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VOL. VI. NO. 43

CAPE MAY. N. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 25, 1906.

DOING A GREAT WORK

East Cape May WoAiA*™ - * On Rapidly

WORK RUSHED ON HOTEL

Tb. Coapaay Sp«t Utwante o< $2,800 000 0«

Y. M. C. A. ORGANIZED

Was Started Last Thursday Evenlof

US 103 MEMBERS ON LIST

Tb« aoBODDoemeot baa bare maJe that thfTCap* Mar Real KatoUCompeo* trill bate a pent, when the Kbtel U completad aod the aecki- a on which loti ere now hem* eold u entirely rtcUlmed the earn of 12.800 001 Additional aami are he n* »penl ere.-y day ‘n matin« improremenU which wiU work much lood for Cape May. At the present time the com pane la harinc cement aidewalki laid along ell the leading atreeU o< the eectlou now being laid. A large force of workmen are boat conrUocdng a walk along Beach aeenoe. In addlUon to the laying of Mdewalta, the company U banng many milaa of atre«.» conau-ndled Sereral mile* are now practically fln’ah ad and ready for nae- AU these im proremenUadd much to East Cape May and preaage what is in atom for that aection of the city. The company « rushing the worton the hotel and it will not be many months before it U completeu. A Urge camber of contracts for cottages hare been swarded by the pu-cbascii oflott and by Bert summer a fair aueo town will hire arisen In East Cape May. ELECTRJC WIRES FUNNY WORK ranr-* a Fire at ftecray Brother’s Corner Last Friday Smoke was dUeoreend issuing i the aarea of the marital honae of the Mecray Brothers last Fiiday noon, and it is suppoaed that the fl e geae/ated by the electric current irotn the trolley wire being direriad to tha woodwork by the prerailing dsmpneas. An iron pole supporting the trolley wire and si! nsiUl work abont the store seemed to be tho oaghly charged, and person and en tasis coming into contact with it experienced a decided shock. Tha daparUua.it quickly dlacerated and axtingwiahed the firs.

SHOOTS HIS MOTHER Kiras RerolTer Three Times Thee Escapee HU Fa aamre Charles Johnson, a negro wo.-k’ng on the new sewer, was Monday arening shot three times by bu brotnar James Johnson, a workman on the pipe line The on* ballet lodged in the stomach and the other two in the leg. The stomach wound b the serious one although it le not expected that any complication will set in. James Johnson fled as soon as be did the aboot’nf, and has not yet been sp-

iB’erested la First Meeting The local board of health afld ell late health of the alty h interested in the proceedings of tha first aoaaai eoafe socr of the state and local boards of health being held at Trentoa, as provided by a Uw pawed last wiats'. Dr A Ionic L Leacj, President of the Capa May Board, b the delegate of the local board to the ooofereaes. the abjert of which ia tod arm a I q bos lions pertaining to tbe baaij of the eUie and methods to prerent

in the section disappear. It will talk about three months to reclaim this seetioa, tbs last in the older poition of Capo MaytobofiOod.

Fall get of OBcers ami Committee Are Named—lawther C Ogden la President

With the membership roll eoela'otag the names of las man ead horm.Us Toosg Men's Association of Cepe -'ay seas orgsn.zed last Thursday erealag. Tbs meeting waa held ia lha Chapel of lbs M.

« who bars lon« been plaanlag f

WIU the orvsnlistloo egee'ed. i were at oner taken lookigg to she opening »f moms la the Mrcray bundle.* at rt’aab agios and Oe* n street*. John Meeray. who S»a-1 p -rsent. stated that U* rooms would be ciearsd of tbeir ooaleaU and pot ah ape that they can be toned is let Uan

Aera was only one person-put In nom - atloa for each o(B w and they ware unanimously rlectel. Tber an. as follows: (’resident. Lather C. Oedsu: Ties prrsl. •loot. Oscar O. Barrecording secretary. G. Bolton Btdrrdgr; trtaarrar. Walter

eluded to U*s number, s Uonal members had to be named. Tb* follosrtng rrorlerd a onantmons rote: RrrreU Jerrrll. Frank Meeray, Har*-r Hngbea. Lewis BenneU. Hows' Wackr - A hoard of trustee* was then riootaJ. the fullowing being Ibe members; Samne' F. Eldredg*. Albert FhllUpa. Jobs Meeray md Joseph Stiles. 'iVe board has sop* - property of the

naolt with the ladles of Cape May wad bar* them, if possible, organise a Ladies Auxiliary. Ta* ejmmiasemso d. Messrs Crcgo. Jerreli and Har-J Hughes, will begin work at ones In urging U* women of Capa May Us desirability of forming aa auxiliary and aasiatiag ta Us |

adraxcemsut of Ue work.

