The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-08-26
DOWN NEW JERSEYS COAST.
"A sTRETCH or THTRTr MILES or BOU-
JEViRD ON IIfE SANDS.
New village. springing Up on the bench-
New York aud Philadelphia" Capital In
x..,.d In Hig Hotels The Old stockton
Manor aud Its wings Ancient Squnn.

g.. 1orh aud Ph,iadciph,n Capital In
vested In Hig Hotels The Old stockton
Manor aud Its wings Ancient Saunn.
Twenty years ago there were only three
ecasido resorts ON the New Jersey coast north
Of Bnrnugat These were Long Branch. n little
scttlcmcntat the head Of the Long Branch of the
South Shrewsbury river Deal. a few miles fur
thor south and Squan. 1--WE or six miles further
yet. These were fishing villages and the homes
OF ooastng sailors. as they are to-day but until
within few years. commercial occupations
made the village mares 20. and pleasure occu-
pied IA back seat. The iish and oysters caught
ut these places were noatcd to New York or
cartcd across the state to Philadelphia. Every
village had it, hotel and boarding houses and
phhalelphia > fash ouablos drovoto them across
country. New Workers spent the hot seasons at
Fire Island. sag HarLyr. Rockaway. and New
Rochelle To-day the Jersey coast is dotted
with Watering places so close together and ex-
tcnsivc that the beach has become "a boulevard
for thirty miles along which are the homes Of a
transient population Of 100 600 persons.
Commodore Edwin A. stevenss cottage at
Scabright. twelve miles from the point Of Sandy
Hook. was probably the first Of It's kind Oh the
coast. Messrs. Stevens. Shipper. William Cook.
md one of the Stocktons backed the Seashore
Railroad. running from the Hook to the Branch.
less than a dozen years ago. They encouraged
cottage building 10y erecting cottages them
solves. when the New Jersey Southern Rail
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travel over II iruns Long Branch To- Ihiladcl.
Ihia. He gave the road permission to extend
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