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CAPE MAY CO

SEA ISlfOlY

(Continued from page 6) few minutes’ walk from the city’s very centre, crabs in plentiful supply fall easy prey to the happy fisher’s net, while in the nearby shallow waters of Ludiam’s Bay oysters and dams grow most abundantly. There is also a beautiful, wooded, fresh water lake—Magnolia Lake, ten minutes’ ride from the city, where rowboats can be obtained and fresh water fishing enjoyed. RAILROAD FACILITIES. During the summer speedy’ and well-appoint-ed 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 from Market Street Wharf. The distance by the Pennsylvania road is 65 miles and by the Reading several miles shorter. Business men can readily travel to and from Philadelphia daily, thus enabling them to spend the nights with their families by the F«a. During even the mid-summer months scarcely a night passes during which visitor^ to Sea Isle City are able to dispense with bedcovers.

CAPE MAY COUNTY'S i iSHING INTERESTS. Of all the countless thousands who each year visit the hustling resorts of the New Jersey coast, and of Cb ’lay county in particular, there is nothing « -h appeals to the taste or offers more genuii.. pleasure and substantial satisfaction than fish and fishing in general. The Philadelphia and shore dinner table, from the most exclusive hotel down to the humblest home, does daily honor and tribute to the immense catches taken from the waters of Cape May county adjacent to Anglesea, Body Beach, Stone Harbor, Sea Isle City, Cape May and along the bay shore. While Cape May county does not compete so vigorously with the abundance of 8h*»U-fish taken in the waters of Cumberland and Atlantic counties,-she is otherwise supreme as .to fishing interests and annually ■ ships’ to the great'fish distributing markets of Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore an average of 100,000 barrels of deep sea denisens. Another 50,000 barrels are carried away in baskets by the thousands of fishermen who seek the shore for a day of sport as well as of profit A barrel of packed fish weighs 200 pounds, and consequently makes a season’s average catch run close to 30,000,000 pounds; which, figured at a flat wholesale rate of 4 cents a peund, rep-, resents $1,200,000. However, the bulk of this .catch brings retail from 10 to 20 cents a pound, and which eventually makes an average season’s catch bring more than twice this amonnt.

Thirty-two pound nets are operated in the county. Angleaen^oji.Hereford Inlet directly across from Stone Harbor, leads all the resorts of the New Jersey coast A fleet of 50 auxiliary power boats of an average of 20 tons, employing 200 men, u score or more capable little 20-foot bank skiffs, manned by two men to a craft, several purse net auxiliary schooners, ami two big pound nets daily deliver the goods in such vast quantities to the Anglesea fish platform that ofttimes a hundred men are busily engaged in icing, packing and loading the catch of weakfish, sea bass, porgies, flounders, blue fish and mackerel into freight cars, which are dispatched at ail hours of the day and night - Oftentimes when there is a big run on, several hundred barrels of fish will be loaded on the fast shore expresses, and the sight of a string of 16 vestibuled coaches filled with passengers impatiently awaiting at Anglesea, while the many barrels are being Ipaded for rapid transports^ turn to an eageny awaiting market, is no un- , usual sight indeed. Holly Beach is only less important to Angiesea in its fishing industry, with an extensive pound net, three miles off the beach, and a fleet of 40 power skiffs launched from the beach and making daily catches; upward of 76,000 barrels of fish are shipped in a season from this point Sea Isle City fishermen have been extremely successful with their pound nets, of which 10 are operated, and in conjunction with a dozen bank skiff fishermen who launch their boats from the beach, the same as is done at Holly Beach, from 800 to 500 barrels of fish are sent to the markets daily during the fishing season. .* Cape May. likewise Ocean City, -have professional fishing fleets, while Corson’s ami Town- , send’s Inlets cater to thousands of daily excur* , sionists and other amateur fishermen. The ba/ . shore and meadows are the homes of many professional fishermen.

.jterta-Front Lota in Beautiful VeNicean Park Central—Near Beach and Station. All City Improvement*. < Completely Improved Street*. Concrete Curb* and Sidewalk*

High and dry elevation of land Reeaonable Prices and Ea*y Term* Tide Guaranteed

Sea Isle City Realty Co. LEWIS STEINMEYER, Aasp

The Sea Isle City Water Company Fumuhe. Sea Lie City with an Abundant Supply of PURE ARTESIAN SPRING WATER drawn from ArtesLn WelL, between Eight Hundred and Nine Hundred Feet Deep, absolutely free from any poulbility of contamination from my murce whatever. ONE OF SEA ISLE CITY'S MOST VALUABLE ADVANTAGES IS ITS Pure Bj TflS Health-Giving Water UNEQUALLED ALONG THE ATLANTIC COAST The Company i. equipped with a Duplicate Set of Pumping Engmm, ami Powerful Pump., and a Stand Pipe 125 Feet Hivh. con H "-"- I ‘j INSURING UP-TO-DATEFIREPROTECTION AT ALL TIMES