The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-06
SEASIDE LIONS OF 1872
High Life and Administration Pat
ronage at Long Branch.
GRANT AND HIS EYRMYDONS.
The Presidential Dwelling Fai!Ie
as an Advertisement.
POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS.
Horace Porter Comparing Notes GOacGrling the
Greni, Man o. the Potomac.
Gambling and CrumbIing
Par Excellence.
ExEMPl.A STUNT OD!cSA
Calling Up the Ghosts Of the Great Dia-
u IL
Horace Porter Comparing Notes Gsacening the
Greni, Man o. the Potomac.
Gambling and CrumbIing
Par Excellence.
ExEMPA.A STUNT ODIcSA
Calling Up the Ghosts Of the Great Dia-
mond-Studdod Departed.
LONG BRANCH, August 8, 1879.

LONG BRANCH, AUGUST ., 1917.
A contented mind is what the average man
needs for baggage inShe fashionable season. What
with his house imperfsctly guarded and exposed to
robbery from outsiders and abuse from its Gus
todians; with expenses in travelling, which afhct
his sense OF thrift and excite apprehensions OF
future pnching; with his household divided in
opinion as to the proper place OF refuge and the
insnficency Of any spot whatever to equal the pos
session Of that oftdecried but now, indeed, appre-
ciated family home let him cling at any rate to his
cOntented mind! Never check IL away, but hold to
1t as II it were his wife's diamond casket and even
with a flea In the bed, mosquito singing on the
bedpost short cOverlet, hair full of sand and
q waiter at every tree and post looking couple Of
dollars out Of those MISUNDERSTOOD eyes, let him
yea, he must-retain his contsnted mind or perish
OFF FOR TnE COLLEEN COASTS.
week ago left New York and was the envy OF
my species. No labor about that work. Mere lite
rary millinery and gllmpses OF the social improb-
able. The man who was to attend the races looked
at me az the busy bee regarded the butterfly, say.
ing:-"He tolls not; he only spins" The city re-
porter said he had sense Of salt landscape, the
frst he had known for years. to see me quit the
city. In two hours l was sitting on a trunk at
Long Branch writing on a fragment Of washstand,
with place left to put the watering and utensils
unless attached them to string and suspended
foggy, the landscape naked and lonesome a feeling
OF desertion and misery never felt in cities came
upon me- and fetched at once from the deep re-
cesses of a contented mind some passages Of phi
losophy which were like the last remains of bread
and cheese to the wayfarer.
THE BRANCH AS HUMAN SETTLEMENT.
Sallying out for a ride, was impressed with the
waywardness of Long Branch village in growing
away from itself 1t was very extensive before-a
patch OF seed villas sown over an enormous pas
ture like rim of dandeions on the great American
Plains The hotels pc ssess stiffness In the air
and broad gray light when reminds one Of tele-
graph poles in the desert solitude, or clothes and
clothes props upon the roofs Of some ilmitable
city. The air is saturated with the essence Of
shrimps; and lonesome omnibuses, carrying each
one passenger-the reflection is melancholy of your
self-go bowling down the endless lanes OF distance
with effort to be frisky that is disconsolate In
the extreme. Along the beach there are saturated
fags of gay coors nouncing in the wind over two
bathers-one with the govt and the other with an in
famed case of prictly heat-shivering in the break
ers Of the infinite, while the woman who takes the
money and stitches up the suits for her daily devo
tion is wringng out something grimly and has
crawling and crab-ike countenance. Looking at
this woman and these two bathers you check anew
upon your cOntented mind and stop In at the great
hotel.
- TIE GREAT HOTEL IN THE MORNING..
1t is the time between bathing and dinner, the
part OF the day when nobody will play poker nor
appear even to himself; when mothers threaten to
spank children for nothing and children hook each
others toys in the passage ways and quarrel out OF
the prevailing stimulus to depravity. AT this hour
in the great hotel nine negro highwaymen rush
upon you with whisks and the boy with the daily
Long Branch Stranger selects you for his prey. At
the bar you find Mr.. Hghdilwild, late OF the
Wholesale grocery trade-though in reality
an orthodox note shaver at eight per cent
a month, deducted in Misunderstanding
with the commercial twinkle rich young Aste-
roid, whose treat he has declined. These two have
been going through each other in the solitude OF
The great barroom Highdilwild getting points
for future reference upon the habits OF young men
OF prospects, and meantime, as II to be con6den-
tial, giving a luminous exhibit OF the ational debt
and the defects of all the systems of resumption
yet applied. As Asteroid is working up stlnlula-
ton TO the degree where it appeared to be com.
patble at the club house the previous evening he
listens out the morning So goe the day, with
women in disha5Hie cositating over toilets and old
men III the mysteries of the Greeley and Grant
question, as the rival newspap ers deiaine IL, 0ung
ing out the Moons on the piazzas
THE COMING MAN.
AT five O'Clock there is prearranged awakening
oil everybody; children emerge from bandboXes and
women rom dark closets; the lanes Ill with car
rages the hotel clerks come out from barber shops
anu practlse at balancing pen-holderS. steam
whistle Is heard TO the alarm OF the omnbuses,
which race ana gyrate like mad and then the cause
oil all this motion appears In view, the supreme
creation and perfection OF our orb--Man, to whom
woman was added as on afterthought.
MAN AS lie IS WHEN HE WANTS TO BE.
At the depot the train arrives you can see this
eovcreign OF created things alight upon his estate
the scale OF development young woman's father;
third, and improving according 10 his means and
devotion, husband; ana finally at the apex Of him
mol lq.far
There Is KIND OF man somewhere amongst
these never quite deansd' and hts rank
comes down TO the Branch to pass the night at our
cottage. UntI his intentions be known ana the
state OF his heart aud hand understood this latter
being Is OF no consequence whatever--a mere
Bphynx, with vaiise in his hand peramb1ating
Gathering unto himself whatever aftcrthought
belongs TO him, the sovereign gets into bis car
riase or the omnibus and for awhile the dust nies
and the roads again I'LL with teams. Then solitude
Is resumed for an hour. and then the piaZZas and
the roads grow lively with the evenings sednce.
such is life at Long Branch every day but one in
the week, the racing weeks excepted and on said
excepted times people who open bottle 81 vine
-four 3nct times ye4T win sigh and gatton9,p mons
extravagant and unnecessary enjoyment twice
day. anu otherwise show that they are without d
cohtented nilnu, ana are reflection upon the sum-
mer species.
TIE BRANCH wIXKsp AT.
To people at distance Long BraDch IL composed
OF General Grant. To regular summer species it
1t consists Of Pleasure Bay and our coachman. TO
kuc EfOVeulDg CuiIVdlly hunter ~ is merely
Chamberlain, the ghost or Fisk and the tayerns.
To the watering place letter-wrlter OF contented
mind II Is ali that he can make Of 1t.
Inprt1ats. You see before you, Like fringe Of
frame tenements, moro than two miles Of meander-
Ing town drawn UP in SIN military array 20 face
the ocean which hops azily against The foot Of the
clay cliffs underneath. Wher6t be fringe gets into
tangle Near the middle, is the ehoppy part OF tue
Branch, composed OF drug store some layer beer
Kegs, pair Of Jersey policemen and otnor lnercan.
tile matters. The hotels are sometimes sizeabe, the
largest holding $50 peoIw they neea ph,eumailc