CAPE HAT HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 18,1009

PUT THEORY AOAINET THEORY.

The UU W Alter A. WjrckoK. the tnunp profe«»or of Prineotoo.” Mtltl a mACAAlD* editor, bad. In bln trampInc day*, many a quaint experience "He wa* talklnx to me one nlfbt about political economy. He wanted to prore that 1 wae wrung In my claim that laborearlng Ineentlone robbed poor men of work. He said, at the argument'* end. that he wa* reminded of • convereallon be overboard In 1900 on a tramp In Ponnaylvanla They were digging, he began, filter bed* on the outaklri* of Philadelphia with a etoam »hoveL The wonderful ihoYvl. w hutting and grunting, would dart tnio the earth. Jerk out agAln. and >wmg up merrily toward ■he waiting car. loaded wtlb a ton of dirt. Two laborer* atood bealde Wyckoff. They watched the quick and tlrelewa , hovel acuoplng np and dumping Into thr car a ton of earth at a lick. Finally the younger laborer laid, with an oath: ■ Ain't It a ehame, George, to abovel dirt that way V ■'How eoT said George, the older laborer. " 'Why. that there machine la takln' the broad out of the moutha of 600 men what would be required to do the tamo work with band ahovela' "George laughed. ■ Go on." he aald; 'you don't reaaon right. Lookahere, If thla (team dlggtn' would glee work to 600 men with ahovela, why not get 6.000 muo with teaapoona for the JobT “

Cape May in Years Gone By An Excerpt from Stevens’ “History of Cape May,” showing Our Resort to be Known From Lewis T. Stevens’ “History of Cape May County,” Published at the Herald Offce at Two Dollars per Copy, We Quote Facts Concerning the Resort’s i History of Three and Four Decades Ago

STAIRS WERE STRANGE TO HER.

She wax a very much bewildered, thoroughly vexed old lady aa abe atood at the top of the ascending escalator at the One Hundred and Twen-ty-ninth street subway station and industriously tried to make bar way to the bottom of the staircase She bad carefully stepped down and then, be fore abe could get to the next step, found hersel' back where abe started from. “No!" she grumbled and. hitching her big bundle more firmly under her arm. the grasped her abort petticoat firmly In the other hand and started down again. A second return to her starting place raised her Ire. and with a ''bound-to-get-the-beat-of-thls" expression she eyed the platform venomously and fot the third time plunged Into the perplexing problem. "Donnerwettemoohamahl; ~ she then shouted aa abe was firmly and smoothly brought back. Wat las It mlt dem stairs? Dey go np und up und np! How goes It downT” And then she was taken by the arm sod guided to the descending staircase.—New York Times.

The Woman and Ui* Earrings. "Now look at that woman." said ■ tan In the car, who was evidently i

this day and generation. Actually piercing the flesh so as to farther adorn herself, aa thongh enough ornaments could not be hung or otherwise attached t» the person. 1 never Rave been able to understand why they do not still wear rings In their noses and bells on their toes and put court plaster beauty spots on their faces. Just as they used to do, and a bit farther back put paint on their tacea Indian fashion, and a bit farther back a till—Indeed, one may go to the African gold coast to-day and find roe a aa well as women cutting vertical slashes In their faree as marks of beauty. However, mind you. 1 am not kicking. It la Just encouraging to oh o few women to-day wear

Last Momenta of Great Musician. A letter written by Count Grxyziala. who was an ardent admirer of Chopin, has been made public in London by Eduard ZeldenrusL In It the last moments of Chopin are thus r*v ferred to: "A few hours before he died be esked Mmc. Polocks to sing some melodies by Rossini and Bellini, and this she did with sobs In her voice. Listening to her voice be passed 'away." Speaking of the ftp neral the writer says: "Mozart's requiem and his own funeral march were performed with the assistance of Lablacbs. Vlardot and the concert so defy. H was characteristic of the tlroee that the artists should have aeked 2.000 franca for this last tribute to Choptn. One would have thought that pride would have kept them from selling their gifts on each

Tubsreuloel* The international Tuberculosis will be held la Washington next September. A great exhibition Illustrative of what Is being dons the world around In the fight against the disease will be held U connection with the congress, end the two will continue from September SI to October U.

