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RHODES BROUGHT BACK. Nassau Jailer to Be Arraigned on Indictment. Mineola, L. May 9-Miles S. Rhodes, one of the jailers of the Nassau County jail, who disappeared after being 'indicted on a serious charge -after an investigation of conditions in the jail, and who was arrested last week at Brownsville, was brought back to Mineola today, and will be arraigned this afternoon before Justice Scudder at his home in Glenwood.

It is expected that he will be held In $15,000 bail, the amount named in the cases of the other men who were indicted at the same time as Rhodes. RECTOR'S FATHER ILL. A. Sparks, rector of St. John's P.

E. Far Rockaway, May Rev. W. Church, was called to Charleston, S. this week, by the serious illness of his father.

The Rev. George N. Why of Neponsit will preach at the morning Service tomorrow and the Rev. Horace Wood will preach in the evening. MARCH OF PROGRESS FELT AT PATCHOGUE Big Boom in New Buildings Adds Life to Business in "Queen City." THIRTY DWELLINGS ERECTED.

Tidy New Homes Add Beauty to South Side Village--Houses for Rent in Demand. (Special to The Eagle. Patchogue, L. May 9-An unparalleled building boom is taking place in this village at the present time. Altogether there are thirty new houses going up, nesides the many improvements to buildings in the business section of the town.

Few houses are vavant, and there is a big demand for good houses for yearly rental. On Jayne a avenue there are three new houses nearly completed. One is for Grant Williams, another for Archie R. Smith and the third for E. E.

Petty. Another belonging to L. M. Edwards is being built by George H. Wiggins.

The new house of Elliott B. Smith, on the corner of Thorne street and Jayne avenue, is nearing completion. R. A. Porter is having finished a new house on upper Jennings avenue.

On Mulford street John H. Conklin is building a bungalow for James Tivers, and Emerson G. Terrell is building another on the same street for Edwin Biggs. Herman Kruth has a large house well under way on Gilbert street. Louis Wethcamp is putting up a two and one half story house for Eugene Goll on the former Gilbert estate on Cedar avenue, and work has been begun by Chester Conklin for a bungalow for himself on the same tract.

Three new bungalows are being built in the Patchogue street neighborhood, between Cedar avenue and the river. for R. W. Caldwell, who already has a half dozen more in the same vicinity, Louis Lotito is building two houses on the north side of Liberty street, and one for Frank Lotito on the south side of the same street, making a decided 1m- provement in the appearance of that neighborhood. William Stumme is building a pretty bungalow on Woodbourne street.

James Conklin is working on a twostory house for Joseph E. Hallock, on Sycamore street. Elmer King is building a house Pine Neck avenue for his brother, William King. Two houses are being erected on the west side of Washington avenue. May Still are doing the' work, and they are being erected for Mrs.

C. Biggio. A house for Roland Baker, built by Duttfield Brothers, of Ronkonkoma, occupies a fine hillside lot on North Ocean avenue. A roomy house is bebuilt for Thomas Horton on the east side of Rider avenue, near Pearl street. The Oakmere Realty Company is having a pretty cottage erected on the east end of the property, facing Carman street, near Bay avenue.

RALLY DAY AT CHAPIN HOME. Sixteen Auxiliaries of Institution Meet at Jamaica. Jamaica, May 9-The sixteen auxiliaries of the Chapin Home for the A Aged and Infirm met this afternoon at the Chapin Home. Encouraging reports were made, and at the close of the business meeting a social hour was enjoyed, with music and refreshments, In which the "members of the family," as the old folks at the home are known, participated. Today was the annual rally day for the auxiliaries, and members of these different bodies came from various points in Queens, Brooklyn und Manhattan, from Westchester County, from Stamford, Conn, and from New Jersey.

Mrs. Augustus A. Frank was chairman of the meeting. The auxiliary committee of the board of trustees of the home, all of whom were present, are: Mrs. Horace E.

Fox, president, ex-officio, because she 19 president of home; Mrs. Augustus A. Frank, chairman; Mre. Eugene E. Mapes, secretary; Mrs.

Walter L. Leaman, Mrs. Stites, of ways and means, Mrs. Ernest Bunzl, treasand urer. $250 TO REPLACE BOOKS.

Port Jefferson School Board Gets Money for Library. Port Jefferson, L. May 9--Port Jefferson has made a good start toward replacing the library, which burned with the old school building, July 1913. the school meeting the board 4 asked for $150 to replace the necessary reference books, but the voters, upon the motion of Charles Randall, unanimously decided to inerease this item to $250. This will enable the board to purchase a large number of books necto the English course, which otherwise could be obtained only at the public library.

