VOL. XIII

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1893.

NO. 39.

Ocean City Sentinel.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OCEAN CITY, N. J., BY R. C. ROBINSON, Editor and Proprietor.

$1.00 per year, strictly in advance. $1.50 at end of year.

Restaurants.

MARSHALL’S DINING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTS,

1321 MARKET STREET, Three Doors East of City Hall, PHILADELPHIA.

STRICTLY TEMPERANCE. MEALS TO ORDER FROM 6 A. M. TO 8 P. M. Good Roast Dinners, with three vegetables, for 25 cents. Turkey or Chicken Dinners 15 cents. Ladies' Room upstairs, with homelike accommodations. PURE SPRING WATER. BAKERY, 601 S. Twenty-Second St. ICE CREAM, ICES, FROZEN FRUITS AND JELLIES. Weddings and Evening Entertainments a specialty. Everything to furnish the table and set free of charge. NOTHING SOLD OR DELIVERED ON SUNDAY.

H. M. Sciple. J. M. Gillespie. H. P. Sayford. H. M. SCIPLE & CO., DEALERS IN Boilers and Engines, Every Size for Every Duty, DUPLEX STEAM PUMPS, Third and Arch Sts., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

D. SOMERS RISLEY, No. 111 Market Street, CAMDEN, N. J. Conveyancer, Notary Public, Commissioner of Deeds, Real Estate and General Insurance Agent. Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage. TELEPHONE No. 16.

PETER MURDOCH, DEALER IN COAL and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J.

Orders left at 806 Asbury avenue will receive prompt attention.

WM. E. KERN. Civil Engineer AND Surveyor, Steelmanville, N. J. Special attention given to complicated surveys.

OWEN H. KUDER, 408 Seventh Street, (near Asbury Avenue)

BOOT and SHOE MAKER REPAIRING NEATLY DONE.

L. S. SMITH, CONTRACTOR IN Grading, Graveling and Curbing. PAINTING BY CONTRACT OR DAY. Eighth St. & Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Plasterers and Brick-Layers. STONEHILL & ADAMS, Plastering, Range Setting, Brick Laying, &c.

All work in mason line promptly attended to. OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Physicians, Druggists, Etc. DR. J. S. WAGGONER, RESIDENT Physician and Druggist, NO. 731 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Pure Drugs, Fine Stationery, Confectionery, Etc., constantly on hand. DR. G. W. URQUHART, 3646 North Broad Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Will practice at Ocean City during the months of June, July and August. DR. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J.

DR. CHAS. E. EDWARDS, DENTIST, Room 12. Take Elevator. Haseltine Building, 1416 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Attorneys-at-Law.

MORGAN HAND, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW Solicitor, Master and Examiner in Chancery Supreme Court Commissioner, Notary Public, CAPE MAY C. H., N. J. (Opposite Public Buildings.) LAW OFFICES SCHUYLER C. WOODRULL, 310 Market St., Camden, N. J. Solicitor of Ocean City.

Bakers, Grocers, Etc.

JACOB SCHUFF, (Successor to A. E. Mahan,) THE PIONEER BAKERY, No. 703 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Wedding Cakes a specialty. Orders delivered free of charge. Nothing delivered on Sunday.

Contractors and Builders.

S. B. SAMPSON, Contractor and Builder,

No. 305 Fourth St., Ocean City, N. J.

Jobbing promptly attended to. Plans, specifications and working drawings furnished.

JOSEPH F. HAND, ARCHITECT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER, Ocean City, N. J.

Plans, Specifications and Working Drawings furnished. Estimates given on Application. Satisfaction guaranteed.

Nicholas Corson, CARPENTER AND BUILDER, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Plans and Specifications furnished. Buildings put up by contract or day. G. P. MOORE, ARCHITECT, BUILDER AND PRACTICAL SLATER, Ocean City, N. J. Best Roofing Slate constantly on hand. Samuel Schurch, PRACTICAL BUILDER, MAY BE FOUND AT Bellevue Cafe, On beach bet. Seventh and Eighth Sts. GEO. A. BOURGEOIS & SON, Carpenters and Builders, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Estimates given. Buildings erected by contract or day.

HENRY G. SCHULTZ, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER,

2633 Germantown Avenue, PHILADELPHIA.

BRANCH OFFICE: Seventeenth and Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

ARNOLD B. RACE, UNDERTAKER, PLEASANTVILLE, N. J. All orders by telegraph or otherwise will receive prompt attention. Bodies preserved with or without ice. Office below W. J. R. R. at the residence of A. B. RACE. ARNOLD B. RACE.

Plumbers, Steam Fitters, Etc. J. T. BRYAN, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter No. 1007 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia.

