Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!
Let your mind wander as you consider life around April 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 25 minute read). BREVITIES AND EDITORIALS
(written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street; it was much like a collection of online social media updates seen today)
April.
Fourth month. Spring is on its way. Pansies are in bloom. One quarter of 1922 is gone. Dandelions are blooming this week. Fruit trees in bloom. Danger of forest fires now. Boats are being overhauled. Paperhangers and painters are hustling. Housewives are deep in the mysteries of spring cleaning. Presto, chango—One day bare limbs, next day green leaves and bright blossoms. A number of Toms River people were at the opening of the Strand Theatre last night in Lakewood. Fire Commissioners Grover, Crabbe, Richtmeyer and Buckwalter motored to Bridgeport, Conn, on Wednesday to see a Packard pumping engine. The Packard Company have offered the proposition for an engine here... where the amount of money on bond is considered. Picnic parties in the woods gather maypinks and pyxie. The Fire Commission find that there are so many apparently good automobile pumpers that it is a hard job to make a choice. The Toms River Poultry Development Co. have begun work on their poultry farm plan in Berkeley, on the hill south of the P.R.R. [today, a sizeable portion of South Toms River Borough] Boatbuilders are busy as bees overhauling boats, and building new ones. This is the first spring any new boats have been built, to speak of, since 1916. The high school starts off its baseball schedule today with a game here with Manasquan. It would have been a good stunt for the boys to have fixed up the fence and grandstand before inviting visitors from out of town. Former Judge W.H. Jeffrey was reelected president, and Mrs. Edward Crabbe, vice-president of the Dover Township Board of Education, on Monday evening, at the annual meeting. Last night a session was held with Architect Cook, of Asbury Park, on his plans for a new school house. The American Constructing Company has started to remodel the north half of the old Union House, for Chas. Shull, the new owner. The lower floor will be made into one store with a stairway to reach apartments that are to be remodeled on the second floor. Mr. Shull, who has moved from Ambler, Pa., to Seaside Heights, where he is a member of council, will carry on business in the store. Swamp maples are full of red blossoms. Looked something like an old time first Tuesday of court this week, a number of prominent citizens being on hand to greet the new Judge and Prosecutor. The weeping willows and crab apples were the first trees to leave out. A few warm days will make the fruit buds burst. You can hear the hammer and saw wherever you go these days. County Agent Waite will move his office from the courthouse to the Traco building, and Prosecutor Jayne will take the room in the courthouse now occupied by the County Agent. A 26-inch I-bear was put across the front of the Schwarz & Jeffrey Store, Tuesday, to hold the weight of the upper stories, by L.J. Hutchinson, who is remodeling the store front. Girls are skipping rope and baseball is taking up the spare time of most of the boys. Complaint is made that boys about the town are breaking electric street lamps with their bean-shooters. The Ocean County Poultry Producing Association has moved its packing house from the big concrete bungalow in Berkeley to the concrete building opposite the station that was formerly the Square Deal garage. Edward Crabbe has the old cup winner Gem up at Morton Johnson's boatyard, at Bay Head, for overhauling. Most of her timbers are sound and true. Mr. Crabbe is also having a bank skiff built at Lavallette by Chas. Hankins. Fire Company No. 2 at its meeting in the Ocean house grille, on last Friday, had talks from Chief Buckwalter, also former Chief Kuss of New York. A committee was named to explain to the Fire Commission the purpose of the Co. and have territory assigned to respond to in case of fire. President Novins said the aim was to protect property in the outlying districts, now without protection, and act as auxiliary to Company No. 1. As soon as funds are secured, a chemical and pumper will be bought. Late subscriptions are: $10, Oldsmobile Co.; $5 – Dr. Cook, Dr. Brouwer, J. L. Yoder, Frank W. Goodrich of Beachwood. Funds now totals $354. Some of the boys started the swimming season Monday. Clayton C. Wills has bought the Berkeley Arms property in Berkeley. He already owned the tract to the south of it. The firemen have been called out several times the past week. Saturday morning they went to Bayville, where Amos Falkenburgh's house was on fire, but had been put out before they got there. Tuesday afternoon they were called over to A.W. Dorsett's in Berkeley, to help fight a woods fire. Later in the afternoon, another head of this same fire, farther west, crossed the brook, jumped the Central Railroad, and threatened Gus Ireland's poultry farm on the Lakehurst road, so that the firemen had another alarm. Kenneth Lillie has purchased a radio receiving set to be installed in the Toms River store of the Oldsmobile Co. of South Jersey. The Strand Theatre, Ferber's and Lakewood's latest in the amusement line, opened last night. Both the Strand and the Palace will give vaudeville as well as motion pictures. Blossom time. Green grass everywhere. Violets bloom in the grass. Days grow longer all the time. Memorial day is the next holiday. Maple trees are uncrumpling their bronze-green leaves. Swamp maples are coloring up with flaming seed vanes. John P. Kirk, who started the famed Kirk boat yards at Toms River in 1885 and built many well known yachts here, tells the Courier that he will resume yacht building on the James R. Hensler property, west of Main street bridge. During and since war times he was associated with the Shipping Board's ship building program. Ben Asay won a shooting match last Saturday at Rote's boatshops, Island Heights. Ben says he can shoot as good as most of the boys yet. Edward Louis Crabbe, of Toms River, N.J., has been elected a member of the Cap and Gown Club, at Princeton University. Cap and Gown is one of the upper-class eating and social clubs. Mr. Crabbe is a member of the Sophomore Class. He prepared for Princeton at Berkshire School, where he was active in football, hockey, baseball and school publications, being an editor of the Class Book. Edward Longstreet, of New Egypt, is charged with shooting a pet dog belonging to the family of Edward Tantum. The killing was reported to the Ocean County S.P.C.A., at Lakewood. Violets are plentiful. Ice formed the past week. Some fruit bloom killed. Did you see and hear the meteor? C.H. Bond is now working at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. Steiners' factory this week began running five days a week instead of four. Business, it is thought, is on the mend. Beach plum bushes white with blossoms. Chickenpox makes its yearly spring visit. The demand for houses keeps up—not enough to go around. Children have been playing with the old game of ball and elastic this week. We are to have a shade tree commission to look after our streets and parks. Fire alarms come along pretty often. The fires must know Toms River has two companies now. A wood's fire at Mill Creek, between Ocean Gate and Pine Beach, resulted in a fire alarm early Tuesday evening. Lilacs are blooming. Circus bills bloom with spring—show on May 2. It is understood that it is the show that wintered at Bamber. Judge M.L. Berry has bought a 68 foot yacht and will bring it here from New York next week. HEADLINE NEWS
FLAMING VISITOR FROM OUTER SPACE PLUNGES INTO THE SEA
METEOR, EXPLODING, HEARD FIFTY MILES OR MORE A flaming meteor passed over this section on Sunday night last, April 23, at 8:50 o'clock, and apparently exploded out to sea off Long Beach. At this place it seemed to come down almost out of the zenith, pass to the northeast and disappear. Some say they saw it explode, others that it just vanished. An explosion that followed was heard from Atlantic City on the south, to Asbury Park, on the north, or further, and as far inland as Brown's Mills. The meteor has been the talk of the entire shore, and filled front page headlines in the city dailies. Everyone who saw it, saw it differently, in the various accounts. Some say the light was green, and some purple, and some yellow. Some say that the meteor was followed by a flaming tail; some say the tail was a stream of sparks, and some saw no tail. Others just saw the bright light, and did not see the meteor at all. Others described it as a huge ball of fire. Investigations all along the coast by Superintendent John Cole, of the Coast Guards, brought reports that the meteor had been seen making its way southward and disappeared in the ocean, off shore, south of Little Egg Harbor Coast Guard Station, according to the coast guards stationed there... At Toms River it was variously estimated that there was from two to five minutes between seeing the meteor burst and hearing the noise of the explosion. If it were three minutes that would put the meteor 36 miles away, or below Beach Haven, when it burst, which seems to be as close as we can locate it... YOHO! WEAKFISH! YOHO! Our Forked River letter says that weakfish are in the bay, and that Wats Penn, that redoubtable bayman, netted some last Friday. Get out your tackle, boys. TWO SUMMER HOMES BURNT ON MONEY ISLAND BLUFF Two of the finest summer homes on the top of Money Island bluff were burnt to the ground on Sunday afternoon last, April 23. The fire started in a new house, just completed last year, and owned by William Donnelly, and spread to the home of Harry Van Belle, both of which were a complete loss. The homes of Theodore Bonner, on one side of these two buildings, and that of William McNulty and Earl Ellis, on the other side, were saved by a bucket brigade, which hoisted water by the bucketful from the river up the face of the sixty-foot bluff, and kept the exposed parts of these two houses wet with water and mud. Toms River firemen answered the alarm, and the shovels and buckets brought by No. 2 were of great value. Chief Buckwalter, of No. 1, by mutual consent of the miscellaneous groups of volunteers, was given direction of them all. Seaside Park firemen brought their Reo pumper, and Seaside Heights firemen their Ford pumper, and the former, aided by the latter's hose, ran a stream from the river at the yacht club up the hill. Much of the furniture was taken from the buildings. The Donnelly family had left their house for Philadelphia about a quarter of an hour before the fire started. Some say the fire started from the fireplace, where there had been an open fire; others say it seemed to have started in the living room, but on the opposite side of the fireplace. The loss is placed at more than $15,000. DAYLIGHT SAVING ADOPTED The Township Committee last Friday also put forth a proclamation, to be found in this issue of The Courier, adopting daylight saving time, beginning 2 A.M. Sunday, April 30, and continuing till the same hour of the last Sunday in September. It is understood that both the Central and Pennsylvania Railroads will run their trains on the old time, but one hour ahead of the present schedule. FIRE COMPANY NO. 2 HAS CHARTER FROM STATE NOW Toms River Fire Company, No. 2, is now a corporate entity, having this week been incorporated, and having received from Trenton its charter. The boys have bought from A.C. King a Packard twelve-cylinder, the chassis of which they expect to use to mount a chemical and pumping outfit, so that they can answer alarms from out in the country. The total cost of this outfit is expected to be about $5000, including $850 paid for the Packard. They now have $262.50 in cash and $206 in subscriptions, totaling to date $525.
BIG AIR SHIP ZR-1 BEGUN AT NAVAL AIR STATION
Work is progressing favorably at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, on the new rigid airship, or dirigible balloon that the navy is building from the plans of a German Zeppelin, changed somewhat by the British and American engineers. It is expected that the ship will be completed by July, 1923. It will be the biggest thing of its kind unless some other nation should in the meantime launch a bigger one. ALLIGATORS IN CHEVROLET WINDOW STOPPED EVERYBODY It is safe to say that everybody who has passed the Chevrolet window at Main and Washington streets, in the Veeder building, the past few days, stopped to look at the alligators there. Children have been particularly interested, but grown-up folks were held up by this curious window display. The alligators were part of a scheme to advertise the film, “A Fool's Paradise,” that will be shown at the Traco tonight and tomorrow. The window was placarded with legends telling of the show. The alligators were of the Florida variety, and one died the first day it was in the window. BASEBALL IN THE AIR, BUT WHERE IS TOMS RIVER? Baseball seems to be coming to its own, and the fans are asking where is the Toms River team for 1922? Well, it looks as though a good part of the old Toms River team were in the big league game. Wid Conrow is coach for the Phillies and “Park” is battling the ball heavy for the same team. J. Howard Berry is with the Giants; and Tam Brown, Bill VanKirk and Bill Gwyer are with Joe Magrath's Lakewood team, though the two Bills could be pulled back if there was talk of baseball at Toms River. Lakewood has a good team this year and is out for blood. Word comes from Mt. Holly that these old rivals of Toms River are putting forth efforts to build up a good ball team. Baseball in fact is starting up all around. And the fans won't be satisfied without a team at T.R. TWO BEACH-FRONT HOUSES BURNED AT SEASIDE PARK Coming down to Seaside Park to spend the Easter week end, the families of William C. Coles and Henry B. Coles, of Moorestown, were awakened about 2 o'clock Easter morning and managed to escape from their summer home with their lives, and not much else. Their handsome summer home, at Ocean Avenue and Seventh Avenue, was a total loss, and the cottage next door, belonging to Joseph F. Richards, of New York, was also badly damaged, the loss aggregating about $15,000. The Coles families escaped as they did because Caldwell Van Roden, a neighbor, who had also come down to his cottage for Easter, happened to look out and see the flames. He hurried over to the Coles house, to give the alarm, battering in the door before he could wake the occupants. They were able to grab what clothing was close at hand, and grope their way out of the house through all the dense and stifling smoke, dressing after they reached the outdoor air. The house in a few moments was a mass of flames. The Coles brothers are sons of the late C.B. Coles, the Camden lumber dealer, who was one of the Seaside Park Land Company in the late nineties. They motored down with a party of twelve, mostly young folks, to spend the holiday, reaching Seaside Park Saturday noon. After a pleasant evening, much of which was spent around a driftwood fire in the fireplace, they had gone to bed in the second and third stories of the frame cottage and were in sound slumber. They had to borrow hats and wraps from the neighbors... KINSEY BOUGHT LUMBER ON WRECKED SCHOONER WOOTTEN J.B. Kinsey, of High Point [now part of Harvey Cedars] last week bought from the underwriters the cargo of some 400,000 feet of lumber on the wrecked schooner Orlando B. Wootten, on the beach at Forked River Coast Guard Station, just north of the Inlet. This cargo is composed of flooring, two by fours, and box shooks. Kinsey is now engaged in getting it out and lightening it in the Inlet. The schooner was last week stripped of her sails and cordage by Capt. J.F. Wilbert, of Forked River, acting for the owners. TOMS RIVER AND BAYVILLE WON SPELLING BEE HONORS At the county spelling be at the Toms River Opera House, last Friday evening, March 31, at which all the high schools but one, and twenty-three grade schools were entered, the honors were taken by Toms River, in high school contest, and by Bayville in the grade school contest. Toms River also won the spelling bee portion of the grade competition. This is the second time Toms River has won in the high school contest, and for the second year it holds the J. Leonard Clark spelling trophy, offered by Mr. Clark to Ocean County high schools in annual competition. Should it win next year, the trophy will be held permanently. Toms River spelled down all comers in both spelling bees.
