Reduce! Trolley Fares 96 Tickets for $6 16 Tickets for $1 8 Tickets for 60c

Bound Trip Tickets to Sewells Point or Steamboat Landing 16 cents.

VOLUME XXXIV.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J M WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1898.

NO. 16

Every Night this Week-Free Vaudeville Show at Sewells Point-Beginning at 8.30

WITETHM Mm What It Going On Down Where i * the Tide Fknre. THE HJTABT MAH TRIUMPHS

Mud of gnoM, m «• put. Take, Ok taka a flru* Man. Ooe food kl« before 70a so. Wbcre bnace ironed you fondly blow. The maid at (race* calm aerate. Prepane to mount with grace of a qucec (

n. Is Ike only pebble ute neacit with the glrla Mo maU bow many men a young lady may bare 00 bar atring, aa noon aa ibe lid with gold atripea and braaa buttons pots la I, all Iba rest |

* natty flu ttng bathing dreaa. Mlm KaU b a gueat of Mr. and Mir. Heubee Cohen, on Ocean ttreet, and U greatly enjoying bar Cape May rlait. Mtaa McClure, the bright young 1 paper writer, u oae of the falreal and happleat of lady bathers. Graceful, agile, and free u a bird, aba enters heartily bio tba enjoyment of aeaside

It weajt Jorely day b July a • birds Were atpging In the c.

ary aaai waa full, ao were some of the occupants, but when a pretty girl boarded the ear, all the meo arose to offer bet a seat, and It was a loraty day in July and the birds ware staging b tbs epuntiy. It waa atlU a lorely day b July and tba birds were elill singing b the country- Down the trolley road tba oar waa still gamboling merrily on and this time came to a atop b front of the Stockton. An aged lady boarded the oar, but

not put forth 1 do not want to put up aste an aftamooB watch a lot of boys baring a pi

future. Whit they do ws "team, and any effort to pan off aggregation of kids under be name ball barn will meet with the tale it deTrue, they did manage to win by in yeelcrdaj from Allan lie OUy, who hare been playing erery day, and who

that Atlantic Qty walloped ral weeks ago IB to agab Monday 5 to 2. will do more to hart Gape May than good, and I only hope the OUy Council will ace that their only aim - to make money.* Several people here called at t Ute offlee and exprtaaad their bdl aUon at Urn way the way they we mated last Saturday, and aaaeried tk they would poaUlTtly not attend any

Aa for their ally who la trying to get the public to buy the gold bricks ao lered, bis supply of axout he gala personal and trim to ba real dereUah. Foot fallow, dad mots diTTy, but tba attend, is so email that U waa not forth- , ao It makes Urn real orom ir advice, and don’t worry ao bout your expected prnBta. kicking public are not gulag to ba led away by any personal attacks, efforts to make cxeaecs by call

to draw crowds to tba grounds. Use Wavx would ba glad to aaa a city, it would ba a good the present outfit of pot buntars are only a subject of laughter,

this city,

mu SHMEEWm Items of a Personal Nature which will Interest AIL THE COTTAGE AID HOTEL GUESTS

bountifully re warded by delightful xephyrs from off to.joUy

Jobs F. JoUne la a prominent PbUaaast bare. Mrs. & a llobie, of Mew Mexico, Is a late arrival at Ibe Gbawood. Mrs. M. K. Busch, a popular Maw toefc lady, b slaying at tba Colon! Mis. and Mia. Gaorge B. CadwaUadsr are enjoying lift at the C Mr. W. a Bulimia b among arilrah at Carroll Villa, from Phlladel-

kla-

Herbert L. Kirk waa among Phi

tonby. A vary sUreotlve young lady staying 1 the Gbawood b Mbs L. Mound, of Newark. G. W. Daaa. accompanied by her daughter Mbs Dean, b a lata arrival Star VUb. Mr. J. Bandalboa Challen, of Philadelphia, fa a prominent visitor at tba Carroll VUb. George F. Calhoun, of Philadelphia.

at the Windsor.

Grey, daughter of Attor-acy-General .8. H. Grey, b a gueat of

Mbs Bela Be well.

