn.

"tic 'he the Town of Oyster Hay. made a rle. r-, termined stand resolution was ''I u'TV H'l'! is action might I of county r. unds low uLl inTiead '-o HIM WO D. UNTII.

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