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CAPE MAY HKRAU) AM INDEPENDENT WEEKLY. Published Every Saturday Mornlag at 506 Waahlngtoo Street, Cape May, N. J. subscription: Onc Dollar Pcr Year in Advance AdUrru all CummunicAiion, to THK H EHA L13, CAPE HAY. N. J.

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1903. NothlnK apparently is impossible to American Inventive genius. Among la latest triumphs Is a device for doing

iaqtie as roval in I

means of expressing approi

theater.

Trial has been made In St. Louis ’of a machine which will drown the hand clapping of thirty husky supemumera- , rits and tuni cold disdain to an ovation.' The apparatus In construction Is not unlike a mammoth street plana That U to say. Its principal working part is a cylinder supplied with pegs which strike the sounding hammers at Intervals. Instead of strings, however, the “applause machine" has "clappers." 104 of them, each tuned to a different pitch and arranged to imitate all varieties of applause from the soft Impact of kid glove against kid glove to the stamp of an enthusiastic man's No. 11 boot and the thump of a gold headed cone in the balcony. When the handle Is turned, the response Is not to .be distinguished from that of a large and varied audience. Thus far the new device has been used only behind the footlights. It has taken the part of an audience supposed to be behind the scenes. In this capacity It has proved a money saver, enabling one reasonably strong boy to do the work which formerly required a score of men and a trained leader. There Jp no apparent reason why It would not work Just ns well In front of the footlights. If a manager desires to give the Impression that bis star is hailed with expressions of delight, nil he will have to dp Is to turn the power on the applause machine In the orchestra. This would be more economica] for the manager and Just as fair to the public as to pack the first dozen rows with heavy handed "dead-

heads."

The National Educational association, In session at Cincinnati, bus appropriated $100 to pay the expenses of the committee oh orthography In Its work of trying to simplify the spelling of Xbe English' language. One hundred dollars Is not a large sum. but it will probably pay for all the simplified Bpell-' lag the committee will succeed In getting Into the language before the next annual meeting of the association. It was, of course, too bad that we could not all of us have witnessed the Delhi durbar. But, never mind. Everybody yrlll have an opportunity to see It next summer In connection with the circus parades. No well regulated circus will fall to reproduce In Its entirety this "grand spectacle of barbaric splen

dor."

As a fitting Invocation to the new

crome

following: “Let us combine and form a trust in tbe Lord.” With more combines of this sort and fewer of tbe other Iflqd there would perhaps be less

need of antitrust laws.

Tbe Standard Oil company has a new and comprebensice scheme for pensioning Its employees. The people who are paying more for their oil will be glad to know that some portion of the money Is going to so gsod a purpose.

A Nova Scotia firm la planning to pump coal from tbe bottom of tbe sea. This Is a point that tbe coal combine teems to have overlooked.

Fortunately for the Mad Mollah, he Is not expected to buy himself a tomb stone every time be is. reported to be dead. Tbe Filipinos have taken to baseball. This Is pretty good evidence that they are becoming Americanized. Ujougb not necessarily pacified. . It was very thoughtful on tbe part of the Minnesota board of pardons to require Cole Younger to promise not to moke an exhibition of himself.

Incidentally tbe smashing of tbe statehood omnibus is a severe blow to both ttyfi geographical publishing and

Th« discovery of a Connecticut colony where polygamy is a common practice must be regarded by tbe Hon. Reed Smqpt as a good Joke. The fact that Bismarck never recognized the Monroe doctrine recalls the fact that bo died before bis boas bulled into It disastrously.

St. Patrick Is tbe next man to have a birthday, and his memory Is always kept grew.

SPLENDID PAPAL FANS. em ta Am erica Mrrarrd bjr lira. Dreset, or ■■hliadelphU, tram Ike Vat trail at Home. After years of diplomatic effort Mrs. Joseph Drexel, widow of the former partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, has at last succeeded in securing from the pope the famous eight-foot fans of the Vatican, and has brought these trophies in triumph to America. They will be presented to ihe American people and placed on exhibition Ip the museum of Pennsylvai^A university. Visitors to the vaTicsn will re roe tube i these gorgeous emblems of imperial authority. No papal procession was complete without them. When the pope Was carried Into the audience

RUPEBT OF BAVARIA.

Heir to a Royal Throne Soon to Visit This Country.

