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^ Forms close promptly at 5 P. M. each Thursday VOL. 66 — NO. 6 CAPE MAY CITY, NEW JERSEY SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1921 SUBSCRIPTION *$1 !H>' PER teas A. LEON EWING, MANAGE . ■ "

PERSONAL 1 MENTION INTERESTING PERSONAL PARA- % GRAPHS OF THE COMING AND GOING OF CAPE MAY VISITORS AND RESIDENTS. Miss Mary Shields spent the week ^ end at her home here. n Mrs. Rosetta Knox who nas been ^ visiting relatives here has return# to g her home in Barrington. f Miss Catherine Swain who is spend- t ing the winter in Atlantic City, was ^ in Cape May a few days last week. , Mrs. J. L. Kehr left Cape May s Wednesday and will undergo a surgi- * cal operation at the Jefferson Hospi- t tal, Philadelphia. Hiss Esther CNeil," of PhUadelphia, was the guest of Mrs. W. M. • Cassedy, of Hughes street, over the * week end. _ t "Miss Ruth Fleishauer and Miss ^ Madeline Church, of Philadelphia, g have been spending a few days with f Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Fleishauer of Cold ^ Spring. Ronald Quidort who has been spend- ( ing some time in Florida, has returned to his home, 37 Jackson street. On Tuesday evening, Miss Ann Stetezer entertained a number of j ' friends at her home on Hughes street | Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Cohen, of j 1 Philadelphia, were visitors in Cape ^ May this week. Summers Lloyd, conductor on the Reading \Express, is back on the job 1 after a two weeks' vacation. Sidney ' Goff filled his job while he was off. Win. L. Essen and Jay Mecray mo- ' to red from Philadelphia in a New Ford Sedan recently. Daniel Focer was in Philadelphia on Thursday on business for the Ford Service Station. John T. Hewitt was in Philadelphia " on business this week. J. P. Cox, of the Palace Theatre, was attending to business affairs in Philadelphia on Monday. Mrs. Solomon Teitelman is spending several days with relatives in Camden this week. William King, a pronfiinent summer cottager here was down during the Week in the interest of his several properties. Mrs. Charlotte Lengert was a guest under the parental roof this weekPilot Albert Bennett was greeting old friends recently. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ware were visiting friends over the week end. John T. Harned, a popular Camden attorney, was transacting business here one day this- week. Mrs. L. J. Elder, of Philadelphia, was looking over her Broadway property the first of the week. Earl Hughes after being absemj from here since last summer is taking a Vacation with his family at their Washington Street cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Cohen are i Cape May for a few days. MASONS HAVE MEETING Eighty-five masons were present at the semi-monthly meeting of Cape Island Lodge No. 30, F. and A. M. held on Tuesday night. Five new members were given the Master Mason degree.

PAVING ( BADLY NEEDED WASHINGTON STREET SHOULD BE PAVED FORM CITY HALL TO LANDING TO CONNECT NEW COUNTY ROAD. Strong effort should be made by the tc find ways and means to lay n hard surface ,'n Washington Street from Franklin to Schellenger's Landing. Since the completion of the new County Jload this ™ thoroughfare will be the main one used for an entrance into Cape May, n' its termination is the Bridge at * Schellenger's Landing. Washington street is certainly in bad shape and " the laying of a hard roadbed will " be permanent, and will require no a yearly fund for up-keep. Schellen- °' ger's Landing is one of Cape May's g many beauty spots and what a shame - 1 to have the tourists ideas changed on " the way through the towu. This re- P sort is unexcelled for its location and has a macadamized road leading to 81 each entrance, but the stretch of road v between the Landing and the City is the missing link. Wildwootl ° and Atlantic City probably get more Cl 1 automobilists than any of the other 11 i resorts. Why ? Because, when tourI ist and excursionist take their fre- " ! quent trips, naturally they remember " i where they found the best roads and 0 most pleasant driving. Wildwood and a Atlantic City do everything in their J to attract the eye of the travelers and "Good Roads" is one of their slogans. Cape May could have a their share if an effort was made to keep them. * CALENDARS FREE i t A. L. Ewing has issued his annual t ( Phone directory calendar which will t be distributed free of charge. Can t be had by applying at the Star and c [ Wave office. . SLIGHT FIRE AT BOARDWALK r i ( A slight fire yesterday at dinner < f time partially destroyed about twenty : feet of the boardwalk, west of Deca- < 1 tur street. A strong wind was blow- 1 ing at the time, and the prompt and < t efficient service of the local fire de- " partment prevented what might hove I been a serious conflgration. The 1 cause of the fire is unknown. ' BUILDING NEW COTTAGE ] j Contractor Albert Faulkner start- < 3 ed the erection of a new cottage on 1 the corner of Howard and Hughes street. The building is of the Bunga- I I low style, four bed rooms, two on sec- ! ond floor and two on first floor. A living room across the front, dining v ' room, pantry and kitchen. ? — »— r Millions of people who object to food prices will never blister their own hands on a hoe handle. CHURCH OF THE ADVENT Rev. Paul Starter ant Howe, Ph.D, Rector SUNDAY SERVICES lt 8:00 A M. Holy Communion 10:30 A. M. Second services and ser- ^ mon. 8 8:16 P. M. Sunday School. ^ 4:06 P. M. Evensong

