{"1": {"fulltext": "F 142\\n.C2 B2\\ncopy 2\\nIM\\nJ\\ni** \u00c2\u00ab^6-\u00c2\u00aba eAsw^\u00c2\u00ab-a \u00c2\u00bbj\u00c2\u00bb,\\nii TBiCBU-..;.", "height": "2989", "width": "2333", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class.\\n^f", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "CAPE MAY\\nTO\\nATLANTIC CITY\\nA SUMMER NOTE BOOI-\\nPassenger Department\\nPENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY\\ni88\\no", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "T\\nCz\\\\\\n1-4\\nI\\nCopyright, 1SS3, bv\\nJ. R. WOOD, General Passenger Agent\\nPennsylvania Railroad.\\nTress of Allen, Lane Scott, Philadelphia.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "THE perplexities tiiat beset the summer wanderer in his yearly\\npilgrimage to the sea have given rise to this little book,\\nin an attempt by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to\\nclear the mists from the summer thoroughfare. Where\\nto go, and how, are questions of deeper significance than are\\nusual to tea-table chat, requiring often much time and correspond-\\nence to properly answer. From the chance experience of a friend\\nor a floating paragraph in the newspaper comes the suggestion;\\nthe deliberate courses of the mails produce at a later date the\\nnecessary coastwise literature queer little books with queer\\nillustrations of a wonderful place, where all its marked features\\nare crowded into one street where people walk and drive within\\nsix inches of great breakers and where the hotel at which you\\nthink of obtaining rooms is higher, larger, grander than any other", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "VI\\nhotel on the Atlantic seaboard. The truth of the place when told\\nto the traveler upon his arrival is generally quite disagreeable,\\nrather harsh, in fact, as though in that locality\\nThe thread of life was spun\\nOf black and dismal wool.\\nIn the few pages to follow, the reader will find neither false-\\nhood of pen nor pencil. Facts only have been collated, served\\nsimply in order that the summer wanderer might not be confused\\nin his opportunities, and made to think that he was en route for\\nParadise at last. The attractiveness of the places described has\\nbeen attempted only in the nature of hints the prices furnished,\\nrates of fare, distances, and similar statements are taken from\\nofficial sources.\\nThis fidelity to the reader s real interests will make his stay\\nby the sea pleasanter than if he had been promised more than\\nthe land affords. And in a concise form he will find answered\\nthe questions, how to get there, hcnv to go when the time comes\\nwhen the dust and heat of the city, the unclouded suns and red\\nmoons, the hot winds of morning, noon, and night, prompt a\\nlonging to shuffle off time and its concerns, to forget who is\\npresident and who is governor, what race he belongs to, what\\nlanguage he speaks, and to listen to the great liquid metronome\\nas it beats its solemn measure, steadily swinging when the solo or\\nduet of human life began, and to swing just as steadily after the\\nhuman chorus has died out, and man is a fossil on its shores.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "The Invitation.\\n.^y^ HE Atlantic from Sandy Hook to Cape May\\nbeats upon a coast full of changing beauty.\\nThe long, quiet reaches of the southern\\nthe New Jersey shore, broad\\n-ays of hard sand, seem ever\\ncomplacent in the sunlight\\nwhich glitters upon the shin-\\ning pebbles and small sea-\\nshells, and streams full upon\\nundulating sand-dunes. As\\npass northward, the beaches\\nare more and more pro-\\nnounced in contrast against\\nthe sand-hills, marked here\\nand there by rugged, ragged,\\nunfriendly sand cedars, those\\nknarled and twisted trees that\\nrefuse to be civilized, and die rather\\nu^ r- than live in the care of man. The\\nsand-dunes become sand-hills, and finally along\\nthe northern half of the coast are lost in bluffs, against\\nwhich the sea beats with ever-increasing appetite\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nas if it grew by what it fed upon.\\nBoldly upon these bluffs and beaches of Nova Ca^-\\nsarea, named after Caesarea, the present Jersey of the", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "British Channel, stand the summer cities. Not that in winter they are\\ndeserted, given up to gulls and coast guards, but that the few who\\nlive on the Jersey coast the year through disappear with the first signs\\nof warm weather they blow away like last summer s leaves, and are\\neverywhere overwhelmed in the new summer growth. They are\\ndominant only during the darker lialf of the year. They are people\\nof storms and gales. Silently they give way, vacate their homes,\\nretire to humble dwellings, become absorbed in the army of summer\\nservants, and are lost to re-appear as the society of the coast, its true\\nowners, only when the last exotic has faded, when the army of wait-\\ners and chambermaids is in full retreat, when the doors of the pretty\\ncottages are barred, the curtains drawn, and the gulls and the coast\\nguards come again. And what a delightful society the winter society\\nis Quite all the French officer found it at one of his foreign stations,\\nwhen he said, The good society was like the good society in any\\nother place, but the bad society was delightful\\nThe invaders, whose advance guards reach the coast by May-day,\\nwork a great transformation. The summer cities are invested with\\nlife, light, and color. Everything is in motion everywhere is ani-\\nmation, youth, and beauty flowers, music, laughter, are the rule.\\nThe great hotels are crowded with people from all over a thou-\\nsand beneath a single roof; the sidewalks, the summer arbors, the\\nlong piers jutting out into tlie sea, are covered with fugitives from\\nthe inland towns. They are chatting, reading, smoking, lounging,\\nstrolling, riding about, bathing, sleeping, and eating, with no cares\\nbut for the shadow-side of the porch, and the sound of the dinner\\ngong, if one there be. And just over the crest of the farthest sand-\\ndune is the city of the children a great city on the beach, with a\\nbig boy for mayor, and a common council made up from a lot of\\nruddy-faced revelers, each one of whom is busy with reforms among\\nthe sand-lots. Here is Utopia. Here, the education of the winds\\nand the sun is free to both sexes alike. There is no aristocracy, save\\nthat of ability no tyranny, unless it be the tyranny of talent. Every\\nmember of the community is a worker a contributor to the general\\nw^elfare. The local pride is strong, and unites for local advancement.\\nThe city is full of picturesqueness there are no straight streets to\\nhorrify some itinerant Ruskin they are as crooked and uncertain as", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "the thoroughfares of Nuremburg and\\nthe houses are as unequal and as\\ntoppHng. There are many statues to\\nheroes there are fountains and wells.\\nThere are open-air theatres, as in\\nOberammergau or Moscow; there\\nare bridges with towers, as in Prague\\nand Turin there are cathedrals with\\nwhite, shell-like-domes, as in Cologne\\nand IVIilan. And the inhabitants are\\nvery merry, having nothing to fear\\nbut flood-tide sleeping as honest\\ntoilers only can knowing that to-\\nmorrow s sun shall find no trace of\\nto-day s misdoings. They will be\\nobliterated, and the friendly Atlantic\\nwill make everything smooth again.\\nThe days grow hotter inland; the\\ndust of July begins to settle in the\\nstreets of the great cities the nights\\nbecome more and more insufferable.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Here on the coast the breezes are more even-tempered the sea\\nseems more blue there is a greater charm than before. Morpheus\\nis now one of the resident guests. The attraction of the sea-shore\\nwas never more tangible. The breath of the ocean as it greets\\nyou is a tonic invitation to resist depression and decay. Everytliing\\nspeaks of power and, inferentially, of accomplishment. The pure salt\\nwind blowing hither from the horizon is a power a very impressive\\none for, as the Seminole chieftain said, you can feel it, but you\\ncannot see it. The resistless, eternal splash, splash, of the waves\\nsuggests power with ease and beauty, as each scattered drop is\\ngathered and dashed again and again at your feet. This sense of\\npower is the very antidote to weariness. Your prompted energies\\nquicken and revive; you can realize to the full, intensities of\\nexpression. The deep feeling for nature, shown by the French\\nlandscape painters, has been accounted for by the fact that they\\nare city dwellers, companions of bricks and stone, comrades of\\nthe dust of the French capital. When, therefore, the green fields\\nare before them, the new colors, new lights, new shadows, new\\nforms and faces, they see and paint with strange vividness with\\nintense appreciation, born of surprise and gratification. Similarly,\\na city dweller when he reaches the sea. He is delighted w ith the\\nsharpness of outline the briskness of life the exhilarating air\\nthe marked sense of health the gay colors which are so agreea-\\nble in the cool shadows of afternoon the relief of color in close-\\nshaven green lawns jeweled with gorgeous blooms the delicate dra-\\nperies about the windows of the houses the inviting, shadowed\\nporches the faint sound of music and the sea the laughter of chil-\\ndren, all this and more come to him with the freshness of a new\\nworld. And for this he has forsaken a sunburnt city baked and\\ndusty sidewalks languid streets a marked sense of physical depres-\\nsion people with fever in their faces, the indifference of despair in\\ntheir walk, and seldom a smile on their lips. There is no sound of the\\nsea nor music, unless it is some aspiring band at the head of a per-\\nspiring procession, endeavoring with noise to appease the fierce sun-\\ngod, and believing that in the sound of brass and cymbal there is\\na remedy for aching, worn-out nature. Who would not exchange\\nsuch a metropolis for the sea,\\nThe blue, the fresh, the ever free?", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "In this way or rather in these words the reader is invited to\\nthe Jersey Coast. Is it asked to what the invitation leads? The\\ncoast Hne of the State comprises parts of Monmouth, Ocean, Bur-\\nHngton, Atlantic, and Cape May counties, and is a little over one\\nhundred and twenty-seven miles in length from Sandy Hook to Cape\\nMay. Its beaches or divisions are formed by the intersection of\\ninlets and rivers. They are composed of hard, white sand, and gen-\\nerally are either islands or peninsulas. They lie parallel with the\\nline of coast, and are separated from the mainland^by bays, channels,\\nsounds, and salt marshes, and from one another by inlets. The\\nprincipal beaches are, Long, Little, Brigantine, Absecom, Peck s,\\nLudlam s, Seven-Mile, Five-Mile, and Two-Mile. The peninsulas\\nare, Sandy Hook, Squan or Island Beach, and Poverty Beach,\\nmaking a total of about 20,000 acres of beach lands. Between these\\nbeaches and the mainland, from the head of Barnegat Bay to Great\\nEgg Harbor, there is an average width of water of six miles. From\\nGreat Egg Harbor to Cape May the average distance is three and\\na half miles. The principal inlets are, Barnegat, New, Brigantine,\\nAbsecom, Old, Corson s, Townsend s, Hereford, Cold Spring, and\\nTurtle Gut. These inlets and rivers wind in\\nand out through 155,000 acres of salt marshes,\\nthe surface of many acres being but a few\\ninches above high water-mark. They are\\ncovered with good natural grasses needing no\\ncultivation known as salt grass, black grass,\\nand short sedge. Abundant hay is cut every\\nsummer upon these flats, and they afford good\\npasturage the year through for cattle and sheep.