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Some News Notes of Interest

Miller OF Mount Vernon. 1856, and Eleanor
J. Mattice. Of New Castle. 81. 49,.
For the third time Justice NILS. Of Mount
Vernon. has sent back the report of the
commissioners who made an award OF go .
CO 10 Henry Siebrecht for land condemne
by the New York, Westchester & Boston
Railroad Company The commission IS
made up of Assemblyman William S. Cof-
fey. George II. Mitchell and W. Z. Brooks
and they are directed TO tell how they
reached their conclusions.
John 4 Rice. by his guardian. John II.
Rice. has sued the New York Central Rail-
road Company in the Supreme Court at
White Plains for $4,000 for injuries re-
ceived at Mount Eisco on May I. Martin
Doherty. as administrat tor OF tie estate o.
William Doherty. has sued the company
for 5000 damages for causing the death OF
William Doherty on the same date
The pleasant weather has caused the
Harlem and the New York, Westcheste-
& Boston railroad companies 10 rush their
improvements The Harlem company has
almost completed new steel bridge over
Yonkers avenue at West Mount Vernon.
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tonishing of all the works of the stevens
family. 4 huge bulk Of steel, 400 feet iois'
twice as heavy as any ship of her Tune on
which the government had spent nearly
800 600 and the Stevens family more thah
q oro 600 besides. she lay for twenty years
in a drvdock at the foot Of Castle Point
kalf completed, and then was broken up
for Junk. Her story seems as luolClouS
as her shape. But neither, IN iac'' Is
laughable She was the hrst armored snip
ever laid down. She was designed ny emil
nent ens~aeers after years Of experiments
and at an, time between lsi5 and 1850 she
could have r&~n finished in a month or
two. and would unquesuonably have been
a match for any ship which then existed
in the world Her armor was far stronger
than that of the two small ships which
took part in the Crimean War.
Robert l. stevens. the lad who took the
Phoenix around to the Delaware. turned
out TO he as great at tho practical work
OF mechanical engineering as his rather
was at its theory and its larger visions
He was the first TO work out the design
for the 1T" rail. the ordinary railroad rail
Of to-day.
a
common railroad spike also the invention
~ Robert Stevens. and Of the rail in use to-
day will be carried in Saturdays procession
bv the class of '07. The class Of 10 VIII
have a steamboats, walking beam.
device which Robert Stevens first applied
TO a marine engine in 1921. in practically
the same form that is in use to-day on all
side-Uheelers.
Last of the works Of the Stevens family
will be a large model Of the modern steam
ferryboat Hamburg, which was built Tor
the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western ny
the present Colonel Stevens. Edwin A. the
son OF Edwin a. Stevens. who founded the
institute The Hamburg represents the best
.up-to-date ferryboat construction, and the
model which will he shown is remarkably
exact. costing more than 5000. II VIII be
carried by the class of o3.
But the occasion is jubilaton. and there
will he plenty Of fun making as well as
history. The class Of 90 has engaged 10
represent How to Think in French" How
to Think in German and How TO Think in
Spani.h"-in compliment 10 a familiar
friend OF the institute who has written
hooks with those titles. The men Of 81
will pay tribute to Andrew Carnegie. a
trustee and patron of the institute. Their
float will be decorated with steel rails and
steel PIGS, such as made the ironmaster's
fortune. and the graduates will appear in
kits and bare knees as a delicate hint that
for the day they are loyal clansmen OF the
Laird Of Skibo.
There will be groups ;ypify!ng the sports
%. o,l Two nv ba ri
Of 80 and 20 A regiment Of Continental
soldiers, TO represent Light Horse Harry
Lees men, who encamped on Castle Point
during the days when redcoats held New
, York. will be recruited from 80 and '9s.
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were placed, and walls where their pIcIu'e'
hung \ man could ride or horseback rom
room 10 room of the great lower hoof anu
not reach the ceilings with his hands.
There are three drawing rooms-red' blue
and yellow-like the apartments VIM"
e,,ltans have in the Arabian Nights: there
is a dining room that is almost an EnSiis"
hall" a library, a conservatory ana
huge living room. ali spread generously
out downstairs. The kitchen must be
somewhere. but It Is lost in the Vas'nesS
Of tn. house Upstairs there are nonody
knows how many chambers. most Of Which
omen on rallied gallery which runs around
the great rotunda The staircase ran
sweeps in one unhroken stretch Of smooth
mahogany from top to bottom Of the house.
