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THE BBOOKirra DAIL.Y EAGLE. NEW YOEK, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1900. 14 silver matoh box to the member who should catch tho lareestt wild trout. So far Dr. THESPIANS OFF THE STAGE.

IT COURT KECOflKTOi for some charitable object or a social hop will be held. There is always something going on and the mind and body are kept in good condition. Many of the actors keep good teams and stylish rigs and much good natured jealousy exists as to whose horses can trot the fastest. Among these are John Kernell, Charles Bigelow, Willie Collier and Jerome Sykes. Charles Bigelow, who has a handsome little home on Prospect Hill, has just brought here The Old House to Be Turned Into a Museum of Household Antiquities duty to Insist that every public servant shali show the same qualities of honesty and uprightness as in private and business relations.

We cannot afford for one moment to permit the preaching of doctrines which arc tool enough when preached, but which are not practiced. We can't permit the kind of morality which iinds promises made on one day of teh week and not performed on the other six. No amount of ability will lake the place of the work a dtty humdrum virtues, from the highest public oflicial to the lowest, from all who lake their way to and from the court house. He must know his duty an i then do it. We can't accept any ability as a substitute for honesty, which is what we want from any public servant.

He must recognize the moral law by his deeds. II. must have more than liberal loyalty, he must practice it. Now for the public II, or tb.it the public servant will do what "he public requires him to do. or.

if the public is indifferent, what the public elected him lo do. Hut you can stop htm if he sees romx. If you permit sharp practice it will be your own Laid at Mineola Yesterday by Governor Roosevelt With Appropriate Ceremonies. hlS ADDRESS ON CIVIC DUTIES. Nasau's County Seat Thronged Remarks by Secretary Youngs and Congressman Scudder.

1 (Special to the ICaqle.l Mineola. L. July The occasion of the laying of the corner stone of Nassau County's first court house was celebrated with great enthusiasm in this plaee yesterday and the programme of exercises was carried out without a hitch in the proceedings. The weather was fine. Every public and private building a fine steam launch and shortly will nave an automobile.

Another form of pleasure, which should not be forgotten, is of recent origin and that is the Pan. The Pan is a four page newspaper devoted to the best interests of St. James in general and the actor colony in particular. Will Pan is the editor, and though he frequently peregrinates through elephantine ponderosities or derisively interposes redundant rodomontades into his edi The Scott Family. torlal characterizations, yet is the paper a success from a business and social standpoint.

Picnics, clambakes, driving and sailing parties are daily indulged in for the benefit of the actors' wives and children. Among the most prominent of the colony now at St. James are: tr. Willie Collier. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Klfielow, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Taylor, Mr.

ami Mrs. josepn ijarton, ana iirs. j. R. Leslie.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dailey, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Sykes, Mr.

and Mrs. W. G. Gray, Mr. and Mrs.

W. G. Smvthe. Mr. and Mrs.

M. L. Heekerit. Mr. and Mrs.

Toni Fnrrell, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas GarrlcK. Mr. and Mrs.

it. uoruon, Richard Mullen. Myron Rice, Henry A. Rlselow. Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Iluber. Mr. and Mrs. K.

J. Connolly, Mr. and Mrs. Neil O'Brien. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank MeXeesh, Mr. and Mrs. Frank O'Brien, Mr. Adams, Dan Swift, Mr.

and Mrs D. Harrold. Joe Coyne. J. Roy West.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans. Mr. and Mrs.

John Kernell, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, Mr. and Mrs. Marks, Georpe Roekllffe.

Miss Anna Bovd. John Barton. Mr. and Mrs. John Collier, Mr.

and Mrs. V. T. Hyde. Horace Lex.

Mr. and Mrs. rtiefmrd Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Allen.

Paul W. Hviie. Her bert Didgett, jir. am jjrs, iaJ Allen. DEATH OF 1MAE.ION" M.

MOIE. Northport, L. July 14 Miss Marion M. Moir died at ber home, in this village, yesterday afternoon of consumption, at the age of 19 years. She was a daughter of the late John K.

Moir of Smithtown Branch. The funeral will be held at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow, from St. Paul's M. E. Church, of which church the deceased was a member.

