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CAPE MAT HERALD.

THE LEADING PAPER.

VO!.. IV. NO. 9.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1904—EIGHT PAGES.

Subscription—$1.00 per Year.

THE BOND ORDINANCE IT WAS FINALLY PASSED FOR S 140.000.

OTHER HITTERS BROUGHT UP

Appr»|>i-iatlujc 0«Hn»l.W Tbrou*b * Two Railroad ^ GbIani Are Demanded. City Council mat lu regular wtaaion on Tiienla; eveuinR *Olh allWrnilsrr* pre»ent. and Preaidrnt Toanaend pn-alding. A pelltion numeroualy »lRn«d aakiug council to require tbe Keadlng Railroad Company to place safety Rates at Uie l.sfsyrtte street crowing, was reoelred and roferiwd to the coniroittoe on atreeta. which coniiolttee was rquaauid to confer with the Qsilrnad oITlciala and report at the next meeting of council. Councilman Crewweil prewnted a numerously signed petitinh praying toat a band be provided for the beach front during the coming summer. In response to this an firm of $4.1100 UO has been planed iu the appropri* ting ordinance for music. A petition waa received asking for tbe laying of a sewer on Madison Avenue, between Washington an Lafayette sts. Tbe wholesale liquor license of O. M. Haines A Co., was transferred to the Cairn May Whiskey Company. Mortimer D. Learning asked council to appoint him tbe electrical inspector. The reguest was filed. Tbe bond of City Treasurer Isaac H. Smith for $10,000.00 with Joseph H. Hanes John W. Mecrsy and James M. B. Hi - dreth. as sureties, waa accepted. The ordinance authorizing the issuing of $140,000.00 of bonds, bearing fivay$cr cent, interest, payable seml-aunoallf, and due In thirty years, was finally passed. $1110,000.00 of these bonds are to be in denominations of $1,000.00 each, and the remainder of tbr issue is to be in demoninatious of $500.00. The appropriating ordinance for the current year was taken up and passed through first and second reading. It provides for an expenditure of 1*8,130,00, to be"*raised from the following sources: water rents. $12,I«J0 0U; licenses. $5,500.0) and by taxes $83,650 00. Council then went into tbe election of a special policeman who shall be put on duty whenever the mayor considers it necessary Tbe result of the votes wns ns follows: Herscbel Ixrrru 6. George Clark 2 and Waller Smith 1. Ixiveit was d«clared elected.

THE VOTING MACHINES. Attorney General Thinks They Can Not Be Removed. TBKRTOX, Kkb. 25—The opinion which Attorney-General McCarter gave in relation to the custody of tbe voting machines which were distributed by Secretary of State Dickinson last fall, under tbe act of the Legislature providing for their use, contains an announcement that seems to have escaped publicity After explaining that the voting machines mast remain iu I osseasiou of the municipalities in which Oe were plnced and b: insured by those muuicipaliiie- the attorney-general adds: “No authority seems to be given to tbe voting machine commissioners to resume control of them, and so far as 1 am able to discover, no provision is made in the acts for their being removed from the local ion in which the Secretary of State has placed them. Colonel Dickinson will confer with tbeGoveruor upon the aubject before deciding as to weather be has construed tbe opinion right.

