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DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, ROCHESTER. N.Y., SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1983 'Devil's Kinqdom' future is in limbo Once-prosperous Seneca settlement has become only a spot in the road By Carol Ritter 1 i.r "-V Ml vLxr 'II thing." Malone said. "The property is xoned for commercial use and the location is just about perfect You can't miss that building when you drive by. He said a man from Germany plans to come to Seneca Falls sometime in the spring to look at the property as a possible restaurant site. The old tavern was built by early settler Louis Birdsall with bricks made from clay taken from the ground where the building now stands.

It -was the first brick house in Seneca County. standing originally a full story taller than it it today. Birdsall was a respected citizen who served at various times aa town supervisor, postmaster for New Hudson, justice of the peace and sheriff. He lived and prospered in the community named Chamberlain's Mills after Col. Jacob Chamber-lain, a farmer and partner in the Great Western Distillery west of the tavern.

The distillery became the focal point of a settlement that included shops, mills, houses and a school house also used as a church. During the early 19th century, area residents called the place The Devil's Kingdom." later "The Kingdom," because of the presence of the distillery and the rowdiness of patrons in the nearby tavern. Democrat and Chronicle In the 19th century, Chamberlain's Mills was a community with at least as much promise as its flanking neighbors, Mynderse's Mills, now called Seneca Falls, and New Hudson, now Waterloo. But today the only visible remnant of Chamberlain's Mills, commonly known as "The Kingdom," a vacant building with a "For Sale" sign in front The former Birdsall Tavern on Routes 5 and 20 between Seneca Falls and Waterloo is an imposing, if somewhat neglected, two-story brick building. Until two years ago it was an apartment house, but it has been empty since the Stanton Meadows housing complex was built directly behind the old tavern.

Seneca Falls Realtor Austin Malone has been trying to sell the tavern and its 3.5-acre parcel for two years. "I've had a lot of people talk about restoring it as an inn, but nobody's done any- 1 'VC: Lii'in iifcint Tftan-iiiiTM in i i mi it i mil-rWt-w I ir'-'-iiiirm iititihi'. i hi MichMl Seharta Oaoiocrtt nd Chronic Bernie Bachman runs a store and a museum in "new Peddlers Village complex on North Goodman Street. This 50-caliber anti-aircraft gun is among items displayed in museum. Amies, Mabel C.

Friday. December 31. 1982. Mabel C. Amies.

She is survived by 2 sons. Charles D. Amies of NM and Robert J- Amies of Henrietta: her daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth J.

Kampcik; 6 grandchildren and 7 brother, Robert Grape of A2; also nieces and neph- Friends may call Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 at the Funeral Home of Alvah Halloran Son, 2125 Chili Ave. where funeral services will be conducted Monday at 1 1 o'clock. Interment Grove Place Cemetery. Friends wishing may contribute to the Heart Fund or their favorite charity in her memory Binder, Hazel Age 93 years. Dec.

31, 1982. Survived by 1 daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Wescott.Fairport; 1 granddaughter, Mrs. Glenn (Beryl Jean) Himmelsbach; 1 great-grandson, James Early; 1 great-granddaughter, Debie Himmelsbach; 1 several nieces and nephews. Calling hours Monday at Crawford Funeral Home, 495 N.

Winton Rd. Service 3:30 p.m. Interment, Ml. Hope Cemetery to beprivete Memorials to Fairport Baptist Home. Boguslaw, Nellie Thursday, Dec.

30, 1982. Survived by her daughter, Eugenia Boguslaw. Friends may call Saturday evening 7-9, Sunday 2-4, 7-9 p.m. at the Paul W. Harris Funeral Home, 570 Kings Hwy S.

(corner Titus). Mass of Christian Burial Monday 9 a.m. at St. Stanislaus Church. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cem-etery.

