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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912. DEMAND NEW OUTLET TO JAMAICA SECTION Residents Ask Extension of Metropolitan Avenue Line From Dry Harbor Road. WOULD GIVE SHORTER ROUTE. Brooklyn Rapid Transit Refuses to Accept Franchise for Extensions Under Terms Now Offered.

The Queens Chamber of Commerce and Jamaica Citizens Association are making a vigorous campaign in behalf of extension of the Metropolitan Avenue Street Railroad that now ends at Dry Harbor road, to the village of Jamaica, a distance of three The complea tion of the proposed connecting link would give a new double track line from Jamaica to the heart of Manhattan, a mile and a halt shorter in distance, and as it travels a sparsely settled territory for over three miles, through the Forest Hills section, it would reduce the running time below that of the present route by way of Jamaica avenue nearly half an hour in the run to Manhattan. The Richmond Hill section, through which the Jamaica avenue line runs, i6 80 built up that the cars on that line have to stop at nearly every intersecting street corner, and as it is still growing rapidly the prospect is that conditions will become 60 much worse that the Jamaica avenue line will eventually be used almost entirely as a local line by people living east of Van Wyck avenue. The residents of Jamaica say that they require a line that shall give them adequate facilities for through transit. The residents of Forest Hills are also clamoring for an outlet for their section by way of Brooklyn. The Sage.

Foundation and Cord Meyer colonies contain already several hundred houses and new ones are going up rapidly in every direction. They are now dependent. wholly on the Long Island Railroad, which takes them to the Pennsylvania station and gives them no direct access to Brooklyn or the downtown business section of Manhattan. And at certain hours of the day trains are two hours apart. Several applications have been made to the Board of Estimate, by President Connolly and Queens associations, to take the matter up and push it to a conclusion, and the Board of Estimate has approached the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to make the extension, but the officials of that road say that they cannot afford to take it on the terms proposed by the franchise committee of the board.

An offer of a franchise was made 1909 which the company says it is now prepared to accept, but since then the franchise committee has drawn up another franchise, the terms of which the company says it cannot accept. President Timothy S. Williams of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company says 10 regard to the project: "The Metropolitan Avenue line was built in 1867, and after it had been sold four times under foreclosure, and it never paid expenses until it was taken over as a part of the B. R. T.

system. When the matter of the proposed extension was brought up before President Winters, he said he would not build it even if then franchise wag given him free cost without conditions, as it would be operated at a dead loss for many years. "I have taken the position that we would build the road if the franchise was made a reasonable one. The undertaking would inure wholly to the benefit of the city and property owners for many years, and we should not be called upon to assume an excessive burden, or any burden at all. I cannot see any profit 11 the extension or that it will pay in five or six years without any outside burden.

"Under the conditions proposed We could not afford to build the line. Every dollar put out there on a losing investment would be a dollar taken from a paying improvement elsewhere." STREEVER NEW SECRETARY. Former Official Appointed by United Civics to Succeed Delorme. John L. Streever, who was for years secretary of the United Civics Association, but who resigned about six months ago, was elected secretary of the association at its June meeting, held last night at Ramme's Hotel, Flushing.

He succeeds John F. Delorme of Corona, who has resigned. Mr. Delorme's business will prevent him from acting as secretary any longer. Arrangements are being made by the ner, which will be held at Witzel's Point association for their a annual shore dinView Hotel on August 27.

Preceding the dinner there will be a discussion on Queens waterways and harbors. City officials will be invited to attend. John Andrews president of the Citizens' Association of Long Island City, asked the association to indorse a resolution recently passed by his association, requesting the city authorities to establish a playground in the vicinity of Public School No. 1. The association will assist him.

LOSTTRAIN, WALKED 56 MILES Henry Wischausen, Independent, "Hoofs It" to Patchogue. Patchogue, L. June 26-Henry Wischausen, 64 years of age, walked from the Flatbush avenue station, Brooklyn, to Patchogue yesterday. Mr. Wischausen ig a pedestrian who performs long-distance feats for pleasure and training mostly, but yesterday his act was one of real necessity.

He missed the 7:30 train, and an idea struck him to "hike" it out, and he showed his independence of the ralroad by SO doing. Mr. Wischausen and his family had planned to make a few days visit to Otto Dederer, proprietor of the Smithport Hotel. He sent Mrs. Wischausen and his four daughters, the Misses Helen, Bertha, Anna and Julia ahead in the automobile.

He was to take the train at 7:30 a.11. When he missed the train, the veteran walker started out for Patchogue. He arrived at his destination at 10:30 p.m., covering a distance of 56 miles. DOSCHERN FINED. Well-Known Brooklyn Man Was Speeding on Merrick Road.

Lynbrook, June 26-Justice of the Peace Edward T. Neu yesterday, in the local court, fined William Doschern $25 for speeding in his automobile, $10 for not signaling when turn and suspended sentence for not having any tail lights on his machine. Doschern, whose father is a wealthy brewer at Bushwick avenue and Evergreen, was in his auto last Friday with James J. Haggerty, Brooklyn lawyer; Municipal Court Judge Foelker, Judge Walker, Excise Commissioner Regan and Otto Huber when he was arrested on the Merrick road, near Lynbrook for speeding. Doschern was represented yesterday by Lawyer Felix Reifschneider of Hempstead.

