West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-07-12


have a reckless, roliicking good
time and "see the elephant" go to
Atlantic City, Long Branch, Coney
Island, or most any Of the many
excursion resorts, but If you want
to come to the seashore with your
family and for health and comfort,
come to Asbury Park. Even the
far-famed Jersey mosquito shuns
the place, as he Is too much of an
imbiber to visit temperance town,
and We have yet to see one Of these
historic "birds of purgatorY."
The nights are 50 cool that you
have to sleep under cover, and in
the middle Of the day, when the
sun is very hot, there is a splendid
breeze from the ocean. There are
four daily and four weekly papers
published here, and thousands of
copies of the city dailies sold every
day by the newsboys. They wake
you up of morning crying the sale
of New York and Philadelphia pa
pers just from the press.
Like all reforms, this city goes to
extremes and refuses to allow any
train to stop in the city limits on
Sunday. So passengers to and from
here on the Sabbath get off and on
the trains at a little station called
Interlaken, a half mile out of the
city limits. but there are lots of
carriages, hacks and omnibuses
there for all trains and street cars
that run to all parts of the city, so
that this moral spasm amounts to
but little. AS newspaper men often
get special favors that are granted
to no one else, and generally break
the record in most everything they
undertake, it was left to the special
editorial train that arrived here last
Saturday night from Chicago, con-
tanning the delegates from the
Western States, to break this re-
cord also. The train pulled in
little after midnight and stopped at
the regular depot, where the citi-
zens' committee were waiting to
receive them, and the tired scribes
piled out regardless of the Sunday
law.
BY the way, some OF the delegates
from the far West were delayed in
getting here, and some failed alto
gether ON account Of the railroad
war in the West and the big strikes.
The trouble is likely to interfere
still more seriously with the attend
ance at the Educational Assoca-
ton, which convenes here Monday.
Many prominent educators are al
ready here and arriving on every
train. The Convention will be held
in the Educational Hall, large
circular building near the center of
the city.
The Editorial Convention was
held in the Park Auditorium,
much larger, newer aud finer place,
and situated right on the beach,
where we could hear what the wild
waves We're saying and get sea
breeze to salt down the many valu-
able papers presented by brain
workers from different sections. On
the beach, directly between the
Auditorium and the breakers, stands
a monument to mark the place
whore the packet ship, New Era, "
was wrecked in 1854 and over three
hundred lives lost.
Ocean Grove, a Methodist Camp
Meeting Ground with world wide
reputation, is o twin sister to As
bury Park and only separated from
it by beautiful little lake, a mile
long and a hundred yards wide,
spanned by several bridges. Ocean
Grove is similar to Asbury Park i'm
many respects, and ever more
orthodox in It's morals.
The new Auditorium, Just com
pleted this year, is a magni (icent
building aud contains seats for ten
thousand people. IL is constructed
very much like the great Mormon
Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. There
ure seats for FIVE hundred on the
stage aud about one thousand cleo
trio lights in the building. The
means for ingress aud egress and
lighting and ventilation and acous-