CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. II. NO. 6.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1902.

Subscription—$1.00 per Yeai

COUNCIL IN SESSION

NO ACTIOS TAKES ON CAPE MAY ULUMIHATIHG OO.'S OPPERHnmeroni B'aolBtiom Adopted.—Bill* Ordered Paid And Bond* Aooented. City Connell convened in regular w**■iun on Tucediy evening, President Wilson in the cbsir. Messrs. Miller, Shsrp, Doak, Ware, Ilalpin sod Chttivh snswered to the roll call; Townsend and Hand being absent- After the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, they proceeded to take up new business in band, and such as might coo:* before that body. ' T» bond* of .newly elected city offldais were received and accepted. City solicitor read a communication from Thomas E. French, attoi ney for the Madison Land Company, asking the city if at such time as the company or their assigns should desire, would they remove the sewer extending east of MadL "aon avenue at the eity’a expense. After some discussion the matter was laid until next meeting. / Another communication read by the solicitor, regarding the opening of Jefferson street to Beach avenue, was up for consideration. The street is sixty feet wide, excepting a place adjoining the property of Hlcliard Campion, where It is only flfty-five feet. Mr. Campion had at some previous time stated that he would sell to the City of Cape May the desired five feet for the sura of $500. He has si hoc withdrawn his offer. Bills were ordered paid from the incidental fond. Dr. Emleii Phyaiek was given permission to address council, and' said: '‘I have arranged to hold a meeting at the Ehbiu House on Thursday evening at which lime l will do the talking and respectfully invite this honorable body, IKtlkse officials aad Mr. Townsend, of the ^V'ave; Mr. Scull, of the Hersi.d, and Mt Hand, of the Star, to he present. A eommnnicatimi was received from the Cape May Illuminating 'Company upon which no action «as taken, read as follows: The Cape May Illuminating Company, organised undei the laws of the State of Nem- Jersey, with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), for the purpose of carrying on a lighting buna less iu the City of Capo May, respectfully propose Xm your honorable body that they will famish and keep lighted every night and all night, from sun set to sun rise, electric are lights of a nominal 2000 candle power, at such places and in such number* (to be not less (ban fifty at any time) as council may order, for the net sum of 25 cents per light per night, provided a contract be entered into for a period of five years. If the proposition, which is hereby made in ah»dh»t*,good faith, is accepted and a franchise given this company, we will fight the city ball with Incande* lights without any cost to the city, and we will guarantee to have the plant in operation before the expiration of your present lighting contract, under a hooded penalty of $5000, provided that any loss of time is due to Legislation,2*hall not

Very truly yoora, • Caps Mat Illcmikatikc Co. Adam Scblu, PrealdeuL.

To the President and Members

Council:—

We are of the opinion that the bill pow about prepared by the Atlantic City authorities (which is a referemdom bill)wll! suit the requirements of Cape May CIty; ere desire, bowerer, to submit some amendments, one of which is to allow tbs issuing of bonds to oouScil or to psy off a floating debt; we do not think they will object to this of to other amendments thas does not conflict with their requirements; we suggest that our city solicitor be instructed to take up the matter*'with the Atlantic City solicitor and have Inserted -rueh smsunta ae we require, and that wlU be agreeable to tin authorities of Atlantic CHy. after which the city aulieMore be requested to confer With our representatives In the Beoate and House and request their aid in pass

