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CHILD WELFARE «organizations of Nassau county are to hold a Child's Welfare Conference at the Mincoia court house on Wednes- «y, June 30, to which the general pub- tie is invited, especially church, school, dal and other community workers, tor the purpose of combining-and cen- trailzing the efforts of my: many as sociations, with a view correcting and preventing» Juvenile _ delinquency. Hiru R. mith, presiding | chair- wan of the committee in-charge of the armngements, and the committee has planned for a fine array of speakers. Although the time is short to bring the public attention to this convention the committoo Is making every . effort to reach all who are doing general wel- fare work throughout. the county, and it is hoped to have & large attendance. A large General Welfare committee will be formed. as result of the coming convention on 80th. Purpose of Organization This committee is to be formed for the purpose of bringing together rep- resentatives of organizations having the care of, and infereat in, the chil- dren of Nassau county. 'The commit- tie shall work toward the reduction using and F fort to that end.« 'The increasing of the proper attractive occupations of childhood, and the growth of the char- acter of future citizens shall be the special concern of the committee. Specifically, . the . committee .. will work toward the adoption, in as many communities of the county . as possl- Ue, of « programme of child activities and child welfare that will change law- activities of: Juveniles into lwabiding activities; 111 change low standards of conduct; and that will, is that end», introduce and Increase ed- wational, recreational and vocational activities. The committee shall be con- «red to prevent the duplication of ef- lat by organizations and individuals and to give to each organization that sihcerely strives. to promote the child woltare the largest to be 4 service to the community. In such a' programme, te will recognize the ® proper: authority. The central welfage commifies icornize that the childhood period of Ife is naturally the portod of le. That this period should: be. so shaped as to produce the highést and Most desirable; forbs. Of . youth. ° And that, tnmrmh all agencies - should kin in cooperative efforts to both en- making more enjoyable t of fine American charac ALASKA AIR FuGHT |_ _ - __ STARTS AT MINEOLA Four Airplanes Will Leave Mitchel & /> Field On duly 10 An important epoch in nerial trans- portation for commercial purposes is planned for July 10, on which date four DeHaviland 4B planes will start from Figld for Nomo, Alaska. air squadron will be in command of Captain St. Clair, and the pllots of the other three ships will be Lieutenant Enrick H. Nelson, Lieutenant Clarence Krummel and Lieutenant R. C. Kirk» patrick. Accompanying Lieutenant Nel: som will M lHoutenant Clifford C. Nutt. The distance of 4871 miles is said to be twice the distance covered in the transoontinnental race and much more m 'There are over five thous ° miles of unexplored lands In the Alaska territory, over which the \men of the air\ will fly, and the gov- ernment, under whose direction . the Charges For End—hm Rises As Jail Inhabitants Become Fewer It cost Nassau county less to main- tain ite .pounty jail in 1919 than in the previous year, nccording to the fig- ures in a report submitted by County Comptroller Earl J. Bennett to the Board of Supervisors. 'The total costa in 1919 were $32,860.44, and in 1918 they were $34,611.62. This reduction corresponds with a reduction in the avergie daily number of prisoners from 69 In 1918 to 57 in 1919, Some other interesting facts are al- wo brought out 'by a comparison of the statistics for the two years. For -| example, the average daily cost of It is expected the round trip will oc- ©upy $6 days, the planes to make their Kalifiw at Mitchel Field. 