Feb 1927 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

! Tax Law
(Permits Some
fotor Expenses
i of Operating Car
Biminess Can Be
Deducted
Railroad Crossings
Should Be Protected
Where Is there a city of Its
slie In New Jersey that receives
to little gnde eroninf protection
as Ocean City. Two crossing* at
Ninth street are protected for
several months in the summer
time by witebmen. Excepting this
Ocean riiy la absolutely without
grade crossing protection of any
kind
During the past fesr yeara aev
' fatalities have occurred at j
-
Protege of
Baby Home Is
^. Attraction
Little hairy Receives • nmeketi
Honors from Residents
Th ° r
of Swarthmore, Pa ' Thi c
'New Books Recently
Added ToQty Ubrary
New books recently added to
the Qe«an City Public Horary;
FietiGn=
The Bmersid of Catherine the
Great, by lllllatre flelioc.
That Lut Infirmity, by Chan
Misery by F
rri
f rai fatalities aavit occurred a
Not Deductible; | gradij craisinsii In the resort Fur
^^^_^_^^_ tiiHaHely the number has been
I small Hofre^r with the PIP,
ns for tbe ownera of growing amount of irnffie flu
on tbe brink of tbe[ hazard increases
wowy ow*»lon*ii by I Bisa Ue two southern iricr|i>*
o( the limaiiac tn\ f IBID ihe resort, Roo^i **lf P*iuJ&-
1* contained In a ii£(«t ITSI* and Pifij fift^ sin&t ^
tut law prepatad w||fiou£ protective
Fajlfoad com ps riies should
Qf these fatta and
• p—• •—• w-w-^«« • • • • • • V ^ T * Mr^ Mr^* r ^«*
pjT^Borton Weeks. praldwit tt
me Automobile club
are numerous expenses
with tbe operation Af
"_' where It Is used
purpose*, that are
Me. Mr Wonka eipUtns-
oe, all owner* may dt-
i croas income tfic
t iney have paid for license
r jueo fen being repiuM
i Mate tax and being deduc-
f'ss such.
— Jtateiwnt cotming- nil
jr' (leduoUMee, and certain
are not deductible.
Plan Baby Home Activities
ftedenfl tax on tbe sale of
*>C«ltl, Thlcb Increases the
~ ' >rf«. and ta therefore
—• paid by tbe pnnOuer.
, . he deducted by the pur-
lav' bat only by the muiu
st, vJu directly pays it
place Sashing warning
lights o- sanie alhpF pro 1
at grade crossings a h*eh
most dangerous before In* 1 lisl
of fatalillp* is
Thank Read
For Bridge
• Assistant*
tlnj- lot
The Time uf Mm i i
•ry murh tn tlu Urmlittil it TH * f-J Mi ai
ch ihe iBfPFest ^hlrh hi- "P*i* Pint ^r n r ^ p
arou>it*d in ht-hilf pf ihe jngutfi
the Sei.h ir» Hm, »il| re Bl,,k N,f ., hnoil<
• "• ••-«. Filrj «-,„ the j,,.,,
rn? **r Dilr «palcnP fe -ii I ! J
' ai lihni, lit"rur* r ir nil
Home
h " k MJB
1 I lar Ran ,n
f! »
p
Is feme us la the
I tax on araeanrlea.
Boost of gasottne, ordinary
I and upkeep of an auto
Joclddlog
.— _ aalary. Is If urfsd
r feir bimjuca punnm, di>-
•a aa expe»e to the
13» COM of mtKK.nttaU
anent ImproitnneiKs to
ir, such aa a new top n
Jaot
i. opt dednotible
r or other
4s r£psiirs
A pbyal-
to a similar de-
lta ear Is uand pri
autonuldle Is USHI
. _ or pntf«a-
, • and partly tot tta
e * or convenience' or the
r or has lanilly, such coma
iVporrioned aocordina; to
of the nut for pur
tfnc* and vlasurp or
» smd only tflie pro-
• HJtih COX Justly a<
tn bmlneas at pn>-
Bajronne Kiwamans Grate-
ful For Action of Local
Club and Assemblyman
Billed Passed Legislature
The Ocean nty klusnll Hub
nd Assemhiymas t lmrlea t Redd
received letters or thanka from
the Bayonsi* ktvajUa nub fnr
action in auBnortisg Senate Bill
Ii wtileb prondes a bridge bet
*"» Bayonne and Itaien Island
Last seek tbe Bajunne argan
Izatlos asked the support of the
Ocean Cliy Klwnnls Llub In this
project vbich was to be con
sldered by the Asj.jmlilv The
bridge between Staten Island and
«syeh ponr cfreum^tincf s in
-idelphja thai ifat j w**Fe un
lo proifde it siih HIP nrr^s
n of lite *nujjht atd in »n
orins tn givp ihe iol 1
nrl».
