Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-15

Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, Aug.
I4-"Wanted-"A leader for Ocean
Grove; one who has the courage or MS
convictions, who has the right ones.
who will carry them out in spite OF
opposition or ridicule-ln spite OF en-
treaty or selfishness.'
This announcement was made
couple of weeks ago at the funeral of
the venerable DR.. Stokes, who for
twenty-eight years had led Ocean
Grove. Who, in truth, had been the
Moses Of the Grove, leading it from
obscurity into prominence, from moth
ing into greatness. With DR.. Stokes
gone the Auditorium seems lonesome,
the people walk around aimlessly, Won
dering "what we are going to do
Yet, in spite Of this, Ocean Grove is
full: yes, full to overlooking. Its
very tent room is scarce, and the late
Corners have to pitch their canvases
almost within the doors of the great
,taMrnacle where, day and night, like
lbim and seraphim, they con
le use Of hi to camp in the
might, in the beyond the lake
nomelv EnglpOn the borders of
DE de'-- me tail end Of Wesley,
!. yot a. AVE little larger breathing
,Sspa
1T roughly estimated that 100000
persons form the summer colony of
ocean Grove and half as many more
the summer colony Of Asbury Park.
People who have never been to these
twin places wonder what they are like. /
WnII fhnn for horkvr
t They are country towns located upon
the seashore and stretching back for /
mile or more. The railroad runs
through them and one station answers
Tor both. When you get of the train
you take your choice. In front of you
lies Wesley lake 1t separates Ocean
Grove from Asbury Park. If you go
TO the right, IS you face the lake, you
strike Ocean Grove and are numbered
with the sheep. But if you go to the
left you coRe to Asbury and are more
or less a goat.
They ddnce in Asbury Park and they
fiirt ana have good times. Playing
cards IRE freely sold, and you don't
have a great deal Of trouble to get
drink But in Ocean Grove there are
closer limits; and, though dance tunes
. are occasionally heard and the schuf-
- Of cards suspected, the lessees Of
hotels and cottages do not encOur- 1
E such dissipation, and YOU are
en- to understand 1t in a friendly '
". S
Sundays the great gates that lead S
at OF Ocean Grove, where il merges 4
lto the countryside of Jersey, used S
b be closed, and no horse allowed in,
pot even milk wagon. But so much d
commOtton was raised about this. on t
account of the difficulty in supplying )
milk and other table necessities, that u
|the tramp of the necessary horse has G.
from time to time been heard. -
There is theory that Ocean Grove q
aud Asbury Park are not friendly as Y
10 management. but this is a mistake lie
They are like the owners of rival COun-
try places. Each takes a peculiar C
pride in doing things a little better Il
than his neighbOr, but let a common Il
enemy approach, and the neighbors ca
viii unite to fight him of. So with
Ocean Grove and Asbury Park. b
Both Of these places oppose the use 70
IF liquor Both are particular about pI
The costumes that are worn upon the bJ
beach. Both insist that loud talking. er
bud conduct and loud persons shall be ri
Cebarred, and both insist upon a GER su
tain decorum while within their con- w
mes. In that they are one. so
Now, with all this. ii is wondered at SO
by many that these summer spots can ne
live, yes, and flourish like the bay VI
tree, and send forth new shoots yearly er
in the shape of additional outlying ter OF
ritDry. But those who have stopped m,
at 1.-The Grove or The Park" once
question it no longer. They feel and ne
understand the charm hi
Por one thing. you are perfectly be
safe. You need never lock your door. ISIS
nor even shut it. One whole summer Pr
Judge Herrick, the chum Of Daniel La mi
mont, and the old leader Of the Cleve- Of
and forces in New York State. rented fol
/ cottage there whose front door would no
Tot close. There it stood, gaping ever. me
With It's hoSpitable portals wide open. no
eading into the front drawing room. del
While upstairs slUmbered sweetly the ins
vealthiest Of Senators with the fullest to
# pockets, trusting to the safety of ple
~ Grove without a thought of being {
Obbed. bul
Ocean Grove has never had a drink the
Il person in it. One summer Theo- Me
gre Illton, Of Beecher-Tuton fame. of
pserved this, and started a summer ion