Hammond Central School - Spotlight Yearbook (Hammond, NY)

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS three-fourths has to be import- ed. The Adirondack Mountains in New York state cover 5,000 square miles and. the Catskills about 1,000. There are 52 counties in the Empire State, of which the largest is St. Lawrence, with 2,701 square miles, and the smallest New York county, with only 22 square miles. New York state leads all others in tree planting. Nine- ty-seven million young trees have already been planted on land worthless for anything else, and it is planned to re- claim four million acres of idle land within the next twenty years. H. H. S. ADVERTISING SECTION While censoring the school mail the following was inter- cepted : Hammond, N. Y., April 17. Mr. A. Slip Noose, Warden, Sing Sing Prison, New York. Dear Sir: I saw your advertisement for a hangman in yesterday's “Hammond Advertiser. I am twenty-five years old and have graduated from high school. During the Civil war I was em- ployed as hangman for George Washington. I refer you to “The Red Scar, whom I hang- ed about five years ago. I would leave the salary for you to decide. When could I have an appointment with you? What's the verdict? Yours truly, Maurice Edgar Wanted—A room by a gen- tleman with double doors.— Roscoe Pilger. Strayed or stolen—Arthur Lebeau. Notify Jean Stiles. Best prices for thrills—Dor- othy Conger. Wanted—A piano by a young lady with mahogany legs.'—Theresa Maloy. Lost—A short distance ac- ross the bridge in Morristown, Howard Felt. Finder please return to Erva McLear. Re- ward offered. Wanted—Some one to take my place as floor walker.— Howard Allen.

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HAMMOND HIGH HAPPENINGS the chief fuel and Dutch was largely spoken. Ninety years ago the first passenger liner was com- pleted at New York, when in 1838 the Great Western reach- ed New York harbor from Bristol, England, after a six- teen day voyage. New York State is using nearly one-fourth of all the miles of gas mains and more than one-fourth of all the miles of electric transmission lines in the United States. There are in New York city alone 75 agencies and institu- tions given over entirely to the care of the aged poor. The only New York State del- egate to sign the Constitution of the United States on Sept. 17, 1787, was Alexander Ham- ilton, and without him the Con- stitution would not have been ratified by New York. The largest carpet factory, elevator factory and sugar re- finery in the world are all in Yonkers, N. Y., the sixth larg- est city in the state. The earliest game conserva- tion law in New York state was passed in 1732, when the use of nets was forbidden in the Collect, a lake on the low- er Manhattan where the Tombs prison now stands. The first clergyman to settle in New York state was the Rev. Jonas Michaelius, who came from Holland in 1628 and or- ganized the Dutch Reformed Church. Peter Minuit, who bought the island from the In- dians for $24, was the first elder of the little church and services were held in a stone horse-mill. Thirty-four kinds of game are killed in New York state. In 1927 the total weight of the game killed was more than 2,- 000 tons. The largest item was deer, weighing 700 tons, followed by rabbits, weighing 600 tons. At an early geological per- iod the state of New York was part of the Atlantic ocean, in which the Adirondacks ap- peared as an island. In 1853 the Saratoga potato chip was invented at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. It was discov- ered when the chef of Moon’s Lake House cut his potatoes too thin. The Empire State leads all others in the value of its paper mill products, for which about one million cords of wood a year arc required. Of this

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 Staff of H. H. S. Annual, 1911 Back Row, left to right—Dean Moore, Vincent Gallagher, Allen McGregor, William V alrath. Front Row — Laura Banford, Eula Wrilson, Grace Rodger