tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82516748885685671682024-03-14T05:20:00.099-04:00Five Towns Local HistoryHewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-75670066592776741542017-02-24T15:45:00.001-05:002017-02-24T22:06:32.903-05:00Fathers of the Five Towns: Harold and Sanford Jacobi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the early Twentieth Century, the first wave of real estate development in Hewlett saw Carleton Macy's Hewlett Bay Park Corporation erect large homes in varied styles on five-acre plots in what is today the incorporated village of Hewlett Bay Park. These served as seasonal homes, sometimes rented to other summer vacationers, if their owners planned on yachting at Newport rather than on the Long Island shore. Most did not have heating plants and so were inhospitable during the colder months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The area attracted a wealthy population to the area and, to accommodate their lifestyle, facilities like the Seawane Club, the Woodmere Club and the Inwood Club joined the Rockaway Hunting Club in providing recreational services to their clientele. Mobster Arnold Rothstein opened a beachfront casino at Hewlett Harbor in 1916 and the area was well-known for rum-running in the 1920's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the Great Depression of the 1930s, many of the formerly wealthy landowners were forced to sell their property in the "country" and when money again became available, builders and speculators subdivided the large estates and sold them to the new middle class as well as the affluent who had retained their fortunes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brothers Sanford (1879-1938) and Harold Jacobi (1884-1938), the founders of the Schenley Distillers Corporation, built homes in Hewlett Harbor during the 1930's, on property from several of the original Hewlett Bay Company properties. With origins in Germany, their grandfather, Simon, (listed as a mohel in census records) emigrated to New Orleans before 1850. After resettling in New York, the family returned to New Orleans, where Sanford was born. Emile Jacobi, their father moved the family to Alabama, where the boys grew up. By they had established themselves in the distilling industry. Their careers brought them to Chicago and, eventually, New York. After the repeal of Prohibition, they became affiliated with the Schenley Products Company, rising through the ranks to eventually found their own division.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Both brothers commissioned houses in Woodmere from designs by Olive Tjaden of Garden City one of only a handful of women who were licensed architects at that time. Harold Jacobi’s house, a Tudor mansion built in 1931, was the subject of a 1935 article in </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Housekeeping</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Attached to her copy of the article, Tjaden was quick to note that she was </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHrftIMHV6CSwNA6ne9BNe-H14127tN9052cAjbCqol4slO2YQNB2QUyx-29R3TYkBKnQZZ49Bb1xIA21LbebVeadxjRvfY-sqAHyR0b-_mN7F5Afxbr5FcNaPeuTU4cUL51C2ne-CuLc/s1600/HJacobiHouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">responsible for the design of the interior woodwork and several interior color schemes attributed to Mrs. Jacobi, in addition to the external features:</span></span>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tjaden considered these houses among her major works.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sanford’s house, built before 1935, was a white Georgian Colonial with extensive gardens.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In her notes, Tjaden describes 10,000 tulips which awaited the installation of statuary.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a separate building for the water pumping station which was used for the sprinkler and air conditioning systems.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tragically, Sanford Jacobi died at age
59 in November of 1938 and Harold died of a stroke at the age of 54 a little more than a month later on December 31.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; margin: 0px;"> Over 350 attended a memorial service at his home on Short Cut Road. Harold's wife, Freda also succumbed to a stroke in January 1939 at the age of 52. Within a few years, their daughters relocated and the properties were sold. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1941, the firm of Jaeger Brothers purchased both sites, which totaled about 20 acres, from the Jacobi estates. Bordered on the North and South by East Rockaway Road and Everit Avenue and by Auerbach Avenue and Schenks Lane on the East and West, their development of forty homes was called The Birches at Hewlett Harbor The homes were built on plots which were a minimum of 1/3 acre and sold for between $16,500 and $25,000.
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<li><a href="http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=109197" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Guide to the Papers of the Jacobi-Schlossberg Family</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (American Jewish Historical Society. Center for Jewish History)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA02919.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Olive Tjaden Papers</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"350 Attend Rites for Harold Jacobi," </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, January 3, 1939, p. 17.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Sanford Jacobi, 59, Schenley Official," </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The New York Times</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, November 29, 1938, p. 23.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Rites for Mrs. Jacobi," The New York Times, January 21, 1939, p. 15.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Schlossbergs Off for Southland," </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Newsday</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, September 11, 1941, p. 19.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In</span></span></span></span> 1889, several amateur teams began to explore the possibility of fo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ming a league. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1899</span></span></span>, six teams, including </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Freeport, Hempstead, Valley Stream, Rockville Centr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and </span> Wantagh </span></span></span></span></span></span>combined to for<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">m the South Side League</span>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baldwin an<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d Amityville soon joined<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">he Woodmere team did not apply for membership. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, in</span> 1903, the Cedarhurst team di<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d apply<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and by 1905, the team proved a formidable opponent in the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">league</span>.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1909, philanthropist Olivia Sage (Mrs. Russell Sage) purchased the Cedarhurst baseball grounds in 1909, for the purpose of erecting affordable housing for working people. The Cedarhurst Field Club, which had been formed in 1903 played under the management of Thomas J. Brown of Cedarhurst. </span>Samuel
N. Hinckley (1881-1931) eventually a Harvard-educated stock broker and real estate
investor, <a href="https://archive.org/details/1905report2nd02harvuoft" target="_blank">spent three years playing first base with the Cedarhurst semi-professional team</a>. Cedarhurst Justice of the Peace Lewis Raisig often served as umpire. The team played home games at the Nassau Trade School Field on Lawrence Avenue in Lawrence on Saturdays and holidays until the construction of a new field<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> on Fifth Avenue between Rockaway Turnpike and Washington Avenue in 1915.</span> Away games were played on Sundays.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(BDE, </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">6/1/1913, p.11)</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1914, Cedarhurst played Inwood for the Championship of the Rockaway Branch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The attraction of the local leagues was accessibility and the fun of watching neighbors and friends, but it could not compare to the excitement of the major leagues once they developed. In 1903, Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the defunct Baltimore franchise
of the American League for $18,000 and then move the team to Manhattan. After 1913 season, this team would be known as the Yankees. Their popularity and performance increased dramatically after the acquisition of Babe Ruth in 1920. During the period from 1912 to 1915, <a href="http://ftlh.blogspot.com/2013/04/fathers-of-five-towns-james-e-gaffney.html" target="_blank">James Gaffney</a> of Cedarhurst was the owner of the National League's Boston Braves.</span><br />
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The "Dead-Ball Era" is the sobriquet usually given to the years between 1900 and 1919, a time of low scoring games. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baseball_in_the_United_States" target="_blank"> One source </a>elaborates:<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The term also accurately describes the condition of the baseball
itself. Baseballs cost three dollars apiece, a hefty sum at the time,
which in 1900 would be equal to $85 today; club owners were therefore
reluctant to spend much money on new balls if not necessary. It was not
unusual for a single baseball to last an entire game. By the end of the
game, the ball would be dark with grass, mud, and tobacco juice, and it
would be misshapen and lumpy from contact with the bat. Balls were only
replaced if they were hit into the crowd and lost, and many clubs
employed security guards expressly for the purpose of retrieving balls
hit into the stands—a practice unthinkable today.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">As a consequence, home runs were rare, and the "inside game" dominated—singles, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunt_%28baseball%29" title="Bunt (baseball)">bunts</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">stolen bases</a>, the hit-and-run play, and other tactics dominated the strategies of the time.</span></blockquote>
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For amateur and semi-professional teams, the conditions must have been even worse.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1937, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bushwicks" target="_blank">Max Rosner</a>, owner of the <a href="http://www.covehurst.net/ddyte/brooklyn/bushwicks.html" target="_blank">Brooklyn Bushwicks</a> and Bill Leuschner of <a href="http://coe.k-state.edu/annex/nlbemuseum/history/players/strong.html" target="_blank">Nat Strong</a>, Inc., organized the Metropolitan <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Baseball Association for semi pro teams in the Greater New York Area. To qualify, teams had to have a quality home field with lights for night games. Because of the ban on night games during World War II, the association was suspended, but<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> re-formed in 1946.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kroessler, p. 125-6.)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Cedarhurst Municipal Stadium was
located near the intersection of Peninsula Boulevard and Rockaway
Turnpike, on the site of today's Lawrence Senior High School. </span>
<span style="font-family: "arial";">It was
built by the Village of Cedarhurst in 1937 with workers furnished by the WPA. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Between 1937 and 1941, it hosted s</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">emi-professional Metropolitan Baseball League teams,
including the New York Black Yankees and the Brooklyn Royal Giants of
the Negro National League. Negro League baseball stars like Marion
"Sugar" Caine and Barney Brown played at Cedarhurst during the 1939
season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The home team was the Cedarhurst Cedars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a young man, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Wessex-Roman;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Bert Moser played in the minor leagues for a short time.</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Wessex-Roman;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Born
on August 6, 1918 in Cedarhurst, he spent his early years watching the
teams at Cedarhurst Stadium. According to Bert, they played some of the
best teams in their class such as the Bushwicks, House of David, Detroit
Clowns, Black Yankees or Giants, Cuban All Stars and Springfield Grays.
He would stand out there with a little mitt on Sunday afternoon
catching balls, and when the game started sneak up into the stands or
sell peanuts." </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Wessex-Roman;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Interview with Bert Moser, <i><a href="http://www.sabr.org/" target="_blank">Society for American Baseball Research</a></i> website)</span></span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/browse/#h1v-E97eP">The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</a></i>, <a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/browse/#h1v-E97ePqa8T5cxKtaE4K1d7-itDZuIo">16 Oct 1938,</a>, <a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/#52642425">Page 39</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;"> The Cedarhurst Baseball Club disbanded in the summer of 1949, The previous season, the Cedars had reduced their games from three nights a week to just Sunday evenings. While they had one of the top semi-pro teams in the East, they lost many of their players and their fans dwindled to an average of 300 per game. Competition from major league teams, television, and night harness racing ll contributed to the demise of semi-professional baseball in the New York area. As black baseball players found positions in the major leagues, the stars that made semi-pro baseball a draw were gone and eventually, so was baseball in the Branch.</span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small;">Further information</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Federal Writers' Project (New York). <i><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b630295;view=1up;seq=5" target="_blank">The story of the five towns : Inwood, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Hewlett, Nassau County, Long Island</a></i>.
[Rockville Centre, NY] : Nassau Daily Review-Star, 1941.</span></span></span></h1>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NccnAAAAYAAJ&dq=cedarhurst%20cedars%20baseball&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q=cedarhurst%20cedars%20baseball&f=false" target="_blank">Harvard College. Class of 1905, </a><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=NccnAAAAYAAJ&dq=cedarhurst%20cedars%20baseball&pg=PA123#v=onepage&q=cedarhurst%20cedars%20baseball&f=false" target="_blank"><i>Secretary's Second Report</i>, </a>p. 123.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb11712016__Sgreater%20new%20york%20sports%20chronology__Orightresult__U__X7?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Kroessler, Jeffrey A. <i>Great</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>er New York Sport Chronology</i> (New York : C<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">o</span>lumbia University Press, 2009.)</span></a></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/5709502/victorious_woodsburghers/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Victorious Woodsburghers<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">," <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, September 3, 1895, p. 7.</span> </span></a></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baseball_in_the_United_States" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">History of Baseball in the United States (Wikipedia) </span></a></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cycleback.com/museumbb.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Cycleback's Online Museum of Early Baseball History Memorabilia</span> </span></a></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/1905report2nd02harvuoft" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Secretary's Report Harvard<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> College</span>, Class of 1905 (p. 123) </span></a></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brooklyn Daily Eagle </span> </span></span></span></h1>
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</span></span></span></span>Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-81905510883062448582016-05-23T13:15:00.001-04:002019-05-06T18:11:06.150-04:00The Hewlett Homestead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">May is Preservation Month</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">While a British citizen might describe a Victorian structure as "new," most Long Islanders would envision an "old building" as one which predates 1970.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyHRvnabynp7E1VTm-gJoCfNqV5vcLjkEFAv22d9LSGIts2CT_GGGBrNpQPAUSVhl_pdervsxdGYYEpcX8oB1p-G1uLaCLtY3vO9Z9Us2tM1D9sWyQCX4x-d1ts5eBXme6YdiEE8YAp4/s1600/HHouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVyHRvnabynp7E1VTm-gJoCfNqV5vcLjkEFAv22d9LSGIts2CT_GGGBrNpQPAUSVhl_pdervsxdGYYEpcX8oB1p-G1uLaCLtY3vO9Z9Us2tM1D9sWyQCX4x-d1ts5eBXme6YdiEE8YAp4/s200/HHouse.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The area known today as the Five Towns is fortunate to have a number of historic buildings - homes, schools and stores -- which date back to the early Twentieth Century and some much older. Many of the original Victorian "cottages" in Lawrence's Isle of Wight still retain their original character. The original Brower homestead at 989 East Broadway in Woodmere is one of the oldest in the area. Although it has been modernized, property records date it back to 1763. <a href="http://www.friendsofrockhall.org/" target="_blank">Rock Hall </a>in Lawrence, an ancestral home of the Hewlett family, is museum of colonial life administered by the Town of Hempstead. And the Hewlett Homestead at 86 East Rockaway Road in Hewlett was the home of many members of the Hewlett family from 1749 until 1986.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">George Hewlett, the first Hewlett to settle in this area, was born in England in 1634. He was part of an English community which emigrated to Long Island - by way of Connecticut - and negotiated treaties with the Dutch governors and native inhabitants to establish a population center in what is now Hempstead. According to his descendant, Charles W. Hewlett, the family soon established several farms along the wagon trail that stretched from today's Broadway (once an Indian trail) to Near Rockaway (today's East Rockaway).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Photographs of the Hewlett house taken c.1984.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqVMct6XqlZmZXKWiixc6VE7hATDKRP8cwNB8L3KfCgyyVFCJDeg5-vMYGM5LJ2iwaIKWPRkyNy6f89YQSDzOREIusW2jFVtFx-JFRzcehMGfm1uOJh5R7O-Qad-t3DCNr8a6mweb7Cs/s1600/hhouse024.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUqVMct6XqlZmZXKWiixc6VE7hATDKRP8cwNB8L3KfCgyyVFCJDeg5-vMYGM5LJ2iwaIKWPRkyNy6f89YQSDzOREIusW2jFVtFx-JFRzcehMGfm1uOJh5R7O-Qad-t3DCNr8a6mweb7Cs/s320/hhouse024.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The site of George Hewlett's original home, was alled "The House at the Head of the Vly," and was situated at the head of George's Creek near Willow pond in present-day Hewlett Bay Park. After George's death, his grandson Daniel lived in the house until his purchase of Richard Green's farmhouse (the current Hewlett house) and its surrounding two hundred acres of land. At the time the Green property was surrounded by woods. Joel Morris writes:</span></span><br />
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The Hewletts were a large and influential family in 19th and 20th century Long Island. As farmers, dry goods merchants, members of Trinity Church, and Nassau County's early Republican party, Hewletts were active in the Branch communities. This culminated in Augustus Hewlett's 1897 donation of land for the renamed Hewlett railroad station, which in 1893 had been changed to Fenhurst.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Nassau County Historical Society Journal</i> (1966), p.12</td></tr>
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George Wilson Hewlett (1887-1969) and his wife, Cerecies (nee Watts) were the last Hewletts to reside in the house. George W. served forty years on the Hewlett Fire Department and was a member of its Board of Commissioners. He served on the School Board of District 14 for forty-six years and was its President for thirty-four years. The Hewlett-Woodmere School District's high school is named in honor of George W. Hewlett. After his death in 1969, Cerecies lived in the house until her death in 1984. She deeded the house to the Hewlett-Woodmere School District Board of Education in 1974, with the right of life tenancy. Unfortunately, the District could not afford the restoration and upkeep on the property and by May 1997 school district voters approved the sale of one-half acre of the property to Nassau County for $1. The school district retained the remaining land.<br />
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Controversy has surrounded the property since the death of Cerecies Hewlett as family, community and government try to determine the best course for its management and preservation. Since 2001, the Hewlett house, designated a local landmark by the Town of Hempstead, has been the home of <a href="https://www.blogger.com/1in%209:%20the%20Long%20Island%20Breast%20Cancer%20Action%20Coalition" target="_blank">1 in 9: the Long Island Breast Cancer Action Coalition. </a><br />