FLYING BOAT SERVICE FOR BARNEGAT BAY THIS YEAR
The Barnegat Bay section is promised a flying boat service again this summer, when Delos Thomas, the world record flier, and his business manager, J.E.C. Brown, are expected to be on the bay again as they were last fall. These two men were last year with the Aeromarine Airways, Inc. and have just finished a successful season in Florida for the same company. Mr. Brown was in Toms River on Wednesday making arrangements for next summer, and told The Courier that they had bought a flying boat of their own, and would operate it themselves. While in Florida this winter Thomas carried a thousand passengers between Key West and Havana without a mishap, a record of which he is very proud. Next summer Thomas and Brown expect to operate in Barnegat Bay and Toms River resorts, also Little Egg Harbor, from Bay Head to Beach Haven. PINE BEACH MAN IN DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTOR JOB William L. Liming, formerly station agent at Pine Beach, received word yesterday that he had been appointed Deputy Revenue Collector under Collector E.L. Sturgess, and that he was to report May 1, in Camden, for duty. Mr. Liming was recommended by Senator Hagaman, Congressman Appleby and County Chairman A.W. Brown, Jr. His experience in clerical work will, it is believed, be of great assistance in the new job. COSTLY FOREST FIRES Fred Buhell, a newcomer of Whitesville road, started his boys cleaning up and burning weeds and brush Sunday, in a young gale. 300 acres of timber was burnt over and it cost $200 to fight it. Buhells hearing is at 10 a.m. Saturday. The same day (Easter Sunday) an auto picnic party, roasting eggs by the roadside, burnt 500 acres of the finest timber in the New Egypt district near Davisville school. RADIO WAVES OF TOMS RIVER How many amateurs have heard the two new broadcasting stations, Philadelphia—W.F.L. Strawbridge & Clothier, and W.I.P. Gimbel Bros. Gilbert Ebere, of Beachwood, is now building and assembling his own radio set, which is composed of a cleverly made spider web inductance, audion detector and one stage amplifier. It is planned at the Sesquicentennial celebration in Philadelphia to tap the Liberty Bell, the sound of which will be broadcasted from a nearby transmitting station. RESCUED BOY FROM DROWNING Allan, the five year old son of Daniel Johnson, fell in the river at Main street last Friday. Ed Hyers, who was at the dock, selling fish, pulled the boy out, saving his life. No reporter would tell the story as well as Allan—“I was on the boat 'n' the boat rocked 'n' rocked, it did, 'n' I felled in. First I swimmed a little, 'n' then I got my arms crossed 'n' I couldn't swim any more. I tried to scream, 'n' couldn't, 'cause every time I opened my mouth, nen the river runned in. Nen I sticked up both my hands 'n' a boy he see me 'n' pulled me out 'n' my daddy carried me home, he did.”
FIRE WIPED ORTLEY INN AND TWO HOUSES FROM BEACH
Caught in a brush fire that lasted two days on the beach, the Ortley Inn and a cottage adjoining it were destroyed on Wednesday, April 26. The day before Peter Johnson's house, at Ortley and the shed at the railroad, which did duty as a station, were both burned. The fire started on Tuesday, and swept round in a circle, as the wind shifted. The beach at Ortley is covered with thickets of bayberry, wild cherry, grasses and brush, all of which was like so much tinder for the fire. A hundred people were out Wednesday morning, trying to save the Ortley Inn, but were unsuccessful. The inn belonged to Dr. Lord, of Mt. Holly. It was of late not used as a hotel, though a few summers ago it was occupied by the Y.W.C.A. as a summer camp. The Ortley tract was bought in the eighties by a group of New Brunswick people from the Ortley family, who had lived there many years. The inn was built and a few houses, but the development was not a success financially or otherwise. DEVELOPMENT AT WOODMANSIE Another development is being undertaken in the Pines, near Woodmansie, something on the scale of the Cedar Crest tract at Bamber. A number of Moorestown people have formed a company, bought a large tract there, and have been setting out orchards and planning to put in various other crops on a large scale. They use the tractor for their work. LIQUOR SMUGGLER POCOMOKE TO BE SOLD BY U.S. COURT The schooner Pocomoke, part of whose smuggled cargo of whiskey was cached near Barnegat last summer, will be sold on April 17, by order of Judge Joseph L. Bodine, of the U.S. Courts, to satisfy claims against her. The craft was seized at Atlantic City last summer by the federal authorities. The auction will be held at Atlantic City. SWEET POTATO CLUBS TO COMPETE FOR GWYER CUP Capt. Edgar L. Gwyer has offered a silver cup to be competed for this summer by the boys' and girls' club members in the raising of sweet potatoes. It is expected that a number of the garden club members this year will make the sweet potato their special crop, and the one with the best display of sweets next fall, will get the Gwyer Cup. These boys and girls will have the privilege of studying the sweet potato demonstrations carried on by farmers in the county who are cooperating with County Agent Waite and the County Board of Agriculture, under the direction of specialists Schermerhorn, Poole and Nissley, of the State Agricultural College and Experiment Station. Miss Elsie Horne, the County Club agent, is planning to take delegates from each community where sweet potato work is being carried on to visit these demonstrations. BARNEGAT'S GRAVEL ROAD TO COST $8000 PER MILE Costing at the rate of $8000 per mile, a stretch of two and a quarter miles of gravel road, west of Barnegat, on the cross-state road, toward Buddtown, Burlington County [today Route 72], was let on Tuesday of this week, April 4, to Albert W. Hopkins, of New Egypt, for $18,139.20. There were two other bids: C.W. Mathis & Co., Seaside Park, $19.472.85; and Oscar Parker, West Creek, $22,706.75. Another cross-state cut-off was given a start when Lacey Township Committee presented a check for $500, and asked the county for county aid on Lacey Road, between Forked River and Cedar Crest [the area where Popcorn Park Zoo now stands]. The county will put $1500 to this and go as far as the money can be made to stretch on this nine-mile road. Next year presumably more will be done... Hooper Avenue, Toms River, from Washington Street to the Brick Township line, at Silverton, was taken over by the Freeholders as a county road.
FIRE CLEANED UP MUCH FINE TIMBER NEAR BAY
Wednesday a fire, or rather two fires, cleaned up the timber on the Thomas B. Gilford estate, known as Holly Rest, and on the Charles D. Brackenridge property adjoining, sweeping along Washington Street [today part of which is Route 37] from the Central Avenue entrance to Island Heights, all the way to the bay meadows. It also jumped the road and burned the timber on the north side. There was much fine white oak and other valuable timber on these tracts. All Island Heights and the countryside turned out to fight the fire, under Division Warden J.E. Abbott, of Toms River. Fire Co. No. 2, of Toms River, went down and help came over from the Beach. The fire, however, went on till it burned itself out. The worst fire in many years raged between Lakewood and Point Pleasant and Manasquan Wednesday and Thursday. Valiant fighting, by the whole neighborhood only saved many houses, at least ten of which were on fire at times, as reported by District Warden Abbott. The Point Pleasant, Lakewood and other fire companies with chemicals were of the greatest service in this fire. The loss is very heavy. CAVE MAN INSANE, AND SENT TO STATE HOSPITAL Having lived in a dugout on the outskirts of Lakewood all winter, Henry A. Nehring is now in comfortable quarters in the State Hospital, at Trenton. He was pronounced insane by Drs. E.C. Disbrow and Frank Brouwer, and on Thursday last Judge Newman signed the papers committing him to the hospital, to which he had been taken from the county jail. Nehring was brought to the county jail some weeks ago. He claims that he has considerable property in Germany and has wealthy relatives there. When picked up he had some little cash, nearly $40, in his pockets. His peculiar actions and his manner of living led people to think him demented. FELL TWENTY FEET, BUT LIT ON HIS FEET, CATLIKE Morgan Sickler, a bricklayer, who has been working about here for some time, had a narrow escape from death at Ocean Gate Saturday morning. He had gone down there to work for H.W. Ellis, and while wandering around, climbed a ladder to the water tank and fell off. His fall is estimated at least 20 feet. He lit on both feet. He was taken to Kimball Hospital by Dr. Brouwer, and is now declared to be O.K. again. No bones broken. FISH AND GAME Large quantities of herring are being caught in upper Barnegat and its tributaries. They are peddled about Toms River for two cents each. The old price used to be five cents a dozen, but, compared with other food, they are cheap at 24 cents a dozen if you don't mind the bones. While walking through the woods on the river bank one day, recently, A.D. Nickerson, of Beachwood, saw a fish hawk rise from the water, struggling with a fish. The hawk flew over him, and either the fish was too much for it, or the sight of the man at close quarters, frightened the hawk, for it dropped its prey. Nickerson looked about a big and found an 18-inch pike. Reports from Tuckerton and Beach Haven say that summer flounders are in the inlets and bays. Some local anglers have been whipping Cedar Creek for trout. There seems to be considerable demand for island and meadow points along the bays, and clubs are buying them up wherever they are for sale. Rehearsing the old-time fishing in the waters of the northern part of the state, around Newark and Raritan Bays, and the Staten Island Kills, the Newark Call says that the pollution of these up-state waters has ended fishing there for the most part for good and all, and that the pollution is spreading. And it adds: So we must look elsewhere for our salt water fishing, and that will be Barnegat Bay. An appropriation has recently been made by the legislature for the purpose of connecting Barnegat Bay with the Manasquan River, a connection which, when completed, will flood the upper section of the bay with rich salt water and that will aid in keeping the bay in excellent condition and will provide a larger area of spawning grounds. PERSONALS Mr. LeChard, of Atlantic City, who has done a great deal of dredging and filling in Barnegat Bay district, was in Toms River Monday. He said he was completing a contract for Mr. Smith, of New York, at Bay Head, where he is dredging a thousand foot channel in from Inland Waterway to Mr. Smith's dock on the bay shore below Bay Head. His son, Russell, who was shot up in the World War, is in charge of the job, having recovered sufficiently to get around on the job. When the job is done the have a sub-contract on the Main Shore road between Mullica River bridge and Atlantic City, on the new section running from the Bridge to Smithville, and saving two and a half miles by cutting out the old road through Port Republic. This will require a bridge at Smithville, but the saving of road length is expected to offset the building of a new road and bridge. This road will be of warrenite surface, as anyone familiar with Atlantic County road building might have guessed. Andrew Applegate, assistant keeper of Barnegat lighthouse, has been spending a week at his home here. Mr. Leeland Campbell of Toms River and Miss Harriet Widmaier of Brooklyn were married yesterday at the Widmaier home in Brooklyn by Rev. W.W. Payne of the M.E. Church of Toms River. Miss Widmaier with her mother has been a summer resident of Beachwood, and this is the culmination of a Beachwood romance. Ferd Schoettle of Philadelphia spent the week end at the Ocean House, having just returned from a winter in Florida. Mr. Schoettle, who is a gunner and fisherman, said he had some fine quail shooting and fine freshwater angling, but that salt water fishing was poor this year, both at sea and in the surf, and in the bays. Marcus Russell is working at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, and quite a number of the younger men, who once worked there, have applications on file for jobs there. PERSONAL MENTION WITH LOCAL FLAVOR Former Mayor Howard D. VanSant, of Island Heights, for nearly fifteen years past U.S. Consul at Dunfermline, Scotland, had hoped to come home for a stay this summer, but says that the cost of travel is such he may have to stay in Scotland. Before the war the passage money was $75 each way; now it is $250 each way, and as he had planned to bring his daughter, Gretchen, now a girl of thirteen years, that would mean $1000 for passage money at the start. Mr VanSant has been in the consular service some twenty years, having been stationed at Guelph and Kingston, in Canada, before going to Scotland. He has not been home since before the great war. He is looking forward to retirement when he says he hopes to live at Island Heights, keep a sneakbox, shoot a few more crow ducks, catch a few more fish, and challenge Harry H. Groshong, of East Orange, to another match at clay birds. He says snipe, bluefish and peaches are among the joys of life that Scotland cannot afford, and he hopes to enjoy them once more. Just now he is buying an electric car from Buffalo, N.Y., shipped to him at Dumfermline, to allow him to negotiate the hilly streets of that ancient Scottish capital of Robert the Bruce. Mr. VanSant says that unfortunately there seems to be no material good as yet come out of the great war. There is in Scotland more poverty, misery, distress and discontent than in the days before the war, when living cost half what it does now. RECENT WEDDINGS Gaskill—Bishop George T. Gaskill, of Fort Hancock, a member of the Sandy Hook Coast Guard Station for a number of years, and a Tuckerton man, was married on March 26 at Sea Bright M.E. Church, by Rev. H.N. Amer, formerly of Beach Haven, to Miss Carrie Bishop, of Manahawkin. The groom is the son of former Oystershell Commissioner Josiah Gaskill, of Tuckerton; the bride is the daughter of Mrs. Annie Bishop, of Manahawkin. Strickland—Leman Arthur J. Strickland, son of former Mayor and Mrs. Alvah A. Strickland, of Bay Head, recently surprised his friends there by the announcement of his marriage last January to Mlle. Helena