The daily gazette., 1881-07-30
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS CAMP.
A New Enferprise which hrs Found
Favor with the Dwellers in the
Woods.

Woods.
A new thing in the camp meeting
line was inangurated yesterday at At
lantic HIGHLANDS, twenty miles by wa
ter from New York. The camp meet
ing association hope to have little
steamer of their own plying between
their grove and Sandy Hook and Coney
Island to accommodate lovers or surf
bathing and such as desire to reach
the city earlier In the evening than the
Marion will bring them them on her
second trip and yet not so early as OH
her first trip.
The comp ground consists Of four
hundred acres, fifty Of which are wood
land and the rest farm land. 1t lies
on bluff from fifty TO three hundred
feet above sen level and Is naturally
well fitted for the uses to which yes
terday it was dedicated. It consisted
originally of four farms, the owners of
which reserved their homesteads of
three or four acres apiece.
This new enterprise owes its inception
to the Rev. J. +. Lake, pastor OF the
Methodist Episcopal Church at Sea-
bri sh, whD last September took IN all
Its natural advantages aud organized All
| ass 0ciation of sixty stOckboldors v ith a
cal .ital Of $250,000, divided into 5000
shlues of $50 each. The ground cost
th,.m about 100000 aud one-half of
their stock has been taken. They have
sold some 600 lots already, so that the
choice plots are In the hands Of specula-
tors, who hold them in prices from $500
to 81 800 each, while the associations
price is $3.50 for lots Of inferior location,
so by 100 feet. This Is one of The pecu-
lihrties of modern camp ground specu-
lations and Is not TO be commended.
Among the officers and directors of the
association are the Rev. j. e. Lake,
president Rev. 5. l.. Baldwin, d. D.,
vice president b. Il. Champion, ol
Leonardville, N. j., secretary aud super.
intendent, and Thomas Leonard, treas.
urer. Revs. j. b. Faulks, s. Wesley
Lake, OF the New Jersey Conference
Dr. J. NJ. King, OF this city, and Mr.. j
M. Phillips, Of Brooklyn; Fl. W. Muir
ply, j. q. GarretsoD, john j. Gardne
, and Robert Emery constitute the eptir,
Board of Directors Of the Atlantic High
} lands Association.
Not word can be said In disparage
. ment of the location of this new camI
1
situated, as every one who knowns any
thing about the Naves!nk Highland
4 will concede. From almost any poin
$ Of 1t can be- seen Sandy Hook and Con
+ ey Island and Staten Island. 1t look
d out on one OF the most placid sheets O
O water on the Atlantic coas:, which yes
: terday was like fresh water lake, dot
=. ted with the white sails of many yacht
: : and fishing boats. Three or four rivu
. lets, fed by mountain springs, flo,
Q through the camp ground. The fine.
n amphltbeatre both for shade and ssein
d aud bearing to be found at at any cam
% ground In the East been capture
!. here. Twenty thousand people coul
q an easily have heard Bishop Andrews @
y Or. Butler yesterday ~ the two or thre
l. hundred who enjoyed that privilege
l. The association is building taberDacl
70 capabls of hoIdidipR 800 or 1 900 wo
Shippers, where In case of rain or stori
services may be hel There are thre
j. hotels and as many boarding houses o
the ground, which yesterday were IN, p
v- for all who needed refreshment of II
n solid kind.