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' CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES,

SEA ISLE CITY, N. J.

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ilA HOTEL MAN THE FIRST a matter ot dvic pride. He chuckles yet over

HE GRASS IN CHELSEA; the recollection.

t AN EXAMPLE THAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWED [ BY HUNDREDS. pted generations the world has > give its adulation to the man o blades of grass grow where one f What reward should come to the Atlantic City, made entire lawns r where none grew before; who b give value to sand lots and whose iched gospel of wide building Ithe sunlight into one of the finest Atlantic City for all time while it I to those who followed his advice. Newton, Philadelphia hotel man of Tie, is the man who put the grass I the select residential section of L incidentally he was instrumental me of the finest cottages on the ; in this area. Mr. Newton, of r doubted the ultimate success of his r any lingering doubt has been rei all others who have seen his suc- ■ followed him to almost as great

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t Mahlon Newton is a business man, siness man, he has made great f building and development projects ■ath the business side of the * is sentiment If you have any latter statement, talk to Mr. ^ the subject te any man who is not entirely a fool ing his first judgment vindicated,” id Mr. Newton, “but it is not often s the pleasure of living to see his syajd by an entire community. If I had [eved anything else I wo’Ud -till nurse jnount of pride in passing along the Chelsea and Ventnor and seeing »ere there was once threat of sordid i that would have brought only loss |who have lived in Atlantic City or have lowed the resort fortunes do not have i very far to remember that sneers ,Bises of business disaster came when Newton built his first cottage and his fn. The home he built for himself; the iot which covered an entire square, he fas an example of what he believed e the plan of home at the shore and as

“Of course they decided that I was crazy,” he recounts. “First the critics declared that grass would not grow on the sand right up to the ocean. When they saw that the grass would grow they insisted that the land was too valuable to be given over to grass plots. Now that theory has been exploded and I imagine that the

objectors are about done."

Cape May County both admires and respects success, and it is likely that no man who came into the development of seashore property has deserved and earned greater respect than Mr. Newton. At the time of his entry into the development field a $10,000 cottage was looked on as something near the ultimate in purely seashore home construction. The few homes of greater value had been built by their owners who were looked on as faddist* simply carrying out their own ideas for a certain personal satisfaction. It

is hard to imagine just what would have beer, thought at that time of any man who would have prophesied that in a few years cottages costing five and ten times as much would be built, rented and sold as a mere business proposition. But that has come to pass. Mahlon Newton and his associates have proved that, given the proper choice locations, thousands of dollars can be expended for sea walls and other protective features; other thousands poured out to builders and decorators for the erection of sumptuous cottages overlooking the ocean or the finely paved drives, and profit taken from the entire transactions. Today there is not a progressive real estate man in Atlantic City who would not jump at the business chance of following Mahlon Newton no matter where his ideas and ideals of civic improvement lead. Philadelphia can have Mahlon Newton, the hotel wizard, for its admiration, but the shore claims him as its greatest

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' Lake Lilly, at Cape May Point, one of the most picturesque of the many County Inland Lakes.

e development and its real ling progress.

CLERK A. C. HILDRETH. There is one office in every county, that mars than any other, is the source either of gnat pride and satisfaction to the County dweller, or a source of humiliation and shame. It is the one office with which every property owner, ev-^ ery mortgage bolder, every corporation or business firm, every war draftee and every hotel owner, and every criminal, (and most everybody is in one or the other of these classes), comes into contact with some time sooner or later. If the office is systematized, the records are well kept, and the sendee is courteous, there is reason to rejoice; if it is otherwise—But what’s the use? Cape May County is blessed with a man whom the good judgment of the voters elected to the important office of County Clerk, in the person of A. Carlton Hildreth, and for the past ten years at least there has been no reason for anyone taking else but justifiable pride in the neat office at the County Seat.

I hereby announce myself a Candidate for State Senator, subject to the rules of the Republican Party

WM. H. BRIGHT

Stone Harbor Terminal railroad company

Easter Greetings, 1918 Snr.-np Schedule Now in preparation c ■ between Cape May Court House and Stone Harbor will be announced shortly, thus giving tv I w- i—--** -i-p bu.ineM we have t*tr calltd upwi to Hand]., and ... planning lo “do ... bi," .. anticipate ^ of war . worke rs and their famrl.es who will seek a few hours of rest and relaxahelping to win the war > > boardwalk, beach front and channel. ^ ^CCourUaUH^ancetoour Government in all things that will ass,, in the absolute and utter annihilation of tyrB,,ny ' to the work of helping to “make the world safe for Democracy.”

STONE HARBOR TERMINAL RAILROAD COMPANY.

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Easter, 1918.