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wir thwent \winds shifting to south: arly: Priday, Mrs. Wurts; Who Resigned From Committee, Gives Her Reasons and Analyzes Situation- Says Total Cost of High School Will Be a Mil- lion Dollars Hempstead, March 16.-Mrs. Lionel Wurts, president of | the Hempstead Women's Civic Club, and who was a member of the -High School investigating committee, has issued a state- | ment addressed to voters of the district, setting forth her views on the high school building situation: and denying reports that | dhe was opposed to the erection of the building. Mrs. Warts resigned from fore thercommittee made its report. In her statement, she crit- | icises the Board of Education for its methods and expresses the | opinion that the building cannot be«completed for the $300,000 | voted Monday by the district. The staterfent follows: Information has reached me through some. of. my friends that. rumors are helig spread. by: irresponaible. persons * that (I oppose the erection of the new Jigh School.. Buch atatements are utterly. false and are quite Jn-line with the other reports that the building vill be completely finished for the additional $200,000, \What I- did oppose is the utteriy imbusinesslike manner in which the present Board of Hdtcation proceeded In- every way possible to design and erect the building. \According .to the findings of the Investzating committee, the building wan never deskmed to come within the price met by the archit $300,000. Betore the school was started, the plans were returned 'by 'the State Board of The pina Would 02:1?!- n \Mm could not carried out for thut sum.. \he State Board also. ordér- ed this Board not to build at tha time fl}; «hig -prices . wore. too for in. - \Also. -the plans called for a. very poorly designed building as it would.not be «erected in sections as 'the. gtowth of. the school 'should demand: from time to (me. Instead, to make the Imilding.: sable to the \highest degree it 'would be necessary to spend a mil- lion dollars to finish 'the entire design. \Fividently the gchool beard hag not the comme to call for competilive hids , for the as that would. have nocomitated asking the community for too lorge n. muti of money, hence the Board nwarded. the work on. war- time basis of ton per cent on all the money spent and neglected to require builders to give bonds to cover possible defects, One of the buildera, Lawrence Kirwin, informed the 'Committeo that the bitllding could not possibly be fin- ished for & further §300,000.+ bosides this, an Auditiy Company, 'in' New York, which specialises on school costs, informed tho Committe that it would cost n million dollaze to complete the whole .plan. sand 4 While mentioning this sum. the aver- _ nge cltizen may not appreciate that an extra tax will be culled sometime Inter. to furnish mad equip the school and Wrade the 'This may amount to anywhere. from $100,000 'to $150,000 additional,. . > \Among other things considered by the' Committon: was. the «architect's f of wit per cent on-#800,000 to pla the 'whole building oft \hy him. As the mrchitéct is réaponnlhin -to the local Board cation it was up to them hin conmatently carried Tions... He: in not ented to . fee until the 'buflding ham nletaid and formally aceptéd, the architect win to n contingent foo ot the: sathe \bulldorm a | the investigating committee be- | JOHN BARLEYCORN _ TO RIDE IN HEARSE IN FREEPORT TONIGHT Weird: and Wonderful Procession To Welcome the Brethren From Brooklyn Lodge Freeport, March: 10. -Jolin Barley: corn will get \lit up\ every 'hundred| yards tonight as he rides from the| Wiks Clubhouse to the L, L R. R, Stu- i is I m1 { f | Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Hirsh on the Ho Scenery 'n' Ev'rything Freeport, March 10.-From the land that gave the idea of probibition, the land where Cleopatra started the dance now popular in ballrooms, the land where water is treated with all due dis- respect, comes news from Mr. and Mrs. Oscar A. Hirsh of New York avenue, | Freeport. Conducted by Meceas and a Turkish Prophy, they have journeyed.into the Great Desert. Mr. Hirsh's Camel is asking for alight. _ Well, Wally is no feather pillow, but the ship of the desert that carries Mrs. Tt's some ride The late lamented John PM is to have. ¥fe will-occupy. the casket | in. the. wonderful 112-year-old. hearse | just acquired 'by the ik» | -Brooklyn Lodge: of. ~iks.is..coming out for a fatornal. vist 0 Precport| Lodgo and its special train- ds due at| Freeport at 8:30, There certainly will be some fun in town tor Freeport Elks will have one| of their parades from clubhouse to | station in honor of the visitors. Electric iglhts -in the hearse give weird scenic effect. will want to see. * HERRICK TO RETURN | TO POST FRANCE Washington, March.. 