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PI ELL WORLD ' Wf YOUR WANTS IT TILL PAY TO AIVERTISE If jn Bin Ust or Ftui ( Aijtkitg, Tut Help or Work, Pit H Bere for sale. FOR SALE CHEAP • One billiard table in A-No. 1 condition newly covered, alee 4)^x9. Edw. Dale, Lafayette and Jefferson sta. 4 10 tf Hatched team of horses, good drivers, just the thing for a hustling bus man. Reason for selling cannot give proper attention. Can be seen any day after 6 o'clock p. m., address 280 Perry street. Cape May. FOR SALE— A naphtha launch, 26 feet long, 7 foot beam, 10 horse power double cylinder engine, speed 9 miles per hour. Nice family boat. Address N. H., Star and Wave Office. 5-22 8c FOR SALE— Touring car, good back car. fully equipped, top, search light, 1 extra tires, tools, etc. Guaranteed in i perfect order. Very cheap, easy pay- ; men ts ; also express, wagQn, two saddles. J. H. MULLINER. 5-22 St for rent. i — i FOR RENT— Small Boarding House, i • furnished ; 20 betl rooms. Cor. South , Lafayette and Perry street. Cape May. . Apply to Edw. Crease, Girard House , South Lafayette and Perry 3-20 ' < » FOR RENT— A new house having t three rooms and a lean-to first floor, three bed rooms second floor, gas, city water, nice porch and yard. Twelve ' dollars per month. Gilbert C. Hughes, < 914 Ocean street. , STABLE— In Wert Cap* May, near ' Broadway and Myrtle avenue. Two 1 stalls, 9 wagon sheds. Apply to A. W. 1 Hand, StaT and Wave, Office. tf FOR RENT— Rooms over Mecray '« ' Pharmacy. No facilities for cooking. 1 Apply to Mecray'B Pharmacy. 5-29 8t < tinted _ j WANTED— Band for Cape May. For i information and specifications ad- i dress. Band Committee, Joseph Ewelll. . chairman; W. B. Gilbert, W. S Shaw. Cape May. N. J. 1 WANTED— Woman wants house work. ' Apply 911 Oorgie street. Cape May. * - e 4 WANTED — Manager for Branch Office 8 we wish to locate bere in Oape May. t Address The Morris Wholesale House, Cincinnati, Ohio. 4-10 20t real estate WEST CAPE MAY, WATCH US GROW } I George H. Reeves, real estate agent, 1 building lota and homes. Will buy, - eelL rent or exchauge. Bell 'phone 67-D; Keystone »!li-D. LIST YOUR COTTAGES [ List your cottages, hotel or boarding houses, either for sale or rent with t me. Write or phone. _ J. A. CRESSE, Real Estate Agent, 4-& Dg 911 Washington street. — — — — — — — — — — o IF YOU NEED SIDtWALKS OR J If | you have concrete and cement n work to do see Jaquette and Newel1, contractor. West Cape May. Paving - contractor. West Gape May. Paving

and curbing a specialty. Estimate cheerfully given. 3-6 52t PLACE YOUR PROPERTY;iN MY , HANDS FOR SALE OK KENT. ALWAYS HAVE CLIENTS. * FIRE INSURANCE A SPECIALTY. 4. SOL. NEEDLES, 508 WASHINGTON STREET KEYSTONE PHONE 114 M. • HOME SITES, WEST CAPE MAY The owner will sell 15 highly desirable building lota, all together or singly for cash or on easy instalments. But a few such lots for sale in the borough. Also a nearly new 9 room house with large grounds and barn at less than present cost of house alone. J. L LANDtS, Agent. 520 Broadway. Keystone 'Phone 184x NOW IS THE TIME, for oil cloth, linoleum, stove boards oil heaters, stove pipe and coal hods. 1 have a stock on hand, prices reasonable. CHARLES A. SWAIN, 306-7 Jackson street. FOR CARPETS, FURNITURE, CLOTHING You should consult with the local « agent of Gatelv and Hurley, Mr. Keneman, at his office, 914 Oorgie street, 1 when you need Furniture, Carpets, Clothing, etc. Gately and Hurley are one of the most reliable of the credit houses. See large advertisement on another page. • T