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May is National Preservation Month. This is a wonderful opportunity for groups and individuals to show their concern for our local history and the buildings that reflect our past. Let others know which places matter to you!<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: small;">Further Information: (some links may require H-WPL Library card login.<i></i> </span></u><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Hewlett, Charles W. <i>The Story of the Heritage of the Rockaway Peninsula and the Adjoining Five Towns</i>, 1965.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Morris, Joel J.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">"</span><span style="font-size: small;">The Hewlett House, 1749-1984: A Family History," <i>Nassau County Historical Society Journal</i>, 1996, pages 13-18.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://savingplaces.org/this-place-matters#.VyIdnXonKR4" target="_blank">Preservation Month - May 2016: This Place Matters </a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.nps.gov/Nr/national_register_fundamentals.htm" target="_blank">National Parks Service: National Register of Historic Places </a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="TF"><span class="tf"><a href="http://media.proquest.com/media/pq/hnp/pc/1652696/page/735/pdf?hl=cerecies%2Ccerecies%2Chewlett%2Chewlett%2Chouses%2Chouse%2Chouses%2Chouse&_a=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&_s=gy2AshxbNRkXggTCyLxxrBXYEcA%3D#statusbar=1&zoom=150" target="_blank">Monahan, Sharon."Hewlett asks aid to save old house.<i>" New York Times, November 1, 1987,</i> p. 12.<i> </i></a> </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/district-community-at-odds-over-organic-garden-1.4248186" target="_blank">Whittle, Patrick, "District, community at odds over organic garden," <i>Newsday</i>, November 20, 2012 (Newsday.com)</a></span></li>
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<u><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></u>Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-371845894967759142016-04-13T10:56:00.001-04:002017-02-24T22:07:10.207-05:00Fathers of the Five Towns: William Adams<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Residence of S.F. Morris*, Hewlett </td></tr>
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One hundred years ago, the Branch communities were renowned for their beautiful homes and gardens. The summer season, which attracted vacationers from all over the world, was the perfect time for gracious outdoor entertaining in these seaside locales, and this was reflected in grand lawns and spacious areas for entertaining.<br />
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Among the celebrated architects creating these magnificent country homes, was William Adams (1870-1956), a resident of Lawrence.<br />
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Adams was the grandson of the Rev. William Adams, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church and a founder of Union Theological Seminary. The younger Adams attended Yale University and later studied at Columbia University's School of Architecture. According to the <a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/6593022/upper-east-side-historic-district-designation-report-nycgov/489" target="_blank"><i>Michigan Society of Architects Monthly</i> 30 (April, 1956), p. 11,</a><br />
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"The earliest recorded work by William Adams is the remodelling [sic] of his own house, a handsome Greek Revival residence at No. 23 West 10th Street, in 1893. The following year, he formed a practice, which lasted until at least 1911, with Charles P. Warren and, in association, Professor A.D.F. Hamlin, former head of the School of Architecture at Columbia University."</blockquote>
On New Years Day of 1894, Adams married Boston socialite Alice Cameron Greenleaf. Their wedding in the Berkshires was a high point of the New York and Boston society calendars. Their family soon grew to include three sons: William (b.1894), Lewis Greenleaf (1897-1977), and John Thatcher (b.1908). By 1900, the couple had left Manhattan for Lawrence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Adams house at 80 Causeway</td></tr>
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Adams designed and built his home at 80 Causeway, not far from real estate magnates Samuel P. Hinckley and Robert Burton, financiers James R. Keene, J. Henry Work, Talbot J. Taylor and Albert Francke. Francke, a classmate at Yale, was an usher at Adams' wedding. He was also a client. The home which Adams designed for Francke, built around 1899, is featured in the January 17, 1912 issue of <i>American Architect and Building News.</i></div>
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William Adams showed a great sensitivity for designing his houses to complement their location, and for the location to enhance the house's design.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">"[H]is plans capitalized on their sites, [he was admired] for the straightforward arrangement and good proportion of his rooms, and for the appropriateness of his designs to the Long Island landscape. "</span> -- MacKay, p. 38</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Houses by Adams have many features in common. In each, the main public rooms (entry hall, living room, dining room, and den or library) occupy the ground floor of the main block, with sun rooms in one wing and kitchen and service rooms in another wing on the opposite side of the main block. </span></blockquote>
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In addition to the house designed for Albert Francke, Adams designed several other houses in the area:<br />
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<li>with Charles Peck Warren, Federal Revival shingled house with a gambrel roof for <b>Mrs. S.P. Sampson</b>, Lawrence, c.1900</li>
<li>for <b>Howard Summers Kniffin, Sr.</b> (1870-1929), financier and partner in Kniffin and Caffrey (a hemp and jute brokerage firm) at <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/515+Ocean+Ave,+Lawrence,+NY+11559/@40.613095,-73.7158067,3a,75y,119h,90t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sSrWyug6lTO_soTxCd9SN5Q!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DSrWyug6lTO_soTxCd9SN5Q%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D392%26h%3D106%26yaw%3D119.28403%26pitch%3D0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c26596d4bb1c87:0xc7ebedf6ab4d96a7!6m1!1e1?hl=en" target="_blank">515 Ocean Avenue, Lawrence.</a> The house, <i>Restleigh</i> was a Georgian Revival home, built in 1911. The home was later owned by Robert Morrow.</li>
<li>for realty broker <a href="http://www.oldlongisland.com/2010/02/john-f-scott-residence.html" target="_blank">John F. Scott</a> (d.1934), a brick Federal Revival-style house in Hewlett Bay Park.</li>
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<li>for attorney <b>Norton Perkins</b>, (1875-1925), a partner in McCurdy and Yard, and a trustee of the village of Lawrence. The Georgian Revival-style house, <i>Whale Acres</i> was located at 350 Ocean Avenue in Lawrence and was built c.1914. It was later owned by merchant and financier <b>Samuel Sloan Achincloss, Sr</b>. (1873-1934).</li>
<li>for C.Lawrence Perkins, a financier involved with railroads in Hewlett, (<i>American Architect & Building News,</i> January 17, 1912). </li>
<li>for financier <b>Alfred Oliphant Norris</b> (b.1901) at 70 Causeway, Lawrence, in 1897, the house was subsequently purchased by the architect's son, William Adams III (b1895), <i>Landfall</i> The younger Adams was a capitalist and builder. He owned the house until 1951, when it was sold to Stephen Baker Finch. It was renovated in 2006.</li>
<li>for stock broker<b> Stuyvesant Fish Morris (d.1925), </b>a descendent of President Martin Van Buren, <br />*The photograph labeled "Residence of S.F. Norris" which appears in <i>American Architect and Building News</i>, January 17, 1912 was, in this author's opinion, the home of Stuyvesant Fish <b>Morris </b>which is located on Everit Avenue between Hewlett Lane and Auerbach Avenue (now 235 Everit Avenue) in Hewlett Bay Park<b>. </b></li>
<li>for financier <a href="http://www.oldlongisland.com/2010/01/arthur-peck-residence.html" target="_blank"><b>Arthur Nelson Peck</b>,</a> a shingled house, c.1912 on Channel Road in Woodsburgh. Peck was the president of Walters, Peck, and Co., a stock brokerage firm. The house is featured in a 1912 issue of <i>House Beautiful (v. 31) Feb 1912: 183.</i></li>
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Adams also designed the 1913 Lawrence High School building, the 1914 Woodmere Academy and the No. 4 School in Inwood, which opened in 1911 and is still in use.<br />
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<i> </i>A practicing architect for forty years, Adams retired in 1932. He was a member emeritus of the American Institute of Architects and a member of the University Club of New York and the Rockaway Hunting Club. William Adams died in 1956 and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.<br />
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<li> <span class="TF"><span class="tf">"Gay Times in Berkshire". (1892, Sep 25). <i>New York Times (1857-1922)</i> Retrieved from <a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/94955377?accountid=11387" target="_blank">http://search.proquest.com/docview/94955377?accountid=11387</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf">"Greenleaf-Adams Wedding". (1898, Oct 26). <i>Boston Daily Globe (1872-1922)</i> Retrieved from<a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/498944841?accountid=11387%C2%A0" target="_blank"> http://search.proquest.com/docview/498944841?accountid=11387 </a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10668666__Slong%20island%20country%20houses__Orightresult__U__X6?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Mackay, Robert B, et. al. <i>Long Island Country Houses and Their Architects, 1860-1940</i>. New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.</a></li>
<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf"><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50386057/" target="_blank">"Summer News from Long Island Resorts," <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> July 16, 1899, p. 32.</a></span></span></li>
<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dugpAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA505&dq=homes%20designed%20by%20william%20adams%20%22long%20Island%22%20%20%20%20-delano&pg=PA505#v=onepage&q=homes%20designed%20by%20william%20adams%20%22long%20Island%22%20%20%20%20-delano&f=false" target="_blank"><span class="TF"><span class="tf">Warren, Charles P. "Examples of the Country house work of William Adams," <i>Architectural</i> <i>Record,</i> vol. XLIII no. VI (June, 1918) p. 505-525. </span></span></a></li>
<li>"$150,000 Schoolhouse dedicated at Inwood," <i>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, June 17, 1911, p. 6.</li>
<li>"William Adams, 86, was Architect." <i>The New York Tribune/Herald Tribune</i>, March 11, 1956, p. 66.</li>
<li>William Adams family tree at <a href="http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php/William-Adams/p499665" target="_blank">Our Family Tree</a>.</li>
<li>"Norton Perkins, Lawyer and Clubman, Dies at 50," <i>The New York Herald/New York Tribune</i>, July 16, 1925, p. 7.</li>
<li>"S.F. Morris Jr., Broker, Kin to Van Buren, Dies." <i>The New York Herald/New York Tribune</i>, April 10, 1925, p. 17. </li>
<li>"John F. Scott: a Founder of Rockaway Hunting Club of Cedarhurst," <i>The New</i> <i>York Times</i>, January 4, 1934, p. 19.</li>
<li>"H.S. Kniffen Services: Funeral for Jute Importer to Be Held in Cedarhurst Today," <i>New York Herald Tribune</i>, November 28, 1929, p. 23.</li>
<li>"Albert Francke, on Stock Exchange," <i>The New York Times</i>, March 16, 1945, p. 15.</li>
<li><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0p3L768BTHuTzhKbG1ud0htcjA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Morris, Joel J. "Hewlett Bay Park: The Hunting Club Connection," <i>The Nassau County Historical Society Journal</i>, volume XLIX (1994), pp.15-26.</a></li>
<li>"Woman Lays Cornerstone: Woodmere's New Academy will Accommodate 150 People," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 24, 1914, p. 33.</li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In the Five Towns, such a place is Hungry Harbor Road. Inhabitants of the homes built in the area which has variously been called Lord's Woods (when owned by the Lord Family) or later Woodmere Woods, may not know that the area has been called Hungry Harbor (or Harbour) since colonial times.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the 1643 agreement between Long Island's English settlers and Native tribes established the borders for the Town of Hempstead, boundary disputes with the settlers at Jamaica (originally the Dutch settlement of Rustdorp) were not infrequent. The </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fivetownshistory/home/records-of-the-town-of-jamaica" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dongan Patent agreements of 1681 between the Towns of Jamaica and Hempstead </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">defined the boundary line:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The name "Hungry Harbor" was in use as early as 1682, when John Tredwell of Hemsted [sic] deeded meadow land at Hungry Harbor to Jonathan Smith, Jr. of the same place. (<i>NY Genealogical and Biographical Record,</i> vol. 42). Although Hungry Harbor, a swamp, was not a good place to grow food crops, (hence one of the explanations for its name), it yielded salt hay -- a valuable commodity. (More information about the salt hay industry appears in the </span><a href="http://ftlh.blogspot.com/2009/08/marshing-season.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">FTLH blog of 8/20/2009.)</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Samuel Carmen's will of 1728 mentions Hungry Harbor as Carmen's "plantation on Long Island." Several other documents of the period (a 1738 bill of sale from George Clarke to Josiah Martin (owner of Rock Hall), and the wills of Edward Cornell (October 1770 and Nathaniel Frost, (March 1782) mention salt meadows "lying in Hungry Harbour."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">An 1854 article in <i>Knickerbocker Magazine</i> ("Editor's Table," v. 43, p. 191) mentions Mr. Pemberton, a merchant of New York City. Pemberton contracted "fever-and ague which was in his eyes more to be dreaded than cholera, yellow fever or the plague," during his youth at Hungry Harbor and never returned to the Rockaways.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">As early as the seventeenth century, Hungry Harbor became known as a haven for squatters and poachers.* The meadows and swamps were town lands, leased to individual tenants, but not every resident was an paying tenant. A 1909 <em>New York Times</em> article chronicles the eviction of a 76 year-old squatter, the indigent granddaughter of a Revolutionary War soldier. Others lived on boats. In a 1932 article, William Eibler (1861-1941), reminisced about his childhood in Rosedale and his impressions of Hungry Harbor. Eibler retells a pre-Civil War story of a group of Massachusetts explorers who got lost in the swamp and starved to death. This is similar to a story told in Oregon about a bay called Hungry Harbor along the Columbia River:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During the last decades of the Nineteenth Century, members of the </span><a href="http://ftlh.blogspot.com/2015/08/franklin-butler-lords-meadow-edge-farm.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lord family</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://ftlh.blogspot.com/2015/08/franklin-butler-lords-meadow-edge-farm.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(FTLH blog of 8/6/2015)</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> owned vast tracts of land in what is now Cedarhurst and Woodmere; their land holdings stretched from the Rockaway line LIRR tracks to the Queens border. Attorney Franklin B. Lord was President of the Long Island Water Company, whose pumping station also occupied some of this property. Although much of his land consisted of woodlands, low-lying bog and marshland, Lord constructed a country home on the property. The home was well-maintained during Lord's life, but after his death in 1916, </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dr. Robert M. Lee, a dentist, bought the property </span><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/4032684/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">with an eye towards development </span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">and after 1952 was developing other properties in the area To this end, he created a private lake and used the dredged land from the lake as landfill for adjacent lots.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the Hewlett end of the Lord's Woods, another squatters community existed as late as the 1950s. (see <em>Newsday</em> article below). During and after the Great Depression, whole families squatted in abandoned houses along the route of the yet-to-be-constructed Peninsula Boulevard. Their children attended school and, occasionally were the recipients of charity from their more affluent neighbors. Those living in the neighborhood considered Sunken City, whom appear in the 1940 U.S. Census, were white, native born Americans with an elementary school education. The head of the house was working (but for very low comparative wages) to support large families with many children. A number of men worked as laborers for the WPA. Truck drivers and gardeners were also common professions. For these people, prosperity was still very far away.</span><br />
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<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Tb8_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=%22marshing+season%22+tredwell&source=bl&ots=h1qKdvqJRL&sig=M4xsXB_lNGL-SyKq4VSNXonHoww&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjK_eC184vKAhWDXR4KHbilCf8Q6AEIIjAB#v=snippet&q=marshing&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tredwell, Daniel. <i>Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island.</i> (Ditmas, 1912).</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=xEDhAAAAMAAJ&dq=knickerbocker%20magazine%20pemberton%20%22hungry%20harbor%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q=knickerbocker%20magazine%20pemberton%20%22hungry%20harbor%22&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Editor's Table," <i>Knickerbocker Magazine</i>, (1854) vol. 43, p. 191. </span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201932%2FJamaica%2520NY%2520Long%2520Island%2520Daily%2520Press%25201932%2520-%25206436.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff9cfa2b7a%26DocId%3D4763312%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3D2f0%2B2f1%2B31d%2B31e%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"</i>Rosedale was called Foster <i>Meadows Three Score Years Ago...," Long Island Sunday Press</i>, October 16, 1932, p. 10).</span></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/4032684/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Lee Colony Homes on Exhibition in Woodmere, L.I.," <i>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, July 1, 1951, p. 31. </span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></li>
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<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10479858__Shistory%20of%20valley%20stream%20ruehl__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-79753c0c-18e5-ff52-6036-fb5104d4c7cd" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ruehl, Harold F. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">History of Valley Stream,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 1840-1975 (Village of Valley Stream, c1975) p. 3.</span></span></a></li>
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><a href="http://www.leagle.com/decision/198169580AD2d615_1438/MATTER%20OF%20TOWN%20OF%20HEMPSTEAD%20v.%20LEE%20ASSOCS.,%20INC." target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>In the Matter of Town of Hempstead, Respondent, v. Lee Associates, Inc., Appellant. </i>Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department. February 17, 1981.</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> (<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Leagle.com</i>, viewed on 1/11/2016)</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">*"History of Branch Reveals Rapid Growth in Recent Years," <em>Nassau Daily Review-Star</em>, March 27, 1937, p. 9.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day–a common misunderstanding, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Memorial Day (the fourth Monday in May) honors American service members who died in service to their country or as a result of injuries incurred during battle, while Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans–living or dead–but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime. -- History Channel web site</span></blockquote>
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The ceremonies held at Andrew Parise Park on Veteran's Day 2015 evoked the memory another ceremony at the park (then Cedarhurst Park) in November of 1923. Then, the newly formed Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion Post 339 erected a memorial to nine local veterans of World War I who had died in service. They found themselves at the center of controversy the local Ku Klux Klan attempted to lay a wreath at the Thanksgiving dedication ceremony.<br />
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As the attached articles recount, the ceremony was about to begin when three members of the Klan - who did not wear their traditional robes or hoods on this occasion -- brought a wreath to the ceremony and desired to place it on the memorial. The family of Lawrence Wood, one of the deceased servicemen, wanted the Klansmen to place their wreath. The Legionnaires opposed them and the situation deteriorated, with fist fights breaking out. The agitated crowd of about 1500 was eventually calmed by the efforts of Col. Wickersham, the Legion post commander and by Rabbi Isaac Landman's impassioned speech in which he stated that the men that they honored that day did not die so "that America should be torn by racial hatred and religious conflict." <i>New</i> <i>York</i> <i>Times</i>, 11/30/1923, p. 3). The situation did not resolve itself until the police came and the Klan members retreated.<br />
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In researching this story, this author found that, as the participants feared, the ceremony overshadowed the reason for the memorial -- the nine young men who made the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their country. It seems appropriate, almost one hundred years later, to offer the names and stories of the men honored on the granite monument in Parise Park. <br />
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<a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/3682453//" target="_blank"><b>SGT. Harry P. Bruhn </b></a><b>lived at "Fair Oaks" on Pacific Avenue in Cedarhurst</b><br />
Born on April 6, 1895, the son of a Danish immigrant carpenter, Sgt. Bruhn was a machine gunner with the 7th New York Infantry. He died September 24, 1918 of wounds received in action and is buried at <span id="docs-internal-guid-104e8531-f7c5-ca4e-c6eb-081bf0d6c258" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/st-mihiel-american-cemetery#.VkOHTThdGLA" target="_blank">Saint Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial</a> in France. (Obituary: <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25209%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201918%2520%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201918%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25206036.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D4bcb2442%26DocId%3D9303438%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520O%252dG%252dT%252dS%26HitCount%3D10%26hits%3Daae%2Bacc%2Bad3%2Bdd3%2B1b1b%2B1bd0%2B1eb3%2B24ef%2B26cd%2B26d3%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank"><i>The Sun</i>, October 18, 1918, p. 12.)</a></span></span><br />