'There is an extended itinerary for the trip, and among the stops to be made are Akron, O.; Erle, Pa, and Fairbanks, Alaska, The'pUet will steer their machines by mama compass. No passengers will be tiken on either of the ships, each pilot sailing'alone, except where Lieu tenants Nelson and Nutt are paired. Tt will be & teat of endurance of both men and Mimchines, and no effort will be , immediate attention. It is ekpected to stop eight or ten days at Nome, when new engines will be installed in the ships and other re- pairs made as will be necessary. Tt \Hie: (rip proves a success, it is ex- pected, that It/will eventuaily open up a route for commercial travel when. the Alasléh éotmtry 'is frozen and water and rail traffic is suspended by the wint- er storms. & c FINDS $900 IN GOLD HIDDEN IN RAFTERS When' Charles &mith, of Scranton avente, Rast Rockaway, climbed up on the roof of the house in ave. nue, whats be formerly lived, to re- pair the roof, he found that he had a $900 gold mine hidden in the raft- ers under the shingles. 'While Smith ripping off the shingles near the chimhe® e discovered a box, which naturally being in a peculiar place, at- tracted hia attention. On opening he found, that it contained $900 in gold y | Sail. inmates- maintaining a prisoner, Including. the cost of salaries of jail employes was $1.37 in 1918 and $1.58 in 1919, or an Increase of $.21 in the average cost of maintaining a prisoner. If the salar- les of jail employes are not vgured In, the average cost of maintaining a pris- oner, per day, was $.85 in 1918 and $77 in 1919, or a decrease of $.08. There was a decrease therefore in the actual cost of maintaining prisoners, against the maintenance, there is an increase in the average daily cost. At this gun rate of ent year, when the average daily num- ber of prizoners is. only. about 15, the Increase in the cost per prisoner per day, Including salaries of employes, In likely to make a startling contrast with the figures of the two previous years. There have been times recent- ly when the number of inhabitants of the jail have been about equally di- vided between prisoners and jail em- ployes. ~ Summary The summary for the two years, 1918 and 1919 shows the following. in- teresting comparisons: 1918 i919 Daily average number of pris- employes ...... lll .....> $94.55 Daily average cost of prison- era not including salaries of employes ...... 58.98 an. Daily average cost per pris- onef, including salaries of employes 137 Daily average cost 'per pris- oner, not including salaries of employes 85 1.58 The figures on which these statis- tis were based by the county comp- troller are the following yearly state- ments: * 1919 Costs Salaries, wages and fees- Administration Jail building supplies- Janitor's supplies ...... ... Engine room supplies .... Miscellaneous, 1.58 $3,520.00 9.08 ater 170.41 467.42 It” 164.45 Jall building expenses- Repaire to buildings ..... Salaries, wages and fees. Purchase of equipment... Jall inmates, materiais and 208.50 11,999.38 220.00 1,447.88 M tir fh fry M now appearing in a musical comedy in Manhattan, recording to the papers fled in the. Nassau county gerk's office at [Mineoia, has a drama at home that outshines, for domestic felicity, | any- thing that the 19-year-old wite has over taken a part in. Mro. Nell is suing her husband, John W, Nell, ah oll sales man, tor separation and the custody of |; their young child, and she recites a long story of alleged 1} treatment that start- ed shortly after their mariage on Feb- ruary 18, 1918, Mrs. Nell, whose maiden name* in Riano, is now living with her mother, Mrs. Irene Rano, in Grove street, Free- port, and in order to bring the separa tion action, Mrs. Riano was appointed by the court on Jume 8 as her guardian, Mrs. Nell is an infant in the sight of the law. - Within a month after their marriage Mrs. Nell charges that her husband re- fused to provide a proper home for her and says he forced her to live with her mother. ins. _ 'her without money in Buffalo, after she borrowed the money to rhoet him there, and he went. to Philadelphia. - Anally was compelled to pay the Buffalo hotel bill. Following her husband to Wilmington, and from there to Williamsport, Pa., he fnally gave her $50. On- July 8, 1918, there daughter, Jane, was born at the Hehnemann Hospital in Philadepiphin, and at that time she was without funds. The hospital bill has not been paid, she charges. Although she was ill and weak following the birth of her child, she says her husband forced her to take boarders in Freeport with her mother to earn a living. . , Between November 1, 1919, and Janu- ary 1, 1920, whe says Neil contributed $20 weekly toward the support of her- self and child, and that he then declar ed she must go to work. Mrs. Neil says she has supported her husband