{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3842", "width": "2454", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Cbss\\nBook\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSIT", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Hestonis\\n-^9-\\nm^p\\n!1ANP=B00K\\nAtlantic City\\nILLUSTRATED,", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Hind Book of Atlantic City.\\nBy a. M. HESTON.\\nA Complete Description of tlie Famous Watering Place.\\nIts arrangement and typographical appearance\\nare a credit to Mr. Heston s enterprise, abUity\\nand taste.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Caoe May star\\nTlie City hy the Sea is succinctly descrloed\\nand the various places of interest are disposed of\\nIn one or two very readable chapters.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 New York\\nTribune.\\nIt Is an excellent publication, Invaluable to sum-\\nmer tourists to the city by the sea. It contains an\\nexhaustive description of all points of interest in\\nand about AtlanticCity. This boolc is a marked\\ncredit to the compiler.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Camden Press.\\nIt delights everybody by its thorouf^liness of\\neverything in and about Atlantic City Peraons\\nwho think of vls lug Atlantic City s: \u00c2\u00bbuld -^nd\\nfor this Hand Bo. and satisfy themselves o^. t.\\npleasures and attr.u ions.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jersey City Heiald.\\nMuch valuable infi -matlon is given by Mr. He^\\nton, of the Atlantic u-nal, in th little volu\\nwith regard to the p* dar seaside ^sort.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pu ic\\nLedger, Philadelphia.\\nThe volume Is somethin\u00c2\u00a3 more than a mere\\nHand Book. It has attr ;;tions and featm-es\\nwhich render It a auabl a* ^ulsition to the home\\nor the offlce, and iu, a compendium of information\\non seaside topics it is the comnletest publication\\nof the kind we have any know ige of.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Camden\\nDaily Post.\\nThe book Is complete in eve partJcular, as It\\ngives a general idea o most everniiing relatlne\\nto Atlantic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Ciester Local Newp\\nIt gives a historical sketch o=f therpsoi-l, f^-^e\\nscription of all the leudu i. jdac.^s. i^wit-ls pu li.*^-\\nbuildings, etc., has a map of the cltv and scventy-\\nrive beautiful illustrations. No one shoold be\\nwithout this elegant and useful book.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 AUantic\\nCity Season.\\nIt Is a complete work In its several department^\\nand shows the beautiful city it represents to an\\nadvantage.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Toms Elver Democrat.\\nThe book Is complete In every particular, as It\\ngives a general idea of mosteverythinv relating to\\nAtlantic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Chester Village Hecord.\\nA beautiful and Interesting hand book of Atlan-\\ntic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Salem Sunbean.\\nto\\nThe illustrations are weU chosen, and the rea i\\ning matter has been selected with reference to\\nthe use for which it was mtended.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Germantov\\nTelegraph.\\nIt is an interesting book, iUustrating the v\\\\\\nderous growth ana many advantages of i\\nweU-known and popular resort.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Brldgeton I\\nriot.\\nIt is a very interesting book and one that eve.y\\ntom ist will be glad to obtain.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Brldgeton Pioneer.\\nIt is tastefully printed and filled with interest-\\ning accounts of the prominent features of life\\ndown by the sea.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Salem Sunbeam.\\nThe next best tjiing to seeing a place yourself\\nis agood -gi 3-book. Those who possess\\n^)u 0. i of AMa 11. ity will not be disappointed\\nI with It in an v way. Jape May Wave.\\nThe wori is a complete and valuable one,\\nI ospecialiy to visi-^ors at that resort Camden\\nI c.ur jr.\\nIntf resting book, and one that\\n-il b glad to obtain.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 WoodbtowD\\nIt is a\\nevery tour\\nRegivn\\nO^ irsf everyvtMtortothe greatest water-\\ning the coun+r will want a copy of this\\nintejt H dBc. y -PittsbirgPost.\\nItlsanirTi- oi Ing guide to the attractions oi\\nthe famou uii mer resort on the New Jereey\\ncoast. The bootc is appropriately illustrated.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSpringfield Republican,\\nIt Is ^te with maps, illustrations, guides to\\nolaces interest, c.c. and wiU prove of great\\nliiteres ^o th(; /.housands who have been in th\\nhabit of going and who may continue to got\\nthe great City by the Sea.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mount HoUy MIitoj-.\\nIt is handsomely gotten up. well printed and\\nfinelv lllustj-ated. containg lust what every visitr\\nas Avell as resident should know respecting Atla i-\\ntic City.- Atlant jc Coast Guide.\\nThe publication Is gotten up In a ver Interest* f\\nIng way and is highly creditable to its author.\\nIt is worthy of and should have a large clrcul;--\\ntion. -New Jei-sey Coast Pilot. i\\nIt will be found of great value to all persons\\nI who contemplate visiting the famous resort.-\\nNorrlstown Ilerald.\\nCopyright, 1891, hy A. M. HKSTON, Atlantic City,", "height": "3502", "width": "2328", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "m^mm", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "iLLUSTRSTEt) IjaNlD-gOOR\\nAtlantic Gity\\nTHE CITY BY THE SEA.\\nUnsurpassed as a Wintf.r, Spring and Summer Resort.", "height": "3507", "width": "2318", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Tis the pearly shell,\\nThat murmurs of the far-off murmuring sea\\nA precious jewel, carved most curiously\\nIt is a little picture painted well.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094J^. W. Gilchr", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTHIS Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City will serve as a guide to the\\nreader, and save him the trouble of asking and answering a thousand\\nquestions. It contains just what every visitor, as well as resident, ought to\\nknow respecting the greatest watering place in the country. Many of the illus-\\ntrations are new, being drawn expressly for this work. The frontispiece, and a\\nfew others, are the property of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, kindly\\nloaned for this purpose. The map of Atlantic City is the best work of the kind\\nyet published. The descriptive features of the book were written after personal\\nvisits to the various places of interest in the city. It is hoped, therefore, that the\\nHand-Book will prove not only an invaluable companion on the spot, but an\\never-welcome and entertaining friend for future perusal and reference at the\\nhome fireside. The compiler does not presume that the book is faultless but to\\napproximate such a degree of completeness will be his constant endeavor. He\\nwill, therefore, be grateful for any errors or omissions pointed out, or corrections\\nsuggested.\\nPREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.\\nIN issuing this Hand-Book for the fourth time (three editions having been pub-\\nlished the first year) it is not for the compiler to give any excuse for thrust-\\ning forward again the same subject, other than that the demand has been\\nmade and the field is open for it. The present edition will be new even to the\\nold readers, and will, it is hoped, merit the favor of those into whose hands it\\nmay chance to fall.\\nThe Hand-Book will be published annually, with such additions and correc-\\ntions from year to year as are necessary to make it a complete guide or reference\\nbook for visitors to the City by the Sea. The edition of i8S8 is printed from new\\nplates, with new illustrations and other attractive features. In succeeding edi-\\ntions, as in this, the advertising pages, no less than the descriptive reading matter,\\nwill be confined to Atlantic City, the promotion and protection of home interests\\nbeing one of the objects of its publication.\\nThe Compiler.", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGE.\\nMap of Atlantic City,\\nPrincipal Hotels and Boarding-Houses. i-i6\\nFrontispiece The Invitation, i8\\nPoetry, 20\\nList of Illustrations, 22\\nPreface, 23\\nThe Sea (poem) 24\\nEn Route, 25\\nSummering at Absequan, 30\\nOld Times and New, 35\\nPast and Present, 39\\nAtlantic City, 42\\nWhence Came Atlantic City 47\\nWinter and Spring Seasons 5\u00c2\u00b0\\nHealth, Rest, and Pleasure, 57\\nSummer Days by the Sea, 62\\nBoardwalk and Strand, 69\\nMysteries of the Sea, 74\\nStories of Shipwreck 79\\nGunning and Fishin3^ 84\\nMortuary Statistics 91\\nInstitutions for the Afflicted 93\\nLongport and Chelsea, 97\\nHints for the Seashore, 100\\nAround and About, 106\\nStory of the Mermaul, 3\\nCustoms of the Aborigine^, Ii6\\nMemoranda for Visitors, 117\\nAtlantic City Hotels, 132\\nAlong Atlantic Avenue, 140\\nAll Seasons are Ours 150\\nHotels and Boarding-Houses in Atlantic Cii\\\\ I53\\nLeading Business Houses, I57 ^72\\nMap of Seaside Resorts, 174\\nPress Notices of Hand liook, 175", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nPage\\nFrontispiece The Invitation, i8\\nMoonlight on the Ocean (Initial), 25\\nOpera House nv\\\\d yournal Building, 27\\nThe Indian Lovers (Initial), 30\\nView of the Inlet,\\n32\\nOld Times (Initial), 35\\nThe Old Way and the New, 36\\nInlet House and Yachts (Initial), 39\\nScene on Pacific Avenue, 40\\nAspiration (Initial), 42\\nFirst Presbyterian Church, 44\\nReady for Business 46\\nOn the Beach (Initial) 47\\nCottage of Thomas C. Hand, 48\\nWater Sketch (Initial), 50\\nOn the Strand, 51\\nSolid Comfort 53\\nCrabbing Outfit (Initial), 57\\nSunrise on the Sea, 58\\nCottage of William C. Houston, 59\\nThe Regatta (Initial), 62\\nUnited States Hotel, 64\\nBoardwalk and Ocean Pier 65\\nThe Iron Pier, 67\\nYachting (Initial), 69\\nLighthouse and Life-Saving Station, 70\\nBathing at Pennsylvania Avenue, 72\\nSea Shells (Initial), 74\\nPacific and States Avenues, 76\\nTo the Rescue, 79\\nThe Wreck, 82\\nGod Knows, 83\\nThe Fisherman (Initial), 84\\nWild Duck in Grassy Bay, 85\\nTrolling for Blue Fish, 86\\nDuck Shooting on the Meadows, 89\\nThe Adieu (Initial), 93\\nMercer Home, 94\\nFishing in the Thoroughfare (Initial), 97\\nMrs. Oberholtzer s Cottage, 98\\nShell Sketch (Initial), 100\\nAttractive Cottages, 101\\nThe Traymore House, f 102\\nMichigan Building, 103\\nThe Hotel Brighton, 105\\nCottage of B. H. Brown (Initial), 106\\nThe Lighthouse, 108\\nAcademy of the Sacred Heart, 11 1\\nReal Estate and Law Building, 112\\nThe Fisherman and the Mermaid 113\\nComin Sah (Initial), 132\\nCottage of A. M. Heston 137\\nStreet Scene on Atlantic Avenue, 140\\nMusic Hall and Post-Office, 143\\nAtlantic City National Bank, 147\\n23", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "THE SEA.\\nThou glorious mirror, where the Almighty s form\\nGlasses itself in tempests in all time\\nCalm or convulsed in breeze or gale or storm,\\nIcing the pole, or in the torrid clime\\nDark-heaving boundless and sublime\\nThe image of Eternity the throne\\nOf the Invisible even from out thy slime\\nThe monsters of the deep are made each zone\\nObeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.\\nAnd I have loved thee. Ocean and my joy\\nOf youthful sports was on thy breast to be\\nBorne, like thy bubbles, onward from a boy\\nI wantoned with thy breakers they to me\\nWere a delight and if the freshening sea\\nMade them a terror, twas a pleasing fear.\\nFor I was as it were a child of thee,\\nAnd trusted to thy billows far and near.\\nAnd laid my hand upon thy mane as I do here.\\nThou art so grand, so wonderful, O Sea!\\nIn all thy depths and whispering mystery\\nForever chafing gainst thy destiny,\\nForever telling o er thy tale to me.\\nThou art the pulsing, throbbing heart of earth\\nThrobbing in chaos, ere the world had birth\\nStill art thou heaving, surging gainst her girth.\\nThou and the earth, twin-sisters, as they say,\\nIn the old prime were fashioned in one day\\nAnd therefore thou delightest evermore\\nWith her to lie and play\\nThe Surtimer hours away,\\nCurling thy loving ripples upon her quiet shore.\\nSunlight and moonlight minister to thee\\nO er the broad circle of the shoreless sea\\nHeaven s two great lights forever set and rise\\nWhile the round vault above.\\nIn vast and silent love,\\nIs gazing down upon thee with his hundred eyes.\\nSometimes thou liftest up thine hands on high\\nInto the tempest-cloud that bluis the sky,\\nHolding rough dalliance with the fitful blast.\\nWhose stiff breath, whistling shrill.\\nPierces, with deadly chill.\\nThe wet crew feebly clinging to the shattered mast.\\nFoam white along the border of the sho ^e\\nThine onward leaping billows plunge and roar;\\nWhile o er the pebbly ridges .slowly glide\\nCloaked figures, dim and gray,\\nThrough the thick mist of spray\\nWatchers for some struck vessel in the boiling tide.\\nAll night thou utterest forth thy solemn moan.\\nCounting the weary minutes all alone\\nJ hen in the morning thou dost calmly lie.\\nDeep-blue, ere yet the sun\\nHis day-work hath begun,\\nUnder the opening windows of the golden sky.\\nLoKD Byron, in Childe Harold.\\n24", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Eri I^oute.\\nThe sea, the sea, the open sea\\nThe blue, the fresh, the ever free\\nI never was on the dull, tame shore,\\nBut I loved the great sea more and more,\\nAnd backward flew to her billowy breast,\\nLike a bird that seeketh her mother s nest.\\nBarry Cornwall.\\nANCY one s selt\\nseated in a com-\\nfortable railway\\ncoach, and the\\nride from Phila-\\ndelphia to Atlan-\\ntic City in search\\nof health or pleas-\\nure is not entirely\\n_ devoid of inter-\\nest. The traveler has the choice of three routes, two of which are a\\npart of the Pennsylvania Railroad system. The other route is by\\nway of the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad, operated by\\nthe Reading Company, which starts from the foot of Walnut\\nStreet. The popular routes, however, are the West Jersey and the\\nCamden and Atlantic, operated by the Pennsylvania Company.\\nCrossing from the foot of Market Street, Philadelphia, the traveler\\ntakes the West Jersey cars at Camden and passes south near the\\nDelaware River to Gloucester, a city of over six thousand inhab-\\nitants, devoted to manufacturing. It was founded in 1689, and\\nwas held by Lord Cornwallis, with five thousand British troops, in\\n1777. The next station is Westville, near the mouth of Timber\\nCreek, where Captain Cornelius Jacobese Mey, of the Dutch West\\n3 25", "height": "3425", "width": "2218", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "26 Hand- Bo ok of Atlantic City.\\nIndia Company, founded Fort Nassau in 162 1. The Colonists\\nwere soon at feud with the Indians, and being decoyed into an un-\\nfavorable position, they were all massacred and the fort was\\ndestroyed. The train next passes the city of Woodbury, which\\none authority says should be spelled Woodberry, a place of about\\nfour thousand inhabitants, many of them Philadelphia business\\nmen. The place takes it name from the family of Woods, who\\ncame from Berry, m Lancashire, England, in 1684. Richard\\nWood, the first settler, came out with the earliest emigrants to\\nPhiladelphia. Leaving his family in that town, he descended the\\nDelaware and paddled two or three miles up the Piscozackasingz-\\nKil, now called Woodbury Creek, until he came to a likely place\\nfor an habitation. In the winter of 1777, Lord Cornwallis had\\nhis headquarters in the village of Woodbury. During his stay\\nsome of his men seized a valuable cow belonging to an ardent\\nWhig. The latter waited upon his Lordship and requested a\\nrestoration of the property. Cornwallis was desirous of knowing\\nthe political principles of the man. The sturdy patriot tried to\\nevade the question, but at length cow or no cow the truth would\\nout, when his Lordship, in admiration of the man s independence,\\nrestored to him his cow. Succeeding stations are Wenonah, a very\\npretty suburban village, Sewell, Pitman Grove, and Glassboro, the\\nlatter a town of four thousand inhabitants. The place was settled\\nby a family of Germans named Stangeer, in the latter half of the\\neighteenth century, who commenced the manufacture of glass.\\nThey failed in business, and the works were purchased in 1781 by\\nColonel Thomas Heston, a Revolutionary patriot. The place was\\nknown as Heston s Glass Works until some years after, when, at\\nthe suggestion of a member of the celebrated Gloucester Fox\\nHunting Club, on the occasion of a convivial gathering at Colonel\\nHeston s house, after a hunt and capture of Reynard, the name\\nwas changed to Glassboro, and has ever since borne that name.\\nThe works are still in the possession of Colonel Heston s de-\\nscendants, the Whitneys his daughter, Bathsheba, having mar-\\nried Captain Eben Whitney and are the largest as well as the\\noldest in the country. Beyond Clayton, with its three thousand\\ninhabitants, the train passes the vineyards of Franklinville, lona,\\nand Malaga, and thence to Newfield, where express trains some-\\ntimes stop. After leaving Newfield, there are two or three small\\nhamlets before reaching May s Landing, the county seat of Atlantic\\nCounty, containing about one thousand inhabitants. This village\\nwas founded by George May in 1710, and is at the head of navi-\\ngation on the Great Egg Harbor River. The greatest water power\\nin the State is at this place, furnishing motive power for a large\\ncotton mill, owned by the Wood brothers, one of whom is President\\nof the West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad.\\nIn the latter part of 1S13, the sloop New Jersey, from May s Land-", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "En Route,\\n27\\ning,^ manned by Captain Barton and two hands, was taken by a\\nBritish armed schooner off Cape May. A young middy, two Eng-\\nlishmen and an Irishman were put on board the Jersey, with orders\\nOPERA HOUSE AND JOURNAL BUILDING.\\nto follow the schooner. But three Yankees were not to be beaten by\\nsuch poor odds as this. Barton and his men soon recovered com-\\nmand of the sloop aiid run her in at Somers Point, with the middy", "height": "3503", "width": "2374", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "28 Hand- Book of Atlantic City*\\nand his three assistants as prisoners. The first was confined for\\nawhile and then exchanged, and of the latter, the two Englishmen\\nsoon went to work in the neighborhood, and the Irishman enlisted\\non board one of Jefferson s gun-boats and fought bravely for the\\ngridiron. The last station before reaching Atlantic City is Pleas-\\nantville, a thriving village, situated on a bluff overlooking the bay.\\nIf the traveler prefers, he may return to Philadelphia by another\\nroute, round-trip tickets being good on either of the two roads op-\\nerated by the Pennsylvania Company. Absecon, the first station, is\\nsituated on the bay shore two miles above Pleasantville, and is inhab-\\nited by a considerable number of well-to-do people, many of whom\\nare either commanders of or interested in vessel property. The\\nhistory of the town dates from 1695, when Thomas Budd, the owner\\nof many thousand acres of land on the beaches and the mainland,\\ndisposed of large tracts to actual settlers. Each of his deeds has this\\nclause inserted With the privilege of cutting cedar, and com-\\nmonidge for cattell, etc., on ye swamps and beaches laid out by ye\\nsaid Thomas Budd for commons. The exaction of these privileges\\nat this date would cause much trouble, as a large portion of the\\nbuilt-up portion of Atlantic City stands upon one of the surveys of\\nThomas Budd.\\nAbove Absecon is Egg Harbor City, a German settlement, where\\nthe celebrated Egg Harbor wines are made. Elwood is the site of\\na projected city, with parks, avenues, and squares laid out on the\\nlong reaches of sandy soil. Hammonton, midway between Atlantic\\nCity and Camden, is a prosperous town of three thousand inhabit-\\nants, settled by New Englanders in i860, and situated on the old\\npine plains of Atlantic County. The town is beautifully laid out\\nand the inhabitants are largely engaged in fruit raising. The train\\npasses Winslow, Waterford, Atco, Berlin, Kirkwood, and other\\nsmaller villages before reaching Haddonfield, six miles from Cam-\\nden. This is a borough of two thousand inhabitants, where many\\nPhiladelphia business men have their suburban homes. It was set-\\ntled by Friends or Quakers in 1690 and was named after an eminent\\nQuakeress named Elizabeth Haddon. The Continental Congress\\nremained several weeks here, and the place was afterward occupied\\nby British troops. Several very interesting Revolutionary incidents\\nconnected with Haddonfield have found their way into print, but\\nare too lengthy to be copied into this Hand-Book. During the\\nFrench Revolution, Louis Philippe, who subsequently became King\\nof France, made his home for a short time with one of the Quaker\\nfamilies of the village. Leaving Haddonfield, the train passes\\nthrough a pretty country, and finally reaches Camden, whence the\\nferry-boats convey the passengers to Philadelphia. The distance is\\nsixty-four miles by the West Jersey route, and sixty by the Camden\\nand Atlantic, and the time is usually about ninety minutes. Through-\\nout the winter, spring, and summer seasons there are frequent ex-", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "En Route.\\n29\\npress trains over both roads, and attached to each train are elabo-\\nrately furnished parlor cars in charge of attentive porters.\\nThe special care in the management of both roads is exhibited\\nin the regularity with which the trains are run, the close connection\\nmaintained with other railroads, by which transfers may be made\\nwithout delay, and the absence of serious accident within recent\\nyears. For several years the Pennsylvania Company has made an\\neffort to meet travel from points beyond the line of the Camden and\\nAtlantic and West Jersey Roads, and the schedules are now arranged\\nwith the view of securing by close connection the convenience of\\nparties arriving from New York and points beyond, and of those\\ncoming upon the numerous lines centering in Philadelphia. It is\\nspecially a passenger railway company, and to satisfy this trade it is\\nconstantly adding first-class facilities in every branch of its business.\\nIndeed, in equipment and management the Company has no equal\\namong the lines running to the seacoast.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "^ummeping at Jibsequan.\\nbefore the first settlement of the\\ncolony of Nova Csesarea, or New\\nJersey, by Europeans, the In-\\ndians who inhabited its broad\\nforests instituted summer excur-\\nsions to the seashore. It is re-\\ncorded by old writers that the\\nearliest white inhabitants found\\nthat the Indians who lived along\\nthe Jersey side of the Delaware had trails\\nto various places on the coast. Along\\nthese narrow pathways they made annual\\nsummer journeys for the purpose of fish-\\ning, fowling and bathing. The queen,\\nthe princesses and the squaws spent\\nmuch of the cold season tanning deer\\nskins and making them into robes, the\\nlatter being embroidered with pearls procured from various\\nkinds of shell fish, or with the seeds of wild fruits, such as the\\ncherry, persimmon, sassafras and brier vine. Many necklaces,\\nbracelets, anklets and head bands were formed of similar articles.\\nThey also made and embroidered the robes for the chief, the fight-\\ning braves and the male Indians of a lower rank. They manufac-\\ntured the baskets which were taken to the seacoast to be filled with\\nthe eggs of the water fowl, or with fish, oysters, wild cherries,\\nwhortleberries and persimmons. The male aborigines manufactured\\nbows, arrows, arrowheads, quivers, tomahawks and scalping knives,\\nand killed deer and other animals to procure skins of which to\\nmake the robes and other articles to be worn. Thus both the men\\nand the women contributed their share toward a pleasant sojourn\\nat the seashore. When the warm days of May came the squaws\\nhurried to plant the Indian corn in order to be ready for the\\n30", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Summering at Absequan, 31\\njourney, and with the advent of June the tribe was ready for the\\nmarch to the chosen spot by the sea. The men armed themselves\\nwith their tomahawks, scalping knives, bows, and quivers full of\\narrows and arrowheads. The mother squaws lashed their black-\\neyed pappooses to their shoulders and then further encumbered\\nthemselves with baskets and other articles which would be needed\\nat the summer encampment. Thus equipped, the whole tribe started\\nin Indian file along the shaded path, as cheerful and happy as the\\npassengers of a modern railroad palace car en route to Atlantic\\nCity.\\nWhen night came the tribe encamped in the forest, ate their\\nsuppers, and lighted fires to keep the wild beasts at a respectful\\ndistance. Then they would lay down upon the ground to sleep,\\nand perhaps dream of anticipated pleasures at the seashore. Fre-\\nquently their slumbers were disturbed by the hooting of the owls,\\nthe screams of the panthers, and the howling of the wolves which\\ninfested the surrounding wilderness. As soon as the morning sun\\ngilded the tops of the trees they arose and partook of a breakfast\\nof venison and parched corn, and then took a final start for their\\nplace of summer encampment on Absequan, or, as we now call it,\\nAbsecon Beach, whose oyster beds were a god-send to the aborig-\\nines.\\nHaving arrived at the seashore they prepared for a sojourn of\\nmany weeks by erecting temporary lodges of skins or cedar bark\\nand boughs, where they lived and feasted on the luxuries so boun-\\ntifully supplied by the waters, the marshes and the forests. When\\nso inclined they sung their uncouth songs and danced their\\npeculiar dances. Sometimes they bathed in the surf and made\\nmerry as only savages can. They visited the tribe that had a per-\\nmanent residence on Minicunk Island, further up the coast, and\\ndoubtless enjoyed these sociables as though they themselves and\\ntheir rude entertainers were people of the highest civilization.\\nWhen not thus engaged, the men went fishing, fowling, searching\\nfor the eggs of the marsh hens and gulls, or gathered shell fish on\\nthe flats of the bay. The Indians regarded June as the month\\nof eggs, for then mud hens, willets and gulls made their nests, in\\nwhich each bird deposited a dozen or fifteen beautifully spotted\\neggs about half the size of a domestic hen s ^gg.\\nThe visiting Indians would often borrow from Minicunk tribe\\ntheir cedar-log canoes or dug-outs, and taking their baskets with\\nthem they would paddle up the Thoroughfare and over the bay to a\\ncluster of islands now called the Seven Islands, in accordance with\\ntheir number. Having reached one of the islands, they went on\\nshore with their baskets, which were soon filled with eggs, the\\nnests being numerous. When the baskets were filled the joyful\\negg-gatherers paddled back to their encampment, when the whole\\ntribe joined in a feast of roasted or boiled eggs.", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "HP^\\nMl V 111", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "Summering at Absequan, 33\\nTo the Indians the seacoast from Little Egg Harbor to Great\\nEgg Harbor was an earthly paradise, given them by the great\\nManitou, but probably with the reservation that at some future\\ntime it would be assigned to a more intelligent and enterprising\\nrace of human beings. While the men of the tribe were engaged\\nin procuring provisions, the women attended to the children,\\ncooked the food procured by their lords and masters, gathered the\\nmaterials, and made circular beds of fire on which to roast terrapin,\\noysters and clams. At this encampment the chief of the tribe\\nstrutted about, proudly displaying his white and purple pearl-\\nembroidered costume, deeming himself the most gorgeously dressed\\nand greatest monarch on earth. Of course, the young braves\\nwooed the dark-eyed and gayly-dressed maidens and marriages\\nwere as frequently contracted at the seashore in those times as in\\nthese later days.\\nDoubtless the Indians enjoyed their savage way of living and\\ntheir peculiar pastimes at the seashore quite as much as do the\\nvisitors of to-day, who bring their money, diamonds and other\\ncostly jewels and robe themselves in their silks, their satins, their\\nvelvets, or other profusion of finery. Moreover, the wealthy, beau-\\ntiful and intelligent seaside visitors of to-day, residing in palatial\\nhotels or fancifully constructed cottages, and living on luxuries\\nfrom every nation of the earth, lovfe, envy or hate each other the\\nsame as the Indians who patronized these beaches centuries ago.\\nA certain William Wood, in his description of New Jersey, pub-\\nlished in 1634, gives us an idea of some of the habits of our abo-\\nriginal friends, the Jersey Indians, in the following classic lines\\nThe dainty Indian maise\\nWas eat with clamp-shells out of wooden trays,\\nThe luscious lobster with the craw-fish raw,\\nThe brinnish oyster, mussel, periwigge,\\nAnd tortoise sought by the Indian squaw,\\nWhich to the flats dance many a winter s jigge,\\nTo dive for cockles and to dig for clams.\\nWhereby her lazy husband s guts she crammsy\\nThe last line of the foregoing beautiful stanza is most likely\\nliterally true. A similar practice is prevalent in some sections of\\nthe State even unto this day, being one of the habits of the aborigi-\\nnes which our lazy forefathers were quick to adopt and transmit to\\nsucceeding generations. In every community there are men whose\\nwives, like the Indian squaw, are required to do all the drudgery\\nand often feed and clothe the indolent lords of creation.\\nThese aboriginal Jerseymen were a festive race. Besides the\\nannual visits to the seashore, they had a great festival or green corn\\ndance, at which they ate enormous quantities of baked soquanock,\\nor hard-shell clams, and sickissuog, or soft-shell clams. They", "height": "3420", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "34 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nutilized the colored shells of the poquanhock for coin, by cutting\\nout the central black portion, which in Indian numismatics was\\ncalled luckahuok, or black money. Black money had twice the\\nvalue of white money or wampum.\\nWhen the melancholy winds of October began to blow, the\\nIndians prepared to leave their temporary wigwams at the seashore.