Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-11
Atlantic City Plans
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T
be the meeting place and stunt
demonstration stage this month for the
National Association Of Masters Of
Dancing. There also will be staged the
$3.50, 900 exhibit of the Master Plum =
bers' Association of the United States,
in connection with their post -bellum
convention. The headquarters of the
latter will be at the Hotel st. Charles,
which is experiencing wonderful run
of prosperity under the management of
William A. Leech
Atlantic City has reached the stage
where it complacently asserts that
nobody cares whether the nation goes
! dry on July / or not. If the cafes ring
down the curtain on alcoholic refresh
ments they will ring it up again with
the same orchestra and the same dance
floors and possibly more wholesome
beverages of non alcoholic order to
provide inspiration. For every dyed
in the wool optimist who maintains
4 that something is bound to happen to
avert great thirst for beers and light
wines at least, there are a dozen others
who maintain that John Barleycorn is
n back number, and to prove they mean
1t many of them are going ahead set
) ting up SOFT drink emporiums with
1 piusn carpet anu HllrroIS anu even
bars to make everybody feel thor
oughly at home.
Old BOwery Almost Gone
Summer folk will find the greater
part of the old 'Bowery' district gone.
More than square of the ancient
structures which made that region a
i night mare have been raZed and cleared
for the erection of new hotels, apart
ment houses and homes when capital
rushes in to find opportunities for
sure thing investments.
To provide for the multitudes who
come to avail themselves of the famed
hospitality of its hotels is not Atlantic
City's only housing problem this sum
/, mer. Equally difficult of solution is the
! problem of taking care of those who
want cottages or, if they cannot get
them. then apartments. Even at rent
ais 20 and even 80 per cent higher than
customary this has become a real prob
lem. for the cottage supply is virtually
exhausted and curious devices are being
resorted to to meet the famine in apart
ments.
One of the most common is to take
/, good sized apartment and turn it into
two by the simple process of locking a
door. Philadelphia greater housing
problem is working to Atlantic Citys
advantage again, for scores of house
holders here have been enabled to sell
attractive domiciles to- advantage, vet
at prices which make it profitable for
the Philadelphia investors to bring their
families to the shore and pay commu-
tatlon rates daily to their city offices.
More Houses Going Up
Large housing operations are In
progress at Chelsea Heights. hardly
the shore airport which the Pan
American Aeronautical Congress, in
session here during May. made famous
throughout the country. Nobody is
prepared as yet to say these new dom
fciles will be taken over by amateur
aviators. but if Philadelphia business
men should go in for the flying game
1t will be mighty handy to have hang
ars right across the street in the air.
port to house their aerial steeds after a
hop over Jersey from the city of Penn.
A splendid boulevard extending
along the Inlet front from the head of
Pacific avenue around the municipal
park is one of the large projects upon
which. Atlantic City's wideawake
Chamber of Commerce has embarked
This boulevard is the idea of Hubert
Somers. young business man with
large interests, and shore boosters are
rallying to its support. because they
are convinced that, in addition to en- :
hancing the attractions of the resort,
1t will pay for itself speedily in in
creased real estate values throughout
the whole of the Inlet section.
That part of the city is destined to
boom greatly with the working out of
the now definitely determined upon ship
terminal for both ocean commerce and
freights of various sorts, chiefly oysters
and farm products, brought hither by
the inland waterway Fish of valua-
tion of more than Sal 900 were brought
into Atlantic City's harbor in May
alone, according to the report of Cap
tain George B. Gale, newly appointed
harbor master, a Chamber of Commerce
booster and admiral of the Inlet
yachting feet.
To POpuIarize Fishing
Atlantic City is to make mighty
effort this summer to further popularize
fishing and sailing as attractions as
necessary to the rounding out of shore