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THE BROOKLYN STANDARD UNION: SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1925. 6 Nine-Mile Boardwalk at Rockaway Soon Under WayFirst Bids Opened' III lit Vv A 1 A A I A kassau county A A A night supper, present. ALIMONY REDUCED mi minniiin'pTiir At the Rockaway Bureau Hooded With Inquiries About Outings Mrs. Holland, 70. Has Lived at Resort 50 Years Realty Business Continues to Flourish.

HEIISTTIG HI. nUGDAUUD I ALL ncnniiDirniinDnc What is described as the largest boardwalk in the world, had its inception Thursday when in the office of the Borough President of Queens, bids were opened for the construction of "bulkheads, groynes, jetties and breakwaters and filling with sand" of the beach front at Rockaway Beach from the westerly, side of Beach 109th street, Rockaway Park, easterly to Beach Fifty-eighth street. ur uuuull uivunuL A -M great population of more than 10,000, 000 In the metropolitan district who will use this great nine.mlle beach and boardwalk, within thirty-five minutes of Broadway by rail. The Cross Bay boulevard which will be open Dec. 1.

12S, will bring Rockaway Beach within half an hour of Broadway by automobile, connection being made via Queens boulevard and Woodhaven avenue straight across the bay. In Addition to these facilities, the city Is constructing a ferry slip at the foot of Flatbush avenue, on Barren Island, and another at Cansrsle, both of which will connect by ferry with another slip In course of construction at foot of 169th street, Jamaica Bay side of Rockaway Beach, where Kits Park and Fort Tilden meet. The Business Interests of Rock away Beach are desirous of having another ferry slip constructed closer to the populated centers of the beach, the present slip at 168th street being more than a mile and a half from tbe trolley car line and two miles from the built up sections of the beach, Jills Park being now nothing but sand dunes, without any development whatsoever. As planned at present tha ferries from Canarsle and Flat-bush avenue will be of no value excepting for automobile traffic. The all year round populatloon of Rockaway Beach Is close to 60,000, but there Is room for half a million.

In many places apartment houses have been constructed, and It is predicted that soon apartment houses will be fronting the ocean and bay, bringing about a new class of realty development. The Rockaway, Board of Trade, which Is responsible for this great Improvement of Rockaway Beach, is planning a celebration when the first piles are driven. Andrew J. Kenny is president. Many Brooklynites Among 309th Field Unit "Scheduled for Madison Barracks.

The 309th Field Artillery, a reserve regiment composed princlpady of officers living In Brooklyn. Queens and Iong Island, leave Saturday, July 23, for their annual fifteen-day training period at Madison Barracks, Kacket Harbor. The regiment will be commanded by Col. Campbell, with Lieut. -Col.

Harry F. Wanvlg, of 81 Kingston road. Garden City, as exec utive officer, and Capt. Saltus as adjutant. The regiment, one of the first to go as a complete functioning unit, will go through the regular activities at camp as that of a regular army outfit.

For flie first few days the men will be given exultation and range work. Equitation Instruction will be under the command of Major A. L. P. Bands, executive officer of the corps artillery of the Twelfth Army Corps Area.

Range Instruction will be given by Capt. Murray. On the first of the month when the C. M. T.

C. students reach camp, they will lie taken under the command of the 300th officers who will equip them and put them through the preliminary Instructions before they do range work. A week-end trip has been arranged for the officers which will take them on a tour of the Thousand Islands which is but a short distance from the camp. After the strenuous work of the day Is completed there will be other amusements for the officers such as polo, swimming. baseballetc.

A supper, In the form of a mobilisation teat of the regiment, will he held at the Yale Club, on Monday. July 20. At that time It Is expected that Gen. Sumrncrall will attend and say a few words to the men. On the evening of departure for camp an Informal supper will he helrl when the officers will receive final Instructions.

Those living In Brooklyn, Quens and I-ong Island who will leave with the regiment are Major Elmer C. Kerr, Mill Neck; Capt. Henry r. Klrkhnm, 610 sixth street; Lieut. Frank C.

