l CAPE MAY STAR st WAVE ' I WEEKLY EDITION __

K FIFTY-THIRD YEAR. NO. 3. ' = CAPE ItlAY CITY, N.J.. SATURDAY, JANUARY .8, .9 08. THREE CENTS A COPY ! : ... =

TELL WORLD YOUR WANTS 1°"JS5»ir £.*!£*. j ml Ox h T. Unrtm T» »"* { 1/OSt— On Saturday evening between Cape Hay and Oioe May Court i - Bouse, one of the numbers on my run- I about. It was No. 86286 on a leather < pad. A suitable reward if left at 128 1 B Decatur street, Oape May. H. S. 1 ' Botherford. ** WANTED— Young man wishes forn- ! - iahediroom with use or prml-ge of , Eath if possible, in the neighborhood L of Jefferson atreet- Address J. A. 8., Btarand Wave office. j ' FOR RENT— Small houses at $10 per 1 month. Apply to Br. 8. F. Ware, L Oape May. 12-14 tf , ♦ rerairamap. i • Booms, housekeeping, second floor. ' Office rooms, fir^t floor. Large house for the wintg*. ' Oape May City ; also Ilarm to rent year 1908. Apply to Ed- i ward Crease, W eat Oape May. 1 WANTED— Farms and country i homes wanted this section; 2i< per i cent, after sold. HAHR, 418 E. 79th . Street, New Yorkhouses por rent ) \j 10 rooms, city, water, gas, one Quar- j ter acre of land ; (18 per month. F 8 rooms, city .Jester and gas; $11 per . month. 2 ten room bouses, electric lights, gas, bath, fire places, stationary I, ranges. $16 and $16 respectively. h GILBERT O. HUGHES, 214 Ocean street, ^ P • For Sale—- A Bargaia A bargain? on easy terms, 14 room "J cottage veryjnicely furnished on Stock- [• ton avenue. Must be sold at once, $ owner going Jab road. Address Sol. * Meedly, Oape May City. 1-18 4t FOR SALE— Cheap, cottage, close to beach ; small amount of cash required. J. H. Hughes. 410 Washington street. The Naw Paint Store r John Little has opened up the bttsi- ] ness of selling paints at the corner of i • Jackson and Washington streets and it . is just the place to buy fresh paints. S-28-tf t THAKKSQTWC gBSBSB j ' Dr. McLeod'sTTbanksgiving Sermon f has been published by the Star and * Wave in pamphlet form and is on sale ] at this office. ■ 12-14 tf » FOR SALE — One pair heavy draft 1 horses, wagon and harness. Apply to 1 John Seymore, Erma. N. J. 1-4 St t I ' For Sale A six room house for sale on Mechanics lane, price $1500; $750 can c remain on mortgage. Apply Wm. ' Frohner, Fourth avenue. 1-4 St I 8 — 1~~ 1 For Sals or to Rent j A cosy little eight room cottage for 1 • aale or to rent. Near the ocean. Apply at 105 Perry street. tf Call on agents representing thor eughly reliable companies, when \ L— TUB Wtnt.jts - -insurance. . Claims * P promptly paid* for twenty-six years. We represent seven of the strongi st 1 companies doing business in New Jt- . eey. Hand and' Bldredge, 810 Wash- c ington street, or at Star and Wave Office, 816 and 817 Washington street * 1 — s Notice. Notice is hereby given that the part- t oership between William Roland and Bud Lovett. in the business of electri- ® cal contracting, is dissolved and the business at 105 Jackson street, former- c '» ly carried on by M. D. Learning, is now, hang conducted by Bud Lovett. fi All ordere will be promptly attended T to and estimates will be given at lowest prices. " 8 1-18 2t BUD, LOVETT: THE NEXT V. *. A, ENTERTAINMENT J * Thursday, January 30th, «s the date * of the Y. M. A. entertainment which ^ Will include farces, choruses and recitations in the auditorium by local talent, to obtain funds for the maintenance of the association rooms. Do v not miss it. B schoon er cathSall all right 8 Captain Funnan S. Smith, arrived t with his schooner, the E. H. Cathrall. , on Wednesday bringing a load of feed. - She touched on tbfe bar on her way into ^ the inlet but as <he i« a staunch craft, ! •he weathered the storms which prevailed during her voyage in fine shape, and was not injured by her touch, not leaking to the extent of a bucket full. ► The report in the Record that she ® had been leaking badly was an error. 1 Charles leak Goefto Hospital Bl_3^BgCharlea Doak was removed to Cooper • Hospital Saturday last for treatment for appendicitis. The operation was I performed on Monday and the patient i$ is recovering rapicBy. *• - *t r

