The Syracuse Journal, Volume 22, Number 49, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 April 1930 — Page 1

6/Arthur Brisbane WHERE ARE THE PASSENGER 3 GERMANY’S VICTORY SURPRISING THE GREEK THE BILLION DOLLAR AGE

San Diego, Calif. —Officials of the Santa Fe railroad, gathered in convention, were told by their president, Mr. Storey, that something is happening to railroad passenger business in the United States. In 1922 the Santa Fe carried 15,000,000 passengers. In, 1928 the number had dropped to 4,200,000. That means a good deal to railroads, to owners of railroad stocks, and to the automobile industry. Automobiles, privately owned, and public automobile bus lines, have the change. And Mr. Storey’s figures will change again soon, when fully developed air travel takes 9 per cent of long distance travel from railroad and motor bus lines. Do not hurry to sell your Santa Fe or other sound railroad stock, however. Railroading now is really railroading; not stock jobbing. And better methods, bigger locamotives, longer trains, Better yards and a thousand improvements, including especially, loyal co-operation by railroad union workers, have more than made up for the drop in passenger travel. Freight is the thing now, that depends on prosperity. Germany lost the war, but wins in other directions. Recently the German Bremen, lowering the record across the Atlantic, took the “blue ribbon" from the British. Now the North German Lloyd Liner, the Europa, has beaten the Bremen's record. The Europa, magnificent 5,000 ton ship .accoring to the builders here in* Britain, would be 100 expensive for American or British lines. The investment of $50,000,000 could not be profitable. Germany, beaten, is able to do what the winners of ibe war cannot do. A Greek philosopher was exiled because he said the sun was bigger than all the Greek Islands. We know' now that the sun is a million times bigger than the earth, and in distant space other suns are a million times bigger than ours, making them one million million times bigger than the cosmic grain of sand we live on. 1 An Italian professor, Bendani announces discovery of the ■ fact that our solar system is fifty times bigger than astronomers thought. What would the old Greek have said, to that? This is the biljion dollar age. The old plain million, once revered, is as unimportant as the extinct hansom .cab. ■' V , Gen. W. W‘. Atterbury, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, forsees expenditures by his company in the next ten years amounting to ten billions of dollars. Ten thousand millions is a good many dollars. The Pennsylvania has already spent six thousand million; The running time from New 1 ork to Chicago will be cut fourteen hours within a few years. Trains will carry passenger’s automobiles with them as ocean steamships now carry them. Radiophones will enable travelers to talk to their offices and to their homes. The house of representatives voted to increase the national contribution to good roads from 175.WQ.000 to 1125.000,000 a year for three years, beginning next July. This will mean in three years, $375,000,000 for better roads alone, good news for all citizens, for the automobile industry, for employees and for the unemployed. On April 6, the Mormon church will be 100 years old. Plural marriage has gone, but the church remains powerful, with numbers increasing, after a century of struggle and opposition. Nearly one million Mormons will celebrate the day; the main celebration at Salt Lake City; others all over this and nearly all European countries and in Mexico, Australia, Hawaii and the South Sea islands. The late Lord Balfour was powerful in establishing an dguaranteeing Jewish rule in Palestine. To honor his memory, every Jewish child born in Roumania next week will be named for him, the boys "Balfour, the girls Balfouria. Andrew Mellon, now seventy-five years old, is the head, through ownership, of a half a dozen of the greatest corporations in the world. Under three Presidents he has shown himself to be one of the greatest secretaries of, the treasury, reducing public debt by thousands of millions each year. If Mr.* Mellon were a railroad conductor they would tell him he was too old and would have to give up his joK If he were a woriunaa he would (QwMsd w Last

