The Washington times., 1923-07-21
JERSEY COAST
RESORTSARE
POPULAR
Washingtonians Seeking Sea-
side Vacations Make Them
Favorite Weekend Points.

Favorite Weekend Points.
Among the more remote of the
seaside resorts available to the
Washington weekend excursionlst
are the famous New Jersey coast
places. Within the past few years
there has been a remarkable in
crease in the number of Washing
tonians visiting these places.
Many of them can be reached by
automobile, though the run is al
most too long for the average
motorist to cover in a day. Many
make the trip by driving up to
Wilmington or Philadelphia Friday
afternoon and completing the trip
to the coast Saturday morning.
This gives the greater part of Sat
urday and Saturday night at the
resort, the return trip being made
Sunday.
Jersey Resorts Popular.
All these resorts can readily be
reached by railroad after trip Of
but a few hours.
One of the Jersey resorts report
ing the largest increase in the
volume of Washington visitors is
Asbury Park Atlantic City has, of
course, been prime favorite with
Washingtonians for many years.
Asbury Park combines magnifi-
cent parks with the seaside attrac-
tions. The beach front is owned
entirely by the city and is managed
as a civic enterprise. The wide
boardwalk extends for five miles
over q splendid beach. There is
surf and pool bathing and there
are therapeutic baths. The beach
boasts a big natatorium and an
open air pool, where clean sea
water is provided for those who
dislike surf bathing but want the
benefits of salt water.
A big free fishing pier is pro-
yided, and the angler can also go
out by boat.
Yachting and motor boat trips are
provided in both the open sea and
in the lakes behind the beach.
Canoes and rowboats are also pro-
vided in the lakes. A public golf
version and sport for thousands.
There are seven modern playhouseS
offering New York attractions.
Atlantic City, the queen of the
Jersey resorts. had the busiest
y
this summer promises to eclipse it in
the number of visitors.
A more cosmopolitan assemblage
than that on the famous boardwalk
can scarcely be found in this country.
Atlantic City is the one resort which
has a yearly life of metropolitan pro-
portions apart from the great tides
of incoming vacationists who are
absorbed in the more than 1900
hotels.
Ocean City Prosperous.
Ocean City is also enjoying big
year, vast building improvements
having been made since the close
of the last season. More than 3d.
zoo, 900 worth of building has been
started during the past year, in
Guiding a huge new hotel. An eX-
tensive street improvement program
is being carried on.
Wildwood and it's sister resorts,
North Wildwood and Wildwood
Crest, will celebrate the three hun
dredth anniversary of their settle
ment in September. The history
of Cape May county shows that
Five Mile beach, on which these
three thriving resorts are located
was the scene of a whaling station
established in September, 1923.
Their history as resorts dates back,
however, to but about twenty years
ago, since when property values
have increased from a few thou
sands, to millions of dollars. Wild
wood, as the resorts are generally
called, no designating boundaries
now existing, is one of the fastest
growing resorts on the Jersey coast
dreds of feet into the ocean, car
ries myriad OF amusement devices.
On the solid line of beach between
Corsons Inlet and Townsend's Inlet,
seven miles south of Ocean City and
nearly double that distance south of
Atlantic City is Sea Isle City, a sum.
mering place favored by those to
whom the conventional formalities of
the larger resorts do not appeal 1t
is distinctly a summer resort, with
hotels and cottages.
On Seven Mile Beach. between
Townsend's and Hereford Inlets, are
three smaller resorts-Avalon, Peer
mont and Stone Harbor. To the
south is FiVe-Mile Beach, separated
from the mainland by a stretch of
back channels and sea meadow, on
which the three WildwOods and An
gIesea are located. Anglesea is
known to every fisherman for miles
around.
Cape May, on a broad island cut
away from the southern tip of New
Jersey by two narrow streams and
the new Government harbor, is n
combination of the old town and the.
new resort. The beach is one of the
e;,aSt On the coast