New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-15
Prosperous Town on the
Hudson Was Never
SO Alert.
PREPARING FOR
CHARTER CENTENNIAL
Home and Business Centres of
the Place Growing al a
Rapid Rate.
BY G. f. Briggs, Secretary Of the
Peekskill Board of Trade.

"Peekskill going forward is a sle-
gan recently adopted by Peekskill. the
phrase having won in & prize contest
ind il was never truer than u IS TINS
year Of our Lord nineteen fifteen.
However. PeekskiN is getting along
very nicely. just now, thank YOU
There is much building Of dwellings
and public structures. There are many
municipal Improvements and advance
ments. When Leverett F. Crumb was
inaugurated president Of the village
in March he seemed 20 give an impetus
10 the old village that has made every
body sit up and take notice. 1t is he
they saw. who has put the skill IN
Peekskin
PeekskiN has always been on the
map. but never quite so consplcuouslY
IS just now. with more pEminence in
view for 1915 For i'm 1916 PeeksNN
will have centennial. and 1t is gong
70 celebrate 10 in due and ancient
form. A citizens committee Of l5C
is ALREADY az work Il was at a meet.
ing Of the Peeksk.l Board Of Trade
organized many wears ago and never
moro successful in IT'S work and larger
in its membership than now. that some
its first charter and seal in 1916
Why not nave centennial in 1916?
Il was well received. the suggestion
was. a committee 20 "invcstigate anC
report was appointed At the mex
meeting II rcuortcd favorably anC
recommended that -ho matter be paSser
along 10 .hc village authorities for Of
fcial sanction and action and citl
xers' committee appointed. This wa.
done The board of trustees approved
president Crumb appointed a commit
tee Of $50, making Chester De Wit
Pug ley chairman. The committee
met and elected William II. y. Mac
kellar. president of the Peckskill BcarC
Of Trade. vice-cha.rman and Albert +
Cruger, the village clerk, as secretary
2 hen a subcommittee OF fifteen wa:
appointed on plan and scope and q
make suggestions and report m Sep
temoer In q general way Pcekskll
next year Is 20 have a big year and ;
celebration which viii include civic
fremcn's and industrial parades. Ar
Old home week. a night or two of fire
works. ar industrial exposition show
Ing Just what is made I'M Peekskii. ;
water carnival and regatta on thC
Hudson. all beginning with an inter
denOmlnational Sunday service in De
pew Park. "a sort Of Thanksgiving. @'c.
And Pcekskill is after conventions
and getting them. too. The State As
soclatiOn of Elks at Troy In June voteC
70 meet here next June, 1916, and th'
biggest time and crowd ever seen u
Ieckskil arc promised At lonker.
last week the New York State Fiji,
and Drum Corps voted 20 meet her,
4
ton IN 1916 Is booked for Peekskill
and The Methodist Conference is eX
pected mex. April. the annual session
OF the Royal and Select Masters, a
Buffalo. next Monday and Tuesday, vii
select In all probability Peekskill 70,
1916. Others are ~ tow and the boom
ing boost and boosting boom goes on
while the Board of Trade. ever on thu
alert, is watching every opportunity L
put in a Hex for PeekSkill.
The carpenters and masons are busy
Many private dwellings and small
stores are being built around the
town.
One of the greatest Improvements il
the Park and Division Street corner
The Misses Brown, at the death o
the last of the three sisters, IN 1913
gave TO the village a huge slice of
their old homestead lot, to be placed
in the street, which has made a large
square al the corner OF Division anC
Main Streets. and the picture shows
what an Improvement II will be wher
it is all in shape, within the next fort
night Il mas just been paved witt
asphalt ana brick blocks from Jane.
Street west, the piles Of brick still
shown. The Dimond, Ballard, Mccoy
and Elwich buildings are all new-th'
Ballard not quite finished which ha;
made that block one of the prominent
business sections of the village, where
before there was an old frame home
stead, built a century ago, IN an acre
lot. Across the street IS the Clinton
Drug Company building and the three
story building Of the Highland Demo
Graf Company.
And speaking Of pavement, Peekskill
has now a greater area of brick and
wood pavement than any village Of Us
size in America. The Park Street CON
tract completed. the Sproul Contracting
COMPANY. which did l.. Is now finish
ing Highland Avenue. The approaches
70 the village on the north and south
are now state roads, macadam on the
south and brick on the north, and there
Is the best Of roadbed and highway
for motorists from Croton on north
through the village. Along the street
navements conduits are being laid. and
tbe wires in Park Street and North
Division Street and Highland Avenue
must 20 under ground;
A nau and carefully drawn tranc