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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION NEW YORK CITY. MONDAY. JULY 27. 1908. PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION HOLY NAME SOCIETIES OF BROOKLYN DIOCESE HOLD CONFERENCE IN RCCKVILLE CENTRE.

St. Raphael's Cadets. St- Agnes- church, Rockville Centre. 4 The Rev. John Fitzsimmons.

The Holy Name Sosleties of the Brooklyn diocese held their annual conference in Rockville Centre yesterday. Over two thousand men were in the march to St. Agnes Church. St. John's Orphans Home band and St.

Crowd in Front of Grandstand. Raphael Cadets of Blissville were in the procession, of which Joseph W. Mandart of Brooklyn was the marshal. The Rev. Father Quealy delivered an address of welcome, and an address was made by Willim L.

Cary, president William Carey, President Diocesan Union. of the Diocesan Union. A sermon was delivered by the Rev. John J. Fi siminons and John J.

Delaney, former Corporation Counsel, made address. Long Island societies were well represented. ENLARGING GOVERNOR'S ISLAND TO THREE TIMES ITS FORMER SIZE. I ITBAPY progress has been I I in tlic enlargement of I Coventor's Island, and the I-J work calling for 4.300,- 000 cubic ynrds of fill, of which 2,000.000 eubie yards will be above low water, Is about throe-fourths comiileted. The einbanUnient, covering sixtj seven acres above low water, is half completed, and thirty-two acres have been built tip to final grade.

I'p to June ha, I beeu expended lu this work and 1,181,223 cubic yards of earth was delivered In the Inclosuiv of which 597,730 yards were placeil above mean low water. The entire work done to June 30 last consists of the building of a pile wharf with a head .170 feet In length, dredging the approaches to a depth of ttventy-six feet, laying intercepting sewers, building (1,703 linear feet of riprap bulk head to Inclose the area of enlargement and upon the bulkhead building (1,773 linear feet of masonry sea wall. There Is available for the completion of this work and the amount estimated as necessary for completion Is $73,000 above that. The Island, upon the completion of this work in 1010, Strip of Newly Made Land. Part of the Sea Wall.

vill be three times its former Vlll he the finest military posl vorld. All tbe material for tbf if tbe United States In all i tho world will be si great arsenals and transport vessels of I There will be gre ado ground In the VIADUCT OVER BIG LONG ISLAND RAILROAD DEPRESSED YARD IN BAY RIDGE. The nth -tr (duet will have 3 HE big Long Island Railroad depressed yard at Bay Ridge, to be used as a jrreat railway freight terminal in Kallroad yard at Greenville, N. will extend over all tha area lying between Sixty-third and Sixty-sixth Btreets and Second avenue and New York Harbor. In consideration of the fact that the railroad company had acquired all of this property for Its depressed yard and that It hnd agreed to carry First avenue, by means of a viaduct over this yard, the City Hoard of Ei Imute permitted the company to close Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth street -he company's rlBdOCt is tO be nf steel, the full width of First avenue, and will he at an elevation of 24 feet at Slity-seennd street.

feet Sixty-sixth By a sub sctpient modification of i In- plan, steel viaduct win be cootinuad over the Shore or Bay liidgo Park-way. and come to the WrfaCti at Sixty- I 00 tins midertak-ti ati.i two or three of the piers fa In and the foundations are laid for the abuttneuts. connection with the Pennsylvania.