{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3197", "width": "2253", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "^m^^i^\\nr?T. rnA,\\ni^^ArN,\\nVaWa^, ^A,\\nW mr^^^ri\\n.^rf^^WM\\nmmm^mmr\\nA^^^4^rv\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\n^-i^f^^H\\nIf UNITED STATES OP AMERICA.\\nmm,\\n\u00c2\u00bb|11\\n^%^^^mm^^\\n^,A .AaH A\\n^A:\u00c2\u00abAr*A A^\\nW^.^Aa^a/^O^^", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "AaaA\\n^%0mm\\nmm\\nW^lmm\\nv\\na^A ^n Vv^..*\\\\A A\\n^^^mmmtrm\\nMf^Mm\\nl^2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^*\u00c2\u00abl\\nA.r A W VV\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\n:M;- a,\\n.A^^.^^^-^^^. 2^-^^.\\n.^J^5,M%^^\\nA/T\\nSA^*AA^?J^ A\\n!J*AA*\u00c2\u00ab!\\nsai!S\u00c2\u00ab^^\\n.^p...i\\n^f^h^hh", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Digitized by the Internet Archive\\nin 2010 with funding from\\nThe Library of Congress\\nhttp://www.archive.org/details/homesonseashoreo01catl", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "ws:y\\nSB\\nA-eio\\nEntered acc:)rdino;- to Act of Goigr-. ss, by George L. Ca.ti.in, in the 5-ear 1873,\\nin the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "F 1 1 1\\nFire Insurance Co.\\nOF F\u00c2\u00bbmiL.A.r EIL.P\u00c2\u00bbHl7V\\nOaili Gaptal\\nmp\\nDIRECTORS:\\nCHAS. H. STOKES,\\nS. B. KINGSTON,\\nFIELDING L. WILLIAMS,\\nANDREW M, MOORE.\\nJOHN J. WADSWORTH,\\nH. H. HOUSTON,\\nSUSSEX D. DAVIS,\\nTHOMAS T. TASKER, Jr.,\\nCHAS. H. STOKES,\\nJNO. J. WADSWORTH,\\nJ. K. WARNER,\\nADDISON LEECH,\\nHon. C. W. GILFILLAN,\\nGEO. P. TREADWAY,\\nSAM L M. SHOEMAKER,\\nM. RUSH WARNER,\\nC. M. TIBBALS,\\nC. H. DUNCAN,\\nWM. H. WHITCOMB.\\nPresident.\\nyiee-President,\\nSecretary.\\nGEO. W. CAMPBELL, Jr. CO.\\nAGENTS FOR NEW YORKAND NEW JERSEY,\\n87 Liberty St., N. Y. City.\\nDwelling House Tnsurance a ^pecialty.", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3050", "width": "2160", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HOMES o\u00c2\u00bb SEA-SHORE.\\nON THE LINE OP THE\\nFOR\\nDESCRIPTION OP THE REGION TRAVERSED BY THE NEW JERSEY SOUTHERN\\nRAILWAY, AND ITS BRANCHES, WITH A STATEMENT OP THE INDUCE-\\nMENTS OFFERED BY THE RAILWAY COMPANY, CONJOINTLY WITH\\nPROPERTY OWNERS, ALONG THE LINE, TO THOSE\\nDESIROUS OP SECURING\\nSUMMER RESIDENCES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nA voice is heard in the winds and waves\\nIn the sound of the ever rolling sea.\\nHear ye the voice 7 then come away,\\nFar from the haunts of ruder men.\\nCome where the leaves and fountains play\\nYou may love and be happy then. Percival.\\nBY\\nPUBLISHED FOR GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION\\nBY THE\\nNEW JERSEY SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.\\nNew York\\n1873.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nThe growing demand among New Yorkers for Summer\\nResidences on the adjacent coast of New Jersey, and the lack\\nof general information relative to the numerous attractive\\nresorts on the line of the New Jersey Southern Railway, as\\nwell as the extended facilities for reaching them during the\\nsummer season, have suggested the pubHcation, for gratuitous\\ndistribution by the Railway Company, of a work of this\\ncharacter, describing each point through which the road\\npasses pointing out the attractions which they severally offer\\nas places of residence narrating such historical or cotem-\\nporaneous facts of interest as may be connected with each\\nlocality in short, giving the reader a complete, accurate and\\nentertaining pen-picture of the entire region v/hich the road\\ntraverses. An active spirit of development and improvement\\nhas of late years taken hold of the southern counties of\\nNew Jersey. Long Branch is the acknowledged Brighton of\\nAmerica; Bridgeton, Vineland, Tom s River, Eatontown,\\nand Bricksburg have assumed an increasing importance.\\nSmaller villages have sprung up here and there on the line\\nof the railroad, and on every side may be heard and seen\\nsigns of prosperity and progress. That this little work may\\naid in this great movement is the wish of its writer,\\nG. L. C.\\nfM\\nC^^", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "mn m\\nisr:Ei-v^ ^^o:ris: bxjshsteiss ivEEir r.\\nXT is a sultry summer afternoon all day long the sun\\nhas been pouring down his fiery beams on the housetops\\nand streets of the great Metropolis the foliage hangs\\nparched and seemingly lifeless, and the pavements reflect\\nback a scorching heat people, sweltering in discomfort, go\\nslowly and wearily about their business the omnibus horses\\nloiter lazily along their accustomed Broadway, while Jehu,\\nprotected by an immense sun shade, sits half asleep on his\\nbox, little caring for passengers in the saloons, crowds of\\npeople are calling for iced juleps, and inquiring about the\\nthermometer in the counting-rooms, old gentlemen in their\\nshirt sleeves are sitting by the windows with their feet up,\\nfanning themselves, and occasionally exclaiming, well, bless\\nme in the school rooms, is heard the drowsy hum of the\\nchildren s voices reciting their last lesson for the day; down\\namong the slums the poor and the sick and the hungry vainly\\nstrive to catch a whiff of pure cool air, wandering in through\\nthe windows of their miserable abodes. Here is a crowd\\ngathered a man has been sun-struck, and they are taking\\nhim away to the hospital. Whew, but it s hot", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "4 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nYes, indeed it is. The thermometer at the Herald corner\\nsays 97* in the shade, and oh how people have suffered in\\ntown to-day But come I can whisper to you of a place\\nwhere, all day long, the cool soft ocean breeze has been blow-\\ning, and where, in blissful oblivion of the torrid miseries of\\nthe town, hundreds of people, men, women and children,\\nhave passed a day of pleasant recreation and comfort. For,\\nknow that within the last few years so greatly have the facil-\\nities for communication between New York and the Southern\\nCoast of New Jersey been increased, and so desirable has\\nthat section of the State been found for cottage residence or\\nhotel Hfe, that there are now hundreds of New Yorkers who\\neither buy ground and put up a pretty cottage, or go to one\\nof the hotels, and keep their famiHes down there throughout\\nthe entire summe|i They can, if they desire, reach their\\nbusiness in good season in the morning, and return to the sea-\\nshore in the evening. There are frequent trains, good cars,\\na splendid sail, and a convenient landing place in New York,\\nand, what is better than all, the glorious cool and soul-in-\\nspiring view of the Atlantic, banishing remembrance of the\\nmiseries that follow in parching summer s train.