ATLANTIC CITY 



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ATLANTIC OCEAN 



General Sherman's famous march to the sea. 

 After a siege of several weeks it was taken 

 in September, 1884, and a few days afterward 

 Sherman ordered all civilians to leave within 



lays, when the city became an immense 

 military camp. On the evacuation of the 

 troops in the following November, the city 

 almost totally destroyed by fire. Sherman de- 

 jic position of Atlanta as in 

 th wrist of a hand, the five fingers point inn 

 to the five principal ports of the Gulf of 



.< o and the Southern Atlantic coast. 

 Since the close of the war the growth and 



rprise of the city has been so marked that 

 it is frequently called The Chicago of thr 

 South. During the reconstruction era Atlanta 

 became the capital of the state (1878). The 

 Cotton Exposition in 1881 and the Interna- 



1 Exposition in 1895 were important fae- 



in the progress of the city. In May, 1917, 

 one of the most disastrous fires in the history of 

 any city destroyed seventy-five city blocks, but 

 the fine nndence section was spared. H.J. 



ATLAN'TIC CITY, N. J., a seaside resort 

 of note, which has one of the best beaches 

 along the Atlantic coast. The city is situated 

 on an island known as Absecon Beach, which 

 is ten miles long and three-fourths of a mile 

 wide. Absecon lighthouse, 167 feet high, is 

 on the northern end of the beach. The island 

 is separated from the mainland, the south New 

 Jersey coast, by a narrow strait and meadows 

 from four to five miles wide which are only 



!y under water at high tide. Lines of the 

 Pennsylvania and Reading railroads connect 

 the city with Philadelphia, fifty miles north- 

 west, and New York, 150 miles north by east. 

 lines run to other towns on 



-land and along the coast. The area of 



ntic City is nearly five square milr<. In 

 1910 ! it ion was 46,150; the state census 



of 1915 reported an increase to 51,667. Tin n 



:nany visitors the year round and in sum- 



thr number totals between 300,000 and 

 400,000. 



The board walk along the beach is one of the 

 world's famoi. li !' "i>ists of a 



board flooring laid upon >! and 

 foundation, and is eight miles long. SOIL 

 the : I rOl i the walk 



id the iiiainl.iiid 



East of the walk are the Ingest and best 

 known of ' 1,200 hot-U. Among these 



-.more, costing $4,000,000. and the 

 Marlborough-Blenheim. opting $2,000,000. In 

 the nty are thr M'icer Memorial Home for 



Invalid Women, the Children's Seashore House, 

 several seaside sanatoriums and two large hos- 

 pitals. The Federal building, which cost $150,- 

 000, and the Carnegie Library are noteworthy 

 buildings, and Inlet and Chelsea parks arc 

 recreation grounds. 



In 1854 the Camden & Atlantic Railroad 

 was completed to the little settlement, which 

 dates from 1780. In that same year it received 

 the name Atlantic City. Its rapid growth ha< 

 been due to its unexcelled beach and its n 

 ness to New York and Philadelphia. In 1902 

 a fire destroyed a number of hotels and a part 

 of one of the best piers, causing a loss of 

 $780,000. The commission form of government 

 was adopted in 1912. W.B.D. 



ATLAN'TIC OCEAN, that division of the 

 world-enveloping sea lying between Europe 

 and Africa on the east and North and South 

 Amrrica on the west. It is named from Mount 

 . in the northwestern part of Africa. The 

 western projection of Africa and the eastern 

 projection of South America divide the At- 

 lantic into two oceans, the North Atlantic and 

 the South Atlantic. 



Size. The Atlantic is a long, narrow ocean 

 with more irregular boundaries than any other 

 great body of water. It has no distinct north- 

 ern and southern boundaries, therefore various 

 lengths are given it by different geographers 

 Those who consider the Arctic Circle to form 

 the northern and the Antarctic the southern 

 boundary fix the length as 9,000 miles. V. 

 recent authorities, however, divide the Ant- 

 arctic or Southern Ocean among the Atlantic. 

 Pacific and Indian oceans; this division g. 

 the Atlantic a length of 13,000 miles. Its 

 .greatest breadth, between Florida and the 

 of Gibraltar, is 4,150 miles, and. if the 

 Gulf of Me-:ico he included, 5,000 miles. Be- 

 M Greenland and Norway the breadth is 

 930 miles, and between Cape Saint Roque. 

 South America, and Sierra Leone. Africa, it 

 is about 1,800 miles. Between New York and 

 pool it is about 3,200 miles. 



Including coast waters the area is about 

 41,000,000 square miles ! .me- 



lifth of the earth's surface and includes ''' 

 truth* of thr water surface of the globe. Tin 

 c Ocean alone 



The Ocean Bed. The b, d of the Atlantic is 



divided into ; , by a rider > \tendinp 



Of which is about *><M) milrs 



Wide dlrl With the 



COaflt lines an ;! somewhat like the 



letter 8. The eastern valley varies in <1 



