VOL. XIV.

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1894.

NO. 36.

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.

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.

WALTER L.YEKKES,

DENTIST,

Tuckahoe, N. J. Will be in Ocean City at 656 Asbury avenue every Tuesday.

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

Restaurants.

MARSHALL'S DINING ROOMS FOR LADIES AND GENTS. No. 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, 35 cents.

Ladies' Room up-stairs with home-

like comforts.

PURE SPRING WATER. OPEN ALL NIGHT.

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.

BAKERY, 601 South Twenty-second Street. 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.

Y. CORSON,

DEALER IN

FLOUR AND FEED, No. 721 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J.

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.

D. GALLAGHER, DEALER IN FINE FURNITURE, 43 South 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.

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.

Bakers, Grocers, Etc. JACOB SCHUFF, (Successor to A. E. Mahan,) THE PIONEER BAKERY, No. 706 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., DRUGGISTS AND CHEMISTS 112 Market Street, Philadelphia.

Dealers in Pure Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, etc.

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.

ISRAEL G. ADAMS & CO.,

Real Estate AND Insurance AGENTS,

Rooms 2, 4 & 6, Real Estate & Law Building,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.

Commissioners of Deeds for Penn-

sylvania.

Money to loan on First Mortgage. Lots for sale at South Atlantic City.

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 sys-

tem; new electric street railroad; electric lights; new hotels; new cottages; new tenants and new guests; everything 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 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. Occasionally 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 househunter 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.

The Kaiser's Favorite Dish.

The German kaiser and kaiserin usually breakfast and dine with 20 to 60 friends. They call that a "home" luncheon or dinner. The cuisine is half English and half German, and meats are always served in great variety, as the kaiser is a great meat eater. German champagne is furnished with soup, Moselle and Rhine wine follow and then Burgundy and Heidsick Royal with the dessert.

The latter is a special brand manufactured expressly for his majesty, who has always from 6,000 to 10,000 quarts of it in his cellars. The kaiser's favorite dish is Vienna roast beef, or pot roast. Whenever he visits at a house, his court marshal asks the host to place this dish on the menu. The kaiser's menu is always in German script except when foreigners are invited who do not speak the language. The kaiser keeps no pastry cook. All pastries for the schloss are furnished by a caterer in Unter den Linden.

The Empress Frederick's cuisine has never excited the enthusiasm of gourmets. It is neither English nor French nor German. Her majesty is inordinately fond of cream, which is added to most dishes on her table. Purees and pastries are much liked.--New York World.

Royalty on Tricycles.

An apparently authorized announcement that the Princess of Wales and her daughters have taken to riding tricycles is expected to give a tremendous boom to the manufacture of that class of cycling machine, which has been in a state of decline for several years. Polite society has always professed to regard cycling with scorn as an essentially vulgar and plebeian form of exercise and amusement. The princess having now set the fashion, fashionable dames and their

middle class imitators are bound to fol-

low it. Much gratification is expressed that the princess did not take to the bi-

cycle and "rational dress," the use and abuse of which have brought a great deal of undeserved ridicule upon his [sic] form of healthy recreation, to the benefit solely of the artists and writers for the comic papers. It is said that the Princess of Wales commenced tricycling by the advice of her doctors.--London Letter.

Dickey's Prayer.

Dickey was overheard saying his prayer the other evening at bedtime in this fashion:

"O Lord, bless Johnny and Billy

Holliday and me and don't let any of us die, but if any of us has got to die I'd ruther it was them. Amen."--Chi-

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A DETECTIVE'S YARN.

"It is not very often," said Detective Riley, "that a detective is forced to assume a disguise to get information, but sometimes it is absolutely necessary. The last time that I had to go into a den of thieves in a bogus character was a good many years ago, and I had a rather lively experience and enough of excitement to stand me until the end of my days.

"We received a report of the escape of a crook from the Charlestown prison, and from what the authorities there had been able to gather it was supposed that the convict had come to this city. They sent a description of the man, and the only thing that I saw was of any use was that on the man's right arm were the initials 'A. T.,' with a flag above and anchor below them in india ink. I looked over our records and found that we had there the pedigree of Abe Taylor, and he had the same marks on his right arm. The rest of the description that we had did not tally very closely with the one sent from Charlestown, but I thought that there was good ground for the belief that the escaped convict was Taylor, who was one of the most successful jail breakers in the country.

"In order to be certain of the identity of the convict I went to Charlestown. I found that the man had been convicted under the name of John Smith for the robbery of the Pittsfield bank, and the style of the work was in line with the business usually touched off by Taylor. I took a run ever over to Pittsfield, got a description of the two men who had done the bank out of $160,000 and became convinced that the man who had been shot and arrested and who escaped was Abe Taylor, and that his partner was Jerry Connors.

