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 Qdide BooK apd Directory 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 f{ Cijt of permaQept ai^d 76n\porary F^esidt^^tj, 5ti'<?et Dire(;tory, 
 
 So<;ieti^s, I^eli^iou5 5erui(^es, |^istorieal apd Bio($rapl?i(;al 
 
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 PUBLISHED BY 
 
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 Entered according to act of Congress, in the year I'-^gi, 
 
 By MRS. J. S. RUSH, 
 
 in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washingtor. 
 
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HON. SIMON LAKE. 
 
 REV. E. B. LAKE. 
 
 REV. S. W. LAKE. 
 
 REV. T. E. LAKE. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 Believing that Ocean City is destined to rank among the first of 
 summer resorts of the New Jersey coast, and in response to a 
 desire frequently expressed by our citizens and visitors, we have 
 endeavored to set forth in as compact form as possible, many of its 
 most interesting and important features. 
 
 As this is the first effort made in the direction of a Guide Book 
 and Directory, the compilation has been tedious and difficult, and 
 there may be errors and omissions, which we ask our readers to 
 overlook. The constantly changing population of a seaside resort 
 renders accuracy almost impossible except for a short period. We 
 believe, however, the book to be so complete as to be of great 
 advantage to our citizens, our summer residents and transient 
 guests. The demand has already secured for it a large circulation. 
 
 We are indebted for information contained in the historical 
 sketches to the marine official records of the coast, the " Historical 
 Collections" of the state, and to the older residents, the Life 
 Guards, Sailors and Fishermen of Southern New Jersey. 
 
 Much credit is due the talented artist W. Edwards, late of 
 Lynchburg, Va., for the fine views photographed for the work, 
 and the Crosscup & West Engraving Co., Philadelphia, for the 
 handsome engravings on copper-plate. 
 
officers. 
 
 Mayor, G. P. Moore, office, 835 Asbury ave. 
 
 coUNcm. 
 
 J. Conver, office, 443 West ave. 
 
 N. Corson, office, 653 Asbury ave. 
 
 F. P. Canfield, office, W. cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 
 
 J. C. Steelman, office, 1259 Asbury ave. 
 
 Clerk, H. B. Adams, office, E. cor. Eighth and West. 
 
 Collector and Treasurer, H. G. Steelman, 705 Asbury ave. 
 
 Assessor, R. Ludlam, 823 Asbury ave. 
 
 Marshal, H. Conver, 711 Asbury ave. 
 
 Coroner, A. E. Cox, S. cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 
 
 Freeholder, W. Lake, N. cor. Fourth st. and Central ave. 
 
 BOfll^D OF HEflliTH. 
 
 President, J. S. Waggoner, 731 Asbury ave. 
 
 C. A. Campbell, 813 Asbury ave. 
 
 S. Schurch, S. cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave. 
 
 P. Murdock, 8o5 Asbury ave. 
 
 J. C. Steelman, 1259 Asbury ave. 
 
 UUflTER DEPAHTJVIEISIT. 
 
 President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 
 
REV. J. B. GKAW, D.D., 
 President Ocean City Association. 
 
First (T). ^. ($l7iJrGl?, 
 
 Eight St. and Central ave. Rev. W. A. Massey, Pastor. 
 
 Services — 10.30 a.m., 8.00 p.m. 
 Sunday School, 2.30 p.m. G. P. Moore, Supt. 
 Christian Endeavor, 6.30 p.m. Miss M. Lake, President. 
 Devotional Meetings, Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., 7.30 p.m. 
 Ladies' Aid Society. Mrs. D. W. Bartine, President. 
 
 /^ijditoridjn), C^amp (Jrotir^d. 
 
 Camp Meeting and other religious services during summer months. 
 
 U/oma9'5 Ql^ristiai} 5(?mperaF7ce drjioQ. 
 
 Miss Alice Canfield, President. 
 
 BijildJQ^ Coap pssociatioi}. 
 
 Officers — Pres., G. P. Moore; Sec, Wm. Lake ; Treas., R. H. Thorn. 
 Directors — H. Steelman, G. Ang, S. Miller, G. O. Adams, J. Brower, 
 
 S. Sampson. 
 
 5ecr(^t Societies. 
 
 Junior Order United American Mechanics. Knights of Pythias. 
 
 Brass Bai^d. 
 
 H. G. Steelman, Leader. 
 
 Cife-SauJQ^ Stations. 
 
 1. Ocean City, Capt. J. S. Willets. 
 
 2. Peck's Beach, Capt. L. Godfrey. 
 
 3. Corson's Inlet, Capt. C. D. Stephens. 
 
Directory. 
 
 Adams H B, real estate, 411 Fifth st ; ofifice, E cor Eighth st and 
 
 West ave. 
 Adams J T, " Traymore," S cor Ninth st and Wesley ave. 
 Adams W W, stone mason, Asbury ave, bel Tenth st. 
 Adams G O, stone mason, 1057 West ave. 
 Allen E, Asbury ave abv Fourth st, also Frankford, Pa. 
 Allen & Hughes, 444 Asbury ave. 
 Atvvood P C J, 1233 Central ave, also Phila, Pa, 
 
 Bamford A E Mrs, 443 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Baner M, W cor Sixth st and Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Barrows A D, N cor Thirty-fourth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Barber W A, Ocean City, Manager Atlantic Steamboat Co. 
 
 Bartine D W, M D, 717 Wesley ave. 
 
 Bartine W, 717 Wesley ave. 
 
 Barnett B G, Asbury ave abv First st, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Barnhurst W, 161 2 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Bardsley S, 1204 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Bassett S, 930 Wesley ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 
 
 Bebee S, Ocean ave abv Fourth st, also Frankford, Pa. 
 
 Beriners A Mrs, "Atlantic Villa," N cor Seventh st and Ocean ave, 
 
 also Phila, Pa. 
 Bethany S S, " Ocean Rest," N cor Thirty-second st and Wesley 
 
 ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 Bennett J, hauling, W cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 
 
MAYOR C;. p. MOORE. 
 
 MAYOR MOORE'S RESIDENCE. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 7' 
 
 Bingham B C, Simpson ave bel First st, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Borgner H C, "Allaire," S cor Sixth st and Central ave, also Leba- 
 non, Pa. 
 
 Borie C, Asbury ave abv First st, also Frankford, Pa. 
 
 Boyle W E Mrs, 429 Wesley ave. 
 
 Breckley G N Capt Sr, Central ave bel 8th st, also Washington, D C. 
 
 Breckley G N Jr, painter, 310 Fourth st. 
 
 Briggs J, stone mason, 1127 West ave. 
 
 Brower J, painter, store Asbury ave abv Seventh st, res S cor Third 
 st and Central ave. 
 
 Brower Jos, S cor Third st and Central ave. 
 
 Brown T J, Central ave abv First st, also Atlantic City, N J. 
 
 Bryan J T, 1249 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Brucker E, E cor Tenth st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Bourgeois E A, rest 808 Asbury ave, res S cor Ninth st and Cen- 
 tral ave. 
 
 Bourgeois G A, carpenter, 420 Central ave. 
 
 Burroughs R, painter, E cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Burley Jos, " Vandalia House," Central ave abv Eighth st. 
 
 Burley A, carpenter, W cor Fourteenth st and West ave. 
 
 Burt J, Wesley ave bel Ninth st, also Bridgeton, N J. 
 
 Burrell W H Rev, Ocean City, N J, also 43 Cooper st, Camden, N J. 
 
 Burnley C W Rev, 924 Wesley av^e, also Williamsport, Pa. 
 
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 Campbell C A, store and res 813 Asbury ave. 
 
 Canfield J T Rev, " Illinois," W cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Canfield H D, " Illinois," W cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. See adv. 
 
 Canfield F P, councilman, " Illinois," W cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Carson J R, 1205 Central ave, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Carhart S, painter, W cor Twelfth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Champion F E, rest and res N cor Seventh st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Champion M, teamster, 405 Seventh st. 
 
 Champion I, carousel, res Asbury ave abv Seventh st. 
 
 Champion J, builder, "Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 
 
 Champion Q, painter, "Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 
 
8 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 Chance J C, Asbury ave abv First st, also Vineland, N J. 
 
 Chew W, carpenter, West ave abv Thirteenth st. 
 
 Christ A E Mrs, Central ave bel Sixth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Clark J, E cor Seventeenth st and West ave, also May's Landing, N J. 
 
 Clawell D, N cor Seventeenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Clelland M C, 822 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Clifton J, plasterer, Simpson ave bel Second st. 
 
 Collins S, 1408 West ave, also Seaville, N J. 
 
 Colver A H, "The Emmett," W cor Eighth st and Central ave. 
 
 Conver J, councilman, store 623 Asbury ave, res 443 West ave. 
 
 Conver H L, store and res 71 1 Asbury ave. 
 
 Corson M, life guard, 833 Asbury ave. 
 
 Corson N, councilman, 653 Asbury ave. 
 
 Corson Y, store and res 721 Asbury ave. 
 
 Corson O, painter, 721 Asbury ave. 
 
 Corson J I Rev, N cor 5th st and Central ave, also Bargaintown, N J. 
 
 Corson F R, M D, N cor nth st and Central ave, also Merchantville. 
 
 Corson J M, 1632 Central ave, also Palermo, N J. 
 
 Cowperthwait S S E, 1220 Central ave, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Cotton A, 433 Asbury ave, also Frackville, Pa. 
 
 Cox A E, " Wesley House," W cor Eighth st and Wesley ave. 
 
 Cox L, machinist, " Wesley House," W cor Eighth st and Wesley ave, 
 
 Coxey J C, E cor Fourteenth st and Asbury ave, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Cronin W D, plasterer, " Dolphin," 1046 Asbury ave, 
 
 Currey W B, Central ave abv Fifth st, also Phila, Pa, 
 
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 Davis J H, Atlantic ave bel Fourth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Davis W A, M D, N cor First st and Central ave, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Davis N, M D, ¥. cor First st and Asbury a\^e, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Davis J T, N cor First st and Asbury ave, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Demaris A, hackman, E cor Twelfth st and West ave. 
 
 Dixon J, Central ave abv Fourth st, also Phila. 
 
 Dobbins G L Rev, 922 Wesley ave, also N J Conf 
 
 Doughty C, 431 Asbury ave, also Atlantic City, N J. 
 
 Downs J S, " Perennial," 810 Central ave. 
 
EX-MAYOR J. E. PRYOK, M.D. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 Edowes T, "Home Cottage," 1414 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Edwards C E, D D S, 809 Wesley ave, also Haddonfield, N J. 
 
 Elliot W R, Central ave abv Third st, also Frankford, Pa. 
 
 Elvvell W H, Sta Agt W J R R, res S cor 8th st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Emerson W D, 1606 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 English E B, builder, 915 Asbury ave. 
 
 English S Mrs, 915 Asbury ave. 
 
 English J A, 629 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Esher E H, 1620 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Eves Misses, 708 Central ave, also Media, Pa. 
 
 Fenstermacher G, Wesley ave abv Eighth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Fletcher M Miss, 117 Asbury ave. 
 
 FanelH T, laborer, 328 West ave. 
 
 Foulds H, W cor Fourth st and Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Fisher R, real estate, N cor Seventh st and Wesley ave. 
 
 Gandy J G, store 74S Asbury ave, res W cor 8th st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Gandy O M, painter, W cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Garland W G, 640 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Garwood S P, carpenter, 418 Wesley ave. 
 
 Garrison W R, life guard, 831 Asbury ave. 
 
 Garrison S O Rev, 1658 Central ave, also Vineland, N J. 
 
 Gerlach H, cor Sixteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Gilbert A G, painter, Asbury ave abv Third st. 
 
 Glickert R, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Godfrey W, bath-house, res 629 Asbury ave. 
 
 Graham F R, M D, W cor loth st and Wesley ave, also Chester, Pa. 
 
 Griffith A E Mrs, M D, W cor i6th st and Central ave, also Phila. 
 
 Griffith L R Mrs, W cor Seventh st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
lO OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
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 Hagle W, Asbury ave bel Sixteenth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Haines H, S cor Ninth st and Wesley ave, also Mt. Ephraim, N J. 
 
 Hand J F, builder, 721 Central ave. 
 
