Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-31
THE GREAT CAMP MEETING
Thousands Attending tho Interesting Ser
vices at Ocean Grove, N. ].
Some Powerful Addresses Delivered
in the Authoritative United
States Senator's Speak.
Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Correspondence OF The Evening star.
ASBURY PARK, NJ, August ~, 1895.
From here to Sea Girt, to witness the
rifle shooters from forty states compete for
New Jersey prizes, is ride about the dis
lance from the Capitol to Bladensburg,
where members went half century ago to
shoot at one another for honor" From
here to Elberon. where Garfield died four
teen years ago, is but a trolley ride, or by
railroad in the other direction from Sea
Girt and about the same distance. then two
miles further to Long Branch Intervening
on either route are the delightful resorts
Of Deal Avon, Belmar, Spring Lake and
Others FROM here to Ocean Grove is
short walk along the board walk or across
the bridge over Wesley lake. On Sundays
no carriages OF horses are allowed In Ocean
Grove. not even an undertaker's wagon
with ice for 4 corpse. Yet this week there
are 10000 people within the boundaries of
tn, Grove. housed in big hotels, cottages.
boarding houses or tents. No cigars are
sold in the Grove at any time, nor liquor
in either the Grove o. Asbury Park; that
is 1t is against the law. yet beer and liquor
are sold, on the sly. at high prices in these
cities Gov. Tillman, at the Asbury Park
auditorium last Sunday, after snort
speech from Mayor Strong of New York
CITY, said he wished the mayor God speed
in his efforts in New York" but quantity
added that 1.-The South Carolina plan OF
furnishing pure liquors by the state at a
moderate profit was the only soiutoh Oh
the liquor problem.
Two southern Senators have addressed
immense audiences here-Gordon and Till
man. The former delivered the same adj
dress and before, numerically, like au-
dience, as in Washington. Another orator
and former Washingtontan-Rev. w. V.
Tudor, D. D.-preached a powerful sermon
in the great auditorium last week Dr.
Tudor was formerly pastor of Mt. Vernon
her parents. Mr.. and Mrs S. T. G. Morsell,
is stopping in the Grove. Singularly
enough and seemingly incongruous-to
Episcopalians-Rev. Julins Grammer, Epis-
copal, of Baltimore, a native of Washing
ton, oper ed the series Of sermons at the
great camp meeting. preceding DR.. Tudor
one day. Rev. Sam Jones spoke at Edu-
cational Hall-the building brought from
the centennial by Founder Bradley and
given by him to the people here. Mr.. Brad
ley also gave corner lots to every denomi-
stand. Sam Jones' lecture cost 80 cents
ticket and the hall was not f1led; however,
Sunday, when only collection was to be
taken. the hall. was crowded. Col. H. H.
Hadley and brother, the originators of the
Rescue Missions in New York and else
where, are here with their co-workers,
many OF whom were rescued from the fall
en- and abandoned. some from prisons,
whose photos hung in rogues' galleries.
These men and women. too, are now earn
estly ats work for their aeiiowmen. Col.
Hadley some twenty years ago commenced
the practice of law In Washington.
The oratorio of The Mesbiah," under the
leadership of Walter Damrosch, filled to
overlooking the great auditorium, whose
seating capacity is 5000. Now nightly this
same auditorium is crowded by workers
and visitors to the great camp meeting
soon to close and end the season here.
Washingtonans are numerous. Among
the many are w. II. Webster, chief exam
liner of the civil service commission; B. H.
Stinemets, S. ]. Fague. w. F. Hoffman,
w. P. HaZen, Lewis J. Thompson C. A.
Shafer, H. A. Latimer, DR.. Louis W.
Richie, DR.. Mcdonald, Mrs Freelander
and Miss Dyrenforth, J. C. Ramage. Mrs.
w. Chandler, Miss Harrington, c. c. Bar
low. w. w. Handley, W. H. De Lacy, Mr..
and Mrs. Clifford Howard, Mr.. and Mrs
N. n. Case, Claude Miller, Geo. w. White,
A. Clephane, W. H. Singleton, Y. O. Cole,
Mrs. A. Q. Duvall and Miss Maggie Duvall,
Miss Brown and Maize Brown, o. A.
Brown and Helen ]. Brown, E. w. Wood
ruff, Mrs. J. Edw. Chapman. Misses Laura
Clements and Carrie Smith. Dr. Elmer
Sothoron and family, and many Others IN
cottages and visiting friends