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FRIENDS MEEf NEXT WEEK WIOIU OOMTMMXMCX TO llm ssosum to «ra oxtt— • wzlx. run r.>i8i tmmi o* stockto* u«i TO* HUIUIH. Gay. frivolous, delightful Cape May will take on a very sober, highbrow aspect next week, when from 2000 to 2.000 representatives of the Society of Friends from all over the United States and Canada take complete possession of our town, filling the hotels, the strand and even the ocean. A great tent will be pitched on the Stockton lawn, where for a week they will hold their fei-ennial conference, which will be presided over by Dr. O. Edward Jannay of Baltimore. Speakers of high standard from several of the Friends' colleges and schools will apeak at the morning and afternoon sessions. Joseph Harold Watson, chairmanor the Philanthropic Committee, has arranged for two lecture round tables tc be held each morning In the Presbyterian Church, among which the following subjects will be discussed. Equal Bights led by Hannah Clothier Hull; Temperance. Joel Borton; Work Among Colored People. Helen Underhlll Wood. Conspicuous Among the speakers will be Thomas llott Osborn who will give a lecture at the morning session Friday. July seventh. Other prominent speakers will be Elbert Russell. John Hopkins University; Dr. Bryon W. Forbush. George W. Walton. Thomas Jenkins, William I. Hull and George W. Nasmyth. Professor George Nutt of George School will give a course of lectures each morning at the Methodist Church. A. number of social features have been "a1 rat-god. amont which is a tennis tournament and tee at the Corinth lei. *• ht Club. «-n Monday right, July teatn. the regular evening lecture A m .-alii;' play. 3 he Foot of the Rain »W In three scents, will be given bj' members of llie Philadelphia Toung Frtei.s Association. - Among the Friends of prominence who are anticipating a aojourn at Cape ^my are Hannah Clothier Hull, daughter of Isaac Clothier. Among her many activities, she always has time to devote to the cause of Equal Rights Dr. William 1. Hull, of Swarthmore College, delegate to the Hague Conferee— and author of several books on history and International law will deliver a "lecture during the General Con- i fere nee of Friends. I Mr. and Mrs. Holilngsworth Wood of lit- Klsco, New Tot*, will motor to Cape May. Dr. O. Edward Janney and wife of Baltimore after an extended trip thru the Weal wUl spend some time in Cape May. Other Baltlmorlens of note wli be Senator Brum ell. Dr. WUllefc WUaoa, lfr. and Mrs. Holme. Charles Hires and jclfe. of Philadelphia together .with Mr. sud Mr*/ Arthur Jackson and DL Llpptocott are among the many Friends from tjist city. — iou.to on* *aiU*r Amusement lovers *wflf 'wHeome -the opening of the Red MlU-:qUrdnm« and Dance Hall on Saturday evening. The entire p.W*M ble and popular management oI-UMSF* W Johnson who has made the Dance Hall famous for Its a*0|Hent muelcKxeell.nt. photoplays have been bboked for the aasuwn and the #rlce of edfljjsslon has pasp aieda <•" ' and flve'csdnttrTar chUdf**- . 1 The dancing pavilion will havs'wa-e special attraction the poptaef WW. 1>f- .> Philadelphia, as drHmmsr. With the exoelleut showing of pictures and the add- I •d attraction for the orchestra the *ed Mill should enoy the most prosperous i season of Its existence. COLD WELL LAWH MO WHS Bare bare on the market for 46 yaar*. y—awg bat the boat of materials and , „ ml asssb't antar into the construction of them. Wore range from *00 to §14.00. Buy a good reliable gaaiaateed lawn mower while yon are about it. Full stoek of garden boee, rakes, spade*, aboreU. also sprinkling poU; gardea bt-e _ from 10s to 18c per foot (guaranteed). . boss reels and noaxlea OH ABT.TBR A. SWAIN, •C6-7 Jackson street, Oape May, N- J- ,1 Vocal and Instrumental entertainment , every evening at MeOsnn's Oafa. Bead the Weakly Star And Wava , FIRE WORKS Buntwg FU|i mad Ptormtio— Children'. Torpedoe* J. E. Mecray Oppoak* Heading Dnpot