FOREST FIRES AT EAST END. Sag Harbor, L. June 26-Two disastrous fires in the woods east. of this village have burned over hundreds of acres of valuable timber, doing great damage. There has been no rain here for weeks and the woods are dry as tinder.

DECIDES FOR TWO SCHOOLS. Justice Crane Upholds Two Ronkonkoma Trustees--End Not Yet. Lake Ronkonkoma, L. June 26-Su preme Court Justice Frederick E. Cranehas granted a decision in the case of the injunction served upon Edward Parsons and Morris M.

by their fellow school trustee, Samuel M. Hawkins. The Injunction was served by Hawkins to prevent the sale of bonds to raise funds for two school buildings, the $12,000 appropriation being voted over a year Judge Crane's ruling was in favor of the two "regular" trustees, and with a few minor changes to the bonds on technical points, their sale was authorized. This, however, may not terminate the fight which has been on for a year. There is talk of holding another meeting and doing the whole thing over again.

Sentiment is swinging toward the "fighting trustee," and Samuel M. Hawkins may yet carry the day with one at Lake Grove instead of having two schools at different places in the district as voted last July." HAD THAW PAMPHLETS White Plains Prisoner Rearrested Too Quickly to Distribute Them. Revelation of a new side-light in the fight which Harry K. Thaw is making to escape from Matteawan was made yesterday in the arrest of a prisoner just released from the White Plains jail for arraignment in the Flushing police court. The man was brought over to Flushing by Detective George Byrnes of the Central Office, and when he reached there several hundred pamphlets, given to him by Thaw for distribution, were found on him.

These pamphlets are printed on a good, bond paper and bear the general heading, "Taken from District Attorney Jerome's speech jury, January 30, 1908. Verbatim copy." An excerpt follows in to, which reference is made to Stanford White, and in which Mr. Jerome asserts Thaw is not insane. A sub-heading comes next, "The following taken from Mr. Jerome's speech, White Plains, August 7, 1907." It has reference to the declaration of Mr.

Jerome and the court that Thaw is not a drinking man. Then, in big capitals, is the heading, "Justice Fitzgerald's commission," and its members are named with their dictum, "The said Harry K. Thaw is not insane." The pamphlet winds up with the question, this not fair?" The man who carried the pamphlets is John Callabelli, 17 years old, of 418 East Eighteenth street, Manhattan. He finished a four months sentence in the White Plains Jail yesterday for horse stealing. When he was released, Detectives Burns was waiting to arrest him on a charge of grand larceny preferred by Charle: McArdell of Broadway, Flushing, for the theft of a horse, valued at $250, on June 22, 1911.

Callabelli said that Thaw and he had been very friendly in the White Plains Jail of late and that when he was released Thaw asked him to distribute the pamphlets in Manhattan. He was given $5 for this, he said. Callabelli, however, was arraigned before Magistrate Miller, in the Flushing police court and was held in $1,500 bail for examination Friday on McArdell's charge, so the distribution of the Thaw pamphlets had been postponed. ONE YEAR FOR N. G.

CHECK. Hoffman's Story of Delayed $400 Check Doesn't Help. One year in the penitentiary was the sentence meted out in the Jamaica Court of Special Sessions yesterday to John G. Hoffman, 56 years old, of 321 Jefferson street, Brooklyn, who was charged by Carl Fischer, a Carona saloonkeeper, with passing him a check for $15 that was afterward found to be no good. Hoffman told the court a perfectly plausible story last Tuesday, when he said that he had received a check for $400 from a man named Morris Moskowitz of Maspeth, and had intended depositing it to his account in a Manhattan bank after he had given Fischer a check for $15.

The bank wanted Hoffman to have the $400 check certified, and in the meantime the $15 check, which Fischer had cashed for Hoffman, was returned as N. G. The check for $400 has disappeared now, and Hoffman was sent to the "pen" despite the fact that Magistrate Fitch, who was in the courtroom and who had held Hoffman for Special Sessions several weeks ago, admitted having seen the check in his court. STOLEN RIG RECOVERED. Jamaica Mounted Patrolman Arrests Possessor of Manhattan Outfit.

Mounted Patrolman James. J. Blake of the Jamaica precinct recovered a stolen horse and wagon and arrested possessor about 6 o'clock this morning on the Merrick road, near Pleasant avenue, Springfield. The prisoner, August Steiner, of 428 East Fourteenth street, Manhattan, was driving the rig leisurely along Merrick road when the mounted officer spied him. A general alarm had been sent out to the different precincts of the loss of the rig, and Officer Blake had his eyes and ears wide open.

The stolen wagon was the property of Giovanni Pauldaza of 432 East Fourteenth street, Manhattan, and the Fifteenth cinct was notified. JAMAICA'S FIRST APARTMENT. Ground Broken for Modern Structure on Shelton Avenue. Ground was broken yesterday for a first-class apartment house, a four-story structure, with apartments on both sides, on the north side of Shelton avenue, tween Bergen avenue and Grand street, Jamaica. The owner is Lawrence T.