\\nFresh spring water is found in abundance.\\nThe bays and sounds along the coast afford a\\nlivelihood for quite a little world of people,\\nwhose commerce is comprised in fish, 05 sters,\\nclams, lobsters, crabs, and wild fowl. These\\nbays and sounds are about 117,000 acres in ex-\\n^^-tent. The development of the coast into what\\nit is, in the summer of 1883, has been largely\\nbrought about by the railroads. The facilities\\nAN INVADER.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "by them afforded have prompted the formation of companies and\\norganizations, of which there are twenty-nine in operation iijion\\nthe beaclies of the live counties named. These companies liave\\nfounded a string- of cities that in time will so extend that there\\nwill be both rail and carriage way along the ocean front from the\\ndrive, at Long Branch, to the signal station, at Cape May Point.\\nEvery summer adds to the thousands who are already dwellers by\\nthe sea every winter, to the householders in the towns and cities.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Cape May.\\n^iii\\nilif\\nAPE MAY, of all\\nthe summer resorts\\nupon the Jersey\\ncoast, revives in the\\nmention of the\\nname the greatest\\nsummer memories.\\nThe courtships that\\nhave begun upon\\nits beauteous beach\\nrun high into the\\nthousands, since\\nthat first season\\nwhen Captain Cor-\\n-nelius Jacobese\\nMey, of Amster-\\ndam, a rough old burgher Dutchman, in\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the employ of the Netherlands West India\\nCompany, landed on this shore, prom-\\nenaded up and down the beach, and,\\nfinding it so attractive, named it after\\nhimself in honest pride. The waves upon\\nits beach have embraced millions of people since that summer two", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "t* -^i\\\\^^^^^^y^* Pff^^\\nst^ i\\ni ii\\nFROM THE PIER, CAPE MAY.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "hundred and sixty-two years ago, and to-day they beat as musically,\\nas endlessly, and break into as many lines of foam, as they did before\\nthe eyes of the Dutch navigator.\\nIndeed, the waves at Cape May are one of its standard attrac-\\ntions, dashing up, as they do, on what has often been called the finest\\nbeach in the world. Watching them, you are tempted to speculate\\nconcerning them. They are very beautiful. As they rise in gallant\\nshape far out, topped by crests of white, they seem to be race-horses\\nwith wild and flowing manes. Then they break, and with a roar of\\nexultation toss themselves upon the floor of whitened sand. Tide in\\nor tide out, it is all the same they never seem to hush except in the\\nshades and shadows of night. The tides that bring them are equally\\nof interest.\\nTwice a day the Severn fills\\nThe salt sea water passes by,\\nAnd hushes half the babbling Wye,\\nAnd makes a silence in the hills.\\nThe tides were long a mystery. Certain of the Greek philoso-\\nphers reasoned from the tides that the earth was alive, and that the\\nrising and falling were like the heavings of the human breast. The\\nold Norse people thought a destructive tide was the invasion of an\\nangry sea-god. Science has established that the moon, and in a less\\ndegree the sun, draws the water by the attraction of gravitation, and\\nthat the tidal wave follows the sun and moon in their daily courses\\nfrom east to west. Tide was originally written time. High tide was\\nthe high time of the waters just as Christmas-tide is Christmas time.\\nFor six hours the tide flows or rises. A rising tide is a flood-tide.\\nIn a very short time after the flow of the tide ceases the fall or ebb\\nbegins. There are two tides in the day of twenty-four hours. The\\nvery highest tides at any one point are the spring tides, and they\\noccur only when the attraction of the sun and moon reinforce each\\nother or operate as one then the high water is the highest and the\\nlow water the lowest. But when the moon is at her first or third\\nquarter, the sun s attractive force antagonizes that of the moon, and\\nthe neap tides result when the high water is at its lowest and low-\\nwater at its highest. The spring and neap tides occur every lunar", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "lO\\nmonth, or thirteen times a year. The set of the tide is the direction\\nin which it moves, and its drift is its velocity in nautical miles.\\nBut a truce to tides. The county of Cape May was probably\\ncomprised in the Dutch purchase of 1629 and again, in 1641, it was\\nbought of the Swedish Commissioners. It is impossible to fix the date\\nof its earliest white settlement, but there are published records of a\\nBaptist church at Cape May as early as 1675 and doubtless the good\\nBaptists to the west and north visited there for health and rest in the\\nsummer months. This was the beginning. To-day Cape May is\\na prosperous summer city, a city with an admirable past, with a win-\\nter and a summer population, with great hotels and a great life pecu-\\nliarly its own.\\nCAPE MAY STATION.\\nThe city is laid out irregularly, and does not lose in picturesque\\nbeauty by the arrangement. The streets have patriotic names, but\\nthey are never asked, for, and so they will not be furnished here.\\nLocalities and distances are fixed by the hotels, which are the centres\\nof the life, sharing, perhaps, a little wath the piers, of which this year\\nthere are three, one a new and ver}^ handsome structure, extending\\ninto the water with saucy defiance to all the storms that blow. This\\ncan be better appreciated when it is remembered that brave Commo-\\ndore Decatur has left on record some measurements of his, showing\\nhow the sea eat up from one to thirty feet of the land every year for\\nnineteen years, from 1804 to 1821. And to this subject of the encroach-", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "II\\nment of the sea, Professor Cook, the State Geologist of New Jersey, has\\nrecently called attention. A considerable breadth of land, he remarks,\\nhas been worn away during the last century all along the shore,\\nfrom the Hook to the Cape. Near Shrews-\\nbury inlet the water-line has moved from\\none hundred and sixty-five to three hundred\\nand thirty feet inland during the last twenty-\\neight years. Opposite the old Long Branch\\nCAPE MAY.\\nHOW TO GET THERE,\\n^1 trs. Take Pennsylvania R. R.\\nto^-j^ fi 4.u^^^U-,-,-^A-^^A to Philadelphia West Jer-\\nHotel the sea has eaten away three hundred ^_,^ j^ p., foot of Market\\nand seventy-five feet of the bluff; and oppo- ^-^r^f 3^L;,;^?f\\nsite Whale Pond, the encroachment at one express trains daily. From\\n1 ^1 i* +\u00e2\u0080\u009e1 ^c Philadelphia, So miles, in 2\\npouit reaches the suggestive total ot h\\\\e Fare frovi Phiiadei-\\nhundred and twenty-five feet. About Cape i^^^-^^-^^^^lf^l\\nMay the gain of the ocean has been more family ticket, $io: tzventy-five\\n1 x- -1 1 u ir ^^^^-t, ^f trip, $2^; monthly ticket, $2s;\\nmarked. For a mile and a half north ot reason ticket, onepcrson, $40:\\nNew Endand creek, it has moved inland season ticket for purchaser\\n.11 and wife, $50.\\nten hundred and forty feet in the last one\\nhundred and eighty-seven years. A few\\nrods further south the distance from the\\npresent to the old sea line is eight hundred\\nand fifty feet. At Cape Island the shore\\nhas worn away a full mile since the Revolu-\\n\\\\NHERE TO STAY.\\nSTOCKTON HOTEL.\\n1000 guests; $4 day, $25 week.\\nCONGRESS HALL.\\ntion, and even since the United States Coast 750 guests; $4 day, $25 week.\\nSurvey was instituted, thirty years ago, the ARCTIC,\\nwear along the beaches north-east from the ^^^^f\\nWINDSOR.\\n250 guests; $3 day, $21 week.\\nMARINE VILLA.\\n100 guests; $j day, $r8 week.\\nCape has been so great as to require very\\nconsiderable changes in the map of the\\nshore lines. These changes by themselves\\nmay very plausibly be ascribed to the con-\\ntinued dashing of the waves upon the shore\\nbut in the salt and other tide marshes there\\nare evidences that the level of high water is\\nhigher than it used to be. The flood-tides\\nin Delaware Bay rise at least six inches\\nhigher this year than they did fifty years ago. There is a question\\nhere that needs an answer for in various parts of the State people\\nTwenty-two other hotels zvith\\naccommodations for thir-\\nteen hundred and fifty\\nquests, and prices from $2\\n^to $3 a day $10 to $15 a\\nweek.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "12\\nhave been driven from their lands by the gradual rising of the sea.\\nMany islands of excellent soil, some of them heavily timbered, have\\nbeen submerged. The famous INIoney Island was one of these.\\nAt the beginning of the\\nable size and well tim\\nTeach, or Blackbeard, as\\nthere with his crew one\\nseason early in the last\\ncentury. There is no\\ntrace of the island now-a-\\npresent century it was of consider-\\nbered. The noted ]:)irate Captain\\nhe was popularly known, wintered\\nschellinger s landing.