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Mn*. P^rmHIn Ferrla. The death of Mm. Permella Fer- t J b . relict of the late James Ferris, at her Spring street home last, Sat urday removes from the midst of White Plains residents one of our oldest citizens — one whose early life began in this vicinity and one whose days were passed here. Mm. Ferris's maiden name was Permella Purdy. Her father, fol lowing the Revolution, and bis pre decessor before him owned the greater part of WhiJ:© Plains be tween the Bronx River and north of Hamilton avenue and west of the Davis Brook. This property some fifty or more years ago came Into the possesion of Mr. Ferris, who had wedded Miss Permella and who had take\ rggiden^ in ihn nid family homestead, c 6 mraonly spok en of as \Lafayette ’ s head quarters\ and still standing on the west side of Spring street near Mott street. Mrs. Ferris was for many years a member of the Presbyterian Church on Broadway. She was the mother of two sons, Thomas and Elisha P. ForMs. The latter at the time of his death was esteemed as a lawyer of ability In White Plains. For years he was a member of the White Plains Board Of Trustees, President of White Plains, and also President of our BOard of Education AD PLAN MEN DINE New York, December 21, 1908. Editor DAILY ARGUS: Deqr Sir — In response to your re quest for me to express my view's upon the question of depressing or elevating the tracks of the HArlem Railroad, where It runs through the Village of White Plains, I beg to thank you for the courtesy. The more the question Is discussed and the different interests are laid before the public, tho more apparent It be comes that depressing the tracks will serve the most people. It is as vital to tjje interest of tho builder or land owner to have tbe„best possible rail road accommodations as it Is to the pf Cu p aglOuH, T nA riQ ig c- turdr or mechanic. The question Is, what Is the best thing the Railroad Company can do to servo the bettor INFORMATION Op INTEREST TO MEN ON THE HARLEM. Railroad Men Dine at Dot ’ s urdny Night. The. engineers, conductors and trainmen on the Harlen) Railroad, to the number of fifty, sat down to dinner \fit for a k|ng ” at Dot ’ s Hotel, White Plains, Saturday night. It was a turkey dinner, with' ail the trimmings, and the \boys\ thor oughly enjoyed the spread as well as the wit and humor of toastmaster Ed. Fitssgibbons. Affairs of this nature art? to b© Encouraged^ Frater n ity am ong ployeos always tends to better ser vice, etc. The speeches of the evening did Railroad and Lexington Avenues OPEN White Plains, N. Y. EVERY V ENI N G RIDGKVIKW AVENUE CDNCJKK- ELEt ’ TIlRT THEATRE THIS (NATIONAL CHURCH. Interest of the various Interests of Hie^rollroad men, who are Wednestlay evening Mr, Street will conduct a question box meeting, es pecially for any inquiries In connec tion with thtf present course of mons. . 7ecrt!.->,l 4 oil to soajiMrtKjiJjjii the Village of White Plains? That solved, then It will be to the best Interest of the Railroad Com pany to cater to and supply the wants of that in{erost. The growth of a village or city very largely depends upon the im pression tho stranger gets In enter ing for the first time. If the Iraprqs- slon Is a good one, his friemle will al ihoar of It; If it s a bad one they said to have imbued life wit of their railroad after-dinner speechmaker, Chauncey M. Depew. ENfJINEERH ’ BALL. oped Into small homes. Mott street upper Spring street, John street, upper Lexington avenue, Ridge street, Madison avenue and adjacent tfcrtUory — all at one time was owned by her husband. Funeral services over tho malfis of the deceased will be held Tuesday afternoon later at the Presbyterian Church. . Her Remains will be interred here. A number of grandchildren sur vive the* deceased— children of her deceased son, Elisha P. Ferris. The dther son (Thomas) Is demented and It at present a nlnmate of the Poughkeepsie Asylum Mrs. Ferris ’ s wealth Is esti mated Into the thousands. - - Mrs.