Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-08-14

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A Feu Remarks
BY WALTER B. HILTON


ATLANTIC CITY is isand-bound on the north |
by Greed the south by Craft and the east and west
by the same thing-only more of it.
Society is divided sharply here into two classes: the
SINNERS and the skinned The former there first and
the latter poured in by trains and troeys People
who go to Atlantic City to the sights generally furn-
sh But they carry away with them vivid impress
sion Of the place. in fact that is about the only thing they
are able to get away wthexcept TAM for the sun SHINES
alike upon the rich and poor The and the ocean are
the only ones who act like that in Atlantic City,
There is an at Atlantic City This ought to
be mentioned because many people seem not 10 know IT,
They get no further than the Boardwalk ~ |
The Boardwalk is always spelled with capital :
It deserves it. for it stands IN class all by ltse IL
made of wood is so feet WIDE and much longer 1t seems
to be about as long the city Of Wheeling Heinzs pier
starts off the attractions the north and the attractions
stretch off toward the SOUTH through 81 varieties as lar
as the eve can see the hear, the nose smell
It's pretty hard to think Of something that you can't
get on the Boardwalk if you've got the price, Not your
ANYTHING for dime For $3.50 you get dollar
room in the Aamac $50 called because they didn't have
the time to call it Amanac whose chief charm is that
you can go out somewhere else for your meals There
restaurant right the alley road, street, OF
avenue Chds restaurant in the inevitable (and very
appropriate chds coor) white This place is fixed to
fill ten thousand stomachs day; and at night the hotel
guests can heed Edisons warning about sleeping them
selves to DEATH and just lie there and listen to Mrs
Chlds washing all those ten thousand dishes or DreaK
ing them, cannot be sure
The only competition to the Dishes after everybody
who has out of money has gone to bed is the surf 1t
rolls and rolls and rolls Rolls at breakfast rolls at din
ner rolls at supper It losses all night long, until you
think It ought to take something It makes noise good
bit like that which the Carksburg mill used to make In
fact any make for themselves good imitation OF
seashore life by moving alongside rolling mill and put
ting sand in the bed
Of course that's but figure Of speech poetic license
TO make the illusion really complete one would have to
pay cents for Wheeling two cent paper and give
ID cent tip every 10 minutes.
All the help gets tipped in Atlantic City. Il they
didn't they would starve and then their burial would be
an expense to the city, The workers don't have any
ions and consequently BARRIERS work seven days week.
day and evening with no wage guarantee whatever Ihey
get usually SO per cent of what they take IN and like all
the others at Atlantic City, what they take in depends
upon whom they take In
Maids at the high priced hotels get So per week and
less and unlike the rest of the hotel help have chance
for tips for they clean the while the guests out
and them seldom them They sleep garage or
such attractive place, have not even bath room
and get even eating than the guests Proportion
atey the best off help Of the kind in the city the
CMds mattresses who get $40 week. They got $12 last
year. but the of the restaurant (Which it is insist
ed Standard Oily their chance to squeeze So out
the girls and grabbed the chance like the gentlemen
business they Out Of this $40 the girls have to
buy and maintain white uniforms and the laundry bill
probably averages per week. They work 60 hours per
week instead Of 70 because that's the state law limit That
cussed political action again
Workers have harder than ordinarily hard time in
Atlantic City, because the competition for jobs is made
keener than usual the fact that many workers flock
there in the months attracted by the supposedly
great demand for labor and cheered with the thought that
they get of the joys of life and make living at
the same time, which, under diotc system, is de-
cidedly difficult thing to do if you work So the abo
market is clogged in every line Of work and max
ing any real money except, perhaps, the bell hops.
But to them the grand old ocean makes up for lot /
And it is leveer. You can't tell the millionaire from
the worker in the water and it suggests many things
of which is that this will be grand old earth when
get the cash differences wiped out by which can
another, and all will stand forth for what they
really are
But the leveling ends at the high tide mark Above
that the bathers don their buds and digntes again.
show them on the Boardwalk Why the Boardwalk is
bad church in that respect Ceaselessy the