It. J.

BepresentathrM Frequently Derelict in

W

(Xtyebur* rms “th« blit* tide of the Conlederocy."

Oettrcburf lie* In PennsytTimlm. nboot ttilrty-Ove mile* •omliweat Karri*bnrc. A •leep/. unlmiwrtant PennuylranU ritlnfe. It posacaaed oo Uralejlc Importunre and but for ac1 ddrat probably nercr arould ba*» i aerred aa the theater of the createst bottle of oor Qnl coofllet. l^e. d»-m-tltur hia prat Invnaloo of the North.

Gettysburg.

battle fought on the flm. aecood and third days of July In IMS. marked tha turning point of the American OtH

ASHIN'GTON.—“Pap-, ‘he man down there aald they were la committee wir . The war did Indeed eontlnaa of the whole, but that aut aU at them, ta ttr 'TJo, son. There are for two years more, hut It wna Gettyagoly forty-nine praaent. and there are 4K memberv" -Then why do they burg which broke the military power II 1! committee of the whole houseT" j ^ u,* South; which decided that the Right here papa, hot being a par- jt-Q . _ 1 United Btatca of America ahould ennwntarlaa. waa stumped and had to , dure, the united country of a ft**

tdmlt It to the boy. Others tn the bonne of representatives gallery wondered with the boy. who unconsclonaly bid <lisplayed n bit of delicious Irony it the expense of Ibe nation's lawBiker*. No bouse session In the last month has seen more than one-fourth of the total membership present, and •eommlttM of the whole" Is rather of fi joke thar anything else.

tr-mrluJoMly t^orttnt Pice. or-tW«.U«l: I ^ „„ rf A. P. HUP. if hTT “'’“Si? i "i—r. Onlrtor.,. ™rp^-!™pU«l H lr P’** InroraBce bill. , t u h T tbc hop. of olonlnln* The Fll-538-000,000 bond and certificate measure. | ^ or< b nrrie uiy Into the hatnAt nr- time during diacuaslaL of the last-namel bill were there more than ^ u+rnmp involved In ” t:i'-ml>era on the floor of the bouse. Rarely during the insurance discussion J hatriT with Buford s Feddid more tbsa 90 show themselves. . . . a i™i-ion Revnnirii cm-

U n.hlngton, accustomed to anything in the way of congreastonal behavior, ^ >n lnflint t0

.i-s. hartor. has hardly raised an eyct.row at tRs queer, not to any naive. Bafon , ^ ^ ^ the nr of handling Important national buslne**. But the casual visitors with }~\. . of the first found B-h'.ng better to Jo than to visit the house have frequently remarked on the ■ bolding the line on dtut tlon. . tbe Oemetery Hill position. They had A faithful handful of representative* have been fairly regular In at- .j back by superior numbers l-tdance. but by far the great majority have not shown themselves at the ^ ^ particularly In a ,*,,,.,1 la weeks. -mn«a In the family- and "nece-aty bnrinem" must be ^ at1ork ^ b thp redoubtable n-;--risible, oa alleged, for absences, because It Is an off-year for elecriooa. Jub>1 ^ Ewell's corpr. SHU

| they maintained a formidable poalOoo

Notable Gift te United States National Museum ed Federal commander, decided

make his stand. Three more cc

T ill; United States National museum at Washington has recently received *** and pnt os exMMdoa a notable collection, of aworda. unlfortas and ] I ^**°*“"

mlxt-Uaneoua relics of MaJ. Gen. George B. McClellan. These mementos Thanks to a mlsunderstandlnr be-

were n gift to the museum from George »"e«* Lee and Loogutroet. wtm .was B. McClellan of Princeton university. I ,0 ^ F ^™ 1 lrft - ft.- ... -.f whleb there are 00 ^ momln * ^ ‘be a.'COBd, Uke Na-

tntpreatTns I loleoo's attack at Waterloo, was long

nine, are perhaps the most lntere«ln* * . Northern armr

OFFICERS

Director

HENRY S. RUTHERFORD

Vice-Director

AUGUSTUS HILTON F. W. FOWKES Sea Isle City County Collector JOS. L SCULL Ocean City

