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I 1 TTurnnmiiMimuM i i mi ir it' Truir 1 24 BROOKLYN EAGLE, SUNDAY, JAN. 17, 1943 We're Licking the Japs, TIMERS Sailor's Last Words "It God's Will," His Mother Cries When News of Son's Death Comes to Her "It is God's will," Mrs. Agnes Meehan of 7515 3d said yesterday. She had received a Navy Department report that her 18-year-old son, Thomas Joseph Meehan had been Back-Yard 'Fights' Furnished Fun for The Old 10th Ward But They Were Mostly Women's Word-Wors, With No Grudges Held Editor Old Timers: Generally the women folk In the Old 10th Ward got along amicably enough in the old days but at times they had differences of opinion, mostly over their children and other minor matters, and engaged in verbal fisticuffs from their back windows. As a rule these clashes did not amount to anything more They Had Frills, Bustles, Derbies and Celebrities Such as Ned Harrigan of the Famous Team In the Fort Hamilton Section of the 80s Legion, in Stapleton, S.

I are named after him, Was on Cruiser. Thomas, a seaman, 2d class, was assigned to a new cruiser, the Atlanta. This ship Is one of the 11 sunk In the Solomons action that resulted in a smashing defeat for the Japs. In his third and last letter, dated Nov. 6 and received Nov.

27, he inclosed $100 in currency as a Christmas present for his mother, and $5 each for his younger brother, Gerard, who is an air raid and his r'sters. Miry, Josephine, Teresa and Anita. "The ship is wonderful," he wrote. "It is the finest ship in the navy, but suppose all sailors think that of their own ship. I'm proud of her, and proud to be in the navy.

We're licking' the stuffings out of the Japs, and we'll keep on with no letup. We'll all be home soon. 1 expect a promotion in December. I wish I could spend the holidays with you, we have a job to do. We're needed here." DIAMOND DATA (FROM 1909) Meet the baseball team of the Hassett Field Club, as they looked' when they held forth at 3d Ave.

and 10th St. Rear row, left to right, Frankie Post, Walter Hartung; second row, A. Haigney, Frank Bush, Pat Gorman; front row, Harry Funston, Bill Sweeney, Tom Hayden, Frank Maroney. Namesake of the club was Dick Hassett, tavern-keeper and umpire for the Marquette Club. Editor Old Timers: In the late 70's and late 80 Port Hamilton, L.

was a distant rural district, bordering on the Atlantic Ocean, m06t westerly point ot Long Island. Three churches, a country school, a Catholic school, one postoffice, two or three butcher shops and two country grocery stores. Horse-drawn tally-hos were the only means of transportation. Later horse-drawn cars and then team dummy trains. As time wore on trolley cars displaced the oummy trains.

Today, in 1943, the motor buses reign supreme. Here today how many old timers are with us to recall this beautiful shore line town. The shore from Dyker Beach to the loot of 86th St. as second to none in any way you may compare. Yachting, row boating, fishing, bathing, clamming and many collected edible seaweeds.

Striped bass, cod fish, hake, pollock, ling, whiting, fluke, blackfish, sea bass porgies, weakfish, spot eels, crabs, lobsters, bluefish and, last but not least, shad fishing, from April 10 to June 10, inclusive. When the dummy trains ran along the original Shore Road in front of the Mansion House yard Hotels Herdy Gerdys, better known as carusels, or merry-go-rounds, shooting galleries, hot dog stands, popcorn and taffy stands. Three rings for 5 cent to ring canes or umbrellas, goat and wagon rides for 5 cents. Johnson's Hotel, in an office adjoining which Charles W. Church, justice of the peace, presided, Special cops with helmets, short coats, leather belts, small billies, profound mustaches, whiskers or both, kept law and order.

Ladies with wide-brimmed hats, voluptuous build, due to much padding, with bustles. Her dapper husband or boy friend strutted In swallow tailed coats, pants to shoe tops and, the crowning glory, a stove pipe or derby hat. Large, stiffly laundered collars with large flaps on either side, large red or blue or brown neckties, large enough to be a muffler, completed Help Yourselves to a On The Quigley Side Little Data of Baseball' Editor Old Timers: Within 24 hours of your printing the request of Victor M. Toro concerning Old Timers Bay Ridge, more than two dozen of your readers had buttonholed me for answers to some of the questions he had asked. Being one of the Old Timers named in the Toro article I ask for a bit of space in your val led columns that I may give a little information on the Quigley side of baseball.

