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CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1903.—EIGHT PAGES.

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THE NEW. STATION. PERSONAL INTEREST.

Penns* Ivan* RnUrsnd Agents Take Deeds P«r New Station. •4At.t Kri-lsy agenU of Uie I’mnsrlvmuu* Kj:lr<uui ( oitipsny were her* an.i mart, the pnymenu an.l took U.« deed* f>.r • lir piMpeny they have rteently tmtigiit on the north nideof Washington ►•n-et, l«ctireeu i)«■«■*tur atreet and Si Mki j * C'aiholie Cliurch. and extending tun k t*' 1 heir winter station at Jackson and Hr-iad .ireeH- They |*aid nut sotuet^ing over KO.OUO and an- now in a fair »av of beginning the work on dearins Hit- way for the building of their new station. On Monday the store of l it}. Tieasuror Smith waf started on its way to the litailing lot opposite the Keaiimg depot. .Other buildings will b**o Instarted away soon. The new station which is to. lie huilt ' will coat, u i» sanl. vlsjut flOO^XX),' and will be reedy for use by the nest aum- . met season TTie coin pane also propose^ to Vhorten the tune again lietweeu Phila del phut and tape May. and give to tfeia resort lietter sendee than It ha>‘ given us this yntr. The eoinpany t* encouraged to do this' lm-auae of the paMenger business done Uie seaaon just do***!, which wa* thv greatest in the history of their badness DR. SPOONER TO COME MERE. Camden .11 ulster Selected by Presbyterians lor Their Pastor. The congregation of the Ftftt Pieabytertan church .of this place has informally unanimously called to the pastorate the Kev. I»r. Arthur W. tpbouer, of Camden, who has accepted the call, and agrved to come here on January 1, pro' vided the West Jersey Preabytery a tiona the selection, which it will no doubt do. Mr. Spooner lidierew that Cape May ia his field qt work, and leave* -an •ItiOO aaiarjr to take a JiauO'Aihe. The yiastor of the church’. Rev* Edwin K. liallagher. dleel suddenly late in the summer: Me resigned his Camden chareg Sunday morning. - „

Dtiocsiiicrawnwttio-tyiniiu lUlCUTOlSfM JiUItUO tssteii The Democratic oonnty convention will lie'held to-day at Cape May Court Mouse, when candidates will be named for State Senator and Memls-r of Aaeembly There Ir a spiriloi contest - on hand for the sens tonal -nomination tie tween lamuel fc. Miller, who was .the senator from this county in 1892-5, and Sheri If .Samuel E. Ewing, who was elected two years ago owing to a Republican factional fight in the •county.-- It is believed that Ewing's chances of nomma*kmaye better than Milier’a at ibis time. Miller was the <andidate three yean, ago. but fell short-325 vote* In the con teat.-- No one has yet been suggested

for the Asaetnhly.

.HAY REVIVE SUUAR MAKING OM Company Scanning UOug-M Field of Operation In Rio Grande. Richard Ttxard, formerly anperintendent of the Kki T irande Sugar Company, which ilourtabed about fifieen years ago ntwlev State subside* has been Uraudr for a week, lo<Mcj"g ovej the tract of aevwrai tbosaaod acres null ow ned by the coaspany.witn a view to making teepararioL-s U> review the industry. Mr. TUard says the experience of the company proved that the bushwa* cap be made profiUiiie here, and he ia willing

to try again.

James P. Scott pud Charles Kills, large stockholder* ri Philadelphia, are vuterewting a pumbae of capitahsU, it la ciaimed. and ‘ it is expectei! that a crop of caio will be planted in ibe spriug.

