The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-08-03

Fishermen's Vi1lage-Ladies Of Fashion In
Seaside Dress-Blue Fish and Blue Blood
An Old Times Hvcr Man in tho fhroes of
Prophecy Brighter Prospects Ahead-sun-
day ct tho Highland Hpringa
HIGHLANDS OF NAvRuNK, July 81, 1879
To the bewiidered mariner
a. ines. g ss iS.% sp3 h s.sns; light.
And here we are. And nom the Rrcsnel lantern
OF one OF these twin lighthouses let us take an
observation. To the left we have the bay OF sandy
Hook and Raritan Bay and the plains Of Jersey,
and beyond them the dim blue outline OF the
Orange Mountains, and nearer VIC have Staten
Island and the Golden Gate Of Gotham; and coming
round, we sweep by the windy waste Of Coney
Island, and by
Old Long Islands seaeirt shore,
and by Fire Island and by the Sandy Hook PENN
sua, with its pretty forest OF cedars and horles
and BY the narrow sewage Of sand which divides
this Shrewsbury inlet from the sea and upon
which we have now one OF our main lines OF travel
between New YORK and the South, and along
which, at this harvest season OF the year, down in
Jersey by the sea- there 600 passengers every
day.
We win pass now for mile through these shady
ana fragrant woods, musical with our singing
which for mile directly fronts the glitter1ng At
lantic. And here we are at Minturn's handsome
villa and In the cool piazza looking south. And
to the southwark what picture it1si The shrews-
bury Inlet expands before us into several branches
and bays, and between the south arm and the sea
runs that narrow sandbank with its railway, right
down to Pleasure Bay, and just beyond u Kong
Branch which looks from this point as II it might
be city Of a hundred thousand people. And such,
you see is the labyrinth Of these inland waters and
islands, and woods and fields, and villas and vii
lagos that the scene is full OF interesting things
With all its fluctuations and its concerns.
These highlands may be compared to horse
shoe with the toe fronting the sea, the circuit OF
the shoe being about sixteen miles from Port Mon
mouth around to Red Bank; and all the way these
pretty forest-crOwned little mountains come boldly
down to the water or to the intervening meadows,
and this Summer they look as fresh green and lux
urant in their dense foliage as the glorious woods
in the wild AlegAanies of West Virginia.
THE TWO HOTELS
OF these ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Jenkinson's-
are at the toe OF this horseshoe and on a natural
tSirty ee t abt,.s sss river. From our Chamber
window at Thompson's, through an opening among
the locust trees on the lawn we can see the pass
ing steamboats, and other craft on the river, the
passing trade OF the high seas with our great me-
tropohs, the passing railway trains on the inter
surf line of the angry sea. And rom the milknen
and street vendors, VINO give US the early morning
which is opened in the trees around this house
At four O'Clock in the morning,
and from the exhalations OF city gas factories ana
from the woods and the fresh air from the salt
water, the change Is like that OF Bunyan's Pilgrim
from the Castle OF the Giant Despair to the sweet
winds Of the Detachable Mountains.
From this roughly sketched outline OF this sea-
side group OF pretty forest-clothed Highlands
details may prove interesting 10 your readers,
the filing In OF the lights and shades OF the PIC
ture. The distance across this horseshoe range OF
hills is some three miles or more and for sixteen
miles all around the water front, and In the val
leys and depressions, and on the mstep OF the
ridges and on their breezy crests ana in the int.
rior circle of the horseshoe to the village OF
Naveslck there are numerous pretty villas and cot
tages, and old fashioned farm houses and fisher.
mems shanties, and cOsey noOks ana corners and
shady retreats and beautiful views OF the land and
sea
WORTHY SABBATH DAYS JOURNEY.
Chief among the villas IS tnat Of the merchant
Minturn, and, perfect as it is in its appointments
is a bachelors hail. but with his charming sit1a-
ton, his Sunday group OF Old New Workers aroundi
his mahogany and his many sources OF enjoyment,
and with such neighbors around him as the Harris
horns, the Mounts, the Miners, the Wdes, the
RiKers, the Schwartzes, the Smiths the Buchanans,
the Th0mpsons, the Kinneys, the Jenkfnsons, the
Schencks, the Parsons the Gieses and all the rest
OF them, why should not neighbor Minturn ne as
single biessednessS The ladies may not be able
to comprehend 1t; but man can adapt himself,
one in California who lives In q tree.
speaking OF the ladies, 1t is said that among the
Orientas the lady is beautiful according to her
here In Jersey by the sea, this season, from these
highlands to Long Branch yes all the way down TO
%seli IL the fropSets Paradise This rem sds
u.s. e7s pdSsant that mile below these hotels,
or sand bank by the water side and near grove
OF cedars, is
sometimes, for brevIty, called Clamtown. II Is
settlement Of "toers OF the scar among the
clans, eels, crabs. bass, blue, black and week
fsh-a place Of some two hundred population, with
a sprinklng OF the fifteenth amendment. II is the
Happy Valley OF Rasselas; it is the realization OF
the TACT that, on first principles, the wants Of
man are few and easily supplied; and here,
strengthened with glass OF Jersey applejack, we
can see that
More true JOY expd MarceIus feels
Than Cesar with q Senate at his heels
Paradise sleeps all day long in the sun, and rests
at night IRON It's abors Like rhe frontier pioneer
settlements OF the West, 1t marks the advancing
with his boots on. "Highdaddyn lives In Paradise,
and he says IN the course Oh time, It will be bigger
Half mile south of Paradise, tn the cedars by
the water side is the summer establishment OF
the Jackson Club regularly organized society for
Summer enjoyments and recreation by the sea-
side. Its of1cers are George I. Patterson, Presi-
dent; Ephraim scadderr, Vice President; George
urer. IL numbers thirty-nve members, and from
one OF them we get the following statement
I'VE have been mere I now ten years You have
with Kitchen, dining room, parlor and sleeping
rooms mosquito nets and spring mattresses We
take turn and turn about Tor week each in super
intending the Summer business OF the place. We
sometimes dine on sunday as many as LEO persons
when the members Of our families-littlc ones and
all-make general turnout and descent upon US.
We have no lree whiskey bar. GROWERS no loaf
ers. Our help are French; our cook can dress you
q fish In twenty different styles, and the men have
their families with them. At first we tried such
blacks as we could pick up but some of them were
Credit Mobilier and back pay fellows on small
scale and we had to part with them. Our cuisine
Is French. Our social ways are German, but we
have only two or three German members.
What and where is this Paradise
"Oh it's Just below there. It's the happy land OF
Canaan in the claiming season, and that lasts
you know, all the year round. Good. hard working
men there; but there are, perhaps, not more than
two or three among them as full OF business as A.
n