Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-08-24
NORTH WILDWOOD

wood and plans call for a pleasant day
at the Wildwood Yacht Club and in
cludes a grabbing contest, swimming
races, and probably motor boat races,
with refreshments and lawn tennis and
most any sport in which the c~ottagers
wish to Indulge. The Wildwood Yacht
Club management has declared an
open house for this day and prizes will
be awarded for the contests, of course 1t
will be realized that this will be just a
pleasant informal affair, and friends
who come to the club are not expected
to IDOL up" but are supposed to come
prepared to have an enjoyable time.
1t is a very practical and substantial
fact that the fifty or more bungalows
built in the New York avenue section
of North Wildwood have added materi-
ally to thewelfare Of the beach, and
the new faces that can be observed 60
ing to the boardwalk are many as well
as interesting; there are quite a bevy of
pretty young girls who have taken
ahold of the new Bungalow colony and
have lent their energy and attractive
ness to the uplift of that section which
makes 1t all the more delightful. These
friends are all taking an interest in the
South jersey Fresh Air home which is
now surrounded by a coterie of good
people, and who are helping to make
the summer outings of the little child
rem who come every two weeks, as en-
joyable as possible. The colony boasts
of three fine old soldiers, all eighty years
or more old. They are Josiah TORI, 81
years old of Baxters Fire Zouaves, and
Veteran Parker, yer eighty years old,
but still active and who holds down a
position as inspector in the employ of
the city Of Philadelphia. The third
old veteran is the fatherof Mrs. Friday.
We are proud as well as honored to
have these fine old gentlemen associa-
ted with us and hope that their days
will still continue long and enjoyable.
Plans have been completed for the
Wildwood Yacht Club Ocean fishing
pier and a survey of the Locality between
Sixteenth and Seventeenth avenues,
from the board walk shows that with
the -. running 800 feet beyond the
board walk there will be six feet of wa
ter at low tide and from eleven to if
teen feet at high water.
1t is found that the club will have
trouble in getting two inch planking
for the dock and it will take sometime
to get the piling cut and hauled from
the mainland. It was first thought
that gum piling would be used but it
is believed to be next to impossible to
get gum sticks in sufficient quantity
for the entire pier, SO the builders are
suggesting oak piling. Now 1t IS known
that If piling is cut green with the sap
in it at the present time 1t will last a very
short while and it will either be neces-
airy TO get cured piling or wait until the
sap has gone to the roots later in the
fall before the sticks are cut. There is
just an even chance whether the pier
Will be built this year or not. Mr.. OF
tens has subscribed $780, 90; the Wild
wood Yacht club has subscribed $500 90;
Commodore Brennan has subscribed
$100. 90 and several other Influential men
have offered to make subscriptions to-
wards this pier, while Mayor McLin-
den will take up with the Council the
question of leasing the family pavilion
on near end of the pier for free public
use and erect thereon a Womens and
mems with necessary sanitation,
making of 1t a sort of recreation pier,
while the extreme end will be reserved
for the fishermen exclusively. 1t is a
well known fact that the more of these
fishing piers erected on the coast the
better for everybody, as fishing is a
wholesome, enjoyable and profitable
sport, and there is no reason whatever
for anyone to becoming adverse to the
building of fishing piers or the forming
of fishing associations and it has always
been the idea of the Wildwood Yacht
Club and its fishing auxiliary to boost
Five Mile Beach and Cape May Coun-
ty all the time.
1t was said by friends that Saturday
and Sunday there was a constant haze
of dust on u big n Central
and Surf avenues due to the countless
number of automobilists who for two
days swarmed over the Five Mile Beach
in their pursuit Of pleasure. 1t is safe
to say there were more automobiles and
people on Five Mile Beach last Satur-
day and Sunday than at any previous
time in the history of the resorts inspite
of the prevailing wal conditions. One
statement was to the effect that approx
imately 1900 automobiles were on the
beach during that time and the garages