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Vol I PORT WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 16 1911 No I

Published every other Saturday in t he interests of t he North Shore of Long I sland by th e

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EDITORIAL

pLAJi TALK enters the jonrnalistic field without apology exi)ecting to stand upon its l11crit s ~ ancl

endeavoring to supply a need which is self-evident All topics will be handled in the man ner indicated by on r title wi th out equivocation quibbling inl1enc1o or other form of indirection The ed itorial policy adopted is liberal and llGll-partisan it is uninfluenced by party sect cl ique or interests and it will cheerfully and valiantly suppo rt any en terpri se or purpose which is for the best in terests of the community Those wbo disagree with the editor will achieve more by stating their grounds to him rather than to street corner or smoki ng car audishyellces Correspo_nc1ence for publication is welcomed but it should be condensed and to the point as we have at present a limited amount of space Ale do not seek quarrels with individuals btl t if we consider their polishycies injurious to ~ the community the principle itself will be ventilated rather than the person Vl e stand for honest opinion fearle ss telling of the truth the best inshyte rests of our community constructive criticism develshyopment of our resources music and culture optim ism a nd helpfu lness and other things grouped under the name of com1110n sense e aim to interest our readers and help ou r adverti sers Vlithc ut their co-operation this journal would not be possible Readers can help us by send ing in yearly subscriptions in place of trusting to buying separate copies and also by dropping l1S a note

wheneve r any interesting event has occurred 111i s jOl1lshy11a1 must depend upon the good will of contributors fo r S0111e time no sala ries are paid and all income goes toshyward improving the paper Vve give our time and effort freely in order that neighboring communities may learn what we are doi ng in this part of the No rth Shore and what a fi ne place it real ly is VVith this prospectus we lau nch Plain T alk upon the sea of local affai r s

C O-lGRESSNIAN MARTI N VV LITTLETON at- shyt he extra sess ion of Congress introduced a bill

p ro viding for a commiss ion of fifteen which sh all make a study of flllanc ial and industri al cond it ions in th is coun try an d a broad and it see ms probable that it middotill pass IIe contended in a recent inter view that the Sh erma n law is already inamiddotclequate and ou t of da te a nd tha t all th e previolls anti-trust legislation should be rewritten 10 doubt he is righ t Our legisl ati ve and legal status would be much imp roved if most of the enactmen t s in the past we re shelved and we started ancw with laws a nd law des igned to meet present clay conditi ons U nless the presel~t s itushyation is carefully hand led we will most probably be p lunged in to a period of depre ssion as deplorable as un necessary T he rabid enelilies of ves t ed interest s 011 one side and the g rasping combinations of conshyservati ves 0 11 th e other c011sti tllte a problem rich ill poss ibil ities for good or evil The u nscrupu lous and greedy must be curbed not destroyed a nd the radical must be brough t to see reason To solve a problem like tha t requires fac t s not op inion and this provision fo r a comm iss io11 proposed by Congressman Littleton seems a very necessa ry measure

PORT vVASHI N GTON is t h e largest ancl one of the oldest comm unit ies in Nassau County and

the cesspool system of sevage di sposal has been in operation since colonial times That was satisfactory a nd not part icula rly dange rou s vihi le t he comlTIttnity

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Vas small but we have grow n in to a village of importshyance du ring t h e past ten years a water system has bee n in stalled sectio ns built up compactly a long wellshykep t-up stre ets and we have outgrown the cesspool system It w ill ve ry soon be inade qua te It is at present extre mely und es irabl e If it were not fo r t he sa nd formation upon middotw hi ch the village is built t he waste water from these deposita ries of refu se wou ld (re this have sa turated the soil w ith disast rous C0 11- middot

seq uences The -cesspool system is neith er cleanly sanitary 110 r an adeq uate system of d isposal at presshyent and sewer pipes and co ndu its are badly needed Of course th is com m uni ty cann ot afford to pay fo r their sewer s)stem them selves and the problem has iJecn how to obta in one tVe wot1ld suggest t he folshylow ing p rocedure Fi rst show some general interest in the subject by pop ula r meetin gs If request ed th e State Boa rd of Heal th will send lecturers here wh() will c1eli ve r inte restillg lectures illu strated by lantern s lid es a nd sho vhat can be clone along this line

_Thcn hy popu lar peti tion or othenvise req uest the State -I~ oard of Health to in terest th emselves in 011r predicament a sk them t o instruct the T own Boarel t o build our sewer syst em for 115 and somethin g will be clone if th e matter is judiciously followed up It may be that t h e State and Cou nty will stand part of the expen se so that this will not all fall upon the town but that is a matter for ad jus tm en t The prin shycipa l thin g now is to sh ow t he popular demand and necessity fo r su ch a syst em It is a matter about wh ich somethin g lll ust be done very soon

W E might h ere call a tte ntion to th e recommendashyt ion of the Board of S upervisors that $566000

be spe nt upon t he Cou nty roads This is a good and necessary action and it is hoped that the Comptroller will see it in that light It costs mon ey t o bui ld a road but a road does not last foreve r and the better it is maintain ed in good condition the lllore satisshyfactory it ill be t o th ose w h o use it an r1 the longer it will last Let a road take care of itself and it w il1 S0011 be ruin ed and have t o be rebu ilt Nassa11 Cou nty is justly proud of its roads w hich brin g many strangers amon g u s

I N the v illage of Hempstead is being built a town a lmsho t1 se at a cost of $30000 U n der th e presen t svstem each tow n builds and maintain s its ow n almsshyhouse Each of these requires a full set of officials Their small size res ults in all sorts of inadequacy and

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limitations so that few are entirel y satisfactory inshystitut ions It would be much better to establ ish a county alm sh o us~ w hidl could f Ull upon a moder1l

system a nd save money as well as do more for the unfortun ate inmates Ih e tow n almshouse syste m is vay beh ind the times All up- to-da te c01llmun it ies now hav e COUllty ins ti tutions It is the duty of t he Board of Supe rvisors to look in to this matter

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THE CRUSTACEAN

rhere w as a man in our tOW ll V1Io ere youd half begun

~Vot1l d spe nd a day to te ll you how middotmiddotTh e durn t ilin g can middott be clone

I Tc said iltFlarmon ic g irl s and boys Could sing alrigh t for f11n

] ~ lt Creation wi th an orchest ra middot Uegmiddotosh it cant be done

T he n when wc talked o f Pinafore A lld a ca rni val fixed Up Oll

1-1 e rolled his eyes an d told us how Th e foo l thing cant be done

iVhen Plain Talk was proposed He vas the very one

T o saw the a ir and te ll us hov Such big th ings cant be done

A nd then-but whats th e use I-Ie kn ows not h ow to rll n

But wiggles backvTard like a crah T hats one th ing can be dOll e

A correspondent has a sked us to descr ibe the latest s tyle in harem skirts Si nce these garments have hopes of b ecoming either bloomers o r t ro ll se rs some clay and being more fam iliar with th e latter we wou ld like n a h arem ga rm ent to trou sers very baggy at the knees corpulent arolln d t he pistol pockets an d qu ite loose where one strikes a match They are or it is cut decolle te at the south ell d a nd la shed securelY somewhere between the a nkl e and the knee to keep the m ice ou t It shou ld not be pulled over the head like a shirt nor a round one like a coat but one must si t upon the Aoor an d in se rt ones several feet conshysecuti vely into each compartment YOll call tell t he sid e which shol11d come in front by the huttons upon

