Cape May County Times

ATLANTIC

&AST NEWS

VOL XXXII.—NO. 10

SEA ISLE CITY, N. J., FRMAY. FEBRUARY 23, 1917

3 Cents a Copy, $1.50 a Year

GOT fflUIS IffiS OFPISFffiEI 1 Notts and Gleanings of Partonal Cturatttr; Uttle Homs Moot Folks You Know.

Mid to terms to •nit; Kmader, Mtt CMtint ~ U *pho(M. I

Tba chick mi povpi# rapper *t Ibe LoUieran Church was highly evenr T»yMr. end Mw. Htnuen C.«n«PP. of

saeoodsy. Mrs. A. 8. Steeliusd. who has been very aeriooaly U1 at the home of her daughter. Mr*. D. Bench, in Philadelphia, 1« now reported oat of dancer and on the roed to reeorerT-

the County Honee, It eeveraiy 111 at the home ol bar aiater, Mm. Caroline Croneeker, bem. Theodore Flokenaner and a petty of eixteen PWladelphiant, were amonc the recent gneeu at the Bellerue Hotel. Cbaa. K. Lendlt. Jr., it ha ring the • that of Clarence Pfeifrd, farnithed ai i for m Mm. David Maaar.nl, of Philadelphia, it ependlng two weekt with her mother. Mm. Oeo. Gardner. Mr. Mas^ui it here lor the week-end. Don't eat! until next Tneaday. Tbca come to the mitoellaneoat topper to be held in the M. E. Church 5 to f o'clock. Tickete, 86 centa.'-Adv. Twenty ladiee ettended the tea of the MethadatCfraxch on Y^euUne'e day at thi WH8I hrMA Jr. The aCair tbit waek was tSe home o! Mr*. Cieorge Gardiner, with Um oaaal good attendance. Chariet Gibbt hu accepted a poeition at traveling salesman for a Philadelphia wholes. • ' roomy firm and left bare Sander night tor an extended trip throngboat Weetern Pennsylvania. Ur. Gibbs

In the retail tea and coffee trade la C lele City. William R. Bryant, one of Sea Isle CUr’e oldest nwidenU, and a mere! here for the past thirty-fire veer*, sold hit dry good* stock to e Woxlbiee perty iatt week and closed bit Lendlt avrnot •tore indefinitely. Mr Bryant willebortly leave lor Philadelphia, where be will •pend tome lime with • daughter, and will later icenme uit mtidaoor t-are the poaaibilily of reopening hie a foe

The Lenten eaetoo aaa aahrred in Wedneeday with the diatribnUon of aehet at the morning Maaa at Bt. Joeepb’i Church end at the evening devotions. From now until Fatter, April 8th, devotion* of the Ntaiioot of the croee, followed by aarmou and benediction, will tw held every Friday evening at 7:80.

regwtar meeting of the City Gommleaionere on Wednettfay, U.ough two boom ware put fa discnmfni municipal mattem. The »IUU0 Irons Use 1V17 appropriations Hated for disoount was ordered toanaierred to the etwer operating txpeoae appropriation, and the inters-*! on dieoouuu will be taken frotd a fund into which Use city poU all the mtereel and cotta collected up delinqneattaxea. This will betp to keep the tax rate down aomewbot, th-sugh Dtrector Fowkea -ailed atstteuUou to the fact that Itsere would he an increase of 17c. M the rale, despite title, it moatc and advertising were to be provided lor. Hse Bennett matter as* again bruogl.: up, aa it la at every meeting. sed with the same race It la that nothing wet done. Kraeet Loyd, Use Cape Mar attorney for the bondmen, •aa expected to be at the meeting to make an wfier for eettlemeut, but failed to ahow up. Thu u nothing new, howbad asmilar appomUnewta and both tiusee broke Uirai Un a queeUoa raised by 'Brector Foakee ar to Uw boundary hue to limit the epnadiag of pound net# in the city to dry, the yrdmaac* was laid over tor two weeae to give the Mayor and Director Delaney e chance to go Kto the unite*.

