OCEAN CITY SENTINEL PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. R. CURTIS ROBINSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.

Advertisements in local columns, 10 cents per line, each insertion. Monthly and yearly rates furnished on application. Job work promptly done by experienced hands.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1895.

Entered at the Post Office at Ocean City, N. J. as second-class mail matter.

THE attempt to wreck a train at Hammonton would indicate that there is to be a revival in the train robbing

business.

THE Atlantic City Review says "the State Prison and insane asylums of this State are becoming so overcrowded that it looks as if the time would come when all law-abiding citizens would have to take to these institutions and let the criminals and weak-minded people

have the run of the State."

NON-RESIDENT property owners should have some one examine their houses and see that windows and doors have not been blown open during the late storm. The snow pressed its way through the smallest opening and it is likely that in many places it has drifted in and may work injury to walls or

furniture.

To Be Put in Good Condition. The Board of Directors of the Cape May, Delaware Bay and Sewell's Point Railroad Company, at a meeting recently held, voted to expend $10,000 for improvements to their road, and to commence the work as soon as the weather permits, so that the line may be in first-class condition for early operation for the season of '95. Already the contract for new rails and ties has been made. The entire length of the Sewell's Point end of the road is to be relaid with new rails and ties, and the roadbed put in thorough repair. On the Cape May Point end there is to be a general overhauling and repairing done, so that the entire road from Sewell's Point, to the steamboat landing will be put in first-class condition.

Atlantic City in Winter.

The Lenten season opens on the 27th, less than three weeks off, and the hotel men are busy making preparations for an unusually large influx of visitors. Applications for apartments are coming in daily in no inconsiderable numbers, and there is every indication that the most sanguine expectations of the boniface will be fully realized. Many houses are preparing for opening before

the arrival of Lent.

The winter season in the City-by-the-Sea, which is now about at its zenith, has been by far the most prosperous in the history of this popular all-the-year-round resort. The houses which kept open were unusually well patronized, and it is likely that several more will be kept open in the future. The number of people here now indicates the growing popularity of the city as a winter as well as summer resort.

Many visitors are from distant por-

tions of the country, who find here

everything that can be desired in the

way of attractions. The city has escaped many of the severe storms during the past two winter months, and is now having its first spell of real

cold weather.

But the visitors to Atlantic need not know it is cold, unless they should voluntarily venture forth. The houses provide patrons with various amusements, and euchres, dances, musicales, etc., are of frequent occurrence. The glass-enclosed sun parlors and promenades, which are now being made a special attraction by several of the largest beach front hostelries, are very popular with the guests. These are so arranged as to command a full view of the strand and the ocean. Heated with steam and luxuriously furnished, they are splendid places for lounging away a day that may be unpleasant out of doors.

The Boardwalk is the mecca of all visitors on clear, sunshiny days. Even when the wind as it sweeps down the strand is rather chilly there will be found upon the walk parties of rosycheeked, healthy-looking maidens and their escorts well wrapped up in furs and great coats who seem not to mind the cold in the least. Council has adopted the wise policy of keeping the promenade clear of snow at all times. It is likely that the famous structure will be widened along the part most traversed during the summer before the next season rolls around. Although three or four months will elapse before the crowds begin to come in force there

is already a very noticeable air of

activity all along the ocean front. The many amusement schemes along the beach last summer caused many to compare the walk with the famous Midway Plaisance. The thing most necessary to make the comparison a close one will be supplied this year in the shape of a place of amusement to be known as a "Street in Cairo." The location will be the large open lot at the foot of Delaware avenue. The projectors, a party of West Virginia capitalists, will ex-

pend $10,000 in erecting the building

and importing to this city Egyptians, camels, etc.

Many of the summer cottagers in

this city are interested in the building

of ad rive down the beach to Longport.

The question is being warmly agitated by the hotel men and leading citizens.

Samuel Carhart, contracting painter and glazier. Estimates furnished. Jobbing attended to. 860 Asbury avenue.

Fall stock of Wall Paper now in.

All of the latest designs. Over one hundred different patterns. Popular prices. B. R. Smith & Sons, 1046 Asbury avenue.

An Interesting Opinion. Vice Chancellor Ritney has filed an opinion covering 105 closely typewritten pages of legal cap paper, in which many Philadelphia and Cape May county people are interested

financially.

The opinion is probably the last act

in the much litigated Philadelphia and Sea Shore Railroad Company and the Tuckahoe and Sea Isle and Cape May branch line, and is directory in its nature, the Receiver of those insolvent railroad companies having asked the Court to direct him as to his duty in distributing something over $200,000 cash to the creditors, secured by him

from the sale of the roads.

