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VOL. XIV NO. 4 1—16 Pages FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1909 Official Paper of Nassau County FREEPORT NEWS Wesley Pearsall has gone to Fern- dale, N. Y., for a fortnight. Ground was broken Monday for the new school building on Long Beach Ave. A regular meeting of the village Board of Trustees is scheduled for this Friday evening. Miss Hannah Cornelius of the Re view office is on her vacation this week, visiting relatives up-state. Word has been received of the death of the mother of M ‘as C. G.Atkm^n, , \ - ^ \ * , 3 . ^ Andrew Raynor has built an addition to his house on South Main Street. Catholic Fair Addresses by Arthur S. Somers Counselor Henry L. Maxson spent Saturday and Sunday with friends at Raritan Bay. Stephen. Story and Robert Miller start Saturday for a six weeks’ cruise on Lake Champlain. Thomas S. Cheshire has sold property on South Ocean Avenue to George Wallace, who has been leasing it. The men at the various life saving stations along the coast of Long Island have gone on duty again after their a teacher in the Grove Street shcool. a young daughter was Mrs. G. R. Bodley. Mr. Bodley is a teacher at the Grove On July 28, bom to Mr,- and H. B. Hagen & Co. have bought out H. F. Harms’ meat market and grocery. These men have been with Mr. Harms this place, Rev. C. A. Logue and others, were made at the opening of the sum mer bazaar and lawn fete of the Church of Our Holy Redeemer Saturday even ing. The band of St. John’s Orphan Asylum, Brooklyn, enlivened the oc casion with music. Dancing will be a feature each evening until the bazaar his closes, Tuesday evening of next week. On the closing night ground will be broken for the handsome new church which has been under contemplation for some time, on the land located at the northeast corner of Ocean Avenue and Pihe Street. An impressive cere mony, at which Rev. P. J. McNamara, Vicar General of the Brooklyn Diocese, will preside, is to accompany the breaking of ground. Rev. John J. Frawley, C. S. S. R., Superior of the No Law for Supervisors sa™®: , . . imposed, i 1ms procedure is the only procedure If, however, the County treasurer to pay School 1 axes authorized by law whereby the County pays the money out of the funds in Treasurer may be reimbursed for the School authorities will be interested amount School Taxes that he has in the opinion of Counsellor Alfred T. paid out. Street school. Arthur Gildersleeve has opened a plumbing and gas fitting shop in Nel son Seaman’s new store building on North Main St., opposite Randall Ave. Have you paid your village tax? D. Frank Seaman, collector, will receive it at the village office this week from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Next Tuesday will be the last day4 at one per cent. Miss Myra Chase and her cousin, Miss Blanche Chase of Montclair, N. J., with whom Myra has been spend ing the last two weeks, will start next week for a two weeks’ trip among the Thousand Islands. Bargains in furniture are now being offered. Grassman’s, Broadway oppo site Reid Ave, Brooklyn, have a re building sale which for low prices and quality of goods outstrip the riiost of the houses in their line. Read their ad in another column of this paper. A reception will be given to the South Bay Yacht Club of Ratchogue by the South Shore Yacht Club Saturday afternoon and evening of this week, with a high speed power boat race, dis tance 30 miles, open to all, no handi caps; start at 3 o’clock; vaudeville and smoker in the evening. Rev. W. A. Richard, pastor of the M.E. Church, expects to spend the first part of his vacation at Cottage City, Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. In his ab sence the puplit will be occupied by Rev. E. G. Richardson of Brooklyn Sunday. Samuel R. Smith will lead the prayer meeting next Thursday night. There was a stabbing affray among some of the Italian laborers on the Brooklyn pipe line at Merrick Friday. Two brothers, Tony and Joseph Delfrio, had a quarrel, and two other men, whose names are not known to the authorities, “ butted in” and attempted to act as peacemakers. The brothers turned on them and in the tight that followed stilletos were drawn. The Del fries got the worst of it, and one was cut about the head and the other on the arm. The wounds are deep and painful, but are not thought to be fatal. The wounded men were patched up by a physician, and word was sent for the police to arrest the stab- bers. A search was made/of the woods about the scene of the affray, but no trace of the men could be found. Through the real estate agency of E. R. Brindel, the Imperial Hotel has . been rented to J. D. Sulsona of Far Rockaway, who will remove “ The American Collegiate Institute” from that place to its new home here, and will open Sept. 1. This is a prepara tory College School and a specialty is made of Spanish-English and English Spanish courses, and a commercial course is given those wishing to pre pare for business. \ The Institute had outgrown its for mer quarters and