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7 EprrOMAE SOCIETY LETTERS U.O CLASSIFIED Ma 1 1 EVS behind Daily EAGLE frPAUL MALLON MI (Orrrirtt MM NEW. CITY, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936 Washington, July 7. DANGEROUS The Securities Exchange Commission dropped a report into the bottomless hopper of Congress before the close, complaining about the way big banks are playing corporate trustee for bondholders. Ordinarily there is nothing less important than commission report to Congress, It is printed and ft wuonn.w. Si! mmer run 0(JU promptly forgotten.

Usually the i. NEW AIM IS LIFT We have decided to go about collecting examples of the old Lonj Island dialect, that is, to keep our ears and eye open, and our wits sharpened, for such words and phrasea. To start our collection we have two words: Wangset, for basket. Wourmnest, for tent caterpillar. Additional examples will be welcomed.

NIGHT ENTERTAINERS The other evening got around to seeing a show called "Tobacco Road" a dramatic offering which we hear has been running for some weeks now and wa emerged feeling very sorry for those poverty stricken Georgia crackers. We might have felt more sorry, but that In be tween the acta a group of five youngsters went into a song and dance on the sidewalk for whatever pennies anyone cared to toes their way. i in iii.j.iiiujmimniniMn iiij i. jit wit wp5pMrT printing causes a one-day ripple of interest. This one did not even cause that.

It was lost In a whirl of more important things, such as the activities of Mr. Zloncheck. However, It may not remain lost indefinitely. The Exchange Commissioners The Advent of Electric Lights and a Series of Fires Aided in the Development of Coney Island Into the Great Amusement Center That It Is Today I. I MlllW ill 1 i I are in tneir innermost wort- shop now composing a definite three-point program which will Paul Mallon touch every bondholder in the country.

THE Genesis of Coney Island's rebuilding and regeneration, its transformation iroin a resort in quesuonaoie morais ana morality Into one of respectability and safety actually dates from the Pan American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo, the miniature World's Fair at which President William McKlnley met his untimely end at the hands of the assasln We are, of course, referring to Coney's West End, to that section of the island which the public has always regarded as Coney Island and to which it has flocked from all parts of America and the world Right, the third annual meeting of the American Wheelmen on Hitertide Drive, 1883 ram alerts fins' Manual to see the sights, racy, frivolous or fraudulent, as the case might be. There were, prior to this period, of course, Brigh ton and Manhattan Beaches and Slieepchead Bay, all of which catered more or less to the wealthier and Second Article of a more fashionable portions of the community and which, while geo The smallest one, about two feet and 7 years, with a smudged nose, sang "Goody, Goody," like all getout. Half way through the number somebody tossed a penny In the air. The five entertainers dived as one, but the big bully of the five, the oldest, strongest one, pocketed the coin. Then we went back Into the theater to sympathize with the penniless condition of the folks in 'Tobacco Road." CIRST FAMILIES As we grow older (weTe no so old, but we are older), we collect more.

Some- times our pet collections are the beginning of beau-tiful friendship. Recently we met S. Wentwortlt Horton, who hag been a teacher and a banker and a marine inspector (of hulls) and in recent years has run a furniture shop and been supervisor of Southold. When we mentioned that among the things collect are antique bed-warmers those bronae and copper containers of live coals which our ancestori used to slide between the sheets to make thinps cozy Mr. Horton was able to describe a collection at Northampton, a collection which ws should have known about, having been at ons time a college student not far off.

You can see we like Mr. Horton. Fortunata that it Is so, since he introduced us to a subject which has since proved full of thorns. Mr. Horton mentioned casually that in 1636 some six whits men visited Southold.

They were Matthew Sinder-ling, Thomas Reeves, a Mapes, a Corey and a Pur-rier and a sixth whose name escapes us. Anyhow, there are still Mapes, Corey and Furrier descendants in the section. These six early arrivals cam from Barbados to get turpentine, there being a pine swamp between Greenport and Southold. Next day, we happened to be with another prominent Suffolkite, one from Southampton, and In a desire to show that we appreciated the antiquity of the county, we mentioned that first settlement at Arshomomaque (how we love that name!) In the township of Southold. graphically comprising component parts of Coney Island, have always been atmospherically widely removed from the West End, its rapidly pulsating heart.

