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VOL Lill. | No.5 wanaLl'uuum 2799 TWO DWELLING FIRES |\ < 44 HOURS Two dwelling fires in less than twenty-four hours gave the Rockville Centre firemen busy periods last Fri- day and Saturday. Both fires started from defective causes, and with smoke and water, caused damage through- put the dwellings, although both can be repaired for occupancy. 'The first fire about 6.30 Friday evening at Morley Dunn's, 79 Lakeside drive. He discovered the blaze upon returning from business in the city and turned in an alarm, A stiff ”(tin-t wind kept the village alarm whistle from being heard plain- ly, and it was sometime before the remen mud“ way. Several dif- ferent a were blown, confusion resulted, and the firemen went out of their way. - Mrs, Dunn and three young @hildren were at home when the fire broke out.. She smelled smoke as if from burning rags, but continu- ed the preparation of upper for the family until her- husband arrived and informed her of the fire. She and the children went to neighbors'. The fremen found the water Kes- sure low because of a small ma Lakeside drive, and to obtain suffici- ent streams, planted Live Oak Engine at DeMott's pond, connected with the Brooklyn: reservoir supply system. Akhwgh four streams played on -the fire it was fanned by the high and endangered the residence of 8. C. Seaman, only a few feet to the south of the Dunn house.. The firemen suffered from the cold which prevailed, but succeeded 'in. saving the Seaman home, from which some of the contents had been removed, ahd extinguished the flames. after they had burned off the roof of the Dunn house. Neighbors served hot coffee to the firemen, ich. they rank with a _.. home was orie of the most | at nd 'best furnished in- the drive section. The fire start- ed in the cellar, evidently from de- fective electric light wires. In using the Live Oak engine to pump water from the reservoir pond, the manual became imbedded in the and it required several hours of hard work to extricate it. The fire of Saturday, which broke out during noon hour, was in the dwelling at 22 'Lincoin Court, owned b ieb Essig, and occupied by r. and Mrs. Herbert A. Ives. Mrs. Ives and a pet dog were the only persons in the house when the fire started in the cellar from beards of a coal bin taking fire from a fur- nace chimney m near by, it is re- ported. Otto Kleine, who was pass- ing the house, 'saw smoke pouring from it. He rescued Mrs, Ives, who was partly overcome by smoke and excitement, and also her dog. He pro- cured a ladder and placed it against the front porch. Mrs. Ives had tele- phoned Mr. Essig st his place of em- Elm in Rowe's Pharmacy, Lyn- rook and had turned in an alarm before she collapsed. She was carried b} Kleine to a neighbor's. A couple of tin boxes containing valuables were also rescued from the burning house. When Mr. ig, the owner, arrived from Lynbrook, the firemen were on and he had to let his valuables in the dwelling until the fire The bursting two lengths of h Maj-A‘nsz‘mzm v3: to be mumm clams seemed to mind the wetting down by pure cold ht the fire ling on ac- smoke department con- mainly to by!“ hfik low e rat floor, . Most of the was {im- \3\ and um} 3L\ total Ram 01m according esti- ODD MISHAP: TO TRAIN Throttle Leoer Breaks and Stalls Trfilwrflur. cccurred on bound - train, lled. the throt- and No. 6 . 'The pas- opportunity to t “a!“ nearly.. An delay. been under wey when brrdlcs, ‘l Mall ty mol 4 isted.\ *>\ Board Considering their Requests. Hempstead. (special) -The Town Board last Tuesday .went Into execy- tive session to discuss the advisabili- ty of granting salary increases for certain town officials. After the board had discussed the matter the question arose as to the authority of the board to raise salaries at this | time. After referring to the law, it was deemed best to secure leval ad- vice in the matter. Accordingly, it was voted that Supervisor Smith be authorized to secure a legal opinion as to the interpretation of the sec- tion of the law applying to this par- tiewlar ion. The officials who are seeking in- creases are Receiver of Taxes Jos- | cg}. (H. Faster, - Superintendent . of ; ighways A. G. Patterson, and the members of the board of assessors. The assessors want . their snllrieu| boosted to $2500 a year each, it is AND SETON C. BBN Freeport Police Chief and Ac- * countant 'Accused of Draft Board Bribery: - Captain James Hanse, chief of po- lice