cape may NOTES. • (by onb or thx st aft) A. J. Coburn aril Rob H oilman ar* in Baltimore, relative to some businea* | of the Furst-Clark Dredging Co., whom they represent. The beet paying train that has been in Cape May since the New Year began came in on .Abe Reading road January 9th, loaded with checks for the employes here— "the pay ■ train." Everett Brown seriously sprained ankle whileffrollicking with some friends He will not be able to use it for about four weeks. , Edward Crease and Frank Hollingsead are in Goshen this week looking ov.r their new purchase, the "Mt. Pleasant Plantation. " A. G. McOa "island, Superintendent , A. O. B. R., was here. Monday. The Pennsylvania Railroad is erectin g*a tower in the yard here, which will greatly facilitate the handling of trains., A schooner owned by Funnan Smith grounded on the bar of Cold Spring Inlet while coming in Monday night. She was loaded with com and seme of this had to be thrown off before the tug which went to her assistance could more her into deeper water. No dam age resulted. Mr. and Mrs. A. J.,Tomlinsen, aasis- , tant agent to Mr. C. A- DeTnrk. . Atlantic ORy Railroad are. the happy parents of a little girl, born Wednes- : day morning. ODD FELLOWS AGAINST WOODMEN HE WOODHEN ARRIVE IS TRIM Crafty Denizens of the Woods Outpoint the Odd Fellows at the Congress Casino The first league game at the Con- 1 gross Bowling Alleys occurred on Wednes 'ay evening between teams from ! Mayflower Lodge, 258 I. O. O. F. and ■ May ' Camp, No. 8773. Modern ' Woodmen, in which the doughty Wood- i were successful and their insur- ■ ance not due yet by any means. They : were best Two out of three; bid the j score follows : Mayflower Lodge. Blattner. 108 ISO 123 Thompson, « 183 200 126 86 77 72 Fenderaon, 138 148 188 Crease. 123 152 136 687 707 643—1937 .Modern Woodmen. 149 136 U0 o 130 124 115 , Hughes, 146 128 177 Lummis, 148 118 158 Entrikin. 108 123 104 , I 681 624 664-1969 ] STRIKES AND SPARES. , "Uncle" Walt Peterson says if Billy ( could knock down more pins he would make higher scores. William Thompson's score of 200 was ' the highest of the matcn. ■ Tony Bennett, ox the Second Ward, • the requisite skill necessary to be- j come a star bowler. j If "Billy" Blattner had lighted bis [ earlier in the contest the re- . suit might have been different. Fenderson and Hughes, the ringers in ' the match, didn't ring very loud c Dr L,ummis made several difficult * spares which showed lie wag in bis" i usual good form. } Walter Entrikin bowled very well c considering it was his first match. ^ Cal. Smith made good scores in the two games hut hard luck prevented a high score in the final. r Crease has the idea and should make r good bowler with a little practice t Monday evening the Modern Wood- a men will tackle the strong Improved , Order of Red Men team. This match , should be very interesting as the Red. 1 consist of some of the best bowlers in town. f . t - IS IT AN OIL HEATER? a Is it an Oil Heater y«* want. If so 1 have it They are 'the best and 1 safest on the market today. This is 1 something we do not take any chances ^ and have the beat on the market 1 There is no money in buying a cheap jj Oil Heater and having an explosion or ' fire. We have only the makes that we * guarantee. Charles A. Swain- 806 and 1 807 Jacksen Street. c , " ' < - Is Memorial ( ' In loving remembrance of Theresa who entered into rest January 14th. 1907. Parents, Husband and Brother. Is Memorial 1 memorial , In loving memory of Daniel H.'Man- < who departed this life January i iSOth, 1904. ' Wife and Children.

