. Book of the Royal blue . can find endless diversions inAtlantic City. The saunterer is led onby the bracing air and the resiliency of theBoardwalk, the allurements of the ocean,the shops, the amusements and the joyof mingling with the pleasure seekers, towalk, until he finally returns with keenappetite and mind refreshed. The Board-walk of Atlantic City is the Promenadeof America. The Bathing Beach is the most perfecton the Atlantic Coast. Fifty thousandbathers are often seen in the surf at onetime in the Summer months. For theprotection of this multitude Atlantic Citymainta
. Book of the Royal blue . can find endless diversions inAtlantic City. The saunterer is led onby the bracing air and the resiliency of theBoardwalk, the allurements of the ocean,the shops, the amusements and the joyof mingling with the pleasure seekers, towalk, until he finally returns with keenappetite and mind refreshed. The Board-walk of Atlantic City is the Promenadeof America. The Bathing Beach is the most perfecton the Atlantic Coast. Fifty thousandbathers are often seen in the surf at onetime in the Summer months. For theprotection of this multitude Atlantic Citymaintains a municipal beach patrol ofsixty trained men, equipped with boatsand other apparatus and under the direc-tion of an experienced surgeon, , Thereis but little demand for their assistance,for the beach shelves off very graduallyand there are no dangerous holes or crosscurrents. Life lines are unnecessary. The smooth bays and thoroughfareslying between Absecon Island and themainland are ideal for small sail and IVIap of A. power boats, and for fishing and crab-bing, while in a few minutes the largeryachts can find unlimited opportunity onthe ocean. The Atlantic City and otheryacht clubs are the headquarters through-out the year for many private craftowned by visitors and residents. At theInlet Wharf a yachting fleet, staunchlybuilt and ably manned, at all seasons ac-commodates the public either individu-ally or in parties at a moderate Absecon Lighthouse, the life-savingdrills by the United States Coast Guards,and the manceuvres of the fishing and oyster fleets are other interesting marinefeatures. The Automobile Course on the beachin South Atlantic City is famous for therecords which have been made at lowtides on its smooth, hard sand. Probablyno other beach races have been so largelyattended. New Jersey is famous for itsgood roads, none of which are more usedby automobilists than those which leadfrom New York and Philadelphia to thesplendid Boulevard across the mea
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