The sun., 1910-05-22
By THE JERSEY BREAKERS
A VARIETY or ~ WuER TiSTES
Suited m THE SHORE.

HOmes for Everybody Between Atlantic
Highlands and Cape lay t'oed No.
= torlng. Fishing aud Bathing Nttrac'
lions Of HOtels and Cottages.
Breakers pounding on the outer har
end the great ocean far beyond. blue and
nBcked with sails; strip % yellow sand
turned brown at the edge of tho water
and the surf tumbling et your feet. You
dig your heels In the sand and II you arr
young enough you set 20 work with d
shovel and pail to make a well, which
flls strangely with brlckish water. ons
Eupposss, from tho ocean itself By and
by. whom you can't stand the sight ot Il
any longer. up you go % somewhere aftei
a bathing suit. ~ that you can have a
tussle with the surf.
This is tho Jersey shore or 10 call II
what it s. The Shore. II somebody ask
you this summer 70 60 down % the shorg
Tor week end you are supposed 20 know
that you are not 10 20 any where hut d
Jersey. Elsewhere It's called the sound.
or the Coast or Long Island. But Jersey
% called The shore.
Il 10 not alone the breakers and the
sands that you can look at and play with
on Tho Shore. There nrc miles of tho best
motor roads IN the country. some quite
extraordinAry golf links. hotels whore
they have music b suit your taste and
young men in white coats who bring you
things IN a tray.
Something may happen like this: About
two hours after you are done with the sub
way and the taxicahs YOU come 10 a place
with a trim station SET IN a neat plaza
There are red Jersey rlads leading away
from it and young persons who pretend
that they don't have e. work for living
waiting for you Your Youngest spns'
Perhaps. Maybe they ara brothers Of
friends of yours. and tho friends are
waiting foF you. too. wearing white and
amilas Friends surely What slse2
Anyhow they whisk YOU away IN cloud
of blue smoke. BY and nv YOU have
dinner with the family, which has 10 M
epns through with and usually has its
csnpansations M tho way cf good food
Family dinners in such places usually
have. Father u used to il. and YOU thanl,
hsAven for father. lie also supplies the
family with automobiles. You are quite
ready for dinner. for as likely as not YOU
have done a few circus acts with the
surf.
Saturday nights are usually the greet
uights at the hotels on the shore. They
give lawn parties. Out on the grass
within earshot of the surf they string
Jap4nsse lanterns and f1 up the acetylene
IN the bandstand. There arr alsn a great
number Of tables. small tables. for two or
three. oct out ON the grass conveniently
near the platform.
The players in the orchestra. twenty
q them. perhaps more. and soloists every
ona. a. the leader will gladly tell you.
ooms out with their fddles and horns when
The dinner hour 10 well past and take up
their places IN tho bandstsnd There
are also attentive young men IN white
coats who keep eyes on the tabies. and
when you are there. up they come and
AJAX you what You will have, sir?
Maybe yOu GO. It's doubtless polite
20 do ~. Yet when Won have done your
duty. tlere are other things which wust
b. attended to. The young persun who
h the daughter of father with the auto-
mobiles wouldn Z for a moment allow you
10 do more than your duty by the Young
men at the tables. 30 you cast around
Tor the hest place % 20. M that YOU can
hear the music a. much as you want to
and yet not be disturbed boy those same
Young man with the white coats
Half way between the band stand and
the ocean Ia the pre'tiest latch Of grass
you ever saw in your life u strct hos
out smoothly and 10 has tho sweet
smell ~ country and evening IN it -
there the two 0f you q and 81 down IN
the grass. You don Q know or care a whit
whether the orchestra is playing Verdi
or Chaunosy Olcott. But you hear some
thing coming from whore the japanese
lanterns are and behind you is th- inter-
mittent rumble OF thu surf Altogether
there IL q great chance for conversation.
The jersey shorp snt all like thar
Il doesn't make any difference whether
you have a motor ~ your own or know
sornebody who is tho daughter n some
body who has one. whether y0r nave
gone broke and haven c the prica OF q
taEioab OF whether you like a patient
nag better anyhow Neither does it make
any diifenenoe whether you like o. 20
winning all day or play golf The
Jersey shore has trolleys. u hasa beach
unmatchable anywhere else IN the world.
eEtendimE all tho way from Atlantic
Highlands n Cape May and IL has some
Of the best golf links m the country. You
can choose a. you please.
Nor IL Il a matter of concern whether
you are Dious or not. Spend the Sabbath
az you please. Asbury Park and Ooean
Grove have preaching u a Sunday that
makes Sundays back home seem tame.
And there are other things 70 do too.
There are other diverse appeals TOO.
II you want a country place fpr the sum
mer b which you can invit. the best
circumstanced folks IN the world YOU
can hnd something on the shore NJ D.
receive them. Then. too, II 10 happens
that YOU are willing % save money I'M
the sumner you can rent tenting ground /
pitch a roof % canvas and live dy simple I
life a. though you were hunting musk .
oxen In the north.
So Il IL clear that the shore ia 30 adaut
abls that u can appeal 10 al SORTS of !
tastes. There h virtue IN that Won
know. for u you get tired - living IN a
place with ten bathrooms you can 70
where there aren any at all and trust to .
the ocean for getting clean three times a
day.
There is a coed way to get 20 thes.
places. The Central Railroad ~ New