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LAKE PLACID NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1S2S — PAGE THREE SARANAC LAKE WIDOWS WIN BIG DAMAGE SUIT Court ©f Claim* Awards Mrs. Ida M LeBeaa and Mrs. ABB Strotfk, $15,000 Each. Mr.. Kla M. I^IJt-w u: M- UFifu.: un I Kdv.:-. Sin-ugh. \w »e r e k.lV i <n Apr.i N l\'2'J.> wu r. Struuirh'-* car wrnt over an .-m- l»ankm'.Tt <.n the Saranac-IJloam- ingdaU- highway, have bec-n award- td Jlo.OwO each by the Court of Claims, according to a decision re- cently fivers by Justice Jamt^ Parsons. The widow* and their five fath- erless children were represented by Attorney James J. Barry of Sehenectady. It was necessary to obtain legislation in order to give the Court of C'aims jurisdiction in the matter, as the highway laws then provided that the State would not be liable for accidents occur- ring between November 1 and May 1 of the following year. The En- abling Acts were introduced in the Assembly by Assemblyman Fred L. Porter of Essex county and by Senator William T. Byrne in the Senate. The bills were signed by Governor Smith in May, 1923. Judge Charles M. Morcshauser of ^he Court of Claims began to take testimony at the Town Hall in Sar- anac Lake in July of the same year but as many of the witness- es were absent at the time the testimony was not completed, following his resignation the fol- lowing winter, Judge James Par- sons was assigned to the case. He took additional testimony in Au- gost, 1924, and has just handed down his decision. It is not known whether the State will appeal the case. Dep- uty Attorney General Albert C. Campbell of Canastota represent- ed the State, and James J. Barry of Sehenectady the claimants. URGES IMPROVEMENT IN HIS_ALMA MATER Roper Hamilton of this Village. i president of tne a.umru asstx-ia [ tion «.f tht* Warrensburg high [ jschuol. has a long letter published in a recent 'ssue -\if the Warren* - j : ..rg N» v*s in which he urges sev- i trul .mpn»\ements in the War- rt-:> r ur>r hign »ch<K»!. He point- i L.: :<> the <i .rw\i a^ociat: r im jr M-rnvnt.- which he feel* v»uld «.ru-tH the - 'loul schuU-: i-ally, .- « : ca!.\. . i >. tiallv $15,000 Fire Near Ptattsborg Barracks Fire, which did damage totalling nearly $15,000, broke out Christ- mas night in the frame block op- posite the administration building at Plattsburg barracks. This was tihe second time within two years that fire gutted this structure. The blaze was started when a dish of french fried potatoes was •dropped on the floor in the Nicko- ,la» Puloe restaurant. The hot grease burst into flames \•which quickly ignited the board flooring. The alarm was turned in and the Plattsburg fire department responded promptly and fought Tor two hours before getting the better of them. It is said that Mr. : **t the buying. FIRE LOSS IS CUT JN STATE inieesive Protection Systems Found in Adirondack* aad CalskiUs | The Adirondack and CatskUl j fire towns contain the state's 1 largest forests and in these the | Conservation Commission has a j more intensive fire protective eys- j tern than in the outside five dis- j tricts which had no state fire pro- j tection prior to August, 1921. In * the fire districts which had no state fire protection prior to Au- gust, 1921. In the fire towns the number of fires was 35 per cent less than a year ago and the area burned was only one-fourth as large as in 1924. The average area per fire in the fire towns was I 13 acres, a new low record. The j total damage in the fire towns was $5,245. Only ten per cent of the area burned was state land. The total area burned was less than one-tenth of one per cent of the area protected. In the fire districts where the fire protective system is only four 1 years old, the decrease in the number of fires was only one per cent but the decrease in the area burned was nearly fifty per cent and so was the average per fire, 65 acres, as compared with 122 acres. In 1922, the first year that the fire districts were established,' the average per fire was 311 acres. 1 In 1923, it was 127 acres and in i 1924, 122 acres. In his forthcoming annual re- port to the Legislature, Conserva-j tion Commissioner Alexander! Macdonald says: j \The forest fire season of 1925 was unsual. While frequent rains in the Adirondack region through- out the season enabled the Com- mission to keep down the total acreage burned to a very low fig- ure, there was a long period of exceptionally dry weather in thei western part of the state in the early summer, and there was much more dry weather than usual on Long Island. While the fire season in Suffilk county is usually confined to the spring months there were fires during almost the entire summer of 1925. The rainy weather of 1925, .during the fall fire season, has been in marked contrast to that of 1924 when the Quite a stir in prohibition cir- cles has been made by the recent report of the'united committee of a large group of reform organiza tions, which says that if present enforcement is the best the gov- ernment can do i t \ought to be pitied for its imbecility and dam- «d for its incapacity.