\\nThey loaded themselves with dried shell-fish, some winkle shells\\nfor drinking cups, and a few large seashells intended for crockery\\nware in the winter wigwams. The mothers lashed their pappooses\\nto their shoulders, and with a string of dried shell-fish on each\\narm they were equipped for the journey. The men carried their\\nbows and arrows, besides bundles of wild fowl or strings of dried\\nshell-fish, and the whole tribe then commenced the journey back\\nto their winter wigwams.\\nGenerations have come and gone since the Indians ceased travel-\\ning their well-known trails to the seashore, and everything about\\nthe country is changed. Only the ocean is the same. The red\\nman no longer shoots his sharp arrows at the immense flocks of\\nwater fowl, nor draws the fluttering fish from the briny waters, nor\\nchases the swiftly bounding deer through the grand old solitudes.\\nNo longer does the Indian lover wander through the woodland\\nwith his swarthy maiden, talking in tones of love as the whippoor-\\nwill chants its twilight song in the topmost branches of the trees.\\nNo longer does the lover tell the maiden that her eyes are as\\nbright as the moon on an April night, her hair as black and glossy\\nas the raven s wing, and her form as graceful as that of the gentle\\nfawn. No longer do the Indians listen to the grinding of the\\nshingle in the surf, nor to the drum of the ocean as it marshals its\\nforces for a northeast storm, believing it to be the voice of the Sea\\nKing who dwells in the bosom of the Great Sea Water. All are\\ngone to the Happy Hunting Grounds, where they will dwell in the\\nsmiles of the Great Spirit forever.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "Old ^imes and jleYl.\\nHE building of the Cam-\\nden and Atlantic Railroad\\ninaugurated a change from\\nthe old-time method of\\nreaching the seashore. Be-\\nfore the days of Atlantic\\nCity, a generation or two\\nago, seashore pilgrimage\\nwas a dusty and weary\\npenance. If one started\\nfrom Philadelphia, the jour-\\nney to Long Branch was by\\nthe way of the old Camden and\\nAmboy Railroad to Hightstown,\\nand thence in the lumbering\\nJersey-wagon, over the sandy\\nroad, to the sea. The travelers\\nstarted aboyt sunrise, and\\nthought themselves lucky if they\\nreached the coast in time for\\nsupper.\\nOf all wheeled vehicles, the\\ngreatest atrocity was the Jersey-\\nwagon. It seemed to have been\\ndesigned by the Shakers in pro-\\n^^^^_^______ _ test of every semblance of com-\\nfort. Its back and sides ci e as free from graceful curves as a ready-\\nmade coffin. It had springs, but they were cumbrous contrivances\\nof unyielding wood, so constructed as to make riding a weariness\\nto the flesh. The horses were urged to a jog-trot by the driver with\\nrepeated blows of a whip, which was generally so worn out as to be\\ndestitute of a lash. The more robust passengers, on arriving at\\ntheir destination, were able to climb out of the wagon, but feebler\\nones and the invalids had to be lifted out.\\nIn dusty weather the accumulation of grime on the faces of the\\npassengers was so great as to make them resemble natives of the in-\\nterior of Africa. Cape May was reached by steamboats, whose voy-\\nage consumed the best part of a day. There was also a stage line\\n35", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "36\\nHand Book oj Atlantic City.\\nfrom Camden to Cape May. The Jersey-wagons left Camden at\\nfour o clock in the morning and reached Cape May about midnight.\\nThe passengers stopped for three meals, and the voracious green-\\nhead flies made one continuous meal off of the passengers.\\nLong Branch then consisted of a few very plain hotels, mostly two", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "Old Times a?id New. 37\\nstories in height. The houses at Cape May, which were generally\\nwhite, had red shingle roofs. Scattered along the coast were farm-\\nhouses where boarders were taken at low rates. The proprietors\\nwere not versed in the arts of modern hotel-keeping. They fed their\\nguests on chicken, fish and oysters. The chickens and fish were\\nserved at the regular meals, and the oysters were in a heap under\\na shed, where the boarders were free to go and eat as many as they\\nchose to open. A quarter of a dollar a day would pay for a boat\\nand bait for fishing or crabbing. This, it should be remembered,\\nwas before Atlantic City was even thought of. Four or five dollars\\na week paid for board at the boarding-houses. The leading hotels\\ncharged ten dollars a week but one or two, in order to show their\\nsuperiority, laid on an extra half dollar, making the price ten and a\\nhalf a week.\\nAnd yet, with all the hardships and roughness of a seashore holi-\\nday, they had glorious times in those primitive days. There was\\na delightful simplicity. Within reasonable bounds, people did very\\nmuch as they pleased. There was no rowdying nor any drunken-\\nness, and gambling was unknown. When the men went fishing\\nin the morning they rolled up their trowsers to the knees; when\\nthey dressed for dinner, it was simply to roll them down again.\\nIt is all changed now. The ride from Philadelphia to Atlantic\\nCity is made in ninety minutes by rail, and the traveler has the\\nchoice of three roads. Cape May is reached in something over\\ntwo hours. The surf beats on the beach exactly as it did of old,\\nbut modern civilization has made bathing in it a luxury, instead of\\nthe bothersome penance our fathers found it.\\nThere is a wide contrast between the old and new, and with the\\nexception of a few very ancient people, every one is agreed that\\nthe new ways are much superior to the old. In the matter of sea-\\nside comfort and pleasure, the weight of public opinion is largely\\non the side of Atlantic City, which has eclipsed the older but less\\nfavored resorts along the coast. The attractions here do not depend\\non any special conditions. Atlantic City seems to have been\\nmarked out by nature as a point where all the forces needed for the\\nconstitution of a complete resort should centralize. The beach is\\nfine, the surf-bathing famous, the fishing and sailing superb. The\\ncity is well supplied with every convenience that can contribute to\\nthe health and comfort of its inhabitants.\\nWhat could have been more perfect than the conception of this\\ngreat seaside resort by its founders They prophesied that it\\nwould stand pre-eminent among its kind. Looking at it to-day, in\\nan impartial sense, the visitor immediately arrives at the conclusion\\nthat Atlantic City is the queen of watering places and the predic-\\ntions of its original owners have been fulfilled. Bustle and life are\\nexhibited at every step, activity is everywhere, and amidst the\\nwhirling of amusement male and female alike are enjoying them-", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "3\u00c2\u00bb\\nnana-nook of Atia?iric Ctty.\\nselves in one continual round. At the rising of Old Sol until long\\nafter the shadows of twilight have deepened into night, the ball of\\nunalloyed enjoyment rolls merrily along. There is no monotony\\non the island, or if there is it keeps itself carefully concealed in\\nsome of the hotels that never advertise. There are all sorts of\\narchitecture, all sorts of life, and all sorts of people in the place\\nhigh-toned, low-toned, betwixt-and-between, fair to middling,\\nhalf-and-half, black and white, old gold, turkey red, and chrome\\nyellow. If you don t see what you want, it is because you haven t\\nasked for it.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "Past and Present.\\nANY years before the birth of Atlantic City, that is, in the\\nearly days of American history, all the population of\\nwhat afterward became the United States\\nlived near the Atlantic coast, and\\nfor many\\n^p years after\\nthe Revo-\\nlution the\\ninhabitants\\nhad pene-\\ntrated but comparatively a short distance in-\\nland, so that the ocean, with its indenting\\nbays and sounds, and the rivers emptying\\ninto it along every part of the coast, fur-\\nnished attractive facilities for habitation and\\npleasure. The seashore was easy of access in\\nsummer time, even for that portion of the\\npopulation most remote from the coast, and the delights of the\\nelement were available for a people seemingly amphibious by\\nnature, by history and by practice\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a people who had little idea\\nof recreation that was not conducted near the seashore.\\nAlthough the people of the United States are now scattered far\\nand wide over countless square miles of country, until they have\\noccupied nearly every portion of a territory lying between two great\\n39", "height": "3493", "width": "2161", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "40\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\noceans three thousand miles apart, and with an expanse from north\\nto south nearly as great, they have not lost the distinguishing\\ntraits of their early history, but still have an inherent love for Old\\nOcean. Watering-places are as much a necessity to denizens of\\nthe interior as to those living in States bordering on the Atlantic\\nn\\n-^-t j^ j ^y\\nwK^Bk\\nSCENE ON PACIFIC AVENUE, LOOKING\\nEASTWARD,\\nOcean. Descendants of the\\nfathers still love the ocean\\nhaunts and seashore resorts,\\nand year after year there are\\npilgrimages to the ocean from\\nevery inland section, the de-\\nvotees traveling thousands of\\nmiles and numbering hundreds\\nof thousands of souls,annually.\\nIn process of time favorable situations upon the Atlantic coast\\nhave become well known, even famous, among comiliunities a\\nthousand miles away from the sound of the surf or sight of the\\nrolling billow, and it has come to pass that people of these inland\\nsections know the seashore better than some who dwell within\\nreach of the ocean breezes. Among the places thus distinguished", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Fast and Present.\\n41\\nand highly favored none present more of intrinsic merit than\\nAtlantic City, the great American winter and summer sanitarium. In\\npoint of mild climatic influences, and situations affording summer\\nconditions prolonged throughout a greater portion of the year, some\\nplaces lying in the lower latitudes of this country may be considered\\nsuperior, when those conditions alone are considered, but with\\nregard to all other features characterizing the place, Atlantic City\\nstands above and beyond any other resort on the Atlantic coast.\\nThe Atlantic City beach has become celebrated as among the\\nfinest on the coast of the United States. The surf, pouring in-\\nward from the expanse of a great ocean and washing a beach of\\nclearest sands, which glitter in the summer sunrays and send back\\nin myriad flashing streams the water which never ceases thus to\\nadvance and retreat the endless panorama of life upon the water,\\nthe strand, and the boardwalk, constantly in motion and ever-\\nchanging the rolling porpoise enlivening the outlook the light-\\nhouse and hfe-saving station at the inlet\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all these and many other\\nattractions are found at Atlantic City, to say nothing of the mild\\nand healthful climate in winter, the cool, invigorating breezes in\\nsummer, and the proximity to centres which renders its location\\nwithin such easy reach that its denizens may, within a few hours,\\nfind themselves in either, of the great cities of New York, Phila-\\ndelphia or Baltimore.\\n^.^V", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "yitlaritic City.\\nThere is that lovely island fair,\\nAnd the pale health-seeker findeth there\\nThe wine of life in its pleasant air.\\nTLANTIC CITY, the most\\npopular resort on the Atlantic\\ncoast, is situated between Ab-\\nsecon Inlet and Great Egg\\nHarbor Inlet, within sixty miles\\nof Philadelphia and one hun-\\ndred and fifty miles of New\\nYork, by railroad. It is dis-\\ntant five miles from the main-\\nland, the intervening space\\nbeing an expanse of salt marshes.\\nThe island, in its chrysalis con-\\ndition, before it felt the electric\\ntouch of a railroad, was known\\nas Absecon Beach, which name\\nstill exists in the adjoining vil-\\nlage of Absecon, now put com-\\npletely in the shade by its suc-\\ncessful neighbor, and in the official name of the lighthouse, Abse-\\ncon Light. As stated in a preceding chapter, it is reached by\\nthree railroads from Philadelphia the Camden and Atlantic, West\\nJersey and Atlantic, and the Philadelphia and Atlantic City.\\nFrom New York and the East the Pennsylvania Railroad via\\nTrenton connects with the West Jersey road at Camden. The\\ntime from Philadelphia is one hour and a half, and from New\\nYork four hours and a half. The Philadelphia and Atlantic City\\nrailroad connects with the New Jersey Southern and Central Rail-\\nroad of New Jersey, from New York.\\nJeremiah Leeds was probably the first permanent resident of the\\nisland. He came here in 1783, when a pair of boots or a roll of\\n42", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Atlantic City. 43\\ncalico would have bought the entire island. The early history of\\nAbsecon Beach is filled with stories of drowning, piracy and\\nshipwreck. According to tradition, vessels were lured ashore on\\ndark and stormy nights by false beacons erected on poles. When\\nthe crews had been drowned or individually knocked on the head,\\nso the stories go, the crafts were plundered of everything of\\nvalue. One chronicler boldly asserts, with apparent perversion of\\nthe truth, that, even after the first church was built, a lookout was\\nadded above the cupola, in which a man was stationed during\\nservice to promptly acquaint the devout congregation of a disaster,\\nso that rival wreckers in the neighborhood of Barnegat or Brigan-\\ntine should not get the start of them. Another prevaricating\\nwriter says that the children were taught to lisp the affecting prayer\\nthat may still be heard in undertone in some of the oldest house-\\nholds off shore, uttered from sheer force of habit: God bless\\nmam, pap, and all us poor, miserable sinners, and send a ship\\nashore before morning.\\nLong before the days of railroads Absecon Beach bore the grue-\\nsome name among sailors of Jack s Graveyard. There was no\\nlighthouse then, and often the beach was strewn with wreck, and\\namong the debris many a time lay the dead body of a sailor. Ovei\\nat Absecon they still tell thrilling stories of drowning and ship-\\nwreck. Besides the Leeds family, two other families owned most\\nof the land on which Atlantic City is built the Steelmans and\\nChamberlains. The mother of the numerous Leeds progeny kept\\nthe old Atlantic House as a tavern for oystermen and traders. It\\nIS the oldest house in Atlantic City, and was built about the year\\n1812, but has since been enlarged. It originally stood near the\\nThoroughfare at Baltic and Florida Avenues, but was moved to its\\npresent site on Baltic Avenue, near Massachusetts.\\nForty years ago the location of Atlantic City was still an almost\\nuninhabited island. It was so uninviting that when the project to\\nmake it a summer resort was instituted, the idea was ridiculed as be-\\ning utterly impracticable and scarcely worth the consideration of\\nsane men. Said a conservative old capitalist: Callitasand-patch,\\na desolation, a swamp, a mosquito territory, but do not talk to me\\nabout any city in such a place as that. In the first place, you can t\\nbuild a city there, and, in the second place, if you did, you\\ncouldn t get anybody to go there. The conservative old capi-\\ntalist was in due time gathered unto his fathers, and the enterprising\\nmen who set to work to plant a city have had the satisfaction of\\nseeing more than their most sanguine expectations realized.\\nThe island began to awaken from its slumbering obscurity in the\\nearly part of 1852, when a glass manufacturer of New Jersey, labor-\\ning under the difficulties produced by almost impassable roads and\\nconsequent delays in the transportation of goods to Philadelphia,\\nconceived the idea of starting a railroad. Besides this plan for in-", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "44 Hand-Book of Atlantic City,\\ncreasing his own business facilities, he also proposed to make .the\\nnew road an outlet from Philadelphia to the sea, as well as a valuable\\nfreight transport for a manufacturing district. This was Samuel\\nRichards, the first mover in the creation of Atlantic City, and now\\nthe only survivor of the original board of directors of the Camden\\nand Atlantic Railroad Company. His associates were Hon. Andrew\\nK. Hay, Stephen Colwell, John C. DeCosta, Joseph Porter, William\\nCoffin, Enoch Doughty and Jonathan R. Pitney. The first pro-\\njecting visit to the solitary marshes and sand-hills of what is now\\nAtlantic City was made in the early part of 1852 j an act of incor-\\nporation was obtained in the spring, and in September of the same\\nyear a contract was made for the construction of the road. The\\nengineer was Richard B. Osborne. The road was completed and\\npassenger trains were run on it for the first time on July i, 1854.\\nMeanwhile Bedloe s Hotel and a little house called Cottage Retreat\\nhad been erected and the United States Hotel was so nearly com-\\npleted that the first excursionists, numbering six hundred, were given\\ndinner there. The next year the Surf House, Congress Hall, an-\\nother hotel and two cottages on Tennessee Avenue went up. As an\\nadjunct to and arising out of the railroad company, the Camden and\\nAtlantic Land Company was organized and chartered. This com-\\npany purchased the land for seventeen dollars and fifty cents per\\nacre. The money was paid over in old Aunt Hannah Shillingsworth s\\nHotel in Absecon. Then began the rise in values that has made so\\nmany people rich, though, with the usual irony of fate, the descend-\\nants of the original owners and settlers are still poor. Much of the\\nland is now valued at one hundred dollars per lineal foot. The\\nsame land was purchased by Jeremiah Leeds in 1783 at forty cents\\nan acre. The city was incorporated immediately after the purchase\\nof the land, but for the first year or two it took nearly all the men\\namong the permanent residents to fill the offices. Chalkley S. Leeds\\nwas the first mayor. The city limits now cover about one-third of\\nthe entire island. The original boundary was from the inlet to\\nCalifornia Avenue, but the lower limit was afterward extended ta\\nDry Inlet.\\nAlthough scarcely more than a quarter of a century old, Atlantic\\nCity is undoubtedly the most popular of all seaside resorts. Its won-\\nderful growth in the last twenty years, its rise from an uninhabited\\nseries of sand-hills and a long stretch of sandy beach, where the only\\nvisitors were countless numbers of sea fowls, would be even more\\nremarkable had it not been for its admirable situation, delightful\\nclimate, and contiguity to Philadelphia.\\nIn 1876 the increasing importance of the place made another\\nrailroad desirable, and the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad\\nCompany was incorporated. The construction was commenced in\\nApril, 1877, and the first through train was run on June 25th of the\\nsame year. It is now operated by what is commonly known as the", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "46 Hand- Book of Atlantic City.\\nReading Company, of Philadelphia. The competing facilities af-\\nforded by this road have been of the greatest benefit to the city and\\nhave aided materially in the development of the place.\\nEarly in the spring of 1880 the West Jersey Division of the Penn-\\nsylvania Railroad extended its line to Atlantic City. The opening\\nof the West Jersey was of exceptional benefit to the city, since a\\ndirect route to New York city, without change of cars, was thereby\\nafforded.\\nThe nomenclature of the streets of Atlantic City is especially\\nhappy. The great main avenues running parallel with the ocean,\\nfive hundred and fifty feet apart, have a breezy suggestiveness of\\ncoolness in their names Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic while the\\nwide thoroughfares that cross them at right angles, bearing the\\nnames of the States of the Union, illustrate the patriotism of those\\nwho founded the city.\\nThe advancement of Atlantic City since the completion of the\\nthree railroads has been unprecedented in the history of watering-\\nplaces and health resorts, even in this progressive country, and sug-\\ngests a comparison with the magic progress of Chicago, Denver or\\nLeadville. The city has spread itself, literally as well as figuratively,\\nin actual size as well as in population, and the value of property has\\nincreased tenfold. Lots on Atlantic Avenue now sell for from one\\nhundred dollars to three hundred dollars per foot, and choice lots\\non Pacific Avenue bring as much as one hundred and twenty-five\\ndollars per foot. The tendency is still upward in every part of the\\ncity.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Whence Came Atlantic City?\\nI will learn of thee a prayer,\\nTo Him who gave a home so fair,\\nA lot so blest as ours\\nThe God who made for thee and me,\\nThis sweet, fair isle amid the sea.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094William Cullen Bryant.\\nT is apparent that the fame of\\nAtlantic City is grounded not\\nalone upon those qualities which\\ngive it prominence as a summer\\nresort. It is a great seaside city,\\nwhere in every part of the year\\nthe health and pleasure seekers\\ncrowd the hotels and lounge on\\nits famous beach. In summer the\\nmagnificent bathing and the fa-\\nmous fishing and sailing attract\\nthousands; in winter the genial\\ntemperature, bright sky, and other\\ndelightful features make it the stop-\\nping-place for a grand army of\\nthose who seek to escape the rigor\\nof northern climes. The resident population of Atlantic City has\\nincreased within ten years from twenty-two hundred to ten\\nthousand, while in summer the visitors increase the population to\\nseventy-five thousand. There are several good schools, with an\\nattendance of two thousand school children, Presbyterian, Epis-\\ncopal, Roman Catholic, Methodist and Baptist churches, Friends\\nMeeting House, a City Hall, and a large and very attractive Opera\\nHouse.\\nAs a winter resort Atlantic City is largely patronized, not only\\nby people from Baltimore and Philadelphia, but by many from\\nNew York and the Eastern cities. The wonderful tonic and cura-\\ntive influence of the sea air has been thoroughly tested within\\nrecent years, and hundreds have been benefited by a sojourn at the\\nseaside in the winter.\\n47", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "48\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nThe peculiarity of Atlantic City s position, the salubrity of its\\nclimate, the singular dryness of the atmosphere, and the mildness\\nof the temperature render the place a desirable resort in the fall\\nand spring as well as the winter months. Hot and cold sea-\\nwater baths are provided throughout the year.\\nConvalescents from typhoid fever, those suffering from malaria\\nand bronchial troubles, or those who desire and need rest from\\nthe cares and anxieties of their daily vocations, can here derive\\ngreat benefit. If they will learn the hygienic advantages of Atlantic\\nCOTTAGE OF THOMAS C. HAND, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.\\nCity they will cease to go long distances or undertake tedious\\njourneys.\\nThe well-ascertained salubrity of Atlantic City has made it the\\nchief winter health resort in the United States.\\nIts hotels are the finest and most comfortable on the coast.\\nIt has a perfect system of sanitation.\\nIt has an abundant water supply from natural springs on the\\nmainland.\\nIts death rate is smaller than that of most other cities of the\\ncountry.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Whence Came Atlantic City 49\\nIt is lighted with gas and electricity, and has a first-class vol-\\nunteer fire department, with several engines and hose carriages,\\nand two hook-and-ladder trucks.\\nIt has ample telegraph and telephone facilities.\\nIts people are intelligent, liberal, and cosmopolitan, and they\\ncordially welcome new residents or visitors.\\nAtlantic City is separated from the mainland by an arm of the\\nsea, called the Thoroughfare, across which there are three railroad\\nbridges and one turnpike bridge. A hard, smooth strand stretches\\nfrom Absecon Inlet to Great Egg Harbor Inlet, and at low tide it\\naffords a splendid drive ten miles in length.\\nA passenger railway traverses Atlantic Avenue from the Inlet\\nHouse to the Excursion House, and several lines of omnibuses\\nconvey passengers to all parts of the city. There are numerous\\nlivery stables where carriages and other conveyances may be hired.\\nHacks and omnibuses meet all arriving and departing trains.\\nTo the inquiry, Whence came Atlantic City? we reply: It\\nis a refuge thrown up by the continent-building sea. Fashion took\\na caprice and shook it out of a fold of her flounce. A railroad laid\\na wager to find the shortest distance from Penn s treaty elm to the\\nAtlantic Ocean it dashed into the water and a city emerged from\\nits train as a consequence of the manoeuvre. That is the origin\\nof Atlantic City. From a small colony of summer pleasure seekers\\nit has grown to be a famous watering-place and health resort, with\\na still greater future before it.\\nJuan Ponce de Leon, the Spanish explorer of the sixteenth cen-\\ntury, sought in vain for the spring whose virtues were credulously\\nbelieved to restore the vigor/ of youth to the aged. Searching for\\nthis fountain of youth, he landed on the coast of Florida in the year\\n1512, and in that country there are springs almost innumerable,\\neach of which to-day lays claim to the high antiquity of being the\\nidentical spring in which the great Spaniard performed his daily\\nablutions. History informs us, however, that nowhere could he\\nfind this mythical fountain of youth but who will deny that if he\\nhad extended his search northward, and landed upon this island,\\nhe would have found here a well-nigh perfect realization of his\\nhopes\\nAtlantic City truly is a place of rest, and for those in quest of\\nhealth, an equable climate in winter, and refreshing breezes in\\nsummer for those who would enjoy the invigorating sea air and be\\ncharmed with the music of the surf; for those who would delight\\nin the pleasures of yachting or fishing for those who would have\\nlong life, good living, good society, and be inspired by the gran-\\ndeur of old ocean for those who, like Ponce de Leon, would dis-\\ncover the place which imparts youth to the aged, health to the sick,\\nand hope to the despondent, there is no more highly favored spot\\nanywhere in the land than this beautiful City by the Sea.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "V/inter and ^pniig ^easoiis.\\nHow sweet the memory of the sea,\\nPictured in beauty, comes to me,\\nThe peopled strand, the waves that rise\\nTo where the sunbeams sweetly play\\nThe storm-cloud gathering in the skies,\\nCrowned with wild glory, and away,\\nRocked on the bosom of the sea,\\nA light craft speeding joyously.\\nTo me its music sweetness seems,\\nLike music of entrancing dreams,\\nIts power, mysterious and grand,\\nSteals over my spirit as a spell\\nI wander on the drifted sand.\\nAnd hear the songs the billows tell;\\nI read a well-taught lesson there\\nOf life and light divinely fair.\\nANY of the more recent patrons\\nof Atlantic City do not know\\nthat although the history of\\nthe place as a pleasure resort\\ndates from the time of its\\nfounding in 1854, it was not\\nuntil more than twenty years\\nlater that it became widely\\nknown as a winter health\\nresort or sanitarium. To-day\\nthere is no northern winter re-\\nsort more popular, none more\\nlargely patronized, and none more\\nurgently recommended by physi-\\ncians generally than Atlantic City.\\nThe physicians of Philadelphia\\nwere the first to discover the won-\\n---.,\u00e2\u0080\u00a25^, X derful curative effects of the sa-\\nline air of Atlantic City, and to them, more\\nthan to any other class of men, is due the credit of making the city\\nwhat it is a famous sanitarium. Overtaxed brains are ordered\\nhither by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the man who has the honor of hav-\\n50", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Winter and Spring Seasons.\\n51\\ning discovered the rest cure. He and his learned congeners\\nhave found that many chronic diseases result from nervous exhaust-\\nion. The sufferer from incipient paralysis or brain-softening is or-\\ndered to Atlantic City for six months, and in many instances returns\\nto his home cured. It was N. P. Willis who first said that con-\\nsumption is curable if the patient can stop consuming. The\\nonce dreaded disease to which every New England woman resigned\\nherself, fifty years ago, if her lungs began to trouble her, is as cur-\\nable now as the measles, if taken in time.\\nIn old times the seashore was considered a desolate place in\\nwinter. Such a bleak idea as to be there in the snow months, and", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "5 2 Hand- Bo ok of Atlantic City.\\namid storms of ice and sleet, would have chilled the marrow of an\\ninvalid. And yet we find this place a very sanitarium for the sick\\nduring the winter. Victims of sore throats and of lung diseases have\\nfound the bracing air of Atlantic City better than all the doctor-\\nstuff they could swallow at home. Many of the wealthy, who other-\\nwise would have gone to Europe, have spared themselves the annoy-\\nances of ocean travel by settling down here for a few months.\\nMany who used to go to Old Point Comfort in winter now find At-\\nlantic City all they desire.\\nThe favorable comment of physicians and scientists has estab-\\nlished for Atlantic City a reputation as a winter health resort far\\nbeyond that of older, but less favored localities. The winter busi-\\nness of the hotels had its inception in 1876, when the late F. W.\\nHemsley, of Brighton Cottage, decided to provide a house thoroughly\\nadapted for the accommodation of winter and spring as well as sum-\\nmer visitors, and though at the time this was thought to be a rather\\nhazardous experiment, the result has been eminently successful.\\nVisitors from all parts of the country, many of whom have hereto-\\nfore sought health and relaxation in the more distant Southern re-\\nsorts, have found in the genial atmosphere of Atlantic City the\\nneeded rest and restoration while its superior advantages in point\\nof accessibility have made it the most popular place of resort on the\\ncontinent. Hundreds of those who have been benefited by winter\\nand spring visits bear willing testimony to the tonic effects of its\\nbracing atmosphere. The climate is equable and the atmosphere\\nfree from the humidity which prevails at other points on the coast.