{"1": {"fulltext": "K4-", "height": "3375", "width": "2111", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "s^-^t.\\n^V. .N^\\n-0\\n^A v^\\nA J s\\n0 s^\\nc\\no 0^\\n0^\\n..-i^\\n.A^\\nV*\\n_\\n,0- c.\\nx-^\\nO 0\\n.5\\naN\\n/V", "height": "3157", "width": "1950", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ",0\\n^c.*^\\n*t/- V\\nV\\nV N^ r.\\n.-.V\\no^^\\n.v^\\nr\\n,0-\\n-y\\n^^A\\nv^^\\no^^\\n-C\\\\\\nV,\\nI\\nO\\n.x^\\nV\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0v^^", "height": "3157", "width": "1950", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "(2rUicIe Rool^\\n]])iFCCtopy\\nCONTAINING A LIST OF\\nScpcct Pirectory, HisComcal ar^d Bio-\\n^rapt^ical Sl^etcl^es, W^ecl^is, etc.\\nMARY TOWNSEND RUSH.\\n^f Tc\\nv^\\nEnteriiil according to act of Cougresr^, in the year 1S93,\\nBv Mary Townpend Rush,\\nIn the office of the Librarian of Congrese, at Washington.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "5^1oncj the ripplcA 6cabirdA curve and dip\\nprom the blue di.5tance ccracA a home-Ahip\\n@ut through the far-cff miftt-gat-jA white *ailA Alip.\\nfi6hing-boat rocU^ idly to and fro,\\n^long the AandA the fi^heri come and go\\npark on the wind, the 6ailorA ^o heave", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Ex-Councilman ParKer Miller\\nFor over twenty years the only resident of the Jsla", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "/^HE demand, which far exceeded the supply, for copies of the\\nfirst edition of the Ocean City Guide Book and Direc-\\ntory, and the many kind letters and words of commendation\\nreceived concerning the work, have stimulated our efforts to\\nplace before the public a more complete and exhaustive edition\\nfor the season of 93.\\nThe rapid improvement made during the past year, in a\\ndirection heretofore untouched, demands especial attention, and\\nhas but suggested the speedy possibilities of a city which\\nmust be before long the peer of any on the New Jersey cc ast.\\nIn the researches which have been made, our correspondence\\nhas embraced thousands of miles of travel by sea and land;\\nextending to London, to points on the Mediterranean sea, and\\nmany on our own continent. Information has been most cour-\\nteously contributed by prominent officials of the State and\\nothers placed in a position to be in possession of facts. The\\nannals to which we ha\\\\ e gained access have been subjected to\\nthe most careful comparison and study. We have made it a\\nspecial object to confine ourselves very strictly, even to the\\nmost minute details, to historic truth. There may be imper-\\nfections, but there are no embellishments, so far as honest pur-\\npose and careful examination have been effectual in securing\\nan authentic issue.\\nOwing to delay in photographic work, we have been obliged\\nto omit a number of engravings. The fine copper plates which\\nembellish the work were executed by the Crosscup and West\\nand the Electro-Tint Engraving Go s, of Philadelphia.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "i\\n1-.\\nMayor G. P. Moore.\\nMayor Moore s Residence.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "yistOFical ai^d Pcscriptive.\\nPossibly no resort upon the eastern coast of the United States\\noffers greater fascination to the tourist, stronger allurements to\\nthe permanent resident, quicker and better returns to the\\ninvestor, or more lasting benefits to the health seeker, than\\nOcean City.\\nHere are found the beauty of the placid lake in the quiet\\nwaters of the bay, the roar and grandeur of the waterfall, rush-\\ning rivers and boiling springs in the waves, currents and stormy\\nseething waters, but above all, the omnipresent majesty and\\nsublimity of old Ocean itself.\\nGeographically, Ocean City is situated on an island on the\\nNew Jersey Coast, half w^ay between Atlantic City and Sea Isle\\nCity, stretching between Great Egg Harbor Bay and Thorough-\\nfare Sound on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side\\nfor a distance of seven miles. The northern and southern limits\\nare bounded by Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Corson s Inlet. It\\nlies near the 39th degree of north latitude; on or near this par-\\nallel are the Azore Islands, noted for their equable climate; the\\nBalearic Islands of the Mediterranean Sea; Southern Italy,\\nwith her vineyards and orange groves bearing fruit in winter;\\nthe Ionian Isles; Arabia, the land of the date palm and tam-\\narind; the central belt of the Flowery Kingdom, and the\\nYosemite Valley of California.\\nThe Island was formerly known as Peck s Beach. There\\nmay be found still further back in the archives of London a\\ndocument, in which it was known as Pete s Beach.\\nOf a period when a race computing time by nights and moons\\nbuilt their mud lodges along the shore, its history is but tradi-\\ntional, and is handed down to us interwoven with quaint beau-\\ntiful legends of the peaceful tribes of Delawares or Lenni", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "6 OCKAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nLenapes. If we measure time by the years since the Island has\\nbeen inhabited, it is but a short step back from this bright\\nscene of civilization to the time when their swift pirogues shot\\nout from the shore, filled with dusky braves, gorgeous in paint\\nand feathers, and with squaws of beautiful form, clothed in\\nrudely made hempen garments, fringed with the hair of the red\\ndeer, still found in the forests of Southern New Jersey. Upon\\nthe advent of the first European sett ers, there were two tribes\\nbelonging to the Great Tribe of Delawares, who held the land\\nfrom Sandy Barnegate down to the South Cape, (May;\\nwhose chiefs bore the names of Tirans and Tiaseane. The rela-\\ntions existing between the white settlers and the aborigines of\\nthe State of New Jersey were peculiarly peaceful, and their\\nrecords are, to a great extent, free from the horrors of massacre\\nand ambushed battle. In the early transfers of portions of\\nPeck s Beach, before the Indian had made his home nearer the\\nsetting sun, his rights and privileges were sacredly observed.\\nIt is the pride of the entire State that all the lands were fairly\\nbought of the wild peoples.\\nAs late as 1844 the industry of making wampum, or Indian\\nmoney, which had been carried on by the female portion of the\\nwhite settlers from the time of the remotest history which we\\ncan gather, was still engaged in. This was made of pieces\\nof shell taken from the purple part of the clam and the pink\\npart of the conch; these were ground and drilled into the form\\nof rude beads and were strung upon hempen strings. At the\\ntime above mentioned they were sold to the country merchants,\\nwho sent them to the traders in the West. The history of\\nPeck s Beach is intricately associated with the early history of\\nNew Jersey. In 1623 noted Dutch navigator, Cornelius\\nJacobse Mey, sailed up the Delaware Bay and gave his name\\nto its north cape (May); from this the county in which Peck s\\nBeach was located takes its name. As is well known, he was\\nfollowed by other navigators, who in turn established and\\nabandoned settlements until 1664, when the first permanent\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Historical Collections of the State of New Jersey.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 7\\nsettlement was made by the English, at Elizabethtown. On\\nthe 20th of March, of the same year, Charles 11. made an exten-\\nsive grant of territory to his brother, the Duke of York, and\\non the 23d of June a portion of this territory, consisting of over\\nfive million acres, was conveyed to Lord Berkeley and Sir\\nGeorge Cartaret. The following is a portion of a copy of the\\ninstrument of conveyance, secured by the publisher from Eng-\\nland, and in this the bounds of New Jersey are, for the first\\ntime, regularly defined.\\nThis indenture, made the three and twentieth day of June,\\nin the sixteenth year of the Raigne of our Sovereign, Lord\\nCharles the Second, by the Grace of God of England, Scot-\\nland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith\\nAnno Domini 1664. Between his Royal Highness James, Duke\\nof York and Albany, Earl of Ulster, Lord High Admiral of\\nEngland and Ireland, Constable of Dover Castle, Lord Warden\\nof the Cinque Ports and Governor of Portsmouth, of the one\\npart, John Lord Berkeley, Baron of Stratton and one of His\\nMajesty s most honorable Privy Council and Sir George Carta-\\nret of Sattrum, in the County of Devon, Knight, and one of\\nHis Majesty s most honorable Privy Council, of the other part,\\nWitnesseth, that said James, Duke of York, for and in consid-\\neration of ten shillings of lawful money of England, to him in\\nhand paid, by these presents doth bargain and sell unto the said\\nJohn Lord Berkley and Sir George Cartaret all the tract of land\\nadjacent to New England, and lying and being to the westward\\nof Long Island. Bounded on the east part by the main sea and\\npart by Hudson s river, and hath upon the west Delaware Bay\\nor river, and extendeth southward to the main ocean as far as\\nCape May at the mouth of Delaware Bay, and to the northward\\nas far as the northernmost branch of said bay or river of Dela-\\nware, which is in forty-one degrees and forty minutes of lati-\\ntude, and worketh over thence in a straight line to Hudson s\\nriver which said tract of land is hereafter to be called by the\\nname or names of Nova Cesarea, or New Jersey.\\nIt is claimed in the Historical Collection of New Jersey\\nthat a yearly rental of one pepper corn was to be paid on the", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "8 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nday of the nativity of St. John the Baptist, if legally demanded.\\nIn the year 1680 the proprietors, freeholders and inhabitants of\\na portion of the State, then known as West New Jersey, agreed\\nupon a constitution or form of government, which was wit-\\nnessed and signed by one hundred and fifty-one of their num-\\nber; a former constitution had been granted by Berkeley and\\nCartaret, in 1664, but this was the first one created by the\\npeople themselves. The thirtieth name on the list of signers\\nwas that of Thomas Budd, to whom, on the 7th of October,\\n1695, the first survey of Peck s Beach was made.\\nWe are also informed that Thomas Budd was present at the\\ndeath scene of the great Delaware chief, the Christian Ocka-\\nnickin, to whom he addressed his last words. These words\\nwere of a religious character, and are preserved in literature as\\none of the gems of poetic beauty left to us by a race whose\\npeculiar gift of oratory was unequalled by any other uncivilized\\nnation.\\nThe island remained in the possession of Thomas Budd for\\nfifty-five years. Its chief use was for grazing cattle and obtain-\\ning medicinal plants, sassafras, bayberry, etc., which grew in\\ngreat abundance, and, together with the large quantities found\\non the main land, were shipped to Holland and other foreign\\nports.\\nPortions of the island gradually passed into the possession of\\nothers. The most important tract, five hundred acres, lying\\nin the northern part, was conveyed to John Somers, of historic\\nfame, in 1750. This tract remained in the possession of the\\nSomers family for one hundred and thirty years, and was pur-\\nchased, together with the entire island, by the Ocean City\\nAssociation in 1880, The first houses known to be built and\\noccupied by white settlers were those of the Kittles and Robin-\\nsons. Joseph Robinson, now living with Parker Miller, is a\\ndescendant of the first named family. He has passed the\\ngreater part of his life of fifty-eight years on Peck s Beach.\\nThirty-four years ago Parker Miller and Louisa, his wife,\\nwith four little children, Walter, Elizabeth (Mrs. John Voss),\\nRebecca (Mrs. C. M. Wert) and Arietta (Mrs. John Austin)", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 9\\nbraved the solitude and erected a home 011 the island, on the\\nground of what is now the south corner of Eighth street and\\nAsbury avenue As the family grew larger, and greater accom-\\nmodations became necessary, he built the house now occupied\\nby his son-in-law, John Voss, using for his kitchen the cabin\\nof a wrecked steamer. For over twenty years they were the\\nonly residents. Their intercourse with the outside world was\\nwhen sportsmen came gunning for wild fowl, when a ve.^sel was\\ncast away, or beach parties came across the bay for a day s\\nrecreation. Mr. Miller was engaged in raising cattle, planting\\noysters and watching the coast for wrecks. Both he and his\\nwife retain the happiest memory of the days spent on Peck s\\nBeach before the world came to them, and have acquired by\\ntheir long residence and direct observation a better knowledge\\nof the island, from its primeval condition to its present high\\nstate of development, than any one living. A large family of\\nsturdy sons and comely daughters have grown up around them\\nand settled near what was once the old homestead.\\nThe island is of alluvial formation and contains an area of\\nthree and one-half square miles, or over two thousand acres.\\nThe strand of firmly-packed sand, two hundred feet wide, affords\\na delightful driveway, either at flood or ebb tide. It is smooth\\nand hard as a floor, without any quicksands or treacherous\\ngrounds. When the storms of the equinox sweep the Atlantic\\nseaboard, Great Egg Harbor Bar is an invaluable protection to\\nthe city at all times; the waves breaking upon it lose their force\\nbefore rolling up on the strand. When the memorable storm\\nof 89 swept the coast, causing incalculable damage. Ocean City\\nstood firm, suffering comparatively little from the inroads of\\nthe sea.\\nIts climatic advantages are unparalelled, maintaining a happy\\nmedium between the rigors of the north and the eternal Sum-\\nmer heats of the south. So equable is the temperature, the\\nseasons seem to drift imperceptibly into one another.\\nSpring comes early; Summer is rendered delightful by the\\ncool sea breezes; Autumn, with its gorgeous coloring, dream\\nhaze and bright skies, lingers long. The close proximity of", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "lO OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nthe Gulf Stream adds greatly to the salutary iuflueuce of the\\nclimate; the Wiuters are tempered by the warm curreut, thus\\nmaking an all-the-year-round residence in every way delightful.\\nInvalids are loud in their praises of its benefits. What better\\ninspiration can be wished for than the music of the pines, the\\nroar of the ocean, the invigorating blast of the Atlantic north\\nwind.\\nBathing in the surf commences the early part of June and\\ncontinues till October. Those who indulge in this luxury are\\nnot subjected to the exhaustion caused by buffeting with heavy\\nwaves. To those who prefer still-water bathing, the bay affords\\nevery facility.\\nNature has worked here upon a broad, grand plan, and has\\nbeen most prodigal of her treasures and beauties. The soil\\npossesses peculiar properties and, protected by the sheltering\\nsand hills which skirt the shore, is productive of a most luxuri-\\nant flora, blending the growth of the tropics with that of the\\ntemperate regions. Responding to this wondrous creative in-\\nfluence, it stands out from the dreary stretch of dull marsh lands\\nand white sands of the coast fair and green. Sturdy cedars,\\ngrasping the soil with roots of iron, whose gnarled, sombre\\nbranches have grappled with the fierce Atlantic storms for\\na century or more, form a pleasing background for the mottled\\nash bark, shining leaves and scarlet berries of the hollies, tlie\\npale green of the willows and the crimson and gold of the\\nautumn maples.\\nAs early as February the Siberian nonnea flaunts its scarlet\\nflowers, March awakens more dormant plants and April ushers\\nin a wealth of violets, buttercups and daffodils, while a thous-\\nand other vai ieties of wild flowers, as the season advances and\\nclimatic conditions favor their growth, mingle their delicate\\nbloom in thickets of grape vines, clematis, bayberry and alder\\nbushes. The floral gem of our northern forests, trailing\\narbutus, resisting alike the tender hand of woman and the\\nskillful touch of the florist in their efforts towards its cultiva-\\ntion, flourishes about the roots of the southern magnolia.\\nThe dull purple of cinque-foil, usually found in cold bogs,", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 11\\nmingles with the yellow blossoms of that native of the arid\\nplains, the prickly cactus, while among the lush grasses of the\\nmeadows grow hundreds of varieties of marsh and aquatic\\nherbs, which in their season star the earth with a rich pro-\\nfusion of variety and color. From early spring till the time of\\nthe flaming golden rod and many-hued chrysanthemum, the air\\nis redolent with the odor of flowers.