. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. d driving road. Besides these there are Merion,Narbeth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Rosemont, Villa Nova,Radnor, Strafford, Berwyn, and Paoli, all thriving places devotedalmost exclusively to homes of wealthy Philadelphia business men. Camden. While Camden can not be said to be a suburb of Philadelphia, inthe strictest sense of the word, since it is in another State, its posi-tion opposite Philadelphia, and its favorable situation in other ways,are causing Camden to become an industrial c
. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. d driving road. Besides these there are Merion,Narbeth, Wynnewood, Ardmore, Haverford, Rosemont, Villa Nova,Radnor, Strafford, Berwyn, and Paoli, all thriving places devotedalmost exclusively to homes of wealthy Philadelphia business men. Camden. While Camden can not be said to be a suburb of Philadelphia, inthe strictest sense of the word, since it is in another State, its posi-tion opposite Philadelphia, and its favorable situation in other ways,are causing Camden to become an industrial city of among its industries are chemical works, furniture fac-tories, machine shops, soap works, and steel pen-making. All therailroads from the seaside resorts and from nearly all the New Jerseytowns have their terminals in Camden, and a system of electric carsreaches all parts of the city, and extends to Woodbury and Glou-cester. As to Glonceste7% all that need be said at present is, that itis the resort of those who want amusements too tough to be toler-ated in -^ -^^. ^*.^- ^r-^^ ^llz^ «v mam *^ - tr k ^ XII. SEASIDE RESORTS. Atlantic City. Although Atlantic City is on the ocean side of New Jersey, and isan independent city sixty miles from Philadelphia, it may, in manyrespects, be termed a suburb, from the fact that a majority of itsfloating population, and many of its semi-residents are Philadel-phians. Atlantic City is a thoroughly democratic place, it being thepleasure resort of the poor man as well as of the millionaire. Orderlyand innocent pleasure-loving people of all classes enjoy themselves intheir several ways without caste prejudice. The permanent popula-tion is 21,000; in summer it occasionally reaches 150,000. Atlantic City has arisen from nothing but sand-dunes ^dthin fortyyears, and has become wealthy and famous as a seaside resort fromtwo causes—its magnificent shore-line and its wonderful board heavy surf whic
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