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NEWS OF FREEPORT SURROUNDING TOWNS _____' Nassau County Review FIVE CENTS A COPY YOUR NEWS STANDS Official Paper, Village of Freeport FREEPORT, N. Y. FREEPORT SPLIT ON SCHOOL SITES CriticUm of Board of Education Resented by Many—Map of Rejected Sites Shown The school meeting advertised for September 3, when three sites will be voted upon as chosen by the Board of Education, has given rise to much controversy. Following the publication of the school sites as approved by the School Board came four, advertised as suita ble for school sites by J. J. Randall & Co., a suitable site by Stephen Pettit \\and one by William G. Miller. The following letter defends the ac tion of the Boafd of Education and asks for more specific information re garding the sites other than those on the Merrick road: To *he E d i t o r o f th e Review. M y Deer S ir:— I have, in com p a n y with o th e r in terested citizens of F reeport, read your fro n t- p a g e editorial in laut w e ek's Review on th e p r o posed H igh School sites. It is indeed q u ite s t a r t l i n g to learn th a t th e Board has been so careless o r prejudiced as to om it from th e propositions to be subm itted to th e vote of th e district on th e evening of S e p tem b e r 3. so readily available land as th a t you m e n - May I m a k e th e su g g e s tio n th a t you p u b lish in th is w e e k 's issue th e exact location of each o f th e ‘Randall'* plots described, fo r one w a s disappointed th a t you did s t a t e exactly w h e re th e s e plots are. I ystified stifled to learn FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920 i 1 • i.- ■ ■ --------- VoL XXIII, No. 35 also ra t h e r m y to w e re all located so m u ch n e a rer th e ce n tr e of th e d i s t r i c t th a n any of th e th r e e su b m itted. W ill you not also be so kind as to tell us w h a t th e proper boundaries of th e d i s tr i c t are. I am su re th a t these two item s of inform a tion for which I am asking are fo r th e benefit o f m any of th e voters of th e d i s tr i c t and will be of m a terial aid in th e form ing of in tellig e n t opinions as to w h a t we should do in the final issue. I t seem s to m e th a t your criticism of th e B o ard is n o t well conceived. Is it youi idea th a t a B o ard should p r e s e n t propositions th a t they do not endorse? I am not a law- (Continued on Page 7). AUTOS CRASH *AT LYNBR00K Four Men Injured in Collision Of Truck and Two Pleasure Cars Four men were injured at Lynbrook Thursday when three automobiles came together on the Merrick road. The injured are Lieut. W. F. Brennan a police officer, of Lynbrook, G. L. Borst of Queens, Peter Minneman of Brooklyn and Stephen Ross also of Brooklyn. • Arthur Wing of Boston was charg ed with being responsible for the ac cident and was held in $1,000 bail by Justice Neu, which was furnished by Benjamin Goern of Rockville Centre. Joseph Wuersel of Valley Stream was drivings truck and claims that Wing came along, swerving from side to side and that Wing’s car collided with his truck. The impact made him lose control of the wheel and he crashed into the police car of Lieut. Brennan. The scene of the accident seems to be a bad place for policemen. It was there that Lieut. Brennan’s wife was killed by ^ train and also where Com missioner Enright of to grief last year. r ... v - ’V * ’ * * * * * ~ r ' ' J0& ~ * * ^ \y ■ * v ** > v. *• X Mb. X 1 w»iE> P hotos .B y •j.Hvrve*Ciuiem PREEPOTIT F R 0 7 V\ THE AIR . v New York came THOUGHT OFFICER A HIGHWAYMAN Woman Speeds Away When Stop ped by. Main Clothes Policeman A peculiar auto accident took place in Freeport Tuesday night at about eleven-thirty, when S^iss Seabeck of Miller avenue in company with her husband and another man drove a car into a tree at the comer of At lantic and Miller avenues. Lieut. Elmer Raynor of tne Free port Police Department was on duty at that point in plain clothes, because of the fact that Miss Seabeck had been held up there several weeks be fore. Lieut. Raynor noticed the car com ing along the avenue at a good clip and showing no lights, and he made an attempt to halt it. Seeing a man in front of the car commanding them to stop, and not recognizing him as an officer, Miss Seabeck thought him to be another holdup man, and upon the advice