Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-10-27
A LETTER FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
"A Hopeful Outlook for Busi-
ness Next Year.
The CLOSE OF A VERY SUCCESSFUL SEASON.
THE POLITICIANS ACTIVE AND QUIETLY
PREPARIEG FOR THE NOVEMBER ELEC-
TION. SOME ms AND OUTS OF COUNTY
POLITICS SEEN BY OUR CORREsP sPoNDENT.

The storm of last week started some
of our visitors for their homes and they
went away with reluctance-for the
charms of this place both for pleasure
and health and away beyound all other
Seaside resorts in every respect com
bineing as it does all the advantages of
a City with it's other attractions.
The prospect for next year is away
ahead of any former year, many rooms
being engaged now for next Summer.
Ibis is a wonderful statement and no
other pleasure resort in the world can
boast of such conditions. The reason
for these conditions have been stated so
often that it would be superfuous to
state them again. A careful canvass
among the business community devel-
opes the fact that the year just passing
away, while the country was struggling
under the burden of a money panic has
been successful one. So much is heard
of the very large hotels having done
better than ever before, that one might
think the smaller houses had not done
as well. Such however is not the case,
| find that they are as well pleased with
the result as the larger ones. The same
can be said of the store and shop keep
er, for there is no fault to be found among
either of these business enterprises. The
only ones that seems to have felt the
hard times are the venders of such lux
uries as ice cream peanuts and the like.
The Real Estate dealer too, in some in
stances felt the crisis but not very SER
iously. Real Estate matters showed
signs of improvement about a month
since, and are quietly looking up. The
large and elaborate improvements al
ready under way by the Pennsylvania
impetus to Real Estate matters, and
several years. Some large transactions,
l am told, are under consideration and
will be made known in the near future.
The politicians are very busy at this
time getting in shape for the November
election. They have hard job on hand
explaining how it was good politics to
try to humiliate "Sam." Kelley. The
man who was the chief mover in the
affair was very busy at the eprevious con-
vention in convincing MIR. Kelley that if
the Fourth Ward would only help to
"down" Barrett that all would be well
forever afterwards. l told Mr.. Kelley
after the convention adjourned that he
had made mistake in allowing his
people to be used for the benefit of the
Eump Masters.
said, "Mark what say they will try
and down you from now on, because of
your rising popularity and your well
known honesty of purpose" All know,
now, that what l then foreshadowed
has been fulfilled to the letter. Kelley is
no chicken. He is'built on broad gauge
principles and is too high minded to
allow a little disappointment to upset
his good judgment. Thanks to ed"
Wilson, and one or two Others, good
ticket was selected and Kelley will sup
port that ticket Loyalty. There is no cur
blood in him, and he knows that the
candidate of the party had no hand in
the game that was played at Egg
Harbor. Kelley is young, fearless, and
popular, and the Bread and Butter fol-
lowers of the old Dump Masters Brigade
fear him as they fear no other man. But
l predict that he will prove hard nut
for them, and that, while things seems
to be favorable to them, at the present,
they will find before another year that
they "played" the wrong man. A fine
game is under way, now, to get Mayor
Stoy out of the way. Ever since he
took the lines in his own nands the
Dump Masters have been plotting his
downfall and they think they see day
light ahead in that direction. Stoy has
made a good Mayor and the people
know that, and they are not anxious to
change at this time. And while it does
not suit some of the Bread and Butter
Brigade to continue Mr.. Stoy, they
know they must move very cautiously,
for fear Mr.. Stoy will turn his batteries
loose on them. If he should conclude to
do go, the price of gripsacks and tickets
out of the State, would advance q thou
sand per cent. at the first discharge
The game played to unhorse Sammy
Smith is now well known and it can
again be said ga good man was stabbed
in the house of his friends" Sammy
won his battle fairly. Mcconnell was mt
in it, but Sammy" like Kelley, is nc
baby. He will support the ticket anG
his treatment and the manner thereof il
a signal to Mayor Stoy to watch his out
posts.
The little game of a Second Ware
politician played on Rose, through q
friend that he was anxious to serve, anG
by "Father" Rose honey and sugar
coated and presented tu Councilman
Long, as no other could present it, hat
already proved boomerang to the
anxious young man in the Third Ward
| and it is said that the gentleman through
whom he reached "Father" Rose is in ne
wise proud of having been made use o
to injure a good man and defeat the will
OF the people.
Barrett and his friends still live an(
will Loyalty support the ticket and mex
year they will make another fight fOl
honest politics and good government
They are not built the other way ant
they are proud of their record-ant
especially proud of the man and the mel
that they advocated.
| Captain Walter Fifield demontrate(
his ability to take care OF his section ant
his friends are proud of him. The Breat
and Butter Brigade did their bests ant
were chiefly heard from before thecadcus
They are back numbers at least, so sa.
the ''boye." ARGUS.
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