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ATLANTIC CITY, 
 
 NEW JERSEY. 
 
11682 
 
 Engraved and printed by 
 Photo Engraving Co., 67 Park Place, New Yorl^. 
 
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 Al LANTIC CITY AS AN ALL-THE-YKAR RESORT 
 
 IS UNIQUE. 
 
 IF one climbs to the top of the tall white shaft of the 
 Absecon Light House and looks down, round and about 
 him he will see some of the reasons why; but there are 
 a good many others which he will have to be told. 
 
 Seaward and southward, he will see three thousand miles 
 of emerald ocean pounding on eight miles of silver beacli. 
 From almost at his feet, as it will seem to him in the top of 
 the tower, will come the moaning of the bar, which though 
 comparatively harmless, was the wickedest, and to wreckers 
 tlie most profitable bar of the coast in its time, and, as a 
 trustworthy chronicle testifies, swallowed, somewhere in the 
 early fifties, five vessels in one night. 
 
 Beyond the bar with its eternal geminations for its sins, 
 he will see the sails of ships — white sails of the trim sloop 
 and schooner yachts that bear the keen fishermen on their 
 errands of sport and prey; brown, dingy sails of ice and 
 coal carriers, beating for the channel with cargoes of sup- 
 plies for the " City by the Sea," high towering top-gallant 
 sails further out of foreign brigs and barks hailing for or 
 from the BreakAvater, and further out yet the trail of smoke 
 
and the suggestion of a hi^'h iron linll whicli sliovv the 
 course of a Boston, Savannali or Havanna liner, or the not 
 uncertain or unprofitable Avanderings of an " English 
 Tramp." 
 
 To his north, and almost heneath him will be the Inlet, 
 where band music and other things as exhilarating are dis- 
 pensed to the transient visitor and where the yachts lie 
 waiting the bidding of fishing and pleasure parties. 
 
 One glance, which is both seaward and shoreward, will 
 show to the man on the lighthouse tower, the board walk. 
 Atlantic City invented the board walk, and while other 
 resorts ha\'e l)een content to tamely <*opy it, Atlantic City 
 has lengthened and strengthened, rebuilt and renewed, until 
 the present l)oard walk, erected after tlie storm havoc of 
 last September, is twenty-four feet wide, al)Out twelve feet 
 high, four miles long, and, with the expense of Imying the 
 right to an unobstructed view of the ocean throughout its 
 entire length, cost the city $(5(),U()0. 
 
 So much for the seaward side of Atlantic, which is an 
 unsurpassedly strong side, presenting, as it does, the longest, 
 and })erhaps the safest bathing beach in the world; a beach 
 wher(^ 50,000 people can bathe and have bathed in a day 
 without crowding; a beach where 200,000 might and un- 
 doul)tedly will l)atlic; a beach wldch was, perhaps, the <'hief 
 factor in bringing thi' p(jpulation of the city one day last 
 Sumnier up to lo5,000, making the place larger than any 
 city of the Atlantic coast south of New York City. 
 • But it is the shore rather than the seaward side of .Vt- 
 lantic City that has made it uni(|uc; transformed it first 
 
from a barren sand island to a i)opiilar summer resort for 
 Philadelphians, and fi'om that to the principal pleasuring 
 place of the country in the heated season, and the only 
 American seaside sanitarium in the winter. 
 
 What the man on the tower will see, when lu^ looks land- 
 ward, is a town of between 12,000 and 13,000 j)ermanent, 
 and 10,000 to 100,000 transient inhabitants, according to the 
 time of year. It is built on an island ten miles long and 
 half a mile wide, and is separated from the mainland by a 
 stretch of salt meadows, seven miles wide, and by a narrow 
 arm of the ocean through which the sea, water pours at every 
 tide, and which is a more complete cordon saulfaire than ever 
 could have girdled the place at the behest of science backed 
 by the arm of the law. It is the salt water surrounding 
 which, even more than the excellent hygienic regulations of 
 the place, or the dryness of the soil, makes Atlantic City 
 absolutely free from the curse of malaria. 
 
