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« - - '■ \ • - Our Christmas Issue Big Fire at Lenker’s Greenhouses ' SOUTH SIDE M ESSEN Vol 5 , Number 20 Every Friday OFFICIAL PAPER, FREEPORT VILLAGE F r e e p o r t a n d b e l l m o r e , n . y ., F r i d a y . D e c e m b e r 1 3 ,1 9 1 2 $1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 Cents Merrick Single copies of be hao a t Max Trillitzech Merrick. L I. the Messenger can **’ news stand tf Services a t the Church of the Re deemer, Snnday, ihe third in Advent, at 7:80 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Celebration of the Holy Communion at the early service and Morning Prayer and sermon at the 11 o'clock service. The Sunday School meets in the Parish House a t 10 a. m. The practice of Christmas carols will be continued. The Woman’s Auxiliary meets each week in the Parish House on Thurs- daya at 2:80 p. m. Daring Advent a service is held in the church on Fri day afternoons a t 4 p. m. Meetings will be held next week for the tying ef Christmas greens, beginning on Wednesday evening. A cordial wel come is extended te all to attend the services of this church and, join in its community service. Electricity From Waves htsbnrf Concern Contracts to Put In a Plant on Fire Island Beach and Furnish Current to Beach Resorts Saltaire and other beach resorts will have electric light and power next sum mer if the plans of the Pittsburg Wave Motion Power Company go toward to comaummation as is at presentexpected. This is a firm of ample capital and al ready of quite a little, experience in this particular manner of producing electri cal energy. We are informed that plants similar to the one to be placed on the Great South Beach are already in successful operation at Atlantic City and a t other points in the East Contracts have already been signed and the Wave-Motion company has made the necessary surveys and secur ed the necessary permission from the War department to enable them to place their piers in position and proceed to get <heir plant m shape for opera tion by next spring Eventually this pply eli Bellmore Single copies of the Messenger can be had a t William Wolfe’s drug store Bellmore L. I. at 6c each. tf A number of the numerous friends of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hopkins passed a very pleasant evening with them at their borne on the 7th Inst, It was the anniversary of their wed ding day and congratulations, presents, music and a sumptuous collation were beautifully blended and greatly enjoy ed by all. “ May their sbadowa never grow less.” One who was there. Rev. Mr. Spare of New York City preached a very fine sermon in the Bellmore Ave. Presbyterian Church last Sunday evening and will preach there again next Sunday evening, De cember 16, at 7:80. A young daughter arrived at the home df Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Drake, Mr,. C. N. Kent ha. sold „ H. K. I | >»'«'■« Fairfax through H. Schuyler Cam- but the beach resorts will be taken care | eleven pounde. Dinnn broker, h e r residence. “ W a v - n f first.. * _________ ________ . . the Fairfaxs have occupied “ Sunny- croft,” Kirkwood Ave. and Linden- mere Drive. Poaaeeaion takes place the first of April. The Kents are old and honored residents of Merrick, be ing first settlers in their section of the village and if they decide to leave Merrick, as now seems likely, they will be greatly and sorrowfully missed. Merrick Fire Drill Feats of SkiB Displayed by Fore man Bunker's “Braves” You can by those Xmas cigars of Charles Moravec. The Merrick Cigar Manufacter. Place vour orders now. The Dasketball team of the Men’s Club defeated a team from Freeport on the local court last Friday night by a score of 7 to 21. The first half end ed with the score 7-4 against Merrick but in the second half Freeport did not score a basket. The game was a little rough but the confined area of court surface was largely accountable for this. The spirit was good on the part of both teams. Local pride in the clever work of the home boy a gives it self fine vent at these games. To night the club plays a team from St. Genige’s Club, Hempstead. Admia- aion is 10 cents. Sixty men gathered at the Parish House of the Church of the Redeemer^ on Tuesday evening to celebrate witn the Men’s Club the fourth anniversary of ita existence. The affair was in the nature of a smoker. Joseph Mezo waa the talented entertainer of the evening, giving pleasure with-an ex cellently chosen program of reading and song. Speeches of congratula tion, of the purpose, and of the value of aucb a club aa this Men’s Club to the community were made by Curtis Bowne, the rector of the parish, H. B. McCord and Harry Leich. A “ walk around” and songs with H. R. Zeiner at the piano and improvised fun kept thing|rmofing until after midnight. The refreshments were sandwiches, coffee and Itike. The newly-elected officers and committees of this club for the ensuing year are: A. J. Anthony, pres.; Rudolf