CAPE MAY STAR AND WAVE Saturday, February 15, 1919

(¥YiA HNEySELO NEC ALBERT R. HAND, President. A. L. EWING, Adv. Manager. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE This paper is entered at the postiifice as second-class postal matter, STAR & WAVE PUBLISHING CO. Deen Wave Established ___. Star of the Cape Established____1869 Merged in Star and Wave____.._1907 Forms close Thursday evening. Out wf town circulation delivered Saturbusided uj A BZE ABOUT ‘SALOME‘ THE "WONDERFULLY NEW" OLD HEROD TIME STORY S0 FORCE ABLY PROTRAYED BY THEDA | BABA WILL BE SHOWN AT) COI‘8 PALACE THEATRE ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH It took and army of 800 men to build the city of Jerusalem. More than 20 tons of paint were used on the sets and scenary. Five hundred thousand ad feet Feat ot tamber was put into construction-enough to build a good sized town. Two hundred thousand yards of bur dap went into the covering offthe buildings. Nearly un entire menagerie was required for local color; 44 camels, 2, 500 horses, 25 donkeys, 20 elephants, ts, sheep, bullocks, oxen, dogs, cats parrots, doves and pencocks. Special boilers were installed for the making of steam and light effects. One hundred sculptors worked for a costume department . at | Hollywood, Cal. Due to the unusial interest manifested in Salome which indicates that mearly every man, woman and child im the country will want-to see . it. Maneger Cox has hinted that the enJoyment may be extended to two days showing. . — Avered from the joint texta,- A good mame is rather to be chosen than richas. Obey those who have rule over At the close of this discourse which embraced the emphatic aspects and the diplomatic episodes of Rocsevelt‘s life. fee following pgem which was given to the speaker under the inspiration of the few moments of time was read:-

BOOSEEVELTIN MEMORIAM. By B. Ashley Cake. ROOSEVELT Rest Thou in perce. The fight that thou so bravely led, We‘ve taken up. And we will keep True faith you thou who lie asleep, With golden shaft to mark your bed. Fear that you have died in vain, The torch you threw us we have caught, And we with millions will old it high And freedom‘s light shall never die. We‘ve learned the lesson you have taught, Your flaming torch we bear To keep the faith we fight it through, To crash the foe of sleep with you. Our boys we welcome in khaki and blue, We say to them and to you, For that they and you have done, We give our thanks to you and all, In the khaki and in blue. meePUBLIC UTILITY INSPECTOR HERE, Louis M. Meckler, Jr., electrical inspector attached to the Public Utility Commission spent Tuesday and Wedmesday of this week in Cape May * investigating complaints. The City Commissioners arranged to have him mt the City Hall Wednesday at eleven o,clock when the board and a number of citizens reviewed the situation of both public and private service of the Cape May Light and Power Company. an — -eee --- POTATO LECTURE. Mr. Earl Delatush, | potato grower and President of the N. J. tato ing Association of Mercer Co, will lecture in the Cold Spring Grange Hel Monday evening, February 17th at 8 o 3 Come out an enfoy a good lecture. --- -astes "___ BUILD A BUILDING AT CAPE MA -__-aeen____ BUILD A BUILDING AT CAPE MAY

JEWISH WELFARE BoARD WiTH COOPERATION OF wirpwoop AND TBE RED CROSS rio. s 13% On last Friday evening the Jewish Welfare Board with the help of the Wildwood Community and the Red Cross of Cape May succeeded in giv ing a number of soldiers of the Army Hospital an muto ride to Wildwood. When the boys arrived to the Service Club of Wildwood they were entertained by the women of the Club, Th soldiers received a cordial welcom by the club, ‘They were treated to a fine supper and aftervards with entertainment. The boys reported personally . to some of the welfare workers at the hospital that they had a wonderful time. . In view of this delightful report the Jewish Welfare Board will continue to cooperate with the Wildwood Community and bring joy to our hoys who deserve it. Many thanks are due to Miss Baker for the interest shown by her for helping to make the entertainmnt a success and also to those that cooper ated. AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE relating to taxes for the year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and making appropriations for said year. Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Cape Maydo ordain, That there shall be assessed and raised by taxation and collected for the fiscal year 1919 the sum of One Hundred and Ten Thousand Three Hundred and Thirty-nine Dollars and One Cent for the purpose of meeting the appropriations set forth in the fol[owing statement of resources and ap|propriations for the fiscal year of 1919 RESOURCES [Surplus Revenue appro‘ $ 18,412.85 Receipte | from water department 35,000.00 invmalasd from | Conven 5,000.00 2,000.00 1,000.00 of taxes, 110289.01 (RukoEd APPROPRIATIONS \Comminsioners‘ salarios, . $ 4000.00 {Clork‘s | salary, |rmabori rermics LA d |_ works‘ salary, {Soliciters salary, { Alderman‘s Ld Assessors salary, |Colector‘s salary, bidpmithiite salary, {Overseer of Poor‘s salary «Poor fond,

