The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-13
Sea Side Park.

Miss Mabel Sullivan is visiting Mrs.
Clothier, wife of member of the firm of
Strawbridge & Clothier, at Newport, R. l.
The Middle Department insurance in
spectors were here last week to inspect
the new Sea Side Park water plant and to
decrease the insurance rates.
A blue fish weighing five and half
pounds was caught by Charles Gaskill
few days ago in the surf with the squid.
The blue fish are now more frequent along
the beach.
A big lot of red drum were lying on the
Sea Side Park dock on Monday night.
They were caught at the inlet. Some of
them were more than four feet long. The
yachtsmen said that the water at the in
let was red with these fish for an acre or
more, so thick were they. Many big
catches were made.
The Sea Side Park Company at recent
meeting voted to donate $500 lot in the
centre of the town, at Fourth avenue, for
chapel site. A number of ladies are in
tere sted in the idea of union chapel
and good listed fund is already in the
hands of the treasurer of the fund, Cal
vim S. Crowell of Moorestown.
The old saying has it that figures won't
lie. This saying is supposed not to apply
to the assessment figures. Still the most
eYooJyiDr oO,,oron+oru On tha frro,r,tl Of
Sea Side Park in the past year is the state
ment that Sea Side Park this year will
pay taxes on one hundred and fifty per
cent. more valuation than it did last year
The best fish yarn told about Barnegat
Bay this summer is one for which
party of Hightstown and Spottswood
they apparently believe it themselves
that they caught 725 weakfsh in few
hours time on the Cedar Greek beds, and
that their high hook was John Vliet ST.,
of Spottswood, aged 76 years. and totally
blind
Wilson Brown, Jr., the young son of
Superintendent Wilson Brown of the Am
boy Division of the Pennsylvania Rail
road, has been summoned from Sea Side
Park to Annapolis to try the examination
for entrance to the United States Naval
Academy Young Brown was appointed
as third alternate in a vacancy which oc-
Cured in the First Congressional District
of New Jersey, by Congressman Harry
Loudenslager. The first man named went
to Porto Rico in the crack Battery A of
Philadelphia. The two first named alter
mates failed to pass the examination, and
so the appointment is open to Mr.. Brown,
if he is physically qualified.
There is an interesting story told of a
professional man, who is professor in 8
Philadelphia college, and who also prac
tees in Mount Holly Rushing into the
surf with shoes, hat and coat, and get
ting thoroughly soaked, he still had the
satisfaction of seeing keg full of the
fish on the beach that he had caught him
self Going up to the house to change
his clothes and calling to his son to bring
up the fish, he left the keg on the sand
An hour later a stalwart dago appeared a
his door and asked if they needed any
fish The successful fisherman, pulled VI
with the knowledge of his big catch, re
piled that they had plenty of fish ''Whert
are they ?" asked someone else, and thel
it was discovered that the fish were gone
1t was afterward found out that tn,
shrewd dago had first stolen the keg o
fish, and then came back and sold them t.
their original owner.
The summer is about over, but Their
are still good number of people here
Perhaps the good fishing has had some
, thing to do with it, On Sunday occurred
one of those marvellous happenings that (
J man may consider himself lucky to SCI
once in lifetime A vast school of BIZ
weakfsh filled the surf, hemmed in on tn
seaward side by school of their heredi
tary enemies, the fierce and voraciou
bluefsh. While the bluefish were slaugh
tering the weakfish in the rear, and TIL
thousands of little white gulls were gorg
: ing themselves with the pieces of weak
fish where the blues had cut them in tw
J with their razorlike jaws, the terrified
+ weakfish in the front rank of the schoC
had passed the line of breakers and wer
Z being crowded up on the very beach il
self by the still more terrified fish benin,