. Book of the Royal blue . enone who can make a prediction of AtlanticCity in another half century. Atlantic Citys founders pro|)hesic(l agood future for the resort, and built how well they had builded they littleknew. How was it jjossible for them to realize that in fifty shortyears the then hardly known sea-side hamlet would become theresort famed the wide world over?How could it be expected that itififty short years ihc hamlet wouldspring into ;i city of more thanthirty thousand permanent res-idents? They had faith in theirenterprise .and believed the jdacewould grow and prosi)er,
. Book of the Royal blue . enone who can make a prediction of AtlanticCity in another half century. Atlantic Citys founders pro|)hesic(l agood future for the resort, and built how well they had builded they littleknew. How was it jjossible for them to realize that in fifty shortyears the then hardly known sea-side hamlet would become theresort famed the wide world over?How could it be expected that itififty short years ihc hamlet wouldspring into ;i city of more thanthirty thousand permanent res-idents? They had faith in theirenterprise .and believed the jdacewould grow and prosi)er, but theycould not tV)resee the future. But among the things with whichthe new resort was blessed wase\ce|)tionally good air and goodwater. Physicians came down tothe new island watering recognized a peculiarly exhil-effect from breathing the air, andthey began sending their jiatients here injjreference to sending them to other placesat greater distances from home. The result of this increased ))atronage ITIV-THK HAIHIMi lllU U. was the means of the establishment ofboarding houses. Boarding houses, inturn, grew into cottages with fancy orpeculiar names, and in course of a shorttime cottages grew and were dignified bythe name of hotels. Hotels in those days,though, meant a house without bathroom,without hot and cold waterin the bedrooms, 14 ATLANTIC CITY IN SUMMER. and absence of any of the comforts andconveniences which are characteristic ofthe magnificent hostelries of the presentday. The resort was hardly ever visitedexcept in the middle of the summer, andtlien mostly by business peoplewiio wanted to get away on a (juietlittle vacation. But in the course of a quarterof a century the town had grownto a considerable extent. Withadvances and progress along otherlines, locomotives were im]) in this line meantbetter traveling facilities and acutting down of running time be-tween various points. was included in this, and
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