Mr. Sulsona is very well pleased with his new location, the arrangement of the rooms being well adapted to the requirements of the school. The tuition is $360 for preparatory course and $450 for collegiate course , and the first 30 American students will be given a reduction/ of 20 per cent. - ---- ---- A beverage ought to be healthful jg and ought to have the constant care in the making that is mentioned in Smith ■& Bedell’s ad. | It. See the John J. Randall Company ad vertisement of bungalow sites * and water front and dock lots at Freeport, Long Island, in tliis issue. lime. Leonie, importer, French Dress Maker, 870 Front Street, Hempstead; j for several years and will make a sue- Redemptionists, will make the address cess of their venture. The M. E. Church pastor is now Grandpa Richard, a young son having been born to Rev. and Mrs. II. M. Richard while spending their vacation with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Richard, at the M. E. Parsonage. of the evening. The new church, which will cost about $60,000, will be Romanesque in style, with clerestory rifty-five feet across the front, seventy-two and one- half feet to the top of the cross, 138 Davison, refering to uncollected school taxes. Heretofore, the schools have been reimbursed by the County Treas urer. Now when the County Treasurer makes demand upon the Supervisor for the amount, Counsel gives it as his opinion that it is not the province of the Supervisor to pay the amount. The opinion is of such importance that we publish it in full and advise school authorities to give it the careful con sideration it deserves. July 23, 1909. Hon. Smith Cox, Supervisor of Town of Hempstead, Town Hall, Hempstead, N. Y. Dear s ir : 1 write in reference to the letter ad dressed to you, as Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, by Charles F. Lewis, Treasurer of Nassau County, bearing date June 8th, 1909, enclosing a report of the amount of School Taxes for the year 1907 remaining un You will notice that Section 407 of the Education Law quoted above states his hands as County Treasurer, and then reimburses himself either (1) by collection from the Receiver of Taxes, or (2) by the tax sale, the money again comes into the hands of the County and can and should be credited to the fund “ Out of any money in the County from which the payments were origin- treasury, raised for contingent ex penses, or for the purpose of paying the amount of the taxes so returned unpaid, the treasurer shall pay to the collector,” etc. This means that the Board of Super- ally made, and thus the tax is paid but once, which is all the law ever contem plated should be done. I return herewith the letter of the County Treasurer bearing date June 8, 1909, and the report enclosed there- fee; deep, augmented at the side with coUected and showing the amount of campanile and chapel, bringing the to tal width to ninety-three feet. The church will have a stately tower ris- Before Justice Swezey and a jury Wednesday Mrs. Jarvis Whitman was ynuren wu, nave a svaue.y tower r.s- found guilty of assault in the third de- !n« to a hel«ht fkeet; The seat- gree upon complaint of Mrs. Loretta >ng capacity will be about 800. ^ Rathman, a neighbor. A fine of $10 was imposed and collection suspended. The Dept, of Water Supply of the City of New York has asked permission from the proper city committee to al low the Long Island Railroad use of all its land in Nassau County in exchange The building will be of red brick, with white ornamental mouldings and trim mings and green slate toof. I he in- Ria|te this payment; on the contrary, in tfcil ior will be oi orricim^ntal plaster mv nnininn i t vnnr nlflin rhi tv nnt fn and marble and fine woodwork. The unpaid School Taxes of the Town Hempstead to be $11,123.91. I understand that the County Treas urer has demanded this amount from you, as Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead. I find no authority in law for you to site, which is now occupied by the Catholic Club house, will be cleared soon. The club house is to be moved for permission to run pipes under land eastward e Fshort distance on the south owned by the Railroad Company. side of Pine Street, where the church ------------ built nine years ago now stands. A reception was tendered Mr. and The proceeds of the baazar and fete Mrs. Harold S. Chase at the home of w;]| |ye devoted to the new church Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Post, Monday building fund, evening. Music, both vocal and in- ----------- strumental, helped to make a very pleasant evening for all present, after which light refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Chase left Tuesday for a visit with relatives of Mr. Chase in Montclair, N. J. School Meeting William G. Miller presided at the annual school meeting Tuesday evening when Samuel R. Smith and Henry L. Crandell were re-elected trustees with- my opinion, it is your plain duty not to make the payment. Sections 406, 4*i7 and 408 of the Edu cation Law, being Chapter 16 of the Consolidated Laws adopted at the last (1909) session of the Legislature (for merly known as Sections 73, 74, and 75, Title 7 of the Consolidated School Law) provides as follows: Sec. 4u6.