Klngsland, Avenue Lieut. George H. Hedebeck, 3 26 Eighty-first street; Lieut. George Orlmstead, 199 Stryker avenue, Wood- side; Lieut Max 8herman, 1618 Fifty-fourth street; Lieut. Merrttt H.

Hfnry, 428 Twenty-first street; Lieut Thomas W. Gerety, Jl South Ocean avenue, Patchogue: Lieut. William H. Fitipatrick. 130 Forty- sixth street; Lieut.

Edward Feuer-stln, 668 Fifth avenue; Lieut. Will-lam E. Del Homme. 696 President street; Lieut Joseph Oondermann. Madison avenue; Lieut W1U- ARTILLERY RESERVE OFFICERS TO UN A I A lam H.

Clement, Second avenue, East Rockaway; Lieut Daniel P. Caulklns, McDonough street: Lieut Benjamin D. Kornfleld, East Fourth street; Lieut. Max Klelman, 176 Ocean Parkway; Lieut Joseph P. Kelly, 6I Ketchum street, Elmhurst; Lieut Henry C.

Hoberg, 107T4 111th street, Richmond Mill; Lieut. Townsend T. Hand, 10716 104th street, Woodhaven; Major Peter A. Reque, 113 Montague street; Capt. Frank M.

Kerr, 3SS Fulton avenue, Hempstead, and Lieut. Herbert E. Covell, 170 Rem-sen street. Others to go are Major Meredith B. Wood, Capt.

Edward R. Whlt-tlngham, Capt. James A. Thompson, Capt. Daniel Safford, Capt.

Ralph O. Morrison, Capt. Robert B. Mcna-pace, Capt. James H.

Huddlesou. Capt. William Jealoua, Capt. F.llis Lieut Barent Bur-hans, Lieut Regis Post, Lieut. John D.

MeGeary, LVeut. Clarence F. Busch, Lieut Robert W. Atkinson, Lieut. T.

R. Runsdnrf, Lieut. WInfred O. Perry, Lieut- Joseph C. Managln, Lieut.

Harold W. Mc-Gowan, Lieut. Harold E. Anderson, Lieut. Charles A.

Jongson, Lieut. Samuel Ginsburg, and Lieut Sidney C. Bursely. Annual Convention of New York State League to Be Meld Here Sept. 6.

The annual convention of the Catholic State League of New York, which is slated to bring 250 delegates to Brooklyn from all parts of the Empire State for a stay of three days, is to be formally greeted by Mayor Hylan, It was learned last night. The Mayor, according to Information, has agreed to make the official welcoming address on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 8. He has also promised, it is said, to address a meeting to be held here the same night at the Academy of Music. The annual convention of the Catholic.

State Leagne, one of the most influential Catholic organizations in the State, will stage its sessions at Most Holy Trinity parish hail, at Montrose and Graham avenues. Sessions of the committees and deliberations of the convention itself, it ia expected, will last at least three days. The delegates are due to arrive from up-State and other sections Sept. 5. Most of them will be housed In Manhattan hotels.

Before Mayor Dylan's welcome they are to parade. Then all are to attend a pontifical mass at Most Holy Trin ity Church. The Rt. Rev. Thomas K.

Molioy, D.D.. bishop of the Brooklyn diocese, will be the celebrant. A meeting of the delegates and Catholics In general has been set for the evening. Besides the Mayor, the speakers are to Include Bishop Mol loy and the Very Rev. John L.

Bel ford, D.D., ho has Just been named pastor of Rt. Augustine's Church. According to Information made available last night, the convention will deal with immigration and the question of bettering conditions for young men. Other social queetlons from the Catholic standpoint are likewise to be discussed. Joseph P.

Brtntano, who headi one of the convention committees, stated last night that plana for the convention are progressing in good shape and that arrangements are soon to be completed. The Mayor, he announced, con sented to deliver the formal wel come to the delegates when a com mittee called on him at City Hall on Friday. This committee Included John Roethleln, president; Nicholas 'Diets, honorary president, and John J. Giel. first vice-president, of th Brooklyn Local Federation of the State League.

