Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
Recounts Her Experiences
Down at Atlantic City.
SEARCHING FOR QUIET
FINALLY DECIDED TO RETURN
-
HOME FOR DESIRED REST.
Amusing Incidents of Hotel Life That
Contributed to Continuous Per-
Torrance of Excitement.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

ATLANTIC CITY, August 10, 1904.
Even here, where the sea has CHEEKY
and optimistic aspect, you may hear an
occasional tale of woe. The one subjoined
Is from the lips of an amiable middle-ageo
departmental woman of Washington VINO
will be returning to her Washington fiat
this evening.
."rhe little fiat even IL 1t does overlook
line of changing street cars, is not so BAD
she said today "and I'm going back there
.or rest and quiet.
Don't understand me as maintaining
that there are no quiet hotels in Atlantic
City. I've always understood that there
were-plenty of them. But I've only trleo
three and I'm told that there are 800 hotels
here. counting large and small. l tried the
three l know of inside of six days, or two
days and nights in each. l could not rea-
sonaby be expected to remain two DAYS
and nights at each of the hotels down here
to find out the quiet ones
Il arrived here at noon. and TOOK room
on one of the high floors of a very good
hotel which had been recommended TO me
nv Washington friends. After luncheon,
being tired and drowsy from the rallroau
ride ] stretched out on the rattan couch
in my room for nap. The querulous cry
ing of young one in the room next 10
miGe-with locked communicating door
DIDN'T keep me awake, Tor was very
sleepy. 1t was the battle of Port Arthur
that woke me up. l was dreaming that
was on the hurricane deck of a pretty wen
destroyed Russian destroyer that was be-
ing made the main target for the whole
pursuing Japanese fleet, when l sat up on
the couch, gasping, and in a most clammy
perspiration. My watch told me that l had
stretched out on the couch just six min
utes before My awakening didn't retard
the progress of the battle that had aroused
me. however 1t went right en-. 1t was In
that next room whence had proceeded. be-
fore fell asleep. the queruloCs crying OF
the child. Whatever was happening In
there ! didn't know. but l know that the
whole wing of the hotel was trembling with
the conclusion of It, That IL was nothing
tragic however. was evidenced by the
laughter of children which accompanied it.
1t was thump. bang. boom worse than the
noise of any fireworks bombardment ever
heard, and the juvenile gigging which
punctuated the awful din made 1t seem all
the more weird
Raped Gently on the Door.
After 1t had been going on for fifteen
minutes without a break or pause I
raped gently on the locked communicating
door. The uproar ceased suddenly and the
voice OF woman in the room inquired
raspingly:
well. whatever is 1t now?'
Il replied. as equally as l could, that l
was endeavoring to take much-required
nap in my room and hoped that the chill
dren would find it hardship to divert
themselves little less tempestuously.
"'Oh folks don't come down to the sea
shore to sleep said the raspy voice of the
that's all. The children are only playing
jumping off Brooklyn bridge" anyhow
aren't you, preciouses land l guess that's
nobody's business but their own and mine.
Sleep, and at this time of the day! The
idea. Who ever heard of such thing?
Thus sustained. encouraged and invited
the preciouses who were engaged In play
ing jumping off the Brooklyn bridge started
all over again. That settled my nap, and
l got up and dressed and went down to the
office. where, without making any COM
plant of the extraordinary hotel amuse-
ment to which the children in the room
next TO mine were treating themselves. j
told the manager that 1 thought 1 would
prefer room in the other wing of the
house. He gave me a room in that wing,
and 1 had my things shifted over there.
"A long board walk prowl with some
friends met kept me out of my longed-fOr
bed until after midnight but when 1 did
finally got under the sheets 1 went imme-
diately to sleep.
This time, when / was awakened with
a start l was dreaming that my fiat was
on fire, and that a hundred firemen were
trooping through the halls. unreeling hose.
and pounding away with their axes. 1t was
iust dawn, and my watch on the bureau
tod me that 1t was quarter to in the
morning.
THE racing and pounding and jumping
and merry childish screaming, this time,
was overheard. After il had been going on
for twenty minutes. and l was beginning to
be alarmed lest all the plaster on the cell
ing of my room fall upon my head. l
slipped on wrapper and went up the stairs
to the floor above.
Playing Leap Frog With Variations.
Two nicelooking little girls and two
nice-looking little boys were playing leap
frog with variations. in the long hall. Their
mother sat In a rocking chair at window
overlooking the sea. She was In a kmono
and looked very contented. l squeezed past
the bowling, jumping young as best
l could. and approached the mother. be
fore | had had a chance to say word,
however, she overwhelmed me with affapil-
ity
Did you come up to see the loves a;
their morning exercise? She asked me- eff
fusively. rising from the rocking chair
Wonderful the animal spirits of children.
isn't 1t? All OF tie dears are being trained
in gymnasium at home and they miss Il
so dreadfully down here, you know-the
gymnasium, | mean. So they doing the
best they can at their gymnastics without
the regular appliances. Notice how agile
and bouncy my youngest is, and she point
ed 10 curly-haired bowler of a boy about
five years Oil. who was just then jumping
into the air and coming down upon his
feet upon the understanding floor with
the report OF a six-inch gun every time ne
hit the carpet.
What was to say In the teeth of such
early-mOrninG cordality all that from Il
woman whose countenance shone with her
had mounted the stairs in state of pallid
wrath, but how Gould l eXpend ii upon a
women whose cOuntenance shone with her
alteration for her dawn sky larking progeny?
But | stammered. weakly. is 1t not
era trihe-er-d little early for the chill
dren's exercise?
oh. dear, no. responded the ado.ing
mother. sweetly. Mercy us, not at all!
Their gymnastic adviser says the earlier In
the morning, the better. Why. at home. the
loves are often up long before daylight.
and frolicking about In the top floor gym
nasium. which their papa has fixed up for
them-would you believe II. long before day
light! Notice what a strong -iimbed little
girl that one with the red bow in her hair
is-she's my second
1.-The little girl with the red bow in her
hair was js't then bawling with all her
power at her little brother to bend lower
so that she could the better spraddle over
him in the leap-frog game, and II / had
been as cross then as was when started
upstairs would have told the mother that
l thought the little girls chief strength re-
sided in her lungs. AS IL was, l sneaked
downstairs to my room and read maya
zine. the overhead din continuing for more
than an hour. until IT was time TO dress for
breakfast.
Same Performance in Next Room.