New-York tribune., 1901-06-09
IMPROVEMENTS At CAPE NAY.
MUCH MONEY EXPENDED IN BEAUTIFYING
THE PLACE-THE coTTAGERs ARRIVING


THE PLACE-THE COTTAGERS ARRIVING.
Cape May, n j., June s (speciaD.-What gives
promise of being one OF the best seasons Cape
May has had In many years has opered. large
percentage Of the cottage colony has arrived and
opened villas for the summer. Among them are
many New-Yorkers Much money has been ex-
pended this spring in beautifylHg the place This
general improvement has been noticed on every
hand. Real estate has moved actively. and more
important deals have been put through here in the
last seven months than have been known to take
place in several years before Many cottages
have been built, and they have been of the kind
to rent sell for big prices The class of visitors
who have been coming Cape May in the more
recent years have asked for such houses and in
ORDER TO hola them as patrons OF the resort the
Cape May has long beer known as family cot
tage resort and II has aot made efforts To get
hotel guests like other younger places; hut il has
nevertheless of late years been gradually receiving
an increased number of hotel guests. There seems
10 be a returning OF the Southern element which
came before the days of the Rebellion. and the
Aew-Y orkers. who came regularly in the days when
steamboats had not been supplanted by railroad
The county authorities building and viii
nae competed by july. speedway twelve miles
ward along The beach front and Win i5 hS Dd 5one @
wen shaded avenues about the place will give TO
the lover of driving riding or bicycling splendid
thorties have put the towns streets in tioroueh f
par, and they present splendid appearances. Each
ana am as a result Cape May never looked prettier in
The Pennsylvania Railroad has done much TO in
crease TIE popularity Of the place IT has made its
foadbed more substantial, laid heavier rails ana
dihbs dihfis las iaSt9r une ths year between here Pha-
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad has co
cured the ownership OF the old South Jersey road
aald merged IL into its corporation thus puftine
ape MAY on it, permanent list of places reo cbed
Dy thlS road II has made ARRANGEMENTS 10 ram
anroush cars from Jersey City to Cane Nav daiiv
rms company has also bought the beach front trni
N9Q0 IN repairs - NPSNNiiiS
The syndicate headed by A. b. Wilgus ir of
;;Ne"-fofk who built the second ocean Dier here
list summer has purchased the steamer Vireinia
oI OF the Old Bay Line, of Baltimore and viii bpcin
opetatIrons with her as ferryboat across Della
ware ware Bay on June 20. II viii connect with the
queen anne Railroad. Twenty thousand excursion
ISIS, ISIS are booked TO come from the South by this
sag The aSe Cape May Golf Club has expended about
ssS1voo on IT'S links the last winter Ii nov, haS =
me course of nine holes. stretching over eexen3,
apr nerss i, OF land, which is beautifully situated
eo.niiahdihs flne view OF both the ocean and thS
cp,Suhtty back OF Cape May. The cluhhouse IS tbe
u ~ hiahsion IN which Henry CLAW STAYED while
t.,i 1'le IN is3i, and where he was met bv Horace
ns oisseles, Nlchclas Dean and Recorder iTallmade
city iA "s lhe guest or that
Among the prominent cottagers this seaso,, o
A ~ A-fostfnnster r-t3eneral John Wansmakar ~ ~
nn1iIas u Morton. The Philadelphia surgeon. Dr
NiiiaIn M keen, president Of the Americas Ma
eesl Association General John Watts I<ear1v ~
. .neW-1ofk, who, with his family returned r. o,,
NC mise italy, last Saturday; Mrs ID NJ Kearnv
WlnoW or "Phi,' kearnr. Mexican ana f.i,ssi
Wax fame. and the Rev. Cyrus Tovnsena B-sdv "a