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Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-07-14
WHY THE GAMES WERE CLOSED

Last fall the Commissioners an
nounced for the sake Of the property
owners, real estate agents and board
walk men and women, that no games
for 1922 would be tolerated that were
contrary to law. This was done so
that men having property to rent
would understand thoroughly that if
places were rented to games contrary
to the law the responsibility would
fall on the renter and of own knowl-
edge.
Secondly-The Board of Trade in its
stand, made the following point on its
program for the year on this stand:
"(6) Sanction the Commissioners
stand on prohibiting games of chance
on the boardwalk during summer sea-
son of 1922" The Lions Club and the
American Legion of this city en-
dorsed these points and then adopted
them for their program. These facts
are records of the organizations.
The mercantile tax ordinance for
1922 plainly stipulates that no games
of skill shall be licensed that are con-
trary to law, and that games lot con-
trary to the law the fee shall be 500.
When concession men paid their mer-
camille tax some asked for rulings and
they were informed that it was not in
the province of the city clerk to say
what was or was not, but if a mar felt
his game was all right, he opened it
at his own risk, and if the game was
found contrary to the law he would
be closed, he assuming full RESPONSE
bility on these conditions. If any con-
cession man who has been closed I'M
der the Crime Law of the State OF
New Jersey feels that he should have
his money back he has access to the
civil suit in the courts of the state.
Some of the concession men want us
to test these games in the court. This
is their privilege. The statute clearly
states what is a crime, and there is
only one procedure when a crime is
committed and that is the course that
will be pursued by the Mayor as head
of the Department Of Public SAFETY
and he will be supported by the State
of New Jersey in it's effort to have
a decent resort and not a Blue one.
This statement is being made. be-
cause some men are saying that they
paid their mercantile tax and did not
get it back. The entire matter was a
chance proposition with them, like
their games were to the public, n
thew took it the same as they asked
hundreds Of people to take a chance.
Respectfully yours,
V. COURTRIGHT. SMITH,
Mayor and Director Department
Public Safety.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-07-14
RAILROAD EXTENDING TRACK TO
CITIZENS HARBOR

=, The Wildwood and Delaware Bay
Short Line Railroad Company has a
gang of men at work laying a spur
from the main line, located on Oak
avenue, to the fish wharf at Ottens
Harbor. The track is being laid be-
tween Hudson and Susquehanna ave-
nues on ground that the company
bought. 1t is necessary to lay about
a mile of track to reach the fish
wharves. Most of the boats which
used to go out from Anglesea now
make headquarters at Ottens Harbor,
where deeper water is found. Ottens
Harbor is getting to be a wonderfully
busy place. There are several res
taurants and gasoline tanks and pipes
galore that reach right to the edge of
the vessel.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02
PALLADIUM BOYS TO
PICNIC AT KI-RO

An all day picnic, games, con
tests, swimming and fried chick
en- dinner with all the trimmings
await the eighty-five boys who are
carriers of The Palladium who are
to be guests of the management
Sunday, September 3, at an outing
held at Camp Ki-Ro. Attractive
prizes have been planned for the
winners in the various events.
1t is the plan of the Palladium
management to make this picnic an
annual event, this year being the
first that the picnic has been held.
Perry" Wilson and pete" direc-
tors of the camp will be in charge
of the days program which will be
as follows
1880 a. m. daylight saving time)
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

which led to the little garnet be-
ing still visible.
Major Lacey said that 1900 flee
ing slaves passed through Fountain
City and stopped at the Coffin
home and other homes in those
exciting days" as he called them,
and not a single one was ever cap
tured though slave hunters were
seen in the place nearly every day.
Such excitement was great" for
a boy to live in, Mr.. Lacey said and
he thought it all great fun.
Saw Negro Defy Master
Major Lacey as a small boy
would carry food into the barn,
often by night, to give to the hid
den slaves. Sometimes he and his
brother would hitch up the horses
to the covered wagon in which the
negroes were hidden in hay and
one would drive the wagon while
the other brother would ride on
horseback a good distance ahead
of the wagon to see If the way was
clear If he espied any slave
hunters along the way he would
FOWL" as they called it, that is he
would initiate the horned owl which
could be heard over long distances
and then in the majors words, Mr.
Slave would take to the woods"
One night when Major Lacey was
IL years old a scene took place
which he says he will never forget,
Five or six Shareholders from
Kentucky had come to Fountain
City on horseback seeking runa-
way slaves. Usually the slaves hid,
but this time and this is the only
such time he remembers, the slaves
openly defied their masters.
1t was night and everyone In
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02
Recent Discovery in Asia of Long Ago
Reptile Bones, Reminds Us that Models
of them are i'm the Earlham Museum

