The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-08-03


following, the servants seda,e and the provision wag
GUS and guests and kinsiolks IN carriages stretching
out hke funeral "rhe Commodore Is coming" cried
rumor; "bring ous old grandmammy and httlo
Johnnyi" Ana then, as the great man made hls ,ri-
umphai way. he bowed 70 everybody defercn-
ITALY, and they all looked SO happy and so awed.
that IL sounds yet nike fairy tale All tnis great
place Of ocean glory Stockton ,r w traded %
ana Ph,lsdslpnis 20. il And now the sum
mer boarder sometimes sces . youngish but gray
haired man s,rong through the grounds and SAVING
hood hcre." IL ~ stockton The great family basKs
10 small but honorable Offices In the state their snces
tors assisted 70 free and where their father richest
and best beloved.
America on the brink Of the ocean Ii IS said TO cost
MIN $4,000 o year TO keep 10 up He had originally
soou. 100 acres probably the same area now. In or
ger 10 get the contguity Of fu grown woods, such
Is the sea gales had not stuntcd, he built his mansion
nearly = mile back from tho beach As Il set 100
open observatory roof above itself unique and not
Emphasizing The Italian garden In iron. oil shls house
sweep Of goranams deeply boriered with rich leaves
Of various colors but uniform in arrangement extends
Tor nearly quarter q milo toward the lodge gate.
gates In this country. Tho gates themselves appear
be OF ash OF laurel wood. plain whe and most
with palace lamps. The fence about ,u place Of
red and white tables Or shanS quite open
houses, nc. are very numerous and all A.
for exalted company. new conservatory that
h n,s now eS,asog appsren 'hreo hundrea sri
niajooa vases Elk 10 eight icct high and streaming
with brilliant lowers All over the lawn In bronze
unts are OF celebrities the szc OF the originals,
such as the Venus do Milo. tho Apollo BelvIdcre &c
Fifteen or twenty Of these can be seen In single
vista. Nothing rs crowded. nne taste finds object
or distribution 10 give offence. observed about thrcc
hnnared century plants AZ one place which the gar
dener rearing. Mrs Hoey the mistress OF all this
loneliness, Is SAID TO be democratic enough 10 ire-
quenty make her own dresses.
Tha vor,sert count th,s ION /, Cownt IN Chill NJ
Italy, who recently married Miss Roberts, OF Phila-
delphia He lives near Senator Gersrd's improved
cottage which " one OF the best 1t the Branch and
occupied by as nne a gcntloman.
Asoury Park below Long Branch, Is tavorito place
his pIace presents scene a. heanv and good
al dinner Which Long Branch might envy. Temperance
and exercise make these moral ladies buxom. Flirting
Is not forbidden In the rigorous rules Of the settlement
All other temptations being out Of the question: is tho
easiest place on the globe TO marry. Dodds coach
day. and tho seats are engaged Tor every afternoon
trip.
Among the guests at the great permanent camp are
and Mr. Horny D. Cook, OF Washington. Several
literary mon have cottages ~ the park Mr.. Bradley.
OF character on tho Now Jersey shore Cornelius Van
derbih Jr son Of William gave ino supper las, Sun.
day At The United States hoJel.
THE HOTEL
The Elberon Hotel, srOtesqucly named and called by
the hackmen the Brown House OF" ~. ]. Browns" is
Ike q circulating library TO sce You 60 your room
aud look out OF the window where the rising mooa
streams over the ocean and tinges with silver the
wrecked carcass oil the husband SHIP and what you
sceY That cottage yonder, with green dormers ana
shallow upper bays was Shakcspearc's birthplace
S,rattord In the next scvon gablcd house Hawthorne
i,vod among the witches and summoned from the
moonlight hester Pry nne Wonder Is the I'm glsh
inn where Turpn and Tom King made rendezvous.
Ia the distant barn Alike, bent outlined tenement Mr..