ITEMS OF 1 PERSONAL NATURE RECEIVER

I tenia of Much Importance Gathered Among Cape May's People. The Misses Jennie and Ella Kirby are in Jersey City visiting their sister Mrs. Louis H. Waabburne. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Land of Germantown were guests of Mr- and Mrs. 8. HMcore over Sunday. Miss Louisa Bush has returned to Philadelphia after a visit of several weeks to her parents In this city. Mr ud Mrs. Charles H. Edmunds, of PbilMdrlphls. were visiting Mrs. Downs Edmunds over Sjitulsy. M rs Charles F.Gsrrelson of Court House was visiting her daughter. Mrs. Albert H Phillips, early in the week. Edgar P. Miles, Jr., is now employedss a general subscription agent cf the Pfallsdilphis 'Press.” Ur. and Mrs. George H. Heel of New York are among Cape Mav friends, where they have been for a week. Dr. and Mrs. Tbeophilus T. Price, of Tuckerton. are guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Townsend. Dr. Price Is antbor of the poem ••Cape May." Ernest W. Lloyd. Cape May's new lawyer, waa married Teaterday afternoon at hia home in Bridgeton, to Mias Maud Dare Cox. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Cox. of Ujat city. Dr AnoaM. Hand and Mrs. Lewis T. Stevens were among visitors to Phlladel phis last Friday, fbey visited tbe Academy of the Fine Arts, both being Interested in Miss Bennett's art class here. Superintendent A. G. VcCaunland and other Reading Railway officials were here last Thursday, going over tbe beach front trolley road and inspecting it. I will ba pbt in thorough order for aumroer ns* aarly. Congratulations have be- n showered upon Mr. and Mra.GilbanC. Hughes since last Thursday evening, when they were blrmed by the arrival of alilUegiri. They now have a happy family of father, mother, m and daughter. George M. Hen. I ricks, formerly cashier of tbe First National Bank of Cape May. bat now cashier of the bank at Cranford. N. J.. was a visitor over Tuesday and W’edneaday. He was a guest of Mr. and Mrs Samuel F, ®drrdge. Mrs. Sallle Tomkins of Philadelphia is -iaiting her sou and daughter. Conductor sod Mrs. F. E. B. Tomkins, on Corgle street. Mrs. Tomkins is tbe widow of Dr. WUl|am A. Tomkins, one of the early mayors and early postmasters of Angtceea.

Tbe Coming Election. Prom the Five Mile Beach Journal. Although tbe Spring election is lem than two weeks off. little lute rest in the event seems to have developed as compared with former years. Tbe whole ticket is to ,b> elected, (Deluding a mayor, two council' men, collector, assessor and commUslaoer of appeal. Tbe terms of Councilman Harris and Buck expire and Frank Sheppard as commissioner of appeal. Mayor Baker is a candidate again and J. Albert Harris has announced himself as a candidate . for council to succeed himself. Mr. Buck does not desire to be elected again. Collector VnnHorn. It is reported, has said that be is a candidate for re-election. For Collec tor the names of Clarence Eldtvdge, Carl Biebert, K. Penn Smith, John Bright and Harry Hannan bare also been mentioned. Assessor Washburn is a candidate for reelection. Mavor Baker will probably not have aay opposition for another term of

two yean.

BKD >TKVfc BIG CHIEFS. Now 'jrrwcy Council Clioaca Officers fl»r Another Year. At its annual session in Trenton last Thursday the Great Council of New Jersey Improved Orodr of Bed Men, elected the following officers: Weiner tv Whitmore. Oceanic, great prophet: Frederick P. Rees. T.niton, great sachem;HerbertF.Steteer. Gloucester, great senior esgamorr: CharleD. Thompson. Atlantic City, great juuiot sagamore: Daniel M. Stevens, Camden, great cbu'l of records; William J. Smith, Long Branch, great keeper of wampum; Waiter 8. Whitmore, Oceanic; Joseph E. Nowrey. Camden: Joseph M. Snyder, Washington, and Harry E- Mack. Sooth Amboy, were chosen representatives to tbe Great Council ol the United SUL-a. Tbe four past sachems of Ogallaila Tribe of Cape M«) who attended were RobertC. Hughes, William G. BlaUucr, Aaron W, Hand. Barclay L Schelleuger and George

C Taylor.

At the closing session of the Great Council last Friday t be percapila lax waa fixeu cents for tbe year. This iulcndes 5 cents for the orphan fund and the share for the Supreme Council. The salary of Great Chief of K.curds, Daniel M. Stevens of Camden, was increased from $1000 is $1800 e year. Mr. Stevens has served 18 yean in this position.

FOR Q.A.R.R. BILL AND ANSWER ARE FILED IN

BALTIMORE COURT.

STUMER “CAROLINE" INVOLV.B

No Kerry Between I/ewee and Cope May Would Mean Great laxia

of Summer Business.

Document* In the receivership of tl c (Jneen Anne's HsilroadCompsny.of wl ' William H. Bosley Is pre-id-nt. » filed and made public in the Culled Si District Court at Baltimore. J udge ThomJ. Morris aignrd an order appointing Mr. Frank JEhlnn receiver for tbe road.

under a hood of $40,000.

