Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-19
WARSHTPS AT ATLANTIC
CITY? NO, BUT SEEKERS
OF NOVELTY HAVE HOPE
Sight of Gas Buoy Fires Them
With Idea They Are in
Presence Of a Sub
marine
SOCIETY FOLK FROLIC

ATLANTIC CITY, Aug 10. summer
visitors are full of curiosity and are not
easily frightened, They are always look
ing for something to happen, and if the
expected thrill is given them they take
It as a natural event and rush of for
something new.
Since tho early part Of the season many
people have been purchasing marine
glasses and daily scanning the horizon in
the hope that they might see a war
vessel of some kind. They were buoyed
up with hope by frequent reports from
wireless station, on one of the piers,
which stated that conversations between
foreign vessels were daily picked up by
the operators and that these vessels We're
within the G0-mile zone. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that the only vessels that
come within range of vision from this city
are Coal-laden barges, a few south
bound passenger steamers and innumer-
able fishing craft the daily scanning OF
the ocean has been kept up.
Yesterday there seemed to be some
confirmation of the stories about the
United States Government having ar
ranged for a series of experiments In the
Inlet with n new type of submarine. when
a huge, circular mass of Iron was loaded
on a Government tug at the Inlet. The
news spread that a small submarine
was to be tested and hundreds of people
went to the Inlet to see 1t. They were
informed that the MISUNDERSTANDING OBJ
jeCt was nothing but gas buoy to be
placed at the new channel entrance from
the ocean.
Later in the day the curious did get a
glimpse of a submarine vessel. but it
was of an obsolete type, one of the Hol-
land submarines, which had been brought
here for exhibition purposes. Every one
who got a glimpse at II seemed just as
well satisfied as If it had been a sure
enough up-to-date submarine, and the
genuine article would not have created
any more excitement
BRIDGE PARTIES CEASE
Something happened this week which
put an end to auction bridge parties for
two nights. None could figure out how
the wave OF bridge playing could be halt
ed for Il moment but the society circus,
held in Chelsea the last two nights,
stopped all bridge playing during its con-
tinuance, Everybody that was anybody
was there, and II was by far the most
successful social event of the season.
Fashionable folk We'd with each other
in joining In the frolc. There was not
dull moment from the time it opened
until Ii closed
A 'One-fower" show Is a decided novelty,
and the National Gladiolus Flower Show,
TO be held here next week, viii attract
unusual attention on that account Every
cOlorinE Of that flower will he shown. The
proceeds from the sale OF the plants are
to be given to different charitable lnsti-
tutions of this city
The announcement that the Phlladel-
phia public schools will not open until
September z means that many cottagers
who usually return to that city on Sep
tember ! will delay their departure untH
after Labor Day. The regular summer
season here will not end until after the
FIRST week in September although many
visitors win linger here during all of that
month 10 enjoy the best month Of the
year at the shore,
PHILADELPHIANs IN CITY.
Among the Philadelphians here are,
Mrs. j. NJ. Bradford. Mr.. and Mrs,
Joseph j. Martin, Sr., Mrs. w. Alvah
Bond, Miss Loretta Bond. Mr., and Mrs,
T, II. Adler, Miss Edith Schell, Miss
Edith Boyd. Mr.. and Mrs. II. x. Dillard,
Miss Louise Reiche, Miss Jennie A. Der
ran. Miss Emma NJ. Pincus, Mr.. and
Mrs j. II. Williams. Of olneyi Miss
Geneva Disk, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Irwin
Voss, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. p. REGISTER Mr.,
and Mrs. l.. A. Saler
Mr. and Mrs. /. II. Goodman Mrs,
Elizabeth KTeutz, Miss Leonora Way,
Emery Tittman. Mrs. John j, Lynch and
children. Mr.. William j. McNally, Mrs.
Gabriel Blinn. DR. and Mrs ID. Clinton
Guthrie, Paul c. Guthrie Mr.. and Mrs
Allen B. Carr, Henry F. Tolson and fam
lily, Miss Betty Barnes, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ralph Muller Purdy, Mrs. S. L. Hill, Mrs.
Minnie Evan. John H. Michel, Miss Mae
Stanton.
Mr. and Mrs. c. B. Mohr, Mrs e. H.
Davies and the Misses Mary and Eliza
beth Davies. OF oxford street; Mrs Henry
p 'Borie. Mr.. and Mrs. William Comel
William Baecarach and family, Miss
Helene Johnson, Miss Hester Johnson,
Mr. and Mrs Radcliffe T. Henson Miss
Helen snoWdsn RalstOn Mr.. and Mrs
Charles T. Aiatson, Miss Elinor Nc
Guigan. Miss Marion Hendricks Miss
Edith Hendricks. Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Booker. Mr.. and AIRS. George Hicks. Mr..
and Mrs. Abram Petersall, Mrs. 1. Wilson
and Miss Ethel 8. Wilson, Of West Phila-
adelphia.