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I THE KEYPORT WEEKLY XXXXVII. KEYPORT, N. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1916 NUMBER 33 27 DEATH OF MAN AND BOY DUE TO SHARK'S ATTACKS In Matawan Creek on Wednesday. SEARCHING FOR SHARK Lester Stilwell First Attacked and Stanley Fisher Dies in Hospital From Injuries Received -Joseph Dunn Escapes With Flesh on Leg in Strips. No time in recent years has been so much continued excitement hereabouts as on Wednesday, when maneating shark went up Matawan Creek as far as the old Propeller Wyckoff dock and attacked one of a party boys in bathing there, resulting in disappearance of the boy and the ability to get any clue of his until this morning, when it came the surface about 250 feet west the place where it disappeared.

The boy was Lester Stilwell, son William Stilwell of Church Street, is employed in Anderson's Saw Following his disappearance Stanley Fisher lost his life in searching for and the third person to be attacked Joseph Dunn of Brooklyn, aged years, who had the flesh on his right below the knee cut into strips as as his foot mangled while in bathing: front of the New Jersey Company's plant. About 2 o'clock the Stilwell who was 12 years old, accompanied by Johnson Cartan, Frank Clowes, Albert O'Hara and Charles Van Brunt, went in swimming in front of Fischer's bag factory along the creek. In joying themselves by repeated diving the boys would swim to the dock and this was being done for the last O'Hara and Cartan and Clowes ahead of Stilwell, when the former suddenly exclaimed "Oh, Lester's gone." His comrades turned toward the creek and they declare they saw the fins tail of the shark, and without waiting to dress they ran up town declaring a shark had taken young Stilwell. A crowd of men, boys, women girls soon congregated and an effort first was made in a boat to find man-eater and after an hour's effort pot producing any results Stanley Fisher, Arthur Smith and George Burlew removed their clothing and in bathing trunks dove overboard. They were cautioned against this course, but persisted, and they went about the edges of the creek, and Stanley repeatedly dove to the bottom in the hope of finding the body.

It was while he was thus engaged that he was attacked the shark, who drew him under water twice with a grip on his right between the knee and hip. As he came up the last time he called out: "Hel me," and Arthur S. Van Buskirk and W. H. Bryne, who were in a motor boat near by went to his assistance, Stanley in the meantime swimming with his free leg toward the sedges.

As neared them the shark crunched teeth together and stripped the flesh to the bone and disappeared. Mr. Fisher was helped in the boat and with a piece of rope a tourniquet was made which stopped the flow of blood some extent. hurried search for a physician was made, but they were all out of town and about a half hour later Dr. Reynolds came to the dock and gave the injured young man such attention as was possible and he was carried on an improvised stretcher to the Matawan station and placed aboard the 5:06 train for the hospital at Long Branch accompanied by William D.

Shepherd. Mr. Fisher was conscious all the time and declared more than once that he had had hold of the boy in the spot where he was last seen, and that the shark had let go the boy and attacked him. It was after o'clock when Mr. Fisher was placed on the operating table and he died at 7:40 o'clock, before any operation had been performed.

He was conscious all the time up to within five minutes of his death. Before Mr. Fisher was attacked by the shark Arthur Smith said he felt him brush by him and instead of his following the former he swerved in another direction and an instant later Stanley gave the alarm. There was a crowd of 200 or 300 people present at the time and the sight of Mr. Fisher being brought ashore was sickening, to state it mildly.

A half hour later Joseph Dunn of Brooklyn was bitten by the shark while swimming off the plant of the New Jer(Continued on page 4). For Sale. Building Lots near Station. Apply SHARK'S VICTIM FOUND. Body of Stilwell Boy Came to Surface of Matawan Creek This Morning.

The body of Lester Stilwell, who was killed by a shark Wednesday, was found at 5:15 this morning by Harry Van Clief, an engineer on the New Jersey Central Railroad, and William B. Clayton, who were on the Matawan Creek bank when it arose to the surface. The body was taken in charge 1 by Arrowsmith undertakers, after the consent for removal was obtained from Dr. Harry Neafie, the County Physician, who will view the body later this afternoon, as he had five other cases to look after before this one. Undertaker W.