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SHERIFF IS BROUGHT TO SEEK THIEF I A {Off icer Investigates the School RobberyWar ns Pool Rooms Called lb Syracuse to investigate the robbery at the High school building, while here, Sheriff Frank McKrill visited the local pobt rooms and warned proprietors that- the law against punch boards and the admission of .minors to pool rooms would be enforced. Having investigated the evidence of the school robbery, the sheriff, accompanied by Night Watchman Ocal Kraft, said that he would make no arrest immediately. Last Monday afternoon, when he dressed in street clothes following practise in the gymnasium. Coach C. E. Beck discovered that his pocket book containing sls was missing. He couldn’t find, it anywhere, and the following morning students- were questioned, particularly those who had used the gym dressing rooms the night before. Os course, no one knew anything about the money, and Coach Beck said he would have thought he lost the purse elsewhere, but When* .Janitor Kehr cleaned out the waste baskets that evening, he discovered the misusing pocketbook j in the bottom of one of the waste baskets The coach’s keys and driver’s license were there- but no money. . Suspects are being investigated, but Up to the present date no arrests have been made. DINNER IS HELD IN TEAM’S HONOR The mothers of the High school basketball team held a dinner partyin the team’s honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Connolly, parnets of JamesConnoliy, captain, Monday evening. | The dining room had been decorat-I ed in blue and gold, the school col- , ors, as had the table. All of the mothers helped serve the dinner, I havip«, previously planned the amus-1 ing stunts which occurred during! the change of courses. • C-iach C. E. Beck was/here, and Mrs. Beck in addition toVaines Con-j noUy,whpoe birthday it Ayos, team were: Ralph Leal • ck, Gary , n, Harold ’ShoYk, Robert Lep- . per. Wendell Nicodemus, Howard Bitner, Wilmet Jones, Edwin Lung. | The girls of the party were; the ' Misses Evelyn Strock, Mary Drucka- \ miller, Cleo Corey, Velma Fleming,] RobertaCrowe, Irene and Pauline Shock, and Meriam D<*Fries, of Mil-, ford. — 0— — — ■— MRS. STETTLER DIES SUDDENLY Mrs. Sarah Ann Stettler, 59, wife Os Chas. Stettler, died suddenly Monday at her home near Solomon’s Creek. She had a fit of coughing and her death resulted from heart failure. She is survived by her husband, her son John, at home, six daughter*, j Mrs. Florence Shively, of Detroit; - Mrs. Edith Weaver of South Bend; Kathryn at home; Mrs. Esther Ganger; Mrs. Pauline Treadway and Mrs. Helen Snyder, of Mishawaka; and ■ two brothers. Funueral services are being held this afternoon at her home. —. — o- —. —. I NOTICE Beginning next week the stores of Syracuse will be open for business Monday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings.

HERE’S ONE WOMEN CAN’T ANSWER — FOR WHOM DID YOU VOTE IN 1879?

Do you remember — When EH Holloway ran for Township Trustee on the Democratic ticket way back in 1879? A ballot for the Democratic ticket for that year is in the possession of A. A. Kettering. ' Others who were running on that ticket were: Hugh N. Collander, for Justice of the Peace; Andrew M. McClintic, for Assessor; James Benner, Phillip Fancil for constable. AU of these men were elected. On the Republican ticket, running against them were: Neil Felkner,' for Justice of the Peace; Levi Keehn, for Trustee; Charles D. Thompson, for Assessor; and James H. Huffman and William V.- McDonald for cott-j

Syracuse Boy Wins Out in Hazardous Airplane Ride

An airplane ride through the tail of the tornado which swept three southern states, March .10, w-as deseribpd in The Toledo Blade of thru date by F, E. Roberts, aviation editor, who made such a trip with Harry Riddle, pilot, former Syracuse, boy. The aviation editor and a Toledo Blade’s sport writer planned to make the trip south from Toledo, 0., to Anniston, Aja., in Riddle’s Stimson-De-troiter plane, to take pictures of the baseball team of Toledo, in their southern camp, and to return with these for immediate publication. .. The struck rain aild blinding fog over the Cumberland mountains but, instead ofturing back, the story relates, Riddle said, “We’ll fight it through.” The fight which followed, using every bit of power and speed of the plane, is described in the story which is being treasured by Harry Riddle’s mother, Mrs. Roy Riddle. Finally the party sighted a town, and made a forced landing, miring the big ship in the.sticky.mud. It looked hopeless at first, but Riddle decided he could take up -the big ship without the two passengers in it, and try to circle the town, find a better landing spot and come down for them there. With the two passengers wading in mud to their knees, pushing, the ship was finally able to gain momentum, only for the aviation editor to dis-