10.-Prosident| Harding has decided to send Myron-T. | Herrick back. to his old post. as Am: bassador to France, it was learned au- thoritatively today. Herrick is an Ohloan And was one of those who Inbored most diligently foi Harding's nomination at chicago. He) is best remembered as Ambassador to | France in.. the early. of. the war when d did conspicuous work in car- ing for thousands of Americans who poured into. Paris seeldag escape from Europe. 'The nomination of Herrick is expect- ed' to 'be among the. first of the diplo- matic appointments that the. new Presi- dent will send to the Senate, Herrick is onroute from Honolulu: to San «Fran- will | Everyhody | lin a car and much quicker High Road to Hempstead, March 10.-From his front door in Garden Pj Garden City, to hia ofl@e door in Farmingdale. Lawrence B. Sperry taxis by air every day. He makes the trip in about five mir utes and says it is safer than driving than he could make it in any other manner. to and from business is not exactly tew but the man who does it regularly for a long period is still a Mr. Sperry hops off from his back yard or the field adjoining bis house or from the roadway in- front of his home.. He walks out, to take his plane for the trip to business as the av- erage man: walks to the garage to take his car out for the same purpose. * His plane is almost a pocket-edi~>4. | It is so small that it goes easily into aia garage.; The wing span is only 20 feat It is a aingle-seated messenger plane with 60 horse power, three-cylinder mo- tore: Ones. Mr. Sperry takes flight he tram» els at a speed of from 25 to about 160 miles mh hour or thereabouts and is soon 'at his. destination. On occasion he has gone by plan« to visit his parents in Brooklyn.. Theo he finds & landing place on m public nlay- ground, He rakkes thie trip in 12 min- utes, (He says he can fly regwrdiess of weather conditions since the speed of the plane drives the water away, Reeently having -to make a busin trip to Washington he went dowa t> the: capital in his plane in about three {hourn.. He stopped. as a precuitivnery ] measure, once for gasoline and was Sands of the Desert, with Ezyptian Wally has that' expression, \Lets go. and we do not care about the direction either.\ This picture came from Cairo, Egypt, mad is not a movie set in East New Jersey, as is often. the case. Mr. and Mrs. Hirsh started from little ole New York a few months ag went to Rome and Naples, About ebruary i they sailed for Egypt.. After a hasty glange over the country, they will jour- ney Jerusalem, France, England, Germaany, Greece, Turkey, Italy and then home. \ FLIES FROM HOME TO WORKSHOP DOESNT RISK LIFE IN AUTOMOBILE FOUR OH: TANKS G0 UP NFLAME Plant of Standard Oil Co. Threat- ened by Fire That Seems Likely To Be More Destructive Than Famous One of Year Ago ® New York, March 10.-Fire broke out shortly before' neon today in the plant of the Standard Oil- Compuny, Greenpoint. Four oil tanks are reported to Rave exploded already, and others ark said to be in danger of catching fire. A fire swept this plant a year causing hundred of thousands of dol- lats damage and lasting several days. The plant covers a large amount of #round. « - Police reserves were summoned to es- tablish fire- lines, and several. ambu: lasices were rushed to the scene. ° acale, there would be- muck work A heavy pall of 'smoke: soon hung | over Greenpoint. and - Williamsburg. Thousands of persons, attracted by it, | gathered to watch the firemen battle the blaze. , Asother tank exploded. shortly after noon None <of the explosions wu’ t. The fire started in a crude oil still. The fire spread rapidly, -one tan. ex- before an. alarm could be turned other tanks exploded within m time. j were 25,000 gallons of crude oil DROP IN- WAGES (AMERICAN LEGION TAKES ISSUE _- - IS INDICATION o | Contractors in Hempstead Town | See Lower Scale As Only Means | 'of Restoring Activity i a f; of || in Trade-Promise of Plerity Business If Costs Are Reduced | Hempstead, March 10.