STAR AND WAVE WEEKLY EDITION

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ONE CENT-A- %■ WORD COLUMN ALWAYS BRIN6 MEAT RESULTS Ho Advertisement Taken for less than Twenty Cents. Tell the ■ People Yonr Wants LOST. FOR RENT. jtob BENT OB SALE— Unfurnished cottage for rent or sale. North street, terms reasonable, all rooms, good condition. Stable for rent. • G. BOLTON ELDRBDGE. Merchants National Bank Building, ' 4-9 St Oape May, N. J. ■ftipOB KENT— One of the finest cottages at. Oape May, all conveniences, hot , ^Hkater heat, porches on all sides, furn^■bed np to date, 660 Hughes street. ^BkhTkent— Farm of 80 acres at Cape J May, N. J. Inquire of J. H. hughes, " 400 Washington street, Oape May. I FOB BENT— Several furnished oot- j tages for the winter, and unfumiahed by the year. For particulars apply to J. H. Hughes, 410 Washington t street. j FOR SALE. ; FOR SALE— Recently built summer ' jhome. Living room, dining room, < kitchen, first floor. Four bed rooms, i linen room .and bath ; second floor. Large finished tattic. Front, side and back porches. Gas, hot end cold water 1 Screened throughout. (8000. i GILBEBT C. HUGHES, 4-9 4t 214 Ocean Street. DIAMONDS, WATOHES, JEWELBY t For diamonds, watches and Jewelry it will pay you to buy of L. M. Nel- , sons. I have been dealing with Cape . May best cltitens for ten years. Before purchasing elsewhere drop us a postal, ; will send goods on approval. L. M. i NELSON, 84S Broadway, Camden, M.J. 2-26 18t , A HOME ON EASY TERMS Make any reasonable terms and you ran have a beautiful home on Pearl etreet, nqgr Broadway, in the popular Borough of West Cape May. New 1 house, perfect condition throughout, on nice high ground, containing seven rooms and a sun parlor ; gas ; excelslent flow of water from driven well. ^Himmediate possession. Oall and make ^^Hour own terms and the property is ^^fturs. Price very low. GILBERT O. HUGHES, Realty, 214 Ocean Street. WANTED WANTED— Two experienced teachers desire positions, outside profession, for summer. Address "A. B. O." Star and Wave Office. 4-9 St WANTED— Young man capable taking care of a horse and cow and to be Senerally useful about a place at lolly Beach, N. J., (15 a month ar.d board. Address, Arthur O. Abele, 441 Chambers avenue, Camden. REAL ESTATE WEST CAPE MAY. 210 BROADWAY •WATCH US GROW George H. Reeves, real estate agent, building lots and homes. Will buy, Ig, sell, rent or exchange. Keystone P phone 111-D. L ~ PLACE YOUB PROPERTY IN MY ■ HANDS FOB SALE OB BENT. AL- ■ WAYS HAVE CLIENTS. W FIRE INSURANCE A SPECIALTY. SOL. NEEDLES. 608 WASHINGTON STREET KEYSTONE PHONE 114 M. PICTURES FRAMED ST""1 > H. T. Hughes, 612 Washington Street. Or at Smith's Studio. Beach Avenue. ■

BOAT BUILDING PAIRING^ I Railway on which to rua out boats for examination or repair. Manv years of o experience enables me to assure satis- r ^■fsetioD. C JOHN PHAR0.1263 LafmyetteSt * The ancient game of bowls usedto be played in the open air but the Oape May experts, who are hard to beat, learned the art in tbe palatial quarters . which booses the fine Congress Hall - Alleys, 31 Perry treet. Try them. WE ARE UP-TO-DATE AS USUAL £ Mustard Brown is the new shade. ■ Has just developed in the European fashion. Oall at Van Keaael'a store and we know these styles wiil make 1 e hit with you. ANY LADY can easily make from (18 ' to (25 per week working for me ' quietly in her own home locality. Thia 1 is a bona fide offer— one which will pay i yon to investigate, even if yon can , only spare two boon per day. No investment required. Turn your spare time into money. Write me at once for particulars. Address MARY B. TAYLOR, Box 80, Woman's Building, Joliat. n'f~d« i