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AN OPEN-AIR THEATER

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O ne o f th e most att ract iv e features of modern i merican life-the life which ti ll ti its cen ler ill th e country rath er t ha n i ll the city as formerly is th e serio lls a nd th oug h tful cult iva t io n of t he g ardell Ti mc was when a t ree he re and t here some g rass and a purposeless a nd unused gra vel wa lk sat i~ll ed th e ow ne rs of CO Ull t ry e~tates and se rved t hem well enoug h du ri ng t he brief in terv als when these places becam e their act ual d wellin gs B ut now tha t th e cot11l t ry has become so u niversally the p ermanell t abode t h e OW 11 e r is tu rning h is at t ent ion more and more se riously to the layi ng out of ga rdens tha t are really beau ti fu l and is endeavori ng to cult ivate the magic touch vh ich will crea te su ch ga rdens from lan d either w ild o r even more d iffi cult culti vated acshycording to the lig hts of other days T he front yard is a fa r cry in deed from the garde J1 as we have come to kllo- it

Defin ite Illo t ive is t he u nderlying secret of su ccessshyfu l garden maki ng accordi ng to Add ison l iz ner t he wel l-kno wn a rchitect 11r 1Iizn er middotwhose P ort IVashshyill gto ll ho me attest s eloq uently to his geniu s fo r a rshyt istic a nd orig in al tra nsformation is eminent ly qual ishyfie d to speak all this subj ect fo r ma ny of the most

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beaut iful ga rdens in this country a rc those which ha ve re spon ded t o h is treatment

Th e clay of g arden s planted helter-skel ter wi thshyout any p reconcer ted idea of the u lt imate result is over s aid Mr lVl izner Ve are 11 0 longer build ing the useless to vvers and minaret s which fo rmerly ser ved only to ho rr ify th e eye T h ings t hat ha ve meri t mu st also have a rea son o r some one idea to hold the man) t rees shrubs an d no wers in pleasin g combi na tion

The J apanese Continued 111 l iz ner be ing li mi ted ill spa ce arranged h is rocks a nd la kes to im ishytate nature in m in iature even goi ng to t he extreme of dwa r fi ng fo rest t rees so that t he o wn er s ipp ing h is tea upon hi s vera nda e nj oyed a vie w o f seemingly unlim ited exte nt w here as a matter o f fact his whole possession m ig h t be less th an a n acre

Ih e Italian car r ied out th e l ines o f hi s archishytecture w ith s tiff cl ipped hedges a nd beau t ifu l r ugs of f1 o~ve r s t hat made the passing ove r hi s t hresh old less a brupt T h e g ard ens o f th e F rench co mbi ned hedges balustrades an d natural effect s in s tich a way that one fi tted in to th e o ther so cl everly th at it w as difficult t o de tect wh ere one began a nd t he o ther le ft

oIf O ne of the most stri ki ng exa mples of h is theory

11 1 [i zner cons iders is the garden h e is now COIlshy

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By Btl rke Jenkins

T hey re here And getti llg bigger every day Diminutive darkies dangle thei r dusky bare legs over

the edge of the lumber yard dock and watch their brightshycolo red Aoats bob mean ingly in the t ide

Snappers Sure-thats what were tal king about Theyre small but clean-cut gentlemen taking the

hook vith vim and determ ination wriggli ng plenty vioshylell t whcn yanked fro111 the bri ny glistening brill iantly on the st ri ng lending pride to the step as you walk home and tu rning to tempt ing brown in the sizzl ing f ry-pan

Ko long jou rney to get this sport either It s right here in onr own bay not twenty miles from the fevershy

billen Wh ite W ay

struct in g 0 11 th e estate of 111 Bourke Cockra n i ll

1)o1t ashi ngto ll To th e left of t he honse sloping gen t ly is a sma ll a lley which h itherto has been negshylected and screened fr0111 view by a high hedge of rriveL The possibilities o f th is p iece oi land were ma 1li fest both t o the o wn e r an el 11 AI iZl1cr I t wa s

decided to remove the heltgc an d soften t he decl in e about eig hty fe et ill length hy grading it into a series of s teps th irty in all abou t two a nd on e -haH feet wide and six inches high T hese step s we re heav ily turfed A t t he foo t was a 250- foot approach a lso with a rich carpet of t urf B ut a ll a pp roach to wha t H ere t he quest ion of motive a rose To what should this velvety s t re t ch lead A t t he end was the bed of a sma ll la ke e n t irely dry an d skirted by an occasio na l tree U nder ~rr IVli zner s direction this lak e was cu t in bvo th e half nearer t he approach being grassed over a nd con shyer ted in to a mi n ia tu re a mph itheatre the othe r half be in g made into a stage also coyered wi th turf T he o ld p ri vet hedge is to be Jl til izecl in the [ormat ion of wings vv ith t he scene at the back consistin g of t r ee~

a nd a d is tan t view o f gent ly ro llin g h ill s O n th e stage will be a ta ble a nd be nch o r t wo of white ma rble an d w ill be a n id eal spot for out-door theat ricals or a ft ernoon tea T he a m phitheatre will of course b e p rov ided w it h benches

T his tiny theatre bes ides being of great beauty in itse lf prov ides a reason for th e reconst ructi on of the enti re litt le vall ey and goes to com pl et e what w ill be o ne of th e 111 0st e q tti s ite an d o rig ina l gardens in the CO Ull t ry I t is an exemp li fication of th e necessity of lll o ti e in garde n mak ing a nd a splend id examp le of ~rr ~lizJ1ers a rt

lake an early sta rt and stowaway some IUllch 111

you r pocket IVe l1 make a day of it for its worth it Ol wi ll your pocketbook be strai ned Here it is theil You get np in the morn ing fres h

f rom real sleep you clown a hea rty breakfast and step out into the breeze that freshens from the northwest

On your way to the town clock stop in an ci buy your simple tackle (You can get it 1110st anyw here) A tenshycen t cane pole a line of about the sanle length two hooks 0 11 a spreader and a fl oat (if you like to lIse one)

Then the bait Dowll to the fi sh shacks in front of the hotel YOll beat it clutching val iantly the while a toshy111ato can yon have acqui red either nefar iously or oth ershywise Follow the signs and you cant go wrong Theyre big enough and read BAIT-SNAPPER BAIT A dime here does the busincss

Now for a boat If you havent one of your OW 11

or i f you have one of your own a nd some friend knows it or jf you havent O Il C of your ow n and nobody knows it there are ways of acquiring one

You can evcn rent one Step firmly all th e gunwale upon ente ring and when

Y011 have righted the cra ft agai n and bailed out g rasp each oa r firmly by the right end put your lusty mu scle in to oily r ippling play ami head a lI t for P lu m Beach Point

S Cllle of the lazy stop by 101115 Point but the longer row wi ll do you good Hcmcmoe r you a ren t a fter fi sh enti rely

Yes you ll fi nd yourse lf in plenty of compan) when YOll get just off-shore o f that real estate sign