Pecksntf practiced architecture aud design. The old
English ancctaton has here brought newly forth twenty
when boy saw tho carpenters buiiding,
and Sir Harry vane cna -,aed 10 the rough
odd shapes of dwellings, pleasing2 Why do wealth and
leisure return to these obsolete FORMS these extruded
sairways aud windowless sides. and coarse ch!mneys
and exposed Deamsp Because, perhaps, we arc weary
Of the smart innovations OF modern and snoddy age,
me frequent Mausard tho saucy galvanized tln tho
ecclesiastical spre capped on the Italian balcony, and
even oil she democracy OF big hotels PRIVACY
elevators and steam washing aud have lied back three
centuries to the huts OF Wcke and the inns OF Chau-
GER The Elberon Hotel, owned, I believe, by 4. l..
Brown 10 unique In the watering place architecture OF
the world y rs more English than tho English. Con
Jones kecpst 1t and doing vol The West End Hotel
has about SIX hundred people all the time and eight
hundred sundays Mr. Dobbins has made tho How
land House really first GLASS; and he has $500 600 Of
real estate here.
sccExrRrc cHARAcrKRs
Much amusement 10 Afforded al tho West End Hotel
by old Sam wards as.duous attention to kcene, the
California operator. Ward processes be both Gull
nary ana medical authority and to heal the stomach
no has afflicted my dear boy, 10 hs favorto sauta
tion Wards lobby patronage has recently been very
poor. HIS claim 70 DO king OF the lobby a
poettcal arec,ation there my stoIid silent
men at Washington In all periods who could wheel all
! Congress while Ward making a salad.
The provincaiism Of the critics at our watering
places was sitescd early THIS season by Inc cop,ous
notices OF a ady-Mrs Stcvcns--who was described as
occupying : movable cen or house on the beach
surrounded with court of young beaux. The
fact that Mrs stevens merely took her seat on
the beach In . wicker or Brighton char, which Is
common at every English watering place, and is pro-
| tected overhead from the rays oil the sun. Sitting
thcro TO watch her little s0n--,n delicate hoalth-
batho among tho multitude, and being attractive
lady the novelty Of her char drew down the flying
porter's pewter burnish; he exaggerated a modest
woman's ease to be a formidable afecatlon and set
our inland society agape Long Brancn Was never
more famous for genial, enta.ious society than
| now. The lady in question had but one maid and
could not holp being attractive
MT W. j. Sncden, general manager of the New
Jersey southern Railroad, says tnat tho com
| pany Is earning clear profit above its opcrat NC
expenses, ana but Tor In tho location OF tho
road soun OF Long Branch would do fine through bus.
mess lis payroll In summer 10 only $4,000 mon th
| in winter only $4,000. IL employs about 800 hands
| Mr. Jay Could has no interest IN II beyond being
bondhvider. He owns the vineland road. The
southern Railroad makes admirable time, and is Tree
from all the accidents OF strike Its trips alone
to Sandy Hook mako the best ocean excursion out Of
New York IL the times warrant 10 this road Will he
continued on TO Toms River, ana Will make straisht
run Tor Philadelphia. Inc new railroad from Free
TORY, Of Manchester, N. j., began the southern
Railroad on no other capital than $4,000 OF
his in Europe yke Southern FOE
called the Raritan and Delaware Bay, was the means
OF forcing the Jersey lines into the lease OF tho Penn
who would have Bessie Turner Tor sister still con
unues 10 amuse the Branch. Bessie came down, they
say, with her young man, and would not recogn ize
Jonn McDermott for brother. She Is oblivous of
having ridden around IN bis hack on a previous sum.
mer as oil having been carried around the house asleep
by King theodore. She thought hack people were 10
cxceps the article OF newspaper hack BY the way the
habit Of hack drivers here bouncing any body II
he walks cut Of hotel gate stops to light
q cigar 10 q liulo awkward. They say q discon-
ISOLATE man vas about 70 JUMP Oh the buG commit
suicide. Just he had taken his position SIX hacks
charged upon him. "rake you up for SCI" "Picasurc
Bay for sS' ~ collared you hrst sirl" The suicide
felt ridiculsus and post oncd she ceremony.
IMPROVEMENTS
Monmouth Park, II now seems very probable, will
pass into the hands OF the American Jockey Club
Chambcrain's unexceptonable management this year
and resentment at the nhospitabc thc Saratoga
Association weighing down horses who ran at Long
Branch have put up Monmouth Park In pubic cst,rna.
ton. IL IS alleged that the Saratoga track rs now
solely and wholly owned by three faro dealers
and thor cxaUtons aud arrogance have alarmed tbr