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ATLANTIC COAST NEWS

VOL. XXXII.—NO. 16 Easter Edition SEA ISLE CITY, N. J M FRIDAY. APRIL 6, 1917 ~ Second Section 3 Cents a Copy, $1^0 a Year

Ocean City—America’s Greatest Cottage Resort

OCEAN CITY. Ocean City, one of the prettiest of the New coast resorts, is a picturesque and althful surntner resort to which tens of thousands of visitors annually travel in the search of »t, recreation and pleasure. It is delightfully situated on an island boundd on the north by Great Egg Harbor Inlet, and i the south by Corson’s Inlet, having a beachront of'seven miles, with the finest kind of lathing. It has a permanent population of 1500, and a summer population of from 46,000 \ 60.000, ail of yhom are comfortably located n Ocean City’s fine hotels and summer cottages. Ocean City had a good start, and like a good xt, that is a big help to successful results. Yes, Ocean City was a big, robust, healthy, out->f-doors baby. Hygienically pure and free from i stimulants, it just grew. There never s such a baby on the South Jersey coast, and erybody was interested in its diet and bringl up, and there were quite a few who firmly Sieved that no baby could thrive who wasn't aised on the bottle. And so ours was quite an nent to them. But, pshaw, it never even |felt the need of a bottle, and naturally it grew fast 30 much the faster and sturdier, and, like . he Hebrew children, had a rosier, healthier :ountenance, and more brawn than older comPpetitors on the old-time diet. Then, soon the ■ doubters got wise to the'situation and ccncludf ed the baby was doing fine and had every chance f for a great future. So they, too, came and I helped in many ways. Still there was enough f contention over it to develop its moral and physical strength and to establish self-confidence, and today, in the perfection of young manhood, jt is bigger, healthier and wealthier than some others old enough to be its father. . V jort Still Young. Thirty-five years ago the projectors of Ocean (Sty started on the proposition of making the desert to blossom as the rose. Everyone who views its delightful development can judge how far success has rewarded the efforts. Ocean City’s assessed valuation is now nearly nine million dollars, and is made up largely from values in delightful cottage homes such as few other resorts can boast of. It i*» par excellence the City of Summer Homes, occu, -d uy their owners, whose chief ambition is to get the maximum of clean enjoyment out of the investment. To introduce Ocean City to new friends there are quite a number of attractive cottages, bungalows and apartments for rent at very reasonable rates, in desirable locations, experience having shown that usually one year’s renting makes an owner of his own home the second. As Ocean City was put on the water wagon right at the start for a permanency, it has been the great object of its government to secure the very finest quality of that liquid, and the arte-

sian flow which supplies its many homes is the purest chemically, of any water supply on the coast * Ocean City has developed business ability in its citizens of a very high order, and its city government demands the very highest efficiency in every department and especially in the public utilities. The result is, the best lighted city in the State; a sewerage system of the very latest improved order, and perfect disposal plant. Solid. Safe Beach. It i* a peculiarity of Ocean City’s beach that, no matter where your home may be located, there are the same excellent bathing privileges ' and equal safety as at any other point on the seven miles of ocean front, and the protected bathing groqpdr extend the whole distance. The lavish hand with which nature environed Ocean City makes, and will ever make, for most

breadth. It receives the waters of three rivers, running between wooded banks from the southwestern water-shed of the State. Every fisherman will recognize these conditions as ideal, for the only sport they know, while the sailors, rowers and paddlers find every attraction for their enjoyment. Along the Ocean City shore of this Bay are scores of most attractive boat houses and bungalows. Tourists running the “Inland Waterway’’ route will find the channels well marked through these waters and get a view of Ocean City strong enough to make a visit of investigation a necessity and pleasure. It is very noticeable to any one conversant , with local conditions that every seaside resort has a special phase of attraction to .which it loves to call attention and to which it devotes itseif more forcibly than any other. Ocean City’s greatest claim for popular recognition, lies in its deep, full and pervading moral atmos-

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Showing a section of Ocean City’*; Boardvval’s. which extends for several miles along the beach fiont.

