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TIIE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 20, 1917. i SLEUTH'S MEMORY HOSPITALS ON I.

Quits His Law Pract.ce To Serve His Uncle Sam Port Jefferson's Shipbuilding Boom Oceanside Boy in Amy Wears Sergeant's Chevrons TRAPS S. WOMAN FIRE AT LONG BEACH BURNS 4 BUILDINGS; DAMAGE IS $250,000 Brings Need of Homes for orke rs RECEIVE BEQUESTS IAI Li 1AL I it-nr rnr ii. ii. rumis i pending with 'he Government for i' i -if wa J-f U'rs. Tarracc'uia's Misshapen Ear Leads to Arrest for Murder.

Huntington, $20,000 to Brooklyn. Seaside Village Adds Another to List of This Year's Blazes. i norm to xassw. mivkhm Com SDrinar Harbor Man Also Gives INVALID, 75, IS RESCUED Mrs. Philhomena Tarraccina, 45 years, was arrested last night by Detective Patrick Kehoe, Charles Harden and Christopher Mehring.

She is charged with the murder of Carlo Polise at Madison, N. on July 15. The fact that the woman wanted has a misshapen right ear made easier the arrest last night. The detectives were standing on a corner at South street and Norrls avenue, Jamaica, when Detective Kehoe noticed the woman talking to another woman $40,000 to Cooper Union, Manhattan. (Special to The Eagle.) ii Aiini etf-j him across the street.

His attention was Rlverhead, L. I December 26 A bequest of $20,000 to the St. John's Hospital Charity Foundation of Brooklyn; $25,000 to the Huntington Hospital and $10,000 to the Nassau Hospital at Mineola are some of the large sums given to charity by the will of William White of Cold Spring Harbor, filed in the Surrogate's UEUT. attracted to the misshapen ear. After asking the other two men to follow the woman, Kehoe went to the Jamaica station and got a circular which had been sent out by the Madison police.

The woman went to 2 Court here. Norris avenue. She admitted having The Will rilsnnqna a Inrna cm of 'J money in the aggregate, the total vaiuo ui testator properly ueing un-i estimated. bU-ZZ 3d AMONG the lads Oceanside, L. has contributed to the Army is Sergeant Harry Siegmann, who is serving in Company Forty-seventh Regiment, and stationed at Darby, Fa.

Sergeant Piegmann is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Siegmann of Davis street. Young Siegmann has been in the National Guard for several years. When he returns he will marry Miss Eva Downing of Rockville Centre, to whom he became engaged before his departure.

RED CROSS DRIVE EXTENDED A WEEK Cooper Union, Manhattan, Is given rLj FRANK FOWLER, who was commissioned as a first lleu- tenant of artillery at Platts-burg, is a young lawyer, with a large practice in Lynbrook, where he has many interests. Lieutenant Fowler "graduated" at Plattsburg this year for a second time. He was at the camp a year ago for the purpose of taking up military training. A graduate of the South Side High School and Cornell University, Lieutenant Fowler entered upon the study of law, and was admitted to the bar at the age of 21.. Since, he has combined his legal practice with real estate and building.

He is 28 years old, single and is assigned to Camp Meade. $40,000 for the advancement of sci ence; the Mission of Immaculate Vir gin for the Protection of Destitute Children, Manhattan, is given $50,000 and a score of other institutions are given substantial sums, and many rel atives and friends are also remem bered with large gifts in cash. Among the bequests are the follow uvea in niauison ana tne detective arrested her. They say she confessed. Police Captain Fred R.

Johnson of Madison came to Jamaica last night and identified the woman. She will be held until extradition papers are prepared. SAVES 2 FROM DROWNING (Special to The Eagle.) Huntington, L. December 26 William Conklin, and another bayman had a narrow escape from being drowned yesterday while eeling on the Ice on the harbor. The two men had been at work a short time when the ice gave way and they both plunged In the icy water.

Their calls for help were answered by Captain Charles Conklin of Northport, whose schooner was anchored near where the men went In, and he hauled Conklin to the top of tho ice. While he attempted to save the other bayman, Conklin went through again. He finally saved both Special to The Eagle.) Port Jefferson, L. December 26 The preliminary work in the Eaylea Shipyard, in anticipation of the actual construction of the four large vessels to tie built for the U. S.

