History

Theodore L. Page

hotel manager · active 1893–1895

Manager of the Atlantic Hotel at Ocean City in the 1892 season, the first under the Sinepuxent Beach Company's ownership, when the house was refitted with electric light and an elevator. The Evening Star's May notice said he came from the Senate restaurant in Washington. On the busiest Sunday of that record summer he put cots in the hotel parlors and still turned people away. He was still managing the house for the Sinepuxent Beach Company in 1895, advertising its fourth season under the company's management. He was still managing the Atlantic Hotel in 1898, under Waggaman's ownership. — 1895 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11: Add the 1895 evidence for the name and the tenure: the Democratic Messenger of 3 August 1895 spells it 'Theo. L. Page' and says the Atlantic Hotel 'has been successfully run under the personal supervision of Theo. L. Page for five successive years'; the Washington Evening Star of 22 June 1895 says the hotel 'now enters upon its fourth season' and directs enquiries to 'the Hotel Page, this city, or T. L. Page, Ocean City' — which also establishes that he kept a Washington house of his own called the Hotel Page. The 1894 registry form 'T. P. Page' should be corrected to T. L.

In the record (15)

  1. 1892 · 1892-07-27

    The rebuilt Atlantic Hotel advertises electric light and an elevator — the first documented elevator on the beach.

    The Washington Evening Star carried the Atlantic Hotel's card through the summer of 1892: "electric light, elevator... splendid fishing and boating, with the finest bathing on the Atlantic ocean. For further information apply to THEO. L. PAGE, Manager, Atlantic Hotel, Ocean City." The Democratic Messenger had trailed the work in March: "The Atlantic, the largest hotel on the beach, has been purchased by a syndicate and will receive a thorough overhauling. It is said that elevators and electric lights will be put in the building and that the walls on the first floor will be frescoed before it is opened for the reception of guests." In May the Wilmington Evening Journal summarised the whole town in eight words: "Ocean City, Md., has a big building boom. Electric lights are in prospect." In August the house was so full that "Col. Theodore Page, the manager, was forced to put up cots in the parlors." — 1892 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11 [confirmed]: Confirmed against its own cited page, and an image is attached — the first image the year 1892 has had. The Evening Star card of 27 July 1892 reads in full that the Atlantic Hotel is “owned by the Sinepuxent Beach Company” and opened for guests 25 June “complete in everything. New furniture, silver ware, linen, as well as perfect drainage and sewerage; also electric light and elevator,” with a new steam launch on Sinepuxent Bay and sail and rowboats, under Theo. L. Page of the U.S. Senate restaurant. Two details worth adding: the company’s OWNERSHIP is stated in the hotel’s own advertising, which is a second and independent confirmation of the deed chain; and the advertised opening of 25 June sits against the county paper’s “The Atlantic will be opened Saturday next” of 25 June, which points at 2 July — record both rather than reconcile them.

    Atlantic Hotel CompanySinepuxent Beach Company

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  2. 1892 · 1892-08-13

    "More people have been at Ocean City this summer than ever before" — five thousand on a single August Thursday, and cots in the Atlantic's parlors.