\\nIndeed, in this latter respect Atlantic City stands without a rival.\\nThe popularity of Atlantic City as a sanitarium is now so general\\nand its reputation so well established that many hotels and cottages\\nhave been erected or enlarged to accommodate the ever-increasing\\ninflux of winter and spring visitors.\\nOf the many thousands who visit Atlantic City in the interval\\nbetween the first of January and the first of June, it is not to be\\nsupposed that all are in search of health. As has been already\\nhinted, a three-fold object is associated with life at this resort at\\nthat season. Invalids, especially those troubled with bronchial\\naffections or convalescing from malarial attacks, following the\\nadvice of their physicians, come here to regain their wonted health\\nand strength others whose daily life of care and toil has brought\\non nervous exhaustion seek rest and recuperation where it is gener-\\nally to be found; and others still, following the bent of fashion,\\nare to be found among the throng of pleasure-seekers who hie\\nthemselves hither during the Lenten season.\\nIn winter, when the majority of the guests are invalids, any but the\\nmildest forms of dissipation are, of course, out of the question but\\ndaring Lent, when the more extravagant gayeties of the rest of the\\nworld are temporarily suspended, Atlantic City becomes the scene", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Winter and Spring Seasons.\\n53\\nof genuine fun and\\nfrolic. During\\nthe past two or\\nthree seasons it\\nhas been the gen-\\nerally acknowl-\\nedged correct\\nthing among the\\nmost exclusively\\nfashionablecircles\\nof New York and\\nPhiladelphia to\\nform Lenten par-\\nties for Atlantic\\nCity. Upon the\\nadvent of Lent\\nsome good-na-\\ntured married\\nlady of unim-\\npeachable social\\nstanding organ-\\nizes a party of\\nfrom a dozen to\\ntwenty young\\npeople, and offers\\nto chaperon them\\nto Atlantic City.\\nThey go for a\\nweek or ten days,\\noften staying\\nlonger, and. while\\nthey are here the\\nheretofore quiet\\nhotels ring with\\nthe sounds of mu-\\nsic, dancing and\\nmerry laughter.\\nThe more sober-\\nminded invalids\\ngaze with a mild\\nsurprise not un-\\nmixed with pi ens-\\nure at these jolly\\nparties, and by\\nforce of example\\nbecome more en-\\nergetic and in-\\nclined to forget\\ntheir ailments.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "54\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nIn considering Atlantic City as a winter and spring resort, it is\\nproper to offer some explanation of the causes which produce such\\nbeneficial results. To this end we must have recourse to the\\nopinions of leading physicians and scientists who have made a care-\\nful study of the matter. Actual experience, says Dr. Boardman\\nReed in the Medical Times, has demonstrated that sea air is\\nas valuable in winter as in summer. It also bears out the. statis-\\ntics which prove that the climate of Atlantic City is superior\\nto that of most seaco?st towns, being drier, more equable, and\\nunusually mild, considering the latitude. The same authority\\nsays Another peculiarity of the location of Atlantic City is that\\nall the winds from the landward must pass for long distances\\nhundreds of miles in some directions over a very dry and porous\\nsandy soil, upon which snow rarely lies for anytime. These winds,\\nincluding those from the north, northwest, west and southwest,\\nare, therefore, to some extent both dried and warmed in their\\npassage. Though the coast of Southern New Jersey has a general\\ndirection from northeast to southwest, the beach at Atlantic City\\ntrends more to the westward, so that it faces almost directly south-\\nward. Therefore south as well as east winds are sea breezes here,\\nand both blow across the Gulf Stream, which exercises considerable\\ninfluence upon the climate of this part of the coast.\\nThe dryness of the climate of Atlantic City, as compared with\\nother seaside resorts, is best shown by statistics of the rainfall,\\nwhich is less here than at any other place on the coast, as appears\\nfrom the records of the Signal Service at Washington. The fol-\\nlowing table represents the annual amount of rain at the principal\\ncities and stations on the coast for five consecutive years also the\\naverage rainfall at each station since it was established\\nAVERAGE.\\nAtlantic City, N. J.,\\nBarnegat, N.J......\\nCape May, N.J.,.\\n42.90\\n40.60\\n44.23\\n55-48\\n39-55\\n40.24\\n8 years.\\n52.25\\n49.38\\n47.27\\n60.13\\n58.85\\n50.20\\n8\\n47-99\\n42.44\\n5092\\n60.54\\n40.41\\n46.70\\n10\\nCharleston, S. C,\\n68.62\\n6433\\n44-47\\n48.80\\n48.63\\n60.91\\nir\\nJacksonville, Fla.,\\n52.11\\n51.62\\n54.99\\n66.87\\n48.69\\n55-74\\n10\\nNewport, R. I.,\\n55.84\\n52.20\\n40-75\\n61.45\\n44.52\\n59-98\\n6\\nNew Orleans, La.,\\n73.31\\n58.29\\n60.84\\n67-33\\n58.22\\n60.63\\nII\\nNew York City,\\n42.68\\n43.68\\n3324\\n49-50\\n35.60\\n42.67\\nII\\nNorfolk, Va.,\\n66.28\\n44.44\\n34.54\\n54-48\\n46.49\\n51.43\\nII\\nPortland, Me.,\\n45.61\\n41.10\\n38.24\\n45.02\\n42.99\\n39.33\\n10\\nSandy Hook, N. J.,\\n54.86\\n60.37\\n46.75\\n53-14\\n46.20\\n52.05\\n8\\nWilmington, N.C.,\\n84.12\\n50.90\\n50.13\\n53-35\\n46.56\\n57.28\\nII\\nThis table of rainfall shows that Portland, Me., alone of all the\\ncities and stations mentioned, had during that period a less rainfall\\nthan Atlantic City. This is an extraordinary fact. Atlantic City\\nhas less rainfall than any other resort on the coast, so far as the\\nofficial records show, and has thus a strong basis for its claim to\\nexceptional dryness.\\nSignal Observer G. A. Loveland, who has charge of the United\\nStates Signal Station at Atlantic City, has kindly furnished the", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Winter and Spring Seasons.\\n55\\ncompiler of this Hand-Book with the following statement of the\\ntemperature in this city during each of the twelve months of the\\nfollowing four years\\n1884.\\n1885.\\n1 1886.\\n1\\n1887.\\n_, V\\n6\\n1;\\n_ w\\nu\\noT\\nu\\nu\\n4)\\n3\\n^2\\n\u00c2\u00a35\\nif\\n3\\nI3\\ne 2\\n3\\n15\\nE: 2\\nE 3\\n3\\ne 5\\nIS\\nE 2\\ni^^\\n:s^\\nx\\n?5a\\n;ss.\\n^a\\nrt a\\na\\ns 0.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f1^\\n:E?i\\nE\\ns^\\ns^,\\ne\\nSfe\\nE\\n-y\\nS.H\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^s\\nSB\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nH\\nJanuary,\\n31.2\\n46.0\\n5-2\\n292\\n50.0\\n4.0\\n32.3\\n53-0\\n7-5\\n31-4\\nS2.8\\n7.0\\nFebruary,\\n35-1\\n64.0\\n1-7\\nn\\n6\\n57-0\\n11.\\n25.7\\n48.1\\n5-0\\n36.6\\nS7-8\\n16.7\\nMarch,\\n35-0\\n62.0\\nII.\\n3\u00c2\u00ab\\n6\\n60.2\\n8.0\\n3 -4\\n55-3\\n8.5\\n38.1\\n67.S\\n18.4\\nApril,\\n45-5\\n63.0\\n27.0\\n47\\n67.0\\n29-5\\n46.6\\n75-2\\n28.9\\n48.0\\n83.4\\n28.4\\nMay,\\n5b. 7\\n79.0\\n40.0\\n5\u00c2\u00ab\\n7\\n78.1\\n41.0\\n57-\u00c2\u00ab\\n75.0\\n35-4\\n56.0\\n74-9\\n46. s\\nJune,\\n67.2\\n87.0\\n52.0\\n66\\n4\\n87.2\\n49.0\\n66.7\\n87.3\\n52.0\\n65.7\\n82.0\\n53 7\\nJuly,\\n73 -o\\n94.0\\n57-0\\n70\\n6\\n89.9\\n56.9\\n73 4\\n90.9\\n56.8\\n72.1\\n86.1\\n58.3\\nAugust,\\n70-5\\n91.0\\n55-0\\n71\\n5\\n88.6\\n61. 1\\n73-1\\n\u00c2\u00ab9.3\\n48.8\\n71-4\\n86.S\\n55-3\\nSeptember,\\n65.1\\n80.0\\n45-0\\n69\\n7\\n86.2\\n49-7\\n64.7\\n80.6\\n44.0\\n68.S\\n78.4\\n49.8\\nOctober,\\n55 .t)\\n75-0\\n39-8\\n5a\\n5\\n83.0\\n32.4\\n.55.\u00c2\u00ab\\n73.9\\n.33.6\\n58.1\\n73-9\\n36.2\\nNovember,\\n45-9\\n63.0\\n18.7\\n45\\n7\\n69.9\\n20.0\\n46.4\\n64.7\\n26.8\\n467\\n65.0\\n24.4\\nDecember,\\n37-2\\n57-b\\nII.\\n37-5\\n61.0\\n2.1\\n36.9\\n53-3\\n12.5\\n36.7\\n56.0\\n13-7\\nThe same authority also furnishes a comparative summary of the\\nmean temperature at some of the principal cities of the country\\nduring the years 1886 and 1887. These figures are taken from the\\nofficial reports to the Department at Washington\\n1886.\\n1887.\\nrt\\ni\\nrt\\na,\\n58.7\\n1\\n664\\n3\\n70.6\\n3\\n3\\n715\\nJ3\\nrt\\n38.1\\nft\\n48.0\\nrt\\n56.0\\ni\\n3\\n65.7\\n72.2\\nAtlantic City,\\n37-6\\n3B.6\\n47.0\\n71-4\\nBoston, Mass.,\\n31.0\\n33-5\\n42.7\\n53-8\\n66.0\\n68.0\\n68.3\\n33.7\\n47.7 56.2\\n63.1\\n70.8\\n67.7\\nChicago, 111.,\\n27.7\\n34.2\\n44. s\\nSO. 7\\nbS.o\\n69.2\\n68.8\\n1 36.1\\n49.1\\n57-0\\n66.0\\n71.4\\n72.4\\nJacksonville, Fla.,\\nNew York\\n62.1\\n66.8\\n68.7\\n76.S\\n76.9\\n82.9\\n59.9\\n66.S\\n75.8\\n807\\n80.9\\n80.8\\n35-1\\n37-5\\n47.6\\n58.8\\n68.7\\n70.1\\n7 -5\\n.36.9\\n50.3\\n58.5\\n65.6\\n72.9\\n71.0\\nPhiladelphia, Pa.,\\n40-3\\n41.5\\n48.7\\n61.3\\n70.5\\n71.8\\n40.0\\n53.4 60.9\\n68.6\\n74-6\\n73.0\\nWashington City,\\n40.9\\n42.2\\n50-9\\n64.4\\n72.5\\n74.2\\n74.2\\ni42.o\\n1\\n55-5 62.1\\n69.9\\n73-9\\n73.1\\nA well-known physician of Baltimore, Dr. J. T, King, says:\\nThe geological peculiarity of the island is one of the agents that\\ncontribute to the remarkable healthfulness of Atlantic City at all\\nseasons of the year. There is no indigenous or spontaneous vege-\\ntation upon the island. The only growth to be seen is the arbo-\\nreal embellishments of the avenues and lawns svlvan contributions", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "S6\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nfrom the forests of the mainland. No stagnant pools or sloughs\\nmar or disfigure the facial lineaments of the island, and there is no\\nmalarial or miasmatic emanation or effluvium to offend the senses\\nor to affect its perfect hygiene.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "jlealth, I^est and Pleasure.\\nIn what Arcadian, what Utopian ground,\\nAre warmer hearts or manlier feelings found,\\nMore hospitable welcome, or more zeal\\nTo make the curious, tarrying stranger feel\\nThat, next to home, here best may he abide,\\nTo rest and cheer him by the flowing tide\\nHOMAS HOOD, in his Literary Recollec-\\ntions, says: Next to being a citizen of\\nthe world, it must be the best thing\\nto be born a citizen of the world s\\ngreatest city; and with reasonable assur-\\nance we may add Next to being an inhabi-\\ntant of Atlantic City, it must be one s highest privilege to\\nfind rest, health and pleasure U. the City by the Sea.\\nSeveral elements combine to produce the resting and tonic\\neffect of the sea air, the first of which is the presence of a\\nlarge amount of ozone the stimulating, vitilizing principle of the\\natmosphere. Ozone has a tonic, healing and purifying power,\\nthat increases as the air is taken into the lungs. It strengthens the\\nrespiratory organs, and in stimulating them helps the whole system.\\nIt follows naturally that the blood is cleansed and revivified, tone\\nis given to the stomach, the liver is excited to healthful action, and\\nthe whole body feels the benefit. Perfect health is the inevitable\\nresult, if there be enough of the constitution left to build upon\\nand even confirmed invalids are often materially benefited by sea-\\nside life, and existences that would be utterly miserable are by\\nsojourns here made not only tolerable, but often pleasant and\\nhappy. Another reason is that the atmosphere, being denser at\\nthe sea-level than at more elevated points, contains, in a given\\nspace, a larger amount of oxygen while still another is that, as a\\nlarger portion of the breeze comes from the sea, the air contains\\nbut a small amount of the deleterious products of -decaying vegeta-\\nble and animal matter.\\n5 S7", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "58\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City,\\nIII\\ni 4\\nii^i.\\nThe saline particles held in sus-\\npension in the atmosphere, the\\ndust of the ocean, enter the sys-\\ntem through the lungs, and aid in\\nthe tonic effect experienced at the\\nseashore. But whatever may be\\nthe cause, the effect is undoubted.\\nFew who visit Atlantic City fail to-\\nexperience a marked improvement\\nin appetite, while to many there\\ncomes such a feeling of drowsiness\\nthat the most exciting story will\\nfail to keep them awake between\\nthe hours of three and six in the\\nafternoon. This is a sure sign that\\nthe nerves are being well rested and\\nfed. It is a great thing to get an\\nabundant supply of nerve food with-\\nout the use of medicines, the falsely\\nstimulating effect of which must be\\nfollowed by a corresponding ex-\\nhaustion.\\nAtlantic City, as is well known,\\nis wholly surrounded by unmixed\\nsalt water, besides having six miles\\nof salt meadows behind it, and rests\\nupon a bed of dry sand therein\\nfulfilling the two conditions laid\\ndown by Professor Loomis as es-\\nsential to immunity from malaria.\\nNo considerable fresh water stream\\nempties within many miles of it.\\nMy personal experience of the\\nplace, dating back eighteen years,\\nsays Dr. Boardman Reed, affords\\nstrong evidence against the proba-\\nbility of malaria originating here.\\nIn my practice among invalid visi-\\ntors, I see a great deal of malaria.\\nIt is one of the diseases for which\\nvisitors come here, particularly in\\nwinter and when they remain long\\nenough, they do not often come in\\nvain.\\nIt is believed by many scientists\\nand students of hygiene that the\\nair at Atlantic City is hostile to", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Health, Rest and Pleasure. 5c^\\nphysical debility, and that to those who suffer from our great\\nAmerican complaint, nervous prostration, whether brought on by\\noverwork or by our changeful climate, it promises not only re-\\ncuperation, but a permanent re-establishment of health.\\nIt is with climates as with medicines trustworthy evidence as\\nto what they have accomplished is the most valuable. With regard\\nto nervous, rheumatic, gouty, dyspeptic, and various other chronic\\nailments which are usually found to be benefited here in the\\nsummer, equal benefit may be expected in the winter. Convales-\\nCOTTAGE OF WILLIAM C. HOUSTON, NORTH CAROLINA AVENUE.\\ncents from acute diseases or from surgical operations nearly\\nalways improve remarkably upon being removed to Atlantic City\\nfrom the large cities.\\nAs to diseases of the respiratory organs, says Dr. Reed, I\\nhave had personal knowledge of many patients suffering from vari-\\nous forms of such affections who have made trials of this climate in\\nwinter. The cases have, as a rule, improved, some of them very\\ndecidedly, though there have been exceptions. The consumptives\\nwho were in the incipient stage, and those even in the advanced", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "6o Hand- Book of Atlantic City.\\nstages where the destructive process has been advancing slowly,\\nhave often experienced very marked improvement. In a considera-\\nble proportion about one-fourth of the cases of the latter\\nclass, the disease has been apparently arrested, and some of them\\nseem to be cured.\\nIt is a significant fact that pneumonia and bronchitis are of in-\\nfrequent origin here^ and when they do occur the patients almost\\ninvariably recover. Upon this point Dr. Reed s experience as a\\nresident physician enables him to speak very positively. He has\\nnot known an uncomplicated attack of either disease to prove fatal.\\nTo another highly respected physician, Dr. James Darrach, of\\nGermantown, belongs the honor of having relieved many patients\\nsuffering from hay fever and autumnal catarrh by sending them to\\nAtlantic City. The late Rev. H. W. Beecher and Dr. Oliver\\nWendell Holmes had a witty correspondence on the subject of hay\\nfever a few years since, in which the latter declared that there was\\nno cure for the disease but six feet of gravel. Atlantic City,\\nhowever, has answered back that it may be alleviated.\\nNature has provided Atlantic City with the health-giving sea;\\nwith a balmy and delightful climate with a sandy soil, which,\\nafter a light snow or heavy rain, dries with marvelous quickness.\\nCome here, ye who seek health, rest or pleasure come and fill\\nyour lungs with the ozone of the sea come and promenade on\\nthe three-mile boardwalk planted within reach of the spray come\\nand sit in a rocking-chair and take a sun-bask in the open air or\\none of the several Ocean Parlors come before it gets too warm\\ncome while ye may come now, when the moon is full or before\\nit is full come and commune with nature and take no heed of a\\nchronic fault-finder who is here, enjoying to the full all the benefits\\nand advantages of Atlantic City and the hospitalities of its people,\\nand who still carps and grumbles because the town lacks a few\\npretty curves and graces.\\nBETWEEN THE SEASONS.\\nThe month of May, by many considered the loveliest of all the\\nyear, divides the spring and the summer seasons at Atlantic City,\\nif there be any division. The spring guests, however, often linger\\nthrough May, and it is sometimes difficult to tell where the spring\\nseason ends and the summer season begins. About the last of May\\nthe large summer hotels and boarding-houses begin to prepare for\\nthe coming of the summer guests. When the month of roses\\ncomes the register of the summer hotel lies open upon the spacious\\ndesk the clerk is bland and gracious his opportunity to be\\nimperiously dignified and lofty not having arrived servants are\\nbusy with mop and bucket, pvitting things in order scores of\\nchairs are ranged to the right, left and front of you with not a", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Health, Rest and Pleasure.\\n6i\\nvestige of a struggle to get position smiling Bonifaces greet\\nthe advent of each guest with an earnest welcome and confiden-\\ntially advise him to select his room early, lest disap])ointment\\nshould follow the horse-cars plod to and from the Inlet without\\ngrave friction on the bell-punch and even the policeman looks\\ngracious as he dreams of the tips to flow in his lap when the\\ntide of humanity turns seaward. In a few weeks all this will be\\ntransformed into bustle and animation the diamond of the ten-\\ndollar-a-week clerk will sparkle as never before the houses will\\nbe full and some of the guests fuller, and the summer season will be\\nat its height.\\nCL-S^", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "^ummep Days by the gea.\\nO Summer day beside the joyous sea\\nO Summer day so wonderful and white,\\nSo full of gladness and so full of pain\\nForever and forever shalt thou be\\nTo some the gravestone of a dead delight,\\nTo some the landmark of a new domain.\\nLongfellow.\\nf?K^^\\nla.\\nCARCELY has passed the brief period\\nof transition from the austere glory\\nof winter to the slow cremation of\\nthe dog days, ere one s thoughts\\nrevert, with fond remembrance, to\\nthe delightful scenes, the cool and\\ninvigorating breezes, and the joy-\\nous pastimes of Atlantic City, where\\nthe summer s day of the poet is\\nsomething more than a mere crea-\\ntion of the fancy.\\nThe oft-quoted lines of George Herbert, the sweet singer of\\nCherbury\\nSweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright.\\nThe bridal of the earth and sky,\\nare almost meaningless to those who know summer only from the\\nhigh temperatures, the glaring sun, and the hot, parching winds\\nthat are its distinguishing characteristics in no inconsiderable por-\\ntion of the United States.\\nThe ideal summer presupposes climatic conditions that make\\nphysical life from the highest to the lowest a perpetual delight\\nand rejoicing; and, if there is any place more favored than another\\nin that regard, it must surely be a matter of concern to the toiling\\nmillions to know where it may be found.\\nBut, apart from the mere pursuit of pleasure, the mere s^king\\nafter enjoyment, and that love of change for its own sake that is\\ninherent in every son of Adam, there is, happily, in this busy,\\nrestless age, a just recognition of the importance of relaxing the\\n62", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Summer Days by the Sea. 6\\nextreme tension of business and endeavoring to repair the terrible\\nwaste of vital force. We are, however, with our pleasures, very\\nmuch what we are in our business, except that, while we may not\\nalways make a pleasure of business, we certainly make a business of\\nour pleasure, seeking to obtain, with the least outlay, the largest\\npossible results.\\nThe accessibility of a summer resort is, therefore, with not a few,\\na matter of importance, second only to the paramount considera-\\ntion of health and pleasure; and herein lies the secret of Atlantic\\nCity s wonderful growth and popularity.\\nThe development of this place as a winter resort has not been\\nmore marked than has been its progress as a place of permanent\\nabode for those who cater to the necessities of the tens of thou-\\nsands who migrate hither in summer time. Starting in 1854, the\\ngrowth of the city for some years was slow and it was known only\\nas a place for summer recreation, lasting from the first of July\\nuntil the first of September. From September to June the number\\nof inhabitants was considerably less than one thousand. Now the\\npermanent all-the-year-round population is about ten thousand,\\nwhile the summer inhabitants often exceed seventy-five thousand.\\nLittle did the few residents of 1854 dream that this lonely\\nisland, so maccessible, so remote, would become in a compara-\\ntively brief period the site of a beautiful city by the sea, with\\nbroad avenues lined with handsome cottages, thronged with splen-\\ndid equipages and a moving multitude representing the culture,\\nintelligence, and wealth of a metropolitan people the permanent\\nhome of a large and growing population, and the favorite pleasure-\\nresort of many thousands. The building of the Camden and\\nAtlantic Railroad from Philadelphia to the island has made this\\nonce isolated spot blossom as the rose, and in its popularity, its\\naccommodations, its many excellencies and varied attractions, it is\\nahead of the oldest places of the kind in America.\\nThe first-class hotels and numerous boarding-houses are over-\\ntaxed in summer time to accommodate the throng of visitors who\\ncome from every direction, north, east, south, and west. During\\nthe past year cottages have sprung up with a rapidity and in\\nnumbers without a parallel in the history of Atlantic City, or of\\nany other resort in the world. These cottages find occupants in\\nthe spring, most of whom remain until October.\\nThe solid character of its patrons from the better elements of\\nsociety, the quiet, homelike aspect of the place, the natural\\nscenery and charms peculiar to itself, conspire to make Atlantic\\nCity the very ideal of a summer resort. Art and design have\\nadded to its attractions, beautifying it with broad avenues, with\\nwalks bordered with trees, and with gardens whose fragrance unites\\nwith the cool breeze of the ocean to delight and refresh those who\\nseek rest and recreation at the seashore.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3840", "width": "2308", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "Summer Days by the Sea.\\n65\\nFor sailing under the most favorable conditions, the Inlet affords\\nample opportunity, and good boats ably manned by veteran seamen\\nare always to be had at a fair price. The Inlet is the favorite resort\\nof the lovers of those twin sports, yachting and fishing. A large\\nfleet of handsome yachts is always riding at anchor in waiting for\\nBOARDWALK AND OCEAN PIER.\\nparties desirous of a sail over the briny waters, or ot indulging in-\\nthat exciting sport, deep-sea fishing. The water is fairly alive with\\ngame fish, such as sea bass, flounders, weak fish, king fish, porgies,\\ncroakers, snapping mackerel, blue fish, and kindred varieties. The\\nmost delicious oysters are to be had here, fresh from their native\\nbeds, and with an appetizing flavor unknown to one who has never", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "66 Hand- Book of Atlantic City.\\neaten them before the moss of their shells is dry. The Thoroughfare,\\nwhich is as smooth as a mountain lake, is another favorite resort,\\nespecially for the ladies. It abounds in crabs, which are caught in\\ngreat numbers. Those who prefer steam to sails as a motor can be\\naccommodated also, and the few whose stomachs dread the heaving\\nbillows may eschew both and idly sit and watch the fleet of gayly\\ndecked boats as they dance in the dim distance with their precious\\nfreight, their blood meanwhile tingling with the ozone blown from\\nthe sea, or the commoner kind which some endeavor to suck through\\na straw.\\nIn addition to the customary weekly hops at the principal hotels,\\nAtlantic City is visited during the summer season by some of the\\nbest musical and dramatic talent, and concerts and entertainments\\nare given at various places of amusement. These, in connection\\nwith the varied and ever-recurring pleasures natural to the resort,\\npresent a constant round of enjoyment. A feature of Atlantic City\\nis the open-air concert gardens. At first thought one would perhaps\\nnot consider these places among the special attractions, but the es-\\ntimation in which they are held elsewhere must not be the stand-\\nard of judgment here. They are conducted with order and deco-\\nrum. Many people who never venture into them at home visit\\nthem here in the cool of the evening, and enjoy the excellent music\\nwhich is provided. Solid business men of irreproachable character,\\ndistinguished people from all parts of the country, as well as church-\\ngoing people, are frequently seen in these places.\\nSummer days by the sea would be incomplete without a visit to each\\nof the three great piers, whose surface reaches far out over the ocean,\\nand upon which one may walk and watch the waves as they roll in,\\nan d perchance lay hold upon the mane of the sea. As the Board-\\nwalk is the promenade, the centre of life and interest, over which\\neverybody strolls in search of exercise or amusement, so are the\\npiers places of interest which every one should visit, if only for a\\nfew breaths of the very purest and freshest of ocean air\\nThe largest of these three structures is the new Iron Pier, which\\nextends a thousand feet into the ocean from the foot of Massachu-\\nsetts Avenue. The width of this pier is thirty feet, widening at the\\ncentre pavilion to one hundred feet, and at the outer pavilion to one\\nhundred and forty feet. The outer pavilion is sufficiently spacious\\nto hold an audience of two thousand people. The cost of the en-\\ntire structure was sixty-two thousand dollars.\\nApplegate s Pier, at the foot of Tennessee Avenue, is nearly seven\\nhundred feet in length, and was finished in the spring of 1884 at a\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cost of over twenty-five thousand dollars. Before it was finished it\\nstood the test of the severe storm of January#8th and 9th, 1884, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2since then it has baffled old Boreas and Neptune on more than one\\noccasion. Though built upon the sand, it stills stands as solid as a\\nrock. Applegate s Double-Deck Pier is a great resort for Board-", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Sufnmer Days by the Sea.\\n67\\nwalk promenaders in summer-time. Thousands resort to it to en-\\njoy the delightful ocean breezes and find relief from the heat, which\\nsometimes becomes uncomfortable in the built-up portion of the\\ncity. Above the upper deck and near the centre of the pier the\\nowner has erected what he calls the Lovers Pavilion, where spoony\\ncouples are wont to resort to escape the gaze of the madding crowd.\\nIt has been estimated that as many as one hundred wedding engage-\\nments are consummated in this pavilion every summer season.\\nDuring July and August first-class performances are given upon\\nthis pier every evening.\\nTHE NEW IRON PIER.\\nThe Howard Ocean Pier, at the foot of Kentucky Avenue, is the\\noldest of the three piers. It is six hundred feet long and has an\\nextensive pavilion at the outer end, where select hops and excellent\\ndramatic or operatic entertainments are held.\\nThe pavilions of these piers afford an unobstructed view of the\\nentire beach, the bathers, and the limitless expanse of water\\nstretching away to the ocean s horizon. Beneath us, deep down\\nin the clear waters, the finny inhabitants are as busy in their ele-\\nment as we are in ours, although they are probably not looking for\\ntheir lost nervous energy.\\nLife at Atlantic City during the summer is in one aspect without", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "6S Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nrestraint. Coming from every part of the land and from every\\nwalk in life, the crowd must necessarily be a motley one, but there\\nis none of that respect of persons which is sometimes seen in\\nthe churches. The man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel,\\nis not considered one whit better than the poor man in vile rai-\\nment; indeed, appearances are so deceptive that it would never\\nbe safe to judge of the size of a man s bank account by the clothes\\nhe has on especially if it be a bathing suit. Men whose talents\\nhave made them famous throughout the land ^judges, lawyers and\\nministers arrayed in a suit of blue and white, mingle daily with\\nthe other bathers, ignorant of who they are and regardless of their\\nsocial standing. It is no uncommon sight to see men eminent in\\ntheir callings busily engaged in scooping up bucketfuls of sand for\\nchildren whom they chance to meet upon the beach, or aiding\\nthem in their search for shells after a receding tide. Sedate bach-\\nelors and prudish old maids not infrequently take part in such\\ndiversions as these, and, viewing the scenes from the calm of a\\npavilion, one cannot help thinking that the intellects and the\\ncharacters thus unbent, and finding a share in the enjoyments of\\nchildhood, appear to greater advantage by the relaxation. Year\\nafter year, summer after summer, this strange commingling of the\\nyoung and the old, the high and the low, the rich and the poor,\\nthe grave and the gay, goes on in Atlantic City and so until the\\nend of time, generation after generation, the charmed voice of the\\nsea will draw men to its sands and to its surf. From the plains of\\nthe South, from the wide expanse of the West, and from the bleak,\\ngray rim of the North, men, women, and children will come and\\ngo, girdling our coast with joy and sorrow through the twelve\\nmonths months which make possible the winter s comfort and the\\nsummer s pleasure.\\nTHE AUTUMN BREAK-UP THEY MAY\\nNEVER MEET AGAIN.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Boardwall^ and ^trand.\\nLove the sea I dote upon it from the beach.\\nDouglas Jerrold.