I believe the original battlers for Sunday baseball at 69th St. and 5th Ave. were Dan Quiglev. Jack McLaughlin and Al, not Ed Minor. Three sincere fighters in the good cause for Sunday ball.

Quigley was captain and catcher of that great baseball team we lovingly dubbed the Saint on the Hill. Father Mylott at that time was spiritual director of St. Alphonsus Church and also the athletic advisor for the young men of his parish. There you have it. The Saints on the Hill were the St.

Alphonsus baseball team, members of that magnificent church that stands at 5th St. on 5th Ave. in the fair city of Brooklyn. Referee Was the I'mp Johnny McEvoy, present day fight releree, was official umpire for the Saints at the time of which I write. One of the many great games played by the St.

Alphonsus team was the game played against the Boston Athletics. It was played on a July 4 and the Saints won, 5 4. when John Morris, left fielder for the Saints, after a long, hard run, made a sensational diving catch of a wickedly-driven ball to end and save the game. Old Timers will long remember that game and remember, too, the superb pitching of Harry Boch, a youngster then, but one of the Old Timers now. Yes, Indeed, Dan Quigley knew baseball and baseball men.

Quigley brought Louis Maggarino to the Saints. Maggarino was a fine pitcher, known throughout ba.eball circles as the Cuban Wonder. I feel sure Louie Maggarino was rated "tops" as a pitcher by the baseball fans that followed the game years ago. Let me Introduce one other Old Timer Pete Riley. A ball hawk there ever was one.

Captain Quigley thought so well of Pete Riley's ability that he took Pete from the second team and made him the regular shortstop on the first team. Pete could field with any man and I don't bar our own present day Pewee Reese. This Same Pete Riley is hailed now by sports writers as the Silver Fox in tribute to Pete's ability as a manager of professional boxers. Quigley Was a Gridder, Toe! And now back to Quigley. Quigley played right tackle with the champion Mohawk Field Club and.

in later years, would often say that it was the Mohawk spirit and team New Utrecht Star-Boarder Is Barber and Philosopher killed In action in the Pacinc. The widowed mother of five other children refused, to read the message when It Was received New-Year's Eve. The Meehans went to church last Sunday, and from the altar of Our Lady of Angels R. C. Church, 74th St.

and 4th was read the name of Thomas Joseph Meehan Jr. The congTegatoin prayed for him. His mother began to weep. It was the first time that she acknowledged anything was wrong. The lad was 17 when he enlisted in the navy on Dec.

12, 1941, five days after Pearl Harbor. He had begged for his mother's consent before. With the country at war, she readily gave that consent. Her husband, who died in 1935, had been a sergeant in the engineers corps in the first World War. Thomas' great-uncle, William Tappen, was In the Union navy in the Civil War.

The youth's cousin, James Tappen, had been the first Staten Island soldier to die in the first World War. Tappen Park and Tappen Post, American Dr. Brady says: There is one drug habit our unmoral Uncle Sam permits nostrum monger! to promote among men, women and children although Uncle Sam knows perfectly well that it Is a destructive habit. I refer to the acetanilide habit aceUnilide (or its congener phenacetine) the "kick," the pain-killer, the sense-deadener, in short, the dope in scores of nostrums purporting to be harmless remedies for headache, neuralgia, that tired feeling, ner vousness, indigestion, worry, "cold' or what have you. From the United States Dispensatory, based on the eleventh revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia.

I quote: "The freedom with which the laity employ various mixtures containing acetanilid for the relief of the minor discomforts of life Is fraught with a considerable danger to health. In the first place, acetanilid Is to be ranked among the habit-forming drugs; there are on record a number of well-authenticated Instances of acetanilid habit. In the second place, prolonged use of the drug leads to chemical changes in the blood frequently manifest, even to the ca.sual observer, by a peculiar dusky cyanotic color of the skin and especially of the lips. Probably because of the diminished oxygen-carrying power of the blood there is a tendency toward degenerative changes in various organs, especially in the heart muscle, and sudden death from light over-exertion Is liable to occur." What It Means The term cyanotic Is strictly medical and meaningless to a layman. Cyanosis is a blueness of the skin, mucous membranes, nails, from oxygen deficiency, lasufficient aeration of the blood.

