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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06

terial is less hard than elsewhere, n
In a few places soft asphalt may be
seen In small. irregular patches oozing
up from below. This fresh asphalt is
Of about the consistency of putty and
can be kneaded and pulled in the hands
without soiling them greatly. In the
main, however, the lake is solid as
phalt.
No pne knows the depths of this mys-
ferrous lake, the only information on
the subject being the fact that long
\ago a boring was made to a depth of
H35 feet without reaching the bottom.
Fhe cores of this and other borings
SHOW that in consistency the asphalt
Remains the same to a very consider
able depth.
Curious as it may seem, there are
mahy evidences that the entire mass
comprising the lake is in constant but
yerN slow motion. The surface is a
serief Of great folds. and in the creases
between these the rain water gathers
One writer has APPLY compared the
surface of the asphalt to the skin of a
great elephant, the creases being the
folds IN his hide. Along the edges OF
the pools of water grass. bushes and
small trees take root, forming green
"islan DIS" of greater or less extent
Victor Pitt-Kethley in Wide World
Magazine.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
CAPE MAY
COUNTY DIRECTORY

Justice of Supreme Court-Charles
c. Black, Democrat. Term expires
1921
Circuit J udge-Howard Carlow, D.
1920.
Law J~udge-Henry H. Eldredge, d
1916.
Prosecutor of Pleas-James r. Car.
row, d.
Sherif-Coleman F. Corson, d. 1916
Coroners-Mark Lake, Ocean City.
1916; b. c. Ingersoll, Wildwood, 1917
DR.. Wilson A. Lake, Efma, 1885,
County Clerk-A. Carlton Hildreth.
Republican, January, 1920.
Surroeate-Edward l.. Rice, d., No
vember, 1917.
State Senator-LewisT Stevens, R.
1919.
neutrality-suspicious. Lake, RI
County Superintendent of Schools
Aaron w Hand, R., October, 1920. !
Terms of Court-Second Tuesday in
April, September and Dec, mber.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
Board of Chosen Freeholders
Terms expire January 1st

Terms expire January 1st
Director-Charles H. Clouting.
Vice Director-Joseph P. MacKissic.
Cierk-Frank w. Fowkes, Sea Isle
City.
Collector-Joseph ]. Scull, Ocean City
Solicitor-Joseph Douglass, Cape May
Court House.
Road Supervisor-Daniel Schellen-
ger, Erma.
Sea Isle City-Charles II. Ciouting,
1917; James F. Eustace, 1917.
Upper Township-Hope w. Candy,
Tuckahoe, 1915.
Wildwood-Charles w. Saul, 1918,
Augustus Hilton, 1918.
Cape May City-John T. Bennett
1915; Henry s. Rutherford, 1918.
Dennis Township-Levi Wentzell
Dennisville. 1915.
Lower Township-Joseph P. Mac
Kissic, Wildwood Crest, 1918.
Middle Township-Robert s. Miller
Cape May Court House. 1917.
Ocean City-John P.Fox, 1919; Johl
E. Townsend, 1919.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
HUGHES FOR ARBITRATION.
He Would Be First to Accord to Labor
All Rights Found Just After
Consideration.

In his Maine speeches Mr.. Hughes
made 1t plain that he was not attack
Ing labor or the equity of the pro-
posed increase of wages for the rail-
road men. He was simply %contending
for the all important principle of arbi-
trGtion as the right means of settle
ment of such questions. Speaking at
different places in Maine, Mr.. Hughes
dwelt upon this question, saying:
II deeply deplore, In the name of
labor, in the name of justice, In the
name of American ideals, the surren-
der of the Executive and of Congress
to force, instead of permitting reason
to reign.
"The measure to which 1 have allud-
ed was not, properly speaking, an
eight-hour measure. 1t was a wage
measure. 1t was a plain proposition
for a change in the wage scale. 1 do
mo- speak of the equity of that. That
is a matter to be fairly considered. I
want what is just and right with re-
spect to wages. I am for the arbitra-
ton and the peaceful settlement of
these industrial controversies. We
can settle everything In this country
If we approach those matters with a
fair and open mind and an examina-
ton of the facts.
This particular measure shows on
its face that 1t was legislation In adj
vance Of the investigation, instead
of investigation in advance of legisla-
ton. 1t is said that there was In its
favor the judgment of society. The
Judgment of society In this country
has never been passed In favor Of leg
islation without knowledge of the equi-
ty and regardless of the facts of the
case. There was no judgment of So
ciety In favor of the roads which were
excepted from Its provisions. If there
was a judgment Of society, why not APP
ply the rule to electric or other kinds
of roads or roads less than 100 miles
In lengthf I say, away with such pre-
tensel 1t was a surrender to force in
stead of a clear, candid, faithful
framed examination Of the facts, and
then action In accordance with Ameri-
can principles.
"Autocracy represents force; tyran-
ny represents force. Democracy rep
resents the rule Of the common judy
ment after discussion, after an oppor-
tunity to know the facts"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
NO ONE WAS AFRAID OF
HAITI.

