, 1873-08-11
CAPE MAY.
Its Society and Pests---The Friend" j"
in the Family.
Up In the Lamp.--Lear's Club
House.
RIch People at the Capes.--An Old
Graveyard

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From Our 0.on Correspondent
CARR MAY; Aug. 3. 1878.
This place ts moro than full ovory yoar, and
people are cottea laid like aardlnes, slowed away
IN remote cottages, and traded of to inferior
houses. There iB not sufficient accommodation,
and it is customary with rogulnr family boardors
TO engage rooms ut tho ond Of one season for tho
nozt seaeon ahead. Tho pressure has ut last
led to
NEW HOTEL,
equal to Congrosa Hall, the Stockton, and tho
Columbia, Ia size, which will DO built this fall,
and increase tho inn acc commodatiouB horo to
1000.
Liko everything valuable in our day, tho sea-
boach las come to DO monopolised by tho rail-
roads which load to 1t. Tho West Jersey Rail-
road, which was opened to this Cape q few yoara
ago, has no other, competition than . river
steamboat, and any other steamboat is refused
permission to land At tho eolitnry pior, which
pier ia mles from Cape May City, Mt tho end
Of turnptke,-tho only road which eau
Feaoh tho boat. To travel this road requires
toll Of conts a milo, and the pier at the end Is
private property, and must bo taken down and
stored away every winter to save 1t from gales
and leo. 1t iB now surmised that tho railroal
company. quietly subsidizeB the wharf and boat
company to run cheap md nasty steamers and
koep tho road we'll out Of repair, and great Is tho
pain Of tho hotol-koopor. Tho cure for all this
is civic enterprise lot pior bo put up which
shall belong to the city, and q road DO main
talned at general exponso.
/" 11our-uousr
hore was set up first in 1898, or 224 years after
Capt. Hudson discovered tic Cape. In 1847 q
second light was suspended, to replace the
other; and In 1862 sizable lighthouse Was
built. Whon il yn, 5eterminod tn
mt Tro.nnl a;.ht ~ t1,o e,ot
vus t,sa uoa14 ,ueno. .,s. tsns op tne npos,
.n' pieaent eaeeans lower Was oul!s, party VI
tho old materials; and in 1857 it flashed tho
frat bright measage to tho bolatod skipper as he
returned over tho rive-rathom Shoals. Tho
un,o eoes Soo,oIo anu ~ iu.uaf4aoio 1ot 41s
tidy koop and mighty walls. Tho stairs are OF
ppen iron-work, suspended in this high, freshly
smelling cylinder, around IN axis which riaes
20 1:,. 'uo'o aaPnas' Ano u 1so oloa.
upoeara uRe mighty blossom tno mariners
lamp. Tho lamp itHen ia reBplendont colloc-
tion of crystal bars, receiving and returning
ro 9aet 9aet pin1f p;n ~ nnu srese 1.o
n'Ve' 1ees hlgh py ana e'ory roo Of glass
feels from the contro, as from burning heart,
the order to be radiant hnd go out aud
In that 1nnn- il n can of Of olwavn
~ tna p, !" w. '. vi Ai""eo
oset1uu' nfehcmns concensr'o "leka, anu kep1
TO 1ts measure oy perpetual attendants, WHO
mont, mud yet account to ovory ship for vigi-
lance. A great weight, suspended far below,
makes the whole apparatus ro;olvn.-the hun
reas OF pieces OF glittering leo obey.;: like tho
oyerpasses certain places, the light is withhold
to blaze again directly with tho eplondor. OF a
forge in some black valley All tho night long,
in perpetual solitude, Tar above, howhito frame
cottagaB below, where their families arc aaleep,
in mid-air, lonosomoly upheld thore,-the. Wind
sinking tho massiye masonry, tho surf
howling along the coast,-and the ships he
Ia providing for he cannot SEQ, In the summer
time, adventurous people, paying fec, climb to
tho toWer-top and ask random questions. In tho
winter, tho ught-keepers SEQ no more pretty
feet on tho open stairway, aud arc touched by no
moro pretty faces pale with dizziness. Then tho
mariner must look only at tho sen md tho light
mon ut tho lamp. The great watering-placo is
a huddle Of cold houses, aud tho towor looks
frozen in tho aky, like blasted tree.
THE FIFTH MARYLAND REGIMENT
nas been hore in camp, and had some real battle
yesterday when son1e Philadelphia roughs
Boizcd i lady to bnthe her by Ylo-
lence. In minute tho beach was
converted into such spectacle as
the Danish pirates might have enacted on the
roughB pitched in with bathing clothes. To kick
vas impossible; there wore no stones to throw j;
and nakednesH added it's hrawny picturesqnenesa
rs the flannel garments ripped, lees honored in
tho breach than in the observance, and the
vetorans Of Longstreet and Ken1y atumped their
big toeH. Blood might hnve been said loss to
How than to have flowed. Eyos right WAS now
no order at al. Tho line Of battle vas broken,
and the ocean quietly spat upon the beach, aololy
unconcorned; while pretty girls tainted, with
Nnb0HY to tnE4 DDt1EH. and EpQDB. *AH USUAL ran
behind tho bath.houaes to says, Gwood gWa'
csous, Matilda. this is t"ewebel!" After some
: terrible knooking-down and atanching OF run.
ming noses, d Jersey policomen-ono oi
five kept hero to collect ta1on ane
nrrest email boys-ruahed in with BIZ
locust. Three or four roughs gave him sand
bath in no time, and buried him like wreck, &c
khat tho aoles OF his boots were his only distin
BuiBhnhlo feature. It WAS great question at thi9
limo on the Alaiyor'a mind. whether M he should
order tue Fifth Maryland to como to tho reHo.lt
of New Jersey, or order the black waitera at TIT
hotels to charge down with their razors. II