The tendency toward degeneration In the heart muscle is directly attributable to the oxygen deficiencythe acetanilide (or acetanilid, whichever spelling you prefer. or phenylacetamlde) or the phe-inacctin (or acetphenetldln) impair ing the oxygen-carrying function of the hemoglobin In the blood cor. puscles. These drugs destroy red blood corpuscles, too. Veronal (barbital) and Its compounds (amytar, phenobarbital, Mimical and other barbiturates, employed as hypnotics and are all properly regarded as dangerous drugs and, in most parts of the country, difficult or Impossible to obtain without prescription.

Some of the toxic or after-effects they produce are dizziness, headache, fullness In head, ringing in ears, mental confusion, lass of memory, numbness, thick speech, disorientation, loss of appetite, staggering or uncertain gait. Bromides are perhaps the mildest, least dangerous, slowest to produce serious damage of all the sedatives. Like the other sedatives, narcotics or hypnotics, bromides have a proper place In the physician's armamentarium, but It Is a discredit to the name of Uncle Sam that he permits Indiscriminate sale of bromides in various forms and combinations without prescription. The very fact that the Government Is unconcerned about this encourages unwary people to think a little bromide Is harmless when you feel a bit "nervous" or anxious or worried or overexcited or emotionally disturbed. Bromides Dull Mind Bromides make the mind less alert, special senses dull or less keen, sense of pain or distress or danger less acute, and render the Individual Indifferent to what Is going on.

Depression of the motor centers In the brain renders the Individual lrvs likely to have con vulsions, and at the same time slows all actions or movements. Fortu nately. bromides have little or no harmful effect on the heart, blood or circulation, except a slowing down due to the physical Inactivity, sluggishness. Persons who take bromides habit ually or ever a considerable period of time generally become dull stupid, pale, pimpled, indifferent low of speech, poor of memory, the up-to-date man's attire. Ladies' sun parasols completed the picture for that section.

Many Beautiful Mansions The rugged shore line offered many beautiful mansions. Bordering on the Bennetts farms, Oel-ston's orchard, Sear's Held. Pear trees, cherry trees, cow manures, ponds, not forgetting snakes, squirrels, opossums, raobits, meadow larks, robins, bluejays, inrush, owls, crows, American flicker, better known as high holder, kinglishers, wild ducks, king birds and hawks; gold and silver lish in the ponds. Daisies, golden rods, wild roses and other HoAers too numerous to mention graced the fields, where the city loiks would spend their Sun-davs or holidays in a 100 percent peaceful country atmosphere. The Mary Vanderpool estate was lived in by our dearly beloved Edward i Ned! Harrigan of the Harrigan and Hart, famous old-time actors.

The Brahams and many other well-known celebrities made merry In this quaint old mansion. Clam bakes, chowder parties and other festivities were tendered here to his many friends and admirers. "Mary Kelly's Beau' ia well-known old song i was composed by Mr. Harrigan in his mansion here in Old rort Hamilton. There were typi- 1 cal country streets, black as the ace r.er was a soldier in the Coast Artillery stationed in Fort Hamilton; his girl, Mary Kelly, whom the song was written about, resided here in Fort Hamilton also.

My latacr was a butcher here and a neighbor of theirs. He knew Harrigan, Tony Pastor and Harry Minor in New York before Harrigan graced our district. Young Eddie and I were pals. Later Eddie, with his parents, moved to King St. tGreenwtch Village).

After a few visits, which were tedious with horse and carriage as transportation, our friendship dwindled until we lost all track of each other. L. GRUMMET. 318 92d Brooklyn. Utrecht which is located at 1S41 84 the o( the branch was situated In the front part of the frame structure now blended with the huge dormitory and gymnasium, the tennis court was a make-shift dirt court, the gymnasium gate a warped appearance, and many of the boys wore mustaches.

