The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-09-09
Our Cape May Letter
FROM OUR REGULAR CoRpKsrovpENr.

FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
CAPE MAY, N j., Sept 2, 1882.
The weather bureau turned on blast
from the north pole yesterday and cut
the tail of the season in twain. The
Stockton, the last and largest Of the o.
tells, closed to-day. The Congress de-
clined to receive guests week ago, but
kept the few on hand until Friday last,
when it closed. Even the hotels that re-
main open during the winter have but
few guests. While the season has been
very successful ore in most every quarter,
it has been dismal failure here. 1t is a
short one at the best compared with
pleasant weather it fails TO attract. A
combination of circumstances has con-
tributed to depress and deplete Cape
May. This season has been a very rainy
one. For ten days it rained necessarily,
and when the %eather cleared the mos
quitoes came in clouds. People stood
them till the trains lett, and the town has
not recovered from the exodus of its
guests in the height of the season. But
there are other reasons why Cape May
has not been successful this summer. and
why it may not he successful in the sea.
sons hereafter. 1t has not met the spirit
: of competition that has sprung up al
: along the Long Island and Jersey coasts
S 1t has lid on its magnificent hathir {
Q beach, and added no other attractions
The result is that people have gone t.
q new places and left the old ones to decay
f Although the hotels have closed, all o
! the cottage population remains, and a
- bathing time there are still several hun
b. dred people left for the surf. The north
east storm does not interfere with th
y bathing. The air is chilly, but the wa
p ter is almost tepid, while the breaker
come rolling in high and fast with 18th
multitudin0us music Of a thousand age
. gone" The sights on the sands and i
the surf increase with the absurdities {
each years fashions. Ev rybody gel
the benefit Of new mania for stocking
:, The ladies who would hardly exhibit III
-, size of their slippers on the piazzas {
the Stockton uublusLingly show off III
full length of the Lew colors in the batl
The sight is a shapely one, and evil onl
10 to him, doubtless, who evil thinks. The
4" have been no accidents this season an
but few persons rescued from the breal
'' ers. This is mainly attributable to II
III absence of the good swimmers Qor tn,
a. venture ont aud cannot get back) and
N' the wsruipg notice posted in every bal
y room for the benefit of the new conner
" There is so much shouting and frnlicir
'e in the water that it is difficult to dete
an earnest appeal for assistance. I'll
he new fashion of dogs continue to increa
De at least the dogs increase Last SUI
iat mer the English pug with black ba
'n- tered nose was the rage, and he holds Ii
~ own quite well among the childlesS v
81 taries of fashion. This year notice
od new breed with which am not familid
d. but it seems to answer every purpose
~ well as the pug. These pet brutes sic,
g in lnisiresses laps and are frequently
Der from the same table, though some of t
hotel managers have not yet yielded
cL the demand for high chain" for the |
hi- tie pets. II is a good thing to see st
for son open, with the hotel proprietor sha
i'd ing hands with every one who gets out
de- the omnibus, and his face beam over I
of dollars he expects to roll in before
zee August tides. 1t is good thing to
In at Its height and sleep on a cot in I
Us. wash-room, at the rate of four dollars
re- day not including extras; but it is b
in ter thing TO see the closing days of a S
all son. when you can get a parlor with
de- ocean front, with the privilege of oecul
ica ing one Hundred and eighty-one otl
The rooms. all "with ocean fronts" ana
and the same floor; TO hear the unbrol
cap murmuT Of the ocean at night, and
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