Calabrese, Anthony J. On December 30. 1982 He leaves his wife, Rose (An-saldi) Calabrese; 2 sons, Richard and Robert; 2 daughters, Mrs. Frank (Rosemary) Cardoni, Miss Betty Ann Calabrese; 2 brothers, Andrew of Sarasota, FL, Joseph of Rochester; 10 grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Calling hours Sunday only 2-4 and 7-9 at Profetta Funeral Chapel, 890 North Goodman St.

on Monday morning friends may go directly to St. Ambrose Church where his MassofChristian Burial will be celebrated at 9 o'clock. Entombment White Haven Memorial Park. He was a member of the Lakeshore Klwanis Club and Rochester Master Bakers Assoc. In lieu of flowers friends may contributetothe Rochester General Hospital, Divison of Oncology Research and Education.

Atlantic-University is 'discovered' at last FTOM PAGE 1B Democrats meet Jan. 9 to tap Gantt's successor Democrat and Chronicle The process to replace David Gantt in the Monroe County Legislature will begin Jan. 9, when top Democrats from Gantt's legislative district will vote on his temporary successor. Gantt was elected in November to a seat in the state Assembly. Gantt represented the 22nd Legislative District, on the city's near northeast side, for nine years.

Members of the 22nd District Democratic committee are scheduled to vote on a temporary replacement for Gantt, committee chairwoman Pauline Wilson said yesterday. Those interested in the position will speak at the committee meeting before the vote. Among those expected to vie for the position are Marlene Tisdale, who lost to Gantt in a 1981 Democratic primary for the seat; and Ron Thomas, an Eastman Kodak Co. employee. Thomas is believed to be the favorite of Gantt.

Whoever wins the committee vote will be recommended to Democratic county chairman Laurence Kirwan. Kirwan, in turn, will forward a recommendation to Legislature President Edwin Foster! who actually appoints the replacement. Traditionally, county chairmen and legislature presidents go along with the selection of the local legislative district committee. Under provision of the county charter, whoever is appointed to fill Gantt's seat will serve until Dec.31. During next fall's county elections, however, voters will select someone to serve out the remainder of Gantt's term, which runs through 1985.

Whoever is holding the temporary appointed position can run in that election. Branchport's scoutmaster merits all his honors plant for a half day on Saturday. But Gray's idea had also caught the attention of Henry Ford, who visited Rochester Can and eventually instituted the five-day work week at the Ford Motor Co. Ironically, some of Gray's descendant do not today get full benefit of this great, unappreciated innovation. "Actually, we work seven days a week, to be honest with you," said Carole Gray, president of Gray Metal, which makes prefabricated air ducte and fittings.

"That's what you have to do when you have a small business, "We end up working holidays and late at night too." ON GOODMAN Street, you also find other interesting details about the city's industrial past. One building once housed the Sen Sen Chick-let Co. (Surprisingly, seven companies in the city, including Sen Sen, were listed as manufacturers of chewing gum in the 1914 City Directory.) Around the corner, Cutler mail chutes were made. The vast former Stecher-Traung-Schmidt printing plant on Goodman has been recycled into an "industrial park" called the Goodman Street Complex, which includes the newly opened Peddlers Village, an indoor mall of unique antique and collector's shops. If, for example, you need to collect a jet engine, a Norden Bomb Sight or a ball tur-ret for a B-17, you may find it at Peddlers Village.

Bernie Bachman (who runs Surplus World on Chili Avenue) claims to have "50,001 items" at Peddlers Village, including some exotic military hardware he calls "the museum" but insists is for sale. He said a jet engine sells for a B-17 gunner's turret goes for between $8,000 and $10,000, and a Norden Bomb Sight is priced at "$1,000 or less." sell them brand new, right out of the box," Bachman said. "The genuine World War II top secret bomb sight." On Saturday: The city't northeast section has various almost anonymous neighborhoods, but some residents say they prefer it because it doesn't draw problems their way. The Perrys tell a simple story that describes the "relationship" people have with houses they set out to fix up. Shortly after they moved in, Perry found afl engagement ring in the basement.

May Perry now wears it. "I'm married to mv house," she said. THE NEWCOMERS to Atlantic-University usually list many charme they have discovered in the neighborhood. Several said they enjoy sitting in their yards on Sunday, listening to the music from the Prayer House, Church of God by Faith, a predominantly black church on Atlantic Avenue. "They almost sound professional," one resident exclaimed.

