The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-07-19
Sea Side Park,

Leslie Penn son of draw tender Viii
liam Penn, had narrow escape in We'd
nesday's storm getting overheard with a
strong ebb tide and in a gale of wind, but
luckily he swims strong stroke, and so
is still here to tell the tale himself
The electric light and water plant are
run by two gasoline engines, which can
be coupled either to the pumps OF to the
dynamos The well was sunk by Uriah
White, of Asbury Park, the veteran ar
tesian well driver and E. L. Mathis, of
Pemberton, and Edgar A. Alcott, of
Mount Holly, son Of United States Mar
shall put in the rest of the water plant
Bathing has been unusually fine since
the storm of last week. The high winds
did no damage to the beach, and since
then the prevailing east winds have
brought in the warm surface water of the
ocean, bringing the temperature up as
high as seventy degrees. Coupled with
strong but regular swells and little under.
tow, this has made the finest bathing of
the summer
Great loads of fish are caught now in
Barnegat bay. Day after day Captains
Gene Longstreet, Sam Vanderveer Frank
Brockway, Ham Everham and the other
lads who sail party boats from the pier,
come in with all the fish their parties can
carry or ship home Catches of 100 big
tide-runners to a boat are too frequent to
enumerate and two hundred have fire.
quently been caught
G. A. Sims & Co., of Philadelphia, are
now at work grading the lower half of
the tract, from Ninth to Fourteenth
avenues. They have a large gang of men
at work. and a miniature railroad and
train for carting the sand from the beach
hills to the level meadow bottom on marsh
lands. Temporary tracks are laid as re-
quired and the tiny locomotive with its
long trains of sand cars, does quick work.
The souvenir fiend, or relic hunter, has
been in high glee the past week. Relics
from the burned ship Delaware have been
so plentiful that every one has been able
to get what he wished in that line Nails
and bolts taken from the burned timbers,
were the favorite souvenirs. Cork from
half burned life preservers was considered
naturally an unusually appropriate SOU
venir from burned ship and were eagerly
seized upon. There were few who as
amateur ''wrackers" secured prizes of in
trinsic as well as memento value. One
man found a half dozen silk umbrellas,
encased in box that washed up on the
beach, while agateware and other material
that neither fire nor water would damage,
was found occasionally.
Saturday night last is date long to be
remembered at Sea Side Park, as at that
time the water was turned on for the first
time at the new water works, and the
electric light plant also started up The
water plant is big enough for Sea Side
Park to grow to much larger dimensions
than it at present boasts. 1t is an artesian
well, 400 feet deep, with thirty foot
strainer on the bottom. 1t has a steady
flow of IS gallons per minute, without the
pumps. The pumps increase the flow to
So gallons per minute, or II, 400 gallons
per twentyfour hours. The tank is of
wood, on trestle, seventy eight feet
above the ground. The tank itself is
nineteen feet six inches high, and with its
conical top, dome and staff, measures 112
feet above ground.