The proceedings occasioned much nor prise In financial and railroad circles. The Queen Anne's Ferry and Equipment Company. a corporation of West Virginia, Mr. Edward Stabler, preaideot, is tbe oc* - plaioant in tbr case. Bond & Robinson and Taylor and Kerch, solicitors, filed the bill. It sets forth that tbe salt Is brought tbe ferry and equipment company and all other creditors of the defendant railcompany who may choose to become parties to tbe suit. Tbe bill recites at length tbe details of the operations of the Qneen Anne's Railroad Company. The defendant, so the bill alleges, has acquired from the plaintiff by lease the ‘termers Endeavor. Quern Anne,' and Queen Caroline, and usee them in oonneeihSn with its railroad. In June. 19<S. as agreement was entered Into between the defendant nud the complainant oorpotations whereby the three steamers men tinned were leased for twenty-five years. A copy of the lease accompanies the paper* filed in the case. Tbe defendant railroad company^tgreed to pay a rental of $«,.vft a year,for tbe steamers In equal monthly installments at sl.RS7.50 each. Three of installments are now due. tbe bill alleges, amfi tbe defendant 4a indebted to tbe complainant to the amount of $77,061, 'which sum.'' says the biU, "though Trecently demanded of the defendant by your orator, said defendant baa wholly

failed and refused to pay.”

Further, the bill atiegea. the railroad company la indebud in a large aggregate amount for supplies and materials. "Said

M1T0R RICHIES; WIFE GONE. Left Home While he Waa Away—A Bartender Also Missing. Jsinn* Ritchie. Mayor of South Cape May, has reported the abarnoe of hia wife 'from their winter home. 2147 N. 27th at.,

Philadelphia.

Mrs Andrew Koy has sworn out a war rant for tbr arrest of her husband, who waa employed as bartender In a aaloooo at 90th si. and Susquehanna are., that city, and who hna been missing for two weeks. Mia. Ritchie is an attractive blonde, Dearly twenty years yonnger than her , to whom she has been married nine yran. She is tbe daughter of Edward

Ritchie is well-to-do sod owns property in Philadelphia and In Cape Mar. He has twice married and has several married daughters. Tbe Philadelphia " Evening Bulletin ” quotes Ritchie a* saying as follows: "Monday I went to Cape May ou busl ‘a. When 1 returned my wife was gone. She bud taken her trunk and bad not even left me a note. 'A little more than three weeks ago I learned that my wife waa friendly with a wealthy S. Broad si man whom she met a year ago. I spoke to her sharply, and she iid that after such words she would leave . tbe boose. She went to tbe bouse of a id and stayed two weeks and then we became reconciled and she returned to me. as 1 had since learned that she quarreled with the man to whose acquaintance I objected. "Foy need to come to my house once In while to play cards. 1 do not cousidcr him a patUcnlarly good looking man. but he seemed to attract my wife. NevertheI blame my wife's restlessness, which culminated In her final leavetaking. on the •. Broad st- than, against whom I shall probably bring anil for alienation of affre ‘ * j. I trust, however, that I shall never my wife again.”

PLANS FOB CONFERENCE.

esth Session of Jerwry Methodists to

Begin Wedneaday.

Preparations for tbe slxty-fire annual •esalon of the New Jersey conference of tbe Methodist Episcopal Church, which will convene in Trenton,next Wednesday, are practically compMed- The committee of arrangements, consist ini! of all the local Methodist dieiuas and repreaentaiive layfrom each Methodist church of Tren. too have provided accommodations for

indebteduess.” says tbe MU. "is dlsJrtbAK -shout 500 visiting elergyi

a Urge number of persona and corporations, all, or nearly all of whom, are pressing tbe defendant for payment." Tbe bill then goes on to aet forth tbat the railroad company, in addition to it* ■aid indebtedness for supplies and current operating expenses and other floating indebtedness, h -a mortgaged and conveyed all iu railroen lines and property International Trust Company of Maryland trustee, to secure tbe payment of three certain aeries of bonds. " These bonds," says the bill, "are a series of first preference 5 per cent, gold bonds, aggregating $330,000 in tbe amount of principal, and a of consolidated mortgage bonds, ag gregaling $1,400,000 in amount of principal, of which $066,000 U the aggregate amount onUtandlng, and a series of income mortgage bonds, aggregating $000,000. The defendant corporation U, in tact, at tbs

present time Insolvent.''

