New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-03-09
ATLANTIC CITY IN UINTER.
THE NEW BOARD wALK-THE HOTELS CROWDED
WITH NEw-YORKERs.

Atlantic City, y j. March 8 (spccial)-The art OF
public entertainment has been reduced almost 10
science here. People insist upon coming mere al III"
year round, and by the time one season waits az
other has already waXcd toward its prime l"lS
month of March sees the height Of what is called mere
the winter season because even when most resorts
on the Atlantic Coast are bleak and cold, soft breczcS
from the south, that have been waited over 'nc sun
warmed ocean, blow with almost balmy soithess IN
shore instead of shifting the coast WIN IRON H"s''
Nature has done much in the way OF SOIL sur
rornelncs and ocean front for Atlantic City that 1t
,y5 ,,t be strange if ne cuff stream had actually
shjftel IN shore and given further reservoir OF stored
light and heat energy to a spo ready 50 well lighted
and heated Whether Ncw-N npl,t and uiiseas"h-
able winter has has not been due ~ any me eoooe'
cal or marine phenomenal there savants VINO boldly
assert that Atlantic city I, actually growing warmer
and warmer all the winter through
Scores Of New Workers nOw here bear more OF less
cloolrnt testimony to this agreeable fact The place
is full Of hotels. and at this time Of the year inc
hotels are apt to be full Of Ncw-Norkers. Atlahuo
City IS one of the object points to which inc Lch'ch
hegra directs itself 10 the pilgrims from cities worn
out by feasting and dancing il proves Mecca "nc'o
pilgrims nevertheless dance and feast besides url'ns'
walking riding, sun-bathing. flirting and resting.
Take morning stroll along the old board walk
where some years young Abraham Lih'on' even
then weakly lad, used to drink IN warm sea ar ~
his fathers side Here OF any of the recent morn
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, spare pam
matteroffact man. sixty years Old yet as active anu
1.-THE and full Of 90 a. a man of forty further On o'o
would meet Mrs. and Mr.. John DreXe the la''cI SUE
of the well known Tony" and followed by iio"'"
nurse in whose arms lay tiny Miss DreXel y STAGE
further east west the case may De- ior '"o "''
beach front faces south walks Z. L. Chaplin super-
tenccnt of the Cambria Iron Company at Johhs'o"h'
Mr. Chaplin married daughter Of MI MorcI' p'cSiuo''
of the JohnstOwn Iron Works anu mas
like 50 many rich men retiring from INC '''
and activities of business life. settled at Washington
for the remainder of his days. y ic" h'h"'o' i'
tle figure Of Joseph W. Colin would appear III WV
Mr. Coffin * contractor for the new railroad pun 10
run from Pomona, point four miles lhiahu from
Ahsecon 10 Brigant.nc Beach, the great hSiiihS a"
shooting resort MI,
tion and in fact, finished. with ic" gaps o'''' -
twice as wide as and higher ana more De'"u"l ~
every WAY than the old wooden promenade h"'
nobody who ever saw the Old and who sees the ne"
Will waste any sentiment on the former II ""u '"D
disadvantage of yielding too readily 10 the embraces
If the waves: il was crooked II was dlhSy IL Wa"
hish enough removed from The spray ana II ""' ~
lc,et with booths and lighthouses and curious cu'Ol
holes for the sale Of all sorts Of curosltcs. edible ana
otherwise that one might without great dmcli'y sc'
wet get lost get a fall, or even get Inc ny sP'l" va
it, Not 80 Tire Promenade to WEIGH Au'"'V '''
invites the civilized world Il is high ana broad anu
buid or maintain aueht between il and the sea '"'.
At nrc,ent Atlantic City j, about a nuch cNcF'9VU
over the new board walk which she has a. Ne" ZOE"
WAS IN regard TO the Worlds Far, wnch size ''ous"'
she had one or two bcachiront owners nave 9"'
ceeded in getting themselves very much di'Ah'" III
deed because Of their eraspng resistance 10 inc VIII
of the community III tins matter. , ,,,
The Tribune cOrrc- pondcnt asked Dr. boaiamdh hocu
whether Young Abraham Lincoln seemed "Hcii mere
with his faihc. ana family, u be affected VII i,s
~ the s,iuut ,S which resulted IN hla i"tAl HdIS.
pohnrt TOD Lincoln, now Minister 70 En-liiN M''
then a Cabinet officer. lie Wa mere III OhV 'o". ~
~ a pavti,ulirly mpmcntous summer, even lvE e-i,
uI,ca and occupied the Turner Cottage dn annex ''
The BRIGHTON Hotel. from which MS meals "'if -c'N''
secretary Lincoln already reA!ihns ina ti' ,Di
nf great fat her had be, great enough OF !9 own
account t. render publicity undc-rdblc. ana u'i''.I
tnn nm his residence III: annex rather IMAM Ih INC
main iuildinc of the hotel OF a summers evening
Tie family would Il; the porch 81 the 'ol.a-r
aid Young Jacks condition Will" mere du i'' aen
49, ncre.sitlt. medical treatment at that tine. me
d,cio. IL may be added j. Al old uic'.iac "i Johh
opooner now one II the pillars 81 Ms country ana
rs marty fl tie United states senate Tie TWO men
Ixcr. CAPTAINS together in the jOth Wisconsin lscSi-
ment of Infantry Atlantic CITY. by the way, l.
.avortc resort Of the eloquent senator