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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-23

streets. 10 Coney fslaud-Elcyated.
Three tracks ...-...-.......... -.-....- 100
Culver. Ninth Avenue 10 Concy Isl
and Elevated Three tracks ...... 100
TO be constructed hy the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company at It's own eN-
pcnSc.
Brighton Beach-Opeu cat ............ -'o
Sea Beach. 18th Street and Fourth
Avenue TO COncY .lsland-Opcu cut 1890
and cmbankment Two tracks. 1910"
The Culver route Of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit traverses for short distance
the northwesterly part Of the flatbush
district The old Sea Beach line Is "a
considerable distance west of the culver
line Nevertheless, both those lines VIII
be, many students Of rapid transit mat
tiers think. important factors in the future
upbuilding OF Flatbush. They VIII serve
as feeders to many trolley lines To be
built in the near future in streets running
east and west through the district. \
real estate man recently tersely eN-
pressed this viewpoint In this way
Every rapid transit improvement IN
Brooklyn helps Flatbush.'
Flatbush not only has satisfactory rapld
transit now but good school facilities
strong and growing retail store centres
fiourishing churches Of various denomina-
tons and ample room i'm which To eN-
pand I'm "A substantial. picturesPu" ana
profitable manner
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EARLY FLATBUSH DAYS
Population of Section Then Be-
tween 5000 and 10000.
RECENT GROWTH RAPID
A Delightful Residential Place,
with Modern City Convent
ences in Most Sections.
BY ALFRED E. STEERS.
President Of the Borough Of Brooklyn

\ delightful home place is F'latbush.
have seen this beautiful section OF Brook
Ign grow from a widely scattered settle
mcnt with population of from 5000 Ia
1909 To- lis present size and importance
as residential centre It, population is
now about 10000
Ny present home in Bedford avenue Is
NOT within the old town lines Of Flatbush.
but in old I'latlands proper. But time has
wrought such wonderful changes in tina,
yayt stretch of land south of Prospect
Park that the familiar dividing lines OF
landmarks between the two sections have
been virtually obliterated.
The mention of Flatbush carries me
back H. -m.mory To my boyhood days, and
also 10 my career for many years after
ward. love the name Of I'latbush
IT was about thirty eight years ago that
left school To enter as a clerk the
grocery store of my uncle. And from that
day to This I have always been engaged III
business. either as an cmployc on on my
own account.
think Flatbush is a most hcalthiu
place. / have seen puny children who
had formerly lived in the crowded fiat.
house districts of the city become robust
aud rosy checked after a short while in
Flatbush
Years ago it was not such favorable
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Coney Island Avenue Now
One of the Finest Thor
oughfarss in Brooklyn.

