Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
VEXES RICH COLONY
Poor Man at Sea Bright, N. J.,
Builds a Spite Fence.
BOYCOTTED BY NEIGHBORS
Would Not Buy His Ice Cream, So
He Seeks Revenge.
SHOCKED AT SOCIETY WASH
Advertises for Negro Tenants for
Bungalow and Gives Free
Camp to Gypsies.
BOYCOTTED BY NEIGHBORS
SHOCKED AT SOCIETY WASH

NEW YORK. July 23.-The fashionable
ocean resort of Sea Bright. n. j., which
boasts millionaires galore and exclusives
beyond number, is beginning to have
has been upon 1t all summer is to be
removed.
The blight is a ten-foot "spite fence"
around a bungalow cottage situated at
Rumson road and the Shrewsbury river.
a point which the rich cottagers have to
pass in their motors several times a day.
On the fence in huge type the owner.
James NJ. Allgor has painted denuncia-
tons Of the wealthy and has even called
some of them by name.
He declares that he has been boycotted
because he is neither rich nor exclusive.
but is merely a tradesman. Therefore
the most prominent sentence on his fence
reads:
The poor who steal 90 to prison, while
the rich go to Europe"
Time to Be Socialists.
Another bit of Allgor philosophy
which, like the above. has been staring
the cottagers in the face all summer is:
1.-The time has now come when all poor
men should be socialists"
Sea Bright'S hopes that the eyesOre may
soon be removed are based upon the fact
that Allgor was taken before Justice Van
Nest yesterday and was fined $40 Tor
displaying billboard advertisements with
out a license" He was warned that he
might be arrested every day and fined the
same amount as long as he kept the Of
fensive words upon his big barricade.
Besides, next Thursday he must stand
trial in Freehold for libel, suits having
been brought by five men whose names
he displays on his fence-Charles D. Hal
sey, a millionaire New York broker; P.
Hall Packer, former mayor of Sea Bright;
Frank Mcmahon, former mayor OF Rum
son, the adjoining settlement, and John
McPeak, William Porter and James Wal
lace, the latter three being policemen.
Story of Hold-Up.
At the top of the fence, which is painted
black, this motto stands out in huge white
letters:
THE poor need an opportunity and not
charity"
Below is this statement:
"Notice-Beware! 1 was held up at the
point of two pistols. This place was
broken into and robbed. My clotheslines
and clothes were stolen and the foliOW-
ing persons (naming the five) have been
action of the grand jury. Great Gods!
Can this be in the home of the brave and
the land of the free?'
To an outsider the alleged holdup and
robbery might sound serious, but 1t really
was the funniest thing that ever hap
pened to Sea Bright. What was taken
from Allgor's place was lot of second
hand and second-rate underwear.
But the story of Allgor and the fash
ionable resort had better be told from the
hA hnrr
lot at the edge Of the picturesque
drawbridge leading to the Rumson road,
over the Shrewsbury, and put up bum
galoW, presumably for residence. In
stead, he made 1t into an ice cream par
lor.
Advertised for Negroes.
When patronage didn't materialize in
few months a big banner appeared over
the ice cream bungalow, reading:
This property to let. Negroes pre-
ferred."
The CONSERVATION that this caused
among the fashionable may we'll be inag-
ined. Then, not getting any negro ten
ants, Allgor swung another sign, stating:
"Gypsies welcome to camp on these
premises free
ers did make their home on his lot, until
the Sea Gate and Rumson police drove
them away.
Then came Lingerie day." Some Of
the wealthy women of the neighborhood
had raised funds for the new Church Of
st. George by the Riverside, and it was
about to be dedicated. This was one
town function: another on the same day
was a social affair at the Rumson Coun-
try Club, among whose members are
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Rogers, jr., Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaac Seligman, Mr.. and Mrs. H. M.
Alexander, Col. and Mrs. John ]. Nc
Cook, Kingdom Gould, Jacob Schiff,
George Emlen Roosevelt, E. A. 8. Clarke
and Ogden Mills Reid
Shock to the Fashiona bles.
While church fashionables and club
fashionables were motoring to their func-
ton Allgor was preparing a surprise for
them. They got it as their motors crossed
the drawbridge from Seabright to Rum
son. 1t was a clothesline from which
futtered a dozen or so sets of feminine
lingerie. Every motor had to pass directly
beneath the line.
To the Mortified gaze of the women as
they drew near was revealed tag on
each bit of lingerie. Each tag bore the
name of some fashionable.
In the center of the line Of feminine
garments was one huge pair Of masculine
red fiannels. Attached to each leg was
a! plaeard. One read: Mayor Packer"
the other Mayor Mcmahon
A flood of protests reached the two
mayors. They inspected the ribald dis
play and got their three policemen, Nc
Peak, Porter and Wallace. to raid the
Allgor bungalow and take down what the
vulgar villagers were calling the society
wash
Allgor, in retaliation, had all hands ar
rested on a charge Of illegal entry, but
the Monmouth grand jury refused to do
anything but quash the case. Then the
ice cream man struck his latest blow the
spite fence" 1t appeared for time as
though the cottagers couldn't counter
this, but last week they passed an or
dinance forbidding bill posting without
license. and yesterday they managed to
have Allgor fined.