Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-31
AUTUMN AT THE SEASIDE,
The InviGOrating Rest and Enjoy
at Atlantic City.

Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., October -, 1894.
To speak of a seaside resort enjoying a
successful patronage at this period of the
year may seem incredible, but, nevertheless,
every hotel now open in the city by the sea,
and there are half dozen or more, is en-
tertaining a goodly number Atlantic City,
in these bright october days, impresses the
stranger as one vast sanitarium, in which
every visitor is seeking either health or
rest, and, to all appearances, happily
The reaching board walk provides such
inviting opportunities for enjoying the in
MIGRATING qualities of the surroundings
that every one seems to linger there from
morning until night. The open-air pavilions
and glass-inclosed sun parlors that line the
beach are at all times rendezvous of the
guests, while the numerous occupied rolling
chairs that are perambulated along the
boulevard greatly help to swell the crowd
that INDUCES in the invigorating strolls.
Virtually, the resort seems to be in the
hands of the carpenter and artisan, the re-
suit Of whose iabors is to be noted on all
sides. New hotels and cottages are being
reared and old ones enlarged or renovated.
The immense demand for accommoda tons
during the past spring and summer is in
great part responsible for these improve
ments, and in order to maintain its repu-
tatlOn QuaTteTlnS, anu Comfortably 50,
all that may journey oceanward, Atlantic
City is bound to meet the anticipated rush
Of 1895.
Among the proposed improvements con-
tempated for the resorts betterinent by
the municipality is the widening and
Strengthening of the board walk, which the
past summers throngs demonstrated to be
unable to meet the demand. An ocean
driveway, extending as a continuation of
Pacific avenue from the city limits to Long
port, the extreme southern end of the Is
land, distance of seven miles, Is also be-
Ing planned and under favorable discussion
by the city council. The purchasing by the
city of all the beach property between the
ocean and the Boulevard for the purpose of
establishing a public park Is also meeting
with hearty favor, and as the state legisla-
ture has already granted the city the right
to condemn for this purpose, an early pro-
ceedng is looked for.
The colony of cottagers that will remain
right on through the winter is larger this
year than ever before, and, judging from
the representative gathering composing this
element the social features of the cold
period will be notable and numerous.
The carriage builders of the United States,
who are at present holding their annual con-
vention in Philadelphia, visited here in a
body yesterday and spent the time In a
hearty participate in a banquet and in
the various pleasures of the resort.
This city Is now the headquarters of gum
ners who are INDUCING in their favorite
sport in the various neighboring waterways
with highly gratifying results.
Fishing is also providing ample amuse-
ment to a larger number of amateur sports
men. and although the ocean breezes may
be slightly sharp, yet the catches repay for
any exposure that may be necessary.