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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-02-18

the previous meeting had been disposed
of, was the reading OF reports from the
finance department for the preceding
week. Water rent receipts were quite
heavy, footing up $3,0S1. SO, as follows:
For metered private service, $3.50; for
municipal service in flushing North
Wildwood sewer mains, $50. 81; off and
on fees, $3.50, and S. for penalties.
The amount received in taxes was
81, 0s4. 33; interest, $139 SO; costs, $l8.87;
poll taxes, So; sewers, grading, side
walks and curbs, $3O.3O interest $42. 80;
costs, $2.85-total tax receipts, ST, 693 10.
Water was turned off in only one in
stance. but on In five. The laying of
an extension to the water main on
Roberts avenue, west of Hudson avenue,
was completed last week.
Two bursted services in the streets
were repaired; 81 meters were repaired,
and q more removed to plant for repair.
Twenty meters were reset at properties.
Four new connections to city water
mains made last week: Southeast corner
Bennett and Park avenues, for N. r.
Johnson; south side of Taylor, east Of
S~usquehanna, for Frank L. King; south
side Of Crosse avenue, west of Park
avenue, for Jennie Harper, and east
side of Park avenue, south of Bennett
avenue, for Mrs. Chambers.
After the tax and water reports had
been read communications were next
listened to. Mayor Charles p. Gillen,
OF Newark, again wrote the commits
sioners, urging them to use all possible
influence to aid in defeating the measure
to be brought up in the State legislature
to change the present method Of con-
Quoting elections in municipalities
where commission form of government
exists.
communication from A. g. Mitchell,
superintendent the Camden Terminal
Division of the Pennsylvania System,
Eastern Region, was next read, grant
ing the city privilege to cross under the
railroad com pany's tracks with surface
water sewer main opposite Davis ave.
Forms on which to execute formal
agreements covering this privilege were
enclosed with the superintendent's
letter.
w. 9. Todd, secretary of the Wild
wood School Board, mailed a letter to
the commissioners, enclosed with which
was a certificate OF the Board of School
Estimate, fixing annual budget for
school year of 1922 at $61 $3.50, di-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-02-18
Income Tax Reports

For the convenience of our customers \
we have arranged to secure the
services Of an Income Tax Deputy on
February oath and 18th, who will be
glad to assist you with the preparation
of your Income Tax Return or answer
questions concerning the income tax
law and regulations. You must file
your return on or before March 18th,
and it is quite important that you avail
yourself of the opportunity of asking
questions while the Deputy is here
and thereby avoid annoyance and
trouble after the above date.
THE MARINE NATIONAL BANK
Wildwood and Pacific Avenues
MEMBER Of THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-02-18

POST GRADUATE 0STE0PATH
220 East Wildwood Avenue Both Phones
philadelphia Office. Real Estate Trust building
Phone Walnut S
Cape May office 124 Decatur street
Keystone Phone
Evening star., 1921-12-04

hood until 1870. The site of a church
may be almost forgotten. Or forgotten.
in its neishborhood, and the Rambler
recalls what follows: The Catholic
church at Piscataw way-St. Mary's $
stands in the valley Of Piscataway
creek. at the head of that Potomac
estuary. and it has been there since
1920. Travelling on one of the roads
from Oxon Hill to Piscataway several
years ago, the Rambler heard of hill
called Chapel Hill. Why Chapel hill?
1t was a tradition preserved by some
venerable colored people living near
that church once stood there. lie
visited the place. which lies quite Il
distance back from any public road.
and in bit of woods were many tomb
stones. The names were those of
members Of old Catholic families Of
southern Maryland. Turning to his
files, the Rambler finds that he wrote
what follows about the site of that
church:
II the wayfarnr over the hlily roads 80 The
south of Washington and the east side Of
the Potomac will cross HenSun> branch "r. AS
il IL called near it's entrance 10 the Potomac
Broad creek. climb the long hill 10 the cross
roads hamlet OF Friendly and continue on
ward for about two miles in the direction Of
the settlement of Piscataway. his way will
lead him past bit of underground and taller
growth known to the dwellers thereabout as
Chapel Hill. In an acre where the under.
brush has been cleared or worn away. and
where pine trees are growing, stands Il plain
frame meeting honse. called Grace NJ L.
Chapel. in which goodiy number OF c9iored
People pray and sing Around this little church
are the usual graves, older ones sunken and
neglected. the new ones heaped over with fresh
gravel and yellow clay. and with perhaps some
withered. shrnnsen flowers resting t.ere. But
the place does not fake its name of Chapel Hill
because Of this church. Grace Chapel is reia-
lively new. southern Maryland churches go.
and the name of Chapel Hill, applied to this
prospect, reaches far back in time.
Pass through the newer churchyard and
Evening star., 1921-12-04