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planted at high t ide mark Down with you r a nchor a nd bait up wi th glistening

silver-sides 0 need of instructi on as to the actual catchillgshy

yank nicely and convin cingly when the bob disappea rs that s al l Of conrse YOti know the ones that get away are the biggest bu t all according to Walton th at is

Th en you get hungry Fact Honest to middotMaud you clo You eat T hat is you eat what youve brought By 4 oclock YOllr back aches like thunder you have

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fi shy smell all over the anchor comes np tw ice as heavy as it went dow n the very oars have taken on fles h and YOli wi eld them no longer with navy preCISIOn

Youre dead tuckered out and as you glance over your t ired shoulde r to where the big school house is glint ing to the sett ing sun you vow that if you once get home never again for yours

A fter supper you wonder if they wouldn t bite better over by the Great Neck shore-to-morrow

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LOCAL NEWS P ORT WAS H INGT ON

Dr Bu rn e of Glen Coye was in tow n on Sepshytember 9

Frank Jacobu s president o f the Phoe nix Towing Co has ret urn ed from a ten weeks t r ip to El1 rope

~Ir lvfe rr itt Lun d who has been vis it ing 1f r Adshydison lUizncr this sum mer has been suddenl y ca ll ed to Chicago

The first subscriber to Plain Talk yas Althur Kecil o f P o rt a shingtoll the popli lar leader in O llr

Illu s ical evcll ts

Jacob Veiss who runs th e P ort VVashingtoll wireless statio11 has beco1l1 e the prone possessor of the auto for shymerly ow ned by Dr Cocke thus adding motoring to his 1lt1111crOtl S acco11lpl isil111cnts

~ I rs lJart in Littleton of Port Vash ingtol1 gave a birthday party rece nt ly w hich was much enj oyed 11r and lJrs Littleton sailed all Septeuro lTI bcr 9 for Enrope for a fOll r weeks trip

1lrs Varner 11 Leeds of P land ome Jill s hltJs taken Iiethpage llace S urrey Engla nd for an exshytended period Newspapers ilale repo rted th~ as being done by 1[ rs Villiam H Leeds her sjter- inshylaw vh ich as llli~ i Jlforll1at j o l1

The choir c f the ~rctho(li~t Church ~l begin reshyhearsal s a t Ollce f or there is ome i -cresting music in prospe~ct Those des ir~ng to joithe choir should see 7I r l eevil the o rgalll st o lk1iiteers are always wel shycome Rehearsa l will be hel(- 0 11 VVednesclay even ings as usual the 1110rllil~g serv o e choi r at 8 p Ill and the evening ser vice choir at bull -45 p 111

They will go up al g the Hu dson River to Albany Ogdensshyburg to til lakes Roches ter Ju ffa lo back to th e Delashywa re V er Gap and th en home Last yea r they took a trip f 800 miles through the Uerksh ires and Vermont ttjd had 11 0 tire trouble ltuling the whole trip

and wife and 1r Valler a lld wife

T he -nchorage located on the shore f ront nea r the yacht clubs has had a prosperOl1 S summer having at no time du ring the season proper less than 50 guests and ~oliletim(s entertaining as many as 80 Duri ng the month of September there will be about 30 people ancl

)I r s lJaskell proposes to dose the season about Octoshyber 1 AJllong those who left recent ly arc ~1 r and ~1rs Selway and daughter 1 l rs Ifayd CJck o f ~[olltdair and her daughter Alma ~I i ss Sayes lr and1Irs Vibert and daugh ter lJelcll o f )cw Yo rk Miss Clary the ac shycomplish ed pianist 0pound IJ l-erstraw etc )1rs Payne ~pellds a fo rtnight ~he mounta ins alid returns the mi ddle of Septen~i- ~ I rs l o 1ro left 011 September 5 the day after he celebrated her seventy-seven th birthshyclay T he l aJ~ ies prepa red a surpri se for the k inclly old lady illelll d ng Hsoll1tions engrossed by A rtist Vibert a nd a bin1Hlay cake having two rows of candles sevell in eacl l row and tIl L years 183-+- 19 [1 Her SOil made t neat acknowkdgl1lcnt to the assembled guests 011 Sepshytember G )rr Reed held another of her popu la r bridge pa rt1e~

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)J r Geurge Corry kept lip hb record [or expert yachtin g th is season with nineteen I1rst prizes t inct secol1d prizes a nd tw o thirds The new sta r class has g iven ov er a ~core of ski ppers some rare sport this Sum mer

Vhen the Iritish contestant [a plc Leaf broke dow n I1l the interna t ional motor boat aee on September 4 it was the K nickerbocker boat Target that had the hOll or of towing her ill The Target got he r name throt1 gh being ram mcd in her ea rli er days by another boat

The one-design cla ss of th e Po rt ashi ngton Yacht Club went to uay ~ide on September 9 to race wit h th e Bayside Yach t Cl ub boats of th e same design The Port rash ing toll boat V ia V illiam T Trench skipper middotVO Il the ti rst prize Kiddo owned by Art hur Andrews came in second and Go Co 1 A Iackin shy

~110ns boat was t hi rd

T h e hou seboat Seyilla with 111 and 1[15 H ow ard Do ug-las and l l r and rs John D EYans Oil boa rd w ill rema in in com mi ~sioll through t h is m onth and in to October T hey cons ider t h is the best season ill the cOl1lltry and are not anx iolls to get back to their city home as yet D ur in g Labor Day week end th~ had 11r a nd 15 C L Ar mst rong an d daugh t er as guests amI the September 10 vmiddotreek end was e njoyed aboard t he Semiddotilla by lIi~s rh illi ps of ]jrooklyn

The fo llow in g houseboa ts were in com m ission dllr ing the first part o f Septe mber beginning at t he 11l 0 ~ t

south ern Loitere r Toitoise lJarllacle Yankee feme) ga n Stopavhi lc Sev illa 1ocl Abr igac1a Loto~ Vc T 0 )all1 e le s~ lt[ inn ie T Ha ppy Day U hed1ll11

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Genevicc P eyton ia Hostess and La lVlariposa the latter went ou t of commission on September 10 and t he Indian on Sep tember 1 In addition there arc o ther boats aboard which their ow ners have lived a ll s LImm er such as the launch Chancciah yawl Toreador launch Ida II anel a i1tmb T of s team yachts