There will also he a short service at Smith town Branch, where the interrrent will take place. LONG ISLAND BREVITIES. The five acre farm of Mrs. Williams on Pleasant avenue. Greenwich Point, has been bought by Harris Nome nf New York.

The coitae of Mrs. tVallenquest on Uedell street, Freeport, has been sold to Francis Pear sail. Tsland Town has a Sunday mall now and it is relished by the summer visitors. SIDE PATH INSFECTOKS. Shelter Island, L.

July Sidepath Commissioner H. H. Preston and a party of young women, comprising his Sunday school class, this week made a tour of inspection of the bicycle paths of the south side of Southold town. In the party were Misses Edna Rogers, Carrie Downs, Carrie Mailman, Lucy Duvall, Katharine Payne, Fannie Dawson and Alma Case. They visited Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton and Easthamp ton.

At the latter place the girls presented Mr. Preston with a silver matchbox. AFTEB THE BRICKYARDS. Oyster Bay, L. July 14 Mr.

Triiesdall, a wealthy Braoklynite, is negotiating for Bum Dolan's brick yards at Center Island. The market price is placed at $40,000. If Mr. Truesdall secures the property the building will be razed at once and a handsome country house will be erected. Residents of Oyster Bay and Center Island will hail the improvement with great satisfaction.

YOTJNGS SANDS. Flushing, L. July 14 Walter A. Young and Miss Augusta B. Sands were quietly married yesterday at the Methodist parsonage by the Rev.

A. W. Wyatt. The witnesses were Mrs. Wyatt and Miss Belle Scranton.

The bride is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Caroline Sands of tho Flushing Bridge Hotel. The couple will live at 12 Prince street. offictrITelected. The Bank of Amltyvlile Directors, Elmer W.

Pavls. Chnrles O. Ireland, E. Forrest PreBton, Thomas Powell. Timothy M.

Grilling. Solomon Ketcham. John Haff. Gilbert P. Williams, Suphen K.

Williams, Wesley Chichester. Philip Strack, Alvan W. Haff, Charles A. Pieraon; GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT SPEAKING At he. Laying of the Corner Stone of the Nassau County Court House John Paxton holds the record with a wild trout of two pounds weight.

Smithtown River empties into the Sound almost due north of the village and about two miles distant there is on its banks near its mouth a fnmmia nnd exclusive club. called the Rassapague Club, but known locally as "the Millionaires' Club," as it is made up of only four members Colonel Oliver H. Payne, the president: H. O. Have meyer, u.

B. Schley and II. lerrcu. The Rassanague has a pretty club house on a high knoll overlooking the river, sev eral nonds which fairlv swarm wun trout. and extensive hunting preserves.

Its gamekeeper is raising this year several hundred English pheasants, which will no turneu mco the preserves in October to furnish shooting for the members. Its near neighbor is the Nissequogue Club of about twenty five members, a fishing club which has fine trout preserves and a club house. Stanford White, the architect, and Prescott Hall Butler, are prominent members of this club. IN LONG ISLAND CHURCHES. First Mass to Be Said To morrow in Freeport's New Catholic Church.

Freeport, L. July 14 The new Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer, located on the south side of Pine street, between Grove street and Ocean avenue, will be opened for public worship for the first time to morrow morning when the masses will be at 8 and 10 o'clock, the Rev. William B. Farrell, pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Loretto, Hempstead, officiating. The last mass will be a high mass and the singing will be by the choir of the Hempstead church, under the direction of Professor Charles Durr.

Gounod's "Convent Mass" will be sung, and the offertory piece will be by Miss Carrie Kelly of Brooklyn. The new church was erected by Father Farrell, who, at first, met with much opposition to the establishment of a Catholic parish by prominent real estate owners and others, who, however, later became contributors to the church. It is pleasantly located between Randall Park and Woodcleft, the fashionable sections for summer residents. The railroad depot is within three minutes walk away. A New Pastor in Charge.

Roslyn, L. July 14 A new Presbyterian pastor, the Rev. James Newell Grace, formerly of Woodhaven, has taken charge of the' church at Roslyn. He was born in St. Clair, in 1864, and graduated from the St.