wharf work is rap© I DOCK Zg wnnro COMnXTZOX— FgmWT— TO- FOB CKAKQX OF KJJK* OF 1IIUI TO, Can MAT macazTKB. f The work on the new dock for the . new steamboat line from Philadelphia Is J progressing very rapidly and the Wharf , Is n earing completion.' The pilings for , the roadway from the street and the { passenger walk are completed and the j work Is cow chiefly on the "T" section ! of the dock that Is about forty feet in B front of the original dock of the 8ewj ell's Point Pavilion. r Permission was received by tne company on Thursday for the change of j the name of the boat from tne, Edge- ! mont to the Cape May. The boat has . , a capacity of 1409 gross tons and was . last Inspected by the government on , , June IS, 1916. when she passed the most | i rigid examination that oould be given , ■ her- i Arrangements have been completed , 1 for the boat to land In Philadelphia at ! ; . Arch Street Wharf while In both Ches- . ter and . Lewes the municipal wharves ' will be used. Owing to the capacity of j . I the boat it will be able to carry many i . automobiles from Lewes to Cape May • and many of the people from the South- \ ern states will use this line In coming . . here. Parties from Cape May may also ; take small trips by autpmoblle to Bai- - ! tlmore and Washington by the use of , I this boat gavlug the long and tedious trip Inland that would be necessary oth- . * — : — i - CAFE MAT GZBIi XX iTKX MOTHS On Wednesday evening the Lyric Thet atre presented the "Moral Fabric" with '{ . Edith Reeves (now Mrs. William Lamb) ] playing the principal part. Mrs. Lamb . Js the daughter of Clement Reeves who resided here before Bis death and Is , . of old Cape May stock. Mrs. Lamb j Is very well known here having spent j . every summer of , het^ childhood at the , j Cape, participating, tu many of the .. Children's Day exercises of the Pres- . byterlan chuteh wiille here. The part , w»# wall played and her friends , hope to see other pictures In which she , , plays In the near future. A BOOS FBOFOSXTZO* •The proposal to refer -Urn present - threatening railroad strike to the Interstate Commerce Commission seems to ' ub le.be very reasonable and fair and > if just and amicable settlement can be » arrived through the medlumshlp of this 1 body It will, be a boon to all Interests. » There la nothing which Is calculated to i 1 upset business and every day life and • activity as Interference with the regular service of the great arteries of traffic. - the railroads, and if it can be avoided r by referring differ en oes to and abiding C by the settlement of an Impartial tribunal it should be done MAX ABOUT TOW* r ./jMif. Blia F. Moffner and family of I Philadelphia will be domiciled at 511 : I Hughes Street fqr. the season. *■ *"ft§|4C C. F. Humphrey of Washington. | i has taken 806 Columbia avenue I foVthe reason. i Charles B. Doak of Philadelphia with i 1 bis family, at at 29 Perry street. ■ ^Mre. A B. Croweil. one of our staunch K cottagers, has again taken 212 Parry l -AJgn O. Cleyshane, of Washington. D. I {. if again at til Golumbla avenue. Mr*. Mrs. M*y D. W.lih of New York > located on Ousrney street 1 Frank P. Homed of Kerehaalvtlle is i at his Stockton avenue cottage. ' " Harry M. Jufti <k Rhlladelphl* ' has taken a Columbia Avenue cottage this 'J Leo MacFarland of Philadelphia has | taken his old cottage on Hughes street Stop and look over the pretty novel- J ties at the Gift and Tarn 8hop In rear 1 of J. H. Hughes' real estate office. 410 I i Washington street , Harry Worth of Philadelphia has tak- 1 ( en a cottage In Cape May again this j ' R. M. Woyer of Philadelphia Is at a • Hughes street cottage for the summer. I , Mrs. Samuel J. Steele of Philadelphia * has taken her Perry street cottage again ' for the coming seasyn. M. Murphy of Philadelphia has taken a Columbia avenue cottage again for the The Fourth of July oelebratlon Is to - be one of the greatest events that has occurred In the history of Cape May. Anyone that can spare the time to come and look will be well repaid for the time. The last train will leave at 10 . P- M to accommodate all patrons. Do not fall to come - It la a beautiful sight to gaxe on tents on the strand. Several of the beach front cottages were rented this week. B Home Bargain. why pat sort? I hare listed a oeatrslly located property. Tfce cettafe oobBUm tM room*, batk. all modetm t»frnwrii ** |b to Cm «a«tfeo. Ike ararmfc area wkl vm aon «ki BMl d overhead ekarget H fa a M4•4'W»ai* at the fries iskeA Tery Bttie m* isytliei torn. P.Sbeppst^ »