But he admitted they had enjoyed the music only from afar and felt somewhat timid about visiting the church. He and his neighbors may not know it, but they have an open invitation. "We've been praying to the Lord to stir some the people of the neighborhood to stop by," said the Rev. Paul Parnell, elder of the church. "All they've got to do is walk over.

We'd like to get to know them." GRAY METAL PRODUCTS Inc. on Carlton Street should stir recollection of a forgotten contribution this city has made to the cause of hu-rnanity and leisure. Let it be known that the weekend, as we now know it, was invented in Rochester on Jan. 2, 1922. Gray Meta, our living connection to this wonderful event, is run by descendants of the family of Malcomb E.

Gray, founder of the Rochester Carl which among other things, made garbage cans, in its day. Malcomb Gray is generally credited with creating the five-day work week in American industry. (Previously, it was common to work five and a-half or aix days a week.) Gray instituted the five-day work week at Rochester Can, then on Hague Street, in the area knoWn as Dutchtown. Afterwards, Gray claimed no particular humanitarian aims in his innovation. Hi modestly said he had merely calculated it would be more economical not to open the through Cub Scouts and into Boy Scouts.

I was an active, ordinary type kid until I was 14." Then Sharman's scouting activity was curtailed by the disease. "It's a genetic thing," he said. "My sister, Barbara Mortensen of Branchport, i teaches in Hammondsport from a wheelchair." Sharman moved from Brooklyn to his sister's home in 1965. Four years later he resumed his scouting activities when he took the scoutmaster's job. "Some people were getting the troop reorganized.

They had someone lined up for scoutmaster but he backed out at the last minute. They came and asked me about it so I took the job." i Sharman said he stays active in scouting because of the dual enjoyment of working with the young scouts and his love for camping. "I grumble and mumble a lot about my limitations," he said, "but when I'm with the troop, I lose any notion that I'm handicapped." The scouts help him in and out of his wheelchair at night when they're out in Penn Van. They plan vacations each year so they can go to scout camp. Sharman always has driven a car but "real independence" came four years ago he said when he obtained a hydraulic-lift van to handle his motorized wheelchair.

What's he looking forward to now? "Two weeks at scout camp next summer," he said. Ciupik, John W. Dec. 29, 1982 in FL. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Jay and Barbara; 2 grandchildren; his sisters, Mrs.

Patricia Gadzinski, Mrs. John (Pauline) Nazmick, nieces and nephews. He was a member of the VFW Pat-chen Brlggs Post. Friends may call Sunday 2-4 and 7-9 at the Richard L. Felerskl Funeral Home, 1005 Hudson Ave, where prayers will be offered Monday morning at 10:30 followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 at St.

Stanislaus Church. Interment Holy Sepulchre By Dick Eiaenhart Democrat and Chronica Richard Sharman was sitting in his wheelchair when he was asked to be scoutmaster of a Boy Scout troop being organized in Branchport back in 1969. "I couldn't run," he said, joking. "They sort of dropped it in my lap. It was right there." He was confined to a wheelchair, as he has been for the past 23 years, immobilized by a form of muscular dystropy.

But his handicap didn't stop Sharman from taking over Troop 48. It hasn't stopped him from attending summer camp each year. It didn't stop him from serving as an assistant scoutmaster at the 1981 National Jamboree, where 30,000 Boy Scouts from throughout the world gathered for 12 days at Camp A.P. Hill in Virginia. And it didn't stop him from recently being given Scouting's Silver Beaver award, the highest local award to a volunteer scout leader.

He also is a member of the Order of the Arrow, a special association of honored campers. "I figure I don't have a choice. Either I sit back and do nothing or I take part in life," Sharman said. "I decided long ago I wouldn't just sit back." Sharman started in scouting in 1953. "I went Baker Anthony Calabrese dies of cancer at age 78 Anthony J.

Calabrese, co-owner of the Culver Bakery believed to be one of the oldest, family-owned bakeries in Rochester died of cancer Thursday night. He was 78. Mr. Calabrese was the second Calabrese brother to operate the popular German bakery at 1532 Culver Road. His older brother Andrew, now retired and living in Sarasota, started the bakery in 1919.

Mr. Calabrese started working in the bakery when he was 10, and took over its operation with his son Robert Sr. in 1955 when Andrew retired, Robert Calabrese Sr. said yesterday. The family tradition continues.

