The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-05-10
Lure OF Sea
Builds Great
Communities
A Journey Down the Jersey
Coast Reveals Combina-
ton of Many Wonders
VILLAS AND
PRINCELY HOMES
Each New Generation Sees
Improved Use of Shore
Lands and Development of
Artistic Beauty

No one can single out any one
point in the oceans favor and say
that is its greatest appeal and the
motorist who travels down the
Jersey coast will realize the lure
of the sea is combination of
many wonders. He will also under
stand in part the urge that from
time immemorial, according to
legend and history, has caused
people to journey to the sea.
AS one runs through the Jersey
coast towns it is hard to realize
that all along the shore the Lenni,
Lenape or Delaware Indians once
lived. Today one never hears of
them, yet they have placed on the
menu cards of every resort hotel
one succulent dish, boiled corn and
beans, which many a tourist now
eats underline name. of ssuccotash. .
These same Indians. who called
New Jersey, Scheyecbi, also had
hard sounding names for others
Philadelphia, knos6n as Coaquanock,
and Trenton, called Chickobachi.
Valiant Service Rendered.
All along this Jersey shore dur
ing the fight for Independence
valiant service was rendered the
Continental cause by the patriotic
residents who transported across
the sandy roads in hugh broad
tired wagons, after night fall and
muffled silence to escape attract
ing the attention of British send-
nels, the many articles needed in
Philadelphia and proclaimed con-
traband.
The motorist of the present day
running through noted Summer
resorts that are just beginning
TO take on life can hardly realize
that in the early days of American
life along the shore was prosaic,
colorless and uninteresting. For in
those days the shore was an I'M
known land to the inlander 1t was
devoid of artistic beauty a seem
ingly hopeless waste that was the
terror of coastwise mariners. The
fist answer made to the problem
of turning the beaches to some
account presented itself to the
pioneers, and when they saw them
covered with coarse grass they
determined TO utilize them, so they
built flatbottomed scows and
transported cattle across the bays
from their mainland farms.
Each Generation Sees Change
Each succeeding generation has
seen a change until present con-
ditions have been reached. where
there is hardly room for even a
family COW at any of the Jersey
shore resorts.
Tuekerton, was in the early days
the headquarters of the Jersey
whalers, whose small, staunch
boats patrolled the coast from
Sandy Hook to Cape May.
Beauty In Homes.
Finally the motorist reaches
Atlantic City. located on Absecon
Island, which the Indians called
Absegami, five miles out at sea,
with Absecon Inlet and Bay to the
north and Great Egg Harbor Bay
to the south. On this island were
also located fashionable Chelsea,
Ventnor, Margate City and Long
port with West Atlantic City ris-
ing in new splendor and attractive
ness just step from the Worlds
Playground. A drive through them
will reveal a succession of sea-
shore, villas and princely homes,
attractive and artistic cottages,
beautiful in architecture and
ornate with flowers and shrubs.
Fronting the beach at Atlantic
City are magnificent modern hos
telries costing millions Of dollars
each. luxurious and regal in their
furnishings and appointments, that
invite the visitor to linger long.
The golf enthusiast will find three
excellent courses near West Allan
tic city. The Country Club at
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