Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-06-29
A LETTER FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
The Fouth of July crowd
likely to be large.
4 Listener HeGs Some T0Ik About Himself.
SOME PEOPLE AND POLITICIANS WHO ARE
IN LOVE WITH THE PREss-THE SAND
BAG BRIGADE"

on the Fourth OF July II the weather le
| favorable. 1t comes on Monday, this
year, and thousands who will be here
will come Friday night, or Saturday, as
they can get three consecutive days oi
rest or celebration. This means much to
many people who can generally get
away from home for only over q night
or Sunday, for generally it is the lack OF
time, and not of means, that makes
their visit briet one. The celebration
in the cities will be very noisy this year,
owing to peculiar and patriotic reasons,
and many people will gladly seek the
quieter scenes at the seaside. They will
not wholly escape noise here, / hope,
but the patriotic chorus of firecrackers
and tOrpedoes and other festive imple-
ments so dear to the little boys, and big
boys, will not be q circumstance to what
it will be in the large cities. Then again
the increased railroad accommodations
will make it easier and safer to get here
than ever before, SO, all things consider
ed, look for rush here that has never
been surpassed on our great National
Holiday. When the crowds get here
they will find better accommodations to
entertain them than ever before. Many
OF the best hotels have been greatly en-
larged, and luxuriously refurnished, and
nearly all the better class of smaller
hotels and boarding houses have been
improved in various ways. The Pier
accommodations have been more than
doubled since the close of last season
until now, we probably have the most
elegant and costly seaside pier in all the
world. The new one dedicated last week
is unequaled in the comforts and palatial
accommodations of similar structures.
l hope it will be extensively patronized,
and yield handsome return on the in
vestment, for men who put out three or
four hundred thousand dollars in such
an enterprise deserve success.
1t is amusing, sometimes, when ones
newspaper identity is concealed, to
stroll around town, little, and hear
the public comments upon his work. If
he adheres to the truth, and fearlessly
proclaims it with his pen, he won't get
far before he will be made aware that
the old axiom that Listeners never
hear any good of themselves is correct.
Even 80 humble a writer as yours truly
can hear himself and the paper he writes
for most vigorously "cussed''if he keeps
his ears half open. And why Simply
because | have told the straight truth
about men and measures, and The Press
has dared to print it. The consensus of
opinion is of course, that l am a fool,
and the Editor also, but like children
and fools they tell the truth. This much
know, however, the Pleasantville Press
is widely read in this City, and it's
statements generally credited. Ofcourse
it has no standing among the political
bosses who give orders and expect
blind uDquestiOning obedience, but all
the same it has an Influence with them,
and they fear it because they cannot
silence or control it. 1t was my own
suggestion to the Editor and proprietor
that they try the experiment of sending
complimentary copy, for one year, to
the reading rooms of one hundred of the
leading hotels of this City, and am glad
to learn from them that my suggestion
has paid them. Thousands of strangers
saw the paper who would not other
wise have seen it, and many paid SUBJ
Ecritions in distant localities have then
been secured. Another direct result has
bt en- to ady rtise Pleasantville and it's
building-sites extensively, and many
sales of real estate have been made as
the result OF the casual reading of The
Press. OF course it has bgen an uphill
fight to gain a foothold here, for the
local organs have not welcomed it, and
| hear that some influential gentlemen
went 80 far as to use their
influence to try to prevent it's sale at
the newstands. Why they should want
to do SO is not very difficult to surmise
for there are some people who had
rather see almost anything in print than
the plain unvarnished truth. l. think
that people whose opinion is worth any
thing generally recognize the fact that
The Press is straightforward reliable
newspaper, that is not easily frightened,
and capable of taking care of itself in a
pitched battle. As for the comments on
my own correspondence let them pass
for what they are worth. They do not
disturb me nor cause me to lose any
sleep. | sometimes feel, though, when
hear myself being 'gone over" by GER
tain ''jobbers," that L should like to
break loose long enough to tell them
what ammunition have stored away
in my magazine that might easily be
hoisted out and fred from the battleship
of The Press. Among the politicians /
find that The Press is universally read.
Sam" Kelley will hold up both hands
and swear to anything printed in it.
"Lew." Donnelly says he will back up
it's statements with cash and ginger ale,
and Levi Albertson says he could not
study medicine and surgery without it.
Several members of the Council are en-
thusiastic in it's praise for it's willingness
to stand up the sand-bag brigade and
let the people see what it is composed Of
Senator Hoffman thinks The Press
equal to the Ney York Woyzd, and
keeps q copy in his bedroom to swear
by at night. Samuel is no dummy, and
/ advise some people who think he has
abandoned all POLITICAL aspirations to
keep an eye on him.
Congressman Gardner is also in love
with The Press, and hear that he de-
clared that it was public necessity to
have one newspaper in his district that
could be depended upon to tell the truth,
and one that has never asked him for an
office or struck him for dollar as con-
Idition of supporting him or any other
nominee on the Republican ticket. Gard
ner, so / am told. always carries q copy
in his pocket, and when he afiirms he
does it upon The Press, and reverently
kisses it.
General Sewell has adopted it as his
textbook. understand, and he points
with pride to the fact that it was one
ofthe first papers in the State to sup
port Hobart for the Vice Presidency,
and that it's supervising editor had in
fluence enough with s'Chrie." Magee, the
famous Pennsylvania politician, to pull