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SAMUEL STITES N0TEDCIT1ZEN DROVE FIRST PRESIDENT WHO VISITED CAPE MAY. REMEMBERS MANY NOTABLES— HAS HELD RESPONSIBLE POSITION'S IN CITY'S AFFAIRS-SCHOOL DIRECTOR 34 YEARS. A visitor who stepped from a Pennsylvania Railroad train here a few days ago, walked up to a hackman and asked him to take him where some former resident of Cape May had lived. The hackman, who was typical of the summer drivers, possessed the usual knowledge of not knowing where to take his passenger. That man, as an example of the usual summer automobile and 'bus driver, knew nothing about the resort for the reason that he probably only preceded the visitor a couple of weeks, and within a few hours after the departure of the summer throng, he will have gone also. But there is one man who drives a one-horse hack, and if to him the question had been addr<$sed, the visitor | would have received a polite answer sua! correct information. That man is Samuel R. Stites, who has been hacking pince he was a boy of fourteen years, and who haa now passed his seventythird year. Mr. Stites, however, is not of tire usual order of hack drivers, but is a man with whom nearly all the people prefer to ride if they .urn get a chance to secure a seat in his conveyance. He has not always driven a hack, but has been steward of many of Cape May's famous hotels in the days of their doing thriving business. He has held that position at the famous old Stockton, which was built in* '68 and torn down in 1912, and he has been steward at Congress Hall, the Windsor, and the old Columbia House, which was burned in the fire of 1879. Not only has he served in these capacities but he has been a city official, having served as councilman, recorder, and is to-day serving his thirty-fourth year as a member of the Board of Education of which body nearly a third of 1 the time he has been President. In religious matters he is a gtrict ' Presbyterian, and for ten years was superiptendeut of the Presbyterian Sunday School. He has also for many I ' years been a teacher of a Bible Class, so that his experiences are broad and he drives a hack more for pleasure and to ' meet people whom he has known for years, than for any other reason. Mr. Stites has the rare distinction of ! having driven about the resort the, first President of the United States to visit I ' Cape May, Franklin Pierce, who came ■ to Cape May in the summer of 1855, in ' company with. William L. Marcy, of New York, his Secretary of State, and ' MrS Marcy and Mrs. Pieroe. At the ' same time, the Postmaster-General of the United States, Judge Campbell, .of 1 Philadelphia, was also with the party. 1 Although Mr. Stites waa then a boy of - fourteen years, he distinctly recollects how it was -that he came to have his ' first load in a new carriage to be made 1 up of the President and wife, and Sec- f retary of State Marcy and life. 3

Mr. Stites' father, the late William Stites, who was the first Treasurer of the City of Cape Island, as Cape May Iwas then known, had had just built for himself, by the late Joseph Hall, which was the first one in Cape May County 0 to have side doors, and young Samuel ' S had an hour or so before been sent to 6- the carriage ahop to get the new vehicle. 1 S He was driving the new carriage by the 4 old Congress Hall, where the Presdent was staying, when he was bailed by the ' proprietor of the hotel, Walter B. Mili- ler, who had a couple years previously a served in the New Jersey House of Asd semhly and who later represented C-ape r May County in the State Senate. Mile ler asked young Stites if he was open 1- to an engagement, and upon receiving I- an affirmative reply, directed Mr. Stites s to drive to the side yard of the hotel e and receive his passengers. After driv1 ing the President and Secretary of . • State and their wives about the resort, f Mr. Stites was then hailed to go f after another carriage load of distinr guished visitors, and directed to drive < e to Sehellengcr's Landing, which was then the port of entry where the shal1 lops which sailed down the Delaware 2 e came in with their pasengers and I r freight. At the Landing Mr. Stites took L 1 aboard 'iovernor Rodman M. Price, of j - New Jersey, and members of his mill- j 5 tary staff, who had come to Cape May j , to greet the President. At that time. Congress Hall, which had been built in 1816 by Uou. Thomas II. Hughes, who served in Congress from ' 1829 to 1833, and who was the only ConJ gressman Cape May ever had until J. \ • Thompson Baker served in the Congress | which just expired, there being an inter- F val between the outgoing of Hughes and \ the incoming of Baker of eighty years. ' Congress Hall was burned in the fire of November 9, 1878, along with forty other ' hotels and cottages destroyed on that h I Another hotel of prominence which , was in existence when Pierce came was ~ the Mansion House, which was built in . 1832 and burned in 1857, and at which Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln, John Minor Betts. of Virginia, Mayor John 1 Swift, of Philadelphia, and others of . note stayed during their summer visits, r Other houses which then were prominent were The United States, the American, j I and the Atlantic Hotel, which three were burned in the disastrous fire of 1869. Another was the Mt. Vernon, the , largest hotel in the United States, and which was destroyed by fire that autumn , Since 1878, however, Cape May has not , experienced any big fires, except that . which burned the New Columbia Hotel, _ which had been built 'in the year follow- , ing the 1878 lire and which was burned / in 1889. Si u pi- then an excellent fire 1 department has been maintained and the .lire danger has been almost entirely ' eliminated. President James Buchanan came here I during his term and was entertained al- , so at Congress Hall by the late Senator Miller, and there are among the older • people those who well remember his attendance upon the services of the First iR Methodist Church. President Buchanan's brother, the Rev. ^ M. Y. Buchanan, waa a regular summer cottager at Cape May and came every until his death some twenty ago. ft