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<b><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/3682440//" target="_blank">CPL. John R. Lantry , Jr. </a>lived on Washington Avenue in Cedarhurst.</b><br />
He was born July 30, 1891, and when he went into the Army he was 5'6" of a medium build with blue eyes and black hair. John Lantry was single and worked with his father as a mason before he went into the Army. He served in the 305th Infantry, Company M and died of lobar pneumonia on December 30, 1917 at Camp Upton, before ever seeing combat. He is buried in St. Mary's Star of the Sea Cemetery in Lawrence.<br />
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<b><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/3682425//" target="_blank">2nd LT. John Edward Mitchell </a>lived on Pearsall Avenue in Cedarhurst.</b><br />
He was born October 6, 1895 and on his draft registration, he is described as tall and slender with blue eyes and light hair. Before the war he was single and worked as a clerk for Hard and Rand in New York City. He served in the 23rd Infantry, Company F and died of disease on his birthday in 1918 at the age of 23. Lt. Mitchell is buried in<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/meuse-argonne-american-cemetery#.VkOVRDhdGLA" id="docs-internal-guid-104e8531-f7fd-e60f-bf06-acdf39cc6b15" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial</span></span></a> in France.<br />
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<b><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%25209%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201918%2520%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201918%2520%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201928.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D3d701c8b%26DocId%3D9299332%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520O%252dG%252dT%252dS%26HitCount%3D6%26hits%3D2c1%2B2c2%2B2c3%2B639%2B63a%2B63b%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank">1st LT. Gordon L. Rand </a>was born on September 3, 1892, the youngest of six children. </b> <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvATh1GV4SuzlcJjgMT4fLcVwOc8_wTcgUbPQYKYZVlKnShQ8KirnRpS7ZSg-0QOglnuUZCTFPGPnfK7gM07MJeK_I-qhuoEY2EsmWw34BUSd8V6YCkGe_G3D6Gi8zKsMqmJa1kPwFX0/s1600/RandGordon_portrait1917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvATh1GV4SuzlcJjgMT4fLcVwOc8_wTcgUbPQYKYZVlKnShQ8KirnRpS7ZSg-0QOglnuUZCTFPGPnfK7gM07MJeK_I-qhuoEY2EsmWw34BUSd8V6YCkGe_G3D6Gi8zKsMqmJa1kPwFX0/s200/RandGordon_portrait1917.jpg" width="161" /></a>He graduated from Yale University in 1912 and went into business with his father's coffee-importing firm, Hard and Rand. He enlisted in the Army in 1915 and served with the Cavalry on the Mexican Border in 1916. When his unit was recalled in 1917, Rand enlisted in the American Ambulance Corps. He was wounded the chest and side from artillery fire and was discharged because of his wounds. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government for penetrating a zone of fire to deliver medical supplies to men who desperately needed them. Although he was himself wounded, he completed the task and helped evacuate the men before seeking treatment. When he recovered, he enlisted in the Aviation Section of the Air Service Signal Corps, a precursor of the U.S. Air Force. Lt. Rand died from wounds received in action on February 5, 1918. There is a headstone memorial at Trinity-St. John's Church in Hewlett, but Lt. Rand is buried at the<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/oise-aisne-american-cemetery#.VkOrGDhdE6E" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span> An <a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252021%2FBuffalo%2520NY%2520Courier%2FBuffalo%2520Ny%2520Courier%25201920%2FBuffalo%2520Ny%2520Courier%25201920%2520-%25207939.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffcb98eded%26DocId%3D7528705%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D3%26hits%3D20f%2B210%2B211%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank">article</a> in the <i>Buffalo Evening Courier </i>chronicles an event witnessed by Rand while he was in his plane and his efforts to create a memorial for the French soldiers lost in that skirmish.<br />
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<b>Because James Laurence Scanlan had red hair, his nickname was "Red".</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfTWA6vZ01dONkkRPzej4JNkiTiIt28y39fRd5vM_3xmqf9omOuPURHqLCpmupPGPklqidJ07Z10Y0YPkV-IZ4kW_DgHxrnbFqHjQ4REirbRdGjcRj3Q718KPWhHNJ3feP-HlKMvhOc0/s1600/ScanlanLawrence_portrait1917.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNfTWA6vZ01dONkkRPzej4JNkiTiIt28y39fRd5vM_3xmqf9omOuPURHqLCpmupPGPklqidJ07Z10Y0YPkV-IZ4kW_DgHxrnbFqHjQ4REirbRdGjcRj3Q718KPWhHNJ3feP-HlKMvhOc0/s200/ScanlanLawrence_portrait1917.jpg" width="120" /></a>Born August 10, 1892, his enlistment application of September 1918 lists his hair color, blue eyes, medium build and his mother's name and his address: Cedarhurst Avenue in Cedarhurst. At the time of enlistment he was working for the Remington Arms Company in Hoboken, NJ. This information omitted the fact that was already a war hero. He had joined the French Foreign Legion in 1914. A battle-related leg injury in 1915 ended his infantry career and left him with one leg shorter than the other. After a lengthy recovery, he registered for the <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Dbe1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA425&lpg=PA425&dq=james+lawrence+scanlon+cedarhurst&source=bl&ots=SBzD4ltykO&sig=URQ7jKhR1VV6u291sYbdaAzVGGk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMI7e_Cx6-JyQIVgjQ-Ch1pyQp3#v=onepage&q=james%20lawrence%20scanlon%20cedarhurst&f=false" target="_blank">Lafayette Escadrille</a> (an all-American squadron fighting the Germans during the time before America officially entered the war). "Red" Scanlan had a colorful career in the <a href="http://www.oysterbayhistorical.org/robert-l-harrison.html" target="_blank">Lafayette Escadrille</a>, resulting in several dramatic crashes, before he retired in 1917. The movies <i>Flyboys (2006) </i>and<i> The Lafayette Escadrille (1958) </i>portray some of the exploits of these American heroes. Although Scanlan later registered for the draft in the U.S., his war wounds continued to plague him and he died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Far Rockaway on November 25, 1921 at the age of 28. (<i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, 11/29/1921, p. 26.) He is buried in St. Mary's Star of the Sea Cemetery in Lawrence.<br />
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<b>PFC. John J. Sullivan was from Cedarhurst.</b> <br />
He served in Company C of the 106th Infantry. He died of wounds November 17, 1918.<br />
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<b>PVT. Ralph B. Watts served with Company B of the 102nd Infantry. </b>He enlisted at Hartford, Connecticut in 1916 and during the summer of that year, served on the Mexican border. Deployed to France, he died April 1, 1918 and is buried at <span id="docs-internal-guid-104e8531-f7c5-ca4e-c6eb-081bf0d6c258" style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/st-mihiel-american-cemetery#.VkOHTThdGLA" target="_blank">Saint Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial</a> in France. (<i>The Daily Long Island Farmer</i>, April 12, 1918, p. 1)</span></span><br />
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<b>Apprentice Seaman (US Navy) Lawrence Lockharte Wood</b> was born in January 1896 and lived at the corner of Oak and Center Streets in Cedarhurst. He enlisted in the Navy in 1916 and d<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ied of pneumonia while at the Naval Training School at Newport, RI on, June 6, 1917.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lawrence Wood was the first young man from the Rockaways to die in service in World War I (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspapers%252023%2FRockville%2520Centre%2520NY%2520South%2520Side%2520Observer%2FRockville%2520Centre%2520NY%2520South%2520Side%2520Observer%25201916%2520Jan-Jun%25201918%2FRockville%2520Centre%2520NY%2520South%2520Side%2520Observer%25201916%2520Jan-Jun%25201918%2520-%25201093.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D6e2b8550%26DocId%3D4840620%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520O%252dG%252dT%252dS%26HitCount%3D4%26hits%3Dec2%2Bec3%2Bec4%2Bed7%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank"><i>South Side Observer</i>, March 1,1918, p. 1)</a></span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Artuse, Bruno</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mott St., Inwood, L. I. N. Y.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pvt., Co. I., 28th Inf.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Died of wounds, November 13, 1918</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.66px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></li>
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<li>Hicks, Charles Reeves, Jr. Cedarhurst Died of Disease Sgt. [born November 21, 1890]</li>
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<u><b>Incident at Cedarhurst Park, November 29, 1923</b></u><br />
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<li><a href="http://liherald.com/stories/Taking-a-stand-against-hatred,73200?" target="_blank">Jeff Bessen. "Taking a Stand Against Hatred," <i>LI Herald.com</i>, November 4, 2015.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/3045953/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle/" target="_blank">"Ku Klux-Legion Clash denounced at Cedarhurst," <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, November 30, 1923, p. 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201923%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Sun%25201923%2520-%25204502.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffce36fce9%26DocId%3D2668453%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26HitCount%3D5%26hits%3Db%2B1b%2B2d%2B4b%2B252%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank">"Klan and Legion Clash in Park, <i>The Sun and The Globe, </i>November 30, 1923, p. 12.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252014%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%25201923%2FBrooklyn%2520NY%2520Standard%2520Union%25201923%2520a%2520-%25200426.pdf&xml=http%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffdf3e2e07%26DocId%3D4561416%26Index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520U%252dF%252dP%26HitCount%3D8%26hits%3D8%2B2d%2B46%2B74%2B13e%2B1ae%2Be54%2Be59%2B%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false" target="_blank">"Legion-Klan fight Stirs Cedarhurst," <i>Brooklyn Standard Union</i>, November 30, 1923, p. 6.</a></li>
<li>"<a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/103152891?accountid=11387" target="_blank">Ku Klux and Legion fight at Monument to 9 Heroes of War." (1923, Nov 30). <i>New York Times </i></a> (requires HWPL library card login) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-twentieth-century" target="_blank">"Ku Klux Klan in the 20th Century" <i>New Georgia Encyclopedia</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/flood-klan/" target="_blank">"The Ku Klus Klan in the 1920s," <i>The American Experience</i>, PBS.org</a></li>
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<b><u>Veterans' Day and Those Who Served</u></b><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/veterans-day-facts" target="_blank">History Channel: Veteran's Day facts</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WIyAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA260&ots=1B2fsgzWeW&dq=Murville%2C%20Meurthe-et-Moselle%20american%20cemetery&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=Murville,%20Meurthe-et-Moselle%20american%20cemetery&f=false" target="_blank">Seymour, James W.D. <i>Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France: "Friends of France, 1914-1917." </i>(Boston: American Field Service, 1921.)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=puI-AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA89&dq=%22james++scanlon+%22+1918&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIttzCv6eJyQIVjHE-Ch3J0AWz#v=onepage&q=%22james%20%20scanlon%20%22%201918&f=false" target="_blank">Kincaid, J. Leslie (comp.) <i>Roll of Honor: Citizens of the State of New York who died in the service of the United States during the World War.</i> (Albany, NY : J.B. Lyon, 1922.)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://larchmonthistory.org/photopost/soldiers-of-the-great-war-ny-wwi-soldiers/p6369-soldiers-of-the-great-war-2c-page-2c-cover-page.html" target="_blank">Haulsee, et al. (comp.) <i>Soldiers of the Great War, vol. 1 New York. </i>(Washington, DC : Soldiers Record Publishing Co., 1920.) <i> </i> (Larchmont Historical Society web site)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.oysterbayhistorical.org/robert-l-harrison.html" target="_blank">Harrison, Robert L. <i>Long Island flyboys: the Lafayette Escadrille</i> (Oyster Bay Historical Society).</a></li>
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He discovered that the church's new addition was occupied by a flock of forty angora goats, which had wandered in an open door and settled in for the night. All but one were asleep. This story appeared in newspapers as far away as the <i>Cincinnati Times</i> and the <i>Daily Arizona Silver Belt.</i></div>
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The goats had escaped from Franklin Lord's Meadow Edge Farm, where they had been purchased to eat weeds on the lawns and meadows. </div>
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Meadow Edge Farm was part of the Lord Family's extensive holdings in The Branch. Their property extended from West Broadway (the railroad tracks) all the way to the Hungry Harbor Road. When the property was purchased, around 1880, The Branch area was part of Queens County, and encompassed the watershed later known as <a href="http://ftlh.blogspot.com/2008/11/woodmere-woods.html" target="_blank">Lord's Woods</a>.<br />
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Before Franklin Lord's death in 1908, the farm, raised rare Berkshire pigs, White Leghorn chickens, Guernsey, Jersey, Ayrshire and Holstein dairy cows and, of course, the angora goats. It was located on West Broadway, a 337-acre site of meadowlands and forests. During its years of milk production, which ended with the closing of the dairy farm in 1912 (<i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, March 5, 1912, p. 14), it was a consistent winner at the New York State Fair in Syracuse, and at the National Dairy Show in Chicago for excellence in milk and cream. In 1924, the last twenty of the family cows were offered for sale (<i>Daily Review</i>, January 25, 1924). The chickens, which were also award-winning layers, remained well into the 1920s. In 1926, Lord's sons (S.D., Edward and George) sold the land to a real estate syndicate for $2 million.<br />
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Franklin Butler Lord (1850-1908) came from a family of distinguished attorneys. His grandfather, <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XRsuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=daniel+lord+harvard&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC8Q6AEwA2oVChMI1sLqjaSLxwIVCiYeCh2RUwve#v=snippet&q=farm&f=false" target="_blank">Daniel Lord</a> , had a national reputation as " a remarkable lawyer." His maternal grandfather, Benjamin F. Butler, was Attorney General of the United States under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Franklin Lord was a member of the law firm of Lord, Day and Lord, founded by his grandfather and his father, Daniel de Forest Lord (1846-1899). According to an article in <i>The New York Times </i>(2/14/1926, p. RE2.), the property was purchased originally by Daniel Lord for less than $300 an acre, or a total of about $110,000. It had been in the Lord family for three generations and had been largely undeveloped since its purchase. By May 1926, advertisements for a public auction of Lord Estate lots were appearing in <i>The Times</i> and other newspapers. </div>
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English and Spanish-style homes designed to sell for less than $12,000 were constructed in 1928. They were designed to contain six rooms and bath, a built-in standing shower, an extra lavatory and garage. (<i>NYT</i>, 1/17/1928, p.51.) The seller was listed as the Woodmere-Cedarhurst Corporation. Louis Minsky (1862-1934), the father of the burlesque producing brothers, was the president of the Lord Estate Corporation at the time of his death in 1934 (<i>NYT</i>, 1/17/1934, p. 17). In 1938, "the Seymour property... known as <i>Sosiego"</i> , twenty acres on Broadway in Lawrence, was purchased by Henry Greenberg and Louis Goldschmidt through Joseph Jackson, a broker, of Lawrence (<i>NYT</i> 7/31/1938, p. 34). <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=By6XJGPEPLcC&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=sosiego+%22daniel+lord%22&source=bl&ots=j_D9nKi-yF&sig=UzKF2Jgf-sfMO6Kbv611m8WpbWk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAmoVChMI2Nb5hI6VxwIVBl4eCh1I5QS4#v=onepage&q=sosiego%20%22daniel%20lord%22&f=false" target="_blank"><i>Sosiego</i> </a>was the name of the mansion and gardens built by Daniel D. Lord V, Franklin's brother, and later owned by his daughter Frances Seymour. (Spinzia, p. 225) It was located at 20 Westover Place, Lawrence. The house currently on that site was built in 1921, according to Nassau County tax records.</div>
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Blogger <a href="http://sbiii.com/longis-1.html#lordswds" target="_blank">S. Berliner shares his thoughts on the Lord's Woods</a> and <a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10095526" target="_blank">Robert Arbib's book of the same name</a>. Arbib, who grew up in the Five Towns of the 1930s and 40s, wrote an evocative account of his formative years exploring the woods, and the process of development that reduced the woods to a small sliver of trees behind the LIPA/National Grid building on Mill Road.<br />
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<li>"Goats Sleep in Church,"<span class="TF"><span class="tf"><i> The Washington Post , October 11, 1907, p. 3. </i> Retrieved from <a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/144719227?accountid=11387" target="_blank">http://search.proquest.com/docview/144719227?accountid=11387</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf">"Franklin B. Lord dies," <i>New York Times, </i></span></span>January 28, 1908, p. 9. <span class="TF"><span class="tf"> Retrieved from <a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/96873393?accountid=11387" target="_blank">http://search.proquest.com/docview/96873393?accountid=11387</a></span></span></li>
<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LW4ZAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA72&dq=%22franklin+b.+lord%22+meadowedge&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAGoVChMI2eyLkuuXxwIVjDs-Ch20awpW#v=onepage&q=%22franklin%20b.%20lord%22%20meadowedge&f=false" target="_blank">"Meadowedge Farm." State of New York. <i>Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture for the year ending September 30, 1910.</i> (Albany : J.B. Lyon, 1911).</a>, </span></span></li>
<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf"><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/clip/2961599//" target="_blank">"Injuries cause death," <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle, </i>May 28, 1910, p. 6</a></span></span><span class="TF"><span class="tf"> </span></span></li>
<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf"> </span></span><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb11706926?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span class="TF"><span class="tf">Spinzia, Raymond and Judith. <i>Long Island's Prominent Families in the Town of Hempstead,</i> (Virtual Bookworm, 2010,) pp.225-6. </span></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10095526" target="_blank"><span class="TF"><span class="tf">Arbib, Robert. <i> The Lord's Woods</i>, </span></span></a><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10095526" target="_blank">(Norton, 1971).</a></li>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-20151180743919281992015-04-29T11:11:00.000-04:002017-02-24T22:08:31.197-05:00German Spies in Cedarhurst; U-Boats off Long Island<br />
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The sinking of the R.M.S. Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915 and the loss of 1,198 lives (among them 128 Americans) was instrumental in the United States declaring war on Germany, but the process was very gradual. President Woodrow Wilson had, since the outbreak of hostilities in Europe during the summer of 1914, tried to maintain the United States' neutrality. Although American banks provided financial assistance to its European allies, overt military intervention was not popular. During the years before the U.S. entered the war in 1917, there was a German consulate in New York, an embassy in Washington, D.C. and the summer embassy in Newport, R.I. -- long the playground of Vanderbilts and Astors. Newport was also the home of the U.S. Naval War College (est. 1884) and a major U.S. Navy installation since the 1790s.</div>
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In 1912 the German communications giant Telefunken funded the construction of a <a href="http://getlucy.org/" target="_blank">wireless station in Sayville</a>, on Long Island's South Shore (about 50 miles from New York City). Situated on 100 acres adjoining the Long Island Railroad. Its two towers, 393 and 100 feet high, were powerful enough to send messages 3,200 miles to the German wireless station at Nauen, near Berlin. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#1" name="top1"><sup>1</sup></a>. In his article "When Wireless Was Young," Wilson L. Glover remembered:</div>
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"the overwhelming whine-and-drone [of the Telefunken tower] quite often utterly precluded decent reception of more distant stations. Anyway, its messages were always in code and so unintelligible that they proved deadly dull reading. The big German station was a clearing house for a vast network of spies then operating in the United States." <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#2" name="top2"><sup>2</sup></a></div>
