, 1905-09-13
These changes

a easily be made and at little cost.
When Mr.. Lowell, superintendent of
the West jersey and Seashore railroad,
said there should be four tracks from
one end of this island to the other, he
uttered a truth hat has been strongly
demonstrated during the past two
months. Facilities for handling the
many large trains coming in daily are
imperative.
Two years ago the meadows back of
Park avenue had been of but little val
ue-but since they have been reclaimed
the land is high and is as fine building
ground as could be desired and will
soon be covered with handsome i'm
provements. A lake should be opened
on down to Wildwood Crest, where
We are now making a wide and deep
body of water the entire length Of
Wildwood Crest. By doing this all
the low land lying east of the lake
would be made valuable.
Again, Park venue in Wildwood
E1lpIlA OG ODCLCd W AahC "a NObilI-
uous wide drive from the inlet to North
Wildwood. The advantages to be
gained by doing this are apparent to
all who are familiar with the present
situation. Lots adjacent to this ave
nue. would 500 command a high price,
whereas now hat land has but little
value.
At Mr.. Martindale's suggestion we
offered money prizes for the best six
word phrases descriptive of Wildwood
and received nearly one thousand an
swers. Securing the beautiful song,
"Wildwood, Beauteous Wildwood"
sung by thousands of visitors during
the season just closing was also the out
growth of Mr.. Martindale's suggestion.
| would suggest that we offer prizes to
families %cultivating the finest flower
gardens. Nothing is more beautiful
than we'll kept lawns and pretty flow
ers, besides adding greatly to the value
of property.
Early in Wild woods history we
made massive boquets of flowers and
grasses a~rtistically arranged and framed
six feet high and expressed these bo-
quets to Philadelphia weekly. They
were placed in front of one of the large
newspaper offices on Chestnut street,
where they attracted much attention
from the thousands of passers by. We
also offered souvenir prizes to the lady
gathering the greatest variety ofgrasses
and flowers, as we'll as to the person
giving the correct botanical name TO
these flowers. One young lady gath
cred seventy-eight varieties in an after
noon, and stated she found on this is
land every species of flowers grown
between Maine and Florida.
At one time we had a number of
very prominent writer's make known
through the public press the wonder
full attractions of growth in wood and
flowers ON this island. New necessi-
ties have arisen and we must measure
up to present demands. This can best
be done through the united efforts of
the Board of Trade. We have as a
board done much in the past two
years, but vastly more can yet bedone.
Mr.. Frederick Sutton said he was
greatly interested in Mr.. Martindale's
talk, coming from a nan who had
found SO much time TO devote to out
side matters, and if all others interested
in the development of the island would
devote more of their leisure time to
adopting Mr.. Martindale's suggestions
great things might be expected. 81
sincerely WISH" he added, "that u
people here would nerve themselves
like the Philadelphia people Mr.. Mar
tindale has spoken about, and cooper
ate and work together on lines sug-
gested.n Mr.. Sutton promised his
hearty cooperation, and it is believed
that the meeting will be productive of
great good.
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