CAPE MAY HERALD.

VOL. VIII, NO. 51.

GATEWAY, N. J., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1908

81.00 PER YEAR

tocm™ MHIILESEWEB City Council to Meet > Monday to Receive the Bids

ON EAST CAPE MAY

Many StrMta Ovar tha Capa May Real Eatata Tract to Hava 8tor Watar Sawora—Will B« From Thirty to Et|)ht»on Inchat In Diametai

The City Council will meet la dal ananlnti oa Holiday evening next to recaire bids aad award coatracta. U any bid Is aatisfactory. for tbe lay lug of about 15.000 feet of storm wt ter aewor hi the New Cape May trot: Tbeae sewetw are to te of a dlmei. Hon of Zi ‘ncbes In diameter down U 15 .ache* and are to be laid on Phi. ad el phli, Readinc. Trenton and PUts burg Arenues, from the north aide cl Beach are. out into the pcean; aad on same areooea from New Jersey avenue, north to Idaho avenue; fron Union, atreet along Washington atzvet to West street; la Texas, Maaaachi. seas. Indiana. Philadelphia aad Wes. atreet; la Texas avenue from Masse i Washington atreet: in avenue from Teaas and venue*; Trenton avenue from Massachusetts to Vermont are cue. Reading avenue from Massacfau setts to Missouri avenue; Philadei phia avenue from Delaware to Peon syIranis aveoue. ThU work will entail aa expend! tare of about »SO.000 for which bond were issued la June iaat- When th‘t work la authorised the expenditure, of money realise^ frodi bonds wil, have been provided for and the gen era] sewer plan • begun some foci

A HUMOROUS LECTURE. WU1 Be Given In Skating Rink Hall Friday Evsning. The second o( the Star Course ol entertainments wlB be given at- th skat*ng rtnk ball, on Washington 8t. to-morrow evening. George P. Bill* the humorous lecturer and entertah er win be the attraction. He wT. give Shakeapearsan Readings an miscellaneous rentals. In the line of Shakespearean reader sod Impersonator be has achieved

mand of voice, gesture aad facial ex proas loo are etemeatr of strength li his lectures. Mr Bible’s versatility and keen Insight into Human net or. enable him to adapt himself to the changing coodtioos at Ms audlecces. He fans been In the Chautauqua* and Institutes of the west aad south, sad the call* .for return dates are the best evidence the Bureaus want of his popularity. Board of Trade Needs Funds. The Board of Trade Is still short . a trifle over $200 toward paying the Foley Advertising Agency la full for last Sumner’s sdvertlslng. The Board could have placed the advertising frith s borne agency aad received fust as much benefit from the newspapers. aad It might not at this time

Cape May Gets Three Jobs. In Urn Republican Senatorial Cau no St Trenton oo Tuesday. Senator Ifend.of Cape May county was awarded the seal eta nt MB clerk, gallery keeper aad flle Merit. These jots

Sayre, at Cape May; Daniel Cosgrove, of Cold Spring; aad Walter Homan, 'of West Cape May.

ftofeblne te be President of Sonata. The Republican majority of the Senate In caucus at Trenton. Tuesday selected Samuel K. Robbins at Bur-

Dey. Apropriate music wtfl be dered by the choir InMuMng "LetA. Sr’s Cradle Bceg.” Rev. Dr. Ji McLeod frill preach- AS U9 corwi f

MlELfi. SHIES HEMS VETERANS The Annual Reunion of Twenty-Fifth Regiment Ou Saturday Last *

CAPE MAY MEN THERE

The Second Battalion Chooae Other Officers—Furman Barnett, John W. Reeves, William T. Stevens, Rev. Joreph Garrison, Are Officers— Mast in Bridgeton Next Year.

