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The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

spots, the report says, and important
trade routes, many Of which cross and
recross railroad rights of way at
grades, hereafter will be built entirely
ON one side of the tracks. paralleling
The course of the road despite any re-
sultlng increase In construction. Rail-
roads viii be forced to meet half the
cost of all bridges or underpasses
where these steps are unavoidable.
1t can be seen that the majority of
accidents in this classified list may be
charged directly against foolish driv-
ing. with 6S resulting from attempts
to beat the train across and 16
chargeable to crashing through safety
gates. Moderately careful driving
will eliminate this type of accident.
and II Is for that reason that the rail
association is spending the large sums
on its "cross crossings cautiously"
propaganda.
On the other hand many grade cross
ings are so hidden by embankments.
woods and corn fields that 1t Is i'm
possible for motorists to see approach
ing trains. A campaign to gain legis-
lative remedies for this manner Of
highway approach also is being prose-
cuted and one of the strongest argu-
ments In favor Of the underpass Is
that II may be installed at many cross
ings now coming under this class Of
death trap with relatively small ex-
pense.
Newspapers are lending their space
with repeated attacks upon lax en-
forcement Of existing laws or munich
pal ordinances designed to curb the
growing death list. Everywhere the
motorist and the taxpayer, the two
classes with which the railroads must
be in perfect harmony in their cam
paign, are confronted with signposts
and horrible examples to bring home
the lesson more clearly. One county
coroner even went so far as to confis-
cate mass of twisted machinery that
once had been an automobile and
placed II on a platform with huge
sign calling the attentlo~ of drivers to
the fact that fatal crossing crash had
occurred at that spot.
No. 1 Of the pictures shows q cross.
ing in Virginia where "He tried to
beat the Cannon Ball across" No. 2
is recognized at glance as typical
death trap" There are so many of
the crossings shown in No. that 1t
would cost, 1t Is estimated, more than
$12.OOO,OO0.000 to put In overhead
crossings; hard-surface slabs are be-
ing laid to aid safety service. No.
shows an undergrade crossing In New
York; the motorist was forced to
climb steep hill TO the tracks before
read commission and railroad safety
men co-operated on this underpass.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

campaign opened, according to safety
officials.
The feeling that a lack Of co-opera-
ton existed between road-building
cities and counties and the railroads
has been disslpated with the new drive
for improved vights-of-way at cross
ings. A badly-constructed crossing
bed often Is leading factor in kill
ing" a motor just as the auto bumps
across the tracks. To lessen this pos.
slbility many railroads are lending
financial aid to highway programs and
permanent, safe concrete or metal
slabs are being laid at the track in.
tersections.
Steep grades leading to crossings
which force the driver to shift gears
and thus tend to throw his car "dead"
on the tracks. lend themselves ad-
mirably 10 the construction of an un-
derpass for traffic, but where his is
impossible many are being cut down
as new hard surface roads are con-
structed.
The separation of crossings, II done
at the time that new road Is being
built. adds little to the originally esti-
mated cost, while similar work done
after a modern highway has been con-
structed often proves an expensive I'm
provement. For this reason highway
engineers, In cooperation with the
safety officials, are attempting to in
corporate separation specifications on
all work where the tracks wind In and
out and cross the highway many times
more than Is necessary.
Illustrating the demand for eternal
vigilance In the matter Of safety Mt
crossings, statistics published by the
American Automobile association show
that the number of cars operated In
the United States has increased from
] 1,O33, ,O98 In 1912 to 10,449,785, In 1921,
an average ownership of one car to
every ten persons. With better high
ways carrying this enormously increas-
ing number of automobiles the danger
Increases proportionately. California,
with its great stretches Of improved
roads plus the fact that 1t ranks near
the top in the number of registered
automobiles, shows an increase OF
more than 1000 per cent in grade
crossing accidents during the last five
years.
Taking the van in the move to fur
ther death-proof highway construction
from the builders standpoint, the bu
read of public roads of the Depart.
ment Of Agriculture has announced
that there will be no grade crossings
whatever on new federal-ald highway
projects constructed under the super
vision of the federal highway act.
Bridges and underpasses will be
utilized to eliminate these danger
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
LIVES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Rebecea oratx, American Jewess, One
of the Most Notable Of Early
Day Characters.

