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CAPE MAY HERALD.

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VOL. 111. NO. 48.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903.—EIGHT PAGES.

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OBITUARY.

(irlirni Kruno* Marion Drake, who paiiMNi all la»l auiumer at the SUr Villa, rape May, ilied at hi» homp in Centerville. lowra, on Friday laat of diabetea, a^tal 71 veara. <ieu<ral Drake waa a forturr Uoeernor • 1 lot touiulrr id Drake CDiversity. wk». joaei'iii-i'E riiAMUKRs. Mrs. Josephine < haiuhers. wife l.nciuaA'hambera, of ('ol«l ^pnng, died suddenly last Sunday evening when entering her home after having spent Uie .lay with fru-nds in West Cape May Heart trouMe was given as the cause of her death. She was in her MUh >eir. The funeral occurred from the Tabernacle M. K t hurch, at Erma, on Tuesday afternoon, the services being conducted by the Rev. A. J. Gregory. MRS. EKTIIEE A. IIILDBETII. The funeral of Mra. Esther A. Hildreth, SO years old, widow of the late Daniel Hildreth of Cape May, who died at the home of her son, Daniel Hildreth, 2U37 N. ISth street, Philadelphia, Sunday night, November 15, was held here on Thursday laat, the service* being conducted by Rev. D. 11. Laverty, and the interment being made in Cold Spring Presbyterian Church cemetery. Mra. Hildreth was very well known in this city formally years. She had l-een in feeble health for some time as a natural consequence ol advanced years. The final cause of her death waa heart failure. She is survived in her immediate family by two sons, George and Daniel Hildreth. James H. sixon. Judge James H. Nixon, of the New Jersey Circuit Court, who has many times presided over the Cape May Circuit, and who is favorably known by most of the older people of Cape May county, died suddenly of paralysis bis home in Millville, on Saturday nigbr last, aged sixty-five. Judge Nixon was a native of Cumberland County and was graduated from Princeton University. He wax admitted to the Bar in 1863. He served four years in the House of Assembly trom Cumberland county and in 186S be was elected a State Senator. He was assistant attorney-general Of the United States under the administration of President Harrison and for nearly half the second term of President Cleveland. Prom 1896 to 1900 he was a judge of the Coart of Errors and Appeals of this State. In the latter year Governor Voorbees appointed him the judge ol the Circuit Court and his term would have expired on March 11, 1907. His death is deeply recreted in this county. The funeral occurred from the First Presbyterian Church, Millville, yesterday. It was largely attended. The interment was made at the Old Stone Church cemetery, near Fairton

HOTEL “NEW CAPE MAY” AS IT WILL APPEAR WHEN COMPLETED

Survey for Harbor Of Refuge Probable Senator Dry den tntfbduces a Resolution in the United States Senate For Estimating Costs of Deepening- Cold Spring Inlet,

The plana for the mammoth hotel, “New Cape May," to be erected on Beach avenue, corner of Pittsburg svenue, Cape May, by the Cape May Real Estate Co., have been completed by Architect F. G. Oateriing of Plttaborg, and are now on the boards of Contractor! Doyle and Doak in Philadelphia for estimates. The plans provide for a hotel not of grand proportions but for every modern comfort and convenience. Peter Shields, president of the Company together with Architect Ostarting, has expended a great deal of time investigating modern hotel appointments and the result i« shown in the plans of the, ‘New Cape May." The Southern Colonial style of architecture has been adopted. The build-

A BIRTHDAY PARTY. I PERSONAL INTEREST.

Work U Plentiful. Owing to the tact that the Pennsylvania Railroad has purchased a large number of properties to make room for 1 their station and that the Cape May Real Estate Company is givin* employment to numbers of laborers and that the municipal improvements are being pushed along the beach front, eyery laborer and mechanic of Cape May and a large number of non-residents are being given steady employment here. There is more work being done than has been happening heretofore in the late Fall season for many years.

Thanksgiving Service.