\\nURING the sum-\\nmer, life at At-\\nlantic City is\\nbuoyant,\\ngay and\\nattractive,\\nand draws\\nmany thou-\\nsands to en-\\njoy the hos-\\npitality of\\nits people.\\nThe hotels are often taxed to their utmost to accommodate the\\nnumber of arrivals. As many as thirty thousand people have been\\nknown to arrive here in a single day, and the aggregate number\\nof guests at one time has exceeded seventy- five thousand. The sum-\\nmer rush and crush reaches its height about the first of August,\\nwhen the city itself puts on its gayest attire. Then it is that hops\\nare held almost nightly at the principal hotels, and the Boardwalk\\nis transformed into a mass of surging humanity so thick, indeed,\\nthat the crowd surges over on the sides, and the strand, either\\nfrom choice or necessity, becomes an equally popular promenade.\\nThe current moves constantly on in both directions, the rule of the\\nroad keep to the right being strictly adhered to. When one is\\ntired or wants to study humanity, there is no place equal to the\\nBoardwalk. As a study of some of the most unique phases of\\nhuman character, a stroll along this crowded thoroughfare is worth\\na year of ordinary life. Its infinite variety preserves it from\\nmonotony, and never does it present the same aspect two days in\\nsuccession.\\n69", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "70\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nSeated in one of the many cozy pavilions which line the Board-\\nwalk, one may find rest and pleasure on a summer evening gazing\\nupon the broad ocean, upon which the dark shadows of night are\\nbeginning to fall. The stars twinkle in the sky above, the waves\\nchant a weird song as they break upon the strand, the moon rises in\\nits glory, lighting up the dark waters, and the ear -is lulled with the\\ngentle murmur of the surf. It is an opportunity for thoughtful\\nmeditation or melancholy pleasure, according to the mood of the\\nindividual.\\nThe life, the light, and the color that one sees on this promenade\\nduring the early hours of a summer evening are indescribable. It\\nLIGHTHOUSE AND LIFE SAVING STATION.\\nis an endless dress parade, a grand review in which everybody is\\none of the reviewers as well as one of the reviewed, a kirmess, a\\ngarden party, a lawn tennis tournament, and a huge picnic all\\nrolled into one, for a single ticket of admission which costs noth-\\ning. The animation, the overflowing good-nature, the laughter,\\nand contagious hilarity of this restless throng are irresistible. The\\nlights from the scores of bazaars, the music floating in from the\\npiers, the buoyant merriment of countless children, the soft, melt-\\ning colors of the summer dresses of the women, the grace and\\nfreshened loveliness of the women themselves, the fakir faking his\\nfake, the dizzy whirl of the merry-go-round, and the thousand and\\none little scraps of life and tone that line the thoroughfare blend in", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Boardwalk and Strand. 71\\na picture which is warranted to banquet the eye and rest the mind\\nof any man who has not utterly lost the capacity for being enter-\\ntained, all to the soothing accompaniment of the caressing airs and\\nthe thunderous monotone of the blue, unresting sea.\\nAt the lower end of the city there are two hotels, which are\\nspecially designed for excursionists that is, persons who come\\ndown to spend a day at the seashore. This class aggregates many\\nthousands. The houses are provided with well-appointed restau-\\nrants, pleasant parlors, broad piazzas, and spacious ball-rooms.\\nStarting from the vicinity of the Excursion House, where congre-\\ngate the photographers, the itinerant vendors of views, curiosities,\\nedibles and trinkets, the weighing-machine men, and the test-your-\\nlungs men passing these and many other things to amuse, and\\nfollowing the Boardwalk in the direction of the Inlet, the pedes-\\ntrian comes to the lighthouse, of which some data is given in\\nanother chapter of this book. It is situated at the northeastern\\nend of the island, near the entrance to Absecon Inlet.\\nFrom the balcony of the lighthouse a grand panorama of sea and\\nland is presented. We behold there what the world looks like to\\na sea-gull and a grand waste of waters it seems, indeed. Look-\\ning north and west, across the extended miles of salt meadows, with\\ntheir winding thoroughfares and bays, one sees the lines of pretty\\nbuildings and fertile farms of the mainland. Stretching to the\\nsouthwest is the beautiful city, with its grand hotels, its extensive\\nboarding-houses, its hundreds of private cottages embowered in\\nshrubbery, and the long line of shade-trees skirting the side-\\nwalks; while beyond, to the east and south, the ocean stretches\\ninto the distant horizon.\\nMany delightful, dreamy hours may be spent upon the strand\\nduring the day when the weather is pleasant. The long stretch of\\nsandy beach and the roar of the surf may be uninteresting to some\\nupon a gloomy day, but when the sun is shining all dreariness dis-\\nappears, the ocean sparkles like a huge diamond, and groups of\\npeople wander along the strand or scoop out convenient hollows,\\nin which they lie for hours, enjoying the warm sun-bath and in-\\nhaling ozone at every breath. Bevies of girls dressed in dainty\\ncostumes are scattered about on the sand, and ripples of laughter\\ncome to one s ears from every side. Far out upon the horizon a\\nfaint trace of smoke may be seen ascending from a passing steamer,\\nwhile above the horizon and sometimes just beyond the surf the\\nwhite wings of swift-sailing yachts or other craft lend a charm\\nand a motion to the scene. Nothing could add to the quiet\\nbeauty of this scene or heighten the pleasure of those for whom it\\nis created.\\nFrom morning until evening the beach is a perfect paradise for\\nchildren. The youngsters take to digging in the sand and pad-\\ndling in the water by natural instinct, having unlimited opportu-", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3566", "width": "2368", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Boardwalk and Strand.\\n73\\nnities for both. Every day they throw up fortifications, build\\nrnounds, and excavate subterranean caverns, and every night the\\ntide washes away all their labor and leaves a soft, smooth surface\\nfor another day s toil.\\nThe pleasures of the surf bath bring multitudes to Atlantic City\\nduring the summer months, and bathing here attains a popularity\\nunknown to more northern resorts, the near approach of the\\nGulf Stream to this point increasing the temperature of the water\\nto a delightful degree, and taking from it the bitter chill from\\nwhich so many would-be bathers shrink. At the fashionable hours\\nof bathing, from eleven to one, the beach is crowded with thou-\\nsands of merry bathers, whose shouts and laughter mingle with the\\nroar of the surf, while the strand and Boardwalk are lined with\\ninterested spectators and promenaders. The scene at this time is\\nas animated as the streets of a continental city on a fete day. On\\na moonlight evening, when the beach is filled with equipages, and\\nthe Boardwalk thronged with merry promenaders, then, indeed,\\nAtlantic City presents a picture of delightful existence, fairer than\\nany vision of a midsummer night s dream.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0t~\u00e2\u0080\u0094 f-f\\nn^ii-X^^^\\nWnnmit-r\u00e2\u0080\u0094 isalocj [1 I i-li.\\n-^!v-,^^,_i est:;", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "]V[ysteries of the ^ea.\\nThe whole creation is a mystery.\\nSir Thomas Browne.\\nANY visitors enjoy a\\nstroll along the strand\\nany hour of the day,\\nand the walk\\nwill gener-\\nally repay\\nthe collector\\nof sea-shells\\nand marine\\ngrasses. A\\nvariety of\\nshells are crumpled beneath the feet at almost every tread, and\\nmyriad specimens of marine grasses or sea algae are revealed to the\\npracticed eye. The latter, when cleaned and placed upon sheets\\nof white paper or cardboard, are found to be of exceedingly delicate\\nformation and color. They illustrate the beauty and perfection of\\nNature s handiwork.\\nOf the many who gather these shells and grasses, however, very\\nfew realize that the ocean is the abode of millions of varieties of\\nstrange, living organisms, from the microscopic monad to the un-\\nwieldy leviathan, the horrid octopus, or the great whale. Nor do\\nthey know that the bed of the sea is the counterpart of the dry land.\\nIn it are high mountains, long valleys, and broad plateaus. Upon many\\nof these submarine plateaus the water is but a few feet in depth,\\nwhile in the deep subaqueous valleys a depth of eight miles has been\\nfathomed. The bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is a succession of\\nmountain ranges, verdant valleys, and sublime precipices, and it is\\nsusceptible of proof that there are vast submarine prairies, constantly\\ndecked in gorgeous floral garniture, over which the great leviathan\\nand the whale and the lesser fishes disport at will. In some parts\\n74", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Mysteries of the Sea. 75\\nof these submarine continents crops of golden sheen and fructifer-\\nous vines grow in inconceivable luxuriance, and wave upon the sur-\\nface of the sea for hundreds of square miles, looking not unlike one\\nboundless prairie. Their diversity in size is as great as in form, some\\nspecies being visible only through the microscope, some a few inches,\\nand others a few feet in length, while a single plant of one species\\nwhich floats in the South American seas measures more than one\\nhundred feet, and another which floats in the Pacific Ocean reaches\\nthe length of fifteen hundred feet. They have in no case proper\\nroots, but merely processes for their attachment to the surfaces on\\nwhich they are fixed. The gulf-weed floats in long pieces in the\\nAtlantic Ocean and all the great seas. It is carried in such quanti-\\nties by the current into the Gulf of Mexico, that it covers the sea\\nin tracts many miles in breadth, giving it the appearance of a vast\\nmeadow. Many fabulous stories were related of this gulf-weed by\\nthe mariners of the fifteenth century. Ships were said to have been\\nstopped in their course, and the crews obliged to cut their way\\nthrough with hatchets. The discoveries of Columbus put an end\\nto these exaggerated reports.\\nIn the sea, also, are great coral mountains, with perpendicular es-\\ncarpments thousands of miles in length, in which are deep grottoes\\nand caverns and lofty arches, with innumerable coral pinnacles and\\ndomes, more exquisite even than the ornately chiseled facade of a\\ncathedral or palace.\\nScience shows that millions of tons of chloride of sodium, or\\ncommon salt, is held in solution, and that the sea contains vast\\nquantities of magnesia and lime. It is estimated that every year a\\nlayer of the entire sea, fourteen feet thick, is -taken up into the\\nclouds by evaporation. This vapor is fresh, and if all the water\\ncould be removed in the same way and none of it returned, it is cal-\\nculated that there would be left a layer of pure salt two hundred and\\nthirty feet thick on the bed of the Atlantic.\\nAt a depth of about three thousand five hundred feet the temper-\\nature of the sea is uniform, varying but a trifle from the poles to the\\nequator. The colder water is below. It is a common impression that\\nwaves travel but this is an error the water does not move for-\\nward, though it seems to do so. It stays in the same place, but the\\nrising and falling moves on. We measure waves by their height and\\nby the distance from crest to crest. In deep water this latter dis-\\ntance is about fifteen times the height of the wave. In shallow\\nwater the proportion is less, and this makes a choppy sea.\\nThe pressure of the water increases, of course, as we go down.\\nAt the depth of a mile this pressure is reckoned at more than a ton to\\nthe square inch, that is, more than a hundred and thirty-three times\\nthe pressure of the atmosphere.\\nTo get correct sounding in deep water is difficult. A shot weigh-\\ning thirty pounds carries down the line. Through this sinker a hole", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3513", "width": "2368", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Mysteries of the Sea. 77\\nis bored, and through the whole is passed a rod of iron which moves\\neasily back and forth. In the end of the bar a cup is dug out, and\\nthe inside is coated with lard. The bar is made fast to the line and\\na sling holds the shot on. When the bar, which extends below the\\nshot, touches the bottom, the sling unhooks and the shot slides off.\\nThe cup in the end of the bar holds, some of the sand, or whatever\\nmay be on the bottom, and a cover shuts over the cup to keep the\\nwater from washing the sand out. In this way we learn the char-\\nacter of the deep-sea bottom.\\nThe depth of the sea presents some interesting considerations.\\nIf the Atlantic were lowered six thousand five hundred and sixty-\\nfour feet, it would be reduced to half its present width. If it were\\nlowered a little more than three miles, there would be dry land all\\nthe way between Newfoundland and Ireland. If the Mediterranean\\nwere lowered six hundred and sixty feet, Africa would be joined to\\nItaly, and three separate seas would remain.\\nIn an interesting chapter upon the sea. Dr. J. T. King, of Balti-\\nmore, says\\nThe sea is divided into three liquid strata, or layers of water,\\nof different densities and properties. In the lowest stratum, or\\ndeepest part of the sea, we find the home of the Crustacea such as\\ncrabs, lobsters, and other like species at a depth of five or six\\nhundred feet we enter the domain of the invertebrate and verte-\\nbrate fishes and the various mollusks in the third and superficial\\nstratum we find minute animalculae, mostly observable by the\\nmicroscope.\\nThe innumerable currents and tides, and the continual agitation\\nfrom winds that blow upon its surface, and the unceasing evapora-\\ntion and uninterrupted contribution of rain from the clouds all\\nthese chemical and physical phenomena, with a thousand others,\\nrender the sea a fit and beautiful realm for its inhabitants.\\nThe color of the sea is not only a form of beauty, conveying\\npleasure to the mind, but it is for an all-wise purpose. It is an indis-\\nputable fact, that the color of the water of the sea is imparted to\\nthe fish which inhabit the particular locality, just as the plumage of\\nbirds corresponds to the foliage of the forests they inhabit. Why\\nis this? The similtude in color is a protection to them. Their\\npresence is not as readily betrayed to their enemies, as if they were\\nof different color. Deep-swimming fishes are invariably of bluish\\ntint for example, the well-known blue-fish. The parrot-fish is of\\na scarlet color as vivid as that of the birds in the forests of the\\nneighboring lands. The mullet is brilliant brown and gold, and\\nthe cod is invariably clad in Quaker gray.\\nNot only does the sea furnish a vast home to the myriads of\\nanimals that live in its waters, but it is the home of many of the\\nfeathered creatures, especially of that mysterious little bird known\\nas Mother Carey s Chicken. This bird is reared and makes its", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "78\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City,\\nhome upon the sea. It flits about incessantly by day, and at night\\nit roosts upon the raging billows, tucking its head under its wing\\nand going to sleep amid the roar of the tempest and the fury of the\\nblast. The great billow is its cradle and the seething foam its\\nsheet.\\nThe sea is the arena of the sublimest phosphorescent and pyro-\\ntechnic phenomena exhibited by nature. This phosphorescence is\\ncaused by countless millions of sea animalculas, one-twelve-thou-\\nsandth of an inch in length. It is not uncommon in tropical seas\\nto see the phosphorescent current rushing past a vessel in a band of\\nlight so luminous that one can easily read the time of night upon\\nthe face of a watch, and the billows, as they are dashed aside by\\nthe bow of a ship, look like broad sheets of flame. Especially is\\nthe great Gulf Stream the theatre of sublime electrical phe-\\nnomena. For a continuous, inexhaustible supply of fire-works\\nand pyrotechnic beauties it is without a rival. It gives an exhibi-\\ntion upon the slightest occasion, and no ship ever crosses that\\nwonderful tepid river of the sea without being flooded with sheets\\nof vivid lightning and shaken by a terrific bombardment from the\\ncloud batteries.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "^tories of ^hipWrecl^.\\nShips that have gone down at sea,\\nWhen heaven was all tranquillity.\\nThomas Moore.\\nc^\\n5HERE is not a mile of this beach that has not bee\\nscene of a shipwreck at one time or another.\\nplaces have witnessed many\\nterrible marine tragedies\\nduring their association\\nwith human existence, and the beach\\nhas been thickly\\nstrewn with the I\\nbodies of those 1\\nwho have made sad\\nlanding thereon.\\nn the\\nSome\\nThere are ill-fated crafts whose hulls even now lie half-buried in\\nthe sands, rotting under the sky. One of these, that of the schooner\\nAnson Stinson, which came ashore in 1880, could be seen on\\nthe beach a year ago, just below the Excursion House.\\nJust prior to the Revolution the ship Ellis, from Liverpool,\\ncame ashore upon the shoals, which at that time extended more\\nthan three miles from shore. She was loaded with tea, and had\\non board a British official who had been commissioned to enforce\\n79", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "8o Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nthe Stamp Act. It should suffice every patriotic inquirer to know\\nthat the representative of Great Britain s tyranny was smothered\\nbeneath the billows of Absecon Beach, and thrown upon the shore,\\nas with indignation and disgust, a limp and lifeless form. In the\\ninterim between September, 1847, and January, 1856, sixty-four\\nvessels came ashore on this beach five in one night. The loss of\\nlife was appalling. The Santiago de Cuba came ashore in the\\nfall of 1867, when several persons were drowned, including three\\nwomen, two sailors, a girl ten years of age, and her mother. The\\nchild s body washed ashore some days afterward. The corpse was\\nkept until a zinc coffin could be procured and communication\\nmade with her relatives, who lived at Delphi, Illinois. When the\\ngrandfather of the child, an old man about seventy-five years of\\nage, heard of the fate of his daughter and granddaughter, he be-\\ncame hopelessly insane and died six weeks after the news reached\\nhim. A Welshman, rescued from the same ship, returned to his\\nown country, and an Irish girl who had accumulated a small fortune\\nin California was among the unfortunate seven. The other female\\nwho was consigned to a watery grave was a Southern lady, who had\\nbeen married only a few weeks. About three months later a\\nwoman from Michigan, whose husband had been missing for some\\ntime, appeared at Atlantic City and made inquiry concerning the\\nsailors that had been lost. The body of one had been washed\\nashore and the description was given her. She concluded that the\\ndescription answered completely to her long-lost husband, and\\ncollected from the vessel-owners his back pay.\\nA. L. English, in his History of Atlantic City, has preserved from\\noblivion many accounts of shipwreck on this beach, and Captain\\nRyan Adams s log-book, handed down to the third generation,\\nrecords a number of thrilling incidents. From this yellow and\\ndusty record some verbatim quotations are herewith made\\nIn 1830 a nameless craft, with black hull and raking masts,\\nsupposed to be piratical, was wrecked upon this beach. The crew\\nwas taken off just before she went to pieces. Soon after they were\\nlanded the captain, whose mind had been shattered by the disaster,\\nhanded his gold watch to the mate and then deliberately walked\\ninto the surf and was drowned. The crew and wreckers joined\\nhands and tried to rescue him, but he immediately disappeared.\\nHis comrades said he had a large sum of specie on his person, and\\nexpressed much regret at its loss, but no sorrow for the loss of their\\nwhilom leader. They were villainous-looking men and confirmed\\nthe suspicions of their nefarious calling by mysteriously decamping\\nin the night.\\nIn the winter of the same year the ship George Cannon, from\\nLiverpool, with a cargo of dry-goods and hardware, came ashore.\\nThe boxes of dry-goods were thrown overboard and soon lined the\\nstrand. The off-shore people scented the prey and came in crowds.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Stories of Shipwreck. 8i\\neager for the spoils. Then began the most exciting game of hide-\\nand-seek ever known on the seaboard. Cupidity and rapacity\\ncrushed out all sense of honor. Neighbor robbed neighbor. Holes\\nwere made in the hills and the boxes buried, but while the party\\nwho had hidden was gone to seek another somebody would dig it\\nout and convey it to another place of concealment. The night\\nwas bitter cold, and two men who had started to go to a house at\\nCedar Grove perished on the hills near by.\\nIn 1830 the* Genghis Khan was totallydestroyed off this beach.\\nThe majority of the passengers were saved, among whom was a\\nlittle girl nine years of age, who was restored to joyous parents\\nwho lived far out in the wilds of the then almost unexplored West.\\nCaptain Burk, the commander of the vessel, committed suicide.\\nThe schooner General Scott was wrecked in 1840. The\\ncaptain was the only person saved. He floated ashore on a feather\\nbed.\\nIn 1846 a small schooner, commanded by Captain Lowe, ran\\nashore. As the wreck-boat approached the scene of disaster the\\ncries for help were more and more distressing. In the midst of the\\nexcitement in transferring the crew to land the skipper s wife fell\\ninto the waves and was drowned.\\nThe following is the most startling memorandum in Ryan Adams s\\nlog-book: April i6th, 1854, the bark Powhatan was wrecked\\nthree hundred and eleven passengers on board all lost none left\\nto tell the tale. Thirty of the bodies came ashore on this beach\\nand were taken to the mainland and buried. April 17th, bodies\\nfound a lad about sixteen years old; April 18, a young man, a\\ngirl, and a child two or three years of age April 24th, a woman\\nabout thirty years old, with a linen bag on her neck, fastened with\\na string like a fish-line, containing a writing to carry her safe to\\nheaven, written in Dutch; April 22d, found by John Horner, two\\nmen and one girl. One nian had an anchor-bowl marked between\\nhis thumb and forefinger; light hair.\\nThe Rockaway, a newly-launched excursion steamer, was wrecked\\nnear Pennsylvania Avenue on March 25th, 1877. The boat had left\\nNorfolk for New York on the previous Saturday in tow of the Old\\nDominion steamship Wyanoke. She was built at Atlantic City, near\\nNorfolk, Virginia, and was designed for the excursion trade between\\nNew York and Rockaway Beach. The hawser parted during a\\nheavy sea, after nightfall, and the new craft went to pieces. No\\nlives were lost. The Rockaway was capable of accommodating\\nfour thousand passengers, and was one of the finest boats of the\\nkind ever built.\\nOn January 9th, 1884, the handsome three-masted schooner,\\nRobert Morgan, from New Haven, came ashore at the foot of\\nNew York Avenue. She was left stranded high and dry at low\\nwater and people walked and rode around her. Children played", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "Hand- Book of Atlantic City.\\nin the sand between the Morgan and the ebbing tide. She\\nremained imbedded in tjie sand for more than five months and was\\nvisited by thousands of people who came to Atlantic City for\\nhealth or pleasure. An admission fee of ten cents was charged,\\nand photographs of the wreck found a ready sale at twenty-five\\ncents each. When finally floated, on the nth of June, she was\\ncomparatively uninjured.\\nThere are numerous other wrecks that might be mentioned out\\nof t he\\nwhich\\nfore the\\nsaving\\nand the\\nhouse, in\\nscarcely\\nweather\\nnot come\\nW^S^^^^^\\nthree hundred of\\nthere is a record. Be-\\nestablishment of life-\\nstations on the coast\\nbuilding of the light-\\nthere was\\na night during severe\\nthat a vessel did\\n_ ment of these humane institutions shipwrecks\\nand drownings are of rare occurrence. As\\nl^lj^^^^^^ nearly as can be ascertained, at least six hun-\\nl ffl^^^ M^H| dred vessels have been stranded or wrecked\\nI^^B^^^IB and five hundred people have been drowned\\non account of shipwreck within the past seventy\\nyears upon this beach or within sight of it.\\nIn this connection it is proper to note that during the last fifty\\nyears no less than fifty vessels an average of one a year hailing\\nfrom Atlantic County have left port under fair skies never to return.\\nBoth vessels and men were swallowed up in some storm or perished\\nby an accident at sea. About the same number of vessels from this\\ncounty have been wrecked somewhere on the coast, the crews or\\nportions of them being saved. The total loss has been two hundred\\nand fifty-three men and about two million dollars in property.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "Stories of Shipwreck.\\n83\\nThen drifted ashore, in a night-gown dressed,\\nA waif of a girl with her sanded hair,\\nAnd hands like a prayer on her bosom pressed,\\nAnd a smile on her lips that was not despair\\nNo stitch on her garment ever to tell\\nWho bore her, who lost her, who loved her well.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0X- -x-\\nWhat name? asked the preacher. God knows, they said,\\nNor waited nor wept as they made her bed,\\nBut sculptured God knows on the slate at her head.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "Qunning and pishing.\\nOWHERE else along the coast are\\nthere greater facilities for sport with\\nthe rod and the gun than in the\\nvicinity of Atlantic City. The bays\\nand thoroughfares are a vast water\\npreserve, with Nature for their keeper.\\nFrom Grassy Bay and Little Egg\\nHarbor on the north to Great Egg\\nHarbor and Lake s Bay on the south,\\nfrom the wreck of the Cassandra to\\nthe wreck of the Diverty, fish of large\\nsize and fowl of many kind are found\\nin abundance. The thoroughfares,\\nsounds, and bays teem with milions\\nof the finny tribe at certain seasons of\\nthe year, while the woods on the mainland, or off-shore, if we\\nmay use the local vernacular, are splendid feeding grounds for\\nquail in the fall months. The meadows also abound with duck,\\ngeese, plover, snipe, marlin, curlew, and mud-hens. Nowhere can\\nthe hunter or angler go amiss. It is generally safe to carry the gun\\nor the rod, for the fruits thereof will amply repay the drudgery.\\nThe waters of the sea and bays and the outlying marshes and wood-\\nland contain enough to keep the fisherman and hunter in keen\\nquest after their game.\\nA favorite feeding ground for the robin-breast, or robin-snipe,\\nis the sod beach on Brigantine. An old hunter says that for fifteen\\nyears he has shot them on this spot from behind a blind near Smith s\\nBrigantine House before daybreak, catching a bead on their nimble\\nbodies only when the white comb of a breaker flashed in the back-\\nground.\\nCurlews, both of the long bill and crooked bill varieties, are in\\ngood flight in the spring and fall of the year. The latter are called\\non the shore horse-foot curlews, from a habit they have of eating\\nthe eggs of the king or horse-shoe crab.\\n84", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Gunning and Fishing,\\n85\\nEvery variety of beach bird can be bagged in the spring if the\\nsportsman is speedily on the ground, and a few straggling birds\\nmay be killed as late as the 15th of June. The gunning is equally\\ngood in the fall, when the birds make their annual flight southward.\\nSeptember is generally a good month to test the sportsman s mettle\\nand skill, and, with perseverance, he is sure to return laden with\\nsmall game. Nor will he need any soothing syrup to woo his\\nnatural rest his peregrinations will bring him both appetite,\\nfatigue and stamina. Woodcock may be killed in the month of\\nJuly, upland plover after August ist, and mud-hens after August\\nWILD DUCK IN GRASSY BAY.\\n25th. For extra sport in wing shot in the spring and fall the\\nsportsman must visit Grassy Bay, which is convenient of access by\\nyachts from the Inlet, where wild duck, brant and geese are found\\nin superior numbers. At low water this bay falls dry, and for an\\narea of many square miles is a feeding ground for every kind of\\nfowl that is common to salt water. Here is found the blue-bill,\\nthe black duck, the long neck, the red-head, the dipper, the cub-\\nhead, the widgeon, the granny, and the shelldrake. Marlin, willet,\\nplover, robin, snipe, graybacks, calico-backs, black-breast and\\nall other snipe are also to be found upon the bars of this bay.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "S6\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nBesides Grassy Bay, there is good gunning in Atlantic County in\\nand around Little Bay, Reed s Bay, Absecon Bay, Eagle Bay,\\nDuck Thoroughfare, Newfound Water, Dole s Island, Mankiller\\nBay, Gull Island Cove, Oyster Thoroughfare Islands, Shelter\\nIslands, Jonas Island, Book Island, and Lake s Bay.\\nThe fish most taken hereabouts are the weak fish, king fish,\\nflounder, sheepshead, soa bass, black fish, and the Cape May good-\\nies. The weak fish are the most sought after, and are caught nearly\\neverywhere being gamy, they afford sport to the professional angler\\nas well as the novice. The bass are more easily caught, and having\\na large mouth, they frequently swallow the bait, hook and all, and\\nare caught with less skill than any other fish. The king fish, when\\nhooked, is a gamy fellow, but is apt to take off the bait and leave\\nthe angler s hook bare. The sheepshead\\nusually bites well, but is slow in\\ntaking the bait in his mouth,\\nand even after being\\nhooked, one is not\\nsure of him.\\nIn the\\np^^^\\nTROLLING FOR BLUE FISH.\\nfirst\\nplace,\\nhe is very\\nstrong, and\\nif you attempt\\nto pull him in by\\nmain strength and\\nawkwardness, the\\nchances are that he will\\nbreak your line. The custom\\namong experienced fishermen is to drown him out, that is, let him\\nhave his own way until exhausted, and then haul him in. The\\nflounder is a nice fish to catch and bites voraciously. For outside\\nfishing a trip to either of the sunken wrecks will give the angler\\nfine sport in bass, weak fish, and sheepshead fishing.