New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-17
ATLANTIC CITY DAYS.
Many Fell Visitors Permanent
Contention City.

Atlantic City, N J.. Sept. is (Speciap.-Io
have the order If F,lks select Atlantic City as
permanent place of meeting and erect mere ~
largest and finest fraternity building III 'ile
country is the mission upon which ). d. ASiiUo''
of Pittsburg, started out few days ago I" SUI
nit his proposition to Elks all over the hd'iol'
in the hope Of having the plan adopted at the
next annual convention of the order IN DeH'e'
in July, 1906 Mr.. Tyndan has been In CONFER
erce with some of the heads of the order ana
saws they are practically unit in favor Oh
selecting a permanent convention city his loed
is that the Elks should follow the example u
other fraternties in this direction ana erect III
the city agreed upon grand auditorium aS
memorial and monument for the order
II is also the idea of the supporters of Atianuc
Cfty's claims to establish here the National
ElEs Home. Such an institution was estao-
Eshed or attempted to be established IN VIZ
ginia some years ago, but it has not been the
success its projectors hoped for, because the 10
cation is not satisfactory to the thousands OF
Elks who would patronize the institution were II
in some resort like Atlantic City.
Pleasant weather has conspired to hold many
of the late staying summer visitors at the shore
and the hotels are comfortably filed still with
prospects of a similar situation throughout the
month Conventions served to enliven the week
to a considerable extent. both the international
Stewards Association and the NeW-Jersey
Firemen's Association having been in session
here with delegates decorated with badges IN
evidence on the Boardwalk and around tha
hotels. The former meeting was ATTENDED ny
the stewards and hotels of clubs all over the
United States and Canada, and their gathering
developed evidence of widespread noNeIileIl !
for the enforcement of pure food legislation ana
a plan to create a national employment bureau
1t is intended to make an effort 10 list all In9
eligible hotel employees in the States and 10
ION aIa oT00ic
operatives. from manager down to dish washers.
for hotels in any part of the country some
such scheme, it is said, would be almost m
valuable to those who lease hotels in the South
ern and New England coast resorts. where busy
seasons last only a few weeks or at most not
more than three months, and 10 Whom the Selec
ton OF a competent staff has long been one OF
the most trying parts of a hotel mans life.
Local bonifaces are inclined to look with FAVOR
upon the suggestion just advanced by NeWl1n
Haines, of the Hotel st. Charles, that the re-
sort shall go into the convention business on a
more elaborate scale. and make itself an actlNe
rival Of other cities where the business mas
been reduced to a system. by esta bishing a per
manent convention bureau. The plan as now
proposed is to employ a promoter OF puDllclIy'
with a rowing commission, and send him forth
TO attend conventions all over the land, the ex-
pense Of the work to come from fund TO which
the hotel men, the Board Of Trade, the city and
the railroads to contribute. The hotel men
are already paying an annual tax OF 80 cents a
room for a convention hall fund but the sum
resulting is altogether inadequate to meet the
demands.
The hotel people won victory with ease this
week in their fight to reopen the new meadow
boulevard that had been closed to travel after
a brief space of four days during the autOmo-
bile meet. Hundreds of autoists coming shore
ward RACED when they found the new road,
which has not yet been formally accepted from
the contractors closed to travel and the ancient
pike on the meadow bed the only means or
reaching the resort and the hotel men. to whom
they carried their protests, decided upon
prompt action. Committees appointed to inter-
view the road builders lost no time in going 10
the pofnt and as a consequence the new road
was reopened within twenty-fOur hours after the
hoteIkeepers declared for and resorted TO
strenuous measures.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. J. J. Reed have re
turned to Washington. The admiral, just be-
fore his departure, met General F. Bird Spen-
Ger. of New-Jersey. They had been friends IN
Civil War days
Neither train nor automobile would do for
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Rogers. OF Wilmington