CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. V. NO. 27.

CAPE MAY, N. THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1905.—EIGHT PAGES.

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Man who Disappeared 25 Years Ago May Have Been Found

UK iX) USB SUCH B TIB Buttons Found wJU> Skeleton Iseod To IdenUtttmtlon sod Msy aid la Clearing Mystery

Special to tk* Herald.

DENKI8VILLB, K. J.. Jnly 5-Tbe fl«»d

lay s few dsys s«o of the skeleton of a hnmsD betag In the Townsend cedar swamp near here ban aroused the suspicion that old Jeremiah Hand may hare been a victim of fool play. No one now doobu that the bones were those of the old woodman. wbo was an eccentric character and whose strnntcr disappearance caused a deal

of excitement here 25 years ago.

Those wbo recall some of the details of the case are strongest in the belief that Hand never died a natural death, because be was familiar with every foot of ground for many miles around and was not likely

to get loa* in the swamp with whk

wsaao well acquainted.

Hand lived alone in a little cabin the edge of the swamp and was known to have carried sum* of money with him. One day he took up his basket and started after ht^ekleberriee in the swamp and not a adbl.ever saw him again alive. After d days friends of the old man began

( his trip and entered the

. fch many of the searches re also familiar, bat the place yielded

mo sign Of the missing one. Trained dogs were then brought Into service, bat alter days of effort nut the slightest dew of the

™.n was discovered.

Active search was kept np for months

several days friendi

/mgf fob tor him. At learned of h

with which

wets also familiar.

real It abandoned for five years women and children had trampled oyer' ovary square foot of the swamp time, an^ It was felt most have gone away. The discovery of the bones was made by Frank Bushucll, wbo was oat after hnckleberrfia, just as Hand was a quarter of a century ago. A round, glistening object half-protruding from the gronnd. and partly concealed by leaves, caught his at-tention,-and be was horrified to find that % it was a ha Farther search brought to light the rest of the skeleton. , Particles of rotted leather dang to the leg bones, and several buttons were found Charles P. Hobart, ,a veteran swampsman, wbo knew Hand well, and remembers the circumstances of his disappearance, is sun that the baUon* came from clothing worn by the old Koban is one of thorn wbo believes that Hand must havr been buried deep in the the keen eyes of the nanytoars of the He might have dropped into a qoagmlre and slowly starved to death in his hrlpleasaess, bat those familiar 'with condition* of the place do not belier* he ooold have gone down even in that man ner wMboat leaving a trace or covering thatsccnt from trained dogs The generally accepted tbeorv is thnt be was slain y and his body buried daep ify search. The boors have been buried in a tery, and the Cape May County author-

CAPE MAT COUNTT GRATIFIED Senator Crease's Influence Appoints

In the appointment of Ogden Gandy, of DennisriUe, this county, by Governor Stokes, as one of tbs state oyster commissioners, Cape May Count! has been rightfully recognised. Through the efforts of Senator Crease this appointment has been bronght about and it is a move In the right direction. Senator Cream baa always contended that oueof the state commissioners should be a personal familiar with the bays and sounds of this county, and that in view of lu location Cape May County has certainly been entitled to one of the four

Governor Stokes recognised the argnementa of onr Senator and has heeded

them. -

The oyster industry In this county has aasumed large proportions and Ha interest Is carefully looked after by both Senator Cream and Assemblyman Hildreth. This Is the first time Cape May County has been represented on the State Oyster Commission and our people are proud over this fact.

Hon. V. B. Hcndereon III

General David B. Henderson, former Speaker of the National House of Repre-

sentatives and who arm a i

at Cape May fours yean ago, was last week stricken with a alight stroke of

He retired from politics about two ]

Meeting oT1?ew, Jersey Mayors . Atlantic City is to exhibit hemeT fignartfrely, to her sister resorts this w when the New Jersey League af Mayors

arrive I mem be

the executive

officers of sixteen New Jersey Seaside resorts.' Mayor Stoy is the president and Mayor Millet of Cape May, tbs secretary.Preparations are being made at the Rudolf for the entertainment of sixty people, including the Mayors and other resort officials A meeting will bp- held on the evening of Satnrday, a dinner at the At lantic City Yacht Club honst and pleasure trips will be made on Sunday. Gape May's Inside Boat Ronte Yachtsmen and launch owners here have staked off the channel in the Sounds all the way from Cape Mar to Avalon and hope that yaebtsmefe farther north will take np the work, so that the ronte can be made easy to follow all the way to Abeecon Inlet. The stakes tasks the way ao plain that the veriest novice can follow it-

Governor Hits Trading Sta

to the trading stamp boatasm In New Jersey by signing the measure making It on* lawful to give the stamps without printing on their face a cash redeemable value. The measure was the result of agitation by small merchaats against tbs Urge

YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS

Mrs. R. H. Beattie baa opened her cottage on Beach avenne for the summer. Mrs. E. Carter McKnlghi la entertaining Mias Frances T. Dobson, of Philadelphia. Mr*. Alfred B. Miller, of Chicago, baa arrived at Cape May to pass the summer. Mr. and Mr*. Charles S. Chadwick, of Philadelphia, are guests of Mias Bally Garrison. Mrs. E W. Paxoncametoa Washington street cottage which she has leaaed for the summer. Mi*. James l.ucax and family opened their cottage on Perry street Saturday for Mr. and Mr*. Isaac Starr are now pleasantly located in a Stockton avenne cottage for the season. Mr. Sussex D. Davis was a visitor last Saturday of his mother, Mrs g- B. Davis, on Franklin street. t Mr. and Mrs. George O. Snddarda, of Overbrook, are at the Cbalfonte to remain throughout the summer season. Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson arrived on Wednesday and ate located in a cottage on Hughes street for the summer. Samuel Fernberger and family have opened their oottags at Columbia avenne and Franklin atrovt for the season. Mr. and lira. Edward J. Camming* and Mias Florence Cummlnjp are occupy ig a cottage on Washington street. Eld ridge S. Barnett, sou of Mr. and Mr*. Spencer Barnett, who la now located at Norfolk, Vs., Is vtalting his parents. Dr. Paul Mulford Mecray. of Camden, was a visitor on Sunday of bis parrots,Dr. and Mrs. James Mecray. of this city. Judge Charles Y. D. Joline, of the Cam* den County Common Pleas, and family are occupying a cottage on Kearny avenue. Magistrate Elarobrown will pass the summer with his non-in-law abd daughter, Mr. and If r*. Burroughs, on Windsor avenue. Mrs. J. Stratton Ware has tetorne-l from a visit to her sous. Dr. James W. Ware and Dr. J. Stratton Ware, at Bay oone, N. J. Captain and Mrs. Maurice Creme, wbo have leaaed their Franklin street cottage, are now residing at the Star Villa for the Mr. and Mrs. James Bateman, Jr., this weak took possession of a cottage on Franklin street, which they will occupy

Charles H. Dougherty and his two daughters, the Misses Dougherty, the Stockton, where they hare apartments for the entire summer. The Mhees Jolla and Emma Swain, daughters of Mr. and Mr*. Samuel R. Swain, are gneeta of their brother, Horace E. Swain, In West C tpe May. Dr. Charles N. Davis, wbo la occupying his cottage on Beach avenne for the sum a bean made chairman of the Greens Committee of the Cape May Golf

Qnb.

Robert C. Hill chief building inspector of Pbiladelpnia. and a former resident of Cape May, is,with Mr*. Hill and the Misses HiU, located at the Cbalfonte for the en Rev. Norman Van Pelt Levis, rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Philadelphia. will officiate Sunday In St. John’s P. K. Church, corner Washington And Franklin streets Elweotf&Jiand, wbo is a member of the secondthe United States Mill tary Academy at West Point, is at home on his vacation, having been absent for two year*. He tylll return to Went Point in September. Mias Anna Hughes, daughter of the lata Richard Hughe*, of this city, is at Cape May bolding a responsible position at the Cbalfonte Hotel. Sha U a popular teacher at the Pantobaro, N. J.. schools, and p> to Korops in the autumn to ipplamantary course which will aid her in her work as ateaefasr. Madame E. P. da Costal, of Para, Bcasll.

AUTO'S TO RACE OR BEACH Big Machines Daily Trailng The Smooth, Hard Beach Col. Frank N. Barksdale has anaounoed that the first of the automobile races on the beach front will yke place Tuesday. July, 25. This will b/giveu on the new course on the beach strand and it la ex pected that a number of racing car* will be here to participate In the event. A uumber of car* are also expected here in the latter part of next week and try their

Daily there are are a large number of automobiles testing their speed upon the course aud the beach promises to be the centre of attraction for the lover* of th. sport throughout the whole summer.

Garty—Kernan Miss Helen K«rnan, daughter of M r. and Mr* Charles P. Kernan. and Edward J. Garty were carried Thursday in Sc Patrick's Church, at Twentieth and Locust streets, Philadelphia. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Father B. R. Me Glincbey, assisted by the Rov. Father Nevis F. Fisher, rector of St. John' Church. The bride wore a gown of white crepe da chine tr mmed with duchess* and poiur lace, aud carried a shower bouquet of sweet pro*. She was attended by her stelar. Mus Catherine Kernan, as maid of honor- There were no brides mala* Mr. John J. Garty, brother of tbr bridegroom. beat man. The ushers were Mr. Howard Abend, Mr. Charles V. Limey, Mr. Ferdinand Kernan and Mr Joseph Kernan. After the ceremony there was a dinner at the btide’s realdcooe, 20M Sanaom attended by the immediate families of the bride and bridegroom only. Following this there was a reception from 8 i o'clock- The groom was formerly of Cape

May.

