Stone Harbor Gazette

VOL. 1. No. 3. STONE HARBOR, N. J. SATURDAY NOVEMBER, 7, 1914. TWO CENTS

Stone Harbor Gazette # Issued Weekly BY THE CITIZENS LEAGUE OF STONE HARBOR Stone Harbor, N. J. CAPE MAY COUNTY SHOWS REPUBLICAN VICTORY Complete returns from Cape May county shows a Republican victory for the State and county offices. For Congress— Bacharach, 2220: Baker. 2015. For Assembly— Stevens, 2360; Slaughter, 1635. For County Clerk— Hildreth, 2771; Melvin, 1644. Ingersoll was elected Coroner. The delight of the people of. Stone Harbor in finding that their tax rate is. only $2.62 is freely displayed by the criticism heard on all sides, "What have we to show for the $ .55 per hundred increase?" If the tax-payers of Stone Harbor will analyze their 1913 tax receipts, they will find a special tax "For the Collection of Garbage." The following figures taken from a statement of receipts showing "Stone Harbor dupliAmount of duplicate $12,352.86 Amount general taxes collected 6,325.12 . Amount light taxes collected 1,838.72 Amount garbage taxes collected 429.86 Rebate and duplicate assessments on general, light and garbage taxes 133.84 Amount of general tax delinquents 2,750.79 Amount of light tax delinquents 707.44 . Amount of garbage tax delinquents 167.09 $12,352.86 The amount of general taxes to be collected 1914 will aggregate $12,000, almost double the amount of last year. for this amount you received a lifeguard during the summer mouths and are paying a night officer. Total expenses less than $1000. It is reported that the School Board has awarded a contract for furnishing coal to the public school without advertising for bids. Contract awarded to Mr. Gustavo Miller, Sr., at $8.20 per ton., who w.ould now like to have the price raised .to $8.45 per ton. Coal purchased direct from the mines, even if through a local dealer, can be laid down in Stone Harbor at much less. Take care of th,e tax-payer, Dave. Your Mayor promised to reduce the rate of taxation. BOWER'S RIGHT TO SIT IN COUNCIL MAY BE DISPUTED Chas F. Bower's title to a seat in Council after January 1 next may be contested on the ground of not being a legal voter and resident of Stone Harbor. ____________ NEW VICTOR RECORDS Opera Singers Well Represented in Company's Monthly Output Among the most popular of operatic selctions, the quartet from "Rigoletto" holds a high place. The new Victor list includes this quartet, and it is beautifully done by Lucrezia Bori, Josephine Jaeoby, John McCormack and Reinald Werrenrath. Then there is to be heard the beautiful voice of Lucrezia Bori in the dainty Spanish air, "Malaguena." McCormack sings with fervor and expression the popular "Because," and he with violin obligato by Fritz Krelsler. The admirers of Schmaun-Heink will hear with the greatest delight her singing of "Good Morning, Sue." Then there is Tetrazzini in the ----iant "Guiding Star of Love" from "Linda di Chamou nix." Margarete Ober, of the Metro politan, is finely represented with Schu bert's "To the Music." Arditi's spark ling "Love Waltz" sounds entrancing from the throat of the gifted Frieda Hempel, and Alma Gluck sings with fine feeling the "Serenade" of Tosti From "La Traviata," Pasquale Amato has chosen, "The Home in Fair Prov ence," and Giovanni Martinelli is heard to great advantage in Strange Har mony" from "La Tosca." "The Heart Bowed Down" is sung by Clarence Whitehill. Evan Williams' tenor is heard in "The Cross." Then there are violin solos of worth played by Maud Powell and Maximillian Pilzer. A "Loh ergrin" fantasia is played on the cello by Rosario Bourdon. In band selections for dancing and for mere entertainment there are is great variety of the newest compositions, and then there are among entertainers, Raymond Hitchcock, Har ry Lauder, Nora Bayes, George Mac Farlane and Margaret Romaine on the list. Hawaiian folk songs are play by the Toots Paka Troupe, and light operas are culled from to give the Victor and other singers some novel and interesting offerings. An educational record gives an idea of the singing of Glacier Park Indians. Indeed the list is one of the utmost interest in every respect. ___________________________ When the Turks get fairly into it we may look for some regular first-rate, topnotch, bang-up atrocities. They have had practice. -Louisville Courier Journal If those German submarines keep up their present gait Great Britain will have to bottle up her navy or kiss it good-bye. —Florida Times-Union.

