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...years the indigent aged who live in New York City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists of high shoes with elastic inserts like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both...
...newly installed president; Milton I. Goldstein 3L, of St. Louis, vice-president; James A. Moore 3L, of California, Maryland, secretary; W. Walker Lewis, Jr., 3L, of Middletown, Ohio, treasurer; and Jerome C. Hofmayer 3L, director. Two second-year directors are Charles E. Schaaf, of Cambridge and Herman Gross, of Staten Island, New York...
...Nassau County (pop. 303,000) was in darkness. Brooklyn and New York City, catching the fringe of winds which registered 120 m. p. h. in some gusts, were flooded and stalled. Lights went out for an hour, subways halted, when the Hellgate powerhouse was flooded by storm tide. The Staten Island ferryboat Knickerbocker was caught by the wind in her slip, jammed into an iron bumper rail at an angle that drove her 200 passengers near to panic before two tugs managed to work her loose...
...Mitchell '40, Hartford, Connecticut; L. K. Nash '39, New York; W. T. Pace '40, Waterbury, Connecticut; H. McC. Palmer '39, New York; J. C. Perham '40, Waterbury, Connecticut; E. J. Pols, Jr.'40, Arlington, New Jersey; R. A. Porter '40, Penn Yan, New York; L. I. Radway '40, Staten Island, New York; J. A. Rich '38, Hazardville, Connecticut; S. Ritvo '40, Hartford, Connecticut; T. P. Robie '38, New York; L. F. Robinson '39, Brooklyn, New York; M. Rudensey '38, Moutclair, New Jersey...
...Queens a brand new college plunged into its first term, extending free higher education into the fourth of New York's boroughs and clearing the way for a campaign for another college by the patriotic citizens of the fifth, Staten Island...