Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-08-16
ANCLESEA


station, says extra precaution has been
taken for some time past by all life saw
ing stations, to protect and safeguard
all U. s. telephone and telegraph lines
themselves. All night long Captain
Shaw has four of his men on guard,
where needed; and three men during
the day. They are constantly on the
lookout for suspicious characters, who
might want to blow up the Coast Guard
station or the Light House; or TO cut
the govern ment wires of communica-
ton to other points. This extra pre-
caution, now deemed necessary, makes
the labor of Captain Shaw and his crew
very onerous; but these are wal times;
and we all know what General Sher-
man said about war. So we all have
a wal of a time of it!
1t was in. 1902-just 16 years ago =
that Mayor James McLiuden cast his
lot in life with the people of Anglesea
and the other resorts on the Five Mile
Beach. He came here from PhiladeI-
phia to engage in &c wer and street paw
ing contract business; and has been
identified with much of the improve
ments in those lines, since that time,
on this Island. The last big job he bid
for here and landed was that Of the
Wild wood sewage disposal plant, fin
ished last year. This was a very diff
cult piece of work; but Mr.. McLinden
was equal to the task.
Mrs. Margaret Shultz, of Hotel Hill
ton, reports August business as excel
lent. She has had guests from Flori-
da, New York and Boston.
How much does an elephants heart
weigh? That's a funny question to
ask! The Journal don't know the av-
erage weight, but B~olivar's heart weigh
ed AZ pounds. 1t was on December rs,
1888, that Adam Forepaugh presented
the vicious Bolivar to the Philadelphia
zoo. Bolivar had done to death some
eight or nine keepers, aud Forepaugh
decided that was enough of criminal
work for one elephant to do; so he de-
cided to get rid of him. At the Phila-
delphia zoo, Bolivar was kept chained
constantly. He weighed five tons and
was the biggest elephant ever in cap
tivity. Jumbo was a trife taller; but
Bolivar wss much heavier, stronger,
and more dangerous. Thomas Dick
inson Is the man who cut out Bolivar's
heart. Mr.. Dickinson was in charge of
the commissary department Of the zoo
at the time Bolivar died and it fell to
Thomas lot to take out all ofthe vitals,
preparatory to skinning big Bolivar,
and getting things in shape for the zoo
taxidermist-David McCadden. Boil
var almost life-like) may be seen any
day at the Academy of Natural Scien-
ces in Philadelphia, 18th and Race
streets.
Last Wednesday afternoon being an
exceedingly hot one, and the Journal
reporter tired of seeing such high tenn
peraturesas So, 100 and even l02 degrees,
recorded on the Five Mile Beach during
this long hot wave, decided to forget
it all for a time and take a trip to a
place as frosty as Iceland. What he
there and his experiences will ap-
pear in next weeks Journal.
Llewellyn Hildreth, of Rio Grande,
failed of reelection to the pIincipalship
of the North Wildwood schools. w. l..
Rohn, of Shiloh, was the successful
candidate and was elected on Tuesday,
August 9th. His son taught in the
Wildwood high school before being
drafted.
A check amounting to nearly 5000,
the proceeds of the card party at Wild
wood Yacht Club, vas handed to Mrs.
| William Bloomell last week, treasurer
of the North Wildwood Red Gross unit.