E. R. Wood, of Philadelphia, the former President of the Sea Shore Company, who engineered the financial end of these enterprises, comes in for considerable censure in the opinion, and his financial methods are laid bare. The principal question involved was whether the bonds issued by the railroad company, which were covered by a blanket mortgage, should be regarded as a first lien, or whether the creditors should be paid share and share alike, the validity of the bonds being called

into serious question.

The opinion also declares Mr. Wood

and the whole Board of Directors to

have participated in a fraud upon the bondholders and stockholders, and they

"are debarred upon plain principles of

law from deriving any benefit from

this fraud as against innocent sufferers by that fraud and breach of the law." None of the bonds numbering beyond No. 465 are allowed to come in for a

dividend, except those held by the Bethlehem Iron Company. The bonds

under No. 465 are principally held by the 16 Directors of the defunct com-

pany and as collateral by the Philadel-

phia banks. The Vice Chancellor also

takes occasion to say that the delivery if the "overissued" bonds in the State

of Pennsylvania was a crime.

The facts as set forth in the opinion

are of exceptional interest, for the

reason that they show just how easy it

is to build a $900,000 railroad with very

little money. The Philadelphia and Sea Shore Railroad Company was organized by 16 gentlemen, principally residents of the city of Philadelphia, August 6, 1889, for the purpose of building a railway from the village of Winslow, Camden county, on the line of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway Company, to Sea Isle City, a distance of about 40 miles. The capital stock was stated to be $900,000, and each of the 16 organizers were declared by the articles filed in the office of the Secretary of State to be directors of the company, although the by-laws of the company only required 13 directors. In September, 1889, the Philadelphia and Sea Shore Railway Company deposited with the Treasurer of New Jersey the sum of $70,000, declaring it to be the intention to build a railway 35 miles long, and the active work of construction commenced at once. Before any corporation can build a railroad in any part of New Jersey the law requires that $2000 in cash shall be deposited with the State Treasurer for each mile

of the contemplated road.

The principal creditors who will lose all or nearly the whole amount of their claims are as follows: Michael Conway, liquor dealer, Philadelphia, $27,000; Dr. Emlen Physick, $25,000; Burnham, Williams & Company, proprietors of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, of Philadelphia, $16,000; the Fourth Street National Bank, Philadelphia, $18,750; the Manufacturers' National Bank, of Philadelphia, $12,000; the Commonwealth National Bank of Philadelphia, $8000; the Seventh

National Bank, Philadelphia, $4400; the New Jersey Trust and Safe Deposit Company, Camden, $11,600; The Central National Bank, $4720; The First National Bank, Camden, $575; Millville National Bank, $2000; Philadelphia and Atlantic Railway Company, now leased by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, $25,000; Philadelphia Warehouse Company, $577.71; Richland Improvement Com-

pany, $5000.

Sea Isle City Lot and Building Association of Sea Isle City, $16,000; Mary K. Wood, who mortgaged her home in Philadelphia and invested her money in the Philadelphia and Sea Shore Railway Company upon the advice of a relative who occupied the position of direc-

tor, $10,000.

The Bethlehem Iron Company, part of whose mortgage bonds have been declared legal and who will receive a share of the funds in the hand of the Receiver, has a claim of $41,504.23. There are other small creditors in Philadelphia whose claims in the aggregate will reach $50,000, who will receive 33½ cents on the dollar. There are also a large number in Camden, in which city the Sea Shore Company had its main

office at 312 Market street.

A Birthday Surprise. As we cast our eyes out of the window and see Mother Earth clothed in a beautiful sheet of white, then turning our gaze upon the waters and finding them in the ley embrace of stern winter's blast, we can fully comprehend the language of the poet,

The melancholy days are come, The saddest of all the year; With wailing winds and naked woods, And meadows all brown and scared.

This being so, is no reason that we should go about the streets with bowed heads, long and sorrowful faces, bewailing, as it were, the stern laws of nature. This the ladies residing between First and Fifth streets resolved should not

be, at least on the 14th inst., as that

date marked the thirty-ninth milestone in the life of one of their neighbors. Soon there was a hurrying to and fro; one hasty meeting, and all arrangements were completed. Upon the arrival of the appointed day and hour, each

lady was seen laden with her share of the treat wending her way to the desig-

nated rendezvous. Soon after 3 o'clock p. m. they took up their line of march to the residence of Mrs. Daniel Sampson. The objective point was soon reached; the housewife surrendered to superior numbers; then the tongue was loosened; merry feet were soon flying here and there; nimble hands were busy preparing the evening meal for the male portion that was to appear in the early evening. Shortly after 6 o'clock came the welcome news, "Come, please, fill up the table." Repairing to the dining room, we found the table loaded with hot tea, coffee, meats, chickens and vegetables of different kinds, such as tend to please the inner man after a hard day's work exposed to the blasts

of a cold February day. Thus table

after table was emptied and replenished until forty-eight persons had occupied

a seat at the festal board.

