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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-02
Saturday. the Tenth day of
March, A. ID. 1912,

as follows:
Section From the northeasterly side OF
S0th street to the southwesteriy side OF SD
street.
Section 2.-From the northeasterly side of
1861 street to the southwesterly side of l1lth
street.
Separate bids must be filed for each section
and each bid properly marked on the outside
with the number OF the section and securely
sealed.
Plans and specifications can be obtained
upon application to l.. M. Rice, County Engi-
neer, Wildwood, N. j.. by depositIng with
him the sum OF $500, which deposit will be re-
funded if the plans and specifications are re.
turned in good condition or accom- paDy a bid.
All bids must be accompanied by a deposit
in cash or certified check, made payable to
Joseph |, Scull, County Collector, equal to 10
per cent. OF the amount OF the bid.
The successful bidder will be required to
furnish a Surety Company bond in the full
amount OF his bid to insure a full and faithful
performance OF all the conditions, restrictions
and requirements OF the contract and specih-
cations.
The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
BY order OF the Board,
FRANK w. FOWKES, Clerk.
Dated February 81, 1917.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-02
Advertising in The Journal Pays!
BOardOf Chosen FreehOlderS
PUBLIC

SEALED BIDS for the grading and gravel
ing OF two sections OF Third avenue, Stone
Harbor, in accordance with plans al d specih-
cations prepared by tie County Engineer,
will be received and opened at an adjourned
regular meeting OF the Board of Chosen Free
holders OF the County OF Cape May, New Jer-
sey, in the Court Hous at Cape May Court
House, N. j., at eleven O'Clock in the fore
noon, on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-02
Confer on Wage Increases.

Under the industrial constitution
drawn up matters of wages, hours of
service and other vital factors in the
company's relations with its employees
are settled by a written contract. In
creases In wages are worked out in
conference between company officials
and the workmen's representatives.
In all matters of industrial better
ment the employees representatives
play an important part. They are as
signed to joint committees on which
they serve with representatives of the
company. The names of these COM
mittees-Safety and Accidents, Santa
ton, Health and Housing, and Recrea-
ton and Education-give an adequate
idea of the broad scope of the compa-
ny's interest in its employees. To
carry out the schemes endorsed by the
committees the company has spent
money and effort unstintingly, although
it has always avoided any semblance
of paternalism.
Since the Inauguration of the plan
the company has enlarged its previous
programme of providing model homes
for its employees who live on company
property. The company is fencing, free
of charge, each employees home. A
series of prizes is given every year for
the cultivation of lawns and gardens.
Many of the workers own their own
automobiles. At the plants garages
have been provided, with stalls rented
to employees at a moderate rate
Industrial Conservation, N. Y.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-02
For Better Railroad Service
To the People of New Jersey and the Public:

Before the New eyI Legislature Ba bill to bmaden the powers of
the ond oGbic Utility Commissioners 1t was nuoducedm into the
House by Hon. mmor B Roberts, the Grange; into he Senate by
Hn. Lewis Stevens The measure is supported by the New Jr
sy State Chamber of Commerce. following exhaustive study of the
problem, and by newspapers generally 1t is heartily approve b. the
railroads They tket sp public method to say SO and why
This will accomplish in amy what the "mn crew" Law of 1913 was
intended to TO- Thee effect OF that hw 50 far has been to force upon
Her railroads in New Jersey a hhl cost o ifs $4,000. Such expend-
ue, which, as very cost entering into railroad maintenance d per-
aion, inevitably is met by the public has been waste for it accom-
phshed nothing of vaue.
Enactment of the bill will take nothing from the public that it does
not eIore in greater degree. For an arbitrary law recognizing no con-
uons-but with limitations equnng on trains given number of
mnr egnde of differing circumstances surrounding operation of such
judgment of selected men entrusted by the Commonwealth with safe
guardng and promoting 1.-THE public interest.
Under the existing satte-n" eue@m man" crew law, nda 'fm'
crew law as it was named to accomplish its railroads in
New Jersey Mec compelled to cmyo on rains where they are not need
eds I'M 4Sm men who would b. otherwise very advmhgeouy mpoy-
ed. Railroad do not seek to ndenmnuars o IN many trains pas
ger and heght-they now put larger crews than the law requires this
to ensWe @ea nd efficient operation.
What this bill vii do is to make certain that all rmndsn New Ter
Sys hanp ope1y crew very train. 1t give the UMy Commissioners
full autho1y to determine chow many men art necessary make Ger
faint la trains ares safely and efficiently operated, also to prevent es
aWed duties being required of any man train service 1t protects the
public interests as present. law does not 1t @equatys safeguards
rights of empoys 1t relieves the rdroads from a useless operating
charge now imposed upon them. It make for economical so for
BETTER uanporahon service.
SAMUEL REA VIM. II. TRUESDALE A. I. DICE
President Pennsylvania RR PeSdsH, adananmR R. President p SR RE
Ex@uHveC Committee of AsocaedR alroadsof Pennsylvania and New Jersey
r. L. ODONNEL. Chairman
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-03-02
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HOUSE PASSES
HIGHWAY BILL
Franchise Tax Measure Also
Goes Through Easily.
LOCAL OPTION is DEFEATED