    The Democratic Messenger's August 13 Ocean City letter opens: "It is universally said that more people have been at Ocean City, Md., this summer than ever before. On Sunday the largest crowd of the season was here. The trains from Baltimore that connected with the steamboat at Claiborne, both morning and evening, landed hundreds who sought relief from spending a hot Sunday in the city... The Atlantic Hotel was packed, and Col. Theodore Page, the manager, was forced to put up cots in the parlors. Even then the applicants could not be accommodated. The Seaside Hotel, Congress Hall and Isle of Wight Cottage were also well filled. It was long after midnight before everybody got settled." The paper counted the traffic all season: seventeen carloads of excursionists on July 29; about 800 tickets sold from the Snow Hill office alone for the August 18 special; "over five thousand people at Ocean City on Thursday last" (August 27 issue); over a thousand on Sunday, September 11, including more than three hundred railroad employees and their families riding free. In October the town's mayor "predict[ed] a more successful season next summer than this, which was the best in the history of the place." — 1892 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11 [corrected]: The fact currently reads "about 800 tickets sold from the Snow Hill office alone for the August 18 special." The Worcester County Library portal's scan of the same issue and page — Democratic Messenger, 20 August 1892, page 3 — reads: "The excursion to Ocean City last Thursday was a mammoth affair. The weather was most favorable and the people turned out in force and had a good time, returning home early in the evening in time to eat a hearty supper. About 250 tickets were sold from this office." It is the only ticket-count sentence in that issue or the two around it. SETTLED BY READING THE PAGE IMAGE. The number is 250. I rendered the region of the page around the sentence at 6x from the portal's page PDF and read it by eye: “The weather was most favorable and the people turned out in force and had a good time, returning home early in the evening in time to eat a hearty supper. About 250 tickets were sold from this office.” The Chronicling America ALTO text for the same page, recovered later in the session when loc.gov stopped rate-limiting, OCRs the figure as the nonsense word “Soil” — which is where 800 came from. Withdraw 800. The rest of the fact is confirmed and gains three corroborations. Berlin counted the trains: "Twenty car-loads of excursionists passed through here for Ocean City Wednesday" (13 Aug) and "Seventeen cars filled to their utmost capacity passed through here for Ocean City last Thursday" (30 Jul). Berlin also confirmed the season at its height on 27 August: "The hotels at Ocean City are still full to overflowing. The season is unprecedented in the history of this delightful seaside resort." And the five-thousand figure keeps its hedge — "It is said that there were over five thousand people at Ocean City on Thursday last. We sincerely hope there will be another excursion there this season, and that there will be enough cars to accommodate the people so as they will not have to stand up all the way there and back." IMAGE ATTACHED (the year had none): an IIIF region crop of the “GAY TIME AT OCEAN CITY” column itself, from the Chronicling America page scan. Direct image URL measured HTTP 200 image/jpeg.

    Baltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic RailwayAtlantic Hotel CompanyWilliam Sydney Wilson

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  3. 1893

    The Atlantic Hotel advertises itself as "lighted by electricity," and Ocean City runs an electric light plant all season.

    The Atlantic Hotel's advertisement in the Washington Evening Star from mid-May 1893 reads: "THE ATLANTIC HOTEL, Ocean City, Md., will open June 1. Renovated throughout; commands finest location; cuisine unsurpassed; lighted by electricity; sanitary arrangements perfect. For rates, diagrams and further information apply to THEO. L. PAGE, Manager." It was not merely a hotel plant. On June 10 the Democratic Messenger noted that "in the absence of Mr. Benjamin Hearthway, who is running the Electric Light Plant at Ocean City, Mr. Charles Mills will superintend the plant of the Snow Hill Electric Light Co." — the Snow Hill company lending its man to the beach for the season. On September 2 the paper reported the Hearthways home again: they "have been at Ocean City since June" and "Mr. Hearthway had charge of the electric light plant." Electric light at Ocean City in 1893 was therefore a seasonal municipal-scale operation with a named engineer, running June through August. — 1893 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11 [confirmed]: The advertisement is longer-running and more revealing than the single May setting the campaign cites. It ran in the Washington Evening Star from 28 April 1893 (ad code ap28-1m*) through at least 3 July, on at least thirteen dated settings, always with the same copy and always WITHOUT a price: "For rates, diagrams and further information apply to THEO. L. PAGE, Manager. Senate Cafe, until May 15." Two things follow. First, the Atlantic Hotel of Ocean City was being managed out of the Senate Cafe in Washington, which is where you had to write to find out what a room cost. Second, in June the same manager's name appears on the Sinepuxent Beach Company's own land advertisement — "OCEAN CITY, MD., ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN. Lots for sale, $200 to $1,000. Terms easy. Atlantic Hotel. T. L. PAGE of the Senate restaurant, manager. Call at the office of the Sinepuxent Beach Co., 17th st., for prospectus." The hotel and the land company shared a manager and a Washington sales office.

    Benjamin Hearthway

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  4. 1893

    Three hotels open the eighteenth season, and the Atlantic Hotel company rents Congress Hall as well.