You could drive an automobile over 'he
stairs from landing 10 landing.
Robert stevens designed the house and
saw the foundations laid, bat died before
# was completed. Edwin 4. stevens MS
brother lived th-re IN his stead.
Among his friends was the family OF
Nurat. sons Of Joachim AIurat. Napoleon $
marshal. who married Catharine Bonaparte
and became King OF the two Slcilies
Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat was often
A guest al the Castle and when he re-
turned to France after the February keVo-
luton of lSis. 10 press his claims as a FOL
lower of the empire. he travelled in the
company Of Edward Stevens. AiterWard'
when the empire was firmly established.
the prince and princess. now come into
their own. loaded the Stevens family
with attentions. presented them at court.
had them sit as guests in the imperial box
AZ the opera and gave brilliant entertain
ments in their honor. Not few relics OF
the First Empire found their way to cas-
tie Stevens one Of the most interesting
Vas a magnificent carpet which was woven
for room in Windsor Castle, but which
was rejected because of a mistake in meas
ur.ng, and was then bought by Napoleon
used in his palace and afterward given
by him to Murat
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The bridge has room for six tracks, two OF
which will be used FOR entering the biz
freight yard which will be laid out near the
old lighting plant. The new route viii do
away with the curve near Railroad avenue
In Mount Vernon. The new station for
Mount Vernon will cost about }2ooCH. The
New York, Westchester & Boston Rail
road Company's electric system will be
opened to traffic between the Harlem River
and Mount Vernon on Labor Day
Among the new cottage arrivals at Larch-
mont-on- he-Sound are William Stricht, in
Iarchmcnt Park. Robert /. Levy, in Beach
avenue; Abraham Frankenberg, in Park
avenue: Mr.. and Mrs f. \. Morrison, on
Prospect avenue. and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
G. Bostwick. on orient Point
Governor Dix has appointed number OF
new notaries public in Westchester Coun-
". among them being Helen \. Banner Of
Yonkers: George T. Mayer Of Mount YER
non; Walter l.. Post, of BronXville: Joseph
Resell. Of Harrison; Frank G Schrenkei-
sen. of Mamaroneck. and r. Ct. Wick, Of
Tarrytown.
The decision of the Public Service Com
mission turning over the question Of re-
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The different branches Of engineering VIII
no shown by %. and 90 will have real
b,plane. a collection of gliders, two nun
dred balloons. which will be sent off from
Tho athletic field. and TWO real Wright
brothers." who are members OF the class
though they are not the great aVia'or7
themselves
There will be all the cheering and miscel-
laneous rough house" that always en-
nven alumni celebrations; there VIII 'e
two hands; there will he dinners and
reception. and short and impressive cere-
mony at the Castle. when Colonel EDWIN a
Stevens. its present owner. hands its Keys
70 President Alexander 6. Humphreys ana
dedcates the great house OF his family 10
The Use Of the institute which his father
founded.
The Castle will be used for a college club
and library No institution could wish Tor
nopler site. Northward lies the great
vista of the Hudson; cape after cape
sometimes bright and blue. oftener dim Win
haze. always beautiful. Below is the river
with It's daily fascinating pageant. where
the great ships OF the world come ana go
and stand along the shores. tied like horses
in their stalls. Southwark the view Is open
to the bay and the Brooklyn shore. And
then. over the river. there lies the city
towering and vast by day. a shining fairy
land at night
Around the house are acres of soft deep
lawn, with tall. clustered trees full Of rare
places 10 lie and smoke. reading or watch
ing the river. The house itself-but there IS
another story. The hot young life that
will make the old place ring in years to
come is not one whit merrier or more stout
hearted than the life that has given the
place its history. Castle Point first belonged
to the family of Bayard. They were rank
Tories. and at the outbreak Of the Revolu-
ton William Bayards house was burned
by his neighbors and his estate was seized
by the Continental Congress and sold at
auction. The purchaser was Colonel John
Stayens Continental officer and the first
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of the great engineers of his family. He
built house on the summit in ltsb ana
lived there during the summers until lsii.
when he sold his house in the fashionable
New York residence district, facing Bowl
ing Green. and came to live permanently al
Castle Point.