\\nSong birds are seldom found so near the coast. Here, con-\\ntrary to their usual habits, they build their nests among the\\nbranches of the low trees and in the thickets of eglantine and\\nbeach grass. The brilliant cardinal pipes and trills his rounde-\\nlay with the song sparrow, robin, yellow oriole and thrush,\\ntheir melody far sweeter by contrast with the plaintive cry of\\nthe gull, the scream of the bald eagle, or the low, solemn note\\nof an occasional albatross; while their bright plumage shines\\nout against that of the snow-white and sombre-hued sea birds\\nwith rare beauty.\\nThe place has been well-known to sportsmen. Great num-\\nbers of wild fowl find cover in the thick underbrush about the\\nfresh-water ponds, and the abundant growth of small fruits\\naffords them sustenance. In the Spring and Autumn immense\\nflocks of wild geese, ducks and other migratory birds pass over\\nthe island or stop to regale themselves while in their northern\\nor southern flight. Before the island was inhabited, acres of\\nground were covered with the nests of heron, curlew and plover,\\nfrom which the eggs were gathered by people living on the\\nmain land. Wild plums and whortleberries, which the Indians\\nreserved the right to gather after they had sold or exchanged\\nlands, are still found in great abundance on the uncleared\\nground.\\nOn the strand are found wonderful varieties of forms of ocean\\nlife, from the low, shapeless mollusk, to the gigantic cetacean.\\nTo see the ocean when it is terrible in its beauty, one must visit\\nit during the Fall or Winter months. It is then, when lashed\\ninto fury by the winds, that the depths are stirred and its treas-\\nures thrown upon the strand. There is scarcely a specimen in\\nthe New Jersey collection of shells and ocean forms, at the", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 CCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nthe Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, but may be\\nfound on the beach at Ocean City conchs, scallops, sea snails,\\nclams and crabs, in infinite varieties innumerable limpits,\\ntorn from their rocky moorings in the sea. The strand looks at\\ntimes as though a polar wave had swept over it and left a thou-\\nsand fantastic forms of ice, so clear that when the sun s rays,\\nstrike them, they radiate every color of the rainbow. These\\nare jelly fish, dead and divested of their digestive organs, thus\\nmaking the illusion more complete, as that is the only part of\\ntheir bodies not transparent.\\nWhat wealth untold i\\nPale, glistening pearls and rainbow-colored shells.\\nThou hast the starry gems, the burning gold\\nWon from ten thousand royal Argosies.\\nThy waves have rolled\\nAbove the cities of a world gone by\\nSand hath filled up the palaces of old,\\nSeaweed o ergrown the halls of revelry.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "R. Fisher s Office Buildings and Twin Cottages.\\nkHtmdil^mmmm\\nHflHI\\nim niiuiiin wmnn) miuini \\\\m\\nCriJt:\\\\^\\niiiia.\\n\u00c2\u00bb..r-^,HIMl.\\nThe Emmett.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. r3\\n(Si^cat Ego yar^bop Bay.\\nFor the strong wind blows from the warm southwest\\nAnd rutlles the snow on the white gull s breast\\nFills all the sails till the boats careen\\nLow over the crested waves they lean,\\nDriven to leeward, dashed with spray,\\nOr beating up through the beautiful bay.\\nLying on the opposite side of the island from the ocean is\\nthis picturesque, land-locked sheet of water, teeming with blue-\\nfish, sheepshead, sea trout, oysters and shell-fish of every de-\\nscription. It received its name from the great number of gulls\\neggs found in the surrounding meadows. The gentle ebb and\\nflow of the tide, submerging and revealing the emerald beauty\\nof its tiny islands, the white-winged sea craft passing rapidly\\nto and fro, or resting lazily on the blue waters, the throb-\\nbing steamers, with their long wakes of white foam, form\\nan endless panorama, from which the weary toiler, the dis-\\npirited pleasure seeker, or the invalid can never grow weary.\\nAway to the southwest, Thoroughfare Sound sweeps out\\nthrough the meadows, till it is lost to view in the shadow of\\nthe pines. Following the line of the bay, now curving to the\\nwest, Beasley s Point is plainly visible. Sweeping down past\\nthis little hamlet the waters of Tuckahoe, Middle and Great\\nEgg Harbor rivers empty into the bay. In the dim perspec-\\ntive, masts and sails are outlined against the sky; in nearer\\nview schooners, laden with wood, oysters and freight of various\\nkinds, are hurrying out to the ocean, bound for different points\\nall along the coast.\\nHistoric Somers Point next marks the curve of the shore.\\nFrom its wharves have sailed out brave soldiers of the Revo-", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "14 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK\\nlution and many darino^ and skillful navigators. Many of these\\nleft behind them wives, sweethearts and mothers, who differed\\nonly from the heroines of fiction in that the tragedy and pathos\\nof their lives was real, for as they left the port, they sailed out\\nof the lives of those standing on shore, and all that ever floated\\nback was a rumor, perhaps, of a fragment of wreck cast up on\\nsome distant coast, bearing the name or some trace of the ves-\\nsel. Still following the line of the shore, now lost to view, and\\nnow clear and distinct, Anchoring Point greets the eye. This\\nwas a noted spot during the Revolutionary War. Its tradi-\\ntional lore is wildly romantic. A number of attempts have\\nbeen made to unearth treasure said to be buried there by pirates.\\nThe last were made by a wealthy but eccentric iron and oil,\\nprospector, of Pittsburg, who came for the purpose also of loca-|\\nting, with a peculiar divining rod, the Spanish vessel Lpagadere,\\nsaid to have sunk near that place, laden with gold and silver\\ncoin. The superstition that those who search for the buried\\ntreasure will meet death by drowning was strengthened when\\nhis body was cast up on the beach at Longport. Beneath the\\none lone tree left of a forest of pines are said to lie the bones of\\none of the most noted pirates of those who infested the waters\\nof the Atlantic.\\nLongport is located on the point of land which forms the last\\nboundary of the bay, and is divided from Ocean City by Great\\nEgg Harbor Inlet. On the opposite side it is washed by the\\nocean for miles. This place was founded by M. Simpson Mc-\\nCullough in 1882. Its elevation above the sea level and the\\nabsence of swamp lands and marshes, together with acquired\\nsanitary arrangements, complete in every detail, render it pecu-\\nliarly pleasing and healthful. A short ride 011 the electric cars\\nalong the beach, in full view of the ocean, receiving all the\\nbenefit of the cool breezes, brings one to Atlantic City, where\\nevery means of amusement and the finest markets in the State\\nmay be found. The architecture of Longport is imposing and\\nbeautiful, and is in perfect harmony with the entire plan of the\\ncity, which promises to rise to a degree of refined elegance not\\nexcelled on the coast of Southern New Jersey.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BCOK. 1 5\\nAt the wharves at Ocean City, }-achts, with careful and expe-\\nrienced captains, are constantly in readiness to take parties out\\nsailing or fishing in the bay or ocean; they are provided with\\nlines, bait and everything necessary for the comfort and enjo)\\nnient of patrons.\\nThe Atlantic Coast Steamboat Company operates a line of\\nsteamers between Ocean City, Longport and Somers Point.\\nFrequent trips are made out on the ocean, and are thoroughly\\nenjoyed by invalids, and pleasure seekers of all classes. While\\nenjoying the refreshing sea air, they can rest in the cabins or\\nbeneath canopies, shaded from the sun.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nTt^s PouQdcps of OceaQ CZ^ity.\\nThere is located at the corner of Fifth street and Wesley\\navenue one of the rinest residences of the city, the home of Rev.\\nH. B. Lake, who together with his two brothers, Revs. S.Wes-\\nley and James E. aided by their father, Hon. Simon Lake, are\\nthe founders of Ocean City. The three first mentioned were\\nborn and reared in Southern New Jersey. Their play ground\\nwas the ocean s strand, the restless waves their companions.\\nHere they watched the navies of the world pass to and fro,\\nbound on commercial or warlike missions, fishing fleets come\\nand go, laden with the spoils of the deep, or helpless vessels\\ndrifting to their doom as the fierce waves stilled the voices of\\ndrowning men and the winds sang a requiem over the sailors\\ngraves. When young men they entered the christian ministry\\nand became members of the New Jersey M. E. Conference.\\nAfter some years their attention was directed toward the\\nestablishing of a seaside resort, where the sale of alcoholic\\nliquors should be prohibited and the sanctity of the Sabbath\\npreserved. In the interest of this work, Rev. E. B. Lake vis-\\nited a number of places along the New Jersey Coast, returning\\nto the scenes of his boyhood to find a spot best adapted to the\\npurpose. He was chosen to superintend the enterprise and\\nwithdrew from active service in the ministry to fill that posi-\\ntion. Early inured to rugged scenes and associations and to\\nsturdy toil, he developed in his youth the talent so generously\\nvouchsafed to him and the ability to so employ those talents as\\nto bring about practical results. Of all occupations or profes-\\nsions engaging the industrious application of human thought\\nand energy, none exceed the requirements of those who are con-", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "Rev. E. B. Lake.\\nRev. E. B. Lake s Residence.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Hon. Simon Lake.\\nRev. S. W. Lake.\\nPresident Ocean City AssoclATlO^\\nRev. J, E. Lake.\\nDirector Ocean City Association.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK, I7\\nstitiited to be leaders among men. ]\\\\Ir. Lake s enthusiasm has\\nnever for a mbment flagged; all his thought and energy are\\nbestowed upon one object, the advancement of the city. He is\\namong those who have the pluck and pertinacity to hold on\\nwhen the path is dark and gloomy, to whom the harvest must\\ncome, or better still among those who perpetuate a movement\\nof honorable enterprise and gratitude in the hearts of mankind.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDP: BOOK.\\nOceaQ 2itv .^ssociatioQ.\\nOFFICERS AND MANAGERS.\\nPresident, Rev. W. B. Wood; Vice-President, Rev. W. H.\\nBurrell; Secretary, Hon. S. Lake; Treasurer, C. Matthews,\\nEsq.; Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake; Rev. W. E. Boyle,\\nRev. S. W. Lake; C. Matthews, Jr., and Rev. J. E. Lake.\\nThrough the efforts of the Lake family a company was\\nformed with the above name and members. Active operations\\ntoward bringing forth a city from beneath the sand hills and\\nout of the thickets commenced October 20, 1879, by securing\\nthe land and issuing stock. The first topographical survey\\nwas made by William Lake during the fall and winter follow-\\ning. The part known as section A was staked off into avenues,\\nstreets and lots. This was quickly cleared of brushwood and\\ntimber; thousands of feet of ditching were dug for drainage,\\nand hundreds of loads of brushwood were placed at the north\\npoint of beach for the purpose of gathering the moving sand\\nand extending the ocean front. Lots to the value of ^85,000\\nwere disposed of, and another portion of land, known as sec-\\ntion B, surveyed and laid out. A wharf, one hundred and\\ntwenty-five feet long by seventy-two feet wide, was built at an\\nenormous cost. This was connected with the city by a good\\nroad over the meadows, one thousand feet long, and a board\\nwalk running parallel with it the entire distance. Dwelling-\\nhouses, unpretentious at first, commenced to spring up. These\\nwere soon succeeded by large and commodious buildings. The\\nfirst building erected was the little Pioneer Cottage, then stand-\\ning on the rear of the lot now occupied by the Association\\nOffice. It was used as a boardins; house for the mechanics at", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "Auditorium.\\nRev. B. H. Sanderlin s Cottage.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Residence and Office of J. S. Rush, North Cor. 11th St. and Central Ave.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. I9\\nwork en the Island, and was sometimes occupied by forty men.\\nThe first hotel, the Ocean House, was built by I. B. Smith,\\nnow the far famed Brighton, owned and conducted by R.\\nR. Sooy. A newspaper was issued May, 1880. A railroad\\nwas built from Pleasantville to Somers Point, known as the\\nPleasantville and Ocean City Railroad. This was formally\\nopeued October 26, 18S0. A steamboat was purchased to ply\\nbetween Somers Point and Ocean City, thus completing con-\\nnection with the outside world. A Turnpike Company was\\norganized to build a road from Beesley s Point to Ocean City,\\nwhich, together with a bridge over Thoroughfare Sound, was\\ncompleted the following spring. A local church was organized\\nand a camp meeting held for ten days.\\nIts present officers and luanagers are:\\nPresident, Rev. S. W. Lake.\\nVice-President, Rev. J. B. Graw, D. D.\\nSecretary and Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake.\\nTreasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen.\\nGeorge L. Horn, G. B. Langley, H. B. Howell, Rev. James\\nE. Lake, Rev. W. B. Wood, D. D.\\nm", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "20 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nOceaQ (2itY.\\nOcean City was created by an act of incorporation April\\n30, 1884. The first Mayor elected was G. P. Moore; the first\\ncouncilmen, Parker Miller, Rev. W. H. Burrell, Correll\\nDoughty and Enoch Green. When the executive authority was\\nvested in a Mayor, and the legislative power placed within\\nthe jurisdiction of a Council, whose prerogatives include\\nall powers necessary to the framing and enforcing of\\nordinances, the original design of the city was carried out, but\\nupon a broad and liberal basis. The avenues through which\\nvice and immorality enter are guarded only to such an extent as\\nto be a protection. The successful administration of the\\nsucceeding officials is shown in the steady throbbing pulsation\\nwhich marks the life and business interests of a city which is\\nunder no bond of debt. It is impossible to follow, step by step,\\nthe history of its conception, birth and growth; how from one\\nlone dwelling it has risen to a city of beautiful homes, stretching\\nfrom bay to ocean and for miles up and down the island; how\\nthe attendant throngs have grown larger, the parade more elab-\\norate, the circumstances and surroundings generally more\\nrefined. As ideas and customs which met and satisfied the re-\\nquirements of a century ago appear incongruous in these days\\nof progress, so ideas and customs which at first seemed neces-\\nsary have given wa}^ to those of a more advanced and enlight-\\nened character. Standing upon the threshold of the second de-\\ncade of a century, so short a time in the life of a city, one can-\\nnot but be impressed with the phenomenal changes which have\\ntaken place and with the grand promise of its prophetic infancy.\\nThe ideal of a seaside resort is here revealed a place for rest.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "li II TTli\\nResidence of H. G. Schultz.\\nResidence of Dr. F. R. Graham.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Emma L. Sack.\\nCaptain Lewis Risley.\\nHotel Brighton, Seventh and Ocean Avenue, R. R.\\nThe first Hotel built on the Island.\\nSooy. Prop r.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 21\\nrecuperation and pleasure. Viewing the city from one of the\\nmany cupolas or balconies which adorn its buildings, the claim\\nto beauty is but emphasized. Wide avenues and streets cross\\neverywhere at right angles. Spacious residences, magnificent\\nhotels, cottages, stores, public buildings, steamboat and yacht\\npiers are picturesquely mingled. No smoke from manufactories\\nor furnaces overhang the city, no monotonous hum of ma-\\nchinery suggests toil and weariness, no burial grounds arouse\\nsadness. All the environments are pleasing. At night, fit oded\\nwith light derived from one of the most wonderful trophies\\nwhich genius has wrested from Nature, bringing out into\\nstrong relief or throwing into deep shadow its prominent\\nfeatures, the city is none the less beautiful, while far out beyond\\nthe line of white sea horses, beyond bar and shoal, the\\ntwinkling lights of port and starboard of vessels of every nation\\nrise and fall with the swell of the ocean.\\nThe liquor traffic is prohibited. A clause in all deeds calls\\nfor the forfeiture of title if the vice is allowed to flourish on the\\npremises.\\nRents are very reasonable for cottages furnished or un-\\nfurnished.\\nThe surrounding country, through its rich soil, furnishes the\\nbest of vegetables and fruits in great abundance. These are\\nbrought direct to the city by the farmers and truckers them-\\nselves and wholesaled to the markets or retailed from the\\nwagons to the consumers.\\nLIGHTING FACILITIES.