, "CAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1906

TRENTON HIM Matters of Interest to the People Happening af State Capitol

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pruju-riy ami i«i.|«.rai .inn the seMk.n to i-an- tor tl work and maitors i.iui-tit Mr. Brown—Aumuda the rT^iulrlmc plijili laun to u‘l« of coinmnnlcablr ill*! i«n the state tiourJ of health—' Senate In Executive I

niNslimer. was the bone of e..iiteiittoi. All the a|i|x»lnteiw were cotifirmyd ei cept Mr \\ .s«U>rtili{e. The ttovernor arut to the senate b: Tnesday the follow ing nomination*: To be .late cotninbwlomir of reporti william C'lokc «rf TYenton. To lie pn«e<-utor of the pleas of Mon moath county. John S. Applegate. Jr to succeed lleno □. Xevlus. reslsuw' To la- members of the tsmrd of man agera of the state tillage for epileptic —Caroline B. Alexander of Hudao. county, reappointed; Georglana Doan. Collard of Hudson county, reappointed: John lid ward dark of Middlesex cc ty to succeed William E. Drake.

U lias arlaeti lu baukluc circles ns In Ju»t what the 1U0T law did. 11 I*, claimed* however, that Mr. I^atrJltV bill uu-ans that the excite laws shall t>e applied in Good Friday and

that the sal isms must lie dosed.

The hoyse adopted, on motion of Mr. Nichols, a resolution provldln* for the

appointment of a committee of flvi

arrange for the suitable observation

the one hundredth anniversary birth of Abraham Lincoln, and the

speaker u|i|Miliilrd a* such committee

•mblymeu Nichols. Tumulty. H. B. Smith. Matthew* and Mere*. Both’ Housts Hard at Work.

Both houses worked Industriously bile they were here this week and irly clean'd their calendar*. On Tnes jy the bouse cleared away It* work irly in the mornlug and then took n M-css for nil hour ao that the commitBuck of Cumlierlaud Introduced u bill

day In the bonne which Is likely

to stir up a hitter fight If Ita paaanpc

pushed. It provides that upon appll

lion of a parent the board of educuin of any municipality may permit illflri'ii to remain out of achool not tn ceod four weeks In any one school •ar. The object of the bill. Mr. Buck

declared, was to allow the cbHCrt

farmers to assist tbelr fathers In the field and was greatly desired by tbi agriculturists of hlx section of tin Mate. Mr. Buck represents a con stltuency lu which there are uutnerom glass houses, the proprietors of whlcl have always fought the child lals*

Cape May in Years Gone By An Excerpt from Stevens’ “History of Cape May,” showing Our Resort to be Known

From Lewis T. Stevfens’ “History of Cape May Comity,” Published at the Herald Offce at Two Doilarejper Copy, We Quote Facts Concerning the Resort’s History ofThree and Four Decades Ago

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of them. Ot date license i Jersey upon

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nominal fee of *1. Now a full state I cense Is required by non-Jersey motoi bits even when |Hissing through th state. Another of the Colgate mcai urea makes It a mlademeanor for ChautTeur to be Intoxicated when drU Ing a car The third makes It n ml. demcat r not to have a car no llghti-d that the Innijw will shine 230 feet. The senate on Tuesday confirm, the apiKiIutmeut of William Cloke

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of imsllciU exnraltienuJohn J. Baumann of Hudson county, rea, pointed Jiills intended to relieve the at at. of Hie fiimm lal (Janger which the gov eruor |a>lnled. out In his special met sage were Introduced In the housi One by Assemblyman Matthews o Hunterdon provides that 20 jier ccn of 0.'- liquor II. eases i-f all municipal lites of the state Khali l<e laid into th state treasury By this mt'ans Mr Matthews estimate* tt>e spits wool. rereivMtnnually between fSou/WO anc" **•<.<*•>. si. i Nj£uar other hill* along thl* line c from Mr. Hlnuvelt. One provides tlie preset• I state hoard of asset sliail I-' als.llshed *nd crsal'-s 1“ h* .. a new tsmrd of three nremtiers n-t more than two of whom shall Is members of the same political party the salarl s to be $2 300. Another t bis Mila nhull'Ue* »lre present sMt board of e.|Ua!lr- ^ . of late* an. creates a nopr Unul of three uiembos net more than two of whom shall lie j<.ng to the same pcdljlcgl •ptrrty. saJ

