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Recognized Leader

VOL. II. NO. £».

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1902.

Subscription—$1.00 per Year.

' DECEMBER TERM OfCOURI ASSEMBLED ON TUESDAY—LONG LIST OF rtATTERS Grand Jury Adjourn* to After New , N ear—Will Last Three Week*

Hie various Cape May county courts were convened at tLe Court House on Tueaday, with Supreme Court J u.stice Hendrickson ami Law Judfie Voorhees

on the bench.

The following gram! jury was then sworn:. Charles A. Norton, (foreman;) Kalph L. Goff, Kdwanl L. Koss, R. Curtis Kobinson, Joseph Hand, Samuel 1L Stiles, James J. Doak, David P. Co-s-well, John Bnght, Harry Fidler, Jbdgar Stratton, Burton L. Howell,'Samuel H. Friee, Joseph H. Hanes, John Tyler, Hollis Hoffman, Albert G. Steve® Douglass Kobinson, Joseph Hoffina Aaron G. Rice, George Sayre, Hirsch L. Sabaovitch, Hope W. Gandy. The first case tried was that of Chafles 8. Burk, son of 'John I- Burk, of Holly . Beach, against Benjamin F. Bailey, of Philadelphia. The question hingyd on Hie alleged payment of a note which had been assigned from John L. Burk to Charles S. Burk. Hie jury awarded

Burk a verdict of $165.

All of Wednesday and yesterday taken up in the case of John Campbell against the Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Company. The case had not concluded when Tin Has-

ald went to press.

enry S. Scovel and

Wm. Boyle appeared for Campbell and - ex-Judge E. Ambler Armstrong i James M. E. Hildreth appeared for

’Telephone Company.

The case of Adam Snelke, executor, against Kate Howell, was put ofl until .Monday, when it will be tried. Jud| -Jolim , of Camden, will appear for Snelke Lewis T. Stevens, of this city, for Mrs.

iHowell.

The following indictments were found , —George Hummel and Charles Norton, Avalon, assault and battery; Jas. K. P. ifchellenger, assault and battery; Burton . Baner, Franklin Jones, James Brown, Henry Brown and Elwood Bailey, lar-

I jury

Hal presentment and then adjourned until January 6. The following licenses were gran I . yesterday: George Reges f and Patrick McCrea, Sea Isle City; Charles E. Hagan, Avalon; and Alex R. Springer, Cape

May C. H.

The civil cases were January b, and the crimii January 6. Jurors were

January 5.

The naturalization «■ for. Wednesday, Jan. 21.

itirned until

nntil

excused until

\ Chaaae’a At\a special •of Directi

dChmi

Pmasrlvaala.

etimt of the; Board

"’JVK

i take ef-

iag appointments were .feet January 1. 1008:

J. M. Wallis, at his aeliered as general superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Diviaion at Altoona, and giiVn a three mouths - leave of- absence. U. W. Creighton, general superintendent of the Buffalo and Allegheny Valley Diviaion. was appointed his successor. K. W. Atterbury was appointed general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to succeed' J. B.' Hut-

What will be the world's greatest

Ing feat, the Pennsylvania Kail- —• ^ “ Hudsoc -=— atrly win become a system and silt supercede almost i

fest-tbePennsylTaaL

.—tunnel, under the Hudson river. Near York, is to be begun at once and

once

m of tun-

RKt entirely PreUmlnary

two boroughs of New the Went and South itage of a ferry aya-

brtween New . for through

enginovrii

=" Vi. u

atetr will * nels. and will supercede

the ferries'now in vogne. ^

estimates have placed the cost of the work at $30,000,000. but is more Hkeiy

than not to reach $100,000,000.

What (he tunnel will do for New York

U here briefly summarized:

It will cause the expenditure of $30,000,000 in wages for workingmen en-

gaged in construction.