Government, is now going on. About 200 laborers are engaged in excavating, grading, and the erection of five large new buildings has already been begun. The Bayles Company will construct these four vessels, complete for service, in their own yards, and the many needed facilities for the building of steel vessels will be added to the equipment of the yards. Each of the five buildings now being erected will be feet and will be used as machine shep and mold Joft, forge and working shop and plumbing and metal work. One of the buildings will house the air compressors, which will probably be extended for a power plant.

The company hopes to lay the keel of the first vessel in the early part of February, and to construct the vessel in fourteen months. The four vessels will be launched within the contracted time of fifteen to eighteen months. The contract for the vessels was given to the Ilayles Company by the Shipping Board in November, and calls for four steel cargo steamers of 5,000 tons capacity each, 342x48 feet. They will be turnbine driven and when turned over to the Government from the yards here will be ready for service. The cost of the vessels will be between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000.

The buildings now being erected will be two stories each and of fireproof construction. The steel for them will be on the grounds this week and they will he completed within about three months. These buildings will be in addition to the large two-story building the company recently erected and which is used as an office building. The largo pier in yard No. 1 is being extended into the harbor, and when completed will be 300 feet long and will run parallel with the pier in yard No.

2, which is almost adjoining the No. 1 yard. Two large building ways are also being laid in yard No. 1. In this yard 1ho ground space was found to be inadequate for the building of large vessels and the Town of Brook-haven was asked to cede the company a grant of land under water from low water mark.

The town granted a lease of 550 feet in all to the company and 100 feet of this is being utilized and a sea wall is under construction and about completed. This will give the company about half as much again ground space and also deeper water. With the additional depth of water obtained, however, there will not be sufficient to launch large, heavy vessels, and some dredging will have to be done. This the company will do In the early spring. And It also has under consideration the dredging and widening of the harbor's mouth.

Through the action of the tides the Inlet to the harbor has accumulated small sandbars, which dredging will easily remove. At high tide the depth of the inlet now is 15 to 17 feet, and it will require very little dredging to make sulllcient depth for large draught vessels. Inside the harbor there is plenty of water. Inside -of a few months the shipyard will be sufficiently equipped to handle any class of work, and in fact the company now has negotiations other contracts. Homes for Employees Needed.

The big-et proposition that the company nas thus tar contended with is the acquiring and keeping of help. Owing to the lack of accommodations In the village. Mr. Weston, the superintendent of the company, gays that some of his best mechanics have been obliged to leave. The company expects to have 1,600 hands working in the yards between now and the coming summer, ami the housing of these people is a big question for the company.

The Port Jefferson Business Men's Association has taken hold of this proposition and the erection of many cottages has been promised. The large tract of thirty-three acres of land that the Bayles Company has acquired on Setauket Hill will be developed this sining and many modern cottages will be built there. The company is asking for listings of all the villagers who have accommodations to offer, rooms with or without board. At the present time Mr. Weston says the company Is looking for laborers and mechanics, and also will employ later on many boys between 16 and 20, and also girls and young women.

In' this connection, Mr. Weston says that the company will start an apprentice school and the boys will be taught the different branches of the trades of the shipbuilding business. Girls and women will bo Riven employment in the office or at other work for which they are fitted. To Share Profits With Employees. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the company, it was voted that the fixed policy of the company would be to put all employees on a profit-sharing basis.

The Bavles concern took over the old yard ilf the J. E. G. M. Bayles Company last Alay, and shortly afterward acquired tho yard of the late Andrew Hadel and the yard known as tho Hawkins yard.

At that time W. S. Ferguson was the president of the corporation, but In June the company was reorganized with II. M. Williams of Manhattan as president.

Mr. Ferguson severed his interests in the business when, at the request of the Government, he went to Washington, D. and became identified with the Shipping Board. At the reorganization of the corporation the following officers were chosen: 11. M.

Williams, president and treasurer; D. C. Seagraves, first vice president; J. B. Smiley, second vice president; R.

T. Wood, secretary! Phelan Beale, counsel: J. D. Persons, general manager; S. C.

Weston, gen' eral superintendent. W. D. Allen Is the company architect. Mr.