Will Be Accompanied t»r Ills Beam. Ilfal Wife—Was a Uar Hake Once, Bat Sow Is an EsempULry Famlt) Mnn.

upert, destin ,c throne of It

CONCERNING THE RICH. It Is said upon reliable authority that wiien J. P. Morgan and King Edward went to a pleasant little game of bridge at Anibamuidor Choulc's recent affair the hand began to play “Ood Save the King.”

Few. men of hi* In business offal

t» years ruirs a

Prince Rupert

to sit o

blared by the'Jacohins to be Ihi ful (Stuart) heir lo the English thron will visit the United Suites In 1U03.

The one-time most guy of young Astor real royal prodigals, now a sedate married , 1i B k been sc

will be u<

eautiful

Their infant

■lust, will probal

Prince

as Abram &

iwitt, ex-mayor of New York, who

turned 80. It Is 60 year* idnre

his name began to assume promi-

the commercial and political Y'ork city, but he shows no sign of retiring as yet.

For the third time in the memory this generation a big block of

ew York city n Jacob Axtor

isr:,'-*"

upon the deal] into, who is a

ion, born in September j Rale* were made in 1898 and 1900. probably be left at home. For about a century it ha* been the Rupert is preparing to as- | custom of the family to increase and y os the head of his people j retain- real estate holdings, death of bis cousin. King j James B. Clews, non of Henry

f great

r k'K* of an eh he had

iking fir

F THE PAPAL FANS.

ONE OF

‘'"““SJL'S rUZ&SS

imbecile and

led in an asylum.

rince Ludwig, i expel ipert. will »b- r j ugt

dicate in favor e'f his son. The coun- l was i

j try is now ruled by Prince Luitpold, h| K way

las regent. | Hi* father, who had a similar exporiI It is the intention of Prince Rupert j euce a few monthr. ago, advised him ! to make a tour of the world, going j to wear n fastener to prevent such I first to India, China aud Japan, thence j an occurrence, but the younger man j to San Francisco and through the j failed to profit by the parental coun-

L nited States. His object is to acquire ! sel. at first hand a knowledge of the vu- j rious countries, their people and their industrial and administrative systems, with a view to his own future rule of

icr or took part in any of tl s of the church the fans

he fes-

The prim

I World, is X

1 cratic yi I ih the

ir

ie pope, 1 t too clos

tivities

always in evidence either carried aloft by a favored pair of noble guardsmen „ I

Years ago Mrs. Drexel saw these ' u * rla ' l L ?' fan. and Coveted thaw. Almost any U ‘«

favor asked by this charitable woman would have been readily granted

but the fans were regal

issociated with the

tory of the church to be allowed to leave the Vatican. They had been familiar features of Roman Catholic celebrations since the days of Pius IX,

and were hallowed byst< ories lightly to be relic

at the request of *< ic church as Mrs Drei

Mrs. Drexi ot beaten.

the New Y'ork

:« years old, a stout, demoroquguian, who has had his fling :he gayest capitals of Europe, dee royal commands, threats and re-

ictire in ensures, Ui* mother

Auslria-Este, of the branch

Modeaa. His fathi

Is the actual legitimist heir

re*.

rhduchess Marie Theresa, of

tbe branch of tbe ther. Prince Ludwig, itimist heir presump-

cT'by l ^ ve lo , * 3e Dirone of Great Britain. , j The prince is an officer in the Bavaic his- r ^ BI1 arm F' an d it was while he was a

» many memInquishcd, even

good a friend of

wa<) disappointed, but. Year after year, when visiting Europe, she had audience of the pope and renewed her plea for the fans, and at last Leo XIII. gave a reluctant consent to Ihe splendid symbol* being carried off by Mrs. Drexel. ,rn the Vatican was presented with another pair of fans, even more

gorgeous than the

lack!

.•cured by Mrs. Drexel.

The fans are splendid creation*. The spread is formed of superb ostrich plumes, tipped -with peacock feathers; on the stickA, or what would be the sticks in an ordinary fan, are the papal

arms, worked on a crimson field in . lieutenant

the crown studded with : oat*-

neralds. The embossed

poles that support the great fans when now and then, proci ' >ft are of crimson velvet. At some other equally *

•oystering tit

PRINCE AND PRINCESS RUPERT. (Bavarian Royal Visitors to the United

Slates.)

field in lieutenant that he sowed hi* wild

avy gold, the crown studded with oats. It was his custom to disappear bits and emerald*. Tbe embossed from Munich or some army post every

iceed to Pans or gay city and have with other young

blades and the concert ball favorite*

carried aloft are of crimson velvet. At *ome other

tbe b*se of the fans an inscription in Latin records the fact that the presentation was made in commemoration of

ope Pius IX. haring occ opal throne for a quarter

upied the ' (>n of a cen- I l

BIG GIFT TO MASONS.