• /^Irhaa already cost the operating cotnsita termtaa * G ’ a,0,0W - ,or P ro i* rt J’ for

^Tlwill eoi

Y^t' City with withoot the ' '

» em-

it will reduce the time York afcd Philadelphia, for througl • and aahnrban traffic, to ninety minute*. It will develop I sing Island.as a place where person! of small means ouay ole tain homes at low coat and yet be within the same limit a* to time as now prevail* between Harlem and Battfry. It will make Herald Square the /-entre of the city aa a quarter whence travel will be diaaetnlnated to aU/bor^wll, increase realty valoatfojfa from ao to BO per cent along iu robte and thereby^jtroride for an extended debt the city'a ! The .franchise of the PennaylrknU Railway anthorizea that company to con•trurt a two-track tunnel under, the k , Hudson to West Thirty-first and thence street. In Qnreps. readilng the ' “ . . *t or near Thotnpaoo .arenur ai ee* street in that bor-mgh. The tunnel . Is to be constrncted at-a depth which 0 will obviate interference with the Rapid Transit Rahway or other tunnel*. The company i* to acquire property'for

t

1 asm, and in Qneens at Hiompaou ave- ‘ me and Parres stre-t. The rmUls

PERSONAL INTEREST Goaalp of the Rcaort In Which You May Be Mentioned. Mrs, Edward F. Townsend has returned from a visit to her daughter in Philadelphia. Mrs. W. H. Thompson, accompanied by her daughter Emily, spent a portion of the holidays in Philadelphia. Willis P. Essen has been enjoying Christmas times with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Essen. Mrs. R.C. Smith, of Petersburg,is passing two weeks in New York City with Mrs. Charles S. Hammond. City Solicitor J. M. E. Hildreth Is looking after the interests of the Cape May Real Estate Company at Cape May. Mrs. Harry B. Hatad, has been appointed one of tlie administrators of-her father, the late Dennis Fisher, of South

Jose| best

eph R. Wainwright, known of our "prop

Cup lertii

one of the

"property owners,

May recently inspecting

ersity,

Mrs. L. E. Miller,

Princeton University, is at the home of

his parents, for a few days.

Dr. Samuel F. Ware is having a fi colonial residence made out of the Lanipetty at the corner of Decatur

ayette'streets.

Mr. Frank W. Miller, of New York, brother of Conndlman Lemuel K.'Mille is passing the Christmas Holidays here as a .guest of his' brother’s family.. State Senator Robert E. Hand, is

sing prop and Lafu;

erecting a handsome new residence at Erma, which when completed, will be □e of the finest dwellings in the county. Presiding Elder. Hewitt, of the New Jersey M. K. Conference, is now going the rounds of the county, attending quarterly meetihgs at virions churches. Miss Clifford Ncwbold, so well known in Cape May circles, and whose pare: reside here, is figuring conspicuously in society events in Philadelphii this win-

e.

Rev. Eli Gifford, formerly of this city, 5w of Clayton, has had conferred upon him by the Board of* Regents of the lericon University the degree of doctor of divinity. Miss Clemma Eld red ge is making her customary midwinter visit to young friends in Philadelphia, and is at pi ent the guest of Era. Charles Biminington, 2420 Dauphin street. Rev. Samuel F. Hotckin, past Sf. Luke's P. E. Church, Bustleton, Pa., firm friend of Cape May, last Bunday celebrated the twenty*fifth anniversary of his pastorate of that congregation. Louis W. Arnold, who recently purchased a property on Lafayette street, opposite the Golf links, will, it is said, build a handsome home for himself and mother in the near' future. Mr. Arnold is one of Cape May’s best known bush sss men. Ex-Conductor David W. Hickey, of Ocean City, is now redding on North College avenue, Philadelphia, and being treated at the University Hospital for partial blindness, on account of which he was compelled to give up his duties and is now retired on pension. Mr. and Mrs. 0. Pinckney K&rris, who ere married in Brooklyn early last summer and who passed their honeymoon until the early autumn,on the continent of Europe, have been since then i their handsome cottage ou Stockton renne, where they will pass most of ■e winter. E. Swain Hildreth, of this dty, is now member of the Wholesale Grocery Co., of Philadelphia, one of the largest groceries in the Quaker City. He is also ”*itt«burg Wholesale Grocery Company, as well as of the bouse. He is one of our progressive dtisens. Henry Clay Frick ii to succeed Chas. M. Schwab as President of the Bted Trust in January, aocording_Jo-a 'wellaccredited report in Wall street. New York. It is said that this is a part of the price the Truat raid Mr. Frick for his interest in "the Union Steel Company, just purchased. Among Cape May’s' best known and

