The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-09-09
"The Melancholy Days, the Sad
dest of the Year."
WANING OF THE SEASIDE SEASON.
HOW Long Branch Has Fared
and Profited.
FINAL EXCURSION TRIPS.

pleasure seekers not yet satiated-the LIST of Sep
tember-has come and gone. and we SIT down TO
our meat and drink in diminished numbers but
with unfailing appelitcs. No oyster ever nursed
MIA speechlsss Tears more persstently at the CON-
ing OF the months with ''r' In them than the
lucky or luckess being, as the case may be, who
runs a watering place hotel How sad It is to COM
pare to the dumb oyster him whom, along
through the blazing days OF July and tine sweer Of
August we all looked the personldcation OF
the jovial clam He prelends TO resign himself to
iate He says, "Of course, business recommences
and the schools reopen, and many who would stay
are Obliged to go!' But hear him dwell pathetically
the glores Of the Branch tho Spa in September,
NY, in October, and you begin to "pluck out tho
heart OF his mystery" He is right, too poor oyster
and that adds to The pognanc OF his feelings AS
you eat OF the succuent bivalvo with advantage
In August nothing but the superstition OF fashion
become custom prevents any one SO minded and
peculiarly provided from getting the topmost value
out OF the September days at Long Branch.
CAN WE CHANGE ALL THAT9
As we shall sec presently there are minds among
the hotel people who, having pondered much on
these things nope to put the touch OF reality their
dreams OF fell houses into the months given over to
bowling wilderness oil bedrooms and bare piazzas.
The cottage people first showed tho hotel keepers
that the might be prolonged tar INTO October.
''Whon the crush Is over and the hotels are closed
our real cottage LIE begins" said a veteran Long
Branch cottaser the other day. GAS long as our
young people can 60 over to the hotel parlors and
join in the mild dissipation Of the hop there is little
intercottage socabilty; but when the jantor the
lonely manager sits in the hotel porch, then we be.
gin to make life pleasant for each other"
FEELING THE HOTEL PULSE
premature cons isolation is bat the remembrance OF
feld,' and it was mission requiring some tact
which the writer undertook when he determined 10
approach tbe hotelkespers, with the weight Of the
departed baggage freshly Juggling at their heart
strings anu ask them what hey thought OF the
season, how left them how long they woula remain
open, and, finally, whether they were making fresh
provision Tor the to come. We have indi.
Gated above the general feeling as to the
follow the writer In his TRIP along the two miles and
a-half OF beach which Is called Long Branch, and
which is dividing itself into east and west.
e TWO
Without too mucn deadly geography it may be pre-
missed that East Long Branch is the northern portion
and West Long Branch tho southern Leaving tho
scientists 10 ''box the compass their
satisfaction 1t may be added that taking LAUGH 8
hotel ana restaurant dividing line, tho moro
elusive and wealthy segregating to the .sWest
while the others fall 10 the ''East." 1t is not but
wealth and worth and fashion are at tho "Eas" but
the tendency there IL more toward ease, sociablty
and comfort than display and lordy isolation. AS We
60 "Wcst" from lauch's the summer population takes
equpases and t0n
THE EAST END
'ls there anything further east in the hotel Tine
than thtss" asked OF the sad-cyed clerk at the
East End Hotel.
Nothing" replied the solo visible guardian Of tho
not imposing pile.
!husn began and the rost OF his story was soon
told II was cheap hotel. 81 per day, with all The
had not done well this season. 1t has 1!5 rooms,
capable OF holding, l6o persons. 1t would
close on the 10TH Coney Island 10
no
plans, because the hotel in litigation between
Jay Gould and the New Jersey southern Railroad,
the clerk said, with the hopeless air OF descrb
ing something between the devi and the deep sea.
Nobody could tell who owned it. The hopes Il any.
were built upon "Monmouth Beach coming up this
way" Rather vague hopes.
HOTEL BRIGHTON
Its not far TO the Hotel Brighton, handsome,
well kept structure, with breezy, open space OF
green grass around II aud good class Of guests Tho
soma Of Woolman stokes hold II a tive years
lease has 100 guest rooms, and. as they large,
II shelter comfortably ECO persons 1t viii re.
man open to the LIST OF October at reduced rate.
ave cap," SAID one OF the managers, "rcduce our
number OF guests. We have done very we'll, but not
50 well as las, season." Near this are the clearly
has just about paid expenses this year.
THE CLARENDON.
The Clarendon u an old time all tir an0 cheap All
It's guests have departed. and u Is shut up.
CONGRESS- HALL.
THIS small hotel stands away from the beach up the
road TO the village. 1t has entertained numoor of
iamilIes aud boasts oil some new arrivals.
THE OCEAN HOTEL.
We now come TO tho urst oil the great hotels OF tho
Branch, the Ocean Hotel, Kept Tor years by the Le-
lands, that wonderful hotel keeping family which
has It's sciops wherever tnere is guest to be- found
II has magnificent frontage, with piazza run
ning Its entire length and the finest lawn at the
Branch The hotel itself would look better for some
paint. but It's management this year better than
season The Ocean House will close on Tuesday
morning, aud has to-day about forty guests.
The MANSION norsE
The Mansion House adJons tho Ocean Hotel. but
coming out almost TO the road lacks the lovely lawn
Of the latter IL was kept this scuson aud last by
Butler ~ Pieris, and 10 roally comfortable family
hotel
Mr.. Butler was found In tho Mansion House Office
Tho season, he said had been good regards mum.
bers but the board rates had been reduced 80 per
cent, aud they would take in UGH less money than
last year. There were ISL rentabie rooms, which
would contain 800 guests. They had been full IRON
the 1lh Of July TO tho 25lh OF August. They paid
$l0, 600 rent, and would notwithstanding their sue
cess, nnd prolts very slim. II said by one OF
the managing men OF this house that although
Tor wartime Injuries; they were spending little and
wanting more than ever was demanded before. Mr..
Butler thought that great bindrance TO the Branch
was $40 too much. The Mansion House viii close to-
morrsw.
THE UNITED STATES
THIS finely situated hotel OF 200 rooms, with space
Tor 200 guests, has been doing a fair business. a
clerk SAID they would keep open un tho LIST Of oc-
oocr, but IN the temporary absence OF tho
Laird Van Cleaf, nothing OF valuable detail could
DO learned. We now pass number Of cottages, ana
theh tuo MOTfls Ehtihou WuiCu nus uouc tuoucTatc
priced ana fair business. AT Iauch's hoicl and ras-
taurant which has many advantages OF position tho
business not said toequal that Of past years,
but also reported fair.
The BLUFF.
ln front Of this place tho biun Is IN a dangerous
condition. Indeed, until the Rowland House is
reached, and Tor some distance north Of LAUGHS Is
slowly but surely being eaten away by the rain
aud the Al one place. before = cornfod,
tho bank has crumbled to within loot
OF tho roadway. THIS disregard Of this
nuc feature OF the Branch and stupid neglect of what
Is really valuable property seems unnccountabie IL
Is suggested that tho Jersey Legislature should have
tho matter laid before IT, allow the local Com.
missoners TO take action IN the matter before
II Is TOO late.
Mr.. HENRY ROWLAND.
Az The old Stockton cottage, tho first erected at
Long Branch, and IN quaint contrast to It's moro pro-
tentious nsghbofs, was found ME Henry Rowland,
Tor tnrty.tnrse years the manager She house that
bears his name The cottage grounds arc close 10 me
Rowland House, nsid owned BY Mr.. Lester Wallsck
alone Separating them. This year the veteran hotel