Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25
ATLANTIC CITY. N. J.

sp-ell Correspondence Of Tie star.
ATLANTIC CITY. y. J.. March 24 1906.
Tine weather here the past few days has
been very pleasant and everything that
could be expected during the blustery month
OF March Promenaders crowd the Board
walk daily and all the hotels are well filed
Indeed the hotel colony is now larger than
at any previous season at this time of the
year. and the names of the most represen-
tstiye people north. east, south and west
are found on the registers. The Lenten sea-
son is now i'm fun swing and the Easter holt
days will bring a vast concourse Of people,
such Has never before been seen here at
that period. Those who do not make ar
engagements well in advance for hotel &C
cummpdItiOns at Eastertide will be COM
PEELED TO scurry around for quarters at the
smaller houses. Building operations con-
tuue active and real estate values are firm
while many cottages have already been
rented for the coming summer season.
Numerous hotels have opened their doors
much earlier than usual this year. and I'M
idAus Indications are that Atlantic City
Nul ENJOY recOrd-breaking prosperity dur
ing t1e entire year OF 1906.
4 three-SJoTy club house facing Clam
creek will be built for the coming season
Toy members of the Seaside Yacht Club
The local base ball season will open earlier
tais year than ever. The Viilanova and
state College of Pennsylvania teams will
cross bats at Inlet Park on Decoration day
The largest skating rink in the world il
now being constructed on the ocean end OF
Dung Pier. 1t is 225 feet long and $50
feet wide, with large number of seats and
the sides arranged 10 open during the sum
neT. Roller skating IS great fad here at
present, and the pier is doing a land office
business In that line.
Atlantic City Is to have a new SiO0Ou
EtGgltdE- Over half the bn =
already been subscribed by local people and
tHe remainder is In sight. Charles Evans,
former proprietor of the Seaside House,
heads the list with a $1,000 subscription.
4 new Young Mems Christian Association
building Is assured for Atlantic City. \ de-
STab!e Pacific avenue property has been
purchased and on the site q handsome
building Is 10 be erected.
After improvements to the extent of
Sl3Opo and involving the addition of an en-
tire story in front, the New Berkeley Hotel
at Kentucky avenue and the beach, opened
Tor The season the past week It is CON
Quoted by the owners. Fairbanks &c Mackeu-
thun. The new addition has provided a
number OF handsome room. all having pri-
vate baths and equipped IN up to-date style
Each room has an ocean view. is most de-
Srable from every standpoint and the
house has been newly decorated and hand
somely furnishey throughout. The bookings
Tor the season are the heaviest in the his
tory OF this house.
+. L. RadcIiG and T. r. Ennis of New
York made swift run TO Atlantic city the
early part of the week in their auto and
registered at the Raleigh.
concert was enjoyed by several hun
dred guests at the Seaside House a few
evenings ago. The selections were furnished
by Signor LOcagi, Mr.. Wilterdink and Frau
iein Won Winterfeld
Secretary of War Taft it is announced,
Will be one OF the prominent guests at tho
New Jersey State Bankers Association
meeting, to be held at the Hotel Chelsea
ADyti 81 and
states Senator Dryden and other prominent
men are to attend the banquet and make
speeches. President Carlton Godfrey of
Atlantic city states that plans for the
meeting have been completed and that It
Will be function of national Importance.
With large number OF prominent guests
from New York, Philadelphia. Washington
and other cities. the Hotel ST. Glare was
opened for the season the early part of the
week by Proprietor Louis B. Scull, formerly
of the Senate and Rudolf. This house has