Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-09
SHORE BUSINESS MEN
PUSH PLAN TO BUILD
APROTECTED HARBOR
Serve Notice Upon City Com
mission That Facilities for
Vessels Must Be
Provided
WANT 25-FOOT CHANNEL

ATLANTIC CITY. Feb 9.-Forty OF the
| leading men of this city, representing
| the four most aggressive ciNic pouieS'
| have arranged to serve notice upon 'h.
| CITY Commission that Atlantic CitN mus
have terminal facilities to steamship
lines and a protected harbor for visit
ing pleasure craft
The commissioners will be asked, II
was announced today to take up CITY
Engineer HaCkneys plans for the CON
struction of boulevard enclosed Ter
mina and yacht basin upon propeItS
owned by the Penrose estate, OF fhlIa-
delpbia. at the head of the Inlet.
critical situation has arisen TOT the
Federal authorities at Washington nav
insisted upon having positive assurances
that Atlantic city proposes TO prONlue
the requisite terminals before nakihS
provision for the 25-foot channel the NO
tel and business interests are uehlahu-
ing
Experts reports that terminal taclh-
ties built upon a scale creditable 10 tne
resort will cost Si,OOO,OOO no longer alarm
business men. The new spirit is SEQUEL
of earnest recommendations from Phlla-
delphans and others, speaking before
business bodies, that Atlantic CITY Shaii
cut loose and build for the future upon
an ambitious scale.
Plans now taking form for concerted
protest to the State Automobile Depart
ment at Trenton against persecution OF
motorists bound for the shore, will be
given the Endorsement Of the Hotel Mems
Association Thursday night, at the Hotel
Holmhurst. Hotel and business interests
have united in a joint committee, whlch
will appeal to the Legislature for rellei
through legislation If Governor Fielder
cannot guarantee the curbing of fee-
hungry justices and constables who col
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lists along the seashore routes. A bill to
forbid the setting up of so-called speed
traps is seriously proposed
one explanation of Atlantic CityS rec.
ord breaking January is found in official
weather statistics showing that the aver
age temperature was degrees above the
normal and the precipitation greatly below
the average January hit a high mark
when the mercury recorded 6S in the
shade.
The iitney "war' here is no joke for
hundreds of cottage owners in lower Chel.
sea- Nentnor and Margate Unless some
way is found to enable the bankrupt At
lantic City and Shore Railway to resume
it's curtailed service it is freely predicted
many who have found Ventnor delightful
in summer for years will take cottages
in the upper colony instead so as to be
within the hve.mnute trolley zone.
Many believe the reduction of Ventnor
service, which has brought official pro-
tests from authorities there, is part of
move to make Ventnor folk allies of the
trolley in its fight to put the jitney out of
business, but that does not change the sit
uatiOn. Unless competition is or regu-
lated so that cars may be operated at a
profit Ventnor is going to have depressing
facilities.
The Philadelphia colony is increasing
Mr. and Mrs Carroll $. Tyson
are among the newcomers at the
Brighton.
Mrs. j. II. Marshall of Langhorne, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Graham Wood are at the
same hotel.
Mrs +. w. Foulkes, of Bryn Mawr. is
at the Dennis with Mrs Il. L. Latimer,
of Wilmington, N. c. Miss Anne
Laughlin of Chestnut Hill. is accom-
panied by Miss Eleanor Read, of Pitts
burgh.
Mrs T. F. Dixon. of Chestnut Hill. is
at the Shelburne with Mrs. II. d. Pratt.
Mrs Addie +. Liveright is visiting
Mrs. ]. NJ. Hyman at the same hotel.
Mrs C. NJ. Ostrander is here with Miss
Miriam Ellison.