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r» r,-*‘--6 S'-?, “The Palisades Are the Balcony of the World* ■^S;William A. Mackay, Coytesville ___ ‘ PALI SAD IAN “Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermoni in stones, and good in everything." -As You Like It Li.'&Z* v.jr KT i'<4 PALISADE, N. J., MAY 7, 1926 VOL. XIX. NO. 21 PRICE 4 CENTS CAPTAIN AND THREE SERGEANTS APPOINTED IN FT. LEE POLICE DEPT. DALTON ONE OF SERGEANTS NAMED Andrew McDermott Made Captain; Schlupp, Burns and Dalton Are New Sergeants; Appointment of McDer mott, Schlupp and Burns Opposed by Councilmen Cook, Hoebel and Wood; Mayor Tells of Need of Uniformed Head; Dalton Appointment a Surprise. Sergeant Andrew McDermott of the' Fort Lee Police Department was pro moted to captain last night bjr the Mayor and Council and Patrolmen Ernest Schlupp, John Burns and Thomas Dalton were appointed as ser geants. Special Officer William Lee was made a regular patrolman and Joseph Kelly, Kenneth Lyons and C. Bouce were named as special officers. A lengthy discussion preceded the appointments and Councilmen Louis Hoebel, Charles Wood and Harry Cook objected strenuously to the procedure of the Mayor, claiming they were not consulted or considered in connection with the appointments. This the Mayor denied, saying they knew of his intentions. Despite the Mayor’s de nial, the three councilmen mentioned insisted all the appointments were pre-arranged and railroaded through. Prior to making the appointments Mayor White told of the immediate need of a uniformed head to the police department. When the vote was taken on the ap pointment of McDermott Councilmen Hoebel and Wood voted “no,” and Councilman Cook passed, whereupon the Mayor declared Cook’s vote as a vote with the majority. Councilman Cook said the Mayor has no right to , declare his pass vote as “yes,” and that the appointments are illegal. When the vote was taken on the ap pointment of sergeants the same three councilmen registered their objections to both Schlupp and Burns by either passing or voting “no.” The appoint ment of Dalton as sergeant, William Lee as patrolman, Kelly, Lyons, and Bouce as special men were passed upon unanimously. The police ordinance which created x a regular police department in Fort ■a.... - Lee was enacted about three years ago • and provided for the positions to which appointments were made last night. The questions of a police head has been an issue in Fort Lee politics for many years. The appointment last night of Thomas Dalton as ser geant reinstates him to the position and pay he held prior to his resigna tion several years ago. A. Celia Hit by Auto, Dies From Injuries in Englewood Hospital Antony Celia, residing on Central road, Port Lee, and known to his asso ciates as "Pee Wee” Celia, died in the Englewood Hospital Saturday night as the result of injuries received when he was hit by an automobile some time Friday night of last week. Celia, who was 65 years old, was found lying in the road at the junc tion of Cross street and Hoyt avenue, Port Lee, by Ralph Castella, who took him in his car to the Port Lee police station. He was attended by Dr. Crandall, who ordered him removed to the hospital. He was suffering from lacerations on the head, and a possible fracture of the skull, a broken arm and dislocated collar bone. It is the supposition that Celia was struck by a passing motorist as he was walking in the road. He was dazed when picked up and unable to tell how he had been hurt. County Physician Ogden performed an autopsy on the body, after which it was removed to the funeral estab lishment of Thomas McNally, in Fort Lee. U. C. T. The U. C. T. of Grantwood will meet i this Saturday evening at the Cliffside Italian Mission at Jersey avenue and the carline. SEVERAL GASES TRIED AT FIRST SESSION OF NEW CRIMINAL COURT One Cliffside Park Case Results in Decision for Policeman Seitz—Few Arrests Made for Traffic Violations. With a new black robe draped about his shoulders symbolical of the judi cial ermine, Judge Charles J. Mc Carthy ascended the bench promptly at 10:15 Monday morning in the new ly created Second District, Bergen County Criminal Court, which was held in the district court room at Hackensack. The room was filled with floral bas kets sent by admiring friends of the new judge and new assistant prosecu tor, Samuel Denson, Judge J. Wallace Leydon, Prosecutor Hart, Assistant Prosecutors John J. Breslin and Jo seph Preston being present as well. Immediately after