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CAPE MAY HERALD.

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VOL. VI. NO. 3S

CAPE MAY. N. J., THURSDAY. AUGUST 30, 1906.

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LAD BEATS OLD GOLFER

Service Defeats Bispham Second Championship

THE WEATHER HURTS LOSER

nnrr BeoelTM ^rophj. 1'tnla‘lclptil* Country dub Wuyer

Tb« urcjatt cbamploo»pip of tbr Capr May Golf Club, wblcb waa ooncludfd laat Saturday taytb the laat half of the thirtyalx- hole final couteat. hail a deefted Philadelphia Country Clnh (Uror. Firat, the

• • t Philadelpbli

T Clt

l> member. K. Norr

1 Will-

a; ecooodly. the chainnionahlp trophy went to a Country Club man. and. thirdly, the ruunera-up cup alao went to a prominent representative of that oritaniittio-i By a atranae coiocidnce. the two priaea were taken by our of the younxcat and bt one of the veteran golfer* of the Country Club team. E. Arnold Serelce. a lad atill in hi« teen*, won the thirty aix-bolr match. 7 np and 8 toylay. while E Iwio K. Hirpham. winner of the veteraoa - trophy at the Country Clot laat apring. carried qff the ruuoer-up prla*. Scryloa’a eictory waa not •ueh a oneIndicate, for Ume and again Blapham loat boles which only another tarn of the bell would hare changed Into a half. On the first ronnd the match would hare been all »<1 a are. except for the fact that the youth had all the lock which found Ita way lain the match. On the eight hole Service aliced aharply. and would hare loat the bole by going out of bound*, hot the ball at ruck a fence poet and bounded in onto the conrae again. The rough weather act In at the •tart of the second round, and aa Blapham war unable to p'ay •ucceeafully Into the wind, the coming of the element* prored hie undoing and the halfway mark of the thirty-mix hole couteat found him elx

down.

HIM IIAVI1 WOS AOAIX Owing to the wet weather, only atx ladies took part in the clock golf coo teal held at the Cape May Club laat Saturday, and Mias Annette Dart*, who bolds the record for the season, woa the the at on a score of & Mrs. Pereira! Collins second wlrh a score of 84. while Mrs. L. C Baker. Mias Gnlielma Darla and Mrs. E. V. Prchla tied for third on acore of » M -*. Charles A. Daria was sixth with 87.

THE SENATORSHIP Boaaee Trying to Gala Control Again In This County In Cape May county there wUl be electad. In Noram her. a State Senator, a mambar of the General A-embly. and one Coroner. Candidates for these office* will be no nlnaud at primaries held on Sept. 3Mh. So far there ha. been bnt Utile Interest man If rated Id anything except the Republican nomination for State Senator, because It la usually conceded that the Republican nominee for that office wfll probably be elected. The term of Hon. Igwfa M. Crceee. aa Senator, expires, and he U a candidate to iuceeed falmeelf, by the desire and request of the true Republicans of the county who desire to be represented by clean officials. Three years ago he was nominated ortr one of the moat notorious ringater* who orer had control of political affairs In thin county, and the old gang hM been put out of bail, ficus by the wiU and work of the people. Now thu "same old gang" of boaaaa. hand ,d by their same candidate. Is trying by leer pure methods, to get beck Into office. 1'bey. however, hare Utile show, aa aU their strength and that of their boas I* confined entirely to a tmall coterie of leeches In Cape May City* and Fire Mile Beach. There will be hot one candidate for the Repaid lean nomination for Ssaalnr ■n primary day, and that wiU be Hon. I^wla M. Crease, aa the rotes when oounted that evening will show. WILLIAM TOWNSEND DEAD Once a prominent Merchant of Cape May-Alao City Councilman William Townsend, who for more than

PERSONAL MENTION

Summer VisHon are Numerous About Town '

TOUR RIME fill RE INCLUDED

Happenings of a Week Among Tour ReUtlreaaud Friends Tr reely Told—Other Mention

alager and their eon. H. H. Louden.lager, bare bean apaading a abort season at the Lafayette Hotel. A. Many Lndlum. of New York, a drill manager for Child's restaurants, was guest of bis mother, Mrs. DU Lodlam,

rer Sunday.