-\Wages must | come down or it means stagnation of | the building for this spring,\ said one | of the prominent builders, employing a | large number of men, when asked how | \ he would be affected by the request of | | the Master Builders that organized la- | bor ept a dollar a day reduction vol- | | would make a big difference in his bids | | for building. |_ The lower wage scale was the result | of a meeting of the Building Trades Employers' Association of Long: Island at Mineola, uesday. Following that | | meeting the builders sent a letter to all unions in the building trades asking / men to accept a wage cut. The significant part of that letter was contained in the one sentence: | \We shall be pleased to meet your representatives in conference and to xn agreements for the ensuing year at the reduced rate.\ One Hempstead builder said today he never knew of an instance where a| workman. voluntarily reduced his own | wages, but he had heard recently that | some 'penters had agitated for lower | 'wage weale hecause of changing condi- | tions and because building might be | stopped if prices did not come down. | He said other carpenters, according to | rumors he heard, had objected to, the ! | lower wage scale. This builder said there were not many | skilled carpenters to be had, but there | were some who had worked at the | wane who were asking for Jobs. ! This contractor said he could see a |lot of work for the spring but that if | prices remain high, because of the high \held hack. \\~ | One contractor said there were 600 to [800 carpenters in the county getting $8 'u day, He thought they were more \numerous than ary other» craftmen.| | They have a wide range in their call- ing from the outside man who does the {rougher work to the man who does the hardwood floor. and cabinet 'work, but all get the same wages. ! Some contracts between. employers and the union men expired in January 'and some do not expire until May. | About a month ago some of the plumb (ers voluntarily accepted a cut of $1 a| {day- and their wages dropped from $9 | 'to' $8. - There are, approximately 259 plumbers in the county. Among employers of «killed workmen 'here are Kerwin & Esterbrook, which company in the busy. season employ from 60. to 86 meh, William D. McLean whose full force is upward 'of 35 men {and James J. Newman as woll as many |athers. I Scarcity. of Mechanics + I | Edward W. Wallace, an Active build- ler in Rockville Centre; commenting on Irlhe proposed dollar. a day reduction in | wages of building trade employees, said: |~*There is an actual scarcity of skill- led mechanics who are employed in the {construction. of houses and it is a ques tion whether the reduction will be ac- | cepted. \ \While it ia an -acknowledged fact that 'there is overerowding in lodgings, there (Ja little prospects of immediate relief even if the wage reduction was} accepted. - Houses begun now cannot be completed in less than three to four months and would\ not, therefore, be ready. for: summer occupation.\ Ky, -m L, * aay ge- Zour More x Tetopments ase Concerning Suitable ¥ iK ta Wat B Faten OR STAGNATION - AS TOHEMPSTEAD WARMEMORIAL bjections Made As to Monument Prepared by | Chamber of Commerce and - Suggestion Made _-_ Recognition of Services of Those Who Died in World War Hempstead, March 10-Another chapter has heen added ment in its present form. The Legion's reasons for o | to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument story by the adoption | by Hempstead Post, 390, American Legion, at its meeting Tues- | day night of a resolution opposing the erection of the monp- N bjecting +8 the monument are unt He said a reduction of wages! Set forth in a long resolution./ Among them are that the in- | scription on the tablet first pays honor to those who served in [the World War and came home ahd leaves for second place | honor to the memory of those who died. Objection is also made to the fact that the names of those who paid the supreme sacrifice are not on the monument. Finally the Legion is opposed to placing on the tablet the name of the agency through which the monument was erected. FAITH, WITH AN AD, GETS JOB FOR MAN WHO SLIPPED ONCE Probation Officer Uses Daily Re- view to Help Worthy Man \Come Back\ Mincola, March 10.