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

| confess | always wanted to visit "the
shore in the earlier season of the year, to
hear what the wild waves are saying under
the rude invocation of the spring blasts, as
well as under the gentler wooings of summer
zephyrs So when my friend said, Come go
with me to Sea Grove" my heart replied,
sfTo Sea Grove will go +" and we agreed
to start the next morning from the foot of
Market Street.
On board the comfortable cars of the West
Jersey Railroad, we move slowly out Of the
Camden depot, remarknrg the rapid extension
of the city eastward, and particularly the new
Asylum ana Court House. Out Of the city
limits we are soon gliding southwark, making
first detour of old Gloucester and reaching
next the fine old farming town of Woodbury.
with its cultivated, plain society Industrious
old Glassboro', with it's still thriving glass
works, is next reached, and further Oh, New
field wen narned, where my friend has his
acres, improved and dnfmproved, which are
one day to make his fortune. That charming
cluster of Vinelands-north, proper, and
south--with its vineyards and fruit orchards,
and chdrches and schools and exceptional
general thrift and intelligence, passes us, ana
its hard pushing rival and neighbor, Millville,
we pass one by one the smaller towns to Cape
May Court Horse5 seat of Cape May County,
until at length we reached the terminus Of the
road at Cape Island City.
A right solid old city it is. The resident
population are industrious and comfortable,
only waiting now the annual overthrow
though not Of the waters. Soon the quiet
staidness of the place will give way to bust
ling preparation and that in turn to the well
come invasion of hordes of health and pleas
ure seekers from the inland cities of the con-
tinent. Wishing the good old city centen-
NAL benefit, with "crowded houses,'' and
thoroughly successful season, we Turn our
up at the Points the new and friendly rival of
the old watering place.
We at once make our way 10 the ocean,
which was not rough and angry as We had ex-
pected, but blue and placid We decided to
walk around by the beach rather than to take
the horse cars waiting at the depot The dis
lance is little more than a mile and half,
and the way plain Four months ago the
City and Point were not IN comfortable CONT
munication by the beach. Now smooth,
hard, wide avenue for driving and promenad-
ing is completed, making one of the most de-
lightful boulevards along the whole Atlantic
coast The beach makes most graceful curve
around the cape, running up into the Della
ware Bay as far as the cid Steamboat Land
ing, thus giving an almost complete semi-cir--
Gle as the outline of the Point. Sea Grove is
laid out with happy reference to this natural
curve of the shore.
Only one year ago the locality was "part
and parcel of sandy Wilderness with its
splendid possibilities undiscovered, or at least
uninterrupted. To the public spirit and enter
prise of Philadelphia merchant whose early
days were spent on the farm near the point
and to whose family estate the land belonged.
Sea Grove owes its existence. Preceiving its
rare advantages as seaside resort. this gentle
man joining with others of like mind, formed
the Sea Grove Association, which was duly
incorporated with the declared object to fur
nish seaside home, where its dwellers may
be refreshed and invigorated in body and SOUL