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VOL. III. NO. 26.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1903.

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OF A PERSONAL NATURE OOSSIP OF CHARMING OLD CAPE

MAY.

finch About Our Popular Cottage Colony—Other Happening* With # Your Friend*. non' TO TKI.L ecuMUI TIMK. Tin- summer has returned again, Tie the tlowery month of June; The wind is north in the morning, Ami <-hM in the afternoon: The sun and moon have left us, Tis cloudy half the time; We only know from the almanac That it's good old summer time. DinNiM. Ut'CKUcv. Wm. N. Powell of Chester, ha* a Decatur street cottage. Dr. C. C. Boyer, of Hatboro, Pa., is passing the summer here. Thomas S. Dando and family are in a Perry street villa for the summer. Cspt. L. U. C.>ne and family came to a Decatur villa this week for tbeseanon. Mr. anti Mrs. K. H. King are occupyit.g the Derickson cottage on Jackson

street.

Dr. Thompson S. Weatcott i» in a Washington street villa again for the.

season.

Ralph L. Cummings has gone to Milwaukee, Wls., where he ha* accepted a

position.

Mr. and Mrs. Zopher Laud and Ilurry Johns are occupying their cottage on North street. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. 8. Booth are located at their Windsor avenue villa for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. 8. McKean Bayard, of Germantown, have come to Cape May for the summer. Mr. J. M, Bailey and family are now here for the summer at their collage on Windsor avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Robert De Silver and the Misses De Silver are in Gieir Decatur street cottage fur the summer. Mra< B. Wilmsen is occupying an Ocean street villa. Mr. Wilmsen and Mias Wilmsen are traveling in Europe. David G. Baird, secretary of the 1«high Valley Railroad, and family, are in their Windsor avenue cottage for the

summer.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Grange are occupying a Hughes street villa. They have not been cottagers for several

years past.

William Briant, son of Mr. and Mrs. . H. Briant, who has been attending Wyoming Seminary, ia home for

the summer.

Judge and Mrs. Norris 8. Barrett are entertainng at their cottage here the Misses Florence and Breta Parke, ol

Philadelphia.

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Cummings, oi Philadelphia, are occupying the Thos. Stevens cottage on Washington street for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hudson Smith have closed their town house in Philaadelptna and are occupying their Stockton avenue cottage. li. A. Stees, comity superintendent of public schools of Burlington county, Is with his family occupying a cottage on Windsor avenue. Nelson Z. Graves and family are now comfortably domiciled in their cottage at the corner ol South Lafayette and Congress streets for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Lippincotf Shoemaker have closed their house iniOverbrook and are now occupying their cottage in Stockton avenue for the season. Mrs. and Mr*. John Sloan and their j daughter, Mis* Florence, who have a cottage on Stockton avenue, will sail for Europe on July 11, for a two months'

journey.

Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cranford of Washington, are occupying Conductor Benj. Hughes’ new cottage on Hughe* street. Mrs. Cranford’s mother, Mr*, tfosepb Tyssowski, is with them. Cashier Frank 8. Lloyd of the First National Bank, has made great stridi since assuming that position, and he has been called “papa” since last Saturday. Mother and the little daughter are doing well. Lieutenant C. M. Mct'arteney, of the United Statea Navy, has been passing a few days here with his sister, Miss Susie McCarteney, at the Wyoming. He will come back next moath with his family for the summer. Clarence Way, son of Dr. Eugene Way of Dennianlle, has returned from bis a Indies at Peddle Institute, HigkU* town, X. J. He was visiting friends at Cape May over Sonday. He will enter Brown University in the antumn. J. P. Klingpr of Camden, secretary of the Sitley a Sorf company of that city, was a visitor over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin H. Eld red ge. Mr. KIdrsdge is manager of the Cape May Grain and Opal Co., of wbich Sitley a Bon are the principal owners.

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. S. Stevi are visiting their daughter, Mrs.

Poynter, at Lewes, Del.

Mis# Agnes M. Feaster was on Monday evening elected a teacher for the

thur

guest of Mr. and airs. C. • C. Pinckney Norris, on Stockton avenue. Mrs. John H. Blye, of Chestnut Hill, is at Cape May for the summer. She main here until the middle of

September.

The many friends of Mrs. Jere Mecray be glad ts know that she ia Improving in health. She has been ill for

several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brook sand son Reco ar?guest*at the Carroll Yillg. - Mr. Brooks is assistant pay master of the United Gas Improvement Co., of Philadelphia, and a son of Thomas K. Brooks, who was for some years editor of the

Cape May Star.

