New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-23
SUMMER LETTERS.
LONG BRANCH.


CAN ENJoYMENT-THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE AT
BAY.
LONG BRANCH, July 22.-No place of Sum-
mer resort with which am acquainted boast OF so
many public houses as Long Branch. II has some IS
inns large and small and might be called Hoelye with
more fitness than the name it now bears.
POPULARITY OF THE PLACE.
No one has vet been able TO discover the special charm
OF Long Branch which has nothing TO commend it but
the sea- Still it draws like magnet, and is no doubt the
most popular watering place in the country Several Of
its hotels as the Union formerly the Atantic the Man
sion, and the Metropolitan, have been enlarged, and
though few of the houses full at present. is expect
ed that all Of them will be next week The races begin
on the 5Oth, when all the Of ethical celebrity with
the brotherhood of jockeys, turfmcn, and black
legs who baye been drinking, swearing, betting, and
swinding at Saratoga will be here in full force.
have never been able TO why the hottest weather
Is selected for horse races but s presume there
must be mysterious relation between time and
temperature which the uninitiaed cannot fathom. As
Mercury the patron deity Of thieves and rogues OF all
sorts, it may be that his its ascendency is deemed an
suspicious sign for holding contests at which so many OF
that class energeticaly assist 1t has been, and is still
complaint here that most OF the sOjOurners are men OF
family who are domestic and therefore slow. An infusion
of cockailconsumers, ger fighters,
social matadors is needed to give the proper variety
zest and dash for the establishment of shorough coso
pOlitanism.
NEWCOMERS AT TIE HOTELS.
The condition Of the principal hotels as folOws Tie
Union with accommodations for 400 has about 100
guests chow sublimatedly delicate we Americans are
in expression y, among whom are the following New
Workers:
VIM Campbell, Josiah Fletcher, ]. G: Eble, J. d. Erbig
and wife, Mr. Gerkcn r. Goudsburg, $. TuckeIman, Da-
yd Williams, Joseph slreten oscar r. IsnPle ,t'
Henry s. LesgyrS and SON MI ana NV I2e, mIT
Reidskof, Louis n. Rcnault
At the Metropolitan, accommodating 5OO are some 1928
persons, the following from NewYork;
John j. Staff r Leo c. Dessar. j. COLES, ir.. and wife,
Christopher Rourk and wife, Henry r. MclAne, ). &;
Smith, j. f. Elder, william Hill, Isaac N seymour and
wife Lucien Nathan, j. II. Banks. James f. Pendergast
D. Bunnell, T. s. Donney, b. L. Ferguson, l.. H. DaVs'
DR.. Hogan, j. c. Purdy.
Howands has 1926 occupants, nearly all it will hold
these from NewYork:
George Wood, Gardiner Sherman, WIN. II. Ross, Miss
Fanny Fisher, Miss G. X. Duer John B. Mott PerSifcr
Frazer ir; W. f. Wharton, Gerald L. lloyt Good Lolt,
ir Albert II. Gallatin Mrs. VIM. +. Mott, Mm h. MOU,
jr; j. c. Haywood.
The Mansion dt will hold COO has about 100 boarders
From Manhattan are ]. Marisccl, Mexican Minister
James Douglass, VIM. T. Runk and family. H. H. Hollis,
ter, George c. Collins and family, Col. r. J. Hoyt and
ter and family, b. J.. Mard and family, Jas Andrews
it, and family j. W. Alexander ana family; Jas l.. an
and wife, Henry A. Bradstreet Richard p. Herrek and
wife, Thomas Hitchcock and family.
The United States has 600 Of the 600 patrons whom 1t
needs.
RI Wheeler and family c. G. COLGATE and family
Francis Gross and family, J. Van Nance, Cen Wood
city.
At the Continental there are nearly 500 persons with
room for 800 or 400 more The following arc NewYork
names:
Alexander Knox and family, A. 6. johnson, g NJ. Pet
tcngin and family, Charles T. LcOw, Ww. Bcldon and
family MGeer WelHsGH i SsSP y eGq ay Gs
II. Coleman and wife, a. b. Wood, James Fisk IT, Jay
Gould.
Tie West End is in possession OF 400 guests and cx
poets 800 additional the coming week.
VIM s. opdyke Geo AcESs,Tman EIwoTd BqTgil iey
l. W. England GGorse w. Mclean 1 Ihcod9TG I'oP
Col. Frank e. Howe. W X kitchen, Gen. frank p. Blair
ir Gen f. f. Beale John Brougham. Senators Crcamer
and Wood Fred. b. Fiske, Wilson Fisbe, JOB Roberts
Wood6ridge judge r. s Green, Ashabc Green, Fletcher
Harper, James NJ. Fiskc, James Buell., ". II. Pefrne
prominent NEWCOMERS.
The hotekeepers generally that they have more
persons their houses than they had at this time last
year. and when they secure the expected corners who
live prodigaly and anatAematizc expenses they will DO
4 LoUD-ROARING LION.
Ono Of the Understanding if not the hishestbooded
lions of the Branch, is the momentous Col James Fisk
r. who with his open carriage, his two sable footmen in
livery, his unveried coachman, and his six dark and
light steeds, continues by his snowy turnout to adver
tise himself without expense The llipuan scrbbcrs
who themselves muchregardng the redOubta-
bic Cooncs occcnriciiies, maryeling why he, so
welded to uniforms even to the uniformity Of not pay
ing dividends to the Erie stockholders, should employ
driver with soul above badges, brass buttons, and
rOsettes.
Fisk whatever his other virtues is shrewd respects
his own interests He puts his Jehu in citizens dress to
excite curiosity and make people talk about him. He Is
deeply versed in the classics and remembers the Athe
Man story about Acibadcs and the cutting of Of his
dogs tail.
No man living fonder Of display and ostentaton
than Col Fisk His passion for sensations ia not exceed
by of the cheap morning papers He revels in in
tricate lawsuits magnificent greenhouses and ncom-
prehensible railway operations. He loves to talk, too
owing, no doubt TO his cascism after the fluent
and constant manner of the ancient Greeks Touch him
with Vanderbilt, and he whzzcs Off in the style of
oquacous rocket, invariably ending with Attic quo
taon which lie thus renders in the vernacular If old
Vanderbilt lives ten years longer, by I'll bust hint"
THE ADVANTAGE OF LOCATION.
The popularity of this resort consists in great meas
ure its location. 1t Philadelphia, and is little
more than suburb of NewYork that men welded to
business feel while staying there if they hardly
out of Third Chestnut-st, Wallst. Broadway. Put
the Branch where Newport Saratoga is, and couple
OF hotels would contain suspect everybody who would
care to go there.
BATHING
The two things that make seaside place attractive
good bathing and beach drvingare not TO be had here
This is the only resort know the coast where bath
ing can be considered dangerous. In its capacity for
drowning its patrons Long Branch is unequaled Men
who could swim like Leander OF Columbus have gone
down here to feed the fishes without the least ntimatOn
of their pscatOral philanthropy. number Of persons
go to sleep every along this coast the pillows
Tor pillows il you like Of the Atlantic, and forget TO
wake up Under the circumstances, bathing becomes
interesting exercise for the spice Of peril relieves its
notony. one welcomes ones friends more warmly when
they come back from sea plunge, from the possibility
that they might not have returned at all.
THE DRIVING.