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The Palisades Are the Balcony of the World”
William A. Mackay, Coytesville
PALI S ADIAN
"Finds tongues In trees, books In running brooks,
Sermon*, in stones, and good m everything."
—As You Like It
PALISADE, N. J., FEBRUARY 19, 1926
PRICE 4 CENTS
VOL. XIX. NO. 10
New Jersey Senate Passes Bridge Bill Which
Appropriates $5,000,000 for Fort Lee
178th Street Span — First Million in 1927
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Bill Fathered by Senator Mackay Goes through Senate
With Only Three Opposing Votes—Action Stimu
lates Bridge Interest Everywhere.
HOPE FOR QUICK ACTION IN NEW YORK
Friends of the Fort Lee-New York bridge movement have
reason to rejoice this week, for Senator William B. Mackay’s
bridge bill, with a few changes made in the original draft, was
passed by the state senate on Tuesday by a vote of 11 to 3.
TVia hill a nnrnnriatps
000,000, to be paid in five year
ly installments ($1,000,000
each year) to the Port Author
ity. The first million will be
available in 1927.
Under the provisions of the meas
ure, New Jersey and New York are
each to contribute $5,000,000, which
will be considered as a loan to the
Port of New York Authority, which
will construct the bridge. The states
are to be reimbursed by tolls, which
will be collected as soon as the typdge
is placed in operation. The rest of
the money needed for the erection of
the bridge is to be raised by the issue
of bonds by the Port Authority.
Amendments included in the bill, as
passed, provided for the collection of
these tolls and stipulated that New
York State’s $5,000,000 appropriation
must be made available at the same
■time as that of New Jersey.
The original bill provided that no
other bridge should be constructed
between the proposed span and Forty
second street until the Fort Lee bridge
had been paid for until a survey
showed another bridge practical and j
in such demand that its construction |
would not interfere with the income |
of the Mackay bridge. This part was,
amended making Sixtieth street in
stead of Forty-second street the limit
An amendment adopted just before
the bill was passed made1 the first
$1,000,000 appropriated by New Jer
sey available in 1927 instead of in
1926. as at first proposed.
Secretary Binder of the Hudson
River Association says:
“Th^bill as it passed the senate is
satisfactory to Senator Mackay and
to the officers of the Interstate Hudson
River Bridge Association.
"While the first million dollar ap
propriation will not be available until
«J927, I am assured by the Port Au
’ thority officials that none of the money
will be needed before then.”
In summing up bridge activities the
New York Times of Wednesday had
this to say:
The Port Authority received permis
sion to construct the proposed bridge
from the legislatures of the two states
last year, as well as authority to con
struct two bridges between Staten Is
land and New Jersey. No estimate of
the cost of the Washington Heights
bridge has yet been made public, but
it is expected to be considerable be
cause the greater height of the New
Jersey shore will necessitate a cut
through the rocks of Palisade, while
private property probably will have
to be acquired for the approach on the
New York side, which will be in the
neighborhood of 178th street.
It is proposed to make the bridge
attractive architecturally, and Cass
Gilbert has been retained by the Port
Authority to work with the engineers
in designing the bridge. Although the
type of bridge has not been definitely
decided, the Port Authority has been
reported to favor a suspension bridge,
which would require a span of approx
imately 3,500 feet and make It the
longest suspension bridge in the world.
New System Keeps Salt
Ice Out of Ice Cream
(Special Dispatch to Free Publicity
Department.)
Palisade, Feb. 18.—The Palisade
Drug Store has something new in the
line of ice cream boxes which makes
it possible to keep the large cans of
cream hard without the use of ice and
salt.
The new container is piped inside
and through the use of chemicals the
proper temperature is maintained.
The main advantage of the system
is that no ice or salt ever gets into
the cream and the temperature does
mot vary.
Then, too, it is less nuisance for
Julius and Irving.
N. Y. C. Cop Rescues Man
From Ice Near Ferry House
Cries for help coming from the
Hudson River at 12&th street at 5 A.
M. on Monday "were heard by patrol
man Miclfael O’Toole, of the West
100th street station, New York city.
