The Washington herald., 1916-06-18
Ocean City, N. ]. Prospers
With Water Wagon Policy
Steady Growth for Thirty-hve Years Without a
Saloon in the City. Now Is Complete City
With Electric Lights, Gas, Water Sixty Miles
of Highways and Other Municipal Necessities

that, no matter where your home MI y
be located there are the same excelV Mt
bathing privileges and equal safety az at
any other point on the seven milss Of
ocean front. and the protected bathing
grounds extend the whole distance.
The lavish hand with which Nature
environed Ocean City makes, and will
ever make. the most delightful setting
for this Home City resort. The big sweep
of Great Egg Harbor Bay on the west
with the background of evergreen pines
and the green savannahs studded In be-
tween, is a revelation of marvellous beau
ty harmonizing delightfully."- with the
sentiment and policy Of Ocean City'e NOR;
al standard.
Great Egg Harbor is a land-locked
sheet OF water lying from north to west
Of Ocean City about seven miles in
length by two to three in breadth. It
receives the waters OF three rivers, run=
ming between wooded banks from the
southwestern water shed Of the State.
Every fisherman will recognize these
conditions as ideal, for the only sport
they know, while the sailors, rowers.
and paddfers find every attraction for
their enjoyment. Along the Ocean City
shore OF this bay are scores OF most at
tractive boat houses and bungalows.
Tourists running the Inland Waterway
route will find the channels we'll marked
through these waters and get a view OF
Ocean City strong enough to make a
visit Of investigation a necessity and
pleasure.
The city's Music Pavilion is a unique
feature of this resort. Herein are given
| daily concerts in the afternoons and
evenings by Harrison's Famous Band
employed by the city.
1t is very noticeable to any one con-
Z verssnt with local conditions that every
seaside resort has a special phase of at
traction to which 1t loves to call atten-
tiOn and to which it devotes itself more
forcibly than any other. Ocean City s
greatest claim for popular recognition
lies in its deep, full and pervading moral
atmosphere, free from the evil influences
Of alcohol by compulsory enactment al
the start-its tone has been elevated very
much above normal conditions and the
sanctity Of the Sabbath has fortified the
other moral constituents of her civil
( code. bringing the patronage Of the best
classes Of every community to her
shores, because OF these congenial con-
ditions
The visitor will find within the border.
of Ocean City about sixty miles OF splen-
did highways. where automobiling is a
delight tennis courts of~up-t to-date con-
struction. and attractive croQuet grounds.
The Ocean City Yacht Club Is proclaimed
the finest anywhere on the coast; the
Motor Boat Club is a coZy resting place
where a welcome Is ever waiting; several
miles Of Boardwalk promenade; rolling
chairs, piers. pavilions and concert halls
churches of every denomination; public
grammar and high schools; and the free
dom and abandon that belong with con-
ditions where vice is almost unknown.
Ocean City is quickly reached by steam
and electric trains over the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad system from Broad Street
Station and Market Street Ferry. and
by the Reading Railroad from the fer
ries at Chestnut and South streets, Phil
adelphia-
The Ocean City Public Library is To-
Gated on Ninth street, west Of Asbury
avenue. An excellent assortment OF
! books and magazines will be found here