Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-01-14

ment of her fertile domain to the benefit of producer and consu
alike.
The natural privileges" of the County, the actual and pote
wealth OF the Bay, the Sounds and the Sea are we'll known. Fish q
kinds, as well as oysters, CLAIMS and crabs, abound and are impor
factors in reckoning the sources of the County's food supply.
The climate of Cape May County is mild and healthful, typ1
and malarial levers being practically unknown, owing to the purit
the water supply and the absence OF stagnant pools. Contagious
eases, when they occur, are invariably traced to an outside sourc
infection. There has never been an epidemic of any kind in
County, such as sometimes sweeps over less favorably situa
regions.
The temperature of Cape May County is not subject to the g
extremes OF heat and cold. The thermometer rarely goes over Gig
five degrees in summer and seldom below twenty-five degrees
Wnter-lhdeed, long periods OF frost are unusual, although there
occasional short, severe cold snaps. The location of the Count
an important and favorable factor in considering its climate, as
situated between Baltimore and Washington and within 200 miles of
Gulf Stream.
Every breeze in Cape May County comes from the water.
one side is the great Atlantic, whose mighty expanse is a verit5
birthplace of the winds, and on the other is Delaware Bay, with
tortyodd miles of width, swept clean by the tides of old ocean II
daily.
The Atlantic shore line of Cape May County extends from no
east to southwest and, therefore, faces the south, to some extent.
prevailing winds in summer blow from the south, almost with f
regularity and continuity of trade-winds, and sweep across the Cod
from ocean front to bay shore in the most direct and beneficial "
1t is believed that the fitting of the County's seafront in this man
exerts a marked influence on its climatic conditions. Certain :
that when residents of Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Reading, the Bet&
hens, etc. are afflicted with the heat, many seek a respite fro-
in Cape May County.
THE BAY SHoRE-CAPE MAY COUNTYS UNDEvELoPI
ASSET
For over $50 years the full significance of Cape Nav CounA
Bay Shore water front has not been recognized. Or, if the opport}
ties which it offers were realized by some, they have not been tai
advantage o., as have similar, or even less obvious, conditions in oil
localities possessing the same general advantages. |
Faulty INSTALLATION may, perhaps, have had something to do VI
th1s-a sort OF mental strabismus which sometimes makes it difid
for us to sense the very commonplace things which we see daily !
hourly. How many times do we encounter a familiar object in |
daily rounds until its very presence ceases to focus itself upon {
retina of our minds! The obvious thus becomes the obscure.
Ever since the days of the Dutch and Swedes, Cape May Count
agricultural resources and her fisheries have been her chief source
wealth.
Possessed OF no mineral deposits and early denuded of the best
her forest growth, the County seemingly offered no inducements
the general neutrality-suspicious. it developed no great industrd
Glass is blown at Cape May Court House and clothing and machina
made at Woodbine-the latter being the site of the Baron De Hirs
colony. these constitute the Countys sole industrial enterprises.
Of the development of the County's seashore resorts on IN
marvellous chain of sea-islands, which fringe her matches oce2n fd
from Egg Harbor Bay to Cape May Point, it is not my intention
speak tonight. We, of the seashore communities, who have BID
attracted to Cape May County by her healthfu1 climate, her cd
venent location and her wonderful sea-beaches, to the TRANSFORMED
and development of which the efforts of ourselves and our organi1
ton are pledged, know the Story of the Coast as we know the story
our own lives.
And it is because we know and realize and have constantly to ed
tend with the manifold difficulties of resort development that we hal
banded ourselves together in this, our Chamber of Commerce of Cal
May County Seashore Resorts, for the purpose OF solving d
problems, tightening our labors and smoothing away the almost
surmountable obstacles that confront us by the interchange of i'd
and the lending of the helping hand to our fellows. guided bv II
influence of enlightened se1finterest.
And if, Mr.. President, it shall come to pass that in the solution
these problems of ours, as founders and residents of seaside resor
we shall discover something new, unusual and unique, which shall
altogether a thing apart from that which we we're seekine-if we sh
suddenly turn up with our ploughshare of Progress, the pot of ed
which has for so long lain buried in the field of our tnlage; and if
SO doing, we shall be able to doubly benefit the entire citizenry of d
County, we may feel that we have not 1abored in vain and that we j
repaid indeed for the effort expended in behalf of our County and j
Organization!
WHAT THE BAY SHORE CHART SHOWS
Cape May County possesses a double waterfront.
Most of us know this, because we remember to have seen i
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