President Grant vixited Oape May lor four succeeding summers and President Arthur easse in 1883. When President Arthur-was bete be stayed at the Stockton Hotel, of whieh hotel Mr. Stites at the time was the steward. During the rammer of 1890 and 1891 President Harrison occupied his cottage at Oape May Point, which remained in the possession of his family for a few years following bis retirement from office, and which is now the property of former Postmaster-General John Wana maker. Mt. Stites has also vivid recollections of the visit of Henry Clay to Cape May in August, 1847. At that time Nicholas IX-an, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, Mayor John Swift, of Philadelphia, U. S. Senator James ABayard, of Delaware, and Colonel John Knox, of Kentucky, were distinguisiu-d visitors of the party. The old Hotel register of the Mansion House, at which Clay and the party stayed, is still preserved, and upon it are the names of the fore-parent- of many of those who are now prominent in . the business life and social circles of Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, and other cities. LEWIS T. STEVENS. A HOPEFDL SIGN. From Tuesday's dlailv Star and Wave. If the P. R. R. is really making special efforts to assist Oape May it ia very encouraging circumstance. The diversion of the attention of the West Jersey and later of the Pennsy to the upbuilding of Atlantic City, was an important influence in hindering the growth of Oape May and now that Atlantic City has achieved an immense success a little special effort to boost Oape Way along the same path will not be ami--. BOY HURT BY AUTOMOBILE ( From Tuesday's Daily Star and Wa> • j Clarence Smith, fourteen-year-old . of merchant William Smith, of W--I . Cape May, while riding his wheel on | Broadway, on Sunday afternoon, «*• , run down by an automobile driven by I Artie Hand. The 'boy was not seriously injured, beyond a few bruises and a sprained leg. 1825 1815 TBE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY incorporated >835. (BARTER PERPETUAL OFFICE, 508-510 WALNUT ST Philadelphia, Pa. ] Capital - $750,000.00 AaseU - - $8,002,962.21 Surpltu - $2,326,053 39 DIRECTORS. Charles H. Barry John L. Thomson Dale Benson W. Gardner Crowell 1 Tatnall Lea Edward T. Stoteebury M. Cadwalader Edwin N. Benson, Jr. Henry L Brown CHARLES H. BARRY, President , JOHN L. THOMSON, Vice President i W. GARDNER CROWELL, 1 2d Yice Pres. and Sec'y. 1 L. WARNER, Asst. See'y. • J. DAWSON, Sec. Agency. Dept. SAMUEL F. ELDREDCE LOCAL AGENT National Bank Buiiding. Oor. Washington and Decatur strei ts, Oape May, New Jersey.' W. L. Ewing Jr. WAGON BUILDER AUTOMOBILE PAINTER ind Small Work C *i nfcrtl Executed Estimates Cheerfully Furnished W. L. EWING, JR. j West Perry Sts., j Keystone Phone J