Mlm KUa Pertanpine, of Philadelphia, dsya with bar aunt, Mlm A. C. O'Toole a charming Phlla-

elar where they have appeared, and ere delphb gtri arrived at the Lafayette have coasiderabla loaal pride. ^ night with ba maid.

Mrs. Harry Morph et, wife of the well

reived at Ihs Colonial bet night for aa ndefialte stay. Mu Georgs de Ford.

logs Bprtoga. M T.. b situated tamong

W. a McCormick, Philadelphia Die trim Passenger Agent for the Philadelphia cad Beading Bailroad b quartered

at the Lafayette.

- mloeatia the buriaem did ordentowa la Wm. S Collier, present Collier b recreating and slaying

at tba LafyfeUe.

Col. D. B- Morphy, brigade Inspector ! the National Guard of Mew Jersey, compacted by Mu Murphy, b reel-

ing at Cape May.

Mu £. V. Jackson, of Mew York, as among last night’s arrivals at the lock ton. Mu Jocksoa passed all of

at eaaenp there.

Mu W. G. Matthew, and Mbs Matthews, of Philadelphia, came to the

derot the rammer. Mr. end Mu O. M. McPherson end daughters, of Columbia Heights, Washington. D. C.. are •pending the summer ; Cepe May Point A party of prominent Philadelphians to arrive at the Windsor last night were Z- Graves, Mlm Abbte Graves and Nalaon Z Graves. Mr. and Mu Geo. B. Oadwallader. cry prominent Oamdeollea are reant arrivals at CerroU YUlm where they will Mr. and Mu G. f. Drew, of Mew sraey avenue, Waehlogton, wl at Atlantic Cfay. wtU rialt Cape May befort they return Among Germantoen realdenb who igblered at tba Windsor yesterday ere Mr. Edward LeBautiller and Mr. Edward H. LeB luUller. E. H Godahvlk b with a party with U seven ly-foot naptha launch at Cape May Point They are enjoying boot the fishing beaks. Mr. and Mu Horace F. McCain, of ennanlowo. with Mbs Marguerite and Master Kkcbard, arrived at the Colonial

tacg visit

the Gbawood b He oocapii ■ a chair of chemistry at the University of Peoneylvaaia. Rev. Father T. J. Cooney, eat clergyman of Bt. Louis, Mo., has rived at the Lafeyette and will remain tbs greater pert of the season. Morris B. Ayres, a well knows real dent of Salem, N. J., has joined Mu Ayna at Carroll Villa. Mu Ayree baa beaa Ul. but b: Senator Herbert W. Johnson, of Camwill occupy apartments at the

Moore’s Windsor Hotel, Philadelphia Aberdeen Holel, Mew York, and fate with OoL William L Elkina, of Philadelphia. Mr. and Mu & E. Warner and nleee, Mbs Jennie Warner, all of Phils-

arrive this w

id will

mlly will a

accompanied by Mrs. Hacley Jones, of Littfa Falla, M. Y„ arrived et the Star VUb bat night, where they will remain

Mu D. W. blhcll, of Baltimore, arrived at tbs tooktoe Monday night, ual season's visit. T1 aowa la tba prominent social circles of tbs Moanmeaial City. They pass pari of every season here. Mlm Cathell all the events while here of admireu Dr. Cathell will join them about once a week. Mr. Horatio Pierson, of Franklin, rills, M. J., b staying with hb father. Overveer of the Poor David W. Pierson. Mr. David Pierson, who b in enfeebled health, b one of the oldest citizens of town, and b the only member of first City Council of thb city, which met b 1831. now alive. He baa been Overseer of the Poor, with the exorpof two . years, for nearly thirty

yaau

A pleasant aalllog party was given Monday afternoon by Mu David G. fa summer occupying cottage and catartaintng largely. Baird were Mrs. John B. Baird, Mr. Edward Baird, Mr. Julian Baird, of Bt Paul; Mr. Thomas Crosier, of Colorado; Mbs Ethel Bpoooer, Mbs Mamie Courtright. Mr. Edwia Oourtright, Mr. William Oourtrigbt, Mlm Helen Baird. Mr. Dow Baird, Mr. Allen Baird and Addle Baird. Dgrcasman Lenta, of Ohio, Cape May for the first stme enjoying (be ds(lgbla of a seaside resort. He firs an toe ocean on Saturday, and It 1 such a delightful Congreeeman remained in the surf for

