Jul 1927 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

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T. Charles Lowell,
(fgo Armstrong,
PhlllB (Bard
rrani
I Henderson, Fred-
NK, Now
od, BN, Boston,
to lier that
F|S«ett any mystery,
John (Washi
man's mime
a,
I the names^and
animated. Again
ijtte lilt,
' i Kennedy, the
, and there had
1 that Bight! Oh,
them with par-
, always eleven,
i me certificate, the
'I Initials—had
Ir recolllwlinn.
e's telegraph,
eammunlcatlons
Kennedy who
» ol the COD.
He had gtnnbled
i by (he merf
lift bis comrade
^Harold Mac Grath
Illustrated
Morgan was asked.
"Yes. Giinnr.il: to is Captala
Armitrasg of IJJIJ Federal Secret
Service, one of the eleven I bavii
often told you about"
"He was louad witlilii our Ilium. 11
—grimly. "He shall be shut at
dawn,"
"Did you find any jHieni on
himf
•No.'
Jeanne walked to the farther
door, opeaed it and passed put of
the room; hot she resialsed close
to the door, her brain awhlrl.
After aeverai minutea nlii- heard
Morgan apeak again. Then; iffl
no doubt of the hatred In her
heart now.
"He has left Sis dispatches or
his notes elsewhere. Perhaps 1
had better go and loot omr the
grouBd where jmi found him,*'
Presently Jeanne heard the men
filing out She opened the door
cautiously. Armitage WM >eiited
before the fire, stretched out in
Us chair, MB ckln In hja collar.
He was alone. The guards had j
ttationed aBtsMe, Jeanne
entered and approached within a
few feet at him. He heard her,
turned and rose,
Beaufort!" be said
nuletry.
"Yes- this Is my home, Captain
j Armitage,"
"That renegade Parson Kennedy
will mourn for you."
"'But he haji my dispatches by
this time. For two nights I have
been insiiie your linen. If I lost
my head, II is betnuse I wanted to
make sure that Jeanne Braufort
did not play rant and loose with
me. She will never be ynun
either, Morgan."
"No?" Morgnn gazed at his en
emy through tialf.cingeci eyes. "If,
ail they «ay, the dead come bunk,
you will gee."
(Continued next week)
iMi
"Do you know why I am In this en the Camp Grounds during the
oirt to feel the room tonight? I disobeyed orders summer months. The opening
Barters, had run for the mere sake of seeing you servivee was held last
neaawe party of once men. In the back of my Sunday, Services will be held
J new nesitat- watch are my notes of observation,"
•-MnU b* to invite
; the astonished "Toy ton me this!"—horrlf lea,
> thought >o rain "Yes, YOU played with me, you
fggB^ and Bought my Ion to break it. Well,
by a storm of here they are, low and life. Break
:er mas tw totedthem, I was there that night, as
A nils or so
nut In agony.
him almost as
pLwas dead.
lips
.llfltened to
you know. Take your revenge.
They will have me shot anyhow,"
"I do not, want your life, God
forbid!" she cried Brokenly,
"I have ceased to regard it as
her anything very valuable, I have
•tamped upon this love, but it In
too strong for me. i here I am.
eonUaptuons i%my own eyes and
doubtless in joiir own."
i%. Hinder. "Ton forced me to play traitor!"
OsrdBer—fix He leaned toward the fire and
ffHMM. Clark, spread ant Mi bands,
§tm told him It "WU1 yon give me the name of
|no held him up. tie man I married that night?"
dead; hut "Say that I was the man, and
Jtndj anil she Ut it go at that,"
H» stiffened in "" •» impesilble. because you
(tne lines In his
Ho would riml
Old WM to her
not
Bad settled
rilj deserted, the
I and his staff
El tour of faspee.
tithe window the
and doled
i stood with hla
•while, absorbing
Jeanne pnnnturnhjbt,
the could
She vaguely
• attitude would
t beetx less
• paused to think,
m iaUi in love
[ it la Instinctive
it as long
land me. Major,
11 said, rising,
"paw ttat taboo
(yon phase: but
nd to eroii It,
to me one
'• roof. Major."
ilia man."
: Wai on that
nil you not ten
nrade. what this
ere were eleven,
|me tu names of
I what I could
•Bt In
i fWmf f I didn't
|Tou cau bo like
i tttpleuut.