ONLY 13 NAMES ON MONTH HONOR ROLL Fewer names, of students are on this past month’s honor , roll than for any previous' month of the school year, according to the list just made public by tha school officials. Neither Seniors or Juniors had eny representatives on this— honor list. Three Sopohompres, Velva Brown, Mary Jensen and Elwin Doll, were named for this riionth. Harriett Bachman, Ford Cripe, and Wayne Fisher' represent the Freshmen;- Joan Riddle and Mary Snavely the Eighth grade; Ruby Click, Bernice Held, Ruth Rowdabaugh, George Miles and Voyle Osborn, the Seventh grade. On the honor roll for Grade Five, special pientlon is given for the work of Lucy Bachman and Kathryn Nicodemus. Mention is made of the work of Juanita Geiger, James Butt, Lucille Osborn, Alva Scarberry and Evelyn Schroeder. BACHMAN GROCERY IN NEW QUARTERS The past month’s work was completed the first of this week, when Bachman's moved their grocery department of their general store, to its new headquarters, formerly a part of the Beckman Furniture store. Hilary Bachman and his father, C. C. Bachman, are planning to mangge the grocery store as partners. Foliowin gthe Beckman auction, and moving to their present quarters, the Bachman's began fitting out the store room, installing shelves and other fixtures. A double doorway into the old building was cut, but the shelves hiding it were not moved until Monday, when the new quarters opened for business. Mr. Bachman bought the general store, which has just been enlarged, from A. W. Strieby six years ago. ■ '■—; —o — CHRLbiIA-N ENDEAVOR lb organized Much interest was shown Bunday evening at the Church of God when the pastor, Rev. Chapman, re-organi-zed the Christian Endeavor, The officers chosen were: president, Mrs. F. Hedges; vice president, Geneveive Kitaon; secretary. Harriet Bachman; assistant, Margaret Smith; pianist, Mrs. B. Skidgell; assistant, Betty Ward; treasurer, Mrs. C. Hibschman: choir leader, Allen Ott; cor.

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stables. Other interesting ballots in Mr. Kettering’s possession are for 1880, when on the National Republican, ticket, James G. Blaine was running for President and Johh A. Logan for vice president, with Grover Cleveland and ‘Ehomas A Hendrickson on the Democratic ballot. That year the National Prohibition Ticket had as its Presidential candidate John P. St. John, and William Daniel for vice president. William H. Calkins was candidate for governor that year, on the Republican ballot, Isaac P. Gray was up for that office on the Democratic ■one; and Robert S. Wiggins, on the Prohibition state ticket.

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coVer that he was clinging to the strut that he’d been pushing, with both his feet off the ground. Riddle had to keep the plane going, so the writer of the story of that ride says he dropped to the ground, narrowlyescaping being caught by the tail surface only to have the steel tail skid knock him Tjlat into the mud. He was able to dig his face out of the mud, he says, to write the story of his walk back from an airplane ride. Attempting to make his landing on the field which had been pointed out to him as the landing field, Riddle discovered it was a sloping hillside. His idune capie down with his wheels sliding straight on down the hill. The pilot was able to avoid hitting two trees, but went through the fence, hit a ditch, which caused the ship to turn over on its right side, tearing away the right landing gear and bending the propellor. “We had tried to reach our assignment and get Tur story,” the writer says, “and we had failed, but it was not because of our pilot ,or our staunch ship. Had it not been for these two, this story might never have been written. We learned later that we had been caught in the tail of a tornado which had swept three southern states and that the air tjiaiT had not been able Ito flythrough the same storm we encountered.”

C. OF C. TO MEET The Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular * meeting next Tuesday noon at thV Sign of the Kettle.

W.C.T.U.’S HEAR STATE PRESIDENT An all-day meeting of the W. C. T. U. was held at the Methodist church Tuesday. In the morning session the work of departments was reviewed. A pot luck dinner was served in the basement of the church, and during the afternoon session, Mrs. Elizabeth T. Stanley, state president of the organization, was chief speaker. In her talk, Mra, Stanley explained the need of either an Amendment to to State Constitution which would relieve property owners from paying the largest part of the state tax, instead of its being distributed on intangible property, Or, the need of a state constitutional convention. At 4 o’clock the L. T. L’s. ennacted a play. During the evening meeting,. Mrs. Stanley's talk was on “The "Swan Song of the Wets," in which she pointed out that the straw ballot being taken on the liquor question by a national magazine was unfair and did not show the true feeling of the country. The brass quartette of the school band played, and Betty Lou Hollett gave a recitation. In addition, to the state president, the county president of the W. C. T. U-, Mrs. L O. Oylep^tsL Warsaw, attended the Syracuse meeting.