Civil — engineering . ser vices, Tnspector and superinten . dent of Lights, Superintendent | of | city pier and adv. agent, Street supervisor‘s. salary Interest on bonds, Sinking fund, Interest on notes, Police and watchmen, Lighting streets and pub lic buildings, Repairing, cleaning and watering streets and reparing board walk, Property repair and im provement, Maintenance of water de partment Maintenance of Conven tion Hall, 2500.00 ‘Maintenance . of fire de partment, 10,000.00 Operation and engineer of sewer disposal plant d [Stationery, prating and | advertising, 4,000.00 |Manual training . for insndind 1,000.00 {Redemption . of . school bonds $600.00 Interest on schooi bonds, 7502.50 {Board of Health Grand Army of the Re |_ public memorial services, Public Music Amusements, Contingent fund, Redemption of bonds, | $ 17175186 | Section 2. This ordinance shall take leffect immediatly, | Passed and ap {proved, February 11, 1919. | J. SPICER LEAMING, Mayor, JOSEPH H. HANES, WM. 8. SHAW, Commissioners. Attest: WM. PORTER 108 2. 16-1t. City Clark.

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The Jewish Welfare Board and the War Camp Community Service . will share equaliy in the expense« of tak , ing men in the Service to Wildwood for Sunday dinner. | This is believed to be the very best means of giving pleasure of the right sort and, at the xame time, of preserving morale that can be devised. . Jt in the touch of home life and of personal association that the men most need and desire. [It is really needed now more than ‘during the progress of the War. The scenery for the stage at the Pier has been nhipped from the studios in Kanas City. Now if we can but |persuade the fast freight to get out) of that siding at Podunk we will be! ‘uble to start our shows in a week or two. The new moving pict machine, secured from the War Department, has arrived and will be ret up as soon as the new electric equipment is in‘stalled. Our good friend, A. D. Reeves, will do his part Dame Rumor, after a brief rest, is ‘at hef work again. She has started] the story going that the War Camp ‘Community Service will not only leave | Gape May July 1, but will on that! date close up shop everywhere and go out of business. . It may not be very gallant to intimate that the Deme is talking thru‘ her hat, but the interest (of truth requires the statement that the War Camp Community Service has fixed no date for retiring from May, and as for going out of business throughout the country, there is not only no thought of it, but on the con(trary m determination to make itself [more and more useful to the country, as the needs of reconstruction point the way. — This statement may give the Dame a sour face, but, unfortun-| ‘ately, will hardly discourage her. There are still a number of those ‘small posters on hand to paste on Pad stating that you will give a lift to soldiers und sailors going your way. Just ask for them at the office. The announcement last woek that mn obstacle had been encountered in/ the lack of sufficient electric equipment at Convention Hall to carry the extra light needed for our new program of entertainment, had. hardly been published when the way was opened for its removal. . The City Council and the War Camp Community Cod d oE EC in the expense of puttine in the new equipment. This is certainly a good bargain for the City, inaamuch as it makes possible at a low cost an am ple supply of current for all possible needs. . It is also a good thing for the program arranged by the W. C. C.

