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[ VOL. XXXJU.—NO. S NEWS NOTES OF FUST WEEK

AND CLEANINGS OF | PERSONAL CHARACTER; LITTLE OF INTEREST ABOUT *LXS YOU KNOW OATHEREO « THE CIRCUIT OF THE CITY.

ATLANTIC COAST NEWS SEA ISLE CITY, N. J„ FRIDAY. JANUARY 18, 1918

unty Times

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L CwoSln* CroMcker wu a mulr trots as attack at rheumatism T part of this week. l William StHpelmaa has given tdoa ta the local post office. m llrtns Is Philadelphia, buabaad Is employed. » Sea laic City Water Company, d of the Electric Llsht Com «ed to thaw out the supply ighout the tows os Tuesday ft Wednesday with the aid of electn-

D the office of W. W. , attorney for the Twltchell . were ta tows last Friday apC the raal estate boldines of Mr. a Twltchell. who died In Norem

M. Strutbers cune down i PhiUlpaborg last week long

> to pay hU tnoome tax and say k»“ to bis many friends here. He

i his brothers for the winter,

o he Is now down at Avon-by-tbe-l with Captain Cole. Superintend-

t the New Jersey Coast Guard* t Speer and J. P. Delaney, Jr.. I to Philadelphia on Tuesday Dan returned on Wednesit Jerry Intends to remain away

I balance of the winter, baring

ployment In the Quaker

FREEHOLDERS FIRE DAVID RODAN. Abolish Office of Sealer of Weights and Measure- at Tuesday's

Meeting.

By a resolution of the Board of Freeholders. at their regular meeting at Court House, on Tuesday, the office Superintendent of Weight* and Me* urea for Cape May County was abolished. Thus was David W. I Cape May City, legislated out of a perfectly good *1200 p*-r year >ob. which he has held for years. The action of the Board likes effect on February first, and the Stole department has been notified that the oty will be without a “sealer" after that time. If the State compel* the Board to continue the office. Rodan will still be out In the cold, and another man can be named to fill hi* place. The appropriation ordinance for 1*1* was finally adopted, there being oo objectors present

NEW PRESIDENT OF TIMES COMPANY. At a meeting of the Directors of the Cape May County Times Company, in the office of Attorney W. W. Smithera. Philadelphia, on Saturday last William A. Haffert was elected President. to fill the term of Selden TwitcheU. deceased. Mr. Chas. O'Conner Inue* as Treasurer, and C Schuck. as Secretary. It was also decided al the meeting to build an addition to the present building occupied by the TIMES, to add about 300 additional feet of floor apace.

WOULD SPEND STIITEmFOR RESORT BOULEVARD

<KE Note—Tb* following nrtkk prepared by Reeae P. Rtoley. of Stem Harbor, la worthy of careful pemsaJ and earnest consideration It ope

t- E. Church Tea was held at e of Mrs. Virginia Chaster on r afternoon, and the Lulhrra at the home of Mias Brufl on f well attended. Parent

Wolfram, of Philadelphia, achy Mtotf Rae Hahn, of Sea i City, enjoyed (?) a dip In the anuary 6th. when Wolf- ■ a wall known swimmer, ©ecua cottage at Whale Beach during immer. and seemed to enjoy his ■ did Mias Hahn. DUPLE HAVE ICY BATH IN MAGNOLIA LAKE.

| Mr. Danle] Speer and Mis* Margaret rr. both of Sea Isle City, had an r bath In Magnolia Lake at Ocean . on Friday night of last week. d the Ire on which they were i oke through i Miller was on a sleigh b 1 by Speer, and at the West end Lake, got on thin Ice over a M.a* Miller was first to break . with Speer following a close Cries lor help brought no re(peer managed to get Mias ■m ice, and followed him The water at the point of the arid la shout fire feet deep, with mud bottom . Miss Miller was taken to the shack the Lake's edge and was given n clothing, and was brought home the automobile of Herman Diamond . Speer went to the home of P inueo. and got what comfort be could ram a red hot stove, until an auto s procured to take him home. Neither t uttered any til effects McCORMACK CASE POSTPONED UNTIL APRIL COURT TERM

