The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-08-28
PROUD ASBURY.
Presidents Visit to Park
Scores One Against
Long Branch.
A WALLED CITY.
Is Relic Of Barbarism, Says
Bishop Fowler, But For
gets to Mention Ocean
Grove.
Especial to yrhe Jersey city News.r1

ASBURY PARK, Aug rs, loS5---AIleI
all Asbury Park has a way of coming
in at the fnish,'' even with such an i'm
po1tant parsonage as the United States
President. Just when Long Branch was
beginning to gloat over Its ~neighbor, AS
bury Park, because the former was to
have a monopoly upon McKinley's socje-
ty, away he slipped to Asbury Park, de-
livering his choicest address in the Ocean
Grove Auditorium, where were assem-
bled over twelve thousand representa-
tives from all parts of the country to
greet him. Surely the President could
not lose such a chance v e though few
were honored with a grasp of his munj-
cipal hand on account of limited time.
Mrs. Mckinley was unable to accompany
her husband and this, as he expressed
himself, was his only regret experienced
at Asbury Park.
AS with the President so 1t Is with all
good things here. Asbury every season
comes within an ace of missing them, but
makes up at the finish. Now when the
season is on the wane and outgoing
trains are even heavier laden than in
coming, everything is at its height be-
ginning with the elements. After several
MEthS VI ldtfA GAA AO5 Sic ~
August breaks just right. warm days
with color evenings and an exhilarating
scent Of the sea heretofore lacking Just
at this time there are any number OF
nvalids to be found at the Park, and
the wheeling chairs are in constant de-
mand. Bathing has picked up and the
ocean which a few weeks G roared upon
the beach leaving it strewn with all
sorts of garbage from city and steamer,
now breaks with a gentle. irresistible
wooing and ventureseme bathers swim
far out as eye can reach.
They are up to all sorts of tricks, too,
these bathers. swimming to such a dis
lance as to worry the watchers, then
throwing up their hands In distress, only
to make a fool of the faithful ~lifeguard,
to whom it is strange the idea has never
occurred to threaten the fakir after the
manner of a drowning person and detain
him half an hour or so in order to roll
him up and down the beach on a barrel,
or even force a strong emetic down his
throat. OF course such FATHERS can be
fined, but such men are only too willing
to pay the fiddler, it is the physical cure
they need.
<A4lctAlSl LIMB AQt4NtQ a. liz SNNEOt -
vanees is Lost articles a sign which
greets the visitor at every pavilion, and
under which head is tackled a number of
documents offering rewards for anything
from dogs to babies. with mo questions
asked One document Of the kind placed
upon the Ocean Grove pavilion gives a
vivid description of a thief seen disap-
pearing with a purse and then ~relentingly
promises him a reward and no questions
for its return.
OF all the lost articles, however, there
are none so numerous as teeth. and.
strange to relate. none so seldom claimed.
Founder Bradley is at present possessed
of so many that he keeps them on trays
locked in a safe at his pavilion.
Sunrise parties in the morning and bon-
fire parties in the evening are becoming
quite the fad along the sands. The ris-
ing sun is really a beautiful sight, well
worth the sacrifice of a few hours sleep;
at least, so hin a party of Jersey City
young people, composed of Miss Meta
Mr.. John Mingus. Misses Mabel
Brown, Mabel Bogardus, Messrs. Benja-
min S. Farrier, Alexander Hudson, Har-
old and Tinker, who view the scene from
Eighth avenue every. morning.
Yesterday was the annual love feast at
the Ocean Grove Auditorium, and between
the hours of 5:45 A. M. and 10 P. NJ. there
were sixteen separate meetings, giving
church-goers little time for any but re-
ligious food. Bishop Fowler of Buffalo
preached the regular morning sermon.
walled city,, said he. sis a relic of
barbarism. There are but portions of two