VOL. IX. NO.

CAFE MAY HERALD. . CAPE MAY, N. J., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1909

81.00 PER YEAR

CITY COUNCIL.

Hold! La«t Regular Meeting of tfie

Present Year.

City Council met in Its last rcituiar I monthly session for the year on^TuesI day evening with every member pres nt. except Mr. Joseph Hand. After le formality of reading the minutes u Uie several last meetings. Mr.. Gllert. of the Ugh l Committee, report1 that 14 more.'lights had been talci off. leaving 74 still burning or 14 lore than the’contract and that the

MANY EMPLOYED] city already owed *5.0t>0 to the Ught

Company over the appropriation for

e present year.

MENTERPmSE GREAT BUSINESS Cape May Sand Company

Very Busy With

Orders

Ship

Even Has Been Sent to EuropeSix Sixes of Grains arc Supplied. The Cape. May Sand Company.-of which ex-Mayor J. Henry Edmund*, of this city, is general manager; Frank Enlrtken president: and Thi> , maa S. Stevens, secretary. l» Ju»« ' present doing a- most thrlttng business and .IS being kept moctng" to meet the demand for Its materials, which are shipped everywhere In the United States, a great deal going to Pltlshurg and Cleveland. Ohio. The plant is located Just b!>o». Cape May Point, on Delaware Ha J. Ilie company Is capi'a tied at *.’•''. 000. and has. its said, mtn-h greater assets than Its authori/i-U st.«-k limit. The satM and gravel lying on fliJersey shore at tb'c Point of Jh.

for filter sand in the world

The operations carriecf" on at the plant consisted In assorting and grading ghe different qualities of saqd. "Part of the sand is'dug by steam sbovels, holding from one to three cubic yards, from the water’s edge and.a part from the sand hills ad Tu.- 'property known as Hlcbee’s It -ach Is the scene of the operationsh extends from Hlgbue’s landing Jo the famous steamer Republic's landin a distance of over two miles. The company has secured a long term Jease and pays a royalty on Jhv

amount of material sold.

There are two methods Of grading and ^sorting, viz: thY wet and th^dry -• The sand is carried by buckets fastened to an endless chain and emptied into a receptable about fortj feet above the level of the. ground, from which it is passed into revolving cylindrical screens. The first .screen is the coarsest and all the finer sand and pebbles are washed through this screen into a throug below which pasres it into a screen of somewhat finer weave and so continued until six grades of gravel and sand are secured, ranging from very - fine sand to very coarse pebbles. . In the dry process the sand it emptied Into a steel drum, twentyfeet long and four feet In diameter, and heatea to a temperature of about 200 degrees F. then carried by buckets on endless chains to a series . of cylindrical screens arranged obliquely so that all the sand that is too coarse to go through one screen is carried by gravity into the next j coarser one. In this way the finer sand is taken out first and each succeeding grade gets correspondingly coarser. Six grades of sanfl are se-

cured by the dry method.

As* the sand leaves the screens It is carried by gravity through shoots into bins placed higher than the tops of freight cars and when shipments s to be made, a car Is placed along.

HISTORY OP THE

EP

St. John’s Is Forty-Five Years Old and the Advent Ten

of a parish In Capo May City, a I her of these petllloners met In the KEblt Hotel, now known us Uiu Virginia. on Jackson street, on Dccombor 19th. 1899. The Rev. Charles M. Perkins, of Salem, N. J.. Dean of the Convocation of liurlinuton. was present and presided. At that mei-ting Uio following committeemen were chosen: Mr. William F. II. Retd, chairman; Mr. William A. Knott. Dr. Thomas j Hay. Mr. Jlavid S Met win. and Chas K. Chadwick, to arrange for services and secure building. On Sunday, December 24, the first services of the Ad-

LATTER DOES WORK Church were held In the Chapel

of the Girl'll Friendly Soclt*y on

Stille Hand reported a washotn on Reach avenue north of the Ha u-1 Cape May and stated that It would take about two hundred loads of dirt to nn It In. The work was ordered done under the direction of street supervisor and wltlf the city teams. K communication was received j from the Slate Board of Health con-

■-erning Cape - Island Creek, south of \ the Turnpike and It was suggesed I

.tnat a committee of Council visit the

State Hoard of Health at Trenton and i number of the

The Church of the Advent the All the Year Parish—Rev. Arthur Hess in Charge—Talk of Consolidation —The Summer Visitors Have At-

tended St. John's.

ughes street, icted by Mk as' afterward

PUBLIC SCHOOL HONOR ROLL Those Who Were Good During the Month of November IS YOUR NAME THERE

confer .with the Stale engineers as i ‘ ic means of- remedying any un- ] sanitary conditions which might arise | At the conclusion of the council j meeUng : conference was held with" •ewei commission with regard to assessment to be made on the of the Cape May Real Estate

made lay rendei Bishop Scarborough.

