Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-07-01
FROM THE CITY
BY THE SEA.
Excitement over Boardma1k
Distinctions.
AN EVOLUTION IN The HOTEL BUSINESS
THE BOND OF SYMPATHY BETWEEN PLEAS
AWHILE ANDATLANTIC CITY. ANELEC-
TRIO RAILWAY TO FOLLOW THE BICYCLE
PATH. THE SWEET fURF POSER HERE.

There has been considerable excite
ment in tniS city the past week, with
a stronger undercurrent than appears
on the surface. 1t has been said that
no great event has ever been achieved
without friction, and chat no committee
or executive body was ever successful
in carrying out improvements in city,
an extensive mandatory, OF in progress
sive movements, without a mitch at
the most unexpected and inoDportune
time.
The Boardwalk construction commit
tee appointed by City Council, is IN that
delima n ow. When the new Boardwalk
was proposed it was thought no OBJ
stacles would be encountered; but they
were, and it was only after weary weeks
OF coaxing, scolding and some damning
that the work WAS started. Then all
went well until the property OF Mr.. Louis
Donnelly was reached. Here the COM
mittee struck a snag. Mr. Donnelly
flatly refused to sign the easement deed,
and gave his reasons therefore But
finally he yielded. He is public spirit
ed, and Notwithstanding the force OF
his arguments in the beginning he said
"Well, gentlemen, won't be the one
man to arrest progress. Let 'er CO."
Then all was lovely until Bowker 8
property was reached the other day.
Bowker had eli along refused to sign
the easement deed, but the committee
said: wait till Bowker finds out the
fx he will be in when we slip around
his sheds and let him ouS in the cold"
Everybody waited and we are still wait
ing. Bowker stands like rock. He
says Lew Donnelly never signed the
easement deco but allowed the contract
ors to go through his property without
contract, leaving him the right to his
60 feet without interference. Bowker
tells the committee that they can have
20 feet for the promenade and no more.
But the committee and everybody want
an easeme mt on the other 90 It, so they
can compel Mr.. Bowker to move his
noisy, shabby old merry y-go-round to
the inside OF the walk. Here is the rub.
1t all lies in the endeavor to keep the
sea side OF the Boardwalk free from Jim
Crow amusementsand Mr.. Bowker 8
determination to maintain nuisance.
There is a good bit OF feeling aroused,
and the Bo ardwalk obstructor is get
ting it right and left. OF course he can
give the city dadL lots OF trouble, but
in the meanH nile he is doing himself
no good and injuring the people below
him.
The other objector is Richard N. Lee,
at Texas avenue, who has straddle-
legged pier and lot of old rotten shan
ties that ne desires to preserve as souv-
enirs OF the old Atlantic City. AS the
new 3 boardwalk practically ends there
nobody cares much what Lee d oes.
He is an eccentricity an has never been
known to agree with a nybody but him
sell, anG some people are mean enough
TO say he Quarrels with himself frequent
". / believe that 20 be true, sor not
long ago he said in my hearing, talk
ing about himself well, I've been a
100, long enough"
Mr.. Thomas W. White, the young
gen 5lemanwhoispromoting gtheelevaSed
bicycle track across the meadows assures
your correspondent that The enterprise
VIII be carried out. There is now enough
money behind it TO make it go. The
Ole West Jersey drawbridge will be used
20 cross The thoroughfare, and it is Just
the thing. This track means a great
deal for plessantville, and if some enter
prising man viii open a hotel not fer
from The depot, put a first-class cook
,v,+@ = a<- n 10 cf oh hnIc
he will make money. Pleasantvil.e needs
q hotel conducted on hotel plans. That
bicycle path will be used in Winter as
well as N Summer, because it will al
ways be dry.
Following the bicycle path will come
an electric railway with half-hour ser
vice every day in the year. More peo
pie who do business in this city would
move to Pleasantville and live there
Winter and Summer if the facilities for
travel were greater and an electric road
would pa intheSummerm months.
More faces are turned toward Pleas
antville to-day than were ever dreamed
OF. Our merchants are realizing that
they must keep in touch with the people
along the shore, for among them they
find many profitable customers. This
is one reason why nearly the entire mer
camille popul alton OF this city favors
the removal OF the county seat to your
borough. There is q strong sympathy
between Atlantic City a nd Pleasantville,
q stronger one thai you people realize.
The bathing season has commenced,
and one OF the first to inaugurate it
is the beautiful poser. saw her on the
strand the other day; not the autumn
day that men wore overcoats and women
discarded shirt waists; but the day be-
fore it. This poser was not as gorgeous
ly attired as she will be later in the sea-
son. But scarlet cap and low cut
bodice bound with scarlet ribbon was
enough for starter. Did she battle
Yes, l,nee-deep. She never ventures be-
yond her hips for fear OF spelling her
trimmings. The poser is usually a shapely
creature who dotes more on her pedal
extremities than on her health. That
is, she doesn T battle for health. But
then, what would Atlantic City strand
be without it's oddities, its cranks, its
noisy, boisterous, happy, laughing CON
tingent?
There is going to be a tumble in Motel
values in this city. The new houses lately
opened are fsr. in advance o. tsne old
structures in design and in management.
OF course, such houses as the Shelburne
and Chalfonte which cater to the old