VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1894. NO. 23.

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.

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.

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. & 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. McCLURE, HERITAGE & CO., Successors to Finnerty, McClure & Co., DRUGGIST AND CHEMISTS 112 Market Street, Philadelphia. Dealers in Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, etc.

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, Haseltine Building, Take Elevator. 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 & 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 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 be-

fore 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 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 prosperous 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.

SHE MADE THE MONEY FLY. A Greek Princess Who Rapidly Ran Through a Fortune of $25,000,000. The Princess Ypsilanti, who died in Vienna a few days ago, belonged to one of the oldest families in Austria and was born in Vienna, March 12, 1845. Her father was the late Baron Sina von Hodos and Kizdia, and her mother a member of the famous Romanian family of Ghika. Baron Sina was the son of George Sina, the wealthiest banker in

Vienna. Baron Sina received on his father's death 90,000,000 florins, or $45,-

000,000. This immense sum was divided on the death of Baron Sina between his three daughters, each receiving nearly $15,000,000. One of the daughters mar-

ried George Mavrocordato, a member of one of the noblest families in Greece.

The second married the spendthrift Duc de Castries, a relative of the late Marshal MacMahon of France.

The third daughter, Helene, Nov. 23, 1862, when she was about 17 years old, married Prince Gregory Ypsilanti, a na-

tive of Espirus and a son of Demetrius Ypsilanti, whose valorous deeds during the Greek revolution made the name of Ypsilanti famous throughout the world.

During the siege of the city of Nauplia, Demetrius, with a small body of Greeks, one night sailed forth and attacked the enemy, creating such terror among the Turks that they raised the siege the next day.

Prince Gregory Ypsilanti was the Greek envoy in Vienna for many years. He was a man of independent means aside from the great fortune brought to him by his wife, and served his country for honor alone, refusing all compensation for his duties as its diplomatic representative in Austria. Prince Gregory Ypsilanti died in Paris Feb. 20, 1886, and was succeeded as head of his family by his eldest son, Prince Emmanuel, who is now a lad of 16. Three weeks after his death, the bankruptcy of the princess was announced, to the amazement of the aristocratic circles of Vienna and Athens. Prince Gregory had been a man of apparently quiet and retiring disposition, but he and his wife had managed to get rid of $25,000,000 in 10 years, and the widowed princess found herself $4,000,000 in debt. --Philadelphia Telegraph.

Her Motto. "Do you know," said Miss Flypp, "I think every girl ought to have a motto. I've adopted 'Upward and Onward' as mine. What is your motto, Miss Elder?"

"Mine is 'No Reasonable Offer Refused,'" replied the latter.--Brooklyn Life.

As a rule women have better eyesight than men.

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TO EUROPE AND BACK. THE COST OF A FOREIGN TOUR FROM THE UNITED STATES. One Man Started Out With $80 and a Ferry Ticket--Economical People May See a Good Deal for $100--For $300 One May Travel Over the Continent.

It is customary to estimate the average amount of money spent by Americans on a trip abroad at $1,000. Yet it ought to be remembered by shallow pocketed and deep brained people who hunger for foreign travel, yet have not the thousand dollars, that

most satisfactory trips can be taken for much less than half that amount.

There may be few who are willing to set out upon a European tour with $80 and a ferry ticket, like one Brooklyn man who

did so and has never regretted it. Eighty dollars is rather a small allowance, but here is what it will do: Passage to Liver-

pool and from Amsterdam or Antwerp, steerage in both cases, railroad and other transit through Scotland and England, to Paris and through the Low Countries and a certain uncomfortable minimum of food.

Perhaps it isn't worth while to travel under such deprivation. A man under 25

years of age will vote yes, probably. Older than that, men care more for creature comforts.

Yet even such economy can be made more endurable by numbers. I know of a party of six young men from Harvard who took steerage passage in the Servia for a vacation trip. They just filled one row of berths in one of the big rooms, took turns at washing their tin dishes and had lots of fun. The whole trip need not have cost each more than $100 for a two months' absence.