i rase at Donald R. McCormack, ed *«f assault and battery upon H. A Volght McCormack, will >isw up for trial until the April id court, according in Prosecutor ir Cole i statement made this week. Mink denies the stories that have red about him. staling that they al rehood*, and avers that the HU never eonw Ui trial tie furIVegm that 'be charge of bigamy i.-d against him In Pennsylvania rue. and that it will never «jOu

scribe tor the Cape May County i, »i« per year ... * -l

U. ». GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER THE HOTEL CAPE MAY On Tuesday , at Washington. D. C,

the government, under the Secretory of War orders, leased the new Hotel Cape May on the Beach front, far the

duration of war. It will be used a army hospital. The lease was ah

by the Secretory of War and the hotel company. This will give the govern-

ment an up-to-date with

dred and fifty private hatha, says the Cape May Star and Wave it will b? an ideal place for a base hospital, the new hotel Is classed among the beat upon the Atlantic Coast, having all the more modern Improvements known today In the hotel business This hotel cost s large sum of money when It was constructed s few years ago. and has become Cape May's fashionable hotel, where there Is to be found all that la worth while In the

RECENT DEATHS. MRS. DANIEL H. WHEATON. Mrs. Daniel H. Wheaton, wile at former Tax Collector Wbealoe. of Minerva Street. Sea Isle Cliy. died at her home on Tuesday evening, following an lllne** resulting from a fall New Tear's Day. Deceased was In her elghty-slxlh year, and had lived in Sea Isle City, for many year* Funeral service* are * held today at Calvary Church. Ocean View. Interment Calvary l

new possibility for the the All-Resort Boulevard without any cost to the County—meaning less tend ed debt for the taxpayers to uvuoDftslIy

P*y.)

The follow tag resolution wM -dts-l cussed at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce at Ocean City. Thursday evening. January ITth: "Resolved that we request our Sen* ator and Representative to secuf* the of legislation providing (or the completion of the ALL RE8f)KT AUTOMOBILE ROUTE by the expftndi ture of Cape May County* a hare gft tbc m.000 000.00 State Road Fuad th^- r Instead of spending the same am the permanent paving of County rauA." Bridges or Psvsd Ro*d«f The foregoing resolution wss - ed at the meeting of the ChamMr of Commerce on the evening of tbl December deluge the 13th ultlmajTfce

vote stood:

Yeas: Sea Ule City. Avalon. Wtoct Harbor; Nays: Wildwood and Cape May: absent (on account of the lack of a completed LridgwboulevaiB *ystem): Ocean City and Strathmeru The object of thl* Resolution, ai it plainly seta forth. Is to secure the u*e of Cape May County's share at the State Road Tax money on building the missing links in the bridge-boaM* ard system. Instead of on concreting the surface of forty-odd miles of mainland

The questions that

If the All Resort Bridge and Boulevard System were built, our visitors could come from Camden to Ocean City and thence to Sea isle City, Avalon. Stone Harbor, Wildwood and Cape May almost the entire distance on hard-sur-faced roads As It will be when the White Horse Pike U finished, the natural route will be from Camden to Ocean City, thence to Sea Isle via the new Corson’s Inlet Bridge, and thence over to the mainland and down the main seashore road to Cape May. Thus. Wildwood. Holly Beach. North Wildwood, Stone Harbor. Peermont. Avalon and Townsend’s Inlet will be the main line of travel entirely. What do the people of Five Mile Beach and Seven Mile Beach think ft that? 1 know what Stone Harbor thinks of 1L We think it is prrtty poor butt-

men.

A Paved Road Without Bridges It appears that the proposed concrete road will serve none of the resorts satisfactorily. As I understand It. this hard-surfac-ed road doesn’t follow the Mays Land-tng-Tuckaboe route and. therefore. n't connect with the State Ocean Highway until K reaches Marshall's

There will, therefore, be a gap of a dozen miles between Mays Landing and Tuckahoe which cuts off our road

from the White Horse Pike.