Ml if ' ! Professional Cards * I' ; V — -I i 1 - I j. SPICER LEAMING I " COUNSELOR-AT-Li. w r- Solicitor, Master and Examiner in ; •t Chancery '* Office: Hughes and Franklin Stt., Cape May, New Jersey. I SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ,f Merchants National Bank Building ^ Washington and Decatur Sts., Cape May, New Jersey NOTARY PUBLIC n Solicitor and Master in Chancery. • y Keystone Phone 35 A. ,f G. BOLTON ELDREDGE " ATTORNEY-AT-LAW i Offices: Merchants National Bank Building "Washington and Decatur Sta. Cape May, New Jersey. I NOTARY PUBLIC Solicitor in Chancery s Keystone Phone 86x. HENRY H. ELDREDGE ' ATTORNEY-AT-LAW ,. Solicitor in Chancery for New i. Jersey V Member of Pennsylvania Bar. 1 Cape May, New Jei jcy. j james m. e. hildreth counselor-at-law Solicitor, Master and Examiner in Chancery , NOTARY PUBLIC Offices at 214 Ocean Street Cape May New Jersey, j ' Keystone Phone 39A. ' — — — 1 LEWIS T. STEVENS Counsellor-at -Law " Special Master in Chancery 5 5 Supreme Court Commissioner Notary Public 618 Washington Street, Cape May, N. J. g

MORGAN HAND, JR. CIYIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR Cape May Court House, N. J. , Bell Phone 5. 819 Wesley avenue, Ocean City^N. J. Phone 56X. I DR. J. H. OLIVER DENTIST 1120 Chestnut Street Philadelphia. Pa. 'One door above Keith's Theatre) Filling a specialty- — from one dollar up. Bridpe work, five dollars a tooth. My special plates never rock. No one this method hut myself. Will alyou carfare when you order the beat teeth. Phone — Walnut 1!!!. Can't Thread Your Needle! Let me help y oa by riving you s pair of young eyes, s pair ot glasses that will enable yon to sec as well as ever. Satisfaction guaranteed. C. A. LONGSTRETH Specialist la Ere Testing. 222 Msrtsl St., PhRa. CAPE MAY OPTICAL M3 Washington Street Cape May, N. J. I Everything for,the Eye. : Lenses a Specialty Keystone Phone 44D.

CAPE MAY COAL & ICE CO. UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT j Best quality Coal as all times. Careful preparation. Guaranteed weight t Pure Ice, manufactured from distilled water. Prompt and courteous service. ! Main Offke-512 WASHINGTON STREET , READING COAL YARDS end lards-pERpY and JACKSON TF.E-TS THOMAS S. STEVENS.

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GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS i S«lt Meats. Frnits, Oranges, Banana*. Patent Medicines Hardware. CIGARS AND TOBACCO Keystone Phone 161M W. S. SHAW & SON Deal era In BRICK, LIME AND CEMENT. ' ' | GENERAL CONTRACTORS. Keystone Telephone 30-A. 523 ELM IRA STREET M. H. WARE 516 Washington Street. » HARDWARE HOUSEFURNISHINGS ; BLUE AND WHITE AND GRAY ENAMELWARE FISHNG TACKLE Established 1878 Keystone 114X El wood L. Chambers Jere E. Chambers Chambers Bros. DEALERS IN Fresh Fi»h, Oysters, Clams and Crab Meat. 322 MANSION STREET CAPE MAY, N. J. Auto Delivery Keystone Phone 228D Bell Phone 17W FRANK ENTRIKEN & SONS Central Garage AUTOMOBILE REPAIR WORK EXCELLENT EQUIPMENT FOR RAPID WORK. CARS STORED. CABS HIRED DAY OR NIGHT. ALL KINDS OF AUTO SUPPLIES. w AGENTS FOR THE FAIRBANKS-MORSE GAS AND OIL ENGINES. 1-90A BELL za-A HENRY REEVES, MACHINIST _ Plumbing, Steam and Hot Water Heating, Gas Fitting. Irrigaton Plants Installed.

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