Loses Property in War Zone . Italian Goes Insane Brooding over the dectruction of hie over the the war an Italics lain latnrday tmngely la letter

broke

mdraie'cnioean

r to Pal•main at rseveral m made ttPaleeindneed ment of i to the obeervasent the i In !'■ office 00 worth itting of

tltb and a pound

iDIST

Cbarch a church nday in F, March n active nlidting ort from lurch la rom lie

ve nte enbtoo, conetbodirt he Rev. Snpenr Corbin

Sea Me rear, rod 7:30 . Bible League,

or. yTbaro-

i, mark*

il Good will be

> music will be addree* Sunday, In the liver an », "The farm of

at two sr* nied by Her, at>m fam-wk-eod. >1 Pbilay WU- , etiUrloro fell peborg ■ of the n\ Mm. mtbem, ".r nlij of Avan-by-tt>e-Hea.

PROSECUTOR WILL EHFORCE UPOR LAW Eugene C. Cole Makes Lucid Statement ol Conduct of Office

Eugene U. Cole, of SeaviUe, who waa recently appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Cape May County for a term of five yearn, took hi* oath of office last Saturday morning before County Clerk A. Carlton Hlldaeth, and is now in the

Prosecutor Cole makes e (rank and lucid ttatement to the press oatUniOK his plan for tiie conduct Of Ms newly aasnined office. Mr. Cole sails attentkm to the fact tiist the ttsfamemeni of law and order does not entirely rest with bis office, hot jvitb all Mayor*, Jof .cet and private citifena, and esnecially calls attention to the taw which makes the suppression of knowledge of wrongdoing a criminal offense. After calling attention to the stalete, Mr Cole continues: •The present Prosecutor hopes that no occasion will ariae daring his terra of office to invoke this Just but drastic atatute, aa it will be hi* doty to do abooH condition* require B.” Following are except* from Mr. Colt’.

rarity, the writer dose not favorably regard the employment of detectives aa an aid to the enforcement of the criminal lav. Every resident officer aa afoieaaid »• amply charged with this doty and will ba expseted to perform it. If any case •hall ariae requiring the eerrioee of offifrom

will be temporary and limited to clear necessity. Though vested by law with wide discretion in the expense* of prosecution be feels that r:eb outlay* mo morally limited to actual requirement*, and that the rights of taxpayers are real and t

Will Enforce Liquor -Laws “The iiqnor question always occupies a prominent place in the attention o'. public, pf the Court*, and of their

“So far aa this office i* concerned the whole subject matter la in three words— compliance with law. No more, no leas. Individual opinions pro or con upon the subject of iatoxioanu, the right or wrong, the wisdom or unwisdom of license,

hrough the County

ing its ill-timed policy of renumber of coast guard stagovernment closed the elation iy-fourth street, Ocean City, last

The station had been

Jor forty year*, and was in charge Shaw, formerly of Sea Isle

City. The station* at Holly Beach and Cold Spring will also be done away with and a large station will be erected at Two Mila beach. The crew* of the ireiniag station* will be forced, neder the BOW rale, to oover .the petrol of the

rtatione that have been abolished.

-—A* engineer of the War Department will tttlntbe Connell Chamber, at North Wildwood,on Friday, March id, to bear arguments for or agahut the deepening of Hereford Inlet at government expense. The inlet channels have lately been filling up, sad opinion is rife In Wildwood that the Anglaeea fishing m-

1 J if dredges are

lerests stand t.

put to work at c

ways to the o

300 feet of dredgt channel at low «

to clear the patbIt i* estimated that g-will give a six foot itic campaign, an|f Evangelist Ira Evans

der the directioi Hick* and Rev.

in Wildwood, apd the Station Garage, "eating nine n Ad red persons, is being used as the fitaberoacle.” Cottage prayer meetiu|| are being held every morning, and ihe campaign U going along Ir true '%illy Sunday' atyle.

