Omaha daily bee., 1883-07-17
SEASIDE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Places Where n Crampcd Purse
May Find a Chance to sport.

New York journal.
There are people who spend $500 OF
$500 n week to live at Long Branch, and
there are others who have an almost
equal enjoyment of the privileges of the
hotels who do it for So or 81 a week.
These people do everything in the hotels
except eat and sleep there. They can
set on the piazzas and listen to the bands,
they frequent the bar rooms and BOWLING
alleys, and altogether have n very rood
time on just as little money as it would
cost to live in New York.
Long Branch is full of boarding. houses
many of them full of the prctentious sort,
kept by landlords who have fashionable
boarding houses in New York in the win
ter and take a good number of their
boardors with them. But in the streets
running back to the village of Long
Branch and in Atlanticvillo. near by,
there are dozens of boarding houses for
people of moderate means, where hus.
band and wife can live for from $40 to $50
u week, and whore single young men are
taken at from 81 to SO. The board is
not a%tlluent, but it is rs good ms the aver
age New York hash house. The cooking
is of the usual order. But a short walk
takes the boarder down to Ocean avenue,
and then he can feel just rs proud rs the
best of them.
S~heepshead Bay performs very much
the same duty for Concy Island that the
village of Long Branch does to what is
generally known rs Long Branch by the
rich summer visitor. Here, within n ten
minutes walk of the Brighton or Man
haitian, one may find plenty of cottages
where neat accommodations will he given
for $40 u week. 1t would be stretching
the truth to say that the board
in these places wa first class or
even second class, but it is rs good
rs can be got for the mony anywhere
else. 1t must be remembered that one
square meal will cost rs much at ono of
the crack hotels as u whole weeks board
and lodging at the Sheepshoad Bay
boarding houses. Along the main road,
too, leading to the island many venture
some and speculative l%andladics try their
luck by opening summer boarding houses.
The ventures are usually unsuccessful,
and they retire discomtitted at the end of
n season. But there are always plenty to
throw themselves into the breach the sea
son following. They usually ill up with
great facility, but what with bad debts
and the lowness of prices they do not
usually make both ends meet. The sea
son is short. 1t begins about July LIST
and ends towards the Goth of August. In
this seven weeks time the profit must be
made, and any level-headed landlady will
see at once that it cannot be made. That
is why l~evel-headed landladies do not, as
a rule, assume these risks.
Even at Saratoga and Newport the
trash exists as Al a~ppendage of fashion.
The latter is the most exclusive of all
our watering places, being really a city of
rich residences, but the landlady cannot
be kept out. Like the fly, she alights
and will only be displaced by persistent
attacks, and then but temporarily.
AT Saratoga she seats herself under the
very shadow of the hotels, but seats are
very dear there, and she can offer no
such prices as her sister in misery at
Long Branch or Sheepshead Bay. Good
board may be got in Saratoga by husband
and wife at $50 a week, but not much
less within a mile of the center.
Along the Jersey coastal Seabright
and Monmouth Beach-owners will only
sell or let property on the express condi-
ton that the owner or lessee permits no
clearinghouse on the property under a
forfeiture of the agreement.