The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-03-01
GAY LIFE BY THE SEA.
Pleasure-Seekers and Health-Hunters at
Atlantic City.
tFrom special corespondent)

(FrOm special correspondent
ATLANTIC CITY, March 1, 1895.
The gloomful and Oppressive pessimist
who persistently croaks of "hard times"
and dolelully asseverates that the nations
prosperity has gone to the demnition ever.
lasting bow-wows, is shamed out of his
dismal bewailings as soon he finds him
self in the briny and brilliant atmosphere
of this great seaside cosmopolis. The
very air seems with caressing fingers to
"knit up the ravelled sleave of care" the
swishing surf sings wooingly n restful
song to the tired senses; the genial
W armth of the earth.nearing sun stirs the
sluggish blood to quicker pulsings; and
the inspiriting activities that pervade the
place beget fresh impulses and enkindle
new ambitions in the most mind-weaIy of
mortals
A stroll on the thronged boardwork
| just now is an inspiration and delight.
This magnificent explanade skirting the
/ white beaded edge of the horizon reaching
sea for four unbroken miles is the daily
rendezvous of beauty and fashion, as well
as the daily resort of the invalid and vale
tudinarian. Here meet and minge the
cosmopolite and the countryman, Beau
Brummel and Farmer Hayseed the belle
from vociferous Broadway and the bright.
eyed maiden from the quiet Pennsyl-
vania hills. With each recurring year
the wholesome custom grows of resorting
here for a winter residence or an early
spring time vacation, and the propitious
opening of the Lenten season now be-
ginning augurs favorably.
The magnificent climatic advantages of
Atlantic City render it easily the fore
most of American health resorts. The
balmy and invigorating air, laden with
briny ozone and impregnated with the
balsamic odors of the encircling pine
forests, is distinctively curative in pull
mOnary, malarial and nervous disorders,
being especially effective in the ameliora-
tion of la grippe. The diversity of rec
reations and amusements attract to it,
every shade of temperament and taste
from the gravest to the gayest. More
than hundred hotels and boarding cot
tages have opened their doors to the en-
tertainment of visitors at rates ranging
from a dollar day up to figures that
would make frugal millionaire dizzy.
The facilities for getting to and from
| this enchanting bit of Lotus Land are
superb in their completeness and in every
detail-for have we not the Royal Route
to the Sea,P that magnificent branch of
the Reading Railroad System, the fame
of which extends from the eastern coast
TO the pie cid waters of the Sun Down
| I.
body travels nowadays-is familiar with
| the unique renown of the flyers that
run on this celebrated line, and | cannot
forbear quoting from the Atlantic City
| correspondent of the Phila adelphia Even
ing Star this account of a remarkable
quick run -
The people reaching here on Saturday
last on the 2 o'clock p. m. Reading train
have it to say that they Travelled the entire
distance at a rate of a mile in less than a
minute. BY reason of the ice blockade in
the Delaware the train left twenty-five
minutes late, and yet including stops at
Hamm6BtOn, Egg Harbor and Pleasant
Vile it pulied-np to the depot here only
one and one haIi-mi2utes behind time.
In other words, twenty and on nalf
minutes had been made up in tne fifty
five and one-half miles, which distance,
inclusive of thethree stops, was covered
in ffty-seven and one half minutes.
Certainly five minutes at least were con
sumed in the slowing up, stoRping and
getting off again at three stations, sQ that
| the actual running time was more than,a
mile minute This is remarkable re-i
cord for the distance, and is probably the
fastest rate Of travelling ever accomplished
across Jersey"
But the Star man is in error in setting
this down as a record breaker" the
same ffty.five and one half miles having
been covered at least once in tifty-two
minutes. On the Readings straight
smooth track speed of mile a minute
is not deemed notably rapid, and mile
in less than fifty seconds is no uncommon
achievement. The elegant train equip.
ment of the "Royal Reading Route" not
less than the phenomenally quick time,
attracts to it very large preponderance
of the travel and 1 am informed that
through tickets to Atlantic City are now
sold almost everywhere along the lines of
the Reading, and also on those CT its
connections, such as the b. & o., Lehigh
Valley, New Jersey Central, Beech
Creek, Fall Brook and other roads
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