Stone harbor Gazette

VOL. II— NO. 4 vTONE HARBOR, N. J., SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1915 TWO CENTS

Stone Harbor Gazette IuMd W«®kly BY THE CITIZENS LEAGUE OF STONE HARBOR Stone Harbor, E J. l3 PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. J. Harold I-j-.vin desire to *xteod tlieir sincerest tihaaiks and appreciation to the many friends for their hearty congratulations and best 'wishes'. Dr. .Jos. M. Caley, the family physician. advises that Mrs. Irvia is improving very nicely and should tie able to return to Stone Harbor in .about ten day*. "J. Harold. Jr.," is not to lie outdone bv ibis sister "Gladys Mae" and will take 'his first train ride at the .age of three weeks. Friends «if Mr. Irvin report that llie has grown several inches "since the hmnorable event Two summnr residents of Stone Harbor were awarded high honors at tilt Atlantic Dog Rliow held last Saturday on the Million Dollar Pier. Mrs. William Whack, the owner .of a beautiful tojv ponidte, whose sire was the famous "Little Wonder" of ,the Hartmau Kernels, was awarded ri>e Red Ribbon f» r dog» her class. This was ••Beauty's"' (first appearand? any dog alio*, and there is but littlr Oanlit that later, -in. she will be a regular ribbon winner, as her coat is of un-ns-.jil duality and -great qnantity. Mrs. SJnxk was the recipient of many eongrssjuhitioiis from regular patrons of the show. Mix. A. IT Smith., who spends her Similiters with her Sister. Mrs. J. >1. Calev. at Stone Harbor, is the owner of a Japanese Span'eJ wlvse Blue Rilihons nvembeTH twelve, and whose specials number five. On Saturday last, she captured the Bine Itilibon. the Spei-ial Ribbon and the Winner's Ribbon. She was __ e'so awarded the '.'old medal offered by the Atlantic City Kennel Club for Uogft of her class. This medal is made at Caldwell's in Philadelphia, and is n Mr. anil Mrs. George Signor, former cottagers at Stone Harbor, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Niewkivk, from Friday last until Simdav. On Saturday afternoon Mrs. Xienkirk entertained nt "Bridge" in honor of Mrs. Signor. The prizes were very handsome, as usual, with the hostess. Mrs. H. G. Riter. Jr.. and her daughter. Mrs. H. G. Riter. 3d. gave a large Bridge party on Tuesday. The little ladv who attracted the most attention was the ten-months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. IT. G. Riter. 3,1. The old-fashioned craft of "tatting" has broken out in our midst, and old and young are purchasing shuttles and going at the work with avidity. A class in "tatting" is threatened. Mrs. Morton. .Ii . has some beautiful work of Ibis kind which she brought from the Phil- ^ Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Ulrick. of Reading. visited Stone Harbor last Sunday. Mr. I'lrleh has recently been appointed for the third term. Chief Engineer of the City of Reading. He is a wellknown expert on water works. Did you ever hear of an aerial clothesline'.' No'; Well, we have them at Stone Harbor. They start out just like anv other clothes-line, but wind will blow sand, when it is just sand. Of course, saoil can he held down, lint why se.-nd 'money so foolishly for the garden, when street, sidewalk and the vast expause of adjacent territory are just sand? No. indeed! We are not so exclusive. We just try to borrow an eighteen foot step ladder ami fiing our lingerie to the breezes, until promises are kept, which will hold the street down. Then to our gardens and the good oldfashioned getnt-able clotheslines. The Rommel house, which was partly destroyed by tire a few weeks since, is •rapidly assuming beautiful proportions under' the skillful hands of Mr. Turpin and liis workmen. We think the new roof an improvement over the former

