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THE BROOKLYN DAUT EACTn. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. JUNE 28. 1017 L.I.R.R. PAYS Catcher Gets Lent's Dog RENT; CALLS IT CHEAP And Gosh! Isn't Lent Mad Now! DOCTOR ENLISTS; iPrincipal Smith Retires at 7 1 AUTO DIVES IN POND; WIFE TO BE NURSE Still Full of He Declares! 3 KIDDIES SAVED 1 he has been in Queens Counl of which h- spent in Isi the silent, faithful guard) suburban home.

Despite tl 'Special to The Eagle.) Frecport, L. June IH-Edward B. Lent had a dog. He has no dog now. The dogcatcher got the animal.

Here Children Were Imprisoned Under -Top-Passerby to Rescue at Rosedale. Pennsylvania R. R. Man Say; Fair Charge Would Wreck Smaller Line. Dr.

Wood of Oyster Bay Has Been Appointed Naval Surgeon. the remaining twenty-s Cyrus E. Smith. former pupils are preparing to give him a banquet. Mr.

Smith says that there are now In his Woodhaven school sons and daughters of children he taught in the same institution years ago, and some fthe present teachers in his school were pupils there in their younger erine Sattler. Thero will be two flower girls, the Misses Georgia and Cornelia Mackenzie, sisters of the bride. E. Denman McNear, a brother of the bridegroom, will be best man and the ushers will bo Joseph C. J.

Strahn, Walte D. Distle, W. Roy Manny and Guoge P. Kittredge. Tho brido is a member of the Junior League and has taken an activee part in the social lifef of the Centre Island colony.

She has just completed a course in nursing at tho Presbyterian Hospital. Mr. McNear, who is a graduate of Cornell class of '13, has enlisted in the Engineering Corps and expects to sail for France shortly. The announcement of the engagement was made two weeks at a dinner given hv the bride's parents at the ka-Corinthian Yacht Clul tendent of nine schools In Woodhaven, and at the time of consolidation ht was made principal of No. 58.

He quits this Friday, at the close of the school term, and the teachers and MRS. WOOD Of HOSPITAL OMR Dr. R. r. QWMM Is Another Phjsl-dan of Village to Enter the Service.

Two of Oyster Bay's physicians have volunteered for war service and have been accepted. One is Dr. Rupert C. Gibbons, who has been In the town for four years. His office Is on South street.

Dr. Gibbons will serve In the military branch of war work, and expects to close ud his office In Oyster Bay very soon. He is unmar- The other medica a from Oyst Bay Deen appointed as a naval surgeon Is Dr. Archibald O. M.

Wood, for three years associated in practice with Dr. James R. Hall, one of the old-time medical men in the town. Dr. Wood a native Brooklynite, having been In the old Twenty-sixth Ward.

He has seen hospital service In the Long Island College Hospital, St. Hospital, the M. E. HOSDltal. the Kingston Avenue Hospital, and in addition was for two years the assist- pi int.

adent of the Willard Parker Hospital. Ssrah Phebe Sprague of Rockaway Beach, will go to the front, probably as a hospital of the Long Island College Hospital, and she will go with one of the base hospitals. It Is understood that she is to be a member of the base hos- ital unit formed by Dr. P.rlnsmade. hlch is largely made up of Brooklyn physicians and Brooklyn trained Brinsmade's unit Is not known, but Mrs.

Wood has been accepted as one he will close his home Kelloar street. Ovster Bav. cm Sat urday. He expects to be in service NO ONE SERIOUSLY HURT. etcr Rudolph of Jamaica Climbs Into the Submerged Car to Get Youngsters Out.

Peter Rudolph, an auto dealer of 324 Fulton street, Jamaica, last night saved the lives of three children held under water by the top of an automobile which had plunged with them into one of the dangerous Twin Ponda at Rosedale. The other occupanta of the 1 had Utile left isible was the top of the machine that had stuck like a submarine trying to submerge in shallow water. Rudolph sprang out of his car, jumped from the bank of the pond to tho top of the sunken car, lowered himself under it and fished out a three-months-old baby boy. a 3-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, making a trip to shore with each one. All of them were quickly resuscitated and the whole party left for Manhattan In another car.

