The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-05
SOUND BEACH'S one HOPE
MAYOR GEO. SAMMTS WILL "ACT'
To FILL TOWNS EMPTY SAFE.
oops iron star Needs RcnlckeIIng. Uniform
Lacks Buttons and Fire Laddlcs want
q NOyyIe-Hope "Ntystincation." with
sammis rs the star. Will S:et 'I:m.

SOUND BEACH, Conn. via Cos Cob, via Rye.
Aug. 4 1907. For many, many nights
now his Honor, the Mayor of Sound Beach
has slid into o DOL bathtub at midnight,
placed n pl8teful OF saltines on the soap
rack and a glass OF skinned milk on the
tnb edge, and then with the manuscript
Of the play in which he IN to take the leading
part resting on one knee which his Honor
the Mayor keeps dry for the purpose nc
homes up on his lines until it's almost time
g. ommut back to Broadway on the s:22
A. VI train.
ANY one thai ever goes through Herald
square. Aianhattan-and everybody goes
through Herald Square ar~some iin in
his ~life-knows that George Sammis Ia
house manager Of the Herald Square Thea
ire, But how many have ever heard that
he il also his Honor the Mayor Of Sound
Beach? Not only that. but how many
have over heard OF Sound Beach? Ali,
alas too few.
Sound Beach has it almost all framed
VIZ nov TO secede from the United States Of
North America. but Sound Beach Ia munich
pally busted. There's a strong safe in the
iirehouse to hold the village funds. but at
present the safe contains only 81 per cent.
oxygen. n per cent. nitrogen. LA per cent.
srgon and variable quantities Of vapor.
carbon dioxide, aqueous vapor. ammonia.
ozone. acid compounds and small amounts
Of other gases. the whole going to form
what is known as the common or outdoor
variety OF air. In other words the town
safe il built but not stuffed.
Every night while his Honor the Mayor in
house managing on Broadway you might
think from his preoccupied manner that
ne il thinking only of his theatre work.
hut really his heart is at Sound Beach,
When at 1910 p. VI. a voice caroling from
the stage floats out TO the lobby:
Oh. you must have a bed
And you must have bread
And you must have clothes TO wear.
His Honor signs and he remembers that
bic chief Of po-leece. Ad Palmer. needs a
new coat Of nickel plating on his iron star
and three buttons on his uniform. and
nothing doing in village funds. Mayor
Sammis says he would have gone crazy
about this time il his wife hadn't thought
If the amateur play that is soon 10 be pro-
duced in the schoolhouse for the benefit
II Sound Beach, not 10 mention the straw
berry ice cream festival to buy n new
nozzle for the Sound Beach H-Two-O Vol-
1nteer Fire Company.
Inc reason SOnfiu beAC0 wants 10 SeCeOp
from the union il that the village thinks
she il paying more than her share of taxes
10 the township Of Greenwich. When the
village counted up not long ago that she
10 liable every year for one-tenth of The
total Indebtedness OF Greenwi ch town
ship and that said Indebtedness ia piling
up at the rate Of about $3.50 NO annually.
Sound Beach got cocky md yelled across
ibe street to her sister burg, Riverside:
Hey, sister, let's quit EN- and start a
Awatrt - TAar .un
Riverside was grouChy about all the axes
she is paying to Greenwich. too. and thought
we'll ~ the plan Of secebsion. Whereupon
the Sound Beach Improvement League
was organized and the league invited
sister Riverside to c'mOn to Hartford and
ask the Legislature to give them permits
sion To start out by themselves and put il
all over Greenwich.
Up 10 Hartford wont the committee and
mp stood the aged clerk OF the House and
read the petition. Tho clerk droned out the
limits of the area that wants TO start up a
municipal shop Of it's own-~An that passed.
Of and north of the Miasmus River and
along the Sound s fur = jim Hendris's
farm IN the western edge OF Stamford"
&c. &c. It's really the Mianus River. but
10 not blame the aged clerk.
The Legislature thought a new borough
impractical, as there would he more bills
than the seceders could stand. The COM
mittee upon consideration decided thar
this was true and thereupon decided upon
forming not a borough. but a township OF
dcestrict. And all these efforts to secede
caused bills to run up; and there were those
new buttons for Chief Ad Palmer's uniform
10 be got; and the new nozzle for the H-Two-
Ois, and q new water wagon to sprinkle the
street.
When Greenwich. who was against the
eoession because Of the threatened loss of
the Sound Beach, Riverside taxes. stirred
up political influence and Senator Jim
Walsh of Greenwich so that the petition of
secession was laid over for consideration
hy the legislature for two more years,
then Sound Reach and Riverside were sore.
very sore and panied. The fight vas lost
for the time being, and all Sound Beach
lad got out OF II was more debt.
All this explains why his Honor Mayor
Ssmmis has been hurrying home from the
Herald Square Theatre every night lately
70 Sit in the bathtub almost all night study
NC his part in the play that is to fill the
air lined municipal safe to the point of I'M
~sfety. So faithfully has the Mayor boned
up on his lines in the tub on hot nights that
to-day he was all ready Immediately after
luncheon to begin his first negligee re-
hearsal.
The municipal playet is called ~Mystif-
cation" and the little yellow covered
pamphlet that his Honor studies nightly
says on the cover PERMISSION to play
French, 20 Strand. London" But suppose
this Sam French person should hurry to
Sound Beach TO try to blow the show Why,
Chief of Po-leece Ad Palmer says Sam
would nave az much show as a hayrick in
heck. AID allows he'd lock Sam French
up in the fire house md throw the key into
the Sound.
Besides. Mrs. Sammis, wife OF his Honor.
has rewritten -Mystiication" for the Ameri-
can production. Mrs. Sammis was once
the Miss Emily Maynard who played Mamie
with Miss Maude Adams in The Little
Minister" and appeared in many other
Frohman plays. In view of this Mrs.
Samnis probably will do better in the
schoolhouse on the night Of the momentous
production than her leading man. His
Honor the Mayor says that inasmuch as
this will be his first and positively his last
appearance on any stage he doesn't know
whether he'll be very good or not. But
his Honor minated to-day that he would
like to pull the play of at a season not too
close TO egg Matching time n just before
the cabbages are splitting with overripe-
hess in Greenwich township. There are
'ots Of oyster shells around Sound Beach,
but no one would be so c~ruel-and no fair
throwing clusters OF clans, either, when it
comes right down to cases.
Melville. Ellis and Billy Rock have prom