Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1909-11-27

of best paved streets OF any city III thV
State as we'll as being the cleanest and
healthiest. Our annual death rate is only
eleven in every 1000 population. Affair
tie City is unique in many ways and IN
one respect it is like heaven-there IS
within its limits no cemetery.
The Atlantic City Post Office ranks
fourth in Importance and amount OF busi-
ness in New Jersey being exceeded only
by Newark, Jersey City and Hoboken,
all of which have a greater permanent
population. The money handled at the
Atlantic City Post Office the past year
was million and half dollars and the
stamp sales alone $250,000.
As Light as Broadway
The city is supplied with the best and
purest artcsian water by its own pump
ing plant at the Absecon station on the
mainland. The sewerage system and ser
vice are among the best in the country
and modern sanitary conditions are rigid
" enforced by the local Board of Health.
Atlantic City is one of the best lighted
towns in the United States, the electric
illumination on the Boardwalk alone cost
ing the city $1,000 a month. The paid
fire department ranks among the best
in New Jersey, as does the police de-
partment and the public schools. We
have a half dozen good newspapers and
thirty odd churches of various denom-
nations. During the summer season the
city maintains sixty odd expert life
guards on duty daily in its beach patrol
for the protection of bathers. The bath
ing beach is hard and smooth, shelving
gradually, absolutely safe, with no need
of life lines and is the best on the At
lantic coast. 1t is no uncommon sight
to see fifty thousand bathers in the surf
on an August day. The famous Board
walk, built and maintained by the city,
is nine miles in length and extends along
the strand from Inlet to Inlet. 1t is
an elevated steel structure lioored with
Southern pine, from forty to sixty feet
wide, lighted every evening by thousands
of incandescent lamps. IT is well pat
ronized at all times, but in July, August
and September it is thronged. In March
and April a multitude from all parts nf
the country finds on the Boardwalk an
early Spring and relief from the snow
and slush of the cities. The Easter
Sunday Parade is made up Of more than
one hundred thousand people and is a
social pageant of surprising interest not
to be found in any other part OF the
world. There is only one Boardwalk
in the worid-and that is at Atlantic
City. The roller chair is also another
distinctive Atlantic City institution.
There are about two thousand licensed
rolling chairs and they are propelled by
pushers or attendants on the Boardwalk.
There are about a thousand sailing and
fishing yachts and power launches.
Yachting is one of the most popular di-
versions at the seashore, as well a. fish
ing and cunning. The Northtield links
of the Atlantic City Country Club stand
high in the esteem of both amateur and
professional golfers and the spring and
fall Journeys are notable events. The
Atlantic City Horse Show ranks with the
.l,, Al
States 1t is held during Easter week
on one of the ocean piers and its ring
is as large as that at Madison Square
Garden. There are five great ocean piers
which afford varied entertainment and
enjoyment to the public with scores Of
theatres and other places of amusement
OH the Boardwalk We have up to-date
trolley, bus and taXicab service, A
steamboat line is beginning to run its
vessels between Atlantic City, Philadel-
ph;a and New York.
The Railroads Help
Our railway facilities cannot be sur
passed in America or Europe. The Penn
sylvania system has third rail electric
road to Market street ferry, Philade-
phia; steam road to the same terminal
and steam road to Broad Street sta
ton. 1t also has a direct route to New
York City. The Reading Jersey Cen
tral system has steam lines to New
York and Philadelphia. Al these roads are
double tracked, stone ballasted, protected
with the best types of automatic block
signals with the highest grade rolling
stock. The motive power is unequaled,
as is demonstrated by the fact that the
fastest train and the nine fastest trains
in the world run to and from Atlantic
City, OF the sixteen trains in the world
running on their regular schedule at ~
miles per hour or faster, thirteen are In
the Atlantic City service. The regular
trains on the Atlantic City divisions OF
both steam roads are accustomed to run
at the rate of mile minute every day
in the year. The fares to Atlantic City
are the most reasonable i'll the land, ex-
cursion rates being as low as one cent
per mile. Atlantic City is one hours ride
from Philadelphia; three from New York
and ten from Boston.
Fifty years ago the entire island Of
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