\\nThe claim is deservedly made that Ocean City is one of the\\nbest lighted of its size along the coast. Electricity is the agent\\nlargely employed. Lights of two thousand candle power, ele-\\nvated twenty feet above the ground, illuminate the streets at\\nthe intersections. Incandescent lights are used in the business\\nhouses and residences.\\nThe electric railway, for which the work is being rapidly-\\npushed forward, is expected to be in operation July 4, 1893.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "2 2 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nWATER.\\nThe imperative need of fresh, pure water, is everywhere felt\\nat seaside resorts. Especially is it important to look to this\\nmatter at a season when every city in the United States is using\\nprecautionary measures against the visitation of a plague.\\nNearly tight hundred feet below the surface, courses have been\\ntapped, and Ocean City is supplied with cold sparkling water\\nfrom the very bowels of the earth.\\nSEWERAGE.\\nNone the less important, in point of health, is perfect sewer-\\nage. Arrangements have been completed for the introduction\\nof a system which fills the best scientific demand. The work\\nis being prosecuted with such diligence that, before the season\\nis fairly upon us, it will be in operation.\\nRAILROADS.\\nSeveral routes are available in reaching Ocean City from the\\nimperial eastern cities New York and Philadelphia. Points\\nup and down the coast are brought into close touch either by\\nrail or steamer. The West Jersey Railroad is thoroughly\\nequipped with everything necessary for the comfort of its pa-\\ntrons, and is an all-rail route without changing cars from Phila-\\ndelphia. The Royal Route to the Sea of the Reading\\nRailroad is largely patronized; the famous Fast Fliers carry\\ntheir passengers swiftly and surely through the most interesting\\nsections of Southern New Jersey, over a perfectly ballasted\\nroad, free from soot, smoke or cinders, to Atlantic City. At\\nthis point immediate connection is made for Longport, and a\\ndelightful steamboat ride across the bay ends the journey,\\nwhich is accomplished in the same time as when made entirely\\nby rail.\\nBoth mail and telegraphic service are all that can be desired.\\nPUBLIC SCHOOLS.\\nThe Public School Building, three stories high, is centrally\\nlocated. The course of instruction is that taught in cities", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "Rev. William A. Massey,\\nPAsTon FiBsT M. E. Church.\\nFirst IVI. E. Church.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 23\\nwhere graded schools have been long established. Prof. L. R.\\nThomas, the principal, is a native of Chester county, Pa., and\\nis possessed of high scholastic acquirements. He was graduated\\nfrom the Keystone State Normal School, in 1870, with honors,\\nand has since then kept constantly abreast of the times in mat-\\nters pertaining to educational advancement and reform in the\\npublic schools. His work as an instructor had but commenced\\nwhen the late rebellion called his attention to his country s\\nneed. He served throughout the entire war, held a captain s\\nrank, and was twice brevetted for gallantry. Prof. Thomas was\\nengaged for fourteen consecutive years in academic and public\\nschool work at West Chester, Pa. He was called to Ocean City\\nin 1S90 to fill the position he now occupies, and immediately\\nintroduced into the curriculum of the public schools those\\nbranches necessary to raise the standard of the educational sys-\\ntem to a grade equal to that of any in the State. This has been\\nmost successfully achieved. The first class, whose members\\nwere W. Willets, W. E. Massey, Misses Corina Sutton and\\nJennie Massey, graduated in 92. The class of 93 is much\\nlarger. Miss Roxana Corson, widely known for her thorough\\nand efficient work, and Miss Julia Morton, also a popular\\nteacher, administer the offices of their trust with a fidelity\\nborn of determination to make the public school institutions of\\nlearning in fact as well as iu name.\\nThe first sessions of the schools of Ocean City were held in\\nthe rooms of the Association Building. Miss Annie Bartine,\\nnow Mrs. E. M. Gregory, of Denver, Col., was the first teacher.\\nM. E. CHURCH.\\nThis edifice was dedicated in 1S90. The architectural design\\nis one of beauty. Rev. W. A. Massey, the present incumbent,\\ncompleted the full classical course, and was graduated from\\nDickinson College in 1873, after which time he entered the\\nministry and became a member of the New Jersey Conference.\\nHe was appointed to Ocean City in the Spring of 1890. Dur-\\ning his pastorate the church and a large and comfortable par-\\nsonage have been erected, and the membership of the organiza-", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "24 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\ntion greatly augmented. Rev. Massey s life is marked by\\nearnest devotion to the cause which he lias espoused.\\nTHE AUDITORIUM\\nOccupies the centre of the camp ground and has a seating\\ncapacity ot two thousand. During the summer months it is\\nused for religious services, sacred concerts, etc.\\nEXCURSION HOUSE.\\nErected especially for the comfort and accommodation of the\\npublic and located immediately on the ocean front is this hand-\\nsomely painted and decorated structure. Within its walls may\\nbe found a restaurant, dining rooms, ladies and gents parlors,\\ncaroussel, etc., while a shooting gallery, bath houses and a\\nbicycle track add to its outside attractions. T. B. Cross, the\\nproprietor, is thoroughly alive to the requirements necessary\\nfor the comfort and pleasure of visitors, and neither trouble nor\\nexpense are spared to bring about desired results.\\nOf its numerous hotels, the Traymore, charmingly located\\non the ocean front, is very prominent. It is thoroughly\\nequipped with all the modern conveniences, finely appointed\\nand well conducted.\\nHotel Brighton was the first one erected on the island. It\\nwas formerly known as the Ocean House, and was built by\\nI. B. Smith. It is now owned and conducted by R. R. Sooy.\\nEvery year adds to its popularity. From the opening till the\\nclosing of the season the rooms are filled with guests.\\nThe Emmett is located at the west corner of Eighth street\\nand Central avenue. This hotel was opened but a year ago, but\\nhas already become popular with the public. Miss Mattie\\nBoyle will conduct it for the coming season this fact means\\nsuccess for the Emmett.\\nThe Illinois is gaining a wide-spread reputation for its home-\\nlike accommodations and excellent service. It is open the\\nyear round, and every attention is given to the comfort of its\\nnumerous guests by the proprietress, Mrs, H. D. Canfield.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 25\\nThe name of the Lafayette arouses only pleasing recollections\\nin the minds of all its guests. By superior management it has\\nrisen to a high degree of eminence as a hotel.\\nThe Vandalia is located in full view of the ocean, and was\\nopened for the first in 1892. That it was successful was shown\\nby the large number of guests. It is conducted by Mrs. Joseph\\nBurley, who thoroughly understands catering to the public.\\nAttention should be called to the Pioneer bakery, which\\nmakes a feature of superior skill in the line of its especial work,\\nand occupies a prominent building at the corner of Seventh\\nstreet and Asbury avenue. The proprietor, J. Schufif, is a\\nnative of Frankenthall, Germany, and, though still a young\\nman, has devoted twenty years of his life to his trade, and is\\nthoroughly skilled and practical in all its branches.\\nx\\\\nother great public convenience are Fisher s livery stables.\\nThese are supplied with a complete line of carriages, fine\\ndriving and gaited saddle horses.\\nElaborate description is impossible of the numerous stores,\\nrestaurants, boarding cottages, broad board walk on the ocean\\nfront, caroussels, bathing establishments, piers, and pleasure\\nyachts and steamers.\\nThe future of Ocean City stands out clearly and distinctly.\\nThe conclusion is irresistible that a greater and more perfect\\ncity is rapidly developing. Inducements are growing stronger\\nfor all classes.\\nThe capitalist seeking new fields of enterprise, the house-\\nholder, the laborer, the student and the artist will be greeted\\nwith a hospitality as universal as it is sincere.\\n)k", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "26 OCEAN CITY GUIDK BOOK.\\nBio^r^apl^^ical Sl^ctcl^es\\nIMAYOR G. p. MOORE.\\nMayor Moore is a Pennsylvanian by birth, and is descended\\nfrom good old Qnaker stock. He was born in Chester county,\\nin 1836, and acquired his education in the schools of his native\\ndistrict. His parents, William and Lydia Moore, were among\\nthe earliest to express strong anti-slavery sentiments, and their\\nhouse was one of the stations of the underground railway.\\nMayor Moore first learned the carpenter trade, but in 1854\\nwent to Michigan and engaged in farming, returning to Penn-\\nsylvania four years later. Soon after this the War of the Rebel-\\nlion agitated the country, and when the call came for three\\nyears men he volunteered his services, but failed to pass the\\nphysical examination and was rejected on account of a slight\\nlameness. When Lee s army invaded Pennsylvania he offered\\nhis services a second time, was accepted and sent with four\\ncompanies of the State Militia to guard the fort at Peach Bot-\\ntom, on the Susquehanna River. In 1866 he engaged in mer-\\ncantile pursuits, which he continued for five years, and then\\nreturned to his former occupation of building.\\nHearing of Ocean City, in 18S1, he resolved to visit the place\\nand arrived there on the 15th of April. He immediately recog-\\nnized its possibilities and determined to locate there.\\nWhen the city was incorporated he was elected Mayor, and\\nwith the exception of one term has served in that capacity ever\\nsince. Upon him and the Council devolved the arduous labor\\nof creating and establishing a borough government on the foun-\\ndation of temperance and Sabbath observance.\\nMayor ]\\\\Ioore has always advanced and supported such pro-", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "G. E. Palen, Ph. B. M. D.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Dr. Palen s Residence.\\nDr. Palen s Cottages on the Ocean Front.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 2*/\\njects and enterprises as gave promise of success and the advance-\\nment of Ocean City s interests in point of wealth, population\\nand intelligence. Adhering tenaciously to his convictions of\\nwhat is just and right, his popularity has been honorably\\nachieved, and is but the logical outcome of conscientious direc-\\ntion of inborn capabilities to wise results.\\nDR. GILBERT E. PALEN.\\nDr. G. E. Palen has been one of the regular summer resi-\\ndents of Ocean City since 1881. He has shown his faith in its\\nfuture by investing largely in lots, and building several cot-\\ntages. He is deeply interested in retaining the temperance and\\nreligious principles upon which the place was founded, and\\nthus keeping Ocean City free from the vices which so pre-\\ndominate in most resorts of this kind. He is one of the stock-\\nholders of the Ocean City Association, and has been its treasurer\\nfor a number of }ears.\\nDr. Palen was born in Palenville, N. Y. ]\\\\Iay 3, 1832. His\\nfather, Rufus Palen, was of Quaker stock, and was a well-\\nknown tanner and leather dealer. Dr. Palen first obtained a\\nthorough knowledge of the tanning business at the Fallsburgh,\\nN. Y. tannery. Then entering Brown University, he went to\\nYale, where he graduated with the degree of Ph. B. in the\\nfamous class of 1853. He then pursued a medical course\\nat the New York University, which he subsequently completed\\nat the Albany INIedical College, graduating from the latter in\\n1855 as a doctor of medicine.\\nDr. Palen, in 1856, entered into partnership with his uncle\\nb\\\\- marriage, George W. Northrop, and built an oak tannery at\\nCanadensis, Pa., afterwards taking one of his brothers in as a\\npartner, under the firm name of Palen Northrop. After-\\nwards, with his two brothers, Dr. Palen built another tannery\\nat Tunkhannock, Pa. The building of tanneries in the wood\u00c2\u00ab,\\ncutting down trees, etc., is genuine pioneer work, and to this\\nthe doctor was peculiarly fitted by his active temperament. He", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "28 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nbecame a member of the M. E. Church, at Canadensis, and at\\nthis period his career as a Prohibitionist and temperance worker\\nbegins. He afterwards removed to Tnnkhannock, Pa.\\nIn 1876, after a careful examination of the compound oxygen\\nprocess, he entered into partnership with Dr. Starkey, under\\nthe firm name of Starkey Palen, the former bringing into\\nthe concern his perfected system, and Dr. Palen, the business\\nexperience and requisite capital. From this time the business\\nhas prospered wonderfully, and the treatment is now known\\nthroughout the world. The doctor is an active and honored\\nmember of the M. E. Board of Church Extension, and presi-\\ndent of the Niagara Mining and Smelting Company, and is\\nalways active in every movement for the public good. He has\\nbeen several times candidate for mayor and recorder of Phila-\\nphia on the Prohibition ticket, accepting each time his antici-\\npated defeat with resignation, but never for a moment despair-\\nin the final triumph of Prohibition.\\nNICHOLAS CORSON.\\nThe subject of this sketch was born at Seaville, Cape May\\ncounty, N. J. When a young man he spent a year and a half\\nin Illinois, returning to the home of his boyhood to settle\\npermanently. He engaged to learn the profession of dentistry,\\nbut after a year s study found it distasteful, and building be-\\ncame his future avocation. He entered the army in 1862, and\\nwas promoted to the position of second lieutenant. The ab-\\nsence of the captain necessitated a substitute, and Mr. Corson\\nwas chosen commander, and brought home Company G,\\nTwenty-fifth New Jersey, in 1863. He is the oldest and the\\nfirst contracting builder on the island. He came to Ocean City\\nin 1880, and went into partnership with Youngs Corson; when\\nthe firm dissolved he continued business for himself. Mr. Cor-\\nson is now serving as City Councilman. A retrospective view\\ngiven by the companions of his early youth, of manhood, and\\nof the prime of life, is bright with the reflection of honor and", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "Councilman N. Corson.\\nH. B. Adams, City Clerk.\\nEditor and Proprietor of the Weekly News.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "C. Myers, Esq.\\nResidence of C. Myers, Esq.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 29\\nStrict integrity. He is the possessor of a rare combination of\\nadmirable characteristics and a well-balanced mind. As a citi-\\nzen he is respected, as an official honored, as a man God-\\nfearing.\\nThe measure of his life is rounded out to its fullest capacity\\nwith those deeds and attributes which live long in the hearts\\nof his fellow beinos.\\nC. MYERS, ESQ.\\nIt is with pride we call attention to the above name, recorded\\namong those of Ocean City s permanent residents. The Squire\\nis probably the oldest living printer in the United States. He\\nwas born in France, but came to America with his parents when\\na boy. He was the oldest of seven children, and owing to the\\npoor health of his father, was sent to Darby, Pa., when very\\nyoung, and was there employed as printer s devil and post\\nboy. The death of that parent occurring soon afterward, he\\nwent to Philadelphia, Pa., in hopes of finding better employ-\\nment, to aid his mother in providing for the family. He was\\nthere engaged as a newsboy, and was among those who sold the\\nfirst edition of the Philadelphia Ledger. He then entered the\\noffice of the Cainden Republican., rising gradually to its higher\\npositions, assisting at times on the Democrat., published by\\nSquire Grey. When the time arrived for him to choose a\\nprofession, he engaged with William S. Young, one of Phila-\\ndelphia s most noted printers, with whom he remained twenty-\\nfour years, eighteen years of the time in the capacity of super-\\nintendent. When Mr. Young retired, the Squire and two\\nyoung men, who served their time under him, engaged in the\\nprinting business. He afterwards became interested in coal oil\\nand politics, and was sent to the coal regions several times by\\ndifferent companies to examine lands. He was one of Phila-\\ndelphia s Aldermen, a notary public and a prominent real es-\\ntate agent and conveyancer.\\nIn his long and eventful life, no period perhaps marks more", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "30 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nsignificantly the prompt and decisive action by which it is char-\\nacterized than that of the Civil War. Bnt forty-eight honrs had\\nelapsed after the firing on Fort Sntnter till he was assisting in\\nforming a military company. He went to the front with his\\nregiment at the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg. The com-\\npany thus early organized continued till the surrender of Lee.