W. W. Wall, of CUrksrllle. Md , and Mias Nora 1-sal. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Teal, of Cold Spring, ware married on Monday of last wack and hare gone to

Good The aeavon has been a Terr satisfactory one and 1. likely to be extended well Into .s*l>tember. Cot age* which bare renting during the entire aonaoi are still In demand for September and October, and many owner* hare made two rentals during the I her are the I entire year here-aa a rale, and this la becoming *o<Beirntly well-known to bold many people here In the cottage* for thee* Not lea* than two miles of tb* Boardwalk was densely packed with people Sat unlay and Sunday ereuiug. last, sod thl* ha* been the caae for aereral weeks. The Third Realmect Band. N. f? P . which been employed by the dty for the eeai very popular and la to remain well Into

pe May. haring bad hla place of the corner of Washington and Oecac 4lr*eta daring that time, died at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at bis home on Lafayette atrest. He retired from business

eleven yeara ago.

William Townsend was torn October M, ISIS, at SearlUe, Cape May county, and 1 of Joshua Townsend and Sarah Scheilonger His father aerrad In the

both aa a member

of Connell and the Asembly. for a period tt about aeren years, and he was a Preeileotlal elector on the Harrison and Tyler Jckrt- He was alao lieutenant of a Cape May company io the war of IBM. The grandfather of th« deceased was Henry Young Townsend, captain of the irlh oompnay of the Ceps May i ia the Rerololico. and Sheriff of Cano May connty from 1777 to 1780. and alao a

- - - - rxii. at SaarlUa aa a

yonng man and then moved to Cepe May CRT. entering be*1 urea here aariy la the •a He aerred as a member of the City Connell In 18S3. 18S7, 1878 and 1878. He member of the Baptist church and for orer fifty yearn lu treasurer. He la anryired by a wife and oce son. Lilbura H. Townsend, and by a dangler. Mrs. Tbehoplln* T. PrlOe.of Tuckertoa. N. J. 'The tnneral Servian took place from hie late residence on Monday afternoon, bring coodurted by the Rer. H. P. Crago. the Fret Baptist church. The interment was made at Cold Spring.

Died In Bath House.

Joseph P. Clark, of No. 80 Aon street. Baltimore, died last Friday, at k'eGalre' bath houar from heart failure superin. dneed byatbe excitement of being reacned fro A drowning half an boa Clark, who was staying at the Elbe .-no Hotel, went In to bathe from Magul.r’a bath booses After a abort time It was noticed that be wa* io daager. He was reacned be the lifeboat crew and rccnaeitated. Bnt as he got coder the shower sprinkler to wash the sand from hi* riot baa ha fell dead. Only two data preceding the drowning be reacned two wt

Baltimore on Saturday.

We Hold Oar Own.

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moot resort, la being aoogbl by changing thousand* each week It Is mint which way Us throng oat; apparently tbs tide of humanity about holds Ha owa aad will la for two or three weeks yet. when the dly

Rer. 8. F. Gaaklll. of WUllmmstown. N.. J, and formerly pastor of the FI ret M. E. Church bore. Is ■ pending a short aonaon at tl, accompanied by Georgs M. Ashton, cashlar of the Swedes boro Nat

■aal Bank.

Augustus c. Eld ledge, of New York, and too of James W. Eldradge. now of Ill'OoU bnt formerly of Cape May. baa ■rn visiting Cape May f-trods aad re11 res. He holds a responsible position Us head of a department with Abraham glrmnas, of Brooklyn, N. Y . and boaldsa conducts a millinery estabUkbmeot bn hi* own aoaonnt In that dty.

September Fiction

"The Cbanffsnr aad the Jgwala.” I* the amplete novelette la Uppioooti's Msgs Ine for September. *Un Is not on nolo mobile story of the "cu ids-book" a peeler. It Is sparkling aad alien all through, aad tbs anfhor, Ed'th Morgan Wlleu. shows strong IndlridnaUty In bar plot, which she

For Better Protection. The New York Herald of Sunday said: Complaint la often heard that New Jer. ary la overstocked with State officiate, hot more seem* to be needed. There -bonId be a State Bathing Master, n Inly it should be to pal rol the Jersey i user and inspect the various public bathing places, to see to It that they ply with the tew as to the precaution prescribed for the safety of bathers. Some its folly comply with

.11 to adopt the measures prescribed, bile some Ignore the reqalremepteof'the >w altogether. A State Inspector, to see tat life boats, life Unas, competent bathig masters, Ac., aw always on hand and i readiness for Instant asrrloe. would not mt much and would be the moan* of aat log liens."