EMIR EXPELLED FROM U. S. NOW BELIEVED IN BERLIN BERLIN, July 11. "Mohammed Emir," claiming to be a Prince of Kurdistan, has emerged In Berlin, stirring society with a gorgeous military uniform and dazzling decorations. Although he denied It, It was believed Mohammed was Identical with the "Emir of Kurdistan" recently expelled from the United States.

He came here from Paris. TO HAVE SILVER JUBILEE CELEBRATION TO-NIGHT Dr. and Mrs. H. W.

Rlchter. of 187 South Ninth street, will celebrate tha twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage to-night at the Commodore Mansion, 171 South Ninth street MIR 10 WELCQM SERIN CATHDL About 100 were Braeaty Point The annual gat-togather dinner of tha' Point Breeze Association waa lvan Thuraday night at Kennedy's Pavilion. Breezy Point, Marcue Hayden, president of tha association for three years, spoke of tha contrast between the first dinner, given fifteen years ago, when there ware only twenty-eight bungalows In the colony, with the gathering of mora than two hundred members present at this affair. Ha attributed thia growth to the andeavor of the association to keep ta colony in a respectable condition, free from ob-Jectlonal features, and urged tha members to redouble their efforts in this direction Amons those present war Dr Bruce, John Brennan, secretary of tha association, who ia superintendent of the delivery at the Brooklyn Post Office; Samuel Hosford, member of tha B. P.

O. Al Sullivan, well-known Brooklyn builder; Miles McPartland, president of tha Horse-shoerB Union of tha United States, and also president of the Hibernian Booiety; John Williams, of Steeplechase Park; Mr. and Mrs. DeFralne, proprietor of the Domestic Steam Laundry; Harry Lea, E. L.

Bracken, E. C. Gersten, vice-president of the National Bank of Commerce, of Manhattan; H. J. Rens and F.

L. Homan. Paul Poggl, reataurateur, who haa had the honor ef entertaining the tenor, Caruso, at his place, has just completed the renovation and enlargement of his hostelry at 102d street Rockaway boulevard. Druggists at Rockaway Park. Tha New York Druggists' Association recently gave a farewell dinner to one hundred of lta member who are about to take a trip to Europe with their families, the beginning of August.

The chairman of the com mittee, E. Laacow, welcomed the members and guests at the Perk Inn. where reservations had been made, and a hearty send-off was given the prospective travellers. Mrs. Machln, of Madison street, Brooklyn; her son, Anthony, who has Just returned from a trip to Cuba; her daughters, Mrs.

Joseph Magulre and Mrs. Otto Kremmal. who Is on a visit to her mother from Chicago with her two children, are visiting the Rockaways, and stopping at the Park Inn. NINE INDICTED FOR BOSTON CLUB CRASH President of Organization is Charged With Manslaughter. BOSTON, July 11.

Timothy J. Barry, president of the Ill-fated Pickwick Club and one of nine against whom secret Indictments were returned by. the Suffolk County Grand Jury In connection with the collapse of the Pickwick Club building July 4, was held on a chargo of manslaughter for the death of Tatrolman Paul Halleran, one of the forty-four victims of the tragedy, when arranged In Court thla afternoon. George C. Funk, architect and contractor who was recently engaged in making repairs on tha Pickwick Building, and Hyman Bloomberg, lessee of the building, were also arraigned and held on charges of manslaughter.

All three pleaded not gulltv and were held in $1,000 ball each for trial next Wednesday. After arraignment of Barry, Funk and Bloomberg, court adjourned until Monday. FILIPINOS DENY UNDUE INFLUENCE WASHINGTON, July 11. A denial that Filipinos ara trying to Influence United Statea Congressmen in favor of Independence by paying expenses of the congressional party now on tour of the islands wa i issued by the Philippine Press Bureau hare. "The visitors are being merely entertained by both American and Filipinos, aa other congressional par.

ties visiting the Islands in the past have been entertained, Manila officials cabled the bureau SALESMAN SHOT BY MOTOR COMPANY OFFICIAL BENTON HARBOR, July 11. Arthur N. Merrlfleld, until thlis week secretary and treasurer of the Shlvel-Garfleld Motor Company, was held by the pallce here to-day. charged with the att mpted murder of Charles W. Power.