A woman who has saved $150 can, if she finds another woman of like mind and purse, take a rather extensive trip abroad by traveling "second cabin" at a round trip expense of $70, leaving as much more for shore expenses. Second cabin is perfectly clean, comfortable and respectable,

with plenty of food and effective if not al-

ways deferential service. Most Americans will, however, prefer to travel first cabin in

a cheaper boat rather than take passage either in the second cabin or steerage. The

absurd European distinctions of "classes" are a good joke for a short time. In a week and in the close companionship of shipboard they become unendurable.

The necessary cost of first cabin passage to Liverpool and return is not less than $400 and may be much more, to which add nearly 10 per cent for fees. A great many dollars may be saved, however, by taking

outward and homeward passage by differ-

ent lines. Thus, if the trip is a short one, sail to Liverpool or Glasgow; return from Antwerp or Amsterdam. If the trip is longer and includes Switzerland and Italy, sail to Liverpool or Glasgow (the latter if Scotland is to be visited); return from Naples or Genoa. Variety of interest as well as economy is secured by this plan. The cost of the passage from Genoa or Havre is somewhat greater than from Liverpool, but the economy in time and travel ashore more than makes the difference.

An economically arranged tour ashore will save time and money by being as direct as possible. Railway traveling, always third class, will cost about 2 cents a mile and may be reckoned up before starting

with a reasonable approach to accuracy. If points of interest do not lie near the line of route, omit them. There are others as good.

The economical traveler who has gone from Glasgow to Edinburgh by the Trosachs, seen Abbotsford and Melrose, stopped in

Shakespeare country and seen Oxford, is ready to proceed to London, with whatever cathedral towns have happened to lie in his path--say Durham and York--and from

London direct to the continent, not to return.

From London to Italy by Newhaven, Dieppe, Paris, Geneva, Lucerne, Venice, Rome, Naples, is a route reasonably direct.

It omits the Netherlands and the Rhine, which ought not to be omitted. They can be included by a detour from Paris, in which case Switzerland is entered by Schaff-

hausen and Zurich. In either case--in any

case--the journey's widest separated points

should be the seaport of arrival and departure if possible. Of a trip not including Italy the port of return may be Havre or Rotterdam. In this case one goes south by the Low Countries and the Rhine, returning north to Paris, or vice versa.

Food and lodging are much cheaper on the continent than in England. On the average an energetic traveler can get along nicely in perfect comfort, but not in "style,"

for $1.50 a day. Two, sharing meals and rooms, can make it on $2.50 a day, or even

less with extreme economy. In Paris a dinner, "filling" in quantity and really not so very dreadful in quality, can be bought

for 25 cents, a lunch for 26 cents, lodging and breakfast in the Latin quarter, the pleasantest and most convenient part of the city, for from 35 cents to 50 cents. Out of a $1.50 allowance one can save a quarter or so a day on the road, where living

is more expensive, as in Scotland.

Ocean passage, with fees, by cheap lines,

$110 or upward; 2,500 miles of railroad fare at 2 cents a mile, $50; 60 days' living at $1.50 a day, $90; incidentals, whatever you like to make them, guidebooks, in which one should never economize, $15; reserve fund, $50. These are the chief essentials of a splendid continental trip, including a bit of Scotland, England, Paris, the Rhine, Switzerland (on foot) and a bit of Italy without the Low Countries, or the Low Countries without Italy, going by Glasgow and returning from Naples or Amsterdam. Altogether $300 should cover everything. Such a trip involves some walking in mountain regions, patronizing cheap hotels, which are often the most homelike, and a total independence of hacks, which is achieved by carrying one's belongings in a single light grip and striking out boldly for lodgings in every town by the aid of the guidebook's street map.--John L. Heaton

in New York Recorder.

A Vigorous Empress. The empress of Austria, it is said, is still able to tire out the guides at Madonna di Campiglio and other places in the southern Tryol, where her pedestrian feats excite great astonishment and interest. She thinks nothing of a walk of 20 miles, and the rapidity of her pace renders it difficult for her attendants to keep up with her.