Circulating Boilers, Sinks, Bath Tubs, Water Closets, Lead and Iron Pipes, Pumps, Etc., fur-

nished at short notice. Country or City Resi-

dences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

ROBERT FISHER, REAL ESTATE AND Insurance Broker, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Agent for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, and some of the oldest and best Fire Insurance Companies of America.

What's the matter with Ocean City? She's booming, that's all. New water supply system; new electric street rail-

road; electric lights; new hotels; new cottages; new tenants and new guests; every-

thing is on the jump, and Fisher is rushing the business. Call and see him, and put your money in Ocean City before things get up to the top notch. Fisher is one of the few pioneers of Ocean City and among its first Real Estate purchasers and Cottagers, intimately associated with all its history and identified with every

step of its progress and the operation of its Real Estate, has extraordinary opportunities for the transaction of all kinds of Real Estate and Insurance business. FOR RENT--Having very extensive and influential connections, he has superior advan-

tages in bringing those who have properties to rent and those who require them to-

gether, and at present has some of the finest cottages and other houses on his books at liberal prices.

FOR SALE--Long experience and personal dealing in Real Estate has made him expert in values of both improved and unimproved property. Occa-

sionally even in such a prosper-

ous town as ours some one wants to change or get out. Then we help them by helping some one else to a bargain. From Ocean front to Bay, and all between, you can be suited with fine corners or central building lots. A few cottages, new and well built, now offered at cost. Write for information of the Lot Club. Headquarters for every house-hunter and investor, Fisher's Real Estate Office, the most prominent corner in Ocean City.

Insurances placed on most advantageous terms in best companies.

For any information on any subject connected with any business enterprise write freely to Robert Fisher, Ocean City, N. J.

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THE HIDDEN CITY.

By WALTER H. McDOUGALL. [Copyright, 1892, by Cassell Publishing company, and published by special arrangement with them.] [CONTINUED.] There was a great scattering; the crowd melted away like mist before the wind. Into the shelter of the woods they rushed, falling over one another, casting side their weapons and even their garments in their haste. Eric stood there alone beside the four bodies. The inevitable regret which comes to those who have to kill filled his soul as he

looked upon them. They were all dead--proofs of his sure hand and skill--but it was a sad and pitiful sight. Hus-

nands they were, perhaps, and fathers too; little children would weep for them and need them; it was sad, and the more that it was his duty to kill them. But

ere these thoughts had passed through his mind there was another wild rush,

and the air was again filled with confused outcries.

He saw the priests and their followers emerge from the wood, and, with every sign of terror increased, come wildly up the slope toward the house. Resolved

to kill no more unless sorely pressed, he entered the house, but the cries of "Quetzal, Quetzal, save us!" caused him to halt upon the threshold. "Is it a ruse?" he thought. No; there was evi-

dence of the most extreme terror in all the faces; the backward glances of fear and surprise were too real to be simulated. He stepped toward them, and they gathered about him, crouching and falling prostrate. Lela and Jan-ila came out and stood beside him in surprise.

The whole great crowd seemed ani-

mated by a common fear; their looks pointed in one direction--toward the little forest. At the same time came a body of people under Listah, from the city, along the riverside. They had barely reached the mill when they were also affected in the same manner as the rest, and some retreated to the city, while those about Listah broke into a wild run, and reaching Eric threw themselves upon the ground. He could see nothing. The trembling multitude about him had subsided into silence as he stood there, weapon in hand, wonder-

ing what strange, terrible and unnamable monster was about to appear.

Then out of the morning silence came the long, ringing call of a bugle. Sweet and clear it rang out and swept along the canyon and echoed back from its walls, and re-echoed again and again, until it sobbed away its life far down among the pointed pinnacles upon whose

tops the red and scarlet and crimson were just fading in the sunlight. He sprang over heads and recumbent bod-

ies and rushed to the riverside. There he saw a sight that filled his heart with thrills of surprise and delight, and caused him to whirl his sombrero above his head, shout loudly and dance with joy in a most undignified manner.

It was a wondrous sight; coming as it did just in his hour of need, it seemed the more prodigious a marvel, more wondrous in its improbability, for there, before him, along the canyon trail, came a train of horsemen, riding eagerly with searching looks and listening attitudes; behind them a line of white canvas covered wagons, coming more leisurely, and, greatest marvel, above them all, against the western sky, yet just above the canyon, moving majestically along, he saw a great balloon.

