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                                                          'Pluyg"oond
  A  TLANTIC  CITY  has riprop"iutely  been named " The               of the
  A    World  !".  An island, 10 miles long and from one-quarter to three-quarters
  f\       of a mile wide, parallel  to and. about five milei from  the main shore,
 general direction north-east and south-west, it  is separatecl frorn the main shore               z-.$
.Ly bays, sounds and salt meadows.   It  is 60 miles from Philadelphia and 143                                              il,,1
 miles from New York
     11 1700 the island was divided midway by a small inlet through which the
 tide ebbed and flowecl, but that has graduatty been closed by the shifting sands
 and is now called Dry  Inlet.
     The Absecon I-,ighthouse,south side of the inlet, built  in 1857, Y?!lupPolgd            s
 to be out of reach of danger, but the Government was compelled in 1876 to build                                           _.jt
 jetties to protect  it.  Veisels formerly  sailed at low tide where the Boaidwalk
 rrow is.
     Jeremiah Leeds first permanent settler, and for manJ{ years the-only-p€-rrrl&'
  rrent occupant of the island, erectecla home in 1?85 near where the,Island House
 now stands, but later moved it  to the foot of Massachusetts Avenue, where V    \
 cleared a farm which afterward became known as Leeds Plantation.                  *.
       In 1812 salt works were establisheclat the inlet and rvere successfully oper-
 ated for twenty-five years.
     The fountler  of Atlaptie  City,  Dr. Jonathan R. Pi!"r1ey,lived  in Absecon
  Village and was often called to tne island on cases. As early as 1820 he realized:
 the eiirative properties of the wonderful  life-giving  air.  _In 1845, f)r.  Pitney -was      able to cnrr.iince some eapitalists  in Philadelphia  of Jlrg  x*r'aetions  of  th+*''
  islancl as a watering-place on account of its proximity  to .Philadelphia, the wgn-
  derful  curative arra iife-giving  properties of the air, and rvas able to organize"
   '-a railroad--f[;l"il.li"rgcompat)y
                       6i  tf,. railroacl was slow to start ancl was attencled with'draw-
 backs and accidents.  Parts of  it were twice swept a\ilay by storms, and finally
  after twenty-two months, a train was rurr in  1853, and the road was ready for
  public travel on July  4, 1854. On that date a train was run carrying the presi-  .
  hent of the road, newspaper reporters-on    and six hundred other guests.
     The naming of the village    the island has beetr laid at the door of Mv.R. B.
  Osborne, civil engineer of the railroad, who made a large finished map of the
  bathing village *hi.h  he named Atlantic  City,  in la_rgeletters across the face of
  the map.  On tfris map many states were represented by having an avenue named
  after  if a1d also the large oceans were represented.-,his thought probably being
  that  wicler national  interest would be created thereby.  Never before was the
  islald called Atlantic  City.    It was incorporated aF quch on March 3, 1854.
     The people of Atlantic  City may sit snug and contented in the realization
  that lever can the beautiful piers be desecrated.by the landing of an invading
  arnly.  The-wise old ocean ha,senveloped this playgrould   rl  the most deatlly of
  natural fgtifications  against the landing of large ships, in the form of sand bars,
 which ever shifting and changing, like a wary flotilla of submarines, keep the large
  ships'six and one-half miles off shore.
      ,Ths Atlantie  City  of todav has an ssflmate    .. qpulation*cf  about f,40Q0-,    ". The estimated number  of  hotels and  boarding-r.' -.^lesis about 1,000 and th.e
  assessed.value of real estate and personal property  is about $90,000,000.  There,
  are about 66 miles of paved stre6ts.  The-.Bo-ardwalkis about eight miles tiiBg,-'i
  and. up to date has coit about $500,000. There are fifteen theatres iri the'Cty"r'    .
  Three daily newspapers and four weeklies are publishecl. The average num&t;of,'.,,"i''
  State and National^ conventionswww.butkus.org/postcardsheld in a season totals about one hundred  dtrd'