The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-19
Building Up
New Land West
Atlantic City
Will Now Raise Trolley Tracks
To Level of The
Boulevard
TO COMPLETE
GREAT IMPROVEMENT
Bay Drive to Circle New City
From Fish Creek to Point
and Along Lakes Bay

and Along Lakes Bay
Record progress has been made
by the great dredges operating in
the Third Section, Benjamin r.
Fox undertakings, West Atlantic
City. Three dredges are stationed
off the Fox property in the hay.
Two of the dredges are in full OPP
GRAFTON, while a third is undergo
ing repairs, after a long and busy
season
Arrangements are being made to
raise the level of the trolley tracks
through West Atlantic City, which
operate through to the Boardwalk
at Florida avenue.
The trolley tracks will be raised
to proper level to avoid all storm
tides, or at practically the eleva-
ton of the Albany Avenue Boule-
ward. One of the great hydraulic
dredges will extend a pipe under
the Boulevard and start Immediate
ly to pump in sand from Lakes Bay.
The extent of the fill viii be for
distance of a mile and a half.
The trolley tracks will be raised all
along this route.
Two giant ofl-burning dredges
are pumping in sand in the Third
Section and the side along the Bou-
levard will be filed in to grade Ia
the next thirty days.
The progress made in filling the
Third Section amounts to a record
for the period of time in which the
work has been done.
This operation extends for more
than a mile along the Albany Ave
nue. Boulevard. At the point that
marks the end of the Third Section
West Atlantic City and the Allan
tic City line, the distance from the
Boulevard to the Bay is about
three-quarters of a mile.
The construction of Bay Drive,
beginning at the Gateway to Allan
tic City, on the Boulevard at Fish
Greek, will be started at once. Bay
Drive viii be built for three-quar-
tiers of a mile out to the point and
thence up the shores of Lakes Bay
to connect with the drive which
has been completed along the wes-
terly shores of the bay.
The beauty of that portion OF
the drive which has been completed
is attracting more and more visit
ors and admirers and is only q
promise of the great delights of
the completed drive which will
make tour of pleasure for some
distance along the shores of South
Jerseys most notable inland bay.
Sands Brought in by the Dredaes.
In their operations of dredging
sand for filling the Third Section,
the dredges have gone to depth
of 100 feet and revealed the charac-
ter OF sand found in various stratas
to that depth.
The suckers have brought to the
surface sharp sand, fine sand, gray
sand and red sand. These repre-
sent the various stratas and the
various depths. The various kinds
of sand are to be seen in the I'LL in
the Third Section.
The bulkhead and the fill sup
porting the bulkhead has been COM
pleted on the outside of the tract.
All the fill now necessary to com
plete one of the largest operations
in this section of the country. lies
between the Boulevard and the
Bay side.
When the fill is completed along
the line of the trolley tracks. that
section will be greatly improved in
appearance and it will Immediately
become one of the most attractive
home site developments. A large
number of men and women haze
purchased lots along Albany Ave
nue. Boulevard and win be well re-
paid for their interest and invest
ment.
There win be trolley stops 81
each street end as the streets are
graded and completed and this win
be an added convenience 10 The
public.