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CAPE MAY HERALD.

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VOL. 111. NO. 21.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1903.

Subscription—$1.00 per Year.

CONIfiACIS ARE AWARDED CAPE MAY REAL ESTATE COMPANY PAYS IN $90,000

The Contracts Will be Signed Monday They Call lor an Expenditure of $236,000. city council met in special session on Tuesday evening with all iueiul>en>

1 The 1

.'he attorney for J. Pemberton Newbold was jiresenl and read his receipt $1 .om on account of the purchase of the proposed bond issue of $125,000 at !i t>er cent, and he also tendered the balance of the sum of $12-1,000, which council by an ununimous vote return-

ed.

Propositions were then rend for .the loaning of theaty $125,000 on a note. <t c was from the Central Trust Co., of Camden, which agreed to loan the sum of live per cent, and if the city kept its deposit in the company they would allow two ja-r cent, interest on all balances above $500 on hand. Another proposition was from the Security Trust Co., of Camden, that they would loan the money and pay three per cent, on the deposits. The latter proposition was accepted. Several propositions were read offering premiums on the proposed b -nd issue, but none were accepted, and all checks

returned.

Mr. Doak introduced a resolution

authorizing the proper officials to give to the .Security Trust Co., a note for $125,000 for four months, bearing -U per cent, interest. The exchange of cash for the note was made, and then the Cape May Real Estate Company placed in the treasurer's hards itschecd for $00,000, to be used for the proposed

improvements to the beach fi

head and boardwalk.

Contracts were then awarded to various bidders as named in The Hekai.h of last week aggregating $238,000 and the contracts are to be signed and bonds presented at a meeting of council next

Monday night.

An ordinance was then passed tlirough two readings for the proposed bond issue of $125,000, at 5 per cent, to run thirty years, and to be dated July 1,

1903.'

The street committe was instructed to have Washit gton street from Decatur to Franklin street macadamized as is Ocean Street.

pro post ront, ba

Sketches of New Cape May.

Three admirably executed water colors of prospective New Cape May were placed on exhibition last Saturday ' in the Pennsylvania and Reading Rail- __ roads’ ticket offices oa Chestnut street | by the Cape May Estate Company. One I of the picture's is a bird's eye view of J the companya property at Cape May, another is a view of the proposed harbor, with a variety of boats and launches dotting the surface of the water.'The third picture is a bathing scene on Cape May's famohs beach, with a background of hotels and cottages of modern styles of construction. The water colors are the work of Harry Fenn, a noted land-

scape artist, of New York.

PERSONAL INTEREST Gossip of the Rcaort Id Which You May Be Mentioned. Charles H. Edmunds of Philadelphia, was a Sunday visitor. Thu family and ex-Sheriff Alexander Crow, were here over Sunday. Mrs. Thomas H. Dando was a guest of Ca|*e May over Sunday last. Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson have taken a cottage for the summer. Miss Rebecca Cussedy was among those who visited Philadelphia on Tues-

day.

Miss Alice Merwin, of Jersey City, is guest of her aunt, Mrs. Lewis T.

Stevens.

Mrs. Robert Gass of Camden, sister of Dr. V. M-D. Marcy, was his guest for

few days.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Shat tuck will o|>eu their cottage here next week for

the summer.

Mrs. Joseph B. Hughes is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Dilks, in Camden,

* t a fortnight.

George G. Mercer and father, John A. Mercer, came to their Perry street cot-

tage for the summer.

Cashier H. H. Pond of the Vineland National Bank, and Mrs. Pond were

guests over Sunday.

William Brolasky, who has just re. turned from a trip through Europe, Is among Cape May friends. id Mrs. L. E. Cummings, of Philadelphia, will occupy a Washington

street villa this summer.