d. G. have very carefully made tiny
models of these creatures out of
plaster paris.
Two years ago DR.. Allen d. Hale
of Earlham College was the guest
of Professor Oliver P. Hay, one of
the scientists directing work in the
Institute and there he saw these
models. Upon learning they could
be purchased, he ordered a group
of them for the Earlham Museum.
They are in a case to themselves,
just north of the mastodon skele-
ton. 1t is difficult from these tiny
models to imagine that some of
these creatures were much larger
than the mastodon. Having lived
so long ago they are known now
only by long scientific names, but
it is their appearance and not their
names which interest juniors most.
Footprints Seen In Stone
If you are interested to know a
little more about them you may
look in case 10 in the Museum
and there you will see a piece of
a bone of a dinosaur found in Colo
RADIO. Then, too, if Dr. Hole is
there he will be glad to show you
the foot prints of these reptiles
(they were three-toed creatures) in
some slabs of sandstone which he
has there that were found in the
Connecticut River He also has a
plaster cast of an immense foot
print discovered in Connecticut.
If you wish to see prints in stone
and drawings of the probable APP
pearance of some of the tree ferns
and other trees of tropical growth
which grew in this country at an
earlier time though some grew here
probably at the same time that
these creatures lived, go to case 8
on the south side of the Museum
and look at the stones and pictures
there.
We promise you it will make for
you an interesting imaginary jour-
ney back into the millions of years
ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

Once upon a time not so very
long ago a little boy about eight
years old went out to the barn to
hunt eggs. He was hunting around
in the hay which as we all know is
a good place to find eggs when
seeing great pile of hay below
where he had been hunting, he
jumped down into 1t. Immediately
from out of the pile looked out
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

Fountain City which is pictured on
this page was a headquarters for
the underground railroad and in
the little garnet room which was
formerly in that home though en-
tered then by a secret door behind
a bed,-hundreds of slaves have
been hidden. The house has been
remodeled since then but still looks
much as it did at that time, the
place where the stairway was
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

either told them the way to the
next station" or home where
friends lived or loaded them into a
wagon and took them, usually by
night to that next home.
Sometimes they hid in hay mows,
sometimes in dark garrets, some
times in woods, thickets or corn
fields.
The old Levi Coffin home in
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

town had gathered at the principal
corner of the village. On one side
were rs darkies, armed to the
teeth. On the other were villagers,
looking on.
| The slave holders rode up. One
of them recognized one of the ne
groes as his slave and ordered him
angrily to come with him and go
home.
The slave looking scared but
holding tightly to his gun advanced
a little and said, you come just
one more foot and I'll blow you off
that horse!"
After a little talk together, the
slave holders decided they valued
their lives more than that slave
and returned to Kentucky.
When Major Lacey was 13 or IA
years old, he was working in brick
yard "offbearing brick" or carrying
away to cool, bricks made of mud
which had just been nodded, Work
ing with him was young negro
whom they called blue eyed jim.
Now Jim could see the road and
Lacey had his back to it. All at
once, Jim was nowhere to be seen.
The next minute a Shareholder
rode up and asked for a fellow,
giving an exact description of jim.
But Jim had caught sight Of his
master far down the road and had
made his getaway. He was never
seen again.
"UncIe Toms Cabin"
Characters in City
Do you remember in the story OF
Uncle Toms Cabin" where Eliza
decides to runaway from her home
on the Shelby plantation because
she overhears that arrangements
have been made to sell her little
boy Harry four years old, as a
slave? She ran away in February
on a cold, cold night, you remem-
Der.
Now here's a surprise for you.
Eliza was really Elizabeth Harris
and when she crossed the Ohio riv-
er on the ice in her flight for safety,
Major Lacey's brother was on the
other side in the eastern end of
Cincinnati and assisted her and
her little son to a place of safety.
Eight years later when Major La
cey was a Civil war soldier and
was stationed along the Red River
in Alabama in beautiful home on
q large plantation there, he learned
that he was on one of the very
plantations named in the story of
uncle Toms Cabin" the Legree
plantation. A brother of Harriet
Beecher Stowe, author of that story
had often come there to buy cotton,
he was told.
The kindly cid characters named
in the story, Simeon and Rachel
Halliday were really Mr. and Mrs.
Levi Coffin of Fountain City at
whose home Eliza stayed for two
weeks. Later, when Eliza or Eliza
beth Harris is she called herself
had met her husband George Har
ris and was safely settled in their
new home in Canada, Mr.. and Mrs.
Coffin visited at the home of these
people who were SO very grateful
to the Collins for helping them to
freedom.
So you see we are not really so
far from the land of stories as we
may sometimes think, since Foun-
tain City place so full of old-time
stories, is just nine miles from Rich
nond
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