The most famous Of American Jew
esses was Rebecca Gratz. distin-
guished for her beauty and piety, and
for her friendships with sentiment
Americans.
There Is tradition that Henry
Clay was an unsuccessful suitor. and
one of her most distinguished friends
was Washington Irving. This later
association hM important literary
consequences. living was likewise q
close friend of Sif Walter Scott, whom
he used frequently 90 visit at Abbots-
ford; It is said that his description
of Miss Gratz. of her lcyelIness Of
person, the fineness of her character.
her devotion to her religion and her
race devotion that had prevented
her from marrying, most of the men
with whom she associated having been
Christians - so fred the romantic
Imagination of Scott that he put her
in the novel that he was then writing.
In this way It happened that SCOTS
most famous woman character, his Re
becca Of "Ivanhoe,~ was drawn from
Rebecca 0rats Of Philadelphia, writes
Burton J. Hsndrick n WsrlGs WORK
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
How Growing Wood Is cofored.

A method Of coloring the wood OF
growing trees has been devised by
German engineer. who has been able
to color the tree any shade while 1t
Is still brown. Various anilin dyes
are used, which do not poison the tree
or affect Its growth In any way. The
entire tree, from the very ends Of its
roots to the topmost branch and leaf,
can be colored any desirable shade
within 48 hours after the solution Of
the dyestuff Is injected into the roots.
About fifty grams OF the dye are used
to 200 liters Of water. The sap Of the
tree carries the coloring matter
throughout It's structure. This new
development opens up many possibili-
ties Of securing novel and startling
effects In the novelty business, and Il
also makes possible the perfect imita-
tion Of certain natural woods. 1t IL
reported that certain Dutch and Amer
ican interests are giving this process
serious attention.-From the Industrt
al Digest.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

speciality and are produced not in fac
tories. but by the people themselves,
says the Christian Science Monitor
Tissue paper of various colors Is en-
ployed, this being stretched on strips
of card or thin wood and so bent that
the lantern takes the shape Of bas-
ket, globe, boat, bell or any other
form desired. The different sides or
quarters are cut from different colored
papers. and the whole IL trimmed
round the edges and angles with long
bamboo strips. also gaily tricked out
with twisted fringes Of cut paper.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

1,OSG in 1915 to high mark of 1,T01
In 1920, with n very minor decrease
to 1,T02 in 1921, and totaling more
than 1900 in seven years, has brought
Iailmen and motorists face to face
with the absolute necessity for safe
guarding the public through elimina-
tion of grades. wherever 1t is possible.
Complete reports of the Interstate
commerce commission for the seven
years from 1910 to 1921 inclusive show
that more than, 1900 persons were
killed in highway crossing accidents
and that nearly 10000 were injured.
The casualty toll for each year fol-
lows:
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
HOW==
BEETLE WAS vENERATED
BY ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.


BEETLE WAS vENERATED
BY ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
The Egyptian scarab 1r scar
abaeus-which, whether as "a
carved stone. an engraved stone.
or as a hlerogIyph. represents :
beetle, bad an important con-
nection with ancisnt Egyptian
religions. The beetles egg was
compared by the Egyptians TO
the sun; and at Heliopolis, the
temple Of the sun, this beetle
was sacred to the sun-god. The
scarab (stone beetle) and the
scarabaeus hieroglyph drawing
or engraving Of beetle) were
used, apparently, as symbols of
Immortality (the idea probably
being that though the beetle died
1t lived again in its egg). Some
times the scarabaeus appeared
with a rams head and horns or
with wings outstretched-as the
symbol Of a viyifying soul. In
Egypt IL became customary to
wrap up with mummified body
a large scarab having engraved
on II a chapter from the Book
Of the Dead; or to place a /,
winged scarab on the mummy'sg 2
breast-while later on the Gus
tom was to place number of
scarabs about the mummy's
body. Scarabs not uncommonly
were used in Egypt for seals, ap-
pearing either as simple seals, or
(pierced) as beads to be strung
together and form necklaces.
Scarabs were also set as seals
In finger-rings. The seal scara-
baei occasionally had good luck
notices engraved on them. Some
of the most important and val
liable scarabs known are the
ones having on them the royal
arms of various ancient Egypt
ian kings or Pharaohs.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
why pe.ert Condition. Arise.

