The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-08-30
LAST WAVE BEATS.
Gay Waning of the Season
at the Seaside
Resorts.
ATLANTIC CITY DOINGS.
Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and
Long Branch Summer So
cieiy Notes.
Specialize The sundav Morning Ne.cs.

ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 20, 1891 From q
cosmopolitan standpoint the sCity by the
Sea" still clings tenacionsly to its claim
of being the leading American summer
resort Too much of the cosmopolitan
idea, fear, has driven away some Of the
moneYed classes that gave it its boom
several years ago.
Naturally. Atlantic City must depend
mainly upon Philadelphia for the support
OF It's hundred or more hotels.
The Quaker City, from a society stand
point is less cosmopolitan than any other
city in the United States. It may be the
effects of the salt air. it may be that the
capital invested in the big mushroom
hotels that sprung up as il by magic, was
skittish of ocean hurricanes and refused
TO FISK too much in the way OF perma-
nent Improvement. Whatever the cause
it is certain some of the hotels need paint
and repairs, and several great big
dilapidated barn-like structures are
actually closed ana labelled For
Sale" But few of them bear that
appearance OF thrift which characterized
them some years ago. IL is true most OF
the hotels and cottages are crowded, and
1t is said several days the biggest crowds
u
nave been REGARDED this season. Some OF
the pig hotel proprietors say the season,
from business standpoint, has eclipsed
any OF its predecessors. Many observing
people say the season has been backwar
THAT has always been the cry, especially
from those who got left.
And yet, there is no disputing Atlantic
City's claim to being the great national
wash basin. The hotel registers bear the
signatures of residents of almost every
State In the Union. A few days ago, it is
estimated, between forty and fifty thous-
aud men, women and children took dip
In the surf at one time. and where will
you find flner beach than the magnificent
serpentine stretch of hard, smooth sand
that skirts the ocean side of the island.
While the risky, frolicsome breakers
generally leap high, so gradual is the in
cline of the beach that such& thing as an
undertoW is scarcely known.
The tive mile stretch of board walk has
greatly improved within the past few
years. 1t is wider and is more substan-
tial Improvement.
The shrilI voices Of the National Con-
gress OF F'akirs have been hushed, and
their booths are now allowed only on the
inward side of the walk, leaving the
beach scene entirely uuobstructed. It is
no uncommon sight to witness in the
evening procession of sixty thou
sand strollers along this walk,
most Of them fashionaDlY dressed. 1t
is q far handsomer sight at night Than
during the DAY; Gay equipages are seen
often laden with wealth and beauty rae
ing up and down the beach, while the
breakers ara still whirlIng their foaning
eddies high up on the polished mooniit
sands.
SIGHTS ON THE BEACH.
And the sights along the board walki
Well, there are 80 many Of them, and
q a mt n a
most Of Ihems that they make up grand
panorama that causes ones head to swim :.
The whirling, crowded caroussels. the
bobblng, jumping racing movements of
the wheeled tobegRans, filed with laugh
ing. almost hilarious couples. the revoly-
ing observatory with cars suspended at
various intervals from a mammoth wheel;
the rafting, rushing, crowded cars of the
switchback, all the noises half drowned
by the notes OF the steam organ and music
of innumerable bands, the roaring Of the
surf and the clatter and buzz of animated
conversation.
The twin carousseis are no shoddy
affairs. and are patronized by the best of
the visitors. The girls have caught on.
They don't ride the animals of the dying
wooden menHgerie any more. They sim
ply lean gracefully against the wooden
limitations and allow the Whirling motion
Of the machine to give an air OF jaunt-
ness to fioating drapery. Studying this
fad I couidn't help but observe that the
girls are inclined now to palmer but far
neater style of dressing, possibly with a
view to giving the dudes chance. There
Is actually more color and more frills and
honnces to the dudes seaside attire now
adays than there used to be feminine
ballroom apparel
There is plenty of amusement through
out the city. Thatcher's minstrels are at
the Opera House; Gunernator and Doyle
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but the hotel and cottage hops are real
benton affairs and are participated in by
women of wealth, who desire to show
the contents of their wardrobe. Many OF
dancing plazettas are graced with ferns
and tall potted plants, veritable trees In
size, which lend shade of tropical SPLEEN
dor to these brilliant affairs.
NJ. A. G.