Union Thanksgiring Services will be held in the First Baptist Church, Fratlklin and Latayette streets, at 10.30 o'clock this morning. The singing will be by a uniteri choir, consisting of the

aiugres of the diflerent churches. Rev suU * C«P*

S. F. Gaskill of the M E. Church will preach the sermon A Thanksgiving ottering will be taken for some worthy

cause. All invited.

ing wjll be U shaped. Builders have been asked for alternate bids on a frame and for bnck and steel structure. The building will be five stories and bshement 400 feet by 200 feet. An extended porticr will be on the fron'.Vif the building, which will be very ornate. The basement is to be equipped with a swimming pool 40x92 feet, a cafe, billiard room, baggage room, steward'* room, storage room, refrigerators, and ten bed rooms for the help. A handsome ball room with a stage, a palm -rarden, several dining rooms and a children’s dining room, reception hall, two sitting rooms, writing room, office* and four two-room suits with baths will be fitted up »n the first floor. The

drawings show twenty-six two and three room suite* with baths on each of the upper floors. There will also be s number of single room*. Altogether tbe hotel will coutsin about 400 guest chambers and 150 private bath rooms. Tbe hotel sftll be so constructed and equipped that whatever portion is needed may be used during the winter season. ~The structure is to be erected and ready for occupancy next reason and thereaft- r to be kept ©pen all tbe year around. The opproximate coat will be in the neighborhood of a million dollars. The Cape May Heal Estate Company proposes that New Cape May ■hall have the finest and most modern hotel on the New Jersey coast. From all sections of the country there are already aaaurances of liberal patronage.

An Enjoyable Time Spent, In Which Many Participated. a , The home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Ware on Saturday evening was the scene of much enjoyment. It was a birthday party given in honor of their daughter, Miss Edith Ware, It being her twenty-first birthday. The evening was spent In the general way of playing games and other amusements, until finally they were invited out into the dining room where an elaborate board of all the delicsae* of the aeason had been prepared by the hostess. After doing justice to this they all wished Miss Ware many happy returns of the evening. She was the recipient of many tokens of esteem from her friends. Those present ere:— The Misses Mary Taylor, Rebecca Caaaedy, Carry Hand, Mildred Haynes, Martha D. Marcy, Edith Ware, Martha G. Marcy, Lina Kennedy, Marie Kennedy, Louisa Thompson, Hilda Ware, Core Ware, Ella Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. U. Williams. lasers. Frank Miller, DcWitt Barlow, Fred Sayre, Allen Wale*, Clinton Rutherford, Samuel Marcy, John Hewitt, Horace Church.

Cape May Boy Honored.

With the foot ball season at tbe University of Penm-yl vania drawing to. a cl ore, interest is being manifested by tbe students in tbe spproaebing debate between the teaiua re prerenting Pennsylvania and Ci'rtull. The debate will take place on December 18, and Penn's

men are preparing for the event.

Tbe subject selected la: "Resolved, that, aside from tbe question of amending tbe donstitotion, it la desirable that tbe regulation power of Congress should be extended to all corporations whose capitalisation exceeds 11,000,000.” This contest will make the eighth between tbe two universities. Penn has four victories to her credit. One of Penn's team is Fletcher W. States, ’04, of the Law School, a son of Edgar P.

Appointed as Postmistress. Congressman Gardner baa recommended the appointment of Mrs. t aroiine Willitt* a* postmistress at Port Elisabeth, Cumberland County. Mra. Willitt* is the widow of the late Dr. J. Howard Willi tu, who waa born at Green Creek, this county, and who waa Stats ■ Cumtiertend County a

Not la Veto.

Cape May. X. J., U to use the ma Shamrock 111, which D158 teet long, for a JUc*tafl. And yet it la sometime that bir Thomas Upton's latest challenore ■ as built In vain.—Chicago /airr-

An elderly woman on the West Jersey express from Philadelphia, one evening last week, becams greatly alarmed es she lookqd out the rear door and saw the Beading train bearing down on them. The two roads, as most of our readers are aware, run parallel for some miles above Cape May, sad it is hers the big locomotives seem to be unable to resist the temptation to ram at the

rate of 80 miles an hour.

