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TEL WORLD YOUR WANTS IT WILL PAY TO ADVERTISE If yon Have lost or Food Anything, Want Help or Work, Pot it Here * FOR RENT— Six room cjwelling bouse, pantry and airy, city water, gas and garden. Large cheerful rooms and very convenient. Rent $7. per month, in West Oape May. Jos. S. Sfitea. 5-9 LMJHCH FOR SALE OR HIRE. Naphtha launch, in first class condition, for sale or hire. Apply E. W. Say re, 916 Queen street, Oape May. . FOB SALE A BATTEAU , A new batteau, 14 feet long and in perfect order will be sold at low price. Call on or address T. F. Hemingway, * West Oape May. 7-25-3tw Experienced teacher, college grad - uate, wanna pupils. Address G. M. T . , Oape May Point, N. J. 6-20 tf ' FOR RENT FOR SA1E Town of homes and cement pavements. Houses with or without stable. Small farms, building lots. George H. Reeves, West Cape May. i Bell Phone 57 1). FOR SUE. Meat rack, finely finished, new. Will i * sacrifice. Apply 405 Washington I street. 6-18 tf | For Sale. 1 steain engine, one boiler, and lot of red cedar posts at 15 cents * each. Apply to Cape May Grain and J Goal Co. NOTICE. I Sol. Needles, 508 Washington street, is agent for the owners of the four lots, formerly the site of the Brexton Hotel, and he is authorized to make a notei, ana ne is autnonzea io inane a

. contract for the sale of any of the lots, with the understanding that a cottage be erected, without the payment of any money down for the lot, the owners being willing to take a mortgage for he purchase pric^ of the lot. 5-9tf t * MORTGAGES WANTED $5,000 to place on first bond and mortgage, in amounts of $1000 up ware. Cape May City or West Cape May ' property desired. GILBERT C. HUGHES, Real Estate, 214 Ocean Street, Cape May. SALEOF HOME-MADE CAKt The ladies of the M. E. church will : p continue their sale of home made ; (cakes, pies and bread at Phillips and 1 Hughes store, Saturday, July 25th. Please leave all donations at the store < , or with Mrs. S. A. Foster, Friday , night. d 2c w it ( E-% . i FOR SALE. , "S*crifice" launch ••Helen," 88 by ' • 6 feet 6. two cylinders, four cycle, i make and bieak spark, eighteen horse . power. Engine, canvas cabin, 52 | Cind? cork cushions, lamp, whistle, 11, magneto, two steering gears. Very speedy, fine s--a boat. Win. Reese, 127 North Fifth street. Phi ladelphia. It-W lt-d Office of Commissioner of Inland j Waterways. State Hfcuse, Trenton, N. j., July 20, j ^ - 1908. Sealed proposals for dredging a sec- 1 ' tion of the proposed Inland Waterw ay » front Cape May to Bay Head, N. J. , near the former place, will be reived ' at this office until 12 o'clock noon, August 18. 1908. Then publicly opened. Information on application. HARRY SCHNEIDER, Commissioner. 1 HENRY J. SHERMAN. * 7-23 2St Engineer. c — - . 1 OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OF INLAND 1 WATERWAY. j State House, Trenton, N. J.. July 7. , * 1908. I Sealed proposals for dredging a sec- . - tion of the proposed Inland Waterway , v from Cape May to Bay Head, N. J., , '• wear the latter plate, will be received , f " at this office until 12 o'clock, noon, August 11. 1908. Then publicly opened a information ou application. HARRY SCHNEIDER. ; Commissioner. HENRY J. SHERMAN. 1 7-13-26 Engineer. 1 At Private Sale : ~ C , ™ One cow. 8 years old. Riving milk. . One one-horse wagon new, two inches on tread ; one one-horse wagon, low, 1 • two inches on tread ; one market I wagon ; one surrey : one two horse first , das; carriage tongue ; one aet double

; WORK ON INLET TQ BEGIN Construction Work on Jetties at Inlet to Begin Next Week Inland Waterway Engineers Here

