CAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1904.

Bright and Breezy Paragraphs Gathered Throughout Cape May County by the Herald's Reporters.

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Cap* May Cap Tfcia •ammor. From the Scientific Aarrirmn

Al'buUKb tfeenr b lo be no race for Vb« Atnrrir* cap tbl* y«ar. th-re wilt be a lain -ranont of latarnalloaal flaror pan .1 U> the Mason'- yachttag by Iba fact the crack American achoooer yacht.

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, CAPE MAY COl'KT HOUSE. May » —Mr* Kara Norton epcnt Sunday

relative- ut tirern Creek.

Mr*. Lisaie Willi* and daughter* a|>rut the first of the week at Millville. Mr*. Lydia Martin and daughter Emma sere viwtor* to Cape May on Satur-

day.

Mi** Urooxxee Hewitt of Angle***

visited Inend* here on Saturday. f

Mr*. Alex. Trout i» entertaining com-

pany from Ocean City tbl* week.

Charles Grace and Charles Vanaman

of Dla* Creek were in town Monday.

Allan Ewing entertained company the

first of the week from ( ape May.

Mr*. Hester Hand is entertaining her

granddaughter from u 111*01*.

Mis* Emily Bennett madn a brndnea* trip to Cape May on Saturday. ^ *

fishing creek

FISHING CHEEK, May 2o.—Mia* Helen McKean visited relatives at Cape

May last week.

Ed Crowell upent Sunday with hi*

mater Mr*. Sarah Snyder.

Mr*. Emma Barnett visited relatives

at Holly B«rh on Tueaday.

Mr. James Brown of Camden is ■pending a few days with John Snyder and

■rile. ! cottage,

Mr*. Georgie Snyder of Erma *pent eon. Monday with Frank Barnett and family. Mis* May Vanaman and brother vi*lt«d relatives at Holly Beach Sunday. Frank Matthews, wife and son and Miss Lulu Shaw spent Snnday with Wesley Tl ompaon and wife at Green

Creek.

CAPE MAY POINT.

CAPE MaY POINT, May Mi-a itb I Sallie Wright i« on a vi-lt to relatlvea in

Salem.

Mias Jennie E. Walter has Joined her brother, Georg* Walter, at hi* oottage on Cap* avenue, to pas* the summer. Mrs. Cockran, who conducted Aboard* mg vtUa here last season, ha* leased the large boarding cottage of Mr*. Sloan. Some tremendous catebe* of fish are being made by John Corson in hi* net near the Delaware Bay House. A single shipment of 1200 pounds to the Philadelphia markets .was made one day

eentiy.

Preparations are making for stringing ires along the avenues for the lighting of the town daring the summer in accordance with the recent local election. Painter* are at work on the Blackburn

cottage.

Miss Viola Markley and Mrs. Edward Springer are trying a novel experiment in the way of animal training. They have some young pig* wh‘ch they are raising a* pets, letting the curly-tailed things run in one of the lota near the boose. Mis* Markley and Mr*. Springer find quite a pleasure in feeding their

qneer pets.

The Alrarex family havecome to their

'La C*mpa Villa," for the sea-

The public school do*e«L/or the turn

mer vacation last Friday.

The Gray family, who occupied the Kromer cottage last *ea*on, have rented the Elliot cottage on Beach avenne. It i* stated that the fact of thesteam-

er» "ijneen Caroline" and “Cape May” Mias Jennie Woolson and sister spent i not running this season will cause* loss

Tueaday and Wednesdav with Mrs of Ib.OUO to the trolley company.

Uaude Eldredge at Cape May. j »he Carlton Hold is being thoroughTqose who were ascceaslul in paa-ing I* renovated, and Proprietor Maddocks

the examinations at the public ^chiol anticipate* a full season.

and graduated were Helen McKean and The death of Joan Pucheru, » web- d^.gmd for r^iugin American waters.

known aged colored woman of this and originally carried

place, is reported from a Philadelphia

Dl A5 CREEK. I hospital. She was 95 years of age.