Leman, a young French woman. The wedding took place in Philadelphia, the bride living there as a teacher of French in the Agnes Irwin school for girls at twenty-second and Delancey Streets. She was attending school at Lille when the Germans captured that city, but her home was at Roubaix. She was inside the German lines for three years. After the war she came to this country three years ago. The groom was a University of Pennsylvania athlete and noted as a baseball pitcher in this country. He went to France in the U. of P. Ambulance Unit, in December of 1917, with the Rainbow Division. He is associated with his father in the real estate business at Bay Head. Campbell—Widmaier A very pretty wedding took place at the home of Mrs. Freda Widmaier, 2537 Palmetto Street, Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, April 20, when her daughter, Hattie W., became the bride of Mr. Clifford Leeland Campbell, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Campbell, of Toms River. At 11 A.M., to the strains of the wedding march rendered by Prof. Henry Braun, the ceremony was read by Rev. W.W. Payne, pastor of Toms River M.E. Church, the bride being given away by her mother. They were attended by Miss Carrie Thain, of Brooklyn, as maid of honor, and Mr. Marvin S. Campbell, the groom's brother, as best man. The bride wore white crepe de chine beaded, and carried a bridal bouquet of sweet peas and orange blossoms. The maid of honor wore a periwinkle crepe de chine, beaded, and carried a bouquet of sweet peas. After the ceremony, luncheon was served, the table decorations being green and white. The young people left by steamer for a bridal trip to New England. They will make their home at Toms River, where the groom, a former service man, is in the Central Railroad employ. The bride has been a frequent visitor at Beachwood, where her mother has a summer home. RECENT DEATHS David Furman David Furman, for forty-two years foreman of the New York and Long Branch Railroad round house, at Point Pleasant, died March 28, aged 71 years. He had been in the railroad employ fifty-two years. He was a native of New York, and was twice married. He leaves a widow, who was Mrs. Jennie Mount, of Freehold, and two sons by his first marriage—Leonard Furman, of Point Pleasant, and Noah Furman, of Jersey City. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Firemen. About four years ago he was injured at his work in the railroad switching yard, and had since failed. Charles H. Fletcher Dr. W.H. Ballou, Editor of the Science News Service, New York, writes: In the death of Charles H. Fletcher, April 9th, Barnegat Bay loses one of its most famous striped bass anglers. Many of us know him affectionately and will ever remember him. In former years he arrived in the bay, usually for the summer, in a large boat, with a few small craft for rowing or sailing, trailing behind. There was a succession of larger craft under the names of Jemima I, Jemima II, then Jemima III, wide houseboats in yacht form, with square beds and home interiors. I remember the day when the last named his largest, with motor engines, sailed proudly into the bay with all her colors flying, and her whistle sounding salutes to all who were passed. Mr. Fletcher's anchorage was in the mouth of Forked River, but he spent his evenings at the Riverside House, and often slept there. He had a car in the garage at his disposal, often having friends meet him at the depot, to take them on board a Jemima for a period. I remember also when all of his smaller craft, trailers, were equipped with motors, so he could fly from channel to channel before taking to oars for trolling. In the old days his favorite ground was the “Stone Heap”— a few acres hole in the marine grass, hard to find at high tide, but plainly visible at lower water. I think if a bass got into the Stone Heap accidentally nowadays it would commit suicide, as it is well filled with decayed vegetation and new marine plants. The Stone Heap was near my own favorite ground for luring big weakfish, called “Three Point Flat. So we often hobnobbed out on the shallow waters, and one day I got a fine snap shot at him with the camera as his boat sped past at the highest speed. It was a lucky snap, too, as it took his face fine, nearly his whole little boat and his companion, seated beside him, poles in hand and lines out. He was ever a kindly, gentlemanly, lovable man, a man one was glad to know. TOWN LIFE
BARNEGAT
John Chew has purchased a plot of land near the bay and will put it in small lots suitable for out-o-town people who would like to erect small shacks for spending a week's end at our bay. Such things help to bring people here. Anyone with a little capital could make a good investment by putting up a few such places on the knolls near the landing and renting them for fishing parties who would like to spend a few days at the shore. There are several ways we could be put on the map if we had enough interested people. It seems incredible how thoughtful the railroads of Jersey are for the public (their money). How generous and open-hearted they are. The traveling public cannot find words to express their thanks for the wonderful spell of generosity that has just been accorded them. Just think of it, a saving of fourteen cents (don't mistake the amount) provided you go to Philadelphia so as to be able to buy a return ticket from there to the shore resorts (we've just been put on that list) but one cannot get that big reduction from here—it's a straight fare. We see that many towns fine auto owners for parking on the streets without lights. Most any night it would be a harvest here for them as several can be seen any night without a light of any kind. A.W. Kelly has a radiophone in his home. With one of these installed one need not bother with victrolas or going to operas. Just set home, turn on the switch and you have all the things of interest brought right in your home. Our once quaint old country villages like all other things, have passed into the beyond. Years ago everyone knew each other, a neighborly feeling existed that is not there today. The few people lived in their slow, humble way far from the ways of the large cities and towns. Their wants were few and easily satisfied. They were not striving to outdo each other; styles did not bother them; the old country store could supply their every want; the young folks had their few pleasures, but such as they were everyone joined in and everybody enjoyed themselves. The surrounding farms were tilled, families were brought up on them with every comfort and necessity that those times seemed to want. Few young people went out of town for their mates, while it is seldom a marriage takes place today but the man or woman is not from a distant town. The farms for several years back were deserted, but recently the land agents have been reaping a harvest selling these places to foreigners whose idea of farming is quite as much limited as is most of their means, consequently after a short sojourn here they give up and went their way back to the cities where they find employment more suitable to their talents. Some come out to the country to make fortunes in poultry. Those who understand it can make good; those who find they don't, make a failure. There are some well-to-do people who come to the country for better homes, to get out of the crowded cities; most of these people are desirable citizens, make themselves a part of the community, take an interest in the affairs of the town, uphold churches and schools, and in every way help to make a town better. There is another class that never become citizens, have no interest in the affairs of the town, care not whether there are churches or schools; Sunday is the same to them as all other days; they spend as little as possible, live any old way just so they stay for awhile, then they are off, and the land agent puts the farm on the market again for the fellow who has hallucinations of gold mines in these worked-out farms. One hardly knows their neighbors these days and the streets are full of strange faces, which some years ago would have created some excitement to see a stranger. Our once quiet streets are teeming with autos, telephone and electric light poles confront us on all sides, fire plugs are along the sidewalks, department stores, shops of all kinds, banks, railroads; the once quiet Sabbath is now awakened with the shriek of the locomotive as it sweeps through our towns carrying pleasure-seekers to and fro. Our village streets, that once were silent and dark are not brilliant with electric lights, and one has to stop, look and listen before venturing to cross a street. Like Mohammed and the mountain, we do not take our country villages to the cities but the cities send out their surplus improvements and people to us. Some 75 or 80 years ago a man named Camburn, who lived in the suburbs of this town, brought a monkey from New York to his home. Ever since that time this little settlement has been known as “Monkeytown.” All the old settlers have been gone from that place for the last twenty or thirty years, and now and then a foreigner would settle on one of the old places, but finding rural life not what it seemed, pulled up stakes and vanished like the dew. Now some of these newcomers object to the name, but they nor several generations will never see that name removed, as it is a household word and been there too long to be easily effaced. Some years ago most people living at Warren Grove, Brookville and other places several miles from here usually came to town with a load of wood or charcoal. Today they have good roads and a car, and slip down here in a few minutes. Charcoal burning, once a prosperous business for those living back from here, has entirely disappeared. Most of the old settlers have passed away and foreigners have, as a rule, bought the farms, and the old charcoal box that we used to see come down loaded with coal has passed into oblivion. Before the railroads come here all the coal was carried out of our inlet by schooners; after the railroads came then it was a common thing to ship a load of charcoal but today a load of that sort of goods would be a curiosity. BARNEGAT CITY [today Barnegat Light Borough] The buoy tender Pine, with John Marshall, a former Barnegat City boy, in charge, is in the harbor, putting in new buoys and marking channels. Ground has been broken for two new houses, that of Engel Hoff and P.W.W. Kelly, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth Streets. Cranmer x Cranmer, of Manahawkin, have the contract and expect to have them ready for occupancy in June. M.V. Sutter, of South Orange, has had a charming looking little house erected close to his bungalow on the ocean front. Arne Hoff was the builder. The mackerel fishermen will all leave for the southern fishing, following the mackerel as they come north. BAY HEAD The Bay Head Water Co. has laid a new main from Main Street along Strickland Street, to the bay, to supply the new houses erected on the west side of the railroad tracks. The new street, to be known as Clayton Street, is about completed as far as the sub-grade, and is now ready for graveling. Joseph Stillwell, of Mantoloking, has the contract for grading. Osborn Avenue has had a heavy coat of cinders, and a nice white border of sand to fill the gutters; but it will be a great improvement over the mud, at that. Bridge Avenue has had a good top dressing of cinders and gravel, and it is hoped that it will be, in another winter, better than it was last. The Borough officials will meet with the P.R.R. officials Thursday to discuss a public crossing at Johnson Street. It is hoped that will allow the crossing, as it would be very convenient. A number of new houses under construction are nearing completion. There are several to be built at once. The new fire alarm, a siren, has been erected and is ready for a tryout. BEACH HAVEN There has been two new boats brought to our dock this week, the Sylvia, belonging to Clarence Parker, and will be run on daily trips between here and Atlantic City this summer. The second was the Agnes, belonging to Bus Hayes; it will be used by Mr. Hayes to carry fish from here to Atlantic City. The Agnes came from Bay Head. The A.A. Thompson Contracting Company who moved Bonds' station house last winter has sent a bunch of men down to do the finishing job of putting the cement foundation under it. Well, we have a passenger train again and it sure does sound good to hear it, for we can tell now when the mail comes in; the freight made several trips last week; the passenger train made its first Saturday morning. John Cranmer is raising and rebuilding the Hotel De Crab, which stands on the Dock road. This building is one of the oldest on the Beach, as it was one of the old life-saving station houses. After Mr. Cranmer gets through it will be a nice dwelling house. The Engleside is having an electric light plant installed. It will be completed by the opening of the season. Mr. Engle believes in having things up to date for his patrons. Ground was broken last week for the new motion picture theatre on Bay Avenue and Central Street. This business is owned by Harry Colmer and Leon Cranmer. They expect to have the new theatre ready for the coming season. Contractor Firman H. Cranmer is doing the work. BEACH HAVEN TERRACE A recent visitor here from the West, who had never before seen the ocean, paid a visit to the beach. Going up to one of the Coast Guards, he asked him for a bucket of water. It happened to be high tide when the guard gave him the water. He asked him how much it would be, so the wondering guard charged him fifteen cents. Coming back to the same place at low tide he saw the guard again. Going up to him he remarked: “Gee—you must do an awful business here!” BEACHWOOD Frank J. Turner, of Beachwood, for years the borough clerk and marshal there, has resigned his offices in that borough, to take the training course for the state police. Some time ago he passed the examination for that body, and when the force was increased fifty men by the last legislature, summons were sent out for the fifty chosen ones last Saturday, and Frank was one of the fifty, the only Ocean County man on the force. They will be put through three months rigid training—at Wilburtha Station, near Trenton. The Borough Commission has appointed Frank W. Goodrich as Borough Clerk, succeeding Frank J. Turner, who resigned to go into the State