The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-08-15
(To BE coNTINUED.)
OCEAN GnoyE. Anausr 18th. !,


Mr. EDITOR To-day the weather is wet
and it is the tenth or twelfth time in the past
thirty days at this place. Of course we would
like to have it pleasant all the time, seeing
thai we haven't much else to do but enjoy
ourselves, and rain does interfere a little with
that though to one blessed with too little
moisture of the epidermis, like your CORES
pondent, showery weather conduces to COM
for.
/ know of nothing much more enjoyable
than my present surroundings comfortable
seat in the large Auditorium, open as it is
all round except about half of one end where
the platform is erected, covered with a good
roof twenty feet from the ground, the floor of
good dry gravel carpeted with nice clean straw
to the depth of something less than a foot,
and the roof reaching farenough, being look
$50 it,, to keep off all wet no difference how
hard it rains, some fresh newspapers and
books, besides no flies, mosquitoes or other
bothersome things to trouble me; SO ] can say
without hesitation. let it rain.
Although there are SO many people here
from Lambertville, no doubt the majority of
your readers are unaware of the general
points of this " City by the Sea-"
A population of ten Thousand souls is now
estimated by competent persons to be located
within these grounds, and Camp-meeting not
commenced yet, when the rush generally
takes place. The Lambertvile delegation,
however, will, for the most part, leave by that
time, and that will make room for large re-
addition to the population and give the pro-
vision men a chance to replensh their stocks.
The meeting places here are-1st the
Auditorium above mentioned, capable of
seating three thousand people. 3D. The
Bishop James Tabernacle (erected during the
past year, seating twelve hundred. Both of
these are lighted, when used for evening
meetings, by gas manufactured on the prem
Uses, using chandeliers high over-head-and
having reiiectors to draw the light down. 1t
makes superior arrangement, and is light
enough at any point to read by, and yet no
one has to look against any particular light.
The scene at a Sunday night meeting here,
in the larger place, is striking one. The
beautiful and brilliantly lighted building, or
canopy rather, containing three thousand
people seated, and the grove around fringcd
with two or three thousand more on camp
stools, and standing, and a moving band of
still additional thousands outside of that, and
all within the light of the one hundred gas
fire, as it does, some of the speakers to the
most thrilling eloquence.
The "Janes Tabernacle y is an enclosed
building, octagonal in shape, twelve large
doors and twice as many large gothic win.
dows, 80 pivoted that they can be opened in
full, instantly. The doors are on every side
SO that people can enter and depart IA privi-
lege they avail themselves of here extensive
ly) without annoyance to those inside. The
a Il Az.
same kind of clean straw as in the larger
place.
Then there is DR.. Wards Tent, as it is
called, seating some two hundred persons,
where meetings are held nearly every day,
and still another large tent for extra meetings,
to be used during Camp-meeting.
There is also permanent church building
near the entrance gate, for use the year round,
there being quite population Of permanent
residents here.
There is one matter the authorities here
will have to give their attention to If the pop
uation of the place continues as great as it
now is, that is not exactly of a religious char
acter--except on the principle that cleanliness
is next to Goodness, and that is tile Sani-
tary condition. 1t cannot be possible that
such dense population, living on such por-
GUS soil, throwing all their waste matter on
the surface, or near 1t, and drawing all their
water for drinking ana cooking purposes from
a few feet beneath it, can escape the effects
for many years. Not only must the water
soon become foul, but the air is already so
tainted in certain localities as to be unfit to
breathe.
do not find fault with the O. G.. Associa-
tion /; they have done great deal; they have
the best place, all things considered, on the
coast they are very busy, but if they would
be successful in what they term their great
work Of saving souls, they must see to it that
the bodies do not suffer too much.
Sorry this letter has grown so long with so
little in it of local interest to your readers,
but there is no time to changeit.
There is scarcely any interest in our city
that is not represented here and this A. NJ.
hear of another arrival of some dozen or less
from there, being down to spend the day. To
give names would be too much for your pa
per, unless you get out an extra.
Yours, &C., LAMBEHTyILLfAN.