Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-03
NEW YEARS THRONGS
LEAVE HEAPS GOLD
AT ATLANTIC CITY
More Money Spent at Shore
During Holiday Than Ever
Before-35,000 Fill Hotels
and Cafes
LOOK FOR BUSY SPRING

ATLANTIC CITY, jan 3.-Shore hotel
keepers today are giving practical DEM
onstraton of the meaning of wartime
prosperity by taking to bank more money
than they ever before took from a New
Years holiday crowd.
There was no such thing as coercion
about It. for $4,000 visitors with money
they knew how to spend. spent 1t with
absolute freedom
Cafes are literally rolling In wealth.
More bottle of wine were opened on Fri
day and Saturday nights than during the
pamest week of last summer. for the
New Workers have a deep and, almost
unappeasable thirst r'her times are pros
porous. At the Traymore on Saturday
might HOO meals were served after 10 p. m,
and most of them represented IS note.
rhere Is much speculation as to the
eneet of the businesslike preparations of
Is shore congregations and the Rev. DIR.
s,stough to war upon cafe life and weak
..pesses OF the flesh, whic' have long been
eondoned or at least tolerated because
visitors have made commercialized gaiety
"a highly profitable indust---
- Hotelmen, taking new year business for
criterion, already are counting upon n
lucrative spring trade. The coming of
Easter SO late this year will prolong the
f fN'tou ol SOcletyS recuperatlOn from
social exactions in the big cities.
Philadelphia patronage contributed ma
terally to the plethoric purses of the
nonifaces over New Years and il Is taken
Ior granted that next year will find their
numbers doubled and many cottages
opened here for house parties.
AIRS. Craig Biddle was one of the hand
somest as well as one of the most mod
'sniy attiFed young nations in yester-
Jays Boardwalk turnout. Tall and dark,
sue was admirably gowned in a blue
walking costume banded with fur. over
nHieh was worn magnificent coat OF
saoie with small turban of the same
Ier, With her were Mr. Biddle. Miss
laura Biddle, their little daughter, George
Drexel Biddle and Craig Biddle. Jr.
Ahother very attractive Philadelphian,
AL and OF the Gibson type. was Miss
Helen Ross, who was at the Marlborough
olehheim with Miss Isabelle Stevenson
sha her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G, II.
Other prominent Philadelphians in the
sew Year colony We're: Mr., and Mrs.
george Brooke, Brook DOlan. I'd. Mrs.
Seorse II. Kendrick, 80 and Miss Marion
nsnorick. Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Harding
enu MISS Harding, Mr.. and Mrs. Mahlon
d Parson. Mr.. and Mrs. Craig n. Lig-
ses Mr. and Mrs. Howard b. Ligget. DR..
s sna Mrs. F. c. Knowles, Mr.. and Mrs.
sater Hallahan anC their son. Butler
an,ssnahan; Mrs. George ID. McCreary and
@ @.iss Kate McCreary Mr.. and Mrs. Ber-
Mo ia Ashby, Mrs. William c. Disston and
iSs Dorothea Disston. Mrs. Theodore
SPENCER and Miss Spencer, OF Haverford;
M M aud Mrs. r. p. Cregar Mr.. and Mrs.
L. rancoast, Mrs John +. Hayman
ana Miss L. c. Rhoads.
mr. and Mrs. Francis NJ Brooke came
uom bEyn Mawr and Mr., and Mrs. w.
u; Lo~ry, from HaVerford
Air and Mrs. " illiaIn Wilkins Carr
"'s. many frieEds on the Boardwalk.
sse4aes Slum joined his parenes, Mr.
sne Mrs. Gabriel Blum, at the Shelburne
ets- William Penn Shipley aud son
s'eAed the paraders from a rolling chair
Nf and Airs. c. S. Rea. Of Pittsburgh.
esss az ihe sir2nd Tor lancheon with Nh
saa Mira a. {. ahand.