plunge into q Jungle Of sassafras. brambies.
pine and weeds. There is the trace of an an-
cient road. partly upgrown. whir" will help
you on your way. Look sharply iE-- the shades
Of the deep thicket and You will see row OF
brown gruvestOnes, originally set vertically.
position. Even these are cracked and some
parts of them have fallen away.
Among the names on these stones
were Ann Maria Humphrey, who died
August 20, 1909: Mary f. Humphrey,
who died June IL, 1880; Richard
Humphrey. who died October 25. 1911;
Maria Humphrey, his wife, who died
July 20, 1S-4; Mary Humphrey. who
died May 9, 1915: Thomas H. Edeien,
sheriff of Prince Georges county,
who died February IL, 1S4i, and a
number of others.
The Rambler assumed that this
must have been the site of Catholic
Church, and reasoned that the little
church at Piscataway, four or five
miles further south. and which dates
from 1920, had previously stood on
Chapel Hill. He thinks that he con-
firmed that assumption, for in that
old story he wrote:
"A mile away. on the opposite ridge.
is the farmhouse of the man who
now owns the land on which these
old tombstones stand. or lie. His
name is Cornelius, or Nicely" Gala
han. Chapel Hill was the-site of St
Mary's Church. the first Catholic
Church in. Piscataway parish. 1t was
removed from this place to the VIII
lage of Piscataway in 1920. The old
Evening star., 1921-12-04

could be dropped into that mob with
out being noticed any more than a
pinch of salt in a pail of soup. This
is real sporting event. Inez, a
classic
Inez INDUCES in sudden smile and
brightens up amazingly. I'm glad
we CO." says she. Annette! I must
tell Annette"
I didn't quite get the connection.
OF course, 1nez and our near-French
maid from Montreal are more or less
chummy, but why she had to be told
so promptly that we were going to a
foot ball game wasn't quite clear 1nez
hurries into the kitchen, though, and
could hear them chatting lively,
with now and then a giggle from
Annette"
For the next three or four days,
too. they seemed very busy and more
or less mysterious over something or
other. Every afternoon they slipped
out together and finally packages be-
gan to arrive by delivery boys. OF
course I knew they were on another
shopping orgie. You remember maybe
that a few weeks ago Uncle Nels had
unloaded his street parking enter
prise on syndicate and had cleaned
up quite wad. Well, part of that
Inez had jollied out of him. I don't
know just how she worked it. I wish
did. Anyway, none Of 1t was forced
on me. But then, he's her uncle, and
besides, I haven't such expensive
tastes as Inez has
Usually though. she springs her
Evening star., 1921-12-04

copal church on NanSvil1e hill within
a mile of the present site Of st. John $
at BeitSville a generation or so before
ST Johns Was built. But il may be so.
In the cemetery of St. Johns are
the graves of some Of the old Epis-
copa lians of that neiehborhood.
Among them are those of Philip T.
Belt. born February 20. 1909. and died
June &c. 1873: Everline F.. Belt, born
July 3 1915. and died December is.
1870: Elbert q. Emack. born in 1894
and died in 1856: Margaret Emack.
born in 1916 and died in 1885: II. Jane
Emack. born in 1906 and died in 1887 {:
DIR. Charles Diversified. L. S. N. born
December -. 1921. and died October 4.
1879; John Eversfield. born August 13.
I7aH. and died December IS, 1857; Ann
Perrie. relict of John Eversfield. born
May ;. l196 and died January II. 1875:
Perrie WALES diversified, born Sep
tember 10. 1880. and died May 2. 1865;
Julius Eversfield, born october %.
1885, and died September "A. 1913; DR..
William Octavus Eversfield. born No
vember 4. 1899 and died January 20.
1908: Mary A. Armiger. born August
Ii. 1890 and died December rs. 1906:
John Simms. born April IL. 1904. and
died October /, 1887: Sarah. his wife,
born January 12. 1912. and died Janu-
AIRY Il, 1867: Hugh Simms. born in
lH02 and died in 1887: Robert Simms.
born in 1884 and died in 1903: James
Simms born in 1888 and died in 1898 !;
Rev. H. p. II. King born August 81.
1920, and died January II, 1893; Eliza
beth n. King. born September !, 1917.
and died January 30. 1899: Thomas B.
Beall born November 10. 1918. and
died August %. 1879; Jane T.. wife of
Thomas B. Beall. horn February %.
1918. ard died February l, 1894; Amos
Reed, 1S24-1SS7: Royal Buck. 1929
1890: John Colgate Parker, lS23-1902;
Evening star., 1921-12-04

