The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-08
From Our Regular Correspondent.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 81, 1885.

to the sea coast resorts, most prOmi.
nent of which, and the largest patro-
nized in this country, is Atlantic
City.
As this is rapidly looming up as
the great eIysium and sanitarium.
now that it is reached so quickly and
easily by competing lines of railway
from Philadelphia and other places,
it is we'll to know of it somewhat in
detail.
Fifty.seven miles southeast from
Philadelphia by rail is a strip of made
land. An island washed up by the
sea and fastened to that which halted
its drifting sands. 1t was made by
the sea as mans reputation is made,
adding a letter year after year to good
foundation.
Ever drifting, drifting, drifting,
With the shifting
Currents of the restless main,
Till in sheltered coves and reaches
OF sandy beaches,
The tides ebb and flood again."
Thus the Atlantic Ocean added an
island to the coast of New Jersey. A
strip of land or sand dunes, about ten
miles in length from northeast to
southwest, and from one-fourth to
three. fOurthS of mile in width. 1t
lies parallel to and is about five miles
distant from the mainland of New
Jersey, from which it is separated by
numerous bays, sounds, thorough
fares and salt meadows. These thor
oughfares are great bitches or canals.
so deep and wide that ships drawing
twelve feet of water can be warped
through. Thus, at the north of At
lantic City is an inlet by which ships
laden with ice from the coast of
Maine can enter and be worked or
warped along the thoroughfares clear
around the city and emerge south.
BY this means cargoeS of ice, ETC., are
brought here and run inland to ne
stored in great ice houses close to the
railroad tracks till wanted for use in
city or country.
1t was discovered a few years ago
that the air here is laden with iodine
and chloride of sodium. That the
winters here are about as at Charles
ton, S. G. That the soil here, being
nothing but sand or silica, with no
clay above the sea level, is drained of
its accumulating impurities soon "a
rain drenched. That the Gulf stream
with its forty miles width Of warmer
water runs along to point little
north of this, then shoots away To the
east and around into the ice regions.
Thus the east winds are made en-
durable as they sweep over the warm
waters of the Gulf stream in winter.
A few years ago, returning from Eu
rope in midwinter en- route from
| Liverpool to New York, we were ont
in terrible storm. The rigging of
the ship was so encrusted with ice
that sailors could not handle it till
the captain dropped away to the
south about due east from Philadel.
phia to be thaWed out.
1t was also found that the air here
is dryer than at any other bathing
resort on the coast. That silks and
colors in ladies dresses are not so in
jured and bedimmed here as at Cape
May, which is south, or at Asbury
Park, Ocean Grove, Long Branch,
etc., and other places north. There
fore it is for Philadelphia to boast of
the most attractive coast resort in
this country from sanitary point of
view, even if she does have to run
across the kidney-shaped State of
New Jersey to get to it.
To reach this point from Philadel-
phia cross the Delaware river by
I first class ferry to Camden. a live city
of renown and wriggling politicians,
each of whom is ever anxious to get
there. Then take the cars direct for
Atlantic City. A ride of an hour and
half, across a strip of rich, well
improved gardening country; then
across an undulating sandy barren,
covered with furze of dwarf pine
and worthless underbrush till the
salt meadows are reached. The water
ways are bridged. the cars speed on
and into the cool, life-giving breeze
coming in responsive to the cry of
the painting city. faint with heat,
trying to reach the interior. but made
prisoner and walIoped out by the
heat waves rising in their merciless
simmer from sand plains that are
several degrees hotter than is the re-
vised edition. Like coming from a
hot, prickly barley field in harvest
time to the cool of good old fash
toned milk cellar; like coming home
from hot and hateful war to the