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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 4

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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1020. New Fulton Street Subway Officially Started as Byrne Turns Earth Ml DELANEY AND BYRNE START FULTON STREET TUBE GINDISOHKN STUDY WOMAN'S STORY OF SHOOTING IIOOVDR BACKS POPPY DRIVK. Kansns City, April 17 (Pi President Hoover Indorsed the Bta iinnual "Buddy Poppv" campaign the week prior to Memorial Dav, May 30, In a letter to Eujcne 1'. Carver national commander of the Veterans of Korelgn Wars of the United States.

I 1 WOMEN VOTERS MEET. Huntington, L. April 17 In spits of Inclement weather a Urge number attended a meeting yesterday afternoon, held In the Huntington Community Rooms, First National Bank Building, under the auspices of the local branch of the League of Women Voters. Mrs. Charles Doscher, who Is president of the Huntington branch, presided and Introduced Richard W.

Hawkins. Supervisor of the Town of Huntington. EX-WINE IMPORTER DIES ATAGE OF 79 Special to The Eagle.) Olcnwood Landing, L. April 17 Nicholas Karatsonyl, owner of a large hotel and well known summer resort on Hempstead Harbor, died at his home this morning after a prolonged Illness. Before Prohibition he Is said to have been one of the largest Importers of wines In the Eust.

Mr. Karatsonyl came to the United States In 1876. He settled in Olcnwood Landing about 37 yean ago. At the time of his death he was 79 years old. Two nephews, Andrew and Albert Karatsonyl, who lived with him, are LAST 4 DAYS! OP (Special to The Eagle.) Mlneola.

L. April 17 District Attorney Elvln N. Edwards today announced he will make a thorough Investigation of the veracity of his complalntnit witness before presenting any fart to the Nassau County Grand Jury In connection with the aliened shooting at Wood-mere lat July of Patrolman Jack Kennedy by Ely Goldstein, stationery and cigar store man of 3957 61st Woodslde. According to an affidavit given Edwards by Mrs. Rose Hllkowltz of 440 E.

171st Manhattan. Goldstein and she were in a parked car at Woodmere when Kennedy approached. Goldstein, she charges, pulled a revolver and shot the Byrne Turns First Spade PI. Earth as Merchants Applaud. REMOVAL SALE JACKS CURIOSITY SHOP.

Inr. IP4 fltb'ih Avr in dUimnliif of Ihur enilrr Hoc o( DIAMONDS. JEWELRY. CLOCKS, cl crlrrh. Regardlcssof Cost April 34th our nrw tior will be looted it 890 6th Art.

(nr 50th St.) On black belsw Boj Theater JO) 4 CALLAGHAN SETS TOWHQUIZ DATE Supreme- Court Justice Stephen Callaghan of Brooklyn, through hla secretary, that he would start the Investigation the town government of Ironde-quoit, in Monroe County, early in May. The announcement that Justice Callaghan had been appointed to hold an extraordinary term, of court in Monroe County, to investigate every phase of the town government of Irondequolt was made yesterday by the Oovernor. at Albany, coincident with his announcement that the Attorney Oeneral would supercede the District Attorney of Monroe County as the State'j counsel In the inquiry. The action followed his veto of an act passed the Legislature, validating all of the acts of the Irondequolt town government. lfredNeotv Tailort and Breechta Makert 580 Fifth Avenue New York of Transportation, presenting the silver spade the first shovelful of earth for the new Fulton John H.

Delaney, chairman of the Board to Boro President Byrne to turn, symbolically, and business men of the Fulton st. and cen-these ceremonies are held at the actual spot st. trunk subway, as prominent merchants tral Brooklyn districts looked on. Usually his only survivors, WOMEN ASK YOICE IN CHURCH AFFAIRS At the first meeting of the new administration of the Women's Brooklyn-Nassau Presbytertal So-clty, held yesterday afternoon at tho Hotel St. George, with Mn.

John H. Mills, the new president, In the chair. Mrs. H. C.

Clark-Dun former president, spoke of the advisability of women being given a voice In the councils of the Presbyterian Church, "In the General Assembly, which Is to meet in St. Paul, a month from now," the said, "women have no say. The General Council has two women who are corresponding members but have no vote. We believe the time has come for women to have a voice in the church councils, A resolution is to presented to the General Assembly by the General Council throwing all offices of the church, deacons, elders and ministers, open to women. Women can now bo trustees only.