lugomar.” • • is bow on brr way to Kuropaan waters, to sail in as many nos to-U as sbs may Hod It practicable to enter. The special object ef bar trip, bowr-er, Is to win. If poaslbl*. lbs csUbrsted Sew York Yaeht dob's Caps May tbmlleuge cap, which has been held lo England for nearly twenty yoar*. having lire* won by Hlr Richard Hutton's cotter "Gene-la" In The "Geoeata." it wfll be rsmem beyrd. waa the challeossr In that yoar for the America cup. for which -be made a brilliant struggle, being defeated by th # centerboard -loop "Puritan " Ji was a t ibe close of three races that tbs owner of thr"Ueoesta" challenged Jor the Cap* May cap. The defense of the cap was no. dertaken by the late Caldwell H. Colt's big schooner yacht "Dsnotleaa," and the race took place outside Long Island, wber* It was sailed lu a strong gale and a very hearr sea. in which the cutter completely outsailed the schooner. Only oo* attempt has been made since the cup went to England to Ateover it. and this was by the centerboard sloop "Navabo,” which was built by Herreaboff for the express pur pose. The Prince of Wales’ cutter "Britannia" was selected for the defense, and she had oo difficulty in defeating the centerboard yacht. The * Xav^fco," however, was one of the least snoosasful of Herre shoR's boats. She represented his first attempt to build a Urge racing craft, and compared with his latest successes, she must be regarded as something of a failure The beautiful craft which is now on her wav to Southampton, however, reprsarnts the Uteat effort of lbs Bristol designer, and In her few races last season on the Sound, she proved to be a very aide craft, eksilr defeating the competing yachts in light to moderate breeaas. but being beaten by ibe Fife cutter "Is -Ids" in s heavy bret-ae. She is not such an out-and-out racing craft as the "BelUnae" or "Columbia." although her construction is probably fully as light as that of suefi boats as the "Vigilant" and “ColonU.” Her dimensions are: I am gib on the waterline. 87 feet: length on deck. 127 feet; beam. 34feet: and draft, shout 16^ feet. The boat

Floyd Hoffman.

'DIAS CHEEK, May 25.—The Urge achr. fishing smack “C annita” of PhlU--dtiphia with a crew of 25 men pat in 00 bushels of moss bunkers for bate on Monday from the large pounds of Capt. .Nathan Doughty at this place. John Trent of Eldora visited his ancle Howard Norton on Sunday. The festival in in I. O. M. Hall on Saturday evening given by the Baptist church waa a financi-1 success. j.r*. Frederick Kiem entertained company from Philadelphia over Sunday. Job Heritage of Leesburg was calling .on the fair sex here Sunday. Raymond Creamer of Eldora visited •friends in the village. A setter dog has taken np his abode at the residence of Chas. Howell Every stray dog seems to be looking for him. Chas. Bartiaon and family of Cumberland county are visiting Eiwood A. Howell this week. Prof. Charles Tomlin has the lumber -on the ground for a small house for hi* berry pickers to live in. Alien Eldredge of Swainton was visit, ing hia grandmother, Mrs. Clara Erric* son, the last of the week. Edwin Hewitt visited his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Kimble, at Bio Grand, on Sab bath last ^ Mrs. Maggie Lake, of Buffirio, N. Y.« visited her slater, Mrs. Hannah Sayre, of the village, last week.

MYKI18 WILL CASK CP AGAIN. % Appeal Being Argued Befftre Prerogative Court at Trenton, tse of great Interest it. Smooth Jersey was argued before the Prerogative Court at Trenton Iasi week. It waa the matter of the appeal from the order of Judge Voorbers. of the Cape May Connty Orphans' Court, setting aside the probate of the will of Charles Myers, of Ocean City, In 1W7. Mr. Myers died leaving an estate of over *180.000 and by bis will devised She bulk of hi« estate to bis youngest son. The rest of the children allowed the estate to be regularly settled, and in 1908 applied to tbr Cape May Orphans’ Court to set ■aide the will upon the ground that the origins! probate was had through a fraud practiced,upon tbs children not mentioned intbewil^. Ex-Jodge Howard Carrow,Congress man Moon, of Philadelphia; William J. Kraft and William T. Boyle represented the youngest son, who got the estate by the terms of the will, and sought to hart the order of Judge Voorhees set aside. ExJudge Westcott and Matthew Jefferson represented the contesting heirs. A whole afternoon was taken ap in tbs argument of this cast, and Judge Carrow continued the argument the next morning. The case wae held under advisement.

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Mattings! Mattings!!

We have an abundance In China Mattings from $4.50 to $13.00 per roll of 40 yards. Japan Mattings $7.50 to $13.00 per roll of 4o yards.