E. Arrowsmith in examining the body reports that the left abdomen and left shoulder were eaten away and the right breast was torn open. The left ankle had also been chewed off and the flesh between the hip and thigh mangled. The intestines were also torn open. The face, however, was not disfigured.

The body was about 250 feet up the creek from where the boy was attacked and disappeared. There is no doubt but that the thunder shower last night had all to do with bringing the body to the surface. The funeral services of the Stilwell boy will be held at the home of his parents at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Leon Chamberlain will officiate and interment will be made in Rose Hill cemetery.

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COLUMN. Edited by the Local Union. No Settling Down for the Breweries. It is said the Rainier brewery, driven out of Seattle by Washington's prohibitory law, will open up "somewhere" in California. Inasmuch as California will itself vote on State-wide prohibition in November, it is more than likely that the beer plant will again be forced to move on.

But where? The states are going dry with startling rapidity -seven of them (counting Alaska) in wet and dry campaigns this year, others getting ready for campaigns. The united temperance forces are saying: "The distillery and the brewery and the winery must go We'll talk them out, and vote them out, and legislate them out." and they are not only saying it but doing it. An Object Lesson for Budget Builders. When a few weeks ago the Hon. Pierre L.

Bark, Russian minister of Finance, presented his budget to the Council of the Empire he said: "Despite war expenses amounting 12,000,000,000 roubles, and thanks to the abolition of the alcohol monopoly, the financial strength of the country i is growing. The savings of the nation since the beginning of the war have increased by 2,000,000,000 roubles." In an interview published in the Petit Parisien Mr. Bark has this to say concerning the effect of prohibition on the national finances: "The budget has been much less affected than one would have believed. The productivity of labor has increased on an average fifty per cent and all the fiscal resources which come from direct or indirect taxes have greatly developed. When we derived our revenues from vodka, it was as though we were forever drawing out, drawing out" -he made a gesture as though milking a vitality of the Russian people.

Now we seem to be taking merely the interest on their stored up strength and resourcefulness." Assistant Health Inspector Named. The Borough Board of Health held an important meeting Monday night, at which numerous complaints were entertained and steps taken to give them immediate attention. With a view to expediting matters, Policeman Asbury Mount was appointed an assistant inspector, to act under the direction of and in conjunction with the regular inspector in investigating complaints and searching out new sources of trouble. Miss Martha Moore and Mrs. P.

A. Sondergaard were before the Board on behalf of the Keyport Improvement Association offering the services of that organization in co-operation with the Health Board in warding off an epidemic here of infantile paralysis or in any other way they might be of service. They suggested that famikes with children coming here from New York be quarantined for a period of not less then ten days and stated if this course I were decided upon the K. I. A.

would search out such families and keep the health authorities informed. The offer was accepted with thanks. Girls Wanted Girls Wanted to learn to pit cherries. Steady work year round. You can make $10 to $5 a week.

We pay you while learning.Sunnyland Fruit Mat 2t MRS. HARRISON'S WILL. Local Relatives to Share i in the EstateGustave Maurer an Executor. Mrs. Hannah Harrison, wife of Albert C.

Harrison of Red Bank, made her will on May 6 last, shortly before her death, and the same has been probated at Freehold. She named her husband and Gustave Maurer executors of the will, the full text of which follows: First. I order my executor or executors hereinafter named to pay all my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses out of the first moneys that may come into their hands after my decease. Second. I give and bequeath to my brother, Aaron H.

Bedle, the sum of five dollars. Third. I give and bequeath to my nieces, Elizabeth Van Duzer McIntyre and Catherine Van Duzer Healey, each the sum of five dollars. Fourth. I direct and order my executor or executors hereinafter named to set apart and in trust the equal onehalf of my remaining estate, both real and personal, and to pay the receipts, profits and interests therefrom to my husband during his lifetime, and upon his death I give and bequeath all of such part of my estate so held in trust, as follows: To my sister, Louisa Bedle Ward, the equal one-third part of said trust fund; To my brother, Asbury Bedle, the equal one-sixth part of said trust fund: To my brother, Elijah Bedle, the equal one-sixth part of said trust fund; To my nieces, Frances Ward and Jennie Ward Sproul, daughters of my sister, Louisa Ward, to each the equal onetwelfth part of said trust fund.

