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THE BERNARDSVILLE NEWS. APRIL 25 1957 Fourteen Maintains Traditions Of His Craft In Modern Dry Cleaning Plant BERNARDSVILLE Joseph use bellows to fan Bocchino ST. beiieves in modern!" would be hot enough to hea' progress and at the same time! the lrons One of Bocchino's pt' maintaining the traci. which are basically essential to his tailoring craft. This be- his establishment at 3-5 Mor- comes a t0 rlstown road one section pparent during visit you find flw Bocchino-s children sur- of rounded by racks and machinery as of clothing they busily ing a customer ana process men and women's clothing in a recently enlarged dry cleaning department.

Off to one side you spot the father, working at one stage or another in sewing together a customed ordered suit or alter- fine garment for a woman customer Bocchino probably has averaged making one suit a week since he started business in Btrnardsville in 1914. An indication of the father's belief in maintaining the essential traditions of his craft is seen in the tools he uses. Basically engaged in the work of handmade garments. Bocchino still uses the electric iron he bought in 1923. That was when he switched over from the old way of heating his irons on a stove.

01 Jir.i..i;t. He recalls a time when he had of equipment is the Singe: ing machine he bough years ago. Its the kind is manually operated by a pedai. A few years ago, Bor chino tried out an operated machine. After a whirls at it, he decided that hit first model was a "pretty youni; gal, after all," and he decldec, to stick with her.

Bocchino started tailoring in Bernardsville in what he describes as a shed behind the row of stores oi, the north side of Oi cott square by buying out a tailor shop owned by a brother oi Frank Tullo, a borough barber The business cost Bocchino $75, a sum which today won't buy a 55-gallon drum of cleaning solvent. After a couple of years, JLgtUn to tL affect isms. dress and manner- fashionable outdoor spor tures. the tinued on certain ol roads, commercially (Editor's Note. Next week we Undlng Driving Contest notwith- c'lubs were to 'of the Atlantic and being seriously taken up by Coach Mrs.

Bocchino helps her husband get a coat in shape. (Photo by Carmine) moved to a ple of store in the Old is now located and moved his business into it. Operating the business has Westlecraft building which was! destroyed by fire about 32 years Deen practically a family affair, ago. The building was replaced jBocchino gives his wife, who by the present row of stores on! nar i been a furrier in Morrs- the northerly side of Olcott brfore mQ square and was to- nardsville credit for mucn help on actual tailoring work throughout the years. Children who now are full time engaged in the business include Edward, Albert, Arthur square and Bo cated about where Bill's store is.

About 1923, Bocchino bought the building in which he CEMETERY MEMORIALS Granite Marble Bronze DICKINSON MONUMENTAL WORKS Serving Korth Jersey Over )0 Years SHOP and SHOWROOM: CORNER SPRING and MORRIS STREETS 9-1881 MORRISTOWN Mrs. Morrell, 73 Dies After Illness MILLINGTON Mrs. Nellie A. Morrell of Division avenue, widow of George Morrell, died Friday in Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was 73.

Mrs. Morrell was born in Ireland and came to this country as a young woman. She here for over 40 years, dit i and xLuwaiu, JUt iv, here for oe Miss Marie Bocchino. An- She leaves no immediate survi- other daughter, Mrs. Charles JD'Angelo works part-time.

Two other sons, Amand and James, American gentlemen English Stage or Road was brought to this country in 1860 and fifteen years later The Coaching Club was founded in New York. From then up to World War and even later Coaches and Breaks was a popular sport in this country hv those who could afford it In stone. Mrs. H. Nelson Mayberry Peapack, N.

J. NOW OPEN At New C( enient Location at one time worked with their father. The dry cleaning department was established in 1947 and the operation was on in a ibasement room. The process is now done completely on the first floor, with customers offered service of two to three days New equipment has been installed. When Bocchino first started in business he sent dry cleaning for customers to a Newark establishment by express.

