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CAPE MAY, N. J., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1906.

FOUR ARE GRADUATED

Annual Commencement Exercises Held This Evening

IN THE FIRST M. E. CHURCH

U Cloae of Commencement Aina Association Will Hold Banquet At Columbia Hotel

The annua) commencement exercises of the Cape May HU?h School will take place In the M. E. Chnrch. of this city. tbU erenlnK- The graduates will be Mies Laura Cecelia Gordon, Mies Martha Grant Marcy, Alonso Henry Long and Joseph S. Robbias. The address to the class will be del leered by Dr. James M. Green, prln cl pal of the New Jersey State Norma) School. The dosing exercises of the school Itself will be held In the Andltorlnm of the school bnlldlng daring the afternoon. At the conclusion of the commencement exercises in the chnrch the snnual banquet of the Alnmnl Association will be held at the Colonial Hotel, for which a large number of the Alnmnl of the school hare purchased tickets.

WILL ATTEND SERVICE G. A. R- Will Listen to Memorial Sc niece on Sunday Morning Next Sunday will be Memorla' Sunday and John Mecray Post, G. A. K . will attend scrricss at St. Mary's Catholic Church, at 10.30. Rsr. Father D. J. Kelly will ceodnct the services. In riow of the holding of those aerricae the usual nine o'clock Maas will be omitted. In the evening, at 7.30, there will be the crown ir.B of the Blessed Virgin, when nd Ireaeea and recitations will be made by the children. and there will be the reception of the new members into the V rang - I Julies Sodality. The sermon of the evening will be pre-sebad by the Rev. Father Murouey. of Holly Beach. At the Memorial services at 10.30, Mias Raddiffe will be In charge of the mosie and there will he special services by the choir, which has been trained tor this occasion by-ber.

Council In Special Session City ooandl held s special meeting on Wrodheaday evening of last week when they took Into consideration the matter of poles and wires strung along the beach front, and It la believed that all wires, hereafter, will be required to be laid !c conduits under the ground. A molnUoo was passed directing the street supervisor to prevent any additional polaa to be placed bn the avenue, and the street solicitor was also directed to prepare an ordinance preventing an oh ersetThe bond of Joseph H. Hanes, for tht faithful performance of his work In laying water mains in East Cape May,' waa also

THE TAX COMMISSION Three Good Men Are Selected By Governor t

COLE, TOWNSEND IND HUFFMAN

They Have Organised, and Will Begin Huai nos* Immediately. Who They ‘Are Governor E. C. Stoke*, on Satardty morning last, named the county tax com mlsalooers for Emcx. Morris and Cope May Counties, and those named for this county, as was expected, were Former Assemblyman Eugene C. Cols, of Seaville. Upper Township and Collector James T. Hoffman, of Cold Spring, Lower Township, os Republicans; and Stillwell H. Townaend. of Conn House, Middle Township, a^ a Democrat. They have already 'wen notified by the governor of their appointment. Mr. Cole Is eminently qualified for the position. He waa born at SecrlHa, where be now resides, on Jnoe 23. 1831. and la a member of the Bar of New Jersey. He was educated In the ptlblic schools and waa. for a time, a student at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point. Forannmberof years be waa connected with the schools of Cape May Connty. having been a tea cber and member of the school board and

ENLARGING PUBLIC PAVILION More Room Being Made for Accom-

modation of Band

The pavilion on the ocean front, opposite the Stockton Hotel, la being placed In order for enmmer nee. It in being extended seaward, and the music shell is being placed on the seaward end. Recently city council made a contract with, the band of the Third Regiment National Guard of Pennsylyanla to aopply the

Two Fires in Two Days Lest Friday, Jnst aftar noon, an alarm of fire wan nonadad and the department w.s called to CbestantStreet. to the dwell lag oocupird by Calvin Edmunds, colored, wove water did mom damage than fire to bis household effects. The bnlldlng was owned by Walter N. Hand. On Sunday morning, about nine o'clock. Are was discovered in the dwelling, on St. Johna Street, occupied by Mrs. Hetty Hrooks, colored Fire was started by a little gnad-ebild playing with matches. A considerable number of her household goods were burned sod all the clothing of her son. Ellsworth Major, Was destroyed.