\\ndays. John Harris, a\\nRevolutionary soldier,\\nbought what was known\\nas Round Island, off\\nLower Alloway,\\nin 1S03. It con-\\ntained then forty\\nacres of good\\nupland. He\\ncleared off the\\ntimber, and built comfortable farm build-\\nings. Subsequently he purchased a\\nsecond island of about the same area,\\n^rT near the first, and erected farm buildings\\non it. He cultivated the soil of both.\\nS On dying, he bequeathed one to each\\nc _ son. When, however, they went to\\n.i take possession of their inheritance they\\nfound that the sea had claimed a legac}^, the islands were submerged,\\nand the water refused to give back its gain. And yet to watch it on\\nsome quiet night, when the waters are almost silent in their mur-", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "13\\nmurings when out on the horizon the parade of the vessels has be-\\ncome shadowy and indistinct when the winds have died away, and\\nthe Hght of the moon falls in a great silver blanket on the sea,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nwould hardly induce credence for the tales of the Atlantic s anger.\\nThe daily life of the visitor to Cape\\nMay is based upon regard, simply, for his\\nmost particular wants. The hotels are\\ngood, clean, and well cared for. They are\\ncool and comfortable. The tables are gen-\\nerous in good things, notably those of the\\nplace. The vegetables of Jersey are at all\\ntimes prominent. After a substantial break-\\nfast, a glance at the morning papers, the\\nbeach affords the time and place for a\\nstroll. A cool breeze blows from the ocean\\nthere is not a cloud in the sky the sand\\nwas never so smooth and shiny. By noon\\nthe bathers are gathered in force. There\\nis a rolling surf, safe and delicious. The\\nbottom is clean, hard and sandy. There\\nare hundreds in the water it is dotted for\\nhalf a mile with the gayest of colors, with\\nromping, splashing, shouting people. On\\nthe beach are the mammas, weighing a\\nfew too many pounds to compete with\\ntheir daughters in bathing suits, compla-\\ncently sunning themselves beneath umbrellas, and listening to\\nthe idle chatter of their attendant cavaliers, very generally thin\\nmen, with such spare figures, indeed, as to have induced the\\nconviction that sea bathing didn t agree with them. The bath\\nover, there is a nap or game of billiards or bowls, until dinner.\\nAfter dinner a drive down to Cape May Point, or up the beach to\\nSewell s Point, or a sail, if the tide serves, in one of the white-winged\\ncraft that cluster about Schellinger s landing and from there forge\\ndown the tortuous inlet and so out to sea. Or a ramble over the\\ncity will comfortably occupy the afternoon and if you lengthen your\\nCAPE MAY POINT.\\nHOW TO GET THERE.\\nTake Pennsylvania R. R.\\nto Philadelphia PVest Jer-\\nsey Road, foot of Market\\nStreet, Philadelphia. Trains\\nand tickets {one way aiid\\nexcursion) the same as to\\nCape May all trains makings:\\nconnection at Cape Mav zvi th\\ntrains to Cape May Point,\\nover the D. B. 2f C. M. R. R.\\nWHERE TO STAY.\\nCARLTON HOUSE.\\n300 guests, $s to $4 day, $12\\nto $21 week.\\nBELLEVUE HOUSE.\\n200 guests $2 day, $8 to $15\\nzveek.\\nCAPE HOUSE.\\nISO guests $2 to $j day, $10\\nto $is week and others.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "H\\nwalk so as to return to the hotel by way of the beach, you will pos-\\nsibly be gratified with a panorama of quiet significance, in which an\\numbrella, a man and a woman, several far-away looks, and a sigh or\\ntwo, make up a programme of astounding human interest\\nBut the true\\nV life of the place,\\n..-\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\^;.iir^ it is really\\n.r. more like some\\nstrange, shifting\\nscenery, peopled with men and women from an unknown country,\\nanimated with pleasurable excitement, the time when you can enjoy\\nthe real flavor of Cape May, comes after supper, after eight o clock.\\nThe city is ablaze with electric lights the vast verandas are thronged\\nwith restless thousands, who, forsaking the cottages, the sidewalks\\nand the piers, leaving them to lovers alone, gather at each centre\\nof life and existence. Music\\nThat softer on the spirit lies\\nThan tired eyeUds upon tired eyes,\\nfloats upon the evening air now a waltz, now a galop, ever\\nsomething spirited, something buoyant, something that by right\\nbelongs in Aladdin s palace. There is stir and bustle. Something\\nis happening. Possibly it is a concert, a choral festival, a regi-\\nmental parade, or a special attraction. Usual or special, it tends\\nto quickened pulses, to happier hearts, to less of brooding, and to\\nmore of life, to health, and so to happiness. Then follows the\\nrest, the sleep which has been denied under the baking eaves of the\\ncities, the breath of the purest air (for all th^ irregularities that drew\\nsome little censure to Cape May last year have been removed by\\nColonel Waring), and then the awakening, refreshed, invigorated,\\nas though there had been a supper at the fountain of perpetual\\nyouth and Ponce de Leon himself had been the host", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "The Life along the Shore.\\nET it not be supposed that the only happiness at the sea-side\\nI centres on hotel porches and in cottage parlors that the\\nhuman life when upon the piers and beaches furnishes all\\nthere is of interest. The flat, sandy shore is itself a world of\\nwonders, and has a life of its own, independent of Philadelphians or\\nNew Yorkers, Professor Joseph Leidy, who is so well known for his\\naccuracy of research, found in an ounce of sand collected between\\nhigh and low tide more than 18,000 varieties of minute shells at\\nAtlantic City, and over 28,000 at Cape May Does not this open the\\ngate to hours of delightful interest? For shells have long excited\\nattention. In many an humble dwelling they may be seen, while in\\nhabitations of a higher order they often appear as the result of a\\nchoice directed by taste and intelligence. Many a specimen, too, is\\nassociated with the remembrance of a delightful search on the\\nsands when the tide was out of intercourse which gladdened\\nand improved the heart and of scenes which left impressions on\\nthe mind not to be effaced. Yet the wonderful shells that the\\npatient professor examined were not those every wanderer on a\\nsea-beach readily recognizes. All along the coast he will notice\\nthe shells of clams and oysters. The first come of a noted\\nfamily. The great clam, never seen in New Jersey, and seldom\\nelsewhere, but to which the clam you kick with a careless foot\\nis second cousin, is a very remarkable creature. We are told", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "i6\\nby Linneiis that one specimen weighed 498 pounds, furnishing 120\\nmen with provision for one day, and that the sudden closing of its\\nvalves was sufficient to snap a cable asunder, A manuscript pre-\\nserved in the British Museum notices the dimensions of a specimen\\nbrought from Sumatra, and preserved at Arno s Vale, in Ireland,\\nthe weight of which amounted to 507 pounds the largest valves\\nmeasured four feet six inches in length, two feet five inches and a\\nhalf in breadth, and one foot in depth. A shell of the same species\\nforms the baptismal font at the Church of St. Sulpice, in Paris. It\\nwas presented by the Venetians to Francis I,\\nThe oyster is even of greater interest, and a far more general\\nfavorite. The Greeks, and more especially the Romans, when they\\nlevied contributions far and wide to cover the table of an Apicius\\nor a Lucullus, held oysters in high estimation, and attached no small\\nimportance to the localities from whence they were obtained.\\nOysters are amazingly fruitful. Poll states that one of these animals\\ncontains 1,200,000 eggs; so that a single oyster might yield enough\\nto fill 12,000 barrels. These eggs are expelled in the form of spawn\\nor white fluid, called by the oysterman spats. The manner in\\nwhich they swim doubtless serves to attach them to the submarine", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "T7\\nbodies, or to individuals of their own species. Tiien the new ones,\\nin being developed, smother, as it were, the old ones, not permitting\\nthe water to reach them, or hindering them from opening their shell.\\nIn this way are formed the immense oyster banks which can be in-\\nspected at Cape May and Atlantic City, -^r^^^ The oyster\\ntrade from these two localities in the R m o n t h s is\\nvery extensive and profitable. X\\nThe oyster, the clam, and other mol luscous ani-\\nmals are a part of the pro .^-^aS vision made\\nfor various other creatures, Foxes and\\nraccoons, when pressed with hunger, will gladly make a meal of them,\\nas they will of crabs, fish, and insects. The ducks and the gulls\\nderive from them a part, at least, of their daily menu. Crows do not\\ndespise mollusca, and have been seen ingeniously opening clams by\\ntaking them up into the air twenty or forty yards and letting them\\nfall on the stones, thus breaking the shells. Barnacles, also, are\\neaten by birds, fishes, and\\nelse is available\\nmarine ani\\nattached by\\nstones, the\\nber from\\nwhite shells\\nThe\\n;r^\\njsgSS KiSWjju\\nanimals when nothing\\nbarnacle is a curious\\nmal, often found\\na fleshy rope to rocks,\\nkeels of ships and floating tim-\\nwrecks. Their delicate blue-\\nand feathery, many-jointed arms are of extreme\\ninterest to an observer, no less than the curious\\nbelief, current about them as late as the last\\ncentury, that they developed into a particular\\nThe most learned writers of Europe kept this\\nmyth alive from the fifteenth century.\\nQuite as companionable are the sea-weeds, brown tangles, and\\nsea-wrack, delicate scarlet-branched water-plants Iceland mosses\\nand the long ribbon weeds, with fluted edges, that are cast upon the\\nbeach from the great sea-weed belt, about a mile wide, that fringes\\nthe coast from Florida to ]\\\\Iaine. And after sea-weeds and shells\\ncome the phenomena of the ocean, sometimes thought to be con-\\nnected with them, such as the occasional luminosity of the surface\\nof the sea, in whose depths rest the wrecks of ten tliousand royal\\nargosies a wonderful sea, indeed.\\nspecies of goose.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "The floor is sand, like tlie mountain drift,\\nAnd the pearl-shells spangle the flinty snow\\nFrom coral rocks the sea-plants lift\\nTheir boughs, where the tides and billows flow.