Cool Cape May 2021-22

[24] excerpt from the first resort
This page, top:
The steamship
Republic lands at
Cape May, near
the location of
today’s Sunset
Beach
Lynn Zettlemoyer
This page,
below:
A ticket for
the steamship
Republic
Opposite page:
Clockwise from
top left – early
1900s Beach
Drive in front
of the Colonial
Hotel
Cape May
County Museum
The John F.
Craig family
enjoy a meal in
their summer
cottage,
which is now a
popular B&B
on Columbia
Avenue
John F. Craig
House
A life-saving
boat on the
beach
Don Pocher
The old
Stockton Hotel
bath houses
John F. Craig
House
are already open. On Saturday the celebrated
Weccacoe Band of Philadelphia, which had taken
such a prominent part in the musical festivals held
here the past few years, and which is engaged for
the summer from July 4, is to give a concert on the
grand pavilion of the new iron pier. There is also
to be a hop given in the pavilion, which has been
enclosed with glass, and can be closed up if the
weather should prove unfavorable. On Sunday the
band is to give a sacred concert in the pavilion. Prof
Gosche is to have charge of this as well as the musical
festivals during the summer at the Cape.
As a general thing there is not much of a crowd
here until about the Fourth of July, but the arrivals
last Saturday and this week have been quite
numerous, and everything indicates a lively and
prosperous season. The weather seems not to be
getting down to business and the hot spells which
are expected to follow make the bosom of the summer
resort hotel men swell with delight, as they are