 Hayes N, carpenter, 825 Asbury ave. 
 
 Headley L, carpenter, 829 Asbury ave. 
 
 Heisler H Miss, "Aldine," Wesley ave abv 9th, also Mt. Holly, N J. 
 
 Henderson J C Capt, 447 West ave. 
 
 Hess U Y, teamster, 1224 Asbury ave. 
 
 Hillman J P, Asbury ave bel Twelfth st, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Hickey D W, Cond W J R R, Asbury ave abv Eighth st. 
 
 Hoffman B, carpenter, 1241 Asbury ave. 
 
 Houck W Capt, Wesley ave abv Sixth st. 
 
 Huckle W Rev, 602 Wesley ave, also New York. 
 
 Hudson D, Haven ave abv Second, also Millville, N J. 
 
 Hunter T, Ocean ave abv Second st, also Phcenixville, Pa. 
 
 Hutchinson J H Rev, "Aldine," Wesley ave abv 9th st, also N J Conf. 
 
 Hyde Mrs, "Lafayette," W cor 1 3th st and Central ave, also Vineland, 
 
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 IngersoU B, carpenter. Central ave bel Sixth st. 
 
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 Jeffries J H Capt, 347 West ave. 
 Jeffries J B Capt, 347 West ave. 
 Jeffries M, pound-keeper, 347 West ave. 
 Jeffries Geo Capt, 347 West ave. 
 Jackson M Mrs, laundress, 326 West ave. 
 Jones W, 437 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 Joseph A Mrs, 40S Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
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 Kendrick J R, 820 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 King C, Asbury ave bel Fourth st. 
 Krouse G, 305 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 Kynett A G Rev, 1233 Central ave, also Phila Conf. 
 Kynett H H, M D, 1225 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 Kynett A J Rev, 1229 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 Lake W, real estate, N cor Fourth st and Central ave. 
 
 Lake D E, builder, 1628 Asbury ave. 
 
 Lake M Capt, 450 West ave. 
 
 Lake E B Rev, real estate, E cor Fifth st and Wesley ave. 
 
 Lake H Mrs, 413 Fifth st. 
 
 Lake S W Rev, Ocean City, also N J Conf. 
 
 Lake J E Rev, Ocean City, also N J Conf. 
 
 Lake J T, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Pleasantville, N J. 
 
 Lee I Capt, 939 Asbury ave. 
 
 Lennig G G, Simpson ave bel First st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Lee J W, store and res Asbury ave bel Seventh st. 
 
 Lewallen J, barber, 711 Asbury ave. 
 
 Linn J, 324 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Loder E B, S cor Twelfth st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Lonobough J C, 1212 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Ludlam R, assessor, 823 Asbury ave. 
 
 Mahoney D, 1643 West ave, also Phila. 
 
 Mapps W R, 141 6 Asbury ave, also Long Branch, N J. 
 
 Marter H H, 934 Asbury ave, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Massey W A Rev, 716 Asbury ave, also N J Conf 
 
 Marshall A, 712 Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Matthews C, Ocean City, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 McAllister J C, Asbury ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 McAleese J, 1409 Asbury ave. 
 
 McGuire J H, Wesley ave abv Eighth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Miller P Capt, 726 Asbury ave. 
 
 Miller W Capt, 726 Asbury ave. 
 
 Miller S B, carpenter, 733 Central ave. 
 
 Miller C G, engineer W J R R, 1640 Asbury ave. 
 
 Moore G P, mayor, 835 Asbury ave. 
 
 Moore E, painter, 835 Asbury ave. 
 
 Moore M, slate-roofer, 835 Asbury ave. 
 
OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 Morey J K, carpenter, Central ave bel Eighth st. 
 
 Morris, A Mrs, 404 Asbury ave. 
 
 Morris J B, fisherman, 727 West ave. 
 
 Morris R Mrs, store and res 714 Asbury ave. 
 
 MuirD S, cor Fourth st and Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Murdock J, 215 Asbury ave. 
 
 Murdock P, 806 Asbury ave. 
 
 Myers C Esq, N cor Eighth st and Wesley ave. 
 
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 Newkirk B, expressman, S cor Fourth st and Asbury ave. 
 Nelson A, W J R R, 717 Asbury ave, "Ocean City House." 
 Noble G N Mrs, 722 Asbury ave. 
 Nevvcomb H O, Wesley ave bel Ninth st. 
 
 Palen G E, M D, 825 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Paxson Misses, W cor Sixth st and Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Pierce O, Ocean City, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Price J T, "Ocean City House," 717 Asbury ave. 
 
 Price B D, Atlantic ave abv Fourth st, also Phila. Pa. 
 
 Pryor J E, M D, E cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 
 
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 Ranck A B Mrs, "Allaire," S cor Sixth st and Central ave. 
 Raney A W Mrs, 409 Fifth st, also Frankford, Pa. 
 Rapp R, Central ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 
 Rapp J V R, Central ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 
 Rapp F, store and res 756 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 Radcliff J Y, 749 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 Reinhart H, engineer W J R R, 917 Asbury ave. 
 Reed J, Asbury ave abv Fourteenth st, also Camden, N J. 
 Rice E L, 1213 Asbury ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 
 Risley L Capt, W cor Seventh st and Central ave. 
 Risley W Capt, Asbury ave abv Fourth st. 
 Risley D Capt, 7 1 1 Central ave. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. I3 
 
 Robinson J, 726 Asbury ave, 
 
 Robinson R C, office 744 Asbury ave, res 721 Asbury ave. 
 Roberts Mrs, M D, 604 Wesley ave, also New York. 
 Rush J S, painter, office E cor Ninth st and Asbury ave, res 219 
 Wesley ave. 
 
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 Salter J G, S cor Fourteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Sampson S B, builder, 305 Fourth st. 
 
 Sampson D, tinsmith, Asbury ave abv Fourth st. 
 
 Sanderlin B H, Wesley ave bel Eighth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Schenck E Mrs, 656 West ave, also Millville, N J. 
 
 Schermerhorn C H, 1237 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Schuff" J, baker, W cor Asbury ave and Seventh st. 
 
 Schurch S, " Bellevue," S cor Asbury ave and Seventh st 
 
 Schmitt F, E cor Tenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Schultz H G, Asbury ave bel Sixteenth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Scull J C, carpenter, 727 Asbury ave. 
 
 Scull A D, builder. Central ave abv Seventh st. 
 
 Shaw T, E cor Fifth st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Sharp A D, hackman, 1 10 Asbury ave. 
 
 Sharp C B, hackman, 1 10 Asbury ave. 
 
 Sharp E J, carpenter, no Asbury ave. 
 
 Sharp W, carpenter, West ave abv Second st. 
 
 Sheets S, painter, 825 Asbury ave. 
 
 Shriver W, 1221 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Sipler M H Miss, 708 Asbury ave. 
 
 Smith L S, store and res 1 140 Asbury ave. 
 
 Smith J W, butcher, 644 Central ave. 
 
 Smith B R, painter, store Asbury ave bel 6th st, res 1059 West ave. 
 
 Smith F, milkman, Asbury ave bel Third st. 
 
 Smith E, Asbury ave abv Fourth st, also English Creek, N J. 
 
 Smith E, 1447 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Smith H D, 1209 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Sorriers E Capt, 424 West ave. 
 
 Snyder F, store and res Asbury ave abv Eighth st. 
 
14 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 Sooy R R, " Brighton," Seventh st and Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Sooy N, West ave bel Fourth st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Stewart W C, 626 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Steelman H, store and res N cor Fourth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Steelman H G, store 705 Asbury ave, res 420 Central ave. 
 
 Steelman J C, councilman, 1259 Asbury ave. 
 
 Steelman R, " Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 
 
 Steelman M Mrs, 911 Asbury ave. 
 
 Still J, Asbury ave abv Ninth st. 
 
 Still L W, Asbury ave abv Ninth st. 
 
 Stites R B, lumber, 759 Asbury ave, 
 
 Stonehill W, stone mason, 1 159 Asbury ave. 
 
 Sutton H C, baggage master W J R R, Central ave bel Eighth st. 
 
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 Thatcher J W, W cor Thirteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Thatcher J, M D, 728 Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Thegan W, Central ave abv First st, also Camden, N J. 
 
 Thomas L R Prof, Wesley ave abv Eighth st. 
 
 Thomas A B, S cor Fifteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa, 
 
 Thomas J, 1228 Asbury ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 
 
 Thompson R, Simpson ave bel First st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Thorn R H, store and res S cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 
 
 Tilton C M, rest and res Bay ave abv Fourth st. 
 
 Tweedale S Rev, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Frankford, Pa. 
 
 Turpin J B Rev, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Gloucester, N J. 
 
 Tuttlfi C P, D D S, Asbury ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa.' 
 
 Voss J, carpenter, 730 Asbury ave. 
 
 Vangilder E Mrs, 1419 Asbury ave, also Petersburg, N J. 
 
 Waggoner J S, M D, store and res 731 Asbury ave, 
 Walton B F, West ave bel Fourteenth st, also Camden, N J. 
 Warner F B, carpenter, 1428 Asbury ave. 
 
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DR. PALEN S COTlAi.h.. 
 
 DR. PALEN's cottages ON THE OCEAN FRONT. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 15 
 
 Watson C H, grader, West ave abv Fifth st. 
 
 Wert C M, store and res 713 Asbury ave. 
 
 Whitaker W C, 1230 Asbury ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 
 
 Whiteside F R, 1236 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Willets J S Capt, N cor Seventh st and Central ave. 
 
 Williams T P, Asbury ave abv First st. 
 
 Williams C J, 423 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Willets S Mrs, West ave abv Seventh st. 
 
 Wilcox J N Mrs, 842 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Willoughby W, West ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Wood H M Miss, E cor Asbury ave and West st, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Wolf J, coal, res "Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 
 
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 Zeigler £,717 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
 
 Zane W S Rev, 1208 Asbury ave, also N J Conf. 
 
 There are a large number of houses the names of whose occu- 
 pants do not appear. These cottages are occupied by different 
 tenants every year, perhaps by several in a season. This fact pre- 
 cludes the possibility of securing a very large percentage of our 
 summer residents. 
 
l6 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 Suide Boelc and directory. 
 
 "Who can alight on as happy a shore, 
 All the world o'er, all the world o'er, 
 Whither away ? Listen and stay." 
 
 The island upon which Ocean City is built, is located on the 
 New Jersey coast, ten miles south of Atlantic City. It contains an 
 area of over three and one-half square miles, or about 2000 acres, 
 and stretches between Great Egg Harbor Bay and Thoroughfare 
 Sound on one side, and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side for 
 seven miles, thus having the peculiar advantage of an entire length 
 of ocean frontage. The northern and southern limits are bounded 
 by Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Corson's Inlet. The strand of 
 firmly-packed sand 200 feet wide is higher than any point along 
 the New Jersey coast. It slopes gently to the sea, and is smooth 
 and as hard as a floor, without any quicksands or treacherous 
 grounds. When the storms of the equinox sweep the seaboard, 
 Great Egg Harbor Bar is an invaluable protection to the city; this, 
 even if it were possible to create by mechanical skill, would cost 
 fabulous sums of money. At all times, the waves breaking upon 
 it lose their force before rolling up on the strand. 
 
 The island is a chosen spot of nature. The soil possesses 
 peculiar properties, and protected by the sheltering sand hills which 
 skirt the shore, is productive of a most luxuriant flora, blending 
 the growth of the tropics with that of the temperate regions. 
 Responding to this wondrous creative influence, it stands out from 
 the dreary stretch of dull marsh lands and white sands of the coast 
 fair and green. In clearing the land of its dense vegetable growth, 
 many of the cedars have been left. While this tree cannot com- 
 
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 pare in beauty with others of the order conifers, the stately fir, or 
 the graceful larch, yet as it stands with roots firmly grasping soil 
 almost swept by the waves, its gnarled and straggling branches 
 grappling with the fierce Atlantic storms, reminding us of the 
 rugged strength which characterizes the tree of its family from 
 which Solomon hewed the timbers for the building of the temple 
 at Jerusalem — the cedars of Lebanon — it forms a pleasing back- 
 ground for the mottled ash bark, shining leaves and scarlet fruit of 
 the hollies, the pale green of the willows, and the crimson and gold 
 of the autumn maples. A thousand varieties of wild flowers 
 mingle their delicate bloom in the thickets of grape vines, clematis, 
 bayberryand alder bushes. The floral gem of our northern forests, 
 trailing arbutus, flourishes about the roots of the southern 
 magnolia ; the dull purple of the cinquefoil, usually found in cold 
 bogs, mingles with the yellow blossoms of the prickly cactus, 
 while among the lush grasses of the meadows grow hundreds of 
 varieties of marsh and aquatic herbs, which in their season star the 
 earth with a rich profusion of variety and color. 
 
