New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-04
A CITY BY THE SEA.
pIrsy DAYS AT LONG BRANCH.


| IrRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT or THE rRrBUNE.l
| IoyG BRANCH, June 3.-The prospect for
the here better and the hotel propre
tors anticipate rush OF visitors that Will srpass the
records OF other years Long Branch becomes more ana
more popular yearly and growing more rapidly nah
| any other place on the sea coast
owing to the high price Of provisions the charges OF
Tho hotel and boarding cottage keepers will be higher
this wear than last. supplies nre nearly
40 per cent higher than they at this time last year.
and the price everything has been increased The meat
used at the hotels will nearly onethlrd more ths
season than last and yet the meat itself viii be no better
Potatoes that are worth 81 per barrel were pur-
chased n wear ago for 50 So Good eggs command
| % cents per dozen instead OF 16 cents. These
| are few illustrations or the difference
| in the prices Of supplies Where hote
uses eggs day the six cents additional cost per
dozen amounts large during the course OF the
season The wages OF the walters cooks chambermads
scruborls and other hotel help advanced about 20
ner cent over last year. The salaries Of the clerks and
other Office help much higher than at any other
season in the history of this favorte waterng-pace
Tho cottages that have been erected this year
have cost q great deal more than they would nave
cost IL they had been erected year ago
because OF similar increase In the wages OF skilled
loborers This fact has not inerfercd, evidently
with the plans Of the persons who owned cottage poIs
here as the lumber of cottages erected ths year
larger than for any other year. These cottages nave
been noticed from time to time in the letters OF the Long
Branch correspondent OF THE TRIBUNE. The new cot
tages are OF all styles OF design, but the queen Anne
style OF architecture still the most popular along This
part Of the Ncw-Jersey sea coast
The repairs on the pier nearly completed,
and the landings the end ready for the Doats
The pier h ~ already been opened for the summer
The managers OF the Iron Steamboat Company OF New
York made arrangements last year to place number OF
its staunch iron the route between New
York and the Pier and between the latter ana the
iron piers at Coney leland This arrangement VIII not
go into effect. there being some difficulty about the
agreement. The City OF Richmond and the lIymoutn
Rock will probably run to the ocean pier from New
York.
The alrai route TO Long Branch will be moro popu-
lar than ever this year. Since the arrangement be-
tween the NewYork and Long Branch Railroad ana the
Pennsylvania Railroad, making two routes 10 Ne"
York the laying the second rail has been pushed Tor
ward az rapidly ma possible and will be completed ny
the time travel fairly opens. There will be over twenty
trains each way daily and the time will be essened
nearly hal hour The old and favorite Bay Route
by boat NcwYork and sandy Hook and thence
by rail- been greatly improved and VIII De- as IN
the past the popular route for large NUMBER ol
the cottages and hotel bOarders
The hotels here have been hives OF industry for the
last two months and swarms OF workmen are now en-
gagged I'm putting the finishing touch Tor the coming
season The Hotel Brighton the most northern motel al
Long Branch nearly ready 1t Will be under the man
or JOnn W. stokes, lOTucTlS VI thS
well known firm Of wolinan Stokes Sons who were
proprietors OF the Brighton for several years
This house has fine lawn and Ia beautifully locatcd
II is within easy reach Of the railroad stations one De-
ing hotel property, and it far enough north to
rid boarIcrs OF the noise and confusion OF the Dus
ness part OF the shore.
