Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-07
IN ATLANTIC CITY
Yacht Races Off Coast Inter-
st-Many.
GRABBING ALSO POPULAR
Summer Girls Are on the Beach in
Large Numbers.
DEEP SEA FISHING GREAT FAD
Many Washington Visitors Enjoy
ing the Pleasures of the
Resort.
Special Correspondence of The Star.


ATLANTIC CITY. August 6, 1910.
The gayety at the shore this week is
beyond description. All the big midsum
mer excursions coming in have brought
throngs of people, and the cool. pleas
ant weather has allowed every one to
get out and enjoy the varied amuse-
mentj of the place.
Yacht races off the beach front have
interested many; sailing in the inlet
schooners; the grabbing parties and
deep sea fishing parties which are
organized daily by the Atlantic City
Launch Company, whose agents get
up jolly parties on hotel verandas;
the dancing on the piers at night and
the base ball at the inlet.
The theaters allowed the people to
laugh at the absurd situations in Clyde
Eitch'S play Girls, which filled the
Criterion every night, and also Mr..
Wise in THE Gentleman From Missls-
sippl'' at the Apollo.
AT the golf club a meet between good
players from Cape May and Atlantic
City experts made the Northf1eld links
lively.
One never can tell what unexpected OPP
portunity for pleasure is going to bob
Up in Atlantic City. When good look
Ing young man in college clothes walks
w the hotel piazza and calmly put re-
5pectfully asks a group Of pretty girls II
they want to go grabbing there is usual
ly moment of surprise. Miss Summer
Girl is inclined to think some one is rath-
Or cheeky. and Is about to frown upon
him haughtily, when he explains with
twinkle in his eye that he is merely the
Rmba ssador of the American Launch
Company, which is giving daily grabbing
parties. The fact that the young man
happens to be good looking college man
does not detract from the attractiveneSS
a
people on the veranda are told. and the
party is informed that a bus will call at
2:3O O'Clock. OF they go. riding down
Massachusetts, avenue to Gardner's basin,
where they find fleet of power launches
at their disposal; crab nets and par
aphernalia.
The boat puffs gayly out of the basin
past the inlet and across the channel at
point opposite the old Brigantine wharf
then a short trip along the Brigantine
coast, afterward striking the back of
Brigantine, into number of island chan
nels, to the oyster beds. Here, in shallow
water. the girls are furnished with long
pieces of string, on which is tied piece
Of meat This is lowered on the shallow
bed Of the channel and soon Mr.. Crab has
hold of 1t. Excitement in the feminine
ranks is great; everybody shrieks at a
patch. till 1T sounds like the game Of pit
or "menagery." People who have Joined
the party from different hotels and were
utter strangers are soon helping one an
Dther, and the jolliest friendships are
made. Small stoves are soon to be in
stalled on the boats, so that the crabs can
be cooked and eaten on the spot. or else
each proud fisherman may bring home
her string, already boiled. and ready for
the home table.
The parties average anywhere from ten
sixteen to thirty people; all sized launches
are provided. one Of them will hold 100.
and the whole trip costs but IS cents
with Mr. Crab thrown in.
If one has a preference for deep-sea
fishing you can join parties going out at
$3.50 o'clock in the morning. the bus call
Ing for you at your hotel. Then the
launch takes you out into the ocean.
some fifteen miles, until only the tops of
the high buildings in Atlantic City are
visible. Here one will get croakers and
sea bass. The trips last from two to three
hours. People who are afraid OF seasick-
ness usually go grabbing, as the grabbing
trips are In quiet waters and will not dis
turb them.
Mrs. Donald Mclean. the national presi-
Gent Of the D. a. R., is spending some
weeks at the shore. She is accompanied
by her daughter. Mrs. William A. Dallas,
who has just returned from the Philip
pine Islands. where she Joined her hus-
band, an army officer, for some time. The
climate not agreeing with Mrs Dallas.
she has returned and joined Mrs. Nc
Lean at the Chelsea, where they will
stay prior to going to their New York
home.
Gen. Woodward of Washington and
Count Androvanai are notable guests at
this hotel Mr.. r. c. Dove of Washing
ton is also making stay there.
Richard Harding Davis will be at the
shore for a time. having engaged apart
ments at the Shelbourne for stay. He
will Join his former journalistic colleague
Clarence Cullen, who is making his home
at the shore.
Charles +. Dickey, one Of the officials
of the steel corporation. is at the Dennis.
Mrs. F. s. Murkling and the Misses Kath-
crime and Madelaine Murkling of Wash
ington are at this house.
Gen. d. l.. Magruder. with the Misses
Margaret and Mary Magruder of Bryn
Mawr. is stopping at the Traymore.
Capt William II. Graves is spending
the summer at the Seaside House.
Mr.. T.. z. Helm and Miss Ethel Helm
are Washington guests at Haddon Hall
for the season.
Southern visitors at the Hotel Absecon
are Mr.. David Brown, IT., Miss Ida VIII
liams. James NJ Maloney and Miss E. j.
Maloney Of Richmond. Va. and w. K
Hoffman Of Hagerstown. Md.
Mr.. Paul Coulton of Washington. d. c.,
rs making an extended stay at the shore
and stopping at the Netherland.
Other Washington people registered at
Atlantic City hotels are:
Hamilton Hall-Mrs. William Hall, Miss
i. Hall. Mr.. and Mrs. r. Jalley. H J.
Jalley and Charles McKaig.
Carlton-Mrs. K. Wagner. John Beall
and ]. G. Bean.
Ebbitt House-W. Largent, Miss Nellie
Buckedeschel. Miss Laura Buckedeschel,
Charles F. Wright, jr., Francis Wright,
Mrs x. Breston. Miss f. Breston, Vir-
ginia d. Poole and Mr.. and Mrs. r. d.
Johnson.
La Fontatne-Mr. and Mrs. John C.
Proctor, Frank Proctor, Miss NJ Proctor,
Mrs. NJ. Youse, Edgar Kellogg, jr.. and
II. Grage.
Rio Grande-Mrs. s. Main and j. c.
Main.
Mount vernon-Mr and Mrs. G. Bird
and G.. Leavfer.
The Charles-Mr and Mrs A. Simpson
Meriin-Mr. and Mrs. E Stewart
Youngs-J. L. Hessler. l. Trennd, L. R
Rice and w. Laderer.
Savoy-Mr. and Mrs. ]. D. Ellen, Mrs
Charles Hoy1e and Mr.. T. G. Foley.
LouelIa-Mr. and Mrs. p. Walker Mr.
and Mrs. A. Riley, Mr.. and Mrs c.
Smith and r Lafferty.