New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08
ATLANTIC CITY BLUEFISH.
Many Caught off the Seaside
Resort.

Resort.
Atlantic City. N j. Oct. Z (SpeciaD-A great
run of bluefsh brought joy to the hearts Of the
visitors this week Fifty per cent Of the mascu-
line portion of the hotel colony have been fishing
industriousIy since these deem sea denizens be-
gan to pass the resort their way south, and
fishing stories have had the call in hotel smok-
ing rooms The first reports that reached shore
about the great luck encountered by those who
went out TO the banks were scarcely credited
until they were backed up by proof. When Il
was suddenly discovered that chance anglers on
the piers were having all kinds Of sport there
simultaneous demand for fishing para
phernalia that almost created famine in that
line Weary business and professional men here
for rest and recreation caught the fever and
thronged the pier rails. So. likewise. did their
wives and daughters Residents betook them
selves to TIE dilapidated Lee pier at TeXas-ave-.
and the extreme end Of the jetty at Ohio-ave
has been overrun with anglers when the tide is
favorable. Pretty nearly every one here has had
a bit of fishing this week. or helped their friends
to fish which amounts TO the same thing.
Feminine fingers had found it trying sport. but
well worth the trouble if the FISH came their way
It has been fascinating for others to stand on
the boardwalk along the inlet front and watch
scores of small boys on the slippery rock jettes
or the size of the hnny captive cuts little figure
The privilege of sitting at ease on pier bench
and simply hauling up line is recompense
for the difference between such comfortable
sport and that which trip into the dense woods
involves with fish few and far between
The new automobile boulevard. sixty feet wide.
Joining this island city to the mainland across.
four miles of marsh. and retiring to oblivion the
ancient pike, is joy for the automobiling clan.
Scores of them are coming from New-fork
Philadelphia and greater distances to verify lot
themselves the reports spread abroad by their
brethren about the wonderful sixty feet wide
course built seven feet above the marsh as d
guarantee AGAINST storm tides that were won't
at times to flood the old road three feet deep
and cut the city off from communication with
tba outside world. save by rail and wire. Barely
accented. there is already talk of giving the new
drive surface of hard packed small stone.
ReaIizing the advertising benefits OF such an at
traction. hotel men are determined to make the
drive the finest stretch of autoombiling roadway
in the east.
The suggestion has been put forward that AT
Iantic CITY should have concrete ooaro"AlA-
Ignoring the implied sacrilege OF making ths
resorts world famous promenade anything Ou'
:. hoard walk which has in fact been soIneInins
of a rotsnoner ever since steel framework re-
placed timber, nine years ago, the susses'iOn =
nada 10 Law concrete upon the pine TIMBER
floor and provide a practically noestru
boulevard for the thousands who come here an
III, ord for many of whom the walk is tns
a,+,,, chief attraction 1t costs the city tnou'
s.nds of dollars annually to replank the prom
o5e and the hotel men hold that besides the
saving a concrete surface would be vastly Hioie
comfortable for the multitude than the ne
ouently rough wooden floor
sign of the resorts preparation Tor tne
winter season was the beginning To-Day VI
.ertas of concerts and dances at the CaslnO' tl0
hotel men having made up tuno 10 prOSiu7
entertainment of order acceP'doie ~ ~
o,,ac+inq, class of patrons here at this season
The Casino in past seasons has been the S'eN0
o4 MANY social functions in when soclet ; PC
ME met and whiled away the winter e eye v
with their busy season scareelE eiI sarJ IN
of the hotel men are ALREADY lT1F.i F,sos have
,,avt wear Most of the smaller housSs -,
nJosed To reopen in February, when tne FS
Guard of the IIenten season CroWq DeSl'ts 49, ~
Five The Hotel Senate was sofa tlts Dobin
I vt, u sscuIl to H P. Dawson o. DaupIn,[t,
penn. for 100000, and the 81 la I. .S7 from
been purchased by O. g MINER III 9-IS which
a Reading man for $4,000 Inc DeI Films =, Ave
1900 few days ago for the nrst tlIIle ~ tic-
Years is to be practically reouuI' a - 80 hun
wing seven stories high VIII auI oFG TTbe Holm
5ra5 rooms and many fine pains, H T5,s FOR
Gts+ also is being greatly enlarged I0 ITse
on extensive enlargement OF tns @eetst ;,-a 1syv
are alsG adioining the Marlborough House us
Pie sister has reached height Of seven
The De vile is to have nan aUt are assured
and MANY other hotel Improvements a. 60 oa0 :
anu con4emplated Altogether upward OF SouJS
COO will be expended in increasing anu its con-
iU0 the citvs facilities for entertaining l'S ~
ite NV, increasing multitude of patrons u,,o
congressman and Mrs. R. o. Moon o uoli Ialr
da1nhia. who have just returned from iiO'i@-
are at the Seaside House .., botel
Ms Abner E Mckinley is at beacn w. w..
J., coTnnanv with Miss Anna Wendell Oh No"
ore Sn,,o,raseman and Mrs George A Castor u
,,,.s7,Ivania have Joined the fall colony
Mr. and Mrs, E. A Brown Oh Ne" pun
at the Marlborough House. ,e, the
~ aDd Mrs Isaac L. Kip are ahlohs ~
New-Yorkers at a beach hotel 49,, Nor
Mrs. NJ L. Rothschd, sister OF NelS si,.,is at
rio of Chicago, is among the new arrivals =
the Chalfonte-