Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-12
ATLANTIC CITY.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
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Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY. April II. 1908.
With the big hotels practically filled.
the smaller houses rapidly filing and hun
dreds Of cottages being opened Atlantic
City will present lively aspect from
now on to the close of Lent. AS rule
the hotels fill up rapidly just before Palm
Sunday and remain filled to the end of
Lent. but heretofore but few people have
opened their summer cottages until some
time In the latter part OF May or early
in June. But the fact that Easter comes
later than usual this year. coupled with
the fact that the weather has been so
much more pleasant than In past years,
has consp:-ac to bring visitors out in
great numbers. 1t only needs few
bathers to make one feel that the summer
rush Is on in real earnest. And, indeed,
there were quite a number of bathers this
week. 1t was real summary Monday, and
about noon nearly dozen young men
and women from one Of the beach-front
hotels made up a party. dOnned bathing
suits and dsported themselves on the
beach as they might do in the middle OF
July. The water was a little cold, they
said. but the air was all that could be
desired
The Lenten visitors will have some
thing excellent in the way of band music,
wonderful success of his engagement at
Long Beach. Cal. has been engaged by
the management Of the Million-dollar pie =
and the celebrated Creatore and his band
are playing at the Steel pier. NOrddca.
Damrosch and the latter's orchestra will
he the big musical feature of Easter
Sunday at the Million-dollar pier Thurs
day night OF this week Jan. kubelik. the
celebrated vioiinist. played to
packed house at the Savoy Theater. All
the piers are getting ready for big must
cal features during the summer. and
among the bands that will play besides
those engaged at present will be Oreste
Eessella at the Steel pier, Conway's Itha-
ca Band. Levy and Fairman. who will be
heard at the Ocean pier. So the resort
will not suffer for lack OF music during
the coming season.
proposition has been received by some
of the city officials from one of the re-
sorts further down the coast that calls
for the building of a boardwalk along the
Atlantic coast between this city and Cape
May. There Is hardly any likelihood that
such a scheme would be considered, even
though it Is purposed that each resort
along the proposed line build its own por-
ton of the walk. The cost of bridging
the various intervening inlets would, ac-
cording to this plan. be equally divided
which the boardwalk would pass.
Vandals have practically stripped the
Garden Hotel of all its magnificent bath
room fittings during the winter while
closed. The house has sixty baths. and
fifty-hve or these have been plundered
Of all their lighter plumbing-spigots,
brass fittings. etc. Besides this. nearly
all the handsome brass beds were robbed
of the brass knobs, etc. The ruins were
discovered by real estate agent who
took a party there who desired to lease
the house for the coming summer.
D. P. Rahter. one of the best hotel men
of this city, is again managing the Hotel
Osten. which opened for the season
Thursday. The house has been greatly
improved during the winter. and it now
embraces every feature known tosa mod
ern and up-to-date hotel. 1t is located
directly on the beach. In the fashionable
cottage district of Chelsea. and all its
rooms overlook the ocean and Boardwalk.
The Hotel Kenderton. on South Tennes-
see avenue. right in the heart of the
amusement district and bathing center
has opened for the season under the man.
agement OF Mrs. ]. G. Mitchell The