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\ nil nffdn I look sn (ti
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nt rins
Oh. Oh, Irene'
Blsad?
Tli* 1 EnuFicjha£3 fj
Hall 1111 Ihe S
S.lll-
Afler being nu
here one
effitBTa of the g
ar ni^n
Du> not ihi- B
I I OR 5ALI
! tood bo.P »|y|» „„! oun]|nI
rjnsi «1th .ii gallon tank and
•npptr toll Eas walPr htaler io
tint condition and four burner
• it rani,e 12", Oil for all Apply
fl; Fifth St Deem t itj s;tp
f
Pot Plants
for
House and
Garden
a CITY
[Democratic
Factions Split
Further Apart
| Chambers Refused To Cal
Meeting and Hit Faction
Kept Away
PHONE IB
Out ^
Mu-rt i
•« surol
i Ire Men
i Ojkma J,,ni ;,
••" 'f Mr and
, _ F0I S4U
cro» ing lunch buBlness E n
I Itiralian rurnlturr j[ ran Sul
'man an I »ir« Mu« sell ir|a
Sacrlilre |];o III) ABBly
636 A=tiMF> ppy
Ocean City
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of I 1 IgS^CW^NVTlMe
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, on tfl8 balance Of
net ineome, Surta, „„ „„, |([
eome In eicegg of 110 000
Joseph Broadley I
PLUMBING I,"
wi dadoet aa a
UW Mt«l m
ut h»re be
e oMrstion of the
tor wndnew aarpmH.
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731Ajfeury Avenue
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MTINa eo
3 ••««• PIK.,
MILTON'S
BEAW SHOP
nd Onttal Ararat
JOHN E. TROUT
BULDER
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wU furnish the Materials?
[Opponents Were in Saddle
At a recent mealing of the
aM Uajr County Demo«ratlc ei
|MBtl*t conirniitto held at Cspr
I Court House, former Judge
IBaarT H, Eldrodg,, failed to get
I tbe egdarBetnent for rF-appolm
lent to the County JudgeBhlp.
The matter waa not fliiieUM^ed
111 ta« meeting but It had been
lilPMted that the committee
I would endone the farmer Judge,
tanuel A, Lannini, of Wild-
ss&i withdrew as a eandidato
I for membership on the County
[Til Board, Las! year he W11
I csdsraed by t&e eommitlee hut
I failed to be appointed hy Dover-
I nor Iloore, It was paid thai
j withdrew became hi:.
I andld&ey bad been one of the
jreisorui for the apllt In the party
[Jail jre«r.
Jere Chambers, of Cape Slay
I cluirman of the committee, re
I faud Id call Ihe meeting, de-
I Ihrlag that Oiivfriior Moore said
III would be uieleig, u he would
I •« send any appointment* 10 the
I Sttntn for tbla county during the
lyrtHBt HMlon of the LeglHlature,
I lor would any appolmmentii be
ntde for Cape May County un-
[ Ul after the ieialon closet.
Whan Mr. Chanbe» refused
I to call 11 meeting, William H,
j Campbell, of Ocean City, father
of Proaeeutor Campbell, decided
1 to hold • meeting anyhow and
Captain Warren V, Grace
Lost OffBriganline Beach
His Veisel. the Camiila May Page. Caught In Saturday's
Storm on Brigantine Shoals—Whether Crew of Seven
Washed Overboard or Lost in Lifeboat Mystery of Sea
Body Removed To His Dennisvillg Home on Tuesday
ftp me!
yen ir,
C If. SHOEMAKER 1BR. CO.
