Evening star., 1898-07-29
ALL READY FOR AUGUST
Asbury Parks Crowds and Their Pleas
ures
Gibson Pictures VIII BE Given
SoOn-The Bowling
Parties.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
ASBURY PARK, N j., July 2s. 1898.
The late July days finds the season at
Founder" Bradley's resort booming and
ready for the August rush. The week has
been an unusually lively one at the ho-
tells and the bookings for next month
Pre- mise to make the season end most sue
cessfully. The bonifaces are getting out
tfeir cots to accommodate the influx of
visitors that always strikes town the first
of August.
The arrival of the sailing and fishing
parties who go out to sea on the pleasure
yachts Emma B. and Eben Jordan are un-
failing sources of amusement daily. At
the hours when the excursionists return
the beach and boardwalk in the vicinity
OF the fishing pier are packed with people
eager to see the fun. The crews of the
surf boats which ply between the beach
and yachts have good deal of trouble in
getting the women ashore. Sometimes the
boats get caught in the trough of the sea
and then one or two women get scared
thinking that they to be capsiZed, and
before the boat is pushed high and dry
they spring out into the water and get
well soaked, then the crowd laughs and
cheers. Occasionally some lady objects to
being carried ashore by a sailor and so
she wades it. Taking in these excursions
Is very popular, however, and every body,
including the unfortunate summer girls
who go home with bedraggled skirts enjoy
the sport hugely.
The ladies summering at this resort have
organized a soldiers sewing circle. The
circle meets on the piaZZes of the Hotel
Brunswick every morning and spends an
hour or two in making linen and woolen
articles for the Jersey soldiers. A box of
things will also be shipped to the front
early next week to be distributed by the
Red Cross Society.
This week the anglers sport the fish
ing pier is even better than it was last
week. The easterly winds and storms
have seemed to blow the fish in, for they
have been running and biting very lively
Bass, founders, king fish and weak fish
is open all night and there fishermen
in town who spend twenty hours of the
day there. The most famous of these
anglers is probably Uncle Billy" Brum-
have also been made lately from the beach
at the foot of Deal Lake.
Bowling is favorite amusement among
the people at this resort, and this week
a tournament took place at the Coleman
House. There are a great many expert
bowlers at the hotel among whom are
Miss Margaret Gordon and Mrs. Woods 1t
Is proposed to hold a tournament between
the Coleman team and teams from other
hotels here and at other nearby resorts.
The girls at the Hotel Brunswick are
next month. All of the ladies are smooth
ing down their hair and practicing serene
expression in order to be as Gibson as
they can. Another social event of import
ance announced for the brunswick Is q
military german.
Asbury Park several years ago won the
name of the convention city, There have
already been half dozen important CON
vcntions here this year. One scheduled for
next week is the first annual national
meeting of the Correspondence Association
of Stenographers, which is to meet in the
Auditorium on August and a.
IA resident and visiting members of the
Salvation Army are having an encamp-
ment at the Auditorium Commander
Booth-Tucker. accompanied by Mrs. Tuck
er and the national staff band, are mere,
and the three services daily are being at
tended by large congregations.
The summer people have been giving a
good deal of attention to bicycling TINS
week. The races which took place at the
athletic ground on Wednesday, under the
auspices OF the American Cycle Assocla-
tion were the finest that this coast las
seen since the national meet took place
here in 1895. 1t was that year that the
whee.men of the country first learned that
the roads which interlace the Monmouth
county coast resorts are unsurpassed lCf
wheeling by any in the country, ana since
then every summer has seen the roads
filed with wheel folk. Knowing that there
are thoasa nds of bicyclsts stopping along
this shCre the Asbury Park whoellnen ere
arranging TO have a parade. The board
of trade of the city is backing the pro-
ject, and it is expected that about he
middle OF August thS plSSeSC WHSSiINen
parade eastern Jersey has ever seen Will
take place. 1t is also planned to have odd
delegations from New York. Philadelphia
and Newark clubs to come down for the
day TO participate.
The Asbury Park Junior Mechanics are
preparing to greet the New Jersey Order
of Juniors, which is to hold its ann l2l
outing here on August Is. For two years
the parade, which had become a principal
feature of the day, has been omitted, but
it will take place again this year. 1t is ex-
pected that one-third of the thirty thou
sand members will be here with their wives
and sweethearts
Tally-ho parties are on the high road
to supersede trolley parties at this resort.
Although the latter have held sway this
season the most popular fad. yet the
tally-ho line, which began from the Allen
hurst Inn at Alenhurst week ago, has
become popular that two or three other
lines will be established soon. The favor
ite routes for the parties are up the coast
to Sea Bright and then through the Rum
son road and back around by the Shrews-
bury and down shore to the New Jersey
encampment to Sea Girt.
Corbett continues to be the center Of
attraction in the Sth avenue district. He
bathes every day at the foot of 4th ave
nue., where crowd always gathers to
see him exhibit his scale rs 4 swimmer.
Mrs. Corbett usually accompanies him in
the surf He is doing STEADY work in his
improvised gymnasium in the barn in con-
nection with his cottage. He Is being as
sisted by Young Corbett," as well as by
McVey, his wrestling partner. Corbett's
favorite sports are bicycling and base ball
He takes a spin every day around town or
to Long Branch and gets his base ball
practice with the Allenhurst team He is
not going into hard training for his fight
with Mccoy until the middle of August.
The summer girl has appealed to "Foun-
der Bradley for protection against the
kodak fiend. Although the founders Of
fcers on the beach have standing orders to
scrutinize carefully every looking
box that appears on the board walk vet
the deadly camera keeps doing its work
much to the discomfort of the pretty girls
who object to having their photos taken in
their bathing suits. Senator Bradley has
made his regulations more rigorous, and
has promised the girls that they shall be
protected.
Among the principal society events of the
week was the bicycle hop which took place