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> Practically all of the arangementa for t the Fourth of July celebration for this r year have been made and the day will ) be the most Interesting and patriotic s ever held on New Jersey Coast owing i to the hard work of the various comi ml t tees. Bunting has been placed in conspicuous places and the work of decorating • will continue until the entire resort t bears a gala appearance, the Star and ■ Wave office with a beautiful Illuminated > display, the Light and Power Company i has arranged a very novel and beautiful i decoration for the night display when I | hundreds of colored electric lights will ' | blaze on their office, the Municipal Band pavilion will be decomted with bunting I and business houses Vnd cottages will I I all have more or less decorations. The parade will contain 40 floats. 1£0 ' ! privately owned decorated automobiles. • j several marching clubs, three bands, one life and drum corps, and about 176 men from the United States Government ■ members of the G. A. R. ,.n decort ated cars, the P. O. 8. of A. of Cape > May City, and the Boy Scouts. The en- • tries of the parade shall arrive at the - City Hall at 1.30 p. m. In order to get ' their numbers and to form In llne.^the ■ parade will leave the assembling point at 2 p. m. over the route given In the of the day. In addition to the four submarines that are scheduled to be here there will be the U. S. S. Buehl with fifty members ' of the American -Naval olunteers on a 1 cruise, the Vixen with 75 members of ' the Naval Volunteers, the Bushnell with ' seventeen men and the J. Henry Ed1 munds with -sixteen men. The total ' number of visiting men of the naval boats will be approximately seven hun- | dred. | Owing to the fact that thousands of ' people wUl be a tthe harbor's edge on J the morning of the Fourth the Corln- ' thlan Yacht Club has requests the City Commlttloners to detail two policemen

r at the harbor from the time the aubs murines come until they lreve. and also I on the Fourth to detail six policemen 0 and two life guards to Insure pro tec- • X tlon of all the visitors They have also - requested that the fire department place ropes along the harbor's edge near the - club tmuse to prevent anyone from ber log Injured at tbe water's edge. t Flne'torixea have been secured and are 1 displayab In Knerr's windows on Wash1 ington S*set. These prizes should stlmr ulate Interest In the parties that are 1 entering the parade. PROGRAM OF THE DAT j 10.00 a. m. — Baseball game Cape May ( vs. PhllMMphla Professionals, Col i .mbia. rank Madison and Columbia . avenues. \ D Races i^djarbor Water pageant. . United States submarines to sube merge and manoeuver in the harbor. t i 1-20 p. m — Parade assembles at City . t Hall And makes the following route: . From City Hall along Washington , e street to Perry street, to Beach avenue. to Madison avenue, to Stockton , e avenue; to Howard street; loipolumt bla avenue; to Franklin street; to s Washington street; to Ocean street; , t to Beach avenue; to Stockton Lawn s and dismiss. 2.00 p. m.— Grand street parade of sail- . s ors. marines, patriotic and civic so1 cletlea and decorated private and com9 merclal automobiles, floats, marching i clubs. Plenty of music, f 4.00 p. m. — At Stockton Lawn: i Singing "America" (Audience) Accompanied by Cape May Band 1 Prayer by local" clergy man 1 Reading of Declaration of Inde- I pendence Lawrence Eldredge I Oration . . Hon. J. Washington Logue ; f Jubilee Singers. , i Folk Dance by local girls. Caprice Lewis, "Qusen of the Air", r performing "hn flying trapeze^ i DeWolfe and MacCarton. society and