** In reply \Secretary MeJ'on described the -prohibitionists* session as \a meet- Ing of radical reformers to blow 11162,151 IS NEWYORKSTATE POPULATION Largest Five-Year Growth Since 1910 —New York City Has 5,873 356 New > i rk St.i\ * ha^ a \ _]>'.\t- ' n »f ll.lt::> IS! a v..r.« • v t -'ate cen-u^ figure^ announced 1-v *-« eretary of Mate Florence K H. Knapp. This represents a gain u: 77»;.tf24 in the last five years :;i\' i. .a Lhe largest growth made I>y the state in any five year period sir.ee 1910. A quarter of a century ago, the state had a population of 7,268,894. When 1910 rolled around the pop- ulation had jumped to 9,113,744, and five vears ?ater it was 9,687,744. Greater New York has a popu- lation of 5,873,356. Hamilton county, with an area of 2,700 square miles, has the few eat residents, there being about two persons o the square mile. The county has a population of In place of the thousands of In- dians, who once roamed the hills and valleys of the State, the 1925 census shows there are now 5,666. Every county in the State has shown a growth in the last five years with the exception of Alle- gany, where the loss has been very small, amounting to 27, in compar- ison to falling off of over 3,000 that took place in the countv be- tween 1915 and 1920. Albany's gain in population has been the best in 50 years. The total count of Albany is 197,138. The census was taken last June by thousands of enumerators, un- der the direction of Mrs. Knapp. The actual work of counting the persons in the State took about one month, but the task of tabu- lating the returns of each enum- erator has taken many months. The 1925 legislature appropriat- ed SI,200,000 to pay for the cost of the census. erty owners be relieved from sup- porting the state roads thru the property tax and that motorists be required to maintain the roads by a gasoline tax. The farmers will also ask that the license fee be reduced somewhat, but will be against a very low license fee on the grounds that a big reduction in the fee would counteract the benefits of the gasoline tax. At a recent meeting of the board of directors of the federation in Syracuse plans were made to lay the proposed taxation equalization ;»roi,'ram, which includes many tax reforms, before all the farmers of the slate thru meetings of county I farm bureaus, county units of the I Jairymen's league, and pomona j granges. The tax committee of 1 the federation will undertake the task of acquainting the county i units with the program. This committee is composed of Mr. Ten Eyckr H. S. Fullagar, Penn Yan; H. R. Talmadge, Riverhead; and E. V. Underwood, Ithaca. The committee will meet in Albany next week. ISo definite fig*ire has been set for the gas tax by the federation tax committee. It is understood from Mr. TenEyck that no amount will be named when the gas tax proposal is laid before the legis- lature. Shakespeare Had a Kick on Smoke When Will Shakespeare was 18 years old, in 1582, he ran away and married Anne Hathaway, in whose cottage at Strat ford-on-A von the young couple set up housekeeping. Anne cooked for her poet-hus- band upon a crude kitchen hearth, and on rainy days the chimney smoked. He would complain, and she would scold. Else why did he write, in Henry IV: \O he's tedious As a tired horse, a railing wife; Worse xhan a smoky house.\ If the Shakespearian hearth had not smoked, the course of litera- ture might have been changed. Shakespeare wrote himself into immortality, and the modest Hath- away cottage became a shrine for pilgrims from all over the world. Recently a new caretaker was in- stalled who refused to cook her tea upon the ancient smoky hearth. In a tiny alcove off the kitchen a gas-stove has been installed. The kitchen remains as it was when the great poet's bride used it, but for the first time the blackened ceiling beams are free from the haze of smoke that has clung around them for more than three aunored years. A Banker in trabyro A veteran white wing took his boy to the president of a larj?e bank and said, \I want you to start wiy boy in the banking business, first as an office boy, next as mes- senger and on up the ladder as bookkeeper, teller, cashier, ind so on up to president.