Miss Anna P. Hughes, v ice-Principal of the Paulsboro, N. J., public schools, is now in Cape May for the summer. She is a daughter rf Mr. Richard P. Hughes, of this dty. The principal of the Paulsboro school next season will be Prof. Burns, who has been located at

Anglesea for several years.

Rev. Father D. J. Kelly, Rector of St. Mary’s Church, started on Monday for vacation of about a week. He is being assisted by Rev. Father Kearnes, of Providence, Rhode Island, who will remain throughout the summer. During the tirst week in August a bazaar will be held for the benefit of the fund belt raised for the erection of a new edii

Jiliji • the

being diflee,

Among the distinguished visitors is Colonel John A. Chandler, of the First Georgia Regiment, who is at the Shoreham Hotel with his wife and son and daughter. He is a member of the Supreme Court oNtliat State, and aside from that has been a public official for some years. Col. Chandler was in :harge of the funeral of Jefferson Davis and has been honored many times by

the people of that State.

Mr. and Mrs. William L. Cummings, Mrs. J. Henry Edmunds and Miss Ella Wheaton have just returned from a pleasant visit to Bellfonte where they attended the Commencement Exercises of ihe Pennsylvania State College, from which institution Ralph L. Cummings was graduated os a mechanical engineer. While at Bellfonte they were guests of Prof. James Hughes and Rev. Dr. Laurie, father of Mrs. Samuel f. Eldredge of this city. One of the other graduates of the same institution was Joseph Nelson, Jr., of Cheater, Pa., grandson of Dr. V. M. D. Marcy, of this city.

The Season Opens.

The crowds of visitors from all sections of the country are coming in fast. Of the visitors who have come during the week many, will remain throughout i he summer. It is at this time of the season that Cape May receives its permanent summer guests and to these will lie added those who will come for longer or shorter periods. Last Saturday the pretty Hotel Lafayette opened its doors for the summer on Saturday of this week Congress Hall will open, while on the Monday following the mammoth Stockton will be open, when every hotel and cottage of every description will bedoing a busii which will grow until theaithof August and then gradually close down until October, the usual end of the season. The life among the cottage residents has been a pleasant round of events which have consisted principally of dinparties, euchre contests, whist matches and musicals. The cottage element, which is a prominent factor in the life here at all times of the summer season, has pretty nearly reached its full complement for this season.

Welcome, Thrice Welcome! The Pennsylvania Railroad Company passenger department has issued invitations to the press of Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington for the annual excursion tg Cape May, which will take place to-morrow. There will be about 300 newspaper men in the party. The Stockton Hotel will be thrown open to tne representatives of the press, who will remain until Monday next as guests of the railroad. George W. Boyd, general passenger agent, and Co!. Frank N. Barksdale will look after the comfort of the party.

Our Primary Law.

At last accounts the expected decision coi-ceroitig the validity of the new primary reform law had not been handed down by the Supreme Coart- It is inferable irom the want of confidence with wbich they talk ihat the promoters of

-- REMINISCENCES Of GUY

WAS ONCE A VISITOR AT THIS OLD RESORT. Those Who Remember Him Say He Was Not Too Big To Talk To Anybody. There has been much entertainment to keep the visitors busy, and on every hand ihe social aciivity is ofthstenjoysble kind which ia |>eculiar to this old resort The mingling of the aristocratic Southerner with the active New Yorker, the easy going Philadelphia,. the well dressed Baltimorean and the nonchalent Westerner makes the resort cosmopolitan and brings to mind the olden days of Cape May. when it had as rivals as a summer resort Newport, Long Branch and the springs of Virginia. Although it has been fifty-six years since Henry Clay came to Cape May, there is today os a guest here a gentleman who was then a bov and who t-ecame reminiscent and told many stories of Mr. Clay’s visit and of the other visitors who were here at the time. Among them were Horace Greeley, Recorder Talmage, of New York; Nicholas Dean, president of the New York Chamber of Commerce; Col. John Knox, of Kentucky; United States Senator James A. Bayard, of Delaware, and Reverdy Johnson, all giants in their day. In speaking of the visit the gentleman

said:

“Mr. Clay was given a rest on his arrival, but the day following was hiv busiest while on an unsurpassable beach. During the day many people arrived, and the island was filled with country folk anxious to see the great man. Rev. Moses Williamson made the address of welcome, to which Mr. day fittingly responded iu words that electrified his iteners. Hu magmfltent language, said one who heard him, held the crowd spellbound. After the speechmaking there was handshaking and a grand feast. The speechmaking took place in the old “Kersal,” the music pavilion and ballroom of the hotel. During the few days following the people from Bridgeton, Salem, Philadelphia, New York and Wilmington came flocking to the island by all available modes of travel. Mr. Clay was received on the part of the county of Cape May by Dr. Maurice Beesley. During his visit there were more arrivals for each day than there had been for any previous day of

that summer.

