ATLANTIC COAST NEWS

Cape M

Times

VOL. XXXII.—NO. I

SEA ISLE CITY, N. J., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917

3 Cents a Copy, SI..SO a Year

CITY NEWS NOTES OF PAST WEEK

Notes and Gleanings of Personal Charaster; Little Items About Fotks You Know.

Lots pr cptoupp fpr PPle. Bor or build on tenn* tc ouit; money loaned; CPOTeyonclnK ~id UU.-Uw • 0I»cUU ty. Charie* K. Landta, Jr., aon of the Founder, 2028 Che«tnut Street, Phlla- - - ~dl 'phone. Locuat 8587.

William Sleifleman was a vkitor over the wee--end, renewing old acquaint-

ancee.

Mra. Edward Back entertained on Wednesday afternoon at the tea of the M. E. Church women, with the ueual good attendance. Guy Loongo, who is etndying pharmacy at a Philadelphia college, wait ■ visitor under the parental roo* several days the early part of this week. On Tneaday evening last the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church gave another one of their delightful and most aaoceesfol suppeis. Over 881.00

were cleared.

Miss Kate Bnrcber, who has been quite ill, is still the guest of her sister, Mrs. Frits Cronecker. Aunt Kate is making slow bnt steady progress towards com-

plete recovery.

Mrs. Alice Colville is confined to her home by illness and the absence of her familiar figure upon the streets is often commented upon ty sympathetic neigh-

bors.

The social of the Art Keedlework Club was held at the borne of Mra. Mornbinwej last Monday afternoon. The bosuns was Mrs. McCullough, of 8t.atbre, and a large number of women

Legislative Briefs Local option was killed in the House on Monday by a rote of 39 to 19. Asiblyman Stills, of Cape May County, did not you on the bill. A bill is now in tbe Legislature permitting any municipality in the Slate to buy and sell food to consumers et cost. —Senator Stevens, of Cape May, is father of a bill creating a department of public records for the State, with a < mission of three members, to serve without pay, to take care of it The purpose of the bill is to relieve a chaotic condition in *he handling of important State

docnmenU.

—Governor Edge's 915,000,000 road bill was passed by both House and Senate on Toesday. Under iu Urms a chain of thirteen State highways will be bnilt, and a tax of one mill on each dollar of assessed valuation on real and personal property will be levied to pay for the improvement, which is to be completed in three yean. This law will supplant the Egan road law, which v voted on at the last general election. A hill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday by Senator Osborne, of Essex county, provides for the development by the State of 1,000,000 acres of presen' waste lands, largely in South Jersey.

ATLANTIC CITY TO OPPOSE WATERWAY

By Reese P. Riblet

Bennett Bondsmen Offer City $3000

The bondsmen of J. Harvey Bennett, the contractor on the Sea Isle City sew-

’ age disposal system, through their attor- ' ney, Ernest Lloyd, of Cape May, on

Wednesday ofleted the city 83000 in full at of all claims. The judgment the city bolds is in the neighborhood of

’ 912,000. After hearing Mr. Lloyd's pro-

posal it was dteided to lay the matter

' over tor one week before deciding to

accept or reject the offer,

A letter from the Sea Isle City Water . Company, offering to furnish water for flushing the sewers at a minimum rate, was certain restrictions required by the

Public Utilities Cotntnission, was read attended, Including several irom Ocean | and referred to tbs Solicitor to draw op

City.

Postmaster Thomas E. Ludlam, Jr., left on Wednesday evening with a party of Caps May County Democrats to attend the Inauguration ceremonies of President Wilson, at Washington, D.C. Dr. Tfc sd re C. Wheaton and wife, of Millville. . -re visitors on Monday, inspecting the improvements being made to the>r recently purchased property on Hanson street. Mr Wt aton is owner

Quit claim deed for Lot 22, block 32, northeast section, in favor of Margaret O'Rourke, was ordered drawn, all liana

having been satis fled.

The report of the Treasurer for the month of February wes read and approved, aa waa the report of the Director

of Revenue and Finance.

The interest which Atlantic City gen-! erally takes in waterway matter* in the winter season, only to lose again when navigation opens in the spring, la manifesting itaelf this year in oppoaition to the most important of all waterway projects which affects New Jersey coast resorts, namely, the proposed extension of the Stole inland waterway by the United Htote* government from Bay Head, at the upper end of Barnegat Bay, to New York Bay, ju'A back of

Sandy Hook.