INFLUENCE OF GOOD CLOTHES. Two Counterfeit Coins and a Storekeeper Paint a Moral. There is a good deal of counterfeit silver floating about just now, and a prevalent quarter to catch it lies in the streets between Fortieth and Fiftieth. "I had no less than four bad half dollars offered me in one day last week," said a groceryman on Forty-third street. Various other tradesmen complained of the care they had to take in order to prevent being imposed on. Two unconscious victims formed a coincidence recently. A poorly clad but respectable looking woman bought a lemon in a Forty-second street store and presented a quarter, from which she awaited the change. "Now, look you here," shouted the shopman in a threatening, bulldog fashion, "that quarter's lead, and you know it. Hand up that lemon. You're a regular old rounder, that's what you are, and you dare to show your face in a store like this! Now shut your mouth and clear out o' here!" he yelled as the poor woman tried to get in her explanation that she had been imposed upon herself and had no idea the coin was bad. Ten minutes later brought in a fash-

ionably dressed woman, who bought a cheap basket of grapes, presenting in exchange the massive, unpopular cartwheel.

The man jingled it, or rather didn't, on the counter, scrutinized it closely, then pulled his countenance into an expression of deeply respectful regret. "I'm very sorry, madam," he began. "Oh, isn't it good? I got it from a man on the cable car. Never mind the grapes if it isn't," poured forth the well gowned woman anxiously, while the shopman remained grave and sympathetic. "I'm sorry, madam, it isn't. It's not even a good counterfeit. Too bad you should have been cheated." "It really is a shame," he remarked after she had gone. "I ought to have had her arrested," was what he said when the poor woman left. But this was just his little moral on the subject of good clothes.--New York World.

Tschaikowsky. The regretted death of M. Tschaikowsky, which was occasioned by an attack of cholera, deprives music of a master who had attained in his 50 and odd years a distinct measure of greatness in his art. He was past 20 years of age before he resolved to devote himself to a musical career. This was in 1869, when the Conservatoire of Music was founded at St. Petersburg. From that date practically his career as a composer began, although it was only during the last 15 years that his name has been prominently associat-

ed with musical composition throughout Europe.

Despite this widespread reputation, however, he contrived to instill a peculiarly native inspiration into his music. He had a bold conception of melody which in his hands was subjected to luxuriant and massive change, and into which he was fond of, as it were, dropping Russian native phrases, imparting to it a singularly characteristic quality. Perhaps his most ambitious operatic effect was "Eugene Onegin," the chief defect of which lies in its lamentably weak libretto. Nevertheless it is an opera which is the true storehouse of melody and most melodious modulation. His music is rarely rull. It is for the most part lit up by a kind of merry and keen vitality. Indeed he seldom persuaded himself to be calm, and his art has consequently a somewhat restless character. But he was a man of great distinction, whose loss it becomes us to deplore.--Pall Mall Budget. Burying Without Coffins. From the earliest ages to within about 100 years ago it appears to have been customary to bury either with or without a coffin. The following is an extract from a terrier of lands, fees, etc., belonging to Caistor vicarage, Lincolnshire, dated 1717: "For every grave in the churchyard and without coffin, 4 pence; if with coffin, 1 shilling." Among the vestry minutes of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, dated March 5, 1564: "Item, that none shall be buryd within the church unless the dead corpse be coffined in wood." The late John Bernard Palmer, first abbot of the Cistercians in England since the reformation, was buried in the chapter house at Loughborough without a coffin. In the days when burial without a coffin was general the body was shrouded, tied at the head and feet, and carried to the grave in a closed bier, which was generally provided by the parish for this purpose.--Westminster Gazette.

Poverty's Chance.

On that part of lower Clark street where the houses have shriveled away until they are never more than 20 feet high, where the sidewalks are moldy and decayed, where flimsy lace curtains hang in the windows and where no man looks you in the eye, a coal wagon was seen the other day. It was overloaded, and a chunk weighing 80 pounds or more fell off when the wheel struck a deep rut. A little Italian lounging before the entrance to a basement saw the block of coal fall, and he ran for it. But it had broken into several pieces. He captured the largest piece. A colored driver whose army coat was fastened about him by a piece of hempen twine took two of the smaller pieces, and then a woman with a basket trotted down a stairway and gathered up what was left, even to the crumbs. In certain parts of the city coal will be coal this winter.--Chicago Record.

The World's fair has two miles of lunch counters.

