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CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. VII. NO. 43

CAPE MAY. N. J.. THURSDXy. gCTOBER >4, 1907. EIGHT PAGES

Subscription—$1.00 For Ycai

PAYMENT DEFERRED

$48,000 Bond Issue Exiended Two Months

A SPECIAL SESSION

To Askss Benefits on Lands Adjoining Where Sewer Was Laid. Commissionen Wanted

City Council mei In special session la*t Friday eveninR In consider Ibe mailer of postponing ibe payment of H*,U00 of sever bonds issued two yean, ago for improvements adjoining the property of the Cape May Iteal Kslate Company, and which bonds bocame due ou the liKh inslaut rredden l of Council Ware presided and other members present were: Messrs. Itoak, Joseph Hand, Moore, Sayre, Shaw and Townsend. ^ The Hrst ijuostioM oonsiUereil by Council was the manner in which the money w aa to be raised to pay then: bonds, which have been bearing interest at five per cent. City Solicitor learning prepared a revolution which Mr. Moore ini rod iced, which provided that in the Judgment of the i ity Council the sewer ou Madison avenue, running fram the aewer dispoial plant to Bench avenue, and also along Beach avenue from Madison avenue to Wilmington avenue, bene titled the lands adjacent thereto, and directed the city clerk to give notice that application w ould be made to the Circuit Court at Cape May Outlet House, on Wednesday, Kovember 6U1, at 10 a, m- for the apiiolntment «f three commissioner!' to assew benefits against the lands benefitted, under the act of the legislature of March 8, 1882. This resolution was unanimously passed. Mr. Townsend, chairman of the Finance Committee, then read a letter from the secretary of the Security Trust Company to the City Treaseurer, which staled that the Security Trust Company was the holder of the «48,(M) of bonds due on the aoth, and asking the treasurer .when and where settlemail would be made for the same. Thaw bonds were sold to the Cape May Real, Estate Company when issued two years ago, who In turn disposed of iFemAfter considerable discussion as to the deferring of the payment of bonds sixty-days, as was finally ooncludad.Mr Sayre moved a resolution be adopted directing the Finance Commute to give a note u. the Security Trust Company for aixly days, bearing five per cent, interest, and allowing the TrtMl Company Ur hold the 1 dot'd*' m oillateral security until the payment of the note could be met. The resolution set forth that in view of the fact that the sewer assessmenU had not been made and the collections made thgreon, this additional lime was asked of the Trust Company to meet the pay-

REPUBLICAN RALLY Justice John F. Fort and Congressman

Gardner the Speakers

An enthusiastic Republican mass | that the revenues that came from the meeting w as held In the Court House equal taxation of railroads created by last Friday afternoon and was largely Republican legislation would prodoee attended by Republican and indepen-1 enough funds not only to support the dent voters from various paru of the schools and reduce the school tax ona

The Uolden October Days

Thaw beaolilul October days are golden, and it it a truly golden opportunity that it aflonlrd for the enjoymept of the most salubrious climatic conditions beside the Ocean's bro.d expanse. Tbf forvonate few to be foundc here is the enjovmrnt of the mellow warmth of these days are to be coagratnlated, while a pity'lit the lessees of visitor* bare passed out to temsln away

the tetarn of another mid balmy days of V'lytima «

laroiably with sorb deiicioas October

days aa we are hsrfatg aOW

No Skating

Vice Chancellor learning last Friday rendered his decision refusing to allow the skating rink, of the C

May Grain and Coal Company

joining the Methodist Church to be

opened. This refusal was

County Court, fifty dollars and coda. At the recent team at paurl fas wapwa-

victed of assault and battery.

JOHN FRANKLIN FORT. BKPUBUCAN NOMIXKK FOB GOVERNOR.

county. The star attraction of the day was the Honorable John Franklin Fork, the standard bearer of the party

for tiovemot.

aeon as the meeting was called U> order Alfred Cooper, of Cape May Court House, was unanimously chnten chairman, and presided over the meetIn taking the csir Mr. Cooper that it war a pleasure to preside over any meeting of ciUreas of Cape May county, and mars of a pleasure to preside over a meeting of Republicans, i most extreme pleasure to him to pr^ide over a harmonious and united party meeting, such as that of Friday Former Justice Fort war '.mmedlately jntraduced and liegan.his speech, which lX*(sdlor < aho«l a kalf .hour, In which hj wet forth -the tones of the campaign in a lucid and mast interustlng way. ilis remarks were frequently punctured by cheers from all parts of the bouaq. He gave a brief history of the geed work done by the Republican party during the past twelve years in which it has controlled the stale government. He explained that New Jersey, under Republican

half, but also to provide an appropriation sufficient to carry out the scheme of building the Inland waterway along the Jersey coast and thus create value* ibore section of the

state.