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From the start, the station was observed by the Navy Department and the Department of Commerce and Labor. But the technology was so new that laws had not yet been written to regulate its use. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#3" name="top3"><sup>3</sup></a>Civilian "Ham" radio enthusiasts were asked by the government to monitor and record the transmissions, which were then decoded by Secret Service agents. The obituary for Charles Apgar, one of those radio operators <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#4" name="top4"><sup>4</sup></a> recounted how the Secret Service broke the German code and discovered that they were directing the activites of submarines. along the Atlantic coast. Although unsubstantiated, there was a rumor that Apgar's recordings provided the message "Get Lucy," which resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania.</div>
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In the summer of 1915, the German Embassy quietly rented an "unpretentious house on the north side of Central Avenue, two blocks from the railroad station" in Cedarhurst, as its summer residence. It was described in the <i>Daily Star, </i> as "a weather-beaten, two story gable-roofed structure, with a large corner lot and a hedge running around the front and western side." <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#5" name="top5"><sup>5</sup></a> About 100 feet from the Embassy was a booth which was continuously manned by Embassy personnel for the transmission and reception of wireless messages to and from the Sayville tower, and ultimately, Berlin. The ambassador, Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, was rarely at the summer embassy and preferred to return to New York City at the end of the day if he came to Cedarhurst. As relations with Germany declined, members of the Cedarhurst Country Club rescinded their offer of membership to the embassy staff, preferring to offer them the services of the club as guests rather than members. Prince Hartfeld von Trachenberg relaxed by playing croquet on the lawn lawn of the Embassy. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#6" name="top6"><sup>6</sup></a> <br />
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By 1916, the increasing u-boat activity in the North Atlantic shipping lanes in defiance of international law increased anti-German sentiment in the U.S. In October of 1916, the submarine U-53 threatened and attacked British and neutral merchant ships off the Nantucket Lightship, within 100 miles of Newport, R.I. <br />
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During the years preceding the Great War, approximately 100,000 German reservists resided in North and South America. Although there were plenty of active duty enlisted men in Germany, there was a shortage of officers, and a plan was developed to send as many reserve officers as possible home to Germany. As early as 1914, agents of the German Embassy bought passports from longshoremen and sailors -- Swedes, Norwegians, Swiss and eventually, even Americans were willing to sell their passports for $25 to $100. It was easy to substitute a photograph and stamp for the originals and soon a brisk business was underway. The leader of this network was found to be Franz von Papen, a military attaché with the Embassy in Washington, D.C., but Ambassador von Bernstorff certainly had knowledge of the scheme. Von Bernstorff, preferring to be involved in the Washington and New York social scenes, was definitely involved in a the appropriation of funds collected for humanitarian purposes by German-Americans and using the money for pro-German propaganda.</div>
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When it was made public that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram" target="_blank">Germany had invited Mexico to enter the war as Germany's ally against the U.S. </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#7" name="top7"><sup>7</sup></a> and offered German assistance in recovering Mexico's former holdings in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, even Wilson re-evaluated his position and severed relations with Germany in February 1917. On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the Great War.<br />
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In addition to the passport plot, the possible targeting of the Lusitania, the misappropriation of the relief funds, the damage done by the German spy network included the destruction of the Vanceboro (Maine) bridge (1915) which linked the U.S. and Canada, the Black Tom ammunition depot in New York Harbor (1916), and plots to bomb Ontario's Welland Canal and to attach "rudder bombs" to the propellers of ships leaving U.S. Pacific ports. Authorities foiled plots in Seattle, San Francisco and Hoboken. On July 19, 1918, Coast Guard patrols at Fire Island sighted a submarine off Bay Shore. Shortly after that, the <a href="http://new%20york%20ny%20herald%201918%20-%205347.pdf/" target="_blank">U.S. cruiser San Diego, was sunk 10 miles off Fire Island</a>. It was never officially determined whether the cruiser was sunk by a torpedo or by land mines laid by the submarine. The ship sank in fifteen minutes, resulting in the loss of three lives, although almost all of the crew escaped in lifeboats. Within a month ( August 13) the Norwegian freighter <i>Sommerstad</i> was also sunk of Fire Island, the victim of a German torpedo.<br />
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Throughout 1917 and 1918, German agents and propagandists were apprehended throughout the New York area, sent to detention camps on Ellis Island and then to prison.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#8" name="top8"><sup>8</sup></a> The diplomats had either already left or were forced out. Von Bernstorff returned to Germany with his American wife. <br />
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served in the Reichstag from 1921 to 1928. A fervent supporter of
international cooperation, he was the cofounder and president of the
German Association for the League of Nations, president of the World
Federation of Associations of the League of Nations, and a member of the
German delegation to the League of Nations. Bernstorff co-chaired the
German Pro-Palestinian Committee that supported the establishment of a
Jewish state in Palestine and during 1926-1931, he chaired the German
delegation to the Preparatory World Disarmament Conference. Explicitly
mentioned by Adolf Hitler as one of those men bearing "guilt and
responsibility for the collapse of Germany, Bernstorff fled Germany in
1933 after the Nazis came to power. He died in exile in Geneva,
Switzerland on October 6, 1939."<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#9" name="top9"><sup>9</sup></a>
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Franz von Papen was expelled from the U.S. in 1916 and, after serving in the army and entering German politics, he became its Chancellor in 1932 and Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933-34. The Nazis soon marginalized the more moderate von Papen and his allies. He left the government after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives" target="_blank">Night of the Long Knives.</a> Von Papen died in West Germany in 1969 at the age of 89.</div>
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<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12046242__SWorld%20War%2C%201914%201918%20__Ff%3Afacetmediatype%3Aa%3Aa%3ABOOK%3A%3A__Ff%3Afacetcollections%3A20%3A20%3AHewlett-Woodmere%3A%3A__P0%2C4__Orightresult__U__X1?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Hart, Peter. <i>The Great War: a combat history of the First World War</i> (Oxford, 2013).</a></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10297873__Shoehling%20great%20war%20at%20sea__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Hoehling, A.A. <i>The Great War at Sea: a history of naval action, 1914-18.</i> (Crowell, 1965). </a></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb11864079__Sjaffe%20new%20york%20at%20war__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Jaffe, Steven H. New York at War: four centuries of combat, fear, and intrigue in Gotham. (Basic, 2012) </a></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/search/C__Serik%20larson%20dead%20wake__Ff%3Afacetcollections%3A20%3A20%3AHewlett-Woodmere%3A%3A__Orightresult__U__X0?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Larson, Erik. <i>Dead Wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania.</i> (Crown, 2015) </a></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10962186__Scastles%20of%20steel%20massie__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Massie, Robert K. <i>Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea. </i>(Random House, 2003)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb10894809__Spreston%2C%20diana%20lusitania__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Preston, Diana. Lusitania: an Epic Tragedy. (Walker, 2002.)</a></li>
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<u>Links</u> (*access may require HWPL library card)<br />
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<li><a href="http://americanhistory.abc-clio.com/Search/Display/263294?terms=world+war+i+german-americans" target="_blank">World War I: ABC-CLIO American History database (requires HW library card)</a>
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<li><a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/565909472?accountid=11387" target="_blank">"Club Bars German Embassy members," <i>Detroit Free Press</i>, June 12, 1915, p. 1 </a></li>
<li><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=w7QBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22german+spies%22++jones&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c1Q1Vf73OPaIsQSb_YGoDg&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22german%20spies%22%20%20jones&f=false" target="_blank"><i>America Entangled: the Secret Plotting of German Spies in the United States and the Inside Story of the Sinking of the Lusitania</i> by John Price Jones (A.C. Laut, 1917)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://search.proquest.com/historicalnews/docview/578178326/7C9BF857E6CB4330PQ/1?accountid=11387" target="_blank">"Relief funds of Alliance turned over to Dernberg," <i>St. Louis-Post Dispatch, </i>March 10, 1918, p.A1.</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54524645/?terms=german%2Battaches%2Bto%2Bbe%2Bousted" target="_blank">"Six Spies Arrested in Brooklyn; German Attaches to be Ousted..." <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, July 7, 1917, p. 1.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/dumba_bernstorff.htm" target="_blank">Count von Bernstorff's account of alleged spying in America</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/zimmermann/" target="_blank">The Zimmermann Telegram (U.S. Archives)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.getlucy.org/" target="_blank">getlucy.org: relive and learn more about the first time in history where an encrypted message was sent and received.</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://www.njscuba.net/sites/site_uss_san_diego.php" target="_blank">U.S.S. San Diego - Armored Cruiser 6</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-intrigue-german-spies-in-new-york.htm" target="_blank"><i>The New York Times Current History, The European War, vol. 9</i>: (1917) Submarine Warfare off the American Coast</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i-intrigue-german-spies-in-new-york.htm" target="_blank">HistoryNet: German Spies in New York!</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=214" target="_blank">German-Americans during World War I</a> <a href="http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/entry.php?rec=214" target="_blank">(<i>Immigrant Entrepreneurship:</i> from the Transatlantic Program of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany )</a></li>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1"><b>1 </b></a><i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i>, August 10, 1912, p. 1.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2"><b>2 </b></a><i>Long Island Forum </i>, vol. 20 (1957), p. 2+.<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3"><b>3 </b></a><i>The New York Tribune</i>, August 10, 1912, p. 3.
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="4"><b>4 </b></a><i>The New York Times</i>, August 19, 1950, p. 12. <br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="5"><b>5 </b></a>"German Embassy moves to L.I," <i>Daily Star</i>, June 10, 1915, p. 2. <br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="6"><b>6 </b></a>"Prince enjoys "Jitney Golf," <i>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> August 26, 1915, p. 1.</span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="9"><b>7 </b></a>The "Zimmerman Telegram" was intercepted by British intelligence in 1917.
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="8">8 </a>"36 German agents off to Oglethorpe," <i><span style="background-color: white;">The New York Times</span></i>, January 20, 1918, p. 4.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="10"><b>9 </b></a>Tucker, Spencer C. (ed.) Count von Bernstorff in World War I: the Definitive Encyclopedia and Document collection. ABC-CLIO, 2014, p. 248.
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<br />Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-76301183609326874142015-03-06T17:59:00.002-05:002017-02-24T22:10:27.701-05:00Weaving the Story Mary Kavanagh, Postmaster of LawrenceMary Kavanagh, who lived at the <span class="st">turn of the 20th century in Lawrence, New York, is a mystery waiting to be uncovered. </span><br />
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Alfred Bellot, in his <i>History of the Rockaways (1917), </i>devotes one line to<br />
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The only facts related here are 1) Mrs. Kavanagh's husband's name was William J. and 2) she died sometime before 1917.<br />
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It was my goal to reconstruct Mrs. Kavanagh's life from readily available <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/hwsubjectlinks/home/family#genealogy" target="_blank">Internet sources</a> and subscription databases through the H-WPL <a href="http://www.hwpl.org/databases/" target="_blank">database page</a>. <span class="st"> Combined, these individual facts will show that she was a wife and mother, an author, educator and, in an era when women rarely had professions outside the home, she was a notary and Postmaster.</span><br />
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William J.Kavanagh and his wife, Mary lived in the Town of Hempstead (then a part of Queens County) in the 1880 U.S. Census and the 1892 New York State Census with their four children: <br />
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<li>William L. born 1866 (died 1892)</li>
<li>Victor Frank, born 1868 (died 1901)</li>
<li>Edmund Arthur, born 1873 (died 1935)</li>
<li>Mary Gabriella, born 1876 (died after 1917)</li>
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William was born in New York in 1840. Mary, born in 1834, emigrated from her native Ireland in 1842. Working backwards, it was then possible to verify them in the 1870 Census with the two older boys, as resident of New York City.<br />
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There are several William Kavanaghs listed as New York Civil War veterans in various databases. One lived to collect a pension; the beneficiary was his wife Mary. This William Kavanagh served with several cavalry units, spent some time as
a Quartermaster Sergeant and a Regimental Sergeant Major, and ended the war
as a commissioned First Lieutenant. He lived to collect a pension, of
which Mary was the beneficiary. This Quartermaster experience may
have prepared him for his profession as "leather dealer." (as "our" William is listed in the 1880 U.S.
Census).<br />
Articles from local newspapers of the era provided some insight into the lives of the Kavanaghs, who had a home with a beautiful garden in Far Rockaway <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>South Side Observer</i>, July 7, 1882).</span> During a crime wave in 1882, the home was the site of an attempted burglary <span style="font-size: x-small;">(SSO, October 19, 1882).</span> That same year, Mrs. Kavanagh purchased the property of Jacob L. Wood in Lawrence (probably located on West Broadway) in the hope of making it "a handsome and very desirable country home." <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>SSO</i>, April 27, 1882)</span><br />
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In 1883 <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>SSO</i>, November 17, 1883) </span>Mrs. Kavanagh is credited with "organizing a first class private academy for a limited number of pupils" in Far Rockaway. The Kavanagh sons established themselves as real estate and insurance brokers in the Branch communities. William J. was appointed Postmaster of Lawrence in March of 1886.<br />
Unfortunately, the Kavanagh's good fortunes were not to last. Mention is made of Mrs. Kavanagh in the <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> of July 13, 1889 as "a lady of fine literary tastes" who, at the time, was suffering from nervous prostration. In June 1892, the oldest son, William L., died of consumption at the age of 26. Unable to recover from the loss of his son, William J. fell into a deep melancholy and took his own life the following year. The elder remaining son, Victor, died of consumption in 1901.</div>
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The appointment of a Postmaster was a political appointment. Although he only served for one term, Major Kavanagh, a Democrat, was a respected veteran cited for his integrity and was endorsed for a second term by both parties. With the election of Grover Cleveland, the widowed Mary Kavanagh was appointed Postmaster of Lawrence in 1893 and again in 1897. <br />
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She advertised "two fine homes, fully furnished; all improvements, with stables and five acres of ground, located on main road. in the <i>New York Herald</i> of March 1, 1896 and moved to smaller quarters on Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst with her daughter, Gabriella. <a href="http://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53892834/?terms=mrs.%2Bkavanaugh%2Bdies%2Bin%2Blawrence" target="_blank">Mary Kavanagh died in Lawrence on March 26, 1917; her funeral was held at St. Joachim's Church (<i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle,</i> March 27, 1917, p. 8).<span style="font-size: x-small;">(blog updated 5/14/2015)</span></a><br />
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At the present time, I have not definitively verified a maiden name for Mary Kavanagh, although she is regularly listed as Mary A.S. Kavanagh and she appears as "Mary Ann Stevens O'Reilly Kavanagh" in transcriptions of birth records of two of her children. I also have not verified why she was considered an "Indian scholar" by Bellot, though <i>The History of Queens County, New York</i> (Munsell, 1882)<a href="https://archive.org/stream/historyofqueensc00newy#page/168/mode/2up/search/kavanagh" target="_blank"> refers to her article on another historical subject.</a> Hopefully, more research will shed more light on this interesting woman and her accomplishments.</div>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-78865254139825227572014-11-19T13:08:00.000-05:002017-02-24T22:13:51.968-05:00Fowling in the BranchIn 1840, <a href="http://brooklynhistory.org/library/wp/daniel-m-tredwell-papers-1876-1917/" target="_blank">Daniel Tredwell</a> (1826-1921) wrote:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From our earliest childhood we have beheld with marvelous admiration the phenomenon of the migration of a flock of wild geese. There are but few Long Islanders, who are not familiar with the mysterious annual pilgrimage of the wild goose northward in the spring and his return in the fal</span>l.<br />
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The wonder of the autumn migrations has not diminished since then and Woodmere Bay is the perfect place to view ducks, geese and other water birds, as they rest during their journey south, which can last for thousands of miles.<br />
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In Tredwell's time, two hundred species of water birds were know to frequent Long Island (p. 96) and the Great South Bay and its branches were a haven for both the birds and the humans who hunted them. He also writes that the Canada goose, known as a pest in our era, was considered the same in the 17th century.<br />
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"Att the foregoing townd Meeting it was concluded by the Ma Jer Vote that No Teame Geese should have liberty to goo on the commons. In the townd after the fift of November Next insuing and that it shall be lawful for any Person to shute any they shall find on the commons aforementioned after the time..." The above was re-enacted yearly. (p.100)</blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duck hunter reclining in a camouflaged boat.<br />
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During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Branch communities became known for tourism. "City folk" took advantage of the area's bounty and hired local farmers and fisherman as guides for recreational fishing and hunting expeditions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typically, a hunter's boat would be camouflaged with grasses and reeds.<br />
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Nancy Solomon chronicled the traditions of the baymen of Long Island's South Shore in her book <i>On the Bay, </i>published in it's second edition in 2011. The chapter entitled "A day in duck hunter heaven," gives a clear picture of the lives of "market gunners" as some of the baymen supplemented their income by selling duck meat to local restaurants, feathers to the millinery industry and creating decoys for their own use and local sale, and eventually for sale to collectors. Market gunning was outlawed in 1918 as a conservation measure, but the guide businesses continued. (Solomon, p. 28)<br />
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Today, the antique hand-carved decoys of baymen Obadiah Verity, Thomas Gelston and Bill Bowman are highly sought-after collectibles. Contemporary decoy carvers such as Ken Budny, George Rigby Jr. and Larry Udell carry on the tradition .<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">This decoy, carved by William Bowman of Long Island, New York, c. 1890, sold for $10,500 in 1973. It was the first decoy to sell for more than $10,000, but it turned out to be a good investment. In 2000, the decoy was re-sold at a joint auction by Guyette & Schmidt, Inc. and Sotheby's for $464,500. (Photo Courtesy of Guyette &Schmidt, Inc.)</span></i></td></tr>
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According to the <a href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/index.html" target="_blank">New York State Department of Environmental Conservation</a> web site:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Long Island holds the majority of New York's wintering waterfowl.
