Stone Harbor Gazette

VOL. jl— HO. 13 STONE HARBOK. ft. J.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915 TWO CENTS

Stone Harbor Gazette Issued Weekly BY THE CITIZENS LEAGUE OF STONE HARBQ Stone Harbor, N. J. PERSONALS On Tuesday (October 19. th) .i election on woman suffrage. Le every good citizen cast his vote. Mrs. Marie E. Zeisel and .he son. Edward, with Mrs. Cather ine Woll, were guests of Mr. am Mrs. Harry Owers last week. Mr. and Mrs. George Rumme will be back in their odd home ii the very near future. Dr. and Mrs. Caley .have .closei their cottage for" the winte: months. Mr. and Mrs. David Eislei moved from the Hamilton Court to the Angora Apartments. Mr. and Mrs. David Troxe have closed their business on thi pier and returned to their Eighty third street store for the winter. CANAL STAYS CHILE'S ORE Schwab. Must With Others Await Re opening of Big Ditch. Special to "The Kecoril." Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 12.— The dosiw °f the Panama Canal for an indefiniti period by the worst slide in ;the h'istorj of the hist ditch is likely to cause i considerable delay in the plans o; Charles M. Schwab for the procuring of Chi.ean ore for his blast furnacei here. Previous to the slide the Bethlehem Chile Company had landed two cargoes of the Chilean ore at the new dockt which the l.ehigh Valley Railroad if constructing for the handling of thu business at Bayonne. These docks. P?w, lLlcet lonf>'' are aboi,t lla,t ished. They will eost .$1, 500.000. the Lehigh \ alley agreeing > accommodate Mr._ Schwab. While the Chilean deposit is the richest nt 'v known, it is sta'ed that it will not pay to ship the ore around Cape Horn, and that the transportation of been reopened. 1 • *" The ore enterprise is being handled for Mr. Schwab by C. Austin Buck, formerly general superintendent of the ■ steel plant. Mr. Buck is now in Chile, and it is stated that the mining will not bo ,. interrupted, the plan being to .store it 'along the shore until such time . as it can be sent north through the TYPHOJD GRIPS CONVENT S.'ahiteu Cases in Institution and ' Water Suspected. Special !<*;-Tbe Keeoril." . "Wert Chester. Pa., Oct. 12.— There is some alar:.: her, ovr the .'iseovery of lb a -eg, of typhoid fever at the Villa Mariu Convent . of the Immaculate Hear.', near this place, where one' teacher tin 1 IT ere victims. There is only one other oa.se of typhoid in town. Some weeks -ago colon bacilli were discavered in the town's water snppiy. wlncd) was promptly dosed with copperas. Citizens of the borough have been advised to boil ali drinking water and State .inspectors are making thorough inspection of the entire watershed. FRAU? TAINT ON BLUESGX "Eminent Respectables" Accused in Allegheny County. Pittsburgh. Oct. 12-Piliog.of criminal informations today charging,, wholesale frauds iu the recent Republican! primary in the interest of William B. 1 'Kirker, candidate of the O'Xeil , apti- 1 organization forces for Prothonoiary, j .crested a sensation here. Election boards charged with fraud ' in the new informations are located -in j some of the eminently respectable • bor- i ougks and townships of Allegheny | county, including Wilkinsbnrg. Crafton, Ingram. Bellevue (Kirker's home borough) and . Forward township. Entire . election boards are charged : with frauds, including voting men not ' registered, originally enrolled in other! parties than the Republican; giving | ballots to mer. not known to reside in ' the district and crediting anti-organizs- ; tion candidates on the return sheets '• with more votes ffipan were found in the : ballot-boxes. In all, David B. Johns charges, over 3500 persons who were not entitled to vote in the primary were illegally . voted for Air. Kjrker.