The sun was glinting on its satin sides, giving it a golden glare; the big letters in black came out strongly, so that he read plainly the words, "The Continent of AMerica," upon its side, and he saw Pierce's face as he swept the canyon be-

low with his fieldglass. He ceased his wild shouts and walked to the house calmly. "Go," he said to the people about him. "Go to your homes and fear nothing. Take the dead away with you. Let there be rest and peace in Atzlan, for the new life has come to you; the old is gone, and we will be a new people." CHAPTER XIII. A MATTER OF FINANCE. [Lela was watching them.] As Eric found himself a few minutes later standing among a group of cheering white men, with his hand in that of Pierce, and hearing his own tongue spoken by all about him, it seemed to him as though he had awakened from a dream. Pierce was unchanged. These were the same profane, adventurous and armed westerners with whom he was familiar, their horses standing about in dusty disorder, giving the place the air of a campor mining town. It all seemed so natural and civilized, especially the profanity, that he had to turn and look into his doorway upon Lela standing there before he realized it all. Pierce was introducing Cale Whitley and the sheriff, warmly praising them and their conduct of the search. He did not know how timely had been his arrival or he would have termed it a rescue. The eyes of both Cale and the sheriff had been roving over the city and calculating its strength and riches. To them, from where they stood, it presented merely the appearance of a pueblo, with the general makeup of which they were too familiar to expect to discover much of art or treasure. They were somewhat disappointed with its commonplace and in parts almost ruinous appearance, and felt their hopes rather dashed as they observed no golden domes or glittering palaces rising in the midst of green gardens. But they had found the object of their search and earned the reward, which was a comforting reflection to turn to after all. They gazed rather curiously upon the bearded man in the strange, un-American costume as he stood before them with the confused look in his eyes of the sleeper awaking. Lela was watching them with a woman's curiosity. Already she had noted all their faces and compared them with her ideal yet real lover, and much to their disadvantage. She had been confident that there were no men like him, and now she was assured. When Eric invited them within she greeted them graciously and with the manner of a princess. She spoke to them with a brave effort in their own tongue, with a curious blending of modesty and pride, and her voice fell upon their ears with a queerly foreign intonation unlike anything they had ever heard. Wearing a white lamb's wool gown, flowing freely about her perfect figure and encircled at the waist by a wide gold belt, she stood scanning each face and form, a picture of queenly beauty and grace. Pierce bowed before her in respect and almost reverence, so surpassingly lovely she looked in her archaic costume. He noted her fair hair, blue eyes and perfect mouth in sincere, unqualified admiration, marveling that this could really be a savage. Five minutes later he was willing to swear she was a New Yorker whom fate had buried here in the wilderness for Gilbert to unearth, and then some little action or accent filled him with a new feeling, and he was wondering again. The others simply realized that she was a wondrously beautiful woman--Eric's wife as they supposed--and gave no thought to the wonder of her appearance in that desert realm. Besides their thoughts were on the revenue bent; they longed to see the treasures of Atzlan and divide them. They felt as Pizarro's followers must have felt as they saw the Inca's treasures almost in their grasp--millions upon millions--for in spite of Pierce's caution some inkling of Eric's message had circulated among the men, and they dreamed of millions for all hands. Their impatience was so manifest in their looks and remarks that Pierce, after a short talk with Gilbert, called them together and addressed them: "Now, boys, our search is ended. What there is in this place for us no one knows yet, but it will rest with Mr. Gilbert as to what we shall have. He has enough to pay you all well for your trouble, but there will be no looting this village; what you can obtain by fair trade is one thing and wholesale robbery another. If any man is detected using violence he will forfeit his pay. These people are nervous and frightened; any overt act might precipitate a conflict for which the United States government will hold us responsible. Therefore I warn you all to be careful. Disobedience to orders now means summary punishment. No man enters the

city until permission is given. We will go into camp here and await further orders from Mr. Gilbert." The men withdrew, leaving Pierce, Whitley and the sheriff with Eric. Breakfast was prepared for them, and they were soon discussing the situation over the table, at the head of which sat Lela, Kulcan having departed, in a sudden accession of courage, to the city to calm the people there. Eric explained the state of affairs briefly, giving them an insight into the politics and religion