^Helen Ntrrling. Mrs. Helen fftetHng, mother tl\e late Supervisor William b. Ster ling, of White Plains, died on Thurs day last at her home In Pawling, Dutchess County, where she had re sided the greater pert of her life. Mrs. John Field. Suddenly, gj Port Chester, De cember 10, Mary G., widow of John Field. Funeral at Friends ’ Meet ing House, Port Chester, December bind, at l l a m. ' Irving E. Fleweilln. At White Plains, Saturday, De cember 19. Irving E. Fleweilln. Funeral services on December 21 at 7 p. in. at his late residence, No. 52 South Lexington avenue. ^Inter ment will be at Mt. Klsco to-mor row morning. He was employe 1 as a plumber by J. C. Farrell. Handled from the effects of an operation at the White Plains hospital. Hu leaves surviving a widow, a daugh ter of William Rowe, and sister of the Rowe boys, of Stewart ’ s market. Ho was also a nephew of the Into Smith Hopkins. Cftrollne P. Hutton. At Mt. Vernon, Decern her 'W, Caroline P. Sutton. Interment at Rosedalo to-day. ! ^ . The move ft** ’ : TOhUe made the better It will bo for tho uaiiroad Company. This also applies to tho approaches to the station. Tne first and most essential point, In my opinion, Is which will be the more accessible from street to car and vice-versa. Second, The damage and benefit either will have to the future prop erty of the village. Third, Which will be the cheaper In the end? In answer to the first, the Harlem Railroad is built through what is known as the Bronx River Valley, and runs nearly parallel with the average flow line of the Bronx River from Bronx Park In tho City of New York, up to near the disposal works. From there It has an_ ascending grade up to the White Plains station, where its elevation is about twenty- five feet above the river bod at Rail road avenue.* From Home street north to Ridge street, the road has a very bad curve. The Railroad Com pany is required by the general; rail road act to remove this grade cross ing. Now If this was all tho rail road company wanted to do It would depress its tracks, buitd a bridge and raise Railroad avenue and the Vil lage would be dblled upon to pay one-quarter of the expense. They do not seek to do this. What they want to do, is, to do aWay with a very bad curve by shifting the tracks west about four hundred fe 3 t from Railroad avenue and straighLeg out a part of this curve. If this if done on the same grades as the present roadbed and lowering the grade of Railroad avenue (as I understand the plain submitted) about three feet, with an open cut walled on oithor side by a wall about, two hun dred feet at the base and the width of the roadbed at tho lop, this open ing to bo covered by a plate glrderod bridge to carry the railroad traffic. Passengers to reach the train would have to ascend steps to the station which would be about sevenfoen feet above Railroad avenue; then to reacn u train he would have to ascend an other stairway about twenty-two feet bridge, then descend another stairway to the station platform. Harlem Railroad nt tikis place itti|>ortaii<-f to nil, and every citizen should attend! ANNUAL DINNER OF THE YON- KKKR HKIHHil.HMN CITY COMMITTEE The ftimunl dinner of the Kepub- llenn City committee to the oan- dldntca aucceaq ful at the j»oU», Witt JUe New York, be hold next Tuesday evening in ” — — “ — ' PhUIntteburgh boll. It promises to b« tut even greater success than the one lost year wliich waa attended by nearly \five hundred men. al though tho committee tti charge, of whtoh John Sells la chariwan. and Bernard Koch, secretary, has limited tho tickets this year to three hun dred. Sehator-elect F. M. Davenport, formerly of this city, hut now living in Clinton, N. Y., has already ac cepted an Invitation to be one of the speakers. — Yonkers Daily Nows. GET THE HABIT It is announced that the Harlem Railroad Engineers Bali will be held this year at Dot ’ s Lexington Hall, on the night of February 15th. Heretofore the men have held their York.*L-& J r.'