On January 9. 1900, after sci Ic the Girl's Friendly House,a Board of Trustees were chosi u to consist of the former execuUvo committee

Tic EplM—p-1 CurU. to C|. M-, “'"‘l”' “” OU r '*"' d * h '°

Mr. Chadwick was iund<- secretary

City was first established In 1M4- . nd Lo W „ T . stevans treasurer.

On the fifteenth of October, 18G3, a J The bul'dlng used ’ by the First

lembers of that faith j Presbyterian Church from 1851 until

• coo •—..-a — Lafayette street

being

David S. Merwln, who [ t- 1 ** of Pupils In the Public Schools

Who Obtained Good Averages During the Month of November—An Interest Being Taken to Koep on

the List.

t at Cape May Court House to le- 1898, located

nstantine F. Morris Dies ! tine F. Morris, who passed ity-ninth birthday on July died at half past three j st Friday afternoon, at the of bis daughter, Mrs. 1.1 ppard, on Jarkso

itroke of paralysis i gradually failed since, dr Morris was a native of Dennis \ TowQfhlp, Cape May County, came I dant agent, ln~a feeling speech, I s resided. ■ was a-conslstant member of the I Methodist Episcopal Church, having! dned In early childhood. He Is survived by a widow. Mrs. j Priscilla Morris, two sons. Frank and j daughters, Mrs. | Howard V. Otter and Mrs. 1. L. Shop- j pard. both of tbls city. ‘ funeral services occurred on Monday afternoon from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, and was conducted by the Rev. J allies Bums, former pastor of the church, and Rev. George L.. Dobbins, the present pastrment was made at the Cold Spring Presbyterian Church

United Workmen Elect Officers Cape May Lodge, No. 21. Ancient Order or United Workmen, last Thursday evening elected the followInfT^fticers to serve during the year ' 1910. Past Master—Lewis T. Stevens. Masti.r—Henry S. Rutherford. Foreman- -Thomas W. Millet. Overseer—Joseph C. Channells. Guide—A. W. IJand. Ri eorder—‘A S. Bush. • Flnapciet—Samuel’F. Eldredge Receiver—Albert B. Liftle. Inside Watchman—Geo. H. Reeves. Outside Welch man—Samuel C. BarTrustee—Joseph C. Channels. Representative to Grand LodgeHenry S. Rutherford, Lewis T. Siev*

. W. Hand, Samuel

Alternates F. Eldredge.

l committee consisting of H. 6. , Rutherford. A. W. Hand. 8. F. El- ( dredga wav appointed to arrange for the social to be held at the Installa-

slde of a-bln and loaded through a Hon night in January.

abate. At the present time they an- shipping about six carloads aday but th*capacity of the plant is estimated at twenty carloads a day. They employ twenty-five men. are operating two steam .shovels and have about five miles of railroad tracks on the prop-

erty.

An additional wet plant has been erected about a mile north of the main plant to be operated In an emergency or to All extensive rush or-

ment to Canada. Some however, been sent to Europeean cities. Ths company contemplates erecting a dock and wharf and propose, shipping portly by water, os .well os

land tbm in summer.

Premium, on Cape May Bond* Howard, K. Stokes, of New York, bought *20.000 worth of Cape May county 419 per cent, bonds at a sale conducted by the freeholders at Court House last week. A total of (37,000 waa offered, th, remainder being pur

, All sold at .an

' la for the Holly Beach

Money to Lean. -

On first bond and mortgage Ji •urns from WOO to ISOM.

F C. HUGHES.

gaily incorporate a parish under the 'The Rector. Wardens and Vestrymen of St. John's Church and

pel May.

