The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1913, Page 3

SQUATTERS CALL my > AXEMEN'S BLUFF “WGRIVESED BY Thirty Men Invade the City of < rf ‘ @uts to Raze Shacks, but ; * They Don’t. 3 ©\ POLICE SMILE GRIMLY. } Haeway Improvement Com pany Claims Land Held 60 Years by One Man. A . Gyea‘ter sovereignty reime eupreme tony at Gravesend Bay. The squatters fe awaiting the next move of the Marwag Improvement Company, which trie yesterday to dispossess them. Tarty strong, armed with ropes and azem the hirelings of the Harway Com- pany went down to the little neck in the Day where squatters have held greend for several years, They went there with the determination to pull and Smash the little shanties to the ground. ‘They cut into one house and stopped, end they had two policemen with them S24 © permit from the Department of Balléings to help them with ‘work of demolition ‘Wasstopped, But it's @ poor Policee De- Dattment that be wave. Yesterday the Harway Improve- meBt Company had ‘the pol! ith them, en Were assigned to go with the Wirty invaders. They had deen © permit from the Department of to remove eleven shanties on Ln arg tation that the houses a sround of the company. They Giant knock down « house, el equatters made @ show of resist- ‘They Ciéa't know hy a passuegygeasaee elt: He tn on the Harway shut off from the @ bulkhead. Only a few years ‘was all water, and even now the wing tides bring the ocean up to the @quatters’ doors, When the bulkhead ‘was built, five years ago, they were deepening the channel of Gravesend agace uit $ t water out beyond the high tide mark. ‘They and their families came ashore on bridges. The children fished out of the windows. The moan of the sea was thelr music by night, the shallow sea thelr playground in the daytime. HAPPY AS CLAMG6 AT HIGH TIDE, WERE THEY. Bat there was happiness in the little @olony, and the children grew up and went to schvol and the colony increased. Then when the channel of the bay was Geepened and the breakwater built, the Gredgers, instead of carrying out the sands to the sea, shot it in landward end filled in the water underneath the homes of the squatters. This was ao saving to the dredging contractors and the etart of the trouble for the squat- tera, if one can be called a atter whe makes his home on the sea. Old Man O'Connell had a boat moored close to the shore, in which he and his family made their home. In one day the Gredgers buried it in the sand and his livelthood, The water his they turned into ever since been in dispute. Be atill lives in the boat, and only the » epsing tides bring the water back to ) a hit for the time to remind him of a @ay that has passed. Fer years the squatters remained in “77 “possession of the beach ground, and iyi some of them have built nice little homes for themselves and their families Harry Rieman and Fred Metzger have been there seven years; others, four, five and six years. Louis F, Girardot has been @ dweller on the beach for forty yeare and Hank Batley for Tt was on Dec, 18 last that werved on the majority of ¢ vacate, The notices were sign Harwey Improvement Co y, and in imposing array wyer firm, Beardsley, “gttorneys for own outside of the notice The squatters were given until the end ef the month to move. Two days later the house of O!! opped down. ress, For # en remained by their ve Invader did not put in When the McKenasle homes, bu An appearance. ,,| trom Ulmer Park down to the beach, ;| feud of and then started « course of and that of} a |Gravesend Squatter Families, One of Their Homes, And a House Demolished by the Invading Force THE HOUSE OF HARRY RIEMAN douse was destroyed on Wednesday no ‘One was around to lift a hand. AUL HANDS STAND BUT NOTHING HAPPEN: But the men were all on hi yester- @g morning when the invaders ap- Droached, The arrival of the formidable looking array with their ropes and axes caused @ flutter in the town and people went rushing from Harway avenue and ewarming in on the stands through holes cut in the fence. The presence of the. police doubtiess prevented a Gemonstration. The invad mt to the house of a woman who was absent @24 broke open the door. The men squatters crowded about and demanded to know if they intended to destroy the women's furniture. The despollers quit and went to the home of Fred Metzger, who met them at the door with an axe apd told him that he would use it if they raised theirs. They left his house @lone. Along the beach went the In- vaders to the home of J. Burns, wher: the mnd had been piled up in front b: the shifting winds. Burns was at hom and they called upon him to come ou RELIEF IS FELT FROM NEW TONIC IMMEDIATELY Fred Roberts Is One of Many Helped by Tona Vita. WONDER OF THE AGE Banishes Nervous Debility, the Latest Scourge of America. Every day more and more people visit the different drug stores in New York, speaking very enthusiastically of Tons Vita. Among them yesterday was Fred Roberts, a prominent manager who re- sides at the Elks’ Club on 48d Street, New York. He gave the following state- ment: “For years I had been in @ poor state of health and was never able to determine what I was suffering from. I always felt nervou le and tired, and seemed to lack the vitality and ambition that 1 formerly had “Thad tried all sorts of remedies with- out success being bene! " One day I read about thi . tonic, Tona Vita, and at the same time about nervous debility, It did not take me a minute to make up my mind that I was suffering from this debility. So I went t down and got a bottle of Tona tii diate resulta from this reat new tonic, and I felt better than I ad felt for years after taking a few doses. I give all the credit for this change to Fona Vita.” “Mr. Roberts is lucky being one of | n who are willing to grasp at an when it comes their way,” | Vita expert. “There are | 85 per cent. of the grown people of America who are walking around to-dag suffering from nervous debility and con- pstantly sick like Roberts wad before he obtair mal tonic, in. New York are reporting tremendous sales and state that they daily receive many testimonials as to the efficiency of this new tonic. | And he came out and stood in the door defying them to enter. He had a per- mit from the Department of Dooks to occupy the groun, and he said his title to It was as good as that of the city rolled. and better than that of any one else. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1918.' Smith, Who Nursed When His Wife Was Shot, | ‘The friendship of Victor . Bevans jand Mra, Alice Smith, begun nearly ten years ago in tragedy, has reached its cllmax in marti When it became ‘known to-day that Victor BB jone of the wealthiest men In New Jer- acy, nad married Mra, Smith, widow of Piwin BE. Smith, In the church at B lans, N J, their friends recalled the | tragedy On the ni bull coming through the window of the Bevans home, struck Mr, Bevane on ing off, killed his wife Bevans Jumped to the telephone and summoned Mr. and Mra. Smith immediately after the shooting. It was the Smitha who took arrangements for Mre. bi f and Mra, Smith nursed Bevans through his iliness from the bullet wound, The man who was convicted for the shooting, George Jacgers, committed in the Newton, Jail, wi Mr, Smith became ill with an incurable disease, one of the constant watchers at his bedside was Be ni Smith died a se and Mra, Smith found ceremony. After a honey- moon tn Florida Mr, and Mrs, Bevana to thelr aplendid big New Meantime @ delegation had been sent to partment of Bulldings, and the case put up to thoxe in authority, In- spector Wilkinson returned with the delegation and had with him an order revoking the permit to tear or chop down or demolish en houses belong- int to the squatters on the beach, The invaders had retreated. They did not show up again during the day. The squatters do not believe they will be troubled again, but they are ready for the fray. They say they will defend “| thelr homes to the last ditch, Inct- !qentnily, there will have to be some Where the invaders went the crowd! explaining to the Department of Bulld- swarmed after them. There was no|ings a® to the grounds upon which the trouble, there was no slzn of hostility | permit to destroy the homes was issued. | jured inte and there were no houses knocked down. | Interesting developments re expected, Tas SATURDAY For 4 years I made the Rigoletto Cigar in Tampa. 1 made good cigars and the brand was known the U. S. More than a year to Cle, and make it to sell for a much smaller price? By cutting out unnecessary expenses in production. Fhave found from.actual experien: obtain as good skilled labor in Cleveland as in Tampa. I have employed the best at both places. The Rigoletto Cigar it¢elf speaks for the quality of my labor here. A better cigar could not be’ It is sightly and free-hurning, yet it me one-half as much to have a cigar Cleveland as it did in Tampa. material and product. It is the off makers to smoke at their work. “14 employer’s cigars without payz the custom to take cigars ¥ ‘ ce that I can Why I make the Rigoletto Cigar] in Cleveland instead of Tampa} ‘The Rigoletto Cigar has been a well-known brand and the number of cigars eaved all this unnecessary coming to Cleveland. ROMANCE SPRINGS |HUNDRE DS IN PERIL and members of the company he pres @ented Rankin with a benutifully en- Graved gold tocket and tov, One side of the locket dears Ranmas fame and the number of his company, and a fire engine stands out in bas relief house of Engine Company No. %8% In] on the other. The locket bears the dete QUT OF A TRAGEDY | WHEN FERRYBOAT ones street, this mormng, and| of Dec. 14, 1912, the day of Rankt b f the company Ined up| motion to be a Heutenant. Ra (the truck started forward with the speed > | struggling Consumed. in this manner Wi} iB 1c OFTENYEARS AGO, GRASHES NTOPIER ))| Victor E, Bevans Marries Mrs.| Englewood Goes Full Tilt Into 130th Street Dock—Two Passengers Hurt. ‘The ferryboat tweenFor Lee and thirtieth atrect, Mcnhattan, crashed into her elip with terrific force to-day, either carried from her course by the strong outgoing tide or because of a mistake in signals between the engine room an dthe pilot There were pe songere on the Ei the suburbs on and fades, on their way io work in Ne York offices. Most of them were on the forward deck, ready to rush for street and for the Manhattan street sub tation, as #oon as the ferry-boat's tee were swung open At the impact most of the passengers, many of whom were women, from their th bing, Then a new dan vy metal ash truck had been mtanding amidships, beside the hoist, and already had been piled high with co | aaties, The horaes had been unhitohed and the truck stood unblocked, ready for removal. When the Englewood struck the slip of a racing automobile. In the path of the truck, protected only scores of pi exain thel ‘A cry of warning came from thore tn the cabins and a li of terror from the endangered straight for one of the pila pillar, support uy deck, was awept down and the truck fetched up with a bang. Fortunately, the heavy pillar fell way tha only two pt atruck, ¢ forty-neven years 0 Forest avenue, Englewood, alled from tal. 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