\\nThe path which the Squire has hewed out, step by step, un-\\naided and alone, denied even the rudiments of an education, has\\nled to such success as must always command honor and admira-\\ntion. The fire of his youth is still visible in the brilliant mind\\nand light elastic step. His fine literary attainments are a con-\\nstant source of pleasure to those with whom he is associated,\\nwhile the ripe experience of mature years gives the touch of\\npractical wisdom to his gifts of genius. The Squire is a large\\nproperty-holder in the city and resides in a beautiful cottage at\\nthe corner of Eis hth Street and Weslev Avenue.\\nW. LAKE.\\nMr. Lake was born at Bargaintown, N. J., April 27, 1838. I\\nHis boyhood was spent with his father, working at the black-\\nsmith trade. Not satisfied with the educational advantages of\\nthe day, he entered upon a conrse of studies by himself and was\\nsoon teaching in the public schools. At a very early age he\\nreceived an appointment as civil engineer, and his progress since\\nthen has been steadily upward. He was elected to numerous\\ntownship offices, and was, in 1863, appointed Commissioner of\\nDeeds. In 1875 he was appointed Master in Chancery, and the\\n.same year elected to the office of Justice of the Peace of Atlantic\\ncounty, which position he held until his removal to Ocean City.\\nHis work commenced in this city with the earliest movement\\nmade towards its development. He has surve\\\\-ed every foot of\\nthe island and examined every original title from 1690 down to\\nthe time it was purchased by the Ocean City Association, and\\nhas drawn over nineteen hundred deeds.\\nMr. Lake is a representative man in its broad, true sense", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "Win. Lake\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Surveyor and Conveyancer.\\nEx-Councilman J. Conver.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Councilman F. P. Canfield.\\nThe Illinois-Mrs. H. D. Canfield. Prororietress.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 3 1\\nan enterprising and intelligent citizen, a statistician and a stn-\\ndent, and is endowed with fine business ability.\\nF. P. CANFIELD.\\nAmong the numerous instances of successful young men, be-\\ncause of enterprising and progressive business principles. Ocean\\nCity has none who :s making more rapid strides than the sub-\\nject of this sketch. F. P. Canfield was born in Springfield, 111.,\\nin i860, but traces his lineage back to the first settlers of the\\nState of New Jersey, and is descended from a family noted for\\nsuperior intellectual endowments through a long line of ances-\\ntors. He was educated at Edwards School, beneath the shadow\\nof the Capitol buildings of his native State, and was engaged as\\na florist for some years afterward at that place Coming to Ocean\\nCity in 1886, he immediately determined to make it his future\\nhome. He is now engaged in a thriving real estate business,\\nand has himself invested largely in real estate. As a Council-\\nman, F. P. Canfield is broad and liberal in his views, yet care-\\nful and discreet in all his movements, and well merits the\\nconfidence reposed in him by the public, which he is serving\\nwell.\\nJ. F. HAND.\\nIn all cities, whether inland or on the seaboard, there are no\\nmore efficient and substantial factors toward their comfort and\\nbeauty than the work of those engaged in the building inter-\\nests. In growing cities, especially, men who are conversant\\nwith architecture and building in a practical sense, are valuable\\nacquisitions. J. F. Hand is one of these. The first .work for\\nwhich he was called to I he city was the erection of the artistic\\nlittle cottage, Holiday. Among the buildings which he has\\nerected since are the M. E. Church and Rev. B. H. Sander-\\nline s handsome residence. Mr. Hand was born at Tuckerton,\\nN. J., attended the public schools, but finished his education at\\nPennington Seminary. He has travelled extensively up and", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "32 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\ndown the coast, was engaged by the Long Island Railroad Com-\\npany and also by the United States Government to erect build-\\nings. He is now serving his first term as Councilman, and is\\nprogressive and liberal, firm in his convictions and intrepid in\\nhis efforts toward crystalizing those convictions into such ac-\\ntion as shall be for the best interest of the city.\\nR. FISHER.\\nIn the real estate business the fact is especially apparent that\\nRealty is the basis of all security. This basis is found in\\nthe knowledge and probity of those through whom the transac-\\ntions are conducted. In view of this fact, there is probably no\\none in Ocean City possessing more of these qualifications than\\nR. Fisher, one of the few pioneer real estate agents left. He\\nhas been connected with the largest sales of lots which have\\nbeen made on the Island, and his business interests have been\\nclosely interwoven with the history of the city. This\\nknowledge, together with long experience, is an invaluable aid\\nto investors. His office buildings are centrally located at the\\ncorner of Seventh street and Asbury avenue, and his handsome\\nresidence at the corner of Seventh street and Wesley avenue.\\nMr. Fisher was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1848, of Scotch-\\nIrish parents. He came to America twenty-five years ago and\\nhas travelled extensively in Europe and the United States.\\nWith the advantage of talents amounting to genius, and with\\nan inherent brilliancy and versatility of mind that rest only\\nwith the reward of high achievement, Mr, Fisher s continued\\nsuccess is established, while no more glowing tribute can be\\npaid than that his eminence has been reached by the exercise\\nof his own abilities.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "R. B. Stiles Lumber Dealer.\\nResidence of R. B. Stites, 759 Asbury Avenue.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "R. H, Thorn.\\nR. H. Thorn s Stores and Residence.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 33\\nR. B. STITES.\\nR. B. Stites is one of the earliest pioneers of the city, and was\\nthoroughly acquainted with the island long before it was de-\\ncided upon as a site for a Summer resort. He was born in Cape\\nMay county, educated in the public schools, and served nine\\nyears in the Life Saving Service. October 12, 1881, he moved\\ninto the house he now occupies, and August 10, 1885, the firm\\nof R. B. Stites Co. was organized- It is recognized as being\\nin every way capable of meeting the constant demand for first-\\nclass lumber. There may be found in the yards, at Twelfth\\nstreet and West avenue, a heavy line of builders material,\\nwell seasoned and adapted to immediate use. There is com-\\nmunication by telephone between his residence, in the heart of\\nthe city, and the office at the lumber yard. This contributes\\ngreatly to the convenience of the public, as orders may be left\\nat either place. It is due to the untiring efforts and superior\\nbusiness ability of R. B. Stites that the firm has become very\\nwidely known. By great care in purchasing, and honorable\\nmethods in dealing, it has won and well deserves the confidence\\nand patronage of the public.\\nMr. Stites is public-spirited, always ready and willing to en-\\ncourage and support every project of importance to the city s\\nwelfare, thus making an invaluable citizen.\\nR. H. THORN.\\nThis name stands conspicuously in the ranks of the pioneer\\nbusiness men of Ocean City. Possessed of fine commercial\\nability, aided by the exercise of sound judgment and indomit-\\nable energy, Mr. Thorn has not only won success for himself,\\nbut has added materially to the growth and prosperity of the\\ncity. He was born and educated in Frankford, Phila. He\\ncame to this city May 4th, 1885, and having a previous knowl-\\nedge of the business, purchased stock and opened a hardware\\nand house-furnishing store at his present stand, at the corner of\\nEighth St. and Asbury Ave. Confident of the speedy growth\\n3", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "34 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nof the city, he purchased in 1887 two lots adjoining the one he\\noccupied, and built the store, No. 805 Asbury Ave. In 1890 he\\nbought the stand where he commenced business, and in 1891\\nbuilt another store between 801 and 805, together with a\\ndwelling house facing on Eighth St. Mr. Thorn now owns\\nthe largest establishment of its kind in the city; his ware rooms\\nare filled with every variety of goods necessary to the trade.\\nThe stock is constantly enlarged, as the demand steadily in-\\ncreases. Mr. Thorn has served as Councilman and has held\\nmany positions of trust, both public and private, the duties of\\nwhich have all been faithfully performed.\\nSTEELMAN ENGLISH.\\nThe beauty of a city depends largely upon its architecture,\\nand to those who design and construct its buildings is due the\\ncredit of the position it holds in this direction. Among those\\nwho have done a large amount of the work which adorns the\\nstreets and avenues of Ocean City is the above firm, the mem-\\nbers of which are J. C. Steelman and E. B. English. These\\nyoung men are well versed in the details and principles of this\\nbranch of industry and are moving rapidly toward the estab-\\nlishing of an extensive and lucrative business. They are pre-\\npared at all times to execute orders with accuracy and prompt-\\nness, coupled with the courtesy which ever marks successful\\nbusiness men. They were both born and educated in Southern\\nNew Jersey and were among the early residents of the city.\\nMr. Steelman, the senior member of the firm, is serving a\\nsecond term as City Councilman. He is broad-minded and\\nprogressive, yet careful and conscientious. In him the people\\nhave a valuable guardian of their interests and the city an\\nofficial who looks to the future and has the courage to cham-\\npion measures which tend toward her prosperity.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "Councilman J. C. Steelman.\\nResidence of J. C. Steelman.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "H. C. Steelman, City Treasurer.\\nH. C. Steelman s Grocery Store, 705 Asbury Avenue.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 35\\nH. G. STEELMAN.\\nOcean City has one prominent characteristic, the success of\\nher young men. H. G. Steelma^n is among the first of the\\ncity of those who have acquired this guerdon for which all men\\ntoil. He was born at Weymouth, N. J., and educated in the\\npublic schools. He came to Ocean City in 1888, and imme-\\ndiately engaged in the grocery business at his present location,\\n705 Asbury avenue. The building in which he commenced\\nwas soon too small to meet the requirements of a rapidly\\no;rowinor trade, and was removed to the rear of the lot it occu-\\npied. A store 72x30 feet, three stories high, has been erected\\non the site of the old one; the second floor is fitted up for a\\npublic hall and council chamber, and the third floor for lodge\\nrooms, etc.\\nH. G. Steelman carries a heavy stock of first-class goods,\\nconsisting of everything connected with his line of business.\\nBy a systematic course of honorable dealing he has acquired a\\nlarge and profitable patronage. He also holds the responsible\\nposition of City Treasurer, and has been otherwise made the\\nrecipient of public confidence. A brilliant future is predicted\\nfor H. G. Steelman.\\nR. C. ROBINSON.\\nOne of our rising young men is Postmaster R. C. Robinson,\\neditor and proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel. Mr. Robinson\\nwas born in Atlantic county, N. J., in 1862. His father died\\nwhen he was nine years of age, and he was early thrown on\\nhis own resources. At sixteen years of age he entered a\\nwholesale dry-goods house, but finding the business distasteful\\nhe engaged to learn the printing business in the Banner office\\nat Beverly, N. J. He then accepted a position with A. L.\\nEnglish, of the Atlantic Reviezi\\\\ Atlantic City. Mr, Robin-\\nson was first in the employ and was then associated with Mr.\\nEnglish in business for over six years. During this time he", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "36 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nwas editor and manager of the May s Landing Record^ and\\nassistant editor of the Philadelphia journal, Over the Moun-\\ntains and Down by the Sea. He came to Ocean City in 1885,\\nand forming a partnership with W. H. Fenton, purchased the\\nOcean City Sentinel^ and in a short time became sole pro-\\nprietor. In 1888 he represented Ocean City in the Board of\\nFreeholders of Cape May county. He was appointed post-\\nmaster in 1889. Upon assuming the duties of this position,\\nhe immediately set about having the mail service extended and\\nthe office designated a money-order office, succeeding in both.\\nMr. Robinson is possessed of those faculties which constitute\\nthe elements of success hard labor and strict attention to\\nwhatever line of business in which he mav be engaged.\\nH. B. ADAMS.\\nReal estate and insurance business is a most important factor\\nin the material prosperity of a community. A casual observer\\ncan form no conception of the important position held by the\\nactive, enterj)rising agent, devoted to the work of buying and\\nselling real estate, establishing values and otherwise stimulating\\nproperty-holders to the great improvements it lies within their\\npower to make. H. B. Adams is one of this class. The judi-\\ncious principles which he upholds in his transactions, the com-\\npetency with which he investigates points connected therewith,\\nare securing for him a large and deserved patronage. Mr.\\nAdams is also editor and proprietor of the Weekly Nezvs^ a paper\\nwhich, though of recent issue, has already a large circulation,\\ngiving, as the well-directed efforts of a journalist always must,\\nan additional and irresistible impulse to the progress and\\ndevelopment of the city it represents. The popularity of Mr.\\nAdams is shown in the fact of his being elected to the position\\nof City Clerk, in which he is now serving the second term; to\\nthat of Secretary of the Electric Railway Company, and Direc-\\ntor of the Water Works Company.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "R. Curtis Robinson.\\nEdjtor and Proprietor of the Ocean City Sentine\\nProf. L. R. Thomas.\\nPrincipal or the Public Schools.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Ex-Mayor J. E. Pryor, M.D.\\n1\\n(iV%^\\n^%JP\\nIw\\n^tKf^*^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mm\\nt3\u00c2\u00bb\\nDr. J. S. Waggoner.\\nOldest Rcsident Physician ofOcesim Ci", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 37\\nDR. J. E. PRYOR.\\nDr. Pryor is descended from a family prominent in the State\\nof Indiana for many generations, noted through Colonial and\\nRevolutionary times for the men it furnished to the patriot\\narmies engaged in warfare on the western frontier, when the\\nIndians, led on by their great chief Tecumseh, constituted such\\na terrible foe. He was born April 24, 1861, near the city of\\nLogansport, Ind. His preliminary education was received at\\nthe public schools, in which department he afterward became a\\nteacher. Desirous of a higher profession, he chose the study of\\nmedicine, and entered the Detroit Medical College, from which\\ninstitution he was graduated in 1888. Dr. Pryor located in\\nOcean City the same year and soon acquired an extensive prac-\\ntice. Ambitious to rise in his profession, he further pursued a\\ncourse of instruction at the Philadelphia Polyclinic in 1890 and\\n1891, and is constantly alive to the importance of keeping\\nabreast of the times in this direction. He has contributed a\\nnumber of articles of merit to medical journals.\\nDr. Pryor was elected Mayor of Ocean City in 1889 and served\\none term. The duties incumbent upon this position were dis-\\ncharged by him in an able manner. He has displayed through\\nhis career the perseverance and courage which will continue\\nto bring to him in the future, as it has in the past, the success\\nwhich is ever the result of these attributes.\\nJ. S. WAGGONER, M. D.\\nDr. Waggoner was born in Perry county. Pa., where he\\nresided during his boyhood. He afterward removed to Carlisle,\\nand engaged in the study of medicine. In i860 he was gradu-\\nated from the University of Pennsylvania. At the outbreaking\\nof the Rebellion, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 5th\\nPennsylvania Cavalry (Cameron Dragoons), and was also\\nphysician to the Eastern Insane Asylum of Virginia at Wil-", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "38 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nliamsburg. He was mustered out as a supernumerary of the\\n5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and immediately appointed assistant\\nsurgeon to the 84th Pennsylvania Infantry, from which posi-\\ntion he was shortly afterward appointed to that of surgeon.