Police. Postmaster William Brown is planning a new home and perhaps post office, too, near the railroad station. CEDAR RUN [section of Stafford Township] Farming and all spring enterprises are being pushed to the limit and a very successful season is expected. With the progressive new talent that we have added to our part of the state we expect nothing but success. Farming and building are distinguishing features of this section and we are expecting this to be the most prosperous year in our history. C. Norman Taylor is to build a new bungalow on the railroad triangle, which is getting to be the important part of town. The tea room and ice cream parlor at the post office is in full swing. FORKED RIVER Forked River Public School will hold a public exhibit of school work on Thursday afternoon, April 13th, from 1 PM. Until 6 P.M. Besides the regular school work many pieces of handwork will be exhibited, such as windmills, boats, kites, autos, airplanes, dirigibles, etc., by the boys and some specimens of needlework, such as caps, aprons, tams, fancy pieces, crochet work on yoke patterns, laces, mats, doilies, etc. by the girls. Drawing and poster work will add interest to the occasion. In spite of the cold weather gardeners are putting in seeds. The Riverside Hotel will do some farming to supply the hotel with vegetables this summer. They have bought a Fordson tractor and other machinery, and will farm the Collins place. The Vaughn family also have bought a tractor for working their place. They will put out another peach orchard. A lot of our folks went over to 112 Coast Guard Station, to see the schooner ashore there. It was formerly a common sight every once in awhile, but wrecks are scarce in these days. George W. Rurode, the Jersey City lawyer, was here the past week, and is planning for the community building, promised by the will of the late Charles A. Smith. It will be a fine building, of hollow tile, on the Main State Highway in the center of the village. Capt. J. F. Wilbert has been stripping the schooner O.B. Wootten, ashore at station 112, for her owners; and has salvaged much sail and cordage. ISLAND HEIGHTS The sympathy of the entire community is with Mayor and Mrs. William T. Rote and Miss Glenna Mayer, in the sudden death of Mrs. Alice Mayer, mother of Glenna and daughter of Mrs. Rote, who passed away Sunday morning, at her mother's home, of double pneumonia. Mrs. Rote is very low with the same disease. Mrs. Mayer was born here, married here, and died here. She was a member of St. Philip's P.E. Church. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Mr. Dersinger motored down last Wednesday to Stokes' yard to see his boat. Mrs. Allie Ayres has again very kindly given some more books to the public library, this time seventeen volumes of Boys of Liberty series, and we know the boys will be delighted. The many friends of Mrs. William Rote will be pleased to hear that she is much better after her serious illness and her complete recovery is expected. Charles Westcott has opened his butcher shop for the season, at the same old stand, and if his meat proves as good as his voice you will be sure of nice tender steak there. Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Davis are down seeing to the fitting up of the drug store for the season, which we understand the doctor will run himself. Walter Biddie and a friend were visitors to Stokes' boat yard, seeing to their boats. They are staying at Lavallette. Edward T. Fanning is coming back to Island Heights to open his summer boarding house here. This winter he has been connected with the Winthrop Arms Hotel, near Boston, at Winthrop Highlands, Mass., and has had a pleasant winter. Bert Diesinger and mother visited Stokes boatyard Friday to arrange to put their boat in commission. Little Charles, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eckhardt, is quite sick with the measles. LAKEHURST The Western Union Telegraph Co. is putting in new poles through the borough. LAVALLETTE Charles Hankins, the boat builder, has built a very fine boat for Mr. Crabbe, of Toms River. It is a dandy. Zack Gant, Life Guard, was in town looking over his new house, which is being built on Reese Avenue. MANTOLOKING Contractor Joseph Stillwell is preparing to rebuild the yacht club dock here. MONEY ISLAND This resort is now beginning to take on its seasonal appearance, judging by the number of visitors during the past week end. James Gegan, of Philadelphia, had quite a time shooting snakes with his B.B. It seems as if James will be going to Africa one of these days to shoot bigger game. NEW EGYPT Allie Horner has moved his restaurant from the store owned by Morris Himmelstein recently purchased from the Cowperthwait estate into the store owned by Edward Longstreet. Harry Feaster, of Jacobstown, will open a blacksmith shop at the corner of New Egypt—Allentown Road and Monmouth Road, near New Egypt, and will live in the house recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. John Robson. OCEAN GATE The Ocean Gate Fire Company held their monthly meeting in the Fire House on Monday evening last. Notices of the coming oyster supper have been sent around the town. Jacob Vogler is putting the finishing touches on the large Bagot Hotel on Wildwood Avenue. It is reported Richard Holt has rented his bungalow for the season to a family from Elizabeth, who will come here early this month for the summer season. Mr. and Mrs. Holt expect to leave soon for Barnegat for the summer, where they will have charge of the branch of the Palm House Bakery; also make candy at that place. Some of the members of the Street Committee and firemen have been busy this past week in burning off the lots around the town, which will make quite an improvement to the place. The Sunday excursion train starts running next Sunday, April 9, for the summer, this train being operated fully a month ahead of other years, and a large crowd is expected down for the day. It is reported C.M. Biernbaum is getting ready to build a new bungalow on Anglesea Avenue. Howard Bancroft has started work on the remodeling of the corner stores near the railroad. Colonel Bacon, of Pinewald and Asbury Park, was a Saturday visitor in this town. Looked like summer time had begun to see so many of our summer residents down this week. H.D. Black has started work on the new club house on the Ocean Gate A.A. [Athletic Association], near the ball grounds. Quite a large number of people came down on the Sunday excursion [train] last Sunday, but were late in getting home as this train was about one hour and twenty minutes late leaving here at night. The oyster supper given by the firemen on Saturday evening last was largely attended, and from latest reports, a nice sum was cleared. This money is to be used for a second story for the fire house. During July they will hold a three-day carnival in order to raise enough money to carry this addition through. The fine weather over Easter brought large crowds of people down both by train and auto. Seeing so many looked like the good old days of summer again. Well, it won't be long now. Raymond Keisel has just had a hot-water system installed in his milk house and will be ready early to supply the town with fresh milk this summer. Arnold Webster was down last week and opened the Swiss cottage. PINE BEACH Thomas Sheeran made a flying visit to Pine Beach on Tuesday, to look over his property at the river front. He came down on the morning train and left on the afternoon train. It is rumored that a new house is to be put upon the river front next to Mr. Butts'. Mrs. Staples, who has been occupying Mr. Cooper's home, is building a concrete house in Beachwood. Mrs. Smith leaves us on the first of May, when she turns the store over to the purchasers, Mr. and Mrs. Halligan. Mrs. Smith will be greatly missed here. She is to spend a few days as the guest of Mrs. Prettyman, on Avon Road. Clyde Phillips left last week for Philadelphia to arrange for the showing of his trained birds at Tenth and Luzerne Streets, in Philadelphia. Mrs. Phillips is to leave this week to join him. They are to spend ten days in Philadelphia and then tour near-by places in New Jersey. Mrs. Phillips expects to come home for Sundays for some time to come. Their engagements will last until next September. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips have been spending a year's vacation at their home here, the Phillips' estate, which used to be formerly known as the Buhler House or the Burnett place. Norman Kennedy has been spending the winter in Beachwood, but is now occupying the Mitchell house, near the western boundary of Pine Beach. He has put up a radio outfit and is much interested in it. The new home of William Mill Butler, that is being built now, lies partly in Pine Beach. It is estimated this building will cost about fifty thousand dollars. The location is ideal and it has a beautiful view of the river. The river bank is being terraced and grass has been planted. Mrs. John McPeak and Miss Helen Murray came down on Wednesday to Captain Jenning's bungalow on Springfield Avenue. On Saturday John McPeak came down by train, and Mr. and Mrs. John Murray motored down in their new Oldsmobile. Kenneth MacElwee came with them and another young man. On Saturday night the party went to see the moving pictures at Toms River. The pink blossoms on the peach trees were wonderfully beautiful. Mrs. Smith, at the store, has a particularly beautiful tree. Trailing arbutus is out and rewarded the careful seeker for it. The grass in front of the houses on the river front is very thriving and adds to the appearance of Riverside Drive. Nothing has yet has been done about the docks at Henley Avenue, the Yacht Club, or at the Inn. The river is the chief asset of Pine Beach, and these docks are necessary in order that the river may be enjoyed and used by the residents of Pine Beach. Every one interested in Pine Beach should make it their business to see that these docks are fixed and kept in repair from now on. Springfield Avenue was scraped and put in good condition on Saturday. Automobile traffic is heavy on this street, and it is necessary that it should be kept in good condition. It is also necessary that warning signs be put up at either end notifying speed maniacs that the laws governing the speed of automobiles will be enforced. Some days at Springfield and Midland Avenues cars come dashing along both streets at a dangerous rate. Several times accidents have been narrowly averted, but as traffic grows heavier it will be a miracle if some one is not killed. The names of several of those who come along at break-neck speed, even of those who do not live in Pine Beach, and it will be an easy matter to have them punished when the matter is laid before the proper authorities, so a word of warning should help to moderate the speed of autos through Pine Beach. The Sunday excursions [trains] began last Sunday week ago. Last Sunday Pine Beach people who came down on the excursion did not get home until nearly 11 o'clock at night. The train was delayed at Asbury Park by the accident. The engine struck an automobile, killing three people. SEASIDE HEIGHTS According to the number of our people and the Park people who visit the movies, at Toms River, Saturday evenings, the Colonial Theatre here would be well patronized if open. Mr. M.J. Casper has opened the pavilion on the ocean front and Sumner Avenue, and has a line of fancy and useful articles on sale. The Colonial Theater opens on Saturday, May 6th, for the season; earlier than usual. The new dance hall and range of stores now being constructed on the ocean front near the carousel will be another great attraction this summer. Coming across the bridge the first thing that strikes the eye of the traveler is the big brick building that the Shamrock Contracting Co. is building on the bay front at Hamilton Avenue. Frederick J. Sayles, one of the original builders at this resort was a recent visitor from Tacony, Philadelphia. A son was born recently to his granddaughter, Mrs. Frank Underwood. Building keeps up well and the place is growing rapidly. Work has begun on fourteen new stores on the ocean front with a large dance hall on the second floor and covering the entire stores. The stores will be open on the boardwalk and will have large display windows. The dance hall, which will be one of the largest along the Atlantic coast, will be so constructed as to be sound proof. The poreation is being financed by Anton Steidle, a well-known Philadelphia business man and a large owner of property at Seaside Heights. SEASIDE PARK Borough Superintendent Aaron Wilbert has been instructed by Council to proceed with the laying of water and sewer mains throughout the tract set apart for campers, which will be located on the borough property, near the pumping station; it is an ideal location, with graveled streets on both sides and situated close to the bay. Tourists no doubt will take advantage of the borough's generosity. There were a number of visitors here on Sunday, and our real estate men say cottages are renting fast, which indicates a good season. William Heiring, of Newark, has bought the Hopper cottage on the ocean front, and is making great improvements. At Council meeting, held on Saturday, the Borough Council has authorized the purchase of a fire alarm signal, to be erected on the fire house; it will be a siren, and can be heard within a radius of twelve miles. The Easter dance, held in the ballroom of the Manhasset Hotel drew a large crowd, who danced until an early hour. The $100 Victrola was won by Mrs. Julia Brower, of Seaside Park, the holder of the lucky number. WEST CREEK Our school teachers attended the convention at Toms River last Saturday, and continue to learn that yet there is more to be learned and done. They are willing to be convinced that there is more to be learned but don't like to think they are capable of doing more, especially as they now have so much to do. But we don't intend to lie dormant, but to expand and keep up with the procession of time. Harry Jones has taken a position as brakesman on the Tuckerton R.R. R.F. Rutter recently sold his yacht, the “M.S.,” to a party from Cape May. Henry Holloway, recently appointed as traffic officer, assumed his uniform and duties on Saturday last. A very necessary action, as autoists seem to have no regard for life or law, judging from the speeding they do through this town. ADS OF INTERESTMISSED AN ISSUE?