 From early spring till autumn the air is redolent with the odor 
 of flowers. Song birds, the whistling cardinal of brilliant plumage, 
 the yellow oriole, the meadow lark, thrush, robin, and song 
 sparrow build their nests among the branches of the low trees,, 
 and in the thickets of the eglantine and beach grass. The place 
 has been well known to sportsmen. Immense numbers of 
 wild fowl found cover in the thick underbrush about the inland 
 ponds, and the abundant growth of small fruits afforded them 
 sustenance. In the spring and autumn wild geese, ducks and 
 other migratory birds, while passing north or south, rested 
 here in their long flight and regaled themselves, the discordant 
 notes of one flock scarcely dying away before a dark line, 
 wedge or cloud in the distance denoted the approach of 
 another one. The stately blue heron, now seldom seen, .stalked 
 majestically over the meadows or stood upon the margin of the 
 pools in profound meditation. The tall white "booby" covered 
 acres of ground midway of the island with nests, from which were 
 gathered eggs by people living on the mainland. The loon uttered. 
 
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 its mournful note as it winged its slow flight inland or folded its 
 lengthy legs and wings in an apparently inextricable mass in 
 alighting. Curlew, plover, and infinite varieties of snipe, waded out 
 after the receding wave in quest of unwary mussels, their low cries 
 mingling with the angry scream of the bald eagle, as he darted 
 into the waters for his prey, or oftener robbed the hard-working 
 fish hawk. Twenty-seven varieties of sea gulls visit the coast. 
 They are divided into two general classes: summer gulls and 
 winter gulls. They vary in size from a pigeon to a goose. The 
 winter gulls are the largest, and come in November; in May 
 they return to Labrador. 
 
 On this part of the coast is found a wonderful variety of forms 
 of ocean life, from the low, shapeless mollusk to the gigantic 
 cetacean. This fact is apparent in the choice of the location of 
 the Biological Society buildings of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 ten miles to the south, at Sea Isle City. To see the ocean when it 
 is terrible in its beauty, one must visit it during the fall or winter 
 months. It is then, when lashed into fury by the winds, that the 
 depths are stirred and its treasures thrown up on the beach. The 
 strand looks at times as though a polar had swept over it and 
 left a thousand fantastic forms of ice, so clear that when the sun's 
 rays strike them they radiate every color of the rainbow. These 
 are jelly fish, dead and divested of their digestive organs, thus 
 making the illusion more complete, as that is the only part of their 
 bodies not transparent. Constellations of star fish, the quaint tiny 
 sea horse, " sailor's razors" and "pincushions," the graceful "sea 
 robin," conchs, clams and sea snails may be seen in abundance. 
 
 On the eighth of October a finback or rorqual whale washed 
 ashore measuring sixty-eight feet. The tail measured fifteen feet 
 across the flukes, and if Neptune had harnessed it to his chariot, 
 he would have required a bit thirteen feet long to have controlled 
 ihis charger. It was a monster of its kind, and the skeleton is the 
 largest owned by any museum in the world. 
 
 Lying near the 39th degree of latitude, the climate is that of 
 Annapolis, Maryland. Spring comes early. Summer is rendered 
 .delightful by the cool sea breezes. Autumn, with its gorgeous 
 
F. P. C ANF I ELD, 
 City Councilman. 
 
 'The Illinois," Mrs. H. D. Canfield, Troprietress. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. I9 
 
 coloring, dreamy haze and bright skies, lingers long. The close 
 proximity of the gulf stream adds greatly to the salutary influence 
 of the climate. The winters are tempered by its warm current, 
 thus making an all-the-year-round residence in every way desirable. 
 Invalids are loud in their praises of its benefits. What better inspi- 
 ration can be wished for than the music of the pines, the roar of 
 the ocean, the invigorating blast of the Atlantic north wind ? This 
 is a part of our birthright, from which we cannot afford to be 
 kept out. 
 
 The island was formerly known as Peck's Beach. There may 
 be found still further back, in the archives of the Courts of 
 London, a document in which it was known as Pete's Beach. It 
 has little written history save that of its location and wrecks. 
 Of a period when a race computing time by nights and moons 
 built their mud lodges along the shore, no record is given. Tradi- 
 tion only hands its history down to us interwoven with the beauti- 
 ful legends of the peaceful tribes of Delawares or Lenni-Lenapes. 
 If we measure time by the years since the island has been inhabit- 
 ed, it is but a short step back from this bright scene of civilization 
 to the time when their swift pirogues shot out from the shore filled 
 with dusky braves, gorgeous in paint and feathers, and with squaws 
 of beautiful form clothed in rudely-made garments fringed with 
 the hair of the red deer, still found in Southern New Jersey, while 
 wampum made from the clam shells of the beach adorned their 
 black unbound hair. Pirates have anchored here without fear of 
 molestation, and borne from the hold of the vessel treasures of 
 gold, jewels and rich merchandise to bury beneath these sands. 
 Their implements of warfare have been dug up but recently, quite 
 near. One of these, a long, pointed iron rod ; half-way of its 
 length was fastened a knife fashioned like a hand sickle. The 
 evident intention of its use was first to draw the victim toward the 
 executioner with the knife, and then impale him on the rod. 
 
 The first topographical surv^ey of the island was made to 
 Thomas Budd, October 7, 1695. In 1750, about 500 acres of land 
 located between Ninth street and the north point of the beach, 
 were bought of him by John Somers, Lord Chancellor of England, 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 and cousin of John Lord, Right Honorable Earl of Hardvvick. 
 This tract of land remained in the possession of the Somers family 
 for one hundred and thirty years. The first houses upon the 
 island known to be built by white people, were located, one near 
 the north point of beach, occupied by Hanna Kittle, the other in 
 the neighborhood of Ninth street and Asbury avenue, occupied by 
 John Robinson. Thirty-three years ago Parker Miller, and Louisa, 
 his wife, with four little children, braved the solitude and erected a 
 home. For over twenty years they were the only residents. 
 Their intercourse with the outside world was when sportsmen came 
 gunning for wild fowl, when a vessel was cast away, or "beach 
 parties " came across the bay for a day's recreation. Mr. Miller 
 was engaged in raising cattle, planting oysters, and watching the 
 coast for wrecks. He has acquired by his long residence and 
 direct observation, a better knowledge of the island from its 
 primeval condition to its present high state of development, than 
 any one living. 
 
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 This picturesque, landlocked sheet of water, teeming with blue- 
 fish, sheepshead, oysters, and shellfish of every description, 
 received its name from the large numbers of gulls' eggs found in 
 the surrounding meadows. The gentle ebb and flow of the tide, 
 submerging and revealing the emerald beauty of its tiny green 
 islands, the white-winged sea craft passing rapidly to and fro or 
 resting lazily on the blue waters, the throbbing steamers with their 
 long wakes of white foam, form an endless panorama, from which 
 the weary toiler, the dispirited pleasure seeker, nor the invalid, 
 can ever grow weary. Away to the southwest. Thoroughfare 
 Sound sweeps out through the meadows, till it is lost to view 
 in the shadow of the pines. Following the line of the bay, now 
 curving to the west, Beasley's Point is plainly visible. During 
 Revolutionary times, a watch was kept at this place from a " crows- 
 nest" or lookout, and if any British vessels were seen, a bell was 
 rung and the inhabitants of the surrounding country quickly 
 gathered at the Point to repulse the soldiers should they come in 
 on a foraging expedition, as was frequently done. At one time all 
 the men of the village were absent, and a young woman, Rachel 
 Stillwell, was keeping watch ; she espied a British man-o'-war lying 
 just outside of the inlet. Quickly dropping the spy-glass she gave 
 the alarm, but before it was responded to the British had lowered 
 their row boats and were speeding across the bay. Summoning 
 the women of the hamlet, a cannon was quickly rolled into posi- 
 tion, and with her own hands she applied a brand to the touch- 
 hole, and quickly reloading, sent peal after peal across the waters, 
 completely routing the redcoats. 
 
 Sweeping down past Beasley's Point, the waters of the Tucka- 
 hoe, Middle, and Great Egg Harbor rivers empty into the bay. In 
 the dim perspective, masts and sails are outlined against the sky; 
 in nearer view, schooners laden with wood, oysters, and freight of 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 various kinds, are hurrying out to the ocean, bound for different 
 points all along the coast. 
 
 Historic Somers' Point next marks the curve of the shore. 
 From its wharves have sailed out brave soldiers of the Revolution 
 and daring and skillful navigators. Many of these who have 
 "gone down to the sea in ships" have left behind them wives, 
 sweethearts and mothers, who differed only from the heroines of 
 fiction in that the tragedy and pathos of their lives were real, for as 
 they left the port, they sailed out of the lives of those standing on 
 shore, and all that ever floated back was a rumor, perhaps, of a 
 fragment of wreck cast up on some distant coast, bearing the name 
 or some trace of the vessel. 
 
 Still following the line of the shore, now lost to view, and now 
 clear and distinct, Longport may be seen. Its prominent wharf is 
 visible for many miles out at sea. This point of land forms the 
 last boundary of the bay, and is divided from Ocean City by Great 
 Egg Harbor Inlet. On its opposite side it is washed for miles by 
 the Atlantic Ocean. The same character of the beach as that of 
 Ocean City is noticeable. Longport was founded by M. Simpson 
 McCuUough in 1882. Palatial houses and tasteful and convenient 
 cottages adorn its streets and avenues. The Aberdeen Hotel, con- 
 ducted by W. Lamborn and Mrs. Elizabeth Kitts, is one of the 
 finest on the coast. The sanitary arrangements are complete in 
 every detail. The facilities for bathing, boating and fishing are 
 nowhere excelled, and Longport promises to be in the near future 
 the Newport of Southern New Jersey. 
 
 At the wharves at Ocean City yachts are constantly in readiness 
 to take parties out fishing or sailing on the bay or ocean. The 
 Atlantic Coast Steamboat Company operates a line of steamboats 
 between Ocean City, Longport and Somers' Point. A large 
 steamer is run to the fishing banks in the ocean daily during 
 the summer. This is provided with lines, bait, and everything 
 necessary for the comfort and enjoyment of its patrons. This is 
 patronized by invalids and pleasure seekers, aside from those 
 who go for the sake of fishing. While enjoying the refreshing 
 sea air, they can rest in the cabins or beneath canopies, shaded 
 from the sun. 
 
R. FISHER S RESIDKNCE. 
 
 R. Fisher's Office Buildings and Twin Cottages. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. "^'S- 
 
 fpi7e pounders of ©cean ^\^. 
 
 The name of Ocean City will ever be associated with that of the 
 Lakes — Hon. Simon Lake and his three sons, Ezra B., S. Wesley 
 and James E., all born and reared in Southern New Jersey. Early 
 in life the sons were led to enter the Christian ministry, and became 
 members of the New Jersey M. E. Conference, and have since 
 filled honorable positions. After some years, the attention of Rev. 
 E. B. Lake was directed towards the establishing of a seaside 
 resort, where the sale of alcoholic liquors should be prohibited and 
 the sanctity of the Sabbath preserved. The tract of land, Peck's 
 Beach, presented itself to his mind as the one to be redeemed for 
 the purpose. Mr. Lake was eminently fitted for the work and 
 entered upon it with an enthusiasm which is ever fresh and con- 
 stant. Hon. Simon Lake, recognizing the possibilities of the enter- 
 prise, immediately engaged with him, and the admirable plan of the 
 City and its acquired facilities are largely due to his far-seeing wis- 
 dom and sound executive ability. Revs. S. Wesley and James E. 
 next came forward, and have, since that time, labored with Rev. E. 
 B. Lake in the interests of the City. 
 
