New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-05

,,,-vnREps or HOTELS, THOUSANDS OF GUESTS
mn TWO NILES OF BOARD wALK-A CLIMATE
OF UNIQUE DELIGHTs-CooL IN SUMMER.
WARM IN WINTER AND ALWAYS FREE
FROM WINDS AND DAMr-THE WHEEL
CHAIR BRIGADE-AN UNBROKEN
PROCESSION OF sEASONS-lN-
FrUX OF NEWCOMERS At
EAsTERTIDE-THE MAR
vELLoUs GROWTH AND
PROSPERITY OF THE
CITY BY THE SEA
Atlantic City. n. j.. April 1--WE used to sing
40 on narrow neck of land.
'Twixt two unhounded seas | stand.
Secure. nsensble.
a. nmething to that effect. Doubtless there
80 those who sing it STILL for Gospel Hymns"
s.ys not altogether supplanted, the good old
..r,.s,,rring and sometimes almost hair-raising
.s.,r,s and peans and battle songs of Wesley
"a Watts Ii may be that they sing il here
'. en- they Go appropriately. from material
os well as a spiritual point of view. Wesley
Gas never in Atlantic City. But his hymn--it is
,,s isn't it?-might well have been suggested
nv inst such place For here In very fact
mo stands upon narrow neck of land. or bar
~ sand. az you will. between two seas that
saen, iNimitabe. Whichever way you look
,bere Is the same vast stretching forth OF ever
waving monot0ny toward bounds beyond all
,h, or seeming The sun greets you from
sorrnvhere on the heaving floor Of foam that
raocbes 10 the shores Of Spain. and bids YOU
farewell from the scarcely less level and scarce
~ more broken plain that stretches west
ward 10 the Chesapeake. True. there are those
who do not love this latter expanse They call
4, pine barrens and q sandy desert IL IS
neither; nor is ii devoid Of beauty and the
ministry Of blessing. You may scorn 1t II You
will with memories Of the New England Nils
and the great peaks Of the Land OF the Sky.
But glance from your car window To-Day OF
any dav of all the year. and deny its strange,
impressive beauty If YOU can. The sand at the
roadside CLEANS white as SNOW The dwarf
oaks only knee high, are leafed in winter in
ruddy brown Beyond them shoulder high. are
The scrub mines. with foliage of ambe: dashed
With emerald. and behind them the tall and
stately pitch pines emerald picked out with
amber Back of all rise the sombre masses OF
riant expresses almost black in their dense
den,bs with hanging wells and streamers Of
so,t gray moss In season you will find the
svamps fragrant with white magnolia blooms.
or all ablaze with laurel and rhododendron or
the ground carpeted with arbutus. or the lakes
white with water lilies. or all the heath tribes
giving beauty and perfume to the tangled uh-
derbrush 4 wonderful country. these sea-made
rlalrs Of sand and a benefcent one. too: for
It tempers the wind and the whole climate OF
this fortunate spot upon its outnost margin
and literally sequesters ii from the common
world. almost as effectually on the one side as
does the Atlantic on the other.
But it is still more. and most Of all to tho
ocean that Atlantic City owes its marvellous
climate The first time | ever came mere
asked resident the secret Of 1t, that in mid
winter II was almost mild as spring IN
Gotham and milder far than other places
further south tie answered me in what seemed
the language of the scoffer;
We've got bulge on the Calf Stream.
! reproved his slang austerely but ne pro-