Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-13
TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION
IN LONGPORT STORM
Seven Summer Homes of Phil
adelphians in Heavy Prop
erty Damage
CAR SERVICE IS CUT OFF
Men Worked Throughout Night to
Save Menaced Hotel Aber-
deem Annex

Seven houses. the properties Of Phila-
delphians. directly on the l.ongport sea-
front, entirely down and several others
so btdly damaged that it may be neccs-
sary to remove them, bear testimony to
the violence Of the sea storm. which for
more than Seventy-two hours made II
matter OF some doubt whether Long
port still would he on the map when
Neptune abandoned his destructive at
tack
Longpou is still there this morning
but LOngport so battered and wrecked
that its Philadelphia summer populace
hardly would recognize the long suffer
ing little municipality aainst which the
seas seem to have an ineradicable
rudse
An army Of men is working with
might and main. close upon the heels Of
the falling stOrmtde. t. reopen trolley
communication with the lower end Of the
island. Cars reached jackson avenue.
the lower boundary of Margate. this
morning for the first time i'm three DAYS
and they are expected TO go through
TO the longpCrt terminus before eve
nlng. Falling waves left the car tracks
covered with seaweed and debris OF
all kinds to a depth of more than two
feet.
TrHG Of Destruction
The trail OF storm destruction in
Longport starts at the Seaside Branch
of the Widener Memorial Home, i'm the
upper end. and runs straight through
to the lower point of the beach. The
massive concrete sea wall around the
Widener Home is a total wreck. loss
of $4,000. but the handsome home
which cost 100000. is intact
The bulkheaG of the imposing Libby
bungalow was torn away. together with
large part of the grounds. Great
combers shattered the bullhead and
porches of the cottage of p. VI. Sharp
less, Of West Chester. at Twenty-fourth
avenue. but the house Is standing
Bulkheads around the cottages of
George B. Evans, of Philadelphia. at
/ Twenty-fourth street Robert q. KAY,
at Twenty-third, the home Of the late
j. r. Remington. long dean Of the Phil.
adelphia College OF Pharmacy, at Nine.
teenth street. ana the William Brice
house, at Nineteenth street, are entirely
down
The w. p, Jackson cottage, a two.
story structure at Eighteenth street. is
a complete wreck, and the Joseph 4
Mathis house at Twenty-fourth street il
tagewas saved after the waves had tori
away the bulkhead. lawn and fences
but the whole inside of the McCluougl
cottage, owned by the Disston estate
dropped out.
A complete wreck also Is the seashort
home of Charles II. HeustiS al Seven
teenth street. together with the .Lawr
ence cottage at Eleventh avenue \ gar
age at Fifteenth avenue was picked ~
and carried out by the waves ant
smashed against jetty.
, SAMPSON COTTAGE LOST
The. Sampson cottage at Nineteent
street also is almost a total loss. Th
porches were torn off the seashore HON
Of Congressman Thomas Butler, Of Yves
Chester, at Eighteenth avenue and TN
Oberon Club. az Seventeenth street, wa
esimilarly damaged furniture havin
been washed out through doors an
windows. Porches were torn off of III
home of L. S. Dickerson, known as tn
Log Cabin, ast Tenth and Beach ave
nues
Men employed by Edward Bader. Q
Atlantic City, a contractor, worke
through the night to save the annex c
the Hotel Aberdeen, propping it up wit
long piles, hastily driven where tn
structure had been undermined. Yer
little is left of the Longport seaWall
which has been torn out regularly ever
winter. City authorities thought III
promenade would be quite safe whe
they built it back of the seawall, bt
their hopes vanished when the bulkhead
fell under the uninterrupted batterin
of Neptune's legions.
There is a bad washout on the 5000
600 Longport Somers Point bouIevar'
which was first opened last summer. TT
. tide cut through the driveway near OF
, of the largest OF the bridges and aug
, gulley fifteen feet deep and nearly ~