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The Hotel Columbia, which was recently purchased by Robert T. Dunlop, has been thoroughly refitted by him, and will shortly open up as one of the thoroughly modern beach front hotels.. The famous Bleak House has passed to the ownership of the Moore Brothers, and will so reopen under the name of the Hotel Le Moore.The Grotto of the Hotel Rudolf has been remodeled and rebuilt by Proprietor Charles R. Myers. The decorations are of vari-col-ored electric lights.The orchestral concerts at the various beach front hotels this Spring are unusually good. At the Marlborough House Mr. White has made his concerts a feature of the establishment, especially on Sunday. The weekday orchestra is strengthened on that; day. and high-class soloists render these' concerts veritable musical treats. Frederick Voelkor, the celebrated violinist, and former concertmeister of the Frankfort Opera House. Germany; and 4Louis Kroll, the famous pianist, have lx‘*?n engaged to appear at these concerts during this month and March and April.The Hungarian Orchestra is giving daily concerts at the Brighton Casino, and fashionable dances are held there every evening in the week.The Wootton cottage, on North Carolina Avenue, known as The House of the Seven Gables, has been leased for the season by Clark Merchant, a Philadelphia millionaire,Henry Bain of the same city has taken the Moi'tz cottage. Chelsea, for the season. Major Charles E. Evans, also of the Quaker City, has leased- the Tierney cottage, on Illinois Avenue.The plans of various syndicates and capitalists threaten to-make a sort of Midway Plaisance of Atlantic Citv during the coming Summer. One company has contracted for a large number of gondolas, which areto be put in service on the new canal which is building to connect the Inlet with the Thoroughfare, as well as on the variousstreams that thread the meadows back of the city. These are ideal sheets ofwater for the purpose, and. if the plan is carried out in all its details, the effect will be striking and the novelty is bound to be an attractive one.The scheme is to import a.lot of professional gondoliers from Venice and put them in charge of the boats in native costume,with all the accessories of mandolins, gui-'tars. c., with, possibly, a few women singers thrown in.Another attraction and innovation even
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Sun, Feb 22, 1903
Page 20
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