- : • — — TRAINMEN'H BALL. The annual trainmen ’ s ball will be held at the Grand Central Pal ace, Now York City, on January 15. CHANGKN ON THK HARLEM AFTER JANUARY 1st. Hupt. Van Tassel to Ijocato at Brew ster And Look After Harlem and Pntnam Divisions Above Electric Zone. If a bridge Is btfllt over Rail road avenue, assuming the street to be seventy-five feet wide, the road bed of tracks sixty-flve feet, would make a bridge with a' stfan of sev enty-five feet and sixty-flve feet long. This bridge would have to carry more than double the !oad that a street bridge would: if tho tracks were depressed the bridge would be s.'Voni V. live fflet long with a span of sixty-flve feet, so tho real difference In expense Would bo the comparative amount of cut and fui It will not coat as much to raise Railroad avenue thirteen feet, about seven hundred feet in length, as It would to ra^se the railroad bed twen ty feet for a distance of two thou sand feet. The buttresses of either bridge would be about the same. Assuming, for tho sake of argument Tlie muss meeting to-night at the County Court Hoase to tUs- _____ ______ c,.»H the proposed clmnges ta the t*ent*two foet more lo Mtrd'the- ^ tallrood nt this place is of train. Certainly this would not be . ........ . .......... great convenlenoo to the public, if the tracks wore depressed the station could be over the tracks south of Railroad avenue, and have a stairway to each track. No better example of an up-to-date station with the same conditions that exist White Plains, cun be seen than the one at Westchester avenue, over Hartford Railroad In the Borohg-h of tho Bronx, of the City of New York, or the Hunt's Point station about one-half mile south of the above. _ w Second. As to the daiukgo or ben efit. If raised above the street level, White Plains will be separated as by wall, about seventeen feet above Railroad avenue. The Bronx Valley Park would be obllvtatud nnd the people ’ s money wasted. If the plan proposed by the Railroad Company be adopted, the value ^of property between, lying three hundred feet either side of the railroad wduld depreciate in value. On the other hand, if the track* be depressed ten feet below the gradi^of UajJjfoad ave nue and Railroad' avenue be- raised thirteen feet above the present grade, using plate girders at the Important changes are to take place on the Harlem Railroad Jan uary 1 st, ft is said. We could not find Superintendent Van Tassel this afternoon to verify the rumor; but It is said he will lo cate at Brewster and from thatpoln*. manage the Harlem north of White Plains and the Putnam Division as well. ? _ _ _ - . _ , _______ __ The road to Whltp clalas will pass under tho superintendence of Elec trician Bai^lo and work pf electrify ing the martem will be pushed for ward hsyapidly as possible. A ct * ---- ~o ----- : ------- Speclnk to-dight at the Hof Bran Haus, kidney uhita^oa toast. AH frii-nds arc invited. TO HAVE GRAND ANNUAL BALL Courf: Orawaupa, No. 343, Fores ters of America, will hold its gran<i annual ball in Lexington Hall, on New Year ’ s Eve, December 3 1 st. Should begin life In White Plains by subscribing for the Argus. All the news of home and of tho night and day will bo found in columns. The Argus is delivered to your home for 30 cents per month. WEEK. This week at the Electric Theatre continues with Its greater vaudeville performance combined with its pic ture shows which alone are wor,th the price of admission. For Monday and Tuesday tho fea ture picture is the great western scene “ Held By Randita.\ at these performances Ella Jones and ’ her two \ KInkey Boys ’ are sedn In a lively skit the Bell Boys and the Maid, a singing and dancing act. liatfUa, oVk^r^ron k T»fly team afo fflscr features * of the bill. The pleasing picture \The Queen of the Arena, the world greaest equestrienne is on to-day together -With^a great vaudeville- bill.-- i __ Fancy dry picked Rhode Island turkeys, 20e. lb. White Plains Mar ket Company. FRED E. SIPP Manager. GROCERIES & PROVISIONS o MARTI NE AVENUE, NEAR RROOMFIELIU STREET. Strictly Fresh Eggs a Specially. Best Coffee, a pound ...................... 30c Good Coffee, n pound .................. 