at Freeport, a former village president, and chairman of the Local raft Board, Division No: 8, with Se- ton C. ms, a certified accountant, also resid in Freeport, and a mem» ber of the 1 advisory staff ow draft board, was arrested Tu x by federal authorities, charged wi accepting a bribe in connection with the military exemption of Josefina Git ter, 21 years old, of 601 ford Suggestions from Residents. The subjcommittee appointed by D. N. Bulson, chairman of the Me- morial Committee of 100, has under consideration the various suggestions which have been made for a proper and suitable war memorial for Rock vi): Cents-a. made mong suggestions and being considered are a hospital, a glock with chimes, a monument, a @ommunity house, a municipal build- ing, a park, a plaza to the south of the L. I. R. R. station, extending to Observer street. The sub-committee will hold a meeting in the basement of the li- brary on Monday, February 3, at 8 p.m., at which time it will be pleased Mineola “Mich—At a meeting of the county supervisors last Friday, W. Fred Starks, as engineer, was directed by Supervisor Hiram R. Smith, chairman, to make the neces- sary surveys, maps, and place stone monuments for the uisition . of property in connection with the wid- ening of Merrick road at Baldwin from Harrison avenue westerly to now in the government service, At $1400 m annulus.” that the resolu- tion shall provide for a salary. of $1200 a r.. An omission (was in the estimate and an erfor tion of December 30 and Jan: , :The clerk of the board was structed to insert advertisements in the official mw-glpen of the county : of Nassau inviting bids to be re- , ceived on Febru 10 at 11 a.m. for the painting.and decorating work in the county tuberculosis hospital build- . ing in accordance with plans and | specifications submitted by Archi- tects Tooker & Marsh of Manhattan, ( stated. The board decided to hold a special | meeting next Tuesday at 1.30 pim. for | the purpose of discussing the propos- i ed new county charter as suggested by the commission on the govern- ment of Nasgau County. | TUMBLE FROM AUTO CAUSES GIRL'S DEATH t re- . Emily Stratford, age 20 years, siding at Rosedale, died early Wed: | nesday morning in St. Joseph's Hos- E pital, Far Rockaway, of a skull frac- ture and other injuries received short- ly before midnight Tuesday, when she umped from. the automobile _ of | (£00130 E. Roffey, a paint and var- | nish salesman living at Bellmore, -as he .was driving along Merrick road, Lynbrook, near the Five Corners. Reffey, who is 41 rs of age and married, was arrested and released in Wail of $10,000 for examination to- day (Fl-idol) Justice E. T. Neu Lynbrook. e is cl with manslaughter in the second degree: Miss Stratford with Viola Fatscher of Valley Stream, had visited Lyn- brook during the evening, and accord- {dng to the latter met Roffey by chance in a road house. After some liquid refreshments had been partaken of he offered to take the girls home in his automobile. . It is claimed the ; car started eastward instead of west, | and the girls protested. Miss Fatach- i er says she alighted when the car was turning around and called for Miss |Stratford to follow. The latter was seen, it is averred, on the running board, screaming for help, and sopn | afterward to jump or fall. Roffey stopped his car, and the Injured girl was taken to the hos lpihl in it by others. . Roffey was held (Friday) by | : Justice Neu for the Grand Jury in bail of $5,000, which was furnished, #o receive oral suggestions {mm any Bens was arrested at his offices in | person as to a proper memorial, or as the Woolworth Building, Manhattan.} to the proper site for any memorial, The accused men were arraigned , Or as to the best method of financing before United States Commissioner | the memorial. { McGoldrick in Brooklyn, and through counsel pleaded not guilty. Captain Hanse was held in $7,000 bail ndl Bins in $15,000 bail for examination avenue, Brooklyn. to receive in writing on or before that date any of such suggestions. They tay be addressed to D. N. Bulson, The sub-committee will also be M ' a' point 1m feet w“? of 3h} [latt‘ . property; intersection o ulton street and Franklin street at Hemp- | 125 TRAPPED IN RAID stead, and the intersection of Mer- | tick road with Christian Hood road.) met rs Engineer Starks was ‘Pwinffd on. | Seven Belmont Park Prisoners Held gineer in connection with the im-; h provement of Whaleneck avenue from | on uni-Uh] CW the Old Country road southerly to next Wednesday. William G. Miller, Roswell Davis, William 8. Halt and Mary fro a Qacthnrd were the bondsmen ;...s0. Gitter family was arrested, charged with conspiracy. Former Assistant United States Attorney Thomas J. Cuff, appearing as counsel to the men, made a state- ment relative to the arrest. He said: \The arrest of these two reputable and highly respected citizens of Free- port is the result of a conspiracy by some miserable slackers. It is an at- | tempt to place on the shoulders of these two men the guilt of men who were and? to don legu- My emu are innocent 34 \ be proved so on trial.