Weston, the general superintendent of the company, has worked for the Government for the past eleven years and has been assigned to most of the Navy Yards in the country at different times. He is a graduate of Virginia Technical Institute. The three yards of tho Bayles Company now cover ten acres of ground, with a water frontage of about 1,500 feet. Besides this the company has title to 300 feet of beach front on the east side of the harbor. The yards are under Government supervision, and since last June have turned out Government and other repair work tp the amount of $300,000.

The weekly payroll of the company now will average The Government vessels will be built in Yard No. 1, tho old Bayles yard, while Yard No. 2, the Mattel yard, will be used fijr repair work. Barges and smaller vessels will be built in Yard No. 3, the Hawkins yard.

ing: Out of the proceeds of the sale of testator's California property the United States Fruit Company is given $10,000 In trust for a brother, James C. White, who is now dead; at his death the principal was to go to a NOVEL XMAS EVE IN FOREST HILLS Port Washington's Showing Sensation in Nassau. cousin, Mary L. Sturtevant of Chi (Special to The Eagle.) Long Beach, L. December 26 Fire destroyed four buildings, about an eighth of a mile east of the Nassau Hotel, Lont; Beach, early today.

The damage is about $250,000, partly covered by insurance. The buildings completely or partly destroyed are the Rialto Moving Picture Theater, owned by Arthur Srhloss; a concrete apartment house, owned by John C. Ham-mand; a building owned by Dr. Bter-wlth and occupied by Caswell and Massey, druggists, and a store owned by C. Fuller, who is now at Miami, Fla.

About 200 feet of the board walk have also been destroyed. The buildings adjoined one another. The fire started under or near the board walk, probably under the Rialto Moving Picture Theater. The lower part of this building was being remodeled Into bathing houses, and it Is possible that the fire resulted from carelessness on the part of a workman. The police are working on the theory that an enemy of J.

C. Hammond started the blaze. It spread through the theater building and thence to the building adjoining. The cement building belonging to J. C.

Hammond was gutted; the other building practically destroyed. The Long Beach firemen, with their gasoline engine, worked hard to check the blaze and were aided by two fire companies from Rockville Centre. The firemen were greatly handicapped by the low water pressure. There was a pressure of only about twenty-two pounds most of the time, and at one stage of the fire there was not enough water to feed both engines. In addition to this the fire-fighting force of Long Beach was inadequate.

Although the village has an up-to-date engine, it has but few men to use it. The police force numbers only four men, including the chief, and these four had to do most of the fire-fighting before the Rockville Centre contingent arrived. Mrs. Beloff, 75 years old, mother-in-law of Arthur Schloss, owner of the motion picture theater, and an invalid, was asleep in the Schloss apartments in the theater building. She had to be carried from a window of the fourth floor of the theater across a ten-foot plank into the Hammond Building and borne safely thence to the street.

The list of fires at Long Beach during the last year includes Healey's Restaurant, a blaze in the basement of the Hotel Nasssau, the bridge on the Long Beach road, the railroad trestle leading to the resort, the home of J. C. Hammond, the Life-Saving Station and the large garage of the Lafayette Hotel. The fire which destroyed the Hammond cottage, which was in the rear of the apartment house, was thought at the time to have been incendiary. The police today are working on the theory that the blazes may have been set by an enemy of the former village trustee.

cago, or her daughter, Blanche Bab-cock; $10,000 to the Rev. Henry T. Scudder, a cousin; $10,000 to Thomas Clapham of Koslyn, a friend; $10,000 to Mary L. Sturtevant; $10,000 to Lucy T. Middleton, a cousin; $20,000 to George White, cousin; Frederick Streeter, cousin, Mrs.

M. C. Snow, Mrs. Lucy C. Penfield, Maggie Hegeman, Glenwood Tonlinn- 1AOOA.

llf.I Father Time and Father Christmas Lead Carol Singers. comn W. Braden and his wife. SR. 000: tlohnnnl, nmu.ln AAA.

1Tt. Mary Meade, friend, Rudolph U. Hewlett, cousin, $5, 0U0; Edward XMAS CHEER FOR POOR. Huntington, L. December 26 Members of the Antlers Club, composed of local Elks, assisted by some of the boys of Nathan Halo Council, Boy Scouts of America, visited the homes of many poor persons and left at each a basket filled with a Christmas dinner for the family.