of her companions in the back seat, she \stepped on it” and shot away. Lieut. Raynor fired a shot in the air to stop her, but she only went the faster and when she attempted to turn the corner, came to grief and crashed into a tree. She was later served with a sum mons for driving along the highway without lights and will appear in court Tuesday to answer. -------------4 ------------- EXPERTS FOR BRIDGE BONDS Supervisor Smith, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, was authorized at Monday’s meeting to. employ a firm of New York bond experts in con nection with the proposed issue of bondi for the construction uf the Long Beach and Bayville bridges. WOMAN ELECTED IN CLUB NEW LYNBROOK TAXI RATES The Village Board of Lynbrook have adopted a new taxi rate for the vil lage of thirty-five cents for any point in the confines of the village, for a single passenger. Twenty-five cents for two or more; children under eight accompanied by parent or guardian, free. NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF ELKS TO BE CELEBRATED SATURDAY Annual Pilgrimage to Long Island Towns —Band and Floats .ye’ The ninth anniversary of the Free: port Lodge of Elks will be celebrated in a fitting manner next Saturday wheh a unique event, known as the annual pilgrimage, will be instituted. A caravan of automobiles and floats will leave Freeport and pass through the different towns in the neighbor hood, returning for a grand jubilee at the club house in Freeport in the ev- ening. Past Exalted Ruler Leo Fishel will lead the parade, and the pilgrimage was suggested by him in the first place. With him will ride Exalted Ruler Albin N. Johnson, who has been very active in making the Freeport Lodge of Elks predominant in all fra ternal doings on Long Island. Floats In Line A large float, carrying a brass band will be well up at the head of the car avan and the “Mystic Myst of the B. B. B. B.” are planning to pose on a float in their gaudy costumes. The Elks’ Minstrel Chorus will occupy an other float and will be heard in rol licking choruses along the route. Fifteen prizes from $1 to $5 have been offered for the best photograph taken of the parade, anywhere along the route. This contest is open to all comers, regardless of experience or the make of camera, as allowance will be made for small kodaks. Photo graphs should be sent to Albin John son, Freeport Lodge of Elks. The pictures will be judged by Glickman of Freeport and photographers from other towns. Schedule Of Trip The schedule of route, expected time of arrival and local committees are as follows: Leave Freeport 12:46 p. m., Leo Fishel, E. A. Rice, Joseph Hirsch, R. P. Domschke, A. B. Wallace, G. B. Hunt, H. C. Albers, Miles Brown; reach Bellmore 1:00 p. m. and Wan- tagh 1:06 p. m„ C. H. Russel, Nick Meyer, J. J. Molloy, W. E. Southard, E. J. Seaman: Amityville 1:20 p. m., P. Diehl, jr.. C. E. Strong, E. A. Sax ton, Lindenhurst, 1:35 p. m„ Louis Barasch, F.Sheide, H. J. Bush; Baby lon 1:46 p. m., E. Freund, D. D. Downing, C. Snedeker; Farmingdale 2:26 p. m., J. J. Green, J. Dittrich, A. M. Brown; Hteknville 2:40 p. m., H. Offenlock, R. H. Russel. J. Puvogel; Oyster Bay 8:00 p. m., N. Disbrow, C. N. Oakes, W. W. HutchinsonjMen Cove 3:80 p. m, H. F. Webber, H. Un derhill; Sea Cliff 8:80 p. ny, F. G. Conklin, O. Schultz, J. E. Curley; Min eola 4:20 p. Dr. E. G. Cooley, D. Handler, J. H. Andrews; Hempstead 4:30 p. m., G. H. Papenmeyer, A. H. Voigt, J. J. Newman; Lynbrook 5:00 p. m., E. Neuberg, C. Webber, TV W. Eyre; Cedarhurst 5:15 p. nv., C. W. Smith, T. V. Barbuti, H. J. Southard; East Rockaway 5:30 p. m., J. A. Clair, J. E. W. Johnson, A. W. Compton; Rockville Centre 5:40 p. m., W. C. Wild, J. W. Morisse, C. R. Ankers; Baldwin 6:00 p. m., Dr. W. J. Steele, Oscar Jacobs, W. H. Raynor. Jubilee In the Evening The pilgrimage will end with a grand jubilee at the club house in Freeport where there will be a grand stag affair with plenty to eat, boxing, wrestling and vadueville. While this is the first annual pilgrimage it is ex pected that it will be a regular feat ure from r.ow on and a grand recep tion is expected in each of the towns that are passed through. CARPENTER’S *EYE PUT OUT Slip of Screw Driver Gouges Eye So It Has To Be Cut Out Michael Sarro of Albany avenue was fixing a desk in the Grove Street School Tuesday afternoon when