New-York tribune., 1905-08-28
CITY'S GOLDEN JUBILEE.
German Residents at Egg Harbor to
Hold Big Celebration.

Egg Harbor City, the popular German city, the
home of more than four thousand Germans Is nov
In a fever of enthusiasm over the coming ceeora-
tion of its hftIeth anniversary. golden jubilee,
which is to take place September 16 to 49, Al
ready the erection of huge arches, stands ana
floats has begun. Two large arches are to grace
the main street. One will occupy the four corners
of the intersection of Philadelphia-ave. and At
lantic City Boulevard Another arch will be erected
or Atantc-ave,, facing the station of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad. This will be massive structure
and is the gift of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany to the city. Both will be artistic designs ana
will be illuminated at night with thousand of cleo
trc lights Gordon of lights will connect the two
arches with the Court of Honor, which will be
erected on the boulevard and extend to the Excur-
sion Park
Immense fruit columns will he erected at 'he
park where the festivities will take place
On the morning of the opening of the festNlues'
September 16. the Egg Harbor City Band Will play
the reveie at sunrise, which will be followed oy
salute of fourteen guns The festivities viii oe
continued at the Sanger Halle, where addresses VIII
be made by many speakers, including Governor
Stokes of New-Jersey, Congressman John j. Gard
ner Edmund Wosiefer and Carl Lenz. of Newark
The later two speakers will make addresses in Ger
Sunday and Monday will be spent in visiting
the vineyards and wine vaults. where thousands
of gallons of fine wines and champagnes are stored
This will be very interesting the wnemakins
will just be IN full operation.
Monday afternoon there will be a grand jubilee
parade, in which there will be many floats, repre-
senting the various Industries OF this city, and
especially float portraying the making of wines
and miniature wine vault.
Tuesday, September 19, will be a general picnic
and the closing of the festivities. It is expected
that fully fifteen thousand visitors will be here
during Sunday and Monday
Twenty-Five years ago, when the city celebrated
its twenty fifth anniversary the town still in
its infancy and tall oak trees stood on what are
now beautifully laid out modern streets Just hfty
years ago several Germans planned the city, that
has since its conception retained the German lam
guage. Soon after the formal opening OF the Cam
den and Atlantic Railroad. in 1854. attention
was attracted to this vast expanse OF un-
settled land. The land consisted mostly of second
growth pine lands. where the timber had been cut
off years before for at Gloucester furnaces and
for charcoal for outside markets. Along the Null
lca River choice cedar forests, which kept
three large sawmills busy. employing hundreds or
hands and more than hundred and fifty schoon-
ers, annually plying between Gloucester Landing
and New York City and during the years OF 1873,
regularly between this port and New-York.
70 open some Of these LANDS for Edp aad ad
Town Association was formed in 1854 in the city ~
that place. They purchased from stephen CoweH
the so-called GLOUCESTER FuEnaceo o Iract' cone 4be
Basto tract. 1t had been the intention & OF It's its
then known as Cedar Bridge and the other Glouces-
ter, the name applied 10 the locanty 10 Ine
twentv seTe farms Which We're soon sold to
mans. This led the management in the year IoSo
change their plans and have size lald out
fronting the Pennsylvania Railroad ana eXtehd-
This was named Egg Harbor City. The place was
so laid out, remaining TO the present day:
The first city charter was obtained In 1870, ana
the first election. 35 votes being poled, resulted
The first grapevnes brought here and
grown by German named Wilde, and have con-
tinued to be grown, that to-day there are more
than 10000 acres devoted TO the culture or grapes
lean wines, some that have taken gold medals at
both American and European eXpositions.
In of the most spacious schools are taugnI
the English and German languages In all grades
directly through the main street OF the city, 10
the south boulevard reaches to Cape May and
TO northward is a boulevard reaching TO Lakewood
II Is no doubt the only city Of its kind in the
ceedings in council meetings, as we'll as all legal
publications, carried on in the German Ian
guage. The clerk is required to keep two books
containing the council proceedings. one In the Ger
man language. from which it is translated into
the English language, as required by law Al
churches are served by German preachers. with
but one exception. All societies carry on the.r
meetings in the German tongue.
Within the limits OF the city are the famous
springs known the Fountain of Youth. This
is the proudest institution in the city; Two German
papers and one English paper are published weekly
here The principal industries the manufacture
native wines. clothing factories. iron foundry,
glass factory and various other industries In the
farming sections large quantities OF berries, trtnt
and farm produce raiset and shipped to the
NeW-York and Philadelphia markets.
Egg Harbor City is eighty miles from New
York forty from Philadelphia and only sixteen
miles from the famous summer resort Atlantic
City. Its present Mayor Is Louis Garnich; Clerk,
Y P. Hoffman, and Treasurer, William Suykers-