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SECURITY TRUST COMPANY Southwest Corner Washington and Ocean Streets Cape May <City, N. J., December 31, 1913. resources. Time and Demand Loans $1, 832,414.17 Bonds and Mortgages /■. 286,806.39 I Stocks and Bonds 467,841.63 Overdrafts 162.14 Banking Houses, Camden and Cape May 130,000.00 Cash and Reserve 293,397.74 $3,010,622.07 LIABILITIES Capital $ 100,000.00 Surplus 100,000.00 Undivided Profits 80,166.00 DEPOSITS 2,730,456.07 $3,010,622.07 ADVISORY BOARD. J. Spicer Learning, Chairman. Henry C. Thompson, Secretary V. ojjicer Jjeauuug, viinumou.

Dr. James Mecray Aaron W. Hand Reuben T.Johnson William F. Cassedy

John B. Huffman Albert G. Bennett, Hon. Robert E. Hand Dr. Wilson A. Lake

| THE BEST WAY TO PAY | »; : all bills is by check, for then you j know you will always get a receipt and ne per have to pay a bill twice. J Ifl Checking accounts (large or B ifl small) are cordially invited. \ i 1 1 ■ ■ in —

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WINDSOR HOTEL NEAR THE BEACH OPEN ALL THE YEAR Large Sun Parlofa. Eectric Elevators Open Fires and Steam Heat MISS HALPIN

B. S. CURTIS & SON NO. 324 DELAWARE AVENUE, CAPE MAY CITY, N. J. PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING AND GAS FITTING JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Keystone Telephone, 133D. HENRY REEVES, x MACHINIST AUTOMOBILES AND IjAWN MOWERS REPAIRED. PIuMBING, STEAM AND OAS FITTING Jobbing Promptly Attended to. Shop and residence, 110. Pearl St., West Cape May, N. J. Keystone Phone, 137E.

The Leading { AUCTIONEER « ARTHUR WILSON Cold Spring, N. J J mam*** Local Thane 19 C * FAIRBANKS' MORSE &00 STATIONERY AND MARIN* GAB , AND GASOLINE 4 ENGINES < Pomps, eta ( TONY BENNETT, ( tOt MADISON S..-MTB, M CAPE MAY CITY, It. J. ' J. C LITTLE < Paints, Varnishes and | Painters Supplies tf Agent for N. Z. Graves Co. 103 Jackson St. L. INGERSOLL < Registered Electrician DYNAMOS, MOTORS AND HSU • TXRTATJ.TTI bw Wiring At RMMdk Date*. \ Iaata erders At tie Ckp. MtrUfU Mi Power Oo'. OffiM, SSI bambr * ?*. OA p* May, N. I. . . . Advortlm ta tos Bter *-d Wav% ' J <

1 1. M. SHITtti * Glothier | i 608 Washington St. $ F Oppoaito R»«dlnt Sto. ' t CAPE MA) N. J. i ^ felta tor SS sad upwarda. i ^ Overeoate ma $7 to *1* ^ ' X Hate, Claps Trunks and J ^ Gentlemen's Fur-bhin-? goods ^ W At PhOadelphl- prim*. # t/Wkkk.-wvS TH* 80ULTS STORE OOLD 0*1X0 Tha tMt of effieicney ia a atari b ita staying qualities. A store vUtk "stays" for year after jar and Soarbkea, retaining ita traia thrwMk tUak aad thin, b a good atara U U« U. TUa ia tha at JTj of Thomaa BooH'a rim, OaU Spring. It baa atrred two er three generations and b still papal tr. Meter<7* «-4 It

| — — » I Five and Ten Cent I TOOLS I We have mfull line of them now on Sale. Call and look them over. Also a new line of n MATTINGS AT REDUCED PRICES J Yovr tin roof at this season should be painted, repaired, and apoutings looked after. Call and see I us if you wan tjood work done at low prices I Heaters & Ranges JESSE BROWN I no and 112 JACKSON ST. CAPE MAY WHEN FURNISHING A SUMMER HOME whether it be & cozy bungalow or a magnificent mansion, it is of first ' importance to secure the aid of a reliable dealer. Your comfort and pleasure depend on your selection not for a day only as with many purchases, but for years to come, and a large percentage of the cost can be saved by the advice and assistance of an experienced dealer. WENTZELL'S, 33 Perry Street Refrigerators of tried and proven quality. New importation of mattings. New Linoleums, Crex Grass Rugs. Everything in house furnishings. Come in and see. Keystone Phone, 34M. G. VANAMAN Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting. HOT WATER HEATING AND HOT AIR HEATERS, OAS APPLIANCES, RANGE WORK CHURCH STREET. OPPOSITE READING FREIGHT STATION.

