The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-24
Society Topics.

The crowds at the watering places grow
larger and larger every day, At the sea-
side the boardwaiks and eean promen-
AIDES are crowded every night, and at the
mountains the hop rooms and summer
houses are in the same condition. 1t is
a strange fact tina although the hotel
and boarding house keepers bewail the
hard times and the bad season, and say
they never before had their rooms so emp
ty, the crowd at all resorts is in nowise
diminished. At the seaside the boardwalks
are so croNsaed each right that it is nexz
to impossible to get on them after the
time when the crowd begins to arrive.
At beach pavilions, where the bands play,
it is impossible to find a seat ten minutes
after the first piece has been played.
Whether people are music lovers or no,
whether they know ssYarkee doodle"
from "Old Hundred at the first strains
OF the beach band, there is a stampede for
the pavilion. No one stops talking while
the band IS playing; no one seems to pay
much attention to what the band Is play
ing, yet almost every piece is enthusiast
tically encored.
There are a number of improvements
and new places along the Jersey coast
this year. Asbury Park has several new
hotels. boarding houses and cottages, and
since last summer all the streets in the
park have been paved with gravel ard
cement, so tina now a bicyclist may ride
in any part of the park without fear of
getting stuck either in heavy sand or
mud. Long Branch also has made an i'm
provement in this direction. and has "
or three macadamized roads where for
merly there was heavy dirt and in rainy
weather mud. Now one can rid on a good
all the way from Pleasure Bay to Shark
River. There is talk of a good shore road
between Asbury Park and Long Branch,
but it Will rot be completed this season.
A cycle path is now being built in Asnury
Park along Wesley Lake to the brick
ocean cycle path.
Visitors to the vicinity of Long Branch
and Asbury Park gave some difficulty at
first in recognizing the old landmarks.
Darlington IS becoming quite a place. Al
most every available lot holds a cottage,
and next to Darlington Is a new place,
A%llenhurst, which has sprung into exist
ence since last summer. Alienhurst IS
built on the old Allen house grounds
which used to spread along both sides of
the old Long raneh road. Although al
most mushroom in it's existence the
houses are very substantial in appearance
ana do not look as if a breath of any
kind. even of a giant, would destroy them.
Allerhurst quite o~vershadows poor little
Loeb Arbour.
But what makes the greatest change
what makes sober Deal and staid AS
bury and fashionable Interlaken almost
unacceptable? What would startle
some of the old settlers fatally, and what,
it is rumored, has caused Father Stokes
of Ocean Grove camp-meeting fame many
sleepless nights, is-a toboggan ehutei It
is not a toboggan chute that winds round
and round and comes in quietly at the
last with no excitement whatever. one of
those chutes that take just So seconds
for each turn. but it is one of those
exciting perilous chutes that send the
people in the car down a steep incline
right into the placid waters of Deal Lake.
right under the fashionable eyes of all IN
terlaken. This chute is painted a glaring
white, and it is an utter impossibility for
anyone to keep from seeing it. Not even
Father Stokes, try he ever so hard, could
keep from seeing that chute and being
worried by it.
There is one thing about Asbury which
has not changed. Among all the wor-
ries and bad seasons, the Baby Parade
is not forgotten. This year it will be
held Saturday afternoon, August Is. The
children are as usual deeply instructed
and the mothers are busy trying to in
vent some original and unique decora-
ton. Babies are not at a premium. and
each mother is besfeged with sugges-
tons and fiattering remarks as to the
certainty of the prize falling to her dar-
ling.
The bicycle parade at Long Branch this
week was of interest to people all along
the shore. Tally-hoes, drags. carriages
and even stages We're pressed into SER
vice and gay parties drove to see the
parade Mrs. w. W. Farrier, who is now
staying at The Hotel Brunsw1ck. Asbury
Fark, was one of a large tally-ho party
rom that hotel. Mrs. Farrier IS one of
the most popular guests al that hotel.
and she and Mrs. Charles II. Winfield.
ASo - StdylHS lln9ro, uphold the
nonors Of Jersey City admirably. at the
brunswick hop Saturday night, Mrs. Far
rier wore a gown of pale pink brocade
and Powered chiffon. ina Mrs. Winfield
vas gcwned in black and yellow chiffon.
The meeting of the Epworth League at
Ocean Grove attracted many TO that place
Mr.. George H.. Lincks, Of this city. one
Of the viee-Presidents. was there. The
School of Methods, which has been con-
Quoted at the amp by Mrs. Emma Bourne
mas had a number Of Jersey City visitors.
among whom are Mrs. Hannah Cairns.
Mrs. w H. Beach and Mrs. A. II.
Swenarton.
Senator Bradley added to mis- collection
Of sea animals by a porpofse, but the
porpoise concluded he would rather die
than be obliged to remain in a tank with
VIC turtles and a harbor seal, so now Mr..
Bradley has announced his inten don Of
making two pairs Of slippers Of The hide
and presenting them to Mckinley and
Hobart.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Brooks. Of the Heights,
are at the Brunswick, Asbury Park.
Prosecutor and Mrs. Charles II. win
ED have returned this summer to the
Brunswick. where thew have been far