The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-03
LONG BRANCH
Oddities and Humors of
Society.
MATTER OF GOSSIP AND NEWS
The Stockton and IIOey
Mansions.

Loso BRANCH. August I, 1877.
Tho great strike has affected Long Branch very
little, 40 moss OF the guests permapeps and many
Of the transient people the Branch to get out
Of the confusion ana danger the cltiea
rae sArHERa
The bathing vonther for a week past has been Of
such calmnsss sh1 che ondsrsow appeared to have
swum away and timid ladies venturcd ''over their
heads" "Lons Branch In getting safes, {" exclaimed
inconssans opinion, when only the weather haa ,m
proved. Yet vas only sunday last when the sea
rough that the fishermen couid not launch their
boats through the breakers. Nothing material has
been done TO save tho noble blur a the Branch
nor TO improve the slope Of the bathing
beach; but the wrecked husband has made
such q bar that tho boys who swim out
pronounce the spot to be the safest
swimming on tho coast One Of the charms OF
tho Branch has always been the double promenade on
the sands under the bluff and tho brink of the bluf
ITSELF forty feet almost directly above At night these
two walks seem very lar separated In tho imperfect
light, and few lonely lovers slip down to the dark
margin OF tho waters, while jealous eyes strained
them from the upland.
STICK TO rHR BLUFF
Mrs. Jones cav her husband going down the blur
stops al hafpast nino r. M. am watch him from
along this bluf wherever he goes" said Mrs Jones'
my suspicious are avakencdl Why docs Jonos como
homo 10 night late from the city and ship OIL to the
beach instead Of giving his company" Mrs. Jones
docs not admit IT, but her sight IL nos good for
mery. Yet she Sees bad tho light tho eyes and the
distance are . human osure, wearing jones' hat
stroll along the water's edge, and with a
skirted object hts arm. These guilty
twain throw themselves on tho dry sandheap;
the moon pops in and out Of Q cloud bat IL
reveals 70 Mrs. Jones heads close together that
she docs not know which the hat belongs "HA IL
is that widow who has looked once pcnsvey ut Jones
over her lunch plate Of clam ohowder. From that
moment Jonos has been shut IN like o clam, and
difcrcnt, peculiar man." Mrs Jones steals down
tho bluff stars--scep stairs for such . ruaied spirit
How lovely the broad ocean looks by night yet
hardly too cold, too lovely for suicide We, sho will
confront Jones and eco who wears his hat Along the
lonely sands BY the prcoccupicd breakers Mrs Jones
picks her way. Nothing would have svon hor the
courage TO mako this lonely walk but the domestic
treachery OF which she she Witness Above on the
blus II looks also dark from below-no lamps no SEN
tines nothing but grassy rampant and unsympathctc
sky. But, hush she approaches unperoeved the most
hardened wretch, for whom the female bosom h ad
ever been torn. Yes, the basilisk, tho cockatrice
the crocodile! Il rs Jones' hat on another woman's
head IL is Jones' head upon her hpt '.Monsteri'
she says, and precpItates herself upon the m-and
nnds her nephew, young Smith, sitting there with
Mrs. Robinson's chambermaid!
"Augussus'" she says, ION, Augussusl After your
unelo putting you In tho store and paying your
boardi"
SWELL aunsy," says smith, whom we're you 10 meet
heref Amt you little below your levcls The old
man tho beach, TOO. the way you came FROM"
Mrs. Jones, cured Of jealousy, but not of rags re-
traces her steps only to fall among half dozen
curious objects gambolling upright in tho surE-the
horrid bua bathers One OF them advances upon h or
She Is about TO scream when hears tho voice of
Jones:--'0id womau,' he says, 'uncss you want to
mermaid you better keep up them steps after I've
O'Clock! I've had big days work and came out late
and wanted . wash" koxt day Mrs. Jones hunts n d
the widow and tells hor conndcutaly that she On.
crtained no good opinion Of people the beach after
night. Young Smith hears II from the widow md
passes she word 10 Robinsons girl, "wo'vo got a
smooth beach nowl The old woman will stick to tho
bluff"
PRArINo NEPTUNE.
People bathe all sorts Of motives. Yonder In n
sweetracsd, wfeiy woman ell aione 1t midday In tho
waters where she arr@ every day so long tina, they
ell surround her "Yoa will take chill norel You
stay long, I'll tell your husband of ~" But the
Doctor rs on the beach-the medical authority. He
says nothing rcbukcuiy, but mods his assent as tho
little atts bluenosod lady, who really fears and dig
lkos the water, comes up Mt last under tho
kick Of the waves aud The holding q rope; yet die
liking tho sea, she still outiass ali other bathers
from day to day. Finally shc disappears
"That porpoise of woman has gone home they say
Tho Doctor disappears about tho Same time What
Is n9 Pure yet queer There had been onoe baby in
that family Heaven took the babe and never re-
placed 1T fortune came 10 the husband alter that
happy motherhood the fear of thai chdless husbands
affection departing unless she eould interest and
detain him with another babe. the oostnacy of
nature In refusing tho boon, and the desire of
her own parents that she should bind the
fortune 70 their blood, led tho lady TO tho sea-
"Pray TO old Neptune" sa,d tho Doctor; emo some
times besses with childrcni" And thus We bcheld In
modern times an ancient miracle stl crediblc--the
barren pleading with tho god Of tho waves, he
who rspenshss the aAd with rains and multipcs man.
kind with his fishes and fresheus the world With brine
FAT sArnsns
Fat women mako patient ba,hera Sometimes one
secs here u really beautiful woman, OF ane animal
spirits, with nne tceth white feet and plentiful hair
suddenly overtaken with obesity. In tho bright hey
day Of beauty and admiration rs swollen up as n
with cophant,asis Then she diets vain; exercises
in vain; nothing Is left her bat the sea And good
natuFcoiy, uVPciuiyt SUI p@ue rotunu Chafmb IN
the SURF and Is Knocked about two hours every day.
praying TO DO one OF tao lean kind
srocKroS's MANSION
Long Branch and the hadozcn settle ncnts be
low II 50 VOL connected by tho Now Jersey Central
Railroad with ns sixteen daily trains TO seem strung
together by street railroad. Tho Pennsylvania capt.
talists who have bought 1900 tho end OF the
road about Spring Lake and Sea Grt put up two
hotels which dwarf tue Long Branch structures. The
Monmouth House and tho Beach House are both under