THE GOLD QUESTION. Perhaps to Be Solved by the Timely Defeat of King Lobengula. The following communication, bearing a Washington date, appeared in a recent issue of the New York Sun: It is curious that the newspapers of today which announce the destruction of silver should also announce the collapse of the Matabele king of a country larger than the Dakotas. In each instance the British auri sacra fames will be held responsible by the critical or perhaps hypercritical chronicler of events. I have always ventured to profess a faith in the infallibility of the AngloSaxon races. In this country I believe that the nation is swinging with a velocity perhaps dangerous toward the freedom of silver and that seems to be the view of the triumphant repealers here today, where the losers are more elated than the winners. But in Africa, England is today anticipating such a production of gold as will bring back the traditions of California and Ballarat, and the victory of a mere joint stock company over the forces of Lobengula may now be followed by results not less remarkable than those which in 1849 followed poor Marshall's discovery of a gold nugget in the dam at Sutter's mill in California. Until a month ago the only laborers in Mashonaland, the various Mashona tribes, were harried by the Matabeles whenever this fighting horde required a further supply of wives. The male Mashonas were killed or carried off from the very old dumps of the gold mines of Hartly hill, of Maroe or Fort Victoria. Now Lobengula and his routed "impis" are in retreat to northward of Zambesi. He will be there in the same position that was occupied by Sitting Bull and the Sioux after your catastrophe on the Little Horn in 1876, when that mightier Lobengula had retired into the British northwest.

Today the gold developments in Africa are of extraordinary interest. The Randt gold camp at Johannesberg, which dates back only to 1887 and produced but a monthly average of 16,000 ounces in 1888, shows the following developments: Monthly Average. Ounces. 1889........................................ 30,796 1890........................................ 41,234 1891........................................ 60,709 1892........................................ 100,205 The production in this camp since April, 1893, has been: Monthly. May........................................ 116,941 June........................................ 122,207 July........................................ 136,159 August........................................ 156,063

The production of August, if merely sustained, puts this single camp in advance of the gold production of the entire United States. The estimated probabilities of gold mines must be taken with considerable limitations, but those who know King Lobengula's territories and who have visited the various gold camps in Mashonaland during the past 12 months believe that three or more of these camps may prove not less productive than Johannesberg, and this in a climate that is admirably suited to the white race. The geological conditions, quartz on the contact of granite and slate, are very favorable to continued production. And now that the black tyrant has disappeared, your skilled miners, who have been deprived by your legislation of a field for their energies, may do worse, perhaps, than seek another citizenship in the far south under the protection of the Union Jack.--Moreton Ffewen.

A Balaklava Warrior. There has recently died in London, in the person of Trumpet Major Henry Joy, late of the Seventeenth Lancers, another of the small band of heroes who took part in the famous Balaklava charge and afterward lived to tell the tale. To Joy belonged the honor of sounding the order for the heroic charge. He entered the army on May 13, 1833, joining the Seventeenth Lancers as a boy in the band, serving in the same regiment 18 years. He was appointed trumpet major on Sept. 22, 1847, and was present at the head of the band at the funeral of the Iron Duke. On the outbreak of the Crimean war he sailed with the regiment for the Black sea and was present at the battles of the Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman and Sevastopool. He received a testimonial from General the Earl of Lucan, commanding the cavalry brigades in the Crimea, in which it states that Trumpet Major Joy was his trumpeter on the day of Balaklava. In a letter from Sir George Wombwell (who was present at Balaklava), written only a few days ago, occurs the words, "I heard him (Joy) sound the order for the Balaklava charge." Joy's bugle is in possession of his family at the present time. At Balaklava he had

two horses shot under him and came out of the fight mounted on a Russian horse.--London Million.

British Army Fifers. Fifers do not appear on the pay list of the Coldstream guards until 1797, when two of these musicians are charged in the company of grenadiers. After the restoration, the hautboy, or oboe, ap-

pears among the other instruments of the band. A warrant of the time of Charles II was issued in 1678 for payment of the state clothing of the hautboys and four drummers.

In the early years of the following cen-

tury the hautboys were introduced into the

different regiments of foot guards. The pay of the soldiers who served at St. Quintin's in the reign of Mary was not so unlike that of the present day. The private soldier received 5d., a drummer or fifer 1s., and a trumpeter 1s. 6d. a day.