L. E. Millkk, T. M. Shaw, Ja. W. & Warm.

> to improve the city waist ms a

BIGAMIST ARRESTED. Made to Face Two Hnabands at Millville. Mr*. Abbie Holland, former!}* of this city, and of a highly reapeoted family, has at last tripped iu her heedless downward conrae and la now Iu jail awaiting the action of the grand j$ry. Mrs. Holland, alias Mias Besaii DeCamp, alias Mrs. Jerry Bomera, faced her two husbands iu the mayor’s court at Millville, N. J., last Saturday afternoon and pleaded guilty of being a bigamist. Michael Holland, husband No. 1, who U a wellknown and highly nwpocted ranidont of West Cape May. caused her arrest, and in bis testimony charged hla wife with having purchased arsenic and put It in bb coffee. H« said his little daughter, who saw the aot, informed him just as be placed the cup to hb lips. Mr. Holland sptt<-« that about two years agu bb wife led him, kidnapping the daughter, and *he next heard from brr she wa* living with a man as bis wife In West Virginia. When this man's wife discovered th-'iu she caused their arresi, but Mrs Holland made her escape and found refuge among mountaineers. She returned Pr ('aim M«y, and pleaded with her husband to lake her hack. Hu turped her away, and she came to Millville, where she met Jerry poolers, when placed on the stand said he was married Pi Mr*. Holland, who at that time gave her name as B-asie D.Conp The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. Morgan Heed, at Atlantic City.

plant and sewer plant, provided, however, the expense of employing said engineer does not exceed the amount of $250.—Carried.

PERSONAL INTERJEST. Gossip of the Resort In Which Yon Mm Be Mentioned. Mr. Wm. G. Easen has been filling bis loo house this week. Wholesale merchant John Dunhsm, of Salem, N J., was transacting traalnesa here on Tuesday. Mrs Jones Wistaria having her cottage .comer of Beach avenue and Ocean street enlarged and improved. Mr. Clinton Sunder, who has been confined to the house for a portion of the week, is again able to attend to bualM las Louisa Warrington will remover her stationery and toy store to 514 Washington street, lately occupied by Miss J.

8. Wales.

Lewb T. Stevens, attnrney-at-law. and formerly editor of the Cape May Hkrald, has this week lieeii confined to hb home <*>'1 account of sickness. Dr. Eralcn I’hyslok has purchased from Win. Town a tract of laud adjoining The land is situated

Cold Spring,

atm ty,

Hildreth’s courteous, obliging and tbor oughly reliable clerk*, makes weekly 1 rips to Wildwood and Holly Beach in the interest of his employer. Mr. Thomas S. Stevens, 8r n has r>-turiM-d to Philadelphia after spending a portion of two weeks here with relativis and with bis wife and daughter, Mrs. Franklin Fnynter, of Lewr*. Del. The courteous and genial firm of Blattner A Beunetl, granite and uiarhle workers, have plackd a number of large orders in Cape May City and county fur early spring delivery. Their work will stand

RrsoLVEB, That the work of gradinj'h*- b»t of inspection and their pricea streets adjoining the property of Thom* break* down all oom|>i-tltiou.

Rksolvkd, That the Committee on Property and Improvement is hereby instructed to harc-connril chamber painted and papered. aqd inside of railing have cocoa matting or body Brussels carpet with padding under same; also have desks and chair* varnished, and also supply the desks with the proper writing'material-; to Uke effect after passing of appropriating ordinance. * wrt. Mr. Doak offered the followiug resolution which was carried: Wh^xkas, The bonded and floating debt of the city is np to the limit allowed by law, therefore be it Resolved, That the cky Solicitor be and is hereby directed to give this council written opinion as to their authority to borrow any more money without farther legis-

RETURNED HO) A. K- Gordon Back From Cooper Hospital, Camden. Afterrfour weeks, uud-r treatment at Cooper Hospital, Mr. A R Gordon returned home on Saturday night. For nearly two year* he had suffered with ah accuses of the feet, • *used by diabetes. Hb local physician. Dr. James M-*cray, told jitm that au op ration would he nor. essary, and accordingly sent him to (he shove hospital, where Ida sol, Dr. Paul Mecray, U bead physician and surgeon, of that insiitntiiMi. After examining the case, a cons illation was held and Dr. Mecray decided that it would only lie neoeasary to amputate tbe big toe of tl right foot, afterward treating the caul of the trouble. In speaking of the matter to the Hkk-ai-d reporter Mr. Gordon said: “I- la' of tiie finest institutions we have, and the management, as well as doctor* and nurses, deserve great praise and the hearty co-operation of the community. The care, treatment and service which was giv#o roe wasof the best,-and I heartily glad that there b such places for the care of suffering humanity. I attribute trfy- convalescence, and retention of both my feet (which f did not expect to have) to the skill of the rising young Dr. Paul, Mecray.