—Certification by Trustees of Collector’s return.—Upon receiving any such account from the collector, visors are authorized to provide the with. County Treasurer with either (1) a contingent fund or (2) a fund for the purpose of paying the amount of School Taxes returned unpaid to the County Treasurer. If either or both of these funds are maintained, either is amply sufficient to keep the County Treasurer in funds, and moreover, the amount which the County Treasurer from time to time receives, either on the sale of the prop erty for the unpaid School Taxes, or by voluntary payments of the same, are then credited to either of these funds, and there cannot be any possi bility of the same taxes being paid twice. In any event the moneys out of which the County Treasurer can pay unpaid School Taxes are County moneys raised for County purposes. In the case of Reople ex rel, William D. Burbank and others, Trustees of School District No. 1, of the town of Middletown, Richmond County, against James R. Robinson, as County Treas urer of Richmond County, reported in 76 N. Y. 422, the Court of Appeals passed upon the duty imposed upon the later. County Treasurer by Sec. 77, Chapter 555 of the laws of 1864, which is prac- . ^ , , , . .. , . , Sec. 407 of the Ed- luias rcturnu' t!\um ,hls vacat,on’ wJ>lc(h he spent at his former home in Rat chogue. I am Very respectfully yours, * signed Alfred T. Davison. Roland M. Lamb is the new Presi dent of the South Side Messenger Com pany. See C. E. Jones’ adv. of special sale of lawn mowers and mason jars this week. Mrs. Elijah Smith is spending the month of August in Norridgewock, Mail e. Miss Rita Beusman of Brooklyn is visiting Miss Mattie Stevens, Roose velt Place. Wil iam II. Patterson is building an addition to his oyster drink house at the head of Freeport River. Mrs. J. M. Wiggins and family have returned from a visit to Hyde Park, Dutchess Co. Alpha Council, D. of A., postponed its beach party Thursday on account of the rain. The date will be announced Ed. Schmidt, Letter Carrier No. 1, tically the same ucation Law quoted above, and said: “ The duty imposed by this section the trustees shall compare it with the upon the treasurer is qualified and con- Ernest Randall has started a new the corner of Long Beach Russell Place, the founda tion being already laid. original tax list, and if they find it to be a true transcript they shall add to such account their certificate to the effect that they have compared\ itlwith The Public Service Commission has coming year, of $38,778, was approved authorized the Nassau and Suffolk Rev. Charles A. Logue, priest of Lighting Co. to issue preferred six per the Catholic Church of Our Holy Re cent capital stock to the aggregate deemer, appeared before the meeting amount of $430,000, the proceeds to be and stated that last year he called the used for the extension and improve- attention of the Board of Education to out opposition, and the budget for the the original tax list and found it to be correct, and shall immediately trans mit the account, affidavC and certificate to the treasurer of th . county. Sec. 407.—Payment of Unpaid Taxes from County Treasury.—Out of any moneys in the country treasury, raised ment of its plant and distributing the law prohibiting religious exercises f0r contingent expenses, or for the pur- payment, system, for additional w irking capital in public schools, and that no attention ' ' .nt .......... to the amount of $25,000, and for the had been paid to his objections. He payment of various obligations amount-1 said that it was now his intention to ing to $87,500. The company is ..per- bring the matter before the State ating in rapidly-growing territory, Board of Education if the practice is and it is ! its intention to greatly in- continued, crease its facilities. ditional. His authority and duty lira- })(njse ited. His authority is to pay the Ave. and claims mentioned out of a particular fund, viz: moneys in the treasury raised for contingent expenses, and if no such fund has been raised, or if it has been exhausted, there is no author ity and consequently no duty to pay them. ” In the case above quoted, the defen dant, the County Treasurer, declined After being in the employ of Whitney Van Wicklen for the past four years Arthur Gildersleeve has started in busi ness for himself. His office will beat his home 94 N. Main St. John S. Thorp of Rockville Centre, who was arrested Sunday, July 25, for in his auto, and Justice Ta te m fined iiim $15. “ On the ground that there was noj exceeding the speed limit fund in his hands as treasurer raised cha-ed h.s plea, for the payment of contingent expenses of the County. ” i Single copies of the Review can be And this, as the Court finds, was ‘ 8ecured at H. Gobetz’s and the Review true. office on Main St., DaSilva’s on W, The Court decided that under these Merrick Road, and of W. C. Raynor, pose