\ Lawyer Cuff asked that Henry P. Keith, former internal revenue. col- lector, be noted as attorney of record for the accused men. The arrest of Hanse and Bens cul- minated, according to reports, from an. irivest into the Gitter case. It is chi that he registered from the Bens home, 25 We ilton atreet, , mfter stopping. there one steps 'were taken, with the connivance of Captain Hanse, by which Gitter tans was placed in class- II of the draft /elaims, after some words. on the ground of dependency of par- ents and sister. (Bens, it is alleged, received $1200, of which ~Captain Hense is said to have received as his share $800. Friends of Captain Hanse are cred- ited with asserting that the only money received by him from Bens was a sum of $300 due him since 1915, when he acted as agent in the sale to Bens of a house at Fxeeport. The government charges that this $300 was Captain Hanse's share of the bribe money. > Captain Hanse is 65 years of age and Bens is 42. Both men bear ex- cellent reputations, and their arrest , caused a great shock to a large circle of friends. Kept Mineola (med-IF the work done by County Food Ad- | ministrator Arthur D. Weeks, Jr,, and his assistants during. the. past year in conserving food supplies in | the country and.in carrying out gov- | ernment regulations affecting the dis- tribution of food commodities shows that a strict supervision was kept over the use of food and that the ad- ministrator and his assistants were kept busy. There were. twenty-three: district administrators | and - nine' ' volunteer helpers. - All shembers of the organi- zation served as vollnteers except the stenographers and {nvestigntors. The organization co-operated at all times with the various activities in the country. Through the efforts of its Jericho representative, a large fem. was secured near Hicksville and modeled into an up-to-date pig- gery and housed about 800 pigs. Ar- ta were made with the goy- ernment authorities at Camp Mills to bakers feed the pigs with refure from the camp. -This proved so succéssful that ment the farm, \Higa Cien ie lmnfimfla mi- wore turned in bi checked 'at the administrator. and of thanks-ll. food , Of these certificates the food administrator's office at Min.« acla replaced an amount representing Liquor Reward Withdrawn. -/ The Nassau Courity Liquor Dealers' , ’ Association has withdrawn its offer of' | §25 reward for the arrest «hd sonvic tion of persons selling Nihor to aol- diprs In Nassau County. During the pust aix months $360 has my“ | to members of the military snd | others for evidence .4f violation ot the fadera) order. \ , Food Administration in Nassau laced bathe office of the New York ederal board in Manhattan. Concerning complaints, investiga- tions and promnzpbm, the report reads : \The majority of reported viola- tions that came to this office were dealt with at informal hllflnfl, and when it appeared that the violation was due to-'ignorance Or mistake, which was usually the case, the mat- tor was dilmlugj with a reprimand. .No record was kept of these hear- ing.. Several hundred complaints were received and investigated.\ The report shows that $210 was imposed and collected as fines in three cases where foodstuffs had been se- gured without certificates or where flour 'had 'been sold without substi- tutes. . The money was turned over to the Red Cross. In several other cases where there was found an excess sup- ply of commodities the material was turned over to those in need, Repri- mands were administered in thirteen |. cases and warn by dismissals \in en enses, - The majority of offenses which necessi- tated this action were committed by The report shows that t was Tham in the coontyo Inoated nt o; rent chens in loca a reat Neck, , M Higkaville, Wood- given, followed rts of Ta8S quarts fruits, 1585 quarts Jams fud jellies, 1088 pounds of dried fruit and 4255. pounds of dried vege- Another Manufactory tor Preeport. Herbert Karr has leased Brooklyn Hall, Brooklyn ash loo-r Grove street, Prosport, ip. Leberman & Company, Inc., who w’fll gake oc- film”. 