\\nThe water is calm and still below,\\nFor the winds and the waves are absent there\\nAnd the sands arc bright as the stars that glow\\nIn the motionless fields of the upper air.\\nThere, with its waving blade of green,\\nThe sea-flag streams through the silent water,\\nAnd the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen\\nTo blush like a banner bathed in slaughter.\\nThere, with a light and easy motion.\\nThe fan-coral sweeps through the clear, deep sea,\\nAnd the yellow and scarlet tUfts of ocean\\nAre blended like corn on the upland lea.\\nAnd life, in rare and beautiful forms.\\nIs sporting amid those bowers of stone.\\nAnd is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms\\nHas made the top of the waves his own.\\nWould the reader follow further on this sea-shore ramble, let him\\nconsult the pregnant pages of Damon s Ocean Wonders Taylor s\\nHalf-hours at the Sea-side Harvey s Sea-side Book; Lewis\\nSea-side Studies; the ever-fascinating J. G. Wood s Common\\nObjects at the Sea-shore or Kingsley s Glaucus.\\nIf sea-shells and weeds do not entice the idler, there is that just\\nover the dunes along the shore that may chain his passing fancy\\nwild flowers of many hues and shapes, changing with the months\\ndaisies, pyxies, butter-cups, the wild sweet-pea, violets, anenones,\\nroses, water-lilies, purple flags, and many varieties of ferns and nod-\\nding grasses, sand-reeds, and, when August is almost over, proud\\nbunches of golden rod. Then, in the woods, notably at Atlantic\\nCity, are marvelous holly trees, attaining often a height of twenty\\nfeet or more, thoroughly upsetting the popular idea of the holly-\\nbush. These are a pleasure to study and observe. In other recesses\\nof these woods are trees covered thickly with draperies of pale gray\\nmoss, much like the Spanish moss of the Southern States, but finer\\nin texture than that variety. The sand cedars will repay a careful", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "19\\nacquaintance, and their twisted but al-\\nways artistic branches will furnish many\\na text for a mental discourse, as you\\nwander on the sands at night.\\nNourishing one s middle age sublime,\\nWith the fairy tales of science, and the\\nlong results of time.\\n.It will not be wasted work if some\\nfew minutes of the days are given up to\\nthe observation of atmospheric phenom-\\nena, and such geological facts as are\\nin the structure of the sea-\\ncoast. Years ago much of\\nthe present coast line of the\\nState was beneath the waves.\\nEvidence of such fact is fur-\\nnished by the broad salt\\nmarshes that interpose between several of\\nthe summer cities and the highlands to\\nthe west of them. There is little study\\nmore interesting than this, of the cosmic\\narchitecture of continents and islands. On this sub-\\nject much valuable information may be found in\\nGeikie s Elementary Lessons in Physical Geology\\nAgassiz s Geological Sketches; or in Guyot s\\nwork on Physical Geology. Even where the\\nhand of man has been applied to efface the natural\\nfeatures of the shore, there is always something in\\nthe wide expanse of sea and sky, and in the changes\\nwhich can be traced to the reacting influence of sea\\nand land, which will repay study, and enlarge the\\nrealm of thought.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "Cape May to Atlantic City.\\nTwo pleasant afternoons may be numbered among- the sum-\\nmer days at Cape May, if the visitor will in one case stroll or\\ndrive along the beach to Sewell s Point, and in the other do\\nthe same to Cape May Point, two of the minor summer resorts\\nof Cape May County. The beach, which is the best thoroughfare at\\nall times, is as pleasantly yielding to the foot as some rare Eastern\\ncarpet, possessing elasticity and firmness, and marked and crossed\\nwith the quaintest of patterns, traced by the sea or woven by the\\nflecking foam of the waves, tossed hither and yon by the gusty wind.\\nThe waves roll in to your feet with a shimmering movement, and play\\nand twist upon the flat, gray sand. So rare is the afternoon, so blue\\nrHE WAY TO SEWELL S POINT.\\nv^vvxv.^ the sea, that the waves will win your\\nwhole attention. Perhaps you may notice\\na curious efiect which often attracts the\\nonlooker, the combed and furrowed appear-\\nance of the back of the wave as it curls over.\\nThis combing appears suddenly, beginning at the ad-\\nvancing edge of the crest and spreading backwards. In small waves,", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "2T\\na foot or so In height\\nare seen in shallow\\nthe front of the\\nwhile the back of\\nrowed, but the edge\\nnated, and almost\\npears on the back\\nbackwards f r o m\\nable length of the\\nat almost the same\\ncrest falls rather\\nfront, but it sud\\noften fringed with\\na row or rows of\\ndrops, the\\ncombing\\nappear-\\ning at\\nand of long-extended front, such as\\nwater, the crest, which rolls down\\nwave, is at first smooth and even,\\nthe wave is also smooth and unfur-\\nof the crest suddenly becomes cre-\\nsimultaneously the combing ap-\\nof the wave, traveling rapidly\\nthe crenated edge. A consider-\\nwave appears to be thus affected\\ninstant. In larger waves the\\nthan rolls upon the concave\\ndenly becomes uneven, and is\\nSIGNAL STATION, CAPE MAY POINT.\\nthe same instant. The reason of it\\nall is, that a long cylinder of liquid\\nis unstable, and will, if left to itself,\\nat once split into a row of equal,\\nequidistant drops. So comes about\\nthis combing of the waves a very pretty\\nlittle fact, which can be seen every hour\\nby the sea. And there are other facts\\nin the day\\nabout waves", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22\\nequally curious and equally amusing, which can be found stated\\nupon the pages of books of greater proportions than this.\\nSewell s Point is a picturesque spot, with a good landing and a\\nfair-sized hotel, and is the land point where the waters of the inlet join\\nthose of the Atlantic, in a whirling, rapid race over the sandy bar.\\nCape May Point, on the other extremity of what the visitors call Cape\\nMay Beach, is a place of considerable importance. When it was first\\noriginated it was called Sea Grove. It was started as a summer re-\\nsort under Presbyterian auspices, and the religious influence has al-\\nways been a marked feature of the place,\\nnames of streets. It is only two miles from\\nand enjoys the happy distinction of being\\ncape proper. It owns to a signal\\nand a light-house\\nter has a good deal i^\\nextending even to\\nCape May City,\\nthe point of the\\nstation\\nthe lat-\\nof his-\\nLIGHT-HOUSE, CAPE MAY POINT.\\ntory and\\nstrong,\\nout to sea\\nsome romance woven about the\\nbright light that it flashes forty miles\\nThere is here, near the hotels, a fresh-\\nwater lake, which sometimes rather excites comment for the freshness\\nof its water so near the ocean. It has a water area of about forty acres,\\nand a wee navy all to itself. It aflbrds many an hour of amusement,\\nas does the Delaware River, which here enters the sea, on its way\\nwell, around the world. Cape May Point, which is undeniably suited\\nto the purpose, has joined the list of all-round-the-year resorts, and\\non a winter day has its charms apart.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "23\\nEquidistant\u00e2\u0080\u0094 eighteen\\nlantic City is Sea Isle City,\\ninto favor since 1880.\\nbeach, of great width,\\ndences of higher ambi\\naUve in summer cities,\\nof the principal aven\\nbusts, surrounded with\\nand a dozen other\\nmiles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from Cape May and At-\\na new resort that has grown\\nIt has a very enticing\\nand everywhere evi-\\ntion than is usually\\nAt the intersections\\nues there is colossal\\nflowers, of Minerva\\nmythological\\ndeities, whose\\nwhite, clear cut,\\nclassic features\\nvjVi look strangely\\nout of place amid the\\n1 sand cedars and the modern\\nhouses. Their presence suggests\\nthat some heathen sacrifice upon\\nthe sea-shore is about to be made,\\n^::y some propitiation to Jupiter or\\nthe god of storms. The busts are\\na part of a preconceived plan to\\neffect beauty by example and the\\nlaws of Sea Isle City, to which all\\nits inhabitants subscribe, make\\nit imperative to grow flowers. The drainage is arranged upon an\\nideally scientific basis and there is a feudal-looking bufldmg out\\nupon the salt marsh, standing alone, suggesting isolation, that is\\nused for ajafl. ^u 4.\\nBut of all the features of Sea Isle City, a square house that at\\nfirst sight seems queer in conception and execution, built immedi-\\nately upon the beach, deserves the most notice. It solves a long-\\nvexed problem for practical men,-a good dwelling in a favored spot\\nand at small expense. From the sketch illustrations the reader will\\nON THE ROAD TO SEA ISLE CITY.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24\\ncomprehend the description. The ground plan of both stories is this\\nthe four corners up-stairs and down-stairs furnish eight\\ncomfortable, though not large-sized rooms. The cen-\\ntre of this simple residence is the dining-room and\\nparlor. There is an open fireplace, from which come\\nruddy sparks should the evening grow chilly, and the\\nlarge door in front lifts up during the day and forms, as\\nit were, a wooden awning over the main entrance. The cost of the\\nhouse to build was $720, and the land upon which it stands cost |2oo\\nmore. Two simple vine trellises, running up to the roof, are in June\\ncovered with a cloud of roses, and the simple little residence is an\\nobject of great beauty, and a quaint landmark of the place. It de-\\nserves a greater celebrity than it has, for it takes from beneath the\\nnet of vexation a question long unanswered and of much sorrow.\\nitif***\\nA $720 HOUSE.\\nSomers Point is the terminus of a branch of the West Jersey-\\nRailroad, and should claim a day from any lover of rural scenery.\\nIt is delightfully situated on Great Egg Harbor Bay, and fur-\\nnishes many a vista of quiet woodland and of river. The place\\nis crowned with historical memories. It has its name from John\\nSomers, cousin of John Lord, Earl of Hardwick, who was born\\nin England in 1640. He was a preacher in the Society of Friends,", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "25\\nand came over to this country in that capacity, and purchased,\\nin 1695, three thousand acres of land of one of the original pro-\\nprietors Thomas Budd. One of his sons, Richard Somers, burnt\\nthe brick which compose the Somers mansion, now standing at\\nINTERIOR OF A S720 HOUSE.