-'Well, I got our mana. job through. your- newspaper, and I thank you for him &nd for myself.\ said former Probation Officer Francis Hammill to 'a representative of 'The Daily. Review. The man' referred to had committed a crime, but Mr. Hammill, in his capa- dity of probation 'officer, saw in him |one who had stipped once and seemed promising material for real reseuo work. Mr. Hammill asked for a chance for him. | Judge Smith put the prisoner on probation with the understinding that he would\ make restitution at a stated sum per week. Then came business depression. The man lost his job. He was obliged to pay so much weekly to make good the aum he had taken. He had a wife and children. . They had to 'be supported and he had to eat. He took his problems back to Mr. Hammili who went into executive mcs sion with The Daily Review man, \Why not ask the army of Review readers if they would give a mana chance?\ was suggested. \Fine. - We'll do It,\ anid Mr. Ham- mill. And it was done. A man, knowing all the er survounding the probationer, cams forward with the offer of a job. He of- fored a substantied wage. He'was not trying to get cheap labor because the man had to have work, hs -wanted a man and was willing to pay for him. He took the man on and Mr. Hammill says that chap just must make good. KRONSTADT f KERENSKY LEADER - OF WHITES IN RUSSIA London, . March The . Moscow wireless announces The.. surrender of the Fortress of Kronstidt by anti-Bol- shevik. insurgents, sid. an Exchange Telegraph | dispatch Melsingfors, today. Rebels had hel ronstadt about five days. I The Times printed an unconfirmed io tionaries had the \Whites\ in Russia now have a ''Russlan with closest at- 'The government Legion and Village Board Agree In this respect the Legion coincides with President Nichols and the Village Board, which revoked the permit to put the monument in the park, because aw nge of the Chamber of Commerce upon it. i The resolution in full follows: \Hempstead Post, 390, American Legion understands that the Hempstead Chamber of Commerce will ask the voters of the village of Hempstead at the coming village election to decide whether or not the bronze tablet which the Chamber of Commerce wighes to have erected at Fulton Park, f honor of those who served their country dur- ing the -Great -War. shall be erected. \The Hempsterd Post wishes to go definitely on record as being absotutely against the erection 'of this particular tablet, although .the Post feels that <m avitable tablet At anemowy <P 'those citizens of the village who died in their country's service during the Great War has already. been too long neglected. The tablet prepared by the Chamber of Coramerce hears the following in- script! - In Honor of The Men and Women of Hempstead Who Served Their Country in the Great World War and Those Who Made The Supreme Sacrifice Erected with contributions raised by 'The Hempstead Chamber of Commerce \Hempstead Post is against the erec- tion of this particular tablet for the following reasons: \First: The inscription: first. mentions « those who. served their country; and. as a. second. consideration those who: died for their country, Members of the Hempatead Post, .constitinting the. ma- jority of the ex-service men and women in the village have' gone on record to the: effect that they consider that no tablet should be erected except that It , be solely in memory of those who died in: their country's service, Those who served and are still alive have the hon- or of wearing the discharge button or the American Leglon button, and need no tabfet' raised\ th their honor.) _\ \Second: Over twenty-five per cent of the words appearing on the Chamber of tablet glorify the fret that the Hempstead Chamber of Commerce raised the money for the tablet. We deem this. absolutely unnecessary. empstead Cham» ber of Commerce, anda, desecration of sréd. | officially terminated, 'Armietion Day, Novehiber 11, 1918, and the dates should be- 19474018.\ If the Chamber of Commerce that the qyonr: 1919 -| was to designate when Pence was made, thority »In Jia. 1207. the 4 ot dnfiiedl s. per- - erection of & mermnoriat