Ihe New York State Ga~~rotectors boat O li ve lay at th~ town dock from Septel~r 9 to Septemb er II when she was jo ined by Captainl-Jarry Haft and headed to the cast ~late Crav fo rd ~I a s in charge T he boat is a 45 horsepower cabin lau nchgt 471 -2 feet long 141-2 feet beam and draws 3 fee t Tlicre gener~ ally are fou r 011 board th e wardens of the district serv shymg The Riegel engi ne (Buffalo) is declared to be a wonder by the mate Th e Oli ve was bought a t A tshylan t ic City last A pril and made the 140 m iles from that place in 14 hours and 10 minu tes her aveiage speed is 10 knots She is pai nted lead color wi th mahogany top and ha s searchlights etc They Cltll)shy

tured two lobster cars and th e transgressors were taken in cllstody the latter ove rturned the cars blH vvere too late and fourteen shorts (lobs ters under nine in ches in length ) v ere fOllnd middotwhich ran from s ix to eight in ches

fh e ho useboat U bedamn Capta in Bob Addam sunk on September 5 while he wa s in ~ew Yo rk a nd fill ed up to the ceilin g No one was aboa rd but Dippy Ja ne and her five th ree-week-old puppi es by Forward Agitator of Great Neck Ga rboard Strake and Sur vivor a s ix-mont hs-old puppy named afte r his ad ventu re These Boston bulldogs are reg istered and Garboa rd S trake never g ot lowe r than second prize in any bench show she has bvo firsts tmiddoto second s anel two special s il ver trophies and is 18 mon ths o ld iVhen his boat was flooded lvIr A ddams lost many va lu able water colors sketches and photographs The fmniture Aoa ted about the dogs on top and bumped into a ll the han gings a nd pictu res punching holes in to o il pain tin gs incl ud in g an original by Ruterdahl and chaos soaked a nd fo rl o rn prevailed Bob Addams says he w ill sell ou t a nd move middot south i f th e weather and water dont treat hi m better

The Labor Day clll ise of the Knickerbocker Yacht Club was well timed for the wind held and the weather was unu sually plea sant O n Saturday September 2 the flee t assembled at th e rendezvous at Glen Cove where t~ l C captains gathered in the cabin of Commodore ZoelshyJ~ r s yacht Cherokee and decided upon courses and ports They left Glen Cove Sunday morning and ran

to Lloyds Harbor leaving there 011 Monday at 9 a m amI racing back to Gangway Buoy off Barkers Point the first boat fini shing at about I oclock The Piute came ill first The Heet consisted o f the Cherokee (Zoelker) Bonn ie Kate (Lind er ) T oreador (Torry ) P ill te 11 (Beam ) Kayak ( Lincoln ) Ouananiche (Sands) Maiden (Duffield) Lynx (A igentinge) Satashynita (Fa irchild) all of lLan hasset Day and Yankee Boy (Sulzback ) of College Point 1-1 B Ca rson haul ed on t his yawl Kerry and houseboat ]nc1 ian on September 1

)Iost of the boats remain in the water un ti l the end of th is month

T he Manha sset Bay Yacht Cl u b fa ll regatta wi ll be held out s ide in the Sou nd all Septem ber J6 A ll memshybers of clu bs belonging to the Long I s land Sou nd Y acht Racing Associa t ion a rc elig ib le to enter the races T he regatta will be followed by a dinner and dance at the club hOll se The big event however vi ll be the barn dance at the club house On September 23 on t he occasion of the clu b going out of commission fo r the season The veran da will be decorated to reshysemble a ba rn with such th in gs as cornstalk s pump kins ba rnyard fowl etc and all participants w ill come d ressed in sunbonn ets ap rons ovel)a11s and boo ts There will be fou r prizes award ed fo r the best

ostumes Before the da1lce refresh men ts will be se rvecl The fea ture of the dance that is especially intcresting is tha t t he entertainm ent co mm ittee has g iveriway to the ladies of th e club and they are makshyino all)lran~tem cnt s There was a t imc when ladies

~ were not p middotticularly welcome about the club house and th is rccog it ion of their po wers of entertainment and execut ive Cltll acity is a no teworthy indication of the progress the clr b has made as a resort for the g eneral entertainment of its members The season opened rather qu ietly L ut s in ce ca1 l1ial yeek the open-air performance of inafore an d the interest taken in these events by clubs ~ I O ll g the Sou nd things have boomed and the seaSon closeS one of the best in the h istory of th e cl ub both fin a nc 11) and socially )1r H owland who was recent ly severt bu rned in a motor boa t explos ion ha s entirely reco red It is said that Commodore O JHollrke is very prOl d of hi s pOver boat Lady Jane w h ich won one of the races during the H un tington rega tta

AUDITING COUNTY BILLS

NiH ian H Bourn e County S uperin tencie t of ~ H ig hways had his first experience with the COHnty Comptroller last week Bou rne in his capacity as ciiv i

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e ngineer Va authorized by the COllnty Hoa rd oi S ushyper visors to make su rycys and maps etc of certain highways throughout the cOlln ty preparatory to takshying them int o the connty system His bi lls were made out ill duplicate and cluly verilicd as required approved by the 13 0ard and sellt to the Comptroller for his apshyl)1gtoval There were thirteen bills amounting ill t he aggregate to $ 1120 lJ o li rnc was surprised to say the least when t he bills were return ed to the Boa rd of Supe rv isors s itt ing a s the Audi ting Com mittee with a long opil1io n att ached recommending t hat the claims be disallowed because they were not approved by the Civi l Service COlllmi ss io n at Albany fr Bourne declared that his predecessor wa s never asked to hac his work cer tified to by the Civil Ser vice Comshymi ssion a nd wa nted to k now th e reason for th is disshyt inction He wa nted to know whether t he Com pshytroller wished to make a goa t of him because he was a new ma n County Attorney Edward] Deasy then looked into the matter and vrote all opinion to thc effect that the Board of A udit should pass favorabl y upon the bills wh ich was d01H True copies of th ( bills opinions etc were then passed to the Coun ty rreasurer with a wa rrant fr0111 the S upervisors aushythor izing the payment T he Treasu re r refused to pay them until once for all it was se ttled as to the legality of paying ove r the Cou ntys money fo r s li ch vo r1- without p roper approv al fr0111 the Civil Serv ice CornshymiSSIOn As th e matter st and s now E ngineer Bou rn c l11u st do withou t the money fo r awh ile in the meanshytime he ca ll reAect upon the ovays o f obstn 6 iolist ic comptrollers an d why th is is thus

PORT WASHINGTON JCHOOLS

Th e schools werc fo rmally oJ711cd by P almer J ones thc Superintend ent all Septel~~~fe r 5 with an ullltsLlaJly large attenda nce e~peci 3ll Y)-deg1 1 tile lligh School grades The gro~1l1 (s of thcUigJ~choo l have been kept looking like a park by Eng~er I towa rd Smi th and the H igh School is 11 t onl0tculll ing th e centra l but also onc o f the IllOt or l1a111 ltal featu res in Por t Vashingtoll The build ing it -e is kept clean an c1 orderly and the work don e is i kind 101 example it contains the laborashytor ies nd art depa rtments in both of vhich the State allo s students cred its laborator y work a nd sci ence 20

r cent an d drawi ng 50 per cent That means that in th e examinat ions the State allows students to skip 2 0

per cent and 50 per cent of the questions because thei r note books 011 the work clone dll ring the year indicate tha t the volOrk has been thorough and above th e average in proportion to the credit given These two departshy

lllents art nut excelled by any school in N assau COUllty both in equipmcnt and work done Fi re escapes have been put upon thc schooi bu ildi ngs of the Sands Point and Flower Hill sections

1t is ill tcrc ~ ti llg tv llok th at gradll(ftcs from the 11igh School are goi ng upward ill djeir cdl1cational careers F or example Gu stave gti lI1 Gcurge A llcn and Russell ~lcKee arc going t y raclisc Universi ty Stephen Cocks is go ing tf Cornell un iversi ty a nd E lizabeth Allen and F lor Ice Smith Yill attend the ~ew llaltz S tate 1 o r111al chool