 Shortly after the enterprise was fairly under way, Hon. Simon 
 Lake was stricken with a sudden and fatal illness, and passed away 
 November 28, 1881. He was looked to as a leader in the affairs of 
 church and state by all with whom he was associated. He carried 
 his 68 years as sturdily as any other man of 40. Tall and broad 
 of frame, strong in arm and voice, he reached the close of his 
 earthly career with faculties of mind and body unimpaired by time 
 or disease. His untimely death was mourned throughout the 
 country. 
 
24 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 ©cean (;if^ (sAssociafion. 
 
 OFFICERS AND MANAGERS. 
 
 President, Rev. W. B. Wood; Vice-President, Rev. W. H. 
 Burrell ; Secretary, Hon. S. Lake; Treasurer, C. Matthews, Esq.; 
 Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake ; Rev. W. E. Boyle, Rev. S. W. 
 Lake, C. Matthews, Jr., and Rev. J. E. Lake. 
 
 Through the efforts of the Lake family a company was formed 
 with the above name and members. Active operations toward 
 bringing forth a city from beneath the sand hills and out of the 
 thickets commenced October 20, 1879, by securing the land and 
 issuing stock. The first topographical survey was made by William 
 Lake during the fall and winter following. The part known as 
 section A was staked off into avenues, streets and lots. This was 
 quickly cleared of brushwood and timber ; thousands of feet of 
 ditching were dug for drainage, and hundreds of loads of brush- 
 wood were placed at the north point of beach for the purpose of 
 gathering the moving sand and extending the ocean front. Lots 
 to the v^alue of ;^85,ooo were disposed of, and another portion of 
 land, known as section B, surveyed and laid out. A wharf, 125 
 feet long by 72 feet wide, was built at an enormous cost. This was 
 connected with the City by a good road over the meadows, 1000 
 feet long, and a board walk running parallel with it the entire dis- 
 tance. Dwelling houses, unpretentious at first, commenced to 
 spring up. These were soon succeeded by large and commodious 
 buildings. The first building erected was the little Pioneer Cot- 
 tage, then standing on the rear of the lot now occupied by the 
 Association Office. It was used as a boarding house for the me- 
 chanics at work on the Island, and was sometimes occupied by forty 
 men. The first hotel, the Ocean House, was built by I. B. Smith; 
 
R. C. UOBINSON, 
 Editor and Proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 25 
 
 now the far-famed "Brighton," owned and conducted by R. R. 
 Sooy. A newspaper was issued May, 1880. A railroad was built 
 from Pleasantville to Somers' Point, known as the Pleasantville and 
 Ocean City Railroad. This was formally opened October 26, 1880. 
 A steamboat was purchased to ply between Somers' Point and 
 Ocean City, thus completing connection with the outside world. 
 A Turnpike Company was organized to build a road from Beesley's 
 Point to Ocean City, which, together with a bridge over Thorough- 
 fare Sound, was completed the following spring. A local church 
 was organized and a camp meeting held for ten days. 
 
 This brief summary of a little more than a year's work is but 
 one page in the rapid advancement of the City. The development 
 during so short a period necessarily had the effect of stimulating 
 and bringing forward new purchasers and residents, and the tide of 
 progress has never abated. The success of an enterprise of this 
 kind is not brought about without formidable difficulties. The toil 
 and anxiety are best known to those who have participated in a 
 work of its kind. The Association has tenaciously adhered to the 
 principles first laid down, and sympathetic and fraternal relations 
 now exist where the lava tide of dissension and strife threatened 
 disaster. 
 
 Its present officers and managers are : 
 
 President, Rev. J. B. Graw, D. D. 
 Vice-President, Rev. W. B. Wood, D. D. 
 Secretary, Rev. S. Wesley Lake. 
 Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen. 
 Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake. 
 
 George L. Horn, G. B. Langley, H. B. Howell, Rev. James E. 
 Lake. 
 
26 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 OeeaQ <Sity. 
 
 Ocean City was created by an act of incorporation April 30,. 
 1884. The first council consisted of G. P. Moore, Mayor; Parker 
 Miller, Rev. W. H. Burrell, Correll Doughty and Enoch Green. 
 The administration of the two mayors and the councilmen who 
 have served with them since then, has been attended with stability 
 and prosperity. This is shown in the steady throbbing pulsation 
 which marks the life and business interests of a city which is under 
 no bond of debt, and has never realized the paralyzing effects of a 
 sudden boom, whose growth has been steadily upward from the 
 first. When the government was vested in a mayor and council, 
 the original design of the City was carried out, but upon a broad 
 and liberal basis. The avenues through which vice and immorality 
 enter are guarded only to such an extent as to be a protection to 
 liberty and pleasure, which are in no way restrained, and Ocean 
 City has a genuine air of respectability and refinement. 
 
 To follow, step by step, its growth and progress is impossible, 
 but not twelve years have elapsed, and a city of beautiful homes 
 stretches from bay to ocean and for miles up and down the island. 
 Spacious and elegant summer residences of prominent citizens of 
 Philadelphia, Camden, New York, and inland cities north and 
 south, adorn its wide streets and avenues. Accommodations for 
 the entertainment of guests are nowhere excelled. The hotels are 
 thoroughly equipped ; boarding cottages, large and small, may be 
 found to suit every taste. There are miles of graveled streets and 
 sidewalks, boardwalks on the strand, public schools, stores of every 
 description, steamboat and railroad facilities, excellent telegraphic 
 and mail services, and everything which may be found in cities 
 much older. The Auditorium, occupying the center of the camp 
 
JOHN K. KENDRICK. 
 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 27 
 
 ground, is a handsome structure, with a seating capacity of two 
 thousand. The public school is a well-built, prominent edifice, and 
 is supplied with a most efficient corps of teachers. The Excursion 
 House on the strand adds greatly to the convenience of visitors. 
 Bath houses, restaurants, carousels, and booths of every descrip- 
 tion, spring up at every point. 
 
 The M. E. church was dedicated August, 1891. Rev. W. A. 
 Massey, the pastor, is not only an able preacher, but an indefatiga- 
 ble worker as well. During his pastorate the membership has been 
 greatly increased, and through the quiet months of winter, as well 
 as the exciting summer season, the church is always well filled. 
 In a short time a new parsonage adjoining the church will be 
 completed. 
 
 Ocean City has the additional attraction for moral people that 
 the liquor traffic is prohibited. A clause in all deeds calls for the 
 forfeiture of title if the vice is allowed to flourish on the premises. 
 
 Rents are very reasonable, either for the season or by the year. 
 Cottages, furnished or unfurnished, can be rented from fifty dollars 
 upwards. The surrounding country, through its rich soil, fur- 
 nishes the best of vegetables, fruits, etc., in great abundance. These 
 are brought direct to the City by the farmers and truckers them- 
 selves, and wholesaled to the markets or retailed from the wagons 
 to customers. 
 
 Several routes are available by which the City may be reached 
 from the imperial eastern cities — New York and Philadelphia. 
 These are within a few hours by rail, and the important cities up 
 and down' the coast are brought into close touch either by rail or 
 water. 
 
 Ocean City has officials ^nd citizens of whom it may be justly 
 proud. Besides those of whom sketches are given are J. T. Adams, 
 proprietor of the Traymore and owner of the Lafayette ; R. R. 
 Sooy, the genial host of the Brighton ; N. Corson, one of the first 
 builders of the City, a man whose life is marked by sterling integ- 
 rity; Capt, Isaac Lee, spending his declining years in peaceful, con- 
 tented retirement ; 'Squire Myers, progressive and enterprising ; 
 Dr. D. W. Bartine, professor of mathematics in the public schools 
 
28 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 of Philadelphia ; Joseph Brower, a retired merchant of Philadelphia ; 
 W. Godfrey, one of the earliest pioneers of Ocean City ; Assessor 
 R. Ludlani ; R. Fisher, whose extensive business speaks for itself; 
 J. T. Price, the enterprising host of the Ocean City House ; S. 
 Schurch, of the Bellevue ; F. Schmitt, a self-made, and for many 
 years a prominent business man of Philadelphia, and Hiram Steel- 
 man, grocer. Among our younger men who owe their success 
 largely to their own efforts since they came to Ocean City, are City 
 Treasurer H. G, Steelman, owner and proprietor of the largest 
 grocery store in the City ; City Clerk and Real Estate Agent H. B. 
 Adams ; Abel D. Scull, architect and builder, whose work is among 
 the finest in the City; John Gandy, grocer; the Sampson Brothers, 
 contractors; R. B. Stites, lumber dealer; Stonehill & Adams, 
 stone-masons. The younger members of the city council, F. P. 
 Canfield and J. Steelman, are coming rapidly to the front as busi- 
 ness men, and are showing themselves to be men capable of being 
 vested with municipal powers. 
 
 Among our noted summer residents are M. C. Clelland, of the 
 Ridge Avenue Railway ; E. Brucker, a retired merchant of Phila- 
 delphia ; the Davis brothers, of Camden ; H. Gerlach, a prominent 
 jeweler of Philadelphia; C. H. Schermerhorn, secretary and treas- 
 urer of the Niagara Mining and Smelting Company of Utah ; Dr. 
 C. E. Edwards, of Haddonfield, N. J.; F. R. Whitesides, of the firm 
 Rush Whitesides & Sons, Philadelphia ; Godfrey Krouse, a promi- 
 nent Philadelphia plumber; Rev. W. Huckle, of New York; Dr. 
 F. R. Graham, a prominent physician of Chester, Pa., and a host of 
 others whom we hope to mention more fully in a future edition of 
 the Guide Book and Directory. 
 
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 LIFE-SAVING STATION " OCEAN CITY." 
 
 THE AUDITORIUM. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 29 
 
 Bio^rapl^ical Skeicl^es. 
 
 MAYOR G. p. MOORE. 
 
 Mr. Moore was born in Chester county, Pa., of Quaker parents. 
 He received the education of the common schools of the day, and 
 afterwards learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1854 he removed 
 to Michigan and engaged in farming, but returned to his native 
 state four years later and went into business as a builder. He was 
 twice a volunteer in the late Rebellion ; failing to pass the physical 
 examination the first time, he was the second time accepted. Mr. 
 Moore also holds the position of a notary public, is a prominent 
 member of the society of Odd Fellows, and a director of the Cape 
 May County Agricultural Association. He has held many posi- 
 tions of private trust, not one of which has ever been violated. 
 
 Mr. Moore is possessed of strong religious tendencies. The 
 churches of Ceresco Circuit, Michigan, were founded through his 
 missionary labors. At the battle of Bull Run he was commis- 
 sioned by the Christian Commission to go to the front to care for 
 the wounded and dying. One instance alone of how his life in this 
 direction is respected, is shown by the fact that when called by the 
 United States Court to Baltimore to give testimony in a great life 
 insurance trial, he was honored by the court suspending business 
 to allow him to transact some private business with them in time to 
 return home without traveling on the Sabbath. He came to 
 Ocean City in 1 881, and has held the office of mayor since its 
 incorporation, with the exception of one term. He is a progressive 
 official, honored by all parties, and has served the city well. 
 
30 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 EX-MAYOR J. E. PRYOR, M.D. 
 
 Dr. Pryor is descended from a family prominent in the state of 
 Indiana for over i6o years; noted through Colonial and Revolu- 
 tionary times for the men it furnished both as officers and privates 
 to the patriot armies engaged in warfare on the western frontier, 
 when the Indians, led on by their great chief Tecumseh, consti- 
 tuted such a terrible foe. 
 
 Dr. Pryor was born in the Wabash Valley, at the old " Pryor 
 Homestead," almost in sight of the battle ground of Tippecanoe. 
 He received his preliminary education at the common schools, and 
 when eighteen years of age commenced teaching in this depart- 
 ment. During this period his spare time was devoted to the prose- 
 cution of his own studies. In the spring of 1885, he entered the 
 Detroit Medical College, from which institution he was graduated 
 three years later; he also received a course of instruction at the 
 Philadelphia Polyclinic. He came to Ocean City in 1888, and 
 soon acquired a successful practice. The duties which devolved 
 upon him in this capacity were discharged in a thorough and 
 conscientious manner. Dr. Pryor has displayed through his career 
 the perseverance and courage which will continue to bring to him 
 in the future as it has in the past the success which is ever the 
 result of these attributes. 
 
