, 1904-09-28
SEPTEMBER DAYS AT
WILDW0OD-BY -THE-SEA
The News of the Week
Carefully Reviewed

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The summer crowds have left the
seashore to return to their winter
homes. The hotels are closing, the
board walk and strand is nearly DESERT
ed and the hotel proprietor has ample
time to sit down and take a much
needed rest and incidentally to count
over the profits of a strenuous seasons
work. Those who have worked like
troians all summer long now take the
opportunity to go on a pleasure trip, a
little vacation andrecreatiOn tour. The
~suddenness in which the season closes
is DEMONSTRATING, the contrast between
August and September is SO great,
more noticeable now than it will be a
few months hence.
Stephen Durfee and family returned
Friday to their home in Millville after
spending the summer in their Pine
avenue cottage.
Mrs. Katherine Doyle, of Philadel-
phia, is spending some time with
friends at Wildwood Bazaar.
Curtis T. Baker, ESQ.,, of the law
firm of Baker & Harris, of Camden,
will be in Wild wood every Thursday
during the year and on other days by
appointment, at the office of the
mayor.
If YOU need a new gun call on Nick
erson in Holly Beach and get prices. n
The family of Mrs. Maggie Smith
closed their Oak avenue cottage on
Monday morning and returned to their
home in Camden.
T. f. Shute spent Saturday in Bur-
lington attending the congressional
convention. Postmaster W. B.Livezey,
Councilman j. Albert Harris and Jed
Dubois also were present If the COIL
vention.
The family of Robert f. S. Heath re-
turned to their home in Camden last
week after spending the summer in
their cottage On Poplar avenue. Mr..
Heath is clerk to the assessor of Cam
den.
Supreme Court Justice Swayze,
Postmaster Robert L. Barber, Frank
r. Hansell, and Edward Chew, of
Camden, were the guests of Judge HI.
H. Voorhees, last week. Accompanied
by state comptroller j. Willard Morgan
the party made a trip to the fishing
banks.
Councilman and Mrs. j. Albert
Harris left this week for a vacation of
two weeks. They will visit the Inter
State fair at Trenton and also contem-
plate a trip to Boston by way of the
Fall River Steamship line.
Mrs. Meagher and her popular
daughters, Misses Helen, Mary and
Evelyn, returned to their Philadelphia
home this week after spending the
summer in a Magnolia e cottage.
Patrick F. Dever and family have
closed their Atlantic e N cottage
for the winter and returned this week
to their Philadelphia home.
Clarence Jaggers has peel spending
several days with relatives in Camden.
This is the first trip Master Clarence
has ever made to a city and the sights
he saw and the delights he eX experienced
will not be forgotten for many a day.
Be sure to attend the Millinery open
ing of Mech & Co. at their Holly
Beach store OF Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evenings of this week.
John Whitaker has accepted a posi-
ton at Bridgeton for the winter.
Plans for the enlargement and
undermining of the Htna are being
made by contractor VanHorn. Pro-
prietor j. X. Tresher intends to make
The Htna n of the most modern and
complete hotels on the island. The
present structure will be raised and
about % rooms added with all of the
latest conveniences besides many other
improvements. Operations will be
begun as Ooh as the plans are COM
pleted.
H. L. Sparklin, the popular propri-
etor of the cigar and tobacco emporium
Under the Hotel Seaside for the past
TWO seasons has given up that stand to
take charge of the Ruric during the
coming winter.
+. G. Esslinger, division superinten-
lent of the Union Transfer company,
was in Wildwood on Wednesday OF
TINS week on business for the company.
MT. Esslinger has charge of the COM
pany's affairs in southern New Jersey
and for the territory embracing the
cities of Baltimore and Washington.
he expressed himself as surprised at
the business on Five Mile Beach and
verified the figures given in the
JOURNAL last week as to the amount
OF baggage handled here during the
past season.