The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1894-09-08
AN EDITORIAL OUTING.

AN EDITORIAL OUTING.
The National Editorial Convention at
Asbury Park-A Thirty-Mile Car
riage Ride and Monster Clam Bake
The Baby Parade Good Bye to As
bury Park-A Steamboat Trip On
Long Island Sound The New York
Banquet-Conclusion.
NO 6.
Our last day but one at Asbury Park
was, perhaps, the most enjoyable of. all
"a fitting climax, as it we're, to a week
Of genuine enjoyment, unequalled in the
history Of the National Press association.
Saturday morning the citizens of Asbury
Park headed by Mayor Ten Brock. one of
OF the finest gentleman, by the way, one
runs across in month OF Sundays,
took the visitors on carriage ride Of
thirty miles through Long Branch, FL
beron, Hollywood, Seabright. Rumson
road and other neighboring resorts men
toned in former article, concluding
with genuine 0ld-fashioned clanl-bake
at Port-au-Peck on Pleasure Bay.
Personally, we came very ne0r missing
all this, for we had made our arrange
ments to go to New York. but luckily
postponed going until later. 1t was a
most fortunate change of program on
our part for We would have missed one
of the most delightful features of the
itinerary. The writer had seen the best
of most Of the states east of the Mlssiss-
ippl, but they all went down in his mind,
when compared with the coast of New
Jersey. 1t is certainly the most bcauti-
full country we ever gazed upon. 1t
seems to be place where money is spent
and not made and the evidence of the
wealth Of New York and Philadelphia
millionairs abound on every side There
are no farm houses, strictly speaking,
in the whole country Of which we write
but Instead the most elegant country
residences. RunsOm road is a long
boulevard near Pleasure Bay, lined with
the finest collection OF costly country
houses in the world. Many of them cost
a quarter of million dollars and occu-
py grounds covering twenty-five to fifty
acres kept in the highest art of landscape
gardening. Washington is considered a
beautiful city by all visitors, but one
cannot imagine how shabby and dirty
and cheap it looked to us after this car
riage ride through this second Eden.
| About six hundred were OH the carriage
drive and it made procession the like
of which the natives never saw. OF
course we had the best private turnouts
Asbury Park could afford and then drew
on Long Branch for more. The carriages
strung out mile or more and We made
a very imposing appearance we sup
posed. A couple street Arabs in Sea-
bright let us down peg or two as we
drove into town by singing out;
Hello, Coxeys."
Elberon, located on the ocean between
Asbury Park and Long Branch, contains
the summer houses of Geo. w. Childs,
Geo. M. Pullman, Mary Anderson, A. J.
Drexel, Mrs. Winslow Of soothing syrup
fame, and many others. Childs and
Drexel are both dead and their cottages
are occupied by others. Elberon was
made famous as the place where Gar
field died. The cottage where he passed
SO many hours Of suffering is a very
plain structure compared with many
Others. 1t is located almost on the beach
within fifty feet Of the sea; no trees, NO
shrubbery but the most beautiful OF
lawns; lovely spot to live; too charming
a place to die. As one looked upon the
cottage and its environments one could
not help but recall Blaine's tender eulopy
of Garfield. 1t was delivered in the house
of representatives before both houses OF
congress, and closed with this eloquent
peroratlon. picturing Garfield's last
days:
, "As the end drew near his craving for
; the sea returned. The stately mansion
OF power h"d been to him the wearisome
, hospital OF pain, and lie begged to be
, taken from its prison wallis from its
oppressive, sitting air, from it's homeless.
ness. Gently, silently the love of u great
} people bore the pale sufferer to the longed
, for healing of the sea, to live or die as
/ God should will within sight Of its heav-
!, ing billows, within sounds OF its mani.
fold voices. With wan, fevered face ten.
derly lifted to the cooling breeze he
looked wistfully upon the seas changing
wonders; on its far sails whitening in
, the morning light; on its restless waves
rolling sh0reWard to break and die be.
meath the MONDAY sun; on the red clouds
, of evening arching low to the horizon
on the serene and shining pathway OF
the stars. Let US think that his dying
eyes read a mystic meaning which only
the rapt and parting soul may know
Let us believe that in the silence OF the
receding world he heard the great waves
breaking on a further shore and felt
already upon his brow the breath OF the
eternal morning"
, Hollywood is the place made famous
by John Hoey. The Hollywood House
t has more costly decorations than any
other hotel OH this hemisphere, small
fortune being expended in the decoration
of each room.
3 There was brief stop at Long Branch
contrary to the days program, Proprie.
tor Hildreth of the great West End Hotel
insisted upon the editors and their ladies
taking lunch with him. The delightful
| ride along the beach in the cool salt all
} had sharpened all appetitcs and ther,
were no serious objections. The immense
dining room, with seating capacity Of
1.s00 people, was thrown open and {
nice lunch was served expeditiously ant
faultlessly.
And the clam-bake.
1t was worth the long journey to thu
New Jersey coast just to participate il
thaf Glam .hoka Thn ana ~ Dat =.