Ocean City Sentinel

R. CURTIS ROBINSON Editor and Proprietor OCEAN CITY. - - NEWJERSEY

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oftbe boat half aray between water

Hue and aide rail of the boat. Th eonrenlent lu launrliliiK llte boat

aeirea aa'a able guard When a rear-nr iato be made of any pen-ou lu 4he water. It aaryea to aid ilteone attempting Ibe reacue. If a* boat beeouio In-

verted it Ui convenient lu rigbUng. A (•'mui boat In an inverted po-ltliui will auje,: liuuae Amu port more than If properly floating., Hirer yeara tbe ral| then aervea aa a grip Tube, .lint-, etc., or piping commonly u-cd will he of |iou«e for t one lueh or 1] luch oubdde diameter, would till a

Sl’CAKlxo of local option, ik aeem Imm the following Hi whole earth la going “dry:" TV depopulation of a the garth > brought about through the fat

the water-aupply l». tbc cunrluatou A»t»ury avdiu.' reached by the French gcologi.t. M. " *■ bou«od In tl Martel He baa made obaervatlone 1897. ofaubterrauean cavertia, and aaya that Dunng «4ie tin tbe earth la gradually drying up ! without a penni They Wiutatii, lie aaya. not onlyi the called U|«m a ui t of prehistoric life. Ina.inueb a. Iingul-li firna, a they were the bomra of men of the .me. bring a* f.. remotes! age, but alao beer Indication.I <>o June 12. of tb6jeudlew future M 'Martel ha* mouth after lb

md proof of a ateady fa

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S. I any, all hall to the Ocean flly Flrt liepartmeut. T lanklng jlou for your Indulgence.

lug. I auggeal that yAu call ou Mr W. Fox. Hi. wHe i. not here | “ t tly Treaaurer lra H. t'lianiplon wanext ashed to say something, lie re-; epouded by derlarlag that he thought I be Uad doue bla. part. He tied enjoyed the repa-t and read ihief - foriver’a very good history of -Hie department. He had enjoyed eveiy-

bulihe buy. showed !

tbe II

said. t> flly V

■■ktKS-ki

faat aath

>t Hie one building they g>d i at the Hie fall of luwn they d ill be aud they did build Hit ure of tliey now oncupy -a X

1 liot.-urary lura'ber of ^ and Hie legal organic paiiy. Mr. Itoawell. wl • pie. -ure lu iiitroduciug 1 1 Mr. Hnswell assured I 1 be was greatly aurpi 1 call id upon to make f had ex peel A to hear ol

It would be well, perhaps, for tbe avenge husband to aave up, .and very ■mn, too. Millinery •■opening.' The sympathy of bis many friend, goea out to A. J. Smith Id hk deep ■flllcltou, aud, lu these expraanloui

Borrow, the BxxTtKKt. Jolus.

Chief Cokveh wrote e moat Intereatlug history of tbe local flic departmeet, and we take pleasure In printlug Hie aame In thk Issue of tbe Bex

Tilt EL.

Bpriso came along In rather ungracious spirit on Friday evening, but, after a good night's sleep. It beamed upon us In a kindly way ou Saturday.

Ir all the telephones made last year were >11 out telephone, the monster instrument would be 800 miles high

and would weigh 4000 tens, nothing of tbe '‘cuss" word.. All .tens point to ■ grand

for Ocean City thk summer. Cottage* are being rented very rapidly, and real estate men are In dally receipt of

Inquiries for summer hoi

Ir you are one year In arrears In your subscription to tbe S'extikkl, aud desire thk paper continued, you will kindly settle op wltblu the next tw^jiyeek.. Thk k according lo a

neVVoatal regulation

The city’s advertklug in tbe Philadelphia morning newspaper, w 11 begin on April Stb, ws understand. It k stated that tbeae newspapers take good care of Ocean City this summer. 1-et us hope that tbe

will be lived up to.

was quickly rented by Imwreuce A On., who, while living In West Phils--delpbla et present, are well known I Pittsburg, Pa., where Mba Imwreni has had much experience In tbe hotel

business.

