Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-06-24
FROM THE CITY
BY THE SEA.
"A Budget of Gossip from our
Neighbors over the Bay.
A COMPARISON With Shore SOCIETY.
ATLANTIC CITY MERCHANTS SET HIGH
= VALUE ON OFF-sHORE TRADES, ME
THINGS OTHERS HATE TO TALK ABOUT
BAD TIMBER N THE BOARDWALK

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cial in its own personality. The educa-
ted, cultured people who have Travelled
and visit this city by the sea are no part
| OF the towns society. Indeed they are
never seen at the local social functions
and rarely at the public affairs, and
| when l speak of provincialism l refer
| to the natives. have seen little OF Pleas
antville, but enough to know that Allan
tic City has nothing to boast OF either
in culture or intelligence as compared
with the off-shore natives.
| do not know what Off-shOre means
except by inference. The inference is
that an off-shoreman is one who lives
| on the shore and not off OF it. But never
mind, I have a great deal OF respect for
that much ridiculed human being, the
| off-shoreman. He comes from the lovely
everglades of the bay coast, brings with
him to this wicked city by the sea the
odor of decency, the fragrance OF nature
and the honestly-earned dollar that
City merchant.
It is quite fad with the petent-smile
| hotel clerks to give the hotel reporters
pointers on the leading society leaders
of Quidnuncville and the eautiful Miss
Brick, who are soiourning at the popular
| Hotel Hash for the summer. 1t reads
| very well and the young wOman buys
an extra copy of the paper to send it
home. But it is another thing to meet
| some of these bellies and have the wild
delusion imposed upon you Gispelled.
I saton the veranda OF third class
| house the other day when one of the
hotel arrival reporters was introduced
to one of these society young Ladies"
81 m happy to have yor acquaintance"
she said. 81 like Atlantic City awfully
well Don 'tyou ?Say, j, ain 'titfun bathing?
Do you go out often? 1t s too cold yet
IN Just mashed on the Boardwalk.
Ain It you? 1t g awful nice"
Your space is entirely too valuable
| to ill it with the balance OF the corver-
sation. Very little OF such will salts
| fy an off-shoreman for l doubt if he ever
hears anything as bad as that at home.
Atlantic City ism It a bad place, nor
is it near as good as some people would
have us believe. The naughtiness is not
OF the character that police force can
contol, and not of che character Ghat
| hotel man cares particularly to no.
tice. Many choice bits OF news that
do not lind their way into the dailies
is not the result OF purblindness. The
| news men are as susceptible of what
is commonly called bribery as leg
| islature. In other words he knows on
which side his bread is buttered, and
he don It want it to fall butter side down.
Some OF the most profitable guests at
seaside hotels are adyenturers, both
male and female, and the latter are not
in the majority, but with the newsgath-
erer they are all distinguished, all $50
ciety" people. Many a romantic escapade
is buried in the waste basket and lost
to the world because the hotel at which
it occurs is a good advertiser and must
be protected. Well, the news mongers
can hardly be blamed for their silence, yeti
often think the policy is bad and not
in the end helpful to the town. Some
OF the first-class hotels are very inQuisi-
tive about their guests, for an advent
urer usually chooses wealth and fash
| ion for it's victims.
Atlantic City is deeply imressed with
the idea OF moving the county seat to
Pleasantville, and will back up your
pretty town to the last effort and the
last dollar. A merchant told me the
other day that the trade OF Pleasant
| vile and surrounding country was worth
more to him than his city trade. That
was his reason for advertising in the
"Press." He said he got more direct
benefit from such advertising than by
| any other medium.
was glad to hear that, because it
shows that the off-shore man reads his
home paper and has confidence in it.
You take men like Moses Mendel OF
A. Hirsch, who have keen observation,
and they will tell you more in an hour
| about peopl who deal with them than
some other men would find out in
year. A. J.Withrow does a fine Off shore
trade, because the people have learned
thathe Keeps his advertising promises.
The Boardwalk, notwithstanding
the fears OF some, will be completed on
time. 1t is q magnificent piece of work.
1t maybe that some green lumber has
crept into the flooring and maybe in
the beams. II that is so, who is to blame?
One city father pretended some time
ago to have discovered that the contract
ors were swindling the city by bringing
in South Carolina instead Of Georgia
lumber; but 1 guess the expert found
| out, after consultation, that he had
made q mistake. The South Carolina
lumber saved many hundreds OF
dollars in freight. The daily papers
also shut their news columns tight,
and not another word has been heard
about sappy, cheap and knotty lumber.
Whether there was niggerin the wood
pile or not do not know, but if there
was the "Press" would do US favor
to tel, the story, and might lead you
into the straight path to learn the truth.
have an idea the taxpayer would be
glad to know allabout it. People are
often compelled to go away from home
to hear the news, and the "Press" may
have occasion to act for the blindfolded
citizens in this city-by-the
There has been rumor temporarily
silenced, that not in the far distant fu-
ture anelectric road will connect this
city with Pleasantville. The trade of
the two towns demands closer reIa-
tionship. It has been suggested that
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