Evening star., 1898-08-20
AT Ash URY PAR K
Where Friends in Need Are Friends
Indeed.
The Story of a Drowning Lady aud
the Offer of Two Dozen
Flasks.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.

ASBURY PARK, August Is, 1898.
People who have never visited this resort
know 1t as "a place where you can't get a
drink" An incident which occurred on the
beach a few days ago serves to illustrate
this popular conception of Founder Brad
iey's temperance town. A young woman
in bathing went beyond her oepth and was
caught by the undertow. The bathing mas
ters finally brought her to the beach and
she tainted the moment she was taken
from the water. There were many express
sions of sympathy from solicitous people
VINO gathered about, but all that they had
to say was not half so efficient as the ap-
pearance of about two dozen Eight pocket
masks, which were held out to her. One of
them was produced by an elderly man in
the unmlstakable garb of a preacher. The
young woman came around all right after
a swallow from the flask, and then there
was general litter and a passage of pleas
antries over the number of suspicious bot
ties that had been shown. While Asbury
Park is known throughout the country as a
prohibition town, less than one-eighth OF
the summer population are prohibitionists
Ihe summerites at Asbury Park NAV be
divided into three classes. First there are
the cottagers, who have erected summer
homes along the avenues in the residential
northern part of the town, or who have
rented furnished Cottages These renters
pay from 5000 to 81 OGO for the season.
Next in Importance come the people who
remain for the entire season at the big ho-
tels. Then you may run down the scale
until you reach the patrons of scores of
little boarding houses, where accommoda-
tlons may be obtained for from So to sc a
week. Close to them come the excursion
lists, which make up vast floating popu-
lation. The Beach Band which gives con-
certs at the pavffons every evening is
Asbury Parks great leveler. At these en-
tertainments you find all classes sitting on
the benches, occupying seats on its pavilion
and mingling in a constant stream up and
down the plank promenade.
ms boardwalk is Senator James A. Brad
ley personal property. Not only does he
own it., but he also owns the entire beach
front of Asbury Park, with all its pavflions
and bathing houses. 1t is for him alone to
say who shall enjoy the beach and who
Shall not. He alone makes the rules which
govern the bathing suit question and the
behavior of the visitors
When Asbury Park first became promi-
nent as a summer resort Senator Bradley
better known as Founder" was called a
crank. He believes in sticking to his own
ideas in building up his resort. and for
many years he has practically ruled the
resort.
His Way to Attract.
Senator Bradiey's ambition is wrapped in
the beach front at Asbury Park. His pride
in his property displays itself in many
ways For instance, he never loses an op-
Poi eoMty 10 dttfacb attention to II. Some
time ago he placed a small iron safe on
the fishing pier and had notices of his own
composition painted the side of it. One
of these reads as follows:
1t is SAFE to say that every angler on
this pier hopes TO catch twenty-pound
pass. Long years ago a poet wrote Of ;he
treasure Of Hope No man ever went
rome from an honest fishing trip and abus-
ed lis wife. Whenever a fisherman takes
with him black bottle he insults the mem
cry of lzaak Walton, Nho reduced fishing
to p!easurabe science
Under this are the following lines: "If
the Ten Conmandmer is are SAFELY fixed
on the memory it becomes a better invest
ment than owning lot in Asbury Park,
To live up to them is better for mans
happiness than owning block of Standard
Oil stock
big block of wood came ashore early
tflS season. Me Bradley at once utilized
L as an ethical teacher for the board walk
crowds He put upon il a large placard
bearing the foiowing paragraph:
Drift Stuff
Ihese words are familiar to all persons
VINO know anything about the Atlantic
coast This drift stuff comprises almost
everything. This seat came ashore with
other refuse. This may meet the eve of
sc me poor fellow who has lost mis- place
ana caste and regards himself as simpIy
drlftwood Don't be discouraged, bur sit
down on this log and think of what the
poet Tennyson says:
That men may rise Steppine Staucs
of their Dead Selves to Nobles Things