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4- 12 A LONG ISLAND BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 12. 1936 Dressed in Early Costumes for Tercentenary Fete I FROM A NURSE'S NOTEBOOK BY MARIE CRAIG, R.N. "felly in LJmI t. f- -w. T'sw EaRle Staff Photo Long Island's tercentenary was celebrated yesterday at Sands Point.

Above are some of the participants arriving by boat at the Sands Point Bath Club. Right are Mjs Edith Lee, left, and Miss Virginia Utz, both of Port Washington, in costumes of the early days on the Island. I 1 Owl I i Over 1 00 Boats Begin Tercentenary Cruise Historical Pageant Commemorates Repulse of English Settlers by Dutch at North Hempstead Special to The Eagle Port Washington, July 11 An historical pageant at noon today launched the Long Island Tercentenary Cruise, which will completely circle the island during the next week. After actors representing the first English expedition sent from the Massachusetts w' Colony to settle on Long Island had been repulsed and Nassau Pushes Junior College Local Groups to Aid Citizen Committee School Project on driven back to their boats by a force of Dutch and Indians in a a force of Dutch and Indians in a drama enacted at North Hempstead Town Park, the flotilla of more than boats which will make the cruise lipped anchor and sailed down Mana Bay for Northport on the first leg of the trip. Gala Welcome Planned Yachts clubs from Southern New Jersey to Maine on the Atlantic Coast were represented in the flo-.

tilla. Cruise members will be escorted to the Northport Yacht Club by decorated boats from the Crescent Athletic Club and Northport, and Huntington Yacht The visitors will be received by Mayor Louis J. Scudder and Supervisor Arthur J. Kreutzer of Huntington Township. A fleet of Coast Guard boats from the Eaton's Neck Station, under the Special to the Eagle Garden City, July 12 The formation of local committees to cooperate with the Citizen's Committee for a junior college will be proposed at the next meeting of the Village Officials Association of Nassau County.

The suggestion will be put forth by a group of members of the asso- BABIES CAN STAND COLD AIR HEALTH RULES FOR MOTHERS i i The Week ciation, who approved the plan at a meeting held last week in the vil-' lage hall here. The meeting was called by Franklin S. Koons of Garden City. James N. MaceLan, Massapequa.

chairman of the committee, and Joseph Watterson, Hempstead, as-i sistant secretary, assured the group the assistance of the Citizens' Committee. Among the members of the Vil-I lage Officials Association present in Queens were C. H. Willich, Sea Cliff; A. C.

Scherer, Farmingdale; M. C. Beam, Sea Cliff; James A. Sheeran, Stewart Manor, and Samuel V. Bogert, Garden City.

MEALS FOR THE CONVALESCENT FOOT TROUBLES IN ADULTS PETS IN THE HOME BABY'S SLEEPING HABITS Beachcombing is a word that conjures up in some minds the picture of a white man gone wrong down on the bamboo isles. The impression has been made by writers of Oceanside Reopens Its Summer School Oceanside, July 11 The commercial Summer school of the Nassau County Adult Education program at the Oceanside High School 20 Aquaplanes Hold Review at Amityville The worlds largest aquaplane class, consisting of 20 riders, both men and women, will hold a gala revue today at the Nassau Shores. Country Club, it was announced yesterday by F. D. Homan of Homan Boats, Amityville, and J.

A. Ineichen, general manager of the club. Herbert Welsh, eastern aquaplane champion, in charge of the class, will direct the revue. The latest type balsa wood aquaplanes will be used by the class towed by 10 speed boats, two aquaplanes per boat. A military breast formation of the 20 riders will feature the revue in the afternoon.

Queens Adult Courses Registering Pupils Registration has been kept open for Summer courses given through the adult education project of the Board of Education and the WPA at the Queens Vocational High School, 47th Ave. and 37th Long Island City, it was announced last night. Persons over 17 years of age may still enroll for the following classes: Reading and writing, English for educated foreigners, art, stenography and typing, auto mechanics, naturalization aid, health education, homemaking, elementary and advanced English, civics and government, and Italian. ill I' I opened its doors to about 150 high school graduates this week. The eight-week courses are designed to aid advanced students and employed stenographers and clerical workers in familiarizing themselves with all phases of office practice in their business fields.

Other courses offered in the Summer school, it was announced, include French, German and Italian. There is also a special course in cookery at the high school Friday evenings. At Valley Stream High School courses in home economics are under wav. books on those self-same bamboo isles. For all that, a beachcomber does for the world's largest publicly owned beach Rockaway Beach In Queens, of course just about what a whitewing does for the city streets.

Rockaway Beach's champ beachcomber, take it from Foreman-in-Charge James F. Mangan, is Frank Butch) Peeker. Peeker is about equally quick with either broom or repartee. For instance, an officious civic worker recently observed Pecker and Mangan in conversation. Ye civic chimed in, with the following result: iiiii iiiii iiiii iv Civic Good morning, Mr.