None of the names of the rescued persons could be learned today. It is known, however, that the sunken car is owned by KalCOla Smith of and was driven of Last Seventy-third street, Manhattan. It contained two men, three women and five children, and was east on the mad when collided with a machine own, .1 by Milton Sandman of I I 'acilie street, iirooklvn. Pallo lost control after the collision and the big car crashed through the fence and dived for tho bottom of the pond. Mrs.

Black Yes, our telephone Is out of order and I wanted to Invite soino lriends to bridge night. Judge. feel a The. reason in the world retire, except that my age limit has been reached, and, according to the rules, I must automatically step out. I have still, as they say nowadays, plenty of and I fel as though I could do another twenty years as a school principal without anv exertion." Thus spoke Cyrus Eliphalet Smith, principal of Public School No.

68, Graf tun and Walker avenues, Wood-haven, yesterday, when seen by an Eagle reporter. Phincipal Smith has ben 52 years in the school service in New York State, and he doesn't look a day over 08, although he is more spry than some even at that age. "I don't know how many thousands of children have been under by tutelage during the paEt fifty-two years, and have gone out Into the work-a-day world are alive today," Mr. Smith said, "mut I'll wager that they are scattered all over the globe and that 1MrSmltrinwa8abiorrirat1Islip, L. I His father, Isaac Smith, who was familiarly known as Captain Ike, and who at one time sailed up and down the Atlantic coast, and who later was in the business of salting down fish, died in 1908, at the gool old age of 89 years and seven months.

Principal Smith's mother, known as Aunt Nancy, still lives at the old Smith homestead on Merrick road, Islip. She is 94. and sha still reads the news papers without th aid of glasses. school in different parts of Suffolk County. Then, for seven years he taught at Pledmcnt-on-the-Hudson, in Rockland County.

For twenty-nine MISS MACKENSIE WEDS (Special to The Eagle.) OyBter Bay, L. June 28 The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Graham Mackenzie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Georgo Clinton Mackenzie of Centre Island, and George P. McNear son of Mr.

and Mrs. Georgo P. McNear of Petuluma, California, takes place this afternoon at Calvary Church, Manhattan, the ceremony being performed by Bishop Lloyd. Miss Frances R. Mackenzie, a sister of the bride, will be her maid of honor and the four bridesmaids will be the Misses Harriet Mclsim, Church, M(ry Kittredge of 4 Although I a The Triumphal March 13 MkliMMM eight burglar years I have lived in this h( le homes of the following, air ithln a stone's throw of mine, 1 een broken into and robbed: ayview avenue: $1,000 in wedding "2 Edward Miller $200 In all- "2 A.

L. Clark. South Bayview ave lie. corner of Rose street. "4 T.

J. Powell, Bayview avenu rner of Rose street. "5 L. H. Vogel, Bayview avenu 6' Clarence MacCullom, Ros "Wher pollc.

able glare, with what sense can the lawmakers single out the home watchdog for oppression? The fanatics who are against the home watchdog do not realize its worth. "You have only just taken office. I ask that you use your best efforts tn maintain the home watchdog in decent standing in the eyes of legisla- tiot regard dogs as we do, who prey of city burglars, with demand a law compelling village people to keep watchdogs and to keep them unmuzzled and hungry. "I respectfully ask that you do what you can to prevent legislation against dogs. The record shows we can't catch burglars.

Then let us be gentle with dogs, which help to scare off burglars. "Yours very truly, "EDWARD B. LENT." GEN. BELL REVIEWS FIRST H.Y. ENGINEERS American Soldier Doesn't Have to Stoop to Petty Things, He Says.

Afforded an opportunity to witness for perhaps tho last time before their departure for Franco the members of the First New York Engineers going through military maneuvers, a number of their wives, ulsters and sweet- yesterday came to tho parade grounds at Fort Totten yesterday. The Engineers, together with a regiment or the Coast Artillery from the companies at Fort Totten and Fort Schuy ler, were reviewed by Major General J. Franklin Bell, commanding the Department of the East. Colonel William G. Haan, mandant of Fort Totten, Issued vltatlon to the public to witness the drilling, and when the boys appeared on tho parade grounds, hundreds of men, women and children were lined That tin-- engineers are to leave for France was Indicated in a Bpeech ished the soldiers against committlni any depredations, "no matter wha you might exbect of others." "You commanding officer has asked Major Bell, "in a short time the most of you will be in Europe, and probably bye-and-byo all of you.

