Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-07-23
NEW CAPE MAY.


An Ideal Seaside Resort of Magnificent Pro-
portions on the New Jersey Coast Cane
May Real Estate Company the Projectors.
The Cape May Real Estate Company, 101
Arcade Building, Philadelphia, Pa, has
issued 32-page booklet, beautifully illus
trated with half-tone pictures of Cape May
hotels, residences, railroad terminals, as
well as beach and harbor scenes and
birds eye view of old and prospective New
Cape May. The cover design is especially
unique and attractive.
The book tells in word and picture the
early history of Cape May, of its growth
into an aristocratic seaside resort, even be-
fore the days of railroads, and what the
Cape May Real Estate Company is doing
with the purpose Of founding New Cape
May adjacent to the present city, and max
ing it the ideal seaside resort of the world.
The plans, work upon which as started,
involve the expenditure of millions of dol
lars. The Company's property extends for
two and one-half miles along the Atlantic
Ocean, skirting the most magnificent beach
on the coast, and about mile inland.
There are $500 building sites on this tract
On some of them the Cape May Real Estate
Company, in connection with others, will
erect commodious hotels with every modern
convenience. Cottages and palatial resi-
dences will also be erected, contracts for
a number having been already awarded.
The monster dredges have been started to
form harbor, inland, with an entrance
from the sea 700 feet wide and protected
by jetties extending 5000 feet into the
ocean. This harbor will cover an area of
500 acres, and will be of sufficient depth
to permit the entrance of vessels drawing
about 25 feet Of water. Here yachts and
water craft Of all sorts will find land
locked harbor in times of storm at sea. The
United States Government is interested in
this harbor, and yacht clubs in Philadel-
phia and New York have petitioned Con-
gress to make an appropriation to maintain
the harbor entrance Members of Congress
from this district have expressed their
appreciation of the necessity for harbor of
this character at this point on the coast,
and have promised their support in the
matter of a Government appropriation.
Meanwhile the work of construction is
being expedited as much as possible. The
indications are that this harbor will be
great rendezvous for yacht owners
A very important feature in the develop
ment of this property, fully described in
the booklet, is the installation, by the Cape
May Real Estate Company, in conjunction
with the city authorities, of model sewer
age system. This work is ow well under
way. All the sewage will be pumped
across country about four miles and dis
charged into Delaware Bay, whence it will
pass out to sea without communicating the
atmosphere or befouling the water along
the ocean front. This sewerage system will
conduce immensely to the healthfulness of
the resort, which has for years been noted
for its health-giving conditions. The eli
matte conditions are delightful, it being a
matter Of Government record that at Cape
May it is cooler in summer and warmer in
winter than at any other resort along the
New Jersey coast.
Reference is made in the booklet to the |
hearty cooperation of the Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia & Reading and the Queen |
Anne's Railroads with the projectors of the
New Cape May enterprise. Since the book
let was issued, the Pennsylvania and the |
Reading roads have cut down the train time |
to 80 minutes between Philadelphia and |
Cape May, less time than was made when |
Atlantic City's great boom began. The |
railroad officials have fully assured them |
selves that the Cape May Real Estate Com
pany's plans will be carried out, and that
great and popular resort will be the result.
The Pennsylvania Railroad, early in the |
present year, put down an entire new road
bed on its Cape May division, using 100
pound rails, and now is running its 90
minute trains with its best (No. y type of
locomotives. The Reading road is doing
the same thing.
Investors are noting all these great i'm
the practical endorsement by
the great railroad corporations, and are
anxious to purchase property in New Cape |
May. But the owners will not begin to
sell until they have made certain promised |
which, in addition to those |
already noted, include grading and sewer
ing of streets, putting down water and gas |
pipes, and laying granolithic pavements |
and curbs. When this work is completed |
or we'll under way, investors and seaside
home-seekers will be given opportunity to
buy lots.
No real estate proposition now before the
public is exciting so much interest as this
New Cape May proposition. 1t is the topic
Of conversation everywhere, and this remark
is frequently heard In view of the great
natural advantages and attractions which /
Cape May possesses l have wondered why
it did not grow. Now that there is abund-
ance of capital back of this enterprise and
men of wide real estate experience direct
ing it, the future of Cape May as an ideal
seaside resort is assured" And it is. New
Cape May is not a mere promise; the real
work of development is progressing as
rapidly as possible and skeptics have be-
come enthusiastic believers in New Cape |
May, unsurpassed by any seaside resort in
the world.