\ The executive, not very much impressed with the lad, answered, '*That's a good idea, but why not start him in your own line, first as sweeper, then driver, foreman, superintendent, and on to, street commissioner?\ \Well replied the old man, \I'd thought of that, but, you seen, the boy's not right bright.\—Ex. Fabrics are now waterproofed by plating with rubber, through a process resembling the plating of metals. By a new method of manufac- ture, wire rope is made that will not untwist when the strands are cut or broken. Ah English scientist has devel- oped a new and useful silver which will not tarnish. News Classified Ads bring quick results. one of the worst fire hazards ever experienced. \In the fire districts it has not been possible to establish as in- tensive a system of fire control as in the fire towns. There are, however, district rangers, nine ob- servation stations and fire war- dens. British airplanes now in use can pick up mail bags while in flight. The twine necessary to tie an average Canadian wheat crop would reach 142,000,000 miles. K&srsjvrsss/ys/rsjrsmw^ GARAGE DE LUXE MAIN STREET TIRES REPAIRS TUBES ACCESSORIES JORDAN - NASH Sales and Service F. B. MADDEN, Prop. Phone 261 Lake Placid A. FORTUNE & CO., INC. DEALERS IN FURNITURE RUGS LINOLEUMS. CARPETS, BEDDINGS. AWNINGS. SHADES BRASS RODS AND POLES FIRST* CLASS UWOLSTERY SHOP WINDOW SEAT AND BOAT CUSHIONS MAM TO ORDER UNDERTAKING AUTO HEARSE 65 BROADWAY SARANAC LAO, M. Y. Fanners Want Motorist to Support State Roads A strong demand for a gas tax is to be expected from the farm organizations of the state at the coming sessions of the legislature, according to Peter G. Ten Eyck. of Albany, president of the New York State Farm Bureau Federa- tion, and chairman of the federa- tion tax committee. The state farm bureau federa- tion with other leading farmer or- ganizations will ask that prop- Only while our supply of razors lasts •— free With a 50 cent tube of — XLENZO SHAVING CREAM 39c a genuine Gillette Safety Razor 3i 5000 Victor Records to choose from Cheesman & Sons SARANAC LAKE During the past ten years more than 5,000 patents have been granted to women. A million incandescent lamps are required for the electric signs of New York. Massachusetts manufactures more boots and shoes than any other state in t.Vm Union. About one-fourth of the mem- bers of German trades unions ajf> women. Just think; 1926 will soon be here with 52 lovely special week- to celebrate. CUPID BAKERY Formerly known as the White lily Bakery, but now operated by the owner, A. J. Naynard Telephone orders delivered twice daily. Try our fresh bread, rolls, and pastries. CUPID BAKERY Lake Placid TeL 212 JANUARY Clearance Sale WINTER COATS and DRESSES up to ONE-HALF original prices coats which We have exactly 74 winter, coats ' pKal Jacqmors \The Is the Promise of die Future\ <j«*Kty) we wish to dispose of within the next few days, has been reduced, so much in price PURE LINSEED OIL PAINTS GUARANTEED 100% PURE PENNSYLVANIA OILS WHOLESALE PRICES Paint Estimates Cheerfully Given HOWARD PAINT AND OIL CO. 6332 Broadway, Cleveland, Ohio ALLEN H. DAVIS Newman, N. Y. Phone 101 Eastern Representative Utility Service What Dollar You Spend Bays More Value? THOSE WHO US It is pcjsihle to light your house and cook withoui electricity and gas; bat who does, if these modem servants are available? They are amen* the bask necessities in the home of today. Good service has made them dependable, and good service has been developed by the hard work and vntemfttng care of the pnblic utility companies. It is not only our duty to supply good service at reasonable rates. It is our pride to make that service as satisfactory as we can to those who count on us. On Oat principle this company U •perated. MOUNTAIN GAS COMPANY INCORPORATED Saranac Lake W'£ #;'; 1* Q AT GREAT REDUCTIONS, L O 0 £ O A*©L AS MUCH AS ONE-I ONE-HALF OF ORIGINAL PRICE The entire Fall Slock of these ultra-smart new Fall Dresses, made by Betty Wales. Irene Castle, etc., developed in silks, velvets, doths, sport chesses, street chesses, tfianer gowns, dance frocks, in fact dresses of every description. Those familiar with the selections of Jacqmors Inc. can realize this unusual sale. TAKES EFFECT IMMEDIATELY WE URGE LAKE PLACID SHOPPERS NOT TO MISS THIS SALE Berkeley Hotel SARANAC LAKE, N. Y. inert Shop h ^Tfarlhern IHIIllllltllllllllllllllllllllUlHllllllllI The Largest and Most Reliable Far Shop in Northern New York WHERE VALUE WILL BE APPRECIATED TRAP? ESS WE ARE PAYING HIGHEST MARKET PRICES FOR Prime Rkw Fura SAMUEL EDELBERG 13-15 BROADWAY : : PONTIAC THEATRE BLDG. SARANAC LAKE, N. Y.