Merrlfleld told tha authorities he shot Powers, a salesman of tha com-pany, "because he broke up my home." He alleged Powers had carried on tn affair wltt Mrs. Merrlfleld. Merrlfleld, the authorities said. Invited Powera to his home last night and shot him after a brief argument. The bullet pierced Poers' lung and wounded, him ta seriously ha la expected to dla, 01.

BRIGHTON Conductors Find Their Move-. menu a Mystery as Well Passengers One Jovial Fellow Turns 'Em Back. Brighton llr.8 patron on these summery afternoon ar enjoying a brand, new kind of service. Th? have what they call secret expresses.1, Tha nature of thesa train only Is a mystery to the passenger, Even the conductor know nothing1 about them. During th hour preceding tor evening rush there is a lively busl-t, neas in carrying fare-payer to th beaches served by th station at' Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach an4 Coney Island.

The day Is drawing near a close and the rider ara fretful and fussy about delays. To draw1 them along toward exhibition of this peevish state of mind th B-M, T. dumps out passengers from down-down at the Prospect Park unless they want to make all atop to the seashore. Th idea is to stand at thla ata-" tlon, between Lincoln road an.d Empire Boulevard, and change to an express that cornea from Franklin avenue. These trains bear no signs that read "Express." There real nature la a secret.

That would not be eo bad If all of them war1 express But they're not. Tbe Idea I to rush to th platform, fling' a question at the conductor, and extract the proper guidance without' stopping long enough to loa the train. Train Fool IU OooduotoR Last "Wednesday, between 4:10 and 6. this question was put to a con-, ductor on one of these mystertou trains. "Tea, it's an express," answered.

The train rattled along on the local track and stopped at Parkslda avenue. "I thought you said this was an express," chorused the peevish ones. "I'm new on thl line," wa the answer. "But I thought when the trip began tt waa going to be an express." On Friday afternoon th same process wa repeated at Prospect Park. "Express or local?" Thla tlm there was a chorus of questioner.

"This 1 an express," wa th reassuring answer. The next stop waa Parksld ar nu. The conductor faced thei am chorus again. "We were supposed to be an express, they have switched over to the local track and we'll have to make all stops," he said. This time six more local train passed Church avenue befora an express came along shortly before 6 P.

M. West End Slna On Brighton line. Yesterday afternoon, between 4: SO and 5, a train headed the other way on the expresa tracks of tha Brighton line at Sheepshead Bay that broke all records for mysterious wanderings. On one of its cars on of th sign read "West End Ex-) press Bay Parkway," and another read "West End Express Coney Island." Th conductor, prior to correcting hie signs, aasured hla patrons It was a Brighton lln express for Franklin avenue. Strang to say, it really did go through empress to Franklin avenue.

At that Juncture a ohanga waa made by climbing over th stair and down again to a waiting Fulton street car headed for downtown points. Tha conductor at th for ward entrance of this train, man-) nlng the only gates that had been allowed to remain open, was feverishly trying to close them, Th pro, cession of paying guests from tn Brighton train wa holding them open. can't wait all night," ha shouted, In a tone that could not be deecrlbed a genial, and h. snapped hia gates shut before tha, tall, of the procession could reach: him. These are only om of the trlh-ulatlon of traveling on th Brigh- ton line.

Before th mhway connection with the Atlantio avenue' atatian was made the service on thla line consisted of alternate local nd! expresses, all plainly marked and carrying 'distinctive lights, bearing the bathing crowd and tho business rush crowd without any uncertainties. Old patrons of th Una? ar to-day reluctand to ay tha mystrlous movement of trln under the new regime I Several buses, carrying mora than a hundred member and friend of, tha MacSwiney-Fltigerald CounclJ of th A. R. I. will leave the or gantzatlon'e headquarters this mom.