Cape May Couutv people who are sufficiently interested in public affaire keep in touch with matters of this sort will reroetflber that the movement for the federalization of the Slate inland waterway waa inaugurated by tbe Chamber of Commerce ol Cape May Couuty at a meeting held in Cape May in the autP'-u of 191b or the early part of 1916. At any rate at that meeting resolutions were adopted requesting Congressman Bacbaracb to use his efforts to obtain government aid upon the proposed extension of the waterway to New York Bay and its reconstruction to a depth sufficient to make it available as ao inside route for torpedo boats and similar naval craft in time of war. Copies of these resolutions, together aith an explanatory article printed in most of tbe county papers, were forwarded to Congressman Bacharach and acknowledged by him. Last year, joM prior to tbe adjournment of Congress, friends of this project were pleased to receive word from Mr. Bacharach, stating lust tbe matter bad been made an item in the Rivera aud Harbors appropriation bill and that tbe officer in charge of this territory bed been directed to make an investigation of tbe commercial posaibilities of tbe waterway in order that the question of a survey might be determined. It was hoped that the project thus Uunched would be followed up by its sponsor in Congress some tangible results would eventually

be obtained.

Atlantic City’s Opposition 1 received a bint last summer that Atlantic City did not regard the waterway extension with any too friendly an eye, hence the lengthy article in Ihe Philadelphia Ledger of Bnnday, Febru ary 24th, under an Atlantic City date

LOCAL

Oor popular grocer, Herman Diamond

of the Aldlne Hotel be.* and it a brother IU keeping in line with program by hav

of former fax Collector Daniel C. Whea-

ton.

Mrs. Richard W. Meade Landis,daughter of the late Dr. Heintaelman, one of the pioneer cottagers of Sea Isle City, and widow of the late Richard Lend if, son of the founder of this place and brother of Chas. K. Landis, Jr., announces her marriage Ic PbiMr 'phis to Clisrtes Martin Uerhold, of that -.-Lj The bride is weil known bere, having been a popular member of the cottage colony since early girlhood. Mra. J. Mali winkle is very ill with double pneumonia at her Landis avenoe home, and while bar condition it still serious every hope is held out for her race very. Her brother, George J. Reisman of Philadelphia, is slaying with Iter during b»r illness aud looking alter l*r business interests. Mrs. Msiawinkle is on* ol the fiiet Use Isle settlers and has been in business hers ever since. Raymond Hobart, tbe voung man who figured in a recent hearing before Jndge Eldrndge. I as been paroled. Raymond bas been given auolbet chance to u. -ke good under new surroundings and states emphatically that this time lie will prove his gratitude to former employer aud friends and star out of trouble. One good sign of permanent reformation in the Took! is that be baa gone to work at a man's job, is going t<> church and Bnnday school in a New Jersey town, and has token up evening studies for aeU-imprOvruiFiit. The Board ol Education at th ala - meeting on Tuesday ordered one hundred chairs, of the folding type, from Bey wood Brothers, lor ass in the nrwly finish’d school auditorium. Ttie price ol the chairs is 9l-<tt each, making a lot*! coat of *165. of wUich amount $2U will be donated by tii-- Paivul Teachers' AaaocLAiii.il aud as much mors by the fond of the school children A com- . mine* of the Parent-Teachers Aso-cia Uou baa also been appointed to auboU tends to help pay for the chairs. Other Board boaiursa was coufined cInert? to a discuMH u on paiutmg the school bunding, and this matt*i w as finally left in tbs bauds ol die Property Committee, wkt will hast the work doue in April.

ing a now stars front put in

Avsuns estoblishmsut. Contractor John

Howatt is doing tbs work

Miss Elisabeth Delaney, who has been employed in the Ball Telephone Exchange in Ocean City, will become the bride of Btauley Qoigg of that pit this month. Tbe bride- aud groom-to-be wars visitors bere on Bnnday, guests of

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Delaney.

Edward Wells. Jr., son of Mr. and Mra. Edward Wslla, well known summer cottagers on Paris street, was elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania last November and is making a great record in tbs House. He U the father of the bill to abolish capital punishment for crime in Pennsylvania which has been receiv-

ing mneb publicity lately.

