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atlantJS^COAST NfWS

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-NO. 7

sea ssle crry, n. j„>ridav. pebru4 rv *• 1915

INVESTIGATE STATE'S ANCIAL AFFAIRS

FIN-

CRY IN SESSION

Folks You S Slesnings I Character. I Events.

1* BRIEF

Held Regular Meeting at Court Honse on Tuesday; Collector's Report In County Papers LOCAL BRIDGE DISCUSS'D

ft a fear day* in Pbil-

.' McArdle’epent J here.

a Wednesday. i to Philadel-

g t<p to htr repu

F early.

f of Ocean City, sran Wedneeaky. f left ou Toeeday

The Board of Chosen Freeholder* held ite regular meeting in tbe Court le. Cape May Court House, -.1 Tuesday, the 2«d insi. Bid* for printiog the Cou-'ty Collector’s annual statement in pamphlet form and in one issue of the newspaper, were received from five of the .paper publishers within the coun-

0n4iie eve of Ikst fall’s ejection it announced bv the Democratic ad minisiration that there was a surplus in tbs State Treasury at tire end of the fiscal year. October 31. Thh waa denied by the Republican leaders. Orie of the initial moves o| the Be publican majority in the prceeot eeaeloi of tb- Legisiatarr was to appoint a oom re to invesugate the facts. That conn.iiuee hat not made a formal report m, but ft is rt"ted on good anthority that the Republican .-ontemioniastoUie existence ol a deficit at the cloee of Ute last fiecai year irerr cun ec; and that Uie present condilioBof the Tresamry isench . make the tinancial probiem facing tlie Republican majonly a moel eerioor

nD STORM HI MTS COAST

FCHELOBS! MARRY OR PAY TAXES

I Celibacy Will Coer Fifty Plunks A Year Under New Bill

Ground Hog BA! Not See Shadow on Tuesday; Spring Is Near Say His Votaries; Snow Follows

TIDE FLOOBS MEADOW!

link.

rnpp, of Fhzlt Isle City -visitors

n advertising mana Inquirer, was n this week. Philadelphia conisle vkitor on

M;art c

<rf Miilville, wai i E. parsonage thi*

> is spending thfc L. spent Sunday here

Iter J. P. Deisney

. Lewis Conn, win. rrXtHbtic OBy‘ n Sea Isle. t was teudered Mr*. Uie home Mrs. L. day evening, pruff, of this city, is kith friends in Phils-

After full conHideration it appeared to be the opinion of a majority of the members that the widest publicity poeejble should'be gfven Lie information it contained and that this Joakl not be accomplished, by the acceptance thereof. A resolution instructing the County CollectoV- to publish -he statement in eyery newspaper in -be County recognised as a legal advertising medium prevailed, at a cost to esc.-td $60.90 for each pewspa . It was further decided to have taousand copies printed in pamphlet form by tbe Cape May Herald, which agreed to supply them for the

tm of $13.60 additional.

Mr. Fox, Chairman of the Lunacy Committee, reported that the »ommucee had visited and inspected the Hosfdr the Insane at Treaton, in •which incttisuon there are twentyicur patient from Cape Mey County, uid ^found •everything 'ytatisfactory AjihV.ie exception that the-furniture S' eclnty and totally inadequate U> provide the pstienu noceaeery orts during tne day time. The sleep,ng accommodation" are good, but the absolute necessity : or additional chain and giber furniture is beyond quex-

-iuo. The institution is it

it is a matter of general knowledge aruui.d the (Slate Capital that bills against the- Slate have not been paid til tong afu-r presentation aimplv because there were no funds available Yhifih ia oi^et them. Thisenibarng situation is due ttiLrely to the im*niaitageiueiit of die Democratic uiajoriUes since Uie advent of Wilson at •iovernor.

HEARING ON POUND NETS

BUI For Abolishment of Nats Up For

Public Oisouetlon This Month

Fo, downright discourtesy to the a nnal prognosticator old Jupiter Plnvi eclipsed himself onToeeday, and if tii ' is any ground hog east of the Mie who emw bis shadow that animal f serves to be tabulated upon a I Fame roster. Tbi# is good i those who are unshaken in the g

bog's infallibility.

