The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-17
WARM At ASBURY
Park Suffering From Land
Breeze and Foggy
Mists.
TROUBLE OVER BRIDGES
Pedestrians Refuse Toll on
Wesley Lake-Wreck at
Belmar.

Especial to THE Jersey city news
ASBURY PARK, July II, 1Ss9.-Al-
though an Asbury Park crowd Is al
ways to be found where there is music,
that is at the pavilion in which the Beach
Band d~iscoursed, it is not so much from
an appreciation of that music as from a
matter of fad or custom, the desire 70 pc
in the swim. But then seashore transtents
do not expect classic music class1caiy rem
dered on the beach, and last nights audi
ence at the Fifth Avenue Pavilion either
did not in the least seem to mind, or did
not recognize strains of Nearer MY
God TO Thee in the Three Leaves OF
Shamrock Nobody seemed to care, judg-
ing from the applause. and the band play
ed on, apparently unconscious OF It's "
discords.
Both Pavilion and board walk Saturday
and Sunday evenings were black with peo-
pie. On the Pavilion it was almost inn
possible to force a passage through the
tbrongs, not to mention the impossibility
Of procuring a chair without grabbing 1t
from under some more fortunate visitor
who had come early.
Last evening on the promenade the at
mosphere was damp and misty with
scarcely any relief from the heat of the
inner streets. The mist in places was
almost like steam, with every now ana
then a cooler breeze that Amos chilled
one. quickly followed by a hot wave as
though the Gulf Stream had touched the
shore, and giving to promenaders a ma
lariaI sensation.
Today there is a land breeze, which
makes the air oppressive. Surely the
city can be no hotter?' is the interro-
gative sentence heard on all sides, as
people seek the beach only to find that
the air back from the ocean is cooler.
The ocean itself, however, is ready with
a cool reception, and while Turing bathers
to its placid depths drives them back all
most Immediately, glad to shiver in the
sun. The temperature of the Atlantic
here during the past few days has iuc-
tuated between sixty and sixty=eight de-
grees.
The season has not yet come up to its
promise of a few weeks ago. Though ex-
cellent in comparison with last year,
there seems to be a lull since July 4 In
the ingress. though gayeties and attrac-
tons from balls to fakes have increased.
The local interest of the Park last week
was centred in the State Dentists, who
held a convention here, and this week, be-
ginning with tomorrow. it will be centred
In the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Assoc
| citation, which convenes in Educational
| Hall the balance of the week. Seventeen
States will be represented. and it is ex-
pected that by tonight there will be about
five hundred delegates in the place ready
to attend tomorrow's meeting. On Thurs
day a big excursion under the auspices Of
the association will be run from Newark.
This is the first insurance body in the
country organized and managed by wom-
| en-. Mrs. E. B. MCGOWAN, of Buffalo, has
been president Of the association since its
organization in 1S90and will probably be re-
elected to the chair this week. The assoc
| citation numbers about $4,000 members.
Ocean Grove still continues to draw her
crowds. Her trump card is the Auditori-
UNI, and yesterday about five thousand
people participated in the morning serv-
ice. 1t was the bac~calaureate discourse of
the C~hautauqua Sunday School, and the
Rev. I. w. Hathaway, of New York,
preached on sabbath Observance"
Ocean Grove is having some trouble
over the penny toll charged on her bridges
which is likely before long to entirely
| abolish the TON nuisance. AT present
many pedestrians refuse the cent in cross
ing the Wesley Lake bridges on the
grounds that the association in keeping
the toll system up ten months out of the
year has forfeited the right to receive
toll, while others rather than submit to
the insults Of the collectors still continue
to pay. Everybody is questioning the le-
! gal right to collect toll, and there is a
/ o1.,naa of AM hrf5ooc hrin0iurr tho 0aaay1
Grove Association into the law courts.
There was considerable excitement yes
terday morning at Belnar over a three
masted schooner lodged in a sand bar
only ashort distance from shore. She was
laden with lumber and had run aground
in the fog about five o'clock that morn
ing. AT the time Of discovery she was de-
| serted. the crew having gone out OF a
accommodating expedition. She proved to
be the r.. c. Carson. in charge. Of Captain
| Carson and a crew of about a dozen men,
| bound from Norfolk to New York. About
noon one of the Merritt-Chapman Wreck
ing tugs arrived and an hour later the
vessel was floated.
Among the recent arrivals from Jersey
City at the Park are:-Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Vail. at the Ocean; Mr.. James Nc
Kinley, at the Columbia; Mr.. w. M.
Bahrenburg, at the Madison; Mr.. and
Mrs. R. s. Corcoran, Mr.. A. J. Corcoran
and Mr.. ]. P. Hamblen, at the Carlton;
Mr.. and Mrs. F. K. Bucklin, at the
Leadley; Mr.. and Mrs. +. H. Knower.
Miss Maud Knower, Messrs. Frank
Knower and Arthur Van Horn, at the
Albemarle; Mr.. H. H.. Abernethy. at the
Wellington; Mrs. j. v. Bowiy, Mrs. John
Aymar. Mr.. John Aymar, Jr.. Mr.. A.. H.
Garse. Mrs. R. $. Mcclure. at the North
ern; Mr.. and Mrs. J. Hart, at the Grand
Avenue: Dir. and Mrs. w. f. Randolph,
at the Gramercy; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H.
Donohue, Miss M. Plerity, Miss H. Hol-
lerook. Miss McGoulard, at the Ashland;
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Low, at the Willard.