The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-06-08
EIkdom Preparing
For AssembIage
m atlantic CIV

Atlantic City, June 5.-Unlimited
amusement of the wholesome sort
ranging from bathing in the tumbling
breakers, roller chair rides UP and
| down the Boardwalk with its ever
changing ensemble of hurrying, ieas-
| ure-seeking multitudes by day and by
night; sailing and automobfling, to
| dancing on the big ocean piers with
their military bands, cake walks and
change of visits by lodges in the no
tel circle. carnivals and receptions
| galore, will be Atlantic City's watch
word during the week of July 10th
when more than one hundred thou
! sand ElkS and their friends are eX-
pected to be here for the twenty-fifth
| Grand Lodge Reunion.
| Atlantic City's Business.
Because pleasure is the stock in
| trade of the great resort and no 9TH
| er city under the sun has developed
| to such a high degree the bushes
of providing amusemen for the great
| American public when it banished
| dull care and takes the annual holt
day. Atlantic City Lodge of Elks pro-
poses to provide for it's brethren more
| wholesome amusement to the square
| inch than any other community could
| supply with three times the cash
| capital.
In short Atlantic City will hold
open house" for one week for the
great order of Elkdom and every
thing pertaining to it. Plans work
| ing to that end have reached the fin
al stage of perfect readiness. 1t on
ly remains to hang out the flags, turn
on the music and extend the glad
hand.
Reports pouring into Reunion
headquarters indicate that the pa
rade. always a stellar feature of
/ Grand Lodge noapfinpC G n a
record breaker. Lodges which new
er before uniformed their members
will send large delegations to the
shore reunion. Lodges of Eastern
Massachusetts at a meeting in Bos-
| ton a week ago arranged for trans
| portation for three times as many
representatives as have ever attended
| a B. P. o. E. reunion.
Ohio, Indiana and the Middle West
will move shortward in solid trains
| also is to evidence the development
Of Elk spirit in tina t section by send
| ing large delegations. To provide
| for the rolling stock required to trans
| port the hosts of Elkdom shoreward
will be an even greater task for rail
road traffic managers than that
which confronted them during the
| national encampment of the Grand
Army here last September.
The G. E. r.. Circular.
Grand Exalted Ruler August Herr
| mann, of Cincinnati, in an official
! circular has called the attention of
! Elks all over the country to the fact
| that a section of the orders consti-
tutional law provides that any pro-
posed amendments to existing stat
| utes of the order must be submitted
! in writing and filed in duplicate with
| Grand Secretary Robinson in Dubu-
que at least thirty days prior to the
III of. nd
Under this provision matters of
great import to be acted upon at the
Atlantic City Convention must be
made of record not later than June
10th. Another part of the Grand
Exalted Rulers circular recounts the
fact that all persons wearing the
Grand Lodge badge or the ladies' in
sigma will be admitted without charge
to the Steel Pier during the week of
the reunion. Atlantic City Lodge
the great pier the property of the Or
der for the time being.
In view of the many unpleasa MT
and unwarranted attacks upon Allan
tic City which have appeared in print
from time to time, it is interesting
widely read newspaper writers in the
East, recently said in a Philadelphia
newspaper:
Word About Atlantic City.
"One of the extraordinary things
about Atlantic City that impresses
these people (members of the Presby-
terrain Assembly, as it often has 9TH
ers, is that intoxicating liquor is eth
er not sold at all or is inconspicuously
sold. in a majority of the first class
hotels on the beach 'front.' Even
the Temperance Hotels in Scotland
are not more strict in their rules
against such sales or service than
Of ;oI, -
ton of the name of cocktail or
'snifter' sounds like proclamation. The
manner in which Atlantic City MAIN
tains a balance or compromise, as it
were, between this care for the NOR
ais of the godly on the one hand and
the provision which 1t makes for
the bibulous comfort of the heather
on the other, is eminently practical,
even if it may not be entirely logi-
cal or legal as policy. At least 1t
enables the sheep and the goats to
keep to themselves, and, in fact, vir-
tually compels most the goats to do
SO. Until the time shall come when
Atlantic City will have the benefit of
being legalized as special or unique
city, in which tens of thousands and
even hundreds of thousands of per-
sons of all kinds and tastes and habits
may be found as temporary sojourn-
ers from all parts of the country, 1t
will need to get along with its pres
ent processes of adjusting the laws
to the ever-recurring conflicts of pub
lie opinion over Sunday and liquor
problems. If Governor Woodrow Will
son is the statesman his friends pro-
claim him to be, he ought eventually
to devise a way by which Atlantic City
may be placed under control or sys-
tenn which will free it from the chron-
ic irritations and the agitations over
it's privileges and a it's morals and
which tend to give it, in remote eyes.
a disrepute it does not at all deserve"
But despite these things Atlantic
City grows and thrfves If there is
graft or fraud in its local politics it
does not appear to have any effect
on its development or on it's popular
ity or on it's urban efficiency From
year to year it shows plainly the
marks of a city that has been, and
is, in a continuous condition of bet
terment. 1t abounds in population, in
area, and in resources; it has never
been, either relatively or actually,
more attractive than it is to-day; and
there is no limit discernible to the
prospect which its expansion still pre-
sents Time and again in the course
of thirty years it has been a habit
at intervals, among the short-sighted
to say that it has seen it's best days
or that it would soon arrive at the
standstill stage of existence But
there is probably no more justificat ton
for that sort of foreboding now than
there has been on the numerous oc-
casions in the past when it has prov
ed to be fallacious, for pretty much