I ware aad

wate’d the ebbing tide

great, and form anew, and br

thought since I a bride

id rowsd to cherish, lora, obey,

the ware bad baen

-My life, and yat I lore my lord; be to the

No better parallel Is drawn than

Kt loll aad surge. Is thro' It nil ws lore.

Congressman and Mrs.

. C Louden

AN INLAND VIEW What a Camden Paper gays of Oar

from Wul Joriof Prut Kmlasnt engineer* representing the Rlr. •re nod Harbors Committee of Congress visited Caps May, on Thursday, to determine the feasibility of con.trading n harbor that will make that famona resort a port of entry. Should their recommendation* bn favorable Congress will apropriate 8750,000 for the project. Cape May baa had a "black eye” so long lhai ' people who hare not Halted the reeoi the teat three years hare any Idas of tbs magnitude of the work now In pm. on the East Caps May tract. What was onoe mosquito breeding meadows bars within that Urns been converted Into splendidly located building rites on which already a I800.(no brick, steal nod concrete hotel and aereral col I ages bare been i ad. Tbs littla creek* aad channel* which former! r had a depth of nine fast bare been converted Into a harbor forty feet deep, and this land.locked basin when completed will eorer an ana of fire bn idred acres. Already more than half of It has been dug and the work la oontlnolng day and night. The Pittsburgh eapltall.te who are bank of tbs plan have spent H, 5X1.000 on the project and their am I lion la to make Capa May the Newport of New Jersey. They an asking the Government to erect a Jeter on each aids of the entrance to the harbor at Gold Spring Inlet to protect the channel which at a depth of forty feet will be anfficlent to allow the .'res pas sacs of ooi biggest boats Such a harbor aa this, of easy aad aafs access, should proves great prelection to our shipping InUreau, for there ft no other harbor from Sandy Hook to Delaware Bay, ami the Breakwater at the mouth of the bay. notoriously dangsror* retreat. Added bis would be the great advantage of a shipping port on the ocean In direct rail eonnecUon with Philadelphia Taking everything Into oonsldernlloo, than, it >ou1d seem that Congress might very well give lu aid toward making Cape May a port of entry.

ASK FOR

ACCOUNTING

Owoeri of Cape Ulaad Gas

Stock Sued

ENGINEER SOSES HINTS PROFIT

State Comptroller J. Willard Morgan. State Ana amor David Baird. Judge E ler Armstrong and John J. Burleigh have been made defendant* In a suit In ad In the Coart of Chancery by Frank D. Momn. of Tree ton to oompel at accounting for the profits el Lag* I to hsvi bsen mad* In a South Jersey gas daal. Mr.

the Cape Island Gas Company as* tbs Capa May Illuminating Com pan]. itly arid for BISO.OOb In addition to the ram realised from the sale. Mr. Moses aha gw. that the oompan lea had accumulated large profiaa and r substantial surplus. He says be reoelred for hi* sixth Interest only 88JOO aad aak> that 1 he defendants, who are director* in. both corpora Ion* be compelled to aooouu’ fevsnea. Mr. Moasa purchase' 1

manting of the Board of Cboacn Freeholder* of the Connty of Cape May, N. J. will be held at the Court Hoorn In said ooonty Thursday, ths Uth day of September,

Addle Maris Shaw ooatribntea

all re upon tbs "Sum met Camp " which she anils "A Might With Nature." A tremendously powerful tele by Frsnei*

Lynda Is that of a Tennessee

miner. Ita UU* to "When the Son West

Down." “A Drink F- ore tbs rj Geo. Brydffm Bod any. to a Jolly

yam baaed apan the legend that anybody ■at tastes tbs wate.n of tbs Hawn ramps forever after Incapable of speaking the troth—aad the asqori proves U. William

