Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-07
AT LONG BRANCH.
Trip Down the Bay Past Governors
Island, Bartholdi Statue and
the Shipping.
sport with the BrlOws Followed by Clam
ChOwdpr-Transfer Of the Remains Of
Ericsson to His Native Land.
WEST END HoTEG, I

WEST END HOTEL,
LoEG BRANCH, N. Y, Aug. Is, 1881.
Dear Gazette:
when I sit down to write these letters my
chaotic cropping after the right thing reminds
me OF the intoxicated gentleman who, finding
himself on his own ''stOOp' at midnight,
called ont to his wife. 'say-hic-you get up
and bring me down er. hic, bunch er pass keys,
sorted Sizes
l am bewildered by the number OF openings.
This Place, though resting OF late season,
somewhat under the ban of the 40, is just as
beautiful rs twas in its palmest days OF popu-
larity. Thank heaven, no within OF nor
caprice OF fashion can shorten nor Garken this
glorious stretch of white beach, nor make com
NOM lace the majesty Of these grand old bill
lows as ,heF come roaring in, verliable lions OF
power and voice. with their tawnv names tossed
landward. Yet how gentle the beasts can be;
how tn y dimple with laughter and sunshine ana
rock and sing to one on their bosom!
The surf here a. much higher than a. COney
Island OF Manhattan, aud is said to be the most
dangerous along the coast, but II Is lrresistlby
In.IHng. strong ropes encourage the tlmld
hands. Will stalwart lite-savers ii blouse and
IauialCOn with siuewy b own legs bare to the
knees loll on the sand with nonchalant body,
but watChfIl eager eyes II is really too cold
Tor bathing, but Gus stay is short and our va.ch'
word on this trip ls cape diem: Do you
kuoV what the fascination OF altitude isr
Well, 90 to my friends discontinue OF nerve;
an this yarv same daredeyjlness takes possess
sion OF me in the water. / love 1t SO. have
NEVER HAD ENOUGH
Of it in my prairie-stricken life then am
afraid Of il, at the same time dreading and
ed0rug it with the sensations OF bird under
the evil eye OF a serpent. Uncons ciously | go
further and further. meeting the huge pillows
half way, and rejoicing with Tapturous delight
IN their contempt for my frail personality.
There are just three immortals in my temple OF
ideals, which have never disap pointed me,
never shown the vulnerable spot ike that said
TO have been on Achilles god-like heel-they
axe the HuCsOu river, the Rocky mountains and
the Atlantic ocean. Every other anticipated
grandeur IN my eager, aspiring life has fallen
sadly short of its luCal. Grand Opers-no, not
the operas. but the artists AMI voices which in
tcrRreted them, Great actors, even Booth, /,
have dared TO imagine q greater than he! Fine
architecture, cities in toto, ALL all smaller and
more finite than nv own conception! Bat this
ocean! sublime iuhnitude, how it appeals to all
that is high ana coed and ennobling I'm the ambi-
uous soul, tapping off boundaries and laughing
in the face OF can't
However, believe this to be letter and not
new apcstrOphe 70 tn ocean TIE sai down
from New York is a charming one, the distance
OF twenty-five miles ma1e In something less
than three hours, past Governors Island, the
Bartholdi statue, and AL the fine steamers,
iron-clais, ferrT aud pleasure boa-s IN the bay;
then through the narrows, with Fort LAFAYETTE
one side and Fort wadsworth on the other
Here the channel widens and Quarantine Island
marks the c inter-, high ridge OF rocks with the
hospitals and wards reTched on top of them, =
dreary, unlnvi;ing spot, truly in which not
long. OF 10 the left
COMFY ISLAND.
With its big drab elephant, sea beach, like a
white ribbon, and Brighton and Manhattan lust
visio in g!ints around the curve; to the right
space. green water, white cans and a misty
leaden horizon coming down where the vision
falls short, emphasized here and IN ere by a sail
boat with its white wings taut against tn wind.
The sea grows rougher as we near Sandy Hook
and the big waves dash against the fog bells
near the shore, making them ton dismally Net
far from there is a wreck, ITS masts risinS hove
the breakers and a wretking boat anchored
near Sandy Hook has su peru beach such a
long one. as smooth and white as Calves ton
beach. Then comes seRbright Monmouth beach
where they have the famous Monmouth races
and finally Long Branch, with its magnificent
line OF hotels and cottages" OF save the
mark, for they are mansions facing the rier-
Notwithstanding the directions concerning, and