THE STONE HARBOF SEWER. CO. On September 7, R. P. Risle; was called to Trenton, N. J., tc appear before the Board o Health of the State and explaii why conditions prejudicial t< health existed in Stone Harbor As president of the Stone Har bor Sewer Company, he is sup — posed to know all about the sew age of said borough. Perhaps he does, perhaps he does not is His interest may centre onlj et upon the amount of money received from residents for sewei 2r rent. Several persons receivec F. bills for sewer use who wert id connected only with a box which. from time to time spread? ej its nauseating contents upon the n surface. One poor lady actually . paid her sewer rent after having . received a letter from the.S. T. ;r R- Co. telling her she was ex- ' empt and apologizing for the bill which had been sent. Why did :y she do so foolish a thing? Just to because one of the minions of the company told her she must, el and this dear foolish lady is ie strong in her desire for "Votes - for Women:" Let us hope her vote, if she ever gets it, will be held more precious than her sewer bill and .that she will not "give up" just because some- man tells her to. But back to "Trenton'! The g i^tate Board of Health knows all •e about the raw sewage emptying J" into the Channel, which is an ,f offense against the Federal law. s A gentleman high in authority 8 visited Stone Harbor -and thori- oughly examined the entire 8 sewer system. Personally, he « expressed himself as thoroughly •8 disgusted. Many residents have i- sent letters to the State Board ® of Health, so the gentlemen of said Board are not left in ignor|j anee of how the Stone Harbor e Sew.er Co. mismanages its af-ff-Hirs-ias well as misrepresents its I sewer system. There IS a sew- ? | age disposal plant of small die . mensions at Stone Harbor. The ji gentleman from Trenton visited 0 j the little building, and after pa- ® I tiently waiting until the key was I found after considerable huntI ing, he entered, only to find that I it had been left for weeks unattended to. 1 1 The superintendent was voluj ble with excuses and promises, : but neglect of this very import- ' ant matter was visible on all ! ! sides. The disinfectants were ' I useless from long standing. No i 1 footprints marked the visit of ; [ man to the little building. The ; j same old story of neglect of duty • | and carelessness met the eyes on , ali sides. The man returned to Trenton and made his report in ] no uncertain language. All this! t occurred more than a year ago, j (but it takes some time fori 1 "Boards" to act. At last came the summons to . 1 R. P. Risley to appear and he ; did appear before the Depart- | ' nient of Health at a meeting j held on September 7, 1915, at | T renton j After r. conference with him ; relative to the installation of disj posal works for the treatment of | j the sewage from 84th street « | sewer at Stone Harbor, it was s j finally decided to grant the com- n jlHny an extension of time until h i'Ma-y 1, 1916, in which to install j : proper sewage disposal works a j for -.the treatment of the sewage from said sewer. " u All this sounded very pretty r! to "R. P." He had engaged the w : gentlemen in his usual little P( I game oi Delay, Linger and Wait -j and when May 1, 1916, comes n along, he probably. thinks it will h be "his move" again. In the meanwhile the menace to health

goes on.and the Bogey Man o: typhoid fever may catch you, i: you don!t look out. Erom Trenton to Ocean City is a little step .but "R. P." made it and appeared at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce which was held to consider an ocean houlevard connecting .South Jersey resorts and other questions of interest to said resorts. He not only appeared — he made a little speech, just to show lie-eould do it.- - -- There is little doubt but that we will get our boulevard — the Freeholders are back of that project— but our interest is still held by the PROMISED DISPOSAL PLANT. We are so accustomed to*- the magnificent promises of blatherskites that doubt, deep and dark, assails us, and "Boards" are slow to move. Typhoid germs act quickly and fatally. Keep .away from them — if you tan.

;Hair Work in Every Style. Purest and Best Face Preparations. I Shampooing and Facial Massaging. ti IMS. JOHN L iEWkm a FUST MS HMfflPMUffi tc ^ CI Bell Phone d' Melbourne Cottage STONE HARBOR, N. J. dc 88th St. between 2d and 3d Ave.

