Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-03
THE WORK OF WILD WAVES.
Storms Enecr on Asbnry Pnrk-How Liquor
Regulations Are Ignored.
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ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAToH.1
AsBURY PARK. August 2-An the week the
doodtides have been pounding at the bulk.
heads and the beach at the foot of Second and
Third avenues; and what sand and timbers the
foodtldes have loosened the receding tides
have swept away by the irresistible suction of
the undertow.
The noted boardwalk has been torn up for
scores of yards. and 1t was with great difficulty
that the adjoining bathing houses were saved.
Enormous oak pilings were at once driven deep
in the sand and clay sub-stratum; and the
heaviest bulkheads ever seen here have been
| formed. During the storms this week tons Of
| the clay sub-stratum were washed up, exposing
| old cedar trees and rocks, reminders of the
historic time when this spot was a cedar
| swamp.
The damage done by the attack of the sea
| was all repaired last evening. SO far as the
b oardwalk was concerned. The incalculable
| tons OF sand washed away have, however, left
gap in the beach and bothing grounds which
only the slow reformation of the beach can fill
| in many months. "Founder" James A. Brad
| ley announced by circular yesterday that he
would hold Neptune Jubilee" at the repaired
| portion of the boardwalk last evening. The
| jubilee consisted in short speeches and military
music by the beach bands.
Mr.. Bradley owns the beach and all riparian
| rights. Therefore the burden of repairing the
walk and cuts in the beach as well as the man.
tenanoe Of beach lights pavilions and bathing
| matters, fall upon him. This expense is con-
siderabiy over 5000 yearly. He is recon-
pensed by the business at the three bathing
GROUNDS, ,tsales OF lots and so on.
WARFARE AGAINST LIQUOR.
Since their origin and during 20 years OF un.
| precedent development. not a drop of liquor
has been sold as a beverage in Asbury Park or
Ocean Grove. clause in the charter Of each
| community and IN tha d,ads
| granted by James A. Bradley and in the leases
| sold by the Ocean Grove Campmeeting Asso.
citation provides for the reyersion OF the estates
granted to the original owners, If liquor selling
be permitted The State laws, under which
these proprietors gained corporation privileges.
provide for the exclusion of all liquor dealers
within mile Of either resort.
So rapid have both communities outgrown
the expectations of their temperate and reig-
Gus founders that the restriction is enforced
now, only in a measure; and, it cannot truth
FULLY be averred that intenperance Is wholly
banished In either Ocean Grove or Asbury
Park. Many of the drugstores in Asbury Park
have have done a fourishins business in handling
are so great that but few can resist the tempta-
tion. To-day there is a warrant out for the ar.
rest OF Robert B. Cusack for selling liquor
without prescription.
THE DRUGSTORE SALOONS.
At the drugstores which sell liquor there is
wellequipped bar, and admission IS easily
gained. Prices are about double ordinary
saloon charges. 1t has been claimed that these
stores employ runners" who inform the bibu-
lous where they can easily and safely slake
their thirst with supply of the ardent. Some
bootblacks along the beach and at the hotels
are instructed to quietly sound their patrons;
and, If all is well, they then hand TO their Gus
toners cards bearing the address of the stores.
BY cautiously approaching the clerks at the
pharmacy" and showing card, almost any
one viii be introduced TO little back room
where nothing Is lacking in the way of beer. ale
or stronger drinks of any Kind. The bootblacks
and other agents of the drugstores receive q
comUission tor every man they send
Anyone with physicians prescription for
spiritus fermenti, or anything else, can have it
filled, carry it away and have no questions
asked. Nearly all the drugstores readily fill
such orders, and some of the doctors write them
freely.
The hotels are not reluctant as o rule in FILL
ing the orders of good paying guests. There
are very few hotels not supplied regularly with
cases OF beer, champagne and packages of
other similar refreshment. Large quantities.
from case to barrel are easily obtained
from Avon, Long Branch or Red Bank. The
greater part. however, supplied to cottage and
hotel people comes from New Y ork and Phila-
delphia by freight or express.
HOW ONE HOTEL WORKS IT.
One hotel has hit upon the brilliant scheme Of
providing its guests with order cards. Sup
piled with these. the boarders fill them out and
their walters bring on the sparkling draughts.
These cards read as follows: please serve
from my private stock - bottles of - and
charge corkage to my account -" The
charge appears in the weekly bills for enter
tainment.
Even Ocean Grove cannot escape the people
with an inclination to take something Tor
their stomach's sake" Numbers of hotel men,
in the great campmeeting resort, assert that
hardly trunk comes into their houses that does
not contain liquors to be used, presumably in
flf nd hn
sure to arise after a cool bath in the sea or a
warm walk in the sun. The Ocean Grove
authorities own the two dTugstores within
their jurisdiction and lease them on short
terms to carefully watched men. A mere sus-
picion is sufficient ground for Withholding the
renewal of lease, and, besides, every prescrip-
tion for spirituous liquors Is recorded and re-
ported to the association. The druggists are
not permitted to fill physicians prescription
unless it come from a resident practitioner in
Asbury Park or Ocean Grove. And he must
further have registered his diploma at the
county seat and at the Office Of the Ocean
Grove Campmeeting Association.
RED-TAPED PRESCRIPTIONS.
The ordinances read as follows:
Every such prescription shall be recorded in
special book for the purpose, which shall give
the article prescribed, quantity, PHYSICIANS
name, patients name, and address and date.
mo prescription shall be renewed without
new prescription from the physician in charge. |
mo copies Of prescriptions for liquors shall
be given, and the original prescription shall be
retained by the druggist.
The sale of such articles as Scheidam |
Schnopps'. Wild Cherry and the various 30. |
called Ditters are forbidden"
The pharmacists are not allowed to sell tobac- |
CO in any form; and it cannot be obtained at any
store in Ocean Grove. Many of the hotels how |
ever, sell cigars more or less openly, although |
this is punished, when found out, by fine OF S. |
for each and every offense.
Yet, while lnfractions of the association |
ordinance at the Ocean Grove drug stores are |
few and far between, the thirsty and knowing |
are easily supplied by sundry persons whose |
secret trade is not SO much as suspected, even |
when an occasional policeman is seen stagger- |
ing about the camp grounds. Certain hotels |
have back passageways leading to cool rooms |
where beer and whisky are solu under pledge |
OF secrecy and at prices that would appall the |
ordinary drlnker. As a Cry of horror would |
arise from the entire community if these places
were disclosed, and the consequences would be |
fatal to the continuance of their proprietors in |
Ocean Grove, the business is CO nducted in the
most cautious manner imaginable. Though /
there are more intemperate men seen at the |
hotels and on the beach and walks at these twin
resorts, Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, than
ever before, yet the proportion is probably less
than when the resorts contained but a few