Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31
AUTOS TOCARRY FOOD
TOSHORE AND VISITORS
HOME If STRIKE COMES
Atlantic City Hotel Men Prepare
for Railroad Tie-Up; Will
Impress Jitneys and
Motortrucks
NO DANGER OF FAMINE

ATLANTIC CITY. Aug. 31.-The hotel
and business men of this city have planned
to take care Of all visitors who may be
marooned here should the railroad strike
orders go into effect next Monday.
At a meeting last night committee
which had been appointed to look after the
food supply for this city made its first
report Financed by a number of leading
hotel propretors this committee has ar
ranged matters so that there viii be no
chance of food famine in this city on
account of lack Of railroad transportation
facilities An option on the services OF all
motortrucks here has been obtained and
they will be utilized TO carry provisions,
vegetables eggs and milk from Philadel-
phia and other points to this city during
the railroad tie-up. A large quantity OF
merchandise has been brought here this
summer by automobile trucks and the serv-
ice has been satisfactory.
It is also expected that the numerous
jitney buses in operation in this city dur
ing the summer season will be pressed INTO
service to bring foodstuffs here, on their
return trips to large cities they will carry
passengers who wish to get home.
All of the largo hotels here have store
houses, filled at all times with provisions
enough to last a week or more, and unless
the strike should be of long duration there
will be no Inconvenience TO any visitors.
At the annual meeting of the Chelsea
Improvement Association, held this week,
tribute was paid to the woman who planned
that beautiful seaside resort and through
her faith in its ultimate success and her
hard work when 1t was weaklng over
came many obstacles which threatened to
make the original purchasers Of the land
bankrupts and the dreamed-of city monu-
mental failure.
Mrs. Mary A. Riddle, mother of ex-Mayor
William Riddle was the one who saw the
possibilities in Chelsea and until the day
of her health worked along the lines which
have made that portion of Atlantic City
miniature paradise. Many property own
ers, men who have made millions out of
the land there, have talked of a monument
to this enterprising woman, to be placed at
the gateway to Chelsea, and this may be
erected some day There is now talk of
starting u fund for that purpose.
Chelsea is to pay particular attention to
the improvement of all street ends. Gardens
will be planted at every beach end, Penn
sylvania top-soil being used to make the
flowers bloom quickly
Atlantic City proper Will also make a
move in the same direction next spring. At
the beach end of a few of the avenues the
flower gardens planted by individuals and
by the city have been much admired by
visitors and many more of them will be
constructed next year.
The overhanging garden, on the seaward
side of the walk, planned by former
Mayor was never given u CnanCe 10 De n
success, as 1t was not given the proper at
tention during the experimental stage. That
flowers can be grown close to the ocean has
been proved. and an effort will be made to
add boxes to the outer rail of the Board
walk to contain blossoming plants before
the start of another summer season.
The filling in of the beach at points where
jetties were constructed last spring has
proved that these breakwaters are the
proper contrivances for saving the bathing
beach from destruction and many new ones
will be built next spring. Cribs made of
piling, filled with heavy rocks. have with
stood the storms successfully, and unless
winter tides should wash them away that
method of construction will be used on all
jetties hereafter built in this city.