He referred also to State aid to public road aa fostered by Republican administration. Hesaldoulof the l&B? miles of roads to New Jersey 87 hail been built under the Democrats and 1200 under Republican role, and declared that If elected he hoped to be » Induce the legislature to inthe share the .■'tale should pay toward these roads, thus reducing the burden of taxation. „ <X H W"It is practically a fight for good govennnaift, whether you decide for a oonUnneaot of Ore beoeficient wpik which has been progressing for 12 : a rev ersal to former conditions," said Judge Fort, liberally applauded. He did not

dollars a year for the support of free

amount greater than

any other state of the same population in the United States. He explained (hat this money -spent in education

byilea and others in Eaaex county, w£re all yourtf man/ and that they rede thrirtulves felt, and that the inependener of spirit which they had

be-

in political

be struck a chord of popularity ameng the audience, which cheered him.to predated by the people of Cape May

d was of an ap- county who are tired of faossism, but aa

He spoke Of Inland waterways, and

lands to Cape May, and he said that if aoefa irgialallnn, bat with but one pro-

viso, that It should not be too

uCi&a;,

The naA speaker waa Congressman 1 John J. Gardner of this district, who gave a most pleasing and Jocular talk which waa earnestly listened to by the people present. He likened the Democratic party to the story of a little Child who was standing In a public square In a foreign country, and seeing in the distance a golden crass it began crying for it because U thought it wanted it, but did not know what nor could he do anything with it

young leaders h> all walks of life, and, if be had it. Ha said all that lbs also 1*14 the apdlcbce that the UHe- Democratic party could do wltij this pendent element, referring to the Col- golden cross’, which lie intimated was

the governorship, was to tarnish It bh> eatwe they would not know what to do with It, oorhoft ISi+pplYkeltt'/He

■aid that-the -Hi

of the State of New

to do so 11

should show its peculiar fitness by the management of some particular community in the stole, m hich at the present LUneit.qoujd not do, and had no sample tpjiold up to the com muni ty *1 an example of its' dexterity Id good

ncnmfnt, Following FoK’aitf

wee held, -ht'-Vhidi eandMate Fort, ibytnan C. K. Stllte, Capt. Chas.

lowtmi ti/ speeches’' of arid Gardner jf general r

kfeeers.

pr’

gato^d Robert R...

date for sheriff, greets each of present with a hearty handshake. At the ponclnsloc of this rsosptton Jnstiee Fort visited in an sotomoble the glareworks and shook hands with the faun-

OFFICERS CHOSEN

Forty • Third Annual SundaySchool Meet

HELD IN THIS CITY

Successiul Convention Yesterday—A M. Robinson Was Made President

The forty-second annual convention of the Cape May County Sunday School Association was held in the First Presbyterian Church yesterday. The annual address was delivered by the Rev. James Mcl^eod, pastor of that church, and during the afternoon Mias Rose Scott, state elementary superintendent, Rev. W. K. Foote/ secretary of the state teocheMraining council and Rev. Samuel It. Price were the other speakers. The annual election of offieers occurred and resulted aa follows: President, A. M. Robinson, Dennisville; vice president, B. C. Ingersoll, Wildwood: secretary and tieasurer, Ralph Hchelleuger, Dias Creek; recording secretary, Trueman Hickman, Green Creek. County Executive Committee—A. M. Tobinaon, ohn K.' arroll and John Wallace, Jr. The township secretaries appointed were: Cape May City, Miss Anna L. Johnson: tower Township, A. H. 8wain; Five Mile Beach, Miss Florence Barnett: Middle Township, H.M. Roorbach; Dennis Township, H. M. Carroll; Upper Township, Wilfl Smith; Ocean City, U ~ The evening address was made by the Rev. E. R. Brunyate,

Oily.

TOWN win Proflits From Elrciffc Ptom and la t^resf on Fo ads Meet Kzp^naes Harrisville, thaoounty seatof Ritohle County, Weal Virginia, will be wlihany municipal taxation this year for the first time in the old town’ history. This announcement has Just been made by the Mayor, Romeo H. Freer, a former Attorney General of the Stole. Harrisville owns ita own electric lighting plant, and the profit from its operation, combined with the interest on the town’s money in the banks, will allord ample revenue for

all astimat

that no corporate tax will be laid

whatever.

