Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-01-23
SOUTH JERSEY NOTES
Paragraphs of Interest Cleaned
from Our Exchanges
TO BUILD CEMENT JETTIEs


Notification has been sent the Beach
Commissioners of Asbury Park by
Mayor Atkins that he has arranged to
furnish $40, ,00G to the commissioners at
once so that work in constructing the
cement jetties in North Aspury Park
may be begun forthwith. The jetties
will be put in by John G. Brown,
Philadelphia contractor, and will be
the first of the kind on the coast, the
beach at all Jersey resorts having
formerly been protected with plank
jetties. 1t is thought the cement jetties
will be much more durable.
MULLIcA-PITMAN TROLLEY
There seems to be more than talk in
the proposed trolley line from Mullica
Hill by the way of Richw ood to Pitman,
as ,eprsiderable capital has been,
developed for the scheme. 1t is said
that Carr Brothers who operate Alcyon
Park, near Pitman, are ready to invest
heavily. The time in going to Phila-
delphia from Mullica Hill and
Redwood would be an hour less than
is now necessary to go over the steam
road.
1t is said that crabs were never more
plentiful on the bay shore than now.
They are selling in Millville for twenty
and twenty-five cents dozen.
1t is stated that the Bell Telephone
company will spend $180,000 in i'm
provements in South Jersey this season.
Five plans for the rebuilding of
Asbury Parks bathhouses on the ocean
front were submitted to the Beach
commission of that place last week.
The lighthouses will be larger than the
present ones and will number 1000,
arranged in double-decked groups. If
built they will be radical departure
from the present houses.
A coast electric road is reported to
be project that will probably materi-
alize in the very near future. The
purchase of the lines of the Suburban
Traction company in operation between
Atlantic City and Pleasantville, it is
alleged, is the consummation of part
of the project. In few weeks the
Pennsylvania Railroad will begin the
construction of bridge across Egg
Harbor Bay which will give further
strength to the project.
Cape May county fishermen say
that cells and crabs are bedded very
near the surface and that this indicates
mild winter.
The Cape May Sand company, the
largest industry in Cape May City, is
making arrangements to greatly en-
large the business and increase its
capitalization by $4,000. New York
capitalists are interested and the plant
which now ships thousands of tons OF
sand month will be doubled in capac-
ity.
The Philadelphia Press says:
The presentment of the Atlantic
County Grand Jury in regard to the
slaughter of passengers in the Thor
oughfare disaster not only asserts that
there is. no evidence TO warrant the
conviction Of the bridge-tender, Daniel
Stewart, but that the primary respon-
sibility rests upon the West Jersey and
Seashore Railroad Company, which is
declared to have maintained defective
and unsafe equipment at this point.
This lack of safety is declared still to
exist, and it is urged that trains cross
ing the bridge shall be restricted to a
low rate of speed. The latter part OF
the finding in particular is nothing
less than sensational. If the company
can show that it is not based on the
truth, it should lose no time in doing
so.