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FIRST BLOOD TO THE GoBS The Jewish Welfare Board has tak: m the initiative step in the organiz« ing of the Army Hospital No. 11 Baseball Team, and promised to have he organization in trim to meet all omers by May first. The hospital was organized and started to lay games much sooner than it was pected, but the team must have . The season in just startng, and before long the Army Hoapi- ; Cac L333 Ensigns Chiquoines fast little team rom the Section Base took the Hospital outfit into camp on Thursday, pril 26th by a «core of 1Ito 3. The rame was played before a large and thusinstic crowd and the weather iscoursing music between innings. Lieut. Colonel Allen officially opend the season by pitching the first spiked shoes with resulting: indBility o "get started" on batted balls con P AT A feat. But five hits were registered by the sailors of Halls, the Army Hostai pitcher‘a delivery and had the team given him the support of which they are ordinarily capabic the result might have been very different. Lieut. Shuttleworth, Sgt. Graver, 8rd Baseman McCarey, Arthur and Hall were the stars of the army aggregation. Immpmomeei~hcanemmund Tenenbanm‘s Spring Sale of Shoes and Oxfords now going on. These uhoer must be sold to make room for var exmmer stock. $3.50 a pair.. adv SHTRUDER WAS FORGED T0 FFE

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PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL COM MITTEE VISITS CAPE MAY On April 24th, the Army and Navy Hospitals of this district were visited by Mrs. Feustman and Mrs. Fleisher of Philadelphia. | These ladies | composed the Hospital Committee . sent here by the Jewish Welfare Board in Army Hospital and the giving out of smokes and sweets to the patients at noon. After lunch the Committee was taken to the Naval Hospital, where they visited all the | wards, giving . out mokes and sweets, smiles and words of cheer to every patient. The one half hour before the Indies departed for Philadelphia, was spent at the City Baseball Park, where the Section Base Baxcball Team happened to be playing their first game of this season against the Army Hospital No. 11 Team. ---»egm --- Ly Cole co d "Own a Home for Your Children‘s ~ Sake.". Ambitions may be realized in your children if you have the home . environment which transmits to . them the ambition. The basic need is a home end the.semse of shelter and serity which goes with ownership. ‘4f there -were no other arguments worth while men would be more than justified in building and owning their own homes for the children‘s sake. Like father like son! . ‘The next Sndapiannaid will not be a home-owning | lone if the present generation doesn‘t | |show the benfits of home owning and | ‘inculcate the home-owning ambition. | | If you are determined that John and Mary shall have a fair show to make igood on your ambitions for them, get them | tucked away in a good homea home that is hub of the universe; a very sacred spring of inspiration and ‘a very tangible example of the pru‘dence of thrift. If you | would | do your part toward making your children‘ future secure in a mation . of home owners-BUILD NOW. becerupron.. o eommprrevi STATE OF NEW JERSEY | Le Cri e | AN ACT relating to advertising m| jtowns, townships, boroughs, . villages Jand other municipalities except cities, |of this State. \ BE IT ENACTED by the Senate Jand General Assembly of the State jof New Jersey: | 1. All ordinances or other public notices which any — town, . township, beraugh, village or other municipality except cities, of this State, may . by law be required to advertise in a newspaper, shall be published in at Sinnidinnnnns ao antLiie totadiesialineddt culating in the said municipality, and [p fburidbadiondbexdois an anl printed and fortorabehs in the said . municipality (then in at least one newspaper print. €4 and circulating in the county in (Which the said municipality is located. | "2 This act shall take effect im-, mediately. Approved April 15, 1919, ____cogge+3 U DIT B THE soaX oF ARC R smgr iy» Judge Wesley 0. Howard Romance, Tragedy and Biblical History Interwoven The Story of a Fascinating Woman on — Civilitation,, g NEW york HERALD TH Su day. May 4th -see-_ Petition mgmant Lk A a jon on sale at Star and wave Station Department ery