\\nIn 1864 he resigned, and was appointed post surgeon of the\\nUnited States General Hospital, at Beverly. Here he ac-\\nquired an enviable reputation as surgeon. At the battle of\\nChancellorsville he was carried from the field supposed to be\\nmortally wounded. Through the skill and tender care of S.\\nS. Fowler, now of South Carolina, his recovery was brought\\nabout.\\nAfter the war he was engaged in private practice in New\\nJersey. He came to Ocean Cit} when it was first planned, and\\nestablished the pioneer drug store, still continuing the prac-\\ntice of medicine. He has served as borough clerk and city\\ncouncilman.\\nDr. Waggoner is thoroughly conscientious in all his work.\\nThe positions which he has held, and the offices he has filled\\nhave been honored by the manner in which he has discharged\\nthe duties of each.\\nJESSE CONVER.\\nEx-Councilman Conver is a native of Pennsylvania, born in\\nMontgomery county, March 29, 1834. He engaged in the tin\\nand sheet-iron business at twenty years of age, and shortly\\nafterwards removed to Philadelphia, where he carried on the roof-\\ning, heating and range business very extensively. He came to\\nOcean City in 1881, and has since engaged in the same busi-\\nness. Mr. Conver is one of the few men who, when coming\\nin contact with the business world, do not allow its influence to\\ndraw them from their own consciousness of truth and right,\\nwho maintain a strict integrity in all their business trans-\\nactions. The influence of his early life among the hills of\\nPennsylvania, of simple habits and firmly ingrained princi-\\nples of right, are still exerted, and may be felt and seen in his\\ndaily life.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "Councilman J. F. Hand.\\nThe Vandalia House, 725 Central Avenue.\\nMrs. S. Burley, Proprietress.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Ocean City Life Saving Station.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 39\\nWi^ecl^s.\\nAnd the stately ships go on\\nTo their haven under the hill.\\nThe following pages are designed for the entertainment of\\nour summer guests, with the hope that the happy, idle hours\\nspent in strolling on the beach may be made interesting, as\\nwell by these accounts of incidents of the sea. The lore of\\nsailors is rich in curious and poetic fancies, in quaint and\\nbeautiful superstitions; to him the winds and waves possess a\\npeculiar meaning. While the love of the sailor and the joy of the\\nfisherman may not be revealed in all its beauty and significance\\nto us who come from crowded cities, from mountains or prairies,\\nthe ocean is still, in its many phases, at all times and to all\\npeople, ever clothed with a weird, mysterious charm. The\\ntraditions that cluster around the New Jersey shores of wrecks\\nof Spanish galleon laden with gold and silver, of merchantman\\nand whaler, the lugger of the pirate, slow-sailing ketch and\\nswift steamship, are many of them founded upon those which\\nhave occurred on Peck s Beach. Tl)e island claims a distinct\\nhistory, written in her driftwood of broken spars, crushed and\\nbattered hulls. Great Egg Harbor Bar is dangerous to mariners\\non account of its continually shifting sands, and requires the es-\\npecial attention of the Coast Survey, and although every pre-\\ncaution is used to warn and protect vessels, many a good ship\\nhas come to grief on these treacherous shoals. The accounts\\nof wrecks which have occurred a century or more ago sound\\nto us like a wild romance, until we remember that the marine\\nrecords registered hundreds of thousands of sailors, England\\nalone contributing over half a million. What tragedies, then,", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "40 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nmight not be enacted, or dramas sustained by the vast multi-\\ntudes, drawn from every race and nation that go down to the\\nsea in ships. When we recall the fact that three-quarters of\\nthe globe is used as a highway, and that even in our midst are\\nsailors who have reckoned their course by the polar star among\\nthe icebergs, sweltered in the blazing sun of the tropics, or\\nkept their vigils beneath the splendor of the southern cross,\\nto whom the Chilian shores, the rocks of Gibraltar, the coast\\nline of the Dark Continent, and the islands of the South Seas\\nare familiar sights, little room is left for imagination or fancy;\\ntruth far outreaches the powers of either, the extent of which\\nwill never be revealed till the sea gives up its dead. The\\nold hostelries at Somers Point could tell strange tales of res-\\ncued victims of shipwreck, of terror-stricken emigrants, unable\\nto converse save in their native tongue, of cabin passengers\\nwhose wealth lay at the bottom of the sea. How it was neces-\\nsary at times to resort to severe measures to prevent bloodshed\\namong the crew and officers, when the captain was secured\\nwith bolts in one room, the mates in another, and the sailors\\nin still another apartment, until their fury had subsided, or\\nthey were removed to safer quarters. These troubles some-\\ntimes arose when the sailors in mutiny had wrecked the vessel\\npurposely, when the accident had occurred through the neglect\\nof the officer on watch, or the captain had been harsh and\\ncruel. It is with reluctance we confine ourselves to those\\nwrecks only which are officially recorded, or have occurred\\nwithin the recollection of people still living, and to those of\\nrecent date. It is to be sincerely hoped that these traditions\\nmay be embalmed in song or story before they are forgotten, or\\nthe old sailors and wreckers to whom they are familiar have\\nsailed out bevond the final harbor bar.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "E. B. English.\\nResidence of E. B. English.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 41\\nTHE PERSEVERANCE.\\nDown upon the beach of sand,\\nWhen the night s fierce storm was o er,\\nAnd the morning s tender hand\\nTouched with light the wreck-strewn shore,\\nFishers in their suits of gray\\nFound her body where it lay\\nCold and lifeless on the shore.\\nThe brig Perseverance, from Havre, France, to New York,\\nladen with a cargo valned at $400,000, was wrecked nearly\\nopposite the point where the Ocean Rest now stands, in the\\nmonth of December, 1815. The day previous to the disaster\\n(Friday) a vessel from New York was spoken which told the\\nPerseverance she was 200 miles east of Sandy Hook. The\\nnews occasioned great joy among the crew and passengers, as\\nthey expected, according to this intelligence, to land in New\\nYork on the following day. The captain, imbued with the\\nspirit engendered by the fatal error to a degree of recklessness,\\nspread every stitch of canvas to a heavy nor easter, and\\nwith spars strained to their utmost, and cordage creaking, the\\ngood ship sped merrily on to her swift destruction. At 3\\no clock A. M., on Saturday, the cry of breakers ahead was\\nsounded, and a moment later the vessel struck, refused to obey\\nher helm, and backed up on the beach stern foremost. In a\\nshort time the sea broke entirely over her. Eight of the seven-\\nteen souls on board got into the long boat and a heavy sea\\nswept it overboard. It was then discovered to be fastened by\\na cable which they were unable to cut or in any way detach,\\nand amid piercing shrieks, with the means of rescue just at\\nhand, as the boat would probably have floated to shore, they\\nwent down beside the vessel. The others succeeded in reach-\\ning the round-top, except a Frenchman by the name of Cologne,\\nwho remained in the shrouds. At daybreak the vessel was dis-\\ncovered from the mainland, and willing hearts sped across the\\nbay and down the beach to the rescue. Boats were launched\\nagain and again, only to be capsized and hurled back by the", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "42 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nano-rv waters. Every means which human skill and daring-\\ncould devise was tried till Sunday at noon, when they signaled\\nto the vessel that nothing more could be done. The poor\\nwretches held up their pocketbooks and watches as an induce-\\nment for those on shore to continue their efforts, but the limit\\nof their power had been reached long before. Exhaustion from\\ncold and hunger now did rapid work, and one by one, until but;\\nfive were left, they dropped into the sea. Captain Snow, one:\\nof the remaining five, attempted to swim ashore and was lost.\\nIn the meantime the mate, who had secured a hatchet, con-\\nstructed a raft. A negro, who was assisting, was washed over-\\nboard, but swam to shore. The Frenchman, who had remained,\\nin the shrouds up to this time, fell into the water senseless; he\\nwas caught by the hair and thus towed behind the raft, which\\nwas finally carried ashore by the breakers. The saddest pro-\\ncession that ever trod this beach took up the line of march\\ntoward the bay to cross to the mainland. Four exhausted, half-\\nfrozen men, borne in the arms of those who had gone to the\\nrescue, followed by others bearing a rudely constructed bier,\\nupon which lay the form of a young French girl, the only\\nfemale on board the ill-fated vessel, and the only victim whose\\nbody floated to shore. Her linen clothing was daintily em-\\nbroidered, and jewelry was concealed in the braids of her hair.\\nMany reports were given of her beauty. Dr. Maurice Beasley,\\nan eye witness, said: She was the concentration of all the\\ngraces of the female form. Her remains were interred in the\\nburying ground of the Golden family, a little plot now over-\\ngrown with weeds and briars a short distance from the wharf\\nat Beasley s Point. Three days later her uncle, Mr. Cologne,\\nwho died from exhaustion, v/as buried by her side. For seven\\nmiles, the entire length of the island, the beach was strewn\\nwith cashmere shawls, leghorn flats, thread lace, fine china and\\nbales of silk and satin. Remnants of the merchandise are still\\nin existence. It is supposed the hull is lying some distance\\nout, covered with sand, and contains treasure. After the storm\\nof September, 1889, which swept the Atlantic seaboard, pieces\\nof china washed ashore at this point, which, when compared", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\n43\\nwith those secured at the time of the wreck, are of the same\\ndesign, pattern and quality, .and are doubtless from the old brig.\\nThese tangible links, thrown across nearly three-quarters of a\\ncentury, connecting us so closely with the Perseverance, tell of\\na time when INIadison was President of the United States. The\\ntreaty of peace with Great Britain had just been signed. The\\nlittle Clermont, or Fulton s Folly, had but a short time\\nbefore revealed the adaptation of a power that should revolu-\\ntionize navigation; the magnetic telegraph was unknown till\\nnearly thirty years later, but Peck s Beach had been known\\nand recorded in the Old World for over 120 vears.\\nTHE FAME.\\nThe earliest wreck of which we can gain an authentic account\\nis that of the brig Fame. This vessel was sent out with a num-\\nber of others to protect the inhabitants of Cape May county\\nfrom the incursions of the British and refugees. She was in\\ncommand of Captain William Treen, of Egg Harbor, and made\\na number of captures of vessels much larger than herself. The\\nnight of February 22, 1781, while lying at the anchoring\\npoint in Great Egg Harbor Bay rejoicing over a victory just\\nachieved, she was capsized in a heavy gale, with twenty-eight\\nof a crew of thirty-two men on board. Four attempted to\\nswim ashore; three succeeded in landing at the north point of\\nPeck s Beach, the fourth one drowned. Help reached the ves-\\nsel at daylight, but of twenty-four brave men who had faced\\nshot and shell, tempest and flood, twenty had succumbed to the\\nsleep of death from exposure to the intense cold; the four re-\\nmaining ones kept alive by walking rapidly and constantly up\\nand down the side of the capsized vessel.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "44 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nTHE PANCHITO.\\nA weltering sound, remote ami vast, comes to my drowsy ear,\\nThe Gulf-waves rolling from the past, suggest the Buccaneer\\nAnd she is manned by frowzy men, Bohemians eke, who love\\nTo fight at odds like ten to one, and care not where they rove.\\nI\\ni\\nAmong the driftwood piled here and there en the island may^i\\nbe seen an occasional piece of logwood. This wood, lying,\\nhundreds of miles from its native soil, was brought here by the\\nSpanish brig Panchito, wrecked February 13, 1888. The ves-\\nsel came on the bar in the night, but sent up no signals of dis-\\ntress, and even extinguished her lights. At daybreak the life-\\nguards discovered her lying in a dangerous position and imme-\\ndiately went to her aid. The captain represented her as\\nbelonging to a wealthy ranchman of Vera Cruz and bound for\\nNew York. The deck was loaded with logwood, and the hold\\nwas partly loaded with logwood and hides. The crew of,\\nthirteen men were taken off in life-boats and cared for at\\nOcean City life-saving station. After seven days of hard!\\nlabor a wrecking steamer succeeded in getting the vessel off the\\nbar. As she was being towed into deeper water the cable\\nparted and she struck again. The deck load was thrown off\\nand she floated a second time. A small quantity of hard tack,\\na few Mexican beans and a little sugar was all there were on\\nboard to eat. The first mate, an American, was intelligent and\\nwell educated. His log book was remarkable for neatness and\\nbeauty of penmanship. The captain and second mate were\\ncoarse and ignorant Spaniards. They were each armed with a\\npair of revolvers and a huge dirk. The latter was stuck inside\\nthe waistband on the left side in front, and was carried without\\nany sheath. The captain carried two watches of exquisite\\nworkmanship, besides a number of rings and other jewelry.\\nThe mates had in their possession different kinds of jewelry set\\nwith precious stones. The ten sailors were a motley group,\\nand were in a filthy condition. Their long, unkempt hair, un-\\nshaven beards and swarthy complexions gave them the appear-", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 45\\nance of wild beasts rather than men. The weather was very\\ncold, but they were without shoes or stockings, and their\\nclothing was in every way insufficient. As soon as they landed\\nthey were fed and properly clothed. Four of them were Italians,\\none an immense negro, from Yucatan, one a native of Manilla,\\none a Portuguese, two native Spaniards and two Mexicans com-\\npleted the group. They all spoke Spanish. They were evi-\\ndently unwilling to board the vessel the second time. As they\\nstepped on deck the officers issued orders with dirk in hand, as\\nif prepared to spring upon them at any moment. The vessel\\nwas towed to Philadelphia and was there abandoned by the\\nsailors.\\nP\\nWRECK IN THE BAY.\\nAflame, from deck to topmast,\\nAflame, from stem to stern;\\nFor there seemed no speck, of all that wreck,\\nWhere the fierce fire did not burn.\\nThe long, low hull, lying keel upwards on Bond s Bar in\\nGreat Egg Harbor Bay, adds one more to the vast number of\\nderelicts cast up every year. This was first seen on Great Egg\\nHarbor Bar, where it remained for a short time. During a storm\\nit cleared the obstruction, and in the most uncanny manner\\nwound its way in and out among the channels of the inlet as if\\nguided by an unseen helmsman, never touching shoal or shore\\nuntil it stranded on an island five miles from where it was first\\nseen. It had been a well-built copper-sheathed and bolted bark-\\nentine,bore a German name, and had been loaded with petroleum.\\nThe silent evidence of the most appalling of disasters, burned\\nat sea, tells the cause of shipwreck. A little more than a year\\nprevious to the time it was seen on this coast, a vessel of the\\nsame name and cargo, in every way answering the description,\\nwas burned in the Mediterranean Sea. The hull drifted out\\nthrough the straits of Gibralter and disappeared. It was sev-\\neral times reported, always in the same position up-side down.\\nIt is the popular opinion of the coast guard of that body of water", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "46 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nthat this is the same wreck and has drifted with the ocean cur-\\nrents and been driven by storms till it has reached the point\\nwhere it now lies.\\nANGELA BREWER.\\nLying broadside and partly submerged is the hull of a bark\\nwhich has defied the tempests for twenty-eight years. The\\nwaves which have washed it, now with a gentle caressing:\\nmotion, and now pounding and tearing till objects farther in\\nshore apparently much stronger have been swept away, have\\nrolled back, powerless to move the old vessel from her solid\\nmoorinofs. At times the stern and keel are covered with sand\\nand only a few feet of the side are visible, then a storm sweeps\\nover it and one hundred and forty feet of huge timbers stretch\\naway toward the sand hills, disclosing ponderous oaken knees\\nand huge iron bolts which time and the elements have for-\\ngotten. The Angela Brewer lost her reckoning and was cast\\naway on Great Egg Harbor bar in 1864. She had sailed from\\nNew Orleans and was bound for Portland, Me., with a cargo\\nof cotton and molasses.