since that time, up to last Decoration Day, out of her earnings, with the e ception that he has paid the rent. She charges him with assaulting her and her mother during a three-day period in New York city. George Levy is her lawyer, Nell, who is nbout 38 years of age, Is now living in New York city, and has charged his wife with kidnmpping their daughter. F t RC a it it] (t f [ l s; #52 if As & P\. ’u1 On May 28, 1918, Mr». Noll] but when the salaries aro charged | CHAFES her husband loft Following the usual custom, Super- visor Painter some time mgo engaged Leslie E. Bushnell, of Oyster Bay»vil- lage, to act as engineer in charge of the reconstruction of thesé two high- ways in his town, and on Monday {p- troduced the usual formal resolution approving his course, which failed to pans. The improvement of the Hicksville: Massapequa . county . road . will - cost arbund $20,000 or $25,000. For sever al years past the county has been paying (Wunn tor supervising the recon on and repair of coun- ty roads raight fee of 5 percent. This Tee is the minimum fee adopt- ed by the association of civil engineers of the county, Tt is suid that Leslie D. Tea county _ engineers' . organization, therefore does not conmider . himself bound by any set of prescribed fees for engineering services. Superintendent Starks is a member of the county engineers . association, and will probably recommend to the supervisors at thbir session next week that where an engineer cuts the scale price they may accept his services at that price. . The supervisors approved . the ap- pointment of John D. Cosgrove as en- gineer in charge of the improvement of the Creek road at Sea Cliff, and the appointment of Raymond Martin, of Lawrence, as engineer to supervise the improvement of Atlantic avenue . at Lonbrook. & at On ~rhotlon -of - Supervisor ~Doughty; Comptroller Bennett was instructed to submit to the supervisors at each of their meetings a statement showing the unexpended balance in the county highway funds, both the regular ap- propriation and the latest bond issue mccount, 'The supervisors are pushing the work of 'Improving the conds under the two approprin and do not want to contract over the amounts set apart for their respective towns. Sherif! Bmith reported that he had 15 prisonats in the jail on June 20, of whom 14 were males and # femaléa, Last year there were S1.in the jail at this time, Mra. Clarke, 'of Oyster Bay, will also sbeak, . June 30, at Firemen's Hall | Hickaville, Mims Jones will be accom: panied by Mrs. D. M. N. Belcher, of On July 1, the Parish Hall in Brookville, Mra. C. T, Powell, of Glen Head, will be on the programme with Miss Jones. On July 2, at the school building in West Hempstead, Mrs, J, E. Humazon and Misa Jones will be the speakers. The public Is Invited to attend all ot Pha- meetings, at which speakers will wlain the object and purpose of the county bureau. 'These additional speak- erw are members of the executive com- mittee, and this is an excellent oppor- tunity of getting better requainted with the women who direct the affairs of the home bureau in Nassau county, On July 4, instead of the regular home reau day being held in the Court “shall-mam.”- mflld~m~ifl-'w road improvement, floated by the coun mtvahtfi-W‘ the towns of Mempstead, North Hume-ammhwtmmy House in Mincoia, the annual field trip in last for\ furm and home bureay to the men, and exhibits and demonatra- tions and other conveniences in which the women ae interested. Last week Surrogate Leone D. Howell spoke before the Lynbrook Home Bu- reau Club on \How to Make a Will. The party given by the Home Bureau Club at the West Hampstead school last week was m big succems, The young girl' cooking olin nt Min- coln, in charge of Mias Watkins, held a jolly picnic at - It wan the last meeting until the fall. Thursday evening of the week, June 24, Mier Watkins gave an \old clothes M\thelubrnmpdflllw stead. Y. W. C. A. that both. torosting and of advantage to those who were priylloged to hage it. ~ Mian 'Wat- kins recently gave a fine addreas dn \More Convenient horlzing the neue wpecifed. 'The comptroller said that thé money must be spent on the roads so mentioned and- that the material im- provement called for in the county on- gincer'n 'report -for - these highways should be followed in letting the' con- tracts, Fil ¢ i $1.1; H [3h ' (€..