Fordson Tractors Reduced $625.00 Detroit Order now for Spring Delivery Olivpr Plows $130, F. O. B. Cape May FOCER & MECRAY Dealer* fer Cape May County . v ; * - I- ■

CAPE MAY COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Monthly Meeting Held at Cape May Court House. Mayor Champion Gives Data on Growth of County.

On Friday evening of last week s the Gape May County Chamber of t Commerce met at the High School d auditorium at Cape May Court House, where they were royally entertained d under the direction of Deputy Sheriff a Rosenbaum. This was the first meet- t ing of the Chamber at Court House I and if you ask the members for their d opinion you may learn that the dele- t gates will want to go to the county t seat for each meeting. A delightful * musical program was rendered, the principal soloist of the evening was t Mrs. Jesse D. Ludham, who is the pos- e sessor of a rich and well-trained c Augustus Hilton gave many details t of the great fishing industry of the i county, while William Tyler gave a % teresting details of the banking indus- j tries. William E. Haffert gave much information of the printing and pub- f lishing interests, while the "Growth ( of the Community" was handled in an ( able manner by Mayor Champion, of , Ocean City, and his address will be , found in this article. j The February meeting will be held at South Dennis. CHAMPION'S ADDRESS Forty-three years ago, in the year 1877, two boys of tender age, paid their first visit to Cape May. I say tender age, as they might not care at this time to have us check up against the possible number of their birthdays. These boys, fresh from the country, with the hayseed clinging to them, arrived on the excursion steamer "The City of Bridgeton," at Sea Grove (now Cape May Point). After counting their change (a more less tedious process) they decided that being in a hurry they would proceed to walk the remaining three miles to the end of their journey. There they got the first glimpse of the ocean, and the ocean appears to have been about all they saw of interest at Cape May on that visit, as they est at <_ape may on inai visii, as uic \

promptly went in to bathe and did not come out until too late to catch the . VQ back home. | V/> They reluctantly made their way back by train next day, however, and fails to record whether they Ml stayed in the ocean ail night or not. £[, In any event the trip made such an impression upon the mind of one of jgf those boys that he promptly got to- Vf gether his worldly possessions and returned to Cape May with them under his arm and he has remained in the Q; county ever since. M( It is barely possible he may be in ft, i this audience tonight, and equally ft possible that you may be looking at W him now. Vr Cape May City at that period was G1 ■ Che only seashore resort in the coun- Q ty, all of the rest of the forty miles M of ocean frontage was in the virgin ft. state and uninhabited, except by a few ft . brave men engaged in the work of pa- ft trolling the beaches for the purpose y of saving life from the perils of the sea. O Even these men had their perma- Q nent homes elsewhere and only re- M mained on the beaches during the actual time required in the performance ft of their duties. W If time wouldpermit I would like y for Che benefffofthose present whose Q acquaintance with Cape May County /A is of recent date, to prove to them M conclusively what has long been a ft well established fact in the minds of Yj£ those of us who were privileged to yj reside here unmolested by modern G civilization — that Cape May County -G • was the original and only site of the Q Garden of Eden, and that the serpent M that is reputed to have entered in a must have been what is now known as ft the Jersey mosquito. ft r These facts may explain in great C measure the secret of our success in C making the desert bloom as a rose M etc. S But I am expected to be brief and shall only touch the high spots neces-

sary for the sake of comparison bethe period with wfiich we are dealing and the present. At that time the pursuit of ones bread in Cape May County was among the least of their worries, due nature's lavish endowments. The beaches, a barren waste of sand of little real estate value, also the bays and meadows adjacent therewere the natural haunts of the wild fowl, fish and shell-fish. The flat sands were natural incubathat outrivaled anything that science has ever invented in the matter of producing bird life. Fish were so large and so plentiful . that men were deprived of the pleasure of exaggerating the truth. There was no such axiom known at "Fish make brains; also liars." Clams were so abundant they were glut on the market at 10 and 15 cents per hundred, and oysters were correspondingly plentiful and inexpensive. And so we might go on indefinitely, if it were necessary to further H. C. L. an unknown quantity. To what extent these things have passed away, all of you are familiar; so we charge them off to profit and loss and consider briefly what we ■ have gained in the meantime. Increase in Real Estate Values/' 1 The year of 1877 the total valuation of the county was $2,385,000 . Capp May, the only resort, had a valuation of 700,000 . And the balance of the en- : tire County $1,685,000 ' Seven years later (tte year of 1885) we find that five "hew resorts had > come into existence (Cape May Point, 1 1878), (Sea Isle, 1882), (Ocean City, - 1884), 'Anglesea, 1885), (Holly Beach ; 1885). These resorts being in their f infancy/ liuwever, had not Continued on page 8