1 to engage with lead , £9 do“. chairman of the committee. WIFE CHARGED WITH | THREAT TO SHOOT Elva 'Wallace of Freeport, wife of “Donald Wallace, was committed to | the Nassau Countg Jail on Tuesday by Police Justice Flint in default of $500 bail, which she procured later, (to await Grand Jury action on a [charge of. having. a. revolver 'in her flange-union and for threatening to | shoot her husband at his abode, 65 ' Churth street, Freeport. The couple, it appears from re- ports, have not been living together for a short time, They are about 20 years of T and have a youn$ child. It is alleged that Mrs. allace went to her husband's home Tuesday, Jraving a revolver in her possession iwith three loaded cBambers. | Her sband alleges that 'she displayed weapon and. remarked that she d not <are if she shot him, She laid the on & table, and Wal- lace: seized at. She struck him, he As he tried 'to remove the cylinder of the I‘ “Quirk reported to have seized a _ Wallace dashed upstairs, . locked himself in the bathroom and his wife | followed, Wicking on the door. He opened it and handed her the revol- Iver from which he had removed the cartridges. The disturbance attracted neigh- bors, who notified police headquarters, a short distance from the Wallace home, and the woman was arrested by. Police Captain James Hanse. LBRLLMORE NAT. BANK HAS NEW PRESIDENT John J. Bedell, a leading citizen of Officials Busy in 1918 | ®memcente cti t the First [lg-bland Bank located in that village last week. John F. Lou- A summary of 110,000 pounds. The balance was r¢- | dan was elected vice-president, Peter | F. . Avagadro, vice-president, Charles M. Vanderoef, cashier. The directors of the bank were in- eremsed from seven to nine, an dthe followin; Jere? elected : fast: F. Av:- t m . Louden, m (Pax: William Garner, Wilkiem Wolfe, Clark .B. Davis, John J. Bedell, J |3flylor ¥ilison and Charles M. Va and ital. First National Bank of Bell- { more was organized about two years with a capital of $25,000 and a surplus of $6,250. In the two years its of the bank have i from $50,747) to $140,056, (remarkable growth. There are at rut 2818 filming kgamma, 279 ime deposits, lepositors are mem- s of the Christmas Club, tely 800 of the residents of limore and the vicinity sub- mod for the lust issue of liberty through this institation. 'The citizens of Bellmore look with He went to the Knapp Memorial Kye Hospital, Manhattan, where an sot-M was performed for removal the injured optic. ' Mr. Meyer is 14. yours of , but is recovering d: from operation and . is mu! to legve the hompital today y). Front street, Hempstead, which is in Supervisor Smith's district; also in connection with the improvement of Main street from the Roslyn clock tower, southerly to the foot .of the station hill; the I. U. Willets road from Roslyn-Mineola road westerly to state road ddle Neck road from Main street, Port Washington, north- erly to the steamboat dock at Sands Point in North Hempstead township. The compensation of the engineer is to be 5 per cent of the total cost of lmgrovement. he chairman.of the board was au- thorile? to consult with William H. Hoyt of the firm of Reed, McCook & resolution of December 30, 1918, fix- ing the salary of John J. McCaffrey, one of the jailers in the county jail, Teleph te racing charts, poker chips and other gambling psrapher- nalia were seized at Wright's Hotel, near Belmont Park, in & raid Asst Saturday by District Attorney Weeks aided by detectives and fifteen mem- bers of the military police 52m Camp Mills. The raiding party ve up in an army truck, although signal lights were flashed by the doorkeeper, they forced their way in with drawn revolvers. Inside 120 men were lined up and their fames taken, after which most of them were released. « Eleven prisoners, who described themselves as John. Wills, the propri- e:or; John Raymond, Abraham Juc- John De Elf. Walter Bi and Harry Ohmeir, were arra before Justice Neu at Lynbrook on a charge of bookmaking. They pleaded not guilty and were held in $1,000 bail ' each for the Grand Jury. VETERANS POST TO MEET All Overseas Men: Invited 16. Join er The newly-organized post of Veter ans of Foreign Wars, to be known | as Major General