\\nSo, take your valise and duster, and let us together, set out\\nand experience the delights of a trip over the New Jersey\\nSouthern route. You cannot more pleasantly, or perhaps\\nmore profitably, pass a few of these long summer days, when\\nbusiness is dull, and everybody disposed to take a vacation\\nand run out of town. We turn down Murray Street from\\nBroadway, and in a few moments are at Pier 28, our starting\\npoint. Here lies our boat, the staunch and beautiful Ply-\\nmouth Rock, moored to the wharf, with steam up, colors flying\\nand music playing on her after deck. On all sides are visible\\nthe hurry and bustle of approaching departure; at the gang.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 5\\nplank stands the Commander, calmly surveying the steady\\nstream of passengers going on board, about to entrust\\nthemselves to his care a continuous line of carriages passes\\nin and out upon the pier, each, in turn, depositing at the\\ngangway its precious burden of beauty, baggage and band-\\nboxes. A score of sleek porters dart here and there and\\neverywhere, getting checks for trunks, carrying aboard bundles\\nand packages, and showing all tliose little attentions which\\nmerit a substantial acknowledgment. Still the throng of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0people keep coming the upper decks are already well filled,\\nand yet there seems plenty of room for more. Now the bell\\nrings let us step on board there the whistle blows, the\\nlines are cast off, and in another moment the gong has\\nsounded, and our spacious boat, amid waving of handker-\\nchiefs, music and loud spoken good byes, is moving off\\ninto the stream.\\nNow let us go up on the forward deck and see the harbor.\\nWhat spacious saloons these are, and how elaborately up-\\nholstered and furnished. What comfortable easy chairs, and\\nsofas and tete-a-tetes whas cosy little state-rooms where\\ntables and chairs and polite waiters are to be seen, suggestive\\nof first-class dinners for the hungry traveler what carpets,\\nand bronzes and stained glass in fine, what a strangely\\nbeautiful coup d ceil does this grand saloon present, and\\nespecially when full of happy, Hvely people. Well, here are\\ntwo chairs on the forward deck, so light your segar, reader,\\nand let us %dew, en passant^ the many beautiful sights which\\nmake New York Bay the handsomest harbor in the world,\\nafter the Bosphorus. Here now, you see, we are already\\nabreast of Governor s Island. Here on the right are Bedloes\\nand Gibbet Islands, both fortified to the water s edge. Be-\\nyond them stretches away the Jersey shore, fined with villages", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "6 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nand whitened with the occasional puff of a locomotive. Over\\nour left bow, you see the Long Island shore, the densely\\nwooded heights of Bay Ridge, studded with villas. Right\\nahead are the stately hills of Staten Island, bathed in the\\nblue haze of the afternoon sunlight. Here we pass a Russian\\ncorvette at anchor; now a Cunarder, only eight days from\\nLiverpool, passes us a little further on, a yacht-load of jolly\\nfellows give us three cheers, and hold up a champagne bottle\\nas we pass. Now, we begin to get the genuine salt breeze.\\nFasten on your hat well. There is Robbins Reef Light on\\nthe right now we are opposite Staten Island, and presently,\\nfrom its precipitous bluff, the guns of Fort Tompkins frown\\nsullenly down upon us. Now we are in the Narrows. Upon\\nour right are the granite walls of Fort Richmond and its out-\\nlying batteries upon our left, Fort Lafayette, standing\\ngrim, silent and isolated and behind it, on the shore. Fort\\nHamilton, with the Stars and Stripes floating above it. Be-\\nyond these, to the south-east, is Coney Island, (you ve been\\nthere, of course), and if you look closely you may perhaps\\nmake out the distant hotels at Rockaway Beach. Now we\\nare in the Lower Bay, a sort of miniature ocean the Long\\nIsland shore ends the Staten Island shore recedes rapidly\\nto the south-west, while we plough on straight to the distant\\nspeck of blue hills, visible directly ahead. Now we pass the\\nQuarantine Grounds, where many ships are anchored\u00e2\u0080\u0094 now\\nwe gain a full view of the ocean now we sight the light-\\nhouses at Neversink, and come momentarily nearer now\\nwe feel the ocean swell rolling majestically in from the At-\\nlantic. Look directly east, and you may find an interest in\\nreflecting that if you traveled straight ahead in that direction\\nthe first solid land you would meet would be the coast of\\nSpain. Now that low sandy spit on our port bow, corn-", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE, 7\\nmences to be distinctly visible yes, and there is a wharf\\nthere yes, and a train of cars and while we are looking\\nand admiring and wondering, our boat has rounded to, and\\nwe are at the wharf at\\nSANDY HOOK, OR THE HORSE SHOE,\\nWhere, upon a long and substantial pier, we find the train in\\nwaiting. Only a few moments are required for the transfer\\nof passengers and baggage, and then we are off over the\\nsands, here plentifully covered with luxuriant cedars. But\\nere we leave the Hook behind, it may be well to know that,\\nbarren and uninviting as it is, it has a history of its own.\\nOwing to the alternate opening and closing of Shrewsbury\\nInlet, it has been successively an island and a peninsular at\\ndifferent intervals, while its length is constantly increasing\\nby the accumulation of sand at its northern end. Its breadth\\nvaries from a quarter of a mile to one mile. It was pur-\\nchased from the Indians in the 17th century by Richard\\nHartshorne, whose descendants in 1816 sold it to the United\\nStates. The first Hghthouse, erected in 1762, was during the\\nrevolution the scene of an engagement between some militia,\\narmed with two howitzers, and a party of British and refugees,\\nthe latter having entrenched themselves within. A British\\narmed vessel compelled the assailants withdrawal.\\nMany vessels have been wrecked on Sandy Hook, and\\namong the scattered monuments and stones marking the\\ngraves of the victims, are some bearing most interesting in-\\nscriptions. Tradition affirms, too, that here Capt. Kid fre-\\nquently resorted to bury his treasures.\\nA ride of four miles along the beach, affording at one\\nmoment on the left a charming view of the Atlantic, and at", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "8 SfOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nanother the placid bay, stretching away to the Navesink Hills\\non the right, brings us to the\\nHIGHLANDS,\\n1(24 miles i hour, 20 min. 6 trains each way daily.)