Admiral Cfaarie* D. higvbee, of the Halted 'tates N^y was among the TiaiMrs to Cape May last Thursday. He hi auw in charge of League JsUod Wavy Yard, Pluiadalphia. and came here iowk uver the ptugiina 'win* made , the harbor br a* built in the new portion of Cape May by the Pittabnrg aynduate Mr was greatly pleased with thr pragrem of Tbr work, and spent many hour* in going over Ihe details of the plan* for thr new tnUod harea. The northern md of the harbor is jaet

Goa*Ip of The Town In Which You nay be MentionedMiaa IW-llV Glasgow is a tgftrat pf the i *m;* Kit-gel on Ocean struct. Mr and Mr*. S. A. WeUhaiuple, of Bctlili-hetu, Pa , are among Cape May friends th's week. Conductor Ktckson Robbins has bought a lot on Congress street from, rs. William J. Newell. Lewi* T. Stevens and family are tiled away for the winter ih the llcisar ittage on Ocean stmit. Councilman and Mrs.-, Hcatio H hurch will paaa the w tit A-in Philadelphia, Washington a id llridgeton. inductor and Mr*. F. B. K. Tompare ocvopying the cottage of l-rwi* T. Steveifa, 00-C--rgir street this winRev. Joseph R. Wilson oci-upied thfpulpit in tbe Kfcwt M. E Church on IsunlBy„yn the absence of the Rev. fi. F.

Gaaktll.

Weather Obaerver George I- Lovett and Mrs. Lovett have gone on a four week*' vacation to points of interest in tH* Weat. Peter shields, president of the- Cl^»e. ay Real EsUte Company, with his family, will reside at lhe Windsor Hotel all winter. v * Dr. Thompson ft. Westcott, of Philadelphia, has }>urchaaed' for 9fi5UO the •ttage of Mrs. L. 1'annenbsum on Columbia avenne. Rev. Frank ft. Sheppard preached in the First Baptist (Ymrch last Sunday very acceptably. He will be the preach • er there until Pastor William* return*. Rev. George Williams, who la taking six weeks leave of absence from his duties a* paatof of the Find Baptist Church, we hear Is regaining hit health. ieorge H. Reel of this aty, who ha* bad considerable hotel experience, will this wiiderronduct a hotel in New Yofl CHy, whither he baa gone to begin the season. ' . Miaa Mignon Morrougb-fthannon, of New Brunswick, N. J» is making an extended vhot to Mr.- and Mrs. C. C. P. Norris, at their cottage on Stockton

avenue.

Mr; and Mrs. William F William* have taken tile coUage' of James T. Smith at the corner of Ocean’ am! Hugh-* Greets lor tbe -winter seanon gnd are now occupying it. Kev. t’oTUs E. long, who is acting pastor of the First Prewbyterian ChorcK,' ia fast tiecoming [“ipular with the conVrrgatipn by renaou pf tbe. efritestheM of work for the cause of Christ. Mr. and Mr*. Millard V. Hriaae, this atjj who passed the just dosed eason at Corhwall-on-Hndson, en a famous cottage there, •The Putea," for the winter sea Harry Hudson Smith. i-f.Ph iadelphla has purchased through Albert B. Little -the cottage of tbe estate of George K. Mt-livaine at the noith corner of Stock avenue and Jefieraon street, for

•10.000.

Capt.- FAlwarda,.- of Philadelphia, occupying the cottage of John J. Batty on Ocean street for the winter His son, Capt Frank G. Edward*, of tbe Cape May Krai Estate Co , guest over Sunday. Mr Henry G. loach, son of Dr. Aloa so l- Leach, of this city, la now engaged m hi* duties as a master at tbe famous Proton School, at Groton, Mass., where are this winter for instruction two of tbe : Mias I Ada j^engert, who has been in Weal Virginia all summer for her health, arrived at the home of her parent* ben, The Tremont,” last week, and with tbe family on Monday retarned to their Philadelphia home for tbe winter

FACTS.IN BRIEF. Matters of General and Local In-

terest Mentioned. Straw hats linger. Coal bins filling up. Hallowe'en coming. Exit the summer girl. His fullness the moon.

Read therapy May 11 tyuxn. Autumn loaves—so does summer And good old summer tune came hack. Persons of means don't always mean

to.