And what aboat the automobile travel from Atlantic City? It looks as If we were doing our best to keep It out of the County entirely—First, by eon.Ihem- tinu, - n * 10 charge toll on the

selves are of paramount importtic* (Cltj-Somer* Point Bridge, and by fall-

Which Is the most Importafil—the bridge-boulevard or a hard-aartftee on

Cape May County should gat over **00.000.00 Dorn the StoU Road Tax. How can it be spent so a* to be bf the t benefit to the people of satire

County?

This fund of **00,606.00 would buy and pay for the Ocean CttjvCotuers Point bridge and build, at Mast two of the other three as. Harsfort

C. B. WINTERS.

Mr. C. B. Winters. Secretary of the Strathmerc Development Company, and well known real estate man of Corson's Inlet died st hi* home in Ocean City on Saturday of last week, and was buried on Tuesday Death

was due to Bright'

Onr Job Work Advertises Itself

JpdlclBRS Advertising

|y *n aid buiioem. Pieserves many s large bbR&rm. Revives many s dull business. Rescues many a lost bwiacss. Saves many a fading busams.

Which would balp the development of the County the moat to Wildwood and Cape Mat*. Angles* j and Stone Harbor. Avalon and City or lay a concrete surface along the main Srashore Road and tl.r Go-Kben-DennisvlUe Road? Which would he the best but proposition—to buy the Ocean City Bridge and thus open up a frr* highway to Atlantic City or to pave s dozen lies or so of mainland roads? Why Follow Atlantic City's LndT The suggestion that our state mat | permanently pavod Las bee., zealously supported by Atlantic City largely because of the winter trade which Atlantic City enjoys. Good road* for Atlantic City's winter automohil' visitors are a necessity. Caps May County has no win nr hotel trade and few automobile tullors come Into the County In winter wheat the roads are likely to be bad But, In any event, we aha*) get the mefit of hard-surfaced road* all the way from Camden to Boaters Point, as the White Hors* like la to U paved

forthwith.

tag to push the construction of the Reoort Boulevard, ' hlch would more to attract Atlantic Clly visitors

than anything we could da

No Legal Objection to the Bridge

Plan.

Governor Edge has said that tl money derived from the State Bead Tax can be spent on building the Delaware River Bridge. If thl* is so. there Is no reason why It could not be spent on the Bridge-Boulevard System. The Bute shouldn't care how Cape May County spends It* share of the Road Tu Fuad so tang ss It is spent prop

atiy.

Cape May County should not allow tbl* great fund of over **00.000.00 to be used foolishly or by those who are Ignorant of our needs. What Cape May County wants Is to get people to its sea shore—Its front and Its coast resorts — by the Shortest and most direct route poasl-

‘ e.

Every mainland resident and taxpayer In the County 1* Interested In the growth of these seashore oommunities They are the best and moat conilmt markets the farmers and truck growers of the County have In which sell their product* If they are accessible, people won't come to tbi and If their hotels and cottages are empty, the off-shore people will feel it ta the decreased demand for fruits and vegetables Help the shore resorts and you are helping yourself If you are a farmer And the All Resort Bridge and Boulevard system will do more than any concrete road in front of your farm to swell your bank account st the end of the s

STATE LEGISLATURE OPENS SECOND WEEK. Assemblyman Lake Lending Efforts To Push Fisherias Bll Spectnl Corrsapondsec* to ta* Tien ton. N. J, Jan. 15.—At the bearing on Local OpUon held In the Senate Chamber on Monday afternoon, the Inference gathered, was not whether such measures would pass, but the debate resolved as to the form and the exactions of such legislation as proposed. The Liquor Dealers were divided a* to their opinion. One of their Representatives going so far aa to advocate the Insertion of “Bone Dry" clause ta the hills as originally Introduced. Wolverton Adds Spice To The Programme. Assemblyman Lake ettended an Informal dinner given by Speaker WoL rerton to the Chairmen of Committees of the House of Assembly. Mr. Wolverton urged that they attend to their respective duties, promptly and conscientiously, to assist In keeping unnecessary Legislation from Impedtbe progress of urgent measurer. Also the fullest cooperation was urged in order to facilitate a quick and efficient session. Pending Legislation Affecting The Industrie! of Capa May County. Among other emergencies mentloeed that needed Immediate attention, the Governor stales in his n ‘Again, distinctly war legislation should be carefully considered with the welfare of the whole country ta mind. Bills permitting the State cos trol of fisheries, and tnunlclpalHlet to buy and sell food and fuel in emergencies. are proposed. They should help s situation growing more serious

every day."

