Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-06-25
OTTENS TRACT NOTES

ISLANDS. ms young Iauy Is OerLfuue
Palmer, the eighteen year old daugh-
ter of Robert Palmer, who resides in
the New York avenue section. Mis-
Palmer has been out this week with
her coasting board or sea plane, and on
Sunday last she hooked her sea plane,
which is nothing more than a board
similar to mothers ironing board, with
q 100 feet of fine line attached to q hole
in the front end to the stern of the
"CoIonel." When the same was leav-
ing Oltens Canal with DIR. I. w. Kirk
and William Bonnell and a large party
of ten or fifteen visitors to the yacht
club, she went coasting out to Grassy
Sound with them. Miss Palmer has a
couple of lines running from the hole
in the front of the board by which she
stands up as though driving a pair of
horses; she stands at right angle and
goes shooting along bearing all the APP
pearances Of Neptune's daughter driv-
ing the famous rig of sea horses. She
not only holds the lines in her teeth,
stands on one foot, with her hair flying
and hands out spread, but grasps the
board with her legs and arms and re-
wolves round and round. All who
have seen these feats say it is remark
able how she a maintain her equi-
librium. Going as far as she desired
up Grassy Sound she had the line cast
of and floated around on the board un-
til another boat came along and towed
her back again. Miss Palmer will per-
form for the Rotarians and the Phila-
delphia Bakers and Confectioners As
ISOLATION when they come on their
annual outing at North Wild wood.
The Wildwood Yacht club is busy
making arrangements for its secret
time race on Monday, July 5th, at
which time there will be dance and
refreshments served to the guests dur
ing the day. The house committee, in
conjunction with the entertainment
committee, has this matter in charge
and there will be several cups and other
useful prizes offered, including marine
glasses and several gallon cans of boat
paint, which, while very humble, are
likewise greatly appreciated and prac-
tical prizes. This secret time racing is
getting to be the popular thing at the
coast yacht clubs in that it does not
call for complicated schedules like the
measured and weight schemes do. In
the latter case it takes a naval mathe-
matician to figure out the boats' ratings
and sometimes they Q get it figured
out at all and Is q source OF constant
confusion and detriment while the
secret time race is simple and gives the
less speedy boat a chance to win a prize
as there will be three offered.
Preparations are being made to give
the Rotarians a luncheon of Cape May
County salts, fried to a turn, which they
can pick up In their hands-the way
men like to eat fried oysters, while for
the Bakers aud Confectioners Associa-
ton the yacht club is arranging a
grabbing contest for handsome prizes
in the way of cups which are already
at the yacht club. 1t will also be noted
that a new crab bait has been invented
by Mr.. Henry Graeves, one of the old
time Philadelphia confectioners and
a great friend of Five Mile Beach. Mr..
Graeves has proven the efficaciousness
of his new bait which consists of a
piece of red flannel soaked in a solu-
tion of paraffine wax and fish oil. 1t
lie said that while the crustacean family
have no established red light district in
the waters of Grassy Sound, at the same
time they recognize a signal when it is
let down to them. 1t Is proposed to
try out MI. Graeves' new bait on the
coming of the Confectioners, and II
they have TO fall back on the old moss
bunker and spoilt beef, MI. Graeves is
apt tt be thrown overheard and thus
prove another martyr to the cause OF
modern invention.
w. Reeves and family, OF Philadel-
phia, have taken possession of F.
Rankin's cottage on West 18th avenue
for the season.
Guests over Sunday at the cottage
of Mrs. A. Feister were Margaret P.
Bailey, Edna V. Kay, Bessie Parsons,
A. Stroup, Emily and Florence Kay,
Alice Llebert, Eleanor Hicks.
The A. Bear cottage, on West 10th
avenue, entertained as guests MI. and
Mrs. E. F. Meany, Jr., Fred Hellard,
Mrs. P. Phillips and daughters for the
past week.
Mr.. Lindig and family, of Frankfort
have occupied the Hanson cottage, on
East 18th avenue, and will remain fol
the season.
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