The members of tbe Liberty Fire Company and tbelr friends spent a moat delightful time last Tbur-day * evening on the occasion of the company’s sixth anniversary. Drat time tbe boys bad their women friends prt-ect at an anniversary cele bration, and the affair wa.all tbe more pleasant, In addition to being given ’ tbe attendance of tbe i. Tbe Liberty boys are

o stay. >e Kllxabetb Times. lu use will uotAllmluhli but will continue lo grow. The time Is probably not far dlAaut when a very large ponton of tbe heavy teaming aud tb« light delivery business lu all tbe cities, will be carried on to motor vehicles The greater the number of motors on •tracts the greater the need for close obaarvsooe of' tbe speed laws. Tbe automobile must cease to be a car of Juggernaut aud assume Its proper place and rank a. an appurteni

Ir k remarkable how 'little Interest tbe average citizen and taxpayer take.

In tbe town where lie resides

bu.1 ocas, aaya the Uazetle. If a public

meeting were called to-day to

matters of the mo* viui Importance there would probably be lea. than . twenty mm Interested enough to turn

out. Tbe average taxpayer

care as lltlleaboul what h dune In Ibe town as he docs about a lire lo Patagonia. fiul you will always hear him finding fault aud kicking about wbat baa been done, no matter wbat

worth toTbe community.

By a ay of •mpha.Ulug the value of advertising, aa* entbualaX ask*: Did you ever Wop to think what would happen W every form of advertMug In lb* United hlatr. .tuiuld be prunlbited for ninety day.7 Inside of half Hist Ume tbe milk and manufactork. would wop for lack of order.: the alma* empty Wore, wbuld clow their

I her building, oa 1 Ninth street I

Fkiuhtenkii by • storm of adverse, ,hr ‘ sentiment. Hie father of the bill pro-' vldtng for the taxation of building and j ** :fl ' loan share, baa withdrawn hk unpopular measure, and at least one scheme to transfer to tbe shoulder, of the poor and tbe middle claw harden, which property owners like tbe railroads ought to bear, has died abornlug, says Hie Kills belli Tunes. Tbe

fate «f the bill k encouraging,

far as It goes to show that enlightened public sentiment lu a jo* cause I sometime., In any event, effective Tbe bill was In nature of an outrageoui Imposition upoh the rights of mode* bome-bulldera, without a single element of vlrtne, or anything whatso-

ever to make It appeal to oi

of fairness and justice.

londerful wurs-i • Hotel. On De-e

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;>• '*•'{-18: “th.7« ty were (l jj,,

**' I that I would like to

l Doled „ , ,

mei iber of the company,

boy • especially on tb

e , I ki ow that .they ar , " r tie at the top. apd thh

} actuate* them at all

nlstlL ! * , ‘ 1 ' ,i,ea M

. »lr. Roswell pie iu.! '

disu

••You hoys of l.!t«rty t'ompsnj swell up. but. w hile there are se> u. left In tbe Ocean t hy Volum - No 1. we will hr there sUbtlie g, - every time, and di.ii’l you lliln won’t. W hen No I get- ready. • 1 not . ne'of nieol.l' V fr| , |..«.. "w'e're

: going to die Ju-t yet .’’

: FreelMilder John P For wa. 1 din-ed by Mr. Hle|i|irnaon

kr ii'r*Vox f "raid r 1 ,y i

, n u i . y neighbors. “rail " I'reBtephenson. 'and I no « rail n|...

K.fternth and A.bjtfy avgiiue , o.e.n fhy In'lhe fmure. save., from total Struct. by the Mt.pbenron wM they had

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f Hie orurd ''Liberty,"

nattc *yle. Mr /an

The spring se^n of fore* firm ays p roaches, aud from now on t lie re frill be frequent conflagration, throughout tbe fore* land of Hie Stale, uule—■ Hie late fore* fire regulation, are rigidly enforced, says tbe May's Landing Record. There k urgent need to p by all possible means the gradi annihilation of our forestry, ao largi y these fires, that sweep annually over Urge tracks of land. Mvlng only charred trees and wa.tr Id tbelr wake.- Tbe Importance of forest preservation has caused tbe law i governing fires near wooded landi lore strict with each succeedlog year, providing heavy peualtio for burnln^b rush land without isent o^Vre wardens. Here, as elsewhere, tbe carelessness of tbe few