The evening was pleasantly spent

with instrumental and vocal music. Miss Vaneman gave a recitation that attracted the attention of all, and the eye of more than one grew dim with the tear that was seen to sparkle therein.

As the clock struck the hour of ten the

guests began to look for their hats, caps and wraps, each in turn bidding their

neighbor good-night. I. W. T.

Wanamaker's. PHILADELPHIA, February 18, 1895.

Railroad Time-Tables. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. WEST JERSEY R. R. Schedule in effect OCTOBER 6, 1894. For Philadelphia--7.40 a m, 3.10 p m, week days. Sundays, 4.40 p m. For Sea Isle City--7.40 a m, 3.10 p m, week days. Sundays, 9.35 a m and 4.40 p m. Leave PHILADELPHIA, MARKET ST. FERRY. For Ocean City--9.00 a m, and 4.00 p m, week days. Sundays, 9.00 a m. Leave PHILADELPHIA, BROAD ST. STATION. FOR NEW YORK. Express, week-days, 3.20, 4.05, 4.50, 5.15, 6.50, 7.33, 8.20, 9.50, 11, 11.14 a m, 12 noon, 12.44 (Limited, 1.06 and 4.22 p m, Dining Cars), 1.40, 2.30 (Dining Car), 3.20, 4, 5, 6, 6.50, 7.13, 8.12, 10 p m, 12.01

night. Sundays, 3.20, 4.06, 4.50, 5.15, 8.12, 9.50, 11.03 a m, 12.44, 1.40, 2.30 (Dining Car), 4.00 (Limited 4.22), 5.20, 6.30, 6.50, 7.13, 8.12 p m, 12.01 night. Express for Boston, without change, 11.00 a m week-days, and 6.50 p m daily.

Washington and the South. For Baltimore and Washington, 3.50, 7.20, 8.31, 9.10, 10.20, 11.18, 11.40 a m, (12.35 Lim. Dining Car) 1.30, 3.46, 4.41 (Dining Car), (5.16 Congressional Limited, Dining Car), 6.17, 9.56, 7.40 (Dining Car) p m, and 12.03 night, week-days. Sundays, 3.50, 7.20, 9.10, 11.18, 11.40 a m, 4.41 (Dining Car), 6.55, 7.40 (Dining Car) p m and 12.01 night.

S. M. PREVOST, General Manager. J. R. WOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent.

TO THE REPUBLICAN AND INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF OCEAN CITY. Be it known that a permanent organ-

ization known as the Ocean City Re-

publican Club, with headquarters in Howell's Hall, has been established for the promulgation of Republican principles and the solidifying of the Repub-

lican strength at the ballot box at every

election to be held in Ocean City. With the evidence before us of a large Republican majority at each election, we fail to see any benefits arising therefrom to the party either in municipal or county affairs so far as we are concerned, and in order to sustain our just claims to recognition in the representation of our town we have formed this organization. We desire to have the co-operation and assistance of all loyal Republicans and

any others who may deem it wisdom to join our ranks, where the cardinal prin-

ciple is that the majority shall rule and

no boss dictation.

Application may be made to the Secretary or any member for membership.

To suit the opportunities of all applicants we have three degrees of member-ship--Active, Honorary and Contributive--the relations of which will be cheerfully explained to all who propose to join.

By order of the Club, I. S. CHAMPION, Secretary.

Wanamaker's. PHILADELPHIA, February 18, 1895. LOW-PRICED DRESS GOODS Those Yankees! those Yankees! Half a glimpse of a new idea in Dress Stuffs and almost before the world has turned over half a dozen times they've improved on the pattern, lifted the thought--ac-tually painted the rose. And all the time so tieing the pulse of steam and the muscles of steel to the work that costs come closer and closer to nothing. Not a prettiness of the originals lost, not a cuteness or quaintness lacking that any one would set store by. The changes are all for the better--

in the direction of sensible economy.

Scores of sorts already in store; other scores to come. Sixty odd styles in the little

list that follows. At 25c the yard.

Pretty little two toned Checks, 6 colorings.

At 30c the yard.

Mottled colored Cheviots, 17 colorings.

At 37½c the yard.