 The pleasantly varied architecture of the town lines twen- 
 ty-five or thirty miles of wide avenues. Those running from 
 north to south — the principal ones, Atlantic and Pacific, 
 being three miles long — are named for the great salt water 
 sheets of the world, Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Baltic and 
 Mediterranean, and tlieir intersections for the States of the 
 Union. These avenues are regularly laid out at right angles 
 and numbered. They are lined witli shade trees and form 
 excellent drives. 
 
 A tax assessor's view of the situation shows a real estate 
 valuation of $10,000,000 and a school superintendent's ac- 
 commodations, which are always well filled, for 3,000 school 
 
children. There are myriads oi! stores and inarketa, a City 
 Hall, two banks, a theatre, and eleven churches. Herein again 
 is Atlantic City unique. It is the one actual "City by the Sea." 
 
 By reason of the size and permanence of the place, o wing 
 to its all-the-year resort features, the prices of living do not 
 differ from those of large cities. It has hotels where i-he 
 rich may find luxuries and pay Ijills which will remind them 
 of Broadway or Fifth Avenue, and it lias l)oarding houses 
 where the young professional or business man may provide 
 for his little family at not a dollar per week increase oxev 
 the city cost. And at the home price the sojourner gets 
 more than the home comforts added to his sea bath and his 
 sun bath. 
 
 He lives under a municipal government built on the 
 most modern and approved plan. He may sleep without 
 dread of fire. Atlantic City, unlike almost every other 
 watering place — ^particularly unlike the greatest of inland 
 resorts in which every large hotel is built upon its own fire 
 razed ruins — never had a great fire. Many fires have 
 threatened to sweej) the island but a fire department equal 
 in appliances and discipline to the best metropolitan model, 
 lias nijDped every one in the bud. 
 
 Deep thought and scientific research have been given to 
 that important subject, the sewerage, and Atlantic City may 
 now congratulate itself upon possessing one of the best and 
 most complete sanitary systems in the country. By an ad- 
 mirable arrangement, that is also in successful operation in 
 some of the best jDlanned cities of the west, the sewage is 
 pumped to a station out on the salt meadows far away from 
 
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 the city, and is further, finally and safely disposed of after 
 being filtered. 
 
 The effectiveness of tlie system has been well tried by 
 time, and so well has it withstood the test that a dis- 
 tinguished physician living at Atlantic City remarks that a 
 ease of cholera infantum, among children resident there, has 
 been unknown, even in the hottest months, and he observes 
 that the freedom from disease of this kind may not unlikely 
 be due to the perfect sanitary system, which prevents the 
 ail from becoming polluted by disease-breeding germs. 
 
 Not less important than the other is the question of 
 water, and this too has been well answered. An exhaustless 
 supply of pure fresh water for all purposes is furnished 
 both by artesian wells and by conduits which bring the 
 water seven miles across the meadows from a sweet, clear 
 and pure source among the pines of the mainland. 
 
 Electric cars, running up and down Atlantic Avenue, 
 the principal business thoroughfare, carry one the whole 
 length of the city for a trifling fare. The streets and road- 
 ways and the splendid board walk are admirably kept, and 
 at night are brilliantly lighted by electricity. Discipline is 
 well maintained and even in the most crowded weeks of 
 Summer there is no disorder. Several physicians, of emi- 
 nence in tlieir j^rofession, are resident there. Invigorating 
 hot and cold sea water baths are furnished at many of the 
 hotels, and at establishments specially erected for that pur- 
 pose. In short, all the advantages to be found in a well or_ 
 ganized and well-governed municipality by tlie sea Atlantic 
 City possesses. 
 
12 
 
 And now, then, what do visitors do ? 
 
 That is much as they decide. There is abundant choice. 
 The Winter and Spring season is rather one of simply 
 lounging about for the most part enjoying the sea, and the 
 rest from business or household or social cares, and growing 
 bright and strong. The Summer is a gayer time, and people 
 desire more music and dancing, more sparkle and snap. In 
 the Autumn, the sportsman finds the meadows a splendid 
 field for game. 
 