He calls that it was 10 days before jithe customer got back his gar- vors. Funeral services were conducted on Monday from the full timeiQ a iiaway and Crane Funeral Home in 101 South Finley avenue, Basking Ridge, by Rev. George A. Tlath, pastor of All Saints Episcopal Church. Burial was in St.

Bernards Cemetery. ment Bocchino, who likes to take a daily stroll around Bernardsville, has a particularly fondness for the borough and surrounding municipalities. He Dear Sir: I think that Mr. Ledyard Blair's coach with Jimmy Thomas the groom riding in front on the Blair estate going towards Peapack. Yours truly, Elizabeth Ellsworth Bernardsville, N.

J. riving like The shall have uie judges decision established. on the best letter submitted on identification of "Coach and I Four" in this instance, first published in this newspaper on March 28. Including the communications below all the letters received before the deadline of April tenth have now been published. Meanwhile if there are other readers who still have more information on the picture we'd be glad to have It.) More Picture Contest Letters Dear Sir: The picture as shown in the issue of March 28 News believe to be the Coach of C.

L. Blair late of Peapack. This might be taken on the way to the Essex Fox Hound meet which was held each year for the farmers who were willing to have the fox chase through their farms. The picture I believe would be taken on the way to the Phlzer Estate in Glad thus be seen at most of the the boot" would probably be found au -mperial" or por- box which would pro- the "cold bird and National flx-jtheless, ou- 'still see "Pioneer table ice vide for bottle." Frequently "park drags'' Frequently would also be provided with fitted drawers of china and ill- formal, and the rema lery of the Society ant where at ening arti but ver. Most named, cars today.

Boad Coaches just as are Pullman They were popularly though erroneously called Tally-hos, which was only the much publicized name of one of Coaches imported The first part In our i ive times am were! country. from the early dand. The gentleman JZ or "Whip" (such ve- we re never driven by servants) was almost certain to een 7 almost the owner and the PTA Re- Mrs. De PEAPACK The Ss side WUf He appears to be driv- UIK with both hands, but if the picture were clearer, I believe ft would show that the reins by his left hand, pos- tion last were who cou vour own "Hills' there were'a number of prominent S-horse coachmen among them were Messrs. Blair, Laaa.

Talmadge Pyne and Stevens, who being the captain of the Meadow Brook Polo Team as well, indulged in driving four of his pomes to a Miniature Break, now completely up" and on its way to the Carriage Museum in the Vanderbilt Coach-house in beheld by his left sibly being momentarily assis- ted'by the right. wWch would also be thonged holding four-in-hand double- i p. Such driving required many days of instructed practice ere one could skillfully "catch a thong" and loop and finger the reins There were certain set forms and niceties from irfeieU deviation by held Tuesday there those was who little knew The Coachman is driving only the wheel- school Gorge president 1957-1958. Other Mrs. Tiger, 2i Frederick Ku! secrrtar; Mrs lentine, corr and Mrs.

A urer. Miss Janet that spring 1 ible children for will be held on in the their collars and appear to The last to maintain the tradi-; be movlng the ton and a quar- lt Richard Van (plus passenger; up The last to maintain the tion was the late Richard Van Nest Gambrill, whose vermilion Cch De coach (plus passenger; up grade at a good clip The fch which is out Nest Gambrill, whose ver grade at a go and blark Road Coach De- flfth or oc fc-horse which is out and magnificent team; in front is ridden oy a tion may schooi A rtpi Jersey pany wa scr.ted a Bin Some of Our Choicest Stock Items Like FLOWERING SHRUBS ROSE BUSHES AND OTHER GARDEN ESSENTIALS (SEEDS, FERTILIZERS) NOW AT OUR NEW RETAIL OUTLET AT FAR HILLS NURSERY Lamington Road and Route 206 (GRAND OPENING LATER) feels that customers who have patronized him throughout the years played an indirect but large part in helping him raise his 13 children now all adults. Paul Bettler Jr. Dies; Was 111 BASKING RIDGE Paul E. Bettler Jr.

