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FIFTY-nFTH\ v* NO- IS CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1910 THREE CENTS A COPY — — '

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ONE CENT-A- _ WORD COlPlil ALWAYS BRING GREAT RESULTS Hi Advertiseaeit Tiiei fir less (haa TwmIj Ceils. Tell tie People Year Wilts FOR RENT. FOB BENT— Several Boarding Houses : for the summer. For particulars apply to J. JL Hughes. 410 Washington street. - STORE FOB BENT Large grocery store with all fixtures complete. Large store.houae attached. Located on Main Seashore Road at Oold Spring, N. J. Large dry goods store adjoining, doing fine business. One will help the other. For rent at 910 per month. Apply to L H. Eldredge, Gape May Oity, N. J. 4-30 tf FOR SALE. TOURING OAR FOR SALE Touring car, five passengers, fully equipped, guaranteed in perfect condition, high grade car. Best bargain ever offered, nearly new tires, with extra tubes, top, tools, etc. 4-30 8t J. H. MULLINER. FOR SALE— At reasonable price, a ^."Splendid" cook stove, in first class condition. Inquire of Mrs. Edw. Say re, Queen street. FOR SALE CHEAP Two boats, one cat boat 30 feet over all. Ready to install an engine f 160 One new motor boat never been used, 18 feet long, $80. For further information apply to Oapt. R. S. Ludlam, Broadway and Pearl street, West Gape May. 4-23 8t_ FOR SALE— Recently built summer borne. Living room, dining room, kitchen, first floor. Four bed rooms, linen room and bath ; second floor. Large finished attic. Front, side and " tack porches. Gas, hot end cold water. Screened throughout $3000. GILBERT C HUGHES, 4-9 4t 214 Ocean Street. diamonds' wato h bs, jewelry For diamonds, watches and jewelry it will pay you to buy of L. M. Nelsons. I have been dealing with Cape May best citizens for ten years. Before purchasing elsewhere drop us a postal, ' will send goods on approval. L. M. ! NELSON, 843 Broadway, Camden, : N. J. 18t wanted" WANTED — Suitable accommodations for the month of July for sixteen members of the faculty of the Cape May Summer School. Hotels and boarding houses willing to furuish special rates to pupils of the summer School address T. D. Sensor, Trenton, N. J., stating terms. 4-30 2t WANTED— Two experienced teachers desire positions, outside profession, for summer. Address "A. B. O. " Star and Wave Office. 4-9 3t f REAL ESTATE i WEST CAPE MAY, 210 BROADWAY '•WATCH US GROW' George H. Beeves, real estate agent building lots and homes. Will buy, aell, rent or exchange. Keystone phone 111-D. PLAGE YOUR PROPERTY IN MY HANDS FOR SALE OR RENT. ALWAYS HAVE CLIENTS. - FIRE INSURANCE A SPECIALTY. SOL. NEEDLES, £08 WASHINGTON STREET KEYSTONE PHONE 114 M. A HOME ON EASY TERMS Make any reasonable terms and yo» can have a beautiful home on Pearl street, near Broadway, in the popular Borough of West Oape May. New house, perfect condition throughout on nice nigh ground, containing seven rooms and a sun parlor; gas; excellent flow of water from driven well. Immediate possession. Call and make your own terms and the property la yours. Price very low. GILBERT O. HUGHES, Realty, 214 Ocean 8treet BOAT BUILDING PAJRINGJ Railway cm which to rue out boats for or repair. Many years of experience enables me to assure aatisJOELN PHAR0.1263 LafayetteSt Keystone Phone 96 K. ;U»T. LOST— A bnestpin set with diamonds and pearls, belonging to Mabel G. Richardson. Liberal reward if returned to Star and WaVe Office. 4 80 it WE ARE UP-TO-DATE AS USUAL Mustard Brown is the new shade. Has just developed in the European fashion. Oall at Yen Keeeel'a stare and we know ttaae styles will make a hit with you. r