With a flash lamp he searched among
the ice cakes next to the pier and lo
cated a man clinging to a piece of
dee ten feet out in the river. _
(Climbing to the floes, O’Toole man
aged to crawl to the man and haul
him to safety across the ice to shore.
He was a New York man and could
not recall how he fell in the river.
Otto Stein is still single.
School Board Rescinds
Resolution Closing High
School on Saturdays
At a meeting of the Cliffside Park
Board of Education recently in the
Cliffside High School, the motion
passed at a previous meeting closing
the high school on Saturdays was re
scinded. The hoard contended that
it had been misinformed when the
matter was originally brought up, and
if it had known that the closing of the
school had anything to do with its
athletics, the motion to close, would
not have been passed.
It was reported that bids for the
construction of the Hudson Heights
school building would be accepted on
Tuesday night.
The board was notified that the
State Board of Education had ap
proved the plans and specifications
prepared by Ernest A. Sibley, archi
tect, for the addition to the high
school building. Although the Cliff
side board was to approve the plans,
the matter was deferred.
The principals of the Cliffside Park
School, George P. Hall, Robert Burns
Mrs. J. Collins, Mrs. J. Cutler and
George Wheeler, principal-elect, were
granted permission to attend the con
vention in Washington on February
22, 23. 24 and 25. In their absence,
Prof. William R. Sperling will be in
charge of the schools.
Supervising Principal George Hall
recommended that in view of the part
time classes and the additional work
required, an increase of $100 in salary
be granted each teacher in the Junior
High School. The matter was re
ferred to the teachers’ committee.
Truant Officer William Kelly was
granted an increase in salary from
$750 to $1,000 per annum, retroactive,
to July 1, 1925.
Miss Niehaus, on behalf of her
father, presented a life size bust of
Lincoln to the school.
Ridgefield Park’s Engineer
Has Fine Achievement Record
David C. Boswell, the municipal
engineer of Ridgefield Park, has a
fine record in professional circles and
many improvements in the neighbor
ing village stand as monuments to
his work. Besides being one of the
leaders in improved streets, Ridge
field Park has one of the state’s finest
sanitary sewerage treatment works,
which was built under Mr. Boswell’s
supervision.
Previous to 1924 he served for
seven years as the resident engineer
in charge of the design and super
vision of construction of New Jersey
state highways and was the resident
engineer on Route 10, which, leads
from the Fort Lee ferry around Pali
sade to Ridgefield.
Seven years prior to his ' appoint
ment by the state, Mr. Boswell served
with several different coun^r and
town engineers in general municipal
improvement work. He has had a
total of 1G years’ experience in muni
cipal engineering.
, He is a member of the Society of
American Military Engineers, the
New Jersey Society of Professional
Engineers and the treasurer of the
Bergen chapter of the New Jersey
Society of Professional Engineers.
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Enter Graefe Home in
Palisade; Take Nothing
Palisade was again visited by
would-be burglars on Thursday night
of last week when some bold gentle
men broke the glass in the rear door
of the Grate home at 1011 Anderson
avenue, but departed without dis
turbing anything except the peace of
mind of Mr. and Mrs. Graefe.
Officers MdXamee and Wall investi
gated, but no trace was found of the
intruders except the broken glass. It
is believed they were frightened
away.
Mr. and Mrs. Graefe were not at
home at the time.
Dead Brook Sewer
Assessment Report
Has Been Amended
Another hearing on the Dead Brook
sewer assessment was held by the
Fort Lee mayor and council before the
regular meeting on last Wednesday
evening.
The amended report of the assess
ment commissioners was read making
provision for certain adjustments
made necessary.
The interested property owners
were out in full force and had their
claims adjusted in a satisfactory man
ner, but the ponfirmation of the gov
erning body was laid over until the
meeting of March 3, when the fully
corrected report will be ready.
A hearing on the Palisade avenue
improvement, which has dragged along
for so many years, will have a hear
ing at the March 3 meeting.
Steal Twenty Chickens
-Mrs. Jane lisa, of 155 Pine street,
Cliffside, reported to the Cliffside
Park police on Saturday that her
chicken coop had been raided some
time during the night and nineteen
fine hens and one rooster were taken
from their roosts. The door of the
chicken coop was broken open. The
police are investigating the robbery,
but so far have no clue to the iden
tity of the thieves.