of South Maple avenue died Thursday in Hospital after a long illness. He was 29. He was born in Morristown and lived here all his life. He was a weighmaster in the Millington office of the North Jersey Quarry Co and a charter member of the Somerset Hills Lodge Mr. Bettler leaves his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Bettler of Basking Ridge; three sisters, Miss Irene Bettler at home, Mrs. Frank Gallo of Basking Ridge, and Mrs. Alexander Domanski of Millburn; and a brother, John Funeral services were conducted Sunday from the Garrabrant Funeral Home in 141 South Maple avenue by Rev. R.

B. Garrison, pastor of Bishop Janes Methodist Curch. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery. Henrv Byer Dies; Was Engineer BERNARDSVILLE Henry E. Byer of 69 Mt.

Airy road died Monday at All Souls Hospital after a long illness. He was 77. art Beyer; a daughter, Mrs. B. years ago from Staten Island.

He was a mechanical engineer and operated his own business in Hoboken where he specialized in vacuum apparatus. He was a graduate of Cornell University. He was a member of St. Bernard's Episcopal Church, the American Society of Mechanical Mechanical Engineers and the Chemist's Club in New York. He leaves his wife, Helen Stewart Byer; a daughter, Mrs.

B. S. Andrews of Salem, a sister, Mrs. George L. Baker of Dear Sir: I think s.

the picture of the coach and four Is of Mr. Ledyard Blair, Peapack, N. J. It could be the road, near the old cemetery in Peapack, and up the 11 Hi JVC uuu of greys must have been a familiar sight to many of your not- so-old readers. In 1910, The Coaching Club drove their Road Coach "Pioneer" from the Metropolitan Club in New York to "Blairsden" at Peapack where they were the week-end guests of the late C.

Ledyard Blair. Horses were changed at Weehawken, Carlstadt, Belleville, might have been taken prior to 1912. Mrs. E. W.

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Smooth clean cut even spread of clippings every time you mow. And you rut at exactly the height you want with just a twist of the wrist. Complete with all accessories, 725 cord and cord handler reel $169. Unconditional 5 Year Guarantee by SCOTT SONS Seedsmen Sirxe 1870. THIS IS THE People are telling us NEW TURF BUILDER really does avoid "surge growth," just we said it would.

Evanston, 111., and two grand- am no judge children. am inclined to Rev. Edward N. Maxwell will taken between conduct the funeral service tomorrow at 3 p.m. in St.

Bernard's Church. Burial will be at the convenience of the family. Mrs. W. Stoecker Died On Tuesday BASKING RIDGE Mrs Marie B.

Stoeker, wife of Walter H. Stoeker of 359 South Finley avenue, died at her home on Tuesday after a lonj illness. Mrs. Stoeker was born in Philadelphia and moved here about six and one half years ago from Brooklyn. She was a member of the Garden Club, the Bernards ville Woman's Club and the Ber nardsville Chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross.

Besides her husband she three sons, Walter A. Darien, Karl A. of Round Dear Sir: Your delightful coaching picture, so reminiscent of the sporting paintings by the Englishmen Henderson, Alken and Pollard, having been sent to me by your subscriber, Mrs. Stevens Baird of Bernardsville, and being myself interested in such matters, I thought I might yield to a bit of retrospect and have a try for the silver dollar. To begin with, the only clues to the date of the photograph are the costumes, and while I am no judge of ladies' hats, I believe it was 1905 and 1910 iThe Coach which is of English ancestry, the harness and the horses help very little in the dating, as they were the same as those used in England almost a hundred years earlier for regularly scheduled road kav pany and Morristown.

tal elapsed time was seven and a half hours. Such a run was not unusual for the club and also they had seasonally operated their Coach as a public carrier ever since their founding, a tradition followed by a number of private owners of Road Coaches. Certain Americans even shipped their Coaches, horses and servants abroad. William H. (Judge i Moore won the Olympia Coaching Marathon in England on several occasions and in the spring of 1908 Alfred Vanderbilt took his Coach "Venture" together with eighty horses to England where he "worked" the London-Brighton Oock-horse boy which generally trots along behind the Coach, but on stiff up grades is put to' as an auxiliary.