“While here Clay loved bathing, and went in as often as twice a day, and it was while at bathing that he lost a great deal of his hair. The ladies would catch him and with a pair of scissors, carried for just that purpose, clip locks from his bead to remember him by. When he returned to Washington his hair was very short, indeed. Those who remember his visit here say that he was not too big to talk to any and everybody, and that he was as often found talking

with the em] he was with

iployees around the hotel a

i the guests.”

!*gne*ta.’ The Journalists.

On Friday of this week the Passenger Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad will bring as their guests to Cape May about four hundred of the working journalists of Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington and Philadelphia, and intermediate points for an outing, which will last until. Monday morning, they are located at the Stockton Hold wht they have the mammoth hostlery exclusively to themselves. In the party are'man v of the brightest correspondents of the National Capital. Among them is Henry B. Macfarland, who not only represents some of the leading newspapers of ihe country, bat is also one of the Commissioners of the DutricL Mr. Macfarland was for years the correspondent of the Philadelphia Record and Is also extensively known by the resders of magazines after the style of the Review of^Reviews, of New York, to which Ire has'been a frequent .contributor. Three years ago he was appointed a District Commissioner by President McKinley, who recognized in him a man

hold water. They say, however, that an unfavorable decision will not defeat the reform. It will only serve to Indicate the character of the legislation needed to make it unassailable, and

there l* a general understanding that proaches if necessary the Legislature wiU«be call- ocean fn

Ocean City Troubles.

Anderson Bourgeois baa m

writ of certiorari directed to the Ocean

FACTS IN BRIEF. Matter* of General and Loral Interest Mentioned. Subscribe for the IIkkai-o. The Hekald will be pleased to have you send any events of interest that take place throughout the county. Ge -rge H. Reeves, of West Cape May has received his commission as Justice of the Peace and is ready for business. Giais waxtku—Steady employment in girls department. Saturday half holiday during the snmmer. Gold Leaf Factory. Weft Cape May. Now that the temperature of the ocean has reached a suffideot warmth, the number of bathers has consequently increased and the lovers of this recreation are therefore thoroughly enjoying the pleasures and benefits of their antics in the edge of Old. Neptune. While many dinners are being given at the cottages, a number of these events are also taking pllgg at Arnold’s Cafe, on the beach front, which is a convenient place for those who desire to itroll about before returning home in me evening after attending the social engagements. The postal inspectors who have examined the accounts of Postmaster Louis T. Derousse of Camden, announced to the bondsmen that a shortage of $2,187 had been found. This amount will be turned over to the post office by the bondsmen of whom Judge H. H. Voorhees, of this county, is one. Derousse will not be prosecuted. Many cottagers on Sunday morning ere complaining because the water was shut off until nearly ten o’clock. The reason therefore was repairing of several leaks about town caused by the high pressure on the pipes produced by the stand tank at the dty water works. At the same timeconnections were made to the new main on Corgie street. "Who is McKettle?” is a question which has been asked. Well, it is this: Joseph McCann, one ol Cape May’s news-dealers, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the All bly. When he was a boy he used to be called “Tinny,’’ and now instead McCann, sotpe joker has called him McKetUe." McKettle wants to be Assemblyman. Who blftmes him. ? TheSwitzerland of America is grouped about and below the hospitable doors of the Keversink Mountain Hotel, near Reading, Pa., which, when it shall open Saturday will welcome and will gratify all seeking the ideal mountain resort hotel. F. Teeodore Walton, formerly proprietor of the Stock top, and of Lafayette, Philadelphia, is. manager, and in that fact is the assurance of the comfort and satisfaction of every gufest, of the ablest management and of attention to every detail of entertainment

MScp.

nORRI5 BURTON WINS. Makes Best Actual and Net Scores In The Cape's First Tourney. The first handicap medal play tournameut of the season was held at the Cape May Golf Club last Saturday rfternoon and Moms Burton of Philadel pnU, took first prize on a net score of 78. His gross score was 82 and was also the best actual score of the day. The event was contested on the old snort course, the new hole in the meadow not being play* able on account of the damage done by the winter tides. The score follows:

Morris Burton Dr. G. M. Davis

J. M. E. Hildreth

Cedi Calvert Lewis H. Ayres

Frank R. Shattnck W. H. Hepburn, Jr.

