June 23, 1910, Berwick Register
Sea Side Park
Things at the Park are now in full swing, and the management is ready for business.
Among the guests at the Park the past week were the following: P. Gifkins, Mrs. L. A. Lovett and children, Sydney, C. B.; Miss Beatrix Martin, Kentville; R. N. Clark, W. A. Butchart, Berwick; A. C. Sheridan, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Coffin, Boston, Mass.; Mrs. L. P. Burbidge, G. A. Burbidge, Halifax, N. S.; Miss Joyce Clark, Miss Helen Clark, W. B. Jordan, Kentville; Mr. and Mrs. Colin A. Hird, Grafton; Roy Creighton, Berwick; R. Margeson, Welsford; Miss Cora M. Lovelace, Grafton; Gordon Savage, C. F. Devaney, Berwick; F. B. Kinsman, Lakeville; Miss E. M. Graves, Cambridge; Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Balcom, Margaretville; Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Munroe, Kingston.
It will be well for our valley people to remember that very often when the weather is threatening in the valley it is simply charming at Sea Side, and that a telephone call asking about the weather at the shore will always be cheerfully answered.
Sea Side Park has quite a large fleet of boats at the shore available for guests, either for pleasure parties or for deep sea fishing.
Arrangements have been made between the management of the Park and the Margaretville Steamship Company, whereby the steamer Ruby L. will give moonlight excursions every second Saturday night, weather permitting, the first excursion to be on Saturday night, June 25th.
Arrangements have been made for dancing on the after deck, and ice cream and other refreshments will be available on board, as well as on the spacious verandahs of Sea Side Park.
These excursions should meet with the liberal patronage of the people of the valley, as the price has been fixed at twenty cents each person, and as no rowydism will be tolerated a moment either on board the boat or in the Park, the most fastidious need not hesitate in sharing in a delightful evening on our beautiful bay.
Beginning with Saturday evening, June 25th, weather permitting, the buildings and the park will be beautifully illuminated each Saturday evening, and remain so until 11 p.m.
Deep sea fishing parties will leave the Park one or two days each week; everything needful for a successful fishing trip will be on board, and fish dinner will also be served.
The price will be extremely moderate and the vessel will be in command of a reliable and capable captain. Parties from the valley wishing to join these trips should communicate with the manager of the Park, either by letter or phone a few days before they want to go, in order that suitable arrangements may be made, as under no circumstances will the boat be permitted to carry more persons than can be comfortably accommodated.
A thirty horse power motor boat, purchased by Mr. John Given, of Boston, is daily expected at the Park and will add considerably to the Sea Side Park fleet.
George Spicer, of Boston, is expected the last of the week, and will certainly put his speedy little motor boat into commission.
Capt. I. B. Morris leaves Thursday in his yacht, the Nile, for Rockland, Maine, to be present at the launching of a beautiful new steam yacht on July 4th. He expects to pilot her with the owner and friends on board to Sea Side Park, where they propose to spend a season as guests of the Park.
Dominion Day will be loyally celebrated at the Park. There will be something doing all day long, and in the evening the grounds and buildings of the Park will be charmingly decorated and illuminated, and in addition there will be some fireworks, and the biggest bonfire that Kings County has ever seen. Fire departments of the neighboring towns are hereby notified that it will be only a bonfire and not a big catastrophe.
Harbor Master Curry, at the request of the Harborville Realty Company, and at their expense, has cleaned up the head of the harbor in good shape, and the company has erected three very pretty bathing houses there; a delightful corner for the ladies and the kiddies to bathe, and play in the genuine old salt water.
Always remember that there is nothing but blue water at Sea Side Park, if you are looking for mud flats you can't get them at Harborville.
Sea Side Park claims to have 3,180 square feet of verandahs and the management stands ready to prove it, and every inch of it commanding a clear view of the magnificent scenery of the bay from Cape Split to Cape Spencer.
The provincial and county authorities are to be heartily commended for the way they are improving the Givan Road. Inspector Munroe was at the Park on Monday, and with Councillor Bryden went over the roads and issued the necessary orders to put them in firstclass condition and keep them so.