Visit] the AUDITORIUM CAFE for ! the finest sea foods and salads. Excel- i lent service. Open every evening until 1 12 o'clock. (£ SPRING AND SUMMER STYLES Call and inspect the new spring and summer styles and the latest ideas in ladies' and men's merchant tailoring, which have jusi arrived. CHARLES SOHERER, tf 304 Washington street. 1 NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the Board of Health of the boroagh of West Cape May will meet at the Council Chamber the third Monday evening in each i month. 3-20 tf THOS. H. HUGHES, Clerk. ' r —

8 DEVILED CRABS and CLUB SANDWICHES at the Auditorium ' Cafe. Open evening until 12 o'clock, tf | " CAPE MAY BAKING COM- 1 • PANY BREAD for Sale at all! ^ Grocers. Phone Orders Keystone ] ' - 9 D. tt RUBBER DOOR MATS protect j r your carpets by keeping sand from < . them. All prices at the Oape May i e Grain & Coal Go. ware rooms. i j RUMMAGF SALE i Given by the ladies of the M. E. Church, at the corner of Perry and . South Lafayette streets. May 28th and , . 29th. 1909. Home made cakes for sale. , "The Grand" Motion Picture Theatre ! is the popular place of resort in the evenings. The pictures displayed are , 9 the latest and most interesting ob- ' . tainable. This is the only show of the - kind now running in this city. tf Have you got the time? If not, go c to Garrison's Jewelry Store and get a ] * Dollar Watch for 75 cents. 1 = , ! BOAT BUILDING >AIRING" I , Railway on which to rum out boats for , examination or repair. Many years of I ; experience enables me to assure satist faction. Launch just completed for a i sale. Call and examine. y JOHN PHARO, 1263 Lafayette St. I

A MIDWEEK BALL j ] M. E. Morrison and George S. Grier, of Philadelphia, who have been guests - at the Windsor for a couple of weeks arranged a dance tor Wedenesday even1 ing last at which a very pleasant time , i was enjoyed by the large company ; 1 wh<f were favored with invitations, j The Windsor ball room was prettily • decorated and very; attractive and the refreshments were prepared and served , during the evening. MUSIC COMMIT I EE APPOINTED ; Joseph Elwell, W. B. Gilbert and W. S. Shaw have been appointed by • Council, Music Committee. They have | advertised for proposals from bands. , NOTICE ' j CAPE MAY BAKING COM ! I PANY BREAD for Sale at all 1 j Grocers. Pnone Orders Keystone ! i (9^ ■ tf I I GARDEN HOSE-The Kind tha* wears well and is priced low. Cape Grain & Coal Co. , opposite Read- 1 depot. < ■ READ THIS t The convenience of the location at I ' Washington and Perry streets | ' makes the new hardware store of D. | j O. Orowell and Son an attraction and j t the complete stock of hardware , bicycle supplies, auto supplies and house furnishings fills a long.felt want. 1 The prices are right. 5-81 8t r While you are cleaning house let us - clean your lace curtains and blankets. ' Phone, 40D. ° TROY LAUNDRY, v tf 10 Decatur street l. LOST. I A pair of ice scales from one , of Church's ice wagons, probably somewhere on South Lafayette street, 8 Windsor avenue or vicinity. Return to b Robert Sutton, wagon driver. 1

.STONE LADEN, BARGE I HITS IRON PIER ! v 1 DEMOLISHES DENIZOT'S OPERA HOUSE Crew Rescued by Captain Sooy's Life Savers ! 1 A Large Crowd Witness the Collision 1 1 ■ • Loss Estimated .at $10,600, * 1 b I r

The Iron Pier and Theatre on the | > ocean front at the^foot of Decatur street | > met complete destruction yesterday j morning about nine thirty, when a barge, heavily laden witn stone, that had parted from Jits anchorage in ' Cold Spring Inlet, driven by a ' heavy northeast wind and carried along 1 the unusually high tide that came ■ in, plowed completely through the ! centre of the structure, making a total ' wreck of *t. The building was one of the attractive points of Cape May andjwiil be missed very much by cottagers and hotel guests, and tbe people 1 of Cape May, for besides being able , to obtain an afternoon or evening's entertaining furnished by the theatrical companies that are ;al ways there during the.aummer^seaaon, it was one of the nicest places in this city to spend.a day watchingjtbe waves and bathers, reclining at ease on. the comfortable chairs and benches, enjoying the pleas- ; breezes on a ^hot day or the magnificent), view of the ocean on a moonlight night. The veseel that wreaked ."the destruction to the pier>ras one of the that is carrying stone for tbe : construction of the jetties by the : United States Government at Cola 1 Spring Inlet, and bad been anchored ' the inlet, but the exceedingly : higfi tide of Thursday evening caused 1 it to break its anchor chains about ' nine o'clock, and tbe reflux tide carried ' it through the inlet into the ocean, where it drifted at the mercy of the ' elements all night, and was tossed 1 about and carried from place to place 1 until early yesterday morning when 1