Philadelphia Capitalist Provide* i Borne for Orphaned Daughters

of Member* of the Craft.

William L. Elkins, of Philadelphia, who has given $500,000 for the found-

ing of a hoi

ten

n $500,000 f

e for the orphan i

i of masons, is one of the v

WILLIAM L. ELKINS.

(Philadelphian Who Will Provide a

for Masons’ Daughters.)

lest of American capitalists. His immense fortune was made in oil, gas and traction interest!, of which last haii holdings in Chicago, New Y'ork, iltlmore and Pittsburg. Mr. Elkins began his career in 1849 a* a clerk in a grocery store in West Virginia, hia

is stated to gle gift e

irganization. A home for

masons’ daughters has long been a crying need of the organization and more than one suggestion has been made to set on foot a petition among the various lodges to procure a sum sufficient for this purpose. Thl* will not now be needed, as it is thou; home to be bnilt by Mr. Elkins

ample for Rome time to Bay II At the Bntrhri A Chicago paper contain)

vertisement reading thus: "Any t person will learn how to get.fat sending. 50 cents to the undersigi A gullible fellow, who is as thin rail, forwarded the sum asked, I

and received this reply:

batcher's.”

>ught the u will be

of the time.

the occasion of the maneuvers of ierman army at Metz in 1893 the prince left Munich to jijin hi* rc|

at the rendezvous, ther

German emper

at Metz, and a searcl

the company of a young woman at Wurtcmberg. For thi* he was sent to a lonely army post and ordered to be

good.

Prince Carl, Prince Rupert’s younger brother, was as wild as his brother and was one timr set upon marryii

a ballet ‘ - _

following ti

man. Duke Ludwig, who, at 60 and widower, married Antoine Barth, a ballet girl, daughter of a Munich me-

chanic, with whom hei* very Prince Luitpold thwarted 1 did not prevent the two from They were caught in a secluded in the Alps and were returned

married Duchesa daughter of Duke Bavaria, head of

re to meet the He did not arrive

irch disclosed him in

upon marrying

girl, morganatically, thereby g the example of a rich kins-

but d:

ing.

to Munh

Prim

lappy.

be plan,

n elop-

ice Rup<

Marie Gabri Charles Thee

lore of 1

one branch of the Bavarian ft

Julj

, hea.

family, in a- notable

The princess, who 1* the daughter of the duebes* of Brnganza, daughter of the king of Portugal, is known as one of the most beautiful women in the realm. She is also very good and charitable and has succeeded in re-

: om j- -forming her husband. It is understood that tlje prince s

princess will travel through the Ui

icognito, which will, lude any official recogni-

is understood icess will travel

ed States incogniu

course, preclude any officl* tion of the visit on the pai United States government.

Breaking Family Tim.

There is something pathetic in the figure of the shah of Persia just now. a sort of wistful, lonesome, homesick something, a* that figure is presented to the view of the world at large. This is due to the fact that the cable iws report# that be has Just reduced number of his wives from 1.100 to and all Persia is dumfounded at

new the

60, and what is

rr**. ministrat ied an ad- Is now r

thin 60! It I*

b y

.by mail, itattha

regarded as the breaking up

of a happy family circle. Jusilmaginc

nlltary and negli

listration* of 1,100

reduced to the s small wonder protesting at such

step. They have been be ruled by family

and who

e desolation cf r that Jils people a revolutionary

Someone spdbe to "Jack” McDonald. contractor for the great New Y’ork subway, regarding the magni-

tude and difficulty of the has in hand. “Difficult job? “Oh. no. It's cellar diggii

lot of cellar digging. Put all the cellars in New Y'ork in n row and the;

make a tunnel from here dclphia. There’s nothing hard a’cellar, and a row y«f cel-

,rder. It takes longer

—that's

digging a’cellar, r lars isn't any hardi

all."

work ’ ” said 1

'.".TTiS"

Phil

1 abot

IN MANY LANDS.

Count Adami has | pope his magnificent Italy, and some 600 v tained therein. Physiologists have declared that the fact of every human bcing'T when closely examined, resemble* some animal. J. Swift McNeill, the Irish member of parliament, applies this test to Mr. Chamberlain, and claims that the colonial secretary's’ face

died re-

secretnr;

bear* a by no means far-fetd semblance to that of a fox. especially

when one look* at ' ’

A unique appeal by a number of E

his profi has beer

English personage*,

hetfo

iqndeley.

