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PAGE FOUR 1 TT’ T H E WATCHMAN THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939 THE WATCHMAN Founded in 1826 Entered as Second Clau Matter at the Mattituck Poat Off ice Publicotion Office Mattituck Press Phone 8320 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY By Mail Weekly - $1.50 Per Year HULL M. WICKHAM............Owner-Edltor THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1939 THE CUTCHOGUE FIRE DISTRICT The present Cutchogue Fire District was form e d in December 1927. A t th a t tim e a call for volunteers was sent out by the commissioners. Some fifty--four men offer ed their services as volunteer firemen. As they had one Reo chemical truck to work with, the Company becam e known as the United Chemical Company No. 1 of C u t chogue. In 1930 an A m erican La France 500 gallons pum p er with booster tank was added to the apparatus. The Company then changed its nam e to the United Fire Com pany No. 1 of Cutchogue. This nam e it still retains. As Cutchogue and its vicinity grew, the need of a hose cart becam e more and more apparent. The budget didn't in clude any appropriation for it, so the fire- meh decided to build one themselves. They purchased a second hand Pierce-Arrow and built the body themselves. The boys surely have reason to be proud of the truck for it is considered by many as the best looking, as well as the best built hose cart on this end.of the Island. This truck,>y:,qs completed jri’‘l'§3’]. All three pieces of apparatus are still in use a t the present tim e and a new utility truck, built especially for the Com pany, has recently been delivered. This truck will be one of the first on the North Fork with a cab. The Company also has in its possession, a two-wheel hand-drawn chem ical tank. This tank dates back to the old Company, th a t was organized Ground 1909. The last tim e it was used was back about 1918. The first chief of the present Company was Sherwood C. Beebe. Mr. Beebe held the office for the first five years of the new Company. He w a s .followed in turn by Steve Kaelin, Stanley Cose and Harry Mason, each of whom served two years. The present chief is Alfred Davids. The other officers for the year 1939 are Steve Kaelin, assistant chief; Eugene M cCaffery, captain; Edward Austin, Edward Tomas- zewski and Harrison Case, lieutenants; W a lter Kaelin, secretary; Wilson Tuthill, treasurer; Ray King, John W ickham and A d a m Zaveski, trustees; Stanley Ambroski, M ilton Folts and Ellis Billard, chief drivers. The Company also has a fire police force. The Componv has a t present fifty-seven active members. The Commissioners of the District ore Gercid Beebe, chairm a n ; P. H. Horton, C. W. Horton, J. Z. M a chinchick and Harry M eson. These men are trulv a represen tative group, consisting of business men, surveyor, garage owners and a caretaker. The commissioners are elected for five years, one being elected each year. During the past twelve years since its organization, the Componv has gained a wide reputation as an efficient, \on its toes\ fire company. It even gained n a tional recognition on the night of Decem ber 10, 1931, when they aided a U. S. Moil plane to land. The night was foggy and the pilot missed his regu'ar airport. The Cutchogue firemen took the fire truck and their own cars to the golf club and shone their lights on a level place on the links. The pilot said in the \N e w York Tim e s\ the following day: \The firemen soved the mail, the plane, and m e / ' This is only one wav in which the firemen served and are still serving the public. During the past year it was the first fire company on the North Fork to take first aid lessons under a Red Cross instructor. Twenty-one mpm- bers took this course and they oil possed their exams and received their Red Cross certificates. It was also the first company of the North Fork to purchase and learn to use an inhalator. This inhalator may some day save your life in case of drown ing, electrical shock or gas poisoni^ng. At the present ti,me the Company is or ganizing a blopd donors group, another first. Even though the group is still in its infancy, It has been called upon three tim es to donate blood to patients a t the Eastern Long Island Hospital. M aybe you will need a transfusion. Will you know where to get a person with the correspond ing type? These facts prove why the C u t chogue Vamps are known as alert, wide aw a k e firemen — a benefit to the com munity. ’’ But, to keep up their good work as fire men they need the co-operation of our residents, especially our visiting sum m er residents. They need co-operation now more than ever. Due to the drastic hur ricane of September 21, 1938, many wooded lands and shattered buildngs still need, to be cleared. W e ask you to be careful in the cleorng of these,londs and buildings. Lost year immedately afte r the hurricane we had signs printed and placed on practically every sum m er home in the district. They read: \Unless every property owner exercises extrem e caution in the clearing of property dam a g e d by the re cent storm, a grave danger of fire exists. Burn only on windless days and in small quantities. Hove w a te r within reoch a t all times. Put out all fires when leaving. W e ask your co-operation in this em e rgency.