Cape May gets r.-venue from Its water work.- and ought to own Us lighting system, because it coals about fl&JXX) a year for light which is paid to a corporation.

Baa Sued Oily

Freas,wbo waa a police officer

of Cape May and who was to mad off of the police force in October of laat year, has brought suit in theNew Jersey Supreme Court against the City of Cape May through his attorney, Lewis T. Stevens, for a year's salary which he claims is due him* Press claims that he waa elected a police officer in June, IKM and that he has served con Unoualy since that time and that when ha was tamed off the force it was without charges being preferred against him, which he believes shoul^iave been preferred and proven b^re be

The case will probably come to trial at the December term of the Cape May County courts.

Story of a Broken Bears Many Is the story of a broken heart, bat here U one that should appeal to tuafi A poor widow woman, living •e outskirts of the dty, purchased some artieles recently from a merchant who represented them ss first class goods On return! if to her cheerless home ebe dlecovengl them to be the worthless. Had she made her porch ikes of Charles A. 8s sin, 306 7 Jackson street, she would have reertrol satisfaction, as fe guarantee goes with al goods '8M his graphs phone advertisement on anoter pege.

MRS. DlNIEl_SCHElUIIGiR Away tost Batnrday ernooo at Krma The death of Mrs. Km ms P. Schetleoger, wife of Freeholder Daniel Ucbellenger of Erma, which oeenred on Saturday afisrnoon laat at one o'dock, causal deep gloom over the community, be cause of Mrs. Scbellsngsr's death was typhoid fever with which she as ell her husband bad been afflicted for reerel weeks, ind from which bar husband had recovered only eaflidently to hare been out a week preceding her

dea|h.

Mrs. BcbeUrnger waa thirty-one year* of age, and was a daughter of Ur. and Mrs. Frank Seymour of Erma. Bbe U survived by five children, three boy* ad two girls. The funeral occured from tbs Cold Spring Presbyterian Cbureb on Tuesday afirrnoou and was one of (be 'most irgely attended obsequies witnessed there for a long time. The funeral serpreacbed by the Rev. E. A. Wells, pa-tor of tbs Tabernacle M. E. 'Lurch, of which she was a consistent od hrliiv. d member. The interment as made in the Gobi Spring Presbyterian Church cemetery.

HOW SUITE SHIES MOHET On# of the most progressive things accomplished by the present Republicadministration wts tbs creation of a deimrtioent of charities and corrections under an act of the leglalatore paaaed In tbs session of 1006. This law brings the supervision of all the charitable and correctional Instlrations of the state under one bead and far all plans for new state tlWhllogi or additions 01 alterations tfaere prepared fay a state architect who is the deputy commtssloner of charities and correc tiooa. Under the operation of this da jiartment many thousands of dollars have already been saved to the stats. Indicating the wise and progressive policy of the Republican party. Tfas department waa created May 1. IBOfi, its duties are the supervision of the charitable and correctional Institutions, of Soldier*" homes, of county and prirate Insane asylums in the state; to control tfas bringing into the state of dependent children from other states; to Investigate the management of all ■tote Institutions, when directed by the governor to do so, and to bold stated advisory meetings of the executlvs beads of those Institutions. The work of supervision has been constant and careful, resulting In tan proved administration and-efficiency; in protecting the state to an extent constantly Increasing against imposition In the care of defectives and Incorrigible., by Insisting that persons responsible for their maintenance who bars ample means shall do so. thus relieving the stats of the burden of their “ nsoeaaarUy alow, but la Istlng rigorously pushed. Many hundreds of dotlare have already been

collected.