Everett ~llitchell has entered High School in a postshygraduate C011rsc

All of the fOllr schools in the district have new teachshyers 111 the High School may be mC11tioncd Mr Carl Carsou o f cw York City ~1i ss F lorence Case of Brooklyn 1Uiss Emma Patterson of Vest Vinfield and ~[i S5 Myra lcClean of Ne w York The Sands Point School will have Iiss Grace McKee o f Port Washingshyton ll iss Ida Metzger of Amsterdam N Y and M iss Cora Fegley of Dl1nkirk N Y Flower Hill School has the follow ing lCW teachers )dro George St ilwell prinshycipal formerly pr i11c ipal at cw City N Y 11i5s Carshyr ie C raas of DU11kirk 1 Yo M iss Bessie Sardeson of Freclon ia N Y 1Iiss Sophia l-lickok of Poughkeepsie N Y an d ~1iss Edith Gregory o f Paterson )1 J The Hempstead Harbor School will have Miss Hildegarde lvIay tull1o Mi ss Patterson has been given leavc o f abshysence for a month and her place will be filled by Miss IcClean while ~Vlrs Fred T hatcher substitutes in her work in the meantime

School athletics have been reorganized F o rmerly each sport had its OW11 clubs sHch as baseball tennis basket ball and general athletics but these have all been consolidated under the name of Port Washington fl igh

---School Athletic Association with the following officers fo r the coming season President Everett -litcbell ViccshyP resident Edith Donley Secretary E lsie 11ar5h alid -b

T reasurcr Allyn llar sh They began the year v ith a cash balance in the treasury and about 75 members Proshyfessor Carl Carson will supervise the athlet ic work and as he has had a great dcal of experi ence ill th is line including coaching college basket ball teams and college gymnastic work the season looks bright for good teams 1[r Carson s1clt~eeds 11r D elano in the English and science subj ects

It might be mentioned also that the series of free evening lectures in the High School will be continued this year T he best lecturers obtainable wi ll be secmed a nd there are some extra att ractions in this line that Principal Jones is not yet ready to announce

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SANDS POINT

Constable I saac S m ith on September 8 stl cceeded 111 capturin g t he m an who w a s wan ted fo r theft from the Guggenhe im estate

)1 r Ralph 1I JjlO111 as char tered a steam yachtTor the rac ing week at I J t~ oton an d enterta ined a g roup of hi s friends duri ng that ga 0ccasioll

[ r and )lr5 Peter Geddes llll1t have been abroad three months spending the g reate r p rt of that time i ll Scotla nd a nd Pari s The) re turn ed Scpt lll ber 12

r Howard Gou rl will ret l1rn h om l f~ shootillg box ill Scotland about the end of October (t is expected that a po rtion of Castle Cou ld w ill be read y fo r OCCl1shy

paJlcy by tha t t im e

)1r V111 Bou rke Cock ran an d wi fc arc nloto ring through Spain with her fat her J~ldgc hIe and his (laughshyter l r~ rjo r y J udge Jde is l mbassador to Spain They will retu rn thi s fa ll

[ r Charles 11 atch return ed on September 9 fro III

a th ree w eeks t ri p to the Ad iron dacks Th e t rip Wa ~

vc ry beneficia l as well as enjoya ble and he is feeli ng m uch imprmed in health

M r Fra nk Clt Ho Astot of Sa nds Point presiden t of t he P ressed Steel Ca r Compa ny has p urchased a new motor car and is cry well pleased with its r unn in g It is a n A m plex o f the latest model

Mr E dw in Arnold who has had the George Th ayer place nca r ] llan DOllle fo r the SU1ll mer on September 2

tock several of hi s fr iends 0 11 a tw o weeks fishi ng tr ip to Ma ine [ 15 Arnold joilled him a week later T hey had a royal good time

11r L oui s Ion tan t married li~ s l ice A nderson 0 11 Septem be r 16 li ss Anderson is the da ll g hter of D r A n derso ll a soc iety physic ia n o f Ne w York City llumb erin g a mo11g h is pat ients such soc ial lea ders as 1l rs Astor 1 frs F isher etc

lrs I-Terman U lrichs all d her son motored f rom Xew York on September I and took h(llcheol1 dth Ar shychitect - fizller at the O ld Bax ter J-I omestead By th e way rr rizller has made a nU1llber o f improvements to the man sion i1lclud i1lg a bricked cou rt wi th wal1 ~l1 rrot1n d ing and a tr ick ling foun tain at one eJl c1

1[r i red Lyolls has had an 8S- foot crl1ising yacht hu ilt vh ich is provided with all the latest equipment and elegant fi ni sh thc builder could provide Her speed is rated at 18 miles per hou r and her na mc is Bettina ITT )l1 r ing the in tel11a t iona i met or boat races at Huntingshylon the) enter tained a number of their fr iends aboard

The ol d T ibbit s p roperty at the heacl of Wes t Creek belween Barkers Poin t an d Sa nds P o int i ~

bei ng remod el ed by th e heirs of George Tibbi ts 1J r Cha d es D od ge has receied t he contract a nd 1 r Fra nk JL Smi th Jr drew the plans for th e al terations ltIll d addit ions rhe il11p rovemcn ts a re expect ed to cnst about $6000 T he ceil ing of OIlC o [ the fi rst flo or roo ms had to bc ra ised to admit a colonial secreta r y oye r 200 yea rs o ld wh ich the fa mily pr ize highly

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REAL ESTATE

1l John E Col es th e enterpri s in g blacksmi th of Man ha sset has p urcha sed fro l11 Cha rl es L Ho rmodei n the prop erty upon whi ch his shop is loca ted and bu ilt an att ractie co ttage upon it

lr r George J Itlh n of Ph iladelphia has rented the V G Drokaw house fo r the yea r It goes u nder t h e lame of Xi n ana rrs Hllhn is on a visit to ~ rr a ll d Mrs l 1em) S Lell r at Je wport

1lr F la nk B 11 ill er of Ne v Rochel le expect soon to bui ld on hi lot on Day View Av enue adjacent to the residence of ) I r ill iam Vard N[ r Vard by the a y has ju -gtt pu t a yery at t rac t ive greenhou se upo n hi s p roperty

- 1r i rank n S mith repor ts the rea l estate bus ishyness as looki ng brighter each day T hroug h h im the bt1ld ing s it e 0 11 the II eights east of the Bootay h omeshy~tea(~n ]Jay V iew Avenue ha s just bee n sold to V i lli a l1~l i l1cr o f Ne wark N J The pu rchaser c shypects to bJtkl th is win ter

The D l1 s in~-e l rothers co nt ractors a nd bui lders ()f I or t Vashillg~l w ho ale b uild ing a handsome re--1(lence fo r 1r ~ J~h n h ltOIl at IIcwlet ts L ong Isla nd a t a cost of $j)ooo have b een favo red wi t h ~ood wea~her so th at c~t1ction ~las advan ced rapshyIdly It IS probably the fNst reSidence erected on Long- Isla nd to hae a ll the s~ and sim ilar fini sh u--ually madc o f cut s tOI1~ btl ilt~ concret e stone

wh ich closeh imi ta tes limes t 01~ e ~

The Plan D ome sectIOn IS unc1erg ng a rapHl Ill eta morphosis T he real estate c1evelopm nts h ave Il1 ac1e it a p rom ising resident ial locality an d wi n the channel h as bee n dredged at the head of fan I12~ct Day t he shore fro11 t w ill be very attrac tive The mo~

recent transaction is th e pu rchase of th e o ld B lood shygood Cutter far 111 lying bet ween the Pla n Dome I Ieights devel opment and th e ra il road hy n Thompshy