The rego ar meeting eight has Mao Jxrd for twe fl.st Tneauay ia aaeo mooth. 'be members bp of the s sane 1 alio p ooo st. of men and boys oi good moral char, cter and ia dlridad la to Senior sad Job lor oemb*r»o'p. Ue former Including all shore U years, and the latter those be- > Us ages of ten and Arisen years. -t mem beta a;r those who par the aonnal dare and puase sas required quail A cations, aasoeieu membe-s those wiU limited pririlegea. and oootribotlng mem • rapport of the assort*!lou- Tb* •'swhars been fixsd at Ur** dollars a , 'or seniors and two dollus a year fOf

ea. Payment of darn raUU all prtrllegaa of Ue aaaodj the right to hold offioa.

Trim Americn. Duwn In Cap* |lay the Repnbhcan lagiaUtiy* tick*! won at tha primaries an open Monday platfonc, and the Democratic IsgiMsfirs ticket is bring given tho support of the rritgioua element so largely that the onlr Kapjbll newspapers supporting the

trolled by the Repobfican Bcnatorial

High School Athletic The High Saboot boys hare organised aa athletic a mod* Hon and daring tho

organised, a basket ball team wgl fo«oi spring a baseball taam u to b organised. Prat Collier to la charge c Ue to mx

Tho Star of the Caps tost we* mid that person* signing tho BooMrrit Retcaa pot.lions would ho arraatad' MO bars rigsml thorn, bat all ara wllliag main as rignora. and they propose to roU for Kw’.ng and laks haw net gMrit^wrato aw better the* had

THE COMING ELECTION All Political Signs Favor The Democratic Candidate NEW TICKET II THE FIELD

Voters File Roosevelt - RepublI i Ticket, Which Haa aa Candidates Ksrtng and laths An Independent ticket, known a the Rooserrit-Repubrcan ticket, wa pot Into the field this count* Monday afternoon, when a list of between and SOU voters presented a petition tba county dork and placed on file the names of the candidates they ara porting. The candiuates favored ara those recently nominated by the Democratic convection sod later indo-sed by the Prohibitionists They are ex-Sbrnfl Samuel K. Ewing, of West Cape Mar, State Senator, William Lake, ol Ocean City, for Assembly; sod Dr. Na.han Cohen, of Wildwood, for Cu-o-tr. As the candidates supported by the men who filed tula petition ara those named at Ue Itom cratic convention, the outlook to that a Democratic Senator and Assemblyman will be el acted. Sbsrifi Br ;bt in a statement made apropos tbs aampaign mid; "Mr basin*** takas agio ali seaHoos oftEe county nod I hare bed e ipportunlty to learn U* trend of political events It u surprising how geo ml to the feeling. Uat the Rooaereltllepubliean ticket will raerire enough rote* to send Ewing bwAIaJm to Traalu every section ofthneounty the Republicans ara rallying to the rapport of this ticket.’’

DAVID S. MEIWIN DEAD Cttiaea Faasrs Array In a

aged TT years.

Mr. Msrwia has hxaa ailing allsnai' H la graateat afllctloa w^* —* *—

trouble aooo Moams so asala that It was

am no care coold ha affected.

Mr. MerwLa waa a natlrs of Newburgh. N. Y., hat has barn Nvtag bar* a naather ■ra. He mads his borne with hie

waa boro la tha Iowa

of Newburgh. May M. lOB, aed g aw ap there. He entered the Colon Army as a corporal la Co. B. TUrtyralnh N. Y. Inf. its*.a/ and served for two enllab i, or Urooghout :b* war. H« rater ad.U* Army oa May IA 1*1. and waa sue

caoriraly promota

close of U*

by brarrt. For bravery at Us ball to of Fair Qeks, Ya., ha ‘ ‘

ad la Kosrhnrgh, N. Y, on August U. UK). M^y J. TW1, who now baa bis widow.’after a moo of fifty rig y . aambor of yoam after Ue Wae. and oomlag to Cape May. he resided New York OUy. MsatdmU* widow ha to aurrtrad by ire* ahPdsao, Mi*. Lewis T. Sierras, of sp* Mar. Mias Emma Marwta Ueonrs H. Msrwia, oi Jersry City. Tm maay yaars Mr. Msrwia haa been promlnsot la abarah work. Ha wat of tba persoos who hraught into bstag the

