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CAPE MAY HERALD.

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VOL. in. NO. 7,

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1903.

Subscription—$1.00 per Year.

IHE ORDINANCE PASSED.

COl'NCjL PASSED WASHINGTON STREET TROLLEY FRANCHISE. They Yet In Special Session Yesterday. and It Was Unanimous. (it v Council met in social session at ten o'clock yester>lay morninj;. with Messrs. Doak", llnlpin, HaiiJ, Taylor, Sharp ami Townseml. Mr. Townsend moved that the appro))riatint! ordinance lie over, and that the trolley ordinance Ik- taken up. The ordinance grantini: to the Ocean Street PasseniW Railway Company the rittht to lay its trucks on Washington street to Schellengers lauding, and passed by the following vote: Yeas—Metssra. Doak, Halpin, Hand, Sharp and Townsend. Not voting—Mr. Taylor. Mr. Townse d moved the deposit of SiVutl by the company be returned Uir «'.'»r|K>ration. ami it was agreed to. Council then adjourned. V»iy council met m spcvtai somm.on Monday evening, with all the mem hers present. Mr. Halpin presided. The annual appropriating ordinance was taken up on second reading and amended considerably. It was moved to reduce the tax collector's salary from $400 to $300, but the proposition was lost by a vote cf S to 4. The treasurer's salary was reduced from $600 to $500. This is $100 morthan last year. Other Items chang. were to the following amounts: P* lice. $3,000; fire and water. $6,000; Incidentals. $5,000; fire department. $2.500 The Incidentals now Include money enough for a beach front band during the summer. The incidental fund was raised to $5,000 by a vote ot 5 to 4. The appropriating ordinance as passed on second reading calls for an expenditure of $63,435 for the year. o'. which $48,435 Is to be raised by taxation. $4,000 from licenses and $11,00'> fronr-water rents. The ordinance granting to the Ocean Street Passenger Railway Ccmpany (Philadelphia and Reading Railroad) the right to lay a road on Washington street from the Reading station at the head of-Ocean street to Schellenger's Landing, was taken up and passed through first and second readings. It was amended so that the company shall build a stone roadway between Its tracks and 18 Inches on each side of the same and keep It In repair. At the conclusion of council's session the members looked over tho plans for sewage, prepared by Ellis D. Thompson, of Philadelphia, the civil engineer of the Cape May Real Estata Company. A letter from C. C. Pinckney Norris complaining of standing water on a property on Stockton avenue belonging to Thomas'Robb, of Philadelphia, was read and referred to the board of health.

States Supreme Court, the e State of New Jersey vs. th Delaware, may reach as amicable settlement. . Governor Hunn sent a message to the Delaware Legislation recently rel-

ative to the suit.

In his biennial message the Gover-

Gosalp of the Reaort In Which You MawBe Mentioned. Mrs. Charles Markley, of Salem, v visitor to Cape May relatives a friends over the early days of the week. Charles L. Stites, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Stites, of this city, has entered into the paint business at Wild-

wood.

Miss Mattie Weeks, of Central Tele- 1

phont- Kiehug., (1WU lu. I^„ ill ■ or ^ «Pr.,.«l tk. opiate tb.t th. mlb trip met of 11,« -eok. anil o«*Wo * «“ “*»- lo hoi dolii... “ a hapoiauf- <» til*! SUM. K. It vli.iiil Tliomp-.n .1 horn, •ooumla*. u 11 Sou. th. UrrUorUl from Sonih Ih llilrliriii In.iitoU, l»»i | "“lu “* JurUHIcUon UuMot. Their week, -her.- hr h„ pum-d the ex.mil, “• . i, vigorous defensa of the right* of the mlion .mx-eufollv. II, r.lnr.e.1 tUlu-, ^ wiib th, puu.l uuu,. Ih. day morning. . Oo¥erllor transmit* a letter from AtRev. and Mrs. A \\. Hand will here-1 torner General Herbert H. Ward. This ifter reside at Wildwood over Sundays, j litigation grew out of legislation in

A Light on History. In connection with the sketch of “Methodism on Cape Island.” In the lasue of the Herald of January 31, It might be of interest to know that at a quarterly conference held at West Creek (now Eldora), In October of 1842. at which conference Rev. Charles T. Ford presided. Rev. Israel Towirsend. Paracn Townsend and William Price were appointed a committee with full power to obtain a suitable lot of ground on Cape Island on which to build a meeting house. They were also constituted a building committee with full power to aelect a site and build a house. The time this church was dedicated does not appear on any record ~we have found, but the first quarterly •conference held In this church was on 'the 16th of September, A. D. 1833. David Duffleld and William R. Rogers being the preachers on the charge, having been appointed by Bishop Hed•dlng at a .conference held at New 'Brunswick, beginning April 26, 143.