After designing an armored ship with a
rotary turret, the frst ironclad that was
ever brought to the stage Of practical Work
ing drawings. Colonel Stevens. at the age
of soventv-seven. laid down the track or
the little railroad that Is to be reproduced
on Saturday. and built its locomotive IN
his own shops. The colonel lived at Castle
Point. with his eleven children around him.
and died there at the ripe age OF eighty
nine
His sons. Robert J. and Edwin a. Stev-
ems. made a remarkable pair for carrying
on the vast works that were then begin
ming TO revolutionize the transportation and
the whole common life Of the country.
Robert was the engineer and inventor Ed
win the hnancier and organizer
Robert /. stevens forced the speed Of
steamboats, from Robert Fultons modest
seven miles an hoIr up To thirteen ana d
half miles. speed which had been mathe-
rnaticallv proved by the foremost engineers
and natural philosophers OF the day to
be impossible.
Though a bachelor, Robert Stevens de-
termined to build a house worthy Of the
Stevens name. and accordingly in h'+
erected the pile which has ever since been
known as Castle Stevens.
It is a huge house. rather bare, if 1t were
not so well guarded by trees. with a hish,
SQUARE tower a veranGa Ike an armory
floor for breadth and windows 80 lofty that
a. a distance they belle the real largenesS
Of the building With its dark woodwork
and walls pastered with brown siucco. II
looks rather forbidding as it looms among
its lordly trees. But its outlook can hardly
be matched. and within II is a place of re-
markable dignity and spaciousness. ro-
tunda fills the middle Of the house with
inches where statues of the older SteVenSeS
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athletic field, in all probability. in the years
before Henry Hudson's coming
Next comes The Spirit Of Hoboken' en-
lvering the classes Of a. '95 and SO. THIS
show will represent the occupation OF no
boken by the Dutch-just how, the alumni
are TOO wise 10 give out beforehand. But
the class of '02 has no such reucence' anu
announces that il will impersonate the
Later Dutch Settlers and carry alons
life size brewery in working order.
Then will come a representation OF the
twin screw steamboat which Colonel John
Stevens built and ran on the Hudson III
lSOie three years before Fulton sent the
Clermont off on her trip up the river Inc
invention is one of the boasts OF the
Stevens family. Not only was this one
Of the first boats ever propelled by steam
but il was the first in the world fitted Win
screw propellers. The screws were mace
with four short blades. such az are used
to-day For years all steamboats, were
driven with paddlewheels al the SIDES or
stern. and when the screw first came
into general use. long afterward, much
more unwieldy type was Tried. After years
of costly experience the screw designed
by Colonel Stevens was at last established
as the standard type.
\ copy Of the little steamer, complete
with engines. boilers and twin propelers
will be in the procession, carried by large
automobile. The classes Of 81, IS and 50
will man her costumed as American sea
men of 1904.
Another float will be a reproduction OF
the Ph-enix. the larger steamer which Colo
mel Stevens built at the same time that
Robert Fulton fitted out the Clermont Full
ton had the advantage Of importing an en-
CINE made by Watt. 4 special grant from
King George " was required. as the Eng
lish law prohibited the expectation of ma
chinery from the kingdom. Colonel stevens
had to build his engine and boiler in his
own shop with wcrkmen who. though the
rest in America. knew nothing whatever
Of engine building.
Still another trophy Of the Stevens
rrowess. in another field, will also have
place in the procession. Colonel John
Stevens's son. John c. Stevens. was the
/ founder of American yachting. He built
the Trouble. said 10 he the first yacht in
/ this country: the Wave. the first racer, ana
| the Gimcraok. a little schooner weighted
! with the first fin keel of metal ever used,
so FAR as is known In her cabin the New
York Yacht Club was organized on July 50.
1874. The club had its house in the Elysian
/ Fields. on the Stevens estate, in Hoboken.
/ Strangest Of all the oddities in the parade
will be a great. misshapen float built 10
/ represent monstrous fiat scow, pointed
/ with a ram at the bow. fitted with squat
/ smokestack. a low fort on her deck and
| hall a dozen turnip shaped cannon. She
viii he manned by the men OF the class
/ Of q. and she will represen; the Stevens
| Pattery.'