a county examiner, and la the bol ler of a First Grade life Slate certificate. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar In IMS, and before that time had served three years as a coroner of* the county and several terms as Justice of the Peace. He was a member of the New Jeraev House of Assembly lit isd^ 1*». 1881 and also In 1888. He helped to frame tbs present ballot reform law and the famous Werts Liquor Bill. Io 1898 be was appointed, by Governor Voorhees. proaecul jr ot the pleas of Cape May County, and served ntll 1803. Stillwell H- Townsend was born at Burleigh, this county, In 1858. and is possessed of an excellent edocation. In 1881 he was ted assessor of Middle Township and been oontlnnootly elected aver since, , for that reason has become excellently qualified for his new po tit Ion. He was sheriff of the connty In 1888. In addition hi- dnlies as asovxor of Middle Townip, be baa been auditor of Cape May City for a number ot yean and la also familiar with the books of a large number of boroughs io the county. Ha has been a school teacher for twenty years baring taught first at BnrMgh and Rio Grande. For the past fourteen years he has been rice-principal of the Cape May City Approved High School. ten T. Hoffman was born in Lower Township and ha always resided there. In his early life he followed the sea, and later became a butcher. He has been

Albert Ewing Dead Albert L. Ewing died on Friday afternoon. about ohe o'clock, aftes a lingering Illness from consumption. He was a son of the lata Livingston Ewing, of this city, and is snrrirsd by his mother, his widow, °and several children. The fnoeral occur-

Queen and Corgle streets, on Mo afternoon, at LX>. the services being domed by the Rev. Mr. Finn, of the Episcopal Church. The Interment was made at the Cold Spriag Presbyterian Chnrch

Polltianaa at Dinner A Urge number of New Jersey peHtlolans participated In the planked shad •lioner given by Col, Anthony B. Ki sin-lnUw of D- 8. Senator Dwdeo. at Clout aur. last Sal*arday. Those noted aa present from Cape May were Senator Lewis M. Oroae. Lewis T. Steven* and Robert E Hand.

season at the Andltorlnm on Monday May M. Mr. Dailey promises to give to Capa May, daring the reason, a Ur*

—Try a H«mai.D wsntadv. aad ast* Uk

ir the

Then

will be glren from Joly 3 until September three lime* each day dnring the week il twice on Snnday. 1'be dally oonoeru 11 be given from ten to twelve A. M., tr to six and eight to teu P. M . while 5 Sunday concerts will he given during • afternoon and evenings. A new de-. partare has been made in the manner of admission to there concerts. Each will be free except those on Saturday night, when has been decided that that, owing to ic great rash, there shall be charged qn admission of 23 cents, but that on those lion* the band shall be required to prodnoe.extra talent In order to com-

grnsate for the charge.

Secret Service Men Hasty By the over-sealousuesa of tome United States Secret Service detectives recently, there were a number of plates In-the printing plant of Mr. John M. Rogers, at Wilmington, Del., and Gloneester, N. J.. seised, and charges were preferred against Mr. Rogers, by these secret service men, of printlog lottery tickets and unlawfully circulating them. It was believed at the time that the secret service men were a llttla hasty In their upposltion, and this belief has been confirmed by the action of V. 8. Judge Crons, who, at Trenton, on Thursday Isat, ordered the U. 8. Marshal of New Jersey to return to Mr Rogers the goods reined at Gloneester. and by U. S. Judge Bradford, who, at WH nlngton, also ordered the marshal - of that si at retnra the goods which be selxsd. TbU is probably tbs end of the matter.

