Resort To Give
Welcome To 1926
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service will start at 9 o’clock
'with a social hour from '10 till
11 o’clock. The new Stinson
memorial chimes at this church
will ring in the new year, start
ing a few moments before
twelve.
Other churches of the resort
also are arranging for late serv
ices on Thursday night and large
congregatibns are expected to be
present.
In the hotels, special New
"Year’s entertainments have been
:arranged for. Among the large
.'beach front hotels which will
have special dances and suppers
on Thursday night are the Am
bassador, •- which will have a
dance in the Renaissance Room;
the Breakers, where merrymak
ers will greet the New Year in
the Roof Garden, and*the Chel
sea, which will open the Grill
Room for the New Year’s
revelers.
Countless parties will be held
throughout the resort on Thurs
day evening. Among the larg
est of these is the affair to take
place at the new Elks’ Home, on
Virginia avenue. The members
and their ladies, along with
guests, will assemble at the home
that evening for a big New
Year’s Eve party, which prom
ises to be one of the social
events of the season.
The annual New Year’s dance
and reception of the local coun
cil, Knights of Columbus, will be
held in the ballroom of the
DeVille Hotel on Thursday night.
This affair will start at 9 o’clock.
Edward J. O’Keefe is chairman
of the committee.
Practically every cafe and
___ cabaret in the city has booked
special entertainment programs
for New Year’s Eve and reser
vations have been coming in
rapidly for the past two weeks.
Tables in many of the establish
ments are reported to be selling
at premiums and by Thursday
night it is expected that these
places will all be filled to full
capacity.
From every viewpoint, the
welcome of 192$ promises to be
one of the warmest of, history
in Atlantic City and Ventnor and
the blowing of whistles and ring
ing of church bells throughout
the city at midnight Thursday
will find the resort alive and
wide-awake.
Cape May Ferry Will
Complete Coast Road
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Coastal Highway passes through
the territory which made the first
history of the United States,
touching at Salem, staid old
Boston, New York, the New Jer
sey coast resorts, Washington,
Fredericksburg and the cities
made prominent in the War be
tween the States. '
The New York road is open.
A celebration in this city a week
ago commemorated that. A con
tinuous, very straight, very safe
stretch of paved highway con
nects this city with the nation’s
metropolis, New York.
The Liewes-Cape May ferry will
be in operation next summer.
The state has refused aid, but
the project will be carried
through, anyway, private funds
being used in building a wharf
on the New Jersey side.
The Cape May Progressive
League has appointed a-commit
tee to confer with Col. Jesse
Rosenfeld to arrange means of
raising money for the dock by
private subscription. They have
pledged their support, and have
promised that the ferry would
be in operation in 1926.
The ferry will probably open
in May. The next step will then
be the construction of a bridge
between Beasley’s Point and
Somers Point. This is an under
taking that has been demanded
by Cape May County interests
for some time. The volume of
travel that the New York road
will pour over Jersey on its way
down the coast makes the con
struction of this bridge more
necessary now than ever before.
With the opening of the Dela
ware ferry next 'spring, the
present Coastal Highway route
will be altered so as to keep the
motorists closer to the shore
than at present. Where now the
cars avoid South Jersey, going
through the southeastern part of
Pennsylvania and through Mary
land to Washington, the new
route will take the tourist right
down the Jersey coast from New
York to Cape May, via ferry to
Lewes, Delaware, and on across
the state to Maryland. It will
shorten the route from the North
to the South by several hundred
miles.
New Bus One To Run
To Northern Resorts
Permit for Bus Line From At
lantic City to Asbury Park
Approved by North Jersey
Resort Officials
A bus line is being formed to
run between Atlantic City and
Asbury Park. The Public Tran
sit Company has applied to the
board of commissioners of As
bury Park for a permit to have
the northern terminus of its At
lantic City-Asbury route in that
city. It has not yet applied for
a permit in Atlantic City, but is
expected to do so soon. The
Asbury commissioners have al
ready given their consent to the
project.
The company plans to operate
17-passenger parlor cars of latest
design and will charge $3.10 for
a one-way passage between the
two resorts.
The state legislature is now
considering a higher tax on motor
freight trucks doing an inter
state business.
Damage to New Jersey’s high
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ways, state, county and municipal
by heavy freight buses is em
phasized as the reason for a sug
gested revision of the schedule
of motor truck fees. The maxi
mum fee now is $99 a year for
the heaviest truck that uses the
highways. Complaint is made
that the trucks in competition
with railroads and trolleys in
handling of freight are escaping
a just share of the burden of tax
ation.
Growth of motor passenger
buses, especially those doing
business thru several cities, has
prompted the Republican sena
tors to propose a change in the
law governing the imposition of
a five per cent gross tax levy. In
Atlantic City, Newark and Jer
sey City, for instance, where
buses do a strictly city business,
the five per cent gross tax is
levied. But where buses, having
terminals in Camden and Wood
bury, ' operate thru other towns,
the complaint is that the Com
panies only pay franchise taxesl
in the municipalities Where they!
pick up and discharge passengers.
In other words, roads of several
municipalities are subjected to
wear and tear of the buses, with
out getting a share of the gross
receipts tax.
The Public Utility commission
has authority over approval of
municipality permits for pas
senger buses operating in several
cities.
All Cape May County
To Exhibit in Phila.
Cape May County will be well
represented in the coming Phila
delphia Sesqui-Centennial of
1926. In a recent meeting with
Sesqui-Centennial committeemen
at Cape May Court House, the
officials of Cape May County en
gaged two booths, Nos. 4 and 5,
in thp Resorts and Real Estate
Section, in the Palace of Agri
culture and Food Products Build
ing, during the Sesqui-Centen
nial. • *
The booths come very high,
but it was explained by Mayor
Champion, of Ocean City, chair
man of the committee of officials,
that a large amount of the ex
pense will be borne by the re
sorts of Cape May County, The
rural sectiohs Will- also benefit
by the exhibit of their various
products, and will be asked to
co-operate in the financing and
planning of the exhibit,
The cost of the exhibit is esti
mated at about $§O,00O and each
municipality will be charged in
proportion to its assessed valu
ation. Wildwood charges will
amount to approximately $7,000
and Ocean City’s to about
$8,000.
These booths in the Sesqui
Centennial are agreed to be one
of the biggest advertisements
that Cape May County could put
across. It is an opportunity that
comes but once in a lifetime, and
the officials fully realize that the
bigger and better the exhibit
from Cape May County is, the
bigger and better will be the
fruitful returns, in the near
future. The Sesqui-Centeifflial
will advertise to thousands. It
is Cape May County’s big chance
and the southern resorts are not
neglecting it.
Another municipality to en
gage space is Miami, Fla., which
is preparing an elaborate exhibit.
Argentine has appropriated
$400,000 f6r a nation-wide
exhibit.
Durable Painting
Thomas S. Crane & Sons
115 N. Massachusetts Ave.
Estimates Marine 617
The local - Civitan Club will
play Santa Claus to a number of
deserving kiddies on December
30th, at the Hotel Ambassador/
by serving luncheons, delivering",
candy, ^ toys, etc., and special
entertainment for their guests.
As Another^
Year Comes
we again remind
you of the import
ance of making
your will and ap
pointing a thor
oughly trustworthy
Executor. One
upon whom you
can depend to effi
ciently Carry - out
your instructions is
the Ventnor City
National Bank.
Come ill and con
sult us freely, in
perfect confidence.
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