Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-07-10
LETTER FROM CAPE MAY.
How the Season Opens-The New
Ocean Drfve-rhe Coming ReYatta-
President Grant to Arrive sunday
Arrivals. &c.
Correspondence Of the Eeenin1 S'ar.

Correspondence Of the ECe1ilJ SiIr.
CAPE MAY. July Q.
The season" at this old seaside place has
opened, as the local prints inform one, "un-
der the most favorable auspices" It is plain
TO the new as well as the old corners that the
"City of Cape May" has put on its best look
for the summer OF IS. The hotels and cot
tages have been frightened without and i'm
proved within till the greater portion OF the
place looks like new town. Along the
ocean front for over mile a grand beach
drive has been constructed with a sea wall
so as TO bring it within a few feet Of the surf
On the ocean side there is board walk
WIN Il Dalustrade the entire length of this
orlVe Tor prOmenaders. The roadway is
smooth ana hard, and given up in the even
ing 10 the unres tricted speed of the turnouts
ana Is lighted its whole length at night by
street lamps. 1t is to be extended still fur
ther along the ocean front TO Sea Grove the
new town beyond the Cape May lighthouse.
Instance OF two miles more. thus giving a
macadamiZed roadway of over three miles
and boulevard unexcelled on the Atlantic
coast II we may believe the not unpariona-
Die boasting OF the Ocean Ware and The s.. ar of
The CuPe-the two daily Journals The town
Is now completely lighted with gas has wa .
Ter works, paid fire department. uniformed
E3ilee, ana is about to build street railway.
Inc hotels are too well known to need men
ton, while one hundred and forty cottages
are occupied this season. Some of these cot
tages are not talked about quite SO much as
those at Long Branch, but certainly excel
them as models of architectural beauty
Inc leading amusement feature OF the sea-
son is
THE REGATTA
which commences next NJ snday. in which
nearly all the Watching clubs of New York
and Philadelphia will participate The
New York Yacht Club rendezvous to-day Al
sandy Hook preparatory to sailing here.
1he Plymouth Rock has been chartered TO
bring twenty-fi five hundred New Workers
PRESIDENT Grant telegraphs Congress Hall
!hat he Will be here on Saturday. Col. Cake
mas assigned him the Bluff Cottage on the
hotel lawn. The Tallapoosa will be here to-
morrow. and VIII go up towards the Branch
10 meet the PRESIDENT, who is coming down
IN one OF the yachts, and escort him hither
Secretary Robson and other members of the
cabinet are ANNOUNCED as coming. The prizes
OF the regatta are in silver lined with gold
ana cost $1,000. They have been exhibited i'm
New York and Philadelphia. and were in
Tended at one time for exhibition in the
Messrs Cats windows in Washington.
The regatta will last two days.
Thus far the season has been remarkable
Tor dry, clear weather, and as q conseduen
THE BATHING HAS BEEN EXCELLENT
The beach at ebb-tide is five hundrai feet
wide, and as smooth and nearly as hard as
one of Washington's asphalt pavenents. but
the warm weather in town and the cool
weather here have not overrun the hotels
with guests, though they Lave more, it is
claimed, than last year at the correspondino
period. Among the Washiu gtonians regis
Tered are Hon. John Hitz, Chief Engineer
King, L. =. N, Chief Naval Constructor
Hanscom and family, l.. NJ. Hoffman, J. r.
bartlett, r.. I. Reid and family j. V. Pear
sal ard family, Z. De Haven, w. Il Shaw
and family, III. j. Long, w. j. Walker. Geo.
w. Adams and family,