Week of September 27

September 26, 1874 – 150 Years Ago
Rockland County Journal

LANDSLIDE

      The recent heavy rains have caused quite a serious landslide on the river road, near the residence of Gen. Ullmann. The roadbed at this place has heretofore been supported by a wall some fourteen feet high. This wall about a year ago was rebuilt for the second time, and now requires rebuilding again. To make a permanent job it will probably be necessary to build from the water up, a height of thirty feet or more, requiring a heavy wall involving considerable expense.

AROUND HOME

     ☞ Mosquitoes have just found out that Nyack blood is healthy, and they have established a watering place here. Their bills are very large.

     ☞ Can’t some of our enterprising citizens get Tilton and Moulton to lecture here this winter on “What they know about Statements?”

     ☞ Rev. B. B. Leacock, D. D., of the Reformed Episcopal Church of New York, will officiate in the Piermont Reformed church, on Sunday next.

     ☞ The Fair and Festival held by the ladies of the Tappan Reformed Church, on Wednesday afternoon and evening of this week, was well attended.

     ☞ We are glad to learn that our young friend Frank Green has passed a very creditable examination, and that next fall he will be entitled to place M. D. after his name.

     ☞ When the space between Main street and Third Avenue is completed, Broadway will be macadamized for a      ☞ If you wish to settle an undigested supper and at the same time realize what it is to go like greased lightning, just come up from the city on the midnight train when it leaves behind time on Saturday night.

September 25, 1924 – 100 YEARS AGO
Pearl River News

BETTING ELECTION WON’T GO TO CONGRESS

     Wagers were offered in Wall Street yesterday of 3 to 1 that the election of the next President of the United States will not go to Congress for a decision. The firm stated that it has a substantial sum of money to lay that way. Meanwhile President Coolidge continues a 3 to 1 favorite to succeed himself.

SOCIETY WILL UNVEIL TABLET - Rockland County Society to Mark Site of Historic Suffern Tavern

     Elaborate plans are being made for the unveiling of a tablet by the Rockland County Society on Saturday afternoon, October 4, to mark the site of Suffern’s Tavern which was used as Revolutionary headquarters and visited on frequent occasions by Gen. Washington. The spot is in the village of Suffern on property now owned by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

     The unveiling will take place at at 4:30 p.m., with the president, Walter G. Hamilton presiding and ex-Senator George A. Blauvelt as one of the speakers. Later the members and their guests will have dinner at the Houvenkopf Club in Suffern and Galm’s Orchestra will furnish the music. Any who do not attend the dinner, but who care to attend the dance, which will begin at eight o’clock, may do so by paying $1.

     Mrs. Lulu Edsall Serven, chairman of the entertainment committee is sparing no pains to make the affair the most successful in the history of the society.

ROCKLAND KLAN WINS FLAG AT FREEPORT

 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and their wives from Rockland County attended the parade and all-night festivities of the Freeport, L. I., Klan last Saturday.

The Rockland County delegation surpassed all expectations for numbers and carried home a beautiful American flag for having the largest attendance. It is also stated that a Klansman from Rockland County spoke at the meeting.

SPINE BROKEN, YOUTH WOULD SEE BALL GAME

Harvey Conklin of Spring Valley was disappointed Sunday when doctors forbade him being wheeled to the baseball game across the road from the Nyack Hospital, where the youth has been since August 7 last.

     Conklin’s recovery is the wonder of physicians. He was bathing with several companions in the river at Grassy Point beach when one lifted him up and tossed him over his shoulder into four feet of water. The fifth vertebra of Conklin’s spine was broken and he was for many weeks paralyzed. Now he is able to walk about

September 25, 1974 – 50 YEARS AGO
The Journal News

TRAINS MAY ROLL AGAIN

Tri-state transportation officials are studying the feasibility of resuming commuter rail service to Bergen and possibly Rockland and Orange counties along the West Shore line of the Penn-Central Railroad.

     Resumption of service from West Haverstraw to Weehawken, N.J., would provide cum-muter rail service through Haverstraw, Congers, Valley Cottage, West Nyack, Blauvelt, Orangeburg and Tappan after a 15-year hiatus.

     Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokesman John Deraval said yesterday that engineers had been in contact with a Bergen County consultant and with Rockland County officials.

     He said both indicated that if the results of the study prove favorable in Bergen County, the study might be extended to Rockland and Orange Counties. MTA chairman David Yunich said the Rockland study will have to wait until the New Jersey study is completed because service to Rockland or Orange counties must pass through New Jersey to reach New York City.

      “If the study recommendations are affirmative,” he said, “we are prepared to expand its scope, possibly under the auspices of the Tri-State Regional Transportation Commission, to a second phase examining the possibility of rail passenger service as far north as West Haverstraw or Newburgh.”

     The MTA head added, “Beyond this interim solution, we think the best way to implement a mass transit service in the future, especially for the neglected east Rockland commuter, would be to rehabilitate the right-of-way to allow the installation of a modern, suburban transit service that would operate directly to Manhattan through a new trans-Hudson rail tunnel.

     “However, there is no way to immediately finance a project of this magnitude, as the minimum cost of such a tunnel and related work would be over $800 million, excluding any work on the West Shore itself.”

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