Ineonvaoleiiee >o m

■ that do occur are not so much by fanners or land owners as by the careless hunter or pedestrian. Tbe Introduction of tbe electric way system will no doubt be followed

marked decrease lu tbe

of fires iu tboee districts through which passes, where conflagrations ten caused by sparks from locootlvca. Every spring there is more leas burning off*of fields dbd brush land, and those resorting to the practice cannot nse loo great caution in preventing tbelr tires from extending

* surrounding woods

riTT'B voriec ATMI.KTKH. While Ocean ('tty did not carry oO many cups at the athletic exhibition y on Saturday evening, the spirit Maned among the young men and boys here k of tbe best, and derives to be encouraged. Tbe young men are Interested In thk’move, which gives them a chance iw their prowess. It ba Help tbe boys with your wishes—and pocketbooka. —and I* u. all hope that we will have utter results next year. cowr of uariKa. Few topic* of conversation afford a more general agreement among all »f peopl- that; (be Increase In of living. Estimates vary as to how much tbe Increase has been, but nearly every man who support. • family will ray, without beallstion. 1. more now thau It did 25 year. ago. There k truth In tty statement, but perbape It k not the wbole Ye mo* Important part of It. Each man's experience has to do, of course, wltb bk owu fi famille. have a way of beginning small and Increasing. Moreover, childreu grow older it cu*> more to

keep them

accurate statement is that the actual cost of altbopgli greater oow

bcluw Si

About tbe time tbc lire coiu|«ny rattle] sway lu tbelr new houra.

City • 'ouucil

•d upob Councilman Hei •oldest member of Council ” ■UDritmaa Headley raid b

r . ouucil woke up to tbc fact tbal ! u- ingrateful If be did not arira and "“’“V buya were eutltled to belter equip- u„ llk it,* oompsny for It. bo.pllallty doh.g

Council hawdonc (be right thing foi the Ure department, for In quick »uc-

ce-siou came hurras, combtui

aud chemical wagon and |*rmaueul

men in tbe bouse day aud inglit. On August lltb. 1899. raven citizen

Of Ocosu City met In Hi) office u Joraph Sutton, on the aecou 1 floor o Ibe |8« rra Building, and divided that

It wa* about time Ocean City

•nottier Ore company. A* a result

of that meeting, another meeting

held at the same place on Hie evening of August 17th, 1899. by a number o citizen, and they then uigunlzeri tin Reliance Fire Co., No. 2 They wen without a permanent home or anj apparatua, but we find they left in grass growing under tbelr feet, becauai In a little over a year they bad a lo on Astiury avenue, below Sixth street wltb a one-story fire bouse built there on and held their tint meeting In theli new house on October 23d, 1900 Tbelr growth from that time wa. phe-

nomlual. for in July, 1901, we II them siiugly quartered In a handsoi two-ntory brick building with one tbe best aerkl trucks In tbe Sta besides a lame steam fire engine, tu cart and other rqulpmei t aud permanent man lu the houra. Hit it. organization, thk company I: played a very Important pnrt in l

fire bisloty of Ocean City i.nd half a

In extinguishing

threatening fires. They

the City Although the Liberty Company I.

i lhal s

people have made the

expense, of the family greater. The education lu hygiene has made a

of the bathtub, which wa>

formerly regarded at a luxury, and baa Insisted that all Hie plumbing be

The additional plumbing, lu While

turn, make, higher water rate..

Tbe network of trul ey cars offer. idarement to spend • nickel for • rtbehlstie. de, and make. It easy to take shop- 1 and kept ping I rip* bn whlrb other ulrkek are adopit-ia I spent. Tbe telephone mean, another creasing tl outlay. Refrigerator, have made |... wltb lb

prompt lo respond to the ;t important event In the fin history of Ocean (nty ’took place on Wareh 61 b, 19H2, In E. T. Erie', restaurant, when Liberty Fire Co. ora hospitality ws are partaking of to-night, waa organized There waa considerable comment by wlra (?) ones about you company of boys, aa they chore to call you, but If Ibe record (ba{ you respond tfr tj* call of duty, aud tbe efficient service you have rendered Ibe department, k a demonstration of wbal a boya' company will do In a fire depart Bjeut. then 1 would My. give ns of these companies of boya. tbe r would sugge* as a suitable moltn for your company, "Always On tbe Job,” wltb “always” In capital

letter-.

riven you a history of tbe

organization of Hie three companies that comprise tb; fire denartmeut of Ocean City, and what I will now say kot Hie department as a whole. Ou

April 18th, 1902, City Council ordinance clearing a fire departut and that took lu (be lbree i paule., and they iu turn drafted of joint rules and tbeae were aoci

by all three companies. \lt I. those rules that tbe department j* working under to-day. Ocean City has had several lire chtefa, aud Ihtlr election

baa been in rotation as ft William l,ake, Samuel I'arbi

Howard Thorn. H. U. Steelman John Marls, J S. Rush aud your prewnl etilefr The fire flgbllug apparatus?,

* appliances of tbe fire dcpartmeul

of thk city, 1 believe, are the |<cer ol my In any cilyot Hie same i.ipulallon In Ibe Culled Stale*, for w bleb due thanks m** be given In tbe pa-( and ircreiil City Council My Hie willing IMS and alertness of. Its (Ire depart□rut. Ocean City baa on several* c-mslous been raved from dkastrom

lure •'■unnlmeo

r fire drpartmeul k «o radical cliange It should be maintained al Iswslbledegree of efficiency, tboroogfrly up-ln-dale by npruvr-t apparatus and In. e 1*81 6.roe In comwpond

city. If oar

ir preran

thoroughly

officials ear tbal

r*eoty ime of i City,

power of publicity that t

far more varied di*, but

arealao a more expensive «lrt; and Hie cullivarion of vegetable* under gls—

tilaced upon tbe poor man', table lire de) artmeut In midwinter such artlrle. of fo*! a. the re* of Hie ell not even tbe rirb eo'uld secure a gen- Ibe tbira c.ini eraliou or two ago. I active member., Finally, tbtn k the matter of Ibe be»i bu-lur—men'< isbkMi, which now provides evening at well a- of n >c h elolhasfor cblldreu whose paresis in mn-bauir. and laUirn. child hood did no! own a .nil of any aUeudai.c»' of mernbri kind Even Ibg buoKile sblrlaal*. about lienly rau.lble a. II k, mean, an Increase lu quick re-pons Hie laundry bill A* a soman pro- a lire t« ram

••«, In deparliikrnt In Ibe I'oiied M l a las.

an addres. In New York* few weeks riiat yoni services al a fire are of a •go. "We are told to drink rrmtled high *...dart of efficirney u shown milk, and y« cows irfura to give by the total lire losra. m Oeeeu rwrtltlad milk fur Irra lliau 15 •«ni. a Cli) (,,r the pa-I ' leo yrars, ’“"'V 'I*' majority of fires being exit may co* more lo ik-enow than tjnaut.t.ed by Hie Judicious ure of formerly, but sbMtrer Hirm* of TIw-^remk^l. wbleb n.iurally

< 'HIpally, |

»o»k at

youngest orgauizatluu of the city. It has more entertainments of thk kind than any of the others. " have enjoyed myralf, aud I am sun you all have. I want to ikank l-lbirly Company for Its kindness,"

be said In conclusion.

Mr. Htepbeosoii, referring to tbe troubles experienced by the company ln ha Infancy, aald he would Introduce one w ho could tell all about It—Coun-

cilniau H. L. Bmilb.

Councilman Bmlthdeclared tbat.be-cau-e of tbe presence of bl* wife, be would not like to tell all about it, but lie rdded: "No. 8 ba. Ibe best ll^len. lu ( cean City, and anything I can do for 'be boys l am always willing ” Councilman Uidfrey said that he Is alw tys glad to be remembered In there ban (nets. "Any time we can Jo auythh g for the Llbefty boys, we w III be pleased loassl-t,” herald m conclusion , Here Councilman Headley arora lo Uki excepHon lo Fre-ldenl Stephen-

son * introdnctloii.

".Seeing .Mr. Oodfrey,” said Couuellmai. Headley, "reminds me tbal Mr. .Stephenson raid I was the oldest me: itier of Council, end I object." President Stephenson smoothed mailers by a few timely remarks, and tbei Introduced Councilman ll S. San peon, who raid that aa one of the member* of tbe Ocean City Volrrs. No I.aud aa a Councilman, low's that the present fire com■e of Council ha. done more foi .Iberty Fire Company than lias been doue lu the past. The Lib. rty Company k well equipped

a fire, we are always ; on the ground ” i ipon was Councilman ■ who raid It waa loo i

■ora to ask blm lo talk lo Ibe pres- 0

ice of all I here ladles

A»*-taut Chief Alfred H Smith, of tbe Reliance, raid: "1 am pleased to be wltb you to-nlgbt, and hope to be with you again We have a fine tire depurtment, wltfi capable men ” . Assistant Chief John E. Trout, of Liberty Company, waa next Introduced aa the Ural president of

Liberty Cora piny.

Mi. Trout, becoming reminiscent, ipokeof hk recollection of tbe second Ire to which Liberty Company reijfcnled. Tbe boyr piled tbelr hose nto John N. Johnson’* wagon and >eat No. 1 Company to a fire alTblrtyaecoi d street, bat they couldn't do anything with tbetr how until No. 1 reached tbe grounds. He expressed tbe I bought that tbe Liberty boy* have been getting along very well Foreman A. G Gilbert, of tbe Ocean City Yolunleere. No. 1. mkl plea-ed to be here, and I extend my than as for Hie invitation, lam glad tbe lire companies are i

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Nolle. I. brreby alven Hist Ui. s breriiier ! H*. cjly oolleclor f)i lb. Illy ol iss—n I'mt. * Monday, the 6th day ol April, * 11 1 t °e s* 0 1**

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J. C. Hteelmai

V that I i»

raw Huytblug like tbk lu No. t C pauy. and I think It h time tl hereof No. 1 should wake up. Foiemau Carlson, of the Reliance, raid: -If you were to ask me to alug a song or dance a jig. I w ould be right at hoine, but I can’t make a Hr went on to sty that the Reliance Comiiauy baa bad anulvcre he brat tliey could do waa to produce i box of cigar*. He then s|Kike of fire thief, of ttpC past iu thk city. The only words ever heard from one ‘Don’t turn on the water.” In Conv rrand former Chief J H. Rush partment was ruled t the brat men who ever occupied tbe

poMttan.

mer Chief J. H. Rush raid (hat It 1 great pleasure to blm to be •ft. Ha bad been sick during I lie la* lew waaks and he wa> afraid he ble lu al tend H» has ir of the Or/ departi81. and he iMalled the

reel a’ Hie Or* boraeart brought Into ibe rewort. He had seen (be department grow from its Infaney, and he

orklng declatesl that, for a elly of II. size. Ibe aierageraleean City baa the be* departrarni In

** * *'* “— *" 'll la equlpp.d

tug is giraler k m

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My •

i ualei, llrara would have b

lban k re.|Ulred by the Five I'l^lei wrllare'Aawx-lariou nomtfew better units are needed. however An nalii from tbe water lank lo Hie point -if distribution k needed, a- also ire some additional water-plugs hiOJM

eeninfrf Ibectly.

City Clerk T Lee Adam* was nett called jpnu sod be raM: ' ll raera- to me I iwild have made a apatcli If a were vat that uiy wife k here When a aan k married (w roly-five yean lie (At Into the way of keeping qul*.

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#300 «tl.4XCK F.«N1* TFKnM Wilt Mt-are a lot anil crrrt a collage near llic ocean, on the nci I.jnlcts Trai l, atuivc North *Uect Al-' at Second. Twentv third. Thirty-fourth. Forty eighth or Fifty aerenth streets. NV a the bay at liumh or Fqurti-vOJll slrcCls Sou— — 1 Otis M. Townsend .,,,3,., BUILDER ,a i , r*

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