The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-15
MY name is Johnnie Doe.
81 reside on Bath avenue.
please return me home at II
o'clock"

Curious passers-by read the cards ana
the tots were towed home by friendly
hands at the appointed time.
That custom has prevailed from that day
TO this; and II you so to Ocean Grove this
week IN venture to wager that you VIII
find anywhere from one to one thousand
children upon the sand, all ticketed for
transportation at the proper time
But that Is not the whole of Ocean
Grove-unless you have children The
main thing is that you can do as you
please. You do not have to dress up. A
canvas yachting cap and a pair OF white
duck trousers with any kind of a shirt
and a suspicion of old shoes are about all
you need. In this simple array you can
wander out from your breakfast Of corn
cake, blue fish, creamed potatoes and
grace, and fetch up al one OF the paVil-
ions. Here you viii. find broad, pleasant
seats plenty OF music and a beach fuh
of bathers to amuse you. Unconsciously
you finger and when noon comes you Won
der where the morning has gone
The afternoon is no different at Ocean
Grove except that you crawl under the
pavilion and go to sleep, and the evening
is different only in that it is dark and
there is singing coming from all directions
the chanting Of the religious societies
that center in the interior of the grove
and hold there summer REVEALS there. You
won't believe it, and | don't expect you
TO, DuN the CDdfm OF Nearer MY AfOQ 10
Thee creeps over you and you find your
self stealing towards the great round au-
ditorium and listening unconsciously TO
the silver voice of DR.. Newman who goes
over his funeral sermon upon Grant and
his grafton upon the death OF young Le-
land Stanford-only in other words-and
you stop and listen longer than you
thought you would, wondering no longer
that millionaire will pay $4,000 for
eulogy in such snvered words or that a
Washington statesman will offer 800 per
Sunday for a table grace murmured IN
those sounds of limpid sweetness.
That is Ocean Grove and when, the day
before you come home, you pun yourself
together enough to go grabbing on Shark
river or mint hunting up with the Nate
Salisbury and Maggie Mitchell crowd on
beyond toward Long Branch--just 10
make a showing-you feel that you have
done very well indeed. You do not get
such a chance often to let your brain
lie so fallow
Asbury Park is different Here you GER
tainly can hirt II you want to, for there
are pretty girls in shirt waists. Here
there are genuine hops, and you can have
a rafting good time.
Asbury is as famous for Founder"
Bradley as Founder Bradley is famous
for Asbury. This gentleman, the first
promoter and the virtual owner of AS
and has tried various ways to get rid OF
It, one season Robert IngersOll sug-
gested the giving Of "a prize TO those
who would leave IL Off. All the season
there were notices posted that a gold
watch would be given to each newspaper
correspondent who would write MI
Bradley-proprietor or owner not oo-
jected to-" But by the end OF the season
Bradley was Founder more than ever
Every year Founder Bradley does new
things that Internationally keep him be-
fore the public. This season, besides
building a Lovers Tower. he issued a
manifesto that the boys OF Princeton who
throng Asbury Park must have at least
an inch and a half sleeve in their bath
ing shirts. The following day was rainy
and all the hotel parlors we're filled with
young men sewing a modest rufiie In the
armhoies Of their bathing suits. IL Is un-
derstood that Founder Bradley abominates
shawls, and particularly objects 10 see
ing one wrapped around two people, in
summer girl fashion.
Cyclists love Ocean Grove and Asbury
and come here from Denver and the
Rocky mountains, yes and from Mexico
70 wheel. Broad roads. no fear of drunk
en- men. and many little pavilions. liquid
OF course, are the attractions. This and
tho fact that Corbett rides here and that
scores OF pretty actresses train" riding
on the hard beach, make the park popu-
lar.
II ls a paradise for the summer girl
and man They can wander of a mile or
so. on smooth gravel paths, under spread
ing trees, until they come 10 a little lake
lying under the moonlight and boatman
ready 10 row them for "A penny. a penny
90 Twickenham ferry" ana home by way
OF the sea. Harry Germaine.
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