Everything to Build a Baildina
Don't Make Your
Car an Orphan Asylum
areured fourteen iignefs for the
| tall, when notices were sent out.
Thirty-one members qf sp.
j •roilmaleljr SHeBty attended, the
| Chambers faction renjainlnf
* rBiuU the two faetlons,
lite Campbell and the Chambers,
Van now-farther apart ihan jpwr,
L Tbe eieculjca committee chose
rlurl E Wltner, of Wlldwood, as
I tnjaiurer and secretary.
An endorsement was given Dr.
Howard Taflor, of Ocean Clir,
[ tar the three-year term on the
Oountr Tai Board; a one-year
term for Miss Clara HcOann, of
Wlldwood, »nd Mrs, Mllllcent
Howell, of DIas Oretk. wag en
ooraiKl for a one-rear term on
| «e County Board of Elections,
The finding; of the body o
Capialn Warren V, Orace, o
DsniilsvlIIo, on M.inday reveale
tragedy of the gea.
An unusual drama unrsldd
when Chief Petty Officer Edwin
Hubart In charge uf the 1
Inland Avenue Station, Atlantic
Cily, was informed of the llnUlnB
f Ihe body. Chief Robart askoil
he usual questions in the case
lo ailked; "Ul there any lilenti-
ifatioii?"
"Yen, he ha» a marlner'a eard
which aaya .Warren Grace, of
the MrhQuner Camilla— s T '
My Ooil!" etcialmed Rohan,
lot walling tu hear the Boards-
nan report further, "He a my
ephew."
The body hail been remSTed
te an undertaklnK cuiabllslillli-ni
In Atlantic City arid Robart went
there and Id.-nllflrd the ho.1v
Captain Qrace was 42 years
Did and wtta a nrst-elaaa mariner,
eniployed hy the Putnam Lumber
Company, of Jacksonville, Pla. j Ocean City, acored 38 and 31 for
George Rothacker
Good Marksman
Wa* High Man For Day in
Pleagantville Shoot
George niithacker, Avalon
ConiniliMioiier unii Wlldwaon bu«l
rie man. wrin (he third even
in the \ViiHlilnfii,,nH Blnhday
ehool held by the Ailanllc City
tlun Club TUDMilay at the Weiily
Hugan Krnuinln on the Abieran
Bouievanl. Hul Illicit ri. iihnaiinK
rrurn thi" 20 ynril line, broke in
out Bf fill largela, He Dnlahed
and wag
hiish man for the day, with 130
uniaiihes out of ISO targets.
Other Cape May County men
who participated were George
Bush, or Sea l»le City, with
.coreii af ;is, 38 and 36 for the
three rvaiitu: Iliiuan] Brice,
Upper Township Committee
BINOI.K COI-IEB: TWO
B, (ha Year. ai.Ofl
Cape May Well
Provided For In
Road Program
Wildwood
Consolidation
Bill in Senate
Route IS Will Have Lot of Provides For a Referendum
Work Done On It
This Year
Stakei Being Set For Work
Bix-yeur road program,
s outlined out before the Legis-
goes through Cape May
will be well taken care
Vote—Public HearinB Will
Be Held March 2
Proponents Plan Big Crowd
Idle, He took
Camilla May
Several weeks ago he
linguiahed command of the
schooner "Nancy" when he
learned that that craft would be
charge of the
Page," which
sailed on pebruafy 8 from Jack-
mmvllle. rla., bound 10 New
York with a cargo of lumber.
The Btorm ef Saturday east
the schooner on the ihoalii 1
miles off Briganllne. The vea«
was freed Monday night an
;wo svenlHi Ruy Shli-IdH, Wild-
w.wd, (ironic! 41. 31 and 34:
Jamm Sullivan, of Wlldwood,
Bcori'd 30. 39 anil 39,
Dr. CharlvH Cuiiovi'r. of Fleas-
antvilje, shot the highest score
in any event, capturing the sec-
ond with 47 breaks.
