- • fi -f " • V' • a " r'&x'-y *wp¡*$* *, " v«t - 4«. \ PIONEER NEWSPAPER OF OCEAN COUNTY. V O LU M E 5 6 - N U M B E R 1 8 0fABI<I8KED 1 8 8 0 TOMS HIVER, N. J.. THUR8DAY AFTERNOON. DECEMBER 29. 1904 iASVAV»W iVW i W A ‘»‘ iWW i S 4 W W W they carried from one to two hun­ ly end, and it reads as follows : BIRDSEYE VIEW dred thousand people to and from A GALLANT “ In memoriam of Captain O. M. the Fair grounds with apparent ease. Hazleton, aged twenty seven years OF ST. LOUIS During the summer the Wabash SKIPPER eleven months and twelve days, who railroad had run a “shuttle" train was swept overboard and lost in How Capt. Hazleton Was Lost A Thriving but Dirty and Smoky from the Union depot to the Fair mid Atlantic Ocean during the fear­ City grounds, but that had been taken off In the Ocean Race ful gale of December 19, 1866,-from when we were there, and the trolleys the American yacht Fleetwing, gt, Louis is a thriving city. A carried the crowds without assis The sale at public auction to a while engaged in the great ocean junkman, of the once world famous „round plan of the city looks like tance from the railroads. By the yacht race lrom New York to Cowes, fbe outline of a hardshell crab, seen way, the George Gould system— the American schooner yacht Fleetwing, England. Life is a fathomless sen, fronubove. The curved river front, Wabash, Missouri Pacific, IronMoun which since has been brought to the light of heaven smiles on it and ,o miles long, makes one side ol the tain, ami other Gould roads— seemed Perth Amboy to be broken up, recalls is deckled with every hue of glory crabshell, an 1 the city line curves to be “ it’’ in St. Louis, the same as to many Ocean County people the and of joy. Anon dark clouds arise, lo the west to make the other. The the “ Petinsy” is in Pennsylvania and death ol Capt. Charles M. Haz eton contending winds of late go forth city is seventeen miles in diameter New Jersey. of Mannahawkin,the Fleetwing's cap­ and Hope sits weeping o'er the tain. She is hauled out on a dry Ir o n ) north to south, and about seven The wholesale district in St Louis, wreck” milei from east to west, counting the isof course down town, which means dock, in sight of the spot where a widest part. Its population is about near the river. The retail shopping monument is reared to the memory Jury Disagreed in the ol-the brave skipper, Capt. Hazleton, 600,000. centre and the big hotels are lrom Hatton-Ottmer Case In tome respects St. Louis re­ Fourth to Twelfth streets, and here washed from her deck in a mid-At Last Thursday afternoon the jury minds you of Philadelphia. Its too are the newpaper offices and lantic gale nearly forty years ago. in the Hatton-Ottmer case came in Uneliinthe business section, run- most of the huge banks and other The Fleetwing was built at New without a verdict, after being out aiaf north and south, are numbered, buildings of that character. They York in 1865 by Van Dusen, then a more than 24 hours. They had been beginning at the Mississippi, just as compare well with similar buildings famous yacht builder, to participate in once before in the afternoon, so in Philadelphia they begin at the in an ocean race, the first ot the kind in eastern cities. this time the Court dismissed them. Delaware, and each block streets its Many peop'e were deterred from ever held. Three yachts took part It is not likely the case will be re numbers with an even hundred, as visiting the St. Louis Fair by reports and each owner put up $30,000, tried this term, as the counsel for in Philadelphia style. Starts run­ of the way the hotels “ soaked” the making a purse of $90,000. George defense would probably object to the ning north and south, number from visitors there at the time of the first and Franklin Osgood owned the jurors. Mayor H. D. VanSant Market street, too. Then in the busi­ official ceremonies. A t that time Fleeting and she raced against the The jury in the George Dace case, ness part of the city, running east hotelroom could be obtained only at Henrietta and the Vesta. after being out almost as long as the and west are Market street, Locust, fabulous prices, and the street car The latter was owned by Pierre Fish and Game News Lonllard and James Gordon Ben­ Hatton case jury,came in with a ver CONSUL AT Pine, Spruce and Chestnut streets, lines were not in trim to transport The Newark fall says; nett had built the Henrietta. The diet