The minister who presided at the meeting was the Rev. F. L. Knight,

B. D.. and SamueLR. Macgonagli one lime Mayor o! the City May and for a number of yean’

tor of the Ocean Wave, was the secretary of the meeting. The two wardens chosen were Dr. Coleman F. Learning and Franklin Hand, both of Cape May Court House, while the vestrymen selected were Dr. Maurice Beesley. who was afterward County Superintendent of. Schools and author

sketch of the History of comber of that year. Various clergyCape May County; Hon. Thomon-BeeT men then supplied .the church until'

3

shlf '-ilia has -but

Freeholders In Session

The Board of Freeholders met In regular session at Cape May Court House on Tuesday. Bids were open-' for the building of the abutments oh the Holly Beach road, there being two bidders, J. Harvey Bennett, of this city and Robert E. Hand, of Erma. The total amount at the bids was around *1800 and Bennett was *32.lower than Hand The plans for the bridge over Egg Harbor Bay. beAUantlc and Cape May Councre exhibited and It was estimated by the engineers present that work would coat about *520,000

Met With Bad Fall.

Mr. Chris White met with fculte a severe fail on Tuesday while at rork at Wildwood Crest. He waa at 'ork on a three-story dwelling and a soma manner made a misstep which caused the fall. He was tab a physician,who dressed hi, wool sod was brought home In this city bis friends Mr. White is going se well as can be expected under the

see him about again.

fine line of goods this

The second floor is the place to visit, snd see his Una before porches-

Coal! SPECIAL Cash Price

Episcopal Church of ttie'Advent

.. nuigin.

was leased and the Church of the Advent has occupied It since that time At g meeting on'February- 9, 1900. the namo Protestant Episcopal Church'

of the Advent was adopted.

On May 19pof that year -a call was extended ’ to the Rev. Jesse Higgins, of Philadelphia, lo become minister of that church and the call was accepted. The Rev. Mr. Higgins offl-..

elated until the autumn of that year. Scherer, Randolph Schofield,

In November Rev. Isaac N. Phelps was appointed to take charge of the church by Bishop Scarborough and he remained until the opening of the summer season of 1901, when the church was closed until late in De-

Those of the scholars of the public schools of Cape May City, who obtained places on the honor roll during November were:

High School

Seniors—Charles Ferguson, William ec ray, Wilson Woo Ison, Ethel Champion, Carrie Focer, Mabel Hart,

e en Porter.

Juniors—Edith Bush, Ida Bush. Mabel Feastor, Emily Sharp, Carl ElllI ott, Harry Entriken, Walter Oliver. i Second Year—Clara Baker, Hannah | Douglass, Mabel Faulkner, Emily Mei I’hereon. Mildred Miller. Fannie Van- j aman. Emlalla Vance Alexander Lyle. ! First Year—William Camp, Mervln j Johnson, Wm. Long. Harry Mecray.J Lafayette Miller, Franklyn Morris. William Selvey, Charles Stetxer, Logan Taylor. Wilbur Williams, William Hebenthal Frances Brown, Sadle Brown. Margaret Johnson, Rebecca Learning, Anna Long, Ethel Scull.

Cora Williams. ,

Eighth Grade—LUUan SUefel, Dorothy Sheppard. Ella Benn- u. Augusta Nelson, May Bush, Lydia Swalo, Emma Hand. Edith Hand. Martha Wales. Charles West, James Hebenthal. Seventh Grade—James Kirk, Lewis Knerr, Harry Lehman. Leroy Schellonger, Hobart Stevens, Elizabeth Gorin. Mary East wick. Mary Keeler, elen Swain, Andrew Warner. Sixth Grade—Elizabeth Henderson, Thercsaa Tomaaao. Marie Hess, Jas. Hand. Lot- Lemon. Corbet Lehman. George SeheUenger. Harry Tenenbaum. Albert Tomaaso. Raymond Fln-

tiaman, Wayne Hart.

Fifth Grade—Walter Davis. Robert

Henderson, Edwin Smith, John Brown Mary Douglass, Alda Ewing, Caroline

Hebenthal. Yolande Clawson. Fourth Grade—Florence Chambers,

Helena Davis, Della Glddings, Elizabeth Kehr, Marie Nelson, Mary Pierson. Florence SeheUenger, William

Brown, Theodore Bennett, Oscar Mor-1 \-Z TON rls, Harry Rocap. George Stevens, j '

Ruasel Sink, Samuel Sheppard, Leslie j _

Tencnbaum, Elwood White, Karl j ^ ~ ’ TON,

Scherer, Ralph Stltes.

