VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1894. NO. 16.

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 Entertain-

ments 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.

WALLACE S. RISLEY, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, 413 MARKET ST., CAMDEN. Properties for sale and to rent. Money to loan on Mortgage.

PETER MURDOCH, DEALER IN COAL and WOOD, Ocean City, N. J. Orders left at 806 Asbury avenue will receive prompt attention.

D. S. SAMPSON, DEALER IN Stoves, Heaters, Ranges, PUMPS, SINKS, &C., Cor. Fourth Street and West Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

Tin roofer and sheet-iron worker. All kinds of Stove Casting furnished at short notice. Gasoline Stoves a specialty. All work guaranteed as represented.

ARNOLD B. RACE, UNDERTAKER, PLEASANTVILLE, N. J. All orders by telegraph or otherwise will re-

ceive prompt attention. Bodies preserved with or without ice. Office below W. J. R. R. at the residence of A. B. RACE. ARNOLD B. RACE.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FINE FURNITURE, 43 So. Second St., PHILADELPHIA, PA. L. S. SMITH, CONTRACTOR IN Grading, Graveling and Curbing. PAINTING BY CONTRACT OR DAY. Eighth St. and Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

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.

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. GEO. R. FORTINER, HOLIDAY COTTAGE, No. 809 Wesley Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. OFFICE HOURS:--Until 10 A. M. 2 to 3 P. M. 6 to 8 P. M.

DR. WALTER L. YERKES, DENTIST, Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday. DR. E. C. WESTON, DENTIST, 7th St., east of Asbury Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J. Saturday to Monday night until Oct. 1st and August 4th to 20th. GAS ADMINISTERED. 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 in Ocean City.

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.

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., furnished at short notice. Country or City Residences fitted up in the best manner. Sanitary Plumbing and drainage a specialty. Orders by mail promptly attended to.

Plasterers and Brick-Layers. W. STONEHILL. G. O. ADAMS. STONEHILL & ADAMS, Plastering, Range Setting, Brick Laying, &c. All work in mason line promptly attended to. OCEAN CITY, N. J.

ROBERT FISHER, REAL ESTATE AND Insurance Broker, CONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Agent for the Ætna 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 sys-

tem; new electric street railroad; 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, in-

timately 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 ex-

tensive and influential connections, he has superior advantages in bringing those who have properties to rent and those who require them together, 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.

WORTH WHILE. I pray thee, Lord, that when it comes to me To say if I will follow truth and thee, Or choose instead to win, as better worth My pains, some cloying recompense of earth--

Grand me, Great Father, from a hard fought field, Forespent and bruised, upon a battered shield, Home to obscure endurance to be borne Rather than live my own mean gains to scorn.

Far shelter fall with face turned toward the goal, At one with wisdom and my own work soul, Then ever come to see myself prevail, When to succeed at last is but to fail.

Mean ends to win and therewith be content--Save me from that! Direct thou the event As suits thy will. Where e'er the prizes go, Grant me the struggle, that my soul may grow.

--Edward S. Martin in Scribner's.

A Son's Epitaph.

The news of the Merrimae's arrival in Hampton roads and of her first day's fight before she met the Monitor reached Wash-

ington on a Sunday afternoon. The telegram was brief but explicit. The ironclad was in complete control of the roads. Messengers were hastily dispatched, summoning the chiefs of bureaus to a council at the navy department. One of these messengers, sent in search of Commodore Smith, found that officer on his way home from church, and he knew that the com-

modore's only son was first lieutenant of the ill fated Congress.

"Commodore," said the man, "there is bad news from Hampton Roads. The Mer-

rimae has come down from Norfolk, the Minnesota and Roanoke disabled, the Cumberland sunk, and the Congress is on fire and has surrendered."

"Surrendered! The Congress has hauled down her colors?" repeated the commodore, and as the messenger confirmed his words, "Then my son Joe is dead," said the com-

modore simply--and that was all.