"STUDENTS’ WORK TO BE DISPLAYED The High school building is to be { opened at 7. p. m., Monday and Tues- ' day evenings of next week, for par- ' ents and friends to view the U’ozk of ' students, on display there. I The work of the first six grades, the Seventh and Eighth grades; and the High school Art Classes, under the instruction of Miss Lucile Henwood, will be displayed on the class room walls. Basketry, charcoal and crayon work, oil painting, water color painting, parchment lamp shades and pencil sketches will be shown. The work of the first six grades on the studx of form, color, arrangement, construction and lettering, will also be seen at this time. In addition to the past year’s work {of Miss Hen wood’s art classes, Miss < Stu: kman will have posted the year’s accomplisments of her Home Economics. classes. Dresses, dance sets, pajamas, fancy work, pillow slips, smocks and aprons are some of the articles which can be viewed at that time. BIRTHDAY PARTY HELD A birthday party in honor of Mrs. Ellen Holloway’s 82nd birthday, was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Klink Tuesday. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Holloway, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Zerbe, Mr. and Mrs. Hallie Holloway and children. . __—_—-o * — ■ Frank Bushong was taken to the South Bend Clinic Tuesday morning, for observation. Mrs. Bushong accompanied him.

ENLARGEMENT OF HATCHERY BEING URGED Local Men Meet State Official—Lake Group Back Project Roscoe Howard and Warren T. Colwell, ■ repressenting the residents of Syracuse and Wawasee, went to Indianapolis yesterday to meet with Richard Lieber, head ci the State Department of Conservation. The purpose of making this appointment {with Mr. Lieber was to show the 1 need of enlarging the fish hatchery here, rather than having a new hatchery developed in Steuben tyThat summer residents or 1 Lake Wawasee have shown their interest in the addition to the fish hatchery, is shown by- letters sent4o the Chamber of Commerce, byway of Roscoe Howard. These, letters contain copies of these sent to Walter* Shirts, superintendent of the State Fish and Game Department of Conservation, asking that the fish hatchery be located here. Among those who have written the department .telling of their approval of increasing the present facilities of the fish I- . * Wawasee are: W. !. : h.-is, ;dent of the Goshen Cham wr. >f Commerce; E. L. Weeiner, president of the Econon v Box and Pie Pl (, ~ of Marion; D. E. Hooping A; net, Chicago attorney: R. B. Tuttle, treasurer of the Marion County - Fish and Game Protective Association; Robert; !’•••.- clair of the Fairmount Railway - tors Inc., of Chicago; Eli Lilly, head .of the Eli Lilly. Cq. ,of. Indiamp ■; W. Fobes, of the Egbert-Hay Fob s Co., of Goshen.. . The letter from the Goshen Chamber of ConAnerce, u- . i-ig the y-n-jeet. closes with the hope th..: “your department will see fit to acquire the aforesaid property so close to your present holdings.” Mr. Wee,mer writes, as a property owner in Pickwick Park, that “with other, I feel that Lake Wawasee should have this hatchery —that Lake Wawasee should have a fish ha‘?hery second to none in the counb-” . . • ■ j D. E. Hoppingarner wrote in urging the addition: . My views, as well as those of my mother and brothers;are those of my father. B. F. Hoop-; ingarner? a resident of Syracuse for; 35 years, and a close friend, of the late ex-Governor, Tom Marshall, and I his appointee, the former fish and! game commissioner, Piet Miles," Mr. Tuttle saidin his reply to the I local Chamber of Commerce: “I I will use all my influence in keeping I this hatchery at Wawasee.” • I Eli Lilly wrote the . state department: “May our family add their] voices to‘the general howl of pro- ; test?” That: “A rumor has reach-1 ed some of our Wawasee enthusiasts that there is a possibilty of-remov-ing the fish hatchery from Wawa,see.” Robert D. Sinclair wrdte to the state: “Lake Wawasee being the largest lake in Indiana, and growing in popularity, is, in my opinion the i logical place - for a large and up-to-date fish hatchery.” . ' ' —————^-o—- ——-—— 500 BABY CHICKS LOST AS BROODER HOUSE IS BURNED Dr. O. C. Stoelting severely burned ; his right hand, Tuesday morning, at-; tempting to put out the fire in the , brooder, house, in which his 500 3weeks old chicks were .burned. The cause of the fire is unknown, but Milo Miller, driving his school hack to Syracuse, saw the flames Tuesday morning, and hurried to tell the Stoeltings at their home south of town. It was impossible to save the chicks, however. o — C. A. Kriete is reported as being in a critical condition at his home. He has been ill the last few days with pneumonia. , , .

