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The boys living at the Atlantic House, and the boys boarding at Chadwick's, held mutual sentiments of something not unlike enmity -- feelings of hostility from which even the older boarders were not altogether free. Nor was this unnatural under the circumstances.
When Judge Henry S. Carter and his friend Dr. Prescott first discovered Manasquan, such an institution as the Atlantic House seemed an impossibility, and land improvement companies, Queen Anne cottages, and hacks to and from the railroad station, were out of all calculation. At that time "Captain" Chadwick's farmhouse, though not rich in all the modern improvements of a seaside hotel, rejoiced in a table covered three times a day with the good things from the farm. The river back of the house was full of fish, and the pine woods along its banks were intended by nature expressly for the hanging of hammocks.