Haiti did not behave as badly
to us as Mexico behaved; but
Mr.. Wilson interviewed, fought
the Haitiens, shedding their
blood and the blood of our
troops, took possession and now
has our armed forces in control
of Haiti and directing it's gov
eminent. His course of action
in Haiti can be defended only
If his ours of action in Mexi-
co is unqualifiedly condemned
for such action was far more
needed in Mexico than in Hal
tt. But there was a difference
in the two cases; and to Mr..
Wilson it was a vital difference.
Haiti was weaker than Mexico.
No one was afraid of Haiti
From the speech of Colonel
Roosevelt delivered at Lewis
ton, Maine, in behalf of Charles
e. Hughes.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
DR.. HARVEY w. WILEY
TO VOTE FOR HUGHES.
He Says Wilson Has Failed to Enforce
Pure Food Law.

81 favor the election of Mr.. Hughes
to the Presidency for entirely differ
ent reasons than those held by most
of his supporters. 1t is not because
of the Mexican policy o the foreign
policy of the Administration nor by
reason of it's domestic policies. It is
because of the apparent Indifference
of the Administration of President
Wilson to the cause Of pure food and
drugs. Practically all of the abuses
which were injected into the Pure
Food Law by the preceding Admins.
trations are still in force. Benzoate
of soda is still regnant. The fumes
of burning sulphur are marching along
undisturbed. There is evidently a lull
in the activities of the Administration
Of the law. A well-known beverage, de
clared by the Supreme Court misbrand-
ed and amenable to the Food Law has
not been moleSted. No attempt has been
made to enforce the law in regard to
the bleaching of flour. The repeal of
the mixed flour law, that splendid
safeguard to the purity of our bread
has been tacitly approved by the
Treasury Department.
"Mr. Hughes in his activities oD
the Supreme Court has stood like q
stone wall for the proper Administra-
ton of the Food Law. l believe his
election would see a radical change
In the attitude of the government
towards pure food and pure drugs, so
vital to the welfare of our people.
For this reason, l sincerely hope that
Mr.. Hughes may be chosen as our
next President.
81 should expect Mr.. Hughes as
President to have the same attitude
toward the pure food and drug law
that he had as a judge on the bench
and to appoint a secretary Of agri-
culture with subordinate officers who
would be enthusiastic and earnest in
the enforcement of the pure food law
for the benefit of the physical, men,
tai and moral welfare of our people,"
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
What NOTHING Is.

If any man thinks that he can con
ceive well enough how there should be
nothing, l will engage that what he
means by nothing is as much some
thing as anything that he ever thought
of In his life. and l believe that If he
knew what nothing was it would be
intuitively evident to him that it could
not be. Absolute nothing is the ag-
gregate of all the contradictions in the
world.-Jonathan Edwards.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
HELPING OTHERS.

Every Gay might easily be
made a happy day for some one.
Even into the depths of misery
happiness can penetrate, and a
kindly act, a cheerful word or a
little bit of timely assistance
often works wonders and brings
joy where all was gloom before.
You can help each day by maxi
ing at least person happy.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
Woman.

A woman may be a fool-a sleepy
fool, an agitated fool, a too awfully
noxious fool-and she may even be
simply stupid. But she is never dense.
She's never made of wood through and
through, as some men are. There is in
woman, always somewhere. a spring.
Whatever men don't know about wo-
men (and it may be a lot or it may be
very little, men and ever fathers do
know that much. And hat is why so
many men are afraid of them.-Conrad.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
AMONG THE CHURCHES
SUNDAYS SERVICES AT THE
CHURCHES ALL OF WHICH
EXTEND A HEARTY WELL
COME TO VISITORS.