Clair High School. After being in business a few years in Michigan and Colorado he took a special course in the Denver University, and came to New York and entered the Union Theological Seminary, from which institution he was graduated with the class of 'S9. His first charge was the Presbyterian Church at Keyp ort, N. J. He then served as pastor of the South Broadway Presbyterian Church of Idaho Springs, and the Woodhaven First Presbyterian Church, where he has just closed a successful pastorate of about five years.

Religious Notes. The first retreat of the Sisters of St. Joseph, at St Joseph's In the Pines, Urentwootl, occurred this week, about 150 being present. The retreat was under Father Fardow. S.

and the next retreat will be under Father Halpln. S. J. There will be three retreats, with a week intervening between each. The new pastor of Emmanuel Church, Great Rlv.

r. the Rev. H. M. Kirbv, lias organized an Ofif The Kev.

W. J. Haven, son of the late Bishop" Haven, will preach In Hie buy Shore Methodist Church to morrow at both services. nr. Haven is secretary of the American Hilda Society and was the first president of Epworth Leagues in America.

The Rev. Joseph P. JlcCinlcy of St. Patrick's Church, Bay Shore, attended the fifteenth anniversary of St. Lawrence church, Sayville.

on Thursday. The Day Shore Epworth League will hold a vesper service In the chai' en Sunday evening, preceding the service. Much enthusiasm is manifested over the prospect of the erection of a new church edifice for St. Mary's parish. East an election for three trustees of the Jamaica Methodist Episcopal Church.

John It. Carpenter, Garret Van Dine and Abianam II. Remsen were chosen for three yean. The final union service fcr th" summer season will be held in the Reformed chapel In IIollls to racrrow afternoon, at which the Rev. Robert K.

Wick will talk to the children. l'astor Lwis K. Moore the Jamaica Methodist Church, has forw. ir SIl'J lo the India famine fund: of which was raised by the children of the Junior au Ground will he brok the I. ilt part of this week for the church edifice un.l parish house of All Saints Mission.

i arw. inan of Greenwood avenue, has I. c. to build the new eJiflce Henry Luder awarded the The Rev. Horace Fell.

recently ordained lo the' deaconate. is ov the minister in charge of the Church of th Nativity, at Mr. recently appointed nri. to St. uhurch, at Il.dlis.

moved into the rectory Monday. Tlie lat sermon in a special course will be d. liver. 1 in the First Unformed Dutch church. Jamii' a.

lo morrov evening, by tile pastor, Rev It. K. Wick, on "John Wesley." A song service will be given in the Presbyterian Church. sa liar.i.r. ui morruu The Rev.

J. A. Swann will preach in the Cut chogue M. E. Church to morrow morning, taking as hi theme.

Chosen People." In tha evening he will preach on "The Touch Jesus." The Hev. R. F. Norton of the Methodist Church, Sag Harbor, will preach on the subject. "The Weight of the World, as Weighed by Solomon," to morrnw morning.

T'. nt meetinc? are belnft held daily in the woods on Central avenue, between Far Roekaway and Lawrence. The first services in the new Catholic Church of the Hole Redo mor at Freeport will l.e held to morrow 'morning at and 10 A. by tile Rev. William 11.

Farrell. During the absence of the Rev. K. P. Ketoham from the Freeport Presbyterian Church, the Iiev.

F. M. Kerr of Hempstead will exercise a supervision over the congregation. Th Rev. K.

P. Ketcham, D. will occupy the Freeport Presbyterian Church puli.lt fur the last time t'ais summer to morrow. He starts on the ISlh i'. a trip to Europe.

The P.ev. Mr. H.ovell, acting pastor of H. thany Church. Kasl Ilockaway, will exchange with trie Rev.

T. S. ilraithwaite of Wantasii to morruw Mr. and Mts. AH.

rt J. Haff have presented to the Wanuot'a Memorial Church a hymn tablet and psalm At Lake's church. Sea Cliff, to morrow will occur the moatidy communion of the Daughters of toe King. The quarterly missionary meeting of the Sea Cliff Epw.jrih I. agu" will be held to morrow evening.