. REGULAR COUNCIL MEETIN6 On Tuesday evening City Council met in a regular session. President Jacoby-in the chair, and all members answered roll call. I City Solicitor Lloyd was instructed to draw up -the necessary papers to ; transfer Broadway from West Perry Street to beach avenue.to the county, to beoome a part of the .Ocean Boulevard. Three [parties residing outside of the city limits requested water service, but were refused as the city ddps not care to extend mains outside of the corporate limits at this time. Tb# street committee was instructed to repair sewers on Pittsburg avenue. A communication from Building Inspector Stevens condemned the porches of Congress Hall and the Church of the Advent as being unsafe. Josephj|Hand, carpenter, made a proposal to Council in which he agreed to keep the k Board walk in repair for one year for ^(200, the city to furnish all materials. Council accepted the proposition and^instructed the Solicitor to draw an agreement with Mr. Hand. (.Oity^Engineer Townsend was authorized toluse.his.own^ Judgment in staking out curb lines. m _ On January 8tb fa blotter belonging to the water department was placed one of the city's safes in the presence of witnesses, but the book has since misteriously disappeared. The Finance Oommutee contemplates offering a reward for the return of the missing book. During the past four years there is no record of any penalty being imposed in the water department. The Finance Oommittee asked to be relieved from the task of ^causing an audit of the city books to be made on the ground that they^could not obtain sufficient funds from tbe.approprlations | for the purpose. The vote was unanimous in favor of granting the relief asked.for. Two ooats of paint will be given to the boardwalk on the street side from Broadway to Grant street. SENIOR CLASS PLAY The myriad-minded bard of Avon ha6 said, "Ail the world's a stage" and "So Patty and Jenkins have gone from 1 our midst; Mr. Bob and Mrs. Brown will "come down" no more forever; > their days behind the footlights are i over. But another troupe has appeared—the class of 1910.. This year the farre, [the "Freshman." will be piesenjed— a jstory of the .initiation of a verdant lad from the west into the - mysteries o f college life. It is a , good wholesome little play, full of ' college spirit and fun. Of course you wiil see no sucn orgies j —no knights astride a goat— as you B might see at the initiation of an Elk t or a Mason, but Cape May does not J often have the opportunity of seeing the freshmanitis extracted from a real - freshman. So gallants, bring your ladies ; lassies, pilot those laddies toward Washington 'street hail on the evening of *April 16 Tickets, orchestra circle, 85 cents ; family circle and pebnut gallery, 25c. Charies A. Swain has purchased a - stock Pneumatic Carpet Sweeper, which are of the latest and best design ; and is offering them at #25 each or ; will hire them;by the day for f 1.00. These machines make bouse cleaning a pleasure. Ask Mr. Swain to Bbow RUBBER STAMPS, I Brass or Copper Stencils for marking boxes, baskets, etc., will be made to • drer at short notice. STAR AND WATE STATIONERY! DEPARTMENT MAS UU HAIt MAIIimLKIiUmLKiatHI ,

317 Washington Street . » i We are expecting our summer supply < of Post cards and in order to make rack room wiil dispose of all Birthday Cards at 10 cents per dozen. None reserved. Many of these cards sold at 6 cents each CLIP YOUB HORSE He will feel batter, and will be easy to care for. Drop a postal and I will call at your stable with an up-to-date machine. Work guaranteed. HARRY KEHR, 8t Cape May. INVITATIONS OF neatly Printed if not Engraved We can imitate Engraved work so closely that it will deceive a great many, and it would simply be out of the question to procure better engravng than we are selling. See the samples and be convinced. Star and Wave Publishing Company, 815 and 817 Washington Street. Cape May.IN-. J. •Coders Printing from High Clasi Type