court had been con vened, County Clerk Jack L. Fox ad ministered the oath of office to Messrs. Denson and Preston, who were con gratulated by numerous well wishers. The organizing of the new court certainly proved one thing: that the predictions made by the various town officials who met Prosecutor Hart last week when the law creating the new courts was explained to them were probably for the time being cor rect. They were to the effect that the municipalities would make but very few arrests for traffic violations in future if their officers had to go to Havkensack or elsewhere to appear against the violators. But three traffic cases were called, two of which were disposed of and the other postponed. Usually on a Sunday such as last was and traffic heavy, towns like Ridgefield Park, Bogota and Ridge wood would make a dozen or more ar rests. As far as the former town was concerned, it had a clean slate on Sun day; Bogota offered one case to the court, one which had resulted in an accident. nuwever, me court. uemuiisu aieu its value when the first case, one of assault and battery, was promptly dis posed of, instead of the defendant be ing held for the grand jury if arraign ed before a justice of the peace, and from there hanging fire between the Prosecutor’s office and courts for weeks or months, perhaps. It was the case of Patrolman John Seitz of Cliffside Park, who charged Mary Selzo and her sixteen-year-old son, Angelo, of 106 Summit avenue, Cliffside, with assault and battery, the pair filing a similar charge against the officer. The case, which grew out of a backyard dispute over a baseball, was decided in favor of the police man, Mrs. Selzo being fined f20 with out costs. She was defended by Attor ney Otto Venino of Union City. Englewood Institution to Observe Hospital Day May 12 is celebrated annually as Hospital Day in memory ol the birth day of Florence Nightingale. The ob servance of this day has been very generally endorsed. It is hoped that many visitors will help to make Hospital Day successful at the Englewood Hospital. Visiting hours 2 to 6. So This Is May! This Is the month of May. More specifically, this Is the first of! May—May Day. May Day, In itself, never reached the height of its glory until the Reds began using it as a holiday for bomb throwing tournaments. And President Wilson began whip ping Congress into line with his “May I nots.” It has enjoyed general success for years. But be that as it May, This is the month of May. t So named because there are more things you may do this month than in any other. You May Walk. May have to while the old car is be ing relieved of a bronchial condition, chronic over the winter. May have to spend the first beauti ful Saturday massaging the lawn. May find your lawn, mower. Or may And you kept the neighbor’s all win ter. May have to eat your picnic dinner in the car if you do get away for a ramble. May get a raise. May not. May get fourteen months to pay for what the missus buys “to fix up the living room so it’s at least livable.’’ May not. May find last year’s summer suit in good condition. May find it the Florida of the moth realm. May be a prospective bride. May be just the groom. May get a kick out of seeing ’em getting ready. May sympathize with one or the other—or both. May find yourself sour on the world. May not. Better not. For May is the month of flowers, of sunshine. Nature is at her best. So put on a bold front, if you can’t put on a new one. This is May.—Columbus (Ga.) En quirer-Sun. 0^2^Mpjzzeizr ' *siT " '““ GOVERNOR SMITH SIGNS BILL rroviaing xor iview Yorks financial support ot this beautiful bridge that within the course of a 1 tew years will span the Hudson Kiver trom 178th Street to Fort Lee. LARGE DIAMOND RING GIVEN DR. HELLSTERN -- Past Exalted Ruler Presented With Beautiful Stone at Smok er Given in His Honor. Dr. E. C. Hellstern of Hudson Heights, past exalted ruler of the Cliffside lodge of Elks, was paid a high tribute by his brother Elks at a smoker given in his honor on Thurs day night of last week. The popular doctor was presented with a costly diamond ring containing a three and one-half karat sparkler of the blue-white variety and which shows off to great advantage on the doctor’s hand. A number of other gifts were presented to him by his family and friends, Including a gold belt buckle, diamond cuff links and flowers. Present Exalted Ruler Joseph Pres ton received a truly beautiful gold mounted Ivory gavel and District Deputy Exalted Ruler