Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-31
BIG JANUARY RUSH
TO SHORE A FLIGHT
j FROM GENERAL GRIP
Cause of Philadelphia's Exodus
Found in Failure of That
Grim Enemy to Attack
Atlantic City
BOARDWALK I'M MU N E

ALLAN liz I'll l. Jan 81 - Inlladpl-
phia society's exodus to the seashore, fill
ing the Boardwalk hotels as they were
never before crowded i'm January and
causing New Workers., who always have
had the pick of accommodations at this
time, to take what they can get, has been
explained.
II isn't a sequence of war order" pros
perity at all, although that, undoubtedly
is an important contributing factor. soci-
ETY. is simply flying from old General Grip.
who plays no favorites. He would Just
as soon redden the nose and keep tears in
the eyes of a debutante or her fashion
able mother as to make life miserable
for any plebeian. Hence the hegira to the
Boardwalk, where the prevailing COM
plant Is almost complete stranger. 1t
was all delightfully."- simple, after ma
tron noted for her elaborate entertain,
ments revealed the truth today.
BonifaCcs received the news philosophic.
ally. They knew there was some good
reason. but were quite willing to forego
an explanation. What concerns them
primarily is that Philadelphans have add.
ed January to the big months of the year
by coming shoreward instead of going
South, setting forward the early spring
styles and giving the season an impetus
that is going to make the pre.Easter era
q recordbrcaker.
Unfavorable weather. which kept the
greater part Of the hotel colony indoors
yesterday, forced a postpouemcnt of a
millinery spectacle on the Boardwalk but
vouchsafed n series of more or less i'm
posing displays of the mode with fashion.
able matrons and their daughters down
to the flappers showing morning dresses
afternoon frOCkS and evening toilettcs i'm
their order. 1t is at this season of the
year that the bigi caravansaries are par.
ticularly notable for exquisite Costuminz
after the dinner hour.
II was n curious coincidence that sent
Secretary of War Lindley NJ. Garrison and
Charles +. Murphy, of Tammany Hall,
representatives of two widely divergent
branches of Democracy, to the Marlbor-
ough- -Blenhcim on the same day. Mr..
Garrison is here for rest, and the Tam
many chleftain likewise Both golf, and
they may meet and talk over Wilson pros
poets this week on the links at Seaview.
Many messages of ConEratulation for
Governor Brumbaugh and the new lady
Of the Executive Mansion at Harrisburg
went undelivered last night for the rea-
son that many friends in Pittsburgh and.
elswhere assumed the Brumbnughs would
come here for their honeymoon. They
came by the dozens during the afternoon
and evening. Up to midnight, while Gov
ernor and Mrs. Brumbaugh were en- route
for Hot Springs, telegraph companies
front hotels
-
An ir+orosti,,r, ,,ro,,,, or r,hiI,,,ot,ri., 80,
ciot,, foils NJ tho Erif,bton co,,nrisos NJ.
ond Nrre C,Lo,,Ioe r tIorr;sor IT, Nfr "a
Nc podt,a, p,r,a tho intt. Lt,,o. ,,,'
inc L-rnr mo-. hofore Lor ,,,rri.ro a,,d NJ
ond Mr. Narsholl Prou,, IT, ~
latter n sisfar nS Mr. Pago 1'boy r,o,Io
80 - 49,, I,S,iI ,'''."S .
on Saturday night.
and NIro Cbnries ~ schncn 20 az, ~ ti,c
rra,.,,,r., NJ ,,,d No, Charios AZ
scS;yab boyo rot,rnnd ~ Tou, Worr ''
pror,jra,,t priIadoinhtors Nv tbo Cosiro
todoy, ircImdnd Mr. and Mrs CIon,ont r
Wainwrirht Iosenh r Wainwrirrbt ana
II Divor Wainwripht chestnut mi, Mrs
FradericI, IJomsIoT Strs A RrIlI Fiddle
Mr. and Mrs I Ravmond Jonos ami son
. of C,,nv,yd. Mr. ana Mrs q II Roam
Miss rtIiHor I Roam and NTiss IcIizabcth
Wister Mrs Henry A BcrwInd. Miss
Margaret Rcrwind Mr., and Mrs, ! a.
CauidweII Mr. and Mrs W r. Ellison.
M ar,d J''' NJ W w NJ Coro,c o,d NJ
Frar%is William RawIe Of Bryn Mawr
and bo,. t,yo sons
Suhurban pbiIadoInhia has many ron.
resentati,,es in thc hotcI colony Among
tben, are NTre ITenrv Waters C,,nvvd.
Mrs w r Robinson Uayerford Mr. and
NJ A. rdr,,"ro
C'barIoe Coio r,Il,ips Porl,, AIR and
Mrs Iobn NJ Porot TJavorford. Mrs n
c,or,ors, pbndos ~ Chostor ON. nf tbn
bast ir,,,oI ,,,e,,,,a,, ., : ,ho Trnrnis. NJ ord
NIrs cnaroa,. - Mica yV,'ncoto. rTiss
laura 6 EIof,nr and Miss Marie i.onisa
tIoSfor Sro.tn,.tt,. II Will ~ Shoro,