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County Times

|ol. XXXIII. No. is

CAPE MAY COtBfTY, (Ska Isle Cnv P. O.) N. }., FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918

* 5 Cents a con-, $1.50 a Year

Big Season Looked For at Popular Ocean City

numbers of music lovers that visit Ocean City each year.

A view of Ocean City’s Boardwalk, of which There is Over Three Miles.

no resort City in America has the J and man-created advantages, of Ocean Bounded on the north and west by the

elected by the people, under what is known as

“Commission Form of Government." Joseph G. Champion, a prominent contractor

utilities. The result is. the best lighted dty in the State; a sewerage system of the very latest improved order, and perfect disposal plant

purest chemically, of any water supply on the

coast.

_. rr . r „. w _ Ocean City has developed business ability in Great Egg*Harbor Bay, on the south 1 and leader in county affaire, is Mayor, and the its citirens of a very' high order, cl y' t_i~* —a — ♦».» —♦ Kr coven * head of the Department of Public Affair? and .government demands the very highest emciencj

S«fetv Mr. Champion is a man or rare fore- j n even- deoartment, and especially m the public sfafht and judgment^ and has served Ocean City “

in various official capacities including Mayor,

for a number of years.

The Department of Revenue and Finance is ably handled bv William H. Campbell, an Ocean City merchant Under Mr. Campbell’s direction are the offices of the Tax Collector, City Treasurer, and Tax Collector, and this important branch of the City government is now han-

dled in the most efficient manner.

George O. Adams is tie Director of Streets and Piblic Works; a man whose knowledge as a con tractor stands him in good stead in manag-

jon’a Inlet, and on the east by seven f Ocean, the resort is well named “Ocean With miles of well paved streets, all mveniences of a large city in the way of utilities, a splendid, wide boardwalk ,.nade along its ocean front, numerous l theatres, boardwalk stores and other tees of an up-to-date seashore community; pj city hall that is the finest in South Jermod’em public school xnd high school fcngs, there is little to be degired in the of city comforts to make the enjoyment of tamer’s stay at Ocean City complete.

GOOD SEASON AHEAD,

is reason, therefore, for the prophesy [ the Season just opening will be the greatthe resort has ever known. Real estate , who are, after all. the real barometere of Cs activities, report that rentals of the gere commenced unusually early this *, w.u»e a number of sales have taken place, f Utter ha-e chiefly been witn persons who • previously visited Ocean City for a few . or stayed at a rented cottage for a seand were so well pleased with the>r visit

it they "nave come to stay."

a this connection the story Is told of one of City’s most active business men at the pres1 time, that he came to Ocean City for a 1 Jersey county. Intending to stay with a ad for a few weeks. Accidentally he met a ding operator, with whom u genuine fncnd.p was struck up. Before he left that year, [had contracted fbr a handsome summer 5, which he occupied the following sumu. When the fall came he lingered and Octof came and went—so did the other winter mtha. but he stayed. And he is in Ocean

r today.

f not in the identical manner, li was largely this way that Ocean City’s permanent i*n>tion of two thousand five hundred souls came

ie.

hey paid a visit, liked the town, and stayed. 1 the splendid type of Ocean City s bus.ness -1 and permanent residents is evidence that >uld convince the most skeptical that the ret has attracted a class of persons who verv .1 capable of judging its merits carefully. 1 of making critical comparisons before setIng there. PROGRESS THE WATCHWORD. lit is needless to say that Ocean City U pn*■Maive. iTh.. proof of Om 1> fa Ow vary f«cl th.t la W short space of a man’s lifetime the CJty has ten transformed from a sandy waste Into one ! the most attractive and beautiful resort* Jong the coast, with i.n assessed valuation of parly ten million/ ot dollars! 1**** than fifty pars ago, the entire island, seven miles in mgth, could have been bought for a mere song. " every other seaside resort, with very options. Ocean City is managed, and her a are co&iruUed, by three C^uuuiastuuere

ing this important branch of the City govern-

ment.