Visitors TO F1atbush loudly praise the
manner i'm which the Coney Island avenue
Improvement was carried out.
Coney Island avenue is now one Of the
widest and finest thoroughfares in the
greater city. II Is familiar highway To
thousands of persons who travel 10 Ccney
Island in the summer months. NJ the
Smith street cars run in the thorough
fare.
4 few blocks west OF Coney Island ave-
nue.. extending from Fort Hamilton PARK
way 10 the beach. is the famous ocean
Parkway. one OF the most popular pubic
thoroughfares FOR autoists In this country
Concy Island avenue parallels the Ocean
Parkway. the principal aim of It's I'M
proyement being 20 afford splendid
through highway from the Park slope 10
Conev Island for commercial vehicles. The
completion Of this work Will be celebrated
in about year
Coney Island avenue j. now inviting ~
heavy vehicles from Prospect Park To
Avenue y. the smooth asphalt pavement
there making 1t possible 20 draw hea''
wagons easily and noiselessly.
Contractors are now being asked LOT
bids for the paving of the roadway from
Avenue y To Kings Highway, ana next
year. or maybe by the latter end oil inns
wear. Lewis II. Pounds. Commissioners oil
Public Works. will be able 10 have ConeY
Island avenue. from Kings Highway To
the ocean improved. too. thus completing
the rebuilding of this beautiful thorough
fare. The streetcars run I'm the centre oil
the roadway between a parklike right OF
way. The parlSlike plots are so laid that
vehicles cannot closely approach to the
right or left of the speeding surface ears.
The bids for paving the new section oil
Coney island avenue Will be opened on
March % The laying of curb and the side
walking of the avenue from Kings High
way TO Neptune avenue is now being done
SO that that portion Of the thoroughtare
can be paved in the near future.
\ study of the typographical map Of the
Borough of Brooklyn will reveal To I'll,
observer that the project TO Increase the
width and usefulness Of Kings highway
will benefit every part of the FlatpuSh
district Kings Highway Is one OF the
public thoroughfares Of Flat5jsh whose
original lines have not been affected by
the advance of speculative builders.
II runs from tlatbush avenue I'm a
southwcstcrly direction through the heart
of Flatbush 10 ocean Parkway. and from
that point in northerly direction to the
Grtvesend section Of the district. The
city planning committee suggested about
a year ago that this highway be mad,
into a 'cross-country boulevard, and il is
likely that this suggestion will be adopt
ed 10y the city authorities eventually. The
highway is I'm most parts one hundred
feet wide and is macadamized almost
throughout its entire length. Its present
state of efficiency as a great highway
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place FOR bringing up children. nor even
Tor older persons. as many Of the streets
were so densely shaded with towering
trees that on warm. sunshny days many
of thoe. thoroughfares were damp. Even
tie atmosphere was laden with an I'M
usual amount of moisture. TINS damp
moss was largely due To- the cutters being
very deep and the roads and streets most
Is of dirt The overhanging boughs MADE
h impossible FOR the strongest sunlight 20
dry up quickly pools that formed IN the
cutters and roadways after heavy rams.
The trees were thlnned and then pruhed
o., ,,,,, an end 10 the dampness. and that
,rprovement. together with the instalia-
tion Of modern sewer mains throughout
fine larger part of Flatbush and the iat-
lands area i'm recent years have made
t,Iatbush a most attractive home dls-
.tllct.
Tn. grocery store of my uncle ElDe
Il Steers. who was for many years one
of the Justices Of the peace of the ola
,o,yn of Flatbush. was at Prospect street
and Vernon avenue. After leaving MS
euploy started i'm the grocery business
on my own account. opening a store on
Bedford avenue. near what - now ShS"e'
avenue. About thirty years ago J estao-
lisEed myself ds manufacturer III nrooihS
and whisks of all descriptions at Nos. l-o'
and l2G Dcgraw street. Moreover. years
,co was one OF the magistrates. sitting
in the Flatbush district
Flatbush has splendid public and pm
vate schools The Erasmus High School
is located In the heart of 1t. That Is one
of the most notable and efficient ins,tu-
tIons of it, kind In this country.
OF late years some apartment house
proi.cts have been successfully launched
IN This part of Brooklyn. Sections of the
old Stevens property are being improved
with high class apartment houses.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-23
Evez7ue Il 70" 10 L9 Streets
FlatbuSh a Rapidly Gr0W-
ing Residential Centre