 The board walk is always in favor, Winter or Summer. 
 The air is so dry and mild as a rule, that even convalescents 
 who are able to be about at all, may enjoy at least a brief 
 walk on the great ocean promenade. Then, again, there are 
 miles of drives either upon the hard smooth beach, or 
 through the city, or across to the mainland, from which the 
 wind, blowing through the pine forests, brings to the sea 
 air of Atlantic City that soothing quality so nnicli enjoyed 
 by those of delicate constitutions or who have tender lungs. 
 Even the sight of so many new^ faces from all parts of the 
 country — many of them those of distinguished people — is 
 pleasant and refreshing, especially to those who are building 
 up after an illness and have a horror of going to a dull 
 place, and yet are not strong enough for the more active 
 pleasures. 
 
 Then for the evenings of Winter and Spring, there are 
 the pleasant chats round the fire in the hotel parlor or 
 games at cards or chess, and now and again a little dance is 
 organized, and so the Winter days and nights drift on, al- 
 ways delightfully. 
 
•4 
 
 The Smnmer brings its own amusements, ami Atlantic 
 City has been so blessed by Providence that nature provides 
 a constant round of pleasures. The sea is a source of end- 
 less delight. The bathing in tlie pure sui-f, free from every 
 defilement, is superb, and its invigorating x)leasures are en- 
 joyed by nearly all except the weakest of the invalid visitors. 
 Even those who d( > not liathe find a i)leasure in sitting un- 
 der big umbrellas on the beach, and watching the antics of 
 those who are tumbling in the surf. 
 
 Fleets of sail boats, manned by sea veterans, take you 
 for a sail on the smooth waters " inside," or out bej'ond the 
 bar upon the open sea. 
 
 All the boats are provided with fishing tackle, and veiy 
 few go out without trying a bout with the finny denizeus of 
 the deep. Those who take fishing more seriously have all 
 the sport they desire, for there are many noted fishing 
 grounds near by, and old skippers inured to the work, take 
 you out to them with all the means in readiness of jDersuad- 
 ing the coy sheep's-head and the backward flounder to come 
 and be hooked. Senator Matthew Staidey Quay and other 
 prominent men have conferred a national fame upon the fish- 
 ing round about Atlantic City. 
 
 After the pleasures of the day are done there is abun- 
 dant dancing. Many of the hotels retain orchestras for the 
 season, and hoj^s go on every evening. Concerts and i)lays 
 offer their own atti-actions, and there is an infinite variety 
 of other diversions. Indeed, it is impossible to jjass a 
 dull day or evening, and yet, if you care nothing for the 
 sprightlier pleasures, you may l^e as quiet as you i)lease, and 
 
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 find delight in meeting and cliatting with friends and com- 
 muning witli tlie sea. 
 
 All roads now lead to this great resort. Time lint-s of 
 rail, with abundant express trains provided with parlor cars, 
 run down from Philadelphia, the trains making the trip in 
 eighty or ninety minutes. Fast trains with ]>arlor c-ars make 
 rapid time between the island and New York, covering the 
 distance in three and a half hours. All the stations are ui>()ii 
 Atlantic Avenue. Hotel coaches meet allti-aius; or, if one 
 prefer, it is an easy walk to any hotel. 
 
 But the secret of Atlantic City's prosperity is found in 
 its salubrity. Not only a hundred thousand tongues pro- 
 claim, but figures actually prove, that Atlantic City is per- 
 haps, the healthiest place in the country. Figui'es also show 
 that its climate is one of the jileasantest. 
 
