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SEVERAL FEET WANTED TO JM- FROVE RIERMONT AVENUE, P*rk C«M«Tp)tt*e V^ould Halve Road-, way &traiohtened — Walk In Hudson (Avenue. Appebcfating the importance* of the improvement of Piermont . anjd Hud-, fjon avenues at the ehtrahpe, to the memorial park and ’ the fact that th^ value of adjacent land, would be great ly 'enhanced as well ad beautified, thi Board of Trustees last Monday night took the first step toward acquiring several feet of land belongtng to the Depew eattate by directing that pre- liihfhary'sunreys be made. After this a reasonable offer, will be made for l* ' ■' l ' '' 1 \ ■ About Nantes on Ballots Republican aspirants for seiably are more , 1 ot less perturbed over the pikdlng'oTTheir^wames on the primary ballot. There 1 are five candidates, Cpjunty Attorney Hofatat- ter, James ' W, Winterbojttom, Pierre DeJt'qw, Charles Bacon and Walter Fairchild, ^and 'neither ' wpuld be aVerse to Laving hia ^natiie lead. Tomorrow the Board of Election commissioners will meet in Hayer- straw to Settle the perplexing ques tion. Commissioner King said last night that the plan suggested is. that the names of the five capdidaees be the property and failure on the part of the ’ Owners to' accept the price will lead to condemnation proceedings. A. M. Voorliis, ,Jahii M. Rodney and Stephen Voorhees appeared before the board and pointed out the advantage of obtaining several, fet of. land, on ‘ the corner of the Depew place and told of the wonderful' change , that .would result with a .straight'; road way and a wider, sweep leading from Hudson avenue to Broadway. The concrete .sidewalk and curbing is now being laid along thepark property .in PiertnonL ‘ avenue and- it is., pbumed to also construct a walk, along the south end of the DePew. land in Hudson avenue. \ < judge Patterson .explained the necessary steps to be taken provid ing corydamnation proceedings are in stituted and said that fte taxpayers would be called upon to vote upon .the sum finally to bd •'expended for the land either condemned or s <^d. ■' It was the opinion of^the trustees l^at.all of the lan.d in the vclinity of written ortl pieces] of'pasteboards, and L1CAN JKET. drawn frori? a ' hat by a boy or- girl plcied at'Random, from the'sfreet. It Is the desire of the commission* er| not to ijave any persorv inferest- ed in the outcome of the primary fight being waged for the Assembly have part .in the drawing and for that reason (hey decided the selection, of a child would be fair to all. As there are two candidates -for the •shrievalty noipinatloh, Hudson Hurit and Georgy Brown, their place on the primary .ballot will, pfobaibly be de termined by the toss of a coin- Wan , Often 1 Candidate for Cobgreas and Served* A* Coroner of New, Yqrk County. • • > WOULD DETECTIVE BUREAU. ABRAM DEGROAT EXPLAINS HIS SCHEME TO SOLONS.. Idea Is to Hire Patrolmen To Pro tect Merchants From Burglars ; anc|f Fires. . .The establishment of a detective bureau and merchants ’ patrol systenw in NyacSi rs the scheme presented-last Monday night to the Board Of Trus tees by Abram DeGroat,' of-Perth Aqi- boy. and a former weit known resi dent of this village. Mr. DeGroat is connected with Chief Burke ! s .bureau in .P,erth Am boy; which protects many cities from burglaries and fifes. The bureau, ea- , gages patroinmn toz day. and night service, and is in no way of any ex pense to the village. The income re- ceived will be'paid for by merchants the, park will be of greater value when ■ the. proposed improvements are com- ,pleted \ and its general appearance ‘ will not only be pivrticularly