Assembly Bill No. 13. Introduced by Assemblyman T. J. Badgley of Essex County, covert the matter of State of fisheries ss suggested by the Governor. This measure provides for a State Board ol Fisheries consisting of five members, and empowers the Commission to lease or erect starts and warehouses for the conserving of the fish supply, and to buy. tore fish and to regulate ih* fishing Industry along the roast, and In the Raritan and Sandy Hook Bay. The members shall receive no com-

RES0RI5 HARD BIT BT EXCURSION STOPPAGE % ENTIRE COUNTY WILL FIGHT PROPOSES OI6CONTINUANCEVF DOLLAR SUNDAY EXCURSIONS; .STEP TO RAISE SUMMER RATE.

Practically every civic and commercial organisation in the County la lined up solidly against the attempt of the . Pennsylvania and Reading Railroads to discontinue the Sunday Dollar excursions from Philadelphia to the ■bore resorts. Application has been o the Interstate Commerce Commission, at W’aahtngton. D. C, for ’ permission to discontinue the service during the winter months, and many of the County's largest real estate operators and heaviest land holders see In the winter annulment of this service a step to raise the rate of the extrslon In the summer months. « The proposed discontinuance of the excursions must not be confused with the government control of railroads, and must not be thought to be a war measure. Neither the government or the war have anything to do with It. according to those who have been actively In touch with the situation. The application to stop the excuakna. 1 was talked of In the Pennsylvania and - Reading railroad offices two weeks before the government tuox over the

railroads.

Excursions Pay Wall. The Dollar excursion, are prafltabta to the railroads even during the winter months. Just a short time ago a railroad expert declared that a peace uld U- brought from Catndvm to the shore and return for SSc. and pay the operation expenses of the (Continued on peg* 4)

UTILITY BOARD WILL HOT ACT ON PROTEAT. Declines on Patriotic Grounds to Interfere With Plan of Railroads to Withdraw Popular Excursions to Seashore Resorts During Coming

Year.

We Are «t Yenr Service CsB «a t’a or CnU Ls Up £ aad We WB1 Yea

OPPOSING RAISING LIMIT OF COUNTY'S BONDS. Former Freeholder Director, In Letter to Times, States That County is Now Up to Debt Limit. Charles II. Clouting, former Dirac ■ of the Board of Freeholder*, la letter to this newspaper, strongly op poses the proposed legislation to to Ihe bonding limit of thr Coun-

ty.

The letter roads as follows 1 would like to ask the publlr pi the opinion of the large taxpa.'ers of Cape May County, on the bill now being prepared allowing Count Ir* to make latitude In bonding In my optu | tan. unices bunds are Issued (or an cinergwDcy work. Ih* Issuing «f bond* I* dangerous in many way* The taxes now imposed on the vttand resorts of the County are about to the limit of the wndunm ee of ihe taxpayer* On top of Ih la. the Government at Washington t» putting bond lasur* through at a pan xnlMard of. and by the Urn* they are !i-raagh. we will I*** mortgaged to the itu*H at our rasoureda. I aa mat fcrllrv that the property values on tti« shore re ■orte can he prvwwd up any m-ra; ta 2, fact ths props of many are now verj § j weak. Ai a matter of fata. I do not

know bow the Urge rutl estate operator* can stay In the game—certainly something he* got to happen besides additional county bond Issues, or they will be counted down and out. IVrnaOally. 1 would favor a retrenching of expenditures by eliminating everything unnecessary In county work. Aa an example, *10.000 la being spent •ach year to kill that many mosquito**, and 76.000,000 are left to bite and propagate to their In-aria’ content I know that it Is not good policy to eras* the path at prog res*, and I would not do »o under other conditions, nr In normal times, but the day has come when we must realize that the expenditure of a dollar mrana less In value utn H ever has before. To tell the truth, we are ta ihe woods CHARLES H. CLOUTING

CARD OF THANKS. Mr* t’rewford Burk and famll) •->- nd thi It •linen- thank* to tbrir many friend* for their kind expression* of •ympathy in theli bereavement. and to all who so Kindly asaialed at the funeral. —Mr* Crawford Burk and Family leave your oroer* for coal with Michael A LuongD, Corner Landii Aveand Fritx Stroet. Full weigh' and prompt dtUvtry.—«dr t t.