I sensational whirlwind dancers Better than the Caatlea. D# Wolfe and MacCartoq. dancers. •*tar Spangled Banner".... [ 8 30 p. m — Brilliant dlsplay'of ^fira*Ntt*s on Reach avenue east of Life Saving Station. > ~ PRIZES Best decorated private automobile— 1st auto lunch outfit; 2nd best' Si day automobile clock; 3d best Klaxon auto horn. Beat decorated commercial automobile— 1st tsn dolar gold piece; 2d bsrft. 8 day auto clock; 3d best Klaxon auto horn. » Best .decorated float-^-lst, §16; 3d best 1 110; 3d best silver cup. Best decorated Ford pleasure automo- ' bile, sliver cup given by Ford Motor 1 Os . - ' Best dressed marching club or arganlration. American flag; 2d best Silver cup. 1 Bret decorated farm wagon or auto displaying farm produce, lap robe; Id best horse blanket Desi. norse oianxei.

PROCLAMATION i ■ Following the officers and members of the Board of' Trade, , and various other capable and public spirited citizens in our I unusual and extraordinary effort to fittingly celebrate Independence ; Day; and in order to insure results in keeping with such, effort, I r hereby call upon our people in general, both resident and transksnt, to pin this movement with zeal and determination in every way pooible. Please decorate everything — your homes, your business houses, your vehicles; and place your vehicles at the disposal of the parade commaiee Let us make this day memorable by demonstrating not onhr our patriotism but our civic prid^ and also by xntartaininffoumtvef and all others who may- be-wah us. W. L STEVENS. Mayor. REG RftEPWORKS ANQ^C&ACKERS Fire worfa wiH be encouraged in the evening an the baach. The use of fire crackers by our younger elenma. however, will be resulted as follows : They must not be thrown about care lessly, nor under people's feet. Care must also be exercised regarding horses. Keasonable use and noise may appropriately add to the "gala day" feature, but any disregard of the comfort : 1 and safety of others will be suppressed. W. L. STEVENS, Mayor. ' , ; Very Desirable Furnished and Unfurnished APARTMENTS For Rent

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BAS*XAX.X. SXASO* OFI*B SATUBDAT The Cape May Collegians will open 1 their season on Saturday at the Columbia Ball Park that haa been put In ' first class season for the. season. Manager Calhoun has arranged ■ a very j strong schedule for the season and from the lineup of the local team the crowds ' win have some rare treats this season 1 the excellent games. The schedule for the week Is as fol- ' lows ; Saturday. July 1 — Towanda. | Monday. July 3 — -treat Philadelphia A. ' C. (Main Line League Club) ' Tuesday. July 4 — Philadelphia Professionals (at 10 a m.) Wednesday. July 5— Overbrook. Thursday. July 6— P. R. R. (Philadelphia' Terminal team. r Friday. July 7— Wlsslnomlng A. C. Saturday, July 8 — Frankford A. C. COURT HOUSE FACTOBT IUBI8 The original factory building of the pape May Glass Works were destroyed . by fire early Wednesday morning, the • lire 8tartlng~from. an unknown origin jand raging furiously for several hours. The blaze was discovered fretw^yt shifts , .when only the engineer WtigMwBF1 were at the factor}-, some ".if th« Bf»1 men claiming that the blaze was caused by an oil burner that either explod- - ed or was accldently overturned while the men were at work and than smouldering until later in the evening. After the fire was discovered Yt Ipfvadfrom the part of the plant where 1*. originated and for a time It was believed that the entire factory would be consumed by the flames. The bucaed plant ' was the original factory constructed p about thirty years ago when the company was organized. This blaze has i caused about one hundred and twenty- ■ five men and boys to be thrown out of • work until the building is reconstructed. GAXX 81X1 FOB X X. CKUBCX ' The ladles of the Methodist Church will hold a cake sale on Saturday. July 1st. In tbe building formerly occupied t by the U. G. I. Co.. No. 404 Washington r Street. Cakes on sale at 10 A. M. Come ' early. r - LOCAX. 6BBTBBB* A* TBIFTO* ; -On Saturday last Dr. J. S. Eldredge and Mr. Albert B. Miller visited Trenton to witness the dedication of the new 8hrinera Mosque that has been undef cons miction. At this dedication. "theVe were 1260 Interested Shrlners from various sections of the state. DO Too WAR IT? ^ UaMted amount a! mosey te pines an "vnrfM'i wttkia the dtj, In asms of ; §H0, §3000 and §1*00. I Stunt a HUUHJC8, ten By, - v It W Onren SMB. 1 *- SPECIAL ' Our bargain table is loaded with spec- 1 t lals all 7*e — ladles dresses, white Utrt- : waists, shlldren't dresses, whiU and sal- ! ored : ladies' ikirte also. Mrs. E. Tnraer, S23 Washington street. Cape Map ~ '