WEEKLY EVENTS OF THE BASKET BALL CAGE

CAPE MAY HAS EASY TIME WITH BURLINGTON AMERICAN LEGION FIVE. I Last Saturday evening the Cape < May five regained their eyes after a ! \ series of reversals and swamped the i Burlington, N. J. team, by the onesided score, of 53-28. Cape May started off from the jump and on three goals by Lemmon ! in the space of a couple of minutes , jsoon had a comfortable lead which j . they never lost. , The local boys all scored heavy due j | to some snappy passing and without ( | and trouble could have run the score higher. The line-up: Cape May F. F. G. Pts Camp, forward 6 3 15 Shields, forward 2 0 I | Lemmon, centre 6 1 13 ^ . Little, guard 6 0 12 | O'Shaughnessy, guard 4 1 9 . 1 Totals 24 5 53 ! ! Burlington F. F. G. Pts 1 Ryan, forward 8 4 20 Steward, forward 0 0 0 ■ C. Gililce, center 0 3 8 ' Sprowels, guard Oil 5 E. Gillice, guard 2 0 4 " Totals 10 8 28 r Referee — Dorner. t CAPE MAY LOSES ; TO WILDWOOD i e Cape May journey ed_ to Wildwood last Wednesday evening and lost a fast and rough game to the Wildwood five, the final count being 84-19. Cape May F. F. G. Pts 0 Shields, forward 0 0 0 Camp, forward 3 0 6 0 Lemmon, centre 2 0 4 - Little, guard 4 19 O'Shaughnessy, guard 0 0 0 0 — — — ) Totals 9 1 19 d Wildwood F. F. G. Pts t, Delaney, forward 5 2 12 ft Schott, forward 6 0 12 h Esling, centre 2 15 Gulick, guard 10 2 Wood, guard 113 Carter, guard 113 Totals 15 4 34

_ PEERLESS A. A. TONIGHT The fast Peerless A. A. of Philadelphia, who defeated the local five several weeks ago to the tune of 29-19, j will be the attraction this evening, which promises to be a good game. WILDWOOD, HERE TUESDAY On next Tuesday the Wildwood will play the locals on the Convention Hall floor, the series now stands even at two and with enthusiasm increaswith each game, a fast game may expected. TROOP 2 WINS On Monday evening Troop 2 defeated Troop 1 in a spectacular basket- , game. Two extra periods were | needed to decide the game. The ball was in Troop 2's hands most of the , time but was wasted in poor shots. 41 The final score wos 13 to. 9 in favor of Troop 2. I It is well to note that Troop 2 coni sists of the smaller boys, they being I outweighed by about 15 pounds per player. One of Troop 2's stars was I unable to play due to a broken finger. The Boy Scout breeding was promi- ! nent throughout the full course of the game, as no quarrels of any sort ocTroop 2 now claims the Boy Scout ) Championship of South Jersey. The line-up was as follows: i Troop 2 Troop 1 i Oscar Tenenbaum Dudley Brianfc 1 forward Horace Church William Lynch s forward D WHlliam Stidworthy Curtis Harris 6 centre 4 Calvin Spencer Harry Lemmon 9 x guard D Kenard Brown Oscar Springer guard 9 2 — ^ NOTICE 2 g Why worry about coal when you can get good dry wood delivered promptly. Order now before bad „ weather sets in. Call Keystone 807-A-ll or drop a card to Walter P. ~ Taylor, Cape May, N. J.

I PAINT UP TIME FOR AUTOMOBILES S Just now. Mr. Average Motorist, you ca n spare the use of your automobile more Aft conveniently than at any other time of the year. W You have your. engine looked over quite often to guard against depreciation. But ftft nothing will cut the value of your car more than lack of paint. The body will rust MM £ft and the wheels crack. CrO We offer the best automobile paint on the market. xQSf £m Let us show you how you can paint your automobile yourself. ^ I I S. IJOSLIN LUIVIBER company 1 ^5 SUPERIOR SERVICE IN HOME BUILDING p WILDWOOD NEW JERSEY ||