Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-16
ON THE JERSEY COAST.
The Ocean Chautauqua Students Busy
at Work-MusicaI Festival.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
OCEAN GROVE, n. j., July 10, 1895
The Sunday School and Chautauqua AS
sembly, which has been holding its four
teenth annual session this week has come
to be matter of great pride to this re-
sort. The Ocean Grove chautauQua does not
yet of course, claim to have the dignity
or to offer the advantages that the parent
chautauqua does, but II is the aim of its
managers to develop the courses of in
struction as rapidly as possible and to
make the Ocean Grove chautauoua at the
earliest possible da nearly, if not quite
on a level with the big summer school,
which attracts so many to western New
York. The superintendent of instruction
here is Prof B. &. Loomis, Ph.D., D.D.
of Albany, n. Y. who has gathered around
him strong corps of teachers. The seri-
Gus work of the school is done during the
day and in the evening popular lectures
attract tens of thousands 10 the auditorium.
The faculty includes Bishop John Heyl Vim
cent, DID,, LID, the father and chan
cellor of cbautauqua. who is giving
series of lectures, including the commence
ment day address on next Thursday; Rev.
j. l.. Hurlbut, ID. principal of chautau-
qua; Prof W. A. Hutchinson OF Penning-
ton Seminary, Pennington, y. j.; Prof O.
G. J. Schadt of Philadelphia, Bishop ]. n.
Fitzgerald, DID. LID; Prof. c. A. Brad
ford of New York, Mrs. Marion LelanA,
New York Prof. Frank r. Robinson, the
celebrated traveller and lecturer, has been
giving a series of addresses, illustrated by
the stereopticon, on foreign countries
Norway, China, Japan, etc. The courses
OF study are being followed by about $40
students, and at the end of the session
these who pass the examinations set will
receive diplomas. A large number of peo-
pie who have been taking the chautauQua
course of reading are coming from the mid
die and southern states to receive their
diplomas at the hands of Bishop Vincent.
The school will continue in session until
July D.
For once the wcrshipers who are crowd
ing this resort and who come here TO at
tend meetings first of all and all the time
possible were glad this week TO stay away
from church and go down to the beach t.
see the storm at sea, which prevailed on
Tuesday and Wednesday. heavy eastern
gale sent the breakers smashing against
this coast and presented a spectacle which
all inland visitors longed to see, but which
they do not have the fortune to witness
every summer. 1t Is a noteworthy fact
that the people who frequent Ocean Grove
exhibit more sentiment about the ocean
than do the Asbury Park crowds for in
stance. They frequently sing about the
ocean on the camp grounds; some of the
favorfte hymns are those which compare
Gods mercy to the boundless sea. So not
a camper who was able to brave the gale
and get to the beach while the magnificent
exhibition of boiling surf was on failed to
embrace the opportunity to see the wrath
of the clement in all ite glory, even de-
crepit old ladies and invalid men in chairs
were pushed along the board walk in the
face of the stiff nor'easter. In fact, the
whole town turned out, deserted the holt
ness and young peoples meeting and spent
the days and part of the nights too in
cased in waterproofs on the beach.
Preparations have already been begun
for the Damrosch musical festival, which
is to be held in the auditorium the middle
of August. A local chorus of a thousand
voices is being organized to assist DR.
Damrosch in rendering the oratory of the
Messiah" The chorus is being drilled by
Prof. Table Morgan of New York
Among the Washington arrivals of the
week at this resort are Clarence j. Fisher
and Worth l.. Harper, who are stopping
at DR.. Starks Hotel.
c. l.. Birch and Miss Turner are Wash
fngton guests of the Hotel La Pierre.
Rev. DR.. Julius f. Grammar the emf
nent Baltimore divine. has returned with
Mrs. Grammar to the Sheldon for tho
summer.