F. Corson re-

:kJ. Meirin, former and candidate for the November, and found ired in health. Mr. making hia borne with at tin North Broad street, hi* Cape May ' County

be red to i

—Fonqer State Senator Harry C. Wheaton is suffering from a broken leg, resulting from a fall over a frosen rut last week. The Senator, in common with many other county folk, waa lured io Pennagrove the high-wage bait

a guard at one of be added.

the gbwder mills when the accident occurred. He is now at bis Angleeea

home.

—Cape May County this week was apportioned the munificent sum of $163 aa its share of the inheritance taxes collected by the State in 1916 from estate* of resident decedent*. Wsiren County heads the list with $14,656, while Cape May is lowest, possibly because of bealthful climate and consequent few death*.

control lb* action

of thk office in the premieee, bat tbe •ole duty thereof i* to eecnra the enforcement of the law aa found on the page* of ths statute book. This will be its policy and practice. The law clearly lays down ths doty o' a license holder and holds him thereto; protect* him in hia granted right* and in tbs euforce-

providst a penalty

for its violation and decree* the forfeitare of any license whose condition* are not fnlfiUed. Ere y phase of this law will be fairly and imparthjly enforced!

so far aa this office can do.

“Tbe county was invaded during tbe I the noire of the proving would injure 1 ** fnr . „„ lornm ol b! . U.O.. u,drlnut..t. il U,, ,n,ood. op.o«l. ] ^ ^ tnrapika lb.'pia.iit .«.l" loddioo. lorn ol oablio,, vi... «oi: I nopn b.o, lo^Uqou..

specifically -

denounced them, bat when convinced ol their rice and illegality he gave fair

Legal Battle Started to Close Proving Grounds

The right haying been given by the Courts to tbe Bethlehem Steel Company to close the twenty-two Atlantic County roads running throngb their property to be used as ordnance proving grounds at May’a Landing and Tuck shoe, a writ of certiorari was granted by Justice Black

a Tneaday to review their action.

Tbe beach-front interest* ot Atlantic

SHERIFF WANTS

A PADDED CELL

In Bequest to Freeholders on Tuesday Says Violent Prisoners Disturb the Entire Building

A requeat from Sheriff Robert 8. Miller to tbe Board of Freeholder* at their meeting at Court House on Tneaday, was for a padded ceil to be installsd in the County Jail to receive refractory prisoner* and insane person* who are placed in the Jail waiting removal to some other Institution. Tbe Sheriff states that tbe noise of each prisoners annoy* the entire '‘household,'’ keeping other priaonera, peaceably inclined, from sleep or rest of any kind. Tbe requeat waa referred the Public Buildings Committee, to report back at the next Board meeting. Tbe matter of ooumy advertising waa the subject for considerable diacnaaion, aince now that the money ba* been appropriated tbe Freeholders are facing tbe problem of bow to spend it to tbe best advantage. Tb • Finance Committee—Meeare. ban I, Eustace and 8. H. Townsend—together with Clerk Frank Fowkea and Director H. 8. Rutherford, were appointed a committee to formalate plana for advertising, and this com miuee will hold an executive session at 8ea I ale City on batorday to go into the matter. It waa thought that this appro priatkm would be epeut through the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, at whose instigation it waa made, but Una la apparently not to be tbe case. Vocational School Wants More Tbe Vocational School applied for an additional $1000, slating that the $$600 appropriated by the Freeholders waa not aufficient to pay the expenses of the work. A* the Board of intimates reported that $3600 should be given, it is practically certain that the extra $1000

tbe Finance Committee.

The Lighting Committee, to which waa added Mr. DeBow, of Sea lele City, reported the lights on tbe Holi* Beach and Sea Me bridges too costly, and were empowered to tiara smaller light* installed, to effect a saving of shorn $20 per month on the lighting cost*.