ELECTRIC LINE FOR EASTERN SHORE | (Baltimore Star April 25) Negotiations arc now being consummated. between I Baltimore and New 1 York capitalists looking to the construction of an electric line on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, extending from a point on the Atlantic Ocean to Queenstownl£Md. . which will have boat connection!; with Baltimore and Cape May. LIt Is estimated that the i new line will cost in the neighborhood - of $1,600,000, and actual construction ' work will be gotten under way just as . soon as the .right of way can be pro- ' cured. At the present time efforts i are being made to purchase the necea- 1 aary property to provide a route lor J the proposed new road, and it is expected that within the near future this : preliminary work will have been dis- ; posed of. ' _ The road, when completed, will be about 100 miles long and will extend from .Queenstown urEaston, to Cambridge, to Salisbury, to Snow'Hiil, and lrom the latter place/{to some point on ' the Atlantic. It has not been decided i where the ocean terminal will be. The i selection will be made by the time that the necessary right of. way is acquired. At Queenstown the new road, under > an agreement to be entered into, will i have boat connections with the QueenBtown and Love Point Transportation . and Development Oompany, which - will establish a steamship line to the r Eastern Shore. At this place passen- > gers and friegbt bound for_ Baltimore 1 over.. the proposed road will be delivered to the new steamboat company. > It is the p lan of the capitalists behind the project to operate what is r known as the new unit cars, which , have been so successful out West. • The gentlemen .behind the new com- | pany have seen the unit cars tested, . and they believe that they can not only be operated at a small.cost, but will at ths same time give excellent service. Considerable interest is beingjtaken in the proposed road hy people on the 1 • Eastern Shore, and it will (provide ad- ' ditional shipping facilities for the j farmers and merchants of tljat section. , It is claimed that this portion of Mary- • land is urowing rapidly, and that the • j transportation facilities are not Keep- . ! ing pace with this development Every ' effort will be made to give quick and - satisfactory freight and passenger serB vice between the Eastern Shore towns s to)be touched by be new line, and i those backing the projeet believe that i there is enough business in that secr tion to warrant .the success of tbe pro- ' posed electric line. The Queenstown and Love Point s Transportation and Development Com- ; pany, which will provide the boat connections with Baltimore, will run its first steamer to Queenstown and Love- . Point Saturday, Mey 28. The new company has purchased the steamer 'Dreamland, which .ran ,to Chesapeake City last summer, and this boat will ply between Baltimore and tbe two Eastern Shore towns. • Atlantic City has 'em too, even though Mayor Stoy never mentions it. - The monthly journal named "The Jer- ^ sey Mosquito" published down there "The booster is a perpetual radiator of sunshine, and after talking to him ^ and listening to his eloquent laudation of _ brainy men whose forseight and admirable efforts have contributed ' materially to the success of a commu1 nity, the pessimist begins to believe r that his vision has been somewhat ' warped. a The knocker is one of those men you - look at and cannot see. Be is the • antithesis of tbe booster and thrives in a every community. If you speak of a great financier or a philanthropist, he will wink significantly and tell of some 1 alleged scandal in. tbe man's life. This human biped woald have you believe 1. that every successful man ought to be r mingling with the giant intellects of • the penitentiary. l«t the knocker throw away his hammer and boost for what is good in Atlantic Oity, (Oape May) which is, _ doing something worth while every day. If this flourishing metropolis Is given its just does no one will find time to is do any knocking." d UNCLAIMED LETTERS List of unclaimed letters remaining - jnCaj^May postoffice for week ending L Alexander, Thoa. ; McDonald, Edwin ; >. Parker, Mrs. P. L. ; Rialey, Mr. n Station Agt ; Rauier, Mrs. Laura, e In calling for the above pieaae say e advertised. J. E. TAYLOR, P. M.