Solicitor

JOSEPH DOUGLASS Cape May Court House

County Engineer

LEAKING M. RICE WUdwood

. deter Lee from following

hl« original plan. He was determined •hat Pickett ahould make his grand as•■un. In preparation, Alexander, the (Vmfcdcrate chief of artillery, opened with one long' line of seventy-fire gens, while sixty-five of Bill's guns came into action on the left. Against tbcvr the Federal*, cramped for space, -wnld oppose but aerenty-fiva, and the fir* of these was soon stopped that

trTattMk! ** brl<1 t0 ^ ln ^ n " DANIEL SCHELLENGER Erm* Longstreet still certain the result Me “ orf * wH b* only failure, could not bring : DAVID W. RODAN.. .Cape May City Idmvelf to order the advance, but j Steward of Almshouse Mronly befor# two In the afternoon j LEWIS T. DOUGLASS Pickett himself asked and obtained ; Cape May Court House •crmlsdon to go forward. Superintendent of Soldiers* Burials There fallowed one of the Besides-; J0HN w REEVES.. .Cape May City

*«>'« charges In history, besld.

Custodian of Court House

LEWIS S. SMITH

Cape May Court House

Farm Demonstrator

J. ARCHER STACKHOUSE

Cape May Court House

LIST OF MEMBERS

-4§- , w ft -

t «v nine, are per naps we tn-.-vx intereauug i ■ .. ... feature of the collection. The most, «Tl^

striking of thsss Is a ^Id-momued “f**

sword set with peart* pnwented to ^ rights W* McClellan by a number of cUU«m of , aamult wben ltjttd Boston In ’563, In recognition of bis <k3 ^*' services during tbe Civil war. The mU pr ^ nr11 " oI

scabbard ts Inscribed. “To MaJ*r General Georg? B. McClellan, from i s...=» aw Ms mea go down Ilka Uo pin*. .. . while he himaeif lost a leg.

SX-OT ttri™ •" "» »' '’"”■“1“ . . I . _ _ n.-™.-! tlnna mV Tof B.ld Little

srtiirh, when one reckons la loss of life, such an exploit as that of the light Brigade at Balaklava becomes almost child's play. To reach the line the Virginians had to cross LSOO yards of ground swept by terrible rifle and artillery fire. All three at Pickett's brigadiers went down, two killed and one. Kemper, desperately wounded. The Union troop*. Gibbon's filvl-dnn and a part of tbe Second corp*. all under Hancock, held un-

filn- hlngly. lieutenant Cushing, com- | Earns. Address, District Ftrpressnfad Standing s battery, held In his entrails i Term Expires on January 1st of

with one hand while with the other he the Year Opposite Nama. helped roll a gun Into position, cry- OCEAN CITY tog «>ut. “Give them one more shot. Address. Ocean City

Webb." The slaughter was frightful. John P. Fox I# 1 * but the dauntless Virginians actually John E. Townsend Wl»

broke Meade's first line before they! SEA ISLE CITY withered under the fearful lire and. ‘ Address. Sea Isle City

abandoned by their support, fell bock. Theo. E. DeBow p® Bflr-.dlor GMiml a.n.«t. who M F E-uUc WO

leaped the wall with his hat on his ( WILDWOOD sword, died under a Union gun car- Address, Wildwood

Hage. i Augustus Hilton 1M* This ended the battle. Afterward Charles W. Saul 1918

there was only a retreat which might | NORTH WILDWOOD rout, had the Union troo;* | Addreas North W ildwood.

