The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-15
Beautiful Weather On Sun
day Brought the People
Out and the Boardwalk
Was Gay
WHALE CREATESSENSATiON
HE DIsPoRTs HIMSELF LESS
THIAN HALF A MILE FROM
SHORE TO THE ADMIRATION
OF ALL BEHoLDERs.
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eSpecial to The Jersey city NeWf.')
ASBURY PARK, May 10, 1906
Climatic changes Saturday afternoon
and night brought Sunday as hot as
any in midsummer, the thermometer
| climbing at monday to 96 degrees in the
sun ,and but ten less in the shade. A
dry atmosphere and a brisk land breeze,
however, made 1t sem much cooler, and
there was no grumbling at the heat. On
the contrary, the sudden coming of hot
weather brought forth general rejoicing.
| The hotel sentertained crowd of over
Sunday sojourners of a size unprecedent-
ed for this early in the season. The
beach and boardwalk were thronged all
day long with happy promenaders in the
| lightest of summer garb, while the Deal
Lake boat nveries rented more canoes
than have gone out since last August
This feature of diversion gives promise
this year of greatly increasing in popu-
| larity.
A big whale was sighted off the shore
at distance Of less than half a mile. 1t
appeared about fifty feet long, and
though it spouted from time to time, it
was impossible to keep the eye upon it
in the dazzling sight of the sun upon the
ocean, and little could be ascertained con-
cerning it, though it was watched by
hundreds of people.
The two parties into which the voters
Of the city have been divided by agita-
/ ton for the annexation OF West Park
are working with might and main to gain
further converts to their cause in prepa-
ration for the special election which to-
morrow will decide the question. Last
Park Opera House. The speakers were
| DR.. Bruce S. Keator, president of the
Board of Trade; ]. Lyle Kinmouth, DR..
Thomas III. Pratt r. A. Tusting. H. j.
Rockefeller, A. R. Parsons, Councilman
Thomas J. Winkler, Colonel n. ]. BY,
DR.. Byron L. Rhome, William A. Barry
and James D. Carton, president of the
| Common Council.
To prepare for the election the general
campaign committee of West Side Park
annexationists rented Lyric Hall. in
which a mass meeting was held last night
| while that in the Opera House is in full
blast.
Former Senator James A. Bradley,
| better known here as the 'Founder' of
4 tn ecity, has sided actively with those
who have taken stand for limited terri
| tory. In public statement he has made
of his views, he holds up the sale of
liquor as the greatest possible evil to
result from consolidation, and closes with
this plea:
Il want to enter my protest now even
if I am voted down ten to one. have
| recently bought plot up in Greenwood
Cemetery near New York. and it will not
be long before this poor old body of mine
will be resting there This is probably
the last time shall ever appeal to the
people of Asbury Park upon a public
platform, and / now want to enter my
protest. If the annexlonists win you will
say The old gentleman was wrong, and
we win you will say the old gentleman
was right feel in regard to this ques-
ton of annexation the same as father
would feel if his daughter was. about to
make an unwise marriage one of which
he did not approve-if she marries, the
father would say, "God bless you, but
my heart is heavy"
That the Atlantic Coast Electric Rail-
1 way Company owes Neptune Township
about $4,000 in accumulated payments
based upon an agreement entered into
when a franchise was given for the lay
ing of the tracks, has just been brought
| to public notice by Collector G.. E. f..
Hedrick in an official communication to
T. Nelson Lillagore, president of the
Township Committee. special meet
ing of that body was at once called to
give consideration to this important in
formation and steps will be taken at
once to make collection of the debt.
The original franchise was garnted to
the Asbury Park and Belmar Street
Railway Company in 1888, and in sec
Ition 4 stipulated that the township should
receive for right of way through that
place 5 per cent. of the gross receipts Of
the trolley company or its successors or
assigns The franchise was limited to
fifty years. None of this money yhas
ever been paid, and why so important a
matter should have been entirely over
looked nobody seems to know. The time
i involved covers a period Of nine years,
and the receipts are now $50, GOO a year.
Ten years ago they approximated $17,-
600.