Trenton. Jaa. 17—The Board of Publlr Utility Cora ral.-jiloners today d.-cllned to take any action on a oom-

PwMk Hearing on Fisheries Bill. plaint from the Board of Trade of It Is Intended that the industry be Wildwood and other iwaalle reearta conserved In ■ manner to rive relief In South Jersey, and ha* notified the In the present high cost of a necesaaiy President of the Board of Trade. Robtlaple commodity, without Injustice ert J. Kay. to that effect being done to those directly Interested It has been ihe practice of the West sod established in thl* business. As ''•'rev and Seashore Railroad and the ■emblyznan LUce ha* personally n ' t ■ tie r'lty Railroad Company to quested those having fisheries In Cap«- 'in *pcri.v] excurrtoa train* on SunMay County to attend a public bearing ■»“*. during the winter and early on thl* bill to be held at the Stat- , -ring from PhUadelohla and C

House on Monday next st 2 P. M„ st which time they will be given an opportunity to express their oplnlom

and which, no doubt, will have s besting on the final outcome of the matter

ICE JAM WEAKENS RAILROAD BRIDGES Tne thaw following the rain on Tuesday resulted ta a thaw of tbhundred* of ton* of ice that blocked the Inleta. and so weakened the bridi at both Toinaend'a and Corson’. Inlets that trains could uot be operat

I.

Service on the Ocean city branch wa* resumed on Wednesday, but th< Stone Harbor branch wa* still oul of itb the train “maroon at Avalon The "A“ of the Town- **■ *—'*• draw wa* broken, and fell across the tracks. Repair* to the Townsend’s Inlet Bridge will take at least three week*. gang of men are- now engaged is

the work.

To provide Stone Harbor and Ava loo with railroad service, arraugluent* have been made with the R«S>: Ing railroad lo allow th< m to operate from Court House :o Stone Harbor

Atlantir City and Wildwood, and <*•«• South Jersey Coast re sorts. No- ’ •e he* been given by the railroad rompsri'w Cat there special exeur-

• lon* wil) be discontinued. •

The I'tfljty CotnmiMion ta Its cooinu.nlration to She President of the Wildwood Board of Trade, who asked To: a bearing ujon the withdrawal of the special excursions, direct*, attention to the fact that the I’ederal Government ha* taken over the railroads with a view of conducting their operation *o that they may give (he highest possible degree of asilataBca to the Government in the conduct of the war. that In this connection. Mr. McAdoo has r-queoted the public to refrain from all uuneeesaary travel at this time, and has statMl that "local Interest* and Individual IntrrwU must not be permitted to stand in ths way of the supreme need of Uh* ns tton. and the supreme need of the are Hon I* to um- all facilities and ra-

the country to win ths

P'-ople of the State are ta sympathy with the view expressed by the Federal Director, declared the Board In xpn-sslng It* opinion In the matter, and that unl«-«* the conditions which now confront the country •bould nu-

thence over the Pennsylvania •' •“ «!»««. there Irark. to Avalon Thl- v ill enabh wou,d ^ l-roapm of the Mile Beach resident* to reach opwm,lo,w durln * «*»*■ winter and the outside world by rail, .-vet, though ' Prln * of ,h, ‘ «'«™tao train* It will be a "long way round" (or ———. notar i A rh * r, ' w ' Supper, of the superior Tb. .„!“ na '" l “r AU m.d- on tb. n-qu—< of rom.-liu, M. l '"'" '’ 1 -..bln. Clod) 'o b.b nl »..lub. ., D U.yi.r S E H-rT '•“•‘'e” < U. U

to rt and Reese P. Rl*b-y. of Stone j'

Harbor

Disposing of your property by Will l* one tbinr. the selection of s suitable 'xerutor 1* quite another. And yet both become a very simple matter shea you Invoke the aid of Ih* 8* curity Trust Company, of Cape May City, N. J, ta administer your aalala

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