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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1912
Page
9
Belford traveled to Highlands on Sunday and were routed 16 to 4. Davis pitched for Belford while McGarvey worked the mound for Highlands, as Highlands led 10 0 2 0 across the innings.
James Leddy of Keansburg, keen on early market chickens, enlarges his concrete chicken house by 60 feet using hollow tile blocks stuccoed with concrete. Leddy reports strong success with this spring's incubator hatches. At the General Conference in Minneapolis, New Jersey delegates from Monmouth County receive notable honors. Harry P. Bennett of Long Branch is named to a Sundays schools committee and Rev Dr John Handley of Ocean Grove, a former local pastor, serves an eight year term on the Methodist Book committee.
Harry C. Siebel, head of the postal savings deposit at the Long Branch post office, reports four thousand five hundred dollars in hand. The new savings institution is popular with many people.
The revenue cutter Unalga sails July 1 on its maiden voyage from Baltimore to Juneau via Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, the Suez Canal, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Yokohama, and Unalaska. The long trip favors the Suez route for coal savings, with 1845 hours sailing and 1880% tons of coal costing about $9,322 plus canal and port dues. The ship, launched January 27, features a 190 foot hull, dual water tube boilers, a triple expansion engine, a schooner rig, and a crew of seven officers and seventy men commanded by Captain Richard O. Crisp. its mission includes patrolling seal rookeries, preventing poaching and smuggling, aiding vessels, and rescuing wrecks.
A column excerpt blends tales of maritime dining etiquette and a bite of humor from the London Opinion and Kansas City Star. It recounts a captain’s seating dilemma over two Austrian titled ladies, a primer on the funny bone and humerus, plus a Norfolk dinner anecdote about ancestral ties and neighborly wine.
A letter from 1912 urges Long Branch to maintain advertising in New York papers to keep the seaside resort in public view. F Buckhout argues the publicity bureau funds news space, cautions against cutting advertising, and suggests sustained campaigns with feature stories and a resident correspondent.
Adolph Bartell, a Bronx resident and former coworker of Philip Schmidt, recounts a near Titanic voyage on a North German Lloyd liner. Five days after the disaster, his steamer reached the scene and picked up bodies as families watched in sorrow. The tale echoes amid other local notes on golf, and a 45th wedding anniversary celebrated by Judge and Mrs. Charles Corn.
An ordinance fixes annual salaries for city directors including Public Affairs 2500 dollars, Finance 2000 dollars, Public Safety 2000 dollars, Streets and Pape programs 2000 dollars, and Parks Public Property 2000 dollars, payable monthly. The measure becomes effective ten days after final passage, passed May 29.
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