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FLOOD ROADS Unusual Conditions Caused By Failure of Brooklyn Water- Works System To Take Care Of Drainage Of This Section- Merrick Road Transformed In- to Roaring Torrent Trafic on the Long Island Railroad was badly crippled, trolley service on the Long Island Traction line practi- cally paralyzed, telephone | and | tele- graph service handicapped, and hun- dreds of cellars flooded by the terrific storm that started last Friday evening and turned into a mixture of rain, snow and sleet. With the thermometer regis- tering in many places just a little above the zero mark, and a high wind that at times reached the proportions of a gale, conditions for a time were as bad, if not worse than at any time during the present winter, The exclusive pictures in this issue give a vivid idea of the effects of the storm. They were taken by a staff photographer of Observer-Post. 'They toll their —hrq how the elements their best to cripple the railroad transportation service. Fortunately, these washouts occurred near midnight, when but com: paratively few trains are running, and the bent tracks and washed-out founda- tions were discovered in time to prevent what could have easily beén a cates troph. - Ofciais of the Long Island: Railroad, when questioned by a representative of the Observer-Post, said they could not give any definite estimate of the dam- age, but that it was well up in the thousands, They wald there were a *| was at the crossing.. from about 8 o'clook Friday morning, a miniaturs roaring river rushed across By i til NEW BALDWIN MINISTER Rev. Carl Zinssmeliter, D. D., In Charge of St. Peters Luth, Church Rev. Car Zinsmeister, D. D., mis- stonary superintendent of the Synod of New York and New England, has mssumed charge of St. Peter's church and conducts | divine worship every Sunday evening at 8 o'clock, and Len- ten services every Thursday evening at the same hour during Lent. The class of catechumens meets each Thurs- day evening at 7 o'clock for religious instruction and preparation for con- rmation. Mr. Adoiph Greiner has charge of the Sunday school which meats 'at 2.30 o'clock and the junior cholr meets immediately thereafter for rehearsal, . A hearty welcome awaits all who visit Bt. Peter's. In case the services of Dr. Zinssmelster are re- quired, call at No. 6 N. Grand ave- nue, Adoiph Greiner, for further in formation. -4-___ $5,000 VERDICT TO WANTAGH WOMAN Suit Against Railroad Grew Out Of Accident At Crossing In Garden City Mineola, (special-A fury in the Bu- preme Court at Mineola on Tuesday, before Supreme Court Justice Town- send Scudder, awarded $5,000 to Ge» cllia Edna Willams, wife of Harold Williams of Wantagh, in an action which Mre. Williams brought against Walker D. Hines, former Federal Di- rection of Rallroads, for damages to compensate her for injuries she re- ceived on the night of April 1, last, when an automobile driven by her hus: band and in which they were riding southward on Franklin atreet, struck an electric train at a Long Island crossing just north of the publishing house of Doubleday, Page & Co. at Garden City. h Evidence was to the effect that the gates at the crossing had been taken down for repairs and that no fagman The defendant attempted to show that two fagmen were at the crossing on tib night of the accident, but the testimony of wit- messes who sought to establish this claim was conmiderably weakened on cross-examination. A motion made by Rowland H. Milos, counse! for the defendant, to dismiss the verdict, was denied by the court. George M. Levy, of Freeport, repre: sonted the plaintiff, who is a daughter- Inlaw of Silas A. Wiliams, a Free- port village trustee. --- DRAWS PLANS FOR OCEAN SIDE PARK Are Presented To Town Board- Increase: In Dredging Fands Is Requested Hempstead, (specia)-Birdsall Jack: won, civil engineer in charge 'of Town Study Class. Waterway dredging, appeared before erty for the park was recently deeded to the Town by the Wright estate, and conmista of slightly over two ncres. It nded on the north by Bedell Creek andthe Town has discussed the to build a public dock on' the t.. 'The work or dredging in sections, has begun and continued this spring. £4.