 DR. GILBERT E. PALEN. 
 
 Dr. G. E. Palen has been one of theVegular summer residents of 
 Ocean City since 1881. He has shown his faith in its future by 
 investing largely in lots, and building several cottages. He is 
 deeply interested in retaining the temperance and religious prin- 
 ciples upon which the place was founded, and thus keeping Ocean 
 City free from the vices which so predominate in most resorts of 
 this kind. He is one of the stockholders of Ocean City Associ- 
 ation, and has been its treasurer for a number of years. 
 
 Dr. Palen was born in Palenville, N. Y., May 3, 1832. His 
 father, Rufus Palen, was of Quaker stock, and was a well-known 
 
WILLIAM LAKE, 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 31 
 
 tanner and leather dealer, being a partner of Shepherd Knapp, and 
 a member of the firms of Knapp & Palen, Palen & Flagler, etc. 
 After preparing himself for college, Dr. Palen first obtained a 
 thorough knowledge of the tanning business at the Fallsburgh, 
 N. Y., tannery, in which his father's estate had a large interest. 
 Then entering Brown University, he went with several of the pro- 
 fessors and a number of students to Yale^ where he graduated with 
 the degree of Ph.B. in the "famous class" of 1853. He then 
 pursued a medical course at the New York University, which he 
 subsequently completed at the Albany Medical College, graduating 
 from the latter in 1855 as a doctor of medicine. 
 
 But it having been the wish of his father that his eldest son 
 should follow his business, Dr. Palen, in 1856, entered into partner- 
 ship with his uncle by marriage, George W. Northrop, and built an 
 oak tanner}' at Canadensis, Pa., afterward taking one of his brothers 
 in as a partner, under the firm name of Palen & Northrop. After- 
 wards, with his two brothers. Dr. Palen built another tannery at 
 Tunkhannock, Pa., but the business proving unprofitable for the 
 manufacturer, owing to the unequal distribution of the profits 
 between himself and the dealers, the doctor determined to retire. 
 The building of tanneries in the woods, cutting down trees, etc., is 
 genuine pioneer work, and to this the doctor was peculiarly fitted 
 by his active temperament. In 1 860 the doctor married Elizabeth 
 Gould, daughter of John B. Gould, of Roxbury, N. Y. He became 
 a member of the M. E. church at Canadensis, and at this period his 
 career as a Prohibitionist and temperance worker begins, voting the 
 Prohibition ticket, the voters being so few that he was obliged to 
 write his own. Removing afterwards to Tunkhannock, Pa., he 
 engaged actively in the struggle for local option, which, finally 
 gained, was lost by the treachery or halfheartedness of some of its 
 supporters. 
 
 In 1876, after a careful examination of the compound oxygen 
 process, he entered into partnership with Dr. Starkey, under the 
 firm name of Starkey & Palen, the former bringing into the concern 
 his perfected system, and Dr. Palen the business experience and 
 requisite capital. From this time the business has prospered 
 
32 OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 wonderfully, and the treatment is now known throughout the world. 
 The doctor is an active and honored member of the M. E. Board 
 of Church Extension, and president of the Niagara Mining and 
 Smelting Co., and is always active in every movement for the 
 public good. He has been several times candidate for mayor and 
 recorder of Philadelphia on the Prohibition ticket, accepting each 
 time his anticipated defeat with resignation, but never for a moment 
 despairing of the final triumph of Prohibition. 
 
 J. S. WAGGONER, M.D. 
 
 Dr. Waggoner was born in Perry county, Pa., where he resided 
 during his boyhood. He afterward removed to Carlisle, Pa., and 
 engaged in the study of medicine. In i860 he was graduated 
 from the University of Pennsylvania. At the outbreaking of the 
 Rebellion, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 5th Pennsyl- 
 vania Cavalry (Cameron Dragoons), and was also physician to the 
 Eastern Insane Asylum of Virginia at Williamsburg. He was 
 mustered out as a supernumerary of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
 and immediately appointed assistant surgeon to the 84th Pennsyl- 
 vania Infantry, from which position he was shortly afterward 
 appointed to that of surgeon. In 1864 he resigned, and was 
 appointed post surgeon of the United States General Hospital at 
 Beverly. Here he acquired an enviable reputation as a surgeon. 
 At the battle of Chancellorsville he was carried from the field 
 wounded and given up for dead, but was resuscitated and cared 
 for by S. S. Fowler, now of North Carolina. 
 
 After the war he was engaged in private practice in New Jersey. 
 He came to Ocean City when it was first started, and established 
 the pioneer drug store, still continuing the practice of medicine. 
 He has served as borough clerk and city councilman. 
 
 Dr. Waggoner is thoroughly conscientious in all his work. The 
 positions which he has held, and the offices he has filled, have been 
 honored by the manner in which he has discharged the duties of 
 each. A retiring disposition has prevented a greater advancement^ 
 which his ability has rendered possible. 
 
1^ *T^ IB 
 
 VJ 
 
 
 yiM 
 
 H. 1!. ADAMS, 
 City Clerk. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 33 
 
 W. LAKE, C. E. 
 Mr. Lake was born at Bargaintown, N. J., April 27, 1838. His 
 boyhood was spent with his father, working at the blacksmith trade. 
 Not satisfied with the educational advantages of the day, he en- 
 tered upon a course of studies by himself and was soon teaching 
 in the public schools. At a very early age he received an appoint- 
 ment as civil engineer, and his progress since then has been steadily 
 upward. He was elected to numerous township offices, and was, in 
 1863, appointed commissioner of deeds. In 1875 he was appointed 
 master in chancery, and the same year elected to the office of jus- 
 tice of the peace of Atlantic county, which position he held until 
 his removal to Ocean City. His work commenced in this City with 
 the earliest movement made towards its development. He has sur- 
 veyed every foot of the island and examined every original title 
 from 1690 down to the time it was purchased by the Ocean City 
 Association, and has drawn over nineteen hundred deeds. Mr. 
 Lake is in consequence very closely identified with the progress 
 and growth of the City, and has in his possession much interesting 
 and important data concerning its history. He is at present en- 
 gaged in preparing a brief of title of a tract of six thousand acres 
 in Atlantic county, for the purpose of forming a new settlement. 
 
 JESSE CONVER. 
 City Councilman Conver, now holding the office for the third 
 term, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Montgomery county, 
 March 29, 1834. He engaged in the tin and sheet-iron business at 
 twenty years of age, and shortly afterwards removed to Philadel- 
 phia, where he carried on roofing, heating and range business very 
 extensively. He came to Ocean City in 1 881, and has since en- 
 gaged in the same business, Mr. Conver is one of the few men 
 who, when coming in contact with the business world, do not allow 
 its influence to draw them from their own conscieHtiousness of truth. 
 and right, who maintain a strict integrity in all their business trans- 
 actions. The influence of his early life among the hills of Penn- 
 sylvania, of simple habits and firmly ingrained principles of right,, 
 are still exerted, and may be felt and seen in his daily life. 
 
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34 . OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 R. H. THORN. 
 
 Mr. Thorn is a Pennsylvanian, born and reared in Frankford, 
 Philadelphia. He received his education in the public schools, and 
 afterwards learned the carpenter's trade. He came to Ocean City 
 May 4, 1885, and having a previous knowledge of the business, 
 purchased stock and opened a hardware and house-furnishing store 
 at his present stand, 801 Asbury avenue. Mr. Thorn is a brilliant 
 example of what grit, determination and close application to busi- 
 ness will do. Coming at a time when everything was new, the 
 permanent population small, the situation was not a promising one. 
 In 1887 he purchased two lots adjoining the stand he occupied and 
 built store No. 805 Asbury avenue. In 1890 he bought the stand 
 where he commenced business, and in 1891 built still another store 
 between 801 and 805, together with a dwelling house facing on 
 Eighth street. Mr. Thorn has now the largest establishment of its 
 kind in the City, with a constantly increasing business. He has 
 served as city councilman, and has held other positions of trust, 
 both public and private. 
 
 R. C. ROBINSON. 
 
 One of our rising young men is Postmaster R. C. Robinson, 
 editor and proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel. Mr. Robinson 
 was born in Atlantic county, N. J., in 1862. His father died when 
 he was nine years of age, and he was early thrown on his own 
 resources. At sixteen years of age he entered a wholesale dry- 
 goods house, but finding the business distasteful, he engaged to 
 learn the printing business in the Banner office at Beverly, N. J. 
 He then accepted a position with A. L. English, of the Atlantic 
 Revietv, Atlantic City. Mr. Robinson was first in the employ and 
 was then associated with Mr. English in business for over six years. 
 During this time he was editor and manager of the Mays Landing 
 Record, and assistant editor of the Philadelphia journal. Over the 
 Mountains and Doivn by the Sea. He came to Ocean City in 1885, 
 and forming a partnership with W. H. Fenton, purchased the Ocean 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 35 
 
 City Sentinel, and in a short time became sole proprietor. In 1888 
 he represented Ocean City in the board of freeholders of Cape 
 May county. He was appointed postmaster in 1889. Upon 
 assuming the duties of this position, he immediately set about hav- 
 ing the mail service extended and the office designated a money 
 order office, succeeding in both. Mr. Robinson is possessed of 
 those faculties which constitute the elements of success — hard 
 labor and strict attention to whatever line of business in which he 
 may be engaged. 
 
 JOHN RYLAND KENDRICK. 
 
 Touching at Ocean City in 1884, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kendrick, of 
 Philadelphia, were quickly impressed with its beauty and desira- 
 bility as a summer resort. In 1889 they built a tasteful " Queen 
 Anne " cottage on Wesley avenue, below Eighth street, facing the 
 ocean, and possessing in its location every essential of an ideal 
 seaside home. Mr. Kendrick descends from a New England family 
 long prominent in clerical, educational and business circles. His 
 grandfather, the Rev. Clark Kendrick, was an early Baptist chaplain 
 of the Vermont legislature. Prof. A. C. Kendrick, D.D., LL.D., 
 founder of the "University of Rochester" and a member of the 
 board which produced the present revised version of the Scriptures; 
 also the late Rev, J. Ryland Kendrick, D.D., an eloquent preacher 
 and teacher, and president of Vassar College, are uncles of the 
 gentleman whose career we note. The New England Kendricks 
 are in line direct from Edward Kendrick, an eminent merchant of 
 London and Rotterdam, and Lord Mayor of London in the time 
 of " Bloody Mary." This ancestor married Susannah Cranmer, a 
 niece of Archbishop Cranmer, whom the Papists burned at the 
 stake. " Virtue is honor " is the family motto. J. R. Kendrick, 
 whose face appears elsewhere, is in his forty-third year, and con- 
 ducts a publishing business at looi Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 
 He also owns and edits " The American Carpet and Upholstery 
 Trade," a journal of wide influence in its sphere, founded by him 
 in 1883. Mr. Kendrick gives much attention to the manufacture of 
 
36 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 textiles, and has several times served the United States government 
 in the collation of industrial statistics. He served in the tenth and 
 eleventh United States censuses, also as special treasury officer under 
 Secretaries Sherman and Windom. He loves the " quill," and has 
 done some writing of permanent value. His articles on " Carpets 
 and Upholstery" for Appleton's Cyclopaedia are considered authen- 
 tic data, and his report on the "Carpet Industry of Pennsylvania," 
 made to Governor Beaver's administration, was an exhaustive and 
 laborious piece of work. This appears in the report for 1889, 
 Bureau of Internal Affairs. Mr. Kendrick is devoted to his family, 
 which consists of his amiable wife, two sons and two daughters. 
 The family entertain liberally at their summer home and possess a 
 wide circle of friends. 
 
RESIDENCE OF J. F. HAND, 
 Contractor and Builder, 721 Central Avenue. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. " 37 
 
 bifeSaOinI S^rOice. 
 