Koepple, sec.; Wm. H. Littebrandt, treus. Membership Com , C. H. Bowne; chairman; Geo. Muller, Wm. Varneke. House Com., Major Christoffel, chairman; Herbert Colvin, K. E. Hewlett, H. R. Zeiner and Karl Brown. power in electrical energy arc there i Firemen’s Hall on Friday evening, of daily developed. The movements of the last week was well attended and ocean are as unceasing and as unvarying . proved a great success, a neat sum t e as the flow of Niagara and Who knOWS : -- ----- 1 : ---- I KniMtno funtt but that some day there will be in this section a similar source of “juice” fot light and for manufacturing enterpris es. In response to the resonant clanging of the bell of Hook and Ladder Com pany No. 1, all the ‘tbravea’1 In town at (he time responded with their usual promptness and alacrity. ,Tbe foreman of the company, Har- » old Bunker, la revered and horored by hie men and his orders are always irh plipitly obeyed and followed. The men found when on duty that they were summoned to practice and they entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion. The company was originally incor- porated as Merrick Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, and that is still Its official title, hot it now uses a variety of apparatus. The equipment includes a truck carrying ladders, hooka, axes, buckets and long handled shovels for use at fires in the woods; one chemical fire extinguishing fluid, and 100 feet of special chemical hose, with two hose carts, each carrying 600 feet of 2 inch standard water hose. Nozzles of vari- i ous sizes are carried, and all fittings are of the same size as those used in New York and in most other large cities. This hose is ordinarily connect- Freeport Single copies of the Messenger can be secured at Greenblatt’s or Bnuth- waite’a news stores on Railroad Ave., or Kiefer’s, Main Street, Freeport. L. L ______ tf Misa M. Shepherd of Brooklyn spent Friday aa tb? guest ef Mr. and Mr. Nelson T. Seaman, of North Main Street. In the surveys and observations made, a ground swell was discovered where the motion of the water is the same, no matter what the weather. The wave motion may be greater in degree heig’ * 1 ! at tJ off Lonelyvitie, a little east or saltaire, that the large iron pier is to be erected and the poptoons set in position. “Our method of harnessing the ocean,” said the representative, “ is to build a steel pier, several hundred feet long, out into the surf. Across the end of this pier, and parallel with the shore line, will be an extension steel pier, which will carry the pontoons or buoys from which the motive power is deriv ed. There will be five of these pontoons to begin with. Each pontoon is twen ty-two feet in diameter. Above each pontoon is a cylinder, fourteen feet high and two feet in di ameter. The rise and fal' of the waves produce an up-an-dow:, motion of the pontoons, which works a piston inside the cylinders. At each stroke air is compressed in storage tanks. Air pres sure is turned into tne water tank and ing realized toward the building fund of the new church. The feature of the fair was the fishing pond, which great ly amused the children, several of them getting some handsome articles from the pond. The Epworth League of the Bell more Methodist Episcopal Church held a social at the home of Charles D. Wicks, Grand Avenue, on Thursday evening of this week. The affair was largely attended by members of the League and friends and those present greatly enjoyed themselves. In our last issue an article stated that the Christmas exercises of the M. E. Church would be held December 8. This was an error, and should have been Wednesday evening, December 18, which is next week. The children of the school are preparing for these exercises, being drilled by the teachers. All are welcome to attend. Exercises start at 8 p. m. Benjamin T. Smith, of Freeport, filed papers this morning in a suit to recover from hie son, Howard, the deed for the Smith hotel property at Freeport. The hotel and two adjoin ing buildings with the plat of land are valued at about $40,000. The papers in the suit state that ow ing to a disagreement between the father and son the father determined to try to regain the deed. It ie understood that the deed was made out to the son Howard about the time that domestic troubles arose in the family, in the year 1897, resulting in a divorce for the father. At that time the deed, according to the papers, was placed in the office of the Queens County Clerk with the understanding that it was not to be filed. In 1907 father and son went to the clerk's office and learned that the deed had been tiled. It was not until a dispute be tween father and son arose that the ttay d,d loB .llim o r. ,h«y woold'find ^ ‘0|eS , ,7 „ lh™Bro„rMy°,rA i L e i e that the Merrick hydrant and hose , ___ L_*_ would fit the city engines. Kerry Go’W, in three reels, at the The hydrants and hose were installed i Plaza Friday, Dec. 13. This is a last sumfher, and it is hoped that