pleasing . to' Nyacke.rs-.but strangers as well. ' . BOY SCOUTS BAND' FOR COMING NY AC K ,CARNIVAl.j the local bank,® thesum pf JiWO.eo as or residents who want . their places of business or homes protected, and ai l that the Board of Tr^s.teps has to do is to grant* permits and appoint ments of- special police and patrol- mcn.. . •. The bureaa will deposit in one ot ■ The Board of Trustees of ‘ South Nyack adopted last Monday night an ordinance permitting iSunday base- , ball with restrictions that no, admis-' sion fee be charged. . Trustee Gaynor occupied the .chair in the absence of Mayor Facey and he and Mrs. Sayres were in favor of th 0 proposition. Trustees' Van Wee Id ea and SthTbuck. opposed- ;^he meas ure and as there^was no second ih Mrs- Sayres ’ s .motion. . Mr. Gayi^r vacated the chair in favoc of ’ Mr. Van Weelden and carried the day.* The petitiqowaS presepted to .tjte beard by ^Police Judge ,Haas .and games will be played by the Nyack haanrmn' the BradieviW' ly acquired by Dr. P. A. Bernard* The tietiUonesrs' ar® as follows: ,' (. to assure those protected that their ;..-At..a-meeting..-Tuesday-.night--of -xliOf-SJsrsij--or- be-'visited-reg u- general committee in charge of the old .home week celebration in Nyack, August 2?-o, it was decided to aban don the plpn to have a parade of local and county lire organizations and-instead there'.will be daily con certs by ite Boy Scouts Band of 35 piedes of Paterson, N. J. . Dr. Gl S. Writer, chairman, of the larly every night. If the .bureau fails to' Tivb” ll$\to 'its agreement the {500 will be forfeited and turned over to the village officials. / . . ' It is the'^plah of the bureau to charge 50 cents eaci: week.from mer chants and householders for patrol work and 1 iff the events, of its estab lishment, here there will be as many in Greater New Yorks hlsmry. part of tte cdp quite, ^ the dramatl'i . who wpa, employed at--the boarding m* ernd hls tur ? 1 °(. office, 8° faith- .critics have it, • ‘ adequately ” - house on •Summit avenue, Spring VaR ' r „ ..... - .... . . that-when the. office gf,Coroner, -.DocT-Tlernmd'aboys'cannot be ac-Sj^, fomrerty known as Villa'Ericius \ > A- M.'Voorhlk,. W: B, Rari»eck;' J/ wbA.ittvcstigated -with a view of re- cused of rowdyism- <?f course, there ; i 3 .being h^ld-ih ; the' county Jail for «an;m«ading its abolition, Mr, Winter-. wa s .-a'little unorganized nois e .from j a hearing before Justice Fisher Fri- ^Uay-'nigM.^.tbV charge of stealing ... “ L A J***!# nothing at' all. Somehow , or [ uso from Afr»- Teosie- Grbeoman of ‘ . twelve years who was not subpoened . other they must have, pm their Yeet-i Brooklyn. a ' 'guest at the house' to testify or jvhose name, was not 0 n the Red Sox's coat tails, or spoken | Mrs.'crossman 'Iost the money *Mon. even-mentioned V! the investigation.^ one of the Red Sox's Wives, or in day eveniJ3g and the ,saiile some snob other man iter, incurred thecwuiknxa.ieff fo^ New'York. City * on . parade committee,' is anxious to have; patrolmen employed as* is necessary. 'Nyaekers interested in -the coming carnival during their stay and would .provide homes for- the Tioy musicians ^during their stay and would be gladj boikrt i. gtoujd act, - to hear from anybody willing to. as sist the committee ip that way. Because; of the absence off, Mayor Odell action in- the matter was de ferred., the trustees feeling that a full HOBOKEN MAN DROWNED , ' WHILE-BATHING AT JHQOK JUS T 1C ES CALL H ALT. TO SECRET DIVORCES Trial of ail' divorce^ suits in open „ ■ T '. i,I court as a' means of stopping the Robert Cammm, who conducted, a, seekin- secret decrees in