ATLANTIC CITY'S EARTHQUAKE ONLY PUCE WHICH HA# ONE i Atliilic Claims it for its Oiliest I Own, Otter Resirts felt the Firiig if Battleship gus i : — ' I With its usual precocity Atlantic i Oity claimed all [of the so-called > I "earthquake" wnich occurred on Bat- i i urday last, though the phenomena ' i which gave rise |to tbe earthquake ■ story extended along the ooast for i i three hundred miles, and was correctly . diagnosed here as air vibrations.caused by battleship practice with great guns. ■■ It now transpires that Admiral ; i Schroeder with the Atlantic fleet has i . been doing some record making target I practise with the big guns off the i Chesapeake Gapes and the detonations | and .resultant air disturbances shook 1 . windows in a number of towns along 1 I tbe coast, both north and south of tbe i i Chesapeake. Atlantic Oity, of course, 1 I had to claim the whole "earthquake." . A near-scientist named Jones contri- 1 i buted an article to the Atlantic City Press which contains more big words : ■ than Webster's dictionary and more | parentheses than all of Balzac's and < . Victor Hugo's works togetner, and ■ i they are some strong on parentheses. , Jones, he tells all about that "airth- 1 . quake." and the Press says he's a i . student of such things and even an < i author on the subject, and be . "chanced" to be stopping, etc We : sincerely hope he has recovered. Jones, be says, triat "Atlantic City : i residents and visitors need not be at all 1 i alarmed by last Saturdays 'earthquake' : visitation. It may be inferred from a : . proper consideration of that unusual happening that the insular site of this : . watering place (Atlantic City) has ; gained the 'distinction' of being part of : a territorial area that is subject to oc- . i casional sesmic disturbances, tnougb of ; . only minor intensity and great in- ; . frequency." . "The almost imperceptible tremors , that were noticed by many in Atlantic . Oity and in its immediate vicinity . (only) on last Saturday morning." Mark that "only". i r "It may have been observed by inI terested readers of current articles i . regarding Atlantic City's "newest" i attraction that the curious professorial I opinions expressed by several seismol- ; ogical experts, as usual iu such cases, . . were considerably "at sea." Wonder where Jones was? Oh you Jones. You are certainly a peach of a t scientist. We have not had the pleasure . of reading such beautiful scientific . language since Artemas Ward antEBill s Nye quit contributing to scientific 1 1 . journals. But tbe fact remains that , Atlantic Oity is 'the "only" place r which had an earthquake, Jtheref ore, » because of Atlantic, Oape May doesn't ] have earthquakes, and Jones, he ad3 mits it Furthermore, not any of this "newest" attraction for us. Folks who would be safe from earthquakes, 3 green and yellow and bright red snakes - and monstrous birds and the other ap- " palling things sometimes visible at 8 Atlantic Oity, come to Oape May. t TRY THE COLONNADE , IOE OREAM f Strictly pure and made of fresh fruits. 818 Washington street. 4-80 8t 1 GOME ONE£ OOME ALL " To a Necktie Social and Fish Pond b given by the Patriotic Order of Amerit cans, May 6th, Oold Spring Hall. Ice cream, cake and confections for sale. 1 OYSTER 8UPPER AND FESTIVAL e Tbe ladies of the P F- Ohureh of 3 the Advent will hold an oyster supper . and festival at the summer home of Mrs. E. Garter McKnight, 749 Washe ington street, on Tuesday evening, E May 8. Supper served from 6 to 9. g Tickets 96 cents. Ice cream, cake and B candy on sale. Everybody welcome. b MILLINERY f Latest summer styles, new lot for little folka. Millinery Parlor, 104 „ Broadway, West Oape May. LOTTIE R. HILLMAN. a Engraved or Printed ViBiting Oards to enclose with Commencement ' Invitations at 60 cents to $4. 00. It will n be a pleasure to show you our line d whether you order or not. Star and Wave Stationery Department, 816 Washington street. t STOP 1 LOOK! READ! 2 Now is tbe time to have rour cement pavements, sidewalks, curbs, etc., at lowest price, done by a competent . cement finisher by day or contract, and save one-half of tbe con tractors profit. T Satisfactory work or no pay. For information drop a postal card to JOE . GRASS, P. O. Box 314, Gape H*f,

