New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-01
Weekend Crowds
Tax Atlantic CITY
Hotels to Capacity
Rush of August Vacationists
to New Jersey Shore Is
Expected to Break All
Previous Summer Records
Special Dispatch to The rroure

ATLANTIC CITY, July 31--Atlantic
City's rather elastic ability to extend
professional hospitality is being taxed
tonight to accommodate the rush of
new arrivals coming for August vaca-
tons. Clerks in the large hotels, where
quarters have been reserved for weeks,
spent hours seeking rooms for late
arrivals in smaller hotels, and to-mor-
rows crowd on the Boardwalk is eX-
pected to break all summer records.
Lifeguards will so on duty on the
beach at daylight tomorrow and by
noon all the regular and substitute
men of the beach corps will be ready
to look after the thousands who will
go into the surf Steam and electric
railways are running trains in sec
tons. both from New York and Phila-
delphia, while excursions from points
west and south have added to the
throngs Almost unbroken lines of
motor cars on the roads from the large
garage facilities of the resort, and
there is a tendency on the part of
officials to remove the ban on street
parking because of the shortage of
garage space.
The rolling chair strike, which wor
ried the chair barons along the Board
walk, resulted in the enlistment of
young college men and overseas vet
Grams, who are making vacation money
by trundling the luxury seeking folk
up and down the promenade. Visitors
have been taking less than an academic
interest in the struggle between the
chair magnates and their striking men,
and officials are using every effort to
sec that there is no real interference
with the chair traffic, which is one of
the attractions of the resort.
Fortunately for the new August arri-
walls there has been q decided rise in
the temperature of the ocean during
the week.
Lure of the deep sea tended to boost
the business of the professional skip
pers to sail yachts from the Inlet, and
the piers and theaters along the Board
in years.
Moonlight sailing and moonlight
bathing came in for much popularity
among the young folk this week. Down
Chelsea way and among the summer
fashionables of Ventnor evening func-
lions on the beach were enlivened with
amateur vaudeville and musical turns,
ending with dips in the surf. Moon
light fishing parties went out from the
Inlet and returned with good strings
of fish.
Several seashore philnnthropic funds
benefited through the activities Of the
society folk this week. Women of Chel-
sea held a sale on the piazzas of the
Hotel Chelsea in aid Of All Saints
Episcopal Church, which Is supported
by the summer congregation, and the
Chelsea Yacht Club had luncheon and
card party for the Child Welfare
Bureau.
Mrs. George c. Flick. who has a cot
tage in Chelsea, entertained at lunch
con bridge at the Alamac
Mrs. George Dewey, widow of Ad-
miral Dewey, arrived at the Traymore
this week to remain through the sum-
mer, Senator Gilbert NJ Hitchcock, of
Nebraska, came to the Ambassador on
vacation visit. George Cohan, who
came for the premiere Of new show OF
the Apollo Theater, headed a theatrical
colony at the Shelburne which in
Guided Wallace Eddinger, Mr. and Mrs.
Donald Brian and Peggy Woods. SEN
ator Reed Smoot was at the Shelburne
over thhe week end. Norma Talmadge
to the Traymore with her husband,
Joseph NJ Schenck
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hawley Van Wyck
are at the Marlborough Blenheim. Mr..
and Mrs. H. j. Middleton, of New York.
arrived at the Dennis with Mrs. J. ].
lcters and Mile. Yaza Arroyo. Miss
e srtrude Entwistle, of Emhurst, l.. l..
IS at the Wiltshire. Miss Frances
Paddock has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Z. n. Voorhis, of Paterson, at the
Boutwell,
j.. S. Bashore has Joined his family
at the Monticello. DR.. Blanche Cotton
Williams, Of New York, visited Mrs. J.
II. Temple jr. at the Strand. Miss
Lucy Morgan is at the Hotel Watkins
with Miss Helen Meyer Miss Martha
Llfin, of Brooklyn, has arrived at the
Edison for August.