Ebbltt If out* e Meeting.

On Thursday evening a private meeting was held at the Ebblu House at which Dr. Emlen Phyaiek was the speaker of the evening, and had aa hb audience the following: Councilman Ilalpin. Church, Hand and Doak; Messrs. Scull, of the 1 Hkeald ; Townsend, of the Wave; o her* were: John .W. Thompaou, Mayor Millet, J. Henry Edmunds. Senator Hand. MW. Sayre and Dr. Walter 8. Learn.

The D«c

Dg hb object In calling tog cl

aaccabtaga waa. If poaalble, to harm00b* tha conflicting eiatnenla, tha conatani Clrifa and break up tha dirty •‘jobbery”

eauac of the - ity’s

**td that he had aaary to bati va U U Cap..May b c* the «w td prrepmliy

bis farm lor $3000.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Clifford Wilson will

asll from New York on February It uo the steamship Fuerat Bismarck for Gi-noa. They will return iu the early spring and open their collage here forlhe

’Mr. Wilson b a large real rat ale

owner In hb city and ha* just complrb-d 1 lie erection of four modern cottage*, two of which frrrot^oii Jeffuraou street adjoin, lug bb residenoh, and two. oo Stockton

Cottager Norris Give* Party. Mr. CJ. <5. Pinckney Norris, a regular summer reqktent and p-ipularlv known her.-, g*v- at bis n-aidenoo iu Philadelphia, a baby Welsh rtreWt party on Wcd iesday evn.ilug at the “Rsblnt" f-ir hbdtqghter. Miss Maria Pinckney NorAll of the ueste were costumed as children under twelve years. The ladles ware dressed In white with colored saAhes and shoulder bow*, with a childish coiffure. The men were garbed lu Russian blouse suits, and Iq kilts and shirtwaists The gueats were: Mbs Elsie Wheelen. Mis* Vlolett Whelon. Mba Constance Deveraux. Miss 8ylvia Fsssstr. Miss Msry Resklri. Misa Mary N. Parsons, Miss Anna Belle McCreary. Mba Katbsilne M. Smith. Mb« Mignon Shannon, of Newhnmswlck; Misa Groenougb, of Bnslou; Mr. and Mr*. A. J. Drexel-biddle, Mr. Wm. B. Whelen, Mr. Horace B. Hare. Mr. Truxluu Hare, Mr. John C. Anderson, the Mesars. Wheeler. M r Harty M. Hart, Mr. J. Mnrrls Wutter. Mr. George Brooke. Jr., the M •»». Chew. Jdi^Ren. j*mln Rowland, Mr. Antrlo Devercux, Mr. Richard V. Buckley, Hr. Robert I/ar-.-e, Mr. Samuel Hart Chase. Mr. Geo. Page, and Mr. C. C. Pinckney Norrb.

Informal Meeting.

At the instigation of Mr. Miller an In.