Third Grade—Katharine Brown, Ro-1 1-8 TON ,

saUo Clark, Ella Reeves, Mary Esther Sheppard, Clementine Stewart, | Helen Waldorf. Lawrence Briant.Sldney Bush. Fred Chambers; Ash brook | Church. Wallace DouglSh, Herbert ] Earl, Fred Holland, John Keeler,Wm.

ley, Charles Hand, Samuel R. Macgonagle. Waters B. Miller, afterward State Senator .and Mayor of Cape May; J. Holmes Hand, Anthony Bencand John Wfsl, whoaaas one of the proprietors of omTongress Hall, and they fixed the first Monday in Easter week as the day for the annual meeting of the parish. In the summer of 1866 they purchased the property cl the corner of Franklin and Washington streets and erected St. John's Church, In which services hare been held every summer and by differently appointed ministers each

Sunday.

The present board of the Vestry of SL John's Church is composed of Albert r. Damon, Congressman George D. McCreary, Mr. Samuel W. Mormon. William F. H. Reed. William J. Sewell, Jr., and David C.Bz.rd. all of whom are summer residents at

Cape May.

No pariah work is done by this or- _ uiliatloa. Throughout the history at this church many eminent divines have preached from its chancel and nearly every summer from one to three Bishops have officiated Daring his lifetime the Right Reverend LeiCoieman, Bishop of Delaware officiated on the first Sunday In September, while the Right Revernefi John Bcargorougb, the present Bishop of New Jersey haa. officiated on the first Sunday In August. No pariah work was .done In Cape May until the organization of the Church of the Advent, during the Christmas period of 1(99. In response to a petition, signed by twenty-seven persona, directed lo the Bishop of Now J«t say, asking for the formation

ghton ( always

the opening of the summer season of 1902, when it was closed again. Services were not resumed until April 10, 1904, when a committee of the Parish Aid Society, composed of Mrs. Carter McKnigbt. Mrs. Frederick Wolff, and Mrs. Lewis T. Stevens, obtained authority from the Bishop reestablish services. They secured' as minister Rev. Edwin C. Alcorn, of Philadelphia, who conducted services until November 6th of that year and

followed by Mr. Francis T.

H. Finn, who was then a student in the Divinity School in Philadelphia and who was ordained as a minister while here. He conducted lap services from November 20. 1904 until October 10, 1906, when he resigned. The women managd the church until the appointment of the Board of Trustees on June 27th. by Bishop Scarborough,

who were appointed at that H. 8. Cannoll, Albert V

Damon. William F. H. Reed, J. Cal- Selvey., Luther Edmonds, Abner Ed-

vin Smith Frederick Wpttf. David S. Merwln and la*Wie T. S.-'-tns, two of these, Messrs. Cannell nnd Uerwle. since died; leaving tlie^rcmalnlng person, on tui; Board it Tnutoes. ' Various c-ii.liters occupied (he pulpit until the Winter of 1906. On Deccnibet 2'i. 1990. n <*11 wax extended to Rov Arthur Hear, of Lonsdownc, Pa and on Jan-ary 7. yor Mr. Has* ai-repted and has rqe.ltnned to be the Rector of the parish since. Dm in* the pest few years there hi s lanii txtnalderablc syhstlen for the nattlnr id St John's Church with the Cnnrch of (he Advent but no definite acUoa 4raa been taken by the official

bodies of ihatb >

t churchei, except that

(Continuad an Fourth Fata.)

Chestnut, Stove and Egg

Coal

$6.25

Prices of Coal at

the Rate of

2000 lbs. Per Ton Egg, Stove and

Chestnut

THE CAPE MAY JETTIES About Sixty For Coot, of the Work Has Been Completed. JetUce extending six thousand feet Into the ocean have been built by the Breakwater Construction Company at the new port of entry at Cold Spring Inlet. Cape May. About sixty per .cent, of the entire construction has been completed. Ships drawing twenty feet of water will be able to enter tie port between these Immense sea alls, and the value to be derived from the new £>ort of pntry h»» aroused the Interest of engineers and merchants the world over. Experts declare that the Jetties must be extendwo thousand feet further if a twenty-five foot channel Js required. Congress appropriated one million two hundred and fifty 'thousand dollar, this work, but only a part of the money has been expended.