will be two-track subway up Fulton
street to Borough Hall, and thence
through Montague street TO Whitehall
street. Manhattan.
That river tube joining the Brighton
Beach line to Manhattan Will be four
miles long
From Whitehall street a subway Will be
constructed so as to run to Morris street,
TO Church. 10 Park Place. and thence NJ
Broadway To 42d street. and thence
through Seventh avenue 20 18Th street aud
east i'm 18th street To and over The Queens
boro Bridge there TO connect with the
city's lines 10 Astoria and Corona. II
will be 10 miles long and a four-track
subway north of Park Place.
From Whitehall street will also extend
northerly two-track subway 10 the Cen
tire street loop. II will run through
Broad and Nassau streets. II vii, be two
miles long With this subway and the
Centre street loop in operation il will De
possible for passengers from IIatbush 10
reach New York by Manhattan Bridge or
tunnel, 20 north or south. and reach the
station from which they boarded tain
in Flatbush without leaving the train.
The Brighton Beach line. the Fulton
street extension and Whitehall street
tube the Nassau and Broad street sub
way and the Centre street loop. with the
Manhattan Bridge tracks. win form an
oval shaped route.
The fare from Flatbush to all parts Of
New York on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
lines will be five cents
II &c said the
Will reduce the running time Of trains
from Manhattan to Brighton by about ten
minutes, expresses being bic 10 cover the
distance easily in twenty minutes
The dual subway expenditures will total
more than $500, 900. 900 The magnitude OF
this rapid transit work is hard TO de-
scribe in word picture, for the more the
various subways and Il" lines are eX-
amined the more important grows the un-
dertakng. Not many Brooklyn property
owners seem to realize the manifold bene-
fits the dual subway system will bring
10 them, and the number of Flatbush
operators, investors and home owners
who have firm grasp on the new rapid
transit system are less, it also appears.
The future needs of Flatbush as re-
CARDS rapid transit have been well taken
care Of according TO many experts who
nave studied the subject
Some Of the other dual subway routes
which will help Flatbush In a large or
small way are as follows.
lnterborough lines to be built Jointly by
the city and the company and equipped
by the company:
r. Miles.
Eastern Parkway Line-F From ter
minus OF existing subway at At
iantic avenue. Brooklyn. out FL
bush avenue and Eastern Parkway
10 BuHdlO avenue. All subway
our tracks ......t...... .............. l27
Nostrand Avenue Line From East
crn Parkway 10 Flatbusn avenue.
All subway. Two tracks .......... AZ
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines 10 be con-
structed jointly by the city and company:
Connection. 3sth Street. Fourth and
Ninth avenues Subway and open
cut. lifee tracks Observation-Disclosures. is
New Utrecht Avenue. 3Sth to S6th
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100000 BROOKLYN LEASE.

The Douglas Robinson, Charles ; Brown
Company has leased 10 the Nassau Ma
;ionaI Bank. Of Brooklyn. the ground hoor,
about = 900 square feet in the twelve
story building 10 hc erected at the SOUTH
vest corner Of Court and Joralemoh
streets. opposite the Borough Hall. This
is the property purchased about thrr'
months ago 10y The Neinbros Realty COM
pany from the lnterborough Rapid Transit
Company.
The bank. which is now i'm the Garfield
Building. AT No. 2G Court street. has TAX
IN its new quarters for ten years at an
aggregate rental of about S5000oo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-23
WEsTBURY MANOR LOTS SOLD

Tie Westbury Manor Company has soil
six lots ou Manor and Maple avenues
Westbrry Manner. 10 T.. l.. Seaman fer
investment. also sixteen iots. fronting on
Gutler and Henry streets TO II. w. Ham
ilton who will build dwelling houses
thereon for Investment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-23
NEW HOME FOR REALTY CO.

The Wcstwood Realty Company has
moved its Office to one Of It's new build
ings. at no. 80 Flatbush avenue. corn'g
of Winthrop street. Brooklyn. where II
has larger and more spacious quarters.
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Continued ON sixth page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
Breaking Into Society"

SERIES Of articles remarkable difficult to give ade
quate idea of them will begin next SUNDAY MAGAZINE
A man who has earned fortune that yields him income
Of fifty thousand dollars year by establishing people in society
tells how he accomplished it. He calls what he has written THE
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
GEORGETOWN