"I knew that I was up against a stiff game, and on the train from Boston I laid out a plan which I thought would give me a show to get on the track of the men. Abe and Jerry I knew were partners with Percy Slade, who ran a notorious fence and dive in Washington street, near Canal, and I made up my

mind that some time or other the pair of them would land in Slade's place. I

decided that my strongest hold would

be to get in with Slade and his gang on their own terms. I knew the risk I was taking, for the gang were about the toughest set of thugs and assassins in the city and would not hesitate to slit a man's wizen in a second upon the slightest provocation. I put up a scheme which I thought would beat their game, and it worked to the queen's taste. "When I reached the city, I had myself arrested for a fictitious crime and was tried and sent to the Blackwell's Island penitentiary in a perfectly regular way, with the assistance, of course, of Recorder Hackett. The warden in the penitentiary knew my game and aided me in carrying out the business. After I had been locked up a few days I made my escape from the island after dark. The next day the newspapers contained a thrilling account of my escape, and the story was that I dug my way out of my cell and swam across the river to this city. I must have had a terrible time, as the papers told it, but as a matter of fact I crossed the river in a boat, and the story was given out to make me solid in the work I had

laid out to do.

"When I reached the city, it was dark, and I walked down to Slade's dive in my convict's rig, which had been soaked with water to carry out my scheme. I sent a boy into the dive to get Slade to come to me, and I told him the story of my escape and said that a thief who had started to get away with me, but had lost his nerve when it came to taking the swim, had told me that when we reached the city we could go to Slade's and put up until the thing blew over. "Slade was very cautious. He felt my clothing and took me in a back room in the den and carefully examined the clothes and shoes to see if they were the genuine convict's outfit. He was satisfied on that point, but was suspicious when I could not give him the name of my partner. I did not dare to fake a name, for Slade knew where every thief was who had been sent away that he ever did any business with. I told him that the man was known to me as Jack, and as Jack McCarthy, one of Slade's gang, happened to be on the island at the time my story was taken as being straight, and I was given a room on the second floor to bunk in. The next day Slade saw the story of my escape in the papers and became my friend at once. "I must admit that I never got better treatment from any one than I did from Slade and the gang. He told them that I was all right, and they were glad to know a fellow who had the nerve to swim across the East river, where the tide runs like a [?] race. I had to keep in the house all the time, and in case the police got on to me in any way I was shown a way that I could escape by getting into an underground passage, which led to a sewer in the street. I was fed like a fighting cock, and nothing turned up for about three ways. Then early one morning while I was sleeping, some one came into my room, and I heard a whispered consultation. There was a dim light in an adjoining room, and I could see four figures. My hair stood up on end, for I naturally thought that they were talking about me, and that I had been found out. I made up my mind to give them as good a fight as there was in me, but after awhile the men went into the next room, and I heard them get into bed. In the morning my heart gave a big thump when I saw that the new arrivals were Abe Taylor, Jerry Connors and Andy Cummings, the men I was after.

"My first idea was to connect with the outside and have the place pulled, and I would have done this if I had not learned that a scheme had been put up to turn off a savings bank in Newark. Cummings and Taylor had been a week in Newark planting the place. I was introduced to them by Slade, and Taylor took me right away as a jail breaker after his own heart. I worked my cards as skillfully as I could and let the gang know that I was dying of dry rot. In the course of my business I had naturally picked up every detail of the crook's trade and let Taylor know that I was anxious to get into some good bank lift. They waited about a week and then got word from Newark that the bank was ripe. I was delighted when Taylor told me I could go along, and I carried some

of the jimmies.

"When we reached the Pennsylvania depot in Jersey city, we split up, and I went to a lavatory. I found a bootblack there, and I gave him a message for headquarters here and the chief of the Newark police, informing them of the attack that was to be made on the savings bank. The boy did his work right, and when we reached Newark I saw that we were picked up by some of the local police on the dead quiet. We went to the house of Red King and learned that a hole had been pushed through the wall of the building adjoining the bank. When we left King's to go to the bank, I saw three New York detectives on the way. I could not arrange for any signal and did not know when the attack would be made upon us. "A dozen policemen were in the bank office waiting for us, and after we had got through the hole behind the safe and were getting ready to go to work the police rushed in on us. I dashed for the hole and fell on purpose so that I blocked it, and as every man was covered with a gun there was nothing to do but surrender. I went in with the gang, and they did not learn who I was until the next day. The gang swore they would kill me, but haven't done it yet. Taylor and Connors were sent to Massachusetts on the Pittsfield affair,

and the rest of the gang got a taste of Jersey justice."--New York Recorder.

[?] of [?] Women. It has been estimated that of the [?],- 500,000,000 of property held in New York $300,000,000 is in the hands of women, but this is certainly well within the real facts, since the women of Boston pay taxes on $150,000,000. Even so, however, this would [?] at the present rate of [?] over $[?],- 000,060 of property in New York so owned by women.--Women's Journal.

Pennsylvania Railroad Time.

