Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-02-28
ATLANTIC CITY NOTES
BIG CROWDS ALREADY THERE
FOR SPRING SEASON.
A "Greater" Corporation Is Planned
With Four Nearby Town
ships.
Special Correspondence. Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondents OF TIE Evening Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, February q. 1903.
Washington's birthday will probably be
known hereafter in Atlantic City as New
York day. The leading hotels Of this city
recently decided to make an advertising
campaign In New York city. and the result
was the greatest influx OF visitors from the
metropolis ever known in this resort. The
two railroads Increased their schedule and
ran trains in sections, and for three days
all OF these trains were crowded to their
limit. Every beach front hotel sustained q
pressure on its capacity equal to that Of
midsummer. and hundreds, II not thou
sands. Of visitors were compelled to look
elsewhere than their favorite hotel for ac-
commodations
The weather continued glorious through
out the week, and the people who had come
with the intention Of simply remaining for
day or two over the double-headed holi-
day prolonged their stay until the middle
or last of the week, but the places of those
who departed were quickly taken by the
throngs who are now coming to remain
until after Easter. The Inauguration of
Lent on Wednesday found practically every
room in the big hotels booked for the en-
tire penitential season. All of these presage
a Lenten season of unusual brilliancy as to
the visitors and prosperity for the resort.
The amusements outside those provided
by the hotel men include daily matinees
ana nightly theatrical performances of the
leading high-class line of attractions on
Young's Pier and band concerts on the
Steel Pier, as well as on the former Many
or the big metropolitan attractions take in
Atlantic City on their tour of the country,
50 that many OF the shows here are equal
to those produced In the metropolitan cities
The Seaside Hotel has been opened by
Charles Evans e Son, so thoroughly i'm
proved and altered as to make this famous
hostelry practically new hotel. A fine
orchestra has been installed at the Seaside,
which gives three concerts daily.
The Hotel Sothern, which will shortly
open Tor the spring season, has been greatly
improved and large number of private
baths added. s. A. Manuel, the proprietor
OF the Hotel Varnum of Washington, has
taken lease on the Hotel Sterling, and is
now experimenting number of improve
ments prior to it's early opening The Hotel
roman has been opened for the season by
Proprietor H. B. Wimley The big Hotel
Clarendon, on Virginia avenue, will reopen
1or the season next Saturday, and Proprie-
tor w. F. Shaw opened the Hotel Iroduois
for the season today. fhe Hotel Chelsea
will be ready for the reception of guests
next Saturday. The Berkshire Will open
March 5.
The beautiful suburb of Ventnor ia am
bilious to become a corporation and gov
ern itself. To this end it has made an
plication to the New Jersey legislature to
have the strip Of land lying between the
western boundary of this city and the east
ern boundary of South Atlantic CITY in
corporated under the name of Ventnor
City. This territory now forms part of
Egg Harbor township, and the taxpayers
of Ventnor feel as though they are paying
more than their share towards this town
ship and getting too little return in the
way of self government Ventnor Is a COL
lection of beautiful cottages and villas and
is destined to become some day the most
picturesque suburb Of Atlantic City.
There are now four municipal corpora
tons within the ten miles of Absecon
Island, and there is already talk of COM
bining them all into a greater Atlantic
City.
The agitation for paving Atlantic avenue
has eliminated in an offer from the city
to the Pennsylvania railroad. controlling
the trolley franchise on that thoroughfare
to pave the avenue provided the railroad
company forever keeps it in repair No
reply has been received from the latter
The cost to the city will be about $3.50, 600
Messrs. Klaw and Erlanger and Messrs
Zimmerman and Frohman have combined
with Joseph Fralinger of this city in an
enterprise to erect a superb theater on the
site of the old Academy of Music, New
York avenue and the boardwalk They are
prepared to begin work at once, provided
the building department of this city will
alter some of the provisions of the build
ing laws relating to houses of amusement.