The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-07-28
AtIantic City.

! Audnlic lily Is America premie
pleasure and health resort. Taken al
the year round it has no equal in tn,
world. Some European resorts rival i
for a limited summer or winter season
but none compares in popularity, com
fort, pleasure and health giving quail
ties the four seasons through.
On an island ten miles in length anC
less than a mile in width, extending
nearly due east and west, separated
from the mainland by seven miles Of
salt bays and meadows. Atlantic City
faces the south. The prevailing south
west breeze Of summer comes TO il
cooled by the ocean, while in winter its
southern exposure and proximity to the
gulf stream and the protection OF the
Jersey pine belt insures an equable eli
mate several degrees warmer than the
nearby cities Of New York and Phila-
delphia.
Atlantic City is city Of hotels, cot
tages and shops. It's sole business is to
give comfort, health and pleasure to
the people who come from all over the
world. On every day Of the year guests
are accommodated with the comfort and
elegance OF the best metropolitan hotels,
as well as the most varied facilities for
recreation and amusement. The prom
inent hotels possess every modern CON
yenience and luxury. They are hand
some structures built for all-the-year
service. Some have cost several million
dollars. The newer ones represent the
the latest ideas in fireproof construc-
ton. Many OF the hotels have their
own water supply from artesian wells
900 feet deep. All have complete cleo
trio and refrigerating plants. Long dis
lance telephones are to found in the
bedrooms Of the largest houses. Sun
parlors are feature of almost every
hotel. The public and private bath
rooms are in most cases supplied with
hot and cold sea water, as well as hot
and cold fresh water, enabling guests to
secure the benefit of sea water in their
own apartments without reference to
either time or tide
Visitors find that the most distinctive
feature of Atlantic City is the board
walk. 1t now extends nine miles along
the beach, with practically unobstructed
ocean view. In its central portion it is
sixty feet wide; throughout much of
its length it is forty feet wide, and at
no point is it less than twenty feet wide.
1t is substantial structure erected from
ten to fifteen feet above the strand upon
massive piling at cost of half million
dollars. 1t is brilliantly lighted every
evening in the year by many thousands
of incandescent electric lamps. 1t is
well patronized at all times, but in July,
August and September it is thronged
Next to the ocean view and the prom
enaders, the shops and the rolling chairs
are the prominent features of the board
walk.
Alond the land side of the board walk
the shops not only act as shelter from
The rains, but are one OF its chief charms.
Brmenia and Syria, China and Japan,
Hawaii and Mexico, Egypt and Turkey,
India and Persia. Italy aud Scandi-
1avia, Paris and London, are each rep
resented by one or more shops ex-
devoted to its rarest importa-
,ations. In addition to these are as
many more in which are displayed the
pest creations of American artisans. In
addition to the board walk shops there
ire many excellent stores Of a general
character in the center of the city for
,isitor aud resident.
The Casino, facing the board walk,
md a city park is recognized center
II social life. Every morning and even
ng during the autumn winter and
pring concerts are given by metro
,olitan orchestra.
Extending seward from the board
walk are five great ocean piers-in all
he world the greatest series of piers
devoted exclusively to recreation. No
where will builders and engineers find
more interesting examples Of steel and
oncrete work than in these famous
tructures. Concerts by famous bands,
heatres, net hauls, bowling and other
interesting in themselves,
ave added zest when enjoyed over the
cean. Along the board walk are the
tres, auction sales and many other
0rms of amusement. Anyone can find
ndless diversion in Atlantic City. The
lunterer is led on by the bracing air
nd the resiliency of the board walk,
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