\\nthe first point available for a home on the Sea Shore. Here\\non our right the Shrewsbury river separates the beach by only\\na quarter of a mile from the mainland, and directly opposite\\nlooms up grandly Beacon Hill, about 300 feet high, sur-\\nmounted by its twin lighthouses, which, by the way, were first\\nerected here during John Quincy Adams administration. A\\nnew bridge affords us communication with the other side 01\\nthe river, where, under the shadow of the hill, we shall find\\nseveral hotels, a store and post office, and some few building\\nsites, where a glorious view may be obtained,* and where\\nboating and bathing facilities are within easy distance.\\nAbout a mile north is Gravelly Point, where the British\\narmy so hurriedly embarked after the battle of Monmouth\\nand a mile further still, Greenland bank, where in 1782 a\\nland slide of forty acres happened, with a noise which was\\nheard for several miles away.\\nBeyond Highlands, as we resume our journey, we see on\\nthe right the mouth of the Navesink River, its northern bank,\\na densely wooded one, rising boldly from the water, and\\nadorned here and there by attractive villas,! while on the\\nlowlands on the south bank, stands the village of Port Wash-\\nington. Still further on we pass Black Point, and just where\\nthe Shrewsbury River, widening, trends away to the south\\nwest, reach the station at\\nOn a fair day an hundred sail can frequently be seen at one time from this\\npoint.\\nt The Neptune Yacht Club has its club house here.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 9\\nSEABRIGHT,\\n(26 miles i hour, 25 min. 6 irains daily.)\\nwhich, though only established two years ago, already boasts\\na hotel, a store, (see advertisement of Robert Emery), and\\nquite a number of handsome private dwellings. At this\\npoint also a bridge crosses the Shrewsbury River, affording\\nresidents the advantage of the beautiful inland drives in\\nwhich the adjacent country abounds.\\nThere are few more healthy and attractive regions within\\nthirty miles of New York than the old settlement of Rumsom\\nNeck in the Township of Shrewsbury, County of Monmouth,\\nbounded as it is by the Navesink or North Shrewsbury River\\non one hand, and by the South Shrewsbury and Pleasure Bay\\non the other, with the sea in full view from the slopes of its\\nnumerous rising-grounds, as you look to the east and south,\\nand the deep green heights of the Highlands of Navesink as\\nyou cast your eyes toward the west and north. All this\\ncountry is noted for the peculiarly balmy quality of its air.\\nAs long ago as 17 12, Thomas Bordin purchased a tract\\nof one hundred acres begining at Shrewsbury River, running\\nnorth north west to Navesink river, from thens easterly\\nfive and twenty rods in bredth from thens south south east\\nto Shrewsbury river from thens to ye place where it first\\nbegan, bounded south and north by said rivers, and west\\nby thomas hoess, and this description, with due varia-\\ntions of breadth, and of names of adjoining owners, would\\nanswer for a dozen of the old farms, some of them still\\nowned by descendants of Thomas Bordin. The previous\\nowner, one hugh jackson, speaks of his farm in his deed\\nas a peis of tract of land which fell to me by heirship from\\nmy loving father, deseased ^^vhich was convaied to him\\nby ye proprietors of the provins, in ye sixth year of ye", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "lO HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nraign of our sovering Lord and Lady, william and mary,\\nannoq domini 1694.\\nWilliam Bingham, merchant, of Philadelphia, owned, about\\nthe beginning of this century, a large plantation, still called\\nBingham Place, and owned for the last forty years by Dr.\\nEleazar Parmly of New York. The view from the old manor\\nhouse is surpassingly beautiful. It may be interesting to\\nread that Miss Bingham was married to Mr. Baring, after-\\nwards Lord Ashburton, at her father s residence.\\nUntil within the last five years this beautiful region was\\ncomparatively inaccessible, the only approach, save by the\\ntide boat at Port Washington, or Fairhaven, being from Red\\nBank, a drive of from three to five miles. It was, in fact,\\nlike a cul de sac in shape. But all this has been changed by\\nthe recent erection of a draw bridge at the new station. Sea-\\nBright, and by the liberality of the property- owners in laying\\nout spacious and attractive roads, covered with the firm red\\nclay of the neighborhood, so that the New Jersey Southern\\nRail Road is now of easy access, and one has not to drive\\nfurther for a sea bath than the average residents of Newport.\\nThe property of Mr. Ward, of which we give a diagram, is\\nmost eligibly situated for villa sites, adjoining, as it does, the\\npretty villas of H. M. Alexander, Samuel Borrowe, and E.\\nBoudinot Colt, and commanding lovely views of both rivers,\\nof the Highlands of Navesink and the Ocean. Among the\\nparties who have purchased lots of Mr. Ward, and erected\\nbeautiful residences, may be mentioned James M. Alexander^\\nEsq., and J. Lloyd Abbot, Esq., whose villas may be seen\\nfrom the railroad as we approach Sea Bright. By a wise\\nprecaution Mr. Ward has secured a suitable strip of the\\nsandy beach, opposite his property, for bathing purposes\\nwhile to those who are fond of still water bathing, the South", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nII\\n^3f-TO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "12 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nShrewsbury River, which flows between Sea Bright and the\\nproperty in question, offers every attraction. It may be\\nmentioned that the crabbing in this river is unsurpassed.\\nAnother piece of property owned by Messrs. Strong and\\nWard, and stretching from river to river, about half a mile to\\na mile from the draw bridge, offers many attractions to those\\nin search of healthful sites for homes. It is bordered by a\\nnew road, across the neck, and suitably called the Avenue\\nof the Two Rivers. A beautiful rising ground of about\\nthirty acres on the South Shrewsbury, and directly opposite\\nMonmouth Beach offers many fine sites, while the views on\\nthe Navesink River (where there are some fifty acres of choice\\nwoodland), are unusually beautiful. These gentlemen, with\\ngreat enterprise, have opened a navigable channel thirty feet\\nwide, fifteen hundred feet long, and four feet deep at low\\nwater, along the entire northern line of their property. The\\nbank above, studded with fine old trees, is about twenty feet\\nabove average tidemark.\\nThe new railroad from Sea Bright to Red Bank will cross\\nthis property, and a depot to be erected will give every\\nfacility of access. This railroad connects at Red Bank with\\nthe new all-rail line to Jersey City. It is a charming drive\\nfrom Long Branch, north along the sea shore, past Mon-\\nmouth Beach to Sea Bright, and thence westerly along the\\nNavesink River to Red Bank, and south easterly back to\\nLong Branch, through Shrewsbury and Eatontown,\\nThe advertisement of Mr. W. L. Tyson, following, calls the\\nreaders attention to a valuable tract of about seventy acres\\nof eligible building sites which he offers. This property is\\nall improved, is conveniently located, and possesses attrac-\\ntions well worthy of the consideration of the intending pur-\\nchaser of a HOME ON THE SEA-SHORE.