There have been long winded epitaphs, many of them, but not every father could be so sure of his son's character as to honor his memory before receiving the news of his death with such a tribute as that. "Joe" was indeed dead, as modest and as brave a man as ever drew sword in a good cause.--New York Tribune.

Songs of the Roustabouts.

It was a grand sight to the small boys of Lexington to see the deckhands swaggering along one at each end of a coal box and 50 men in line carrying coal to the bankers of such boats as the F. N. Anberg, James H. Lucas, Polar Star and Clave, and if they were negro bands singing only as negroes can sing, or as they could in those days.

The coal was carried aboard at night by the light of the pine knot [?], and the small boy sat around and caught the words of a new song. The boys got their songs in those days from the circus and the steamboats. The "border boys" had but two ambitions--one was to cross the plains and be a "wagon boss," and the other to be a steamboat captain.--St. Louis Letter.

The epidemic of liberty is spreading. Every man who goes to Europe carries the infection with him, and every stranger who visits us becomes inoculated.

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CRUEL PUNISHMENT. SCENES IN CHARLES READE'S NOVEL WERE STRICTLY TRUE.

The Author of "It's Never Too Late to Mend" Described Thrilling Punishments of Prison Life That Really Took Place in an Old English Jail.

What reader of Charles Reade's ever pop-

ular novel, "It's Never Too Late to Mend," has not been touched by the intensely thrill-

ing stories of prison life contained in it and felt deep sympathy with the poor sufferers whose terrible experiences are so vividly told? No one, we would assert. The story reads like a highly colored fiction, yet ev-

ery word of it is absolutely true.

Very few people may be aware that this celebrated book was founded on the cruel-

ties practiced in the Birmingham jail in the years 1852 and 1853. Indeed, the orig-

inal of the character of Evans, the humanitarian, still lives, and in fact is even now in the service of the prison authorities. He is Mr. William Brown, the chief warden of Wilson Green Jail, Birmingham, and many times has been offered a large remuneration to appear on the stage to play the part of himself in an adaptation of Reade's brilliant novel.

His story is indeed a sensational one and forms a wonderful chapter of prison life in the fifties, and also contrasts in a striking manner the treatment of prisoners now adopted.

In 1852 Lieutenant Austin was appointed governor of Wilson Green prison. He had formerly been in the navy, and in that serv-

ice had forced himself to the conclusion that discipline was everything. He took a delight in severe punishment and considered that a breach of prison discipline was a crime almost greater than that for which a prisoner entered a jail. He pinned his faith to constant threats of punishment and an almost perpetual use of those bar-

barous tortures, the collar, straitjacket, dark cells and crank labor.

It was in 1853 that the public first had their suspicions aroused that cruelties of a gross character were being practiced in the Birmingham jail. In that year a 15-year-old boy committed suicide in order to es-

cape torturous punishment. The facts that came out at the inquest highly incensed the inhabitants.

It was proved beyond doubt that strait-

jackets were constantly used as punish-

ment for the smallest offense, such as the inability of a prisoner to fulfill the amount of crank labor set him, or for talking to another prisoner, or for using bad language.

These jackets were provided with per-

fectly rigid collars 13 inches long, 3½ inches deep and one-quarter inch thick. The pris-

oner was first muffled in the jacket, with arms tied together on his breast, and then strapped so tightly at the back that it was impossible to insert a finger between the strap and the flesh. The leather collar was then fastened on in such a manner that it cut the chin and neck and prevented any movement of the head. Then the prisoner

was fastened upon the wall of his cell in a standing position. This punishment was terribly painful, and yet it frequently last-

ed for hours, and on occasions boys of 15 were kept in such positions from 9 o'clock in the morning until10 at night!

Very often they fainted and were then brought round by a liberal application of water, which was thrown on them from buckets.

The prisoners in this position were fed by a warden, who broke up the bread and placed it in the prisoner's mouth. Some-

times, however, the collar was so tight that a prisoner could not swallow bread or water.