Gresser, a Jamaica lawyer, son of former Borough President Gresser. The cost of construction is to be between $22,000 and $24,000, and the building will contain all modern improvements. It will be the first modern apartment house in Jamaica. Mr. Gresser says the apartments, which will be steam heated, will be rented for about $30.

"MOVIES" FOR JAMAICA HIGH. Through special permission granted by the Board of Education there will be held, tomorrow, High afternoon School at 2:45 auditorium, o'clock, an exhibit of the remarkable pictures of the Kinemacolor Company of America. The pictures include the pageant procession of the recent Indian durbar, the unveiling of the queen's memorial statue, the coronation of King George, the killing of a snake by water beetles, scenes in the Swiss Alps, Lapland and sunset on the Nile. The of pictures are for being the given benefit under of the auspices and General Organization of the school. AN AMAZONIAN FRACAS.

Julia Nablitchick, 19 years old, of 118 Rockaway road, Jamaica, during a hairpulling match and all-round scrap with Augusta Panza of Brown avenue, same place, last evening, sustained laceration of the scalp, and after being attended by an ambulance surgeon from St. Mary's Hospital, remained at home. Augusta was arrested, FROM QUEENS BOROUGH AND ALL LONG ISLAND TWO SONS CONTEST MONTEVERDE WILL Wealthy Maspeth Woman Left Money to Daughter-in-Law and Grandchildren. ONE CONTESTANT A "FLITTER" Wm. T.

Monteverde, Present Whereabouts Unknown, Is Seeking Health in Various Canadian Resorts, Interesting developments are expected in a contest which has been started to break the will of Mary V. Monteverde, late of Maspeth, the first hearing in which will be held before Surrogate Daniel Noble on July 9. An informal protest, written in a letter to the surrogate, was filed by William T. Monteverde, a son of the deceased, whose present whereabouts are unknown, and the other objectors who filed formal notices are Frank Monteverde, another son, of 87 Whitney avenue, Elmhurst, and Mary Adeline O'Crowley, a grandduaghter, of 344 Park avenue Roseville, N. alleging testamentary incapacity and undue influence.

The Monteverde family, well known in Queens County for years, conducted a large picnic park at Maspeth, and the estate is said to be a large one. William T. Monteverde, one of the protesting sons, who is a lawyer, dated his letter to the surrogate as "near the Province of New Brunswick, Canada." John P. Gering, the attorney for the other petitioners, informed the surrogate that it was impossible to serve citations upon William, who flits from one part of the country to the other "in quest of health," and who, according to the petitioners, "keeps himself concealed with intent to avoid service of citation." In his letter to the surrogate William T. Monteverde states that he protests informally against the probate of his mother's alleged will and desires the fact to appear as a matter of record.

He writes that he does not state the grounds of his objections for the reason that he has been an invalid for nearly eight years, suffering from a progressive and generally fatal disease, and has been living in health resorts almost continuously during that time, and is now located several hundred miles from the State of New York. He writes that he is in a weak and feeble condition and unable to make the journey to Jamaica and actively participate in the contest of the alleged will. According to the terms of the will, which bears date of July 25, 1911, and disposes of an estate valued at "over 000 in real estate and $6,000 in personal property." William T. Monteverde and Frank Monteverde, the sons, and Mary Adeline 0'Crowley, the granddaughter, get only $200 each. The residue of the property, both real and personal, is to be divided equally between the four grandchildren: Francis William Harry J.

and Mollie Valeria Monteverde, and the testatrix's beloved doughter-inlaw, Mary E. Monteverde, who is made sole executrix. OBITUARY Frances V. Weeks. Patchogue, L.

June 26-The funeral of Frances V. Weeks, the infant daughtor of Mr. and Mrs. Olan Weeks, was held yesterday from the home of the parents. The Rev.

Ira W. Henderson officiated; interment in Lake Grove Cemetery. Alise Applegarth. Patchogue, L. June 26-Alise Applegarth, the infant daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. A. Rufus Applegarth, died at her parents' home, on Jayne avenue, yesterday. The Rev. Louis H.

Johnston will officiate, with interment in Cedar Grove Cemetery, at a time to be later named. Lyman M. Bennett. Easthampton, L. June 26-The funeral of Lyman M.

Bennett was attended yesterday from his home. He died on on Sunday aged 73 years. Rosalind M. Tillinghast. Sag Harbor, L.

June 26-The funeral of Rosalind M. Tillinghast, wife of Dr. C. H. Tillinghast, was held yesterday afternoon from her late residence, the Rev.

W. E. Edds, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Mrs. Tillinghast had been ill for many months suffering from an incurable disease.

She is survived by her husband and an 8-year old daughter. The burial was at Oakland Cemetery. ELMONT MAN HRT. George Graser, 28 years old, of Elmont, a passenger on a Myrtle avenue trolley car, accidentally fell from an open car east of the Long Island Railroad bridge, Glendale, last evening, while attempting to pull down a curtain to better protect himself and fellow passengers from the driving rain. Graser sustained an abrasion of the face and concussion of the brain.