SOME NEWS c ANDCOMMENT , BREEZY OPINIONS AND NEWS Items (lathered bj Stir and • Wave Reporters aad Commeat on Current Events I . [ Seekers after cottages for summer occupancy are keeping the agents busy j and it has become evident that all of the available cottages will be in use . during the season and an interesting s cottage colony the result. The many ; interesting events already arranged for has stimulated attention to Cape ! May's chums as a summer residence, i The first run of automobiles will be r that of the Premier . cue under the i direction of the Motor Company of ( Philadelphia, on Jane 11th, the desr tination to be the Hotel Oape May. At least one hundred cars are promised. . l'be September run last yeu under the . same auspices waB very successful. , The Board of Trade has authorized s r memento of the event in the snape of I a trophy for. the winning car. • m « j The Oape May High School base ball , team was defeated by a score of 12 ta j 9.by the Court House High . School , team on Saturday afternoon, at Court House. The return game will be , played today (Saturday) on the Stockton grounds. The game will, start at , one o'clock in order to allow Court | House team to catch the afternoon train jbome. » ft » 1 George A. Billings, «f the United 1 States Department of Argiculture, 1 who gave an illustrated lecture upon ' the subject of "Agricultural Education | with particular reference to the form- j ing of Boys' and Girls' Agricultural 5 Clubs," before tbelOounty Teachers' 1 Association last Friday evening J and also delivered a lecture before Pomona Grange at Palermon on Saturday evenb ing, will£engage in cooperative work i with several farmers of the county and i endeavor to show practically how the i farm can be made to pay by the appli- ; cation of scientific principles. One of e the farms selected is a hundred acre - tract at Whitesboro. Experiments of r various kinds will be tried, by way of 8 illustration. The Department is doing * an exceedingly practical work tnjnany e directions for the purpose of improving 8 farm conditions. f •) •) « Preparations are being made by the s Breakwater Construction Company in u charge of building the jetties of stone k at the entrance of the harbor for the >t government, for vigorous work beging ning now for the completion of this tl important enterprise It has added r extensively to its equipment for this >- purpose. A powerful dredge is to bs e put upon the "work cf completing the dredging within the harbor, by the Cape May Real Estate Company and - the government plans for the erection of a powerful lighthouse and system I of range lights for the guidance of mariners seeking to enter the harbor, n are completed and ready for applicar don. It is the hope of observers that '• the harbor will be complete in all its r details within a year. 9 •) •) Rowing contest with shells and other r forms of boats should be included in » the repertoire of the Cape May Yacht £ Club. Crews could be, undoubtedly, 0 recruited from the college men who summer here and the harbor would be summer Here auu uje uuruur wuuia De *

unequalled for practise and contests. I The novelty of this innovation would * attract wide spread attention. Yacht I Club officials should take this matter up. J (• « « i The creation of a harbor here has i stimulated interest in boating phenomenally. A few years ago boat bouse s sites a could be obtained at nominal 2 . figureejbut they now bring aa much as i I city lots and desirable locations find a < 5 ready market as rapidly as prepared, i The boat house area contains several l times-the nomber of buildings former- " ly seen. | 3 ft » 8 , Interest in good roads is all-pervad- t j ing in this section and the (Board of J a Trade .is endeavoring to aid the Good t Roads Association of Cumberland | f County, to secure up-to-date highways i . at some points in that ^county which i . have been neglected. Tnis is all that : is needed, to secure a continuous route of fine roads from Philadelphia by way of Millville into this county, a very attractive route because of the many c 1 1 Continued on Page 5. *