most popular patron* who are passing

the .early winter

r*. Willi

weeks at Lakewood,'

art Mrs. William H. Kirkpatri

tier daughter, Mm. Stockton Evan* Roberts, nee Miss Helen Kirkpatrick, for a number of. aeasons one of the

reigning belles at the Stockton. Mra- Klorencc gpUnaon McBhane, of

Baltimore, and Mr.'Edward Crozer, of Upland, Ra^ were marhqd on Friday of last week at the residence hf.Mr. Mon- , cure Robinson, at Baltimore. Vi/, and

MON. WILL!AH PUNN.

Former Senator WUUi.ni Film

'linn, .

Pittsburg, who i* head and the Cape May Real Estate Company, which proposes to develop East Cape May, wuk horn in the city of Manchester. England. May 26. 1851. In the same year his parents came to America and settled in Pittsbnrg. Pa., and be hns Continuously resided there since: He sttended foe public schools and fitted himself by careful study, such as his circumstances afforded. He learned the trades of a brars finisher and gas and steam fitter. He la a general contracUirand hns handled sucCcisfuIly many large contracts. ’ ' •/ He entered politics aa a Republican early in life, and in 1877 became a hre commissioner of the City of Pittsburg. Capt. Frank G. Edwards, of the East

ho is a Pennsyl-

yman and is in an official ?cted with the manage

the Steamer Republic) it seems,

•nds here, with

[lacity mt of t

Repi

inny of his friei Captain is quite

assured

whom the

e of the open!)

pular, that

nipg up of Cold S

Inlet t<2 navigation by the Government, in response to the petition so largely that palatial river steamer

■proved and

placed in thorough condition for extending her trips out of the bay and up the coast to the Inlet and ^in to an anchorage inside at Sewells Point. The advantages claimed would be sure and safe landing where passengers would find themselves directly in Cape May City, instead of three miles away at bay

side of Cape May-Point.

We are informed by one of the officers of the First National Bank that their business now being done by the institution is nearly six times greater .than it was at this date one year ago. New friends are being made each day and the general tone of the business done is much more satisfactory in every respect inagement is always alert to ao-

The mam cept'abi

uy safe up-to-date method for iDfotf advantage to itself and patrons. Grdwth at first was slow and tedious, but now that the people of the dty and community have the confidence in the First National Bank, which the careful management warrauts, we are safe in predicting for them a much more rapid

grow tli.

Installation at Wildwood. Hereford Lbdge, No. 177, F. A A. M.,

ebmte

of Wildwood, will celel night this evenhjg aj the Hold Dayton, Wildwood, by a banquet The follow- „ _e the'officere for the yean W. M.—C. A J. Johnson; B. W.—W. Byron Liveaey; J. W.—Nathan O. Co-

N.'Bmll

1th; a

TT __ ^-, 8. D. ;yan; J. D.—Adolph Anderson;

dn—Jas<

lory—Clarence G. Eldredge; 8. D.—R.

ftjjfiHfi ■sir ■

chaplain—Jason Buck; marshal—Barry Colback; trustee#—W. Byron Liveeey, 1 C. A. 8. Johnson, R. W. Ryan. This

■ just completed its first year

and its members claim that it Is the moat handsomely equipped in Booth

Mr*. Crozer after a tour through The Ht. Mary’s Roman’Catholic Church

Southern States will return to their u\ has been holding a fair during the week, to have the Iron Pier pro pert; land house for the winter. They boll' Father Kelly expects within a abort foot of Decatur street, decli paa* their summenrstth* Stock ton Ho- time to bare definite arrangement* a* property. Ills now In the

to the buk^i^ oj the'r new church.