To my nephews, sons of my sister, Amanda Bedle Aumack, Alvin Aumack and Jesse Aumack, to each of them the equal one-twelfth part of said trust fund. Fifth. The rest, residue and remainder, being the equal one-half part of my estate not hereinbefore disposed of, I give and bequeath sa follows: To my sister, Louisa Ward, the equal one-third part thereof; To my brother, Asbury Bedle, the equal one-sixth part thereof; To my brother, Elijah Bedle, the equal one-sixth part thereof; To my nieces, Frances Ward and Jennie Ward Sproul, daughters of my sisterLouisa Ward, to each, the equal onetwelfth part thereof; To my nephews, Alvin Aumack and Jesse Aumack, sons of my sister, da Aumack, deceased, to each, the equal one-twelfth part thereof. Sixth. I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint as executors of and trustees under my last will and ment, without bonds, my husband, Albert C.

Harrison, and Gustave Maurer, of the borough of Keyport, State of New Jersey, hereby revoking and annulling any and all wills if such were by me heretofore made and executed. "The Ne'er-Do-Well" at Surf Theatre. The film version of Rex Beach's "The Do- will be shown at the Surf Theatre on Wednesday. The picture was produced by the Selig Polyscope Company, of Chicago, and is one of the most remarkable moving pictures ever staged. Although it takes fully two and one-half hours to run, there is not a scene that could be eliminated without detriment to the continuity of the picture.

The acts are swift and full of incident, the exciting episodes numerous; and the tension does not let down in between times, as is the case with most pictures that we see on the screen. A large and complete cast is headed by Kathlyn Williams and Wheeler Oakman, and the entire company which made "'The Spoilers" famous. In order to acquire the requisite atmosphere, the entire company spent several months in Panama, and the result has proved well worth the trouble hand expense. The exterior scenes are striking and beautiful, and at all times there is the interest of a strange country, people and customs. This production is shown in ten reels.

Manufacturer's to Have Banquet. The Monmouth Manufacturers' Association of Keyport and Matawan will hold its first annual banquet at Seidler's. Beach next Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. There will probably be over 100 in attendance, and Frank Seidler will serve one of those splendid dinners, for which the place has gained a wide reputation. Wanted.

Young man to help machinist. One who has had some experience with sewing machines, preferred. STEINER SON, adv. Second Street. Delivery Wagon For Sale.

Cheap. Apply to Phelps adv. tf. CONTRACT AWARDED FOR REPAIRING FILTER BEDS SHARK CAUGHT AT BELFORD. Bathers Should Not Venture Beyond the Life Lines.

A nine-foot man eating shark was caught by Herman Tarnow, a Belford fisherman, on Tuesday. The shark had badly cut up some of the pounds of fishing nets in the bay and was caught only 120 feet from the low water mark of the Belford shore. The sharks have entered the bay and are liable to pay Keansburg a visit, but there is not much danger if all bathers along this shore will not take to the deep water. This notice is published as a warning to all the Keansburg bathers, not to frighten them from going into the water, but as a warning of precaution to the venturesome persons who are forever swimming out past the life lines in deep water. Sharks do not usually come in shallow water, or in shoal water that has a sandy bottom.

The cause of sharks being so close to shore, and for that matter in the bay, is on account of the shortage of fish and other food they depend upon for existence. It i is also said the testing grounds off Cape Hatteras has disturbed the sharks and caused them to scatter in large schools and it is these that are passing up and down the New Jersey coast. It is given as a reason why the New Jersey Coast has not before been bothered with sharks that there have been many ocean liners passing to and from New York from which waste has been thrown overboard which has fed other fish and made food for the sharks. Some people are under the impression that the waters in this section are not warm enough for sharks, but it must be realized that the gulf stream has been coming nearer and nearer to this coast each year, which has not only made a change in the temperature of the water but also the climate. It is said the gulf stream is nearing the New Jersey coast on an average of half a mile each year.

Auto Bus Goes Over Bank. A number of employes of the powder plant at Parlin had a miraculous escape from serious injury Saturday afternoon when the bus in which they were making the trip to Parlin went over an embankment near Cheesequake. The bus, which makes several trips daily, was running along at a moderate rate when something went wrong with the steering gear. The chauffeur shut off the power, but the big car took to the side of the road and skidded over the embankment, landing upside down against a tree a few feet from the foot of the incline. There were about fifteen passengers in the bus and while all were (pretty well shaken up no one was serously hurt.

