j STAR AND WAVE WEEKLY EDITION

SIXTIETH YEA. CAPE MAY CITY. N. J- SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18. 1915 THREKtENTS ACOPY ~

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NEWS AND COMMENT HOTES ON POLiriCAL AND OTHER CONDITIONS. SPICY ITtuiS OF INTEREST TO CITIZENS. SI was OF THE TIMES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION Horace Smith and^arty enjoyed a trip to Essington on hie1 beautiful power boat. Automobiles met the party at Esaington and an overland trip was made. J. B. Lippincott's large and beautiful yacht "lady Betty" was a visitor in the Harbor last week. The following letter is in reply to a potest of Peggy Shippen's methods of assaulting Oape May. recently sent by Albert R. Hand: Mr. Albert R. Hand, Cape May, N. J. Dear Sir: — The Public Ledger regrets sincerely that anything should have appeared in its columns about the mosquito plague at Cape May. It ia a well known fact that the mosquitoes have been very annoying this year, not ony at the various shore and '< mountain resorts but there lias been a per'ect plague of them in the cities. 1 Fir this reason no one place should have I been picked out as the victim of this annoyance. 1 Now, having admitted our error, per- ' ■it to give a brief explanation of bow 1 it occurred. 1 The author of the Peggy Sbippen col- ' umn is a very old and respected member 1 of the Public Ledger staff. Her con- ' tibutions command so much respect ' that the office has grown a bit careless • about giving them the careful scrutiny 1 that it gives gll other news designed for i its columns. : < Peggy Shippen is a great admirer of!' Cape May, and did receive, in the course ' of her voluminous correspondence, var- * ions letters from persons in Cape May. ' referring to the mosquitoes. Without 1 dreaming of the damage she might do r Cape May, she wrote the article to ' which you object. She is as aorrv as 1 we are, and we all cheerfully admit that 1 we were in error. However, I want you 1 to brieve there was absolutely no mal- ' ice in the publication, and we shall do .'""all in our power to make amends. ' Very truly yours. t JOHN J. SPURG-EON. * • • • t Announcement was made today by * The Prudential Insurance Company of America of the election by the Board of { Directors of the Company of -John W. ^ Stedman of New York, as Assistant ' Treasurer of the Company. He will ' join The Prudential on October 1, P For the |«*t ten years Mr. Stedman i ' has been associated with Clark. Dodge j'" and Company, of 51 Wall Street. NewYork. in its Bond Department, and the '' knowledge gleaned by him through this ' ' a 'Continued on fourth page.) " If you have some money laid by for " future use, the place to put that money * ta In the Security Trust Co., Oape May. ^ HOW I SERVE TOD First, I will build you the beat boat b for the money. ^ Second, I will store your boat in my enclosed boat house by the year or the

Third, I can offer you a choice of the best second hand boats and take Tour present craft in part payment on a new one. Railways on which to run boats. JOHN A PHABO, 1203 Lafayette St., Keystone 'phone No. WD. COLDWXLL LAWNMUWXRS Nothing but the beat of materials and ! workmanship enter into the construetion of Caldwell Lawn mowers — they have been continuously on the markets of the world for more than forty years. Prices range from $3.00 to $12.00. A 14 in. Ball Bearing Mower for $4.00. rn rawT.wa A SWAIN, 306-7 Jackson St FARM IMPLEMENTS The International Harvester Go's. Deering Moweragalcea, Gasoline Engines, Wagons and Farming Implements of all kinds are sold by ELI RUTHERFORD, 4th Avenue, West Ckpe May. 6-26-Rt-lp.

