File:Hand-book of Atlantic City, New Jersey (1887) (14578890839).jpg

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Title: Hand-book of Atlantic City, New Jersey ..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Heston, Alfred M. (Alfred Miller), 1854-1937
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Franklin Printing House
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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rose, and in its popularity, itsaccommodations, its many excellencies and varied attractions, it isahead of the oldest places of the kind in America. The first-class hotels and numerous boarding-houses are over-taxed in summer time to accommodate the throng of visitors whocome from every direction, north, east, south, and west. Duringthe past year cottages have sprung up with a rapidity and innumbers without a parallel in the history of Atlantic City, or ofany other resort in the world. These cottages find occupants inthe spring, most of whom remain until October. The solid character of its patrons from the better elements ofsociety, the quiet, homelike aspect of the place, the natural46 Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. 47 scenery and charms peculiar to itself, conspire to make AtlanticCity the very ideal of a summer resort. Art and design haveadded to its attractions, beautifying it with broad avenues, withwalks bordered with trees and with gardens whose fragrance unites
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BOARDWALK AND OCEAN PIER. with the cool breeze of the ocean to delight and refresh those whoseek rest and recreation at the seashore. Life at Atlantic City in summer is buoyant, gay, and attractive,and draws many thousands to enjoy the hospitality of its people.The hotels are often taxed to their utmost to accommodate the 48 Illustrated Hand-Book of Atlantic City, N. J. number of arrivals. As many as thirty thousand people have beenknown to arrive here in a single day, and the aggregate numberof guests at one time has exceeded seventy-five thousand. The sum-mer rush and crush reaches its height about the first of August,when the city itself puts on its gayest attire. Then it is that hopsare held almost nightly at the principal hotels, and the boardwalkis transformed into a mass of surging humanity—so thick, indeed,that the crowd merges over on the sides, and the strand, eitherfrom choice or necessity, becomes an equally popular promenade.The current moves constantly on in both direc

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