The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-27
WHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE BY THE SURF
Each Hotel Keeper Expecting that "Tasrt
Ii Millions in It."
FOR AN AWFUL RUSH
A New Railroad Started and the Present MOnOp.
oily To Be Broken Up GU.
Lone DRAscu. June %. 1878


! was sitting under the roof OF one OF those small
summer houses which dotted all over the two
miles OF blum at Long Branch-"How is It that the
season Is very backward At this watering
placer
The New Yorker, who comes 60 Long Branch
every year more rom habit than from love OF
the place. answered slowly between the vapory
puts OF Gis Relna vlctoria:-
| SHOW PLACE.
owen. there are good many reasons and rs
do not want TO be assassnated by the combined
| hotel Keepers, who are all known to me, Will be
1 "a careful as possible In my statements To begin
4 with, the edge Is worn on Long Branch. 1t ISN'T
as new rs 1t was aud IL lacks novelty. Five years
/ ago It's success q watering place had reached
1 the maximum. But there is NOS as much
\ money going as there used to be. and
for what you get here the prices des-
| peratey high. You see Long Branch IL purely
Q watering place and nothing else. 1t Is not
ike Brighton, which has population OF 5000 In
the season. aud which Is q fuli grown city oven In
the winter time. IL isn't like Newport. which is
full OF repose and which Ii frequented by the best
\ people IN the country who desire real enjoyment
and It has no shade or back country. tbs not
like Dieppe, which has q cathedral for sentimental
people to investigate aud talk TO each other
about 1t cannot compare with any OF the great
German watering Places like Carlsbad, Ems or
Wiidbad, where there Is q cultivated and refined
society to be met with and where. II you can't
talk well, play cards or dance, you have the privi
lege OF looking at king, an emperor. some great
statesman or picturesque body of soldiery or
/ peasanrry In the colors OF the Rainbow. NO King
/ or emperor Is likely TO visit Long Branch, our
\ Statesmen are mostly from the slums OF New
! York and Brooklyn, and for a sovereign We have
only Grant, who locks himself up from all social
Intercourse excepting with the shoddy people,
who have built up the Branch. Scarborough, the
English Newport, IL delightful place TO lounge
/ IN, and Long Branch Is NO place At all to lounge
! in. can only uken Long Branch to Ramsgate or
Margate, or, perhaps combination OF the two,
where the cockneys come down TO the water as
the grassncppers come down on Kansas farm
er's helds-n
THE HOTEL BILLS.
sBut,n said /, IN possibly faint depreciation,
\ 'rhere il the bluG and the swelling and sinking
Atlantic. Is 1t not grand sight 10 look at the
pillows and breakers come laundering In ~
Eyes, know all about tnat,n answered my
bilious acquaintance, "shat looks very well In
q story book, q course. but you see the awful
4 hotel bills man has 10 pay at the end or the week
| destroys all the beauty OF the surf The prices are
\ too high In every sense, and the prices
4 Quent on the expenses OF the help who swarm, so
numerous are they, and the outrsgesusly exorbl-
tant rents tLat are charged 10 the hotel keepers.
AT any or the large hotels II is impossible TO get
board less tEan 81 so or IS per day aud the extra
4 expenses IL IL very hard for any man to spend
SIS a week for simple board, and many single men
here do It in addition to their regular expenses
In the city; and there are a number OF people VINO
spend 500 a week and consider themselves cheaply
let on Mind you, these are single mea. without
famhes, who come here to enjoy themselves, and
they have no wives or sisters to dress as expen-
siyey a. they must At thus costly place."
sTT REQUIRES LARGE FORTUNE
"And what Is the remedy for all this expensive
bother ~ then inquired.
There Is but one remedy and that Is that no
tells should not charge more than 50 . day.
Everything has gone down. not even excepting
admission TO theatre and clothing for men, but
stin hotel board continues the same At Long
Branch. There should be lodgings to LEI at Long
Branch ana restaurants Ia carte as they have
them In Europe. Ishould not be compelled TO eat
three meals day II my stomach does not allow II.
And II cannot eat the three meals pei day It is
equally ridiculous that / should be compelled 10
pay So q day for the refusal OF them. Al or
the dig hotels here transient strangers VINO wish
90 stop few days cannot get q room at Tor a dog,
as the clerks ana managers looking for parties
who visa TO remain Tor q month the three
months VI the season, beginning on tae 1st OF
July. II Is true some reform mas been made In
instance which bas for one OF it, Dropri-
st0fs man WAC has been in the business az
Rome, Iurla; NaP,es, Psrls ami vienna aug
is not neee sary TO pay Tor any tnIRz that you do
net eat, and hotels where the prices are reAsona-
BILE ana tue rooms suitable for families well as
transient visitors. IL - prsisewOrthy In those
people TO maze Accommodation as low a. possi-
hotels, although they themselves set . decent
taDle-g0od enough for men
h0RE GRUMBLING.
Ilen nv bilious Trend, VINO mas and Will have
at Long branch TINS year great macy peoP 70
sympathlze with him, and noticed rom Motel
bAicouy that ne sept on smoking hts cigar, or
when he mad paid thirtJ cents, as he told me,
throw away. wishing to go down the road TO
Deal and see what "ss going on ana how the
asss OV y dry. S sSsASea arovs erDs's.s
slowly a. he could and with the coolness
oil Rockland Lake iceman he charged me at the
ing pair OF skeleton steeas as ever
saw. But when the money was paid with the
usual and Intellectual circumstances, ne drove
away with a speed which threatened instant deatn
20 MS last decayIng animals. Even the hackmen
here are quite desperate and as good blood
suckers as ever saw II a Watering place. Inc
thunder OF the surf or the bright stars That SHINE
over the iTackless sea at night nave cnarms lor
these gentlemen OF the box ana whip / noticed
that the blum Is gradually eating awaT ~ the
force OF me "sad sea waves. and tnsL 70 some M
the oceans force BY the erection CT bArricades OF
piles. But II seems 70 me that or less than tue
I money spent at Brighton Ia erecting the magnln-
| cent pier, when is tue glory OF tnat well known
English watering place, stone wall might be
4 ereCkeu anu Mh0G 10 ocleuu Tue Dluu HOh iuilHcE
| Destruction III IL Is not done--and Il could be
done conformity BY assessment ana subscription
/ before many years the carriageway Will crumOe
into the arms OF the sea, ana possibly the great
hotels, some OF wnlcn, ike the Ocean House. nave
A nnaded ana piazza 'front.' OF nearly 400 feet,
| will have TO be put on wheels and made ready FOR
removal
When 1rst Long Branch leaped as watering
/ place from the sea Al was noticeable that very
large number offorelgners nade u their residences
I during the heated term. Many Of these people
I were English, and they we're very liberal IN their
! expenditures though very ouen liable - quatre
about rining items which the oppressed American
dare not mutter aDO1t above his breath. Bus
nov they do no come 10 the branch ID any great
| numbers or II they come at an Il Is on invitation
20 spend day or Two or week at some OF the
summer cottages that are 70 De found At Long
Braucn Or on Monmouth Beach, watch has lately
been called "MOnbeacnn by the people VINO are
iond OF euphony and short words. There are
really very fine cottages at Monmouth Beach, as
nne as any ever saw ~ Newport ana many OF