New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-15
HINT 10 COAST PEOPLE.

The great rush of summer travel during the
first fortnight of July has been.t year to the
sea-coast. In August and September IL VIII
probably turn to the mountains. But II Is not
only New Workers and Philadelphans who Ill
tho seaside hotels and cottages now, bct the
people of the South and West. Never since the
war has the number of Soutberners at the wafer
ing-places been 80 large rs now, and every
Western city sends its complement of healthy
matrons and pretty girls to the surf, from
Pittsburg TO Denver and Leadyille.
The change Oh the coast made by these mi
grating mnltitudes is great, especially from
Sandy Hook to Cape May. The whaer who
after Eve years voyage returned TO ma the
spires of San Francisco, where hs had lett
hudde of adobe hufs, would be as
much astonished il he should come back
to the swarming streets of Ocean Grove, or As
bury Park or the lonely fishing grounds Of n
few wears ago. The whole Jersey coast is one
consecutive line of religious summer cities, Will
ages, or scattered villas, more or less preten-
tious.
There Is every reason to suppose that the
Gboom" in seaside property, sudden as II ~
will last. The amount of available building
room pn the coast is not large, and the number
of oeople who want, or fancy they want, sea air
and bathing will probably Increase with every
war throughout the country. II they live east
Of the Rocky Mountains, they must come to the
short line of shore north OF Delaware for the sea
and cool air. 10 the end of time. That being the
case. il is important that the owners OF coast
property ON that line should Mt the outset make
their towns and villages healthy and attractive
and neither kill the goose that will lag them W
MANY golden eggs by y phoid, nor drve IL away
bv their own lack of sbrewdness in manage
ment There was danger that they would do
borh 4; but this year the alarm concerning
tynboid and malarial fevers has spread, and IL
almost all of the coast resorts an attempt has
been made TO provide proper drainage ana pure
wafer The principal mistake made by the farm
.rs and property owners along the shore is, that
th.y 90 to work theoretically to destroy every
trace of natural beauty, and to lay out cheap
and commonplace towns. Trees, which have
been the slow growth OF half century. are cut
down remorselcssly by the thousand this sum
mer; picturesque hedges are swept away; even
the salt grass, with ITS softening tints of NOISY
green and bronze is stamped out of sight; and
| broad bare clay avenues, lined with villas. take
| their place. Unfortunate Queen Anne is made
| 10 shoulder all the absurd deformties in planks
and paint which the brain of the country car
| penter can invent. These people, naturally, are
| TIED of the woods and marshes among which
they have lived so long, and welcome with de-
| light the shrek OF the engine, town houses and
town ways They forget that these are precisely
the things which the summer 5oarder has left
the city TO escape. :The consequence is that some
of the most beautiful retreats along the jersey
and Long Island coast, rich in natural adVant'
ages, which under the control of people OF TASTE
and prudence might have attracted the class ol
visitors who frequent Long Branch and New
port, are rapidly being converted into ugly, balc
villages, bad limitations OF Ocean Grove or Cape
May. IL is not yet tov late to save some o
| them, but we doubt If their owners will se'
their mistake in time. Their property will ad
vance III vaae, but it will stop at hundreds wher
| IL might have been worth thousands.