BOOMING A SEASHORE RESORT 526 Belle Harbor Lots Sold for j $226,055, 50 Per Cent. Sacrifice — All Sorts of Contradictory Prices Paid at Public Sale — Hotel Man to Build on Ocean Frontage. Willi 326 lots sold for a tota I of $220,<135 iu less than seven hours' actual selling time and only 171 lots remaining to be disposed of, Joseph' P. Day ou Saturday last at a few minutes be- ' fore midnight announced an adjourn1 inent of the Belle Harbor ocean and r hay front lot sale over Sunday. The I sale laid been in progress scarcely seven hours and was more than threequarters finished. True to the predictions of the owners ! anil auctioneers, the bidders had held 1 the offerings in a firm grip, wliicil they refused to release even when the at- | tractive sought after ocean front lots were led to the block io be slaughtered. Kar.y in the afternoon the five ocean ( front lots at Beach l-Hst (Park) street [ together with two street lots adjoining, were offered as "feelers" and sacrificed at $850 each for the ocean front lots and $740 each for the street lots. , Then a quick move to the bay front \was made, to a section l«ss than half ai dozen blocks north of where lots averaged $450 to $600 at a sale held by ■ Day five years ago. However, at rfcie sale oil Saturday lots between Braieh 137th and 141 st .street*, Washington avenue (Rockawajy Broach Boulevwnfl) and Ocean (Newport) avenue rongj.t only $2S0 to $4i'0 each, and two earner plots only $310 and! $41, each. The rttHy other lots Mouth of Ocean : (Newport* stveuue sold yesterday eoniuised tire ocean frontage. These lots, •with riparis-u rights, hikd never been priced or offered by the Belie Harbor Company to individual buyers, and •V.I a ii Mr. Day announced .that tii.idiiig situate nearest to and directly opposite l{,K-kawa.v Park tlicl-e was tu Hut tor of maps and rumblings of speculative interest in the resultNot all of the Mock of sixteen lots was offered— Iff once, but in four separate parcels. The successful bidder for all. however, was Robert M. Murphy, formerly proprietor of the Rudolf Hotel, in Atlantic City, who lias had experience with ocean and beach front properties and crowds, and who paid $1100 each for the ocean front lots and $740 for each of the street lots, or $15,440 for the sixteen lots comprising the site. After the sale Mr. Murphy said to a reporter that he would have on the site, before the next summer season rolls around, a large concrete hotel and bathing pavilion, with houses sufficient to accommodate 5000 bathers daily. This seeming disregard of tile first • rineiple of value is one of the astonishing features of auction buying. The selling of all remaining Belle Harbor lots speaks a bright and prosi erons future for the resort, and no doubt hundreds of new houses will he I erected during the coming year. The prices paid represented an nmnzi. decline from the values established puhli'e and private sale, despite that many improvements have since been added. The Belle Harbor Company adverlisoii that all remaining lots would be sold regardless of price and carried out their agreeement. A rapid growth of Belle Harbor is fully determined, both from a residential and business standpoint, thus necessitating a rapid increase in valuaWliy hasn't somebody started a correspondence school of preparedness in Stone Harbor? Many of us would like to do our hiking by mail. Why your wages don't buy ifiore— Because you don't get your money on pay day and must buy on script or l

WANTED Dressmaker for children's sewing, at seashore home. Reference required. Address Box 251, Stone Harbor, N. J. f SEEDS Garden Tools, Fertilizers, Insect Destroyers, and If |f

IF NAPOLEON CAME TO LIFE If Nappleon came to life, I know what he would do He'd take the field again upon the field of Waterloo; With the English on his side this time it wouldn't matter much, If Blucher did come up with all his army of the "Dutch." They say Nap was a piker when it comes to real warfare ! That his mighty armies of the past today wouldn't compare ; Still somehow we like the way Napoleon played the game; He played it as a soldier should and won undying fame. If Napoleon came back today and took the field again, He'd not use poison gases, he would ONLY slaughter men: 1 Our hat comes off to Bonaparte, pride of the old regime, When man was pitted against man, not man against machine ! E J.R.

i Stone Harbor Board of Trade Tlie regular monthly meeting of the ■ B'lftnl of Trade was held on July 2d. The ejection of officers for the ensuing year fcook place and were: President, Mr. J. H. Irvin; vice president, Mr. J. • Newkirk: treasurer, Mr. J. Kienzle : secretary. Mr. William J. Sclmck. Executive Committee: I)r. J. Cole.v. Mr. William Turpin, Mr. J. B. Anchor, Mr. Overholtzer, Mr. J. Ituuimel. A communication was ordered sent to tiie Mayor- to appoint a local Board of Health. The meeting adjourned at 10 P. M. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Turner, of Oreland. and their three daughters are guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Sclmck. The card party and dance held at Shelter Haven for the benefit of StMary's It. C. Church, was a great success. and all present had a very enjoy"iVtiR- evening. A grand bazaar for the lienefit of the building fund of the Lutheran Church will be held nt Harbor Inn in the near future. Any donation will be thankfully received. Mr. George Rtimmel has been very fortunate to sell his new stores and apartments at the N. E. corner of 83<1 and Second avenue. A Salesman. A depression in business caused a certain promoter to discbarge his experienced men, replacing them with high school graduates— youths just out of school— one of whom appeared very anxious to learn, and the president at the end of the first week was much pleased with results. "Well, Frank, did you sell anything today?" "Yes, sir. I sold five lots." "Fine, my boy!" said the president enthusiastically. "We'll make an A-l salesman out of you. You got the regular price for them, of course." "Oh, yes, sir. The buyer did not read the agreement of sale or the contract, simply believed all my promises." By Internal Evidence. "Where do you suppose we got the saying, "He laughs best who laughs last'?" asked Mrs. Binks of her hus"Probably some Englishmen first said j it," replied Mr. Binks. "He was doubt- 1 less trying to set a national failing ' in a favorable light."— Youth's Companion.