the screw driver he was using slipped and injured one of his eyes to the extent that it had to be cut out. He was on the floor putting a screw in the under part of the desk so that his head was bent over the place he was working. When the accident happened he was rushed to New York in an endeavor to save his eye, but it was found that the eyeball was hope lessly damaged and had to be taken out altogether. CAsiSENT TO MERRICK Alleged Petty Larceny Happened Out side of Freeport The case of Peter Bogdon of Free port, who was charged with, taking money from a woman while in a taxi early Sunday mdrning, was thrown out of court in Freeport by Judge Johnson when it was determined that the alleged petty larceny was commit ted outside of Freeport and fn Mer rick. One woman and three men, the worse for drink, drove around town from two in the morning until six, and refused to pay taxi hire. Some where along the Babylon turnpike they stopped and it was then that |30 was stolen from the woman. It was the testimony of Patsey Bar- bero, a local taxi driver, that caused the case to go out of town as the lo cation of the alleged crime as de scribed by him, was in Merrick. The Catholic Bov Scouts from the Church at the Holy Redeemer have returned from their camping I*ke Ronkonkomi most pleasant and SCENES AT CORNER STONE LAYING TO INVITE J .0 . U. A. M. HERE Delegates To State Council Will Invite ■**^1921 Council To Freeport The State Council of the Jr. O. U. A. M. being held in Schenectady next week may be held in Freeport in 1921 if the plans of the committee go right, as the delegates from Freeport Council have been instructed to invite the State Council to meet here at their next annual session in 1921. The Freeport delegates were as fol lows: C. Wesley Golden, Frank S. Snedeker, sr., Rodney L. Scudder, Wil liam H. Edwards, Walter B. Cozzens and J. W. Southard. Photographs of Event Last Sunday When Temple Israel Was Dedicated The photograph on the left is of the Temple Israel on the day of the cere monies, d(-decked with flags and bunt ing. On the right can be seen Morris Miller, the oldest member of the He brew Congregation, standing beside the cornerstone he has just placed in position. DRIVES CAR ON R. R. TRESTLE Ray O’Conner of Brooklyn, who demonstrates automobiles, demon strated that his car could ride the L. I. R. R. trestle frtim Wreck Lead to the entrance to Long Beach. Judge Neu of Lynbrook demonstrated that it was not according to the way that things were being done in Nassau and fined O’Connor $25; WOODCLEFT FRES i T a T r \ HOME The Woodcleft Fresh Air Home at Freeport is drawing its season to a close and will end with the present consignment of boys now there. Dur ing the summer requests were re ceived from fifty-two parishes in New York City for about nine hundred ‘children, but only seven hundred and sixty-six could be accommodated. CHARGED WITH FORGERY Vincent V. Wakaiser, a young Span iard, who lives on Whitehouse ave nue, Roosevelt, was held in the Ja maica Police Court Saturday on com plaint of L. A. Shapiro, a clothing salesman, who charged that Wakaiser bought $100 worth of clothing and gave as payment a state bank check of Wisconsin, for $224.67, signed by state officials. It was a fake check which he had bought from a man for ------------- *------------- SKIRT SALK oly Kedeemvr nave Ralph Samet, who conducts a store rir camping trip to handling a line of women’s apparel, b and -reported a has advertised a sale of skirts in this 1 instructive time. issue. Look for the advertisement. EXPLOSION WRECKS GREENHOUSE LIGHTS Bellmore Man Testing Gasoline Tank Has Narrow Escape From Death George Regan of North Bellmore, who is well known in Bellmore on ac count of his taxi and bus business, had a narrow escape from death Satur day when a gasoline tank he had pur chased, exploded. The tank in question had been bought from a man in Floral Park and had been used for water. Friday it wras brought to Regan's house and filled with gasoline in order to test it out. Regan filled the holes to prevent the children from throwing dirt into the tank. Saturday morning he removed his plugs and started to examine the inside of the tank. Both ends of the tank were blown out with a report that was heard all over the neighborhood. A greenhouse nearly eight hundred feet away from his home had several