SUICIDE FOB FRUIT SLIT ENDS EX-OFFICIIL'S LIFE Counted on Great Crop From Orchards to Save Him, But It Became Too Cheap. CHEERY BEFORE TRAGEDY Planned to Finance Him, But He Grew Disconsolate. Chambersburg. Pa., Oct. "./.—Joseph ; H. Ledy, former Register and Record- , er of Franklin county, and a large j grower of apples and peaches in the | mountain belt, near Alont Alto, shot ' himself in the left temple in a bathroom 011 the third floor of the Hotel McLaughlin, at Green Castle, this even- ' ng. He died instantly. Yesterday he made an assignment for j :he benefit .of creditors to J. R. Ruth- | •auff, a Chajnbersbiirg attorney. There j vas a plan in progress to form a com- j inny to take over the fruit acrcuge, and. r t was thought it would be successful. I rhe dead man's liabilities were quoted i it §40,000, and lie had assets to cover lis indebtedness, it is believed. He had been in Green Castle parts of I wo days. With other friends, he ate ! nipper at the hotel tliis evening, and j ippeared to be in the best of spirit.-. Samuel Tice, a friend, was with him 1 few minutes before he shot himself. ' "Wait a minute, Sam; I'm going to he bathroom," Tice told Coroner J. P. ilaelay, Ledy said to him. A minute j riter a shot rang out. and Tice saw lie body of Ledy 011 the floor of the inthroom, blood gushing from the Letters found showed he had con- , cmplated killing himself. The fruit 1 rop was not profitable this year, it ras said. The dead man had counted • n this year's receipts to wipe out in- | lebtedness, and, when it appeared he ' lust go under financially, it is believed, j he realization of his financial condition ' razed him and led to the act of self- I ; cstrucdon. Ledy lived at Marion. He , ■ > survived by a widow .and daughter, le was 55 years old,

THE STOKE HAMS "HERALD" 7 !

e House cleaning time is dreadi ed by every member of the household, even when done in 1 the present day scientifice man- ; r.er, with up-to-date appliances r but it sometimes happens that - ; articles placed so carefully away - i that they cannot be found, re3 /appear ail unexpectedly and_areJ joyously welcomed by the ownt ; cr, so even the homely art of , 2 hoHsecleaning has its compensa- 1 i tions. 1 1 During the fall house-cleaning j - 1 last week, there came to light a ^ copy of the Stone Harbor "Hert aid," dated August, 1913. This | . paper is published every little . while by the S. J. R. Co. and ! 1 j prints all the nice things happen- 1 ' ing and about to happen in Stone Harbor. As a rule, newspapers j over two years "old contain news , that is flat, stale and unprofit- ; able, but not so this glorious j sheet. The front page is adorned ' with a picture of the finest little 1 electric car anyone could wish to j ■ see. Across its side appears in , large letters the significant! j words, j STONE HARBOR ELECTRIC RAILWAY |. i It looks just grand and one1 ! can recall the thrill of pleasure ' felt when it was first seen, over ; .two years ago — the words, not < jthe car. Not satisfied with just : 1 one picture, the elegant interior : is shown and for good measure, 1 ;a photograph of the working | p^rts is thrown in. This was ! jvery thoughtful because some 1 I benighted folks might have sus-l pected that the car was like the ' 1 1 Keeley motor of a generation j < j ago, which refused to "mote." A j ; song was sung upon the streets i I j about that Keely motor, the re- 1 1 I frain of which was : | f "And the motor didn't mote." t This electric car is not to be \ < j confused with the traction j I ; motor, boarding at the Baldwin 1 1 Locomotive Works until the I 1 members of the firm see their 1 I way clear to accepting seashore 1 3 property for payment in lieu of c real money. i. To prove this, just read the f lines appearing beneath the pho- J tographs, quoted below: e "The above etchings are re- i produced from Actual Photo- t graphs of the rolling stock of the n proposed Stone Harbor Electric li Railway. The upper illustration 1; shows the wonderful mechan- I ism, air brakes, unit control system and Continental seperate s wheel trucks which make it pos- \\ sible to operate these cars over w standard guage road. Centre 'si shows substantial, beautiful car, lb with full vestibules, Lower, tbeiS