The immemorial custom of Mr. 1 if the accepted prediction is to be ^

i, is to issue from bfa

burrow on February god, l thrown back bis hed-quilts for an sj aud from bis doorway con tempi surrounding landscape. Kboold M his shadow, he will mire to his f lock the blanket securely under h

broken repose, j

weeks more of cold weather is ct

If yon are over 30 yean old, unmakiug $2,600 a year, do not irt any dependent relative aad are able to contract matrimony— Ilf yon are aW of these—yot will be sobjett to s tax ol $50 a year if Assemblyman Ortrora’e bill, which has been referred to the Social Welfare Committee by Speaker Godfrey, is passed. Mbe text of tbe strange bill follows : “ Hereinafter all male persons of the age of thirty years who shall be married, shall pay to tbe State of 5e* Jersey an annnal tax of fifty dollan per year, which tax shall be dne and collectable on December 20th of each and

IT COST $15,287 TO MID

Is Lowest Bidder; Bids Opened ioners 1 Meeting Wednesday; roAe Bulkhead Plans

DISCUSS

iiGINSPECTOR; OTHER BURNERS

Excepting tuch unmarried male persons who shall receive as wages and compensation less than the sum of twenty-five hundred dollan per year, or income of like araonnt. Excepting alto such unmarried male persons who bare depending upon them for support and maintenance soy blood reiatire, such as fiUier, mother,

^ J?#** ' 3 ^ lh * 23 S. W.; lot 3, block 33 S. W.; Jet 4, disitiihed by b !<*k 33 S. W.; iot 13, block 88 a W.; opened si tne 101 15 > bk>ck 88 S. W.; lots 768, 768,

7u6. 766, block 68 S. W.; lot 807,

block 68 & W.

The City now bolds tax sals certifi-

Htiffer, s local i: the three

asarded the

Excepting also such unmarried male persona who by reason of physical inability are uneb e to contract matrimony. It being tin intention of this hill to ’ tax the unmarried male persona over ihirty veers of age the aotn of fifty dol•an pa- year, with certain exceptions.'’

The bide . S . L. $16,778^0. Edward Fay and Son, Philadelphia, yellow pisq, creosoted, $17,-

.

Clarence Pf#iff< r. Sea hie City, yellow jane, $13481; creosoted, $15^87.-|

Alter tbe reading of the *uiw a ^ cess was taken at 12.46 until 1 JO for lunch.

60.

funds placed at the superintendent’s

tispotal by tbe Legislature.

Mr. WentaeU, for the Bridge Committee, reported that the committee

,

Now (•ending in tbe Honse, a public li’-atins will b.- held on Aeeembiy Bill Nu. », knows as tbe Pound Net Bill, cu Februsn 23rd St U-30 s.m., in tbe State Hoaer at Treaton.

aud wby should anyone, rspecisIlT * •*‘ 1 ' respecting grornd bog, bother ijr 11 ' P 0 *'

sible ebill* and tee or.

Should be fail to see hi*ihadf >r ' th,r ' Spring is so near l!i..i a peeg^ 1 * Tr sumption of acythisg resenj 1 ' 1 * 118 e

r.t tbe tbree-atibi limit of tbe New Jersey ■test, aod in baudy Hook, Kan Urn anti Delaw re Bays, ts now pending in tiw

i^rUsittre

An organisation known as tbe New Joreey Hook and Line Fur'ienneu was incorporated in Tnmton two weeks ago, tor tbe express purpose of arousing public rentin'int against tbe pound nets

aU ground bog theories may b/ nk 0X1 ■ c torly Spring, since Tueto.y U* on «J ,f toe worn storms of the seam* “troogb out the east. I Winding up s rain tint #** rt * 1 on Sunday, s north-east wind kr ew Dp on Monday evening and hoatintH ^ d *' Taeeday. High tides were ia eixU r - a " d ^

isbmenl.

Itis not genet alt f believed tbat the

So damage along the comrt f 1 ** tM * D n ported, although in man/ P 1 *" 1 lh '

BOARD OF EDUCATION REORGANIZED

Held Meeting on Monday Night In Schoolhouse ; Substitute Teacher Appointed

become r. law, although the hook and devotees are working hard to that

tbUcan Chib will bok Iciun rooms on Moo-

- Dealers' Asao neeling at Wildwooo Hll the local member.

al of the plans providing for a doable leaf draw with a width of not »ms .ban twenty feet, inside clearance, the most suitable for the conditions existing at ite proposed location, Sea isle City, over the main thorofare, and -he plana end specifications prepared

The bill was introtlnced by Assemblyman Whitman ot Atlantic County.