CAPE MAY r COUNTY FAIR R HELD ^ LAST WEEK AT COURT F HOUSE SUCCESSFUL AFFAIR— => MANY KINDS OF EXHIBITS AND OTHER FEATURES. The Cape May County Fair has its best p attraction in its track. This is perfectr ly located, is among the best for all it _ is lain out for, and in the hands of , gentlemen, great pains is taken to have it merit the support of the best people I coming to the county, and which is to c say the best in the world. It is only in its beginning, the affair just closed being the second on the new grounds and lifth i all told. Some day the scope will be f broadened, and new lines will be entered . upon. There will be weekly events on the track, automobile and hotel uid burlesque parades, Punch and Judy and real country sports, and a whole lot of clean , fun In- which visitors at the resorts can , . have part, fruit and vegetables and "blue . ribbons for Johnny to -take home" for sale, and even an orator or two. Sum- | , iner people are easily pleased and with , i trifles if out of the ordinary, and will I give up their money freely for it. They i will be best pleased, however, if there is program on which they will have a , part. , i The fair association began with the ( competition from the "farming district,' , \ . limited to the granges of the county, , each to make up a display and divide , the winnings among its members as it chose. There were no restrictions as to membership of exhibitor or where toe exhibits came from, although suppns ■ edly each was the product from its own | r district or at least from the atore within j ' it. The prize money was liberal and the ' judges tech- care that each grange had , ( j enough of it to at least pay expenses. ' 1 j The displays brought out were wonder- (l fine and of exceeding interest, and ' each fair time was too short to go over ' the exhibit satisfactorily, especially in " the women's work division with its relics ■ v of the old, old days, heirlooms, and fam- 1 ' ily treasures. The fruit, vegetables, | flowers, live stock and home cookery - were beyond compare in quality and ap- j ' nee, and visitors paid good money j '' for everything that could be bought. 1 The change to individual competition ■ this year did not receive the support of | those who cried for it, and the display j I1 although good did not compare with , * those of tlje past, and the hope is that " the old plan will be again adopted. c The judges were Rhcp. Taylor, Win- * field Coombs and J. Sadler, for vegeta-jP bles; John Elliott, Dr. Julius Way and' Amos Wheaton for fruit; E. L. Rice, | ' Ray and Horace Townsend for i » poultry, and Mrs. Minnie Bate, Mrs. C. ^ j P. Yananwn and Mrs. Alfred Rapp, for | * j canned goods. , I" Flowers w ere a feature. The Canfield j V exhibit from Avalon besides winning the n Lit Brothers special fur display, was ( awarded .14 first prizes and 4 seconds. ; ■' and the flowers were all from the home 1' door yard. The exhibit of florist Lange. " of Court House, was of both greenhouse ■ and garden plants and included excep- ! '■ tionally fine asters and dahlias. Edward ! " S. Howell, of Diaa Creek, was winner of * many prizes with his specialty of dah- J I' lias. H. A. Dreer, of Philadelphia, win- ' ^ ning for display of named specimen j 6 blooms. , I Ji Clinton Cresay showed fine specimens ' of the ten varieties of peaches now in."1 season, all perfect in color and condition. {

# winning firsts for each. Charles Howell # with eiglii varieties won five firsts and three seconds. Isaac Harris, gardener to ^ Dr. Phyaios, was awarded first for a basket of excellent specimens. Apples L were fine and showed the results of '* spraying, being very clean. Lem Compton, Diss Creek, winning for Maiden Blush and Pound Sweets, and John H. Powell for red Astraehan. In vegetables djL. J. Garretson won with rhnbarb; y Harry Tyler for canteloups; Prov. S. 7 Ludlam getting first for pie squash and # Thomas Gordon second ; H. Powell for •- beets and carrots; W. S. Kcmber winning all other firsts and the Miehell J- Special for collection. The Experiment Station exhibit was I- the best ever made in the county and a representative was present to answer questions. With the rest was a model for a hog colony hous*iWith detailed pWne to be i- had for the asking: also of a poultry b house for layers, a trap nest and egg B boxes; formulas and samples of rations for hogs, poultry and the dairy, for all i purposes and conditions, samples of seeds '• as usnally sold and clean; grafting and pruning tools and materials and sections

trees showings scars from good and | pruning and grafting; samples of ; different sprays and of the several sorts ' of inoculating .materials on the market. exhibit alone was worth going to see, and there is the possibility that it will be allowed to remain h«re with I Prof, Thrasher. I Tl e canned fruit exhibits were by Miss Anna Hauser of the Experiment Station. Thrasher (|winning the lemonade jbowl) and Mrs. J. A Powell, winning the drinking set. All were cold packed and fine. I In the poultry division the White Orj pingtons of J. R- Gergas. Court House, : and light Brahmas of J. McLinden, Angles.*, were winners. The freak c i the J class was a cross of guinea and white with head and voice of the guinea and plumage of the Wyandotte. ! There were many exhibits of corn. Clinton Creasy had the tallest, Bhowing ! also the Boone County White with which lie won the corn prize two years ago, and j which he aays is improving as it is be- | coming acclimated also Dubman's Special and Burbank's Rainbow for or- ! mental purposes. | The- exhibits of machinery, etc., Includ- ; ing many makes of automobiles, the approval "octobus." tlic non-punchable tire 'and many new appliances, and a very attractive display of cement work. In the I stock division was the pair of four i months old Angora goats of Earl Foster, House, to be shown here. The i pretty 16 months-old heifer raised by ' j Bertha Newton, of Trenton, won a first prize, "the yearling Jersey bull of ' I McLinden getting first and the ' ' horse blanket presented by Strawbridge" 1 ! and Clothier. j "Eata" were in abundance, Mrs. Jacob '

