Resort To Give Welcome To 1926 (Continued from Page 1) service will start at 9 o’clock 'with a social hour from '10 till 11 o’clock. The new Stinson memorial chimes at this church will ring in the new year, start ing a few moments before twelve. Other churches of the resort also are arranging for late serv ices on Thursday night and large congregatibns are expected to be present. In the hotels, special New "Year’s entertainments have been :arranged for. Among the large .'beach front hotels which will have special dances and suppers on Thursday night are the Am bassador, •- which will have a dance in the Renaissance Room; the Breakers, where merrymak ers will greet the New Year in the Roof Garden, and*the Chel sea, which will open the Grill Room for the New Year’s revelers. Countless parties will be held throughout the resort on Thurs day evening. Among the larg est of these is the affair to take place at the new Elks’ Home, on Virginia avenue. The members and their ladies, along with guests, will assemble at the home that evening for a big New Year’s Eve party, which prom ises to be one of the social events of the season. The annual New Year’s dance and reception of the local coun cil, Knights of Columbus, will be held in the ballroom of the DeVille Hotel on Thursday night. This affair will start at 9 o’clock. Edward J. O’Keefe is chairman of the committee. Practically every cafe and ___ cabaret in the city has booked special entertainment programs for New Year’s Eve and reser vations have been coming in rapidly for the past two weeks. Tables in many of the establish ments are reported to be selling at premiums and by Thursday night it is expected that these places will all be filled to full capacity. From every viewpoint, the welcome of 192$ promises to be one of the warmest of, history in Atlantic City and Ventnor and the blowing of whistles and ring ing of church bells throughout the city at midnight Thursday will find the resort alive and wide-awake. Cape May Ferry Will Complete Coast Road (Continued from Page 1) Coastal Highway passes through the territory which made the first history of the United States, touching at Salem, staid old Boston, New York, the New Jer sey coast resorts, Washington, Fredericksburg and the cities made prominent in the War be tween the States. ' The New York road is open. A celebration in this city a week ago commemorated that. A con tinuous, very straight, very safe stretch of paved highway con nects this city with the nation’s metropolis, New York. The Liewes-Cape May ferry will be in operation next summer. The state has refused aid, but the project will be carried through, anyway, private funds being used in building a wharf on the New Jersey side. The Cape May Progressive League has appointed a-commit tee to confer with Col. Jesse Rosenfeld to arrange means of raising money for the dock by private subscription. They have pledged their support, and have promised that the ferry would be in operation in 1926. The ferry will probably open in May. The next step will then be the construction of a bridge between Beasley’s Point and Somers Point. This is an under taking that has been demanded by Cape May County interests for some time. The volume of travel that the New York road will pour over Jersey on its way down the coast makes the con struction of this bridge more necessary now than ever before. With the opening of the Dela ware ferry next 'spring, the present Coastal Highway route will be altered so as to keep the motorists closer to the shore than at present. Where now the cars avoid South Jersey, going through the southeastern part of Pennsylvania and through Mary land to Washington, the new route will take the tourist right down the Jersey coast from New York to Cape May, via ferry to Lewes, Delaware, and on across the state to Maryland. It will shorten the route from the North to the South by several hundred miles. New Bus One To Run To Northern Resorts Permit for Bus Line From At lantic City to Asbury Park Approved by North Jersey Resort Officials A bus line is being formed to run between Atlantic City and Asbury Park. The Public Tran sit Company has applied to the board of commissioners of As bury Park for a permit to have the northern terminus of its At lantic City-Asbury route in that city. It has not yet applied for a permit in Atlantic City, but is expected to do so soon. The Asbury commissioners have al ready given their consent to the project. The company plans to operate 17-passenger parlor cars of latest design and will charge $3.10 for a one-way passage between the two resorts. The state legislature is now considering a higher tax on motor freight trucks doing an inter state business. Damage to New Jersey’s high uCourtesy-rService—Las ’ J~ Girls’ $5.00 to $10.00 Dresses' Now Tremendously Reduced ToiarflJQ HP If a bargain price will clear them, these lovely dresses will ||1 m | M If be sold quickly. Warm jerseys, flannels, tweeds, velvets, ^ n/ - balbriggans, wool crepes. Newest colors, newest styles, newest trimmings; broken sizes 8 to 16 years. - - ways, state, county and municipal by heavy freight buses is em phasized as the reason for a sug gested revision of the schedule of motor truck fees. The maxi mum fee now is $99 a year for the heaviest truck that uses the highways. Complaint is made that the trucks in competition with railroads and trolleys in handling of freight are escaping a just share of the burden of tax ation. Growth of motor passenger buses, especially those doing business thru several cities, has prompted the Republican sena tors to propose a change in the law governing the imposition of a five per cent gross tax levy. In Atlantic City, Newark and Jer sey City, for instance, where buses do a strictly city business, the five per cent gross tax is levied. But where buses, having terminals in Camden and Wood bury, ' operate thru other towns, the complaint is that the Com panies only pay franchise taxesl in the municipalities Where they! pick up and discharge passengers. In other words, roads of several municipalities are subjected to wear and tear of the buses, with out getting a share of the gross receipts tax. The Public Utility commission has authority over approval of municipality permits for pas senger buses operating in several cities. All Cape May County To Exhibit in Phila. Cape May County will be well represented in the coming Phila delphia Sesqui-Centennial of 1926. In a recent meeting with Sesqui-Centennial committeemen at Cape May Court House, the officials of Cape May County en gaged two booths, Nos. 4 and 5, in thp Resorts and Real Estate Section, in the Palace of Agri culture and Food Products Build ing, during the Sesqui-Centen nial. • * The booths come very high, but it was explained by Mayor Champion, of Ocean City, chair man of the committee of officials, that a large amount of the ex pense will be borne by the re sorts of Cape May County, The rural sectiohs Will- also benefit by the exhibit of their various products, and will be asked to co-operate in the financing and planning of the exhibit, The cost of the exhibit is esti mated at about $§O,00O and each municipality will be charged in proportion to its assessed valu ation. Wildwood charges will amount to approximately $7,000 and Ocean City’s to about $8,000. These booths in the Sesqui Centennial are agreed to be one of the biggest advertisements that Cape May County could put across. It is an opportunity that comes but once in a lifetime, and the officials fully realize that the bigger and better the exhibit from Cape May County is, the bigger and better will be the fruitful returns, in the near future. The Sesqui-Centeifflial will advertise to thousands. It is Cape May County’s big chance and the southern resorts are not neglecting it. Another municipality to en gage space is Miami, Fla., which is preparing an elaborate exhibit. Argentine has appropriated $400,000 f6r a nation-wide exhibit. Durable Painting Thomas S. Crane & Sons 115 N. Massachusetts Ave. Estimates Marine 617 The local - Civitan Club will play Santa Claus to a number of deserving kiddies on December 30th, at the Hotel Ambassador/ by serving luncheons, delivering", candy, ^ toys, etc., and special entertainment for their guests. As Another^ Year Comes we again remind you of the import ance of making your will and ap pointing a thor oughly trustworthy Executor. One upon whom you can depend to effi ciently Carry - out your instructions is the Ventnor City National Bank. Come ill and con sult us freely, in perfect confidence. *ntfkme S. s. .