    "The Atlantic Hotel, at Ocean City, was opened for the reception of guests on the first day of June," the Democratic Messenger reported on June 3. "The hotel company have rented Congress Hotel for the season, and will run it on the European plan." Theodore L. Page managed the Atlantic and a Baltimore Sun correspondent singled him out in July as a man who "has put his house on the same plane as the best houses at any" resort. The Sea Side Hotel "was opened to guests by Proprietor John Tracey" on Tuesday June 13; the Sun's man called Tracy "the veteran Salisbury hotel keeper... who has been doing business every summer at Ocean City with success, for the past fifteen or twenty years." Congress Hall's arrangement changed hands over the summer: on June 24 "Will Rayne has leased Congress Hall, Ocean City, for the season," and on July 8 "Congress Hall, Ocean City, opened on Saturday last with William E. Rayne proprietor and John L. Nock clerk." Billy McKew took the Hotel de Purnell. By July 1 there were "about two hundred people at the various hotels, more than usually found at Ocean City so early in the season," four cottages were building, and "many improvements have been made about the beach." George W. Purnell announced he would build "a handsome cottage at Ocean City between now and next season" on "one of the choicest lots on the beach," and William Warrington, secretary of the Sinepuxent Beach Company, meant to put up a cottage on Atlantic Avenue. — 1893 FULL PASS, 2026-08-11 [corrected]: The Congress Hall conflict has a third state that resolves the shape of it: Rayne did not only lease, he bought. A Baltimore Sun correspondent reprinted in the Messenger of 15 July 1893 names "Mr. William R. Rayne, who has just bought of William B. R. Selby's estate the large hotel known as Congress Hall and proposes to put $10,000 worth of improvements on it." So the sequence is: the Atlantic Hotel company rented Congress Hall for the season on 3 June; Will Rayne leased it on 24 June and opened it on 1 July; and within a fortnight of opening he bought the freehold out of the Selby estate. The two claims in the conflict are both true and sequential. Add also that by late October the hotel was in winter care: "Mr John Willet moved his family to Ocean City Wednesday, and will take care of Congress Hall during the winter." And in March 1893 the Baltimore & Ohio had sent an agent to Ocean City "to examine the Congress Hall property with a view to purchasing the same" — a railroad nearly bought the hotel five months before Rayne did.

    Congress Hall changed hands between June and July 1893 — the hotel company took it first, Will Rayne ran it

    Atlantic Hotel CompanySinepuxent Beach CompanyJohn TracyWilliam E. RayneGeorge W. PurnellWilliam Warrington

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  5. 1893 · 1893-07-15

    William R. Rayne buys Congress Hall out of the Selby estate and promises $10,000 of improvements — he had only leased it a month earlier.

    A Baltimore Sun correspondent's piece, reprinted in the Messenger of 15 July 1893 under the heading "OCEAN CITY. She is Going Ahead and Promises Well for the Future," turns on the mayor's theory of the town: "Mayor Wilson, in talking of the progress which Ocean City has made, said it is due to the fact that the men who are pushing the interests of the place are working men. 'The working man,' Mr. Wilson says, 'will always get there.'" The working men he then names are the town's three hotel keepers: Theodore L. Page of the Atlantic, "who has put his house on the same plane as the best houses at any other seaside resort"; John Tracy of the Sea Side, "the veteran Salisbury hotel-keeper... who has been doing business every summer at Ocean City with success, for the past fifteen or twenty years"; and "Mr. William R. Rayne, who has just bought of William B. R. Selby's estate the large hotel known as Congress Hall and proposes to put $10,000 worth of improvements on it." That last clause changes the year's hotel story. The campaign has Congress Hall as a lease — the Atlantic's company rented it on 3 June, Will Rayne leased it on 24 June and opened it on 1 July — and has the disagreement filed as a conflict. It was not only a lease. Inside a fortnight of opening, the lessee bought the freehold from the estate of the man who had run it, and announced a sum for improvements larger than the whole Scott's Beach property fetched that autumn.

    William E. RayneJohn TracyWilliam Sydney Wilson

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  6. 1893 · 1893-08-19

    The first Ocean City hotel rate ever recovered for 1893: $10 to $15 a week at the Isle of Wight Cottages, with reduced rates for September and October.

    The campaign has never had a price for a night at Ocean City in 1893. All 180 surviving pages of the county paper were read this session and contain none. It was in the Washington papers all along, in the seaside-miscellaneous column of the Evening Star, running for a month from 9 August: > ISLE OF WIGHT COTTAGES, OCEAN CITY, MD. delightfully situated on the beach; terms, $2.50 per day; $10 to $15 per week; reduced rates for September and October; accommodations for one hundred guests. A hundred beds on the beach at ten to fifteen dollars a week, in the summer of the worst depression in American history, with the shoulder months discounted. Set that against the three years the campaign can compare it with: the Seaside was $8 to $10 a week in 1890, and the Sinepuxent Beach Company was selling building lots at $100 to $1,000 in 1892 and at $200 to $1,000 in 1893. The Panic did not cut the price of a week at the beach; it appears to have gone up. The Atlantic Hotel is the counter-case and it is worth recording as a fact about the business rather than a gap in the record. Its advertisement ran in the Star continuously from 28 April through early July — "Renovated throughout; commands finest location; cuisine unsurpassed; lighted by electricity; sanitary arrangements perfect" — and never once printed a price: "For rates, diagrams and further information apply to THEO. L. PAGE, Manager. Senate Cafe, until May 15." Competitors in the same column printed theirs. The Atlantic was quoting on application, and being run out of a Washington restaurant.