\\nThese twin sports of fin and feather are not only delightful in\\nthemselves, but they serve the better purpose of aiding largely in\\nrestoring health and strength. The conditions are perfect for this\\nway of roughing it; and the invalid., if strong enough to bear the\\nslight fatigue, will speedily find relief, if not a cure, for the ailments\\nto which his flesh is heir. Good digestion, active nutrition, and\\nsound sleep restore the nervous system, and these are largely ob-\\ntained by a moderate indulgence in those exhilarating sports, gun-\\nning and fishing. Days and weeks may be spent in cruising about", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "Gunning and J^ishing. 87\\nthrough the bays and thoroughfares, with never a flagging or failing\\nof interest or lack of occupation which is at the same time enjoy-\\nment. And whils the bronze deepens on the cheek and the pulse\\nbounds more vigorously and the step grows more elastic, there is\\nno thought of yearning for other scenes, but rather of frequent re-\\ngret that the summer vacation must soon end.\\nThe following information will be of permanent value to those\\nwho may wish to go in quest of any of the varieties of fish or fowl\\nwhich are found here at certain seasons of the year:\\nFISH.\\nBlue Fish. Appear about the middle of May; leave in\\nOctober.\\nSheepshead. Appear about the loth of June leave in Oc-\\ntober.\\nWeak Fish. Appear in May leave in October.\\nStriped Bass. Found in the rivers on the coast the entire win-\\nter more plentiful in summer.\\nWhite Perch. Come early and remain late; chiefly found in\\nbrackish waters and in rivers.\\nBlack Fish. Bite from istof June, and cease ist of October.\\nSea Bass. Taken first of July until October.\\nKing Fish, or Barb. Come in July and remain until October.\\nFlounders (Summer). Oblong in shape; come in June; stay\\nuntil October.\\nFlounders (Winter). Flounder proper; come in October;\\nleave in May.\\nPoRGiEs. Abundant along the coast after July.\\nSpot, or Goody. Summer fish.\\nCodfish Taken late in autumn and in winter.\\nFOWL.\\nWild Geese and Brant. Arrive about the ist of October and\\nremain until the last of March.\\nBlack Ducks. Arrive late in September and remain until the\\nist of April. They are sometimes seen here in summer.\\nBroad Bills. Arrive about the 15th of October.\\nCub Heads, Dippers, and Red Heads. Habits similar to broad\\nbills. Arrive in October and remain until April ist.\\nGray Ducks and Teal. Arrive September ist, leave in No-\\nvember; come again for a short time in spring on their northern\\nmigration.\\nEnglish Snipe. Make their appearance about the ist of April,", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "88 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nremain but a short time, go north, and return in October on their\\nway south.\\nWilson Snipe, Robin Snipe, Curlews, and Yellow Legs.\\nCome about the ist of May, make short stay, return in July, and\\nremain till October.\\nWiLLETT. Willetts remain and breed in salt marshes.\\nPlover. The several varieties arrive in May, remaining during\\nthe summer.\\nTell-Tales. Arrive in May and pass northward; return in\\nautumn for a short stay.\\nBut remember that there are in New Jersey certain enactments\\nwhich must be respected. They are known as Game Laws.\\nThey prohibit persons who are gunning for geese, brant, or ducks\\nfrom placing their decoys further off from the edge of the marsh,\\nisland, bar, bank, blind, or ice than three rods distance. All per-\\nsons are prohibited from pursuing any fowl after night with a light.\\nThis class of sportsmen are called pot hunters, and are held in\\ndisrepute by legitimate sportsmen.\\nBriefly stated, the game laws of New Jersey are as follows\\nIt is unlawful for non-residents to hunt in the counties of Camden,\\nGloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May without\\nbeing a member of the West Jersey Game Protective Society, under\\npenalty of fifty dollars.\\nFee of membership in this Society is five dollars for first year, and\\nfor each succeeding year two dollars.\\nIt is unlawful to kill, etc., any gray, or fox squirrel, between\\nthe first day of January and the first day of September, or any black\\nsquirrel, between the first day of June and the first day of Sep-\\ntember, or any upland or grass plover between the first day of\\nJanuary and the first day of August, or any woodcock, except only\\nbetween the first day of July and the first day of August, and be-\\ntween the last day of September and sixteenth day of December,\\nunder penalty of fifteen dollars.\\nNo person shall kill, etc., any ruffled grouse, commonly called\\npheasant, or quail, sometimes called Virginia partridge, except only\\nbetween the last day of October and the last day of December or\\nany rabbit, except only between the last day of October and the\\nlast day of December, under penalty of fifteen dollars.\\nBy special act of the Legislature the open season for rabbits in\\nAtlantic County is extended to January 15th.\\nIt is unlawful to kill, etc., any grouse, or prairie fowl between\\nthe first day of December and the fifteenth day of October, under\\npenalty of ten dollars\\nIt is unlawful to kill, etc., any rail bird, except in the months\\nof September, October, and November or any reed bird or march\\nhen, except from the twenty-fifth day of August to the first day of\\nDecember, under penalty of five dollars.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "^H*\\nMl\\nI II i;\\nR\\nm\\nms -i:^^ t:)j\\n^x\\n:fej\\nAlt\\nm)\\nmi\\nJ,n\\nC%l ,a", "height": "3592", "width": "2236", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "90\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nIt is unlawful to kill or shoot at any wild pigeon while on its nest-\\ning-ground j or discharge any fire-arms within one-quarter mile of\\nits nesting place.\\nNo person shall kill, etc., any summer duck, commonly called\\nwood duck, between the first day of January and the first day of\\nSeptember, under penalty of five dollars.\\nInsectivorous or song birds cannot be killed at any time, under\\na penalty of from five to fifty dollars.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "JVIortuary statistics.\\nHealth,\\nas follows\\nESIDES the testimony of those who have been to\\nAtlantic City and found healing in its atmos-\\nphere, another evidence of the salubrity of its\\nclimate is its low death-rate. The statistics\\ngiven in the table below are taken from the\\nofficial records of the various State Boards of\\nThe deaths in Atlantic City during 1887 were\\nNon-resident visitors, 107; residents, 125.\\nThe population of Atlantic City in 1880 was five thou-\\nsand five hundred, and in 1885 it was eight thousand, an\\nincrease of forty-five per cent, in five years, or at the rate\\nof nine per cent, a year. At this rate of increase the population\\nof the place at the close of 1887 was ten thousand. The record\\nof one hundred and twenty-five deaths during the year shows the\\ndeath-rate to be 12.5 to each thousand of population. The percent-\\nage of deaths during preceding years was about the same.\\nAs a basis of comparison, we give the following table of the\\nmortality of various cities of the United States\\nRate per 1,000.\\nNew York 25.31 1\\nPhiladelphia 21.20\\nChicago 20.17\\nBrooklyn 28.31\\nSt. Louis 22.12\\nCincinnati 19.09 I\\nBaltimore 21.53\\nSan Francisco 19.48 I\\nCleveland.. 21.18\\nWashington 24.45\\nBuffalo 17.33\\nRochester 23.39\\nBoston 28.57\\nWilmington, Del 23.47\\nRichmond, Va 25.44\\nMilwaukee 24.52 1\\nRate per 1,000.\\nNew Haven 16.50\\nHartford 18.63\\nPittsburgh 21.59\\nNashville 23.11\\nWorcester, Mass 20.05\\nCambridge, Mass 25.12\\nMobile, Ala 23.05\\nCharleston, S. C 29.16\\nEvansville, Ind 19.52\\nPlattsburgh, N. Y 25.00\\nConcord, N. H 13.20\\nSavannah 22.54\\nProvidence, R. 1 22.07\\nNorfolk, Va 21,19\\nLos Angelos, Cal 12.06\\nNewark, N. J 28.12\\n91", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "92\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nAlso the following places of nearly the same population as\\nAtlantic City\\nPopulation. Rate.\\nWaltham, Mass 15,200 12.60\\nBristol, Conn 6,500 31.04\\nNorwalk, Conn. 16,000 19.50\\nStamford, Conn 14,000 28,06\\nAmsterdam, N. Y ...14,000 12.85\\nAshtabula, Ohio 6,500 12.00\\nFostoria, Ohio 6,000 14.75\\nYoungstown, Ohio 15,430 20.99\\nPopulation. Rate.\\nJacksonville, 111 10,927 18.26\\nKeokuk, Iowa 14,000 15.10\\nClarksville, Tenn 8,000 15.50\\nAsheville, N. C 6,000 22.44\\nRaleigh, N. C 15,000 20.00\\nSanta Cruz, Cal 6,000 13.29\\nVallejo, Cal 5, 500 26.18\\nAtlantic City, 10,000 12.5\\nAtlantic City being a popular resort for invalids, especially those\\nsuffering from chronic diseases, the actual number of deaths within\\nits limits is necessarily large. This is especially the case in sum-\\nmer, when large numbers of infants suffering from diseases incident\\nto childhood at that season of the year are brought here, some of\\nthem in a dying condition when they arrive. In places like\\nAtlantic City there are various institutions for the sick, where the\\ndeath-rate is also large. There are at least three such institutions\\nin this city. Moreover, many of our permanent residents are what\\nphysicians call impaired lives persons with chest, rheumatic,\\nnervous, or other troubles, who live here throughout the year on\\naccount of the relief which the climate affords. These are counted\\namong the permanent residents in making up the death-rate,\\nthough they rightly belong to the non-residents. Sufficient is\\nshown by the above table, however, to satisfy any one that Atlantic\\nCity has a death-rate much lower than that of any other city in\\nthe country. The well-ascertained healthfulness of this city has\\nmade it as much an invalid s as it is a tourist s resort. There is no\\nlimit to its popularity with the medical profession, who are almost\\nunanimous in pronouncing it the best winter and summer home for\\ntheir patients.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Institutions for the Jifflicted.\\nURNEY Cottage, Virginia Avenue\\nbelow Pacific, was the summer\\nhome of the late Mrs. Eliza P.\\nGurne}^ from i860 until\\nthe time of her death,\\nabout nine years ago.\\nHer whole life was occu-\\npied with deeds of char-\\nity, and though an influ-\\nential member of the\\nSociety of Friends, she\\ngave liberally to Chris-\\ntians of every name.\\nAssisting in the organization of Sunday schools was her special\\npleasure, and the poor always found in her a friend. She enjoyed\\na personal acquaintance with many distinguished persons, and was\\na staunch friend of President Lincoln, who, in a letter written a\\nfew months before his death, said he was much indebted to the\\ngood Christian people of the country for their constant prayers\\nand consolations, and tonooneof them more than to Mrs. Gurney.\\nThree years ago the Gurney Cottage was leased by the managers\\nof the Friends Asylum, at Frankford, Philadelphia, who con-\\nverted it into a sanitarium for the treatment of nervous affections\\nand mild forms of mental disease. Cases of nervous prostration,\\nconvalescents from acute brain disease, and those mild mental dis-\\norders needing isolation from former surroundings can here find a\\nhome for treatment free from unnecessary restraint, where medical\\ncare and skillful nursing produce the best results.\\nThe building is situated near the ocean, and has all the modern\\nconveniences, including good sanitary arrangements. It is open\\nall the year, is well heated, and is lighted by electricity. Twelve\\npatients can be accommodated, both sexes being admitted. The\\nestablishment is presided over by a matron, and a sufficient number\\nof nurses are employed to care for the patients. It is under the\\nsupervision of Dr. John C. Hall, Superintendent of the Friends\\n93", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "94\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nAsylum in Philadelphia, who visits the place every week, and in\\nthe interval the immediate care and treatment of the patients are\\nconfined to Dr. John E. Sheppard, of Atlantic City, who makes\\ndaily visits to the institution. During the first eight months thirty\\npatients were admitted, a number of whom were discharged as\\ncured. The results of the treatment at the seashore, the Superin-\\ntendent reports, have been thus far very satisfactory. The good\\neffects of a change of air, the comparative freedom from restraint,\\nand the home life, felt and appreciated by all, have had a marked\\neffect upon the patients and contributed greatly to their recovery.\\nDr. Hall adds that his experience at Atlantic City proves the\\ndesirability of the method, and that it affords many advantages not\\nto be found in the usual hospital treatment.\\nMERCER HOME.\\nMERCER MEMORIAL HOME.\\nThis institution, the corporate name of which is Seaside House for\\nInvalid Women, was organized in 1878.\\nIts object is to provide at the seashore a place where invalid\\nwomen of moderate means can spend a few weeks and have not only\\nthe comforts of a home, but also good nursing and the care of a\\nphysician, at a price which they are able to pay, but much below\\nthe actual cost. It differs from other seaside institutions for women\\nin that it is intended for invalids only, and in this respect it meets\\na want which has often been felt by those who come in contact with\\nthe masses of workingwomen in our large cities.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "Institutiofis for the Afflicted. 95\\nThe work of the institution was begun June 22d, 1878, in a little\\ncottage with accommodations for fourteen patients. In February,\\n1880, it was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey. The ca-\\npacity of the little cottage was nearly doubled in 1881, in order to\\nin some measure meet the demands made for admission.\\nIn 1884 the present building, at the corner of Ohio and Pacific\\nAvenues, was erected, largely through the munificence of the late\\nMrs. J. C. Mercer, of Philadelphia, who gave forty thousand dollars\\nfor the purpose.\\nThis building is one of the finest of its size in Atlantic City, and\\nis provided with every convenience for the care of sick women. Its\\nsanitary arrangements are as near perfect as they can be made.\\nBesides sitting-rooms, bath-rooms, parlors, writing-room, dining-\\nrooms, offices, linen-rooms, trunk-rooms, servants rooms, and the\\nlike, there are fifty-eight bed-rooms, capable of accommodating\\nseventy patients. These are neatly furnished, and each patient has\\na comfortable spring-bed, with hair mattress. There are sixteen\\nbed-rooms on the first floor, and an easy, inclined plane runs from\\nthis floor to the ground, so that those unable to walk can be wheeled\\nfrom their bed-rooms to the beach. During the season of 1887\\nmore than six hundred invalid women were cared for in the insti-\\ntution.\\nThe difference between the receipts from board of patients and the\\ncurrent expenses amounts to about three thousand dollars annually,\\nand, as the whole income of the institution from invested funds is less\\nthan three hundred dollars, a very large portion of this deficit must\\nbe provided for by voluntary contributions. These will be thank-\\nfully received by any of the managers. The house is open to vis-\\nitors every afternoon except Sunday. The attending physician is\\nDr. William H. Bennett, assisted by Dr. J. E. Sheppard.\\nchildren s seashore house.\\nThis institution (the first of its kind in the United States) was\\nopened in a small cottage in 1872. In July, 1883, it was re-opened\\nin its present location, at the sea-end of Ohio Avenue, occupying\\nwhat is now the main building. Numerous smaller buildings have\\nsince been erected within the grounds by visitors at the different\\nhotels, each bearing the name of the house by which it was erected.\\nIt has now accommodations for about one hundred children and\\ntwenty-six mothers. The object of the corporation is to maintain\\nat the seashore an institution in which children of the poorer classes,\\nsuffering from non-contagious diseases or from debility incident to\\nthe hot weather and a crowded city, may have good nursing and\\nmedical care, without regard to creed, color or nationality.\\nChildren over three years of age are cared for by competent", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "g6 Ha?id-Book of Atlantic City.\\nnurses in the large, airy wards of the main building and in order\\nthat those too young to be separated from their mothers may also\\nbe admitted, little cottages have been erected for the mothers\\nalmost upon the beach. One of them is assigned to each mother\\nwith a sick infant. She may also have one other child with her,\\nand have for herself and children the exclusive use of the cottage,\\ntaking care of it and her children, but having her meals provided\\nfor her in the main building. A separate building, located imme-\\ndiately on the beach, is used for very serious cases needing closer\\nattention and greater quiet than can be had otherwise.\\nThe children are under the care of a resident physician, a corps\\nof nurses, and a matron, and the total charge, including board,\\nwashing, medical attendance, bathing, and, occasionally, driving\\nor sailing, is not over three dollars per week. A number limited\\nby the means at the command of the managers are received with-\\nout charge. Applications for admission are made to an examining\\nphysician, who furnishes railroad tickets, provided at a reduced\\nrate.\\nNo more worthy charity could appeal to the beneficence of those\\nwho are blessed with means. The resident physician is Dr. W.\\nH. Bennett, assisted by Dr. John E. Sheppard, of Atlantic City.\\nThe House is open to visitors Tuesday and Friday mornings from\\nhalf-past nine to half-past ten o clock, and every afternoon from\\nthree to five o clock.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Longport and Chelsea.\\nISITORS to Atlantic City should\\nnot fail to see Longport and\\nChelsea, which bear much the\\nsame relation to Atlantic City\\nthat the numerous suburban\\nvillages bear to the two great\\ncities of New York or Phila-\\ndelphia. They are adjuncts\\nand not rivals of the older\\nand larger place. Longport is\\na collection of attractive\\nhomes below Atlantic City,\\nand occupies the western end of the island, bordering on Great Egg\\nHarbor Inlet. Its water advantages are unique. The ocean, the inlet,\\nand the Thoroughfare surge restlessly or wave pleasantly on three\\nsides of it. The island narrows and is scarcely more than one square\\nin width in the improved portion of Longport, rendering both bath-\\ning and fishing convenient. The ocean beach is broad, smooth, and\\nlevel, making a fine promenade ground when the tide is out and\\nsafe bathing when the tide is in. Fish are abundant in the\\nThoroughfare, and are caught steadily from the pier and break-\\nwaters, which accommodate and protect the shore at different\\nangles.\\nMr. M, S. McCuUough purchased the site of Longport, some two\\nhundred and fifty acres, of Mr. James Long in 1882, and named the\\ntown, which he immediately laid out, in honor of the former owner.\\nImprovements have gone on steadily. Broad streets have been made\\nand graveled, a boardwalk to the length of ten squares has been built\\nalong the beach, railroad and telephonic communication made with\\nAtlantic City, and a post-office established by Mr. John Ober-\\nholtzer. The wharfage is good, a couple of little steamers meeting\\n97", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "9S\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\ntrains and making regular trips to Ocean City and Somers Point,\\nthus affording a through route to those places from Philadelphia.\\nSail-boats accommodate those who desire such recreation.\\nThe buildings of Longport are all first-class. Temperance and\\nsanitary restrictions in the deeds possess attractions for those who\\nsummer there. The bearing of the place is literary rather than\\nfashionable. Two resident authors, Professor J. P. Remington and\\nMrs. S. L. Oberholtzer, have well-used libraries there. The former\\nhas written a number of standard medical and pharmaceutical works,\\nwhile the latter is the author of several volumes of poetry and one\\nor two works of fiction. The Agassiz Microscopical Society holds\\nregular meetings throughout the season, while naturalists and\\nscientists are among the summer guests.\\nThe Aberdeen, erected by M. S. McCullough in 1884, and\\nMRS. OBERHOLTZER S COTTAGE.\\ndoubled in capacity in 1886, accommodates many guests, and is\\nsupplied with all modern conveniences, including hot sea-water\\nbaths. The cottages are diverse in architectural design. Those\\noccupied yearly by their owners are Amos Dotterer s, John and S.\\nL. Oberholtzer s, Professor Joseph P. Remington s, Carrie Rem-\\nington s and James Long s. Mr. Long s house was built in 1886,\\nand is one of the most imposing homes along the Atlantic coast.\\nSeveral pretty cottages belonging to different persons are rented\\nfor summer use. The Bay-View Club-House is a substantial\\nstructure on Seventeenth Avenue, and is the headquarters of the\\nBay- View Club, which is composed of thirty Philadelphia gentle-\\nmen. New houses are regularly going up. The place has present\\ncomfort and steady growth. Mrs. H. M. Lawton, who prepares\\ntastefully many varieties of marine algae, resides in Longport.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "Lo7igport and Chelsea. 99\\nA few squares below the lower limit of Atlantic City, a select\\nsuburb, called Chelsea, is rapidly building. It claims to have the\\nbest bathing-grounds on the island, and expects to be a second\\nElberon. It is laid out on a comprehensive scale, with wide streets\\nand large lots, those fronting on Pacific Avenue being sixty feet\\nwide and the corner ones sixty-five feet. Restrictions embodied\\nin the deeds require all houses to be set back a good distance from\\nthe street, and prevent them also from being crowded closely\\ntogether. Only one building for dwelling-house purposes is per-\\nmitted on each lot. No liquor saloon or other undesirable places\\nare allowed in the place, and stringent regulations govern the\\ndrainage arrangements. The spring of 1888 finds a dozen houses\\nalready in course of erection there, with every prospect of a rapid\\nincrease.\\nThere are many persons who prefer that their summer residence\\nshould be select and exclusive, with plenty of breathing- room and\\na guarantee against objectionable neighbors, as well as against too\\nnear neighbors of any kind. Chelsea seems to offer them just\\nwhat they require a combination of suburban attractions together\\nwith proximity to the railroads, churches, schools, shops, and great\\nhotels of Atlantic City proper. The Camden and Atlantic Rail-\\nroad will have a station at Chelsea, and both the street cars and\\nomnibusses will convey passengers to and from the city.\\nBesides the handsome cottages already erected for the occupancy\\nof wealthy Philadelphia families, many of the better class of\\nAtlantic City residents the bankers, merchants, physicians,\\nlawyers, etc., are considering the advisability of moving down\\nto Chelsea. It promises to become the fashion.\\nThe Chelsea Beach Company was organized in 1883 by Mrs.\\nMary A. Riddle, Dr. Rebecca C. Hallowell, Miss Julia M. French,\\nJulia P. Brown, Henry Mosebach, and others. Mrs. Riddle was\\nthe active spirit among the enterprising ladies who first conceived\\nthe idea of creating such a suburb. She was President of the\\nCompany during the first two years of its existence its most try-\\ning period and is still one of its largest stockholders. The fol-\\nlowing are the present officers of the Company President, D. S.\\nDengler Vice-President, Dr. Boardman Reed Treasurer, Henry\\nMosebach; Secretary, Ebenezer Wood, with a board of nine\\nDirectors.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "jJirits for the geasliore.\\nHE following hints to seashore\\nvisitors may be of interest It\\nis better to telegraph in advance\\nfor rooms at hotels. A single\\nroom means a room for one per-\\nson; a double room means\\na room for two persons a\\ndouble-bedded room means\\na room with two beds. Al-\\nways mention the day of\\nthe week and train by which\\nyou will arrive.\\nTo discharge sewage di-\\nrectly into the ocean in\\nfront of the bathing-\\ngrounds, as is done at some\\ncoast resorts, is highly\\nobjectionable. To let it\\nempty into a sluggish creek\\nor ditch running through\\nthe town, as is the method at other resorts, is even more dan-\\ngerous.\\nThe atmospheric pressure at the sea level has been computed to\\nbe about fifteen pounds to the square inch, which amounts to from\\nfourteen to sixteen tons upon the whole surface of the human body.\\nAt an elevation of a few hundred feet above the sea the pressure is\\nmaterially less. The change from a high or even medium altitude\\nto the seaside involves an increase of the pressure upon every square\\ninch of the body. To this fact is largely due the extraordinary\\nfeeling of buoyancy and vigor, as well as the stimulation of all the\\nnutritive processes, which are experienced upon going to the shore.\\nI GO", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Hints for the Seashore.\\nlOI\\nAs to exercise, the danger is that invalids visiting Atlantic City\\nwill take too much, owing to the extraordinary stimulative effects\\nof the sea air. They need, therefore, to be careful that they do not\\nexhaust their small stock of vitality as fast as it can be replenished.\\nBut this tendency is much less in winter than in summer, when the\\nnightly hops and other pleasures and dissipations keep the more im-\\npressionable visitors in a constant whirl of excitement.\\nFor some persons the air alone is sufficient, while others get on\\nfamously with the air and the help of judicious bathing. Still others\\nneed medicines, and suffer by having them stopped during their\\nstay at the seashore. For these the tonic and alterative virtues of\\nthe air often furnish just the adjuvants necessary to accomplish a\\ncure. The medicines which at home were nugatory or only half\\nsuccessful may succeed perfectly with the aid of the sea air when\\nneither alone would be sufficient.\\nOzone or oxygen in an active electrical state is an important in-\\ngredient of the atmosphere at the seashore as well as in mountain\\ndistricts, while it is nearly absent from the devitalized air of large\\ncities. This is the most powerful oxidizing agent known, and its\\npresence unquestionably greatly enhances the vigor and activity of\\nall the vital processes.\\nA noteworthy property of sea air is its greater density as com-\\npared with the atmosphere of inland places which have a consider-", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "I02\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nable altitude. This increase of density enables more oxygen to be\\ntaken into the lungs with each inspiration, and thus increases\\noxidation.\\nTo the influence of the Gulf Stream we must attribute the geni-\\nality and curious softness of the atmosphere which greets the new-\\ncomer at this favored spot. The mean temperature in January is\\n35\u00c2\u00b0, and often at mid-day stands at 50\u00c2\u00b0 in the coldest months of our\\nnorthern year.\\nTHE TRAYMORE HOUSE.\\nThe matter of diet is not so important at the seashore in winter\\nas in summer, but it is safe to counsel all invalids to restrain the\\nprodigious appetite they are almost sure to have soon after coming\\nhere in winter; otherwise constipation, headaches, and loss of ap-\\npetite will follow.\\nIt is a mistake to suppose that one cannot take cold at the sea-\\nshore. Invalids should take the usual precautions against being\\nchilled. In the winter season and on summer evenings wraps are\\nalways in order out-of-doors, though in summer they need not be\\nheavy.\\nA radiation of heat is constantly taking place from such a large", "height": "3502", "width": "2209", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Hi fits for the Seashore.\\n103\\nbody of salt water as the ocean, which is warmer in winter and\\ncooler in summer than the surface of the land adjacent hence the\\nair over the sea at the shore is usually warmer in winter, though\\ncooler in summer, than that of interior places in the same latitude.\\nSeaside towns located at the extremities of capes, where the\\nwind blows off large bodies of water on nearly all sides, have\\na more humid air than those not so exposed. Thus Atlantic City\\nhas been found to have a much drier air than most seashore\\nresorts. This may be partly due to the trend of the coast at this\\npoint and to its distance from the mouth of any large river, since\\nwinds often seem to focus at the mouths of rivers, and the stronger\\nMICHIGAN BUILDING.\\nthe winds from the seaward the greater the degree of moisture.\\nFurthermore, the large extent of very dry, sandy barrens directly\\nbehind the city causes the land breezes to be particularly devoid\\nof moisture.\\nWater absorbs heat and parts with it by radiation more slowly\\nthan the land. Hence in hot weather water is comparatively\\ncooler than the land, while in cold weather it is comparatively\\nwarmer. Therefore the summer temperature of a country border-\\ning on the sea is lowered, while the winter temperature is moder-", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "I04 Hand- Book of Atlafitic City.\\nated. This explains why Atlantic City is cooler in summer and\\nwarmer in winter than places inland. The prevailing winds here\\nare from the sea, and winds which com.e from the sea temper the\\nextremes of heat and cold.\\nNone but the better class of hotels and representative business\\nmen of Atlantic City are invited to advertise in this Hand-Book,\\nand the fact that they appear is a guarantee of their character.\\nThere are certain things with which every visitor must supply\\nhimself before starting on his journey homeward, and certain facts,\\na knowledge of which will be useful to him while here. For this\\nreason a little time devoted to an examination of our advertising\\npages will doubtless be profitably spent.\\nPulmonary and bronchial troubles are much alleviated by the\\nwarmed ozone of Atlantic City.\\nThe south and east winds of Atlantic City are warmed in winter\\nby their passage across the Gulf Stream and therefore the captious,\\nimpatient invalid can rise in the morning free from that pinching\\npain which inclines him to speak in uncomplimentary terms of the\\nthermometer.\\nIt is a wet soil rather than a moist air which is so injurious to\\nhealth, and a considerable portion of our Atlantic coast, including\\nthat bordering the southern part of New Jersey, has an exceedingly\\ndry, porous, sandy soil, which permits water to rapidly sink away,\\nexcept during spells of very rainy weather.