THE “NEW CAPE MAY” Visitors Surprised at tile Transformation In no Short a Time Vl-ltora to Cape May this season will he surp'laed at Ibeirsnsfosmalloa which has taken place there lu a abort time. The reclamatlou of that portion of the Island lying between the city proper and Sewell’s Point—atndendous as was the undertaking has been aecompllmhe l in a way to practically bring into being a new city. What once seemed to be nothing more than useless marshes bad become a tract with a magnificent hotel structure in the centre ind faced by a beautiful drive all Ibr way the lower end of the Island. Il la agreed all aides that this "Hotel Cape May” U the most handsome seaside hotel In thU country. Architects and builders have adopted and worked into taalr plans every good feature ot all the aeweat hoteU and omitted all the bad ones, and tbU bonse will be aa near perfect In oonatrartion, arrangement and appointment as money, brains and skill can make IL High-class cottages are also being built about It for '.heir owner*. The opening will be In a few weeks after the beginning of the regular s*ason. and already have applications been ponring In for accommodations from New York, PhlUtlelbhla. Baltimore, Washington and Pittsburg. There oomprehcnslve Improvement*,, with the magnificent physical advantages of Cape May, will undoubtedly restore tbU very attractive seaside resort to that high degree popularity In which for many years It ■ tht leader on the Atlantic Coast.

That story about a Cold Spring coming to Cape May with a horse aad wagon, and starting to walk home io a fit '■rent miodednea* U not trne. He had doing some shopping on Washington street and was jnst malklng down to Charles A. Swain's, 806-7 Jackson street, after a roll of wire necling for bb sc and doom, because it Is cheaper there than anywhere else.

FACTS TOLD IN BRIEF

Jamb T. HorrraS

collector of Lower Township for the | tea years wMeh haagivan Ui knowledge of tax matters. During tl pare three years be has held a clerkship 1

—The annnal meeting sod banquet ot the West Cape May Alnmnl. Asst will be bald June 7. —The annual ot St- Mary's Parochial School will plaoe on Toanday evening, Jana It. An operetta U betug rehearsed by the chll' ran of the school to be presented on t

occasion.

ape May, stands out in bold railef ths plans for that claw of people who require all that Is excellent as Well as «' gant—and there they gat both demai abundantly eatlefied. The Impetus gH Il by the improvements of the ree-ntly timed company already has borne fruit, and U will be added to by the opevug of that magnificent hotel built In ttu centre of the new tract. ThU U now rao _ isdaatbe handaomaet struotnre of the kind in this oonntry.

New Jersey Scnata and of Railroads and

v A few very desirable cottages situated the most deeirahte part of ths town. Also soma bargains in lota in different sections of the city. Now U the tims to bey yonr

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STATE WELL CARED FOR

Gov. Stokes Defends Honest Administrations

First Visited this Resort About Ninety Years Ago.

TAKES A FLING AT COLBYITES He Telia Repnbllcana Principles o Party Hare Stood The Tost New Party Not Wan teal

PISSED HER CENTURY MARK

MRS. HEARN EV DEAD Widow of The General Was Burled

At Cape May

Mrs. DUna M. Kearney, widow ot Geo Phil Kearney of Mexican and Civil War died at her cottage here on Beach arenat on Snnday morning, In her 87tb year She bad been In poor health for and for the last two yaars ‘ living In bar cottage

at the Windsor

Hotel dnring the winter. With bar. at the time of her death, ware her daughters. Miss Elisabeth Kearney, and the Marquise de Kennel, of Paris, and her gaanddangbters, the Misses BUie and Amy Powell. She U survived also by a ton. Gen. John Watts Kearney, of Washington. The funeral servlose occurred from St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Chnrch on! day. at 11 30 o’clock, the Mare being said by the Bar. Father D. J. Kelly. The interment was made In the chnrch cemetery at Cold Spring. Mrs- Kearney leaves a large estate ooosUtlng ot bar horns at Washington and ben, and many act land In the Central States. She waaa sUtar of the lata John C. Bnllltt, ot Philadelphia, and a native of Kentucky. She bad long been a noted figure in the