1 it headed for the Oape May beach and t was driven slowly but relentlessly on r j its course of destruction. 1 The crew on tbe* barge were taken t ashore about five o'clock in the room- -. ing by Captain Sooy's crew, ofjQqld 1 Spring life saving station, and as there j was no way of checking its progess j the vessel was abandoned and 'allowed ! » to drift at will. t During the greater part of the morning the beach was lined by a large crowd of spectators, who, regardless of the wind and drizzling rain that ® was falling, or business duties, reluc- ! tantly left the scene of devastation to ' the pilings and heavy*iron stanchions that supported the pier, when the rain | began to fall in a steady downpour. 1 This is the third time the Iron Pier has met with serious disaster, the , first tune being several years ago when . a heavy storm wrenced away about 200 . feet from the end, including a theatre, . which was replaced by the one that met destruction yesterday. The second misfortune happened two years ago when : the whole front, including several stores , and the broad arcade entrance to the , pier proper, were completely de- , stroyed by fire. The front was immediately replaced by a much finer building, and undoubtedly tbe part destroyed yesterday will be quickly replaced by a structure much more imposing than the present pier. The Iron Pier was the property of Victor Denizot and was erected about years ago. The loss was about $10,000. The loss of the barge and is estimated at about $5,500.

SOME NEWS ANDCOMMENT ' BREEZY OPINIONS AND NEWS lteas fiatkered hj Stir ill . Win Reporters ui Curat Curat Erats Mayor Frank E. Smith, of Holly Beach, is one of the I™ost energetic men in South Jersey and £baa been a large factor in the development of Holly Beech. He is not only mayor, be is a dealer in lumber and builder's supplies, e contractor 'and builder, a .dealer in ice and coal and some more things too numerous to mention, but his cold storage fish plant by itaelf is worth a visit to Holly

from Philadelphia, or even New a Y'ork. It holds 700,000 pounds of fish n "nd here the fish you will eat next winter may be being stored now. You n may «at_Ahem with perfect safety too, i- for J»e" uses no benzoate of soda or any- £ Ahing else except a thorough cleaning efand zero temperature. They are piled is in great tiers just like sticks in a well d made wood pile, and they comprise all varieties. The bunkers or menhaden ^ are stored there by fishermen for bait e and they pay storage tolls for. tbe privs ilege. There are weak fish, bass, but- ( ter fish, rock, flounders and other ; kinds. Anglesea and Holly Beacb are . _ great fishing centres and the fish shipg menta from tbeae places to New York n and Philadelphia markets daily are enormous. The upbuilding of both resorts has been materially assisted by r this industry, and others inaugurated , e by Mayor Smith and energetic asn sociates. -J ' 0 (• <• f> 1 [ An ocean yacht race from Bamegat ' Inlet to Oape May is to occur early in ' 3 the season under the auspices of tbe Corinthian Yacht Club of Beach Haven. ' <"• to 8 1 A gentleman who is a member of 1 nearly all the yacht clubs on the coast 1 says that the Cape May Yacht Club is far and away the best and most 1 ' successful. 1 * (• « 1 Captain W. H. Mills is headquarters 1 f for boats and boat equipment, t . • • • t Oape May as the terminus of the 1 j proposed Ocean Boulevard authorized 1 by a recent law will receive great ben- I efit from it and it will also be bene- i fitted by tbe State's system of inland I . waterways which will have its southern t terminus here. The latter is completed 1 for about ten miles and makes a per- > fectly plain ^passage for motor baats 1 and others to Holly Beach and Wild- ( 1 wood. The appropriation obtained • from the legislature at the recent ses- l 1 aion will keep the work upon it moving g for another year. The work on the g entrance to tbe harbor has proceeded t far enough now to make it clear what 1 it is to be like At the outer end the < ' stone is'abcve the surface on the south j jetty and it is being dumped at the rate of from 800 to 1600 tons per day. « ft « Under the auspices of the Board of 1 uiiuci luc ausiuccs 01 me ooara 01

