Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-30
CAPE MAY.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CAPE MAY N Inn

Special Correspondence Of The Star
CAPE MAY N. j., June 90 1907.
All Of the big summer hostelries threw
open their doors this morning for the recep-
| ton of guests for the present summer sea
son. The smaller hotels have been opened
| for periods from a week to a month, and
| have been entertaining the advance guard
| of the summer thrush Of visitors. The
season has opened well. am the visitors
| are here from nearly every section of the
| Union. and the colony from Washington is
larger this season than heretofore. They
| take an active part in the social life. and
| their presence here is appreciated and thor
oughly enjoyed by those from other cities.
The golf season opened today with the
| first mems eighteen-hole handicap tourna-
ment and the playing was spirited, consid-
ering that it the first big event here
this summer. The officers of the club for
| the year are: President. Edwin Cook;
vice president. Louis H, AyreS; secretary,
| Richard Norris Williams. and treasurer,
William Joyce Sewell, son OF the late
United States Senator Sewell. The golf
links. which comprise eighty acres of splen-
did ground, situated within ten minutes
| walk of all the hotels here. and are ideally
! located at a point where the visitor to the
clubhouse can view from one side the broad
Atlantic and its inrolling pillows. and from
the other side the beautiful country which
IS on lnianu portion VI Sdpc MAY
The golf club is made up of members OF
nearly every eastern golf club in the United
States. and as a consequence some very
expert players are seen almost daily upon
the links here.
Since the weather has warmed up old
ocean has taken on a temperature which
has made bathing delightful, and thousands
of people now disport daily in the edge OF
the surf The bathing beach at Capt May
is unsurpassed by any other along the At
lantic coast, and because of this life lines
and other projections which are necessary
at other resorts are not required here the
fashionable bathing hour at Cape May is
between IL and l o'clock, and the condition
of the tide has bearing whatever upon
this hour. This condition is due to the
gradual slope of the beach under the edge
of the ocean in a smooth and hard surface
of white beach sand.
A large number of cottage families have
come into the resort this week, and this
part Of Cape Mays summer visitors has
nearly reached it's quota for the season.
Cape May has always been noted for Its
splendid villas. which are surrounded by
verdant foliage and luxuriant growing flow
erS and bushes.
Fishing is now excellent, and those who
fish with hook and line or rod and reel are
enjoying excellent sport with the finny
tribe. 1t is no uncommon thing Tor Iisn-
erman in the sounds, which are within TWO
miles of the resort proper. to catch any
where from fifty to one hundred and nifty
weak fish, blue fish, hake and sheepshead,
While out IN the SURF req drum anu DidcA
drum. weighing anywhere from fifteen to
eighty pounds are caught with nook and
line thrown from off the beach into the
breakers.
Cape May will celebrate an old-time
Fourth of July. such it has not expe-
rienced for some years past. spirit of en-
terprise pervades the Cape May Club and
it has formed a committee, with several
prominent citizens at its head, and has
already arranged for an elaborate display
of fireworks the evening of the Fourth. and
for old-fashioned southern lawn sports to
take place on Congress Hail lawn in the
afternoon.
The New Jersey Summer School of Agri-
culture and Industrial Arts and Sciences
was opened yesterday afternoon. the exer-
cises taking place in the ballroom of the
Stockton Hotel and the opening address be-
ing made by Gov. Edward Casper Stokes
Of New Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. George A, Trainor of Wash
ngton will spend part of the summer In
cottage here.
Representative Albert 8. Burleson of
Texas will be numbered among the cottage
residents here this season.
Representative Henry C. Loudenslager of
the first New Jersey district is occupying
cottage here.