PERSONAL MENTION OFVISITORS ; i SOM INTERESTING NOTES ■ .i 1 Stir ul Wave Readers are Re- ! (lested ti Seal ia by Pkeae tr Otherwise Mrs. Frank Baoon, of Perry street, < r naa been spending a fewjdays with rel- 1 J ativqs at West Collingewood. j Street Supervisor bar re, who has t e been confined to the bouse with a J 2 severe spell of sickness tor several j ^ weeks, made his appearance on the a streets for the first time Wednesday. e Mr. and Mrs. J Ash ton Williams, of c • Lanrel Springs, have been visiting I e friends and relatives here. ' Manager John P. Doyle, of the Hotel r Cape May, is spending the week in ( New York. < Rev. J. T. Woolson, of Somera ^ ' Point, was here early in tbe week to j e preach the funeral sermon of the late i - Mrs. Weeks on Tuesday at Cold 1 8 Spring. ' ' Mrs. A. R. Hand and son Millet are j spending a week in Philadelphia. r Harry Johns, of Philadelphia, one of f Oape May's most ardent admirers, was g * here this week. Misses Jeanne and Anita Hand s students at the State Normal and £ e Model Schools, respectively, are enjoy- £ ing a vacation at the home of their 1 parents. 1 Walter Bacon, of Bridgeton, has 11 1 been at the borne of his father on i Perry street suffering with tonsilitis ^ j and quinsy. . CAPE MAY YACHT CLUB t n ACTIVITIES f ti Cape May Yacht Club activities are , i- to begin early this, year, April 16th ( J having been fixed upon as opening day ( i' and April 80th, as the date for the , d annual beefsteak dinner, a faction to ) a which all look forward with gusto. [ i- This is one of the occasions on which | k the cooking must be done entirely by ( d mOtebers as evidence of their capability , e to care for themselves 86 true sailors ( i- should. Tbtsre has never been any \ f complaint of the quality of these j e spreads. The annual banquet which has | if usually occurred in Philadelphia at toe if Union League, will occur, this year at , g the Hotel Oape May and will be made , j, one of the greatest in the Club's bis- . g tory. The schedule of races for the , coming season has not yet been made up but will be prepared alter the offi- , ie cial opening of the club and will inn elude the usual contests with other re,e sort organizations. The new feature ie contemplated in the introduction of j. rowing contests to be in charge of is college men experienced in jthese matid ers. The broad waters of the harbor is are thought to be particularly adapted is to* this form of racing sport and the | ie interest which would be aroused would i ie be great. There are some surprises ! d pending in reference to racers and the o tleei will include some great boats uj this season. if The club is interesting itself, also, r, in a movement to secure the extension i- of the jetties being erected at the enit trance to the harbor for an additional j . a one thousand feet and the effort will | probably be successful. It is estimated that this will reach a depth of between • >r 8even and eight fathom of water. ' n The officers for the present year are : it Commodore, Dr. R. Walter Starr; , r, vice-commodore, James F. Lucas; 10 rear commodore, B. I. Gibbons; sec>e retary aud treasurer, Alfred G. reutry ana treasurer, Ailred li.

trustees, Col. J. Warren John M. Walton, Millaxd E. J. F. Jacoby, J. B. Newkirk, F. Robert Wurch. SCHOOL JUNIORS 11 WEST CAPE MAY 9 The Cape May High School Juniors '■ a close game from the West Cape 1 team, by a rally in the seventh > inning. Horace Clark pitched a wont derfnl game, striking men out when ■ meant runs. Score 11 to 9. The I follow : High School— Miller, second ; K earn a, Taylor center; 8. Hughes, catcher; Vanaman, right; Mecray - third; Clark, pitcher; Otter, abort; I left. 3 West Cape May— Kldredge, left; 1 Goeble, center; Bishop, second; Smith, b third; Phillips, pitcher; F. Hughes, > short; Hand, catcher; Reeves, right; I first ' BARKING. HACKING. RASPING COUGH ' be broken up quickly by Alien's Balsam. This old, reliable remedy has been sold for over 40 years. Ask your druggist about it 8-19 4

In tb4 issue of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph of Thursday evening, Marofa 81st, - there appeared the following article from Cape May. One of toe members of Council wired the Telegraph, asking who had written it and received a dispatch in reply saying, "Lew Stevens." On Tuesday Aaron W. Hand sent to the "Telegraph" the signed letter, which will be found below : THE TELEGRAPH ARTICLE .Cape May. N. J . March 81.