Evening star., 1898-08-12
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AT OCEAN GROVE.
Dancing Tunes Set TheirvFeet Going
..s1.e-TheOIoxiea1. school Closed.

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Special Ccrrespondenes of The, Evening Star.
OCEAN GROVE, N. j., August II, 1898.
There was considerable of a sensation in
the Auditorium Tuesday evening during a
song recital lecture on,''The Lays. Lifts and
Legends of Scotland by Mrs. Anna Grey
of Edinburgh. --.-.-f 80
To illustrate popular music among the
Scots she had the accompan'st play sew
eraI examples of dance music. The seiec-
tions were very lively, indeed, and before
the first one had been going hong some
body started stamping lightly or the floor
in time with the music The feeling
straightway became contagious. and before
the crowd realized what it was at half Of
it was keeping time and wriggling about in
the seats. Most of the audience vas COM
posed of young people, and the desire to
reel off a jig was so apparent that the
camp authorities who sat upon the plat
form were greatly confused. They ex-
changed significant winks, blushed and
looked very very uneasy. To see such an
exhibition in the Groves famous house of
worship, where any and every kind Of secu-
lar demonstration is usually frOwned on,
shocked the campers very severely.
The Summer School of Theology ended
it's fourth annual session Iast hight with
rendered under the direction Of Mr.. Frank
Damrosch. AS usual, the oratorio attract
ed an auditorium full of people. Very few
of the 10000 seats We're unoccupied and
several thousand people stood outside OF
the building beyond the limos which were
stretched around it to keep back the
throng. The camp association , regu, "a
ton that forbids carriages coming upon
the camp grounds proper was abolished
for the time being. and after the exer-
cses large part of the tnrung dumped
itself into hacks and took special trains up
and down the shore. The management of
the school reports that this years season
was by far the most successful that it has
ever held The number of students taking
the courses of lectures was considerably
larger, the faculty was stronger and the
interest manifested in me work of the
school was more widespread.
No sooner were the camp grounds yacat-
ed by the School of The3logy than they
were occupied by another orgdnZa zion, the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church, which opened its an
nual session yesterday morning. The COM
Ing week Is the last one before the final
camp meeting proper. Monday the Willing
Workers will hold their convention, and
Tuesday will take place the African Metho-
dist educational and MISSIONARY jubilee.
which will be under the direction Of Bishop
John Halliday of Arkansas. Thursday and
Friday will be taken up by the women's
encouragement meefing.A
Inc 'dis uaro OF ts!le camp meeting crowd
has struck town. The tep days camp opens
next Friday with the Sacrament OF the
Lords supper administered by Rshop G.
c. McCabe. President Fitzgerald of the
camp association fias Engaged a dIstin
guished array Of preachers. VINO viii oc-
cupy the Auditoriun phlpt three times
day. The camp eexhorters and other
evangelists are arriving and laying their
plans for the final assault on the sirens
hold of wickednesss hereabouts.
The Hotel SprayoNiewsis entert aiuip,- g
M Croft, Washington CUES. at That
hotel.
G. H. johnson and w, J. Mcknight sre
Washingtonians stopping at the Sheldon.