The Portsmouth Herald from Portsmouth, New Hampshire • Page 3

Funeral Notices BYRON--E. Andrew Byron of Lang's Corner, Rye, died In Portsmouth Oct. 30. Funeral services at the Bethany church, Rye. in nesday at 2 pm.

Friends invited. Arrangements in charge of the J. Verne Wood Funeral Home. Deaths And Funefals Halloween Party Slated in Kittery A Halloween party for all Kittery school pupils will be held from 7 to 9 tonight at the Frisbee Charlotte C. LONG GONE--Portsmouth and Dover railroad and highway traffic used this bridge as means of retting i to Dover for more than CO years.

The covered section was supported a 180- foot steel truss which was placed in position on Dec. 11, 1873. The photo is from the collection of Miss Dorothy M. Vaughan. gone are any signs of the bridge itself or the Piscataqua Bridge tavern which was leveled by 'fire.

IT WAS 18 YEARS before any one traveled by bridge from Newington to Dover. A daring young woman from Newington, Miss Emma H. Bean, was the first person to venture across a steel truss that Lied together the Portsmouth and Dover railroad That was In February, 1874 I CLUKAS--Albert George Clukas, age 63, husband of Mildred Reynolds Clukas of York Beach, Maine, formerly of Newtonville, died suddenly Oct. 29 at York. Services Tuesday at 2 pm from the Bigelow Chapel, Mt.

Auburn. Please omit flowers. Arrangements in charge oE Roger K. Lucas Funeral Home. DORLEY--Mrs.

Charlotte C. Dorley died Oct. 2fl, in Portsmouth. Funeral from her late home 91 Spring street. 8:30 am Wednesday.

Solemn high mass of requiem in the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 9:30 am. Interment at Quincy. Mass. Griffin and Wilson in charge of arrangements. i The party is under the sponsor Charlotte C.

i S( Lol officials. Parent-Teacher associations Tho Portsmouth Horald, Portsmouth, N. H. Monday Evening, October 31, 1949 Page Three Mrs. widow of Joseph Dorley, Saturday night at her home at 91 thg i a i PTA council.

and Spring street. Refreshments will be served and She was born in Nova Scotia. a rjufresne will show motion Jan. 14. 18159, and had resided in Portsmouth for 32 years.

She was a member of the of the i Immaculate Conception a Altar society and also of Storer Relief corps No. 6. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Ann E. Silva of East Wakefield and Mrs.

Harold T. Cooney pictures. Christmas Lighting Bills Mailed Here Bills for the annual Christmas i lighting display in the business i district have been mailed to Ports- of Portsmouth; three sons, Daniel merchants by the Chamber .7. and William both of i of Commerce, Miss 5-felen and R. Dorley of Portsmouth; 14 grandchildren; and six great a i a sister, Mrs.

Bessie Dorley of Randolph, and a brother, William Pitts North Weymouth, Mass. Christian Church Activity Week Starts Tuesday Activities for the week at the Advent Christian church will begin with the prayer circle at 7:30 tomorrow night. A mission meeting will be held Wednesday at 7 pm and the midweek prayer and testimonial service will be held Thursday night at 7:30 in Memorial hall, followed by YMCA Directors Delay Meeting The meeting of the board of directors of the Men's Christian association has been changed from tomorrow to Nov. 7. The supper meeting will be held at the beginning at 6:30 o'clock.

The board of director's reception for the new secretary. H. Belmont Gould, will be held Nov. 14. a choir rehearsal.

The following members of the church orchestra and of the Loyal Worker society attended a rally in E. Andrew Byron E. Andrew Byron of Lang's cor- than they are charged. Chamber secretary, announced today. Approximately 200 merchants have been billed $1.25 for each lineal foot of store frontage.

Although the 1949 assessment is the same as last year, many merchants have agreed to contribute more ner, Rye, died last night after a KENNARD--George H. Kennard short mness. died Oct. 29 in Cambridge, I He was g' rn jn Manchester Dec. father of Norman S.

Kennard of Arlington, Mass. Funeral ser- Eliot Congrega- Eliot, on Dec. 11, 1873. the first train rolled over the bridge to Dover, although the highway that paralleled the tracks had been open since Dec. 19, 1873.

This, too, was a toll bridge and remained that way until purchased by the state after the completion of the Sullivan bridge. The bridge was the result of i ancial cooperation between Do- VALRAND Russell 4, 1868, the son of the late Pierre and Adelaide (Grondint Byron. For many years he was employed by the United Shoe Mach- vices in the tional church, Tuesday, Nov. 1st at 2 pm. Rel- corporation and traveled all atives and friends invited.