Mrs. William J. Matheson opened her home, "Fort Hill," on Lloyd's Neck, and gave a Christmas party to all tho children on the Neck. IK. Scudder, cousin, Emma Keyes, cousin, $10,000: Hewlett Scud-ll On Christmas eve the men of Forest Hills Gardens, dressed In white, acted as torch bearers and carol singers, with St.

Nicholas and Father Christmas, personified by Thomas Du Puy and Walter Hartwig, in scarlet and ermine. Floats, drawn by the famous mules of the Gardens, also draped in white, bore Christmas trees glittering with lights and tinsel. A fine choir, led by Frederick Seward, was accompanied on a portable organ by Robert Coles. This procession passed through the streets' of the town, the windows of the houses displaying wreaths, Red Cross emblems, flags and lighted candles. The procession paused to sing carols in front of homes if there were youngsters.

Father Christmas distributed candy, toys and games. At 10 o'clock the procession drew up in Station Square, and a company of women, dressed In white, advanced to meet it, also singing carols. After the singing, John M. Demarest entertained everybody in the dining-rooms of the Inn and made for the community a presentation speech, giving Mrs. Charles Scannell, who has painstakingly drilled the singers for some time, a pair of handsome silver der, cousin, Gilbert Scudder cousin, Annie Albertson Amityville, cousin, William Brown, friend, Isabella Middleton, housekeeper, Ab-ble E.

Jones, Cold Spring Harbor cousin, Miss May Merry anc Miss Blanche Merry, friends, each; Walter J. Whipple, cousin i Isaac R. Coles, Lorlnj Scudder, $5,000. St. John's Church, Cold Spring Har bor, is given $2,500 Income to keep the graveyard there, where testator's pa rents are buried, in repair, and foil handling this sum the church is giver an additional $2,000 for its own uses; The Methodist and Baptist churchei at Cold Spring Harbor are each giver $2,000 for Sunday School work.

Th( Episcopal Church, Catholic Church Methodist Church on Main street ami the First Presbyterian Church, all a (Special to The Eagle.) Garden City, L. December 26 For the purpose of permitting workers in the villages that did not obtain the quotas assigned them to complete their work the campaign managers conducting the Red Cross drive for 30,000 new members in Nassau County have extended the campaign another week. The results obtained through the efforts of Byron C. Gould, his captains and workers in Port Washington are still the talk of the Red Cross workers In Nassau County. Although given a quota of 1.650 from a summer population of 6,500, Port Washington, Monday evening, when the latest reports were received, had 3,276 memberships to its credit.

It was originally planned by Mr. Gould to get 3.000 members by Saturday night and then to rest, but after accomplishing this eventful feat the workers could not remain idle, nnd continued to gui after subscriptions with the hope of getting 4,000. Long Beach Is also on the map. The managers fixed the quota of that village at 250, Judging its population on summer figures. There are, however, only 200 residents now at Long Beach, yet on Monday night 2S0 members had been obtained.

The latest figures sent to the campaign committee from different villages are as follows: Port Washington, Plandome, 230; Sea. Cliff, 737; Brookville. 718; Massapequa, 236; Long Heach, 280; Hempstead, 2.500; Floral Park, 534; Westbury, 979; Roslvn, 700; Hicksville, 675; Great Neck, 7S9; Garden City, 544; Lynhrook. 1.144; Rork-aways, Mineola, 476; Jericho, 223; Glen Cove, Valley Stream. 370; Freeport, 1,452, and New Hyde Park, 290.

1,100 Join in Huntington. Huntington, L. December 26 The'Chrlstmas Red Cross membership drive for Huntington has netted about 1,100 members, with only only a portion of the reports in. The allotment to this village was 2,000 members and it is thought that the complete returns will bring the membership to nearly that number. NEGRO SOLDIER STARRED.

Rockville Centre, December 26 Robert Wright, a member of the National Army, stationed at Camp Upton, was stabbed in the back by Edward Taylor, in the apartments of Lina Peterson, Rockville Centre. Taylor became jealous of the soldier's attentions to his sweetheart and attacked him. He fled after tho stabbing, but was captured by the Rockville Centre police. Wright's injuries are serious and Taylor was committed to the County Jail. All participants in the affair are negroes.