Tens of thousands of ducks and geese of at least 28 species are
available to Long Island's waterfowlers. The various seasons run from
early October through mid-February. The early sea duck season offers
generous limits and a long season to those hunting scoters, eiders and
long-tailed ducks in Long Island Sound and the Peconic Bays.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Many duck hunters pursue the dabbler species, rigging primarily for
the prized black duck, with mallards, pintail, widgeon, gadwall and
green-winged teal filling out the bag limit. </span> </blockquote>
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diving duck species generally set for broadbill (greater scaup) and are
rewarded with a variety of other open water species, including
bufflehead, goldeneye and redhead. Most waterfowlers hunt on the tidal
marshes, bays and creeks found along our shores; Canada geese and brant
are popular in the western bays of the south shore.</span></blockquote>
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Further Research:<br />
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<ul><a href="https://www.antiquesjournal.com/pages04/Monthly_pages/nov07/decoys.html" target="_blank">
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<li><a href="https://www.antiquesjournal.com/pages04/Monthly_pages/nov07/decoys.html" target="_blank">Sheluk, Judy Penz. "Antique decoys: Carving a Place in Collectors' Hearts". <i>New England Antiques Journal</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.screanews.us/ScreaNews/ScreaNews0902/Baldwin0902.htm" target="_blank">"Decoy Dynasty" (the Verity family) SCREA Newslette</a><a href="http://www.screanews.us/ScreaNews/ScreaNews0902/Baldwin0902.htm" target="_blank">r (Spring 2009)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/birdsoflongislan00gira#page/n5/mode/2up" target="_blank"><i>Giraud. Birds of Long Island</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnzaef;view=1up;seq=16" target="_blank">Tredwell, Daniel. </a><i><a href="http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnzaef;view=1up;seq=16" target="_blank">Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island</a> </i></li>
<li><a href="http://encore.alisweb.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb11808080__Son%20the%20bay%20solomon__Ff%3Afacetcollections%3A20%3A20%3AHewlett-Woodmere%3A%3A__P0%2C1__Orightresult__U__X2?lang=eng&suite=cobalt" target="_blank">Solomon, Nancy. <i>On the Bay. </i>Long Island Traditions, 2011.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://issuu.com/american_folk_art_museum/docs/clarion_5_fall1975" target="_blank">Ernest, Adele. "The Hunt for the Decoy: in search of a unique American folk art." (<i>The Clarion</i>, Fall 1975)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.longislandtraditions.org/pages/archives.html" target="_blank">LongIslandTraditions.org:</a> <a href="http://www.longislandtraditions.org/artistprofiles/maritime/rigby.html" target="_blank">George Rigby, Jr.,</a> <a href="http://www.longislandtraditions.org/artistprofiles/maritime/udell.html" target="_blank">Larry Udell</a> and <a href="http://www.longislandtraditions.org/artistprofiles/maritime/budny.html" target="_blank">Ken Budney</a> -- contemporary duck decoy carvers</li>
<li>New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: <a href="http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/40550.html" target="_blank">Introduction to Waterfowl Hunting on Long Island</a></li>
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<br />Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-17616659204488780722014-09-22T15:51:00.001-04:002017-02-24T22:17:35.204-05:00The Lennox Shop In 1928, Richard Lennox opened the Lennox House shop in a 12-foot by 18-foot cottage on the site of his grandfather's dairy farm. Lennox created his version of a general store and featured Early American reproduction furniture. Enhanced with rescued artifacts from the Oliver Hewlett homestead in East Rockaway (demolished in 1936) , it grew into a charming complex of buildings and a mail order business with over 100,000 customers per year.<br />
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An article in the December 29, 1994 <i>South Shore Record </i>states that 19 year old Richard Lennox began with a one-fifth interest in the property, a $200 wedding gift, his wife, Edith's $22-a-week secretarial job and his grandmother's signature on a bank loan. With those assets, and a $50 inventory, Lennox expanded the business, created their own brand of Early American furnishings, and expanded the ambiance of the shops. By 1953 was the subject of a feature article in the trade publication <i>Giftwares, </i>which shared Lennox's story, his business philosophy and his techniques for growing his business into the success that it became, attracting shoppers from all over the metropolitan area and mail orders from all over the United States.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Building the Honeymoon House (c1952).</td></tr>
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The shop and its subsequent additions: Easy Street (which originally featured glassware), the Card Barn, the Fireplace Room, and the Hewlett Room (elegant Early American furnishings) became a fully decorated country home and a showcase for Lennox furniture and decorating services. The 1952 construction of the Honeymoon House enlarged the display and created an environment which those who remember it still miss.<br />
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At this time, the original Seaman homestead (home of Lennox's grandparents) was moved to the corner of Broadway and Trinity Place. Joan Battino wrote in the December 31, 1998 <i>South Shore Record</i>:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Their home, shop and country store was a great success for more than 70 years. If ever one needed a special wedding present, a baby gift, a knicknack or just a fun afternoon in a wonderful place to shop, the Lennox Shop was the first place to come to mind. Christmas transformed the store into Santa's own private haven. Incense burned throughout, a fire roared in ever fireplace, light hearted holiday tunes were piped into every corner and the shop was decorated from roof to floor plank with pine branches and red ribbons. No one left without a candy cane.</span></blockquote>
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Richard Lennox died in 1989 and the property was eventually sold to the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library for its 1994 expansion.<br />
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During this month's exhibit of Five Towns History in the Library's Gallery, we have on display some memorabilia from the Lennox Shop as well as local artist Maxwell Diamond's renditions of views of the Lennox Shops buildings, photographs from the H-WPL collection and examples of work from other local artists.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_JN3hVsWZ_FfLAbgh3KgB8vKKu4T8HDfyrhCkTfMAjZf2GgEiVpO2m4xbl043Znz0y8qTvrcgOyQeylxqNJ6glsm8fWGheiGTbpUwNgkPEggjwCB2CaOUguZH1gt9V2WexzMr-M6bn4/s1600/longworth1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_JN3hVsWZ_FfLAbgh3KgB8vKKu4T8HDfyrhCkTfMAjZf2GgEiVpO2m4xbl043Znz0y8qTvrcgOyQeylxqNJ6glsm8fWGheiGTbpUwNgkPEggjwCB2CaOUguZH1gt9V2WexzMr-M6bn4/s1600/longworth1.jpg" title="The late Bob Longworth, a cousin of Richard Lennox, created a miniature reproduction of the original 1928 building in its Christmas glory." width="250" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The late Bob Longworth, a cousin of Richard Lennox, created a miniature
reproduction of the original 1928 building in its Christmas glory.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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More information:<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0p3L768BTHuVmJxVi15NGZKV3c/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Battino, Joan. "Lennox Shop remembered in miniature," <i>South Shore Record</i>, December 31, 1998, p. 8.</a><br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0p3L768BTHudXNlRmlPZWp1MDg/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Namee, M. Virginia. "The Lennox Shop Story, 1928-1953," <i>Giftwares,</i> November 1953.</a><br />
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0p3L768BTHuUVI5elVEZjdsOUk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">"The Way We Were: Lennox House," South Shore Record, (</a>date unknown)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From humble beginnings in a family that traced its roots to the earliest settlers of the Town of Hempstead, William Soper Pettit became one of the most respected and influential civic leaders in the New York metropolitan area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Pettit was born on January 20, 1880, to Mary Elizabeth Craft and Theodore Edward Pettit. From the age of 9, he sold newspapers and delivered telegrams at the Cedarhurst LIRR Station. He was a descendant of Joseph Pettit, the first clerk of Hempstead (about 1657).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After graduating with Far Rockaway High School's Class of 1900, Pettit went on to attend Columbia University's Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1903. He authored a book <a href="http://www.rockawaymemories.com/HistoryPettit.htm" target="_blank"><i>History and Views of the Rockaways</i></a>, published in 1901. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pettit was a leader of the secessionist movement to separate Far Rockaway from New York City and to create a "Rockaway City." Although the movement was popular and Pettit felt that the legislation's passage was inevitable, it was vetoed by New York's mayor in May 1915. In 1915, he also served as Special Counsel to the Nassau County Board of Supervisors. He subsequently served as Chairman of the drafting commission for the Nassau County Charter, Chairman of the Nassau County Child Welfare Board, President of the Nassau County Historical and Genealogical Society and President of the Long Island Y.M.C.A. In 1920 the Nassau County Republican party backed Pettit in an unsuccessful bid for Justice of the Supreme Court. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1925 he won the first Alfred C. Bossom Gold Medallion for distinguished public service by a New York high school graduate. The award was made for active work in furthering the development of the Rockaways and for leadership in civic and welfare enterprises." (<i>NYT</i> 5/20/48, p. 60) When the citizens of Hewlett Neck voted for incorporation of their village (1927), they met at Pettit's home on Barberry Lane in Woodmere. Pettit was the attorney for the property owners in their quest to have more control over the future of their community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"> During World War I, Pettit headed the local draft board and during World War II, he was chairman of the Lynbrook Ration Board. He organized the Five Towns War Finance Committee, was a president of the Nassau County Bar Association and a vestryman of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church in Hewlett (now Trinity-St. Johns) from 1920-1947. In addition, he was one of the first Trustees of the Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, when is was established in 1947.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Unfortunately, his illustrious career was cut short in May 1948, when he was killed in a collision with a truck in upstate New York. His wife of forty years, the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">former Dorothea Smolling, was seriously injured in the accident, but survived. After his death, his home in Lawrence </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">became the headquarters of the Five Towns YMCA, an institution
he helped to found. They had no children. Mr. and Mrs. Pettit are buried in the family plot in Trinity-St. John's churchyard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 1929 article in the Rockaway Beach <i>Wave </i>listed Pettit's business affiliations:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Vice President, director and Counsel of Hewlett-Woodmere National Bank</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Further reading:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/873014254?accountid=11387" target="_blank">Bea Jones. "Nassau Civic Leader Dies in Crash, <i>Newsday</i>, May 20, 1948, p. 3.</a> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(requires HW Library card login)</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press%201927/Jamaica%20NY%20Long%20Island%20Daily%20Press%201927%20-%200060.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffff947eb2cc&DocId=4728077&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=8&hits=a4+a6+a7+a8+aa+ab+b4+b5+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Citizens of Hewlett Neck Vote for Incorporation," <i>Long Island Daily Press</i>, February 4, 1927, p. 10.</span></a><br />
<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0DE1DD153BE233A25751C0A9639C946496D6CF" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Mitchel rejects the Rockaway Bill," The New York Times, May 2, 1915, p. 19.</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A00EFDC133BE33BBC4851DFB3668383659EDE" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"W.S. Pettit killed in auto accident," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 20, 1948, p. 60.</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.rockawaymemories.com/CornellCemetery01.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William S. Pettit. "The Cornell Cemetery, Far Rockaway," <i>Long Island Forum</i>, August 1946.</span></a>Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-55127433681670367892014-04-22T16:02:00.001-04:002017-02-24T22:20:37.283-05:00New York World's Fair 1964-65<b><span style="color: #38761d;">One of the great events in the memories of baby boomers and their parents living in the metro New York area, the New York World's Fair opened to the public on April 22, 1964. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> The Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library is proud to share some of the photos in our collection, taken the late Max Hubacher, a local resident, during his many visits to the Fair.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">The Unisphere, the most recognizable symbol of the Fair, was presented to the Fair by U.S. Steel in 1964. Standing 140 feet tall, it was the World's Fair's most popular meeting place and is the centerpiece of the modern Flushing Meadow Corona Park in Queens.</span></b><br />
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an adult admission of $2.00 ($2.50 in the 1965 season), and a children's
admission of $1.00, visitors could spend the entire day in the world of
the future. In 1964 color TV was in its infancy, computers were limited to
large businesses, where they occupied entire rooms with less computing power than an average laptop. The Fair gave visitors a glimpse of a future that was right around the corner, a world united by technology and trade -- and a universal love of strawberry-topped Belgian waffles!</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> New York mayor Robert F. Wagner and a team led by master builder
Robert Moses, chose Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1939 World's
Fair, as the location for the exposition. Many years before the Fairs, this reclaimed garbage dump
had been referred to as "the city of ashes" in F. Scott Fitzgerald's <i>The Great Gatsby (1925). </i>It<i> </i>was transformed into a pristine and usable public space, close to transportation hubs and New York City's many attractions. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">At the height of the Cold War, the theme "Peace Through Understanding" resonated with the public as America took on the challenges of the nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War and the future of space exploration. Thirty-six foreign nations and twenty-one states sponsored
pavilions -- among the most celebrated were the the <a href="http://nywf64.com/vatican04.shtml" target="_blank">Vatican Pavilion</a>, where
Michelangelo's <i>Pieta </i>was displayed, the <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/492148/ad-classics-new-york-state-pavillion-phillip-johnson/" target="_blank">New York State Pavilion</a> (above) with its rotating towers, and the Swiss Sky Ride (below). </span></b><br />
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Wyck Expressway, more than 45 pavilions surrounded a pool around which was
held a nightly fireworks show. With pavilions from Ford, DuPont and General Electric
Pavilion’s Progressland, the Industrial area was a
showcase for corporate America. The Kodak Pavilion’s roof was designed like the surface of the moon,
and Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen’s egg-shaped
IBM Pavilion, where visitors sitting on grandstands were lifted swiftly
into a theater. At the Bell System exhibit,
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Walt Disney Studios introduced </b><b>"audio-animatronics," their new robotics technology, in the form of the Illinois Pavilion's Abraham Lincoln, the General Electric "Carousel of Progress," which showed the progress of the American family through the technology of the Twentieth Century and the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion’s
Unicef-Disney production of “It’s a Small World,” featuring animatronic dolls in their national costumes and a theme song, sung in several languages, destined to be lodged in the memories of all who attended.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>While it never became a financial success, over 51 million people visited the Fair over its two seasons. </b><b>And for this visitor, who first saw the spectacle as a wide-eyed twelve-year-old, the memories of the exhibits, the rides, the pageantry and the belief that all things might be possible are recollections almost as sweet as those waffles!</b></span><br />
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More Information:<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/nyregion/the-fair-to-end-all-fairs.html?ref=nyregion" target="_blank">Charles McGrath. "The Fair to End All Fairs." The New York Times, April 18, 2014.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/20/nyregion/worlds-fair-1964-memories.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0" target="_blank">Liz Robbins</a>. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/20/nyregion/worlds-fair-1964-memories.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0" target="_blank">"Recalling a Vision of the Future, <i>The New York Times</i>, April 18, 2014</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/100000002827213/think-back-the-1964-world8217s-fair.html" target="_blank">Axel Gerdau. "Think Back: the 1964 World's Fair." <i>The New York Times</i>, April 18, 2014.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.newsday.com/travel/nyc-s-world-s-fair-turns-50-1.7672747" target="_blank">NYC's World's Fair turns 50." Newsday, April 19, 2014.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/1964-worlds-fair-tech-predictions-had-some-hits-misses/" target="_blank">1964 World's Fair Tech predictions had some hits, misses (cbsnews.com)</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/virtual-tours/flushing-meadows/unisphere" target="_blank">Unisphere: Flushing Meadow Park, Corona, Queens (NYC Parks Department) </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.waltdisney.org/storyboard/look-closer-1964-new-york-world%E2%80%99s-fair" target="_blank">Walt Disney Family Museum: Look Closer: 1964 New York World's Fair</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.archdaily.com/492148/ad-classics-new-york-state-pavillion-phillip-johnson/" target="_blank">Philip Johnson's New York State Pavilion (ArchDaily Classics)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair" target="_blank">Overview of the 1964-65 World's Fair in Wikipedia.</a></li>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-54079534435408252152014-02-11T17:11:00.001-05:002017-02-24T22:22:00.317-05:00Woodmere Kennel Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The February 10th opening of the <span class="largetext">The Westminster Kennel Club 138th Annual Dog Show</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The inhabitants of the Branch communities, home to the Rockaway Hunting Club since 1878, were avid canophiles -- much like their modern counterparts. Besides having family pets, many had their own kennels, as well as private stables, in what was then a very rural area. Long Island dog enthusiasts formed local kennel clubs based on breed or locale and the Woodmere Kennel Club was one of the early clubs in the area.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Woodmere Club had a small opening show on a rainy May 18th of 1913, but on June 28 of that year, a second show was held on the grounds adjoining the Broadway Central Hotel on Broadway in Woodmere (<i>Rockaway News</i>, July 2, 1913, p. 1). The two-hour long event was held in a tent with two rings. Best in show was one by Sun of Llenrud, a nineteen-month old British-bred Pekingese owned by Mrs. A. McClure Halley of New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A <i>Rockaway News</i> article from June 21, 1913 lists prizes offered for the second event, including:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. Wex Jones offers $2.50 in gold for best brace of Bull Terriers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. A.C. Daniels offers twelve pounds Puppy Bread for the best puppy dog and twelve pounds for the best bitch. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Bulldogs:</b>Mr. P. Seixas offers Set of Cuff Buttons for best Miniature Bulldog</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dr. A.C. Daniels offers a Mark Cross Safety Razer [sic] for best American bred dog or bitch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other classes included Irish Terriers, French Poodles, English Toy Spaniels, Children Classes, Scottish Terriers, Great Danes, Setters, Maltese Terriers, Pekingese Spaniels, Dachshunde, Collies, Toy Poodles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To be shown by a "lady", the woman must be the dog's owner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Within a few years, the shows had outgrown the Broadway Central Hotel. In 1915, shows were held in the ballroom of the Nassau Hotel in Long Beach, the Hoffman House and the Hotel Gregorian (42 West 35th Street) in Manhattan. The Club held shows at the Hotel Gregorian for many years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On October 21, 1914, an unusual event was held at the Hotel Gregorian. Billed as "Dogs in Toyland," the Woodmere Kennel Club held a special show for miniature breeds. It seems that at a prior show there were issues between on of Charles Ludwig's Great Danes and a Pekingese. So large dogs were not invited to the next event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In December, James R. Meade, a breeder from Brooklyn, resigned from the presidency of the club, which he had held for three years. Over 100 members attended his farewell meeting, at which speeches were made and a silver loving cup was presented to Mr. Meade (<em>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</em>, December 22, 1914, p. 2) Meade, who raised Boston Terriers and Pekingese, resigned his position so that he could devote time to showing his dogs. One year later, tragedy hit when his entire kennel of Pekingese was lost to an unnamed epidemic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Club's new officers of 1914 were overwhelmingly women. Mrs. M. C. McGlone was elected president; Mrs. J.L. Conklin, Mrs. H. Taylor and Mrs. E. Allis Cox, Vice Presidents; Mrs. L. Shillings, Treasurer; George Heiline, Secretary.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A 1915 article in <em>The New York Sun </em>(June 27, 1915, p. 16) praises the Club for its activities in bring new breeders and amateurs into the world of dog fancying. 184 entries, a very large number for the time, were judged at one evening show. In 1915, active members of the Club were working towards running dog shows under the American Kennel Club rules, and granting championship points through that organization.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the 1930s and 40's local dogs such as the collies of Noranda Kennels, owned by Mrs. and Mrs. William H. Long Jr. of Hewlett Harbor (New York Times, February 2, 1941, p. S6; New York Herald Tribune, February 21, 1937, p.B9A), Hi-Wood Mike, a black Labrador Retriever owned by Mrs. John S. Williams of Hewlett (<i>The New York Times,</i> November 24, 1941, p. 23.) appear as winners of major shows throughout the nation. By that time, the Woodmere Kennel Club seems to have faded into oblivion. As the "horsey set" moved to the North Shore of Long Island and the residential neighborhoods of the Five Towns no longer welcomed dog kennels, breeders moved farther out on the Island and organizations like the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Long-Island-Kennel-Club/208460622497896" target="_blank">Long Island Kennel Club</a> in Oyster Bay took in the members of many local clubs.</span><br />
