The New York herald., 1878-09-26
OlFAL AT LONG BRANCH.

mAD DOGS, CATS, HORSES AND STREET RE-
sANDs-scows DUMPING oFFAL IN THE
SEA FACING THE FASHIONABLE WATERING
PLACE.
LONG BRANCH, N. j., Sept 25, ls7s
Now that the summer season Is ended and tho voice
public indignation IS no longer spprehended the
arDags bumpers OF New York take their scows out
do Sandy Hook with tho aid OF a tugboat and dump
hair contents in front of tho Long Branch beach.
Dead horses dogs aud the ceilaneous street
refuse OF New York thrown into the open soa and
the incoming tides land fair proportion OF the un-
savory freight high and dry on the sands. Driving
nleug by the dull and melancholy beach this afternoon.
whore sentimental maidens are now TO be seen lis
teniug to the deep dapason OF the sad sea waves,
noticed near The West End Hotel dead bullock lying
on the beach In q bad state OF decom mpostion. Tho
driver. man named Engelbart fad he guessed
4. must have been thrown overheard from somo
steamer and washed ashore. IL was anything but an
agreeable sight. and the smell from the licd
the surrounding atmosphere for distance Of many
hundred ieet Further on traces Of New York re-
luse cast mp the sands to the limit OF high water
mark. consisting OF decayed apples, tomatoes, po-
ratoes and watermelon skins Near the hotels
Brighton and Eberon dead dog and cat were iound.
DUMPING OCEAN
AIR. Bayly, OF The Brighton, resolved on having
inferred
thusIassic shoil Ash hunter go digging over their
graves next year his disgust at coming across their
romans can only be eqsalisd by ms astonshmons at
tugboat towing what looked ike scow in front OF
she beach. and that The men appeared to dump is
coutents the Mr.. Stokes said that last spring
be saw a whole string of scows iowcd by tug to
pon facing the beach, whore their cargoes were duly
dumped. This is sufficient evidonce that the coast
along here is used as dumping ground before and
after and during the summer season, because re-
fuse matter like that already meatiomed has been
ed n O n
August Near the EaSt End Hotel u dead dog was
found tnat had evidently been cast up very recently
mass Of street refuse, going clearly .., !"
IT'S cargo garbage ana dead matter In the neghb0r
hood. A dead horse was seen on the beach lately to
the south OF the West End Hotel by Mr. Lee. This
aumpipg street refuse In the sea outside. A lady
Btopping az the Brighton says that this summer,
when In bathing she was horrhcd at being struck by
Inc floating carcass OF dog She had no taste
Tor disp0riDg In the sparkling waves after thaL II
shsss scow bumpers, being permitted TO carry out
their practices with impunity should conclude next
year extend their operations into tho summer sea-
SON, they will ruin this as u watering place. They
do this OF work mostly under cover OF night wnsn
nobody identify them see what thcy are after.
BY THE WAVES.
Traces Of refuse observed on tno sands
In front OF Deal Beach. Ocean Grove and Eberon AS
weil as at Long Branch A gentleman here suggests
tbst good deal OF refuse matter is being constantly
swept or the whsrves In New York city and that
Il gets carried by the tidal currents and is
ofscntimss washed In again on the shore IN certain
tsstabls that scows laden with city refuse have been
In front OF this beach, and shat within tho past
weeks OF course there Is no specially noticeable
display OF the refuse the beach. You come across
only bore and there the report Ihat the shore
IL Iined with tho oiisl and refuse vegetables" Is
aggsratsd. The beach has much lis usual appearance
10 = casual observer and II 10 only by having ones
attention directed to u that the state OF aaIrs related
may be detected. OF course there are no bathers
now, and only a handful OF visitors llnger
native VILLAGERS not disposed TO
accept pai ningy the peculiar kind Of contribu
lion that Now York sends down for their olfactory
helectatton. Dead dogs, cats and horses are we'll
enough Barren Island, out TO tho aesthetic mind
they grevousy of place on the beach OF Long
Branch" devoted 60 much 10 associations Of song,
sentiment and fashion.