34 OX MASOXIO HONOR ROLL. An honor roll of thirty-four members of Mizpah Lodge No. 738, F. and A. of Elmhurst, has been prepared by a committee of the lodge.

Among the number are two past masters of the lodge, Christopher Mara-den of Twenty-fifth street, Manhattan, who is lieutenant commander Of the United States Naval Reserve Forces and located at Brooklyn, and Captain Albert Meras, who is an official Interpreter. Huntington, are each given $2,500 fori i OBITUARY See Death last pase. BASKETS CARRY CHEER The Basket Fund Committee of the PJchmond Hill Civic Association yes Sunday School work. Tho J. R.

Smith Infirmary at Statet Island Is given $40,000, St. Luke'i San Francisco, $20,000 Public Library, Huntington, $5,000 Publio Library, Cold Spring Harbor $1,000. James C. White, brother, was glvei all of testator's Interest in a farm a Jamesburg, N. and all of his in debtedness to his brother was can celed.

The residue of the his estate goe to St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan, fo the endowment fund. A codicil revoked the bequest $10,000 to Thomas Clapham, bequest to George White and the $20, (inn hennest. to Frederick Streeter terday brought happiness into the ELKS MAKE MANY HAPPY Five hundred children received a bag of candy, an orange, an apple and a small present each at the Christmas celebration held in the clubhouse of Queens Borough Lodge, B. P.

O. Elks, Long Island City, last evening. The big tree provided by Park Commissioner Weier, and erected on the terrace In front of the Klks home, was lighted with colored bulbs, and a band played Christmas carols and patriotic airs. homes of a number of necay iamines. Raskets were distributed in Richmond uni Mmiiu Park.

Thev con tained chicken, canned soups and SPARROWS XMAS DINNER. Mrs. Segaller Feeds the Birds at Long Beach. Long Beach, L. December 26 Even the starlings and the sparrows were not forgotten at Long Beach' on Christmas Day.

Sirs. Philip Segaller, Magnolia Boulevard, continued the custom she has followed since she has resided here by trimming a large spruce tree which was planted on the front lawn several years ugo, with dainty morsels of Mrs. Segaller never fails to feed them, but yesterday the members of the little feathery tribe received an extra portion. LEWIS P. DEXTER, It) sears old, of KoiBSton, N.

died Monday at St. Jo-Hep's Hospital, Kar Rockaway, from hardening of the arteries. Mr. Dexter was visiting hts son, Lewis P. Dexter at the tatter's home, In Cedarhurst.

About a week a0 lie became so ill that he was removed to the hospital. Mr. Dexter had been a resident of Rockville Centre for more than forty years, where he was a prominent real entate operator. lie Is survived by his widow, Hattle tsabelle; two sons, Lewis beans, potatoes, nreau, turnips, wntrur nnnrtensed milk. Jelly.

crackers, oranges, apples and candy. NEW QIEEXS IXnrSTRT. (Special to The Dagle.) Albany, December 26 "Mercury Cars, Ino." of the Thorough of Queens, Is the name of a new corporation just chartered to do a motor vehicle and tire business. Tho directors are Edgar Reekman, C. c.

Ueekman and E. Bel-lion of Manhattan. .1 rnt, The committee nau raisea uiimusi $500 for its basket fund, an annual in- (Vin nnmmilllit V. The beil- TO HELP VUG EXT CASES. eficiaiies of tho Christmas Basket Fund were not unappreclative or tne MmiiiKu nifneiprl hv thn subscrib of Cedarhurst, and William of Long I Inland City, and one daughter, Mrs.

A. M. liarnes of Utlca. Kuneral services were held this afternoon at the Cedarhurst residence THREE SOLDI Its MAURY. ers to the fund in relieving their distress and suffering.

This year the committee also gave clothing and shoes and several families were provided with coal. The pastors of the part of the instrument In which th-Huntington Hospital is given $25,000 Charles M. Blcecker, Edward Scudder, Arthur A. White and th United States Fruit Company wer named as executors. The will of Emma L.

Soper Northport, disposing of $5,100, give a number of relatives heirlooms am articles of silverware, furniture, etc and gives the residue to her husband William S. Soper. lilKUT TEPFER IS A DADDT. various churches assistea in ma iim-tribiitmn of the baskets, which were delivered in automobiles. Overseer of Poor Million Fjnpowercd to Act.