O'Clock, preceded by Epworth League
song service at 7 o'clock.
Prayer Meeting Wed. Ev'g, 7.45
Seats free. All are welcome.
WILDWOOD BAPTIST CHUF CHI
Corner Maple and Pacific venue
Rev. Irwin H. Fisher, pastor.
Morning, 1870 q. m., Sunday school
$50 p. M; Evening, 7.80 p. M. Prayer
meeting Wednesday evening, 7.30. A
hearty welcome extended to visitors
Supported by voluntary contributors
Corner Pacific and Burke avenue,
Holly Beach.
Rev. J. Newton Kugler, pastor
Morning preaching service at 1870.
Evening 7.45.
Sunday-school at $50.
Wednesday evening prayer meeting
at 7.45.
ST. sIMEoN's-BY-THE-sEA PROTESTANT
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. A. @. Bailey, 3D., Rector
Corner Pacific and Maple n
Wildwood, N. J.
You will find q cordial welcome and
q thoroughly churchly service.
SERVICE LIsT-sUNDAYs
7.3O q. M, Holy Communion.
$50 q. m, children's church.
10 q. M, morning prayer.
1920 q. M, holy communion with
sermon.
7.80 p. M, evening prayer with SER
WORK DAYS-DAILY
700 a. M, holy communion, except
Wednesday. "Wednesday 800 a.m.)
SAINTS DAYS
Holy communion 100 and 800 a. m.
Church open all day for private
prayer. The Rector stands ready to re-
spond to n call for his services, no
matter from whom the requests may
come; and no charge of any kind is ever
made for any service he may render.
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE OILY
TRINITY
Rev. H. P. Gresham, pastor
Holy Trinity Chapel, cor Atlantic
and Poplar avenues.
Sunday-school 10.0 90 a. m.
Morning Service, 11.OO.
Evening service 7.30 p. m.
Visitors Welcome
MMW
ST. AIMS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
st. AIMS Roman Catholic Church
corner Of Magnolia and Pacific ayes
Mass on Sundays at 8 and 10 q. m.
Sunday school 2 p. m. Evening ser
vice 7.3O. Rev. Father Msroney Rector
EUREKA BAPTIST CHURCH (colored)
Spencer avenue, West Of Railroad
Services Sunday morning at 10S 30
Sunday school 2.30, evening 7,80.
Rev. A. r. Satterfield, ID, pastor.
ANGEL VISIT BAPTIST CHURCH
(colored)
West end of Garfield avenu
Rev. M. d. Stamford, Pastor
PASTORS residence, Whitesboro, Cape
May County.
Preaching every Sunday morning at
II o'clock.
Sunday-school at 2.30ip. M.
Evening service at s O'Clock.
R93
AsBURY A.M.E. CHURCH (colored)
Holly Beach ave., corner Young
Sunday services :
Preaching 1890 Am. and 500 p m.
Children's Service, 2.30 pm.
Christian ~endeavor, 7.30 p. m.
All welcome. Rev. CHM, Pastor
NORTH WILDWOOD SERVICES
A union Sunday-school held In the
North Wildwood fire house every Sum
day afternoon at 2.30. Everybody
welcome.
All interested in the study Of the
Bible are invited to attend the Bible
Glass held every Sunday afternoon at
2.30 in the firehouse at North Wild
wood.
q 3
ANGLESEA NJ. z. CHURCH
Rev. J. G. Edwards, D. D., pastor
Preaching every Sunday afternoon
three o'clock
Sunday school at two o'clock.
Epworth League Sunday evening.
7.45 o'clock.
All are welcome.
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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
Puzzler.

"If you want to improve your mind"
said the sage, associate only with
persons who know more than you do"
But If they follow the same rule"
said one of those who were learning
wisdom at his feet, what are we to
do?"-Chic<Go Tribune.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
From General to Particular,

"Has Miss Oldgirl lost any of her
luminosity for man?'
"None at all. She has merely trans
ferred it from the sex to the indi-
yidual."
"What do you mean?"
"She is going to be married Rich
mond Times-Dispatch.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06

IOS Z. 18th Ave.