THE HARBOR ' CONTRACT AWARDED | NEW YORK FIRM BIDS B7i.NI The Work Will PrataWj Begil Whei the Weather Becomes Settled (Philadelphia Public Ledger.) After a spirited contest in which ■ contractors of this city, Pittsburg and New York took part, the Engineering ' Board of the United States Army yesr tsrday awarded the contract for building the huge ocean Jetties at Cold i Spring Inlet, Cape May, to the Breakt water Construction Co., of New York, . This task, which involves the construction of two parallel Jetties of , "riprap," 2100 feet into the Atlanti£ will be the final feature of the development at Cape May of a great harbor of refuge and port of commerce which believed to have a big commercial • future. The contract price is $676,000. The work was ^provided far jh the rivers and harbors appropriation bfll at the last session of Congress. With the promise | that the syndicata of private indiajdl uals headed by ex -Senator William Flinn, of Pittaburg, which promoted the Ckpe May development, should I supply $100,000 toward the work, don- 1 gress appropriated $1,211,000 for Jetty construction. Every estimate suh1 mitted was far below this allowance, and on the basis of the award t here will remain an unexpended halsnce.-of $535,000 in the United States Treasury. The contractors will Jbegin work "at once, under Government supervision. . Comfortable quarters have already been erected by the Government on i Sewell's Point, which abuts the new I channel. Major C. A. Flagler, chief of the engineering district which includes Delaware Bay and River, jthe Jersey and Delaware coasts, has assigned an army engineer to the workj and he is now on the ground. After considering various types of breakwatei construction, Major Flagler specified "riprap" as the best protection to the proposed channel against the severe tide action and shifting saud- of the Cape May beach. Similar con-traction was used at Delaware Breakwater, and has fulfilled every demand- Tens of thousands of tons of broken stone will be used,' and a year will elapse before the work is completed. This Cape May project is ex-Senator Flinn's first venture on s big scale in eastern Pennsylvania. In the West he has pierced mountains to extend trolley and has figured in may huge enterprises centering in the Pittsburg district. When his attention was first a.tracted to *Cape May, Cold Spring I..Uv •wus~^i"flgiWJW."affBtf6w stream making its way th ough marshes past Sewell's Point into the Atlantic. His plan, briefly, was to dre ge an inland harbor and connect it with the ocean by an adeqate channel cut through the of the inlet. After months of work, in which powerful suction dredges played a conspicuous part, there is now in the place-of "meadows" TTiarbor, of 600 acres superficial area, throughout an anchorage depth of 33 f^et and in a large part 40 feet. aceomppiish this transformation 19,000,000 cub c yards of sand were removed. With this, swamp and morass have been filled, until more than 1200 acres, en average of six feet above high water level, stretch from what was once the lower end of Cape to Sewell's Point. The argument which won recognition for the project at Washington was that there was no harbor of safety for storm-threatened ships from Sandy to Delaware Bay. An appalling of life and property was shown to have been caused by this condition. With a wide channel, protected by Jetties extending beyord the line of beach sand bars and maintained at a depth of 26 feet for all tides, it is claimed that class of coastwise shipping can be acconmodated, and that Cherokee disasters on the Jersey coast are at an end. Pilots and shipping. men's-ortran. i rations, shipping inte eats generally, the New Jersey Legislature and other public and private bodies indorsed the project and contributed toward its success. Railroad spurs have been ran to the new harbor. Decks and piers are planne , ship repair and chandlery facilities will be developed and in addition to s- curing safety, the harbor will afford means to supply any need of incoming vessels. d 1 '!

^incidentally, a great yacht harbor is ' to be developed and Oape May, it is expected, will ultimately vje with )ST and other Northern resort Mr. Fliun maintains doee personal • anpervision of the work of development^, and his frequent visits to this .city are marked by business as well as jolitical activity. The syndicate is ■ made op largely of Pittsburg men. AU are friends of the ex- Senator, and no gmbaasasaments have followed the recently opened campaign of their leader to end the Penrose regime in Pennsylvania. b (Special to Star and Wave.) Wilmington. DeL. Jan. 16.— As a ret suit of the awarding of the contract for ' the jetty at Cold Spring Inlet, to the '■ Breakwater Construction and Rngineerd fng Co., the large stone quarries at > Eellevue, which were used by the ■ builders of the Breakwater, will be '■ reopened. About MB, 000 tons of stone i Win be required. INTERESTING 4y NEWS NOTES 4CCCRRENCES HERE AND THERE I- BcHents Vtick fttrt Attracted 1 r d Me Atteifim «i. the Stir Hi Ware . Roses were in bloom out of doors here hp to the ttth inat Skunk cabe bage is also sprouting about two f months ahead of its usual time.. There has been but one day this Winter, when t ploughing could not be done. 94 People who have been observing, are expressing the opinion that §uper- " vising Principal H. B. Moyer has done . much to systematize the high school work and has developed excellent dis- « cipline. » » » ~i Mayor Melvin has renewed his functions of Chief Executive