there is to be a first class base 1 team bere and George Dorner, for many years a player of the old Cape May team, will be manager He is endeavoring -to organize the same aggregation of players as last year since the team was very successful with its nine last season. -In addition to this a | series of athletic meets will be arj ranged if possible and the Hotel Cape | May will offer cups for successful I participants (• A (• The feasibility of placing the board- | walk several hundred feet out beyond ' its present location and of elevating | and broadening it is being' thought of j by a number of enterprising citizens. [ The beach has "made up" consideiably in recent years and the erection of the j jetties to fonn the entrance to the har- | bor is likely to cause it to make up a great deal more, and this seems to present an opportunity to secure a attractive boardwalk. » « » The one great deajderatnm cf the modern school is to teach the pupil to do the hard and disagreeable thing^ without whining. Tbe trained intelworks for tbe ;big thiiig which is away, the untrained for the little pay check at the end of the week. Whoever attacks the public schools attacks the unity of the country. The schools ate the digesting organ of the body politic. No Interstate Oommerce Commission •

can bold this oountry together in tbe next hundred yean, no miles of railroad, no branch of tba Federal governr ment, but in tbe public school, alone I lies tbe hope of our future unity. Essentially the same textbooks an C used in Providence, New Orleans and Seattle. The same Ideas are being poured into the children's brains. Tbey I Irani a common tradition, are trained io a common method, breathe a common atmosphere all through the plastic period of youth, and in up tbe sobools we are building op the unity of tbe nation, y When Tennyson wrote "Crossing the c Bar" be did mora for England than a building the beat harbor in the. world; f when Mrs. Browning wrote "The Cry . of the Children" she did more for her j country than building a thousand j orphan asylums. i a A m

3 Former Senator John p. Spoon er, of 1 Wisconsin, says: When you ask if a r man should be active in politics you ' ask if a man ought to be a good citi- ) zen. What can an bonest man do? He 1 can keep bonest, for one thing, and be > can make it his business to keep dis1 bonest men out of office ana if ther - get in to turn them out. E A government such as ours, by the I people, can only be carried on by I parties if it is to continue by the I people. 1 Organization of party is merely the e banding of citizens of common belief • for carrying out their belief. It is the • business of parties to govern, or the 1 people to govern the parties. Men can ■ do nothing without organization. You - need it for a Sunday school class or a : prayer meeting— for all united effort. 1 That involves leadership and any 1 leader is more or less a boss Don't let that word frighten you. Men afraid I of bosses— leaders— are top good for party organization — or think tbey are. " ought to be translated either up ; or out They take on themselves the contemptible function of criticising and ' sneering at the men who do things in ' politics. Don't be too suspicious. We have weak men in office and dishonest 1 but the average is high. The ' scandals that followed tbe war .are not possible today. His is a bitter and morbid mind that views every man in public life as one . who needs watching. Be careful of reform ; go slowly. Like good chamyou may take too much. • • • _ ! Paul Burus, who made such a phe- ( nomenai success as manager of the } Opera House last season is to re- ( in the same capacity and .will be accompanied with a company of artists with which he expects to delight the amusement loving people of Cape . AAA t West Cape May High School grad- 1 uates will wear cap and gowns this year at .their commencement It would an excellent idea if all other high school graduates did the same. It . to emphasize the meaning of ^ the ceremony of graduation instead of , affording an opportunity for display of . On this subject the Newark says : "Left to themselves, parents are not £ always wise in selecting apparel. Some who are wealthy want very cost- , dress, and some who are poor want se just as fine gowns as the rich. To pre-