of guilty. It is not often that two with a Broad street (Twelfth street) the people who wished to go to and Watson Penn, ot Forked River, Fleetwing measured 200 tons and juries out all.night at the same time, GUELPH, CAN. running north and south. There is from the Fair grounds has been shipping Quantities of perch was ro6 feet long, twenty-four teet and the jurymen tound the accomoda­ only a Broadway (Filth street) run But St. Louis people rose to the and other fish to .lames Steiner, of beam and eleven feet, eight inches tions anything but comfortable, it is H. D. VanSant is Told of His ning north and south, to remind the occasion. Scores of flat houses were Centre Market; and in the barrels draft. She was a keel yacht. said. Appointment easterner of New York. It is only turned into hotels. Boarding houses j -........ have been found numerous young The race was started on Decem­ The jury will come back on Janu fair to say for St. Louis, however, opened as if by a turn of Aladdin’s black drumfish, weighing ten or ber 11, 1866. The yachts hail wester­ ary 4, it is understood, to try appeal On Thursday of last week, Mavor that Broadway is broader than the lamp. It seemed that every vacant twelve ounces each They are ly weather all the way across the At­ cases. Howard D. VanSant of Island New York thoroughfare, in the busi­ place was turned into either a beer bearded and look like big Lafayette lantic. The Fleetwing made the The application ol Charles Hecht Heights received word from U. S ness part of the town, and Broad saloon, a boarding house or a res­ fish except that they have on their best time and would undoubtedly for a license at the Manhattan hotel, Senator John Kean, that the Presi­ street is also much wider than the taurant. When we were there at sides four or five vertical dark bars have won the race, had it not been Lakewood, was heard on Friday dent has designated him tor appoint­ Philadelphia namesake. the close of the fair, some of the like those ol the sheepshead. It is lor the accident of December 19, last, and the license refused by Judge ment ns Consul at Guelph, Ontario, Only the central part of the city boarding houses had put the price of probably that thfese fish had their when Captain C. M. Hazleton and Martin Canada. Mr VanSant had been on limits, running from the river back rooms down to fifty cents a day, not oiigin in the bay in 1903 and hav five of her crew were swept over­ the list ol probable appointees tor toward the Worlds Fair grounds, not of course including meals. The been there every since. Some young board by a gigantic wave, As it Surfmert on Duty Must the past three rears, waiting for a .which were directly west of the uniform price for a room in a board­ drumfish two inches long were seen was, the Fleetwing was second in Step Lively Hereafter vacant Consulship that might come Business part of the city, are built up ing house ora private house that took there that year by the writer, who the race. to South Jersey. and there is as much unbuilt lodgers, was a dollar a day. Some The new order from the General caught several of them and examin­ Captain Hazleton lived at that Guelph, Ontario, is a thriving town temtory in St. Louis as there is in of the restaurants had tailed, too,and Superintendent of the Life Saving ed them. In Penn’s shipments on time in Tottenville, Staten Island, ot more than ten thousand people on Chicago, Philadelphia or Greater shut up shop,but all the beer saloons Service is causing some consterna. Friday were a number ot the largest and the monument to his memory the Grand Trunk railway, fifty miles New York. The north and south were in active operation tion among the men enpaged in the tomcods ever seen in our market. stands in Bethel church yard, on the west ol Toronto, and perhaps 190 ends of the city limits are taken up The Jefferson hotel, at Twelfth service. The order reQuires that a One of them weighed over two and high rolling ground overlooking miles from Buffalo, N. Y. The psrtly by cemeteries and parks. and Locust streets, would compare man shall be in the watch tower one-half pounds. It is a singular Staten Island Sound. From the Consulship pays a salary of $1300, Everybody has heard ot the Union well with any hotel in New York or all hours ol the day and night and tact that tomcods were unknown to churchyard the Fleetwing can now with fees and perquisites worth per­ station at St.