Veterans of the Second Battalion. 25th Regiment, New Jersey* VoUWi. gathered at Atlantic CKy. on Saturday for the annual reunion and election of offleef*. Many local vet a were member* of this command during the Civil War. The Twenty-fifth was recruited both North and South Jersey. T^e First - Battalion wal composed of Are Paterson companies and the Seccno Battalion contained five companies recruited In Atlantic. Cumberland and Cape May.OoueUea. When the veterans asee Grand Army Hall they were by Mayor Stoy. in one of Ms characteristic speeches. Routine tmaoccupied the morning aesslac and at noon a banquet was served the Hotel Roanoke. Officers chosen at die afternoon seeaic

follows; —

President, Samuel R. Stitt*, ,Cape May. \Aoe President. Simon L. West colt. Atlantic City. Recording Secretary. Jam** W. Trenchard, Bridge Financial BecrcCary, Furman Barnett. Cold Spring. Treasurer. J. Albertson, Ocean CSty. Finance Committee. John W. Reeves, Cape May; Joseph H. Holmes, Cape May t House. Historical Committee. Rev. Joseph Garrison. CedaryUW; Ew ing W. TlUWua. Booster’« Point; Willi am T. Stevens. Cape May. The next meeting wlH be held In

Bridgeton.

Let everybody'gwt reedy and take Interest In the Here!-*’* move to cate

brute this anniversary. •

FUNERAL OF E. D. WE8TCOTT Former Seaville Bey Died at Hia Homs In Reading, Pa. Ephriam D. Westcou son of Mr* Marietta Westoott and of the late Edwin F. Westoott. of South BeavUle. died at hia home. 19o Fifth street. Reading. Pa., on IBursday, December 16. 1986. aged 41 years. Westcott bad been 111 eight weeks passing through- a run of ty pbold fever wtth eo comage meet ol ultimate recovery, but pteurisy In with fatal result*, the best medic* sklR and nursing with a final resort surgical o^_-~AU on .Bailing to sere Ms life. 00 Monday, the 14th Ing relatlvea and frieo pay the last tribute of respect to 1 memory. Twt> ministers of the gowpei officiated at the aerricee. both known the deceased In tlmately ever since be went to Read

spoke

Impresatvely of the worth aad character of the departed one aa g'oltlse:man. of M* personal tr tegrity and Ms exempt ary reUglOtulife. . Many beautiful floral offerings marked the sympathy and lorikj friendship of many bands. s made at* Btendon ml lea distant, the ft nerai party being conveyed in a spe r, gonrvousiy proffered by the Reading Railroad managrmeiy. Both religious and Masonic rites were observed si the grave

at fif-

teen. the lad took up the study o: railroad ofBos work and telegraphy. tow. years found him holding a rewlih the Readito

THE MERCHANTS NATIONAL The New Bank Is Gradually Gaining

Patronage.

The Merchants National Bank at le corner of WesMngtoa and Decs ir streets, whtob opened tor baaluu last Tbureday. Is gradually gain-'

Railroad Omspany at Wflndngton. .

>d higher to a place In the main office at Reading- A tow years

be* resigned

offer aa advertls large department store. At tb« tlmt of Ms death be was conducting some -lenaire advert!

rn aococnt.

Many wlB keenly tool Ms toss, while * the devoted wife, the loving mother, the sisters and brother, a aor

THE UMIIING OF An After Dinner Talk Bu Little Toramu Jones

The Efforts of The Herald to Celebrate Its Taking

BIG TIME AT RESORT

he 200th Anniversary of the Landlt j of the Navigator Will Taka Place In August-Septombor—Ought to Bo Big Tlijvo at Caps May—Let Every Business Man Gat Interested.

s suggestion made by the Cape Jay Herald In Us issue of last week that the old town of Cape May next August and September fittingly celebrate the three bundmb anniversary of the land!tig at Cape May of Hendrick Hudson, the famous Dutch navi gator, has taken root among our dUteusand some of the members of the Board of Trade will bring to tie attention of that body the ad risibility of preparing for the proper oetebra-

tlon.

