The Indianapolis times., 1935-07-12
Life Taken
Placidly at
Sea Resort
Mantoloking, on Coast of
New Jersey, Bears
Indian Name.
BY HELEN WORDEN,
Times Special Writer

NEW YORK. July IA spent
4 y the weekend at Mantolohng.
q placid but picturesque resort on
the Jersey coast.
The summer colonists are pleas
ant. conservative folk who live in
comfortably furnished. wood
shingled cottages. From front win
COWS they can look out over the
Atlantic. From back pOrches they
can keep an eye on their children.
padding up and down Barnegat
Bay in sneak boxes" shallOw-bot-
toned boats peculiar to local
waters
"MantOloking" is Indian for
Land Of Beautiful Sunsets" They
say that those who once see the
sun set in Mantoloking always re-
turn.
Among those who have been re-
turning are Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Z. Scribner, Mr.. and Mrs. William
de Mile, Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Peas
lee. Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Peters.
In a way Mantoloking has the
dazzling look Of a Florida coast re
sort. The glistening, silver sand,
the washed. sun-drenched. white
shingled houses and the blueness
OF the water remind one Of the
tropical South Atlantic coast. Per-
hs that is why so many loyal
Mantoloking residents go to Flor
ida in the winter. Mr.. and Mrs.
Scribner have taken a house in
Cocoanut Grove. Mr.. and Mrs.
Peters own a place in Clearwater
and the Runyons spend their win
ters near Miami.
The proprietor of the Jolly Tar,
Mantoloking' gift shop, transfers
his wares to Miami in the cold
! weather months. and Mr.. Polhemus,
owner of MantOlOking'S general
store. shuts up shop in November
and calls it a day by heading for
Florida and remaining until Feb
ruary.
Likened TO Cape Cod
On the other hand, A. P. Rich
ardson. scholarly proprietor of the
MantolOking Ship Works, is in
clined to think Mantoloking is more
Cape Cod than Florida. you'll find
the natives just like Cape Cod folk,
: he said.
Mr.. Richardson is the author OF
'Barnegat Ways"
i've lived hereabouts spce was
6 years old" he explained. I know
7 the people we'll enough to go in
their houses and talk things over.
Some of the best blood IN Amer
lea flows in the veins of the ma
tives of Adamston, little pine woods
settlement to the east of Mantolo-
king. according to Mr.. Richardson.
Take the Lovelands," he said.
al traced their family tree back to
P;antagenets. Jimmie Thompson
owns a 'BreecheS Bible that has
been in his family since the six
teenth century"
Mrs. Scribner drove me to Adams
ton to call or Jimmie Thompson.
He is the local plumber. We found
him in the garage tinkering on
pipe.
could we see your 'BreecheS
Bible'?" we asked.
Sure" he said. leading the way
into his nice white bungalow. My
folks come from Freehold he ex-
planned. taking the Bible out of his
safe. This Bibles got the record
, of our people in it."
ANY d. A. r. would give her eyes
for Mr.. Thompsons family tree.
In faded ink, the record begins
with James Dayell-1560." The
Daveus evidently married some Pat
tons. for that name appears next,
followed by Vorhees and then
Thompson.
Along with the family Bible the
friendly plumber has inherited
magnificent old mahogany side
board. L don't know the history
of it." he said, but I do know that
It came from my mothers people.
They lived around Freehold"
Collects Colonial Coins
Freehold is the county seat of
Monmouth County. Mantoloking is
also in the county, which covers one
of the oldest and most historic sec
tions of Jersey.
In Revolutionary times the piney
woods of Monmouth County were
infested with bandits known as The
Pine Robbers says John w. Bar
Der in his New Jersey Historical
Collections" published in 1874.
They stole. plundered, burned
and murdered the settlers. When
they could. they took coin"
i've been collecting the coins
SINCE I was a kid Br. Thompson
said.