New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-16
Holiday Throng Fills
Atlantic City's Hotels
Crowds on Boardwalk Give
Promise of Season of
Life and Cayety
Cpcr;oI Corroo,oaJ

CpectdS Correspondence
ATLANTIC CITY, Feb. 15-The Lin
coins Birthday holiday brought a
crowd that filed BIC hotels to ordinary
August repletion; turned throng Of
near-Easter size out on the boardwalk
and started the early spring season
INTO life and gayety. Smaller houses
rushed writer plans of refitting and are
opening to care for the overflow which
IS assured next week when Washing
tons Birthday doubles I'D with the
weekend. The Wiltshire, one of the
best known Virginia Avenue hotels,
opened to-day and the Grand Atlantic,
another Virginia Avenue house, will be
thrown open next week.
Over at Mortified and Seaview the
golfers gathered for impromptu matches
"hlle the riding and driving contin-
gent enjoyed their possession of the
strand for horseback exercise
big delegation of notable clergy
men arrived at the Chalfonte to attend
the official sessions of the executive
council Of the Presbyterian General
Assembly, to consider plans for raising
millions of dollars to be used in ex
tension of church and missionary work
throughout the world.
Next week experts in explosives will,
gather at the Traymore to attend the
meetings of officials of the Hercules
Powder Company. who also will con-
sider uses to be made of factories for
merly devoted to the making of ex-
plosives.
=, SIR Arthur Pearson, of London and
New York, arrived at the Marlborough
blenhelm accompanied by Lieutenant
II. A.. Pearson. Among those who
gathered at the Traymore early in the
week were Theodore Shonts, president
OF the lnterborough; r. NJ Statler,
head of the Statler hotels and of the
ne" pennsylvania, who was accom-.
panied by Mrs Statler and Mr.. ano
Mrs. Frank c. Hinckley; Joseph o.
schwab, brother of the Steel marnate
and George M. Cohan, who came to
spend the weekend with his mother
Mrs. Helen Cohan. Other New Workers
at that hotel include Mrs. George
Lauder Carnegie, Mrs. Stephen Bald.
win, Mr.. and Mrs. James Mclean and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Doubleday.
Paul Vassan spent the weekend at
the Shelburne, the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Halle, of Wilmington. Mrs.
Nina Wilcox Putnam was another Wis
ltor at the Shelburne this week. num-
Der OF New York visitors attended the
special Lincoln's day concert given at
me o. CharleS, with Mrs. Walter I
Oppenheimer, pianist; Joseph Smit
violinist, and Anton Bradoc, 'cellist, as
the principals.
Captain C. A. Furlong and Mrs. Fur
long arrived at the Marlborough Blen-
helm from New York. Mr.. and Mrs.
irving Howlert, who were at Colorado
Springs during the early winter.
arrived at the Marlborough Blenheim
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs Albert J. Dodson are
new arrivals from New York at the
Dennis. Mrs. j. W. Mitchell is at the
phillips House for the remainder OF
February. Miss Doris Leonhard is
visiting Mrs. Robert D. Chaplin. of
East Orange, at the Arlington. Miss
Wlnifred Ferrin came to the Boutwell,
after several weeks at Mount Clemens.
Mrs. Louis A. Neuberger is entertain
ing Mrs. Daniel Mendoza at the Break
ers. Mrs. Stewart Pickering arrived
at the Alamac from Jacksonville, ac-
companied by Mrs. J. Calhoun Borneau.
Mr.. end Mrs Robert Warren Swanson
and Mr.. and Mrs. D. H. Jones motored
from Brooklyn to the Strand