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CAPE MAY HERALD.

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VOL. III. NO. 19.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1903.

Subscription—$1.00 per Year.

BUILDING IROLLEY ROAD

LINE ON WASHINGTON STREET BEINQ CONSTRUCTED. Work Began on Wednesday Morning. Progress Rapidly Made. Track

Is Hall Laid.

The Ocean Street t'sitsenger Railway Company, a tributary r ail of the Phthirlelphiu and Reading Railway, put force of men at work on Wednesday morning, at laying the trolley road in Washington street, between the Reading i'oiui any's station nt tiu* head of Ocean street, to Schellenger’s Landing. The distance is one and a third miles. Tlie tics ami rails have been distributed for more than a fortnight. The work will he completed in about a month. The block between Ocean street and Franklin streets will lie macadamised, as is Ocean street from Washington street to Beach avenue. The remai - der of the distance from Franklin street to the La' ding will be macadamized between the track and on two feet outside

of them.

The Reading Railway officials have concluded an arrangement until Dr. Emlen Phymek, of this city, whereby they will lease his dock at Schellenger’s Landing at the end of Washington street. The company will build its road on to the dock.going t» the end .macadamize the dock. It will also erect a pavilion there so that those who want t** go yachting can hare suitable ac-

commodations.

A Lumber of Reading Railroad officials were here on Sunday, including the supervisor of the sysiern, and the chief florist. They were looking over the

company's property here, mg details for beautifying

Encourage The Band.

The Cape May Band, under the lead and teachiVg of William Porter, has been making excellent progress during the past winter. Iis recent serenades upon the street, und the harmony in its music is noted even by, those who understand but little of this accomplishment. The band is trying to play in time and harmony, and it is noticed that among its members there is not that a* dent desire to try to outblow each other, as was the condition some

years back.

The band deserves encouragement, and The 11 ehai.ii hopes all will do what they can to promote the finandal and moral support of this home institution.

The Freeholders.

The county board of Chosen Freeholders will organize for the fiscal year at Court House on next Wednesday. The terms of .Messrs Robert K. Corson of Upper Townahip and David P. Haley of Dennis Township expire, and they will be succeeded respectively by Anthony B. Smith and Hon. Jesse D. Lad bun. The board will elect a Director to succeed Mayor Joseph C. Champion, of Ocean City; a derk to succeed Eamuel Townsend; and a solicitor to succeed J. Spicer learning of this dty. They may all be re-elected.

The Tei

At the regular meetii'g of Council on Tuesday night City Treasurer Smith notified that bojly that a i.ote for $6000 was due on Wednesday, and he suggested that a new note for ffOOO be discounted to pay the $0000 one and current bills. Upon motion of Mr. Miller the treasurer’s proposition was quiesced in. This makes the dty’s

floating debt $24,000.

Notice. The good will of the Cap* May Hkbald and its job printing badness was sold out by M. A. Scull to the present proprietor of 'this journal and alj printing, therefore, intended for M. A. Beall, should be sent to this office, and not the so-called Novelty Printing Company which is using Scull’s name as manager.

To Lay Water Hal ns.

At the sugges Ion of ibe Fire and Water Committee of Cry Council, that body last Tuesday night was ordered to

advertise for bids for

new water main

Columbia avenue to Beach ave ue, and a • extension down Franklin super a d Sewell avenue. There is about 1135 feet

to lay.

County Commencement at Wildwood.

The annual commencetnen’ of tne

Oa e May Cou-ty public sch olz Will lie held this year at Wildwood In the Casino. The date is fixed for Thursday, June 4. This event will bring to Wildwood about 600 people, and a special

train will probably be run there on that day from points In the county.

PERSONAL INTEREST Gossip of the Resort In Which Yon May Be Mentioned. Mrs. 1. Learning Sheppard was an Philadelphia visitors on Monday. Mrs. A. G. McGausland and Miss t'auKlund were here on Wednesday. Miss Mattie Gile celebrated her 18th birthday on Saturday, second instant. Charles E. dTnviliiers, of Philadelphia, was among the Sunday visitors at

CajK* May.