. Y' 1;

In 1878 and 1880 be was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representative*. In 1800 he was chosen a Senator of Allegheny county, and was twice re-elected— in 1804 and 1808. He waa not a candidate for re-election last month. He has been a leader in Pennsylvania State politic*. being an anti-Quay Republican. In 1884. 1888, 1892 and 1806 he served as delegate from his district to the National Republican Convention. For twenty year* he has been chairman of the Republican Jetty Executive Commi

nsineas life I

'ortune, being a < . Mellon and Hen

ignates.

Cape May,

future.

FACTS IN BRIEF.

Matter* of General and Local Interest Mentioned.

A bicycle path will be built from

Green Creek to Rio Grande.

Gf^eo farmers are selling lots of salt lay in lower Cape May county. Charles T. Campbell Is building a

store on Corgie street, near Queen. George Mixner, of Green Creek, has killed 125 quail and 8 woodcock this William B. Gilbert has been appointed administrator of Lafayette M. Wsi

deceased.

There have been full tides along tl Delaware Bay ahore of the counfy di

ing the week.

Cannon Lodge, No. 104, of Booth Reaville, will give a banquet on Tuesday

evening next

A new lodge of the Jr. O. U. A. M. will be Instituted here on Tuesday next

at the Auditoriam.

The final account of Lewis T. Stevens, as guardian of Lafayette M. Ware, has been approved by the Orphan's Court.

electric

A GREEN CHRISTMAS.

JOYOUS GOOD TIME SPENT. AND MANY “MERRY CHRIST'IAS’ ’•

About an Hour's Snow Fall In tha Early Horning. But Snow Did Not Lay a

y any Length of Time.

n appro n emplc

Ic light

wiploye c

company is going from house to taking '•census” as to whether electric lights, gas lights or oil lights i

horned, and boa- many.

"Thirty-seven per cent, of the recei; the Cape May poApliice are requli operate the office. ‘ Only one otl

ipts ired

ra he has been chairman of the

littec

"Pittsburg. In business life he 1 amassed a large fortune, lieini

. M. Mellon oted steel ma.

is now firmly In love with and bellereli' we

Pilots’ Association. - The Cape May members of the Delaware Bay and River Pilots' Association nlet in Ogden's Hall and made the following nominations:

PRESIDENT,

James A. Clampitt.

SECRETARY, W. W. Norman. TREASURER,

Louis C. Wallace.

DIRECTORS,

Alphouso Bennett,

Harry £. Maull,

Charles ST'Morris,

. Fred Con well, Louis Bertrand, H. H. Church,

Memucan Hughes,

' S. T. Bailey.

y, owners o

anls, represent

Real Estate Com pi

aa not

ay of this week, when tha agreement was signed and part of the -ceonpjr-t^id. City Solicitor Hildreth represented the East .Cape May Real Estate Company.

The Prudential Girl of 1903. The Issue of a new calendar by the

'Prudential Insurance Company of .] America is always an event of importance la the annals of tasteful advertising. The handsome Prudential girl of 1002 was eagerly sought She now has a rival, in the Prudential girl of 1003, who promises to eclipse her in popularity. The new calendar presents the picture of a bewitching brunette whose beauty is effectively set ofl by.a background of light bine tint and a gold border trimmed with chrysanthemums of many_colors. The rest of the'card is filled odt with a green-mattod effect The whole makes a very bright and at-

tractive picture.

Freeholders Award a Contract. The County'Board of Freeholders met on Tuesday at Court Book; and opened bids for the buildings of the road from Rio Grande, across the meadow to Holly Beach. The bids were: Robert E. Hand, $14,600; Edward Crease, $16,667.66; J.