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  7. 1894 · 1894-07-05

    The 1894 season opens with every hotel on the beach open, a six-piece orchestra at the Atlantic, and a thousand new bathing suits at the Eastern Shore House.

    A Wicomico News correspondent's visit, reprinted in the Messenger of 7 July 1894: "The hotels are all open and the proprietors anticipate a big season. Mr. Theodore Page opened the Atlantic Hotel Thursday with a full retinue of clerks, servants, and all employes necessary to conduct the house. The music at the Atlantic this season will be a prominent feature. The orchestra is composed of six pieces... Daily concerts are given in the parlors of the hotel in addition to the music for dancing at night in the pavillion. The Seaside Hotel is also under the management of the Atlantic this season." The Isle of Wight Cottages, "conducted by Mrs. L. B. Showell," had been enlarged by a three-storey extension with an ornamental circular front and an ocean view, "and now have nearly forty bed chambers." "A new roof has been put on a portion of Congress Hall." "The old Excursion House is undergoing a thorough overhauling by W. R. Rayne the proprietor. The house has been raised several feet and another story added, and in front a board two-story veranda has been added, which will make a most pleasant place for excursion parties. Mr. E. Hobbs, proprietor of the Eastern Shore Hotel, has enlarged his facilities and says he can accommodate a thousand excursionists at a time this season. Mr. Hobbs has added a photograph gallery to his hotel... He has also added nearly one thousand new bathing suits to the bath house." The excursion season opened the same Thursday with about 300 people from Baltimore, by the steamer Cambridge to Claiborne and thence by rail.

    This is the hotel register of Ocean City in the second year of the worst depression of the nineteenth century, and every house on the beach is open. Rehoboth, forty miles north, could not get a hotel open at all that July.

    Sinepuxent Beach Company

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  8. 1895 · 1895-06-22

    The Atlantic Hotel advertised as far west as Wheeling in 1895, and its advertisement gives the journey, the manager and the owner: six hours from Baltimore, Theo. L. Page, and the Sinepuxent Beach Company at 641 Equitable Building.

    A display advertisement running through June and July 1895 in the Wheeling Register, four hundred miles inland: 'THE ATLANTIC HOTEL... [for the] season of 1895. All modern conveniences and improvements. Take B. & O. or Penna. R. R. to Baltimore, thence from Pier 4, Light St. by boat and train 6 hours to Ocean City. Apply to Theo. L. Page, Mgr., Ocean City, Md., or the Sinepuxent Beach Co. of Baltimore City, 641 Equitable Bldg., Baltimore, Md.' Three useful things fall out of it. The house was six hours from Baltimore by the steamer-and-train route in 1895. Its manager and its owner are given as alternative addresses, which states in the plainest possible form what the 1894 Baltimore Sun letter only implied — the Sinepuxent Beach Company owned the Atlantic Hotel. And the company's own office is 641 Equitable Building, Baltimore, which is where its directors met in February to consider selling the beach.

    Sinepuxent Beach CompanyAtlantic Hotel Company

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  9. 1895 · 1895-07-27

    A man is hurt on top of the Atlantic Hotel's elevator while repairing the wire to its electric light — the first evidence that the hotel had either.

    An accident report carried by the Wilmington Evening Journal under an Ocean City dateline of 29 July 1895 and, at more length, by the Democratic Messenger of 3 August: 'On Saturday Mr. Albert Lyman met with a painful accident from the elevator of the Atlantic Hotel. He was on top of the elevator repairing the wire leading to the electric light inside. He told the boy to raise the elevator a little and in the ascent he lost his footing and one of his legs was caught under a beam, mashing the leg badly above and below the knee. No bones were broken, however, and the physician says the injury will not be permanent.' Lyman was a son of Dr. Lyman of Baltimore and a grandson of the late Bishop Lyman of North Carolina. The value of the item is incidental: in July 1895 the Atlantic Hotel had a working passenger elevator and interior electric lighting, and a boy to run the elevator.