Mrs. John Wanamaker is occupying the President Harrison cottage at Cape

May Point.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hamilton Harris, of Philadelphia, have a cottage for thej

Mrs. Susie Ludlatn was taken to Philadelphia on Wednesday, where she will

undergo an operation.

Mrs. John B. Lennig and Miss Lennig of Philadelphia, will have a cottage here

the coming season.

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wilbraham :u4 occupying their cottage on Myrtle

avenue for the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Cresse, of Milford N. J., have been visiting Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Cresse, of this aty.

S. A. Rudolph, of Manyunk, and a cottage owner on Jackson street, was

a visitor of Wednesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Sartori, of Germantown, will again occupy a Beach

avenue cottage this summer.

Miss Laura Townsend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Townsend, is

visiting Philadelphia friends.

I. Learning Sheppard has leased his handsome Jackson street cottage to a

Mr. U ilkins, of Philadelphia.

Mrs. Lewis A. Scott and family, of

Philadelpbit, came to their cottage on

Columbia avenue on Thursday. Mrs. Albert A. Rose, of West Phila-

•tv here, and perfect* delphia, has been a guest of her father,

Mr. Maskel Ware, for some days. Miss Bockius was among Philadel-

phians who came down on Thursday to

look after property interests here. Joseph Kelly and family, of Philadel-

phia, will this season occupy Mrs. J. M. Carpenter’s cottage on Windsor avenue.

Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Kunkle are occu-

pying their cottage on Ocean street and rill remain throughout the summer sea-

son.

Dr. and Mrs. C. P. Elfretb and their daughter Mrs. Starling, came to their cottage on Jackson street on Wednesday, for the season. Mr.'James T. Smith a *<1 his daughter, Mrs. AlfO' zo Bennett, are at Cape May looking after their pr perries which they propose renting. Constable Henry C. Bohm, in driving nail, while repairing his fish pound on Thursday, was struck in the eye by the nail, badly injuring the member. Mrs. Lizzie E. Fenton, of Bai>-bridge, N. Y., who was fonneriy Mrs Lizzie E. Godfrey of tnis city, was a guest of her sister, Mrs Joseph P. Henry, during the week. Miss Lida Lengert, daughter of M. A. Lengert, a* d well known in this dty, is in West Virginia, by order of her physidon. She will not come to Cape May until June. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Turner and Miss Elizabeth H. M. Turner, of Philaddphia, will occupy the same Franklin street cottage this summer that they have for several years past. * Henry C. White, of Washington, the

last colored man to serve in Congress, being a member from North Carolina, was a rtat&r to Cape May Wednesday. He is founding Whitesboro, this county. Frink R. Brown, of Chestnut Hill, and family, are delightfully located for the summer in the Falkinburg cottage, Washington street. Their bright children will shortly enjoy delights of strand on the beach. Mr. and Mrs. Jones Wister are cut ying their cottage at Beach avenne and Ocean street for the monthof May. They will go to Europe daring the summer, when thdr cottage will be occupied by the dul’ont fanjilr of Wilnmgtou. Mrs. Robert Iredell, of Allentown, Pa., who recentiv purchased of the estate of Thomas Robb, a cottage on Howard street, came down Thursday to look aftfr iL She will occupy it this summer in dompany with her daughter, Mrs

Berger.

Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C. Poflenberger are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. George

the lari g of a

i toward s reel, from Nichols, of Cape May Court House, at

their Aria'tic City home. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols were recently married and spending their ho eymoon in that

city.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Grange, who arc well known summer and Eastertide guests of Cape May, announce the engagement of their daughter, Laura Thacber Grange, and Mr. Charles Clayton I-ester, Jr. Mr. 1-ester is a son of

Mr. Charlea Clayton I-ester, a'promice .t to prohibit

mcmlM-T of the Philadelphia bar and a J all grandson of former Governor John W. jetti

Hall, of Delaware. - • lin street and Grant

Rev. and Mrs. Edwin F. Gallagher will leave next Monday on a vacation trip, going throogh New England, journeying in the footsteps of the pilgrim fathers. Mrs. George Hildreth and granddaughter, 'Miss Mary B. McBurney, of Philadelphia, ore guests of Mrs. Hildreth’s step-dsttghters, Mrs. Georgia Gorretson and Miss Sue Hildreth, at the latter’s cottage, 17 Jackson street. Mrs. J. M. Carpenter, of Salem, N. J., js occupying her cottage this week, preparing it for summer tenency. Mrs. Carpen er has some thought of going to Bar Harbor for the summer, but her friends here hope she may yet decide in favor of Cape May. Frank Uoyd has been chosen by the directors of the First National Bank, as cashier of that institution, and will aiA i his duties on May 16. He succeeds George M. Hendricks, who goes to the New Amsterdam Bank, New York City, as assistant cashier. Superintendent Charics Fitzgerald, was at Norfolk, Va., early in the week, looking alter the hull for the dredge<of the Cape May Real Estate Company. He reports that work was satisfactory, and that the craft will be here in a few days, so that the machinery can be Installed. Mr. J. Allan Wales, of this city, a brother of Dr. Westley R. Wales is to be one of the class which will be graduated from the department of iharmacy of the Medico Chirurgical 'ollege of Philadelphia. The commencement exercises will take place in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, at noon on Saturday, May 23 His many friends in this city wish him success in his chosen profession. THE PRUDENTIAL’S SUCCESS. Year Just Closed the Greatest In Its History. The history of the Prudential Insurance Company of America has been one continnous record of success and accomplishment, but the gains made during the year just closed surpass anything in the previons history of the company. The amount of life insurance written and paid for during the year was more than $272,000,000, wmch is reported reported to have been ol such a high quality that the total amount of paidfor insurance in force has been brought to more than $800,000,000. Tjie Prudential is truly ranked as "one ol the great life insurance companies of the world,” not only in size, but in those features which 'make for strength and the protection of policyholders’ interests, as well as a progress-, ive and liberal administration. The assets of the company have increased to $80,000,000, which, with a surplus exceeding $9,000,000, furnishes ample security for all insurance contracts. Nearly $5,000,000 policies in force indicate the popularity of the Prudential with the great insuring pnblic, for the business of this company now extends from Maine to the Pacific coast and from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf States—a typical American company of the highest grade—with an American success and an unlimited American future.

WHO ARE LOWEST BIDDERS flANY LOCAL PERSONS HAVE APPARENT CONTRACTS.

Coat of Beach Front And Sewer Improvcmenta Will Be Abont $2 46,406 —Not Awarded. The bidders who appear to be the lowest on the beach front improvements re: 12,500 ft. bulkhead, Deilrick A Bowser, $311,375.00. 3000 pine piling, Deitrich & Bowser, $3,900. 25,000 yards grading on boulevard, Deitrich A Bowser, $4,250.00. 25,000 yards excess fill, Deitrich A Bowser, $4,750. 12,500 feet in length gravel roadway, in. Sj^Jhaw, $31,250. 12,500 feet boardwalk, Deitrich A Bowser, $38,750.00. On whole bids the standing are: Deitrich A'Bowser, $135,400.00. R. E. Hand, $181,112.50. Win. S. Bhaw, $181,300.00. Henry Hoffinan, $158,375.00. David Peoples, $294,825.00.

For Job Printing-

The Novelty Printing Company’s manager, M. A. Scull, brought work to the Hebald job printing office this week because >be Novelty Company had not the facilities to do iL We do no work *>r the Novelty Company. The Hxbau) office is prepared to do all kinds of printing at short notice, on sonable terms, and in a satisfactory

Local Band Concerts.

