Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1905-08-31
ASBURY PARK
MASKED FETE.
Queen Titania MeniIy Rules
Thousands Of ReveIers Con-
fetti Fills the Air.

ASBURY PARK, Aug. 31;-With
Queen Titania reigning, with Puck
i'll charge of the revelry as officer of
the day, and Chief of Police Murphy,
of Jersey City, serving as grand mar
shal, Asbury Park gave itself up last
night to one of the maddest and mer-
riest frolic in its history. From early
in the evening until after midnight
the masked fete on the boardwalk
was in full swing. Both the benig-
nant and lenient sovereign and her
jolly lieutenant did everything in
their power to stimulate the thous-
ands of their subjects to make the
most of the one week in the year
when the staid city by the sea throws
conventions to the winds and devotes
itself exclusively to the tast of being
real deyilish."
Queen Titania held her court at
Fifth and Ocean avenue, and the
thousands of maskers, wearing gro
| tesque costumes bewildering in their
variety of coloring, passed in review
before her. The gay procession form
ed at Lake and Ocean avenue, and
began marching promptly at s o.
clock After passing before and MAX
ing obeisance to the queen the mask
ers went to the Arcade, where a big
masked ball was in progress, or hur-
ried to the large hotels, where small
Ter balls were being held in honor
of the fairy queen. So varied were
the costumes that to the visitor it
seemed that the city had been given
over to a congress of all nations, the
delegates to which had received i'm
perative instructions to go to any
length to increase the merriment.
After the last of her jolly subjects
had passed, Queen Titania and her
court paid visits of state to all the
hotels where balls were being held.
She was received with much cere-
mony, and her reception at the Ar
cade was especially riotous. The air
was filed with 10000 bags of con-
fetti and many serpentines. At times
so many brightly colored little pieces
of paper were floating that it was
freely. The imperial order was thai
there should be uproarious fun with
out stint, but no disorder or unseen
ly conduct, and it was lived up to.
Policemen and special detectives
were pelted freely with confetti by
bevies of laughing girls, and submit
ted good naturedly to this feminine
pretense of defiance of their author
ity. Many of the young society buds
even ventured out on the board walk
in the trousers and coats of their
brothers, while young men made
merry wearing the dresses of their
sisters.
Miss Clara Belle Logan, the Queen
Titania of the fete and the undisput-
ed ruler of Asbury Park this week
had the fire companies out yester-
day afternoon She was, unable to
attend the review in person, however,
because she had been exhausted by
the arduous duties of the state ball
the night before. Bradley Beach,
Ocean Grove, West Grove, Allenhurst
Avon and Belmar refused to pay ho-
mage to the fair young sovereign and
kept their companies at home but
their absence detracted little from
the gayety of the celebration.
The baby parade will be held to-
day and nearly 500 entries had been
received up to last night. the larg-
est number in the history of the baby
parades here 1t will start at 2.3O
/, O'Clock and thousands will watch the
procession Of youngsters.