\ Please obey these signs. You may not only burn your property but your neigh bor's house os well. Think twice before burning anything! Remember also w h at Fire Company serves you. The Cutchogue Fire District includes among others Nassau Point, N a ssau Farms, Fleets Neck, New Suffolk, Eugene Heights, Baldwins Point, Kimogenor Point and Beochwood. On any fires a t these places dial 6262 for the Cutchogue firemen. Give the location and owner's nam e of the place afire. The houses of sum m er residents are often rent ed to differ^t..people every sum m e r., Jt<4s impossible-’^tfr the firemen to know who occupy all of these residences. But they do know most of the owners' names. If you rent a house through an agent and do not know the owner's nam e , stop in a t the firehouse on New Suffolk Lane. Leave your nam e and .the address of the place you occupy. The custodian, Edward Aus tin, is at the firehouse every day. Stop in, • look the apparatus over. W e like to get acquainted with our sum m e r friends. T H E WORLD OF TO M O R R O W (?) THE LAMPS OF CIVILIZATION Are the lamps of civilization in danger of going out? Some people think they are out already. On the evening of A u g u st 3, 1914, as the world was breaking out in war, Sir Edward Grey, English m inister of foreign affairs, m a d e a sad and prophetic rem ark, as he saw the street lamps being lighted. Said he: \The lamps ore going out all over Europe, they will not be lit again in our lifetim e.\ The lamps of the whole world may have seemed out through those terrible four years. The war days seem ed to belong to tne dark ages, rather than our supposedly enlightened era. But those lamps hove never been all out. W h a t are the lamps of c i v i ^ a t i o n on whose illumination we depend? i h e forces th a t m ake for progress are lamps t h a t light hum a n ity's path. Among the best of those lamps are religion, education, the free press, progressive governments, philanth ropic , societies, etc\. W e can thank God th a t those lamps have never been out in America. Even in Europe, they continued to burn through th J years of war and de pression. Yet they do smoke, and their illumination Is rendered weaker by the passions of men. Some people say thqt if a great war comes again, those lamps will go out, t h a t men and women will go back to barbarism , th a t we shall see social upheaval, perhaps anarchy. It is impossible to believe th a t. The libraries where m a n 's wisdom is stored are not going to be destroyed. Our print ing presses will keep turning out illumina tion. The hum a n race has had a long climb out of dorkness, and the light will never wholly foil. Those lamps would burn far brighter, and help us to see the way over all pit- fglls, if men and women would only be just and kind. C o al P la n t H e a ts W a ter In Sum m e r Hot though the weather may be, it’s still necessary to heat water in American homes. Coal-fueled heating plants adequately meet this summer problem. Indirect water heaters are on the market to be used in conjunc tion with stoker heating plants using coal. They operate so as to provide a steady supply of warm water for bath, laundry arid other household purppses. ' Installed to function with the boiler, stoker and storage tank, the indirect heaters are inexpen sive to maintain and are easily financed to meet the average budget. Coal dealers and heating equip ment contractors have all infor mation on how to acquire this needed summer service. NEW CAR OWNERS Dr. John L. Wasson, Mattituck, Chrysler brougham. Herbert L. Snell, Aquebogue, Dodge sedan. Marion Bowman, Riverhead, Buick sedan. Fred B. Corey, Greenport, Pon tiac sedan. Henry N. Wyckoff, Cutchogue, Pontiac sedan. Mary^ V. Polywoda, Riverhead, Ford coupe. James A. Lang, Riverhead, Pon tiac sedan. ‘ Russell L. Tuthill, Mattituck, Chevrolet platform truck. George T. Billard, Cutchogue, Parkard sedan. I. M. Young & Company, River head, Chevrolet pickup truck. I. M. Young & Company, River head, Chevrolet pickup truck. Bennett Orlowski, Cutchogue, Chevrolet sedan. Horace J. Wells, Riverhead, Plymouth sedan. Fanning & Housner, Riverhead, Chevrolet sedan. Lester J. Wells, Greenport, Chevrolet sedan. Gerald G. Fleet, Cutchogue, Plymouth sedan. William C. Albertson, Southold, Plymouth sedan. L. I. Ice Corporation, Riverhead. Ford truck. L. I. Ice Corporation, Riverhead, Ford truck. Riverhead Laundry Corp., Riv erhead, Ford panel. L. I. Ice Corporation, Riverhead Ford truck. John E. Oliver, Shelter Island Overland sedan. Helen M. Nagle, Cutchogue, Packard coupe. R E A L E S T A T E TRANSACTIONS JUDGMENTS (The name first given is that of the judgment debtor) Greenport Basin & Construction Company—Bangert Elefctric Co., Inc. $247.28 Michael Gallo—Goodrich Silver- town Stores $287.77 Russell S. Ferguson — H. W. Sweet Shipyard and • Machine Works, Inc. $241.85 John Swiderczeski and Mary gtiC'idersieski—^Francis C. Haupt^ \■ $67.85 Michael Shiminski—Raynor’s Ga rage ' $106.35 Arthur Glover—Raynor’s Ga rage $124.29 Greenport Basin & Construction Company—Bendix Products Di vision of the Bendix Aviation Corp. $124.50 Greenport Basin & Construction Company—Arthur J. Merkin as assignee $103.82 SATISFACTIONS OF JUDGMENTS Tuthill Lumber Co. against Samuel Morris $284.43 James C. Beckham and William B. Ketcham against George Yae- ger $171.83 Suffolk Mills, Inc. against Adam Skipka $51.81 MEMORIAL At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Mattituck Na tional Bank and Trust Company, held on May 12, 1939, the follow ing resolutions were unanimously adopted: Resolved, That as Directors of the Mattituck National Bank and Trust Company, we record this expression of our profound sorrow at the death of our Vice President, Joseph B. Hudson. His great abilities,' Always at the service of other$, his untiring energy and his unswerving sense of honor, have greatly en4eared him to us. His clear judgment and wise counsel, together with his upright character, held the unqualified re spect of all those associated with him, making his loss deeply felt, and left a standard for all who came in contact with him. A good citizen, a considerate business associate and a genial, whole-souled gentleman has gone from among us. The memory of his kindly, lov able nature and high character' will ever live in the hearts of his friends. Resolved, That we extend to his family our most heartfelt sym pathy in their bereavement, and that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the minutes and printed in the local newspaper.