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, The inlet which is to be built by the ' United States Government as an aid to commerce and which 'will most likely I be used as one of Rour coat-twig; de- , fences, is at last to become a reality. The plans and blue prints which have been in files and pigeon holes for the last two or thiee years have now been brought iuto Jthe light to be ute-i 1< r the practical part of thp work. At last the holies and desins of ail good I I residents of CapoMay are to be i elized , in the actual gwork jjof the n a ons and jetty builders. Monday morning : visitors t > Cajej realized- for the first time" to • the full extent the serious appii- 1 tion of energy and brains of the | finest engineers in the United Slates on this great piece of work. The^cause ' whicn set many to thinking was the arrival of two carloads ^of the finest and strongest timber^piling, which are to be the forerunners of the fight be- j twen nature and the ingenuity of n;an for the construction of one of the I greatest- engineering feats of the age. | I These pilings are not the only signs of I the progress which ,is going on as a | schooner with the plant ox Latta and | Terry, the subcontractors for the pile j driving arrived on a Monday at I Se well's Point. This plant which j though of a movable nature is one of the most thorough and complete ever seen in the vicinity is almost entirely in place. The manager of this plant has officially annouced that the work on the east wiug of the jetties will oe commenced at the latest by Monday morning. The outlines of the jetties will soon be drawn over the surface of the water by these pilings. One will then be able to fully realize the wonderful extent and large scale upon which this work is to be done. Although it will be scarcely possible for but a skilled engineer to? realize the magnitude of the work it is still very in terestiug and will give a small idea of it if one |I earns the measurements of different parts which go to compose the opening of this inlet. There are to I e two jetties, one on Two Mile Beach and the other at Seweli's Point The Two Mile Beach jetty is to run • n a para lei line with the hiih> st water mark four thousand, five bundr»d and fifty feet into the ocean. The width of this jetty is o be thirty feet at the top and • omposed of nilings, quarried rock and cement. this jetty m«y no» have it« foundation on the shifting sands of the there is to be a wing thre» hundred feet in length. This wing will place the shore end of the break water en the solid mainland of C ape May. The Two Hi's Beach jetty will be run

5 out parallel to the Seweli's Point one, » four thousand, four hundred aud ten f feet. The width of 'he inlet or the - space between the jetties which will . be kept op;n will measure eight hune dred and nfty feet. The tide swirling b through the space left open by these i jetties will wear a channel from thirty r five to forty feet deep. From national t statistics this is 'what has happened in 1 other cases. If natural resources do 1 not Co this, how ver, the government s | will bring to Gape May powerful dredges to open up this channel. Once I it is opened up the jetties will prevent j the filing in whi< h has blocked and spoil d our iulet in oth r years. That s the v- eft Jet y may have its shore end s on solid g; iund there will, be a wing E I constnu te 1 seven hundred and fifty t j (ret on an obtuse angle from the main t jetty, ti.us bringing this end on the 8 high dui.es of Two Mile Beach. - For the directing «nd safeguarding i j iff the shipping, which will mgst likely ; | be /attracted oy the facilities which . this inlet in conjunction wi h our f magnificent harbor and prospective i inland waterways will afford, a series I of light houses and signal light< have ; been planned. Along the entire length I I of the two jetties signal revolving flesh i fights wi j be placed at regular interI vals. The life sa-ing station which is r at the "present time situated on Two Mile Beach will be greatly enlarged : and made more complete by many ad- ; ditions, including a light house. On ■ th- mainland directly opposite the in- • let there will be stationed a lighthouse i and signal light. ! In order to help carry out the idea 1 : of the aid to transportation and ship- : pin*, the railroads intend to build wharves on the northwest side of the harbor and run tracks from there to : Philadelphia. In this way boats ! laden with products and merchandise ' 1 would be able to unload and transport ' 1 to Philadelphia without making the I arduous trip up the Delaware. Again i ' ships may tranship their cargoes here, i which ar_- bound up the coast, on to 1 i boats travelling through tile' prospec- , tive inland waterway, i JEllis Thompson, constricting engineer i of the breakwater, officially announced the other day that ths rock and other i materials will arrive sometime this - week. As yet tbey have not come 1 ' but are expected daily. The competent engineerstin charge of this work state ' that the tendencies of these jetties will 1 ■ be to fill in and make even better the fine beach which Cape May is already 1 celebrated for. The currents which 1 run along the b»aih will have a tendency in this direction. The spare which will most likely bn affected 1