\\nThe captain had gone to his destination by rail and left his\\nwife and two little daughters to follow by water. A heavy\\nstorm was raging at the time the vessel stranded, but her signals\\nof distress were immediately answered and all on board saved\\nNotwithstanding their perilous position, the imminent danger)\\nof the vessel going to pieces, the waves rolling high between!\\nthem and land, the first words uttered by the mate who was ini\\ncommand, were How goes the war? The captain s wife:\\nwas a bright intelligent woman, and had passed the most of her\\nlife on board ship; she was a skillful navigator and a large\\nowner in the vessel. The unfortunates were cared for by\\nParker Miller until they were able to proceed to their destina-\\ntion by rail.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 47\\nZETlvAND.\\nAye, on deck by the foremast!\\nBut watch and lookout are done;\\nThe Union Jack laid o er him,\\nj How quiet he lies in the sun.\\nA Brigantine, Turks Island to Philadelphia, laden with five\\nhundred tons of salt came ashore November 2, 1881. The\\ncrew of five white men and four negroes was taken off by the\\nLife Guards from Peck s Beach and Ocean City Stations.\\nThe vessel had left Turks Island with ten men on board;\\nwhen six days out the captain died and was buried at sea.\\nDuring his illness the chronometer was allowed to run down\\nand the longitude was lost in consequence. None of the crew\\nunderstood navigation and soon lost their way. The hull of\\nthe vessel now lies close against the sand hills, north of the\\nOcean Rest.\\nSALUE CIvARK,\\nA schooner, Jacksonville, Fla., to New York, laden with pine,\\ncame ashore midway of the island. One of the sailors, while\\nsitting on the boom, was struck with lumber and killed. A\\nshort time before the final disaster, the mate was thrown over-\\nboard by the rolling of the vessel. He succeeded in breasting\\nthe waves for a short time, but soon became exhausted. As he\\nfound his strength leaving, he shouted to the crew, who were\\nmaking frantic endeavors to reach him, Find my wife and\\nchild in New York, tell them where I am. With these words\\nhe sank. The vessel came on the beach broadside. In the ver-\\nnacular of the sailors, her bones may yet be seen not far\\nsouth of Peck s Beach Life Saving Station.\\nMARCIA LEWIS,\\nA schooner, 330 tons burden, laden with 390 tons of soft coal,", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "48 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nstranded on the outer bar September ist, 1892. The crew was\\nrescued bv the life oruards of Ocean Citv Life Saving Station.\\nCAROLINE HALL,\\nA schooner, New York to Virginia, for pine, stranded midway\\nof the island. The crew lowered the yawl boat, which came\\nashore in a damaged condition. Isaac Maury and his wife, liv-\\ning where Peck s Beach Life Saving Station now stands, re-\\npaired the boat, rowed out to the vessel and rescued the crew.\\nJ. H. SCULL,\\nA schooner, lumber-laden, bound for Atlantic City, stranded\\nJanuary i8th, 1892. The vessel struck with great force, but\\ncleared the bar and swept into deeper waters, only to become\\nunmanageable and aground a second time. The life guards of\\nOcean City Life Saving Station rescued the crew the cap-\\ntain, mate, two sailors, the cook and his wife. February 29th,\\nfollowing, the vessel came up on the main beach. The hull may\\nnow be seen at the north point of the island.\\nM\\nDASHAWAY.\\nAn English bark, Sicily to New York, laden with fruit and!\\nnuts, came ashore at the southern point of the island in i860.\\nPart of her cargo, together with her ballast of brimstone, waS\\nreshipped to New York. Remains of the hull now lie near the;\\nfoot of Fifty-second Street.\\nUTAH.\\nWhen the tide runs very low, part of the boiler of this steamer j\\nis visible nearly opposite the Excursion House. The Utah was\\nfrom New York for Philadelphia, laden with fine wines and\\nchina. Wrecked in 1864.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Tl\\n0)\\nrr Cr\\n(D O\\n7^\\nC\\nTT\\n33\\nW?\\n(0\\no a)\\n(t) 9J\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a00\\n3\\no\\nCO\\n^n\\n(D\\n_ o\\nin rt-\\ndQ CO\\n(D\\nC\\n0(0\\n0)\\ncc\\nD. (D\\n(C\\n5-\\n(t 3\\n(TQ", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 48a\\nSALLIE AND ELIZA.\\nAugust 20, 1892. All day a terrible sea had been rolling up\\nand crashing on the bar. The keepers of the life saving sta-\\ntions arose early and kept a vigilant outlook. The horizon was\\nswept again and again with the glass and every vessel carefully\\nscanned for signals of distress. Only a few fishing boats had\\nventured out. In the afternoon two yachts and a sloop were\\ndiscovered in great danger. A passing schooner took the occu-\\npants of the yachts on board, and then proceeded into the inlet\\nwith the yachts in tow. While crossing the bar the cable\\nparted and both went adrift. One capsized and came ashore,\\nthe other one started south like a race horse and was recovered\\nseven miles below, at Corson s Inlet. The sloop Sallie and\\nEliza capsized, and the owner. Captain Hackett, was swept\\noverboard and lost. The remaining occupant, Captain Hack-\\nenay, was rescued by Captain J. S. Willets, of the Ocean City\\nLife Saving Station and a volunteer crew, consisting of R. B.\\nStites, P. S. Hand, L. S. Corson, M. Moore, W. H. Boyle and\\nW. Garretson. There is not recorded in the annals of the New\\nJersey coast a braver or more daring deed than the one accom-\\nplished in the rescue of this drowning sailor.\\nTo the foregoing wrecks might be added those of the schoon-\\ners Henry Hobart, corn; Lottie Clotts, fruit; Ida Smith, wood;\\nthe barks Lawrence, fruit; Huron, sugar, and a host of other\\nvessels of every description of sea craft.\\nO Summer day beside the joyous sea\\nO Summer day so wonderful and white,\\nSo full of gladness and so full of pain\\nForever and forever shalt thou be\\nTo some the gravestones of a dead delight,\\nTo some the landmark of a new domain.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 49\\n0FFI(2:E5S.\\nMayor, G. P. Moore, 825 Asbnry ave.\\nCouncil.\\nN. Corson, office, 653 Asbury ave.\\nF. P. Canfield, office, W. cor. Sixth street and Asbury ave.\\nJ. C. Steelman, office, 1259 Asbury ave,\\nJ. F. Hand, office, Asbury ave, above Tenth street.\\nClerk, H. B. Adams, cor. Eighth st. and West ave.\\nCollector and Treasurer, H. G. Steelman, 705 Asbury ave.\\nAssessor, R. Ludlam, 823 Asbury ave.\\nFreeholder, W. Lake, S. cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave.\\nSolicitor, Schuyler C. Woodhull, Camden, N.J.\\nCoroner, A. E. Cox, S. cor. Eighth st. and Wesley ave.\\nMarshal, H. Conver, Wesley ave. above Eighth street.\\nBoard of Health.\\nPresident, J. S. Waggoner, 731 Asbury ave.\\nJ. C. Steelman, 1259 Asbury ave.\\nW. Lake, S. cor. Sixth street and Asbury ave.\\nJ. Conver, 443 West ave.\\nB. Newkirk, S. cor. Fourth street and Asbury ave.\\nElectric Railway Company.\\nPresident, Rev. E. B. Lake.\\nVice President, W. Lake.\\nSecretary, H. B. Adams.\\nTreasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen.\\n4", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "50 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nElectric Light Company.\\nPresident, Rev. E. B. Lake.\\nVice President, R. H. Thorn.\\nSecretary, Wm. Lake.\\nTreasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen.\\nWater Department.\\nPresident, Rev. E. B. Lake.\\nSewerage Company.\\nPresident, E. B. Lake.\\nFire Company.\\nPresident, G. O. Adams; Chief, Wni. Lake; Foreman, H.\\nReinhart; Marshall, J. C. Steelman.\\nTrustees.\\nC. A. Campbell, J. S. Rush, J. L. Headley, E. A. Bourgeois,\\nF. Smith, J. Hand, S. Schurch.\\nBoard of School Directors.\\nR. B. Stiles, G. O. Adams, N. Corson.\\nSecret Societies.\\nKnio-hts of Pythias. Jr. Order United American Mechanics.\\nYachtsmen s Association.\\nPresident, E. B. English; Secretary, M. Lake.\\nLife Saving Stations:\\nOcean City. Keeper, Captain J. S. Willets. Life Guards\\nNo. I, J. M. Corson; No. 2, M. Corson; No. 3, T. God-\\nfrey; No. 4, J. E. Baner; No. 5, P. S. Hand; No. 6, W. R.\\nGarrettson; No. 7, E. S. Clouting.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 5 1\\nPecks Beach. Keeper, Captain, L. Godfrey. Life Guards\\nNo. I, A. C. Townsend; No. 2, W. Corson; No. 3, L. E.\\nCorson; No. 4, S. C. Yonng; No. 5, F. Corson; No. 6, A.\\nT. Gandy; No. 7, E. Somers.\\nCoi sons Inlet. Keeper, Captain, C. D. Stephens. Life Guards\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094No. I, R. S. Godfrey; No. 2, R. W. Clouting; No. 3, R.\\nTownsend; No. 4, S. Brower; No. 5, W. H. Devault; No.\\n6, S. W. Corson; No. 7, F. G. Shaw.\\nOCEAN CITY\\nBuilding and Loan Association.\\nINCORPORATED MARCH I2TH, I887.\\nMeets the Second Saturday of each Month in H. G. Steehnan s\\nHall, at 7.30 P. M., to receive dues and loan money.\\nOFFICERS.\\nCt. p. MOORE, President. WM. LAKE, Secretary.\\nR. HOWARD THORN, Treasurer.\\nDIRECTORS.\\nGEORGE O. ADAMS, HIRAM STEELMAN, SIMEON B. MILLER^\\nSAMUEL B. SAMPSON, JOHN BROWER. GODFREY ANG.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "52\\nOCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nPlpectopy of Streets.\\nRUNNING NORTH AND SOUTH.\\nBay avenue.\\nSimpson avenue.\\nHaven avenue.\\nWest avenue.\\nAsbury avenue.\\nCentral avenue.\\nWesley avenue.\\nOcean avenue.\\nAtlantic avenue.\\nRUNNING EAST AND WEST.\\nFirst street.\\nSecond street.\\nThird street.\\nFourth street.\\nFifth street.\\nSixth street.\\nSeventh street.\\nEighth street.\\nNinth street.\\nTenth street.\\nEleventh street.\\nTwelfth street.\\nThirteenth street.\\nFourteenth street.\\nFifteenth street.\\nSixteenth street.\\nSeventeenth street.\\nEighteenth street.\\nNineteenth street.\\nTwentieth street.\\nTwenty-first street.\\nTwenty-second street.\\nTwenty-third street.\\nTwenty-fourth street.\\nTwenty-fifth street.\\nTwent -sixth street.\\nTwenty-seventh street.\\nTwenty-eighth street.\\nTwenty-ninth street.\\nThirtieth street.\\nThirty-first street.\\nThirty-second street.\\nThirty-third street.\\nThirty-fourth street.\\nThirty-fifth street.\\nThirty-sixth street.\\nThirty-seventh street.\\nThirty-eighth street.\\nThirty-ninth street.\\nFortieth street.\\nForty-first street.\\nForty-second street.\\nForty-third street.\\nForty-fourth street.\\nForty-fifth street.\\nForty-sixth street.\\nForty-seventh street.\\nForty-eighth street.\\nForty-ninth street.\\nFiftieth street.\\nFifty-first street.\\nFifty-second street.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 53\\npi5EeT05Y.\\nA\\nAdams, H. B., real estate, 411 Fifth st. office, Eighth st. and\\nWest ave.\\nAdams, J. T., 629 Central ave.\\nAdams, W. W. plasterer, Asbury dve. below Tenth st.\\nAdams, G. O. plasterer, 1057 West ave.\\nAllen E., Asbury ave, above Fourth st. and Frankford, Pa.\\nAllen Hughes, 444 Asbury ave.\\nAllen, G. W. Prof., Edgecombe, Wesley ave. above\\nEleventh st. and Phila., Pa.\\nAsher, E. Mrs., Central ave. below Eleventh st.\\nAtwood, P. C. 1233 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nAustin, J. Carpenter, Asbury ave. below Ninth st.\\nB\\nBamford, A. E., Mrs., 443 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nBaner, M., W. cor. Sixth st. and Ocean ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nBarrows, A. D. N. cor. Thirty-fourth st. and Asbury ave.\\nBarber, W. T. Ocean City, Manager Atlantic Steamboat Co.\\nBartine, D. W. M. D., 717 Wesley ave.\\nBartine, W. 717 Wesley ave.\\nBarnett, B. G., Asbury ave. above First st. and Camden, N. J.\\nBarnhurst, W. 1612 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nBardsley, S., 1204 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nBassett, S. 930 Wesley ave., and Bridgeton, N. J.\\nBebee, S., Ocean ave. above Fourth st., and Frankford, Pa.\\nBell, E. Mrs., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st.\\nBenners, A. Mrs., Ocean City, N. J., and Phila., Pa.,\\nBethany, S. S., Ocean Rest, N. cor. Thirty-second st. and\\nWesley ave., also Phila., Pa.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "54 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nBennett, J., hauling, W. cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave.\\nBingham, B. C., Simpson ave. bel. First St., and Camden, N. J.\\nBirchall, W., N. W. cor. Fifth st. and Wesley ave.\\nBlakely, F., 708 Central ave., and Camden, N. J.\\nBorgner, H. C, Allaire, N. cor. Ninth st. and Central ave.,\\nand Lebanon, Pa.\\nBorie, C. Asbury ave. abv. First st. and Frankford, Pa.\\nBoyle, W. E., Mrs., The Emmett, W. cor. Eighth st. and\\nCentral ave.\\nBreckley, G. M., Capt., Sr., Central ave. bel. Eighth st, and\\nWashington, D. C.\\nBreckley, G. M., Jr., painter, 310 Fourth st.\\nBriggs, J., plasterer, 1127 West ave.\\nBrower, J., painter, store Asbury ave. abv. Seventh st, res. S.\\ncor. Third st. and Central ave.\\nBrower, Jos., S. cor. Third st and Central ave.\\nBrown, T. J., Ocean City, N. J., and Atlantic City, N. J.\\nBrown, T., Central ave. below Thirteenth st., and Phila., Pa.\\nBryan, J. T. 1249 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nBrucker, E., E. cor. Tenth st. and Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nBourgeois, E. A., cor. Ninth st. and Central ave.\\nBourgeois, G. A., carpenter, 420 Central ave.\\nBourgeois, A., builder. Ocean City, N. J., and Estellville.\\nBurroughs, R., painter, E. cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave.\\nBurley, Jos., Vandalia House, Central ave. abv. Eighth st.\\nBurley, A., carpenter, W. cor. Fourteenth st. and West ave.\\nBurt, J., Wesley ave. bel. Ninth st, and Bridgeton, N. J.\\nBurrell, W. H., Rev., Ocean City, N. J., and 43 Cooper st.,\\nCamden, N. J.\\nBurnley, C. W., Rev., 924 Wesley ave., and Williamsport, Pa.\\nCampbell, C. A., store and res., 813 Asbury ave.\\nCampbell, E. B. Eighth st. bet. West and Haven aves.\\nCanfield, J. F., Rev., Illinois, W. cor. Sixth st and Asbury\\nave.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY CxUIDE BOOK. 55\\nCaiifield, H. D., Illinois, W. cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave.\\nSee adv.\\nCanfield, F. P., councilman, Illinois, W. cor. Sixth st.\\nand Asbury ave., and Fourth st. and Haven ave,\\nCarson, J. R., 1205 Central ave., and Camden, N. J.\\nCarson R., Asbury ave. above Twelfth st.\\nCarhart, S., E. cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave.\\nChampion F. E. coal, 716 Asbury ave.\\nChampion, M., teamster, 405 Seventh st.\\nChampion, I., rest, and res. N. cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave.\\nChampion, J., builder, Sea Breeze, 704 Central ave.\\nChampion, Q. painter, N. cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave.\\nChance, J. C. Asbury ave. abv. First st., and Vineland, N. J.\\nChandler, H., 922 Wesley ave., and Vineland, N. J.\\nChew, W., carpenter. West ave. abv. Thirteenth st.\\nChrist, A. E., Mrs., Central ave. bel. Sixth st., and Phila., Pa.\\nChristian, J. B., Ocean City, N. J., and Eldora, N. J.\\nClark, J. E., cor. Seventeenth st. and West ave., and May s\\nLanding, N. J.\\nClawell, D. N., cor. Seventeenth st. and Asbury ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.\\nClelland, N. C. 822 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nClifton, J., plasterer, Simpson ave. bel. Second st.\\nClinton, E. T., 634 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nCollins, S., 1408 West ave., and Estellville, N. J.\\nConver, J., tinsmith, store 623 Asbury ave., res. 443 West ave.\\nConver, H. L. Wesley ave. abv. Eighth st.\\nCorson, M., life-guard, 833 Asbury ave.\\nCorson, N., councilman, 653 Asbury ave.\\nCorson, Y. store and res., 721 Asbury ave.\\nCorson, O. painter, 721 Asbury ave.\\nCorson, J. I., Rev., N. cor. Fifth st. and Central ave., and Bar-\\ngaintown, N. J.\\nCorson, F. F. M. D. N. cor. Eleventh st. and Central ave.,\\nand Merchantville, N. J.\\nCorson, J. M., 1632 Central ave., and Palermo, N. J.\\nCowperthwait, S. S. E., 1220 Central ave., and Camden, N. J.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "56 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nCotton, A., 453 Asbury ave. and Frackville, Pa.\\nCox, A. E., Wesley Honse, W. cor. Eighth st. and Wesley\\nCox, Iv., machinist, Wesley House, W. cor. Eighth st. and\\nWesley ave.\\nCox, R., store and res., N. cor. Twelfth st. and Asbury ave.\\nCoxey, J. C. ,E. cor. Fourteenth st. and Asbury ave., and\\nCamden, N. J.\\nCreth, Misses, Lafayette, W. cor. Thirteenth st. and Cen-\\ntral ave.\\nCurrey, W. B., Central ave. above Fifth street, and Phila., Pa.\\nCorson, C. Asbury ave. abv. Seventh st.\\nCorson, L., life guard, West ave. below Twelfth st.\\nD\\nDavis, J. H., Atlantic ave. bel. Fourth st., and Phila., Pa.\\nDavis, W. A., M. D., N. cor. First st. and Central ave., and\\nCamden, N. J.\\nDavis, N., M. D., E. cor. First st. and Asbury ave., and Cam-\\nden, N. J.\\nDavis, J. T. N. cor. First st. and Asbury ave., and Camden.\\nDawes, E., Asbury ave. below Twelfth St., and Phila., Pa.\\nDemaris, A. hackman. Seventh st. near Asbury ave.