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 1 3\\nSuitable for Summer Residences on the Sea-Shore at\\nWithin three-quarters of a mile from Seabright Station, at the junction of the\\nNavesink and Shrewsbury Rivers, and opposite the Highlands.\\nt^^ This property is beautiful, and accessible by good roads which have been\\nopened t irough it, and commands\\nFine Views of the Rivers and Ocean\\nApply to W. K TYSON, on the premises, or\\nFRANK S. WINCHESTER, 20 Nassan St., New York.\\nOur next stopping place is\\nMONMOUTH BEACH,\\n(28 miles 1 hour, 48 min. 6 trains each way daily.)\\nwhere a sea-side city of charming villas and cottages has,\\nwithin the past year or two, reared itself as if by magic upon\\nthe sands. And at a glance the intelligent traveler will per-\\nceive that these attractive dwellings, facing, in one direction,\\nthe billowy Atlantic, and in the other, the beautiful landscape\\nstretching away inland, are the homes, not of those who\\ncome and go with the ostentatious show and vulgar extrava-\\ngance of the noiiveaux riches^ but of the better class of society\\nwho, while avaiHng themselves of the unequaled attractions\\nof the New Jersey Sea Shore, yet maintain here that exclu-\\nsiveness to which a high social position entitles them. Here\\nare pointed out the summer dwellings of many distinguished\\nstatesmen, scholars and business men^ who find in this\\ndelightful spot a brief respite during the summer months from\\ntheir arduous routine of duties. Among these may be men-\\ntioned those of Senators Cattell and Torrey, Secretary Robe-\\nson, Chancellor Dodd, Messrs. David Hoadley, J. Wyman\\nJones, J. Q. Keasby, Courtland Parker, and many other well\\nknown citizens.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "14 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nWhile the development of this property, comprising a tract\\nof four hundred acres, has been rapid, the intention of its\\nowners has been and is to render the locality an exceedingly\\nselect o?ie, and, with this object in view, they will sell to none\\nbut purchasers of unquestionable respectability. It is also\\nspecially pro\\\\ ided that no nuisances of the character of liquor\\nshops or public houses shall be erected upon any of the pro-\\nperty, thus ensuring purchasers immunity from some of the\\ngreatest annoyances incident to many sea side resorts. In\\npoint of convenience too, Monmouth Beach presents especial\\nclaims. There are frequent communications with New\\nYork, the two bridges over the Shrewsbury river afford easy\\naccess to the delightful drives beyond, the churches, stores.\\nand markets of Long Branch are within easy distance, and it\\nis proposed during the coming season to extend the gas\\nmains from that point to the residences at Monmouth Beach.\\nIn short, one fortunate enough to secure here a Home on\\nthe Sea Shore, cannot but find it a profitable and satisfactor}^\\ninvestment. Land is sold in quantities varying from lots of\\n75x150 feet to two or three acres, and a total outlay of from\\n$2,500 to $7,500 will secure a cosy and comfortable home\\nin which the summer may be passed coolly, healthfully and\\namid the most recherche surroundings.\\nAnd now there is a great stir \\\\-isible among our fellow\\npassengers people seize their valises and look toward the\\ndoor fathers take the baby in their arms and get ready for\\na start the old gentleman over there wakes up from his\\nEve?ung Post and buttons up his duster something is e vi\\ndently about to happen. Ah yes, sure enough, we are just\\nshooting past the depot at the Httle suburb of Atlantic\\\\aUe,\\nthe upper end of the great city we are approaching. Each\\nmoment buildings become more frequent. We see great", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 1 5\\npiles of wooden houses painfully white and neat in exterior.\\nAway in the breezy, hazy distance, successive flags mark the\\ndifferent hotels, swarming wdth their thousands of idlers. In\\nanother direction are brick rows and church spires, and all that\\ntell of business more substantial, less ephemeral. And there\\nis the surf; you see it, you hear it, rolling in with a roar.\\nImagine how it must have roared on some of those terrible\\nnights last winter. The thought is enough to make one cool\\neven in July. And then, the depot, the labyrinth of vehicles,\\ncoupes, barouches, dog carts and all, in every variety and\\nstyle oh what a picture that scene would make for every\\none who has been to this summer Sea Shore Metropolis, will\\nremember the life and animation which surround the depot\\non the train s arrival at\\nLONG BRANCH.\\n(31 miles I h. 30 min. by Exp. train, or i h. 45 min. by Accom. 6 trains daily.)\\nJust a half a mile or so down the beach is a spot where\\nnearly an hundred and fifty years ago a party of Indians came\\n(not to dance the German, and enjoy the surf), but to estab-\\nlish a fishery. They were the first settlers, and the spot was\\nthen called Lane s End. The Indians did not enjoy undis-\\nturbed possession long. A party of whites from Rhode Island\\ncame to purchase, but found the Indians, unlike the inhabi-\\ntants of to-day, unwilling to sell. The former, however, suc-\\nceeded by the test of a wrestling match between one of their\\nnumber, John Slocum, and one of the Indians, in wanning the\\nright to as much land as one man could walk around* in a\\nday. The land thus acquired included all of this immediate\\nNo modern dancing at Long Branch has ever proved talf as profi .able as\\ndid this old fashioned walk around.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "1 6 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nvidnity, and continued in the Slocum family until a few years\\nago.\\nA few years later, crown settlers bought lands here at\\ntwenty shillings per acre, and followed the pursuits of farmers\\nand fishermen. Next a road was opened to the Court House\\nat Monmouth, (or Freehold) thence communication was\\nopened to Philadelphia, the people of which city soon\\navailed themselves of the opportunity to reach the surf by a\\ndrive of sixty-five miles then boarding houses, and, finally,\\nhotels were opened communication with New York by steam-\\nboat was established, and year by year the number of visitors\\nincreased, until they annually number more than one hun-\\ndred thousand people, with a permanent population of\\nabout 5,000.