Year: 1875

We took stage at p. M, by Orlando
Gibbons fast line from Bridgeton to Mill
vile, and rolled over the turnpike in good
style, though a scene of variegated beauty,
of forests, farms and orchards for ten miles.
Then passed through the business part of
to take the train for Cape May, from which
we landed at Cape May Court House at 7
o'clock in the evening. The clouds were
threatening, and many of the inhabitants
of that staid old town, were full of anxiety
for their Annual Agricultural Fair was in
progress, and the morrow was to be the
last and ''great day of the Fair" During
the night the rain came down, and the
morning dawned without much prospect of
clear weather; but about o'clock the wind
changed to the North West, the clouds
lifted both from the sky and the brows of
the people. The sun came out, and the peo-
pie from the country began to come in, un-
til two thousand or more of all ages were
ming.ing together on the Fair ground. The
display was not large, but the specimens
were good, and every arrangement reflected
credit on the wisdom and skill of the man.
ayers. The several Committees performed
their work with so much judgment that we
heard not one murmur III the award of pre-
miums. The whole crowd were orderly,
and everybody looked happy. The scene
partook very much of the nature of fam
lily gathering, and no doubt will be remem-
bered with pleasure by those participating,
through the coming year.


Cape May County has not been regarded
as of much Importance as an agricultural
district, but it is coming up gradually, and
will doubtless continue to improve more
rapidly as the people realize its many ad-
vantages. There is much good natural soil,
great water privileges, and continually
increasing home market for products
Cape May City is one of the most popular
of Sea Side resorts. Sea Grove, now in its
infancy, bids fair to rival Ocean Grove, in
Monmouth county, and we learn that at
Mayville, a few miles below the Court
House, what is known as the five miles
beach is about being developed into sea
side resort.


Let the reader take map of New Jersey
and mark the course of the Central Rail-
road of N. j., which has pushed forward
an all rail route 'om New York along the
coast as far as Squan Village in Monmouth
county, which is open to travel. They are
surveying an extension from there to Toms
River, have purchased the Tuckerton road,
and when their connections are completed,
it will require but a few miles to tap the
Atlantic road at Egg Harbor City. From
there is now ROAD to Mays Landing
Twelve miles more will bring it to Tucka-
hoe in Cape May County, and from thence
it can soon be extended down the sea side
to Cape May City, thus making continu-
GUS sea shore road direct to New York
opening the whole New Jersey coast to the
vast and rapidly increasing population of
the Eastern and Middle States. Being sit
uated midway between the cold North and
the heated South, our State is fitted by ma
ture to be the pleasure ground of both
Hence, we predict a grand future for the
State, and in no part of it will the harvest
be richer than in the county of Cape May
The men and women who are now sustain
ing this little Agricultural society and nurs-
ing it up from infancy to mother strength,
may live to see it one of the most flourish
ing in the State, and their names go down
to posterity honored for wisdom, foresight
and enterprise. G.. W.T..