New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-09
BOROUGH GOSSIP
FIatbuSh GrOCerS RejolCe-NeW
Clinic for Mental Diseases.

sighed great sigh OF relief on Wednesday
evening. when the pure food show closed
its Taps and concluded operations In big
tent at Snyder and Flatbush avenues. The
show ran q month, and the grocers say II
it had continued to run little longer 1t
would have run them out OF business,
which might not have pleased their land
lords The erocers really have no right 10
object. however for they were the ones
who set the example FOR the experiment,
their association having held the last pure
food show AT the Claremont Avenue Rink
TWO years ago. According 10 the Flat
hushites, the show was mighty handy-in
more ways than one.
Flatbush, be it understood is a mighty
respectable community. but very large
percentage Of the people are paying for
their homes on the instalment plan, and
so the pure food show was popular while
II lasted Everything was free. When the
children wanted candy their mothers sent
them to the tent to get samples. When
tho youths were out with their girls they
took them TO the tent for free ice cream and
MoXc. This was not so hard on the trades
men. But the housewives began taking
their husbands TO the tent at night. where
they secured samples OF breakfast foods,
condensed milk. macaroni in various forms,
canned vegetables and fruits. -four. cakes,
,tc. The show was not of articles manu-
featured in Flatbush but of things con-
Sumod there.
The celebration of last Tuesday will al
WAYS be remembered by the people OF this
borough as the greatest fzze of the gen
s4 ttN tl,A mi ct n
me terrific heat when people were being
Frustrated and killed on all sides, 1t was
predoomed to failure. Beginning with the
big fasco at the Borough Hall In the morn
ing. and concluding with the bigger fascos
IN all parts of the borough in the evening.
the day was an unbroken succession OF
disagreeable incidents. To start with, the
Borough Hall had been strung with eiec-
trio lights and hung with flags at cost
Of $3.50. At 10 o'clock on the morning OF
the Fourth. four hundred OF the Ohi'eu
German Singers-the finest chorus avail
sble-and forty or fifty members OF Shan-
mons sd Regiment Band gathered on the
steps Of the Borough Hall.
Besides the playing and the singing
there were speeches by Borough PRESIDENT
Steers and others. The programme was
not AT fault. The combination has drawn
thousands TO Prospect Park, time ana
again. Yet the audience scarcely numbered
couple Of hundred. Major Steers was
much put out by the lack Of appreciation
exhibited by the people, but the people
STAYED away for just one reason-theE
could not endure the heat in the unshaded
Borough Hall squa-o. Those who attended
the meeting said that the noise OF the cars
subway. surface and elevated-rhade II
impossible 10 hear the speeches ana inc
music. anyway. Practically the same COM
plaint comes from all parts OF the Dor
oueh-that the Fourth is too hot for demon
STATIONS The safe and sane idea has won
the hearts Of all safe and sane adults, ana
will continue to hold its vantage ground,
I'm, II is a safe bet that little tending 10
rbvsical exertion on the holiday Will be
much encouraged for the next few years.
The first clinic for mental diseases in
this city will he opened on Wednesday at
tho Long Island State Hospital for the
Insane Clarkson street and Nostrand ave
nue The only other clinic OF the kind
heretofore opened in the state was held by
the St Lawrence Hospital for the insane
at Ogdensburg. but was not a success. as
TOO rev people were III d POSi''O'' w ''
use of it,
The new clinic will no doubt have plenty
OF use made OF it, situated, az 1t Will De-
available TO the whole city. If 1t sue
ceeds in demonstrating its value other
clinics will be opened all over the state
The clinic will he open on Wednesday an
Saturday mornings from 10 10 IL O'Clock.
II will be run under the auspices OF the
State Charities Aid Association. Physi-
clans and social workers have been invited
IN send to the clinic people whom they con-
slider need treatment.
Speaking OF the project the other day.
DR. Robert L. Doran. superintendent or the
hospital, who will supervise the Clinic
said: III this idea had been carried out
ten years ago thousands who are now IN
mates Of asylums would be perfectly sane.
In New York State there are thlrty-tWo
thousand feeble minded persons. The popu-
lar belief that insanity suddenly grips It's
victims is a mistaken one.
ION the contrary, II starts with few
worries. a general breakdown, or a ner-
vous disorder When the causes are not
eliminated :hcy gradually break down the
burdened minds II treated properly from
the outset insanity will soon be on the
decrease. There are hundreds OF persons
who are i'm need Of treatment-who are
really insane.
"If they will come to US we VIII be able
10 give them such advice and remedies as
will speedily set many right again, saving
item from becoming inmates of asylums
later on. We want the cooperation OF all
the people in our work.