New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH

The United States Military Academy will gain a
good all around athlete-one that any of the large
universities would be glad to get-when George W.
Beavers, jr., of Borough Park, enters West Point
on June 10. Beavers, who was eighteen wears old
on December 81, 1902, is a football and baseball
player, a star skater, and at the recent games of
the Long Island Interscholastc League at Garden
city, won the high hurdles in seventeen seconds
fat, besides taking third place in the broad iunp
The representatives of several colleges have had
their eye on this promising young man but in
entering West Point he IS gratifying a desire that
has been uppermcst in his mind since he was in
breeches.
Mr.. Beavers was born in Manhattan but has
spent most OF his life in Brooklyn. and was ap-
POINTED 10 the Military Academy by ex-Congress-
man Harry A Hanbury. He had been q student
at Erasmus Hall High School in Flatbush but
after his appointment took a special course of five
OF SIX months at the National Preparatory Acad
envy. at Highland Falls preparing for the West
e1amiRations At the National Preparatory Acad
Ugh l School team he has played first and third
Vorite sport is haIfback In the f,lerno ms Id
rink he has captured six medals for skating I9a e
Erasmus Hall. " MY dl
Speaking of the Woodhaven Fire Department
which Bill Devery roasted" in 2 sneacb +hro
on Friday night saying that it was mo moron .
heeoIe IN haystack, he ought to see the fire force
tHat processes TO guard the hamlet of Woodside
he freu
are proud OF It, but it is source of much concorn
to the citizens there and laughing stocl n aII
others VINO have seen the antics of the force Tn
10 within few weeks the only fire truck in Wood
Sioe had no horses of its When an alarm
was sounded in the daytime the men got Ubate,-e.
horses they could find around loose in A nearbv
stable. At night. however team, of baot- -
was at their disposal. The only trouble was that
THESE same bays pulled Goa! wagon all dav and
olu not 1eel any too frisky at night. On one oc-
casion the team got stuck in the mud and if tool,
hall an hour to get them and the truck out again
Again, the horses stopped on the railroad So,
ana refused TO move until train had knocked ,be
end off the apparatus
Last week, after much kicking. the Woodsfde fire
ladies received two horses for their ,,sa f
the department stables in Manhattan The mon
proud of their acquisition hitched them 70 49,
truck and started out to hold little parade al
net seem to act gust right the chief decided thai
me truck was 100 heavy. and ordered all the lad
parade was out in the neighborhood of Winfield
was the but alas! they had ne addeI
so they went away back to the fire house got tbe
barn that was afre had burned down The fnIo ,e
!Ilg Gay they TOOK the truck out again break in
in the men, and broke the truck in addition drsn7
the populace. Since then the new team has haen
kept in the stable. and everybody is wondering
what VIII happen when the next fire breaks out
Brooklyn viii indicate its right to the title Of
Borough of Babies well as Borough of
Churches Friday afternoon when the an
nual May walk Of the Brooklyn Sunday School
Union will be held The managers of the Clinton
division will not only have twelve thousand
children in line. but have also decided introduce
innovation by having some two hundred babies
i'm the division. The little ones " no will be the
youngest children who ever took part In the ami
veIsary day exercises. will be wheeled along In
peramhuiators profpsely decorated with flags and
ribbons. Cornelius s. Loder. marshal of the d.
vision. declares that the babies viii carry off the
honors OF the day. and predicts that next year the
little ones VIII be feature of all the divisions
Thousands OF persons witnessed unconscious
exhibition of the skill of circus employees Sunday
or two ago. in the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. One of
the heavy circus wagons on its way Manhattan
had broken d wheel. The wagon lacked up
and the driver and attendants. taking advantage