Funeral services Mrs. Hetty Calhoun,
of Ocean City. Md, wife of Edwin p
Calhoun, formerly ofthis town, who died
rather suddenly on Sunday, were held al
Berlin on Tuesday
Edward Ross has been selected bv the
Court as page, to succeed James Simpler,
who recently resigned.
Sheriff Dukes has purchased an auto
mobile, which he intends to use in con
nection with the office. He made his first
trip on Sunday to his old home, Mill
vile, accompanied by his wife and son.
Miss Minnie Buell. and Norman Tones.
The trip through the sands of Baltimore
hundred was successfully made. but on a
pleasure trip in that section in the after
noon the road was not big enough. and
the machine landed into fence. break
ing the steering gear. The party return
ed to Georgetown on Monday by train.
On Tuesday he received by mail a tov
auto with smashed wheels, accompanied
by the following note signed by Com
mittee of Millville friends: Amateurs
should not motor on the Sabbath Day;
Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy.
Deputy Grand Master w. T. Hobbs. of
this town, accompanied by several mem
oers OF Union Lodge, No. 3. loo.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11

pure food laws and arrange for more san
ltary conditions in factories.
The Ushers Union was entertained al
Mrs. Kennerley's on Friday night.
The minstrel show given in Reese Op-
era House last Saturday was well patron
lied.
d. +. Sawtelle was in Philadelphia on
Monday and Tuesday.
Frank Richards has opened a barber
| shop in the Reese Block, up stairs.
Mrs. A. NJ. Wolcott and Miss Bessie
Dickerson are in Philadelphia doing theiI
spring shopping.
Senator Sheldrake and wife, Miss En-
ma Downs, w. w. Sharp and Fred Mas
ten were in Dover Monday afternoon 70
hear the address of Hon. John Bassett
Moore.
John d. Brown has purchased new
automobile of +. L. Hardesty, of Dover.
Mrs. +. I. Messick and daughter, Ann.
of Philadelphia, visited Albert Harriny
ton last week.
Joseph Belts is building an addition to
his storelproperty, on Commerce Street.
III tenure of Long & Followfield.
Bud Bullock, Chas. Murphy, Miss Ad-
die and Helen Barker took trip to Den
ton in the new Michigan car on Tuesday
John Barlow was in Wilmington last
week.
Miss Lillian Sapp returned to Beech.
wood College last Tuesday.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
WILDWOOD.

Farmers are very busy plowing for corn.
The Ladies Aid of the NJ. K. Church
meets this Saturday evening with Mrs
B. +. Davis. A fine program is being
prepared. All are invited
The NJ. +. Sunday School was re-or-
ganized on Sunday and the following
officers were elected Superintendent,
Ernest Harrington; Asst. Supt., William
Griffith; Sec, Miss Elva Bennett; Asst.
Sec, Miss Julia COverdale; Treas, Mrs.
B. +. Davis; Organist, Miss Marion
Skewis; Asst. Organist, Miss Emma Reed;
Librarian, Leonard Davis; Asst. Librar-
ian, Fearing Reed
Misses Emma and Elsie Reed spent
Saturday and Sunday at Leipsic
Miss Minnie Russell is on the sick list
Misses Emma, Mabel and Gertrude
Trader and Emma Reed spent Tuesday
with Miss Julia Coverdale.
Edgar and Delbert Russell spent Satur-
day and Sunday with their cousin, CLYDE
Knots
Miss Mabel Trader spent Saturday and
Sunday with Miss Elsie Bickel.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
Furniture Dept.
WILLIAMSVILLE.

A petition is being circulated this week
among the land owners, to have the road
/ leading from the Sussex line to Houston
improved under the new Good Roads
Law. We think it will get the necessary
signers, and hope the Levy Court will
allow the work to be done
Mrs. Elizabeth Warren spent last week
with her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Collins.
Mrs. S. +. Wooters is visiting relatives
near FELTON,.
Mrs. Elizabeth Clifton, of Lincoln, is
visiting her son, Paul Clifton.
Some of our Young folks are planning
trip to Gettysburg this summer.
S. +. Kinney is away on business.
Miss Hattie Legates is suffering with
mumps.
Mrs. Geo. w Harrington is spending
part of the week in Harrington
There will be preaching at Williams
vile Sunday morning at 10 O'Clock, by
the Rev John B. Kelley Sunday School
at O'Clock. Everybody invited.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
HARRINGTON