Late over Europe demonstrating shoe member John Abbot Lodge, a hinery. He also taught music A.F. and A.M., and Bay State at Bradford academy. Division O.R.C. Calling hours Monday 2-5 and 7-10 pm.

at the Watson Funeral Home, 11 Magazine street, Cambridge. Valrand's FIRST ACROSS--Crudely drown in the center of the Proprietors' seal is a reproduction of the first bridge to span Great Bay. A remarkable feat of engineering for its day, the bridge was in use for 61 years before ice parks crushed it. The sea! pictured here is owned by Mrs. Darius Frink of Newington.

whose family were the last the bridge. 'Transfilm. photo) Great Bay First Spanned By Private Bridge Owner (Continued from pace one) to 40 bridge. I Prices ranged from one cent for I each sheep or swine to 40 cents for a "breach" for a coach or other four-wheeled That the English monetary ver and Portsmouth, costing more than $100,000 to build, with brew- master Frank Jones as the. chief promoter.

After it was finished it was leased to the Eastern railroad and sold to the Boston and Maine in 1900. The Portsmouth Times of Nov. 2, 1872 viewed its construction with the optimistic prediction, "Thus renewing the by-gone associations and intercourse between the two cities and surrounding towns, such as used to be in the good old days of the Piscataqua bridge." THE PD project was considered a "bold venture" by the Boston Journal's "Sojourner," who spent some time on the Newington side watching the construction. rr.eetina of the proprietors was svs tem was still in wide use is dis- or, 23. 1793 at the tav- oscc i by the fact that with each e-- operatc-d by Col.

i i a listed prices, the body, who died in Hawaii, is due to arrive in Portsmouth at 6:21 pm Oct. 31. and will be taken to the i i and Wilson Funeral Home, from where the funeral will be held Tuesday at 2 pm. Committal services will follow at family lot in the Calvary cemetery. Nurses to Meet The Portsmouth a a Nurses club will hold a business meeting tomorrow at 8 pm at the Nurses' home.

'Dr. William Farrington will speak on dentistry. Fi day: Mrg Fred G. Procter, Mrs. Alice Wilson, Mrs.

Helen Hett, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Philbrick. Philip Hell, Mrs. Ethel Anderson.

Miss Violet Bennett and Miss Hazel Parker. Also, Miss Ruth Skeba, Donald Emery, Miss Marjorie Marshall, Richard Babb, Leslie Hett, Miss Sylvia Jewett, Miss Ruth Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Philip Marshall, Jr. Mrs.

Bertha Goodwin, Miss Priscilla Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. David Faulkner, Miss Dorothy Bold, Mr and Mrs. Lewis Babb. Philip Anderson, Miss Ruth McCloud, Elton Anderson and Crane Morrison.

Brewf.e-.- onci very shortly the Gaz-; cnn pence advertised 500 shares for sale nO Led. SI5 each. At that meeting Nath- Adams v.as elected corpora- counterpart was also ALONG WITH what they hoped Most of the bridge was laid on piles driven two to seven feet into the tricky bottom of Little bay. However, one 180-foot stretch near the Newington shore had to be bridged by a steel truss because the piles could not be kept in place in the current. Frank Jones himself went to a war Oren V.

Henderson, former registrar at the University of New Hampshire, who doubled in brass as representative to the General Court from Durham, began his fight for a new bridge in the 1920's. IT TOOK HIM eight long years to win his fellow delegates over and, even then, part of his dream was not to be realized. After a bitter fight through, several sessions. it was determined that the new bridge was to be paid for by tolls. At first it was agreed to build the bridge over the route followed by the old time Piscataqua bridge from Fox Point to Goat island to Mr.

Byron was a member of Damascus lodge of Masons and Lynn Royal' Arch chapter. He was a past noble grand of Osgood Lodge of Odd Fellows, Palestine encampment of Lynn. Mystic lodge No. 19, New England Order of Protection, and the Rye Bethany Congregational church. Survivors include his wife, Mrs.

Hattie (Trefethen) Byron; two sons, Earle A. of Manchester and Elmer Byron, USA, of Aberdeen, four daughters, Mrs. Lloyd B. Harvey of Miami, Mrs. William Wardwell and Mrs.