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Welcome back to another era in the Toms River area's past, one century ago this week!
Let your mind wander as you consider life around the second half of March 1922, courtesy the New Jersey Courier weekly newspaper and Ocean County Library archives, and peppered with items of maritime interest (around a 25 minute read). BREVITIES AND EDITORIALS
(written by NJ Courier editor, William H. Fischer, as he sat at his desk above Main Street near Washington Street; it was much like a collection of online social media updates seen today)
Folks are planning gardens.
All Fools' Day will soon be with us. Fish hawks and herring due next week. Wasps and bugs flying about every warm day. Colds and grippy colds, at that, are still about the town and countryside. Robins are seen now and then, and the song sparrow and cardinal bird are heard early in the mornings. Time for boys to fly kites and girls to jump rope, under the old schedule; but they make schedules of their own, now. The apparatus at the sewage disposal plant, by which bacteria are killed by chlorine gas, is being set up this week. F. Lipscheutz Co. have decided to give up their grocery business and confine their attention to the other lines in their department store. On April 1 the American Stores will take the Lipscheutz grocery store on Washington Street, as a branch of their Main Street store. Fire Commissioners Edward Crabbe, I. W. Richtmeyer and R.C. Buckwalter, with a dozen firemen, went to Trenton and White Horse on Saturday last to see the work of a Stutz pumper at the latter place. They also got some ideas on how to keep up a fire company from the Trenton firemen. Charles Potter has built himself a barn on the property he recently bought from Mrs. Abby Irons, on Dayton Avenue. Some of the young men about town have organized another fire company, and will make application to the Fire Commissioners and to Township Committee for recognition. There is also talk that the American Legionaires may do the same. The fifteen young men in the company who signed up this week were: Abe and Joe Novins, George Alsheimer, Lloyd Applegate, Allen Sever, Walter Applegate, Allen Atterson, John Gaskill, Jack Costa, Ed Cornelius, Roy Goble, J.J Donnelly, Mike Shine, George Brahn, John Mason [this marked the formation of Toms River Fire Company No. 2, still active today, one century later]. Green grass is coming through the ground. Auto sales are picking up as auto prices drop down. Bluebirds, robins, song sparrows and blackbirds are reported. Ed Applegate had his house on Hooper Avenue enclosed. It stands in the field between Cedar Grove road and the Davitt house, one of the fine locations on the outskirts of town [approximately the location of the Ocean County Mall, today]. Herman Fuhr has the contract for a $4500 house in Beachwood, to be built for Mrs. Widmaier, of Brooklyn, who is thinking of making Beachwood her permanent home [today 325 Ship Avenue, for years the home residence of her daughter's family, and eventually, granddaughter, Carolyn Campbell]. The yachting fever, like the gardening fever, is breaking out, and men who want boats for the coming summer are scurrying around the boatyards to see what they can buy. P.P. Elkinton has drawn plans for a new front, with two bulk windows, for the A.A. Brant Lumber Co. store on Water Street, and also plans to turn the second floor of the Bump building, at Main and Washington Streets, into two apartments. The wind has taken liberties with the board fence around Gulick field, and flattened out a section or two. We had a few snow flakes on the first day of spring. County Agent E.H. Waite is proudly exhibiting the handsome silver cup won by Ocean County sweet potato exhibits at Farmers Week in Trenton in a state-wide competition, last January. One of the most successful dances of the winter was given on Friday evening last, St. Patrick's day, at the Toms River Yacht Club house. It was the last social affair before tearing out the house for enlargement, which probably means til next June or thereabouts. If Ralph B. Gowdy's shade [ghost] were to visit Toms River today it would at once get a man and a team, give the man a rake, and start him to cleaning up paper, branches and other rubbish from the streets. When he was on the committee streets were kept clean of all rubbish and gutters were for water to run in not to hold rubbish. [Capt. Gowdy was a Civil War captain also linked with Double Trouble Village, being one of the first to develop the cranberry industry here on a large scale. He died in 1911.] A good number of Toms River people attended the opening of the new Palace theatre last night in Lakewood. Some theatre is the verdict. [It closed sometime in the 1950s and became home to the American Vitamin Co. The building was lost to a fire in 1979.] While digging in the riverbank near Bert Dorsett's boatshop last week, Paul Cranmer unearthed an Indian lancehead of chipped flint. It is perfect in shape and looks as if it had just been made. It measured seven and a half inches in length [the lance head likely was attached to the end of a wooden pole and used to spear fish in the river]. If you want to do business with the Pennsylvania Railroad in the middle of the day, you are stuck. Business hours mean nothing to a railroad just now in their present spasm of operation economy. For many years the agent at the Toms River depot has had a clerk to spell him through the day. The clerk has been laid off, and Agent W.A. Sever has been ordered to post a notice that the station is closed after the 10:30 train arrives, and will not be reopened till nearly time for the 3.57, so as to get his day's work inside of eight hours. [The station, located at the end of South Main Street in what today is South Toms River Borough, was closed with the rail spur in the mid-20th century. The station building itself was purchased and moved to Beachwood and is still a private home today]. A delegation from Fire Company No. 2 appeared before the Township Committee on Friday last and asked that the township supply them with quarters. The committee said they had no funds for that purpose and no room at their disposal in the town hall. Spring. Sap running. Birds calling. Spring showers. Moon is on the wane. Roads are settling down. Days longer than nights. Summer will soon be here. Red-winged blackbirds have come north. Snyder & Sutton have started remodeling the Toms River Yacht Club house, on the river front [located where today is Baker's Water Street Bar & Grille, the yacht club having moved down river to Money Island in the 1960s, where it stands today]. Did you see the northern lights on Friday night last? While low down, near the horizon, the light was very distinct against an absolutely clear sky. The Locust Farm, two miles out of Lakewood, on the north, has been bought by the Lightning Film Co., of New York, and motion pictures studios are to be erected there at once, according to the Times and Journal. The film company has twenty acres to work on. Robins galore. Birds are singing. Hyacinths in bloom. Elm trees are in bud. 1922 one-quarter gone. Goodbye to old winter. Lightning Tuesday night. Lawns are emerald green. Fruit buds almost at bursting point. Boatshops are busy overhauling craft for the summer. Green leaves show on rosebushes, lilacs and early shrubbery. Willets Manolt's new home in Montray Park is ready for the plastering. I.P. Evernham has sold the classy looking bungalow which he built in Montray Park to Mariano Russo. Farms have much of their plowing done in the past two weeks. Potatoes did not get in on St. Patrick's day this year, however. Complaints about bootleggers are heard frequently; also charges that moonshiners are growing bolder. Mrs. Christopher Sprague of Beach Haven, with W.H. Jayne as her attorney, has brought suit for divorce from her husband. She is a granddaughter of the late Capt. Joseph Wainwright of Toms River. The baseball grandstand and fence at the Gulick Field are looking pretty poorly. Carpenters and painters both should be put on the job before it is too late. The high school boys ought to see to it that the place is not misused, at least during school time. David O. Parker has had electric lights installed at his home at Main and Messenger streets. The Swedish Consul from New York came to the county jail on Saturday last to confer with the Swedes in the pound fisheries crews who were locked up there to await the action of the grant jury, on the charge of burning the Erthal fishery and ice plant, at lower Seaside Park Monday night of last week. Sales of lots in Montray Park are said to take place now and then, and a number of people are talking of new houses in that tract. It is suggested that the Township Committee now have a chance to keep one part of the town looking ship-shape, by making building lines, grades, etc., and not let this tract, like the rest of the town, straggle along according to individual whim. 140 YEARS AGO Thursday of next week [March 23rd] will be the 140th anniversary of the burning of Toms River by the British and Tories in the closing days of the American Revolution, after the capture of the block house. It was an act of purely wanton destruction, and but two small houses in all the hamlet grouped about what is now Toms River, were left standing. Non-combatants, as well as fighting men, who were captured, were taken prisoners to New York by the British force, and the women and children left to provide their own shelter as best they could. Which goes to show that war then, and war now, except that now it has more wealth, more men and more destructive weapons, are very much the same. HEADLINE NEWS
ZR-1 TO START SOON AT LAKEHURST
With the destruction of the Italian built semi rigid, the Roma, the United States is left without lighter-than-air craft larger than non-rigid blimps. Within a month, however, the actual erection of the ZR-1, an American designed dirigible, will be begun in the large hangar at Lakehurst, N.J., and in a year it is expected that this ship will be ready to take the air. About a third of the structural members or frame of the ZR-1 have been fabricated, and a large percentage of the gas cells have been made. The ZR-1 in name only is a sister ship to the ill fated ZR-2, built in England. ZR is the designation given by the navy to all dirigibles. The ZR-2, or R-38 as she was called by the English, was built according to a new design and was distinctly a British creation. The ZR-1 [later becoming the U.S.S. Shenandoah] is modeled after the L-49, the German Zeppelin, that came down in France during the war practically intact. This airship was closely studied by the French, who sent our government the result of the observations. Lessons were also learned from the L-72, the latest German large rigid airship. The ZR-1 will be 675 feet long and 78 ½ feet in diameter. It will contain gas cells that are about 33 feet long and will contain one large cell in the center of the ship that, taken alone, will contain about 200,000 cubic feet and be larger than the non-rigid ships now in this country. The gas volume of the ZR-1 will be 2,130,000 cubic feet. It will have six engines, and is designed to normally operate with one or two engines idle. A speed of 70 miles an hour under best conditions is expected. The ZR-1 is, however, primarily a war craft, intended to operate at high altitudes, and in this respect it differs from the airship that will probably be built in Germany for the United States government. It is hoped that this ship will be built on commercial lines for high speed at low elevations and designed after the latest German type.
ATLANTIC CITY MEN MAY BUY PINE BEACH INN FOR SCHOOL
An offer has been made to the owners of the Pine Beach Inn to purchase that hotel, with the purpose of turning it into a boys' school. The people back of the plan are some of the leading men of Atlantic City, who are interested in the school that Prof. Douglas Adams has been maintaining in that city for several years. His quarters in Atlantic City he cannot longer retain, and Adams, who spent many summers on Toms River and Barnegat Bay, would like to come here. His Atlantic City backers are willing to put up what money he may need. At present there is a little difference between offered price and asked price. The inn has not been open for several summers.
CULTIVATING BLUEBERRIES NOW A BIG UNDERTAKING
The Double Trouble Company, at Double Trouble, are putting in forty cold frames and will plant 15,000 blueberry (swamp huckleberry) cuttings this spring for transplanting later. They expect this fall to have at least three acres in blueberries. But Mr. Scammell says this is a small acreage compared with that at Whitesbogs, where Miss Elizabeth White has made a study of the blueberries for some years. There about thirty acres are in cultivation, with at least 200,000 cuttings. Last year Miss White sold her large crop of blueberries at thirty cents a cup [about $5 in 2022 dollars; this would make a pint of blueberries cost $10 today]. It is understood that last year the blueberry plantation paid its own way at Whitesbogs. [Elizabeth Coleman White {1871-1954) is credited with being the “mother” of the modern blueberry industry. An easy search online will reveal many articles describing her outstanding accomplishments]. EROSION AND POLLUTION Representatives of numerous shore municipalities conferred with the State Board of Commerce and Navigation last week on the problem of protecting the beaches from damage by erosion. This is a vital matter to many of these communities, especially those situated along the northern part of the coast. A number of these have already been put to heavy expense in the construction of jetties and bulkheads to save not only the beaches but much more valuable shore front and real estate. The claim that the state should assist in preserving its shores from inroads of the sea is based on a substantial foundation since the development of the ocean front has added many millions to the State's ratables. There is little use, however, in either State or municipalities spending money to save the beaches from erosion unless something is speedily done to protect them from pollution. Oil and garbage are so fouling the New Jersey beaches that people are driven away, the food fish supply is being reduced, and if the evil continues to grow the oyster industry will be ruined. Today man, not nature, is the greatest menace to the New Jersey Coast.—Newark Call.
