New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-31
. LONG BRANCH HOTELS.
GETTING READY FOR A BRILLIANT SEASON.
u,rovvMyNr AND ApoRSMESr RFE-soMh "f
THE PROMISED GUESTS. .---l.

O,,a,, with the noise of saws, hammers anu caiPo'
and rcdolent with the odors of fresh paint soap
80, v,rnish The streets alive with carriages
furn,,uro vans and lumber aud express wagons ana all
A, .,,e and activity During the last ten days cottages
,en renting rapidly and tho real estate men are
daily becoming cheerful aud happy Inc cos'ase7
sero have been renting more slowly TINS !e" '"
usai This caused, so judges OF real estate inles
claim by the heavy rents demanded by the oWhers Oh
cottages when the rents compared with those pnd at
other seaside resorts This Is doubt due largely TO
the high prices placed upon real estate mere ana ese
hich prices kept MP in spite OF hurries III wan
street circles and close money markets. ms Is NC
counted for largely by that most OF the baut-
t ocean front occupied the huge caraYansere ana
The property is therefore limited When the prices paid
for lots are taken into consideration with the cost 81 the
cottages and the high rates paid for insurance the
rentals are not too high. There have been hahy
transfers OF Long Branch real estate recorded ~ 'he
County Clerks office since January l. and the demand
Tor cottage plots is good
There are numerous cottages nearly finished.
among the most noticeable are those OF Daniel H.
Iyddy and Charles I. Cooke both of Ncw-IoEk which
ale unique in design and cOmmodous. and cost about
$4,000 each The various cottage rentals and improve
meuts have been fully reported IN TIE SUNDAY TRIBUNE
from week To week.
The great tubular iron ocean pier at the head of Broad
way on Ocean-ave. is being prepared for the season.
II s hears OF the fury Of the severe gale oil last
winter which of more than one hundred feet OF the
sea end The directors have decided not 10 replace me
wrecked portion and the landing platforms are being
erected the sides the same as they were last year
The right TO laud passengers has been given exclusively
10 the Iron Steamboat Company OF New-iork Three oil
the of that corporation VIII DC paceu Oh
tire route. The daily trips will include an early morning
boat TO York for the convenience OF business men,
The idea of running boats between the ocean Per ana
the new Iron Pier at Coney Island during the heated
Term has no, yet been abandoned The boats will begin
running about June 10.
Among the most popular improvements made for
several years past those made by number or the
most prominent cotagcrs at Green's Pond between the
West End Hotel and the Elberon. Years ago Green's
Pond large inlet of the ocean. but in the course OF
time il became almost marsh, washed by salt water at
high tides been dcepencd and turned into pretty
sheet of which is now known as " Lake
Tallahassee" Broad drives have been laid out on the
banks and stone bukhead is now being built around u
to protect the gr,velcd slopes from being washed away
by the water.
The hotels are in the bands Of the scrulbcrs ana
carpenters they nearly ready for the reception OF
guests. Only two of them the West End aud Ocean,
have their grounds lighted by electric lights. stock
company for erecting ana maintaing electric lights
along Oceam-avc. broadway and Third-ave. has been
proposed but It do anything IN this line for
the coming
LEIAND'S OCEAN HOTEL.
Charles aud Warren Leland jr, OF the Ocean Hotel,
are busily engaged in placing their house in the best
order They have refrescoed tho dining and the
restaurant and refurnhed than hundred rooms
in part of the house largo force OF carpenters
is work the uewbathlng houses needed to replace
those demolished by the heavy storms OF the past winter
The guests the hotel will have chance this season To
try the bangmachne which are so popular at the vari-
ous watering places Europe. the Lelands have dc
cidcd TO introduce them and are having some manu-
featured One OF the unsightly pavihons on the hInu
opposite the Hotel carried away ny an I'M
usually heavy tide last winter II is not To he rebuilt
d.
taken its place a decided Improvement some thrifty
evcrgrecu have been the broadway side OF the
hotel lawn.
