CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. VI. NO. 46.

CAPE MAY, N. J., THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1906.

Subscription—$1.00 per Year

HEBENTHAL’S VERDICT

Is Given Three Thousand Dollars In Court

U. S. CIRCUIT COURT CASE

Uaa? Will Are Called to TeattlJr-WIU KeoelTC 98,000 ,

A rerdlct of UflOb Tor the pUlnUB tree relumed by e Jury In United Bute* Court, et Trenton l**t Friday. In the cue of William Hebeathal. of Cape May CKy, against Paul B. Huyette, of Germantown. Pa. The complainant sued tor HO.OOO damage* for injuries matalned by being struck by an automobile belonging to the defendant. In August 1*06-' The complainant alleged he was standing on a comer of Washington and Queen street one Sunday afternoon, waiting for a trolley car. He eaw the car approaching and did not notice, he said, an automobile dlrecUy behind. >• soon u the car came to a standstill, so leg to the eridence.' the auto shot quickly from the car tracks to the side of the road, where the complainant was standing. He was sererely Injured The defence was that the complainant stepped in front of the automobile. Mr. Hebentbal bu been 1U ei sinew, and expects sren now to hare to undergo an operation from the effects of the accident. He wu kept In doors for many months by the Injury from the accident

TWELVE HURT IN WRECK Two Cars OvertBrned at Grassy Sounds Yesterday FOUR SERIOUSLY HURT Happened Near Bridge And on the Morning Train Bouud For Five Mile Beach

Twelve persona among ibrm S. H. Stard«. ofsih ssd Arch *U . Philadelphia, •er* injured In lbs wreck of ibe 6 o'clock Wildwood expire* on ibe West Jersey am! Sea.hore llpllroad yesterday moraine. The train was derailed near Graaaj Sound bride*.the englo# sod Best tw« an being OTMorued. Tb-ea other persona who wenr Injured ire F. D. ShHnser. Bridgeport. N. J. Horae* Newcomb, of Wildwood N J,aml Christopher So yd. r, of Baleidars, N. J. r~t mao and Starling. It Is Sold, ere probably fatally hurt.

NEWS OF THE COUNTY Local Topics of ,Geaer«l In* terest Mentioned PiRIGfdPHS CODDENSED DOWD

Giant Dredge Drops Into Harbor. The mammoth dredge Plttaburg. which has been employed bei era! jeon In the dredging operations connected with the erection Capo May harhoc. sank last Thursday morning to forty fort of water. The crew of eight men was on duty and managed to get ashore without acclden». The cane* of the accident Is known, but Is supposed to have b some break to valves or pumps which admitted the water. This week the work of raising the dredge began. She has 400 tons of machinery In her. and is the largest dredge to the United States. The aredge ‘ Carrie Chapman Cat." bhs replaced the Pittsburg to Its work. DEATH OF MBS. TOWNSEND Passed Away After Three Week* of

Snfferlng

Mrs. A. H. Townsend, whj baa barn 111 for lb* last Hires weeks, passed away at s 8) last Saturday morsiag. at bar boms ocar Sscley. Cumberland County. Hsr death Was caused by an aPaotiop, the heart. She was a devoted Christian woman and her loss will be felt by many friends who extend sincere sympathy to the bereaved family. Tn* funeral servtesa took place on Monday morning at ten o'clock In the irring A red or Prmbyterinn Church. Bridgeton,

A PROCLAMATION

The time of your ban com* when. In accordance with the wine custom ol • forefather*. It become* my dut} set aside a special day of thanks giving and pralie to the Almighty be tuse of the blessings we have re celved. and of prayer that these hies ings may be continued. Yet another jear of widespread well being has passed. Never before to our history or to the history of any other nation

has a people enjoyed m

material prosperity than 1* ours; prosperity so general that It should arouse to us no spirit of reckli pride, and. least of all. a spirit ol heedless disregard of our responsibilities. but rather a sober sense of our many blessings, and s renolute pur-

CITY SCHOOLS ARE BETTER

Country Schools Rank Lower In Moral Standard SHOULD HUE BMUEITRAIIIIIIG

formerly editor of tbs Cape May Wsv*. Junlor Or9*r la Cgp* May. The State Council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics of New Jersey met to annual sentoM ion recently. John N. Brave, of Wild -wood. Is a prominent member of the Council. Cape May county ha* councils, with 7U member* of the order and gained fourteen last year. The .councils own property valued at |1».