Rotan serving dinner in her farm house across from the grounds, and two ladies, \ Mrs. Cresay and Mrs. Johnson of Cold 1 Spring providing chicken potpie and all 1 that goes with it in the dining hall under 1 the g-rand stand, and Nelson Creamer 1 serving excellent made while you wait 1 sandwitches and coffee from a stand ■ midway between. E. 8. S. ' DO YOU WANT IT? { Limited amount of money to place on , mortgages within the city, in sums of t $500, $1000 and $1500. GILBERT C. HUGHES, Realty, , No. 214 Ocean Street. , KISSEL EAR (Every Inch A CJar) TOURING CARS AND TRUCKS SEND FOR LITERATURE ' Henry Reeves, Agent West Cape May, N. J. Grey Bond typewriter paper, size 8 1-2 *11, 30 cents per ream while It lasts. \ Only 60 reams In this lot. Star and Wave Stationery Dept. Read the Weekly Star and Wave. J

POLITICAL COMMENT t , AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

r , ... j Cape May, N. J, Sept 16, 1915. . Dear Mr. Editor: Will you permit me to suggest through the columns of the Star and ' Wave, candidates for Commissioner. I have not seen a soul of them and do not 1 know whether the^ would stand for it ' or not, but it ib my idea that the fol8 lowing men would make strong Com1 missioners: W. L. Stevens, Tlios. IV. > Millet, \V. B. Gilbert, Samuel F. El1 dredge, George P. Wentzell. The above | ? named men have excellent reputations j 1 and are thoroughly competent to con8 duct the business of thhe city. 1 C. T. D. j SELECT GOOD MEN. ' Commission Form has carried and ' 1 there is no call now for argument pro ■ 1 or eon as to its merits. It is of paramount importance however that people I really interested really attached to the j place and anxious for its wefare ghoul, 1 , 1 come to the front. WHY BUILD SEWERS? On - of the speakers at the rally meet"g spoke somewhat disparagingly of 1 the city's sewer building activities. . to think of it, why build sewers? 1 I Why not dump the sewage into the water tanks and drink it. just like they ' do in I'hiladi-lphia? NO RUBBER STAMP MEN. Now (hat we must have Commission- I era it is particularly n<*<lful that no i rubber stamp men be elected. i

; WOMEN SHOULD BE GRANTED THE SUFFRAGE. t If universal manhood suffrage is' right, I woman should surely be granted the balI lot as well. Its a travesty on common t sense to say that women are not fit to t become full-fledged citizens, when we see - the hundreds of miserable specimens of - hunmanity in the shape and garb of . men who vote and then say that harm - can come fom granting women the suf- ' fr»ge. » e are talking fool talk. The sjfiifeest thing that could happen right ■ here in Cape May, would be the power of I women to vote. There is not a place on . | the map that needs more, just that kind j of influence in its public affairs. I I SUFFRAGg NOTES. I The seashore season is lasting so much longer than usually, and there are so . many people ou the Wildwood board- ' walk, that the suffrage shop has been kept oj.cn several weeks longer than was intended. "If (he pr.fcr.t t.nJmcv continues South Jersey reports will soon have an all the year round season," says the suffragists in charge, "and we do not like to close the shop while we have crowds of interested visitors." Kx-Presidcnt Taft says he believes women will improve conditions when when they get the vote, and lie thinks they ought Sr. have it.-bul not yet. The Kx -President is evidently not anxious for improved conditions. In tlii« a great many political bosses will sympathize with him.

! COMMISSIONERS FOR CAPE MAY ii i VOTERS, .PF THIS RESORT DECIDE TO CONCENTRATE POWER— WILL ' ELECT ^fEW CITY OFFICIALS ON e OCTOBER 19 th. : 1 j At the special election held on Tuesday last the voters favored Commission : . Form of Government, also the issuance ' »f bonds for the purpose of building a . light and power plant to be owned by 1 , the city. The votes cast bv districts , follow: > 1 COMMISSION. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tot'I ■ For 54 83 135 64 336 I Against -.16 28 46 30 120 1 , BOND ISSUE. I , 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Tot'I . For 56 86 433 68 343 I Against .* 17 21 34 22 94 TWO AGED MINISTERS. c 1 _ Rev, Edward P. Shields, who served as ( , |uistor of the Cape May Presbyterian . Church for many years previous to 1888, « . when the congregation worshipped in the 1 . building on Lafayette Street, now occu- J pie by the Episcopal Church of the Ads vent, is still living at the advanced age t , of ninety-two years. His home is in f Bridgeton, to which city he retired after n . Cape May. Mr. Sheilds, remem- , bered as a man of high culture and true • , spirited energy as a pulpiteer while as a c pastor he was honored and beloved by his flock and by all who knew him. C Rev. Amos E. Ballard, D. D., who since e his retirement from the active minstry, > is pleasantly homed at Ocean Grove, has