The demand for rooms at this house Is good ever.
fooms have rented to William Ottman Henry Iden
Charles W Held. c. r. Lyon. L. i. Wesley, j. : Law
renee y sarony. Tousey, John McClave. Joel W.
Mason Benjamin Holiday. o. j. Martin, ana thcr
families OF New-YOrk State Senator Jacobs j. VI.
Henry aud George X. otis and family. Of Brooklyn j.
Allen and family. Of ST. Louis; C. Ames and {. ".
Adams and their families. OF Chicago the Hon Frank
Hatton and family Washington, u. C.; II W Fuller
and family. OF Richmond; General Rufus ingalls, l. :
AID r McGm and family, Of Troy y y; J1dse
Murray aud family Of Ncw-Yogk, John J. O-u2nIer
and family OF Kingston. y. y; William L. Ward and
family of Port Chester, y. Y. the Hon d. a. Loilns
und family Of Chicago, and others
TIE MANSION HOUSE.
NJ j. Butter. the proprietor of The Mansion House. mas
Ia; popular family place'o entertainment nearly ready
for opening lie has expended much money DO repairs
of his rooms He says the Of 1881 viii be better
than those Of the past years and his house VIII do
heavy business Judging by the plumber Of applications
for apartments which he receive, by every mail.
Among the Ncw-Sorl people who have taken rooms
n, tbe Mansion House are Dr. Colin Mackenzie. Colonel
Matthew Baird. Dr. Reginald Levine, Colonel NJ : Cole
man. General ". L. kehncy Richard W N1i'eIs' JOIN
I'M fraVT n + Wall Colonel Callagcr ana their
families. AMI the Hon. Nicholas Hanshioh e.. '.
Hutchinson. Henry C. Quinn and g. G. Henry ana their
house Newark y. J.. will he represented ~ Alderman
Jane, smith ir. Judge William b. Guild Colonel John j.
STANLEY and Bernard shaney and thelr families; ana
Albany. y. by John p MasteIson ana lam nanny S, anu
June II for the season
THE UNITED STATES HOTEL.
John J. Rogers. of New-YOrk. succeeds Laird q Van
Ceei in the management OF the United States Hotel lie
has had the house renovated and yccapeted placed new
furniture in many Of the rooms and is rcfre,cong and
rofurishing the paTlor and reception rooms lie has
also rebuilt the wastewater and sewerage system
of the hotel Among his guests will be Dr. r. OhenDack
f. Denccr and family MA. Hudson and wife T. b. Cos
grove and family p II. Hudson ana wife, Ms. Mary
Devlin Mrs. Mary Tully, W. A. Crane and WIFE -
Underwood, j. T. Fitzgerald, ~ stern and thGlramies,
OF New York A.. G. Brdnard and wife and T. t. SNOW
and family Of Albany; G. srkey and family OF Hudson
n y Q4inn ana is ana ara boN;Eco TG Wife Of
Philadc phia; IL. C. Van NOorhs ana WIFE, ana { D.
Potter aud family. OF Chicago This house VIII open On
ATLANTIC AND scAEBORO.
The Atlantic Hotel Henry Rowland Proprietor VIII
NAN''--'
is the oldest hotel proprietor az the summer capital
be having filled that position here for thirty I'VE years
He has received many applications from persons desiring
10 secure apartments for the season and has rented
large number of rooms He regards The prospects Tor
the coming season as unusually good for the several
hotels here and says they will 90 very heavy business
His hotel has been renovated throughout and partly re-
furnished Among those 10 whom be has rented rooms
are the Rev T. Mckee Brown, rector Of ST Marys
Protestant Episcopal Church. and family Of NewYork
Mrs Richard Wax. Of Philadelphia, who has spent
nearly seventy consecutive summers at Long Branch;
y II McFwen j. ". Plingle. II. T.. Kingsland, II. 6:
einvav and their families and Miss Harriet Gross OF