| around the way you say they did.
Regular tea party regalias. were
they?'
NO, no" protested Inez. CLOTHES
what you don't see anywhere. Yes.
me and Annette see Some once in show
window. and we laff and laff. l must
tell her l saw 'em on-lots of 'en. She
won't believe. But l do. And some
what you think. Trilby May?
tSh-h-h! So Uncle Ne1s won't hear.)
Pants."
Inez whispers the last word. her
eyes bulged. What" says I. mot
knickers. without skirts?"
"Uh-hu-h!' says 1 neg. and draws her
fingers across her throat dramatic.
"Three-four pair They don't look
SO bad. Honest! Nobody notices or
makes fun. Except some boys. and
they got chased off. Coats and pants
and wool socks. just like the men,.
You could hardly tell 'em apart"
well. we'll" says l. II heard they
were coming in, but I didn't know
they'd quite arrived. But now about
the others?"
Inez isn't such vivid describer.
but she did her best. 1 got the idea
that some of the new. sport skirts
that they'd have a patch work quilt
looking like nuns work dress
"Pinks and blues and yellows.'
says Inez. land some with all colors
Such short ones. too: And a lot with
only fringe below the knee. One
like it had been made of horse
blanket. another like old shawl
Funny hats. too. Just cloth wobbed
around and maybe a feather or a
Evening star., 1921-12-04

queered herself with Mr.. Bugs"
Bundy by getting in the way so con-
spicuously at the golf match. but he
seems to hold no grudge against her
for that. Instead of dropping her
from the list he shows up again the
following Sunday with two-pound
box of chocolates. Saturday special
sale, and announces that he has four
seats for the big foot ball game down
at Princeton next week.
How about it. Trilby May: says
he. You and Barry and Inez and
me, eh?''
/ said I'd love it if could get back
in time. which he is sure l can. And
there's no doubt about Inez.' I adds.
Her sporting blood is showing late.
but it's all there. Eth. Inez?'
"Sports?" says Inez, opening her
gray eyes wide. Sure
x :: x
co We planned to take an early
~ train. lug our luncheon along.
and make a day Of ii. First off 1nez
seems to have rather a sketchy idea
of what it's all about. Just some
fellers kickin' foot ball around?"
she asks after Mr.. Bundy has Gone.
"Oh. if you want to put it that
way says ]. But incidentally
there'll be fifty or sixty thousand
people gathered around to watch.
lege foot ball games? Bands playing,
cheering sections shouting themselves
hoarse, and about the classiest crowd
YOU ever saw collected anywhere.
Why. say, that little bunch you got
so excited over at the golf match
Evening star., 1921-12-04

Nice people," insists Inez. "Mr.
Bundy say SO. Best in Westchester
county, them ladies'. He-he say
they're the real things; old families,
rich. and all that. Anyway, they got
swell sport clothes. l wish-'
I couldn't stop to hear the finish of
her wish as / had to make a dash for
Greenwich Village where at SAT I'm
due to skip out on the stage as The
Flapper. But / could guess. In spite
Of her $50 pounds. her Swedish par
entage and her Minnesota accent, Inez
would like to mingle with the Van
Pells and RenSallaerS and be taken
for the real thing; just for an hour
or SO, anyway. She's seen acts like
that pulled in the movies and she be-
lieves it can be done.
l was wondering IL she hadn't
Evening star., 1921-12-04

buckle. And them stockin's! Plaids
and checkerboards. Thick wool!'
Rather change from the cobweb
silk hose you see on 5tth avenue. :"
says I. "a bit more sensible, should
say. I'll have to take a look at the
displays in the sporting goods shops.
Any other sensations, 1nez, out on
the golf coursew
Canes" says 1nez. Lotta ladies
carried 'em. And whole piles smoked
cigarettes"
mot out in the open, as they chased
around?' doubted.
yep" says Inez. One asked Mr..
Bundy for match. Say, I tried
after we got in clubhouse. Amt SO
bad
Inez Petersen" says I. I'm
shocked. You know you don't have to
pick up all the bad habits Of lot of
sporty woman golfers just because
you happen to be among those pres
ent for. the afteruoon."
Evening star., 1921-12-04
Curious Staircase.