Ruth McLean, both of Portsmouth, and Mrs. R. E. Crowell of Newport. R.

nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Small snake-like amphibians without a trace either limbs or tail are known as gymnophiona. Cleansing Tissues 600 cpcriAi 1 SHEETS irc IAI CANTEiN Thomas a i id be the profitable operation Chicago- to purchase the truss at of the bridge, the proprietors took a cost of $24,000. It was brought i clerk and treasurer. Starting on Dec.

14. 1793, each advantage "of opportunity to UP river on a two stripped down iva; assessed six times at SI5 construct the Piscataqua Bridge schooners and maneuvered into I involved Other Deaths and Funerals, Page 5 they incorporated it in 1796. Named Franklin City, it existed only on paper with the exception of one or two dwellings built on the lots the proprietors owned. It was probably the only city in New Hampshire ever to be laid out according to a definite plan. The author of the plan, a Portsmouth schoolmaster, Benjamin Dearborn, the a shore.

But the late labeled the streets with such pa- per share investment of S115. i ca se on Oct. 24, sooner made secure than Miss Bean made the first, trip across. A diary kept by a Newington woman notes The tavern was described as "a new accommodation double house, AT. advertisement in the Gazette cr.

the same date indicated that proprietor? were getting ready with a large stable, and a well of to construction. They asked water that affords an ample supply for offers of 3.562 linear feet in the dryest season." 14-inch i oak tim- and 8.495 fee! of 16-inch timbers arsons oilier They Mso a 72.000 r- four-inch a 20 feet Meanwhile, the proprietors had i bridge but no direct route to it from Portsmouth. A preliminary skirmishing with some of the citizens of Newington, they nnc. and ifi.nnn frt of four-inch found it necessary to get the Court of Common Pleas to issue an order to the Newington selectmen for a town meeting for consideration of the proprietors' request. Newington capitulated.

The se- 40-fc-et lone. THE RECORDS loft behind do r-: us hnw rr.anv men were. Cloved or: i but sd.vorti^inn fnr bridce ma- agents. Thompson and John sn i need for six that Cyrus Frink, Sheriff Simes Frink's father, was the third man THE POSITION of first toll collector went to a man named Drew and the bridge was in business. Rail and road traffic John G.

Winant. then governor, insisted on the present site from Bloody Point to Dover Point. That bridging the Bellamy river to give a more direct route to Concord and the west, but was finally agreed to by the General Court. The bridges the Alexander Scammel across the Bellamy and the General Sullivan--were built at a cost of approximately 51,000.000 and opened to traffic on Sept. 6, 1934.

The construction on the General Sullivan was done by the Crandall flowed over it for more than 60 Engineering of Cambridge, years. The abutments for it still Howard Williams the archi- are in place 100 yards north of the General Sullivan bridge. And a few feet inshore on the Newington side, the Newington railroad station waits forlornly for the lectmen called a meeting for Oct. i trains that never come. But the 26, 1795 and apparently the town eventually agreed to lay out a road.

To build it. they took land from ton? of Widow Martha Pickering, Nath- which to feed i were i i i purclia'-n ripeded for a to bririrc or. either shore. A acre nn the D-rrcrr. end w.ri^ by Ai drf.v Drew 'in Nov.

7. 1703 and two i a in i a vi- i On i New aniel Folsom and a man named RawlinR.s. However, the path the proprietors hoped to follow to i a i a success was never very smooth. In November. 1798.

they reported that the bridge had earned only $5.369 in its first four years of operation, or per year. I seemed to work of tin 1 next against and in 1804 they were side. IIit'll- a permission to operate a to a i i a for the purpose of putting Elmer Brooks family have fixed it into a pretty home. In the case of this bridge, too, pilings did not prove strong enough to resist continual current and ice pressure. They were weighted down with rock but still the ice tect who developed the design.

TWO THOUSAND TONS of steel went into the building. 5.700 cubic yards of concrete and the pillars have a concrete core, faced with granite to prevent ice abrasion. Governor i a in a 34-year- old automobile headed the parade of dignitaries across the structure after the white and blue ribbon was cut by Edith M. Hodgdon triotic names as Washington, Warren, Scammel and Montgomery. Being a Portsmouth man, he included a Market street.

