The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-21
AT THE SEA SIDE.
OUR LONG BRANCH LETTER.
Whs Chup chos-Drsss aAd DoHoloRy-
Baths and 8AthtsE-Tne Hotels 0nd
ArbOrets, Gtc., Etc.


Long Branch 10 an all the uoil1 1ism, rather
than New Yorkism, for nearly all the nation
alities Of the world are here. All the races of
the Blumen-bachiau theory--whIte, yello Y,
black, red, and brown-are scattered through
the dozen hotels that line the bluffs. "In joint
contrasts lietb" fashions as well as cloves de-
hghtr Hence, therefore, even at Long
Branch
"Hands Of snow In palms of russet lie;
The form uf 'rcu es ar Gus the !vlpuT
And breasts that cage the Hons fear-proof
heart,
Find their loved lodge In arms W here tremors
dwell"
If have not been to church today, 1t is not
because no churches are provided. With the
exception of the Atlantic, kept for Jews exclu.
sively, there is scarcely hotel mere which
does not yield up one OF it, parlors of a Sunday
for religious services. Besides this there a e at
least SIX churches u choose from, so that those
who love churcn gong for religious sake have
fair excuse tor not going. The Refor ned
Church, the Nechsn csvIlle Methodist Epi,co
pal Church, the 9ea,ide APPEL, the st. James
Chapel the Star OF the Sei, ald the Centen.
airy Methodist Episcopal Church, all invite
and are more or less attended. Still, the reli
gious interests of Long BFauch, in common
with other watering. places, are not of tn
most active nature. The revivals are those Of
dress rather than doxolosy, and the protr4cteI
meetings have a closer bearing upon fancy
dress hops than spiritual hopes.
Apropos OF the exercise with which [. in com
mon with a hundred otners, commenced tn
day. have been trying TO nix of The words OF
Bayard Tay lor's poem. entitled "rhe Bath" but
cannot. RroEen line, ouly came to me here
and there; and the only recoileCt on can trust
TO is that the poem is ull vi easy, natural po Wer
and simple beauty, au1 that IN 1t the poet seems
TO have cleaned himself With grea er scrupulOus
ness than ever OF those couVen IOnaltle5 OF artI-
fetal HE which hamper and COntamina.e. The
poem also presents u transparent idea Of IA
early morning batO, whe1, out of sgnt of
any one except yourself aud brother
bathers, yoar only covering becomes the sea,
which nounces you with breakers anu laces you
with surt. This walking unc,ad into the sea is
like stepping into drop OF dew expanded to an
ocean. The cold, bright, ny shock. the soft.
uncousc ous struggle with the liquid locking
arms the dro Sslly buoyant influence OF the
return surf that seems TO hooi one OIL ones feet,
the strange dreamness OF the feeling
that you have become \ new identity
and are in ernInglng with the elements,
these are surely enough TO make the early
morning Oather iorget, for iul, tive minutes, one
short hours ride will bring him TO where ali
the waves and bllpwe o great c,ty's hubbub
are ready TO rush over h'u and eugut him at u
blow, There ID noLnlng | ke this early morning
BATH esp C,ally II II be taken in GOOD company.
1t is toe oblatton. OF thai natural heathcn the
body, offered, Greeklike, u5 10 Neptune, and
the physical re ward comes aS the spiritual
b reward comes, to moro earnest and better kin is
OF prayer. 1t comes, or at least 1t came to me,
in keeDer appetite OF in elect AMI sOnach.
Brain and DO iy alike do Their work OF digestion
better. As an electrician would say, The acid
and the alka bases are brought iuto harmo-
Nous relations, AID equilibrium is restored to
the distut bed polarltles.
Besides numerous private boarding. houses,
there are about dozen no els AZ Loug 5ranch
from VIII ch to choo e. Tne SJe.son HJuse, the
Metropolitan, the Pavilion, the Insion doIoe,
the Continental, RedmOnL's, HoFiand's, the
United States, Cooper Cottage, the Clarendon,
the Atlantic extend in a line along the bluffs,
with varying advantages, according to their
nearness to, or distance from The beach. Kaya
nsgh's hotel is about mile rom the shore, is
convenient to the ch urche- an is tn -retore tlc
favorite resort of many OF those who h tVe no
lett their piety at no me- Duubar:on House Is nj
further off, three miles rom the 50 Dre on the
road 10 Freehold, the capital of MOnmoIth
county, cooper COtlhSt Is uOTt ike pTlVase
boarding.. house than notel. At ils most Gro Tded
state it aOes not accommodate one hundred
guests. 1t Is, therefore, much in demand by
invallds who cannot stand the stare and gaze of
hotel life. The Clarendon is tenn oerance in5ti-
tuition, aud oil that account is alfrctei by mu
berry-nosed papas, wso have lived 10 see the
folly OF what they wish their budding sons 10 he
brought up IN blindness VI. II is also nearer TO
the sea than any other Long Branch bO,e
The Metropolitan Is stylish aud "n)bby;" the
Pavilion is redeemed from What used TO be the
United states; the Mansion House has
the sold and most envable prestige OF age; the
present United Sta.es has IA good, urn, sIbstan-
tial hold on popular taste; Re1moud's Is to-
conveniently near the depot 10 be much more
than stopping.place for the temporary visitor;
HoWland's has Que OF the best situations and
some Of the Dest patronage ln all Long Branch:
the Atlantic, as ! said before, Is kept IN the In.
teIests OF the Jewish people only; the Co ntueu-
tai and the Stetsou House are the two mos
impos Lg hotels III the place. The facade OF the
Continental, commandmg a superb view OF the
sea, is over seven huud'el feet long, anil it.
porches are nearly three tnOuaanl Ieet in length,
The peculiarly OF the Sets n House, which is
only two seasons old, Is that it has no second
class rooms. Yet after having stayed at CverN
one OF these holeis, | should cast my vote in tavO
OF the Con'lueDlai. It's vast eXterior, and the
long sweep If It's shlhlbP BoItlcors, seem u Ot
a guarantee OF the liberal management win n
For The past two or three seasons litte ar0or-
eta fancIlullv Daluted. have been Dnilt along