The Reading waa gaining on tbe

Pennsylvania.

“Ob they ought n’t to be allowed to do it 1” exclaimed the old lady; “tt’a us 1 It’s dangerous 2 *’ she < wringing her bands Them la • momenta, as tbe pursuing train drew

Gossip of Tbe Town la Which You flgy be Mentioned. Mayor Franklin P. 8toy la here on a cunning trip with Councilman James E.

Taylor.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles KeUom. of Delair, N. J., have been gnests this week of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Taylor. Howard Tombteaon of Willlamslowo has ( been appointed freight ageot of tbe West Jersey Railroad at Cape May. Councilman-elect Robert J. Oreewell is occupying the Steven's cottage at the corner ofHughe* and Decatur streets. The Rev. J. Liggina, who has resided at Cape May for six years, has gone to the Dayton at Wildwood, where be will reside daring the winter. • Mrs. Frances N. Beck is on a two weeks visit to Mr. and Mrs. Millard E. Helse, at their home in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York. David G. Baird of Beyerly, N. J.. secretary of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, was among tbe prominent visitors to Cape May early in thh week. The many students from Cape May who are attending the diOferent schools aqd collages are all home to remain over Thanksgiving. Tbe plmsurea and good things of home are much appreciated by those who spend much time sway from the dear old plane. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ratty, their two daughters, Mies Caroline and Mia* May, and son, Master E Idle, are away making a tour of tbe west. The trip, will cover a period of four weeks in which time they will visit Chicago, Denver, BalUXake City. Sacremento, Ban Frandeot^oe Angeles, El Paso and Bt. Louis. Dr. Anna M. Hand, Is passings three eeks’ sojourn in the vidiiity of Philadelphia. She has gone to attend a patient knd while away, she will take np a few oouraes of study at the Polyclinic Hospital. She will give particular attention to the dlssesre of children and throat and long diseases, and wQl finish the course thus begun after she returns to her home In this city, by going to the hospital one or two days s week until they hare been completed.

—Tbeeoret Sky league waa regard Wr* teas sight by emvomuf various Xew

voice, *1 hope ws beat! 1 hope ws beat!”

mocking toot of bar whistle, went by, and disappeared ahead.

Ail kind of it gssO.T.a.

FACTS IN BRIEF. Matters‘of Goucral aad Local latercet Mentioned. There i* a pleasure in the silent woods; There is s grandeur on the lonely shore; There i* society where none intrudes By the deep sea, and music in its rosr —Thankagi vi ng. —Football is on top. —Almanacs for 1904 are out. —It was "In good old winter time.” My price advertises me. 1. Teocnhaum. —ChrisUnkj shopping has commen-

ced.

—Gunners report a scarcity of rab-

bit*.

—The small boy tried his skates last

eek.

Not to know L Tenenbaumi is a mis-

fortune.

Blue flannel shirt* at Bol Needles' and get G. T. 8. -Read the Cara Mat Hzrald, the leading Cape May paper. All kind of heavy winter under wear at Sol Nsedtea* and get G. T. 8. —The Hxrald will be pleased to have you send any eventa of interest that taka place throughout the county. —Painter Albert B. Little is repainting the oottage of Mr. Charles Ferguson, at South Latayette street and Vundaor

avenue.

Cot Bol. Needles' coupon out of this pmptr and, for every dollar you spend you will get ten extra G. T. 8. at Bol.

Needles.

—Peter Smith it enlarging his board' Ing hooae, the Unden ViDa, on South Latayette street to double its present

capedty.

—The management of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition have decided upon September 28,1904, as Near Jersey day at tbe big fair. Tbs only shoes for men and boys that are fit to wear are W. L. Douglass, and tbe only plaoe in town to buy them la Teneoi>aam. —Tbe Ladies of the First M. E. Church will bold an ice cream social in the chapel of the church this afternoon and retting. Everybody welcome. —Mary E. Crease, wife of Edward Crease, has sold to Henrietta Gliding bouse and lot on the sontbeast side of Washington street, adjoining tend of Dr. Phyalck«or *1800. —The Reading flyer In passing Erma tbe other evening, st/nek a rabbit, MgljtlpM H a great distance and badly passerby mercifully it out of misery, and had tabbit for supper. —Among the das* which was sdmit-

tbs Oape May Real Batata Company. It will be set up as a flagstaff in one ol the public parks along Gaps May Avs-

noe in the new Gape May.