Otlllty eonsTHlions lu the state. " Proposed Tax Law Chans*. Still another by Mr. Bbiuvell amend the tax, law of lOOGTiy fixing the nit. not the average rate of taxatloi a* now provided by law. but a rate ol $1‘. jier thousand upon the said entlrv ss.-.-s.-d valualhin of all railroad and canal iiroptyty. prt.vjded Ibat If said rate shall In ahy year less than the ••nverage rate of taxation” to Is- eon puled by the slate board of usacrfsol then the said average rate of taxation shall In- Hie rate to be used os herein directed; If said tax rate of $1U pel thousand l» held by the courts to 1>unconstitutional In any year the tat: rate for such year Khali then 1* tb. said “average rate of taxation.” Other bills Introduced In the bouse Mr. Matthews—Repeals U*t yeari game law providing for different sea sons In the upper and lower part ol

the Mate.

Mr. I rick-Provide* for fhe cost ol construction and imyroent of sewer., and server connections In townships. Mr. IL B. Bmllh- Pro ride* for the Issuing of marriage .'license* for all Iiess-m* desiring to tie married,

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yon* -Amends the public scbiil act so that member* of the !*oord of adoration are eligible to act as dbum •U-rks. 5 J artsy Troop* For Inauguration. The plan to send New Jersey troop* to Washlnirtpo to participate In ib? parade In connection with the Inongq ration of ITesldent ESccl ’Taft apjiesrto have fallen upon evil times, robe net Austin Collate. i>erikmal aid t*. the governor. • matnber of the bly from Ensex. Introduced a bill appr'MMgptlng $2*1.000 to defray the ex. penses of the plan. The house tut this down to $17,000, and Oil* to to be attacked. It Is understood, when the house meet* again on the ground that only $i.000 was uaed to sand troop the inauguration four yaare ago. Those who think that nnder all toting tircuinstance* Now Jersey •bonjfl be re|ire*cnled la the Taft tr.augfakl parade In « aianner befitting her dignity and position among the atataa will toll bow almost erery Jerseyman

' who witnessed-that parade bung bto

ti.-d in shame at tb* porslmoiilotof

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and John S. Applegate. Jr prosecutor of Monmouth county; Mrs Caroline B Alexander and Mrs Got glanno Ihmite Callnrd as members ol the board of managers of the stat. village of epll-pths; John J. Bowma. of Hudson, stale board-of medical ex a miners Bold Atlantic City Man. The attempt to By In the face of public opinion and hurl defiance ni Governor /ort by Atlantic City wa, made by Mr. Kefter. the young repre sentative of Atlantic City. |>y a bill legnliring u wide open Sunday In tla city of the great boartl waft. U provides that In all municipal! ties adopting the provisions of the act It shall be lawful for legally licensed persons to sell spirituous rlmjfit or brewed liquors nt any and aUhour* of any and all day* of the week. fo moke this measurf effective R must be accepted by a majority of voter* of a municipality at n spec In! election asked for by at leabt 10 pe| pent of the voter* who cast their lots for the gubernatorial candidate of the two leading |>nrtle* election. It to provkhd that In any c!t> adopting It an ordinance msy *- passed keeping the saloon* closed days before noon, but In no case can the MiUjous be closed from noon At midnight. „ This Uat cotx-esxlcm Mr. Keffer. wh< la .perfectly hcTicfl lu stutli.g what hi mtairare 1* Intended to do. was put h to oblige those cities where there Is n large German American element that only wants the saloons open Bundaj afternoon.- thus giving them the con tlnenta! Sunday. Thl* bill. It la understood, will b< vigorously opposed by the church ant) gntl-ealoon people, and a lively flghl ier It to looked forward to. Favor* Sunday Baseball. Another meaihire which’ to oppose.! by the church people of the wbk-b was advanced to second read Ing In the bouse to Mr. Olwelli permitting Sunday baseball. Assemblyman Kbnny of Hudson In troduced a scries of resolution* pruvld Ing for the amendment of the constltu Uon to permit a general reorgunlmtlon of the county and district courts and the prosecutor* 1 offices and the election of senators by district* Instead ol by counties. v Mr. Kenny - * Idea to t. hare twenty-one senators, as at pres ent, but to elect them by Jtotrlct* o| equal population Instead of Uj eppu

He*.