[Sea Isle City Will
Repair Storm's Work
_ | AA For Bid* For Bulk-
heads At Street Ends
*t their adjournment meeting
" ' •- ltst F *w»y. 8«» We city
Jtnlailonera did little etae than
bllla. It was the first day
' 'ne atw budfat was legally
slfecllve and than ware s good
!,, •ttuomlatlon of bills to lit
I Wttltd
«tS7 bdna; a legal holiday,
'«• Coinmlsalonprs did not cct
,*)wn to very hard work, the
3 of their seance of 1m-
nea twins a resolution mi-
ting bids to be Invited for
Ins liuikheada to take the
or tboae damaged by the
t atorai.
towed to New York.
The crew of Iht sehaoner eon
slited of eight men, but the seve
remaining members have not bes
found. It Is believed that they,
In attempting to reach the shore,
lost their lives in the high sea
When coast guards from th
Drach Haven Station boarded til
Ill-fated scnooner, they foun
that the lifeboats were missing,
and that a part of the deck holm
had been ettrrltd away.
That the eight members of thi
crew battled with the heavy sei
during an i4-mlle gale ths
swept the Kew Jersey coast lat
laturday night and Sunday with
In II miles of a lifeeavlng sts
tlon, was indicated by the fael
that the schooner had been an
chored and had weathered the
storm.
Whether the crtw became fran
tie when the mountainous wava
piled over the schooner's gun
nebi and put off In lifeboats, or
were swept overboard, may never
be known. The nndlng of the
ship master's body, however*
leads coast guards to believe that
all of the crew were, lost.
A physician who eiamlned
Grace's body stated that It had
been In the water but a short
time, leading coast guards to be-
lieve that tbe crew Bad ahan-
doned the leaking schooner in a
Ifeboat shortly before noon
day. Had they remained with
he ship two houfB longer, coast
guards predicted that all would
have been saved.
Captain Qrace w.ifl born and
raised In Ooshen, but for the last
ix years made his home In Den-
ilsville. He was well known
hroughout the county being a
member of a prominent family.
Youths Must Report
To Probation Officer
Acted Suspiciously Toward
Motorist Near Marmora
Five youths accused of at-
tempting to hold up an BUtolst
on tht read near Mnrmorn, last
Thursday were Ordered to report
to Probation Offleer Luther T,
Oarrettjon by Prosecotor Wllllai
Campbell, on Wednenday aa
reiult of their pranks,
Iflit Thursday, an autolst wa
driving ulong the road BM
Marmors when he saw figures 1
the road thrusting fiashlightg a
hill car, Instead 0' •topping h
stepped on the ncceltrator am
went to Beesley'i Point. Ther
he iold Henry Y, Clouting, Mr,
Clouting didn't believe the man,
hut offered lo follow him with
his car.
When a short distance from
he scene, bricks were thrown
at the arst car, striking Mr,
CloutlngVi car,
Mr, Clouting obtained a iwllce-
man from Ocean City and ivt
youth were rounded up.
They denied they intended to
hold up the ear, declaring that
they were going to serenade
sewly married eouple.
They later said that they were
rying to scare Raymond Adams
ho lives In the vicinity.
The youths whose ages fangtd
rom 15 to 22 years, are Charles
Irown, John Watcbko, Ray Gan-
ton. Howard Oanqon and Howard
Ineed,
THB 8E0BHITT Trust Com.
iany, Cape May City, Is a tnoit
lesirabli place for you to have
n nccount—a strong bank with
Mr. Wine, of Pa8«ttic, ha
'ntroduceil a hill, preaumahly a
party measure, which contains the
following roads, every one of
which will be of advantage ti
thill county:
Route No, 4—Hudson Rive
bridge plare te Perth Amboy ami
Cape May, Beglnninf at the pro-
poaed ilu.ln.in River bridge piaia
and extending to the Staten Is
land bridge plaia at Perth Am.
boy and Cape May City, by way
of Riverside, Fairlawn, Patersen
Cllflon, via Route No, 3 to Ban.
dolph Avenue, thence via Lexing-
ton Avenue, Plaget Avenue
BlaomBeld Road and Broad
Itreet, via Bloomfleld, East 0t-
ange, Iryington, Roielle, Rah
way, Freneau, Freehold, Lake-
woo!!, Toms River, OceanvlIIe,
Seaville to Cape May City,
Route 3S—Bordentown to
Ocean City by way of Columbus,
Vincentown, Red Lion, Indian
Mills, Alston, Da Cota, Wey-
mouth, Mays Landing, Somera
Paint and Ocean City,
Route No. 4 F—Brooklawn to
Marmora, by way of Olaggbord,
Malaga, Vlneland, Millvllle,
Ttlekahoe, PetersburJ to Mar-
mora. This Is the Weatherby
road route.
