Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-09-23
A Letter FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.>

UlIl Dl I'LL OH.
"Tei1 the Truth" Even Ia the
Columns Of the Papers,
LITTLE PLAN IICUDlIIHG II The COUNTY SEAT,
SOME POLITICAL POINTS AND POINTERS
| SAM KELLY IN THE FIGHT FOB sHERlTD
! OTHERS ARE THERE ALsO-THE COLOR
ED BROTHER-RAILwAY CONVENTION.
Grover Gle, Gland when ~ vas first
nominated for the presid9hcy woc1rA
victim OF an unsavory sca9Asl. and -
| telegraphed to concerning 4, xork>44>
f+];Tell the truth. Whether the cknxxDDA
werastENe. or false the fact that A. had
Moral eouzaee jGbpGh to stand up -a5.d
lace them tl re thsm
I'm the ninds of thohneqS1 0t1e
I Tor kind. 5his 5pt> = ~ haSs
been thinking i It W0ulQ NJ y Ep0t
idea for those who have Atlantic City Il
welfare at heart to initiate the gre 4
Grover and "tell the truth" . little Oft4 N
| er. And this I want to commend oa
those who like myself grasp tho pen
occas ionally and parade themselves /!
before their fellow-men a. newspaper
correspondents. Atlantic City has beer :
sadly lied about by those who handle
the truth as though they were afraid
OF it.. !: Take the season Just closed for
an illustration. 1t has been . dull one
and everybody knows it. A lew have
made money but ten times a. many:
have run behind. Yet if we should take
the files OF the big Philadelphia newspa-
pers and read the dispatches and letters
sent from here, from May to September,
we should Judge that everybody was
having all the business they could handle,
and that there YVES bsre,v standing
room for the vast crowds it was difii-
cult to accommodate. 4 Hundreds Eero
magnified into thousands, and tatus-
ands were called tens OF Thousands, until.
| It must have seemed to q STIR sger az
if some benignant Paetolus was turn.
ing all our sand to gold. OF cougfano
one here was deceived by such "rd1s
Not many where deceived by it anylyI
and a correspondent who - poI pct
sending "fake' news soon become
credited. 1t would be better to
the truth" for that is Just WI .. the
pie will G.. down to III the emf.
II owned hotel and it was onlA
heH full OF guests, I should want thatA
fact known to every person who was
looking for rooms and board. should;
assume that people who came here for:
day, or 3 week, would naturally look
| for coo1ns not aiready occupied. There
fore | should s1y, if were running tke
Hotel Dai1as--, that any newspaper.
that said my house was full to the Over.
| flowing" when it wasn't anywhggg
near that condition, was an enemy to \
pocketbooac swellasanaccomplished
Ill mean truth-perverter. What n
there to be gained by such persistents
and multituGinous lying such as ATTAIN
tic City has been subjected to q. Nothing.
I say, and depend upon it, the truth :
would bring US better returns in TIE
long run. Atlentic City, N and OF itself,
could not grow very RAPIDLY or becore
much of city. 1t has no manufacturing
interests and sends nest to nothing to
The outside world. All it is and all it .
hopes to be is dependent upon the great !:
tide OF travel that comes this way. Cut
that off and Atlantic City would soone'
fell from her nigh estate. Hence, say
the people who bring here and leave:
millions OF dollars every year deserve:
to be deelt sGuarely with, and told the
plain truth. If the season is a dull ono
let us say so and try t6 make it better
instead of lying about it. nfiye thous-
and people come here early in the 7e1n
son let us say there are five thouEky
and not twenty live thos sand. II q thous>~
and cottages are without tenants let:
us say so and try + nnd somebody to: /:
hire them. In short tell the ruth" next :
season and watch the result OF the ncy-$
el experiment
The isct that such hotel as the st.;
Charles has been forced to the wall goes;
| to prove Just what everybody Knows;
that the season has been q dull one,
and that no amount of taking" end :
lying can make It anything else. 1t is
TO be regretted that man OF the busi-
ness capacity OF Mr.. James B. Riley has
been forced to assign owing to the strin-:
Eency in the money-market, but tho
same condition OF affairs prevails every
where and many OF the sharpest and
shrewdest business men all over the:
country have been similarly embarrassed. !:
Mr.. Riley has the respect of the business !:
community hereabout, Snd ell r-iu hope,
that his troubles will be but temporary.
He has built up and beautified largo:
section known as the "St. Charles Plece." ,:
and he is known as a promoter of great
| courage and ability. We are glad to (:
know that he viii come out OF his pres;
ent difficulty all right, and win soon;
resume work upon some unfinished pro-:
;ect that will still further beautify Allan,
tic City: j.
::: hear OF little plan being quietly
arranged by the Mays Landing people
| TO prevent the removal OF the County:
buildings. They are laying low" and:
urging the County Board OF Freeholders:
to take no action, anG hoping that Pleas:
antville and the rest OF the County viii:
not push the project very vigorously. !:
Then, when the excitement has blown
over, May 5 Landing Is to urge the Free.
holders to build new and spacious build.
ings upon the sites OF the old ones. This:
is pretty little program, and it is well
that we learn OF it in season; but have
an idea that it will niscarry. 1t Ger
tainly will if the people in other parts
OF the County continue their present
activity in favor of the new movement.
Until recently 12ding pe1I
/ pie have trie.