City Counclt made a popular move on Tuezday night when it requested UnCape May Baud to give concerts in tiie beach front pavilions one night a week, until the summer season opens. 'Hie motion of Mr. Hand carried with It a donation of $100, which sura is to be used to pnrchaie uniforms for the organization.

Stokes For Governor. The twenty wards ai d townships of Cumberland county will organize nonpartisan dabs to boom Edward C. Stokes, Clerk of the Coart of Chancery, Governor. The organization of most of the dubs will be made within the next two or three weeks.

An Entertainment.

A free entertainment will be given in the Cold Spring Chapel on Monday evening May IHb. Program will consist of mask and short r^dtations, subject, "How I earned my dollar for the Sunday-achooL” Doors open at 7.45

o’dock.

Council Favors Baseball.

City Coundl Tuesday night, by a vote ' 6 to 3, killed the ordinance intended

The bids on the contracts for the building of the new sewer to Delaware Bay, by sections, is presented bdow. Those wno appear to be the lowest in separate sections are: Pump wdi, Jos. H. Hanes, $3,975.00. 24-inch cast iron main, H. A. Miller, $68,497.50. Out fall in Delaware Bay, 24-inch Wm. H. Cborch, $3,186.25. ’ ’ Intercepting sewer, T. C., William H, Church, $10,791.78. Intercepting sewer, & L, William H. hurch, $10,448.42. Pumping station, Deitrich A Bower, $8,355.00. Steam pumping station, Ddtricb A owser, $10,774.66. Storm water conduits, Wm. H.Chnreh $7,103.30. Total cost, $1^4,131.91. Another secret conference was held on Tuesday afternoon in the dty hall between members of City ConncU (except Messrs. Miller and Townsend) and Messrs. Shield* and Edwards, oi the Cape May Real Estate Company, and Edmund B. Learning, their attorney, and aty Solicitor Richard T. Miller. What was agreed upon was not made pnblic, bat it is understood that the theme Of their consultation was the disposition »f the recent bond issue, and as to whether the contracts for building the bulkhead, boirdwalk and- driveway and the sewer should be awarded in the whole or upon separate sections as the bids received. They favor giving it by sections, it is understood. At the meeting of Council that night the matter of the sale of the bonds and the awarding of contracts was laid over.

FACTS IN BRIEF.

Matters of General and Local Interest Mentioned. There has been examination this week in the coonty public schools.It is repoid that the Rudolph Hotel will lie managed this season by F. H.

I Iain.

County courts meet on Monday morning, when criminal business will be taken up. Forest fires burned over several hundred acres between May’s Landing and Greet Egg Harbor. TheHaBALD s-ill be pleased to have you send any events of interest that Uke place throughout the county. The Lower Township Board of Educaion voted $1000 to build an addition to the Knpa school and to employ an additional teacher. aty council on Tuesday evening confirmed the election of John Shteids, son of Charies Shields, and lulward Long as members of the fire department. A small blaze occurred on Monday afternoon at the bouse occupied b? Andrew Ross and owned by Mrs. Frank Newkirk ih West Cape May. The kitchen was badly damaged. Red and black drnmfisb have made their appearance along the Cape May cofit, and are being caught with hook and line. Bluefish are being taken in Large numbers. / Mayflower Lodge, Odd Ffcll.iWB, will attend services to-morrow morning at Baptist Church. Rev. George Williams, the pastor, who has just returned from a well-earned vacation, will preach a special sermon to them. Work began on Tuesday of the demoliabon of the HalloweU building on Washington street at the head of Quean street. The ground is owned by the Reading Railway, who want more room for their depot property. Bat two persons took the dvil seryict examination last Saturday for mall carrier and mail derk. The post office department might put on some of those who passed the first examination, who for reasors only know to the powers that they were not appointed. Seriously Injured. Mrs. William Hebenthal, of Corgie street, was seriously injured on Monday afternoon, at the corner of Ocean and Washington streets. She was oat driving in her trap, and as she