Old Cape May wtth Me S.u ywara of history, proudly boasts of Its career and we oug** not tp Jose sight of any effort which couM be made to bring this resprt, the greatest on the Atlantic coast, to the minds of Use people throughout the United States. This place, with the finest beach in the world.with the most equable climate and accommodations to take care of the moot fastaiiooa. aa wail as those who do pot theatre every, advantage, ought to be advertised to the world more than has been

TH HID EHHTF TRIP III SOUNDS'

FITIND HINT

Afn lTtf ’ F0Ur Mr - '■'"‘I Mrs. Harry CalOf Our Weil Know | faghan Sho . Very Young Men j Neat Model ' NEEDED MEDICINES|is A xv0 ^“ s j D £ A

If CfTWSTfVS HAPPENED ONCE A P of coorse rr wmi) be guard ; Birr srsixr once a msa is just ABOUT ALL-1 CAN STAND !

be pee

FOURTH WARD NEWS Notes of Interest From the Esst End

Of Town.

Keep your weather eye oo &U1), Hand; be is keeping tabs oa the cod flah,'and make* trips toF he ML* Beach Ms yacht Bono. He orders and fWs them promptly.

Ttm T. M. A. Coumk

win be George P. Mbte at the skating rtnk HalL Washington street, to-

morrow, (Friday) eveniag Mia. Course Saodgren to

her mrther. Mrs. Kate RatfenspMger, 1 who has been aeriouafy iU.

home In Gettysburg. P*.

j Mrs. Annie CsrswcU, who mmkt ■*“*■ — t Cape May with*

THE COUNTY COURTS Criminal Busmsss Was Dispoasd of

On Monday.

Judge Illldrea held the seastoo o; the Crimea! Court at Court Hoos-

on Monday.

vVUHam J. Hamilton was tried foi larceory upon three Indlotmebta froci r term 1607. Jury brought in rirdksr of not guilty and' prtaooei

ordered discharged.

due*meet which la bringing bustnesi the Inst!tattoo. The officers are all of Cape May’s most prondneot am substantial dtlsene-Tbe banking room

Is substantially.

to Join-her son In New York. They > w4M speak the winter month* Umrs 1

sod expect to come back to- Cap; f or ,'*ooi of $200. The murderer to si May In the- early Spring. ; posad to be In Italy.

j Mr. and Mrs. Georgs C.

Who. bare beep occupying Mrs B..x‘ ' Eldredge’s cottage oo Washington 6c, .for the year past. _w* soon take up their, residence-- In West Cape May.}

{there Mr. Bondgnui has bunt

PAVING THE WAY.

Starling A. Carlton Hildreth on Road

To County Clarkshlp.

New Year’s Pared*. Iflttto'traw oo Mechanic street. " ‘Um* that A- Caritoo HBdrsth of Tt» Orlc CUh. the organlxadoa rc- Mectwy, Ms brother Jay an • ^ Township, mHv nerfnemad mnnana to bare ««W7. ■=» orovuev- -ay .

proposes to hare

a New Year’s day parade, coostsUng of floats and othe* exMMBons of »nwork SHE be bollt of ahunnlurn. while dustry and fancy drees mummers. Among those .who bare already rigtheir Inboatloa to partiripats

the parade are the Cape May Cl-l ric Club, Cape May Cathode dub, 1 OgaltaMs Tribe of Red Men. No. 167.:

sounds three days last week duck shooting aad brought Lome forty. | It Is gratifying to bear that, the . ! West fimlly on Corgto street are eonrakatng asd that the Quarantine

will soon be lifted.

, pubHcan County Commlttoe and bro-

Udred Hand was a recent visitor to PMladelphi*.

Cane Mar Cadet* three cotored ’ Ur * HBaa ■° B - »i«re , .d. cinb. thr« colored^ lo ndfedelpw* «reral .toy, Mri FlrTSSr^aL and the toP « 0 do ^ Cbrtotoma rimppiug. Uttle “ ifepartmem. ano »e H4roW h,d a talk with Santa Claus

lowing fldate will also appear in line:

*"**' *■- “”i"* It. auMl E. ~ to to,

i. iw.