WOODMEN THEATER PARTY. A theater party will be held by the Modern Woodmen of America under the auspices of Liberty Camp No. 13720, Thursday, May 21, at the Orpheum. There will be a delegation from every camp on Long Island present. State Deputy Matthew J.

Cahill, State Couneel W. F. Denning and County Clerk Charles F. Devoy will be among the many guesta invited who have promIsed to attend. C.

H. Reimerth has the arrangements in hand, with the assistance of John Serocke, C. Harry Osborn and Walter O. DIVIDE ELECTION DISTRICT: THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK.

SUNDAY. MAY 10, 1914. FROM QUEENS BOROUGH AND ALL LONG ISLAND CROWD AT OPENING OF WOODMERE CLUB Handsome New Home of try Club Formally Turned Over to President. 9-HOLE COURSE READY SOON. Other Nine Holes Will Be Ready in Fall--Watson Vredenburgh, President of Club.

(Special to The Eagle. Woodmere, L. May 9-The new home of the Woodmere Country Club, on Broadway, Woodmere, was formally opened to its members today. This afternoon in the presence of most of the members of the club and a large number of friends the keys were turned over enburgh, to the president, Charles A. Watson Rigelman, by chairman of the building committee, Mr.

Rigelman and Mr. Vredenburgh a dinner, which was followed by made appropriate remarks. to There was dancing. The new clubhouse faces Broadway, and stands in the middle of a tract of land, on which tennis courts, golf links and other felds for outdoor sports 3 are being prepared. The tennis courts and golf links will not be entirely ready for use until Memorial Day.

At that time a nine-hole course will be ready for use. The other nine holes will be prepared during the summer. At the rear of the building is a yacht which was dredged last year, and a bathing beach. The building is of frame construction, is two stories in height, and of colonial style. On two sides of the building is An eighteen-foot porch, which will be covered with glass in the winter months, and screens in the summer.

The building is laid out after the usual manner, and contains large dining rooms, parlors, ballroom, bowling alleys and rooms for members. The officers of the club are: Watson Vredenburg, president; Charles A. Rigelman, vice president; Clarence M. treasurer; Lewis M. Scheur, secretary.

The offers and the following are the members of the board of governors: L. L. he Leventritt, Julius C. Morgenthal, Herbert R. Rice, C.

Richard Davis and M. Sandford Well. IMPERIAL HOTEL ENLARGED. Zapfe Builds Addition to Hostelry at Blue Point, Blue Point, L. May 9-Among the building developments of this village this spring the most important is the extensive addition to the Imperial Hotel, one of the leading hostelries of this famous resort.

Proprietor Albert Zapfe, of Brooklyn, has built on fifty new rooms and eight baths, and will be able to accommodate 150 persons when he opens on May 30. FAIR TO HELP VILLAGE. Ladies Improvement Association Gets Excellent Start. Easthampton, L. May 9 Mrs.

Frederic Gallatin, a summer resident, has sent to the Ladies Village Improvement Society her check for $50, to be used to purchase toys for the annual fair. Committees have been appointed a8 follows: Managers-Mrs. E. T. Dayton, Mrs.

N. H. Dayton. Doorkeeper--Miss Mary Lynch. Household--Miss Stimson, Mre.

Samuel Conklin, Mrs. S. M. Mulford, Mrs. G.

Mulford, Mrs. Daniel Talmage, Mrs. Frank Halsey, Fancy work-Mrs. Hamlin, Mrs. E.

H. Dayton, Mrs. C. E. C.

Homan, Mra. Frank Tillinghast, Miss Ella Osborne, Mra. J. Hedges. Dolls and toys--Miss Ruth Moran, Mrs.

G. H. Hand, Miss Elsie Tillinghast, Mrs. William Davis. Gay, Fish Mrs.

S. J. Lynch, Mrs. Kenneth -Mrs. J.

S. Andrews, Miss Edith Eldredge, Mrs. S. C. Grimshaw, Mrs.

Thomas Shott, Mrs. R. Lewis, Mrs. Percy Schenck, Edwards, Mrs. Lester Mulford.

E. J. Francis Newton, Mrs. Norman Barns, Mrs. B.

M. Osborne, Mrs. William Spencer, Mrs. Harkness, Mrs. I Y.

Halsey, Mra. Fred Dayton. Flowers- Mrs. Weston, Mrs. W.