Senator at Board of
Trade Dinner Tells
Of Fort Lee’s Future
!
One of the outstanding affairs of
last week was the dinner given by
the Fort Lee Board of Trade at the
Villa Richard. Many prominent men
were among the speakers. In his
talk. Senator William B. Mackay
spoke glowingly about Fort Lee’s fu
ture. He predicted that some day all
the smaller municipalities would be
consolidated and that Fort Lee would
be the hub of the activity. He stress
ed the fact that the Fort Lee Board
of Trade would then be confronted
with much harder problems and a
great deal more work. In conclusion
he said that he hoped that the Board
of Trade which is such a powerful
factor for good in the town will help
the bridge movement. Mayor White
complimented the board for having
maintaintd a non-partisan ’attitude in
politics, and expressed the wish that
when the larger problems have come
to Fort Lee, the Board of Trade will
be present to co-operate with the
mayor arjd council. Following short
addresses by Mayor Marmet of Fair
view, Councilman Arthur Kerwein,
Postmaster Hart, Frank De Matteo,
president of the board, Francis Troy,
chairman of the committee in charge
of the dinner, and Joseph Cook, trus
tee of the school board, Mr. James
Moore made a very splendid speech.
Regardless of the storm the affair
was well attended and Toastmaster
Samuel Corker by his ready wit kept
the table merry.
ACTING CHIEF IN FT. LEE SUSPENDS
SERGEANT ON CHARGES OF DISHONESTY
Action a Complete Surprise to Public—No Definition of
What Form of Dishonesty Given—Matter
to Come Before Committee.
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■Sergeant Joseph Rosenstengel of
the Fort Lee police was suspended by
Acting Assistant Chief Andrew Mc
Dermott yesterday afternoon on a
charge of dishonesty.
When pressed for a definition of
the charge, McDermott said that the
matter would be given in full at a
meeting of the police committee per
haps tonight.
“I have letters from people to prove
my charges. I would not make the
charge if I couldn’t prove it,” said
McDermott. >
None of the members of the police
committee or the Mayor were willing
to express an opinion concerning the
suspension until after the matter
comes before the police committee.
Palisade Boy Bitten
On Hand hy Stray Cat
Hestor Zucchino, aged 13, of 1152
Abbot boulevard, Palisade, was at
tacked and bitten by a stray cat
while walking on the street Saturday.
The boy’s right hand was lacerated in
six places before the cat could be
beaten off. Dr. James, of Edgewater,
dressed the wounds and the boy was
taken to his home. .The cat escaped
and it is not known whether or not
it had rabies.
A man by the name of Francisco
Rivera was picked up at Palisade,
Junction early Tuesday morning by
Officer Heft and sent to Hackensack
for ten days’ observation.
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(Editorial)
So much has been said about
George Washington that there
docs not appear to be much
more that could be added to his
laurels or to his memory. Yet
every year there comes some
thing new to be said. Each
recurring birthday there crops
out something the world did
not know before. Like the
sands of the sea, the character
of George Washington multi
plies upon itself. And each
new added incident about, his
career reveals something bound
to make his fame more lasting.
Washington lived a very human,
a very natural life. There was
as little of sham or hypocrisy
in his life as could be noted in
any good, red-blooded man of
honest intent. He loved his
country and fought for it. He
led it into the broadways of its
earlier civilization in a way that
bespoke the born leader. If he
made, mistakes it was only hu
man. But he wrote in the rec
ords the story of a man worth
while, one whose deeds, meas
ured at the market value, made
him an outstanding example
that has no counterjjart in our
own history, or of the whole
world. Washington was a
superman because he fitted into
the picture of civilization at a
moment when the requirements
demanded skill, ability of the
highest order, generalship that
would win, and he possessed
all, conquered through all.
Washington won because he
was possessed of the require
ments to win. And he admin
istered the government with a
meaning that left behind him
few things the worlA has criti
cized. The world cares less
for faults than achievement.
