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12, THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. APRIL 13. 1907.

FlI MODERN SCHOOLS 1 200 Lots. fcti. 1. that, with the opening of the tunnel and bridges, under construction now, to connect Manhattan with thia territory, the present needa of Queena ought to be looked after on a general progressive and effective scheme, which will enable us. at least, not to be behind hand when the ciodus across the East River has thoroughly set in.

"The present piece-mea! way, dropping a sop or two each year, is most inadequate, unsatisfacory and unwise. "We are making the presentation of our case concise, plain and brief, and hope that the response of the Board of Queens County Trust Company Home Office, Jamaica, N. Y. City Branch Offices. I.

City, and Far Rockaway. Resources Over $2,700,000.00 WYCKOFF Four Miles Nearer New York City Than Jamaica. Heart of the Building Boom Between Jamaica Av. and Atlantic Av. Subway.

Best Transportation on Long Island. tr.SSfl' 15 MINUTES FROM FLATBUSH AV. STATION. President Vice-President Second Vice-President Secretary Counsel Frank Squier -William M. Griffith John E.

Backus John L. Wyckoff Wm. F. Wyckoff Rows of Houses Now Building. iNucraiwioii Thirty-nine Buildings In Two Towns With Accommodations for 32,000 Pupils.

HISTORY OF RISE OF SYSTEM. Eight New Structures and Additions Under Way to Cost $1,445,000. A bachelor, tired of the turmoil of metropolitan life, was casting about for a place where the declining years of his life might be spent in peace and quiet. Kventually he found the place he yearned for, and writing to a widowed sister whom he had left behind in the metropolis lie urged her to bring her family of grow-lug children and settle in the smaller city which, to him, seemed a paradise of rest after a business career in New York. The appeal that he sent to his sister exploited the attractions of his new home on Long Island in laudatory terms.

He extolled the pure air and the good water, the comfort of street railway travel where ears were never crowded and strap hanging unknown, and further described as surprisingly excellent the accommodations for various details of domestic life. recommendation of replied the sister, "places your new location at once at the very front rank of attractiveness for bachelordom. and, with one exception, for family life. But you have neglected one important feature, which your life long adherence to celibacy ex-1 cuses What about ihe schools? You must remember that 1 am the mother of growing children, whose futures must not be blighted by neglect of education, even for the reward that all the other tempting advantages you mention in suburban life offer. His reply as to Long Island City's schools was so flattering that the sister moved over the river.

The demands of all worthy parents is Every Lot Available for Two-Family Houses. CLASS IMPROVEMENTS NOW IN. Before Buying. Easy Payments if Desired. Directors: WYCKOFF PARK REALTY CO.

PARK ROW, NEW YORK. OFFICE ON PROPERTY. Island Electric train at Flntbuah Avenue (WooUnaven station), or lune transferring to Jamaica Avenue ironey. Benedict Avenue. 5c.

FARE. NEW HIGH SCHOOL IN NEWTOWN. RARE OPPORTUNITIES IN ASTORIA A.fr, in In 11 nl lint jo lciu iuiik tu iriuiL ju mil, gnins I am now offering: One 5-Room Frame House $1,000 One 2-Fninlly Frame House. One 2-Family Frame House. .4,000 All the Above Near Also numerous rue-nut lots in for from $1,000 up to Come and see or write for full ings.

Immediate attention given to the C. B. RUTHMAN, Wm. F. Wyckoff, Jamaica James Macbeth, Jamaica Wm.

M. Griffith, Jamaica James C. Van Siclen, Jamaica John E. Backus, Elmhurst Edward L. Frost, Floral Park Charles F.

Lewis, Port Washington Frederick C. Hicks, Port Washington Willis H. Young, Hempstead pleted by January 1 and will be a fine trick and stone fireproof building. In Elmhurst. on the southeast side of Orchard avenue, between Fifth and Sixth streets, a 42-class room school is being built.

This is to be a four story building and the appropriation Is $283,000. It will have a playground 202 feet by 200 feet. This will be known as School No. 89., It will be about tho finest school building in Queens Borough. Long Island City is further advanced in its educational advantages than any other ward of the borough.

It has thirteen school buildings, with an aggregate of 304 rooms and acommodatlon for pupils. Newtown has twenty-six schools with accommodations for 18,600 pupils. QUEENS LIBRARIES. Fifteen in the Borough, and 415,000 Books Circulated Last Year. The annual report which Librarian Jesse P.