or veot the prf^e and pain incident to disPe plays that can or cannot be afforded, 18 some Boards of Education have recomB' mended that all graduates wear | dresses of the same material— plan., neat, pretty and made as nearly alike j 18 as is in good taste. Thia is an excel- j lent rule and has never caused bitter j pe tears and painful heartburnings. It is I ul time to think these things over. Next | month the commencement season j arrives." ,. d" •) A 4 ld Mrs. L. L. Lewis aDd daughter, I Carmalita, have returned to Cape May 1 after a two montha absence. Mrs. j 8' Lewi* accompanied Mr. Lewis to ' J Chicago, where be made an address at j le a large and important meeting upon 1 1 r" "The Relation of Market Values £0 Intrinsic Values." i Mrs. Lewis had not been in Chicago 1 since their leaving their eleven years < ago. Mrs. Lewis and Carmelita spent < )e a couple of weeks in Northern Penn- ' sylvania before going to ;the Hotel 1 \ Marie] Antoinette in New York where j they have since made their home. jg It will be interesting to the many le Cape May acquaintances to know thaY Mr. Lewis is acquiring a considerable ( lg reputation as a lawyer and speaker. ie At a large dinner recently at the e Waldorf Astoria, at which ,he presided as toast master, he .'made a not- r n Continued on 5th Page (

- SPECIAL . MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL ; set mats tie ifftiisa < Snaer Nice iffaM ul i CHtncts far «ev Fuffag Stathi Miciiierj iwuM At a special meeting of Council held Monday evening, Sol. Needles was elected mercantile tav appraiser a salary of $600 per year in accordance with tbe provision of the mercantile tax ordinance recently rf The contract was awarded to the Otto Engine Company for the installs- ~ 7 iar uk installa-

tion of new machinery at the pumping ' station and J. W. Faust was awarded a Contract for the remodeling of Pavilion No. 1. The following summer police were [ appointed: Lewis Williama, W. W. West, William Ormerod, George Leh- ' man, William Gibson, Charles Finns man. : M. E. CHURCH ' George L. Dobbins, D. D.t will preach in the ;Firat M. E. Church Sun- , day, May 23rd, at 10:30 a. m., on "The ' Ascension," and at 7:45 p. m., on _ "There is no God." - BEAUTIFUL CEREMONIES AT ST. MARY'S CHURCH ( At St. Mary's Church next Sunday evening tbejaffecting ceremonies con- | nected with the crowning will take , place in St Mary 'a Church, WaahingI ton street The children dressed in . white always make a beautiful and touching spectacle, and tneir freeh ( young voices move us much more than , the beet singers or the moet eloquent I speakers. Miss Maty Oonley baa been t chosen to make the address and perform the ceremony of crowning. Miys , Katherine Shields will preside st the /organ. A sermon will be delivered by ' the pastor. Father Kelly. COMMUNICATED To the editor of tbe Star and Wave : If the mercantile tax becomes operative, our merchants would be compelled to pay double, a 8 tbe.Bo rough of West Oape May would not admit business people to^do business in their locality unless they paid into treasury the like amount. It would be wise for Council to consult the tax payers before acting. RECEPTION AND CARD PARTY Mrs. Ernest W. Lloyd gave a reception Wednesday afternoon followed by a card party in tbe evening for her friend, Mrs. William Acuff, of AmPa. Mrs. Fhillips Entertains Mrs. Albert H. .Phillips (entertained on Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Elmira Dobbins. Those present were and Mrs. Harry B. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Frana B. Mecray, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert C. Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Mecray, Mrs. John Mecray, Mrs. Helen ;Edmunds, Miss Meli Smith, Miss Mae Hall, Miss Rose Gandy, Miss Helen Phillips. t *

■ STATE WILL SUPPLY $4 000 FuR REPAIKS OF ROAD ' Senator Hand worked earnestly durr j ing the session of legislature to secure from the State, appropriations of j money for the repair of county roads [ I as well as for their building and sue- . I ceeded in obtaining .it. During thia ' | week-he has been taking State Oom- . | missioner of Roads Giikyson.over the " county to show him the various county j roads and the commissioner has agreed to apportion $4000 for repairs to thia j county which is quite liberal. I MRS. WILLIAM TOWNSEND i j UNDERGOES OPERATION j Mrs. William Townsend, who reI turned two weeks ago after spending the winter with her brother, William Champion, in Goliad, Texas, and her nephew, Earl C. Hughes, in Dewey, Oklahoma, was taken to the hospital on.Tuesday where.sht- was operated on. last reports were very favorable for her recovery. IN MEM0RIAM. MARKLEY — in^sacred memory of our grandfather, Edwin Markley, who entered into rest May 19, 1908. FROM THE GRANDCHILDREN. Oan you get up in the morning? If not, immediately go to Garrison's Jewelry Store, and get an Alarm Clock. $1.00 alarms 75 cents.