At least seven of the men of Sea Isle City will know better than to brave the travel by auto on the Shore road after a thaw, especially without an adequate supply of “gas.” Messrs. Louis Braca, Thomas E. Ludlam, Jr., Irving Fitch, John Carrol, Edward fi. Arnstt and William A. Haffsrt attended the meeting of the County Chamber of Commerce in Ocean City onTneeday nigbt, going there by rail and intending to return after the meeting by auto. Tbe cession over, J. P. Delaney, Jr., and bis Slndebaker were waiting k< bring the party borne and a start was wads about 12:30. To make a long and s-d story Abort, the trip from Ocean City to Sea Isle, a distance of about seventeen miles, normally traversed in thirty inmates, took exactly three hours! the delay waa caused by mud, water and more mud on the roads, a desire to take al..ng a few telegraph poles and rural fret delivery mail boxes and a shortage of oliur, which tatter was the cause of engine m Jerry's car giving a fatal apart and stop about ei^ht miles from boms. Thanks to Karinw Trtpplt. of Beavilie, a former raeddeul of Sea Isle City, suflioiem gas waa obtained, before the party fr.xe to death or otherwise shuffled off

line, waa not wholly a surprise. Coming, however, Irom the source that it does—Commissioner Allen K. White, member of the State Board of Commerce and Navigation and a distingnitbed yachtsman—tbe article, expressing views that are altogether extraordinary, is worth the apace it takea to reproduce it, at least in part: '*The first survey ever made of the seashore retort bueinees of New Jersey demonitrate tbe importance of that industry as an argument for liberal State aid for the inter-reeort coastal waterway haa been ordered by tbe Chamber of Commerce. “Coupled with this action, proposed by Comtmaaioner Allen K. White, of Uit State Board of Commerce and Navigation, ia a movement to deve'op tbe nlareeta of tbe seaboard counties, aa well as tbe shore cities, through tbe establishment of a steamer line, operating from Atlantic City to Philadelphia and New York, with the inter-resort water-

way aa a feeder.

’Commisaioner White qnesticned the adriaabilitr of the proposal to ‘federalixe' the waterway, now extending for 114 miles from Bay Head, on Barnegat Bay, to Stone Harbor, at Cape May (sie), aa a part of the national defense lystriu. Sorb a project, he believes, wonld necessitate the extension of tbe waterway on tbe north to a junction with lower New York Bay and the digging ol a link aerosa Cape May *o connect with Delaware Bay. Tbia would involve an outlay of millions >1 dollars. Favors a Port, Not a Waterway Commissioner White appears to be somewhat mixed as to tbe geography of Cape May County, aa tbe harbor at Cape May, with which tbe State inland watei way connects, is Cold Spring Harbor, not Stone Harbor. For tbe rest, it may be said that the proposed extension would resell New York Bay on north, allboogb the propoaition to cat a canal across Cape May County to Delaware Bay was not included. Abandoning the waterway project altogether, Commisaioner White frankly avows himself as favoring more government expenditures at Atlantic City or "harbor'' work for that resort. He is

quoted as follows:

Conttnutd on Eighth Page.

Divided on Merits ol New Proving Grounds Thera is a strong division of opinion in Atlantic County over tbe establishment of the Bethlehem Steel Company's proving grounds at May’s Landing and Tuck shoe. The town of May's Landing, and tbe mainland in general, is unanimously in favor of opening tbe gronuds, while tbe hotel intereete of Atlantic City are opposing it. Bills have been introduced in thr Legislature by Assemblyman Richards, of Atlantic, to curtail the work of the Steel Company ana in protest against their enactment into laws, Freeholder Ira T. B. Smith, of May’s Landing, write* in part aa followe to Mr. Richards: “Your statement that the Cape May proving ground baa proven an annoyance to toe people of that place ia certainly not founded on fact. Tbe people of that section are greatly concerned at the prospect of losing this indnatry, which bas given steady employmeat the year round and bas proven one of the beet thing* that ever happened for that part of the county. Fully eighty per cent of tbe one hundred employees are Cape May people, many of them farmer* wbo have given np farming to work on the grounds. Your statement that the employees have nearly all been imported from tbe parent plant is therefor*

nntree.

“If you are for the best interests in tbe vicinity of May’s Landing, as von state, you cannot be otherwise then in iavor of tbs project. Our people are unanimous in their approval ol it. “Youi comparison of the guns of France with the project here does not appeal k> me aa logical. The guns abroad are fixed for working injury to a foe and are iu no wny equipped to reduce noise and shock. We are assured by company officials that tiiousamis of dollars will be expended for special foundations to absorb shock and for walla to throw the noise d<

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The parties from Avalon and StouA Hat- . bor, who came oy auto, had enoogti by 1 the time they got to Ocean City, and all stayed for the nigbt, the guests of th* I Board ol Trade. ‘

“We do not believe the grounds will

arc Atlantic Oily. May

If v

we would apt advocate them."