Encourage Home Induatry. The habit of many citlrens of Cape May In going off to the city stores to purchase their goods Is one that should be discouraged. Persons engaged In a trade of one sort are often given to pare basing”! heir goods of another character from dealers not doing business within the limits of their locality, and, while the teller may complain that his neighbors are buying their clothes from distant cities, it may be that the -grocer may be grumbling because he ■hears that the tailor has been buying his supplies also from a distant city. 'Such complaints should not be made, because the cause should be eliminated, and the local tradesman should make ■It a point to make his purchases of whatever goods be might need In any tother line than bis own, and If all the -merchants and business men would adopt this rale It would mfean to the the peoylt of Cope May county thousands ml dollars In addition to their businesses.

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5T. flARVS CATHOLIC CHURCH AND RECTORY.

PERSONAL INTEREST! niw JtMEYva Delaware

Handing Litigation Over Jurisdiction

May be Amalcably Settled.

After pending for yean In the United

where Mr. Hand is now preaching. Rev. Mr. Hand is a brother of Dr. Anna 51.

Hand, this city.

Missis Gable,, one of our summer residents, was a visitor to 'r. anil Mrs. Fred W. Wolife on Wednesday. Mrs. Wolife accompanied Miss Gable to her

Philadelphia home.

George H. Hughes, foreman of the Bridgeton Evening News printing house, was a Ope May visitor over Sunday. He was at the family reunion of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.

Hughes, on Lafayette street.

Miss Ella Wheaton, of the priinary depurttnent of the public school, is one o.' the most popular teachers now i the employ of the board of educatio . she is attentive to her duties and la-

coming more |M»puIar each day.

Cliaries Fitxgerald, treasurer of the Cape May Light and Power Company, was n visitor to New York during the early part of the week where he inspec-

ted a tug boat, which the Cape May — Real Estate Company has purchased to settlement, i use in the work of lilUug in their land L * 8ll “ tUre Cl

East Cape May.

Rev. Cliaries ,S. Stevens,

Delaware prohibiting persona who were not citizens of Delaware from fishing within certain limits which were claimed to be within the exclusive Jurisdiction of Delaware, and over which limits th* Jurisdiction of that State hai from time Immemorial been asserted. The act in question was passed March 2, 1871, and the Jurisdiction Is that claimed by the State of Delaware over the waters of the Delaware river to low water mark on the New Jersey shore, within the limits of the twelve-mils circle. The enforcement of the act by the arrest of citizens of New Jersey engaged In fishing In that portion of the river lying within the twelve-mile

authorities of

of Jurisdiction over said river east of the middle line and of the legal right of her citizens to fish on the New Jersey shore of the river without a license of Delaware, either within or without the circle. Both States named oommlsslonera to settle the dispute, but they failed to reach a satisfactory basis

and in 1875 the Delaware iecided that Delaware’s

commissioners, having fully performed . their duties and reported the results r - : of their labors, were relieved of fur-

and Jlr*. Thotnan S. Stevem,, f-r., of thir t ber duty. The license laws, which city, has accepted the call to the pas- bad been suspended, were continued in torate of the First Presbyterian Church, force. and.on March 1$, 1877, New Jer-

WilmingtO", Del. He was recently stationed in California, and was a delegate from the Califor ia Presbytery to the last General Presbytery of that rhurcb.

Mrs. E. F. I..Oper is e joying un ex-

te ded visited to her relatives at Kingston, N. Y.. where she will be joined by her husband in the near future. Together they will visit Niagara Falls, Bailalo and Pittsburg, stopping for a few days in the City of Brotherly Love, at the home of Mr. Loper's sister, be-

fore returning home to Cape ay. Charles H. Dougherty, of Philadel-

phia, has been at Cape May looking of-

his property here. He is having'

laid around his property which takes

whole block, surrounded by

Franklin, Washington, Jelfersou and Corgte street*, a new curbing and cement ami Hag stone walks. The mansion is one of the prettiest at Cape

May.

