New-York tribune., 1899-06-11
CROWDS ATATLANTIC CITY
CONVENTIONS OF MEDICAL MEN THIS
MONTH.
PLANS FOR THE FESTIVAL. OF ATLANTIS NEXT
YEAR-BEoINNINo OF THE BATHING SEA
soN-PoPULARITY OF YACHTING.

| SON-POPULARITY OF YACHTING.
Atlantic City. N. J., June 10 (speciaD.-Hot
weather all over the country has driven thousands
| Of people to this and other resorts IN the last
week. resulting in increase in population which
| has been almost startling. There were many VS.
itors here last week. II Is true but the crowds on
| the board walk and In the hotels to-day are sug-
| gestive OF the resorts pamiest days. The best
part Of all this is that these visitors found that OF
| which they were In search Although the sun
was rather strong In the middle OF the day and the
| temperature occasionally mounted pretty high
| there has been breeze stirring all the week
principally from the ocean. which made life worth
| living and was in pleasant contrast with the hot
| sultry air OF the great cities.
Coming conventions and the preparations for
| them occupying the minds Of large number
of persons at present. The largest affair Of this
kind this month. II not OF the entire year. will be
the fifty-ninth annual meeting OF the American
Institute of Homeopathy which will bring prob
ably twelve hundred physicians to the city, many
OF them accompanied by friends and members OF
their families The business sessions Will be held
on the steel pier beginning Tuesday, June %, and
continuing 10 the end OF the week The local re-
ception committee OF which DR.. John r. Fleming
is chairman has prepared a series OF entertain
ments for the visitors, who Will not be allowed 10
spend dull hour during their sojourn here Inc
programme includes affairs specially arranged loF
the women Of the party we'll as entertainments
away with them a good impression OF Auant'c
City II will not be the fault OF those having the
arrangements in charge
Tributary to this convention VIII be the t"eItlh
annual meeting Of the American homeopathic
OphthaImological. biological and Laryngoogical
Society which. despite the terrifying aspect OF is
name, is composed Of a harmless set OF men, VINO
make a specially of the treatment OF eye. ear and
throat diseases. This meeting will be held at the
Hotel Dennis, with possibly three hundred mem
bers present
The National Neurological Society will also hold
its meeting here beginning June Is. and continuing
three or four days About three huhoreo HieiH-
bers are expected 10 be present
The Pharmaceutical Association OF Pennsylvania
will begin it's annual meeting at the Hotel st'
Charles on June IS and continue in session four OF
five days. Not less than four hundred nenioeis
are expected TO be present All these conventions
viii bring together the largest number OF medlcai
| men ever gathered IN Atlantic City. -.,.i
Efforts are being made 10 induce the NatoGnagis
Car Builders Association. which meets az 1(1 UiD
| Point Comfort week, to decide upon this cly y
as place for its meeting In 1900 Win IN, this hs
opened at Old Point during the convention there
It is that T be pnfpose T5 Ho' Of
sonally inviting the members 10 come mere neA'
year.
THE FESTIVAL OF ATLANTIS
The projectors OF the Atlantic City Mardi Gras
| or Festival CT Atlantis. II may possibly be
| called are arranging 10 carry the anair through
| on a grand scale. 1t has been decided to Issue
| $4,000 worth Of stock. from the proceeds Of which
10000 will be devoted to the erection OF an I'M
rnense auditorium or thousand nS Ground
for the hall has already been offered II Is pro
P3ss6 to 4 hSq it. the are Bright anu
Batbing has begun in earnest, although the water
51,nuSs s e ts G2S S guards IA s0 R 90 on duty
time next week The force this year; with perhaps
brave fellows who did such good service and so fire.