The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-16
CROWDS AT ATLANTIC CITY.
AND NEW THRONGS EXPECTED
on WAsHINGTON,S BIRTHDAY.
That VIII Mark the beginning OF the SPRING
season-New York visitors at tho
uesort-Attractions Of the Seaside ut
This T%ne-sights on the boardwalk.

Tine SIGNS on uie poAio"a"'
ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. ia week from
today will probably. see a larger number
of visitors here than any other 22d or
February for several years back. The
indications now at least all point that way.
In fac the clvance OF tine W~ashington's
Rirtbday move Il already beginning 10 be
felt and applications for quarters In all Inc
bIg hotels are coming in by every mail.
Washington's birthday in a certain sense
IA a dividing season lin here al htiah'ic
CITY. 1t is the end Of the winter seasoh
and the b BEGINNING Of the season OF spring
And each season brings It's own particular
TYNE Of visitors. In December and from
December on until the last days OF Feb
mary We have the regular winter solourn-
ers-a throng that every year Is heavily
increasing in volume and Is made up OF
neople who have acquired or are acquiring
the Atlantic City winter habit.
More and more every winter New Workers.
arc figuring In this alternating colony.
7, Il o,ite safe 20 say hat there are ten
from New York here In winter where five
xears 20 there was one. In fact II is hardly
going too far to say that five years ago At
sntio CITY as a readily accessible winter
resort was practically undiscovered by
New Workers.
Now. however, New York names are
spread over the hotel registers almost as
thickly as the names OF Philadelphians,
although, Of course, Atlantic City can never
be to New York quite what II Is to
Philadelphia. The Philadelphian with the
superb train service can make III run OF
sixty miles here in just about record time.
There Is one train hat does It In ffty-fve
minutes.
This means that he can have a long busi-
ness day In the city and get here in the
afternoon In time for dinner. Between
here and New York there are four direct
trains each way every day. Four years
ago there was only one.
No finer trains run out OF the metropolis
save perhaps the long distance limited
trains. They go rushing straight through
with as few stops as possible. To those
who enjoy the exhilaration Of a swift whirl
over a smooth track and surrounded by
al the comforts Of our American railroad
service, this is a delightful little journey.
But the best you can do IL takes three
hours. No business man is going TO spend
six hours every day getting TO and from
his sleeping place, no matter how attractive
that place may be when he gets there. So
the New Yorker who must be certain hours
in the city every day has to cut Atlantic
CITY out Of his daily programme.
But this does not prevent him from send
ing his family down here, II he has got one,
or coming down himself at intervals for
the bracing pure air and the refreshing
restfulness OF the place. New Workers
with families and without families, are
doing this more and more every. year.
Some stay a week or a fortnight at a time,
keeping in telephone and Geographic
touch with their business every day, and
some come down nearly every week, stay
ing from Friday or Saturday over Sunday.
Add TO these groups the rather large num-
Der Of people of absolute e~isure-leisu
that is the result Of choice or growing out
Of the necessity of rest from overwork-
and YOU have the bulk Of New York's winter
patronage Of Atlantic City so far as the
men are concerned.
But men, after all, don't count, II Is the
women who make the hotel corridors radi-
ant with their fresh faces and bright clear
eyes and give Atlantic City life its real
snap and 20 in the winter. OF those
permanently here straight through the
winter the women naturally outnumber
the men, and II Is hardly necessary TO ask
questions as to the beneficial results Of
winter residence here when once you nave
seen them assembled in the hotel dining
rooms and corridors.
They say 1t is the sea air which gives the
women OF England their ma rvelously beauti-
full compilations. You are ready to believe
IL after making the rounds Of a few Of the
big hotels here at this time of year and TAX
ing note Of the feminine faces you meet.
Probably Il is the board walk that has a
deal to do with producing the marvellous
combinations of rosy red, pink and clear
white In the feminine faces here-the board
walk with its long stunt Of pedestrianism
In the pure, strong air Of the sea.
OF course there is golf and all the other
o~ut-of-door diversions. But, after all, Il
is the board walk and h mile upon mile
OF brisk walking exercise that he's a deal
70 do with the clear eyes and brilliant COM
plexions. OF course all Of the girls and
young women do not get the sea air afoot.
For some Of them 1t Is not 50 much a board
walk as II is a board trundle.
They AXE 1t out by being pushed along
In the big hooded rolling chairs. 1t is
no use trying 70 write about how those
rosy, laughing faces look peering out of
the furs and rugs and framed in the high,
over-reaching hoods of the chairs, hoods
that suggest vaguely the old fashioned
coal-scuttle bonnets-those agreeable pass
down which our great granddads
used 20 have to go to kiss u great grand
mothers.
less talk, about how those faces in the roller
chairs look In the brilliant sunshine and the
exhilarating ocean air. The subject can
not be discussed with anything like decent
composure and had better be let alone.
The question has been raised as 10 whether
the owners Of the faces have any suspicion
OF how b~ewildering and bedeviling in their
beauty they actually are under the con-
ditions named. Somebody said they knew
all about II and that hat was why they
did II. He, however, was a brute and his
statements are entirely without value
II Is a remarkable feature OF the winter
here, this board walk. II Is nothing more
nor less than a great thoroughfare 80 or 40
feet wide and -four miles In length. On
one side Of it and washing close up to its
border line is the Atlantic Ocean with here
and there a long covered pier stretching
out far over the water. and on the other
side a little OF everything from tiny shops
20 great hotels covering acres.
There is nowhere else on all the Coast
OF this country such an array of superb
hotels as that which looks seaward from
Atlantic City. IL cannot be matched from
Maine to Florida, and even at that it Is
constantly growing.
A brand new hotel and larger than any
OF its picu-c, ssOrs is just approaching COM
pletion, Within a week sixteen immense
structures, equipped with every convenience
and luxury Of hotel life, will be open, and
all Of them doing a paying business. In
fhat raG,Nact If. 10 III ~ Iinara from noa rlU