Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-14
SHORE MAYOR REPEATS
PROPERTY PROGRAM
Reannounces Strict Regulations
to Govern Bathing and
Board Walking
SLIGHT LAXITY OF LATE
Women Must Not Hereafter Appear
in the Ocean Unless Clad
in Hosiery
ATLANTIC CITY, July IA.

ATLANTIC CITY, July II.
Mayor Bacharach did not leave the bath
ing girl in doubt twenty y-four hours as to
what his attitude would be regarding the
nroprety Of the strand this summer, now
that he has assumed the duties Of Director
Of Public Safety Sooy, who will lead the
Atlantic City Battery Of Field Artillery.
All Of the strict rules laid down by Dl-
rector Sooy regarding water togs to be
worn on the beach will be strictly enforced,
and the Mayor hinted he might make a
few more rules of his own II he deems II
advisable. So there is to be no recinding of
the edict forbidding women to bathe in the
ocean without their hosiery
The present administration was elected
10 office on the strength Of its propriety pro-
gram as opposed to former Mayor Riddle,
who often declared It was his ambition 10
make OF this city-by-the-sea a second Monte
Carlo.
The first thing the Mayor did today after
assuming his added burdens as head OF the
police and the beach forces was to call in
the heads of the police department and an
nounce to them his ideas on the proper
policing Of the city.
First, he ordered an absolute cleanup Of
the Boardwalk Of all women Of question:
able repute, gamblers and generally dis
reputable characters. Gambling was ordered
stopped and 1t was instructed that cafes
and saloons must be conducted in a manner
not displeasing to neighbors or the public
in general Mayor Bacharach is not start
ing anything new. His instructions were in
keeping with the administration policy. but
there has been some laxity of late, he af-
frmed, because Director Sooy had to give
SO much Of his time to getting recruits for
his company, which will be known as Bat
terry d. First Regiment Field Artillery
National Guard Of New Jersey. Governor
Edge was present to see the first company
Of volunteers from his home city mustered
into service The officers are: Captain. w.
Frank Sooy; first lieutenants. Harry r.
Coulomb and Hiram Steelman; second lieu
tenants, Charles T.. Hinlleman and John
Waldron McEnroe. The company will 70
into training camp at Sea Girt, July %.
Pretty girls in fluffy white frocks, wear
ing the triColor of France and armed with
graceful baskets of fragrant summer blooms
which they sold for the benefit of the French
War Relief Fund added a picturesque note
to the Walk yesterday. Those especially
interested In the sale of blossoms were Mrs.
George A. Zinn, Mrs. Clarence Busch, Mrs.
James Forney, Mrs. Haviland Clot, Miss
Eleanor Dlckey, Mrs c. Clothier Jones,
Miss Helen Lawson, Mrs. Isaac Schlichter,
Mrs, William Ellison Miss Anieta Lynch.
Mrs. Samuel A. McDougal will entertain
at luncheon followed by bridge at the Marl-
| borough -Blenheim on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Parsons are enter
tanning at their cottage, 2l Elberon avenue,
south, Mr.. and and Mrs. George Davis and
Miss Eleanor Davis, who motored from
Moorestown.
Mrs. Ralph Dalbey of Youngstown, Ohio,
is visiting her mother, Mrs. John Sinnott
at her cottage, 19 Connecticut avenue,
south. Doctor Dalbey will join Mrs. Dalbey
in a fortnight.
Miss Clare Robinson will entertain at
| bridge next Friday afternoon at her cottage,
Jackson and Ventnor avenues.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown Potter are at
the Traymore for a week
Bathing knitting bees are now the latest
diversion. After spending an hour or more
plying the needles in making soldier com.
forts, the members enjoy n plunge in the
surf and luncheon is served on the strand
Miss Ethel Maddox entertained knitting
bee yesterday for Miss Frances Miller, Miss
Emily Dunn, Miss Esther Flynn, Miss Marie
Blake, Miss Hattie Eustis, Miss Marion
O'Keefe, Miss Sarah Hunter, Miss Edith ST.
claire Miss Anna Shelley and Miss Claire
Long.