tr Stokes bad some vigorous thing* Io say concerning the "new Idea" In politics. In an address lie made recently the twelth annnal dinner of the Trenton Republican Clnb. He declared the State was being well cared for In the hand* of the regular Repnbllcana, and that there waa no occasion for the abandon)ent ot the principles and practices that bare prevailed in the paal history of the party. After briefly referring to the fact that the Repub'loan party ~ been twelve years In power In this Stale, measnring np in every Iodines to ird of the beat pollti.-al ideal*, and that It U at present giving the people honest ndmlnUtmlloo* In State, connty and city affairs, the Governor callel attention to the prosperity of the Comm lawealth, to the (act that partisan politics have been banUbed from school, state tostltntions and courts, He then wont on to enyi "What U there In tbU condition that warrant* tbs dUraption of the party In power or justifies at attack Qppn its credit good faith? What Is there io thU condition of affair* to demand a political revolatloo to warrant a detartlon of the party standard*, to jnstlfy condemnation of the party policies? 'What Uthsre toqnarrel over in n party actuated by such n spirit, except the question personal control? Sorely, no organlutlon U neosaaary except for these purpose*. "Some oue-has said It it easy to govern times of adversity, bat difficult to ivern In times of prosperity. Social UU always have been and always will be with os. They grow with drillxatlon. They are not the reenlt of party management party policy. Thay are inherited In man nature. It U eaay for the ambitions demagogue like Marc Anthony to promise the people legacies they ttu never fulfill. It U easy to find fault and criticlxs and stir np slrUe. It U easy to hold oat irenceofmare bountiful p ntnres In order to gain political favor. There always have been and there stIU ore thoee who are willing to promise people anything In order to gel something for thrm-

ilvss.

"In this boar of unrest. In this day of exaggeration, let ns beware let we exchangs the good thing that U for the promise that cannot be realised. Nowhere U caution mors ntnssssiy than In porty affairs. The Republican party In this State has bean tried and proven, and has held tht confidence of the people. It hassttraced to Its ranks those of the opposite-faith who have been content to sit In Its oonnciU and receive honor* at ks hand* Before Its critics, who comdtmn those who believe In Us policies and principles are permitted to control its affaire, 1st lu local friends ponder - well and consider. 1 do not advocate letting well enough alone; I believe la progress and sdvi I believe that progrere and advance ea safely trusted to ths party that In this State and ration has made oar best history and brought oar bent results. The record of the Republican party Is s history of progress! vvnaae and construct! veneso. II wa are proud of Its record ws most still bars faith In 1U grestness and Integrity, and firm confidence In Us ability! to the problems ns they come np from day to day and ynar to year.” Addresses were also by Senator Thomas H. Carter, of Montana; hy Congrensmsn Adam Bvbc.of Minnesota, and J. Hampton Moore, of Pennsylvania. Congressman Wood

to n large circle both In this country and Europe. For forty ysan abs hod spent her sommnre In the honse at Cape May In which she died .and member* of harfamllv bad homes usar her. Until last year abt-

Mrs. Kearny, who waaa ML* Bnllltt. of LooLvIUe. Ky.. met Geustal Ksaroj while oa a visit to relative* at Fort Jeffsr

of Kentucky, and waa educated with many ber daughters of dLtlngnishsd Southern families of that period at Mme. Segayne’s school In Philadelphia. la UH. when General Kearny, who had been 11 ring in Hew Jersey, returned to service with ths Chasseurs d' Afriqa* In . the wi ' Italy, his wife ssttied with ber children la

Drydsa. of New Jersey ware unable to hi

A Fourth Ward Wonder Now that fish have began to bits, storir* about the big ones ar* afloat io large number*. One Fourth Ward maiden I claims the honor of catching the Ueflssl > far, bat other raaldeau deny the foot and soy that the only plaoe to get real satisfaction In mattings is at Charles A. Swain, 386-7 Jackson atrost, Capa May. He L Balling tbam as low as *3 K) par roll.

n Great street. Any reasonable offer will be accepted. Gilbert C.

