The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-09
ATLANTIC CITY IN
 SEASON AND OUT
The Board Walk City a Study in Black and White-Irregularity of Work Reaches Its Climax There
 Jersey Town Faces
 Unioue Problems.
Margaret L. Brett.) Exclusive Service The Survey Press
 Rureau.1

Margaret L. Brett.) Exclusive Service The Survey Press Bureau.D
 Atlantic City viewed by the charity organization worker becomes a study in black and white. On the ave nues are the visitors served hand and foot by an army of blithsome negroes, In the alleys throng negroes who are taken care of when necessary, which is often, by the resident whites. n Atlantic City. Tn season.. relatives and acquaintances are urged to com to this Fl Dorado, and come they do in batallions, happy with the vision of picking up like shells from the beach gold that the visitors waste. And then they wake up Out of season., a city of 30O,O0O all Of a sud- den in the moisture of a cold wave has dissolved to 100000 and in two weeks the recently arrived are paving room rent with promises and subs1st-
 We tided over one youth and girl who came to Atlantic City for their honeymoon, evidently under the inn pression that the railroad ticket in cIuded indefinite shelter and suste- nance; for their supplies ran out in one gay thoughtless week On Sun ter who found for them cheap 1odg- ings and assumed the rent. Next night they decided that to return home without funds would be a dis grace The following day they both got work and the bride bravely wrote for her trunk. Her position held The next Sunday night, with hearts bowed down, they humbled their pride, let us telegraph their parents to prepare welcome and aecepted honeymoon.
 One PhiIa de1phia youth left a good job as a stenograplaer which he had had for two years, confidently relying on somebody's advice that all you had to do in Atlantic City was to stroll along the boardwalk and decide in an1anuensis. During q short sojourn he accumulated boardwalk feet, ner- vous prostration and plentiful lack of clean linen, ali of which he took back with him to the City of Steady Jobs.
 Irregularity of employment. the most serious problem of modern life, reaches it's climax in Atlantic City. None of her occupations is of the in- dustries; the population is continU- ously changing with the seasons The resort in 1880 was 8 marshy island dotted with cottages. But there was an incomparable beach with magic climate and through the efforts of railroads and natives the town thrived Fashion came. Hotels were built and built until the streets are shaded with sign-boards- Shops sprang up along the famous boardwalk, while amuse- ments of all sorts were devised for the enter tainmcnt of the guests. The boundaries spread so that today the resident population is 46,15O and the average transient 130,00o.
 To those whose occupation is ouk of doors the weather is the actual employer Atlantic City, because Of it's situation, receives the full effect of every passing phase of the elements, and chair-pushers or flower-vender. the cement-worlser or s1ate-roofer IS buffetcd by nor casters. The fisher men also, suffer alike from seasons and climate conditions, although to lesser degree.
 Yet in ignorance of these draw backs hundreds arrive monthly to seek emp pIoyment. The few fortunate ones drift about from one lodging house to another until some tempor- ary work is at last found; the many unfortunate finally become stranded and appeal 70 charity for transp orta.- ton back home
 When the city first commenced it's development, no thought for the housing of the service class was giv-