 The complications of the system of the Life-Saving Service are 
 comparatively little known to those living inland. This was imper- 
 fectly carried on for some years previous to 1872, but since that 
 time means are taken every year for its greater perfection, and as it 
 reaches its strong arms out to aid mariners in distress and to pre- 
 serve property from destruction, the magnitude of its importance 
 can only be estimated by the long marine official records of its 
 work. The Atlantic coast is patrolled from Maine to Florida, the 
 Gulf of Mexico and the great lakes their entire coast. Stations are 
 placed at suitable distances apart, furnished with all the necessary 
 appUances for the work. From September ist to May ist they are 
 occupied by seven life-guards, one extra going on December ist. 
 The other four months of the year, the season when few severe 
 storms occur, the captain alone remains ; and as a large percentage 
 of those living on the coast are sailors or fishermen, a volunteer 
 crew can be easily secured should it be necessary. The uniform 
 consists of a navy blue Guernsey, embroidered across the breast 
 with the scarlet letters L. S. S., and the name of the station to 
 which they belong; navy blue pantaloons, overcoat and cap. 
 Around the latter is fastened a ribbon in which is woven in gilt 
 letters the words U. S. Life-Saving Service. Another cap, worn 
 in cold or stormy weather, is a woolen skull cap, called the " Nor- 
 mandy Fisherman." 
 
 The men as a class are stalwart, well built, and present a fine 
 appearance. Watches are kept as on board ship, four hours long. 
 Every night at sunset two guards are sent from each station, one 
 going north and one south. Each one is met at a given point by a 
 guard from the station on either side, with whom they exchange 
 
38 OCEAN C!TV GUIDE BOOK, 
 
 checks. When this kind of communication is impossible, on 
 account of a bay or an inlet coming between two stations, a clock 
 is placed at the end of the beat in a wooden post, bored out in the 
 side large enough to receive it, where it is secured by an iron plate; 
 this registers every visit made by a guard. At eight o'clock these 
 guards return, and two others take their place, who exchange 
 checks or register, as do also those of the succeeding watches. 
 Each guard is supplied with rockets with which to warn vessels 
 that are approaching too near the shore and to answer signals of 
 distress. A lookout is kept from sunrise to sunset, and every pass- 
 ing vessel noted down. A journal is kept of each day's proceed- 
 ings, which is forwarded to Washington. On cloudy or stormy 
 days the coast is patrolled during the day as well as night. 
 
 ROUTINE OF DUTY. 
 
 The guards are required to keep in constant practice. Tuesday 
 of each week they go out in the life-boat. This, by a simple yet 
 very ingenious contrivance will bail itself out should it become 
 filled with water. Wednesday is flag day. A few of the most 
 important of a code of fourteen thousand signals are practiced. 
 By this means conversation can be carried on with ships far out at 
 sea. Thursday they practice with the breeches buoy; this is oper- 
 ated in the following manner : A line is shot from a mortar out to 
 the sinking ship. To the end of this line is fastened a whip-line, 
 and to this a hawser. A wooden tag is fastened to the hawser with 
 directions printed on it, one side in French and the other side in 
 English, for making it fast and how to assist in working the buoy. 
 As soon as it is made fast, the guards send the buoy out to the 
 ship ; this is a skillfully contrived basket in the shape of a huge 
 pair of breeches. A passenger steps into them, swings out over 
 the angry waters and is hauled quickly to shore, the buoy return- 
 ing to the ship in an incredibly short space of time. This is used 
 only when it is impossible to reach the vessel in a boat. Friday 
 
R. H THORN. 
 
 R. H. thorn's stores AND RESIDENCE. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BCOK. 39" 
 
 the performance of resuscitating the drowned is gone through with. 
 Saturday is general cleaning day. 
 
 Too much praise cannot be lavished on these brave men, who in 
 times of extreme peril never falter. No means, however daring, 
 are left untried for the rescue of life. The keepers of the three 
 stations at Ocean City were all seafaring men years before entering 
 the L. S. S. In their travels they have visited many strange coun- 
 tries. The valuable and interesting information given by them, the 
 courtesy which ever marks the deportment of a life-guard, render 
 the visits of our guests to the Life-Saving stations delightfully 
 entertaining. 
 
40 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 09rGcfe. 
 
 Peck's Beach has a distinct history written in its driftwood. The 
 features of the coast are constantly changing, as the sea encroaches 
 upon one place and recedes from another. Great Egg Harbor Bar 
 is dangerous to mariners with large craft, on account of its contin- 
 ually shifting sands, and requires the special attention of the coast 
 surveyors. A chart of one year varies greatly from that of 
 another. Its treacherous character is plainly shown in the vast 
 number of wrecks which have strewn the beach. Imagination and 
 fancy have not the monopoly of romance and tragedy. Truth here 
 claims a share beyond the power of either. Since the Life Saving 
 Service has been in operation, and insurance companies have grown 
 more watchful, the number is greatly diminished. In the following 
 pages we give a few of the most interesting. 
 
 THE FAME. 
 
 The first of which we can gain an authentic account is that of 
 the brig Fame. This vessel was sent out with a number of others 
 to protect the inhabitants of Cape May county from the incursions 
 of the British and refugees. She was in command of Captain 
 William Treen, of Egg Harbor, and made a number of captures of 
 vessels much larger than herself The night of February 22, 1781, 
 while lying at the anchoring point in Great Egg Harbor Bay 
 rejoicing over a victory just achieved, she was capsized in a heavy 
 gale, with twenty-eight of a crew of thirty-two men on board. 
 Four attempted to swim ashore ; three succeeded in landing at the 
 north point of Peck's Beach, the fourth one drowned. Help 
 reached the vessel at daylight, but of twenty-four brave men who 
 had faced shot and shell, tempest and flood, twenty had succumbed 
 to the sleep of death from exposure to the intense cold; the four 
 remaining ones kept alive by walking rapidly and constantly up 
 and down the side of the capsized vessel. 
 
ABEL D. scull's " THISTLE " COTTAGE. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 4I 
 
 THE PERSEVERANCE. 
 The brig Perseverance, from Havre, France, to New York, laden 
 with a cargo valued at ^400,000, was wrecked nearly opposite the 
 point where the "Ocean Rest" now stands, in the month of 
 December, 18 15. The day previous to the disaster (Friday) a 
 vessel from New York was spoken who told the Perseverance she 
 was 200 miles east of Sandy Hook. The news occasioned great 
 joy among the crew and passengers of whom there were seven of 
 the former and ten of the latter, as they expected, according to this 
 intelligence, to land in New York on the following day. The 
 captain, imbued with the spirit engendered by the fatal error to a 
 degree, of recklessness, spread every stitch of canvas to a heavy 
 nor'easter and, with spars strained to their utmost, and cordage 
 creaking, the good ship sped merrily on to her swift destruction. 
 At 3 o'clock A.M. on Saturday the warning cry of breakers ahead 
 was sounded, and a moment later the vessel struck, refused to obey 
 her helm, and backed up on the beach stern foremost. In a short 
 time the sea broke entirely over her. The wildest confusion pre- 
 vailed as the passengers rushed from the cabin with no protection 
 from a piercing storm of snow and hail but their night clothing. 
 Eight of the seventeen souls on board got into the long boat and a 
 heavy sea swept it overboard. It was then discovered to be 
 fastened by a cable which they were unable to cut or in any way 
 detach, and amid piercing shrieks, with the means of rescue just at 
 hand, as the long boat would probably have floated to shore, they 
 went down beside the vessel. The others succeeded in reaching 
 the round-top except a Frenchman by the name of Cologne, who 
 remained in the shrouds. At daybreak the vessel was discovered 
 from the mainland, and willing hearts sped across the bay and 
 down the beach to the rescue. Boats were launched again and 
 again only to be capsized and hurled back by the angry waters. 
 Every means which human skill and daring could devise was tried 
 till Sunday at noon, when they signaled to the vessel that nothing 
 more could be done, and they should try to build a raft of the 
 spars. The poor wretches held up their pocket books and watches 
 as an inducement for those on shore to continue their efforts, but 
 
42 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 the limit of their power had been reached long before. Exhaus- 
 tion from cold and hunger now did rapid work, and one by one, 
 until but five were left, they dropped into the sea. Captain Snow, 
 one of the remaining five, attempted to swim ashore and was lost. 
 In the meantime the mate, who had fortunately secured a hatchet, 
 constructed a raft. A negro, who was assisting, was washed over- 
 board, but swam to shore. The Frenchman, who had remained in 
 the shrouds up till this time, fell into the water senseless ; he was 
 caught by the hair and thus towed behind the raft, which was 
 finally carried ashore by the breakers. The saddest procession that 
 ever trod this beach took up the line of march toward the bay to 
 cross to the mainland. Four exhausted, half-frozen men, borne in 
 the arms of those who had gone to the rescue, followed by others 
 bearing a rudely constructed bier upon which lay the form of a 
 young French girl, the only female on board the ill-fated vessel, 
 and the only victim whose body floated to shore. Her linen cloth- 
 ing was daintily embroidered, and jewelry was concealed in the 
 braids of her hair. Many reports were given of her beauty. Dr. 
 Maurice Beasley, an eye-witness, said : " She was the concentration 
 of all the graces of the female form." Her remains were interred 
 in the burying ground of the Golden family, a little plot now over- 
 grown with weeds and briars a short distance from the wharf at 
 Beasley's Point. Three days later her uncle, Mr. Cologne, who 
 died from exhaustion was buried by her side. For seven miles, the 
 entire length of the island, the beach was strewn with cashmere 
 shawls, leghorn flats, thread lace, fine china and bales of silk and 
 satin. Remnants of the merchandise are still in existence. It is 
 supposed the hull is lying some distance out, covered with sand, 
 and still contains treasure. After the storm of September, 1889, 
 which swept the Atlantic seaboard, pieces of china washed ashore 
 at this point, which, when compared with those secured at the time 
 of the wreck, are of the same design, pattern and quality, and are 
 doubtless from the old brig. These tangible links thrown across 
 nearly three-quarters of a century connecting us so closely with 
 the Perseverance, tell of a time when Madison was president of 
 the United States. The treaty of peace with Great Britain had just 
 
kEV. E. n. lake's cottage. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 45 
 
 been signed. The little Clermont, or " Fulton's Folly," had but a 
 short time before revealed the adaptation of a power that should 
 revolutionize navigation ; the magnetic telegraph was unknown till 
 nearly thirty years later, and not till after fifty years had passed was 
 the Atlantic cable completed. 
 
 J. AND H. SCULL. 
 
 The two-masted schooner J. and H. Scull, lumber laden, from a 
 North Carolina port to Atlantic City, attempted to enter Great Egg 
 Harbor Bay, and stranded, January i8, 1892. The vessel struck 
 with great force. By the skillful management of the captain she 
 cleared the bar and swept into deeper waters, only to become un- 
 manageable and aground a second time. The life-guards of Ocean 
 City Life-Saving station immediately signaled to her, and a little 
 later the surf-boat was launched and speeding over the water. The 
 muscle and brawn of powerful arms were brought into full play as 
 the guards bent gallantly to the oars, while the voice of the cap- 
 tain rang above the roar and tumult of the waves, as he issued his 
 orders, standing firm and erect in the stern of the boat, guiding it 
 upon its perilous journey, one moment poised upon the crest of a 
 wave and the next buried from the sight in the trough of the sea, 
 to rise again on the succeeding wave. The work of transferring 
 the crew from the vessel to the surf-boat was very dangerous, the 
 heavy sea causing the vessel to plunge violently. The captain, the 
 mate, two sailors, the cook and his wife were finally landed without 
 any loss of life. All efforts to remove the vessel from the bar were 
 ineffectual ; she was then stripped of sails, cordage and topmasts, 
 partially unloaded and abandoned for a time. The J. and H. Scull 
 was an exceptionally staunch vessel. February 29th, during a 
 violent storm, she cut through and displaced tons of the sand in 
 which she was imbedded, plunged across the channel and landed 
 on the main beach, without one bolt of her hull withdrawn, the 
 mainmast and bowsprit intact, and the gilt arabesque scroll work of 
 the figure head untarnished. Remains of the hull may now be 
 seen at the north point of the beach. 
 