Bpbarlra Robinson sri h friends in Quakei Bitar Billy buuday whilt

, of New York, spent h Contractor Edward . East is spending

, Bradway is rapidly bis serious hand trouo 1 in hi* pulpit hfri

r met at tbe home on Wednesday eve-

jy tbe County Engineer as outlining .he style, heighth and other measurementi were approved. Tbe commitee will inspect several such bridges in operation elsewhere before determining definitely thereupon. Cbas. P. Gas kill, the present bridgetender at the Ocean City bridge, was appointed for another yew at the wage-i as at present, as was Alfred Bonder, at Schel lender's Landing bridge and B. F. Ladow at the Ses isle City bridge. Tbe meeting adjourned at 3.46 P. M. to meet at Wildwood on Thursday,

Feb. llth.

SHORT COURSE STUDENTS Available Fcr Farm Employment

Train service from all ty on tbe PeusyIranian not interiered with, but Reading between her* was discontinued all day Early Wednesday moi turned into xleet, wl fell, end by Wednesday. blixsard, with real, surc* n ‘’ u * b

The local Board of Education reorganised for the year 1016, at a special meeting held in the Bcboolhoose on Monday evening, no change was madeinthr pertouell of Uie officers or the members of the Board, Mr. Arnatt' not having yet tean acted upon "by the Mayor at that time. as Reeve, of Ocean City, was appointed substitute teacher to take tM place of Mrs. Lenra Mci^aig, whoissuf lertng from s severe nervous breskdowc at lier home in Ocean City. The janitor was Ordered to make minor repairs abont the school building.

"SUBSCRIBERS" VINDICATED

Wed-

; Gentleman Who Obtainsd Subaortp- ■'

tlona From County Folk, ana Kept

the Money. Lands in Jail

After dUfitjAliteration, and on advice of Hfcfto.-r.- it was decided to use hflKreu'O'.r lumber in place of the yellow piix. Tne bid for the galvanised ten ri ling, which will be erected on toot;-. of me boardwalk, wherw there are;« approaches leading :o the wa& and wnere there never naa been reii. ,'. *»» tSc per running foot. This «-. : vill be m addition to

Bftii ronitruction coat. Hy Gvf and Director of HigbR Dcji.ry were instructed to boardwalk and ascertain

gay feel of railing would be re|S that the cost of this can be

bond issue.

r Delaney reported • sewer, also that thirpiling were knocked out

section of the

and that he would have to with new piling. This 1 He was also ordered the *treet end at Coral street,

a property owner has construot-

ed Aulkbesd.

m-othly report of the TreasurUie month of January was read, and iapproved. The Director of Fi-

Aftemoos SeasW

TTie meeting re-convened sti'lJO end • plans for the construction of street •nd bulkheads were approved. Tbe plans and specifications cab for bids per foot, so that after tbe number of feet required can be the exact cost can be derived. Bids will he opened at the meeting on March third. It is the plan of the Commissioners to construct 60 foot bulkheads at aU the street ends, to run up to the property line, and have sidewalks runt practically aU tne way op to boardwalk, instead of the present unsightly and dangerous approaches. Tbia would be assessed to the property

bene fitted.

progress < -i ty or to:

communication from the Yomw Men's Business Association asking that the City Commiasionen appoint a building inspector and adopt i. ta'Ud•ng code, was read by the cerk, sod in the discussion that followed, it »7aa •. brought out that an ordinance is in force covering the point, and the Clerk was instructed to find this « and bring the m_-ter up ag future rr—“— The C ter favc i ably, «

secure such an inspector, there \ no competent applicants for the pawi- "™' the matter wait naturally

A resolution was adopted, pmvidi '^j

FREEHOLDERS HERE SAATURDAY

jng of the local on Sunday el the loyal “paps"

lading the “Health ik, you i. Read

To Cduatruct Modern Bridge Across Thoroughfare Hen-.

