Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-14

considered from any social standpoint 1t
is, however, extremely popular, and its
chief patrons are those who are yet SO
deeply engaged in business in New York
that they cannot afford to be far away.
Those who graduate in business and be-
come rich enough to be free go farther
North, and in the end devote their summers
to crossing the sea to Europe. This is be-
coming the practice more and more of the
highest social classes in this country.
have been witness to many of the features
of this modern growth in riches and power
of the Hebrews il New York. Some five
wears ago when was at Long Branch the
principal people now in the cottages were
in the hotels. They have graduated into
cottage life and are succeeded by another
generation OF the up-coming, who do not as
yet dress with the splendor and magnif-
cence of their predecessors The children
are numerous and we'll cared for. They
will in this one regard surpass many OF the
competing races in point of numbers. They
are prolific and healthy. Whether the
future generations of the people will be as
full of health 1 doubt. The elder women
dress in an easy way and never lace them
selves. They have been accustomed to
work and occupation. The younger Hebrew
women follow the French models and are
so averse to exercise that the splendid
health of this race must inevitably dete-
riorate.
Rules OF Health Violated.
I do not see how the proprietors of any
Of the American plan hotels at these sea
beach places can make any money The
highest charge of this class is S4 80 day.
For this they furnish in addition to the
rooms four meals each day. The majority
of the guests eat as if they were working on
wager. I have seen guests at breakfast
eat beefsteaks, three or four chops, mullins
and rolls, and wind up with eggs and fruit.
1 saw slim figured girl at one of the lunch
tables the other day who had on her plate
at the same time potato salad, roast beef,
boiled chicken, picked oysters and tritters.
The plate was filled from edge to edge.
She ate of first one thing and then the other,
and was Just beginning to order something
else when 1 left the table. People who
come here and eat in this extraordinary way
six or eight pounds day Of heavy food sit
around in the chairs on the porches without
exercise and wonder in the course ofa week
or two why it is that the sea air does not
agree better with them. Very few people
who come to these places observe the most
ordinary rules for the preservation of health.
II thev were to remain as sluggish and inert
at home and to eat in the same wolf-like
wav they would be dead inside of three
months.
1t must be remembered, however, that the
majority of people who come to these places
during the season are those who live quietly
during the balance of the year. The excite
ment and the uproar of living like bees in
hive amuses them. The parade of gowns,
the chatter about diamonds, the discussion
of stocks and of horses, make up an under
current Of tone which is the sweetest Of
music to people who in the main live quiet,
retired lives.
Gambling Games Run Honestly.
The gambling at Long Branch goes on
year by year without any apparent diff
Guilty. 1t mas none of the elegance, how
ever, of the gambling at Monaco There
the Casino is palace and the players are
the men and women of the high sporting
world of Europe. Here the gambling
houses are comfortable cottages. The local
people are not allowed to play in them. It
is only the visitors who have the free run
of the tables 1t is held by the authorities |
here that there is no reason why gambling |
should be interfered with at a summer re- |
sort The people who come 20 these places
are supposed to have plenty of money and |
to have enough experience to look after
Ivisited the other night the Pennsyl-
vania Club and walked around the tables
The patrons were mainly men from 20 to 40
years of age of the type generally found
around the bookmakers on the race tracks
I mean the average. In the crowd there
was no great plunger. The bets ranged
from IS to 500. Every table was occupied,
and should say roundlv that the average
game at the club was about 81 900 an hour.
The average profit of these places is in the
Of 81, 600 night during. the
season, T. G. CRAWFORD.