It is unfortunate that this worthy sport which so typified a mode of life has so completely disappeared from the American scene, but happily it still prevails in its native land, where Ch th ends of The M. cover and hot during the Mfel tell and Two Transporttt PEAPACK 3LAJ The First tMM Ip7rtsmen7 makes several runs Import. vear between London and they tr Southampton. Also the Coach- ing Marathon at the Royal onal I Windsor Horse Show is still an annual fixture and in 1956 ele- ven four-in-hand Coaches were; entered. Plausible as are the reasons terrific cost, hard Mr.

S. Watney's Coach the "Red Rover," horsed by its owner and several driving street tc reasons automobile infested roads, etc. it still seems a bit sad that not for several years has a four-in- hand turnout been shown at the 1 near you Is Bernard tion page P. I 8-0500 or ndhaffi! Women Tournament Slusfi FINAL STANDING worKea tne Road. He later placed his TEAM CHAMPIONS: Ridge, N.Y.

and Florham Park; Robert L. two brothers ond Coach "Viking" on an English road and thus continued until his untimely death in the sinking of the Lusitania In 1915. But to return to the equipage in your picture, it appears to be a Road Coach rather than a Park Coach or Drag for the reasons that it is sportingly turned out as indicated by what' 2, 3. ANDYS SPORT SHOP ALLEN PAPER CO. THE 'RINGERS' appears fronts to be which colored very bridle likelv Also there his rough BS They are glad not to be forced into extra mowing of soft, spindly grass during this i weather.

For srmng. solid turf and not hay SCOTTS NEW TURF BUILDER ia specially fur- mulated for this purpose. G. T. GIANQUITTI 33-35 Clarcrnont Road BE 8-0004 SON Bernardsville Albert L.

Sopp of Red Bank and Harry E. Sopp of Evanston, 111. a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Brickel maier of Brooklyn and fou: grandchildren. Funeral services will be tonight at 8 at the Gallaway ana Crane Funeral Home in 10! South Finley avenue.

Rlv. Ben jamin Adams, assistant pasto of the Presbyterian Church wi' officiate. Bedminster Show Committee Listed BEDMINISTER Committee chairmen for the fashion show. sponsored by the Women's Lea-! gue for Servic? of the Reformed! Church to be held Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the new church building were announced today by Mrs.

Vincent Ferraiulo, show chairman. They are: Miss Betty Bowker, tickets and programs; Mrs. Walter Haulenbeek and Mrs. J. E.

Schork, decorations; Mrs, Wil- iara Smock and Mrs. R. D. Lapham, re reshments and Mrs. J.

G. Lever, music. Summer play, casual and swimclothes, to be shown by the Olympic Shop of Bernardsville, will be the feature of the evening. Refreshments will be served after the show. Proceeds of the show will go to the church building fund.

