The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-24
SEASIDE NOMENCLATURE.
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IN ms last contribution TO the sun
day newspapers, Bill Nye incidentally
ailudes to his palatiaI country resi-.
dence at 'Slipperyelmhurst- Back-of
| the Reservoir-B Blythe Sea. y It is a
fine hit, and strikes hard all along the
Jersey coast.
The surrender to foolish and sem
timental romanticism that has charac-
terized the naming, rather the remain
ing, of so many of our New Jersey
seaside resorts, is much to be re-
gretted. 1t furnishes their genuine
merits with the same cheap and taw-
dry glitter that pinch-back jewelry
attaches to the person. 1t is the in
spiration of a vulgar taste New
England is too cultivated to indulge
in such folly. She sticks to the good,
old-fashioned names Swampscott,
Nahant, Nantucket, Buzzards Bay.
Woods Holl, Noank and SO on.
There are no fancy names anywhere
along her coast. Her most famous
and attractive resorts retain the old
names. This is fine and sensible. and
in refreshing contrast to the silly gush
that has stopped over all along our
Jersey coast.
Normandie-by-the- What sense
is there in giving the sandy stretch
above Monmouth Beach this preten-
tious name? 1t means nothing what
ever, and is merely high sounding.
Sandy Hook is all right, but some
land company will get hold of it one
of these days probably, and find some
fine name for it in Miss Gushington s
novels. Sea Bright is a pretty name,
Monmouth Beach conveys q meaning,
and Long Branch is the ancient desig-
nation of the place But why Inter
laken?n What is there in the shallow
pond of brackish water there to re-
mind one of the bar? Or in the sand
dunes to recall the sublime Jungfrau?
Or in the half dozen Summer cottages
that resembles the charming Swiss
village?
Ocean Grove and Asbury Park are
not subject to criticism, because they
were chosen as descriptive, original
names But "Avon-b y-the-Seap' We
hardly know which is the more vul-
gar, the first name of Key East, y be-
slowed in advertising glorification of
/ a brand of cigars, out of which a
! Philadelphia tobacconist had grown
rich, or the silly, pretentious designa-
ton of Shark river by the name of the
classic stream on which Shakespeare
had his birthplace.
Belmar is pretty and appropriate
name, and is great improvement
upon the meaningless platitude.
Ocean Beach, but we cannot say as
much for the next station, Como. ;,
| 1t would puzzle anybody to discover
| the faintest resemblance to the beau
| tilul lake in Lombardy in Wreck
Pond" small and generally dirty
| little body of water, bounded bv
marshes or sand dunes. 1t requires a
phenomenal imagination to discover
in these dunes any resemblance to the
precipitous mountains, 1000 to 3. 900
feet in height, that form the banks
of the real Como. This utter inappro-
priateness, this glaring contrast be-
tween the real and the counterfeit. is
what makes these fancy names so un-
speakably ridiculous.
Spring Lake is descriptive Of a gen
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