Route No, 41 and g-49—ialem
to Rio Grande by »if of Bridgi-
ion, Miilville, Port Bliiaheth,
rjennlsville, South Dennlsvlllt!,
Ooshen, to Rio Grande, with
spur from louth Detinlavllle t
Ocean View, connecting Route
No, IS with Route Me, 4 This
takes the place of Route No, II
Route No, (0—Bgg Harbor
Cltr to ieavllle by way of Mays
Landing, Oakville, Tuekahoe to
Btavllle,
Route No, 41—Fennsgrove tu
Ailanllc City, by way of Woods-
town, Elmer, Malaga, Mays Lami-
ng, Pleasantvllle and Atlantic
City,
Route No, 42-~Cantden to Mi.
Etbraim, to Chews, to Bln«k
wood, to Turriersvilie, to Crow
Keys, to Wllllamstown, lo Cecil,
(Contlnutd M Page
A hill providing for a referen-
dum vole for the consolidation of
North Wildwood, Wildwood atii
Wlidwood Crest, became genat
Ulll No, 2M, Tuenday night when
it wan introduced by Senate
William H. Bright, of Cape May
Couniiy,
Immediately after Its tntroduc
tlon by Senator Bright, the bit
was referred to the genate com
nilttee, lenators Case, Weber
and Carhart, composing the aen
ate coriimltiee, declared that they
would hold a public hearing on
the bill at the itato House, in
Trenton, en March 2, at 11 A. II
Upon receiving notice of the
piihUc hearing, supporters of the
bill in Wlldwdod began plans
whereby 2600 staunch petltionera
will attend the public hearing to
eipreM their views In favor of
the merger.
The proposed merger of the
three cities on Plve Mile Beach
3 the result of a drive recently
liabguralecl by J00 business men,
who organized the Orealer Wild-
wuod Consolidation organisation.
Members of the organliatieri
declared that in the support of
he merger they believed they
woie working for the betterment
of Five Mile Beach and for the
three eltles aJSeeted by the eon-
lolldatlen.
Cape May County Resorts
Little Damaged By Storm
Beyond the Smashing of a Few Bulkhuds and Washing
Out of Some Street Ends, Loss Was Very
Small and Easily Repaired
Storm Was One of 'Worst in Years on So, jersey Coast
Remains a Mystery
'rosecutor Ha§ No Report
To Make On Case
ITT TRUST Company,
City, la prosperous be-
lt attends strictly to Its
and me business of Us
ns and* therefore, they feel
•t they can with propriety, ask
1 to Join In their prosperity by
„« had folded the «« for Sckfngif'strtgin^
by
an account IHtli them.
.>' WHAT'S WHAT
AND WHERE IT IS
r ,faiMttaiK-Crtr and Cwaty
ana L«*Ja
——^~m^J - °CEAN crrv,
FatMiato—t
ftSTKS:
the greater part of his life. Our-
Ing the war, he captained a
freight plying between New York
and France and on one occasion
the (hip was torpedoed, be being
rescued.
Another lias he wan one of
the survivors Of a ship Who were
picked up front the ses and taken
to the African coast.
Besides bta widow, Mr* Beillah
Orace, he is survived by all
father, Llbera Once, of Ooahen,
•ad • ilster, Mn, Douglasi OBI,
of Delmsnt,
The funeral will take place to-
day (iFridafl from bis late real,
dene* at MnnlivUIe,
Middle Township Fire
and Light CortnuMlonen
Tbe annual election of Sire and
Lighting Commissioners of Middle
Township took plats* last Satur-
day ai CM» May Court House.
Joan H. Ross, W. Boyd Tyler
and Barton 1, Smith were elocr-
ad to the llg1ltliif;*G0aiitttsa!a&-
The fln conunlMfcnwr la Horace
Sckfngifstrtgin^ Kfe^
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