Democratic Newspapers Disagree on Stille Measure The Democratic Wildwood Sun, speaking of a bill Introduced in tbe Legislature last week by Assemblyman Stille, aays: “Tbe Bun commends Assemblyman Stille, of Cape May County, upon tbe introduction of a bill designed to aboliab the office of Commissioner of Education at a salary of 810,000 and sabstitnling therefor a State Superintendent r.t l ary of 85000, and requiring more of the work to be done by the County Superintendent*, and we hope he will succeed in haring it passed. It niesus home rule for our echools. Of late years our school system bss become cumbersome and expensive end there bae been general dissatisfaction. There is a prevailing opinion Uiat a return to the old days when each locality or municipality regulated its own schools, without the dictum from seme oue wbo ia not familiar with local conditions, will be preferable to our present system. There is no thing that will bring you more honor and prestige iu your own county and throngbout the State than tbe correction and revision of our school laws such a manner aa to lighten the burden of taxation, without interfering with their efficiency The Somers Point Record, Atlantic County's Democratic organ, beads its artie'e “btiile—The Tool,’’ and contin-

•'A legie'.ative measure fostered by Governor Edge waa given to AsaembK - man Stille, of Cape May, to introduce this week, which abolishes tbe 410,000 office of Commissioner >>( Education and substitutes for it the office of Slate Superintendent, whose pat is to be fisoou. It ia regarded as a political measure designed to remove Commissioner Kendall, a Democrat." Di.ipomnjr of your property t»y Will is one thim;; the selection of a suitable executor is uuite another. And yet both become a very rimplv matter when you invoke the aid ef the Security Trust Company, of Cape May City. H. J. to -teseirteta* wmr rotate.

All Through the County

—Tbe work of the Cape May County Mosquito Commission is going ahead rapidly and before summer it is hoped to have the salt meadows drained aa far north as the Rio Grande roed into Wildwood. At preeent sluice gates are being installed at Pond creek, a stagnant body of water in Lower township, in which millions of moaqnitoes herd. Tbe State work is at tbe northern end of the coonty, in the vioinity of Beeeley'e

Point.

—That Cape May County is to com* into its own as a manufacturing and ind us trial centre ia being proven by tbe developments all around. Tbe latest word is that Henry Purd, the Detroit automobile manufacturer, baa purchased a tract ol land containing twenty scree at the edge of Cape May harbor and that be intends to erect e plant for the manufacture of automobile and marine engines. 840,000 is said to be the price paid for the land, which borders on the harbor with a depth of forty feet of water at iu front. —Few persons realise tbe greatness of the fishing industry in Cape May County. At Angleaea alone 6,000,000 pounds of fish are shipped to tbe city markets annually by the pound-net fishermen, while the band-line fishermen and pleasure fishing parties add greatly to tins vast total. In tea Isle City the pound-net fishermen shipped during tbe season of 1916 by freight 16,123 barrels of fish and 5000 barrels by express, making a total of 21,123 barrels, or 4,224,600 pounds. Tbe 1016 season was a poor one in comparison to other years, and it is safe to estimate that in 1915 and 1914 at least a million more pounds were chipped. Stone Harbor has its pound-net fishery, and another operates st Ocean City, adding greatly to the tots' caught in the county. —Tlx special election held at Ocean City last Tuesday resulted in the entire bond issue of 838,000, which was voted upon, being carried. Of this turn 820,000 will be spent to enlarge tbe present municipal music pavilion, so that more people will heve seating room to bear tbe free orchestra music, which seems to have preference over the customary brass band. Tbe balance of toe bond issue will go for improvements to tbe wharf at Fourth street and a new drain at Twelfth street.

Grammar School Baseball Schedule Following is the 1917 baseball schedule of the Cape May Coonty Grammar

School League:

March 24 — Dennisville at Woodbine; Court House at South Seavilie; West Cape May at Rio Grande. March 31 — Woodbine at Dennisville; Court House at West Cape May; Rio Grande at South Seaviile. April 7—South Seaviile at Rio Grande; Woodbine at Coart Hoaee; DenuisvtUe at West Cape May. April 14—Rio Grande at Court House; Weal C«pe May at Woodbine; South Seaviile at Dennisville. April 21—Woodbine at West Cape May; Court House at Rio Grande; Dennisville at South Seaviile. April 28—South Seaviile at Woodbine; West Cape May at Court House, Rio Grande at Dennisville. May 6—Woodbine at Rio Grande; Weet Cape May at Dennisville; South Seaviile at Court Hoose. May 12—Rio Grande at West Cape May; Court House at Dennisville; Woodbine at South Seaviile. May 2t>—Dennisville at Rio Grande; Weal Cape May at South Seaviile; Court House at Woodbine (morning). June 2—South Seaviile at West Cape May; Rio Grande at Woodbine; Dennisville at Conn House.