Among the labor boys had to perform was the turning of a crank handle with a 10 pound pressure upon it for 10,000 revo-

lutions between sunrise and night. So many revolutions had to be made before breakfast, so many before dinner, so many

before supper. If the required number was not completed before breakfast, no breakfast; if not completed before dinner, no dinner; if not before supper, no supper, so that a weakly man or boy would go a whole day without food, and would think himself lucky if at 10 o'clock at night he got eight ounces of brown bread and a pint of water.

During the whole of the time these abominable cruelties were being practiced, the chaplain and Mr. Brown were doing their utmost to relax the terrible prison discipline adopted by the harsh governor. They worked together with a will, and many, many times have prisoners fallen on their knees in thankfulness for timely succor which had been rendered them.

At length, at the demand of the inhabi-

tants of Birmingham, a royal commission of inquiry was held to inquire into the truth of the allegations. The whole of them were found to be true.

One particularly pitiable case was that of a boy named Edward Andrews, about whom, and in the name of Josephus, Reade

gives a true and heartrending account. Mr. Brown has a vivid recollection of this poor boy. He was sent to jail for three months for stealing four pounds of beef. He was very week, but was notwithstanding put to the crank.

One day the chaplain, Mr. Sherwin, was attracted to the boy's cell by cries of "Mur-

der!" He found the boy crying piteously, and he said he was being starved. He was in the straitjacket at the time, and the chaplain tried to insert one of his fingers between the collar and the boy's neck, but failed. Mr. Brown happened to be passing at the time, and he slackened the straps on his own responsibility and greatly re-

lieved the little sufferer.

Several times after this the boy was punished by order of Austin, and on many occasions buckets of water were thrown over him. Once Brown found the boy strapped to the wall, and on being released he fell to the ground insensible. On April 27 he

put an end to his sufferings by committing suicide in his cell.

Austin was afterward tried at Warwick assizes for his diabolical ill treatment and was sent to jail for three months.

He is now, like the majority of the actors in this dreadful drama, dead, but Mr. Brown still officiates as the chief warden in the prison and takes a most kindly in-

terest in any prisoners who are desirous of reforming themselves.--London Tit-Bits.

St. Stephen's crypt was built by Edward I toward the end of the thirteenth century.

THE POVERTY OF RICH MEN.

Perhaps Hungry People Do Not After All Feel Worse Than Many Others.

The editor of Scribner's Magazine, who probably enjoys a moderate income of his own, expatiates on the disadvantages of much riches and the lack of any. Like the

philosopher who wanted merely enough, he seems to believe that the middle condition is best, and this he fixes at somewhere about $5,000 a year. This is a good deal more than

most men get. It is more than most of them can earn legitimately, or gain speculatively or acquire in the form of a legacy. They must therefore be content with less. In fact, the sum mentioned puts its recipient in a way to acquire tastes that are so expensive as to exhaust that income and keep him as poor as the laborer who is satisfied with his clothes, his food, his fire and his beer. That man ought to be happy who is

well supplied with funds but has no taste, because he is assured against want, but

that man who is born with a champaign appetite and achieves only a beer income must ever be an object of commiseration to himself and to those who know him.

In days of doubt and financial stringency many families resort to economies that no doubt cause distress. One man sold one or two of his half dozen horses; another rented his summer cottage; a third put his steam yacht out of commission, and a fourth un-

willingly desisted from increasing his collection of Japanese bronzes. These re-

straints are distasteful and oppressive as the compulsion of the laborer to refrain moderately from tenderloin steaks and the necessity that his wife should postpone the purchase of a bright calico dress, because no two men have the same standards of life, the same desires and tastes, nor the same aptitude in the application of wealth to comfort, knowledge and pleasure.