fhe canted flight deck of the USS Forrestal, the Navy's new super-carrier could accommodate four football fields. regular In fact, that it was jaid that the villagers could set their clocks by the arrival ol Coach, a compliment not al- pays applicable to some of our present day Railroad trains. jBut for just a moment let me digress from the photograph for a jot of the historical background of your Coach which is so rich in tradition. Stage Coaching In England arrived at Its peak of perfection just prior to the advent of steam power, and as we all know, that giant drove the commercial Coaches off "the road." But in England before that unhappy event, the demand for travel, the completed macadamized road system and the competition of the "Opposition Coaches" had resulted in such reliability and speed of service, and in such refinement and smartness of vehicles, appointments and horseflesh, that Stage-Coaching had come to be of great sporting eminence and one reads of gentlemen competing with the professional coachman for the privilege of "handling the rib- bons," even going so far as to (and numbers of them would Were have matched the widely contrasting colors of the vehicle, is the guard with "white" beaver hat standing in the rear, sounding on the Coach horn or "yard of tin" as it was once called, one of a number of merry Coaching tunes such as "Lambs to Sell" or "Buy a Broom" or possibly only "Clear the Road" or some other signal call as "Change Horses." it a Drag, there would been two liveried grooms on the "rumble." There were a number of small differences between these two rather similar types, not recognizable in the picture. On this occasion, the owner and his guests appear to be out for a pleasant drive or maybe they are on their way to or from a polo match or a horse show at the Polo Gounds in Bernardsville.

Such vehicles when parked on the rail with the horses taken out made first rate grandstands GROSS TEAM WINNERS: 1. ANDY'S SPORT SHOP 2. BLAIRSTOWN DINER 3. TINSMAN AUCTION High Team Single Game Net; 121, A- NET DOUBLES CHAMPIONS: 1. L.

GONDA PROSKEY 2. E. CONGER K. KLEM 3. E.

HESLLN-J. CONWAY GROSS DOUBLES WINNERS: 1. E. CONGER K. KLEM 2.

E. HESLIN J. CONWAY 3. J.SANDERS SCOFIELD High Doubles Single Game Net: 501, Hesll NET SINGLES CHAMPIONS: 1. E.

MITSCHKE 2. I. SMITH 3. K. KLEM GROSS SINGLES WINNERS: 1.

2. 3. BERTHOLF PARISI BALDWIN High Single Game Net: 233- MORRIS COUNTY ALL EVENTS ELSIE MITSCHKE (Team 612. Doubles 543, K. KLEM 1636 3.

Eve!" 1 High Single Game of Tournament Ne High Three Games of Tournament Net NOTICE SALE OF REAL ESTATE FOR TAXES AVD ASSESSMENTS BOROUGH OF BERNARDSVILLE The said lands so subject to the sale described in accordance with tan owner, as shown on the last tax duplicate and the aggregate of ism thereon on the first day of January, 1955, below: Assessed in the Name of Jones, Helen E. Santillo, Dominic Santlllo, Dominic Peto, Martin Tufaro. J. P. Kapchuk, Henry Kapchuk.

Henry Maddaluna, Anthony Crovelli, James Koenen, Wm. J. anri including the name of the Street 71 Mine Mt. Rd, 36 Bernards Ave. 36 Bernards Ave.

78 Prospect St. Ann Street Mine Brook Hd. Mine Brook Rd. 3 Dayton Cr. 11 Dayton Cr.

28 Ann Street Block or Section and Lot Number 8 46- 2 46- 2 47- 15 17- F-15 1 IB- 1 48 46 17-G9 Description 11 Lit LIB LAB L. V. L. LtB L4B 19S5 Tax 95 811 35.32 1198 iAdded) 59 37 123. 79.90 7.63 (IBM) Interest to July 1, 19S6 52 1.53 4B 3 4K 7 4J0 .24 The land will be sold subject to all taxes subsequent to 1954 with to assessment installments not yet due and interest therenn from Julv 2 ht arid rt 'rom July JBI, jtfne 10 a te of sale.

1st, 1958 to Any of the aforesaid tracts or loU may be redeemed bv the costs and costs. of sale. In the undersigned Collector before sale, of the The costs in each case will be as follows: 1. For giving nf ot. sold, 3, for each certificate 50c; 4.

In addition to the above necessarv dUb.irJ^. or each ar land advertised; 2. lf! aisbursements for printing, DosUee. advertisements and Given unto my hand this 23rd day of April, 1987. Collector nf Taxes of th' County ol Somerset,.