Mangan. If it is in order at this time, i wish to congratulate you upon the efficiency of this subordinate of yours. Mangan Fine. We aim to please. Civic Well, I am so pleased I purpose to write a letter to Borough President George U.

Harvey, congratulating him on his sagacity and administrative ability in choosing a man of this type. Peeker If that's the way you feel about it, how about lending me a buck? command of Chief Boatswain Mate Gustaf Anderson, will also be in the welcoming fleet. Commander M. P. Jensen of the Fourth District.

U. S. Coast Guard, who was responsible for the assignment of the main Coast Guard fleet for the entire cruise, will be among the guests of tionor at the eeremonies in the Morthpor tClub. After a fifteen minute service in the Northport Village Park Sunday morning, the cruise will proceed to Port Jefferson, where a band concert at the Port Jefferson Yacht Club and a block party on the main street will commemorate the event. Sail Monday Night With Ehelter Island the next stop, the fleet will spend Monday night enroute, with some of the boats harboring at the Thimble Inlands and others at Duck Island Rock.

The rendezvous is set for noon Tuesday 'at Long Beach Light, outside Shelter Island Harbor, The cruise members will be entertained on the Island with a parade, historical pageant and tour of the points of interest on the resort. On Wednesday morning the fleet will arrive at Conscience Point, North Sea, where a historical pageant depicting the arrival of English settlers driven out of Sint Sink 'Port Washington) will be enacted. Miss Abigail Halsey of Southampton will be in charge of the pageant. The remaining stops on the cruise will, be Sag Harbor Yacht Club Wednesday night; Westhampton Beach, Thursday night; Patchogue, Friday la special Coast Guard convoy will lead the boats through the Great South Bay); Babylon. Satur- 1 day noon, an dthe Unqua Corinth- ian Club.

Amityville. Saturday afternoon and evening for a clambake and farewell dance. The pageant today showed the attempted landing of English under Capt. Daniel Howe, from Lynn, at what was then known as Sint Sink. Max Figman, formerly of the New York stage, directed the presentation, and Caswell Adams, newspaper and radio man, described the events as they were reenacted.

Henry A. Aikcr of Bands Point headed the committee, while Statiley Gerard Maton was for the costumes and makeup. A forty piece WPA orchestra was directed by Paul Decker. Prominent Residents Take Part The party representing Captain Howe's hardy band landed from the Coast Guard boat "Vinces." The pantomime showed the departure of Captain Howe and his party after "they were driven off by the Dutch and Indians. According to Long Island history, the English subse-'.

quently settled at Conscience Point, further out on the island. More than 50 prominent residents 'of Port Washington and vicinity took the parts in the play. The I ALL OF THESE SUBJECTS AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE ARE DISCUSSED IN THE FEATURE FKOM A NURSE'S NOTEBOOK IN THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE NURSE CRAIG WILL ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS DEALING WITH NURSING PROCEDURE, FOOD AND NUTRITION FROM THE STANDPOINT OF HEALTH, REARING OF THE FAMILY AND THE CARE OF THE HOME Elmont Legion Post Plans Caucus July 16 Elmont, July 11 Commander Philip Jardine of the local American Legion Post today announced that delegates from his organization to the County Legion Convention July 17 and 18 at the Hempstead Elks Club will receive instructions at a special meeting July 16. Meanwhile, he reported, the post members have been visited by outstanding candidates for County Commander. They include William N.

Lewis of Floral Park, James O'Brien of Valley Stream and Charles J. Edwards of Stewart Manor. PLAN LEGION CAUXIVAL Hicksville, July 11 Henry C. Brengel is chairman of a committee arranging for the annual carnival of the Charles Wagner Post of the American Legion. The carnival, says Commander Judson Snyder, will be held some time in August.

Other members ot the T-ommittee are Silas Valentine and Emmanuel Valentine. Inquest Due on Man Hanged Himself A' Special to The Eagle Huntington, L. July 11 Edward Kirkpatrick, 61, who hanged himself in one of the cells at Huntington police headquarters yesterday afternoon, died from strangulation, according to Dr. Richard Arkwright, who performed an autopsy last night. Kirkpatrick, a resident of Huntington Station, had been arrested for driving a car while drunk.

He removed his belt, fastened it over a bar in the cell and stepped off the cot. Dr. William B. Gibson, coroner, Is holding aa inquest today. I Joe E.

Brown has a soda fountain In his Beverly Hills home and he can mix the drinks. Both Frances Drake and Francis Lederer, movie stars, credit the late Edward Laurillard, London manager, with their "discovery. No one besides Bob Burns has been able to play his home-made bass horn, the bazooka, though many musicians have tried. part of Captain Howe was portrayed by Charles Durfee. Chief Pennoitz was played by Kenneth Warren, and secretary Van Tienhoven by Arthur Jones Jr.

The drama and the departure of the fleet were witnessed by a crowd of 2.000 persons who jammed the park and roads nearby. Special details of Nassau County police prevented any serious traffic We up. i i.