Ing on th annual outing to Bye; Beach. Bemuth, P. Maschel, all members of a sewing circle of which Mrs, Olnsty Is president. The First Congregational Chureh, Rockaway boulevard and Ninety-fourth street, held a cake sale and bazaar-for the benefit of tha building fund for a new church. This church, which la one of tha oldest In the section, having been organised over forty years ago, has tor pastor the Rev.

John C. Graen, who has ministered to his flock for thirty years. Seaside. The emergency cllnlo formerly located at Eighty-fourth street and the ocean front, will now located at Seaside, under tha same physician, Dr. Herman Gllboff, of Rockaway Park, who was In oharga laat year, Miss Mary O'Brien will continue to look after all cases of minor accidents from bathing and sudden illnesses.

Lectures on Infant-feeding will be given at the clinic, which will be open every day until September. The Nineteenth Assembly District Republican Club, of Hart street, under Leader Jacob Bartscherer and Co-Leader Mrs. Jennie Blank, Is holding Its annual beach party today at Phillips' Atlas Pavilion. Mr. Phillips has booked a number of parties for thia month.

On July 14 the Franklin Square Church, of Hempstead, will have Ita annual beach party. On July 16 Trinity Reformed Church, of St. Nlcholaa avenue, Brooklyn, the Rev. George J. Wacker, pastor, will have Its annual Sunday school and church festival at the paviljon.

On July 19 the Green Benevolent Society, from Irving avenue and Stanhope street, Brooklyn, will cele brate, while on July 20 the Joseph T. Gleason Society, which has been coming there for the past twenty years, will have a large crowd, under the chairmanship of John Rauschold, of 896 Llnwood street On July 27 the Royal Neighbors of America, a Rockaway association, will hold a card party and dance under the direction of Sarah Albert and Hannah Goldberg, of Arverne. July 28' the Independent Master Bakers of Brooklyn will muster a large roll call at the beach under Chairman Simon" of 2596 Madison street, Brooklyn. On July 29 a large bus party from Harlem will be present. Rockaway Park.

The Rockaway Park office of the Rockaway Beach National Bank was rooently opened for business In Its newly completed building. The hank la attractively fitted up In the way of decoration and Illumination and equipped with a electric burglar alarm system. The main office of the bank Is situated in the Holland section at Ninety-fifth street and the Boulevard. The president of the bank, John Jamleson, who was present at the opening, has been a civic worker in the Rockaways for fifty years. The vice-president, H.

G. Heyson, has Just returned from a pleasure trip around the world, which embraced China, Japan, Palestine and Southern Europe. The staff of the new office Includes Charles E. Whlt, teller; Miss Geraldine' Kirk, hnnkkeener and John C. McVay, assistant cash ier and manager.

Mr. McVay has been a reeident of the Rncknwav. all his life. He Is a son of ex-Post master William J. McVay.

George Bender la cashier of th main nffi The directors Include John Jamie-eon. H. G. Heyson, William Chub-buck, Charles C. Fallon, I.

Goldberg, Andrew J. Kenny, William S. Pettlt, Albert Rinck and Charles Toung. Far Rockaway. About the last large dinner of the season waa that given Valentine W.

Bmlth, of Netlson avenue, hv the Boy Scouts of America in recognition of his services to the organization. C. A. Worden, Scout executive at the borough; his assistants, Theo dore 'l nomas and H. Burger; Arthur L.

Brunham, Deputy Commissioner of the Rockaway District; George L. 8ellers, G. Goets and Mr. Smith made tha speeches of tha evening. Deputy Soout Sellers waa presented with a statuette in bronze of a Boy Scout by the local troop and a fountain pen by Troop 1.