Two of Mr. Calabrese's grandchildren work in the bakery now, his son Robert Sr. said yesterday. Mr. Calabrese was preparing Christmas orders when he became ill and was hospitalized at Rochester General Hospital Dec.

13, his son said, Besides his son Robert, Mr. Calabrese is also survived by his wife, Rose; brothers Andrew of Sarasota, and Joseph of Rochester; son Richard, of Rochester; daughters Rose Mary Car-doni and Betty Ann Calabrese of Rochester; and 10 grandchildren. i Deaths (Monroe County) HOLIDAY ICE SKATING SEE PG. 3C indicates the first appearance of a notice in this newspaper UR sued over change at Towne House unit FROM PAGE 1B OPEN' TODAY NEW YEAR'S DAY On Dec. 16, the UR asked a City Court judge to evict the tenants and order them to pay $11,412.24 in back rent.

A week later, West Wedge filed its lawsuit, charging the UR cost the corporation $100,000 in lost business and in damage to its business reputation. The judge signed the eviction warrant ordering West Wedge to leave by Monday but referred the money dispute to trial. No date has been set. "The point we're most concerned about is that the UR didn't have the right after (buying the motel) to destroy the business during the terms of the lease," Piampiano said. The university had the obligation to continue the building in the same condition during the term of the lease, he said.

University officials should have waited until the lease expires Monday, he said. "It's a hard enough pill to swallow that they -turned it back into a dorm, but then they have the rug pulled out from under them," Piampiano said. 18 A.M. to 9 P.M. Coccia, Gregory J.

Of Chili. Thursday. December 30, 1982. He is survived by his wife, Gail Inzana Coccia; his sons, Richard M. and Matthew J.

Coccia; his mother, Thelma (Sally) Goccia of Gates; his brothers, Louis J. Coccia of Gates, John L. Coccia of Gates, Mark of Rochester, Michael J. Coccia of Gates; his sisters, Mrs. Donna Pierce of Webster, Mrs.

John (Elizabeth) Cimo of Hilton; his grandmother, Mrs. Mabel Scheuch of Rochester; his aunt, Mary Coccia and his uncles, Matt Coccia. both of Chill; his father-in-law and mother-in-law. Joseph and Phyllis Inzana of Gates: his brother-in-law, Gary Inzana of Spencer-port; also several a.ints, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. Friends may call Sunday and Monday 2-4 and 7-8 p.m.

at the DiPonzio Funeral Home, 219 for your In September, receipts were $25,000. By November, they had dropped to $15,000, Piampiano said. The Fantauzzos are charging that the publicity generated by the UR's purchase of the motel drove away customers. Some people assumed the restaurant was closed, Fantauzzo said. And, Piampiano said, "business at Christopher's went down dramatically." Between the loss of business from motel guest when the UR closed the motel to the public after August "and the publicity about the UR (takeover), the buai-nes couldn't keep ita head above water." West Wedge Corp.

didn't pay the rent to the university in October or November. "They couldn't they didn't have the money," Piampiano said. CONVENIENCE Adler, Selma On December 29. 1982. Beloved wife of the late Cantor Hugo Ch, Adler; beloved mother of Mrs.

Ronald H. (Marianne) Aaron of Wellesley. MA and Samuel H. Adler of Rochester, NY; cherished grandmother Of David, Richard and Jonathan Aaron and Deborah and Naomi Adler. Services were held Friday at the Perlman Funeral Home, Worcester, MA.

Memorial week will be observed Sunday and Monday at the residence of Mr. Mrs. Samuel H. Adler, 54 Railroad Mills Pitts-ford, NY, Donations in her memory may be made to the Eastman School of Music Scholarship Fund, Rochester, Y. and we'll DELIVER FREE and at DISCOUNT PRICES No peeking, laughing out under new laws disorders of the central nervous system, sometimes is abused by thrill-seekers.

Such abuse, previously not banned, now will be. Previously, one could not buy nitrous oxide Spencerport Gates. Funeral services Tuesday morning at 9. Mass of Christian Burial at 10 from St. Christopher's Church.

