New-York tribune., 1922-07-19
Dinpled Knees
Shocking, Rules
Jersey Resort
Washington Crossing Holds
Lady Bungaleers Must
Keep Them Covered; ALI
Night Parties Under Ban
State Police Aid Invoked
The Rev. Kopfman, Onetime
Stone and Egg Fugitive,
Is Blamed by Elappers

The "lady bungaleers" OF Nash'ns'
tons Crossing, n. j.. have broken loose
again. But they're not going to ge'
away with IL this time as they did when
they drove the Rev. Frederick kopf-
man clear out of the community tive
years ago with stones, eggs and to-
matoes. Not by long shot!
The imposing New Jersey State
Mounted Police, the Hopewell township
committee and dozen or so biue-ia"
reformers are arrayed in solemn pha-
ianx to settle such momentous ques-
tions as: When should bungalow
party break up for the night? If one
has dimpled knees should one show
them? How much racket can crowd
of fappers and fippers make without
becoming a public nuisance
Jail and fines loom in the back
ground, and every available post IN the
neighborhood is freshly adorned with
q neat sheet of yellow paper proclaim
inc the most drastic ordinances that
the townsfolk could devise. Not only
that, they are going to be enforced, II
IL takes all the mounted police sta
toned at the training camp near Wash
ington's Crossing to do it.
Dominic Started Rumpus
It was the Rev Mr.. Kopfman, in his
zeal for reform and his scathing de-
nunciation OF this as "the most wicked
community" he had ever been in. who
called them lady bungaleers. Flappers
were not in fashion then. But now
there they are in their summer war
paint, fappers or bungaleers, which
ever you like to call them, shocking
the good residents who live at Wash
ington's Crossing all the year round
and with never a trouble until Mr.
Kopfman stirred up his hornets nest
Things went smoothly enough last
season, although there were occasional
complaints, but about week ago. after
a party that began on Saturday night
and continued right on into Monday
morning, the reforners thought they
had had enough. They complained to
the township committee.
Eyes, we had to take hand in
things" confessed P. o. Voorhees,, one
of its members, yesterday. "The neigh
bors wouldn't stand the doings of these
youngsters any longer. Maybe things
had been getting a bit lax Anyway,
we revived the ordinances passed two
years ago, labeled the country with
them and called on the state police to
help US enforce them. Their bathing
costumes were getting little
well'--
The summer colony of Washington's
Crossing has population of 1000 OF
so at its height, and the life is largely
aquatic, as the bungalows are righ
on the banks of the Delaware. This i;
what brought the bathing suit cues
tion to the fore. one-piece suits be
came the fiapper vogue. They took tt
dancing and dining in them. But nov
the ordinance stipulates that all per
sons in bathing suits, whether walking
or riding on the roads of Hopewel
Township, must cover themselves will
coats which reach from the neck t
below the knee. Coats must stay shu
and cover every particle Of the bathing
suit.
Bathing Suits Must Be Ample
Moreover, continues the ordinance
every person bathing in Hopewel
Township must wear a bathing sui
that starts at the armpits and ends a
the knee. There is no ducking thi
rule A fine or Jail, or both, will fol
low without fail. Up to late last nigh
no one had been arrested, but TIL
youth of the colony is up in arms.
"Seems as if some people not onl,
can't have any JOY themselves but the,
must take it away from every one else,
growled a tall, fair-haired fiipper. "It'
all the Rev. Kopfman's doing. If h
hadn't started the fuss there wouldn'
have been anything more to 1t. Whel
we rent the bungalows, we expect t.
be able to play victrolas and dance
We're no different from the crowds q
the other summer resorts"
Captain Othel Baxter, commandan
OF the State Mounted Police Trainin,
Camp, admitted that he had been calle
upon to enforce the ordinances b
Hopewell Township Committee and tha
he expected to keep up his end Of II
There had been complaints of all-nigh
parties with dancing and singing and
general display Of high spirits tha
made 1t difficult for the more sedat
residents Of the colony to get an
sleep.