Mrs. Charles K. Edwards will leal. The ullicial of the Sea Cliff Methodist Church has ercanize by electing Alfred Cox, president, and w. Bell, secretary.

The Rev. It. J. of Elmont, will olliciate in lie; Mineola chapel to morrow evening. In Ihe Elnient Methodist Church to morrow morning, the Itev.

James Taylor, pastor, will preach "The Year of Jubilee." The P.ev. I Alcone of Hornerstown, N. will deliver an address in St. Joseph's Church at Queens, to niurrow afternoon. The Rev.

Mr. Weldner. in charge of the Reformed Church at New Hyde Park will e.v cbanye pulpits with the Rev. J. S.

N. Demarest of the Rerurmed Church at Queens to morrow evening. To morrow evening the Rev. J. Howard IP.bbs of the Jamai Presbyterian Church will preach on the subject, the Missionaries Responsible fur the War in China?" AN ISLAND "WINTER RESORT.

Ronkonkoma, L. July 14 A movement is on foot, to establish a winter resort at Lake Ronkonkoma, similar to Lakewood, X. J. People who know the capabilities of Ronkonkoma and vicinity say that the is admirably suited for such a resort. Tho village has a beautiful lake and is well supplied witli pines and a sandy loam.

The atmosphere th re is beautiful and health giving both winter and summer. The plan is lo build big hotels with glass inclosed verandas, and buy up large tracts of surrounding country to sell to cottage people. Inducements of various kinds will be offered for the latter to build, and the place will be attractively laid out. SUFFOLK COUNTY TRANSFERS. Riverhead.

L. July 14 Among recent transfers in Suffolk County realty are the following: N. (i. i'. If.

referee, to Cortl.mdt me and 1 w. ii i fls aires, south side Khelt. lsian l. i i is; deration JSO0. N.

il. I' to Edith C. Nlcr.ll, aer. li. I lo nd Bay.

Consideration Klins Hunter to 'rlda Bnlgel, lot Albany avenue, Ainit ill Consideration It. II. Keteham and wife to Trcadweii Ketel.atn, eijtlit lots, west side Ocean avenue, Anotvville. I. ration s.

to IChvnrd c'aiinvny lots at lloll.r Consideration Ij Wot i'. Flanagan and wife to clas, lot on 11., avenue, PatehoKiie. Co. isi.i.., lt. tion Arthur W.

to BIlaB Hunter, crty. Cor. elera ion YELLOW LEG SNIPE ARE HERE. Qucenswatcr. L.

July 14 A large Hock of yellow its snipe, containing at least, fifty birds, was seen in the hay this week. The season opened July 1, but birds have been coin unlit nnnr Clf niPDllnil 1, have been very plentiful and there are many young birds in the meadows. The season opens August lti. How the Heroes and Heroines of the Footlights Spend Their Vacations. ST.

JAMES' QUIET ACTOR COLONY Jollity, Sociability and Goodfellowship the Aim of All Home Life and Amusements. (Special to the Eagle.) Stony Brook, July 14" 'Shiftless as an actor' is an old English adage, to which the members of the dramatic profession this side of the Atlantic have given the lie," said a widely traveled man to an Eagle reporter a few days ago. "If you doubt me pet acquainted with tho actor colony at St. James," and the reporter followed the advice. St.

James is one of the most beautiful hamlets dotting the North Shore of Long Island. The waters of the Sound lap the finely pebbled harbor fringed with verdant wealth. As the gaze wanders around Eaton's Neck on the one side and Crane Neck on the other, with the habitated hills of Connecticut forming a background between, are seen. Hither came the heirs of the late A. T.

Stewart and built pastoral abodes, such as those of Deveraux Emmett. l'rescott Hall Butler, Stanford White, Mrs. Kate Wetherill and others. And hither, loo, came many' leading members of the dramatic profession and either purchased or built pleasant homes. As the fame of St.

