Daily Republican., 1880-08-05
CAPE MAY.
what is New at the Point Seaside
PasttIA --Wilaningl lOnians.

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Daniel Rldridgs and Mr.. B.rnard Has
SOD, OF your city, went home yssts. day
after pasriug very pleasant week or
80 here, in bathing, fishing, Grabbing
andbsach sailing parties and other Cape
May apausements. Friend Daniel, Mr..
Bssscs and few friends went into the
Soupd fishing the day after their arriy-
81 but did not meet with satisfactory
auocsss, only catching few but since
then they took another trip and csught
ssvcnty-three fue blue fish or trout,
founders, Cape May goodies, TO-, be-
sides crabs and taking them to their
cottage home made several delicious
meals of them. Last Tuesday Massrs.
Rldridge, Hasson and other Whining
tonians accompanied large beach par.
ty, as We call them here from Schel-
linEsr's landing to Five Mile Beach to
spend the day in picnic on the shore,
grabbing, fishing, bathing, ao. They
were unable to reach Pivs Mile Bsach
owing to unfsvorable tides, but spent
the day on the Two Mile Beach, 4
little island containing only one dwell.
ing and life saving station, from
ted BY the ocesn aud backed by the
sounds a. our inland bays are termed
and with deep nsvigabls Inlets at
each ends through which the tide sbos
and Asws with great force.
A number Of ladies' and gen.
tlsmsn frsm our visiting guests and
permanent residents, were Of the par
lty, and they sailed over in several
yachts, dined In picnic style and spent
. very pleasant day, only marred by
severe strain Of the back recsived by
your tovnsman, Mr.. Hasson, in drag
gjng up the anchor of the yacht hs
was in, causing him much pain and
discomfort. These parties were formerly
much more frequent than now, the
finest people OF our land engaging in
them, guests of the hotels here FROM
var ious part, of the country. We read
delightful description In late Wave
of enc that took plaes forty years ago
by guests Of Congress Hall, chiefly
Baltimorisns, uudsr the guidance Of
Mr.. Aaron Sohsllinger, one Of our pa
triarchs, recently deceased at the age
of ninety years. He had lsrgs boat
to contain the party and towed
another in which was 25 faLhom
fishing seine and crew to drag it. On
reaching the beach just inside OF Cool
spring Inlet they landed to spend the
day and hauling the seine soon had
hundreds Of delicious blue or weak
hsh which were cleaned and cooked
over fires built in cooking utensils
brought by the party, and with other
provisions, wines and delicacies an en-
ljoyAbls meal was made. Hon. William
Ware has informed US that he &C,
oompAnied many Of these parties and
showed them o way to cook fish novel
and excellent. They are taken just
- they come from the water, neither
scales nor trail being removed, wrapped
In several folds of& newspaper, each
separGtely, and buried IN the embers Of
wood fire made on the beach, for
about ave minutes, the wet paper keep
ing them from burning, and then
taken out and on unfolding what is
left OF the paper, the scales adhere to 1t,
the entrails are found to be cooked and
are removed in one piece, and the flesh
Of the fish is thoroughly cooked, white
as curds and tastes 30 delicious that
no other mode Of cooking can give any
idea Of the superiority Of thu taste to
those 30 prepared. We hope some day
soon to give it a practical trial.
We have been visiting Cape May as
infant, boy and man forty years AMI
only bad the habits of the lifs OF the
clam and oyster revealed to us last
winter on claiming trip in the sound
with our estinable ex Mayor, Joseph
Ware, and his brother Mr.. Maskel
Ware, who was fellow citizen of yours
for years, engaged at the Harlan Il
Hollingswo Co. 5 works, but native
of Cape May. We had oyster knives
with us, and on finding the coon
oysters, opened and ate them with the
keen appetite engendered by that
heavenly delight Of every Cape May
man, "a day in Cape Island Sounds"
1t requires practical eye to detect the
oyster, as we have rambled along the
margin of the Sounds many and many
a tins as visitor here snd never su5-
pected their preseLce, nor could we
easily find them even OH being taught
their habit, but the Mayor would
pounce on two or three in square
yard and dislcdge them for our nse.
l. ay,I 80 fh.- Apl FA Ia Ut
hook and line and soft shell crabs for
bait, but they will bite, although less
readily, at muscle and clam.
MIR. Thomas Denny, foreman of the
painting department at the Jackson d
Sharp works is here with his family on
6 visit and accompanied by Mr.. Will {
liam Hodges a native Wilmingtonian
and resident there row, but who has
b 4n spending the last twelve years at
Cape May, and ia perfectly familiar
with its cunning, fishing and yacht '
sailing pleasures, went fishing to the
sounds yesterday, sailing with splen-
did breeze that laid their yacht over q
until she took water over the wash
board or gunwale, to the fishing grounds
where with soft crab bait in a short I
time they took twenty pound of blue or Q
weak fsh (otolithus RECALLS, cuv. and /
val.) three of them weighing four to I
four and quarter pounds each and a
being nearly two feet long. Mr.. Denny 6
took the largest one to his hotel, Uni v
ted States, where the wife Of Mr.. Gle o
ment B. Reeves kindly had it stuffed a
and baked for the dinner Of his family t
party. The remainder be gave to Mr.. a
Hodges and your correspondent had a
supper and breakfast both off the dc q
licious fish, and fine lunch caught by b
Lhsm. They were gone but a few P
hours and CHANGED to have unusual P
rood success, but much depends II
On the skill and guidance Of those who k