VERY unique is the spiral concrete
staircase in the tower of the
Southwest Museum. at Los Angeles.
Cal. Similar staircases are TO be
found elsewhere. as in the tower Of
st. Pauls and the tower of the cathe-
dral in the City of Mexico bnt they
were built before the age of concrete
When viewed from above. il bears "A
close resemblance to the shell of Il
snail.
1t is, for its purpose, an improve
ment over Sir Christopher Wren's
masterpiece-the spiral stairway as
cending the interior wall in the tower
of st. Paurs Cathedral, London The
Southwest Museum helical staircase
is built inside well in the center
of the tower. thus not only preserv-
ing for shelves or mounted objects
the entire Interior wall space of the
tower, but also supplying on its own
exterior wall additional space which
may be employed for museum pur-
poses.
The tower containing the stairway
Is seven stories in height. with three
mezzanine balconies in the three up
per stories. giving the equivalent of
feet square. and is supported by
twelve columns and external walls
eight inches thick, reinforced with
steel. 1t rests on a solid concrete
slab or raft three feet six inches
thick. The total height is 125 feet
and the weight. is 1000 tons. The
construction was carried on continu-
ously, a story being poured at a time.
The staircase we'll is nine feet two
inches in external diameter and is
supported by four corner columns
with eight-inch walls between them.
with light and ventilation openings
at each story The stair is known as
caracole, on account of the likeness
to snail shell presented by verti-
cal view. With one exception it is
the only helical staircase in America
having a hollow center. the other one
being an ancient stone staircase in
the tower of the cathedral in the City
of Mexico. The stairway conains l6o
steps with seven-and- half inch
rise each, and was built around a gall
vanized iron form in the shape of 9
pipe, while wooden forms were placed
for the stairs. Material was prepared
at a special rock crushing and sand
plant located about one mile from the
building. in a dry river bed.
Evening star., 1921-12-04

That's it. eh?" says I. THE lady
champs Were spiffy dressers, were
they?"
Them" says Inez. "Tacky. 'Spe-
cially that English girl-old gray
sweater, old gray skirt and shoes
like man. No hat, either; just old
ribbon around her hair. Such a strad-
die. too! That other girl amt so
bad. Kinda nice lookin'. but her
dress amt suchsa-much. Just plain
brown. But say. them ladies that
run around after 'em! Swell"'
II see." says I. "The lady golf nuts
in the gallery wore the fancy cos
tunes. while the ones who did the
real playing were dressed for busi-
ness. But l don't quite see how the
spectators could be Tossed up so
much if they had to go galloping
Evening star., 1921-12-04

lawn and you must clap some more.
They do that over and over, and we
all run around through fields. over
nills. past woods. get lost from MT.
Bundy, and sit down on rock. and
lotta people holler at me to get out.
So I go sit on grass. and they
holler some more. They yell -Four!
-Four. But 1 was only one. so I
don't take no notice. Besides. my
feet hurt me. But then Mr.. Bundy
come and tell me 1 must get behind
tree, and whiz-z-z comes a ball. I
don't know why them girls wanna
knock balls at me. Lotta other peo-
pie they might hit IL they tried. But
it's all kinda foolish"
Then why all the excitement,
1nez?' says ]. ~,
\ r. = y
WITH that she brightens up again.
Nv "Oh, you shouldda seen" says
she. Such swell clothes."
Evening star., 1921-12-04

Annie Elizabeth Curtis. wife Of John
Colgate Parker. lS21-189S; Emma
daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
Jones, 1S26-1S94: Joseph /. Jones. born
February, 1878. and died March 81.
1854, and Luther .. jones' born July
IL, 1910, and died June IS. 1888.
Descendants of many of these good
people are living in Prince Georges
county and some of them in the Belts
vile neighborhood, but they seem not
to have heard that an Episcopal
church stood on the Vansville hill in
1884 or earlier. If there was church
at vansville at that time 1t ought to
be possible to find some record or
other account of it.
Within the grounds of the Christian
Brothers Novitiate and Normal School,
or adjoining those grounds about
mile beyond Beltsville and Vansville.
is a little Catholic church. st. Joseph's.
the architecture of which indicates
that 1t was built in the 70's 1t
stands within the lines of the farm
which Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen
bought in 1870. The admiral and his
family attended that church. and 1t is
probable that he gave the land for the
site and was a substantial contributor
to the building fund and to the main
tenance Of the church.
Il X
THOUGH Catholic churches were
! often far apart in Prince Georges
county, 1t Is not likely that there was
no Catholic church in that eneighbor-
Evening star., 1921-12-04