\\nDixon, J., Central ave. above Fourth st. and Phila., Pa.\\nDobbins, G. L. Rev. Ocean City, N. J. and N. J. Conf.\\nDoughty, C, 431 Asbury ave., and Atlantic City, N. J.\\nDowns, J. O., Perennial, 808 Central ave.\\nEdowes, T. Home Cottage, 1414 Asbury ave. and Phila.\\nEdwards, C. E., D. D. S., 809 Wesley ave. and Haddonfield.\\nEdwards, R., Aldine, Wesley ave. above Ninth st.\\nElliot, W. R. store and residence, 714 Asbury ave.\\nEllison. J. v., 604 Wesley ave. and Phila., Pa.\\nElwell, W. H., Sta. Agt. W. J. R. R., res. S. corner Eighth\\nSt. and Asbury ave.\\nEmerson, W. B., 1606 Asbury ave. and Phila., Pa.\\nEmley, G., 642 Central ave.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 57\\nEnglish, E. B., builder, 915 Asbury ave.\\nEnglish, S. Mrs., 915 Asbury ave.\\nEnglish, J. A., 911 Asbury ave. and Camden, N. J.\\nEsher, E. H., 1620 Asbury ave. and Phila., Pa,\\nErwin, A. F. Central ave. below Sixth st. and Phila. Pa.\\nEves, Misses, Ocean City and Media, Pa.\\nEveringham, G. 827 Asbury ave.\\nFaunce, M., Asbury ave. above Fourteenth st. and Phila., Pa.\\nFenstermacher, G. Wesley ave. abv. Eighth st., and Phila.\\nFletcher, M. Miss, 117 Asbury ave.\\nFanelli, T. laborer, 328 West ave.\\nFoulds, H., W. cor. Fourth st. and Ocean ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nFisher, R., real estate, N. cor. Seventh st. and Wesley ave.\\nFranklin, P. A. H., 219 Wesley ave., and Salt Lake City, Utah.\\nQ\\nGandy, A. T., life guard. Thirty-fourth st.\\nGaudy, J. G. store 745 Asbury ave., res. W. cor. Eighth st.\\nand Asbury ave.\\nGandy, O. M. painter, W. cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave.\\nGarwood, S. P., carpenter, 418 Wesley ave.\\nGarrettson, W. R. life guard, 831 Asbury ave.\\nGarrison, S. O. Rev., 1658 Central ave., and Vineland, N. J.\\nGerlach, H., cor. Sixteenth st. and Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nGetty, M. 640 Central ave. and Phila. Pa.\\nGilbert, A. G. painter, Asbury ave., abv. Third st.\\nGluckert, R., Asbury ave. bel. Fourteenth st., and Phila, Pa.\\nGodfrey, W., 629 Asbury ave.\\nGraham, F. R. M. D. cor. Tenth st. and Wesley ave., and\\nChester, Pa.\\nGriffith, A. E. Mrs., M. D., W. cor. Sixteenth street and Cen-\\ntral ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nGriffith, L. R. Mrs., W. cor. Seventh st. and Central ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "58 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nH\\nHand, S. P., life guard, 12 13 West ave.\\nHagle, W. Asbury ave. bel. Sixteenth st, and Phila. Pa.\\nHaines, H. S., Ocean City, N. J., and Mt. Epliraim, N. J.\\nHand, J. F., builder, Asbury ave. bel. Ninth st.\\nHayes, N., carpenter, Asbury ave.\\nHeadley, L. carpenter, 829 Asbury ave.\\nHeisler, H. Miss, Aldine, Wesley ave. abv. Ninth st, and\\nMt. Holly, N. J.\\nHenderson, J. C. Capt. 447 West ave.\\nHess, U. Y., teamster. West ave. bel. Twelfth st.\\nHillman, J. P., Asbury ave. bel. Twelfth st., and Camden, N. J.\\nHickey, D. W., Cond. W. J. R. R., Asbury ave. abv. Eighth st.\\nHoffman, B. carpenter, 1241 Asbury ave.\\nHolland, J. M. Mrs., S. cor. Fifteenth st. and Asbury ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.\\nHoopes, E. D. Ocean ave. abv. Eighth st. and West Chester.\\nHorn, G. L., 226 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nHouck, W. Capt., Wesley ave. abv. Sixth st.\\nHuckle, W. Rev., 602 Wesley ave., and New York.\\nHudson, D. Haven ave. abv. Second st. and Millville, N. J.\\nHunter, T. Ocean ave. abv. Second St., and Phoenixville, Pa.\\nHutchinson, J. H. Rev., Ocean City, N. J., and N. J. Conf.\\nHyde, A. C. Mrs., Tray more, W. cor. Ninth st. and Wes-\\nley ave., and Vineland, N. J.\\nI\\nIngersoll, B. carpenter, Ocean City, N. J.\\nJeffries, J. H. Capt. 347 West ave.\\nJeffries, J. B. Capt., 347 West ave.\\nJeffries, M. Capt. 347 West ave.\\nJeffries, George, Capt., 347 West ave.\\nJackson, M. Mrs., laundress, 326 West ave.\\nJohnson, J., plumber, Asbury ave. bel. Eighth st.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 59\\nJones, W., 437 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nJoseph, A. Mrs., Ocean City, N. J., and Phila., Pa.\\nK\\nKendrick, J. R., 820 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nKing, C. Asbury ave. bel. Fourth st.\\nKrouse, G., 305 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nKynett, A. G. Rev., 1233 Central ave., and Phila. Conf.\\nKynett, H. H., M. D., 1225 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nKynett, A. J. Rev., 1229 Central ave,, and Phila., Pa.\\nLake, W. real estate, N. cor. Fourth st. and Central ave.\\nLake, D. E., builder, 1628 Asbury ave.\\nLake, M. Capt. 450 West ave.\\nLake, E. B. Rev. real estate, E. cor. Fifth st. and Wesley ave.\\nLake, H. Mrs., 413 Fifth st.\\nLake, S. W. Rev., Ocean City, and N. J. Conf.\\nLake, J. E. Rev., Ocean City, and N. J. Conf.\\nLake, J. T., Asbury ave. bel. Fourteenth st. and Pleasantville.\\nLee, I. Capt. 939 Asbury ave.\\nLennig, G. G. Simpson ave. bel. First st. and Phila., Pa.\\nLee, J. W. store and res. Asbury ave. bel. Seventh st.\\nLewallen, J., barber, 726 Asbury ave.\\nLinn, J., 324 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nLoder, E. B., S. cor. Twelfth st. and Central ave., and Phila.\\nLonabaugh, J. C. 1212 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nLudlam, R., assessor, 823 Asbury ave.\\nIVI\\nMahoney, D. 1643 West ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nMapps, W. R., 1416 Asbury ave., and Long Branch, N. J.\\nMarter, H. H. 934 Asbury ave. and Camden, N. J.\\nMassey, W. A. Rev., Central ave. abv. Eighth st. and N. J,\\nConf\\nMarshall, A., 712 Ocean ave., and Phila., Pa.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "6o OCKAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nMatthews, C, Ocean City, and Phila., Pa.\\nMatthews, J., Wesley ave. abv. Eighth St., and Phila., Pa.\\nMcAllister, J. C. Asbnry ave. abv. First st. and Phila., Pa.\\nMcAleese, J., 1409 Asbury ave.\\nMcGuire, J. H., Wesley ave. abv. Eighth st, and Phila., Pa.\\nMcFadden, J. P., 1212 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nMcCorkle, J. N., N. E. cor. Fifth st. and West ave. ,and Phila.\\nMeGargee, G. N., 825 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nMitchell, W., Ocean City, N. J.\\nMiller, P. Capt., 726 Asbury ave.\\nMiller, W. Capt., 726 Asbury ave.\\nMiller, S. B., carpenter, 733 Central ave.\\nMiller, C. G. engineer W. J. R. R. 1640 Asbury ave.\\nMoore, G. P., mayor, 835 Asbury ave.\\nMoore, E., painter, 835 Asbury ave.\\nMoore, M., slate roofer, 835 Asbury ave.\\nMorey, J. K., carpenter, Central ave. bel. Eighth st.\\nMorris, A. Mrs., 404 Asbury ave.\\nMorris, J. B., fisherman, 727 West ave.\\nMorton, J. C. Miss, S. cor. Eighth st. and x\\\\sbury ave.\\nMoore, D., Asbury ave. abv. Fifteenth st. and Phila., Pa.\\nMortimore, J. A., West ave. abv. Fifteenth st. and Phila., Pa.:\\nMoore. H., Ocean ave. abv. Seventh st., and Haddonfield.\\nMuir, D. S., cor. Fourth st. and Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nMurdoch, J., Asbury ave.\\nMurdoch, P., 829 Asbury ave.\\nMyers, C., Esq., N. cor. Eighth st. and Wesley ave.\\nN\\nNabb, F. C. 756 Asbury ave.\\nNewkirk, B., brakeman, S. cor. Fourth st. and Asbury ave.\\nNelson, A., W. J. R. R., 717 Asbury ave., Ocean City House.\\nNoble, G. L. Mrs., Wesley ave. abv. Eighth st.\\nNewcomb, H. O., Wesley ave. bel. Ninth st.\\nO\\nO Kell, J. R., Ocean City, N. J., and Brooklyn, N. Y.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "OCEAX CITY GUIDE BOOK. 6 1\\nPalea, G E., M. D., S25 Wesley ave., and Pliila., Pa.\\nPaxson, Misses, W. cor. Sixth st, and Wesley ave., and Phila.\\nPierce, O. Ocean City, and Phila., Pa.\\nPrice, J. T. Ocean City House, 717 Asbury ave.\\nPrice, B. D., Atlantic ave. abv. Fourth st., and Phila., Pa.\\nPryor, C. S., Sea Breeze, 704 Central ave.\\nR\\nRanck, A. B. Mrs., Allaire, N. cor. Ninth st. and Central ave.\\nReaney, A. W. Mrs., 409 Fifth st., and Frankford, Pa.\\nRapp, R., Central ave. abv. First St., and Phila., Pa.\\nRapp, J. V. R., Central ave. abv. First st., and Phila., Pa.\\nRapp, F. store and res. 815 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nRadcliff, J. Y. 749 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nReinhart, H., engineer W. J. R. R. 917 Asbury ave.\\nReed, J., Asbury ave. abv. Fourteenth st. and Camden, N. J.\\nReed, H., M. D., The Emmett, W. cor. Eighth st. and Cen-\\ntral ave., and Easton, Pa.\\nRice, J. E. 1213 Asbury ave., and Bridgeton, N. J.\\nRisley, L. Capt. W. cor. Seventh st and Central ave.\\nRisley, W. Capt., Asbury ave. abv. Fourth st.\\nRisley, D. Capt, 711 Central ave.\\nRobinson, J., 726 Asbury ave.\\nRobinson, R. C office, 744 Asbury ave., res. 721 Asbury ave.\\nRobinson, V. S., Atlantic Villa, N. cor. Seventh st. and\\nOcean ave. and Olney, Pa.\\nRoberts, :\\\\Irs. J. R., M. D., 604 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nRush, J. S. painter, office and res., N. cor. Eleventh st. and\\nCentral ave.\\nRutter, L. M., Bellevue House, S. cor. Seventh and Asbury\\nave., and Phila., Pa.\\nS\\nSalter, J. G. Fourteenth st. and Asbury ave., and Phila., Pd.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "62 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nSampson, S. B., builder, 305 Fourth st.\\nSampson, D., tinsmith, Asbury ave. abv. Fourth st.\\nSanderlin, B. H., Wesley ave. bel. Eighth st. and Phila., Pa.\\nSapp, C, Asbury ave. bel. Seventh st., and May s Landing.\\nSchenck, E. Mrs., 656 West ave., and Millville, N. J.\\nSchenk, J., barber, 711 Asbury ave.\\nSchermerhorn, C. H., 1237 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nSchufF, J., baker, W. cor. Asbury ave. and Seventh st.\\nSchurch, S., Bellevue, S. cor Asbury ave. and Seventh st.\\nSchmitt, F., E. cor. Tenth and Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nShultz, H. G., Asbury ave. bel. Sixteenth st. and Phila., Pa.\\nScull, J. C, carpenter, 727 Asbury ave.\\nScull, A. D., builder, Central ave. abv. Seventh st.\\nShaw, T., E. cor. Fifth st. and Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nSharp, A. D. hackman, no Asbury ave.\\nSharp, C. B., hackman, no Asbury ave.\\nSharp, E. J., carpenter, no Asbury ave.\\nSharp, W., carpenter. West ave. abv. Second st.\\nSharp, S. W., blacksmith. Central ave. abv. First st.\\nShields, W. G., W. cor. Seventh st. and Central ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.\\nShriver, W.. 1221 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nSipler, M. H. Miss, 708 Asbury ave.\\nSmith, L. S. store and res. 1140 xA.sbury ave.\\nSmith, J. W. butcher, 721 Central ave.\\nSmith, B. R., painter, store Asbury ave. bel. Sixth st., res.\\n1059 West ave.\\nSmith, F. milkman, Asbury ave. bel. Third st.\\nSmith, E. Asbury ave. abv. Fourth st. and English Creek.\\nSmith, H. D., 1209 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nSomers, E. Capt., 424 West ave.\\nSnyder, F., store and res. Asbury ave. abv. Eighth st.\\nSooy, R. R., Brighton, Seventh st. and Ocean ave.\\nSooy, N., West ave. bel. Fourth st., and Phila., Pa.\\nStewart, W. C, 626 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nStearn, C. B., Wesley ave. abv. Eleventh st., and Phila., Pa.\\nSmith, H., cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave.\\ni", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 63\\nSteelman, H., store and res. N. cor. Fourth st. and Asbnry av.\\nSteelman, H. G., store 705 Asbury av. res. 420 Central ave.\\nSteelman, J. C, councilman, 1259 Asbury ave.\\nSteelman, R. Sea Breeze, 704 Central ave.\\nSteelman, M. Mrs., 911 Asbury ave.\\nStill, J., Asbury ave. abv. Ninth st.\\nStill, L. W., Asbury ave. abv. Ninth st.\\nStites, R. B., lumber, 759 Asbury ave.\\nStonehill, W., plasterer, 1159 Asbury ave.\\nSutton, H. C. baggage master, W. J. R. R., Central ave. bel.\\nEighth St.\\nThatcher, J. W., W. cor. Thirteenth st. and Asbury ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.\\nThatcher, J., M. D., 728 Ocean ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nThegan, W., Central ave. abv. First st., and Camden, N. J.\\nThomas, L. R., Prof., Wesley ave. abv. Eighth st.\\nThomas, A. B., S. cor. Fifteenth st. and Asbury ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.\\nThomas, J., 1228 Asbury ave., also Bridgeton, N. J.\\nThompson, R., Simpson ave. bel. First St., and Phila., Pa,\\nThorn, R. H., store and res. S. cor. Eighth st. and Asbury av.\\nTilton, C. M., rest, and res. Bay ave. abv. Fourth st., and\\nAbsecon, N. J.\\nTownsend, A. C, Thirty-fourth st. and Wesley ave.\\nTweedale, S., Rev., Asbury ave. below Fourteenth st. and\\nWashington, D. C.\\nTurpin, J. B., Rev., Asbury ave. bel. Fourteenth st. and Ab-\\nsecon, N. J.\\nTuttle, C. P., D. D. S., Asbury ave., abv. First st. and\\nCamden.\\nVoss, J., carpenter, 730 Asbury ave.\\nVangilder, H. Mrs., 1419 Asbury ave., and Petersburg, N. J.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "64 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nWaggoner, J. S. M. D., store and res. 731 Asbury ave.\\nWalton, B, F., West ave. bel. Fourteenth st. and Camden.\\nWarner, F. B., carpenter, 1428 Asbury ave.\\nWatson, C. H,, grader, West ave. abv. Fifth st,\\nWert, C. M., store and res., 713 Asbury ave.\\nWert, A., M. D., Ocean City, N. J., and Phila., Pa.\\nWhitaker, W. C, 1230 Asbury ave., and Bridgeton, N. J.\\nWhiteside, F. R., 1236 Asbury ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nWillets, J. S., Capt., N. cor. Seventh st. and Central ave.\\nWilliams, T. P., Asbury ave. abv. First st.\\nWilliams, C. J., 423 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nWillets, S., Mrs., West ave. abv. Seventh st.\\nWilcox, J. N., Mrs., 842 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nWilloughby, W., West ave., abv. First St., and Phila., Pa.\\nWick, C. 820 Wesley ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nWilson, W., Ocean ave. bel. Eighth st., and Millville, N. J.\\nWood, H. M., Miss, E. cor. First st. and West ave., and\\nPhila., Pa.\\nWoodward, O. H., 644 Central ave., and Orlando, Fla.\\nWolf, J., Sea Breeze, 704 Central ave.\\nWoolford, J., Asbury ave. abv. Seventh st.\\nWoolman, E. West ave. bel. Seventh st.\\nWhite, J. M. Asbury ave. abv. First st.\\nZeigler, E., 717 Central ave., and Phila., Pa.\\nZane, W. S., Rev., 1208 Asbury ave., and N. J. Conf.\\nThere are a large number of houses, the names of whose\\noccupants do not appear. These cottages are occupied by dif-\\nferent tenants every year, perhaps by several in a season. This\\nfact precludes the possibility of securing a very large percentage\\nof our summer residents.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\n65\\nThe National Institute\\nCOMPOUND OXYGEN\\nFOR\\nSickness and Debility.\\nGOLD CURE\\nAlcohol, Morphine, etc.\\nFor nearly a quarter of a century the firm of Drs. Starkey Palen,\\nof 1529 Arch Street, Philadelphia, have dispensed Compound Oxygen\\nTreatment for chronic diseases and debility with a most brilliant record\\nof cures. They have treated over 60,000 patients, and, in spite of oppo-\\nsition, have forced the world to acknowledge the potency and usefulness\\nof Compound Oxygen. Over 1000 physicians have used it in their prac-\\ntice, and this number is being contmually increased. The original Com-\\npound Oxygen made by this firm is pure, comparatively devoid of odor\\nor taste, and one of the greatest of natural vitalizers, building up broken-\\ndown constitutions, supplying nature s waste from disease, excesses or\\nold age. A book of 200 pages, mailed free to any address, tells all\\nabout it.\\nNow that science has proved beyond the shadow of aboubt that Intem-\\nperance or Dipsomania is a disease, susceptible of treatment and subject\\nto the same natural laws that govern all diseases and that as large a por-\\ntion of cases are cured absolutely as of any other morbid condition of\\nthe system, we have offered recently\\nTHE NATIONAL GOLD CURE,\\nFor Alcoholism, the Morphine Habit, Etc.\\nThis, the nearest perfection of any known cure, is advocated by\\nleading temperance reformers, National W. C. T. U. officers, clergymen\\nand physicians.\\nFrances E. Willard says of it We are warmly friendly to this\\nmovement, and believe it to be doing great good.\\nAfter proving the superiority of this system to all others, the Mary-\\nland state right has been sold to the Baltimore W. C. T. U., who are\\nusing it to great advantage,\\nPennsylvania and New Jersey state rights are sold to Drs. Starkey\\nPalen_ who have opened an Institute in Philadelphia for the cure of\\nIntemperance.\\nDrs. Starkey Palen,\\nBUSINESS OFf ICE No. 1529 Arch M\\\\, numi Pa.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "66\\nOCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nR. B. Stites Co.,\\nDEALERS IN\\nPINE, CEDAR\\nI MILDING iUilE\\nSIDING, FLOORING, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS,\\nMOULDINGS, BRACKETS, SHINGLES, PICKETS,\\nLATH, LIME AND CEMENT.\\nOrders taken b^^ Telephone, at residence,\\n759 Asbur^ Avenue.\\nLUMBER YARD AND OFFICE,\\nCor. Twelfth St. and West Ave.,\\nOCBAN CITY, N. J.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\n67\\nHKNRY G. SCHLJLTZ,\\nARPENTER, BOILDER AND CONTRACTOR\\nOFFICE:\\nNo. 2633 Germantown Avenue,\\nPHILADELPHIA.