cafe iu Hoboken, was drowned Sun- : P r T ac “ t 8 . .. A A u^nir W es tchester County, has been deead- j- day afternoon while bathing at Hook! , « • « , x - ■ - .aL..upon by the Supreme Court Jns- , I; . a « *1,1- 1 ticea of-the Nmth Judicial District, ladder . at the end of the. pie? and , . , - j . which comprises the counties tff West- when he-appeared to view it was seen that he was in difficulty/' ■ Ciuninin went down b«are aid could reach him and-bis body was recov ered by\; George McCandless and Charles Sutton, the latter being ih a rewboat, ' . HOME- BREW SAFE.; The Lower House of Congress has voted to keep the home stills boiling, jt-nder an amendment to the aati-beer bill, just approved by tibe„ House, * the cellar still and home-brewing out- ■ fit Would be safe from interfexen^ by f ederal prohibiton agents, providing o attempt was made to sell th^-pro duct. * Chester, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange and Rockland. This, decision of th jurists is said to have been based op the .revelations of the. “ divorce -mill ” conducted by Herbert f*. Miller until it was exposed. — - — • - - -v . Heretofore a jurist would heir wit nesses in chambers if coons el. far the plaintiff and defendant agreed to it, but- from now on all such requests Will be refused. If any degree of se crecy is desirhd, the services of a referea. can be obtained, provided there is a defence to the .allegations. And the jurists also have decided not to order sealed the papers In a di vorce suit, \as. was done by . Justica Morchauser in the Stillman case. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. Only- routine business was- transact ed last night at the regular meeting of tile Board of Education- SupL ' Wightman, who has just returned from his camp at -Berlin, N- Y-* ■ present... ‘ • SUNDAY BASEBALL IN TOWN. . Th.a.„.lsm.a, . Board' o« Orangetown >, passed an ordinance -at a 'BaeatiBg • Tuesday nighlt permitting Sunday baseball, in the town and avowing an admission, charge, ''' • • ,J - - .. ,C_) MjR) WHITE RESIG NS. jf DuPiatt Whlt^^for many years •an txifiuential mfimbef of the- Board of. Trustees pf ^PPer Nyack. I|*« r«- . . ' • ; and everybody hod a Una time. ; ELKS TO . BUI LD. The plans -and specifications for the new- club house of the Hiav* Lodge qf EHta.tp be erected on thetr property on the river frori.t have been approved by the Grand Lodge of Elks and operations on the new -•building may be expected hi the* near future iWh-lle jt is known -that the Grand Lodge officers have endorsed (she plans a formal approval-has not. yet been' received by the local badge. mo ON EXCURSION. SOUTH NYACK FAVORS SUNDAY BASEBALL . Jamesj E. Winterboftcsn,, candidate fdi] the Republican homination for the Assembly, iln the comlhg primary election, is a resident Of South Ny ack tod a. member of one of the old est and best known families in Rock land .County. Hii grandfather, James Wlnterbottom, \for many years wqs president of* the village of South Ny ack and active 1 in Republican poll ■toj Uuiii thfougitout'-'fEe county. The present candidate has followed the same polf^cal lines laid down by bis tforefathers and Is a staunch Ri:pul> TRUSTEE^ GRANT REQUEST OF FORTY PETITIONERS. Heap, ‘ in Mr. Winterbottom was educated in thp. public schools .and later' was ed ucated from* Trinity Chapel School in New York City. Born .in : 1880; he tas- •beea for many years at the head, of Carnes Will Be Played- oh Bradley ! <me Pf the most successful .bUsinesse Americans al> ’ *'getting over their spohdthrift habits' and In coming actually thrifty, accord ing to the Treasury Savings Division-.