WvYou

Dung and Son, $19,350.25; F. B. Sweeten, $23,971.42; General Power and Lighting Co., Philadelphia, $24,994.66. The Board met again yesterday and awarded the contract to Senator Robert

E. Hand.

C Mt*. Anne Koenig, who bolds a jodgment against Victor Deuisoi, ha*

brought suif'in the -Court of Chancery

*rty, at the

leclared

property. It Is now In the name of

John F. Kail, of York, Pa.

to operate the office. * Only

office in the BUfte^aa a better showing, and that is Bordentown, with thirty-

five per ceni.

Citizens of Upper township i plaining that taxes are increasii year, with no advance in the valuation, and are blaming the county Hoard of Freeeholders f6r the raise. County debts have thribled in the past four

years.

The Calvary Baptist Church, of South Sea ville, has elected the following officers: President, Rev. H. H. Brown; vice president, Miss Elizabeth Bonham; secretary, Miss Amy Preston; treasurer

Miss Ber

Jertha Westcol

I u pen n superir

Helen Way and lin \^'ay.

The Sabbath School of the First Baptist Church has elected the following

officers for the ensuing year: tendent, S. Irwin Stevens; asst, tendent, Rev. George Williams;

er, Mrs. S. Irwin Stevens; librarian, John Hewitt; secretary, S. Walter Ben-

nett.

In the football game last. Saturday between the Cape May eleven and the team of the Baron deHirsch School, at Woodbine, In which Cape May won by 16 to 0, William Cassedy, a Cape May player, and son of Mr. end Mrs. Wi F. Cassedy, had his jaw bone broken. Dr. V. M. D. Marcy, Jr., set the bone, and the patient is now doing welL

Wilz*o Comer Sold.

In spite of reports heretofore made, the agreement to sell the South corner of Washington and Decatur streets from

J. R. Wilson A Son, to Capt Frank G.

g the Cape May

'P**:.

Cape May, was not consomated nntil

ite Com]

Pre

Presbyterian fehurch.

Sunday-school of the Stone

Church will be held on New Year’s night. Next Sabbath morning the pastor, Rev. Edwin F. Gallagher, will preach at 10.30 upon “New Year Investments,” and in the evenng on “Old Year Fail-

Let all spend the last Sabbath

of 1902 in the Lord’s house.

FI rat Baptist Church

Pastor Williams, by special request,

will preach on "Paul's Triumph” on Sunday morning, and in the evening on “Good Bye to Our -"Old Frittad 1902.”

Special bright service. Come".

Lost 1 Lost I Lost!

A diamond ring. Finder will N recc>*c

liberal reward by return to “8.," lixaALD office. tf

As Is usually the case, the New

York gambling houae proprietors whose

es were raided the other night

were •’tipped" in time to enable them to hide their gambling Implement* and drive out customer*. Whatever the play may be. It U quite evident that panning a gambling bouee In New

Yack is not* game of chance.

Jackets Wl*k, Severe Uaee. English tailors are trying to Intro due* basques and Jackets with Hues as dose and severe as those of the riding habit Tboee of the heavy fancy wool are effective and bare a better chance of snccees than the e&me ga

plain doth.

Throughout Cape May county-there was a green Christina* In the morning there was a slight foil of hail and snow, and in tlie afternoon tlie suh shone for a short time. There were many home gathering

d it wi

throughout tlie .

day of ge

Locally

mty, a

of general rejoicing.

>cally the Christinas Eve entertainments were given in the Baptist and Methodist churches. In the Roman

lodist churches.

Catholic Church then

during the day.

Mra. **•■! Want* Beview.