It was so with Lincoln. Lin
coln's memory is enhanced in
the heart of mankind ineffably
with all the attributes of a man
of soul, a man of truth, a man
of justice—and these things
make him beloved, admired,
treasured. To speak of Wash
ington and Lincoln is to raise
the two great beacons of Amer
ican worth and values. Lincoln
came after Washington, not to
fill a want, but to supply a
necessity. We had gone down
the wrong road and Lincoln
pulled us back. It will be long
before these two keystones in
the dual arch of America’s
honor will be duplicated, for
similar opportunities may never
come.
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E. T. Kelly Selected
New National Office
Leader of M.P.T.O.A.
E. Thornton Kelly, managing direc
tor of the Grant-Lee theatre at Pali
sade Junction, recently returned from
an extended business trip to Chicago
and other cities in the Mid-West as
a special envoy of Motion Picture
Theatre Owners of America, a na
tional organization.
Mr. Kelly has been made the head
of the new Contract Bureau of this
association in recognition of his
pioneering to obtain a standard form
of contract for the theatre owners of
this country with the producing com
panies. This branch of the work also
includes personal contact assign
ments to work with the various state
organizations who are affiliated with
the national association. His duties
will necessitate much travel into
various parts of the Union.
This is an honor that the local pub
lic can feel proud of and enjoy with
Mr. Kelly, because the national as
sociation has seen fit to choose a
local man for this important office.
The Grant-Lee theatre will naturally
profit by the experience and new
ideas that Mr. ■ Kelly will get in his
contact with other men in the busi
ness.
EXTRA
Charlie Osmer of Knox avenue,
Grantwood, is slowly recovering from
the article published about him last
week.
Mrs. Hoke of Palisade,
' Called to Rest, Requested
No Funeral Service
Mrs. Eutopia Wright Hoke, beloved
wife of Samuel Hoke of Anderson
avenue, Palisade, passed after follow
ing a lingering illness at 5 o’clock on
Friday afternoon, February 12, at her
late home.
Mrs. Hoke moved to Palisade with
her family in 1910 and has been an
active figure in the civic and social
life of the community. Every organi
zation of which she was a member
and every movement aided by her
felt the strength of her strong per
sonality, and benefited by her associ
ation with it.
She had not been in the best of
health for the past four and a half
years but was not taken seriously ill
until about a year and a half ago.
From this illness she never recov
ered.
^rs. Hoke was a member of the
Palisade Woman’s Club, the Bergen
County Civic Forum, the Aloha Club
and the Dixie Club in New York city.
Her passing is mourned by a legion of
friends as well as her family. She
is survived by her husband, Samuel,
a daughter, Calm, and a sister, Miss
Bette Wright.
In accordance with the departed’s
very earnest wish the home was not
darkened, no crepe was hung on the
door and no funeral service was held.
Her desire to he cremated was also
carried out by the family and the ash
es will be interred in the early
spring.
Steve Paus Fails in
Attempt to Kill Self
By Strangulation
Steve Paus of 265 Cliff street, Cliff
side is being held in the county jail
at Hackensack for observation, fol
lowing his attempt to commit suicide
by strangulation last week.
Paus sent his wife and baby to bed,
saying he wanted to sit up a while
before he retired.
At one o’clock in the morning his
wife, who was in an adjoining room,
heard a thud in the kitchen. Leaving
her bed, she entered the room and
found her husband strangling to
death with a clothes line around his
neck.
Paus had attached one end of the
rope to the knob on the kitchen door
and fastening the other end around
his neck.
After completing these preliminary
arrangements, Paus threw himself
forward, tightening the rope around
his neck.
Mrs. Paus seized a carving knife
end severed the taut rope. Paus
slumped to the floor, unconscious.
■Mrs. Paus summoned the Cliffside
police, and Dr. Dilger.
Upon the latter’s arrival, Dr. Dilger
sent for an ambulance and Paus was
removed to Holy Name Hospital,
Teaneck.
Recovering from the effects of
strangulation, Paus was removed to
the county jail in Hackensack.
Bergen Must Use Soft
Coal at Least a Month
According to the Bergen Evening
Record of Hackensack, Bergen coun
ty coal dealers do not look for
extensive anthracite shipments be
fore a month at least, despite the
agreement of the coal strikers to re
turn to work.
Neither do they expect a drop in
the price of such substitutes as soft
coal and coke.
j The public, in many Instances, is
I planning to continue the use of
coke and soft coal, particularly in
cases where users have become ac
customed to the use of anthracite
substitutes.