Oonnril. No.HO. B. A. iL,at Mow York

Oty.

brought >o Cap* May The fn acral

NEWS OF THE COUNTY Local Topics of General In* tcrest Mentioned PARAGRAPHS CONDENSED DOWN

Oonnty Briefly Told—Cbaity

Aooepta Gall at flo. Searille Haring accepted a call to the Calvary Baptist Church, of Booth BoarUle, Re*. Cad B. Baker will finish bis labors aa pastor of the Berea n Church, Camden,

Bank Haa BOO Depositors The Court Houa* Bank was one old Uat week, and tba directors bare every cause to congratulate tbrmadri upon haring obtained 600 depositors and over 1100,000 in deposits. 114th Anniversary The 114th anniversary of the Head-of-tha-River Meeting Honae, at Tuskaboe, will be celebrated on Sunday with ap* propnate service* The sermons a 111 be delivered by Ber-.P- B. Hams, ol Pitman Grove, a jo Her. B. F. Sheppard of Quinton. New Keeper et Station ihplain George Endicolt, keeper of the Ultle Beach Ufa earing station for tn amber of yaars, haa been appointed keeper of the Avalon life aa ring station Captain Endioott fills the vacancy caused by Ue death of Captain John

Beeser K. Hankins, one of Cape May Ooucty’i oldest residents, died at his ha»a lb MayrUle on Bonday, at tb* ripaold ageof ofSS years. He was the faUer of twenty-three children, many of whom .an new hrang. Mr. lUaktn. was wall known In this rUmlty.

Bor. Howard Hand, formerly of Bw^ torirb, and at one rime a studeatrat-tow In tha ofitoa of J. B. Huflinan, Cape May Court Honae, but no* pastor ol Ur Bainbndge M. E. Church, Philadelphia,

Wednesday evening. Jeaae Grace Deed Grace, one of Goaben's oldest dboens, aged about 86, passed awav on Sunday evening alter an Olneoa of only a few dayy. Five children, Mr. Frank Grace, CapL LUbern Grace and Mrs Edward Mixner of Goshen, and Mr* Nelli* Krrieksoa and Mr*. Chaa. Ross, of Court House, are' toft to mourn a de-

parted father.

Farmer’s liutitnte The members ol the Gape May County Board of Agriculture, besides bring busy preparing a program for tha county meeting on Thgraday of aegt week, am iueh consideration u> Ue arata for Ue Imtiute to da held under Ue auspices of the State Board of Agriculture. This institute will be and u expected to be one of the beet in Ue history of

Ue society.

Hospital at Gouty Hoaee The Cape May County Board Freeholders held e special, meeting and selected Mayor Joseph Q Champion of Obeun City, to draw plana for the proposed hospital at Ue county

Tb* baiid>ng to to b* $0x40, one story note. It will contain three bed rooms, an as iambiy room, ran parlor and baU urltto

At the same meeting, another paywnt, abont M00Q, E. Hand, tbai

A TITLE AT ISSUE Court to Decide Ownership cl Piece of Ocean City Beach

CUINED UNDER RIMRIM DEED

The Case ta Kxpeofed to Occupy Ue Attention of the Oonrt All of Next Week

o importance

A legal oontsat of n and Interest In Caps May gnn oa Monday at Cap* May Court Hi before Supreme Coart Jostle* T.-sncbsrd. Tb* salt to on* in sjratmsnt end Involves Us title to abont 6100,000 worth of beach front property at Ocean City, tiff Is Ue Ocean CUy Hotel and Development Company, organised by Harry W. Leads and J. Haloes LlpploeoU, of Atlantic CUy. Tb. defendant Is Richard R. Sony, proprietor of tbs Hotel Brighton, oaaoCUy. It appsan Uat a year ago Lead. A Upplnoott organised tee Ocean CUy Ho'sl Company sod pure based of tbs Ocean City Association a block of ocean front and. located bet wean glsta and Serrate street* for tbs purpose of build lag a large mod era x or eight story Br* proof hotel. Boon after taking Ut>a. Loads it Upptn- >' t ware ootlflad by Booy'a attorneys teat be dal mad till* to the land they had just purci ased by vtrta* of a riparian deed