S., which otherwise. could been carried out. One would he lacking in proper respect and recognition not to acknowledge the courtesy and cheerful cooperative spirit of the members of the Cape May City CommissionMayor Leaming and Couneilmen Hanes and Shaw-who have look» ed upon the problems of the War Camp Community Service as their problems and have helped to ~xolve them in a generous and intelligent manner. It is interesting, though somewhat confusing, to hear the different comments made by the men in the Service regarding their camps, camp life and the community. The other day a newly arrived "gob," in the course of a conversation {about things in general, said that it was common talk outside that the men located here were a "bunch of kickers" whom nothing would satisfy. He himself had come from active ervice on the southern const, but claimed that he had heard of the "kicking" proclivities of our men wherever he had been located. | ‘This is vot an enviable reputation, {and is har 1y Justified by the facts. | It is tru that there are "complainlers" in the service here, but it is just {as true that there are many of the ‘other sort who have fer=1 in their respective camps, and in the town, much to commend. i There has been, unquestionably, much complaint about the town itself, but on the other hand Cape May has ‘had, among the men stationed here, ‘honest and even eloquent defenders. They have spoken of the town‘shospitality, of the fatr and even generous {treatment they have received on all {rides and the efforts that have been ‘put forth by citizens to make thei linet as comfortable as posnible. sclfish and genfal temperaments ha

discovered that the people of Cape Mn} ure agreeable, hospitable and generous. . Others of other moods and qualities have found the opposite. . The situation, in its larger mupects, . om» phasizes the old truth that we find in our surroundings just about what we bring to them: It would be foolish to conclude from this that there are no exceptions to the rule referred to above. The most generous people in the world occasionally meet those in communities who will not respond in kind, but on the other hand return evil for good, Such instances, however, represent, ss indicated above, exceptions to the rule, It would be most unfortunate if the boys stationed here should allow themwelves to get into the habit of com plaining about their conditions, Complaints, growls and kicks are not the signs of a good soidier or of a reasonable or avccessful man. It is infinitely better to see the good side of men and things. The spirit of eriticiem is bound to degenerate into a spirit of cynicism, a spirit | which makes it impossible even to be fair; besides, the cynic is both unhappy himself and the source of unhappiness to others. The National Executive Committee of War Camp Community Service, in a recent fmportant communication to local committees, authorizes the following statement of policy: 1 The War Department has maked War Camp Community Service to increase its effoPts in behalf of soldiers, sailors and marines on leave in the various cities. This means that the general War Camp Community Service program will continue for several months and in many cases for a year or 18 months. 2 In addition to the above, local War Camp Community Service committen and representatives are asked to promote vigorously a program of community service for the homecoming and demobilized soldiers, sailors and marines. | This program abould consist of: (a) — Welcome Home Activition Returning groups of service men and the individual service men should be made to feel the welcome of the community. Concrete suggestions for welcoming soldiers have been sent to community organizers in the form of bulleting from time to time. (b) — Re-employment. There is an almost unlimited field for War Carp Community Service in helping to secure jobs for returning service men. . This work is to be done in cooperation with, and at the request of, the United | States | Employment Service. (e) — Absorption of returned Service men into the eocinl and civic life of the community. ----anoge-.-._.. PERCY d‘ROMTRA RETURNS, Th many friends of Perey d‘ Rom‘tra, a young son of Mrs. Sophia d‘ Romtra of Cape May Point, who has been actively engaged in the war theatre in France for upwards of fifteen months, were surprised and very much pleased to learn that he mrrived unexpectedly in Cape May on Sunday. His story was brief, however, for he was compelled to return to Lakehnist that evening. Young d‘Romtra, being but 20 years of age, volunteered shortly after war was declared and was mustered in on October bth, 1917. — He sought service in the gas and flame regiment and was sent to France almost im‘mediately. — That famous regiment was coliposed of but three companies ‘and was the only one of the kind in the entire American Army. | As a consequence its members were continually on the firing line and were in the thickest of the fighting, . 4‘. Romtra having seen service heavy at Verdun, Chateau Thierry, the Argon« no Foreat and finally at Sedan. . The casualties amounted to 50 per cent of the entire strength of the company, d‘Romtra arrived in New York on February 2nd, and went to Lakehurst, from which place he will be discharged He was the only Cape May County boy to choose the dangerous gus and firme regiment and he has a proud record. -_--sa gam IN MEMORIAM. __ GALLAHER-In loving memory of my dear wife Emma Gallaher who departed this life, February 19th, 1018. One year has passed and how we mins her, Friends may think the wound | has healed; Dat little do they kmow the sorrow That lies, within our hearts concenled. Sndly mised by het _BUSBAND, MOTHER, SISTER and BROTHER