Benjamin F. Lee 111

Beojunto F. Lee, formerly elerfc of the New Jeroer Supreme Court, and when the Democratic party had the reins of the government in this State, one of the foreX leaders in bis party, is ill at bis home

In Trenton. Mr. Lee

a week ago as a reoalt of the oppressive

weather, and seamed to bi iafactorily until recently,

weather depressed him and he pel led to remain in bed. M& Lee Is 77 year* of age. and a native of Port Elisabeth, Cumberland county. He is president of the Trent Tile Company.

To Occupy Ni

Mr. and Mrs. George Baum, wbo were on Wedoeaday married at the Church of the Jean, In Philadelphia, will shortly occupy their newly-bollt cottage here. It I* located on Jackson street and la the finest residences which have been recently erected at the resort. About two weeks ago Mr. Baum had an excellent forty-foot launch pat in the water, which was constructed by a local builder. This launch Mr. Baum gave as a wedding pres-

ent to the bride.

Plenty of Light for Cape May Capa May now has plenty of light on its beach front and a lloeral number of lights being stretched along the o<

front boardwalk which is five mile* In length present* a grand spectacle for the pedestrian who promenades -this public place of congregation throughout the day and evening. The boardwalk has assumed ha usual summer-time throng and the place where yon will almost invariably

find the visitor, if ha or she is not at a

social (auction, a boat the hotels or cotta-

ges, la etrolling lri*urwly along the walk.

To Rehabilitate Deeerted Village A syndicate of Pblladelpki. and New York capitalista baa been formed for the purpose of rehabilitating the little village of Halbartpp. six mltee below Millville, which has been deeerted new The clothing manofacturtne plant there

an it can

Dispute Over Ownership of a Small Island Near Holly Beach

EFE&ADt EWm KC-7EAMLD SSSIS Board of Riparian Commissioner* Trying to Untangle the Conflicting Evidence

The highest legfit authorities of the State are to be appealed to for eeltiemeol of a land fight in Cape May County. The object of dispute is a small island lying between the mainland aud Holly Beach. An application is before the State Board of Riparian Com mi** So ner* (or a grant of the land and opposition to the giving of such privilege has also been manifesUsd. The Riparian Commission is inquiring aa to the facte in the case. Riparian Commissioner William J.Cloke

»y*.—

•This Island comprise* about thirty-five -Brea. It is a mud flat, partly covered with coarse sedge grass, and mostly gabmerged by the tide at high water Iteeema that a number of persona. Including Capt Frank Downs. Eli Barnett. Somers Barnett, John Judge. Edmund Hoffman. Charles Nickerson. John Reese. J. Albert Harris, William Starr and several others thought it wonld be a desirable place on which to locate for fishing, boating and other purposes, and have become 'squatters’ on It- They have erected boathouse*

"They lately decided to perfect their title ' to their baildings by applying to the Stele for a grant of its riparian Intonate in the part of the island they occupy. alleging that It is land under wafer and h*b»ng. to the Commonwealth. Bui at this stage of the proceeding* appear two lawyers, Morgan and Edmund Learning, of Cape May, wbo set op a claim to the entire island on the part of their client, Ephraim Hildreth, who claims ownership by virtue of deeds dating back more than a hundred yearsand duly recorded in the official records of

the county of Cape May.

“Thequestion will be likely to turn upon the point of wnetber or not the island is covered with water at mean tide, and the evidence ao far taken on this point is conflicting. The Attorney-General will be asked for an opinion in the matter and the question of title may formally go to the

court for ai" ~ ~

First Golf Towrney The local golf season was opened but Tuesday afternoon with a handicap medal play tourney, which waa won by G. Howell Parr, of the Baltimore Country Club.who had a not score of 80. W. H Hepburn, of the University of Pennsylvania, also had a groat score of 80, Mu Parr was given the prixe because he played with a leaser handicap. A high wind cut across th* course which-affected the aoorto. The scores fol-

low:—

G. Howell Parr (B 2 SO Jr.. 88 6 80

Spencer D. Wright, Jr... Jamas M. K. Hildreth... Thome* H. Uaodo

87 6 81 90 0 81 87 5 82

K. a Rutecbman 100 2 91 Alexander Crow, Jr 109 9 91 Benjamin Howland and Ferd Graves

Yacht Cl ah'* New Officers The annual election of officer* of the Qap* May Yaacht Clob vm* Amid at the Club Hooar, Schelllnger s landing on Moody evening. Those chosen were: Commddore—J. Wesley AllAsao. Vice Commodore — Christopher Galls-