If to thank,
ihiMtM
and re-
Well, a thea r
* itoed John
' HO
are the man who first stepped
out.'*
"On my word of honor, I was
Should ho tell her that it was
Morgan, Morgan, whom she trust
6d» He doubted if she would believe
him; so bo let the opportune
Ity r»sa.
"You will not toll me tbe truth ?'
Arffiitage smiled into the fire.
"•oppose I tell yon that I did
not play with you, that I admired
you beyond all other men 7"
"I'm afraid ol you, Jeanne Beaufort,"
was all ho said
"Then God help us both!" Ami
with this passionate cry she ran
frem the roam, .
The cry lingered In ArmKags's
oar for a long while, lie (ought
against it resolutely. She was a
consummate actress, 1 but all her
arts were useless now, of no avail,
Morgan came In, smiling. "So
here we are at last!"
"At least it will not be murder."
"Yr/s and the Parson were In
ray way. Lord, now I tooled you
all!' 1
"Not recently, Major,"
"Alice Trent—there was drama
for you. How she laughed behind
your Back!"
Something impelled Afmltago to
say, "You He!"
"I have stirred you, tfccBf'
There was a sentry outside tbo
window, one on the veranda, three
more distributed around the house,
Armitage had made careful note
of this, A treat many thtoga
light happen within an hgor.
"Suppose we play a game of
piquet to while away the time. We
used to try our hand at that,"
"I shouldn't mind In the least,"
Arnlltago Instantly formed a pur.
note. He believed he saw a way
out, There was a chance of a
hoITtt missing sis back tootght
Well-known
Speakere At
Tabernacle
An attractive program of
Kpeakers has been arranged for
the service in the Tabernacle
both morning and evening each
Sunday during the summer and
occasionally during (the week.
Nest Sunday Rev. Dr, George
j. Burns, of Philadelphia, will
preach,
J. Arthur Bchiieter, field secretary
of the International Union
of Gospel Missions, will make an
address both morning and uve=
nlng on July 10. Mr. Bchllctcr
and other well-known leaders in
rnlsglan work will conduct epeeial
meetings on Saturday evening,
July », and Monday evening,
July 11,
On inly 17, the Methodist
League of Faith and Life, a national
organisation of which Dr.
Harold Paul Sloan is the militant
president, will hold a week
end conference, with sermons by
some of tne most able ministers
or the country.
Others listed to preach are;
July 14, morning and evening.
Rev, Dr, Forrest E, Dnger, pastor
of st, I^aul's Reformed Church
Philadelphia; July 91, morning
and evening, the Bev, J, 1. Kulp
former pastor ol the First M, E
Church of this city and now superlntendeni
of the Brldgeton di«.
trict; August f, morning and evening,
the lev, Thomas Brock, O.
D., pastor of the First II, B.
Church. Camden: August 14. Dr.
Howard Hand, D, D,, pastor of
the Park Avenue M, E, Church,
Philadelphia,
Professor C, Howard Lowdou,
of Camden, will direct the music.
The services are under the
aiupices. of the Ocean City Tabernacle
Association, of which Rev.
James B, Lake is president and
Rev, William K, Fisher superln-
The usual camp meeting ser.
vices will be held the last ten
days In August, and will be con.
ducted by the Rev, Thompson W.
McKlnner, r>, D.
children. In the children's room
but no eUaca of n dOHB migiiloi of tne public library.
ij ifisst in tks morniiuj. The story hour will be conducted
They gat down it tse tabl«,,aBd by Maria Bchmrter. HhnrHaa, who
Matmn rimalthe CSTOK 'TU al-. win narrate fairy atttrleff and otter
ways renienber you as a cool one, tales tor the entertainment and
Arpltage,. For my part, I'd mush Macallan of the tots,
raCfer Ian you at tae end SI » TW» U the Bret time tint "storr
saber." .He dealt a hand, hour" has been tried at the local
' Ansltam led.
llbrnry. tntrash it has met with
"A queen, ehr 1 Morgan sprawltd- cwmldnablc luccesi In other see.
chair.
lions, ol the country.
butt et Mi nveMr protnmjnst
•ban the tablf edge. Mrd In the library for the parents
,.jt. ,j to ,Bot p iW to take a
" iter at a deadly diaracUsr orJchildren to attend "story hour,"
'iat, but dm! _ On* was nrn-8 .of the .