\\nSomers Point. It was this Richard Somers who won much reputa-\\ntation as a colonel in the armies of George Washington. All of the\\ndescendants of John Somers lived noteworthy lives and died in gen-\\nerally curious ways, some for their country s flag, and others by", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26\\nviolence. Not far from the Som-\\ners mansion, in a still and solemn\\nwood, where great pines and oaks\\ntower to the sky, is situated the\\nSomers graveyard and here most\\nof them who died in their native\\nland have found a simple resting-\\nplace, a grave covered with\\ngrasses and flowers, and sur-\\nrounded with trees that are hung\\nwith a pale gray-green moss, as\\nthough in mourning. The history\\nof the headstones is abundant\\ni in rich suggestion, in that\\n^i|f^,;\u00c2\u00bb,,7:J?JiWPiT^^^^\\nSOMERS MANSION AND CLUB-HOUSE.\\ny flavor of deeds and actions that clings\\n^if round every record of perilous days.\\nThere are several club-houses at this\\npoint, which in the long summer weeks are\\ntenanted by strangers from the towns, seeking\\nrelief from the oppression of the sunshine. The wharf is the place\\nof departure for Beasley s Point,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a red-flannel resort, a few", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "27\\nmiles up the river, mucli in repute by gun-\\nners and the Isaac Waltons of the day and\\nalso for Ocean City, one of the summer cities\\nthat has grown into its present promi-\\nnence through the efforts of a number of\\nearnest Methodists. As such, a certain\\nmeasure of curiosity attaches to the place,\\na desire to know just what such men would\\nmake of a city. Their situation on Peck s\\nbeach a smooth, broad, seven-mile beach-\\nhas much of merit. Their city is well\\nplanned, and though but three years old,\\nhas a fine architectural face, with some\\nartistic cottages, flower-beds, and bright\\nfoliaged trees. There are everywhere sand\\ncedars that lend a beauty of outline. There\\nare a great many hundred people here in\\nthe summer, and in addition to the regular\\nreligious exercises, every season is marked\\nby camp-meetings, when the houses of the\\ntown are largely added to by tents. The\\nassociation owns and occupies an island,\\nand so on Sunday there reigns a strictly\\nSunday discipline, an observance of the day\\nthat is wanting elsewhere.\\nAnd yet the sea is just as beautiful and\\njust as enticing as on Saturday; and after\\na service in the large auditorium most of\\nthe congregation will be found beside the\\nwaves, enjoying their blue brightness, which\\ncolor it is conceded is a reflection of the\\nblue of the sky. Homer often speaks of\\nthe wine-faced deep; and a modern\\nEnglish poet tells of Summer isles of\\nEden lying in the dark purple spheres of\\nsea. In truth, a purplish or wine-like flush\\nSEA ISLE CITY.\\nHOW TO GET THERE.\\nTake Pennsylvania R. R.\\nto Philadelphia West Jer-\\nsey Road, foot of Market\\nStreet, Philadelphia Trains,\\ntime, and price of tickets the\\nsame as to Cape May, con-\\nnection zuith main line at\\nSea Isle Junction. From\\nPhiladelphia, 66 miles.\\nWHERE TO STAY.\\nSEA VIEW HOUSE.\\nloo guests $2.50 a day.\\nLIDEY S HOTEL.\\n100 guests SS to $10 a week;\\nand eighteen other houses,\\nwith accommodations for\\n500 guests, $1 to $2 a day.\\nSOMERS POINT.\\nHOW TO GET THERE.\\nTake Pennsylvania R. R.\\nto Philadelphia West Jer-\\nsey R. R. foot of Market\\nStreet, Philadelphia, to Plea-\\nsantville change cars to\\nSomers Point. From Phila-\\ndelphia 66 miles, 2 hours. In\\nWinter2, in Summer 4, trains\\ndaily. Fare, single ticket,\\n$1.12 ten-day excursion,\\n$1.50.\\nWHERE TO STAY.\\nBRADFORD HOUSE.\\n60 guests $2 day, $10 to $15\\nweek.\\nWAVERLY HOUSE.\\n40 guests; $2 day, $10 to $12\\nweek.\\nDOLPHIN HOUSE.\\nj-o guests; $1.50 day, $8 to $10\\nweek.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28\\nOCEAN CITY.\\nHOW TO GET THERE.\\nmay at times be noticed on the ocean\\nunder peculiar atmosplieric conditions. More\\noften it is sea-green when the winds are\\n/.^/SaS/JSf fresh and the skies are overcast. A dark-\\n^S^ ^r-A^L.^-f ^^^X!^^^ gray prevails when a storm is at hand.\\nstreet, Philadelphia, to Plea- ^t i-r\\nsantviiie change cars to Near California there IS a vermilion\\nSteamer e rorr!s. ^^From ^^a, whicli at times presents a very reddish\\ntint. The ocean near Key West is of a milky\\nhue, owing to the great banks of white coral\\nat the sea-bottom. Yet none of these colors\\nquite equal the blue of the sea on a rare\\nday in June. Towards night its tints grow\\ndarker and more blue, and the horizon in the\\nlight of the setting sun seems just a line of\\nblack, beaded with burning gold. That\\nfades at last, and the idler on the shore can\\nbut listen, with the words of Edwin Arnold\\nPhiladelphia, 67 miles, 2%.\\nhours. Two trains in Win-\\nter, 4 in Summer daily. Sin-\\ngle ticket, one way, $1.27; ten-\\nday excursion ticket, $1.50.\\nWHERE TO STAY.\\nTHE BRIGHTON.\\n725 guests; $2 to $2.50 day,\\n$12 to $18 week.\\nWESLEY HOUSE.\\n100 guests; $2 to p.^o day,\\n$12 to $18 week.\\nHAVEN HOUSE.\\n60 guests; $1.50 to $2. so day,\\n$10 to $15 week; and a num-\\nber of cottages that zvill ac- as a prompt book, and\\ncommodate 200 people.\\nHear the grating roar\\nOf pebbles which the waves strike back, and fling,\\nAt their return up the high strand,\\nBegin and cease and then again begin,\\nWith tremulous cadence slow, and bring\\nThe eternal note of sadness in.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Rod and Gun.\\nIFE on the Jersey coast, in\\ncommon with the coast Hfe of\\nfW- U\\\\^^^^^^^^^^ other Atlantic\\n^iK^^C with which to win the\\ni presence of the sportsman.\\nThere is to be had employ-\\nment for both line and gun.\\n-V The game birds that annually\\n^z^\\\\ visit Cape May, Atlantic City,\\nand the other coast cities\\ncomprise quite a wide range,\\nand include, as they do else-\\nwhere, some varieties that are\\nvalueless. No one, unless he\\nwere extremely hungry, or\\nsomewhat ignorant, would try\\nto make a meal off the thin-breasted coot,\\none of the commonest winter fowls on the Jersey\\nshore. The cook of Marshal Saxe, who served the old general s\\ntop-boots with such piquant sauce that the identity of the boots\\nremained undiscovered, might try a coot, but no one of less bolder", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30\\nconfidence would attempt it. Yet the coot, with his soft,\\nthick, brown feathers, and his twinkling eye, is often a\\ntempting shot. And there is nothing in Jersey law to pre-\\nvent a trial of your ammunition and aim. Yet the coot\\n_^ is an exasperating bird, for he so often moves in\\nthe best society of ducks as to excite the hopes\\ntant gunner, and lure him into an unwarrantable ex-\\nof the dis\\ncitement.\\nBetter\\nthe black\\nsummer. Then\\nuntil the middle\\ndippers, and red\\nhabits with the\\nsame time as the\\ndo, in April. Gray\\nist of September,\\nThen they h u r r\\nvisit to the coast In\\nfar than coots, and much richer prizes, are\\nducks, which, like the strangers, remain all\\nthere are the broad bills, which do not appear\\nof October. The cub heads,\\nheads all of which have similar\\nbroad bills appear about the\\ncoast guards, and leave when they\\nducks and teal appear about the\\nand stay for two months.\\nsouthward, and pay a second\\nthe spring. They are evi-\\nabout spend-\\ns n o w. Wild\\nfalling, and,\\nnumbers, and\\nwhen, electing\\ndently very particular\\ning Christmas where there is no\\ngeese come as the leaves are\\nlike the leaves, in wonderful\\nremain until the last of March,\\ntheir leaders, they marshal their lines in\\nlong wavy V s, and lead the way to the\\nfrozen North. They are thorough discip-\\nlinarians, these geese if you kill their\\nleader they will alight and elect another befo re resuming their\\nonward career. Brant appear at the same time as the geese, and\\nleave with them.\\nA milder-mannered bird, much more shy, and better eating, is\\nthe English snipe, which appears on the Jersey coast about the ist of\\nApril, remains but a short time, goes north, and returns in October for\\na short time on the way south. Wilson snipe, robin snipe, chattering\\ncurlews, and yellow legs come into fashion in May, select their summer\\nquarters, disappear, and return in July, to stay out the season until", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "31\\nOctober. The several varieties of plover, with their plaintive cries,\\narrive in May, and, like good, sensible birds, remain all summer.\\nWillets do likewise, and find their cosy breeding places on the salt\\nmarshes. There is a very pleasant catalogue to pick from, and a\\ngood breech-loader can be well warmed on almost any summer day\\nalong the shores and over the salt fields. The game laws of the\\nState are exceedingly liberal. Sportsmen are prohibited, when\\nhunting geese, brant, or ducks, from placing their decoys further\\noff from the edge of the marsh, island, bar, bank, blind, or ice than\\nthree rods distance. No birds can be hunted after dark with a light.\\nAll gunning for wild fowl in Barnegat Bay and Manasquan River be-\\ntween sunset and sunrise is prohibited, and the time of hunting them is\\n4 7^\\n1 f\\ny\\nlimited\\nto the\\ndays between\\nOctober 15th\\nand April 15th. At all the towns\\nand cities along the coast there mmm", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32\\nare plenty of professional gunners, who know the choice spots, who\\nshoot all day for their patrons, and charge moderately for their ser-\\nvices. Most of them keep guns and ammunition, and require little\\nnotice to enter the service of the stranger Nimrod.