Hume, of the Borough of Queens, will submit during the next few days, will show In its own way the recent growth of Long Island City and Newtown, as well as other sections that make up the borough. Kor an Institution that is only eleven years old the Queens Borough Library is In flourishing shape. Prior to 1896 there wasn't a public library in the entire county of Queena. To-day there are fifteen. From a circulation of 26,000 books during the Initial year, the demand on the library shelves has grown many fold.

Miss Hume's report, now in the hands of the printer, will show that 415,000 books were drawn from the library and Its various borough branches during the past year. A collection of books that had belonged to William Nelson, a very wealthy resident of Long Island City, was the nucleus upon which the flourishing library of today was established. The collection had been offered for the purpose of a free distributing library, and In Sanford, of Long Island City, appointed a board to take the matter up. Almost all of the books that had been presented from the Nelson Library were acceptable in the eyes of the regents board of the State, and the little library was accorded a charter. A store was leased at 21 Jackson avenue, Long Island City, and with the grim encouragement of a S3.000 appropriation by the Board of Aldermen, operations were begun.

Subse quently the heirs of Theodore Slelnway presented the library with 4.000 books that had belonged to his collection. That was the meager beginning of the Queens County Public Library, no more than a decade ago. Instead of $.1,000, the annual appropriation for library purposes has grown to $68,000. The little home library that once belonged to Mr. Nelson has been augmented by the city fathers until there arc 80.000 books on the public One of the Model Structures of Queens Borough, With All the Modern Improvements.

tauration will be equally to the point." This report, submitted by the board through Its district superintendent, Cornelius E. Franklin, shows the vigor with which the school commissioners of Long island and went at getting reaay tor tne children that thev antic pated would be added to their school rolls as soon as the tunnels and Blackwell's Island Bridge were completed. In addition to the above paragraphs, the report cited the actual needs in detail. As a result two new school houses were built and several additions constructed to other school buildings for the relief of the respective localities in which they were situated. But these were adequate for temporary needs only.

The entire year that followed the local commissioners kept at the central board and secured some concessions. The close of that year, however, found that the improvement had been taken up none too soon, the influx of children demanding educational privileges kept pace with the increase In accommodation, and, again, there were schools in which children were compelled to attend on halt time. Then the board drew up another report. Persistent endeavor of this sort has won the Queens County school children tne recognition tney deserve ana new school buildings have sprung up, together with commodious annexes in conjunction with several of the older school houses. And the commissioners are still at it.

"The prospect is that there will be many more thousands of school rhildren within the city's gntes by a year from now, and we are continually harping on the Central Board of Education to Join with us In anticipating their wants," said Dr. Barry the other day. "The standard of education in our schools is equal to that In Manhattan and second to none in the country, but we will need more school houses as the population grows, and you can depend upon It that we will harp on tho question until our prayers are answered. The children who are In our district now are not suffering, but the thing to do is to anticipate the needs of the future. It takes time to get an appropriation, to carry on condemnation proceedings, if they are necessary, and to build school houses.

If we are to have children enough for additional schools a few years from now, the time to begin pleading for the schools is now, not then. That Is lust what we are doing at every meeting." Associated with Dr. Barry on the local board of district No. 41 are John P. Roulette, of Long Island City; J.

H. Thlry, of Dutch Kills; Herman Otten, Maspeth; Valentine E. Reich, Metropolitan. George K. Payne Is the member of the Central Board that Bits with them.

John Hotter- Ington, of Astoria, Is the chairman, of local board No. 42, which covers the remaining territory of Long Island City, Newtown and Woodslde. His associates are Charles F. Ritter. Woodslde; Peter Hlrsih, Middle Hills; Hans T.

Jurgensen, Long Island City; Athelstan Vaughan, Newtown. George A. Vanderbllt represents the central body In this local board. New Modern Fireproof Schools. The following is a list of the several new school buildings and Improvements and additions to others that are now under way In the towns of Newtown and Long Island City: A little old fashioned school building In Sycamore aventte, beween Garb and Lake streets.

Corona, has been moved to tho rear of the lot. and In Its stead an excellent fire proof school building, three stories high and containing thirty-two class rooms, is being erected. This building will accommodate 1.500 pupils and will be Bit I'd with all the modern appliances that. And place In educational Institutions. It Is being built of brick, stone and terra rotta, with fireproof steel const ruci inn work.

