Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-07-05

SPECIAL Correspondence Of The EVENING STAR
WEST END. LONG BRAECE. July 18th, 1884.
THE OPENING OF THE SEASON.
The numbers have visihly augmented at the
hotels here each day this week Their balconies
al show this, even to the casual passar by and
this evening. if the weather is such as TO make
sitting out Of doors agreeable there will not he
q vacant chair to be found on the porches.
The hops at the West End hotel will take
place as usual in the large parlor through the
summer. except on special occasions. when a
ball is given, ard then the rink will be used.
Otherwise the rink will be used every day and
evening for roller skating A band played
there Wednesday evening. The morning con-
ccrtS began in the parlor Monday. and have con-
tiHued each day since. from hall past eleven to
To half past one. and in the evenings this week
the same band under direction of Mr.. Meyer,
which las played for fourteen years at this
hotel. has played for dancing in the parlOr, even
wien another has played at the rink
The opening night of the West End hotel
skating rink was indeed a gaia occasion. Formal
Invitations We're issued to about 400 persons. in
GLIDING in addition to those staying at the hotel
at the time many of the residents of the cot
tages and visitors at other hotels here. and
enough accepted TO fill all the snace In the rink not
reserved for the skaters. MIR. Frank Libby floor
manager OF the rink. gave some wonderful eX-
hItitiOnS in roller skating after the amateurs
had had the floor for an hour. Miss Jennie
H0ughtOn, Very graceful little girl who is
called the champion of the United States also
6stClished the large company by her wonderful
performances on skates. and the Speedwell
brothers gave an equally astonishing exhibition
ca bicycles. going through with all the maneu-
veTs we usually see in a circus by man and boy
on one or more horses.
The ElEcrOn Casino now has music morning
anu evening in its concert room. and the casino
Is a pleasant place of rendezvous for dweliers
in the neighboThOGd who are members of it and
who can take their friends also to enjoy its
reading room and many other opportunities for
quiet amusement. Sometimes the yGUa- people
dance there in the evening between half past
eight and eleven O'Clock.
The hathers have been ENJOYING themselves
very much since the weather grew warmer the
first of this week There are Us bath houses
in two rows on the beach in front Of the West
End hotel. and the bathing master tells Inc that
E.st summer he sometimes had them all full at
once.
THE SEAS ENCROACHMENTs.
IL is shocking TO see what inrUatis the sea has
made within four years on Ocean avenue be-
tween the west end and the pier. There used
to be a continuous row of summer houses all
along the bluff between those points. one in
front of every cottage and several before each
hotel. In many places now the drive is almost
at the edge OF the bluff so there is no room for
triaGs from falling off the bank. Although the
storm of wind and rain of June 25th and 25th
was very violent here yet have not been able
To learn that it did any damage i'm this immedl-
ate neighbOrhoOd. This already much abused
bluff was LEFT unframed by the fierce waves for
once, IL seems
LONG STEP FORWARD.
Among the Improvements enjoyed at Long
Branch for the past few years the cheap ON
nibuSes, which, for ten cents. take one passenger
from the railroad station to hotel and as they
run up and down Ocean avenue all day. and much
OF the evening also. carry passengers from
point to point along their route for the same
price When was first here in 1870 you could
rot ride in any public conveyance any distance
for less than 30 cents.
PERSONAL MENTION.
hear tia Mr.. Pullman. Of palace car fame.
II to bui!,. this summer a very handsome cottage
on the fine ste. with large lawn and ocean front.
next that of Mr.. George ". Childs Mr.. Pull
mans present residence nearly opposite used
10 te on that ground and was removed to its
Present location 10 leave room fer the handsome
one he Intended 10 build before Row
Mr. SGrtoris Gen. Grants sGn-in-law arrived
This week from the west. His wife and children
Will return the nGdl" of this month 10 England
Mr. George W ChiItis. although he has been.
since his family moved here the middle OF last
and Philadelphia. was punctuay on duty last
Sunday at the snail Episcopal church at Elbe-
Ton.
Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Berry and her daughter
are at Springs Lake. near here.
Master Campbell BabcOck the eldest son of
the late Gen EabCCck, has been at school at the
LawTencevile preparatory school. near Prince
ton college. lie is now with his mother as the
school has closed for the summer. He Joined
The church before he left school. He is sixteen
years old.
Gen. Horace POrter's eldest son and namesake
vino has been at Princeton college is now en-
Toying his holidays with his parents here
\ private letter lately received here mentions
that Col. Dom Patt is at Mount Clements.
Mich. where he says the baths and waters are
greatly relieving his dyspepsia, from which he
has so long suffered.
Miss Anna Goodwin. a daughter OF Parke Cod
win. and granddaughter of William Cullen Bryant.
is said TO be engaged TO the private secretary OF Mr.
- W. Mackey. Mr.. DE Castro, who l. a Turk NJ
viii not be the first marriage OF the kind as long
ago Il daughter OF Valentine Mott married BlacG1t.
-ieE- and Aristarchi Bey married two New York
ladies' III succession
have clipped the above from weekly New
York paper. because think it will greatly sur-
prise the friends of Aristarchi Bey who. for
about ten years prior to last year. was Turkish
minister in Washington to learn that any one
supposed he had ever been married at all still
more to 1.-TWO New York ladies in succession
GaltaZZi Efftndi. who served rs secretary of the
turkish legation before and after Aristarchi Bey
was minister. married very charming New
York lady, with whom he was still living happily
when he returned, temporarily, to his own cOun-
try.
| am sorry to hear, through private letters
lately received here from Baroness de Eaya the
italian minister's wife. that she has not vet re-
covered her health which. her friends will re-
mehlber. was very poor before she lett Washing
ton. She and her husband are still in New York
anu talk OF visiting Long Branch and SaratO.sa
hon -trs i1 Ill
TO have abandoned their plan OF several weeks
ago TO visit Europe during the summer.
Miss GRUMPY
Letter from ssIocI Island.
TIE CHAINS AND PECULIARiTIEs OF TIE PLACE