•atti* tha question of title first before making the great axpexdltaree nimmsry la ring such a large hotel, mds A Lipptnoou had searches made, they fonad that tbeir title rag back nearly 600 yaars. Sony did not claim to ha re any deed from he old iftaers o originally owned tea whole Ulaad.hot be claimed tag. land under a I pari an deed mad* In 1667. Leeds ft lytpplnoott, than InaUMUd tbto ■It, ola'.mlng teal tala riparian

In Mew Jersey bad dsolded U to of no valaa ai whom it Is made, already bra a good tl

amted in Us holy bonds of main -stnot known as Atlantic a vacua It to ly to Mias Walker in MiUrillr. Uat srid teat over 1* wUacaaas hart base

A PLEASANT EVENING Mrs. B. F. Johnson Recipient of a

Handsome Fla so

Pilot B. F. Johnson anticipated Ue holiday are son ot 1806 Ue oUer day by sanding home a splendid $400 Evarard piano, which be informed hit wife was to be considered aa be gift for Ue Doming Christmas. A fine cottage organ bad hitherto been U* only instrument to anil van their handsome reridenoe on Perry and Washington streets. Oa Monday evening s number of relative* by Invitation assembled to give a christening to the new Instrument. FaUer Wilson bad arrangad a Uttto but it want beyond his axThe principal numbers

t Home, and A aid Lang Syne by Mr. Johnson.

"Did Tbst Chicken Die For MeT” (original poem) dedicated to Mia* Mary

Sutton, of Atlantic City.

'A Chemical Test,” (origins! poem) dedicated to Mias Lillian Champion, of

What I Know Ab by Belle Damm, of New York, a recent

visitor to Utah

Memories of a Potple Sapper,” A reminlsdnoe, bv Miss Gregory. WIU Miss Fox at Ue piano, seven'

Gospel Hyma were sang. Miss. Fox also played a n am bar of popular airs >A Saviour’s Lora,” a new and baautiol hymn, yet anpabltohed, was played .adaungby U* auUor, seriated by ,

Miss Fox and Mias Oorinna Sutton. Fourteen pereoqa were presenL

ailver co lire lion was taken for a worth*

feral object.

The funeral of Mrs. Mary A. Boardman. who died at Gape May, oa Moo ■ wmh, occurred from bar tot* ana*. No. 716 Cooper street. Camden, on Monday of this week.

Subscription—$1.00 p,. Yea,’

PERSONAL MENTION

Autumo Visitors are Numerous About Town

YOUR NAME MAY BE INCLUDED -«% Happenings of a Week Among Yon RetaUre<aDd Friends Tersely Told—Other Mention

Joseph B. Hughes, Jr., has begun Ue building of a home on Queen street. Mia Sarah Scbdlenger will reside wiU her stater, Mr». L. E. Miller, Uis Wiliam Porter has commenced Ue erection of a cottage on Lafayette street north of Madison areone. Mr. and Mrs. Charles WlUiton, of Philadelphia, hare rstu.oed borne afte.weeks' vacation spent here. Mr*. A. A. Dnchemin, of New York ty, it a guest of Mre. Lewis T. Stevens, st her home on Corgie street. Walter .«*****, who Las been spending bis vacation in Washington and points South, baa returned home. Dr. Richard Norris, of Z’mladelpbia, has commenced Ue building of a cottage oo Beach ayeont, east of the new

total.

Mr. and Mr* William N. Weaver, of 'old Spring, bare returned from a visit to Uelr former home, East Pittaburg, Pa. Mr. add Mrs. Howard N. Stanton left Uis week for Tarpon Springs, FIs , where Uey expect to late up Ueir .alare home. « Manager Jobn P. Doyle, of Ue New Cape May Hold, has leased Ue Mrs. Samari ScbeUeuge: oot-sge on Hughes street, fqr Ue Winter. Alonso Long, colored, who baa been attending Ue University of Peansylvonia, ta home for a few days bees use of Ue iUues' of a relative. Mrs. Mahalsh J. Ware and daogbtei, Miss Margaret, will pass Ue winter In Bayonne, N. J., wiU Dr. Jama* W. Ware and Dr. J. Stratton Ware. Sir*. Ware's slater. Kev. Hamaon P. Crego, pastor of Ue First BapUst Cuu.-ch, starts to-day oo a reeks’ vacation, rod w.U r'ait his old home in Michigan, where be has been for twelve years. HU father a prominent cirisen there, being a member of the State Senate, some forty year* ago. Dr Leslie L Hand, for Uree years president of Ibe Bridgeton District Eprorth League, Uat week declined reelection to Uat office, as he intends to Ue active mioist -y of Ue MeUodiat Church. He will give up Ue meuical profession. He ia a son of Mr. and Mrs. iraiJIani Hand, of Cape May Court

crime* were probably on Udr wav t

Philadelphia.