A* this would give the larger dtlre control of the upper chamber, tbt rural member* sre already up In arms against the proposition. Among the bills Introduced In thr senate was on* by Senator Brown <•! Mon month to permit the freeholder to extend the projioscd Ocean boulevarfi through Ocean GrovA Mr Ulnrhllffe lu trod wed a bin cut ting the salaries of lb* state watet supply tomuilsskmer* from $2..V)0 l> $500 a year and a bill to permit at torneys to demand a full hour It which to address juries. Mr. FrcUnghayaen put In a riding that revenue from au licenses now devoted to the rcpnlrin; of "county roads" be der.iled to the repairing of “country foau*." Another attack was made on Qcaau Grove In the bouse by a bill by Mr Poole of Monmouth Incorporating the borough of <)<♦■«> Grove. Already the Ocean Grove association Is agalnsl the laoioslUou and jnoposaa to awoop down npon the hoMa Is fqaea to op

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“The village of Cape Island is a favorite watering-place in the southern part of this township, thirteen miles south of Court House. It began t6 grow into notice as a watering place in 1812, at which time there were but a few houses there. It now contains two large hotels, three stories high and 150 feet long, atid a third one, lately erected, four stories high and loo feet long, besides numerous other houses for the entertainment of visitors. The whole number oi dwellings is about fifty. In the summer months the Island is thronged with visitors, principally from Philadelphia, with which there is then a daily steamboat communication. It is estimated that about 3000 strangers annually visit the place. The village is separated by a small creek from the main land; but its area is fast wearing away by the encroachments of the sea. Watson, the antiquarian, in a MSS. journal of a trip to Cape Island in 1835, on this point'says: ‘Since my former visit to Cape Island in 1822, the house in which I then stopped (Captain Aaron Bennett’s), then nearest the surf, has been actually reached by the invading waters. • * * The distance from Bennett’s house to the sea bank in 1822 was 165 feet; and in 1804, as it was then measured and cut upon the house by Commodore Decatur, it was 334 feet It had been as much as 300 feet further off, as remembered by some old men who told me so in 1822.’ A large portion of the inhabitants of the village are Delaware pilots, a hardy and industrious race. About two miles west of the boarding houses is the Cape May lighthouse.” The mode of travel to and from the county was either by stage or vessel up to 1863. The steamers during the summer seasons made round trips from Philadelphia and New York once every two days, and sometimes there, was a daily communication by water in this season with Philadelphia. But at other seasons of the year the water route was more uncertain. The stages ran by way of Bridgeton and Tuckahoc. The "Bridgeton stage” passed through the bay shore towns from Cape Island to Bridgeton, while the "Tuckahoe stage” passed through the villages on the seashore side of the county, going to May's Landing and thence to Philadelphia These routes were subject to change. The stages, before the advent of the railroads, carried the mails, and, when approaching the villages, the driver would always herald their approach by tooting a big horn. Then the village folk would gather around the primitive postoffice to get a letter or hear the latest news from the “United States Gazette” (now the “North American"), of Philadelphia, which seemed to be the principal newspaper read in the county. The fare between Philadelphia and Cape May, one way only, was $3.50 per passenger. The Bridgeton stage, which in 1856 was owned by James Whitaker, left Cape May on Mondays and Thursdays at 5 in the morning, winter and summer, and passed ‘hrough the villages of Cold Spring, Fishing Creek, Green Creek, Dy- ' erj Creek, Goshen, Dennisville, Leesbury, Dorchester, Port Elizabeth and Millville, arriving at Bridgeton on the same .evening at 4 o’clock. There the passengers took another stage and went op to Philadelphia. The returning days were Wednesdays and Saturdays, which gave die team of horses a day’s rest between times. Those who drove these stages the longest were Henry C Mnlliner, William Hebenthal, better known throughout die county and to his passengers at Jfce timers “Dutch Billy.” ifc people of this county held many meetings during the eight years preceding 1863, when die Cfipe May and Millville Railroad was finally opened to Cape May. There were schemes and routes laid out for many roads, and during the year 1857 the proposed “Cape May and Atlantic” Road had meetings held all over the county. The directors of it were Ebenezej^Vestcott, Joshua Swam, Jr., Hczeldah W. Godfrey, Matthew Whilldln, Dr. Henry Schtnoeie, Daniel E. Estd, Abraham L. lizard, William Schmoele and Lilbum Harwood. Elias Wright was the engineer in charge. On September 2, at a public meeting at Cape Island, Down! Edmunds, Jr., David Reeves, John West, Waters B. Miller and Joseph Ware were appointed to confer with die West Jersey Railroad about building a road through the county. Op the 7th Of August, preceding, Dr. Schtnoeie, Matthew Whilldin, Waters B- M31er and Joseph Ware (then MayorWere appointed at a public meeting to confer with the Camden ana Atlantic Road for the same purpose. The Council of Cape Island was asked to subscribe $10,000 for die enterprise, which it finally did on April 24, i860. Matthew Whllldm was paid by this Council also to procure the right of way for a road from property owners. Joseph S. Leach, editor of the "Ocean Wave,” and Charles B. Dungan, who was president of the company which finally built the road and who was the contractor also, deserve, with others, a large aharr gf gratitude from the present residents of C£pc May county for their untiring efforts in getting the road here. On May 13, 1863, the Board of Freeholders passed a resolution allowing the Cape May and Millville Railroad the right to frty rails over Cape Island bridge, and within a few days thereafter the railroad was opened to Cape May. It was not until August 29,1879, that it was united with the Wort Jersey Railroad. Since then the great Pennsylvania system has secured control and thus has given to Cape May unnumbered advantages, and cheap excursion rates from all over the country. The opening of the road cawed much prosperity. lu 1873 the State Legislature passed a law authorizing the building of life saving stations along the heaches. In 1875 the International Cute May Ocean Regatta came off, and the Cape May Cup, which was then won, has been carried all over the world and raced far many tunes since by those yachts famous both in Europe and America. The cup was raced for by the New'York Yacht Club from a buoy off Sandy Hook to Five-Fathom Beach, off Cape Msy. In the summer of l*7« ten commissioners of the Methodist Church South and 1

