Evening star., 1898-09-10
ASBURY PARK.
Great Fall Season Is Hers at Last
A Dream Fulfilled.

Dream Fulfilled.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
ASBURY PARK, N. j., September I, 1885.
With the assistance of a kind and indul-
gent weather prophet, Asbury Park is en-
joytllg just now its first and long wished
for experience as an autumn resort. This
has been the dream of every hotel man in
town since he opened his hostelry. Many
half-hearted attempts have been made to
lengthen the season. but they have failed
as dismally as they were made for the rea-
son that no special attraction was extended
to lure on prospective guests and newcom-
ers. Then everybody seemed to agree, a
summer or two ago, that it was out of the
question to try further to extend the sea-
SON. But nature played them all a merry
trick, and now the season which every one,
even the most optimistic was sure would
be the worst in the history of the town,
mas turned out to he the best that the hotel
proprietors have seen for six seven
years.
With one exception Ohe Coleman House),
all the hotels are open and none of the pro-
prletorS has announced closing day The
majority of them are remark ably we'll
filled. On account of this unev pected rush
of September business, and because ,f the
fact they are able tc keep open at a profit.
may OF the proprietors will not think of
closing until the 1st of October. wi the
belief that they will get a share of patron
age IRON among the five or six thousand
ueitBdteS Oh the CHRISTIAN EndeaNdr So
clety who Will meet in convention here for
three days. beginning September 2S.
Ex-Champion Corbett returned to town
Tuesday night and is now hard at work at
his training quarters in Sth avenue. He
says that he feels he has lost considerable
of the good work previously done by his
trip to California, and calculates that it will
take MN at least a4,week or ten days to
regain his formec condition. Then he will
settle down to the hardest kind of training
an1 be in readiness for his fight.
A very pretty echildren's dress hop was
given at the Brunswick Casino on Tuesday
evening. Nearly one hundred little tots
participated.
A military ball was, given at the Yelling
ton on Wednesday night
Ihe guests of theb Madison enjoyed a
Pheasant whist party on the piazzas of the
motel Wednesday evening. The moon was
| SO bright that for some time the game was
played by its ligEt, all of the electric lights
being turned off
E. B. Stocking of Washington Is recreat-
| ing at the Lafayette.
| Among the prominent Washingtonians at
the Devonport Inn are Mrs. c. c. Clements
| Miss Kathryn Clements and Guy Clements.
| q. s. r. Haycock of Washington is at the
Hotel Brunswick. Mr.. Haycock was a civil
| engineer in the army at Santiago.
DR.. F. D. Norris of Washington is recre-
ating at the Devonport Inn.
Mrs. NJ. Murray is a Washington guest
| of the Brighton.
A. L. Dalrymple of Washington is spend
| ing half of September at the Lenox.
Capt. and Mrs G. 3. Haycock, also OF
| Washington. are at the Brunswick.
The Guy Mansion is entertaining Mr.. and
| Mrs. j. 8. Van Arsdale and Miss Emily Van
Arsdale of Washington city.
| Mrs. r. Bache Of Washington is a guest
of the Victoria
| late Washington arrival at the Metro
politan Is c. I. Graft
Miss ]. A. Graves. Miss Abbie Graves and
| MIR. and Mrs. A. Abbott are Washington
| ians at the Ashland
A prominent Washington lady at the
Coleman House is Miss H w. Fitch.