Onjulv 25, 1908, J. S. T. of Brooklyn N. Y. F I asked die Prudential for information concernE I ing its policies. Our representative called, ■ . and T. said that he would take out ' a $5 000 policy about^J^nuary 1, 1909. T.!s wife -ir J 11 the agent tried to induce him to apply immediately, but he refused. October 26th T. fell .'! sixteen stories down an "elevator ,shaft and was killed instantly. _ 1 If you are temporizing with the matter of securing the Life Insurance protection that f your family should have you are risking their future. Apply at once for a policy to fJj^The Prudential rw

Can You Stay Away? WE'RE now out for a clean sweep sale. Kpriog-soods aw pwaalng winter goods right bard and winter goods must go, we care nothing about profit and .but little about ooet. We aimply want to SELL OUR GOODS. JuBt a few Suggestions as to bow prloee run—

OOAT SWEATERS 91.00 Sweaters I .98 • 8 00 . •' 1.96 SAO " 2.98 S.00 " 4.48 AO Fleece Underwear .89 1.28 Wool « .89 1A0 " " '98

SHOES Crawford Htgbcut Shoes ; $6.60 Value $5.48 6 AO " 4.4$ 4.00 3.48 All Ladles] and Children's Sboea reduced. Men | end Boys ; clothing nearly given away.

If It won't pay: you to attend this sale, then.it won't paylyou to pick up|Dolloro S. R. Gidding CLOTHIER, HATTER AND SHOER 1 - 1 419 Washington Street.

SEE UlflSHirlGTON THE HEART OF THE NATION THREE DAY TOURS VIA v PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Fiknair 4, 18, Match 18, April 1. 8, 29, May 13. 1909 ROUND TRIP RATE $10.75 OR $13.25 FROM CAPE MAY Accord Ins to hotel selected OoTtrs oeceesary expenses tor three dors. Tickets eood returolns for ten dsr» Detailed Itineraries and fall Inform at Ion of Tlritet Asents. or wixueo itineraries ana ion an iniormation or Ticket Agents,

C J. R. WOOD. . Passonci-r Traffic Han act' r

GEO. W. BOTH General Passenger Agent

EXCELSIOR SKATING RINK (Hill Open Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday Evenings, and Saturday Afternoon.' Also each Wednesday Afternoon for beginners General Admission lO Cents SKates and."Wfardrobe 15 Cents j 8 ,o 10.30 Evening 2 to 4.30]Attemoon Ksw A Wm g Blattner, Geo. S. Bennett 8 « BBV» I U i BLATTHER A BENNETT jf) ! Wei, Perry Street, Cape May. N. J. | 1 MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES 1 UCarhlB and Granite Work B Bloe Stone Flag>d Curb je Stock and laid on abort notice. 9 '1 New designs and estimates furnished in apjdia^ioti 8 I SOUTH JERSEY MARBLE WORKS I J "T fli-g j f nJCTjj' y f-frii' 1 1 f b

Annual Statement of the Borough of Woodbine t Tour Collector and Treasurer berewith submits the following report for 1 the fiscal year ending December 81. 1908: •» Dr. Total duplicate. v J 10007. 94 Less deduction by County Board of Taxation, 63.75 t Total, $9944. 19 ' Cr. I Taxes collected, $6670.04 i Taxes unpaid, 8*74.16 Tot*'. $9944.19 _ s - Dr. To balance Dec. 81, 1907. $ 1908.27 To cash col. from taxes 1904. 1.80 To cash col. from taxes 1905 1.75 To cash col. from taxes 1906. 9^88 To cash col. from taxes 1907, 2844.15 To carfi col. from taxes 1908. 6670.04 To cash col. from saloon licensee, 20000 To cash col. from sundries. 69~15 To Woodbine Vol. Fire Co.. 500.00 To Street Improvement bonds. *2979.80 Total. $14674.79 Cr. Cash paid to Board cf Education. . $2500.00" Cash paid for county „ tax. 1085.16 Cash paid for state tax, 821.99

T°tal. $4407.15 i Borough Expenses. Printing. $ 64.58 j 135.48 Marshal.* 492.75 Rarhage. 600.no Incidentals. 470.16 "ire protection. '.VI fin Light and Water. 458 no Salaries, moo j ' Horse snd wagon, 207 50 Barn. 190.00 Fire engine. ' 1200.00 Interest on hoods. 815.00 I Street improvement. S839 32 Street repairs. 3185.26 Bills payable, 450.00 9BT3. 05 ' _ , $14880.20 i Balance on. hand, $394.59 Examined and "compared with the books and found this statement ro be correct. JOSEPH KABTNOVITZ B. A. PALITZ. WM EISENB3RG f ,, . Auditors- I - M. R. I.ipman. Collector of the Borough of Woodbine, being duly sworn on his oath says that the foregoing return is just, true and com- 1 plete. M. G. LIPMAN. _ Collector. , oworn and subscribed to before me this 15th day of January. 1809. M, T. BAYARD. cou shun*. j Mrs. Albert G. Bennett of Cape May viaited Mrs. J. W. Wood on I Thursdsv. I The f<-y-'iv of William Hoffman is steadily '- proving. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Jane • Loper occurred on Monday, i An epidemic of meaaies is prevalent. ! , Mrs. Shamgar Douglas hes been ill j but is now convalecaent. ' i Mrs. Eros Tomlin spent" Tuesday i with her sister at*Fishing Creek. M An ATrifc Smsta*" About the size of your shoes, it's ' sa tief Action to know that fmaoy people can wear shoes a size smaller by sprinkling Allen's #"oot-Ease into 1 $he®. J"8' thing for Patent! Leather Shoes, and for; breaking in New Shoes. Sold everywhere, f25c. | 4t CASTOR I A For frf«Tit« and Children. Ua KM Yn Hits Ahsajra Buigtt Bxn-rfh, cf Thomas Soults' general store in Gold j bpnng la a popular base erf supplies in I Lower Township and a "square deal" I is given to every patron. '■ r* . - • j |