    Atlantic Hotel Company

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  10. 1895 · 1895-08-03

    'All along the shore will be found bathing depots provided with suits, life lines and life guards' — the earliest description of an organised guarded beach at Ocean City.

    From 'OCEAN CITY. Life at Our Favorite Resort,' Democratic Messenger, 3 August 1895 — a set-piece booster letter that is nonetheless the most detailed physical description of the beach the campaign holds for the 1890s. 'No other place is as well located as is Ocean City, with an eight-mile coast line of boundless ocean, that brings in a cool, refreshing breeze at all times, with the Sinepuxent Bay on the west, swarming with clams, oysters, crabs and nearly every kind of fish... Its bathing facilities are the finest on the Atlantic Seaboard. Parallel with the shore, at about 40 rods distance, runs a bar of rock, over which the huge waves rear and burst, causing the waves to oscillate, giving to the bather a swinging movement with a complete sense of luxury. All along the shore will be found bathing depots provided with suits, life lines and life guards, rendering bathing absolutely safe.' The same letter says the Atlantic Hotel 'has been successfully run under the personal supervision of Theo. L. Page for five successive years' and that the Atlantic Casino 'has been thoroughly repaired and provided with all the modern calisthenic and gymnastic apparatus.'

    Theodore L. Page had the Atlantic Hotel from the early 1890s; the county paper says five seasons by 1895 and the Washington Evening Star says four.

    Ocean City Beach Patrol

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  11. 1898

    The Atlantic Hotel adds a banquet and convention hall, a new theater and an enlarged dancing pavilion, and advertises 300 rooms open all year.

    Planned in January and delivered by May. The Evening Star of 24 January 1898 reported that 'changes and improvements are being made to the Atlantic Hotel. It is proposed to refit one of the buildings for use as an auditorium, so that theatrical performances can be given.' The March dispatch from Ocean City added that 'the dancing pavilion of the Atlantic Hotel is to be raised and enlarged and underneath, on the first floor, is to be constructed a women's and men's [bath house].' By 14 May the season advertisement could claim: 'ATTRACTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. "The Atlantic" has added this year a large BANQUET and CONVENTION HALL and a NEW THEATER. Among the attractions are an orchestra composed of young ladies, special dramatic company, large dancing pavilion, large, airy rooms, excellent cuisine and rates as low as compatible with luxury and good living.' The hotel advertised '300 rooms' and 'Open all the year' under Theo. L. Page, manager. In July the season's music was 'Miss Smoot's orchestra, from New York city.' The convention hall paid for itself within two months: the Maryland Bankers' Association held its third annual convention in the hotel that July.

    A convention hall and a theater on a barrier beach in the first season under new ownership. Waggaman was not buying a hotel; he was buying a season, and he built the rooms that would fill it in June and September as well as August.

    Atlantic Hotel CompanyJohn F. Waggaman

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  12. 1898

    The Sinepuxent Beach Company's collapse is settled: the Atlantic Hotel and the unsold building lots are John F. Waggaman's, sold to him out of the wreck in 1897.

    The Wilmington Evening Journal's Ocean City dispatch of 4 March 1898: 'Word comes to us here to-day that the Atlantic Hotel will be managed this year by Theodore L. Page, who was in charge of the hotel for several seasons prior to the sale by the Sinepuxent Beach Company last year to John F. Waggaman, of Washington.' Waggaman's own advertising through the 1898 season confirms it and shows the scope of what he took: the Washington Evening Star carried, from late May, 'OCEAN CITY, MD. ATLANTIC HOTEL, directly on the beach. Open all the year. Modern improvements. 300 rooms. Finest bathing, boating and fishing, both bay and deep sea... THEO. L. PAGE, Mgr. BUILDING LOTS for sale, low. Easy terms. Own your own seaside cottage. Apply to JOHN F. WAGGAMAN, 700 14th St., Washington, D. C.' Waggaman's Washington office also sold the excursion tickets, and on Saturday 25 June 1898 he held 'a grand and unreserved sale of LOTS at auction' at Ocean City; a March auction of Ocean City building lots had already been held at Sloan's, 1407 G Street, Washington. So the hotel, the resort's promotion and the unsold plat all passed from a Baltimore development company that went into receivership in November 1896 to one Washington real-estate man, who ran them as a single business.

