The New York herald., 1873-08-06

meets upon the balconies or among the ave-
attired and loud-taklng women, or harsh
voiced anu paner-collared men. Bizarre ladies'
set by themselves, ana gamblers ind more gu.
llDle victims almost anywhere else than here
SIste9hSSg sEs aS%s rSnS lighted up with huge
Ssss i pa Sgds Sag Hwy rsa Saajla'Iss the
neck. At Long Branch this element OF society Is
by all odds the most conspicuous. IL is this class
which keeps alive the gambling hes and pays
without murmur the most ridiculous bills There
Is not gambling house to be found here. The
people who frequent tins place are persons OF good
Judgment, and would rather swelter in city homes
than be to the last degree imposed upon. Hence
THE PRICES
are precisely the same as AT any city hotel. YOU
care to smoke a cigar will cost yoH lust what Won
have heer accustomed TO pav Tor the same brand
at home.aot cent more. II you care 10 drink,
you will find the charges at the bar to be similar TO
those that you have ever paid. lfyou care to ride
an elegant turnout VIII cost you Just 81 per hour,
and ii you engage your carriage IL cannot be re-
cOgnzed from a private outfit. You are not bled
in the slightest. You hive fully well ana iully
as cheapy as you can at home, so that, In reality
the only expense involved to get this delightful
atmosphere and superb sea bathing is in the iare
which you pay to remove Yourself and family hther
THE AVENUES
about this place arc land out with the same rcgu-
larity as those OF Philadelphia, while each street Is
fully as wide as Broadway. Atlantic avenue is the
street ever saw. From II, at regular distances,
radiate other streets, each OF which is named after
numerous and almost every State, North south,
East and West, has u drive corresponding to It's
name All these reS S mare are 9ya na6 & ae n
than over wooden pavement while along their
sides are grouped overseven hundred cottages anu
one hundred hotels and lodging houses.
THE COTTAGES
are beautiful, all OF tnem-large. c0mmodi0us and
home-hke-not gaudy shells like those of Long
Branch and Saratoga, but real, substantial and
elegant residences, about which are cosey little
gardens and shrubbery, trimmed to the last state
nt ntlh ln uff nrlu tnlnn
one to find In this delightful place acottage garden
Detraying the utter indifference and neglect, AS
many do at the Branch ana 1t would be fully rs dlfi-
cult TO persuade any one OF the patrons or this
place to rear cottage after Newport or Saratoga
model. The consequence OF all this Is that you 40
dred silly people had assembled to vie with each
other in absurd extravagance for brief summer
season, but as II You were In a city which vas the
constant home OF hundreds OF refined and cultured
Inhabitants Take Tor instance,
THE GRAND HOP
at the United States on Saturday evening last
Nothing could have been more delightful. There
were no dress coats, no low-neckcd dresses, no
short sleeves, no b0uquettS no glares. The tabes
of the dining room had Deen removed, with the
exception OF u line nearest the wall good band
furnished the music; men, women ana children
went IN the dance in precisely the same dress and
with exactly the same cOmpOsure that had con-
stitutcd their individuality few hours before upon
the beach. Imagine such hop at Long Branch,
Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, or at the White
Sulphur Sprngs--imposslble while II is the
opinion of your correspondent that as many
pcOpe OF wealth, refinement and education
Joined in the dance and looked in upon it from the
broad plank promenade running down the entire
length OF the dining room outside as could be COL
lected together at one time at any other watering
place in the country. The hop appeared like a
very imprOmptu affair, but its opening had been
eagerly looked forward to- and It's management
was highly satisfactory. Between the dances the
to the sea, where in a tidy little Summer house,
they could listen to the waves, and in the moon
light catch glimpse OF distant snowy sails.
- TABLEAUX.
Or if this is not sufficient, take the fine exhibi-
tion OF tableauX gwen the same evening at the
surf House, for the benefit of little suffering chill
dren, for whom cOmmOdious hospital has been
erected here, that the weak and sckly youngllngs
may come rom every section of our country to
enjoy an atmosphere which great many English
medical tourists have pronounced to be the finest
in America. The tableauX themselves were ad-
mirable. ana the persons in the audience seemed to
nave Just called IN accidentally and not TO
have expected them and prepared for them
promenade concert down near the iighthouse-t
too was a grand occasion, and yet every thing
moved along as freely as though there were really
no concert going on.
DRIVE TO THE BEACH.
| At nine O'Clock on Sunday morning went to the
| livery stable upon Atlantic avenue which was IN
| formed was the best In the city and secured a
| handsome turnout. 1t was as neat and 'shlny" as
it could be, consisting of basket phaeton, "
new and trim little mare, lively on foot and
grOomcc In the most painstaking way. ! drove
down to the lighthouse and there struck the beach
The breakers rolling In on the sand dampened tile
fetlocks OF my little trOtter, which smiling the
air with happy whinny, new up the sand like the
!
kinds tnrOnged its s!oping sides, and hundreds of
! pedestrians were grouped In all sorts OF llctur-
esque attitudes upon the damp and moistened
sand. Broad hats, gay parasos, modest cloaks, and
subdued trimmings were passed at every yard and
the shouts OF little children made the place seem
like land Of beauty and cnchantment. The
beach itself was very firm and hard, ana am
really guilty OF no exapgeratlOn when ! say that
my phaetoD made scarcely any impression at all.
This beautiful drive extends for twelve miles, and
Is Just as fine IN one part as In another. Return
ing after the course of two hours, arrived al n
iugt flInn In
parade 0f
THE STATE FENCIBLEs,
whose white tents are pitched down at the inlet
This s the best trained regiment in the State, and
really compares very lavoraby with our own gal
liant seventh Their ordinary BODY uniform Is SINH
lar to that OF our Old Guards, and they wear the
same high and grizzly hats. Yesterday, however,
they appeared in blue coats, gayly trimmed, whlte
duck breeches, and snug Panama hats, having
their side arms only, anu marching with perfect
sPLAsuING IN THE SURF.
This brought up to the morning hour for
bathing, and Of course | batked with the rest.
The United States Hotel has little car running
down to the sea so that its guests, II they care TO-
can put Oh their bathing suits in their rooms and
ride down directly to the breakers. AS soon as the
first bather enters the surf large and seryiceable
niebOat, named the United States, Is launched
and this boat is manned with o crew OF expert
swimmers, while until the last bather departs IL
rides the high waves at a little distance away so
that to be drowned in front OF the United States
Hotel, no matter how reckless the swimmer may
be. is really almost Impossible. AS far as the eye
coast Tor miles and miles the gay bathing dresses
nutter in the wind like the trimmings of so many
hareqains. Wives and husbands, sweethearts and
lovers boys and girls and children so small that
they can scarcely toddle, all come at this hour for
plunge and a roll in the sea. After bathing we
WENT OUT TO SAIL.
or, rather, we went out to 6shthere were f0ur or
us. Three, myself among the number, rolled
around in the bottom OF the boat every blessed
foot the way out and in, and three sicker Usher
men never paid their dark compliments TO the
wave The other man only caught one, and his
emotional nature got the Oest OF him, so that he
let II 20, 1he fishing down here Is splendid, Tor,
once 0ut to the wreck, eight miles away from the
shore, you catch fish as fast as you can haul
mem IN. We were wrecked before we arrived,
ana hence speak not from experience, nut from
seeing enc salDoat after another come in
from the ground referred to loaded with
curved packs aud glistenng fins. The cunning, 100,
is hne We have snlpe, curlcw and red-breasts III