WOllLHRIP Continued from Psgeil-'our I wrote of our trip to the lop by nutoy mobile. so will "•» oai* the thri" tog ride we lu»d. the superb grandeur and heafily-ot the scenery snd 'the STOttt carpet of alpine Bowers cover Ins many of the mountains up to great altitudes. It seemed to me as If one day the great Master Gardener had walked over these barren rocks and had opened his arms and scattered precious seed and lot there bad sprung up everywhere — anemones, forget-me-nots, buttercups, phlox, mountain dandelions, lupins, red. white and yellow hea tber and solden asters to enhance the beauty of the scene and enrapture the soul of man. When we went through ihc Royal Gorge, we had a special obsei ration car. very large and uncovered, so that we could gaic everywh-re upon this wonderful work of nature It Is a gigantic chasm in the very heart of the mountains, cut from the summits o.' lofty peaks to the very foundation stones, and at the bottom — rushing, tearing along — flows the Arkansas Htver. Thi canon grows more narrow and the massive walls higher, and as we go on It is only thirty feet wide at * the base, while the walls rise 2.617 feel above the railroad tracks and here it was necessary to build the famous Hanging Bridge. And for ten miles wonder alter wonder of nature's most mysterious 1 grandeur is revealed. Once, before* • entering the canon, our train stopped and -boys and men surrounded our observation ear with delicious big black heart cherries for sale, and Just 1 here we saw graft, for on one aide of 1 the platform boys were selling the cherries at twenty-five cents a quart 1 bag and on the other side other boys ' were selling exartiy the same fruit for t thirty-five cents. We didn't haggle I over prices, however, because we badji

" | wriggled and struggled so through thej crowd to get then; that wo had no: | pep" left to vent on fruit sellers. 1 After going later through Marshall, J Pats, the backbone of the continent. 10.S56 feel above sea level, on the Steepest grade of any trans-continental line in the world, with a train com 'r posed of eleven pullmana. two diners. * tw.. Observation cars (all steel . pulled , by - three , locomotives, we passed ' Mount Ouray, an extinct volcanic mountain, 14,000 feet high entirely e Rnow covered. Then we cante' to d Leadville. the most famous mining ^ camp and highest' altitude of any In ' * corporated city In the world. Here '' we saw "Little Johnny." one of the | '■ richest gold mines In the Stale 1 Soon. In the twilight, we passed the l" Mount ot the Holy Cross, chiseled on: 1 * by the forces of nature centuries be p fore the dawn of human history. Here , at the top of the mountain, stands J this monument of CMHMV B 'he n form of a cross of eqpw. caused bj , t the winter's snow remaining in two | s transverse canons df •flr-wumntajp- . » side. !•• I Much more could be said of Colos rado, the wonder State ©: the t'nion. a but we are passing its borders. Still I. deep in our heans will live the res membranees of Us grandeur and beau- ' fy which time cannot efface j 1 Signed, e MRS. T. DOWDNEY CLARK. J' POTATOES FROM ALASKA. j Former Sheriff John W. Reeves, ol ■■ t West Cape May. on Saturday received j a basket of potatoes from Ms son. ! r CapL Chester Reeves, who Is station- , ed In Alaska, within 300 miles of the e j Arr.tlc Circle. A note attached to the j' basket stated the potatoes were dug /from the captains garden in October. s | Despite the fact they had come more t lkan 5000 miles they were In good f ' condition. 9 e 1 Captain Reeves was one of the , heroes at the aiege of Peking during .1 the Boxer uprising. He at that time : was a member of the Marine Corps. r and helped rescue the missionaries r who were shut in the Methodist mis1 jslon house In Peking ,

ASK THIS CITY ■ TO PARTICIPATE In Sesq u i - Cent e n n la_ljj Mayor Champion to ' Appoint Commettee [ A letter from Waif.: M Keating. j ' commute? of the Camden Chamber of p Commerce Seaqul-Centennial Commit- „ asking the commissioners to appolnt two' citizens to the committee, t was read at the meeting of the Com- i ( cilss loners Monday afternoon < Mayor Champion was given the i ,. power fo make the appointments " 1 ' The letter, in pari, follows 'Gentlemen:— As A member of the ' Sesqui- Centennial Committee of the ' Cauiden Chamber of Commerce, t '" been requested to communicate Jwith you. "The purpose of this Committee is f to formulate plans for the great Exposition in 1926 from the standpoint h of New Jersey, with a view of taking an active part injhe project. , • Camden and Southern New Jersey will be flooded with Visitors from all parts of the United sVatef. and. in facL from all parts of Ihe" world. They 1 ! will travel over the new DELAWARE . i i RIVER BRIDGE, through our towns i. and cities, to the seashore resorts. I i- They will traverse every community; e cooperative effort on the part of all e civil authorities, trade bodies, civic s bodies and commercial bodies, is der. sirabie in order that the Influx of viale tors will find a ready welcome We ' J aim to plan long In advance to bring our towns and cities Into a condition e which will Impress ihe visitor* favorR ably with our whole State, e "We believe such will be ai-com- '• plished by an exchange of views upon * this subject, and by a close co-opera- : tion with each other In order to bring

