Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-06-27

The country. 1t is less aristocratic J
than Newport, more dignified than At
lantic City, not so exclusively political
and commercial rs Saratoga, and altogether
1t combines more of the substantial atrac-
tons of a popular resort than any other place
on the Atlantic coast. There fingers some of
the snobbishness and shoddyism which
were born OF the days when the Grant politi-
cal and social dynasty was established there
but there Is an improvement in the appear
ance of tho entire place and its denizens. |
The cottages, some of which are palaces, seem
to have been all repainted; whatever ravages
the winter storms made upon the beach and
pier are all repaired the lawns are shavcn
and watered to perennial freshness the
drives are smooth and broad, and
the dust on them well laid. Over
at John 1Ioey's, where acres of yellow |
painted fence offend the eye and some won.
derful specimens OF the sculptor's handiwork |
shock all the artistic senses, there are acres OF
parched lawns that seem To have no other at |
traction than lot of hot houses out of which |
has been prod uced abed of houseleek, arranged |
like quilt Of crazy patchwork or a Turkish |
rug. II Is very curious In its way, | dare say ;
but it strikes one man must have very mar |
row conceptions OF the good uses to which
money can be put to maintain place like
Hoey's.
There is great advantage TO Long Branch
in the fact that one can reach IL now so easily
| and directly from the Broad street station of
| the Pennsylvania II. II. in Philadelphia by
| trains which whirl up through the beauties
| of Fairmount park, dash past the seed farms
| of Bucks county, leap the Delaware at
| Trenton, speed over the sands and through
the scrub oaks Of New Jersey, and almost
| before tho dust has fairly lodged in your
eyes you are smiling the wholesome salt
| breezes From Sea Girt, through Spring
Lake, Ocean Beach, Ocean Grove, Asbury
Park, Elberon, West End to Long Branch,
| and for some miles further up the coast IL
| one almost continuous summer city. But
none of these places seems to be making such
| improvements, in extent or i'm the character
of the buildings as Long Branch. The most
notable is the addition of the Hollywood cot
tages, a dozen or more palatial affairs, FUR
nished sumptuously and painted gorgeously,
To be rented 10 milionaires like VIM. j..
Scott, A. j. .Cassatt, at say 81, 00O for the short
season of two or three months. Only two
| out of the fourteen are used for boarding
houses, and in these is to be done all the
cooking for tho settlement. Hoey bui!t,
owns, runs and rents them.
The Pennsylvania Editorial association
right happily chose its time just in advance
of the summer rush and had the advantage
of new furnishing, ample accommodations,
unspo.led walters and fresh paint that was
! altogether dry. Lelands Ocean hotel, where
they stopped has been nightly improved
in four years and vindicates the reputation Of
, | a management that is wide as the hote
| system. great many OF the cottagers have
D | come to the I" Branch " already, and the
n | turn-outs on the ocean avenue, morning anc
! | evening, are rich, numerous, eccentric ant
even cosmopolitan.
r In its personnel the association has beeI
4 steadily improved and strengthened. 1t wa
, | a fortunate and felicitous choice of president
" in January to have elected J. ii. Lambert
u of the Philadelphia Times, who not oni.
v represents the new and progressive era c
Pennsylvania journalism in himself and hi
professional relations, but who by his addres
b. and extensive acquaintance was able to al
~ | range and carry out to q successful conclu
. sion an extensive and yet flexible programme
y 1t was one that afforded chance for general ei
$, tertainment, and yet allowed that individua
s, freedom which has too often been encroache
ut by the management There was receptio
IL for the visiting fraternity by the Journalist
"A cluS--of which Mr.. Lambert is also presider
-, in Philadelphia on Monday evening I'll
y railroad arrangements were perfect "A tri
no to Coney Island was an entire success tbei
wero fishing and bathing for the venture
some few rest aud contemplation for I'll
he seniors dancing, Irritation and "nioonligi
in on the water for the lighthearted youn
of people; and the excursion and reunion Gu
no minated III formal dinner that was adm
20 rably managed. Editors Mcclure and Smi,
w tore themselves loose from the editors
OF nights, and came down to the dinner, TO To
ng | their brethren that no man ever got TO he
in | great city editor until he had been lit
Oh | country editor. Chairman Cooper whackt
oo the Philadelphia papers for their delightf
'' inconsistencies, and Chairman Hensel railt
Tx and rallied '.the offensive partisans" May
tn Haines of Newark, n. j., proved to ever
mt nation; Kennedy, of Pottsville, and Cha
MT fant, of Danville, spoke for the younger an
30 the older working Journalists and ever
''o body, except Secretary Thomas himse
er praised his management of everything.
,er The one thing lacking TO the success OF u
er affair was tho notable absence of choi
u spirits like ii. j. Stable, of Gettysburg Sa
nd | Smith, of Indiana Uncle Jake Iegler,
er Butler, and others, who for many years ha'
nd given levity and gravity to the FELLOWSHIP
an | There are some others in the membershi
~, who are older than they were fifteen yea
~ ago.
he i met John X. Mclean, of the Cincinns
GO Enguirer,at Mr.. Childs' the other day. for q
Ike first time since the Chicago convention.
an may have bee,4 only fancy, but it seem,
dy to me that he was not az anxious for M
Cleveland's s second nomination as he had be-
for the first j also thought detected sha'
us OF less unkindly feeling for Thurman than
~ had ever before recognized in his expressi
VI conversation. If George Hoadly shou
III run for governor in Ohio this fall, and Abra
'se S. Hewitt, in New York, what would "
,ht | think of it?
lid ~
gentleman from Philadelphia, who is
personal friend of the Phelpses, and lik
ut, everything about them but their polite
ms tells me that the new American minister
a. England is the most delightful of me
socially that he is an orator of elegan
and eloquence, a gentleman of culture al
lie refinement, lawyer of the first rank and
ID scholar of high merit. He is wit, too. The
m is lady up his way who has buried TO
,ro husbands and married fifth. Strange
-, ' say, all of the deceased were Democrats
On Vermont, too. Mr.. Phelps, attending Il
lat funeral of the last grayely and quietly sa
he to friend "This woman must be stopp'
no or she will bury the entire Democratic par
ed of Vermont"
20 ~
From the "Utah Penitentiary" writ
az Apostle A. Milton Musser, aforetme Of La
o caster county: ~ am serving out ST
,e months sentence for loving, cherishing ar
no caring for my dear families, consisting
70 three Of the best, nobest and loveliest wiv
iio in the Union, and twenty-three just as goc
and pretty children as ever came fro
heaven to sojourn for season on this mu
. dane sphere" He desires all his Lancast
10, friends to know that he and his compatrio
Oh in bonds are well and happy, and ready
endure all manner of iudiguities for the