If approved, this resolution will go to the several Pres. byterles, and If approved by a majority will be adopted at the General Assembly next We re told sometimes that women talk 'on nu.ch. A' group of men can do more talking than any women I ever saw." Man.Teilortd Cro-SaddU Riding Kit in the first actual excavation, but he storm where work Is started and the dirt Is turned Ground broken yesterday rfirrnoon for the Fulton st. Jour-trctk trunk line subway by Boro President Jamm J. Byrne.

The featured the largest general Improvement ever undertaken (or ihe beneilt of the Central Brooklyn sertion. section has lor years in population and built-up area tx-c(cdxl anv other given bulit-up wra rttnalnlnir without adequate r.ipid tranMi subway improvement, lias been claimed. Ahhoush the original plan for the of ground was scheduled to be held at Arlington pi. and Fu tm iU weather conditions prevented, and the ceremonies were held In the auditorium of KLsmct Temple, Herkimer st. near Nostrand r.ve.

Boro President Byrne, usinj a Hiver spade, turned the first spade-lul of earth from a wheelbarrow wnlch was filled from the spot on Arlington where the ground lincl been marked for breaking. John H. Drfaney. chairman ot the Board ol Transportation, turned the 3C-ord spadeful. Byrne Lauds DrJaney.

Following the ground breaking r.drtrcsses were delivered by Haru E. Eatabrook. the general chairman cf the committee; James B. Fischer, firmer president of the Brooklyn Real Estate Board: Edward J. Rorkc.

pa president of tho Central Bfooklyn Mid-Day Club; Arthur J. Waldi on, the present president of the Central Brooklyn Midday Club, and Herbert L. Carpenter. Mr. Byrne nlxo made a short address.

In which r.e sr.ld that all credit for the new v.ibway belonged to Commissioner Delaney. Following the ceremonies of the pround breaking a banquet was held in Kismet Temple, at which approximately 2.500 city officials, merchants and resident of the neighborhood were present. Among the speakers at the ban-nuet were Boro President Byrne, Postmaster Albert Flrmln. the Rev. Dr J.

Percival Huget. castor of the yesterday forced the proceedings Inside of Kismet Temple, and the dirt was a wheel-ere the work is to begin and wheeled into the barrow load of earth dug from the spos wh hall for thp occasion. SEE TODAY'S JOURNAL AND STANDARD UNION FOR OTHER NAMM NEWS and are sticking to your guns In prove one of the greatest econoinie benefits in the entire nistory 01 your demands that relief be given to you." Nil MM Postmaster Flrmln said. "It Is necessary that we find some way to relieve the congestion of Manhat tan by the distribution of the population throughout our own boro and our neighboring boro of Queens Brooklyn. Although we have seen Just the beginning of construction today, we may reasonably expect the completion and actual operation of a large part of this subway within the next four years, and with the available legislation permitting the city to secure and remove the elevated structure and the strong probability of the early unification of all rapid transit lines under ultimate city control and ownershp, we may, likewise, look forward to the clearing of Fulton st.

of the unsightly elevated structure within five or six Creat Event, Says Flrmln. "We must realize that a great event occurred today when the earth Fulton Street 'GROWING WITH BROOKLYN Triangle S700 You Are Invited to Attend a Most Unusual and Interesting in that wheelbarrow we saw this afternoon was turned for the first time and which meant the start of another avenue of transit in this years. great boro In which we live." Mr. Flrmln also told of the tran 'The real reason lor tne ion? de lay In obtaining transit relief in our section of the city was the short sit facilities that were In operation 47 years ago when he first started sighted policy or the old officials ot the B. R.

T. system in a selfish but to work In the General Post Office. Dr. Huget said: "History Is some Jamaica end of the Crosstown line. It leads through Quens blvd.

to Long island City, crowing to Manhattan Greenpoint, thence along the Eastern District and passing along Union and Marcy aves. over to Lafayette ave. and thence connecting with the Fulton st. subway line, as well, extending through Schermer-horn where there will be the largest six-track subway station thus far constructed in the City of New York, at Bmlth st. The work on the Brooklyn Cross-town line is now under way in Greenpoint as far as McCarren Park.