- I Acting director Or- rin 0. Lester gave out . figures showing That the national per capita- holdings l of outstanding* .war savings securities ambffnt to ^6,40. After deduction for. redemption on sates . extending -carer a period ol tliree and ofne- i half years, investors ’ still Tasje 1 aecuritiqs valued at {676,520,- 000.' “ The savings-campaign, ” satd Mr. Lester; “ has raised a sub- stantiaramount for the Govern ment, .popularized the Inveat- \ment of small savings in Gov ernment securities and helped to create a national sentiment for tiirift. No'element has con tributed more to tha' practical application of sound -thrift in America. Tt e«g small Govern* •ment savings securities ' ha.ye started thousands to save who had never saved before.” \ Property, Recently Acquired By Dr. Bernard, in hls line in New York City and at Broadway and Bufd ..street, Nyack: Tffia aspirant- for the nomination is ' sio amateur in practical politics, ■In 1008 while still a .very young man he #as drafted to run for Congress in atf ' ■overwhelmingly Democratic dis trict and. an . idea of hls ability as, a* vote-getter may be had from the fact that he polled over .11,000 votes in i- district where the record Republi can Vote had been close to 4,000. IN THE N® Fight in Damootetle Ranks Against Candidates Recommended by County Coromfttes, In 1009 he was again called ujjoji , this time to -run for Cdroner of Hie BProagiv of Manhattan, and. he ' was NYACK TEAM DROPS Nominating. peNtloha have been filpd with the Ejection t. Cdmmissibp- ! ert by th^. variora candidates took- ‘ Ing tor office in Rockland*- county and a lively fight will result in the Re publican primaryr . As a nomination on the Republican ticket this, year is looked upon by the candidates J a8 almost equivalent to an election the real fight, naturally comes in that party. : In the / Democratic primary there wifi b'e no opposition to the candi- dateii reeotamonded by the county' committee. These candidates are: For member of assembly, ■, Peter M. |Hayt, j»f Stony Point; for Sheriff, j Larry W. Serven, of 'Clarkstown; fete coroners. Dr. A. K. . Doig, of Orange- town. Victor. J. Shankey, of Haver- straw. On ti-e Repubiictm side of the hbuse the candidates axe: For member of assembly, Pierre CAM £ TH ^IIPFFDN DePew of 0ran S ‘ now ' n : Charles W. ^»»***l» . I \A vUI I Lnll ( Bacon, of- Havei-Straw; E.- W. Hof- - ' ... of' Orkngetown; Waltey Fair- BEATEN IN FIRST COUNTY SER-! chiid - of Ramapor Jamtja Winterbot- 1 ES CONTEST, 13-2. . ’ I { om, of Orangetown. . ’ . ^ ' --------------- . T For sheriffv, George L Brown, of Spring Valley and-Pearl River Boys! ® rangetowI1 I Hudson f~ Hurd, ot Score Victories in Opening Clashes on Sunday. Drangetoarn.. For coroners, Edgar C. Flender, of Orangetown; William T. Stalllmann< npt tonly elected to tbe office but nini hands of a cop in their opening game at the head of tJie ticket in New \ ork J-in the nounty championship race at ttoffity. At. the time of .taking office j guffem jast.- Sunday. He was but 29 years'6f age,Vthe young- ( The citizen was beaten up. eat man to be elected to a .county ; McCormick ’ s' Red Sok played the The Nyacks gave a. realistic imita-l of Ramapo; Oliver Seeley, of tion of a New York citizen in the | Bamapo. • . WEST INDIAN . HELD ON ROBBERY CHARGE James Williams, a West Indian, P: Weis, Isaac Nsisner, J, P. Brigma, W. B, Lydecker, ’ E. B, Robertson. S. H*. Walters, James. S» Perry,. F*. Bend er, F- H. Leaycraft, C. D. Weis, J. W. Leaycraft, Artiiur , F. Buys, S. , F. Voorhees, W. B. Conrad, Mrs. L. V. Cooper. David D. Kessler, j. tJ, How ard, J. D; Schoch, C. TriberL J. M. Rooney, John OsboLfa, A. E, Lindsey, During 4be time that the - women wer seeking suffrage Mr. Wimerbot-displeasure of the Cop Sox. In' any the g.