lights shattered and Regan’s own house was more or less wrecked] The only injury that he received was a burned face, and he was able to continue working after the accident. Dr. M. H. Skou of Grand avenue at tended him. It is supposed that the fumes of the gasoline coming in sudden contact with the air produced the combustion that resulted in t he explosion. WASHWOMEN STRIKE IN R.V.C. The housewives of Rockville Centre are doing their own laundry work as a result of a strike by washwomen who demand more than four dollars per day for getting the dirt out of the town’s clothing. - ------------ 4 ------------- FINED FOR RECKLESS DRIVING Charles Bass, a motorman employed by the Long Island Traction Co., was summoned to court Tuesday morning and fined $1 for running his car past the safety, zope on Main street Mon day. ^ ________ CAR STOLEN FBOM DETECTIVE County Officer Thomas Barbuti has been the terror of the auto thieves for some time, but one brave crook, prob ably through ignorance, stole the cat of the detective from in front of the police station at Jamaica Tuesday ev ening. The detective had a patent de vice of hie own invention on the car that waa supposed to prevent just such an occurrence. FAVORS SITE NUMBER THREE Freeport Taxpayer Gives Views On School Proposition FIREMEN RETURN Delegates to the State Firemen’s Convention at Glen’s Falls have re turned to Freeport and have report ed that Binghampton, N. Y., was suc cessful in getting the next convention. The delegates were empowered to in vite the convention to Freeport next South Side Democrats Place Mrs. II. B. King As Vice President The South Side Democratic Club met in the Wide Awake Engine Co. house on Church street Wednesday evening and elected officers. At the last meeting of the club the question of admitting women was taken up and favored. As a result, a woman was elected to the office of vice president. John M. Harrington was elected president and Mrs. Hamilton B. King, vice president. The executive com mittee appointed Edward Rice as sec retary and treasurer. POOR SERVICED HEMPSTEAD Hempstead is complaining of the service the trolley company is giving them in going from village to village along the line. In the middle of the day conditions are not bad, out in the business rush before 9 and after 6 at night, for two hours, it requires a person as long to get to Freeport as one could walk the distance. CEREMONIES MARK LAYING OF TEMPLE ISRAEL CORNER STONE PRISONERS CHAINED TO AUTO County Detective Has New May Of Handling Culprits Single Handed County Detective Leonard Thorne is credited with a new device in his automobile that will enable him to go after prisoners single handed and will not require another detective to sit on the front seat to watch them. The device is a bar, several inches from the floor and close to the base of the rear seat. A pair of handcuffs and a chain are connected with it and when a prisoner is out in the automo bile he is chained to the seat and can not get away until released. MOVIE CITY FOR R. V. C. August 23rd, 1920. Editor Nassau County Review, Main Street, Freeport, L. I. Dear Sir:— It is with much interest that I have ! read the articles in the several papers ! relative to the proposed high school i site for Freeport. I note that the lo cal paper and the Brooklyn papers | differ materially in their views. The Brooklyn Times of Monday, August 17, 1920, published an item on the sub ject which was very thorough in its explanation of the several sites to be submitted. I am of the opinion that the people of Freeport do not quite understand the value or size of the property sub mitted as described in the local paper and the information submitted does not sufficiently dwell upon the advant ages or disadvantages. The Times pointed out that two of the proposed sites fronted on Bayview avenue and one in particular, Site No. 3. had a frontage on three streets, Bayview avenue, Merrick road and Smith street with opportunity of securing addition al vacant property if desired. This site also had three large dwellings and it appears to me that if a high school site ia to be acquired, the peoplg could not select a better or more prominent location than that offered in Nd. 3. The price also seems extremely rea sonable on account of the size of the property and salvage that Could be secured for the building when sold. . I am cognizant of the fact that the sites are fully described in the legal notice published, but think that too much publicity cannot be given this Very important matter in your news column. The people should give same considerable thought as the village is growing rapidly and a proper high school is meet essential. If we are to spend $690,000 for a high school let us ercet it in s suitable and conspic- $15,000,000 Corporation To Build At Oceanside In \Dry Reservoir!