of tFie City, after a lapse of twenty odd years, with f a great deal of vim and contemplates " inaugurating several movements for 1 the benefit of the city. . d Have you ever visited the big store • of Mrs. E. Turner, 323 Washington i- street? If not you should do so. You d can save money too. Big discounts are f off the immense stock of goods now d offered. b •) « •) Real Estate Agent Charles T. r Campbell will occupy a port on of 'he n store at the corner of Washington and e Dcatur streets recently leased by y Charles Scberer. (•(•(• ? Charles Scherer, the tailor who is t located at 304 Washington street, has j leased for a term of years the building j on the corner of Decatur and Washtngt ton streets. A drag store occupied the s site for many year". Mr. Schere- will j divide it into two stores, occupying 1 himself the Washington street front. » He will also continue his present store. (• (• (• t The big dredge Mackensio, is completing the immense amour, t of work in the dredging out of the harbor and the fillit g in of the great area of land ' between Madison avenue and Sewell's ' Point. Obser ers are now beginning ' to understand the significance of the movement. With the beginning of j spring the construction of the parallel jetties for the entrance to the harbor " will be begun by the contractors em- ( ployed by .the government and the opening of the great Hotel Cape May 5 on April llth. will undoubtedly mark the beginning of as busy a season as J ever visited Cape May. » C« » r The Pinochle Club composed of the ' regulars on the West Jersey and Seaf shore railroad morning express, begin ■* their play with the start of the train • and lose all impression of their journey " while absorbed in the game. 7 (•<$(• f City Council hi giving careful atteut tion to the varioas details in city matJ ters which require attention and are 9 showing a commendable interest. Few 7 people realise - the large amount of • time required on the part of our city . fathers to attend to the city's business r In preparing the appropriations ordib nance there will be required several b evenings of careful investigation and calculation. It io the intention of the ■ Finance Committee to reduce the bude get, if possible. There is a great deal - of faithful, intelligent and honest n work done in the public service, which 1 gets neither reward nor commendaion i- excepting as "virtue is it's own reward."

j GOVERNOR STOKES V MESSAGE d ; CONTAINS IUCB INFORMATION ' Comprehensive View of State's ; Importance ill Problem Governor Stokes' final message to the legislature is interesting and in i- forming and contains a comprehensive r discussion of the important questions e which are before the people of this "- State. Space will not admit of its t publication in full but we advise our e readers to obtain it and to read it ate tentively. We will refer to some of e the more important subjects discussed. It opens by ^'directing attention to the wonderful progress and growth of the state since 1870, which is followed by reference to the "State's conservative , character," in which Hie Roosevelt k dictum is endorsed, that "The intereats of those who build, who manage, and who invest in the railroads, most E be no less scrupulously guarded than I the Interests of the public" in railroad . legislation. 0 "Evils *and abuses are there that need the restraint of law. but the motive of law should be to cure, not to kill ; to punish the guilty, not the innocent; to encourage, not t-rrjfy. capital. What we need is remedial, • rather than punitive legislation; constructive, rather than destructive 0 policies; just, not frenzied, enactment. Abuses can be stopped, wrongs " can be righted, the people can be protected. without paralyzing industrial life. The State should not legislate ' for receiverships. e "The successful physician cures the 1 disease without killing tne patient; legislation should remedy the ill without threatening bankruptcy ; otherwise legislation has failed. "Our State has not been backward , in progr^sfiite reform, but it has been I) a reform intelligent in character. <cons ceived in a spirit of Justice to all inr terests. It has proceeded upon princi- - pies of fairness to all. a^ong to none." "Various methods of economizing in e public expenditures are suggested and n it is to be hoped they will be heeded. J Referring to "The State and Local e Expenses" the Governor says: v "The policy of our State to assist as far as possible in the payment of local expenses is broadening in scope and • character. e The sum which may be fairly classi- ^ fied under this policy amounted during ' the fiscal year to a little over $2,547,000. To this should be added the franchise tax on public utility corporations 8 which the State relinquishes to municipalities, amounting to over $626,000. 1 A still further addition of $1. 200. 