At a festival in Williams Hall, on Wednesday evening, there happened to be an intermission. Daring the intermission there was a cutting scrape, and very black gentleman with the unusual name of Riley—Jesse—got in an altercation with a girl, and while he was talking to her, the evidence is, he attempted to cut her with a razor. Another girt attempted to pull threatened one away, and then Wiley Williams, who came *o the rescue, was cut by Riley in thq. left wrist with the razor. In default of $600 bail Riley sent to Cape May Court Honse to visit the sheriff until next September at the

county jail.

Press Eldridge Badly Hurt. Press Eldredge, well known on vaudeville stage as a burnt-cork monolegist, was injured, probably fatally, in a collision between a cab and a trolley car lost Friday morning at Twenty-third street and Sixth avetfue, New York. Mr. Eldridge was a passenger in the car and was struck in the back by the shaft of the cab. Press Eldridge is-44 years old, and a son of the late Daniel Eldredge, and a cousin of Kldridgl Johnson of this dty. He is familiar to vaudeville patrons by a gingham shirtwaist and baloon trousers which he effects on the stage. Mis. Eldridge is prostrated by odent to her husband and is all the doctor's care.

The Summer Police.

City eounci] on Tuesday night elected

six summer police to serve from June 1 lo September 16th. They were: Henry Bclgfried, Louis E. Williams, Herachel

Lovett, Edwin P.T'lark, Walter

of Schellenger's landing and Joaeph Freas. The polored people presented a petition, asking for the api>ointm of Louis E. Buffings, but he only oeived two votes, those of Messrs Hal-

piu and Taylor.

EOR A CARNEGIE LIBRARY COUNCIL VOTES $500 TOWARD A PLOT OF GROUND. It Also Agrees to Maintain It. Bailee to Be Raised By Subscrip-tion-To Be Established.

City Council on Tuesday cvealng re■Ived a numerously signed petIUou for the citizen* of Cape May asking Connell to appropriate s sum toward the purchasing of plot of gruuud for s library bonding, snd for s gusrsntee to mslntaln such ' iustbution after building. The petin was presented by G. Bolton Eldredge and Edward M. Miller. After some discussion, a resolution of L. E, Miller, was passed providing for an appropriation of $500 toward the lot and a guarantee to maintain the library after bnlldlng. The balance needed to purchase the ground la to be aalsed by subscription. The councllmen who voted against the resolution Messrs. Church, Hand and Townsend.

Ocean street, nearing the corner of Washington street, a trolley car started from the Reading depoL Both stopped,

and when the conduct >r of the trolley that everything was right to go ahead, started the car. The horse ran the trap into an iron pole, tearing ofl one wheel of iL This frightened the horse, and the animal gave a sudde plunge, palling Mrs, Hebenthal, who hod a tight hold of the reins, over the dash board. She struck on her head and was injured on the head and in her

back.

First M. E. Church. The sermon at the M.

. E. Church next

Sabbath morning will be preached by the paster. Rev. 6. F. Gaskill. The evening service will be conducted by the Sunday-school. It will consist of singrecitations aod short

LlW,:J I 7 Let the children all be there and bring their parents with them. All invited

and weloot

First Baptist Church Beginning on Sunday evening the ■rrice will begin at 8 o’clock and last ntil 9 p. m. Pastor Williams’ subji inday night, “A Hero Under Tryi Circtjunatonces.” The Odd Fello

attend church on Sunday morning and Pastor Williams will preach a special

Presbyterian Church.

"Interrupting the Preacher,” will be the theme at the Stone Oiurch next Lord’s Day at 10.30 a. m. In thd evening at 8 o’clock the pastor Rev. Edwin F. Gallagher, will consider the question ’ Makers or Breakers, Which?”

of “Idol

7.30, unt

— —tkers Hereafter all evening s< begin at 8 o’clock instead of

further notice.