How many fairy stories can you
think of that have dragons in
them? We could not begin to name
all of them, counting on our fingers
even if we had as many hands as
a centipede has feet.
1t may be that these dragons are
not only story creatures, and that
the dragon which for centuries was
emblazoned on the imperial flag
of China is not just an imagined
animal. Perhaps these stories are
written from legends of earliest
time which tell of a time when
huge reptiles did exist and walked
over the earth for we know there
was such a time, as traces of them
have been found in every continent.
Within tho last few months some
men travelling in Asia for the Amer
lean Museum of Natural History
have discovered traces of these
giant animals in Mongolia. They
have found bones of animals of the
dinosaur family, the first to be
found in northern Asia. These an
imals belonged to the reptile fam
lily to which the lizards, crocodiles
and tortoises of today belong, only
then many of them were of NAM
moth size, some much higher,
twice as high and four times as
long as the mastodon skeleton in
the Earlham Museum. The story
of their discovery in Asia is told in
the September number of Asia,
which may be seen in the city Ii
brary.
May See Tiny Models of
Dinosaurs In Museum
Happily, juniors in Richmond and
vicinity have the opportunity of
getting a very good idea of what
these long ago reptiles looked like
From the most perfect skeletons
and bones found, drawings and fig
ures have been carefully made
which give some idea of their APP
pearance Scientists in the Smith
sonian Institute connected with the
National Museum in Washington,
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

All picnickers leave the office OF
The Palladium in large trucks.
900 a. m.-Arrive at Camp XII
Ro Trip through the mountains.
$3.50 a. Baseball Hams VS..
Bacons and Beefs VS.. Perks.
HOO a. m.-50 yard dash, boys
II to - years DID,, 100 yard dash,
boys IA to Is years old.
1870 a. m.-100-yard dash, boys
Is and over
1900 noon-Fried chicken MINER
with all of the trimmings
1870 p. m.-Paul Revere race.
las p. m.-Swatting contest.
200 p. m.-Tug o. War, East VS..
West; North VS.. South; winner OF
the first against the winner of the
second.
2:20 p. m.-Three-legged race.
2:30 p. -Wheelbarrow race.
2:40 p. m.-Shoe race.
2:50 p. m.-Obstacle race.
800 p. m.-Peanut scramble.
$40 to 3:45 p. m.-Swimming.
3:45 to 4:30 p. m.General recrea-
ton and return to town.
The camp will be open to Visitor1
during the day.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

black faces with large scared eyes.
One look was enough for the boy
He turned and ran for the house,
probably breaking all records for
the 100 yard dash,-straight into
the kitchen where his mother was
working and hurriedly told her
what he had seen.
Then his mother stopped her
work and talked with him long
time. She told him that these
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-02