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Further Information:</div>
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<li><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201914%20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201914%20%20Grayscale%20-%206568.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=fffffffff0135812&DocId=4329010&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20O%2dG%2dT%2dS&HitCount=4&hits=512+513+514+51c+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">"Pekingese is Winner at Dogs in Toyland," <i>The Sun</i>, October 25, 1914, p. 20.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30F10F83F5C13738DDDAB0A94DA415B848DF1D3" target="_blank">"Moshulu Bunk Best Dog," <i>The New York Times</i>, December 22, 1914.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/history/histhighlights.html" target="_blank">Westminster Kennel Club - History Overview</a></li>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-27681124392568184632013-11-09T16:51:00.002-05:002017-02-24T22:23:57.526-05:00The Branch in the World Wars (HWPL Gallery - November 6, 2013-January 5, 2014)<a href="http://thames2thayer.com/wiki/images/c/cc/Books_soldiers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://thames2thayer.com/wiki/images/c/cc/Books_soldiers.jpg" height="200" width="150" /></a>Our exhibit of posters from World Wars I and II demonstrates the power of the graphic image to inspire, inform and persuade. The collection, a gift to the Library from former Hewlett Bay Park resident Blanche Cirker, offers highlights of the ad campaign created by the U.S. government to inspire patriotism in its citizens during a time of personal sacrifice and heightened responsibility. Mrs. Cirker and her husband, <a href="http://sehttp//www.nytimes.com/2000/03/11/books/hayward-cirker-82-who-made-dover-a-paperback-powerhouse.html" target="_blank">Hayward,</a> founded Dover Publications in 1941.<br />
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New York State residents comprised 10% of the American armed forces during WWI.<sup>1</sup><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168#1" name="top2"></a> Over 493,000 New Yorkers enlisted for the Regular Army, National Guard, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and U.S. Guards<sup>2</sup>, between April 9, 1917 and November 11, 1918.<sup>3</sup> <br />
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Draftees from New York and Long Island usually were processed and trained at <a href="http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/history/upton/upton.htm" target="_blank">Camp Upton</a> in Yaphank, later the site of Brookhaven Laboratory. The men of the <a href="http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/173-77th-infantry-division/" target="_blank">77th Infantry Division</a>, most of them from Long Island and New York City, trained there before sailing for battlefields in France. Nicknamed "The Metropolitan Division," they sported a Statue of Liberty emblem patch on their uniform.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended
when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace
of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting
ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation
of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect
on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that
reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war
to end all wars.” <a href="http://www.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp" target="_blank"> -- from "History of Veterans Day" (Veterans' Administration Web Site)</a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">"On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history. Those who were selected from the draft lottery were required to serve at least one year in the armed forces. Once the U.S. entered WWII, draft terms extended through the duration of the fighting. By the end of the war in 1945, 50 million men between eighteen and forty-five had registered for the draft and 10 million had been inducted in the military."<a href="http://on%20september%2016%2c%201940%2c%20the%20united%20states%20instituted%20the%20selective%20training%20and%20service%20act%20of%201940%2c%20which%20required%20all%20men%20between%20the%20ages%20of%2021%20and%2045%20to%20register%20for%20the%20draft.%20this%20was%20the%20first%20peacetime%20draft%20in%20united%20states%27%20history.%20those%20who%20were%20selected%20from%20the%20draft%20lottery%20were%20required%20to%20serve%20at%20least%20one%20year%20in%20the%20armed%20forces.%20once%20the%20u.s.%20entered%20wwii%2c%20draft%20terms%20extended%20through%20the%20duration%20of%20the%20fighting.%20by%20the%20end%20of%20the%20war%20in%201945%2c%2050%20million%20men%20between%20eighteen%20and%20forty-five%20had%20registered%20for%20the%20draft%20and%2010%20million%20had%20been%20inducted%20in%20the%20military./" target="_blank"> -- National WWII Museum</a></span></blockquote>
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After the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. entered World War II. During a three-day period in February 1942, male citizens between the ages of 20 and 45 were required to register with their local draft boards, if they had not already done so. Over 900,000 New Yorkers served in World War II's armed forced. In this area, Local Draft Board 722 of Cedarhurst had registration at four sites: School No. 4 in Inwood, School No. 2 in Lawrence, School No. 3 in Cedarhurst and Woodmere High School.<sup>4</sup><br />
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As Nassau County geared up for a possible air attack, residents experienced test blackouts and air raid drills. Rationing of sugar, gasoline, rubber, metal and other household necessities was accepted as a necessary sacrifice and War Bond and relief drives allowed citizens to make an individual contribution to the war effort. Almost every family had someone in the service, but because of its proximity to New York City, its aircraft industry and air fields and it's long coastline, Long Island residents took their defense very personally. According to a <i>1942 Newsday </i>summarizing the war's first year:<br />
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<li>In January 1942, five airmen sacrificed their lives to avoid endangering residents as their bomber crashed in New Hyde Park. </li>
<li>Women and high school boys were eligible for training in manual of arms and rudiments of marching.</li>
<li>A local branch of the Civil Air Patrol was founded and women were informed that they would be eligible for "limited participation". </li>
<li>More than 50,000 men between the ages of 45 and 64 [too old for active service] registered for occupational draft.</li>
<li>All boardwalk and commercial lights on [the] North and South Shores were ordered blacked out by [the] U.S. Army.</li>
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On Memorial Day 1942, an honor roll of Woodmere and Hewlett men in the armed services was dedicated on the grounds of Woodmere High School. <a href="http://ftlh.blogspot.com/2009/05/memorial-day.html" target="_blank">The </a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">memorial</a> now stands at the corner of Broadway and Conklin Avenues.<br />
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At the June 1943 high school graduations, many wore uniforms instead of caps and gowns.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"Diplomas were presented to 109 graduates at the 36th annual commencement of Woodmere High School. [The] Theme of the exercises was "The Four Freedoms," honor students speaking on Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Freedom from Need and Freedom from Fear as defined by the Atlantic Charter." <sup>5</sup></span></blockquote>
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On June 7, 1944 -- as the D-Day invasion was being fought along the French coast, Long Island's religious institutions. In Cedarhurst St. Joachim's School had a special assembly, while in Lawrence Temple Israel, the Lawrence Methodist Church, as well as Trinity Episcopal Church and St. Joseph's in Hewlett opened their doors for special prayer services.<br />
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After the War, the changes which transformed Long Island left The Branch a different place. As the economic changes of the Great Depression transformed great estates into subdivisions, the GI bill and home construction on a grand scale created neighborhoods where once there had been fields. The Branch, now called The Five Towns, was forever changed. And a whole new generation moved in to start their civilian lives and raise their families.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">3 "47 Cedarhurst Selectees Ready to Join Services." <i>Newsday</i>, February 13, 1942, p. 3. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">4 "All Up to Age of 45 Must Register Here During Next Three Days," <i>Newsday</i>, February 13, 1942, p. 3 </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> 5 "Nassau at War - Dec. 7 to Dec. 7", <i>Newsday</i>, December 7, 1942, p. 3. </span>
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Further information:<br />
<u>Web sites</u><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archives.nysed.gov/projects/wwi/about.shtml" target="_blank">New York State Archives: Remembering World War I</a> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://wwii.nyhistory.org/about/" target="_blank">New York Historical Society: WWII & NYC</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwartwo/" target="_blank">Online WWII Indexes and Records (Ancestry.com is available in the Library)</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://aad.archives.gov/aad/display-partial-records.jsp?s=3360&dt=893&tf=F&bc=sl&q=nassau++new+york&btnSearch=Search&as_alq=&as_anq=&as_epq=&as_woq=&rpp=50&mtch=23648&pg=3" target="_blank">NARA Enlistment Records</a></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.archives.nysed.gov/a/research/res_topics_mi_homefront.pdf" target="_blank">They Also Served: New Yorkers on the Homefront (NY State Archives)</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Patriotic Art and Propaganda</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.world-war-pictures.com/" target="_blank">World War I and II Posters, Poets and Artists</a><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html" target="_blank">"A Summons to Comradeship" World War I and II Posters</a> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/video/index.html">Propaganda
Gallery</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://rutlandhs.k12.vt.us/jpeterso/uboatcar.htm">World War I Cartoons</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/posterswwone.html">Women's Posters
WWI</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm015.html">The Most
Famous Poster "I Want You for the US Army" Uncle Sam: American
Treasures of the Library of Congress</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/">Propaganda Postcards of
the Great War (World War 1)</a> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos">World War I
Posters: Subject Index</a> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0">
<a href="http://www.worldwar1.com/posters.htm">Trenches on the Web - World War I
Posters</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://www.library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/first-call-american-posters-world-war-one-collection-roger-n-mohovich">American
Posters of World War One</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"> <a href="http://www.art-ww1.com/gb/index2.html">1914-18 war - Art of the
First World War</a> </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span lang="0"><a href="http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/war2.htm">Propaganda
Analysis - World War I Propaganda</a></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Dwyer, Norval. "The Camp Upton Story, 1917-1921," <i> Long Island Forum</i>, January 1970. pp. 6-10;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Part 2 February 1970, pp.31-34; Part III, March 1970, pp.54-57.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><u><b>Books</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.alisweb.org/search~S60?/tover+here/tover+here/1%2C12%2C13%2CB/frameset&FF=tover+here+new+york+city+during+world+war+ii&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-" target="_blank">Diehl, Lorraine. <i>Over Here! : New York City during World War II</i>. New York : Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins, 2010.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.alisweb.org/search~S60?/thelluva+town/thelluva+town/1%2C2%2C2%2CB/frameset&FF=thelluva+town+the+story+of+new+york+city+during+world+war+ii&1%2C1%2C/indexsort=-" target="_blank">Goldstein, Richard. <i>Helluva town : the story of New York City during World War II</i>. New York : Free Press, 2010.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.alisweb.org/search~S60/?searchtype=t&searcharg=wwii+%26+NYC&searchscope=60&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=twwii%26NYC" target="_blank">Jackson, Kenneth T. <i>WWII & NYC.</i> New York : New York Historical Society, 2012.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was incorporated in New York on May 3, 1911 The firm, whose corporate offices were located on East 18th Street in Manhattan, manufactured and sold embroideries, laces, silk, wool, cotton, linen and other textile fabrics. The President of the company was Albert Brenwald of Woodmere; Henry Ruppert of New York City is listed as Secretary, and Charles Englehard of Roselle, NJ as Director. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brenwald (also spelled Brennwald) (born 1874 in Zurich, Switzerland) emigrated to the U.S. in 1902. He lived on Brower Avenue with his wife, Anna, and son, Adolph. He and Ruppert (also a Swiss native) formed their partnership in 1909. Apparently, Brenwald had the embroidery expertise; his partners had the business experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 1912 New York State Register of Factories lists a workforce of 6 men and 22 women at the Hewlett Embroidery Works </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In 1914 a branch site opened at Pitz’s Hall in Lynbrook, which employed 100 female operators</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (3)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An average female embroidery worker earned about $387 a year. A two week vacation at half pay was a luxury and any minutes they did not work were deducted from their time at the end of the week. This was an era of sweatshops, where workers tolerated overcrowding, long hours (average 53-hour work-week and low wages in factories to support themselves and their families.(4) The </span><a href="http://www.dol.gov/shirtwaist/about.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1911 Triangle Factory fire</span></a><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which took the lives of 146 workers trapped in the burning building, served as a catalyst for better working conditions, through union intervention and government legislation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As early as 1891, a</span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Ladies’ Home Journal</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> article described a group of embroidery workers who decided that if each worker could spare ten unpaid minutes a day, they could read to each other. In this way, they got 800 minutes a day, 1800 minutes a week, etc. of reading accomplished during their working hours (5). In 1900, only 19 percent of women of working age participated in the labor force and children comprised 6 percent of the labor force (6).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With the start of World War I, the market for decorative lace diminished. Over the next few years, the firm’s management changed -- Ruppert is listed as Secretary and Director in 1915. and in 1917 and 1919 , Milton J. Gordon is listed as President and Treasurer </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(7)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Mary Simon was Secretary and Director in 1918. Albert Brenwald’s family relocated to Chicago, Illinois, where he died in 1925.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By 1922, The American Textile Reporter lists the Hewlett firm under the name <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=D_ZYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA701&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2EGPoIgqz1TgZ3jBFKVZMIXrBAJA&ci=464%2C761%2C438%2C117&edge=0" target="_blank">Sands and Appel Embroidery Works </a>. Sylvester Sands (d.1934) and Moses Appel (c1858-1934) owned several factories in New York City, one of which was involved in a fire in November 1905, which was an eerie harbinger of the Triangle fire (8). The firm</span><span style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was dissolved by Proclamation on March 12, 1926. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f2b0d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Ladies working at the loom at the Kursheedt embroidery factory in Tennessee. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4f2b0d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The Smith family recruited the factory from New York. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4f2b0d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It made fine Hamburg lace and during World War I, i</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4f2b0d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">t produced patches for military uniforms. (Lewis County Museum)</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Further Information:</span><br />
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<li><a href="http://www.dcpronline.net/demos/lcm/Explore-The-Past.asp" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lewis County (TN) Museum: Hohenwald and New Switzerland</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/primary/index.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1911 Triangle Waist Company fire: Primary Documents</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Gallen_Embroidery" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">St. Gallen embroidery (Wikipedia)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.lebendige-traditionen.ch/traditionen/00176/index.html?lang=en" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Machine embroidery in St. Gallen</span></a></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://robert%20d.%20fisher%20manual%20of%20valuable%20and%20worthless%20securities%20-%20volume%206%20-%20page%20458%20%20%20%201938.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20books.google.com/books?id=DWrZAAAAMAAJ" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert Denton Fisher. </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Robert D. Fisher Manual of Valuable and Worthless Securities</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1938) , vol. 6, p. 458</span></a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tEILAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA181&lpg=RA3-PA181&dq=%22hewlett+embroidery+works%22&source=bl&ots=EFgPwlRtM8&sig=Bfip-sX5nqLdla9EuOr78cl0Hlo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uS4SUo-6BufU2AW7j4DgDQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22hewlett%20embroidery%20works%22&f=false" target="_blank">New York State. Department of Labor. </a></span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tEILAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA181&lpg=RA3-PA181&dq=%22hewlett+embroidery+works%22&source=bl&ots=EFgPwlRtM8&sig=Bfip-sX5nqLdla9EuOr78cl0Hlo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=uS4SUo-6BufU2AW7j4DgDQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=%22hewlett%20embroidery%20works%22&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Annual Report</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (1912), p. 192.</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2018/Hempstead%20NY%20Sentinel/Hempstead%20NY%20Sentinel%201912-1914/Hempstead%20NY%20Sentinel%201912-1914%20-%201133.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=758f757d&DocId=3794947&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20I%2dE%2dV&HitCount=4&hits=144+169+16a+16b+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Lynbrook,” </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Hempstead Sentinel,</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> October 15, 1914, p. 2. </span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2014/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Call/New%20York%20NY%20Evening%20Call%201919/New%20York" target="_blank">"Girls Work for Less than Living Wage, 'Spite of "Prosperity," <i>The Evening Call</i>, January 28, 1919, p.5.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e2410c6-c26a-e2dd-1637-6913344ca427" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%2011/Geneva%20NY%20Gazette/Geneva%20NY%20Gazette%201890-1893%20Grayscale/Geneva%20NY%20Gazette%201890-1893%20Grayscale%20-%200320.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">“Making Minutes Count,” </span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Geneva Gazette</span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">, June 12, 1891, p. 1.</span></a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e2410c6-c26a-9f2c-d4af-f7c6514d7f6a" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20030124ar02p1.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Donald M. Fiske, “American Labor in the 20th Century.” (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)</a>.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-3e2410c6-c26a-62d7-c5b5-69e051ed9fab"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201905%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201905%20a%20Grayscale%20-%203539.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=70f9d487&DocId=2735795&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=18&hits=101+6d5+70d+74a+74e+76a+c4b+cca+de6+e24+e3a+e3b+13f4+1d44+1f04+2169+21ce+21d4+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;">“Work girls in a panic at a big factory fire,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 13, 1905, p. 1</a>.</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Roselle Manor in Cedarhurst, built in the style of an English Renaissance manor house, was the summer home of Isaac D. Levy and his family. Levy, president of Oppenheim, Collins and Co., a women's specialty department store, lived in the home for over 20 years.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">When it was built in the early 1900s, the mansion was surrounded by five and a half acres at Cedarhurst Avenue and West Broadway. The $300,000 mansion was designed by the
architects Buchman and Fox, and was landscaped by the firm of Lord and