DEPARTMENT STORE PARADOX i CITY MERCHANTS BEUIBE BEYER ; if Hail Order Bugiiss Recure liferiir Article at Cm if Siperiir Bride The large stores of ibe great cities I are constantly advertising some bargain. Tbe only object of these bargains , are to advertise their business, and by ; reducing their usual profit to a point near coat they succeed io attracting the buying public to their places of DusiI ness who in turn purchase some other article upon which they pay a fair I profit. Another plan is to take some i standard article that the buyer has a : knowledge ot, take neck wear for an i argument. Those hustling merchants i will. arrange .counters loaded with ties, ; one quarterof which will be of fifty • cent values while the balance will be . goods made to sell at twenty-live cents. The advertisement will claim • that tbe fifty cent ties have Deen re- . duced to twenty-five cent I and the result is that they clean the lot up at i fair profit, and the bargain hunters pat , tneuiselvee on the back, because .they I have purohased a fifty cent article at I naif prioe. Another regular stunt of this season of the year is mattings. The great , stores of the country advertise this i article at an astonishingly low prioe. ; Why. Because thess goods are. bought i from ware bouses where they have been stored for three, four or five years, and have had ample time to dry 1 out and become brittle and extremely fragile, in fact you can almost brush it i from the.floor in a few sweepings. I Gur -local dealers purchase, their i matting each year and the results are i that the goods will last from two to : five years ^longer. If perchance they have a few rolls left over they are : always willing to dispose of them at prioer below cost. In a recent argument on the price of i j coal it developed the fact that coal'is s sold in Gape May lor fifty cents a ton ' I less than at Atlantic Oity, not couj sidering tbe fact that freight is ten cents a ton below that . of the Cape ■ May rate. The price of ooal in Pbilai deiphia is irom twenty-five to seventy- ' five cents higher than at Oape May, I notwithstanding that the freignt rate - is 76 cents less in 1'iiiladelphia. These arguments shows that the dealer in Atlantic Oity makes 60 cents a ton i more profit than tbe dealers at Oape l May while the Philadelphia dealer ! makes from $1.00 to $1.60 more per : ton than our local dealers. I About two years ago .Wentzell supm giiied chairs to the public pavilion at 26 t cents per chair less than an estimate 5 from Wanamaker. The goods were , identical. t We have a positive knowledge that - the price of job printing is^from 25 to i 100 per cent cheaper here than in either s Philadelphia or New York. We might , go on and enumerate all the various b lines of business carried on in Oape" - May County and the result would be t found the same. Yat many of our people, make purchases in other markets. , I. B. KEARNS RECEIVES PRESENT M. H. K earns recently received a package from James Hoffman, who is located at Roswell, New Mexico. At i tbe time of tbe arrival of this sus- " picious box there were several curious 9 people around, but none offered their services in examining tbe contents, -• some thought of infernal machines, ' others rattle sDakes, etc., but while £ the crowd were trying to get up eour- . age, 'long comes " " aud says, , I'll open 'er. " He did, but he cJoeed • 'er quicker. After a time along comes another fellow who was acquainted with the wilds of New Mexico, bo he was not easy to bluff, for |he just T opened the package and took out with his bare hands the contents, which . proved to be a horned itoad, and then gave a brief history of tbe reptile , while he petted it Tbe pet is now on 1 exhibition at theJKearn's store. e V. Olub, Ohicken, No. 2 Sandwiches at . tbe Ooktaqade, 818 Washington street CHANGE OF DATES Oape May Oounty (teachers' examlnations will be held at Court House, ^ Friday and 'Saturday, May 18th and t 14th, instead of Friday and Saturday, d May 6th and 7 th, has heretofore. - "Oape May, N. J." stamped with * s steal die, on good paper at 26 cents * » box. at Star and Wave Stationary Dept