\\ntiLEn^niett\\nNEW HOUSE.\\nNEW FURNITURE.\\nOPEN ALL THE YEAR.\\nDELIGHTFUL LOCATION.\\nGoR. Eighth and Central Aue.\\nTerms P^ P^^\\nI, S8, ^9 and ;^io per week\\nSpecial Rates for the Season.\\nMISS MATTIE A. BOYLE, Proprietress.\\nAtlantic Coast Steamboat Co.\\nTIME TABLE IN EFFECT ON AND AFTER JUNE 23, 1893,\\nBoats leaving Ocean City for Somers Point, connecting for Pleasant-\\nville. May s Landing and Philadelphia:\\n6 40, 8.10, 10.00, 11.00 A. M., 2.00, 2.15, 3.20, 4.20, 6.50 P. M.\\nSomers Point for Ocean City:\\n8.00, 9 20, 10.40, 11.30 A. M., 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 6.00 P. M.\\nOcean City for Longport connecting for Atlantic City and Short\\nRoute to Philadelphia:\\n6.40, 7.10, 7.40, 8.10, 9.00, 9.30, 10.00, 10.30, 11.00, 11.30 A. M., 12.00 M.,\\n1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00, 3.30, 4.00, 4.30, 5.00, 5.30, 6 00, 7.00 P. M.\\nLongport to Ocean City:\\n7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30, 9 00, 9.30, 10.00, 10.30, u 00, II 30 A. M., 12.00 M.,\\n12.30, 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00, ^.^,0, 4.00, 4 30, 5.00, 5.30, 6.00, 7,00 P. M.\\nEXCURSIONS TO SEA.\\nHourly pleasnre trips to eea are made by boats of this Company from the Pavilion at the\\nInlet, at Atlantic City. They are a so for charter for towing or special fishing, or Moonlight\\nExcursions.\\nW. T. BARBER, Manager.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "68 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nH. G. STEELMAN,\\n.GROCER,\\nThe Largest Store, the Most Varied Stock\\nGOODS AT CITY PRICES.\\nAGENT FOR THE FAMOUS BIG ELK DAIRY BUTTER\\nAnd Peach Blossom Flour.\\nGoods delivered free of charge. We guarantee satisfaction.\\nNo. 705 Asbury Avenue.\\nBALTIMORE LAUNDRY,\\n326 WEST AVENUE,\\nAll work done in First Class Style.\\nSATISFAOTIOIJ GUARANTEED.\\nMRS. MARY JACKSON, Proprietress.\\nFor^h^miest pp^\u00c2\u00a3SH FISH ^ojto\\nBetween 7l!h $1 and Sth ^t., Agbui^iJ Ave.\\nIf you want the best prepared Salt Fish for Winter use, put up in large\\nor sn-iall quantities, we can fill the bill.\\nGIVE US A TRIAL ORDER. GOODS DELIVERED.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 69\\nTHE RIONEER\\nReal Estate aim Hisnrance Pieiit ann BioKer\\nCONVEYANCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS\\nAND NOTARY PUBLIC.\\nCan supply purchasers with desirable investments at all\\ntimes. Ocean front Cottages and Hotel Sites a speci-\\nialty. Parties seeking to get hold of large plots\\nfor future development can be accommodated.\\nLots for sale on club or syndicate plan.\\nRents and Renting.\\nLife and Fire Insurance\\nGiven careful attention, and the utmost security\\nguaranteed in every department.\\nBusiness Office on most prominent corner. Seventh\\nStreet and Asbury Avenue, Ocean City.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nR. HOWARD THORN.\\nDEALER IN\\nE\\nAND\\nFurniture, Carpets and Mattting,\\nSTOVES, HEATERS AND RANGES,\\nCrockery I Glass w a re\\nYou will find all goods as represented, and prices as low\\nas any, quality considered.\\nDON T FORGET THE PLACE.\\n801 to 805 Asbury Avenue.\\nGood delivered free of charge.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nF. P. CANFIELD,\\nReal Estate Agent.\\n71\\nHouses and Lots for sale in all parts of the city\\non easy terms.\\nThere never will be a time when lots will be cheaper, with so\\nmany attractions as Ocean City offers, than now.\\nIf you want a cottage or home by the sea, on one of the\\nhighest beaches on the New Jersey coast, with Great Egg\\nHarbor Bay and Inlet on one side, and the Atlantic Ocean on\\nthe other, where the li([Uor traffic is prohibited in every deed,\\nwhere the Sabbath is observed, where the grass and flowers\\ngrow with rare beauty, where the sailing is the finest and the\\nboating safe as on an inland lake, where the bathing is as good\\nat one hour of the day as another, and no lile lines are\\nneeded, where there is one of the best boardwalks on the New\\nJersey coast along the strand, where there has not been a case\\nof drowning in seven years, where but two persons have been\\narrested for disorderly conduct in eight years, where there is\\nabsolutely no malaria, where living expenses are as cheap as\\nanywhere, where there is no healthier climate in America,\\nthen buy one or more lots at Ocean City, while they will cost\\nbut a fraction of what they are worth at other seaside resorts.\\nI have lots on the main avenues for sale\\nat from 3 1 00 to 3 000 each.\\nI am thoroughly conversant with all facts connected with\\nproperty on the beach. Those desiring any information in\\nregard to Ocean City, or about property, should call or corres-\\npond with me.\\nW. Cor. Sixth St. and Asbury Ave.,\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "8\\nOCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nSEASIDE\\nPHARMACY\\nNo. 731 Asbury Ax ^enue,\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nPure Drugs and Medicines, Toilet Goods and Fancy Articles,\\nWhitman s Confections, Stationery, Etc.\\nDr. Waggoner s office in drug store. prescriptions carefully compounded.\\nWoodbine\\n(Bpen a[[ tfie ^ear.\\nFirst-Glass Accommodations. Board by the Day, Week or Month.\\nSINGLE MEALS, 50 GTS.\\nCor. Eighth Street and Asbury Avenue,\\nAddress OCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nMRS. SAMUEL CARHART.\\nPlasterers and w. stonehill.\\nBricklayers G. o. adams.\\nSTONEHILL ADAMS,\\nPLASTERING, RAI E SETTING, BRICKLAYING, ETC.,\\nAll Work in Mason Line Pponnptly Attended to.\\nOCEAN CITY. N. J.\\nGr. P. MOORE].\\nAROHlTE^OT AND BUILDE^R,\\nALSO\\nPRACTICAL SLAXER.\\nBEST ROOFING SLATE CONSTANTLY ON HAND\\n835 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\n7?\\n^WM. LAKE,\\nSurveyor and Conveyancer,\\nMaster in Chancery, Notary Public.\\nLots for Sale or Exchange. Cottages to Rent,\\nfurnistieci and unfurn^istieci.\\nCottages cared for during the winter.\\nOffice, S. Cor. Sixth Street and Asbury Avenue.\\nICE CREAM MADE ON PREMISES\\n1\\nQO TO\\n^5:\\nCIS\\nCO\\nb\\n=0\\nI. Champion,\\nCon\\nC/3\\nO\\n/3\\n/a\\nIt\\n(Successor to F. E. Champion)\\nFOR\\nfeet\\n1\\nW\\nC3\\nMILK, ICE CmM MDfilNKS\\no\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0E=3\\nC^3\\nJ\\nu\\n3\\nC/3\\nCi3\\nCor. Seventh and Asbury.\\n1\\nE-\u00c2\u00ab\\nWHOLESALE AND RETAIL", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "74 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK,\\nWM. R. ELLIOTT,\\nSuccEssoK TO MRS. R. MORRIS.\\nDEALER IN\\nGROCERIES, PROVISIONS,\\nCANNED GOODS.\\nDry Goods, Notions, Shoes,\\nA Full Line of GHINR AND GLASSWARE.\\nNo. 7 14 Asbury Avenue,\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nSummer visitors are assured of efficient service, fresh goods and Philadelpbiti\\nprices.\\nB. R. SMITH,\\nThe Pioneer Paper Hanger, Decorator, Grainer\\nand Sign Writer of Ocean City.\\nA large and varied stock of\\nt5AIjL gAPBI^ AND DEGGI^AflTIGNS\\nOn hand at popular prices.\\nAll Wor^I^ APti^ticalljI Done, aqd i\\\\Il Worlc (JuaraqteBd.\\nB R. SMITH,\\nAsbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 75\\nf\\\\CclUlIl^ Royal Route\\nRailroad the sea\\nBETWEEN\\nPhiladelphia and Atlantic City.\\nTHE FAMOUS FAST\\nFL.YERS\\nALWAYS ON TIME.\\nCarry their Passecgers SAFELY and SUEELY between\\nPHILADELPHIA,\\nAND THE DEPOT |N\\nTHE VERY CENTRE OF\\nCHESTNUT ST. WHARF ATT A TOTTTP HTTV\\nOR SOUTH ST WHARF. AlJjAiM A IW Wll I\\nA FEATURE OF THIS LINE IS ITS HARD-COAL\\nLOCOMOTIVES.\\nNO SMOKE f NO SOOT! NO CINDERS\\nSF\u00c2\u00bbKED.\\nonsrx-iY idoxjbijIii-tie^j^ok: XjI\u00c2\u00b1te.\\nSAFETY.\\nTWO STATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA.\\nSIX STATIONS IN ATLANTIC CITY.\\nThe Coaches composing the FLYERS are new and of the latest\\nand most elegant designs. The PulUman Drawing-room and Buffet\\nParlor Cars are models of palatial luxury.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "76 ocp:ax city guide book.\\nA Moral Seaside Resort.\\nfloiie^^celledagaHealtihl^esloi^ei\\nFINEST FACILITIES FOR\\nFISHING, SAILING, GUNNING, ETC.\\nc^^h\\nftyt^vr^,\\nOcean City.\\nEVERY LOVER OE\\nTempsrange) and Morals\\nSHOULD COMBINE TO HELP US.\\nTHOUSANDS OF LOTS FOR SALE AT VARIOUS PRICES,\\nLOCATED IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY.\\nApply to Superintendent,\\nE. B. LAKE.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 77\\nT^ Windsor\\n\u00c2\u00a9CBTiN CITY, N. J.\\nCentral Auenue E. ASHER,\\nBelow Eleventh Street. Proprietress\\nPleasantly located. Convenient to Railroad Station and Post-Office. Terms moderate\\nOPEN ALL THE YEAR.\\nJACOB SOHUFF,\\nS. W. Cor. Seventh Street and Asbury Avenue.\\nFRESH BREAD, PIES and CAKES DAILY\\nNo Cottonseed Oil or Lard Compound, Butterine or Oleomargarine. No Chrome\\nYellow or Alum used. Only the best materials.\\nParties and Weddings supplied. Goods delivered free of charge\\nNothing delivered on Sunday.\\nTwelfth St. and Asbury Ave., Ocean City, X. J.,\\n:dealer in:\\nME^ATS, FLOUR, PROVISIONS\\nFANcY GFjOCERIES,\\nAnd Pine Imported Table Specialties.\\nAlso a full line of high grade Teas, Coffees and Pure Spices constantly on hand.\\nJOHN SCHENK,\\nFine (sigai^s and \u00c2\u00a9obaggo,\\nFULL LINE OF\\nPIPES AND SMOKING TOBACCO.\\n711 ASBURY AVENUK.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "78 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nJ. C. Steei.man. F. B. English.\\nSteelman English,\\nARCHITECTS,\\nCarpenters, Contractors and Builders\\nPlans, Specifications and Building Contracts carefully drawn.\\nPerspective views furn shed.\\nESiTIMATES CHEERFULLY GIVEN.\\nJobbing a Specialty. Satisfaction Guaranteed.\\nOFFICE:\\nEighth Street and West Avenue.\\nJA.COB STIJL.L,\\nEiiCriixxi ST. A.NIJ tub: B 3y\\\\.m31Ar7^X..X\u00c2\u00a3.\\nFor the best Milk Shakes on the\\nIsland, and the finest Salt Water\\nTaffy, go to\\ntin s\\nA fine line of choice Confectionery always on hand.\\nSOFT DRINKS A SPECIALTY.\\nJESSE MURDOCH,\\n82S Asbury Avenue,\\nHauling Sm Grading\\nBaggage delivered to any part of the City.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 79\\nTfec Allaire\\nCENTRALLY LOCATED NEAR THE BEACH.\\nSEND FOR CARD.\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nMRS. A. B. RANCK, Proprietress.\\nEstablished 1881.\\nF. E. CHAMPION,\\nDEALER IN\\nIce, Coal and Wood.\\nfi^^-Having sold out the Ice Cream and Milk Business to I. S.\\nCHAMPION, I am prepared to give the Ice, Coal and Wood Business\\nvery prompt and careful attention.\\nOffice and Residence,\\n716 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nCHARLES F. NABB,\\n756 Asbury Avenue (near the Depot).\\nTropical Fruits, Pure, Fresh Confectionery.\\nA COMPLETE LINE OF FINE STATIONERY.\\nCoach Office. Calls answered with promptness day or night.\\nBaggage delivered to any part of the City.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "8o OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nJ. S. RUSH,\\nPRACTICAL\\nHouse and Sign Painter\\nFBESCOIM m WMEE OE OIL COLOEi.\\nHard Wood Finishing\\nA.ND\\nPiano Polishing\\nJOBBING A SPECIAI^TY.\\nEstimates furnished on all kinds of work.\\nResidence and Office\\nELEVENTH ST. AND CENTRAL AVE.\\nOcean City, N. J.\\ni=. o. sox: 37.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 8l\\nGo-\\nto ttie\\ne\\\\V Store\\nT, B. CROSS S,\\n843-845 Asbury Ave.\\nIf you want\\nFresh i Salt Meats\\nAt bottom rock prices.\\nNew Groceries, New Table Specialties,\\nEverything New, Everything Fresh.\\nCapable and accommodating service.\\nOrders filled with promptness and dispatch.\\nGOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "82 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nOcean ^i^py (Qbat GQai^i^et\\nFresh and Salt Meats always on hand.\\nCountry Produce direct from the Farms.\\nPOULTRY, BUTTER AND EGGS A SPECIALTY.\\nAquilla D. Sharp. 4\\nFor a Handsome Turnout, Gentle\\nHorses and Careful Drivers,\\nThis is the place to go.\\n\\\\^^7 Busses meet all trains and steam-\\nboats. Baggage delivered to all parts\\nof the City.\\nJ. Howard Willets, M. D.,\\n(^op. ^^n^h (\u00c2\u00a7t. and ^entpal ^fc,\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nOffice Hours:\\n8 to ID.\\n4 to 6.\\nThe Wesley House,\\nCOR. EIGHTH STREET C lrrCJ-iOOi\\nAND WESLEY AVENUE. J sta6[islied tm\\nA. E. GOX, Proprietor,\\nOcean City, New Jersey.\\nFINEST location ON THE BEACH. FIRST-CLASS ACCOMMODATIONS.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 83\\nEstimates Cheerfully Given. Jobbing a Specialty.\\nJ. N. JOHNSON,\\nSANITARy PLLIBING AID GAS HTTl\\n808 j^sbiary Avenue,\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nEstablished 1883.\\nRear of 730 Asbury Avenue.\\nFRESH FISH CONSTANTLY ON HAND.\\nDELIVERED AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.\\nA. H. WINNER,\\n\u00c2\u00a7emml J^hotO^tapfiei, Llfe-sLedCrTyons.\\nPictures Copied and Enlarged. Photographs taken of Family Groups,\\nHorses, Carriages, Etc., by the Instantaneous Process.\\nFLASH LIGHT PICTURES TAKEN AT NIGHT AT YOUR HOMES.\\np. o. Address,\\nSmith s Landing, N. J.\\nBRANCH GALLERY,\\nBoardwalk, Ocean City, N. J.\\nA. HANDSOMELY BOUND\\nCopy of the\\nOcean City Guide Book i Directory\\nSent postpaid to any address on receipt of price.\\n25 GENTS. EXTRA, 50 GENTS.\\nPub. Ocean City Guide Book and Directory,\\nOCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "84 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK.\\nFire Insurance Fire Insurance I\\naSI^^^t^Tn ocean city\\nFOR THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES:\\nAgricultural Insurance Go s.\\nLondon and Lancashire Insurance Co., England.\\nPhoenix Assurance Co.\\nInsurance Co. of North America, Phila.\\nFire Association, Phila.\\nRoyal Insurance of Liverpool.\\nCommercial Union Assurance, London.\\nDo not place your Insurance till you have dropped us a postal and we have given\\nyou rates.\\nJOS. I. SCUL L, Sea Isle City, N J.\\n\u00c2\u00a9HE flrpLANTIG fflONTHLY-\\nEdited by Horace E. Scudder, and having among its contributors\\nthe foremost writers of the day.\\nThe best fiction, and the best poetry.\\nA new and powerful serial, by Charles Egbert Craddock, called\\nis now running in the Atlantic.\\nTERMS $4.00 a year in advance, postage free jj cents a number.\\nPostal Notes and Money are at the risk of the sender, and therefore remittances\\nshould be made by money order, draft, or registered letter, to\\nHOUGHTON, MIFFLIN CO.,\\n4 Park Street, Boston, Mass.\\nJ. F. HAND,\\n(^ONXRACTOR AND JguiLJDKR\\nESTIMATES FURNISHED ON ALL KINDS OF WORK.\\nF*rompt attention given to both Contract\\nWork: and Jobbing.\\nRESIDENCE\\nAsbury Avenue above Tenth Street.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "OCEAN CITY.GUID?: BOOK. 85\\nV\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2-^Y^cfe\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nI. G. ADAMS\\nCASINO\\nfHE loss caused by the destructive fire of June 12th, which\\nseemed irreparable for this season, has been retrieved, to\\nthe city at least, and before July 4th a handsome new Casino,\\nelaborate and beautiful, will stand on the site of what was the\\nmost popular resort along the boardwalk from one end to the\\nother. While we sincerely condole Mr. Adams upon his\\nprivate loss, we congratulate the city that this place, remem-\\nbered by all, will so soon arise from its ashes in renewed\\nsplendor, and that the pleasure found by both resident and\\nand guest within its walls will continue unabated.\\nPub.\\n^F", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Ocean City Sentinel\\nOCEAN CITY, NEW JERSEY.\\nR. CURTIS ROBINSON, Editor and PropV.\\nA spicy seven-column weekly paper, with a very large circulation.\\nPublished on the border and circulates in three adjoining counties, as\\nwell as nearly every state of the Union. Advertisers will be wise in\\ngiving the SENTINEL a trial order, as our city is visited by thousands\\nfrom a distance. Rates reasonable.\\nThe Ocean City Daily Reporter\\nwill be issued every afternoon (Sundays excepted) during July and\\nAugust. $i.oo for the season. Two cents per copy.\\nR. CURTIS ROBINSON,\\nI^eal Estate and Ingui ance Agent\\n744-46 Asbury Avenue,\\nOCEAN CITY, N. J.\\nCottages for Sai.e, Rent or Exchange.\\nDESIRABI.E Building Lots at Bargains.\\nInsurance placed in Reliable Companies.", "height": "3177", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "oceancitynjguide00rushm_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "SUPERINTENDENT OF\\nOcean City Association\\nFROM ITS ORGANIZATION, AND ALSO\\nREAIv ESXAXE AGENT,\\nHaving thousands of building lots for sale at various\\nprices, SOME VERY CHEAP, and located in all parts of\\nOcean City.\\nNow is the time to purchase property, before the SECOND\\nRAILROAD comes, as then property will greatly advance.\\nI have a good many INQUIRIES FOR PROPERTY\\nbetween Sixth and Twelfth streets. Any one having property\\nfor sale might do well to give me their prices.\\nAll persons desiring to BUY, or SELL, or EXCHANGE\\nproperty would do well, before closing any transaction, to call on\\nor address\\nE. B. LAKE,\\nNo. 601 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. 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