44 OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 PANCHITO. 
 Among the driftwood piled here and there on the island may be 
 seen an occasional piece of logwood, which owes its preservation 
 to the fact of its tough, hard fibre, being almost proof against de- 
 struction by ordinary tools. This wood, lying hundreds of miles 
 from its native soil, was brought here by the Spanish brig, Pan- 
 chito, wrecked February 13, 1888. The circumstances attending 
 the disaster were very mysterious. She came on the bar in the 
 night, but sent up no signals of distress, and even extinguished her 
 lights. At daybreak the life-guards discovered the vessel lying in 
 a dangerous position and immediately went to her aid. The cap- 
 tain represented her as belonging to a wealthy ranchman of Vera 
 Cruz and bound for New York. The deck was loaded with log- 
 wood, and the hold was partly loaded with logwood and hides. The 
 crew of thirteen men were taken off in life-boats and cared for at 
 the life-saving station. After seven days of hard labor a wrecking 
 steamer succeeded in getting the vessel off the bar. As she was 
 being towed into deeper water the cable parted and she struck 
 again. The deck load was thrown off and she floated a second 
 time. A small quantity of hard tack, a few Mexican beans and 
 a little sugar was all there was on board to eat. The first 
 mate, an American, was intelligent and well educated. His 
 log book was remarkable for neatness and beauty of penmanship. 
 The captain and second mate were coarse and ignorant Spaniards. 
 They were each armed with a pair of revolvers and a huge dirk. 
 The latter was stuck inside the waistband on the left side in front, 
 and was carried without any sheath. It was a constant source of 
 wonder to spectators how this could be done without inflicting 
 serious injury. The captain carried two watches of exquisite work- 
 manship, besides a number of rings and other jewelry. The mates 
 had in their posssession different kinds of jewelry set with precious 
 stones. The ten sailors were a motley group indeed, and were in a 
 filthy condition. Their long, unkempt hair, unshaven beards and 
 swarthy complexions gave them the appearance of wild beasts 
 rather than men. The weather was very cold, but they were with- 
 out shoes or stockings, and their clothing was in every way insuffi- 
 
mm I'l: 
 
 aUBJiilbii! jw Mum ri^-<-^^ '■mSm^'^^^^^' 
 
 REV Li. H. SANDKRLINS COTTAGE. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 45 
 
 cient. As soon as they landed they were fed and properly clothed. 
 Four of them were Italians, one an immense negro, intensely black, 
 from Yucatan, one a native of Manilla (southeast of China), one a 
 Portuguese, two native Spaniards and two Mexicans completed the 
 group. They all spoke Spanish. They were evidently unwilling 
 to board the vessel the second time. As they stepped on deck the 
 officers issued orders with dirk in hand, as if prepared to spring 
 upon them at any moment. The vessel was towed to Philadelphia 
 and was there abandoned by the sailors. 
 
 THE RHINE. 
 
 Over forty years ago, the Rhine, a full-rigged ship, went down 
 near Corson's Inlet. She was carrying three hundred German emi- 
 grants to New York, beside a cargo of iron. All were saved but 
 one child. Tents were pitched at the southern point of beach, 
 where they were fed and sheltered until sent away by rail. 
 
 THE ELIZABETH. 
 
 Thirty years ago the full-rigged ship Elizabeth, Queenstown to 
 New York, carrying two hundred and fifty Irish emigrants and a 
 cargo of marble and cork, sank near Corson's Inlet. No lives were 
 lost. The crew and passengers were taken to the Dolphin Hotel at 
 Somers' Point. The following morning they were conveyed to the 
 nearest railroad station to finish their journey by land, their num- 
 bers reinforced by several children born during the night. The old 
 hotels could tell strange tales of shipwrecks ; how it was necessary 
 at times to resort to severe measures to prevent bloodshed among 
 the rescued crew and officers; when the captain was secured with 
 bolts in one room, the mates in another and the sailors imprisoned 
 in still another apartment till their fury had subsided or they were 
 removed to safer quarters. These troubles arose when the sailors, 
 in mutiny, had wrecked the vessel purposely ; when the accident 
 had occurred through the neglect of the officer on watch or the 
 captain had been harsh and cruel. 
 
46 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 WRECK IN THE BAY. 
 
 The long, low hull, lying keel upwards on Bond's Bar in Great 
 Egg Harbor Bay, adds one more to the vast number of unknown 
 wrecks which are cast up every year. This was first seen on Great 
 Egg Harbor Bar, where it remained for a short time. During a 
 storm it cleared the obstruction, and in the most uncanny manner 
 wound its way in and out among the channels of the inlet as if 
 guided by an unseen helmsman, never touching shoal or shore until 
 it stranded on an island five miles from where it was first seen. It 
 has been a well built copper-sheathed and bolted barkentine, bore a 
 German name, and had been loaded with petroleum. The silent 
 evidence of the most appalling of disasters, " burned at sea," tells 
 the cause of shipwreck. A little more than a year previous to the 
 time it was seen on this coast a vessel of the same name and cargo, 
 in every way answering the description, was burned in the Mediter- 
 ranean Sea. The hull drifted out through the straits of Gibralter 
 and disappeared. It was sev^eral times reported, always in the same 
 position — up-side down. It is the popular opinion of the coast guard 
 of that body of water that this is the same wreck; that it has drifted 
 with the o'cean currents and been driven by storms till it has reached 
 the point wliere it now lies. 
 
 Lack of space forbids an account of many other noted wrecks, 
 among them the John Bentley, Utah, G. L. Thorn, Lottie Clotts, 
 John Douglass, Caroline Hall, Zetland, Angela Brewer, Sallie Clark, 
 Dashaway and Lawrence. 
 
S. B. SAMPSON'S RESIDENCE. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 47 
 
 Time Table in effect June 24, 1892. 
 
 L-eKizE ooeMw ciTV. second street pier. 
 
 Ocean City to Somers' Point, connecting for Pleasantville, May's Landing 
 and Philadelphia — 6.45, 8.10, 10.00, ir.oo a.m., 12.00 m., 2.15, 3.20, 4.20, 6.50, 
 *7.io P.M. 
 
 Somers' Point to Ocean City — *6.i5, 8.00, 9.23, 10.45, ic-30 a.m., 2.00, 2.45, 
 3-45, 5-55. 11.50 P.M. 
 
 Ocean City to Longport, connecting for Atlantic City — *6.4o, 7.20, 7.50, 8.25, 
 9.00, 9.40, 10.00, 10.45, 11.17, 11-35 A.M., 12.00 M., 1.25, 2.00, 2.30, 3.®o, 3.20, 
 4.00, 4.45, 5.30, 6.50, 7.10 P.M. 
 
 Longport to Ocean City, upon arrival of trains from Atlantic City — 705, 
 7.42, 8.15, 8.50, 9.23, 10.00, 10.30, 11.05, 11.40 A.M., 12.15, 12.45, 1.50, 2.20, 2.55, 
 3.25, 4.00, 4.35, 5.10, 6.00, *6.45, 7.30 P.M. 
 
 * Fishing boat daily. 
 
 Boats are run to connect with all trains. 
 
 EXCURSIONS TO SEA. 
 
 Hourly pleasure trips to sea are made by boats of this Company from the 
 Pavilion'at the Inlet at Atlantic City. They are also for charter for towing or 
 special fishing, or Moonlight Excursions. 
 W. T. BARBER, Manager. 
 
 ^Qesf-g (z;PS0y • i\0:ilF©ad.. 
 
 F=OR SeK ISL-E CITY MND OCEKN CITY. 
 
 LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. 
 
 Express 9.10 a.m. Express 4.20 p.m. 
 
 Accommodation 8.20 a.m. Express 2.30 p.m. 
 
 Excursion 7.00 a.m. Accommodation 3.40 p.m. 
 
 SUNDAYS. 
 
 Accommodation 7.10 a.m. Express 8.50 A.M. 
 
 Excursion 7.00 a.m. 
 
 LEAVE OCEAN CITY— Second Street. 
 
 Express 6.27 a.m. Accommodation 1.53 p.m. 
 
 Accommodation 6.18 a.m. Excursion 4.50 p.m. 
 
 Accommodation 9.43 a.m. Express 5.00 p.m. 
 
 SUNDAYS. 
 
 Accommodation 3 35 p.m. Excursion 5.42 p.m. 
 
 Express 5.22 p.m. Accommodation 8.48 p.m. 
 
 Central Ave., Sea Isle City, and Thirty-fourth St., Ocean City, flag stations 
 for all trains. 
 
 Chas. E. Pugh, Ge7i'l Manager. A. O. Dayton, Superintendent. 
 
48 
 
 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 F. P. CflflFIEliD, 
 
 F{eal Estate /^<5(^i)t. 
 
 Rouses and Iiots for sale in all parts of the eity 
 on easy terms. 
 
 There never will be a time when lots will be cheaper, with 
 so many attractions as Ocean City offers, than now. 
 
 If you want a cottage or home by the sea, on one of 
 the highest beaches on the New Jersey coast, with Great 
 Egg Harbor Bay and Inlet on one side, and the Atlantic 
 Ocean on the other, where the Hquor traffic is prohibited 
 in every deed, where the Sabbath is observed, where the 
 grass and flowers grow with rare beauty, where the sail- 
 ing is the finest and the boating safe as on an inland 
 lake, where the bathing is as good at one hour of the 
 day as another, and no life lines are needed, where there 
 is one of the best boardwalks on the New Jersey coast 
 along the strand, where there has not been a case of 
 drowning in seven years, where but two persons have 
 been arrested for disorderly conduct in eight years, 
 where there is absolutely no malaria, where living ex- 
 penses are as cheap as anywhere, where there is no 
 healthier climate in America, then buy one or more lots 
 at Ocean City, while they will cost but a fraction of 
 what they are worth at other seaside resorts. 
 
 I l?aue lot5 ot) tl?e /i\aip au(^r>ues for sal^ at 
 frofc\ $100 to $1000 (^aei). 
 
 I am thoroughly conversant with all facts connected 
 with property on the beach. Those desiring any infor- 
 mation in regard to Ocean City, or about property, 
 should call or correspond with me. 
 
 U/. ?or. Sixtl; Street apd ^sbury J^u^pu^, 
 
 OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 49 
 
 SUPEHlHTENDEflT OF 
 
 OCERJSl CITY ASSOCIRTIOH 
 
 pi^Om ITS Of^GRfllZRTIOfl, flflD ALiSO 
 
 l^ERli ESTATE AGEflT, 
 
 Having thousands of building lots for sale at various prices, SOME VERY 
 CHEAP, and located in all parts of Ocean City. 
 
 Now is the time to purchase property, before the SECOND RAILROAD 
 comes, as then property will greatly advance. 
 
 I have a good many INQUIRJES FOR PROPERTY between Sixth and 
 Twelfth streets. Any one having property for sale might do well to give me 
 their prices. 
 
 All persons desiring to BUY, or SELL, or EXCHANGE property, would 
 do well before closing any transaction to call on or address 
 
 E. B. LAKE, 
 
 No. 601 ASBURY AVE., OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
 Association office. 
 
 prapl^ B. Spydi^r, 
 
 Qf^oiei^ Brands Qi(5ar5, ^(^ari^ttes apd 5oba(;(;o5, 
 /^sbury j\\3<iT)ii(i abou(^ Ei^l^tl? Stn^i^t, 
 
 OCEfiri CITY, fl. tJ. 
 
 First-class Barber Shop attached. All the daily and weekly papers. 
 
 FRED. PONTIERE 
 
 Wishes to inform his friends and the public in general that 
 he has opened a 
 
 St^O^ S'?OP» /^St^^ry fi\J^. belou; fliptt^ St., 
 
 OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
 Men's half soled and heeled, 75c.; men's half soled (hand sewed), Si. 00; 
 ladies' half soled and heeled, 50c.; boys' half soled and heeled, 50c.; children, 
 35c. and upward. Patches, loc. extra. Shoes made to order, I4.50 and 
 upward. fi@"The best workmanship guaranteed. Please give me a trial. 
 
50 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 OCEAfi CITY, fiELU JEJ^SEY. 
 
 R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Editor and Prop'r. 
 
 A spicy seven-column sheet, with a very large circulation. Published on 
 the border and circulates in three adjoining counties, as well as nearly every 
 state of the Union. Advertisers will be wise in giving the SENTINEL a trial 
 order, as our city is visited by thousands from a distance. Rates reasonable. 
 Published every Thursday. 
 