\\nThe name Long Branch is derived from a brook, a branch\\nof the Shrewsbury, running parallel with the coast, and ap-\\npHes strictly to the original village, situated about a mile and\\na half from the ocean, and where in 181 2 was erected a\\nLiberty Pole which is still standing, and about which has\\ngrown up a lively, active, enterprising community, boasting a\\ngood local government, a Board of Trade, an excellent n^s-\\npaper, the Long Branch News, published by Jacob Stults,\\nEsq., (see advertisement) stores representing all branches of\\nLONG BRANCH NETTS.\\nWeekly, per year, $1,50. Daily. July and August, $2.00,\\nLarge Circulation in Monmouth County.\\nIS SOLD ON THE BOATS AND CARS OF THE N- J. SOUTHERN R. R. CO.\\ndvertising Rates furnished on application to\\nJ. STULTS, Proprietor.\\np. O. ADDRESS, EAST LONG BRANCH, N. J.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 1 7\\nTHE BEST EVENING PAPER,\\nNEW YORK\\nCOMMERCIAL ADTEETISEE\\nOffice, Corner of Fulton and Nassau Streets.\\nPRICE, THREE CENTS.\\nFOB, SALE EVERYWHEME.\\nThe Oldest, Best, and Most Reliable Journal Published,\\n\u00c2\u00a3ac]i Edition of tbe Commercial contains\\nLatest Intelligence from Every Part of the Globe.\\nLatest European News by Telegraph, Sixteen Hours in\\nAdvance of the Morning Papers.\\nLatest News from Every State of the Union.\\nLatest Financial News of the Principal Cities.\\nLatest Reports of Sales at Stock Exchange.\\nLatest Commercial Reports News.\\nStirring Editorials on the Leading Topics of the Day.\\nArmy and Navy Movements, and every item of News worthy of pub-\\nlication.\\nSent by mail, and delivered to Subscribers, at the rate of\\n75c. per month, by reliable Carriers.\\nTHE NEff YOEK SPECTATOB\\nPublished Every Thursday.\\nONE DOLLAR A YEAR.\\nThe Best and Cheapest Weekly in the United States.\\nAll correspondence, business., or otherwise, to be addressed to\\nComm.ercial Advertiser,\\n136 Fulton Street, New York,", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "1 8 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\ntrade and industry,* and many elegant and substantial\\nedifices, both public and private, which would be an orna-\\nment to even a metropoHtan city. There are here good\\nschools, and churches of the various prominent denomina-\\ntions, and the summer visitor will be dehghted to find in the\\nvillage all the desirable surroundings and conveniences of\\ncity life. But with the early history of this locality, however\\ninteresting, we who are seeking Homes on the Sea Shore\\nhave Httle to do. To see it as it is to-day is more to our\\npurpose. So let us stroll about a while, first visiting the\\nbeach, where five miles of continuous bluff, in some places\\ntwenty feet high, forms a sea wall against which the surf\\nthrows itself. This bluff is washing away at. the rate of a\\nfoot or two every year nearly a quarter of a mile has dis-\\nappeared since the time of the wrestHng match above\\nspoken of.\\nAlong the bluff stretches a magnificent drive, which on\\nsummer afternoons presents as gay a spectacle as did ever\\nthe Bois de Boulogne facing this avenue are the principal\\nhotels, great wooden palaces covering an acre or more, sur-\\nrounded by broad shaded verandahs, and each in itself a\\nUttle community. Upon the beach, under the bluff, are the\\nbath houses, and here too, you, reader, will stop for a few\\nminutes and enjoy the pleasure of a plunge in the surf. Here\\nare a few sensible hints which you will do well to observe,\\nhowever, before going in\\nThough standing just before the sea, and receiving the pulsations of\\nthe deepest ocean, there is more than ordinary safety to bathers at Long\\nBranch. No fear is ever entertained here of the monsters of the deep,\\nSee advertisements of B. Morris, W. H. Morris Son, A. M. Dilentash Co.\\nMorfoi-d Vanderveer, M. Wooley, R. L. White, and Samuel S. Osborn, pub-\\nlished elsewhere.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 1 9\\nand, when bathing rules are observed, no danger is ever experienced\\nfrom the underio-dj. This latter is, after all, only fotind during the\\nrapid ebbing and flowLag of the tides, and never at lov^ tide the only\\nproper time for bathing ^nor at the fiood.\\nThe season for bathing along the coast of our middle States cannot\\nbe said properly to begia before the middle of June, and terminates by\\nthe middle of September. The benefit from bathing would be not a\\nlittle increased by the accessories of active exercise and sports. The\\ntime of stay at the sea- shore is generally too short Under three weeks\\none cannot look for a decided and permanent relief from old diseases by\\nsea-bathing. The bath should be taken before a meal, and never on a\\nfull stomach or during the first stage of digestion. By general consent,\\na morning hour is preferred for sea-bathing. Comparatively few, how-\\never, choose the time before breakfast for the purpose. Invahds with a\\ncold skin and languid circulation wiU require a slight refireshment ^a cup\\nof good chocolate, a plate of plaia soup, or a soft boiled egg, with a roll,\\nbefore bathing. If an early or noonday dinner be taken, an evening\\nbath may be used with advantage, and in some cases it is found to agree\\nbetter with iavalids than in the morning. Invalids shoiild bathe before\\nbreakfast, if they rise with a warm, and even hot skin, and reach the\\nwater before they can be said to have lost the warmth of the bed, or\\nafter they have been put in a glow by exercise. In a few words, the\\nrule is to bathe when the sldn is warm, or hot and dry, and not when it\\nis chilled or perspiring. Reaction and glow wiU follow in the first case\\nchilliness, and headache, and pains ia the Umbs, vsdU be no imcommon\\ntax in the last Great exhaustion after fatiguing exercise forbids the use\\nof the sea, as it would that of the firesh water bath and hence there is\\ndanger of rushing immediately into the sea after a long and fatiguing\\njourney. Morris Guide to Long Branch.\\nWell, now if your bath is over, we ll go over to the hotel,*\\ntake a bite, and then go out for a ride. There are a score of\\ndelightful drives. We can go to Pleasure Bay where there\\nare plenty of yachts and small boats, and a good fish dinner\\nor out on the Eatontown pike to Shrewsbur}^, Red Bank,\\nSee advertisements of Emmons New York Hotel and tlie LongBrancli\\nHotel.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "20 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nMiddletown and Colts Neck; or we can go to Deal, four\\nmiles along the coast, or, if you would go a little further, we\\ncan reach Freehold, seventeen miles off, and see the old\\nbattle ground of Monmouth, and the Tennant church, erected\\nin 1752, and surrounded by stirring historical recollections.\\nIn short, whichever way our horses heads be turned, we are\\nsure of a charming variety, and of arriving home at twilight\\nwith a good keen appetite for supper.