Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1910-06-09
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
PreSbyterlanS Of America Assemble
at Atlantic City
PROF. ]. 7. EWING ATTENDS
Is a Candidate From the Saginaw Presbytery
Meeting Of Assembly is Held on Pier

Professor J. T. Ewing and Mrs.
! Ewing returned last week from at
tending the General Assembly OF the
Presbyterian church at Atlantic City,
N. J. Mr.. and Mrs. Ewing and wife
left Alma on Tuesday, May 16, and
/ travelled to the coast by way of To-
ledo, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, but
did not stop at any Of these places
except for few hours wait between
trains. They arrived at Atlantic City
at noon Wednesday after a very pleas
ant trip. The service on the eastern
trains, Mr.. Ewing found TO be far
superior to that afforded to passeng
ers in the west. One reason he
! thought for that was the superior
! equipment which the eastern trains
! had Also, the management seems to
take more pains in seeing to the COM
| forts of travellers The Pennsylvania
system, over which large part of the
journey was made, is especially good
in this regard.
Considerable time was spent at At
lantic City in sight seeing. The city
! itself is OF about $4,000 inhabitants
and is situated on little peninsula
or sand spit which juts off the main
! land 1t has been built up from
sandy waste into a fine city with mag
nihcent business blocks. fine public
buildings and broad spacious resi-
dencc streets with many fine resi-
dences. There are scores of hotels
and boarding houses ranging from
the very moderately priced ones to
those for millionaires.
Atlantic City is, OF course, a sum
mer resort, its chief attraction being
the wonderful beach on the ocean.
| On this shore there are accommo-
dations not only for bathers but for
every pastime there is in the way of
athletic sports. Along the beach for
seven miles runs the famous Board
Walk, which is walk about the width
OF an ordinary street. In the cen
trail part of the city substantial busi-
ness blocks and immense hotels line
the walk for perhaps a mile Further
from the center of the city the build
ings get smaller, and at some distance
out there are no shops, the walk run
ming along the bare beach. 1t is ele-
waited from the sand, the height vary
ing from six to twenty feet In the
shops there is a wonderful variety of
! material which can be bought: it
seems as if the ends of the earth have
been searched for articles to be plac-
ed on sale here. Rents in the main
part of the city are enormous and the
shops are crowded with the most ex-
pensive wares, such as rare paintings,
jewelry, and so on. Another inter
esting feature of the walk is the large
number of roller chairs which at all
times are skimming about in the
crowd. These are the only vehicles
allowed on the walk but of these
every description can be found from
the single wicker chair to the cab ac-
commodating two or three people
The Board Walk is the jinriksha city
of America.
Striking out from the walk into the
| ocean are several large piers. On one
of these which is supposed to have
cost in the neighborhood of million
| dollars, the General Assembly was
held The assembly rented the pier
which is in reality part of the
amusement system of the city, out
right for the ten days during which
they were in session At the entrance
| OF the pier is the Casino, broad arch
| above which is a vaudeville theatre.
| In the lower part an excellent Italian
band of about thirty pieces gave con-
cents daily, while the room above was
closed du ing the time of the meet
ings Away out on the pier, perhaps
third of mile. is huge music hall
| seating some twenty-five hundred
people in which the assembly was
held. 1t was an ideal place for such
a meeting; there was the advantage
of the sea breezes and the seclusion
from the hustle of the city There
are on this steel pier altogether three
large buildings, the music hall being
the largest.
The assembly was convened Thurs
day c. +. Little, ID. d., of Wabash,
Indiana, was elected moderator. DR..
James Morrison Barkley, of Detroit,
who is trustee OF Alma college, was
the retiring moderator and as such
he gave the moderator's sermon
! Thursday IL was generally pro-
nounced to be one of the most power
/ full sermons ever delivered before
the assembly.
In the matter of the prize fight be-
tween Jeffries and johnson which
took the attention of the assembly,
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