The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-04-26

hood was renewed. Flocks Of early memories
came trooping in, until rs tho sunset waned,
and the night shades closed around us, we
made a detour Of the city and returned by
way Of the. beautiful Lily Lake to sea the
stars twinkle their admiration in its polished
mirror.
We have simply to say, further, that we
believe Sea Grove appreciates its destiny and
is bravely preparing to meet it. 1t is project
ed on a scale of enlarged expectations. Every
public improvement necessary to delightful,
satisfying summer rest is to be provided. AL
ready water-works, with a system of street
pipes, are nearly completed, to- furnish the
hotels and cottages with clear and cool spring
water. A horse-car railroad connects with
Cape Island City and the world beyond. The
post-office, express, and telegraph are here,
Bath houses, with arrangements for hot and
cold fresh and salt water baths are Simply
provided. Hard, wide, solid drives gift the
city. Greenhouse are already filed Will
choice plants and flowers to beautify the ave-
nues. Day and Sunday-schools for the chit.
dren, necessary shops and stores, and all con-
veniences and appliances FOR a rcstfnl summer
sojourn by the seaside will be speedily suppl
ed.
The lots are laid out in a way to give equi-
table advantages to all property owners
every building being required to be set back
twenty feet, that a generous and airy outlook
may be allowed and full and free currents Of
air fresh from the ocean and the bay be OBJ.
tanned. No drive is less than so feet in width,
many being so and 100 feet and over six
miles of drives will be graded and gravelled
within the city limits. The TITLES given are
perfect, the land having been in the posses.
sion of the family of Mrs. Alexander
Whilldin for more than a century.
! generous offer to churches has been ac-
cepted by several congregations and is, we
understand still IN force, to the effect that
ministers or churches building this year will
each have lot presented to them worth $500.
The West Jersey Railroad has also been gener-
GUS in its offers of facilities for reaching the
place. 1t grants n free pass to the owner of
a cottage for one or moro Years according to
the outlay for improvements made, giving an
annual pass for each $1,000 expended. Trains
will be run at convenient hours and on fast
time during the summer, and it is expected
also that line of steamboats, will be added
to the travelling facilitie6;
The fine farming tracts north Of the city,
which have been under good cultivation for
years, will supply the tables of the new city
as they have been supplying those of the OIL
der neighboring resort with all the product of
the farm, garden, and dairy, bringing fresh
vegetables and poultry and milk and butter to
the hotels and cottages. With every earthly
want supplied, and congenial, select, moral,
and Christian population, such as the founders
of Sea Grove have contemplated in their
charter, and With such men as President
Alexander Whilldin, Secretary, ]. G. Sidney,
and resident managers of experience as
Messrs Springer and Edmunds and bf.
Marcy and others to carry out the Associas
tion's views, we do not see how anything short
of most prosperous future is before this new
seaside home.
II may we'll extend its welcome to all weary
workers in our crowded cities, with the assur-
ing words of promise, Here you may rest''
PHrLo.