CAPE MAY’S OLDEST GUEST

PERSONAL MENTION Spring Visitors are Numerous About Town

Mrs. Wnmleriy Tells of Old Cape y When It Wa* But n Quaint Klshlng Village

bout soy doubt the only living per hose first ami lost visit to Cape Maj d over« period of ninety year*. 1* Mr*. Elisabeth Wnudrrly. who L an In of the Methodist Home, in Philadelphia. and who a few daya ago reached ' cr ItBd birthday. Mrs. Wuudcrly was a daughter of a Revolutionary soldi** named Walker, and waa burn lu Smyrna Delaware In May 803. She was not married, however. Until 1818, *oon after her father* death, he ivlng lived to be 89 yean of age. In one the battles a cannon ball carried away i arm, the same abet taking off the leg the man behind him. The aged woman >s perfect eyesight, bar mind la a* clear id at rang aa ever, and the reads, sew* and does fancy wqrk as well, having the appearance of a woman about seventy, fully aa often she relates how when a child, she Ural visited Cape May, then nothipg bstt a fishing village, the trip being made pattly by land to a point on the Delaware, tbenoe by veaatl down the > Cape May Landing. Her last visit i place was only a year and a half ago. at the close of the summer Of 1904. every vestige of the country village e plain fishermen and whalemen seemed to have disappeared to some place modern City-by-th e-Sea. But one thing leemed to have remained unchanged. the ever resiles* sea, and th* How* chasing each other shoreward, aa f yore; even the strand Itself seemed nna tarsi so many improvement* graced Its landward aide, and il waa not the old beach of the big hunter,* Island home, aa she first looked upon it almost a

century ago.

At the time of Mr*. W under I y first visit a ronnding wagonwav led Into the scarcely settled Island village, leading on "down .ue" to Schellengers Itanding, and a branch nf It running oat L> the beach on what la now Jockson street, to Hughes' Boarding House, the spot where It was located now being covered by the sea, and tost bare been about* hundred yard* out mm the preseni boardwalk. That the first naming of oar * tree l* should have been made In honor of the wo heroes tinder whom ber father'f ongbt In the War for Independence, Washington and Lafayette, Is gratifying to Mrs. W m. Wunderly as an Indication of tbs loyalty and patriotism of early Cape May.

FOUR NIKE MIT BE INCLUDED Happenings of a Week Among Yonr Relatives and Friends Tersely

Told—Other Mention

rri"al K H >i,nn, ' r o* Brooklyn. I* a lata Mr. and Mr*. J. M. Stewart are passing

fortnight at tbs Windsor

Ex-Msyor f. H. Diehl, of Altoona, i, . prominent guest at the Windsor. C*l. John Tracey and niece, of Lananl*. are prominent gnest* at the Aldlne. Mra. Jane B. Pease I. occnpying ber Stockton avenue cottage for the early Mr. and Mr*. James F. Locaa have taken

A WEDDING OF INTEREST After Honeymoon Bridal Pair Will Make Cape May their Home A wedding of inteyeat to Caps May is that of Miss Ellen Marko* Wharton Williams and Mr. George D. McCreary. Jr., which will be solemnised on Wednesday, Jane 90, at noon, In Su James Chnrch Philadelphia. Mias Williams, who la the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Norris Williams, of 9119 De Itanoey Plaoe, and a great favorite In society, made her debut the Winter of 180341. Mrs. Alexander Brioton Coxe chaperoned her a great deal that Winter, and she had a most snoo -st season. Mr. McCreary Is the of Congressman George D. McCreary and a brother of Mr*. William J. SewalL Jr„ of 9212 Locust Street, and Mra. G. H. Parr, of Baltimore. He has a younger brother. Mr. William H. McCreary, at St. Paul'* School, Concord. The McCreary*' town honse is 8301 Arch Street.. They reside at Stonlelgh Court, Washington, in Winter, and have a villa at Cape May, where they the Summers. The Williams also have a boose at Cape May. Mr. McCreary, will be graduated from Prinaeton Uni-

versity next month.

