Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-10-01
WILDWOOD

will meet with enthusiastic cup
port-that of a municipal pier, a year
round first class hotel with private
baths, electric train service and a golf
A pier of that description
would be a good thing but it suggests
money and that's where the rub ONES.
If this resort had the finances 1t would
be adifferentproposition but as it stands
1t has not, therefore, 1t might mean an
increased tax levy, which would bring
out bowls of protest from those who
''could not see why this expense" The
first class hotel is stelling it to those
who have hotels already but is a
need. That, of course, will come from
another ource. First we will have to
interest outside capital to come here
and build a place of this kind and the
first suggestion of MIR. Greaves' but
leads to this one, as it were. "Show
the monied hotel man that we have
something here worth his while and
he will show you the rest" The fast
CieOtttO VAIN ocifACS 10 y HCcui n5
it is stated that many a cottsger would
come down earlier in the season and re-
main longer If he could get better SER
vice. The Reading, the home built
railroad, gets down here in ninety
minutes and it is probable that the
time could be reduced to seventy-five
or sixty il they would electrify their
line from Camden to Wildwood. The
same with the Pennsylvania, which of
course, has a longer distance to cover.
The Secretary's last named project
would be somewhat difficult to acquire
unless the golf links were placed over
on the mainland in close proximity to
the boulevard, running a line of troll
leys to and from the course during the
summer months. Large things are
looked for and must eventually come,
as this resort is going forward and
not backward.
The Union Transfer company will
continue business until October Is, 1915
with John Sprigman in charge. Both
phones No. 81.
Capt. Needham and Elwood Young,
Of the beach life guards, were the last
two In service aud went off duty for
the season last Sunday. These guards
have done good work during the sum-
mer and Captain Needham states they
have effected more rescues this season
than any previous year, and lays this
to the fact that the action of the surf
has caused gullies to form, some of
which are close in shore while others
are just beyond a bar that runs parallel
with the beach some distance out.
The depth of one of these gullies is
about eighteen feet, he says, and the
bather drops suddenly into it. It is
hoped that by next summer this con-
dition will have passed away. Mr..
Needhsm, who has been staying at the
Fremont House, on East Schellenger
avenue, expects to remain all winter.
Hotel Dayton has been having quite
a number of guests through September.
Last Sunday about fifty persons dined
there. Guests during the past week
have been Mrs. l.. Rhosdes, 9. @. Sut-
cliffe, E. g. France aud wife, Joseph
Entwisle and daughter Margaret, F. J.
Hamilton, of Philadelphia; VIM. M.
Brown, and wife, M. Stanley Brown,
Cedarville; Walter Robbins and wife,
Bordentown; Lawyer William s. OAR
nell and daughter Hattie, OF Camden.
Early in the summer Mr.. Darnell
bought the A. ]. Dever property on At
lantlc avenue and with his family spent
the summer here in the cottage. A
visitor from a far off state last Sunday
was Esther w. Lindborg, of Oakland,
Cal, who was accompanied by Edith
M. Lindborg, of jamestown, N. Y, and
Helen G. McGinnis, of Philadelphia.
X. Nagata, one of the japanese board
walk merchants, closed his sixth season
at Wildwood OF Saturday and left for
New York, where his little motherless
% year old daughter resides with an
American family. He will sail from
San Francisco on October 28d for Kobe,
Japan, to spend the winter with his
parents, taking his little girl with him.
He expects to return to Wildwood in
April, and will leave the little girl with
its grand parents in Japan. Mr.. Nagata
is one of our highly esteemed summer
business men and we wish him a safe
voyage.
Mr. and Mrs. John j. McNutt and
have returned home after an
automobile trip through Pennsylvania.
They attended the Allentown Fair, and
there, met Mrs. w. Kearns, of
the arcade store, who was conducting a
shOu IN the fair urounds