the 100 yard dash,-straight in
the kitchen where his mother WI
working and hurriedly told h
what he had seen.
Then his mother stopped h
work and talked with him a lor
time. She told him that thes
faces he had seen belonged to pc
pie Just like they were, only their
skins were a different color and
that they had been forced to live
as slaves, many of them being
cruelty treated and made to live
very, very unhappy lives. She
said that they were running
away, starting on a long jour
ney to Canada where they would
be free. If they were returned
she said, they would be cruelty
punished. She told him that I'M
der any circumstances whatso-
ever, he should "tell nobody"
(the little boy today remembers
how seriously she said it, but
should help them when he could.
Just little while later the
boy had gone out to the road
when some men on horseback,
strangers to the village, rode up.
"Seen any niggers around
here?" they asked the boy and
at the same time one of them
opened his pocketbook and TAX
ing out 500, held il toward the
boy.
mo sir, l haven't" the little
barefoot fellow answered stoutly
though probably chills were run
ming up and down his spinal col
umn.
Seeing they could get no in
formation from the boy, the me
rode on.
This is a true story and the littl
boy was M. NJ. Lacey whose pictur
taken long after he had grownul
is shown on this page. The seen
of the story was laid in Fountain
City which was central station
in the long line of hiding places b.
means of which thousands of slave
escaped to Canada and to freedom
before the Civil war. The nam
given to this system of hiding
places was the underground rail
road"
Major Lacey as he is now called
is 81 years old, a veteran of tn,
Civil war, having been In the frs
and in the last battles of that con
flict and he remembers many in
teresting things. Knowing tina
boys and girls of today like yer,
much to hear stories from thei
grandfathers and grandmothers o
the days when they were juniors
he kindly told some of his earl,
experiences,-in connection wit!
fleeing slaves to tn,
Junior Palladium Editor few days
ago. Throughout the Civil wa
Major Lacey was correspondent fol
the Richmond Palladium, signing
his articles "Quilp'.
Levi Coffin Home Center
The underground railway was
not really underground at all and
was not really a railroad. tSome
names are queer aren't theyO. l;
simply meant that there were Ger.
ain homes known to many of the
Iegroes where they could stop
'ver night and be safe. The people
n these homes sympathized with
he slaves, hid them, fed them and
Washington Journal., 1922-05-26
Die stabt Der g~ercinsmeisr.

Sn Der fdonen oeuti6en StnOt
Songerbouien 9robin5 Sa1Ien.
beIteben bel 10000 ginwobnern
nGberno 200 poli5eilid eiugetraeene
Gereine. 9a5u fomuten nod cine
llnaabl bon nihteineetrogenen.
The Washington times., 1922-12-19
INFLAMED TISSUES
BY Brice Belden, M. D.

that 20 much blood has been
poured into the part that the
blood vessels farther on are un-
able to carry IL away fast enough,
70 that some Of the fluid part
Of the blood Is forced out into
the tissues. The pain Ia due &c
distension of the Tissues and con-
seQuent pressure on nerve end
tngs.
II the white cells conquer heal
ing begins and the local circula-
tion 10 restored. But II this does
not occur promptly q great num-
Der OF white cells pass through
the walls Of the small blood ves-
sells and continue the struggle In
the Tissues.
Some bacteria and some white
blood cells are killed and sub
stances are formed which nQuefy
these dead cells and saso some
cells of the surrounding tissues.
The resulting fluid 10 pus or mat.
ter. and when II has definitely
formed we say that the abscees
has come to . head. II thin
abscess breaks externally or IL
opened and drained healing takes
place. II the germs ret into the
circulation. however, q serious
state of blood polsoning may 90.
cur. s
The Washington times., 1922-12-19
BY Ann Lisle.