SUM.

them by any action of ov own. Material well being, tadlspenmible though It to. can never be anything hut the foundation of true national greatness and happiness. If we build nothing upon this foundation, then our national life win be as meaning leas and empty as a bouse where only the foundation has been laid. Upon iur material well being moat be built juperetrocture of Individual and national life lived to accordance with the laws of the highest morality, our prosperity Itself will la, the long run turn out a curse InsteaT blessing. We should be both roverontly thankful for what we have received and earnestly bent upon turn tog ft Into a means of grace and not

of destruction.

Accordingly. I hereby set apart Thursday, the twent>-ninth day of November next, as a day of thankagtvenppllcatlon. on which the •oople shall meet to their homes or their churches, devoutly acknowledge has been given them, and to pray that they may in addition receive the poser to use these gift* aright. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my band and causei of the United States UFbwl Done at the dty of Washington this 2td day October, to the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Mx. and of the Jadepesdeaee of the

Ul the Week* Occurrence* In The Count; Briefly Told—Chatty Paragraphs Mentioned Rabbits are Plrailfal Thus far the season for rabbits and 10.11 to South Jeraay has been the most luccraaful In ymm. ami few parlies room bom* with less than a doses of nice, fat “bnnnlea." Quail, too, a excellent condition Wedding at Rio Grande Mim Nora 'Hand, only ■laughter of Ir. sod Mrs. Ei-och It Hand, of Kio re ode, and Leslie Bate, of Fidting Greek, wire married at Is*l week at the home of the bride's psren'* by Ibr Kev. II F Bock. They left on so afternoon train for* short wedding jaunt, and iipoo their arrival home will reside in s home Sited out by the groom at Hsh-

log Creek.

HAUBRt'SKJI—Tors*. Mias Olive Tnaer, a yonng l*dv favorably known ol Kio Grande, and *roorve Halbruner of Cold Spring, were married last week. They w ll reside to BndgeCsps May County Voter*. The following U total number of the registered roteij to the various muni -Ipalltles of Cape May county : FI ret Dennis. MS; Woodbine. BO: First Ocean City. *01; Second Ocean City. *46; Upper township. 446; Angletea. *0»; Wildwood. *M; Second Dennis. t*6; West Cape May. *7*; Avalon. 41; Ftm Cape May. 666; Bs Caje May, •»; Holly Beach. *•*; First Middle. HI; Second Middle. *17; Baa: Isle City. MO; South Cape May. M; Lower township. 417. Total. EMI.

DEMOCRATS MAKE GAINS

Close Vole in New Jersey This Year

REPUBLICIH HUJOHITT 5000

Instrwcter Bay* Too fimoh Time I Taken up In Rending.or Talking About Traehy Things

That many country school* rank lower to morel stoedanl than those of lb* dty was a daim put forth yeat*--day by Miss Sarah J. McNsry, a State Normal School Instructor, in a discourse here on “ A Pie* for Free be*]" before the Cap* May Oonnty Teacher*’ Institute. The speaker attributed the conditions to the laxity of some of the teachers in instilling la the minds of lbs children an enthnoaem for the beauties of nature and literature She suggested a manual training ooura* for students who Intended to follow an intdlsetoal career and s higher intellect aid training for those who would

‘‘Almost every one who works with his bands naes hr* Imagination tn some way wh«r he work*,** said the >peakn "Too much time L taken up In read in* <>r talking about trashy things and irachrra for this reason should rack to cultlvsle s taste for higher things in Ibdr ponPs during their yonlb, when the*: temperament* are more su> Uble to good trelniag." Aostie C. Apgar. of the State Normal School mad* addresses on ‘The Study of Leaves" sod "The CrossinK of Seeds." The practical methods of child-train-ing ware diaruseed by BIsr Sarah J. McNsry, also of the Slats Normal School. Ibe institute wiH continue | day sod tomarrow. FACTS TOLD IN BRIEF I lew** of Interest Gathered fbr Our

sees not, bnt be bad beat let bad

take care of itself, and have to do only with what to beyond suspicion. If you light on the least was tig* of truth, and it is the weight of the whole body still which stamp* the faintest trace, an eternity will not suffice to extol It. gkll* aa evil to so huge, -but you grudge

tow on It a moment of bate

Truth never torn* to rebuke falsehood; her own straight forwardness is the severest correction, and the straicht-