He was removed to St. Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, in a serious condition. NEGRO'S WILL CONTESTED. Van Wyckie Heirs Object to $3,500 Bequest to Church. Objections to the probate of the will of John H.

Van Wyckie, a negro veteran of the civil war, late of Jamaica, were filed yesterday with Surrogate Noble of Queens County, at Jamaica. The objector, Mary Brooks, one of the heirs and next of kin, contests the validity Gl the disposition of the real and personal estate of the deceased, which is valued at $2,500 in real and $1,000 in personal property. One of the bequests to which objection is made is that $2,650 worth of real state to the Allen A. M. E.

Church in Washington street, Jamaica. The bequest to the church, the petitioner states, is invadid, because the will was not executed a sufficient time prior to the decedent's death, as required by statute, and because the devisee is not a corporate body or legal person capable of taking property and not authorized by law to take by devise. Besides the church bequest, the testator left realty worth $997 to his granddaughter, Effe Treadwell, and $5 to his daughter, Jennie Johnson, having given daughter property during his lifetime. John T. Jackson and Blanche Simmons are executors.

FLUSHING OWNERS KICK Mr. Jones and Others Object to Taking Land for Waterway Improvements. Daniel S. Jones, who several acres on the east side of Flushing Creek, made a strong protest before Dock Commissioner Calvin Tomkins yesterday afterLoon, in Manhattan, against the proposed taking away of his bulkhead and those of A. M.

Ryon Concrete Products Company, C. W. Copp and John Howland, in the proposed widening of that waterway. The above-named properties include the greater part of the lumber and coal yards and public docks that serve the village of Flushing. A number of large property owners were present at the hearing to discuss the proposed plan for the widening of Flushing Creek to 350 feet, instead of the 200 feet, as approved by the United States War Department engineers and the Secretary of War, in laying out a bulkhead line.

The 350-foot plan is one suggested by the Queens Chamber of Commerce, Secretary Walter I. Willis of that Board appearing in its advocacy. The widening scheme has the approval of all property owners" present, and of Commissioner Tomkins, who said that the future commerce of that creek, which is the opening portal of the proposed canal to connect Flushing and Jamaica would be very great. There was, however, a warm dispute as to whether the land to be taken for the widening of the present creek should come from the east side or the west side of the waterway. Commissioner T'omkins said that although the city would recommend the change of the bulkhead line to the United States Harbor Line Board, and would recommend to the Government the pushing of the dredging operations, yet it would not pay any large sum for right of way.

He advised the different interests involved to get together and arrange a plan under which the necessary land would be given to the city, adn report to him at an early date. All disputants agreed to follow the Commissioner's suggestion. TEARS KEEP 'EM ALIVE. Eyes of Spuds Weep for Rain and Moisture Saves Lives. Riverhead, L.

June 26-Eastern Long Island crops that have been suffering for a drink for several weeks and which were willing to pay Baltimore prices for liquid refreshment, enjoyed a five minute shower last night. This was good while it lasted, but didn't last long enough by twenty-three hours and fiftyfive minutes, say some of the agriculturists. One amateur gardener says he knows that his potato crop has been saved from complete destruction by moisture supplied by the tears of the spuds in the hills. "You see," said he, "my potatoes have an unusual number of eyes, and they have cried so hard for a drink that the tears have provided water enough to keep them alive." KNOCKED FROM HIS COOP. Lynbrook, L.

June 26-Passengers waiting for a train at the Lynbrook station were surprised yesterday morning to see the gate tender shoot out from his where he regulates the raising and coop lowering of gates for L. I. R. R. trains like from a catapult.

The gate attendant is Norman Jackson, and he was turning the crank that shuts the gate between the east and west bound trains, when the chain broke and the handle struck his face knocking him from his seat out of the little coop. The force of the blow of the crank handle against Jackson's face was hard enough to break two solid teeth in half. The teeth were hard and were in the center of the upper jaw. DRUGGIST ON TRIAL ON OLD INDICTMENT Astoria Man Charged With Causing Death of Mrs. Droege Four Years Ago.

DEFENSE ACCUSES HER SON. It Is Alleged That Jurgensen Gave Oxalic Acid in Mistake for Carlsbad Salts. With a plainly drawn inference Mrs. Matilda Droege might have taken oxalic acid placed within reach by her son, Lawyer John B. Merrill began yesterday his defense of Hans Jurgensen, the Astoria druggist.

Jurgensen was placed on trial for manslaughter in the second degree, charged with carelessly and negligently giving the poison to the woman's daughter, who asked for Carlsbad salts and received a package 80 labelled. Mrs. Droege, who 637 Seventh avenue, Astoria, swallowed part of the contents and died soon after. Her death occurred February 10, 1908, and Jurgensen was indicted several weeks later. Mrs.

Droege's daughter, who made the purchase at the time the druggist, as alleged, made the mistake, when she was 14 years of age, was the State's principal witness. She is Mrs. Erna Zertsheimer now and lives with her husband in Astoria. The young woman wept when Prosecutor Frank Adel held up the fatal package that was labelled salts and contained poison. She identified it and the spoon her mother used.