 On the health question, the national mortuary table is 
 the one place to go. Here we find that while such model 
 cities of the interior as Eochester and Milwaukee, swept as 
 they are by the cleansing winds of the Great Lakes, show a 
 death rate respectively of 23.39 and "lASrl j)er thousand; 
 while Philadelphia, the healthiest, save London, of the 
 world's great cities, shows 21.20, and while nearly thirty 
 people to the thousand die annually iu Charleston, the death 
 rate among the resident population of Atlantic City is 12.5. 
 There are only two places in the United States in which the 
 visits of the Destroyer show any approximation to such i-ar- 
 ity. One is the rural town of Ashtabula, Ohio, which rejjorts 
 12.0, and the other the boasted climate of Los Angeles, which 
 reports 12.G, one-tenth of one per cent, higher ihan the 
 
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 death rate of Atlautic. Well may the inhabitants say, like 
 the man who had lived to the age of 130 in Tasmania, " I 
 am going over to Victoria to die. No one ever dies in Tas- 
 mania." 
 
 Bnt there are healthful climates that are not pleasant. 
 It is self evident that the pleasantest climatic conditions are 
 those which present the most even temperature with only a 
 moderate amount of wind and rain. Some interesting 
 statistics of temperature, rainfall and wind at Atlantic City 
 as compared with various other places, may be found in an 
 Appendix to this book. These statistics are compiled from 
 the records of the United States Signal Service Bureau. 
 They tell their own story. 
 
 It seems incomprehensible that ten inches less rain per 
 year should fall at Atlantic Cit}^ than at Barnegat just up 
 the coast, or six inches less than at Cape May just down the 
 coast, but the figures cannot be refuted. 
 
 It seems equally strange that only 82,630 miles of wind 
 blew over Atlantic City in the same year tliat there were 
 130,055 in transit at Cape May, and 1 IS, 450 at Sandy Hook, 
 but that such is the fact, the figures from the same indis- 
 putable source will show. 
 
 Physicians and meteorologists have long sought to find 
 the reason of this extraordinary favor which the elements 
 show Atlantic City. The nearness of the Gulf Stream and 
 the direction of its course form the favorite explanation. Be 
 that as it ma}", the facts are as (juoti'd. 
 
 As a Summer resort, Atlantic Ct}- has been successful 
 since the day — thirty-six j^ears ago — when the last spike was 
 
20 
 
 driven on the first of its railroads, whose teraiiniis may be 
 said to have then been in the ocean, since the population 
 numbered only 250 souls. As a winter resort, the place has 
 been visited nearly as long ])y old Philadelphia families, ad- 
 vised by old Philadelphia doctors. 
 
 Fourteen years ago the first hotel for AViiiter custom was 
 opened, and not until ten years ago w\is the liist ett'ort made 
 to put before the public some of the cvideaces of the climatic 
 advantages of the place. Then, wIkmi a leading physician 
 of Atlantic City sought testimony from his brethren in 
 Philadelphia, he found ready witnesses in such men as Pro- 
 vost Pepper, Thomas U. Morton, Elhvood Wilson, K. J. 
 Levis, D. Murray Cheston, Lawrence Turnbull and a host of 
 others who based their confirmation of the Atlantic Cit}' 
 doctor's sanitary theories on the observation of years. Their 
 letters were published in the same pax»er with a number of 
 opinions of English physicians of equal standing on the 
 climate of Pau, Nice and Mentone. Extracts from a few of 
 these letters appear in the Appendix. 
 
 For all this, it w\as more than five years later that Atlan- 
 tic City as a Winter resort was discovered to the public at 
 large. This occurred wdien a Philadelphia newspaper man 
 started out to write a " special Jirticle " on " What Society is 
 Doing in Lent." After half a day's w\andering about town, 
 he returned to the office and said, "I shall have to go to 
 Atlantic City." " Eh f" said his su[ierior, '' I thought you 
 were doing ' Society in Lent.' " " I am," replied the scribe, 
 "and Society is doing Atlantic City in Lent." For the fol- 
 lowing Sunday he turned out three columns of minute de- 
 
22 
 
 tail of the doings of every one worth knowing, including not 
 only Philadelphia but largely also the elite of Now York and 
 Washington. 
 
 Since then no complete newspaper of the Eastern States 
 has failed to work in season the lead which this young gen- 
 tleman discovered in his half day of looking for " Society 
 People," and finding that each and all " had gone to Atlantic 
 City." 
 
