The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-31
BETWEEN SEASONS.
Society People Flocking
Back to Town, but Not -
Yet Settled.
VERY EARLY FALL
Glorious Scene at Asbury Park.
The Mountainous Spring Tides
Fitting TO and Fro Of
Jersey City Folk.

Social matters are in that painful
period between seasons when things are
at their very dullest Many people have
returned home from their summer out
ings, but they have not settled down and
put their houses in order for the fall cam
paign of dinners, dances and weddings.
Their desertion, meantime, leaves the
seaside resorts lonely and chill The
music and life of merry making crowds
has passed away from the coast resorts,
and hundreds of boarded up windows are
already staring at the sad sea waves.
The summer season has waned unusu-
ally early. The cold and rain Of the
week before last did it. They started the
exodus from the summer resorts, and the
sunshine and bracing airs of the past
week did not suffice to turn the tide. The
railway stations have been clogged with
baggage during the week, and the ex-
press companies have been working late
o. nights. Sunburn has been the fashion
able shade of complexion, and all the
gossip OF the stores, the cars and the few
church meetings has been of fair weather
adventure and the evanescent conquests
of holiday life.
Some of the social luminaries who have
been driven from the seaside have gone
to the mountains or the grass lands to
grow plump and sleek Society doctors
recommend this course. you know. First
take course of salt air and water TO get
your system in order, they say, then fit
TO the regions OF bnttermilks and eggs to
reap the benefit of the toning up process.
Those who remained at the sea shores.
Notwithstanding the cool air, enjoyed
last night one of the grandest sights they
ever witnessed. 1t was full moon and
high tide. The scene was a wild one and
the surf was the toughest that it has been
since the September hurricane of last
year. The planets were in position for
spring tides ana, with the added impulse
of the high southeast wind which had
been blowing continuously Tor several
hours forced the water the highest and
caused the most damage that has been
done this summer.
The pillows rolled in continuously,
breaking tull on the exposed bulkheads
OF the Plaza, and hurting vast clouds of
spray and solid columns of water to an
incredible height. The sight was the
grandest and most extraordinary one
That has ever been witnessed on the
Asbury Park beach. Fhe waves hurled
themselves full onto the Plaza. leapin q
upward, and then rushing backward to
meet the incoming billow with terrific
impact, churning the sea into foam and
leaping again into the air.
The force of the collision between the
waves W as so great as to hurl great tim
hers high in the air, one large fragment
of pile being tossed bodily on the fish
ing pier.
sheets of foam flew entirely across the
Plaza, sprinkling many of the onlookers
and deluging not few Of the more ven
ruresome-
The scene on the beach was novel and
weird one. When the waves had sub
sided, everywhere. under the glimmerine
rays of the moon, lay shattered and dis
POINTED parts of the wrecked Piazza and
tearing away here and strengthening
there, and removing everything of value
back, out of the reach of the mornings
high tide. No one of the ten thousand
people who witnessed this sight win ever
forget it.