CURRENT COMMENT MATTERS OP GENERAL AND LOCAL INTEREST DISCUSSED. An Impartial Review of Matters Under Thought—The Talk of the Gossip*. The establishing of a wireless telegraph sUlhtu at Cape May, the erection of which may now be said to have become au asaured fact, b souiotbiug to excite much local Interest, and once the newly discovered process uf forwarding and receiving messages to and from aels at sea b put into actual practice we may well wnndrr Indond at the advance of science iu tbs matter and manner of lonL’ dlstance communication. The writer of this article thought it quite a creditable achievement when in the sixties, after a brief Instruction, be was able to transmit message* over the wire*, and receive by one of those old time ‘•Catnelback” register*. But the more ambitious operators were training the ear to read by sound, and sight operating waa anon existing only in memory. The coming of the typewriter spurred on to greater skill, and many now copy measages directly from the sounder to thb pointing machine. But electrical science could not stop even st thin, and we find selves, if not face to fsoq, at least voice to voice, as it were, with anyone with whom we wish to converse or do business with, almost regardless of distances, might well have supposed that the limit of iusii’k discovery and invention bad been reached, but not so. Not only the scientific, but the c mercial world had of late their attention directed to wireless commuiiicstioiis purported to have been carried oui by Mr. Mareoul with more or less successful resulls, between Lizard Point, lu Cornwall, England, and St. John's, New Foundlaud. But ig not the placing of a station at our Cape being done rather for experttel purposesf While many interested lu electrical aelenne, who have carefully watched the progresi of Attempts to apply thb newly discovered incaps of coyimuulcation to the iutemU of commerce, 1 to have great faith lu the accomplishment of grand resulia, there being critics of the Marconi system who ape raining doubts of its adaptability, in the roauuer In which Marconi himself s<s to a certain extent, to have proven already. I read only a few days since of writer to the London Daily Express who challenged the inventor to prove that wireless messages ar^ in any sense aerial —that they are conveyed through the atmosphere to their destination, or that they have discovered or applied any apparatus by which suqh messenger may be separated and gathered, or rather confined at aunpanicutar atatiou, instead of being taken by every other station, or , or light-house where there were

To be sure, this Is su all-absorbing and Important subject, which even a Cape May journalist may not fail to Uke interest in, especially so now that a wireleas telegraphic station is being placed in position in our midst. It Is possible-that ■Its of the experiments to be made this corolifg spring and rammer, will prove the weakness, If not the injustice of the criticisms above referred to, though it must be said that a perfect of the system must mean that

format meeting of Oily Coultetl was held j '* lco ' , “ of tbe mu ‘ l n, “ u U, ‘ l bare 00. Thursday morning Immediately ~ cr,,t * ,,d ^"* b,e can by It be

after tbe arrival of tbe Reading train. The object being for that body to meet John F. Vogler and Joseph McLaughlin, of tbe Cape May Electric Co., to talk over the proposed trolley franchbe. A copy of the contract and specifications was read by Mr. McLaughlin describing In detail the material to be used, the plan and tbe route oC_the road, after which a diagram was shown. Mr. Vngler stated that the company was prepared to give a bond for tbe fulfillment of a contract with tbe city to build a road and have cars running upon tbe asms at any ret able specified time. . The matter

looked upon favorably. Fob ad la SoBttds-

Whlle on' a gunning bruise In sounds on Wednesday Clarence Schelten: ger found a roll of malting, presumably

off tbe Sylvia wuicb

w recked st

ago, drifting In

Ocean City a few 1 one of tbs thoruugltfan Purchased Store.

ore sab Washington street, occi by Mias Louis* Warrington, ha* been purebsaed by O. L W. Kneir, who will u the expiration of hi. term, which will he someic neat mooti., cut anarch through | it with his present place o{ busi-

He will it

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sent from place to plaqp, whether over laud or sea. It will he remembered that Prof. Morae’a first message was, ‘-What hath God wrongbtl" But what shall ae think when we see tbe Cape May wlrelms

telegraph station gathering in 1

that come floating In through the air frutn far out at sea, and redubed to plain English, in the same secret and reliable

lauucr as though transmitted by wire.

T. R. B.

Bear in South Jersey. Hunters are on the watch for a big bear which has recently appeared in and a boat the Black water Swamp, Vineland, N.J. The animal has canned much fear and worry among fanner*, who fearfor the safety of

their stock.