You must every one of you remember that each soldier will be the representative of this country while over there. Do not base your standard of obllga- ers, for remember that you should conduct yourself in a matter fitting the representatives of such a great and "The American soldier Is liberally petty things. I am sure that no respecting, upright, honest and sc pulous man would descend to Hi things like even asking for small fruit that you may come across. That would be looked upon as an act discreditable to you. Pay for everything you get and In your attitude to the French be as generous as you can.

"Remember your country has not experienced the trials In this war that she has, and on several occasions In the making of your own history remember how erallantlv she had aldfid us. It would bo unnatural if some of you do not at times think that you are called upon to do more than your share. If vou see them not working your side it would he unnatural for you not to think of it, but remember now long tne rencn people nave been bearing the burden in your interests. The French and English have been fighting for you and for every demo- URGE MEN TO ENLIST mass meeting will be held by the eens County War Aid Society at the Queens County Courthouse In Long Island City on Saturday evening in order to encourage enlistment In the Army and Navy. Before the meeting there Is to be an automobile parade, starting from the 8oldler'a Monument, Hillside and Bergen ave- Jamalca.

This parade will be divided into two divisions, one to pass through Jamaica, Richmond Hill, second division will pass through Flushing, Gorona, Klmnurst and towns on the North Shore. Both di- MJ- I iT- 4wWt is what Mr. Lent wrote last night MMf Swezey, president of the. "Mr. Sidney H.

Swezey, President of th. Village of treeport. Dear Mr. Swezey The efficient col ored man who is the village dog. catcher, got our dog this morning.

I ivr n. v. been aide to learn, through the efficient Police Department, who got uur chickens. In three install-in. nta thy were taken, last winter- twenty of them, plump Plymouth Hocks, fattened on scratch feed at $3.70 the bag and worth $30 at prices which prevailed in the status quo ante.

traded neighbor, Mrs. McNaughton, Saturday night, was nnppeo uy nnrgiara or weauing pres-ents mostlv silver valued at 1500. They did not keep a dog. Thero was no dog in my hen coop when it was i i i keep the dog In the house. Wc run small chance of being robbed If we can get the dog back from the colored man, who wan cmally dragging it by a rope along "Th iplU of the law against dog, I think, would soon abate if burglars were allowed to riot here in the ab-sence of dugs.

Mr. Kellum. who re cently took the dog census, told me 22 dogs in a block in one hour's time, at 1M) cents each. With facility from experience, I suppose, any dog-census taker might double that revenue. The $xs half goes to the assessors, who sub-let the I do not know what burglar got that law through.

"I invite your attention to the Irony cast by this state of facts on the good Long Island Weddings BERTRAM MASEL. Huntington, L. June 28 Albert Bertram of Union Course and Miss Emma Jane Masel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G.

Masel of Fairview street, this village, were married yesterday afternoon at St. John's Episcopal Church, by the rector, the Rev. Charles E. Cragg. Miss Florence Murphy, daughter of Assemblyman Henry FATHER AND SOV HELD.

Riverheal, L. June 28 Henry Bsert and his son, Ernest, charged having assaulted Sheriff Amza r.igg-. oiTb er severs ana tnreat- (Hlleer ITudcnt. waived Hon in Juslcc George W. II I court yesterday Id rthe actmn of tl Grand Jurj Both pleaded guilty to violating the rumpus, and each was lined $5.

IF ONE HOUSE IS 16, SHOULD NEXT BE 204? That's the Way They Run In Woodhaven, and Residents Protest. Alfred Jones, chairman of the committee on streets of tho Forest Park Taxpayers Association, Woodhaven, has received from the borough offl- i repeated demands designating the various resulting in a lot of confusion. One houe. in-tame, may bear number 16, and next door may 4 SO. with possibly 104 at tho next Joining building.

Keven tho letter co rlers get confused at limes becau 'I'b. i Purest Tuximyoi atlon, which has been after the bor-ough olllclals for tho past six months on the sign proposition, Intends to keep up the agitation, in addition to agitations for the removal of telegraph poles, tho laying of all wires underground and a G-ccnt fare from Harlem to Jamaica by way of the Interbor-ough subway and the Atlantic avenua division of the Long Inland Railroad, streets and avenues under the numeri- topophTcTrmay bo placed at the street corners, what he terms a pe- letter. It 1b stated In the letter hut from present Indications the signs nobo.lv. much less Mr. Jones, knows when that will be, Woodhaven huts, ue much Brought up.