\\nLong Branch abounds in hotels, and good ones, most of\\nthem kept by the prominent hotel proprietors of the Metrop-\\nolis but, of late years, cottages have become popular, and\\nhundreds of New Yorkers now have here residences of their\\nown, cottages or villa residences provided with all the con-\\nveniences of city life. To such a Home on the Sea Shore,\\none escapes eagerly from the heat and dust of the city how\\npopular and convenient they are, is evident from the annual\\nincrease in their number.\\nSo then, reader, if you would choose such a home, do not\\nchoose until you have visited great, active, fascinating Long\\nBranch. You can purchase land even now at reasonable\\nprices and in this connection the reader s favorable attention\\nis directed to the card of Messrs. Frank G. Davison\\nBrown, who during the past few years have effected extensive\\nReal Estate Agents\\nFOR\\nFRANK G. DAVISON BROWN,\\ndO Broadway, New York,", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nSEAGIRT\\nis situated on the upper New Jersey coast, in Monmouth County, about\\nten miles south of Long Branch, It contains eight hundred acres, with\\na front on the Atlantic of over two miles. On its southern boundary\\nare the Manasquan River and the little village of Squan on the north\\nside is Wreck Pond inlet, one of the most beautiful of the numerous\\nestuaries which indent this part of the coast.\\nSeagirt can be reached from New York and Philadelphia by the lines\\nof the N. J. Southern R. R. The time from New York by the coast\\nextension of the N. J. Southern R. R. now being built, will be less\\nthan two hours, and by express trains from Philadelphia it is less than\\nthree. The place is already connected by rail with the N. J. Southern\\nR. R. at Farmingdale, as well as with the N. J. Division of the Penn-\\nsylvania R. R., striking their main line at Monmouth Junction, which is\\nabout equi-distant between the two cities.\\nThe Atlantic seaboard throughout nearly its whole extent, forms what\\nmight be termed a double coast, having an outer line of sand bars and\\nsandy islands, with bays and water courses between them and the main\\nland a peculiar value therefore attaches to this upper Jersey coast, where\\nthe main land, as it were, comes down to the sea.\\nThe land at Seagirt is, and has been for many years, under high culti-\\nvation, yielding large crops. The entire front is timbered with a heavy\\ngrowth of Oak, Pine, Cedar, c. Gravel, in great abundance, is found\\non the property and in the immediate vicinity, with which perfect roads\\ncan be made at small expense.\\nA portion of the Seagirt estate was for many years the favorite summer\\nresidence of the late Commodore Robert F. Stockton, who selected this\\nspot by reason of its rare advantages, more than twenty years ago.\\nIt is believed that for a sea-side resort it is not excelled, if equalled,\\nby any point from Sandy Hook to Cape May.\\nSurveys are being made and the property is to be laid out as indicated\\nby the accompanying map. A large proportion of the grounds will be re-\\nserved in perpetuity for parks, thereby adding to the value of every lot.\\nThe radial plan adopted in laying out the avenues, will it is thought add\\nmuch to the convenience, as well as to the natural attractions, of the place.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "rrr SITUATED IN m:\\nMONMOUTH COUNTY\\n[quAH\\nUllage\\nNEV/JERSEY\\nDlVISWr/,//^/. includes Much from rMinberlttSO.\\na N9Z. il.60.\\nN?J, I\\nMINIMUM SHE te LOTS SO K ISO", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nContaining Eight Hundred Acres, with an Ocean Frontage of Two\\nand a quarter Miles\\nOnly One Hour and Three-Quarters from New York I\\nVIA LONQ BRANCH)\\n(By the proposed Extension of the New Jersey Southern R. R.)\\nOnly Two Hours and Forty IVIinutes from Philadelphia f\\n(Via Farmingdale, see page 27.)\\nLOTS VILLA SITES!\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094SUITABLE FOR\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHtlMES ON THE SEA-SHORE,\\nAre now being prepared for the market, which will afford unsurpassed\\nfacilities for\\nBATHING,\\nBOATING,\\nFISHING, and\\nDRIVING.\\nFor further particulars apply to\\nHOMER MORGAN,\\nNo. 2 Pine Street, N. Y.\\nROWLAND R. HAZARD, Jr.\\n110 Broadway, cor. Pine St., N. Y.\\nJ. E. MONTGOMERY,\\nJNo. 202 Broadway, N. Y.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0040.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 21\\nsales of property at the Branch, and who have, in fact, made\\nreal estate in this locality an especial feature of their business.\\nBRANCHPORT,\\n(32 miles i hour, 50 min. 6 trains daily.)\\nour next station, is about three quarters of a mile further on,\\nand, itself a suburb of Long Branch, is the nearest landing\\nplace on the South Shrewsbury River for schooners, or other\\nlight draught vessels. Directly opposite is Port-au-peck, an\\nold Indian camping ground, and a pleasant resort for visitors.\\nWe command from this vicinity, a charming prospect,\\nlooking northward over a large expanse of landscape to the\\nHighland range looming up grandly in the distance, and ter-\\nminating abruptly at both extremities. And now we cross\\nthe southerly arm of Pleasure Bay, and pass over a roadway\\nlined with hedges of evergreen, with here and there a luxuri-\\nant grove of cedars beyond. The country now assumes an\\nair of agricultural wealth and prosperity. We see many choice\\npasture grounds and an occasional farm house dotting the\\ngreen, and before we know it we are at a place which, once\\nupon a time was unhappy in the appellation of Peggy s\\nPoint, (derived from one Peggy Edwards, whose husband\\nwas hung as a tory), but upon which modern progress has\\nbestowed the more euphonious title of\\nOCEANPORT.\\n(34 miles i hour, 55 min. 6 trains daily.)\\nHither, before the days of the railroad, ran passenger\\nsteamboats from New York, and Oceanport was a\\nprominent shipping point for a considerable district of\\ncountry. For some years it was known as Eatontown Dock.\\nBut it was the opening of the Monmouth Park Race Course", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0041.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "22 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\najew years ago that gave the great impetus to travel hither\\nand brought a thousand summer visitors where previously-\\nhad been one.\\nIndeed one of the most attractive features of Long Branch\\nand its vicinity during the month of July are the races, under\\nthe direction of the Monmouth Park Association, on their track.