It will have a large assembly room, gymnasium, science room and cooking room, as well as a nurses' room in which an attendant will always be on hand to look after the temporary Indisposition of pupils. Th cost will bo W32.IIOU. Such special rooms ns those noted above are to be installed In all of tho new school buildings in Hueens. On Bergen avenue, between Rathjen and Henry streets, Kvergreen, marked improvements are being made to school building No. 68.

Heretofore tho school contained but thirteen rooms, but when the present improvements are completed, at a cost of $177,000, It will have a total nf thirty-eight rooms, with accommodation for I.No'i pupils. In the basement of this building a playground f'ix7'l feet to bo laid out with asphalt flooring and enameled brick wainscoting six feet in height above the sides. Conditions nt School No. 81, In Cypress street, between Halph and flleeckor sirei Is, recently became so congested thnt tho assembly room had to be cut up Into six class rooms, making It a fifty room building Instead of forty-four, as originally designed -an Idea of the increasing population of this Itldgeway dls-trlei when it is explained that the old building, found to be entirely loo small, wtyi put up with the original Intention of taking over some Hrnoklyn pupils. Hidge.

way has grown so that It now demands the new. turgor building (or tho accommodation of Its own children. On Laurel Hill an eight room addition Is being put up In conjunct ion with School No. SM. It will cost Jtiti.uiio.

The old building Is to be remodeled and the grounds regraded to conform with tho street level. This will be a fourteen room school, besides the special apart-ttmn's set snide fur gymnasium and sjiei in 1 study. Wlnlleld School No. 78, in Maurice ave-i, in- an I Carroll place, will have a twelve room addition ready ir uho in a lew weeks. This will also be three story.

ot IhIiR and terra rotta. it win nave two plnygr muds, 30 by feet eai and will be the result of a expenditure. It will contain twenty clans room. R. hieil No, In I)ebevoiii avenue, ii-iir WnoMey street, Antorla, a flue lu'iik, stone and terra eoti struetiire.

in belli, erei teil at an expense nf will a ,12 room bitihlinit of the best modern eotisi rui I Ion Thli buildiiiK will In- ready for us In tli full. Another new si linul billldiii N-lUK iriiH-d In I'lin-liln avenue, neiir (irinl mill. In Mnspeth, is nboiii lompleied. Ii iimiiiltin i bins ro-ims and rout I i The furiilHini Ih now bema; moved 1 1, II. A liiiiii iiml to tie iiesm- I No.

In belli rotiM meted on Klin a "en no, l.eiwein Kn-sh I'ond road ml IlnUey street, Hi, Juntos I'siU, at a east uf $2 iu. Tlii will com- ALL HIGH See This Property Take Long have been opened by private property owners, but nothing has been done in the way of paving, opening sewers or other public improvements for the reason that tho cost of these Improvements could not be legally assessed on property owners benefitted thereby until the fitle of the roadbed is vested In the city. An application for $75,000 was made in a tentative budget presented by President Bcrmel to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for the cost of streot opening in Queens for 1907, but it was cut out. The system of highways in Long Island City comprises about 175 miles and In Newtown about 600 miles, according to the new map3 already adopted and to be adopted. SHINNEC0CK HILLS.

David Porter Talks of Development There, and Expresses Confidence in Long Island's Future. David Porter, the expert appraiser, and tho secretary ot the Shlnnecock Hills and Peconlc Bay Company, that is developing a tract at Shlnnecock Hills near Southampton, of 2,700 acres, or about one-fifth of the anja comprised In tho Borough of Manhattan, while by training and nature David Porter. a conservative man, nevertheless Is aa optltniatic a to tho future of Long Jb-land, when proper consideration la given to transit facilities and tho purchase along the lines of transportation, as arc many men who are not so given to conservatism. Mr. Porter, In an Interview with an Eagle representative re-rontly, was explicit in stating that he thought purchasers should be careful to buy where adequate transit facilities are assured and that If tlu-y used this caution, thero was no doubt as to the wisdom ot Investments In Long Inland property, but that tho opposito method or haphazard way of buying land might bo regretted.