Morris' favorite game is billiards, and very frequently one may observe him poking around the billiard room instructing the younger gen eration in the art. Billiards is a good he observed non- chalantly, "If you know how to play i it. But it is sloppily played by the average Morris Wolkin is truly New i Utrecht's walking encyclopedia; knows more aboui the branch than anyone else around. He Is this branch's most colorful figure extant. AL GRASSO.

in Brooklyn gioup which ited to parade on Thanksgiving Day In Brooklyn. The bL-hop digressed from his sermon to refer to it In sarcastic terms. The' boarding up of the late Hamilton Ormsbee mansion on Congress St. raises a question as to whether the old dwelling is "to be or not to be The descendants of Mr. Ornvbee left the place some two or three years ago.

Mr. Ormsbee used to say he lived next to the "Holy Turtle Church." That was the Chad wick Unitarian Church, which had that nickname from its peculiar style of architecture. It was said that Charles Dickens read from some of his writings there, one gala evening when he was in this count ry. HELEN CHASE. taken to Brighton Beach to fill 'n the ground where the hotel was to stand.

This dirt was taken largely from the hills in the Ninth Ward and In the location from Grand to Franklin Aves. and from Bergen St. to the Parkway. The Cranford Company did the moving of the dirt and m.v father, Joseph Talbot, was the agent who secured the permission of the property owners to allow the removal of the dirt. REBECCA C.

TALPOT-PERKIN8. 1215 Bedford Ave. An Answer Editor. Old Timers: In answer to John McNally. for my address.

It is 42 Manly Place, iNew Hyde Park, N. Y. As for the IPTlacllla Club, the dances and meetings were at Jim Trimble I house, 57 Concord and the members were James Neil, James Trimble, Joe Haikins. Charles Hey-I man, John H. McNallv.

John Rear-don. Willie Reardon. John Welling, Harry Llrvsey. Charles Bueiillla. 'Jack Taffee.

Joe McDeutt. Jack I Prlnable, Joe Blank H. Mccormick. than an exchange of sharp words, with here and there a little invective, and seldom culminated in either blows or hair-pulling. Some of them did but they were the exception rather than the general rule.

The back yards were usually more lively than the streets of the old neighborhood. These little settos of the neighbors from their back windows kept things moving In the old neighborhood, scarce as they were. It was an aspect of life In the Old 10th Ward which the old-timers recall with many a laugh. Life at times was rather intense in this old section and it didn't take much to start the fireworks between two or more of the more hotheaded women folk, and then you would hear a lusty from the back windows that rolled up from simple criticism shouted at each other into sharper language bordering on real billingsgate. There was no fun in it for the principals but there was for the neighbors who poked their heads out of their windows to listen to the battle of words.

Usually these battles ended by one or the other of them slamming down her window, and in a day or two, although they may have been cool to each other If they met on the street, there was no evidence of further hostility between them. In time the whole thing was forgotten. Men Rarely Involved The men folk rarely took a hand in these arguments, letting the "missus" fight it out with the neighbor with whom she was at loggerheads the best she could, but once In a while the onus of the battle would be onto their shoulders and then the husbands of the women would come down to the street and have it out in "manly" fashion. When these latter fights became too serious someone would get a cop and that would be the end of the argument, and all the belligerents would return to their quarters and eventually cool off. They found it not easy to reduce their blood pressure over these affairs but finally, after talking things over at great length, decided to loi-el the whole thing, which after all was the better part of valor when really no great issue was ordinarily involved in the argument.

little back-yard arguments sometimes seemingly came out of the clear sky. Basically they seemed to be due to wrought-up nerves and the tension of the life ot the times, rather than the culmination of any hard feelings any of the neighbors had for each other, and when they had unburdened themselves they seemed to show a con-triteness for their behavior and to avoid such upheavals in the future. It frequently happened that there were many apologies offered af'er some of these fights and readily accepted by the other party. They may have cooled off but seldom scuttled friendships among the old warders. Tempera Died Down The old-timers heareabouts sough to keep on an even level, without friction with their neighbors, and in the main they were successful in maintaining harmonious relations with others In the section.

These little outbursts of temper on the part of some of them were not considered seriously by the real old warders who knew that when tempers had died down both parties to the argument would feel more or less ashamed of themselves and in the future strive to shun such exhibitions of ill temper; not go around with a chip on their shoulders. Serious as were these back-yard verbal battle to those Immediately Involved they were more or less Interesting and thrilling to those who witnessed them. When one of them began every window in all nearby houses would be raised and heads stuck out to take it in. It sort of broke the mpnotony. It was usually a topic of discussion for days afterward.

