New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-08
.1SBURY PARK PROGRESS.
Many Improvements for Present
Season Beach attractions.

Asbury Park. ". J.. May Special. Cot
tagers and hotel guests hOcking TO Asbury
Park The demand for cottages is Unprecedent-
Ell. Several OF the hotels already open
Hotels on the shore front wiz open month
earlier than usual this year. and remain open
far into September.
Asbury Park this summer will enjoy the lest
music that has ever been provided The Beach
Commission has this matter in charge. Arthur
Pryor's band will furnish music for the payilions
and the casino Sousa will give special concerts.
dime will give admission to the galleries Of
the casino during the band concerts
Improvements made TO the beach front give
Asbury Park as fine a boardwalk and rayilions
a any resort in America These include n
modern casino At the foot Of Asbury-ave.. which
cost more than $4,000 It IS OF Colonial de-
sign, 225 feet long and 100 feet wide The board
walk extends through the structure. and at the
western end is gallery for smokers prom
enade extends around three sides. The tuildlng
at night is lighted by three thousand incan-
descent lamps Twenty or more booths for the
sale OF refreshments and novelties occupy a
portion Of the ground floor OF the new building.
The casino is glass inclosed.
At Fifth-aye, nearly opposite Sunset Lake
the finishing touches to a new $4,000 arcade are
being made. This IS Of Moorish design. POO feet
long and 100 feet wide. II VIII seat five thou
sand comfortably. and viii be lighted by $500
electric lamps. \ feature Of the structure IS the
circular gallery. from which fine view of the
boardwalk is obtainable.
". c. & A T. Cottreu drew the plans for both
the Asbury-aye. casino and the Fifth-ave. ar
cace. They have also prepared drawings for
a casino to be built next winter at the foot
Of Deal Lake, to be used as 4 casino, leach pa
vilion. sun parlors. bathing establishment. the
atTe, convention hall, etc. 1t Will cost 100000
The bathing houses viii be on the second floor
and constructed after the style OF those at Salt
Lake City.
A building for anglers is soon to be put up
on the fishing pier just west OF the boardwalk
The lower portion OF the building viii be de-
voted to the sale of anglers requirements. and
the second story win contain Iounging room
and meeting place for the local fishing club
4 landscape gardener is now setting out
flower beds and making grass plots the en-
tire length Of the esplanade The sand rests
Of former years have been filed in. and these
barren spots VIII soon be alive with flowers and
shrubbery.
There will be. Of course the usual Indepen-
dence Day celebration. and the Marine Carni-
Val on Wesley Lake will be held late in july
The Queens coronation viii be held on August
%. the masked fete on the boardwalk on August
~ ana the baDy parade on August %. The
Joint advertising committee. of which Council
man T. Frank Appleby is chairman. has decided
TO spend 5000 Of the city's money in advertis-
ing these features.
Since the passing OF the Bradley regime AS
bury Park has made wonderful progress The
control Of the shore front by the municipality
releSated 10 the a number of rules and
regulations which were offensive to MANY Wis
itors, and brought TO the front Il more liberal
management. Founder Bradley no longer
rules the city he built or its inhabitants, but
the prohibition rule which he promulgated and
enforced still lives. 1t is not enforced now as
strenuously as 1t was when its maker guided tn.
destiny of the resort: STILL open liquor selling Is
not countenanced tolerated by the present