Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-05-07


handsome two story cottages at Eighth
and Surf avenues, has everything COM
pleted and his new furniture will short
~ be received and installed. 1t is ex-
pected that Mr.. Brooks will live in one
Of his cottages and rent the other. He
can be reached through Mr.. Ottens'
office at Seventeenth aod Surf avenue
regarding this rental.
One of the most notable features this
year is the many people from Atlantic
City who are looking for rentals in
Wildwood. Several have motored over
this week, and one very smart appear
ing matron in a private car looked at
several apartments in North Wildwood
and expressed herself as being highly
pleased as we'll as surprised with the
growth of our resorts. This lady has
rented her apartment in Atlantic City
TO visitors for the summer. This is not
the only case of Atlantic City people
coming to Wildwood for pleasure and
business. Another society lady of
Swarthmore was greatly disappointed
by the fact that you cannot get a suit
able apartment on the very first at
tempt and told the writer that she
must have six bedrooms, and an apart
ment for a maid and also a garage.
Of course Five Mile Beach makes no
predictions on having the ultra society
people, but all signs seem to indicate
that society folks are gradually becom-
ing enamored with this locality; it is
also a known fact that pc pie who in
the past have rented in Cape May are
making inquiries, andas for far distant
towns we have undoubtedly far more
Pittsburgh, Washington and Balti-
more people than any of the resorts
south of Atlantic City.
The thunder of the big guns at the
Schwab ties ing grounds across on the
bay shore a be plainly heard on this
beach and often it could be heard "that
a thunder storm was coming up
After hearing these rumbling Earring
noises repeatedly at stated intervals
during the morning and afternoon it
has dawned on many it is the new
testing grounds over at Cape May which
is responsible for the strange noises.
One of the most remark able sights
ever witnessed along this beach was
the string of southern smacks which
started coming late last week and all
day Sunday there was hardly a quarter
of an hour passed that from one to ten
of these southern smacks were not
beating their way up along the coast.
1t looks as though the fishing season
this year is going to be what is COM
monty called a ''humdinger,u as with
the 10 or more pound nets set; with the
fleet of from so to IS big smacks from
Anglesea; with the New York and
Down East fleets of from 40 to so auxil-
iary schooners and with the southern
fleet of over 100 smacks coming to this
locality the fish METERS of the New
Jersey coast will reap an unprecedented
catch. The weak fish were reported
last week off Ocean City, Maryland,
and hat an immense catch of 1400 bar
rels was made in a few hours, netting
money lear $4,000. The weak fish are
by this time running into the pound
nets and the Anglesea platform will
soon be a seething mass of fish, ice, men
and barrels.
The Anglesea section has made a.
splendid showing this spring. There
are at least a dozen handsome new COT
tages, and new Improvements have
been made or numerous properties
Commodore Charles Mace, who has the
Hotel Royal and the Anglesea wharf,
has been pushed with applicants for
wharf concessions and it certainly looks
as though this beach is headed into a
splendid season in spite of all that is
said to the contrary.
Do your window and door screens
need attention? We will do the work
at reasonable prices. Harbison's. x