“ R. Ankers of Rockville $20,000, to meet the high cost of dredging work and equipment. Mem- bers of the board believed that m in: Grease in the fund.of $5,000 will take care of present needa and Supervisor @mith was authorized to requert Sen- ator Thompson and Assemblyman Mo Whinney .to institute legislation, at Aibany, tovamend the existing law o that the Town Dredging Fund may be Increased from $10,000 to $16,000. The matter of town parks was dis- cussed, . informally, . and . Supervisor Smith stated that he had received a letter from one Thomas G. Knight of Thommaville, Florida, in which Knight offered to sell lind at Ocean Side for . Bupervisor Smith told Knight that the town would probably 'be it OBSERVER-POST BUILDING NEARING COMPLETION; WILL ALSO HOUSE POST OFFICE AFTER MAY 1 Above is a picture of the Observer Building, now in course of construction on the south side of Observer street, between Village and Park avenues. In this building the post office will be lo- cated after May 1. 'The building has a frontage of75 feet and extends 100 feet deep, 'The post office will occupy the western half of the lower floor, FORTNICHTLY CLUB VARIED ACTIVITIES Study Class Takes Up Shaw- Second Performance of Dra- matic Program Scheduled An interesting program is scheduled for the Fortnightly Club of Rockville Centre, at a program meeting, on March 30. A dramatic recital of \Madame Butterfly\ will be given by Mildred Holland, amsisted by Mrs. W. E. Stokes, who will sing the opera. Mrs. A. R. O. Shabbehar will pre- side at the piano. The rogular members' meeting of the Fortnightly Club will be held Tues day, March 16 at Parish Hall, at the usum! hour. Mrs. Ralph Marle, chair- man of Literature will give the fol- lowing program: \Americanization by Mra. G, C. Pottit; \Lowell-American Post\ Mra. 8. T. Johnson; \Lowell- American Post,\ Mrs. E. J. Bennett; solo, Mrs. Andrew Edwards; solo, W. 8. Covert. Bernard Shaw .is proving to great favorite with the members One of ings of the season tist with an unusuml endowment of wit. Each play proved to bem good story, told with ability and inherent human interest. After the reading of the play the hostess, mmsisted by Mra. Henry DeMott, served delicious re- freshments. The neft meeting of the study class will be held atthe home of Mrs. Harry Loskamp, Maple ave: ue, and it in to be hoped there will m large attendance sothat all may become familiar with the different types of modern drama. Despite the bitter cold night, m on' pacity house greetedthe successfu} performance of the three one net play given by the Fortnightly Playert at Parish Hall inst week. 'The big de- mand, by thore who could not get sonts nt this performance, for & repe- tition of these playn will be met by another public performance at Parish Hail, the evening of March 19th, when the same three one repeated: \'The Flor mnd. the Post\ Bottle.\ pecial scenery bs been built for there plays, and under the direction of Mra. Barsh Crosett Pallime, the ar. tistlc avorkofthe In and female parte are s}: dotifn Hs d] U I and the eastern half of this floorwill be usedby the Observer-Post as its publication office, inconnection with the other portions of the building which the paper will occupy. 'The upper floor Is given over to offices, all of which have already been leased. 'The build Ing, as will be seen from the iMlustra- tion, is designed in colonial style ar- chitecture, and will beone of the most REGISTRATION IN FREEPORT VERY HEAVY Polling Places Report That 3,686 Voters Had Names Placed On Book-More Than Fifty Per Cent Increase Over Last Year's Figures-Large Number of Wo- men Interested InElection The total registration at Freeport Saturday, was 1,686. registered last year was approximate: ty 2,200. Although it has not been given out a certain candidate, remarks about this certain candidate, and that these remarks were far from being of a complimentary nature. MISS FARRINGTON FETED The home of Me. and Mrs. Chester P, Farrington of Rockaway avenue, was the scene of a merry gathering on lant Thursday evening, when twen- ty-four classmates to celebrate the Afteenth Ham their daugh-» tor Jomale. A most enjoymble evening was spent playing great deal of delay in erecting the building, purely because of the weath- er, but now thatbetter weather is at hand, the builders will make up for lost time, and will have the structure ready for occupancy May 1. FREEPORT NEEDS _- NEW HIGH SCHOOL Principal Jennings Points Out That Present Building Is Inadequate H. M, Jennings, principal oftheFree- porthigh school, while conversing with reprementative of the Observer-Post, spoke of Freeport's need of a new high school building. 