YOU CAN LOSE TEETH OR CASH CHECK TO “GOODBYE FOREVER”

Y’ou can now have your teeth pulled to music, cash a check, mail a letter, to some popular tune, buy a can of soup to the accompaniment of a national broadcasting military band, or eat ice cream while you, are enjoying Amos ’n Andy. These things have been made possible by the installation, this last week, of the new receiving sets, in places of business in Syracuse., by the Syracuse Home Telephone Co. By turning on such a set ,only regulating its loudness or softness ,the bank, grocery stores, the post office are now equipped so any one on the premises hears the radio programs

Do You r Remember—--20 Years Ago | When Charles Kroh, 11, and Master | George Slauter, out of school with ' the mumps, were out walking, Slauter carrying twenty-two rifle, when |it became caught in his clothes in ’ I such away as to become discharged. ■The bullet wounded Kroh, who was I taken to the Chicago hospital. i 15 Years Ago j- Whbn the local churches united in forming a committee to arrange for the building of . the tabernacle in 1 which a big religious meet was u* be ' j held in Syracuse the following au- ' tumn. # » ♦ 10 Years Ago When a hail storm damaged propperty, especially windows, but fortunately no loss of. life. One hail- ■ stone, measured after- the storm was found to have a 51 inch circuntference. I* * * , ] 5 Years Ago ; A motorist, evidently angered be- | cause Will Swank was slow in movhis ifi-ad ofjbay to one side“i the ■road, south of Cromwell, set fire to J the load, . which Swank discovered I only when the hay .was ablaze. | ' - Birds Kept From Starving During Snow Last Week A number of people fed the red birds, robins, blue jays and sparrows to prevent them from starving aftek the heavy snowfall last week. But Ray Foster has the best bird story. j Mr. Foster says that'when he opened the store Wednesday morning, there was a robin waiting there on i the doorstep nearly frozen to death. Instead of flying away in alarm, when Mr. Foster approached, the robin waited until Mr. Foster opened the door, and then he hopped in, after Mr. Foster. He flew to. the ■ upper part of the window, and was ■ quiet for awhile, but as he grew ' Warmer, he began “talking.” j Mr. Foster put some food .and 2* j cup of water up on top o fthe window ledge for him, and the robin (Stayed in the store all day. ' _But by {late afleriwc-n he was so Well fed and {happy, he hopped to the door, and ( .when it was opened for him-,he flew I away. . . • • E...-1 Hi; o’, the Crafts, Mrs. I Im Grieger, Sirs. Fred Hinderer, Mrs. C. M. Gordy, Mrs. Wade Zerbe, Mrs. ! Eston Clayton, are among the nupiI ber who threw out crumbs,, and put j out water, for the birds during the days last week when the snow Was [so - deep and the weather so cold. .1 . ' ■- —o -. . ■ PNEUMONIA FATAL TO JAMES WRIGHT A short prayer service by Rev. Burj kett of North Webster, was held here for James Wright, 75, who died of pneumonia, at the home of his nephew, Grover Wright, Friday morning. The body- was then taken to Oswego, where services were held, and interment made Sunday afternoon. Mr. Wright had come from South 1 Bend to visit with his son Carl, here iin Syracuse, about two. weeks ago. He was ill when he went to. spend a few days with Grover Wright. Pneumonia developed and he died Friday. In addition to Carl Wright, three other sons survive: John and Hal Wright of near Warsaw; Jesse Wright, South Bend; three daughters, Mrs. Melvin Minear, North Manchester; Mrs. Wayne Fritz and Mrs. Lulu Schroll, South Bend; two nieces, Mrs. Opal Keens of Battle Creek, Mich; Mrs. N. Mendenhall, of South Bend, and two nephews, Grover Wright of Syracuse and James Wright of Battle .Creek.

which are picked Dp in Warsaw, brought to Syracuse and taken to these receiving sets over wires similar to those used in connecting up telephones. It may not seem so unusual to buy a peck of potatoes to the accompanimen of some throaty soprano, but, according to A. L. Miller ,of the Syracuse Home Telephone Co., Dr. O. C. Stoelting ordered one of the new receiving sets put in his dental office immediately upon hearing they were now accesible to Syracuse residents. Mr. Miller suggested the doctor may be going to try to sing them to sleep instead of using gas.