The spoon, partly corroded by the acid, was shown to the jurors. On cross-examination Mrs. Zertsheimer was asked by Lawyer Merrill whether her brother, August, had quarrelled often and in earnest with their mother. The witness denied it and statements which quoted her as saying so. Later on, when August Droege took the stand, he was asked whether he had told some of his relatives and friends that he intended to kill his mother.

August very promptly and emphatically denied it, and when asked whether a woman relative had disarmed him of a revolver, he explained that she had asked him to loan her a revolver and that he had done so. Mr. Merrill also went into the question of Mrs. Droege's personal estate, which provided a fairly comfortable income and ran against the fact that August had a considerable bank account of his own. The young man had been warned as to the line of cross -examination, and came with a statement from the bank, prepared to answer all questions.

Some interesting testimony was given by Dr. Walter E. Fry, the coroner's physician, who performed the autopsy and made chemical tests of part of the contents of package and of the jar that stood on the shelves in Jurgensen's store. The Jars were correctly labelled. One containing 'oxalic and another with Carlsbad salts in it looked alike, and the contents were similar in appearance, so that one might easily be mistaken for the other without reasonable care and precaution.

The case was continued. FARE HEARING SATURDAY. Mr. Ankers of Rockville Centre Fights Traction Company. Rockville Centre, L.

June 26-Many taxpayers of this village will be present at the Mineola Courthouse next Saturday morning when Lawyer Elvin N. Edwards of Freeport will present the case of Clarence R. Ankers, president of the Rockville Centre Business Men's Association against the New York and Long Island Traction Company before Public Service Commissioner Decker. The complaint against the Traction Company by Mr. Ankers, which was brought behalf of the people of Rockville Centre, 19 looking for a reduction of the fare rate between Rockville Centre and Valley Stream.

The question involves the right of the N. Y. and L. Traction Company to charge 10 cents for carrying passengers westward from this village to Valley Stream, when the franchise granted the road provides that it shall charge but 5 cents for five miles. COMMISSION NAMED.

Sayville, L. June 26-By order of County Judge Timothy M. Griffing, Distriet Attorney Ralph C. Greene, Supervisor C. Milton Rogers and Francis Hoag, all of Sayville, have been appointed a commission to take testimony and assess damages in the matter the application of Daniel R.

Davis to open and lay out a highway in Brookhaven Township, commencing at the intersection of the Patchogue-Port Jefferson Road and the Yaphank Road and extending north for a distance of 570.4 feet to the middle country road passing through the lands of J. Grant Smith. John R. Vunk of Patchogue is attorney for the applicant. WHAT OTHERS SAY Reward--The Review will give 8 six months' subscription to the Review to first person presenting at this office the up-to-date trolley timetable, allowand three weeks from this date in which ing to the trolley company for same to apply by mail County Review.

three Democrats in Suffolk There are who are being mentioned for the County for County Judge: John R. nomination Vunk of Patchogue, Rowland Miles of and Samuel Hildreth of Northport, Any one of these men will Amityville. A formidable candidate against H. Furman, should be receive the George nomination of the Republican party.Port Jefferson Times. We could benefit our village very mAterially by building a suitable boardwalk at the beach.

Our waters are unpolluted; the incline of the beach is gradual and therefore not dangerous. In fact, nature has endowed this village with perfect conditions for bathing. We ought to have suitable bathhouses and a clean beach, and proper conditions which would entice summer boarders to come here and spend their Jefferson Times. "Chub" Gildersleeve, the greatest rival Edison has in Mattituck, has his wireless station so enlarged that last week gave 115 a report from the Republican Committee before the arrival of the papers on the "early" paper train. A while ago he was bothered by the dogs, nosing on his piazza, so placed a battery out there, and when the animals got their noses on it he turned on the current, and one dose was enough to satisfy all the canines' curiosity-Greenport Watchman.

Undoubtedly, the long-talked-about and probably -to-be-realized project of constructing a terminal on Newtown Graduation Exercises In Long Island Schools Freeport Sends Out Largest Class in History of School. Appropriate Exercises at All the Institutions. (Special to The Eagle.) Freeport, L. June 26-The largest in the history of the school received their diplomas at the commencement exercises of the Freeport High School last evening at the Colonial Theater. Appropriate exercises made the one to be long remembered.

The exercises opened with an orchestra selection by the school orchestra, under Miss Knight's direction. The Rev. W. A. Richard followed with invocation.

H. Bond Raymore gave the salutatory address. Miss Martha Gebhardt, a teacher, rendered a vocal solo, "Across the Dee." Peter S. Beck was valedictorian, and his remarks were appropriate and well placed. Samuel R.

Smith, president of the board, made the presentation of diplomas. Hiram R. Smith awarded the scholarship prizes, after which Samuel R. Smith presented the successful graduate with the spelling prize. The Rev.

