Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-09-05
Letter from the seashore.
OCEAN GROVE, y. j..
Aupust 30 1895.

August 80, 1879.
DEAR REGIsTER-I thought some of
YOUR readers might be interested in this
great Methodist seaside resort enough
to read few moments.
Ii was laid off in 1870, six miles from
Long Branch, and every lot sold has a
clause in the deed forbidding sale of
liquors and conformity TO certain rules
which no christian could object to, and
now after twenty-five years Ocean Grove
is the most delightfully."- quiet and we'll
behaved place one can find along the
Atlantic coast The great Auditorium,
erected in 1894. seats 5000, and at the
great Messiah concert last week $4,000
heard it. Asbury Park, adjoining Ocean
Grove, is little more liberal in its rules
and the two towns have thirty or forty
thousand visitors in July and August.
The life-saving station here has a rec
ord posted of eight or ten wrecks in its
three miles of beach. the greatest being
the New Era" in which 306 lives were
lost and which helped greatly in getting
the service established by its fearful
loss of life.
Four religious services are held daily
with half hour song service before each
morning and evening sermon. The four
Park sisters. celebrated cornetiSts, were
very enthusiastically received, as well
as soloists. violinists. &c. These SER
vices are very delightful and one has TO
watch for fear of religious dissipation.
At the bathing places here the water
is shallow at some places for one hun
dred wards and at others deep after
twenty feet. All sorts of bathing cos
tunes are in use, but the blues with
skirt to knees for ladies predominateS.
MANY dress at their homes or hotels and
walk to the beach in bathing suits,
which nobody seemed to think out OF
the way. Bishop Newman took swim
in the warmed swimming pool one day.
! This pool is the small boys delight and
many here learn to swim after few
trials. The Bishop is good swimmer.
Here YOU have dozen beaches where
| life-guards seated on SiX-foot treStIcs
watch the bathers and at the least shout
a guard darts TO their assistance. III Is
said they saved sixty lives this season.
Grabbing and claiming may be en-
| loved in Shark river, nearby, reached
| by street cars Sharks seven or eight
feet long are often caught in fish nets
here. and last week Il seal weighing 80
pounds was thrown ashore by the waves
| and caught by batherS, also SOO-pound
turtle caught here and on exhibition.
When the camp-meeting IS not going
on. popular lecturers are engaged by the
managers, all free except collection.
| Gen. Gordon gave his great lecture,
Last DAYS Of the Confederacy, here
August 10th. and 5000 listened two and
a-half hours to him and gave him tu-
multuous applause and the Chautauqua
salute at the close. Everyone greatly
| pleased.
Carriages 90 to Long Branch and FL
boron every day and the drive along the
ocean and superb cottages of New lork
nabobs please the eye Here are the
| Grant. Garfield, Hoey, Soothing Syrup,
Winslow, Soapman Babbitt and lots of
others, and last and least Jim Corbett 5
! So. 600 home and farm where he is train
| ing for his coming fight.
At Long Branch the ocean wears into
| the valuable villa sites and costs thou
sands to hold her in check. The Phi
| Daley gambling house at Long Branch
| looks like fine residence with such fine
flowers gardens in front. \ trip to New
York from here costs only 81 90. and is
made on waters inside the bar, so no
| seasickneSs. Go and return on same day
and see New York harbor sights grand
| trip.
This resort in my mind beats the 9th
erS for a good, quiet time for family.
Yours truly,
JAS. VI. ENGLE.