In 1901 two young men, Thompson and Dundy, demonstrated at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition qualities of ingenuity in showmanship that were the talk of the country. Chief among the novelties which they provided at the exposition and with which they both mystified and enthralled the visitors was "A Trip to the Moon." This exhibit was comprised of a phantom flight in a stationary airship to the mythical kingdom of the Moon. Shlftinf scenery gave passengers the effect of motion upward into the clouds and when the stop was reached equally fantastic devices were employed to give realism to the supposed visit to the stellar Aptly Mutt rating the popular bicycling $ong of the it thi drawing by From nlrntine'i Manual. CORRECTIVES If you had been under the table during their recent discussions, you would have heard the following three points mentioned as what they have in mind behind their report: (1) A fraud statute for commercial banks, making them responsible as real, rather than routine, trustees. (2) Fixed standards for indentures.

(3) A law preventing banks from doing the banking business of a corporation for whose bonds they are trustee. What started all this was evidence accumulated by the SEC indicating that some banks had been more than careless in switching the bond assets in their eustody as trustees for corporations. What may end it is legislation at the next ses-6n of Congress along the the.e planned lines. The bankers may propose the corrective legislation themselves. HISTORY-ONICS Nearly every speech President Rooselt has made in the fast 60 days hs been a history lesson.

He has covered Lincoln rather fully in Kentucky and elsewhere, Jefferson at Monticello, George Eogers Clark In Indiana, Sam Houston and the Alamo in Texas, the founding fathers and Andy Jackson at Philadelphia. To an outsider, this may Indicate only that Mr. Roosevelt has been studying history lately. He has, aided by several of his best collector of speech-making material. But to these and other Insiders, the newly developed historical interest of the President is something more than his acceptance of Invitations to historical spots around the country would indicate.

It js the smartest method of campaigning that they could think of in this interlude. The historical shell of each speech contained some campaign point which Mr. Roosevelt could not offer directly in an effective way. For Instance, his Jeffersonian history-onics enabled him to pay tribute to the Constitution and the Declaration Of Independence which he is accused of defiling. His associates gleefully expect the remainder of his campaign will be just as shrewd as the historical beginning.

CAREER Not often Is the Government able to get outstanding men from any business field to come into the Government service. For that reason and one other old-timers around the SEC still remember the outstandingest man they ever had. It happened months ago, but has been kept very much under cover. The SEC-ers wanted an expert in a particular line of stock market They searched the field and came back with a Mr. Everyone agreed he knew more about that line than anyone living.

They persuaded him to sacrifice himself for a small Government salary and brought him to Washington. He was sworn in with ceremony which Included congratulations for everyone concerned. A clerk was then dispatched to lead Mr. to his new office. Two minutes later In rushed the sleuth of the SEC, announcing that he had Just discovered the fixer for one of the worst market manipulators in Wall Street strolling into the office of a SEC official.

The sleuth was willing to lead everyone to the office which the culprit entered, and did. He pointed to a well-dressed figure behind a desk, and the top men recognized their most recently acquired and most outstanding expert, Mr. Two hours later Mr. was on his way back to New York. His was the shortest of all public careers.

up the Island and in making it i truly family resorts As a matter of historic record Steeplechase antedated by many years both Luna Park and Dream To the Moon 50 Cents land and may be said to have both shown and paved the way for the The cost of the "airship" passage developments which were to come. as Coney Island gradually emerged from the grasp of the "gyp" artists Thit it the way, they went for a Summer Joyride in the good old day: Mr: Ned K. Gallon, Miu Catherine Morley, Peggy Van Notlrand and Vincent Theiier demontlrate in costume at Lido Beach. and the "sightseeing" on Luna which followed was, as we remember It, half a dollar, on this fee. multiplied by thou and the panderers to profligacy.

