In other words, Spruce Beach is a paradise to look at. The climate, in
the winter months, is mild and balmy. Health grows rapidly at this
favored spot, and so fashion has seized upon it as her own. True, there
are yet a few cottages and boarding houses left where travelers of
moderate means may find board.
The whole air of Spruce Beach is one of holiday expectancy. The winter
visitors go there to enjoy themselves; they expect it and demand it.
They are gratified. From the first of December to the middle of March,
life at Spruce Beach makes you think of a great, jolly, unending picnic.
The greatest cause for regret is that more people of ordinary means
cannot go there and reap some of the plentiful harvest of fun and frolic.
The thousands of tourists, hotel guests and cottagers at Spruce Beach
had been promised that by the middle of December they would have a
treat the like of which few of them had ever enjoyed before. The
Pollard Submarine Boat Company, so named after David Pollard the
inventor--the company of which Jacob Farnum, the shipbuilder, was
president--had promised that by that date their newest, fastest and most
formidable submarine torpedo boat, the "Benson," should arrive at Spruce
Beach, there to begin a series of demonstrations and trials.
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