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centerboard and a

very large sailsprsad. For her carver iu European water* she was altered bv the removal of the centerboard and by the bolting of the lead ballast, that was forinside the bull, to the bottom of the keel Toia increased the draft by about 18 Inches and, of ooorsa, imurqvrd the stability on a given d is place m sol The change* in the sail plan consisted ofl an all-round shortening of the spars, several feet being taken from the main boom, and the mast being reduced about 7 feet. In her altered conditions sbs will be better Jaulted to the strong winds and rough water of the English coast. The "iagomar” will find her s-lf In British waters at a vary opportune time for the capt a re of tbs cup. inasmuch as there is no thoroughly modern craft in hose water* to mate her. TVs cutter 'Kariad," a Watson Boat, about four years old, might sail ahainrt bar. or the yawl "Sybarite,” which In a year or two older than the “Kariad.” A pew schooner is being built and daaigpnd by Fife, which will be about 90 fete shorter on tha water line than “Ingomar,” bat it Is not likely

Less than the Department Stores of Philadelphia will sell it lor.

[J3r“Call and examine it.

IN THE COUNTRY.

What Nature Is Doing In The Gar. dens and Woodland*.

• ripening. —Hoses are beginning to bloom. —Enjoy the cool bnexes “down on tbs

—Lilacs are losing tbelr i

—Tbs meadows are one of green verdure.

"Lake of laglat,” Posajlraia. A fine well-written booklet describing the beauties and comforts of the “Lake of Eagles.” the newest end one of the bate

on a mountain ridge in the hemlock torcate of Sullivan County, but in quick, vented reach from any part of Pennsylvania by the Philadelphia A Bending Railway. has Just bean published sod will be mailed to aay add fees on receipt of a two-

Hallway,

ROOSEVELT SURE.

On June Site the Republican National Convention will mete in Chicago. The 088 delegyea to this convention have been chosen and over two-thirds of this number have been Instructed to vdte for the nomination of President Roosevelt. The remainder are distinctly friendly to Mr. Rooeevelt, bat the conventions electing them did not vote specific instructions, although the Roosevelt administration was

idoraed by alL

A number of influential party lee have been in conference with President Roosevelt daring the pate week and all agree that a more satisfactory outlook could not be aflorded thirty days prior to a national convention. From many aonr-

oome that Republican prospects are Improving in New York every day. Governor Odell’s manly course in vetoing what Is believed to have been vicious kgWatiou

against a boat an much larger. At the i time there are some of the older schooners that are fate in a blow, and if there should be some strong winds cboppy seas daring the contests, the "Insr” may find the competition keen enough to provide some ,rmrj enjoyable sport. The probabilities are that she will win the cap, which is the chief object of inete. She has the great advantage of being sailed by Okpt. Barr, who will find himself in waters with which be is perfectly familiar, and in which be learned the art that has brought him into such

world-wide prominence.

Monday at First Presbyterian. Patriotic services will be held In the First Presbyterian Church next Sunday □turning, at which time the pateor.Arthur Willis SpOonsr, I). D.. will preach to the local G. A. B. Post, who will attend in a body. Th* subject of the sermon will be Our Co on try’s Defenders.” Tbs: features will be an anthem by the church choir, "To Thee, O Country" the pastor’s choir Of thirty children; America" by the audience, and the touch log rendering of th* old hymn, “ Blast Be the Tie That Binds,” by the In tike evening Dr. Spooner will an “echo” sermon from, the General Aw sembly oo the theme “Is Presbyterianism Making Handway or Losing Ground t i sermon will discuss d^yoroe, evange Mm, the " color Him.” union with tbs South, sod other pertinent points.

clergymen of that city, diad suddenly Sun- defray tbs day erasing In Baltimore. H* had Una

visitor to Gape May for

-Mayor Lndlam of be* Isle City, ha# *p pointed David Strothers, John Hammer and Crawford Buck as Commissioners of

wort. City Council

has mad* an appropriation of MAIM to

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Queen Jewelry Store,

Jewelry Matches anb Clocks.

Repairing- Neatly Done by a Skilled Workman.

G. F.* KUHN. SOS Washington St. Cope Slay.

Paint! Paint! Paint! f*\ ^ ^rsT DOM-T too rsorrf *,

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108 Jaokson Street, - Cape May, N. A PIUCTICAL HOUSE, SI6IMD DECORATIVE PAIRTER. - AGENT FOR J. R. PATTON’S SUNPROOF FAINTS.

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ProrL ‘ Hams*

Cor. Washington and Union Sts.

Where you will find choke Groceries, Vegetables, non. ■ton, and fruits. We tlso handle “MiCHUUfts Stas Hams.*