An expenditure of millions in 1908 brought Steeplechase abreast of the times and in line with the efforts of other amusement parks to attract patronage. With Luna Park, it Is still going strong. Another resort that has withstood the ravages of time and has continuously expanded is likewise one of the earliest, Feltman's, which claims today to be the largest restaurant In the world, seating more than 8.000 persons, and which has been largely responsible for popularizing the lowly frankfurter into the sands. Messrs. Thompson and Dundy waxed rich both in dollars and reputation and there and then conceived the plan, once the fair should be over, of transferring their ideas and activities to Coney Island.

Here they proposed a permanent amusement exposition embracing all the midway and other exciting attractions of the Pan-American Exposition with some added trimmings. The outcome of this ambitious scheme was, of course, Luna Park, still in existence, though Its progenitors, later to build and operat the New York Hippodrome, have long since passed from the scene. One of the principal attractions of the Pan-American Exposition was its liffht.inir It emDloved to the utmost taking, its destruction may reasonably be said to have had much to do with the building of the present Coney Lsland boardwalk and the court decisions which finally gave all the beach front to the people. The Coney Island boardwalk, Is now the finest in the country and has made Atlantic City's famed walk tame by comparison. It is now Coney's Chief attraction and with the beach, finally fr of private encroachments, affords the multitude an opportunity for health and relaxation offered by no other resort in the nation.

That on a busy Sunday or holiday It is visited by upward of a million persons Is regarded as neither Inexplicable nor extraordinary. trolling the wastes of Richmond's beach, discovered the pachyderm and was duly mystified as to whence It came. The officer escorted the beast to the station house, whence an alarm was sent out for its owner. Astute reporters concocted the yarn that the elephant had escaped from Coney Island and swum the Narrows in an effort to return to Its native habitat, but, woe and alack. Dreamland failed to reap the benefit of the press agent's enterprise, for the reporters unanimously credited the animal's origin to Luna Park, that had then, as now, ah elephant's Head as its trademark.

We are told the expenditure involved by the Dreamland pre.ss agent In staging the coup was In the neighborhood of $100. We have never heard what became of the publicity man as a result of Luna garnering the laurels. through Dreamland's gates at a ten cent admission charge, the same exacted by Luna Park, but once in they did little spending. The walks were so wide that It was easy to survey the Park without ever being crowded into the places where admission was charged. In other words, for a dime one could witness the of the-place, could enjoy its free entertainment and still could escape from the Importunities to pay admission to the shows.

In Luna Park, on the other hand, the walks were sufficiently narrow so that, when congested, the sightseer was impelled and often compelled to listen to the side show "barkers" and to enter the attractions in behalf of which they gave their "spiels." But competition between Dreamland and Luna was keen until fire finally destroyed the former and one amusing incident of this com-petion comes to mind. famous or infamous Coney "hot dog," with its inevitable accompaniment of mustard and before and after prohlbitioijS-beer. daya of Beachea Tomorrow The early Manhattan and Brighton and Sheepshead Bar. the then not so recent development Other Earlv Resorts of the incandescent bum. I ne DUiia-ings at night were all outlined with these lights and the effect was impressive in the extreme.

In plan-nine I.una Park. Thompson and Pretender aj 67 Still Is Seeking Did we put our foot into it! Our Southampton friend became very chilly. He intimated that ws were the sort of person who would fall for such a wild theory. He proceeded to point out that most folks of any Intelligence knew that the first settle, ment, based on establishment of an individual government, was at Southampton in 1640. Well.

That was that. We mentioned our embarrassment over the situation later In the day to a Greenport man. He seemed somewhat chilly on his own account. He suggested we should havs shown more Intellectual courage, and pointed out to the Southampton man that In the 17th Century establishment of a church was the true test of settlement and that on that count Southold stlU had priority. By that time we were wishing for a wangset in which to hide our head until the atmosphers cleared.

But now well, we're safely back in Brooklyn and we'd like to settle the matter. We hear that there Is only one man in Suffolk County who can decide this discussion for once and for all, but don't know his address. His name, as it comes to us, is Wayland Pennypacker. XJOTES AT A FTNER A By chance the other day we wandered down to Grace Court a few hours before the burial of William Gilman Low, 92-year-old stepbrother or the famous Mayor Seth Low. Opposite Grace Church, where the services were held, stands a row of gardens belonging to th houses on the south side of Remsen St.