\\nThe brisk sea-breezes of early spring, which sing and whistle\\naround the cottage gables and through the bare branches, inspire\\nthe visitors with longings for the vigorous exercise of brisk walks\\nand long horseback rides. From these they return with such glow-\\ning cheeks, sparkling eyes, and keen appetites that the mere sight\\nof them is a better advertisement of Atlantic City air as a tonic\\nthan all the books that could be written.\\nA work on climatology, published in the eighteenth century,\\nspeaks of the exceptional dryness of the atmosphere on Absecon\\nBeach, remarking that there was only one spot upon the seacoast\\nanywhere in the world which was comparable to this in that\\nrespect. It is certainly remarkable, though scarcely surprising,\\nthat this merit upon which, more than any other, the future great-\\nness and glory of Atlantic City will rest, should have been recog-\\nnized at that distant period.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3519", "width": "2349", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "Ground and \u00c2\u00a3bout.\\nPLACES OF INTEREST IN AND NEAR ATLANTIC CITY, AND OTHER INFORMA-\\nTION FOR VISITORS.\\nDMITTING that Atlantic\\nCity is the principal sea-\\ncoast resort of the country,\\nand an object\\nof pilgrimage\\nto thousands of\\npeople from\\nevery walk of\\nlife and from\\nevery part of\\nthe land, it is\\nwell to trace some of its attractions, and thus obtain some appreciation of its\\nadvantages and claims to consideration, which may assist in a proper estimate\\nof its importance. The history of the place will not be herein considered,\\nfor however interesting the historical features of this favorite locality, they\\ntake vastly inferior place when compared with its natural and artificial\\nattractions. Here are to be found all the requisites which enter into the\\nconstitution of a complete seashore watering place. Aside from the attrac-\\ntions of land and sea the drives, the beach, the boardwalk, the fishing, the\\nyachting and the bathing, the bracing air and other attributes of the grand old ocean\\nio6", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Around and About.\\n107\\naside from these, Atlantic City affords diversions of a secular or religious character\\nabove and beyond those of any other seacoast resort. One can go a-shopping here,\\nfind books, papers, small wares, material for embroidery, painting and drawing\\ncan visit a circulating library, or take an interest in the church of his choice, get\\nacquainted with the minister, and help along the good work. If one chooses, he\\ncan give a private entertainment in the evening at either of the ocean parlors,\\nwhich afford to the visitor a somewhere to go, an object and an end to an other-\\nwise purposeless stroll along the strand. Atlantic City long since learned how\\nbest to provide for its summer and winter guests, and it is now the business of\\nthe place to set forth its attractions, which are all in the direction of making\\none s stay delightful.\\nTHE BOARDWALK.\\nTo Atlantic City belongs the credit of having introduced what is now a feature\\nof a dozen seaside resorts the boardwalk. This was first built in 1S70, five\\nthousand dollars being raised for that purpose by the sale of city scrip. The\\nventure was regarded in an unfavorable light by many of the conservative citi-\\nzens, some of whom were large owners of real estate, but the younger men\\ncarried the project through on money privately borrowed until the issue of the\\ncity s obligations could be legalized. The boardwalk was destroyed by severe\\nstorms in the winter of 1883-4, hut was rebuilt in a more substantial manner in\\nthe spring of 1884 at a cost of less than ten thousand dollars. This walk, now\\nabout four miles in length, and extending from the Inlet to the suburb of\\nChelsea, is the distinctive feature of Atlantic City. It follows the contour of the\\nbeach just above the line of high-water, and is lighted with the electric\\nlight its entire length from the first of March to the middle of September. On\\na moonlight evening, when the beach is crowded with vehicles and the prome-\\nnade thronged with pedestrians, Atlantic City presents a scene of gayety un-\\nequaled anywhere else in the country.\\nTHE LIGHTHOUSE.\\nThe lighthouse is an object of much interest, at the northeastern end of the\\nisland, the house of the keeper, Major A. G. Wolf, facing Rhode Island Avenue.\\nThere are two assistant keepers, S. F. Adams and Frank T. Hills, The extreme\\nheight of the tower, from base to pinnacle, is one hundred and sixty-seven feet,\\nto outside gallery one hundred and fifty feet, and to the focus of the lamp one\\nhundred and fifty-nine feet. The ascent of the gallery is by two hundred and\\ntwenty-eight spiral steps. The lamp is what is known as Funck s mineral-oil\\nlamp, with fixed white light and Fresnel lens of the first order, and from the deck\\nof a vessel can be distinguished from other lights at a distance of twenty miles.\\nThe lighthouse is open to visitors from nine A. M. to twelve M. in summer time,\\nand from eleven to twelve in the winter season, Sundays and stormy days ex-\\ncepted.\\nEnglish s History of Atlantit City gives a history of the lighthouse, from which\\nwe make this extract: The great number of wrecks that were continually occur-\\nring on the beach caused Dr. Jonathan R. Pitney and other gentlemen to turn\\ntheir attention to the absolute necessity that existed for the erection of a light-\\nhouse at Atlantic City. Between 1834 and 1840 the proposal was first agitated.\\nAfter a great waste of trouble and money, a Congressional appropriation of five\\nthousand dollars was at last voted upon the proviso that a satisfactory report\\nshould first be made by a competent ofiicial of the Naval Department. Com-\\nmodore La Vallette was commissioned to make the report. He visited the beach,\\nexamined the coast, and requested a letter from Dr. Pitney on the subject. Not-\\nwithstanding the exertions of Dr. Pitney, the Commodore made an unfavorable", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "io8\\nHand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nreport, and the lighthouse project slept for several years. In 1853, after the rail-\\nroad had been surveyed, Dr. Pitney again agitated the subject. He circulated\\npetitions for signatures, wrote to Congressmen, and published articles iti the\\nnewspapers. The result of these labors was the granting of an appropriation\\nof thirty-five thousand dollars for a lighthouse. Thus Atlantic City has to-day\\none of the best lighthouses in the country, which, wiih later improvements, cost\\nupward of fifty thousand dollars. The tower of the lighthouse was first illumi-\\nnated i,n January, 1857.\\nThe lighthouse is a perpetual snare for birds. In their spring and fall migra-\\ntions birds of all descriptions, from the wild goose to the bobolink, are attracted\\nat night by the light in the tower, and dash against it with such force as to kill\\nabout one-third of their number. The others, maimed and bleeding, flutter\\nagainst the screen outside until taken in by the humane keeper. The live birds\\nSmMhu j^\\nLIGHTHOUSE.\\nare kept until morning in perforated pasteboard boxes and then released. As\\nmany as four hundred and eighty-one birds, dead or alive, have been entrapped\\nin a single night in the manner described. Major Wolf has a number of rare\\nspecimens mounted, and others have been sent to ornithologists in various parts\\nof the country. In a letter to Major Wolf, by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, head of the\\nDivision of Economic Ornithology at Washington, the latter says Your reports\\nare the most complete and valuable schedules received from any light station\\nduring the past season, and we are grateful for the trouble you have taken in\\npreparing them. It is a fact not generally known that migrating birds usually\\nfly from a mile to a mile and a half high. But being pressed to earth by storms\\nor storm clouds, they naturally fly toward so bright a light as that in the light-\\nhouse tower. The families of the keeper and his assistants, and the members of\\nthe Atlantic City Life Saving Station frequently diet on bird-pie, and the latter\\nhave cultivated such a taste for it that not long since they ate a pie in which", "height": "3576", "width": "2136", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Around and About. 109\\nwere one hundred and fifty-two of the fattest birds that ever flew. It is even\\nhinted that when the pie was opened the men began to sing, and one of them\\nsaid unto his mate, Isn t this a dainty dish to which the other replied, Yes\\nfit to set before the king,\\nLIFE-SAVING STATION.\\nThe Atlantic City Life- Saving Station is situated at Pacific and Vermont Ave-\\nnues, and is in charge of Captain Amasa Bowen, with seven assistants. The\\npresent building was finished in December, 1884, and is the finest life-saving\\nstation on the coast of the United States. It is a pretty Gothic structure, with\\nthree rooms and a pantry on the first floor and three rooms on the second. Above\\nthe roof there is a tower or lookout, where a constant watch is kept for vessels in\\ndistress. The building is open to visitors at all hours of the day, and the obliging\\ncaptain or any of his assistants will take pleasure in explaining to any one the\\nmethod of saving life and property from destruction by the fury of the elements.\\nOn the first clear day of each week the crew goes through an interesting drill\\nwith the mortar and lifeline, sea-car and surf-boat, beginning at eight o clock in\\nthe morning.\\nThe first life-saving station established on this beach was opened nearly forty\\nyears ago, and was known as the Government Boat-House, with Ryan Adams as\\nkeeper. It stood near Connecticut and Pacific Avenues, about where the Ocean\\nHouse now stands. When James Buchanan was elected President, Samuel\\nAdarns succeeded Ryan Adams, holding the position for five years, when Barton\\nGaskill was appointed by President Lincoln. He retained the position for sixteen\\nconsecutive years. When the improved system was adopted, in conformity with\\nan act of Congress, approved June i8th, 1878, the station was moved to its\\npresent site, in the rear of the lighthouse. Captain Bowen has been the efficient\\nkeeper for the past nine years.\\nUNITED STATES SIGNAL STATION,\\nThe United States Signal Station in Atlantic City is situated in the Bank\\nBuilding, corner Atlantic and North Carolina Avenues, and is in charge of Mr.\\nG. A. Loveland, signal observer. This station was opened December loth,\\n1873, in the Government Life-Saving House, about one hundred yards from the\\nlighthouse. Recently it was removed to its present location. The elevation of\\nthe barometer above the level of the sea is thirty-four feet. The instrument shelter\\nis of the standard portable pattern, and is placed on the northern end of the\\nbuilding. The anemometer, wind-vane, and rain-gauge are on well-exposed\\nparts of the building. The station is supplied with a complete outfit for inter-\\nnational signals. Visitors will be welcomed at any hour of the day by Signal\\nObserver Loveland, who always finds pleasure in explaining the methods of\\nconducting the signal service.\\nBEACH THOROUGHFARE.\\nThe Thoroughfare is a sheet of water that abounds in the finest fish, oysters,\\ncrabs and clams, and is the rendezvous of a fleet of graceful yachts, in which\\nthe visitor can cruise for pleasure or for fishing, either on the smooth waters of the\\ninlet or upon the briny waters of the Atlantic. Omnibuses will convey visitors\\neither to Sykes Wharf or Higbee s Bridge, where boats can be hired and fishing-\\ntackle procured at a moderate charge.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "no Hand- Book of Atlantic City.\\nBRIGANTINE BEACH AND PETERS BEACH.\\nBrigantine Beach is another of the old-time resorts of the sportsmen who are\\nused to roughing it. For this sort of pleasure it is one of the choicest places\\nalong the coast. Blue-fish, flounders, porgies, bass, and weak-fish are caught in\\nabundance. The adjacent meadows and marshes are alive with snipe, curlew,\\nmarlin, and the whole family of wading birds. Wild geese, duck, brant and teal\\nare to be had in large quantities in season. The crabbing is exceptionally good,\\nand the bathing is safe.\\nThe upper end of this island-beach has been from time immemorial the breed-\\ning-place for sea-gulls. Myriads of these birds congregate here. The eggs are\\nlaid in the sand, the nest being a mere hollow, with sometimes a few twigs and\\nleaves. The breeding time is July and August. Then the beach is well worth\\nvisiting. As a fowl for table use, the sea-gull is not a delightsome luxury. If\\nyou want something particularly tough, oily, fishy and otherwise disagreeable to\\neat, shoot a sea-gull and cook it. That is to say, if you are an exceptionally\\ngood shot, for there are few birds which are more difficult to bring down when on\\nthe wing.\\nYachts leave the Inlet House daily, conveying passengers to Peters Beach or\\nBrigantine, both on the opposite side of the inlet. There are two large hotels on\\nBrigantine and one on Peters Beach. Mr. Alfred B. Smith, of the Brigantine\\nHouse, is a hospitable landlord, guarding carefully the comfort of his guests. His\\nbrother, Mr. Charles Smith, of Peters Beach, is equally attentive to those who\\nvisit his house. The Peters Beach House is delightfully located, and is a favor-\\nite rendezvous for those fond of boating, gunning or fishing. Oysters are taken\\nfresh from the water almost at the door of the house. It has cool rooms, fine\\nverandas, and first-class accommodations for guests. It commands a. full view of\\nAtlantic City, and is only fifteen minutes sail from the inlet.\\nHOT AND COLD BATHS.\\nThe hot sea-water baths are in great favor with visitors to Atlantic City, and\\ninvalids especially derive great benefit from them. Persons suffering from\\nrheumatism have, often been permanently cured. Freshness and vigor are im-\\nparted to all who use them. They are better than medicines, and physicians\\nrecommend them. The old, reliable establishment of Kipple McCann, at the\\nsea end of Ocean Avenue, is fitted up with every convenience, and has a sun-par-\\nlor attached. Many prefer the hot baths to surf-bathing, even in summer time,\\nand as they have accommodations for both classes, Kipple McCann s place is\\nextensively patronized. Their sun-parlor is a rendezvous, a place of meeting,\\nfor boardwalk promenaders. At the ofifice there is a register where guests at any\\nhotel or boarding-house are invited to register their names, by which means prompt\\ndelivery of telegrams and express packages is insured and their whereabouts\\nmade known to friends. The place thus becomes a bureau of information.\\nTHE MICHIGAN BUILDING.\\nThousands of people have noticed the attractive cottage of Barclay Lippincott,\\non States Avenue, without knowing anything of its history. This building was\\npurchased by Mr. Lippincott at the close of the Centennial Exposition in Phila-\\ndelphia, and removed to Atlantic City in sections. It was one of the most artisti-\\ncally designed and finely finished State buildings on the Centennial grounds, the\\nairy and graceful proportions of the superstructure culminating in a high villa\\ntower. The building is made of native Michigan woods, and the interior is\\nadorned with rich engravings of oiled and polished wood of every variety grown\\nin the State. A room on the second floor, used as a parlor at the Centennial,\\nwas a gem of comfort and taste.", "height": "3524", "width": "2209", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Around and About.\\nIll\\nHANDSOME RESIDENCES.\\nThe Disston villa, on Indiana Avenue, opposite the Brighton, is the finest pri-\\nvate residence in Atlantic City. The head of the Disston family established a\\nlarge business at Tacony, a northern suburb of Philadelphia. He made saws,\\nand the impression got abroad that his saws were the best in the market. They\\nsold rapidly, and he grew very rich. He was an early believer in Atlantic City,\\nand purchased the entire block between Park and Indiana Avenues, from Pacific\\nto the sea. He died before he had enjoyed the beautiful home he had reared,\\nand his widow and sons now occupy the mansion. It is an English country\\nvilla with a pretty porte cochere facing the street. Other attractive residences\\nsimilar to the Disston villa are to be seen on the principal avenues, notably that\\nof George Allen, at Pacific and Maryland Avenues; the Turner villa, at Pacific\\nand Indiana Avenues the Shirtcliffe cottage, on North Carolina Avenue, and\\nwhat is commonly called the Ladner villa, though not now owned by any of that\\nfamily on States Avenue. Some of the finest residences in Atlantic City are\\ndignified by no other name than cottage\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a word which has undergone great\\nACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART.\\nchanges since its introduction into our language. It was originally used to con-\\nvey the idea of something far less stylish than the buildings which are now known\\nby that name. The old dictionary meaning of it is, a small habitation for poor\\npersons The habitations which beautify the avenues of Atlantic City are\\nnot by any means small ones, nor are they generally, as far as heard from, inhabi-\\nted by poor people. Most of them are exceedingly tasteful, and many are large\\nenouah to be called mansions rather than cottages. Quite a number are in\\nQueen Anne style, whatever that is. A few are positively hideous, but the\\nmajority are exhibits of elegant and sensible architecture.\\nACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART.\\nThis institution was first opened in a cottage on Connecticut Avenue in May,\\ni88^, but in November following it was removed to its present location on Park\\nPlace, directly opposite the Disston villa. The school is conducted by the ladies", "height": "3582", "width": "2172", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "of the Sacred Heart, and is an institution of which Atlantic City may well feel\\nproud. The grounds around the villa extend to the beach, and every facility is\\nafforded the pupils for sea-bathing and healthful exercise in the open air. The\\nbuilding is heated with steam, and is furnished with all the modern improvements.\\nBoth boarding and day pupils are received, and the terms may be had on appli-\\ncation to the Superior. These ladies devote themselves, also, to the education of\\na large number of children in their parochial school on Ohio Avenue.\\nREAL ESTATE AND LAW BUILDING.\\nTHE OCEAN PIERS.\\nThe piers have been referred to at length in another chapter ot this Hand-\\nBook. Besides Applegate s there are two other piers, Howard s Ocean Pier, six\\nhundred feet long, and the new Iron Pier, over one thousand feet long, both\\nequally popular in summer time. Select hops and excellent dramatic or operatic\\nentertainments make up the attractions on these piers when Atlantic City puts on\\nits gay summer attire, Applegate s Pier has two decks, the upper one acting as\\na cover to the lower, besides which there is a fishing deck at the outer extremity,\\nwhere there is generally good fishing the whole summer long. The entertain-\\nment hall is above the fishing deck. The Iron Pier has three pavilions, the\\nlargest having a seating capacity for nearly two thousand people. It was first\\nopened to the public in the soring of 1886. Howard s was the first pier built in\\nAtlantic City.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "gtopy of the ]V[erinaid.\\nTHE mermaid is an imaginary inhabitant of the sea, with a head and\\nbody resembling that of a woman, but terminating in a tail like\\nthat of a fish. There are many legends about the mermaid, one of which\\npertains to this locality. As handed down by the oldest inhabitant\\noff-shore the legend is as follows\\nIn the olden time a fisherman lived on this island, as happy with his wife\\nand children as mortals are allowed to be in this world. In the morning he\\nTHE FISHERMAN AND THE MERMAID.\\nset his sails and went forth to spread his nets, and in the evening he returned\\nladen with fish to his home, where he was welcomed by his family.\\nOne night he came home silent and preoccupied, and in the midst of his chil-\\ndren s chatter he cried, Hush what is the sound I hear\\nIt is only the mermen and mermaidens singing under the sea, answered\\nhis wife.\\nI heard them to-day, he said; the song floats through all the air about\\nme even yet. What a weird song it is Do you hear it\\nI hear nothing, answered his wife. You are weary; retire at once, and\\nsleep will banish all sound.\\nBut the song floated through his dreams. Next morning he arose early and\\nwent out to sea, and as he sailed the sound grew sweeter and clearer. It was a\\n113", "height": "3488", "width": "2204", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "114 Hand- Book of Atla7itic City.\\nmisty day the sails of neighboring ships looked unreal and dim, and as he gazed\\nacross the water a charming scene was presented to him a mermaid rose from the\\nfoam of the waves, which at first enveloped her like a veil, and then parted, dis-\\nclosing her form to view. She was combing her bright yellow hair and shouting,\\nrather than singing, a wild, elfish song, without rhyme or measure, but with mel-\\nody enough to make up for the lack of both, and the oft-repeated refrain, Come\\nto my coral home.\\nThe song and sight so bewitched his senses, that by degrees he became bewil-\\ndered, and could not tell the real from the unreal. He forgot he was mortal; he\\nlonged to go to that coral home under the waves, and ever hear that wild, en-\\ntrancing song. And so, when she held out her arms to him, without a moment s\\nhesitation he sprang into the sea, and both disappeared.\\nThat night his wife and children vainly waited for his coming they went\\ndown to the beach where the green waves washed the white sands and sobbed\\nand moaned as if they could a tale unfold, and yet they told it not.\\nBut above their ceaseless crying the fisherman s wife heard the songs of the\\nmerfolk under the sea, and, stricken at heart, she took her children by the hand,\\nreturned to her cottage, and closed the door, trying vainly to shut out the sound.\\nYou are fatherless she sobbed. After all our love for him, and devotion\\nto him, he has left us desolate\\nAll for the love of a little mermaiden\\nAnd the gleam of her golden hair.\\nNext day, when the sun rose out of the sea, the body of the fisherman was\\nfound on the beach, but his little bark was never recovered.\\nHis soul, like bark with rudder lost,\\nOn passion s changeful tide was tossed.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Distances fpom Tltlantic City.\\nMiles.\\nAltoona, Pa 297\\nAlbany, N. Y 293\\nBaltimore, Md 158\\nBoston, Mass 380\\nBuffalo, N.Y 513\\nBethlehem, Pa 115\\nBedford Springs, Pa 314\\nBeatrice, Neb 1,497\\nBurlington, N.J 79\\nChester, Pa 74\\nCarlisle, Pa 186\\nCarrollton, Mo 1,271\\nCresson Springs, Pa 3^2\\nChambersburg, Pa 217\\nChicago, 111 883*\\nCincinnati, Ohio 727\\nCleveland, Ohio 564\\nCharleston, S. C 846\\nColumbus, Ohio 608\\nDoylestown, Pa 93\\nDelaware Water Gap, Pa 152\\nDowningtown, Pa. 92\\nDetroit, Mich 743\\nDenver, Col 1,95\u00c2\u00b0\\nEaston, Pa 112\\nErie, Pa 506\\nElmira, N. Y 343\\nFort Wayne, Ind 735\\nGettysburg, Pa. I95\\nGreensburg, Pa 382\\nHarrisburg, Pa, 1 65\\nIfestonville, Pa 65\\nHuntingdon, Pa 263\\nIndianapolis. Ind 782\\nIthaca, N. Y 418\\nJohnstown, Pa 33^\\nKansas City, Mo 1,337\\nLancaster, Pa. 132\\nLincoln, Neb 1.447\\nLouisville, Ky 9^5\\nMedia, Pa 73\\nMauch Chunk, Pa 149\\nMilwaukee, Wis 923\\nMontgomery, Ala i,097\\nMontreal, Can 649\\nMiles.\\nNorristown, Pa 77\\nNew York City, N. Y 150\\nNewark, N. J 140\\nNew Brunswick, N. J 117\\nNiagara Falls, N. Y 518\\nNew Orleans, La i,474\\nNew Haven, Conn 226\\nNewport, R. 1 3^6\\nOgdensburg, N. Y 544\\nOmaha, Neb 1,380\\nPhiladelphia, Pa 60\\nPittsburg, Pa 4H\\nPottstown, Pa lOO\\nPottsville, Pa 153\\nPortland, Me 49\\nQuebec, Canada 821\\nQuincy, 111 i,ii4\\nReading, Pa 118\\nRochester, N. Y 437\\nRichmond, Va 3^4\\nSan Francisco, Cal 3,280\\nSt. Joseph, Mo 1,397\\nSt. Louis, Mo 1,063\\nSalt Lake City, Utah 2,434\\nSt. Paul, Minn 1,334\\nSunbury, Pa 218\\nScranton, Pa 223\\nSavannah, Ga 827\\nToledo, Ohio 675\\nTrenton, N. T 9\u00c2\u00b0\\nTallahassee, Fla 1,160\\nUniontown, Pa 420\\nUnion City, Pa 479\\nUtica, N.Y 386\\nValley Forge, Pa 83\\nVirginia City, Nev 2,844\\nWilkesbarre, Pa 241\\nWilliamsport, Pa 258\\nWestchester Pa 9^\\nWilmington, Del 88\\nWashington, D. C 19^\\nWatkinsGlen N.Y 359\\nXenia, Ohio 663\\nYork, Pa 153\\nZanesville, Ohio 5^0\\n115", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "Customs of the Aborigines.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2yTY TL ANTIC county was once a paradise for the Indians, a sort of terrestrial\\nf I happy hunting grounds, where the untutored child of nature flourished\\nI I in his glory and enjoyed an existence free from care, where the red-\\nI skinned youth wooed his mate under the greenwood boughs and the stal-\\nwart hunter traversed the forest in quest of game or rested beside his\\nwigwam fire. There can be no doubt that far back in the annals of Time the*\\ncurling smoke from Indian wigwams ascended above the hill-tops and red cedars\\nwhich then marked the present site of Atlantic City. Traces of them still remain\\nin the shell mounds in the vicinity of Hill s Creek. Indian implements of a very\\narchaic character have been found here, specimens of which are in the possession\\nof Dr. T. K. Reed. The fish and oysters, found in abundance in the bays and\\nthoroughfares, were highly prized by the red men, and frequently large parties\\nwould embark in their canoes to procure a supply of these luxuries. Having\\nobtained a cargo, they would repair to the nearest woodland and indulge in a\\ngrand jollification, attended with all the sports and pastimes which were dear to-\\nthe aboriginal mind. The immense shell heaps that are found scattered through\\nthe woods and along the beaches, similar to those in the vicinity of Hill s\\nCreek, mark the spots where these primitive picnics were held. Tradition makes\\nthe vicinity of Atlantic City the scene of a sanguinary Indian battle, which is thus\\ndescribed\\nA numerous party of Delawares were hunting on the shores of the Mullica\\nRiver. While thus engaged they unexpectedly encountered a party of warriors be-\\nlonging to a hostile northern tribe, who had come southward in quest of scalps\\nand plunder. Instantly the spirit of vengeance was aroused and with drawn\\nweapons the warriors rushed to battle. Stern was the strife, for the opposing\\nforces were equal in numbers and courage. Gliding panther-like from tree to\\ntree, hurling the keen tomahawk, and darting the death-winged arrow, they waged\\ndeadly strife till the shadows of night closed around them. Half the warriors on\\nboth sides had fallen, but as yet no thought of flight had entered the minds of\\neither party. Crouching low in their leafy coverts and casting eagle glances\\nthrough the darkness, those unrelenting foes watched and waited for the coming\\nday. At dawn the fight was resumed with unabated fury. Shouts of rage and\\nvengeance resounded from every side, and the wild shrubbery was dyed with\\nblood as brave after brave fell. Still the conflict went on till but two of the Del-\\nawares and one of the Northern Indians remained alive of all who had taken\\npart in the game of mutual slaughter. Observing their advantage, the two Dela-\\nwares sounded their war cry and advanced to seize their solitary foe. This\\ndoughty savage, however, had no idea of being taken. Flourishing his toma-\\nhawk, he uttered a yell of defiance and plunged into the river. His enemies at-\\ntempted a pursuit, but he left them far behind and quickly gained the other shore\\nPausing a moment to wave a taunting farewell, he dashed swiftly away and dis-\\nappeared in the forest. The baffled Delawares then returned to their village\\nwith tidings of the fatal combat, which was destined to be long preserved in the\\ntraditionary annals of the nation.\\nii6", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "JVEemoranda for Visitors.\\nCONDENSED HISTORICAL AND GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT ATLANTIC CITY\\nALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.\\nAcademy of the Sacred Heart.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See chapter on Around and About.\\nAccretions and Encroachments. The beach front of Atlantic City\\nundergoes a change from year to year, both by accretions and encroachments of\\nthe sea. The lighthouse was for years threatened with destruction by the en-\\ncroaching sea, until the Government built a series of jetties in 1876 thereby\\ndiverting the currents. But while abrasion is taking place at one point accretion\\nis going on at another, so that what one part of the island loses another part\\ngains. The present site of the Seaside House and Haddon Hall was washed by\\nthe tides as recently as 1870, and further down the beach the sea covers the site\\nof blocks and lots for which deeds were recorded as late as 1865. Some over-\\nwise people predict that the entire island will be resigned to the waves ere the\\nclose of the twentieth century. Like the philosopher Hutton, of the last century,\\nthey might as well terrify themselves with the thought that the whole earth must\\nbe eventually washed away by the force of the ram, the rivers, and the mountain\\ntorrents, until it dissolves itself in the ocean The one is about as likely to hap-\\npen as the other, ?nd eitheridea surpasses in sublimity that of the chicken hearted\\ndamsel of antiquity who wept herself into a fountain, or of the good dame of\\nNarbonne, described by Washington Irving, who was required to peel five hun-\\ndred thousand ropes of onions, and who actually ran out at her eyes before half\\nthe task was accomplished. The story is ridiculous, but not more so than the\\nidea that this isle, whereon now stands the famous city of Atlantic City, must one\\nday be washed away by the sea.\\nAmusements. Places of amusement are as follows Music Hall, Atlantic\\nAvenue above Tennessee; Applegate s Pier, foot of Tennessee Avenue; Iron\\nPier, foot of Massachusetts Avenue Howard s Ocean Pier, foot of Kentucky\\nAvenue; Schaufler s Garden, North Carolina Avenue; Albrecht s Garden, At-\\nlantic below Illinois Avenue; Virginia Opera Garden, Virginia below Atlantic\\nAvenue; City Hall, Tennessee and Atlantic Avenues.