The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-09-06
Sea Side Park.

Grandin Bates, of Paris, France.
Mr. and Mrs. George A. Helme, of
Helmetta and party of friends, have
been stopping here for some time,
Captain A. L. Risley, W. n. Stevenson
and Horace B. Stevenson were here from
Stone Harbor on yachting trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Hotaling and Mr..
and Mrs. George Dart, of Tuxedo Park,
paid handsome tribute to Sea Side Park,
by coming here from that handsome re-
sort.
bay after few weeks absence and this
time their custom is to stay until they go
to the south in the fall Outside there
are weaktish, croakers, bluefish and seabass
for those who care to cross the inlet bar
Sea Side is getting fair share of these
crowds, and throughout the whole month
of August not Saturday and Sunday has
passed without the management of the
Manhasset being compelled to turn away
would be guests The Manhasset has
enough guests booked till September 10
to keep it open till that date and it may
not close then
Keeper Miller is having fine new sta
tion house built by Uncle Sam for himself
and his boys. Island Beach was one of
the seven stations for which contracts
were awarded this spring, and contractor
Gus Tolbert, OF Barnegat who has spent
a lifetime building lighthouses and sta
ton houses on remote beaches for the
government, has the work at No. IA well
along. The house looms up big from the
beach.
The warm weather has extended the
summer season at least q fortnight longer
than usual this year, so far as big crowds
are concerned, and the arrivals last Satur-
day will compare favorably with any Sat
urday of the summer. Railway men say
that the travel to the shore is still far in
excess of the travel cityward, with the
single exception of the first part of the
present week when the Ocean Grove camp
meeting closed and thousands who go
there just while the camp is in progress
departed.
The young people have been having
gay times with their hops and Dances
parties and entertainments, but the little
tots, the small children, have not been far
behind. DR.. and Mrs. Charles Harker,
of Mount Holly, gave children's party
last w ednesday night, for their little son
Norman Harker. On Thursday night
there was dance for the little folks at the
Manhasset Mrs. George S. Candy, of
Philadelphia, who has been spending the
summer at the Manhasset with her three
children, gave peanut party, on Tues
day evening, to which the little ones at
the hotel were invited.
The Barnegat Bay Sneakbox Club held
regatta on Saturday, starting from the
Sea Side Park dock. The Barnegat Bay
sneakbox to one of the uninititated looks
for all the world like an enlarged pump
kin seed, but enlarge it still further,
deepen it little, and extend the stern a
little aft above the waterline and you
have the modern racing machine such as
Herreshoff built to defend the Ameri Ca S
cup The sneakbOX is from twelve to
eighteen feet long, though few of them
are more than sixteen and few less than
fourteen feet in length. 1t was the inven-
ton of boat builder named Seaman at
West Creek early in the present century,
and have been shipped to all parts. of the
world of late-some going from this part
of the bay to Sydney Australia
The regatta Saturday was won by Cap
tain Morton Johnson, of Bay Head who
built and sailed his own yacht; number
two was keeper Ed, Miller, of Island
Beach station house, No. A. in his box,
the bill Miller" named after his father,
for many years keeper of the Toms River
station. The Wash Peterson box, built
at Barnegat and owned at Bay Head, was
! No, 3. The Nip owned by Howard D.
VanSant, of Island Heights, and surfman
Ed Penn, of Lanoka, were four and five
respectively and only two seconds apart.
Surfman Dillon Wilbert and surfman
Jake Smith, both of Toms River station
No. 10, finished next in order, and were
( followed in turn by Bay Head and 4
Sea Side Park boat. 1t is generally con
ceded that Keeper Ed. Miller would have
come in first had not his boat had break.
! down which cost him four minutes time
to repair
Fishing from the Pier is again fine
On Thursday morning Surrogate Grover
and his son John caught about forty big
weakfish, while anchored off the Pier in a
small batteau for a couple of hours, anC
other fishermen find the same kind OF
luck Then if you are willing to go down
the bay in one of the many fine catboats
that sail from the Pier, there is no end to
the fish you may catch. Some catches
have run up to between four and five
hundred, and some individual catches
nave JOuCutu IHe Two uuHuItu MAJ IA
Lewis Pattberg and William Ruykhaver
caught two hundred while out one day
last week III. McAllister of Philadel
phia, made a catch of 1877 big weakfisl
single handed J. McDermott, E. H
Robbie, w S. Sharrett and E. Byrne
while out from the Lafayette house
Forked River, caught 1856 fish in one day
and as many more for several days il
succession. DR. Edgar Ill, of Newark
and three friends caught 1875 fish in few
hours last Monday.
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