, 1889-10-05

W NJ personal safety.
Long Branch, Sept. lit is Impossible
to tell what the loss caused by the storm
along this section will foot up. The famous
bluff has been severely damaged all the way
from North long Branch to Elberon. There
the surf did not destroy the bluh, lG cut
under it. so that it will undoubtedly soon
fall into the sea. The biggest gap torn in
the bluff is above the pier opposite the
place where the old East End Hotel former
" stood. Here the surf has eaten its way
half through Ocean-ave., the famous drive
Vav of Long Branch. At the foot OF Morris
ave, there is another big cut.
ODposite the Rowland Hotel still another
wide slice has been eaten out OF the blum.
The bluff pavilion of the hotel was under
mined. 1t threatened to go down into the
snrf 1t has been moved back out of harms
way. Some of the lighthouses OF Hi
dretb's West End Hotel and Leland5
Ocean Hotel nave been torn out. The rest
have been taken apart and pulled up over
the edge of the bluff. In front Of the United
States Hotel the bluff is crumbling away
beneath the assaults OF the surf, ana the
sea will undoubtedly eat its way INTO the
road. All OF the new lighthouses bullC at
the opening of the season by James ii.
Woolley. the bathing master OF the How
lana HOTEL HdNG UCCH GuhuohNN tAAO AAR'N
wood and carried out into the surf, with
his bathing suits, toot,pails and towels.
The tall flagstaff of LAUGHS Hotel has been
blown down, and also the big fence around
the barn Of Jessie Seligman, the New
York banker. The wind blew down the
icehouses Of the Elberon, and uprooted
every tree on the cottage property OF How
ard Maps, in Broadway. The outer end OF
the great Ocean Pier has been stripped
partially of its heavy iron railing anu some
of the stout wr~ought.irOn piles have been
badly twisted.
The beach is strewn with wrcckage OF
all kinds excepting pieces OF vessels. All
day the widest reports have been cIIcu-
lated about alleged wre' ked vessels, but
thus far none Of them could be verified.
Between Sandy Hook and the Barnegat
Bay Bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad
there is no vessel ashore larger than sail
boats. One came ashore early this morn
ing near the grounds Of the Sea Bright
Fishery, between Sea Bright, and Low
Moor, formerly North Monmouth Beach.
Several are said to be ashore inside OF
Sandy Hook.
Opposite the new Grand View Hotel,
above the Hotel Brighton, the sea is MAX
ing heavy inroads into the bluff. All along
the ocean front here most OF the bathing
houses have been swept out into the surf
and ground APP. The telegraph and tele-
phone lines running both north and south
have been torn down by the wind, and 1t
is impossible to obtain news by wire. AT
The several resorts between Sandy Hook
and Barnegat Bay Inlet the stage-drivers
and hackmen demand big fares from those
who wish to drive along the s%eafront, and
are not at all anxious to make trips. Here
at Long Branch the surt was running
high and strong at dusk to night, and 1t
looks as if there will be more damage
wrought at high tide at 10 o'clock tonight.
All along the sea-front, from ElOeron to
North Long Branch, the little pavllIons
erected on the edge of the bluff by the
cottage owners have been demolished.
The surf undermined them, and they top
pied over into the water, where they were
almost instantly torn into kindling-wo0d.
Tonight it rained heavily, and the WIND
blew so strong that it was a hard task
for pedestrians to make amy Roadway.
Umbrellas were of no use, as the wind
turned them inside out and tore the cover
ings to Shreds.
No little damage was done at Pleasure
Bay over on the South Branch OF the
Shrewsbury River, between Long Branch
and Sea Bright. Trees have been uproOt-
ed and little buildings blown over. The
water has backed up over the hotel drive
ways and the little parks where the festive