Entombment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. The cour-tesy of no flowers. FROM PAGE 1B from dental or industrial simnlv rnmnaniVo hut the gas could be obtained in some food products 1 Year's Weekend RIT to receive $550,000 grant Rochester Institute of Technology has announced a $550,000 scholarship grant from the Fred L. Emerson Foundation Inc. of Auburn, Cayuga County.

According to RIT officials, the foundation provided $250,000 in 1982 and $100,000 per year over the following three years in an agreement that calls for RIT to raise an additional $800,000 over four years from other sources to bring this scholarship endowment to $1.35 million. The endowment Cosman, Marie P. GREECE: Dec. 31. 1982.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Howard H. (Frances) Justice; her daughter-in-law. Mrs Ward E. (Betty) Cosman of Nashville TN; her granddaughter, Mrs.

Joe H. (Gail) Patton of Indianapolis IN; her grandson. James H. Cosman of Memphis TN; 8 great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends.

1 hour prior to a funeral service which will be held at the Thomas E. Burger Funeral Home. 735fcast Hilton Monday Jan. 3 at 2 o'clock. Interment, Parma Union Cemetery at the family's convenience.

Flowers gratefully declined. Those wishing may make contri. butions to the Greece United Methodist Church Organ Fund, the Hilton Baptist. Church Memorial Fund or the Greece Volunteer Ambulance Service Inc. in Mrs.

Cosman's memory. the other side. Under the new law, the mirrors will be acceptable in store fitting rooms only if a written notice of their use is posted conspicuous- They still will be permitted in law enforcement and correctional settings, in medical facilties, in educational institutions and in the privacy of one's own home. But anyone installing or using a two-way mirror in a motel room, public restroom or any other place now becomes a lawbreaker. Filing fees in town and village justice courts go up today.

There are at least 10 fees for 10 different filings or court services, and the amounts vary. Many fees, including the cost of filing the first paper in any action, rise to $10 a shot. Life insurance companies now will be able to charge higher interest rates to those who borrow against their policies. The old interest ceiling was 8 percent. The new ceiling is tied to a published listing of the average yield of corporate bonds.

The listed yield lately has been about 13 percent. Insurance companies also may loan money at variable interest rates rates that change during the course of the loan. On the bright side, insurance buyers now will have 20 days instead of 10 to back out of an insurance policy and get a full refund of premi-ums and fees. Buyers will have 30 days to back out of policies sold by mail order. As of today it is illegal to use nitrous oxide laughing gas for "intoxication, excitement, stupification or dulling of the brain or nervous system," to quote a state Consumer Protection Board summary of the law.

Nitrous oxide is used as an anesthetic and as an aerosol lant in food prodbcta. The gas, which can cause or irom mail-order houses. Now, it becomes illegal to sell the stuff to anyone under 21. The new law does not apply to use of nitrous oxide in dentistry, medicine or industry. From today on, it will be possible to beat traffic tickets issued for defective safety-related equipment on your auto if you have the defect corrected quickly.

If you're ticketed for any safety equipment violation except lack of headlights or a brake problem, you have until a half-hour after sundown the following business day to fix the defect. Save receipts, bills or other proof of the repair, and show the proof to the judge when your case comes up. The ticket will be dismissed. A previous state law allowed ticket-dismissal only for violations related to defective car lights. This is much broader, including tickets for such things as bald tires or no rear-view mirror.

Holders of motor vehicle learners' permits may be required to wear seat belts. The state Department of Motor Vehicles now is considering such a change in regulation, which does not require legislative approval. About 400,000 learn-ers' permits are issued annually, most to teenagers, Under the proposed new regulation, permit holders would have to buckle up. Licensed driv-. ere are not required by law to use belts, but one other category is school bus drivers.

Children under 4 also must be in restraining seats, and those between 4 and 5 must be in restraining seats or seat belts. State DMV Commissioner Leslie G. Foschio will decide later this year whether to implement jthe new regulation. -j if A i. 7 Stanley 4 as shown reg $201 1 SALE '1499 Night Stand reg $264 SALE 199 Italian provincial styling by Stanley Old World charm is achieved with the look of the elegantly sculptured tn-lold mirror headboard, dramatic touches of burl engravings on the doors, handsome hardwara accents.

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