James spread the aotors colony waxed in numbers until now the settlement runs into the hundreds. Hero the frills and furbelows, the paints and powders the jewels and juggleries of stage hero and heroine are cast aside and. If pos sible, thrown into Lethe stream, while com fort and common sense, mirth and mischief. 1 vsrff Charles A. Bigelow.

pleasure and plainness take their place. The life of one is the life of all, as they are a fraternity given to generous hospitality and faithful good fellowships. Willie Collier, the star in "Mr. Smooth," and who made such a success of the "Man From Mexico." may be taken as a representative. His cottage, surrounded by a picturesque park, occupies a commanding position and is handsomely furnished.

Lately a billiard room has been add William Collier. ed where his friends frequently meet and play at chess, cards, pool or billiards while a well stocked cellar underneath supplies all needed refreshments. When tired of these, boats lie wailing a few rods away filled with the necessary tackle for fishing in tho Sound, where at present mackerel are so abundant. As night falls mandolins and guitars are brought forth while well trained voices of male and female waft gentle music over wold and water Should a dip in the briny deep be desired well furnished bathing houses stand near by. Perhaps some prefer a more violent exercise and hie themselves to the well made diamond near the railroad sun ion and practice for matches with neighboring village tenuis.

A gooil name is always giiiii a iiteed when the Actor Team crosses bats Willi any rival. When thrr heat of buttle grows oppressive, offerings are laid at Ihe uliars nf Pacchus or (ninbrinus with all due respect to dianiiy and decorum. And woo to him who hurts Ihe honor of the colony! While refreshments are served wit and humor run ram pan I. And he whoso intellect lias been dulled will soon put on a keen edge or disappear. Sometimes all join in giving a performance Si fl P': fh Its Waters, Fed by Springs and Ponds, the Natural Home of the Trout.

WHERE WEBSTER USED TO FISH. Members of Three Clubs Now Monopolize the Sport, the Wyandank. the Ras sapague and the Nissequogue. Smithtown River was anciently famous for the number and line quality of ils trout and there are now three famous fishing clubs along its banks, each with a hatchery and trout ponds for the artificial rearing of trout. This river rises in seven large ponds and innumerable springs within eight or ten miles of its mouth at the Sound, at which at Mineola Yesterday.

point it is throughout a considerable river, famous the island tor its shad, which i spawn. Its cold, crystal, clear the natural home of the trout. So irrea' was its renutniion in ih. forties (that it attracted the attention of the great I'aniel Webster, an ardent fisherman, who spent many a day beside its deeply wooded banks absorbed in his favorite pastime. Coming from Comae, as one leaves the and enters on the little clearing in whn stands the pretty house of the Wyandank club, the visitor sees before him a ruinous old dwelling half covered with moss ami vines.

If the traveler's; attention is not attracted by the house itself it is certain to be by a large placard before, it bearing this inscription: "The old Historical Vail Farm, scene of I'aniel Webster's piscatorial exploits in the day of stage coae This house was the fornier home of Aaron S. Vail, a friend of the great expounder. and whore the latter always stopped on his visits to Smalltown he. Vail. Gerrid Scott, Oent ral J'aviess and Caleb Smith formed a sort nf fishing club, vaich stocked several ponds.

Vail looking after them. Vail died many years ago. His house was long with out i.nnn:s and finally cap: into possesion of the Wyandank Club, whose hatcheries and fishways are on the Vail farm just across the riv. r. It is tenantless nov.

except for bats and owls and fast L' cng to docav What a pity that the Wyandanks do not pr. vent it. simply as a memento of the great Few now living remember his visits here. William K. Newtown, manager of the Wyandank Club, often saw him fishing in the stream, usually alone.

"The first time I I saw him." said he. "was when I was a boy i and I remember it as though it were but yes'erday. We drove our sheep to the 'head of tho as Smithtown was then called, to wash them, and up by the mill I saw a larire man wirh a big head fishing. Father told me it was Daniel Webster, the greatest man then living. I can see now his gut I glisten in the sun as he whirled his fly over i bis bead for a cast." A few yards norm of the Vail house on a gentle elevation is he handsome club house of the Wyandank Club, one of the oldest and largest sporting and social organizations of this section.

It was founded in 18S5 as the Brooklyn Gun Club, its incorporators being Dr. F. Alen. John L. Hill, the well known lawyer: Gustavo Walker.