They really didn't mean anything, but gave the old-timers a chance to blow off excess "steam." When the contestants In these word battles got control of themselves, drew in their heads from the window and quieted down, peace would once again reign in the neighborhood. Happily there weren't many of these clashes between neighbors from baek-jard windows, hut we old-timers remember those that did tpke place for the "kick'' we got out of them at th time. JOHN 8. PFALZGRAF. 141 Wyckoff St.

Ferryboat Addenda Editor, Old Timers You published a lift of ferryboats compiled by Mr. Harry Cot-terell Jr. of Newark. N. J.

Picas? add to the list, of Nasu Ferry Company boats, beside "Waterbury." "Jamaica," etc. the following: CMifornia" and 'Gerard StuyveAant." ARGU3. Old Red Hook Has Changed Greatly Since Mr. Ronalter's Boyhood There Keep Away From The Sedative Habit lack appetite, are likely to have more or less nausea, obstinate constipation, low vitality. It seems to be the practice of many physicians to prescribe or dispense bromides whenever a patient complains of being "nervous," emotionally upset, anxious or worried about anything.

This may be justified by the circumstances sometimes, but if the patient seeks medical advice or treatment for whatever may be wrong it Is hardly fair for the physician to skip the examination and an honest attempt to make a diagnosis by assuring the patient that the trouble if "Just nerves" and a sedative will make everything right. Aspirin Least Harmful Least injurious of all medicines which people take to relieve the "minor discomforts of life" is acetyl-salicylic acid, more familiar as "aspirin." Aspirin is an analgesic (relieving pain or ache) and not a cure or treatment for anything. In large doses, or in some instances ordinary dose. It may cause the same ringing in the ears and profuse sweating as acetanilide or phenacetine does-such untoward effects from aspirin or acetanilide or phenacetine are sometimes attributed to the Insignificant dash of quinine in a "cold" tablet. In some Instances aspirin causes edema or swelling of face, lips and mucous membrane In throat and mouth.

In some In stances it causes cold sweating, rap id and Irregular pulse, occasionally albuminuria. There is little Spartan in Ol' Doc Brady, they tell me. but I have great reRard for my health and safety, So I've never dared to take a dose of acetanilide or phenacetine in any form, or even aspirin, unless I could remain in bed or at least at rest for hours afterward. Well, now, if sedatives and hypnotics are not good for insomnia, what? I do hope no reader will react In that way. Every sedative, analgesic or hypnotic I have mentioned has Its proper place when the physician prescribes It for his patient.

How to Doze Off These general suggestions may interest people who go to bed to lie awake: 1. Be sure your feet are warm if they are cold when you go to bed you will not sleep until they get warm. If necessary, take a hot water Jug or other means of warming the feet to bed with you. 2. Do the belly breathing exercise as soon as you get Into bed and do it as smoothly as possible.

Many who have difficulty getting to sleep have reported they find themselves drifting off before they have finished the B. B. routine. If you don't know how to do send self-addressed envelope for Instructions. 3.

If you do a fair amount of work (muscular), exercise or play every day and are not overweight, a substantial bedtime lunch or a full meal Just before going to bed helps sleep, if you are sedentary or overweight, no bedtime lunch. 4. If you have a bedtime lunch or meal, let it be whatever you like, but don't pass up any good food because some dyspeptic or neurotic Imagines it is "difficult to digest." 5. Always remember that It Is the amount of rest, not the amount of sleep, that matters. If you He abed seven hours you are getting your rest, even dote away-only an hour or two all night.

Ticket Sale Stopped For G. O. P. Dinner Mlneola, Jan. A testimonial dinner to Nassau G.

O. P. leadpr, Riusel Sprague and State Chairman Edwin F. Jaeckle at the National Republican Club in Manhattan on Jan. 22 has caused such a demand for rcservatloas that the dinner committee headed by George Sokoi.

sky stopped the sale of ticket Although more than ion pevsniu have requeued tickets 'U County allotment will be but editor Old Tmcrt: Morris Wolkln, who has been re-aiding at the New Utrecht Y. M. C. A. for over 15 years, Is a barber by trade, but, according to some ni his co-Y dwellers, he Is considered more of philosopher than one who keeps people heads in trim.