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The "Soo " Caoal — Vessels carrying K pxaing through the lot

W RET .ESS telephony, that latest, and in many ways greatest, wonder of this electrical age, la on the eve of working 8 complete revolution in the methods of handling the enormous shipping Of the Great Likes. Already, at scores of points along the lakes, the towering poles of the wireless telephone system, each with Its antennae of wires, are being put la place so that by next Spring the system which already has made itself Invaluable to the great Pacific fleet of our navy, at weal as to the navies Of Great Britain and Italy, will .be In use from end to end of the chain of America's inland seas. By use o I this system marine Insurance rates will be reduced to a minimum, owing to the fact that all storm warnings may be transmitted Immediately to lake vessels so lhat they win- have ample time to make safe harbogs and. used In conjunct Hon with the enormous existing land ays- , torn of wire telephones, will make It posslble for persons either on the shores of ] the lakes or hundreds of miles sway, to j talk with officers of. or passengers on ■ any of the vessels engaged !□ the lake tradcC _ J Without the enormous expense of ] wire maintenance that Is necessary foe ■ the wire 'phone systems, and also with- j out the expense of an expert operator ] as Is necessary with wireless telegraph ( systems, the use of tho.wlreless telephone . will be within financial reach ot the most. * .modest sailing craft plying from port to port. ( Pew persons, even those directly - oon- , nected' with commerce on the Great , Lakes, realize the enormous Interest* rep- , resented In that trade; therefore few realize the vast boon conferred by the j latest electrical marvel. Eighty per cent, of all the water tonnage of North e America Is carried on the Great j. Lakes. Thirty thousand craft of all classes r today are engaged In the lake trade, and the lake shipyards are from one to three J years behind on their orders frym lake Ship-owners, Although one-half of all * the vessels built In the Western Heml- j. There in 1908 were for the Great Lakes trade, tbe'need for more bottoms has become so acute that steamship companies come acute that steamship i

engaged In the trade recently have been obliged to go to English snd Scotch shipyards with orders. An Enormous Fleet The freight conveyed over these waters Curing 1908 was more than seven times as much as the whole world carried through the Suez Canal la the same time Four thousand freight steamers, 250 big passenger ateamefs and about 28,000 pleasure and other craft comprise the enormous Great Lakes fleet which uses upwards of three million tons of coal in a single year, or enough to heat every bouse in Chicago for three years. 1 The PlttMmrg Steamship Company, 1 which Is merely the carrier of the United 1 States Steel Corporaton. alone owns ships ' with a combined capacity of 680,000 tons ' of ore during a single trip. If the ships 1 of this company alone were placed end to ' snd they would cover a distance of eight 1 miles and during the eight months of 1 Great Lakes navigation each' year they 1 Carry as much freight from Lake 8u- : perfor to Lake Erie porta as all the ves- 1 sels of the world take through the Sue* ' Canal In a whole year. In weight of freight ■ annually handled, Buffalo and Duluth are 1 the world's greatest ports, while the ton- ' cage handled at Ohio ports along, exceeds * that of aH the ports of France. During 1907 c approximately 100.000,000 tons of freight 1 were shipped fa Great Lakes bottoms. * This would be enough to fill" 2.500,000 1 forty-ton freight cars, or a train that a -would girdle the earth and extend from I ' New York to Ban Francisco In addition, a •fore than 90 per cent of this immense total v consisted of 37.813.600 tons of Iron ore. 14.- « 000.000 tons of coal, 110,698.927 bushels t of grain. 1. 159.767 tone of flour. 14,888,•27 bushels of flaxseed and more a 1,000,000, 000 feet of lumber. I; Greatest of all Bnes of fake traffic Is » j that In Iron ere, and some 800 giant « ■tesmere are engaged solely fa Its car- ii stage. This ore commerce has doubled v Baring the last six years end the steel V men believe U will be doubled egaln dur- a j kg the next ten. for three little patches a I * the Great Lakes country produced In ti

