The New York herald., 1879-08-31
LONG BRANCH.
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LONG BRANCH.
LONG BRANCH, August so, 1879.
Since the weather changed the whole aspect of
Long Branch has altered too. What is known the
second season has fairly begun, and tho beach
is lined from morning till night by persons who
seem fearful lest they shall not have all
the sea bathing they promised themselves.
It is very amusing to watch the eagerness
with which they hurry to the shore right
after breakfast every day. and donning their serges
plunge into tie surf. where they founder for a few
moments. then return to the beach and bury each
other in the sands. Your New Yorker. who has the
sea always within his reach, smiles cyncay from
the upper bank ut this sort Of sport. and wonders
how any body can any fun in covering himself
with sand and then washing it of. But New Yorkers
don't know everything. though they think
they do. What is pleasure to them would
be regarded very commonplace In the country.
and This brings me to the statement that
the 'second season. at the Branch has totally diff
ferent of people to support it from that which
sustains the frst. Where week ago silks and
diamonds shmmercd and glistened in the
and gaslight now delaines. muslins and prettier
aud cheaper fabrics hutter the fcmalo
divine in parlor. drawing room and the shore.
During the first season only those como to Long
Branch who more or loss ostentatious. proud OF
their wealth and fine possessions in horseHesh and
bijouterie all of which they love to display the
admiration of their friends and the envy Of their
foes. Rich people always have foes-those
who. like Denis Kearney. possessing moth
ing themselves. wish that nobody else did.
In the second season. which begins in tho latter end
of August and continues until the close OF Septem-
ber sober minded. rational folk the guests of the
hotels. They from the great inland cities and
States for glimpse of the mighty ocean. What to
them are the lowing herds. green pastures. stately
forests. blooming crops and sylvan hooks so dearly
u nu with them is the m sea thev
long to behold, taste and lave in and they
select the month Of September as the best period ut
which they can do The harvest il home nearly
SO; the years work is DONE and their accounts with
the soil and nature are balanced. You hear strange
accents and stalwart men and magnificent
women, dressed for comfort not for show and feel
sense freshness and relief from the feversh at
| mosphere OF fashion which erstwhile made this
place abominable 70 lndividuais OF qulets homeiy
TOTAL CHANGE OF FRONT.
Even in the matter OF recreation and amusement
we observe total change or front. Clubs-tIat 49,
the little social clubsno longer exist here; cham
is hushed at night. and you no longer
catch from open windows. as you stroll
.as the SS So ,ssps saess' s wSrs wscs
some air of American freedom and thoroughness
pervading the place which charms and gratiies the
man or woman who really came here for health and
| rest. Young people take long walks to the West
! End; some oven foot it far Asbury
/ Park and return to dinner with blooming
| cheeks bright eyes and keen appetites. so
| different from the nstless epcurean set that was
here last week Pleasure Bay is pleasant place i'll
reality to the second folk. They go there to
bathe i'll the still waters to eat clans and Shrews
bury oysters; to lol the grass at the very
waters edge, and to go grabbing IL scows and bat
teaas. An! it is delightful, this genuineness and
whole souled surrender to sensible enjoyment.
NO BAIT FOR SHARKS
In my last letter mentioned briefly tho shoals OF
land sharks that iniest Ocean avenue and doubt
the Branch. The most rapacious Of these monsters
are the hackmen. Nothing can be more
greedy than they are. aud certainly nothing
is moro annoying than the persistence
with which they pursue you. They remind
of the Arab boys who drive you almost crazy at
cxandria. in Egypt, by their importunities to ride
their donkeys. The Arabs swarm around and annoy
you. but the Jersey hackman nearly runs over you
Irst and tries to put you bodily III his vehicle
afterward The creature VIII never make
bargain with you before you start Oh.
mol no wants you to ride with him
make you pay. too no matter how exorbtant the
charge be. because. according to the law rs 1t
is adminiEterod here the native has more rights
than the stranger who has only beon sent to Long
Branch to holp support the needy son OF tho SOIL.
know or case right mere IN the Ocean House.
where gentleman believing that ono OF the
sharks ho found 1T necessary to hire somewhere
the avenue to drive him home was overcharsing
him rolused to pay lie was served with warrant
yesterday and had to appear before the justice to
settle the bill. The lowest charge for u carriage
hired from any one OUTSIDE of your hotel is 81 90
an hour. II you want to ride you must pay this
price, 1t is to be hoped that the Lelands and other
hotel proprietors win adopt such q system of
staging and cabs will render IL impossible the
scanps write OF to prey upon u too conndinB puo-
lie next season.
aAgISE RAILROAD.
by the way talking OF public convcyanccs might
remark that was Informed this morning that the
Pier Company, olaed by tho successful season. have
under consideration the building and equipment of
n marine railroad from the Ocean House to the
Elbcron. The object is to afford peop.e next year
vino come down from New York by boat an OPP
portunity to see the Branch in tho afternoon as
they cannot do now. 1t is u long stretch. about
four miles from point to point, and II Is impossible
for transient visitors to this place to 'do the
Branch" in afternoon. even IL they could afford
to; no STAGES run with any regularity The project
finds favor with most of the hotel and restaurant
keepers.
Crowds OF people came down to-day and last
night. and the cry 80 i'll thoy come. At the West
End Hotel Baron Gotcr and family, OF Germany;
Mrs. Oveida OF New York; j. 5. Grouse and wife. of
syraeusc,s ant q. w. Clark. of baltimore. AT tho
Ocean General Ii. $. Lansing and family, OF
Philadelphia; J. u. Bowman and family. OF Louis
vile; A. J. Brandt and wife. OF Phiiadciphia;
j. Eugene Cochran, of New York William simmons
and wife and 5. V. Cooper. of New York. The other
hotels are equally well patronized. and there docs
not seem to pe any likelihood of the seasons closing
abruptly IL did last year II the weather remains
good IL is to-day. The desire of tho hotel keepers
is il possible to keep open until the 25th OF scptcm-
ber and IL must be said that the Western guests
quite anxious that ii should be so.
AND HIDING.
An exercise which Is worry vigorously takcn daily.
and. might add hourly, mere is bowling. 1t is a
very pretty sight to see the ladies enter into the
sport with such zest AS thcy do at Long
Branch. From morning till dinner time tho
balls are always kept rolling. and some
of the fair ones are positively adopts ut
tho game Women and girls anxious and likely
to make ten-srikc. even at tcnpins Young gentle
men lind 1t worry convenient also to coach them In
grave question whether u VOL made, shapolv
maiden looks to better advantage In the
water or in the alloy; Opinions on this
son,o thinking that the graceful outline tho