New-York tribune., 1907-06-30
ATLANTIC CITY DAYS.
Working for a Ne7o BouleUard-
Ocean BQthing Enjoyed.

ocean BTtR2nS EHJOyeU.
Atlantic City. June % (speoiaD.-Mlss Dorothy G.
s. Currey. of Haverford. Penn. took swim from
the Inlet to the old Iron Pier, the foot of Mas
sachusetts avenue, Monday Miss Currey, who
is staying the Hotel Iroquois. is especially
strong swimmer, and. knowing this, a couple OF
her girl friends dared her to attempt the swim
down the Inlet channel around to the Miss
Currey promptly went to her room and donned her
bathing suit She covered the suit with a long
coat jumped in a bus with her companions and
driven TO the Inlet. There she dived over
board and with the aid of a swift current. made
her way down and out the Inlet and to the pier
IN a remarkably short time. She not tired
after the hard swim. and walked down the beach
South Carolina avenue, and thence to her hotel
Miss Currey is the first young woman TO attempt
such long swim here. The distance is almost
two miles and the currents are strong and treach-
erous.
Efforts to secure new boulevard along the
mainland between Pleasantvile and Somers Point
being renewed by the residents of this city for
the benefit Of the hundreds OF persons who come
here TO spend the season with automobiles and hne
teams. The old Shore Road. which the boule-
ward and is now the only road by which ono can
reach Somcrs Point. has been usurped by the troll
ley line and ruined far !ts uses for driving
are concerned. The plan put forth by those back
Of the new boulevard scheme is 10 build road be-
tween the present road and the edge OF the
meadows that the driveway would overlook
the bays and inland waterways. The purposed
line Of the new road Hes directly through the lower
part OF the links OF the Atlantic City Country Club,
and that is where the proposition IS likely TO meet
serious opposition. The Country Club will not con-
sent to any public highway being made through
its grounds and the road Will either have to di-
verge so that Il Will cut across the meadows at
the lower edge Of the club go around on the
upper side above the present road II tho boule-
ward is built, and there seems indca-
uon that IL be. II Will. in all probability, go
along the meadow side OF the Country Club grounds
and give the users OF IL good view OF the grounds
and clubhouse.
About fifty members OF the Albany On " Auto
mobile Club came to Atlantic City in twenty ma
chimes last Saturday and remained until Monday
morning The Albany people were out on a Coo
Atlantic City there had been only one accident The
automobillsts went from here 10 Asbury Park. and
thence home.
''Can girls wear the boomer bathing costume?
Certainly they can" said Mayor Stoy's official
representative on the beach. Police Surgeon Beck
with But they must keep the boomers full
and not attempt to trim them down as some skirts
have been trimmed up in the past. And. further
more have given orders to the life guards 10 SEQ
that no one annoys attempts to annoy the wear
ers OF boomer bathing suits. Arrest will follow any
such action" There have been several women seen
on the beach in the last two or three davs In the
bloomer suits and they seem TO look as well as n
not better than. in exceedingly short skirts that
nave oeen fashionable for the last two or three
years.
Large crowds focking here to spend the
Fourth of July. and already the hotels are pretty
wen wen hIed. In the course or another week Atlantic
City Will wear its usual air and the hotels
Will De crowded to OVerfowing, cool Iyeathar
OF the spring and early days Of summer has I,ant
many from bathing and enjoying the beach but the
not weather of the last two weeks has made won
derrul change. There three or four thorsapd
bathers last Sunday. and every dav OF this week
round many enjoying the surf. Ieep water hstbara
who enjoy the swell without the discon1 forts 20 th
"etiVy breakers are HndinS deal OF anticf-
pated pleasure IN the announcement made nv NJ IT
Shackeford manager Of tho Ocean Pier He Is
building a bathing deck underneath the main dacr
OF the pier. and will conduct 1t much after tbs styIa
@ vi me pathihg pier at Brighton. England. OF
course, only good swimmers will be permitted 10
'lo mere because the water is about twenty feet
deep. He expects to have 1t ready by JlIIv
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will not be able 70
compete Tor prizes In the Atlantic CITY Horse
snow next month. so in order that the family may
nave representation Reginald Vanderbilt will show,
his string of fine horses Mrs John CarlInn 20
Long Island and Clarence o. Watson of RaIti-
more two OF the leading competitors last Year
nave nave again entered their horses for this years
snow Mrs. Gerken and Mr.. Watson are the lead
ing competitors for the handsome Hotel Vindsor
Cup. Entries are being made from all narts or
the East. and several strangers will be among tho
oAlIo'ors ~ or TINS year The shows will be held
every day, and evening sessions will he heIa on
the last two days. The entries closed TODAY.
George Baker, Charles Vickey and F. G. Hvman
New York brokers. who are spending a connie Of
weeks here, lay claim to having made the larpast
catch Of fish this season. They went ont ere
other morning In one of the Inlet yachts ana
anchored off Brigantine. They caught 245 weak
ash Mr. Baker caught the first bluefsh of the
season. " 'Ii7
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Reading OF New York r,bo
nave been spending the spring and early summer
uays at the ttlO Grande. immediately after tba
Fourth Will go to their country house. at Ovst-r
Bay. ''''-
State Senator Howard Murray the youngest man
TO sit In the Massachusetts Legislature "a vieitor
here Accompanying him his mother Mrs
Josephine Murray: his sister Miss Josephine Muir
ray; j. +. SINNERS and Daniel ]. Monahan all
or Boston They are at the Hotel Raleigh and will
remain until the middle OF July
Professor w. c. st. Clair. a government astrono-
mer and forecaster in the federal observatory ar
Washington, is spending his honeymoon here He
and his bride are making their headquarters at the
Hotel Chetwoode.
b. p. Dunlap. of New York is spending a oouple
or weeks here for the benefit of his health
Ihe Misses Groome and McFetridge OF Phila-
delphia are touring all the New Jersey seaside re-
SORTS IN an automobile under the chaperonage of
Mi~ W. ii. Walbaum. OF Philadelphia While
mere TIE party is stopping at the Hotel Chelsea
Mr. and Mrs. John Mckinley, OF New York ara
spending their honeymoon at the Hotel Chetwoode
Mr and Mrs. c. l.. Cadwalader, of PhiladeInbio
are among the visitors at Haddon Hall
me Hotel New England is housing three bridal
couples this week. They Mr.. and Mrs C. -
Etchoerger and Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ Watson OF
w w Washington, and Mr.. and Mrs. A D. Vickering or
Philadelphia. "
p. j Schneider. . New York msrchant and hi.