The Board of Education of this town
has posted bills announcing the sale of
the former school building and grounds
to take place on April II, 1913.
Rev. J NJ. Holmes has been attending
Conference at Lynchburg, Va.
Miss Lulu Holmes is visiting relatives
in Baltimore
Mrs. Elwood Minner and children are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John Evans, of
Baltimore.
James Cahall has been the guest of
Gordon Smith. of Dover.
Misses Matte Smith and Edvthe Simp-
son spent Sunday at Seaford.
Miss Laura Sapp is visiting her sister
Mrs. Ezekiel Anderson, of Milford.
Misses Mary Legates, Ruth Collision
and Mildred Anthony were guests of
their teacher at Ross Lane last week.
Wilbur +. Jacobs has purchased a new
Ford auto of Wilson NJ Ninyard, of Mil
ford.
j. o. Bernard and Henry Jones and
wife, of Greensboro, were town visitors
on Saturday
Our baseball club has scraped their
diamond and shaped up the field on the
public school ground A game will be
played with FELTON, here at 80 D. M.
on Saturday
The Two Confederates" show. 10 be
given in Reese Opera House this Satur
day night, by the Polk Miller Company.
IS very high class show some of the
best singers that have ever been in the
state. Twenty-Five per cent. of the pro
ceeds go to the baseball club Come out.
enjoy good show, get the worth of vour
money and help the BOYS out.
II. F. Murphy, Emma Shaw. Harry
Shaw, Mahoney Denling, Martin Shaw
and Miss Buckson attended a house party
last Saturday and Sunday given bv Miss
keubel, of Philadelphia.
Ernest Wilson, of Wilmington snent
Sunday with his parents.
Miss Lille Reese entertained the Misses
Rodney, Of Laurel, Friday and Saturday /
Leon Ebereardt of Wilmington. visited
friends IN town last Sunday.
Gorden Councilman, of Frederica. was
in town Sunday.
George Minner and Miss Louise Lara
more were married on Tuesday night.
Attorney-g general Wolcott was in town
Monday.
A. J. Dickerson is building new front
10 the Jackson garage.
Miss Elizabeth Burdick. of Philadel
ph1a, visited her grandfather, w. II.
Dickerson last week.
Leven Wright has purchased a REQ car.
The Gamers Association met Wednes-
day IN Reese Opera House, to discuss
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
BRIDGEVILLE

Ernest Wilson, of Wilmington. spen
| Sunday with friends in town.
Matte Culver, of Harrington, spen'
Monday with Lillian Inslev.
The Mite Society ladies were delight.
fully entertained at the home of Mrs {.
K. Brown on Friday evening
Robert Elliott and wife, of Washington,
have returned home after visiting his
parents
A number OF our prominent fruit brok-
ers have left for Chadbourn n. { to
engage in the berry deal
John +. Harris, Jr., of this town, and
Miss Pauline Moore, of Laurel, daughter
| OF .. ID. Moore, were married on Satur
day i'll Butte, Montana They will live
i'll Great Falls, Mont, where the groom
is employed as a salesman for the Rem
ington Typewriter Co.
Miss Eliza Messick entertained the
Tuesday Night Club in the most delight
/ tul manner at the club room this week,
her subject being Home Economies, -
which was thoroughly enjoyed by each
and every member.
Nv. Wainwright, wife and two daugh-
tiers, of Seaford, spent Sunday with L. b.
Short and wife.
Sol Kline met with very painful ac-
cident last week by stepping on a nail,
and has been confined to his home most
of the time since.
John Elliott made a business trip to
Baltimore last week
Walter Culver and wife, of Dover, Wis
tied relatives in town on Sunday.
Miss Name Jones is having the cellar
dug for her new house This will prob
ably be one of the finest residences in
town. The location is on Broad Street,
directly in front of the Geo. W Willin
property.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Turpin, of Hur-
lock, visited town last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. 5. Lee Neal, of Hurlock,
spent Thursday with Mr.. and Mas. Victor
Neal.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11

