The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1871-08-05
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the entire distance. 1t contains about 5000 res
ident inhabitants. The buildings are mostly
frame, many Of them being painted white. But
| few of the streets are paved The sidewalks in
some places are made of bricks, and in others
of gravel something similar to that used for the
same purpose in Towsontown. The houses, for
the use of bathers in changing their wearing ap-
pareI for bathing suits, are erected Immediately
along the beach. They are small buildings built
of frame and divided into small compartments,
furnished with lock and key, small bench and
hooks for clothes. There are two daily papers
published in the place, the "Daily Wave" and
the "-4lantic Star" Chief among the objects
of interest there is the new Episcopal Church
St. Johns. This is a beautiful building, built
principally from subscriptions by visitors to the
place, costing about $4,000. Having raised all
the funds necessary for paying ofthe entire debt,
the church was consecrated to divine service on
Sunday, July 23d, by Bishop Odenheimer of
n j., assisted by Rev. Messrs. Rankin of Balti-
more, Badly, Rodney and Coleman OF Pennsyl-
vania, and Petit of j. The conservation SER
mon was preached by Rev. Leighton Coleman
of Mauch Chunch Pa. He was followed by the
Bishop in congratulatory address.
Many families in Philadelphia and other pla-
ces own cottages here which they occupy during
the hot season in preference to boarding at hotels
The STOCKTON HOUSE is perhaps the most fash
ionable place at the Cape. A brilliant display
of dress and ceremony may be witnessed in her
patlors and halls any time during the afternoon
or evening. 1t can accommodate 1900 guests Con-
eREss HALL stands equal to the Stockton in fash
ion and shine. 1t has accommodations for about
90O We attended ball and concert there
The flash of jewelry, the rustling of ribbons, the
hourishing of flowers and furbelows, the charm
of music, the grace of polished dancers, brilliant
lamps shining
"0'er fair women and brave menu
combined to make the affair brilliant and gay
THE COLUMBIA HOUSE accommodates 700 guests
We were much amused at the nimble manner in
which little girls and boys handled themselves
on the dancing floor at the latter place. In the
general change of partners boys weighing sixty
or seventy pounds would get lady weighing
over two hundred pounds and, making a noble
effort to reach her waist, would swing her in the
regular line of the dance with all the facility
that master of the ert might envy.
THE ATLANTIC HOTEL,
Immediately on the beach, commanding an ad-
mirable ocean view, is hotel that accommo-
dates 200 guests very comfortably. 1t is kept
by John McMakin, Esq, who is gentleman
that understands his business. You at once, by
his genial address, courteous manners and his
untiring endeavor to make his guests comforta-
BILE and happy in his house, feel that you are at
home. His walters are as polite, courteous and
attentive to their duties as it is possible to find
them His table is abundantly furnished with
whatever the season affords and in a shape most
tempting and delightful to the palate.
BATHING
in the ocean is luxuriant pleasure 1t cannot
be surpassed. You hire suit for fifty cents,
leave your wearing apparel in the bath-house
dressing room, walk down on the beach, that is
as soft as piece of velvet, to large, strong
ropes fastened to strong poles and extending out
considerable distance in the water and fastened
at the end to stake. To these ropes pieces of
rope about ten feet long are tied, which you
hold on to while bathing to prevent being taken
out by the undertow or being knocked over by
the waves. Along these ropes are strung scores
of people from about IL o'clock q. M, till l
| o'clock p. IN. This is the bathing time for the
visitors. In the afternoon the servants and nurses
do their bathing. To see the old and the young,
! the middle-aged, the rich, the man of moderate
| circumstances, the banker and the farmer, peo-
pie of all legitimate businesses, all respectable
occupations in life, taking magnificent bath on
the beach at Cape May is sight worth seeing.
The waves roll over one, down he goes. Then
he gets up, looks around himself, finds a rope,
and by this time has the luxury of another wave
rolling by. Then the timid girls, that squeal at
the touch of the first ripple, and squea louder at
the next and the next as they are carried farther
and farther out in the ocean, furnish sport and
amusement for all that shave been there" There
are those who are experts at the business. They
jump up and ride on top of each succeeding wave.
To them the bath is glorious. Some bow their
heads and allow the waves to roll over them
Others just take a rope and allow themselves to
go. The jest, the laugh, the amusement and hi
larty of the operation full of sport and pleas
ure. When you have taken your surfeit of bath
ing you retire to the bath house and dry your
colf NTH rnunh Y.uf olo has ND
feel as though you had been re-created.
ADJUSTMENTS AND OCCUPATIONS
are plentiful. People walk, ride, drive and sit
on the beach, lounge about the halls or port.
Goes of the hotels listen to the music of the bands
or the music of the waves as their fances sug-
gest play billiards. ten-pins bagatelle, cards,
chess, checkers, croquet, 60 on fishing excur-
sions, take an exploration of the surrounding
country with horse and carriage, gather shells
and Cape May diamonds along the beach, chat
with whom ever they may feel disposed, for it is
the most democratic place we have ever been,
smoke, read newspapers, novels or solid works,
crochet, knit, embroider and make fancy fxings
and almost any thing that human wit or wis
dom could suggest, tall are busily engaged as
they can be in doing what they consider will
| give them the best amount of solid enjoyment
while they are there, but many of them involun-
tarily Gx upon dressing as the essential thing 10
their happiness while snuffiug the sea breeze
Pianos are heard in every quarter, delightful mu-
sic of almost every kind satiates the ear-all an
| inevitable exertioR TO get rest.
THE LIGHT HOUSE
at the Cape is about p miles from the town.
1t is one hundred and fifty feet up to the light.
You ascend by 2l8 steps. The lamp is enclosed
in a cut-glass case that revoves once in Is Sc
conds and was made in Paris at an expense of
Sill, 500. From the top of this light house you
have a view that is unobstructed for twenty miles
| in every direction.
THE OCEAN
| brilliant day on the beach at Cape May is a
| luxury without a rival. To lave ones self in
the Atlantic there is a peerless enjoyment. A
stroll on the oceans magnificent strand late in
the evening or at early dawn delights the heart
and enraptures the soul At sunrise the restless
pillows spend their fury on the mellow beach,
dissolve their foam or spray BY the ceaseless agi-
tation of the mighty deep, roll boldly onward to
the shore, don their white caps and die in the