New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-09
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now LONG BRANCH LOOKS.
DEVASTATION BY THE WAVES.

Dew AS IAIION BY THE WAVES.
PREPARING FOR THE sEAsON-THE HOTELs-THE
HOLLYWOOD COTTAGES.
Inc train OF three or four llOw-painted cars
which putis ont of the dngy station at Commnnipaw
at abont l o'clock each morning and to which the
attention of the traveller Is directed by board in
scribed " Long Branch Train" presents different
appearance from that which six weeks hence will
leave the same place for the destination. The
hait-dozen cars of the June train will be packed
full OF well-lressed and better dressed women,
whose place is taken ia early May by sprnkns
ofJcrsey farmers returning fro their early market,
old women laden with bundles their way to
drop in at relatives for two weeks call and the
usual miscellany to be found on board sway
train" Half dozen of the passengers, it is true,
will look like summer birds who have mistaken
their season, for Hollywood has its visitors even in
winter aud still moro in early spring. New
Yorker made tho journey one day last week behind
an engine which gasped its way through fields OF
fresh-smelling earth, past groves of trees whose
leaves OF tender green scarce hid the russetbrOwn
of their supporting twgs and branches.b by orchards
covered with snowy blossoms tinged with faintest
pink He found his trp. in company with car full
of farm hands stained with Jersey mud till they
We'd with the noble red man. well repaid at its end
The day was perfect. the suns rays, unpeasantly
warm i'll the city lie had left, were tempered as he
stepped out on the platform by cool breeze remi-
nisccnt OF the sea. The turf. in summer to become
brown, hard and slippery, in It's newest dress
of green. and yielding but springy under the foot.
The roads were dusty, it is true. but Jersey dust
has slight advantage over Jersey mud. and one or
the other must always be taken in that much
abused State
But If the visitor could appreciate and enjoy all
his surroundings the few Long Branchers he met
IN u far oF
seemed melancholy indeed and possessed of great
sorrow. the cause of which a walk along the beach
revealed. high tide and heavy swell last SUN
day have done incalculablc damage to the bluff at
the West End in particular. though all along the
shore the Iavages are visible. Below the Rowland
House the great masses of masonry which 1t had
been hoped would keep the embankment secure
against the severest of winter storms proved un
awaiting. A yawnng hole gapes where once the
blocks of granite were, and extends beyond the
line of the avenue itself, rs is shown by a fallen
telegraph pole which has eaped i2to the gulf below
Opposite the West End Hotel the damage is even
more serious, though Mr.. Iilireth surveyed It with
calm equanmity "By the time am ready to
open the West End said he, shall have it fixed
up properly. 1t is annoying, though. that the sea
should just have gobbled up my bathing pavilions
and lett the embankment OH each side undisturOcd"
Mr.. Hildreth added that he should not in all proba-
bty open for business until after the 10Th OF 'une
though of course" he said " | shall be governed
by the weather. As rule, find that people dout
care to leave town until forced by the heat. If
they would only como early in June and stay IT'LL
the end of September we might make some
money" The West End Hotel itself looked 2aunt
and inhospitable with all its doors and windows
closely barred, and IN this respect its neighbors
resembled it, OF these the Rowland will be man.
Of fhn lion n.
WILKINSON once of the Brunswick. Laird and Van
Clcaf of the Mansion House. Brooklyn, Will run the
United States. which they had before last years
lessee, Mr.. Rogers. took it.
The damage done by the waves extends to Elbe-
rom and Con. Jones. who WILL as usual, manage the
Elberon was busily employed last week in looking
a ter matters OF that account II lheie was scnsc
OF loneliness hanging about the large hotel ana cot
tages along the avsnuc, there was hustle ana 10
spare along Cedar Avenue IL was dithcult drlv-
ing along to it, for the main avenue had deep
trench down the middle and on the heaps OF sand
by lis side huge iron pipes were lying. company
controlled. It is said.by "Phl" Daily is giving to
the Branch its first system OK drainage WHICH, IL
Is sincerely hoped. may prove successful
Seated in a comfortable little basket phaeton IS a
figure as familiar 10 New-York to the Branch. 1t
is John Hoey driving about his Hollywood cot
tages and giving 10 each detail that personal atte-
fion which has made the place as perfect as 1t 49,
He has lust come from giving some lnstructionS I'D
the workm"n who are finishing tue latest auuitloh
to the comfort and pleasure of llollywoods guests
Tins il the pier ana DdtnlnS pdNliluh "O t"N
end of Cedar Avenue. Though pier IL Is not IN
tended as a landing place and Will serve only as a
lounging place for the bathers and their irchdS
who W III he the occupants of the private ana otei
cottages ut Hollywood 1t is close ON three nun,
bred feet from the bluff to the end Of the pier ahu
the latter has three decks forty feet wle,wcIl pIo
yidcd with comfortable chairs ana sofas. On VIC
lower dccp are thirty four lighthouses, whcn ave
as far beyond the ordinary batl-house as the iioy
wood cottages are beyond the ORDINARY srr,HIo
hotel In the first place. they are unconmonly
large and each consists OF two rooms, one or wnch
contains q showerblth of fresh wafer; the other
is carpeted and furnished like the dresing-room OF
"A private house that one can dress Ill coz mort
after ones bath. Above are readlng-rooins anu re-
freshmen galleries, where ices and cold Iuncheons
are to be served. The place VIII De as private rs
the hotels friends of guests having 10 DE intro
duced az at IA club. There have beeh changes at
the cottages too. they are now under freuerick
Horvs superntcndence and he manages them Win
discretion beyond his years. Delmonco-bauhters
will doubtless rcmeml or Leon the perlect ana IRE
proachabc. He now has charge OF the res.au,anu,
and as NJ Leon COttentin has lost none or tne
graceful cvlity which made nm u Jay oiite a'
Twenty and Fth-ave. lie took his VISIT
ors through the four cottages which form part OF
the hotel" and as he pointed out the hotel Ieel,
ing has been skfully got rid OF ana the semp'hnce
of private house as skltully insisted upon. ~; roi
those who wish to carry their business even mo
their pleasures provision has been made ny the es-
adjustment OF branch office OF tie ilrm OF 'reen
Blteman. who have their private wires IRON
HOLLYWOOD to all their offices -
Ofthe thirteen private cottages all but two have
been let Those who have already taken cottages
are a. D. CaSSatt j. IS. 1IOustoll, - ~ p",'1s'
Elliott f. Shepard, Jacob II. Schhf A. Wolti, John
King, of Brooklyn; Nh smith, OF Boston Mr.
Mamie. and Or. Dennis. Among those VINO ha a
visited Hollywood during the past week are Mr
and Mrs Levi p Morton: Mr. and Mrs Frederick
W Vanderbilt. Mrs. W ii. Vanderbilt ana Ue"rse
Vondrrblt Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Cassatt Miss Cas-
salt. Mr.. ana Mrs De WITT Se!igman, Mrs i; D.
Babcock. L. X. Sheldon. Mr.. and Mrs. ,r IT, Mck.
TvombIy Mr. and Mrs W. ID. Sloane Thomas e.
sloane. ~ H. Morgan. Mime. La Comtesse de Can
mont Mr. and Mrs. w. Is Dinsmore, MISS y
Armour A. Van Santvoord, Mr.. aud Mrs. Ellott L.
Shepard, and JESSE Seignan.
BABYLON. LONG BEACH. MANHATTAN