E. C. Forest

|G. P. Middleton Alexander H. Scott Cortland D. Cramp Dr. F A. Craig Arthur B. Huey T. W. Eastwick

Elis Jackson G. B. Evans

W K. Holman P. L. Bocklus Walter Nagle *

J. C. Cory

E. C. Rutschman P. F. Walthouse

Gas Bill No Lien. What attorneys claim is a victory of far-reaching consequences In NewJi sey, affecting every householder who uses gas, is the surrendar of the Atlantic City Gas Company to a writ of mandafrom the Supreme Court w d them to turn on the gas : dwelling which had been ent off for an npaid bill of $4 for gas used by a teniit who moved out.* The plaintiff spent several hundred dollars in fighting the suit through two Courts and the climax came when the flow was turned on in the house, while the writ was not returnable until June The Court demanded of the gas apany evidence to show valid reason holding a property owner for a debt of a tenant and they were nnabie to furnish proof of a gas bill acting as a lien against a property.

firm. Jane Crowell Dead. Mrs. Jane Crowell, widow of Aaron Downes Crowell, died at her home in West Cape May on Tuesday night, aged 60, after an illness which has extended

0 ver many weeks.

She leaves surviving her Edward M. Crowell, Thomas Crowell and Mrs. William G. Essen, of this dty, and Mrs. John Snyder, of Fishing Creek. She was a consistent member of the

her. The funeral will occur on to-mor-row afternoon from the residence of her son, Edward, on West Perry street.

atiitxiuic;, «uu rauKuucuiu mu. » uj<uj First Presbyterian Church and was a perfectly suited to the position. The woman highly beloved by all who knew

appointment came unsolidted, and In- — -

deed he refused when first offered the place. When he completed his first term, all Washington newspapers joined in saying that he bad been an excellent offidal, and as a further mark of i and appredatlon he was nominated by President Roosevelt two months before his term expired, and the Senate on the following day confirmed the nomlna-

tion.

SL John’s P. E. Church.

Rev. Alfred G. Mortimer, D. D., rector of 8L Mark’s P. E. Church, Philadelphia, will officiate in St. John’s P. E. Church, corner of Washington Franklin streets next Sunday. The . ~ munion at

10.30; and

services will be; Holy Communion

SL flary's R. C. Church. Court for review the meting of will be at 7 and Bo'dock a. m. to the new boardwalk on t*] Bo^y and benediction of the most front, Mr. Bourgeois questiKa Ueased Sacrament at 7.80 o'dock. Dur-

the right of the dty to Tmlld -

proaches.

99

Senator Hand Alert.

The Philadelphia Record recently published a dispatch from Trenton, a part

of which read as follows:

With former Senator Charles A. Reed, of Somerset County, and former Senator R. C. Miller, of Salem, moving industriously about the offices in company with their old comrade, Senator R. E. Hand, of Cape May, it was soon ‘ 1 —* •*»-!— — : - l -.t be done

to arrange things in Cape May to remove dangers of m factional fight on the nomination for State Senator this fall. The friends of Senator Hand are said to be full of fight up to date, but those who have cast tbdr lot with Assemblyman Crease think that the fight is already won. Qne of the rumors of the dosing days of the last legislative session was that Hand was likely to be stowed away

sStat > prol

of a factional fight in this county, but no one seemed to know what it was that he was to get He came within a few paces of being made State Assessor to succeed John C. Rankin, who died just before the session dosed, but Senator Storng won that prize, and Hand is said to have been booked for something else. He had a few minutes’ chat with Governor Morphy, but nothing of its import leaked ont”

CITY COUNCIUN SESSION THE GAS CONTRACT COULD NOT

BE FOUND.

ninor Matters oi Interest Transacted. Heavy Business (or the Year Ended—The Taxes. City council met in special nesaioo on Monday evening with »U the member* present except Mesaem. Ilalpln and Sharp. Councilman Towuoeiid presided. The finance com mil tee was autnorized to meet the aasvhsor on that evening after adjournmentpf council to revise the duplicate for 1903. Council will early in July meet to approve the - work of the finance committee and then the lax books will be turned over to the collector who will proceed to send ont the tax bills. A license to sell liquor was granted to John T»*cy. of the Hotel Lafayette. The bills of Harry S. Rodan for feed for the fire horses and of A. G. Bennett for painting the City Hall were paid. The committee on fire and water was authorized to lay a six inch main about 500 feet In Broad street for the benefit of the Cape May Baking Co. The committee of streets was authorized to procure bids for the laying of a culvert and drain on North street near

Congreae street.