delightful setting for this Home City resort. The big sweep of Great Egg Harbor Bay on the West, with the background of evergreen pines and the green savannas studded in between, is a revelation of marvelous beauty harmonizing delightfully with the sentiment and policy pf Ocean City’s moral standard. The Ocean City Music pavilion is a unique feature of this resort. Herein are given daily concerts in the afternoon and evenings by a famous Philadelphia orchestra for the entertainment of visitore. This music is supplied and paid for by the City, the funds coming from general taxation. An addition and extension costing $20,000 will be made to this pavilion this year to better accommodate the increasing numbers of music lovers that visit Ocean City each year. Bay A Fisherman's Mecca. Great Egg Harbor Bay is a landlocked sheet of water lying from North toWest of Ocean City about seven miles in length by two to three in

phere, free from the evil influence of alcohol by compulsory enactment at the start—its tone has l>een elevated very much above normal conditions and the sanctity of the Sabbath has fortified the other moral constituents of her civil code, bringing the patronage of the best classes of every community to her shores, because of these congenial conditions. The visitor will find within the borders of Ocean City about sixty miles of splendid highways. where automobiling is a delight, tennis courts of up-to-date construction, and attractive croquet grounds. Ttie Ocean City Yacht Club is proclaimed the finest anywhere on the coast, and with its new $8000 addition this year, will have sleeping accommodations for all visiting as well as resident yachtsmen; several miles of Boardwalk promenade; rolling chairs, p. is, pavilions ami concert halls; churches of every denomination; public grammar and high schools; and the freedom and abandon that belong with conditions where vice is almost unknown.

Ocean City’s Golf Course. For the past twelve months work has been going ahead on Ocean City’s new golf course. Believing that many of the visitors and residents of the resort were golf enthusiasts, and that a golf course would draw others who were, the Meadowbrook Company was organized last Fall to promote the building of an 18-hold course, extending from Eighteenth to Twentyfifth streets. The Company is composed of live Ocean City business men, with E. Corson, a prominent contractor, as president; and H. Townsend, a builder, as secretary. The building of the course will involve an expenditure of a half-million dollars, and the payment of all contracts to be awarded for the completion of the work has been guaranteed by a well-known and wealthy Philadelphia and New York business man. The work of constructing the course has been started, and is being pushed to completion as soon as possible. A large and modern hotel, to cost $2,000,000 will be built on the beach front at the Golf Course. Work on this structure will be started within the next few months. Founded By the Lake Brothers. Standing on the top of the Hotel Normandie at Ocean City and looking at the resort stretching out full five miles to the south and noting the many large hotels and apartment houses, it is hard to believe that the two men who came to that beach when it was overrun with cows ar.d contained one hut, are living today and are not much past the prime of life. These two men are the Rev. S. W. Lake and the Rev. J. E. Lake, both active in all that pertains to the welfare of the great resort which they founded. One cannot but wonder what must be their thoughts when they look back over the transformation wrought in so few years. The idea of the Lake boys in founding Ocean City was to have a resort thoroughly Christian and where men with like ideas could bring their families and be free from the influence of other cities. At that time Atlantic City was more like Coney Island than the well-governed place it is today. Many attempts have been made to break down the restrictions regarding the sales of intoxicants, and repeated efforts have been made to have a wide-open Sunday, but the sentiment is so strong against changing the old traditions that have wrought prosperity to Ocean City that it will be many u long day before this will be accomplished. The Lake brothers caused to have restricted every foot of land on the beach from Great Egg Harbor Bay to Corson’s Inlet Some of these restrictions are that rum shall never be sold on the land, nor shall there be transacted any business on Sunday. A clause in all deeds calls for the forfeiture of title for violation of these restrictions. So long as the Courts will enforce the conoitions expressed in deeds held by property own(Continucd oh page three')

Ucrau City lactk no educational advantage-);; la-sides the High School, pictuied above, it boasts of a fully graded Gia umai School, housed in s splendid f^0,000 stiuctuie

Ou Great Egg Harbor Bay, which forms the wes’ern boundary of America's Greatest Cottage Resort, — the idaal spot tor yachting and motor boating.