The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-13
SOUND BEACH NOW ENDOWED
BiNKER TOD'S GIFT PUT IT on
IT'S FINANCIAL FEET.

sound Beach. Conn, the village that decided
recently not to pay lakes longer to the
town Of Greenwich and fought IL all out
in the courts and legally secoded from
Greenwich and found upon paying lawyers
and things after the victory that there WINS
rothing left in the municipal safe in the
office Of the fire house hut hot air.
Mayor George Washington SAmmis Of
Sound Reach and Herald Square tried re-
GENTLY 10 come TO the rescue, II will he re-
men,hered by readers Of TWE SUN, when he
asked his wife. Emily Maynard SamInis,
the actress, to write a show and star him
At the sound Beach By-heck schOolhouse in
a municipal benefit performances. When
they counted up a. the final curtain the
Mayor found to his joy that enough had
been realized to renickel Chief of Police
Al Planners star aId pRint the Flagstaff OIL
the fire house a lily white. The dramatic
critic Of the Greenwich BGkzizsum. or sonie-
thing. said hat Mayor Sanmis, from the
viewpoint Of a critic Of the art of acting, was
rotten; but the Mayor cared not. but ran
i~nyfullv ~ F1ynn's paint store and bought
tho can of white lead for the star. Andthe
verv neNt day the town bought three yards
Of
mt lot bygones he bygoncs and let's
get down to sound Reach's streak Of finan-
cial luck. isn't il fine to think that any
body has had a streak Of financial luok
lately And Sound Beach's came in a
lumpv streak of $500 five hundred dollars)
that J. Kennedy Tod. the banker of Wall
Street and Sound Beach. has just pre-
s"nted TO the municipality to help carry
Sound Beach through r winter that prom
ises to he Ill TO the political economy.
And that isn't an Cheek by jowl with
tho cash present lie wasn't even in check
form. mind youi comes an invitation from
Mr.. Tod to all the willing hands that help
steer the Sound Beach Ship of State. from
Mayor Sammis, the skipper, down, or up.
~ Ad Palmer. the chief of police. and not
forgetting all the member of the Sound
Beach " -rwo-O Fire Company. to drop
around TO the Tod home neat Friday night
and nave at least one good official spread.
II 80 happens that Mr.. and Mrs. Toe will
celebrate their silver wedding anniversary
next Friday night. but the anniversary is
merely on incident. The main thing is
,hst some one has grasped the idea that
IL il the generous thing 20 do at this time
TO put mp for one good square municipal
;usal.
We now follow the plot to Manhattan
time yesterday. all day. or course you
know that very morning Sound Beach
conmutes TO Manhattan, all except twenty
seven families named Pakmcr and fourteen
FArrises, whoahavc stayed home and run
the blacksmith shop. tho livery stable and
generally kept house in Sound Reach since
preappepdicitis days. Yesterday, how
ever, even some Of the PaImers came to
Manhattan. and they and all the other
members Of the H-Iwo-C Fire Company
rushed 70 q uniform masters shop IN Fourth
avenue 10 blow in q part Of the 500 on glad
blue clothes. With rod Innings and flares,
and red shirts. and mushroom helmets
trimmed with junk. and gold braided boots
and a lot ~ other trimmings that a fire.
nan positively needs up in Sound Beach
at even a mo whistle blaze.
Where in heavens name old Pop Gibson.
the oldest living volunteer fireman on
earth. hears II thCsc pyrotechniC happen
inRs no onc hut old Pop himself can tell.
But hardly had Chief ~ Police Nj Palmer
rushed into tho Fourth avenue uniform
factory with Fes Palmer AMI Nels Palmer,
his COUSINS. whenin came Pop Gibson with
= note pool 10 help ont the tailors ny check
ing NO the waist and other measurements
as the tailors called them out, The en-
tbusiastic fremen gave way. naturally.
70 Navor Sammis TO the extent of letting
him be measured first, bat after that every
hody from Sound Beach wanted to be meas
ured Immediately. so that those who com
mute could hurry on 10 Wall street, or in
the case of the Palmers and Ferrises, TO
hurry back to Sound Beach and unlock
the stores and livery stables and other
local industries
n YOU tDew all the Palmers and Ferrises
In Sound B~each-youh note that Sound
Reach has even n Sammis. despite the con-
tention that ali the Samn,ises live on Long
Tsla nd you'd realize the confusion around
thp measuring department Of the uniform
works when the town began TO yell to be
measured.
let us form a Palmer line and a Ferris
line. suggested Pop Gibson, "and Ill check
Nd the Palmers and Grocer Van Wicket
VIII look after the Ferrises, en- As each
NJ my Palmers is all measured up III make
tvo noises like a Ere gong, signalling that
its All over. and Van Wicket can ring the
same kind Of a fire out signal by kicking
the steam radiato twice for each OF his
Ferrsies." Pop Gibson's real name, by
rhe wav, is William Curtis Gibson, and he's
rhe art editor OF a magazine between fires
and parades. but this item has nothing To
no with the measuring As a matter OF
fact u shouldn't he mentioned atfa'I IN the
story. as il has absolutely nothing to DO
with anything. But it's done now. so let
1t go. - .,;0
started out from the Grand Central for
Sound Beach last evening everybody had
been measured and all quite we're in the
humor TO go the limit in generosity Tor the
home burg. Mayor Sammis who IL a
theatre manager in Manhattan when he
isn't mayoring. got things going IN the
smoker by OHerlnR the Vllako u DuhEh "
assorted passes for the Evangelist. y the
Lady From lanes" show, "Artie,' The
Movers" and "a nunber OF other things
like that. Straightway John Roberts. the
ribbon manufactures. presented 10 the Town
holt after bolt of ribbon--if that's the way
ribbon comes, in bolts. Frank Marion, the
moving picture king. kindly offered to take
a number Of moving pictures Of the town
that will show its rapid growth since 1857.
Edward Binney. the lampblack manufac
turer, offered several cases Of lampblack TO
any department OF the village government
that uses ~lampblack. And 80 it went.
With the change that is left over after
rhe uniforms are paid for Sound Beach Is
going to repair that window that was Irac-
rIred in the Primary A grade Of the By-heck
school house during the bicentennial exer-
Uses in September. 1882. All the rest will be
blown in on the grand parade next Friday
night when the town officials march behind
Mayor Sammis. right resting on Morgan's
butcher shop. to Van Wiokers grocery
store. to Mahr X Sons coal and wood yard,
20 Frank Palmer's livery. 10 Gene Palmer's
residence, TO FEES Palmer's. to Glenn Ferris's.
10 Nels Palmer's. to George Vincent q. TO
Ben Palmer's. to AID Palmer's. back to
Ferris Bros livery. to, Spider Cary's. 70