15c Beat Tea, a pound ......... .................. 50c Go(»d Mixed Tea . ............................ J25c Quaker Wheat Berries, pkge The White Plains Fishing and Boating Club will have a duck din- rier at the club rooms at Mamaro neck Wednesday evening; December 30th. The moss meeting to-night at the County Court House to dis cuss the proposed changes in the Harlem Railroad at this place is of importance to all, and every citizen should attend. The Twentieth Century Cooking Utensil Made By ike Makers of the Metal Yo„ know, every IntelJlRent le.ly knows that aluminum rooking pots are (lie cleanest, safest anil most hygienic vessel — In existofire. You have wanted them but stopped at the price, because m.thmint* “ •OUMre high, tvltlchjs «tM,l K t»kc. Vo., re ; r MBsm. gta to m.. nmTkinrc. We liellcve In aluminum, and to prove It we bought and have the biggest line in the city. I^vY our chance to Isay o WiiUi-MVKK\ pan at less than factory cost — HATH HD AY, DKCKMI1KK 10, we will sell atlo o\K- nOldiAIt unit I,IN' HAUCK 1 ‘ ANH Ai ’ 4 Hr. KAC'H. None sold at tills price: untikJMurdny. The .New York Stores sell them nt .7»c. to OOe. SLAffSON, WOODRUFF & COWAN Miles Building 15 Court Street The Newell Theatre offers a big and attractive bill for this week Every act is a top-liner. The Sona of Jareal will meet on Wednesday evening, December, 30th, in Lexington Hall. A social of the Sunday school of the Presbyterian Church vHll (junker Corn Meal, package.... 0c held next Tuesday evening. Large hire Gun Pears. . . . v . ^ . l^c ' Good Corn, three for ..................... 25c Hntf pound Cleveland Baking l*o%Wer ........................................ 15c Columbia linked Beans, 10c. size 5c Armour Baked Beans, 10c size. . 5c Corn Mtnrch, large size. JK 5c Finest Imported Sardines, 2 for 25c more tecdonref* to elevate the tracks. It woufa De ‘ 'tar cheaper for thq village to pay its share of this $50,000, to wit: $ 12,500, and have tho tracks depressed. If the village increases in the future as in the post, namely; 10 per cent, per annum, be tween 1805 nnd 1905, then the time tar-Off, -that , Tibbita avenue and Homo street Will be. extended to Don ’ t fail to visit Reynolds ’ Mar ket for your Christmas Turkey. Maryland rice fed. None like them In White* Plains. Come and look at them before purchasing elsewhere. — — ^ New Haven and Ciwnburgh avenue; Marline avenue to Smith street, and several streets north of Railroad avenue will be extended over to the west aide sec tion . It seems to me that before tho Board of Trustes bind the taxpayers, it should look Into the matter a little further. Let them send a com mittee to examine what the Penn sylvania Railroad has done at New ark, N. J., Elizabeth, N. J., and New Brunswick, and the^ compare that with what the Lackawanna Railroad has done west of Newark, N, and what the New ^ork, .tew Haven and Hartford ^itrpad has done on Ita division between, tho Harlem River and Port Cheater. Let them see how the same engineering problem tias been solved by other engiijeers and they will vote unani mously to depress the\ trayks at John B*. Mallon & Son Baggage Express 26 South Lexington Avenue. Orders Promptly Attended to. Telephone 313. Arrangements are going forward for the apron and necktie dance at Silver Lake Park Hotel on Saturday, January 2d. FIRE INSURANCE should bo one of tho first things at ten tied to and we ar© hero to help yon In that line. We rep resent the best and soundest companies anti our rates aye os reasonable as gootl insurance can bo bad for. Drop us a pos tal and \rb will call at any time you say. PHONE fi08 CHARLES E. COOLEY CO. 10 Railroad Ax« TRY:- SCALES ’ Prime Rib Roast Beef DINNER 25c SERVED DAILY Business Men ’ i Lunch A Specialty 48 Railroad Avenue WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. POST OFFICE BUILDING fd \ candy buyers CALL flOR THE PARTICULARS 8 p. ra., to hear tlie report of Messrs. H. T. Dykman and Henry R. Barrett, ip reference to til* Electrification Plans uf till' Harlem Kutlrouil Coni|HU>]r ai While