Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-07

 lshing touches preparatory to the grand opening, which occurs on June 15. The servants, walters, cooks, etc., have been engaged and are in daily training, tho guests now here are happy that the sun shines occasionally, and everybody Is anxiously looking forward to the day when the Branch will don her full sun0- mer suit and step out brilliant. happy thing of beauty.
 The recent indictment weather has re- tarded the movement of cottagers to Long Branch. There is as yet little life about the West End or from there up to the Ocean house.
 Toward Elberon however, many cot tages show that summer home life h9e begun and some guests are at the Eloeron hotel, which has been open since May 20. An occasional landau or drag suggests the stream of rich equipages that will soon be moving along Ocean avenue.
 But people will not find that roadway, never too wide, in the same condition as of old. In front of the Howland hotel. and to the east for many feet the greater part of the road has gone down into tho great maw of the ocean, and no effort has been made to repair the damage. Had not R. J. Dobbins, of the Rowland hotel, given about ten feet of his property to widen the road it Is doubtful If car- riage could safely pass the great indent- ation.
 The bank is still crumbling down, as 1t has beep doing for several weeks. There Is talk of bridging it, of filling 1t in and of applying, to the, government for gid. and meanwhile perhaps some big tide Is being generated somewhere to sweep away the rest of it. The commissioners do not want to make b beach for Dob bins, who claims the shore front beyond the road, and Dobblns does not feel called upon to pake the enofnoue out lay for the benefit of the whole of 'tbe Branch including the commissionefs. There the matter stands, dpa even If no much difficulty when the summer jam Of carriages occurs.
 The West End hotel cottages will open Saturday. Among the moro recent ar- rivals at other cottages are D. H. Bates, ex-superintendent of the Baltimore end Ohio telegraph company, and the family of Edgar Thompson. B. Colgate and fam- fly of Colgate x Co.,, are at Monmouth Beach.
 Two steam launc hes will make several trips daily during the summer between branchport, Highlands and Red Bank.
 The Seabright borough commissioners have decided that trains through the place must not run faster than sixteen miles an hour, and that gates must De put Ut tu0 CIOoSAuSo' otCdA 0VShuO ID Vo have $500 spent in repairing it. .. Many of the storekeepers who have 1 branch stores along the beach resorts 1 have been moviug in their stock for aum- mer trade and a number of them havo al ready opened.
 Every one along the beach intsrested | in the outcome of the summer business hes a hustling air and seems full of conf- l dence that the season will be unusually l active.
 The Long Branch commission has passed an ordinance prohibiting all boys under sixteen years of age from driving hacks, stages and other public convey | ances.
 The Atalapta hotel, at Asbury Park. has been sold to William Appelgate, oi the Surf house, Ocean Beach, for $25 900.
 Edward s. Ellis, tho author, has taken one of the pretty Norwood Park cottages. which he will occupy with his daughter.
 The new Hollywood and West End sta | tion, as 1t is called, which was opened . few days ago, IS 8 pretty piece of archi- | lecture and Is much admired by the early arrivals. The new stone station, with a long eaved roof, at Little Silver. has not yet been co ompleted.
 The Union News company has erected nique little booths for the sale of papers, l periodicals, cigars and other things at Red Bank and Long Branch stations. l Work is progressing on the new iron and stone railway bridge over Takanes. | WILLIAM L. SEAYON