WISE AND OTHERWISE —"1 remember reading somewhere that war was Invented to keep the people thinned down." "But that was belore there were any automobiles."— Boston Transcript. —The frait derived from labor. Is the sweetest of pleasures.— Vauvenargues. —•'Who's going to umpire the ball game?" "Let's get Bliggins." "Why, he's Die most unpopular man In the community." "That's why he'd make a good umpire. He hasn't any popularity to lose."— Washington Star. -Here Is the ghost of a summer that lived for us. Here Is the promise of a summer to be. —Henley. doctor asked an Atchison negro, who was being examined for life Insurance. "Ah don't knbw, boss." he replied, "but It wasn't nothing serious."— Kansas City Star. —Life Is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Kindness In another's tronble. Courage in onr own. —Adam Lindsay Gordon. —"Farm products cost more than they used to." "Yes." replied the farmer. "When a farmer is supposed to know the botanical name of what he's raisin' an' the zoological name of the Insect that eats It, and the chemical name of what will kill It, somebody's got to pay."— London Opinion. —It Is the season now to go About the country high and low. —Stevenson. . KAISER'S PIANIST DEPORTED London, Aug. Sr.— Maria Cecilia Natalie .Tanotha. court pianist to Emperor William, was arrested iu London today and deported from Tilbury. Maria Janotlia holds membership lu many academies of art in Italy, Great Britain and Austria. She received the Victoria badge from Queeu Victoria and holds the highest honorary diploma from the St. Cecelia Itoyal Academy in Rome. She edited Lady | Tennyson's songs and translated Chopclplent of many decorations, Including one from the German Empress.

Lines to a Great-Grandmother. The days are long, but longer yet the , When ears are dull and eyes' no longer ! When age creeps on and on and form ' grows bent. And gone are charms, which are, alas! ; but lent. The charms of childhood, girlhood, mother, wifeAre sunk in memories sweeter far than ' life; Ilcr children grown; the grand-child I takes a bride. Then hide-n-wee — and lo! an infant ' sighed. Aud so a great-grandmother she became. And so crept on the days and years the Her work is done: she waits with folded hands To hear the Master's voice when He When He commands her presence, she will rise, And with the gleam of glory in her eyes Will come, an angel, to her Masters But now, the days are long, and long the night. Mary Allen Caley. August 12, 1915. Why, Indeed? Bill— Say. that ocean voyage took all the ginger out of me. Jill— What did you want to eat ginger for?— Yonkers Statesman. The Kind That Gets On. Booker T. Washington congratulated by a New York reporter on the success lie had made of his life said with a '1 suppose 1 mu6t be modest and declare that luck has had much to do with my progress, or otherwise, I'll be in Senator Dash's shoes. "Senator Dash, of Tallapoosa, prided himself on his rise from the bottom, for Senator Dash, in his youth, had worked with the colored men in the cotton fields. "Boasting at a political meeting about his rise, the Senator singled out Uncle Calhonn Webster among liis audience and said: " 'I see before me old Calhoun Webster, beside whom, in the broiling southern sun, I toiled day after day. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I appeal to Uncle Calhoun. Tell us all. Uncle, was I or was I not a good man in the cotton fields?' " 'Yo' wuz a good man, Senatah,' the aged negro replied, 'yo' wuz a good man fo' a fack:.bnt yo' sut'ny didn't work much.' "—Washington Star. Lawyer vs. Doctor. A well-known Senator relates an argument which occurred between two friends of his, a physician and a lawyer, over the relative merits of their respective professions. "1 don't say that all lawyers' are crooks." said the doctor, "but you'll have to admit that your profession doesn't make angels of men." "No," responded tin- lawyer, suppressing a smile, "you doctors certainly have the best of us there."— The Missouri Mnle. I.os Angeles has a_ne« order that every patrolman shall salute Hit- American Hag every time it passes lilm In the street. of "the stupid vaudeville net which "gois other things more important for the policeman to do.— Springfield Republican. A man claims that he lent Andrew Carnegie a dollar when he first cauic across and the Steel King Iiiih never paid him. If the story is true It Is certainly rime that the canny. Scot came across again.— Eastern Argus.

