Evening star., 1902-08-09
At SUMMER RESORTS
Big Crowds Enjoying Surf
Bathing and Ocean Breezes.
MONTH OF VACATIONS
MANY EXCURSIoNIsTS GO TO
MOUNTAINS AND sEAsHoRE.
Well-Known Washington People Who
Have Gone Pleasuring-At Hotels,
Cottages and Camps.
MONTH OF VACATIONS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

the city and the sea since the first OF
the week moved away; the air cleared and
the ocean blued. 1t makes all the people
who were already here glad, and it gave
the newcomers a bright impression of
the place Last night and this morning
excursion trains crowded each other into
the two railroad stations; they brought
visitors from Pittsburg. Pottsville. Reading.
Harrisburg, Lancaster, Columbia, Phoe-
nixville, Williamsport, Louisburg. Shamo-
kin, Bloomsbury and Sunbury. Ohio is
represented by Cincinnati, Columbus.
Akron. Mansfield. Springfield, Masillon.
Toledo. Xenia, Youngstown. GAINESVILLE
and BelIaire. Indiana sends sghtseers
from Columbus. Fort Wayne, Jefferson
willie, Logansport. Richmond and India
napolis. Louisville is also represented by
large delegations. Important towns OF
West Virginia, including Parkersburg,
Wheeling, Cameron, Central and Benwood
Junction send great numbers. The pros
poets are that the second Sunday In August.
the month Of vacations. Will see the pig
gest crowd in Atlantic City that ever play
ed in the popular playground.
The new Atlantic City and Chelsea Pas
senger Railroad Company. which filed
articles Of Incorporation in the Camden
county clerks office. is the fifth to be
started for the purpose Of building trolley
lines here 1t is to have $250.OOO capital,
Of which $4,000 is paid in.
A Drowning Scare.
There was drowning scare on the beach
yesterday morning. When the attendants
at the Chalfonte bath houses opened the
place in the morning they found In one OF
the rooms clothing of a fourteen-year-ol
bow and instantly believed that he had
been drowned. The clothes were sent to
the police department and word was sent
to the life guards to look out tor the BODY.
The mystery was cleared up when the
keeper of a hotel at Georgia and Pacific
avenues called on Captain Maxwell and
said that boy named Daniel MaGinley,
who had come down on the Saturday eX-
cursion, had gone into the surf, and when
he came out he could not find his bath
house. He had to catch the train, and he
went to the hotel where he had taken
dinner and he was rugged up In mems
clothing and sent home.
The peculiar brand of salt air which is
served on these sands seems to be attrac-
tive to authors. and even one poet has
come down to be inspired by the sea and
the seen. With Miss Rives and Mr.. Sousa.
he of the baton and marches, both working
on new novels. and with Poet Wheeler. who
first made himself famous rejecting on
bacheforhood IN New York newspaper,
working on a long poem. the literary at
mosphere of the city by the sea Is becom-
ing very bookiSh.
Few men carry about with them such a
vast amount Of capital in their eyes as
does Poet Wheeler. No wonder they once
stirred all the painters IN the Quarter
Latin to making pictures OF sacred subjects
and asking the loan Of those eyes.
The greatest yachting event In the his
tory Of the resort will be held here on
August Is under the auspices of the At
! lantic City Yacht Club. There are to be
races between the largest sail and power
/ boats In Atlantic City waters. held at sea
with the whole course In plain view or
the boardwalk. In the inside waters there
will be races for small boats and power
launches. These. too. will be sailed where
the whole course can be seen by visitors.
September % has been set for the date
when the Morris Guards. Atlantic City's
crack military and social organization, will
leave this city for their annual encampment.
None Of the previous encampments of the
guards will approach 1t in the slightest de-
| gree, and If all plans are successfully car
| ried out as formulated, the boys will have
| one of the finest times of their lives. The
| company will this year make their camp at
| the Delaware Water Gap, where Captain
! Lewis T. Bryant has made all arrangements
| for the reception and pleasure while there
| For some time past prominent men OF
| New York and Pittsburg have been discuss
| inb the advisability Of building 81 1,OOO.O OOo
| beach front hotel. 1t Is now stated on good
| authority that one of the finest hotels on
| the Atlantic coast will be erected by capi-
| talists of the two named cities
The new hotel, when completed, will be
| OF the latest and best kind. freproof. with
all the latest facilities, and will be run
| strictly on the European plan.
| The police have found an honest 'busman
| and the eIation In the department is great
| The 'busmen are the bane of a policeman
/ life and for one to be found that will pass
| muster fills them with glee. The police
withhold his name because they do not want
| him to be annoyed. The man went to the
! city hall Saturday with black bag which
| has been left in his bus 1t contained val
! liable articles and the 'busman. asked the
| police to assist him in finding the owner
| While at the police station he was identi-
| fed as the 'busman who. some months ago
| reported to the police that passenger had
| given him so gold piece in mistake for a
| quarter. He handed the $40 over to the
! police. less the legal fare. and was reward
| ed with a nickel.
! The rolling-chair nuisance has assumed
| a new phase, and 1t seems that the police
! have closed their eyes to the fact that the
| regulations forbid the chair being on the
| boardwalk except when in service or while
| returning to their stations or stations be.
ing on the outside of the walk Within the
| past week the chair pushers have entirely
| disregarded the regulations, and a number
| of them have been annoying the visitors by
| hawking for business in the middle of the
| walk. In one or two instances, it Is plain
| the chair pushers have been so annoying
| that the visitors were compelled to threaten
them with arrest before they would des.st
One OF the summers most successful fish.
ing parties left this city Saturday on board
| Fred Burks handsome steam yacht Corin.
thia There were twelve in the party, anG
they returned home with over 400 fine fish
One of the features OF the trip was a splen
did fish dinner, served on board the yacht
The party included United States Senator J
| L. McLaurin of South Carolina, Represen
tative Burk and Senator Ware of PhiladeI
uhia, Admiral Endicott, United States
| navy; Judge Allen B. Endicott, George B
Donnelly. P. J. O'Brien and Charles Burl
of Philadelphia, George Jackson, E. D. Ire
Ian and H. G. Mulock Of this city, JudR,
Lehman of New York and G. Andrews o,
| Hoboken.
Mr. F. N Pike of the Royal Palace Hote
makes the assuring statement that thi,
year will be the largest and most successful
season that the city has ever experienced
Guests From Washington.
| The following are here from Washington
Royal Palace-John 8. Cuttings. Mrs. 8
Lansburg Mr.. and Mrs. L. g. Bacon and
family. Alexander Wolf. D. w. Baker 8
j. Eson, U. g. N. Brighton-Admiral J. g
Greer, U. 8. N; Miss Greer L. r. M. Small
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Vandegrift, George d. r
Robinson. Mrs. ]. E. Watkins. jr. Iroouoi.
Miss Rosalie Thornton. G. w. Schneider
c. Schneider. Mr.. and Mrs. g. X. Wood
worth, G. w. Stone. C. W. Kearney. F. K