Desert conditions arise in any re-
gion in which the rainfall Is markedly
less than the amount of water that
evaporates from the surface. As the
amount Of evaporation naturally In
creases from the polar regions toward
the tropics and Is affected by winds
and elevation, II follows that no ar
bitrary amount Of rainfall may be des-
ignated as an invariable. cause or ac-
compartment Of arid or desert condi-
tons.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
why LIE Insurance 10 Different.

Life Insurance is different from any
thing else In the world In one respect.
Other things you can get when you
want them. Life insurance must be
got when you don't want 1t, or not at
all. You can buy your rubbers when
It begins to rain, your overcoat when
It begins to get cold. a meal when you
are hungry. but you can't get life in
surance when you are sick.
Nine times out of ten. you do not
buy thing until In some way or
other you feel that you need 1t. You
can't rely on any help Of that kind
when 1t is question Of getting life
insurance for your family.--Life.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
PIGEON TAPS FOR FOOD

A pigeon with a band about It's leg
took up its residence at house near
London, where 1t arrived last June In
q very exhausted condition and
knocked rather Impaticntly on a bed
room window with its bfak, evidently
nistaking the house for q hotel. Re
frcshments In the shape Of bread md
milk were given to It, and since then
b has demanded its meals every day
= ~ same hour In ths san,a way.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

Another interesting sidelight on the
careful crossing campaign is report
Of the safety committee Of the Chesa-
.peake & Ohio railroad, which classi-
fed 151 grade crossing accidents which
"oceurred during period of four
inonths. The classification showed
dhat crashes were attributable to the
tfcllowlng causes:
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

The Lackawanna railroad, one Of
the leaders In the movement for mod
ernization of its track system, issued
the following bulletin In the third
month Of the Careful Crossing" cam
paign:
"Grade crossing accidents In the
United States have recently increased
at an alarming rate. Seventy-slx per
cent Of the deaths and accidents at
such intersections In 1920 involved au-
tomobiles. The present campaign. Is
being waged by the American Railway
association In an effort to induce the
public to exercise a higher degree of
care, yet II Is recognized that only by
a continued effort to elevate or de-
press the more frequented crossings
can fatal occurrences best oe avoided
This work Is being pushed forward
as rapidly as possible, the ID. l.. Il w.
alone letting contracts for more than
S15,0O0,00O worth of viaducts, bridges
and tunnels to eliminate grade cross
ings. Ii is estimated. however, that
to successfully do away with grade
crossings throughout the United States
the railroads would be forced to spend
approximately twelve and half bill
lion dollars
Education of the motorist and the
separation of grades, have both been
resorted TO as the most practical means
Of gaining immediate results. Increas-
Ing care In approaching danger spots
along the road is apparent since the
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

A little house was built for II and 1t
availed itself Of this comfort at once,
but all efforts to capture II for the pur-
pose Of examining the band have
proved unsuccessful.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30
Lantern Festival sun Survives.

In Florence there still survives, on
the evening Of September Z. some
trace OF the old festival Of lanterns.
This fete Is entirely peculiar to Flor
ence and the near neighborhood; and
the lanterns with which II h tradi-
tionally celebrated are also . local
The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-03-30

of America are
backing up their Care
full Crossing" campaign
with the expenditure of
millions of dollars for
construction of "death-
proof crossings in I'm ef-
fort to halt the steady ad-
vance of fatalities at
track and highway inter-
sections. A toll of lives
that has mounted from
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
SENATOR EDGE WILL ADDRESS
CAPE MAY COUNTY CHAMBER

United States Senator Walter E.
Edge will be the speaker at the
March meeting of the Cape May
County Chamber of Commerce, which
will be held in the Court House
Building, Cape May Court House, on
Thursday evening, the 22d. The meet
ing will be devoted exclusively to
business and the customary social
portion of the program will be
omitted.
Women are especially invited to at
tend this meeting to hear national
questions discussed by Senator Edge,
who will probably explain his wine
and beer position.
Senator Edge has just recently re-
turned from a honeymoon tour of
Europe, and his views of national
and international matters have been
filing columns in the newspapers of
the country since his return. He is
SO years of age and last Thanksgiving
he married a girl from Bath, Maine,
granddaughter of Mr.. Sewall, once
Democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent of the United States. Senator
Edge himself is an Outstanding" Re-
publican of the most pronounced type.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
RED MEN ARE BUSY

