New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
Spring g Lake Beach
Lures Summer Host
Back to the Resort
Jersey Colony Takes On Mid
season Atmosphere and
Sports and Social Events
Are Crowded Into Days
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

oHhlNG LAKE. BEACi, June IL
With an ever new charm and beauty,
Spring Lake Beach is Turing it's sum-
mer host back to the land of their sum-
mer joys. This delightful seashore re-
sort has taken unto itself already the
appearance of midsummer. Sports are
at their height, social diversions are
under way and outdoors and indoors
there is fun and frolic.
Spring Lake Beach is city of
magnificent hotels, beautiful summer
homes and fine public works The re
sort has been fortunate in that the mu
n pal authorities who have played
their hands in the continual develop
ment of the place down through many
years, have shaped it's growth to meet
the highest possible approval of those
who want only the best and find it
here. 1t is midway between New York
and Philadelphia and situated in a Sec
tion of natural beauty.
For natural charms no spot can ex-
eel Spring Lake. The beautiful crystal
fresh water from which the resort takes
its name is placed among the pines
and oaks that skirt its verdure-clad
shores. In its depths there lurlS the
choicest of game fish, which accounts
for the popularity of the place with
the fresh water anglers. Upon its
surface boating enthusiasts may en-
JOY boating and canoeing to their
hearts content.
New improvements Greet
Returning Vacationists
New improvements greet the return
ing vacationists to Spring Lake Beach.
In keeping with the plans which were
promulgated some years ago for the
continual development Of the ocean
front the municipal authorities are
of the beautiful Ocean Avenue, a drive
of more than two miles in length,
skirting the very edge Of the Atlantic
and paralleling the wonderful avenue
| of magnificent homes on the ocean
front.
A new eighteen hole golf course is
nearing completion under the super
vision of Donald Ross 1t lies to the
west of the resort and adjacent to the
| splendid eighteeu-hole course of the
Spring Lake Golf and Country Club.
At Spring Lakes other fashionable
club the Bathing and Tennis Club,
made. Expenditures amounting to more
! than 100000 have been made in the
reconstruction of the clubhouse and
the improvement of its tennis courts.
the bathing beach and other adjuncts
of the club. The building has been
practically doubled in size. The most
modern swimming pool in the state
has been constructed and a smaller
wading pool has been added for the
smaller kiddies. Eight new tennis
courts have been added and q tunnel
has been built from the clubhouse to
the private ocean bathing beach.
Large Hotels Prepare for
Official Opening Next Week
Spring Lakes hotels are opening
day by day. Some of the smaller
houses have been receiving patrons
since prior to Memorial Day, but the
opening of the fashionable New Essex
and Sussex on Wednesday of next
week and the opening a few days later
OF the New Monmouth and Warren
will be taken as the official opening of
! the summer season here. The coming
OF Charles S. Krom to the management
of the Essex and Sussex is taken to
indicate most successful season there.
The Monmouth is again under the
management of Frank c. Moore and
will be the center of much social ac-
tivity during the coming weeks. Sew
eral conventions are to hold forth there
this summer and plans of the man
agement provide for a brilliant series
of dances and other events The New
| Jersey Chapter of the Society of the
| Cincinnati, in keeping with their Gus
tom of many years standing, will hold
its annual meeting at the Essex and
! Sussex on Independence Day.