John H. Stratton Leri Dickenson Ensm Cass. Shields (jap* Ms* Walter Rutherford Cold SprtbB

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE OF THB COUNTY OF CAPE MAT O lira Cape May City—James J. Doak Rueben Ludlam Ocean City—Jaroma S. Rush Frank H. Ware Arthur D. Barrows,Police Jncttcm See Isle City—Alfred S. Steelman Edward C. Stevens Wildwood—Girard Livexey H. C. Schlichting B. C. IngeraoU J. Charles Fach M. L. Branin Georgs L Shaw Boroughs North Wildwood—A. M. Ely Stone Berber—S. E. Herbert George J. Rummtl West Cape May—David Hughes Woodbine—J. S. Levin Mcrris Levin Townships Dennis—A. E. Holmes, DennisviBa Thomas J. Darrell, Belleplaln Middle—L- T. Garretson, Cape May Court Honaq Luther M. Swain, Swaintoa Lower—Frank El dredge. Cold Spring Upper—James Shoemaker. Tuckaboo

ASSESSORS OF CITIES.BOROUGSB AND TOWNSHIPS OF THB COUNTY OF CAPE MAY

Cities

Cape May City J. Allen Walam Ocean City Dr. H. T. Foulds Sea Isle City Wm. J. Fox Wildwood Lynn H. Boys*

Address. Cape May City

Frightful was the alaugfathe Peach Orchard, where

] Gen. Dsn Sickles bolding an

IT>- nee aarpe. pro patria

iih] by McOedan In tbe Civil war. a dress sword and a service swjru. The o(S«T swords 1c the collection commemorate Ms Mexican war service, me dress award haring been presented to Mm “bv ■ pombtr of geotlemen as • t-ttiannial at their high admiration fir his gallantry during th> war with B.i'm. First, at the siege at Vera Crus; s-cond. the battle of Cerro Gordo; third, bottle of Contreras; fcxrth. bottle of Cburubuoco; fifth, Chapul«pec;

«r.h. capture a? the City of Mexico "

Another of the swords carried tn the Mexican war is a service saber ritk a small piece of the blit broken away. The donor of the collection ■rite*; “A piece of the hilt «f this sword was carried away by v bnUet

■t!< h slightly wounded General McOeHan In tho Jia»d.“

Among the other relics of this gr.nt American general are several uni f-ra - spur*, field glasoeo. revolver*, powder flasks, sad s number of mors

Mr»-sj*l relics.

lying bio n>en. am- - - —.

SO,.... out of a total approximating CAPE MAY CITY_ Tfi-OT*. Cf Ptcketf# division, which -.

.-500 3J03 l-fl

on the field. Meade* loose* were Zl.000 out of 82.000. but the Confederacy hod attained Its greatest sutcea* and had seen that succeas wane into hop*

less failure.

Round Top remained by

oversight unoccupied. TbvHr pomeo■Uou might have been obtained by tbe Onufederatea rad might have spelled for them victory had not tha error been dlaeovrrnd by Gen. O. K. Warren. Meades engineer officer. Perceiving throe crests to b# occupied only by algnstm and real.sing their tremendous paoolbllllle* Warren hastily diverted aome Maine regiments who scrambled to the top* and there found themselves almost Inst: ally «-n- ; gaged with eagerly advancing Southern

P REStDSMT WILSON'S mall hag l* the largeM In the world. Thousands ,-olumra. The struggle here was denuf letters arrive dally, and every one of any Importance must hav, the I perote, but In the end the Maine

-ration of America's first ritUen. Of course, the president Is p^rsU^

ot shlo to read all his corr.-oj-oodeoee j However Loogatrect and Hill actualIf. This difficulty t- overcome ^—F& I Nl ! ly broke through tbe main tine of the ■ arafnlly develoiwd system by wgye-bf il^MAU. J Third Federal corps, though because ■tick the cooteots of the While llojor W*_j**\’ r 9T^^.JL 111 >» thev wePe not property supported the

Many Clerks Needed to Handle President’s Wail

'•ag of any Importance are ■ • •r Ur. WUann each day.

The wort of selection falls upor a •■T« -f confidentl* 1 clerk*, who open

Mter* and give them a first rvadI hen they are carefully sorted,

'-•"y "f them are alm|>l> rvci*aa>eorts ua» for office. Thee*, after coartroua

are referred to the

K-;-rr

brigades which achieved this feat anon driven out again. Ewell awej* over Culp's MIL where the defending force had bare much reduced, hut Early's attempt to storm Cemetery

Mil was repulsed.

