. Book of the Royal blue . atoms in the great wave of humanity whichgoes out the delightful beach in battlearray against Old Oceans ceaseless break-ers, which roll in to toss their foes rightand left, until the vast army in one greatsweep is apparently annihilated, only torise again to meet the next onslaught. When the season is at its height in .lulyand August, the bathing scenes beggardescription. It is estimated, and fairly too, 18 THE ARTISTIC SIDE OF ATLANTIC ATLANTIC AVENUE. that on a certain Sunday in August, 1899,between eleven oclock in the morning andone in the afternoon one h


. Book of the Royal blue . atoms in the great wave of humanity whichgoes out the delightful beach in battlearray against Old Oceans ceaseless break-ers, which roll in to toss their foes rightand left, until the vast army in one greatsweep is apparently annihilated, only torise again to meet the next onslaught. When the season is at its height in .lulyand August, the bathing scenes beggardescription. It is estimated, and fairly too, 18 THE ARTISTIC SIDE OF ATLANTIC ATLANTIC AVENUE. that on a certain Sunday in August, 1899,between eleven oclock in the morning andone in the afternoon one hundred thousandpeople bathed in the surf. On that sameday from railway and hotel reports it wasalso estimated that there were two hundredthousand transient visitors at Atlantic these figures are exaggerated, butit is to be remembered there is a bathingbeach of at least five miles and the wholecity is practically one large hotel of thou-sands of rooms. The beach during bathing hour presentsa new type of Vanity Fair. Some one hassuggested that it be called Vanity Fair inabbreviated clothing. Caricaturists in thecomic papers cannot begin to do justice tosome of the scenes that exist in real has been much fun poked at the girlin the bathing suit who is afraid to go intothe water for fear of spoiling her clothes,but at Atlantic City this type is found mgreat abundance and without selected one of the favorite partsof the beac


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