new costumes on US almost as soon
on. This time, however, there's no
private fashion display. She doesn't
appear in a new hat or sport a new
shirt waist.
Saving 'em up for the holidays.
Inez" asked her. COR is it a trous-
Seau you're collecting?"
"You wait" says Inez. you'll see."
Evening star., 1921-12-04

set on this land. Brown also bought
an ancient mill and millseat at Belts
vile, previously known as Van Horns
mill, hut which for nearly century
has been called Browns mill. The
walls are standing. and it is one or
the landmarks of Beltsville.
In Beltsville story of several years
ago, the Rambler wrote:
Before the building Of the Episcopal Church
at Reltsytlle in 1857 the Episcopalians Of thai
neighborhood worshipped at Paint branch
Chapel little frame structure with which
notably Bishop Pinckney. were associated
That chapel stood about two miles northwest
Of Beltsviile and the woods which grew around
that little place Of worship still called Paint
Chanel woods. Paint Chapel stood ABOUT until
1a75. when 1t was torn down and rebuilt at
Fairiand, in Montgomery county. on the %
inmbia pike, an old road which strikes north
east from the ColesviIle pike mile and a
hsif from Burnt Mills and q quarter Of a
mile beyond White Oak.
* II X X
A LONG time after the Rambler
n wrote that Beltsville-story he took
up the subject Of Paint Branch Chapel,
relocated its site in Chapel woods, in
the Paint branch country, and photo
sraphed the church at its present site
at Fairland. He told Of the creation
OF Paint Branch Chapel as a chapel Of
st. Paul's, or Rock Creek Church. In
all that work he found nothing to
suggest that thAreahad been an Epis-
Evening star., 1921-12-04

TALKS With the Oldest Settlers of the
L Neiehborhood-No Record of Some Old
Names-Visit to Site of an Ancient Church.
Searching for Names of Slaveholders-Free
Negroes Who Owned Slaves at One Time in
MARYLAND
Evening star., 1921-12-04

A FEW stray ends Of the Vans
~ Vile and Ammendale stories
~ are to be gathered together
and a few promises kept be-
Evening star., 1921-12-04

Continued on Eighth Page.)
The New York herald., 1921-07-07
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The New York herald., 1921-07-07
THIRTEEN FIREMEN
OVERCOME AT BLAZE
Knocked Out by Smoke and
Gas in Basement of Mcclure
Publishing Company.

Thirteen firemen were overcome by
smoke and gas and two others were
slightly cut last night In fire that
burned for more than two hours in the
basement of the Mcclure Publishing
Company's building at 232-234 West
Thirty-seventh street. At one time all
of the thirteen firemen were lying un-
conscious on the sidewalk in front of
the building All were revived and re-
turned to work.
The fire was discovered by watch
man employed by the Mcclure company,
who found the basement filled with
smoke He ran two doors away to the
headquarters of Engine Company No.
26, and Lieut.. Short and firemen went
with him to look over the ground. A
blast of fame and smoke greeted them
when they opened the basement door
and an alarm was turned in. The fire.
men of company No. 26 went into the
basement before other firemen reached
the scene, however. and most of the en-
tire detachment were overcome before
Engine Company No. 65 arrived.
Lieut. Short was overcome while
standing at the top of the outside base
ment stairs. and plunged headfrst to
the basement floor He was carried
out Soon afterward three other fire
men of his command were overcome
while handling q line or hose IN the
basement and were carried out. The
remaining members of Company No. 26
had been overcome when the men OF No.
65 reached the fire and rescued them.
The firemen of No. 26 who were over
come, besides Lieut.. Short, were Joseph
Head, Daniel Finnegan, James Kelleher,
Patrick Rooney and Frederick Cetuna.
BY the time the fremen of Engine
| 65, Engine 43 and Hook and Ladder
Company "a got into the basement with
the lines of hose the flames had melted
the connections of the gas pipes and
the basement was filled with gas and
smoke, which poured out through the
windows and doors in huge billows.
Lieut. Tighe led a detail of firemen
| from Engine 65 into the place. but was
quickly overcome. together with Fire
men Hunter Frost, Soukoff. Monsees,
Hedrich and Beihskoff. Later two men
from Hook and Ladder "a were slightly
| cut by glass.
| After the gas connections had been
| turned off the firemen went at their
| task more cautiously. and after two
| hours work succeeded in extinguishing
| the flames. The cellar was wrecked.
| but the fire did not extend to other
| parts Of the building. The burned place
was about % by 70 feet. and was used
| as a storeroom for magazines and news
+, papers. The damage is estimated at
| $10.0O0