The Stevens Battery was the most as
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crest Gathered from Various Points in Westcheser COUNTY

Ance.a's College FOR Women Is "s
that il IS a city N itself with I"
castle as an administration building :.
boaurif,r ca,,pus is surrounded by =
.iXteen large and comfortable hol'es,
in these houses dwell what are Nlo"'
the home groups Of girls. Here uIee
sure~vis.on Of two sisters Of the ~
order 10 each house the cir. co..es'ans =.
domestic science az first hand. eaen ?.
group doing or experimenting the ~.
keeping. marketing and cooMhg'
feature Of college lie has made te
lcca az St Angela especially in'ess
among sociclogists and educators an'
been one Of tie great factors in maAlns
college the largest of its kind IN me O~'
States. I'd
commencement week begins To-Day
the entire week will be devoted
various entertainments. ce.ehrauohs
exercises that Will make the college "
inss and the campus the mecca 70.
dents of New Rochelle and the irienos
relatives Of the students and graz"
This will be the biggest affair IN !"
tory OF the college in New Rocne"s
Cardinal Losue. Primate Of lreish.'
fcrred degrees in 1902. This year css
VIII be conferred by Archbishop
and the Superin-end Of schools
York. William II Maxwell. vii adoi.s
graduates Monday Will he de'o''
class day exercises. Friday 20 the 90
pays by the dramatic society o' !" 49,,
lcre and Saturday 10 the undeFs'''
feld rlmcs =
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passes to his nephew, Edward l.. Coster.
This estate is taxable al the rate Of >. 10
70 and 20 per cent. and the nephew will
have TO pay tax TO the State Of New York
amounting to SS794l 9s
Another estate filed by Appraiser Clark is
that Of Laura T Fowler, Of Cortlandt'
who left sl2s ooo. Of which $4,000 passes TO
the First Presbyterian Church Ct PeekskilI
and N275O 10 the Helping Hand Association
Of Peekskill.
The total number Of reports hled was
fourteen. aggreeating in value the sum OF
N.4s44s3. producing a tax due the State OF
New York Of $93 462. The other estates and
values reported on follow: Estate Of Anna
Matilda Beach. Of .Iamaroneck. S@5's45'
Mary Louise Berrien. of Yonkers, ss'o's'
Julia W. Wilson, Of Yonkers. 1854; Alfred
seilbereer of Ossining. 1854, Eliza de
Forest Russell. of White Plains. J2,l5l; John
Stoothof. Of Mount Vernon, Si@l; Juha
B. Flag. of Yonkers, s3s,e55; Alexander ID.
Irving. Of Irvington. s2,0.d7, William B.
Rice, of Norfolk Mass. SS66,Si' James r.
Lawrence. of Lewisboro S46,057; James II.
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Tanning. flaming has teen indicted on
charges Of Offering to procure privileges
for a Tenderloin character ~ payment OF
money. The Mayors secretary was also
accused, but declared that he had been
impersonated by double
The University Of California commence
ment was made noteworthy this week by
the Phi Beta Kappa address in the Greek
Theatre by Governor Woodrow Wilson.
Degrees were taken by $40 students. The
gold medal for hest scholarship was
awarded TO Walter Cotton Little, jr., of
Monterey. in the civil engineering course.
On Monday night Sothern and Marlowe
gave Macbeth" in the Greek Theatre, with
a large force OF collegians, who filed the
stage. The scenic effects we're magnificent.
Vice-President Kruttschnlu Of the South
ern Pacific company is authority for the
statement that this company will double
track both the Central ana Southern Pa
cihc Railroad lines from here to the East
before 1915 This is the only way in which
the company can assure the expedited
movement to San Francisco Of passengers
and freight in the worlds fair year.
The new Scottish Rite Masonic Temple
at Suffer street and Van Ness avenue was
dedicated this week with imposing cere-
monies. This temple is one OF the finest
buildings in the West, and Is the home Of
all the san Francisco lodges Of the order.
Dr. Willard p. Burke. convicted at Santa
Rosa Of attempting 10 kill a woman By a
dynamite explosion at his sanatorium. was
released this week on 5000 bail. Burke
has an appea. pending before the Appellate
Court. and as be was in poNr health Judge
Denny permi; led him to go II large on bail.
Or Burke has carried on his sanatorium
for many years. but the expenses Of his
trial forced him TO sell The place
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Yacht Club on Thursday. June l. Captain
+. Z. Blohm is chairman Of the committee.
Friends and relatives of the members Of
the I'd Regiment who desire to visit them
in camp at Peckskll next month Will be
able 10 do so under the auspices of the
Defendant Association Of the regiment on
Thursday, June Is. ON this date the asso-
citation Will run an exclusion 20 the camp
and have chartered the ircn steamer Sirius.
