Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1895-06-05
ATLANTIC CITY.
Weakish are getting plenty.

| Capt, William Jeffries is quite ill.
The Music Hall Cafe has been opened,
There are more servants than guests
| at some of the hotels.
Senator Quay is expected here next
week for fishing purposes.
The Inlet pavilion and the electric cars
did rushing business on Sunday.
Captain Abrams of the Brigantine Life
Saving Station died Friday, after brief
| illness.
These are the days that make the
people wish the Longport drive was
completed.
Mr.. Frank Clifford had favorite rat
terrier shot by some unknown parties
on Sunday.
1000 persons went to Brigantine
Reach on Sunday and the new steamers
did big business.
The old whaling ship Stafford has
finally been disposed of and the last Of
her disappears i'll smoke.
A shark five feet long was captured
last week at Lees Pier. Several of the
land variety are still at large.
Daniel Sweeney made three 'unsucces-
full attempts to drown himself Saturday
evening while temporarily insane.
Jane Green, colored woman, fell
down the stairs of her residence Friday
evening, and was severely injured.
The Ringgold Band on it's return from
Pleasantville Decoration Day serenaded
the wife of Capt. Perry at his residence.
The Brigantine steamers will be more
attractive than ever this season, and,
doubtless, will carry more passengers
than ever before.
Chancellor McGil has granted the writ
asked for by Robert Stroud to prevent
the consumption Of the water plant pur-
chase by the city.
A large number of Pennsylvania legis-
lators and politicians came down on
Sunday from Harrisburg where politics
has been nearly as hot as the weather.
Pastor I. j. Cross was overcome by
the intense heat on Sunday, and fell in
fainting fit while conducting the pulpit
exercise at the Church of the Ascension.
Eugene, the 10 year old son of Eugene
Schwinghammer, was run over by
| trolley car, Sunday evening, and sus-
tanned such injuries as will, most likely,
prove fatal.
Atlantic Is the Mecca for organized
associations, Conventions, and excur-
sions from all over the Country. In
that RESPECT, as in many Others, it is the
leading seashore resort of the United
States.
The Pen and Pencil Club and Mayor
Stoy have appointed committees to per-
| feet arrangements for the entertainment
| ofthe international League OF Press Clubs
that are coming here June IA. 1t will be
the greatest gathering for newspaper
] men ever held in the country.
On Friday there passed away in this
city one of our Oldest and best respected
| citizens in the person of George Hayday,
Sr. He came here ON the first train that
crossed the meadows, and soon after
ward made it his permadent home. lie
was at different times a member of the
| City Council and the Board of Health
and his long life was one of great useful
ness. Mr.. Hayday leaves two sons and
daughter, all married, to mourn the
loss Of kind AND lpFing parent
Journal. '
| The weather the past week has broken
all records for heat at this resort. Ole
trequenters who came here from the
blazing cities of the interior expecting tc
find their accustomed sea breeze have
Cor once been disappointed. Atlantic
pity has been just as hot as any otbel
place outside of Plut0's domain. Th'
expectations Of finding a cool spot, how
ever, brought down thousands of yisi
tors on Saturday and Sunday, and the.
spent the time in wondering what wa
tie matter when the thermometer wa
allowed to register 96o in the shade a
Atlantic. The Boardwalk was thronge'
and bathers were plentiful, and all hand
made the best Of bad ioh. Still, ever.
one felt as though they had been buncoe'
by some unknown weather sharp an
cheated out of the sea breeze that belon
ged to them, as they entered the super
heated railway cars and swelteringl
wended their way homeward.