New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-29
ATLANTIC CITY
Many Sailing Parties Mark the
Passing of June Days.

Passing of June Days.
Atlantic City. June 2S-Sailing parties
are L. the fore these Junetime days. and
many freshwater SWANS who never tasted
the urine OF the sea before are revealing
I'm the swayns motion OF an Inlet yacht
ahCu "she hits q high one" and the spray
is dashed over the timorous youth and
his screaming companion There is occa-
sion for much smuggling closer when
huge and dangerous looking breaker
heaves its white crest above the gun
waie, but the shippers are sympathetic
human beings. if they are salts, and moth
!Eg is said after reaching the dock; no
Lalcs are told out of the boat All OF
which is a pleasing state Of affairs for the
visiting swain and the light of his heart.
The Inlet boats are going out regularly.
loaded to the gunwales. and their beating
up ana down the coast close IN TO the
Boardwalk. affords a spectacle that is in
telestius and Inspiring The great sails
arr white IS a sailors art can make
them. and when drawn taut by the stin
summer breezes form a bright contrast
With the deep blue of the waves across
which they glide. The yacht feet of the
resort is one Of the important and ar
tstic features that has helped make At
lantic city famous
The Boardwalk paviiOns are filled with
resting dreaming winter weary human
ity from everywhere these balmy, cooling
Junetime days 10y the sea. Old age, as
the world counts time, is here, and gray
haired. wrinkled. stopped and totterinE
men and women sit I'm the comfortable
rocking chairs and gaze afar off over the
tumblins waters of the blue Atlantic
dreaming dreams OF the bygone times
Ana youth is here, with its merriment
It's shouts and its care free laughter
sober middle age, too. rests and gazes
and pouders. while for all the restless
tossing sea rolls on as il did for the an
cestcrs of these. and as it will for their
remote descendants.
The slit skirts the thing And the
Boardwalk has them, has them IN al
manner of modes, with many Of them eA-
tremely daring. one extremist. in feml-
nine attire vcntured out upon the prone
made early i'm the week sans skirts be-
Meath and with q slit that exhibited
white silken hosiery to the knee. But
this is exceptional The usual Board
walk miss or matron, although right up
10 the minute in the matter OF mode, re-
tains her American good sense and mod
csty sufficiently TO avoid the attraction OF
the morbidly curious and wears modest
things. But the slit skirts the thing
nevertheless.
Atlantic City is always entertaining one
or more conventions. but the most inter-
esting gathering Of the week past
was the convention Of the American
Nurses Congress. More than I'VE hum
dred pretty deyotees Of the nursing art
attended. with daily sessions on the Steel
Pier Governor Hadley Of Missouri ad-
dressed the convention.
A number Of nursing organizations are
represented in the convention, among them
n being the National League Of Nursing
NJ Education, Of which Miss Mary c. Wheel
Y er. Of Chicago. is president, and the Amer
lea Nurses Association, Miss Isabel Nc
Isaaca. Of Washington, president.
The one-day 81 excursionst IS throng-
ing into the City-by-the-Sea these days,
bringing much hilarity and determine
ton to get all there is TO be gotten out OF
enc brief day by the waves. The sum
mer invasion is ON, and the Boardwalk
has entered into it's own once more.
This is the season Of the year when men
and women from all hooks and crannies
Of the United States appreciate the ex-
istence Of a breathing spot. a nature ia
vored ground where the wide sea meets
the land. and where the cooling breezes
that have blown across tumblng leagues
of water lend their invigoration 10 the
minds and bodies weary with the petty
troubles and cares Of busy lives. And
this Atlantic City has TO offer. and the
crowds that throng her beaches daily,
with those other crowds that stroll the
Wooden Way after the sun has gone TO
rest ind comfort and rest and GOODNESS.
and return 10 the inland world, from
whence they came, with renewed strength
and zest.
The new concrete pavilions are com
pleted now and are thrown open 10 the
boardwalk throngs. These twin pavilions
are situated at Mississippi avenue and the
boardwalk. and present something new
and novel in pleasure piers at American
sesshore places. The general effect OF the
new structures impresses the visitor and
G1Veb an air VI DN'"''oN''
variance with the old. ramshackle wood
en- sheds Of the early days.
The Boardwalk throngs are being aug
roented every week end, and many OF the
incoming visitors hail from the nations
metropolis Included among New Workers
at present in Atlantic City are:
Shelburne-Mr. and Mrs. Shoenfeld'
Miss Miriam z. Macdonald, Mrs l. X.
Plum. Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Tate, Mrs O.
b. Mailey Miss Malley, Mrs s. II. Crenn'
Mrs. l. r. schwerm, Mr.. and Mrs. J. s.
w. Cornell, L. T. Dreyfuss and Miss Alice
Leslie.
DENNIS-Mr. and Mrs. J. Z. Fair
banks. Miss Elsa Grumm. Mrs. NJ. l.
Dewalt. Mrs r G. p. Taft, Miss katha-
rine F. Hearn. Miss Adele Poston ana
Miss Edyth A. Morroa-