New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-28

WHERE PHI iDELPHIANs 60 IN HOT WEATHER.
THE PEOPLE, THE "mALTo,' AND rHE HOTELS.
IRON An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT or TIE rRIRuShI
ATLANTIC. CITY, July 19.-WIthin the past
two years this place has grown with rapidly JIG rail-
road leading here from philadelphia il run BY shrcwi
officers, who have built up popularity by Issuing ut Least
ye thousand annual passes, distributed among profess
sIoral men Of surrounding cities. There are about
eight thousand people in Philadelphia who devote tho
Summer 10 recreation, and they so pretty eenerd!y
either to Care May Atlantic City Anew only the num-
Der sojourn at Long Branch. while still fewer HID ther
way TO resorts further North This spot Is essentially
Phladelphan and therefore conservative The hotels are
conservative though the clerks saucy the e1upas
are conservatives eyeryhn cse is slow anl behind the
age An Atlantic City guest will tell yon that this = INC
Brighton Of America. Atlantic City is the summer eap
tai OF Philadelphia politicians.
"why don't you down your car fare tohre centsp
said to not worth dollar ID years ago, AID no"
worth -, 100000.
Because don't intend to DO 1t until after tie Cen
tennia" he answered, laughing.
WELL but your railroads have not given dollar
toward the success Of the enterprise"
"Yo-uor We aint o goin' TO- nuther. You see we've
got 'em-we'yc got the Phadelphans. ana they cant
help themselves and intend to hold cm right there
We've money enough TO BUY every man Ia INC LcSis
laturc and City Councils"
lido not wonder at Philadelphia politicians requcntns
this SPOT They manipulate caucuses at the key OF the
telegraph saw of them on Saturday write
d mtch that II would have cost $50 TO send. Moneys
nothing to such bankers and their gold 10 not TO DO
dcspiscd
They have hero what they call "Riato." It's
board walk extending from Absccom light to the Sea
View" or Excursion House, distance OF nearly two anu
a half miles II was called the I" Lovers Walk,
but this title dropped some years ago, owing to
succession OF interesting quarros upon the part OF
three or four bridal tourists This Riato Is the great
proincuadng boulevard OF Atlantic Iiy what ctIhos
be there not in the place. and what can DO thee
found will be found nowhere else on the Island Apou.
sunset hundreds OF gay sed persons OF all ages an!
conditions promenade upon this broad walk or Ealt0
They walk there for staring and being stared al
nOddng, bowling and talking to one another I'M, Walk
IL wonderfully cosmopolitan. There nothing to DO nut
eat. sleep listen Hasslers music, and parade on tho
4" Riato." -
simon Cameron il not here The local paper AN
nonnced his arrival. but | could not find him.
Everybody who knows him likes 10 talk about him,
10 bis political friends, which has made him just tbs
power he Is in the politics OF his state one OF the otes
Is heam Of politics and the City Of Philadelphia Is ts
driven into insanity by their wiles i saw man on
Sunday pay for bottles OF wine at dinner, VINO three
years since went into a bad debt FOR shirt
They say the Is not at its hight; nut cannot
see how the place can be crowded. Every MOTEL.
cottage, and minor boarding house cannot accom-
motfatp another SOUL AID with u all there Is very
little life. Dulness reigns, and ok complain OF tha
scarcity Of money the hardness Of the times ana sener
cnui The longest faced men are hotel Landlords; none
OF them smile unless 10 be In front OF their own bars