Burnham, who also designed the attached conservatory. According to <i>Long Island Country Houses and their Architects, 1860-1940:</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i> the sedate mansion incorporated curved gables, mullioned windows</i></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>and other motifs of English Renaissance manor houses. (p.86)</i></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Born in London, Isaac Levy's family came to the United States in 1880. After a brief stay in New York, they settled in Chicago, where Isaac got a position as a cash boy for $2 a week in the cloak department of The Fair, a popular retail store. He learned quickly, and by 1891 was a cloak and suit buyer for another large retail establishment. His experience and innovation earned him a transfer from Chicago to New York. It was shortly after this that Levy approached Charles J. Oppenheim of Oppenheim Collins with the idea of opening a retail store. For a business which had formerly catered only to the wholesale trade, this was a major endeavor, but Oppenheim backed Levy's vision and a store on 21st Street and Broadway was quickly replaced by a larger emporium at 35 West 34th Street. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Oppenheim & Collins' 34th St. store, c1955 (Library of Congress)</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1902, the "prominent young business man of New York" married "one of the belles in Jewish society circles of the city [Boston]." The "strikingly handsome" Miss Rosetta Davis and Isaac Levy were wed in a ceremony which was detailed in the <i>Boston Globe</i> (June 10, 1902, p.8) </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Manhattan changed rapidly during the next few years years and 34th Street, which had not been a fashionable shopping area, was developing thanks to the efforts of John Howes Burton (another Branch resident) and the <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F40F1EFC3A5B11728DDDA90A94DA405B818EF1D3" target="_blank">Save New York Committee</a>. The area became second only to Fifth Avenue as a shopping center.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Levy's career took off and their country home was built to accommodate their growing family. The 1915 New York State census lists the Isaac and Rosetta Levy in Cedarhurst with their daughters, Miriam and Kathleen and a son, Robert. Another child, Dorothy, had died. An estate the size of Roselle Manor required a staff of eleven living on the property. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">While maintaining their Manhattan apartment, the Levy's summered in Cedarhurst for at least twenty years. But by 1925, they had decided to sell Roselle Manor. A legal dispute arose between the Levys and their agents, resulting in a 1927 compromise in which Roselle Manor was donated to St. Joseph's Hospital in Far Rockaway as a memorial for Dorothy. The house was to be used as a convalescent home for children. It was eventually turned over to five trustees to sell and use the proceeds to build a maternity and children's wing for the hospital. The house was eventually demolished in the 1960s. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">After leaving Cedarhurst, the Levys relocated to Deal, New Jersey, where Isaac Levy died in 1934, after a brief illness. Over 700 people attended the funeral of the man<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> called "the prince of merchant princes in the realm of ready-to-wear" </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, a close friend, eulogized Mr. Levy as </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">an outstanding and revealing personality. ...What he believed he said and what he said he believed. He spoke the truth, for he loved the truth and he hated a lie. He loathed anything that was unfair. He rose from obscurity to a place of power and distinction in the world of affairs. His business meant much to him, and he gave unwearyingly [sic] of his time to it, not for his own sake but for the sake of those close to him and for the reputation of his business. -</span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>The New York Time</i>s, September 12, 1934, p. 23)</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">J.J. Schmidt, whose great-grandmother, Annie Turner (Wallace) worked at Roselle Manor, has allowed us to use some images from his collection, which show the mansion in its glory days.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Further Information: (Some links may require HWPL library card login)</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/100943673/13EC7DBF55874751B20/4?accountid=11387" target="_blank">"Isaac D. Levy Dies, head of Big Store," <i>The New York Times</i>, September 16, 1934, p. 17.</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201934%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201934%20Grayscale%20-%209571.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffd38e5f45&DocId=7012585&Index=Z%3a\Index%20O-G-T&HitCount=9&hits=20+21+22+52+53+54+ce+cf+d0+&SearchForm=C%3a\inetpub\wwwroot\Fulton_New_form.html&.pdf" target="_blank">"Isaac D. Levy, merchant, dies at Home," <i>The Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, September 10, 1934, p. 7.</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/104234869/13EC7ED0A0D3812253F/1?accountid=11387" target="_blank">"Suit is Turned into $200,000 Hospital Gift, as Litigants Transfer Estate as Memorial," <i>The New York Times</i>, February 22, 1927, p. 21.</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/499687063/13EC7F98DD83F720E6B/5?accountid=11387" target="_blank">"Levy-Davis: Members of Jewish Society of Boston, New York and Philadelphia unite in Celebrating the Event." <i>Boston Daily Globe</i>, June 10, 1902, p. 8.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><br /></span>Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-13868457221488238622013-04-05T11:59:00.001-04:002017-02-24T22:34:14.802-05:00Fathers of the Five Towns: James E. Gaffney<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With the start of this year's baseball season underway, it seems appropriate to reflect on some local baseball history. In the days when Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson and Cy Young were active players, James Gaffney exerted great influence in the world of baseball, as a financier and a guy who could make things happen.</span><br />
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became a Tammany Hall alderman and the owner of the New York Contracting and Trucking Company, a construction company which handled such projects as the Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Terminal (the original Penn Station in Manhattan). His wife, Essa Irene (nee Smith) was active in the company. The subject of several newspaper interviews, Mrs. Gaffney is portrayed as beautiful, charming and possessing a keen head for business. Although his home was in Manhattan, Gaffney owned a Spanish style home on the corner of Broadway and Washington Avenue in Lawrence, where he and his family spent many summers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Charles F. Murphy, the powerful Tammany Hall boss, was a close friend, and this affiliation brought Gaffney many financial rewards. </span>Among Gaffney's many business investments were real estate interests in Cedarhurst the Rockaways as well as a string of race horses which were stabled at Gravesend in Brooklyn. One of these, Irene's Bob (named for his daughter and her husband), was a winner at Saratoga. The <i>Daily Racing Form</i> reported </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">that Gaffney spent $40,000 in a three month period of 1909, purchasing several fine race horses.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But baseball became Gaffney's passion. In 1911, It was rumored that Gaffney lent money to his friend Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Senators to purchase an interest in the team. (<i>McClures Magazine, May-October 1912, </i>v.39, p. 241). In December of that year, Gaffney financed the purchase of the Boston National League team for $187,000. The team had not won since 1898 and Gaffney was prepared to put another $100,000 into it to turn it into a winning team (<i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, 12/23/1911, p. 10). With his partner John M. Ward, a former player and manager, Gaffney hired a new manager in 1913 (George Stallings) and beefed up the bullpen. The team, which had been variously named the Beaneaters, the Doves and the Rustlers, now became the Braves. New York's Tammany Society was named for Tammany or Tammanend, a Delaware Indian chief, and the members were known as "braves". The press had named Gaffney "the Brave of Tammany Hall" and Gaffney thought it a great joke to flaunt the New York Democratic machine in the face of the conservative Boston brahmins. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ward quickly lost heart and sold out to Gaffney, but the newly-energized team went from last place in early July 1914 to first place at the end of August. They defeated the New York Giants for the National League pennant and went on to sweep Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in the World Series. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With this momentum behind the team, Gaffney took the opportunity of creating what was then the largest and most expensive ballpark in the country. Braves Field was to be built about four miles outside of Boston center and would hold 42,282 seats.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bostonbaseballhistory.com/braves-field-an-imperfect-history-of-the-perfect-ballpark-4/" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">Gaffney wanted the playing field to be large enough so that it would be possible to hit an inside-the-park home run in any of the outfield directions. He used his connections to erect a departure station within the stadium walls and convinced the Boston Elevated Railway System to construct a closed loop from the Field to the mainline tracks. Easily accessible by trolley, the new steel stadium was immediately christened "the world's greatest baseball park" by Baseball Magazine.</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the Braves did not live up to their promise and soon declined in popularity. Gaffney suffered the same fate, as he became implicated in graft and corruption scandals in New York State and gradually faded from the public arena. The home in Cedarhurst was sold in 1931 to an industrialist and Gaffney died the following year while vacationing in East Hampton.</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://bostonbaseballhistory.com/braves-field-an-imperfect-history-of-the-perfect-ballpark-4/" target="_blank"><i></i></a><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank">Braves' Field: an imperfect history of the perfect ballpark</a></i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" target="_blank"> (bostonbaseballhistory.com)</a><i><a href="http://bostonbaseballhistory.com/braves-field-an-imperfect-history-of-the-perfect-ballpark-4/" target="_blank"><br /></a></i></span></li>
<li><a href="http://research.sabr.org/journals/braves-field" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Society for American Baseball Research:<i> Braves Field</i></span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/tammany-hall.cfm" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Tammany Hall</i> (from the Eleanor Roosevelt papers Project, George Washington University)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14540889" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>James E. Gaffney:</i> Find-a-Grave.com</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=pexlSeWTXsQC&pg=PA41&dq=boston+nationals+won+a+game+gaffney&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0dNdUfPlJpi14AP38YGoBw&ved=0CGcQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=boston%20nationals%20won%20a%20game%20gaffney&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Voigt, David Quentin. <i>American Baseball,</i> vol. 2. University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983, p.41-2. </span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=fMlEN8eiKJgC&pg=PA152&dq=%22james+e.+gaffney+%22+++++tammany&hl=en&sa=X&ei=LuZdUePJIaTA4AOL-4HIAw&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22james%20e.%20gaffney%20%22%20%20%20%20%20tammany&f=false" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #274e13; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Seymour, Harold.<i> Baseball the Golden Age</i>, vol. 2, Oxford University Press, 1971.</span></a></li>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-75153561273919098992013-01-25T19:37:00.001-05:002017-02-24T22:40:16.094-05:00Pharmacies in The Branch<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The winter months are commonly considered "flu season" in the United States. Those at risk are advised to avail themselved of "flu shots", vaccinations have been readily available for the past sixty years and antibiotics have been available to combat secondary infections since the 1940s. Only since the 1980's have strides been made in antiviral medications, which interfere with the life-cycle of the virus itself. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 1889 pandemic, known as the Russian Flu, began in Russia and spread
rapidly throughout Europe. It reached North America in December 1889
and spread to Latin America and Asia in February 1890. About 1 million
people died in this pandemic." The most
infamous pandemic was “Spanish Flu” which affected large parts of the
world population and is thought to have killed at least 40 million
people in 1918-1919</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One hundred years ago, medicine could only combat the symptoms of the disease. The patient's own immune system did most of the work. Although physicians were available in The Branch, most medicines were dispensed by pharmacists. Since there was a ready supply of pharmacists from the New York College of Pharmacy (Columbia University) and the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, The Branch communities had many pharmacies. What is of interest to this author, however, are the numbers of married couples, both registered pharmacists, who practiced in the area. </span></span></span><br />
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postmaster of Woodsburgh and then Woodmere from 1897-1904, had a small
apartment on the second floor of his drug store on the corner of
Broadway and Irving Place, where he lived with his wife, Theresa. Late one night in August 1904, thieves broke into the store and dynamited the safe inside. Both Mr. and Mrs. Koch came down armed -- he with a double barreled shotgun
-- and engaged the thieves in an exchange of gunfire before they
escaped with $750 worth of stamps and $300 in cash. This was a repeat
of an earlier, unsuccessful robbery attempt a month before. In 1904, Koch sold his Woodmere location and opened a drug store in Far Rockaway, perhaps a more civilized area at the time.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Colonial Pharmacy, Woodmere</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Wisendanger</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Estelle V. Wisendanger <b><br /></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">William Wisendanger (born 1873; graduated BCP 1895) and his wife, Estelle (nee Vaughan, married 1898) owned and operated the Colonial Pharmacy, located at the corner of Broadway and Irving Place in Woodmere (the same corner if not the same location as the Woodmere Pharmacy). William, a member of the German Apothocaries Society, had owned the Rhinelander Pharmacy in Manhattan before moving to Woodmere.</span></span></span><br />
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Pharmaceutical Association. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">An article in the July 1912 <i>Pharmaceutical Era</i>, highlighted Estelle's accomplishments:</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By 1913, Estelle was elected president of the New York Women's Pharmaceutical Association and in July of 1914 was one of those on a 55-day European tour sponsored by the German Apothocaries Society when the German army mobilized. The tour was cut short and the Americans were allowed to leave Germany.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Frank R. Jennings (born 1877, NYCP 1896), worked with his father in Far Rockaway, until in 1899, when he got a job in Mianus, Connecticut. In 1900, he married Eliza W. Pettit (born 1877), who became a certified pharmacist in 1904.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Jennings was a member of the King's County Pharmaceutical Society (<i>American Druggist,</i> Jan-June 1908) and opened a new drug store in Lawrence in 1912. (Druggists Circular, 12/1912). According to family members, it was located at the intersection of the Rockaway-Jamaica Turnpike and the Rockaway Road (today's Broadway) -- a crossroad which had been called "Jennings Corners" since the mid-19th Century.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the years, Jennings relocated his store to the corner of Central Avenue and Washington Avenue in Cedarhurst (right) and eventually to Broadway and Franklin Avenue in Hewlett. (<i>Hays Directory</i>, 1945)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After Frank's death, Eliza continued as a pharmacist until she was in her seventies. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> </b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto;">John D. Crosby was born on his father’s farm at Deerfield, N.Y., May 23, 1858, and attended local schools and
theWhitestown Seminary. At the age of twenty-four he left home for Utica,NY, where he
was employed in a drug store for three years, after which he came to Inwood,
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married Miss May V. Craft (born 1868, NYCP 1890). Soon after their marriage in 1888, May began the study of pharmacy and graduated from the
New York College in 1890. The Crosby Pharmacy was located on McNeil Avenue in Inwood with another location on Bayview Avenue in Lawrence. (1899 Trow's Directory)</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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John D.Crosby is listed in 1904 as treasurer of the newly-formed Queens County Pharmaceutical Association, which boasted 25 members. (William Wisendanger is listed as President) In March 1907, John Crosby and others listed at a dinner of the Long Island Botanical Association, an organization comprised of all the druggists on the Rockaway Peninsula.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition to pharmaceuticals and patent medicines, drug stores<b> </b>of the early 20th century had elaborate soda fountains. An area like The Branch, which was noted for its summer tourism, would have been no exception. An advertisement in the Evening Telegram of March 14, 1923 reports that the Crosby Pharmacy is one of several listed who just bought a NEW KNIGHT fountain and is selling it's old one. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In addition<b> </b>to sodas, drug stores supplied postcards to the tourist trade. Many which still exist on the collectibles market bear the name of Raeder's Pharmacy. </span></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYyLsjP60xAADbN0i1wKBP74yaqAecQhHViaolnxQiR5FKdUzh0vI82ju-AFjgcDlv9CoFMGejHE1dhvO6FYNyoazSpG5iB6viJIqoHoh3ZHXxJGW7jZNQdW0SbQW1rnnlq-rT_Oe02gU/s1600/olgc002f_gs_enh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYyLsjP60xAADbN0i1wKBP74yaqAecQhHViaolnxQiR5FKdUzh0vI82ju-AFjgcDlv9CoFMGejHE1dhvO6FYNyoazSpG5iB6viJIqoHoh3ZHXxJGW7jZNQdW0SbQW1rnnlq-rT_Oe02gU/s320/olgc002f_gs_enh.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Ra<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">eder's
Pharmacy</span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;"> in
the White Building,</span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">Cedarhurst</span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white;">, Long Island, which was
recently opened is one of the finest on the Island." </span><a href="http://books.google.com/books?ei=9h7_UImgKMaQ0QGYmIC4Ag&id=6cPmAAAAMAAJ&dq=raeder%27s+cedarhurst+pharmacy&q=raeder%27s+cedarhurst+pharmacy#search_anchor"><br /></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Edward M Raeder born c.1878 (NYCP 1898) was the proprietor.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Further Reading</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA091FFA3A5416738DDDA80994D0405B848CF1D3" target="_blank">"Thieves blow open safe in post office," The New York Times, August 10, 1904, p. 12</a></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/2003/fs211/en/" target="_blank">World Health Organization: Influenza </a></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/biofacts/panflu_hx.html" target="_blank">CIPRAP: Influenza: Pandemic Influenza: Overview: Historical Perspective</a></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=tsw1AQAAMAAJ&dq=influenza%20epidemic&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=influenza%20epidemic&f=false" target="_blank">Parsons, Henry Franklin. <i>Report on the Influenza Epidemic of 1889-90. </i>London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1891.</a></span></span></span></li>
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<li><h1 class="gb-volume-title" dir="ltr">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bQwMhWYdY2gC&lpg=PP1&dq=%22spanish%20flu%22&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=%22spanish%20flu%22&f=false" target="_blank">MacDonald, Ian. Betty O'Keefe. <i>Dr. Fred and the Spanish Lady: Fighting the Killer Flu, </i>Surrey, British Columbia : Heritage House, 2004.</a></span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alisweb.org/search~S60/?searchtype=Y&searcharg=Crosby+Alfred+W+and+america%27s+forgotten+pandemic&searchscope=60&sortdropdown=-&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBMIT=Search&searchlimits=&searchorigarg=aCrosby+Alfred+W" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Crosby, Alfred W. <i>America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. </i>New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989, 2003.<i><br /></i></span></a></span></span></span></h1>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nynassa2/Bios/jcrosby.htm"><b>"Portrait and Biographical Record of Queens
County (Long Island) New York"</b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nynassa2/Bios/jcrosby.htm"><b>(Copyright 1896 by Chapman Publishing Company) </b></a></span></span></span><h1 class="gb-volume-title" dir="ltr">
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-10185638086749824392012-12-13T11:52:00.004-05:002017-02-24T22:41:31.077-05:002012: The Woodmere Club CentennialIn interviews after the $3 million purchase of Woodmere from Robert Burton, Maximilian Morgenthau, the Manhattan real estate developer who created the Woodmere Realty Company, stated that the construction of a clubhouse and tennis courts for local residents was imminent and that the establishment of a private golf club was also in the near future. In 1910, the Woodmere Club, with its nine clay tennis courts, was erected near the Woodmere LIRR station and opened in May of that year. Plans to acquire frontage and build a waterside casino and boathouse began almost immediately.<br />
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The new clubhouse, built closer to the shore, was an adaptation of Dutch Colonial style designed by Ralph C. Lynch in keeping with the architecture already existent in Woodmere. Dedicated in 1912, the building, built at a cost of $18,000 featured a first floor of exterior stucco with massive pillars extending the width of the building and a second story of painted white shingles.<br />
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The golf course soon surpassed the tennis club in popularity and became a major venue for tournaments.<br />
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According to the Club's web site:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Without questions, the fourth hole was the center-piece of the old
course. It was a par-4 of about 400 yards, with a 20-foot-high cross
bunker in the drive zone. Beyond the bunker, the fairway sloped right,
and the three-tiered green featured a "valley of sin" through the
middle, with out of bounds close to the right side. The club offered a
$500 prize to anyone who could carry the bunker off the tee and stay in
the fairway!</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Woodmere caddies of 1925 were trailblazers of sorts, being the
first in the Met area to carry with them on the course envelopes filled
with grass seed to plant wherever divots were taken.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Woodmere golf course underwent a major facelift in 1947, when the
club bought a large parcel of land from the Rockaway Hunting Club. The
land was the former site of several golf holes which the latter club had
discarded in 1939. Although Woodmere rejuvenated those holes for a
short time, in 1949 Robert Trent Jones was commissioned to build an
entirely new back nine. That land had been purchase outright from the
White family that same year.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A new seventeenth hole was built in 1952, again the direct result of a
(smaller) land purchase from Rockaway Hunting. And the greenside
bunkering, perhaps the distinguishing feature of the course, was
remodeled in 1986-1987 by architect Brian Silva.</span></blockquote>
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Over the 2012 Memorial Day weekend, the Woodmere Club marked its centennial with both club members and dignitaries coming together for celebration, refreshments and the dedication of a plaque. Two weeks later the Club was the recipient of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association's Club of the Year Award.<br />
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Further Information:<br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.woodmereclub.com/html/history.aspx" target="_blank">History of the Woodmere Club (from www.woodmereclub.com) </a></li>
<li><a href="http://liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/Gala-celebrates-Woodmere-Clubs-100th-birthday,43343?content_source=&category_id=5&search_filter=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=&town_id=" target="_blank"> Gala celebrates Woodmere Club's 100th Birthday</a> (<i>Nassau Herald</i>, September 20, 2012)</li>
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<a href="http://scorciaonpar.com/a-centurys-old-tradition-of-sportsmanship-friendship-and-camaraderie-the-woodmere-club/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">“A Century’s Old Tradition of Sportsmanship, Friendship, and Camaraderie–The Woodmere Club,"</span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8251674888568567168" target="_blank"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(interview with Jeff Cowell, Woodmere Club's Head Professional)</span></a> scorciaonpar.com</div>
