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

EXPENDITURES
Balance on hand.

comb made application for positions as
lifeguards. The brokers who bought
the sewer bonds were given until May
18th 10 make settlement. Councilman
Sayre spoke about the boats in the
street on Spruce emu and said they
should be removed, also that he had
complaint from ladies getting tar on
their skirts from fishing nets in the
streets. The matter was referred to the
street committee. Council adjourned
to meet on Tuesday evening, May IL.
Ice cream can be had daily at Hilbs
in any quantity.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Jason Buck, of First
and Central avenues, visited Cape
May last Wednesday.
Four boats went out on Sunday with
fishing parties and made a good catch
of seabass.
The fishing smack Clara left for the
Virginia fishing banks last.Monday.
About one:hundred fishermen came
down on Sunday::and a number fished
off the wharf.
James Quinn and wife are pow oc-
cupying their Chestnut avenu bunga-
low for the.summer.
The fishing smack Ocker has sailed
south for mackerel fishing.
VIM. Mackintyre, of Bridgeton, has
registered at the Hotel Royal for the
season.
The Mollet company have enlarged
their stand on the wharf and anticipate
a big trade this season.
Elmer Hewittilhas it to say that he
was the first lone to handle sea bass
caught off Five Mile Beach.
Captain Jack Apologize has left for
the south.
Pound fishermen fare catching the
yearly average of porgies, butter fish,
bass, mackerel and a few founders.
The Inlet Hotel is receiving a new
coat of paint which will greatly inn
prove its appearance.
Thomas Burns, of Philadelphia, was
down with a party to the Wolf club on
Sunday.
MI. Thompson, a painter from Phil
adelphia, who was injured by a fall
from the Weisbrod & Hess brewery
while paintingisame, is recovering and
is able to belOut again.
The people of Five Mile Beach were
immensely surprised last Sunday to
see the Pennsylvania excursion come
in with twelve cars and two engines on
the first section; this Immediately fol-
lowed by a second section containing
seven or eight cars, while the Reading
brought down seven. This number of
cars SO earlyiin the season is a mighty
good showing and pressges a good sea-
son.
The beach was well sprinkled with
people traversing the nice streets en-
gagged in looking for apartments or cot
tages for the coming season. The pro-
perty owners are beginning to feel the
arrival of the season and such things
as landscape gardening, tree planting,
etc, has already begun, and new paint
and repairs are being made to many of
the properties. One of the unique fea-
lures of the allied resorts of Five Mile
Beach is the many practical as well as
well laid out vegetable gardens which
so many of our cottage owners are put
ting in this spring. They have vege-
table gardens within two squares of
the ocean where some of the old-time
hummock soil still remains, just as
black and rich, and far better for vege-
tables than the soil on the mainland.
The gardens have everything in the
common run of vegetables and already
the young salad, onions, beets, pea, etc.
are well up.
One of the newcomers to this locality
is a Mr.. Jackson, of Philadelphia, who
has taken possession of the Ottens Har-
Dor concession for the coming season.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson and their young
son were on the grounds all day Sun
day and expressed themselves as being
very much delighted with the outlook
of their new possession orthe coming
season.
Mrs. Murphy, of Philadelphia, was
down Sunday and found her artistic
little bungalow nearly completed by
Contractor Frank B. Sharp. This
bungalow is located neal New York
avenue on Sixteenth street, and Mrs.
Murphy expects to get her furniture
as well as her family installed before
the fret week in June. They express
themselves as being highly pleased
with their property.