J. Franklin Bell Post No. 103, will hold a meeting on Tuesday eveninf, February 4, at 8 o'clock. This will be the first meeting in the Alert Hose Company house, which has been so generously tender ed by that company for the use of the post. plication for a charter has al- ready been made a national head- quarters. Charter membership may still be obtained by applying at once All men who have seen service over- seas are invited to this meeting and to join the post. Full information may be obtained from E. S. Voorhis. of Rockville Centre, post junior vice- commander of the National Encamp- ment. Officers for the new post will be elected at the meeting of February 4. Final arrangements will be made for the public institution of the post and the installation of officers to 0¢- cur later in February, announcement of which will be made next week. BOY STRANGEL'Y MISSING Edward Matison Baldwin Starts for School and Mural; Edward Matison, age 13 years, of Central avenue,. Baldwin has been missing from his home since Monday morning. 'The boy started for school at the usual hour, with a dollar given him to purchase a new belt. His ab- sence from school was not considered unusual until Tuesday morning, when his father to Principal Shubert that his son had been away from home all Monday night. The frlnclpul reported the matter to the Freeport police. When left home Matison wore brown shoes, a blue comt and a cap. His deportment at school been good, and the cause appearance is mystifying. | noone ofp n WANTS RECEIPT BOOK Observer-Post Story. of Antiquity +P, PJ tan Ob- server -Post of North tre svenue, Centre, at ths home of David had yielded imam“ 7:1; book, has brought tim g if he cares to dispose Publication exclusively story The, letter came: from G. Stanton loydJones, 'of 118 East Seventy» fow a fmrth street, Manhattan, who ex- plains that he is m skim! grand. son of Hendrick On , apprrent» ly the original owner of the old book, as the rece! in it are given n - (in ~ considering he will part with the can- which he las possessed for has al of his dos- | $, him.. ’ TO RE-NAME ANDERSON Freeport Satished With Président *~ und Retiring Colleagues. | Exarlyfllfimuh pertain to the coming e campi in Free are to the effect muffin-Mont m ert G. Anderson and the two trustees, Henry L. Maxson and Silas A. Wil- liams, whose terms expire with that of the president, will be re-nominated. The administration of President Anderson and his colleagues of the village board, has been such during the past r that no criticism has been heard, and the village residents are said to be satisfied. S. Dimon Smith, village treasurer, also expected to be re-nominated and elected, and unless something unex- pected develops, the election in March will be exceptionally quiet. . Sonim mroe ifs Home Talent Perform Creditably in Musical Extravaganza gt Club. pigan 5 The production by home talent iin- der the direction of Jay Wellington of the musical extravaganza, \ York Roof Garden by mm,\ at the Rockville Centre Club last Friday and Sumtrd-y mug and repeated L re- quest on / ay evening, proved phiulmbtl‘c “fan-Milo? no“, * ncroachment u pace news from an «hush-Dr“. luau the the Obeer- setting forth of details variant. stuge setting with white chrys- anthemoms and autumn leaves, a: ored electric ts and other prop- erties was highly attractive. The cos- tumes of the performers in the dif- larly in the title and feature act, the | garden and in the specialty num- Catchy and sentimental songs, choruses, clever dancing. and ing, patriotic scemes 'and artistic tableaux ve to the tion all the vari- that could be desired. he formers deserve credit for their efforts to make good, which they did, after limited reheasing, and their aid to the club treasury. * TER Fire--Branded as Undersized. Following the fire at the Duna dwelling. in Lakeside drive, Rockville Centre, alst Friday evening, the fire department made a test of the water yaw-nu and ' found that from' the ydrant the tent showed 30 nds. . 'This was so low that the rant would throw water but .m Toet. The “1le roain in Lakeside dite is too «mal the Observer-Post. han bean : told. There are many fine Bouses in the drive ”dim and thr fin truant, it in axpec will bring tha sent In prossure sltustion 49 She attention of the villegn trustess at their nact |. imanatt Iva and D. Frank Seaman, collector, ate: ROOF GARDEN A SUCCESS - ferent casts were excellent, particu- ' m in the amount fixed b aura R 17mm». -