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SOli fo r about $200000 Mr lhompsOll 0 middot115 other shore ii a bout t wenty feet deep at low tid e and the adjacent plots in th e vicinity Ta r k o n c1reclgmiddoting the bu lkhead will be re m oved llcxt Sprin g to be replaced channel ha s commenced

The Daxtcr Estates ly ing 11 0rt h of the main po rshyt ion of the v illage and ha vi ng a long vater front on the Cove is proceeding qui te rapidly in its develop shyment fhe clock ha s been completed anel t he sand beach is nearly finished The lake with its r ustic hridge and shrubbery is a very attractive fe ature at lile weste rn entrance Architect M iz ncr g uards the western entrance and hi s treatm ent of the natu ral picturesque features o f the Baxter Homestead add Illllch to the attracti vc ncss of t his deve lopme nt tVI r tay lors residence is about completed a nd will be the firs t erected upon thi s tract T he re are a bout seven ty acres laid ou t in plots and park development a brook runs along one s ide and fro m the high g round the vie is attractive 11Ia llY of the p urchasers of pl ots arc people of Port lashington

Vampage is th e na me g iven to the de velopment of Plum Beach and some 120 ac res of bluff and heigh ts which th e Vampage Realty Company own Stephen H Pell has the princ ipal inte rest and Osgood Pe ll amp Co are the se ll ing agents A grea t deal o f work ha been done in ra ising the height of t he bar covering the sand with loam pla nting t rees and shrubs m ak ing road s putting ill w ater m ai ns and electric light conshyduits p lanting h edges around each plot etc They 11a ve bui lt two hotlses tvo garages on e la rge bat hing J pav ili oll one boat pavil ion with dock an d ha ve just ~old one cottage fo r abOlH $22000 The roads (Ild pa ve ments have a cin der founda t io ll UP O Il wl~~h is piltlced broken stone and a top surface of ta r v) ma kshyin g- practically an asphalt stre et

The Port lashingto n Estates ad~tnil1 g th e Heights 011 the southern s id e e mb races 65 acress 93 ac res of which have been developed aiid laid ou t into 175 pl ots a numb er ot which ha ve beell sol d They ha ve 540 feet o[ shore fr ont on lal1ll ~ se t Bay and here has been bui lt Cl r et-ai n ing blll kh( 1d to hold the 70000 cllbic yards o f sand d redged ~ rom the bottom of the bay so that th e ten -ac~ract between the road a nd th e Nat er now lies poundr0- 1 scy en to fou r teen fe et above high tide A bout Leve nty men are at work on th e Estates at pre~rf g rad ing lan dscapin g and putting in 2l--in ch j in pipe to lead a way su rface drainage Th is te ll 3c res -v ill be laid out into bui lding pl ots with a pa rk ay down th e center to the sho re consisting of t vmiddot r dri ves and a flower bed between r he water off

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by a wide and slopi ng sa 1l d bcach A casi no o r enter shyt ainment resort fo r dwellers upon the Estates w ill be I erected next Sp ring lerhaps ve may ha ve a Cha shytea u des Beaux A rts o f our o w n so me cl ay A t a llY rate th ere vill be a hath house fo r each of the resishydent s upon the Est a tes l d a ha nd so m e dock alld float for yachtsmen T1e beach is reserved all al ong the fron t for th e E s tl[eS people ill general fhere w ill also be a pla ygroll nd fo r chi ld re n One of the more rece nt sales was made to J1 Ai ns ley of Ivrontc1air J l an d the land is being cleared rea dy to begin builrl in g th is 1al1 l-l otl se N o _r completed in J u ne is no - occll-pied by Hishop Fa llows of Chi cago

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COUNTY SEAT NEWS

rh Board of Sup er visors at a meeting held in thei r rhambe rs 0 11 F ri day Sept 8 I 9 1 o rdered the clerk to pttrchase so me add it ional law books fo r til e usc J f th e County Judge

middotmiddotfh e Court House grot1 nd s will be cleaned and the pr vet h edg e t rimmed by the time th is issue appears thus givi ng the visito rs during fair week all opporshy rbulltu ni ty to sec th em at their be st

The 1 ew York and Long Islan d Traction Co Ve re g ive n the privi lege t o buil d and main tain a swi t ch and sid ing in front of th e Court I-l ou se fo r the purshypose of fac il itati ng th e handling of large c rowd~

especial ly du r ing fair -vee k The s id in g will be 750 feet 101lg th us permitting the s ide tracki ng of fifteen ~a rs of fifty feet length

O n September 5 the Tovvn B oard held a meet in g a t wh ich t hey au dited the fo ll ov ing bil ls fo r Por t lash in gto n N assau Coun ty Vater Co I28 fi re hyd rants fo r s ix month s $T920 T homas Carma n dock master t wo months $40 elect ri c ligh t bi ll $520 P rogress is be ing made in rega rd to the road imp rocshym ent s 0 11 S ixth Av enue Bay View Avenu e l1 ackey fve ll ue Prospect Avenue and Vebst er Ave nue l

T he Cha irma n of the Board of Sup er visors wh o wa s authoriz ed by resolution to procure lo r Comm isshysioner of Juro rs James P Brown of Vall ey Strea m su itabl e offic es at th e best price obtain able ha s leased the onl y vaca nt r 00111 in th e Denton bu ild ing rhi~

room was for merly tlsed as a Justi ce Cou rt hy JIISshy

tice of th e Peace Charles R vVeeks COlllmissioner

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Brow n has appointed a s his Deputy Ihomas B laloney of Great Neck Station at a salary of $ rroo per annu lll 1 stenographer to be appoint ed will com p lete the office forcc

T he o ftiCC-i of the Com missioner o f E lections wh ich a re pleasa ntly located- in th e P ayne and Scu dder bu il d shying rvlineola have opener with the followi ng force i ll charge CO lll missioners K~nl ill and Lewis at a sal shyary of $2500 each Ch i ef-CI~I ex-Sheriff J osep h H Foster of J nwood salary $1500 T homas H OKeefe of Oyster Bay Deputy Clerk $ [300 S tenographer ex-Town Clerk of Nor th H em ps tead $goo Custod ian Ja mes Dougherty of Vestbl1 ry $720 It is now th eir bus ies t tim e as elect io n is d rawi ng nea r and many applicants for the position of Inspecto rs pound Elections mllst be examined according to t he prov islI ll S of t h e LeY bil l