F. Muchmore, Mrs. Hiram Sherrill, Mrs. J. S.

Osborne, Mrs. S. G. Osborn, Miss Addie Sherrill. Cake--Mrs.

'D E. Osborne, Mrs. E. J. Tillinghast, Mrs.

J. Strong, Mrs. O. H. Northrop, Mrs.

Mrs. J. F. C. M.

Payne, Mrs. Mrs. Daniel Tucker, Lawrence, N. Tiffany. Ice cream-Mrs.

Thomas Babcock, Mrs. Hale Parsons, Mrs. Teunis Barne, Mrs. Charles Taylor. LemonadeMrs.

Felix Dominy, Mrs. George Smith, Mrs. Charles Parsons, Mrs. J. E.

Gay. "A BISHOP FOR A NIGHT." Sag Harbor, L. May 9-The threeact Bishop for a Night," will be presented at Clinton Hall, East Hampton, May 14, by the Sag Harbor Players. Dr. W.

H. Van Nostrand is dramatic manager. FLORIST SUES FLORIST. Long Islander Beats Jerseyite on Sale of Slips--Gets $400. Riverhead, L.

May 9-Freemont Abrams of Blue Point, a dorist, recovered a verdict of $400 from Charles H. Tutty, the well-known carnation aud chrysanthemum grower of Madisou, N. In the Supreme Court before Justice Blackmar and a jury here Kosterday, afternoon. carnation He slips testifled to the that deto pay for them. He lattes, for $500.

fendant and that the had failed The defendant said the slips were diseased and that they had injured his reputation, so he put in a counter claim for $3,000. Henry S. Blachly sued John Taylor, Half Hollow parties, for damages for trespass. The action was really to settle a boundary line dispute. The jury gave plaintiff $25.

QUEENS SETS PACE IN WAR ON MOSQUITO Residents of Borough Have Spent $40,000 Since 1908 for Ex. termination of Pest. PLAN CAMPAIGN THIS YEAR. Dr. Goldwater Says Health Department Will Conduct War on Insects.

To Attack Breeding Spots. The taxpayer, who is generally "kicking" over the amount of his indebtedness to the city, will probably stop and consider when he learns that since 1908 public-spirited citizens of the Borough of Queens have spent over $40,000 of their own money to exterminate mosquito pest in that section of the city. Health Commissioner Goldwater is the authority for this statement. This summer the Health I Department will undertake a campaign of extermination against the mosquito. Insufficlent drainage is the cause of the breeding spots for the pest.

Swamps and marshy ground will be drained off by the department, if the owner cannot be located, and a. large army of laborers will be employed for the work. PLAYHOUSE REVEALS THEFT. Boy Burglars Hut Furnished With Goods Stolen From Cottages. Patchogue, L.

May 9-Dr. Frances Monell, proprietor of the Patchogue Inn, who recently had stolen from her veranda and outbuildings a lot of electric lights and fixtures, played detective and found them in a peculiar way and in a peculiar place. The doctor-a woman, by the waydid not report her loss to the police, but set out on a trail of her own. She figured that "murder will so she kept quiet and listened with her ears to the ground. The other day one of the neighbors' boys, whom the doctor has befriended at various times, said, as he was eating a big red apple, a gift from her: "Ge.

the kids down here in the back lot have got a great hut. It's a all fixed up, just like a real house. It's got electric lights and everything." "I will go down with you and take a look at it," said the doctor. She found the hut all fixed up, just as had been described, and the electric lights and some other articles, proved to be the ones she had The boys broke down and confessed, and promised never to do it again. Dr.

Monell would not reveal the names of the youngsters out of consideration for their parents, who are neighbors. It is thought that some of the articles missing from other summer cottages in the vicinity may compose the articles of furniture in this real playhouse. MISS JOMMES TO WED. Lindenhurst, L. May 9-Mr.

and Mrs. George Jommes, of this village, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Margaret, to john bach, of Brooklyn. The prospective bride's father is a well manufacturer here. The marriage will probabaly take place next month. PLAN THEATER PARTY.

Far Rockaway, L. May 9-The German Evangelical Church will have a theater party in the Columbia Theater on the evening of Tuesday, May 19, when "The White Sister" will be presented. PATCHOGUE TO HAVE A "CLEAN-UP" WEEK the Women's Civic Club Starts Crusade to Chase Dirt. VILLAGE TRUSTEES HELP. Have Placed Refuse Cans on Street Corners--Dumping Places Must Go.