Mr. and Mrs. William F. Borxell came

from Philadelphia on Monday night,

and will pass the summer here. md Mrs. S. Gordon Aruristed, of

Baltimore, are occupying a c dtage on

Columbia avenue for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Horace F. Nixon, of

Woodbury, will occupy a cottage on

Decatur street during the summer. Mrs Everett J. Jerrell is entertaining

her mother, Mrs. Lewis D. Stevens, of

Brooklyn, N. Y., at her home here. Percy F. Kothel was among young

Philadelphia business men who came to

the shore for an over Sunday visit. Mrs. A. W. Rowe, of Philadelphia,

and her daughter, Mrs. Arietta 1-eggett,

e in their Columbia avenue cottage. Mr. ami Mrs. George M. Hendricks e now nicely located at Orange, N.J. a pretty suburb on I.ong Island. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Benezet and

Miss Benezet arrived on Monday evening and will remain during the summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Farberand the

Misses Peter of Baltimore, will spend the greater part of the summer at Cape

Is 13 Unlucky.

On Wednesday night, on the calender May 13th, as the express on the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad due at six o'clock known to the officials of that company as train No. 13, entered yards of U<e station, engine No. 13, which was drawing the' train broke its spring hangera and dropped down to the track ns tow catcher and pilot. The train, which had slowed down, was . brought to a standstill, and the passengers were unl»eknown to themselves, in cars numbered thirteen hundred and odd. The engine pushed slowly into the station, sliding its front along the rails at a snail-like pace.

Rev. Reeve Hobble Dead.

The Rev. Reeve Hobble, who owned a cottage at Beach avenue, near Jefferson street here, and former rector of 8t. Philip's Episcopal Church in Newark, died Tuesday night at his home, No. 315 Sixth avenue, that city. He graduated from Hobart College at < ieueva and also from a general theological seminary in New York (Sty and was ordained in 1888. Recently he retired from the rectorship of St Philippa on account of failing health. He leaves a widow and eight children. The funeral occurred last Friday morning from

Grace Church, Newark.

le family of Charles H. Dougherty has arrived at their Washington street cottage, and will remain daring the

season.

and Mrs. David S. Barry, of Pittsburg, who have been guests at the Ebbitt, will again occupy a cottage here

this summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Manning, who have a splendid home in Merchantville, at the ('hnlfonte for an over Sun-

day visit.

Mr. George W. Boyd came down Tuesday. He will bring his family to '"ape May the latter part of next week

for the season.

"r. and Mrs. George W. Boyd, of Philadelphia, will again occupy the Page cottage at 'he comer of Howard street and Stockton avenue. Mrs. Marie D. Hildreth, widow of the late Daniel HDdreth, closed her PhiladelpliTB^iome Monday, and is now jn her Decatur street cottage. Foster Gilroy, who is grandson of the late Captain Charies P. Foster of this city, is now editor and manager of the Delaware County Tribune, published at

Vend on, Pa.

Ex-Mayor and Mrs. James M. Hildreth are p»saing three weeks with friends in central New Jersey. Hildreth is recuperating his health after a long winter busily spent. Mr. J. L. G. Ferris, the artist, *h-

WIII Not License Women. Supreme Court Justice Bwayze

announced that, in the near future, as long as he was the presiding Judge of his district, licenses would not be grunted to women to Veep either saloons

supervision of thy county court, and not controlled by the Excise Commis-

sioners.

iast week. Mr. Hoes is a chaplain in the Navy. He was in the battle of Santiago on July 3, 1898. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Lengert are at their cottage, "The Tremont,” for the

summer.