Tuesday night bruin twice circled the barn of Farmer Stevenson, bnt. finding that the pig* and cows were well secured there-

in, returned |

easily traced in tl

unusually big bear, as the tracks were large, the aliarp daws of the' animal

Do Yob Know? That I have added tom/stock a com] iae of bouaefurnlBhing jrvufl*. Tin, woo villow. wire, agate and cnamelware hvatera ra*d''^..‘“AuSliing i" the line

J-*—

FACTS IN BRIEF. NOT IN PARJ, BUT Al

Matters of General and Local Interest Mentioned. Six more weeks of winter, says Mr. Ground Hog. Some fellows rise lu the world by pul ling up a bluff. The world soon forgets a man who rest* on hia laurels. On Wednesday the mercury was lower thau any day this whiter,' . lee five inches thick as a result of tbe recent cold snap. Good reaolntions are not always what they are cracked up to be. Tbe things we do best are often tbe thing* that are not worth doing. During January tbe local United States Sulf-Treasury bandied $80,049,843.40. “The wages of sin is death," wa* emphatically demonstrated iu tbe case of the Biddle -brothers. Many wreck* along the Jersey coast as a result of tbe severe weather during tbe past week are reported. Tbe members of the Muonic fraternity residing at Five Mile Beach will organize a lodge at W ildwood. M. L. Chapman, of Bridgeton, was fined $0 and coals by 8. P. C. A. ’foruaing tbe but end of a whip on bis horse. Tbe people who insist that marriage Is a failure are usually tbe ones who have never had a chance to try it. During tbe recent severe weather Cipe May got only a very mild portion in comparison to what the nearby places received. ■■I am The latest and best for HcadL I Kl 11 aches and Neuralgia. Send 10 rmu Comptroller Heston on Monday sur prised the members of the Board of Tax Appeals, of Atlantic City, by refusing to approve their bills fur services after Dr. cember 81, saying that the Meeker act legislated them nut of office at that dale. The difference is $84. The B-iard is still I at work at $3 a day for each member and threatens salt. POPULAR COLONIAL IMPROVED

ThU Centrally Located Hostelrle

More Attractive.

■ Mr. Wm. H Chirch, for many years put one of tbe foremost contractors and

Will Look After the Intcreatof New Jersey. United Stale* Senator John F. Dryi who took his seat lu C ingress last ^ day. says he will -'-pnaciHM of either North or West Jersey, bnt look after the intrreaU of the ar! State. As for the transfer of power I Camden to Newark, be said to day: ~ j “Such talk U exceedingly narrow, based upon a misconception of the ft lions of s Senator. I shall not con* such a petty suggestion, and. In tUs| ticUlar. shall follow the method of illustrious predecessor.” Regarding his position on tbe qj lions of the day. Senator Dryden plained that he believed In the foi mental principles of the IL-pnbl party, u enunciated in iho plalfMjj which McKinley and Roosevelt.4 elected. “I want one hundred cents lo <R dollar.” ‘•I am In favor of the policy of ptyj tlon to home industry, because I reg it u a foundation of strength and'h penitence and the future of the Ameri workingman. Remove this pruUmj and our mechanics and artiaana wonR exposed to dioutroiis competition w

It I

appropriately tennMF •American System’ that we areexua to derive the fullest advantage from ■ refcuurci*. Tbe home market is tbegri est market in the world. It was to j great idea—that the producer and I consumer should be together—i raattyrrd McKinley consecrated bis lii “As to the other Important jmiW now pressing for solution, I hold a p tlon of open-mindedness. I can only that I shall stand with my party on tl

equitable settlement will

ze that x totho )

perplexing questions. I realize t

sttlemi

best resources of Amerf statesmanship, and I s(iall, at least, hr to their solution a conscientious.j | pose to promote tbe beat interests of

country.”

Briggs Wins Trcotaurershlf Frank O. Briggs, former mayor of T ton and Governor Voorhee*’ ad interim pointer aa State Treasurer, received > Republican caucus nomination for a |

to the front. Although a young man. he j Senator Reed is disappointed, but ta haa shouldered that whi.h many another | his-dof*t good naturcdly. hoping to ) dare not tackle; be has erected hotels, the Republican Congressional nominr* cottages and school buildings and in- j for the Mcrcer-Somcrset-Huntodqn vlrably haa been successful . iu carrying j trict . which ** the next political

ills contracts according to plans and

specifications.