F. F. Tutsworth, a bridge construction expert, of Trenton, N. J., Engio* eer L. M Rice, of Wildwood, and the 1 Cape May County Board of Freeholder* spent Saturday here going over matters and plans of the proposed bridge across th« thoroughfare

city.

It is planned to construct a modem steel lift brdge to replace the present antiquated wooden structure.

s.inething overlrfo bnndrrd students sre registered ia the Wion Uoniw

Agriculture at the Mew Jere. y SuteAgiicoitural Coliege. Of this in tuber acme wHI be open for ppeitiona on farms after

tiiey have completed the course. It ti quite liksiy that there sre men in Lite State who could use the

vices of these young men iu various lines of farm work, nod it is with this in mind that sunouneenient of their ad>silsbilitv is made. Some of these students have nad considerable Irrm experience before entering these courses. These individuals will be open to positions of a managerial nature. Others who desire

more or ieee > xperience will be ope

positions of lesser importance in wtich tliev can secure the practise they desire.

Any fwrmeis desirir.g itelp of

nature are aakid to CMnmuuicste witli

Professor F. C. Minkin at the New Ji •e? Stale Agricnltural College.

nesday night with the. City is enveloped with »«*»«* ,n '-' w If Br’er pround-bogi onl ' ,•* wu his -ml. not hf' 1 ™ >“ ■hodow on T—d.,, tn-ttf ed 4h-t h, will contr»* Pnoumonw. Ib. .-.no ol Uti. -ni* "‘•““‘■“‘i"--orw in 0.. NMk. Ihl* »u»".»i'Co.d nerer equalled belor^.!

Kmrkes, presented his report,

is, s.»o approved,

u for $1500, in the Tockahoe Itiuk was ordered renewed,

.pstjun of 1914 taxes.

o:>ntor was instructed to take ,rtv>u*ure proceeding*, tor tax the following properties:

PUBLIC SALE

BUILtf ,Nfl

- 8EAVIEW

win hs speaul st the , .rV,. ‘Sg’ Atiurwey Itt tv, HorfJ. V'r"'. -d»L*n4TUl«l Mnisyg isib. rx':

SEA ISLE M.E. CHURCH NOTES

Tbe blearing of the Candi celebrated throughout the >

world on Tuarday of this week. Can

del mass Day. Candles were i at St. Joseph’* Church after

and on Wednesday, the feaal of SL j J.30—Sunday School. Blase, throats were blessed afier the d.tf—Epworth league.

The Official Board will aar* C-hickan Pot Pie Supper in the Spray Cafe on Saturday evening. Feb. 6th. ladies’ Aid Society meeting next Wednesday afternoon. 3 P. M. A special feature of the servacee next Sunday will be s Mai* Chorus. Choir Leadei Geo. Coxson would tike to have 20 msn for rehearsal on Fri-

day (light.

Service* Sunday aa follows: 10.30—PreAMhtog by Paetor.

Very Rev. FatW A mode* J. Vigor, O. 8. A ..provincial of tbe August on ian Fathers, died at Sl Joseph's Hospital, Philadelphia, on Tuesday of this week, succumbing to a-, attack of typhoid

7.JO—PreeMang by Pastor. Tbe Male Chorus wiN sing. Everybody should be there id bear it. The congregstica was delighted tost Sunday to have Rev. Pennington Corxon, Jr., ,to preach for them

morning service.

the Auatonian Home. :

« M Eustace left Sunday for eeks’ risit in Pkiladetphia. i> 4 M. Glascot is her* tor an in- « stay at the bom* of Mr*. Jsa

The following letter, rreived by ot» ol the local victim* of the suirmlli et/wn-g-r that victimised many rnidenu of rU

this city, and the entile connty. vindi- *Al' llllcl -

cates, in a measure, the guUible out* who ^ 17. Block 10 S. W.; lot 13, block

were so easily separated froi ol tiielr bard-earned dollars.

The letter:

" L. B. Bsl'ow. alias L. Berkley, wb. obtained (ubecnpuotia iruiti yoo sun» time ago and did not forward them t. publishers, was arrested in Baltii County, and on January 86tb wa, •euleuced to 2>i years (or obtain.., ■nooey under false pretences. Curtis Puhlishivo Cokpamv A. W. Newitb,

ing that unless steps are taken to „ move the old See View property, by the HoweH Estate, inside of thirty days, legal proceedings would be in-

stituted by the City.