An av iation tourn a ment will be held a t N assau Boulevard near l ineola on Septem ber 23 tl) 30 at the h eadquarters of the r igh t and the Cu r t iss schools fo r airm en There is a measured course of 011e a nd one-fourth mi les lined by g randstands havin g a cashypacity fo r 25000 spectators ]here will also be jlarkshying space fo r 3000 automobiles and sta ndi ng 1110111

fo r 50000 p ersons w ho middotwill be charged So cents lt~cl shymi ssion Preparations were begu n Oil the 11th ( h ig h fence will shut out the free show spectators fo~

wh ich cont racts were let on Sep tember 4 IVell kn ovvn aviators w ill com pete an d it is expected th at thi s event w ill take the place of the Vanderbil t Cup races form erly held in this county T he meet will be under the a usp ices o f t he Acro Cl ub of N ew York a nd t he Aero Cl ub of America O ne o [ the fca t ures iIl be a race from Boston to New York The I-Ion T imothy L Vood ru ff of Ca rden City is one of t he prim e movers in th e enterp ri se

T h e 70th A nnual Exhibi t ion of the Agricu lt ural Society of Queens an d N assau Coun ties held a t the Fair Ground s at )1 in eola Sep te m ber 26 to 30 will be of u nu sual int e rest Assisted by the a iati on meet held in th e vicin ity a t th e sa me time will h rill ~ a crowd of peop le a rou nci th e cou nty seat tha t vi ll be un p recedented Adm ission is 50 ce nts ch il d ren beshytween 10 and I S yea rs of age 25 cents and t1l1 cler that free Carri ages with 1VO horses w ill be charged one doll ar A nnual members- t ickets are t wo dollars each School child rens day is F r iday September 29- f homa s I-I Bacon of I-Iem pstead secreta ry-treasu re r wi ll reshyceive a ll remittances a nd entr ies The horse rac in g

entries closed September ] 2 fo r poultry the 9th and o ther departments the 16th rt icles in competition must be on the g roun ds before 12 oc lock on the 26th T he p rize list is a hea) one 1-01 the trotti ng a nd pacing races $9000 middotvill be g iven out An interesting depart ment is the Ed ucational Ex hi bit open to all p ublic schools in the COU ll ty of wh ich V ill iam t iTright of M ineola is superintende nt She ri ff Charles 1 De lott has been engaged to fur n ish 22 men fo r police p rotection at the Fair Grounds durin g the icshyday exhibi t ion o f the Q ueens-Nassatl fgricult ural Soshyciety

AROUND THE COUNTY

Carnivals fa irs ba rn dances and races seem to be in order in September L ikewise fa irs and th at maybe is w hy the fa ir and ca rn iva l o f Rockvi ll e Center was held Septemb er q ]5 a nd ]6 Jt was for the benefit of the v illage cl ub which is a sort of general social an d bet t erment cl ub fo r tha t vill age and adj acent COlll shy

lllu n it ies The idea is a good one a nd resulted in ma ll Y pe rsons outside Rockv ille Ce nter partici pat in g in the celeblatio ll The chairm an o i the fa ir co m11l ittee vas F I Da Costa with ~Jrs George HoeckeI as ass ist shyant an d Andrew Edwards as secretary a nd t reasu rer a lthough there were a score of committees I n conshyn ection w ith the work of th is club is a branch of th e Boy Scout s under Capta in hi te The club is re shymarkably successful and hen P ort iVash ington starts a club along similar lines it wou ld be well to 1~t suggestions from John V De fott presi dent o f th~BockviIle Center Club

H~ry Payne Vhitney of Vestbu ry is just havshyill er contn leted a handsome stucllo garden

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~rr Joh n d~~~IJ o f I s lip S uffolk County LOllg I sla nd who has b~n associa ted pol itical ly w ith Asshyse mbly man Scheide ~Jlas gone over to the opposing fact ion and has been ~11lQinted as confidential agenl under the ne w COll servatioh- Com111i ss ion at a sala ry o f $1800 p er yea r and $700 ) lowpoundl ll ce for tra velin g expe nses

The Nassau County Democrat ic COl l ty Commi ttee hcld a mceting on September 8 at ifeicll1ans IIotel and fixed th e date for t he primaries fhe Democratic prima ries will be held on September 26 and t he delcshy

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gates elec ted w ill meet in c011 vent ion on O ctober 4 0 11 whi ch date the de legates fo r bot h th e Assem bly and Jud icia ry conve nt ions will meet to select ca ndi shyaLes fo r the fall el ectio l1 s The re is to be voted fo r th is fa ll one Assemblyman and th ree Sup reme COLI n

J us tices

Coin cident with the a pproach of 1vJ i11cola fa ir polshyItlCla ll S resum e a c t 11tlCS ~t p resent t here is consid shyerable tal k of can d ida tes fo r the llo1ll ina t iol lS for Asshysembly ma n a mo ng both pa r ties T he Democrats seell l to have seve ra l aspi rants most promi nent of whom a re T homas ]-1 Bacon and F loyd Vee ks o f H empstead J oh n E Faber a nd Hen ry A I [all man the p rese11t in ctltl1bcl1t bot h o f Sea Cliff It is early ye t

to proph esy who w ill be success ful ill the cOllcnt ion tu he held on October 4 th 9 11 011 the ot her han d the Hep llhl iclt1 1l s will un ite all their st rongest l11 an and he will undoubtedly prove to be J lIu yler E ll ison uf Jreeport ] [r Ell isons close a ffi lia t ions with t he a-osal1 County t ol u ll teer F iremens A-osoc iat ioll hlt1shyillgmiddot -icned t1lCI11 fai thfully as thei r presid ent fo r a 11l1l11her of years i looked upon by th e party leaders as a 1110st aluable asset in th is all off )ea r T here is so me me ntion o f Je rem iah iood who Vas defeated by Assemblyman 1101 1111 lt111 last r-all h ut t he cnti lllc nt for him docs not crysta lizc

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B OARD OF ASSESSORS INVESTIGATION

Th e New York Sta te Board of E qu al ization reshyceived com plaint and charges from l7ra nkl in B Lord counsel fo r th e 1assau County iVate r Co s tat ing that t hei r p roperty was 11 0t assessed proport ionately a nd that t he fo rmer Boa rds of Assessors ha ve not done the ir du ty rh e law reql1ires th e assess ill ent for taxa shytion to be approxilllately the face va ll1 e o f the propshyer ty The Boa rd appo inted a s l1 b-colllm it tee consist shyill g of Secretary of Sta te L azan sky and Co mmissione r By rn es to in estigate these comp lai nts a nd a ppointed the da te as Septe mbe r r r at [i neola Nf r Lord conshytends that the a verage assessme nt is 0111y 2+ per cent a nd th at in some cases it is as low as q per cent a nd in th e case o f the vater compa ny it is l OO per cent H e g ives a n l1 m be r of exa mples of uneq ua l assess men t a nd shows th at th is mea ns gTeat injust ice to some

The h eari ng of the th ree boards of rssessors of Xassa ll C01111ty was held in Supen isors chambers on M onda- last (Sept ]I ) before Secretary of S ta te Lazansky a nd State Tax Comm issioner Byrnes rep-

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resenting t he State Board o f E qua lization an d Secreshytary T homas Ifeed A ft er COlll mi ssio ne r Byrnes had s tated t he object of the m ee ti ng Secreta ry Ifeed read a comillu nica t ion fro III Fra nklin B Lord of th e law fi rm of Lord Day and Lord rep resen t ing t he bull Q uee ns County Vater Co