\\nOther than game birds there are many. No visitor to the shore\\ncan fail to watch the swallows coursing up and down the beach from\\nmorning to night in search of their insect prey, and they fare bounti-\\nfully. The myriads of flies, midges, and other insects which infest the\\nsea-weed afford them, as well as other beach birds, a generous plenty\\nfor their own sustenance, and food for their eager young. They fly in\\ndetachments, and, save when they alight for building materials, or for\\nsome tempting unwinged dainty, never abate the wonderful velocity\\nof their flight, whether they revel in the\\nstillness of an August morning or grace-\\nfully conquer a south-easter in April. The\\ngreat blue martin sometimes joins the\\nbeach swallow in his skimming flights over\\nthe sands. The king bird, well reputed\\nfor his anti-crow propensities, forages\\nregularly on the beach, starting swarms\\nof insects from the sea-weed, and feeding\\n*on them at will. The common chirping\\nsparrow is often seen upon the beach, and\\nduring their migrations the robins some-\\ntimes seek the shore for gravel and\\ninsects. The sand at the back of the beaches is the favorite breed-\\ning ground of the Savannah sparrow. He arrives from the South in\\nApril. His habits are peculiarly terrestrial he sings, wooes, and\\nnests upon the ground, and when disturbed by man prefers to escape\\nby running and dodging among the grass rather than by taking\\nflight yet, strangely enough, he sings when upon the wing wath\\ngreat ardor. But it is not intended to teach natural history on this\\nsmall page merely to prompt the reader to more, to studying the\\nbirds on his daily walks.\\nFor the lover of the line and reel, the waters in and about the\\nNew Jersey coast are most generous. Boats are to be had in plenty.\\nBluefish and red-flannel bait appear about the middle of May, and\\nA FISHERMAN.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "33\\nleave in October. Fishing for them is a royal delight. The majestic\\nbeauty of the fish, his strength and skillful stratagems appeal to the\\nfisherman s nature, and invite a tussle that has all the qualities of hon-\\norable combat. Sheep s-head follow bluefish in about a month, but\\nleave with the others. Weakfish stay from May to October, and re-\\npay many an hour s hunt with their most tender flesh. The striped\\nbass inhabit the rivers the year round, but are more plentiful in sum-\\nmer than during the colder half of the year. They afford good sport,\\nfor they are very ready to take the bait, yet difficult to secure on ac-\\ncount of their tender mouths, their\\nwily ways, and great strength.\\nWhen hooked, they leap and\\nplunge, swim with great force\\nand swiftness in their endeavors\\nto break away. A favorite ruse\\nf the bass is to double back\\nunder the boat in order to cut the\\nline upon the keel, or to gain a\\nfixed point from which it may\\nbe able fo drag the hook from its\\nmouth. The great sea bass, a\\nfish of differing habits and won-\\nderful proportions, can be caught\\nfrom the ist of July until the ist\\nof October.\\nIn and about the ponds are plenty of perch, bold-biting, hard-\\ndying perch, the only fish that the pike dare not attack. Its dorsal\\nfin when erect is as sharp and as obstinate as a paper of pins. It cares\\nnothing for its fellow-fish, and never seems to notice his absence, if he\\nbe suddenly jerked to the air above. It will live quite a long time out\\nof water, and is excellent food. They come early in the season and\\nremain late, and prefer brackish water to fresh or purely salt. Black-\\nfish bite from June till October, as do the kingfish. The summer\\nflounder can often be observed chasing the minnows during its visit\\nto the coast and the flounder proper, which is a winter fish, comes in\\nOctober and leaves in May. The porgee is abundant after July, and\\nthe ashen-green codfish the fish that is eaten by civilized people\\nA FISHERMAIDEN.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34\\nthe world around, and by the cows in Norway is taken late in the\\nautumn and during the early winter. After the fish come the shell-\\nshedding lobsters and crabs. In the shallows of Shark River the lat-\\nter are most abundant, and are sought for by crab-hunters at every\\ntide. Seaward from all points on the coast, on most days, can be seen\\nthe diving, romping porpoises and perhaps, gentle reader, if you gaze\\nintently, you may see, also, some of the whales that a company\\nfrom Elizabethtown were granted ten years permission to catch by\\nSir George Carteret, on February 15th, 1668.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Atlantic City.\\nTLANTIC CITY is\\na distinctly different\\nplace from its coast\\ncompetitors in many\\nrespects other than those of\\nlatitude and longitude. The\\ncity has an architecture\\nof its own, or rather a style\\nof architecture, that has\\nbeen developed by its peculiar\\nneeds as both a winter and summer\\nresort, and by the taste of its\\nowners, who are mainly Phila-\\ndelphians.\\nDriving m\\nand about it you are con-\\nvinced of a fact that becomes\\nparent with every mile you\\ncoast \u00e2\u0080\u0094that the Centennial\\nT ExhTbiUon w^as^^gidsend to the State of New Jersey\\n^From C.pe May Point to Sandy Hook are a hundred\\nwoode.? reminders of the Centennial, the headquarters of\\nmore and more ap\\ntravel on the Jersey", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "ATLANTIC CITY, FROM THE SOUTH.\\nsome foreign State now turned into a restaurant\\nor pavilion the ornamental parts of some big\\nbuilding now become an integral portion of a\\npier. The office of the Centennial Commission\\nis translated to the sand, and does duty for a hotel.\\nThe Ladies Pavilion, cut up and mangled, is trans-\\nformed into a stable. The thrift of all New England,\\nthe ingenuity of the Union, could not do more with\\nthe Centennial structures than has been done upon\\nthe shores of Jersey. And from these borrowed plumes\\nAtlantic City derives some^ certain characteristics.\\nThe city is eight-and-twenty years old. The streets\\nare straight and broad the avenues broader and\\nstraighter. The city occupies the best part of an\\nisland nine miles long, and from a few hundred feet\\nto a mile in width, being separated from the mainland\\nby a strait called the Neck. There is an abun-\\ndance of trees, which give to the streets a very com-\\nfortable look. The fact, too, that the city is a pros-", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "THE BOARD-WALK AND THE PIER.\\nperous one for twelve months of tlie year has given to it so many\\nbuildings of the permanent order that the face of the place is much\\nchanged on that account. On all sides, on all streets, are hotels,", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "39\\nand in summer the city is literally a hive. Being within such com-\\nfortable distance of Philadelphia, Atlantic City becomes, with the\\napproach of warm weather, the Mecca of every person in the\\nPennsylvania metropolis who has a day to spare. Down they come\\nby thousands ravage the great ocean of a bath, and the Inlet, of a\\nglorious sail cast an always successful line for the myriad fish of\\nthe Atlantic waters; or enjoy the breeze, the stir and bustle, the\\ngrand army of bathers in their countless manoeuvres the life and\\ncoolness of the big pier, which stretches a grasping hand into the\\n^i:\\nBOAT-HOUSE AT THE INLET.\\nocean the fleet\\nof idling boats\\nthe sun and the\\nshadows; the\\nromping chil-\\ndren and, in more conservative fashion, the crowd\\nitself, in which each man or woman is of no more importance than\\none of the thousand waves that dashes in and out among its\\ncompanions, breaks, and is lost to sight. Then there is enjoy-\\nment in the move homewards, and the board-walk, with its\\nkaleidoscopic pictures of humanity, its booths, and its people. For\\nthere are those in such a c ty as Atlantic that are peculiarly board-\\nwalk people. They find a living there on the walk, and, like the\\nfish that obtain color from their haunts and the depth of the sea in", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40\\nATLANTIC CITY.\\nHOW TO GET THERE.\\nTake Pennsylvania R. R.\\nto Philadelphia IVest Jer-\\nsey R. R., foot of Market\\nStreet, Philadelphia. From\\nPhiladelphia, 6s miles, go\\nfnifiiites. Winter 2, Summer\\n5, express trains daily, with\\n2 additional trains each way\\non Saturdays and Mondays.\\nFirst-class fare one way, $i;\\nten-day excursion ticket,\\n$1.50; cottage, single, $40;\\npurchaser and zinfe, $30;\\ntwenty-trip family, $13-50:\\none tnonth, i person, $20 2\\nmonths, $29,-3 months, $35; 4\\nmontlis, $37; 5 months, 39; 6\\nmonths, $41; 7 tnonths, $43: S\\nmonths, $43: g months, $4/: 10\\nmonths, $48; 11 months, $49;\\nand 12 months, $50.\\nWHERE TO STAY.\\nBRIGHTON HOTEL.\\n200 guests; $3 to $4 day,$iS\\nto $30 zveek.\\nTHE DENNIS.\\n223 guests; $3 to $4 day, $16\\nto $30 iveek.\\nHADDON HOUSE.\\nJ30 guests; $3 to $4 day, $i\\nto $23 7i erk.\\nSEA-SIDE HOUSE.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fj^ guests; $3 day, $18 to $23\\nliJPPf?,\\nUNITED STATES.\\n330 guests $3 to $4 day, $13\\nto $2^ week.\\nCONGRESS HALL.\\n300 guests; $3 to $3.30 day,\\n$iS to $21 zveek.\\nHOTEL ALBION.\\n230 guests; $3 to $3.30 day,\\n$13 to $21 week.\\nWAVERLY HOTEL.\\n200 guests; $3 to $3.30 day,\\n$13 to $2^ week.\\nTRAYMORE.\\n123 guests; $3 day, $iS to $21\\nweek; and 66 other hotels,\\nwith accommodations for\\n6000 guests, and prices\\nfrom $1.23 to $3.00 a day,\\n$7 to $18 a week.\\nwhich they swim, seem to have become\\npermanently affected by their surroundings.\\nThey would be out of place on the sand, on\\nthe wide avenues, or the porches of the big\\nhotels they belong, like the fiddler crabs,\\nor the neat, methodical, red-tape, and\\nfool s-cap fellows of Washington, the bur-\\nofficers of the departments in certain\\nframes; otherwise, you never notice them,\\nthey are at home only on the board-walk.\\nThere is, besides this, as fair a share of\\namusement as usually falls to the lot of the\\ntraveler in the drives and rambles about\\nAtlantic, The coast here is very pretty\\nand offers freely of its abundance. A day\\nwell spent winds up with an evening of\\nmerriment. The hotels are full of move-\\nment there is a quantity of music there\\nis gayety under every roof Dancing serves\\nto recall the embroidery of existence, and\\nis indulged in first by the children, and\\nafter nine o clock by the children grown\\nup. Between the numbers you are quite\\nlikely to hear some tall fishing yarns,\\nsome boasts of prowess with the hook.\\nTime flies, and before you know it mid-\\nnight is come to chase the revelers to their\\nidle beds to draw down the curtains and\\nput out the lights.