 B. R. SMITH, 
 
 The Pioneer Paper Hanger, Decorator, Grainer 
 and Sign Writer of Ocean City. 
 
 A large and varied stock of 
 
 Wall Paper and Decorations 
 
 On hand at popular prices. 
 
 All Worl^ Artigticallil Done, and i^Il Woi<l^ (guaranteed. 
 
 B. R. S7V\:iTH, 
 
 nSBUl^Y AVEflUE, - - OCEfliM CITY, fi. d. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 5I 
 
 f\ /T\oral 5sasid(^ l^(?sort. 
 
 •^-^!•ti^'«^5«^-* 
 
 pot e^^celled ag a Health V^$l{^m 
 
 FINEST FACILITIES FOR 
 
 FISHING, SAILING, GUNNING, ETC. 
 
 iM^ 
 
 Oeeap ^ity. 
 
 Temperance and Morals 
 
 SHouiiD comBifiE to heijP us. 
 
 THOUSANDS OF LOTS FOR SALE AT VARIOUS PRICES, 
 LOCATED IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. 
 
 Apply to Superintendent, 
 
 E. B. LAKE. 
 
52 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 iReading 
 
 {Railroad ? 
 
 to 
 the Sea." 
 
 ONLY DOUBLE=TRACIs: LINE 
 
 pi^iladelpt^ia ai^d /^tla^tie <5ity. 
 
 THE FAMOUS FAST 
 
 FliYEHS 
 
 ALWAYS ON TIME. 
 
 Carry their P2SSPngers S^FFLY and SURFLY between 
 
 A BFLFFf f A ^V AN D TH E DEPOT I N 
 
 I^MEtJltA Ml.l^^''^'^ THE VERY CENTRE OF 
 
 CHESTNUT ST. WHARF 1 T'f 'I IV^iPfl^ f^l ''PW 
 
 OR SOUTH ST. WHARF A 1 £/- Ai\ i il? l?i i 1 
 
 IN 73 miNOTES. 
 
 R FERTUf^E op THIS lalJME IS ITS HHJ?D"COAIi 
 LtOCOmOTIVES. 
 
 SPBEE). 
 
 ONL-V do\jbi_e-trkok: L-INE. 
 
 SAKKTY. 
 
 TWO STATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
 SIX STATIONS IN ATLANTIC CITY. 
 
 The Coaches composing the "FLYERS" are new and of the latest and 
 most elegant designs. The Pullman Drawing-room and Buffet Parlor Cars 
 are models of palatial luxury. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 53 
 
 5176 grades publi5t7i9(^ Qo., 
 
 PUBLISHERS OF 
 
 T 
 
 ALSO, 
 
 f\rt printers ai^d Desi<59ers. 
 
 ers[GRM:^ERS oi= ml.l- kinds. 
 
 1001 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
 
 JOHN R. KENDRTCK, President. 
 
 ROBERT FISHER, 
 
 THE PIONEER 
 
 Real Estate and Insurance Agent and Broker 
 
 Conveyancer, Coinmissioner of Deeds, 
 and JYotary Public, 
 
 Can supply purchasers with desirable investments at all 
 
 times. Ocean Front Cottages and Hotel Sites 
 
 a specialty. Rents and Renting. 
 
 LIFE and FIRE INSURANCE 
 
 Given careful attention, and the utmost security guaranteed in 
 every department. 
 
 Business Office on most pfominent eofnef, Seventh 
 Street and flsbury Avenue, Ocean City. 
 
 "PJCU'DD'C T IVFRY SUPPLIED _WITH ALL. THE MODERN 
 
 STYLES OF VEHICLES, &,C. 
 
54 
 
 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK, 
 
 B. HOWARD THORN, 
 
 DEALER IN 
 
 FURNITURE, STOVES, &c. 
 
 READY-MIXED PAINTS, LEAD, OILS, GLASS 
 
 801-805 ASBURY AVENUE, 
 
 OCEAN CITY, N. J, 
 
 ABEL D. SCULL, 
 
 >¥T ¥ ¥ ¥1 
 
 House Moving and Jobbing 
 
 75 SF=»eCIKI-TV. 
 
 MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 
 
 THISTLE COTTAGE, 
 
 Central Aventjie above Seventh. Street, 
 OCHfliM CITY, H' tJ. 
 
ocean city guide book. 55 
 
 Finely Equipped. Cuisine Excellent. Open all the Year. 
 
 All Modern Improvements — Steam Heat, Gas, etc. 
 
 J. T. ADAMS, Prop., 
 
 Sl^e Sraymore, 
 
 COl. IIITI 111 WESLEY IllIlJI. 
 
 Rates, $2 00 to $2.50 per Day. Special 
 Rates for Season. 
 
 /Allaire ^ottai^e, 
 
 (;or. §)\x\\i §)i c\nd (^enfral qA^q. 
 
 Delightfully located between the bay and the ocean. The well-known repu- 
 tation of this house will be fully sustained during the present season. 
 
 MRS. A. B. RANCK, Proprietress. 
 
 Bishop poster's Heresy, 
 
 By REV. JAMES E. LAKE, B.D., of the N. J. Conference, 
 IvEYPORT, N. J. 
 
 "A sharp book." — Camden Post. " Written with marked ability." — Dr. Deems. 
 
 212 pages. Sent on reeeipt of priee, postpaid, $1.00. 
 
56 OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 J. E. Pt^YOt^, ]V[.D., 
 
 OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 Residence, Cor. Eighth and Asbury Avenue. 
 
 The Dolphin, 
 
 NO. 1046 ASBURY AVE., OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
 Delightfully located a short distance from either bay or ocean. 
 
 Now open for guests. Accommodations first-class. Every home comfort. 
 
 Rates reasonable. Call or address 
 
 Dr. Waggoner's Seaside Pliamacy, 
 
 No. 731 Asbury Avenue, - Ocean City, N. J. 
 
 Ficj'e Drugs and Medicines, Toilet Goods and 
 Fancy Articles, Whitman's Confections, 
 Stationery, etc. Prescriptions care- 
 fully compounded. 
 
 Dr. Waggoner's office in drug store. 
 
 F. E. cham:pion, 
 
 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 
 
 ICECREAM MANUFACTURER 
 
 SPACIOOS ICE CREAM PIRLORS AND RESTAURANT. 
 
 MILK SEi¥IP TWICE MILY. FilSl CIEIIEIY BiTTIl, 
 
 K9ieH<?rboGH<?r lee serued daily; S^torday p./T\. for SiJ^day. 
 
 COAL AND WOOD. 
 
 North Cor. Seventh and Asbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 57 
 
 3n£. STONeHIl-I-. G. O. MDKTU^S. 
 
 STONEHILL & ADAMS, 
 
 plastering, l(ange getting, Bricl^la^iiig, ^c. 
 
 All Work in -Mason Line Promptly Attended to. 
 
 OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
 HARRY L. CONVER, 
 
 Fine Cigai'^ ^ Tobacco, Full Line of pipeg \ ^mo^ing Tobacco 
 
 FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP. 
 
 LADIES' HAIR CUTTING AND SHAMPOOING A SPECIALTY. 
 
 ■711 A.SBXTI%^Y -AVENXJE. 
 
 King's fii^^e^iGei^ llaui^dF^Y, 
 
 ASBURY AVENUE below FOURTH STREET, OCEAN CITY, N.J. 
 
 Shirts 10 • Flannels 50 a suit 
 
 Collars 03 Ladies' White Dresses i.oo 
 
 Cuffs 04 Ladies' Gingham 50 
 
 White Vests 25 Wrappers 25 
 
 Gents' Underwear 08 a piece White Skirts 23 
 
 Gents' Hose 05 a piece Washing i.oo per doz. 
 
 ALL WORK DONE IN FIRST-CLASS STYLE. 
 
 MRS^. MMMM miM@t FEopEietress, 
 
 Ocean Gity House 
 
 OClEiA.N CITY, N. J., 
 
 Asbury Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth Streets, 
 
 MRS. J. T. PRICE, - - PROPRIETRESS. 
 
 Pleasantly located. Convenient to R. R. station and Post Office. Terms 
 moderate. Open all the year. 
 
58 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 
 
 WM. LAKE), 
 
 SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER, 
 
 Master in Chancery, Notary Public. 
 
 Lots for Sale or Exchange. Cottages to 
 Rent, ftjirnislned and tinfurnished. 
 
 Cottages catted for duping the rjuintep. 
 
 Office, S. Cor. Sixth St. and Asbury Ave. 
 
 H. G. STEELMAN, 
 
 GHOCEt^, 
 
 The Largest Store, the Most Varied Stock, 
 
 GOODS AT CITY PRICES. 
 
 AGENT FOR THE FAMOUS BIG ELK DAIRY BUTTER. 
 
 Goois ieliverei free of clarp. We parantee salisfaction. 
 
 If®, f ®S AmrnVKW ATM: 
 
OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 59 
 
 Manufacturer and dealer in 
 
 STOVES, HEATERS and RANGES 
 
 ALSO, TIN ROOFING AND SPOUTING. 
 
 GalYanized Iron Flower Vases. Repairing of stoves, etc., promptly attended to. 
 
 JACOB SCHUFF, 
 
 PIONEER BAKERY, 
 
 >S'. Tf '. Gov. Seventh St. ^' Ashury Ave. 
 
 Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Parties and weddings supplied. Only 
 the best material used. Goods delivered free of charge. Nothing deHvered 
 on Sunday. 
 
 J. w. sMim 
 
 748 flsbupy Ave. 
 
 A Full Line of Fresh Meats always on hand, Beef, Mutton. Pork, etc., etc. 
 
 •^1 STVTOFCED HKTW^S, BMCON. ETC. 14- 
 
 ppesh Vegetables, the best the markets affoPd, Canned Goods 
 a specialty. City Pfiees. 
 
J. s. RUSH, 
 
 KRKSCOINO AND H[ARD= 
 WOOD KINISHINO. 
 
 ^JOBBING H S R E C I M L-T V.i^ 
 
 ESTIIVIflTES Ftll^NlSHED 
 
 O9 all Ki9^S of vi/orH- 
 
 ORDERS FROM A OiSTANGE FILLED PROMPTLY. 
 
 OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
 
 p. O. Box 37. 
 
H. B. ADAMS & CO., 
 I^^al Estate a pd Ipsurai7e^ 
 
 HOTELiS RH10> COTTAGES FOt^ t^EflT. 
 
 HBRU ESTATE. 
 
 Every location. 
 
 All kinds of property for sale or rent. 
 
 Lots of lots. 
 
 Eligible spaces on the boardwalk. 
 
 Suitable sites for hotels 
 
 Terms reasonable. 
 
 All prices. 
 
 Titles perfect. 
 
 Extraordinary bargains constantly on hand. 
 
 irlSUJ^RJlCE. 
 
 None but first-class companies represented. 
 
 Selection can be had from i8 companies. 
 
 Unquestionable policies. 
 
 Rates as low as consistent with good insurance. 
 
 All losses promptly adjusted. 
 
 Now is the time to insure. 
 
 Circulars sent on application. 
 
 Everybody desiring insurance will do well to see us. 
 
 MONEY TO LOAN ON FIRST MORTGAGES. GILT-EDGED FIRST MORT- 
 GAGES FOR SALE. TITLES INSURED OR CERTIFIED SEARCHES FUR- 
 NISHED. PARTIES HAVING MONEY TO LOAN, CALL AND LOOK AT OUR 
 FORM OF APPLICATION. 
 
 PROPERTY CARED FOR, AND THE INTERESTS OF PROPERTY OWNERS 
 IN OCEAN CITY CHEERFULLY LOOKED AFTER WITHOUT CHARGE. 
 
 COMMODIOUS OFFICES CONVENIENTLY LOCATED OPPOSITE THE V/. J. 
 R. R. STATION. CALL AND SEE US. 
 
 H. B. ADAMS & CO , 
 
 •^1 REKL- • EST75TE • 75ND •• INSURANCE. 1^ 
 
 E\(§\)t\) a\)d U/est Sts., Oeeap Qity, J^.J. 
 

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