(Special to The Eagle.) Patchogue, L. May 9-A clean-up campaign has been started in this village, and the last week of this month will be known 88 "Clean- Up Week" for Patchogue. Signs of the Immaculate crusade are already seen in the placing of waste cans on the business streets by the Village Board of Trustees. Into these cans the citizens are called upon to place all refuse heretofore cast ruthlessly into the ordinarily beautiful streets of the village. "Those who are not public-spirited should remember the State law governing the casting of refuse upon the public highway," is the challenge of the people back of this clean-up movement.

The cans placed in the streets for the disposal of the articles dispensation, as above named, are not, so it is said, for the benefit of merchants' refuse, floor sweepings and private interests that would to fill them up too rapidly. The Camp Fire Girls, Boy Scouts and school children have been asked to assist in keeping the village clean. Back of this grand "clean-up" idea ment Club, which village stands the Women's Clinal Improvepride manifest itself in a united effort for general cleanliness. Aside from the spick and span street idea, it is suggested that private individuals catch the fever, and slick up the front yard, and paint up the fence and gate that has stood so faithfully the storms of many winters without a coat. The elimination of several private dumping grounds, offensively located within the village limits, is another reform that the women are striving to accomplish.

Two of these places are within a stone's threw of the Wilmot M. Smith Grammar School, on Bay avenue, and are regarded not only as unhealthful, but decidedly unpicturesque Captain George S. Eiseman, whose home on Bay avenue is one of the show players of and the refuse village, from complains these dumps that blow down the avenue, and that it keeps man busy all the time picking them up from the lawn. there. Health Officer Dr.

Frank Recently in garbage has been dumped Overton says that the place is an indirect menace health. The women of the Civic Improvement Club are striving to secure A public dump for the whole viilage They say that the village trustees should own or lease a remote tract somewhere, and maintain a properly regulated municipal dump. TWO AUTOMOBILES COLLIDE. Each Driver Charges Other With Rec. less Driving.

Far Rockaway. F. May 9-An automobile, owned and driven by Ernest Travers of Inwood, collided an automobile, owned by Harry Seaman of Mott avenue and driven by Irving H. Prince of the Tackapousha Hotel, Far Rockaway, at Cornaga avenue and White street, Far Rockaway, this morning. Travers' car was only slightly damaged, but the machine Prince was driving lost both front wheels and was otherwise damaged.

Travers went to the police station and got a summons, charging Prince with reckless driving. Prince got a summons, ing a similar charge against Travers. "BUTTERFLY ON THE WHEEL." Far Rockaway, Butterfly on the Wheel will be the attraction at the Columbia Theater, in Rockaway, next week. pRior ton's stock company will present the play and expect to make it the most successful production that has yet been seen at the theater. LIGHT FOR AMAGANSETT.

East Hampton, L. May 9-The East Hampton Electric Light Company has contracted with the town board to supply the Amagansett lighting district with 80 19ghts, at $20 each, for a period of three years. NEW SWIMMING POOL AND BATHHOUSE AT GREAT NECK, L. I. The swimming pool and now approaching completion in the waterfront park at Kensington, Great Neck, are of Italian design, and the gardens surrounding them are beautifully landscaped, in strong contrast to the ugliness and unattractive surroundings of the ordinary seashore bathhouse.

The swimming pool, which is one of the largest in the country, is 50x100 feet in size, and is three teet deep at one end and ten feet. deep at the other. It la supplied by artesian water from a constantly flowing well nearly 200 feet deep. The water is absolutely pure and is the same as that supplied by the Manhasset Water Company, whose wells are immediately south of the waterfront park. of are to he The every many ceeded the King is is an no the advisors citizen by The in of 1 the ACT MAY 16 ON FARM SCHOOL PLANS State Officials With Board of Trustees Will Decide on Building Plans.

TRUSTEES AT FARMINGDALE. At Monthly Meeting Trustees Look Over Farm Land and Sites for Buildings. Commissioner John H. Finley of the State Department of Education, Commissioner Calvin J. Huson of the Department of Agriculture and State Architect Lewis F.

Pilcher, in joint session with the board of trustees of the Long Island School of Agriculture at an adjourned meeting of the board, on May 16, will take Anal action on the plans for the buildings to be erected for the school at Farmingdale, L. I. Steps will be taken shortly after the meeting to advertise for bids for the construction of the buildings, and within two or three months at the latest the actual work of construction of the buildings will be The monthly meeting of the board of trustees of the school was held yesterday at Farmingdale. Henry A. Reeves presided at the.

meeting record- and Professor Franklin W. Hooper ed. The members of the board present were B. F. Yoakum, Edward PH.