 It is now calculated that two-thirds of the five hundred 
 hotels and boarding-houses of the city are open all the 
 year. This year, for the first time, there is no " season be- 
 tween seasons," there having been more people at the 
 hotels in May than formerly there were in June. 
 
 Verily, as an all-the-year-health-and-pleasure-resort At- 
 lantic City is Unique. 
 
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24 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 COMPARATIVE METEOROLOGICAL TABLES OF ATLANTIC CITY AND OTHER 
 
 CITIES, COMPILKD V.V SERGEANT W. T. liLYTHE, FROM THE 
 
 REPORIS OF THE UNITED STATES SIGNAL OFFICE. 
 
 1884 
 1885 
 1 886 
 1887 
 1888 
 
 Baltimore, Md. 
 
 Latitude, 39° 18' N. 
 Longitude, 76° yj ' IV. 
 
 Tempera- 
 ature. 
 
 c 
 
 (A 
 
 u> 
 
 rt 
 
 
 <u 
 
 <u 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 bO 
 
 
 
 
 X 
 
 K-l 
 
 56.2 
 
 95 
 
 8 
 
 53-9 
 
 99 
 
 3 
 
 53-5 
 
 92 
 
 — I 
 
 S4-t) 
 
 102 
 
 7 
 
 53- 1 
 
 96 
 
 9 
 
 ,,, , Precipi- 
 tation. 
 
 
 H c 
 
 49.428 
 
 5'-525 
 50 741 
 
 50-777 
 50.456 
 
 45.88 
 46.04 
 52 II 
 43 59 
 43-53 
 
 1885 
 1886 
 1887 
 1808 
 
 New York City. 
 
 Latitude, 40" 43 ' A\ 
 Longitude, 74" o ' IV, 
 
 Tempera- 
 ture. 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 1/1 
 
 
 bo 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 X 
 
 51.6 
 
 92 
 
 49.8 
 
 96 t 
 
 5'- 
 
 90 
 
 51.9 
 
 94 
 
 50. 
 
 90 
 
 1 
 
 W 
 
 ind. 
 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 q 
 
 , , 
 
 (U ^^ 
 
 n 
 
 C a; 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 H 
 
 ^. 
 
 
 
 
 f^ 
 
 79 
 
 275 
 
 «7 
 
 935 
 
 «3 
 
 ir-, 
 
 72 
 
 362 
 
 9' 
 
 868 
 
 Precipi- 
 tation. 
 
 H 
 
 55-34 
 42.12 
 
 46.73 
 46.63 
 
 52.95 
 
 1885 
 1886 
 1887 
 
 Philadelphia, 1'a. 
 
 Latitude, 39" 57' y. 
 I^flHgitude, 75" 9' H'. 
 
 Tempera- 
 lure. 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 <Ll 
 
 rt 
 
 A 
 
 CJ 
 
 to 
 
 
 
 
 K 
 
 53 5 
 
 95 
 
 51.2 
 
 97 
 
 530 
 
 94 
 
 53-« 
 
 100 
 
 51.9 
 
 98 
 
 Wind. 
 
 5 a s 
 
 79.700 
 87.049 
 87.843 
 86 448 
 93-077 
 
 Precipi- 
 tation. 
 
 
 39-34 
 3:^ 35 
 37 24 
 42.17 
 44.06 
 
 118S4 
 188; 
 11886 
 J1887 
 ,1888 
 
 Boston, Mass. 
 
 Latifude, 42" 21 ' A". 
 Longitude, 77° 4' li' 
 
 Tempera- 
 lure. 
 
 -?„ & 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 
 
 
 
 (U 
 
 to 
 
 f^ 
 
 X 
 
 483 
 
 94 
 
 47.2 
 
 93 
 
 48.1 
 
 95 
 
 48.2 
 
 95 
 
 46.8 
 
 96 
 
 Wind. 
 
 
 92.528 
 104.205 
 
 — 10 io-'.958 
 
 5 I 99- '32 
 5 I 104.07. 
 
 Precipi- 
 tation. 
 