They had to make their ay out of the wreck through the windows, breaking the glass for the purpose. The only injuries reported were to Percy Heyer of West Keyport, whose left leg was strained and bruised; Harry Winters of Keansburg, arm hurt, and Emmett Walling, a cut lip. The bus was later hauled back to the roadway, little the worse for the plunge. Hear Addresses on Children's Diseases. Drs.

H. S. Cooley, Alois Peteler, W. B. Allen and H.

W. Hartman of Keyport; Dr. D. E. Roberts of Holmdel and Dr.

C. C. Straughn of Matawan were among those who attended a meeting of physicians at Atlantic Highlands on Tuesday, held in connection with the campaign to check the spread of infantile paralysis in this section. Dr. Brown of the New York Health Department and Dean of Bellevue Medical School, and Dr.

Willard of Cornell University, ha specialist in children's diseases, gave impressive addresses which proved very interesting and undoubtedly helpful to the physicians assembled. Girls Wanted on sewing machines. Bewhile learning. Experimake good money. STEINER SON, Street, Keyport.

-adv. Good Sea Worthy to let by day or Walling, boat landing in rear Walling's. Bait and shedder -adv. tf. Batteau For Sale Bargain.

In perfect condition, comparatively new. Apply Phelps Cherry. -adv. tf. DeWitt's kidney pills at Chadwick's -adv.

BOSS BARBERS' ASSOCIATION. Organized In Keyport-Prices to Advance on August 1. The boss barbers of Matawan and Keyport met on Sunday afternoon, in M. H. Dietrich's shop, Keyport, and organized a boss barbers' association by the election of the following officers: President--George Heuser, Matawan.

-W. F. Eckhart, Keyport. Secretary and Treasurer--M. H.

Dietrich, Keyport. The boss barbers present were: From Matawan--George Heuser, John Mulsoff, Louis Macholl, George Schmidt. From Keyport--Tony Rapollo, W. F. Eckhart, Joseph D'Artri, M.

H. Diedrick, W. Rapollo, D. G. Young.

Business conditions were discussed and it was decided that an advance in prices was desirable, as shops in other cities had some time ago made the prices as agreed upon at this meeting, The following prices were adopted to take effect August 1 in both Matawan and Keyport: Haircutting, 25c; shaving, 15c; shampoo, 25c; singing, massage, 25c; beard trimming 15e; all tonics, 10c; children's hair cutting, 20c, except Saturday, 25c. The next meeting will be held August 31 with John Mulsoff, Matawan. Birthday Party at 93. Mrs. Matilda Voorhees of Hazlet had a surprise party on Thursday of last week in celebration of her 93d birthday.

She received a number of useful gifts and postal cards and $70 in cash. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Latham, Mr.

and Mrs. Harvey Hyer, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Hyer, Mr.

and Mrs. Harvey S. Cowles, Mr. and Mrs. George W.

Voorhees, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Cowles, Mr. and Mrs.

Charles D. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester V. Walling, Mr.

and Mrs. Emil Pimper, Mr and Mrs. C. Calvin Walling, Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Curtis, Mrs. John Hope, Mrs. John L. T.

Webster, Mrs. P. Otto Weigand, Mrs. Emma Peseux, Mrs. Emeline Conrow, Mrs.

Ida V. M. Ackerson, Mrs. J. C.

Kelsh, Misses Melissa Hyer, Ella Hyer, Hulda Hyer, Hulda Marie Latham, Nellie Keiler, Elsie Walling, Edna M. Weigand, Annie A. Cowles, Sarah Johnson, Lillian Henson, and Alice Henson, William Heyer, Ernest Hyer, Edward Hyer, Harvey Hyer, Charles Roland Johnson and Kenneth Voorhees. Class Initiation. At the next regular meeting of White Oak Camp, No, 51, Woodmen of the World, to be held in their meeting rooms, Keyport, Tuesday evening, July 18, there will be a class initiation of several members.

The initiation will be conducted by the officers of the camp, assisted by the uniform rank. The uniform wank is selected from young men of the camp who have been thoroughly drilled by Capt. W. H. Bryan, and now go through their work with military precision.

