Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1923, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1923. - Wildwood-by-the-Sea, New Jersey Extends a cordial invitation to all Nobles and their friends to spend their vacation at the fastest-growing resort on the New Jersey coast. Cool! Pleasant! A real live resort! “Wildwood welcomes the world” T Wide, Gently Sloping Beach ---Broad, Expansive Strand WITH the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the great Delaware Bay, 30 miles wide, cooling and filter- ing the air from the west, Wildwood-by-the-Sea is never hot. Wildwood is in the middle of three sister resorts. The northern resort is known as North Wild- wood and includes Anglesea. The southern end is called Wildwood Crest. The three are connected without geographical marks to designate the boundary lines. All are on five-mile beach in the same lati- tude as Washington, D. C. At North Wildwood, a handsome residential district, a splendid boulevard 100 feet wide, with right and left drives on either side of a superb garden, is the only one of its kind on the New Jersey Coast. It stretches from 26th street to the Hereford Inlet. Lighting standards, specially designed, add to its attractiveness and utility. Beautiful Wildwood Crest, adjoining Wildwood on the south and bounded on three sides by salt water, is_known for its substantial homes, splendid streets, healthfulness and cleanliness. On its new Ocean Pier excellent concerts are given daily throughout the summer, and many other forms of re- fined amusements are provided. The resort offers a splendid eighteen-hole pro- fessional golf course for the golf enthusiast. It is located on the main seashore road approximately five miles from the resort. A good conerete highway makes it easily accessible, and with the opening of the new road at Anglesea, and the completion of the bridge across Grassy Sount will cut the distance to the golf course approxi- mately three miles. Tournaments are planned for main holi- days throughout the season and every week-end, and the prizes offered are an inducement for golf enthusiasts to enter. The Club House on the course is “comfy,” and has all the desirable and mecessary appointments for a golfer. The Club plans to erect, within the next few yea much more pretentious structure, with every modern facility to be con- tained therein. A letter addressed direct to the Wildwood Golf Club will bring information regarding the fees, rules and regulations. Wildwoed is an ideal place for the family be- cause millions of dollars have been spent to insure wholesome entertainment to all of Wildwood’s visitors, and the Munici es endeavor to make things delightful for the rs, do the various organi: tions in the resort. Besides the many attractions offered by nature, there are Amusement Piers, Community Centers, Theaters and Shops along the Famous Boardwalk which af- ford pleasure, recreation and diversion to suit all classes. During the seasop there are special entertainments pro- vided by the city under the auspices of the Board of Trade. The Memorial Day and Fourth of July Celebrations are lavish and well attended each year. The Annual Baby Parade is one of the largest fumctions of the year and each year the number of entrants increases. The amouny of money given for prizes is a great inducement to mothers to enter their children in the Carnival. In the line of sports there are Boat Ryiwces, Swimming Races, Fishing Contests, Base Ball Games, Tanais, Golf Tournaments, and many other fuoctions planned don'ng the season to make things more enjoyable and many thing's that make the children so happy. Of course, those who are\ inclined to dancing will find the various Piers and Ball Roowmy very alluring and properly conducted. W. CQURTRIGHT SMITH, Managing Secretary. Fishing from the Piers and Boardwalk as well as casting from the Beach, for channel bass, is one of the great desires of disciples of Izaak Walton. . Wildwood is famous as a fishing resort from the profes- sional and amateur viewpoint. One of the delights of the summer visitors to Wildwood is a jaunt or motor ride to the Dela- ware Bay Shore, a distance of approximately ten miles from the resort. Many of the visitors go there to fish, while others go to have an outing. It is guite an attractive ideal for the fisherman who wants to take a day The city of Wildwood h: Iso provided in municipally-owned playground, on which base ball games aged the entire season. ‘Wildwood boasts of many hotels and boarding houses and shops of all classes in common, and it is possible for a ily of but moderate means as weli as a family having considerable means, to spend their season here and live within their income. In Ottens Harbor, during the fishing season, thousands of barrels of fish of all varieties are brought in and the cottagers and families spending the season at the shore are able to buy freshly caught sea products at cheap prices. \ Cottages, bungalows and apartments may be rented at reasonable rates. Comfortable hotel accommodations, Euro- pean or American plan, are available in all sections of the trio resort. Obliging and responsible real estate agencies will gladly tell you what they have for rent or sale, either fur- nished or unfurnished, and assist you in making a satisfac- tory selgction. .Builders and material men will gladly quote you prices for erecting a home or building of any description. Many stores and industrial plants in Philadelphia and Camden give their employes a day by the sea, for the keen executives at the head of those establishments know that an outing encourages esprit de corps, makes all better ac- quainted, increases length of service and works for increased production at no greater expense than health improvement. Why don’t your firm or lodge do this? For partieulars address BOARD OF TRADE Wildwood-by-the-Sea, N. J. Fou- Persons Desiring Dlh,il’repmlory to Investing in the Resort, These Facts Are Presented: rated as & clty from the Boroughs of Tax rates per 3100 valuation—Wildwood, $403: Miles distant from New York, 167. L 3 .04, In ‘Wiliwood andt,Helly Bessh in orth Wildwood Miles of improved strects, 88, Muniripal 'l(m‘fl‘—-"fl‘ M“ plant. Over cwo million dd'lars’ worth of amusement Number of plers, §; . , 10; newspapers, E T Ry 4 millgnater SN, . Number of school , 8: pul ers, 48; number of pupils in Ppublio so 2,100, “Miloe of bosrdwalk, 4, Miles of beach front, 8%. Miles of trolle rosd, 7. Firemen throughout the yesr, 200. ) Aumabile Srs ks ‘and saines. blio school teach- | hools, Modern retail stores of all kinds, Two hespitals, Many lodges. automobile roa untry stretch bet: Wildwood Philadelphia-and New built, making a safe, pleasant way to the shore. Ample garage accom- modatio: t reasonable rates make Wildwood the rendezvous of many touring parties. “WiLNNGTON,