The wadding will take plaos at noon, be Ber. William C. Richardson, rector of the chnrch, oOciallng. The bride will be attended by Mtoa Edith Rruan • honor, and Mies Mildred Benson, Mia* E len Godfrey, Mis* A. Lewie. MLs CarWelsh, Miae Francs* Cramp. Mias Dorothy Mather. Mias Alio* Robinson, of Baltimore, and Miss Rosalind Brede, of Baltimore. Mr. William H. McCreary will b* boot man. aad the nahera will Include Mr. George Y. Smith. Mr. K. C. Vsttabeit, of Petersburg. Y«-; Mr. Alexander Coxa Williams, a brother of the bride; Mr. Oliver H. Perry, Jr., of Long Island; Mr. William Joyce Sewell, Jr, Mr. D. Howell Parr, of Baltimore; Mr. Coleman P. Brown. Mr. J. Rolan-Miller, Mr. William B. Chnrch man. Jr, nod Mr.

AffrortlM in th*:

Robert C. Hill, former chief bnilding inspector of Philadelphia. L a prominent

gnest at the Aldlne.

Mr. and Mr*. Edward L. Royal are

; Lie •

; the

where they

Mr. sod Mra. Alfred C. Thomas are scupying their cottage on Washington Jeet for the early season. Mias Emily J. Griffith, of PhiladelphL.

I opened her

Jttagr an Columbia at Charles A. Porter. Jr, and Samuel M Clement*. Jr, are two prominent young club men staying at the Windsor. Mr. and Mr*. William J. Sewell are guesta of Mr. and Mr*. G. Howell Parr, at their oottage on Colombia avenue. Mr. and Mr*. Wallace Cox. of Philadel phla, have rented the J. Stratton Ware Hughes street cottage for the summer. Mr*. Fanny Hummell and Mrs. H. Vienna are occnpying Mr*. Hnmmell'i cottage on Stockton avenna for th* spring Mr. and Mrs. William R. Webster, of Philadelphia, are occopylog the Webstar cottage at Washington street and Mad Lon

renne.

Mrs. A. W. Rowe is among the arrivals ' the week, and is patting her cottage on Colombia svenae In order for rammer

C. A. Rook, president and editor of the Pittsburg DLpalch, has rented the cottage of H. H. Parker, on Beach a venae, for the rammer. Col. Frank N. Barksdelr. chief of the advertLing department of the Pennsylvanla R. R, Is a well-known visitor who Is registered at ths Windsor. —On Monday morning work was oommenced upon the erection of s new drug store for Dr. Westley R. Wales, upon the 1st corner of Washington and Decatur

■reet*.

—Judge James M. E Hildreth, of this oonnty. held court at Maya Landing on Monday and Tuesday of this week in the place of Judge Higbee. who. on Saturday last was thrown from his carriage In an runaway, fracturing his collar bone Her. Dr. A. W. Spooner, who Is new attending as a delegate the Gsaeral Assembly of the Presbyterian Chnrch at Dee Moines. Iowa, preached In the Highland Park M. E. Chnrch. that City, on Snnday

Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Cannell, who have been oocupring their cottage on Stockton avenna, will leave next week for Ho* Springs. Va, where they will remain for a considerable time. Their oottage will occupied by John P. Doyle, of the New Willard Hotel, Washington. Mrs. James Brooks, of Overbrook, Pa, whoae has band was killed last summer In an automobile accident when on the way Atlantic City, has leased a commodious Cape May cottage for the present qeason. Her three children, the eldest late husband by Us first wife, will continue while bare ander the care and Instruction of a competent mannfactoring famine** and left

and L wall

aad favonbly known at th* Cape, comas afanoble Seotch ancestry. Four Mac from Scotland In time to enter th* ittooary Army In the war for InIcnoe. One of them was the graatgreat, grandfather of Mias Mscferren. Her .. .. .. . at the time of the

is oat ot the Civil War, w

fay his wife, be esca-

tha Union Unas taking with him

Id aou. Joining a New he did gallon l service for

' the Onion. Tha boy folio wing the veterans '■ ' ~ th* pat ot the

hnv* boy is th* father of MLs Mao

ratfmant' That brav