a for

Mu Leals, and has arranged eby et the Cape for a month. Con•man LeoU greatly resemble* William Jennings Bryan and—but not 00 of the resemblance—b a st advocate of tree silver, having been ted from a radical ‘’gold bug.’* Democrat, and was elected to the Fifty fifth Congress by a plurality of 100 over hb Be publican opponent, David Kembfa Watson. Peer Asron. Poor Aaroe 1 You eeem to hare 1 ! trouble with things that do not oern you? There used to be a ptec ir paper erery day bet season regardthe parilton which baa been ext. I would anggeat that they call pavilion "Uttb Aaron," because you have shown so much lore for it and hare written such entertaining pieces cere log it, that 1 think the city should •how that they appreciate your kind. It for you.

Not baring rial ted Cape May foraa

The first 00c deserving

icnuongb the scarcity of Mosquitoes •pell them with a capital, they were huge and rieioua. They must hare gone after the Spaniards! Let i that they will not atop chasing

them thb aide of Spain. The Improvement Com

le dating back to 1830. It b very In-

Cape May Point b a till there, aa 1 mnd the other day. We stopped i route to examine the old elephant’s 1

base ball olub. 1 would like to atk If you attended the game and saw the If you did, did you pay your quarter or did you go in free! If you in free, you deserve credit for standing by thorn. If you paid your iy, yon bare a right to complain the

ambition; show that you

as you walk along, as we do not want the public to think you era deed. We all know that you have aiph a lot in yon. If it could only ba got out. 1 am aorry. Aaron, bat I really cannot

your favor. 1 know I oould spend the of the day writing of your good qualities, bat time b too precious to

ben you write anything c the pavilion, oall It ’’Ll ' as that will ba Us name la

M Point. Her. Wm. Porter Lee, of Ocnneratrired at the Cape Heuee and b going to May during the Oonvtn"on. • The Carlton Hall b looking lino, barand cleaned before potior the Convention that b to atari that taka place at the Cariton every evening are wonderfully well

day. The Philadelphia Preaa, which me devoted u thh relay a arod-off with r a finely displayed headline. The Philadelphia Inquirer followed Is space with one and three-

are baring here. Ilia Bal-

flae view of sixty

miles la all directions from the house Just beyond hb msjenty. Be 1010 to do that onoe In the every year. On our way to Lafc whose name tells of the pure blossoms floating upon It, we gathered a bouquet of wild rows full blown, half biown and the prettiest pick buds; feathery pussy, willow grassea, holly with green betries instead of lb Christmas red ones; tiny

yellow flowers (wh

discovered, somehow) and delightful bay bares; which should ba fragrant for bureau drawers Why not? A most acceptable addition flowers was made (for a conaid by Mary Taylor, colored, Bring near the '“has sweet, satisfying faven-

Sbe also

Id not add them to our treasure, b a fresh egg laid away with the lav

grids for year* to Where does Mary Taylor lire? Take te trolley to the Seaside Home Cape May Point. Get out there at for her. She b very much allre

found.

may lire on Cloud street ap proacbed thto’ Band Lane? There u always a -fine sea breeae at ■a Point and while enjoying it try some of the creamy ice cream. If possible 10c the Hr public come steam tug 1 to her landing. Wt were thirsty and, looking up, mi '■Soft Drinks"—whatever they are, stai iag at us. It sounds vulgar, but poea! bly not, when understood. We do not “drink" —

tway with. • Daring the last two weeks a large cumber of aheepahead have been caugbt Cold Spring Inlet, and It is thought they will be pleoUful there la a abort It b the height of the ambition a! almost all salt water anglers to oalch operation of whfak requires strong ts Okies as well as 1 great ‘cal of akill.

