Evening journal., 1903-06-20
BRIGHT PROSPECT
FOR CAPE MAY
Since Last Season Large
Amount of Property Has
Changed Hands
RESORT WILL Be ATTRACTIVE PLACE.

Cape May, n. j., June 2O.-Since the
close of the last Summer season a large
amount of property has changed hands.
The result of this changing Of ownership
Will not be noticed by the visitor until he
arrives to spend the season Of 1904. Last
fall a syndicate of Pittsburg and New
York capitalists, after an expenditure OF
about $3.50, ,0O0 acquired four square miles
of land on the ocean front in the eastern
portion of the resort. The company IS
headed by ex-senator William Finn, of
Pittsburg.
1t has entered into an agreement with
the municipal authorities ITO extend the
beach driveway and boardwalk eastward
two miles to Sewelrs Point and ito build
for Cape May a new sewerage system
with main trunk sewer extending about
three miles out into tidewater of the Della
ware bay. These joint improvements will
cost more than S256, 900. and the contracts
ihave already been awarded. One-third of
this amount was given to the city by the
syndicate.
Among the proposed Improvements to be
made by the syndicate is the building, to-
gether with other things. of a land-loclSed
harbor. in which vessels drawing twenty
kind of weather. with big dredge carry
ing over two hundred tons of machinery
they propose to dig out a large portion Of
what is now known as Cape Island Sound
the entrance to which IS through Cold
Spring Inlet. about four miles north of
the cape. on both sides Of the harbor
ahere win be bulkheads which viii pro-
tect the elges Of the harbor
A1raa1r- fnofnao,.e of ,t1,o Tr,ftrH ct,to-
army have made a survey Of Cold Spring
Inlet and its entrance. and Major Ray
mond. the chief of the corps is ready to
report that this inlet can be dredged and a
thannel of sufficient depth built and main
tained to allow the entrance into the har-
Dor Of vessels which might be protected in
this Place.
1t is understood THAT the House River
and Harbor Committee is favorable to an
appropriation for the deepening of Cold
Spring Inlet. This is particularly the
opinion of Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio.
the chairman Of the committee and of
Representative Earnest f. Acheson, of
Pennsylvania, of the committee. The New
York Yacht Club is also largely interested
in this new harbor, and has signed the
petition to Congress for the deepening of
the inlet.
This syndicate has also had plans pre-
pared for the building of a ten-story hotel
and for thirty cottages to cost between
$1,000 and $1,000 each.
Along the line of purely municipal inn
provements many of the streets have been
improved and Washington street, the lead.
ing business thoroughfare of the town has
been macadamized. Beach avenue, which
is a boulevard skirting the ocean from
with nothing between dc and old Neptun,
but Cape Nays boardwalk, has been re
graveled and made a handsome piece o.
roadway. In addition to the excellentl!
made streets of Cape May there has beeI
constructed by the county authorities
many miles of good roadway out into tn
country districts at a cost of about $40,
900.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroal
Company has just completed a trolle.
line along Washington street from thei
station at the head of Ocean street t.
Schellenger's Landing. The service wa
inaugurated en- Tuesday and they are noN
running this line in connection with tn
Ocein Street Passenger Railroad, whic
they own end with the Cape May, Della
ware Bay and Sewell's Point Railroad
They maintain a service between the thre
points Of Schellenger's Landing, Sewell'
Point and Cape May Point.