of paying the amou of th taxes so returned as unpaid, with one per centum of the amount in addition thereto for the compensation of such collector, and if there are no moneys in the treasury applicable to«such pur- Elvin N. Edwards suggested having pose, the Board of Supervisors, at the - ~ a committee of five appointed to dis- time of levying said unpaid taxes as circumstances, the relators were not Wilbur L. Losee of Verona, N. J., cuss the matter and report later. provided in the next section, shall pay entitled to a mandamus against the was in I reeport last Wednesday and Trustee Crandell objected to this as to the Collector of the school district, County Treasurer. Thursday visiting his parents, Mr. and fie thought the matter was one for the the amount thereof, with said addition Returning to the question under dis- Mrs. Lcander Losee, on Grove Street. Board of Education to consider. thereto, by voucher or draft on the cussion, the only demand that the Mr. Losee is well-known in I reeport, Prior to Mr. Edwards’ motion, a county treasurer, in the same manner County Treasurer can make is that the taken there. The remains were brought where he spent se^verai summers wjth motion had been made and seconded to as other county charges are paid, and Supervisors of the County shall by rais- to Freeport for interment on Tuesday, his uncle, Alex. Padgett on Raynor St., adjourn and as the mover insisted on the collector shall be again charged ing money for County purposes, keep and won several prizes as a bicycle ri- a vote the meeting adjourned with- therewith by the trustees. him in funds sufficient for the purposes der. The following article from a 0ut the committee being appointed. Sec. 408.—Levy by Supervisors of above named. newsdealer at the depot. Cora Lllison, who was committed to Blackwell’s Island last week by Jus tice Tatem, died shortly after being Montclair, N. J., newspaper, will be ------------ i r i n n a i d T h y p s __ S u c h a c c o u n t affida- of interest to his old friends: Mr. and Mrs. F. Hornbeck are en- certiti;ate shall be laid’ by the “ Wilbur L. Losee has received from tertaimng a ten-pound boy since Sun-, county treasurer before the board of Alexander Winton, head of the Win- _______ supervisors of the county, who shall ton Motor Carriage Company, a check „ , , D. m , . , unrn «.u„ , See adv. of Piano Player for sale, for $250, third prize in the ‘upkeep ... ■ by the company Wlth electric attachment, in this issue of the Review. Do not forget the cake sale in the Presbyterian Chapel Saturday, Aug. 14, from 3 to 5 p. m. Miss Louise Foster of East Rock away has been spending a short vaca tion with Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Shee han of Freeport. contest” conducted by the The check was accompanied by the per sonal congratulations of Mr. Win ton to Mr. Losee upon winning the prize. Mr. Losee’s success is gratifying to himself as well as his many friends. He won out over some 600 contestants in all parts of the United States and Canada. The competition opened on November 30 and closed on June 1, the W inton Company offering the prize to owner or chauffeur of a Winton “ Six” who during the time specified, would show the greatest number of mileage with the least cost of repairs. Mr. Losee, when the contest opened, was Frank Rose, after undergoing an- running a fifty horse power machine other operation in the Brooklyn Hos- and this was duly entered. Monthly pital, is able to be around again, reports, verified through affidavits, r show that the car in charge of Mr. Everitt. the deaf and dumb son of Losee during the eight months of the George B. Smith, proprietor of the competition traveled 10,595 miles with- Benson House, was held up by two out one cent being expended for re- men Friday evening and robbed of pairs. The only expense attached to about $7. Section 59 of the Tax Law, being Chapter 60 of the Consolidated Laws adopted at the last (1909) Session of the Legislature, (formerly known as cause the amount of such unpaid taxes Sec. 56 of the Tax Law) provides that with seven per centum of the amount the Receiver of Taxes shall pay out in addition thereto, to be levied upon the money collected by him as follows: the lands upon which the same were 1 1. To the Commissioners of high- imposed; and if imposed upon the lands ways of the town, such sum as shall of any incorporated company then upon have been raised for the support of such company, and when collected the highways and bridges therein, same shall be returned to the county Mrs. Morris Miller gave her grand daughter Miriam a surprise party Wednesday evening in honor of her tenth birthday anniversary. Games were played and refreshments served. The guests were Lillian Patterson, Hazel Seaman, Sadie and Madeline Duryea, Irene Kriegler, Freda Levine, Rose Kolisch and Lawrence Schloss. treasurer to reimburse the amount so advanced, with the expenses of collec tion.” From the foregoing provisions it is apparent that the amount of unpaid Schooll Taxes are to be Freeport Council No. 57, defeated