Suggested by Memorial Day. The heiress sighed and slook be head. *> "No Mr. Dalrymple. 1 cannot mai ry yon." she said. The only man ever lovud died at—" A tottering, white-bearded vetera In Man atrodn past the window, nn ^TSeOylbwir

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Tuberioetuis, ie the Current nmnba of th. METROPOLITAN MAOAZ1NE lie. a Copy Al W—JmI... tl-SO aYeer

ARRRORRIATINa ORDINANCE i ordinance to direct and prescribe the amount of taxes to be levied la the of Cape May. In the year A. D-,

It Is no paradox to say that there nourishes Jn»t now a cult of ngRasre It la not confined to literature, tor wteoeea a vast deal of the fashionable portrait painting, from some even of Mr. Sargent's presentments downward. We cannot afford to let the evil grew without protest. Fidelity to beenty la what —*

In 1862 the Legislature passed an act allowing Cape Island to issue $20,000 in bonds for the purpose 6f erecting a water works, subject to the vote of the people. St John's Protestant Episcopal Church was incorporated in 1863. In 1866 the charter of Cape Island was changed so that Counciimcn were elected for two years instead of one. On March 28, if66, the “Cape Island Lodge, No. 30, Free and Accepted Masons,” was incorporated, with Virgil M. D. Marcy. Alvin P. Hildreth, Samuel R. Ludlam, Joseph Q. Williams, Samuel R. Stites, Samuel S. Marcy and their associates as members. The third disastrous fire on the island occurred on the last day of August, 1869, which destroyed that entire portion of the island lying between Washington street and the ocean, and between Ocean and Jackson streets, with the exception of the Columbia House and two or three other small buildings. Among the hotels burned were the United States Hotel, American House and the Atlantic and other small houses. The Atlantic was rebuilt About this time St John's Protestant Episcopal Church was built at Washington and Franklin streets through the influence of Bishop Coleman, of Delaware. In 1869 the mammoth Stockton Hotel, which stands to-day, was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at a cost of $600,000. This company owned it for about twenty years. Military organizations have been numerous at Cape May during the summer seasons. The Fifth Maryland encamped here during the summer of 1873, and has been here several times since. The Baltimore Light Infantry, the Washington Light Infantry, Sixth. Seventh and Second New Jersey Brigades, the Philadelphia State Fendbles, the First Pennsylvania Regiment, and various civic societies. such as St John’s Commandery of Knight* Templar, have been here during various seasons. On March 22, 1872, the act to incorporate the Cold Spring and Cape May Water Company became * law, and John C. Bullitt. General William J. Sewell, Jacob F. Cake, James Learning and Return B. Swain were the incorporators. The works, which were finally in possession of the city, were started in 1874. One of the most disastrous fires which has ever visited this seaside resort burned over the most interesting and profitable part of the ocean front of Cape May City on Saturday, November 9. 1878. The fire broke out in the Ocean House about 8 o’clock in the morning, amid excellent elements, and lasted until night. The wind was an ally, and the limited fire apparatus was of no avail. At hall past five in the afternoon it had crossed Ocean street, and taken everything dean on Beach avenue from Congress street to Stockton Row, and the mammoth Stockton seemed in the dutches of the fiend when the .efforts of the Cape May, Vineland and Camden firemen, and the steamers which the two latter companies had brought with them, finally subdued iL All night long and Sunday the people were storing away their goods which they had saved. Trains came down crowded the next day from Philadelphia. The burned district covered an area of over thirty acres, divided as follows: Congress Hall property, five acres; the block bounded by Perry, Jackson and Washington streets and the beach, eight acres; the block bounded Uy-^ckson, Decatui and Washington streets and the beaft eight acres; the property destroyed between Decatur and Ocean streets, from east of Washington street to ocean, five acres; the property annihilated between Ocean and Guemey (Stockton Row)' streets, five acres. The Star of the Cape, of the Thursday following the fire, said: "The ravages of the fire can scarcely be appreciated from a pen description. Where on Saturday morning stood thirty acres covered with magnificerit hotels, gems of cottages and thousands of bath bouses is now a blackened waste, swept by the besom of destruction, leaving nothing in its wake but spectre chimneys and smouldering ruins.” The property destroyed was estimated at $600,000, and included nine hotels: Congress Hall, On February It, 1880,John Mecray Post, No.40, Grand Army of the Republic, was organized, with twenty-one old soldiers as members, as follows: George W. Barnes, Samuel C. Barton, James H. Carman,- James V. Clark, James CranDonndly, William B. Eldredgt William l^rrow, Augustus dol, John B. Davis, James J. Doak, FrancisK. Duke, P. J. C Gile, Thomas Lemmon, Christopher S. Magrath, William W. Messich, John N. Reeves, Mitchell Sandgran, Charles Sandgran, Henry W. Sawyer, Henry P. Seaman and John D. Speace, The iron ocean pier was erected at the foot of Decatur street in 1885 at a cost of $60000. In the autumn of 1889 the New Columbia Hotel, built on the site of the Atlantic (burned in 1878), was burned down. It was a brick structure, valued at $200,000. In 1879 the present Baptist Church was erected at . the corner of Franklin and Lafayette streets, but was not dedicated until August 14, 1892, when it was out of debt Centre House, Ocean House, Avenue House, Merchants’, Centennial, Atlantic, Knickerbocker and Columbia, all frame buildings The principal cottages burned were Fryer’s Bluff and Ocean Cottages, on Perry street; J. E- Mecray'*, Peterson’s, Fenlin's, Eliza MiHer’s, King’s Ocean , Villa, HBdreth’s Wyoming Cottage, Chill’s, McConnell^ two, and Rudolph's, on Jackson street; Judge Hamburger’s, King’s three, Denizot’s and Columbia's two on Decatur street; Smart’s, Fisher’s, Bullitt’s and Wolfe's on Ocean street When the fire fiend had finished iu work it left the following hotels: Stockton, Arctic, National, St Ehno, Sea Breeze, United States, Chalfonte, Arlington, Clarendon, Cape May House, Delaware House, White Hall, Chester County House, Mineral Spring, Tremont House, Baltimore, American, Washington, Greenwood, and Young*A In the place of the burned ones Congress Hall was rebuilt of brick on the ocean part of the property where it stands now. Congress place was laid opt. «n< where the main building of Old Congress Hall stood Is now the Bberon and several private propcstie*.