\\nIn winter Atlantic City is another place.\\nThe same houses are there as before, the\\nsame streets, the same towering white\\nlight-house, but the summer has gone, and\\nwith it all of the summer people. In their\\nplaces have come fewer, but solemner\\npeople people whose real mission is the", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "finding: of health, and they have\\ncome where there is additionally\\nsomething- of interest. For a\\nwinter day on the Atlantic shore\\nis invested with a higlily original\\ncharm. The elasticity of life,\\nthe straw-hat carelessness of\\nAugust, is lacking. The trees\\nare bare, and present their brown\\nbranches in silhouette against\\nthe sky. The flowers of a short while ago being dead, there is\\nbut little color in any street. Deserted balconies, barred windows\\nand doors, and closed gates hint of lifelessness. On the beach the", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42\\nfrost has crept down to meet the waves, and disputes with them pos-\\nsession of the sand. About and above the beach are Arctic gulls,\\nlazily drooping their silent wings. The sea, a little colder in color,\\ntinted a little more with gray, is otherwise the same as in June. Its\\nwaves toss as restlessly, its song is as musical, but keeps a wilder\\ntune, exulting in victory, or muttering in defeat in its daily contests\\nwith the sand-dunes. Here and there are proofs of the prowess of a\\nstorm, bits of driftwood, a spar, wrenched from its fastenings in\\nsome moment of trouble, a ship^s name-board all that remains of\\nsome craft too frail to withstand the relentless force of the waves. A\\ndismantled, partly-wrecked pier thrusts a jagged end out into the\\nsea, defiant to the last. It is weather-beaten, stained, attacked on\\nall sides, and yet in its wildest fury the sea cannot tear from the pier\\nthe legacy it bestowed upon each sturdy spile, the coronals of flutter-\\ning green sea-weed that wave like feathers below the surface.\\nfe^^^\\nA MONSTHR OF THE STRAND.\\nWithin sight are a few strangers, that is, they seem but a few,\\nadvance guards for the army of July. They walk briskly, how-\\never, and enjoy their overcoats. Now and again, as the view serves,\\nthey stop to note the long lines of breaking waves. These gazers\\nare people who love the ocean at all times, for its mourning tones,\\nin the strong light of noonday sun or in the red flush of a winter\\nsunset which shall fade into velvet red and purple, then a golden\\nbrown, and then into night. And as its remembrance becomes too\\nshadowy to follow, they return to the hotels, to blazing fires, to com-\\nfortable dinners, to their friends, to life, animation, and humanity.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "43\\nNot far down the coast about four miles is what is known as\\nSouth Atlantic City, and you can reach it by a ramble over the most\\npicturesque sand-hills, crowned with cedars and huge holly trees,\\nwhere a thousand wild flowers carpet the l a i n-\\nwoods, or you can travel down the beach, Athntio City.\\nwhich will well repay your footsteps in views\\nof much beauty. As you near the place THERE.\\nthe peculiarity of the first bit of architecture, Phiiad7ip)uaTTvest Jer-\\nwhich here assumes the shape of an ele- J:y ^r./ F^,j/ ^f\\nstreet, Philadelphia, to At-\\nphant, makes a most amusing effect so close lantic City thence by rail\\nto the sea. As you approach you find the rnag e.\\nelephant is reinforced by a section of the WHERE TO STAY.\\nCentennial, and the oddity of the place is cedar grove hotel.\\nthen in full relief. Further back there are ^^s guests; $1.50 to $2 day,\\n$8 to $12 7veek; and five\\ngroves and shady nooks where the breath cottages for 250 guests;\\nof the woods comes to you with the sound\\nof the sea, and the delights of both are blended indissolubly.\\nThose who are inclined to art, can find no more opportune\\ncoast than this for the pencil and pen. Almost every variety of\\ninland and coast scenery can be laid upon for tribute, and a port-\\nfolio of sketches can be brought home for evidence of a profitable\\nsummer. Then, collecting shells or sea-weeds will repay the time\\ngiven to it, if in no other way than in rosy cheeks, and the tire\\nthat follows healthy recreation. Sea-weeds if gathered for collec-\\ntions should be dipped in fresh water and all sand removed then\\nlaid upon sheets of white paper, arranged carefully with a knitting\\nneedle, and pressed for several days between folds of newspapers\\nunder a weight. When dry they are best arranged on cardboard,\\nand sometimes effectively grouped about a small basket. There\\nis much pleasureable excitement in this for young folks. In\\ngathering shells, they should be carefully collated their proper\\nnames written on labels and pasted upon them, with the date\\nand locality of the find. Some of the popular works on conchology\\nwill supply information, and serve to accumulate in the collector s\\nmind a small storehouse of happy facts.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "The Coast Climate.\\nTHIS little message from the sea would not be complete were\\nthere omitted a few words concerning the climate on the\\nJersey coast. Atlantic City, which was the first winter sani-\\ntarium on the Atlantic coast, especially has won honorable\\ndistinction in this regard so much so, in fact, that the claim is\\nsometimes made that any form of disease can be cured by her\\nhealth-giving air. On account of the propinquity of the Gulf\\nStream at this point on the coast, the configuration of the coast\\nitself, and the topographical lineaments of the land, the absence\\nof adjacent mountain ranges, Atlantic City enjoys at all times a\\nmost equable and gentle climate. Its winters are as mild as those\\nof Charleston its summers are never as warm as in New York or\\nBoston. Climate is intimately associated with the health, wealth,\\noccupation, and longevity of nations, and equally, though with more\\nappreciable directness, with those of individuals. Dryness, equable-\\nness, purity, and moderation are peculiarly desirable features in a\\nclimate for health, and when these are found on the sea-shore, the\\nremedial powers of the atmosphere are most marked. The tonic\\neffects of sea air are summarized thus by Schonbein\\nFirst, the presence of a large amount of ozone, the stimulating,\\nvitalizing principle of the atmosphere second, the atmosphere,", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "45\\nbeing denser at the sea level than at more elevated points, contains\\nin a given space a larger amount of oxygen third, as a larger\\nportion of the breeze comes from the sea, the air contains but a small\\namount of the deleterious products of decaying vegetable and animal\\nmatter and, fourth, the saline particles held in suspension in the\\natmosphere, the dust of the ocean, enter the system through the\\nlungs, and aid in the tonic effect experienced by the invalid or de-\\npressed system.\\nFor these reasons, which can be observed to operate directly at\\nAtlantic City, which has been utilized for winter patients for the past\\nfifteen years, that place has become a winter sanitary resort of ex-\\nceeding popularity, as well as a delightful summer city. A synopsis\\nof the Jersey coast climate, as furnished by the Government Signal\\nService officers, furnishes sound evidence in support of such asser-\\ntions.\\nRELATIVE HUMIDITY AT\\ni88i.\\nAtlantic City.\\nBaltimore.\\nWashington.\\nCape May.\\nPhiladelphia\\nJanuary,\\n76.8\\n71.5\\n77-6\\n78.7\\n77.1\\nFebruary,\\n83.8\\n66.7\\n734\\n73-2\\n74-3\\nMarch,\\n74-6\\n63.2\\n67-3\\n70-3\\n72.8\\nApril,\\n73-6\\n58.9\\n66.0\\n74.0\\n61.3\\nMay,\\n85.2\\n64-3\\n69-3\\n82.7\\n70.6\\nJune,\\n79-8\\n68.1\\n72.8\\n76.8\\n70.4\\nJuly,\\n78.8\\n61.3\\n67. 8\\n73-6\\n66.8\\nAugust,\\n82.7\\n61. 1\\n70.0\\n77-5\\n66.1\\nSeptember,\\n85.6\\n69-3\\n74.0\\n79.8\\n71.2\\nOctober,\\n79-5\\n67.1\\n734\\n70.6\\n70.2\\nNovember,\\n7S.1\\n67.8\\n744\\n77.0\\n72.4\\nDecember,\\n794\\n70.6\\n76.6\\n75-6\\n77-5\\n1882.\\nJanuary,\\n75-5\\n72.6\\n80.8\\n77.2\\n79-3\\nFebruary,\\n78.5\\n66.8\\n72.6\\n73-6\\n70.7\\nMarch,\\n73-5\\n64.0\\n69-3\\n70.7\\n63.6\\nApril,\\n74-5\\n60.9\\n68.1\\n744\\n60.5\\nMay,\\n80.4\\n69.1\\n70.9\\n78.6\\n68.2\\nJune,\\n77-2\\n60.3\\n64-5\\n76.4\\n60.2\\nJuly,.\\n79-9\\n654\\n67.1\\n79.8\\n61.9\\nAugust,\\n82.3\\n744\\n7S.2\\n79-3\\n71.0\\nSeptember,\\n82.6\\n74.6\\n77.2\\n78.8\\n73-0\\nOctober,\\n84.2\\n75-2\\n78.0\\n78.6\\n74-3", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a23SUT3-VI UC3J\\\\[\\nISOAVOq\\nOS rO IT) UOGO LO O 00 GO lO t^\\nd 6 xi lyj ro 1-^ uo uo d r^ i-i\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IsaqSiH\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aSui:^ UB3i\\\\[\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lS3A\\\\oq\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^saqgiH\\nVO VO ID Os^O lO-^ lO ID t-^VO ro\\nM CN lOvO ID UO ro O) M\\nMVO OsO -oa\\\\^Os -i^\\nlO t^ rO O ro\\nU\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aSuB^ UB3I/y[\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2;s3Avoq\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IsaqSiH\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aSUB^ UE3IY\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2;s3A\\\\oq\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2jsaqSiH\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2aSUB^ UB3I\\\\[\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2:iS3A\\\\oq\\nVOCO M roo r~-Tl-Ti-O00 lOt^\\nN in r ovo t-o po t cs\\nt~~ ro lO^O\\nrovo t^vo \\\\OCOVO 0\\\\CM-i i- OO\\nT)Tt\u00e2\u0080\u00a2O^T^lOM\\\\O00 1-1 0\\\\M M\\nd- 0 lOOO OnOOnOnOOO t^t^\\nvo tM w o PJ r^ cs r^\\\\o (s cxd o\\nJ-MOOOOOOOM-iOi\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^r^-*-^ Mt^o\\\\ioio\\nlO o^UD PI M\\nt^POONO tovo OsO lO\\nCN CN CN rOlOlOlO\\n;c/iO^Q\\nO C\\\\ S- r^ M O ro\\\\0 O)\\nO 6 i-i CO O uSvd 00 Os\\nCN 01 c^ romuOiO ^rO\\nOr^iO Noouor^ CO\\ncc ch tn t-i oi o uo id ro\\nU-, lOvO t^OO 00 OnOO 00 t^\\nS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1 r 1 r", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "47\\nThis is quite a remarkable record. The diseases most benefited\\nby such a cHmate are nervous affections. Every phase of nervous\\nexhaustion, from the jaded temperaments of society people, over-\\nworked men and women, to brain softening and paralysis, is bene-\\nfited. Then the long- list of chronic affections which result secondarily\\nfrom nervous exhaustion then patients suffering from pulmonary,\\nbronchial, and laryngeal complaints, most of whom are benefited!