Blaser hastened to Folsom atation, boaraed Ue next train for Philadelphia,’ and took a seat in Ue smoke-, which contained only two other men, who sat apart. He kept them under watch, and noticed Uat they knew each oUer. At tbe te.initial in Camden be expected to find police aid, but was disappointed In UU. So be arrested the two men sintrie handed. One of them attempted to draw a revolver, but after a hard figbt Uey were raptured. They gave tbe names of Prank Sherman and John Ryan of PhiladriphU. Postage stamps and cash corresponding Ue losses sustained at Ue postoffices were found upon them, and United States Commissioner Morgan held them under $5,000 bail each. In PbiladelphU two women, suppoaed > be accomplice* of Ue alleged robbers, were taken into custody. A third alleged notorious "yeggman” charged wilh being implicated in tbe robbery, was arraigned before United States Commissioner Morgan in Camden last Friday afternoon and commitson in detenu of $5,000 bait to await a further hearing to-aay.

THE CITY TAX COLLECTORSHIP Needles. Owe o< Tho Aspirants,

much interest taken In a camp

UU dty the most Important fight is Uat for tax collector. There are two candidaiaa, tbe present incumbent and Sol. Naadiea. Tb* latter has been tned in Ue offioa and made an official oi

whom Ue city could po nt

pride. At last year’s riaciion Ua returns showed that he had been defeated by only two voWu. Sabeeqnently it was believed Uat a mistake had been made In Mooting Ue votes and that

Mr. Needles waa Ue person who

trail rejected.

Luring his term aa tax colisctor, Mr. Needles paid rioae attention to h's

s waa at bu offira from early

ararnlng minute In the evening and was ever read* to take up matteis relating to taxes, wiU the taxpayers, la every way he waa accommodating an

faithful and efficient collector.

To-day Captain Charles Barr, Captain J. T. Cushman, master of the yacht Watrra, owned by Randall Morgan, Captain P. G. Chase, master of the yaefat Margaret, owned by P. A. B.

11 rial Gape May, and Inr harbor. They will be by President Shtoidi

CapL F. G. Edwards, of U* Cap* May

Rad Estate Company.

The Cap* May Oeoaty Banday Softool Ltseriotfea bold Us forty-firet annas]

GET ALLEGED JHIEVES Arrest* of Three Accused «f Postoffice Robberies EACH ONE UNDER $5000 Dill When Captured the Prisoner. Pat Up a Stiff Fight Bat Were Booa

Tbe poitoffiees at Millmay. DoroUy and Ocean View, Atlantic County, were robbed Wednesday night, following Ue robbery at Dennunlle, this mEdI*. Ue prenous night William Blaso, the borough marshal of Folsom, near HammontoD, got word of the robberies, tod

beard Uat two

men suspected of tb*

SPORTSMEN WANT TO SHOOT DEER

Bat Owing to New Law Passed WDV

Have to Watt Three Year*

Sportsmen in Booth Jersey are becoming anxious to shoot Ue deer Uat bare been introduced into Ue forests under Ue Bute game laws. Tbe tempn to carry borne a saddle of veaboa is almost irreslitible, and Ue wardena trill bays to look sharp or Ue man with a gnn wiU get Ue beat of Ue little

Under a recent law Ue protection to Ue deer was extended for Uree yean more, and aa Ue animals are multiplying pretty rapidly under this protection Uey are becoming a common sight in

>me localities.

Tbe true sportsman howevar, wtU be willing to let them get firmly established before opening Ue season for hunting

FACTS TOLD IN BRIEF

m of laterra

—If you wish all the real Bra nww

Uao read tea Hxxau>.

Work on Has Isle City’s new $<000 City Hall will ha started in a few days. -The norUeaat storm of Ua peat week washed away a section of Us large

boat landing at Anginas.

—The proof of Ue padding to tbe itlng. Get one job of printing don* here sod you will go elsewhere no more. i are said to be unusually plentiful on the marshes of Cape May Minty and trappers are anticipating a

»-d catch this winter.

—Professor L. Myers, supamaiag priori pel of Ue Five Mile Beach public schools, to toSwiag from a severe at-

tack of typhoid fever.

-Hundreds of rabbits are running woods oa Fir* MU* Beach, borough ordinance* prohibit tha shooting of thorn at say Beeson of tha