will protect the horse and protect the owner's pocket. The are warm and strong. They are long of wear. Look for 5 A when buying. TUsh* r5A Battle Ax Square Blanket EaXre Lerse and Extra Hie. J 3 William McFadden CORNER PERRY AND

80UTH LAFAYETTE 8T8. TEN Strong Companies Aggregate Capita! ovw 1*0,000 MS Represent « by SAMUEL T. ■» DRXDGEt Ita* I mm ran ne Ifl Twwtv-atx mar* tf expert ■■ it. Ita preteeUea Cram lone tr Ore. Amrto f. I. KLDRED^A, MerAeate Itatlosml Bank MUb* b|« May, New tatty. 1 Keystone phone, U-R latin tates Ofctt ; E.F.&CL LOPER Electrical Contractor* Motor Work, Hons* Wiring, Private I Tlephone, Watchman Ooek and BeQ 1 Woifc Work Guaranteed First (Ism 1 Repairing pruinuily ittwbl ' \ " Leave orders at 5U Waahlngtek M, j Tuttfilmrial, : B

NOTICE OF REMOVAL T. H. Taylor hereby announeee that he has moved hie Central Shoe Store from (01 to IX Washington street, where he will oontlnue the shoe business am before. I have taken the agency In Cmpe Maj City for BALL BAND RUBBER footwear, and would call sp*dal attention to the new VAC Boot, made by this oompany. The beat on the market WU1 etui do all kinds of repair work 8 ho. finding and dressings for sale. T. H. TAYLOR Ul Washington St, Cape May, M. t 1852 HI* THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY INCORPORATED 182* CHARTER PERPETUAL V OFFICE, 508-510 WALNUT ST PHILADELPHIA, PA. ' CAPITAL . *750,000 ASSETS *7,682,091) SURPLUS *8,240,472 DIRECTORS R. Dale Benson John L. Thomson J. Tatnell Lea Oarlc. E. Pugs Richard M. Csdw&lader W. Gardner Crowd Effington B. Morris Edward T. Stotesbury Edwin N. Benson, Jr. R. DALE BENSON, President. JOHN L. THOMSON, Vies- President. W. GARDNER CBOWELL, Beeretary HAMPTON L WARNER, Asst. See. WM. J. DAWSON, Baa. Agency Dept ! SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE LOCAL AGENT Merchant. National Bank Ball ding Oar. Washington and Decatur streets. Ohm May, New Jersey. LUMBER AND • Mill Work "■ GEO. OGDEN & SON,

PLAIN TROTH FROM THE COLONEL to the students of the University of Chile was of more particular interest to the people of his own country. He j described the conditions of modern life ss making it tac en (itl that men work with concentrate capital, declaring that there must be big business in this era of world business, which is true of other places as well as of the United States. But it is especially true that in this country there hasbeen an effort to break up combinations rather than to eradicate their infirmities. And the Colonel was a emphatically right when he protested: "That it is futile to look for a remedy for these infirmities in destruction. "That there is no use tryjng to reverse the wheels of economic progress. "That what is needed is intelligent supervision rather than extinction and that the large corporations can so be regulated as to permit the utmost development along lines compatible with the rights of others." In course of time; this will become known at Washington, however, belated the knowledge may be. It may be realized by the Attorney General, whose enthusiasms now take a different direction. Apparently, however, must first bqcome worse instead of better before Colonel Roosevelt's views are translated into action at the national cepitaL A start has been effected. Buyers are purchasing only enough to meet their immediate necessities and the 'big employers are adding lo the list of the unemployed. Wall street, if not dead, is sleeping. Theee are effects, not causes. Wall • street registers but does not create x conditions. It records consequences. J When 60,000 instead of 1,000,000 shares a day are sold, the property they ) represent is not in demand — investors I do not want it. Meanwhile, the cost ' of living having diminished not in the » least, we are to have another Qon- '• gressional committee on . inquiry. It will begin v<""k on the assumption that the great corporations are conspirf ing against the consumer, who is a [> pet protege. And it will find that downward revision has so far simplified mat- , ters for him not in the least. There is one short cut to what the consumer wants. According to .Tames J. Hill, this country is doing about half the business it has the resources and the capacity to transact. The other half is what the consumer would like to see it doing, in which event the high cost of living would find him equipped to meet it. That is the phase of the case that Washington will not see. That is the phase commending itself to Colonel Roosevelt. " -It is not the phase,, however, for which radios have any use or out of which the demagogue can extract capital. It [J may take adversity to rob the rainbow ^ chaser of his audience. He has not I- lost it yet — Brooklyn Eagle. (Dem.). — — — — * — " LJ — — — — —