; trie sOer wu wntihfni and
;)Ain7
* tBui snjftnlng
Tiny Toto
Can Enjoy,
Story Hour
Will Be Held Each Thumday
Afternoon at the
Public Library
WiU Plaaie the Youngsteri
StarUrig neit week "story hour"
will be held at 3 o'clock each
Thursdaf atternoon for the small
to pan between lie, twq >iilch Is planned for the chfldren
of vfsftora as well as local residents.
If the .torr hone li sucegsful
.fcfasrrBg'lta'ninuMir uuott It will
!?«ltI«l rfurlfi* uw" winter
ntopUW,
Ilbnur to located ID
emu cmmws, OCBAB OTTT,H. J,, PBEDAT, mi 1, ««.
Anniversary of Shore Fast
Une ! Service To Ocean City
Firrt Elect He Car Between Atlantic City and Ocean
City OperaM on July Fourth, 1907—Received
With Ceremonies on That Oecaaion
Firit Day's Recepits Totaled $12.10 Old Records Show
A tall, slender nan stood upon
the front platform of a suburban
electric ear, July Fourth, twenty
Years ago, one band gripping the
controller and the ether resting
upon the air brake.
Mo was Stewart I. NoR, then
general superlntendant of the At
lantic City and Shore Railroad
L'ompany, and the car upon which
be Blood was the first "Shore Fast
Line" car to cress the bay between
Somers
thereby
"The Family Resort" and the ville nnd Orenh City, the endless
"World's Playground/'
stretches of pine woods have given
it brought Ocean City within way before deDgciy-papulated suburban
cities,
fifteen miles, und less than an
hours ride of lu sister resort. A considerable difference is
Before 1907 only one train a day noted In the electric cars themselves,
equipped as they arc now
ran between the two cities. It was
neeesjsury to ride all the way to with modern safety devices and
Newneld, and then change cars, interurban car luuries.
an eighty mile ride, further than Even by highway Atlantic City
Servk« WUl Be Held from here to Philadelphia, and Ocean City wire connected by
Every Sunday at The flritt "Snore FSst Line" car a most devious route before the
crossed
Camp Grounds
thu newly-built drawfrom
Somers Point to tion here. It used to be necessary
'Shore Fast Line" started opera-
bridges
Ocean City, arriving! st 3:41 P. 51,, to £O to Seaville, thence over the
Camp Meeting in August
midst a blaze of flre-wortes. It
ml in color, as were All the
cars at that time, and merely eo-
•erel the city, Nat until a far
later did the line extend to the
Boardwalk,
20 Minutes Service
fliers enter and leave the
city for Atlantic City and intermediate
points every twenty mliiutes,
carrying daily hundreds of
isifers And commuters.
Instead of the twenty-five minutes,
as required for the first trip
from Bohiers Point, the cars cover
he distance in II minutes. The
pntlre journey between the two
emits can be made in 01 minutes.
Previous to the memorable
Fourth when Sunerlntendant Naff
tooli the Brsl car Into tho city, the
ihore Fast Line" ran cars as
Tor as Some Polnl, This service
jegnn August 19, 1008, and, ae.
iordini to an old record hook In
»e Atlantic city and Shan Rail.,
road rompanj's offices, the first
day's receipts on this lino amounted
to HMO.
Charles JVarrington, John Lof.
land and Edward E, Frass, three
employees who operated the Ocean
City cars in the "old days" are
still with the company after mare
than twenty years of service,
A night the cars were stored In
the old Ocean City Division car
barns at New York and Marmora
Avenues, Atlantic City. The building
still stands, but the cars are
now housed in the spacious, brick
barns at the Inlet
Strikingly contrasted with the
almost inaccessible Ocean City
then. In tne town today with its
vast increase in population, number
of visitors, business enterprises,
and real estate values.
Aid Mainland Growth
The mainland presents another
Interesting comparison. Then
Flcamintvllle as a tiny country
town, and many refused the free
lots there given away on Votinn's
Point and Oceao «eiailiin nf the new
bnage, built un the i'ast of
JChureh and focins on Tcnih
let. This building Is minieand
eonvenlfc-ni,. making a
' pleasant residence,
he minister's offlee is sliilat.'d
s ehureh, the entrance being
llhe corner of Wealey anil
Jto' Strei't, It will (sire fa.
lies for the minister's work,
for those who denire to see
jBnd for the transaction of
- rhuslnesH incldisnta! to a
jern ehu/th orKanliatlon.
o-
The phorte humber for tire i prominent
^^^ riiifl rhnrrh of.
tie.. |H j^pi4Sg, K puhlie
nlioite •^•psu been plaeeil In
ih? ba^^Brt iif thi; hyiidinM.