 H 
 
 49. 1 S 
 45. 10 
 42.14 
 33-75 
 45.89 
 
26 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J. 
 Latitude, 39° 22' N. Longitude, 74" 25' W. 
 
 1884. 
 1885. 
 1886. 
 1887. 
 1888. 
 
 Year. 
 
 • 
 
 Temperature. 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 
 Ul 
 
 rt 
 
 
 (U 
 
 (U 
 
 rC 
 
 ^ 
 
 S 
 
 OX) 
 
 
 
 
 K 
 
 hJ 
 
 52.6 
 
 89.9 
 
 2.0 
 
 50.6 
 
 91 
 
 
 5- 
 
 51-5 
 
 86 
 
 
 — 2. 
 
 51.8 
 
 97 
 
 
 7- 
 
 50.2 
 
 91 
 
 
 2. 
 
 Wind. 
 
 5 a s 
 
 Precipitation. 
 
 -^ C/l 
 
 75-232 
 
 53-70 
 
 75-I5' 
 
 38.45 
 
 79 553 
 
 44 80 
 
 74.819 
 
 37-9' 
 
 88.825 
 
 44.14 
 
 WEATHER STATISTICS OF AN EARLIER PERIOD. 
 
 The following important tables have been compiled from a little work 
 entitled "Atlantic City As An All-Winter Resorl," by B. A. Blundon, Ser- 
 geant, Signal Service, U. .S. A., which was published by Lineaweaver «& 
 Wallace, Philadelpia, 1885 : 
 
 Annjtal Amou}it 0/ Raiti/a/l in inches at the Principal Cities and Stations on 
 the Atlantic Coast for the years ended June ^yO, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 
 1882. Also the Mean Annual Amount since the Stations were Estab- 
 lished. 
 
 Station. 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J .. .142.9040 
 
 Barnegat, N. J '52-35'49 
 
 Cape May, N. J 47. 99 42 
 
 Charleston, S. C 68.6264 
 
 Jacksonville, Fia 52. 1 1 51 
 
 Newport, R. 1 55 84 52 
 
 New Orleans, La 733158 
 
 New York City 42.68 43 
 
 Norfolk, Va 66.2844 
 
 Portland, Me 45-6i 41 
 
 Sandy Hook, N. J 54.8660 
 
 Wilmington, N. C. ... 84. 12 50 
 
 1882. 
 
 39-55 
 
 5885 
 
 4041 
 
 48.63 
 
 48 69 
 
 44.52 
 
 33I58.22 
 
 5035 60 
 
 48 46 49 
 
 02 42 99 
 
 14146 20 
 
 35I46.56 
 
 Mean Annual Amount 
 
 Since Establishment 
 
 of Station. 
 
 40.24 
 53 20 
 46.70 
 60.91 
 55-74 
 59 98 
 65.63 
 42.67 
 51-43 
 39.33 
 52 05 
 57.28 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 6 
 1 1 
 1 1 
 1 1 
 10 
 
 cS 
 
 1 1 
 
28 
 
 This table of rainfall as enlarged by making it cover a series of five years, 
 shows that Portland, Me., alone of all the cities and stations mentioned, had 
 during that period a less rainfall than Atlantic City. This is an extraordi- 
 nary fact. Atlantic City has less rainfall than other resorts on the coast, so 
 far as the official recoras show, and has ihus a strong basis for its claim to ex- 
 ceptional dryness. 
 
 Annual Amount of IVind in Miles at Various Stations for a Series of 
 
 Five Years. 
 
 Stations. 
 
 Atlantic City, N. J. . . 
 Barnegat City, N. J.. 
 
 Cape May, N. J 
 
 Sandy Hook, N.J. ... 
 
 87.070 
 (26.718 
 
 134-455 
 124.278 
 
 8V581 
 1 1 6 042 
 129.755 
 108.471 
 
 1883. 1884. 
 
 Average Yearly 
 Amount. 
 