| The Ocean House, Charles and Warren Leland, Jr.,
| proprietors stands on the bluf opposite the Ocean
Pier The front Of this extensive house has been greatly
improved by the erection Of additions to the main
piazza. large music pavilion has been erected on the
| lawn In which Won schller's Military and String Or
chestIa Of fourteen pieces will give two concerts each
day. The members of the band will be
handsomely uniformed The front OF the hotel and the
lawns Will DO Ii GIFTED every evening with electric hShts
The dining roOm which Is 70 feet wide and 10 ieet
deep. has been newly frescoed the prevailing colors
being old gold, sage green and POmpeian red Many OF
The bedrooms have been newly furnished throughout,
and mile and half Of new Brussels carpet mas oeeh
laid The hotel office has been enlarged ana an otcn
fire place of antique design has been placed In tne
| much better than they were last year In addition
900 regular guests fully 500 transient visitors can
now be seated the tables and served all a the same
time \ new ga- machine has been placed III postum,
and boiler engines and fixtures necessary to run inc
sixteen Brush electric LIGHTS that viii be used The SAM
A of The REUSE and waste water is carried beyond
the breakers in large iron ppe by means 81 TIE ocean
PER and elnpe INFO a large IRON box sunk In the sand
rms novel cess-poo is wished out by the tides and the
| refuse is carried far OUT % sea.
| ON the Main-st. side of the hotel grounds Is new
clubhouse OF the Queen Anne style II u 50 feet wde
II Is feet deep and three stories in height. It Will cost
complete about OOO ami will be ready for III TWO
guests will be the following " ". Wright, Geneva \.
y; Benjamin Holladar and family washington An
John Fitch, John Mctlare and family, Thomas Conan
and family, Z. Greenfield and family. william +; Ward
| New.York; Miles Ross and A. E. Gordon, New
James s. Coleman, NewYork G. F. soujhard and fam
lily, Peckskl n. C. Coleman and family New-Iork;
| Senator Jacobs, BrOOklyn SarOuy and FAMILY, New
York; j. W. Boslcr Carlisle, Penn; W; A. GraI ray f.
| ily of u.
That popular family hotel, the Mansion House NJ. d.
Butler proprietor Will open Thursday June 40 The
| prospects for the coming season as lar as the
Mansion House is concerned, were never better Mr;
Butler has rented up to this ume over one-third
more rooms than lie had rented at the same date
| last year. The rooms engaged have been
rented il at considerable advance the prices OBJ
and repained and the plrlor has been refurnshed in
handsome lie. large and well Lighted readlngroom
n being fitted up on the first guests.
All OF the rooms have been refrescoed number OF up
hOstecrs and furniture repalrers nave peen engaged
since February in making and emodelnng The fur
niture The grounds been laid out anew, aud new
has been built The ice Tor the Mansion House
was brought under special contract from Hlghbrdge,
Hunteron County ~ j. 1t Is nearly two feet tnck and
very clear. Mr. Butler has taken great pains TINS year
| as regards the sanitary arrangements OF the hotel.
The kitchen has rebuilt and cooking range, Of
| Mr. Butler has been proprietor of the Mansion House
for years. aud it has grown more popular every
| season. 1t has always been very popular as a re-
for families and among It's regular annual patrons
many OF the leading families OF New-iOrk Pnlladel
pha and different sections OF NewJersey' since MI
Butler assumed the prOprietorshp TINS h0e mas been
among al Jersey men as lho
IL being the summer Governors ot this little
| commonwealth and their families.
The United Hotel viii DO under the management
Of John Swinertou cashier for the last four
The rooms rentug very fast, fully onethlrd more
being rented than at time IN the history OF lac
house this Tue house has been put IN com
pete order and reprinted inside and out II Will open
| about June 20. Among the notable guests Will be
| William Murheid and family, anu supreme Court
| Justice Dixon and family. OF NewJersey, DR..
| Robert Onenbach, j. W. Scott, Isaac NOgel, L.
FOrsch T. DcnZer Joseph stern, Louis Mayer. q. Bar
| nett = l.. jacobs and samuel Frank and families, OF
|
| Hamilton. CANADA; VI. SELF and family Of Chicago;
Mrs. Beckel and daughter, of Ncw-IOrk; NJ. Rosen-
! h.aiI lAmllY. OF 81 LOmls: J d. RING and uenry