Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-29
BTtSTNESS MEN URGED
TO REMOVE BACK YARD
OF ATLANTIC CITY
philadelphian Calls Attention
Of Resorts Chamber of Com
merce to Necessity of
Cleaning Up Eyesore
PUSH CONVENTION HALL

ATLANTIC CITY, Jan. ga Phia.
,s,rbinn Frederick w. Lawrence, assist.
sut secretary of the Philadelphia Cham
a. ~ Commerce, talking in friendly
sosbion Of some of Atlantic Citys short.
no,,ings. caused hotel owners and busi.
nsss men to sit up, take notice and finally
niood guilty to the indictment at n Cham.
- of Commerce discussion last night.
,~hen he said the big resort ought to b,
sshomed Of its unsightly back yard"
Giving Atlantic city credit for un.
hounded energy and unlimited enterprise
~ nroyidlng splendid hotels and sparing
~ effort to make the Boardwalk and
bsach.front alluring. the Philadelphian
sugpested that something should be done
N meet criticism elsewhere by providing
n grand approach where the railroads
enter the resort. The proposal met with
Immediate approval and will be commune
Gated to the City Commission with an
urgent recommendation for action.
Serious consideration will be given also.
nrIor to the making of the next fiscal
bill In September to the proposition that
Atlantic City shall go in for national ad-
vettIsing on liberal scale through
municipal cooperation. The Philadcl-
nbla visitor expressed the sentiment of
many progressive citizens last night
when he proposed a cooperative adver-
Using propn nganda.
at would no doubt be of tremendous
bsne1t to Atlantic city" he said, ITO
rim advertisements in magazines such
as the Saturday Evening Post. which. as
you know. has circulation of million
and a half, and which probably reaches
three millions or more people each week
IN all parts of the Union and Canada,
made up mainly of a class that are or
would be interested in holiday at At
lsntic City"
CITY officials who next week take up
the question of obtaining the old Ocean
Pier at present an eyeSore in the very
centre of the beachfront, as "A site for
A magnificent convention hall, will he
warned by hotel men of wide convention
experience not to overlook the necessity
of making ample provision for exhibits.
The finest convention hall Atlantic city
might build, hotel men declare, would
have no attraction for such organizations
as the Master Car Builders and Master
Mechanics. who make up the Railway
Congress here. or the American Street
Railway Association, If II did not provide
also an exhibit hall with at least 10000
suuare feet of exhibit space.
The ideal building, it has been pointed
out, should contain a hall both for meet
ngs and exhibits or else be a compromise
between the two types. 1t now seems
probable that definite action in this inn
portant matter is to result after II years
Of intermittent agitation.
Shore cIuhwomen under thc p,,idonr.
and Inspiration of Mrs. Sarah w Leeds
have taken I'M the question of nroyidinr
sncial centre for the citv and ot tho
same time innrovinp housinp conditions
in tbe congested districts of the resort
plans are afoot for n grcat meeting to no
held in February under the joint auspices
NJ the Motbers' Congress- thn orronizcd
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Yesterday afternoons parade was al
most like pre-Easter review. with ma
irons manifestlng scarcely less cnthu-
siasm than maids in bright colors, after
winter of subdued raiment White