Mr. L. L. Lewis, of New York, is a guest of her mother, Mrs. 8. P. Foster, i Perry street. Henry C Lea will come to his Cape May cottage on June 1. He will continue his literary work here. go to press we are gratified to learn of the improvement of merchant E. Swain Hildreth, who has been ill for about four weeks. It is reported that the condition of Mr. Isaac P. Johnson, who is lying ill at his home on Franklin street from paralysis. is exceedingly serious. Mrs. C. B. White and daughter, Miss Florence, and Mrs. Chas. Corson, of Philadelphia, are spending several da vs with relatives and friends at the Cape. Peter 8. Dooner, the famous restaurateur of Philadelphia, will tills season occupy with his family the handsome and delightfully located property of Nicholas J. Griffin, east corner of Ocean street and Columbia avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Jones Wistar entertained a house party over Sunday at their cottage on Beach avenue. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. John Strawbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Heath, Miss Ethel L. Wistar, the Misses Bertha and Ethel Weightman, Mr. Arthur Brockie, Mr. Sydney Young, Mr. Edward Dale and Mr. Frank Cramp. James D. Godfrey, who died suddenly le day last week at a St. Louis Hotel, as well known throughout South Jersey. He was a son of the late Francis B. Godfrey, a former County Clerk of Cumberland county, and a grandson of the late Judge Uczekiah W. Godfrey, of Tuckahoe. Marcus L. Godfrey, who married Miss Bertha Roseman, of this city, is a cousin. Mr. Godfrey had lor many years been in the employ of N. W. Ayer <5c Soo, advertising agents, of Philadelphia, and was on one of his regular tours for that house when he stricken. He was 35 years of age and unmarried. Many Herald readers will be pleased to learn that Madame deCostel, who has for some months been in South America, greatly improved in health, and hopes to return soon feeling quite Like her natural self again. Madame deCastel, who previous to her marriage to Dr. Fdward deCaatel was Miss Lizzie MacCartuey, was for many seasons one of the most brilliant vocalists known to tb$ Cape. Hie kindliness to her nature and the rapturous sweetness of her voice won all hearts to her, and made immensely popular wherever she was known. Madame deCostel is a sister to Mrs. N. J. Griffin, one of most charming ladies of Cape May's Philadelphia colony, and to Mr. James S. MacCartney, treasurer of the Philadelphia Record Publishing Company.

GOOD ROADS IN JERSEY.

DR. THOMASG. HORTON DEAD. Ptaaed Away Suddenly at The Chalfontc on Wednesday. Dr. Thomas G. Morton, who with his daughter, Miss Helen, came down to the Chalfonte on Monday night to enjoy several days of fishing with Rufus Rood and Councilman F. Sidney Townmd, was taken seriously ill that night, and died Wednesday afternoon at 2.30. The remains were taken to his Philadelphis home on Wednesday evening. Heart disease was said to lie the cause of his death. Dr. James Mecray was summoned to attend him. Dr. Mecray at once sent for Dr. Thomas S. K. Morton and Dr. Woodbury, who arrived on Tuesday. At the consultation the three physicians agreed that Dr. Morton wan fatally stricken and he never rallied from the first attack. As a physician and surgeon Dr. Moriu ranked with the best In his profession.^lle was a daring and skillful operator and was the first to attempt many of the capital operations still prohibitive the ordinary surgeon. As early as 1804 he successfully performed operations which would not be attempted now without all of the antiseptic precautions perfected since the comparatively rscent discoveries of lister. The ard carriage is one of the many hospital appliances invented by Dr. Mor-

ton.

Dr. Morton was born m Philadelphia August 8, 1835. He received his degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1850. The three years following (pent in hospital service and special itudy. He wrote many valuable papers for medical jouruals early in his career and continued to do so throughout his life. The CSvil War afforded him exceptional opportunities for surgical work and observation and he established a national reputation in a night hospital manager. Systems perfected by Dr. Morton at that time are still vogue in well-regulated hospitals throughout the world. The Orthopaedic Hospital was founded by Dr. Morton. He served the nan, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia as exjHtrt and was a member of innumerable Commissions, Boards and Committees entrusted with work requiring exceptional executive ability at thorough knowledge of medicine, was conspicuous for his work in advancing the public school system, spite of his many public, professional and educational duties, l)r. Morton found time to spend a portion of each year in the forests with his rod, reel and gun.

