Portland Press Herald from Portland, Maine • 28

imI mamma wpWi I Ji 'J: -V-f 1: ty-Cight 1-' 4 23 1949 1 'SfK Tortland i Press" Herald 1 i -W i Portland Maine Friday Morning steep Incline the and he barely the span and going up the lever and si (he animal slipped Standish Maq Dies comprises FhUlp Barker Harold cm Foil Kjrte Vemda Follard Gerald J- i- By Billy Rose Legion Unlt PIan! half then two halves parted and began to tilt those Fin the middle tried to leap thejeham which separated them fretn safety Borne of the more agile made It but others especially the jbldera and ehlldr managed to throw himself dear As the ieheral got to his feet the shlnyj fire lacquer hidden engine tie red by grim men rv I "i- Standish Kept: 21 Alfred Emery! died today at his home Ha had been stricken earlier while hanging to! th sides chugged dozen through the crowd A driving oil a elds road near hie rMV fJmujm hOlCe WflJ HtWt Albert Martin (who lives nearby Investigated continued sounding of an automobile horn and found EmCry slumped over the wheel Of his repair truck -j -j Dr Li Center of Bteen Falls wast called when Emery was brought to hls jhome and' pto-noupced death dye to a he ment' -Emery was boi diie to 4 heart all- iri at sLaton Abril Gray Repk has been chairman of supper to be night Nov The Armistice Bn-ball Frederic! Carr Unwood Ubby and Frgncls Carr- Committee to serve at the Fost Turkey party Nor 21 to Joseph Blau ti Sidney McXntyra Oeorge HUL Richard Oreen Wal- ter Leighton i Charles Nelson Pleem Jewett and Elery Jewett The Auxiliary of the Fost aro planning a rummage sale for the latter part of October into itha channel and hands unwound the high sure hose I end the nozzle aimed et the lover of modern improvements I Washed Ite Wi later Rlchar I Green appointed to: serve as the American Legion 1 served I Armistice from 630 td pm Ball committee ton of Charles i A nds EmCry He had son EmCry The lyeeni headllnee about 91-wind -reminded me of 'a hurricane story heard In Trinidad last January Around the tuns of the century a lean' bellied little man named Oenera) Avrlla llemandes became mayor jot a town on the Caribbean Ooajrt He belonged to the old aehool which figured a man jwaa no more than an ani SO 1896' and Hattie Rounds grasped a girder and tried to swing himself beneath It but the water caught hla body and twisted It as (f It were paper He by hist fingers for a few seconds and then let go y-c- The! fire crew dragged the hose to thel bridge rail and the Jet of water twas fixed oil the bobbing body cjf general until It sank from slghtf 7 His Excellency knows what a hurrican Is like said an old man 1 -1 j-v- (Copyright 1049 by Billy Rose (Distributed by Th Bell Sjrndi- cate 1 XnC) A momebi laier the full of the stinging Pater hit 1-ha general and he backed' up against the upright I span of the bridge But the water kept coming until drenched and choking for air he fell on hlsj hands and kneea him off the bridge? someone yelled I i The hose I wap moved forward half drowned man 3 Robert Peterson son of Mr end 1 1 -Mrs Jens Peterson employed 1 1 in Fort Fairfield! Oeorge Maxwell who has been ill at his home Is improving i Mr and Mrs4 Walter Field aro entertaining hU brother Arthur Field of Ozone Park Long Is land Ya former resident who visiting here lor the first time in 32 yws Hampshire two sisters (Harriet Smith of Westbrook and Sarah Kendrick of Hollis and two grand filldren 1 i j-x- Funeral services will bo from the John -W Hay funeral rpoms in Westbrook st: 230 pm Saturday Burial will be in StsindlsH Village Cemetery The Rev Frencis Gardner of Steep Falla will be Officiating clergyman been occupied as a farmer mid truckman and had lived hire 37 yests r- -i fl 6ept: 30 10221 he married Har-rlettXi Rand of this town and had served In World iWar One I Surviving besides his widow are a daughter Mrs jEthelyn WCeman of Liming ton a son Alfred jrM who has been employed lnj New i i-' mal unleaa ha had a million pesos and a couple of mistresses-The town he governed consisted of two parte: an Island shambles of mud huts and sun-baked poverty and a mainland district of landowners who preferred to remain apart from the sight and smell of the riffraff Like moat dictators' the gen eral was an advocate of modernization and among the blessings he brought to hie small domain were a shiny fire engine and a steel drawbridge the first of their kind in that part of the world Uwd Te: Separate The bridge wlch connected the two parte of the town was used not only' to Join but to separate Every night after the workers had crossed to their slum dwellings the two halves were raised oaten slbly to allow 'for the free flow of shlp traffic In the channel but actually: to Insure the safety and prlvacy'of the privileged As a special concession however the class-conscious contraption was lowered whenever the wind started howling- so that In ease of tidal wave or hurricane the islanders could take refuge in the mainland hills In that part of the -Caribbean the wind howls frequently and one day tired of the intrusion of peasants and coats on their estates the landowners sent delegation to the mayor and demanded the trespassing cease It will never happen again the general promised One evening not long after the wind began to lash In from the sea and the worried Islanders headed for the bridge By the time the first group arrived the general was In the control i booth on the mainland aide of the draw He waited until the crowd was drowned I The remainder ell the base of tils' ramp where! they were Joined by others who Clamored and to be let across but by tHls time the general had locked the controls end was? safe in his hofoe qn the hill When ha cSre of the hurricane hit an hour jjater several hundred people were drowned Id the waves which swept over the waterfront Next niorning the general ordered the drawbridge lowered made a quick inspection of the dazed survivor! and their squashed huts 'and proclaimed a day of mourning But as the day wore on the Islanders began to assemble end -their lamentations were replaced by talk of insurrection I This wis th excuse the general had been looking for and he announced that on the morrow he himself Oeneral Avrila Her-nandes would lead hie troops against the riffraff 1 Sets OutjAlea At sunrise next day the mainland waterfront was decorated as for a fete Oentlemen on horseback and! ladles In carriages lined the docks and at the appointed time thef sped was lowered and the genera astride a black horse saluted Ids adherents and set out along across the bridge When he was three-fourths of the way he signaled forhlsimen to folio but not one of them moved Almost lost a relative or friend in! the hurrican i Suddenly the draw began to rise and the opposite shore became alive with people converging on the bridge The- general wheeled tote horse hoping to leap the widening gap hut It was too late ii A mi I V- a A o' 'tTSVyl 1 i i -S A 'I 0 71 lit -i -V J- fcV A I Vi-V I''''''-' OOOD APFCARANCS III A HAT DCSUNOl 7 i si i-W f-X I i 1 t-ir tinhnmiiM -fl -4 i rr' How! ocUon-wlse eon a locket be? 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