There was a time when folks used to set their watches by the town clock. Nowadays the railway timepiece seems to set the pace. There is so much traveling and so many have to catch trains that men try to keep railroad time. Few think, however, how difficult it is to keep that same railroad time straight. A bad watch or false time, even to the extent of a minute or two, might easily involve the destruction of a train and many lives. Conductors and engineers not only must have good time keeping watches, but they must have a very accurate standard of time to go by. All clocks vary, but most clocks vary too much for railroad accuracy. All over the great Pennsylvania system the clocks are regulated every 24 hours by telegraph from Altoona, where they get the standard time in seconds from Washington. The conductors and engineers running out of Philadelphia get their time from the clock in the rotunda at the Broad street station, the big one in the center just outside the waiting room, which occupies the same position in the new station that it did in the old. This clock, which cost over $400, is considered a wonder and in the old station seldom varied more than two seconds in the 24 hours. It has not been doing quite so well since taken down and put up again, but is improving and is so much better than any other clock knock that nobody thinks of changing it, and in all probability in a little while, when it gets accustomed to its position and surroundings, it will come as near perfect accuracy as it ever has in its history.--Philadelphia Times. Breslan's Trick. Breslan, a celebrates juggler, being at Canterbury with his troop, met with such bad success that they were almost starved. He repaired to the churchwardens and promised to give a night's takings to the poor if the parish would pay for hiring a room, etc. The charitable bait took the benefit proved a bumper, and next morning the church wardens waited upon the wizard to touch the receipts. "I have already disposed of dem," said Breslan. "De profits were for de poor. I have kept my promise and given the money to my own people, who are de poorest in dis parish." "Sir," exclaimed the churchwardens, "this is a trick." "I know it," said the conjurer. "I live by my tricks."--London Tit-Bits. Here is a new fact with regard to the baronetcy recently conferred on Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Before the honor was

bestowed by her majesty, a portfolio of reproductions illustrative of the artist's works was ordered to be dispatched to Osborne for the queen's inspection.

THE SILENT CRANK. A Type That the Foreign Critic Will Not Be Able to Understand. There is one type of American citizen which it is certain no foreign critic will ever be able to understand. It does not make much difference who the critic may be, whom he confronts the type of silent and suffering baseball crank he will be at sea. It is a type that is familiar to all the attendants at the ball games and to the many men who are acquainted with the world of sports. The howling dervish sort of crank is known to all men, but the silent and suffering one usually baffles analysis. In the majority of instances he is a man of mature years who has secured an important place in the financial or commercial world. His passion for baseball is a thing that passes all understanding. He is on hand at the games whenever it is possible, but always takes a retiring and unobtrusive seat, where he sits with an outward air of boredom and indifference, but really suffering from emotions that are violent and tempestuous. It is only when he grits his teeth, drives his nails into the palms of his hands or suddenly lets out a blood curdling scream that the spectator gets any idea of the emotions which are aroused by the playing. At other times the tremor of his eyelids or the fierce fashion in which he bites his lips as he watches the game indicate how closely he participates in the fortunes of the home team. There is one instance of a banker of sedate mien, with white mutton chop whiskers and a smug exterior, who, when spoken to on the question of baseball, smiles, shrugs his shoulders and refuses to be drawn into a discussion. Yet at dinner at night he is wildly jubilant or immoderately depressed, according to the results of the day's game. He has not missed a game this year, except on Tuesdays and Fridays, when he is compelled to be present at board meetings. He is only one of literally hundreds of men who are known to the frequenters of the ball grounds, and who are wound up in the national game to a degree of absorption that even the devotees of racing could not rival.--New York Sun.

Gigantic Extinct Birds. The giant of all the feathered bipeds was the colossal epiornis of Madagascar. The scientific announcement of the discovery of the remains of this gigantic species of bird was made by Geoffrey St. Hilaire, the great French savant, on Jan. 27, 1851. The specimen of which he gave a description had been found in guano bed and stood over 12 feet in height. The egg found among the bones, described by the scientific Frenchman, was as large as a two gallon jug, an experiment proving that it would hold the contents of six large African ostrich eggs, or 148 common hen eggs. The giant moa, which is believed to have but recently become extinct in New Zealand, was larger in point of weight and bulk than the epiornis, but it only stood 9 feet high, quite high enough, however, when it is known that its weight was not less than 1,000 pounds. The great auk is another species of bird but recently extinct. The most remarkable thing about this large auk is the fabulous prices now asked and given for specimens of its eggs. Quite recent-

ly an egg of this species was sold in London for $1,225.--St. Louis Republic.

The Price of Interviews. It appears that Mr. W. S. Gilbert is not the first or the only distinguished Englishman to ask compensation for an interview. The New York Sun's correspondent in London once upon a time wrote to Mr. Gladstone asking him for an interview on the Irish question, and

in the course of a conversation which followed with Mr. Gladstone's secretary it was learned that a fee of $500 would be expected in payment for the interview, it being understood that Mr. Gladstone should write it himself, and thus make it authoritative. Lord Roberts fixed the price of $100 for an interview upon the threatened war between English and Russia on another occasion.--Boston Herald.

Escaped to Die. The skeleton of man, with a rusty pair of handcuffs about the wrists, was found in the Creek country of the Indian Territory by a deputy sheriff a few

days ago. The bones of the skeleton

were broken and strewn about, evident-

ly by wild animals. The grewsome relic

undoubtedly told the story of some prisoner who had escaped from the guards

only to perish in the woods.--Detroit

Free Press.

Telltale Milk Jug.

A "telltale" milk jug has been de-

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