On the eighth day of October, 1894. Mr. Church purchased a site on Ocean street, this city, and erected tbe Colonial Hotel, a modern structure, of about seventy five rooms, which be has managed in the same masterly way which has characterized all his effort* and made blip the successful man that be te. After

running tbe bouse a couple of

Chutch’s popularity and business io-

creaaed to tbe extent that It

MLTf to enlarge tbe house, and again today wc find Wm making the addition of forty more rooms. This Improvement will have nl^e bay windows iu, and will be fitted up wkh private baths and other modem conveniences; and will be com.

pleted by the 15th of June.

a and bishops of

Ex-Sheriff Reeve* Take* Ostia Ex Sheriff John W. Reeves, xecooip led by bis wife, left home on Moo day an extended sojourn in Philadelphia, ( eago and other point* of interest. ' Tl will Aral visit two of their scma.in Pb del phla—Messrs. Leroy and Cari R*e' both newspaper men of prominence, * er which they will go to Chicago at plug with his brother, Mr. Hlgg

| ^Reeves while there.

Sunday-School T each era* Dalai Mins J- I- Baldwin, State Primary Suj ntendent, of Newark, N. J.. otyanUf

The British steamboat Clave'rdale. from Sunday-School Teach era 1 Union hete hint and Japan for New York, which went January 8, which meets Tuesday of er ashore on Brigantine Shoal during Saturday j week, and i* composed of the Methtif night’* atorm. was floated with the aid of Presbyterian. Baptist and \ several tags an Wednesday morning. The 1 schools. At the first met Clavcrdale was apparently uninjured, and j orgsnization twenty-taro t

Shipping Agents’ ISarrow Escape. Another casualty concerning the schooner Edith' L. Allen, now upon Brigantine Shoals, where she was driven during the gale of Sunday, night, was narrowly averted on' '"“-•Klay afternoon, when five prominent of Philadelphia connected with .shipping interests, wet and half dead with cold, the five occupants of a swamped dory were rescued from drowning by a crew from wrecking tug Somers N| Smith, oft Philadelphia,- who reached them at a Critical

Pastor's Unanimous Call;

The official board of the First 1 Church held their regular meeting M evening, and after attending tore

ness a unanimous call was c

pastor. Rev. C. B. Fisher, that • t

this charge fur another year, just closing his first year's p

charge, and in that time he has b{

speet, lore and esteem of hit p He is now carrying on i

earnest revival of religion, and a numbet converts have united with the church, wi others are earnestly seeking A the al Pastor Fisher is a faithful, earnest aod a

preacher, and stands well to tl in the cabinet of elders 1

conference.

she proceeded to New York under her own steam. None of the 7000 tons of the Claverdale's valuable cargo was lightered. Unlveralty Extension Course. Tbe fourth annual University -Exten •ion O'Utae will begin on Timnuljy even lug, February 18, at the assembly room of tbe new scbool building. Tbeiusiruc tor will be Earl B. Barnes, B. A., M S.. one of tbe ablest, most loarned and eloquent of the Instructors ou the 11st of tbe

HU subject will l>e Moral Nature," which

will bo replete with reference* to the history of humanity at different epochs and probably the most luteies>Uug aod valuable course in wbieb the octvsd instruction. Tbe t

wUI oootluue - Thuradi oaeh week autil the Mthos a

meBibets; the list has and new members comi The object of the union lesson for the following Si in three branches—primary, J ranted lessons, which were I week by Dr. Anns and Rev. E.' F. Gallaher.

Blrt faddy" I

Mr*. Harry Smith ce'ek aiiiiiversary of her birth j -evening last. A large ultra and relatives cungn-gated X of her sister Mrs. F. L. i ‘ of the aocashtn and a 1 time waa bad. There waa m

X of j Bread aral a‘1 kiml. 04