Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-05
SEABRICHT NOW ASKING
FOR FUNDS TO REBUILD


the Third New Jersey district and
State Senator John Webley jSlocum,
of Monmouth county. will be asked to
aid Seabright's efforts to get the APP
propriations
A relief committee appointed by
Mayor George w. Elliott has raised
about $4,000, but more is needed,
The Board of Trade will work with
the mayors committee in restoring
order out of what is seemingly chaos
and in seeing to it that nobody is
permitted to suffer for the want of
actual necessities.
Vice-President w. G.. Besler said
after a hard days work yesterday at
Normandie that the damage to the
Jersey Central's tracks at that place
will cost $4,000 to repair.
Cottages Placed on Wheels.
Some of the cottagers anxious to
save their buildings. managed to jack
| them on wheels across the sandy town
to the Shrewsbury River, where they
were placed on scows and taken to
the other side. we'll out of the danger
zone Among the owners OF summer
homes so transferred were Edward
peterson. Mrs L. G. Irwin Martin
l.. Minugh and George Ravens.
The Packer cottage, which stands
on the ocean front close to the spot
where the bulkhead gave way, is still
standing. although the cellar and part
| of the first floor are under water
Mayor Elliott and the village
other officials are in straits. There is
only about $4,000 in the treasury. If
land enough to make a real town is
to be saved it is imperative that new.
strong bulkheading be built at once
along the ocean front. The sum on
hand would hardly build 800 feet of
the pest bulkhead. A mile-two miles
of it is needed.
The officials feel that it will be i'm
possible to wait for private owners
to rebulkhead their ocean frontage.
Besides, the heading that is built
must be the best stone and cribworlx
and must be uniformly strong in it's
whole length.
Shrewsbury Doing Damage, Too.
While the ocean thunders at the
shore and eats it out by the half-acre
the Shrewsbury River, with a silent,
but ever rising tide. is backing up
into the business part of the village.
| flooding cellars, barns. garages and
even houses. and contributing at least
| half of the big loss.
Nooouy went to sleep last night.
! When morning came and showed a
shlft Of wind there was something
close to rejoicing on the part of every
| one.
There will be little restitution. The
towns money will be used to relieve
that flrst Of all, if necessary. but it is
not likely to be necessary. Women
OF the summer colony came to Mayor
Elliott today with offers of financial
! aid and there were kilograms from
many towns asking if help should be
| sent.
Down at Monmouth Beach the
damage was mostly to bulkheads and
the decking over them, used as a
board walk.
At Galilee the fine house of DR.. J..
II. Knapp, of New York, three stories
and an attic, toppled halfway over,
the walls collapsing and the frame
work twisting beyond repair.
Bricks Go, Piles Still Stand.
The next house north but one is
the Green Cottage of the Miramar
Inn. By noon the sea had swept half
way under 1t. Men set to work at
once to get out the furniture. Strong
piles, or puncheons, in the founda-
tons of several big houses withstood
the surf after the brick foundations
had dissolved.
DR.. Benjamin Van Brunt, working
with life savers from the Galilee life
saving station, who We're headed by
Keeper G. w. Green and aided by
many Of the fishermen. succeeded In
saving the little church of st. Peter
of Galilee after the ocean had washed
on three sides of it.
Life savers of the SeaurIgnt life
saving station, mile north of Sea-
bright, working under Keeper Albert
Mount, tried hard to keep the two
Hall cottages out Of the ocean. They
did not succeed.
1t was just before noon yesterday
when the crowds lining Ocean ave-
nue. abreast of the Octagon Hotel
noticed a shaking and then heard, OF
saw the swapping of telegraph and
telephone wires running into the big
five-storied hosiery that had faced
the ocean there for thirty-five years
Men had worked half the night and
all the morning to get everything out