The ons at trie corner of Hicks St. belongs to the yellow brick structure In which Mr. Low lived for 56 years. That seems a long time, but not so long when you consider that he had a law office address at 1 Wall Manhattan, for 70 years. When we arrived, several hours too early for the services, an even half dozen Negroes stood in front of the Low house.

They were talking quietly. Much has been said of Dreamland and Luna Park but one of the earliest progenitors of clean fun and entertainment at Coney Island has been another great amusement place, Tilyou's Steeplechase Park, that in its own way and at the most Dundy utilized the same scheme, so that through the park, Coney Lsland became a thing of splendor and was The Elephant Mygtery visible for miles. To Rule Monaco The Dreamland Fire Fires have played an important part In the history of Coney Island, the destruction of Dreamland in 1911 being the most spectacular and most important of the conflagrations. In every Instance, as In the case of the San Francisco earthquake, a greater and more impressive Coney has arisen from the ashes of the old. While Dreamland was never rebuilt, not having been a profitable under Light Banishes Evil moderate cost to the fun seeker has provided laughs, thrills and enter Monte Carlo, July 7 UP) Count tainment in endless measure to A resourceful press agent for Dreamland conceived the Idea of transporting an elephant by boat to the beach on Staten Island.

There, it would be discovered and as great a mystery created over the apparition as possible. True to his plans, a policeman pa As light dispels darkness, so it dispels evil and the influence of Luna Park, with Its brilliant lighting, Its hundreds of thousands for many decades and may rightfully be Brain Teasers modest admission fee, its courteous, credited with having exerted as large an influence as any in cleaning uniformed atendants and its multitudinous free and paid attractions resulted in a new and different Coney Island. The ancient catch-penny schemes Child Actress of the Silent Screen Now Presides Over Aviation Firm could not hope to compete with this new amusement giant that gave 3 value received for every dime ex pended. Standards were raised, competition was heightened and all A Dlrds eye view of an auto race! That's what today's, Teaser is The pilot of a eastbound airship was passing over a famous race ttrack just as1 the cars were i lining up for i start. He no-I tlced that there was an Interval between the car In pole po Aynard de Chabrillan, 67-year-old pretender to Monaco's throne, still hopes to rule one day over the 1,600 subjects of the tiny principality.

"I am the sole legitimate heir to the throne of Monaco," declared the aging French nobleman In a manifesto. Count de Chabrillan has lost Interest in deposing the present monarch of the roulette-supported kingdom, Prince Louis II. However, he does contest the succession of the Crown Prince, Rainier, 13-year-old grandson of Prince Louis. Prince Rainier, he asserted, has no dynastic rights "since he Issues from Princess Charlotte, natural daughter of Louis II." Princess Charlotte, who is 37, is the daughter of a morganatic marriage of Prince Louis. She was legitimatized in 1919, thus making her eligible for the throne, but she surrendered her rights in 1933 In favor of her two children, Prince Rainier and Princess Antoinette.

Reference was made in the along Surf Ave. and the old Bowery, conditions were changed. Within a year or two of Luna's opening, a still more ambitious scheme was organized by the late Senator William H. Reynolds and associates In the opening of Dream land, a new and glorified amuse ment park designed to eclipse, if not extinguish, the fame of Luna. Situated almost opposite to the first enterprise, no expense or effort was spared to constitute Dreamland as the outstanding attraction of the great resort.

Amusements that had contributed to Luna's popularity were enticed away at higher percentage arrange time between her beautiful 22-room New Orleans mansion, occuying a full city block, and a plantation home, center of a cypress tract at Patterson, La. Still Likes to Fly "Everything is going to go on as nearly as possible as it did before Harry died," promises the woman who quit pictures at the height of her career to marry the millionaire sportsman In the closing days of the World War. The petite widow, less than five feet tall and weighing under 100 pounds, holds no bitterness toward aviation. She still likes to fly although she doesn't pilot a plane. She doesnt play bridge, smoke, ride or drive a car, but she loves pets and has dozens of cats and dogs.