Contracts are being prepared for the sections from Nassau ave. south as far es Fulton st. The Fulton st. line on its way downtown turns into Smith st. at Schermerhorn passing along to Jay to High to Cranberry to the East River, through a tunnel to Fulton Manhattan, then turning into Eighth ave.

at Greenwich Village. It runs up to 211th near the northern end of Manhattan Island. Radiate From Key Station. From the key station at Schermerhorn and Smith Go-wanus-9th route passes through Prospect Park and extends down Gravcsend ave. to Cortelyou connecting with the existing Culver line, which is recapturable by the city, to Coney Island.

The stations along the route ot the Fulton st. line now under contract, are to be located as follows: South Portland ave. to Cumberland Clinton ave. to Washington Classon ave. to Franklin and Eedford ave.

to Nostrand ave. Double Deck Station. thing that is not made, but is in powerful opposition to anythln? which would interfere with their lucrative, slow-haul elevated and the process of being made, some on tho lower level, which obviates the necessity of adjoining property at that point, a condition wtnen wojiu the local and express stations were on one level instead of two. Beyond Nostrand ave. the contracts, when ready for adoption, will be divided into the following sections for construction: Nostrand ave.

to Lewis Lewis ave. to Howard and from Howard ave. to Alabama ave. Beyond Alabama ave. the construction plans have not as yet been determined, depending on the course of the line to meet with the Liberty ave.

and the Jamaica ave. elevated lines. The stations will be 600 feet in length. of that history Is being made now. We have started something that will surface line traffic in central Brook lyn.

benefit not only us but our neighbors beyond us and for those who Let Fare Wait on Buildlnr. "Do not let us longer delay the will come after us. Our children and our children's children will use this real solution of this problem in the Interest of our people by letting the Sve-cent fare continue as a politi Silhouette Style Show of Nemo-Flex Foundation Garments Thursday, April 18th at 2:30 P.M. In the Corset Shop Second Floor LIVING MODELS will show the lightness, flexibility and restrain-ing qualities of modern foundation garments. cal football, but rather solve the physical problem and then deter mine, when whe know the cost, now the rateof fare will be financed." The constiuctlon which started today with the breaking of the C.HAVtfUams SUCCESSOR TO H.J.

BRIDGE- JEWELER 1st 1S81 ground at Arlington pi. will extenu from Nostrand ave. down to Lafayette ave. and Fulton st. Bids are Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church, and Herbert L.

Carpenter. The toastmaster of the banquet wa Hartt E. Estabrook. general chairman of the celebration committee and whose grandfather, the late Charles Barrett Holder, was the founder of the first line of trans-portatfon in Brooklyn. Mr.

Holder, the pioneer of transportation In this boro. operated a line of horse-drawn stuRes Jrom Fulton Ferry to Bedford Village, In the early Nineteenth Century, and which has been merged down through the years until today It Is known is the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company. Byrne Scores "Brooklyn needs most, at least what its cltQehs need most Is patience," said Bore President Byrne. "We have made progress slowly, and In this It has been shown that the people of Brooklyn- have patience for they have vfajted long for what they want, and they, especially those In this district know what they want and they stick by their wants and demands. We are going to do much for Brooklyn, especially if we can ret the money that we need from those 'tightwads' in Manhattan, and we are going to get a big slice of It next year.

We need money for improvements and we are going to get 1 "Wei will have to beard the lions In their den at City Hall next year and w'e will not take 'we have no money' for an answer to our demand. It will not be me who will make the request but you people of Brooklyn, who know what you want being prepared for the section extending from Nostrand ave. uptown to Alabama ave. and will be ad vertised this summer. Diamond Engagement Rings Set in Platinum, Also in White Gold These stations, excepting the one.

new subway that we are starting and many of the millions of the population of New York who will In the next 60 years make their homes In Brooklyn and the rest of Long Island." Mrs. Rebecca C. Talbot-Perkins also spoke upon transit of the past and what relief would be gained by the new subway. Trcdict Great Benefits. Merchants of the section declare that great business expansion and other benefits will accrue from the subway, which will be followed naturally by the abandonment of the present unsightly elevated structure.

