Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-09-22
GAY ATLANTIC CITY
WHERE SIRENS DISPORT AND
GRAY HAIRED VETS
CONGREGATE

The G.. A. R. veterans have been
holding their national encampment
this year at Atlantic City, New Jer-
ser. This far eastern location was
made to suit the wishes of the vet
erans from the eastern part of the
country. The G. A. r. encampments
are located with the view Of accom-
odating different sections of the
country as far as possible, and are
designated at points in the east, mid
die west and west.
The scene of the encampment was
a seaport town, and as every body
knows great summer resort, short
distance from the four largest cities
of the east. Many western people
will be interested in reading an in
teresting article on gay Atlantic City,
patronized by old and young alike,
and by the invalid as we'll as the
pleasure seekers in robust health. A
correspondent of the Bismarck Tri-
bune says:
Washington, D. c., Sept. 19.-
Our pleasantest trip this season was
our first visit to Atlantic City, N. j.,
two hundred miles from here, early
in September. We chose this month
to avoid the rush and heat, but es-
capped neither, although We had a
delightful time. The place is pleas
ant aand popular the year around.
It Isl almost always crowded, and we
happened to strike some of those hot
September days, which seem more
torrid than July or August. How
ever, we lived, dived in the old ocean
and spent much time on the seven
mileF board walk.
s'This is built on steel supports,
twelve feet above the beach, and is
fifty&feet wide. We also cooled off
on the comfortable piers, the largest
of, which (Young's old pier) extends
nearly half mile out in the briny
deep.
eve squandered a small fortune
including frequent tips-on the COM
Portable wicker woven, rolling chairs,
than which there is no better way Of
seeing the attractions of the long
Wooden Way There are thousands
of these chairs, one man alone con-
trolling eleven hundred. You can
secure one at any of the numerous
stations on the board walk, and have
only to step in and seat yourself, and
are at once pushed along by an at
tendant, joining the long row of them
which is constantly moving, single
file, up and down the Way.
"The charge is fifty cents an hour
(for two persons in double chair.
But the faithful pushers get but 20
cents of that, and must depend on
tips to make a living, and the poor
fellows earn their money. On hot
day the perspiration drips off their,
faces and their clothes are wringing
wet.
eve felt sorry for them and would
frequently ask them to roll us up to
the railing and let us watch the
breakers, while they rested few
minutes. One cannot engage a chair
except at one of the regular stations
en- route, and the pushers must al
ways take his chair back to head
quarters before taking another pas
senger. We soon got on to this and
contrived to have our man leave us
near where we engaged him, SO he
would not have to travel far with e. an q
empty chair.
One gets beautifully tired prone
nading all day, and these chairs are
a comfortable convenience, and by no
means exclusively intended for inval-
ids and old people, as a new conner
thought. Il,
The board walk generally has
long line Of them, moving slowly up
and down each side and q crowd Of
pedestrians in the center. On one
side is the grand old ocean, with
thousands Of bathers sporting in the
surf, and others enjoying land scram-
bles and sun baths on the beach.
And on the other, beside the mag
,nifcent hotels (where the charges
are from I'VE to twenty dollars q day)
is every variety Of stores and baz-
aars, to catch the dimes and dollars
of those who cannot resist their al
Turing attractions. .s
one charming afternoon we took 9
long electric car ride down Atlantic
avenue (the Broadway Of the town.
to Absecon Light and the inlet.
The former IFS far inland and they
told us It used to be on the coast, but but
the ocean had receded and left the l'
light house where y 10. i fs 81 g