\\nArea of the City. The area of Atlantic City does not cover the entire\\nisland, as s )me suppose. It extends from Absecon Inlet to what is known as Dry\\nInlet, a distance of about four miles, with a width varying from half to three-\\nquarters of a mile.\\nArmory. The armory of the Sea-Coast Artillery, National Guards of the\\nState of New Jersey, is on the second floor of the City Hall, corner Atlantic and\\nTennessee Avenues. That of the Morris Guards is on New York Avenue, be-\\ntween Atlantic and Pacific.\\nArtesian Well. A syndicate of local capitalists having sunk an artesian\\n117", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "1 1 8 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nwell at Arctic and Michigan Avenues, have organized the Consumers Water\\nCompany, with the view of supplying the city with pure spring water. The\\ndepth of the well is 1,150 feet.\\nAshes. There is no city ordinance providing for the removel of ashes,\\nalthough there should be. Most cottagers and boarding-house keepers store them\\nin their yards during the winter and have them removed at their own cost when\\naccumulated.\\nAtlantic City National Bank. The safest and most convenient shape in\\nwhich the traveler to the seashore can place his money before leaving home is in\\nthe form of letters of credit or circular notes, payable at a local banking institu-\\ntion. In Atlantic City there are two national banks where letters of credit may\\nbe made payable the Atlantic City National Bank and the Second National\\nBank. The former occupies an imposing brick building at the corner of Atlantic\\nand North Carolina Avenues, one square from the depot. It began business May\\n23d, 1 88 1, with a capital of fifty thousand dollars, and is regarded as one of the\\nstrongest banking institutions in the country, having a surplus nearly equal to its\\ncapital stock, besides paying annual dividends of eight per cent. The building\\nis fully equipped with all the best appliances for the banking business and is very\\ncarefully and prudently managed. The President is Mr. Charles Evans, and the\\nCashier is Mr. Francis P. Quigley, with a Board of nine Directors.\\nAtlantic Coast Resorts. See map at the close of this Hand-Book.\\nAtlantic Safe Deposit and Trust Company. This institution was or-\\nganized in 1887, with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars. It is located\\nin the Second National Bank building, and acts as executor, administrator,\\nguardian or trustee, and receives and executes trusts of every description from\\nthe courts, corporations, and individuals. Colonel Daniel Morris is President, and\\nLorenzo A. Down Secretary and Treasurer.\\nAttorneys-at-Law. Joseph Thompson, Real Estate and Law Building;\\nAllen B. Endicott, Real Estate and Law Building; August Stephany, Real Estate\\nand Law Building; Samuel E. Perry, 1803 Atlantic Avenue; James B. Nixon,\\nReal Estate and Law Building; S. D. Hoffman, Virginia below Atlantic Avenue;\\nCharles A. Baake, Real Estate and Law Building; George T. Ingham, Real\\nEstate and Law Building; John Stille, Atlantic above Kentucky.\\nAuthor, Poet and Statesman. Atlantic City has never been the home\\nof a prince, but she can boast of her poet, her author and her statesman. The\\npioneer poetess was Mrs. Rachel Rhodes, whose husband was the first alderman\\nof the place. She came to this city before the completion of the railroad, and\\ndied here about 1874. She was the author of a novel entitled Zuleika, and of a\\nvolume of poems which gained some celebrity. The poetess of the present day\\nis Mrs. Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, whose summer home is at Longport, She has\\nwritten a number of works of prose and poetry, published by Lippincott, among\\nwhich are Violet Lee^ Come for Arbutus, Hope s Heart Bells and Daisies of\\nVerse. Her winter home is at Norristown, Pa.\\nRev. William Aikman, D. D., Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of this\\ncity, is an author of some note, having written several works of fiction, besides\\nnumerous pamphlets and religious essays. Two of his best works are, A Bache-\\nlor s Idea of Married Life and Life at Home.\\nThe works of Dr. Aikman and of Mrs. Oberholtzer are sold at the bookstore\\nof J. H. Wolsieffer.\\nThe statesman of Atlantic City is Hon. John J. Gardner, whom Historian\\nEnglish calls the bare-foot boy. He is the architect of his own fortune, and\\nhis life is a splendid illustration of the possibilities which lie in the pathway of\\nevery ambitious and industrious young man. He is now serving his fourth term", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Meuioranda for Visitors. 119\\nas a member of the New Jersey State Senate, of which he is the recognized\\nleader, and of which he was President in 1883.\\nAvenues. The streets of Atlantic City are designated as avenues, the dis-\\ntinctive names of the cross avenues being derived from the various States, begin-\\nning with Maine and ending with Iowa. The other avenues, running parallel\\nwith the ocean, are Pacific Avenue, sixty feet wide Atlantic Avenue, one hundred\\nfeet; Arctic Avenue, sixty feet; Baltic, Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Caspian\\nthe three last not being laid out. Of the cross avenues, Virginia (as far as\\nAtlantic), Pennsylvania and North Carolina are each eighty feet wide, and\\neach of the others fifty feet. There are other avenues running parallel with\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the cross avenues, the principal one being States Avenue, which is ninety feet\\nin width. Atlantic Avenue being the dividing line, the cross avenues are desig-\\nnated East and West, as E. Pennsylvania, W. Pennsylvania. The intermediate\\navenues are as follows:\\nBelmont Avenue (width, fifty feet), south from Pacific to the ocean, below\\nCalifornia.\\nChurch Alley, north from Atlantic to Baltic, between Massachusetts and Con-\\nnecticut.\\nCongress Avenue, south from Atlantic to Pacific, above Connecticut.\\nFolsom Avenue, north from Arctic to Baltic, above Vermont.\\nFox Avenue, west from Ohio Avenue to Michigan, between Arctic and Baltic.\\nGarfield Avenue, east from Ohio to Indiana, above Arctic.\\nIrving Avenue (width, forty feet), south from Arctic to Camden and Atlantic\\nRailroad, between Vermont and Rhode Island.\\nNew Street, west from Connecticut, between Arctic and Baltic.\\nNorris Street, east from Tennessee Avenue to South Carolina Avenue, between\\nArctic and Baltic.\\nOcean Avenue (width, thirty feet), south from Pacific to the ocean, between\\nSouth Carolina and Tennessee Avenues.\\nOriental Avenue (width, sixty feet), east from Connecticut to Rhode Island,\\nbelow Pacific.\\nPark Place (width, sixty feet), south from Pacific to the ocean, below Indiana.\\nPresbyterian Avenue, south from Arctic to Pacific, above Pennsylvania.\\nRailroad Avenue, northeast from South Carolina to North Carolina, above\\nAtlantic.\\nRiddle Avenue (width, thirty feet), south from Atlantic to Pacific, below\\nFlorida.\\nSurf Avenue, south from Arctic to Atlantic, above Illinois.\\nSurf Place (width, thirty feet), south from Atlantic to Pacific, above Illinois.\\nWestminster Place, east and south from Kentucky Avenue, below Pacific.\\nWood Street, south from Pacific, above Massachusetts.\\nBanks. Atlantic City National Bank, corner Atlantic and North Carolina\\nAvenues. Capital, fifty thousand dollars.\\nSecond National Bank, corner Atlantic and New York Avenues. Capital,\\none hundred thousand dollars.\\nMerchants Bank, Atlantic Avenue, above Illinois. Capital, fifty thousand dol-\\nlars.\\nAtlantic Safe Deposit and Trust Company, corner Atlantic and New York\\nAvenues. Capital, one hundred thousand dollars.\\nBaptist Church. This edifice was completed in July, 1882, and is a neat\\nstructure, capable of seating about four hundred. The seats are arranged in\\namphitheatre style. See Churches.\\nBarnegat. Barnegat, a Dutch name, formerly written Barendegat, mean-\\ning dangerous breakers, is the name of a bay and inlet on the New Jersey coast.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "1 20 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nabout midway between Sandy Hook and Cape May, a village of the same name\\nbeing situated some three miles up a creek which empties into Barnegat Bay. The\\nplace is a prize for fishermen so much so, indeed, that the first bluefish that\\npushes into Barnegat generally near the end of May is the subject of a formal\\nAssociated Press dispatch, and is an honored arrival, very much as the first cargo\\nof tea from China that reaches London, or the first bale of cotton from the South.\\nBathing. The following rules about bathing should be carefully observed\\nby those who indulge in the surf bath.\\nThe timorous soul, who is afraid her bathing robes will get wet, and who lin-\\ngers, shivering on the brink, instead of skipping right into the breakers, will\\nderive but little benefit from the bath.\\nThe man who is afraid to wet his head had better stay on dry land. The surf\\nwill do him little good.\\nBefore bathing in the surf walk briskly up and down the beach for ten minutes.\\nIf you wear any lacing around your chest, throw it off and let your lungs have\\na chance for all the air they can take in. Throw your shoulders back, straighten\\nyour back-bone, and keep your chin up and your head erect. Don t exercise\\nuntil you are weary or are in a perspiration, but just until you are in a healthy\\nglow. Now bounce into the surf with a hop, skip, and a jump, and put your\\nhead under the water, without stopping to think too long about it. Now dance,\\nleap, tumble, swim, float, kick, or make any other motions that seem good to\\nyou. Keep in motion. Put your head under as often as you please. After the\\nfirst time there is no unpleasant shock connected with this performance.\\nDon t swim far out, even if you are a good swimmer. The good swimmers\\nare generally the ones who go out and are drowned. They pride themselves on\\ntheir ability to swim in to shore, and they forget the power and the deceitfulness\\nof the waves.\\nIf your teeth are of the kind which did not grow in your mouth, beware lest\\na wave knock them out. The waves of the sea are no respecters of sham ivories.\\nDon t bathe immediately after a full meal. Let at least an hour elapse. But\\nif you are to take an early morning bath eat a few crackers before leaving the\\nhouse to go down to the surf.\\nOn coming out, run up and down the beach as briskly as before. If the sun\\nis shining and not too hot, sit down on the beach and rest a little while.\\nThe following are five good rules for bathers:\\n1. When suffering from violent excitement do not bathe.\\n2. When suftering from suddenly occurring, or from continued illness, do not\\nbathe.\\n3. After sleepless nights, or excessive exercise, do not bathe, unless you first\\nrest a few hours.\\n4. After meals, and especially after taking alcoholic liquors, do not bathe.\\n5. Do not remain too long in the water, especially if not very robust.\\nBathing Rates, Etc. Hot sea-water baths, fifty cents\u00e2\u0080\u0094 three tickets for\\none dollar; surf-baths, with bathing suits, twenty-five cents; surf baths with your\\nown bathing suit, fifty cents per week.\\nBattery. Battery A, Sea Coast Artillery, has a fine equipment of muskets\\nbelonging to the National Guard of the State. An equipment of artillery guns\\nis promised at some future time. The commanding officer is Colonel James\\nBrady.\\nBoard of Education. This is an organized board of officers appointed by\\nthe City Council to conduct the affairs of the public schools of the city. They\\nelect or appoint the public school teachers.\\nBoard of Health. This body, composed of seven citizens, maintains a\\ncareful watch over the sanitary condition of Atlantic City. The President of the", "height": "3566", "width": "2146", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Memoranda for Visitors. 121\\nBoard is George F. Currie, and the Secretary Dr. M. D. Youngman. William\\nRead is the Health Inspector. They meet every Thursday evening in the Coun-\\ncil Chamber.\\nBoard of Trade, This Association, organized in March, 1886, has for its\\nobjects the promotion of trade, the encouragement of intercourse among business\\nmen, the diffusion of information concernng the trade, manufactures, and other\\ninterests of Atlantic City, and the promotion and development of the hotel, board-\\ning-house, commercial, industrial and other interests of Atlantic City. George\\nW. Sheppard is President, and Alfred M. Heston, Secretary. Their meetings are\\nheld in the Council Chamber.\\nBoard of Underwriters. This is composed principally of the special\\nagents of the various fire insurance companies doing business in Atlantic City.\\nThey meet in Atlantic City once a year, generally in July. The Secretary is W.\\nC. Goodrich, 403 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.\\nBoarding-Houses. Atlantic City abounds in boarding-houses, many of\\nwhich are of a high grade and elegantly appointed. The inquiring stranger is\\nreferred for information concerning them to the advertising pages of this Hand-\\nBook.\\nBoardwalk. See description in Around and About.\\nBoating Clubs.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See Clubs.\\nBoats for Hire. At boat-houses on the Thoroughfare, according to size of\\nboat and number of persons, from twenty-five cents to one dollar per hour.\\nBradford. This is the family name of four brothers who have distinguished\\nthemselves in saving lives on the beach front of Atlantic City. They constituted\\nwhat was known as the Bradford Life Guards. The first of these life guards\\nwas organized by Captain Paul Boynton in 1872. Of the Bradfords, only one\\nof the four brothers, Ned, is now living. Michael, the third brother, and\\nmost heroic of them all, died at Jefferson Medical Hospital, in Philadelphia,\\non November 23d, 1887. The Bradfords were born in Pittsburg, where they\\nbegan the work of saving the lives of drowning people on the Allegheny and\\nMonongahela Rivers. From Pittsburg they came to Atlantic City, making it for\\nseveral years their winter as well as their summer home. The first evidence of\\nbravery shown by Mike here was on the night of August i8th, 1879, when a\\nfurious storm raged in front of the city. In the midst of this storm the schooner\\nFlora Curtis was sighted near the inlet, shortly afterward coming ashore opposite\\nthe foot of Rhode Island Avenue. She was blown down the beach to a point off\\nNorth Carolina Avenue, where she tossed about in waves which deluged her\\ndecks and sent their foam high into the rigging. But four men could be seen on\\nboard, two of whom were clinging to the ratlings, another was on the cross trees\\nof the foremast, and another lay upon the end of the bowsprit. Darkness was\\ncreeping upon the scene, and the tide rose higher and higher, driving the crowd\\nback from the beach and washing the boardwalk away. When the tide fell, a\\nbonfire was kindled upon the beach, which illuminated the sea sufficiently to\\nmake the Curtis plainly visible a little further down the beach. All this time no\\none dared to venture out to the vessel. Shortly after midnight, however, Michael\\nBradford, accompanied by three other men, named Owens, Livingstone, and\\nDonnelly, resolved to brave the storm and go to the relief of the sailors. It was\\na hard row, and the light boat was broken to pieces just as the men reached the\\ngrounded schooner. They found the crew on deck in a cold and half-famished\\ncondition. Having no means of getting back, they were obliged to remain on\\nboard the vessel. At two o clock that night the Government life-savers went to\\ntheir rescue, and all aboard the Curtis were taken safely ashore. For this act of\\nbravery Bradford was awarded a gold medal by the Government. A few years", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "122 Hand- Book of Atlantic City,\\nago the eldest of the Bradfords died of paralysis, the result of exposure in the\\nsurf, and about two years later the second eldest died of the same disease.\\nMike and the remaining brother, Ned, continued their heroic but unprofit-\\nable calling until the former was stricken with the fever which ended in his\\ndeath. Of the famous four, Edward is now left.\\nBrigantine Beach, See chapter on Around and About.\\nBuilding Associations. Atlantic City has two prosperous building associa-\\ntions, the Atlantic City and People s. They are in practice better than savings\\ninstitutions, as they induce men to lay by a certain sum monthly, with the object\\nof paying for a house. In most cases the investment is successful, and the\\ncareful workman or storekeeper secures a home for his family in a few years.\\nCarriages. Atlantic City is abundantly supplied with carriages or hacks, for\\nwhich there is a schedule of charges, as follows Carriages with two horses,\\nwith driver, one dollar and fifty cents per hour carriage with two horses, with-\\nout driver, two dollars per hour phaeton with one horse, without driver, one\\ndollar per hour; cart with one horse, without driver, one dollar and fifty cents\\nper hour saddle horse, one dollar per hour; carriages to or from railroad depot\\n(one or two persons), distance one mile, fifty cents additional passenger, twenty-\\nfive cents; more than a mile (one or two persons), not exceeding two miles, one\\ndollar additional passenger, twenty-five cents street cars and omnibuses from\\nInlet to Excursion House, along Atlantic Avenue, six cents. In calculating dis-\\ntances it is customary to make ten squares a mile.\\nCatholic Church. St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church was built in 1856\\non Atlantic Avenue, near Tennessee. In the spring of 1887 the building was\\nremoved to its present location on Pacific Avenue, near Tennessee, many changes\\nand improvements being made.\\nSt. Monica s Church is a new edifice, dedicated in 1886, at the corner of At-\\nlantic and Texas Avenues. See Churches.\\nCemeteries. There are no cemeteries in Atlantic City, but it must not be\\ninferred from this that no one ever dies here. There are occasional deaths, the\\nbodies being removed to the nearest cemetery at Pleasantville or to more distant\\nplaces.\\nCharitable Institutions. Children s Seashore House, at the ocean end of\\nOhio Avenue. See description in Around and About.\\nGurney Cottage, a sanitarium for the treatment of nervous affections and mild\\ncases of mental disease, under the care of the Managers of the Friends Asylum,\\nat Frankford, Philadelphia. It is situated on Virginia Avenue, below Pacific,\\nand is well adapted to care for such cases as it designs to receive.\\nMercer Memorial Home for Invalid Women, Pacific Avenue, corner of Ohio.\\nSee description in Around and About.\\nCharities. See chapter on Institutions for the Afflicted.\\nChurches. There are fourteen churches in Atlantic City, of which two are\\nPresbyterian, two Methodist, two Protestant Episcopal, two Roman Catholic, one\\nBaptist, one Friends, one Methodist Protestant, two colored Methodist, and one\\ncolored Baptist. The names and locations are as follows\\nFirst Presbyterian Church, corner Pacific and Pennsylvania Avenues; Rev.\\nWilliam Aikman, D. D,, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30,\\nChurch of the Ascension (Episcopal), corner of Kentucky and Pacific Ave-\\nnues Rev. Wm. Avery, Rector. Litany and sermon at 11.\\nSt, James P, E. Church, corner Pacific and North Carolina Avenues; no regu-\\nlar Pastor. Morning service at 10.30.\\nSt. Nicholas (Roman Catholic), Pacific Avenue, below Tennessee; Rev. J.", "height": "3482", "width": "2209", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Me?no7 a7ida for Visitors. 123\\nJ. Fedigan, O. S. A,, Pastor. Every Sunday and Holy Day, Mass; June, 6.30\\nand 9..^o July and August, 5.30, 6 30, 8.30, 9.30; rest of year, 7.30 and 9.30.\\nSt. Monica (Roman Catholic), Atlantic Avenue, belov^^ Texas; Rev. J, J. Fedi-\\ngan, Pastor.\\nFirst M.E. Church, Atlantic Avenue, below Massachusetts; Rev. J. A. Dilks,\\nPastor. Morning service at 10.30.\\nSt. Paul s M. E. Church, corner of Ohio and Arctic Avenues; Rev. C. K.\\nFleming, Pa^-tor. Morning service at 10.30.\\nFirst Baptist Church, Pacific Avenue, below Pennsylvania; Rev. William E.\\nBoyle, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30.\\nGerman Presbyterian Church, corner Pacific and Ocean Avenues Rev. Paul\\nH. Schnatz, Pastor. Morning service at 10.30.\\nFriends Meeting-House, corner of Pacific and South Carolina Avenues.\\nMethodist Protestant Church, corner Baltic and Michigan Avenues. Morning\\nservice at 10.30.\\nColored Methodist Church, corner New York and Arctic Avenues also Ohio\\nAvenue above Atlantic.\\nColored Baptist Church, Arctic, between Delaware and Maryland Avenues.\\nThe hour of evening service at the different churches varies according to the\\ntime of the year.\\nCity Hall. This building is situated at the corner of Atlantic and Tennessee\\nAvenues. It comprises also a jail and Council Chamber. The Mayor s office and\\npolice headquarters are in this building.\\nClergymen. Rev. Dr. William Aikman (Presbyterian), 120 States Avenue\\nRev. J. J. Fedigan (Catholic), corner Tennessee and Pacific Avenues Rev.\\nWilliam H. Avery (Episcopal), 28 Kentucky Avenue; Rev. William E. Boyle\\n(Baptist), 28 Surf Place Rev. Joseph A. Dilks (Methodist), 30 North Delaware\\nAvenue.\\nClubs. Bay View Club, house at Longport; Independent Bay Club, South\\nAtlantic City Kensington Bay Club, South Atlantic City Knickerbocker Club,\\n1803 Atlantic Avenue, house near Higbee s Bridge; Owl Boat Club, South At-\\nlantic City West Side Club, Higbee s Bridge, on Thoroughfare Higbee Fish-\\ning Club, Higbee s Bridge, on Thoroughfare Ours Boat Club, house on Thor-\\noughfare.\\nCost of Living. While the price of board at the hotels and boarding-\\nhouses is somewhat cheaper than at other resorts, the expense of housekeeping in\\nAtlantic City does not vary much from that of other cities. Rents are moderate,\\nand articles of food are about the same as elsewhere, excepting fish and oysters,\\nwhich are much lower. Vegetables, melons, meats, groceries, etc., are no higher\\nhere than in Philadelphia or New York. As in other cities, if one intends\\nspending a whole or a portion of the year here, it is better to rent a cottage, but\\nif the stay is to be brief, the comforts of a home can always be had at any of the\\nnumerous hotels or boarding-houses.\\nCouncil. The legislative body of Atlantic City is known as the City\\nCouncil, and is composed of nine members, besides the alderman, who is also\\nan ex-officio member of Council. Meetings are held every other Monday even-\\ning, in the Council Chamber, City Hall. The Clerk s office adjoins the Council\\nChamber.\\nCounty Courts. These are held at May s Landing, in the early part of\\nApril, September and December, under the direction of one justice of the\\nSupreme Court of New Jersey, Judge Alfred Reed, and three associate or lay\\njudges, Judges Cordery, Byrnes and Scull. The sessions generally last from\\none to two weeks. The prosecutor of the pleas or district attorney is Joseph\\nThompson, Esq.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "124 Hand- Book of Atlantic City.\\nCounty Prison. This is located at the county seat, May s Landing, where\\nthe Sheriff also has his home. The County Clerk and Surrogate have offices ad-\\njoining the Court-House.\\nDeath-Rate. The deaths in Atlantic City during the year 1887 numbered\\ntwo hundred and thirty-two, of whom one hundred and twenty-seven were resi-\\ndents and one hundred and seven non-residents. The death-rate per one thousand\\namong residents is 12.5, which is lower than that of any other city in the country,\\nexcepting Ashtabula, Ohio, which reports a death rate of 12,0 a trifle less than\\nthat of Atlantic City. The non-resident deaths are not taken into account in\\ncalculating the death-rate of a city.\\nIn relation to the resident death-rate Dr. M. D. Youngman, Secretary of the\\nBoard of Health, says that thirty per cent, of the number were buried either in\\nremote parts of the State or in other States, showing that they or their friends were\\nonly temporary residents, and yet claimed residence here and intended living here\\nwhile the boarding-house business paid, or while they found employment as\\nwaiters, or as long as their health was conserved. A considerable percentage of\\nthese residents were colored, the majority being children. Colored people come\\nhere for the purpose of doing laundry work and waiting, and their children are\\nbottle-fed and neglected. The mortality is therefore very great among them in\\nconsequence. Many of these people are of a roving disposition and stay here part\\nof the year and go elsewhere the remainder, or they come and stay a year or two,\\nand this constitutes their residence here. As elsewhere stated, many of our per-\\nmanent residents are impaired lives, persons who maintain a permanency of resi-\\ndence here because they cannot live elsewhere on account of some impairment of\\nhealth. The local death-rate from acute diseases is very low. Of the non-resi-\\ndents the great majority are chronic invalids, many of them being in the city but\\na few days or even hours when they die. This is the case very frequently with\\nchildren in the hot season.\\nDrainage.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See Water Supply and Drainage.\\nDrives. Beach drive, at low tide, ten miles to Longport or Great Egg\\nHarbor Inlet, eight miles the Elephant or South Atlantic City, five miles\\nAbsecon Inlet and Lighthouse, two miles Pacific Avenue drive, three miles to\\nChelsea. It is intended soon to extend this last drive to Longport, thus making\\nits entire length ten miles.\\nEducational. Besides the four public schools of Atlantic City there is\\nanother private academy on Pennsylvania Avenue, below Atlantic, of which\\nRev. James G. Shinn, A. M., a Presbyterian clergyman, is principal. It is\\ndesigned for young men and boys, young ladies and girls, and the pupils receive\\nthat careful and thorough training which will fit them for active business or\\nentrance into the most advanced colleges. Professor Shinn was for several years\\nprincipal of an English classical and mathematical academy in Philadelphia, and\\nafterward of a boarding-school at Waterford, N. J. He has had large expe-\\nrience as an educator, and is highly recommended by leading instructors through-\\nout the country, including the President and Faculty of Lafayette College, the\\nFaculty of Princeton College, and members of the Faculty of the University of\\nPennsylvania. His terms for boarding or day pupils are quite reasonable.\\nTwo ladies of experience, formerly residents of Baltimore, are conducting a\\nprivate boarding and day school on Virginia Avenue. The teaching is of a\\nvery admirable character, and the moral and religious tone the best.\\nElectric Light.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See Light.\\nFire Department.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chief, Charles S. Lackey; Assistants, P. F. Hagan and\\nIsaac C. Covert.\\nUnited States Fire Company, No. i rear of City Hall. Organized 1874.", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Memoranda for Visitors. 125\\nAtlantic Fire Company, No. 2; Missouri Avenue, above Atlantic. Organized\\nJune 15th, 1882.\\nNeptune Hose Company, No. i Atlantic Avenue, above Connecticut. Or-\\nganized October 2d, 1882.\\nGood Will Hook and Ladder Company, No. I Arkansas Avenue, between\\nAtlantic and Arctic. Organized January i6th, 1886.\\nFirst Bath-House. Long before the building of the railroad the young\\npeople of the villages on the mainland used to come to this beach in parties to\\nbathe. They had no bath-house, but went among the sand-hills to disrobe. Ryan\\nAdams, who lived on the island, built for them what he called a bath-house. It\\nwas nothing more than a frail inclosure of brush. The first real bath-house of\\nwhich there is any account was built by Manasa McClees, at the foot of Massa-\\nchusetts Avenue, in 1854.\\nFishing Clubs. See Clubs.\\nFriends Meeting-House. This place of worship was built in 1872, pre-\\nvious to which the meetings of the Society of Friends were held in the school-\\nhouse on Pennsylvania Avenue for four consecutive summers. See Churches.\\nGarbage. All garbage must be deposited in some safe receptacle, to which\\nthe garbage gatherer can have access. Garbage is removed every day during\\nthe summer, and three times a week during the remainder of the year. The col-\\nlectors are not required to remove garbage mixed with water, broken glass or\\ncrockery, etc.\\nGas.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See Light.\\nHealth Inspector.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This ofhcer, elected by the Board of Health, and under\\ntheir control, makes frequent inspection of every house and yard in the city to see\\nthat the rigid sanitary code of the city is enforced.\\nHot Baths. See description in Around and About.\\nInlet. This is a large body of water at the upper end of the island, where\\nsailing and fishing boats in charge of experienced captains can be hired by the\\nday or by the hour. The sail through the bays or out to sea is delightful, and the\\nfishing is generally very good. The rates per hour for parties is twenty-five cents\\na piece. The yachtsmen are prohibited by law from taking more than thirty pas-\\nsengers at one time. Yachts can be chartered by the day for from five to ten\\ndollars.\\nJournal. This is the name of a newspaper published in Atlantic City the\\noldest in the county. The office is in the Music Hall building, over the Post-\\nOffice. It is an eight column, folio paper, and is published every Wednesday,\\nat one dollar per annum. It is distinctively a home paper, and advocates what\\nit conceives to be the interests of Atlantic City. Tiie proprietors are A. M. Hes-\\nton Co., who are also the pubhshers of Heston s Illustrated Hand-Book\\nOF Atlantic City.\\nLawyers and Physicians. Quaint Gabriel Thomas, in writing of Penn-\\nsylvania and West Jersey in 1698, said Of lawyers and physicians I shall say\\nnothing, because this country is very peaceable and healthy. Long may it so con-\\ntinue, and never have occasion for the tongue of the one nor the pen of the other,\\nboth equally destructive to men s estates and lives besides, forsooth, they, hangman\\nlike, have a license to murder and make mischief. Happily, the times have\\nchanged since Gabriel blew his intellectual trumpet and wrote his little history.