Children Cry ' P0R FLETCHER'S ' „ C A S T O R I A , it. — , k AN OFFICIAL WITH BACKBONE ( There have beimi many complaints I ( among army officials about the assign- ( merits made by the War Department, ( and some of these complaints are, per- | ^ haps, well founded, but there has been j I* Widespread belief that army a**-ign- | ments in the past were too often matters ' . of favor and that outside influence as- , sisted in the distribution. It is exident from Secretary Garri- ] , son's statements that there has been j ( a good deal of wire-pulling on behalf of ■ certain officers and the notice he has ; issued that attempts to influence the 1 , department by the usual "pull" would . result injuriously for the officers exert- , ing it. should have tf salutary effect. T Secretary Garrison has demonstrated 1 high ability and he declares in intention to conduct the business of his office ac00 cording to his own ideas of efficiency. 9® He is the best judge. He has all the " facts at hand and can be relied on to do that Which is best. If some of the ojj officers have had hard luck in the as1 signments because they tried to utilize outside pressure they have only themr(j selves to blame. Secretary Garrison's decision to rej- tain the troops on the Mexican border, in spite of the complaints of rank and file about the discomforts there, seems wise when the probable effect upon' the rya Mexicans of such withdrawal is considered. Better conditions may be possipj_ bis and the War Department might im- « prove matters, but It would be very * bad policy to withdraw the troops on the border under existing circumstances. It is refreshing to see a high official with sufficient backbone to tell the country that he proposes to run his office after his own ideas and not let outeldere or subordinates run it for him. Wentzeira, *11 Parry Street, will ffve yen bids ea fmmitnr*. carpet am* fitting. for yaw an tire bam an* pat H in place far yen. Don* trust to hick — put your money where it will be absolutely secure. look to the safety of the principal more than the rate of interest. Deposit with the Security Truat Co. Read De Star and Wars.

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AS TO ELECTION OFFICERS There ia agitation for new lawn f ' s posting election officers and newapapas in the larger 00 unties are advocating some method by which men holding than ' positions may be kept in continuous an* ' ployment and protected by civil aervin rules. Complaint ia made that, unfit preeent conditions, irresponsible and unemployed men are given these position ' as political plums, because a more desirable class of men cannot be indnaaA to accept them. This may be true tak 1 the counties of large population, as HuffJ son, Essex, Passaic, Union, ete^ but I* is not true in this section. There ban been so few instances of wrong doing J by members of election boards in this county, in connection with the -perform- ' ance of their duties, that they are dlf't fieult to recall. As a rule, the men on our election boards, are thoroughly rw ' sponsible and dependable and are so intent upon doing their full duty that thaji 1 are more apt to over do it than to no* gleet it. In some instances there ia n too perfunctory performance of the duty of registering voters which occasionally 1 deprives some of those who do not watA ' the lists, of their right. to vote. Them are, also, instances in which ballots am 9 not counted because of some trivial do9 feet which a too strict interpretation of the law rules as vital These are errors which are serious because the ro1 quit is the temporary* disfranchisement e of voters, but they are errors of tho 1 head and not of the heart. As a matter of fact the red tape surrounding tho " matter of voting in this State is UBelesa h in this section of the State from every h standpoint. Under the old, unrestricted 4 system, elections were just as pure and " undefiled as they arc now. The expeneo of the new system is probably six timcn «jhat it was in the old days and the ef- . feet has been to destroy interest and fn (.atiof* mnnv men to abstain from to many

voting even in the most intense contest^ rather than to go through all of tho monkey-business involved. Direct primaries are a delusion and a snare. They do not necessarily settle anything, because a candidate can obtain a place ok ticket by petition with much letfi^ difficulty than by going through a big I primary contest. | If the interest of the people were aa | great as that of the astute politician* . who promoted these new election law^ they would see that freedom in the seek- ! ing of office is not one whit advanced ' the direct primary plan and tho \ ; dangers of alleged bossism not one whlfi reduced. If absolute freedom is desired . in this line one general election, freo for all candidates who can obtain a reaafinable number of signers to their petitions, would be the ideal thing and there would be one contest instead of two, the primaries being abolished. Read the Star and Wave. W. H. BRIGHT Fire Insurance In any part of Cape May Cm HOLLY BEACH. N. J JOHN BRIGHT SENERAL INSURANCE Real Estate and Mortgage Investment* BRIGHT BUILDING WILDW00D N.J. HENRY G BOHM Dealers I* HSH, OYSTERS, CLAMS, ETO LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES BEST POSSIBLE QUAIITI PROPKT DELIVERIES CHOICE OYSTER* AND CLAMS Iltt Mk-X*yzto«* ' W» J OWOI RELET NEAR W. J. AND E| I? F KT:J