Ocean City had a good start, and like a good text, that is a big help to successful results. Yes, Ocean City was a big, robust, healthy, out-of-doors baby. Hygienically pure and free from artificial stimulants, it just grew. There never was such a baby on the South Jersey coast, and everybody was interested in its diet and bringing up, and there were quite a few who firmly believed that no baby could thrive who wasn’t raised on the bottle. And sc ours-was quite an experiment to them. But, pshaw, it never ev en feR the need of a bottle, and naturally it grew just so much the faster and sturdier, ami, like the Hebrew children, had a rosier, healthier countenance, and more brawn than older competitors on the old-time diet. Then, soon the doubters got wise to the situation and concluded the baby was doing fine and had every chance for n great future. So they. too. came and helped in many ways. Still there was enough contention over it to develop its moral and physical strength and to establish Sitf-confidence, and today, in the perfection ol young manhood, it is bigger, h« Itnfcr and wealthier than some others old enough to be its father. B*»ort Still Young. Thirty-five years ago the projectors of Oce^n City started on the proposition of making the desert to blossom as the rose. Every 0 "* who views its delgh ful development can judge how fur success hi>‘ rewarded the effort*. Ocean City’s n»*cwed valuation is now nearly nine million dolNra, and is made up largely from valuM in delightful cottage homes such as few other reports ckji hoast of. It is par exrell. n ;e the City of Summer Homes, occupied by their owners, whAMchief 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 f»r rent at very reasonable rateaTui desirable locations, expen. n * having shown that usually one year's renting makes an owwi of his own home the se* oml As Ocean City was put on the water ■wagon right at theftart for a permanency, it has !><-en the great object of it* government to secure ine very finest quality of that liquid, and the mtesian flow which supplies its many homes is the

Solid. Safe Beach.

It is a peculiarity of Ocean City’s beach that, ho matier 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 grounds extend the whole distance. The lavish hand with which nature environed Ocean City makes, and will ever make, for most

delightful setting for this Home City resort. The big sweep of Great Egg Harbor Bay on tne West, with the background of evergreen pines and the green savannas studded in between, is a revelation of roai velous beauty harmonizing delightfully with the sentiment and policy of

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 evening- by a famous Philadelphia orchestra for the entertainment of visitors. This music is supplied and paid for by the City, the funds coming from general taxation. An addition ami extension costing $20,000 will be made to this pavilion this year to better accommodate the increasing

Bay A Fisherman’s Mecca. Great Egg Hsrbor Bay is - a landlocked sheet of water' lying from North to West of Ocean City about seven miles in length by two to three in breadth, li receives the waters of three rivers, running b.tween wooded banks from the south-western water-shed of the State. Every fisherman will recognize these conditions as •ideH fpr the only sport they know, while the sailors, rowers and paddlers find every attracti:n for their enjoyment Along the Ocean City sh re 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 itself more forcibly than any other. Ocean City’s greatesf claim for popular recognition, I : es in its deep, fuH and pervading moral atmosphere, free from the evil influence of alcohol by compulsory enactment at the start—its tone has been elevated very much above normal cond tkms and the sanctity of the Sabbath has fortified the other moral constituents of her civil code, bring'ng the patronage of the best classes of every community to her shores, because of these congenial conditions. The visitor will find within the border* * * * , 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. The 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, piers, pavilions and 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. ' Chic Organizations. No city ever really enjoys a fall measure of progress and prosperity unless it has one or more civic organizations. Ocean City is blessed with three, all active and all counting in their membership the very cream of the business interests of the City. The City Commissi oners and the three Civic organizations work hand in hand, each co-operating at all times, and in perfect harmony with the other. • The Board of Trade meets the first Tuesday night of each month in the Commissioners’ Chamber. Otis M. Townsend, Secretary; L. M. Lear, Assistant Secretary. The Young Men’s Progressive League meets every Monday night in the Hann Building, Roy Darby, Secretary. The Hotel Proprietors' Association meets the accsnd Monday night of the month. Mrs. Johnson Roney. Corresponding Secretary; Miss Mary Shore. Secretary. With a church for every Christian denominatbn. fine schools, unexcelled ‘winking facilities i.national Bank and Trust Company, both in flourish ng condition, and with aggregate de-pm-its of nearly two nillion dollars), new $100,000 City Hall, efficient fire equipment, and thousands of splendid Summer cottages, and fine hotels; with its wonderful beach for bathing, its many and varied amusements, its high (Continued on page 3) Photographs used in illustrating this section loaned by the Ocean City Ledger.

Ocean City is By No Means Barren of Population in the* Summer Ocean City's Boardwalk

, The Above Picture of licaexnbies the Famed Atlantic City Fa-ter Parade.

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