seating arrangement." Please notice the quotation marks and blame the bad spelling accordingly. We know that s-e-p-a-r-a-t-e spells separate and that g-a-u-g-e spells gauge. Then comes the text, written in the usual blatant and superlative style, used always by the pencil-pusher employed by the S. 'J. R. Co. A newspaper man, an insurance agent and a book i agent all rolled into one, could j not do better with the English j language. Here is the text of the article: ; I "Stone Harbor is modern, all 1 I declarations-^-should there be ; any — to the contrary, notwithI standing." I , One has only to see Stone H arbor today, to be brought face : to face with the truth of this as- ] sertion. Stone Harbor is growing fast ' | — very fast — quite beyond the t . most sanguine expectations of f ;the resort's developers, and en- 1 tirely beyond the comprehension c of the casual observer. The constantly increasing in- f flux of visitors to Stone Harbor, a and the great volume of traffic t now taxing the capacity of the f present facilities has rendered it i absolutely imperative that more i expeditious methods of transpor- [ tation be provided, hence — THE C STONE HARBOR ELECTRIC t RAILWAY — ' etc., etc. t< Now then! Is not that a a thriller? s There is plenty more, but one ii must pause to catch up with 1 one's breath. o It was rumored in Stone Haronly last week that the Reading Railroad service into o Harbor was to be discon- d tinued. In the face of such wonderful growth, this is a calamity, - then, after all, it is only rumor. To quote further : "The Stone e. Harbor Electric Railway is not an inspiration, nor is it the result " of a moment's hasty decision. It is the outcome of long and careful study on the part of the South Jersey Realty Company, developers of Stone Harbor, who realized at the very beginning of the season that more efficient mean* must be provided in handling the traffic between the mainland and the . town of Stone Harbor. In fact, the force of this necessity was beginning to be felt last vmter, when investors, whom it yas ascertained had purchased limply fcr speculation, decided to >ui!d and to become a part of 'tone Harbor's constantly in-

FINOS ENGLAND OBSTINATE [ Refuses to Moderate Confiscation of American Cables. Washington, D. C., Oct. 12. — Secre- ; tary Lansing saiil today that represen- ! t.itivcs to Great Britain, regarding the j confiscation, without notice, of commercial cablegrams sent from the United States to foreign countries by way of I England . had met with no success so . far. Protests in individual cases, it was : stated, also had accomplished little, although conditions in this regard were somewhat improved. , It was learned that the American j Government recently requested Great Britain at least to notify the senders ' at their own cost when messages were j destroyed. This policy, it was said, is I being pursued by the French cable com- | Panies, but so far Great Britain has inj dicated no willingness to grant even I that c-neession. Department officials j explained that, inasmuch as the cables : were British property, the United Stab's I had no right to make demands as to | how they should be operated. j MISS WILSON IN CONCERT i President's Daughter Pleases Big > Audience in Buffalo. ! Buffalo, Oct 12.— Margaret Woodrow | Wilson drew a fashionable audience of I 3500 to Elmwood Music Hall tonight • for the first concert of the President's ' I daughter in this city. Miss Wilson's ' entrance was received with hearty npj plauso, and hundreds of levelled opera ' glasses. ! Neutrality marked her program, which comprised 20 songs, German, English, ; Scotch, Irish, Austrian and American. All were short, all were sung .with confidence and charm, and received with j warm approval. It was when Miss Wilson adorned her songs with a bit of : colorature that the audience reached its j highest degree of admiration for her * voice. Opinion was that Miss Wilson i chose the sort of songs best suited to ' her voice, sweet in its quality and vi- \ brant with the personality of the singer. I i