it \photo Play that the Kalem Co. has will now be possible to conquer the produced in Ireland, and will be shown some con trolling device which will ensure a uni- very of energy to the dynamos. the water, thus under high pressure is used to drive a turbine, which in turn drives the dynamos. The motion of the waves is of course uncertain; sometimes it may be a foot and some times is may be eight or ten feet. That is why we use a fourteen foot air-compressing clyinder. Because of this lack of uniformity in the length of the stroke of the pistons is is necces- sary to have a governor fling d form deli That is why we combine the pneumatic with the hydraulic to drive the turbine. The air in the storage tank is always at the same pressure.” The company is going to put this plant in on its own account, more as an ex periment or a demonstration than for . . , any other purpose. When asked where j of clothing, dry the company expected to supply cur-! Christmas week, rent, the representative said: “Any where on Long Island, eventually. We have not yet contracted with anyone to furnish current.” The power to be secured from the ocean, the representative said, is be yond computation. It is without limit and is almost eternal. Then by way of Tomorrow night, Saturday, Is the date of the Leap Year dance at Fire men’s Hall to be given by the S. M. C., a club composed of some of the young ladies of the village. This is the first dance held in the hall since last Labor Day night and will probab ly be the last one to be held there* as the new fire hall will soon be com pleted (7). Everyone is invited to a t tend this affair and a good time is promised to all. Admission will be 26 cents, and George R. Wolfing will furnish the music. flames even after they have burst through to the outside of a frame building and are beyond the control of the chemical engine. The chances of success will vary with the conditions, such a promptness of alarm, distance from nearest hydrant, and distance from pumping station. With a email nozzle and full service pressure tbe top of the highest building in Merrick can be reached with a stream thrown from the ground. Four streams can be thrown at once. Outside of the water district the chemical engine will continue to be the principal standby. Means for renewing the chemical charge are carried, and on one occasion the engine was in continuous operation nearly all night. For a fire within the water district with the true atmosphere and every real characteristic of the Irish soil and the Irish heart. The power and charm of this production lies in the romantic little by-plays so dear to tbe Irish heart; its humor and pathos. The Irish landscape is truly produced. When you see the characters, you see just the kind you would expect to meet on an Irish road or in a journey through the country. Adv. f ’ire which broke out at about 9:30 Thursday evening did great damage a the greenhouses of Charles Lenker on North Main Street, and at one time threatened the destruction of the en tire plant. As it waa the large wind mill was destroyed, with the small buildings at tbe ends ef the green- the general plan of operations is as fol-! houses, used as an office, for the heat- lows: ing plant, etc., and hundreds of dollars The first member to arrive at head- worth of flowers and potted plants quarters takes command of the whole v|pre ruined by water and ice. company until relieved by an officer, j The flames were discovered by mem- With the first few men to arrive he ! hers of Russelll Hose Co., who were Antonio Palermo's five and ten cent store on Bedford Avenue ia well stock ed with many useful tbffigs. See his ed in this issue. M. Karpp & Son will conduct a sale goods, etc., during Town Board All the members of the Town Board were present at the meeting held Mon day afternoon. Tbe contract presented by the Bald win Water Company to be signed by the Town Board, In connection with tbe Baldwin Water District, waa read and ordered returned to the Company aa it did not comply with the bid and therefore the Board could not accept i t This action waa taken after the opinion of Counaelor Lewis J. Smith had been read. The Board added two more items to the annual budget; that of $1800 for j the salary of tbe District Superintend ent of Schools and $26^8 for the con demnation proceedings for the exten sion of Craig Avenue in Baldwin. James Bedell of East Rockaway mode application for the lease of Town land along Mill River Creek and ad joining the L. 1. R. R. trestle at East Rockaway. Tbe appliration waa re ferred to the Committee on Town Land*. Next Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock iwaa set aa tbe time to make the final inspection of tbe new Town Almehooae. enlightenment, he added: “If it were possible for us to harness all of the power possessed by one acre ; of the ocean we should be able to supply 1 all the current urwded for light, power or traction purposes needed for Long Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Philadel phia and all intermediate and contigu ous territory.”