• rdnesa of Cbarie* A. tiwain’i bumdealing has become a' motto with trts easterner*. See his adv. on page, and don’t forget the anml

thirty-flrat. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the Preatdeht: Ellhn Root. See rotary of State.

ifortabla boms at a moderate [ r term*. House la excellent lltlod: having four rooms sod klu floor; Ursa large rpnmy second floor * ybtOO. On Third Was* Cap* May.

Big line at Fruits. Nut* and Candy i

Five hundred Invitation* have 1 itsned by Mrs. John Walisee Halloweli of 2311 North Broad St, Philadelphia to a reception to be given from four notil six on the afternoon of Wednesday November 21, to boner of her daughter, Mlv* Bertiato HaloweU wbo recently □ed from a year's stndv abroad. A number of relatives and friend* In Cape May have received carol. HaUoweUUofa lovely character and highly cult tired, Intailigeat, modest and raining to manner and held' la the highest esteem by a large drel

—If you wish all th* real lira i than road th* HxllALD. A lata era sen's thunder storm wit Desard on Sunday sfaernooi. Specs! «t Hogans Tbaraday Friday and Saturday, Cap* May goodie* 20c ft free sampif. —Fishermen along the Gape May county coast are ready to make their flrat tnp loses In srarrh ol cod fish. -Tbs recent heavy reins have ruined hundreds of-tons of salt bay for the Urmsr* In Gape May and Cumberland

o-untie*.

—For Sale-A Met son upright piano. This piano wasssol to us aa a sun pic. sod wQI b* sold at s bacgsla. Aaroa Wooiaoo Fish lug Creak,. —Improvement* to cost over a quarter million of dollar* will take place st Five Mile Beech resorts of Anglers, Wildwood, Holly Beech and Wild ood Erast daring tbs winter. —In spits of notices from wnera and prohibitory borough ordiacra, tanners are killing large earn ben ol rabbits to tbs woods adjacent to and Wildwood.

Big Itoe of Frails. Nats and Candy i

In a warm bouse, consultF. M Stevens, 818 North Street, Gape May. a

Official Cape May County Election Returns, 1906

District

Congress Senator Assembly Coroner it Will. MIL Mil MLISU CSSlID

Ocean City, xst

H4

*5

100

104

102

100

19*

Ocean City, and

97

35

81

>03

«5

97

>7*

Sea Isle City,

8o

62

90

53

»4

57

>43

Avalon

73

06

16

>7

13

30

Anglesea Wildwood

107 til

3® *9

112 112

3» 75

109 112

40 74

>47 180

Holly Beach

225

3*

219

570

224

355

406

Woodbine

lO?