TOWN BOARD HEARS CITY PARK PLAN Women’s Clubs Bring - Matter Before Board —No Action Taken Despite the fact that the proposition of a city park for Syracuse was brought before the Town Board at its meeting Tuesday evening, by representatives of Women’s Clubs of Syracuse, and by Roscoe Howard, as spokesman for the Chamber of Commerce, no action was taken either ( for or against the park proposition by the Town Board. Following the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting, Harry Clemens, president of the town board called on the unexpectedly number of visitors at' the meeting, to 'bring theirbusiness before the board.. Roscoe Howard, heading the com; mittee appointed by the Chamber of Conm’.erce Which had been successful in obtaining the options on the waterfront lots from the Herschel Harkless property to Pottowatomie road, brought the matter before the I board, clearly stating facts and fig- ! tires. ! He pointed out to purchase all the I lots would cost $9,000, and that the ! options expire May 20th. At this point, James Searfoss, member of the town board, inserted a few objections to the town spending any money for a park, and then President Clemens gave the women a chance to state their positions. Accompanied hy other members of the clu 's, Mrs. George Xanders, president of the Art Club, and Mrs. Wm. BoWld, Wednesday Afternoon Club president,-did so. The women stated that their clubs had pledged themselves to do anything they could to help obtain a city park for Syracuse. ■ During the talk of the women, it Wis bi >ught out that*at present the rubbish heaps on these lots are ,an eye so;e to visitors to Syracuse. At this point, Mr. Searfoss resorted to personalities, pertaining to properties owned by some of the individu/ais present' at the meeting. This, was Jgnoied when Mrs. Ken-. Meth H irk less made the .suggestion that it would not; be necessary to buy all -I' t.ne lots ,at the $9,000 sale price, but rather, buy 5 0 Ttjiese-- lots- which would bring down the cost to $4500. These lots form the center of the plot On which options have been taken. _ | ; '; ‘ . Haying been warned that pieople against'the 'project -said- the lake Was muck bottom at the proposed park site, the women had done a •little ii ■■. estigi’.ting on their own, and Mrs. Herschel Harkless brought be-fore-t lie meeting the fact that the bottom o fthe lake had been tested from a roiv boat the day. before and it was discovered not to be muck of unlimited depth in front of the four lots'furthest from Pottowatomi road. This v. as scoffed at by a member of the town board tilth, “You can’t tell me.” At ne time during the meeting did the .town board officially vote either for or ..gainst the-project, noy agree to investigate the matter further. When the women asked if it were not possible for/he board to put the city park project before the people to be voted upon .this was admitted as “possible.” During the discussion, the women were told that the town already has an indebtedness of $24,000. Upon investigation later ,the editor of the Journal learned that this was an unintentional mis-statement of facts. The present indebtedness of the town is only about $5,750. . This is for street paving, etc. The rest of the bond indebtedness is against the Sy-“ racuse Water Corp., and not against, the tow n- , Clee Hibschman’s offer for the Lree use of his teams when available, for any work on clearing land for a city park, was applauded, by visitors to the town board. 1 Mrs. Sol Miller asked the board if it not decide in favor of a city park, would it not be,possibly for the board to condemn the rubbish heaps on the lots .in question, as public nuisances,t and order these cleaned up. The board admitted this would be “possible.” Having asked the town board to take some action,bn the park ques- _ tion ,the women excused themselves from the meeting. After their departure, W. G. Connolly, speaking for other business men of the town, said the matter a city park for Syracuse should bea matter of civic pride. That it would be a calamity if Syracuse didl not grasp this last chance for a water front park. He suggested that if the town board were in favor of a park for Syracuse, perhaps th?y (Continued On Last Page)

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