Public Help Needed To Stop Waste In Railroad Operation H ip . , * ' i That is Essential, First of All, If the Cost of Railroad Transportation is To Be Reduced THE EXCESS TRAIN CREW LAW IS BAD It Means Large Cost to the Travelling and Shipping Public Without Any Return ' THE PEOPLE and industries of New Jeroey want the best railroad service at loweat possible cost. The railroads want to provide it. Bat to do so they must be operated without waste. Every dollar expended that produces nothing in service makes a charge to be met by insenign and freight rates. One such waste, which last year put an unnecessary burden of $629,000 on the railroads and people of New Jersey, is compulsory employment of excess men in train operation. A law requires this. Such law has so far made a waste of $5,500,000. Thus is money, paid to the railroads by the people and industries, paid away in wages without any compensating valne either to the railroads or the public using them. Such waste, the railroads would stop. But before they can there must be legislation repealing an arbitrary, uneconomic law of this State which requires employment now of 384 trainmen in positions where they are not needed and in which they perform no real service either for safety or efficmcy Last year the excess crew law ol Indiana was repealed. Also, a similar law of Pennsylvania was changed as it is now purposed to change the New Jersey law. The railroads do not ask to be final judges of how many men shall run a train. They will continue to put on trains, as now, as many or more men than the excess crew law requires— whenever they are needed. So there can be no doubt and that trainmen, not less than passengers and shippers, shall be sure of full protection, the law. as the railroads propose to change it. will vest in the Board ot Public Utility Commissioners —the selected and responsible guardians ol the public — compulsory power to see and to order that every train operated in the State is properly manned. Thus will intelligence, with full force ot public authority, act in place of a blanket law which applies regardless ol varying conditions and allows no ^ consideration of obviously essential differences in train operation and services. What is now undertaken in New Jersey, where industrial and business depression is severe, creating unemployment, losses and distress on all sides, directly concerns every shipper and passenger, every farmer, trucker and industrial worker in the State, every family, every individual, being a measure to stop a perfectly unnecessary expense in railroad operation, as one important move to get down the whole cost of railroad operation and service for the benefit of all. The railroads in New Jersey are sure the people of the State will approve this move to end an excess cost, therefore ask their active support and request them, both women and men. as citizens to urge their legislative representatives by letter, telegram, telephone or personal interview to vote for the bill toon to be on passage. ASSOCIATED RAILROADS OF NEW JERSEY. 137 Stat* Street, Trenton, N. J. T. J. R. Brown, Chairman Executive Committee, ECONOMICAL OPERATION FOR RAILROADS MEANS ECO- ~ NOMICAL RAILROADING FOR THE PUBLIC " <

I about u definite plan and definite re , ' soils rj; , "Plea«e advise US whether your or- fir • conization desires to suggest two « • leading citizens as members .of the HE South Jersey Sesqul-Oeniennisl Ex |j# 1 1 position committee, m order thst ffij 'your organization ma> take « part ra and ban .i vote* lflmuMt.en. ral poller 8 snd management of the ckdffialgn to Kt put South Jersey in the forefront in' Br making t!;:» World's Fair .. success H for South Jersey, a- well a*, for the j SR COMMISSIONERS MEET |) f. Monthly, reports of the building Jn g| t- specter. . ;t> electrician and health Kt office! were received at Monday after ■: «S e noon's meeting of the City Uomtnls 19 • aion. City Engineer Cotlisson filed w, ihe rerori of a conference he had with In Professor Haupt on beach protection Ml • north of First street The report was H Mtyor Champion reported he hat! M is ordered two life boats from Van Sant-.M John Christian was reappointed u fij „ member of the Sinking Fund Cominisaion to succeed himself ffl A ordinance was introduced de-iffl fining the type and dimensions ol Q U bulkheads IS n City Clerk Harry A Morris was in- « y structed Id advertise for bids for the TO E work ol filling and grading tRc camp « is- grounds n] *s\ | f' Advertise in the SENTINEL. Tr ill, - S to-L * |

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j ' PBSUe I FEBRUARY 12 8 Abraham Lincoln. Great man. equal" — and thai ' this nation, under » U Few can read of his life, but the God. should have a new birth of free- til if * wonder is thai there are not MORE dom. and that government of the people. g N great men. by the people, for the people should not IV Lincoln's principles were so simple. p«isb from the earth. Iff w plain, accurate. An institution, like a govornment or £' It was un-telied SERVICE Justice an indivittual. with foundations based t| ■ based upon the Golden Rule. upon service and jusiee, is hound to » H . „ , , - i i • -i have the confidence of the. big majority. *» At Gettysburg he reminded a civil jS H war-torn nation that our country was This institution, in its humble way. W jS "conceived in liberty and dedicated to " IS OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE M « the proposition that all men are created PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE. W K OUR AIM — To protect the interest of depositors ; to give sound advice to investors |8 w and to pay liberal returns on savings. It is worthy the place we ask in your considerations- n First National Bank Ocean City, N. J.

I The Talk of the Town How This Beautiful Six-Room Bungalow Can Be Built for $2350, Complete Living and dining room separated with an attractive colonade, with bookcase and china closet. Kitchen complete, with large dresser and clothes closet. Two large bed rooms, with nice closets fn each, and complete bath with all guaranteed material and workmanship. I line the walls with sheet rock and paper it to suit you. I furnish beautiful lighting fixtures in each room ; net screens for all windows and doors; two coats of paint outside and stain and varnish inside. It also has a large -loft or half-story over head for storage or sleeping quarters. H just a chance to figure on your new building will show Although I have wondemrf'advertlnlng from my satis- -- you that I positively give you the benefit of the redur- fled patrons as to how teasonsble and how perfect a tion in material and wages 1 ran figure »i least 2f. per building can be erected, I Would rather show you cent lower this year than I rould last figures explaining WHY/ • EDGAR F. BERGER (J . I Real Estate and Building Contractor 31st and Asbury Ave, Ocean City, N. J. \ . - • " . "