*5

104

49

•03

47

>34

222

21

•93

167

*55

107

336

Dennis, ist

I06

62

102

IOI

106

207

Dennis, and

86

60

7*

>3*

76

128

*05

Middle, ist

309

74

*49

>95

*97

>47

4*8

Middle, 2nd

>3*

68

>4*

102

ija

m

*3*

Lower Cape May, tat

*33 168

59

*38 >64

112 Iflt

E

in 136

$

Cape May. sod

>73

44

*73

70

163

81

>63

Wrat Cape May

*4*

*39

TO

>44

*°3

Sooth Cape May

it

I

16

3

IS

1

>9

Total

M3>

730

*3**

9092

*4**

*977

38*5

*3°

*43

Majority—Are Biz Repabllcaa

PERSONAL MENTION

Autumn Visilors are Numerous About Town

HANES TO BUILD SEWER Council Pisses a Resolution Employing Him

TOUR RIME BIT IE IHCLUDEU

of a Week Among Yo« Relatives and Friends Tersely Told—Other Mention

The corroded returns of last week' election to New Jersey show that the Democrats came near being able to elect a United States Senator winter. For the flrat time to twelve the Assembly Is Democratic, but tbs Democratic majority to the lower houas la only two vote*, which la than ouaet by the Republican majority Dine to the Senate. A Republican United Bute* Sena will be elected by the next Lhgto lature, but It is by no means certain that Senator Joan F. Dryden wlU be re-elected. There 1) much opposition Senator Dryden'* re-election, and the tad that the majority of the Republican member* of the new Legls come from South Jersey, which a representative to the United States Senate, may mean that Gover Stoke* will be the choice of the Republican*. The Republican majority on Joint ballot la seven, bnt If Senator Dryden'* t were brought before the caneus majority would be reduced, a* Senator Colby, of Essex, and Azsem blyman Fake, of Bergen, have announced that under no circumstance would they vote for Senator Dryden. and It la thought that they might be able to bring flve or six of the legislator* to think as they do. The toes of Us home county also unfavorably affects Mr. Dryden'* chances. Senator Dryden, however, has announced bis intention of keeping to . Mr. Dryden Inslsta that he choice, of th* R* publican* of th* State at the recent primaries (Assuming that Essex county is the State. —Ed.), gnd aces no reason why publican legislature should n eled him. even If be has lost hi* borne CONGNKS9.' The Now Jersey delegation to the sxt National House of Represents Uvea will be as follows, the (*) indicating reflection*: Flrat District—'Henry C-

alager, R.

Second District—'John j. Gardner. Third Distrid—'Benjamin F. H

weB. R.

Fourth Dlstrid—'Ira W. Wood. R. Fifth Dlatrid—•Charlra N. Fowler.

Tenth Dlstrid—James A. Hamtll. IX Republicans. (; Democrat*. Democratic gain of three. 9CNATC.

i follow*: Burlington—Samuel K. Bobbins. R Cape May—Robert K. Hand. R. Hunterdon—William C. Oebbantt. D

TO RECEIVE 1150 PER NORTH

lotion oo Hafrly Gale Ordinance Deferred Upon Promise of Watcb-

Jobn Jest has sold out his saloon businea* and removed to Philadelphia. Russel Philips, of New York, was over Sunday a guest of bis father, Dr.

E. H. Philips.

Charles L. Stiter, ton of Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Stltra, is spending the winter to

Redlands. Gal.

Mr. and Mr*. William G. Eaten are on a tnp to Boston and other New

England towns.

Chief of Police Wm Farrow la on hi* ition. and Oflioer Geo. F. Hickey la acting chief. Cottager J F. Jacoby hat dosed bit ■uiumer villa and opened bit winter borne in Philadelphia. Rev. Arthnr Hess, of Philadelphia, a , will officiate in the Church of the Advent next Bondar. Dr. and Mra. T. T. Puce of Tucker•o are guest* of tire. Abigail Town•end on Lafayetta street. Rev Mr. Auger, of Croxier Tbelogical -Seminary, preached in the first Baptist ( burrh on Sunday. William W. Pieraon ha* been appointed station agent of the. Reading railroad at Bra Tale City. Rev. T. Maxwell Morriaon, of Mahoney City. Pa. preached in the first Presbyterian Church on Sunday. Mr and M-a. Percy Roetbel have taken a an't of rooms for the winter at 1737 N. Park Avenne, Philadelphia. Mr. mod Mrs. Jacob Snare, of Phtlsletphia, are among those wbo are occupying Cape May cottage*.at this Ir. and Mrs. H. Milton Kennedy er passing the aommer and Auto here, have relurneb to their home

Brooklyn N. Y.