On behalf of the railroad company, PretidentWUliam H. Bosley, through Marbury & Goenell, solicitors, consented to tbe appointment of receiver. Id his answer

President Bosley says:

The Qneen Anne's Railroad Company, the . efrodent, admlu each smd all of the allegations aet forth in the bill of complaint and aubmita to the passing of such

decree as to tbe conrt shall proper in the premises and

Immediate passage of an order appointing a receiver as prayed in said Mil."

Bishop Stephen M. MerrUl. D D.. LI. D.. of Chicago, the oldest active bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America, will preside over the sessions of cod fere res. One of tbe moat imporant matters to be considered by tbe conference will be tbe election of delegatee to the general ccoference of the chnrch, which wiU meet in law Angeles, Cal., in May. ' Tbe approaching general conference will be the Aral in which there will bean equal reprieroutloo of laymen and clergy. The representation heretofore has beau two lay delegatee from each conference except where the number of clerical delegates has

there has'

been only oue lay delegate. The New Jersey conference will probably have five clerical and five Uy delegates to

Lecture on tbe Far East. Last Saturday night Bev. Arthur W. Spooner, D. D., dellveied a lecture In the First Presbyterian Church upon Korea and Manchuria, In which countries Mr. Spoonhas traveled. The Doctor also sboweu me thrilling views of BalUmon flames. Tbe lecture waa intereating and 111 unrated by lantern slides. The proceeds wsra devoted to the debt fund of the church.

Lower Township Candidates. Joseph P. MacKlasic will be a candidate for re-election aa member of the Board of Education of Lower Township. Aaron Woolaon of Fishing Creek will be a candidate for re-election to the township oommltue of Lower Township, in which place be has been a valuable friend of lb. taxpayer tbe |

A Happy Pox Hunt. One day last week three of Cape If ay's best gunners. Stephen Beeves, Thomas Reeves and Edward Lore, were the leaders of a party who were out fox hunting just south of Goshen. After they bad bem for two or three hours they raised a gray fox, and after a merry sportsman like they succeeded in capturing reynard and bringing their trophy home They bare spent much of the time siuoe in re hrarsing their experiences to their many friends.

Dr. Jonatlian P. Learning III. Word comes from Conrt House that Dr. Jonathan F. Learning, father of the Po.tOM.ter Walter S. Learning, and of Mrs. J pplorr Learning of tbb city. Is again eerlonaly IU. Dr. LranUng is rigbly years of age and has been aa e pi ary and valnaM. man to the oon nl y. Hr ■erred two term. In the State Senate.

PorOetr Harbor. Mayor Tbomaa W. Millet ami Prraideot Shields “f the Capr May Heal fatale Company to urge upon Coe gram men tbe advantage* aud uecMaitw. of the Cape May harbor. 'Ibey will return home oa Batsr- tory Q^TnmdaL

A Corruption Pond. At a gatbeiiog the other evening of perms who have heretofore followed the Leadership of ex-Sraator Robert K. ]

fund the object of which was to be the bringing about of the defeat of Captain Charles P. Vanaman, who Is a candidal*

FUNERAL OF MBS. SWING. It Took Place at Fairton. Wltfc Interment «t Swing's Cemetery. The funeral of Amanda, widow of the late Michael Swing, of Seaville, took place from the residence of her brother, Joseph Jerrell, at Fairton on Monday of last

week.

Tbe services were conducted by the Rev. I. G. Benser ynd the pallbearers were: Mahlon Mulford, Henry Wallen. Enoch Thompson, Beriah Clark. James Mulford and Dallas Gaudy. Interment was made at Swing's cene tery. Uodei taker David H. Jonnaon. of tfale city, wai In charge—Bridgeton New,.

A Mysterious Social. Don't forget the social to be held by tbe young men of the First Baptist Church Thursday evening. March 3d. in Mrs. Turner’s old store on Washington street, lo. n. cake, oranges, and candy on oa' Come and try for tbe mysterious box.