John W. Do'iL bis. I). J. rraott, J.

C. Monroe. John Mc Ewen, urge J. Seaburv and John Logan. Among its present members are Theodore Rogers of the Dank of the Metropolis.

General George w. Wingate, a well known Brooklynile; the Rev. John H. Paxton and Charles Flint, president of the Rubber Trust. The Wyandank is both a shooting and fishing club.

It owns two thousand acres of forc. preserve and leases twelve thousand more. it. has seventy five thousand knows lry hutched tins year, and nobody knows how many yearlings and two year olds in its ponds and lish Its club 'nous. was formerly the old 131 (leiiiiiu itii furin house, buili in colonial time's.

'Ihe il 11 has pr.serv.al the old structure toai ly inia. i and 1ms buill on and around A d. i i. cm opening info the billiard room is pi, into, 1 ut. to visitors as hiiviiiu been mail.

by a sal, re in tho hands of a British soldier. Tho person struck at was tlie IJIyileiibureli who then owned the dWeUiuir Ibis year the club offered a prize of a BY CLUB WOMEN OF THE ISLAND. Its Twenty five Hooms to Be Restored and Appropriately Furnished' as a Country Club House. The club women of Brooklyn and of the Long Island Country Clubs, under the name of the King Manor Association, have leased the King Manor House at Jamaica for a general club house and a museum for household and industrial antiquities, which has long been greatly needed on Long Island and throughout the state. Equaling New England in its possession of valuable relics, of an almost forgotten age, home made and handmade articles, and its heirlooms beautiful and quaint household furnishings, New York State has been singulary negligent in providing permanent and safe museums wherein these interesting antiques can be preserved to tell the story of the early days of this country to posterity.

Long Island is particularly rich in these antiques, which make the establishment of the King Manor Club House and Museum timely and important. A more suitable home could not have been chosen than the venerable and historic King Mansion of Jamaica. It has been leased fir a term of three years to the association for the sum of one dollar, with the reservation of the rear part for park uses. The house is one of the oldest and most interesting of the colonial houses in Jamaica. It fronts on Fulton street, the main avenue of the town, and is built in the broad, hospitable style of colonial architecture, with a double pitch roof.

The spacious porch is held by four heavy pillars; the massive front door looks as it it might stand for centuries to come. It ia ornamented with a quaint brass knocker in the form of a spread eagle, a veritable Wash ingtonlan relic. Entering the broad hall the eye follows the fine lines of a beautiful mahogany staircase. From out the hallway open spacious rooms, with ample chimneypieces and fireplaces. In all there are twenty five rooms, large and lofty, beside the great hall in this fine old mansion; these are to be furnished by tb.9 various clubs.

The quaint kitchen, with its immense chimney and brick fireplace, Is to be restored by Fort Greene Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, among whom are several prominent New England women who i mntoriflllv aided in this work by the knowledge of ancient cooking utensils and methods of broiling and roasting before an open wood fire obtained from the finest museum in this country, the Deerfield Memorial Hall in Massachusetts. Tho ni.i Hhrarv is to be restored by the Brooklyn Public Library Association and many a rare edition ana nne uia prim, win meio preserved. Long Island Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will bring back to the drawing room a glimpse of its former splendor when it was furnished with its magnificent set of mahogany furniture, covered with satin brocade, that belonged to the famous ambassador, Rufus King. The dining room will be made delightful with old mahogany sideboards, tables and chairs, and resplendent with ancient cut glass and fine china, by the Woman's Club of Jamaica. One large room on the second floor will be reserved for a museum, but, indeed, the whole house will be a most instructive museum of fine and interesting antiques.

Other rooms on the second floor will be restored to colonial bedrooms by members of the association. Valuable donations for the furtherance of the work have already been received. Among them are an old time piano, the first one ever known to be on Long Island; a great mahogany bedstead, more than six feet wide; art old desk, and a very rare portrait of George and Martha Washington. Other antique furnishings are to be placed in the house from time to time. It is also the intention of the association to open a cafe, where luncheons and small dinners may be obtained.