The usual

ton last evenbg and was attended by the cottage colony The young people have charge of these bops and give oompany gathered, an enlivening appearauoc which has a tendency to drew the older risitort about the piuxzaa watch them In their pleasure. A sport in which the gay cavalier I the see indo’ges is gunning. Every morning the ’’early bird" yields up his

sc beach, chatting, street toey found themselves behind a watering cut for laying city dust. At the critical moment water was turned on the fair maidens, quite by mistake But the mlsO. the ruination of the pretty dresses and peraaoU, etc.! Poor dean. If Gape May b sued It will know A plane or a town that does not grew, Dprove, enlarge, Retrogrades and dies. There b no standing still In the natuJ or spiri'ual world. We grow all the me, upward or downward. Judging from the past It will be many years befora In Memoriam b written on the sands of thb fair city by the sea, thanks of lb beat men, Ex-Mayor Edmonds, Mayor Hildreth and Senator

Sewell.

and hotel proprietors ought to make s rank poll for lengthening out the zaeon and have It 000tinned to last un1 the close of September. There b no prettier place on the AtCapo May, and there

aide and take advantage of the pleasant er. A number of cottager* have dan impromptu organisation to extend the social erooto far Into tbo fall And why not? While everything b in a good way to have the hotels kept and the city authorittea ought to

isn some of them expect to stay. We might keep our beach drive more properly lighted and provide other conveniencee which are too often and too tarly col off to the public In order that uses might be red « will-

THB WAVE ALMANAC-

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Dser; Cass Mat, X.J. newreiory, Jtuj IS. lass . M; sets 7.M P. M.

UJliiliJs

iteis or geiehu, duesest Krory night this week-free Vaudeville 8 iow at Sewells Point—h-gtwning at 8.80. Posmoa Waa van—A neat while gtri Wants to general bou*« work lo a private family. Addnaa Q X., Wavs office. *t Ureal preparations are being made for the proanssive eoobre which fa to be given at Oongrc-s Hall on Friday night. The Friday evening euchre grtas Hall promises lo be one of the most successful events gives

week.

Ttie Vaudeville entertainment at Sewell* 1‘olnt b a popular place and the object petal of a large comber of trolley

dera.

Erery purchaser of a prtae for progresaive euchre, bought at the Qi Jewelry Store will be given free a red, white and blue tally card. • The Red Cram Society ha* eeteblUhrd teot on the beach, and will receive coctribotlona for the fund to provide medicine and nurse* for the wounded soldier* In Cuba. Captain John McCarty, of Goshen, while black berrying recently, klllek large raltkaaake. with fire rattle*. Thu 1 pedes of aaake was supposed to be Unct In thb section Toe Queeo Jewelry Store glees away illy cards free with every euchre priie hlohb bought et thattplsce. Three inis are patriotloaly deco, sled with red, white and blue. Loer—A gold handled umbrella, a name plate upon It, engraved “Mabel E. Harria, 821 N. Calhoun atreet, Bi more.” Liberal reward, If returned the Ebbl.'. H mse, Cape May. Early Monday morning the eon of B. L. Howell, of Dias Creek, discovered a •Beak thief stealing his father's bicycle. A load of lead from a shotgun caused he thief to dismount and abandon the

rheeh

Acker's hare established a Fruit Kithen in their Philadelphia establishThey announce their reed Inca*

wishes It. Intormalioa

t Inquu

PENNST'S M STATIOI A Structure in Which Comfort and Beauty are Combined. BOOI MADE FOR INCREASED TBAFflC

The Imposing new station which the Pennsylvania Bailroad Company b building at the foot of Market street, Philadelphia, b a part of the general

icmpany haa recently Inaugurated ia new •tation b as great aa Improvement to the railroad oompany eiyf to Philadelphia over the old station as the magnificent Broad Street Station b the old Grand Depot at Thirteenth and Market. All the changes, enlarge.

long erperienoe has suggested 0 enormously Increasing traffic demanded hare been Introduced. Under the general plan of widening Delaware avenue and extending the plera, the atetlon haa been projected into the river one hundred and fifty feet farther than formerly and the atreet ; fifty feet to one hundred'

a forth

help fill the tetter’s “bag. ” Long before the horiaon the ardent sportsman la np and out, and returns when the feminine world b rob In the evening a weary youth stifles hb yawna behind a tale of a full “bag" of yeUow tegs. Gunners are enjoying their privileges nder the game laws now, and are gunmeadow for woodcock, snipe and yellow tegs. The birds are plentiful, and good rule. Among the mo wflames are Horace Hepbarn, ex-City Treasurer George MeOreedy, Bawle Brown, Jasper Y. Brtntou, J. Percy Remington, Dr. Thomas Morton, City Solloltor J. Spicer Leam1 parties enjoy D riil. hue in the sounds, : on the ooean ItaelL

eeting of the Ladles’ Committee ■Id at the Golf Club House yesterday morning to arrange for the > lament oa dob day for the balance of e aeaeoe. Other matters pretainleg social events were also diseusaod, and and a number of gaieties are to t Mra. William T. Bailey and Mia. J. L Shoemaker will receive tomorrow afternoon, and Mra. Palmer, the celebrated