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1 Recorder, Superintendent Water Wort*, etc..

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The History of >:Cape May Counf/:rasx THE ABORIGINAL TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAT oussente AM account of the Aborigine*; The Dutch fa 01 the County; The Whaling; The Growth of the Villages; Tire Revofatioa and Patriots; The Bsubhahaeat of the New Gow-mnent; The War of 1812: Tfat Progreaa ot thr County and Soldiers of the Was. St tSWB TOWKSEJTO STEVENS U* Ftf«. « Qlutretloni. 31 Ckapttn. I A*prai]ce> Mm mtmi* •> ucurr « hm *> LEWIS T. STEVENS, Publlabcr •10 Washington St Cnpe Mey. ft J

It lighting Streets snd Public Buildings 12600 00 14 Repairing, Cleaning * Watering Street* 6000 00 ] 16 Fire and Water 6600 00 , II Property and Impror*-

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Tuesday, March 2*. ISOS, I o’clock P. M, to the Ooundl r of the City Han, of aald

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to retd City Council at the Store at fare apart tied and at no other tin - place wtl any proposals ho r

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The Council of the Qtty of Oap* May. N. J. reserves tha right So I fact any or all Ufa and to waive a tofonnmaty to the Ufa reotired

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DO YOU SEED THE HERALD! py IT IS TO THE ITEREST OF EVERY man who visits or owns property in Cape May to be a reader of the Cape May Herald. In its columns you will find throughout the year much matter that will interest and be of value to you tor the trifling cost of one dollar per year. It you do not tdready take the Herald cut out and fiil in the following coupon, enclosing check or a one dolltar bill, snd mail same to “Herald,” Cape May, New Jersey.

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