FACTS ABOUT : WATER WORKS i ' Che city water works is a much mora valuable and effective plant than peoj pie generally (know. Under proper management there should be no scarcity of water here for a long term of years. It is reasonably certain that for nine months in tbe year the new water works alone could Bupply 9 tbe dty's needs. At the old plant the " mistake was made of erecting a steel 1 tank and placing too high, instead ' of erecting a standpipe. The pressure t developed by the elevated tank ia over 1 60 pounds, but this need not be serious. There are twenty-two four inch r wells along tbe West Jersey tracks r pronounced by the foreman for Oon9 tractor Harper to be aa fine a set of 1 wells as he ever drove. There are 1 eight tubular whioh have pro- ' duced 1600 gallons per minute. There > are two dug wells which have prodoced ^ 40,000 gallons per hour. The naw 9 works at full capacity will produce 9 about 800,000 gallons per twenty-four 1 hours, but no record has been kept so ; far. The record for the old works in 9 actuai production of water is 843, 709,1 195 gallons for the year 1909. For 1 1908 it was 888,816,700 gallons. The pump capacity at the old works 1 is 4,600,000 gallons per twenty-four I hours and at tbe new works, 1,000,000 i 1 gallons. Chief Engineer Frank Speaoe, i L who haa furnished all of the informs- : 9 tion, says this must be discounted ■ ■ about HO per cent, in actual service. : ■ There are 1100 taps in the mains from i 9 three-fourth inch to aix inch. By 1 "taps" we do not mean spigots, but i ' house connections with Nmains. The i ' hopper closets, which are numerous, 1 1 are a source of great waste, according ' to Engineer Speace. He says they are ; r kept running most of the time in many i 3 cases. He also suggests that by the i ' use of oil on streets and the erection ' of a system whereby water from the - sounds could be ' used for fires, the i 1 water could be conserved considerably. { Four weter carta use about 66,000 gal- ; 1 Ions per day when in use and the oiling 1 8 of the streets would save this. The 1 compressed air system has been tested ■ in Camden, Asbury Park, Woodbine 1 and Ocean City and the testimony of B these cities is to the etfect that it has " doubled the supply of water. "If there were, facilities.for storing | • water could you do itT" was asked of 5 Engineer Speace, and he replied, B "Yee, if we had storage facilities we 1 could store sufficient water to meet at 3 any time* any emergency. In aumE mer if we were to close down for any r cause, a week or two, or even for the 1 whole season, and were provided with proper storage facilities there would ' be plenty of water." = JOHN A. PfiiRO BUILDS A MASTERPIECE t John A. Pharo. is about completing a 0 beautiful erasing yacht for tlje popular r commodore of tbe Oape May Yacht t Olub, Dr. R. Walter Starr. Tbe boat a. is modern in every detail and ranks e second to none in tbe fleet. It iB fitted e up with a 20 b. p. Globe engine whjch ■* ia controlled from the wheel. It) will i. be christened "The Oora II" on about May 16th at the launching. Health and muscie are developed be the judicious exersise afforded oy the a bowling alleys. Congress Alleys, 88 s Perry street, are the most modern t ana beat equipped. Try an even g|g at the ancient and ever enjoyable name. tf r Are you undecided where to have t your clothes made? Are you looking ' for a first class tailor? Are you tired of having to take tbe suit back for e alterations and lose your time as well .. as your temper? Avoid all the on ■ pleasantness connected with clothes ^ and have made by d CHARLES SOHERER, 1 Ladies' and Men's Tailor, d Oape May. N. J. ,t Mrs. K. S. Ludlam, corner of Broadway and Pearl street. West Oape May, n will open tar cottage for boarders on h May 14th. Board by meal, day or n week. Good table. Reasonable terms. „ Further information cheerfully given. 8 4-28 8t □ , , . WILL GO TO EUROPE t Mr. Reuben Reevea .will nil on tbe North German Lloyd steamer Koenig Albert, on May 14th, for Europe, going first to Italy and afterward visiting important centres in other *• countries. He will remain ten weeks d and hia studio at 810 Washington '• street, will be in charge of Miss Elizabeth El dredge during hia absence. Mr. Reeves will be aoeompanied by hia oacle, John Callahan, and daught ■ ter, of Philadelphia.