THE GERAN ELECTION LAW AS APPLIED IN STONE HARBOR Mr. Elmer H. Geran, representing the Lincoln Republican Club as their counsel, was called upon many occasions by the Judge of Election Board for his rulings. During the day, Mr. J. H. Irving, representing the citizens, challenged ninteen voters on the grounds of "non-residents." A number of men challenged were salesmen of the S.J.R. Co., while others were employees of the Company in other Departments, a few of which, however, were business merchants. A large majority of the challenges were identical. The voter being a married man, maintaining his family in another State, or in another County of this State, having never resided in Stone Harbor or having maintained a home in Stone Harbor. Mr. Geran ruled that to establish a voting residence it did not signify nor mean that you had to live in that particular community. That a man could reside with his family in one State and that the declaration on his part "That he intended to make a specific city, town, or borough his voting residence," qualified him as a voter from that place IN OTHER WORDS A MAN PERMANENTLY LIVING IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA COULD LEGALLY VOTE IN NEW JERSEY. The election board without requiring an affidavit from either of the nineteen men challenged permitted them to vote upon Mr. Geran's authority. A number of colored voters asking for assistance were permitted by the judge of election to make their own selection from the board and were asked by the judge of election "who they wanted to assist them" the one selected by the voter accompanied him to the booth and NOT A REPRESENTATIVE FROM BOTH PARTIES. Candidates for office were permitted to bring voters into the election room, wait until they had cast their ballot and then go off for another voter. This was practiced all day without any interference. Electioneering within the hundred foot line was a common occurrence, although the judge of election endeavored to prevent it, but did not have sufficient assistance of the outside. Our neighboring resort, the Borough of Avalon, with a yearly residence of about 300 has a resgistration list of 76 voters, while the Borough of Stone Harbord with a yearly residence of about 200 has a registration list of 216 and voted on November 3, 173. Some town for voters.

CITIZENS NOT DISCOURAGED AND WILL CONTINUE THEIR EFFORTS FOR PROTECTION While the election is over we still have our municipal problems to face and solve and the fight for local improvements must :ontinue. We must keep right on working to separate the obligations of our promoters that are still due the people from that which we would receive as a result of taxation. Men are transitory— principles everlasting. Our two-score of men are still in harness and will desperately hold together to secure justice and projection to fill. These men are not discouraged and while not successful in the election, feel that we have accomplished much good and have made a page in history that the future Stone Harbor can always turn to with pride. It is really something to have made a record; for it puts spring in the heels and color in the eye ; warms the cockles of the heart within, and lifts the mind to the clouds beyond the range of undeserved criticism. Not to have felt it is to have lost the meaning of life. The issues involved at this resort were not political, but were more or less local— "SHALL THE PROMOTERS CONTROL OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT— OR SHALL THE TAXPAYERS HAVE A VOICE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THEIR PROPERTY. A continuation of these conditions will not prove an inducement for the property owner to build on or develop his property, nor will it warrant his suppprt or influence to bring his friends to invest in our community. The greatest advertisement to any new community is — the satisfied investor. The greatest deterring influence is — complaints, strifes and dissatisfaction. The voters hnve expressed their will by ballot in re-electing Mr. H. S. Risley as Mayor and his choice of fellow-Councilmen. If they are the men who they bejieye are best able to represent them, there will be no disposition to question their right of choice, The Borough of Stone Harbor is our Municipal Government and ' as members of that body these men belong to our community and the entire public who are property owners thereof. There are certain well-defined laws governing the election of each member and these laws are intended to preserve the purity of our municipality. In presenting the merits of our issue during the campaign specific attacks were made upon the record and official acts of our Mayor, that we believed did not warrant his re-election. The size of his vote had nothing whatever to do with the status of the case, as it was purely a popular indorsement by a majority, comprising that class of voters that are not vitally interested in the outcome of our local administration. The pathway js now clear and open for the ensuing term of office and many opportunities will be afforded for the protection to the citizen and the essentials for our future growth and prosperity, and THERE IS TIME FOR ONE LAST APPEAL AND OF WARNING; OF APPEAL TO HELP BRING ABOUT THAT CHANGE AT STONE HARBQR WHICH THE COMUNITY NEEDS; OF WARNING AS TO WHAT WILL BE THE INEVITABLE RESULT SHOULD PROMOTERS RULE AGAIN TRIUMPH. We ask for the protection of the investor, to defend him against laws framed or executed by those who know naught of the problems of business or are jealous of the men to whom success has come. We ask for protection for the taxpayer, for equalization in taxation, for protection against favoritism for political reasons, for protection against saddling upon the community taxation that should be borne by the corporation or individual. For protection of the legitimate business interests of the community, for protection from being slurred and slandered by the party in power. The citizens will gladly welcome such an administration and co-operate with our law-makers in maintaining this American form of government— "A Borough for the people, by the people." Our Councilmen should not be subservient to the wish and will of the promoters, oblivious entirely of the wish of the citizens and intent only on bowing low to corporation influence.

[image] ELECTION DAY AT STONE HARBOR

REPUBLICAN LANDSLIDE IN STONEHARBOR, N. J MEANS PROMOTERS' RULE FOR TWO MORE YEARS The Risley ticket sweeps borough with a large majority. The tidal wave that swept Stone Harbor carried every candidate on the Republican ticket, from Mayor down to counselor to ---. Mayor H.S. Risely, re-elected, will now be able to dictate to his Council and the reins of the local government are now in the hands of the President of the South Jersey Realty Co. The overwhelming defeat to the Democratic ticket, supported by the Citizens and Taxpayers attributed to the large laboring vote controlled by the S.J.R. Co. The voting indicated that for the most part those who cast Republican ballots voted the "straight ticket," thus indicating the masterly control exercised by the promoters over that type of the citizens that dare not think for themselves. There are excellent reasons for deploring this result. The time seemed ripe for emphatic repudiation of the methods and actions of our promoters in this political campaign, but their "organization system" was mos ably conducted.

