New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
PILGRIMS TO OCEAN GROVE
FIVE THOUSAND ARRIVALS YESTERDAY
FESTIVAL CHORUS LARGER
THAN EVER.

THAN EVER.
Ocean Grove, n J.. June IS CspeciaD,-The ar
| rivals to-day will foot up to fully five thousand
! Many Of the newcomers are here to take part II
the opening exercises in the auditorium to-norro"
brilliant given in that structure thls
evening Never before in the history OF ocean
| Grove was there such a large gathering thus early
| in the season The festival Chorus was also
| larger than ever known before in June upward OF
| three hundred singers being seated in the great
! choir gallery. Only about thirty-hve OF the Au-
| ditorium Orchestra have yet arrived, but the re-
mander will be here next week, and at next Satur-
| dav nights concert the entire orchestra VIII De
| present The sooists this evening were Eva
| Gardner Coleman, OF New-York Percy Herus' the
bass solost of St Patrick's Cathedral New-Y ork;
| Carl Nielsen-Raben the Norwegian violinist; the
! Park sisters and the Bradford Quartet The
chorus was trife short of male voices but this
| defect Will disappear in week or two
| The opening sermon tomorrow will be preached
in the auditorium by Bishop Cyrus d. Foss, Of
Philadelphia. Bishop James n. FftzGerald. presl-
dent of the Camp Meeting Association, Will pre-
side The young peoples meeting and the con-
secration meeting will be held at a. m Inc
Rev. Charles H. Yatman will have charge or the
former service. and Mrs. Lizzie Smith will talk TO
the older Christians. At .. m. the Summer SAB
bath School will be organized. AS in former years
the Rev DR.. Thomas OHanlon president OF feh-
nington Seminary, will lead the Bible class. The
surf meeting will be held at twilight directly on
beach the foot or ocean PATHWAY ne
Rev DR.. A z Ballard. vice president of the Camp
Meeting Association, will have charge In the
evening there will be song service given IN the
auditorium All the music. both by the solosts,
choir and congregation. will be from the ne"
book Ocean Grove Christian Songs" compiled by
Bshuo FltzGerald Tall Esen Morgan and the
Rev Charles H Yatrnan, pronounced by judges to
be the best hymn book Ocean Grove has ever had
At the last session of the General Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church several commits
sions were appointed, to report at the next Cen
eral Conference various subjects pertaining 10
the Church. The commission the consolidation
of benevoences has decided to hold its session OF
one week at Ocean Grove and they Will begin their
la bors on next Tuesday morning. The commits
sion is composed of Bishop Foss, Of Philadelphia:
Bishop Walden. Of Cincinnati: Bishop Fowler. OF
Buffalo DR.. ]. F. Goucher. president of the Wom-
ems College in Baltimore: Dr. S. W. Thomas, Ed
itor of The Philadelphia Methodist Dr. D. l..
Raider. Of ST. Paul Mimi: DR.. Fisher, Editor OF
"The Portland (Ore) Christian Advocate Dr. h.
O. Thayer. Portland Me: Dr. Buckley. Editor OF
''The Christian Advocate, New-York; r. 7. Miller,
Cincinnati: C. l. Cochran. Los Angeles. Cal; +
w. Tunnel, Philadelphia: E. L. Dohbins. Morris-
town n. j.; ]. A. Patten, Chattanooga ana
Archer Brown. Orange \. j. These men. many of
them accompanied by their families. will be quar-
tered the Majestic Hotel during their stay here
The first orchestra rehearsal was held on the Au-
ditorium platform this afternoon with about thirty
five musicians present. Instead Of holding the re-
hearsals every morning from 10 to IL o'clock, as
previously announeeq 1t has been deeqdo 70 fror Ro1o
to 5 O'Clock in the afternoon. and the choir re-
from 10 to u o'clock In the morning. An innoya-
ton which viii! be appreciated by me regular
ticket which entities the holder to the same seat
for every eneranmfnt ana con cG9cert e M Ser,g nror 9
price Of s., and great many have ALREADY oeeh
Great preparations are being made by the asso, $50
ciation for celebrating Independence Day. The ,3e
programme arranged includes an Grafton IN the
morning by Congressman X: Wayne PdFker, OF
Newark and short address by Bishop o Fi5GerSid
special service for the young folks at "a a m In
in front OF the temple just before that hour. given
by company of youthful Rough Riders: sem s3t
tary Academy. Adjourning inside after the salute
s6 vii vi he Pnoo aFs Of Frea afo s9HE
T qegde he ih Edeand Gn ne od Save
the King" the national hymn of Russia and the
Hattie Hymn! of the Republie" An ode to The The
Margaret Assay, of ocean Grove. followed by
world" by ex-senator Charles P, McClelland OF
of B5ho9 he 8sors or @ one
c. L. Wise, a broker ,I from Orange is with his
Mrs Mrs Margaret Bottome, Of New-York the found
n s9o DnPnghers spent the week in the Grove le
Mrs. Alexander Reid. OF Jersey City, is staying
Isaac NJ Cox of Cornwall brought Mrs. Cox to
the Grove this week. and took quarters at the New
Mrs; H; L, Boughten an and George Middleton Of
NcW-IOrk. arrived this week TO- protracted visit
Phebe E Cheesman, Of Brooklyn. is registered
at the Alaska
The Rev. DR.. Thomas O'Hanlon, Of Pennington
a member of the Camp Meeting Associa ton, ar
rived this week.
Recent arrivals at the leading hotels include the
following
Spray View. J. Poggi, Miss Helen f. Poggf
Mrs. S. 3. Irish, Harry G.. Harpe, Miss Carrie
Warner. Mrs. NJ 5. Wister Mrs. A. e. Townsend
and Mrs. l.. Beeks
Summerfed-Mr, and Mrs r. Yoste G. L. Allen
and son, J. w. Sheldon, Paul B. Sheldon. Mrs
Sheldon, D. MacF Sheldon. Ray Van \. Sheldon
and f. r. Kemp.
Stratford-Mr. and Mrs Chapman S Blotterill
ellison.