It. In their estimation. Is the most Important general improvement yet projected for the benefit of the Central Brooklyn section. Herbert L. Carpenter, a prominent manufacturer and banker of the Central Brooklyn section, who has been one of the leading spirits in furthering the Fulton st.

subway, said: "The selection of the Fulton st. subway In Brooklyn as the main east and west rapid transit artery to Jamaica and the future removal of the obsolete and damaging elevated structure on Fulton from from Bedford to Nostrand will Connects Three Boros The line up Atlantic ave. from be local The Bedford-Nos trand station will be an express sta tion with an Intermediate entrance and exit at Arlington at which Alabama ave. connects the new city subway with the Jamaica ave. and the Liberty ave.

existing elevated lines. The route in Queens, from Hillside ave. through Queens, Is the 238 LIVINGSTON ST. Tel. TRIangle 4326 station the structure will be carried In two decks, with express tracks on the upper level and the local tracks Redfern Says: "Prints are the Vogue for all Occasions" Fulton Street Brooklyn the ferry to East New York, will mute ui prims.

Ana mmm Silk 4eorfn large showinS of Sreeous prints fa the" sellers" Specificaly' we want to mention three of our "best Printed Crepe Printed Chiffon Printed Georgette PINCH and and have occasioned more "Oh's" and tAJ coun They are a11 39 hches de and featured at one low $1.95 yard OUCH are poor wn i complimentary to our patront. NAMM'S Silk ShopThird Floor Dress Hats Informal Hats DAnce Styles Sports Hats Tailored JIodes Shfer Hats a dancing partners Only 2 More Days! Sale of Notions Featuring Important Savings for TThat needless handicaps they are to youthful grace and ritality! No woman can dance her best or look her best in shoes that pinch and hurt at every st.ep. And who wants to dance with her? But here's a word of cheer to those who offer from aching feet! Wear Dr. Kahler Shoes and enjoy foot comfort anywhere, anytime. These fine shoes are cleverly fashioned for ntmoct walking ease as they are mad with FIVE FAMOUS FEATURES National Sewing Week 'CHAPEAUX SUCCESSES' Shown Here Simultaneously with Their Appearance in Paris The ineffably smart Toque in Bakou pictured above is an exquisite replica of an eminent original by Jean Patou yet Modestly Triced at 18.50 other superb reproductions of paris originals running the gamut of fashion from dress to sports 10.00 to 29.50 Colored Wash Cloths, large size, reg.

10c. Now 89c doz. or ea. 8c Damp Proof Felt Chair Pads, of checked oilcloth, bound in blue, green, yellow, red, reg. 25c.

Now 4 for 85c Unburnable Ironing Board Pads, reg. 79c. Now 49c Willington Cotton 100 yd. spools. White or black.

Nos. 50, 60 and 70. Reg. 35c. 25c doz.

Hermanet Hair Nets, double mesh, cap shape, all shades but grey and white, reg. 49c doz. Now, doz. 29c Cretonne Wardrobe Bags with rack for 8 garments, various colors, reg. 95c.

Now 79c 12-pocket Bags, of colored art tickings, reg. 89c. Now 69c Laundry Bag flowered crash, reg. 69c. Now 49c Aunt Lydia's Linen Thread, black, white and colors, reg.

10c. Now 8c spool, doz. for 89c Sewing Silk, black, white and colors, 50 yd. spool, reg. 5c.

Now, doz. 45c 1 THE INSTEP SUPPORT acu like bandage. THE COMBINATION LAST affords ample room for ball of fool. 3 THE BUILT-IN ARCH reU and mpporu the arch. 4 THE STRAIGHT-LINE LAST doea not enuh the toot.

3 THE CUPPED HEEL SEAT fiti ido at tb hacL. TBS MADISOy TBE MADISON uuttfuUf iaigntd with initrtsting cut-uit andundvlay eject. Dr. Kahler Shoes STYLE with comfort concealed HIGSBY'S KAHLER SHOE STORE 292 LIVINGSTON STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Hi TWIil.N 1IOVT AND MAINS STREET Mail and Phone Orden Filled TRUnglo 5700 NAMM'S Sotion Sio; Street Floor.

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