SL nary’s R. C. Church.

Honrs of divine service at SL Mary’s Catholic Church, Washington street, Sundays, will be at 7 and 9 o’clock a. m. Rosary and benediction of the most blessed Sacrament at 7.80 o’clock. Daring the week Masses every morning at 7 o’clock. *

A Brilliant Lecture.

Dr. Oarenoe Woolston, will lecture iu the First Baptist Church on May 28th. The title of the lecture will be "The Pan American Exposition and the sssissiaationof President McKinley, as I it,” illustrated by magnificent lantern

Mattings 1—Just received 118 rolls, all from $5 up to $18 per roll. Grata Carpet at 88c per yard—good carpet, too. Matting ruga at $1.80 each—aometMug

ud durable. Gall end

these goods before purchasing elsewhere Prices the very lowest, at C. A. Swaln’e,

806-7 Jtekaou street.

THE HOME NEWSPAPER. ■ terests of Every Town Require That It'S hall Be Supported. It is to the interest of every town to support a good newspaper, not through local pride alone, bat for practical bnsines* reasons. A newspaper it constantly doing ten times as much for its town as it could ever hope to get. pay for—more than it could charge for. If it would. The mor^prosperons a paper is the more it isCble to do. Show us a good weekly paper, full of live local ads, with general circulation throughout the county, and we will show yon an up to date, prosperous, progressing commnity. Show us a community that-persistent-ly proceeds on the idea that the editor of the home paper can live on the "pt’’ that accumulates in the office, whose official bodies think it a waste of pnblic money to throw him a bit ol pnblic printing occasionally at living prices, whose citizens have come to regard it one of their inalienable rights to work him for long winded obituary notices and “in memoriams,” with three inches ' of hymn book poetry at tne end, to say nothing of an occasional notice abont lost cow or some cotton seed for sale, and we will show you a community that is living from hand to mouth and is always on the ragged edge of adversity. People onght to stop to think abont these things. It is an important matter. It is their own good that is involved, the welfare and progress of their community, therefore of themselves individually. A local newspaper is absolutely nee-. estary to any community. No merchant, no grand Jury, no town coundl 1 •hat spends every year all that it can afford with the home paper, whether that expenditure is actually necessary or not, makes a kiaer, more profitable BtinenL They are not “giving” the home paper something. On the contrary, it is earning ever# cent it gets and more, provided it is a paper that is worth picking np in the rood. And ifit isn’t that sort of paper it is uaoally the fault of the town in which it ia published.—Atlanta Constitution.

Minor Council natter*. Chairman Hand reported on Tuesday night that Beach avenne hod been graveled as directed by coundl. A proposition of Dr. Emlen Physic, M; concernii g the street at Schellenger’s* Lauding, between Washington ami* Lafayette streets, and the exchange rights between the doctor and the was referred to the dty solidtor for his opinion as to the right to make such rt^F. L. Richardson presented two j bills of 1898 marked paid, while tne tax duplicate ia not so marked.

Jersey Postal Clerks Convention. The New Jersey Postal Clerk’s Association will hold its annual meeting in Trenton, Memorial Day. The principal subject of discussion will be the bill in Congress to make the hours of labor of derk’s and comers eight. The bill has not cuine ont of committee in the three Congresses in which it it annually introduced. Carriers and postal clerks from all over New Jersey will come to the meeting to be held there. Most of the members are also members of the National Association.

We Will Be Wet.

Council was early this year in ita dsion on the summer liquor license question, and on Tuesday evenlng.br vote of 8 to 1, (Mr. Church) granted oil the applications presented for the tana, from June 1 to September 30 as follows; Fred Arnold’s Son’s, Seward C.-Powell,' ntanfo^J.^Carr., John J. .Ratty, Jr.,

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