Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-08-11
OTTENS TRACT NOTES

Inc many friends of Captain Samuel
Bernard, captain of Battery b., Nation
al Guards, New Jersey, now at Ell Paso,
deeply sympathize with him on the
death of his wife, late of Wenopsh.
Mrs. Bernard vas seriously ill when
the captain went away. A few days
ago he received a hurry call and arriv-
ed IN Philadelphia late Saturday night
at which time Mrs. Bernard expired.
The family was weli-known on the
beach here.
Camping on the beach front is be-
coming more popular every season aud
there are no less than a dozen different
eneampments aside from the Keystone
State Infantry, with tents erected above
the high water line on the North Wild
wood beach.
On Thursday of last week Rev. John
Rigg, rector of Christ church, River
ton, who has taken the Lister cottage
for a month, had a grabbing party on
the bay. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Rigg and four children and DIR. and
Mrs. William Wertenbaker, of Will
mington, Delaware, and children who
are the guests of the Riggs for a week.
The party was out for nj hour and q
half and returned home with about six
dozen crabs.
Curtis Mathis, of Anglesea, last week
was high boat among the bank skif
fishermen, making the first catch of
twenty-five blue fish this season. For
these twenty-five fish he received $12
on the Anglesea platform. Last week
they were offering $50 for blue fish and
none In the market, although Skipper
Mathis says that the blue fish are
about due to arrive and no doubt are
being taken this week in large numbers
by the purse net smacks. Mathis fish
ed last week on what they call the old
grounds. a three hour run down
toward Cape Henlopen and caught the
largest sea bass he has ever seen.
y The new steamer Cape May, which
OCSuh luis llOLh IhdNC ptACCt WndIlj
Philadelphia, to Cold Spring Inlet
last week, had to refuse quarters to
several hundreds ofeager excursionists
The steamer has stateroom accommoda-
tions for 800 and 1t is stated that the
first trip netted S10S0 to the company
which had the nerve to start sailing
this boat to the shore. She makes the
run from Philadelphia to Cold Spring
inlet in less than y 5ours where she
docks at Sewell's Point and boats take
the passengers and ferry them to Wild
wood. Mayor Smith, Of Wildwood,
stated that the Five Mile Beach Elec-
trio company had made a survey ofthe
two mile beach for the extension of the
Wildwood trolley to the upper side of
Cold Spring inlet, which will bring the
trolley direct to the docking wharf of
the big steamer. This boat leaves Phil
adelphia at six o'clock three days a
week and arrives at Sewell's Point
O'Clock the following morning. Six
teen day excursion tickets are 81. so and
a berth can be obtained for so cents.
The regular weekly card party at the
Wild wood Yacht club last Friday after
noon, was the most successful so far,
there being over so ladies from the cot
tage colony and hotels present and
twenty tables, playing with the follow
ing players as prize winners: Mrs. Nc
Cullough, DR.. q. A. Francis, Mrs. Ed
ward Muller, Mrs. Jacob Hess, Mrs. d.
M. Harris, Mrs. Mabel Wright, Mrs. N.
Klein, Mrs. Merritt, Baltimore; Mrs.
Saylor, j. H. S%onneberg, Mrs. Jack
O'Donnell Thompson, Mrs. Farrell,
Miss Brunell. Miss E. Dankleman,
Miss Florence Tietz, Mr.. George D.
Mullen, Mrs. George Mullen, Miss l..
DeRousse, st. Charles hotel, WILDWOOD;
Miss Frances.
The Fresh Air Home children have
their ice cream and cake social on the
grounds of the Rowland Hall, Spicer
avenue. Saturday afternoon, August IL.
The annual lobster supper of the
Wildwood Yacht club will take place
Thursday night, August 18th, with
plates at SIPS each. This is one of the
several big spreads the yacht club pulls
off each season.