'hoi mot

fnnd* to be used for memorial window or some

ument to Ajny Robsart in the chunch

i Afay Robsart in at Lyderstone hall, where she worshiped. Instead of sendii

peals t discrim

t and it t only t

e name of Amy.

rryone, broa<

iminately. they are

women bearing the name of Amy. In commenting on the death Thomas B. Reed T. P. O’Connor says in his London weekly: “A very short conversation with him was quite sufficient to give /ou a sense of his immense power. He was a great, big. somewhat loosely made man, rery thick at the girth, with a huge head and a large, broad, fair, somewhat pallid, resolute, though not utigenlal. expression of face. Like many strong men, he waa very humorous, and his conversation often coruscated with jokes at his own expense, at the expen*e of his opponents', ot the expense of everybody and everything." DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNERS.

One Australian syndicate

fered Gen. De Wet *1.250 weekly and

ia At

has of-

Gen. De

expenses for a lecturing

tralia.

iperor William has determined to have a-grouse moor of his own in the royal domain about Konigsberg. The gfouse is an important bird in Great Britain; but no far as known

wild state else-

gtoi

it Br it dc whei

It is said of Sir Frank Green, lord iayor of London in 1900-190L who as just died, that the first sight he iw on coming to London as a country boy was the Jord mayor's show, which took place on the day of hia rival, and that he became lord mayor himself exactly 50 years af-

ter.

Robert Laurie Morant, M. who (s credited with having drafted the education bill, is e man of splendid athletic frame, six feet four inches

and of fa

born fighter and of iron will, speaking of Mr. Murnnt a London

writer says that Mr. Gladstone laid when he looked at the burly form of

fht-L. Moo«|y, the American

Init- Dwight. L. Moody, tl vivalist: “Mr. Moody, I

shoulders." To

ish I 1

[hich

City Directory.

v. S

Yn-anttrer. Italic If. Suillli Jju. 1. U*i: rouiuilwdoncr of A|ip«.l Wm. T. Kuo cut CooiuilutoDcr ot Appear. Win. 8. Bb'gw Conimltkluticr of Appeal—J..»^ II. iluurt. A Lc.ee Effect

Star

Baiclsy L Schtlletigrr

liPr

US 1 ■ I County Directory.

Jet lire Supremo' Court—I'barlct K. I Lt w rtC> JoScR—Uai rito

County Board’of KU-etinnt-ior. K. Htiid. Coiiaty’ Board ' of ' KIccHoi^WlilU* ““

County 'll£5' of Klmto^Wm J.' Tyler. CounTT i^rd' of ' iniV-iloDU-MirWlT -'‘y ss

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OUR SECRET SOCIETIES

Where To Go To Pass An Evening Among Your Brethren. 0..rtM r'^ul^rr: f—rM.ry fm* of'Yc o’! u Si. Thomas 8. Stevens. Jr.. P. H. P.-. G. M. of lit veil, Alban H. Fauiki er: ChapM.—Communications second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at lodire room.

sgs.ygr

rrs.” To which the U *1 R. stttes:

preacher retorted: “Mr. Gladstone, i H. Brewton; Burxeon. James Mecray. r - • •• —ve Lon- ! Chaplain. Swajn 8. Reeves; Quartermas-

I wish I don writ*

Morant I envied both his shouldent

end his head."

id your

riter adds: “When I *

t I en ' *

RAIL AND TIE.

til way v . in 1871

in Swi

the Engsdine

by mil.

Last year 63 bridges were destroyed by earthquakes in Japan, on the rail-

way line from Tokio to Kobe.

Another African railweg. 870 miles

to be built by English ' on Portuguese territory. ] uella east to the Angola ;

Beniamin B. Hushes: Secretory'.

Cape May .Camp. No. STO. Modern Woodmen of America—Meets first Wednesday of each month at Auditorium. Officers: Consul. Charles F. (Juldort: Worthy Adviser. Frederick W. Wolf; Clerk. William O. Blattner; Banker. Barclay L. Bchellenxer; General Manager. Howard F. Otter: Escort. William E. Rom Ie;

Watchman. William 8. Shaw.

Cape May Conclave. No. IgJ, Improved Order of Ueptimophs—Meets lit Auditorium on *e< 'hd and fourth Tnuredaya or each mont Officer*: Host Archon. Lewis T. K evens. Archon. C. Edward Hughes; Provuet. Robert C. Hushes. Inspector. Harry T. Ludiam: Secretary. Andrew S Rush. Treasuer. A. B. Little,

Financier. Samuel H Moore.