First M. E. Church. Next Sunday the pastor, the Rev. C. B. Fisher, will preach the annual sermon on education. Subject: “The Masterbuilder’s Charge to Youthful Architects and Builders.” Young people especially urged to be present. In the evening itis subject will be, “Abraham Lincoln.” All cordially invited.

Presbyterian Church. “lincoln, the Liberator” will be considered next Sabbath morning at the Stone Church, and In the evening the pastor, Rev. Edwin F. Gallagher, will call attention to “Home, Sweet Home." A male quartette is also expected to assist the choir.

First Baptist Church Pastor Williams' subject* for Sunday: Morning—“Gold, Perfect Gold." Evening—“The Mysterious Soldier with i Drawn Sword.” All seat* free. Come,

force, and.on March 1$, 1877. New

sey filed a bill In equity In the Supi Court of the United States to restrain the State of Delaware from the exercise of Its Jurisdiction. Delaware went

into the defense of the suit.

In 1901 the Delaware Assembly reiterated the authority of the state to de fend the suit of Its termination, and Attorney General Ward filed the answer of Delaware In the Supreme Court. The case has now arrived where proof must be produced, the preparation of which, entailing the production ot ancient original documewt, some In London and aome In Albany, N. Y.,

will be expenalve.

On January 87, Attorney General Ward, of Delaware, with Attorney General Thomaa N. McCarter, of New Jersey, and George H. Bates, associate counsel for Delaware, had a conference to expedite the progress of the cause. Upon a full consideration of the dlfflculttes and probable cost of the production of proof, and of tke history and bearing of the controversy upon tbs cltlsens of the two States. It wa*

agreed to attempt an equitable deterurination and setUement of the rights of the two states in the disputed terrl tory, and If posalble to adjust all differences arising out of Delaware's territorial claim. It waa agreed to confer with the executive and leglalatlve authorities of the two States to ascertain their sentiment on the subject

Seaside Mayors Together. Mayor Franklin P. Stop, David R. Barrett Herman G. Muloch, and John Mans, of Atlantic (Sty, and Superintendent A. G. Mcl'suslsnd, of Reading Railroad, came to Cape May Thursday evening, and were dined at the Ebbitt House that evening by Mayor Thomas W. Millet and Councilman J. E. Taylor. The party remained here yesterday.

Don’t forget the Band entertainment next Thursday evening.

ST. MAMMA A Brief History of the Local Catholic Church. CHURCH HAS EXISTED 40 YEARS Ha* Had About Thre* Rectorsther Degen Served th* Longeet Tim#—Father Kelly, the Preeent Popular Rector, to Build a New Edifice. Margaret M. Halvey, In the September number of “Our Lady of Good Counsel." published at Villa Nora, Pa.. says: “It waa Eugene Field, of pleasant memory, who diagnosed the malady Which unsympathetic folks had been colling In his case, plain extravaganae. as 'chronic catalogUls.' caused, he said, by a germ that abides In the catalogues of old books and produces In Us victim total Inability to resist the attraction ot a book sale. A congenital germ It must'be (possibly fostered In

ligate Catholic beginnings and collate the story of the Catholic progress. “Few Impulses deserve more encouragement. for^nly familiariUes with the

past can i

difficulties and fairly e

s us to comprehend Its

achievements. With thlj knowledge, too. must D*eds grow the honest appreciation of our present advantages, as well as ot the responsibilities which they entail. If, indeed, we would not leave behind a record sadly Inferior to that of our forbears. . “Our own Interest In the annaleelnd reminiscences ot the past proves the truth ot that mneh-quoted saying of John Quincy Adams, that posterity delights In details, and these It behooves us to provide. Even In the Journeyings and sojourna which constitute the Ideal American vacation there Is ample opportunity for researclL-mnd the collection of what Watson calls ‘memorabilia.’ that shall be invaluable to the future historian of the faith In Amer

are few of our people to-day willing to decide the question of a summer’s location without duly considering the religious facilities It affords. It Is only within a very few years that the conscientious Catholic, therefore, had wide scope for vacation choice, for. as the Standard's Judicious Busybody recently remarked, ‘rural Catholic communities are still comparatively rare—It would seem superlatively so In Pennsylvania.’ But compensation Is found In the plentltuJe of seashore resorts where to-day, thank God! the musle at Maas and anthem mingles with the

croon of tbs voiceful waves, and the lamp of the sanctuary ihlnes for the Ithful as the beacon ot the beach for the Incoming mariner, symbolic always of safety and welcome. Let us pause and count them ever—the seaside shrines that Jewel the stretch of ocean front which Is so peculiarly Philadelphia's vacation Mecca. The great- Atlantic, as we know, washes the Jersey shore for Its extreme length from Cape May to Sandy Hook—Frank Stockton put it once tba‘. New Jersey is very intimate with the

was made In 1876, dividing the State Into two provinces, and confine our atUntion to the western one, with a *ea-