installed the newly-elected officers oi
Charity Lodge, No. p, at Laurel on last
Thursday night.
Falling from a chair in which she was
standing, Mrs. Harry B. Boyer broke an
arm.
James A, Carey fell across brick wall
of fireplace at Stockley on Thursday
and was severely injured about his side.
Elisha G. Ryon will take charge of the
Peoples Theatre next week.
An oil tank car jumping the track near
! Millsboro Thursday afternoon, DELAYED
the arrival here of the Franklin CITY train
nearly two hours.
A canning factory will be operated at
Gumboro this year.
John Lowe will shortly move to farm
near here and conduct poultry plant.
Supt. Hardesty conducted an examina-
ton here on Saturday for the teachers Of
eastern Sussex.
A modern brick storehouse is being
| built on the site of the one recently de-
stroyed by fire, at Harbeson, for Silas /.
Warrington.
Aunware manufacturing establishment
has been opened at Millsboro.
There is some talk of making a change
in one of the speakers at the Chautauuua
to be held here in June, and that Secre-
trrv OF State William Bryan will be
supplied.
With Associate Judges Woollev and
Rice on the bench the regular April term
of Superior Court and Court of General
Sessions for Sussex county convened on
Monday. Henry p. Cannon was again
selected foreman of the grand jury, and
so eXpeditiously were the indictments
handled by them that they had completed
their work by 5 O'Clock and were given
their discharge. The first business taken
up was that of the divorce cases. Geo.
w. Davis, of Laurel. was granted a di-
vorce nisi from his wife, Mamie Mcbride |
Davis, on the ground of desertion. A
decree was also granted Chas. W. Tok- !
ley, colored, of near Bridgeville. from
l-y dia A. Tokley, on the ground of will |
full desertion.
Robert Carpenter, William Wiley, FL
mer Russell and Oliver Taylor. each .
charged with violation of the consent law
toward one Mary Smith, age 10 years. /
pleaded guilty and were probated for a
term OF two years.
Charles Mcdowell pleaded guilty to the
charge of stealing IA chickens from John
Walter, near Frankford, was paroled to
Robert ]. Savage.
On Tuesday afternoon the iurv dis
agreed IN the case of John Van and Toe
styles, colored, of Milford, charged with
he larceny Of corn at Milford on Feb. 10.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11

Hundreds of men who buy their
suits of this store to-day, bought
their knee pants suits when boys
at this store, and that is the rea-
son why we mBke such strong ef-
forts to sell the boy Of to-day; for
if we can sell him now we can sell
him when he gets to be a man.
W sell the best boys Clothing
that's made, and we guarantee
every suit we sell to give satisfac-
ton. Sizes 4 to Is PRICES So TO S1O
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
SHOES for
EVERYBODY

Made as they ought to be
Priced as they should be-
And fitted by experienced attendants.
Such is the basis on which your pat
ronage is solicited.
We are able to assure YOU implicit sat
isfaction in footwear, for that is our bust
ness.
All the latest styles Of the season, with
a complete assortment to select from.
The Home of Shoe Comfort, we take
care Of the little folks, as well as the
larger ones.
Our lines of Children's Shoes include
almost every kind of footwear made for
children.
Milford chronicle., 1913-04-11
SLAUGHTER NECK

H. E. Bennett spent several days in
Philadelphia last week where he pur-
chased an automobile.
Miss Lena Steen left Friday for
Philadelphia where she has accepted a
position as saleslady in Herrmanns con-
fectionery store.
Freeman Bennett has returned home
after having spent several weeks in
Philadelphia.