Mr. Porter expressed hlniBelf as having every fulth In both the Inclination and ability of the Long Island and Pennsylvania Railroad systems to enrry out and afford to Long Inland the best of trans portation service. Mr. Purler Is, of course, primarily Interested In flhlnnorock Hills, which Is a delightful stretch of undulating country crowned by bills of no Inconsiderable height, situated between Shlnnecock May on the south and Great Peconie on the north, and which It Is the Intention of tho cotnpiny to develop Into a residential community that shall contain the summer home of muny prominent people. Mr.

Porter said that so favorably had he been Impressed with the tract, at Shlnnecock Hills that he had advised and secured Its purchase within twenty-four hours after had first visited It and that he wns Ihe only real estate man who, at Ihe time, hud counseled the buy lite. Over lluo.OOO has been spent In developing the property already devoted to building roads, eliminating grade crossings, building rnilrotd stations and other Improvements. A number of wealthy men have decided to form a national golf club upon the property that shall combine the advnntnges of all tho famous golf links of the world, and whoro national championships will he held. Apart from the natural beauties of th territory being developed, Ihe unusual situation It enjoys Is remarkable as It Is surrounded by both the north and south shores and possesses, in addition, a lino Inland bay. The possibility of erecting summer residence that shall ouch have distinctive sites overlooking the surrounding country Is one that ha forcibly appealed to Mr.

Porter and he ovwoi Hhlnnecoik Hills to borotne one -if the fist popular and elite residential 'immunities uuon Long Irlnnd. CIVIL SERVICE EXEMPTION. (Special to Ihe Cagle.) Albany. April I3-Th announcement hits been mail that the Slato Civil Service r.immiaslon granted the application ir the exemption from competitive, ox.itnlit.v Ion of the position of case and I'lvwiltutl cb rk of the Kunreme t'out Lflvlsleii, Second UeparLmont. THE 19 Avenue train, Frank Squier, Wm.

J. Wheeler, -Charles B. Wheeler, Robert V. Mathews, Arthur S. Willdigg, Robert B.

Austin, Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn Brooklyn New York City John J. Roberts, New York City Wm. H. Cummings, New York City James S. Sherman.

Utica PLANS STREET SYSTEM Nearly 8,000 Acres In Newtown and L. i. City on time nted. LAST MAP PLAN READY JUNE 1. 400 New Streets in Newtown Awaiting Opening Proceedings Held tip for Want of Maps.

The City New York recognizing the importance at last of preparing for the enormous overflow of population irom Manhattan and Brooklyn into Queens, has for 'the past three or four years granted liberal appropriations for the use. of the Topographical Department In surveying and mapping out tho entire region and providing a comprehensisve system of highways for tho whole territory. The original triangulatlon was done In co-op eration with the United States engineers Before consolidation with the City of New York, Long Island City had, under special act of the Legislature, already adopted a plan of streets which upon consolidation wa3 adopted by the Greater New York Board of Public Improvement under a clause of the charter which provided for such a taking over of the Long Inland Cily streot plan. Many of those grades since consolidation have had to be changed, but the entire city is now monumented and mapped out and a large number of new streets have been opened and several previously existing ones have been widened to suit future traffic conditions this growing section. In the town of Newtown three sectional maps have been adopted by the Board of Estimate, covering about 4.600 acres in tils Maspeth district, 1.745 in Whitypot and 100 In Rldgowood, making a total of about 7, .145 acres out of the 16.020 acres of th? town's territory.

A complete our-vcy has been made of the northern half of the town, comprising 8,675 acres, taking in Elmhurst, Corona, Woodslde and North Beach. Chief Engineer Robert ft. Crowell and engineering corps have been working overtime to get the work completed anil the entire map will be ready by June 1 for adoption. Nearly 8.000 acres In the two towns have been monumented, including Long Island In ilUili i.u'mi oii-fi the portion of Newtown above named. Thero ha been considerable deluy In street opening proceedings, owing to the Impossibility of sorurlti men competent for the work of preparing damage and benefit limp.

It ha been strongly ad-voialed that this work bo given out by ron'raitt to private local firm, who, owing to tho fart that they have frequently surveyed all the old farms, and know svery foot of the territory and the lit lei. to the land, are prepared to do Inn wotk nt a very much less cost than It could lie don" by the city with lot of outside tnon who know nothing of the lorn I inn-dlilons. This plan ot employing prlviile survcyots ha been adopted In lite t'liy of Hrnoklyn In a large number of In stances at. a great saving of otpoimp to th taxpayer. It would be much mure prolliiibly adopted In long Inland City, where there are less public data than In oil her nf Ih borough of Hrnoklyn or Mimlisttan.