reached ninety-four years, an Is now the . oldest living clergyman in the New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference. All South Jersey Methodists of mature years, have loving memories of Dr. BalHis service to the _g^urch as Presiding Elder of the Bridgeton District, which brought him in contact with 'all Cape May Methodists, are worthily remembered. Dr. Ballard is still quite active and only recently pfeached to one of his congregations of forty years ago with much of his fervor an<^ spirit of his active ministry. Dr. Ballard attributes much of his present vigor to out-door habits, one of which is to take a sevenmile walk every morning the weather ' permits. T. R. B. < THE B00KL0VERS* LIBRARY NEWEST FICTION RENTED TWO CENTS A DAY ' Philadelphia Pharmacy, comer 1 (Mean Strct and Columbia Avenue ' '?. — o 1 Advertise your wqgts in the Oape 1 Star and Wave. j

CAPE MAY CITY ALONE IN THIS. | Neither Wild wood. Ocean City nor 5 Atlantic City permits its City Treasury to be used, directly or indirectly, to supplying the funds for the carrying out of the schemes of the various real estate syndicates in it. Cape May is proE hably the only city in the wide world that la forced by one means or another t. to become a partner 'with every real estate syndicate which attmpts to do n business here, with the result that it 0 has been nearly eaten up aBve. At * least $500,000 of our city debt is due to >f the manipulation of various real estate >f syndicates and has been spent for their n benefit. In spite of this liberality the f- worst that can be said hy these people e about everybody at Cape May, is too t good. This attitude is used as a means f of qoervion. One man received 81000 n per month "to keep the Cape May peod pie* straight," and the Cape May people were pictured as a very bad lot indeed. Their ony fault, however, is a too great docility and gullibility. We listen too readily to the fakers who come here to 11 fill their pockets and too, we have here- " More frequently deliberately betrayed our own people. 11 In most of the other larger resorts 8 there are several real estate syndicates, and these keep each other straight. 1 Here we have usually but one at a time ; and this one is always voracious and ' 8 soon discovers the apathy of the people s and is informed by the dealers of the I presence of 250 floating votes, in a total 1 voting population of 800 or 900. Some1 thing should be done to interest several 1 8 syndicates in real estate operations for 1 8 the protection of the city. Put no ob1 stacles in their way. ' Help them legitimately in every way 8 possible, but do not force every owner _ of property here to invest in their en- ' terprises by diverting money from the City Treasury, illegitimately, to pay for things that the syndicates themselves should pay for. There is do more , reason for this than there would be to appropriate money fom the City Trcas- < ury to aid wny druggist, grocer or t gents' furnishing goods dealer to buy 1 an adding machine or a cash register or j < . store fixtures. The people are going, to 1 1 understand these things better tn the 1 next attack by the promoter element, t and many of the things which have I been done will not be repeated without ; a challenge, no matter who may try it. t The most spiritless creature will awaken • when he realizes that he must bestir 1 or be utterly smashed. t 'The "Cape May People" being in- t terpreted means all who have proj>erty j or vote or residence here. If it was r . worth 81,000 per month to keep them t from squirming while they were being t 1 robbed.vthe robbery must have amounted t a tidy sum.) <• 0 * a THE MAN ABAOUT TOWN. £ d Sherman Sharp, one of our leading e contractors, is erecting a cottage at j Woodbury, this state, for F. Browning v j Wm. J. McMullin, of Philadelphia, 1 and owner of considerable real estate jj came over from Atlantic City and t passed . the day here. , A. handsome cottage will be built at j, the corner of Washington and Jefferson £ The work ia already com- y Cottager J. Frank Black of Perry e Street, motored to Chester and passed a 1 couple of days recently. , j, Mrs. Hanna M. Reeves of the Hotel a of Chelsea, came over in her v car and spent the day the fist of the „ Miss Norma Hildreth is now a stud- „

