Oil Lamp Explodes

New York, 1895

The News of Queens

Martin Ralph and family moved to Jamaica on Tuesday.

Money is being collected for building a chapel at Creedmoor.

Rifle shooting on the state range at Creedmoor opened for the season yesterday.

The pupils of the public school will celebrate Arbor Day this evening by an entertainment at the Lyceum.

The anniversary of the woman's society of the Reformed church was held Sunday evening. Miss Kitty Scudder, who has been doing missionary work in India, delivered the address.

The Queens vocal society, under the direction of Professor c. Mortimer Wiske, gave Hayden's "Creation" at the Lyceum on Monday evening to a large and appreciative audience. There was a chorus of fifty voices. In addition to the "Creation," there were a number of solos and the bridal chorus from Cowen's "Rose Maiden."

On Saturday evening, just after the choir of the Reformed church, who had been practicing, had left the building one of the oil lamps in the chandelier near the choir loft exploded, the oil falling on the face of George Freeman, the sexton's son, burning his face severely. The carpet took fire but was quickly extinguished and slight damage was done.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 3, 1895, p. 8.