Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-13
THE CAPE MAY SEASON.
A Syndicate Has Been Very Busy
Since Last Year.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
CAPE MAY, June i, 1903.
The summer resort season here is opening
gradually. and from now on until the LIST
of August there will be a constant influx
of cottage and hotel guests. swelling the
normal winter population of about 1900 to
the summer figure of from 1900 to 10000.
Since last year there have been number
of public and private improvements. Cot
tages have been erected, the beach front.
boardwalk and boulevard improved, and a
trolley line laid along Washington street,
the principal business thoroughfare of the
town.
At Schellinger's Landing. the port of en-
try from which the pleasure crafts sail into
the sounds. and out upon the Atlantic,
there have been many improvements in the
shape of new wharves and pavilions. Small
boat houses have been built for the accom-
mediation of the owners of boats There
are more than 100 launches owned by the
New York and Philadelphia visitors who
spend their summers here.
Since the close of the last summer sea-
son large amount of property has chang
ed hands. The results of this changing of
ownership, however, will not be noticed by
the visitor until he arrives here to spend
the season of 1904. Last fall syndicate
of Pittsburg and New York capitalists,
after an expenditure of about SI50.OO0, &C
quired 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 Pttsburg. 1t
has entered into an arrangement with the
municipal authorities to extend the beach
driveway and boardwalk eastward two
miles to Sewelrs Point, and to build for
Cape May a new sewerage system with a
main trunk sewer extending about three
miles out into the tide waters of the Della
ware Bay. These joint improvements will
cost more than S256oeO and the contracts
have 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 landlocked
harbOr. in which vessels drawing twenty
two feet and under can be harbored in any
kind of weather. With big dredge carry
ing over two hundred tons of machinery
they propose to dig out a large part of
what is now known 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 there
will be bukheads, which will protect the
edges of the harbor.
Already engineers of the United States
army have made 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
channel of sufficient depth built and
maintained to allow the entrance into the
harbor of vessels which might be protect
ed in this place. 1t is understood that the
House river and harbor committee is favor
able to an appropriation for the deepening
of Cold Spring Inlet This is particularly
the opinion of Theo. f. Burton of Ohio the
chairman of the committee. and of Repre-
sentative Ernest +. Acheson of Pennsyi-
vania 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.
The syndicate will shortly begin the con-
struction of a ten-story hotel. to cost about
$150OOO, the plans for which were drawn
by j. III. Windrim, a former supervising