New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-24
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
ADOWN THE JERSEY COAST.

REAL ESTATE LONG BRANCII-SOME OF THE
COTTAGES AND WHAT THEY COsT-ARCmrEC-
TURAL VAGARIES-GLIMPSES OF ASBURY PARK
WHAT THE SUMMER RESIDENTS AT THE BRANCH
FIND TO TALK ABOUT
Maryantha said last Monday that it was time not
only for us to be i'll the mode by disappearing from
Ncw-York, but it must be known that we had dis
appeared
"In that case" said 1. we had better get our
selves arrested; it's cheap and fl ccy advertised.
The disappearance is certain, unless sympathy
should obtain reyoking of the sentence. A man
last week sang in the square received order for six
months free board at of the East River water
ing-places, and declined it because he could not
have pie and music thrown in. Yet the object Of
that universal sympathy able to a wig,
the price Of wigs being $50"
"You lack the high social sense" said Maryantha
reading out of "a / ok of quotations. "Going TO
summer resorts is no longer necessity of health
but of cOnsequentiality. 1t is positive boarder
comparative guest, superlative cottagcr If we do
not appear on the list somewhere we shall not be
III request tor or posies winter with the beau
monde"
"You arc always sensible, Mary Ann" said l.
"when your ashetcism takes a commercial bias
Only lisp separates Istheticsim from asccticisnl,
and that distinguishes the critic from the artist"
just So" interrupted Maryantha meeky; " the
difference between tongue and pallet"
Now" l continued, affecting not to percci We,
our customers out of town. A few cut flowers pre-
sented to us at O.e house can exchange or sell
at the next. We will purchase of those ugly
wooden dog carts and put it aboard the Red Bank
boat and come into Long Branch by accident as it
were.
COTTAGE PEEPS.
The Highlands of Navesink, called Neversink by
all but the first families" make the bottom side
OF the picture frame of Ncw-Yorl-the east side
broken oft. driftcd to sea and submerged, being
Long Island. That bulwarl of drift, tho High
lands. has power to hold the Navcsnk River back
from the Bay and the bar that river forms against
the ocean accounts for the Long Branch of the
river called also the Shrewsbury The bank
by the from the Highlands to Deal fifteen
miles is higher than the country bch al it, suggest
ing that formerly the Highlands may have made an
elbow and extended along all that coast and tinaly
fell into the while upon their slope the
summer city of Long Branch is pitched the ocean
continuing to pull down the bluit from year to year
No person has the country back cf Long Branch
till he has gone as far as Red Bank. The beauty of
that country is told in Mr. Stcdmau's pocu A lice
OF Monmouth" which is the name of the best gar
den county around Now York IL was settled by
the NcwIOr Dutch, starring from Staten Island
and the Kills. before the average componcnts of
East and West Jersey had arrived upon the soil
fOu still Ddtch tiles occasionally OF old
brick huts through this country. both tiles and
bricks imported from Holland. The gravcvar,ls at
Shrewsbury Monmouthticd and other places
abound In Holland names or pcrversions. In the
past twenty years the wealth and taste of New
York have fringed this golden basin with summer
homes, ana the roads of rolled gravel which penc-
rate it show older villas scarcely dcfcrring 20
modern cost i'll effectiveness and moro noble in
shade and vcrdurc. OF these the place of Captain
Hartshorne, inside the blight of the highlands is
celebrated; 1T Is only a mile from the Highlands
hotleis. which may be placed upon the iIartNhorue
estate. The lawn is scoOpcd from the dark clav
hills and the dwelling stands far back, with clumps
OF trees at intervals and grand old woods behind
Although the present proprietor made his fortune
III the Gulf of California military trade his fore
fathers, Quakers of mild loyallst type, lived the
Revolutionary war through this farm and Gen
eral Clinton, crossing this lawn the day after the
battle os Monmouth, remarked to one of them :
"Mr. Hartshorne, you have very strong ground
here" We never knew" says benjamin, the de
scendant whether he meant to compliment the
soil or the military tOpogIaphy.'
HIGHLAND LAMP.
Feninorc Cooper lays scenes in one of his novels
around the Highlands of Navcsink. There shines
the dearest light that burned since Iicros
lamp stood in the window for Leander the High
land Light that welcomes every American wan
derer home and every enigrant to his new county.
The shaggy hillside. little altered since Vcrregoni
sailed beneath it, before Shakespeare's dav sun
ports the two towers and battlcmentcd curtain.
where, like two eyes. one steady white one darling
flame. the spirit of the Government never sleeps
plymouth Rock has its little celebrity; the High
land Light expects none. Like the light and oxygen
we breathe, 1T is unconscious spendor an unidcal
fire, the flash of the volcano of strength and
plenty in the crater of the continent behind where
harve>tS burn to lOavcS of bread and sulphurous
mines consume their jewels Ships as populous as
ancient cities pass beneath those uninterprctin NO
eyes silently as bats hat fit by furnace chimneys
at the loosiug of the blast. No poet writes the
romance tnat Is never done and that in its immcas-
urabe consistency a,sorbs alike utility and poetry
The imagination, resting upon sublimcr things be-
comes itself a bark, cmgraut here drifting in
where millions of our kind have passed to their
lives and their graves in nation that has ne yer
heard of the Highland Light
Mr.. Navarro, the capitalist has two places in the
rear of Scabright, old and surrounded with
venerable shade, the other newer and smarter on a
commanding HILL as Vet with little shade and
closely planted sapngs Next to him is the thrifty
farm Of General Clinton Fisk all the land here
about slopng down to water is of the highest fer.
tilty and held at ! 900 an acre-ltlc or none for
sale
THE LONG BRANCH COTTAGES.
Real estate at Long Branch is being put up some
what recklessly the strength of several new men
OF wealth having built bought there within fine
past year. Land held at about + 900 an acre
for half u mile back from the beach, most of il
worth about : 300. Prices on the ocean front are
wholly arbitrary, generally about 500 q front
foot. An is commonly rcckOnea at sixteen
Newly rk building lots, OF rising 200 feet square
The cottages on the ocean front south of the West
End Hotel arc in order, Lecch's General A. Webb's
Brice Grays, Woerishoiers Nathan's, Sclicman's