PROSPERITY LEAfiUE ; CAPE MAY COUNTY ; ORGANIZATION AT COURT BOOSE ; Directirs Elected, Bt-Liws U»f ' ted, Urge Atteadra ud / Mid Eitlusiisa The oommittee on by-laws of Ijtbe 1 county organization just accomplisE*? I which has been heretofore styled the , Chamber of Commerce, met at Go art • House last Saturday and prepared by- , laws in accordance with the directions i of a previous meeting and adopted the i name "Prosperity League of Oape May County." In tbe afternoon the mass meeting i was held in the court building which was opened by the following address i by Mr. Thompson Baker, president of , the organization : Organization is the keynote of the : age. Battles are not won nor states established by mobs. The processes i of nature are organic. Slip shod business methods are the doors to disaster. No community can realize its best possibilities where a large part of the people are in different or work at cross purposes. If tbe independent colonies > bad not united America would present i the spectacle ot weak and waring states, without happiness or influence, instead of Deing as she is today tbe most impressive and potential power in the world. The thirty-si* petty monarchies' of Germany in the Eighteenth Century were futile and derisive, but when united Germany speaks : all men listen. All people in a given territory have mutual interests although they may be engaged in many : lines of activity. Gape May County has an individuality that iJentifies her, ! even to the most supertici il observer. Projected into the ocean ehe ia embraced on three sides by saline waters ; ■ so that of her eighty miles of exterior lines ; fifty-five are wave washed and surl -beaten, and she baa many hon- ; dreds of miles ot inlets, sounds, creeks : and iborofares, alive with human suaI tenance. Her climate is equable, her > atmosphere pure and invigorating and 1 her soil fertile. She possesses uni equaled features for the promotion < X | human bealtn and happiness ; and when • to these virtues is add d her location r she becomes the stage ot a theatre in , which is boused the greatest nation i known to rt corded history— a nation t that does more, earns more and spends . more for its diversions than ail others - combined. Other regions of this im> ; perial country have their coal and iron, i wheat and com, cotton and rice, gold 1 and silver, general agriculture, and universal manufacture and trade interests so extensive and tremendous that tbey fill the eye of a witnessing world, ; but to tbe peninsula of Oape May 4 County was reserved, by divine puri pose, a specialty for which no other r like area of this continent of wonders t is equally fitted. It is recorded in t Genesis: "And Abraham said unto 9 Lot, 'Is not the whole land before 1 thee? Separate thyself, 1 pray thee, i from me ; if thou wilt take tbe left 1 band, then 1 will go to tbe right ; or if t thou depart to thy right hand, then I will go to the left ' And Lot lifted up , bis eyes and beheld all tbe Plaiu of g Jordan, that it was well watered i everywhere. ^Tben Lot chose him all 1 the Plain of Jordan." Oape May g Oounty is to tbe countless population of tbe United States all and more tfian the Plain of Jordan was to the seed of j Abraham. There is unequlvical proof 1 of the benificence and power of this r specialty. Tbe State of New Jersey ' is thp benificiary of untold advantages ( in her location between two great metropolitan cities and their influence on the country cannot be estimated. But marked as ia the progress of every part of the State tbe records show that Gape May Oounty which haa been t looked upon with indifference or with a 3 diminishing eye until this specialty of r the bounty and gladness contained in ' the fountains of health, rest and pleasure of her ocean beaches was recognized, has outstripped all tbe other counties, great and small in the 9 nine years of the Twentieth Century, t The average gain of all the counties , from 1900 to 1909, per annum was 9.42 - per cent., Jwhile the (county ofi.CJape r May gained 238.27 . per cent, in the i period, or 86.47 per centner annam ; i and Atlantic County gained 211 per - cent in the penod^or 83,4 per cent per . annum, a degree of prosperity not atr tallied by any other county in ths - State in that period. But this aetfceCeetiaaed an Pag* 2