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE Baal estate continues to be Iu you want a borne, store or good In veiled, now is the time to get it- Undoubt edly in the spring iter* will I in pricya. We hare Many elegant building and colleges for sale, at

by the Improvement Company for good

male. We can sell you WIU be pleated to «

ground with you or tend you

Don't rant, buy -

SPRING

ELECTIONS INTERESTING FIGHT IN MIDDLE TOWNSHIP. The West Cape May Candidates. Praiflcollj No Fight In the BoronghContmc On Com ml I tec In Lower Township. A political battle on wbioh the eyes of the voters of the whole of Cape May oouu ecratrrel. is the battle in lower Township between Chosen Freeholder Alfred Creasa. who is a candidate for rr-elec- . and Captain Char La P. Vanaman Tbi* L the only member of tbe Board of Freeholders to be elected this year and 'iI*on the result depends the control of that body for another ymr. Should Mr, Cre*ae be re-elected the present policy will be conUnned. while on the other hand the election of Captain Vanaman will mean a change af front and a probable discoutlnu of the building of a number of road# which have coot tbe eouuty a large *um of mouey during the pas: three years.

ticket at. Saturday night:— SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAY (Vote for two) Joseph L. Creese, Harry Tolbert, Tbomae Matthews, Sheppard B. Taylor, KOMMISSIONERSOF APPEAL (For three years) Chariee Weeks, (F«r on. year) George T. Weeke, TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE (Vote foe one) Learning E. Hughe*. Aaron Wooleon, CONSTABLE ' (Vote for one) John N. Reeves, John Bstteraail, POUND KEEPERS Fishing creek—Charles J. Howard, Swain ton—Joseph B. Greaves. Cold Spring—Lucius E. Chambers, Cape Dtrtnct—Frank Rutherford, Road money, 82UUU.UU Poor money, $100.00 Defiaeuciee, $300.00 Shall $125 be raised for repairs oi Township house? Yea. No.

introduced In tbe houae a bill to codify the vxlsiiog law. on the regnlatioo of the oys-

ter and clam industries

In the afternoon a long conference was (Mat tbe executivemaudou between the governor and the bonoe committee on fish game, and aa a remit the Mil aa pre-

vented was agreed upon.

H is a general act and provides for the state supervision of the oyster and clam indnetry by establl-hing' three districta with three eommisaionen and a superin-

tendent in each.

Tbe prewot commia.ion in Cumberland oounty will remain, temporarily. a> tbe niaeiouers for district No. 1 and tbe i of Ocean county as No. 2, white Atlantic and Cape May counties will make Dp district No. 8. The oommisalonere for and superintendent for. this district, will ha.e to be a| pointed i, the bill becomes a

law.

It abolishes the present oyter shell oomisasion. now composed of twelve mem hers working in six districts, and delegates ,k _<- power to tbe commissioners of tb* »' districts, it further provides for tbe piadog of tbe whole Industry aider •be ears and supervision of the bureau of ‘hell fisheries, witboutcartailing (he pow■r* of the existing commissions. Tbe burden of the argument* for tbe new measure Is to put the oyster and clam buslneM on a more systematic basis. The friends of the bill claim tbat tbe measure will mean a saving to the state.

NEW OrSTER AND CUfi UW (Stale Supervision By Three Commia-

sioua Proposed.

Mr. Milter of C

laud Monday night

Freeholder* in

The Caps May County Board of Chosen Freeholders met at Wildwood last Tbnreday and the principal buslnees transacted was the dlsctuuilng of the Holly Beach road. Its condition has become so hi dating tbe winter that there was unite diecussleu over (he matter between met bars of th« Board of Freeholders, residents of Fire Mite Beach and Robert E. Baud,

who built the road.

A Good Platform.

From the Cape May County Gazette. Captain Charles Vanamaa of Dias Creek who is running for Chosen Freeholder iu this township, waa in town ou Wednesday iid that everywhere he went he was surprised at the slate of public feeling oc the subject of his candidacy. He says tbai under no circumstances will be promise to build public made to this, that er the other town; oor will he make any man living a promise to make him this, that, or lb* other officer; nor will he promise that this, that, or the other man will get contracts for doing county work from the Board. From some men such state menu would mean but little, but coming from a of tbe known repute for fraukoeas and honesty that always attaches to Captain Vanaman'* name It means great thing* for tbe people of Middle township and the entire county. Capt. Vanaman further said that he was always in favor of public Improvements, and tbat he believed in .good roads, neat, commodious public *, and first-class bridges, and judging from the manner in which he has improved bis own private property in diffcreul parts of the county his words in tbi* respect bear the impress of reason , The reaaoo ao many people are anxious to Vanaman elected is that they know be believes in eeclng that the eonnty dollar's worth of work or m.uerial for every dollar it spends—that ths mouey shall go into the Improvements, and not into the hands of grafter*.