t. 1808 nearly half of the wortd's total - supply of Iron, Total WToanage for 1808. During 1908 , 200.000.000 bushels of , *™tn and 11,000.000 barrels of flour were , shipped from Lake ports, the grain shlp- , menta from Port Arthur and Fort WIIt "am alone being we« over 80,000,000 . bushels. At least 90,000,000 bushels of t wheat, 60.000.000 bushels of other grain and 7.500.000 barrels of flour passed through the "Boo" canals and 50,000,000 | bushels of grain, conservatively represent the total shipments from Chicago, Milwaukee and other ports whose , eastbound commerce does not pass through these canals, The yearta 'lumber shipments aggregated nearly 1,500, 000,000 fee t, or enough to hund more than 75,000 houses of eight rooms each, Taking the "Soo" canal as Its center and drawing a circle having a radhu ot ; 350 miles, It would be found, to Include four of the world's greatest porta, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago end Duluth. | Within the circle or upon its circumference a^e such other ports as Detroit. , Toronto, Dunkirk, Erie, Conneaut, AshtaLorain, Sandusky, Toledo, Gary, Ashland. Superior and Port Arthur. The eight states along the Great are in reality the heart and power of the nation. Within their borders dwell 85.000,000 people and ijpon their shores center the greatest Industries of the world. Should the lakes disappear suddenly the Industrial supremacy of the States would receive a staggering from which 't might never recover and more than half the population of the naMon would be vitaHy affected. The steel would come to an untimely end. With all the great shipyards straining effort to meet the demands of the commerce, shippers agree that they never wm be <julte able to meet the requirements f of the traffic. Everywhere " from Duluth to Buffalo the shipping is CTqwded. In many cases dangerously so. ■ greatest ocean porta never have known such Wookadee as Duluth has seen on more than one occasion. During one month alone last year there were 1,221 s ' v««r ujcre were 1,221

, Arrivals and clearances at this port, an . Average of forty a day. Steamers pass through the Detroit River on an average of one every twelve minutes, night and day. Harbors and canals must be enlarged to facilitate the growing business l and unless there is some means available i for the protection of this vast shipping, • the tragedies of this next decade will be > greater than those of an the past. In I the wireless telephone it Is believed ""t I protection has been found, i Storms Do Terrific Damage. The Great Lakee are known as the , treacherous highway In the world. ; , Great storms, coming up at a few hours , notice, do enormous damage to shipping. , i of vessels suddenly and myster- , i lousty disappear each year, leaving no , I trace behind them. According to the re- , i cords more than *15.000,000. worth of < ; freight has been lost on the lakes. Involving the wrecking of 14.000 vessels and > the total low of more than 2,000 ships. During the last thirty years. In which , the records have been practically ] I complete, the wrecked vessels numbered f 6.000. nearly 1.600 of which were 1 total losses, while the loss In cargoes , alone has exceeded *12,000,000 fa this t period. A notable case In point oo. ( curved In 1906 when the steamer "Flagg" \ went down with a cargo of metal worth 1 none of which ever has been i recovered. One of the most horrible dl«- f asters in the whole history of the Great r Lakes was the wrecking of the "Griffin" h And her destruction near Cleveland, In- t. volvlng the lost cf 286 Uvea Thousands o of other tragedies mark the history of e treachery at Great Lakes storma. t: During the first week of October. 1908, b round dozen ships, valued approximateft <500.000 earfi. were wrecked during a e storm. The net losses durlilg this t week were not far from *1.000.000. Warn- G fags of the storm that caused this damage 1 posted by the United Ststw a Bureau sight hours in advance b. ^Adthe lake vessels been equipped T with wireless telephone spparetns at the aj every one would hare had ample oi

i opportunity to have made port or a safe i harbor. As It was, they had no wara- > ing of Impending danger. I Another great peril to lake shipping ■ Is that of collision and conditions In this i respect grow worse from day to day. > During the whole eight months ot tlie , chipping season each year, scarcely a day ) passes without one or snore collisions. I These conditions, which of oourse are t especially scute in time of fog, could be almost entirely obviated by wireless telephonic communication from ship to ship and, as ail the dangers which surround the Shipping interests on the lakes ostn> 1 rally compel the exaction of excessive rates, this In torn reacts apod 1 the freight tariffs so tlhat the orttJ coming of the perils from storm and colmeans a material reduction fa cost 1 of present lake transportation which, in spite of every existing obstScle, Is exceptionally loir. Safeguard Against Extortion. It is an admitted fact that the Great constitute the nation's chief safeguard against oppressive railroad rates. are the regulators of our great comand the traffic on the lakes saveg to the people of the United States *500,annually, or *6 for every maa, and bhlld of our population. over the take waters fa modern steamships costs from oneto one-quarter of the prevailing railroad rates. It ooets only two — ff bushel to ship grain from Duluth to Buffalo and only eighty cents to carry a ton of ore between three two points. This Is exactly one-seventh the ooet of railroad for the same oammodlttss the same porta In passenger rates oaeriy a like differis shown. Daring the eesaoc dt 190* l the wiendld passenger service hf the | Lakee was used by more then 16,000,000 people and the ratio erf InIndicates that this total win doubled fa leas than a decad* railroad fare between Detroit and Buffalo Is *7, hut by steamer can travel the too mike bstwerei three I