The department has insisted that ail [mates of correctloosl Instltutioas toll be employed within the limits of the law. not so much to secure a 1 (tale as to pay the of their coovicdoa and their board while In custody, and the balance. If their families. Mach in this dlrec-

__ «f the de-

partment of charities,,

prepare plans -at

superintend the construction Ofi I * buildings. It waa thought bji Governor Stokes that by centraUilng this work considerable saving ooold be effected. The following statement prepared from the records speaks for It-

df:

The legislature appropriated for 1006 for new buildings g3o8,766. Contracts itered Into anil the buildings completed for $000,317. The legislature of 1908 appropriated for "

and the bolldlngs when completed will COM $003,020. In 1007 the legislature appropriated for new buildings $035.Oontracts entered into for the ter portion of this work show a saving thus far of $11,404. The total saving in coo tract pried for two years nd six mooths has been $10U04. The acm heretofore allowed for sp-

ies been $70,642 The sum actually pended to maintain the architectural anch of the department of'charities and correcttoaa since May 1. 1006. baa been $14,400, or a saving of 062J42. or an aggregate saving tat both contracts architect" - fees of $171.082., , d7

DISPLACED AS OIL INSPECTOR

toy Mayor

Captain Frank G. Edwards, who waa appointed oil Inspector of Philadelphia by Mayor Weaver, was removed from oAoa last Friday fay Mayor Keyborn. Captain Edi gave out a long atoteimot. Mm that his dlmiteil was eaoNd by the Standard OH Company fay reason of his Insistent* in marking that; puck-

ofoUtheaxact fire last to which

Captain Kd weeds is

Cape May, being eonneetad with the Cape May Real Ifetato Company. He Maiao a deoeodant of the Cape May I oounty EfiVfuMe’, fate * ^ ' '

PERSONAL MELANGE

Visitors are Numerous About the Resort

GOSSIP OF LOBBIES

What is Going on In ike Cotlagr Colony--Many Interesting Ckatteringi

E. C. Albertson of Bridgeton gpent Tuetday here. Mrs. Allen It. Wales s a* a Philadelphia visitor on Thursday. Miss Melvins Townsend ha- been making an extended visit to Philadelphia. Mias Ixiuie Rice, of Bwainton, in 'Isiting Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bmilh at Linden Villa. Min Nan Babneu, of Philadelphia, used Sunday with friends on South Lafayette street. Mr. and Mrs. Percy F. Itothel have taken apartments on North Fifleenln street, Philadelphia for the winter. Mr. Frank I*. B. 8peace has returned from Wildwood and is now occupying the Marcy cottage on Washington street for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Brooks leavi Carroll Villa to-day and will enter into r of their recently purchased home in Philadelphia. re. Aaron Miller, of Herkimer, N. Y-, is a guest of her parents, Pilot and 're. James C. Bennett, at their tageoo Decatur street. Miaa Ixiuie Thompson, daughter of City Recorder John W. Thompson, left on Thursday for an extended visit among friends in Philadelphia. Mr. Charles H. Dougherty, ow ner ol the handoome cottage al the corner ol Washington and Jefferson streets, is spending oorne time af Cape May. Rev. J. 8 wain Garrison, pastor of the M. E. Church at Tuckahoe, hahas this week been visiting his mother Mrs. Sarah Garrison on Decatur street. Dr. Charles H. Reed and family have closed their Hughes street cottage here and opened their winter home on South Seventeenth street, Philadel-

phia.

Mrs. H. P. Crego will lead the Baptist Young People's l nion meeting tomorrow evening. It will be Conquest Meeting, and the subject wi

t “Africa."

At the recent meeting of the Epworth League of the Bridgeton District held in Port Norris, Rev. E. A. Wells, of Erma, was eleeted first vicepresident and Mins Minnie Way, of Cape May Court House was eh

Junior superintendent. »c Smith met with an 1

dent on Tuesday evening while coming out of the office of Judge James M. PI Hildreth. He made a miss-step in going to the street and fell and broke a small bone in the right shoulder. Mr. Smith had just recovered from the breaking of his collar bone which hap-

pened about three month* ago.

A BOND ISSUE DUE Two Thiols of 07XOOO I. Chargeable • o Those lleorn 1 led There became due on (Sunday, October 20th, an i-sue of $4*1,UMl of Cape May City short term sewer bonds which were Issued on October 201I1, 1006. This was two-thirds of a total issue of $72,000 of sewer bonds which were issued for the construction of aewers, beginning at the sewer disposal plant on Madison avenue and unning along Madison avenue to Beach avenue, and thence northeasterly along Resell avenue to Baltimore venue. The $24,000 issue, which, together ilh the M-.UOO, made up the total of $72,000, was issued for a period of thirty years, and were issued in ll.is ner for the reason that the lands benefitted and applying for the construction of the sewer would, under the provisions of the city charter, pay two-thirda of the cost, or $48,000, ar d other one-third would fall up> 11 the city to be paid out of general tax- ; the time the bonds were Usual it understood by a number of member* of Qty Council and other- that, the Cape May Real Kslate Company, for whom the whole$72,000 wasis-ual, •ere to pay the interest on the $48,Owi, and that the assessmenU on their property woulji pay the principal of that part of the bond issue. The city ha-, ever, during the two year* paid the lntere-l on the $48,000 of bonds, or $4,800. The last installment of inter it of $1,200 w a* paid on Monday by the city treasurer by direction of Hie finance committee. By reason of the failue to have the money ready to meet the bond issue due on Monday a note for two months had to be discounted for $48,000, on which the interest which the city will have to pay will amount to $400 additional. Had the city levied it* asnenl and proceeded to collect it before this time it would have had al most enough funds on hand to have d out the bond issue which is just due. The total bonded indebtedness of the City of Cape May to date U $498,000. The sinking fund of the city amounU to about $5o,000, which is an offset against the bonded debt.