Chester A. Mine*, wbo with his wife, children and close relative* to the number of nine were killed in toe wreck of a Pennsylvania train outside of Philadelphia on Tueada , was a close friend and classmate of Dr. Ciareuoe W. Way, oi See lale, and Thomas E. Ludlam, Jr both of whom attended Princeton I'ui-

venity with him.

Don't blame the editor if the new* you would like to see printed in this column does not appear. We arc only human, and unless you tell us what's what we cannot spread the good word. Send or brine in your news items. W« will apprecwte it.

CHAMBER DISCUSSES THE ELECTRIC LINE Most Spirited Meeting ol the Organization in Ucean City on I uesday Harmony, unity of purpose and cooperation between the municipalities or the County, aud between tbe civic nodies of these municipalities and tbe railroads and other public utilities, were the chief topics discussed at the meeting ol the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, held in the City Hall, Ocean City, on last Tuesday evening, February 27th. The meeting was the best from every point of view, held since the organization of the Chamber two years ago, and the Interest that is being taken in the work of the Chamber could not have been belter demonstrated than by the presence of the reperesntaUon of every member-organiaxtion In tbe Chamber, many coming miles through the worst roads that Cape May County bas seen

In years.

The chief speakers of tbe evening were Richard T. ColUngs, of Collingswood, Treasurer of the Delaware River Bridge Commission; Joseph A. McNamee, City Treasurer of Atlantic City; S. P. I>eeds, President of tie Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, and Thomas J. Headlee, State Etymologist and head of the Mosquito Extermination work in the Stole. WANTS HELP ON BRIDGE Mr. Colllngs staled that he had Interested three Counties in the building of the bridge across the Delaware Rlrer, and that the New Jersey State Grange had passed a resolution endorsing the work, and a number of Philadelphia organizations bad token 11 np, among them tbe Chamber of Commerce, and that he would like tbe Cape May County Chamber to pass a resolution layering the. ABfijeci and asking that tbs Freeholders look into it, and if they see their way clear to make a small aontribution toward the preliminary expenses of the surrey, etc., of the bridge. Tbe resolution was properly presented and adopted after Mr. Collings concluded. SEASHORE RESORTS' OBJECT Joseph A. McNamee spoke on tbe Industry of tbe seashore resort, stating that no other single industry, manufacturing or agricultural, brought as uM’cfi money Into the State ol New Jersey as the industry of the Seashoi e resorts. The object of the resorts, he staled, was to sell health and pleasure, and that this must be sold to a discriminating public. He advised that tbe resorts pay more attention to tbe cultivation of the cottage trade, calling particular attention to the benefit the cottager Is lo the resort. ••The cottager Is not organised", said the speaker, “and represents a capital, or worth of from three thousand to perhaps fifty thousand dollars. The hotel, on the other band, is a highly organized business, and represents in some cases investments running into tbe millions of dollars. The cottager helps the hotel and the hotel helps the cottager, but the latter. Just at this time, deserves attention and encouragement. There are thousands of people right nearby wbo don’t know of the comfort, economy aud pleasure of renting a cottage at tbe shore for th*

season."

After advising that the cottage advantages should be well advertised, Mr. McNamee continued that ho was (tad that the Board of Freeholders has appropriated money for advertising purpose* this year, aud stated that th* advertising should work to Fie greater good of the County. In concluding be stated that no mutter wmtl a man was worth, or what kind of a life he led. tbe poor man who gave the best In him to his community was worth more than the ricbe*t man who does not give so much His address was followed by much applause. ABOUT MOSQUITOES Mr Headlee. on the question i>r moeqsiloes, gave a very Interesting ralk, xml caused a small sensation when hs slated that he could now take any man with open mind, aud convince him In two month* that the salt marsh moequitoef. of the variety that mak* Ilf* merry in Cape May County, could be exterminated completely with proper drainage, lie continued that thsr# were 53,000 acres of "losqulto breeding marshes In this County, and that to date eleven per cent of these had been drained. In Atlantic County flfty-Cv* Per cent of tbe marshes have hewn - (Ceatiaitew on aage 81 ^