Stylish Check weave, 7 colorings.

At 37½c the yard.

Net effect weave Cheviot, 6 colorings.

At 37½c the yard. Cloth finish Mottled Suiting, 8 colorings. At 37½ the yard.

Three-toned Check Suiting, 6 colorings.

At 37½c the yard.

Covert Cloth, cloth finish, 8 colorings.

At 40c the yard. Figured Melange Suiting, 6 colorings.

CREPONS It's a streak of sunshine--as well as a shadow--that the Dress Goods favorite of the season is casting before. First came the Black Cre-pons--the seafoamy ripples of finest wool and springiest mohair. They're coming yet--black snowdrifts of them every day. Going almost faster--sometimes six or eight full pieces snapped up in an hour, and all in single dress lengths. Close behind come the Colored Crepons--behind only in time. Exquisite, beautiful. Sometimes as if woven from summer clouds and dipped in auroral light. Others rainbow tinted. Others--see them! Every weave prettiness that the Blacks have shown--more. And it's only the beginning. These styles now; to-morrow, next day--every day for weeks yet the list will grow.

At 75c the yard. All Wool Crepon Crinkle, 17 in. wide, 5 shades. At 75c the yard. Mohair Crepon Pebble, [?] in. At 85c the yard. All Wool Wavy Crepon, 16 in. At 85c the yard. All Wool Striped Crepon, 45 in. At $1 the yard. All Wool Crepon Plumetis, 46 in. At $1.25 the yard. Mohair Pebble Crepon, 17 in. At $1.50 the yard. All Wool Gauze Crepon, 46 in. At $2 the yard. Mohair Gauffre Crepon, 45 in. Other designs, $2.50, $2.75, $3, $3.50.

MEN'S SHOES He makes good Shoes, excellent Shoes, and in this State. But he needs a wider field--new trade. And so he lets us sell Men's good Calf Shoes--laced and Congress, half a dozen styles of toes--at $2 the pair for which his regular wholesale price is $2.25 the pair. With them we put $4 imported enameled leather laced Shoes, also at $2 the pair.

There are half a dozen styles of the Men's Calf and French patent leather Calf $6 Shoes at $3.90. Freshly sorted up--but the end must come some time.

GIRLS' AND BOYS' SHOES Without heels, with and without tips. Best leather, best shoe-making, and about half prices. In the lot are Children's 8½ to 10½ at 70c, and Misses' 11 to 2 at 85c. The range is 70c to $1.50.

12½c CANTON FLANNEL AT 8c Bleached, perfect bleach--snowy white, lamb's-wool-like fleece for the face, good, firm back. Heavy enough, light enough--just right. Unbleached Canton Flannel is as cheap accordingly. We've lately handed out to you more than one hundred cases of the R. W. P. brand. In the beaten way it would be 10c the yard, we say 6½c the yard. 10 yards for $1. BLEACHED MUSLIN, 4-4 Qualities up to mark; bleach, finish, everything as it ought to be. Only prices have gone back. 7c Muslins at 5c. 8c Muslins at 6½c. 10c Muslins at 8c. Cambrics, too. 12½c Muslins at 10c. 10c Cambrics at 8c. 12½c Cambrics at 10c.

HANDKERCHIEFS. Better Handkerchiefs at 12½c, than you used to get at 25c, and the pennies count as much accordingly in the higher grades. For Women. At 12½c each--Unlaundered hemstitched Handkerchiefs, hand embroidered and drawn work. At 50c each--New and dainty effects in women's scalloped and embroidered Handkerchiefs, with Vandyke points. For Men. At 12½c each--All-white handkerchief, hemstitched, unlaundered, full line of initials. At 25c each--Colored border hemstitched Handkerchiefs, four widths of hem. JOHN WANAMAKER.

SAMUEL SCHURCH,

CITY

Collector & Treasurer, No. 701 ASBURY AVENUE. OFFICE HOURS 12 to 2; 6 to 8 p. m.

R. B. CORSON, FUNERAL DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON VANGILDER, Manager. MILLVILLE, N. J. Petersburg, N. J. C. B. COLES & SONS COMPANY, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in LUMBER and MILL WORK. Largest stock of Hemlock, White and Yellow Pine, Poplar, Cypress, Chestnut; Oak and other hard woods a specialty. Odd or Hard Wood Mill Work and office fixtures a specialty. FRONT, BELOW KAIGHN AVE., CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY. Telephone No. 42

R. B. STITES & CO., DEALERS IN

Pine, Cedar and Hemlock

BUILDING LUMBER.

