New-York tribune., 1906-06-10
ON THE JERSEY COAST.
attractions for the Season at Long
Branch and Seabnght.

Long Branch, n J.. June CSpeciaD.-With the
opening Of the summer season of 1906 at Long
Branch visitors find more attractions than at any
previous time in the history of this Even
when the summer people catered 10 Monmouth
Park, when horse racing was the principal attrac
tion along the North Jersey coast. Long Branch
presented no such attractions as it does at the
opening of the summer season of 1906.
To begin with, Long Branch Is spending 100000
ocean front improvements These improve
ments which include a widened boulevard. %
foot boardwalk buIkheads and jetties for a dis
tance of nearly two miles. well under way.
The contractors agreed to have a half-nile Of tho
completed bulkhead and boardwalk ready by July l.
The avenue in front of the city property the old
Ocean House. now known Ocean Park has
been transformed into a beautiful park with hOw-
..r mounds. walks. both gravel and granolithic,
public drinking fountains, bandstands, etc, while
the old Ocean club. which cost $4,000 10 build and
will be used temporarily as a casino until the new
building is completed. has been made attractive
from top bottom
The casino. which will cost. with its fur
nishings S0o0o Will be ready for the season of
1907 The contract for its erection given
out last January but it was stopped by a
VIII Of certorari granted to the Long Branch
Property Holders Association BY opinion
Gently handed down the city has the right 10 pro
ceed with the work. and the city Council has di-
rectod IN, contractor to proceed without delay
The new casino VIII be erected in Ocean Park
south Of the present club. II viii have seating
capacity of three thousand. The design is an at
traotiVe
Long Branch will have beach music the coming
summer The music committee. Of which eX-MayOr
Augustus Chandler is chairman. has completed
negotiations hiring the Carlisle Indian Band Of
Carlisle. Penn. with sIr. Stauffer It's leader. and
forty pieces Professor Stauffer was here. and re-
turned with a written contract, which has been
ratified by Major Mercer. L. :. A, the head Of the
training school AT Carlisle The Indian band has
played at all the recent worlds fairs The members
of the band range in age from sixteen TO twenty
hye. A few weeks ago the band won hrst prize in
a contest for bands held at Chambersburg Penn.
The opening concert viii be given on July ! The
With a widvned boulevard, beach music ana auto
with the attractions al Pleasure Bay, sailing and
boating gcf tennis and poo. the lover ot pleasure
will find all wants fully supplied At Long branch
the coming summer
The annual horSe SHOW this summer "H be ,1 ar
other rich treat " bile last year Was a recora-
breaker a. regards m. entries and prize money,
Secretary casey SlEs inst ne fNpfSes rnitio
said he and why shouldn't We have the greatest
az receiving inquiries concerning the l26 show. II
Nnl be g-eat show. the best that money can
Long Branch Viii as in years past, he The sum.
mer home of scores of prominent men. some OF
Governor Franklin Murphy. Charles 7 Cook, An
{hony ia9y s9dge AlI5e9 s,S-1 StegSe5 Rss W1Il
Rsg-rb ,;+ofre y FesTons Isioior Straus oscar
Haight. Even Mcintyre Lewis Goldsmith Samuel
. sachs n h Browning Charles y Abbott Will
lam ID Harper oliver Byron. Louis James. Brent
Good. Charles Nimpfheimer. James Smith jr. Ed
ward F. Murphy. William CampheIl clark. William
Rothschild. Dr Edwin Sternberger and Frank W.
Seabrights summer season opened today, week
earlier than usual Governor Edward { Stokes
Robert n. McCarter AT his summer home n the
Rlrson Road and BaG1a Nists ayenle, Governor nor
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