A civil service examination with a
view to the appointment of a post
master at Hudson Heights, N. J., to
succeed Charles H. Matthews will be
conducted shortly, the date to be an
nounced at the postofflce hereafter.
The job pays $2,200 per year.
COUNCILMEN COOK AND WOOD SAY
APPOINTMENT OF ACTING CHIEF
IS ILLEGAL BUT IT IS CONFIRMED
The Two Coytesville Councilmen Claim Police Committee
Had No Power to Make Appointment—Councilman
Schall, Police Chief, Tells Reason for Action and Says
Cook, Himself, Violated Ordinance Resolution Con
firming Action Passed by 3 to 2 Vote.
The action of the police committee of the Fort Lee council
in making Sergeant McDermott of the police force Acting Chief
was declared illegal by Councilmen Wood and Cook of Coytes
ville at Wednesday night’s meeting. The two Councilmen de
manded that the Acting Chief be put back as sergeant and the
matter of appointing a Captain be taken up in the manner pre
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INCOME TAX RELIEF
Uncle Sam has announced he will
no longer pry into the incomes of
the “little fellows.”
Anticipating passage by Congress
of the new revenue law, which elim
inates all taxes on Incomes below
SI,500 for single and $3,500 for mar
ried persons, the treasury issued
regulations that employers hence
forth need not report salaries be
low those figures.
The order will cut 4,000.000 peo
ple from the surveillance of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau, it Is esti
mated, and leave only 8,000,000 on
whom the treasury has a salary
check.
State *and County News
in Brief
—Edwin L. Young, of Maywood, was
convicted of burglary and larceny in
the Quarter Sessions Court at Hacken
sack on Tuesday before Judge Wil
liam M. Seufert and a jury, the latter
being out only thirty minutes. The
defendant, who a week before had
been convicted of another similar
charge, was accused in the recent trial
of having broken into and stolen furs
valued at $15,000 from a Hackensack
store, and is also to be tried on other
charges in connection with Bergen
county burglaries last fall.
—Two resolutions, which would re
strict and regulate the high*power
broadcasting station of WJZ, operated
at Bound Brook, was passed by the
I Senate on Tuesday. One of them is
j a joint resolution which would allow
the Attorney General to appear before
the United States Secretary of Com
i merce to oppose the granting of a li
cense for the operation of a radio sta
tion, “which is regarded as a nuisance
to users of radio receiving sets.” The
other is a Senate concurrent resolu
tion which provides for a petition by
! Congress to empower the Secretary of
Commerce to control radio broadcast
ing stations.
| —A resolution introduced by Senator
Harrison, Republican, of Essex, and
of which county he was formerly pros
ecutor, seeks to have the Legislature
petition Congress to modify the na
tional prohibition law “according to
| the true interest and meaning of the
Eighteenth Amendment” and to per
mit “state option in defining ‘intoxi
cating’ liquor.” The resolution recites
that prohibition has “utterly failed in
New Jersey, and that far-reaching and
ever-increasing evils have followed.”
—Having met with considerable oppo
sition, Senator Mackay has decided to
temporarily lay over his bill which
would create two new minor criminal
courts in Bergen county, with two
more judges and the same number of
assistant prosecutors. In commenting
on the bill. Senator Mackay declared
that it was advocated by Judge Seu
fert and Prosecutor Hart as a relief to
many small municipalities in the coun
ty which now have only justices of
the peace, and added that the measure
would also tend to relieve the conges
tion in the criminal courts of the
county.
—The Pennsylvania House of Repre
sentatives passed on Tuesday the bill
previously passed by the Senate pro
viding for the collection of tolls on the
Philadelphia-Camden bridge over the
Delaware River. The vote wTas 20S to
. 1. Governor Pinchot is expected to
approve the bill without delay, as it
carries out his recommendations to
the Legislature at the opening of the
extra session. Under the bill as
passed, all users of the bridge except
pedestrians will be charged tolls until
the cost of the structure to the vari
ous parties—the states of New Jersey
and Pennsylvania and the city of Phil
adelphia—has been met. It is esti
mated that between seventeen and
twenty years will be required to pay
off the cost, after which the bridge
is to be free.
