The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-15
New JERSEYS
Coast Liked
in Summer
Gen. t. 5. Grant One Of
Early Sojourners
in Locality.
BY HELM WOEDEN
lines special Writer

lines special Writer
NEW York. july I5.-Frank
~ Freeman. superintendent Of
tn Phipps property on the jersey
coast recently discovered strange
matted grass growing on the sand
dunes near hIs hOu.
That's curious. he said I've
never accn grass like this before
I'll send some Of u down to the
Department OF Agriculture IN Wash
IHg ON and hnd out what il is"
The grass was bundled off. put
MOI identified with the locality ID
which it grew After a weeks ST.
lence back came lengthy treatise
on Mr. Frccman's find The source
OF Inns grass is India. was the
verdict 1T would be costly and
difficult 10 raise M The United
States"
The Henry Carnegie Phipps es-
tate acquired the Jersey coast prop
CRY several years ago 70 extends
for 10 miles along the shore below
MautOlOk,nc TO point across from
B8rncCat Light
The land originally was owned by
William Alexander an American
major general m the Revolutionary
War. known as Lord Stirling. though
his claim 10 the Stirling title was
pronounced false by the Lords
Committee I'D 1852 He served IN
Campaigns M Monmouth County
The Phipps development lies in a
mysterious and fascinating section
or The Atlantic coast line.
Little-kuOWn birds. odd animals
and strange fish constantly are be-
ing discovered by Frank Freeman.
Gnarled ccdars and sturdy holly
trees form Windbreaks back Of the
shifting dunes.
The PhippS superintendent and his
wife lead a lonely existence. Their
house is two miles from the lear
cst town. and they have no phone.
once a dav Mrs. Freeman comes to
PENIS store at Seaside Park for her
newspaper She writes childreI's
stories.
Mr. Freeman IS MantOloking
BOY I'm addition to managing the
PEippS property ne is mayor. town
council and sheriff OF his district.
The town hall is his home.
Talk at So Minute
Not far from the FrecmanS' house
arc the transatlantic ocean liner
telephone stations where messages
from big ships arc sent and re-
Ceived The two stations we're put
mp in 1929 and 1890 They are mall
The receiving end is a little frame
shack. The transmitting station is
IN tWo-stOry house It takes about
\ dozen men to run the two sta
lions. The control. of course. is in
New York. where the scrambling
end unsCrambling of messages takes
place Five hundred miles out. it
costs So minute TO talk from
ocean liner to shore. Silence IN This
case is not golden.
The popularity OF this Jersey
coast dates back to the days OF
Gen Ulysses S. Grant. who spent
ms summers following the Civil
War at Long Branch Woodrow
Wilson was another President OF the
United States who liked the Jersey
shore.
Among those identified with pres
crt-day life along the Jersey coast
arc Nlr. and MIS-. Tom Field. MIR
and NrS Guernsey Curran Jr. Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse MetCalf. Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph r. CatinS. Mr. and Mrs
Haley Fiskc, Mr.. and Mrs. John !
Boyd. Mt and Mrs George Dwight
Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis and MIR. and
Mrs Harris E Fisher Jr.. Rumson
Mr. and Mrs Hal Sims. The bridge
players. and Mrs Cv Rablan Deal
Mr. and Mrs Hubert Parsons. OF
Emerson. and Mrs George Wash
ructcn Ksvauaugh and Mr. and Mrs
John MacDermott. Of Spring Lake
Recalls Grants Visits
The James Seligmans and the
b5WISOhn families were ueighbors o.
Gen Grant at Long Branch
jefferson SeliGman of the bank
ing firm Of Seligman Bros and son
Of James Seligman. remembers
President Grants nightly call fol
p visit with his father and little
game Of cards
One evening Gen Grant Leaned
his head on his hands" jefferson
Solomon aid and ~t-iOd ~, tI,e
unhappleSt man IN the worldr His
frm had failed The crash involved
his own fortune as we'll as the saw
inCS Of others.
My father and MIR LeWisohn
vent 10 sec W. II Vanderbilt" MI
Seligman continued. and told hin
that Mr.. Grant had been wiped out
Mr. Vanderbilt gave the general
$4,000 10 pay ms debts.