National Republican., 1879-07-30
ATLANTIC CITY LETTER.
twenty-five Thousand People Seek
ing the Sea Breeze.
Attractions offered to Visitors -Apiusements
OF Every Kind at Hand-Music, Dane
Ing, and Bathing-JournaIisic Ex-
cursionists-Sabbath Evening
Concerts-Grand Display
of Fireworks Soon,
Sights Seen Mt the Sen Shore.


ATLANTIC CITY, July 2S.
The crowd of visitors here increases daily,
and the estimate given by an impartial judge
is that the number of people here now is be-
tween 10000 aud 25,000-certaiuly over 10000
aud supposed to equal $4,000. At most of the
hotels one is told, I'VE cannot promise room
for several weeks Atlantic City is essentially
an excursion resort, which does not at all in
terfcrc with the comfort of the permanent
guests, but contributes to their pleasure. The
excursion end is entirely removed from that
part OF the city where most of the beautiful
private cottages and principal houses are situ-
ated. Excursionists arriving daily increase
the mirth and excitement ut the excursion
point, and visit there is quite feature of the
place. The Sea View Excursion House, the
headquarters Of the excursionists by the Cam
dcu and Atlantic City Railroad, is the most cx
| tensive excursion house on the New Jersey
coast. 1tislarge and commodous, and has every
apartment that could contribute to the comfort
and pleasure of guests. The ballroom is very
| large, with raised stand for music. Here o
band is in waiting to play for those who arrive
by the trains and desire to "trip 1t on the light
fantastic toe" 1t certainly is fun to sit upon
the porch and watch the visitors Of a day when
they first arrive. So much is presented they
scarce know which to grasp. There is the S, a,
with beautiful beach, perhaps more beautiful
| than at other portions Of the island, inviting
them to bath agents running to and fro
| with cards telling of this house for hiring
| suits aud that one for good dinner. Suits arc
| displayed with all their bright trimming, and
II look at them and the restless cooling sea is
very inviting. On the other hand that band
la., l.lI
| room beautifully decorated with flags and other
ornamentatiOn. The various shows and
| amusemeuts around are also tempting to many
of these people from the heated city aud bent
upon :" n good time for the day" Just in front
of the Sea View House is the flying horse
pavilion. There we have q dozen wooden
| horses of various cUlOrs and shape. with q chair
beside each that Mamma" may ride aud
hold OIL to the little one. The rail on which
the machine revOlves is elevated at intervals
so as to give the motion of "a real horse" as
the children say, us near MS possible 1t is
driven by a steam.engine, and looks bright
and pretty with its weight Of humanity flying
round aud round. just to the left of this is q
revolving swing, which has no motion by
steam, but Is sort of see-saw arrangement.
This has four cars, and each car seats four per-
sons. Two cars go UP at once, giving their oc-
cupants an extended view of the ocean and all
T tile varied scenes around the excursion point.
IL tnc ctils are all nlleu ut OucC tnc DaIauCe
is thrown in the empty car of heavily filled
salt bags. How some persons did seem 10
enjoy this mode Of elevation for myself l
confess 10 great liking of terra .frmd, but i
did enjoy the pleasure 1t evidently gave others.
To the right of the Excursion House there
is machine which the managers call an
Encyclopedia Motion Machine. 1t has
four very large wheels, to which are at taced
small cars seating two in each car. The
wheels seem to have two or even four motions.
AT any rate, not fully understanding Ii, one
can easily see that there is motion of the
wheels in aud around each other, and on the
rail, which elevates the occupants of the car to
Q a great height, enabling them to get all ex-
] tended view of the sea and mainland. 1t Is
} claimed that this machine is entirely free from
the motion that brings a sort of seasickness
which is common TO machines of revolving
motion. All along the beach, and indeed
around the house, are booths so varied in mer-
chaudise 1t would be difficult 10 enumeratc
them. Shell jewclry is very prettily dis.
played, and some of the articles are beautiful
Scarf-pins, sleeve.buttons, breast-pins earrings
aud all sorts of charms made of conch shells
: are for sale. The shell polishes very nicely
and the delicate pink hue of the jewelry is
pretty. The confectionery booths also make q
great display, and the whole scene at and
around the Excursion House is one of life
activity, and mrth. The Lafayette EXcur.
I sion House, at which excursionists over the
a Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railway arc
entertained, is new and well adapted for the
purpose.
This road Is new and we'll conducted. II
7 runs through very pretty part of Jersey and
}, brings excursonsts by way of Walnut street
! ferry in very short time aud at very mod
: !. crate rates to this city. The company run ar
# omnibus, free of charge from trains to the
i hotels up in the city, and there is, of course,
: general rush to get seat on the arrival o
u such trains as it is known the omnibus meets
On the boardwalk, not far from the Shel
, bourne House, is u building erected for the ex
:, hibition of the City of Paris" This Is not
- panoramic view. hut metal and glass arrange
a ment, giving full view of Paris and its sur
- rOundings. Here, too, this week will be al
exhibition of an automatic band from Phila
\ delphia. Coming down from the place of "ful
. for the millions" one hears of hops, concerts
military visitors, carnivals, dialogues, and tab
leaux, aud last, but by no means least, journal
istic visitors. The last named came down from
- Philadelphia on the narrow-gauge railroad OF
. Saturday morning at the invitation of th
y company and made trip to Brigantne Beach
y where they dined. Among them were Ray
e mond Johnston of the Philadelphia Ledger
&c ii. NJ. Hunt, of the Record John ID. Anvil, pro
10 prietOr of the Telephone Of West Philadelphia
|. Edward Stirling, of the EreaiHq Bulletin
c. w. McCorkell, Of the EceHiag star, aud IL. {
10 Rogers, advertising agent Of the Philadelphi
J. and Atlantic City Road
The sacred concerts held every Sabbath even
=, ing at Congress Hall are very well conducted
y and much more seriousness Is shown than
- usual at such gatherings at watering-placc
Last evening several hne solos were rendered
among them one Consider the Liliesn by
I. young lady from Philadelphia The piece wa
=, sung with much feeling aud expression, as We
= as in an artistic manner, aud the audienC
II clappcd an applause. Instantly they were T,
c. minded by the proprietor of the hotel that
g was Sabbath evening" with a request that Il
u further applause should be given. On Satu
t day evening u concert and hop WAS given
H. the same hotel by tho Mennerchor Societ,
t. from Philadelphia, which was attended by
y large number Of persous A concert was al,
,r held at the United States Hotel on Saturda
T. evening. aud delightfully."- the music was give
b by Professor Morgan's band, A great deal
At slid concerning what we may expect when I'll
Mt masquerade carnival comes OF at the Unite
Is States Hotel next Friday. Here all are on Il
Ie qHi rice about the proposed grand fireworks.
of is understood that at least 81 900 will easily
l., raised for this purpose aud we arc told tn;
A. many will come from the city TO witness then
Where they will find quarters is hard to tcl
for IL would seelo, from "a look at the boal
W yesterday afternoon aud evening, 0s thoug
t. they could not even find y soft plank OH tina
d, A continuous crowd coming both ways locke
III as though the tide would not 90 out for sou