The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-19
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Our watering Place Correspondence.


Our Watering Place Correspondence.
CAPE MAY, June 49, 1855
The present season at Cape May is expected TO be
brilliant one preparations making on oil sides Ho
tells and boarding houses newly painted secured and
cleaned Bathing boxes and bathing women putting
on dresses and getting to look clean and tidy afte
their Rip Van Wrinkle winter Sleep Every one is busy
and notes Of preparation sound all Sides great in
ux Of visitors is expected and consequently there will
be golden harvest to reap.
A number Of rooms preengaged in the leading no
tells by merchants professional men and others from
Baltimore, Philadelphia Washington and other places.
The hotel keepers making every effort to cater to the
comfort and well being Of their guests They are newly
furnishing painting and adjoining their houses
HOW THE WAR AFFECTED CAFE NAY.
There has decline Of visitors to Cape May since
the breaking Of the This not owing to any
want Of attraction accommodation In the place. but
the following causes-It the great resort OF thu
Southern planters and their families who went there
display their wealth in lavish enjoyment. Southern
merchants politicians PROFESSIONALISM and traders
thought they not keeping time with the fashion II
they did not spend few weeks at Cape May. The wal
put inerdict upon this class
Some few years ago the people Of Now York were fast
becoming attached Cape May line Of steamers ran
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pie Of New York thought and the varied attractions AND
sple0did sea bathing at the Cape, confirmed them.
Every began TO speak Of Cape Nay and every one
vowed they would Cape May but the war put end
their sweet fances The took the line of
steamers for government purposes and there was no
railroad to Caps May So people soon began to forget
that existed at all Tho thing happened OF Pha
delpha but there line running to Atlantic City-a
EMAIL Insignificant place, with few houses built upon
sand banks and bluffs No matter railroad ran to 1t,
and thither the people began TO flock.
last year line Of steamers ran down tho Delaware
Bay from Philadelphia, and the line Of railroad was
opened the Of the season, and since
Cape May is fast reganing her prestige Last her
hotels boarding houses pretty full and this year
there are indications that they will be crowded.
SHORT SKETCH or CAFE Hay.
Cape May the extreme southern point Of the redoubt
able little State Of New Jersey and where the waters
OF the great Delaware Bay debouch into the Atlantic
ocean 1t is rather pretty little city, extending along
Tho beach It has a standing population Of about six
hundred and hotel and boarding modation for 20
many thousands Some Of the hotels are very imposing
buildings Some Of the cottages are rather picturesque
and SNOWY; rather dirty and retiring, a. II ashamed
Of themselves The streets rather narrow but at all
times pleasant as the cool breeze from the ocean rams
them As 1t is left to each individual to clean
walks and 'front.' there appears TO be diversity
opinion in that respect While have every nook
and corner shining like new pins Others think that grass
walks would be soft accession, and OF course cultivate
them front Of their houses II has variety at least,
and the Mayor and Corporation-for Cape City has
Mayor and Corporationss they pleased with It, OF
course However, these are minor evils, and will
soon DO remeded
The country around the city rather fat and destitute
Of picturesque hills and daes but then has other at
fractions Il has splendid roads, pretty farm houses and
neat cottages surrounded by well titled gardens and
pretty eSpss s
Cape May being kind Of peninsula, the sea breeze
tempers the air at all times, making II delightfully."-
cool and pleasant in summer. Then II IL said 70
be free from musquitos which insects by the way, are
the pests Of all summer enjoyment for they hover
around you and TO scream with laughter ut your
Cape May too, has morsel Of history TO boast OF.
Though she never figured in the war Of Independence
the late for the Union, still she has had her
important epochs In 1909 the renowned Hendrick Hud
sailed down the Atlantic coast In his old craft the
Half Moon, far ~ the mouth Of the Delaware Being
dsheartened from prosecuting hir researches he re-
turned Some fourteen years later one Cornelius Jacob
May Dutch skipper came to the Cape stood god
stir came third adv entnrer named David Peeteon de
vries. who planted colony ~ Cape Henlopen, on the
Of Delaware but the Indians made short work
from the resident chiefs In $780, and in 1o4l u was again
bought by Swedish agents In 1864 the redoubtabe
Peter Stuyvesant .scended the Delaware extnguisnng
subsequently got into the hands Of the British and was
gradually colonized by fishermen attracted 70 1t by It's
100n0anCe
A newspaper called me Daily Wave Eliminates Cape
May. Il Is owned and edited by the Mayor, Mr. Aagona
gle From q weekly has been converted into
daily 10 meet the demands Of the coming season, so
that visitors will have Cape gossp fresh from the press
with their morning toast and gin cocktail
Cape May il, in small way, city Of churches and
hotels Remove these and you almost obitcrate the
city. The good citizens seem resolved 10 minister ~
gussts u has Presbyterian church, . Methodist
church. Roman Catholic church and Baptist church
The Episcopaans not 70 be ontdone are about building
q church which is TO eclipse all the rest
Il han some eight or ten hoteh, another building and
moro In contemplation, besides large number Of board
ing houses, and private cottages owned by wealthy
families who make II their summer resort The hotels
might DO divided int three classes First-Congress
Hail. Columbia House and United States Hotel charge
twenty i've dollars per wcek second-Centre House,
Ocean House and American charge about twenty dol
lsr, per rcss Ihird.Ins Washnsson, the Conner
dollars per week. When consider that these houscs
idle for eight months OF the year. and the great
and how literally the owners eater 10 the pleasure Of
their guests, cannot consider the above charge er
orbAnt Persons OF limited means will ind plenty Of
houses TO suit the length Of their purscs
oorGKEs HALL,
one Of the largest and most elegant Of the hotels is
beautifully sitca.ed commanding full open view Of the
green lawn nterscced by walks 10 that tbs guest can
walk from his bedroom the piazza TO his bathing box,
and be gamboling In the foaming surf. The house
Itself stands on high elevation and occupies two sides
Of paralleloEam In the psrk Is pleasans pavilion
and nagstan, topped with the stars and Stripes The
buildings and park area Of eight acres The
main building h about three hundred feet long and nifty
wide while the right wing has front Of two hundred
feet The part Of the house. which has been built
but few years. r. spacious airy and tasteful;
dahs and piaxzas all along IL front The bedrooms
are 20 constructed that they be used separately In
uurtes and open by French windows on the verandah
which Is portioned on each ROOM 10 give them
privacy The most remarkable feature OF Congress Hall
Il the dining saloon. This 70 a magnificent RON Of
tive hundred feet long by forty-nve in width, and
sixteen 70 the ceiling. II not blocked up
by pillars but presents one clear graceful hail. with lis
windows overlooking the ocean It's perhaps the finest
OF the kind in America The drawing room, too Is
ne apartment Of about nifty feet square Halls pantrss
kitchens and dormito1es are oil on similar scale the
old part Of the house not In proportion 70 the new
7 % house Is also provided with club room billiard
room, containing ave tables and telegraph once Inc
proprietor, Mr.. j. " Cake, he's engaged Hasesrs cee-
bted Philadelphia brass and string bend for the season
and proposes giving balls concers and other entertain
ments 70 the guests Mr. Cake intends before next sea-
building the old part Of the house In accordance Win
W. pew, end adding another wing, thus rendering u