Aoolieh Fox Bounty

A petition signed by forty-right i dent* of the county asked that the bcanty of $3 be removed for killing fox. At present tin* cum ie paid for every fox killed in the county. Objection waa at once entered and the matter waa, for tbe time, referred to the Solicitor. It it not likely that the Board w ill remove this bounty, at fox are conceded to be a nuisance and menace to farmer* and destroy isbbua and bird* which now fnruiah good apori for hunter* in

Freeholder Wentaeli wax empowered to purchase a fonr-honw road scraper

. ... . ■ - . | lor uae on the Denniarille-Kldora road, Ol, T tack ol lb. a? b., tataclb, bu! WlokW „„ the noire of the proving wonld injure ... * „„ ...

Cresse-Taylor Nuptials

and kindly warning thereof to their cu»lodiane and required their removal. This direction being evaded in one locality be invoked tbe power of the sheriff

Mia* Mary Taylor, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Maorice Create, of Avalon, were married at the M. K. 1‘arsonage, Sea l*le City, on Friday morning, Feb-

and hia officer*, raided and destroyed a* roaiy 16lh. by Rev. Corbin A. Brady, many an found and reenred tbe ind‘ct- Mr. A. G. Rice, an old friend of the t of the operator*. Shortly .here groom, and Mr*. Brady acted as wit•fler a statute waa p>—1 which ex- uewea. The couple will reside in Avapreaaly outlaw* riot machines. They ; Ion at the borne of Mr. Creeae’a mother. will not be tolerated in the county, i —:—— _ : ■ ■ Other forma of gambling are likewise , , dtaouotal b, «•»,. ,od .ubjrct b, ; I'ratabbcc lo ibe bm.l ol lb. I., .m kr action. ot Una u®** » n •**'7

* I that cornea before it."

Down Political Corruption After directing Attention to the auto“No crime ie more repugnant to the j mobile speed lew* and Hating that he baric principle* of popular government will u*e t'je beet effort* ol hi* office to than polittual corruption, whether 0 (; tuake the highway* aafr, Mr. Cole ccn-

r* or official*, whether at primarie*. elude*:

general election* ur for mere political “With no other dreire or inteolioi, preference. Attar falling under the ban i than the fair, tort, impartial fulfillment of awakened moral aentiment and prac-' do ‘?' *« khe peblic, the writer a* Ucally into dianav, this ntterl* iudefei. •ume* the reeponaihihty of Ibe office to ■ible evil ba*. according to well founded i which be ia called, roalisitig that he i* belief, been lately pot anew into prac- "i that office aa the agent and atlnrur) by tome would be leader*, not m 1 1,1 every perecn in the county eo far a* case* long resident in Ihi* county, the enforce ment of the criminal law is Whatever extrnuaUou may he urged for concerned, and nuevrely aak* U.e aid. ue ctfenaea, whether of passion, enp- j rapport and co-operation of earl, and led necessity, lack of understanding every of them, public officer* and priwhat not. none can be ottered lor 1 vahr oiuaen* alike, iu the fullillmcul of I. Greed ia the sole motive for Un* that cacied obligation.’’ Crime; and the only * lease ever ottered, ■

vis., that the other party i| likely to do

hkewiaa, merely

Work In Slone Harbor

Tbe Avalon to btoqp Harbor road waa finally accepted from the contractor*, tbe Hill Dredging Company, and tbe Clerk waa directed to advertise for bids for the construction of two squares to connect with this road at the Stone Harbor end, from 8Uth atreet to 83d street, and a new eecihu in tttone Harbor, from ICtitb street to 114th rtreel. A resolution waa adopted providing for the reconstruction of the bridgru over Leonard's Channel and Scotch Bonnet Channel, on line with the Htoue Harbor turnpike. Tbe old bridge* he•ng in dangerous condition, the work waa termed in the emergency claae and will be done under the supervirion of the Bridge Committer and the Engineer, j