There are at least streets wbli should be opened Immediately mid the title to them acquired by the city. Thousand of peoplo have already set- tiled la tbo locality and the giiw df-J to Benedict Jiveuue ii uei on ai uut iiriu uiu nvuiu ul luc icill uui- One 2-FnmiIy Frame House. One 2-Family Hrick 'House. One 2-Fnmily Brick House. 92nd Street Ferrv.

most desirable localities in Astoria particulars. Open Sundays and even inquiries by mail. Real Estate and Fire Insurance. LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.

terminal of the bridge, which is Just about oposite Fifty-ninth street, in Manhattan, .1,15 feet high. From this tho bridge terminal makes a gradual descent for three-quarters of a mile through the Ravenswod district, finally reaching the corner of Jane and Crescent streets, where a large plaza will be built. From this plaza thero wil be a continuation viaduct across tho Pensylvama Railroad yards to Thompson avenue, a distance of about half a mile. This will tap the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn and place it In decidedly closer connection with tho unner oart of Mm. ihattan than it Is at present.

this great structure, which la to cost $15,000,000 and will prove tho great thor oughfare between the uptown residence, section of Manhattan and Coney Island, Rockaway, Long Beach and other parts Long Island for wheelmen, automobiles and carriage riders, will be completed by the latter part of the summer next year. It will be traversed by the finest roadway and promenade of any of the East River bridges, and will have four trolley tracks and two elevated lines. It will be the great farmers' route to upper Manhattan markets. ELMHURST HEIGHTS. Two-Thirds of Bankers Land Corporation Development Already Sold.

The present development of the Bankers Land Corporation, that of the table land lying between Elmhurst and Woodslde. on both sides of Woodslde avenue, centering Colonial parkway, consisting of several thousand lots, and known as Elmhurst Heights, Is to be laid out. and developed on the same lines as East Elmhurst. Miles ot cement sidewalks, curb and gutters have been constructed, roads macadamized, trees planted and many houses erected. All of the tract has been restricted.

Although the Improvements are still in tho course of completion, over two-thirds of tho property has been sold. Great changes are In progress and Immense Increases of value are regarded by tho company as sure to follow tho completion of the bridges and tunnclB. Following the best engineering advice, large parkway, with center plots, covered with grass and shrubB, has been laid through the Elmhurst Heights develop ment, and will not only be a deiignttiii feature for Elmhurst Heights residents, hut will prove a notable addition to the park system of Queens Borough. The Bankers Corporation not only nav partial payment plan, but also loans money for the erection of artistic homes as planned by Ihe owner. Elmhurst Heights Is laid out in tne pars system, and the company requires ground about each house, and that, tho roof linn must not bo square or flat, and Insists that artistic effects be produced to promote a general air of suburban harmony.

When the remaining one-third of this development Is sold, and from the business now transacting this will be soon, the Bunkers Land Corporation will withdraw from tho market tho largo adjoining tract still undeveloped, believing that by waiting for a short time until the transportation Improvement are completed, much larger prices than those at which lots are now sold at Elrahurt Height will be ecured. INOLESIDE SEWEHS BEGUN. Work on the new lngleslde sewer system, said to be the largest ever built In Queens Borough, began lust, week, and will bo completed as rapidly as possible. The system cover a largo part of the North Shore and Flushing lo Thlr-ty-sccotid street, and Includes all of Broadway-Flushing. There Is lo bo a nine loot sewer from the disposal plant at Flushing Creek, along Oak street lo Seventeenth itreet.

and a five foot sewer fo tho corner of Cypres avenue. From thi point two trunk sewers will extend through Broadway-Flushing on Eighteenth ireet and Twenty-third street. Tho Rlckert-Flnlay Realty Company, owners of the properly, ha already sewered Twenty-fourth street, from Mitchell avenue, under the railway, to Broadwsy. where It. will connect with tho city system.