Bgg Harbor and terminating with Cape May Point “Within these limit* no fewer than Bln* summer resorts have arisen to bid for popular favor, most of them possesslng the Catholic quallflcatlou which we have set out to discover and describe In cursory fashl and histoi place Cape May first upon our list. In school histories we read of the

historical Interest

FACTS IN BRIEF.

Matters of General end Local Interest Mentioned. Pilot George Dougin* lost n valuable horse on Monday. Cape May county ha* eleven prisoner* at the Penitentiary at Trenton, N .J. The Marine Band of Wildwood will give a ball there on Saturday, 28th in-

StH'it.

John Wallace ho* sold for $800, a lot of land at Cape May Point to Annie Z.

Da via.

Columbia I-otlge, Independent Order of Mechanic*, took in four rnemlieni on Monday night. The Civic Club, of Woodbine, i* making arrangement* for the celebration of Washington’* Birthday. Conductor Benjamin B. Hughe* will start work, on his new cottage Hughe* street next week. Wasted—Girl to do general housework. No wa*hiiig. Coll f>09 Washington St., second lloor, hock. Application is to bo made to have Sea Isle City incorporated a* a city, instead of as a borough, a* at present. • The hill making Woodbine a borough ha* passed the Assembly, and is now in the State Senate for consideration. Sixteen persons took the examination last Saturday for mail tiers and clerkships. The successful applicant* will lie advised in about two

weeks.

Harvey Bennett, sou of Pilot Mrs. Judson C. Bennett, is seriously ill with typhoid fever, and is now alter ded by a trained nurse. All are hoping for hi* recovery. In the ap|»ortionment of franchise tax collected by the State of New Jersey, sum of #1872.35 comes to Cape May county, most of which is divided between • a|»e 'May City, Ocean City and Sea Isle City. Representative ]»udenslager has been authorized by the Pensions Committee, of which he is chairman, to bring up a'soon as practicable the bill re|K>rted by the committee pensioning certain 5loxican war veterans at $12 a month. Miss Eva L. Dunning, on Friday evening of last week, imiieraonated the characters from the look entitled “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." The entertaii ment was given for the benelit of the Mayflower Lodge, I. O.'Or F. MissEthel Kinne, kindergarten teacher m our public schools, is winning much praise for the excellent manner in which she is conducting her departmenu A marked improvement is noted over lost year’s work by those sendi, g children to her room. The Eastern Manufacturing Phannacal Company has been organized witli Dr. Samuel F. Ware, of this city, a of the principal incorporators. The company is already In business in Un >nd story of the Cape May Market, and will employ considerable labor in prefmring the articles of sale.

Daniel C. Eldrcdge Dead. Ex-Coroner Daniel C. Eldredge, aged 74, died at his residence on Myrtle avenue, West Cepe May, yesterday morning at H.35 o’clock, after a lingering illness. lie become alarmingly ill Thursday afternoon about five o'clock. He was born at Cape • ay and has held many high offices, haring been Coroner for four terms, and a member of the M'est > ape May Council, and was also for some years l.ower Township representative i i the Board of Choseu Freeholders. He leaves a widow, two sons, u-kI two daughters to mourn bis loss, baside* a host of friends whom he hail befriended in his time. The funeral will occur from his late residence to-morrow, .Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. The Interment will be in Cold Spring cemetery.

gles upon the late Senator William J.

Sewell, of New Jersey.

In the gallery were the family of the late Senator end several relatives, comprising Mrs. Sewell. W. J. Sewell, Jr., Miss Sewell. Mr .and Mrs. Robert Sewell. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Borel, Jr.. Mr. and Mrs. B. Courlander, the Misses

emphlll and a part] Camden, his old home,

namely. Judge Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Jones and family, Mr. and Mr*. Simmon*,'Mrs. Morgan, Mias Mor-

gan and Mias Whltall.