is defeated Torn TO BBTAX* WBBSXBT gTFTHM - of loipmii ■— warn was inn Miinfcm |>M fobs' bob. TBXUW TOT* FOB OXAB6IX ' By fully a thousand- majority tha voters of Cape May County "rejected the proposed change ln the Boaxd of Free- ' holders on Tuesday. The inigmia change would take away the represen- | tatlve government from tha smaller towns of the county and would place the power, in the hands of the two or three [ most densely populated territories of the counties. The vote was composed of about 86 per cent of the registration and nine of the districts went against the change while only four were for the change, two of the districts being tied. Tbe oppoalticAt appeared to be based ' upon the power to be veeted in a Board of three members chosen at large paid comfortable salaries. There was . also the feeling that the county wopld , not have the same harmony as hereto- . fore If the power was placed In one or The local rote reiw as follows: 1 Precinct Tea No i First 15 31 _ Second 17 54 . Third 24 61 Fourth 11 43 Total ST 1«T The vote of the entire county acoord- . ing to cities.' towns and buroughs was as follows: s Majority . Locality Tea No For Against Cspe May City .. 67 187 .. .130 Cape May Point. 13 12 1 .. South Cape Ma}'. 8 I West Cape May .. 49 27 22 Lower Township . 41 109 08 Middle (no report) ' Dennis 15 86 1 Woodbine 40 79 .. 30 1 Upper 69 102 .. 132 1 Ocean City 407 Sea Isle City .... 3 108 . . 15 ' Avalon 40 ' ' Stone Harbor .... 1 88 87 . Y» lldwood 263 188 105 ' North Wlldwood . 28 180 .. Ill ' Wlldwood Crest .67 2 05 I __ Totals 810 641 201 1080 r r— — — 1 The bazaar for the Church of tbe Ad* vent will be held August 3d, Oth and 5th. i Weekly meetings are being held by tha ladles of the Sewing Circle of tha Church. Much Interest Is being shown | In the good cause. Try a combination sea food or steak dinner at McCann's Cafe. Music sad singing every evening. 1 Mtlltam H. Cbompaon Undertaker sad Practical KmhelBsr Cspe May City, V. J. -trieUy First CUas Automobile Service V Mni , Ksyatoae,l»X - Branch offWw WHdwned, Hew Jsreef. , « . ' '■ May Ooaatr here sm" reHTere 2Z tally § 111 I*m I at «bs SseerOty Treet Oa, AttMl Ti mill if.: • SUMMSE.lhLUHKKY Reductions In trimmed and un trimmed millinery— end of the season prices right at the height of the season. Black, whits and oolofs in a variety of styles, children's untrlmmed hemps. 2&c qp; trimmed. 75c up. LOTTIE R. TTTTT.V iv 220 Perry Street Oape May. Facial requirements a study. Out Tuesdays.

BED MILL Geo. W. Johnson, with his Celebrated OrchestraPopular Folby as drummer—will open Dancing Pavilion and Airdome on Saturday, July 1st ADMISSION TO AIRDOME

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