This steamer will leave Pier l. North River.
at 9l5 a. m. sharp. and from the foot OF
West l2sth street at 10 q. IN. The tickets
are 81 each. The 2oI Regiment will open
the camp on Saturday June TO-
General Roe has decided that the "a
and the Sth resiments ANA the ID Battery
shall parade In The Bronx on Memorial
Day under command Of Colonel Hotchkin
Of the 29d Regiment
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their summer home on the Hommochs. at
Iarchmont on the Sound. Among their
guests wcre Walter Williams. Of New
Haven. MIS-. p. Bright. of London. Miss NJ.
Thayer of Boston. and Mr.. and Airs. R.
Hubbard, of Manhattan
w. :. Gaines is the newly elected man
aeer Of the Larchmort Yacnt Cluh. sue
ceedine F j. Eiscr.
j. :. Murdoch has leased Mrs c. Kane 5
house in Beach avenue, Larchmont, Tor the
season.
The molten made to .nortcaSc valuable
property belonging TO Elizabeth V. a
Clark, an alleged incompetent person Of
Charpaqua. has been denied by a decision
cf Supreme court Judse Tompkins
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places OF recreation. especially 10 W.,
who are somewhat timorous ABOUT 81 81
alone with old Nepunes breakers W.
the new Hygeia Baths and Foo'', So,
BEING completed At the corner OF ,us
Island avenue and the beach Nv ..s
main pool will be shallow al oo.n Il
with a depression deep enough Ia,
hather IN the middle. and VIII 80
WHEN fan. four hundred thonsd"' 4
Of water fresh drawn from the So
buiding Will contain also five huhu', ~
bathrooms. Two smaller and shai'0'
Will be provided for the children "a
Mr.. and Mrs. c. \. Hsyer 49,
daughter are al the Windsor How Y,s|
Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Brown OF W.
are at the Wiltshire Hotel :, v'|
Or. and Mrs. y. McCrisue' va
York. were weekend guests Al wv
Morton. Y,t|
Or. and Mrs Ii. Thorn OF W.
are at the Hotel Deville. a, 81
Mr.. and Mrs. William Mehan, use
boken. y. j.. are at the Maiyi'n. Yt|
Mr.. and Mrs. {. + Piehl' OF w
are at the Hotel 81. Charles ,,,saa
Mrs. Joseph H. Horton Oh
al the Hotel Westmont AZ 81
Mr.. and Mis-. {. y. NreelaH"
York. are al the Hotel sheiou'"r u
Mrs. \. Z. Hexamer, OF ho''
the Hotel Chelsea. ~
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gilquis'
York. are at the Hotel Jackson. a
Mr.. and Mrs. Selah 7. earn, ,,,,,rrS
shore, y. Y, are at the Hotel Shs''s''
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q few days sine He held the rank OF
brevet second lieutenant. Captain c. W.
Osborn and Captain +. r. Msloney Will
start for Texas next Tuesday. Sergeant
Frank J.>Reilly of the 18th Company has
been promoted first sergeant.
The eth Re -iment baseball team Will play
a came with the cadets II West Point on
the afternoon Of May 30. \ special train
Will 90 over the West Shore road from
Weehawken al ! :25 o'clock and this train
will be held at West Point until after an
evening parade. which will be given III
honor Of the It'll Tickets FOR the special
train cost 81 ~ for the round trip. FIRST
Sergeant Samuel }. Mack, OF Company r.
has been elected second lieutenant, to sue
coed HILL promoted. Corporal q. hefn-
bic has been elected sergeant and sergeant
Harry Dederer will be elected first ser
giant rs soon as Mack passes the poard
Ex-Captain Louis W Stotesbury mas oeei
elected president OF the veteran association
81 Company +
State decorations for long and faithful
service have been presented 70 the follow
ms officers and men Of the l-th Regimen
For twenty-five years. 10 Corporal JON"
Regan. for twenty years. 10 Captain td"lh
w. Dayton. Post Quartermaster sergeant
George Donovan. Battalion Sergeant MAJOR
NJ. Smith and Artncer George ~
healy for fifteen years, 10 POST quarter
master Sergeant James q. Camplon anu
First Sergeant Arthur II. Hellar' Tor zen
years. 10 Major y. b. Burr. Lieutenant =
j. Ahearn. Quartermaster Sergeant FRANK
Lombard. Corporal Thomas \. Doushetty'
private Edward r. McAlarnoy and fIiN"''
John II. Gallard
Veterans OF the i7th Regiment Will hold
VI '''e ''''' - -, 70 \