New-York tribune., 1919-08-03
Many Families
"Tenting To-saiggh g ht'
AT Atlantic City
Offset High Cost of Vaca-
tions by Taking Camping
Outfit, but Hotels Do
Thriving Business Too
Special Correspondcnce


ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 2.--The big
August rush is on in full force and the
entire transportation service entering
Atlantic City will be taxed tonight
and tomorrow to carry the throngs
coming for the first of the five Sun
days in August.
Families out motoring gave the high
cost Of boarding wallop this week by
arriving with full camping parapher-
MALTA and setting it UP on the lower
beach. Scores of these parties staked
out a small village in Margate City
and Longport, and campfres wers
added to the Boardwalk features. Many
of the outfits carried are elaborate in
the extreme, living, dining, cooking
and bathing tents being included in the
encourage carried on trailer trucks.
Some Of the parties intend to travel the
entire coast.
Night flying under the coming full
moon promises to become favored
outdoor sport. Trial flights by night
have been made this week in seaplanes
that start and land in the inlet without
danger, and a number of visitors nave
made reservations for passenger trips.
Evening bathing has been popular
and beach parties in bathing suits are
taking the places of more elaborate in
door functions among the fashionable
colonies of Chelsea and Ventnor.
Women Start in Tennis Match
The principal sporting feature of the
week was the start of the womens
handicap on the tennis courts of the
Atlantic City Yacht Club. The Chelsea
Club gave a cabaret dinner dance at
the clubhouse, with talented amateurs
of the summer colony as entertainers,
and the two clubs are to combine forces
for the big regatta of the season q
week from to-day.
Former Ambassador Frederic Court
land Penfield and Mrs. Penfield, who
are in the Thousand Islands this sum-
within short time. Mrs. B. S. Stewart
arrived at the Traymore accompanied
by Miss Rosalie Stewart. Mr.. and Mrs
Wallace Macken, of Montclair, are
among the newcomers
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Cory, A. E. Cory
jr., and Martha Cory are in family
party from New York at the Marl-
borough B Blenheim. James Worrall
Arthur returned to that hotel. Mrs. w.
Y. Reilly, Of New York, is at the
Dennis, where she entertained Mrs. E.
A1oi ~ CHfiNto, ]AiiNC w llllc tuu MIS-. a.
L. Dixon.
Other Arrivals at Hotels
Mrs. George F. Robinson and Mrs.
Harry M. Robinson, who have been in
Pasadena, are among the arrivals of
the week at the Ambassador. Mr.. and
Mrs. W. W. Spencer, Bertha Torney
and Minnie Torney are among the New
Workers at the st. Charles.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Christie, of Scars
dale, are at the Alamac, as are Elinor
Dayne and Isabel Hammond. Mrs. T.
7. Mathus, of New York, is entertain
ing Miss brennan at the Chelsea Miss
L. A. Evans arrived at the Chelsea.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. R. Northrop, of East
Orange, are at the She burne. Mr. and
Mrs. Albert McElwert are among the
newcomers at the De Vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. L. Porter, of Newark,
arrived at the Lexington. Mr.. and Mrs.
E. c. Calhoun, of New York. are at
the Monticello. Mrs. j. M. Kane arrived
at the Kentucky.
Miss f. L. Mcknight is at the Wells
boro with Miss A. NJ. Lynch Of New
ark. Mr. and Mrs. G. II. Bristol. of
Elmhurst. Long Island, are entertain
ing Miss Jean Bristol, of Chicago. and
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Daily, Of New
brunswick, at the Esplanade.