The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-29
Arrival of the Bands Indi-
cate to Asbury Parks Pa
irons That the Season Is
Indeed On
EACH WEEK THE CROWD GROWS
NEW SYSTEM OF BATH-HoUsEs
PROJECTED BY THE BEACH
COMMISSIONERS - JOHN COT
TON DANA ON THE TOWNS II
BRARY
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Special to ''yhe Jersey City News.'9
ASBURY PARK, May 20, 1906
Now that band has arrived at Asbury
Park for concerts twice daily the people
feel that the season has begun in earn
est. The aggregation of musicians is
Rivelas's, the same that played during
the early season here last year, and at
the initial concerts yesterday afternoon
and evening was greeted with great ap-
plause. A band on the beach this early
in the summer is greatly appreciated by
by the early summer cottagers, the ma
jority of whom have come down this year
from a fortnight to a month earlier than
usual. If it is well supported, and there
seems to be little doubt but that it will
be, a predecent is established for future
years, which may also prove an incentive
for earlier entertainments next season be
ginning at Easter. With Rivela to well
come early comers, Duss to open the July
season and Pryor to remain all summer
music lovers of this section feel they are
to be well cared for.
Each succeeding Sunday shows a ma
terial increase in the influx of visitors,
and SO many came in for yesterday that
two of the hotels had to turn away pros
pective guests. OF those now open the
majority were from third to half
filled ,and that is considered remark
able showing for any time in May. The
hotels are making special low rates for
the Decoration Day end of the week,
and good proportion of the Sunday
visitors have booked rooms from Tuesday
night of this week until the following
Monday morning. On account of the
holiday coming in the very middle of the
week, however, a great crowd is not being
prepared for. Those who do will find
amusement places all along the beach, in
band concerts and a show at the Ocean
Theatre
The question of erecting an entirely
new system of lighthouses along the
boardwalk, now that the city is enabled
to vote $150,O0O of beach Improvement
bonds, is one that is engaging the at
tention OF all progressive citizens and of
the Beach Commissioners in particular.
One of the plans for new arrangements
recently suggested by an expert calls for
the aboisAment of the Third, Fourth and
Seventh avenue groups and the erection
of two large bathhouse centres on the
west side of Ocean avenue to be con-
nected with the beach by underground
passages.
This does mot meet popular favor,
however, for the available land west of
Ocean avenue is wanted for hotel pur-
poses. 1t is being proposed by the dis
satisfied ones that in the early fall the
bathhouses be sunk at the identical spots
they now occupy. A cement covering
could be built, it is said, leading under
the boardwalk. It is asserted that such
an arrangement would be inexpensive,
that it would admit of the construction
of as many groups of houses as might be
desired when the patronage of the resort
shall have still further increased, and that
it will not in any way disturb the even
surface above which left broad ex-
panse of greensward, will lend much to
the harmonious development of the beach
front.
John Cotton Dana, president of the
State Library Associate and librarian
at the Free Public LibiSky of Newark,
thinks the people Of Asbury Park dc not
make good use Of their library. So he
told pupils Of the Summer School of Lib
rary Training meeting here in an address
Of instruction. Cultivation of ingenuity
in library work was advised BY Mr..
Dana, who showed examples Of the at
tractive exhibits that may be made from
clippings of old magazines. Mr. Dana
presented list Of twenty nine weeklys
aud periodicals which he suggested as a
guide for the smaller libraries in making
a choice manager.