The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-10-01
A DAY AT CAPE MAY.
We Gan All DO There When Our
Ship Comes In.
Meanwhile We Have to Bc Satisfied with
Reading of the Beauty and Grandeur
OF the Ocean and the Charms Of
tho Pcbbly Beach
Especial Washington Letter.l


There is no harm in envy unless 1t is
permitted to grow into jealousy. You
will all be envious when you hear the
story, and yet believe not one of my
readers will be jealous.
Having received and accepted an
invitation to make a trip to Cape May,
N. j., and be guest at the princi-
pal hotel there for four days, started
on Friday morning with my wife and
baby and arrived at the Cape about
four o'clock in the afternoon. First
let me tell you about the hotel.
1t is one of the largest establishments
Of the kind on the Atlantic coast and
can readily accommodate thousand
guests, giving good bedrooms as well
as the best of food with prompt atten-
tion to every one Of that number. 1t ie
situated about one hundred yards from
the beach, and is SO planned and erect
ed that nearly every room faces the sea
and receives the ocean breeze. That
same ocean breeze seems to be ceaseless
in its efforts to fill the lungs and invig.
orate the systems of all who are for
tunate enough to visit the coast.
The beach at Cape May is one of the
safest in the world. For fully half a
mile it slopes downward SO gradually
that an eight-year-old child can wade
fully thirty yards into it without hav.
ing the water come over his head. ex.
cept as the big waves roll in. Under
the circumstances, of course, there is
no undertow along the beach, and no
loss of life occurs at this point except
through carelessness.
To reduce the peril of this pleasure to
a minimum opposite each one of the ho-
tells along the beach there is stationed a
life.boat manned by four sturdy sailors.
When the bathing hour commences
these lusty lads push their life-boat
through the breakers and row out be-
yond the furthcst line of bathers, and
there ar: chor with their oars ready at a
moments notice to rush to the relief of
anyone who may by any mischance be
in dang sr of drowning.
Although 1t is q generally accepted
| rule in The cities of the east that oysters
are onl5 fit for food during the months
from September to April, the people
along the Jersey shore regard them as
healthful and wholesome the whole
year around. At Cape May every meal
commences with raw oysters on the hall
shell fresh taken from the salt waters
near by. We also had clans and soft
shell crabs in abundance; so that you
see If it is true that products Of the sea
produce the phosphorescence necessary
to recuperate the tired brain your cor.
respondent must be in very brainy
condition at the present writing, be-
cause for three days we almost lived on
the vertebrates, articulates and mol
lusks of the deep.
On Saturday afternoon, joining par
ty Of ladies and gentlemen, we char
tered a large yacht, sailed seven miles
out from shore and anchored there
Two gentlemen and one lady in the
party gave up their dinner to the fish
before we reached our point of anchor
age. 1t was my good fortune not to gel
seasick and therefore the sport of fish
ing was the more thoroughly enjoyed. Ii
about three hours time with our hooks
and lines we pulled in over three hun
dred ocean bass, founders and othel
specimens Of the finny tribe, until oul
boat was we'll loaded and each one O.