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Brief Sketch

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ailroad Facilities, Fine Inland Waterway and Delightful Location, and Magnificent

Opportunities in Real Estate.

pH COST OF LIVING SOLVED; COUNTY> OF PHENOMENAL. SPL!

ME WAYS OF GETTING AHEAD, mily which owns a. seashore lot and builds tial cottage thereon, in any one of the mim,rt » of Cape May county, has an immediate jve source of income, through either taking or renting the several suites of the cottage reason and living in the basement. Many iwners, after the season is over, raise the wt (if carrying the structure by receiving a rent during the eight months in which the vould otherwise remain idle. This plan is practical and substantial method of moneynd at the same time, of spending the sumhe sea at Wildwood. Seif Isle City. Stone Jcean City or other of the typical cottage There are hundreds who follow it and who ir summers a source of revenue as well as es. year after year. r and cheaper method is for the man with md modest salary, to purchase a bayside, »r shorr-suburban lot or tract, adjacent to of the innumerable bays or sounds and tie boathouse or bungalow, ranging from MO in cost. The actual maintenance of f families, under these conditions is under k. This fact is made possible by the plen-sea-foods, which can be had for the takwhich the waters of Cap .* May County ril seasons of the year. (Even if one does to procuring his own supply, he can purni baymen at small cost) This mode of of-doors living, is abundantly illustrated i.n<! the North Wildwood section of Fiveand the colony at Grassy Sound Draw•h latter forms one of the most unique on the Atlantic Coast. Proud Venice on Grassy Sound when it comes to piltterways. Also there are vast sections *t the edge of the Cape May County hirh are probably better adapted to the ho likes to live near the water—but not

•lilies arc exemplified in Tuckahoe, Stone ■ace and the several Wildwood mainland vhere lots can be purchased for the proand which are, at the same time, practirable for economic living. Court House is the "Gateway to Cape the "Florida of the North," just as is the "Gateway to Florida." The point that there is no need to journey a thous- • reach the l«and of the Orange, when md of Promise and vast resources becki 70 odd miles of one of the greatest bus•f the nation.

ADVANTAGES OVER FLORIDA, icre. Cape May County land is of the betu-i. value and quality than Florida * r ida’s fertile spots are largely made by application of disintegrated ground •phate risk, ranging from $15 to $50 year in cost to use, and yielding two •1 a doubtful third crop. With a tliousI t<* the nearest market and the conof . macs, the railroads, steamships '’Tature eat an enormous hole in one’s s in the end. • r hand, < ape May County offers y«4r >’ price you want and a handy market Expend as much money in fertil- *' Hay ‘ ounty farm as you will on a '"‘I you will have as much, if not more, end of the year than on the Florida tee u, auany Southern State, let us

she has 50,000 acres of pine lands, say that in the cultivation of stands supreme in this country, w the grower's bugbear. Jack Fi alter. Cape May County is only a li' and get there" of 161,500 over twenty million acres, ye* County is fourfold that of sort during the sumnifr i proposition to humanity is ft would work as hard for it While the coast resorts

SEA ISLE CITY’S TOAST Picturesquely located on the wave-washed shores of the Atlantic, probably no resort on the entire coast lus a more devoted following of friends than Sea Isle City. The bathing, fishing and gunning to be enjoyed here have endeared our little island to thousands and have established a lasting bond of mutual interest be- 1 tween our visitors and our citizens. Promoted doubtless by the real comfort and courtesy to be enjoved in our hotels and cottages, these cordial relations have continued for nearly twenty-fire years. Sea Isle City proposes this toast to its friends, old and new: “May this be the best Summer you ever have spent and may you spend it here!"

May County is forcing a recoi , ■ .. trough the green meadowland that agricultural lines. Her mi* . , . , , , * island shores to the wooded mainwhich have long remained d< when cleared, to be fruitfu . , , . is a thoroughly modern resort, aflight, sandy loam soil not . t every opportunitv to enjoy the consponds more quickly to thri , . , only in the best regulated conununimany other sections hav , avenues are brilliantlv lighted by elecgrade of earth. In the f , /crfcct sewerage system, and its water, early produce. Cape Ma\- ... . . , ’ ’most sparkling, is drawn from artesian ing the coming of the m . , , , tne hundred feet deep.

road traverses the length of the island, rider through its entire length a view of

surpassed on the Atlantic Coast. On this sea-girt isle pleasure- seekers will find escape from the stifling heat of the cities and inland towns. In the summer days there is wafted from the open sea, bracing, exhilarating air, imparting health and bringing comfort to the tired visitors. Sea Isle City is on the highest land between Long Branch and Cape May, portions of it being thirty-five feet above sea level, and as the island is only a quarter of a mile wide at its extreme width, it is swept continuously by cool salt water breezes no matter which way the wind blows. The temperature always registers

RAILROAD FACILITIES.