An American Red Cross life-saving medal was presented to Armln SchUBterman, Scoutmaater of Troop 1, In recognition of his teal in giving free Instruction on safety measures on land and water. Tha Valentine W. Smith Cup and District Banner waa awarded to Troop and tha District Cup to Troop 1. The Olympla Lodge, f. and A.

whloh attended tha performanca of "Carmen" given by the American Grand Opera Association, Maurice Frank, director, at tha Central Theatre, Cedarhurst, last week, adjourned in body after tha performanca to "Teddy's" for a mld fcavA hanfl nut lin I by the Rockaway Board of Trade In all the subway and elevated stations all over the city numerous inquiries have come to the publicity bureau asking about hotels and boarding houses at Rockaway Beach. Still othera are from organizations throughout tha city asking for particulars about holding outings and picnics at the resorts whera ac commodations can ba had, The bureau la said to be flooded with those Inquiries and to be work: Ing day and even Bights to make replies. The new folders published last week have been sent out to thousands of inquirers, A great number of them have been sent to -reseat- bureaus established by the newspapers and othera The co. operation of these bureaus has been enlisted' by the Board of Trade. To expedite the work of the publicity bureau and to effect a great system of co-operation, the Rockaway Board of Trade aaksd hotel owners and boarding house keep-era whether members of the organisation or not to list their places at the publicity bureau and to state what accommodatlona thev have.

giving-their rates and any other! Information, to enable the bureau to serve Inquirers. The publicity bureau Is serving also aa a clearing house of Information and sending news to out-of-town papers aa to visitors vacationing at Rockaway Beach. Visitors at Rockaway are asked to register at tha bureau so that their home town papers can ha notified. 8ince the Inception of the drive for funds carried on by the "Rockaway Boosters" of the Board of Trade, great progreas is said to have been made. The committee In charge of the campaign, with the assistance of the publicity bureau, of which Arnold Ed.

Allees Is in charge, has made great efforts to enlist the co-operation of merchants and tradesmen of Rockaway. The committee has therefore Issued an appeal to the proprietors of hotels and boarding houses to co-operate with the publicity bureau as a link for accomplishing what the board of trade has set out to do. Rockaway Beach. One of the oldest residents of the Rockaways Is Mrs. Margaret Holland, now past seventy, and still living on the old homestead at Holland, where she and her husband settled more than fifty years ago.

At that time there were only six houses from Far Rockaway to the Point, and it took two days to get to the beach by boat from New York City. The Hollands owned a strip of about 1,000 feet of land from ocean to bay. and fifteen years later, when the railroad came along, they gave it the right of way with the proviso trains should stop there. This station was therefore named Holland after the donors of the land. Mrs.

Holland reared a family of fourteen children. Twelve were living up to five years ago, and eight now remain to he the pride of her old age. One of her sons, William H. Holland, Is connected with the firm of Brunner and Farrell, realtors, the eeninr member being the Assemblyman from the district. The aeason which has opened with a flourish continues to show great activity In the real estate field.

Recent sales and rentals made bv W. F. Brunner, Includes a three-lot plot at Neponsit, north of Newport avenue, sold for Mr. La Crote. Other clients have sold a three-lot plot on the west aide of 133d street, and a two-lot plot on the west side of 140th street, Belle Harbor.

Rentals Include for Mrs. Friend, a cottage, 344 Beach 149th street, Neponsit; for Rehm and Jaffe, apartment In cottage on Beach 126th street, Bella Harbor; for Boulevard Leasing Corporation, apartment In Rose Court, 116th street and Boulevard. Rockaway Park; also an apartment In Rose Court for a term of years: for F. Bowker, cottage on Beach 133d street; for C. Koerner, cottage on Reach 126th street, and for John L.