ADDITIONS TO CLUB HOUSE
Additions to the Toms River Yacht Club house on the river front are to go forward at once, at a cost of about $4,000. The house will be extended toward the street line, making a considerable addition the main room, either for use as a dance floor or assembly room. On the southwest corner, taking up the width of the plaza, will be a cellar, for a furnace and boiler, and over it a kitchenette. The enlargement will allow a pool and billiard room on the second floor. Steam heat will be installed before next winter. Snyder & Sutton have the contract for the addition, and plans were drawn by P.P. Elkinton. The architectural design of the club house will not be disturbed. The tennis court will also be rebuilt this spring for use this summer. STEAMER AND SCHOONER COLLIDE On Thursday night of last week the steamer Metapan and the schooner Charles A. Dean were in collision off Barnegat light. The schooner filled with water, but kept afloat, and the steamer, which was uninjured, stood by till a revenue cutter arrived, summoned by the steamer's wireless. The cutter escorted the schooner to Sandy Hook.
WILL START BUILDING FARMS FOR POULTRYMEN AT ONCE
The Toms River Poultry Development Association will start at once building poultry farms on its 400-acre tract that it now owns in fee on the south side of the Pennsylvania Railroad tract [where today is much of South Toms River Borough, approximately Center Homes, part of today's Garden State Parkway, the business plazas and buildings along Dover Road, a large portion of the housing development throughout, plus the Jakes Branch area that remains wooded today.]. Three farms are expected to be the starting unit, and others will follow. Each of the first three farms will contain a six-room bungalow, with electric lights, running water, bath and heat; accommodations for five hundred pullets, and the pullets themselves stocked on the place, so that the buyer has a going concern from the day he takes it over; all necessary fencing, clearing, etc. and a garage and feed storage house. Each farm will contain ten acres. Where a prospective buyer wishes a larger farm than the ten-acre, five-hundred-bird farm, 1000-bird farms will be constructed. Real estate men in this section say that a dozen such farms as this could have been disposed of in the month of February had they then been in existence. The Poultry Development Tract consists of what was formerly the Toms River Chemical Company tract, of nearly 200 acres, and with a mile frontage on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and with almost as much frontage on the Dover road; also the Mayo tract, running on the opposite side of the Dover road to Jake's branch, and extending to within a few hundred feet of the Holman cranberry bogs; and the Crowell, or gravel pit tract, right across the way from the P.R.R. Depot. It is proposed that the first farms will be built on the Chemical Co. tract, on the north side of the Dover road and on the northwest slope of the hill. Farms will then be built on both sides of the Dover road, facing one another. A.S. Tilton is laying out the tract in ten-acre plots. The men who are backing this enterprise, with the hope of increasing the importance of Toms River as a poultry center, are: Charles N. Warner, Frank W. Sutton, Jr., Jesse P. Evernham, Samuel Kaufman, David C. Brewer, William H. Fischer, Edward Crabbe, Martin Schwarz, Daniel S. Priest, J.N. Mathews, David A. Veeder. HOUSES AT SEASIDE PARK RIFLED BY YOUNG BANDITS Three young men are being held in Philadelphia to await extradition to Toms River, on the charge of burglary at Seaside Park. From confessions that some of them have made, they drove to and from Seaside Park for the week ends in stolen cars, while there put up in houses that they afterward rifled, and had a gay time generally at other folks' expense. It was through Chief Souder, of the Philadelphia detective force, that they were caught. The three men are Howard Morgan, alias Peter Duffy, who has been stopping at Seaside Park off and on all winter, and who was arrested last December, on the charge of blackjacking and robbing Shoemaker Henry Jones, at that place, but who succeeded in convincing the authorities that they had made a mistake in arresting him; Joseph Pelasco, alias John Mehan, alias John Dubac, and a lad, known as William F. Townsend or Thomas Townsend. The homes known to have been robbed are those of Judge Frank T. Lloyd, George G. Parry and Mr. Baker. It is believed that investigation will show that others have been ransacked. Last Monday Frank Sprague, Marshal of Seaside Park Borough, received word from Captain Souder that there were some young men under arrest in the city that he ought to be interested in. With Aaron Wilbert, Borough Clerk, Sprague went to Philadelphia and found these lads. They admitted stealing a Cadillac and afterward a Peerless sedan, and driving to Seaside Park, and taking back loot from the houses they robbed. They also robbed the Lexington Garage, as was reported recently in The Courier. On their last trip Captain Souder put a stool pigeon on them in the shape of a mechanic, when they broke their car, the mechanic coming down to repair it, and thus Souder got the inside of the story. The Philadelphia police have a long list of articles taken from these young men, and so far unidentified, besides these articles that are known to have come from three houses named. In one house they left a saucy note, saying they had used the beds, etc., and hoping that the next time they would find something worth stealing. A lot of plunder was found hidden in one of these houses when the officers examined them. The county officials are also busy, and Lieutenant McDonald visited Philadelphia Wednesday for the Sheriff's office. When here they put their car in Parry's garage. RADIO WAVES FROM THE TOMS RIVER ETHER Beginning with this issue a space will be devoted to radio news items of interest to the readers of The Courier. Commander Weyerbacher has installed a radio-telephone receiving set in his home on the Atlantic City Boulevard. Welcome to our radio midst, Commander. Bartolette Havens (2AWJ) is contemplating increasing his C.W. Set so he will be able to talk and broadcast music. Burton Hall (2BGB), one of Toms River's old amateurs at the game, has recently sold his set. Burton has had very good results with his apparatus, regularly receiving concerts from stations up to four hundred miles away. Toms River is wide-awake and up-to-date, as evidenced by a number of persons asking for radio books of Miss Chambers in the Public Library. Mr. Finck has ordered a complete radio receiving set to be installed in the Toms River School. Hurrah! Fred Milford has his aerial up. Atta boy. We understand that Henry Forcanser, of Pershing, is installing a radio receiving set. It will interest radio followers to know that at 8:30 P.M. Saturday evening, the opera “Martha” by Flotow, will be given in its entirety by the Bijou Opera Co. and broadcasted from the Westinghouse Station at Newark. Will answer questions pertaining to radio if addressed care of Toms River Courier. Please enclose stamped envelope. FRANK M. KENNEDY. Mayor Senior, of Beachwood, will install a receiving set when he returns for the summer. Radio manufacturers are working night and day trying to catch up on back orders and meet the enormous demand for apparatus as there is an approximate estimate of over a half a million receiving stations. A number of tugs in New York harbor are installing radio phones and amplifiers to pick up concerts for the benefit of their crews. Agent Waite is receiving music from his radio set that can be heard all over the first floor. He is using a portable umbrella aerial.
TO WATCH FOR FOREST FIRES FROM ROOF OF HUGE HANGAR
The Navy Department having given its O.K. To the plan, the Department of Conservation and Development will arrange to have a watch man stationed on the top of the big hangar at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, to keep an eye on the pine woods in every direction, watching for the tell-tale smoke that proclaims a fire in the woods. North Jersey, where there are mountains, has a number of such lookouts. South Jersey has but few. REAL ESTATE BOOMERS PUT LAKEWOOD TRACTS ON MARKET Encouraged by the success of the Carasaljo Land Company, in putting the tract between the lakes over last year, there are several more real estate booms in the very edges of Lakewood that are putting fine tracts of land on the market in building lot form. The tract just west of Georgian Court (George J. Gould's estate) and running down to Lake Carasaljo is one of the finest parts of Lakewood. It is now wooded with oak, chiefly. Streets have been cut through, and water mains are being laid in some of them. Two houses have been started near the Gould property on the northeast corner of the tract, not far from the road to Hope Chapel, which is now labeled Fourteenth Street. On the opposite side of Fourteenth Street, north of Georgian Court, another nicely situated and well wooded tract is being put out in building lots, on a community or club plan. Streets have also been cut through this tract. These two locations would give Lakewood room to grow at least fifty per cent, of its present size, if they were built up. Building in Lakewood is keeping all the contractors busy. The first of these tracts is being promoted by I.B. Thompson of Lakewood, as the Oak Knoll Section; the second is called the Pine Chalet development and is backed by a New York concern. JAIL STRIKING FISHERMEN AFTER ICE PLANT BURNS Last Saturday, the fishing crews at the four fisheries, just below Seaside Park, went on strike for higher wages. Monday night, March 20, the ice plant storage house and packing platform of the former Bennett & Wilson Fishery, now owned by Julius L. Erthal, were burnt to the ground, the other three fisheries in that locality, the Seaside Park Fishery, the Seaside Heights Fishery and James R. Hensler Fishery having, it is said, by their owners, a narrow escape. Early next morning the bunk house that striking fishermen had rented and were living in, after quitting their jobs on Saturday, was visited by the Sheriff's posse, and sixteen fishermen brought to the county jail, along with another man, suspected of furnishing them with hooch. Tuesday afternoon a hearing was held by Justice of the Peace Arthur C. King, conducted by Prosecutor Wilfred H. Jayne, and the sixteen fishermen were held in the county jail without bail for grant jury investigation. The sixteen men are all foreigners, some Swedes, an occasional Russian and Portuguese... The fire was discovered a little after 9 o'clock on Monday night. The alarm was phoned to Seaside Park, to A.C. Heiring, by the cook at his fishery, who thought it was that fishery which was burning. [Gilbert] Grable [manager of the Erthal Fishery] also lives at Seaside Park, and hurried down with about all the population of the Park and the Heights who went to see the fire. Hensler saw the fire from his home on the river front in Toms River, and hurried over. It was decided among them that the fire must have been set purposely, and the Sheriff's office was called on, and arrests made... A quantity of liquor was seized and brought to the Court House at the time the arrests were made. City papers have been running lurid accounts of riot and battle, terrorized citizenry and all that. So far nobody around here seems to know anything about riot or fight; as for the fire, if it was incendiary, as believed, it was set in a sneaking manner, and not boldly by rioters. BARNEGAT NOW A “RESORT” Thanks to the efforts of Assemblyman Parker, Barnegat is now classed as a “resort” by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and not only Barnegat, but also Manahawkin and West Creek, getting what advantage there is from that classification. Excursion tickets, good for 17 days, are sold in the cities to resort stations, but to no others; at present return trip fare from Philadelphia is double the single fare... Beginning May 1 excursion tickets will be sold to these towns from Philadelphia [for] the same price that Tuckerton and Beach Haven now have. These return tickets are not sold from resorts to the cities. WELL-KNOWN LAKEWOOD MAN NABBED IN PHONE BOOTH Freehold, March 14.—Hearing the burglar alarm on the New York Telephone Company booth in the Pennsylvania Station ring about 11:30 yesterday morning as he was writing a report on the police blotter in the municipal building, adjoining the station, Officer Edwin C. Sloat captured Walter Holman, 37 years, of Lakewood, in the booth apparently endeavoring to repair the lock on the door in the money receptacle. In Holman's overcoat pockets was found a screw driver and $50.56 [$853 in 2022 dollars], all in nickels, dimes and quarter dollars. Holman was arraigned before Recorder McDermott and held in $3000 bail [$50,663 in 2022 dollars] for grand jury action. In default of bail bonds he was committed to the county jail. Holman comes from a family that has been prominent in Ocean County for several generations. He is a native of Whitesville, and formerly kept a garage at Lakewood. There have been many stories afloat about him since the arrest last Monday. It is alleged that this particular booth, as well as similar ones, had been robbed several times, and a trap was set, the booth being wired with an electric burglar alarm. Holman is married and has a family of his own. HERRING, PERCH, FLOUNDERS Island Heights fishermen report big catches of perch and herring in their barrels Monday of this week, and other large catches have been made. J. Ed Johnson says he had the first dozen herring caught. Winter flounders are caught up the bay as far as the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, where a barrel of them were caught in one day this week. This is unusual for them to come so far up the bay in large numbers. FOREST FIRE TOWERS TO OVERLOOK SOUTH JERSEY Watch towers to overlook the South Jersey woods have been arranged for by the Department of Conservation and Development, out of an addition to its appropriations, furnished by the recent legislature. Senator Hagaman, being on the Appropriation Committee, and knowing the danger and the losses from forest fires, was able to help get this needed money. In addition to the ten-foot tower that will be put on Lakehurst hangar, there will be a number of steel towers erected on hills in the South Jersey woods, each with its telephone by which to call up Fire Wardens. C.A. BRANT ADDS MANASQUAN TO STRING OF LUMBER YARDS Clifford A. Brant, of Toms River, has added another lumber yard to his string, the newest addition being at Manasquan. Starting with the A.A. Brant Lumber Yard, which Mr. Brant assumed the management of at Toms River, a few years ago, after the death of his grandfather, Amos A. Brant, the Manasquan plant will make a string of six plants, three in Ocean County and three in Monmouth, located at Toms River, Lakehurst, Lakewood, Freehold, Farmingdale and Manasquan. The Toms River and Lakewood yards are managed by William C. Nolte, with offices at Toms River. The other yards are managed by C.A. Brant, with the main office in Lakewood. The late A.A. Brant established the Toms River business in 1870. The yard at Lakewood was opened in 1918, that at Farmingdale in 1920, and the business of A. Brewer, at Freehold, was bought in 1921. The yard at Manasquan will be located along the Freehold branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad and will extend from Broad St. to Osborne Ave. Construction of an office building will begin in the near future and the yard stocked within the next month. The office will be at the Broad Street end of the lot. CROSS-STATE ROAD FROM BARNEGAT NOW SEEMS SURE After a ten-year fight it looks now as if Barnegat was (before a great while) to get its cross-state road through the pines to Burlington County, via Buddtown [today: Route 72]. The Board of Freeholders have been informed by the State Highway Department that Burlington County has at last taken over the west end of the Barnegat-Buddtown Road as a county road. About eight years ago, when Senator David G. Conrad was on the Board of Freeholders, the county built six miles of the Ocean County end of this road, directly west from Barnegat. This year, on the assurance that Burlington County is contemplating action, the Freeholders are advertising for another two-mile section, the bids to come in April 4. Burlington County now has its improved road as far as “The Four Mile,” and the Pines district is clamoring for an extension. TUCKERTON GIRL GIVES UP FARM FOR MARRIED LIFE Miss Minnie Mullen, who, for some time past, had managed the George Mott farm, at Tuckerton, carrying on a dairy and running a milk route in Tuckerton Borough, has given up the farm for duties of married life. Last week, after Rev. Daniel Johnson, of the Tuckerton M.E. Church, had gone to Atlantic City to Conference, the girl farmer decided to marry her suitor, George A. Dawson, of Akron, Ohio. So the couple followed Mr. Johnson to Atlantic City, where they were married. Mrs. Dawson is reported as saying that she is through with the farm. CRIMINAL COURT MATTERS Judge Jeffrey will hear criminal cases on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, March 22-23. Howard Stillwell, William W. Walker and George Fleckstein, employees of Mike Cella, accused of stealing from Cella Market, and John Martin, of the Ocean Avenue Inn, accused of receiving stolen goods, will be tried on Thursday. Other cases set for next week are the charges of receiving stolen goods against Edward Huss, of Lakewood, who is alleged to have had parts from a stolen flivver; an indictment against Fisher Blesky, of Lakewood, alleged to have rented a Ford from Samuel Grover, of that town, and failed to return it, the car having been found in the woods, stripped of all valuables; Louis Hyman, Lakewood, indicted for assault; Curtis and Marvin Newman, of Berkeley Township, indicted for stealing cranberries; Lester Cranmer, of Cookstown, charged with having stolen a deer, the kill of another hunter; Willard O. Stout, of Lanoka, indicted for deserting his wife and family...