They say he has cu: the hair of thousands of men and is still doing It. Yet, when you talk to him, he express the thought that it is "better to clip the wings of inflated egoes than to cut their hair." Morris is 56 years of age and doesn't reach much over five feet In hi locks. Mr. Wolkln remembers manv old timers of the like Vic LYBarrOf. and others, who have come and gone.

"Yes, times have changed, especially now because of the war," he said, reminis-cently when cornered for some thought. When Morris first came to the Remembers Brooks tiitor Old Timer As the 50th anniversary of the death of Phillips Brooks falls within this month and will be observed bv the parishes of Holy Trinity and fit. Episcopal 'churches in a Joint memorial service at St. Ann the question arises as to who remembers the sermon he preached at Holy Trinity near the time of bis death? The writer was taken to hear It and it was at the time when Holv Trinity and all churches had large congregations. Phillips Brooks was then Bishop of Massachusetts.

The highlight "of his sermon, that Thanksgiving Day. to the then young listener, was hi allusion to the Colthumpian Band, a rackety work that he tried hard to inject into his baseball players that had helped tn the pinches. On such occasions I gently remind him of the great winning catch made by the leftflelder, John Morris, for Morris, you see, played tackle on the other side of the line for the Mohawk eleven. Sure! I would say. The Mohawk spirit with quite a bit of Its weight.

For not only Quigley and Morris played with Mohawk but others of Qulgley's crack baseball nine came from Mohawk. They were the Moore Willie. Holly and Joe; three great athletes In their day. And one of the play-era from the Mohawk reserves played bang-up baseball for Dan Q. A fellow that friend Ryder said was nicknamed Dudey.

William Davidson from Wakeman Place. Oh, yes! John Morris' nickname was Mickey Mooney. So if any youngish Old Timer gets confused between a certain John Morris and a certain Mickey Mooney, take it from me they are one and the same guy. A grand guy and the Babe Ruth of his day. To Robert Ryder Bob Ryder I have heard him affectionately called In Bay Ric'ge I will leave the task of giving us the highlights of our good friend Al Minor in his fight for Sunday baseball during the days of the old "Blue Laws." Perhaps Louis Ron alter and Thomas Casey will write more of the old town they both know so well.

PARKER (PADDY) McGOFF. 105-06 Woodhull Hollis. schoolmates were Mike Looney, Billy Oiesow, Tom Fitzgerald. George Hlggins, Tom Wogan, Ed Jones, Jim Donovan, Bossy Gardner, Matt Rauth, Tony Elder, George Hunold, Decke Klein, Will Moll, Fred Dohrman, Charles Pleete. Jack and George Harklns, Jake Schnabel, Ed Dougherty, Herman Link, John Wolf, Mike Kenna.

Scott Osgood, Harry Cooper, the English tenor; Charles Rang, Louis Meyer, the barber; Billy Collins, Walter Murray, Charles McAllister. Charles and Ed Dougherty, Bill and Henry Hoehn, John and Carsten Dtekman, Garry Sharkey. Henry Rugge, Paul Hlggins, Jim Mulraney, Dick Winkelma, Jack Kennedy, Skltea Muniinger and Billy and Matt Bart ley. Regarding an explosion of the tugboat Alice Crew, I might state that I waa among a fishing party aboard on the last and fateful trip of that boat and left a few hours before the explosion In which my friend, Matt Bartley, was saved but badly scalded. My account of that incident appeared at length on the Old Hmerr page.

LOUIS RONALTER. S423 4th Ave. by the writer would marvel how a man of his circumferential proportions could run ao fast. Should his quarry reach out a bit suggesting the possibility of outdistancing him, he would cast his club dexterously to the heels of the runner sprawling him ignomlnt-1 nusly to the ground while he rlod I the Intervening gap for a can'u-e Personal acqualn' nee many yean after with some of the wild 1 he had pursued whose exuberance of youth and boyish pranks were sometimes responsible for the chase, showed no rancour In their hearts; only the realization that he was a good police officer merely doing his duty. Was he sleepy? No! Playln' possum? That more like Now.