Farrell, a cottage on Beach 134th street all at Bella Harbor. Recent transactions by Dwyer and Dillon, realtors, Include the aale of a house on Beach 188th street. Belle Harbor, for C. n. Levy! sale of.

a cottage on Newport avenue, RocV-away Park, for August Welderman; two parcels at Neponsit, held at $12,600 each, for account of Florence C. Qulmby; all the holdings In land of the Knelp Estate, In Belle Harbor, held at sold for Magistrate Dale the Howard Dale mansion on Beach 132d afreet, Belle Harbor; for Marlln and Bitter, a cottage on 135th street Belle Harbor; for Samuel Kata, a plot of ground at Neponsit, at 148th street and Boulevard. Doings at tbe Point MY. arid Mrs. Olnsty entertained a party of friends at their bungalow on East Market street, Rockaway Point, last Thursday.

Present were Mes-damea F. Gardner, H. Krantt. C. Mertir W.

Huber, IV Donteker T. The entire beach front from Rlla Park to Far Rockaway ia ultimately to be a pubflc park, where the ocean will be (ret to the public for all time. Present piers, piling, hulkheada and other obstructions will be removed and a free and open beach will be provided that will be from three hundred to four hundred feet from the boardwalk, nnd protected from the erosion of the tumbling; aeas by a series of piling, known aa Jetties, reaching out Into the ocean. These jetties will be so constructed that when sand is sucked up through huge pipes from he ocean's bed and deposited between them they will be entirely covered up and the ocean Arrents will pile up more sand year after year so that there will be a continuous process of beach building by nature methods. In this manner i the sands will always be clean and white, purified daily by the salt water.

The work of beach building ill require seven hundred days, and the contractor must deposit 11,000,000 as security (or the performance of the contract' 11 fa estimated that more that 12,000 piles will be required and will consist of first quality southern yellow pine, treated with creoapte. jjore than feet of yellow pine planking, will be needed for the bulk-heading and 2,500,000. cubio yards of and will be.pivnped.in from the ocean's bed. Galiageru Lowest Bidders, The lowest bidder was the Oahagen Realty Company, for. The second Ion eat bidder was H.

E. Converse for 11,866,041.80. The tiahagen firm is now constructing the bulkhead and the filling in on the Jamaica Bay side of Rockaway Beach for the Beach Channel Drive, which runs from Neponsit to Far' Rockaway, and connects with $he new Cross Bay boulevard, now rapidly nearing completion. This Beach Channel Drive will give a nine mile boulevard along Jamaica Bay, and with the boardwalk, will make Rockaway Beach the greatest easlde resort In the world. The boardwalk Itself will a continuation of the present boardwalk at the Rockaway Park end of Rockaway Beach, and will extend the entire length of the ocean side of Rockaway Beach from lilts Park, or Beach 169th street, to Beach Second street, In Far Rockaway, a distance of nearly nine miles.

It will be ighty feet In width, constructed on concrete piles, averaging some fourteen feet above the beach, providing hade, for the bathers aa well aa resting places for visitors. The Jetties proper will he constructed every four hundred feet, extending from the boardwalk nut Into the ocean. The boardwalk itself will cost around 18,000,000, and the City of New York Is obligated to complete the work within the next three years. The work of protecting the beach through the construction of Jetties and filling In with sand will begin at Beach 109th street and work eastwards, and as the filling progresses the construction of the boardwalk will follow In Its wake. In three years the monumental work will be completed.

The work is to begin on or before Aug. 1, 1925. To Widen Preent Walk. The present boardwalk at Rockaway Park Is to be widened required eighty feet. The beach at A.verne at Fdgem' wll be filled Into as far out as 1,000 feet In places.

aa storms In years past washed away the ueach and buildings in many places. hit is due to a stronr; current which sets In Just west of Long Boach and sweeps over against Far Rockaway; Edgemere nnd Ar-verne, with the result that these placeB have great losses of beach in years past until there Is but a narrow stretch, which will now be widened out to Its former dimensions. The entire beach will be the property of the city after completion, although part of the cost will be borne by the property owners of the Rockaway peninsular. As a result of this work and the plana of the city estate has lately been taking startling advances In anticipation of great values to come. There has been great activity on the bay side, and recently ocean front property has changed hands at double the prices asked a year ago.

