The Jersey City news., 1901-07-22
NO MORE SPORTS
Asbury Parks Founder Re-
turns Much to Dismay
Of Flashy Bathers.
WHITE SILK TABooED
Several Mermaids Ordered
From the Water Because
OF f'Too Flimsy"
Attire.
WHITE SILK TABOOED

Especial to THE Jersey City News.']
ASBURY PARK, July 20, l9Q1.-"And the
cat came back" No longer may the
bathing mice at Asbury Park play.
Founder Bradley has returned, with the
result that already three or four sporting
mermaids in sporty bathing spits have
been pounced upon. For some reason Mr..
Bradley has taken an especial dislike to
white. To him it is like red rag to
bull, and as he walks up and down tho
esplanade he is ever looking out from
under the shade of his big green umbrella
for the white robed bather. A day or so
ago his search was rewarded and white
silk bathing suit was ordered out of the
water. Mr.. bradley forbade silk two
years ago. TOO fimsy,' was the verdict
of Mr., Bradleys jury of policemen on all
the condemned suits,
In the past week the season here has
taken squirt and the crowds on the
boardwalk Thursday, Friday. Saturday
and Sunday were by far the largest seen
since 1900. This looks promising for Au-
gust, the queen month here, and the four
weeks when money talks. There are two
hundred hotels in the Park. and every
one shows big booking for the next
month, Can get that tonight?' is the
universal question at the station the mo-
ment the trunk check is delivered, and
promising expressmen are hustling to de-
liver baggage before midnight. One min
ute late in Ocean Grove is fatal. Just
what would happen If an expressman
should arrive in the Grove at midnight
on Saturday and have St. Peter close the
gates on him has not yet been discovered,
but if guests continue to arrive as they
did last week, such a case is bound to be
tested,
Sunburn is the usual seashore fad. Not
that it is not a necessary fad-but the
more sunburned the seashore girl is the
more in style. The arms must now be
tanned to turn. The morning bath has
proved insufficient to do them up brown,
and so the summer girl goes round with
her shirtwaist sleeves rolled up almost to
the shoulder. The neck. too, must be
tanned to match, so the shirtwaist Is
turned in. Since tanning has become the
fad, there is no longer any worry over the
whiteness of the skin in evening gowns,
and girls at the hops are proud of a little
brown eV'' on the neck and pair OF
tanned arms, the browner the better.
Everybody is smiling over the prospects
to have their day the third week in Au-
gust, and they have begun to fatten for
the heavyweight prize, wherever there is
ghost of chance.
This win be the tenth annual baby
parade--it might have been the eleventh,
had not Founder Bradley vetoed it last
year-and Miss Emma Ross of this city,
is kept busy registering youngsters at
the Asbury avenue pavilion. A commit
tee of twenty prominent guests is max
ing all arrangements.
The event of next importance to the
baby parade. the Wesley Lake carnival,
will take place on August Is. More boats
are being entered than usual.
The newest fad is the Anti-Slang Club,
gotten up on the beach one day not long
ago, by party of guests from one OF
the big hotels. It now has about 200
members, intent upon discouraging the
use of slang. The fines are one cent for
a slang word and five cents for every
slang phrase.
Sunday in Ocean Grove is still-very still
the same old monotonous Sunday OF
years gone by. Everything closed up but
the Auditorium. Even the ice water PEN
clothed in their Sunday swaddling clothes
of white Only the collection box Is al
lowed to receive on the Sabbath.
Yesterday was children's day at Ocean
Grove, and it came as a crowning glory
to the weeks convention of Chautauqua.
Tomorrow will bring the White Ribbon
ers for two days convention. Mrs. EN-
ma Bourne of Newark, the President OF
the Union. will be in personal charge.
Among the speakers will be Miss M. F.
Strong. of Matawan; Mrs. H. L. Colon
made, Trenton; Mrs. A. M. Hammer,
Bayonne; Miss Victoria Bell New York;
Mrs. Frances Hill johnson, New York;
Mrs. ]. r. Barney, Providence. r. t.;
Mrs. NJ. D. Tomlinson, Plainfield, and
Mrs. Margaret Dye, Newark.
The National Temperance Society, with
headquarters In New York, holds its con-
vention in Ocean Grove next Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday. The list of speakers
includes the Rev. ]. B. Dunn, D. D., the
Rev. c. II. Mead, D. D., and General
Tocorh JNhaayar