+g Mrs Gr08sina ^ : tom took a decided stand Jn^their,e^ent vengeance waa aummary.- ’ 1 Williams had seen her wrap the Mr^. J-'P. Muir, - S.'\C. Perry, James i favor and worked both-bight ahd day'j - The .spectators, seeing .large unruly( E.'Winterbottom.'T. A. - Steridan.-, Leo j to further their cause. In Jonq. t 91 ,C, , Sox in plain clothes uniforms ,ham- j. Reuther, Elsi^ B. Lindsey, • John lire left hls business and -.family to j mering the helpless Nyacks over the Fitzgerald, Frederick Perry, Joseph'entrain, for the Mexican* bolder with' heads with their nightsticks, indig-- Gallo! Raymond Gray, F. Lt Fenton H. J. McGinley, Vincent N. ColarellL FfNED, WILL CARRY HIS CASE TO HIGHER COURT' his regiment, th*e old Seventh of Now j nantiy protested. York, land spent nearly, five months; ‘ ‘ Leave- ’ em alone, ” urged the spec- along the ’ Rio Grande. He' was honor-; tators, “they're trying., to go\ soine- wbiy .diactarged owing to a dlsablUty . wheres. ” _ .received In the. service which • later ; “ You mind your own business,” ;ie- disqualiftad him ..from . entering the toned the Cop- Sox', “we ’ re pl ’ icemen -ranks' as a • Volnpteer in • the.- wort 4; A?*! W P Apttdle these cases pur own war. During* this war, however, .he Lte^Y ” -*' . . ' .! ' i (?*? ,-u | was not inactive but served his coun-j And. of course, that was' the end try as best he could doing investigat- . °t that particular argument, ing work for the Department ot Jus-1 - The score of the fracas was 13 t-p lice in Washington. 1 2 and there were' many Nyaekers whs . ' . • ’ — ----- - ---- — — — - \ declared the team was, robbed. Pish! — Paying a - $ 5 . fine under pretest,- T.' H. -Butcher last Tuesday uight paid wrap money in a handkerchief and place it in. a closet. \; When .it was found that Williams was on. rffe train word .was sent to the Hackensack police and .WUliams was dakah-from the train at the Faire- mount avenue station. When search ed he had $38 on his person. He w-aa turned over to Matthew Farley, who | went down from Spring Valley and brought him to this place and he was committtdd to jail pending a hearing. 4 in his case before police Justice Edick in the South Nyack village, hail and will .make a fight to upset, the judgment. , ;' . Mr. Dutcher was directed Jo appear in court by Officer Lindol more than a week ago' when he was driving his automobile and cut the corner,at the junction of Broadway and Corneiison avonu He declares he was com- ■pelled to drive on the .wrong side of the traffic post to avoid colliding yrith another ■motor car. - * ■ .~ BARTELS PLAYING GREAT GAME FOR HANOVER TEAM NEW CENTENNIAL HALF ' . ! tush! let ’ s drop the alibis and be good h __ a . ,, ’ ' p • • ! - » - . base for the Hanover DOLLAR WORK OF ART ■ The\ first of the new half dollars, emblamatic of the Missouri centen nial,, found its way to- the Rockland News office today, when it was TO FIGHT PHONE BOOST; City counsels of Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse,, after a conference have agreed to- tolte la-opposing the at tempt of the Bell Telephone Company to fix telephone rates in Syracuse on the basis at te statewifie valuation of the cPmpany ’ s property. CANDIDATES INDORSER. The Republican t own committee of Orangetown met ■ Tuesday night at the Nyqkca Republican Club, ahd a-P- tbe candidacy of Pierre De- Pew for the Assembly, George^ H Brown for sheriff, E. C. Flender and W., T. Stahhnan for coroners. . GAME ON, NYACK FIELD. la