Manhasset, L. December 26 William Mullon, Overseer of the Poor of the Town of Hempstead, asked permission of the Town Board at Its meeting Monday afternoon to empower him to care for urgent cases among the poor in the town. He asked the Board for permission to send a resident of Port Washington, who is suffering from an incurable disease, to Dallas, Tex. In another case Mr. Mullon asked for $10 a week for the relief of a family in Roslyn, the husband and father of which recently underwent the amputation of a leg.

There are five children, ranging in age from 3 to 11 years old. ASTORIA WINS FIGHT llinnr T. 1 M'l cOProtrtrV Of thft the U. S. jvteoioat uorps, now stattone United Transit Association of Astoria, has been notified by the Inte.rborough Rapid Traiir-it Company that it is the intention of the company to operate 1 1 rt nl rur 1 a ml WANT PERMANENT ROADS.

Easthampton, L. December 26 A meeting of the Town Board of Easthampton, to ascertain the opinion of people of the town about expenditure of moneys for roads in 1918, was held here Saturday. The concensus of demand was for permanent roads. A citizens' committee suggested that a concrete highway twenty feet wide be built on Newtown lane, from the railroad depot to the postofflce building. ANOTHER HEWLETT CONCERN.

(Special to The Bagle.) Albany, December 26 The E. O. a. Corporation of Hewlett, Nassau County, has been Incorporated to do a realty and construction business, with a capital of $10,000, The directors are William E. Baker and E.

O. Baker of Brooklyn and William H. E. Jay of Kuch Married to Rockville Centre Girl by Pastor Hcgiirty. Rockville Centre, L.

December 26 The Rev. Richard Hegarty of the St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church of Rockville Centre, has during the past week united in marriage at the parsonage three soldier boys from the Western States to Rockville Centre girls. Last Thursday Olive Mabel Do Mott, widow of the late Samuel De Mott, became the bride of Earl Armstead of Burns, Wyoming, a widower. On Saturday, Marie Elizabeth Marquardt.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Marquardt of Center avenue, was married to Chester Arthur Hendrickson of Oregon. On Monday. Irma Mae Saxton and Myron Cecil Beach of North Platte.

Nebraska, were married. The three bridegrooms were stationed at Camp Mills. of his son. Interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery. Kit II ARP WAC1NER.

son of John Wagner, former postmaster of Long Island City, died at his homo, 24 5 Ninth avenue, on Sunday, after an Illness of seven months, from heart trouble, which developed from an attack of typhoid fover. He was horn In Long Inland City 25 years ago. Funeral services wore held from his homo this aftornoon. In-tortnrnt was in (Vdar drove Cemetery. Besides his parents, he Is survived by one sister.

Tlannah, and two brothers, Cieorge and William. AUil'ST F. KCIIRAKDKIt, 74 years of a lie, died yesterday at the homo of his son, Custave A. A. Schraeitpr.

Queens Houlevard, Elmhurst, L. following a brief Illness with pneumonia. Mr. Schraeder was a retired wholesale florist. He had been a resident of Newtown for thirty-three years.

His wife died four years ago. Services will be conducted at tho residence Thursday afternoon by the Rev. D. W. Peterson, pastor of tho Lutheran Church of Middle Village.

Interment will be In Cednr (trove Cemetery. MRS. Jl'UA Ii. widow of llezeklah Jennings, died on Friday at her Inline in Snuthold, L. t.

Mrs. JennlngB was In her 90th year. Funeral services will be id at her late home tomorrow afternoon. illl uim I linn wi i in. subway trains over both the Astoria and Corona extensions, beginning sometime between January 1 and 15.

The date on which this service will at Fort Hancock, returned Monday spend his two weeks furlough at hi home In Far Rockaway, he found Christmas package awaiting hir which caused film to forget his dig nity as an officer and throw his ha in the air. The son and heir arrive at St. Joseph's Hospital early Mondaj JUSTICE SCUDDER IS UPHELD. Mineola, L. December 26 Th Appellate Division- has upheld Su pretrte Court Justice Townsend Scud rinrirlnrl that.

