The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-05-23
Early Birds Took a Dip On
Sunday Even Though the
Houses Are Not Yet Open
NEWSPAPER MEMS OUTING
SUMMER SCHOOL FOR LIBRAR-
IANs OPENED YESTERDAY
WITH TWENTY-oNE PUPILS.
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Asbury Park Sunday, even though the
bath houses have not yet opened. The
hot weather was more than the summer
ties, some of them down now for the
season and others for only an over Sun
day holiday, could stand, and such as
could find bathing suits and any place to
don them, made haste for the water.
They all said it was not cold, and from
they way they swan around and dove
from breaker to breaker a much higher
temperature than is customary was in
dicated. The official registration of tenn
perature has not yet begun, but bathers
said the water stood above so. It rarely
goes ten degrees higher than this even in
late August days.
Promenaders thronged the beach and
boardwalks from an early hsur and gave
the ocean front midsummer appear
ance. All but a few OF the larger hotels
are now open and festivities at many of
them have begun. The Coleman House
casino and bowling alleys have been do
ing a rush business for considerable
period. The refreshment parlors there
have been rented to Huyler and he will
open first class establishment shortly
For the first time the stores over on
the west side, now part of Asbury
Park, were closed on Sunday. Mayor
Charles A. Atkins and Chief of Police
Smith made tour of inspection on Sat
| urday and decided upon this course. The
greatest need in the newly annexed dis
trict, they agreed, is for improved sani-
tation. The advice of the Board of
Health will be asked as to what imme-
| diate steps may be taken to this end
The new sewage system will not be be-
gun until fall. City officials have been
somewhat surprised to find that in many
sections of this district, which mas been
painted pretty black, are very thrifty
homes. The situation, on the whole, is
not nearly SO bad as has generally been
believed
Newspaper men all along the New
York and Long Branch Railroad have
received invitations from the Central
Railroad of New Jersey for an annual
excursion. The trip will be made on the
Asbury Park, of the Sandy Hook line,
and will include sightseeing trip of
New York Bay and the lower Hudson.
| Special trains will be run from as far as
Scranton. Pa. Through Ira Whyte, the
local representative of the road. arrange
ments have been made for the Neptune
township orchestra to accompany this
aggregation and furnish music through
out the day. The trip will be taken May
81.
Yesterday the first summer school for
| library training which sto be held under
the direction of the New Jersey Public
Library viii begin and will be continued
until Friday, June %. The course is in
tended to furnish instruction to librarians
in charge of small libraries and better
| fit them for the work in which they are
engaged. 1t is to be principally element
ary and will include Instruction in the
selection of books and preparing them for
circulation. Challenging. charging, chill
dren's work, reference work, arrange
ment of libraries and proper method of
administration, card writing, classifica-
tion and other essentials will be taught
The school win be in charge of Miss
Sarah 3. Askew, the State organizer,
who is graduate of the Pratt Institute
Library School. 1t win open with TWEEN
ty-one pupils, all but two Of whom are
from New Jersey.
J. r. White, the new proprietor of the
Aberdeen in Third avenue. a few doo.s
from the ocean, entertained large num-
ber of guests over Saturday and Sunday,
though his house has had its doors open
but a week, and has vet sto celebrate its
formal opening for the season. Mr.. White
is immensely popular with Prineetonians,
as he was associated with the manage
ment for many years of Princeton Uni
versity eating clubs. Mr.. White enter
tanned yesterday from Princeton among
others, Lewis R. vogel, George De Boice,
Leslie zapp, John R. White, Jr., and
George Jeiger. The formal opening of
the house will occur May %. A delight
ftl programme Of summer hops. card
| parties and other entertainments has