\\nLawyers and physcians are now quite as necessary in any community as is the\\nmerchant, the pedagogue or the preacher. Of lawyers Atlantic City has her share", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "126 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nof the best, and of physicians there are some who stand at the head of their pro-\\nfession in the State.\\nLight Gas and Electric. Atlantic City is lighted with both gas and\\nelectricity. The Gas- Works, which were completed in June, 1878, are located\\non Michigan Avenue, near Arctic, The Company has three forty horse-power\\nboilers and one sixty horse-power boiler, one large gasometer with a capacity of\\none hundred thousand cubic feet, one with a capacity of fifty thousand, and\\nanother of twenty-five thousand. The present capacity of the works is two\\nhundred and fifty thousand cubic feet per day. The consumption of gas has\\nmore than doubled since 1883.\\nConnected with the Gas- Works, and operated by the same Company, is an\\nelectric arc-light plant, which was established in the summer of 1882. This plant\\nfurnishes light for the boardwalk and Atlantic Avenue, besides a number of\\nhotels and public buildings. There are two engines and three boilers, with one\\nhundred and fifty horse- power, and three fifty-light Thompson-Houston dynamos.\\nThe city is also supplied with light from the Edison incandescent and arc\\nburners by a company whose works are on Arctic Avenue, near Kentucky.\\nThey have four engines, with four hundred horse-power, four boilers, with four\\nhundred horse-power, and eight dynamos capable of supplying five thousand in-\\ncandescent and one hundred arc lamps.\\nMerchants Bank. Besides the two national banks there is the Merchants\\nBank, on Atlantic Avenue, above Illinois, which was chartered under the laws\\nof the State, and began business in July, 1885. The institution does a general\\nbanking and safe-deposit business, allows interest on deposits, and issues drafts\\npayable in any part of the world. The business of this bank has shown a steady\\nincrease, and it is evidently a fixture in Atlantic City. The Directors are men of\\nwell known responsibility, the President being Mr. Robert T. Evard, and the\\nCashier Mr. O. R. Dunkle.\\nMethodist Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The first religious services held in Atlantic City were\\nunder the direction of the Methodists. The building was dedicated in 1857 and\\nstill stands where originally built, on Atlantic Avenue, below Massachusetts. It\\nhas been enlarged and improved, however, and will now seat comfortably sev-\\neral hundred people. Besides this, the First Methodist Church, there is the St.\\nPaul s M, E. Church, built in 1882, at the corner of Ohio and Arctic Avenues.\\nSee Churches.\\nMilitary Companies. Joe Hooker Post, No. 32, G. A. R.; meets the\\nsecond and fourth Tuesday evening in each month, at Masonic Hall.\\nColonel H. H. Janeway Camp, No. 11, S. of V. meets the first and third\\nMonday evening in each month in Bartlett s Hall.\\nBattery A, Seacoast Artillery, National Guard of New Jersey meets every\\nTuesday evening in the City Hall for drill.\\nLogan Cavalry Cadets meets on Thursday evening in room opposite the Read-\\ning Railroad Depot.\\nMorris Guards (organized March, 1887). This name is in honor of Colonel Daniel\\nMorris, who is one of the oldest residents of the place. It is both a social and\\nmilitary organization, and is intended to be always ready to render any service\\nrequired of a military company and to officiate at the reception of all organizations\\nvisiting the city in a body.\\nNaming the City. Various names were suggested at the time of the\\nfounding of Atlantic City, among which were Ocean City, Sea Beach, Surfing,\\nStrand and Bath, but the directors could not agree upon any of these. In Jan-\\nuary, 1853, at another meeting of the Board, the surveyor, Mr. R. B. Osborne,\\nsubmitted a map of the proposed bathing village, on which was engraved in\\nlarge letters the words Atlantic City. This title was at once approved by the", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Memoranda for Visitors.\\n127\\nBoard, and on that day Atlantic City came into existence on paper. It was\\nincorporated on March 3d, 1854. The cognomen, City by the Sea, was given\\nby Abraham Browning, Esq., of Camden, in an after-dinner speech at the United\\nStates Hotel, before eight hundred guests of the company, on the opening day,\\nJuly 1st, 1854.\\nNewspapers, Atlantic Journal^ published every Wednesday, oldest news-\\npaper in the county (established 1859) office, second and third floors of Music\\nHall; A. M. Heston Co., proprietors. Atlantic Review, weekly all the year,\\ndaily during the summer; John G. Shreve, proprietor. Atlantic Times, weekly\\nall the year, daily during the summer; JoHn F. Hall, proprietor.\\nPhysicians. Leading physicians of Atlantic City are as follows Dr. T. K.\\nReed, 24 North Pennsylvania Avenue; Dr. Boardman Reed, corner Pacific and\\nNorth Carolina Avenues; Dr. M. D. Youngman (homoeopathist). Pacific, above\\nIllinois Avenue Dr. John E. Sheppard, corner Pacific and Kentucky Avenues;\\nDr. E. A. Reiley, Tennessee Avenue, above Pacific; Dr. Rebecca C. Hollpwell,\\n1 212 Pacific Avenue; Dr. W. M. Pollard, corner Atlantic and Virginia Avenues\\nDr. G. W. Crosby (homoeopathist), 916 Atlantic Avenue; Dr. Julius Kaemmerer,\\nloi South Virginia Avenue.\\nPolice Headquarters. See City Hall.\\nPopulation. The population of Atlantic City has shown a steady increase\\nsince 1854, and for the last ten years the average annual rate of increase has been\\nmore than ten per cent. In the time of the Revolution the entire island had but\\nten inhabitants, representing two families. Since 1854 the number of inhabitants\\nhas been as follows\\n1855 Estimated, 250\\n1856 375\\n1857 400\\n1858 450\\n1859 550\\ni860 Census, 687\\n1861 Estimated, 675\\n1862 625\\n1863 650\\n1864 675\\n1865 Census 74^\\n1866 Estimated, 875\\n1867 925\\n1868 950\\n1869 975\\n1870 Census, 1,043\\n1 87 1 Estimated, 1,160\\n1872 Estimated, 1,395\\n1873 1,550\\n1874 1,825\\n1875 Census, 2,009\\n1876 Estimated, 2,550\\n1877 3.100\\n1878 3,600\\n1879 4,225\\n1880 Census, 5 477\\n1 88 1 Estimated, 6,125\\n1882 6,625\\n1883 7,225\\n1884 7,500\\n1885 Census, 7,942\\n1886 Estimated, 8,500\\n1887\\n9,371\\n10,000\\nPost-Office.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Post-Officeis situated on the first floor of Music Hall, At-\\nlantic Avenue, between Tennessee and South Carolina Avenues. The mails open\\nand close as follows Mails are generally ready for delivery at 1 1 A. M., 6 and 7\\np. M. Mails close at 6.40 and 7.45 A. M. and 3.30 P. M. The Post-Office is open\\non Sundays from 1 1 to 12 A. M. and from 3 to 4 P. M. The Postmaster isWillard\\nWright, M. D. In summer eight carriers and in winter four carriers deliver the\\nmail to residents at their cottages or places of business.\\nPresbyterian Church. There are two churches of this denomination in\\nAtlantic City, the principal one (and perhaps the finest church edifice in the city)\\nbeing at the corner of Pacific and Pennsylvania Avenues. The building was\\nerected in 1856, enlarged some years later, and very much improved in the spring", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "128 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nof 1887. The interior is beautifully frescoed, the seats are cushioned, and the\\nchurch otherwise attractive and comfortable. Its spire is A pencil on the sky,\\ntracing silently life s changeful story. The German Presbyterian Church was\\ndedicated in 1884. See Churches.\\nProtestant Episcopal Church.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. James P. E. Church was the first of\\nthis denomination erected in Atlantic City. It was finished in 1869, and enlarged\\nin February, 1874. The Church of the Ascension, which was completed in\\n1879, originally stood on Pacific Avenue, below Michigan, but was removed in\\n1886 to its present location on Kentucky Avenue, near Pacific. See Churches.\\nPublic Schools of Atlantic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The public schools of Atlantic City\\nare four in number, the oldest being at Pennsylvania and Arctic Avenues. The\\noriginal building was removed during the year 1887, and a new brick building\\nerected on the site at a cost of twenty thousand dollars. It contains twelve\\nrooms. The other buildings are on Indiana Avenue, near Arctic, Texas Avenue\\nand Arctic, and Arctic Avenue, near New Jersey. The Indiana Avenue building\\nhas eight departments, the Texas Avenue building four departments, and the\\nNew Jersey Avenue building four departments. Atlantic City has accommoda-\\ntions for nearly two thousand children.\\nThe improvements to school property in this city during the year 1887 cost\\nabout thirty-two thousanddoUars. The buildings are well heated, comfortably\\nfurnished, and connected with the sewer system.\\nIt has been truly said that no more cogent reason is required to show the sal-\\nubrity of the climate and the desirability of Atlantic City as an abiding place for\\nall who esteem health a blessing than the number of children born within the\\nisland s sandy rim. When the school-bell calls them from home they swarm\\nalong the streets as numerous as fiddlers on the margin of a salt pond.\\nRailroad Stations. West Jersey and Atlantic, South Carolina Avenue,\\nabove Atlantic.\\nCamden and Atlantic, South Carolina Avenue, between Atlantic and Arctic.\\nPhiladelphia and Atlantic City, Atlantic Avenue, between Arkansas and Mis-\\nsouri Avenues.\\nLongport and South Atlantic City, corner Arkansas and Atlantic Avenues.\\nReading News Company. This Company controls the distribution of\\nnewspapers and periodicals on the Reading Railroad and branches, besides having\\na number of stands, where the Hand-Book of Atlantic City is always on sale.\\nThe headquarters of the Company in Philadelphia is at the Ninth Street Station.\\nThe local manager is Mr. Frank Woodward, whose office is in the railroad station.\\nSea Breezes. No phenomena connected with the sea is more interesting, or\\nthe effect more enjoyable, than the sea-breeze. Its diurnul, unfailing regularity is\\na wonder and blessing to mankind. It commences to blow about 10 o clock in\\nthe morning and continues throughout the day till late in the evening. It is\\ncaused by the alternate unequal distribution of heat upon the land and sea, or the\\nalternate radiation from those surfaces. It is laden with saline particles, pure,\\nrefreshing and invigorating, toning up the debilitated system, promoting the ap-\\npetite, and conducing to blissful repose and restorative slumber. The sea-breeze\\nis felt on the coasts of all maritime countries, without which many of them would\\nbe uninhabitable.\\nSea Gulls and Clams. At times the ocean flows in like a river, leaving a\\nfringe of foam along the beach as it recedes; and again, after a storm, it comes\\nbooming in with battling, foaming waves as far as the eye can see. Then the sea\\ngulls gather along the shore, now riding on the waves and now dashing through\\nthe spray, now wading in the water and now suddenly rising into the air, and as\\nsuddenly dropping on the sand. What is the object of these movements? When", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Me7?ioranda for Visitors. 129\\nthe waves are high clams are washed up on the beach and left there. They im-\\nmediately put out their little claws and use them as spades to bury themselves\\nfrom sight and danger. If a gull should approach they close their shells for pro-\\ntection The bird, thus set at defiance, pounces upon the clam, rises with it m\\nthe air to the height of thirty or forty feet, and then drops it on the hard sand,\\nwhen the shell is broken, making it an easy prey for its ravenous enemy.\\nWhite bird of the tempest; O, beautiful thing!\\nWith the bosom of snow, and the motionless wing;\\nNow sweeping the billow, now floating on high,\\nNow bathing thy plumes in the light of the sky\\nNow poising o er ocean thy delicate form\\nNow breasting the surge with thy bosom so warm.\\nSecond National Bank.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Second National Bank began business\\nTanuarv i 1887, with a capital of $100,000. A massive brick and stone build-\\ning of unique design, was erected at the corner of New York and Atlantic Ave-\\nnue s This bank began business with every promise of soon becoming another\\nof the foremost banking institutions of the State. It is managed by a Board ot\\nthirteen Directors, with Mr. George F. Currie as President, and Mr. J. G. Ham-\\nmer as Cashier,\\nSecret Societies.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 There are a number of secret and other societies in this\\ncity of which the following is believed to be a complete list\\nTrinity Lodge, No. 79, F. and A. M. meets first and third Tuesday evenings\\nin Masonic Hall, Atlantic, above North Carolina Avenue. tt iwi,\\nAmerican Star Encampment, No. 8, I. O. O. F.; meets in Bartlett s Hall the\\nfirst and third Monday evening in each month.\\nAmerican Star Lodge, No. 148, L O. O. F. meets on Thursday evenmgs in\\nMasonic Hall. tj n\\nAtlantic Lodge, No. 5, I. O. M. meets on Thursday evening in Mason s Hall.\\nSeaside Division, No. 142, S. of T. meets on Tuesday evenings m Bartlett s\\nAtlantic City Council, No. 478, Royal Arcanum, meets on first and third Friday\\nin each month in Bartlett s Hall. j .u- j t- j\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nAtlantic City Council, No. 45, Sons of Progress meets first and third Tuesday\\nevenings in each month in Mason s Hall. n, tt 11\\nWebster Lodge, No. 92, K. of P. meets Wednesday evenings in Mason s Hall.\\nPequod Tribe, No. 47, I. O. R. M. meets on Friday evemngs in Masonic\\nOcean Castle, No. il. Knights of the Golden Eagle; meets on Monday even-\\nings in Masonic Hall. Al\\nOcean Commandery, No. 3, K. G. E. meets on Tuesday evenings in Al-\\nbrecht s Hall. cc\\nFireman s Relief Association meets monthly in the Mayor s office\\nWomen s Christian Temperance Union meets every Thursday afternoon in\\nKeystone Hall, Indiana and Atlantic Avenues. l,.\\nAtlantic Circle, No. 12, Ladies of the Grand Array of the Republic meets on\\nthe first and third Friday evenings of each month in Bartlett s Hall.\\nLyra Singing Society meets at Exchange Place, on South Carolina Avenue,\\non Wednesday evenings. i.t\\nAmerican Legion of Honor, George F. Currie Council, No. 1075 meets over\\nWolsieffer s store on the second and fourth Wednesday evening of each month.\\nOcean Spray Lodge, No. 20, M. L. meets every Tuesday evening m Bart-\\n^AUantic Lodge, No. 10, A. O. U. W. meets in Bartlett s Hall on the first and\\nthird Wednesday evenings of each month.\\nBranch No. 223, Order of Iron Hall; meets over 1022 Atlantic Avenue, on\\nthe second and fourth Tuesday evenings of each month.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "130 Hand-Book of Atlantic City.\\nSignal Service. See chapter on Around and About in this Hand-\\nBook.\\nSignal Station. See description in Around and About.\\nStorm Scenes. Nowhere else on the coast of this country can an ocean\\nstorm be seen to better advantage than in Atlantic City, and one who has looked\\nupon Old Ocean during a nor easter, with the surf rolling in grandly, under and\\nbeyond the boardwalk, has learned something of the forces of Nature, and\\nwitnessed her tragic performance in a theatre whose resources are grand beyond\\nthe power of man to describe.\\nStreets. See Avenues,\\nTelegraph Companies. The offices of the Western Union Telegraph\\nCompany are as follows Main office, Atlantic Avenue, above Pennsylvania, open\\nfrom 7.30 to 10 p. M. There is also an office at the Hotel Brighton for the ex-\\nclusive use of the guests at this house, which is open from 8 A. M. to 8 P. M., and\\non Sundays from 8 to 9 A. M., i to 2 P. M., and 5 to 6 p. M. The telegraph\\nfacilities of Atlantic City are inadequate to the needs of the place.\\nTelephone Office. Second story of Bank Building, corner of Atlantic and\\nNorth Carolina Avenues. Open day and night. Connections with all parts of the\\ncity, the principal hotels, Longport, Brigantine, Philadelphia, and other cities.\\nThoroughfare. See description in Around and About.\\nUnion News Company. This Company controls the distribution of the\\nnewspapers and periodicals on the West Jersey and Camden and Atlantic Rail-\\nroads, besides having a number of stands throughout the city, where the Hand-\\nBook OF Atlantic City is always on sale. The headquarters of the Company\\nis in Philadelphia, adjoining the Broad Street Station. The local manager is Mr.\\nMichael Sweeney, whose office is in the depot building.\\nVital Statistics. The Board of Health has general charge of the vital\\nstatistics, and the Secretary forwards an annual return of the number of deaths,\\nboth resident and non-resident, to the State Board of Health. See Death\\nRate and chapter on Mortuary Statistics.\\nVolunteer Life Guards. Bradford s, on beach, between New York and\\nIndiana Avenues; Rutter Brothers, on beach, foot of States Avenue; Charles E.\\nClark, on the beach, above Missouri Avenue J. W. Langley, on beach, below\\nMissouri Avenue.\\nWater Supply and Drainage. Atlantic City now has a two-fold water\\nsupply. Many houses have cemented cisterns or wooden tanks in which water\\ndistilled from the clouds is preserved pure and sweet for use when required.\\nWhen carefully kept, and especially when filtered, rainwater is entirely reliable,\\nand usually affijrds an adequate supply for drinking and culinary purposes. But\\nwater-works of the most elaborate character were built, and spring water intro-\\nduced from the mainland, seven miles distant, in June, 1882. A standpipe one\\nhundred and thirty-five feet high, having a capacity of five hundred thousand gal-\\nlons, insures at all times an abundant supply for every purpose, including the\\nsprinkling of streets and extinguishing of fires.\\nThis place promises to be hereafter the best drained city on the Atlantic coast.\\nYears ago provision was made for getting rid of the surface water, and since the\\ncompulsory filling up of low lots, there has been little ground for complaint in this\\nrespect. All garbage has long been and still is removed daily in closely covered\\nbarrels. Other refuse and excreta have for some years past been stored tempo-\\nrarily in carefully constructed vaults with excellent ventilating arrangements, and\\nremoved at frequent intervals beyond the city limits during the latter part of the\\nnight by odorless excavating apparatus. An improved system of underground", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Memoranda for Visitors. 131\\nsewerage, adopted by the Board of Health and City Council after a very careful\\nstudy of various rival plans, is now in successful operation.\\nWater Works, The Atlantic City Water Works are situated on the main-\\nland, near Pleasantville, six miles from the city, the water supply being obtained\\nfrom a stream of spring water in the vicinity, augmented by a system of wells,\\nnumbering over one hundred. The company has a secondary pumping station\\nnear Absecon, supplied from a pond in the vicinity, which is used during the\\nsummer months only. Its engine power or pumping capacity is one million five\\nhundred thousand gallons every twenty-four hours, while that of the main pump-\\ning station is eight million gallons. The water is conveyed through two lines of\\npipe laid across the meadows to the standpipe at Baltic and Ohio Avenues, the\\ncapacity of which is five hundred thousand gallons. The consumption of water\\nlast year in Atlantic City was over two hundred and fifty million (250,000,000)\\ngallons. The present year will show a large increase in the consumption. The\\nPresident of the Company is Walter Wood, of Philadelphia. Mr. George T.\\nPrince is Superintendent,\\nA syndicate composed of leading citizens has sunk an artesian well at Arctic\\nand Michigan Avenues with a view of supplying the city with water. The pipes\\nare down to a depth of eleven hundred and fifty feet, and there is a large flow of\\npure water.\\nWhales. The journals of the old navigators refer to great numbers of whales\\nfound along the entire Jersey coast. The first white inhabitants of this island\\nwere doubtless whalers or whalemen from Long Island. The capturing of the\\ngreat aquatic mammal to secure the oyle and bone was profitable in those\\ndays, whales being so numerous that nothing more than small boats were neces-\\nsary. The houses of the whalemen were generally on the beaches, where they\\nhad their apparatus for securing the oil and places for storing the bone. It is\\nrecorded that about eighty-five years ago an immense whale stranded on the bar\\nand was towed into the inlet. Less than fifty years ago a smaller whale came\\nashore on Point of Beach, and portions of the skeleton were washed out\\ntwenty years ago by a storm tide. On February 2d, 1887, a grampus whale was\\ncaptured at the lower end of the city, the receding tide having left it in a shallow\\nwashout on the beach, from which it was unable to escape. It was killed by\\nStacy Mason and William Timson, and being purchased by Joseph Fralinger, it\\nwas exhibited for several weeks at the foot of South Carolina Avenue. It was a\\nfemale, measuring twelve feet in length and weighing twelve hundred pounds.\\nConcerning this curiosity. Prof, Angelo Heilprin, of the Philadelphia Academy\\nof Natural Sciences, wrote to the Public Ledger of that city as follows It is a\\nform practically unknown on this side of the Atlantic, and, indeed, as far as I\\nhave been able to determine, one which has never before been noted as occurring\\non the American coast. It is the variety known to naturalists as Grampus Risso-\\nafius, Risso s dolphin, a form peculiar to the Mediterranean and adjoining seas,\\nand first described in 1812. The animal is apparently of full size, and is readily\\ndistinguished from other allied cetacian forms by the peculiar slaty lines which\\ntraverse the body in all directions. Its occurrence on our coast is an interesting\\nfeature in geographical distribution and proves the impracticability of drawing\\nsharp lines of demarkation in the delimitation of marine faunas. This whale\\nwas also exhibited in Philadelphia, and was pronounced a rare curiosity by lead-\\ning naturalists of New York, Philadelphia and Washington. It was subsequently\\npreserved by a taxidermist.\\nYachtmen s Association. The yachtmen of Atlantic City organized an\\nAssociation for mutual protection in 1884. The membership is about one hun-\\ndred, and includes most of those who are the owners or masters of yachts at the\\nInlet. A State law prohibits the yachtmen from carrying more than thirty pas-\\nsengers on a single yacht at one time.", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "Atlantic City flotels.\\nROBABLY no city in the\\ncountry has as many hotels\\nand boarding-houses as At-\\nlantic City, and, while we\\nhave much pride and satis-\\nfaction in the fact that this is a\\nthriving city of ten thousand\\npermanent inhabitants, it is as\\na cosmopolitan winter and sum-\\nmer resort for invalids and\\npleasure-seekers that the place\\nis most widely known. Be-\\nginning more than a decade\\nago, Atlantic City has become\\nknown no less as a fashionable\\nplace of refuge from the pierc-\\ning cold of winter, than as a\\ncool retreat from the swelter-\\ning heat of summer, and this\\nresult is due, first, to the attrac-\\ntions and benefits of the climate,\\nwhich is warmer than that of\\nCharleston in winter and cooler\\nthan that of Boston in summer,\\nand, secondly, to the capacity,\\nelegance, and extent of her\\nhotels. In fact, the hotels and\\nboarding-houses of Atlantic\\nCity are a significant feature of its desirable qualities. It can truly be said of\\nthis place, as of no other resort on the coast, that of hotels there is near a\\nwhole city full. A number of these houses take rank with the first-class hotels\\nof the country. Many of them are open throughout the year, and are thoroughly\\nadapted for winter and spring, as well as for summer use.\\nBesides those enumerated below, there are in Atlantic City dozens of other\\nsmaller hotels and boarding-houses which, in summer, devote their surplus rooms\\nand best attention to guests, and the excellent accommodations thus afforded are\\nmuch appreciated by those who visit the City by the Sea. The fact that, com-\\npared with the practices which obtain at most watering places on the coast, the\\ncost of summering here seems insignificant, doubtless has much weight with those\\nwho do not care to spend a year s earnings for a month s summering.\\n132", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Hind Book of Atlantic Citi.\\nILLUSTRATED.\\nAn Excellent Account of Atlaniic City s Many Attractions.\\nIts handy torm, large type, ana correct maps\\nare meritorious points. And a table of hotel rates\\nand capacity are other good features.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Evening\\nPost, New York.\\nThe compiler is to be commended for providing\\nthe public with such a meritorious compendium oi\\ninformation about one of the most popular\\nAmerican seaside resorts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Baltimore Americas.\\nIt Is elegantly and carefully gotten up, and is\\na complete guide to places of interest, besides\\ncontaining nmch other valuable information.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBridgeton Chi onicle.\\nIt Is a complete and creditable production. I*^\\ngives a remarkable and interesting amount of\\ninformation about that place of varied attractions\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Trenton State Gazette.\\nIt is a book of 175 pages of information to those\\ncontemplating a trip to the charming city by the\\nsea, and a pleasant reminder to those who have\\nah-eady enjoyed the treat. It is a practical and\\nreliable guide book.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mount Holly Mirror.\\nMr. A. M. Ileston s Illustrated Hand Book of\\nAtlantic City is out betimes with all its pristine\\ncompleteness and attractiveness. It is a capital\\nguide book.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Newark Daily Advertiser.\\nIt has a great deal of valuable and useful infor-\\nmation between its covers; treats upon all the\\ntopics of the city and tells the prices of board, ca-\\npacity of hotels and many other things the visitor\\nwants to know before leaving home.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Doylestown\\nIntelligencer.\\nThe cover is refreshing In Itself, and we predlc\\nfor the book a large sale and wide appreciation,\\nas it contains just what people most wish to\\nknow, told in a blight and brezzy yet concise\\nmanner. Readers cannot but enjoy it, and in\\ntheir hearts thank the author.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Home Journal,\\nNew York.\\nIt is one of the most valuable and attractive\\nbooks of its kind that have yet been published.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBoston Com-ier.\\nIt is replete with facts and Information with\\nwhich every visitor should make himself acquain-\\nted respecting the most popular watering place\\nin the country.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Camden Democrat.\\nIt is brimful of interesting facts about the City\\nby the Sea\u00e2\u0080\u0094 its historv. various points of Interest,\\nthe rates of different hotels, and maps showing\\nthe entire plan of the city and the location of all\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cue resorts along the Jersey coast.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 West Jersey\\nT S\\nIt is handsomely printed. Is nued with valuable\\ninformation, and is a reliable guide to every place\\nof interest.- i^hiladelphia Evening Telegraph.\\nIt contains an excellent map ot Atlantic City\\non the front, showing the location of hotels,\\npublic buildings, railroad depots, prominent\\ncottages, etc., and at the end is a map of Kew\\nJersey, showing routes to Atlantic City and other\\ngreat resorts on the coast. There are many new\\nillustrations, some of which are very fine, being\\ndrawn expressly for this work.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bridgeton Dally\\nStar.\\nIt is admirably written, and the author appar-\\nently covers everything of interest peitaining to\\nAtlantic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \\\\Voodbm-y Constitution.\\nThe book Is profusely Illustrated, and the\\nletter-press, paper and typographical taste are all\\nin keeping with the excellence and variety of\\nthe contents.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cape May Gazette.\\nAtlantic City will never know how great it\\nreally is until it reads this book.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Philadelphia\\ninquirer.\\nIt is a very Interesting and authentic little\\nvolume.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mount Holly News.\\nIt wlU be of special value to all who visit the\\nseashore. It contains a complete map of the city,\\ndescription of the leading hotels, a compre-\\nhensive description oi; the city, its advantages\\nand environments, and is superbly Illustrated.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWest Chester Republican.\\nIt is profusely illustrated and contains a mass of\\ninlonr.ation of special ihterest to the visltoi-s to\\nAtlantic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Monmouth Democrat.\\nIt is profusely illustrated and the publication Is\\na credit to Atlantic City.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Salem South Jei-seyman.\\nThe work contains a vast amount of valuable\\niniormation, calculated to aid the tourist and\\nsummer watering-place hunter. It also gives a\\ncomplete history of the rise and progress of this\\nnow famous seaside resort.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. Augustine (Fla.)\\nm-ess.\\nThis Hand Book contains just what every\\nvisitor as well as resident ought to know re-\\nspecting the greatest watering-place In the\\ncountry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PhUadelphia Call.\\nIts advantages consist mainly In the combina-\\ntion of coiiijtreheiisiveness of matter, conciseness\\nof execution, handiness of size, and cheapness of\\norlce, with clearness of type and general excel-\\nlence ot riroduction.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Boston Transcript.\\nUnsurpassed as a Resort for Health, Rest or Pleasure.", "height": "3602", "width": "2423", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3546", "width": "2199", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3482", "width": "2115", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3498", "width": "2120", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3798", "width": "2483", "jp2-path": "handbookofatlant00hest_0130.jp2"}}