New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-03
CROWDS AT OCEAN GROVE.
FEW VACANT ROOMS IN THE HOTELS.
xor.rr.n PERSONS TO BE SEEN ABOUT THE
FAMOUS GATIoNAL
SINGING.


his week the number of new arrivals has steadily
Increased day by day Nearly all the ro0ms in the
hotels and cottages occupied, and the empty
ones will be filed before night Every season, in
snite Of the erection of new hotels aud boarding
houses there many complaints about the lack
of accommodations. During tho meetings hero It
Is impossible 10 secure any of the hotels or
boarding houses. The growth OF Ocean Grove was
remarkable. The singing of the Ocean Grove audi
tnces is something long to be remembered. The
Rev DR.. T. II. Stokes the president of the Camp
Meeting Association lilies congregational singing, ana
the zest with which the audiences sing Is of the
remarkable features OF summers life in this re-
markable place. on clear night the singing can
be plainly head for a distance Of over mile. When
the eight or ten thousand worshippers unite In volc
ing the praise Of God the oottagers far distant as
North Asbury Park join In, and there is such vol
ume of sound that the roar OF the surf SOUNDS Ike
the bass notes Of a distant organ. Old soldiers say
that the singing here brings back to their remem
brancc the Sunday night singing of the divisions In
times. The singing IS led by Professor j. H.
svL eney and two cornet players.
.he supplies of The Tribune have been increased
by the newsdcaers daily yet it is impossible TO Sc
cure copy two hours after the newsboys make their
appearance with their big bundles Even Dr. Stokes
who fond of donouncng the newspapers, reads The
Tribune daily, and says the reports of the meetings
are all that be desired The sketches of the lives
Of those who figure prominently in The meetings are
warmly praised by those who are spending the sum
here.
The announcement that Peter Mamereof Won Fink
.lstein will give one of his unique lectures on ORR
Entail manners and customs draws everybody to the
Auditorium. He born OF Russian parents. in
Jerusalem where he spent his youth In those early
years he much interested in the peasantry OF
Palestine. and had ample opportunity to study tine
manners and habits of the Fellaheen, Bedouins and
ely men of his native land While very young he
became interpreter TO Sir Charles Warren, chief d.
rector Of the Palestine Exploration SOcetys exca-
vations. lie afterward became interpreter to the
United States Consulate at Jerusalem. BY this
means he was introduced to many Americans. His
brother being in this country, he came here also
and his attention being drawn to the perversions
and ridiculous distortions of truth by
infdel lecturers, he took 10 the lecture
field When dressed in his gorgeous siken robes with
an Eastern cap and number Of yards of white
cloth wound round his head. urban fashion, he looks
large and fierce; while his high forehead square
face. long mustache and whiskers, make him look
overy inch the Arab chieftan. His great size Is
enhanced by his garments. lie enters into the sub
jcct Of his lecture with much zest and gives such
graphic porrsyals of the domestic life and habits OF
his people 10 keep up the most intense Interest
Especially instructive is his delineaOn of the woman
looking for the lost piece of silver, the camel going
through the eye of needle, and other Scripture i'll
ustraOns.
No more striking figure walks the streets Of this
place than the Rev. william Brainwell Osborn, Who
is tall and broad-shouldered with a massive head
crowned with an aureOle Of hair which the profane
would call red. But that brilliant hair on william
Osborns head becomes a Of glory to those who
know the record of his life. He is the son OF the
Rev Ebert Osborn. fifty years ago a most useful
member of the New-York Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. His mother still sur
wives and with her daughter occupies her sons
N roffa hpr %
ls6s with the Rev. George Neal. Upon the or
ganizaton Of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting As
ISOLATION he became its first superintendent, and was
pre- cntei with cottage in commanding situation
on Wesley Lake by the Heck-st. ferry In 1877 he
went to India where he appointed Presiding Elder
of the Bombay District, which covered 1900 miles Of
coast and required 1000 miles OF travel TO make one
visitation. He spent year in Australia and six
months on the Pacific Coast where he organized
the Pacific Coast Camp Meeting Association He then
founded the Wesley Park Camp Meeting Association
and became IT'S Superintendent holding the place
for thee years.
Ms Lucy Drake Osborn, wife of the Rev. William
3 Osborn, IS a woman with pleasant face, brown
hair and blue eyes She was born in stoughton' Mass.
In her early young womanhoOd she accepted the re-
lgion Of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 1t became we
controlling power Of her lie. Henceforth the upift
ing of humanity and the selfculture which would iii
her for that work became to her tho supreme OBJECTS
Of lite. Being member Of the congregational
Church, she did not find that freedom accorded TO
woman 10 speak and work for Christ which she de-
sired. She greatly wished 10 go 10 some missionary
nsld and in 1879 went TO India. no. being
under any society and having no guarantee OF
support After year devoted TO studying the Hindu
TAM aod Marathi langnages she went to BssSm; IN
well acquainted with the languages OF the people
Here She established a mission home ana began ms Ms
women, and preaching Christ TO the people on Ile
health falling after few years she returned to the
india again, where she married the Rev William
q 0Sha elder
india Conference. She travelled the district
With her husband, assisting him IN his
ins ructing the native women and children. Mrs
Missionary training nstitu,e which, after four years
OF vicissiudes. is now established I'm Brooklyn ana
doing well and successfully SIS work Freedom
Gairetson smith OF that city, has given the Of
building for I've years at RAYMOND and Wnoughby
sis for the purpose. The object OF the institute is to
give TO those intending to 20 to foreign fields the
peculiar training which those fields demand. Twelve
persons have already gone 70 foreign lands from tins
gone TO Africa, two TO China and three to India.
the instructor who made the Bible lessons Interesting
during the Boys and Girls Hour az the Sunday school
y. Y. She Is the wife Of the Rev. Dr.. B. 3. LOOMS,
the efficient superintendent Of he assembly here Her
father died when she was an infant Her mother was
devoted Christian woman, who early took the little
daughter TO the House Of God and to the Methodist
love feast; At fourteen she became teacher in the
Sunday school. Her acquaintance with Bishop Vim
cent autedaies The founding Of the GhanIanqua As
came Inspired with the idea OF the possibilities Of sys
temauc instruction IN the SUNDAY SchOOl MIS- LOOMS
has been instructor here for five consecutive years.
This year she had $50 n the class. Mrs. LOOMS IS
earnest, gentle and winning.
The Young people who love dancing go across IVES
ley axe 10 Asbury Park where they have dances
nightly al the hotels. Donkey and soapbubble par
tie are the only evening a8usements enjoyed here
openly. ,..., - ~. -, =,
n,ay6d here nightly IN two Of The hotels in which
ave securely bolted and locked before the games open
The model of Jerusalem, near the Auditorium IS an
object OF great interest 70 sumner visitors IL Is built
Ike important places in and near The ancient city
Srba REV Albert A. Lawson Of Boston. is registered
=, .hc Sheldon House. DR.. lawson has charge OF
rrea Baptist churches in Boston, which are almost
,rcIv sipnorted by H. G. Ford the Editor of Z" The
wrs J II Hendricks Of Brooklyn is guest Of DR..
Miss Msyy A. Earns, who has popular cooking
scbool in Syracuse where she teaches young 70
make biscuit which be eaten, Is enjoying her