Boland was given a sterling silver cigar lighter, and Otto Mampe received the same kind of token from the entertainment committee. A number of speeches were made, including a stirring address by Mr. Boland, and many fine things were said about Dr. Hellstern, Mr. Preston and the lodge in general. Dr, Hellstern was one of the found ers of the local lodge and always a moving spirit in all of its activities, giving freely of his time and money to make possible the standing in Elk circles the local unit enjoys today. He did a good job, worthy of praise, and his co-workers wanted him to know it, so they planned last week’s affair and bought the ring. Palisade Woman Suing Husband for Alimony Mrs. Madeline McCartney McGuire of Port Lee has entered suit against her husband, John McCartney of Pal isade, in Chancery Court before Vice Chancellor Griffin. The couple were married May 18 and remarried June 30, 1924, and a Anal decree was en tered pending developments of the order to pay the petitioner $21 a week. This amount was paid until September 1, 1925, the petitioner claims. She says that her husband is general manager of the Harrison Bolt Company and earns $10,000 a year. Two children were born to the cou ple. The order to show cause why the husband should not pay his wife $10 a week is returnable May 10. Listening In On Ihe Political Wire The publicity mills of both Republi can aspirants for Congress, B. Duncan McClave and Randolph Perkins, are grinding out copy which arrives as regular as the morning’s milk and tells none too briefly of the fitness of each for the office sought. No new issue has been introduced since the wet and dry planks were put in place. The ancient and honorable art of ora tory is being made use of to impress various units of Republicans through out the Sixth District. Two or three speeches an evening are not uncom mon to Mr. McClave. and Mr. Perkins flies to Bergen from Washington rather than miss one. Mr. McClave has said that if elected he will keep in almost personal touch with his con stituents by holding public meetings in each of the counties in the Sixth District at least twice a month to find out just what the public wants. The thought is a good one, that much must be admitted. Mrs. P. Francisco has high hopes of election as the only woman candidate for the Bergen Assembly so far, and Adam J. Ruby of Cliffside Park has thrown his hat in the ring as an As sembly candidate pledged against the “demon rum,” the permanent regis tration bill, and is an outspoken de fender of the direct primary. Englewood Cliffs politics are less complex than any other borough, be ing the smallest in point of population along the hilltop and no primary clash is anticipated there. Fort Lee Democrats, not to be out done in activity by the Republican hosts, have determined the following candidates shall fight under the ban ner. of Democracy this year: for coun cilmen, Harry Cook (seeking re-elec tion), Francis Troy; for assessor, Edw. Cavanaugh (present assessor); for collector, Thomas Brosham. Troy was one of Mayor White’s right hand men in last year’s mayoralty fight, and just how he will pair up with Councilman Cook on the same ticket is problematical, as Cook is a foe of the present Council majority which includes the Mayor. The Republican candidates will be: for Councilmen, Arthur Yerwein (seeking re-election) and Peter Grieb; for collector, Charles Bender and George Schlosser are men tioned (Bender is the present collec tor). Coming down the line, one finds Cliffside only mildly interested so far In who will be the two new Council men. Michaelsen is sure to seek re election and is not losing any sleep over the possibility of being defeated, while Councilman Weis has as yet made no formal announcement. Both Weis and Michaelsen are Democrats, and incidentaly the only Democratic members of the Council. The Repub lican club is thinking very seriously, according to reports, of supporting a woman candidate which, to say the least, would be a novelty in local poli tics, assuming, of course, that school board elections are not political. Edgewater for many years has seen elections come and go without any change in official personnel, save where the change is acceptable to the powers that be. The feeling created by the recent purchase of land by the borough for $91,000 which was owned in part by borough officials has created a reactionary element that will at least show their teeth in the next election, and the possibility of elect ing an