The object of the King Manor Association as set forth in its constitution, is: "To foster patriotism, good citizenship and. helpful social relations among members and communities; to provide a suitable building as a place of resort and rest and to collect therein a library and works of art and historical interest, thereby preserving that which will aid future generations in a knowledge of the life, customs and habits of our ancestors." There are more than 200 members in the oiganization, many of whom are descendants of prominent old Long Island The house will serve as a country club house; and no one room will be reserved for the exclusive use of any one society. Tho extensive grounds, which derive much of their beauty from the stately old trees, that are said to bo among the best in this city, are to be laid out in plots, lawns and walks. They are already used as a public park, to the great benefit and enjoyment of the citizens of Jamaica. Rufus King was the first minister to England under Washington, from 1707 to 1804, and on his return he bought the farm at Jamaica and built this house, where he lived until his death.

April 20, 1827. highly honored and rcsp cted. His talented son. Governor John Alson King, bought the family mansion from his brother, after bis father's death, where continued to re3ide until his death, in 1867. Tho house finally passed into the hands of his youngest daughter.

Miss Cornelia King, who resided in the beautiful old home until her death, a few yearn ago. FIREMEN WILL GET MONEY. Flushing, L. I July 11 Dnttalion Chlel Lano of Astoria, was in Flushing yostorday and made an Inspection of the Flushing Fir Department. ue sum that requisition under.

tne uaio oin win do made out and the FlulJ ing iircmen win get their money lal few dava, fx fault if it is exercised at your nor expense. 1 he re or are not le public lire, they people rule, anil as they termined to have decency will see to it. "Free government is nor a cif; that ran he handed out in the celestial ever but only i by hard work under self a and we must preserve it. the aver age man must do bis part in ilo rk of self i government and make bis repiv. feel 1 the results he wishes on the plane on which it must be and can be kept.

And ultimately it is of almost greater imparlance that the men who do the work should be in touch wi'h us and should respond to what is highest and best our desires. The old lesson to re bor is that the Decalogue ami Golden are peculiarly in pho in public life, public servant must be cvut, upright honest. Every freeman, is alike in iiis iliges and his duties and responsibilities Rule TI iriv Tho average citizen must a father, but he must also decency and honor in nubl: 1 husband rve bouestv and life. i tnatiK you for your Hi I attenti.m. The ceremony of the laying of the corner stone was performed by lit Governor with silver trowel.

Private Secretary "William J. Youngs then arose and said in part: "I see here about in a few of these whoso hair is now silvered who used to et with meme in the old Queens County at Mineola, known as the Old Hriir. Tie re are many others who were lure then v. ho h.ivt passed away. I realize how happy tii.

would have been to have seen this handsome court house established in this center of iuielli gence and population, where it is so much needed. "The year 1S9S was a most eventful one in the history of the county. vh, it wa. known whether we would succeed in creating the new county or not. "Some of us thought it was a very dangerous experiment.

Some of us thought ve liad better get S' me of the towns Suffolk County to come in with us and help pay our taxes. whether we could go We did not know it alone. When Gov ernor Black signed the act we were all glad. "Our count is a rural one. but noi so rural, not so tar away from Xv York hut that we can rub tip against city people.

"Nassau is the sixty first county in the state in the order of formation. There are thirty larger and thirty smaller counties in the state, and thirty with more wealth and and thirty with less. Nassau is the central county in the state, and everything radiates from the center to the circumference and from the circumference to the center." aid Fred Congressman Townsend Scudder erick Hicks also spoke. The follow ing is a list of the most prominent people in attendance: Joverm.r re in v. lt and I'rivate lary W.

lines, Jim Carlo'. J. If i' man Tool. U.l.i I'. na i.

ill It. iris Post din A liar 11 Tl a Till 111 lye. ur.ty, ate board; Just smi and 'I stead lowp. Ncnii li Dac; cbarl Nassau Mil' I lllleT W. II" 1: J.e'i I Iom s.

RASSAPAGUE CLTJB HOUSE. cr.nilssioner Janus St. lev f.f A. X. Wcller.

ex lu M. KlilBht and I 'red. riek James i. i son oi in' assistant pi.si.l. iu the Male.

