Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-03-25
SOMERS RQIMI.

| Our quiet little village has been given a
national notoriety within a week in con-
sequence of the transferring of part of
| Cuban expedition from the adjacent
waters to the steamer Bermuda that
| lay few miles outside of Great Egg
| Harbor Inlet. The arrangements were
SO carefully made, and so quietly per-
fected only p few people knew anything
| about the affair until it was all over.
Some strangers were seen in town but
| that was no unusual occurrence at this
| time of the year, SO but little notice was
| taken of their presence. The Bermuda
ran down the coast from New York, and
| the steamer Atlantic City, which was
| laid up for the winter over at Tuckahoe,
| was chartered on the pretence that she
was to go on trial trip for some par
| ties who wanted to purchase her, and
| took on board from this place and
Tuckahoe such Cubans and their sympa-
| thizers as had quietly come down from
| Philadelphia bv the different lines of
railroad All the passengers We're
| speedily and safely transferred, and the
Atlantic City returned to her former
quarters. The Cubans found active
friends among the boatmen, and had no
difficulty in obtaining all the help they
needed. After the expedition had de-
parted and was safely on it's way to
Cuba, the Uuited States authorities
| found out about it and Collector Higbee
| telegraphed the facts TO the authorities
| at Washington. The next day an excit-
able gen tlenlan who is said to have been
a Spanish spy, put in an appearance and
after doing a proper amount OF swearing
| in Spanish, left town with the impress
sion deeply rooted in his mind that
| neither General Garcia, the Cuben leader,
nor any of his soldiers were here Thus
endeth the chapter with the idea upper
| most in the local mind that the whole
affair was very shrewdly planned by the
| Cubans, and that all the subsequent
movements We're such as usually occur
in locking The stable door after the horse
has heen stolen.
MjLMAY.
Among the recent parties who have
purchased and propose to settle here
Immediately are Professor Hughes OF
Philadelphia, who purchased farm No.
2O9, Mr.. Buggy, who purchased farm
277, both being residents of German
town also Mr.. James Sterrett, of Fox
Chase, who bought farm 1906, William
B. Burgess, farm No. IL, and Mr.. J. c.
Pratt. of Bedford, Ohio. bought farm
| 410. These gentlemen are few of the
many who purchased last week. All the
gentlemen have made arrangements to
settle here.
Messrs. Moore Bros. < Co. have ten
houses under way. Purchasers are now
experiencing great difficulty in procuring
accommodations. Messrs. Moore & Co.
advertised in Philadelphia last week for
| carpenters and laborers for this place
Immediately.
Mr.. d. l.. Risley is pushing this place
with his characteristic energy, and will
| take large force of men TO get the land
surveyed, and streets built as far as it is
sold Off
A meeting will be held in the near
future to devise ways and means for
having pOstoffice located here and a
schoolhouse erected at once. The future
of Milmay looks promising and bright.
In all the history of South Jersey there
was never such unexampled prosperity
| in settlement as in this place. This is
partially due to the liberal management
and the fair reputation in which this
place is held. There are no factories to
induce people to come here by the hun
dreds and work for few. Every man
who comes here proposes to make his
living by agricultural pursuits, the basis
of all true worth and prosperity
SEA VIEW.
The bicycle race on Saturday between
William English, of this place, and Will
liam cafes of SOmers Point resulted
in Keates coming in over the line first.
English was taken with cramps on going
no and every time he tried to pull up on
Keates he was taken with these cramps
and his feet slipped off the pedals and
that made it impossible for him to race
further. He gave the race up on the
other end. Keates made the trip in Is 4
and English came in 8 minutes later
According to that time Keates must
have been pretty tired out. but we must
give the boy credit for what hard work
be did. English will challenge him to,