anti-administration Councilman is not as dim as in other years. Rossmerkel Has New Geranium, '‘Radio Red” Hans Rossmerkel, the florist at De soto place and Hamilton avenue, in Hudson Heights, has received a ship ment of a beautiful and interesting new geranium called “Radio Red.” The new geranium is of short, j stocky growth, producing abundance | of blooms, and is especially good for window boxes and bedding. It is a big improvement over all the other standard varieties. The spring institute of the Wo men’s Christian Temperance Union of Bergen county will be ‘held in the Baptist church, Rutherford, on Fri day, May 14. There will be two ses sions, at 2 p. m. and 7:45 p. m. Cliffside Board of Health Passes Poultry Ordinance Tj'he Cliffside Park Board of Health held a meeting last Wednesday eve ning and passed the recent supple ment to the borough’s Sanitary Code, known as the Poultry Ordinance, which governs and regulates the kill ing, storing, selling, etc., of poultry. The full text of the ordinance is pub lished elsewhere in this issue. Miss H. Mandell of Edgewater Heights offered to give the borough an Alpine camp for use in the chil dren’s clinic. Children raised with much care sometimes do as well as those whc ; Just happen to grow up. GOVERNOR SMITH SIGNS RRIOGE BILL WHICH RINDS N. V. AND N. I. TO AN IRREVOCABLE AGREEMENT Used Two Pens in Signing Measure on Wednesday Last —Plans for Network of Roadways to Handle Bridge Traffic Will Be Worked Out—Expect to Condemn Land Necessary for Bridge Approaches. The final legislative step which assures the building of the Hudson river bridge has been taken. Governor Alfred E. Smith ot New York signed the finance bill in his office at Albany at a tew minutes before four o’clock on Wednesday COUNTY CONFERENCE OF P.-T, ASSOCIATIONS VERY WELL ATTENDED Fifty-five Units Represented by Three Hundred and Fifty Dele gates—Mrs. Smith Takes Seat as Chairman. Three hundred and fifty delegates, representing fifty-five units, attended the county conference of Parent Teacher Associations at Midland Park, on Tuesday. The annual elec tion was held, with the following tak ing office: Chairman, Mrs. Elmer J. Smith of Hackensack; vice chairman, Carl W. Daines, the former chairman; secretary, Mrs. J. Park of Hacken sack; treasurer, Mrs. E. J. Sisley of Woodcliff Lake. Mayor Joseph Payne welcomed the delegates and addresses were made by County Superintendent of Schools Mr. B. C. Wooster, who contrasted the schools of today with those of twenty years ago, and showed how the character of the present day child is developed; Dr. Giles, of the First Reformed church of East Orange, who spoke eloquently on “The Constitu tion,” and advocated the use of the slogan. “All the children of all the people”; and Dr. Ernest N. Roesell, superintendent of the State Home for Boys, at Janesburg, who was accom panied by one of his boys, Joe Welch, who sang several solos. Dr. Rossell stressed the fact that lack of home training is largely responsible for juvenile delinquency, and that pov erty often lays the foundation for tuc Ul U1VCU liuuic. Reports of work done during the past year were read by the delegates, and among the noteworthy activities mentioned were building a baseball diamond and furnishing playground equipment, providing hot soup for children at noon, starting the thrift campaign in the schools—a popular way of training the child to save— and donating library books. One unit reported that through the thrift cam paign 81,400 had been deposited by the children, and another that by dropping odd pennies into a box on display at the P.-T. A. meetings, enough had been raised to pay for the transportation of the children living in an outlying district. Mrs. George Muni, a member of the executive board, told of Mr. Daines' splendid work sis county chairman, and in behalf of the local organiza tions, presented him with a purse con taining $210 in gold. Mr. Daines was deeply moved by the gift and was able to only say a few words expressing his appreciation of the spirit that had prompted the generous gift. Mrs. Salome Hill Long of Midland Park entertained by singing, first a solo, and then a duet with Mrs. An drew Rubin. Lunch time was so pleasantly spent that mention must be made of it. Each delegate had brought his or her box and coffee and sweets were served by the Midland Park unit, making It seem like a “real picnic.” The benediction was pronounced by the Rev. O. Olsen of Midland Park. Buy New Police Car A new Dodge