Siding, Flooring, Window Frames,

Sash, Doors,

Blinds, Mouldings, Brackets, Turnings, Shingles, Pickets, Lath, Lime, Cement. A full supply constantly on hand, and under cover. Orders left at No. 759 Asbury avenue will receive immediate despatch by Telephone. Lumber Yard and Office: Cor. 12th St. & West Ave., OCEAN CITY, N. J.

PENNSYLVANIA'S LEADING NEWSPAPER in all the attributes that suffice to make a first-class family journal. THE PHILADELPHIA RECORD Spares no trouble or expense to gather and present to its readers all the news of the Old and New World. Its several Departments, each under the management of a competent Editor, treat fully of matters pertaining to The Household, The Farm, Woman's World, Science, Art, Literature, Finance, The Real Estate World, Presenting a complete magazine every day. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Daily, one year, $3.00 Daily and Sunday, one year, $4.00 ADDRESS The Record Publishing Co, 917-19 Chestnut St., Phila.

Note the Cut in Prices of FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, At M. MENDEL'S 1625 ATLANTIC AVENUE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.

The Tariff Bill which lately became a law has knocked the bottom out of prices, and the purchaser can now secure reliable goods at our house at ruinously low figures. Investigate for yourselves.

J. S. RUSH, HOUSE and SIGN PAINTER, Ornamental work of all kinds done at the lowest cash prices. Residence and Office: Eleventh Street and Central Avenue, Ocean City

DESIRABLE COTTAGES FOR SALE OR RENT

If you intend visiting the seashore the coming season, call on or write

R. CURTIS ROBINSON, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE AGENT, 744 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J.,

who has on hand a number of desirable furnished and unfurnished cottages. Full information given on application. Building lots for sale in every section of the city.

Insurance written by first-class Companies. Come and see me before insuring elsewhere.

Money to loan on Bond and Mortgage on Improved Property.

ESTABLISHED 1886. PUBLC LEDGER AND DAILY TRANSCRIPT. PHILADELPHIA. GEORGE W. CHILDS, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR FROM 1864 TO 1894. GEORGE W. CHILDS DREXEL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. The Ledger, improved, illustrated, convenient in form, is one of the largest and best newspapers published anywhere--progressive and of high character.

During 1895 the PUBLIC LEDGER'S former high place in journalism will be not only maintained, but advanced by improvements in every department, in the extension of its news service, literary attractions, and special features. To enable the publisher to make the proposed improvement, and to meet the steadily and rapidly growing circulation of the Ledger, Messrs. Hoe & Co. are now constructing for it four New Sextuple Presses of the latest and most approved design. These presses will increase the facilities for rapid printing 25 per cent., enhance the typographical appearance of the paper, and give more distinct impressions.

ITS SPECIAL FEATURES ARE: All the news condensed and classified. Important Matters in full, Classified Advertisements, as interesting as news and as much read.

Independent Comment on the Events of the day.

Reliable Financial News and Market Reports. State News of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, complete and classified.

Social Events, Games and Sports, the Fashions of the day, Literary, Art, Farm and Garden, Scientific and Labor notes, Building Society news and Household articles.

The DAILY LEDGER (Sunday excepted), by mail, to any address in the United States or Canada, 50 cents per month. Saturday's LEDGER (weekly), a great home journal, which should be in every country house, $1.00 per year. Make all remittance payable to GEO. W. CHILDS DREXEL, Editor and Publisher.

A. D. SHARP Is now ready to Clean Out Cesspools

At a low price, this being a good season of the year. I can clean them much cheaper now than in the Spring or early Summer. The brushing of lots also promptly attended to. Send your name and number to A. D. SHARP, Ocean City, N. J.

PARKER MILLER is fully prepared to Clean Out Cesspools. Send in your orders at your earliest convenience. Settlement for same can be made on or before July 1, 1895. PARKER MILLER, Asbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J.

Joseph G. Champion, ARCHICT, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and specifications furnished. Terms reasonable. WEST AVE. AND EIGHTH ST., Ocean City, N. J.

J.N. JOHNSON, PLUMBER, STEAM AND GAS FITTER. Repairing a specialty. Bath Tubs and Plumbers' Supplies. 730 Asbury Avenue.

SMITH & THORN, 846 Asbury Avenue, PLUMBING & DRAINAGE. All kinds of Pump, Sink, Drivewell Points and Plumbing Material constantly on hand. All kinds of Jobbing in our line promptly attended to. Best of Material used. Experienced workmen constantly on hand. E. CLINTON & CO., Manufacturers and Importers of BRUSHES, 1008 MARKET, and 8S. TENTH ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA.