Palisadian., 1924-10-17
ATLANTIC CITY GAY
WITH FALL CROWDS
Continued from page 1

grouped an interminable line of old.
fashioned pictures, colored engravings
3f English landscapes, views OF Scot
land and a thousand and one other
subjects. To the lover of art, apart
from all suggestion of oil paintings,
these pictures are most attractive
There is an appeal about them at once
strong and lasting. Whoever put the
thought into execution of making SO
extensive a collection of reproductions
in color for the most part certainly
hit upon an idea entirely worthy.
There are many real gems among
them.
At Haddon Hall the evening dinner
hour is spectacle and also 1mmedi-
ately thereafter. The people who flock
to this great resort do not appear to
be of the ultra-social caste. Indeed,
they represent people who have the
highest social standing no doubt in
their home towns scattered over Penn
sylvania and New Jersey, but they are
just plain, well-to-do, everyday people,
the men being all successful in busi-
ness with ample means to pay from
SIS to $50 per day for accommodations.
And they get the best here that mon
ey will buy. The evening display of
fine clothes among the women guests
was characterized by Palisade lady
of our party as suggestive of Village
Review-or you can make that word
Revue. 1t is all very wonderful and
equally democratic, more of the latter
idea prevailing than l ever before saw
associated with such an assortment
of diamonds. silks and laces.
And here is an amazing statement:
In all of this glittering array of fine
garb and jewels | have yet to see a
woman in the evening in a decollete
gown. True, the prevailing brevity
in dress skirts makes liberal display
of pretty hosiery and ankles, but that
is mere nothing at all, since ankles
no longer possess the charm they once
held. They have grown too frequent,
or whatever the word is to properly
describe their numbers.
So these evening reviews go on, the
delight of the visitors, the joy of the
owners of the hotels who provide all
the other attractions that bring people
here in droves and brigades. OF one
thing | would like to speak, and that
is Atlantic City service. In dining
rooms one never sees the snob waiter.
For the most part they are colored
men, taught to be courteous, and all
are most attentive. Little Abraham
Ferguson, who came from Baltimore
and who has served our table with a
form of fidelity really admirable, is
worth his weight in gold engaged in
this work of serving at which he ex-
hibits all the virtues of his calling, po-
liteness, patience and that most beau
tiful of virtues, humility. Abraham
is an honor to his calling, and would
feel complimented il he could serve
me If should pass the great resort
again. At least / would call for him
if | did
They are putting on a big steel
framd addition to the Chalfonte-Had
don Hall hotels, making them the
peers of any hostelries in the country,
costing probably million or more
each when the additions are COM
pleted.
In other ways Atlantic City is fast
rushing ahead and growing with re-
markable rapidity. On all sides there
is an immense quantity of building
going on, there being already hun
dreds of beautiful homes now occu-
pied the year round by their owners,
and many others used only in summer.
Real estate people are plunging head
long into developments in all avail
able directions. Some of these devel-
opments are large and pretentious.
At the present time there must be 75,-
900 population in Atlantic City, and
it is easy to see that another five
year period or less will find 100000 or
more here I confidently predict
this.
OF course, with all of the attractions
here, there is great deal of price
raising, particularly along the board
walk. Last spring there was a local
movement to beat back the CRATER,
but he apparently will not down. Sun
day New York papers sell for Is cents;
Philadelphia Sundays go for IL cents.
All New York dailies sell for cents,
and there is no publication that is
not higher than the fixed publishers
price.
The taxicab here is almost pro-
hibitive. To the New Yorker used to
paying from 25 cents to half a dollar
for short rides the price of rs cents
in Atlantic City for two blocks seems
exorbitant. | understand there is now
an effort making to lower taxi fares.
/ hope so.
These October days, the past ten of
them, have been marvellous, with clear
sunshine all the hours of the day and
brilliant starlight at night. There has
been a brisk tang to the early morn
ing hours, the mercury starting around
AZ degrees and going a bit under 60
for the middle of the day. Along the
drives around the resort the autumn
coloring is beautiful. There is a small
percentage of large forest growth
around here, but the small pin oaks
and naples are almost dazzling in
bright reds, orange and carmine.
There are many long lanes OF these
smaller tree colorings now at their
height of beauty.
c. T. L.