)nrjpg the progress of the meeting Tax lleftor J. Henry Edmunds, superintendent of the Cape Island Gaa Co., sat outaide of the railing and beckoned individual members of council out, after wbich it was developed that the gascontract reoently passed had pot beep signed by Mayor Millet. It then dawned upon the members that the contract bai not been returned, whereupon the 4Berg< ant-at-Arms was sent to the Mayor for the contract and to bring it back signed or unsigned. After about a half hour's search neither the Mayor nor the contract could be found aud council adjourned without taking any farther action in tbe matter.*

Cape May’s Fine Victory - In a fourteen inning game Cape May defeated the Cresent Athletic team of Philadelphia, last Saturday by a score of 7 to 6. Tbe score:—

Cape May.

that there wonld be do probabilil

ders, s Ity lef

Our Mall Service. The Pennsylvania Railroad last week inaugurated a special mail service train which leaves Philadelphia every morning at 3 o’clock and which arrives at Cape May before 7. On the run down the railway agents sort the mail for the Cape May camera and now the Bummer visitor gets his mail and newspapers here before breakfast. Heretofore it has been 11 and 12 before the mails have been ready for delivery and then everybody had to go to the ; office for their letters.

The Stockton Hold,. to which there has been added about $20,000 worth of improvements during the past three months, now possesses oue of the prettiest ballrooms along thd coast. It is in what was known heretofore as the east parlor of that hotel. Tbe main parlor has also been beautified, while there has been a decidedly beautiful transformation of the rotunda and The cafe.

AD lit Oar Line.

Everything in Hardware and House Furnishing line can be found in store at Philadelphia prices. Blue flame oil stoves—not a luxury bt necessity to comfort and well being daring the extreme warm weather— complete stock now to select from. And repairing stoves and ranges comes

in our line.

Chaa. A. Swain 805-7 Sackson street

Base Ball Game Oi Saturday. The Crescent ball team .of Vineland>

N. J., will play here on Saturday afternoon. The pitcher of the team will be

George Dorner, now agent of

Western Union Telegraph Co., at that place and son of Andrew Dorner of this city. It will seem strange to see the former pitcher of the Cipe May team

try hard to win from his old friends.

in Memoriam. May. It was former!v the Republic,

June *9,1901.

R. H. 0. A.

118 1

R. H. O. A. E. 0 1 2 3 1

2 1 2 8 t

Miller, p Doak, c Cassidy, 2b Nichols, ss Shields. 3b Rutherford, lb Roseman, rf Coverdale, If Souder, 11 Townsend, rf Totals

Gregg, 2b Jacoby, lb Hail, p Sayre, ss Hughes, If Curtis, rf Monroe, 3b, Hickey, cf Bennett, c

Totals 6 6 33 1-1 6 Cape May 2110000010000 2-7 : Crescents 100010003 0‘0 00 1-6 Earned runs. Cape May 2. Two-base hit, Nichols. Doable piaya, Gregg to Jaooby. Stolen bases, Doak, Cassidy, Shields, Miller, Monroe, Reeves 3. Struck out, Rutherford 2, Roseman, Curtis 2, Cassidy, Jacoby 2, Souder 2, Monroe, Hughes, Hickey. Left on bases, Miller, Sayre. First base on balls, Jacoby, Miller, Shields 2, Gregg, , Reeves, Hickey, Sayre. Hit by pitched* ball, Coverdale, Hall, Nichols. Wild pitches, Miller, Hall. Passed balls, i Bennett 2, Doak 2. Time 2.15. Umpire, * Campbell. Mlaa Marla Wlna. Mrs.FrankR.Rha'tuck, the President of the Ladies’Amndation of the Cape : May Golf Club, formally opened tfle , season Tuesday by giving an invitation dock golf tourney, which wa* proceeded by a luncheon and followed bv a tea. Miss Dorothy Maria, of Philadelphia, < won the event with a score of 24. The e follows:

80; Mrs. Burton, 30; Mrs. Noblet, Mrs. I. Crow, 30; Miss Grange, 30; Miss Ayres. 30; Miss Boyd, 30; Miss A. Boyd,

Cape May Running Regularly. The palace three-decked steamer.