.. will •

s present. Mrs,

years and b quite ao expert. The regular weekly euchri lace on Friday morning at

at the olub house.

HOTBIAH MCI. The very excellent Vaudeville Entertainment which is being given at Sewell’s Point every evening will be given also in the afternoons from four^o five o’clock. The entertainment, of course, will be free to all who may visit this most delightfully situated

spot.

There b no bualneee man la Cape May who give* doeer attention to the Interest! of hb patrons than Mr.

Swala.

of tin roofing, spouting, gutter Bg, repairing of leaky roofs, and tin, lead, copper, Hno, black and gal-

work. Ice boxes and ' by Mr. Binda

which formerly at his thoroughfare.

The new eta’lon b three huundred nd twenty-seven feet and four Inches mg and two stories high. The front 1 finished in highly ornamented copper, ■ilk a projecting centre surmounted by picturesque clock tower. The entrance, ticket office and waltig rooms are In the middle of the bul'ding. Two wagongwsya on cash aide lead to the lower bridges of ths ferry allpa. Theae slips are built ae most approved pattern, and are known as “double slips,” with great rubber bumpers between them to relieve boats strike. The tag-gage-room occupies the central front of the southern side of the staUon and the West Jersey Express Company 00iplee the extreme southern end. The extreme northern end b devoted to the

local expires traffic,

ity-fool passageway runs the entire length of the building through the centre to the north and south of tba main walllsg-room, at the head of the slip budges. The two rear section* between the ferry allpa on each side of the walling room are also devoted to the assorting and shipping of baggage. The ticket offloe for the preacnna fr. Cited on the ground floor to the left of the main entrance, f rooting on Deli ware avenue. The waiting-room on the ground floor b just beyond. Thb b a commodious compartment, fifty feet wide and sixty-flre feet long, and b lighted during; the day by diffuser light In the celling nineteen feel square and at night by small electric lights set '

of the waiting-room an •talrway to the second atory, the ladles’ retiring-room and the gentlemec’f noklng-rocm The second floor of the atatfon b reached also by a stairway In front of a autioo. The waiting-room on thb wr u an exact duplication of the one 1 the ground floor, but the ticket office 111 not be used foe the present. Both waiting-rooms arc handsomely furnished id filled with every comfort and 000intooce. The ferry slips are provided; with upper and lower fool bridges for doubtedeclted ferryboats, In all respects abnlthe bridge* and allpa now In naa : ferry between Jersey City Button and Mew York. Tbe station has been equipped with

that when it should become desirable practicable, street car passengers could be landed on a level with the acorallroad on the Camden side of the river elevated and a double-decked ferry eatablbhe

greatly Improves the appearance of thb o of the dty. The broadened and ample room In front, In sddl0 the architectural beauty of the n Itself, are pleasing changes from the somewhat circumscribed quarters and usually crowded conditions which have heretofore obtained. Tbe building Js entirely fireproof, wood being used only la the flooring. The ceilings and sides of tbe walUng rooms are of fancy Iron work. A novel fealnrt Of •tation is the electric signal system, by which all bells are rung by electricity. A practical result of these Improveicuta which wtt) find favor with the thousands who daily crass the rtrerat olnt is the material shortening at the time of paaeage between ,0s mdan and Philadelphia. Thb b doe partly to tha superior propeller ferryboa’i which have recanUy' been In senice.

plant the old aidetwbentea, and partly to the extension of the piers on each •hie of the river. Tbe nisi haa tons made^ narrower, and the flva-

toj'h^dteg.Une to allthe New Jaraay

Wamn.—A Furnished Room 1 ’ prlrate lamlly. ^Address, with-tor