The Odd Fellows of Gape May Court louse wfll have their annual feast of turkey on Thnnksglvia| Day, ■ steading tbe high price of the poultry.

Shemrock Ma»t Arrives.

The hollow steel mast of the English

yacht Shamrock HI arrived here

Reading freight on Sunday and was viewed by hundreds of oar atisens and visitors. The meat and its wire ropes weighs about eight tons, but owing to its length—156 feet—it required five flat can to carry 1L The mast came into poesemion of Oapt Charles Barr, sailor

of the p*»««ww who AUpnMd of it to ted to practice aa attorneys-at-law by

was Garfield B. Giflord of Ocren Grove, of Rev. EU Giflord, formerly pastor of tbe M. K. Church of this dty.

position of chairman of Incidental ■

—The Chpa May Hsaiui baa tbs repitaboa of batag the moot readable and

Senator John F. Dryden of New Ji •y laat Thursday introduced in t United States Senate the following resolution which was immediately adopted: Resolved by tbe Senate (House ol Representative concurring) tbat tbe Secretary of War be, and be is hereby authorized and directed to cause a surbe made and estimates to be submitted Of the coat of dredging and otherwise improving the harbor of Cold Spring Inlet, Cape May County, N. J., ao as to meet tbe demands of commerce. The action of the United Bute* SenaliIn adopting the resolution, offered by Senator Dryden, of this Bute, providing for a Government survey and estimates to be msde of the cost of improving the harbor at this plaoe was received burr with grest entbuaia.m as it marks the starting of sbst wiil be s great develop■t of tb* utmost importance not only :*pc May Inti to tbe entire Atlantic it. Vessel owner* generally, pilots and yachtsmen In particular, are imtneu*.ly Interested In this proposed harbor as It ill b* s place of refuge during store., i aea. Bring s land-locked harbor it will he a thoroughly safe anebotagr. There is no harbor of this character anyhere along the coast between Sandy Hook and tbe Delaware Breakwater. Many vessels jvrecked along this coast might have been saved If such a harln.r aa is now proposed here had been in exlstWork on this harbor Is progressing rapidly, two large auction dredges being used for the excavating. Tbe harbor is included In the New Cape May tract of 8000 aces, owned b* the Cape Hay Ibal Estate Company, which Is being developed Into tbe must up-to-date seaside resort In the world. Tbe harbor is to cover an area of about 600 acres and to have an average depth of 35 feet. The entrance from the era will he at Sewell's Point where Cold Spring Inlet is located, and which it la proposed shall he w id coed to 850 feet and of a depth sufficient to admit vessel* drawing at hast 85 feet of water. It is proposed that the eotrance shall be maintained by eubsUntlal jetties, on both aides, extending 9000 feet into tbe

the largest yachts of tbe New York Yacht Club will ba able to ruler tlx, bar» bor under their own sail and without tbs nae of steam. An Important feature In this connection is the fact that tbe harbor eotraooe Is from tbe South, which is the direction of prevailing winds si Caps

May.

