Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-17
BATHERS IGNORELAWS
OFFASHION MASTERS;
SOME SUITS SHABBY
Fair Bathers Think More of
Surf and Less of Selves
as Season Nears Close
NEW RULES EVERY WEEK
Automobile Tire Life Preservers Now
Under Ban-Can't Stop
Night Bathing

| high-nOOn yesterday gave evidence Ol tH'
fact that the customary Monday de
partures had been checked and that 9
vast army is now here for a prolonged
| stay. There were nearly as many In the
water as on Sunday, several very large
day excursions helping to swell the num-
Der Of bathers The August crowd al
| ways goes in for sport instead of style,
| go but few new costumes are to be seen
on the beach now. Even the girls who
| love TO pose on the beach are not paying
so much attention TO their raiment now as
they did early in the season. People have
no time to look at the details of bathing
costumes but spend their time dlsportins
In the cool waves. Costumes which were
verltable French models in the early part
OF the season are now dowdy and ILL
looking. but the fair bathers enjoy them
selves more now, as they go in for sport
alone.
PLENTY OF RULES
Not week passes here unless some new
ruling or regulation is issued by those in
authority Many OF these are rigidly en-
forced for few days and then forgotten
and things go along in the same old way.
Chief Beach Surgeon Bossert has issued
on order that beginning today, inner
tubes of automobile tires will not be
dllOWtu III lllH OCtdIl. Tie says lHBIt nave
been many near-drownings as results of
the use OF this style of plaything. He
states that people who cannot swim be-
como infatuated when these tires buoy
them up, and they PADDLE around, un-
conscious of danger, until they get in
deep water and then yell for the life
guards. There have been at least a
thousand OF these tubes in use during
this season, and 1t will keep the beach
nntrOl bngV for faNV dnVq 1nOlSiDp nffaF
the violators.
There Is some talk of stopping night
bathing on account of the possible danger,
but this fad has grown to such large pro-
portions that 1t would take two companies
of militia to drive the bathers who use
the ocean after sundown out of the water.
During all of the agitation over the
proper observance of Sunday here many
have noticed that one block of Boardwalk
stores Is always closed on Sundays
Many have wondered why a dozen mer-
chants in one block have the courage to
cease business on the day of the week
when coin circulates most freely The
owners have incorporated in the leases
OF all tenants that their leases will be null
and void II any business is carried on on
Sunday.
FRATERNAL EXCURSIONS.
Big excursions are coming in every day
from Philadelphia and adjacent territory, |
most of them being under the auspices |
or fraternal societies connected with large |
concerns.
There are many handsome gardens and
lawns in this city and people often won
der how they are kept in such good con-
dition when the natural soil is sandy and |
when the scorching rays of the summer
sun soon dries up even the heaviest rain.
Gardens look especially good this sum-
IneP because many of the property own
ers have put in operation irrigation sys-
TENS with piping running from the city
water supply to all parts of the garden,
This saves a lot of work every day the
garden hose not being necessary and If
q dry spell should come plants and
lowers can be made to bloom by CO.
pious water drenching from these new
systems.
JITNEY BOATS.
At one of the lighthouses on the back
waters OF Atlantic City the enterpris-
ng owner has placed a sign which
'eads, "Jitney Sailing and Fishing. Boats
% and 15 cents an hour" Grabbing par
les are big features every afternoon now.
Dig catches being made every day.
Vic Richards, a native PhiladelpbIan
who was compelled to cancel his Euro
'ean engagements on account of the war.
leads his own minstrel company, which
opened in Ocean City last night
Cousin Lucy" the new comedy writ
en- for Julian Eltinge, received its in
tial production at the Apollo Theatre last
light, and the play scored.
Brother Masons."etl new farce by Sew
nour Brown and Harry Lewis. was the
nering at the Cort Theatre, and it got
" nicely, with every promise of being
big hit.
PHILADELPHIANS AT SHORE
Among the Phlladelphians here are:
Mr.. and Mrs. s. Lowensten Mr.. and
Irs. Harley Mapes. William #. GLAND,
iiss Helen Buckley, Miss Lucille Thomp-
on, Miss Clara Stotesbury Mrs. J. r.
'errine and Miss Mildred Perrine. DIR.
nd Mrs. James w Cotting, Mrs. Emma
OK, Miss Grace NJ. Fox Mr. and Mrs
ohnson Clymer. Miss Sophia Appel, Mr..
nd Mrs. Walter NJ Schwartz, Charles
I'LL, Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Holmes and
imily, OF Tacony; Mrs. John H. Mutton
nd FAMILY Mrs. Frederick Schlaich,
frederick Schlaich Jr., Mrs. ]. p
rown Miss Kathryn Marie Brown. Mr..
nd Mrs. Clarence Marks, of Oak Lane.
ITs. II. r. Abner, Alfred Norris, Mr.. ami
Irs. Ferdinand Dilsheimer, Miss Helen n
Miss Susan c. Hurlick. Mr.
nd Mrs. Charles r. Hires, Mrs IuiIns
'eyl DR.. and Mrs Eugene Lindauer and
'miy; Mr.. and Mrs. William FnIton
urtz, John Gardiner, Miss Irene Dearn-
y, MIS- q, A. Carson and son, Mr.. and
RS. II. O. Firth. Mrs Otto c. Reymann.
lssh ADA Colt MT and Mrs. Howard
egar' Mr., and Mrs, j. Albert NepIev
r and Mrs. Horace S. Stern. Mr. sni
rs. Dudley Mitchell Harvey. Miss c.
ude Brunswick. Mr., and Mrs. Penrosa
leisher, Joseph E. Sulzberger ME-
enriette Pollock, Dr. and Mrs. Casnsr
Z. Miller. Mr.. and Mrs. George Rusbto,
ISIS Minerva Connerdale.