Until provided, house- III I I P. 6. r. i MM fniJitril Bif Komrai to Terminal fffHipf Company. Proceeding's before the TuMIc Service PnrnrnlnlfUl iimk the joint petition o( the Lone Inland Railroad Company and the Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad company Railroad Company granting the Lone IlJand Railroad traekait rights from Stunned'' yard) to Long Island City and the Ptnnaylvaaia station in Manhattan, were brought to an abrupt close yesterday afternoon.

When acting Chairman Charles S. Hervey called the hearing counsel for the petitioners announced that he had no more evidence to offer. At the initial hearing in the matter It was brought out that the use of the Pennsylvania station, trackage rights between the points named and electric current for motive power furnished by the Pennsylvania Railroad cost the Low? Island Railroad Company $81 1,000 a year. Questions asked by members of the Commission made it clear that they thought this rental much too high, but prominent official Ol the railroads interested in the agreement, Including President Ralph ePtew, declared under oath that the rental was far from exorbitant; that, on the contrary, It did not nearly represent the actual value of the accommodations enjoyed by the Long Island Railroad in connection with Its use of the Pennsylvania terminal in Manhattan. Vico President Victory of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which is the operating agent of tho Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Railroad toitiile.l hut.

if tin. Long Island Raiir'oad had to pay full value for its go out of business. He said the Pennsylvania Railroad had spent in cash on Its terminal facili- 1 did of the Interest on the capital Invested. Commissioners Whtney and Hervey attempted as to the amount of space by the Long Island Railroad Company bkating rink FORBIDS DREDGING IN BAY (Special to The Eagle.) Huntington. N.

June 28 A special meeting of the Town Board of Trustees in conjunction with the committee appointed by Supervisor A Field to Investigate and report on the application of the ravel through lire and ARMY MEN FLY TO L. I. FROM NEWPORT NEWS Trip, Made Without Mishap, Takes 4 Hours 15 Minutes. 10 Tho Eagle.) fa June 28 Cap. rtholf and Lieutenant Hampton Houds flew from thero to Mlneola, L.

In four fours and fifteen minutes. Tho trip was mudo without mishap. The aviators made the trip folio' an elevation of about ti.OUU feet, ci 1ng Chesapeake Pay lold that it was ihlo to define the ppace bccur-e tin- Long Island irticulaily the Queens Chamber of Commerce, which had a ropresenta- make th road profitable. The mm- 1 pany has applied to Public Service KILLS SELF WITH ARISOREI X. Southampton M.m.

lY.ars Old. Had Southampton Hosp.ial. where bodied soon after reaching there. He had been in ill health for some time and hail de.i,. spoils nf mel- and Isurvlved T.v Id' sons.

John. Arthur, Cl aries and I'd- ward. WWT CITY TO PAVW ttjitt w.v.M to l.wi. The West End Cltiaens League of Woodhaven at Its last regular meet- ing before tho summer adjournment. last in ti.

ir.n i self in il avenue by borough and nf oltythe 60? iOand bor" by each to be fere ne'e with E. Weler regarding the proposed play- pUvrgTOtad0 lnhthe uIlfmaTiii'' a recommenda-hav'avenue's13 M'rfl0 ndvood- Mrs. Albert Bertram. A Murphy, wns tho bridesmaid, and binv'e da attired in white embrold-j I cied net and wore a white hat. She carried a bouquet of white roses, while the bridesmaid wore white taffeta and chiffon and carried a bouquet of pink 'Die bride was given away by her father.

The allar and chancel of the church wer0 trimmed with roses and ferns, 1 ax was the home, whore a reception! 1 the ceremony. The bride hr'r with a ms best man a gold scarfpin. Now, one final word. We promise you that, in accord jwith the known principles of 'Anheuser-Busch and all its products, Bevo not only will forever maintain its present high standard of quality, but as time goes on our great endeavor shall be to make this soft drink even more perfect in every detail of its goodness. You will find Bevo at inns, restaurants, groceries, department and drug stores, picnic i WHEN we announced Bevo recently, our hopes were high.

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