From Sewell’s Point the harbor extends Inland nearly two miles. On the north side will be located coal, fresh water sod gereral supply autioaa. docks, etc. A marine railway or dry-dock will also be maintained and will prove of great utility in connection with tbe harbor. Accommodation* will be provided for all aorta of water craft. The Yaebt Clubs of this city and of Philadelphia and New York are greatly Interested in this harbor project, members of the latter club having proposed to make it their port on their Southern cruises. Philadelphia yacht iwusra have said they will keep their yacht* at anchor here and uae tbe train service between .hat city and Cape May. Thus they will be able to get from 'b-lr su hour sod a half Instead of In half a day and also avoid a monotonous and expensive trip down tbe river. The work on tbia harbor is ptoceeding i vigorttaely as possible. Tbe monster dredgr* sill be krpt going day and night all winter. It is estimated tbat they Will be required to remove twenty million yaads of material which will be used to fill adjacent property. This material la sacked from the channel and pumped from tbe dredges to any point desired, through pipes carried on pontoons. Tbe larger of tbe two dredges. tbe-Pitteburg," has a capacity of moving shoot 25,000 yards of material dally and Improvements being added will greatly Increase this CapacityGovernment officials and members of Congress have personally gone over tbe harbor plana, prepared under supervision of tb# United States Engineers^ office of this district, sod bare been here sod after thorough inveatlgapoD have apporred tb* proposed improvement*. The action of the Senate is in effect * national sodoraeand opens tbe way for providing a much-needed harbor of refuge at this

With the channel of tbe width proposed j point on the All an tie Coast.,

FILLING VERY SATISFACTORY First-Class Material Brought Up by The Dredges,

Settling Comparatively Little.

President Shields and Superintendent Fitzgerald are very we>I pleased with the filling of the Cape May Real Estate Company’s property. The work is now making a very good showing, and improves rapidly d«y after day. Such a great quantity of materia] tbat has been pumped from the harbor baa gone into the lowest | arte of the proi«rty that it has not been apparent. But now that these low places are rapidly filling the farther deposit of mstenel count, Ut sight and aa layer after layer of sand is deposited, tbe grade shows up and as it approaches tbe leyeU indicated by the engineers’ surveys, everyone can appreciate tbe progress of this great work. Up to thif time many observers who havemadeonly a superficial examination have not given lull credit for the amountof filling already done •* they have inferred that it must show on the surface, forgetting or not realizing tl.at the loweat places required to be filled before a surface showing could be made. This point la now being reached and soon “Plan A” will present an appear enoe that will astonish the most akepti oal. As soon as the grades are astab-

Ushed, the work of laying out i putting down sewers and curbs will be

City 5boold Collect Garbage, has been suggested that the dtr collect the garbage, been made by council for the collection

important part in the

duties. In all weU-govamad cities, garbage is collected by the eity. To the

r tne M. tt. unuren o< uus aty. --- ---- - -- - -United States Senator John Kean of *‘7 York the ooUacting of it

- - baa been a great tuooeta financially.

On* ordinance provides for tbe removal under contract, and it should be com-

piled with.

If yoe west to pstreksse year Ohrtsfmai tor your friesds batter go to I Yea will ass Iks latest

The 30-foch pipe line of the powerful dredge “Pittebnrg” it now being laid across the tract to the beach front and filling at this point between Madison and Pittsburg Avenoes will be commenced. Pittsburg Avenue will be tbe first thoroughfare put through from Washington Avenue to Beach Avenue. - This Aveene, 160 feat wide, promiaee to be a very important one as it will extend from one end of the Hotel New Oapp May to Schellengera Landing and wiU bo much used. . Tbe material that la being brought op »nu deposited ou tbe Company’* property Is of a Ter/satisfactory character, moob more an than waa anticipated. It la of a - gravelly character, some of it mixed with day tbat peeks admirably. This gravellike sand makes mg-h belter filling than fine sapd. It.hardens very quickly and solidly, making a first-Glass surface. Thle is indicated by tbe fact tbat tbe settling is only about oue-lbird of the estimated amount. This ka, to tb* Company, a very mock appreciated condition.

. TheT. E. D. Chib will giya a Thanksgiving dance at tbe Windsor Hotel this evening, which it is expected will be pna of the grandest affairs of the sreeon.

A quiet wedding occurred at Gold ’ Spring ou Monday evening teat, .ban Mlm Mabel Search became tbs wife, of Mr. AbUab Raevts. sou of Courtleed Reeves, of tbat place.

Mi« Bios* tbe fun on* Palmist, lata ; of Gaps May Potet, now to be consulted at Maruetowa, tbrea a