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are more rooms "for rent" with no occu-
pants than ever before at this date. Tn
is essmoney expended here in proportion
to the visitors than in recent years. Is
it on account OF hard times"7 Not alto
gether. There is such thing as ma king
a man feel that he is not quite welcome
and that he can find come other place
where he can spend his time and his
money. The average especially
if he takes his family along with him
don t quite relish the idea that he needs
a guardian when he goes to the seashore
for a Sundays rest or recreation. The
"goo COOS" this is short for goody
goodies Say to him, in substance, when
he strikes the City. "Sir, we fear you
are very wicked man. Therefore we
have closed up all the places where you
and your family might enjoy themselves
harmleGsly during the day. But all the
rum shops are open, the dives" are never
closed, and you can get thirty-cent
dinner at my boarding houEe for dollar
and d quarter"
That is about the "goo-goo" style
OF morality, and Just about gauges their
size if they could have things as they
want them. Every fish that comes their
way they try to catch with any kind
OF bait; but if he is swimming toward
some other fellow g hook then they would
cut the line rather than see the fish land
ed in another basket. The "goo-goos'
can, perhaps, in time make Atlantic
City more to their liking. They might
regulate the movments, habits and
conversation ofall visitorsb by comprehen-
siye city ordinances; but when they
do there will be plenty OF property to
sell at twenty-five cents on the dollar,
and the number OF stores and cottages
ito let" will be amazingly increased.
Atlantic City has millions OF dollars
invested in business wholly dependent
upon public travel This business has
been built up by a liberal policy in deal
ing with all comers, except the criminal
classes, as if they were decent people
who were willirg to do about right.
The enormous proportions to which
this business has attained goes to show
that the liberal policy has paid-at leas
IN dollars and cents. A majority of my
fellow citizens think desire a continu-
alton OF it instead OF a "nagging" policy
to Ike thousands OF people feel uncom-
Portable and make them wish they had
never come here. There need be no conces-
sions to vice and crime; but wiser
DISCRIMINATE ton between what is harmful
and what is harmless, would tend to
the City s good and be lasting benefit.
l do not number myself among those
who claim superior virtue and wisdom
above their fellow men. My actual exper-
fence with all such has not been very
encouraging. 1 am, as 1 grow older,
much inclined to look askance upon
those pretenders who think there is but
one way to reform the world and that
is their way.
Eere is bit OF live news that ought
to interest your off-Shore people. George
Long has recently resigned the manage
ment OF the big lumber company OF which
he has so long been member, in order
to devote his whole time and attention
to the SIS he is making for the repub-
lican nomination for Sheriff OF Atlantic
County. Te has many devoted friends
in this City and they will lend their aid
in various ways to help him secure the
prize. Ii the younger and hustling Lewis
h. Barrett, OF your own Borough, hopes
to capture the plum he will have to get
up and git as they say out West. :.
ARcJIS