L. Smith, John H. Carl and Ira H. Leveen. A.

A. Johnson, director of the school, also attended the meeting. Walter B. Mesley of the Pennsylvania State College of Agriculture was elected head of the department of vegetable gardening and will take up his duties at the school on August 1. Mr.

Mesley was educated at the Pennsylvania State College and has been an instructor and professor there for the past nine years. The trustees visited the farms that have been purchased for the school and went over the sites for the buildings to be erected 1 for the school. They voted to clear the piece of woodland, about nine acres in extent, between the site of the school buildings and the Long Island Railroad, SO that there will be a clear view of the buildings from the railroad. BOY A MUSICAL STAR. Master Thomasson, Aged 9 Shows Unusual Ability at Piano.

Riverhead, L. May J. Thomasson of Flatbush, newsagent on Conductor Rushmore's Main Line mail train, was one of the proudest men in all of Brooklyn last night when he attended the Imperial Theatre on Fulton street and heard his 9-year old boy, Thoma: I. Thomasson, play the piano in public. The lad is quite a musical wizard for one of his years and experience.

He has been studying but nine months, yet he plays with the skill of an old time pianist; in fact, Professor Victor Banke says he is further advanced than most pupils of three years' contiunous practice. From indications now the boy will make a pianist of more than 1 local fame if he keeps on the way Me has started. TWO HUNTINGTON WILLS. Lefferts Gives $1,000 to Fresh Air Fund When Widow Dies. Riverhead, L.

May will of Ebenezer C. Lefferts of Huntington gives his widow, Melissa A. Lefferts, life use of his estate, valued at $3,000. At her death the Tribune Fresh Air Fund is to receive $1,000, the Huntington Hospital $250, and $250 is given for a mortuary building in the Huntington Rural The residue goes to the "Huntington Sewing and Trade School. The will of Jackson M.

Jarvis, disposing of an estate valued at $6,000, has these bequests: William Jarvis, nephew, Amzi Jarvis, nephew, Addie A. Jarvis, niece, $500; Ruth M. Purdy and Jessie J. Purdy, grandnieces, each $50: income from $100 to keep cemetery plot in order and if there is any balance it is to be used for general work in the cemetery; residue to John J. Jarvis, nephew.

SEASON OPENS EARLY. Many Cottages Already Open and Numerous Engagements Recorded. Easthampton, L. May 9-Each day swells the number of cottage families in Easthampton. The season is opening early, and indications are that this year will be a banner one for this popular seaside resort.

Ledyard Stephens and family have arrived at their cottage, in Hunting Lane. Cottage rentals for the past week are: Mrs. D. W. Talmage's Westover, to W.

V. N. Powelson, New York; Raynor cottage, to W. H. Henderson: Huyser cottage, Lily Pond Lane, to Judge E.

E. McCall, New York: beach Heber Charles P. Newton's Easton, Dune New Cottage, York; Peon cottage of Austin Culber, to Mrs. K. Moore, New York: Gay cottage, Huntting Lane, to William A.

Adriance, New York; Samuel C. Grimshaw cottage, to Mrs. Frederick J. Easton, New York. Albert Lind has bought from E.

B. Tuttle a building lot on Dunemere Lane. Stopping at Osborne House this week are Mrs. W. A.

Lockwood, Mrs. T. M. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs.

Terbell, Miss Marie Heiser, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Trippe, Mrs. Adriance, William Adams, Arthur Dunbar and J.

E. Bates. WILL BE THERE IN FORCE. Lindenhurst Firemen Will Invade Babylon on Tournament Day. Lindenhurst, L.

May 9-The entire fire department, it ww announced after a special meeting, last night, will attend the convention and tournament of the Southern New York Volunteer Firemen's Association, to be held in Babylon next month. Local firemen are preparing to make a showing in the contests that will prove a credit to a village that has been much respected and feared at all tournaments held on Long laland for many years. Firemen's day will be observed. as usual, on the last Saturday in July. Plans are now being made for a parade and inspection during the day.

and a dance at night. TRUCK DRIVER HELD. Far Rockaway, May Jabosky of 13 Shaw avenue, Jamaica, the driver of the lumber truck which ran over fourteen-year old Henry Israeison of 99 Seaview avenue. Far Rockaway, yesterday, was placed in the custody of his employers, the John R. Carpenter Company, of Jamaica, until May 29, pending the result of the coroner's inquest into the cause of the death of the boy.