\\nIt is by far the best in America, being a full mile, with wide\\nsweeping turns, so that there is no possibility of an accident\\nto any of the starters, while the homestretch, with its wide\\nand straight dash of a quarter mile, cannot be equaled,\\nand affords plenty of room for the large fields of horses for\\nwhich Long Branch meetings are famous. The Grand Stand,\\nlocated immediately in front of the judges stand, is in itself\\none of the handsomest structures this side of the Atlantic.\\nThe racing this year will begin on the 4th of July with a\\ngrand steeple chase of about three miles, over one of the best\\ncourses known, it being only excelled probably by the Grand\\nNational Course at Liverpool, Eng. All the jumps can be\\nseen from the stand the water jump being directly in front\\nof it. There is always a large attendance on jumping days.\\nOn the same day there will also be three other races, the last\\nof which is the famed Jersey Derby, a dash of a mile and a\\nhalf, when some twelve or fourteen of the best horses ever\\nraised, including several imported (English) horses, will start,\\nand the wir^ner of which will increase his owners bank ac-\\ncount some $4000. On page 23 will be found a full pro-\\ngramme of the two meetings, which extend from July 4th to\\n19th, inclusive^ and during which thirty-one events will be run\\nat all distances, including a great race of four mile heats on\\nthe loth of July, when eight or ten of the best long distance\\nhorses in the country will come together, and which will no\\ndoubt produce three if not four heats before it is decided.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0042.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE, 23\\nMONMOUTH PARK\\nLO^G BRANCH,\\nTVS^O MEETINGS!\\njF ix-st M:eetiiior;\\nBEGINNING\\nFrulqy July 4th, continuing on tlie 8tli, 9tli, lOtli\\nand 12t]i-rive Pays.\\nFIPST DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Four events, including the Jersey Derby and\\nGrand National Steeple Chase.\\nSECOf^D DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thi ee events, including Hopeful Stakes and\\nMonmouth Cup.\\nTHIRD DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Four events, including Monmouth Oaks and\\nMansion House Stakes.\\nFOURTH DAY. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Three events, including July Stakes and Grand\\nSweepstakes of Four Mile Heats.\\nF 8 FT H DAY .\u00e2\u0080\u0094Three events, including a Steeple Chase handicap\\nand Monmouth Sequel Stakes.\\nHecoiiicl IVteeting- s\\nBEGINNING\\nTuesday, July 15tli, continuing on tlie l( tli, 17tli\\nand 19tli\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Four Bays.\\nFIRST DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Four events, including a Hurdle Race and Ocean\\nHotel Stakes.\\nSECOND DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Three events, including the Thespian and\\nLong Branch Stakes.\\nTH 8 R D DAY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Three events, inclnding West End Hotel Stakes.\\nFOURTH DAY. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Four events, viz Steeple Chase _ Handicap,\\nAugust Stakes, Robins Stakes and Consolation Handicap.\\nW. E. RAYNOR, Secretary,\\nN. B.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pools wiU be sold at No. 1146 Broadway on the eyeniiig\\npreyious to each race, and on the track on the day of the race.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0043.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "24 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nThe arrangements for getting to and from the track cannot\\nbe excelled. Three boats run from New York to Sandy-\\nHook, whence the New Jersey Southern Railroad takes the\\npassengers direct to the entrance of the track. Here a plat-\\nform and sidings have been built for the accommodation of\\nvisitors. The return to the city is fully as prompt, so that\\nfrequently during the meetings of 1872, New York visitors\\nwere home before 6 P. M. For the accommodation of visit-\\nors from the numerous hotels and residences on the line of\\nthe railroad, an extra accommodation train is run both ways,\\nstopping at all stations, and reaching the track just before the\\nhour fixed for the racing to begin returning immediately-\\nafter the departure of the New York special. The carriage\\ndrives from the Branch to the track cannot be excelled even\\nby the famous Central Avenue drive to Jerome Park, and it\\nis consequently much patronized on race days by visitors\\nstaying at the Branch.\\nAnd now we are away again, catch a glimpse of an an-\\ncestral Jersey farm-house, with its rows of withered poplars\\nbefore it, and next come to a period at\\nEATONTOWN,\\n(36 miles 2 hours, 5 min. 6 trains daily,)\\na village of both age and respectability. Here, in 1730, one\\nThomas Eaton reared his dwelling, and thus gave a name to\\nthe place which succeeding generations have built up around\\nit. The dwelling is still standing, on the north side of Mill\\nBrook, and the box trees which adorn the grounds about it\\nare considered among the finest specimens in the country.\\nEatontown has many interesting historic reminiscences.\\nThere was a sharp skirmish here between the Whigs and\\nTories in 1780, while, over a century earlier still, one Indian", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0044.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "HOMES OK THE SEA-SHORZ. 2$\\nWill is said by tradition to^ have, in consideration of tiie\\nbestowal of a red coat and cocked hat, pointed out to a Mi.\\nEaton the whereabouts of Capt. Kid s treasures.\\nThe Eatontown of to-daj is a quiet pretty village, vnm\\nshaded streets, and an easy going well-to-do population. One\\nmay find here a secluded and tranquil home, and yet enjoy\\nthe facilities and conveniences afforded by EpiscopaHan,\\nBaptist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, a public and\\npri\\\\-ate school and any number of stores. There are here,\\ntoo, 2!kIasonic, Odd Fellow, and Good Templars Lodges, a\\nRoyal Arch Chapter, Daughters of Rebecca. Odd Fellow s\\nBenevolent Association, a Literary Society and a ee Read-\\ning Room, The purchaser of a Home on the Sea Shore,\\nat this point, will fmd that he can secure good land at $200\\nper acre, or, if in the collage, at from $300 to $600 for lots\\nmeasuring 50 x 150 feet.\\nFrom Eatontown Junction, a half a mile from the tillage,\\ndiverges our branch road northward to Red Bani: and Port\\nMonmouth. This, priof to the construction of the Sea Shore\\nRailroad om Long Branch to Sandy Hook, was the main\\nline of the Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad, Port Mon-\\nmouth bemg its terminus. Now, however, though traversing\\na lovely region, and passing through some old and important\\ntowns, it is operated altogether as a branch road, and we\\nshall therefore defer our j oiimey over it until some other\\nday. For the present, let us pass on over the main line.