August C. Karkau gave the benediction. The graduates are. Howard Aldridge, Peter Beck, Henry Kreuzweiser, Barrington Miller, Walter Morse, Raymond Post, Bond Raymore, Clifford Teeple, Le Roy Wells, Platt Wiggins, Lee Schloss, Harold Humphrey, James Roantree, Daisy Boynton, Susie George, Leonora King, Blanche Lynch, Mary Norton, Astrid NyMabel Runcie, Stretea, gren, Beatrice Vail, Emily Werner, Louise Yeager, Florence Brown, Alice Harrison, Marion Bedell, Ruth Jenkins, Elenor Trayer and Adlade Provoost. The officers of the class are: Howard R.

Aldridge, president; Miss Emily vice president; Clifford A. Werner, Teeple, secretary, and Henry Kreuzweiser, treasurer. Exercises at Lynbrook. L. June 26-The class of Lynbrook, the Lynbrook High School held its 1912 of commencement exercises in the auditorium last night.

The programme of exercises was as follows: Piano duet, Miss Ethel Purdy Miss Myrtle Lane; president's adand dress, "The Initiative, Referendum and Recall," Richard Lorimer Johnstone; recitation, "Two Queens," Miss Irene Cecilia Tully; chorus, "'The Song of the Old Bell," High School; "The Peace Movement," Arthur Mulford Doxsey; "The Dickens Centennial," Miss Clarice Estelle Waldron; "Socialism," Frank Sherwood Wedlake; chorus, "When the Lights Are Low," High School; "Slang," Miss Marion Agatha Tobey; Valedictory, "Man-a Verb," Miss Elsie Marie Kurtz; quartet, "'Wanderer's Evening Song" and "The Red Sun Is address, Frederick C. Hicks; presentation of diplomas by James Dayton of the Board of Education. The singing of the 1912 class song, composed by Marion A. Tobey concluded exercises. class roll was as follows: Richard Lorimer Johnston, president; Miss Elsie Marie Kurtz, secretary; Miss Irene Cecilia Tully, Miss Marion Agatha Tobey, Arthur Mulford Doxsey, Miss Clarice Estelle Waldron and Frank Sherwood Wedlake.

Glen Cove, L. June 26-The annual commencement exercises of Glen Cove High School took place last night in the assembly room. Thirteen graduates received their diplomas. The exercises included various topics relating to "An Evening With China," and were: 3-part song, Girls Glee Club; class presentation, Superintendent A. T.

Bouck: essay, with salutatory, "Religion of China," Mary Germain; essay, "Education. Literature and Language of China," Mary McGough; oration, "China's Resources," Donald 'Mackenzie; vocal solo, Marion Hausman; class history, Bertha Whiting; essay, I "People of China." Genevieve Cocks; say, "Customs and Habits in China," Pearl Proctor; 3-part song, Misses Cunningham, J. Dalton, Hausman, Hansen and W. Dalton; oration, "China's Industries," Samuel Levi; essay, "'Government of China," Edna Markle; oration, "The Revolution in China," Hyman Nosovitz; Anna Mahon; essay, "China's Opium piano solo. Lulu Hansen; class prophecy, Curse," Blanche Proctor; oration, in America," John J.

Dunn; essay with valedictory, "The Country Itself." Hannah Germelsbacker; 3-part song, Girls Glee awarding of diplomas, Edward J. Deasy, president of Board of Education. The final number was the presentation of the Sherwood prizes, offered each year to class leaders, by Mrs. J. K.

O. Sherwood of the summer colony. The Sherwood gold medal was won by Miss Hannah Germelsbacker, the valedictorian of the senior class. The other prize winners were Frieda Bernstein, Irene Hathaway, Florence Germelsbacker, Walter Seaman, Patrick Doran, Marie Germaine, Eleanor Sayre, Bertha Fadrowsky, Tessie Schaeffer, Edward O'Donnell, Lydia Cocks, William Grimn, Hilda Bailey, Edmond Davis, Estelle Robbins, Ethel BODY FOUND AT ROCKAWAY. Unknown Woman on Sand Bar Off Simis Beach.

The body of unknown woman, apparabout 55 years of age, was found on ently sandbar one mile off Simis beach, 2 near Far Rockaway, at 1 o'clock yesterafternoon, by Frank Linz of 158 West day Sixty-third street, and Henry Rohter of 58 West Seventy-second street, Manhattan. The men were out bathing and boating and were in Deb's inlet when they the body. They notified the Far saw Rockaway police and Captain Walden and Lieutenant Wheelwright recovered the body. The description the police have sent out is that the woman was 5 feet 3 inches in height, weighed about 125 pounds, has a wealth of heavy gray hair. She wore a white lace waist of good quality, 3 black serge skirt, black silk belt, black hosiery and black buttoned shoes, that on the soles at the toe had neat patches.

Both the face and hands of the woman were badly bruised and discolored which condition could have been brought about by the body striking against the driftwood in the water. There were no marks on the body, which was in good condition and was not rigid as most drowning cases are. The police of the entire city are endeavoring to ascertain the identity of the woman and the causes leading to her death. LIGHTING WESTHAMPTON. (Special to The Eagle.) June 26-The Second District Albany, Service Commission this week lisPublic Robert P.

Griffin and tened to Attorneys the application of the T. A. Leary, upon Light, Heat and Power ComSuffolk, for permission to purchase part pany the franchise and system of the Rivof in the town of erhead Electric Company, Southampton, Suffolk County, Suffolk for $22,000. They stated that the Company desired to purchase this property so that it could use the transmission lines of the Riverhead Company and economically supply the Westhampton Beach district. William A.

