Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-31

Gibson Girl being the fastest of the
fleet. was chosen to take the Governor
through the Inland Water Ways. Will
liam L. Dickel as captain, c. Brewer as
engineer. and Cecil Ober as pilot, were
at their respective stations, with Will
liam Cakes as chairman of the dele
cation. Landing was effected at the
Holly Beach Yacht Club at 5.15 P. NJ,
lust fifteen minutes later than the time
scheduled. At the landing the Gov
ernor was received by Frank G. Eng
lish. president of the Yacht Club, and
presented with a membership card OF
the club and escorted to the clubhouse,
where he was accorded a hearty well
come.
After an hours rest the Governor,
| accompanied by an escort of twenty
five automobiles, was taken for a trip
through the island. Then Mr.. Wilson
was taken to the Wildwood Manor
Hotel to rest up and prepare for the
festivities of the evening, when at 7.SO
he was to be the guest of the Poor
Richard Club, this function taking
place at the residence of Hon. j.
Thompson Baker. Addresses were
made by Thomas Martindale, Hon. }.
THOMPSON Baker and Governor Will
son. At $50 the Gubernatorial party
and members of the Yacht Club pro-
ceeded from the Baker residence to the
boardwalk, where the line of march
from that point to wildwood Crest was
made and a display of fireworks en-
livened the occasion at the Crest.
Thence the Governor was taken to the
Holly Beach Yacht Club, where the
Governor held a reception, shaking
hands with not less than eight hun
dred people. After the reception the
Governor retired until it was time for
the club banquet at $50. There were
one hundred and fifty guests at the
banquet. Curtis T. Baker presided
and acted as POSTMASTER. The princi-
pal speaker was Supreme Court Judge
Hon. Charles G.. Garrison and Hon.
Philip Baker. ex-State Senator, who
spoke in place of Hon. Leslie M. Shaw,
Secretary of the Treasury. Governor
Wilson in response said that the day
had been like a panorama from the
time of leaving Sea Girt at 7.30 until
the present. and that he had rode on a
locomotive, in the automobile and a
speed boat, and if there had been a
dving machine handy the committee
would have had him up in the air. He
had ever been taken on the Boardwalk
in a one-seated rolling chair in the
march of the Club from the Crest to
the clubhouse, and this means of loco
motion was also a new and novel ex-
perience.
The days exercises closed with the
banquet at 1 A. NJ. Tuesday morning,
the Governor spending the balance of
the evening at the Wildwood Manor
Hotel being enabled to keep his EN-
gagement at Trenton the following
day, the committee in charge escorting
him to his train at Z o'clock in the
morning. full day for all the par
Elephants.
While this visit of the Governor to
Cape May County was not conceived
with the idea of it's political value to
the originators of the movement, but
with an eye single to its effect on the
improvement of the Inland Water
Ways, its results were far reaching, as
at the following election in November
a Democrat was elected to the State
Senate in the person of Harry Whea-
ton, and at the next session of the
Legislature the obnoxious fishing law
was repealed. In 1912 Governor Will
son was the Democratic nominee for
President, and not only carried Cape
May County and the State of New
Jersey by tremendous majorities, but
the Democratic candidate for Con-
gress, Hon. j.. Thompson Baker, who
in a single session of Congress made
for himself a national reputation, de-
feated John ]. Gardiner, who had rep
resented the district as a Republican
for two decades. Mr.. Baker was
the first Democrat elected to Congress
from Cape May County in a period of
eighty-five years, and no man whoever
sat in the National Legislative Halls
gained greater distinction in so short
a period. Others have represented the
First Congressional District of New
Jersey for a longer period of time, but
none left a more lasting impression
than ]. Thompson Baker. In 1910 and
1912 Cape May County honored it's
citizenship in its support of Woodrow
Wilson, and with millions we acclaim
him as u greatest Governor and
President and first citizen.
The day was the greatest in the his
tory of Wildwood and will long be re-
memebered."