Get your job printing done at the Hkkaia) oflice. The real thing—the Capo May Real EsUte Company. Thaiiuuui contains all the news, both of city and county. Send your subscription in for the Hkiulii. • 91.00 per year. Read the Car* Mat HassLo, tbe leading Cape May paper. The mail carriers have been reduced to fouafor the winter season. Many Philadelphians will he long distance commuters to Cape May this rioter. lira. Ole via Kothel, of West Cap* May. fell on Sunday morning and broke her collar hone. , The Chpe Hay county Medical Society met in semi-annual session at Ocean City on Tuesday. - ' The West Jersey A Seashore R. R. Co. chaqged itt train schedule to winteraervice on Tuesday. Convict# in the Eastern Penitentiary tried hard to compete with the oificiml mint in Philadelphia. The llXKAi.n will he please.! to hmva yon send any eymrs df Interest that take place throughout the county. The county court* were in session on Monday and.-Tuesday when criminal business was trsnjacted Dnly. Court will be held again next Wednesday. U< orge H. Keel it one of the new proprietor of the Hotel Marks ell, Broadway andtlhh streets, New York. It itWported that ex-Mayor J. Henry Edmunds is trying |o get an independent city ticket for the coming rieet-

l>r. Waiter H Phillips ass t

Sunday and his condition became aerl. '

enough f«r him to be taken

Ilahaci»ann Hospital, Philadelphia. Hie pra' Uce u being taken care of by a Pbtladeiphia phym*HD, who arrived

Monday evening.

Mr. it. Emmett Dillon, long and favorably known in 'hi* aty, ha* graduated from the Law Depertgsant of the Ctrill y of Pennaylvaata, and hat been

admitted to the Bar, and ia shots! to the

open a law office on Twelfth street, a

ion.*

Two hotels which have not heretofore kept open daring tbe winter tbe Windsor and The Devon, which will be ali-the-yenr houses. Tha annual session of the Cape Mgy County Teachers' Asa--nation tvUr be held at the High hehool in *hia dty on tomorrow sod Saturday. The 38th annual convention of the Cape May county ftuOday-school Aaaociabon was held at the M. E. Church, Uoilv Beach, on Tuesday. At the annual meeting of the .Board of Health, Dr. Alonso L. leach was chosen President and Lewis 7. Stevens scretary. They are re-elections The Arlington Hotel, comer of Grant and North streets, which is under tbe management of Mrs. O. Hess, will remain open throughout the winter. Tbe First National Bank of Cape May u a growing institution, and it* in two year* of lu existence hag been better than was predicted by

of the resort

Mrs. Emily Freeman, wife of George !. Freeman, aged 79 yean, died on Wednesday night at right o'clock at her bom* in West Cape May. She had been ailing for sometime and finally auocom-

ed to old age and debility.

Tbe summer season may now be said to have officially closed aa the Colonial and Star Villa dosed on Monday. Nona but winter hoteU are now open, they being the Klberota, Deyon, Windsor,

Eblxtt, Chalfonte and Aktina. After one of the moat aocosaaful

>n* in it* history, the Colonial Hotel, tinder the management of W. H. Church rtoeed its doors on Monday morning. Mr. Church ia thinking somewhat of peuing his famous hotel next year at Eastertide, and remail) open through

out tbe entire year.

City

City council met in regular

Tugnjay evening to transact routine

aiding tb e matter

, uTB«pnr fa the aea wall and driveway, and was referred to tbe city soh-

Harry F. KtUnger, who was tor <-*al years manager of the Wei Com* Telegraph Co., here, and later of the Dataware A Atlantic WU1

aa reoeati; j Triefbonrln tb* Chester, district, ius. ..f thi*) uas been transferred to a beitav pom.

that of manager of the Camden

O. H. Rate I anen* Hstet. Tbe Welle ttenUy S»d ouitet-y -TKew YevkCtt . i.norge H few* end h* *|»rtm^.t hotel at

5. B. WUana far

Mr. George W. Boyd,

George -W Bo}d, the popula! General Pasacugcr Agent of 'he Pennsylvania Railroad, Is uue . of Cape May’* foremost friends. He believes in our future, sod has done as jnucb for Cape May'* prosperity as any other visiter who

