Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-05-26
Wildwood Golf Club Banquet
at Bellevue -SfYatf0rd
Trainload of Wildwooders go to Philadelphia in
Special Train for Grand Function to Celebrate
Opening of Wildwood Golf Club

The wildwood Golf Club special
bridge train to carry the wildwood
people to the Bellevue-Stratford ban
quet given by the golf club, in Phila-
delphia on Friday evening, May 10,
1922, pulled out of Wildwood at four
o'clock with over 200 passengers on
board A score or more Joined the
party in Philadelphia. 1t was an ideal
summer day and nothing whatever
marred the trip. The train ran
through to Broad Street Station with
out any delay. At the big terminal a
long line of yellow taxicabs met the
party and conveyed the banquetters
to the hotel, headed by four mounted
Philadelphia policemen. 1t was the
biggest advertising stunt ever pulled
off for Wildwood. Big printed placards
were placed in the cars telling of the
occasion, which hundreds of people
read going to and from trains. Each
taxicab also contained big placard
and as the procession proceeded down
Broad street it attracted no little at
tention The trip was one of the best
investments ever made by Wildwood,
and the morning papers gave several
columns of publicity to Wildwood. 1t
is proposed to make such an excursion
an annual affair and possibly some
time to New York. Before darkness
had settled over the big city the party
had been seated at the tables and the
the usual assortment of literature, the
favor presented by the golf club being
a leather case containing two rubber
golf balls. Each wildwood paper had
COPIES there, and the Five Mile Beach
Journal published special miniature
edition for the occasion and in addi-
ton to some boosting articles con-
tanned the following paragraph:
"Don't You Admire
The nerve of the Wildwood Golf Club
in staging this banquet here in the
-Stratford in the great City OF
Philadelphia? Only three hours ago
we left our homes in Wildwood on
special train, crossed the Delaware
River bridge, and here we are amid
these beautiful surroundings. Look
around and see all these beautiful
women with their smiling faces. Some
of them are Lionesses. My wife is.
Aren't you glad you are here? Listen
to the music, isn't it grand. L would
not have missed it for anything. Why,
I would slave a year to attend an af-
Ii DYf
some of those fellows at the speakers S
table who have to endure these things
every week or oftener? See that young
man over there among the dign1tarles!
That's H. Foster Goslin, the toast
master. He is president of the Wild
wood Board of Trade. He's only about
27 years old. Wonder if he don't wish
he was down here among the common
people, with no responsibilities? Well,
good bye; see you at the next banquet.
When coffee and ice cream had been
reached Robert G. Latimer, president
of the Wildwood Golf Club, raped for
order and introduced as toastmaster
H. Foster Goslin, secretary and treas
urer of the club. The young man pre-
sided with grace and poise, and the
first speaker introduced was w. Court
right Smith, Mayor of Wildwood. He
was followed by Councilman Charles
H. Won Tagen, of Philadelphia; Con-
gressman George P. Darrow, former
school man and banker, of Philadel-
phia; Senator w. H. Bright, of Wild
wood; G.. l. Leiper, general superin-
tendent N. J. division of the Pennsyl-
yania Railroad; Alex. H. F1ndlay, the
father of golf in the United States;
Elisha Lee, vice president of the Penn
sylvania Railroad; P. S. Lewis, super
intendent of the Atlantic City Rail-
road. Latimer R. Baker, one OF the
founders of Wildwood and its frsL
Mayor; Assemblyman Robert j. Kay
of wildwood; Charles R. Bacon, secre-
tarv of the Delaware River Bridge Com
mission: Robert Engle, of the New
Jersey Board of Commerce and Navl-
cation: ]. Spencer Smith, of Tenafiy,
president New Jersey Board of Com
merce and Navigation. Vice president
Lee. in the course of his speech, sald'
'Whoever can gather together such
crowd as this are bound to succeed.
It was about 11.30 when the banquet
concluded and the special left at l2.l5
midnight after the party were driven
TO the station, reaching Wildwood at
2.3O in the morning. The trip was
very enjoyable one and those who did
NOT 90 missed the time of their lives.
Tho snecial train was in charge OF
James S. Murphy, division passenger
agent, who attended to every detali
and there was not hitch in the whole
affair and no delays. The North
American had an edition on the streets
before the banquet concluded contain
ing whole column on the affair and
telling about the 1S-hole Wildwood
Golf Course now nearly completed on