With the coming of night Meade j found that with M< Unr no longer a horw-whoe. hut pnilongcd to tbe left.

Boroughs

Avalon R. W. Rosenbawss

, _ - Cape May Point Norman itigsr pressed their advantage or hud Lee Jobn w T on „. 1W0 j North Wildwood Robert Bright been less prompt and skillful la ml- ~ . ysao South Caps May...Albert J. Rudolph

Tbe CoofrJeratea loot ''“ja --

..191*

Modem fiobyioa.

Forty Uiflr* from Now Tork

dlrvctlou of Ih flln aud Just behlud tbs Still' Fire Island lighthouse, which we used

to trail from botm-comlng liners fa the gond old day* before the war, Jos. P. MacKissk.

when cats might look at king* tnd the 1

Henry S. Rutherford 1918

UPPER TOWNSHIP Address, Tuckahos

Hope W. Gandy 1919

DENNIS TOWNSHIP

Aildross, (Peermoutl Avr'.on Levi Wsntxsll 191*

MIDDLE TOWNSHIP

Address. Cope May Court House •11 H. Townsend 1929

LOWER TOWNSHIP Address. Rio Grand*

- — ' 1918

Stone Harbor Hugh McMurtris West Csoo May Harry S. Flahas Wildwood Crest William E. ZaUar Woodbine Israel EisenbsrK.

Township*

Dennis Roll* Hewitt. Ocean View Middle ...V. N. Errieson. Dias Craek Lower Chas. C. Bohm, Cold Spring Upper George Hoff. Tuckahon

TAX COLLECTORS FOR CITIES BOROUGHS AND TOWNSHIPS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY. atks

«. ™Tor.- I UertO City, , V..

dows of the Roe de U Pa x » r «thoo- g,, of e , ch month at the Court House. : Sea Ule City L * -K-i" - .. at lOJfi A. M.j Wildwood..

being classed as a casus bellL Is Baby- M>y Court Hi

Ion, Ralph Barton write* In Cartoons

Magaxlne. What wag. what droll fal-1 STANDING COnMITTEES

low ever thought of choosing the name

Steinmeysx bert J. Kay

Boroughs

low ever thougnt ot cnoowng me name —^uutTTFV ASSIGNMENTS FOR ! •;• Wslter A. Smit^

land, cl sin and flatfish village, the ***". I 'ki.'Xhiti «SS2 cfcronletcs fail to reUte. It- ALMSHOUSE—Fox. Bannett. Gandy, 1 Harbor .*.^'.Clarenc# 0. Letxto* hang right aide up. and bear volitoei ^ H- Townsend. Wentxell. , West Cane May Harry T. Ludlam in a highly respectable and patriotic BRIDGES _Wrntxell. Bonnett, Fcx. Wildwood Crust • - ' v ’- ^*1* manner, and the one* Justly famous Eustace, Gandy, MacKissk, Saul i Woodbine Dr. Joseph Jafi*

daughters of Babylon are as scarce as p UBUC BUILDINGS — Bennett,

hanging garden*, for they simply do Wantxell. J- E. Townsend.

m.t exist. The moment the Babylon- B , UiS _ Eu$Ue<> Hilton. DeBnw

T. To—nirtd. Grt.,.

LUNACY—G.ndy. Foi. B.nom

' LIGBT1NG—Hilton. H.cKmir. J. t

'h-;>srtnu-uts and placed on file until the matter can be taken np far ^ he stood to danger of haring both hi*

UGHTING—Hilton.

Townsend.

ROADS—Rutherford. Bennett. DeBow. Eustace. I ox, Gandy. Hilton. MacKUsic. J. E. Towrsend.