of the Atzlans, the recent effort of Chal-

pa to obtain a hold upon the offices, and an account of his attempt upon Eric and of Chalpa's death, leading up to the action of the previous night, when the firing had attracted the attention of the rescuers camped in the canyon. Knowing nothing of Cale or the sheriff he refrained from any description of the treasure he had found, but he stated that he had accumulated considerable gold and silver, which he thought perhaps had better be equally divided among the men. This arrangement he felt would reward them liberally, in addition to their stipulated pay. It was agreed by Cale and the sheriff that this would be most satisfactory, and the matter was then dropped. Pierce now regaled Eric--and Lela as well--with a resume of the political and other events which had occurred in the world from which Gilbert had been shut out, and the noon hour was upon them before he had finished. Meanwhile the other two men had grown tired and withdrew to the camp. Then it was that Eric took Pierce more fully into his confidence and made his eyes fairly bulge with an account of the vast treasure within the city, but he had scruples hard to overcome, which made it difficult to see his title to the hoard, and these were shared by Pierce. After their noon meal they resolved to go to the city and confer with Iklapel both upon this matter and the general effect of the new arrivals upon the city's welfare. In passing along to the temple Gilbert noted carefully the faces of the people, and was glad to observe a cheerful temper apparent. While there was mourning, he knew, in several houses, he could see no evidence of an ill feeling, and he hoped that the crisis was over and the deaths of the most violent and powerful leaders had ended all trouble. They found old Iklapel at the temple and many priests around him. He had just finished a wise and forcible sermon, in which he had outlined the many benefits which would accrue to the nation from following Eric's plans, accusing Chalpa's memory bitterly and with great force as the cause of all discord. He had deprecated the craving for power and place which had caused all the trouble, and had drawn his hearers by his powerful logic and noble oratory to a recognition of the truth--that civilization would, if adopted at once without reserve, place them upon an equality with the rest of the world and prevent the miserable decadence which would surely ensue if they continued in their old customs and beliefs. Then, following upon the old priest's words, Eric stood before them and told them simply and carefully of the history of other nations. For two hours he addressed them--and the gathering of priests grew to a great multitude ere he had ended--telling them of Greece and Rome; of England and America; of Peru and Mexico, and of the race of In-

dians dying off the face of the earth be-

cause civilization is too powerful for them to resist, and they are too weak to accept its customs. When he had fin-

ished, behold, Kulcan arose, and raising his hands cried: "My brethren and friends, our Quetzal speaks wise words. I fear he will leave us if we are stubborn and headstrong, and we want him with us. Do we not?" He was answered with shouts of hearty volume and feeling. "Now that Chalpa is gone from us there will be no more trouble, and I feel that if Quetzal were our governor we would be prosperous and content. I desire not the office; it ill befits me, for I am too easily influenced this way and that. You want a wise man, a great father like our Quetzal, who knows the men of the earth and their tongues and their wily ways, that he may protect us from them and guard us from the enemy who comes in forms we know not. Let us have a great meeting in the estufa tonight and hold another election. Go now and tell all the people, and think well upon Iklapel's words and Quetzal's and mine, the least of you all." They dispersed, and Eric led Iklapel into the temple and seated himself beside him, Pierce standing outside looking down with curious eyes upon the city. Eric opened at once upon the subject of the treasure, telling him frankly how much it was valued by the rest of the world and to what mad extremes men would go for a tenth or a twentieth of it. He told them its word, but succeed-

ed only in dimly impressing it upon the priest, but Iklapel realized keenly the evils that would follow a repetition of the scenes of Cortez or Pizarro's plunderings as depicted by Eric. He heard the latter through without saying much until Eric finally said: [TO BE CONTINUED.]

A Cyclist Catches a Train. "We have all seen men run for a train," said a traveler. "The other day I saw a man make a break for one on a bicycle. We had halted at a station from which a straight, level road ran back at a right angle to the railroad. At a considerable distance up that road we saw a man coming on a bicycle. A man afoot couldn't have got anywhere near us from that distance, and it didn't seem as though the man on the wheel could get within rods of us, but he came down the street whizzing. When he had come about half the distance, the conductor gave the signal to start, and the engineer sounded the whistle and started the train. It was astonishing how fast the man on the wheel was coming now. There was a broad, level space around the station. The bicyclist swept over this in a great curve that landed him alongside the baggage car. Dismounting, he lifted his wheel up to the waiting hands of the baggage master. A fraction of a second later the steps of the first passenger car came along, and the bicyclist stepped aboard a winner."--New York Times.

Birds Enjoy a Shower Bath. A friend reports a pretty incident. During the hot, dry weather the birds about her house were apparently much in need of bathing places, and the lady discovered that every day when she went out to water her flowers a little bird hovered about as if he wanted something. Presently he revealed what he did want by getting under the sprinkling of the water pot or beneath the dripping plants, and fluffing his feathers in this shower bath just as he would in a pool, and plainly enjoying it in the highest degree. He began to watch for the daily coming of the lady to water her plants and gave himself up to his bath with gay abandon.--Boston Transcript.

A company has been incorporated in Canada for the purpose of running and operating a telephone line between Halifax and Vancouver. The length of the line will be 3,500 miles.