spite of mipltosAat ditions -UW- persdas -yesterday enjoy ed the excursion to Rockaway Beach tender tffe an^plpesi'af St.. ; An®f«<P*r Guad ol Grace EpiBqopal Chnrcli. \The kethodlst Sunday ichool' also Molned The Bpard of . Education iast' night granted permission to the-Nyacfc t'eam to play ' scheduled^ county series •games on tt» Midland avenue .field and the gtoae with -Spripg Valley will be played there. / >. AWAY ON AUTQ TRIB, teWnpd ytoterdtay ttoM k \ Matte camp after tt^pleasanfi vtoatloa per. tod.:' ... -'V v., ’ gprs. and.is probably the' first to come 40 this section of. the country. This coin is a work of 'art and already commands\ a, premium of 50 cents at tffe Missanri fair grounds; where the cetntennial Is being h4ld. / ■ The face of the coin bears the dates 1S2I-J92I, and a female bast. On the reverse are the standing figT ures of an Indian And a pioneer, with the Inscriptota “ Missouri GenUmniai ” and “ Sedalia.\ There were 2SO.OQO of these new eoitaa\ struck off by - the miqts, but they ,wHi-never be in. circulation ss half dollars, their fade value, because of their wprtt as Curios • which will ponatantly grow. . (Continued on Page S.) JUDGE TOMPKINS MASONIC DELEGATE TO GENEVA brought in BT. E B. Khnbark, of Con- TiMvnsend^Scudder; former Supreme COUNTY BONDS SOLD. The supervisors soli $26,000 A worth of court ,fund 'bonds hist Tuesday, the Rockland County Trust Company/ of Nyacks and the .National Bain*: of Haverstraw, each' -taking , $10;QU0 worth. .Hie bon ds bearUix per cent intewtet ’ , ; ... - : - r — - WINS SOLDIERS* SCHOLARSHIP-- -erected toKDeJung Bhothers jn Burff “ ^ .str.qet.,;,. , - ,: ;A ..Thu Unlvsralty of th6 Stat e of New Jnffgg T^mioktts ■ tod “ Jttmea Tgil by the Court Justice;- Willianj Cowper\ Prime of Yonkers, ahd Supreme Court Jus tice Arthur S. Tompkins have been appointed' delegates -to. the interna tional httsonic conference at Geneva, Switzerland^ it was announced yester day by Robert H. Robinson.* Grand Master of the Masohs of New York State. Tile conference is to be'held October IS to 23. ■ Justice Tompkins is Deputy Grand Muster. The delegates will sail from New York City October 4. Henry Bartels, -who Is playing third- team of the Blue Ridge - League, is .playing In grand; style'and\ his fielding and bat ting is calling for flattering notices in - Pennsylvania -newspapers located, in tile circuit, j y A few days- ago Hanover defeated Chambersourg and. took the lehd, the batting of Bartels-featuring the game. In, four times at bat the Nyack boy- made three hits „ and a sacrifice and accepted three hard chances -in the field- faultlessly. AGAINST SUNDAY BASEBALL. The officials of tipper Nyack will not follow the example of South Ny- aek in alloying.Sunday baseball even if no admission is charged, reports to the - contrary notwithstanding. President •Crumble is authority for. the (Statement that no suet ordinance Wm-be . adopted. * \ CONTRACT'FOR GARAGE. Odell and- Powles have ’ been award ed the contract fi}>\a garagfe to be GLIDING BOAT A FEATURE. One of the features of the coniing old home week celebration will be the demonstration , of the new gliding boat buijt by B. LaChapeUd on the river off the memorial park grounds!. The craft is built in .pontoon fashion and is propeled ’ 'by a Curtiss airplane engine. It can attorn a spped of 40 miles an hour, v 1 . ,• BACON IN THE RACE. . Reports that Charles W. Bacon, ono of the candidates for the Bfepub* Ucan teotoinatlon for the Assembly,* hhi withdrawn from the race are un- t f ae * „ ^ Bacon announces that t* expsetd to stay until th# «» counted on primary day ahiT'g de 4 .
