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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & Co.
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uth wind, andthe same breezes bring to her shores in summer, cooling zephyrsfor thousands who yearly take advantage of them for health orpleasure. The climate of Cape May is semi-tropical in character.Cotton and cane will mature, and fruits and plants of the southernzone nourish if properly cultivated. Routes to Cape May.— The Philadelphia &* Reading Rotite(Atlantic City Railroad) is by the Chestnut Street or South Streetferry to Camden, and thence over the former South Jersey line,which has lately been thoroughly rebuilt and provided with a first-class service of trains, run several times a day and connecting withbranch trains to Ocean City and Sea Isle City. Round-trip tickets COSt $2. The Pennsylvania Railroads Route is over the former WestJersey tracks, from Camden, and is a little longer. It has an equallygood service of trains, which pass through Vineland and other inter-esting towns. The round-trip fare is $2.25. The Beach and Bathing Eacitities.—The whole length of the
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SEASIDE RESORTS. 125 beach, from Cape May Point to Sewalls Point, is five miles. Thatportion of it used for bathing purposes is about a mile in extent. Theshore is broad and smooth. Its firmness renders it useful and quitecomfortable for driving as well as for pedestrian exercise. Bathingfacilities are ample, and indoor sea baths, hot or cold, may be had bythose who do not like surf-bathing. The boulevard, with promenade and drive, extends from CapeMay Point to the Stockton Hotel, about three miles. Along thisroute the ocean is in clear view, the waves, at high tide, rolling towithin a few feet of the carriage-way. What is known as the Turn-pike Drive has become a favorite carriage route for visitors, enablingthem to enjoy the ocean view for a considerable distance, then tak-ing them through pleasant roads and avenues in the district aroundCape May City. At the foot of Decatur Street is the iron Ocean Pier, now abouteight hundred feet long. It is a favorite promenade. On one partan am

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