; -to-to Hm, m. to >KItoto»bU 103

Thomas H. «,vwwl day# and 1* think-

Wtoto« to» to». tod ~ TL.

home. He baa attsactlon.

tr. Floral float. A. J.» S Company, 1; Thoms

Waldorf «

i Laventboi, 1.

NEW 8. P. C. A. OFFICERS.

tber in-taw of State Senator bert E. Hand. wW be a candidate for Coanty Clerk this taB to suoceed Dr. JuHus Way. In order to introduce Mr. Hildreth'* capabilities to the people.

’’One of Ahe abtest

meet systteftilc bookkeepers In the county Is A. C. Hildreth, whose residence is at Rio Grande, He has risen to be the chief clerk In the internal revenue offloe at Camden; and has all the details of the vast amount

business done there at

, REV. B. F. SHEPPARD DEAD.

Succumbed in Methodist Hospital

[M Last Thursday Evening.

^, The it-.- v ' Be&Jamlo Kider Bhep”pard. aged 46 years, par or of ths

Tabernacle M. It. Church s

died Thursday night at ths Methodls Hospital. Pfcfla(telphia, where be- had

operation. The body

To- Give a Dane*.

A subscription daooe wia be_givea : the Wlndeor Hotel oo Wwdnesday

be Cape May County society for December Jl. by a number

prerentloo of cruelty of animals ^ ^ of »hl broc * hl •«*"• Friday aad ths fuWedneeday organised by dotting The anangomente are being i 118 ™’’ ,oyvlcM brid at the

the following odteerp: j made and s most pleeaant th

P ' b7 *‘ ck - - Iteipated. The committee cooeUU of

O. O. Barr. Frederick

'Price, O. A. Merchant and FYnnk W.

^ Milter,

They Kill Thirty-Flvs Duckg and Thre* Geese—Have a Delightful Trip Ovs the Shooting Grounds— j One of Them fall in the Souris.

But wiht no 111 Effects

Th* Machine IS Built After t ner of a Bicycle and An Worked By Handle Bar sne —Gives Promise cf Being

derful Invention.

It was a bang-op quartet of gun j y tr

toto « waraw utoi«| ra 7-^^ early lost wvt-k In quest of Use lus- 1

and Pearl :

or ot Broad u.

truet. West' Cape Ma

are the In.entore cf a flying m ( bine, the mode! of which was hlbiu-d to the Herald - editor ti'

week.

Callaghan credits hie wil Madam Marie Callaghan, who Is

webb-foot fowl of the sounds. U consisted of Bd Benoett, Frank Hebenthal. Harr)' Bettangy and Cter-

Sokelletger

was not without considerable pet* loo that ScheHenger consented to accompany thorn ou their annual cruise; not uotees the "medicine

replenished and taken

aboard would he go. The "chest" was promptly Oiled with the desired medicines contestant; of'two quarts “Red Eye", for stomach trouble. m s gallon ’Tbird Rah', for nor-1 ess; three quarts of XXX Light-1 Jn tar Indigestion; fire half ptni*' of "Tanglefoot,'' for chapped Up*; J' , t

dosen bottles of JHoothlsg »Trup.'Tor) w| ^ ^

•nsomuls; and several bottles fo ’Florida Water”, "Boda Water" and!

a quantity of toilet soep.

Tbe, reached their destination to-! bu , l(ni ^ , llLfTe maoMM with ward night and were aU anxious to) bl to L . xlKnmvnl go out gum dug that ereniog, ail but,, exJllUuoo on ^

Bennett, who would not leave the fron[

oni would appro- 1

priate Ids pajama*, and beside be

erica four years, and who from a family of Inventive with the luv-nti or,, and

only claims the credit of building to« model, assisted by her The flying machine is built after the model of

bicy»4to~ for Its mechanical workand for the flying part Is like eagle. Every part of the machine worked from the pedals of the bi-

ring

handle

wonderful Invention.