touring car has been purchased for the Port Lee police force. Harry D. Schall, chief of police, was granted permission to pur chase the new car after convincing the council of Fort Lee that a second Ford would be useless in less than a year. The cost of the new car was $800. Bitten by Dog Aubry Fabryy, the four-year-old daughter of Mrs. F. Fabry, Fort Leo, was bitten on the hand by a stray dog Friday of last week and is under the treatment of Dr. Crandall of Fort Lee. The dog was shot by Policeman Wall of the Fort Lee police and its head sent to the Lederle laboratory. Pearl River, for examination. > -i nat s a good job well done,” he said to his secretary, George B. Graves, when he laid down the second of the two pens he used in signing the Nicoll-Hofstadter bill, as the bridge tinance bill is known. Twenty-two minutes later the news that the bridge bill was actually a law in New York was received over the telephone by Executive Secretary J. W. Binder of the Interstate Hudson River Bridge Association at his desk in Hackensack. The Nicoll-Hofstadter bill in New York is a companion measure to that enacted in New Jersey during the re | cent legislative session. Together, these bills constitute a contract between the states which, In the opinion of some of the most emi nent lawyers in the country, is irre vocable. On this contract will be based the binds to be issued and sold by the Port Authority for the cost of the bridge over the 110,000,000 which, un der the bills, the states agree to pro vide. Therefore, no additional legis lation is needed before actually begin ning the construction of the bridge. The Port Authority has been given, under separate bills from each state, $50,000 to complete the preliminary surveys and draft the final design of the bridge. This work is going for ward now and will be rapidly pushed. Perhaps one of the first steps that will be taken is to secure "the land needed for the approaches and plazas at each of the terminals. To get this land condemnation proceed ings will probably be resorted to. The outstanding facts regarding the bridge are these: ' 'V.~ It will be the longest single span bridge in the world. As planned, the central span be tween the inside pier lines will be 3,526 feet in length. The land ap proaches on each side will be approxi mately 700 feet in length. The most feasible location for the bridge as determined by the Port Au thority, is from a point near 178th street in New York directly across the river to the Palisades. i The New Jersey end will pierce the Palisades seventy feet below the top so as to bring the New Jersey ter minal on a level with that of New York. This, too, will preserve the top line of the Palisades unbroken. The cost of the bridge is estimated at $50,000,000. It will carry eight lines of vehicular traffic, four coming and four going. Provision is made for the suspen sion beneath the roadway of the bridge for four tracks for electrically propelled cars. It is estimated that the bridge can be completed within six years from the time actual construction is begun. By actual construction is meant be ginning the building of the piers. A network of new roads leading from the bridge plaza to different sec tions of the county must be built to care for the enormous vehicular traffic which will constantly flow across the bridge. The original legislation for the bridge was introduced in New Jersey | by Senator Mackay in 1924. It was backed by an organization known as | the Mackay Hudson River Bridge As sociation, which took up the work of preparing and pushing the finance legislation which has Just been suc cessfully concluded. A similar organization was formed in New York early in 1926, but the work in both states was delegated to and performed by the New Jersey or ganization. Liquor Found in Ice Cream Parlor in Ft. Lee | Adolph Forgenfrey, proprietor of an | ice cream parlor at 473 Main street, Fort Lee. was arrested on Tuesday ! last by Patrolman Scheurer on com plaint of County Detective Walter G. Fraser of Hackensack, charged with having alcoholic liquor on his prem ises. Forgenfrey was held under $1,500 bail for a hearing in First Criminal Court at Hackensack. The warrant was issued by Judge McCarthy. Angus D. MacMillan, a contractor, provided bail. The Editor Speaking A Californian, Dr. Ewer, said about a week ago that our birth rate had declined about thirty per cent in the last 30 years. This won’t do at all. When is said and done, America has but one crying need <—babies.