Sheehan, an electrical entestified in reference to the congineer, struction in this territory. The Commission reserved decision on the application. Mackenzie, Jean Fyte, Max. Nosovitz, Frances Proctor, Ruth Levine, David Cohen, Alexander Johnston, Anna HornPauline Josephine Fadrowsky, Stefano, John James Matthews, Matthews, Annie Vix, Catherine Kennedy, Vera Lamb, Mollie Caggiano. Mrs.

William Dester, president of the Sherwood Gold Medal Club, spoke during the evening. The high school graduates were: Hannah C. Germelsbacker, Mary E. Germain, Genevieve Cocks, Mary Margaret McGough, Edna P. Markel, Pearl E.

Proctor, Blanche J. Proctor, Bertha M. Whiting, Anna Hackett Mahon, Hyman, Nosovitz, Donald A. Mackenzie, John Jerome Dunn, Samuel B. Levi.

Huntington, L. June 26 Close to 500 people attended the graduation exercises in the big assembly hall at the Huntington High School last night, when a class of sixteen students were handed their diplomas following an entertaining programme. The members of the graduating class are: Juliet Brush Baylis, Anna Loretta Cushman, August Henry Galow, Edith Smith Hubbs, Sarah Louise Hunt, Miriam Kortright, Aimee Phoebe Sammis, Frances Augusta Wilson, Nathalie Elizabetn Brown, Florence Pearl Galliene, Mary Elizabeth Gildersleeve, Lorenzo Frederick Hagglund, Emma Montgomery Lawrence, Ethel Taft Ott and Emma Estelle Wood. The following members of the class took part in the entertainment: Salutatory address and essay, "The George Junior Repulic," Frances Augusta Wilson; Miriam Kortright, essay, "Dr. and Pure Lorenzo Frederick Hagglund, essay, "Farming in Emma Montgomery Lawrence, essay, "'The Ethel Taft Ott, essay, "The District Henry August Galow, "Our Need for a Larger Juliet Brush Baylis, valedictory address and essay, "'The Juvenile Court." The diplomas were presented by Superintendent Robert K.

Toaz; the Very Rev. Dean York pronounced the invocation and the benediction. The Daughters of the American Revolution historical prize for the best essay from the girls of the eighth grade was awarded during exercises to Irene Bosch; the second prize went to Eliza Kouwenhoven. Russell W. Sammis received the first prize for an essay given by the Sons of the American Revolution for the best essay from the boys of the eighth grade; William H.

Blume received the second prize. Frances W. A. Wilson received the Emma Downs Carter memorial prize for the best scholarship record for three year. The commencement exercises of the Great Neck High School were held last in the assembly hall of the evening school.

W. Bourke Cockran delivered the the graduating class. An inaddress to teresting programme. was rendered during the evening. Following the exercises there was a dance.

The graduates were Desiree Guthell, Isabelle Wheeler, Walter Dennelly and Charles Uhl. Miss Ethel M. Gilliar received the Bonheur Medal for excellence in first-year French. Eight Graduates at Sea Cliff. Sea Cliff, L.

June 26 The commencement exercises of the class of 1913 of Sea Cliff High School were held last night. There were eight graduates, the largest class yet graduated, they included Elias Raff, president; Sara A. Bouton, vice president; Stanley J. Donaldson, secretary; Marcia M. Parliman, treasurer; Carol Maidment, Chauncey W.

Mathews, Valentin Bauer and George R. Duryea. The exercises included in addition to orchestra selections, invocation, the Rev. L. K.

Moore; salutatory, Elles Raff; class history, Carol Maidment; oretion, "'The Advance of China," Chauncey Mathews: vocal duet, Miss Mabelle F. Utter and Walter Williams; class poem, Valentin Bauer; class prophecy, Marcia M. Parliman; oration, "The Negro and the South," Elias Raff; violin solo, Harry Eschwei; class will, Stanley Donaldson; essay, with valedictory, "What is the Sara Bouton; presentation of class, PrinAdvantage of a High School Education, cipal F. E. De Gelleke; awarding of diplomas, the Rev.

W. R. Watson, Lynbrook, L. June 26-Commencement exercises of the Lynbrook Grammar School were held at Lyceum Hall, Monday evening. An excellent programme was given by scholars and graduates and there was a large attendance of parents.

The graduates are: Lillian Abrams, Charles Armen, Valentine Becker, Estelle Brower, Alfred Cable, Ramee Carter, Mary Charde, Josephine Coogan, Eugene Dahlbender, Emma Davidoff, May Detlof, Claudida De Vinny, John Doherty, Reginald Eyre, Minnie Gieseking, Sarah Groth, Helen mann, Alice Heinau, Leonora Howard, Harold Huggard, Eleanor Hitcheson, Charles Ineson, Marie Johnson, Hazel Lacy, Le Roy Lake, Elsie Langdon, Henrietta Lee, Isabel Levy, Doris ockwood, Esther Adolph Meyer, John Muller, Irene Paquet, Marie Perzel, Elizabeth Rabe, James Ronalds, Anna Sauer, Edward Schmidt, Eleanor Smith, eRoy Stafford, Frances Steers, Gilbert Wilkin, Marjorie Willard, Adeline Winters, Edith Wolff, William Woolsey. Lawrence, L. June 26-The commencement week exercises of the Lawrence High School, which started Saturday night, will come to a close tonight when the senior class reception will be held in Firemen's Hail. At the fifteenth annual commencement of Public School No. 4, held last night, Rev.