GREEKS HOLD RESERVISTS Steamer With 2000 Puts Back Into New York on Orders. New York, Oct. 12.— The Greek steamer Vassileffs Constantinos, which sailed with 2000 reservists for Piraeus today, was recalled two hours later by a wireless message from the local office of the Greek line. When the vessel put back, just after reaching Ambrose Channel lightship, it caused considerable comment in shipping circles. Officials of the line explained later that a message had been received here from the main offices of the line at Athens ordering the steamer and reservists to be held here for further orders. No reason for holding the reservists was given in the message from Atlieus, it was said. The local office said the reservists, a majority of whom have come from points outside of New York, will be kept on the. ship pending orders from Greece. One detachment, numbering 500 who saw service in the last Balkan war, came here yesterday in a body. NEW LINE TO GALVESTON Rail and Steamer Service for Business Held Up by Canal Closing. Because of the congestion of shipping in the Panama Canal the Morgan Line Steamship Company has established a service between Galveston and Philadelphia. The first vessel, the steamship El Mar, will arrive at the Independent piers this morning with several thousand tons of Pacific coast products brought from California over the Southern Pacific Railroad to Galveston. Another vessel of t.ie same line, the El Alba, left Galveston 011 October 11, also for Philadelphia, with all the cargo she could carry and with hundreds of tons left behind. The Sonthern Pacific Railroad is carrying freight from all Pacific coast ports and back from Galveston by rail at a lower rate than by the long 'route via Cape Horn. The new service, with its" large fleet of steamers, finds itself unable to handle the business offering the landslides have closed the Canal, but will endeavor to meet the by chartering outside vessels. The company intends ultimately to maintain a permanent rail and water servicefrom the Pacific even when the Canal is again in working order.

creasing population." It certainly does read fine to investors who STAY AWAY from Stone Harbor. To the ones who live there permanently or spend their summers there, Truth is mightier than Fiction. No lovely trolley car Iras ever appeared yet — "Noc yet," as the mayor remarks so often. But during the summer of 1914, Truth compels 11s to state that there really was a trolley car in Stone Hr.rbor. To be sure, it was a somewhat decrepit, abandoned, old thing, quite small and with seat running from side to side. It is alleged that it was rescued from the Philadelphia Traction Company's junk heap. Stone Harbor residents were so glad to see it, that they did not care where it CAME FROM, just so it 1\ ENT TO Cape May Court House and brought them back. did not even care whether the fare was five cents or twentvfive cents. Quick, regular, dependable transit was all anyone desired. Well, the old car did run, but only in the evening, never regularly and was therenot dependable. There was also another drawback. When the car ran, the electric lights refused to gleam on the streets and in the houses, so the trolley service was not an unmixed blessing. Last summer NO trolley car ran. That the South Jersey Realty Company may be done no injustice, let the readers look back toward the beginning of this irticle and read just what was laid. It is this : "The above etchngs are reproduced from Actuai Photographs of the rolling stock >f the PROPOSED" . Aye ! there's the rub. The beautiful trollev cars were I >nly "PROPOSED" and the lear investor failed to grasp the

potency cf that one word. ^ Mournfully, the eye catches a r paragraph toward the end of this wonderful article published August^ 1913. Here it is: "A Grand Opportunity." "Now is your time. Right here, Mr. Investor, is where you are going to. display - y°ur wisdom and forethought, or ' be forever classed among the "also rans" as the other fellows . come swinging down the home- : stretch to the tape marked prof1 itable investment." ; How is that for style? It is a 1 rousing good sentence. Remem1 ber, this was all published over two years ago and it would be safe to wager a brand new morocco bound dictionary against an old second-hand, broken-down sewing machine, that the men who did the running and handed over their good money, now wish it was safe in some little old saving fund drawing the miserable 3 65-100 per cent, per annum. Money is money. Unsalable seashore property draws not even 8 65-100 per cent. In the Cape May County Gazette, October 8, 1915, appeared the following notice : The Stone Harbor R. R. Co. will witlidraw all trains between Court House and Stone Harbor on the sixteenth instant. This action seems to be imperative under the present condition of ousiness. How does this correspond with the big boom the S. J. R. Company are boasting about ? Who tells the truth? All owners of Channel front and basin lots had better make all necessary repairs without delay. ! J10 B°r0USh ma'ces t'12 repairs and uses the method that has been [ passed by Council (The Seamen patent) your bulkhead will probably cost as much as the value of your lot.

WANTED Dressmaker fcr children's sewing, at seashore home. Re'er;nce required. Address Box 251, Stone Harbor, N. J.

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