Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-11
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are now repairing the banks and traps
and smoothing the putting greens. while
others are making the big clubhouse
ready for use. Meanwhile Lieutenant
Stuart Morgan, until recently an army
aviator, is being kept busy taking up
Asburg Park visitors for rides in his
big Curtiss plane. Lieutenant Morgan
has been somewhat surprised to find
that women are the most enthusiastic
and by far the most numerous who
apply for rides in the air. With Lieu
tenant Hall Micelli as pilot. an aerial
mail service between Newark and the
shore has been established. Later it is
proposed to institute an aerial com
muto-s' service between Manhattan and
the shore, ingalls, V. Uppercue, of New
York, having made trip one day. this
week by air to his country place here.
Asbury's Memorial Day crowds were
the largest on record in the history of
the city, and rivaled even the July
Fourth throng. The arrival of vaca-
tionists caused several of the hotels to
advance their openings, among them
the New Ocean Hotel, one of the most
attractive houses conducted on the
European plan in the city. Many other
large houses had their opening day and
still others have. fixed June 10 as their
opening.
The remarkable feature of the spring
has been the steady leasing of cottages
with the result that on Memorial Day
there were not thirty cottages on the
| lists of real estate men offered for the
season. The housing situation in New
York may partly account for the de-
mand, but real estate men say that the
reaction from the war probably is the
best answers At all events Asbury Park
has not had, in twenty years, such a
demand for summer villas.
New Hotels Being Planned
Several projects are being formed
here for building operations at the close
of the present season. The newly
elected city commissioners, on n
schedule which includes an artistic
development of the city lakes and parks,
particularly Sunset Lake and mall, in
the heart of the North Asbury Park
cottage and hotel district and one of the
beauty spots of the resort. They are
in co cooperation with the chamber of
commerce, whose activities just now are
being concentrated in new hotel con-
| struction.
Demands. for hotel reservations are
! in step with the cottage seekers, if the
experience of Sherman o. Dennis, Of
the New Monterey, is an indication.
In the three years he has been manager
| OF the Monterey, Mr.. Dennis says his
reservations have never been so great
as this year. Mrs. Margaret Frost at
the Lafayette, w. Harvey Jones at the
Columbia, Mrs. Ada NJ. Sexton at the
Coleman, A. r. Parsons at the Bruns-
wick, G. Arthur Applegate at the Mon
mouth, Harry Duffield at the Thedford,
I. d. Townsend at the Albion. Charles
Beers, Jr., at the Manhattan-these
and scores Of other well known hotel
proprietors declare that the bookings
,have not been SO heavy in years.
The formal opening of the Monterey
will mark the opening of its new grill
prettily decorated room with accom-
modations for 400 diners and with an
ample dance floor, which has been con
structed in the southeast corner of the
ground floor. A feature of the grill
will be ''soft" drink bar with Eng
lish barmaids as mattresses. The dan
SAINTS are to. be featured there with
Miss Vera Lyons and Miss Symonette
Botta, who will be the Monterey mis-
tresses of ceremonies this season, in
charge of the entertainment program.
The evening dances in the grill will con
tinue until midnight, with the orchestra
augmented after 10 O'Clock by the hotel
ballroom musicians.