, will be from the ^end of the Sewell' i Point jetty up beyond the iron pier. ' The inland waterway commission was over here from their headquarters in Wiidwood to look over .the best : suited of the numerous channels which run from here to that ;place. They decided that the best one to widen and j , deepen would be that which now goes | ; by the name of Middle Thoroughfare. I I The surveyors appointed by New I 1 Jersev to lay out and direct tl>e j conrse which this should take nre I . to begin work today. The advantages | I to all classes of people which this j : waterway will give are untold. The ; visitors to all the seashore resorts | , from Cape May to Bayhead will be ! conrected I y a cnannel eight feet deep I . and one hundred f. et wide. Along this water course more than likelymany pleasure excursion boat companies wiil spring up and one will then I be able to take a direct route from j the Southern extremity of New Jers- y ! almost to the Northern. Farmers and manufacturers will also have a more i extended market for their products and ; at cheaper rates, with better service ! than ever before. THEATER PARTY The younger set always has some I tiling going on but some times they get , things going so last that they do not know what is to come next, so the j st raw Hde that was to have been! turned out to be a "theatre party." . They all had a grand time at tm» ahum Leslie Craw rd became so interested in the third act, that he fell from his chair to the floor causing a lot of fun. party consisted of Miss Fanny Martha Schellenger Carrie Focer, Octavine Ware, Jean Hand. Marietta Nelson, and Marie Thompson. Mr. Lerov Wilson, Leslie Crawford, illerj Charles Hand and Fred Boerner. SPECIAL RATES TO WOODBINE A special low rate to Woodbine >bas been given by the Pennsylvania railroad for the benefit of the students of the Cape May Summer School and others who desire to go on the trip to the Woodbine Agricultural experiment station on Friday next at 2 o'clock p. m. Tickets must be procured in ad-7-21 4t For Coal. 'Coke, and Wood phone T. . Millet and Sod. 1 — •_

INCIDENTS AT* THE BEACH ^ WHAT THE SAND HAN SEES The- Doings "if He Bothers, Swimmers aid the Crewd en the Strand ' Yesterday's sunshine Lrought a I joyous crowd to the strand. Every pne j was appreciative of the opportunity to enjoy their lavorite pastime. The | "Sand Man" found all his old friends, and noticed many new faces. What a | pleasure to see the attractive play j grounds of Old Cape May so well paj tronized. Old and young alike, come I daily to enjoy the ideal recreation it i affords. There in toe refreshing coolj ness of the water for those who are j able to bear the billowy waves, and the balmy sea air for the | ones who prefer strolling or;resting on j our beautiful level stretch of sand. ; Those who go into the water, have I the satisfaction of knowing that help | is at hand in time of need, for the" life ] guards are very faithful. Always on duty and very good jnatured. The pic- ! ture would surely be incomplete witbj out their boats riding in the midst of I the bathers. It gives one a fealing | of sifety. just to see them there. Mrs. Earp and her sister, Mrs. W. T.. . Kirk, were seen on the beach yester- ; day attired in neat black suits. We are glad to see Miss Wilkins on I the beach again: She has been missed ' very much. Mrs. John Doyle has become quite an expert horsewoman and can be st en riding on the drive most every day. Miss Ann Wallace was very pretty , in her red suit trimmed with white. Mrs. A. E. Sanborn was one of the roost attractive ladies on the beach. \f:.. EM:-.. l ,1. c : * u ,la ,i

88 the charm- . ing daughter of Mrs. B A. Smith, was seen on the beach yesterday. Miss Elizabeth is full of life and fun and always enjoys her dip. Mrs.- B. D. Parish was seen on the beach but did not take her usual plunge, n The Misses Baird were among s the pretty girls seen yesterday, it The Rev. James McLeod was among h the prominent men seen on the beach, y Miss Jenkins was very pretty in a light blue Silk suit with white collar 1 I and cuffs, a UNCLAIMED LETTERS. v j List of unclaimed letters remaining j e j in Cape May postoffice for week end- ] . ing July 23, 1908 : Bison, E. J. ; Cooper, Miss ; Church- i s man, Mrs. Chas. R. ; Davis, Mrs. Yir8 ! gil : Davie, Mrs. Lizzie ; Dowling, Miss i e Kate ; Graef, Chas. H. ; Gibson, Miss i g : Elizabeth ; Hall, R. F. ; Harris, How- { e < ard, 2; Hays, E. M. ; Hearesty, Mrs. j Betty, 3; Howard, P. ; Johnson, Miss| p I H.{S. ; Justice, Mrs. Victoria Maquire; j i I Macreil, P. F. ; -O'Brien, Miss Nellie; I y I Roberts, Mi&s Eva ; Seraplim, Joseph | . I M. ; Scull, R. W. ; Tabonnt. Joseph C. ; j Tattersfield, Percy ; Wetler. Mrs. ! j John ; Wilkerson, Miss Mary. _ | In calling for the above please say ; * advertised. J. E. TAYLOR. Postmaster, j WINDSOR DANCE I The Windsor Hotel gave its first j j dauce last night, the music was very | good and a large and well dressed j e crowd attended. Manager Oreswell is j t , always looking *>ut for the pleasure as | t j well as the comfort of his guests and s i expects to have these dances twice a 1 ! week. A PROMINENT LECTURER. J W. J. Spmnan; of the Agricultural s Department at Washington, will vieit the Cape May Summer School on Thursday next. 30th inat., and deliver 8 a lecture on "The Advantages of Agricultural Education." He is one of " the strongest men sent out by the De- ' partment and has been stationed at j Cornell University for several weeks aiding ifl the summer school there. "All grangers, fanners and school people, who can, should attend this lecture. JOHN D. CRA10 DEAD. 1 John D. Craig, aged 70 years, died ; Thursday morning at his home on ■ Yorke avenue. West Cape May. after an illness of several weeks. The fun- ' era I will occur on Saturday afternoon ■ at one o'clock. He has conducted a email business for many years on Jackson street, and ' is known to most people here. He was a member of John Mecray Post G. A. R.. Cape Island Lodge F- and A. M., and other organizations.