BUT THE PISCATAQUA bridge never lived up to its expectations. It was used and was a great public benefit but somehow the traveling public just continued on into Portsmouth to do its business. The advent of the railroads made even the repair of the Piscataqua bridge unprofitable but the coming of the automobile and truck turned the emphasis away from the railroad to the extent that the General Sullivan bridge-was built and paid for by its users. Tomorrow the users begin to collect dividends on their 15-year investment. M.

inter of 1793 f'uinc! occasion on :2. a i new a money ri to in A i bridge in repair. Six lottery classes, or parts, were run oft' in managed to weaken the bridge. It of Ncwinfiton, i i Kecfe of gave way during World War I and Dover and H. Hcrscy of Dur- was in bad shape when plans were i ham, all of them school children, for the General Sullivan! The bridge freeing ceremonies bridge.

are to be held on the Dover Point World War II veterans might be side of the bridge and nearby interested to know that if. they nestles a little colony of both sum- fought in North Africa the bridge mer cottages a year-round res- may have been used against idences. Those dwellings are far by the Italians. In April, 1935, the cry from the dreams of a prospcr- steel truss was cut down and ous city on the a shore a chopped into small pieces for sale were once entertained by the prop- in Italy. That country was then rietors of the Piscataqua bridge.

FRESH FISH RECEIVED DAILY HALIBUT SWORDFISH SCALLOPS OYSTERS Ib. 49c Ib. 69c Ib. 59c pt. 79e BLACK'S MARKET 517 Middlif St.

Phone 566 nd i luck never really sided with I i The spring ice in March, crushed out a section and it i was months before it was repaired. I The directors provided boat trans- I ahisid portation between Goat island and si-hf-duU'. a Newinston. by Ti-riti'h-. of New- A a i in 1854.

part of the bridge r.u-yp-irt. i i i i i a collapsed and was repaired. Finally i in arch he Feb. 18, 1855. a 600-foot section de-'-irnoci to -fin 330 feet from i white-painted structure was island td i a The i knocked out and never replaced.

am 1 Fox Point last owners were the Frink I rested or and the connec- brothers of Ncwinfiton who had from Goh' to the Dur- i bought it for S2.000. the next two years to raise $13,000. headed by the late Benito Musso-j That city of their imagination lini and was busily manufacturing never canic into being, although based on pil- The granite abutments on either A Norwich. a Enos sllol ill stand but long since the i i the piles. Work moved ahead steadily :r.rou~h sumrr.er ar.d early fall.

Or. Nov. 25. at a cost of the bridge was completed and toll rates were published in the Gazette. AUTHORIZED PONTIAC SALES SERVICE GUARANTEED USED CARS Bear Wheel Alinement PORTSMOUTH MOTOR MART 253 Middle St.

Phone 22 Pickup and Delivery 181 Congress Street Opposite Public Library FIRST TIME SINCE THE WAR! We Are Pleased To Announce The Appointment OF A COKE SERVICE ENGINEER To Assist You In The Economical Use Of NEW ENGLAND COKE He Is Fully Qualified To Help You In Solving Your Heating Problems At No Cost And At Your Convenience! NEW ENGLAND COKE is Guaranteed To Give Satisfaction. Low Ash High Heat Content. Last Longer Easy to Handle. Quality Fuel At Lowest Cost. TRY NEW ENGLAND COKE THIS WINTER! Phone NOW And Have Our SERVICE MAN CALL On You! Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Company 35 Pleasant Street Tel.

90 91 92 BETTER LIGHT FOR BETTER SIGHT! .82 Estimated Cost of Putting It Off Fall Inspection COLEMAN NASH CO. Incorporated 228 Islington St. Tel. 4285 Walrer L. Franklin G.

GRIFFIN and WILSON FUNERAL HOME 684 State St. Portimouth Ports. 57 Kittery 194-MJ FIRST Enjoyment IVIIT I Directs clear, shadowless light on subject below eye level. Guards the eye-sight o( you and your family. Directs filtered 50 100 150 watt light where most needed on the subject below eye-level.

Conies in smart color combinations of brass with red, green or ivory. Matching floor lamp adjusts to any height, any position. Margeson's 64VaughanSt. Tel.570 NO CIGARETTE HANGOVER vvhen you smoke PHICIP MOKRIST seconds you eon P. fAORWS YOU KNOW WHY Everybody talks about PLEASURE, but only ONE cigarette has really done something about it.

That cigarette is PHILIP MORRIS! Remember: less irritation means more pleasure. And PHILIP MORRIS is the ONE cigarette proved definitely less irritating, definitely milder, than any other leading brand. NO OTHER CIGARETTE CAN MAKE THAT STATEMENT. YOU'LL BE GLAD TQMORROW- YOU SMOKED PHILIP MORRIS SMOKING.