— Chairman George S. Douglas, of the Water Oommittee of Cape May, reports that the water book showing the collections fornix rears, from 1008 ta 1908, inclusive, has disappeared. The last time that the nook was seen was in January when Superintendent William Porter tand President of the Council John F. Jacoby placed it in the safe in the office of the superintendent. Shortly after the present Council was organized a resolution was offered to the books audited for several years back. In 1908 tbe city hod an ex- ' tension on tbe water works built by Thomas B. Harper, of Montgomery Pa , for which it paid upwards of (32,000. Bids were advertised in June and when they were opened the contract was awarded to Mr. HarWithin forty-eight hours he was , paid tbe full prioe of his contract, the . works having been completed before ' the bids were advertised. Engineer Cornelius O. Vermeule was J in charge of the water supply and he is ; reported to have reoommended tbe purchase of the lands of Henry Learning for w hi oh, tbe city was to have paid (1100. Suddenly tbe poll teal leaders 1 became active and the farm a mile away from the main waterworks owned by Aaron W. Hand, a member of the County Board of Taxation, was purchased at the price of (8800 i HAND'S REPLY 1 Oape May., N. J., Apr. 6th, 1910 To the Editor pf the "Evening Telegraph," Philadelphia. Dear Sir:— Ay attention has Just been called to an article in your issue of Thursday last, referring to alleged in connection with the water works here, in which the statement is made that "Engineer Cornelius C. Vermeule was in charge of the : water iupply, and lie is reported to recommended the purchase of the 1 lands of Henry Learning, for which the city was to have paid (1100. Suddenly the political leaders became active and the farm a mile away from the main waterworks owned by Aaron Hand, a member of the Uounty Board of Taxation was purchased at the price ol (8800." I desire to inform you tliat every word in this statement ie unqualifiedly aud intentionally false, for the person who wrote it had access to the facts snd deliberately published the reverse. Engineer Vermeule was not in charge of the water supply. He is one of the most widely kDown authorities on matter of this kind in New Jersey, resides 1 in Newark, and was called as an expert by the city, to select a location for a supplementary water works in order I that the city might avoid mistakes heretofore made in selecting locations. ' An option was obtained by Stilwell : : H. Townsend, city engineer, personalI j ly, upon the Learning lands, lor (3000, I I not tor (1100. If Expert Vermeule 1 1 had recommended their purchase, they would have been purchased for the new water works, but he did not recomI mend them. No "political leaders" became active to buy any farn» of mine, because I j never owned any. The only farm in the family was owned by my wife. Mr. Townsend, personally, took an option upon this at (88O0, the minimum price at which it was lifted in the hands of several real estal : agents. It contained 84 acres, and a complete outtit of buildings which could not be built new for the (3800. The Learning tract contained no buildings and is about 1 eight acres in extent Engineer Vermeule decided that my wife's farm was not only tbe best location for water supply but tost it was the most economical proposition offered. Thia ) recommendation governed tbe matter , of selection. The contract for provid- . ing tbe land, machinery and all |ot the j appurtenances to tbe water plant, was . finally given to Mr. Harper, and the , option upon tbe farm was transferred g to him. It was be who purchased it, and not the city. No "political leaders" had anything whatever to do ^ with tbe matter and neither my wife y nor myself had. any contract whatever . with tbe city in the transaction nor did anyboay connected with us interest . themselves in tbe least to secure the ' sale. Neither of us ever set eyes on ^ Vermeule to our knowledge. 'a The options are still on file in tbe ; Recorder's offioe where anybody can verify my statement and the amounts paid when they were taken were paid by Mr. Townsend out of his own funds Please publish this as conspicuously 1 ss tbe falseboods were published. , This article has the a a vantage of . being signed by a responsible party. Very truly yours. AARON W. HAND..