Association of an addition, aad alao t our wbotoralr liquor dealer of Philadelphia. residing and voting at Capa May, will alao contribute, all of which food to to be omd to boost the candidacy of Robert E Hand tor the Republican nomination

story, "Tbn Lights of Strsthmulr." "Tbs Fate of A 1 yarn" a realistic ep of Mexican family Ufa, from the pen of "Jllote Flower. The Joys of temporary warm-weather 'idowbood are entertainingly radted by Minna Tboman Antrim, under the fetch log title ‘Ths Summer Graaa-Widower ’

the pea of an sx-Andltor of the Post-office Department, Henry A. Castle, la npoa the •ubjsct of “Dtoeatto-anHoo la the Country Post oOoaa." "Aa Egotist on Wends,” by Dr. Charles C Abbot, to a plea tor natural Bring, and sate fourth noma of the benefit* to be derived from such a mode of life. c verm of the month to "I Want Go Home,” by Harold Child; "Too,’ by Catharine Far "To a Woodland Violet," by Claraaee Urmy; "Were Yon,” by Heleharpstesc, "A Southern Dank," by a B. Grew; "A Prayer In Pain," by Emily Sargent Lewie; and "Two Ooua-

FHEKHOLDER'B MEETING

According to the Mil of complaint tbv Cape Inland Gea Company was laeorpor a oapl-al stock of (78.000 sod a lagialatlre grant permitting R to opernir (or a period of twenty year*. fbU was In 1888, aad ia 1878 the charter was exteadnl for a period of thirty year*. Under an aa of 1908 the charter was made perpetual. year the Caps Island Ulnmlnat. organised with a eapl tel stock of 8100JM0. Suhaxjnently lhi* ipaoy leased the plant aad other prop, arty of the Cape Island Gaa Company. At that Ume. It to claimed In the bill. the*de. •re of all the

By Order of the Board Bauckl Towjraxxn, Clerk Dated Aug. 88. 1800.

H

Jr-

The AmaJeur Datoctm

MgJAr exclaimed Sherlock Ho)

Jr, as be clutched bis com Ion's arm. compelling him tt

"What to K. — — --- oaked. "Ton. I nee the tall middle aged man with the—do yon one with the panama hat Upped down orer hli eyre? Yes. yea, I are that bn box bln bondi In blx pockets. What about him?" "Hlatl Hint a few timea, my (tear Whataoo. I the wrekui You may bars noticed that bn wean a last year - ! coat" "You certainly are a _ How do yon know It to a laat yogi's coat? It looks now to reo." “That to because you still have mock to learn In the deducing line. Cant you ore that tho slit In the bock to only four laches long? The rilt must bo at toast right Inches long hi the etyltoto coat of the present "Bnt what tea all cms? Who to be? What bn ho done? Ah-ah. be to g

^Brttny mo.might*** I ore what there to to goffare (Mto gatfc "Ah. m *»r WtaRreg. 1 nmetiwi attmet deremto ef yo*. How If be be net done that cwnM wo hm knew that ho wna net baht hawAodT" rtrnl Tvwal Ooeore on my

Well-Known Mea Made Defen la Balt Brought by KaglM In Chancery Coer*

ASCENDED BY ACCIDENT < liddletowo Miss Makes Oiexpeeled and Perilois Trip

Teward the Mooi.

doll'll LOOKS ON HORRIFIED

Pitot c( Victory," a thrilling Httte by Hobart Altkan. Io ooooeotion a week la aroosiag aantlatent against child

of 1U eharac-er by toga by Hoomt Davenport eotlUed "An lodoatraU Suooeea,” eerve to bring b to evoryooe ths tnuh re to a naMoaai i ag tba

at It Mi to the Houaahold.” "Practical Fashions," aad “Bag* of Baaaty and Usefulness.'

■ parchaM of the AagUaaa water plant by the borough reoauUr*wUl ba tbv means of laerreeiag the rerenne of thr horongb to a great aatent, and the tress-

part of the resident*.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Prominent Move* in Tho Rent Estate World

CAPE MAY PROPERTY SOLD

• lit Rarr Pretcscr of Hind dirt Retea*** Parachute J.88C Feet la Air and Come* Back u Earth UakarL Carried aloft 8.000 feet through the stupidity of eevcml men handling a if air ballouu. Miss Margaret Bailey Mkldlrtowu. N. Y. descended In ifety by a parm-hute. She cast off from the traiH-xv ou which she aat Just when the -balloon showed signs of colng and touched tbv ground two antfa half ml lee from the spot whence the balloon had xahended. She was (1 crying byatciicafly. She la now Id the home of her parents Io a highly Though she la twenty. It was the first lime she had seen a balloon. 8be went to a pleanure resort near the city the aftrruoon with a half dozen girl friends to view the balloon ascenand parachute drop of Charles Kelly, a professional aeronaut. There 1 only a few hundred persons In the park, and Miss Bailey and her frtcuda were In the first row of the snufl crowd that listened to Kelly's short lecture on the details of bis feat Twitted by friends on timidity, Mlaa Bailey asked Kelly If she might sit on the trapeze He conaeuted, and In a few momenta the girl was seated on the trapese. with the ba.loon tugging at the restraining rope. Mlaa Bailey seemed to enjoy her position, and suddenly she cried. “Let go." Instantly the men "lying buck" ou the rope retogaed their bold. Rrekxlng their srttey leaped frantically hot vainly to catch the Hoe again. Aw the balloon rose straight op Kelly obeoted to the girl to os* fee para