Patrick Mm begin depends upon tne completion of work on some safety switches now being installed at the plaza in iAing Island City. SOLDIER FALLS OX TRACKS. Private James Flaming of Company 306th Recruiting Artilery, Camp Upton, accidentally fell from the platform of the Long Island Railroad station at Jamaica today, tumbling to the tracks. Luckily no train was coming at the time. The soldier was slightly injured and wan taken to St.

Mary's Hospital, Jamaica. QI EEXS MARRIAGE LICENSES. Joseph W. Calaravelie, 23. of 33 Elm st, Maa-peth, F.

Kolchford, 20, of 23 Pinkney av, Maspeth. Thomas E. I'ettit, 27, of 21 Westport av, Norwich, Conn, Elsie F. Murray, 27, of 232 Stale fit, Flushing. Charles T.

Wolfe, of 172 Second av, Long Island City. Francs Kendrlck, 21, of 17ti Second av, Long Island City. Henry. L. Will.

22. of 318 loth st. College Point, Henrietta M. Htllliiglielmer, 24, of 104 ISth St. College Point.

Edward J. Walbroehl, 1. of 215 Elm st, Richmond Hill, Hose Mattern, 21, of 145 nldge-wood place, (llendale. Edward L'rlg. 21, of SO Mcserolo av, Brooklyn, Minnie Krode, 20, of 1812 Woodbine st, Ridgewood.

Henry c. Martin. 28. of Portland. fier-trude Cooney, 24, of Its lllh st, Long Island City.

Harry KIlgiiK, 2, of 2S.1 Vandeventer av. Long Island City, Alice 24, of 6.9 Oruham av. Long Island City. John Schotller, 23, of f3 Snedc-ker av, Wood-haven. Sophie Wendelken, 22, of 663 Snedeker av, Woodlfaven.

Leltoy O. Rub. 2t. of till South Ourtls Richmond Hill. Vada Morris, 20, of 91t South Briggs av.

Richmond Hill. Cyril Sadler, 2.1, of liroadw-ay, Llltte Neck, Fannie Constln, 19. of Mitchell av. Little Neck: Joseph Puffy, 2:.. of iss.i Palmetto st.

Ridge, wood, Made Schmidt. of 1927 Woodbine st, Kldgewond. Clinrles I'layne, 2. of 171 Cstcs av. Ridge-wood.

Florence l'reas, of 1754 Gales av, Ridfrewood. JoM-ph Gutierrez. SS, of Rochester av, Brooklyn, Elizabeth Hart ig, 23, of 2029 Gates av. Brooklyn. Louis J.

Perg. 27. of 40 Napier av. Richmond Hill. Helga lligberg.

20, of Hroadway, Little Neck. William Rrown. 2. of Kansas City, Frances V. c.erda, 20, of 762 Flushing av, Long Island City.

George P. Jones, of 3fi Rra-lford av. Flushing, t.ula. M. Holmes, 27, of Highland av, Uavvde.

Ronald A. Taylor. 21. of 32rl st. Whitestone, Anon M.

Kendall. 10, of 33 6th st, White-stone. Henry Yunger, 20, of 2023 Linden Rt, Rldge- wood, Mabel Fltzpntrick, 20, of 1327 Madison st, RldEov. nod. Jlnrry Gannon.

20. of 310 Talisado ov. Jersey City, Anna Hamburger, 30, of 83 Wooleey st, Long Island City. COMMI'XITY. TREE AT FLUSHIXO.

MIST IX EQl'II'MENT. BROWN GETS COMMISSION. Sag Harbor, L. December 26 Herman M. Brown has successfully Flushing had a community Christmas tree celebration Monday evening.

Santa Clans was thero and he distributed 1,500 boxes of candy to the little ones. Santa was conveyed to Flushing bv Charles IT. Powell and J. L. passed examinations and received the phy a hotel proprietor of the Jerich Tu'rnpiko, Mineola, is entitled to continue his hotel business.

Murphy wa one of the hotelkeepers passed favor ably upon by the town pruning boarc State License Commissioner Herbet S. Sisson substituted another hotel fo Murphy's. rank of first lieutenant, aeianea to ma knllnnn flliriulnn rf thn Avlfltlnn COTDS Thomas. Pending Santa's arrival there was a band concert of Christ of the United States Army, and is now MISS ENGLISH TO MARRY. Oyster Bay, L.