Woodmere Council, Saturday afternoon at Freeport Athletic Park, in a close ly contested game; score by innings: 2. To the Overseers of the Poor of Freeport—0 1 1 0 3 6 1 4 x—16 the town, such sum as shall have been Woodmere—U 2 1 0 2 2 0 3 5—15 levied, to be expended by such Dver-j -pbe pbj Alphas went to Rockville seers for the support of the poor there in. 3. To the Supervisor of the town, Centre Saturday and defeated the Cen- treites by the score of 8 to 7. Miss Lottie Parkerson, on account of Scnoo Taxes are to oe paid by the all the moneys levied therein, to defray ; Thursday night dances at Nassau-by- ill health, has gone to East Greenwich, County Treasurer to the collector of any other town expenses or charges. the-Sea are proving quite popular, not R. I., to spend the Summer. the School District and then these 4 , To the treasurer of the County, only among the cottagers at the beach, ----------- „ taxes, with seven per cent, added there- the residue of the money so to be col- but the young folks from this village to, are extended and included in the lected. who attend in parties and I spend the next town tax roll and levied upon the Section 170 of the Townown Laww enu-1 evening at this dancing pavilion. The lands upon which the same were ori ginally imposed as provided in Sec. 408 above quoted. This, as I under stand it. was done in the case of the unpaid School Taxes for the year 1907. It follpws, then, that when the Re- T La merates what are to be deemed town 1 uniqueness of the dances helps some charges, and it cannot in any way be | towards their popularity. Two weeks said that the re-imburaing of the ago an apron and necktie dance, last County Treasurer for money expended week a middy dance, at which all the by him to pay uncollected School I young girls were dressed in middy Taxes is in any way a town charge or blouses and last evening a confetti thd^ maintenance of the machine was for tires and gasolene. stead collected the taxes under Saturday afternoon the new fire calls 1 warrant annexed to the Tax Roll ceiver of Taxes for the Town of Hemp- expense and from this it follows and 1 dance, with plenty of confetti, ticklers his for the so advise you that you are not only not and blowers. authorized to make the payment, but — ---- —- . ... • on the contrary, should refrain from sn James M. I atten of Rockville Cen- dolng i tre is at South Styure Hospital suffer- for the year 1907, as provided in Sec: if you should pay this money to the *nK with a compound fracture of the The Winton which won the prize for were tested on the whistle at the pow- j the year 1908, on which appeared Mr. Losee is being used by him now er house,1 under direction of First As- various levies of unpaid school taxes as a passenger car. It has seen much sistant Chief Clarence VanRiper and for the year 1907, as pro „ j „ _____ service, as is shown by its mileage Fire Conunissioner J. Huyler Ellison. , 408 of the Education Law above quoted, County Treasurer, it never conies back While driving on Saturday record for six months. Several different numbers were given, he turned this amount over to the jnto the Treasury of the Town, and shafts of his wagon dropped to the Mr. Losee, the prize winner, is an all of which were correctly read at | County Treasurer and the County Treas- therefore,by your making this payment ground and his horse ran away. M^, expert chauffeur and a former Amateur different points distant from the power surer was thereby reimbursed for the ^nd then by the County Treasurer sub-1 I>atter‘ jumped from the wagon and bicycle racer, who came here a little house. Chief VanRiper has also placed ‘ * ' 1 ’ \ over two years ago. He attaihed con- on the telephones throughout the village siderable fame in the latter sport, be- the numbers to be used for fire calls, ing second in the national one-mile, and also distributed circulars of in championship race at the Pan-Ameri-1 formation as to the proper method of can Exposition in Buffalo. Mr; Losee : sending in a fire alarm. The new num- had for a team mate Ralph DePalma,! here are in force from August 1, and the now famous automobile driver.” ! will now be used in case of a fire. Patten jumped from the amount of moneys which he had sopaid gequently collecting the same amount, “truck the curb. Both bones in the out to the collectors of the School Dis- either (1) from the Receiver of Taxes i between the Kfiee a»d ankle | tricta. ' or (2) by a sale of the real property, wer,j fractured. Dr. Higgins dressed If the Receiver of Taxes did not the same tax is paid twice, namely, the fracture temporarily, after which make the collection, the County Treas- once by the town at large, and second I ^ r- Ratten was hurried to the^hospitaL. urer is authorized to sell the land and by the individual taxpayer against > In addition to the fracture the small thus collect the amount he has paid out, | whose property the tax was originally j Wer on lhe r*jfht hand was dislocated and thereby reimburse himself for the i i and the palm of the hand badly cut. ^ WMMMm ■ ■ ■ i f