Tranafera Which are Mentioned in Every Part of Cnpe May Connty L'p To Date

chute. “Walt and pull fee cord." be cried In dismay. while fee onlookers stood silent In horror. Mire Bailey did not otter e Bound. She waa seen to clasp both hands on fee thin cord eoportlng one end of fee trapese. The wind bore fee balloon toward fee

fee slightest movement of the girt could be seen distinctly. Kelly estimated feat the balloon went op folly 2,000 feet. When It stopped ascending apd seemed to be ana pended Kelly woa almost Insane wife despair. He jumped up and down In hi. ex-

drop wife fee parmeboto tost ohe meet death In fee col lapse of fee balloon. The warning did net reach fee girl, but she acted on her own mutative. When brought to her boms she said rim bad Mod to Drink what was beat to do sod feat when rbe looked op tod rew fee beHoon shrinking sbe decided to drop

Bother M. GrapywioetaCD. Lota ».» Block 87. E. Yeooey et ox to Jean Strath 81. lot 8. block 88. ——*gMary J Brown to Uasie R. Falter 8i. A 84 block KS. Aaron C. Andrew to GeOrga Hafagood ml 81800. Lou M. 22 block 88. Harrison Durglo et nx to W. Wennoer $1800. lot N. W. 1-2 20. block 40. AXOLESEx Ruric N Adam* et ox to Jacob r. Wall »0. lot 100 Fourth Are. Charles V. Clloeet ox to Hngb MnlUgan I. Iota P. R. T. in block bounded by Oak. Cherry, Michigan and Kentucky Area. Lloyd P. Groff et a! to Ruric N. Adams 8850. lot 100 Fourth Are. WILDWOOD A. J. Dever et ux to Harry 8. Dari* $500. it 7. block 48. H. H. Yoorhev* etnx to Margaret B. Woodrow 8350. Agreement for tba pnrhaa* of lot 106 block 8thM1DDLE TOWXXHtr Angnate Johnson to Ora L. Mulligan llO. 13 hits In West Anglrsea. Mike Polich el nx to Auguste Johnson 110. George H. White et al to Wiley A. ipalding 875. lot 5 block 2 section 2 Plan of Wbitesboro. J. M. K. Hildreth to William H. Bright 8845. Tract of 75 acres also lot IS, see 7 Cops May Land Co. and lot in Wret Caps Mar. Anna B. Smith et al to B. Bonarentoro l. lot on the road leading from Belle plain to Hands Mill. Paul DogUanl et ax to C. M. Hontimq 8750. lot on the Poster town Head at Sooth Donnie. Lowes Towxsmr. J. P. McKlooic etnx to K. Z. Grave* $■. Tract of upland and Mi John K. F. BUtre et al. Margaret Gandy et al to Margaret iaaon 8700. lot In the town of adjoining Reuben Gandy.

J. HI wood Gibson to John H. Martin BBb. lot 16 block 8 North East Section Convey* Interest in 14 portion Ac. M. T. Landis Ever, to J. Streckar 8875. lot at 8. W aid* of Knowles Are and N. W, aide of Sound* Are Edward Mayer to Ellto E. D. Gorman li 100. lot 15 ou the N. W. albe of Marin* Place 88ft. 8. W. of Prospect Are

Lota 48. to. section >7. Lota 148.145 148.144. aactioo >5. Charles H. Berryman to Howard N. Fallon II. lot X

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possible no til Prof. Von Duran The Thinking Machine, to called npoa who loreriably etreighteos oat the dlfficaltiee by remarkably novel method* One of these stories appears each week exclusively In Tbs Philadelphia Sunday i. which to the greatest Sunday newspaper In the country. •nr* and uU year newsdealer to you with the The Sunday Press aa