S. H. Townsend, WsntxeU.

DISCHARGE OF PRISONERS-S. U.

it. but alnee Lee i • nr La Me NrU which can be trained to j Townsend.

t « ibe nn-riilcnt ought to see are clearly briefed— had gained uo roiuiaandtng suevvaa fl<wk». *a>* Uxulon TH-BIts- Not BURYING SOLDIERS AND SAILnf each letter, and on tMs Is a typewritteu un d since the necvwMUes «f the hour .udy dor* tbe yak-a-milk, a* It l* ORS—John W. “ ee ^' 1 -c nawt serious, he decided to fa- take the place of the sheep dog. hut I BOARD OF SCHOOL EbTIMATE—

of continuing the fighting. He had (is ireqpently used to guard the homo —^«.r.r»v»T KPHOOLS—SanL

cabinet , the advanloge of- Lee lu ..umbers and

he bad ermfidence In the stendtoeSS of

Upon thl* suiieriortty to

Hry uf

A.i Aerial Shepherd.

•..-iwrnneou ana mocru « use - ----- - , The gallant little republic of Yes ruUoo. Uundr-iJr of the mlarivra are purely lonnaL or contain Iro- ; jfeaks lumed. In council with Ms Cxrpo ,uela. which may shortly come in roqueatSL Theac are IniUHvIlvt.iy answered hr the staff and signed commanders he eucountured serious ; tb.- side of tbe alllca. boasts of a

" "f the president '• a-al'tnnt a.-efetarie*. a slip la ptonevl at thi —

of Its root ruts, trill a* who (he writer 1* and what he he* to prvoentnily the president I* suffirtrntl} Uncreated by th« brief to cense hit" • '.tie whole Uttar, gamettraeo the coinmunlcatlon Is referred to a *“ - to which case the slip i* retained at the WMte House and filed.

Washington Watches Daring Military

ilNG Italian mtlltai '•J a gluut botiiMu^

uuow. to two battle plane, of Ugh'Mng speed, ,e cure'lug ten posoedgera. gave fficlnl MashS uhst the American «'l*th'U corps must Uo to

strike German} through the Ur. All three airplane* flew without accident from Langley field, near Newport New*. Va, to Washington In lesa than two hour*. The distance was approximately 120 mlleo. ond the average bright maintained was 7.000 feet. ~ In tbe great Capronl bombing machine. which bos a wing spread of 85 feet and 525 borac-power engine*, there w ere aoveral governmeot officials, who

C .njoyrd the trip iiumenoely. suffering

uo tocooveuleiic* whatever. After at*

be** twa of the airplanes thrilled thousands of apectator* with feats virglnU dlririor. which conaUtutad ^r. wMch fiUed thehlghrat otterra of the rignal corps of »*»• ■'“J » ,th I iwrt of Lougrirvet s corps. LongSlaed a.1ml rollon *trv t hlmsrif never believed this with the flight of the great Capronl machine over rtmrge could have a chance id sue-

..— U-hl._ It, Wl., 1 .m ...

J farce ls tui>c-d the amusing

Auiatnrc tbe ConfcdirotP scout, related at the nviaiuia ^ni.m lu 10UL He declared that

creeping to the Federal camp to the darkness he dlaoovired that “the Yanks had all creation." rincc he dls

tlnctty bi-ard the conuuand:

“Universe attention! Continent* fall to! By nation*, right wheel!" Also to the night Lee changed M« plan. Duddtog that Loagsireet ahould nut press Ms rttavk over the broker, ground, he directed that Kw-U should resume M* hamiuertog of Mrade's ex trams right whllo the overwhoiudag blow ahould be detivered by an attack on tbc center, comparable with lb< charge of the Guard at Waterloo. For this d :ty there were assigned the tro>>ps of Wckotrt fresh and iqdeBdld

rMch coastituted

rrrinT. of peraonTand the “bombtog" of tbe WMte House | leomaller mwhlnes with bouquet* of flow era. dropped from a great , of the army and nary who witoeooed tbe lanbng ^ *be thi ad the wotJorfal atrial feat* wMcb they later todulgedln. did i oay that the United Bute* has yet a bmg way to S” before It c

uDera at me d..u»v bbu oeoate were prawenu and they * ( i iliu ^UetK-y Of Uo iuh.-u m-w hiima ami lh« “X

Between Mm and Iww there ever afterwaru Mlteniew. But aa f. the charge lurit It waa moot gallan ! ly delivered. It alnuMt won. " Meade began t.’.e fighting on G third Hay by aiming a heavy counter

! off.-»i

of tta am. ..