PERBONAL MENTION Various Items of Interest To Yourself and Friends. Miss Anna Curtis has been visit ing friends at Holly Beach this week. Among Cape May visitors to Wildwood this week we noticed the familiar face of Mr. William G. Essen. County Sunday-school delegate F Sheppard attended a session of the State Sunday-school Association at Trenton on Tuesday. One of Auglesca’s charming young ladles. Miss CStharine McGlnley. pas x very pleasant time with Miss Ray Curtis, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. 11. McKean Hazelhurst returned home last night, after spending the autumn at their place

TON,

30 Days

Cash

*7.20

$6.48

3.66

3.30

to o o

1.80

1.00

Ray-

mond Warner.

Second Grade—Donald Bennett, Edwin Davis. Ralph Kill bop, George D, _ Harris. Parker Jcrrell. Loolin Price. William Ware. Geraldine Moyer., First Grade—Charles Bellangy.Leonard Clark, Edwin Cummings, Harry Ewing, William Hess, Laura Church. Elizabeth Elweil, Florence Filer. Be* sk' Plorana Daisy Holland. Edna Leh-

Pea Coal dredge, Charles Swain.

Kindergarten — Stephen Qlddlng. William Gibson. Philip Hughes, Jas. Logan, Dorothy Crowell, Dorothy Lea-

Grammar Department—Albert Nash, Clarence Bose, Grafton Mason, Howard Selvey, Henry Owens, Joseph Edmonds, Joseph Glbaon, John Thomas, John Edmonds. Leroy-Blacknall Samuel Trusty, Thomas Cox, Jeremiah Green, Willie Owens. Alfreds Cox. Joalc Blacknall. Jennie Wright, Madallne FRrguson, Ruth Holland, Hand

Cooper..

Carrie Blacknall. Margaret Cornish, Almeda Edmonds, Lily Jackson. Bynois Lewis, Fanny Owens, Minnie

monds, Henry Green. Arthur Huqt. Ferguson Hunt, Eugene Hunt, Hamilton 'Hunt, Matthew Thomas, James

Wallace.

Primary—Louis Bose. Julius Edmonds, Oscar Jackson. Willie Major. Willie Thomas, Louis Hunt,- Milton Thomas, Clifton Stevens. Kindergarten—Jamas Owens, Jeremiah, Trasty, Maud Thorns*

authorising the Issuing of bonds le unt of $10,000. with which K Is proponed to procure a municipal

water plant.

1 TON,

30 Days |5.44 9

Cash 4.90

1-2 TON, 2.77 2.50

MU ICE GO. J. HENRY EDMUNDS Sunt 612 Washington Street CAPE MAY, H. J.

Cape May Boy Honored In the private office of the agent Of the Spring Garden district of the United Gas Improvement Company. Broad street, and Colombia Avpnue, Philadelphia, on December 1st the employees presented Stuart H. Thompson with a token of their esteem and affection. Mr. Thompson had been connected with the U. G. I., Company twelve years as superintendent, and the office was prettily decorated with American Beauty roses and chrysanthemums, carnations, ferns, etc. Hie gift waa presented by C. A. Conard. the "Been There" stories, are practo which Mr. Thompson made an appropriate reply. Captain James Carr, one of the oldest employees of the district, then spoke a few words in behalf of the employees and their kindly feeling for their chid. Mr. Thompson was much surprised at the greeting which awaited him on entering his office Wednesday morning. Mr. Thompson has been with the company twenty-three years, as auditor and agent elsewhere. He went went with them eleven years before being placed at the head of the Spring Garden, Philadelphia, office, when his company secured the lease of the Philadelphia Gas Works.

Work Going Nicely. Contractor William 8. Shaw haa finished digging fifteen of the cellars of the twenty-five houses which are being built tor William Flinn. of Pittsburg, on New York avenue. He expects to have the remainder of the cellars Mug By the middle of next week. Cement work has already been started and before a fortnight has passed there will probably be a hundred workmen buialy engaged on this property.

"HERALD” SMALL ADLETS

’rents a line. Raven words to a

The fact cannot be to strongly Impressed on the minds of all poperty wuara, that lasting resulu can only t># obtained by the use of the best material Is poeaible to purchase. Convolt Ode. a practical painter.

WARE’S Drug Shop Comer Washington and Decatur Streets

HOLIDAY GIFTS Big Variety French and American Perfumery Regular and Fancy Boxed. Writing Peper Finely Boxed. A • Lowney’t Fancy Packages

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Variety. Waste and Work Baskets. Call and look them over. We can put them aside until wanted. An aariy Begets you the boat. Began In It and. 86 boxes, a i KaysUM Phone, No, lift.