1 leu 1:1 ill ill. Us, i seifer ll. and 1 M'. itl i. I'atri.

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Cr e.l. Ki nest Hall William 1.. t'oKswell, Frederick and Fred Jlerzot i 1 i i I 1 in the place was decorated in honor of the event and "Welcome" banners were conspicuously displayed. The importance; of the event drew together nearly all the officials and ex officials and other prominent citizens of Queens and Nassau, with cube a sprinkling from Suffolk, and the presence of the Governor of the State and Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican party assisted in drawing a crowd of men and women to witness the ceremonies. Over l.aOO people were present.

From 150 to 200 specially invited guests gathered upon a platform built over the court house foundation and through an opening in which the corner stone was laid. Upon the front of the platform was a large crayon drawing representing the court house as it will appear when completed. The cornerstone, which was a large block of concrete about three feet in length, was suspended by means cf a three legged derrick above its final resting place at the northeast corner of the bu'lding. to which it was lowered by block anu 'all after the ceremony by the Governor. The Governor arriij'l shortly after o'clock anu the station by the Port on the grounds escorted from Washine: Hand and the Boys' Brigade of Hempstead, Captain Kerr commanding.

In the carriage with the Governor were Private Secretary William .1. Youngs and President Benjamin D. Hicks of the Mineola Bank, chairman the entertainment committee. Upon his auDi oaoh the steam whittle of Contractor Roche, the builder of the Court House, was blown continuouslv for two or three minutes and the band played the "Red. "White and Blue." The Governor made his way to the front of the platform, where he was welcomed by a chorus of cheers.

The exercises were opened by Supervisor Cox. chairman of the board, who rose in his place and said: 'On behalf of the supervisors of Nassau County we ofter you to day an unlimited welcome, and we shall try to make your visit at this the initial gathering at the county court house one of pleasure. The enterprise has passed all critical points, the foundations of the structure are built and the corner stone will be laid to day. We hope to have the building completed and occupied by January 1, 1001. That it will be convenient and pleasant to those whom you elect as officials to re Bide therein we have no doubt.

One shadow only appears to us to day and that, comes in the loss of our late chairman and associate in the board of supervisors, Augustus Denton. In his death the county lost a wise counselor, upright citizen and an honest man. lie would have considered it a glorious ending of his official career to have been resent to day." Governor Roosevelt then rose and after a long continued cheering had subsided said: "Mr. Chairman and my fellow citizens, mea and women of Nassau County I am delighted to have the chance to be present and lake part in laying the corner stone of this buiid ing to day, because of what is meant to the I county by the erection of tho building and because of what is meant to all of us as citizens by the manner and kind of work that is to be done in the building after it is erected. "There are certain deep questions affecting our civic duty, which go far beyond any party opinions so long as we insist that our representatives of whatever faith possess the elementary moralities and decencies.

We can't afford as citizens ever to permit our representatives, least of all thcisc of our own party, whatever that party may be, to forget there are certain characteristics we 4Ut thtmrins. that it is our right aud a ppiii 'TM KING MANOR HOUSE AND PARK, JAMAICA. president. I Forrest Preston; vice preslilent, Sol onion Ketcham, ir. cashier, Charles O.

Ireland; assistant cashier, Thomas A. l'riwell. Arlvunco Ilriolt and Ladder Company, llellmore Kin email. David llaldwln, lli Ht assistant, I' i lesnli, seL ond assistant, (leonte K. Verily, third assistant, liiilwnrd treasurer, Charles W.

HmJlli; secretary, (Jeorie Baldwin; Janitor. KuK' oe Hunt. Foresters of America, Kast Isllp Chief ranp cr, Mieiilnn Drake; aub hlef runner. cl l'l ey; senior woodward. Charles Tulllc; Junior woodwnrd, Charles if.

senior br adle, J. Coreoran: junior liearlle, laln rif the Ktnird, CeorK' Rlveihead Klre I lejiartment 'rank C. Ltine, chief; Christian Ammnnn. assistant: J. H.

New Inn, director for three years, anil L. r. Howell, JoKeph E. Coulstln and Nathan T. Corwln wert chosen inspectors ut uienLlou..