, 1905-09-27

anu " liz oONo
strength renewed, his brain cleared of
the fogs and vapors that always ac-
company an enfeebled condition of
body. His powerful and fervid oratory
will be heard from his pulpit in the
great city during the coming winter
with all its old time vigor and lucidity,
and who knows what coed he may he
able to accomplish by reason of his
complete re%juvenation.
"How happy they,
who, from the toll and tumult of their
lives,
Steal to look down where naught but
ocean %stfives.n
In bordering over the successes of
the past three seasons the question
ir%resistably arises what about the fu-
ture? Hence, | beg to assume the
mantle of prophecy and try to picture
what we may reasonably expect in the
coming three seasons, based upon the
rapid progress made in the past three
seasons In which 81 have been a locker
on in Venice"
Starting at Anglesea l notice that in
1908 they have had the wharf much
enlarged and improved, but that it is
now close up to Charles Mace's hotel.
New York venue having been opened,
graded and %graveled, hundreds of
houses have been erected, mostly of
the small cottage type, houses that rent
for $3.50 to $3.50 for the season. The
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
Com pany has erected u fine and COM
modious depot. An amusement hall
has been built, the boating pier at
Beach Creek is much enlarged and it
is made the gathering place of m
Gus power boats. AS the trolley line
was extended in 1906 to Grassy Sound
it brought a large amount of new bust
ness to the company from people pas
sing to and from Grassy Sound to the
built up portion of the island; and,
moreover, it developed and opened up
a tract of the meadows along the line
so that now in 1908 there's a fair sized
line of houses stretching from Angle
sea close to the original rows of houses
that clustered near to each end of the
drawbridge. The Ottens tract is well
built up, there's a new steam laundry
ON it which does a thriving business,
likewise a modern bakery with large
portable ovens where homemade bread
and all II of pastry is baked and
delivered in up to date wagons all over
the island. The Ottens House is ELL
larged both in room capacity and in
dining room and kitchen accommodc-
tions. Besides the Ottens a bran new
hotel is built on the boardwalk a few
hundred yards south of it. The North
Wildwood Land Company, having
sold all of their lands between the troll
ley line and the railroad, are now de-
veloping the tract to the west of the
railroad. A noble hotel was erected in
1906 on a lot $50 feet deep and 200 feet
wide running from the board walk to
the trolley line. 1t is called "Wild-
wood Manor" and its appointments,
conveniences and original design set
the pace for the new corners and many
more hotels are now projected that will
surpass this one in size and cost. The
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
laid four tracks in 1907 and now the
fast express trains are u direct
through to the island without stopping
at Anglesea Junction as formerly, or at
Grassy Sound or Hereford Inlet, for the
trolley line takes care of these two lat
ter places 10y furnishing a fast trolley
service from A~ngIesea-the first stop
direct to these resorts. Park avenue,
having been opened through to Rio
Grande avenue in Holly Beach in 1906,
it thus furnished a grand driveway by
way of the Rio Grande bridge to Cape
May. A beach drive was also opened
the same season by having an opening
cut through the Holly Beach piling for
the %jetties, also under the old pavilion,
and this has made it possible to drive
over the hard and level beach from
Hereford Inlet to Turtle Gut Inlet, in
fact the whole length of the island.
AS may be imagined this has given a
great impetus to driving, horseback
riding, motoring and cycling. Holly
Beach, having in 1905 inaugurated its
first Board of Trade. from that time on