SIX LAWS IN 8EV£X WEEKS. Two More Measures, However, Await Action of the Governor. A* the result of seven weeks of work la tbe legislature rix new laws hare been placed on the etatute books of the State, with two more acts on the Governor's dssk swaiting his approval Tbe bill* thus far signed and forwarded to tbe Secretary ->f State are: Senate 13, by Mr. Cross, continuing tbe State Board of Taxation in office and providing for a reappointment of the members of that body. Senate 60, by Mr. McKee, the Fradon Borough inoorporstion bill. Senate 61. Mr. Cross for Presidsut Wakelee. incorporating the Borough of Haworth, Bergen County. Senate 117, Mr. Lee, tbe Atlantic City radeparement bill. House $ Mr. Leblbacb. incorporating the Borough of West Caldwell, FWv

Tounty.

House 12, Mr. Duffield. permitting tbe illage of South Orange, Essex County, to separate from the township of that asm*. FOR OUR HARBOR.

A special dispatch from Washington says that writing from Cape May. Thomas W. Millet the Mayor, urge* the New Jersey Senators to advocate a harbor of re(nge for Cape May. He tells of the wreck of a barge on February 4th. and says that the craft might have been saved from shipwreck had the harbor of refuge been

letters from the owners and master* of tbe wrecked barge to su star tiate his statement, and declares that this is only ooe of a large number of wrecks that have occurred in that vicinity because of a lock of a harbor of refuse. Some of ths representatives »lw> received similar letters from Mayor MU-

Taft Honored at Dryden Reception. Secretary Taft was entertained Tuesday night at a Urge reception by Senator Dryden of New J every at Washington. Tbe Senator and his distinguished guest greeted several hundred of the most prominent men in social, official and political circle*, and personal friends from out oi town, among them being A. J. Cassatt. Thomas Dolsn and Randal! Morgan of PhUadal-

Lower Township Account*. At a meeting at the Committee of LowTownship held on Tnvaday-aveaiog tbr report of Silllwrll H. Townsend and Lewis

X) handled and I an of * Tbs report was ordered printed HkrxI.1). the 'Cape May Wave” and "Star of U» Cape" this week- It is found on the eighth page of tbe Hkrald to-day.

West Cape May Nomination*. Tbe Republican* of tbe borough of W< Cape May last Thursday night nominalrd the billowing ticket: Mayor, William L. Cummings;council. Waller H. Feuderaon. Jr, and Waters B. Edmunds; collector. J. Woodruff Kidradgc; aaseeaor, Georgs Cums; and commissioner of appeal, Chaa M. Hughe*.

Petition

Among the petition* presented In the Bona* of Kepti

last Friday by

“ Gardner, waa that of Jobs Murray Post,

(colored.) No. H8. G. Ai R.. of thta oily, la

Marrow, Canal. Cradle or (Mean t ” will be Pastor George William*’ subject oa Boa

The oongregatian of the First Preebyteriau Chnrch has decided to purchase the Hog he* street cottatre. adjoining their church, for a panoosgr, st $40u0. Ths property is now occupied by Agent Lovett ■ United.States Weather Bureaa'aaa station and rerid nice. It is owned by tha rotate of th* late Dr. Isaac M. Downs. Agent Gilbert C. Hughes conducted the

Lower Township Fight. In Lower Township the only fight is br-

A.O. U.W. Meeting. Cape May Lodge. No. 21, A. O.U. W , at a meeting to-night will discuss the quaatloB of tha increase oi aroeasmeou in tha order, that la now bring so generally agitated throughout the country.

fheState Senate on Tuesday punt the bill* of Senator Cress, allowing Capa ■ aaasaad value for ite Improvemeeta.