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avenue over Memorial day, have re-
turned to New York City.
Mrs. Lou Cohen and daughter, Mrs.
Louis Rothschild, have just returned
from Atlantic City after several weeks
stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie L. Bopst and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry C. Butcher left
during the week for a motor trip to
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, where
they will remain for about 10 days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Mrs. James Irwin Hostess
TOD. A. R. Chapter Group

Mrs. James Irwin was hostess to an
deliberately appointed bridge-tea at her
residence, 1913 Allison street, Thurs
dav afternoon. Members of the d.
A r. chapter to which Mrs. Irwin be-
longs and other friends were number
ed among the guests. Mrs. Robert A.
Gelb and Mrs Morris Ewalt Irwin as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
Sigma Tau Sorority
Gives Annual Banquet

The Sigma Tau Sorority held it's an
nual banquet at the Hamilton Hotel,
Tuesday evening, May "a. Those who
attended were Miss Ruth Allen, Miss
Mary Bradley, Miss Grace Cottrell,
Miss Virmadel Deale. Miss Alma
Hall, Miss Cora Hurley, Miss
Edria Keesea, Miss Harriet O'Brien,
Miss Louise Pearce, Miss Gladys
Kicker, Miss Elsie Soper, Miss
Dorothy Softer and Miss Mary Wood.
Following the banquet the members
attended the performance at the Ma
tional Theater.
A company has been forced to oper-
ate air service between Seville, Spain,
q PupooS Aires Arpa0tina
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At $29@:se

The delightfully."- Powered Ceorgettes
and Powered Chiffons-and other of the
new conceits-in models for street, sports
and afternoon wear.
It's most attractive group of capti-
waiting creations.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
She Boosts
Labor Saving
WOman's Club Leader Asks
Why HOmemakers Submit
To Great Drudgery
TELLS HOW TO
ELIMINATE 1T

Mrs. John d. Sherman, president
Iof the General Federation of
Women's Clubs, told the 10000
delegates to the fiftieth conven-
ton of the National Electric Light
Association, in Atlantic City, that
her organization was directing an
intensive campaign to educate
women to the utility and labor
saving benefits Of electrical i'm
provements of recent years. In this
direction. she said, substantial
progress has been achieved, en-
couraging the Federation to believe
that in a short space the resort to
electrical household appliances will
be almost universal.
when electric power at a few
cents an hour is within easy reach
of all homes in 81 per cent of the
communities" Mrs. Sherman asked,
why are IS American homemakers
out of every 100 still sweeping
floors with the back-breaking, dust
raising, germ cultivating broom.
Why are IS women out of every
100 rubbing the family wash on
the old washing board and strain
ing at the old-fashioned wringer,
when the mechanical machine will
do the work better and release the
homemaker to the care and COM
partnership of her children?
"Why should SO out of every 100
women in towns that have no gas
works be fumbling in the wood box
or fussing with the coal scuttle TO
get the family meal, when the wire
that brings light to the home could
furnish a fuel available at the turn
of switch and cook more efficient
ly than coal or wood?
although % in every 100 farms
have electric service, less than Z
use the power 10 pump water into
the house; in only 8 is electricity
used to sweep the floors or mix the
dough; in only are there cleo
trically-driyen sewing machines.
Il am convinced that in the
great majority of cases the answer
is the habit of drudgery and in
chronic failure to set up against
the cost of abor-reducing devices
the saving. the increased efficiency,
the protection of health and the
contribution to the general wealth
of the family. all of which accrue
from the elimination of drudgery
by the installation of efficient
laborsaving devices"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
HOME BUILDING IDEAS

Construction ideas are changing
for the better, a little more slowly
perhaps than might be best for
the public welfare, but with in.
creasing steadiness.
Builders are no longer satisfied
with what is more simple and eco
nomical. More and more they are
getting away, urged by discrim-
mating buyers, from the erroneous
idea that first cost must always
be at the lowest possible mark.
They are beginning to count as
well the costs of the future.
1t isn't altogether an inclination
to luxury that causes man today
to build brick house with two
baths instead of one. 1t is a real.
ization that there is economy and
an ultimate selling advantage in
two baths. The same appreciation
may be responsible for thing both
the baths and the kitchen.
Fifty years ago one built a brick
house because it carried with it a
certain distinction and marked its
owner as just a trifle above the
average level, perhaps both social
ly and financially.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Even The
Ocean Helps
Piles Sand Along Beach Front
To Build Up Allan
tic City
GROUND ADDITION
OF 1900 FEET

In 1870 all of Atlantic City,
measuring 1874 square miles, was
assessed at s562.599, in 1926 this
assessment for the same territory.
had grown to $500, 1S1. 23S.
This resort, among other assets.
now has 77.2 miles of paved streets,
twenty-three schools, thirty-five
churches, 1900 hotels, sixteen
banks with deposits totaling $685.
054,925, two broadcasting stations,
seven miles of boardwalk, six
ocean piers. twenty-one theatres,
and every possible facility for en-
tertainment and recreation.
An unusual feature of the
resorts progress during the last
few years, and one which is still
in effect, has been the building
up of the ground by the ocean.
Engineering surveys have officially
shown that the average accretion
along the entire beachfront. since
the first survey is 1852. has been
thousand feet, with maximum
ground addition OF 1850 feet.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
JERSEY ENRICHED
BY BIG ESTATES
Fiscal Year Ends With
$4,000, 900 Free Balance
in State Treasury

New Jerseys fiscal year closed
with treasury balance of S13,-
as compared with $1O,-
$40, 1S4.04 a year ago. The free
balance, available for the fiscal
year now opening, is s3,S84,652 97.
Last year the State started with Il
free balance of only $1,316,S7437.
Taxes from the estate of the late
James b. Duke, multi7millionaire
tobacco magnate, and Colonel
Washington A. Roebling, con.
truction engineer OF the Brooklyn
fridge, increasing New Jerseys
lash surplus by $3,000,00O. The tax
IN the Duke estate amounted to
s2,500,000, while that ON the Roeb-
ing estate was $500. 900.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
COLORED STUCCO
GIVES CHARM
Handsome Texture and Col
or Effects Obtained IN
West Atlantic City

There seems no doubt but that
handsome texture and color effects
through the use of stucco in home
construction are an established
feature The enthusiasm with
which these effects have been re-
ceived in West Atlantic City III
iue no doubt to the fact that their
color and quality spell the doom
of the drab and the ordinary In
even the smallest home.
1t is claimed. however, by
stucco manufacturers that the best
effects in colored stucco are
secured by obtaining the material
already colored at the factory.
There the mineral pigment has
already been mixed and the pro-
iuct SO controlled that 1t is all Of
specific color, which does mt
fade or change through the action
of the weather.
In this way batch mixed material.
lr stucco which is mixed with
color on the job, is avoided and no
opportunity is given for any UNI
even shading.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Volume OF
Construction
Substantial
Building Permits in Atlantic
City Since January l Are
in Excess of 81, 900, 900
SEVEN OPERATIONS
TOTAL NEAR $4,000, 900
Large Number of Contracts of
Smaller Volume Bring the
Situation To One OF Most
Optimistic Nature

With building permits issued
weekly in sums considerable in
excess of 100000, the construction
situation in Atlantic City is today
Of much better volume than would
at first appear.
In course of construction are
seven jobs of the larger size
amounting TO a total cost of nearly
32,000,000 They are as follows:
Administration building, Park
place and Pacific avenue; PROBES,
sional Arts office building, Mount
Vernon and Pacific avenues;
knights of Columbus club hotel,
St James place and Pacific ave
nues; Jewish Community center,
Carolina and Atlantic avenues, and
The Dobbins job on Ohio avenue.
Permits amounting to $3,808, 296,
have been issued since the first of
the year. On the other hand, accord
ing to reports of local architects
and builders, constructions of the
larger size have been started dur
ing the same period, aggregating
nearly $3,300,000, without taking in
10 consideration the large numbers
Of jobs of the smaller type which
includes houses, installations and
alteration, addition and repair
work.
The volume of the new con-
struction started during one week
brought the figures for June up to
$394,6 and enabled the years
record to pass the four million
dollar mark, the permits issued
since January now amounting to
$4,o54,96O.
A permit was issued to Samue'
n. Headley, local contractor, for
the erection of an administration
building at Park place and Pacific
avenue to cost 1894, 900. 1t is being
built for the board of education.
The same builder took out a
permit for the construction of a
municipal market on North Caro-,
lima avenue, north of Magellan
avenue, for the city of Atlantic
City, to cost $36,7S4. 1t will be a
oncstory building of brick and
steel construction to contain Il
stores.
Another building job authorized
TO start was a fourstory store and
apartment building at 20-22 North
Ohio avenue, by Joseph s. Name,
local builders, for Isabel Dobbins.
1t will cost about 100000.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
May Stand
As The Record
Philadelphian's Catch of An
Eighty-POund Drum Fish
Not Excelled
WAS USING SMALL
KING FISH HOOK

Both black drum and channel bass
are moving up the coast in large
numbers and the catch of drum is
already ahead Of last year. The
heaviest taken was 75-pounder
landed from the surf between Peer
mont and Stone Harbor by Frank
Tobin. One weighing II pounds
was caught at Ocean City and one
of 81 pounds was landed near Sea
Isle. Several large ones have been
caught at Cape May Point.
The catch Of John Frazier, well.
known Philadelphia lawyer, made
last season has not been equaled
and is not likely to be duplicated
for a long time. Frazier caught
black drum fish that weighed more
than eighty pounds. on a small
kingfish hook, a fine line and
light rod. His whole rig was SC
frail that it would hardly have
served for weakfish. And yet il
served TO take one of the best drum
fish caught along the coast.
The lawyer was alone in his boat
trying for kingfish at the edge of
the bar in the bay He had on a
tiny hook and a small bit of she'd
der crab A friend in a power boat
came to his aid and ii took both of
them TO lift the big drum into the
boat.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
SALE OF 1714 PACIFIC AVE.
Myer MasilI Buyer at Reported
Price OF S175 600.

A large real estate transaction
in the past week was the sale of
The property at TIA Pacific ave-
nue from the Indiana Investment
company to Myer Magill for a con-
sideration reported as $175,000.
The deal was effected through
The offices of the Associated Real
tors in conjunction with Morton
Click, local realty broker. The
property was formerly occupied by
Edwards Floral Hall and has a
frontage of so feet on Pacific ave-
nue. and runs back to depth of
l50 feet. The new owner announces
that the building will be remodeled
so as to contain three stores with
apartments above. the work to
start within two weeks. u
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Open Cottages
| For The Summer
Great Interest is Being Mani
fest in Philadelphia
Colony
OPEN HOUSE AT
YACHT CLUBS

Still more cottages are being
opened for the summer by Phila-
delphia residents, while the Board
walk, with its crowds, and the
hotel Hobbies show theS daily in
crease of visitors to the resort AS
4 result, greater interest is being
evidenced in social events by mem
5ers of the Philadelphia colony. The
Chelsea Yacht Club and the Lu Lu
Temple Yacht Club will undoubt-
7dly be the centers of their activity
Turing the summer, for the mem
bership of both clubs is composed
almost entirely of Philadelphians.
Last night, following the annual
custom, these two yacht clubs held
open house" with luncheon served
to the members and their guests
and motorboat races in the after
noon. AT the Lu Lu Temple Yacht
Club the day wound up with fire
works and dancing, while the Chel-
sea had dancing in the afternoon
and evening. The opening of these
yacht clubs is the signal for a.
series OF card parties, regattas and
Saturday night dances during the
summer.
A number of local people are
entertaining house guests from
Philadelphia. Mrs. David Fisher,
of Ventnor avenue has had as her
guest Miss Ruth Hamilton. Miss
Mary Schabinger has been visiting
Mrs. William Noise at her Harris
burg avenue home, and Miss Ethel
M. Keates has returned to Phila-
.delphia after spending a fortnight
at the home OF Miss Beatrice S.
Conover.
Senator and Mrs. William S. Ware
opened their home at 1877 South
Berkely square. Misses Mildred and
Beatrice Ware have been visiting
the resort each weekend, spending
a great deal of their time on the
Ventnor beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sylvester Hauck, of
Overlook, have leased cottage
Tor the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent D'Ambrosio
oil Philadelphia, have opened their
summer residence at 1902 S. Fred
ricksburg avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Ebeling, of
Philadelphia, will spend the sum-
mer at Is N. Cambridge avenue.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Buying Interest Indicates Real Estate Acti>
HOME OWNERSHIP
NOBLEST AIM OF :.
MAN AND WOMAN

One of the noblest aims OF
man and woman is to get a
home Of their own. The desire
for a home is the most deeply
rooted impulse of the human
heart. 1t is the place where
husband is king and wife is
queen. Whether it is a great
mansion, or a little cabin built
of logs, it is the one place
where love browns the dis
appointments and builds hopes
for the future.
A home-loving nation is
God-loving nation, and it is an
encouraging thing to note that
anarchists, Bolshevists, agi-
tators and destructionists are
not builders or owners of homes.
Where the home instinct is
found, reason and justice reign,
and last year our associations
Of the United States furnished
around 100000 with which to
provide homes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Home May Be
Furnished On
Small Income
Government Expert Gives
Some Hints For The Pros
pective Builder
BENZ. FOX TELLS HOW
TO PLAN FLOOR SPACE
Has Novel Ideal For Fitting
Furnishings-.Plan House
With Furnishings in Mind"
He Says

Comfort and beauty in furnish
ing the home are possible even
though the budget may be limited,
for these qualities are consistent
with economy. But the matter of
furnishing should be considered
when the house is being planned,
and not left until it is too late to
provide proper wall space, electric
outlets, good storage facilities, and
other features that make the house
liveable.
Benjamin r. Fox, developer OF
West Atlantic City, has worked
out a system that has proven salts
factory. Says Mr.. Fox, 1T is good
idea to plan the house with the
furnishings in mind. If small pieces
of cardboard are cut to the same
scale as the house plan they may
be used TO advantage while the
plans are being drawn. If this is
done one is not disappointed later
in finding that the windows and
doors do leave proper spaces for
the furniture"
DR.. Louise Stanley, chief of the
Bureau of Home Economics of the
United States Department of
Agriculture, in giving recent
Radio talk, called attention to some
of the most important features OF
furnishing house.
Or. Stanley's Talk.
DR.. Stanley's talk in part is as
follows: For wall coverings, both
paint and paper have their advo-
Gates. Decide early, since it may
make a difference in the plaster
finish. Water colors are cheaper
than oil, though oil is more per-
manent. With paper, more variety
is possible. Good wall papers may
be selected in the cheaper grades
Paper of the same tone throughout
increases the apparent space.
Large figures make the room look
smaller. 1t is possible ordinarily,
to get NOTED effect, or small
figures, which at a distance have
the appearance of a solid color, but
still win not show the soil easily.
1t is especially desirable that adj
joining rooms which may be
thrown together have the same
color. Upstairs the separate bed
rooms gave an opportunity for
development of Individuality. Inc
rooms may be lightened, darkened'
warmed or cooled by proper choice
of color.
"The floor coverings will make a
hole in the sum we have to spend.
For the average income we cannot
indulge our desires for Oriental
CONTINUED on Page AID
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
CATCH 7OO-LB.
TUNA IN HARD FIGHT
Hour And a Half Battle To
Land 1t or Manasguan

A tuna fish weighing zoo pounds
has been caught off Manasquan by
the crew of the. Manasquan Fish
Company under Captain Hiding
swenssen after a battle which
lasted an hour and a half
The fish, the first large one
taken in local waters this season,
was in the pound nets when the
fishermen Wen to sea to make
their daily haul. In the battle to
land the fish Captain Swenssen's
left wrist was cut by a blow from
its tail.
Captain Swenssen says he sold
the fish for 500 in a New York
market.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Atlantic City
Sales Indicate
Great Interest
Activity In This Area Much
Greater Than the Average
For Country
SITUATION STAPLE
AND HEALTHY
Transactions For Six Weeks
Period Approximate g.
100000 in Leading Offices
Add More for Brokers

The buying interest in Atlantic
city real estate is much more
active than the average for the
country.
There is no boom on, but the
situation is staple and healthy with
steady increase of normal growth
in satisfactory proportions.
In six weeks, brokers have re-
ported business deals amounting
TO approximately $2,400, 600 which
figure includes straight sales, trade
deals and the placing of mort
cages This, of course, is not the
grand total, since there is no formal
statistics prepared by realty men
1t includes sales made in Leading
offices.
In April deals of all kinds made
We're reported aggregating $780,
900.
A resume of outstanding trans
actions through a number but not
all the realty offices since the
first of the year, shows the amount
to over 710.00O.oO0, which figures
indicates that business conditions
are satisfactory.
During the three months, local
trading has been featured by large
sales. there being eight amounting
to total price of s1,5Ss, 900. The
larger-sized properties that have
changed hands during that period
and The prices reported, are as
follows: Hollywood apartments,
100000; Belair Court apartments.
100000; Brinsley Hotel, $3.50, 900.
Bertlunel apartments, $3.50, 000s
Edwards Floral Hall, s175, 600;
Runnymede Hotel, $4,000; and
eight business structures at North
Carolina and Caspian avenues for
q total consideration of s214. 900.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
GARAGE IMPORTANT
ASSET TO HOME LIFE
Assumes Architectural Importance
Serves Many Duties

Within the last 25 years the
garage has become an important
part of the home. In fact, scarcely
a house is built today which does
not provide some shelter for car,
either as an attached part of the
house or as a separate building.
And gradually the garage has been
assuming architectural Importance.
until now it receives as careful
consideration as the rest of the
scheme. From an artistic liability
it has grown into an asset. More
over, its usefulness has been in
creased along with its beauty. For
more and more il is being given
duties in addition TO that of stor-
age space for automobiles.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
VETERANS STILL YOUNG AT 80
Too Old to Worry About Problems
of Nation.

With 125 of the $40 Cival War
veterans of the State in attendance,
the sixtieth annual encampment
of the New Jersey Department of
the Grand Army of the Republic
met at All Wars Memorial Home.
The membership represents forty
three active posts.
These men. at the outset of the
gathering declared themselves too
old to pass upon the problems con-
fronting the nation, but still young
enough to have a good time" All
are nearly all over so. Many had
to be wheeled to the convention
headquarters in chairs
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
REscuEs DROWNING GIRL

James l.. Boyle. of 2l5 Toulon
Avenue, rescued a girl from drown
ing in Lakes Bay on June 30. She
had gone under for the second time
when the boy made a flying leap
from the shore, where he had been
sitting, and swan to her aid. He
managed to bring her to the beach
amid cheers from onlookers.
James Boyle. who is Is years Of
age, attends st. Joscph's Academy
at McSherrystown, Pa.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
Home Building
Is On Increase
Conditions More Favorable
Now For Salaried Man
Than Before War
MATERIAL PRICES,
FUNDS AND LABOR

The building OF individual homes
is actually on the increase, owing
to the fact that money is now avail
able more readily to the man who
desires to. build house for him
self than at any time since the war.
In addition, recent declines in bull
ding costs are acting as an incen-
tive for building by the salaried
man whose income Immediately af-
ter the war did not always keep
pace with the price induces.
Commodity prices in general
have continued downward price
trend for period exceeding a
year. says the National Mortgage
Corporation. Iron and steel prices
for instance, are lower by 20 per
cent than in 1923, and other recess
sions are shown generally along
the line. While many products,
such as steel, may not enter direct
ly into the construction of the small
home indirectly they have an i'm
portant influence on almost all
manufacturing costs.
mo decline similar to that in
the cost of materials has been reg
istered in the cost OF labor; but la,
Dor is undoubtedly more efficient
in its work than during the period
when high bonuses were necessary
to keep efficient workmen on the
job, and more actual work is being
turned out for an hours pay.
in consequence building costs
are reaching a sounder basis, and
many families who hesitated to
build under constantly mounting
costs are now interested in acquir-
ing homes. They are encouraged in
this attitude by more general I'M
|derstanding of the profits secured
by builders during recent years.
1.-The fact that many architects
are now devoting effort to the Gre
alton of small house plans that will
be as efficient in construction as
the large commercial skyscraper
and win also possess architectural
III ma 10 also antine, a o+:,x,,,l,,s
to the man who desires to build
for himself.
Lending institutions look with
increasing favor on loans to the
man who undertakes home owner
ship. Mortgages to Individual home
owners today partake of the ma
ture of preferred Investment
since the home owner is a highly
desirable type of borrower. In ad
dition, by holding mortgages on
large group of individual dwellings
instead of concentrating investment
funds in a few buildings, the invest
ing institution is enabled to diversi-
fy its holdings in compliance with
the most modern theories of invest
ment practice.
Consequently money is available
to. the home owner on more attrac-
tive terms today than in many years
a development which is also acting
as a stimulus to home building by
the individual family.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-07-05
CATCH MANY FISH

Large numbers Of bass. croakers
and weakfish are being caught ~
inglers from the waryes and boats.
rhe warf. from which sailing
Yachts leave the Inlet and which
vas badly damaged by storms laek
winter. has been rebuilt. II Ii nov
three hundred feet long.