BIG DROP IN EGG PRICES
The past week has seen a big drop in the price of eggs. Local stores have been taking in eggs at 21 cents a dozen [$3.55 in 2022 dollars] and selling them at 24 cents [$4.05 in 2022 dollars], the lowest price since “before the war.” The Poultry Producers' Association has been getting from 33 to 36 cents a dozen [$5.40 to $6.08 in 2022 dollars]. Carton packed eggs for special trade have brought 45 cents a dozen [$7.60 in 2022 dollars]. The general belief is that the cause of the drop was that the advent of spring caught the big egg speculators with storage houses still loaded with last summer's eggs. More eggs were put in cold storage than usual last summer. The winter was fairly open, and egg production not only in commercial plants, but also on the farms of the Middle West, was greater than had been looked for. The speculators held on all winter, thinking that after the break of early January they might get prices up again, but at last had to unload. Last December eggs were as high as $1.05 a dozen [$17.73 in 2022 dollars]. SCHOOL TEACHER WANTED The Borough of Ocean Gate wants a school teacher beginning April 1 for the balance of the school year, ending in June. One room school, first to eighth grades to be taught. Board can be had at reasonable rates near school house. Good salary. Address Wm. H. Newlin, District Clerk, Ocean Gate, N.J.—Adv.
FISH AND GAME
Well, the gunning is all over, fox-hunting is a thing of the past, and the legislature has adjourned, so that the hunter can only think things over. The only excuse he can have now for getting his gun out is to oil or clean it, unless he joins one of the numerous clay bird clubs. Capt. Ben Asay says that the geese in the upper bay every night at dusk start off in a westerly direction up Toms River. He thinks they go to the cranberry bogs near Lakehurst, probably to the Stillman bogs on Sunken Branch, after fresh water and gravel. In the morning they come back. They have been trading back and forth this way for some time. PERSONAL MENTION WITH LOCAL FLAVOR Thomas R. Wilkinson, of Toms River and Trenton, makes the assertion that the radio craze is only in its infancy. Most of us will agree with that, but Tom has a reason for it, not just a hunch, like the rest of us. He says that the one thing which has kept back the radio bug from spreading over the face of this fair land, like a boll weevil through a cotton patch, has been the lack of suitable battery. Dry cells have been used heretofore, and have not been satisfactory because they soon played out and were costly. Mr. Wilkinson says that a storage battery has now been invented to operate radio outfits that will mark a distinct advance in the amateur radio work. A son was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Wallis Jaquith of East Orange, and has been named John Sleator Jaquith, after his maternal grandfather, John C. Sleator, of Merchantville, who is a frequent visitor at Toms River and Seaside Park. Mr. Sleator is now treasurer and was formerly commodore of the Island Beach Yacht Club, and this is the first grandchild belonging to any member of this club. Accordingly it has been awarded a silver loving cup, which was offered by Commodore Charles J. Maxwell to the first grandchild born to a member of the club. The cup is of sterling silver, and is inscribed: “Boys' race, won by John Sleator Jaquith, March, 1922.” The club members have also sent the little fellow each a “birthday” gift. PERSONAL Mrs. A.A. Brant, one of the best-known residents of Toms River, celebrates her 93d birthday this week at the Brooklyn home of her son, Henry L. Brant, where she is spending the winter. Mrs. Brant keeps her faculties and is bright and keen. She comes of an old Colonial family in Rhode Island—but has made Toms River her home since about 1870. She is a Daughter of the Revolution, one of her ancestors having been a major in Washington's army. Mrs. Richard J. Benson and Mrs. Barbara King, of Weehawkin, N.J., are spending a few days at the Marion Inn this week. Mrs. Benson is a summer resident of Beachwood, owning a bungalow in that resort. Capt. and Mrs. Clarence Birdsall arrived home on Friday evening, after a trip to Cuba. They spent some time at Miami, Fla., on their way home. Miss Harriet Widmaier, of Brooklyn, spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Paul Grover. William Herflicker is home from Trenton, where he has been employed for several years, and is now bookkeeper at the American Supply Co. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schofield, of Philadelphia, spent the week end at the Marion Inn, while looking for a summer home at Island Heights or Seaside Park for the coming season. Dave Marion spent the week end at his home here, dividing his time between his farm and the Marion Inn. Steelman Mathis, of Philadelphia, spent the week end with his parents, Capt. and Mrs. Thomas Mathis. Mrs. Edward Crabbe arrived home this week after an absence of almost two months, having spent February in Bermuda, and March with her daughter, Mrs. Starr Ballou, of Concord, N.H. RECENT WEDDINGS Crowell—Cranmer Trenton, March 18.— Miss Amelia S. Cranmer, of Trenton, daughter of Keeper Clarence Cranmer, of Barnegat Lighthouse, Barnegat City, and his late Edith Cranmer, was married Tuesday, March 14, to Mr. Charles Morton Crowell, of Hammonton... The bride is well known in Toms River, where she was graduated from the high school, also in Barnegat and other shore towns. She also is a graduate of the Rider College, Trenton. RECENT DEATHS Mrs. Ellen Lewis Forked River, March 22.— The hand of time has thus removed from our midst another precious landmark in the person of Mrs. Ellen Lewis from the home of her son, Amos Lewis, Forked River, March 15, 1922. When Mrs. Lewis was born, July 6, 1825, the Hon. J.Q. Adams, our sixth president, was just taking his chair; the Erie Canal had just been opened for commerce of the West, and the first line of railroad in America had just been completed. What a span of life she has covered. Her sweet, useful life, presents a rare standard that our young women will do well to follow. Her memory will always recall a rich fragrance to bless the lives of those who knew her best. Among the many friends and loved ones who gathered to pay their last tribute to her mortal remains weer Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Lewis and Mrs. Sylvia Heisler of Moorestown, N.J. TOWN LIFE
BARNEGAT
According to the long series of rains the last few weeks we will come to the conclusion that the Rainmaker of Lakewood is bound to convince us he can do it, but we would humbly ask him to reserve a part of it for some of those July and August days we usually get when life is miserable by heat and dust. The bids were awarded last week for the electric light system for our town. Emmor Mick furnishes the poles, John Lewis the wiring, Howard Gaskill the engine part of it. We will hail its coming with pleasure as our town has resembled a graveyard with a light here and there like the moon shining on tombstones. Nothing puts a town on the map more than a good lighting system, water, fire company and schools. Now we've got 'em all, let's call the outside people's attention to it. BAYVILLE What was formerly known as the Harrison House, owned by the late Benjamin F. Butler, burnt to the ground about 7 A.M. Monday. The fire seemed to start from the roof, presumably from the chimney. The house was occupied by Lester Newman. An alarm was sent to Toms River and the firemen came down from there, but it was too late to do much, even if there had been water to fight fire with. The old part of the house was the old Anderson family homestead. A.S. Tilton is more than busy with his surveying, having so much to do that he is unable to catch up. He is now laying out the Toms River Poultry Development Association's poultry farms at Toms River. Our baymen need a good road to the bay, a big sign on the Main Shore road, telling auto parties about it, and a lunch room or restaurant at the dock if they want their share of the fishing parties that formerly came to Barnegat Pier, but now travel the main road by auto. Why not get busy? Why let all the business go somewhere else? BEACH HAVEN Mrs. E. A. Dease has opened her boarding house, “The St. Rita.” This season's guests will find several worthy improvements since last summer, as Mrs. Dease has added a garage, with chauffeur's quarters, concrete driveways and a sun parlor to her comfortable hostelry. R.F. Engle has contracted with a Philadelphia firm to have The Engleside wired for electricity. The gang came down Monday and began work, and are making their headquarters at The St. Rita. Every room will be lighted with this modern and convenient light and other electrical conveniences added to the house. William Potter, Jr., has received announcement of his appointment as engineer on the buoy tender, “Pine.” Contractor Cranmer has the contract for the cottage now going up for Dr. Sharpless, at the corner of Norwood and Beach avenues. This makes four new cottages now under construction in that section of the town. Elmer King has the old ice plant building on South Street, completely razed. It is rumored he will build a bungalow there to rent. It is easily seen that there is a need for more houses in this town to rent to workmen as it is hard to find a vacant house at a reasonable rental. But the prevalent rate of taxes are discouraging to builders. Such progress has been made at installing the new draw in the P.R.R. Bridge at the Bonnet that the new parts are now in place and it is expected that the regular traffic will be resumed on March 25. The first train to come over the new drawbridge arrived Saturday afternoon. We hope the regular schedule will soon be resumed. The first freight train came in on Monday afternoon. The lighthouse tender Pine was docked at the wharf for the past few days. BEACHWOOD The second annual Beachwood Borough Day dinner, which was held on Tuesday, March 7, at Hotel Astor, New York City, was pronounced a greater success than the previous one held at the Robert Treat, in Newark, in 1921. O. Frederick Rost, president of the Property Owners' Association, under whose auspices the dinner was given, acted as toastmaster. Among the speakers were T.E. Maxfield, of the New York Tribune, who told of the origin of Beachwood, through the combined efforts of the late B.C. Mayo and of the Tribune. Mayor Joseph H. Senior [the first mayor of Beachwood Borough] was the second speaker, who announced that at the end of his term as Commissioner, coming in a few weeks, he would not be a candidate for re-election, and would withdraw from official connection with the borough. This confirmed the statement that had been heard for some weeks, as to his intentions, much to the regret of the Beachwood people assembled at the dinner, who had hoped he might be persuaded to reconsider his determination to withdraw... The Beachwood Woman's Club held a special meeting at the Sherman Square Hotel, New York, on last Thursday afternoon, Mrs. George Siffert presiding... Mrs. W.H. Talmadge, secretary, read a communication from a member who has spent the winter in Beachwood, deploring the pitiful condition of the cats that are abandoned and left to suffer each fall. It was voted that an effort be made to have Mrs. Jasper Lynch, president of the Ocean County S.P.C.A. Address the members at one of the meetings next summer, with a view to forming a branch of the chapter in Beachwood... O. Fred Rost, before he sailed for Europe a week ago, bought a fast motor boat, of the hydroplane type, in Baltimore, and has had it shipped to Toms River. It is stated that the new craft is expected to make forty miles an hour. Buck Woolley will put the boat in shape, and Chris Ellenberger will tune up the engine. CEDAR RUN [section of Manahawkin] W.S. Cranmer last week sold the following farms: L.B. Holloway, West Creek, to J.H. Batcher, New York; Edith Fafflock, Barnegat, to Orest Caselli, New York; Nina Taylor, Forked River, to Joseph Weiss, Brooklyn; Peter Glenn, Barnegat, to W.S. McKinley, Pleasantville, N.Y.; George W. Kenfield, Forked River, to John Fabian, Jersey City; John Cranmer, Cedar Run, to Joseph Levy, Dover, N.J. G.C. Giberson is very busy with his mill. Properties in Cedar Run are being repaired and brightened up and look better than in years, all bespeaking a brilliant future and maintaining its record as being the “Hub” of the “Hub” of the county. Fred Cranmer, Coast Guard, was home several days this week. Always glad to see his smiling face. Our town was stirred with excitement one day last week when the tragical news was officially announced that a famous mule belonging