Isaac Bacharach — Republican 101 J. Thompson Baker — Democratic 53 William H. Bright— Progressive (Roosevelt) 7 James Chapman — National Prohibition.. 2 G. A. McKeen — Socialist 2 Daniel B. Mayhew— Progressive (Roosevelt) 32 George W. Reeves— National Prohibition 3 Evans G. Slaughter— Democratic 45 Lewis T. Stevens — Republican 99 A. Carlton Hildreth — Republican 119. Frederick J. Melvin — Democratic 45 Benjamin C, Ingersoll— Rep and Dem... 136 Howard S. Risley — Republican .134 W. L. Turpin — Democratic 33 Charles F. Bower, Republican 127 Samuel E. Herbert — Republican 121

John H. Irvin— Democratic 44 James A. McGrath — Democratic 39 Charles E. Clark — Republican 125 David Troxel — Republican 124 Richard C. Hill — Democratic 38 John W. Jungkurth— Democratic 42 Amos Dickinson — Republican 126 John M. Larsen — Republican 121 Oscar A. Horton — Democratic 39 William Schuck — Democratic 44 Ephraim S. Borton — Democratic.... 46 Hugh MacMurtrie— Republican 121 H. Wilson Beyer — Democratic 37 Clarence O. Letzkus— Republican 128 John Garis — Republican and Democratic 60 Frank A. Garrison — Republican 114 Alex. Pager — Democratic 110

An Anolysis of The Vote Cast Ensuring Victory of the Promoters

Total number of ballots polled— 173 Colored vote principally employed by S. J. R. Co. 26 estimated Officials and employes of the S. J. R. Co. 42 estimated Laborers affiliated with the S. J. R. Co. 40 estimated Taxpayers associated directly and indirectly with the S. J. R. Co. 25 estimated 133 Vote polled under the Democratic party, comprising very large property interests. 40 As deducted from these figures it is shown conclusively that the taxpaver and Citizen part were greatly out-voted by the employees and laborers who do not own real estate or property, therefore not vitally interested in GOOD GOVERNMENT While the election is over, we still have our big and little municipal problems to solve. We must keep right on thinking and working for better government, for our handful of honest men are still in the fight and will desperately hold to our principles of a real government for the people and of the people.

PERSONAL MENTION After all is said and done, let us hope that the platform of prosperity will be great enough for all. The overwhelming defeat to the Democratic party, throughout the State is accounted for by Elmer being away from his home territory and not taking an active part in their campaign. Defeated; yes, but not conquered. A lean horse, for a long race. Discouraged? No. The citizens still have more trumps to play and oft-times the trick catches all the game. The women were encouraged to believe that they could vote Tuesday. --- will --- by the School Board in the near future. The polls opened at 6 A.M. with Ed and Adolph on time. Claence would have been there to, but his watch was slow. After allowing Leo to "hit the hay" until 6:30, he was 'phoned for "to beat it," and made the run to the polls in 20 minutes. At 6:50 the first ballot was drawn by W.F. Still, but Lloyd Seamn being a more efficient "marker," polled the first vote. Breakfast was served at 7:40 in the election room to the election board, including "Tom" who made a good clean-up M. Wheeler laid off the dead-line at 8:30, and it is needless to say the red lines were only "superficial" as the Republicans were electioneering all day within the hundred-foot line. Seaman "as official challenger" did good work on the outside. Officer O'Donnell was on the job all day, that is until sundown. Regardless of partisan feeling, there was good fellowship throughout the day within the election room except when "Tom" stole the cocoanut pie. If Adoplh had not lost his nerve he would have won a bet from Elmer on points covering the Geran election law. No one handed out cigars, but a stock was always available if you wanted one. Who furnished the yellow crysanthemums? Everybody had one, even Irvin. The unsuccessful candidates find consolation in the fact that it took the assistance of Avalon and Wildwood voters to defeat them. When the majority was piling up for Mayor Risley the chase became overburdened and gave way. Dutch was a close second and the most popular all day Liquid refreshments were freely dispensed all day from the pavilion. The supply seemed to be inexhaustible even after the "rally" Monday night. Thanks and appreciation to all fel-low-workers for coming out on Tuesday. Your presence signified you are still with us. .The Stone Harbor Gazette offers free publication of all items for the good of Stone Harbor. Some artistic work was done by Mr. H.H. Boinot on the sidewalks. The silent solicitor for prosperity. Everybody walked over it. Mr. and Mrs. August Juergeus are spending a week at their Ocean Cottage. Pure air and ocean ozone will cure the worst of colds. Owing to the absence of four members, the Borough Council adjourned to meet November 10th. .. The Public is curious to learn why the bids for the new school house were not opened until after the election. The closing of Harbor Inn threw many voters out of a home. Officer O'Donnell was kept busy ejecting men out of the election room, particularly George.