T he Hempstead Boa rd of Assesso rs Charl es VV S mith of iVautagh Charl es E iVhi tehouse of Rooseshyel t a nd T homas H Hrower of Voodmere a ttended by Supe rv isor Cra ft we re th e fi rst w itnesses call ed Assessor Smith represent ing th e Board wh en asked wh y a cert a in p iece of property in La wr ence which a s sold in Novembe r 1909 for $225000 was only a ssessed a t $55000 sa id that the p resent Doard had inc reased t he assessmen t $30000 He admi t ted se rvshying the tOW 11 of l Tempstead fo r two years and f e mOllths a s Assesso r a nd dur in g- pa r t of that ti mc a nd some yea rs before tb is piece of p rop erty had only becn assessed fo r S25OOO It was st ated by lll r Lord that at the t ime of sale th ere was a mo rt g-amiddote on pu rchase pri ce of ove r $ rooOOO All th ree Assessors adm itted that t hey neve r looked after mortgages when assessing p roperty Comm issioner J1 y rn es t he n asked

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Sm ith if he thought that Vlas a competent way tu assess property a nd sa id i f th at wa~ t he prevail ing idea of assessme nts he ( Dy rn cs) i f he was in S mi ths place a uld lose no ti me in ha nding in his res ig na shytion C0111 111i ssioil er By rn es then asked Cou nsellor Lord if he had ever obj ect ed to the $25000 assessshyme nt to prove his consistency a nd L ord a nswered that no objection had been made until he had sold the p roperty Abram Volf chairman of the Boa rd of Assessors o f the tOW1 of No rth r femp stead was then a sked if h e had personally v i ~ited any of th is property he had assessed a l1 d t hrollgh a m isu ndershystan din g he a nswered no I-Tc va s advised by Comshym issioner Byrnes not to say a nyt hing more b ut buy a book a nd stndy up on h is d l1t ies L a ter on th is mistake was expl ai ned to the Hoard of E quali zat ion in a sa ti sfactory mann er a nd th e rloli stak e rect if-ie d I-Jar ry D e Forrest Ba ldwi n associa te cou nsel with 1v[r LOt-d th en exp lain ed to the Board th a t in hi s op inion t he a ssesors th rougho ll t th is cou nty did the best they could t1l1der th e circuill sta nces bu t Hthei r bes t waS all w rongmiddot Af r Laansky th en asked ]Ifr Baldwin i f in

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was satisfactorily explai ned At th e conclusion ComshyIlli ~s i oncr Byrnes com plimented ll[r D oud saying he ha d g iven the most in telligent expla nat ion of any assessor present The commi ttee then ad jou rned to await th e ac ti on of t he State Board of Equal izat ion

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O il A Ug ll st 25 IVill iam H Bowne Superintendent of Highways for assau County macle an est imate to the Doarcl of Supervisors o f 1assau Cou nty upon the cost of bu ild ing ancI improvi ng a number o f country roads in the towns of orth I-Icmpsteacl an cI Oyster Bay aggreshygating $566000 for wh ich bo nds mu st be issued

O n Septem ber 8 George Th1 Goodale s u pe r ViSD1S clerk wrote from t he Supervisors chambers at 1ineola to the HOIl JOh l1 Lyon Icomptroll er of Tasshysalt cou nty t he fo llow ing comm un ication

I a 111 directed by the Board of Sup ervisors to asccmiddotrtaill from YOtl at once what steps h ave been ta ken by Y011 in regard to your adve rti sing for sale the tvO

issu es of bond s Se ries L and Series 1T cop ies of reso lut ions o f wmiddothich we re filed w ith yotl 0 11 or about f ugust 3 9 1 r As the p roceeds of these isstles o f bonds is to be u sed for the constnlct io n of much needed nc w road s a nd as the middotw inter is com ing O Il

t he Board o f Su per middot isors are an xiolls to get the work s tar ted so that th e people may deri -e the benefit of t he m as early as possible T he Boa rd of Stlpen-isors would thank YOll for an im media te reply to this C0111 shy

mUll ica tion O n September II Comp troller Lyon answe red

this reql lest ill a very in teres ti ng- com1l1uni cation which w e g ive ill full

T o t he Board of Supe rviso rs Kassa t C011n ty Ne-v Vork

Gentlemen In reply to yonr com mu nicat ion of the 8t h in st I beg to- in form you that I have taken no s teps fo r t h e sale of the bond serics mentioned in you r let ter

If you w ill submi t to me such notice o f thc sale of the bon d series ment ioned in your Ic ttcr as you deem prope r I w ill give it conside rat ion

ny a recent dec ision of th e court it was held t hat thc County Comptroller is s imply a mi ni s tc rial officer ill bond issues of the character under consideration I think all papers an d notices in th is and s imil a r matters should he prepared by the learn cd cO t1 nsel to th c Hoard of Su perviso rs

I do not care to share any further than as a min isterial offi ce r the responsibility of these proceedshyin gs for after stich exam inat ion of the proceedings as I have bee n able to make I have some misgivi ngs abotl t bei ng ab le t o dispose of t he bonds for th e purshyposes menti oned

It seems to be propc r as a n offi cer ha vin g supcrin shytcndence over the fina ncial affair s of the Cou nty t o express m)middot views in rega rd to these two bond issues aggregatin g $566000 Tn the fi rst pl ace several o f the streets nam ed for thc issue of $300000 of the bonds are small st ree ts in the il lagc of Glen Covc Resol utions for t he impromiddotcmcnt of at least fOllr of them were s llbm itted to th e clectors at the town meeti ng in the town of Oystcr Bay he ld on A pril 4t h la st a nd voted dowll a resolu t ion for the improveshyment of anothcr of th em was carried The s treets to bc imprQmiddoted are unimportallt streets in Nassau COllnty some of wh ich are only two rods in widt h The clecto rs of th e town of Oyster- Bay voted down t he propos it ion to im provc sai d roads at the expense of thc tOW11 N ow th ey a re to be il11prQmiddoted at thc exshypense of Jassau Coun ty and o f t he bOllcl issue of S300000 the tOW1l o f ITcll1pstead alone will pay nearl y $ 18oQoG-n ot a dollar o f whi ch is to he expended for improements with in its li mits

Of the other bOlld issue of $ 225000 the tOWll o f He mpstea d w ill havc appropriated for improvements to be ma de in the tol11 about $75000 ald pay of sa id bond issue $ 135000 Therefore of th e t wo bond issues aggrega ti ng SS66ooo about $75000 is to be ex pended in the town of TmiddotJempstead or about IS per cent wh il e the tow n pays about 60 pcr ce nt of the two bond issues Thi s issue of $225000 fo r resurfacshyingmiddot the al ready ex is t in g maca dam roads wotll d be unshynecessary had the mOll cy anl1uall y 1cmiddoticd ill tax es and approp ri a ted for road ma inteJlan ce becn prudently exshypended for t hc p11rpose of maintainingmiddot the cOllnty roads

I a111 sati s fi ed fr0111 what I h fl c seen that more than t o-thirds of the a mount of these bond issues wi i be wasted aJl d l1lisappl ic(i a nd one scction of thc cou nty is to be pl u ndered and opprcssed bu t th e tax- payers may console th clllsehmiddotcs th a t t hc opprohri ul11 li gh ts 011 the oppressors not on t hc oppressed_

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