000, which is a safe estimate as to amount ' from the tax on second claas railroad : property, makes a total of $4 373 000. c Nearly all of this, annually returned to , • the municipalities, none of which .a ' derived from taxation of individual . property, has accrued under laws and , , administration of the last ten years, i I This is about 14 per cent., of all of the , I taxes raised for county, local and < school purposes in the State. , Notwithstanding this increased inj oome, taxes have not been proportionj ately lightened, if, indeed, within this ; I period they have not been materially < . increased. ' When the railroad taxes on the main < , stem have been paid, the amount of i j the aid direct or indirect to the tax- , payers from the State will total ' $6,873,000, or over 22 per cent, of the total taxes of all individuals in the 1 State. > In a previous Message suggestion ' . was already made that the taxpayer , had a right to ask for what purpose ) this vast sum was contributed if he i j derived no benefit therefrom in reduced . tax bills. "Our boasted system of ] corporate taxation fails if it consti- - tutes only an increased fund for the tax . - spender and affords no dividend to the i s taxpayer. ' ' Increased contributions to 1 r the municipal inoome from outside f sources serves the purposes of extravr agance rather than economy and good i government, unless it results in a cor- i - responding decrease in local taxation, i 1 Experience of the last ten years forces ] the conclusion that this extra sum is b used generally as a means of larger ex- - penditure rather than to reduce the I taxpayers' bills. t In view, of the fact that two million i and a half dollars more from the railn roads is to be added to the local treasuries, the Legislature might wisely consider the advisability of such legiala- '

Hon as would make this sum a direct benefit to the taxpayer. jH The passage of an act materially re <8 } during the fixed State School Ta^nte . 4 r is uggeated. so that taxpayem aMjr get the benefit of the lars« Nl«ia»> . prim- ions from the State's seqptea in 1 re iuced tax bills. Another important suggestion is contained in the follow- . .in*-" ' "The management of our counties and our municipalities, and the expen- 1 ditur < of moneys for local purposes, ,-W are even more important to the taxpayers than the affaire of Hie State. % I have frequently called attention to ) the increasing tax rates and expenditures, and the alarming growth of our i municipal indebtedness. While I be- \ lieve that our municipalities should be i v Bted with large .powers of local govi er»ment, and should be permitted to r settle in their own legislative bodies - many of the sped*] and local problems that now require legislative action at Trenton, I heartily concur with the ) recommendation of the Commission on > Municipal Government for a State • Auditor of municipal accounts. Indeed,, t more than a mere audit is necessary* : The Legislature should provide some such plan as suggested for the examination of State affairs, to examine and t Inveatigate the fiscal methods, systems t and expenditures of our counties and ! 1 municipalities, not only with a view tit d promoting unfonnity in the manner of *• 1 ; keeping account*. Sot to disclose what ev^r laxity of administration, what- '] I ever extravasance te expenditure and. 3 s whatever unbusinesslike methods may prevail, and to recommend corrections • 1 and improvements. "The Httcntion of the people should "j be called at intervals both to the -1 ■ amount and the object of public ekpeni ditures. Wrong cannot stand publicity. • Right always welcomes investigation. "County and municipal expenditures v ! ' have grown to suck proportions that I careful supervision should be exercised i thereover, end investigation should be : made with a view to correcting laxity and abuses, and placing the oonduct j of these affairs upon the most economic and best business basis possible." CAPE MAY 601 HONORED At a stated. meeting of the Board of Directore of City Trust, of Philsdel- "•} ■ phia, held on Wednesday, January 8, 1908, the following resolution was adopted : "Resolved, that Dr. Clarence S. Eldredge be appointed as assistant surgeon of the Wells H spital, to serve under Attending Surgeon Paul P. 1 Pontius, M. D." Dr. Eldredge is well known in this vicinity where he was born and spent his boyhood days. After graduating from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania i„ 1891 he located in Philadelphia where for some time he pursued the general practice of n edicine but devoted much tim- to the study of the eye, finally becoming a specialist in that work. As a result of hia persistent efforts ■ he has acquired for hims- If a large practice in this special branch of his profession and is devoting his entire attention to it. His many friends and patients in and about Cape May 4 ^-hear testimony as to hia ability and join ir. extending their congratulations upon this well deserved honor which has been conferred upon him. THOMAS WALES DEAD. Thomas Wales, sged Beventy-eight years, died Thursday night after several days of illness of pneumonia. He was one of our most highly esteemed citizens and a member of one of the oldest of Cape May county families A Postal Shower S Mrs. S. A. Foster received a postal shower from friends here on the anniversary of her birth day, the carda sent to St. Augustine, Florida, where she is staying. The Prudential lnsurai.ee Company announces that the 7 ear 1907 was an - : exceptionally good year for that comIn a statement to the Prudential Agency staff President John F. Dryden gives the following brief resume of the Prudential record for 1907: "Increased assets; largest income in the history of the Company ; claims, dAridends, etc., paid to Policyholders amount in the history of the ~aj Company ; greatest persistency of pew business and more permanent agency force; decreased expense in management of business; ^betterment of the i business in all departments ; public approval of New Low Rate Industrial and Ordinary Contracts; twenty-six thousand free policies issued since j April, 1907 ; most effective advertising campaign and public approval of ' I Piudential Methods.