Evening star., 1909-08-21

with one of these Boardwalk newsboys
They're really young mem, asked, as he
swung by him on the Boardwalk:
Have you got paper from Calcutta
No, sir replied the newsie, rapping it
right off the reel with nary an instant
hesitation, Il just sold the last one from
ping at the Marlborough. But I've got
em from Rangoon. Benares, Bombay.
Hyderabad, Lahore, Simla and he went
on and ratified off the names of about a
dozen other prominent cities in India. He
didn't have any paper from any of those
places. of course, but he was there with
the quick stuff wherewith to hand a
bate to the clip who was tryirfg to do the
comedy thing on him, and the cut-up
passed down the Boardwalk looking as il
he was heap sorry he'd spoken.
THE permanent residents of Atlantic
City-hotel keepers. business men and
the ike-are very rapidly surrendcrinE
themselves to the belief that Atlantic City
is destined to become. if it has not al
ready become, a great winter and spring
resort, and that its crowded and jammed
days as a summer resort about over.
The old huge crowds that streamed into
Atlantic City from all points of the COM
pass up to three or four years ago no
longer come here. This is not to say that
the Boardwalk isn't pretty well crowded
throughout the summer months-that IL
isn't jammed at this moment of writing
and [ am looking 1t over as l write.
But the figures as to the number of Wis
tors here during the summer months
can'C and don't lie, and 1t is a certainty
that nothing hike the enormous crowds
have been coming here during the past
few summers used to come here.
But what winter and spring resort At
Ill Iii rt1f
say. become, The writer hereof spent
March and April here and he is bound to
give it as his opinion that the place Is
vastly more attractive at. that season
than 1t ever is in the summertime.
Everything is in full blast here during all
of the chill months-and they're not so
chill at that, for the temperature here
during the winter averages about sixteen
degrees warmer than that of New York.
Philadelphia and even Washington.
saw quite as many people brisking along
the Boardwalk, under the blue skies Of
last March, I've seen here during July
and August, and it goes quite without
saying that there's a distinct difference
In the general tone of the crowds here in
the summer and in the winter. The folk
who drift along here for the winter and
the spring are leisurely people who have
learned to dislike the enervating influence
of the southern winter resorts: folk who
have discovered, SO they say, that When
they return TO the north after a winter
spent in the warrnish. humid temperature
of the south they're languid and lassi-
tudinous and totally untitled to endure
the summer heat of the north. So these
people-lnany thousands of thenr-haye
taken to visiting Atlantic City in the win
ter and spring instead of going south.
and they have already made il remark
able winter resort. and will make il still
greater in that respect. I saw scores of
Washingtonians down here during the
early months OF spring, and as for the
New Yorkers-very few of whom ever
think Of coming here in the hot weather
the Boardwalk here looked like Broadway
at that season. The Boardwalk theaters
are open throughout the winter and the
best shows are offered. The snow doesn't
stick here. and so visitors during the winter
don't have TO endure sluShy streets and the
ills that proceed therefrom. The skies are
generally beautifully blue and clear in
winter and spring. The local folk are not
sorry that Atlantic City is. In a way los
ing out as a summer resort strictly, for
the folk who come here during the winter
and spring belong to the moneyed class
and they leave far more of the currency
.elIind them than the hordes OF summer
visitors. CLARENCE l.. CULLEN.