Taraelson was riding a bicycle and fell from his wheel under the rear wheels of the truck. He died a few minutes later. A Long Island Globe Trotter BY FREDERICK C. HICKS. The population of Sinm is about 9,000,000, of which 20 per cent.

priests or attached to the temples. Truly, it is the "Kingdom the Yellow Robe," and everywhere one sees the yellow robed, shaven headed priesta, As they depend entirely on charity for their living, every morning they start out with their rice pots to solicit the day's food supply. The Siamese are Mongols whose ancestors centuries ago came from that great human hive in the North. They are of small stature, with a complexion varying from a light yellow to dark brown. Both men and women wear their bair short, brushed straight back from the forehead.

In dress they wear nearly the same costume that it is difficult to distinguish them. All wear the sarong, or piece of plain colored cloth, nbout 9 feet long and 3 feet wide, which they wrap once around the waist and then twist the remainder in front into a sort of band, which is passed between the legs and fastened in the back. The men wear commonly, white conts, and the women strips of cloth across the breast. Formerly it was customary to wear a particular color on each day of the week, but now each wears colors as they fancy. There are temples everywhere in Siam, many quite new, in all the glory of gold and varied colors, and yet temples are not built for worship, for Buddha was a man, not a God, possessed of no supernatural power or divine inspiration.

Anyone, according to the faith, may become a Buddha it the life of Buddha is lived. It all depends on what sort of a balance is struck after a person dies and the good and bad things are added up. To keep on the good side of the account there are many things a person can do, such as being charitable and kind. These actions are called "making merit," and one of the best means, according to the priests, is to build (L temple. An American missionary, Dr.

John Eakin, with his wife, lives 111 Petchaburi, about 115 miles from Bangkok, and who very hospitably entertained me, told of a funny incident relative to merit making. Near his home is a great sleeping Buddha, and one very hot day he saw a very little boy high up on a ladder fanning the huge stone face. On being asked what he was doing that for, he replied: "To make merit for myself." The temples are great structures built of cement and brick in most graceful shapes. There are also the great dome-shaped monuments, surmounted by a slender spire, under which relics of Buddha are deposited. The chief building is rectangular, with straight walls, which are often whitewashed.

The roof is made in overlapping tiers, covered with beautiful glazed tiles of yellow, amber, blue, green and scarlet. Great teak wood pillars surround the buildings, forming a shady and cool gallery. Little light penetrates through the narrow windows. and the rafters are usually in darkness. In the center of the far end, surrounded by smaller images of himself with folded arms, sits an enormous gilded image of Buddha, always with the same expression of calm and peace, of aloofness from the vanities of life, of having solved the problem of eternity.

Rice Is Staple Product of Siam, Rice is the great staple raised in Siam, and the prosperity of the country 1s gauged by the value and condition of this commodity. Teak is also exported, but the wealth of the country is estimated by the amount of rice exports. While Siam is independent, there are DEMOCRATS TO HAVE CLUB Higgins Plans Organization in Fourth A. Queens. (Special to The Eagle.) Jamaica, May Democrats, under the leadership of Assistant Comnilssioner of Public Works John R.

Higgins, have perfected an organization which, it is expected, will add strength to the party in the Fourth Assembly District of Queens. At a meeting of the district captains and two lieutenants from each of the ten districts in Jamaica district, held at headquarters of the the Jefferson Club, Van Wyek avenue and Broadway, Jamaica, on Thursday evering, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Chairman and executive member, John R. Higgins; vice chairman, James P. Clark; tary, Robert J. McMahon; treasurer, George Dorscher; sergeant at arms, Robert Milligan.

An executive committee consisting of A Arthur W. Twombly, James F. Clark, John Bird, George Doescher, William McLaughlin, John R. Higgins, Robert Milligan, Charles Smith, John J. McCormick and Matthew Schaeffer, was appointed.

Chairman Higgins also apponted as an organization committee the following: Peter J. Kerr, Chris Harmon, Michael E. Murphy, Robert J. McMahon, Edward J. Juster, John A.

K. Barto, Charles Currier, Edward J. Clark and Carl Grell to perfect a district organization in every election district in Jamaica. In the course of an address Chairman Higgins declared that a Democratic club that was "regular" was very much needed in Jamaica, and a club of that kind, he said, would be ready for organization by June 1. The club, he declared, would be located as near Fulton street and the Town Hall as poxsible.

Mr. Higgins said that the new club was not intended to interfere in any way with any election district organization, but that it would be the only regular Democratic club in Jamaica. U. S. BOY SCOUTS BATTLE.

