Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-27
a CITY OF HOTELS.
Notes on One of Our Largest Seaside
Resorts

Resorts.
There are more hotels at Atlantic
City than in New York, and the tran,
silent hotel population during the sum,
mer season is probably greater than
that of any place in the United States.
As told you the other day, the aver
age number of guests registered at the
hotels during the month of June is 50,
000- July 10000. August 10000, and
September $4,000. This is the average
for the months named. On Saturdays
and Sundays the maximum is reached.
On Mondays there is usually an exodus.
and Tuesday is the low day. On Wed
nesday and Thursday the incoming
trains are well filed again, by Friday
the hotels are all filed, and unless a
telegram or letter has been sent on en-
gaging rooms in advance, it is difficult
to get anything better than cot on
Saturday. Last Saturday a gentleman
from Washington went to nine of the
big hotels without finding a room, and
then gave it up and took a cot thank
fully.
The food for all these people has to
be brought from a distance, because
nothing grows upon the sand. Several
of the adjoining counties in New Jer-
some of the big hotels have their own
farms, and dairies bringing in their
own milk, butter and poultry, eggs,
fruit, berries, vegetables daily, and
raising all their winter supplies One
hotel has farm up in the Catskills, in
| Green county, n. Y, from which car
load of supplies is shipped daily. The
same farm also supplies another hotel
owned by the same proprietor in New
| York city. There are four poultry
farms in Burlington county which sup
| ply chickens, eggs, ducks, squads, tur-
keys and other fowl to the hotels by
contract There are also fruit con-
tractors. The early and out of season
fruits and vegetables are bought in
| Philadelphia, where all the groceries
/ come from. All the big hotels have
buyers in the city who look after the
purchases and the shipments. Some of
them remain there, others come down
to Atlantic City every day, for it is
only an hours ride by the express
train.
The fastest trains in the world run
between Philadelphia and Atlantic
City, those of the Pennsylvania and
Reading railroads both making the six.
/ ty-six miles in sixty minutes, and spe-
Gals have been over the track at even
4 faster speed.
i Milk and vegetable trains arrive
about daylight every morning. The
cars are left the day before on side
4 tracks at various places, where they
4 are needed. and the locomotive, start
ing from Philadelphia about midnight
picks them up as it comes along. When
the train arrives at the station thu
wagons are there from the different
hotels and dealers, and goods ordered
the night before are delivered before
the guests come down to breakfast
Nearly all the milk and cream for the
big hotels is delivered in sealed glass
jars these days. The guests require
it, and at some of the hotels it il
brought on the table in that Way.
The meat comes from the trust. Al
the big Chicago packing houses have
agencies here.
Nothing has ever been done tdyvare
utilizing the enormous waste of foot
at the hotels, which amounts to abou
1900 tons a year, or an average O.
, | thirty-three tons day. There are yer,
strict local regulations about the collec
ton of slops at the 800 hotel kitchens
each of which is provided with an iro1
bin of sufficient size into which al
waste food must be cast. Twice a da,
1 collections are made in iron wagons b.
a contractor, who hauls their content
: to a crematory and burns it. 1t nov
costs 81 ton to collect the garbag
[ and 81 a ton to burn it, when the off
) cials realize that it should be bringing
, revenue to the city. A committee o
the common council has the problem il
| hand
The sewerage of a fiat sandy islam
, was a source of much perplexity for
long time until an Iowa man cam
along and made a contract for a teri
! of years with the municipal govern
: ment which has proved profitable fo
1 all concerned. A reservoir and pump
4 ing station is situated in the salt mes
/ dows about three miles from tow1
q where all the sewer pipes lead. Th
e main sewer, an iron pipe twenty inche
: in diameter, runs into pit with CT
: mented walls thirty feet square an
twenty feet deep, and from this til
sewage is slowly pumped into filter
: The liquid is allowed to run into th
bay. The solid matter is burned in th
crematory. And it is all wasted.
the European cities where similar al
d engagements are usually found the sew
:. age is source of revenue, and seldol
e fails to pay for itself.-Chicago Recort
3 Herald
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