—Bay Shore Journal. A meeting of the Bellmore Baseball Club will be held at Edward Smith’s store next Thursday evening at 8 o’clock, when officers for the coming season will be elected and arrange ments made for dances to be held dur ing the winter months. All members of the Club are requested to attend. starts with the first hose carriage. The second group of the men follow with the ladder truck; tbe third sqdad come next with the second hose cart, and a fourth crew brings the chemical engine. In drill trials were made with one hose crew purposely limited to the minimum number of seven men, sta tioned as follows: No. 1, in charge; No. 2, hydrant; No. 3, hydrant; No. 4, nozzle; No. 5, nozzle; No. 6, lineman; No. 7. line man. At the drill the crew practiced pre cisely as at a fire, the procedure being as follows: As the hose cart, drawn by the whole meeting next door, and word was im mediately sent for the balance of tbe Roosevelt Fire Department, which, however, did not arrive. At 10 o’clock word was telephoned to Free port, this being just outside of the In corporate limits, and a double alarm was sounded cn call 12, which brought out the entire department. When Hose 2, the first company, arrived, they found Russell Hose Company working hard with one stream on tbe fire, and very little pressure, and three more streams were turned on. The fire was immediately gotten un der control, but it required hard work to finally drown out the flames. The Undaimed Letters (Freepwt Post Office) Codlend, Mr W. B. Ford. Misa Mattie L. Uuedon, Mr. J. A. Gudebrod, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Homan, Frank Hotel, The Imperial Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jackson, Misa Florence Miller, Mr. A. R., Church St. O’Brien. Mr. Dennis Price, Mr. Fred Reuftle, Mr. Gus Selleck, Mr. Sylvester Stevens, Mr. John Welch, Rube Wright, Mrs. Kate Warriner, Edward S. Foreign Douylurt, Mr. P, Libbermann, Frau Minaa . Ro^it G. Anderson, P. M. Dee. 9, 1911. Cake sale tomorrow, Saturday, af ternoon, from 2:80 until-4 o’clock in Badenbope’s ice cream parlors; held | by tne Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church. If you want to make your Christmas tree look better than usual this year see J. H. Weiner’s ad in Everybody’s | Column. WANTED FARM—Farm 3 to 10 acres, some stock, house and barn, also , chicken houses, 20 or 26 miles out on ; Long Island. P. H. O'Neil, 72 Rail- j road Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. No Deaths in Ten Days Not a'death certificate has been li- ! sued in the entire township of Hemp- ; stead by Clerk Thomas F. Gilbert, jr., during the last ten days. L This is probably the lowest death j rate in tbe history of the clerk's office. Tbe population exceeds 86,000. X* —Times. Tie beet way Is fight the wtfl erJer heese ie I FT heeetlsg year ewa hawmii mat wethieg ye* herJert Is —he it vrew.jfAdvertWag la this heper will h s ^ crew on the run, approaches, the two large wheel on top of the windmill hydrant men drop to the rear, seize the turned until it crashed down into the end of the hose and hold fast, taking a flames. Two Freeport companies con- turn without stopping, the hose run- nected with the double outlet hydrant ning out on the ground. The cart is at the corner of Main Street and Sea- stopped as close to the fire as possible, man Avenue, and found the pressure j The hose run out is uncoupled from good, although the steamer was im- that remaining on the cart, the riozzle mediately coupled on and did very good service. , Tbe origin of the fire is not nositive- ly known, it having eaten through the ■ idea and to the top of the windmill when discovered, but its origin is credited to incendiarism. An attend- handling the hose and watch for leaka. 1 ant had been the place twenty Be force tbe hose ia taken up it ie un- ; minutes befordto look after the firea coupled at each fifty-foot length, and ! and reported everything safe, drained. “ Gentlemen firemen,’’ or the After tbe blaze bad been extinguieh- ■o-called aristocrats of tbe company, I ed, the steamer was run up side of the find the whole operation exceedingly j buildings and the water pumped from severe oi collars and cuffs. the cellar so that the fires could be In drill some water was used merely , started. This probably resulted in the EvwnrM *'* CwlwwswIjAkhwtlww H In Cvwrybady a Column men screw on the nozzle and advance to the fray. By this time tbe hydrant men have already connected the hose to the hydrant and at the call of “ Water” given by No. 1, tbe water is turned on. Tbe linemen assist in to wet the hose (and Incidentally the men), but no effort was made to throw a long stream. For that purpose a smaller nozzle is need and the engine ...» at the pumping station increasea the Have been destroyed, pressure by pumping directly into tbe The loss will amttUpt mains. The following are the officers and members