"Whites" Win in Mimic Warfare in Forest Park, Woodhaven, Woodhaven, L. May 9-United States Boy Scouts to the number of about 500, divided into two "armies," known as the "whites" and "reds," engaged in a sham battle in Forest north of Lott avenue, early this afternoon. A little touch of realism was the mimic warfare by the use given of toy a cannons and the opposing "armies" used real muskets, The boys engaged in the battle were 16 years old and under, and they acquitted themselves like real soldiers. Willis Physloc commanded the white army and Thomas E. Jackson was commander of the rede, The commandera are grown men who have had military experience, and they spoke highly in praise of the youthful warriors.

Theodore G. Eisner, who acted as umpire, declared the "whites" the viePractically all the members of the tors. United States Boy Scouts engaged in the sham battle came from Brooklyn and Manhattan. The United States Boy Scouts are not connected in any with the Boy Scouts of America. way A.

McAlpin In major general of Edwin the former organization. TO EQUIP PLAYGROUND. East Hampton, L. May 9--The committee in charge of grounds of the Neighborhood Association has been nuthorized to purchase apparatus for equipment of the playground. An effort will be made to have formal opening of the Newton lane lot on Decoration Day.

foreign several departments of Government, nearly nation being represented in the official capacities. chief advisor King American, who sueanother the United States In that position. Siam has 110 factories and great mines. The forests and farms are the resources. an absolute monarch, but leaves the reins of government to others.

He is a literary dilletante and devotes the greater part of his time to the writing of plays and the comof posing operas. 1 suppose most people when thinking of this little faraway country it they ever do think of Siam associate it with white elephants and the famous twins. I do not know anything about the twins, but I have seen the so-called white elephants, poor imitations of thing that is white. They are a little lighter in color than the ordinary circus beast. There are four or tive really white ones in the palace stables, but the reverence in which they were merly held has passed away.

In olden times they were held sacred and were housed in their own palaces attended by a corps of priests who cared for them, When drowsy the priests sang them lullabys to sleep and when awake had a special orchestra to play for them. They even had their own dancing girls, The elephants did not last long under this life of luxury and laziness. The ordinary elephants of the country are now employed in the teak forests of the North, where they drag the logs to the streams and pile the lumber after it 19 cut up. A good trained beast is worth! from $1,000 to $2,000, and as they live for 125 years and more this is not a very enormous price. They begin their labors when about 25 years old, and at 70 are in their prime.

Crude Method of Disposing of Dead. The Siamese have always practiced cremation, but as this is an expensive method of disposing of the dead owing to the forms and ceremonies necessary, the poor, until last year, were in the habit of disposing the bodies in cere tain place and then allowing the doge and vultures to do the rest. This is why the killing of vultures is made a very serious offense. The future of Siam like the future of all Oriental nations is uncertain, With England already in possession of a part, of the territory one side: with France occupying a portion on the other; and with Germany looking with longing eyes, the poor Siamese may well wonder how long it will be before the country will be divided among the great powers. At present there is a strong sentiment among the people of "Siam for the Siamese," but with rich sources undeveloped and avaricious powers it will be difficult for Siam to maintain her independence.

While in Bangkok I called upon the U. S. Charge des Affairs, Mr. Crosby, and also saw the American embassy. I is the same old story on the part of our government of neglect and ence in failing to provide suitable ters for our representatives abroad, Wherever you gO you will find the American legation housed in some insigI nificant building in an obscure All the other great powers and many of the smaller ones have embassies of which their citizens need not feel ashamed.

In the East where greatness and influence is measured very largely' by external appearances it is a sighted polley that fails to provide our representatives with quarters aurate with the greatness of our nation, Twenty years ago the King of Siam gave to the United States a fine piece of land with a building on it, adjoining the British Embassy, and from that very day our government has not spent one single dolla. apon it to keep it in repair. Needless to say it la totally fit for habitation and our minister lives and has his office in a rented house. Bangkok, Siam, December 16, 1918. CHOWDER CLUB MEETS.

Remsenburg, L. May 9-The der Club met Thursday evening. Jehiel Phillips, who acted as chef, proved his skill in the culinary art by preparing a huge eel chowder, which disappeared in a surprisingly short time when set before twenty-two hungry men. Those who were present at the supper and smoker which followed included tus F. Post and Asher B.

Hallock, of Quogue; A. P. Rogers, Lester Jessup, John G. Raynor, W. F.