Lively Hearing on Bill to Repeal Full
Crew Law-cIereymen Oppose COL
a Measure to Permit Moving Pic
ture Shows IN Sunday-kates Local
Option Acts Gets Before Senate.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
TNHE critics never have agreed, and
assuredlv never will agree, about

TNHE critics never have agreed, and
assuredly never will agree, about
Shaw Therefore it is not surpris-
ing to find them divided over "Misalli-
ance."
Its all good fun, with an excellent
company TO make it hilarious comedy" is
the verdict of Charles Darnton in THE
Evening World But j. Rankin Towse, in
"The Evening Post" violently disagrees
about the merits Of the vehicle, although
he absolves the cast from all response
bility and has praise for individual mem
bers. Mr.. Towse writes:
"The simple truth is, and there is no good
reason why il should not be set down briefly
ard plainly, that in this latest Of his ELUSIVE
manifestos finging scorn upon whatever
things seem, in the estimation Of his loathed
Victorian middle class, 20 be decent. honest
and of good report, the once saturnine,
brilliant and Mephistophelian Shaw is often
unmistakahly tedious, labored, dull and
stupid. The former superhne edge OF his
sstirical wit is blunted and his inerrant
vision OF the comic blurred Signs are
abundant that the ri,h vein Of humor which
be has worked so long and so successfully Is
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
LINA-To remind myself that have q

LINA-To remind myself that I have q
soul
TARLETON THE host-walking about
True. Fine. Good. Beautiful All this
damned materlaism: what good is It to any
body1 I've got souls don't tell me haven't
Cut me up and you cant find it Cut up a
steam engine and you cant find the steam.
But, by George, it makes the engine 60. Say
what you will, Summerhsys, the divine spark
is a fact.
LORD SUMMERHAYS-Have | denied Il?
TARLETON-Our whole civilization IS n
denial OF il. Read Walt whitman.
LORD sUMMERHAYS-I shall 80 to the
billiard room and get the balls for you.
LINA-Thank you.
LORD Summerhays goes out through the
vestibule door.
TARLETON tgoing TO her Listen to me.
She turns quickly What you said just now
was beautiful. You touch chords. You ap-
peal to the poetry In a man. You inspire
him. Come nowl You're woman Of the
world you're independent; you must have
driven lots Of men crazy. You know the sort
of man am, don't you? See through me at
q glance, eh?
LINA-Yes. LShe sits down quietly in the
chair Lord Summerhays has just left.
TARLETON-Good. Well do you like me ?
Don't misunderstood me. I'm perfectly aware
that you're not going TO Fall In love at first
sight with ridiculous old shopkeeper.
cant help that ridiculous old shopkeeper I
have to carry him about with me whether
like IL or not. have TO pay for his clothes,
though hate tho cut of them, especially the
wastcoat. | have to look at him In the glass
while I'm shaving loathe him because hes
q living lie. Ny souls not like that: it's like
yours. / want to make a fool of myself.
About you. Will you let me?
LIMA VERY calml--How much will you
pay?
TARLETON-Nothing. But I'll throw as
many sovereigns as you like into the sea to
shew you that I'm In earnest.
LINA-Are those your usual terms7
TARLET0N-No. / never maoe that bid
before.
LIMA lproducing u dainty little book and
preparing to write in itl-What did you say
your name was?
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Oxford in War Time

