The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-08-22
NO HARD TIMES THERE.
Atlantic City's Brilliant season-The Royal
Routes Great Travel.

Go to the sea-shore, thou pessimist |
and be convinced that thy dire complain
iugs anent " Hard Times are wrong, all
wrong Never in its history has Atlantic
City held so much of gaiety, such enor-
nous numbers of visitors as at the present
time. Is it because that frightsome buga-
boo Hard Times " has no real existence,
or do people go there to flee their finan-
cial griefs and drown their business sor-
rows IL the foaming surf and foaming-
soda water4 At any rate, go they do.
The season at this great resort has been
a great one, and it is just now at its very
zenith. No better time than the present
could be selected for visit, and no sea.
side resort in the old world, or the new,
compares with Atlantic City in pictur-
sequences, in cosmopolitanism and in va
riety. One may rest body and brain in
dreamful contemplation of the solemn
wife his soul" soothed by the deep. toned
murmur OF the breakers; or he may
plunge into the bubblipg swim of gaiety
and take giddy whrl on the merry GO
round Of pleasure, finding enjoyment in
larger quantities and greater diversity
than is anywhere else attainable. But,
first of all, one must get there.
And the getting there is not the least
among the delights of visit to delight
some Atlantic City. There are several
ways of reaching it-besdes walking.
Measured by the indisputable gauge of
popular preference, the best way is the
6 Royal Reading Railroad Route 1t is
only fifty-fve miles in length, but 1t 10
among the celebrated railways of the
world, and it is concededy the finest rail-
road running to any American watering
place. Ii is double tracked from end to
end 1t is constructed in the most sub
stantial manner, with the heaviest of steel
rails, laid on oak ties, ballasted with clean,
dustless Stag stone. The locomotives are
tqnally notable for their great power and
speed, and for the absence of the SCOT,
sulphur, smoke and cinders so obtrusively
aud disagreeably in evidence upon some
lines of travel; for these steam driven
steeds of steel are fed upon hard, anthra-
cite coal exclusively. And the "Fyers !"
oh, the "Flyers
Taking Flyer THE phrase is, some
how or other, suggestive of an undertake
ing pleasantly perilous. Taking Fly
er u on the Royal Reading Railroad Route
for Atlantic City is pleasure devoid of
the element of risk. Employing every
best safeguard against accident, it APP
2roaches as nearly to absolute safety as
is humanity possible. The fame of the
Seventy Minute Flyers extends from
ocean TO ocean. They are the most talk
ed about trains in the world. The cars
are large, airy and exquisiteiy elegant aud
comfortable. 1t were difficult to conceive
anything in the "poetry OF motion more
refreshing, more exhilarating, more reju-
venescent, than a swift whirl across green
meadows and through the cool gloom Of
pine forests, seated by an open window
Of one of these smooih-gliding palaces on
wheels. The Philadelphia stations OF the
Royal Reading Railroad Route are at
Chestnut street and South street wharves,
and through tickets are sold at all Read
ing Railroad stations.