FACTS IN BRIEF.

icUmui Doak is making improve

lo his co

boat

nounces that he will instrueV-a-iimited number of students In sketching from nature, at his studio, Cape May Point, after his arrival there on June 15. John L. Shoemaker, who owns a handsome Stockton avenue cottage, came down on Saturday iast to look after the villa. The family will come do wn in June. He stayed at the Chal-

fonte.

Miss Bertha Sutton of Ocean View f who recently graduated from the public school at Ocean View with high average, ha* been spending several days here with her aunts, Mrs. 8. W. (Jolt ai>d Mrs. T. R. Brooks. Karl Hughes, son of Memncan Hughes, is making his -second voyage to Honolulu, this time being in the steamship Texan. He is a graduate in mechanical engineering and is taking

tor practical k nos

State and Counties Building Them at the Rate of 150 JTllesa Year. Good-road building is probably making greater progress not only in Cape May county, but all over New Jersey than in any other State ia the Union. Ten years ago the legislature passed a State aid bill permitting each county to spend on road improvement an amonut equal to one-fourth of 1 per cent, of its ratable property. In the following year fo'ur counties out of the twenty in the State built together nearly seventy-five miles of road. Last year seventeen counties built their quota of roads, completing during the year nearly 156 miles ot sound, level highways. Since the passage of the act more than $1,250,000 of the State’s money ha* been spent on good-road building and more than 700 miles of roadways have been constructed under the most approved modern methods. The work u so popular that there is a demand to double the amount permitted to be expended on the roads under the law. The last Legislature increased the State’s contribution from $150,000 to $250,000 and the counties met this with their own appro-

priations.

At present petitions to build 550 more miles of roads, at an estimated coat of $2,401,851, are on file aud, provided the State appropriation is liberal enough to meet the amount expended br tbu counties, in a few years all the leading roads can be covered with gravel and

Epworth League Anniversary. The fourteenth anniversary of the founding of the Epworth League was celebrated in the First M. E. Church on Sunday evening, when exercises were held by the Junior League. Master Ralph Townsend, son of Prof. S. H. Townsend, read a report of the condition of the league, and.Mrs. Robert Hughes read a history of the organization. The closing address was made by Rev. 8. F.

Gaskili.

firs. George K. Mcltvaln Dead. Mrs. Charlotte E., widow of George K. Mdlvaln, and daughter of the late Samuel Yonng of Philadelphia, died suddenly on Sunday last. The funeral occurred from the residence of sister, Mrs. C. F. Roberts, on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Mcllvain owned a cottage on Stockton avenue and

Jefferson street.

hotels. This will not aflecl the dty, the voyage for practical knowledge, but only the country districts under the Mr. and Mrs. Roswell Randal Hoes, supervision of the county court, and who have been cottagers here for

- several seasons, will again occupy a I villa this season. They selected one

First Baptist Church

Pastor Williams’ subjects for Sunday: Morning, "Christ’s Second Coming.’-' Evening, "The Pilgrim Fathers.” The services last one hour. Rev. and Mrs. Williams will sing at the evening service. Bright short service. Seats all

free.

Don’t forget the lectore on Thursday

night. A grand treat.

New Train Schedule. To-morrow the Pennsylvania Railroad Company will put on additional trains for Cape May and adopt a ninety minute schedule between here and Philadelphia. The read is being stone ballasted for twenty-five miles north from Cape May. The service will be unex-

celled.

First M.E. Church.

The John Mecray Post No. 40, G.A.R. will worship at the M. E. Church next Sabbath at 10.30 a. m. The sermon will be delivered by Pastor Gaskili. The pamor will preach also at 7.45 p. m.

Sea tit free. All welcome.

SL nary’s R. C. Church.

Honrs of divine service at SL Maryla Catholic Church, Washington street, Sundays, will be at 7 and 9 o'clock a^n. Rosary and benediction of the most blessed Sacrament at 7.30 o’clock. During the week Masses every morning at

7 o'clock.

Matters of General and Local Interest Mentioned. The new steam fire engine is due June

first.

. Council

meats to tils cottage.