ie ent of the State Normal School, Trenr- ton. New Jersey. U Mrs. Adelaide G. Beckheard of Balti- i ■e more, and a cottager here, has pur1- chased the property of Dr. Brown '.n >- Hughes Street, and is occupying same, t, Our Commission Form of Geveroment U should be of men not in politics. .- A number of our cottagers have returned home. Some of them have exe pressed themselves wishing they were o back at Cajw May during the warm s wave. s If you are desirous of information r pertaining to real estate of any de- . seription before going home, consult J. r Hughes, Washington Street, as he is well versed in properties of all section^ . of our city. ■ YEGGMEN VISIT KRMA. Yeggmen visited the Erma postoffiec on Sunday night. last and succeeded in r relieving Postmaster R. T. Johnson of sum of money amounting to nearly An unsuccessful attempt was made e to blow the sirong box, which is -supposed to have scared the sneaks away.

PERSONAL MENTION t • ; INTERESTING PERSONAL PARAd GRAPHS OF THE COMING AND r GOING OF CAPE MAY VISITORS AND RESIDENTS EACH DAY. J . • t Mrs. J. H. Benezet of Philadelphia, t has been spending several days hero 3 looking after her property, e Mr. Samuel Gordon Smith, a geneal- , r ogist of Oonshohocken, Pa., has been e spending a short time at Cape May ins vestigating records and making a ro- > search of family histories. » Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Bailey of Roy- ' ersford, Pa., are visiting Mrs. Rodney - Hand and Mrs. Wm. Hickey this week. ' Mrs. M. S. Smith, Mrs. A. S. Bush. - Mrs. G. W. Reeves and Miss Hattie Goff 1 attended the funeral of thir sister-in-law > Mrs. Walter Goff at Eldora, N. J., on ' Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Crowell, of Cape I May Court House, have been visiting Mrs. A. H. StilwelL 1 Mrs. E. Extrom had the miafortune to , fall and beak her arm on Wednesday. Mrs. Eliza Bailey, Phoenixvillc, Pa., ' 1848 been spending some time with Mrs. • Wm. Gilbert: Mrs. C. Bac-kiuan entertained a nunof frientls at her home on Washing- ' ton Street, on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Schellenger has moved tack to Washington Street cottage after • spending the Summer in West Cape May. HUDSON RIVER EXCURSION. ' TWO LOVERS CONERSATION ON THE SUBJECT OVER THE TELB-PH0NE-r-EVERYB0DY IS GOING. By E. P. Stites, Jr. Central give me Main 31306. There you are Miss Winsome. Hello, hello, ia I you Jack? Yes that is your old What do you want, my deart j Why Anna Traveler was just here and 'she says she and Harry Princeton and nice crowd of folk have just booked fog Cape May County outing up the Hudson on October second.; Jack my dear, won't you please try to get off and we will join the party. Anna says that the C. W. Morse is he largest river steamer in the world and that the dining room will seat over three hundred people all at once, and .jtfct think. Jack, you can be eating and not miss one speck of the scenery, aa the big Searchlights point out the beautiful panorama, and then Jack we are come down river by daylight on the great white fiyer, the "Renaelear." There speaking ^ubes running from the House to every one of the four both fore and aft, and as we pass each point of interest one of the men in the Pilot House tells you just what you would want to know. Hello, hello! Central, pease don't cut us off. No indeed will not, if you pardon me, I have been listening. Tell me where I can get and make reservations. Why I will fee only to glad to do so. Write to Boxes 171 or 192 Cape May Outing, May N. J., an you will soon have precious tickets. Hello, hello, Anna. You be sure and go right down and three State rooms and tickets. will send the office boy down to the with the money, as they say you can't be sure of a Stateroom, unless you get right on the job. Goodbye, I will be up to the house early tonight, and we will make our plans, who we want 'besides to go along with us.

A BIG WATERMELON PARTY. On last Friday night, September 10th, ' at the Feischhauer home in Cold Spring, 1 one of the most delightful parties of • the season was .given. The lawn and ^ barn were attractively decorated with Chinese lanterns and after indulging in ■ many games the large crowd of young ' people sat down to bountifully spread 8 tables, with many water melons for the 1 last course. ' AUTOMOBILES Before buying see the new five passenger Metz touring car, fully equipped 1 with Gray and Davis electric lighting and starter is an up to date car in every detail, has perfectly safe transmission for lady to drive, has fnll eliptioal springs tack and front, and good spring upholstered cushions. Price 8606. OrpS. a STITES, Agent. Cape May City, N. J. Keystone Phone 134-M. ' ■' 6 Advertise your wants in the Cape May Star and Wave. *