Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-06-16
ATLANTIC CITY SET
|FOR GREATEST FUN
(SEASON IN HISTORY.
Americas Playground Now
Sweet &c, Expects Unusual
Influx During Summer
I'm SECOND CHILDHOOD
Builders Sure Convention Hall
and Other Projects Will
Materialize
IN SECOND CHILDHOOD


City. sixty six years young this spring,
is still in its infancy.
In threescore years Philadelphia's |
one time suburb has grown to be Amer
ica's playground, and the men who have |
"made" this wonderful metropolis for |
health and pleasure can perceive, not |
far ahead. the day when it will be the |
playground of the world.
One hour from Philadelphia, three
hours from New York, and less than |
FIVE hours from Washington. Atlantic
City is truly the JOY spot Of the most
thickly populated section of the United
States, and greater than ever before will
be the throngs Of pleasure seekers who
swarm to her sandy stretches from these
cities during the pending season.
Ten years ago resort historians de-
lighted in the observation that Allan
tic City was "barcly in its infancy"
That is exactly true today, but with
the monumental Traymore, the world
famed Marlborough -Blenheim, the
towering Ambassador in Chelsea, all
come to pass since that infancy" era,
Atlantic City is saying, Lets go;
we've just started"
Victory Pier Auditorium
Great things are in prospect. Poll
tics Of the same low grade species that
has held Philadelphia back up till now,
has retarded, temporarily, a great con-
vention hall, magnificent victory pier
auditorium for Atlantic City; but these
things are going to come. Atlantic City
must have a convention hall, and the
obvious site for it is a center the
beachfront location, which the munich
pality must acquire eventually, no mat
ter what happens. For it is under
signed and sealed contract with nine
tenths Of the owners of all Boardwalk
abutting property to municipalize
every foot of the ground outside of the
Boardwalk.
That is why the men who have had
most to do in the making of Atlantic
olty are marking time, standing pat
behind the great victory pier conven.
lion hall project until the new board
ot rulers is made to see the light its
predecessors could not see. Atlantic
oily prefers, ordinarily, not to wash
i's soiled linen in newspapers when
talks about resort aspirations, but
'n'S is a case where little frank
ueS can DO no harm. 1t explains why
'ue CITY OF unfailing Optimism" has
not paid tribute to the heroism of its
suns In the world war in the way that
patriotism and community logic impels.
~ not the first time politics has stood
u'e way Of optimism, but shore op-
',n'lsts are quite willing it should be
the last.
Ureat Stadium Planned
A.antic City is going to have a
'.au'um' Unfailing optimism recognizes
10 need if the resort is to capitalize
pr0ftuhity and ways and means of
os HIns an enterprise, the popularity
"n'ch Is universal, now are bcing
.oHs'dered. This "City of UTnfailino On
Sa a'''n looks forward not only to some
~ having candidates for President
h'na'eo 49, IN great hall over the sea
s Nv ~ 20 stadium big enough to stage
Tho WY" "Hp'c games Why not? This il
bo. S way they state the case here We
good job of it? A'' nuke
c,. sOneoody once said that u At,,rt,.
e''S ever stood still for tbo 80
ra,, ae season the big town would brgin 70
tbirn 'aue' to slide back. That, for ono
ket'9, accounts for the all.pervadins
tbin up'and 'getativeness that Ioons
Ever~ moving forward all the Tina
for ~ H. summer must have something rom.
'hore oracle, "'0u'' says sea-
Tb,. LOIS to Talk About
hbout a""'er naD people are going to talk
bprar new brick, steel and storo hota, IA
Rre orS y, Twelve stories, run up in raniI T's
,re, ,e order down in Chelsea ~ o ~ rapid
(rouDS aS :, are being made for T broSsil' Sstp.
bis opp Of 1To'her ni great hotel structure
aterpyi,a are .,,si already talking about tn.
( IeplevarS which which evolved the Abseco0 sno
y ~s,v ,uo. uus Used for the first time
oy hundreds Of phila-
,Sld New York motori.t. a.'a Ia :
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