Attorney Liu.!Icy M. Garrison has filed Lay. to turn over rigbi and iiumm-muxi Of the Camden Daily Review to Thoniu* h. French. u*4ruslcc. Thompson claim*

ownership of the paper, of which

Paul wan the publisher for several ye

prior to hi* death ia«t summer.

eSriSt gizf&Si

view from F. F. Patterson's Son*, and for which they itave to--Mr. Paul u hill of sale for the entire plant, the title bcmjr in the name of Thomas E. French, a* trustee. Mr. French has «ince advanced various huui* of money toward the expense of the paper, and accvuutid^for the same to' Mr. Paul in his lifeThc bill further Male* that Thompton agreed with Paul twpfel any deficiency in the niuuiug exJRies of the paper if he Would take Hold and run it, in conaidMatiifO of which he took up the pub-

the paper and declines to give it up to Mr*. Paul. She want* him to make known the nature of the rights he claims -ud U> permit of the sale of the paper. The Baud is still with us. For about wenty year* it has stood through 111 refiort and good .report, sometimes doing and playing well, mften bad enough.* That it has existed *6 long is something in its favor. When it is remembered nly two of the initiative metn>w remain and that year by year embers ruuid be placed to fill the —le* caused by resignotioas, it is surprising that it is possible for the Baud to play at all. Due credit should be given to the rank and file whf. now constitute the Baud and keep it at a standing where it is possible to play for paradtTL-snd such like public affairs. The JMnd meet* on Thursday evenings in a room iu the old school building, kindly placed at their disposal by the city Council. The Mayor donate* coal for the winter. No one connected with the Band receives anv remuneration for services rendered. The conductor gives his service* for three hours once a week as mentioned. Fee* received from engagements are placed in the general fund and appropriated toward the repairing of instrument*, purchasing music and general expense*. Aa a consequence the general fund U invariably nt a low ebb. The conductor is anxious to place additional instrumenta in the line. There- are four men now without uniforms. With additional instruments, vi*.;-mne piccolo, four clarinets, one E fiat bass would necessitate ten more uniforqni. The Band now numbers some rwentyfone men. including the conductor. Of course, the further addition of-one °bo«. two bassoons anil s quartette of *axaj>honc* would be a very desirable and brilliant feature It i* a condition scarcely to be hoped for, yet a land of thirty-five men is sometime* to be found, even in a city a* small as onrs, and were the citizens to make up their minds they

™”’ :b •" ^

The conductor would like to find two men to learn a tenor and a bans horn. Apply in hereon, either at the Band room or Dr. Marcy'* drug store.

rroa* Oyster S t cold weather

Iver oysti

e laid up. The present season,

er. will he the most successful sin oyster- have been shipped from Bivali

The demand ba* 1

• has caused the Maurice many boats

_ Bivalve. Tho demand hn« been very great, while twice* are from $4 to $9 per 1000, nearly

$2 more than ever before.

The failnre of the Long Island oyster* ha* given the Manrice River producer* exceptional advantage*. One planter. With two boat*, will ship over $30,000 worth during the present season.

Death Shock la Mld-Atr.

While a crowd of horror-stricken peor looked hclplreudy on Mari* H. Moore'

' death on the top of an .

Ocean City Satnr-

to deal]

electric light pole in

"ar afternoon.

The cottage of .Her. 8. Wesley Lake, ae of the founder* of the rasort. i* being removed from the camp ground and in tt* course the electric light wire* bad to be cut Moore, who waa an electrician in the employ of the Ocean City Eleetrie IJght Company, had climbed the pBle to reconnect the severed end* oPqbe wire*. In some manner hi* bodv forrttyl a circuit and the whole rob use of/the plant passed through him. He wai knocked from the wires, but a* hi* leg* were twined arnnnd the crow.-bar of (be oole he hnng suspended in mid-air several — 'e* bet ore he cobid be relMsed. he waa finally taken-down he wi* found to be dead, snd tt was evident that death had been instsntaneoua. - Moore wa« about 35 rear* old and a «on of ex-Mayor O. P. Moore.

linker** Laadlac. i TL MUD ha* sold

land near hla

Busy at .*el

Captain Will ... three , acre* of meadow Rehellenger’* Landing Captain Frank G. Edw

for the Cane May Real Estate company. Captain MUD D also building the poou*iu host* Tvr^ nae in the filling in of