Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-09-12
TWO NEW HOTELS
FOR The ISLAND
Good Prospects Tor Building the
Coming Winter All Over Five
Mile Beach
IMMENSE OPERATIONS AT THE CREST

SSfar this season there are at least
five new hotels in sight for next year
with work on couple of them already
started. The Wildwood Manor, the
big 20G room house located on the walk
between oath and 25th streets, and
backed by Philadelphia capital, is al
ready under way and is calculated to
be under roof by the first of the year
The Greater Wildwood Hotel Co.,
which has secured valuable board
walk plot at Schellenger avenue on
which to erect their 200 room house, is
about ready to award a contract and
begin work. The house will be under
cover this Fall, tits said, and will be
ready to open the first of next June.
Two smaller hotels are being planned
for Anglesea or North Wildwood, while
the ever progressive Wildwood Crest is
planning for another hotel as large as
the magnificent Ocean Crest, which
will be ready for business by the start
of next season.
The several Ackley real estate sales
here of late along with several other
sales, have stirred things up bit in
realty circles. People are beginning to
think that they had best make their
own investments and that good real
ty holding is about the best thing after
all is said and done. Some lands go
very high and others low at an auction
sale. Some lots in Anglesea went for
$40 which could have readily brought
twice as much, while a row of six two
story stores on the boardwalk at the far
end of Holly Beach brought $4,000.
The Beach Villa, l7-room cottage,
three minutes from the depot and the
beach, was knocked down for$2525, and
the lucky bidder has picked winner
for next season.
1t is common rumOr that Captain
John Young, of Atlantic City, has Of
fered $40, 900 for the old Casino pier and
fixtures but that the owners stood for
100000. The Casino pier represents
the centre of the resort and is most
valuable site. 1t is known that the
Atlantic City man desires to put up
one of his immense pier structures here,
while it is also known that Heinz, the
pickle duke, has been looking Wild
woodward with the object of putting
up free pier
Wildwood Crest, according to the
Baker Brothers, has slate full of con-
tracts, numbering 10 cottages to erect
this fall and winter.
Mayor Smith, of Holly Beach, who
is one of the islands big contractors,
has signed eight contracts for the past
month of August and has one $500
apartment to erect in Wildwood Crest,
as we'll as the Holly Beach Yacht Club
house on the shores of Sunset Lake
which Will cost $4,000. This work will
carry building in those parts well into
the winter with unknown contracts
still staring the contractors in the face.
The real estate situation on Five Mile
Beach, which concerns the several
resorts, is most vigorous and solid.
1t is also rumored that the Hotel
Dayton management has been casting
furtiye eyes on fine plot of ground
square closer to the beach than their
present locality with the desire to put
up greater and better Dayton. While
ii is known that such is the ambition
of the management little further can be
learned.
The owners of the Wildwood Ocean
Pier, Reynolds q Buckborn, of Cam
den, have already conceived plan to
double the end of their pier, enlarge
their new roller skating rink, which
has made hit this season, and make
it capable of housing one of the largest |
bands in the country, which it is their
expressed intention of installing next
season