E<HHas. CORDOvA." cried.
noticing as spoke
AVA that we were halfway
to Dreamwold and thanking for
tune that % much Of our tete-
a-tete was over, you are in
sinuating more than you realize.
You must be- careful how you
handle our trick language"
Your language she does not
bother me" laughed Rosa sweet
ly. True. do not understand
her always. get her wrong like
you do. Mabel Storrs. and how
IL 10 Jaime know her well enough
to give her this job she is 90
badly filling"
II believe you're jealousr'
flung out at a venture.
Rosa 3 face crimsoned so that
Il was congested to something
like blackness. Then she trilled
out on a thread Of laughter.
81 am 10 be Jealous Of the
Storrsf Oh, Do--with Jaime l.
have such clear understanding
that / could not ever be jealous
Of 20 good q friend to-Ramon
and. me-"
When Roha dragged her hus-
band In 1 felt the artificiality OF
her whole attitude. But forced
myself to reply with large and
seemingly phiiosophic calm:
II can't explain your malicious
wish to undermine my confidence
In Mabel Storrs. thought 1t
wise to interpret II as the wish
to serve Jim and me and to get
most Of the glory for doing 1t.
They say your Southern temper
aments are notoriously hot and
Jealous. Jim's an attractive man.
] admire him myself! So why
should I blame any other woman
for thinking well Of him?"
"Now you try to turn It off
with laugh" sneered Rosa.
mot at ALL" peturned. "I
am simply telling you the facts
in the case. and they aren't the
solemn and almost tragic things
you seem to think. They aren't
in keeping wfth-melodrama.
You must cultivate little North
ern calm and poise."
"How dare your Rosa inter-
ruDted fi1riOuely.
Dear lady--pleasew I broke In,
conscious I had now the upper
hand and must hold to ii firmly.
For the moment was scarcely
conscious Of the surge and seethe
of emotions inside me. at win
be clear to you In a minute when
I sum II up. You don't like Ma.
bel. She stands as completely
for the Northern temperament
as you for the Southern,
She's calm and cool. cold. in
fact. She's merely a man-hater.
But she admires Jim. Moreover,
she's indebted to him for things
you wouldn't comprehend She's
the only pArson you've ever
found who could Withstand vnur
every Establishment. Therefore.
you resent her. You boil over
with resentment. And. being a
temperamental Southerner, you
decide to remove the person
whose reaistance OF even your
sweetest self--annoy you"
me sweet to Storrs? Nsverr'
cried Rosa with 10 much OF truth
that \ was hard put to II to keep
from laughing In her face.
''WeIl. I must confess that I've
never seen you--saccharine." I
confessed But II boils down to
The Washington times., 1922-12-19
RHYMING OPTIMIST
BY Aline Michaelis-

divers gay week-ends. A little
here. little there, his business
fell away. till Jimmy had eight
hours to spare in every working
day. For people found his ways
were slack In everything ne sold.
from tractor down to carpet .tach.
not like the Jim Of old. he said:
II think I've done enough, nv
record 10 my pride. and now I'm
through with heavy stuff, IN
say I'm satisfied." He soon For.
got his old-tims way Of bsine On
the jump; his dowmfAIl dated
from that day, HIS sAlee beean "a
dump. Oh, many things may
blast q man In spite Of former
fame: he changes to IN Also.
AN and folks forget his name. n
red attain = great oareor. then
he must keep HE strf1s. KEN
forging onward yeas BY ysas.-
and not b satisfieai
The Washington times., 1922-12-19

r INFLAMMATION u a term 50
commonly used that Il Is
Il worth while understanding
what IL means.
1t 10 a process that sometimes
occurs when tissues have been in
jured or infected BY bacteria.
While painful, 1t -is really a
process of repair. and therefore
beneficial. As examples Of In
flammation We may instance sore
throat and the local condition re-
sulting from q sprain. The char
acteristic symptoms are heat. red
ness. swelling, and pain.
When an attack Of bacteria
upon our Tissues begins the
neighboring blood vessels dilate
and bring an increased supply .Of
blood to the part. In this WV
the germs may be washed awAy,
as II were. and at the same time
subjected to the destructive &C
ton Of the white blood cells,
which have been brought into the
inflamed area in large numbers.
Their function 10 like thAt Of po-
lice reserves or military re-en-
forcements.
1t il the increased supply OF
blood that accounts for the heat
and redness OF the inflamed part.
The swelling Is due to the fact
The Washington times., 1922-12-19

rIM JOHNSON worked IN
Smithers' store. q salesman
- deft and glib: he sold q
thousand stoves and pots or more
and pans ad lib. He sold farm
implements that weighed Tar up
into the tons; he sold the humble
hoe and spade and many styles
Of guns. The rake. the harrow
and the pillow were easy sales for
Jim. and other salesmcn used to
vow their chances were hut slim.
A million knives and forks he
moved from Smithers' household
shelf. tin In the end friend
Jimmy proved quite etuck upon
himself. He. ouoth: I've done
the work OF ten. I've showed
folks who 10 who: I'll rest upon
my Iaurels. then: my toiiing
days are through" And 10 he
loafed and took his ease and
chatted with his friends; he
went TO sundry purple teas and