Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-27
LONG BRANCH.
A Brief, but Meaty Letter from the
Atlantic Coast.
The Immense Sums Invested in Seaside
Hotels-Potatoes, Diamonds, and
Dresses-The Thrifty Hebrews
Enjoying Themselves. .S.
A SHORT DISSERTATION ON BATHING.

LONG BRANCH. n. j., August Sf-INeuty
millions of dollars invested in summer
pleasure at single watering place seems
like good deal of money thrown away.
When this is but for three months out OF
each year it appears to be waste. am told
by clever caleulators here that upwards OF
SIG. co, 900 of this is a permanent invest
ment, and that the balance is spent annu-
ally. 1t might appear credible to those
who have never been to Long Branch in the
height Of the season. Not a bit. Nor is II
waste. The man who pays to live longer
and restore and prolong the good health OF
himself and wife and children is making
permanent investment-about the best
that can be made in the world. The man
who has come into the possession OF half a
million or more by hook or crook cannot do
better than
spend Money Literally.
1t is The only possible benefit mere wealth
can confer upon humanity. Ii seems like
waste here. but it isn't. Twenty millions
planted here Oh the bleak Jersey coast
within u stretch of two miles, where there
is nothing to look at but each other and the
ocean, and nothing 10 do but eat, drink,
dress wash, drive and sleep. As few seem
to notice the ocean and still less lave their
limbs in its cool waves. We might as we'll
count the ocean out OF the list OF attrac-
tons. Twenty millions is a big pile OF
money. 1t can be better comprehended in
some more tangible form. Colonel Hill
dreth, of the West End hotel, says their
weekly expenses are about $4,000. Here
a single hotel, the Howiand House, con-
tanning but three hundred rooms, rents for
$50 900 q ycar-say for three months. The
owners Of the West End have a plant OF
half a million. With a running expense OF
$4,000 a Week
on OH investment of half a million these
gentlemen have made piles Of money every
year. The secrets of the trade are hidden
from me but should say the West End
handles at least $4,000 week clear for at
least six weeks OF the season. 1t contains
a thousand guests and has not had an
empty bed for month and puts down cots
every Saturday night. / have heard many
a thrifty housckeeper grumble because beef
goes up every now and then, and rail at
fate on account of variation in the vege.
table market. But what would they do il
the fiuctuatiOn in meat alone made
thousand dollars difference a week, aud the
rise in potatoes took as much out OF their
purse at single nip?
Talking OF Potatoes
in the West End kitchen. always like to
see both sides OF everything US 20 along
and wandered into the kitchen. Feeling
potatoes is not n nice job. | never saw a
housewife or hired girl banker after peel
ing the potatoes for dinner. What dc You
suppose they do where several barrels must
be peeled every meal? Well, they used to
have pioneer corps of women and every.
body who ever had the exclusive jawing Of
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waste of time and potatoes. They don't
do that way now. There is a sheet iron
cylinder punched full of holes like a COM
mon two-for-ten-centS nutmeg crater, only
the punching is done from the outside and
the roughness is on the inside. That is all
there is to it. Some genius found out that
half barrel of potatoes chuckcd into this
cylinder and revolved few moments very
rapidly would come out as white and clean
and hideless as a single one would have
done in the same time under an Irish girls
fingers. More than that. nothing has been
lost but the skin, and one barrel in every
five is saved by the process. This Is bald.
headed fact. ,.,,ro,,.
Next to the potato-peeler di"-
monds. Potatoes come first, because every
Irishman knows they are Of more import
ance to the world than diamonds and other
jewelry. The American woman wears dia-
monds. The American woman is Jewess.
She is also heavy weight. II ! had all the
diamonds see here every day | would
would sell them and give the money to the
poor, commencing with y0ur.W Washington
correspondent. AS for intrinsic beauty in
diamond | would as lief wear cut-glass.
But know my tastes are vulgar. Nine
teen twentieths of every one of the visitors
here are the mistakes of Moses. But they
are the nice IT set of people of that ilk ever
saw, and take no stock in throwing mud
at the Jews Take the Jew out OF our trade
and thrift and
Where Would Our Wealth De:
But pardon me- I'm going into an argu-
ment with Judge Hilton. Take the Jews
away from Long Branch, Coney Island,
Saratoga, and other famous pleasure resorts,
and such places would go 10 ruin the first
season. have heard it said that the Jew
is a mighty mean man, and never spent
dollar for anything. Now, the Long Branch
Jew is as frisky and liberal as any Sunday
cock-fightipg Christian you ever saw. l
have even seen them fee waiters-the kind
of liberality detest. have been sitting at
West End table opposite splendid look
ing Jewess-a matron-who has never worn
the same dress twice during the season.
Three times n day and sometimes four,
she appears in a fresh toilet from head
| ing place letter and you will excuse fash
| ionable terms) She don't look over
| worked, either, She has sported so many
sets of iewelry that am in doubt whether
| she is milliner or pawnbroker's wife IL
! has been a great source of amusement at
our table to guess what she will bring out
next, and on this | have won a bottle OF
wine and sundry mean seaside cigars. The
airs she takes over the rest of her sex is
something awfully funny.
ADream or beauty.
Most of these women never battle. |
mean they don't frisk in the briny. This
| is for young. and succulent girlhood. There
| is one pretty little Jcwess here from Phila-
| delphia-there arc a score of pretty ones
| from there in fact, but this one is certainly
beautiful. Her face is a perfect marvel Of.
nature and her form rivals art in symme-
| try. That is to say. there is not defect in
| it, Her hair is the darkest chestnut, almost
black and her eyes under the dark brows
are dark and timidly languid. Her com
plexion is rich, light olive and her mouth
is perfect The well-bred.looking nose is
| in exquisite harmony. In short,
| Her Face IL a Poets Dream.
| am not poet and don't dream. The pose
of this girls head is that of queen. When
She goes down the sand she walks as il
there were nobody there but she, and yet
she could not be unconscious Of the fact
that all eyes in her vicinity are turned upon
her. In her natty bathing suit OF blue and
red, and the red silk turban over all, she Is
handsomer than most pretty women can
seem while in their best attire. wish
could tell you how lovely this girl in her
teens is, but if could the hotel would
probably be overcrowded. IL she is pretty
when she goes in the water her face and
| figure are revelations when she comes out
| OF it, the wet bathing dress clinging to her
faultless form spd her cheeks and eyes
ae'ox with recent sport among the waves.
| All Girls Don't Look 30 Beautffai ~
| This
when they come out of the ocean. Bath.
ing dresses are not, as rule. Of speciesof
Architecture calculated TO hide defects. Cor
sets and pads are resorted TO by the fading
females, but the young and healthy and the
old and fat generally consist OF the raw
material; in the latter case good deal OF
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