Milford chronicle., 1930-09-19
GLENDALE
Slaughter Beach


great deal of reluctance.
Thursday the 11th day of Sep
tember will be remembered as the
winding up of the twentieth season
that your correspondent has spent
in his little humble cottage situated
on the water front facing Delaware
Bay.
The twenty years now passed and
gone have witnessed many changes
from a scattering few cottages
numbering eight or nine, the beach
has grown to a compact village of
perhaps seventy summer homes.
The improvements that have TAX
en- place in the last few years, de-
notated which they now have in
novations which were unknown in
the years past and gone.
The coming of the cement high
way leading from all points to the
beach has been the means of rapid
improvements along all lines. The
improved road hack of the cottages
is something to be proud of. The
electric lights for those who desire
them are at hand. Town water,
pumped from artesian wells are in
most of the hOmes-sO Slaughter
Beach has all the improvements that
people have who reside in the larg
er towns near by.
The greatest improvement that
could be made would be to erect a
large and commodious hotel and 10
cate it on the water front. We feel
sure it would be a paying venture
from the start.
The present hotel is too small to
suit a growing resort like Slaughter
Beach, 1t stands too far back from
the water front to suit those who
wish to remain for weeks or even
days.
Mrs. Wyatt and son are doing all
possible to cater to the wants of the
public, and their table is full at all
times of the delicacies of the season
but they will tell you-they need
more room.
The present owners of the hotel
and grounds surrounding it, don't
seem willing or able to expend any
more money for Improvements, and
in consequence the property is de-
preciating in value yearly.
What Slaughter Beach needs is
some one with money to buy and I'M
prove the grounds which the cor
poration now owns, and when the
owners will name a price which is
not prohibitive, a buyer can soon be
found. But let us pass from the
present to the time when the old
resort was the homes of only few
and see if the times then enjoyed
did not produce more real pleasure
than can be possibly be enjoyed at
the present time, when the writer
purchased the cottage which he now
owns from the late DR.. George W.
Marshall. More than twenty years
ago, there was only few scattered
families on the beach, but they were
a happy lot. Mr.. and Mrs. d. H.
Holland were there and were the
first to welcome us to our new
beach home, they were neighbors in
the true sense of the word, and the
friendship we formed lasted through
out their lives and until they went
to their reward. Peace be to their
ashes.-MT. and Mrs. Joseph P.
Cross, now of Bowers, were there
for several years after our arrival,
and proved themselves to be neigh
bors at all times and under all cir
cumstances. Mrs. Cross was a wo-
man who was ready at all times to
aid anyone who was sick or in dis
tress-the writer also remembers
we'll that it was Mr.. Cross who first
showed him how to spout clans.
We were sorry to lose them from
cur little colony. when the time
come for them to change their resi-
dence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bromley owned a
cottage and spent their summers at
the beach, until the unfortunate
death of Mr.. Bromley, when Mrs.
Bromley with her two children,
Thomas and Walter, left the beach
and became residents of Sarasota,
Florida.
In a future communication we
will continue the story.
Death of Mrs. Lynch.
The sudden death of Mrs. Mollie
Robbins Lynch, which occurred at
the home of Mrs. Noah Dennis at
Georgetown on Thursday of last
week, was a shock to her many
friends here. Mrs. Lynch was born
near Robbins Station and was the
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Robbins and in her girl lpod
days belonged to the highest social
set here, and was a constant attend
ant at the services held in the old
Methodist Church in Glendale. She
leaves to mourn this loss, one daugh-
ter, Mrs. Leroy Dennis, of Philadel-
phia, and one sister, Mrs. Curtis
Reed of near Milton, and a host of
relatives and friends.
Her funeral taken place on Sun
day afternoon from Wesley NJ. E.
Church, Georgetown, Rev. Mr.. Har-
ris officiating. Interment in Union
cemetery.
Alfred l. DUPONT Appointed
Chairman.
Governor C. Douglas Buck ap-
pointed Alfred 1. DUPONT chairman
of a commission which will have as
its principle function the study of
old age pension legislation.
No better appointment could have
been made, and the Governor sim
ply added to his fame, when he plac-
ed Mr.. DUPONT at the head of the
commission.
Mr.. DUPONT is familiar with the
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