ZOPHAR LAIRD DEAD, Many friends here heard with «orrow, this week, of the death of Zophar Laird aged 67 years, at his home in Philadelphin; on Tuewduy. He hus been a fumiliar figure here each summer for 85 years. | Those who huve been most interested in Cape May during this period and sccurtomed to its summer time activities will recall Mr. Laird in the earlier years, as a young man full of vigor engaging. himuelf in athletic | sports, particularly base ball and advancing Interent in these with his bosom friend, Harry Johne, who became his brother» fn-law later through the marriage of Mr. Laird and Miss Johne. It was in 1888 that the pick-up base ball toam which included Laird and Johns as its members and which met all offer of match games on Congress Hall lave, developed into . a regular . summer team under the patronage of the late Senator Reyburm, who afterward be came a member of Congress and the Mayor of Philadeiphia. Laird was a member of the team of 1887. which became widely known as the strongest amateur base ball team in the East. In those halcyon days special trains ran to Cape May frequently during the summer to bring base ball fans from Philadelphia and all along the line, to witness the great Cape May team, which occasionally took on major lea gue teams and showed them a good and busy time, sometimes winning the decision. Laird was one of the popular heroes of the old team. He was in his later years, quiet, self-contained and generally esteemed here and the news of his death was a great shock to the large number who knew him. pnmntactstepnemnved LUXURIES PROVIDED BY J. W. B. ON LINCOLN‘S BIRTHDAY The Jewish Welfare Board provided the soldiers and non commissioned Offieers of the Army Hospital with pound cake, smokes and . chocolates, ‘The boys did not expect these luxuries. ‘They were takn by storm when they raw the good eats staring them i th face, But they made a success» ful charge at thene friendly enemies and it wasn‘t long before every piece of food that was not on their menu was taken prisoner . and | swallowed. Although the supply was not as groat as the appetite of the eaters the J. W. B. will try to make the supply ms great on Washington‘s Birthday. o--iz come tram --- BUILD A BUILDING AT CAPE MAY ----44m --- BUILD A BUILDING AT CAPE MAY

DR. ELL B. WALES Funeral wervices of Dr. Eli B. Wat a faithful and: well | beloved physician, who. formerly. resided . at Cold ng, N. J., but of late years had made Philadelphia hal home, orurred from the Old Brick Presbyter» iun Church ut that place of which he wi & consistent member, and which was ever dear to his heart. . For a iod of twenty five years, he acted the cupacity of organist and choir master maintaining a high standard und sparing no effort nor labor to ate tain the desired end. Dering the period of President Har» rison‘s and the Hon, John Wanamaker‘s nofourn at Cape May Point during the summer months, they and thei familias oftimes worshiped at this an‘clent ahrine and upon several occa sions made kindly comment upon the efficiency of the quartette choir which ‘at that time conxisted of Dr. Elf B. Wales, Choirmaster, Miss Belle Miller, organist, Mrs. Eva M. Tolbert, Soprano, Mrs. Belle Hughes, Alto, William M. Cammings, Tenor and Mr. Horace ‘8wain, Bass. . Ever dear to his hoart [were the interest of this dear old church, and it has been learned that | during the period of his stay in Phila« |delphin, his devotion to the church ‘services have been continued. His ability as a physician while en skill and also to ministrations for the ‘comfort of those of his patients who Inlorigs what efreumatances would not permit of. | Respect for the memory of such m \man is deeply engraven, and ever will his name be spoken with affection. Rev. J. Dyke paid fitting tribute fn his remarks over the bier of | this. faithful one, at the services held Feb, 8th, 1919, in the Old Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, where he was laid to rest by the side of his father im the peaceful cemetery adjoining. Farwell, belovedEarth‘s probation passed Everlasting happinces Shall be thine at last. --- an t4m_TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: My wife, Hazel F. Madden having left my bed and board, 1 will no longer be responsible for any debts of har Pebroary fam, 1019 mo .~) ____/ LEON A. MADDEN. _w--en eam --- FORD TOURING CAR FOR SAME For Sale a Ford Touring Car im dition br eoad

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