Ifagtneer Evangelist Ordained Rev. Clarence Letts, known throughout Cumberland and Cape May counthe “Sunshine Engineer Evan- '' waa ordained during the MethodU Protestant conference

Millville, Saturday.

MRS. CHAS. F. GABLE DIES The Funeral Took Flaoe in Phils delpbla on Monday Mr*. Anna G. Gabel, wife of Charles F. Gabel, aged thirty-seven yean, died in a Philadelphia hospital early laat Ifauraday morning, - where she had been for several weeks undergoing an operation for the removal of gall stones. She waa thought to be on the road to recovery, but a turn for the one was taken, from which she died. Mrs. Gabel is survived by her husband and three small children. The bereaved husband has the sympathy of a heat of friends in Cape May. The funeral occurred on Monday afternoon al one o'clock at No. 634 Diamond street, Philadelphia. Gabel was a loveable woman, I who knew her were deeply . I by the new a of her untimely death. Bbe waa a devoted mother and

a^faithful wife.

annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the Cape May Board of Agriculture will be held on October 81,1907, at Cape May Court

Hones, New Jersey.

The morning aeeetoo will be devoted to the etaetlon of officer*, delegate and other buolneai of the eonnty hoard. In tfleraoon soul on, which fill he qpea at 140 p. ■>., a very practical address will be given fay Mr L. T. Halloek, proprietor at Woodlands Farm at Iona, New Jersey, the largwat and beet equipped poultry plant In New

New Iteal Estate Agent Former Mayor George H. Reeves, of eat Cape May, ha* entered into the •1 estate business and opened an office at the comer of Broadway and York avenue. He will buy, aeil, exchange or rent properties and lake care of the collection of rente for prospective customers. Mr. Reeves ha* h$d a wide experiice in real estate and is the owner of considerable in the Borough and Cape May City, and his Judgment is regard - i good as to values and prospect* of the increase of the same in various localities. His record and his private business have always been of acharaow hich recommends him to customers. He will also lake charge of the placing of mortgages and the securing of loans for individuals where they have ample security to offer.

THE BEAUTIFUL HYDRANGA

The*

.~>oariar> on the Soli and Air of

Gape'May possesses a peculiar soil sad air In which hydrangea attain to a luxuriant growth. Nearly every lawn about the place has its bed ol bydangas and with the green gross which ia a feature af this place and these beaotiflowere. It ia giveo an attrectlven^sa ich ia not possessed by any other of i newer re sort*. Id fact Cape Mar I wing the only seashore town nouth of Long Branch on fart laud, it enjoys advantages that none of the others between Long Branch and Cape May (oaseaaea.- The wealth of foliage which bounds 00 every street and the beautiful lawns evoke much admiring comment all desses of visitors who come here. Bdn* so situated there ia so air about the resort which reminds the viator that be ia in the country os well the shore, and thre one of the ns why Cape May la beloved by the thousand! who come here every

EARLY MORNING WEDDING Mlaa liens Hughes Married to Mr. Harry Hughes Yesterday . An early morning wedding occurred yesterday about six o'dock, when Mias Lens Bis It ner Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C- Hughe* oltbeGleDwood waa married to Mr. Harry Hughes by Re*. H. P. Crego. pastor of the Baptist Church. The happy couple atartrd 00 the lorning express for a wedding trip which will rod ode a visit to Washington, CMd Point Comlort, the Jamestown Exposition and other places.

Georg* U. Reeves.

Properties Bought, 8

ad For Rent.

oBoe, Broadways York AvenoH OcU-34-M West Qtpe May.