The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-08-23
SUMMER CHIT CHAT.
Pleasures Of the Season at
Park, Grove and
Branch.
sHELTERISLAND HEARDFRoM
e0sslp and News About Jersey City
People On Their Summer
Outings.
SHELTERISLAND HEARDFRoM
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- - - HtS ottttdUv morning Nelts.
AsBuRf PARK, Aug. %. 1s9l.-rhe ex-
slemely warm weather has driven thou
sands OF people this week to all the sea-
SIDE resorts. In fact some Of the hotels
nave been SO crowded that the parlors.
billiard rooms and other available places
whore cots could be placed have had to
serve as sleeping rooms.
Aspury Park and Ocean Grove have
been full Of new arrivals. During the
past week hereiigious meetings have at
lracted many people to the Grove. AS
large number as two thousand young
people were present at the young peoples
meetings in she Temple.
At the Holiness meeting on Friday an
exciting exhortatfon was given by Rev.
Dr. Richards.
About five thousand people attended
Ine service Of preaching in the morning.
~ Was opened with an invocation by the
hev- Mr. Freshman OF New York, the SER
mon being preached by the Rev. DR..
George q Strowbridge of New York
Inc Mothers meeting like all the
o1ner ones, was interesting. An address
py Mrs. Mary Sparks Wheeler on PA
thence In the Household was especially
all.
Rev. A. c. Dixon, D. D.. of Brooklyn
preached an able sermon in the AFTERNOON
which was followed by revival. service
Over three hundred little ones were
present at the children's meeting, it being
led BY Louis KloDsch.
DR. Graham OF Troy in the evening
preached TO four thousand people. A re-
ylva1 service was afterwards inaugurated
and lasted until eleven O'Clock.
WHEELMEN AT ASBURY PARK
The Wheelmen,s meeting is Just now
excitfngthe Asbury Park people. 1t will
occur on Friday and Saturday of this
week. The Athletic Association will
furnish tents and cots for the wheelmen,
aud meals will be served on the grounds,
the men forming in line ana marching TO
them in military style. Everything will
be in readiness for the bicyclists on
Thursday. The meeting will formally
open Friday morning, when Governor
Albeit Will be present and address them.
An interesting programme of races is
arranged for each afternoon. One of the
contests will be a team race for a silver
trophy, which is to be contested for an
nualIy. Medals of gold will reward the
winners in some of the other races.
Prominent wheelmen from several diff
ferent States intend to be present and
take part.
Among the arrivals from Jersey City
noticed Hon. Charles Il. Winfield. Prose-
cutor OF the Pleas of Hudson County.
DANCING EVERYWHERE
Last night brilliant hops were held at
all the hotels. Saturday nights as a rule
are given TO dancing, IL being the time
when young men come down from the
city. The Children's Carnival, under She
management of Professor Dare, achieved
so great success that 1t will be repeated
this week. The fairy-like dancing Of the
little ones was surprising TO behold.
AT LONG BRANCH.
Long Branch will be unusually
brilliant this week owing to the Harvest
Seaside Festival at the West End Hotel
on Thursday night. Many people have
already arrived to attend the long antic-
iputed event. Among the ladies' at the
cottages and hotels the affair bias been
the topic of conversation for the last two
weeks. Fifteen thousand Invitations
have been issued, and it is estimated that
ten thousand people will attend.
The shooting grounds at the Branch
are particularly attractive, indeed they
are said TO be the finest in the State.
Another pleasant, social event which
is in prospect here is the Charity Ball, to
take place Thursday night in the club
house on the RHmson Road. 1t will
probably be an elaborate affair, and one
of the most important of the season, be-
ing the first Charity Ball ever given in
Monmouth county. Governor Hill is tax
ing great interest in it and will attend
The proceeds are for the Babies Hospital
al Oceanic.
A QUEER QUEST
Highlands of Navesink. like all the
other watering places. has been alive
with gaiety. Notwithstanding the Their
mometer has registered far up in the
ninetes.
Considerable excitement has prevailed
TOR several days oyor rather eccentric
guest at one of the hotels Every day he
perambulates about the lawns aud the
piazzas with an enormous pistol strapped
to his waist He declares that
every day is his lastoue on earth. After he
bids farewell to all the walters, barkeep-
ers and servants in the afternoon he
makes sudden disappearance. At first,
as it was expected that his lifeless body
would be found either floating down the
river or in the woods, it was thought adj
yjsable to watch him. He was traced
10 Hartshorne's Woods, whore under
tree be was found sleeping. To the sur
prise OF all the pistol was found to be a
solid oak one. gotten up in a grand style,
with a bogus bore one inch deep. The
man is the son of a wealthy broker, and
the Highland people have decided to let
him continue his suicidal threats.