The Washington herald., 1914-06-21

SPECIAL 10 Ths Washington Heah.
Atlantic City, June 2.-As an evidence
of good faith that business as well ~
pleasure finds its appropriate setting on
this sandy bar Of the New } Jrsey coast,
the local papers are publishing a list
of conventions meeting in the various
piers to extend from now TO September.
The Car Builders, who brought their
congress to a close on Thursday. brought
the first large crowd of the month. They
win be followed by the American Medi-
cal Association which convenes on Mon
day, and half a dozen associations Of 9
somewhat similar character to stay in
session until July g.
There win be also conventions of the
Jobbers for Talking Machines, Of Ma
tionsl Real Estate Exchanges. Of Window
Glass Manufacturers, OF Life Insurance.
Agents. Of Potters, of Poster Advertisers,
and tnnumerable religious and educa-
tionAl gatherings all within the next few
weeks.
The Car Builders, Physicians, Potters,
etc, will all be amply provided for in
the way of hotel accommodation and
amusements. Nearly all Of the 500 or &C
hotels from Longport to the Inlet are
now ready for business, while amuse-
ments are as varied as the class and
price of the seven miles of hote.s.
The Steel Pier, opposite Virginia ave-
nue., stilI continues the faYorits resort
for the majority Of long-term sojourners,
in spite of the counter attraction of the
new Garden Pier further up the beach
front
several Boardwalk theaters are open
for the season with good stock COM
panies. The Garden Pier supports a B.
F. Keith theater, not quite 80 large, but
with the same high class attractions
- In their well known Washington
house.
The widening of the Boardwalk at the
north end of the city is q constant source
of interest to hundreds of visitors who
watch the pile driving from morning
to night All sorts and conditions of
visitors watch this work, showing just
how the wonderful promenade has been
developed from an ordinary boardwalk
by the sea to the greatest Esplanade In
America
Dancing a Business Proposition.
While it is to dance, in Atlantic City,
as elsewhere, for amusement, it is also
a well organized business proposition.
Not only young people but the staid
and the mature Of both sexes are apt
pupils of the score of Studios" run
in connection with the different hotels,
or parlors established by private enter
prise. The instruction costs more at
the studios.
At one Of the finest Of the latter de-
scribed as having in its corps Of in
structors Premiere Dancers Of New
York, London and Paris" Washington
visitors find an old friend in Miss Al
myra Sessions, who has won high
place in the theatrical world since MAX
ing her debut as leading lady in a smart
amateur company at the Belasco theater
less than ten years ago
Gen. and Mrs. Medorem Crawford have
Joined the large and growing colony Of
Washington visitors. They are at the
Penhurst, where Mrs. Crawford Is
rapidly recovering from the long illness
that confined her to her Washington
home for the past month.
Mrs. Victor Kaufman was one of the
notably smart looking visitors at the
Marlborough last week, where she
passed several days while her young
sons were taking their examinations at
Princeton.
VIII Remain Some Weeks.
Among the late Washington arrivals
are Mrs. Edward St J. Greble and Miss
Greble. who will remain some weeks,
and Mrs. James F. Barbour and family,
who are, as usual. at the Brighton Mrs
Barbour, who has been an habitue Of