' h&ting of bo ard ; . qe.freebotpbs . . The regular intkufl^'nSeeting of the t Board of Freeh*! eecp 'occuirod on Tuesday at Court EftxMl and among Ithe . important items of bbsfntA transacted . was the authorisation of an issue of , bonds to tbe amount of (10,000, for the construction of a proper drawbridge at Scbellenger's Landing and tba award . of tbe contract for its construction to " the lowest bidders, Robert E. Hand L and Harry Hoffman, jointly, their bid | being (9858. Lawyer Charles Bonnell. rcpreeentt ing O. H. Boewell and O. N. Errick- ' son. asked the privilege of running ! pipes, etc , on. the county roads from Court House to Goshen and Whitesi boro, for an acetyien^gaa plant. ^ Another party requested the same privilege for an improved water and ' coal gas plant. Time was then allotted the commit- | tees from various portions of the | county representing boards of trade, granges, commercial leagues, etc., to > discuss the County Chamber of Com- ; proposition. W. Scott Hand, representing Ocean i .City Board of Trade, gave hie views i and was followed by E. W. Lloyd, representing Oape May; Frank Fowkea, of Sea Iale City; John J. i Kroner, of Oape May Point; E. L. Ross, of Middle Township Commercial League; Anthony B. Smith.^epresent- . ing Palermo Grange ; Charles P. Vanaman, representing.Middle Township Grange ; Mr. Mahan, representing i Wildwood. The delegations then adjourned to another room and elected John P. Fox. temporary chairman and A. W. Hand, . temporary 6icretary. On motion of W. I S. Hand a resolution passed autboriz- , ing tbe chair to appoint a committee to , be composed of delegates from each ! municipality of the countv, to perfect , plans of organization and to communi- , cate with all commercial bodies, , granges, etc., in the county, request- , ing tbe appointment of delegates to . attend a meeting to oompiete tbe or- , ganization of a County Chamber of i Commerce. The following committee f was appointed : K. W. Springer, Cape , May Point; A. B.. Smith, Upper Townt ship; W. Scott Hand, Ocean City; Frank W. Fowkee, Sea Isle City ; John , W. Young; North Wildwood; G. Nelj son Smith, Holly Beach; E. W. Lloyd, , Cape May; J. Thompson Baker, WildB wood and Wildwood Crest; Daniel Schellenger, Lower Township ; Charles 8 P. Vanaman, Middle Township; Jacob e Feldman, Woodbine ; Ogden Gandy, _ Dennis Township; G. Bolton Eldredge. 3 West Oape May ; Gilbert S. Smith, . | Avaldn ; David Risley, Stone Harbor ; r F. S. Rutschmau, South Oape May. r On motion oommittee was directed g to meet at Court House on Tuesday next, Secretary to notify members 1 not present. Adjourned. THE MAN ABOUT TOWN 'e William MacLear., Jr., of Philadelphia, was in town on Thursday looking over his different real estate. Mrs. Francis R. Brooks and Miss Etta Gregory are passing two weeks g in Washington. j Thomas H. Bambrick is occupying 3 his Hughes street cottage. Dr. Gilbert H. Sherer and son, were entertained on Saturday by O. [ Earl Miller. t Cottager Pemberton New bold and t wife, of Philadelphia, were taking in the ocean breezes on Saturday. t The new fcity sweeper does exoellent t work on tbe streets and at leas cost t J. Merrett Schellenger, or Royera- _ ford, was greeting old friends the first B of the week. r Mrs. Georgians H. Carre toon is t passing a portion of the week in|Philg adelphia. t The Misses McCredy are in tfaetr l_ Hughes street cottage. e H. P. Renboth. of Camden, baa . leased Joseph S rites cottage on Hughes e street by tbe year. d Susan W. Satterfield, of Philadel- ^ Dhia, former proprietor of tbe Baltij more Inn, has leased the Ohalfonte ^ Hotel for the coming season. >e A party of summer cottagers came ^ down in their auto on Wednesday ^ They dined at the Hotel McGuire. it Avoid discomfort and disappointment >e by selecting the right tailor to do your n work. Oar guarantee is: "No clothes M will be sent home if not perfect in a every way. Give us a trial and you ta will be our steady customer. d OHAS. SCHEKKR, \ Ladies' and Men's Tailor. l£ Van Keasel, 424 Washington street, has always the latest styles, loath and ! fashions on hand. ..