!• comes as a cottager ea rij

each summer and remains late, bia faatd)' still being in a Stockton avenue villa. Through-t}is efforts we ar^ to have a 9150,000 station on Waahington atrett, Decatur and Ocean reels- Hr that we have been given excellent fast trains, faster tha.: on the main line between Now York and Waahington. They have kept on these irains until Tuesday of this week, a month longer than the ueual summer time allowance. Mr. Boyd Is a man of varied experience, wide acquaintance and recognized pruriency In rallioed management. He Is known as tin- father of the “per-sonally-eonducted tour" system, which, under his capable direction, baa reached grant perfection aa managed by the Pennsylvania Railroad through a special

r. Boyd baa steadfastly

that It ia a pan qf the legitimate business of a railroad company to arrange for the handling of passengers In parties than individually. This idea, carried further, has led the Pennsylvania Railroad to arrange tours all over country aa seemed to hast suit the wi*)fa» and pleasure of persons’living on ita own Hue*. 8<t aggressive is the company in maintaining and exploiting tbe tourist that It has for several years ah solute) V refused to handle oars for tourist

Gradually this plan,'tostltuUd by thr Panusylv|nka. under the more or lea* direct personal management of Mr. Boyd, ia being adopted by other railroad companies. ilt of tt*“persob*11y-coodoct-ed-teoiV for tbe general public, yhe Pennsylvania Railroad baa been upon to arrange almost every important special tour that has been made through the Volted Htetes.by distinguished pwv

Wh

Ssberiusn who catch** an-occasional flak tnd teib. glowing stories of the i.eiueoili*h he has taken from the wafer, oi! the Ohio and otb< r less might} stieau*. Hinor June. 1872, Mr. Boyd has been U. tbe service of the Pennsylvania Railroad., intta to that be served s nine year* apprenticeship in railroading at ludianap•Ila, his birthplace, with tbe Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indtauaiolr Kill.-owl Hr worked iu tbs freight department, Two years later, in 1874, hi became chief clerk and continued -ih tbai position until January, 1882. Tbe offict •istant general passenger agent being then created, be was appMnted in Hli it. On tin- recent .- iplificaliou u( thipwssen ger depart men meet the growth of lb* sees of tbe Peonsylvania Railroad. Mr. Boyd, on June 1, was promoted Ural passedgi r sgen', rice J. R. Wood, who became passenger traffic i^uager.

iUimnilllt.il.SllD TO B! KGOIUHK fM OKI Ull Ull Notwithsunding the fact that Willtan. H. Bosley. President of the Queen Anne Railroad, says the Pennsylvania Railroad has made no offer for the property with a view to making it part of that company's already extensive Delaware Mary land-Penn* rlvani* system, Charles Neil son, another official of the Queen Anne’s, says negotiations are in progress for.the sale of the property, but be will not affirm or deny the report that Pentuylyania interests are after‘it. President Bosley, when asked if the company would sell tbe property, said The IVnSte/lvania may make os an offer any day, and they may want the property, but they have not opened definite negotiations. We are making plana to connect the road with Philadelphia ftom Lewes, Del., by boat. There is really no reason for selling unless wt can get a fine offer from the Pennsyl

vania."

The Queen Anne's road run* from Queenstown, Md., to I .ewe*, Del., a distance of BlXtV miles.'and use*, undei a traffic Agreement, the track* of thi Pennsylvania Railroad from l.ewe* to Rehobo tb Beech, a -distance of flvt miles There ta a connecting line oi steamer* between Kaliimun.- am. Queenstown, and another from l.ewe-