When the Indiana capture a yak-a-milk they find tittle difficulty in training It to domestic use. It I* attached lu the farmyard and perform* the same dull.* as a faithful watchdog. A vsk-a-ndlk warn learns to know- and .dwy the voice of It* master. It* usual gait Is slow and sedate, but antuctimca It will execute Uwwt eccentric movement*. w aiding and plrpurtttog to a very absurd fa-Mon. Instance* ore recorxled where tbe*» strange »*lrd* have defended their charge* from attacka of Wild and savage animals, and even

driven them off.

VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS-Saul.

Bennett-

•at of Kadoranee.

rudurwnev Is seldom l

svreceJy as among tbe puatal

Hm

COURT AND COUNTY OFFICERS Address: Cape May Court Houae

Supreme Court Jcstice

HON. CHARLES C. BLACK

Circuit Court Judge

HON. HOWARD CARROW

Common Fisas Judge

HON. HENRY H. ELDREDGE Clerk of Courts and County Clerk A. CARLTON HILDRETH

Deputy Clark of Court* and County

Ctrk

STERLING W. COLE.

Township*

.H. M. Carroll. DennistHI*

Lowar....Scott Seymore. C

OVERSEERS OF THE POOR OF CITIES. BOROUGHS AND TO WUSHU'S OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY.

Cities.

Cape May City A. G. Bennett Ocean Oily T. Ue Adam* Sea Islo City Arndt Gordo* Wildwood N. A. Cohen Borough*. Avalon K. Ncvdham Cape May Point Peter krupp North Wildwood ....Thomas Coream

West Cape May ... Wild wool Crest— „ „ • Woodbine TewnsMpa. Dennis . .Geo. S. Robinson. DennisvilW I Middle i Lower Jerry H. Woolso* 1 Upper . .Wm. S. Eidrvdge, PeUrebur*

,f the Chinese guwrumeut Iktwceo IVklug and Lhassa. Throe imwsengers are picked and tralm-d men. who in tunes of greet urgency are required to cover ...••X) mile* between Uh* two capltala, on boraeback. to SJ

day*, ir 125 miles a day.

i:.e nwswcnger'a letters, inclosed In n yellow Img. are uever taken off hi* l-uck except when he change* Ms drawa, once a week. Ue changes horara every few mile*, wsta aud ri.e»io to postal stations, is under ihe wort

at Culp's MU. which after ! r.gtd reatrtctlon* aa to astfcle* of diet. , f fighuirt was retaken 1 «ud l* iHrmitled to rie-4' only four UO

CMifederatoa. Thl*. how-. bouf* a day.

CITY. BOROUGH AND TOWN SHIP CLERKS OF THE COUNTY OF CAPE MAY

Cit Iro

Cape May City William Porte* Ocean City Harry \ Moral* Sea Isle City - I vmg Wildwood Junes E. WhitoeeO

Borough*

Sheriff

ROBERT S. MILLER

Deputy Sheriff MEAD TOMLIN

Surrogate Avalon............ R- W. Kosenbawo rnWAKD L RICE Cape May Point U. H. Boat Prosecutor of the Pleas South Cape May Elvin B. Martin EUUENK C. COLE Stone Harbor Leo P. Me Or* raw

letter*, tucloseo in & . , I u/TV, r*na Mav Theo W Rorvoe “r rt.TJ' S; j l.

— — —. j TowaaMpo O T TbIT Dennis . Osman M. Gearv. IV.-.rdsvtns iKirl JL Middle.. - A. T. D. Hewvf’. Was Crrah i..,.- Lover Charles C. Reeve*."-Cape Mo» ■ ■'TOA* ' " iionor Joase T Young.Brasler i Pottfi SALE BILLS Upper... .Alfred B. Sapp. Fet*rahaa»