Marguerite Clark embarked on a stage career at 13, appearing with the late De Wolf Hopper in New York. She was In pictures four years, making nine complete films during the last year before her marriage. Among her screen successes were the portrayals of the fairy ments; Dreamland's Shoot the New Orleans, July 7 (P) Tiny, demure Marguerite Clark, adored child actress of the silent film and later the wife of a millionaire lumberman and aviation enthusiast, has embarked on a business career to help her forget the sorrows of widowhood. Elected president of the Wedell-Willlams Air Service Corporation, which her late husband founded, Mrs. Harry P.

Williams has taken over the job of managing that corporation at well as the vast William plantation in St. Mary Parish (county), La. Want Hard Work Her husband was killed in an airplane accident near Baton Rouge last Spring. He followed his pal and partner, Jimmy Wedell, In death at the controls by only a few months. "I'm going to work Just as hard as I possibly can," says the woman who was called the "fairy princess of the screen" two decades ago, "and I hope there' plenty to do." The Wedell-Willlams corporation has a contract for flying airmail sition and the next two cars, then another interval and the next three cars followed by another Interval and then a pair of cars, an interval and the last car.

These positions are clearly shown in the illustration above. The cars, in position as described, carried the following numbers: seven two, eight, one, nine, six, three, four and five. The plane pilot then noticed that, grouped as the cars were, the nunrDer of the first car (seven) multiplied by the adjacent numbers of the next two cars (twenty-eight) equalled the figure formed by the adjacent numbers of the next three cars (one ninety-six) but the figure formed by the pair on the other side (thirty-four) multiplied by the number of the last car (five) did not equal one ninety-six, He then idly wondered if the cars could be rearranged so that the number of the single car on either side multiplied by the figure formed by the pair of cars next to It would equal the number formed by the numbers on the three middle cars. The answer should be found by moving as few cars is possible. Count's declaration to the court battle being waged by Prince Louis and his son-in-law, Prince Pierre, for the costody of 15-year-old Princess Antoinette.

The prince regent "exercised his sovereign rights" and had the young princess brought back to Monte Carlo from her father's home In Paris. Prince Pierre called it "kidnaping' and brought action against his father-in-law In Paris courts. "I do not wish to meddle In a painful family quarrel which deprives a father of his daughter," Count de Chabrillan said. "But as the prince regent Invoked the royal family statute to Justify his action, I must therefore seize this occasion to declare that this same statue has been misinter- Soon a florist delivery wagon drove up, and one of them directed the driver where to put the wreaths. This old fellow, we learned, had worked for Mr, Low for many years.

The others had served there at one time or another, and one of them said that his father was butler when William Low brought his bride to the Remsen St. house in 1880. The early mourners were dressed immaculately, and were quiet, with the subdued sadness of old folk who have become accustomed to seeing closs friends die. We felt touched by their bearing. VflRACLE The other day Ernest Waddock, newspaper advertising man, lost a wallet con.

taining $65 In cash, two checks for $100 each and, last but not least, valuable baseball passes. A short time after the mishap a young chan walked into Waddock's office, returned the wallet wlthMontents Intact, refused to leave his name, refused to accept a rtward, and walked tut, Chutes, emptying into a great lagoon, was longer than Lima's; the lighting effects were more brilliant; the buildings more elaborate; the or aisles wider. And in the latter arrangement lay a fatal defect, one that many declare caused Dreamland from the outset and, until its destruction by fire in 1911, to prove a loss to its stockholders. It is claimed the same defect has affected business on many magnificent streets and boulevards throughout the country too great width. Thousands of people floced Marguerite Clark Yesterday's Answer Moe looked at Joe and seeing Joe's dirty face assumed that his own was dirty without thinking much about it.

Joe didn't comment of course, because was angry and wouldn't speak to Mo. reted and violated to my detriment." and passengers between New Or-leai'-i and Tex. Mrs. Williams plans to divide her tales, snow White" and "The Severn pretd and violated to mr detri owans. ment.".