The New Student's Reference Work/Atlantic City, N. J.

Atlantic City, N. J., popular and fashionable seabathing resort on the New Jersey coast, situated sixty miles southwest of Philadelphia. On account of its salubrious climate it is both a winter and a summer resort. It has an admirable beach, and is frequented both summer and winter by thousands of people from Philadelphia, New York and from all sections of the country. Magnificent express trains, both steam and electric, are run daily between Philadelphia and Atlantic City, while trains are run direct from New York, Pittsburg, Washington and the south. The town is lighted by electricity, the principal streets are macadamized, and the electric street-car service is of the best the country affords. There are upward of eight hundred hotels and boarding-houses, some of these being the largest and best equipped on the Atlantic coast.

The board-walk along the ocean front is over five miles in length and forty-eight feet in width. There are ten large school buildings, large and convenient churches, numerous halls, magnificent ocean piers and amusement places of all descriptions. The resident population was 46,150 in 1910, and the assessed valuation of the resort over fifty million dollars.