Sea Isle City Council has appropriated $14,150 to meet expenses during the

ensuing year.

PiEe in large numl>ers aud of fine size •e being caught in the streams and mill

ponds near Tuckahoe.

During the past month much damage has been done in Cape May County by

reason of the drougth.

The operators of pound nets along the Ca|>e May county coast have thus far met with poor success. Acres of peas have been planted in the lower end of Cape May County for the cunning house of W. L. Stevens & Bros,

of West Cape May.

The Cape Island Turnpike Co., has granted to Cape May the right to lay its main trunk sewer along its pike to

the Delaware Bay.

The Pennsylvania Railroad is stone ballasting its road from this point northward. It began running the new,

big engines last Saturday.

The pier at Steamboat landing, the steamer Cape May, (formerly Republic,) is being rebuilt. The l

begics its runs early in Juiw.

In answer to a request, Me would say that the present bonded debt of Cape May Otv is $198,300,00, aside from

about $35,000 of school bonds.

William F. Albrecht, of Philadelphia, has sold for $2450 the cottage at No. 9 North street, to Mrs. Annie M. Henry, of Philadelphia, who will occupy the This has been examination week the Cape May High School. Parents hope for some graduates. The results of the examination will not be known

until next week.

Benjamin S. Curtis has been awarded the contract by the street committee of council to lay the new water mains on Franklin, Corgie and Howard streets, aod on Sewell avenue. The Queen Anne Pier at the foot of Alexander avenue, Cape May Point, is betqg put in order for the coming season. Summer travel to Baltimore is now assured permanently. At a meeting of the West Cape MayBoard of Education the following teachers were elected: Principal, A. G. Eschbach, of Clayton, Del., Misses Elia Craig, Linda Rutherford and W. J.

Moore.

Council has granted a franchise to erect a gas plant at Sea Isle City, to Joseph Straubmuller, Charles Strickler, Charles Class, Henry Hnmpp, Conrad Schworer and Philip Haiback, of Phila-

delphia.

Thg dtflerence between the bids of Wm. H. Church of this dty and HenryMiller, of Wilmington, for laying the 24 inch sewer on Cape Island Turnpike, in a total of $69,000 was but about $025; Miller being the lowest bidder. The Lower Township Board of Education elected the following teachers: Fishing Creek, J. Durell Hoffman; Academy, George Elliott; Erma, Richard Reeves and Miss Rae W. Swain: Cold Spring, Mrs. L. Hildreth; Cape MayPoint, H. C. Blake. John J. Ratty, who was convicted of Sunday liquor selling last week, has been granted a new trial, owing to Unfad that one of the jurora who heard his case was also a member of the grand jury which found the bill of Indictment

against him.

Mr. Robert Chambers is the new officer appointed by the Sodety for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals. Mr. Chambers is a good man for the position, and the Sodety has the assurance that he will make no exceptions in carrying out the rules of lusduty. While playing with a lawn mower, Genevieve, the three year old daughter of Frank Rutherford, of Cape MayPoint, iast Saturday had the misfortune u> get the thumb of her left hand caught in the knife, cutting and mangling it so badly that it was fonnd necessary mputate the member at the joint. Some of the finest specimens of weakfish ever seen in these waters are being taken by book and line in the sounds. John Munroe and Frank Dickinson caught thirty-seven the other day in a shot t while. Charles Taylor landed a seventeen pound rock fish on the bay hore, while a companion caught one

reighing dghteen pounds.

The Director of the Board of Freeholders now gets a salary of $50.00 year in addition to his per diam allowance. Mr. William T. Bate who was chosen this year is also a supervisor on the State Road, and the county pays the bill. He is also a member of the ity Board of Elections, and the Board of Freeholders pay these bills

also.

IHE HOLLY BEACH ROAO

DISPUTE ARISES OVER BUILDING

OF THE COUNTY ROAD.

Partial Payment of $5000, Was Presented By Hon. Robert E.

Hand—Other Business.