\ Rockville Centre will soon be an other Universal City, as a fifteen mil lion dollar corporation has planned to build such a place in the tract at Oceanside known as the “dry reser- An option has been obtained on it from R. D. West and it is expected that the deal will be closed in the near future. A group of about thirty- five buildings have been planned and the L. I. R. R. have agreed to place a station there as well as other accom modations. The following men are interested in the project: J. W. Semier of Cali fornia, August Weber of Rockville Centre, Charles Davenport and Wal ter Koenig. --------- ♦---------- PROBE, FOLLOWING DEATH BY LIVE W IRE The death of George Zeese of Brooklyn, who was killed at 'Long Beach by grasping a live wife recent ly, will be followed by a probe. Asst. District Attorney Elvin Edwardn at the first hearing on August 13 asked Judge Neu to send an electrician to the Trouville Club where the accident happened in order to make a complete investigation. Young Zeese went to France with the Twenty-third Regi ment, Brooklyn’s crack outfit. APPLE DUMPLING FEAST The Bennington Park Baptist Church will give an old-faehloned ap ple dumpling feast next Tuesday for the benefit of the building fund. There will be good music and refreshments. uous location not on some side street or back in the woods. I am personally strong for Site No. 3 which is very nearly centrally lo cated and which would be an appro priate landmark near the entrance of our beautiful village. A. RESIDENT AND TAXPAYER. Freeport, Long Island. Many Noted Speakers-- Copy of Review Is Placed in Stone Blue sky and a broiling sun did not deter the people of Freeport from at tending the laying of the cornerstone of the Temple Israel at Broadway and Mount avenue, Freeport, by the He brew Congregation Sunday after- When completed the Temple Israel will be one of the prettiest buildings in Freeport, as it will present a pic ture of white stucco and stained glass. Ample facilities have been made for religious and social gatherings and it is hoped that some sort of service will be held in the new edifice during the fall holidays, although the building it self will not #e completed. C. Kern of Freeport is the archi tect and James H. Lindsay also of Freeport is the builder. The boys’ band of fifty pieces, from the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, under the leadership of James F. Knox, journeyed to town in order to play during the ceremonies, and their music was of the highest order- May er & Glaser, proprietors of a delica tessen on Main street, fed the lads at noon with a specially prepared ban quet. Following the Star Spangled Ban ner and a Jewish hymn played by the boys’ band, President Harry Barasch opened the ceremonies with words of welcome to the people of Freeport and Rev. Dr. Landman of Far Rockaway led in player. Review in Cornerstone Morris Miller, the oldest member of the Hebrew Congregation, laid the cornerstone, using a golden trowel. A copy of the Nassau County Review was sent for and laid in the stone by special request of the committee. A telegram was received from Vil lage President Clarence A. Edwards congratulating the Hebrew Congre gation on their event and a letter was received from Ralph Peters, president of the Long Island Railroad. Pledges :ved 1 ceremonies were recei at the amounting to $6,000. Many of the speakers were known to Free porters and they made stirring addresses Urging good fel lowship among all men, and eulogiz ing the work of the Congregation in Freeport and elsewhere. They were as follow*: Supervisor Hiram R. Smith, Judge Albin N. Johnson, Rev. J. Sidney Gould, President Harry Bar asch, Rev. E. Landman of Far Rock away, Moats Feltenatein, chairman of ceremonies: Judge J. B. Strahl of Brooklyn, Judge Leon Sanders at New m York, Councilor George Morton Levy, of Freeport,
