The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10

throngs 81 gayIy dressed folk and its
many booths
After the sun has gone down the Board
walk and the casinos are aOlaN- with
electric lights. Will. beyond an tps dusk
canoes and rowboats drift across inland
walters From open windows ISSUE strains
~ Music and occasional outbur-ts ~
Applause.
The settlements that fringe the sea
coast are ~ divsrsifie-i a. are the crowds
they attract som. are exclusive cottage
colonies: others are cosmopolitan in char
acter with hotels aud boarding houses.
summer homes aud bungalows Still
Others are isolated. quiet watering places
In recent years settl~ments % the eH
elusive order have multiplied notably
S-abright. lsOwmoOr and Monmouth
Bee on to the nOrthward % Long Branch
aud Elbsron I~al Beach and Ailenhurst
to the south have especially attracted
people % wealth and fashion.
The northern Outposts 81 the summer
resort region are the Highlands ~ Nave
sank. a bold dsnseIy wooded headland
that Tiass yo0 feet above the Navesink
River on one side and Sandy Hook Ray
on the other To the eastward - the
long narrow strip of Sandy Hook guard
ing the sheltered eSpapse 81 SANDY Hook
BAY Between the Hook and the main
Iani i narrow channel connecting
the Shrewsbury aud Nav-~iuk rivers
win the ocean
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS
Tn. town of Atlantic Highlands - the
landing place for hoais u the SANDY Hook
route. line Of swift paSsenE"r steamers
tina, make the trip from New York "a an
hours me The New Work aud Long
Branch Ra road which connects M.
Jersey coast resorts strikes through the
INTERIOR country from south tmboy 20
Long Branch Then It follows clos. 90
the -hor. a. far a. Po,nt Pheasant over
=. roadi,..d are operated trains ~ both
tn. New Jersey Central and Pennsy
wanna lines 4 branch of the New Jersey
Central leaves the main I'm" at Natawan.
-ncirci.-- tin. Highlands and Cunn-cting
with the water route follows the coast
-outhwArd from Sandy HOOK to long
Branch. where q joins the man line
From Philadelphia a DIVISION Of the Penn
-vlvania Railroad extends to Point Pleas
ant by way 81 Toms River Branches ~
both roads reach Ia Atlantic city from
Philadelphia
The back country about Atlantic High
lands cont aims many beautiful drives
~ III water bathing may bs had from any
one of the long bathing piers which eKtenCk
several hundred feet into the hay and fish
ing and grabbing are good a. all times
The hay affords one OF the safest anchor
ages 70 be found. and almost any day
fleets Of yachts NAV he seen rounding the
Hook or starting down the Nave~ink or
the Shrewsbury on fishing trips The
anchorage ~ alive with craft frOtn the
beginning To the end ~ the season aud not
q few owners of large steam yachts make
tha run daily To and from New York
The Payonia v Acht Club has q clulDhosme
there and the New York Yacht Club
maintains q station near the steamboat
pier. The place has Q vel organized
borough Rovernmeat Thsre nat ional
hank and slsops and bu.iness houses
The building activity there this year is
81 record volume. Many public i'm
provsmsnts arc also under way. Several
miles 0f cement sidewalks have been
sewerage systsm. good streets and electric
light. The fsm0us Richard homestead
on Bay View avenue. recently purchased
by Charles y. Armstrong. and Bruce
wood. the odd Leonard homestead. nov
owned by Robert b. Nantell. are being
architectural merit going mp - one for
= X Camp on HighwoOd avenue and
one for Corwin X. linsOn. also on High
wood avenue.
Newport - experiencinR what might he
called "A two phase development It,
attractiveDe.- Hs place - residence.
coupled with it, unguestiUnsd advantages
for manufacturing. has been effective
IN promoting development along buth
lines. This ~ miTT0T..d ia increase Df
population and IN narks-i activity in real
estate operations.
II ~ s'stimatesi that during tho last