Cape May Council, No. ItSl. Royal Ar-canum-Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month at Auditorium. Officers: Regent. Grant Vonaman; Vice Regent. Clarence F. Kuhn; Orator. Howard F. Otter: Secretary. William E. ROmlg; Collector. Albert H. Phillips: Treasurer. Bamuel T. Bailey; Chaplain. Joseph P.

McKIsslc.

Cape May Lodge, No. tl. A. O. U. W.— Meets first and third Thursdays of each month at *12 Washington street. Officers: M. W.. David Hughes: P. M.. Joseph C. Cbarmell: Foreman. E. G. Doughty; Overseer. Georgs W. Reeves: Recoi ter. A. 8. Bush: Receiver, A. B. Little: Financier. Bamuel F. Eldredge. . Columbia Lodge. No. **. Independent Order of Mechanics-Meets each Monday at Auditorium. Officers: Senior Master. Bomera L. Lloyd. W. M.. 8. Walter Bennett; J. M.. Jacob Q. Corson: Conductor. William Bonder: Chaplain. Joseph Roblnaon: Recording Secretary. Joseph H. Wellman: Financial Secretary. Wll'.lsm D. Vansant; Treasurer. J. Clarence Gal-

laher.

Eureka Lodge, No. 7. Ladles’ I. a M.Meets second and fourth Thursdays ot •ach month at Auditorium. Officers: Past Worthy President. Mrs. Arlan Bailey: Worthy President. Mrs. May Mecray: Vice President, Mrs. Justins Hughes. Conductress. Mrs. Lizzie El well: Recordtog Secretary, Mrs. Ethel Barton: Chsplaln. Mrs. Viola Hawkey: T-eaaurer. Mist Jennie 8. Wales: Ftobnctal Secretary.

Miss Kate Conley.

John Mecray Post No. 40. G. A. R — Meets on second and fourth Thursdays of each month at *10 Washington street. Officers: Commander. Peter W. Smith; E V. C.. Francis K Duke; J. V. C. Samuel R. Stltes: Officer of the Day. Joseph

0UI

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tar, Johi

Mayflot _ _ _ „ Order of Odd Fellow day at *10 Washington street Officers: Noble Grand. Grant Vanaman; Vice Grand. Somers L. Lloyd: Treasurer. Benjamin 8. Curtis: Secretary. Thomas 8. SteVens, Jr.: Financial Secretary. William G. Blattner. Ogallalla Tribe. No. 1*7. Improved Order of Red Men—Meet* at *10 Washington street. Officers: Bachem. Gilbert C. Hughes: Ben. Sagamore. William H. Smith: Jr. Sagamore. Arthur Chester: Prophet. George Taylor: Chief of Records. Robert C. Hughe*. Keeper of Wampum. A B. Little; Collector of Wampum, william G Blattner.

from Benguelli

rsian way of

S to j What 1* called first ti the j berian railway be twee

Thoma* H. Taylor, the popular ad shoe maker, ha* removed to tt* AVuahlTutton street. He doe* all re-

ie nugoia j paring neatly, thoroughly an

o< • onable He h “ bp

on the Si- bug i nPW1 1„ Cape May for 11 yi ie Irkutsk lo ap|K . rs M , wMl by machim .

. to match, l-ost or broken <

will just

lady fiirtids. Wei. ve the material to uu.kc the li .is just :.s may be desired and can always supply what is wanted

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ENGINES BURN HARD COAL. NO SMOKE. TIME TABLE to Eflect NOV. 34th, IPOS. Trains leave Cape May for Philadelphia: Week Days — * , g A. M. — AeenmmodaUon. Arrive Phlladelphla 9.S0. 8.°° A. H. — fixprcsa. Arrive Phlladel1 ic K Express. Aititc I’hlUd.l- . .1-35 {this fiAS. Sunday* — 4-3oJi 1 »«.«. F '*"~ Trains leave Pbllsdrlplila fbr Cape May: Week D*y* — 8 -4S i A o»' -Ej[, ' rr, *‘ Arr,T ' ,c * IM ' >, " T 4*'5 6 00 1 —lixprcss. Arrive Cspc May. r , r r M — Acconinu dation. Arrive Cape May 7.57. Bundayr — 8 A c A. M. — Exprena Arrive Cape May A. T. DiCR, Gcal Supt. Rds»n J. Weeks. Genl Pasa’r Agenl.

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