Jagger, ard Culver, George Grifting. Benjamin G. Halsey, Stephen F. Griffing, ard Goodman, Daniel W. Tuttle, E.

0. Fordham, of Westhampton; John W. Tuttle, H. T. Ketch and W.

Ketcham, of Eastport; Gilbert D. Rogera, E. R. Tichenor, W. H.

Strong, liam C. Rogers, Jehiel Phillips, of Speonk and Remsenburg. A very gratifying feature of the evening was the admission of four new members, Lester Jessup, A. B. Hallock, J.

G. Raynor and Alanson P. Rogers. Gilbert D. Rogers la the president of the club in place of Rev, A.

P. Corliss. SUMMER HOME'S OPENING. Sea Cliff, L. May 9-A number of Brooklynites have opened their summer cottages here for the season this week, so that by June practically all of the summer residents will be at their homes.

Recent arrivals include Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Frerichs and family, Mrs.

Melville and daughters, Mr. and Mrs. John Dillon and daughters, of Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Segui, Mr.

and Mrs. George Lloyd, of New York, also Mr, Hernandez, who has the George Tilley cottage; H. Rutan, who has the lan house, on Littleworth lane; Mrs. Moses, Miss Blanche Moses and Lionel Moses, of Brooklyn, who have had one of the former Glenwood Country Club cottages, the Osmond house, DE LA SALLE CONTESTS. The De La Salle Institute held a prize oratory contest Friday evening, first prize was won by Leo J.

Rogally, The second and third honors were awarded to David J. Martin and Paul V. Shea. The other speakers were Curtis J. Lyons, Edward J.

O'Connor, John J. Malley, Vincent P. Goubeau, Arthur C. Mayer, John J. Keogh and Leo J.

McCracken. A special feature of the programme was an exhibition al drill in shorthand and typewriting by the students of the commercial department. Clinton A. Goggin won the shorthand prize and Frederick J. FuHer in typewriting.

The judges were Rev. T. E. Gilmartin, Rev. Brother Edmund, Rev.

Brother Matthew, Thomas J. O' Mara, D.D.: James Kerwin, A.M., and Felix A. Donnelly. Rev. Brother Calextus, director of the Institute, was the presiding officer, and was assisted Rev.

Brothers Joseph. Edwards and Elveus. DE LUXE' EVENTS. The bathhouse 18 of stucco and semicircular in shape, being 75 feet deep and 90 feet wide, and contains 44 private rooms, 39 lockers and four showers. The plumbing is wholly unlike that found in the ordinary bathhouse, being firstclass in every respect.

Every room has running water, which is an innovation in bathhouse construction. The building is lighted by electricty, 80 that it can be used at night when desired. The grounds around the swimming pool are laid off into small gardens, the coping on the swimming pool making a walk: for bathers on one side, a gravel walk on the other elde being provided for those not bathing. The swimming pool and gardens are inclosed with a 12-foot privet hedge, giving it a privacy not found in other bathing establishments. A bathing beach nearly 500 feet long.

for those who prefer salt water bathing, Immediately adjoins the swimming pool, and a lock for motorboats and yachts is only a few hundred feet distant. The entire waterfront park, which contains nearly ten acres, is beautifully landscaped with walks, drives and miniature lakes, and contains four tennis courts for the exclusive use of restdents of Kensington and their friends. The waterfront park, including all improvements and shorefront privileges, has been deeded free and clear to the Kensington Association, a membership corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York. Every pur. chaser in Kensington becomes by virtue of his deed a member of the nasociation, sO that each property owner in a part owner of the waterfront park, all improvements thereon, and, all water.

front privileges. As a preliminary to their spring paign which begins week after next, the members of the women's suffrage purty of the Tenth Assembly District have arranged for a special suffrage night at the Clermont "Danse de Luxe' for next Wednesday evening. May 13. The general arrangement committee under the chairmanship of Mrs. Barker, has arranged a special programme of attractions and are planning to have Wednesday evening a social opening for its campaign work.

On Thursday evening next the management of the "Danse de Luxe' has arranged for an exhibition by Mias Margaret Gregory and Master Jules Toliner. East Hampton, L. May 9-The town board has appointed a committee to divide election district number one. The dividing line will be from Beach, through Egypt lane, Long lane, and Newtown lane, to Hardscrabble, and thence along the turnpike to Sag Harbor Village line. SIGHTSEEING YACHT TRIPS.

The sight-seeing yacht Observation leaves the Battery landing, near South Ferry, daily at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. for trips around Manhattan. A ret explains all points of interest..