In reference to the bill of the ritt Hydraulic Company, for $163, which there had been some -.ngineer Goff recommended

After some other minor ■'’ring adjourned at 2.80.

PI BUILDING

INSPECTOR

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE PASSE; HOUSE

Bill Will Mu P.m b.n.l. „ Up To Voters Next Fall For tbe third time in as many *e». ■I» Uo— ol —LI, <„ ilaBMod 11;,. r—-.l...: nu _ -

foung Men's Business Association Passes Resolutions at Tuesday's Meeting Asking for

Appointment

Peter P. M-vgnire, F. W. Fowkea, it A. Luongo, A. G. Rice, Geo.-^e >ag,r- t

m, Ohaa. Claes, Uuu Ta .a, Chnpmar., Clarence Pfleffer.

The .Secret*rj-, W. W. Brook*, bar- ;£ beon absent for three meeti««*, ha oflice was, upon motion, doefemd vacant, and Irving Fitch elected to fig the vacancy. Upon motion, it yma *1, 80 dented to allow the Secretary at nominsl salary tor his services, ami

to make him exempt from dues.

The Secretary was instructed to erf. A** the . Wom ? n '* Civfc Club that the

ADMIT 9 NEW MEMBERS

aiaendmeut to the Comtitation iding for Wciuau’s haflrag*.

icwsure will now go to the B, iu adoption by tbat body bei^' . " Uinty, it will then be sabgljB ,. i voter, ol State ne« , or „ u cation or rejection. Had there n«* hr. a •'ip-up in tbe required adren - I tbe resolution after it* BrsR p,..^-. i the Legislature, lost year's neti « •" bwee been finaL Tbe •««,. ,„..r«r

first year's *o<W ...d coi

Uie

•too was necessary. 30^1^ olti reaolntion wal by unaaimon* tm; f 58 ■'embers preernL PiZ...,i.i r nn Qniun. of MidUWeex. gad llr.f.ri, Warren County, ^ pl

The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Young Men's Business Association was held in the City Hal' on Tuesday evening at 8.26 o'clock. A communication from E. J. Weeks, of the Reading R. R-, in reference to the Sunday Excursions was read, received and filed. The letter stated hat owing to the fact that no engine cas kept at Tuckahoe on Sundays, it rould not be practical to sene the w-ay from Philadelphia here, hence . excursions. The regular excur on* will start in March, faowevei. The wreck and Old Home Week unmlttees reported progress, the matter of the removal of the oW Sea View property. President Cronker reported that Mr. Francis Lloyd, attorney for the owners, oromised speedy action, and that he hod the matter up with the Keystone Wreck-

ing Company.

A motion was made and carried that tne Secretary advise Mr. EUis, President of the South Jersey Commuiers' Association that the Young '• Business Association has appointed X W. Cron*.-ker and Louis Taw. as repreeeauuvg* from this

~t in conjunction

'th tbe club in their effort to got the vacant lets of the city cleaned up be-

fore the summer.

The following resohitior. was adopt--4. «fW „hi<b U* m-rt w Ujcioa,* Whereas, it w deemed easantial that for the protection «f the public and general good of the City there should be a Building Inspector in our

City, and

•Whereas, our progreaaie* sister resorts each have a Building Inspector which -officer proves to be of great UinelU to the progress of building. “Therefore be it Resolved. That tire Young Men s BimincMi petition the Honorable Board of Commissioners adopt a building code and nave appointed q .uilding Inspector"

t

GET TOGETHER.

From Atlantic City Review Uf*an City, Jan. 27.—A L

Ration of business men of tUtictiy on ' night attended a “wel-toireth-

ine« A«^i.tion aY Si !2.‘ST gomg down and rcturaieg in autemc^ » The association was organised a r ew j

*»o„ u.. „

tonight s meeting were ex-Aertg WSv fi Imm H. Bryfht, of Y.’iiiWiraaytol; l frtek jnrelderu nf Goeaa 4 Ctiy Board of Trade, and/Cfe* rSr M misrionw Frank W. FowU^U^' m ■•i*. M

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