NEW VOTING MACHINE Ha* Been Placed In Cape May lor the November Election. When the Het-retary state lir.t an- - nuuticed that two voting machine, were lo iw place.) in C»|m- Mbv .-ounty it was said that two Wi-re to go i"o Ocean City, hu' It seem, that one ha. come to Cape May City, and there are many p«„|4e her.-very K iad of of the placing „f the maehine here. Aaaemldrman Crew** n a. importuned by some of the residents to plarc hi. machine hen- hut he thought the matter over and decided to place the machine i u hi* own elc tion division that if any criticism came from unsatisfactory working of it, he could taka any blame which would he imposed. "nr in now in possensiun of City t'lerk upsoti, and was ho doubt phuied hereby Senator Hand. The machine will bare u great effect on our efeetion next mouth, i- i. believed, aa titere wil n* no chance for the marking of ballot iv alleged dyater- in such^good* Tbe machine ia easily worked. At the ipproacii of a v .tet an election, oflioer nampulaiesa kuuli on the outside of he machine and the voter enter*‘the '>ooth,'drawing from theb-fi hr right liaudie which knutg* .uniw-nded W-fore is face. l|ie operation*simul'.uneonsiy losing the curtain. Uhind him and placing the voting apparatus in action. • ” To the left are plainly marked circles for ‘ the ilepublK«n, Ih-mocnitic. Prohibition md Socialist loihor parties in tbe order lamed, beginning at the I dp. Hith spawi for other* dcrired. VViihin i. a lever o be palled upward and to the right tn'ti the bell ring*. This rotes a straight '' ticket, little cruekei, .bowing at each candidate's name To cut tbe ticket it ia necesaarr to >te "straight'' first and then check oil ie candidates desired to be cut by ci «-an» of a lever directly over the name. This is lo Ik- followed by a similar move the nituiew desired to be voted on another ticket. The man who simply desire, to vote fur one candidate may do *o by retorting to an independent lever at the bottom. Tb* moving back of the curtain lever regiaterw the aote and locks the machine ufctil it is released by pressure on the official knob. The back of the machine— opened at the hour of closing and the total vote for each candidate in there

disclosed.

This week some of tbe opponent* of piffe elections have been trying to get the machine placed somewhere else.

President Roosevelt wanted to make hu recent tenr, Ihe^paaaetiger department of tbe Petnt*vlv*iji* Railroad, arranged the

Bn also

tbe Priuce Henry tout, the MrKlotrj funeral train, tbe Li Hung Chang tour, and many other* To *M ot Ibeaw 1 Boyd gave h>* pi-rwuuml attention, and ...

the majority be bX» gone alocg binitalf to j M * r '

are that nothing weal w lung and uo bitch j ' ' —r oocurrad that human caie ai*d foresight I Golden Wedding, could prevent 1 AldVrnian and Mr*. F/w»ci* K. Duke It ia in thi* way parti} that Mr. Boyd j have issued invitation, for the crlebrmgainad bw wide acquatatanoe with eati i lion of their golden wedding at their noiU aud diatingulahed man His graca. I home on lodayette street, thi*city, for tact, easy oouriaay,.angmgiog mannera, ‘ next Mohdar afternoon and evrniogtototltfoid eowvettetiou and raadineas aa i This well known conpie will have been a rsooueteur have eotnUned to make him j married fifty year* on Sunday evening

Senator Bradley’s View. Senator Bradley, of Camden county, said that all that tbe Republican* of Cape May county had to do to win was to get together. If they would do that and poll together the election of Assemblyman Lewi* M. Crease to the- State .senate would not be fur a moment in donbt. It waiTsaic that Uni'ed States Senator Kean, who wan the reputed champion of Senator Hand for renomination, had declared htmeelf to be in favor of the election of Mr. Crease. In fact, Mr. Kean himaelf made thi* announcement. "The position of benato r Kean i* alt right as far aa it go*e," said two of the South Jersey Republican leaders; "but it doesn't go far enough. What Senator Kean should do next ia to ear to Congressman Londenalager, with whom be has more influence than any other Republican in the State, that he must take ofl his coat and go to work. in dead earnest lor Lewis M- Oeaae. if Mr. Kean does thi., and make* the same remark to Senator llaod. Assemblyman Crease in 1VC3 will b« Senator •e in WM."—New Y’prk TrAout.

agreeable a»d ioteiilgeui Lost.no

with tha world'* great.

aQ Mr. Boyd is graetou* and potiw.

Mrs. Duke was Sophie

Ehlredge, a daughter the late Thomas KMredge, Sr. The Houin will

Hand to Support Party Ticket. A very interesting alory, if iroe, has been sent from Camden to the Newark *. to the effect that Senator Hand ha* been dickering with the Democrat* of thiapoonty t<r*app -n him for State Senator on an independent ticket. It uijuat aalikely to be the, other way, that the Cape May D> mocrats want to dicker with Hand iu order To throw faint down should he be persuaded to run independently, iris only neewsanry to UnU Senator Hand has openly deciarrd be ia supporting bia party ticket, and he could do no ie«».

City Council met in special session on Wednesday night of last week and granted license* for the winter term, ex