Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-31

corporation almost that we had here moved
| over there. They couldn't operate here
and make money. Wilson did that.
Them kind of laws me all right to have
on your books, but you don't have to enforce
em.
Then Wilson sent that man Moore,
prosecuting attorney, down mere to clean up
things. He's doing it. He's coming darn
near making a health resort out Of this
place. when it's a pleasure place-a play
ground of the world. He hasn't got the
police with him, though. lie has to get de-
tectives down from Newark to do his work
for him"
The commodore" unfurled the white
silk handkerchief with a vigorous wave and
blew his nose voCferously
"Excursions bring the crowds down here
on Sunday" he said They come to have
n good time. A man can't play unless he
has little something on the side to wet
his throat and cheer him up. He can't get
it new The crowds are falling off, / hear
and nobody's making as much money as
they used 10.
you don't have to the thing openly
why don't they let 'em keep the front of
their places closed tight and their side en-
frances open" The boss was l!ttle am
biguous to his pronouns but entirely CO.
herent none the less. Those that come to
look at the ocean can get all they want from
the Boardwalk. Nobody has to drink that
don't want to.
"Often men come down with their fami-
lies. their wives and little children. It's the
only day they've got to drink a glass of beer
together, Sunday is Now they can't get It,
''ln the old days you could depend on the
jury If policeman got too jealous and
arrested man tor selling liquor on Sunday
you could depend on the jury. They knew
what was good for the town They knew
how to keep it prosperous. Now. the man
that violates is sure to be fined or sent up
Moore is a prohbitionist and Democrat"
SEES NEW DAY
How long is this dreadful condition to
last?" L nterposed.
"Moore's appointment expires in 1913"
he answered significantly.
1t is plain TO see that Commodore"
Kuehnle is convinced that evil days have
fallen upon Atlantic City Jne city that he
will tell you he loves better than any place
in the world. He has watched il grow for
forty-two years, from the time when there
were only four hotels worthy of remem-
brance and only one railroad, when it took
three hours to come from PHILADELPHIA and
only sick people came.
Lead him on and he will trace the evolu-
tion of "The Playground of America" and
the part he took IN 'rescuing it from the
doctors"
There was only a little boardwalk in
those days" he said, "a boardwalk that we
be swept away when the equinoctiaI storms
came
"Then the railroads came. The price of
trip from Philadelphia to Atlantic was
reduced from SO to fifty cents Competi.
tion' was fierce People started coming
Cape May began to lose. The boom had
started and we did all we could to keep it
going
FIRST YACHT CLUB
Among the things that big boss" Kuehnle
told me he did in the early days was to
build the first yacht club-the Atlantic City
Yacht Club-of which he was the first COM
modore, which sobriquet still clings to es.
tablsh an Independent telephone system and
to build the opposition gas works which
brought down the price of gas from 81 so
to ninety cents.
But what he regards as perhaps the great
est of his achievements was that he kept
one man Mayor for twenty years"
Il was really Mayor" he told me with a
wink, but Stoy drew the salary"