Oxford III War lime
WHAT alters yOu familiar lawn and
w tower,
Arrhed alley, and garden green to the gray
wall
With crumbling creyice and the old wine
red flower
Sofitary in summer sun? For all
Is like dream; I tread on dreams No
stir
or footsteps, voices, laughter, Even the
chime
OF many memoried bells is lonelier
in this neglected ghostliness Of Time.
What separation, what remoteness numb,
Absents you? Yet my heart springs up
30 adore
The shrinking Of your soul, that is be-
come
Nearer and, Oh. far dearer than before
Il is as if ! looked on the stiIl face
Of a mother, musing where she sits alone.
She is with her sons, she is not IN this
place;
She is gone out into far lands unknown
Because that filed horizon occupies
Her heart with mute hope and divinirg
fear,
Therefore her hands so calm lie, and her
eyes
See nothing; and men wonder at her here;
But far In France. on the torn Flanders
plain
By Sinai. in the Macedonian SHOWS,
The hy-plagued heat of Tigris, heat and
rain,
On wandering water where the black
squall blows,
Less danger than the bright wave am
bushes,
She bears it out All the long day she
shares
And sudden hours imperious challenges
TO act, that searches all men. no man
spares.
Che Is with her sons, leaving a virtue gone
Out of her peaceful places. What she
bred
rtves other life than this, that sits alone,
Though still In dream starrilt visited.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Reviewing the Newest Faversham Adventure

nearing the point of exhaustion, and that
his outlook upon ltfe, always shallow and
warped, is losing the freshness and origi-
nalty which sometimes passed current for
rhiosophc insight with those who paid more
ettention to sound than sense Diabolcally
clever he still is, Of course, and ever and
again he emits flashes of his old brilliancy;
but, as a whole, 'Misslliance.' In spite Of its
promising beginning, is little more than a
mass of assorted gabble-which scarcely re-
pays the search for isolated quip, sneer, jest
or epigram-wthout dramatic beginning,
iddle or end There is not a manager with
in the compass Of the seven seas who would
have accepted it had il carried an unknown
name"
Another critic (in "The Sun") feels
that Mr.. Shaw is no longer the Shaw of
old, observing that
"The writer has used material which has
done him good service in the past, such as
the pursuit OF the aviator by the heroine, and
there was the ring OF familiarity in more
than one Of the speeches. Much OF the text
is only the Shaw stencil. The form Is there,
but the voice is not
On the other hand, "The Herald" main
tanned that "Msalliance" is "characteris-
tically TYPICAL; that it is "amiable and
iconoclastic," revelling in zone gay para
dox after another" Also, John Corbin,
writing in THE Times" taking refuge in
the "usefully vague phrase of village re-
porting" said that "a pleasant time had
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

been had by all'; but he was constrained
to add that what il consisted in and what
the play was all about defies analysis"
Louis Sherwin, in The Globe" cham
pioned the celebrated English writer, as
serting that "it is not his verbal tricks, his
mastery of the language, that will make
his work live, but his magnetic, contagious
humanity" Burns Mantle, in "The Mail"
called it "a jolly fine adventure"
Alan Dale, in "The American" thus
suggestivey described his feelings on the
opening night:
Have you ever been on scenic railway
at Coney Island, and yelled as you were
dragged up heights and down depths. 10 be
landed finally on small, unmportant plat
form, when you Immediately began to wonder
why you had yelled and TO realize that the
scenic railway had left you without soli-
tary sensatiou?"
Ralph Block, in The Tribune, ex-
pressed the opinion that "the Shavian
master mind has been uncovered, dis
closed-not as the thinker, mind you, but
as the jester" However, Louis " De Foe,
in "The World remarked that "in the
main the surface sparkles, and audiences
are sure to be greatly entertained-if they
divest themselves" he added, "of the
thought that such great talent could be
put 10 so much better uses
In the opinion of THE Evening Sum-"
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Lima Szezepanowski Gains Friend
Scene From Bernard "SaNanc BOadhva Theatre

TARLETON-John Tarleton. The great
John Tarleton of Tarleton's Underwear.
LIMA writing l-T-a-r-l-e-t-o-n. Er-7
LShe looks up at him inquiringly.l
TARLETON promptly Fifty
LINA-Thank you. | keep list Of all my
offers. I like to know what I'm considered
worth.
TARLETON-Let me look
LIMA lofering the book to him Its IN
Polish
TARLETON-Thats no good. Is mine the
lowest offer?
LINA-No the highest
TARLETON- What do mos. Of them come
tot Diamonds7 Motor cars? Furs! villa
at Monte Carlo?
LINA-Oh, yes; all that. And sometimes
the devotion Of lifetime.
Fancy that A young man
offering woman his old age as a tempta-
tionl
LINA-By the way, you did not say how
long.
TARLETON-Untily you get tired Of me.
LINA--Or until you get tired of me1
TARLETON-I never get tired. never go
on long enough for that. But when 1t be-
comes so grand, so inspiring that feel that
everything must be an anti-climax after that
then | run away.
LINA-Does she let you go without q
struggle?
TARLETON-Yes. Glad to get rid Of me
When love takes man as Il takes me--when
il makes him great-it frightens woman.
LINA-The lady here is your wife, Isn't
she? Don't you care for her?
TARLETON-Yes And mind! she comes
first always | reserve her dignity even when
sacrifice my own. You'll respect that point
Of honor, wont your
LIMA Only q point Of honor7
TARLETON .impulsively NO, by Cod
point of affection as well.
LIMA smiling, pleased with him ml-Shake
hands old pal tshe rises and offers him her
hand frankly
TARLETON tgiving his hand rather dole
fully Thanks. That means no, doesn't it?
LINA-It means something that will last
longer than yes. like you. | admit you to
my friendship. What a pity you were not
trained when you were young! You'd be
young still.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Art in Aphorism
From The American Art Student)