the model Mr. Callaghan Is

which l give beach

February. It

is arranged so that If it la nooee- , sary. a gus bag can be inflate- and

used to being out after sundown. o,, Urn tap <if the machine. Tto. and la a!raid te go home in toe dark. I njaoMn< . ^ ^ {eel ^ Tim boys wen- out and came back | , lQUl ^ ^ lo ^ of ^ wllu . H with seven Mack ducks and a god#.- - „ I1(J ,, fw[ ^ fmtll ^ Britongy kUUng four of the ducks a; 1 Mr uheves he can raise Alter Inspecting the meu -: lo . kuf0clent In ^ ^ a they retired ter a good. of and liau ^ ^ olgto’. rest. Early next morning the ^ up ^ ^ air b ,. ^ rimple , ou . boyb dotsored up again and were o:. 1 1^] ^ ^ ^ handle bar.

the Job again eager ter the fray Reaching their rewpoottve place. I ”sedge in" everything was sereue at ■ettaagy. was uartled irom hi of wild geeae by seeing a pa--. Uown _

__ Wward his dt-j Mr.'Callahan beiievve that bis macoys; he biased 'way M one, think straight in the air.

tog to kill the other when ft Jumped.

I trouble with ail flying u cir tb*T cannot travel, I

four

raised, so Harry bUxed '.

•way a^lu rigbt In U* bead. In oat L - Qr ^ dreT „ I)!ln his exmtement to. roach Hs game he ; ic£ co . lVV ..-u e , ; ; umea they have

o his waist in a hole Jiut fl-j ^ a

.-t—-,-*,- - i-tooc cto.- toitoto-j, totou begun work uu nally teaching the dueka. Aiscoveredl ^ Uii; y..^ of the frame that they were not mag but Frants}^ wUl a fnlmo decoys, deed), wfrjch he bad'Uuliiug . and ^e made of silk,which sriH be put .tor ducks to mid stream, which had. uirouga a process to prevent tearing

Inttmgted for sotth-fgot away While be was under the Itf to p„, Trat <1nd frocn going

neocw <rf a morning stamber. 1 through them.

Notwitostandlng this sad .-mlrtekr, ^ A n^oer of people have looked Hairy killed two more geese and oue;^ tj,,. mathlia.- and’are greatly taken

duck. Frank bad seven, Ctvwaos •!>". | with its poosibilitiee

Ed. twelve. Next dag but three were kiUod. and Ed. say* they must hare faU the medicine chest too frequently

thorough en-

joyment. and the boys did wall, oon

ecalve they got tMkty five d three' geese. And this is the way they had to plead with Clarto get him home. Ctorence, (tear Clarence, come home j,'3ith us now TBe dock lo the eebin strikes one. Don’t fuse with the boat any longer,

boy.

Yon Cant get the old tub to run! The cylinder’s cracked and the timer wont wort; Our wives have been waltla^ since the tub to a stake, CtareucX

Interesting School Entertainment. Pupils end teeobers of the Cape* May Point Public School, to connection with talent from other sonra-e ate busy elaborating and prepalring an exooudlngly interesting program for thefr Christmas entertainment to be given at Cape May Point, in the Union Church, Cape Avenue, for the benefit of the school Hbntry there. The entertainment, which will be given on Tuesday night. December 23 to fOl ol varied interest, and Indodea

c borne on the train with me Ctorence, dear Clarence, come home

with os now.

The speed meter dock's striking twot The night baa grown coWor, the

church of which he was pastor on) boat’s on a flat,

Sunday afternoon at t wo - o'clock, being And

Ths Bstt Job Printing Ths bsst Job printing

offtc* of th*

s. Attoroey 8. F. , n typ , ., nd th* spssd and fs-

From Injurisa

Dale, David Woodson, and Walter Redden, who were hurt in the automobile aochtant, near Atlantic CUy. two weeks ago, are sow abto to bsrout of doors Mr. Dale is not discouraged’ by toe sod dent.

Her use for the

( repaired and Is ready for use again. Nsw Yaar's Dance On the evening'of Dooombor Slst the decree team of OgaHalU Tribe of Red Men wlB give a danoo at k'HalL At 11 o’clock gtre a ghost dance. The charge of adtntasioa sriil be 15 rente fqr the men and 15 c