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<li><a href="http://fivetowns.patch.com/articles/woodmere-club-celebrates-100th-anniversary#photo-10179167" target="_blank">"Woodmere Club Celebrates 100th Anniversary," Five Towns Patch, June 4, 2012.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.newsday.com/sports/golf/woodmere-club-celebrates-100th-anniversary-1.3669474" target="_blank">"Woodmere Club Celebrates its 100th Anniversary," Newsday, April 18, 2012.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cybergolf.com/golf_news/woodmere_club_readies_for_centennial" target="_blank">Woodmere Readies for Centennial, CyberGolf, </a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.mgagolf.org/news/2012/june/woodmereclub" target="_blank">Woodmere Club to be honored at MGA Awards dinner (June 12, 2012)</a></li>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-34123161757119191172012-10-13T10:44:00.000-04:002017-02-24T22:46:25.824-05:00Woodsburgh at 100<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This weekend, the Culluloo monument at the intersection of Wood and Keene Lanes will be the site of ceremonies marking the 100th anniversary of Woodsburgh's incorporation.<br />
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The process of incorporation, which required a population of 400 and the consent of one-third of the property owners and twenty-five freeholders*, was a trend in turn-of-the-century Nassau County (est. 1899) as residents tried to provide locally determined services and zoning which the new county would or could not. Lawrence was the first of the Branch communities to do so (1897), followed by Cedarhurst (1910) and Woodsburgh (1912). During the 1920's Hewlett Neck , Hewlett Harbor and Hewlett Bay Park followed suit. Hewlett, Woodmere and Inwood remained unincorporated hamlets, dependent on the Town of Hempstead and Nassau County for services and legislation. There was a referendum for incorporation of Woodmere in 1918, but it was defeated by eleven votes. (<i>Hempstead Sentine</i>l, January 31, 1918, p. 1)<br />
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About 100 early residents of the future Woodsburgh began meeting in 1910 as the Woodmere Improvement Society. Created to organize police and fire protection, maintain the roads, improve street lighting and establish rules for sanitation and public safety. By November of 1910, representatives from Woodmere and Cedarhurst were joining colleagues in Lawrence to cooperate in efforts to build a sewer system and disposal plant which would serve the three communities. <br />
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An election was held on October 29th at the Keene Lane home of attorney Arthur F. Cosby, resulting in a unanimous vote of 28-0 for incorporation. Among the participants at these events were Edward H. Pershing, physician; financiers Arthur Nelson Peck, Frederic H. Hatch, James L. Timpson and Robert Sloan; railroad capitalist James A. McCrea; and Henry Ziegler, President of Steinway Piano Company. Other residents would include real estate developer Maximilian Morgenthau, his brother Julius C. Morgenthau; Carleton Macy, President of the Hewlett Bay Company; William Fox, founder of Fox Film Corporation; brothers Harold and Sanford Jacobi, founders of Schenley Distillers; attorney George deForest Lord; real estate developer George L. Stebbins; financiers George W. VanSiclen and Louden S. Wainwright, Sr.<br />
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Woodsburgh officially became an incorporated village on November 8, 1912, reviving the original name of the community, which had been changed to Woodmere in 1899.<br />
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*<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The term
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mayors of Woodsburgh</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">James A. McCrea (President) 1912-1914</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Frederick H. Hatch (President) 1914-1926</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Charles A. Marshall (President) 1926-1931</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">John H. Ballantine 1931-1937</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Newbold L. Herrick 1937-1943</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sidney O. Crystal 1943-1952</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Arthur D. Marks 1952-1959</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Spencer B. Witty 1959-1969</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Donald S. Ruth 1969-1975</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Stephen S. Mukamal 1975-1978</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jesse Halperin 1978-1987</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Julius Dintenfass 1987-1989</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Jack L. Libert 1989-July 1994</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Susan L. Schlaff 1994-present </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F70E14F73E5D11738DDDA10894DD405B808DF1D3" target="_blank"><u>"To Incorporate Woodmere", (<i>The New York Times</i>, May 8, 1910, p. XX7.) </u></a><u> </u></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/Woodsburgh-marks-its-centennial,43780" target="_blank"><u>Woodsburgh marks its Centennial (<i>Five Towns Herald, </i>October 11, 2012<i>)</i> </u></a><u> </u></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="http://standardli.com/2012/03/2012-marks-a-year-of-five-towns-celebrations-and-centennials/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"2012 marks a year of Five Towns Celebrations and Centennials" (<i>Five Towns Patch</i>)</span></a></u></span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/woodsburgh-marks-a-century-1.4113888" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Woodsburgh marks a Century" (<i>Newsday,</i> October 15, 2012) </span> </u></span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="http://www.ncvoa.com/ncvoa/village_view.asp?ContactID=70" target="_blank">Incorporated Village of Woodsburgh - official information </a></u></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="http://fultonhistory.com/Newspapers%207/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201908%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201908%20Grayscale%20-%204446.pdf#xml=http://fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=182ca7b4&DocId=2767327&Index=Z%3a%5cIndex%20U%2dF%2dP&HitCount=13&hits=c5c+d56+d65+e9f+ea7+f10+f37+fc3+fee+1022+1357+1390+1959+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf" target="_blank">Woodmere, the modern, an island beauty spot (<i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, May 30, 1908, p.1) </a></u></span></li>
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Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-86453111354297283962012-08-31T11:33:00.001-04:002017-02-24T23:11:10.642-05:00Inwood Fire Department at 125 yearsLong before there was a "Five Towns," residents of The Branch formed fire companies to protect their property. In the days before the introduction of electricity minimized the risk from coal stoves and open fireplaces, fire was a constant threat to safety. Since wooden buildings were far more common than brick structures, a neighbor's fire might quickly turn into a community's disaster.<br />
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On January 19, 1887, at a meeting in the Lord Avenue cottage of Edward Rhinehart and his wife, plans were made for the organization of a fire company for their community, which was then called Westville. At that meeting, the Electric Hook and Ladder Company was created. A year later, when a post office was established, the community was renamed Inwood. A second company, the Citizen Hose and Engine Company, was formed in 1902 by some of the younger members of Electric Hook and Ladder Company.<br />
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The first Inwood firehouse (above) was crowned by an observation tower so fires might be spotted before they became a problem. <br />
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Members Edward Archibald and Frank Parise have produced a <a href="http://www.inwoodfd.com/history.pdf" target="_blank">comprehensive history of the department</a>. Their work spotlights development in Inwood's firefighting community from its inception through the events of September 11, 2001.<br />
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Archibald and Parise also mention that Inwood still holds the World's Record (established in 1919) for the horse drawn hose contest. <br />
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The early years were punctuated by the purchase of the first motorized apparatus (1917) and the construction in 1926 of a new fire headquarters, erected on the northeast corner of Wanser and Doughty Boulevard (above). The building was extended in 1952 and an annex built in 1984. The years that followed have seen improvements in equipment and communications, but the dedication shown by the members of our local fire departments have always set the highest standards. We salute you all.<br />
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Further reading:<br />
<a href="http://www.inwoodfd.com/" target="_blank">http://www.inwoodfd.com/ </a><br />
<a href="http://www.liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/Inwood-Fire-Department-celebrates-125-years,42586" target="_blank">http://www.liherald.com/fivetowns/stories/Inwood-Fire-Department-celebrates-125-years,42586</a><br />
<br />Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-56362671743072053252012-06-12T20:44:00.004-04:002017-02-24T22:48:07.795-05:00Woodmere Methodist ChurchOn Wednesday, June 27 the congregation of the Woodmere-Lawrence United
Methodist Church will meet in a service that will mark the end of almost
150 years of tradition.<br />
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At a meeting at the home of Singleton Brower on Friday, March 13, 1871 members of the Lawrence Methodist Church made the decision to establish a church in Samuel Wood's village of Woodsburgh, A week later (Friday, March 20) the men met at the same home and elected a Board of Trustees.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The donation of property on Broadway was accepted, a building committee appointed and a drive for funds was started. Twenty months later, on November 19, 1872, the new church building was dedicated. It was a humble house of God, 25x40 ft, costing $1,583.28 complete with pulpit Bible. ("Woodmere Church 80 Years Old." <i>Nassau Herald</i>, March 9, 1951)</span></blockquote>
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According to a<a href="http://www.hwpl.org/wmechurch_25thann.pdf" target="_blank"> program produced for the congregation's 25th anniversary in 1897, </a></blockquote>
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... <span style="font-size: x-small;">work was initiated under the pastorate of Rev. C.P. Corner. The church building was completed and dedicated in the Fall of '72, during the pastorate of Rev. E.K. Fanning. The church was attached to the Rockaway and Foster's Meadow Circuit, and remained under the general supervision of the Mother Church until the Spring of '78, when she was set off as a separate charge, with a roll of 84 members and 11 probationers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">In the year 1889, under the pastorate of Rev. Alex. McNicholl, the church was enlarged and subsequent years has (sic) brought about other improvements. In November '97, a fund was instituted for the purpose of purchasing lot and building a parsonage. ..Notwithstanding los[s]es and removals the church has grown in membership from 84 to 122; and 169 have been baptized at her altars."</span></blockquote>
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The current brick building was erected in 1921 and the original church building was moved to the rear of the property. The 1898 parsonage has been used as a thrift shop in recent years.<br />
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Lawrence Methodist Church, built on the site of the 1831 McKendre's Chapel, closed its doors in 1976. At that time the two congregations merged under the name Woodmere-Lawrence United Methodist Church. Through the efforts of local historians and genealogists, birth, marriage and cemetery records for many of the families that inhabited the Rockaways are preserved and available online.<br />
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<li><a href="http://standardli.com/2012/06/landmark-woodmere-church-closing-its-doors/" target="_blank"> Mayo, Amanda. "Landmark Woodmere Church Closing it's Doors," <i> South Shore Standard</i>, June 8, 2012.</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://www.liherald.com/fivetowns/fivetowns/stories/Woodmere-Lawrence-Methodist-church-may-be-closing,39533" target="_blank">"Woodmere-Lawrence Methodist Church may be closing," <i>Five Towns Herald</i>, March 15, 2012. </a></li>
<li> <a href="http://fivetowns.patch.com/listings/woodmere-lawrence-methodist-church" target="_blank">Woodmere-Lawrence Methodist Church (<i>Five Towns Patch </i>listing)</a></li>
<li> <a href="http://galatea.meccahosting.com/~a0006767/Ecclesiastical/Woodmere%20Methodist/Woodmere-Methodist.htm" target="_blank">Stained glass window created by Glenn Somers</a></li>
<li>"Woodmere Church 80 years old." <i>Nassau Herald</i>, March 9, 1951, page 1. </li>
<li><a href="http://longislandgenealogy.com/MethodistMarriage.html" target="_blank">19th and Early 20th Century Woodsburgh Methodist Church Marriage Records (transcribed by Linda Clark)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://longislandgenealogy.com/MethodistBaptismal.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">19th and Early Twentieth Century Woodsburgh Methodist Church Baptismal Records </span></a><a href="http://longislandgenealogy.com/MethodistBaptismal.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"> (transcribed by Linda Clark)</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2303313" target="_blank">Lawrence Methodist Church listings on Find-a-Grave.com</a></li>
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<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2303313" target="_blank"><br /></a>Hewlett-Woodmere Public LIbraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17653289687577146455noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8251674888568567168.post-74815734025240594222012-04-17T10:39:00.001-04:002017-02-24T22:29:40.944-05:00Fathers of the Five Towns: Henry Ziegler<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mD8yuGBybOEP6fiEUyPl7fCfWtaIiU5QCdIWlUI7GRDXrYUhgPcgtwkXLptLXiHL2bl-CxSuk_CjP6ZFdrOmaWfgSkSDd4gAOBSumiz5Bd4Zn9OnW0Ge8Dpc2HPKssibBd97exuufCE/s1600/HZ02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3mD8yuGBybOEP6fiEUyPl7fCfWtaIiU5QCdIWlUI7GRDXrYUhgPcgtwkXLptLXiHL2bl-CxSuk_CjP6ZFdrOmaWfgSkSDd4gAOBSumiz5Bd4Zn9OnW0Ge8Dpc2HPKssibBd97exuufCE/s200/HZ02.jpg" width="115" /></a>In the last paragraph of a <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00F1FFA3D5412738DDDA90994D9415B898CF1D3" target="_blank">1909 article in <i>The New York Times</i></a> describing the sale of the town of Woodmere to Maximilian Morgenthau's syndicate of real estate developers, Henry Ziegler (1858-1930) is listed as one of the "present residents of Woodmere and its vicinity." He is also listed (erroneously) as the President of the Steinway Piano Company. Although he was a director of the company for many years and the vice president of Steinway & Sons, he declined the presidency of the company which his grandfather, Henry Engelhard Steinway, had founded. <br />
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Trained as a cabinet maker in his father's shop on Bleeker Street Henry's uncle, C.F. Theodore Steinway discovered the creativity and innovation in his young nephew and took him under his wing. Steinway became Ziegler's mentor and from 1875 until Mr. Steinway's death in 1889 he received daily instruction from his uncle (one of the masters of the piano industry) in the art of piano construction. Henry Ziegler became a keen judge of tonal values and patented many inventions which improved and refined the tonal quality and resonance of Steinway pianos. When he died in 1930 at the age of 72, his Times obituary described him as<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKRPyVDt_XsoTptUR0ixmTwHxg8fpPZ7m1najKZ_PvQSjPNxLQff4mkushx7gUPL6T_D9U2IiixESwTvWdL2yovHjAKL-Bpavh_BTVuO-x9Pj9X2akT5FvB-tW65wvwjIrTDl_qoutQmw/s1600/HZ1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKRPyVDt_XsoTptUR0ixmTwHxg8fpPZ7m1najKZ_PvQSjPNxLQff4mkushx7gUPL6T_D9U2IiixESwTvWdL2yovHjAKL-Bpavh_BTVuO-x9Pj9X2akT5FvB-tW65wvwjIrTDl_qoutQmw/s200/HZ1.jpg" width="200" /></a>A member of the Rockaway Hunting Club and New York Athletic Club, Ziegler owned a home on Woodmere Boulevard in Woodsburgh. He raced his own horses in harness-racing competitions. A small article in the April 12, 1910 <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i> reported a robbery of "considerable jewelry, a fur overcoat and other articles" from the Woodsburgh home while the family was at dinner. Married to the former Albertine Vogel (1863-1934), their son, Frederick J. Ziegler (1886-1966) was a 1908 graduate of Harvard University. A sculptor and director of Steinway and Sons, Frederick spent his early years in Woodsburgh. Their daughter, Eleanor Ziegler Hill, died in 1902.<br />
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The Steinway Company remained in the extended Steinway family until 1972, when it was sold to CBS Corporation. In 1995,CBS sold the company to Selmer Industries. Henry Ziegler Steinway, nephew of Henry Ziegler, was Steinway's president from 1955 until 1972. In 2008, H.Z. Steinway was awarded the National Medal of Arts, the government's highest award in the arts, by President Bush. He remained a guiding force in American music until his death in 2008 at the age of 93. <br />
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<li><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00F1FFA3D5412738DDDA90994D9415B898CF1D3" target="_blank">"Morgenthau buys a Town." <i>The New York Times</i>, November 10, 1909, p. 1.</a></li>
<li>"Robbery at Woodmere, " <i>Brooklyn Daily Eagle</i>, April 12, 1910. </li>
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<li>Dolge, Alfred. <i>Pianos and their Makers</i>. New York : Dover Press, 1972. </li>
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<li>Lieberman, Richard K. <i>Steinway & Sons</i>. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1995. </li>
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<li>Ratcliffe, Ronald V. <i>Steinway & Sons</i>. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/music/19steinway.html" target="_blank">Barron, James. Henry Z. Steinway, piano maker, dies at 93. <i>The New York Times</i>, September 19, 2008, p. B7. </a></li>
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<li><a href="http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0612F6345A147A93C3A8178ED85F448385F9" target="_blank">"Henry Ziegler dies, Steinway official," <i>The New York Times</i>, May 11, 1930, p.27.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/steinwaydiary/" target="_blank">The William Steinway Diary Project (Smithsonian Institution) </a>: William Steinway (1835-1896) was Henry Ziegler's uncle. </li>
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"Beginning eight days after the first shots of the American Civil War were fired and three days before his wedding, William Steinway's diary bears witness to one of the most dynamic periods in American history. The breadth and depth of material covered sheds light on thousands of people, places, and events as seen through the eyes of this key figure in the cultural, political, financial, and physical development of New York City." (Smithsonian web site)</blockquote>
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Western Long Island at the turn of the Twentieth Century was losing its rural character and beginning its path to suburbia. Land development companies bought parcels of farmland and subdivided them -- sometimes into great estates, often into more moderate plots where vacationers might enjoy the life of a country gentleman-- if only for a summer. The development of railroads during the late 19th century made it an easy prospect for businessmen to travel to Manhattan from most of Long Island and, after the electrification of the Long Island Railroad in 1905, development increased extensively.</div>
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In 1901, Robert Burton began the residential development of Woodmere in earnest. His vision of a community where residents could find reasonably-priced, well-appointed homes in close proximity to quality shops, schools, transportation and utilities was well under way when in 1909,<a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20E1EF93D5517738DDDAF0994D0405B888CF1D3" target="_blank"> he sold the entire town to</a><a href="http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F20E1EF93D5517738DDDAF0994D0405B888CF1D3" target="_blank"> a consortium headed by Maximilian Morgenthau, </a>who was by then a powerful force in Manhattan real estate. In the years that followed, a residential section of Woodmere decided to incorporate under the name of Woodsburgh, thus ensuring better services and utilities than the newly-formed county of Nassau could provide.<br />
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The beauty of the Rockaways and its proximity to "The City" made Woodsburgh a very desirable area for financiers, industrialists and professionals. <b>James A. McCrea </b>was one of them. In about 1909 he hired architect <a href="http://tclf.org/content/charles-platt" target="_blank">Charles A. Platt</a> to design his Neo-Georgian house on South End Road in Woodsburgh. A member of the Rockaway Hunting Club and the Cedarhurst Yacht Club, James McCrea was well-acquainted with the Five Towns area (then known as The Branch). He maintained the home in Woodsburgh in addition to his Park Avenue apartment, which he shared with his wife, Mable (nee Clarke; married 1897) and his children -- sons, James and Charles, and daughter, Agnes. Between 1912 and 1914, McCrae served as the first President ( the title of Mayor had not yet been established) of the newly Incorporated Village of Woodsburgh, and was a Trustee of the village from 1914-1918.<br />
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During his time in Woodmere, James Alexander McCrea (born in Philadelphia, PA on May 26, 1875) held the position of General Superintendent of the Long Island Railroad. The son of James McCrea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the younger McCrea graduated in Yale's Class of 1895 with a Bachelor's in Philosophy. Trained as a civil engineer, he too was employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad before joining the LIRR. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=KOgUAAAAYAAJ&dq=men%20and%20women%20of%20america%201909&pg=PA1078#v=onepage&q=james%20alexander%20mccrea&f=false" target="_blank"></a></div>
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McCrea's Woodmere home, which was Platt's only South Shore design, is described in <i>Long Island Country Houses and their Architects</i>, 1860-1940 ( p. 348):<br />
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A seven-bay, two-and-a-half-story central section was flanked by two-story wings of three or four bays in width, one devoted to service, the other designed for a drawing room with bedrooms above. The interior plan ...emphasized a dominant short axis from entrance hall to rear loggia, crossed by perpendicular corridors to connect major rooms on the first and second floors. The relation of the house to its surroundings was zoned with an entrance on the north, a vista across open lawns to the water on the south, a formal flower garden to the west, and a service court to the east. </blockquote>
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After McCrea's death, the property, subsequently named "Holmeridge" was purchased by John Holme Ballantine II (1892-1976), president and director of the Neptune Meter (later Neptune International Corp. ) Company. Although the address is listed as "South End Road, Woodsburgh," on the 1920 and 1930 census, the street was not today's South End in Woodmere, but rather in the area of Ivy Hill Road between Channel Road and Willow Road. An angular stand of trees marks the border of the original property. The house was demolished circa 1960.</div>
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<li> <span class="TF"><span class="tf">"Col. James A. McCrea Dies of Pneumonia." (1923, Oct 18). <i>New York Times (1923-Current File), </i>pp. 19. Retrieved from <a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/103155145?accountid=11387">http://search.proquest.com/docview/103155145?accountid=11387 <span style="font-size: x-small;">(may require Proquest Login)</span></a></span></span></li>
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<li><span class="TF"><span class="tf">"Woodmere to rival European resorts." (1910, Aug 14). <i>New York Times (1857-1922), </i>pp. X7. Retrieved from <a href="http://search.proquest.com/docview/97008651?accountid=11387" target="_blank">http://search.proquest.com/docview/97008651?accountid=11387</a></span></span></li>
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