The euloglsta of Mr. Sewell were Represen taUves Gardner, Stewart, Fowler and Parker, of New Jersey; McClellan, of New York; Hull, of Iowa, and Steele, of Indiana.

STATE LB0ISUT0R1

Compromise Reached on Mach Discussed Automobile Bill MORE NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED. DUtrlet At torner Watlcfu Slated For State Commlssleaerafclp ot Bank la*

Trenton, Feb. 12.—Five weeks of th* legislative session have been completed. and the first exciting event of the term so far occurred on Monday night when Assemblymen Btalter and Van Blarcom of Passaic and Assemblyman Miller of Cumberland engaged In a lively controversy over the Newark armory bill, which was passed last week, providing an appropriation of $125,000 for the building of an armory for the Essex troop. Mr. Miller asked to hare the hone# Journal corrected as far as the vote on that bill was concerned on the ground that the Passaic men were recorded as having voted for the bill when they should have been recorded In the negative. The bill was passed by a doe* margin, and the two vote* when properly recorded showed that the bill had been defeated. Mr. Miller's motion was passed, but the Newark men succeeded in having the matter tabled. It will be taken up at some future time. It la understood that the New Jersey Forest council will come to the front before long with a request for a good sized appropriation for the carrying out of the law on the statute hooka for the .prevention and extinguishing of forest fires. State Geologist Hummel Is prepared to show that a hundred thousand acres of New Jersey** timber land had been burned over loot year. It la claimed that the preservation of the forest lands of th* state Involves a quesUon of loss or gain n year of millions of dollars to th* farm-

ers of the state.

Automobile I.r*I«l»tlom. The much discussed automobile measure has at last been compromised, a conference between Assemblyman Seovel of Camden and Karl G. Roeblln and John S. Broughton of the New Jer^ sey Automobile club haring resulted In an agreement to report the Camden man’s bill by substitute, which Is to eliminate the drastic features of the bill and. while not forking a hardship to the automoblllsts. Is strong enongb to protect those who use the public highways. Mr. Scorel found th* demands of the Eutomoblllsts within reason and was willing to meet them half way. and they decided on the change* In the bill. Governor Murphy, who In his annual message recommended that the legislature take some definite action toward the regulation of the automobiles to this state, la understood to be agreeable to the proposed changes In the bill, and it will in all probability now be passed without opposition end will receive the executive signature. The substitute bill provides that on public highways In the built up sections the rate of speed Is to be ten mile* an hour, and twenty miles an hour la the rural sections Is to be the maximum speed. This bill will not affect physicians and surgeons while going to or returning from professional calls whan the emergency requires them to travel at a faster rate of speed. According to the new bill, every operator of a motor vehicle shall, at the signal from a person riding or driving a restive home or team, cause the motor to remain sta-

pe rm It

After a conference this week between Assemblyman Boyd of Essex and the committee representing the Federation of Catholic Societies it waa agreed that the Boyd bill providing for a general revision ,of the tax laws should be so emended as to exempt from taxation all parochial schools and other Catholic and public school property. This clan of property la exempt under the present law, but the Catholic school property was omitted In the exempt clan In the general revision bill. The Religions Society of Friends ot Plainfield and Shrewsbury, Burlington and Haddonfield baa petitioned the legislature to favor the establishment of - e reformatory for, women In this

state.

The Ocean boulevard bin has made . Its appearance, having been Introduced In the aenate. on Monday night by Senator Brown of Monmouth. It authorizes boards of chosen freeholders to lay out. open and Improve public roads upon petition of two-third* of the municipalities through which It la to run. The proposition la to construct a wide ocean boulevard from Sandy Hook tn

Cape May.

The aenate' has confirmed these nominations sent In by the governor last Port warden, Hudson county, John J. Toffey; prosecutor. Union coun-

' ft,

«on county

Thomaa Robb Dead.

Thoma* Robb, aged (12, of Pbiladel- • phla, died suddenly yesterday. The . direct cauee of his death was Bright's 1 disease. The fnneral will occur thin af- '

ternoon. He owned much land at Cape ' . May, Including the Columbia Hotil. ^"(^NTIMIKD os’mra PAOH)'’ ^

ty, Nicholas C. J. English; Judge. Hud-

unty common pleas court, John Ir; Judge, Warren county c