Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1909-01-15
WILDWOOD CREST &
WITHOUT A PEER
Handsome Cottages Innumerable
are Being Erected In this
Pretty Resort. With Many
More TO Follow
TO Be READY FOR SPRING OCCUPANCY

The new year OF l9O9 mas Degun AUS
~piciously for the pretty new resort,
Wildwood Crest, and while reports are
being circulated in various parts OF the
country of the passing of the clouds OF
financial and industrial depression,
material and astounding advancement
is being made in this progressive new
resort. And why should it not, the
experience of all who have invested IN
Wildwood and Wildwood Crest has
Deer of the kind to make them ADVISE
their friends that no safer place could
be found in which to put their idle mon
ey, or money that was earning but the
customary three or three and n hall
per cent. interest in a saving fund lnstl-
tuition, and the outcome has been that
great numbers of these friends as those
that had previous experience in invest
ments on this island have purchased
ground and are erecting beautiful sum-
mel homes in this new resort. The Il
nancial depression of one year ago
broughtto light the fact that great num-
bers of persons had all their idle money
tied up in investments of stocks and
bonds. and some their life times savings.
In many cases these were lost entirely,
with resultant cases innumeraole OF
bankruptcy in business and the inves
tors left in dire straits, causing much
suffering. But not SO with those that
had their money in good paying prop
critics. for this one form of investment
that is but slightly affected by finan-
cial depressions and not at all by stock
market fluctuations. "Investments,o
according to the definition given by the
Standard dictionary is "the act of in
vesting or laying out money produc-
tively,u and this definition very accu-
rately describes the experience of those
persons that have invested in property
at Wildwood Crest. For their invest
mend have beeY PROD actixatna sails
Tarf0ryE egree Which is a source Of con-
siderable contentment of mind, but III
addition to this they have had the
satisfaction of seeing their properties
enhance in value at a rate unpreceden-
ted. The value of investments of this
charater are bound to appeal to the good
judgement of even the most eonserva-
tive persons, while an acquaintance
with the facts ofthe remarkable growth
of this new resort since its establish
ment, but serves TO give the prospective
investor some idea of what may be ex-
pected in the next few years to come.
But three short years have elapsed
since this tract of ground was a barren
waste of sand hills and hollows, and
the tack of Transforming it INTO an
habitable and beautiful seashore resort
seemed almost a HOPELESS one, but Baker
Brothers, the intrepid founders, who
had previously taken another section
of the island that was nothing but a
tangled mass of wild wood and san
hills and had given to the world what
is rapidly becoming one ofits foremost
seashore resorts, Wildwood-by-the7Sea,
were not of the kind to be daunted by
the words of encouragement that
could be heard on every hand but
went to work with the determination OF
purpose that characterized all their I'M
dertakings, and within a short space of
time matters began to assume definite
shape, and Five Mile Beach had ac-
ouired hat which it has taken some
other sections of the coast ten times as
long to acquire, a beautiful and up-to-
date seaside resort. That this new re-
sort is considered a model one is evil
denced by the number of persons that
are brought here by the promoters OF
ssnronosedu resorts who want to show
their prospective customers what 1t is
possible to accomplish in establishing
an ideal city-by-the-sea. Many OF THESE
visitors, charmed with the delightful
new resort, selected ground here and are
having cottages erected or are arranging
to have cottages erected in time for oc-
cupaney during the spring season,
which is one of the most delightful sea-
sons of the year to spend at the shore,
for wise investors do not relish the idea
of locating and building in sections
where the necessary accommodations
of life cannot be had, where they VIII
have to wait for gas, electric light,
water and trolley companies to be pro-
NOTED and their lines laid before these
services can be secured; but instead
they prefer to invest, locate and erect
cottages and occupy them in a section
where the streets are beautifully grad
ed and graveled, splendid cement side
walks and curbing laid, water mains
and pipes laid and ready for con-
neetion into the property, and where