The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-04-27
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n extreme gregarlouS habit or the
mails, and it Is possible he growth of
| the modern city is due to this tendency
reaching its highest degree-this de-
sire to be together, to be a part OF the
bent in its playgrounds-they are
crowded places these two islands, Con-
ey and Absecon, Atlantic City. We
share with philadelphia, Baltimore and
| Washington our right to call Atlantic
City our recreation center, whereas
Coney Island Is our w absolutely, be-
ing part of the Borough OF Brooklyn,
the south Of Jersey, sheltered behind a
pine belt, nearer to the gulf stream
Atlantic City Is an all the year around
playground, whereas Coney Island
holds high carnival only In the sum
mer months.
Atlantic City has Its seasons, and the
type of American at the fore differs
with the season. Summer Is the hour
of the rural visitor, the excursionist
(day or weekly, the mass; whereas Eas-
| ter means that the visitors will be peo-
| pie Of substance, both in bulk and poe
textbook. Youth, exuberant youth, gay
debonair, inconsequential, happy, with
illusions intact, stream along the fam
| Gus Boardwalk during June, July and
| August, but Easter brings older faces,
subdued voices, less daring costumes
AND much higher prices at the hotels.
On Easter day the crowd is augmented
BY many excursionists (no m
thing for more than a hundred thou
sand to. be in the parade) but Easter
Monday the hotels have only these men
and women Of substance left-yet they
are many. For example The Chalfonte,
one of the best type Of hotels, seated
six hundred twenty-five people for Eas-
ter dinner and served hVe hundred fifty
the Sunday after Easter. The patrons
| Of early spring are what might be call
| ed our new nobility, whose patent Ia
their income tax receipt, the well-to-
| do; not society with the big S. of
which the United States has a smaller
supply, a few thousand at the most.
Society seeks more exclusive spots,
where the numbers are limited and the
Beach, Hot Springs, Va, and their own
paIatial seaside homes at Newport call
them in the spring. A few society
, swells-the kind who number among
(frst cousin to the tramp as both live
without ~justiication) occasionally
visit Atlantic City stopping at the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. while on auto
hotels Rudolph accommodating 5000,
Haddon. Hall $50, Chalfonte 900, Tray
more 600. Dennis 600, Chelsea 500, and
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 100, Is the
well-to-do who take holidays but do
not make Of life a perpetual holiday.
Atlantic City has a very gay reputation
but the foundation for 1t cannot be de-
votion to Bacchus, II the Easter season
| i . C. ALS "AAN AAoA
don Hall, housing over a thousand peo-
pie, are run by a Quaker company who
do not sell alcoholic beverages in any
form, ginger ale is the stronges OBJ
tainable. It braces up the advocates OF
temperance to visit such high class es-
adjustments n find them prosperous
as is the state of North Dakota, with
out revenue from he'll liquor business.
Boardwalk. built along the ocean for
twenty to sixty feet. 1t Is supported
above the strand by iron pillars and is
kept in perfect repair. 1t has hand rail
protection and is lighted it's entire
length by electric clusters the same as
the streets Of Fargo. For over three
miles the shops and large hotels border
the walk on the shore-side. Some OF
the finer hotels are set back from the
walk with plantations of flowers which
are in bloom nine months Of the year
and through which arcades run con-
Meeting the hotel with the Boardwalk
Some Of the, u parlors are over the
stores and connected to the hotel by
covered passages. On one side the sea.
that God hath made unfathomable, ris-
es and falls with even beat-its tide
however wild it's mood and on the other
the puny although vastly interesting
works Of ~sman-shops, shops of al
Cheap John truck cheek by jowl with
really artistic garniture of house anc
person, of fancy jewelry, basketry, lac
eS, emDFO1uSr1eS, anu Cn1ud the variety
is unusual and unique. Some of the
signs on the board walk provoke a
smile. salt water taffy cut to fit the
mouth" wanted boy to chew bread for
a monkey" 1.-THE IA K. store" while a
bathing place called attention to its
virtue In the matter of gross reduction
by a cartoon Of a slender lady in bath
ing suit followed by a very stout one In
like apparel with the legend affixed
Grace before Meat" The men who
gather waste paper carry bags on their
backs labeled, My Business is Picking
Up. An unique business place Is the
candy butcher shop where for fifty
cents you can buy a Dutch lunch OF
bacon, wieners, bologna, fried chicken
sauer kraut, ham nicely packed in g
! box for shipment. A sign offers one
thousand dollars reward to any one
who can prove hat the purchase con
and raspberry juice for coloring. Dutch
lunch and salt water taffy are in the
luggage, of most visitors for the folks
at home"
The board walk has many theatres
but Keith's vaudeville house is situate
on Garden Pier, a thousand feet out or
the. ocean. where every wandering
zephyr can cool the summers night as
you are entertained. There are si1
huge recreation piers which are inter
esting examples Of concrete engineer
ing. They are the acme OF such achieve
ments as nowhere else can be found sis
at the ~oceanside. On them you car
bowl, dance, hear concerts, theatrica.
entertainments, midway attraction:
and on one witness the hauling in o.
One pier is the property of the H. J
Heinz company and Is devoted to thu
=. merits of the fifty-seyen varieties. A:
an. advertisement it Is a top-notchel
with its beautiful white gateway. ant
simple dignifed buildings. Way out OF