@s &1 ave.
East of North Wild wood station
Large assortment of Linens, Per-
Gales, Dress and School Ginghams;
Galetea in all colors. Comforts,
Blankets and Outing F1annels.
b pFessmaking supplies and trim
mings. Everything at city prices.
Furnishings for Men, Women and
Children, also Infants outfits.
Agency for Pictorial Review patterns.
Both phones
Bell, 261-R Keystone, 659-Y
Goods sent throughout the County
by Parcel Post. Free delivery on Five
Mile Beach.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06

Congress, representing 100,000,000
people, is not particularly dignified in
passing q law at the crack Of the
railroad brotherhoods' whip.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-10-06
DEPENDS on the Point of View.

docs your husband do foolish things
with his money!"
swell, l wouldn't say that. He
rives it all to me ."-Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12
BEING ADEQUATE.

A great psychologist has said,
Life is forever asking you this ques-
ton. Will you be adequate will you
really be adequate to specific details
and if you say, I will try to be ade-
quate, you begin at that point to 5e
adequate"
1t is the habit of being adequate in
the everyday emergencies Of life that
distinguishes the great and successful.
l reading the life Of Charles FrOh-
man, the great theatrical manager,
nothing impresses you so much as his
power of meeting conditions with
quiet confidence. 1t is said that SO
absolute was his confidence in his own
ability to direct the work of his COM
panies that his actors rarely even
thought of opposing him. His own
confidence, which was not a shallow
affair based on vanity, inspired an un-
bounded confidence in all those with
whom he hadi intimate dealings.
A large self-cOnfidence is built up
by positive action and positive de-
cision in the numberless small things
of life Form the habit of being ade-
quate in the small things. Don not
allow yourself the luxury of indecis-
ion. Indecision makes for all kinds
of weakness and failure. Mark out
your course to the best Of your abil-
ity and stick to it until you see some
good reason for changing. Do not
waver even in your own mind. Be
adequate to the small things and you
will be ready for greater things.-Wm.
E. Towne in Nautilus.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

the raiders made them seem much
lower than they really were. 1t is
probable that on this occasion they
we're flying at about 5000 feet, con-
siderably lower than in the October
raid following. 1t is revealing no mil
itary secret to say that at this time
eptember-London did not have
single high-powered anti-aircraft gun,
such of these as had been manufactur-
ed up to that time having been rushed
to the fleet, the east coast, or to
France and Flanders. This state of
things, was, undoubtedly known to
the Germans, and they took full adj
vantage of it in venturing nearer the
earth than they are ever likely, vol
UNFAIRLY, to come again in the course
of an English raid.
Incendiary Bombs Start Fires.
The way in which the fires were
mastered was one of the most remark
able features of this raid. For three
or four miles, across the very heart
of London, bombs had been dropped
on an average of something more
than one to the block. There were
intervals of three or four blocks here
and there that were untouched, but
on the other hand, several bombs Of
ten landed close together in a single
block. Probably over half of these
were incendiary bombs, and among
these-because they were lighted be
forehand-there must have been few
failures to explode. Indeed, all of the
several uneXploded bombs which were
shown me after each raid were of the
nonincendiary type, containing eth
er T. n. T., or picric acid. These
rarely, if ever, started fires, even on
explosion. From a short distance, the
explosion of the T. N. T. bombs was
marked by a sudden brilliant flash,
while warm, Pickering, red glow al
ways followed the dulled defamation
of the incendiary bombs. If the latter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12
Zeppelin Raid on London AS
Described by An Eye Witness

r. J. Bjurstedt in Popular Mechanics
an especially refractory steer. But
there was no entangling, no stumbl-
ing, no pause Swiftly the raiders
came on, and presently the eastern
heavens were alight with the fires
that had sprung up in their wake. At
first there was no apparent cOnnec-
ton between the sudden bursts of
flame from the earth and the eXplos-
ions, but as the machines came near
er, / began to observe that the latter
followed the former at gradually de-
creasing intervals. Every flash of
light heralded its corresponding deton-
alton, and presently l noted that the
least lurid of the flashes were always
followed by the loudest explosions,
due, l soon decided, to the fact that
these were the explosive bombs prop
er-the ones loaded with the power
full "T. ~ T." or trinitrotoluol- and
that the brighter bursts, with the dull
knocking bombs, were the incendiar-
les, filled principally with "thermit,"
or powdered aluminium. This conjec-
lure WdS QUICKLY F6Ilu6U Wu6u, DIS
the bombs began to drop within half
a mile, I was able to identify the in
cendiaries beyond question by the
train from the 1.ohted fuses.
No Anti-Aircraft Guns.
BY this time I was able to see that
there were two machines, one follow
ing the other, but not quite in line. l
was especially astonished at the COM
paratively low altitude at which they
seemed to be flying, and off-hand, at
that moment, I Shout probably have
estimated this to have been about g.
500 feet. Later reflection convinced
me that this false impression was
traceable to the fact that l had never
before seen an airship of over half
the size of the average Zeppelin, and
that as a consequence-there had
been nothing to compare them with
as a linear unit-the great length of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

