Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-20
MESSRS. LIPKIN AND MASTBAUM
ARE THE NEW OWNERS OF
TWO MILE BEACH =

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Jersey coast are doomed ere long to
become a mere tradition of the days
that are past and gone, and the island
where once they stood is to take its
place among the noted beaches of the
state as a place of busy industry and
thrift.
Before the advent of the white man
to these shores Two Mile Beach, the
only undeveloped tract now left along
the Jersey coast, was the haunt of In
dian tribes. Captain Mey, who gave
his name to all this lower section of
New Jersey, skirted it's strand and
commented on it's picturesque bleak
ness in contrast to the ~luxuriant vege-
tation of Five Mile Beach, its neigh
Dor to the North.
In the days of the early colonists
the little island was a rendezvous for
the hunters who sought the small
game for which Jersey is famous.
Later the Federal Government placed
a life saving station here, and the men
who braved the dangers of the sea
shared the dunes and marshes with
the wild cattle which grazed there.
1t has been limited in song and ira
dition that the celebrated Captain Kidd
and his followers took shelter in the
waterways behind this and the adj
jacent islands, and that in the War
of 1912 an American craft seeking to
avoid the guns of the British fleet "a
in here and sank beneath the waves.
AS the years rolled on men of Wis
ion came who saw the possibilities of
the South Jersey coast. Atlantic City,
Ocean City and Wildwood testify to
the farsightedness with which these
pioneers labored and planned. Sand
dunes, marshes and luxuriant vege-
tation passed from view and instead
there sprang up magnificent seashore
towns to become the playground of
the nation.
Still Two Mile Beach retained it's
form as wrought by the combined eff
fort of wind and tide, and remained
the only section of the Jersey coast
where the work of nature were not
changed by the hand of man. Now,
all of this is about tt become a thing
of the past, for Two Mile Beach has
been sold to new owners, who will
begin the development of the property
without delay.
Two Mile Beach with an area of ap-
tages of location that are unequalled
along the coast. On the North are
the Wildwood resorts of Five Mile
Beach, to the South is the wonderful
Cold Spring Harbor, and to the West
is the New Jersey Inland Waterway.
On the Southern side is the United
States Aviation and Naval Base, and
at it's extreme Southeastern point is
the massive stone jetty projecting far
out into the sea and forming a pro-
tecting arm against the tides. The
effect of this jetty in widening Two
Mile Beach and Five Mile Beach just
to the North has been appreciated
only recently. Likewise the closing
of Turtle Gut Inlet to the North unit
ing the two islands is building up the
two beaches and making them broad,
fiat Fairgrounds, such as cannot be
found elsewhere, outside of Florida,
along the entire Atlantic seaboard.
The Pennsylvania Railroad was
among the first to see the possibilities
of this island and is about to lay its
tracks from Wildwood through the
island down to Cold Spring Harbor.
The Board of Freeholders of Cape
May County, too, foresaw the oppor-
tunities and built a roadbed for We
hicular traffic, which erelong will be
surfaced into a boulevard extending
throughout the length of both beaches.
The new owners include Mr.. Will
liam Lipkin, who already has large
interests in Wildwood, and Jules
Mastbaum, of the firm of Mastbaum
Brothers and Fleisher, of Philadelphia.
These gentlemen, through the Beecher-
Kay Realty Company of Wildwood,
effected the purchase from Frank
Schroth, the receiver of theCape May
Realty Company, at a price of $450,000.
Mr.. Lipkin was attracted to this
property through the efforts of the
Board of Trade, of Wildwood, from
whose officials he learned something
of the future of the island as a harbor
for ocean going steamers. The new
owners will begin at once to develop
the tract along commercial lines, with
an eye to building up an industrial
center here for export trade, as well
as for resort purposes. In this work
they will be following the suggestion
of the Wildwood delegates to the Cape
May County Chamber of Commerce
that the county have certain sections
for certain industries, and that bust
ness interests seeking locations here
be directed to the proper locations for
the particular things that they may
have in mind.
Messrs. Lipkin and Mastbaum in
this development will be going along
the lines that are popularity supposed
to be in contemplation also by Henry