Meiiiommnmmmmmmmmnn ART AND WAGNER APPEAR IN BIG HILL AT ARMY HOSPITAL A very fine program consisting af | ve good vundeville acts were given the Red Cross Hut adjoining the rmy Hospital by the Jewish Wel are Bourd, lust Monday, April 28th, 919. The show was opened by "Tatnell" hoa novelty strong act. | Tatnell could take 4 inch mugel‘s and twist hem with his hind. . He broke apart eavy chains with his arms and chext nd performed other featurex that had he nodience of more than 600 people pell-bound. Next on the | program | appeared | Sam Bucken" in a singing, talking omedy. His funny irish sayings and mgs made m hit with every one. Mins Drennon | in | "Singing and ancing" followed, and made a big | iit with the boys with her. clever lancing. The "Laferty Sisters" in . singing, lancing and changes were very good ind appealed to all. The show was cloned by Hart and ugner, "That Comedy Pair" and hoy were the big hit of the evening. These clever two chape were formery the leading comedians in the play ‘Going Up," and they had very little ouble keeping the audience in a loud proar of laughter through their enire act. Taking the performance from start o finish, it was one of the best that played at the Army Hospital.this sense4gme.___. A DAINYY CLAM Baymen of Lower Township are in turmoii, owing to the fact that the market price of . claims is steadily fropping. The present price is shout 18 per thousand. — Which the clam ds were first utilized, there product old as low as $125 per thousand. low they are $18.00, and the clammer ority "4 Rist w business or professional men. They are highly indignant at this duction to a more normal price, nd in all probabilities, will store ir clams until they are at least orth their weight insold aeanTERCENTENARY CELEBRATION ‘The Tercentenary of the Landing of he Pilgrim Fathers and the other ly coloniste, and of such events as first | Legislative Assembly . in merica that | mark the | beginnings nd the developing of the free institions of English-speaking America to be celebrated this year. The celebration will begin in Serocby, England, where the Pilgrims first thered and in Richmond, Va. signaizing the tercentenary of the meet ing of the first Legislative Arsembly. Three countries will directly participate, America, Great Britain and Holland. — A commission of sixty-five has been ppointed by Governor Edge for New ersey, Aaton W. Hand, of this city, being one of the mppointees. Meet the Home Merchant He knows YOUR needs. He knows the NEEDS OF THE TOWN. Youll get BETTER TREAT: MENT and BETTER G00D8 in this town than you will anywhere else, | 223 (ja IPO‘ | Fk vo d

‘o) a ho) (exe tele" SOME HISTORICAL FACTS GATHIERED FROM A HOTEL REGISTHR AND NEWSPAPER "Way back in 1838, Cape Inland, is Cape May wan then called, the node of travel to this resort was by steumbout down the Delaware and wtage line over land. — An examination of the V. 8. Gazette pubs ished in Philndelphin, during thit yeur shows that among the stexmons vhich plied between Philadelphin and Cape Mhy was the Telegraph chos Captain: waw Wilmon Whildin. . There appears an nccount of & rip made on July 17, of that year which shown that the steamer loft Philadelphia at eight in the morning and nrrived at the | steambost tharf ot three-thirty. — ‘The pmmengers then rode gerom lower Cape ny to Cape Island in cnrringes. . The writer of the newspaper leter st that time shows that the largest hotels were Miller‘s Congrom all, which bad one hundred and eighty guests, Ladium‘s Mansion House, which had one hundred and seventy-five guests, and other er houses. . It also gives the information that a ball was given in r Mansion House, on July 22, and another ball was given at Concos Hall, Thursday, July 25. Another steamer which alyo made the trips p mas the Ohio, in comand of Captain Lewis Davis, The stearner was owned by the Citizen Union Line, and left Dock St., wharf every Tuesday, Thurday and e S m ic 3 Ce ct o a ings for the return trips. . Advertising shows that the round trip, inmes of the visitors and a mention on the bottom of the page of that ball. — ‘This record of the Mansion House also shows that the ery first arrival for the er, late in June, was Mrs. Quitman, of Natcher, Mississippi, and her family. . Mrs. Quitman was the wife of General John A. Quitman who, eight years later was to lead a division of General Scott‘s army into Mexico City, and thus bring to a conTuxion the war of 1847 between the United States and Mexico. — Genral Quitman was afterwards Governor of