H. B. Munson of Brooklyn was the principal speaker. PATCHOGUE GETS HONORS Interscholastic League Pennant and Relay Cup Protests Settled Yesterday. Creek in Maspeth will open a new era for this section of the Second Ward.

It is proposed to construct a large basin aud provide ample facilities for pandling and storing freight of all description at a greatly reduced cost. When this improvement has been completed the Second Wire will have duplicate cf the Bush Terminal in Brooklyn- Newtown Register. I stood with an old-time Huntingtonian watching the workmen put on the metal ceiling at the new fire headquarters, and among other things he said: "When I was a boy they used to hew timber by hand, and lath in the same manner. In building a house the beams were mortised together and fastened with handmade locust pins, but nowadays all that is needed for a building is a couple of bundles of shingle lath, some decorated tin and a pound of Islander. Many unusual things happen in Riverhead, the county seat.

The latest 1 is a man named Pigot, who recently bought a small farm near the village. He gave a free lecture in a hall Monday night and proceeded to condemn the town, its people and conditions there existing. He went SO far as to call Riverhead "the worst town in the country; managed by a gang of sneak thieves and There's no doubt some country villages need prodding from time to time. but it strikes us the passionate Mr. Pigot is pursuing, the wrong Argus.

To a fellow up a tree it would seem that the Connecticut oyster trust which now monopolize the waters of the township of Oyster Bay will soon be told that its presence is no longer desirable and that after due time is given it, to remove the oysters which it has planted without warrant of law, the waters of that township will be reserved to the inhabitants of the town "to fish, fowl and hawk" as guaranteed to them by the old Colonial charters. The people nowadays are becoming more and more jealous of their rights and the trusts more and more unpopular. Edward Romeyn Summers says that the oyster trust must go and that the people will again come in to their Republican. The publication of the article by a Flushing paper that G. Howland Leavitt, superintendent of highways, was considering the proposition of being a candidate for Borough President, fell far short of its purpose, which seemed to break up the cordial relations which exist between Borough President Connolly and Mr.

Leavitt. Both men are working together for the best interest of the borough, and Mr. Leavitt's prompt and vere arraignment of those who thus put him in a false light had a good effect. President Connolly also was wise enough not to fall into the trap set for him, and he did not let the incident even ripple the surface of the relations that exist between him and Mr. Leavitt.Newtown Register.

According to authentic information, it is now intended to build the proposed Grand Central Boulevard from Brooklyn, eastward as far as Riverhead, there branching off, and continuing to Montauk. It was the original intention to continue the boulevard also along the North Shore of the Island fro mRiverhead to Greenport, thence across Shelter Island to the South Side. It seems to all motorists who travel over the Island rather extensively that one of the prettiest parts of the journey is to be obliterated by this recent decision. Greenport should protest. A representative number of our citizens should get together immediately and talk the matter over with the committee in charge of the work, and see if the original plan cannot be -Greenport Times.

Riverhead, L. June 26-It was not until yesterday that the matter of the high school pennant won by Riverhead and protested by other villages because of the age of one of Riverhead's contestants, wag finally settled. It goes to Patchogue now; so, too, does the relay cup, also won by Riverhead. At the end of the field day athletic games it was found that Riverhead had 55 points and Patchogue 53. Later it was discovered that Harrison Tyte of Roverhead was 21 years old when he competed.

As no protest was made on the day of the meet some of the local athletes said they had a perfect right to keep the pennant and cup on a technicality. Principal Robinson would not acquiesce in such a proceeding and arranged to have a committee arbitrate the matter. This committee, composed of Lester Penny, Patchogue; Ray Heaney, Greenpoint; Ralph Enstine, Southampton, and Victor Busch, Riverhead, met here yesterday. It was decided that Riverhead might have kept the pennant on the technicality, but as Riverhead was willing, on moral grounds, to relinquish it, it was decided that both big prizes belonged to Patchogue, and thither they have gone. It was decided eliminate all of the points made by Tyte, All third medals are cancelled and one gold medal reverts to the league.

The money realized from the sale of of this replacing will go the toward defraying the cost relay which had already been engraved 05 cup, belonging to Riverhead. Those Riverhead boys, aside from Tyte, who participated in the relay race, are permitted tel keep their medals. Tyte, the cause of the disturbance schoolboy athletics, has handed the following statement to the press: "I am not entitled to the medals awarded me at the last S. C. I.

L. in Riverhead. The medals having alread; been engraved I cannot return them, bu take opportunity to pay into the hand of the president of the association at amount equivalent to the cost of the same, that they may be duplicated ani given to those entitled to, them. "HARRISON TYTE".