Tournaments
Start at Flanders
To Be Held Every Monday
Evening During Season
The Inaugural contest In the
Fianile auction bridge tournament
was held Moriilay evening,
June n, in the. uniiiii nalarlilrn,
Thejf^ diipliuate grim *a will be
Kiveri every Monday evening fiur=
InK July and August anil are un.
iler !,he ilirecl supervlMiijn of
Men.1l*. 11, A. Jameiinn ami E,
M. Blackburn, well known
Philaridplila writers and instruct
turn nf tin gam'.
The winnera of the Brizcs in I
Ille Unit nialch were: Mr. and
Mra. Barrutt gralghead, Boelnliy
in Lanndewne, Pa,,
and Mrs, L, (J. Green and Mrs,
Alexander, a very clever playing
pair from ocean City and
VllllHili'lphiu.
Among iiihers playing were:
Mrs. W. K, Harris, Mrs. J. F,
aelilli.iibi.rgiT, MrH. A. K. Klein,
Mrs, C. Mellnr, Mm, J, M, llmon,
MIH.B. P. (loeti, Mrs. Jr. Brady.
Mr. P. PoBter, of Indianapolta,
Ml. Dorothy UralRheau. of Lansdowne,
pa., and Mr. Russell H,
Van Time, of Philadelphia.
Crast Fire
Th? lire department was sumriiniied
to eiiinguiah a grass Bre
late Sunday anernoon, which
broke out In the vicinity of the
PeiinsHvania Railroad at Forty,
ninth street. Another grass flre,
which broke out at Thlrtyeighth
street and Anbury Avenue, at thi
aanie time, was also extinguished
by beating out the flames with
brooms,
Jlanglng wall paper Is a sort
of put up job,
If your house requires a new roof, and you contemplate
having a new one put on after the summer season, we
can safely state that your contractor would probably do
this for you now for less money than he would this fall.
As to the roofing materials, the condition of your roof
may call for a particular kind of material. We would be
pleased if you would let us assist you in deciding wiiidb.
would be the best to be applied on your house.
C
12th ft. ftnd West Ave.
¥t>mm xm
Would Keep
Yacht Club
AJNyaygQpen
But Depends on Interes
Exhaled By die Ruidepts
of Resort
moti
CUM \U Value
ICwIng T. CorBon, vice coniinu
d..re of the' Ocean City, ¥*«!
Club, stated then Is a pod
biiity that the Yacht Club ought
stay open the Tour "round, TJjto,
be silil, doMBd* upon «M lsMr<
of Hie year 'round resident*
of the resort.
"Boating lit runldiy comim
hack l« the place it liold hefori
the advent of the auto," he
aerted, "but the very number oi
inotor ca« whleh are now on th:
highway today are forcing
pie to Keek other msaai ol recrc
ation and they are natural!]
drifUng hack to aau»t|c aport
'trend la demonstrated b;
our local roaldenta. For many
yean UtUe local tntereit has
been displayed in Bay aetivit!<
except by a few Sahermen 01
owners of motorboats, but
suminer flnds an Increasing number
of Ocean Dili boat owners
and I will venture to say that
there win be mpre boats in us*
on lip bay thla auniracr thai
ever befere,
"With all y,jar 'round resident
resident taking an intornat i
boating, it in possible to keep
the Ynelil Club open all year
This could be very easily don
by closing off the upper floors
^ind placing a large ptpeleag
healer In the bajement, Th
club house Is ideally equlppe
for social funotlons of all kindH
which could be ,euioyed in the
off season as well as the sum,
mer, 1
A number of ane>type Barnegat
sneak box sailboats have been
delivered to local owne who
are gelling ready for the raoL
which are scheduled to be held
during July and August,
A delay In delivery of the
one-sup hydroBiBnes, with outboard
motors, may cause a post
ponetnent of the race scheduled
between this type of craft on
July Fourth,
The Yacht Club is now open
for membership to either local
i!d