The New York herald., 1879-07-29
SHELTER ISLANDS CAMP MEETING

EvANGELIsTs PENTEcosr AND sTEDBfNs Al
woIK-THE HOTELS AND COTTAGES FULL
new departure in Methodist camp MEETINGS has
been made by the Shelter Island Association this
season. That they might avoid the ingress of
crowd to their pretty settlement they have not in.
vted any OF the New York. BROOKLYN or Connecticut
preachers to help them heretofore. Nor have
they advertised the camp meeting as OF old ex-
cept in the Suffolk county papers near by A
HERALD reporter asked Mr.. John t. Searles Jr
the president of the association yesterday why this
so. and told that they were already SO
full that visitors in any great number could be
accommodated. The two hotels the camp ground
are just now 50 full that they must seek lodging
space for of their boarders in cottages There
nearly eight hundred summer residents on the
grounds. Prospect, the name they have given the
village was never SO prosperous gave promise OF
much success rs now. There are sixty cottages
the ground, all occupied, and five have
been erected since last summer Contractsfare out,
also. for the erection of four more and at least q
dozen lot owners speak OF building before the
of 1880 opens.
The location OF Shelter Island in the sound that
name, between the north and south forks OF Long
Island. at distance from New York. Brooklyn.
Boston, New Haven and other large cities. 1t
pleasant place TO spend two or three months during
the summer but a very undesirable place in which
to maintain an old-fashioned camp meeting. Hence
the camping feature is retained merely to keep up
its seectness summer resort for religious peo-
pie We're that feature abolished fashionable sum-
mer tourists would pour in and disturb the and
aband"n that now prevail among the cottagers and
summer boarders Now the men and boys can roam
around all day i'll blue flannel shirts, and
women and girls 90 to dinner in calico dresses. 1t
does not follow. however, that tho ladies OF Prospect
have not jewelry an1 fine clothing and don't wear
them, too For they have both and display them
on occasions. Mr. Hoyt. the Belgian Minister to tn.
United States. and his family occupy pretty
Bevan. Of this city, with his family,
pies his own handsome cottage erected last year
on on one OF the most commanding sites in PROSPECT.
The families OF Messrs. Strout, Shebler and Petit
merchants and business men OF Brooklyn, occupy
their own cottages. The president of the
tion Mr. Seares with his family. also occupies his
own cottage. Alderman John French aud ex-Mayor
Booth, of Brooklyn. have cottages there too. The
former has not yet made his appearance. Rev. John
New Haven, and Rev. w. Il. Hill have cottages
there. and some of them the ground aud
others are expected in a few days
EvANGELISTs' MEETINGS.
DR.. Henry Nj. Scudder, of Brooklyn, who occupies
cottage little south of Prospect has already been
over to the camp ground and given his Methodist
brethrcna word of encouragement. The Rev. Joseph
Anderson. u Congregational minister OF New Haven,
preached i'll Prospect chapel on Sunday afternoon to
large audience. and in the wing Mr.. Searles con-
Quoted praise meeting For the accommodation OF
Messrs. Pcntecost and Stebbins, evangelists. who
closed their campaign at New Haven Sunday
night and could not get to Shelter Island in time,
ing postponed from the afternoon
to tho evening. At the latter time several
together with the residents OF Prospect filled tho
encampment chapel gave the evangelists
hearty greeting These latter have relieved the
sociation OF all responsibility for the preaching
during the week. but they will doubtless call to
their aid some of the resident clergy. short
praise service will be held every morning from nine
afternoon and ut half-past O'Clock in tho
evening. On Saturday the Sunday schools of Green
port, Orient and Shelter Island will unite in grand
jubilee with which the camp meeting OF 1879 will