itprrnrwmtiin micKuiinff I NEWS NOTES S OCCURRENCES HERE AND THERE i, licideats Which Hare Attracted the Atteatiea «f the Star aad Ware Thousands of small menhaden a e now in the harbor, probably due t 0 the deep water, found there. Yeatere day the value and necessity of these fish i, to the food fish .was illustrated by the a conduct of a great school of weakfish y which have evidently made the harbor i- their home, in feeding upon the e "bonies" as the menhaden [are locally t designated. It was a sight well worth - seeing to watch them "breaking e water" in the pursuit of their ^»rey 1 and at the same time making a roari ing noise audible at some distanoe. it The damage done to the fishing, inter- . eats of the resorts along the coast hy s the .menhaden pirate steamers was ? never better illustrated, because it is e clearly demonstrated by the incident t related that menhaden are the natural - food of weakfish and other varieties of - food fish. t >• <• s I r Harry Johns, of this city, sent a box of three dozen crabs of the famous - Delaware Bay variety, to Dr. R. A. • Hand, dentist, 516 Norili Fifth street, Camden, and the latter feasted several i delighted friends. They were shipped I in an afternoon train and arrived at their destination at 7 o'clock. Harry s is good to his friends. I (• IP (9 The band pavilion is now complained of by music lovers as becoming a nursery on a grand scale, the sound of 1 the instruments in use by the band -beirg almost lost sometimes in the uv ii k mutual lusi sometimes in tne

grand medley of infantile shouting. >. <»(.*(• »s The faculty of the Cape May Schoo 1- of Agriculture, Industrial Art and j Science will give a reception to the e i students at the close of the session ?. ; Wednesday evening. July 29st, at the g [ Stockton Hotel. (• •) « 8 Cliairman Joseph Hand, of the Com* mittee on Prqrerty of Council, recenti ly ordered two hundred chairs for use ir j in the music pavilion of our furniture [ dealer. R. M. Wentzell. Previous | otders had been placed with John Wan- ! amaker under the impression that 8 goods could not be obtaiqgd here. Wentzell's chairs were more promptly | delivered, are much more substantial j and cost the city eighteen cents each "" less then the Wa_namaker chairs. This 8 j is an object lesson to be heeded. Pa8 j tronize home industry. No " public " - money should be spent outside of the '• city when it is possible to obtain 8 ! what is needed within it. - The "Sand Man" on looking over ^ j the beach Monday night, 'about twelve • j o'clock, was very much surorised ^tnd • j also startled to see a young lady dressed in a handsome ball gown, • I closelv followed by a young man in I white flannel, rush from the boardwalk ! across the strand and into the surf. • He stood transfixed with horror, as the i briny billows closed over them, but in j a few minutes^ which seemed hours, he saw two sorry looking figures emerge y from the water, and start for the ^ j hotel. The young ' lady with 8 | salty water running from her elaborate 8 coiffure was heard to say, "I won that 1 box of Huyler's all right. " If they 8 had waited until yesterday's bathing hour they could have ltad a free[shower bath as well. Just before noon a hazy mist famished testimony that showers . were on tneir way. although there was a measure of satisfaction in thinking it 1 looked like rain, eo that our drooping r (lowers and fade ing grass would be re- • freshed. Some of them waiting to ' take their bath put off finding sheiter, hoping that the rain would take into t consideration that it was bathing hour, 1 and wait a little wnile, but they got ' all that was coming to them. Ricnard B. Harrison, who is recommended by tbe late Paul Dunbar as ( ] without equal as "a reader of my , verse," will entertain Windsor guests r this evening. « • A i Postmaster James E. Taylor and Arthur M. Traverse, chief clerk to , the Third Assistant Postmaster GenI ersl, enjoyed a ride in the swift motor i boat "Meteor" yesterday. This boat was designed and built by William F. Caasidy, Jr.. and owned by B. L GibCOHTHICED OK PACK FIVE