    The receivership question that has hung over this decade has a plain answer: the town was bought by a Washington realtor, and for the next several years Ocean City was, commercially, an annex of an office at 700 14th Street NW.

    Sinepuxent Beach CompanyAtlantic Hotel CompanyJohn F. Waggaman

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  13. 1906

    John F. Waggaman sells everything he owns at Ocean City to the Ocean City Development Company of Maryland.

    The Messenger of 12 May 1906: "The Ocean City Development Co., of Maryland has issued a card stating that the Company has purchased all the holdings of Mr. John F. Waggaman at Ocean City, and that the Atlantic and Seaside Hotels will be open to the public on June 16th. The card also states that the hotels will be under the management of Mr. Theodore L. Page, who had charge of the Atlantic for several years." The transfer can be dated more closely than the card: the county road examiners' notice published on 6 January 1906 describes two proposed beach roads as crossing "the lands of John F. Waggaman," and the identical notice re-published on 3 February 1906 describes the same two roads as crossing "the lands of the Ocean City Development Company of Maryland." The man who had owned the Atlantic Hotel, the Colonial, the Convention Hall and most of the ocean front since 1897, and who was the town's mayor in 1902, is out.

    The single largest change of ownership in the town's first fifty years, announced on a printed card and confirmed by a road notice.

    Atlantic HotelOcean City Development CompanyJohn F. Waggaman

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  14. 1906 · 1906-06-02

    "Never before in the history of this town has there been so much activity" — the 1906 season opens 16 June with more cottage demand than cottages.

    From the Messenger's Ocean City correspondent, 2 June 1906, under the head OCEAN CITY GETTING READY FOR SUMMER — Many Improvements Being Made — Not Enough Cottages to Meet Demand: many cottagers have arrived and nearly all the boarding houses have visitors; "The only hotel open is the Seaside, under the management of Mr. T. L. Page, who will also manage the Atlantic for the Ocean City Development Company, the new owners of both hotels"; and "The demand for cottages is far in excess of the supply … This demand is much earlier and far greater than ever before," with accommodation at the hotels and boarding houses materially increased but likely still to fall short, as in 1905 when "it was roughly estimated that as many were turned away as were taken care of." The February report had already fixed the opening date — originally 1 June, "this date having been agreed upon by all interests here and the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company" — and reported the town council ordering work to start on Baltimore Avenue, the railroad tracks to come off it, building "more rapid," and improvements and additions at the Hamilton, the new Avalon, the Breakers and upward of twenty cottages.

    The first documented season in which Ocean City's problem was not attracting visitors but housing them.

    Atlantic HotelOcean City Development CompanyBaltimore, Chesapeake & Atlantic Railway

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  15. 1907

    The 1907 hotel line-up: the Atlantic reopens renovated under T. L. Page, and nine houses advertise in the Washington papers.

    The Washington summer-resort columns of 1907 give the fullest hotel roster the campaign has for the decade. The ATLANTIC HOTEL, Ocean City, Md., "opens June 15. Modern and high class in every particular. Recently renovated and greatly improved throughout. Faces the ocean" - T. L. Page, manager, described by the Star's own Ocean City correspondent as "Mr. Page of Washington." THE PLIMHIMMON HOTEL, "beach front... surf bathing, ballroom, orchestra," R. T. Shreve. MT. PLEASANT HOTEL, "under new management; ocean front; sun parlors; airy rooms; excellent table," W. O. Abbott, prop. THE RIDEAU, "post office Box 103. Directly on the beach. Table unsurpassed. Modern improvements," Mrs. Paul. The OCEANIC HOTEL and the MT. VERNON HOTEL, ocean front, J. D. Showell. THE DENNIS, "table first-class, terms very reasonable," Mrs. R. J. Dennis. The SEASIDE HOTEL. The HOTEL HAMILTON. And Sea Crest Cottage, Mrs. Anna B. Showell. On 20 July the Star's correspondent added the year's grace note: "The Atlantic Hotel boasts of an orchestra composed of young ladies. This adds greatly to the attractiveness of the place."

    Unverified — sourced but not confirmed against a primary record.

    Atlantic HotelPlimhimmon Hotel / Plim PlazaRosalie Tilghman ShreveJohn D. ShowellW. O. Abbott

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