In it* report of the proceedings of the Board of Freeholders at it* laat meeting

the Conn House Gazette aaid:

Hon. Robert E. Hand presented a bill for $5000, partial payment on his contract for building the Holly Beach road, aame being endorsed by Alfred Crease, 8uporvi*or, aud Stllwell H. TownMmd. engineer. Mr. Ludlam asked bow much this would make that Senator Hand had been paid on account, and was informed that one previous payment of $5000 had been made, the bill now before the Board (baking a total of $10,000; the

had been reliably Informed that the work was oot being done accordingly to con- * tract, and that Engineer Townsend bad been quoted as refusing to -*0. K." the bill. Mr. Hand was on his feet In a minute, aud demanded the source of Mr. Ludiatn's information as to the manner of his compliance with the terms of his contract, remarking in a heated manner that be wanted no favors from the county, aud wanted Ludlam to understand that when ho wanted information as to matters be should go to somebody that knew, »nd not take his information from irresponsible newspaper stuff. Mr. Ludlam replied that be did not get bis information from the newspapers, but from people who hav^bc^u over the road and ought to know what they were talking about; farther than that be knew that some of the poles that Hand was using in the road were not up to contract, and it was a matter of common rumor ail over the county that the road was not being built properly; persoualiy be had never en it, aud could not speak from obserit low,' but before he voted to pay the bill he wanted to know why the Engineer bad changed his mind and signed the certificate to the bill, after saying he would not do so. Mr. Hand replied that 1 while the polos might not be up to the specifications, be ha* used them by per* mission of the Board of Freeholders, and_ , has also spent $1000 more on the road than he could have been required to. Mr.. Smith, of Cape May. arose and said that as Mr. Ludlam had not told Hand where be got his information, be. Smith, would say that it was himself that had told Ludlam, and further than that be had obtained his Information from S. H. Townsend, the Engineer in charge, who bad tied to him that be did not consider ahy part of the road completed in accordance with the specifications; that it was not propet ly filled up. and that he, Townsend, would not sign the bill as O. K. Mr. Ludlam then announced that while It was true that Smith had given him the information stated, yet he bad received it from other sources, and be wonld be glad If the Engineer waa present to explain ' why it was thst he changed his mind about approving the bill; no doubt he had good reasons for so doing, but thought the Board ongbt to have the benefit of the explanation. Smith asked Senator Hand if any part of tbe.road was j completed, and the Senator replied, ! Yes, about three quarters of IL” I Mr. Crease pronounced it one of the best ’ roads in the county, and Mr. Fox thought j it one of the best roads he ever saw. Mr | Champion said there were some slight j depressions in it, thst would need filling j up, but as the contractor was a perfectly | responsible party, be thought the defi- ' cloncies In the road, if any, could be ad- j justed at the fiual payment. The bill I was paid by the following vote: Ayes— | Bate, Crease, Champion, Fox, Wslee—5: 1 tys—Ludlam, A. B. Smith and Mica-

jah Smith—8.

Decoration Day Service*. The usual Decoration Day services will be held next Saturday. John Mecray Post, of this dty, will have charge J of the exercises. The morning will be passed in decorating the graves of sohb iers. In the afternoon there will be a parade, and at lie conclusion the usual exercises at the grave, corner of Franklin and Lafayette streets, where ad- , dresses are expected to be'uade by CoL James M. Scovel, Rev. Father Kelly, i Rev. E. F. Gallagher and Rev S. F. I

Gaskili.

Mr. Jeremiah Church, of Erma, to Miss Frauds Bonder, of Cape May, by Rev. G. Williams at Baptist parsonage

on May 18.

Furnished Room#

For rent, on Windsor avenue, private

family, every convenience. Terms mod- Get your job printing done at the

erate. Apply at this oflioe. Hxr

doll Club House Improved. The Golf Club house has been greatly j improved. It haa been artistically painted. .The grounds have been.| uver by alandsc J ~ thing is ready ft

players.

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