Middletown transcript., 1880-02-28
Nv the seaside.

Correspondents have already commeucea 10
write up the attractions of the various sum
mer resorts for the season of 1880. It is ear
", but the wise early bird gobbles the foolish
early worm, and the early correspondent gets
the 6rst dead-head ticket. Cape May, Ocean
City, Rehoboth and Drummond's mili-pona
are the summer resorts in which we, OF MID
dletown, are most interested. We belleEe
substantial improvements are being, or VIII
be made at all the watering places above emu
merated. Our route to Cape May will be the
same as during last season-rail to Bombay
Hook, thence by steamer. A Pullman palace
freight train will take US to Clay ton, as here
tofore where we shall meet the youth ano
beauty Of Kent and Queen Anue's, accompan-
led By the Greensboro brass band. The Bonn
bay Hook road will probably be improved
with new pair of bars, aud excursionists
may rest assured that the weeds will he
moved ou; Of the way Of the locomotive
and that no cattle will be allowed to follow
the lrai1 at faster rate than four miles an
AlOuNs AS a AuAt tAACA oaAlC uttAO 'N5"AASN
sion with stock, the brass band .wil be sta
TONED in the bindmost car, with instructions
to play 'Whoa Emma in six flats. On the
bay no difficulty may be apprehendeG from
fog, this season. Excursionists will not be
troubled to find the steamer should it get
lost, as all boats will be chartered al SO much
a trip and find themselves. A NIP of the bay
will be hung up in the saloon for the benefit
Of those who want to know every fifteen min.
ute5 where they are at. Persons with weak
stomachs are advised to leave them at home
At the Cape, much that is new is being done
for the comfort of those who frequent this re-
sort in season. Several bathing suits have
been halfsoled and rehabilitated by a new
button here and there The hotel clerks are
searching for he biggest So diamond pins in
the market, and have ordered each new con-
science from the indian-rubber mill. Dollar
dinners, this season, will be plain, one-story
affairs. Real, Mansard dinners, with modern
improvements, accompanied by q yellow waiter
and French bill of fare, will be out of the
financial reach of everybody but paper dealers
and rag-pickers. Excursionists will be charg-
ed seventy-fve cents only, to look at the clerk,
provided they do not speak to him. Special
arrangements have been made with several
sca-serpents to appear early in the season
At Ocean City many Improvements ale to
be made The chief hotel is to have new
addition with Mansard roof, also new ball |
room This ball room is for dancers, not for |
children They will have no special room
but will do their bawling all over the house.
No good drinking water has been struck yet, |
on the beach, but a new bar-room will be
opened early in the season. And it will be
opened pretty often during the season. Addi-
tional porches are also to be built, giving
guests an uninterrupted promenade of five
hundred feet. This promenade, however,
will be for the exclusive use of G ests and
any excursionist found trying 10 steal it will |
be taken out and talked to death by Balti-
more drummer. A new story is TO be put on
the hotel, exclusively for Peninsular editors,
as they have complained in the past about be-
ing hung up over night on nails. The excuse
of ofsummer hotel landlords that no extra charge
was made for such accommodations has not
been entirely satisfactory. A live Count will
any sea-serpeuis have been secured for Ocean
City, but those who visit the sample rooms
often will, no doubt, be able to see enough for
at least weekly serpent report in The daily
press. The railroad company will probably
devise some means OF stopping mosquitoes
from boarding excursion trains at Berlin and
riding down to the beach for days sport.
AT Rehoboth, the Camp Meeting Association
is contemplating the erection of new hotel
in the place Of the burnt ''Snrf House" Itis |
not probable that the railroad will be built TO |
the bea h, this season, and it is less probable
that the beach will come to the railroad. No |
sea -serpents are allowed at this watering
place under any circumstances, and no seat
serpent wonld want 10 come more than once. |
Half dozen new bathing suits will be added
10 stock on hand The big hotel is 10 be
heightened, and it is to be hoped that the crop |
of mosquitoes for 1880 will have bills several /
iuches shorter than their predecessors. Reho-
both mosquitoes have in the past inclined TO
run pretty nearly d II to bill but this is a way
things have about summer Re sort. There is |
often more bill than anything else, and be-
tween the mosquitoes and the landlords one |
is often pumped so dry thai nobody knows |
him, when be comes home, but his creditors
Creditors never forget men at all hazards 1
His wife; mother-in-law and itch aunt may |
become entirely oblivious Of the fact that he |
is in the universe, but every one ofhis credit
ors would know him if he were turned inside |
out and white-washed. This has nothing to
do with watering places, but it is fact, and |
facts will sometimes creep off ones pen point,
even when one is trying to puff up the advan-
tages Of a summer resort.
At Drummond's mill pond the proprietors
offer all the attractions oflast season, together
with many new ones. In point Of accessible
ty and cheapDess it is UNSURPASSED, and those
in search of quiet will find it served up there
in all its various styles The local editor has
engaged apart ments
Tax Collectors.
The Wilmington Republican intimates that
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