Visitors from Perth Amboy and Red Bank camps of the Woodmen of the World are expected to be present. Refreshments have been provided for and will be served after the business meeting. The officers and members are looking forward to this meeting 111 anticipation of a royal good time, Mr. Dechert's Father Drops Dead. John Dechert of Passaic, father of Richard R.

Dechert, proprietor of the Surf Theatre, Keyport, and Bijou Theatre, Hackensack, dropped dead yesterday on the porch of the Hackensack Boat Club, his death being attN buted to the excessive heat. Mr. Dechert, who assisted his son in the management of the Hackensack theatre, was about 60 years of age, and besides the son is survived by a widow. He was a member of the Pastie Lodge of Elks. Six Used Ford Cars For Sale.

From $150 to $300. At Central Garage, Broad Street. Brown has the agency for the Reo Car. Stop in and look it over--adv. 4t.

Female Help Wanted. Statistics. sale Charles P. Tuthill, A of home-made bread and cake registrar of vital will be held in the Templeton Store this statistics for the borough of Keyport, Saturday afternoon reports the following for June: and evening by the Marriages Boy Scouts. Ice Cream will alse be Births on 0.

Deaths Learners on skirts, also hand sewers; good pay to begin with Keyport Skirt adv. tf. Armory Building. Bowne Brothers' Proposal Accepted COST TO BOROUGH $1,650 Ganford Company Asks to Have Maintenance Bond Canceled But Are Refused -Much Other Business Before Council Monday Night. Mayor Walling presided and all of the were present at the Councilmen regular semi-monthly meeting of the Borough Council held in Borough Hall Monday night.

A communication was received from the State Department of Public Roads, returning a copy of the contract between the borough and the Ganford Company for the paving of Broad Street and giving notice that the same had been approved, The communication WAN ordered filed. Dickerman English, who have the contract for supplying the borough with coal, wrote asking what shipments of coal would be required this month and recommending that the borough start now to lay in the fall and winter supply. The same was referred to the Water Committee and Superintendent of Publie Works. Four communications were received from the Ganford Company, Broad Street contractors, and they were read and acted upon separately, In the first, request was made to have the three- year maintenance bond canceled on the ground that since the contract was executed numerous cuts had been made in the streets by the borough for sewer and water laterals and these had so changed conditions that they did not feel they should be held responsible for future settlement of the road bed. The request was discussed at length, after which it was upon motion refused.

The company also gave notice that they would not be responsible for the settlement of any curbing, due to their excavation, which has been set since the contract was awarded, and the Council came back with a motion that the Clerk notify the Ganford Company they would I be held responsible under their conract. A request for an extension of time for completion of the work was referred to Engineer Cooper and action on a claim for extra compensation for excavation was deferred to a later meeting, Thomas E. Kearney asked that his bill for rent of certain tools to Gustave Voeleker during the period of the res construction of the water works, be paid by the borough, claiming that Mr. Voelcker acted as agent for the borough. The matter was discussed at length, but no action was taken.

Miss Martha Moore and Mrs. P. A. Sondergaard were present as representatives of the Keyport Improvement Association, and stated that at a meeting held that afternoon the Association had instructed them to appear before the Mayor and Council and offer their cooperation in preventing any possibility of the epidemic of infantile paralysis spreading in Keyport. They were informed by the Mayor that the matter was within the jurisdiction of the Board I of Health and asked that they present the matter to that Board, which WaR then in session, but stated that any operation asked for by said board Association within the power of the officials of the Borough of Keyport would be granted.

Hendrick Poling addressed the meet. ing and stated that he understood 4 complaint had been made by Garrett Jones regarding the washing of certain dirt over his property. Mr. Poling stated position in the matter and his what he had done to save his property. The matter not being under the present jurisdiction of the borough officials, was laid over.

Mr. Poling was informed that the portion of Walling Terrace upon which the trouble originated, had not a. yet been accepted by the borough. Mr. Poling thereupon stated that he would prepare the necessary peticion covering the matter.

Thistle reported that the new feed Mr. water heater had been at the water pumping station for several weeks, but not yet been set up and wanted had to know what was going to be done with it. Upon motion the Superintendent of Works was instructed to have Public it erected. (Continued on page 8.) to work ginners paid enced operators Second pleasure boats Benjamin of L. B.

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