\\nTrying and refractory cases of chronic bronchitis, laryngitis, and in-\\ncipient consumption, are often much improved by being treated at\\nthe sea. In cases of dyspepsia, worry, and general relaxation of the\\nsystem, a fortnight at Atlantic City can be prescribed with certain\\nbenefit as the indolent life at the shore, the change of scene and\\nfood, the tonic, pure air, and the sunshine work sure benefit.\\nJust here a word is proper as to diet. It is safe, says a noted\\nphysician, to counsel all invalids to restrain the prodigious appetite\\nthey are almost sure to acquire soon after coming. Otherwise con-\\nstipation, headaches, and loss of appetite eventually result, showing\\nthat an overloaded stomach and embarrassed liver have struck work.\\nIt is a mistake to suppose that one cannot take cold at the sea-shore.\\nIt is necessary, then, that invalids should take the usual precautions\\nagainst being chilled. In the winter season and on summer evenings\\nwraps of some kind are always in order out of doors, though usually\\nthey need not be heavy.\\nAs to exercise, while some is needed by the weakest invalids,\\neven though only of a passive kind, such as massage by a manipu-\\nlator, or rubbing by an ordinary attendant after the bath, there is\\ncommonly little danger that those able to walk shall not get enough.\\nMany are inclined to take too much, owing to the extraordinary\\nstimulant effects of the air, and need to be restrained, lest they ex-\\nhaust their small stock of vitality as fast as it can be replenished.\\nBut this tendency is far less in winter than in summer, when the\\nnightly hops and other multitudinous pleasures and dissipations keep\\nthe more impressionable visitors in a constant whirl of feverish ex-\\ncitement.\\nOne word, finall}^, as to medicinal treatment. For some cases\\nthe air alone is sufficient. Others get on famously with the air and\\nthe help of judicious bathing. Still others need medicines, and lose", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48\\nby having them stopped during their stay at the sea-shore. For these\\nlast, the tonic and alterative virtues of the air often furnish just the\\nadjuvants necessary to accompHsh the cure. The medicines which\\nat home were nugatory, or only half successful, may succeed perfectly\\nwith the aid of the sea air, when neither alone would be sufficient.\\nThe hot salt baths obtainable in winter time are most valuable\\nagents of cure, and may be indulged in without the least danger.\\nThe first effect of the sea air upon visitors, remarks Doctor\\nJohn H. Packard, is very much the same in winter as in summer.\\nThe same sense of invigoration, of increased appetite, and of drowsi-\\nness, are experienced by almost every one. Persons who before\\nleaving home felt constantly wearied, with a distaste for food, and\\nwith an inability to sleep well, whether from fatigue, from over-\\nexcitement by business or by pleasure, or from the effects of illness,\\nwill often find themselves enjoying a walk, eating heartily, and ready\\nfor bed at an early hour. It is well in many instances to give a\\ncaution as to overdoing the exercise, as well as in regard to the\\nindulgence of the appetite. The matter of sleep may generally\\nbe left to nature.\\nUpon the functions of the bowels the sea air in winter often\\nhas a restraining effect, inducing constipation, which may be very\\nobstinate. This is owing generally to the stimulation of the skin,\\nand if diet does not suffice to overcome it, it should be corrected\\nwith mineral waters, such as Hunyadi, Vichy, or Congress, But\\nas these are less applicable in cold weather than in warm, a com-\\npound rhubarb pill, or the compound licorice powder, will be found\\nto answer better. Diarrhoea is much less frequently met with-, and\\nmay be checked in most cases by limitation of diet for a day or\\ntwo. Should either of these conditions be the result of previous\\ndisease, special treatment may be called for, such as medical\\ncounsel shall indicate. Other troubles incident to a change to the\\nsea-shore, than those mentioned, had better be met by a doctor s\\nadvice.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "The Art of Traveling.\\nBE sure to think before you start to travel. It has been ren-\\ndered so much a matter of course, and so simple a thing to\\ndo, that repeating the old hints about it seems superfluous.\\nYet, just as it is necessary to repeat from every pulpit the\\nold admonitions with each new year, so it is proper here to call\\nthe attention of the unthinking voyageur to some points that, if\\nremembered, will save him much inconvenience. For your own\\ncomfort and happiness, and your own mental and physical advantage,\\nstart on your journey with a determination to see the bright side of\\neverything, and to endure, as cheerfully as possible, the jolts and\\nbuffetings, and petty disappointments, that are sure to be your lot.\\nIn the same proportion that a light heart makes you better for your-\\nself, it makes you better and more agreeable for those who may\\nbe traveling with you. This by way of suggestion for the comfort\\nof your inner self. Now as to your contact with the world.\\nMoney. Never carry a large amount of cash about your person\\nor in your baggage. If you carry money, avail yourself of hotel\\nsafes for it and for valuable jewels. Be careful to have sufficient\\nsmall change, and be prepared to pay all obligations, especially the\\nsmallest, in their exact amount. If you cannot tender a cabman or\\nservant the exact sum, you will generally overpay. They never have\\nchange.\\nTickets. Never buy your tickets for ajiything from strangers\\nin the streets, or from scalpers, or at reduced-fare offices.\\nSuch tickets may be good, but the probabilities are not in their", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50\\nfavor while there never can be a doubt about tickets purchased at\\nthe regular offices of the railroad company. If intending to travel in\\nPullman cars or by the Pennsylvania Limited Express train,\\nsecure your tickets, seats, or berths at least three days ahead. When\\npurchasing your tickets, obtain all information you desire, as to limi-\\ntations of the tickets, arrival of trains, connections, time, c.\\nBaggage. Have as little bag-\\ngage as the circumstances will justify.\\nThe quantity of underclothing will, of\\ncourse, depend upon personal habits.\\nIt should never be less than to cause\\nn(j inconvenience in a week s absence\\nfrom a laundress. Never omit\\nopportunity of having wash-\\ndone. In trusting your bag-\\ngage to the transfer com-\\npany, be sure and under-\\nstand from the agent\\nthat it will be delivered\\nin time for the train you\\nexpect to take.\\nMeals. It is a good\\nrule for a traveler never\\nto miss the opportunity\\nfJ/, of taking a meal. You\\nmay not feel hungry\\nwhen the eating station\\nis reached, but if you\\ndecline your chance, you\\nmay be faint with hun-\\nger before you come to\\nanother. On long jour-\\nneys carry a lunch basket. When travel-\\ning, or when residing at strange hotels, if you have any reason to\\ndoubt the purity of the drinking water, drink a mineral water, which\\nv/ill at least be pure.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "51\\nRights.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Respect the rights of other travelers, and by so doing\\nyou will lead them to respect yours. If you find yourself imposed\\nupon by any official or employe of the railway, state your views firmly\\nbut quietly. If he declines to redress the wrong, ask him to call his\\nsuperior. If the latter be inaccessible, ask for his address, and you are\\nquite sure to have the cause of complaint removed. At all times be\\ncourteous and patient. The railroad company is invariably anxious\\nto forward your interests.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "Itinerary of the Sttminer Vacation. i88j.\\nUpon these pages it is suggested to the reader, as being both profitable and\\nfull of interest in coming years, to note down the details of the hoUday journey,\\nwith such comments as will prove guide-boards for the future, as well as mile-\\nstones of the past.\\nTHE ROUTE.\\nFrom\\nTo\\nTIIME OCCUPIED IX THE JOURNEY", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "53\\nEXPENSE ACCOUNT.\\nDolls.\\nCts.\\nTICKETS, Railroad,\\nSleeping Car,\\nParlor\\nMEALS.\\nBreakfasts,\\nLunches,\\nDinners,\\nSuppers,\\nBAGGAGE,\\nFEES,\\nREADING,\\nHOTELS,\\nMISCELLANEOUS,\\nTOTAL EXPENSE,", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "54\\nINCIDENTS OF THE RAILWAY TRIP.\\nOCCUPATIONS AT THE SHORE.", "height": "2903", "width": "2222", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "55\\nMEMORANDA FOR 1884.\\nLofC.", "height": "2963", "width": "2191", "jp2-path": "capemaytoatlanti00balc_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "Hints to Bathers,\\nENTER THE WATER WHEN THE BODY IS COMFORTABLY WARM; EXERCISE\\nACTIVELY DURING YOUR STAY IN THE WATER. If AIR AND WATER ARE\\nBOTH COLD, SHORTEN THE TIME OF THE BATH. If LIPS OR FINGER NAILS\\nbecome blue, leave the water a t once. children should bathe\\nfrom two to fifteen minutes, according to their condition of health.\\nNever force a child into the water the fright costs more than the\\nBATH effects. A SHORT, SHARP RUN ON LEAVING THE WATER WILL AID THE\\nGOOD EFFECT OF THE BATH. ALWAYS WASH THE SALT FROM THE HAIR.\\nMid-day is the BEST time to bathe for health but any time will\\nDO except just after a meal. Flannel makes the best bathing suit.\\nMove into the water quickly and far enough out to dip the person,\\nHEAD and all. Once in and honestly wet, keep moving. Before\\ndressing, rub the skin thoroughly with rough towels. If convenient,\\neat a slight lunch after the bath. Children may generally bathe\\nevery day without harm. If suffering from illness or disease, do not\\nbathe without the advice of a physician.\\nIt is not safe to swim in a heavy surf when the tide is running out,\\nOR when there are strong currents running in the general line of the\\nshore. 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