The contract Involve an cs-pendilure of over 1200,000. Sewcrati work ha also been under-Inkon In the Aslorla section of Long Island City, where ten fool sewer along Hoyi avenii. A four font sewrr on Crescent street mid a three foot sower on Pot. ter avenue, have been completed by Ihe city. These eeis run through East Hlver IMaltt.

and th nickert-Flnly fotnp.iiiy will complete the remainder of the nvKimn In that section, under lbs i tb- vll) NEW CARNEGIE LIBRARY AT ELMHURST. 61 161 MAIN STREET, ASTORIA, EAST Rie BRIDGE NO. 4 Mammoth $15,000,000 Structure Will Be Opened Within Little Over a Year. GREAT BOULEVARD ROUTE. Thousands of Automobiles, Carriages and Farmers' Wagons Will Pass Over It Daily to Long Island.

The name of Dr. Rainey became a household word In Western Long Island some years ago, through his efforts to have a bridge constructed across tho East River that would unite New York with Long Island City. In a sense his expensive dream of thirty years' duration Is being realized in the construction of Blackwell's Island Bridge. In fact, it is a greater boon to the people of Long Island than the bridge that Dr. Rainey prayed for could have been.

He advocated a bridge to be owned by a private corporation and supported by tolls. Today th of what will be a great free crossover between Manhattan aim Long Island towers la the' air over Blackwell's Island. When Long Island City became a part of Greater New York and tho probability of bickering between the two places over the support of such a structure vanished, Long l3landors began to take up tho ideas advanced by Dr. Rainey, with the amendment that the bridge be a municipal affair, constructed and maintained by pub-lie funds. John Andrew, of Long Island City, who has tho welfare of his homo so much at heart that he ha been at.

the head of the Long Island City Civic Association for several years, wrote a letter to the local paper and urged that some step be taken that would give the bridge proposition a tangible Impetus. Following this, on February 16, 1898, a public meeting was held in Strack's Casino, Boulevard, Lung Island City, and then voice was given to the proposition to have a visible link between the two Isl ands that had been linked by law. Professor Jared Barhlte, who was chairman of tho meeting, appointed a committee of men from both Bid" of the river to Hike tho matter up for consideration. That the chnlrnian used discretion In selecting agitators who were blessed with tenacity I shown by the fact that In all of the nine year that the project has been under way there hasn't been a single resignation, and the only members that the committee has lost have been removed by death. Thi committee had no position ot authority In connection with the project, but It was sworn to stand by the movement and sen It to ultimate victory.

The officer of the committee are: Ella T. Ilragaw. president: D. H. Ban- born, vice-president; James McDonald, recording secretary; John Andrews, cor responding secretary; Peter Lelnlngor, treasurer; E.

Pratt St ration, of Hi ration Point, and Foster Crowell ot Manhattan, consulting engineers. This committee worked together like machine for the success of their under taking. It wa after eighteen months of solid agitation and frequent appearance before the Board of Aldermen that the first appropriation was granted. That was llii.OdO for oundlligs. Although former Mayor Van Wyck went out of ofnoc after a torm of crltlclim In Manhattan, tho people of Long Island City will always hold a warm spot in their heart for him.

He did a great deal for the Blackwell's Island Bridge proposition. Later, during Mayor Low's term of olllce, a flurry was occasioned by the determination of Ousliiv A. Llndenth.il, rommlssloner of Bridge, to alter the plans of the proposed Blackwell's Island structure, Two year were frittered away without much accomplishment, Mr. Llndenlhol Insisting on making the bridge a double dock feet In width. Instead of tho single dock, 12" fool bridge that hsd been planned.

After tho rum-mine had fought this proposition for two yar a compromise wa rescind that resulted In the plan a they are now being carried out a double deck bridge, til feet In widih. The flmt uii-lci the Long Islnn'j Is of of at a a that tho children be afforded the best possible educational advantages, despite tho handicap that the insistence may place over the other needs of life. If the bachelor referred to had located In Long Island City he would have been able to flash back a reply that would have quieted any fears of the matter on tho question ef schools. Long Island City has not only benefitted by its marriage with Greater New York in matters of commercial or municipal welfare, but at once the educational standards of the schools on (lie western end of Long Island advanced to the unsurpassed excellence of tho New York City schools. Everywhere that New York is known, and that means all around the globe, her educational advantages are recognized as superlative.

On Long Island to-day, as far as the big fence line of Creator New York extends, at. least, the schools are maintained up to the same excellent standard. To say that the eyes of the local school hoards there always are alert to perceive and supply the educational need.4 of children of school ape would he putting it lightly. An Eagle reporter, who was sent Long Island to inquire about the riii.at iotiu 1 opportunities offered to children in families who are contemplating settling there found that a double quintet of representative business and professional men of Long Island City, Newtown and Wo.idside v-rp giving up valuable time to study out the needs of tho school children and to insist upon tho fulfillment. Nor are their efforts confined to the requirement of the children at present within their ion.

