The News of Queens

New York, 1895

The Field Club have organized for the coming season with W. A. Kissam as captain, and F. E. Wiske manager.

An appeal was made on Sunday in the Reformed church for aid for the sufferers in South Dakota. The collection amounted to $77.

The Misses Gates have moved their academy from the Bergen house on the Hempstead road to Henry Mosback's house adjoining his hotel.

A foot race for a quarter of a mile, for a purse of $25, between John Collison and Alphonse Finn took place on the Jericho turnpike Saturday evening, and was won by Finn.

Tuesday was St. Joseph's day, and in honor of the day A. Schiedel & Co., of the Hempstead road, hired Mosback's ball room and furnished music and supper free to all who wished to partake. Queens has not had such a lively time in many a day, the crowd at times being so large that the dancers were unable to get into the ballroom.

Saturday night thieves effected an entrance to the residence of Alexander Hendrickson, on the Springfield road, by cutting out a pane of glass in one of the kitchen windows and removing the fastening. They ransacked the rooms in the lower part of the house, helped themselves to pie and cake from the pantry, and stole $6.

For some time C. W. Ward, Georgiana Doughty and others have been losing locust trees from their woodland at Rocky Hill. Tuesday men hired to watch the woods caught a man cutting down trees on Mrs. Doughty's premises. He said he had been hired to fell the trees by Silas Holland, a farmer at Rocky Hill. On Wednesday Holland was arrested on a warrant issued by Justice Kissam, on complaint of Mr. Ward, and taken to Bayside, the offense being committed in the town of Flushing.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 22, 1895, p. 8.