On Friday evening, March 23d, Chief
Strong Wolf, a full-blooded Ojibway
Indian Chief, will give an illustrated
lecture on the life and habits of the
| aborigines of the American continent
in Journal Hall, under the auspices
| of WapeIla Tribe of Red Men. Invi-
tations have been extended to every
Tribe of Red Men in Cape May County
to be present on this date and every
Red Man on Five Mile Beach is also
invited. This lecture has been given
| before large audiences through this
| state and before many schools and
| colleges in the United States, and all
who attend this lecture a feel as
sured they will be more than repaid
for the time spent. Music will be fur
nished by the Wapella String Band
and refreshments served after the en-
tertainment. The proposition of in
creasing the benefits OF the Tribe will
also be acted upon during this meet
ing, and every member of the Tribe is
requested to be present. On Satur-
day evening, April 14th, Wapella Tribe
accompanied by the string band will
go to Atlantic City to meet and take
part in a big booster meeting in honor
of John E. Sedwick, Great Incohoone
of the United States, who is now tour
ing this state in the interest of the
Red Men. On April 18th they will also
trail to the wigwam of Ponemah Tribe
at Court House to attend a district ses-
sion of the Great Council of New Jer-
sey. These are busy times for all Red
Men and to show the people they are
good imitators of the honey produc-
ers, a delegation of the Tribe will visit
the next meeting of the Board of
Trade and place before that body a
proposition of holding a demonstra-
ton of a new kind in May, and they
want to show the visitors that as
wildwood Welcomes the World" Wa
pella Tribe will entertain them while
they are here.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16

He has only lately gotten the worst
of his argument with Governor Silzer,
of New Jersey, over the New Jersey
State Highway Commission, and he
thinks by stealing some of Senator
Edwards wet thunder he cannot only
throttle the ambition of former Sena-
tor Joe Frelinghuysen, of New Jer-
sey, with whom he has long since
split, to capture the Republican Sena-
torial nomination in the New Jersey
primaries next year, but he can pre-
vent another Democratic Senator from
taking his seat beside Edwards in the
Senate.
Edge is going to be as wet as the
Atlantic Ocean before he is through"
say his friends, in paraphrasing a
campaign statements once attributed
to Edwards.
And they think Edge is playing a
wise political game in forcing Haynes
and the rest of the prohibition forces
to dance at his call, and they are pre-
dieting with broad grins that the next
man to hear from Edge will be Fred
erick A Hazeltine, the prohibition
bear cat" from the Pacific coast, who
Haynes placed in charge of prohibit
ton enforcement in South Jersey, as
well as eastern Pennsylvania, while
Edge was still Observation-Disclosures
Record.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
Cape May City

Sterner-Glover Co., Inc, to George
e. Glover, ct ux. Lot sos in S. line
of New York avenue.
Lewis N. Smith, ct ux., to Joseph @.
Hess. $4,000. Lot on N. w. side of
Washington street, adjoining land OF
Zebulon York and one Schellinger's
land, containing 5,115 square feet.
Fred. L. Harding, ct Tx, to G. Fen
no Hoffman. Lot 1867 and w half OF
lot 1856, plan A.
Cape May Building and Loan Asso-
citation to Daniel Focer, ct al. $4,000.
Lot on West side of Hughes street and
N. E. corner of lot 4 on map of Israel
Hughes, decd, containing 1880 square
feet.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
SUNDAY EXCURSIONISTS,

Last Sunday, March 18th, the
Pennsy brought to Five Mile Beach
644 excursionists on two sections
the Reading 400 on one section; total
for the day, 1,044. The coming Sun
day will likely see a big increase oveI
the total above, as the weather pros
poets r showing up good. The
trains make the trip of 80 miles tC
the shore in two hours. All that is
needed to make the journey perfectly
enjoyable is better cars.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16

Walter L. Burr to Marie Foulds.
$2,750. Lots 916 and 917, section H.
Also lot in intersection Of S. E. side
of Wesley avenue and N. E. side of
seth street.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16

Washington, D. c., March 13.-Full
credit for the sudden resignation of
John D. Appleby, former Federal di-
yisional prohibition chief for New Jer-
sey and New York, was given Senator
Walter q. Edge today by his friends
here. Edge went after Appleby when
the latter charged a m prohibit
ton agent was framed by the At
lantic City police, when she was ar
rested recently at the New Jersey re-
sort on a charge of extortion.
The New Jersey Senator ostensibly
started to get Appleby's official scalp
because the former prohibition officer
was accused of having referred to At
lantic City as one of the "blackest
spots" in the country from a prohibit
ton standpoint, and to it's people as
given to gambling and bootlegging on
a wholesale scale.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
GIVE EDGE CREDIT FOR RETIRING
OF DRY HEAD