From The AmericGr Art Strldent)
TIME artist must be the slave Of hs
art during every waking moment
in order that he may be MGS'~
in the hour Of inspiration.
No one should strain after individual
ity-any more than one should seek %
suppress it. It is a wild flower innate u
a mans soul which develops naturally
without effort or care. II It is forced
with an abnormal growth, individuality
becomes an obstruction.
Where beauty depicted for beauty's sake
is cold and colorless affair, a work OF
srt must be fired with the dynamics OF
life and spiritual vision in order TO SUI
the heart or awaken the intellect
Every gcsii.s Is rsrolHtioHist oa' 30
genius has erer been an anarchist, for
there are certain fundamental laws TO obey
in art, Just as there are the petty conyen-
ton. Of ones period to overthrow.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

for the Quarter Latin. Acting on Taffy's
advice-for Taffy had worked under Carrel
Little Bilee handed sixty francs to the
massier for his bienvenue-a lordly sum
and this liberality made most favorable
impression and went far to destroy any
little prejudice that might have been caused
by the daintiness Of his dress, the cleanli-
ness Of his person and the politeness Of
his manners. A place was assigned to
him, and an easel and board; for ne
elected TO stand at his work and begin with
p chalk drawing. The model "a male)
was posed, and work began in silence.
Monday morning Is always rather sulky
everywhere Except perhaps in Judee).
During the ten minutes rest three or four
students came and looked at Little Billee's
beginnings, and saw at a glance that he
thoroughly well knew what he was about,
and respected him for it.
Nature had given him a singularly light
hand-or rather two, for he was ambi-
dextrous, and could use both with equal
skill; and few months practice at a Lon
don life school had quite cured him of that
purposeless indecision of touch which often
characterizes the prentice hand for years
Of apprenticeship, and remains with the
amateur for life. The lightest and most
careless Of his pencil strokes had a pre-
cision that was inimitable, and a charm
that specially belonged to him, and was
easy to recognize at glance. His touch
on either canvas or paper was like Sven
CALLS on the keyboard-unique
AS the morning ripened little attempts
at conversation were made-little break
ings of the ice of silence. 1t was Lam
bert, a youth with a singularly facetious
face, who first woke the stiffness with the
following uncalled-for remarks in English
very badly pronounced:
"'Av you seen my fahzcre's ole shoes"
~ 'av not seen your fahzere's ole shoes"
Then, after pause:
"'Av you seen my fahzere's ole att"
81 'av not seen your fahzere's ole at"
Presently another said: "Je treuve quill
une jolie tete, PAnglais."
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Fallen

LIE WAS wounded and he fell in the
midst Of hoarse shouting.
The tide passed. and the waves came and
whispered about his ankles
Far off he heard a cock crow-children
laughing,
Rising at dawn TO greet the storm Of
petals
Shaken from apple-boughs; he heard
them cry,
And turned again 10 find the breast Of
her,
And sank confused with a little sigh . &.
Thereafter water running, and voice
That seemed 20 stir and hutter through
the trenches
And set dead lips 10 talking.
Wreckage was mingled with the storm Of
lie felt her near him, and the weight
dropped off-suddenly.
Alice Corbin, in Poetry.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

very careful that evening.
LORD SUMMERHAYS-Is that the usual
form OF test in your profession?
LINA-Nothing that we Szezepanowskis do
is usual my lord.
LORD SUMMERHAYS-Are you all so won
derful?
LINA-It il our profession 70 be wonderful.
LORD SUMMERHAYS-Do you never con-
descend 10 do as common people do? For
instance, do you not pray as common people
pray?
LINA-Common people do not pray, my
lord; they only beg
LORD SUMMERHAYS-Yo never ask for
anything?
LINA-No.
LORD SUIIMERHAYS-Then why do you
pray?
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