Misissippi, a Candidate for United States Senator, and in 1252 was put forward as a Candidate for President for the Presidential election, by the Southern Democrats, but Franklin Pierce, of New Hampshire, carried off the prize. Other distinguirhed southern visitors came to Cape May during suwmer and succeeding summers and formed a nucleas of visitors hich made Cape May nationally known throughout the United States General Quitman‘s family came to Cape May for several years ollowing that summer and were boarders at the Minion House. This hotel was situated on a site which is now the northerly mide of Wash ington Street between Jackson and Perry Streets. ‘The hotel was . burned in 1855 and the register is preserved up to the vear 1851. During the latter years of its existence, the proprietors were Richard S. Ludiam and William Hooper. | lo 1851 Mr, Ludiam was an Assembly» man from Cape May County, that being the year that Cape Island was incorporated into a city. — Mr. Hooper was sheriff of Cape May County from 1856 to 1859, and hacd several years represented Cape May City in the Board of Chosen‘ Freeholders. On the Mansion House register of arrivals for Wednesday, July. 16, 1839, are these names: . Richard H. Townsend, Miss E. A. Hart, Mims A. Stites, F. D. Edpounds and Miss Jemima R. Smith. all of Philsdelphin. This Richard H. Townsend, however, was a native of Cape May County who emigrated to Philadelphia and became a prominent physician, and a man of conniderable wenlth, and a writer remembers seeing him, then a man of ahout 80 years of | nge, at the | Stockton Hotel, during the munmer of 1861 or 1892, — One of his sons was Eugene Townsend, who was under the second Cleveland Administration post master of Philadelphis, and another son, Ridhard H. Townsend, Jr., married a Miss S-ott. cu ghter of the late Congresinen | William L. Scott, of Erie, Pa. — His daughter, Miss Mathilde Townsend, is new the wife of | United | States | Senator | Robert Goclet — Gerry, — of Rhode Island. On July 18, 1839, the register shows among the arrivals, General Jackson, of Tennemee, and it was probrtily: Andrew Jackson, who had retired from the Presidency two years earlier. — He was then living at The Hermitage, near Nadhwille, ‘Tenn, — Philadelphians who reginterd that day were: Joseph Field, Miss Mary Morgan, Dr. O. H. Partridge, F. B. Lefevre, E. Claghorn, Ward B. Haseltine, Thomas H. Bunting, Hugh Doyle, ledy (rife was usually written lady) and daughter, Phillip Physick, P. 8. Randolph, Arthur Boker, John Haldeman, Peter Logan, 1. V. Williampon, Heury Budd. Willism 8. Vaux and D, Lendreth. Philip Physick was probably the great grandfather of Dr. Emlen Physick, who has been deceased but three years and mwho resided at Cape May from early boyhood. — Peter Logan was sheriff of Philsdelphis and waa the great grandfather of Peter Logan Bockius, of the present day, and grandfather of the Misses Bockius, now residing on Perry Street, this city. — Isaish V. Willismson wa the founder of the trade school hat Philadelphia of that name, ( LEWIS T. STEVENS The U. S. Gasette, of Friday, July 26, 1839, contuing a letter under date of Cape Island, July 24, 1835, which says in part: ‘"There are numerous private carriages here, but the means of conveyance ure principally Jemey wagons, driven by their owners, who though not in want of the profit, seem . to have turned . haskmen more for pleasure than business — On one occasion, having selected the best looking vehicle, with a remarkable, intelligent looking driver, 1 fell into eonve jon n this very subject, | We hid observed a silly upstart fellow, a passenger in a neighborhood. v whom 1 knew to be illy able to afford, honestly, his board | char berating | his driver in io ride manner for some | fancied — sti expect. — ‘That young mum little thinks,‘ said our goride, "tha ix instead of hacking about hore, could give his team away and set off on a yeur‘s tour of Europe, without feeling the expenne," ""While talking, we were passing a splendid farm, of perbaps a hundred acres, improved with a beautiful dwelling | and | vapucious barns the grounds were well stocked with grin, potatoes, sugar boct, frait, etc., and a field of the largest corn we bave seen this season in short, so fine a prospect as to attract universal admiration, and enquiry: as to whose it was. "* ‘That,‘ said the driver, mith a glow of satisfaction and proper pride, ‘is my farm,‘ "