. LINCOLN'S EXAMPLE Som* Timely Admonition* to Mod*m Ichard Watson Glider, In Century. But nothin* ha* outworn the fundamental principle* of Lincoln's leadership. We hare the right to demand In -• equal •Incerlty, disinterand'devotion. We hare a right to point, a* a perpetual standard, to m* moderation; to hi* can•cteatlou* consideration of all Inter eats and vlerf*; to his wise and pellet* tolerance and open-mindedness: to his freedom from rancor and avoid ance of personal contention; to hi* moral courage; to fat* sense of Ju*oe; to his essential democracy. We may well ask of our leader* that they should Imitate his manly at tttude toward public opinion; that they should disdain to poison Ha somces by violent and unproved aaserlloi* and by the forced uee of our modem machinery of publicity. We may well Insist that they shall not meanly follow nor falsely and selfishly mold th* sentiment of voter*, but direct aright and to no Ignoble ends the opinion ai the suffrages of the peopie. We have a right to seeont leadership based ei ther upon conscienceless advocacy oi supposedly popular programmes, or shamelessly upoh the whol sale use of money. It Is our duty to warn against the spurious leadership that deals In Indiscriminate denunclaHoc .awakens a feeling of class and ol hatred, forgets the bonds of a‘ common dtixenshlp, spreads distrust and dlsplsal of the nation and sow* the very seeds of anarchy and

assassination.

We have a right to scout the dema Cogues who take the name of Lincoln upon their Ups and in their lives set at naught every principle of his na-

The History of -:Cape May Count/:-

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THE ABORIGINAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAf EMBRACING

There sre a Dumber ot oy»icr commi*lon* operating la South Jersey la oddllon to the State Commlanion sad the

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.' day t

week they colled on the

body to ask why he wished t their commission*. They found Governor believe* that il woul tb* efficiency and reduce the expenae

Notwithstanding tn* tact that the BrownaHUa »oldler* were oonvlctetaanid, executed many months sgo Foraker seems #UU to persist tn hi* old-fashioned <*— that they are entitled tn a trial somewhere along the Una.

Pouring Prosperity Through a Puncture.

AN account of the Aborigines; The Dutch in Delaware Bay; The Settlement of the County; The Whaling; The Growth of the Villages; The Revolution and Patriots; The Establishment of the New Gov.-nment; The War of 1812; Tb* Progress of tlu bounty and Soldiers of the War.

By LEWIS TOWNSEXIi STEVENS 480 P&gei. 48 Ula»tr&tion>. 31 Chapters. 5 Appendices SEMI JUST?AID OK RECEIPT OP fLM IT LEWIS T. STEVENS, Publisher 610 Washington St Cape May* Ft J.

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