New-York tribune., 1908-02-02
ATLANTIC CITY AFFAIRS

| Atlantic City, Feb 1-Creato.e and his band
| will open the musical season at the shore on
| the steel pier to- day. He will give three con-
J certs daily-mornng, afternoon and evening
/ The steel pier has been given its usual annual
/, renovation and housecleaning, and looks as
| good new.
! The snow from the storm of last week dis
! appeared two days after it had fallen. leaving
| Atlantic avenue dry bone and with none
| of the todtinie mud. Since it was paved it is
generally conceded to be of the>inest streets
| in the country. -. E..
! c. +. Vigneau. manager of art store in
| Boston, is here for the benefit of his health.
| He has been at the Hotel DeVille for three or
| four weeks and will leave in the course OF a
few days for his home fully recovered in health.
He lived out of doors and walk of ten miles
| a day was nothing to him. When he wanted to
get combination of and pine air, he would
| take of the trolley lines and ride, as far as
Pleasantville. and then walk through the pine
| belt lying between Peasantville and Somers
] Point.
Society turned out masse Tuesday night to
the amateur pot pourri" given By the Entire
Nous Club at Young's Pier Theatre for the
benefit of the Atlantic City Hospital The club
is composed of some twenty young women and
they raised little more than thousand dollars
for the charity.
Mayor Franklin P. Stoy. who. in addition to
being head of the. city government, has been
president of the Atlantic City Press Club. since
its organization, eight years ago win give a
dinner at his house this evening for the mem
bers of the club
The annual dinner Of the Atlantic City Board
of Trade viii be held at the Hotel Chelsea on
Saturday evening, February s. and it will be
of the country. Among the speakers will be
Governor John Franklin Fort of New Jersey
Congressman ]. Hampton Moore. Of Pennsyl-
vania; former Governor Edward Caspar Stokes
of New Jersey, Thomas J. Eilery, president
of the New Jersey Senate, and several members
of Congress
There is unusual activity in the hotel colony
to-day, for many of the houses which have been
closed for the winter months opening their
doors for reception of visitors. Among them
is the Hotel Shelburne, at the ocean end OF
Michigan avenue. under the management Of
Jacob Weikel. The pergola has been nclosed
in glass and converted into large and COM.
fortably furnished parlor. with an electric
fountain in the centre.
The Hotel Wiltshire viii open to-day under
the management of Harry Bothmar formerly
OF the Hotel Clayton, at Wilmington, Del
Another house that will open its doors to-day
Is the Hotel Lorraine III st. Charles Place, near
the boardwalk, under the management OF
Charles c. Wagner. The Hotel Albemarle also
opens to-day. This house is of the old and
we'll established hostleIies of this resort j. E.
Cope will look after its welfare again during
the present The Hotel Strand which
now never closes, is managed by Harry l.. Fair
BARN. The Hotel Stickney. in South Kentucky
avenue, VIII reopen about April l.
The City Council has decided to complete the
paving OF Pacific avenue with asphalt The
contractors expect to have the work done earlv
in the spring.
". ID. Sheldon. of Philadelphia. vice president
of Girard College and well known Quaker
City banker. and Mrs Sheldon al The Hotel
Morton.
Dr. w. A Pierce a well known New York ply
sician, with his wife and Mrs. Charles Lord OF
New York, AT the Hotel St. Charles. During
the latter part Of the week they have been en-
tcI1aiping the Misses Fierce. Of Philadelphia
: o2iaIe justice William Ii. Moody. Of he
United States Supreme Court is at Younss