'The building we have is not ade- quate for present purposes, to say noth- Ing about near-future needs,\ said Mr, Jonnings. \We have no real auditorl- um and no gymnasium; theso rre fea» tures very much needed in modern, high school activities. i \Our laboratory is far too small, and we need additional space. for other phases of the school work. We are mak- Ingthe bestof matters, but that does not alter the fact that we need a new butlding. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR FIVE CENTS rar. copy FREEPORT Pouitics _ SEETHING _ Noters Condemn Action Of Vil- MEN'S LEAGUE ELECTS R. C. Daisley Heads Rockville Centre Baptist Organization Rev. Antonio Mangano, D. D., was w speaker and guest of honor of the Men's League of the Baptist Church at the annual meeting and election of - officers . held at . the' home of _ Harry Dungan . of - Milford place on Inna-r evening. The address was on \Immigration.\ . Dr. Mangano is an muthority on the sub ject as a result of his wide studies and extensive travels, He favors certain re- strictions on immigration. . He urged a. more active and a more sympathetic Interest in the welfare of foreigners ns necessary to achieve the greatest good during this period of reconstruction. The following officers were elected at the business session previous to the ad- dress: President, Ronald C. Daisley; AM h“ ‘w vice-president, William Graham; secre- . By tary, Raymond Phillips; financial sec- -~ retary, Mliton Hicks; treasurer, George| Freebort's village election\ campaign, Williams, through the public utterances of Village LEM as from % siegoutvontest between\ three CAMPAIGN CHARGES parties into a defense of the adminis- tration of Village President Anderson, and a defense of his opporition to the fre department. So apparent has the witumtion become that the substantial body of citizens of 11:me in. make Ing why such frantic efforts mre being made by Village President Anderson to Were FMM T“ clect Trustee Bedell to office am trus- Doughty and McWhinney early part of the campaign over the in- Aaron R. Lent of Lynbrook, who as jection third chairman of the \Committee of 100,\ ink th tee again after being a public office hold- Wilbur \Thomas A. F tered circulars sent to residents of the town of Hempstead \3:1! prior to the 1919 fall election, retracted his charges in a letter sont to Mr. Doughty comary ty defend the' and Mr, McWhinney, and which was made public on Monday, In his 860U-| gorgon, of mations Mr. Lent coupled the names of par,. ' the two officials with gamblers. His letter of retraction follows: Hon. G. Wilbur Doughty, Inwood, L. I., N. Y. putting a second tloket McWhinney during the last political | the purpose of having a mmmuamnmdeu to rum Trustee convinced that such allegations were poring head false and untrue. Wed I therefore, wishing to make amend#,| Clarence A. Edwards in failing do hereby state that I was in error in |auit the wouldbe guardians of t! making all such allegations and Charg®®,[tinies of the village that the mame were false and untru| ang for the failure of and I do hereby apologine to you ANd |r make way for Mr. McWhinney for having made them. | was facing the Very truly youra, \Besides we ought to look ahead. As our registration grows the need of a new building will be acute. Those whom I have talked with bout the matter The proposition to purchase a new school aite in Terrell nvenue for the mum of $12,000 was decided by an al- most unanimous vote of the residents of the Ocean fide school district Inst Thursday evening at a meeting in the school house. One hundred and twenty- four voted in favor of the proposition and meven against it, Byron G. Latimer was chairman of the evening. An address was made by Charles A. MeQuirl, chairman of the Board of Education. A fine spirit pre- vailed during the meeting, even though many who attended were uncomforta- ble from-wet \set on account of the bad walking conditions, \ It in expected t for the male of the bonds will soon be com- ploted. ad The next proposition that will be con: sidered is the erection of: a .m. Girls under 16 at - becoming very popular among the | & duty well done, \I am Ned wich dis nger \op': Y This arc-\lama\ 2.40 | ust,\ anid this cltizen, \over the apscta« i a little bactoward as| O16 0f Village President Anderson, who git:
