Ocean City Sentinel

I A Free Automobile Bridge is, the H wi*h of all Ocean City residents and _ . ■ cottagere. I The Slate - Highway ( ommission ■ may grant their wish next Saturday ;

J I b ean City planning a big Fourth of July celebration. One feature will he a pyrotecnir display from airplanes in the eve*

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OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, OCEAN Cfl% N. J*, THURSDAY JUNE it. 1021

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I Coroner and Prosecutor Hold Inquest in Case of Workmen Killed by Illuminating Gas I Jury Censures Corporation for Employing Inexperienced Persons on Hi gh-ptessure Main

Coroner J. Prescott -Cinlnmii. with i ■ County Prosecutor Cole, on Monday. i. ■ • in the |s.li<e court at city hall, eon- ■ cause of ami ii--pon.-ihility for the ii I deaths. of John :.. WesUiimi and a R George W. Fuller, employes of the f I City Gas Light Company. >vh 1 1 were c ■ off the. ramp grounds 01X Sixth t I street. Friday morning, one of the « I satMest tragedies this /esnit 1,1.. ex- s I perienced in years. / |, The mronei's jurv comprised I.. L. « I Wallare. John I!. Jones. M. V. Smith. I< ■ Andrew It. Scull, Samuel M. lltitr* J ■ man and George Parker. a After hearing the evidence, the h ■ . jury gave a verdict that Julio K. • ■ Westlan.l ami George VV. Fuller came h I tu their deaths by escaping gas, and S I the jury censureii the gas -company * ■ fur neglect in sending inexperienced ■ men to work on a high-pressure main. I the niernlieis of the jury, defining 9 I their duties, and Prosecutor I'd.- h I said he so charged. h ■ Su|ieniiteiiileut James Austin and r I Baymdnd Moore. foin\i:in. of the gas s f| company; Pro. flerseltel pettit, Allen I Col son and John II. Whitirar; Frank P B Adams, who found tin- men as they 8 I were al«iul dead; Mr-. George O. t, I Adams, wlin-e daughter telephoned' t' I for Alio police, and A. A. Howell, who t. I talked with the men a -hopt .lime Ik»- v I fore thev were killed, were among u I the witnesses examined. I Mr. llowell testified that, the men I I told hi.ii they vein fixing* the gate 'C I , valve of the main, mid the witnes- s I iletected a strong odor of gns. In t I stood'"' niching the iierfflve or ten h | minutes. This was alo.ut !l o'clock, I and the workmen .were" then all right, n I They weie working in an oblong hole Ii I Tietwcen the rvdi ai d where the pave- t I nieot would have been had theie ■ lieen a pavement, ami the. hole was f I almut three fi>et iteep. Fuller was n I sitting on -the eilge of the hole ami h I the other man was fixing the valve, p r He had taken the valve apart, and n I was leaning over. Westlnnrl told t I Fuller to put waste' in the hole in n I the main to stop the escape of gas. V I and the gas blew the waste two feet

the hire The gas was still escapami the men were still working when witness left. Frank Adams said that lie left his j at Fifth slieet and Asburv . avenue, a few minutes after 11 o'clnck , morning, When he got to Sixth and Wesley avenue, he smelled . gas. hut saw mi one. When he got to within fifteen or twenty feet of where the men had been working, he , Fuller, whose head was erect, , looked to lie dead. Westlaiul was | limit over, head down. Thev were • past working. Witness called Mr. , Myers, a cottager on Sixth street, and they got the bodies out of the • Witness shouted to Mrs. , O. Adams, living near-by, to . telephone for doctors. Policeman , Schyyrk reached the scene almut this | iinie. They gut the bodies out almut • H.20 o'clock. , Mrs. Adams testified that the let* "ter carrier came to her house about ; H.I *» o'clock and said that two men : lieeu overcome l»y gas and asked < to cull doctors. The doctors ar* i riveil within ten minute? after lieing I summoned. | Hrs. Pettit, Corson and Whiticar testified that they had been called almut H.20 or a little later, and they told of finding the men dead when they reached the spot. They also ■ tohi of the heroic efforts made to revive them, in spite of the appurent u.-clessnes's of these efforts, both by the physicians and the members of States Coast Guards, under Sutton, of the Fourth street station, and ("apt. "Jack" Jernoe, of , the city's life-guards. , , Cajft. Jernce. ' John Dowinan, a farmer, saw the men in the hole almut 9.1.1. Westland stepped out, and Fuller sat on ' the edge, while he.was looking. , James Austin said that he and the made an inspection of the new work Thursday afternoon, and ; detected a little odor of escaping , gas at the |mint where the accident occuiijhI. He told Westlaiul to have the leak fixed in the morning. The main was rut off at Sixth street ami West avenue, in case of a leak". ,

HOTEL NORMANDIE "* - Opens Friday. June .10. 1921 and will lie operated as \ last season along first class lines with high grade service and cuisine. . Large, cool dining rooms, tile floor and marble finished. A Exchange opr of the most striking and attractive on the. entire coast. I ' * Unusually large lied moms with bath, splendidly apIniinted. |fi Twin elevators, liall room, etc. 1 h J. HOWARD S LOCUM I Lessee- Manager Formerly of Green Rriar Hotel, White Sulphur Springs, I I, Virginia Communications can I** addressed to J. llowaril Slocum < Swarthmnre Ap'ts, Twenty-second and Walnut sts.Phila 't or Hotel Normamlie. Oceah City, N. J. uUjr licaufr Slurp j * t CmOrlly Locatod m Annin'l Go-sIrS family Rnort B K 7 5c per Dozen, Gesaco Hair Nets Regularly 3 for a quarter One Work Oaly | The Boardwidk Shop

PROTEST MADE ON POOH , TELEPHONE SERVICE ■*• j Commerce Chamber Will ], • Meet With Company's Officials President H. F. Stanton, at the " "Nfhamher of Commerce meeting Tun-,-day evening, stated that the Hell " Telephone Compnhy has refused to take new contyacts in the central , section of t Ms city. A cottager on ( j ' St. Charles place, where there wapreviously a telephone, was tol.l that ' the company's trunk line was' full. 1 and no more phones could he install • 1 e>'. Mr. Stanton suggested that it , ' is time this condition Is called to the , [ attention .if the Stale Public Utility f| of the chanil>er. that the company's '' • cables nre full, ami that the only re* ' ' lief is h.v adding "some more cables. " company has the switchboard fa- ■, • President Stanton said that the Rell j( ■ Company has made Ocean ^ ' away its business office and now it ^ 1 will not supply telephones to would- _ ' suhsrriliers. The war is over. 1 The company is not giving Ocean City fair ileal. 1 It was suggested that. Iiefore an I appeal is made to the Utility .Board. , i arrangements lie made to have a 1 conference between the executive committee of the chamber am -of- : ficials of the telephone company, ami , the suggestion will l>e followed. * I « SUM MKR RESIDENT BURIED 'i ' Kmily A. Jones Was in Her 1 I Eightieth Vcar c , Mrs. Kmily A. Jones, who lived cat „ ' I'elham, and was a summer resilient [ of Ocean City foi many years, was ' ' belied. Thiir-dr.y last at Ivy Hill „ ('< ineteiv. She died unexpectedly the previous Monday night. She ,, able In get around in the house all ' ! w ii td, although in her eightieth s war. t ' 'Mrs. Jones 1-aves .me son. Cms, J; _C. Jones, of Philadelphia, . and two e ! l.ro'hers, Chas H. -Weiss and Geo I've ' J K. Weiss, Imth of Gerninntown, and '« ' well known summer residents | of Ocean City. „ ^ o c , CARD OF THANKS n ' Mr. and Mrs. Oswin H. Henry sin- ^ • cerely thank the city officials, Morgaii-Kanck Post, No. 137, Ameri- . can legion; Major I-eighton W. n " - Hovis, A. K. F-, 309 Field Hospital, H Tsth Divison, lota Council, No. 12b, L Jr. O. U. A. M., Ocean City Ianlge. No. Wi. K. of P., Young Men's Progressive League, Chamber of Commehce, First Baptist Sunday School, Hotel Association, Ladies' Auxiliary of Morgan- Ranck Post, Ocean City Council, No. 10, Duughters of Amori- g ca. pastor, choir and officials of the First Presbyterian Church, anil our many friends and relatives for their - assistance and sympathy in our bereavement. MARRIED IN CHURCH n Newton Joseph Benner and Miss '' Laura Virginia Reber, were married " in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church on Tuesday by the rector, the Rev. Josepli W. Watts. T Lost something? Place an ad in si the SENTINEL and it will he quickly retunieil. ^ A medium for saving your earn- C( ings this summer young man, by which you wil| profit in future years. '' Subscrilie to some shares of stock in (* the new, 18th series now open. Home Building and Loan Association. See the secretary or any of- ' ficcr-A.lv. v " ; c We are selling considerable < unimproved property SEND US AT ONCE \ description, price and j terms of any lots you « have in Ocean City > ! • • . .jl - For Sale t / RALPH L. CHESTER on the corner 8th and Central

lllfi TIME ON FOURTH j Plan Parade and Aviation Flights. With Fireworks Tentative plan'!- for the Fourth of celebration in this city were' announced by Messrs, Sehantz aad 'Koenemaiin at the meeting of the Cham- ] lier of Commerce Tuesiliiy eijeoini-. and it w-tis arrangoil that a meeting of the joint committee from the Cliamlier uf Commerce, Progressive Leagup^jriiiTSIIral Estate Board will lie he|l in tpe Chuinlier of Comv merce room next Saturday evening i at s o'clock to complete the qr range- ( The plan is to have a paraiie — of i various organizations, including the j City Yacht Club and the Snell- , cubing Cadet Corps, headed by the ! ' Harhman's Million Oolliir Hand . } in tlie morning, aviation stunts on the , beach front in the afternoon, and a . taking the fireworks up with them , and giving a display of pyrotechnics | above the ground, which would lie a ' This program has been endorse.1 \ the Progressive l-eague and the | Cham her of Conimeree, and it also ' thiwipprnvel of Mayor Champion ho told the .committee that the city ; "the whole expense, which, it i- e.-ti i muted, will not exceeiP f 1200. METHODIST CHURCH QUARTET Prominent Soloists Will Pre- 1 sent Attractive Programs The summer music in the First M. K. Church for many years lias been 1 the visitors to Ocean City. Arrange- i meiits have just been completed for ludicaUons are that it will lie far in I advance of other years. The music committee of the church has gone considerably ahead of the plans of i other summer seasons, when u vocal quOrtel of w-qll-kiiown Philadelphia artiste has tieen heard here. There i will lie a double quartet of singers i this year, all of whom occupy high ; places in the musical firmament in the Quaker City. These .vocalists, alreof whom are i soloists of note, are: Sopranos, Ruth i Gibh.aud Blanche Kluth; Contral* i los, Malwlle Addison and lailja M. Steele; tenors. Royal P. MacLellan. and C. W. Graham; bassos, Wm. O. i Miller and Frank M. Conly. They will present the greatest i musical program ever heard in this church. Thev will be heard ,at the morning and evening services every during July and August, lieginning the first' Sunday in July. BRIDGE MATTER BEFORE HIGHWAY OFFICIALS i Commission Will Discuss Freeing of Struct- • ure Saturday Perhaps the automobile bridge I Great Egg Harbor Bay from 1 this city to Somors' Point will lie freed to the traveling public. . /: S. B. Swan, at the mpegSfTCttrf j Ocean City Chamber of 'Crfnimerce on I evening, asken if anyone t kqew about the bridge matter. i Assemblyman Bosxfell, in answer, i said that a meeting of the State i Highway Commission will lie held in i Atlantic City next Saturday, anil ar- < rangements have lieen made to have I representatives of the auto bridge : company uttend this meeting. I Mr.»Boswcll added that this is a business proposition that^-ejnv-. lie w-oi-ke.1 out without legal objections if the bridge company X agreeable. BRIGHT SUMMER OUTLOOK from Distant Cities Will be Guests Here I Both the Lincoln and Normamlie will have many new visitors among 1 their guests this summer. One list of twenty inquiries received by the City Hotel Company, which i owns the Normamlie, represented thirty-seven people from eleven different cities. More than double the usual number of inquiries from cities outside of Philadelphia and -NewYork have thus far been received this year. There are only a fewrooms with Imths remaining at the Normamlie for the month of August. J. Howard Slocum, the lessee and manager, is daily booking guests at his office In Philadelphia. After June 10 he will be in Baltimore for few days to make the reservations for people in that citju The Lincoln is said * to have no rooms with haths for the season, S radically all having been taken for uly and August. H. C. Funck, Jr., the gentlemanly lessee aiul manager, feels well pleased with the outlook for the summer. Advertise in the SENTINEL. Now is your chance to invest in a good solid bona-fidc Building and Loan Association that Vealizeil nearly 9 per cent, last year. Join the fam- ; fly of saving and earning and subj scribe to some shares of stock in the I new 18th series of the Home Build- . ing -and Loan Association. <

KEEPERS WILL GO TO CONVENTION Expccl to Have Interesting: Sessions at Asbur.v Park June 15, l(i and 17 A number of the member^ of the Ootid Proprietor?' Ax-uriatinn of •State Hotel Association at Asfiury Park June 17. lb and 17. They ex. able outing, but also to learn much of the local society are connected with convention are: Mr-. Elizalieth Blun din. of the Hiscujne, Mrs. Johnson hoi.ev, of the Strand; Mi-s Mirhenet , ami her daughter. Mr.-. Keeler, of thi* Illinois on-the-straml; Mi-. Maltha Stewart, of the Raleigh; Mrs. A. P Milner. of the Wyoming; Mrs. Lynch, of the Berkeley; Luke Jackson, nf the St. George, Mr. | Sehantz. or the Betlevue. and George M.Mot, |oe-hlrnt nf the Ocean l it \ I Hotel Association. FIGHtlNG MtiSQI'lTtiKS Work in This District is Nearly Completed Clarence Shellenger, chief in-pee-tor of the Cape May County ^ Musmakes the following report for May: The men working in the Ocean " City ami llee-ley's point district will finish work this week. This will complete the cleaning of all the ditching systems in this section, ami a report of the footage and cost of cleaning Oceti'n City ha- now 32s ditches, extending from Eighth street, west of Haven avenue, to Thirty-fourth Parallel- ami laterals, inclusive are all open arid in first class condition, except at one point, at which Health officer Adams will put a new tiunk under a roadway at Seventeenth , requested to keep weeds ami grass cut ami to avoid having exposed receptacle- that contain water. Do not give the mosquito a chance. AN ACTIVE WOMAN Mrs. Dorothea Spieker, Crippled, Does Fancy Sewing B. Frank Smith ami family, of this . city, accompanied by Horace Smith and wife and Icon Kan-ford and wife recently motored to Port ElizabeUi, calling upon Mrs. Dorothea Spieker, , who was widowed a few weeks ago,' Her husband, John Spciker, was in his ninety-ninth ye;*. His i lentil was the result of a case of shingles. He was born in Alsace Lotraine and remembered the iron heel of Germany, though he came to Amori? ca in his youth. He served in the United States Cavalry during the Civil War, receiving an injury to shoulder front which . he never fully recovered. .• Mrs. Speiker was born in France /and also came to America in her youth. She has been "crippled for a few years, hut remains as bright and cheery as ever. Her hands are seldom idle ami she produces some wonderful pieces of knitted, crocheltcd and embroidered work. She can tell many interesting stories of bygone day-. She is the grandparent of Mrs. Barefnrd and Horace Smith, and is one of the oldest residents of , Purt Elizabeth. DOTS Did you get up on time? More cottagers are arriving. Boats are appearing in the liay. Fishing is said to be getting better Ocean City figured in a terrible j tnyedy. — Surf bathers arc growing more Maybe the automobile bridge will ' ■ soon be Tree. (f Ellwood Carpenter'* : The Casino Club DANCE Saturday Evening JUNE 11 i The casino has a reputation ' of long standing for the * -best music 'n everything Come and bring c your friends

149,242 Automobiles Passed ' Over Bay Bridge Last Year Ttttal Amount of Traffic, I tubulin a Pedestrians, Was 172, .'509 — Inc rease of 35,902

. The annual meeting of the stock- h _ holders of the Ocean City Automobile 1 , morning in the offices of the enrjm- t ration and the directors were re-elect- s ' ed. They are. a Wm. G. Moore, Henry D. Moore, Harry Heailley, Harvey Y. Lake. Wm. t I E. Masscy. Chas. II. Shoemaker. Dr. 1 Allen Co, -on. Dr. I. N. Criscomj E. I M. Suttor.. K. A. Corson and Oil- M \ Town send. S Miss Nettie Mumfonl ami {'has. I' Denoliower w-ere election officer-. N The meeting was called to order l>y •Harry Headley, vice president and the minutes read and approved. The report of tin* treasurer. Win. • E. Massey, showed that the company FIREMEN ARE FRANKER FOR THEIR FINE IRK i Br. C. P. Tuttle's Cottage ; saved by Their Prompt S and Efficient Labors ; Prompt and efficient work by mem- } j her- of the paid and volunteer fire- : 1 men Friday mo(iiing prevented a : • serious blaze in the cottage of Dr. C. ; f P. Tuttle, of Camden, at tiie coraer ' ' of Fr-t street and West avenue, this , city. Dr. Tuttle anff members of his - family were not at the house rt the , • time. _ Dr. Tuttle hail left earlier in J 1 (lie day" for Atlantic City to dPen.1 J 1 a convention of ib'ntists. The fire started from a leaking 0 ■ gas meter, according to the firemen. • The meter was to have been (ixe<L 1 hut there was a delav, not the* fault ' of the gas company, however. Smoke 1 was seen coining from the cottage. ' and an alarm was sent in, to which ' the firemen soon responded. The c 1 tire was in the wall in the rear of c ' the house, and was haril to reach, t but Chief Conver's boys and thp < volunteer men did quick work. The fire went up the rear walls to the attic anil started to breuk out through the slate roof and the eaves I ' of the building. j The loss was about $1500, covered < , Dr. Tuttle. through the Sentinel • „ desires to return his sincere thanks ' and appreciation to the members of | jlhe fire department for their valuable V assistance in saving his cottage. \ o ' POLICE GET BUSY r [ Trying to Hare Men to Issue Auto I , Licenses • Word having reached the police ile-' 1 partmcnt that there was a possibility r that no licenses for automobilists would be issued in this city this ' summer, as in the past few years, because of the scarcity of inspectors in ' the State Motor Vehicle Department, ' Chief of Police Howard Johnson has. writen Commissioner Dill, of the ■ State Department, requesting that a ' man be sent here as quickly as pracI ticable to issue licenses for auto! ■ owners and drivers. There are always a large number , ■ of people in Ocean City in the sum- j mcr seasons requiring such licenses, not to speak or the local reslllents, and it would be a decided inconvenience to them to lie compelled io go ; to Cape May Court House, Atlantic City or Pleasantville to get the legal papers necessary lor those running ; or desiring to run automobiles Thi? j has been recognized by the State - officials for the last few years, and p men have been sent to Ocean City to supply the demands of those travel- \ ^ ing by machines. I ENTERTAINED SORORITY The members of two chapters of e the Phi Sigma Sorority, the Delta and Beta, were entertained over the week-end by Misses Jean anil Betty Blundin at the Biaeayffe. The visi- 1 tors were: Betty Reinick, Mae MrGrath, Mildred Wagner, Margnre* McCambridge, Mae Bean, Peggie Uatcliffe, Marion E. Wilson, Leona Rabe, Mary J. O'Hara, Clara Graham, Roseanna A- and Margaret O'Hara and Grace A. Preston, of Philadelphia. They were accofnpanfed by "Jack" Schneider and wife. ii f

a most successful year. Mr in his report, stated: "You will note a gratifying" increase in traffic for the year, and, as a cona substantial gain in operThe statement of traffic fnr the year follows; Automobiles. 149,242 Trucks. . 17,086 1428 1,887 Miscellaneous, 2,287 l'.'20-2l 172409 1919-20 ... 136,407 InclcS, 35,902 HOTEL KEEPERS MEET Interesting Session at Lincoln Was Well Attended There was a largely attended meeting of the members of the Hotel Proprietors' Association of Ocean City at the Lincoln Hotel Friday evening, and interesting addresses were made Victor Jucytiy, eccreury "f the New Jersey State Hotel Association, and Mr. Buck, of Trenton. The Utter gave important information regarding laws affecting hotel owners that were passed at the sessions of "*■ the State legislature last winter. He also told of proposed laws that met with defeat. His talk on fireescape legislation was appreciated by President Arnold, of the Atlantic City Avenue Hotel Keepers' Association. recounted some of the things that have been accomplished by Ms organization. After the meeting, refreshments were enjoyed. HAS LARGE CONTRACT E. A. Corson, of this city, has received the contract to build two miles of new concrete road between Pennsgrove and Salem. Mr. Corson will nl begin work. A dandy investment A milium , for saving. Subscribe to some shares in the new, 18th series of the Home Building and I-oan Association. See | J. Edward Voss the secretary. NOTICE All hlnda ol Uftsd mrnltnra lloafbt and Hold moras and Kansas bonstil Baby L'oaehaa bongbk sold out ranted J. P. VENABLE OB3 Ammunr Avchuz t '! ^TlieVuicolnjp OCEAN CITY. N.J. Special June rates from May 31* I until June 25th. Double rooms ' with hot and cold running water, including board for two persons, from $52.00 per week upwards. ■ .....

* z OlffriBttan &rienrr g>prmrpB will be held in the Casino Club every Sunday Morning during the season beginning June 12th, at half past ten o'clock. • mm

The Safest Kind of an Investment j _/ Harry A. Morris Parker Miller Y for any member of the family is to secure some shares in the new Eighteenth series of stock G'Tc.L™, OFFICERS NOW OPEN IN THE John H. Devine Hiram S. Mowier President. Secretary. T"fe *1 1* 1* k 'a* John P* Fo* Alfred R. Smith » j T,.ral„ Bart., j. u-.-i v- Home Building and Loan Association ■>- b. t. f™m. <x.n- 6 u Vice President, Treasurer, „ ° ... _ Russell H Knit* I Harry A. Morrid Wm. F. Gardiacr OF OCEAN CITY, N. J. — J i* ^ m&jim