Legislative Briefs

—The Gaunt-MkcKay Local Option bill passed the Senate on Monday,nigbt by a vote of 12 to 8,‘.following a debate of over two hour* between the “wtta’’ and *'d»yf.” The bill i* foredoomed to defeat In Abe Houee, w here tbe vote‘will be about 40 against It to 21 for it. —A committee ol the Senate on Monday reported favorably on the repeal: of tbe famous “8eveu-*i»ter»'' anii-eorpb-tat'ion law, and it ie likely that the law will be wiped off tbe rtaidte bopk* of the Bute this year. • '. —Assemblyman Gilbert^ of Fnaer County, on Wednesday lotroduoed a bill that will hasten tbe baiidLAgi of a ship canal from Raritan Bay tb tbe Delaware river. Under tbe prpvuiipus of the bill, aa soon as $1,000,000 k appropriated tbe Hlate will proceed to gel the' right of way. —Senator Pierce, of Union County, on Wedneeday introduced a bill in tbe Senate to further regulate tbe saloon bosineaa. It provides that where a liqOor license is refused or revoked for caui, •nch license aball not be revived In municipalities where the number of saloons exceeds the ratio of one to every 500 of population. tj —The $6000 office of State Comptroller passed to Republican control on'TlU^ • day, when Bute Chairman Newton A.*»j K. Bugbee assumed the potttion, an.- - seeding Edvard I. Edwards, of Jereey City. Mr. Bugbee, who was elected to the office at a joint session of the two houses of the Legislature on January 80, took the o*th of office, administered Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchant at Trenton, at TJ o'clock on Tneaday morning.

Chamber of Commerce " . Meets Next Tuesday The Cape May County Chamber of Commerce will meet next Turoday evening, February 27, in the City Hall, Ocean City, at 8 o'clock. . Jowph A. MeNamee, of the New Jer- . eey State Uiamber, will be the principal speaker at the meeting, and Prtwidroi Leeds, of the Atlantic Chamber, will tell what that body u doing to help Cape May County get trolley service from Ocean City and Atlantic City to Cape May. The Chamber will be entertained jointly by the Ocean City Board of Trade and Progreeaivo League.

James M. Chester Appointed Member County lax Board James M. Chester, ol Ocean City, waa on Monday named by Governor Edge aa a member ot the County Board of Taxation, io sacceed W. J. Tyler, of Cape May Court House. With O. I. Blackwell, ol Wiidwood, and Samuel Eldredge, ot Cape May Cm, the Hoard Uua year will be icpre•erilative cf Hie eutne county, a condition that baa not existed foi years.

Attend Health Meeting Irving W. Fitch, ol Sea Isle City, and Dr. Morgan Dix, of Cape Mav Court Huuae. were the two representative* of the Cape May Coualy Board* of Health who attended the annual meeting of tbe Slate Board at Treutou last Friday and Saturday. They report the meeting aa being unueasily well attended, especially by repintetivee from northern Jereey.

Death of John J. Burleigh

Will Advance County

John J. Burleigh, of MrivhanlviUe, who died at hi* home on Sunday after a long iltnea*. «** widely known in Cape

May County.

He was the orrauirer of the Cape May. Delaware Bay and Sewell'* Point Railroad treasurer of the Cape Island Gas , Company ol Cape May, and was one ol j the organizer* of the Sea lele City Wat*j Company (later •riling hi* intere#'. loth*

prwent Sea Me City Water Company).

The Eastern Telephone Company, which

Down in Cape May County the Board ,* uow part of U.e Keystone system, was of Freeholder* have appropn-ted $.‘SutX* i another of in* ventures. Hr u. k an thi* year for adverting U.e i -unG active part alro in tlu. planning aud vonTbey have also put m thru budgrl .miction ol the Sea Die City sewage

SIU.OUU to fight mosqoitor*. $JM0 for a | disposal plant and system. vocational school, $1600 for a county I

Im •tatataU.U.-r, u . 1 i> uuoa u^ „„ p™,™ ,, tnbution toward e ewmty fair. Rather, is one thing; the •rie. Lun of a vuiiaa sooiahttic program, isn't it? Bnt then executor i* unite another. And every one of them, if properly *peui ye * h 00 * *>vcome e very wimple matter