The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-06
LONG BRANCH
HAD GREAT
WEEK
RecOrd-breaking Crowd Now
%Summering at Shore.
Resorts.

LONG BRANCH. July Zone of th'
greatest weeks in the history of this re
sort comes to a close today. The celebra-
ton Of the Rev. DIR. W. p. CantwelPs sill
yer jubilee IL the priesthood brought
many visitors together from all over the
State the first of the week. Since then Q
record breaking Fourth of July crowd has
filled the hotels and boarding houses and
filled the few cottages not previously
rented.
Curiosity to view the new $4,000 ocean
front improvements. just completed, 1t is
believed, has been a great factor in hlllns
the place to overlooking. The ocean front
Is the most popular section of the resort
The bluff walk is the favorite place. In
the afternoons and evenings 1t is crowded
to its capacity with promenaders. Al
though the structure is twenty feet wide
there is already talk of the advlsability
of widening it.
Ocean Park Is also very popular. The
Carlisle Indian Band concerts are heard
every afternoon and evening BY thou-
sands. These are to be continued out OF
doors all summer except when the weather
does not permit. Then they will be given
In the convention hall of the new Casino,
which seats $500. Some 5000 chairs were
used out of doors to seat the crowds at
The concerts last year, but this supply has
already proven inadequate, and 200 more
are to be ordered.
The new $50. 600 Casino and convention
hall was illuminated inside and outside for
the first time Tuesday evening, when the
silver jubilee performance in honor OF
Father Cantwell was held, All were de-
lighted at the appearance Of the building.
A permanent stage had just been compile
ted, according to the ideas OF Louis James,
the tragedian. who summer here.
The widened and Strengthened sixty-foot
ocean drive along the bluff is now lighted
brilliantly for its entire two-mile length
with the new system of lights along the
bluff walk and the last of the unsishtly old
poles on which wires were strung on the
west of the roadway prior to the putting OF
the cables underground are being taken
down. The heavy and carriage
traffic is apparently as heavy as before the
street was widened. The t~horoughfafe Is
even more popular than ever.
Pleasure BAY and the Shrewsbury River,
however. are not sighted There are more
yachts, motorboats and other pleasure craft
on the river han in any previous year and
the stream is still in great favor among
amateur fishermen and crabbers. The 1900
seat open-air theatre built out over the
river is we'll filled at every performance in
spite OF the fact that the new West END
Casino, seating LOO, located on the bluff
at Brighton avenue, is open and proving a
very popular resort.
The Elks are completing arrangements
for going, $50 strong, to the Philadelphia
convention. They intend making a great
display. The forty-one-piece Carlisle In
dian band will them in the
parade. They will also carry a float on
which will be a sea sliff, some fishermen
and probably some shapely bathing girls
in striking costume.
The lodge expects TO entertain several
thousand of the delegates here during the
week. A monster clambake has been
planned and an entertainment
OF twenty-five appointed. Auxiliary COM
mittees from Red Bank, Seabright, High
lands, Free hold and other neighboring
towns and villages within the Long
Branch lodges jurisdiction have also been
named to look after Elks who take short
side trips. The complete committee is:
President of the Council ]. M. Stratton,
Councilman Joseph N. Flanagan, Council
Forrest Green. Berthold Sussman,
siegfried Hirschfeld, B B. Bobbitt, Coun-
Gilman Henry Conover, Louis Kahn,
James Milmore, Charles Fl. Greene. jr.,
J.. Elwyn Green, Samuel Haysman, Coun-
Gilman William r.. Warwick, Sheriff c.
Asa Francis, Benjamin p. Morris, r. c.
Adamson, jr., C. II. C. Clark, Morris
Judas. John H. Campbell. Joseph Finn.
William d. Mailing. Charles Rosencrans,
Louis Miller, President of the Board of
Trade H. c. Williams, Munroe Sussman,
Isaac Stein and August Weber. of Long
Branch; Fred Frick, Theodore Collier and
Harry p. Chandler, of Red Bank; John
W. Eyles, Bernard Keenan, and Frank
Brassell, of Seabright; Bernard Creighton.
of Highlands; William Griffin, jr, and
Harry Bodine, of Asbury Park, and j. H.
Wardell. of Port-au-Peck.