One piece of property which could have been bought for a month ago has been advanced to $45" 000 and the owners claim they will ultimately receive One option In the Seaside section was sold last week for a profit of $226,000, although the seller had only Invested i-VOfln. It Is believed that as soon aa the amendment to the Btate Constitution providing In bonds, from which money will be loaned to the railroads for elimination of grade crossings, has been approved by the people In the general election, that the entire Long Island Railroad tracks, now on the ground, I will be elevated, and thus provide anpther boulevard and provide freer access between the beach and bay. It la believed that outsiders have been spotting available hotel si tea with a view of the great possibilities of the beach when the boardwalk Is especially In view of the Salesman Says He Won First Decree, Rewed, Then First' Wife Upset Ruling. An unusual story of a man who obtained a divorce, remarried and waa then divorced by tha wife against whom he had obtained the- original decree, Is In papers filed in th Supreme Court by Herman B. Levy, a dry good salesman, to have reduced alimony of $9 a week, which he was ordered to pay his first wife, Mrs.

Anna Levy, of 458 Onyx street. Levy told such an appealing story that an order waa entered allowing a reduction of the alimony to a week, and providing that It may later ba further reduced. Mrs, Levy obtained a divorce Dee. last. Levy said that he consented at that time to the decree and to the alimony fixed, aa that seemed the best course for him to pursue.

He had previously obtained a divorce from Mrs. Levy by default, he said, and remarried. Three months after his second marriage, ha alleged, hla first wife moved to set aside his decree, and her application waa granted, Then, he alleged, she sued him for divorce, alleging that his second marriage entitled her to a decree. "In my predicament I deemed It best to default, and remove any cloud upon the status of my second marriage," Levy said. "It was to preserve the good name of my present wife and to establish the legitimacy of a son born of that marriage that, I permitted tha divorce action brought by my first wife to go by default and to consent to an allowance of $9 a week.

Levy said he waa formerly a city fireman and was crippled ten years aro when a wall fell In a huildlnflr In which he was fighting a fir. This, ne saia, nan greatly reduced jus earning capacity. Mrs. Levy, her husband alleged. Is hostess at the Roseland, a Manhattan dancing establishment, and has an Income between and $60 a week.

Mrs. Levy declared she haa been under the care of a physician since last March and unable to engage in dancing. GREEiffiRS RUMORS OF PEACE Greenpolnt Is all excited. And It Is all due to the rumor that an armistice has been signed by the political warriors in the Democratic party. In other words, Alderman Peter J.

McGuinness, Democratic boss of the Fifteenth Assembly District, and Register James A. McQuade, former Democratlo chieftain, have kissed and made up. There will be no more fighting and th slinging of mud will atop. "How come?" demanded one of tha member of th Open People's Democratlo Club when he heard the, story, "Can't be done," ha concluded. Rut tha story persists.

And Pet and Jim are about aa talkative on the rumor as the Sphinx. The rumor was lent out on the four winds when Alderman McGuinness was found In conversation with Magistrate James V. Short at the Manhattan end of th Williamsburg Bridge yesterday afternoon. They were making Impressions on eaoh other, with what they were saying, by waving their hands. "What's all the fight about broke In Regieter MQuade when he came along.

"No fight, Juat a pleasant conversation," replied the magistrate. Enemies face to face, they tard for a minute. Out ahot the right hand of th Register. "How ar you feeling, Pate?" "Never better In my lif, Jim," cams th response. Then th three went Into conference.

What it waa all about no on but themselves know. And they ara not telling tele out of school. As th rumor continue floating about Greenpolnt there ar a few new angle added to It. The latest is that the warrlora have not only decided to bury the hatchet, but that it haa been agreed to hold another conference with a view of bringing th various Damocratio club In Greenpolnt Into on blf organization. At th present tlm Alderman Mo-Guinness 1 th executlv member of the Greenpolnt People' Regular Democratic Club.

MnQuade holds a Ilka position in the Ftfteanth Assembly District Democratlo Club, A-.