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Mf BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936 day, and on the department's plans CHECKS LINEAGE Museum Landscaping Job to comply with its provisions. Moses Gives Up "I don't wish to discuss the Din Called One of City's Finest at this time," he said, "because I have been assured that it will not be pressed for passage." The original Brownell dui, intro duced Jan. 2, the day the current session opened, would have amend country to stress the art of tnil continent The speaker added that thl Brooklyn Museum has also been, among the first to adopt a chronological organization by placing pre historic displays on the first floof and "working up" to living art on the sixth and top floor. Mr. Youtz, in touching upon the beauty that has been brought to the location of the Museum, that, along with the propinquity of the Botanic Gardens and Prospect Park, a unified park development has arisen that cannot be matched anywhere else In the city.

Harry M. Edwards presided. ed a law passed In 1933. This law set the date for evacuation by the State of Wards Island and Randalls Island, both of which are leased Kin Verifies Record Of Fatherhood at 120 Great-Granddaughter of John Gilley Backs Up Stranger-Than-Fiction Story of Little Irishman Who Died in 1815 By MARK FLAHERTY Outstanding among the traditional wonders of the State of Maine is the story of one John Gilley, a doughty, five-foot three-inch Irishman. He lived to the ripe age of 124 and, equally noteworthy, became a father at the age of The landscaping job being completed by the Park Department and WPA labor for the Brooklyn Museum will convert the corner of Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave.

into one of the most beautiful places in the city, the Rotary Club was told at its weekly luncheon at the Hotel Bossert yesterday by Philip N. Youtz, Ro tartan and director of the Museum. Speaking upon the subject of "A Million Dollar Mucseum Modernization," Mr. Youu traced the developments at the Museum during the last year. He pointed to the new collection of aboriginal American art with pride and said that the local museum Is the first In the Plan for Park On Ward's Isle Removal of Hospital Is Deemed Too Costly to Warrant Fair Project Eule Bnrmv.

Capitol Building. Albany, March 8--Park Commissioner Robert Moses has aban from the city, ten years from the date of enactment, or some time in 1943. The Brownell measure sought to advance the moving date by four years. Dual Action PUnned Brownell tacked a paragraph on the end of his World Fair enabling act bill which would have done the told, John Gilley's youngest daugh' same thing as his Jan. 2 measure did with regard to Wards Island.

But when the section providing for a $5,000,000 State appropriation for the fair was stricken out, the Wards Island removal reference was also deleted. doned his plan to clear all buildings off Wards Island in the upper East River by Jan. 1, 1939, so the island might be improved as a park before the opening of the World Fair in ppcnhcim woi lira a ter's first child. "The barn John Gilley built is standing and the place Is owned by FUITON STREET BROOKLYN Ernest Bartlett. The house was the nearby Flushing meadows.

A bill Introduced for Moses by As-aomhlvman Hprhprt Brownell Jr. burned some time ago. He came from Ireland at the age of 65 and was married at 80. Manhattan), which would have required the State Department of M0nt.nl Hvoriene to vacate Manhat "I Much of this is substantiated in tan State Hospital by that date, has the official history of Maine. Mrs.

Koehl admitted, with twink been shelved because the department lacks adequate substitute mmrters for the hosDital's inmates. ling eyes and a wide smile that reached to her white hair, that she Furthermore, the State's current Mrs. Lucinda Koehl 120, run Maine annals. Today, a slight, small woman hardly more than five-foot-three herself called at The Eagle to ask If we would be interested to know that John Gilley had a descendant living in Brooklyn. "I am his great-granddaughter," she said, in her forthright New England way.

She is Mrs. Lucinda Koehl of 408 Pacific widow of William R. Koehl, attorney and well-known local Republican. She had read, she explained, the item about her unusual ancestor a short while ago in The Eagle's "Stranger Than Fiction," a daily feature by Richard W. Thomas and Walter GaUl.

"I cut it out and sent it to my sister in Augusta, she said. That was where the centenarian died in 18J5. "I thought it would interest her. It did. She wrote me a long letter.

I was surprised she was that interested. I thought you might like to see it." This is what the sister, Mrs. Helen Dodson, wrote: "He was our great-grandfather Sees Club Work Vital In Crime Prevention Club work is one of, the most valuable methods of the Brooklyn Big Brother movement in its endeavor to guide boys into proper channels of activity and keep them from going to the bad through underprivl-lege or neglect, it was declared last night by Timothy W. Tlnsley, executive secretary of the Brooklyn movement. The Brooklyn Big Brother Movement will launch an effort March 23 to raise $5,000 to provide additional facilities for looking after boys who are referred to the organization from the Brooklyn Adolescent Court, the Children's Court and other sources during this year.

economy policy has kept down permanent construction expenditures except where they have been unavoidable and slight hope was seen for providing new hospital accommodations for those removed from decades ago, In The Eagle composing room and is still a retired member of Typographical Union 6. "Do I hope to live to be my greatgrandfather's age? Indeed not, ear a gem of a hat inspired by En chanting in all of its many versions. Shining rongh straws or sleek smooth weaves with wisps of veil ing and posies! Street Floor was inclined to think the story of her great-grandfather "a bit exaggerated." Pointing to the excerpts from Maine's official history and her sister's letter, she continued: "But when I see all this data I think there must be something to it. "Around Augusta in Maine the story, Is taken as gospel truth. We always accepted it as tradition.

I think there's a great deal of truth in it, though I've a cousin who doesn't believe any of it." John Gilley, according to Maine history, never weighed more than 124 pounds and was usually from eight to 12 pounds less. Asked once uDon what he lived, he replied: yie island. Says Park Plan Is Dropped Dr. Frederick W. Parsons, Com mioclnnor nt Mpnta.1 Hveiene.

re The Gilleys are all long livers, but IH be content to live just as long as I have my health." vealed that the Ward's Island Park plan has been dropped, at least tj-mnomrilv. when he was asked fot Akron ConservesMilk a comment on the Brownell bill to- father's mother's father. He was 124 years old when he passed WATERBURY DENTAL INC. DENTISTS "Meat, three times a day." His wife, who survived him many years until she was 95, was only 28 at their marriage. They had several away.

He is buried on the James NEW YORK 29 West 34th St. Gilley place on a knoll near the wall of what was the Hilton land, owned As Strike Threatens Akron Ohio, March 6 W) With more than 16,000 persons idle and the city threatened by stoppage ot Its milk deliveries, mediators faced deadlocks in four major labor controversies today. Consumers began conserving milk after a midnight deadline passed with no change in a dispute between producers and union milk drivers. DR. OABDNU 5JW.

now by Frank Morton. Father Gilley'i Cousin BROOKLYN 446 Fulton St. (CORNFE BOTT ST.) DR. SMITH DR. DOLAK children.

"Chiefly, I'm glad to know I come of good, sound stock," Mrs. Koehl replied to the question: "What does all this mean to you?" She was formerly a printer, two BALTIMORE RYE "Our father and James Gilley were first cousins; also Charlie WHISKEY A BLEND IAMAICA 160-13 Jamaica Are. MINTtt IH1NMI IIYt MTIUUT. MC. MkTHauM, Ht Bennett, who was, as I have been enhim IT FULTON STREET BROOKLYN color accents margot Bags in chaudron, violet; wear Wl on girl a 1 ill.

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