to one of our important citizens was lost. A search was instituted and his “White Honor” was discovered on the automobile bridge, where he had evidently gone for enjoyment of the good, clear crisp salt air that our real estate dealer dotes on. “Tony,” however, had a hair-raising tale to tell that the mule attacked him on the bridge while on his truck, and momentarily expected to be tossed or kicked into the bay, but fortunately escaped. Her name should be Maud. A liberal award will be given to anyone hereafter finding Maud astray. FORKED RIVER Watson Penn had a Lakewood party out flounder fishing on both Saturday and Sunday. Wats reports a catch of 200 Saturday and 250 on Sunday—whether that many flounders or that many pounds we are not sure, which. Capt. Joe Smires will rebuild a large boat for Joshua Shreve, of Barnegat, the craft having been damaged badly. Both tom cod and herring have been caught in the bay by our fishermen. ISLAND HEIGHTS The old stork is not dead yet. He was seen hovering over Windsor Park last week, and left a twelve-pound boy at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wheelen. The young man is named Charles Francis. The library is well patronized these days. There are now 91 who take out books, and there were 242 books in circulation during February. Besides fiction, the library is accumulating historical and reference books. LAKEHURST Barney Bradley has bought the Ralph H. Wilbur properties on Union Avenue, formerly occupied by Harry Excel, has removed the buildings and is excavating for a larger building on the site. LANOKA Capt. M.V. Bunnell, one of our old baymen, always has a joke for every one when he meets them. It is quite interesting to sit and listen to some of his stories on a rainy day, and he is always sure to chase away the blues. Captain still follows oystering down the river, just adding a few more bushels to the thousands he has already caught. He is in good health, works every day and tells some good jokes as he goes along. LAVALLETTE Frank Faulkenburg had the mishap to run off the road at Ortley, last week, when his car turned turtle and he was pinned under the car for over three hours before he was found. He was hurt quite badly. We will soon have our boardwalk on the beach front and public dock on the bay ready for the summer. MONEY ISLAND Things are beginning to look pleasant around here now and visitors are expected to arrive every clear week end until the final arrival of the summer colony. Visitors to this place are requested by the constable to use a little more care in throwing away burning matches, lighted cigarettes, or cigar stumps. During the past week at least two fires were caused by such carelessness, and might have been disastrous, had not the constable and one or two others been within call. OCEAN GATE Charles Guttentagg [founder of the Ocean Gate resort that eventually became a borough] and Mrs. Chas. Harmon, of Philadelphia, were Tuesday visitors here. H.D. Black left on Thursday for Philadelphia, to sign up the contract for the new club house of the Ocean Gate A.A. [Athletic Association]. The Toms River Ford Agency, it is reported, have sold a new tractor to John Madden, one to Chris Angerer and a new Ford tractor to the borough. It is reported D.H. Black will have two trucks on the job this season to give better service in the ice business. The owners of the Ocean Gate Inn, formerly owned by William Branson are here this week giving the place a new spring cost of paint. It is expected the new train from New York to Toms River, which starts running next Sunday, will bring quite a lot of people down for the day. Charles Gutentagg, of Philadelphia, was a Tuesday visitor here, looking over his new home, which is under construction on Naragansett Avenue. PINE BEACH Those who were in this place the summer that Willard Wilson, proprietor of the Remington Hotel, New York City, was managing the Pine Beach Inn may recall the dashing “Lord Gray.” He drove a big green racing car, ardently courted Mr. Wilson's daughter, Marjorie, and in the fall eloped with her. He posed as a British army officer, and while in New York and Newport, previous to his arrival in Pine Beach, was welcomed into some of the homes of the “400.” Society girls lionized him as a dancer, especially a tangoer,” and he gave dancing lessons to members of some of the most exclusive families. New comes from England that his love of leisure, together with his capacity for borrowing money which he failed to return, has led to his arrest. Investigation has shown that instead of belonging to the British peerage, he was the son of very humble though honorable parents, his father being a cab driver in Glasgow, and his mother kept a boarding house. Like all those who borrow and fail to pay there comes a day of reckoning. Now he is serving a prison term in England. The latest rumor about the Inn is that it is to be a boy's preparatory school. The rumors about the Inn would fill a book. Hotelkeepers from the Adirondacks, New York, the Pocanos, Toms River, Florida and many other places have been mentioned as possible buyers. Other rumors have been that it was to be bought as an army or navy hospital; it was to be taken over by the government; it was to be turned into an apartment house; it was to be used as a sanitarium, or it was to be bought for a monastery. It has a beautiful location, is well furnished and well built and there is no reason why it should not be a success if properly handled. When it was open it was a big asset to Pine Beach [it lingered until 1933 when it was purchased to become Admiral Farragut Academy, operating until 1994. The original Inn, used as Farragut Hall, along with many of the other main campus buildings were demolished in the early 2000s. Large single family homes occupy part of the site; a municipal park covers the other, including Farragut Field]. With the exception of the New Jersey Avenue pier, the docks in Pine Beach are in a disgraceful condition. The New Jersey Avenue dock, built by Mr. Abbott, the county engineer, is in just as good condition as when first put up. Of the Inn dock only a few jagged posts, sticking out of the water, remain. The “T” end of the yacht club pier was carried away by the ice, and the rest of it is in a dangerous condition. It will cost quite a sum to fix it in time for the summer. The Henley Avenue dock, as usual, has been wrecked by the ice and cannot be used until repaired. The river is the chief asset to Pine Beach. It is the attraction that has drawn people here to buy and build. To use and enjoy the river it is necessary to have docks in order to get in and out of boats, and to make the swimming more enjoyable. But every year we have the same experience of the docks being carried away, and then temporarily patched up by the middle of the summer. Some of the people here who have their own docks, save them by dismantling them in the fall and putting away the timbers. No other place along the river acts in such a stupid and heedless way about the docks. Other resorts along here build their docks properly and then watch them. Every year Pine Beach, from the river, looks disreputable and shiftless because of the wrecked docks. Many of us watched the building of the New Jersey Avenue pier with great interest, wondering whether it would last. The piles weer put in much more carefully, and justify the money spent. Mrs. E.P. Smith, who keeps a general store here, has sold out to Mr. and Mrs. Halligan, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Smith has kept store for over ten years and has always been obliging and anxious to please her customers. She will be greatly missed by many who summer here. Mr. Halligan is in business in Philadelphia, and plans to put an addition to the store here and install a large refrigerator. He expects to run a truck down from Philadelphia with supplies for this place. Smoked meats and delicatessen supplies are among the articles he expects to sell this summer. It has been rumored that we are to lose our station agent, William L. Liming, on April 1, and that he has been granted a furlough of two years by the railroad. When Pine Beach was first opened we had neither station nor agent here, and our goods, baggage and freight were all dumped off to lie exposed to the weather or to be stolen, or else they were left in the freight cars until we dragged them out, or worst of all, they were carried over to the Heights, and we had to get them back the best we could. We well remember the day word was passed around that we had a station agent and we all appreciated his efforts to get our goods for us with as little trouble as possible. It was customary to walk over to the station, tell Mr. Liming what we were expecting, and then to be attended to courteously and expeditiously. If we wanted information about trips, rates, etc., or had complaints to make about goods damaged in transit, Mr. Liming was there to supply the needed information. He was instrumental in having school in the chapel instead of having Pine Beach children go over in the train to the Heights, hang around in the cold at noon and perhaps have to come home in the late train, while their parents were worried about them. When he came here first he certainly brought order out of chaos as regards freight and baggage conditions. SEASIDE HEIGHTS Paul Denner has a wireless receiving outfit at the Bridge cafe, and is setting the broadcast message nightly. [mid-1922 saw a “radio craze” for the nascent technology, and by year's end over 500 of the first radio stations were established] Seaside Heights borough school has its playground equipped with swings, see-saws, bars, etc. SEASIDE PARK Never in the history of Seaside Park has there been so many houses building in one winter as this year. Borough Clerk Aaron Wilbert is authority for the statement that some thirty-three building permits have been issued since last summer, on which the work has either been completed or at least started, and that enough more have been issued, on which work has not started, to make the total number fifty. He further says that every indication points to it being seventy-five before June 1. Fire broke out in the freezer of the Seaside Park Fishery, on Monday night, and a call for the fire company was sent in, and although they responded promptly the fire had gotten under such headway they could only save the buildings surrounding it. The crews of the several pounds at the lower end had struck for more wages and as the owners and crews could not agree on the amount asked the latter were discharged. It was thought the fire was started by one of the men. The plant was a total loss. Hutch Faunce is building forty new boats to add to his fleet of thirty-five that he had to hire out last summer. Hutch expects to have enough to go round next summer. Last year he couldn't supply the demand on busy days. SILVERTON Somethings that have been seen and heard this week that are harbingers of spring, wild geese flying north Monday, blackbirds warbling, flies buzzing, ants creeping around, and thunder and lightning on Tuesday, but Wednesday A.M. a flurry of snow and a strong gale of cold wind all day made it seem that winter had not lost its grip much. The first sweet note of the bluebird were heard Thursday A.M., when the sun shone lovely and warm and everything around us was more like gentle spring again. Bart Clayton has a gang of men at work setting out cranberry vines for another large bog. Cranberries are well worth cultivating; the prices they have brought the last few years, especially this year, when they are retailing in some places at 35 cents per quart [nearly $6 in 2022 dollars]. WEST CREEK Capt. Herbert Stiles has gone to Philadelphia to pilot the pleasure yacht Sylvia to Beach Haven for Capt. Clarence Parker. The warm weather is bringing out the wasps, an occasional mosquito, the frogs, baby chicks and garden implements. Those who have survived the grip [flu] and can navigate at all, are planning for an active campaign in their gardens and on their oyster beds. Oyster seed purchase is the topic among the men now. Captain Meirs, of Hampton, Va., brought a schooner load of three thousand bushels of these bivalves to Capt. Henry Cowperthwaite this week and more will follow soon. Wadsworth Shinn is the proud possessor of a radio outfit which is capable of receiving air messages as far distant as Detroit, Mich. This lad gives exhibitions of this wonderful invention whenever requested and can give public chronometer time daily. Wadsworth is a young lad and an expert in this work. He is also a member of the Amateur Radio Club. BONUS SECTION:
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