Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-03
NORTH WILDWOOD


has taken a decided jump this summer
and bids fair 10 Guido any of the other
sesshore sports among the visitors, as
we'll as among the permanent cottsgers
and residents of the various resorts.
There is good reason for this. A nice
mess of fish does a whole lot towards
reducing the high cost of living, besides
the interest attached to catching fish
of any kind or size. Many of the re-
sorts have built fishing piers, from
which daily and even half the night
the anglers are busy with blood worms
or shredder crabs tempting the choice
king fish or the no less game croaker,
the two fellows who vie with each
other in seeing how neal they come on
the bathing beach without getting
stranded.
On Sunday afternoon at a meeting
held at the Wildwood Yacht club, in
side of half an hour, nearly $1,000 had
been pledged and it will probably reach
5000 for the purpose of building a one
thousand foot fishing pier extending
from the ocean end of Seventeenth ave-
nue. into the surf. AS the matter was
further discussed and the members be-
came more enthusiastic over the pro-
ject, it was decided to make the pier a
double pavilion proposition. The pier
leading from the boardwalk will have
an elaborate rustic archway at the en-
trance with a boardwalk ten or more
feet wide extending oceanward 200 feet,
which will open into a commodious
family pavilion with a strong hend rail
surrounded by galvanized wire netting
and with a shade top of canvas. This
pavilion will be entirely for visitors snd
excursionists where they car eat their
lunch and bring their children. Be-
yond this recreation pavilion, there
will be a high Stat gate which will lead
to the sacred domain of the fishing
pier. This pier will bessix or more feet
wide and will extend oceanward he
yond the recreation pier 500 or more
feet into good fishing water. The end
of the gangway will open into a COM
modinus square, around which on both
theinside~anduouts e-Aherneneeah
line up and fish to their hearts content.
No children will be allowed on this end
of the pier and no one but members of
the yacht club and those who have
paid their yearly membership to this
fishing auxiliary of the club.
Many people come to Anglesea on
Sunday and take home baskets heavily
laden with fish. This has come to be
a very good thing, as it means food
supply for a week or more to each fam
ilv who are fortunate enough to make
a haul. Last Sunday there were not
boats or railroad cars enough to bring
the people to the shore and over a 1000
were disappointed at the ferries in Phil
adelphia and Camden. It is safe to say
that out OF the possible ten thousand
people, who visited Wildwood Sunday,
at least three thousand came with the
determined purpose of carrying home
a basket of fish. Fish were plentiful
both in inside and outside waters,
while the fish platform was crowded
with barrels of fish, and the freight
cars were packed with tons OF fish,
dripping ice water upon the tracks all
ready to be coupled to the fast express
ses and rushed to the Philadelphia
markets.
North Wildwood, while not first to
start the fishing pier proposition, will
at the same time finish among the first.
1t is hoped that with the $500 in cash
already in hand the pier will be started
within the next ten days and finished
by the middle or last of August, to be
ready for the fall fishing season. Of
course, this all depends On the possibil-
ity of the contractor obtaining sufficient
so foot long gum poles from the main
land for the decking. An effort is be-
ing madeshis week to endeavor to Sc
cure the necessary piling from different
points nCape May county, and like
wise the leans necessary to get them
to the beach or if freight cars can be
obtained for them.
Arrangements are being made for a
Bungalow Day sometime during the
middle of August. 1t is the plan of
Henry III. Otteps TO invite the bunga-
low holders, under the Ottens Bunga-
low proposition, to assemble at the
Wildwood Yacht club where boats will
be awaiting to take the entire party to
the grabbing grounds. A grabbing
contest will develop for the length of
two hours time and the first and second
high boats will receive prizes. After
the contest the guests will gather at