Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-12-03

feet of brush and piling dixie and like
vie the closing of Turtle Gut Inlet by
a similar dixie. The Auglesea dixie has
been com pleted for the past two weeks
aud startling changes are being made
by the shifting of the flow OF water.
Already Anglesea has practically an
nexed Champagne Island, an island OF
possibly fifty or seventy-five acres and
in which process Is reinstaiing thou
sands of dollars worth of old deeds
which were washed out by the process
of n%ortheastly erosion during the past
ten or fifteen years. We are losing
many of u big smacks from the Angle
sea wharf because of the shoaling of the
inlet at this point and it is the hope OF
the Borough OF North Wild wood that
the new dixie will so help to scour the
middle ground that q channel will be
maintained of sufficient depth for crafts
OF about one hundred tons. Much OF
this shipping from ADglesea has gone
10 Ottens harbor al the lower end of
Five Mile Beach and during the past
summer there were upwards of one
hundred smacks, cruisers and skiffs OF
various tonnage making the harbor
their headquarters and shipping their
daily catches of fish from a new plant
erected last season by the Wildwood
aud Delaware Bay Short Line, q sub
sidiary Of the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad. We are hoping with the clos
ing of Turtle Gut Inlet that the flow OF
water through Cold Spring Inlet will
keep the waterway secured so that
smaeks of one hundred toni can use this
water way continuously, as they have
been under grievous Inconvenience dur
ing the past summer on account OF the
sand bars at several points as before
mentioned. What Wildwood wants Is
enough back water to bring in lumber
aud building materials and we are en-
deavoring to secure one or more light
manufacturing plants which we know
we could bring to Wild wood had we
water facilities for bringing in canal
boat loads of coal and building materi-
al. There is much to do, but the great
est proposition is trying to maintain
what we have
Mr. and Mrs. John f. Preuthun spent
Friday and Saturday of last week in
Philadelphia with friends.
Mrs. A. M Ely was in Philadelphia
last Friday attending TO some business
matters.
Mrs. A. Davis entertained her grand
daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hirst, of
Philadelphia, last Sunday.
Miss Hangey has returned from
Vineland, where she went for a short
visit, to the home of g. Ashbridge, who
she will attend for the winter. Mr..
Ashbridge is an invalid.
Mrs. r. Let's and daughter Emma
have returned from q trip to Philadel-
phia where they have been visiting
relatives aud friends for the past two
weeks.
Miss Gertrude Bradway spent part of
last week at baskerville visiting friends.
s. Burton, Mr.. Gallagher, George
Conner, ]. Taylor, Mr. Martin, q. Mil
Ter, F. Brennan and son Frank and
brother Peter were over Sunday visitors.
William Standing entertained over
Thanksgiving his %grandsons William
Sd, and brother Paul, of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. g. Laferty, of Philadelphia,
was called to the bedside of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Henry Taylor, Of West 18th
avenue, who is seriously ill.
Mrs. Day had a large social gathering
of friends at her home last Friday even
ing. Some excellent piano selections
were rendered by Mrs. Liddell, Miss
Edith Snyder and Mrs. Day. The
evening was pleasantly spent chatting
and playing games. A dainty lunch
was served during the evening.
A number of boys were recently ap-
pretended for breaking windows and
otherwise damaging u%noccupIed houses,
but were let of with the understanding
that the parents of the boys pay for the
windows. The police say that if the
windows are not replaced soon that the
boys will be arrested.