Lima Szezepdno'oski (Pronotorced Che
Dqnorska) hos nelclp desceaded upon the
scene in an orpiane, smaShihG a great deal
Of conservatory glass. The men begin du-
tomaticqly falling in Lore aOith her. Lima,
It must be communicated, is high class
trapeze performer and juggler, and she
has Just requested sir billiard balls and a
Bible-a request ,cbich causes Uost aston
ishment in the English country house
rhere most Of the persons iagolped an the
piece are Week-ending. Lord Summeri1oys,
one Of the guests, begins:
u ORD SUMMERHAYS-W you forgive
my curiosity? What Is the Bible for?
H LINA-To quiet my soul
LORD SCMMERHAYS with a sigh J
All, yes, yes. 1t no longer quiets mine, l
am sorry 10 say.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07

be given. II had thirty-hye performances
and was seen by about $4,000 peopl
than went 20 any other play OF The plays
revived by Tree, Hackett and others except
only Henry VIII Most OF all am proud
OF the verdict of no less an authority thap
The World Almanac The production proved
that the modern picture stage is nc adapted
70 a genuinely imaginative production Of
Shakespeare's works Historically, /. was
probably about right, and cleared Up nsny
things that have been mysteries since the
Elizabethan theatres were closed In fact.
without our discoveries the play could not
lave been given But the main point Is that
the Shakespearian method is more imagins'
tive far-whieh means better fun for the
audience"
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
But I will put It all into English:

But will put It all into English:
"I find that he has a pretty head-the
Englishman What say yo,, Barizel?
"Yes; but why has he got eyes lik.
brandy-balls, two a penny?"
Because he's an Engishman"
"Yes; but why has he got a mouth Ike
a guinea pig, with two big teeth in front
Ike the double blank at dominos?"
Because he's an Englishmanw
eyes; but why has he got back with
out bend in it, as il he'd swallowed the
Colonne Vend6me as far up as the battle
Of Austerlitz"
Because he's an Engishman!'
And so on, til all the supposed charac-
teristics Of Little Billee's outer man were
exhausted. Then:
"Papelardl'
"What?n
~ should like to know II the English
man says his prayers before going to bed"
ASK him."
ASK him yourself!"
~ should like to know II the English
man has sisters; and If so, how old and
how many and what sex"
ASK him"
"Ask him yourself!"
81 should like to know the detailed and
circumstantial history Of the Englishman's
first love, and how he lost his innocence!"
ASK him." etc, ETC., etc.
Little Billee, conscious that he was the
object Of conversation, grew somewhat ner-
vous. Soon he was addressed directly.
"Dtes done, PAnglais?"
"Kwaw7" said Little Billee.
"Avez-vous une seur?"
"We."
"Est-ce qu'ells vous RESEMBLE"
"Nong."
"C'est bien dommage! Est-ce qu'ene dit
ses prieres lie soir, en- Sc couchant?"
A fierce look came into Little Billee's
eyes and redness to his cheeks, and this
particular form Of overture TO friendship
was abandoned.
Presently Lambert said: "Si nous met
tlons pAnglais pechelle?"
Little Billee, who had been warned, knew
what this ordeal meant.
They tied YOU TO ladder and carried
you in procession up and down the court
yard, and if you were nasty about Il they
put you under the pump.
During the next rest 1t was explained TO
him that he must submit to this indignity,
and the ladder (which was used for reach
ing the high shelves round the studio) was
got ready.
Little Billee smiled a singularly winning
smile, and suffered himself 20 be bound
with such good humor that they voted It
wasn't amusing, and unbound him, and he
escaped the ordel by ladder.
New-York tribune., 1917-10-07
Current War Poetry

For, oh, in youth she lives, not in her age!
Her soul is with the springtime and the
young;
And she absents her from the learned
page,
Studious Of high stories yet unsung.
More precious to her now than wisdon's
book
Because her own. Her faith is in those
eyes
That clear into the cape of hell can look,
Putting TO proof ancient PHILOSOPHERS,
Such as the virgin MUSES. would rehearse
Beside the silvery, swallow-haunted stream
In their gray cloister. But immortal verse
Is now exchanged for its immortal theme,
Victory, proud loss, and the enduring
mind;
Youth that has passed all praises and has
won
More than renown, being that which faith
OWNED,
Reality more radiant than the sum-
She gave; she gives. A gift more than
all days
OF dedicated lore, Of storied art
And she resigns her beauty TO mems gaze
To hide the riches of her bleeding heart
Laurence Binyon, in The Atlantic
Monthly.