Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-06-28

Special Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR
WEST END, Lone BRANCH. n. j., June %.
lSS4.-Qtick transit gloria mu.di That max
not be good Latin but it is good sound Amcri-
can horse sense, for. being freely translated it
means, according to my version, that quick
passage over the world is a glorious thing
especially in hot weather, when a warm place is
left for cool one. The only pleasure in the
stage of transition is the rapi,iity of its accom-
plishment, for who finds delight in being famed
with the dust and back-grit laden hot air
currents, made fragrant with the sulphurous
breath OF the locomotive, when the thermome-
ter is in the nincties, as it was on the day !
Travelled hither? One feels oneself getting
molster and grittier as the hours advance. One
reels a beam in ones eye. ana. after toiling fer
hours to remove it. finally. when it comes out
on wet handkerchief. how defrauded one feels
TO lind 1t only mote after all-lterally a mere
speck II wehave never before admitted the
force OF the Bible saying that we have beam
IN our eye, while there is only mote in our
orOthers, We do when we travel with an open
window on a railroad. for we are ready to take
an oath that the relative size of the cinders OF
willch we anG our next neighbor respectively
complain as impeding our vision are. as the
Bible puts them. His is only mote, while ours
10 surely beam big enough for a rafter for a
house, or plank for political platform that
cannot be straddled. And we also demand that
IN the fulfllment of Bible doctrine ours must
DC cast out hrst, and then we can see clearly to
remove the mote in our brothers eye.
had long been convinced that a large part of
the pleasure most people derive from their
summer trips lies in the ability to boast with
truth to friends at home that they are sleeping
under TWO blankets every night" when they
nave reason to believe the friends are suffering
from empowering heat. even when covered
only with sheet at night; but from my obser-
vations last summer. when as l wrote to THE
STAR then that honestly believed that people
were running around in search of a ararm
wateriEg-place, because they hurried so from
one to another complaining they found all too
cold. Therefore. am doubtful whether or no
1t will be wise to admit that in spite of the fact
that reached here on one of the hottest DAYS
OF the season, did sleep under a blanket that
very night. But for the aforesaid observations
last year should be eager to tell it If had
iound four necessary, for it is a common belief
that If little of anything-fOr instance. of
stimulant-is good. great deal must be very
much better, and l would have thought that
TO tempt many of my friends to visit the place
from which wrote ought to insist on the ne
cessity for as many blankets as my reputa-
ton for veracity or theirs for credu-
lily would permit. But now fearing that
TOO many blankets may scare folks away
from my favorite resorts 1 mean to draw the
line strictly on two blankets. Blankets at night
being admitted to be the test with such num-
Der OF summer travellers as to the desrability of
any summer resort, the number mentioned
should be construed as the barometric readings
are In the weather reports. When two blankets
are needed for covering after retiring here or at
Saratoga they must be understood to indicate
temperature out of doors which permits folks
with comfort to sit on the piazZas until bed time
while tour blankets might be understood as in
dcatve of an area Of cold. damp weather, when
every one huddles together in DOORS That latter
suggestion thrown out in any letter from
watering place Is as damaging as to speak of
the nights as being too warm. Wherefore am
glad to say have had no cause to complain of
wet or hot weather since my arrival here. The
FATHERS, also. seem to have been well pleased
with the temperature and condition of the
ocean.
THE WEST ENDS OPENING
The West End hotel has been having as many
"Openings" this month as society belle has
debuts, or an actor farewell performances The
cottages and restaurant opened June I'd. and
several families arrived for the season that
week. The hotel opened on the 21st and began
to run right at once II it had never closed at
all. except long enough to put every part of it
in thorough order and to lay down many new
carpets and distribute throughout the house a
great deal of new furniture There were one
hundred arrivals on that day, and many of them,
Judging from the number and size OF trunks
outside the rooms, must have come to stay a
long while. Next Saturday tomorrow the
brand-new skating rink, completed only this
week, will be opened in the evening with an ex-
hIbltlon OF roller skating by an accomplished
professional. The band, which, after tomorrow,
Is to play twice every day, except Sunday of
course, at the West End hotel, will give its first
music for this season tomorrow evening All
the outside rooms in the hotel (meanng those
fronting on Ocean avenue-as two sides Of the
hotel do) have been entirely refurnished in ash
or cherry, and the back rooms, which look out
on pretty cOurtyards, where flowers and trees,
protected from the rough blasts from the sea.
grow as well as further inland, have also been
thoroughly renovated. The table maintains the
high standard established for it years ago. The
new rink is across the lawn from the west side
OF the hotel, just opposite the PENNSYLVANIA
club house. The interior of the rink is wholly
finished In Georgia pine. except the very smooth |
floor which is Of hard maple, and measures 100
by 80 feet. A billiard room is next. which meas |
ures 70 by ~ feet, and has in it two billiard |
tables specially for the use of ladies' Mr.. Hill |
dreth, who has always been most enterprising |
Is determined that the large number of visitors |
ne expects this summer shall not lack amuse- |
Eent. Both the rooms described will be lighted |
at night by electricity. In front of them is a |
charming balcony where one can rest and enjoy |
the ocean breeze, as it faces in that direction.
and in the afternoon watch the driving. which |
year as heretofore.
Early in the season as 1t now is, there are |
many fine equipages seen going up and down |
Ocean avenue between five and eight o'clock i'm |
the evening.
LONG BRANCH AMUsEMENTs
The driving should be even more of a feature |
this season than heretofore, as Ocean avenue
has been extended by completing the broad |
drive around the lake. This lake is what used
to be very ugly blOtch in the high road, where
the tide in turn invaded and receded, and when.
in doing the last, it left the ground bare. the
OdOr was not pleasant. Now it has been pro-
tected. at the end next the ocean, from anv in
cursOn of salt water 1t is kept flooded with
fresh water deepenough to float pleasure boats.
and several row boats are on it now. 1t rejoices
in the name of Tallahassee lake, which is said to
have been the Indian name for all this region
1t is about midway between the West End hotel
and Elberon, and has across it very wide.
strong, handsome bridge, completed last year.
10 Increase the cOnveniences of Long Branch
D plan is now being carried out for thorough
system of district teegraphing. as complete as
the best in any city, by means of which messen-
gers or police can be called and fire or burglar
alarm sounded. The messengers will answer a
on bicycles.
COTTAGE LIFE.
The residents Of the fashionable cottages
along Ocean avenue began coming early in June
Mr.. Victor Newcome and his family came over
TWO weeks ago. They expect, however, to spend
part Of the summer at Newport and also in
Bay Harbor, Me-, as they did last year.
General and Mrs. Grant have had their eldest
son, Col. Fred Grant, and his wife and children,
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