December 26 Miss Florence English, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James English, will be married to Dr. Alfred Lee Loomis Bell of Englewood, N. on Saturday afternoon, December 29, at Christ Episcopal Church.

The Rev. George Talmage, rector of the church, will officiate. Eroeport Defense Guards Ordered to Restore Article. Freeport, L. I December 26 Th Village Board of Freeport has Issued an order to the members of the Defense Guards who have In their possession the equipment furnished them by the Board last spring, and do not intend to affiliate with the reorganization of that body, to turn it in to Village Clerk Shea.

Freeport was the only village on Long Island to equip its Defense Guards and for that pur-poso $1,500 was appropriated. stationed at San Antonio, xex. MISS M. CRAWFORD ENGAGED. Announcement has been marie of the engagement of Miss Mildred Crawford, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Wesley W. Crawford of Forest Hills, to Lieutenant Ralph Tryon Tyrrel, 1'. S. R.

Lieutenant Tyrrel Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Lester Tyrrel of (ISO East Nineteenth street, Flatbush. He entered the training camp after ho was graduated from Dartmouth College last June.

He is stationed at Camp Dix. Miss Crawford was graduated from Beechwood School, Jenkin-town, Pa. 150 STARS ON CHURCH FLAG. A service flag, containing 150 stars, has been dedicated and unfurled at the rectory of the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows at Corona. 1865 1917 QIEEXS COLOXY CLUB MEETS.

The Colony Club met recently at the home of Mrs. Frederick S. Holt, Hollis Court Boulevard, Queens. Mrs-E. E.

Suffern was in charge of a Christmas musical program. Two songs in French were Rung by Miss Ann Assison of Garden City, with Mrs. John Humph of llnllls at the piano. Christmas carols were sung by the club. Mrs.

George Wilder, secretary of the Queens Permanent War Relief Committee, read letters from Queens soldiers. PLAYER PIANOS fv mas and National music, ibis feature was in charge of Andrew H. Mangold. Twenty-five generously filled boskets containing Christmas dinners were delivered by the Associated Charities of Flushing to the needy families of the town Monday afternoon. Cards accompanying the baskets informed tho recipients that tho contents were from Santa Claus and wished all the members of the family a very happy Christmas.

Those in charge of the distribution declared it an unusually prosperous year, in that fewer are in need at this time than usual. Material for ten Christmas dinners packed in baskets were delivered by George Huntsman 1'ost G. A. R. of Flushing Monday.

These baskets were distributed among members of the post. 1IILLIS IX FAR ROCKAWAY. Members and friends of the Progress Society of tho Rockaways listened wit interest last evening to the lecture delivered at Masonic Hall by the iti-v. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis of l'lvmouth Church, Brooklyn, on "What America Is Fighting Against." THE OLD LADY AGAIX.

"My nephew had to give up smoking entirely." said old Mrs. Blunder-by! "The dociors told htm that the Nicodetnus in the tobacco was simply killing him." New Haven Register. 18 STARS OX CHCRCII I LAG. A service flag bearing eighteen stars was dedicated at the Sunday evening service of the Sage Memorial Presbyterian Church, Far Rockaway. TIDE TABLE FOR TOMORROW.

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Account will be charged. JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE WASHINGTON AND JOHN60N STREETS BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Tulcjhoiu 62W JJfJll. GARFIELD GOVEUXESK BJES. Miss Martha Mays, 70 years old, who was a governess in the family of President James A. Garfield, was found dead at the home of Mis.

J. Stanley Brown, a daughter of the martyred President, at Kew Gardens, yesterday. Miss May's home was in Essex Fells, N. and she had come to Kew Gardens to spend the holiday with her former pupil. FOFR SOLDIER SOXS AT HOME.

Yesterday was a real Christmas for Mr. and Mrs. Henry Flood of 171 Heche avenue, Long Island City. Their four sons, all In the service, wore able to get home for the day. John is a member of the Medical Corps at Camp I'pton; Robert and Henry came from Allentown, where they are stationed with an ambulance corps, and William was relieved from Sayille, whore he is stationed with a detachment of the Naval Iteserve force.

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