The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-04
ASBURY JOLTEO
BY EXCISE SHOCK
At ATLANTIC CITY
Private Detectives lowering
About Send Thrills Through
Resorts BOnifaces.


ASBURY PARK, Aug. 4-Something
like a shudder is going through Asbury
Park as. the result of the news from
Atlantic City about the action taken
there by the excise probers, one of
whom is Mayor T. Frank Appleby, of
this city. Only a week ago Mayor APP
pleby announced that the Excise Com
mission was going to take a vacation
for the summer, so the i~nstigation of
an investigation at the neighboring re-
sort yesterday was most disquieting
news to Asbury Park b~onifaces.
Some ten days ago it became noticed
that a number of private detectives
whose faces are pretty we'll known to
members of the police department were
boarding at Asbury Park hotels. The
police department did not put them
there, and they evidently were not here
on vacations. The only inference was
that county authorities had been plan
ming another scoop, such as came off
two years ago, when some of the lead
ing hotels were raided on fete nights
during the masque carnival.
Mayor Appleby is quoted as having
said at the time that he knew Of no
reason for their presence there. With
the Atlantic City news as a ugges
ton, however, it is thought by the AS
bury Park bonifaces that they are soon
to be investigated. 1t is said hat
sleuths have already put into the hands
of the authorities evidence of a num-
Der of violations of the excise laws
of Aspury Park. 1t also is said that
similar evidence has been collected in
Long Branch.
Sunday Rail Players Fined.
Whoever may have been caught, it
is a pretty good bet that no proprietors
of the leading Asbury Park hotels will
fall into the net this time. Those who
were fined s 1000 each, and told tina if
they ever came into the courts again
on similar charges and found guilty
they would be sent to jail, at the time
the last probing vas going on. have
been paying pretty strict attention to
that warning. Hundreds of dollars
worth of liquor has been given away
to hotel guests here.
For the first time in the history of
the city Sunday ball players in Asbury
Park have been fined. Magistrate Bor-
den at the City Police Court delivered
a sound lecture to Charles Keim and
Robert Stewart, and then fined them
SO. William Stewart, a brother of
Robert Stewart, he sent to Jail for fiji
teen days, but that, it was said, was
because William had a record"
About 100 guests crowded around lit
tie 7-year-old Blanche Stern at the
Edgemere Hotel last night when the
child swallowed a penny. The little
girl nearly choked to death before the
of DIR. F. f. Coleman. The
doctor worked over his patient an hour
before much relief was obtained. and
the penny finally went down.
The surf was exceedingly warm yes
terday, the official registration of its
temperature running UP to &c, the high
est record of the year. But it was also
quite rough, and lifeguards had much
to do. At Fourth avenue it knocked
over two girls standing on either side
of a bathing rope, and when they got
done waving their feet in the air they
were nearly "all in That was the
at which Matthews and Nc
the ~lifeguards, put in their
good work. In twenty minutes the
young women recovered and were say
ing that Matte and Mack were
nicer about it that time than ever be-
fore.
Some of the Recent Arrivals.
Spending August at the Ashland are
Mrs. w. Saunders, Mrs. H. II. Lam