The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-03

PARK AND GROVE.
News and Gossip from Jer-
seY's Great Ocean
Resorts.
SATURDAY NIGHTS GAYETY.
Doings Of a Busy Week---Well-
known Faces in the Throng
on the Board Walk.
speeial o be- sandag Morninq Ns1os.

AsBURY PARK, August 2, 1890. The
twenty-first anniversary of the founding
of Ocean Grove, and the holding of the
first camp meeting by the Ocean Grove
Camp Meeting Association, will be duly
celebrated tomorrow with interesting
services at the Auditorium.
The history of the Grove, and its neigh.
boring popular resort. Asbury Park, has
often been told to the many thousands
who from year to year have rested here
beside the sea, but even those most IA
miliar with the origin and growth OF
these places can scarcely begin to COM
prehend the wonderful changes effected
since the time when few earnest spirits
held that first camp meeting, in u small
tent, amid the scrub oaks and pines, and
the dense tangled wild priar that covered
the sandy, uninviting tract
The founders builded better than they
thought The camp meetings are now
held in an auditorium that viii accom-
MEDIATE 5000 persons, and the Young Peo-
PIES Temple, the James Memorial Taber-
nacle and the Thornley, Memorial Chapel,
that flank the camp nesting grounds. are
frequently unable during the season to
Accommodate the throngs that overflow
the Auditorium on special occasions
The tangled wildwood has given place
to beautiful village adorned by hand
some hotels, boarding and private cot
tages, and during the summer season by
pretty and neatly arranged tents, in
which the occupants enjoy a novel, rest
full existence. The numerous Streets and
avenues are shaded by maple and beech
trees. and the cottages IN many localities
are surrounded by pretty little lawns aud
by electricity. Water from artesian
wells supplies the village; the streets are
fairly severed: an efficient fire depart
ment with ample apparatus Is organized
for protection against FIRE, and an equally
efficient police force executes the orClin-
ances and affords such protection TO the
residents that robberies are almost un-
known. and women and children are per-
fectly secure from any annoyance.
These are some of the changes that the
years have brought to Ocean Grove.
Yearly the number of those who summer
here increases, aud never since the Grove
and Park were opened have there been as
many guests and cottagers as there are at
.his time. The number will be largely
increased this month, and especially dur
ing the camp meeting season.
GROVE AND PARK.
Asbury Park and Ocean Grove are only
separated by the narrow and pretty sheet
OF water known as Wesley Lake, but
there is a marked difference between
them in the provisions for enjoyment.
Ocean Grove offers lectures, literary en-
tertainments and concerts for the edftica-
ton Of its guests, and that is all. Asbury
Park has its fashionable and select hops.
its theatrical entertainments and every
respectable novelty to please it's residents
and patrons. The sale of liquor and beer
is prohibited in each place, but in the
Park one can buy cigar or paper OF
lid
in the Grove. Vehicles and electric cars
are seen on the streets of the Pal1 on
Sunday and Sunday papers and Sunday
milk can be readily procured. But
in the Grove no vehicle can be
driven on that day. even In
Sunday paper cannot be sold within the
Groves limits. ana those who get milk
on that day, have to go outside the gates.
1t is interesting to witness the scramble
for the lecteal by the Groveites on Sun
day morning. Every hotel, cottage and
tent is represented In it, Men, women
and children; housewives, and SER
wants of both colors hurry with all
sort of utensils from the big hotel milk
can, to the humble, Little pail or pitcher
from the tent. Outside the gates, the
milkmen. surrounded by crowd of i'm
Fortunate ones. dole out the fluid, while
a policeman is occasionally called upon to
stop the rush and maintain order. A
quiet. early delivery throughout the
Grove would not desecrate the day to the
extent that the present system does.
Saturday and Sunday evenings are the
eventful periods of the week, and both
resorts are then shown to the best ad-
vantage.
BRIGHT SCENES.
This evening | found the immense
throng on the promenade beside the sea-
While there was a respectable eddy set
..~A % pa1u n.
viion, the current of promenaders flowed
heavily and steadily toward Asbury PARK.
Wesley Lake, with its many gaiiy adorned
and handsomely illuminated boats NOV
ing over its surface, presented pictur-
esque scene under the flood OF light
thrown upon it by the moon and tie
many electric burners along the banks.
Ross Pavilion was thronged TO its utmost
CAPACITY and so was Bradley's, Just be-
yond. On the plaza little ones rode In
miniature chariots drawn by trained
goats, and the cxecrable music ground
out at the merry go-round on the edge Of
the lake attracted hundreds to partici-
patton in the sport, There were fashion
| able receptions and hops ut the Dromi-
| nent hotels, including the Ocean, Bruins
| wick, West End, Atlanta, Lake Avenue
| and the Coleman House, and the air was
| filled with delicious music.
Burk's circus on Sixth avenue was in
1 full blast, and fully 5000 persons Were in
I attendance to witness the show and the
| concluding novel scene that of genuine
marriage in the ring
| Another immense throng were congre-
| gated at the Roller Toboggan Chute,
| s'America's Greatest Novelty" where TO
| lively music hundreds were being shot In
small cars around the tracks from top to
bottom at dizzy pace, while hundreds
more were awaiting chances for the novel
| ride.
THE TRENToN's BAND.
Founder James A. Bradley has secured
| the excellent Marine Band, formerly at
tached to the Inflated United States
steamer Trenton, and every evening,
either at Bradley's or the Fifth Avenue
| Pavilions free and first-class concert is
given. The same band gives genuine
sacred concert Sunday evening at Brad
iey's and thousands listen to 1t Wi b
pleasure. The Ocean Grove managers
object to this innovation, az they do 10
the hurdy-gurdy music at the Merry
Go-Round, but the music continues just
the same.
DoINGs OF THE WEEK
The tenth annual camp meeting of the
National Temperance Publication Society