Mr. Prosser, how does the des-rlptlon check with you? J. T. WHITELAW Sr. I Willisum Park, The Point waa a beehive of factories In those days.

There were the Worthlngton Pump and Richards St Boynton Stave and Furnace Works in Tremont the Vaseline and Petroleum Products In Richards the cotton mills on King the wire mill on Imlay where most of the cables were spun for the Brooklyn Bridge; the Pioneer Iron Works on William the brick and retort factory on Van Dyke the Lidgewood Machine Company on Ferris St occupying the block between Dikeman and Partition the waterfront; the Atlantic Green and stores from William St. to Hamilton Ave the India Wharf Brewing Company in Hamilton the Burt is Ship Yard, foot of Conover St the Gutkes Smoked Fish Works on Van Dyke and Billy Beard's warehouses at the foot of Van Brunt St. When most of these concerns moved their factories to other cities and States, the Point was depleted of inhalbtants, who followed their "bread and butter." As result, other nationalities settled in Red Hook, which are there today. Some of my old-time chums and 'Em All I other. Another point of vantage waa where Marion St.

met Fulton Ave. at an angle a bit to the west of where Utlca Ave. joined Fulton i Ave. There, there was a triangular strip of ground fenced in with a small vacancy between the widest part and Vincent's real esta of-M'-e, so that a person could pass from Fulton Ave. to Marion St.

without walking around the fenced-off portion. Some persons were unkind enough to say that he I leaned his head against the pickets and went to sleep. His lustlessness while at rest, with his head Inclined to one side and the fact that that one of his eyes was part-Iv covered by its lid. earned for him his sobriquet. But anybody 1.

ho ever obsr i-d this persnnlli-ration of earlress snddeniv cat-vanize Into actlvltv and sprint after a fleeing suspect-as observed Editor Old Timers: This is in answer to Joseph Bor-man's article about Red Hook. Ye.s, there are a few Red Hookers left. I am one of the few of 1871 and remember the good days down there. I took a stroll down Van Brunt St. last, Summer and every few paces I met strange faces.

Every gray-haired man I met and questioned about some old-time friend replied. "He passed away some years How that neighborhood has changed after my absence over 50 years. In my days Red Hook Point was inhabited mainly by Irish and Germans. They intermarried and as a result the Point became one happy and contented family. We had no radios or moving.

picture theaters and our only social intercourse was neighborly visits and home enjoyments. As mast families had an organ in the pavlor. or an accordion, the eveninns were spent in singing and dancing. In those days there were no holdups or burglaries, and the policemen down there had a pleasant life. Most of the time the lockup behind the station house on the corner of Van Brunt and King Sts.

was empty. Sleepy Daly Fooled Etftfor Old Timers: To George Prosser. Middle Village: Yes! Sleepy Daly, veteran policeman of the 12th Precinct, back in the la.st century. as a I corpulent patrolman. He piiccd his beat leisurely, eyes fror.t.

not a slanco, so one could notice either to 'he right or left, head inclined tn one sine. n- spoke tn any one; a nod nitlon was a conde.s( cn.sior. l''H'ti-Ing a street Intersection he pause for a while Immobile ar.d 'o an ordinary observer, otail; of his surroundings, imn'-r vl, apparently, in profound nvd.UMon One favoii'e spot a rn" opposite HaMson's Ui" lull rtion of Fulton -ml a Ave' 'here was a nie nn one nf the st.ies hr would often phr his jlmcd lund jand stand with cue leg across the About the Moving Of That Great Hotel Editor Old Timers: A letter written by Mr. Robert Fyder interested me very much. Especially where he refers to the moving of the Brighton Beach Hotel.

Hanging In mv office Is a picture ff the moving of tnc same. We secured It throush Miller and Son house movers who were the one. who undertook the moving of thu hotel, which was 460 feet I0112. 310 feet deep and weighed 5.000 tons. At one time we had the picture in cur window and man who passed recognized himself In the crowd who were watching the removal of the hotel.

He brought about six different grandchildren, one after the other, and with great pride ihoved them In his photograph. A few year ago the University Club borrowed thU picture to photograph so 'thev might nave a torn' hn thir rlubhoue. Many carloads of dirt had te.