He Forced Resignation Of John d. APP
pleby, His Supporters Vigorously
Proclaim. Play to Jerseys Vets.
Part of Senator's Preparation for
Hot Reelection Fight He Faces
Next Year.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16

A moving picture benefit for the
Red Men will be given in Hunts The
atre next Monday evening. The new
string band will furnish the music.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
Borough of Avalon
Borough of Stone HarbOr

Elizabeth D. Leedom, ct al, tC
Michael J. Hushen. $1,000. Lots 81
and 58, block SO, plan A.
H. Raymond Shollenberger to Marx
o. Heller. $430. Lots 80 and 80, block
81, plan D-2.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-11
del Est0magO
Lean los EnfermOs

Son innumerables las preparedness
que Sc recomiendan para los trastor-
nos intestinales, La PEPSINA Y RUI-
BARBO DEL DR.. BOSQUE, es for
mula, tan fl6gica que Sc recomienda
por 81 sola y Sc abre paso por sus pro-
pios nleritos, la Pepsina estimula ell
jugo gastrico, y ell Ruibarbo actua So
bre el higado. Para los casos de dis
pepsia, acidez, desordenes intestinales,
n1alas digestiones, la Pepsina y tRui-
barbo del Dr. ,Bosque dara un resul-
tado siempre satisfactorio. Una Gu
charita un cuarto de hora antes de
las comidas, disuelta en- medic vase
de aqua dara, el resultado apetecido.
Pregdnteie su medico. La Pepsina
y Ruibarbo Bosque, esta la venta,
en- todas las farmacias de la isla, y
principaln1ente, en- las droguerfas CO.
mo la P r. Drug Co., de San Juan Y
Ponce, j. NJ. Blanco Inc, Sierra Cara
bis, Arecibo Drug Co., Manuel Marin
de Mayagiez. Advt.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-11

partir del primero de Enerc proximo
venldero, los ccrtificados de talla
reconocimiento fisico, asi como ell GER
tiiicado del tempo que lleven de re-
sldencia en- la Isla; documentos que
deberan serApresentados en- los res.
pectivos Ayuntamientos, precisamen-
te el primer domingo de Mario de
1924.
La falta de presentation de esos JUS
tificantes trae consigo la declaration
de pr6fugO.
Lo que sc advierte los que Sc ha-
lien en- la edad mareada por la Ley pa
, ia que procuren obtener con la anti
, cipacion necesaria, los certifcados de
que queda hecho merito; en- evitacion
de los perjuicios y de las penalidades
que su falta pudiera ocasionarles.
Igual obligation ticnen los que Sc
encuentran sometidos revision por
inutilidades -temporales. Estos han
de obtener los certifcados facultati-
vos por conducto del Consulado en- San
Juan, p. r., y remitirlos a Espana pa
ra su presentation en- el precitado pri-
NOR domingo de Mario de 1924.
San Juan dc Puerto Rico / Di-
ciembre 1924.
FL Consul de Espaiia
! ERNEsTO FREYRE.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1923-12-11
Una destiIeria compIeta ocupada
aver en- Caguas

Aver. Sc dirigicron n Caguas los de-
tectivcs de esta ciudad Marceiino Du-
chesne. Juan Cerra. y. s. Alvarado y
Rola. prtvia ordcn de allanamiento
que obtuvicron del jucz Municipal de
nQuella localitlad. ocuparon en- la re
sdencia del sci1or l'liS2s Martinez 81
medias botellas de ron Gotta Il" Oro,'
245 botelaS de vino duice marca Ma
nucl FernhndcZ.' tres latas contenirn-
do nucvc galoneS d" alcohol, Y una
pipa con - cuartiIos de vino hllcc
La destilerIa que 0cur6 Ia policiA cs-
taba complcta. Ali habia um alam-
biquc de cobrc. clGcfric0. com apara:os
modernos, que dcsagua II lii letrina.
Tn refrigerator de aqua. una mlQui-
na de laval : tapar botellaS, fltros de
distintas classes. una gran cantidad Ge
tapones, esencias de distintas classes