the streets rather than in buildings,
and that of those hurt in buildings,
nerIy all were occupying upper rooms;
that of those injured on the street
probably not over 5 per cent were
struck by fragments of bombs, and
that in the case of those dying from
the latter cause, death usually came
several days after the injury as a
consequence of the almost inevitable
blood poisoning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

ON the night preceding that of the
- big raid in September of Yep
peIins on London there was a sort of
scouting visit during which bombs
were dropped in the vicinity of the
WoOIwich arsenal, or s miles from
the center of the metropolis. Motor
ing out with a friend to see the rath-
er inconsiderable damage wrought in
this vicinity, the writer was shown
by the police a sheet of iron dropped
from the visiting machine, on which
was stenciled in white letters about
an inch in height, I'VE are coming
back to give you English swine a
good blowing up tomorrow night"
This bit of 'strafing," as an Of
ficer called it, was treated entirely
as a joke and a bluff, but it was des-
tined to be made good with a ven
geance.
Alarm Sent for Emergency Workers.
Phone messages calling out volun-
teer firemen, cOnstables, nurses and
other emergency workers, began to
be sent out before 10 o'clock on the
following, but the first the general
public knew of the coming of the raid
ers was through the nearing detOna-
t!0ns from the direction of East End
Instantly, from tenements, hotels,
and theaters, CARRIED in everything
from bath robes to evening dress,
LOndon's millions began pouring into
the streets and squares to "see the
fun" and to not over one or two in
a thousand of all that multitude did
the raid sink home as anything more
than a tremendously dramatic and
highly diverting spectacle.
SearchlightS Find Zeppelin.
From where I watched at my win
daw 1 saw one searchlight after an
other swing up and fasten on the Yep
pelins. much after the way the reatas
Of a band of cowboys accumulate on
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

You never realize how dearly you
have paid for your whistle until you
try to sell it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-04-12

struck in a street or square, the glow
died down in 20 or 80 seconds; IL
building, there were usually flames
bursting from the roof inside of a
minute or two.
Fire Department Works Hard.
At the moment the last bomb was
dropped, the glow of countless fires
stretched away to the northeast as far
as my eye could see. Ten minutes
later-when 1 came up again after the
firing had ceased-there were only 4
or 5. One Of these was from a brok-
en- gas main in an alley, and another
from a celluloid factory in the East
End, which burned all night This
most creditahle work was due entire
lyto careful previsionary measures.
The London fire department was al
ways an efficient one, and care had
been taken not to weaken it by en-
listments for the army. A large num-
Der of volunteer firemen had also been
taken on and trained and these were
summoned by telephone as soon as
the Zeppelins were reported from the
coast.
Freak Effect of Bombs.
Like all high explosives, those used
in the bombs dropped on London dis
played characteristic "freakiness."
A bomb which struck almost exactly
in the center of Queens Square, shat
tering the fronts Of several hospitals,
and breaking every window within
two blocks, only made a hole about
four feet across and three feet deep
in the soft earth of the lawn upon
which dropped. Similarly, in Kings
way, in the October raid, a bomb
which killed or injured every passen-
ger in motor bus passing at dis
lance of 100 feet hardly cracked the
pavement 200 yards away made hole
almost big enough to drive an omni-
bus into, at the same time exe"ting
enough force upward to break everv
pane of glass in India House, Lon
don's largest and most imposing office
building. The tons and tons of plate
glass fragments falling to the side
walk at this point literally cut to
pieces several men who were passing
at the moment of the explosion, their
remains having been found half buried
in the sharp fragments. l was at the
door of theater on the Strand when