Plain*. • gr ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON AP PLICATION No. 5 North Lexineton Avs. White Plains, N. Y. OP GOING TO THE building lina, and *t tha ourb and white PIMna making the loii'lway and aldewalk 'iimra very truly. JOHN DE HART, 111 3.8 Pox Street. New York City of reinforced concrata, It wo ’ iM re quire two feet for archea. Thla will leave a clearance of twenty-one toot, belgbtb recommended by rail road engineer*. If thla .plan at depression was adopted, the railroad north and south of Railroad avenue could be run on t better grade, nearly, on gratie wltb ith* eagle, effect as ws now have where tba Harlem fun, along Bronx Park at the Botannleal Oarden ata lion . The people would get the bene fit of the park that their money Is beta* gpont for. Railroad avenue tovel from the proposed open-up a new •24 IlUOOKPttSIJ) STREET Near Mur l! no A venue OITtOE TELEFHONS 551- TABU TELEPHONE SSI C. G. SWACEHAMER. Dated December 8 , 1U08. JOJjlN J. BRQWX President DKAUBR IN you are particular about your coffee use th* kind that aatlaflea three of tha best brands that tha market prodnees. RED RIBBON COFFEE.. . 35c. lb. HOTEL A 8 TOR COFFEE. . 85c. lb Roasted Fresh end Packed In one pound sealed air tight packages at ths roast; PETEK PAULDING, “ Village Clerk. Ws have ta stock * Sue line of tt prices guaranteed to be town. For every I* we will give as a of rnbbsr heels. Bfco,* made ta In first branches. COAL, WOOD, BUILDING MATERIALS. BOYS WANTED. STRAW. Boys wanted to take out ARGUS routes. Call at this office, corner of Av fis to e tag will N Y .HAttKY r ’ V, ■: There will be a public installaitldh of oflleern of the Mont Vernon oHer of the Knights of Pythias at that place on January 14. Union H. & L. Co. held its regu lar monthly meeting , last Thursday evening in the Patrol rooms in Mar- tine avenue. The company's rooms in Grand street are being re-mod- eled. December' 23d is the date set for the grand masquerade dance which will be held in Knights of Pythias Hall, Port Chester, under the aus pices of Mayan Mayano Tribe, 4610, Red Men, of that place . Jacob ... 62 New York Post Road W hite P lains N] Y. Choice Bread, Rolls, Cakes, Etc. W edding C akes a S peoiakt .* Telephone 1482-J COWEN & CO., LUMBER : COAL : FEED, and Building Material. TelepHone ISO 132 Railroad Avenue WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. The National Protective Legion will meet in their rooms on South Lexington avenue ” this erveu-r ing, December 21. Members of. tKei Legion are requested to be present as business of importance is to be transacted. Mrs. Ralph Trautmann, head of the \Child Labor ” movement in New York City, will address the meeting of tho Women ’ s Auxiliary of the Y M. C. A. ‘ this afternoon at 3 o ’ clock In the Association building, All women whether members of the Association or not, are Invited to attend. The Only Furrier Iu White Plains Besides remodelling, repairing nnd relinlng all fur garments, we rap your special attention to our new process of re-dying old Seal garments, gives them a rich lustre —and here ’ s the Point NOT INJURING THE PELT. Jt Is not oven necessary ta take the garment apart. Jost CaU 1J23. I will call at your reMdcnce and give yon estimate. French Dry (fti-aifing, Presting and Dyeing of Every Description Z. llOSNER 107 Railroad Avenue --------- White Plains, N. Y. I VI SON, OPTICIAN 111 Itailroad Avenue. UPSTAIRS. Opera GlaRKos, Reading Glauses, Au tomobile Glasses. Fifty Engraved Cards and Plate, 85c. Special For The Holiduyu. Low Rent, Small Expense, Prices _ .. ...... Right. 1VISON, OPTICIAN. ™ An Auto Will Be Given AWAY at There will be n public meeting of the inhabitants of tlie Village of White Hains at the Supreme Court room, Court ; > f4ous&t White Plains N. Y., on READER, if you have anything to sell or to rent, or. if you have lost anything, wont anything, etc., try the White Plains DAILY ARGUS “ want\ column.. .You will get results. Telephone 647-J GREGORY ’ S Monday, December 21 ROCCO BRIANTE, MASON and GENERAL CONTRACTOR
