The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-07-13
Ocean Grove. New Jersey,

TO the army of the Lord of Hosts, aud are
not content to receive the Lords pay and
eat his rations without fighting his battles.
They therefore make war upon the - and
all his works, actively and necessarily, HIT
tlng him every way and any how, and hit
ting hard in the endeavor to drive him out.
This charming watering place is of their
creation. They began here to found camp
meeting establishment in the wilderness,
and now it blossoms as the rose. The coun-
try was quite wild when they came here,
but now beautiful town has sprung up as
by enchantment under their creative hand.
! A leading part of their system here is, to do
whatever they can to drive out from society
the alcohol habit and the tobacco habit.
| There is but one station for Asbury Park
and Ocean Grove. They are really two sep
arate towns, but practically one, and they
are both under the same system, ard coop
crate heartily with each other The sale of
I tobacco and other intoxicants is forbidden,
and Sunday trains do not stop here, so the
| place is entirely free from the swarms of row
| dies, roughs and rascals which infest so
many of our beautiful watering places on
the Sunday.
The Methodists make temperance prom
inent part of their church work, and devote
a great deal of time and labor to it. They
have in beautiful grove in the centre OF
the town an auditorium that will seat com
| fortably 5000 people. The seats are so ar
| rapuaA that avaru apdifor faaaS snuaralv m
| the platform, and the entire audience is
brought within reach of the speakers voice.
This place has good and substantial roof
as a protection from rain. Near this audito-
rum is the Tabernacle, substantial build
ing, made to seat thousand people; this is
for smaller assemblies and for cold, windy
| days.
The 1Voman's Christian Temperance I'M
| ion is now carrying on meetings here, hav-
| ing prominent women workers and speakers
from many distant parts of the country. To-
morrow the Sons of Temperance of North
America commence their annual meeting, to
last three days, with speakers and workers
from many distant parts of the Union and
| from the Dominion of Canada, AMI proba-
bly, from England also. The audiences at
tending these meetings are very large, con-
| tanning visitors from almost every part of
the Union, who are at this place, at Asbury
| Park and other seaside resorts, many of
| which are within few minutes by rail of
! Ocean Grove.
| Almost the entire eastern coast of New
jersey is lined with watering places,
| thronged by people from Newark, Jersey
City, Paterson, Trenton, Princeton and 9TH
er towns in this State, and from New York,
| Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other large
cities, which leewithin one, two, three or
four hours BY rail of any point on the coast,
from So, Cook to Cape Ma.
fzrz1des other State In the Union.
think, that hasse@pany watering places as
New jersey. None Of 1hfcusarszenzsealssee
scale or so gay as Newport, Saratoga and
| Niagara Falls. Some of them attract per
sons fond of excitement and excess, but gen.
orally they are so quiet and comfortable that
moderate people can enjoy a few weeks at
them very much, and go home from them
with improved health and morals no worse
than before. Beginning at the northerly part
of the coast going south, the places of resort
are: Sandy Hook, Highlands, Belle Vue, Sea
Bright, Monmouth Beach, Atlanticville,
Long Branch, West End, Eberton, Deal
| Beach, Asbuiy Park, Ocean Grove, Ocean
Beach, Spring Lake, Sea Girt, Manasquan,
| Point Pleasant, Bay Head, Mantoloking,
| Chadwick, Layalette City, Berkeley, In
land Heights. From this point the coast
continues some thirty or forty miles farther
south to Cape May, with other watering
| places all along the shore. The summer
| population Of these places is constantly in
| creasing, as the country becomes richer
and more populous.
| But there are none of them so desirable as
the resorts i'll Maine are, for those who wish
o escape the heats Of summer All along
| on the Jersey shore the heats are great when
the wind is off the land, cool only when the
| wind is from the sea. But on the sea coast
| of Maine cool breezes can BIZ calculated up
| on to make every day, especially every night.
comfortable; consequently, the watering
places Of the far east are visited by constant
| ly increasing numbers every year.
| There are several places in New Jersey
| besides Asbury Park and Ocean Grove
| where the liquor traffic is prohibited. Vine
| land is one of them, a very pretty and -four
ishing town of 1900 inhabitants, which ev-
| erybedy has heard of. There are also Mill
| vile, seat Of large glass works, Williams
| town If 1000 inhabitants, Hackettstown
| Hight Town and Haddonfeld, beautiful
town of 5000 inhabitants, largely occupied
| by people doing business in Philadelphia.
| At the last local option vote in the latter
| town only A votes were cast for rum, in
| Mllville none, and in Vineland Is. At
| Vineland last spring / saw the manager and
| owner of the glass works at MilviIIe, who
said that now they had a perfectly orderly
and peaceful community, and very prosper
GUS. The workmen mostly own the houses
they occupy, and are saving money, but be-
fore the grog shops were driven ous the men
spent their wages for liquor, and the glass
works were greatly troubled by drunken
workmen, who could not be induced to work
regularly, losing each of them, one, two or
| three days in the week, sometimes the en-
| tire week, SO that the establishment, besides
the trouble, had difficulty in making both
| ends meet. But now they do an excellent
business, in which the wor kmen fully share.
| A friend here day or two ago told me
| funny and significant story about the working
of civil service reform. There was to be APP
pointed an assistant weigher. There was
man already in the service as laborer, who
had been as such doing the work of weigh
| ing for more than ten years. He was an
uncommonly bright, smart, Intelligent man,
| thoroughly acquainted with weighing in all
| its parts; he was an expert; no man was or
could be more capable than he in that work.
| But on examination he could not tell the
boundaries of all the States, nor The names
and the length of all our rivers, nor the
names of the capitals and chief towns, so he
| did not pass! But q young fellow just out of
| school did pass and was appointed assistant
| weigher, who had never had steelyards in
| his bands, bad never weighed anything, had
never seen anything weighed! The school
boy said, II ought not to be appointed,
know nothing of the duties.of the place"
NV informant saw one of the examiners and
| said: .sWny did you not examine these