Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-07-21
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

EDITORIAL coRREsPoNDBNcE.
CONTINENTAL HOTEL, Lone BRANCH, MI,
July 9th, 1885, |
Having had a few days of leisure, during
the swetering hot weather of last week,
concluded to take trip, in company with
some friends, to Cape May, but as we had
never been at Long Branch, now in many
respects, the greatest, and among the most
fashionable resorts for sea-bathing in this |
country, we left Philadelphia on Saturday
morning at 0 A. M. for this place.
From Camden we proceeded about 20
miles on the road leading to Atlantic City,
where we intersected the Raritan and Della
ware Bay Road, which now opens an indi-
rect route to New York, at So, or 81 less
than over the Amboy or Trenton route
From the Atlantic Junction to Long Branch
the distance is about so miles, mostly
through the barren pine lands of the New
Jersey coast-but as you approach within
ten or fifteen miles of Long Branch you find
better soil and higher state of cultivation,
while around, and in the neighborhood of
that place, they boast of farms equal to any
in New Jersey. After an exceedingly dusty
ride, of over four hours, we reached point
within miles of Monmouth, from which
point branch road of five miles took us to
Long Branch, whilst passengers to New York
take steamers from Monmouth to that CITY,
Long Branch is the watering place of
So op1,y t,rn
travel from that city, it is fast becoming the
greatest watering place in America. For
space Of two miles along the coast there is
series of hotels and handsomely constructed
cottages, fronting on the ocean. These ho.
tells are mostly white frame three story
buildings, from two to four hundred feet in
length, but within year past several new
hotels have been erected-the CONTINENTAL
and the "Stetson House.. The former has a
frontage of over seven hundred feet, on the
ocean, with Piazzas the entire length from
every floor. The dining room is 200 by 70
feet and 20 feet in height The hotel con
date 1900 persons. The fare is not so bat
but that it might be worse, excepting thu
bread and butter, which was inexcusable, il
country of luxuriant crops and abundan
vegetation.
The Stetson House is designed to be tn
aristocratic house. But tits difficult to sepa
. rate Shoddy from Chivalry, and in man,
respects there is not much real difference
y and, like extremes, they will sometime
meet. The Goldfish aristocracy, as the New
a York Herald calls them, are said to be fount
q wherever fashion and money makes dis
play, and Long Branch is not without them
:. Extravaganza in dress without neatness,
! one of the evidences, and l noticed severa
displays of this character in the ball roor
and promenade, in persons whose pedigre
/ was not unknown. One of the luxuries fc
:. which visitors pay $3.50 per day is til
Il music of German Band from New Yorl
If They perform in the forenoon, afternoon an
o evening. At night dancing and waltzing
" the parlor is always in order, and the mus
10 of the Band is such as to inspire all who al
!, fond of this amusement. This Band of /
- performers, l was told, received salary
N six hundred dollars per week.
!. The bathing grounds are not equal
q. Cape May, but the drives, high-ground an
~ scenery, is vastly superior to any waterir
- place in the Union. Sea bathing is gre
90 leveler of social distinctions, and has a wo
10 derfu effect in neutralizing native and @
70 fected pride as well as modesty Barefoc
re ed young ladies kick up their heels with
much freedom as a young colt in field
,r clover, and an exhibition of their uncover'
90 feet and ankles, causes no extraordinary ru
II of blood into the cheeks of modest youth
i. maturer age. There is no denying ho
~ ever, that art is the hand. maid of natul
n. and that pretty pair of feet and ankle
Il encased in clean white stockings and W,
10 fitting CATERS, are vastly more attractive al
,r interesting than the bare ankles of beau
,a in the surf.