—A bill sponsored by Assemblyman
Delaney, of Hudson, would consolidate
all the municipalities in that county
Into one big city.
—In an address delivered at Engle
wood this week, former Republican
County Chairman B. Duncan McClave.
now candidate for the Congressional
nomination, declared that the person
nel of the Bergen County Park Com
mission will be announced by Justice
Charles W. Parker within a few
weeks.
The matter was first brought up by
Councilman Cook, who late in Wed
nesday night’s meeting asked Mayor
White where the police committee got
the power to raise the sergeant to the
position of acting chief and called the
mayor’s attention to the police ordi
nance, which,, he claimed, gave the
committee no power to make such an
appointment.
Councilman Sehall, chairman of the
committee, suggested the question of
the legality of the appointment be left
to the borough attorney to decide and
report at the next meeting. Cook in
sisted that the matter be dealt with
then and there, whereupon Mr. Sehall
explained that the appointment had
been made temporarily for the bet
terment of the department and for the
good of the borough at large prior to
making a permanent appointment of
a captain in accordance with the pro
visions of the ordinance.
The mayor asked Councilman Sehall
a few questions to determine the pur
pose of the action and was apparently
satisfied that there was nothing ir
regular about the action. Councilman
Cook stated that the matter should
have been taken up by the Mayor and
Council, and Councilman Wood agreed
with him.
The mayor suggested that the coun
cil affirm the action of the committee
to settle the matter, and Attorney
Mackay said that was the proper thing
to do. Mr. Mackay defended the com
mittee’s right to act as they did be
tween meetings and submit their ac
tion for confirmation at the first regu
lar meeting following.
When Mayor White told Council
man Cook that he saw no objection to
what had been done the latter said it
was wrong because Acting Chief Mc
Dermott was enjoying powers that he
had no right to have. He added, “If
the committee is bigger than the ordi
nance it’s time we stop wasting money
on passing ordinances.”
Councilman Sehall said that Mr.
Cook’s remarks about violating the
ordinance were really amusing in as
much as there was an action pending
in court at the present time which re
sulted from a violation of the same
ordinance and that Mr. Cook had had
a part in the violation. Mr. Cook re
torted that the police committee of
several administrations back were the
first to break the ordinance which was
the basis of his action to w^ich Mr.
Sehall referred.
[This had reference to the breaking
of Thomas Dalton from sergeant to
patrolman. He resigned and later
under a new administration was put
back on the force with the same pay
as ho was receiving previous to hi's
resignation. Councilman Sehall de
clared his reappointment except as a
new man was illegal, and a taxpav
er’s suit was instituted by him, which
is still pending.]
A resolution was introduced con
firming the action of the committee
and authorizing the attorney to pre
pare an ordinance appointing Andrew
McDermott as captain. The second
part of the resolution was not in or
der, so it was sent back for revision.
In the meantime Councilmen Cook
and Wood made a motion that the po
lice ordinance be read aloud. The
motion passed, and the clerk read it.
Following the reading of the ordi
nance the resolution confirming the
action of the police committee was
read and passed by a vote of 3 to 2,
Councilmen Kerwein, Sehall and El
kan voting yes. Councilmen Wood and
Cook voting no.
Attach More Kobbenes
To Culprit Caught Here
Joseph Arnold, held by county offi
cials in connection with the robbery
of the home of Samuel E. Darby at
1044 Abbott boulevard. Palisade, has
been linked through finger prints to
several other Bergen county robberies
of recent date.
Edward Schwartz, finger print ex
pert, obtained finger prints in robber
ies in Rochelle Park, Grantwood and
Fairview which are alleged to be Ar
nold’s.
A friend of Arnold's, Samuel Luci
ano, was arrested in Belleville by
County Detectives Valuzzi and Fra
ser.
Arline Opitz Bitten
By McCarthney’s Dog
Mrs. R. Burton-Opitz of Abbott
boulevard, Palisade, reported to the
Fort Lee police on Wednesday last
that her daughter, Arline, had been
bitten on the leg by McCarthney’s
dog. The McCarthneys, who also live*
on Abbott boulevard, were ordered by
the police to keep the dog tied up for;
fifteen days.