 86.498 80.769 75,232 
 1 17.564 128 934 125.081 
 123.041 128.330 134-584 
 122.601 
 
 82,630 
 122,988 
 
 130,055 
 118,450 
 
 The above table shows in a striking manner by the statistics of five years 
 that there is on the average greatly less wind here than at any station 
 on the New Jersey coast. This is especially important as bearing upon the 
 fitness of the place as a Winter resort, since high winds in Winter mean try- 
 ing weather, and the less the velocity of the wind, other things being equal, 
 the safer and more enjoyable is exercise out of doors. 
 
 Rainfall in 
 Inches. 
 
 March, 1880. 
 
 New York City 
 
 Atlantic City 
 
 April, 1S80. 
 
 New York City 
 
 Atlantic City 
 
 Mav, 1880. 
 
 New York City 
 
 Atlantic City 
 
 From this table it will be seen that the temperature during March aver- 
 aged six degrees higher here than in New York City ; in April it was only 
 slightly higher; and in May, when New York began to experience its fore- 
 taste of the Summer heats, it averaged cooler in Atlantic City. 
 
30 
 
 THE SUMMER CLIMATE OF ATLANTIC CITY- 
 
 Since Atlantic City has become celebrated as a Winter resort, some of its 
 new friends imagine that the weather must be excessively warm m Summer. 
 It IS sufficient on this head to say that for twenty years tne place was known 
 and patronized almost exclusively as a refuge from the Summer heat of the 
 great cities, and that still its Summer patronage is tenfold greater than that 
 during the Winter and Spring. The mean temperature for July, 1879, 1880, 
 1881 and 1882, was 72.4; for August in the same years 72 o. —Blundon, 
 '■Atlantic City as a Winter Resort." 
 
 Sergeant Blundon's book contains also letters from numerous distin- 
 guished Philadelphia Physicians to a resident practitioner of Atlantic City 
 in relation to their experience of the climate of that resort. A few extracts 
 from these letters are here appended : 
 
 TESTIMONY FROM PROMINENT PHYSICIANS. 
 
 Prof. Wm. Pepper, M.D., Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 
 writes ; 
 
 " I would further say that I have seen enough of the results of the cli- 
 mate at Atlantic City to satisfy me that it acts powerfully in most cases as 
 a dry and bracing climate. Many cases of incipient pnthisis, and even 
 phthisis in the second stage, have been greatly and permanently benefited by 
 a residence there under a strict rule of living and treatment. In several cases 
 of chronic pleurisy with marked atony of the skin and system, and retarded 
 absorption of the morbid products, 1 have seen the removal to Atlantic City 
 soon followed by rapid improvement. I am referring to this climate as I have 
 observed it at all seasons of the year. And in respect particularly to that 
 which I have just mentioned, the element of relaxation of the skin, which is 
 common to so many diseases and is so powerfully conducive to renewed at- 
 tacks of congestion or inflammation, I have observed excellent results from 
 the stimulating dry air of Atlantic City. " 
 
 Dr. D. Murray Cheston writes: "I cannot say how many cases of pul- 
 monary or bronchial troubles I have sent there, but the general result has 
 been most satisfactory. The cases were all sent in the late Winter or early 
 Spring months, and have invariably returned improved." 
 
 Prof. J. M. Da Costa, of Jefiferson Medical College, writes briefly as fol- 
 lows : "I have sent too few patients with pulmonary disease to Atlantic 
 City to have the data to answer your questions. Some who were in a run- 
 down condition and affected with chronic bronchial catarrh did very well." 
 
 Dr. Ellwood Wilson writes that in the Summer months he does not think 
 patients with fully developed phthisis improve by a protracted residence at 
 Atlantic City, but adds : " During the Winter months — say from October to 
 July — I regard it as a very favorable locality for consumptive patients." 
 
 Dr. James J. Levick has not sent any cases of phthisis, but has sent 
 " several cases of laryngeal and bronchial irritation and one or two cases of 
 hay asthma, which improved greatly while at Atlantic City." He adds, 
 " The cases which have derived most benefit, however, and of which I have 
 sent not a few in the late Winter months, have been patients after typhoid 
 lever — patients whose nervous systems have been much disturbed, persons 
 who have needed brain rest, etc." 
 
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