Poverty is a relative term, and there is no unkempt vagrant who does not believe that there are several tramps more ragged, more hungry, more populous than he. There are some vagabonds who never realize that they are poor while their stomachs and to-

bacco pouches are full. Then there are young bloods in New York who try to live on a beggarly $50,000 a year and can't do it.

They are always in trouble, always being sued by inconsiderate tradesmen, always chased by race track blacklegs, always the prey of ballet girls, always sponged upon by parasites, always ostracised by rich un-

cles, always losing at cards, always sore enough in mind and sometimes in body to cry and always laughed at by the public, and these gentry are in truth the poorest of us all. When they shift into barroom leeches and red nosed wanderers, they are the most worthless of their species.

The prince of Wales, who also sets the fashion in the color of gloves and the way of carrying the cane--usually by accident--is the model that these young persons have for their inner as well as their obvious lives, and they even try to improve on the pattern. When a man takes money be-

longing to another, he is a thief. When he takes its equivalent, the work, time and stock of a tailor and refuses to refund, he is called a man of the world, and his exploit is accounted as rather clever. The Prince of Wales is a man of the world and is clever, and his imitators want to be clever too. It is the sorest disadvantage of riches when it makes their possessor poor in spirit. Nobody claims that this is true in the great majority of cases. Nobody denies its truth in conspicuous and offensive instances. The poor man has the advantage of the rich one, if he so modifies his ideas that he can not only reach them but derive that content, and compass that moral and intellectual expansion that seem in the human comedy to be denied to those whose aims are toward a wholly material prosperity and sensuous pleasures. It is the adaptation of the end to the means that suffices. Few of us need be poor.--Brooklyn Eagle.

A Fin de Siecle Bride. Wedding presents are becoming more and more of a tax and are looked upon in these fin de siecle days as just so many commercial assets by bride and bridegroom alike who are not so much in love but that they

can reckon up the probably cost of a each gift pretty accurately. "I want something pretty, but not too costly, as a wedding gift," said a well known woman of society to one of the head men at ----'s. "Is it for Miss B., may I ask?" said the jeweler, "for in that case I think I can suit you exactly." And he produced a list written at length and in the bride's own fair writing with everything she wanted in the way of silver distinctly described, from the soup tureen to saltspoons. It left her friends a wide margin of choice from the most expensive present to a simple token of remembrance.

"Would you like to see the presents al-

ready selected?" continued the shopman, and leading the way into the adjoining apartment he pointed to several shelves completely covered with the glittering array. "Those are all Miss B.'s presents," he explained. "She seems quite satisfied with them so far and comes very few days to look them over to see what is added."--New York Tribune.

Starch as an Enemy of the Artistic. An artist in New York city inveighs bit-

terly again starch as one of the curses of this nineteenth century. "Not only does it make our clothes unpleasant to wear, but it makes them hideous to look at." Bring-

ing out a copy of a Tanagra figurine, he continued: "Now, look at the beauty and simple dignity of that toga and contrast it with the dress of the modern man. That was soft and yielding; the modern shirt, collar, cuffs, hats, shoes, corsets, even the women's gowns, are hard and unbending.

The effect of antique dress was grace; the effect of our dress is that of stiffness and discomfort. It is more than an effect--it is a fact. Nobody could be easy or look thoroughly well in our clothes. We want to organize a reform movement against starch."

Legacies to an English Orator. Perhaps the most fortunate politician who ever lived in the matter of legacies was William Pitt, earl of Chatham. In consideration of his services to the country, the Duchess of Marlborough left him a legacy of £10,000. Some years afterward Sir William Pynsent died leaving the great orator a legacy of £3,000 a year. This for-

tune was quite unexpected, and Pitt never saw his benefactor in his life.--London Tit-Bits.

ODDS AND ENDS.

Insanity is common in the royal families of Europe.

The Pittsburg toby is becoming the rage in Europe. Charles Lamb was buried in Edmonton churchyard. During the reign of Henry VIII 72,000 English subjects were executed. One in five of the deaths in London occurs in a workhouse or a hospital. Football players are rejected by a Philadelphia life insurance company.

