The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-11-21
ATLANTIC CRY NOTES.
Our Travelling Reporter Hunts Figures
and Pronpectfve ImuIox ameut.

onr Travelling Reporter Hunts Figures
and Prospective ImpIovsmsnts.
A dozen artesian wells, 900 feet to
100 feet deep. supply water, as filtered
by the depth and density Of the sand
as to be soft, pure. ph!atable, clear,
beneficial to the kidneyA aud a valua-
BILE sanitary element. This, and the
great ozone tonic OF the air and COM
Portable climate, coupled with q judi
cious selection Of pure and whole
some food and sufficient exercise,
make Atlantic City q beatty resort OF
the first class. Each year winter yisl-
tors teoome more nu lnerous. Some
large hotels and many cottages are
open all the year.
! Among those now open are the
Windsor Wagmare (Mr. Green, Mana.
ger,) Shelburne (Roberts,) Dennis
lBorton,) Seaside Charles Evans.
Mansion (Chas. McGlade,) Albermarle
(Chas. Cope) and others.
Winter population about $4,000;
summer big days up to $50. 900, tina
promoters say: Property assessment
about twelve million dollars.
Length electric road three miles on
Atlantic avenue plus six more to
.Longport. Total length OF the Island
/, nine mites. T. Il. RS receipts last
year said to be S15, 1000 to 500 900 on
! this little road. Board walk Con piles
ri12 feet in ground nne 4 feet out, "a
!, feet wide, 81 miles long; cost s45..
600. of which Sl3 900 wis paid for right
lof way. City's total bonded debt, per
United only by special act of State
stature, $79,OOO.
Their $4,000 City Hall burned dowr
} some months ago. with no Insurance.
because they refused to pay 5 pei
cent. and now they want another acI
to borrow money to build IL stone one
i. Mayor Willard Wright, NJ. d. thinks
d IL will not be undertaken any sooner
than spring.
CITY Council has Is members, will
} only 2 or old fogiea and repnbli.
can majority Of . or 4. Ills Honol
p Is Democrat.
:, In the aggregate large number o.
n new buildings are going up. scattarst
i here and there. mainly on Atlantic
avenue anil in ''Chelsea," southern
r, ward. Fifteen permits for last week.
Hon. John j. Gardner, ex-mayor
q United States representative, AMI pros
: pecttye United States Senator. Rspub
+ lean, has hal many o his marsh acre.
:, filled in four feet by hydraulic
u dredger IL two years one half pay
d the bill. Some lots have been solo
N and new dwelling ward will rtsul
% lust south OF the Inlet eXcuriiOl
u houses and Increase the business o
:, that section AMI OF the electric rail
Q road.
V A live corpse. that Mayor Wrigh
thinks is dead with The silent apprO
, baton OF popular majority, Is th
y question OF an electric beach railroai
d as long as the board. walk. Whit
! some NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. freehold
ers. about a year ago, were discu4sin.
& with their fellow-citiksns OF the sam
class tho desirability OF their all form
ing company, With stock to each ac
curdiDg to the numher of his linen
4 feet along tho said board walk. som
Camden, On. j. men, who own an,
=, operate an electric lighting plant here
Il got state charter for it Now tn
o charter party cannotbuild because tn
= lreeholders will not permit, aud tn
" freeholders cannot get a charter T.
build (until the present one expires
J. because State law saws no paIallt
,r railroad shall be allowed within tw
miles of an Their.
ID Atlantic City owns a strip OF belrt
s. land 80 miles long and 90 foet wide
i "a inside feet OF which are covered b
the oard-walk. Many adlolnln
. freelolders have given the city east
d ment deeds OF that part of their LAND
TX which extends from the board wal
IN 80 feet strip into the ocean with th
- City's rights limited but includln
power to keep the bbuch freq from n
Q distractions. The freeholders up
re- tho boardwalk no id possession an
"A title deeds in fee 81 npie. ..-..
~ The opponents OF an electric beaC
IL road claim It would: %, obstru,
at ocean view; ca offend by noise: c
ra iniure big hotel and bathing bushes
az, destroy the beauty OF IL
10 beach; (5), be unnecessary. Dt
er cause the emile continuance OF th
IA Atlantic Avenue overhead, wire tro
ley road to Longpbrt overlooks tn
ocean. whereby it iapopular and large
ly patronized; t6). receive the oppos
ton of the powerful 7. II. r., both q
e. save their present Si00, 600 per annun
N business and to re. passenger an
A. freight traffic by PLEASING the people
~ (O, that the funera of tho board. wal
n electric railroad project was Celehrut
Id Ell when its advocates went before IN
90 New Jersey state Riparian Commli
=, sloners in Jersey ClLy to win thel
y reso buttons to favor 1t and were ther
y opposed and defeatbd by the big hote
" and bath house owuers.
A. PERSONAL.
III EX-Mayor Hoffman, misunderstood a.
h to the property and Official interests
~ is opposed to a beach electric railroa
IS as against the pcoule's welfare.
liz lion. }. J. Gardner has been huntln
game for few days.
Major Wolf still bresldes over Abse
II com lighthouse with the fidelity {
- twenty years poRsession plus to
:. years from service,
" Proprietor Frank Cook of the 1.
room Senate house. Is well and lookin
finely.
n. ON SUNDAYS.
I'd At tho First Presbyterian Churcl
he SUNDAY n M Rev William Hickman