They are look ing out for the hundreds and thousands Of little ones who will he Imported during the ii" year or two. When Ihe announcement was first made that the seeming great distance between Long Island City and New York was to be cut away by bridge and tunnels, these school otters recognized at once that the coming year would sen un unprecedented iniiax of faintlierf from the west side of the river. They didn't wait for the illltliX to route, bl' they tiegail at opet; to prcicre and be ready to meet the deuiatel whin it was in evidence, "We don't feil that meeting a situation when It arrive) sufficient, You must apprehend what is go1 tig id happen In order to be ready for the children when they are ready for the schools." This is whit ir. John II. Itarrv.

of Long Island City, chairman of oral School Honrl No. said, and his colleagues Joniei witit him in spirit and sent iment. They It tin had a hard row to hoe, (or the 'Jtlii'lM ('utility (lllzell feels that he doesn't fare as well as his cousins in pes ihe river when It comes to a disirthiit ion of municipal funds for public in Hut determination goes a long iv toward winning sucrem. and these coitimi'seivTS began to put all I ha vim they iiiu'd muster into a demand for addit omul schools at once. Kor Iihmii note the tone of the following i ii atioti sent by them to the Cen'ril of Education, all of two year i Superintendent Franklin's Petition for Better Schools.

"tir Firs Hi iu" of the rjctnmcly rapid grow ih of our territory, coupled hool population In wltli the fje that, whin thin territory came Into Greater New York. In houllioun'M re. with the rxcipMuti of Pn l.i Hihool No. VI, Mas-I peth, wooden viling" HihoolK of about nine room eit the tnl-atinnal i porn of this lluard ere tak''ti UP with demand fur additional hunt r.ccointnodj' ioni and explicit ions of the; reason why we me so in-inti-nt and no unhappy mil 4ail.flei nt being so roii-j tuiuaily pill (I lid M' glee I "Three veirx itao, tie.n ha I no part-tlilie ilawei. it hud ovi till'" tiioiK.nel hi bin on.

part lime, 'l inn the number of ihil- I lrn in i on' i Ii I over fi ur ih'iuntid tin w.ih the rein given hi the llroiK, where part -time i luldi Hi hav been re hu In "It if Oof belief, espel llllly In View III trllUt 1 tllC Ill'JBt UilllllOU Of UlCeptcl I I I This Structure, Which Cost $30,000, Is One of Six Similar library Buildings in Queens. library shelves. Twcnl y-elglit thoiuatid City, nnd about arres revered by the portion are drawing book from lri three Newtown miip above llfti-n brunc h- I nn-ntloneil Thi- Infi'M llbrnry if thin Hiring lo be i wh ut Jiimiit.a. Ill A men hnv'" hron 'nrk on tho openiil Iiihi Nevcnibrr, ntul iilrendy final nmp In tlu-so three IuhI named "c-Iihb i lreulntlon of about 5.UUU book a tlnn, Riving the artuitl length of the month. jblmk and street width nd all other Hut there Is 1 call for more libraries In nngl dctlllUi (0 street open- tin.

I I1W 1, uliow thm Hil'llt Iniml briitiilip could bo I n.l.lltlniiul l.rnii, linn ho osiiibllHlid In the liorouitli H-ldvantaKi-oun-ly and winly. Tin1 library feels tho growth of the boroilKb's population, and before another y-ar jui rolled over tho hi ad of Q'leetia llorounh folk, the rapacity of tho intern llbrnrle will lie tinted. MR. LAUMANN COMPENSATED. Brooklyn Man pet $1,000 for Rosd Widening at Huntington.

(Sperlal to the Knule I lluntltiRion, April who frequent Hunt Inston ind tho Kant Nri-k sertlon will road with pleasure Hint 111" innillilKSloiiers appointed to determine to the neiesslty nf widening New York avenue-, opposite the resident- of lHin nf llrouklyn, at 1 1 1 1 -sit, have iei bb that the Improvi-metil In ti'-i eary They award Mr. I.au.nann tl.iNin fur the land taken from hlm. Mr. I.aumann's irnurm loss 1 that of four Ii ii" tnapl" tree and a locust ires that shaded hi lawn..