New York city has 2,250 "rear" tenement houses, sheltering 56,000 persons.

Robert Burns, the great Scotch poet, died at Dumfries July 21, 1796, aged 37 years. Deserters from the British army cannot be arrested out of the queen's dominions. Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar, launched in 1765, is now lying in Portsmouth harbor. The Snowbird mountains of North Carolina are reported as being literally overrun with bears.

One of the most stupendous projects now before the engineering world is the construction of a storage reservoir in the Nile above Egypt.

Wootten, the famous country place of the late George W. Childs, is now occupied by George W. Childs Drexel, who purchased it after Mr. Childs' death. There were 231,000 sheep sheared at and near Casper, Wy., this season. The season lasted 15 days, and 150 shearers were employed. The price paid was 7 cents per head. Dolph Buckins, a Georgia negro, has one white ear and one black one. When he plugs up the black ear with cotton, he can distinguish no sound higher than C with the white ear. His black ear is good for general all around work from the bass notes of the organ to the chirp of the cricket.

Philadelphia has long gloried in the title of the City of Homes. She can now be also christened the Matrimonial Paradise. According to the returns of the

tenth census upon the conjugal condition of the United States, Philadelphia can, of all the cities in the Union, boast the smallest proportion of single persons among its total population.

Platinum.

The discovery of deposits of platinum in this country would be as welcome as the finding of a diamond mine. At present the metal costs nearly half as much as gold, having risen greatly in price within the last three years. It is abso-

lutely indispensable for many purposes, being noncorrosive and resisting acids.

It is used for chemical apparatus, scientific instruments and incandescent lamps. There is some platinum in the beach sands of Oregon, but not enough to pay for mining. Small quantities of it have been discovered recently in the copper mines of Canada, where it occurs in a new combination with arsenic.

Two-thirds of the world's supply of platinum comes from two Siberian mines in the Ural mountains. The metal is ob-

tained there as a by product of gold mining. The mining is done by scooping holes in the ground to a depth of about 15 feet and then burrowing, rat fashion, in all directions. Twenty-nine hundred cartloads of earth are required to yield 15 pounds of platinum. The biggest nugget ever found was about the size of a tumbler. Now the gold is getting scarce, and the laborers have been drawn off to build the great transsiberian railway. Hence the increased cost of platinum, which, unless new deposits are found, is likely never to be cheaper than it is at pres-ent.--St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

The Way Out.

An amusing story is told about the construction of a telegraph line from Bagdad, in Asia Minor, to the Persian capital of Teheran. The frontier line between Turkey and Persia was so indefinable that a tract of no less than 17 miles of land over which the telegraph would have to be carried was in dispute, each of the two countries claiming the right to its possession. Now, the engineering stores supplied to the Turkish government differed from those supplied to the Persian government. The former had wooden telegraph poles; the latter iron ones. The Persian government, in their jealous hatred of the Turks, feared that if wooden poles were erected across the disputed territory, posterity would regard them as proof that the territory was Turkish. On the other hand, the Turks objected to iron poles being

used lest in the far future they should be adduced by Persia as evidence that the land was hers. The way the superintendent of the work contrived to get out of the difficulty did credit to his ingenuity and resource He set up first a wooden pole, then an iron one, then an-

other wooden, then an iron again, and so on, alternating wood and iron for the whole 17 miles.--Bow Bells.

He Had Seen the Scarecrow. One Somerville young man who was spending a fortnight in the country lost all chance of making a favorable impression upon the farmer's pretty daughter the very first day he came. Her father came by the front of the house, where the young man was trying to make himself agreeable, and the girl introduced him, saying: "This is my father, Mr. Smythe." "Oh, yes," responded the young man, turning toward the old man, and shortly holding out his hand. "I saw you standing over in the cornfield a little while ago, when I came up the road."--Somerville Journal.