The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-25
THE WAKE OF THE STORM
Nothing Like 1t Seen Along
the Coast Since Eighty
Three.
OCEAN GROVEASDFFERER
Flooded Streets. Damaged Roofs.
and Tents Blown Into the Lake
Few New Arrivals at the
Hotels.
GROVEASUFEERER
special to The Jersev cYtv Ne,es,

Special to The JERSEY City Netcs,
AsBuRY PARK. Aug. 25. lsg3..-And yet
there are people who say Asbury Park is
quie.-eveu slow.
Qniet-quaet is II, with all the winds of
well. let 1t go as the winda OF heaven,
since they blow over q camp meeting. but
there might be q question anoat 1.-THE
winds Of heaven. shrieking in more keys
than the local brass bands-the board
WALK coming up and the roofs comtng
down, and the edge of the Atlantic Ocean
pounding up and down on the edge OF
Asbury Parki Slow is it-with the
breeze blowing forty-three miles an hour
and the tents sailing away one mile faster
and the owners of the tents pursuing
their property one mile faster yel?
Seine people will never be satisfied.
But there Is something left tor rs to
keep up our spirits with. We are like
the lady who came to complain OF her
husbands conduct in the course OF. q
family Jar. As much OF her tace as was
not in asllng was y deep and dark blue.
When the police justice expressed his
sympathy with her battered state she
replied with commendabls pride: "Ah.
yer Auner. wait till ye see Dinny, me
inonl'' Before you commiserate AsburT
Park, wait till you interview Ocean
Grove.
OCEAN GROVES PHI CHIT.
Lillagore's, historic LillaR ores is al
most u wreck. Tne soda fouptain is a
beautIful collection of old junk. This
IN eans a good deal in Ocesn Grows. On
ST ockton and Franklin avenues there are
tent floors aud house loys. but The rents.
Oh, where are they? Among tae suffs r.
= Mr. r n Stuosf IF .Taraav Gifv On
Stockton avenue. and Mrs. Schwartz. of
JERSEY CITY, on Franklin avenue. MI.
J.. H. Huxley, OF Bayoane, was sitting at
midnight ia his guarded tent
when the roof and the walls
and the lighter furniture deserted
lost" advertisement. The worst case
OF unkinduess on the part of elements
was Inflicted on the Rev. w. A. Gardt-
ner, u popular clergymen Of New York
city. lie mad brought down n large and
valuable reference library aud stored IL
in his tent. Along came the zsphyrs and
dumped the tent into the lake. or some
other equally inaccessible place. The
Rev. Mr. Gardiner WILL camp no more.
The reporters could get no copy on the
wires because there were no wires along
the coast. There was plenty to write. rs
for instance. that the Hotel Columbia
had lost its roof. that the Duncan Honse
uAQ IuSb us tOWEEs tuAt bup DtAsfiuy o6ACu
pound had been pounded into kindlina
Wool, and That the old pier that Mr..
Bradley was going to tear down has
obiigingly taken itself away without
human assistance.
THE MARY KELLY WRECKED.
The worst OF all Is the wreck Of the
schooner Mary I. Kelly Of Brookiyn with
four men drowned. She lies-fiigh up ON
the beach ut the foot Of Sixth avenue.
Her Captain. Christopher Grattsn, went
down like y hero, encouraging his men.
j.. Edward Wortman forded tao chRauel
bstween Ashury Park aud Deai Beech
In waist deep water to summon fhe iife-
avinx crew aud succeeded in getting 1t
hauled 10 the wreck. Inc rescued sailors
were the guests OF honor 1T several
places, and left ON a late train for New
York. the richer by q substantial coliec-
tion from hotel guests.f
With all this the list of new arrivals is
small. From Jersey City thsre are Mrs.
j. w. Mullins. and nurse, a6 the LeRoy;
Mr.. aud Mrs. John j. Cone. Mar. E. 4.
Cone, the Misses Cone ana maid, Al the
B~runswick; Mrs. Thomas Halsey ~ she
Nations al ocean Grove, aud Mr.. l..
Stanley Davis aud Il. Shaulsy Davis,
Jr.. Of HoboKen at the sheldon, Ocean
Grove.