Mr. J. HAROLD IRVIN, President, Mr. JOHN KIENZLE. Treasurer, . 1 421 Chestnut St, Pliila, Pa. 2nd and Dock Sts, Phila, Pa. j Mr. J. P. NIEUKIRK, Vice Pres., Mr. WM. J. SCHUCK. Secretary, 207 .Cooper St, .Camden, N. J. 2441 N. 8th St, Phila, Pa. Cb c Stone THarbor Boarb of Crabc STONE HARBOR, N. J. August 9, 1915. J: HON. H. RISLEY, Mayor, Stone Harbor, N. J.: Dear Sir Council: [ At the last regular meeting of the Stone Harbor Board ol Trade, a motion was made and passed that "The Secretary be instructed to write the Hon. Mayor and Council of Stone Harbor, i N. J, requesting the appointment of a local Board of Health, at once, as conditions at Stone Harbor make it necessary to have such a body." Hoping you will take this matter up at your next meeting, I am i Very truly yours, WILLIAM J. SCHUCK, Secretary.

DNIDEDI Ft .KrffHwirr : i Whether or not the people of Stone Harbor persist in tffefr" policy of refusing to take an active part in the local affairs of" the community in insisting upon a settlement of their individual contracts in order to improve our Resort, the time will surely come when our fate as a borough will depend largely on the influence we are able to exert upon the Councilmen in determining;: our policies of the future. We can make that influence large or small, according to the manner in which we exercise it in these days of trial for all. For instance, if the obligations of the Risleys relative to street improvements and the completion of their contracts are always to be pigeonholed, what response will they make to us at the critical moments in the future when we shall want the value of our dollars. All people have a common and permannet in keeping absolutely free and unrestricted the lines of their trade and of communication. Trade is dependent upon communication, and both are dependent upon recognition of the rights of the citizen. The promoters' attitude is a denial of the rights of both — or rather, a defiance of those rights. Of course, they can pursue that method as long as our citizens will stand for it. Our only hope of relief is through a united effort to insist upon our rights. They remind us that Stone Harbor has a common policy to pursue, that their laxity in fulfilling all agreements is with the approval of the majority AND YET when the investor has personally inserted his rights they lose no time in complying with his just demands and the improvements for the particular lot is completed. The citizens, therefore, ignore the great strength of unity. If the promoter fears the legal act of the individual, what would be their attitude if we should all act as one. If we do not expect to have what we paid for, we are not entitled to have it and if we do not exercise our influence upon the Council when they appropriate our taxes to gravel and improve streets r that have not been built in accordance with the terms of the proi moters' agreements, then it is our duty to settle this problem by ! other means than our local government. If justice is ever to prevail, this is the day when our rights > should be permanently established. If through threats and inn timidations we are in peril of being kept silent, then our citizens j whose everyday needs depend on quick and united efforts should t take notice of the fact. The citizens who early invested in Stone Harbor get no satisfaction from the Company. These citizens , slandered and rebuffed, turn to us and say in effect — "our inter- : est is your interest" — ne. N\r of i s can move our debtors to re1 spect our rights. United, we may be able to do so. Here is ; what we arc saying t.o all of Stone Harbor: "Join with us in our protest"" Nothing entangling in that plea ; nothing that is not obvii ously to our vital interest. Yet Stone Harbor lias waited and waited for a response from our just dues. Informally, we are : told, we cannot make your improvements because others will require theirs if they see you get yours and to put in all of the improvements that we have been paid for would mean bankruptcy for us. What does such an admission signify? And yet. . Stone Harbor goes her way, the Company still endeavoring to score another triumph. United we stand; divided we fail. Which of these shall be your motto? OH! WHEN IIIIILL THE HARVEST BE? ; For five consecutive ,/ears there has been an extensive crop . of "promises" sown among the investors of Stone Harbor and during the same number of years we have always had a failure | of that crop. While we have had abundant of sunshine (hot air) ' and plenty of rain (O .P. M.) the tillers of the soil have not had | the necessary ani^ modern machinery to ensure the yield and so say we all. Of?! -when will the harvest be? and over the water echoes the ever-resounding voice 'Not Yet!" NARROW MARGIN New Investor— What is the best time for me to see the president of this Company? ' Office Girl — Between the time you sign you contract and the time you are to pay over your money. One of the most important moves in the religious world in years is the decision of the Christian Endeavorers of the South td acknowledge brotherhood with the negro race and take their work into the negro churches. "God," they say, "has placed at our door the greatest opportunity for Christian work that ever came to any missionaries anywhere." 1 he proposition of a jim-crow heaven is abolished and the great home missionary field is opened. Where the Christian Endeavorers do pioneer work other strong religious bodies are likely to follow. Hair Work in Every Style. Pure-t and Best Face Preparations. Shampooing and Facial Massaging. us, mm 1 1 rnmm FIRST MS ME WEBB Bell Phone Melbourne Cottage STONE IIARBOR. X. J. 88th St. between 2d and 3d Ave.