During the summer speedy and well a pointed ! trains run between Philadelphia and Sea Isle City. The city is reached by two lines of railroads—the Reading ^ from Chestnut Street Wharf and the Pennsylvania‘a

from Market Street Wharf.

The distance by the Pennsylvania road is 65 miles ,1 1 by tlte Reading several miles shorter. Business \

men can readily travel to and from Philadelphia daily., thu* enabling them to spend the nights with their fami- ^ lies by the sc; During even the mid-summer months scarcely al night passes during which visitors to Sea Isle City are- !; able 10 dispense with bed covers. How happy they, who, from the toil and tumult of i

their lives.

Steal to look down where nought but ocean strives.** —Byron’s Island.. «;

A FEW HOURS CATCH ALONG THU Itf^lCH IN THU COUNTY

^ In 1630 a sect on of land stretching sixteen milea along the bay an-l running sixteen miles inland was purchased from the Indians inhabiting Cape May County, and variously identified as the Lenni-Le-nnpes or Delawares, a branch of the Algonquin races from the North, '’or a price consisting of the usual assortment of 0 lored beads, and trinkets of brass and iron, by the 1 Miu li Governor Van TwiUer, for two directors of the 1 ..-t India Comiuny, Messrs. Goodyn and Blomaert. This transaction brought about very little change in the county’s condition or in its development The ea. ly records are liazy in the extreme,

: :!• h settlers came here between 11 New England and Long Island. • have a large representation to- '■ 'h i: I and business life of the a as < irson. Hand, Ludlatn, ^tdl.-. Townsend, Champion, Conaiv only a few of the represen•uiity, which fr«m the earliest

yet we find that 1604 and 1700 1 The names of tl day in tiie polit county. Such 1 Learning, Tathei over. Stile and V a. iativc names of tie

smiling orchards and vegetable farms. Already the demands of the resorts for agricultural produce is taxing the abilities of the county’s present farm hinds to the extreme. The fast suburban trolley has been realized in the Pennsylvania’s third-rail line to Atlantic City. This same system is already tapping at the Cape MayCounty Gateway and is at Millville, within twelve miles of our horde! s. Even the intlifTerent reader or observer cannot help but f ee, within the ensuing few seasons, its ultimate completion and connection with the several excellent icsoi; systems now built and the systems now being planned, notably from Stone Harbor to Cape May Court House, from Wildwood across the meadow. to Rio Grande and the Reading Railroad, and from Millville to Cape May, via Cape May Court House. Within a few years it will be possible for one to truverM the entire coast by trolley, when se\eral of the missing trolley links in the coastal system, now proposed or building, have been completed.

woods, through Haddonficld, Long-a-Coming, Blue Anchor to Tuckahoe, or by way of Gloucester. Blackwood Town and Cross Keys to Tuckahoe. a journey, which, barring accident, occupied the best part of a week and which eventually landed one on Sewell’s Point, which is now represented by the newer portion of Cape May. Another stage route came down through Salem and Cumberland Counties, skirting the Delaware River, converging at Dennis Creek, near Goshen, where various roads formed a fiveiMiinted star, radiating in as many directions. There was a road paralleling the coast from old Cape May to Sandy ll-stk. which is -represented in the present shore road of to-day, and which forms the backbone of the proposed State Ocean Boulevard, now called the Ocean Highway. The summer seashore visitor also made the trip to < aia* May County in u leisurely sailing trip down the Delaware River, if he so liked: but in either casts the modern traveler w hirled to the shore in from ninety niinuUs tq Stone Harbor, to 100 minutes to Wild-

times have I this section, ing. timber 1 of game, all mere kdlmg.

fish, shellfish and 1 ting the edges of 11 iginie'n a|)pnvi. 1 t...i of the more hart through the lev..;, beautiful 1 l.m ! sued the •jitijin. . about the Water o,

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way fro;a Ne\, settlement- .m saucy Engli-d wludebunt at be May County,

' " '•h-ntified with the vital concerna of

These pioneers engaged in whale fish- " ng. .-"me little farming and pursuit

" i of which could be obtained for the

lie Im*o.hes and inlets teemed with 111.I wild fowl; the heaps of shells dot- <•! i he meadow, attesting to the abur•ii I he oy>tor and clam. A band pioneers chopped their waj' ring morasses of the chain of ksrlmg the ocean front and purh- h whi. h romped and thrashed i :h. bay and O.ean. In Revolu- -• hoi. Is i,f patriots dashed out of Gul. Heii-ford, Townsend and nai wiiitlfboat*, manned by fr..ni ten and prey ed on English coinmi went through the rapes on its 1 m In Piiil.idelphi 1 and other •••m i. Many a handsome and ; Struck Colors to the dread.it from the hardy heroes of Capo

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