Hon. John M. Scott, a prominent immer visitor at Cape May, was last eek re-elected senator to the second ennaylvanla district. Mr.and Mrs. T. R. Brooks doted tbsir Carroll Villa on Friday last. Their winter address will be IhSS W. Norris street, Philadelphia. Former Judge Elliot Rodgers, a well visitor at Gape May,

member of the

Pennsylvania senate from Alleghany. Mr Meleom C Lodlam. son of Hon F. L. Lodlam of South Dennis ha* jurt returned from a delightful coast trip with J. Willard Morgan in Frank A. Forat, who la the head of the company dredging the Gape May

City C'onndl last Wednesday night finally •ettled the sewer question, a resolution being paaaqgl providing for the employing of Joseph H. Hane* to superintend the work at a salary of 1160 per month, and authorizing him to purchase material* and make nrce»aairy arrangements on behalf of tl-e

dty.

A petition from the board of dection of the second precinct, asking for a ■pedal appropriation because of the Arduous work which fdl to their lot on election day wu then read. The petition wu referred to the dty solid tor. The monthly report of the engineering department stated, among other thing*, that the 100 bp. gas engine which bu been installed in Ibe Madison avenos pump ng station, is now completed and working satisfactory Bid* were received on shoot 2500 feet of sewer pipe. Joseph Hand, Edward Crease, Wm. C. Denixot and Joseph submit tea bids. They were reto the dty engineer for tabulation. He annonoeed that the bid of Mr. Hanes wu the lowest received, sod council then swarded the contract to Mr. Hanes. The ordinance fining the Reading Railroad Compary f25 per day notil placed at the Lafayette street grade crossing, came np for a third and final reading. A representative of the company appeared and stated that it would be impossible to have the gates constructed for some He offered, however. If Ibe conndl would defer action npnn ibe mntain a watchmen at tbs cm mi of until the gates could be position. After some talk this proposition wu accepted and a ■sed delaying action on for SO day*.

auc nomination for Governor of Maryland. William H. McCreary, ton of GonD, McCreary, * Saturday with President Grover Cleveland Princeton Yoang Mr. McCreary Is a freshman in Princeton. Among Philadelphians, who are ragotr summer visitor* to Gap* Mar, wl

were JohnX Seyborn, to th* second Philadelphia district, and George D. McCreary in the arath Philadelphia dlstr.ctGUbert H. Sheerer. Jr., who wu •evereiy hurt In an automobile aom•lent dunnf the summer, la recovering slowly. The famUv occupy a ooltag Pranklia street. He la now able to taken about town to a rolling chairMrs. Ada I- Waters, favorable known to amny la this city and who spent a portion ol the aumme- her* m “ return to bralth from e nerroua lion, I* now. we ere glad to auto, mnefa Improved in health, et her home

LIST OF PETIT JURORS Ihertff Blight's Selection For December Term of Conrt Sheriff Bright hu rileowd the following list of Petit Juror* for the December term of court: William E. Harris, Woodbloe: Levi Spain. Woodbine; Jacob Schoff. Ocean Oity; Clarence S. Son 11. Ocean Oily; William L. Gibb, Ocean Oily; W. Lee. Ocean Oity; Edward Dele. Gape May Oi«y; William Gibson. Gape May Oity; Waaley Bevi*. Middle township; Edward a Boyle. Ooaes Otty: WUiete Coiaoo. Middle William Oldfleld. Holly iry Desk, Ocean Oity; Eldroy Norton. Middle township; Frank Learning. Middle township; Denial

Billovsky, Woodbine; Newell 8. Ooraon. Bee Isle Oity; Joetob Christian, Dennis township; ArcMbotd Mitobsll, Bot<y Beech; Oherlm I* Brownmillar. Gere May Oity; Fred Bosrocr. Gap* May Oily: Edward Clark, Gape May Oity; Henry Lend. Gape May Oity; Robert Pndlay, Gaps May Oity; Bernard Long. Angle***; Frank Walla. Middle township; Leonard Boaby. Upper township; James Taylor. Holly

Mav; Edgar Vom. Upper township; John Wallace. Jr., Upper township: Oliver Heaton. Denali towaebip; Lewis Arnold. Gape May Oily; B. Braalow, Woodbine; Jacob Feldman. >laa; flomma Barnett. Holly ; Jail as Anderson. Holly Beach, Geonm Frith, oi»ys .town Ob*where. Lover township; J. Beeves Hrid rath. Oorea Oity; Bmily Godfrey, Middle township; Lewis Lodlam, Middle towaahtp; Latimer R. Baker.