The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-03-22
GAY LIFE BY THE SEA.
Pleasure Seekers and Health Hunters at
Atlantic City. Remarkable Railroadlng
on the Royal Route.
(From a Special correspondent.)


times and dolefu(ly asseverates that
the nations prosperity has gone to
the demnition everlasting bow-woss,
is shamed out of his dismal bewailings
as soon he finds himself in the briny
and brilliant atm mosphere of this great
seaside cosmopolis. The very air
seems with caressing fingers to "knit
up the ravelled sleeve of care; the
swishing surf sings wooingly restful
song to the tired senses the genial
warmth of the earth nearing sun strs
the sluggish blood to quicker pulsngs;
and the inspiriting activities that per
wade the place beget fresh impulses
and enkindle new ambitions in the
most mind weary of mortals.
A stroll on the thronged boardwalk
just now is an inspiration and de-
light This magnificent esplansde,
skirting the white beaded edge of the
horizon reaching sea for four un.
broken miles, is the daily rendezvous
of beauty and fashion, as well as the
daily resort of the Invalid and valetu-
dinarian. Here meet and mingle the
cosmopoli,e and the countryman,
Beau Brummel and Farmer Hayseed,
the belle from vocilerous Broadway
and the bright eyed maiden from the
quiet Pennsylvania hills. With each
recurring year the wholesome custom
grows of resorting here for winter
residence or an early spring time vaca-
ton, and the propitlouS opening OF
the Lenten season now beginning
augurs favorably.
The magnificent climatic advan-
tages OF Atlantic City render it easily
the foremost American health resorts.
; The balmy and invigorating air, laden
with briny ozone and impregnated
with the balsamic odors of the en-
| circling pine forests, is distinctively
! curative in pulmonary, malarial ano
, nervous disorders being especially
effective in the amelioration of 10
y grippe The diversity Of recreation:
, and amusements attract to it every
shade of temperament and taste, from
v the gravest to the gayest. More thar
. hundred hotels and boarding cot
f tages have opened their doors to th'
n entertainment of visitors at rates rang
g ing from a dollar day up to figure
v that would make frugal millionair'
n dizzy.
n The facilities for getting to ant
IS from this enchanting bit of Lotu
. Land are superb in their complete
e ness and in every detail-for have W
10 not the " Royal Route to the Sea,
a that magnificent branch of the Read
ing Railroad System, the fame c
which extends from the eastern coas
to the placid waters of the Sun Dow
S. Seas7 Everybody who travels-an
a, everybody travels nowadays lis fam
,f liar with the unique renown of tn
&C flyers that run on this celebrate
"A line, and cannot forbear quotin
=, from the Atlantic City correspondent
n of the Philadelphia E'oening Sta
60 this account Of remarkably quic
NJ rum
= "The people reaching here o
Saturday last on the 2 o'clock P. N
ID Reading train have it to say that the
IA. travelled the entire distance at ra
of mile in less than a minute. I
reason of the ice blockade in tt
Delaware the train left twenty tw
''c' minutes late, and yet, including stoI
er- at Hammonton, Egg Harbor ar
us Pleasantville, it pulled up to the dep
for here only one and one-half minut
behind time. In other words, TWEEN
O. and one half minutes had been MAJ
up in the fifty FIVE and one.half mile
which distance, inclusive of the thr
stops. was covered in ffty-seven al
one half minutes Certainly fl
'e minutes at least were consumed
&c ie the slowing up, stopping and getti
no. off again at three stations, so that t
'u' actual running time was more than
'ne mile a minute. This is remarkat
Is record Tor the distance, and is pi
an badly the fastest rate of traYeli
'ts' ever accomplished across Jersey"
OK, But the Star man is IN error
ai' setting this down as "reco
~ breaker" the same fifty five and OF
10 half miles having been covered
tan tan least once in ffty-two minutes.
Gu the Readings straight smooth tract
IKE speed of mile a minute is not dee
enl ed notably rapid, and mile in i
'n .he than fifty seconds is no uncomm
tue achievement. The elegant tr
" equipment of the Royal Read
N ie' Route" not less than the phenor
Sun nally quick time, attracts to 1t v
large preponderance Of the tray
and | am informed that through tick
to Atlantic City are now sold aim
,o;d everywhere along the lines OF
& t;s Reading, and also on those of its C
o'd | nections, such as the B. & O., Leh
~ lot Valley, New Jersey Central, Be
rso m Creek, Fall Brook and other roads.
and 90 J. H. M