of the company: Harold Bunker, foreman; John Verity, assist ant foreman; E. W. Angel, chief en gineer of chemical; F. L. Walker, secretary ; D. W. Lawson, treasurer; John B.. Christoffel, finanbial secre tary; H. H. Cammsnn, EL C. Cam mann, H. S. Gammann, J. W. Birch, (Continued on page 8) ' M *‘t serve M In the M essenger’ saving of thousands of dollars t> Mr Lenker, as bad the fire not been start ed, to keep the rest of the booses warm, almost the entire stock would to thoussnd dollars, it being impossible at the present to estimate the damage done to the plants. No insurance. Hot coffee was served to the firemen by Mrs. Lenker. and her daughters, which was very much appreciated, as tbe water waffreexing nearly as fast a^ it struck, and many of tbe firemen were coated with iee. (Continued on page 5) If you w a n t to reneh th e pwoylo gut ft In the “ Meaeenger. • To Celebrate the Start State and Gty Officials to Attend Banquet Attending Commence ment Work on Jamaica Bay Governor Dix, General-elect William Sulzer Mayor Gaynor and many other public officials are to take part on Sat urday, December 14, in a celebration which is to commemorate the incep tion of actual work by the city on the development of Jamaica Bay into a great international . harbor, and as aa export and import terminal for the en larged Erie Canal. The contractors who have been en gaged by the city have announced that they are ready to begin work on tbe dredging of tbe first section of tbe in ner main channel of the projected har bor, and have set December 14 as the date on which they will start opera tions. The dredging is to be\ started on the westerly side of the bay, be tween Barren Inland and Mill Basin. ^ Following tbe setting of this date as the day when dredging operations will be begun, the Jamaica Bay Improve ment Association has completed plane to celebrate the beginning of the devel opment with commemorative exercises and a dinner. The executive coronflt- tee of the association has been assured that the State and city officials will be glad to participate on such an occasion and an elaborate program has there fore been arranged. The geiyera! scheme of the celebra tion, as completed thus far, contem plates a commemorative dinner at Arion Hall, Rockaway Beach, follow ing appropriate exercises in the same hall and on tbe beach near the scene of the dredging at 2 o’clock in the after noon. A special train has been ar- \ ranged for to leave Flatbuah Avenue at.l o’clock on Saturday afternoon, December 14, to take all tbe guests to the beach and to bring them back at the conclusion of the exercises. Transportation is also to be provided at the bea:h for all who attend, to and from the hall and the trhin. The members of the execotive com mittee of the Jamaica Bay Improve ment Association believe that the af fair will be a memorable occasion, and “ one that will do honor to all those , who take part in the proceeding.” These are the members of the commit tee: Henry A. Meyej, Elwin S. Piper. John R. Corbin, George W. Wilson, Addison Wheeler, Jared J. Chambers. A. B. Firmin, James T. Hoile, James: Russell Curley and N. B. KI timer, treasurer. — Rockaway News. Say Game Wardens Neglect Duty “ The Game Wardens are not doing their duty in the Great South Bay,” said Foster Sprague, Freeport’s Road Commissioner, and in spare time a suc cessful hunter. “ If they were they would arrest some of the would-be hunt- era who chase wild geese and other fowl in motor boats.’’ Mr. Sprague declared that amateur huntsmen with more money than brains go into the waters of the Great Sooth Bay in motor boats, that they set up snares and trapa to catch birds that come down to the water to mingle in with oecoya, and then, if one of the victims escapes they pursue in fast- going motors “ Some of theru have guns, but they do not know why. They either don’t, know ho j to use them or are too lazy,\ said Mr. Sprague. “ They lay . behind blinds in their power boats and when they fail to catch a bird in their snares, that is if one escapes, wound ed, they shoot out iff'their b»ats and bag it. Now the law provides that any one using devices of :his kind is liable to arrest and fine. Tbe same applies ie the event of using power or sailboats. The Conservation law,\ explains Mr. Sprague, “ makes a person who bunts in this manner liable to a $60 fine, and $26 for every bird or part of bird ia bis possession.” Commissioner Sprague and Fletcher Willis are two old-time South Side huntsmen. Cemmiesioner Sprague objects to the hunters who resort t • means objected to in the Conservation law. He says If tbe Game Wardens fail to do their duty, be and hie colleagues will take tbe law In their own hands. Section 211, part vi. of these laws allow# any one to seize and destroy traps and snares. They will also get rid of the* motor boat fiends, they >ey. —Brooklyn Time*. J e If yes try te “ev«r-edvwli«e year Mere hr • while—yes’! he theshfal tlet tech e “ c Mae” ever get Me year heed.