\\nWe are now running about southwest, and presentiy enter\\na heavy growth of brush, from which we enerre again to see,\\nfor the first time on our route, a succession of sand hiTls on\\neither side, one of them on the right rejoidng in the name of\\nHuckleberry HHI Then we enter a cutting, and at its\\nufrther end find ourselves at the station of", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0045.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "26 HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE.\\nSHARK RIVER,\\n(42 miles 2 hours, 20 mia. 6 trains daily.)\\nthe connecting point for the village of that name, situated\\nabout two miles to the eastward. The Shark River itself\\nrises a mile or so north of our depot, somewhere near the\\nHeights of Huckleberry aforementioned, and crossing the\\nthe track, while yet a mere brook, becomes at its mouth a\\nbroad stream, upon the shores of which lovers of fish and\\noysters are wont to assemble. In 1778 a party of British\\nlanded there and burned two salt* works. Shark River Vil-\\nlage boasts a Methodist church, a school and a post-office.\\nAbout the depot an extensive brick yard is the only promi-\\nnent feature.\\nThree miles further on we come suddenly in view of a\\nmarl pit in full operation, and the spectacle to a stranger is\\none of novel interest. The pit covers acres of ground, and\\nis intersected by railroad tracks, upon which are trains wait-\\ning to be laden with the precious soil. Gangs of men may\\nbe seen at intervals vigorously plying the pick, or the shovel,\\nwhile here and there dredging machines are working away\\nwith all the energy and power that steam can impart, loading\\nup the cars at the rate of a ton a minute. The annual ex-\\nportation of this wonderful fertilizer from this and neighbor-\\ning pits amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars in\\nvalue, and furnishes employment to hundreds of men.\\nThe quaint village of\\nFARMINGDALE,\\n(45 miles 2 hours, 30 min. 6 trains daily.)\\njust beyond, is where we next stop, and quite a place it is,\\ntoo, with a population of six hundred, two churches, a school\\naccommodating five hundred, stores, hotels, and a public hall", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0046.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 27\\nill which assemble Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and\\nGood Templar organizations. And Farmingdale acquires\\nan additional importance as the intersecting point of our\\nline with the Freehold Jamesburg Agricultural Railroad,\\nextending eastward nine miles to the sea side villages of\\nSquan and Sea Girt, and westward to Monmouth Junction.\\nHere, too, will come in, a direct line from Long Branch, pass-\\ning through Oceanville, Deal and Shark River, and destined\\nto shorten the distance considerably to this point and those\\nbeyond. It may be stated, too, that a road has been pro-\\njected from here to a point called New Egypt, on the Cam-\\nden Amboy road.\\nLeaving Farmingdale, we cross the Manasquan River, and\\npass through a pleasant open farming country, well cleared\\nof timber, to\\nSQUANKUM\\n(47 miles 2 hours, 40 min. 6 trains daily.)\\ndepot, where passengers connect for Lower Squankum, an\\nold settlement about two miles further south. And now we\\nsee and admire the piny woods there is a wild beauty in\\ntheir very waste and loneliness that can never fail to charm\\nthe true lover of nature. The evergreen boughs, the soft\\ngrass, the snowy sands, the winding footpaths or roadways,\\ntrodden here or there at the option of the passer by, all wild\\nand barren as they seem, have yet, to one weary of the hard\\nbrick and stone of the town, a strange attractiveness and\\nbeauty; and the breeze that comes whispering over the sea\\nofsoft green tree tops, greets the ear in gently soothing ca-\\ndences, and tells a plaintive story of the quiet and rest to be\\nfound amid their shadows.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0047.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "28 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nYet these pine barrens, desolate as they seem, have been\\ntrodden and retrodden by the foot of mortal man. During\\nthe revolution they were infested with outlaws, who during\\nthe day burrowed in caves they had dug in the side of sand\\nhills, and which they covered with brush, but who at night\\nsallied forth to plunder, burn and murder. So dangerous\\nwere they, that the government offered large rewards for\\ntheir capture, and they were finally hunted down and ex-\\ntirpated Hke wild beasts. But to this day the recollection of\\nthe Pine Robbers, as they were called, is hideous to the\\ngood people of Monmouth County. But, while we are\\npondering over these curious reminiscences, we cross the\\nnorth branch of the Metedeconk River, then the turnpike\\nroad making the boundary line of Monmouth and Ocean\\nCounties, and in a moment or two arrive at the thriving and\\nenterprising town of\\nBRICKSBURG,\\n(53 miles 2 hours, 52 min. 5 trains daily.)\\npossessing in point of beauty, convenience and healthfulness\\nof location, eminent claims for the consideration of the capi-\\ntalist, or one in search of a Home on the Sea Shore.\\nThe depot is located at the intersection of the railroad\\nwith Main Street, the principal business thoroughfare, and\\nthe arriving passenger, as his eye first rests upon the wide,\\nwell graded street, lined with fine stores, hotels, and offices,\\ncannot resist the conclusion that he has at all events reached\\na town where prosperity and energy have abiding. And\\nthen, if he go further, and visit Clifton and Madison Avenues,\\nwhere are to be seen many elegant and tasteful residences,\\nand two or three handsome churches, or stroll beyond to the\\nlovely drives which though in the town limits, border for two", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0048.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 29\\nmiles the shores of Lake Carasaljo or, afterward drop in for\\na moment or two at one or another of the manufacturing\\nindustries, which employ 400 hands, and give the place much\\nof its life, he will agree with all who have ever visited Bricks-\\nburg, that it is a model community.\\nAnd so it is. It has 1200 people, a Loan and Building\\nAssociation, two hotels, one of which, the Bricksburg\\nHouse, kept by Dr. C. O. Gordon, we have pleasure in pre-\\nsenting to the reader s attention herewith. There are, also,\\nBRICKSBURG, N. J.\\nSuperior Accommodatioiis for Summer Boarders.\\nFor information as to terms, etc., address the Proprietor,\\nC. O. GORDON, Bricksburg, N. J.\\nEpiscopal, Presbyterian, Baptisf and Methodist congrega-\\ntions, two public schools, a weekly paper, a Savings Bank,\\n(the Ocean County), a pubhc library and reading room, and\\na Masonic Lodge. As -a point for the establishment of\\nmanufacturing industries, it presents special attractions, the\\nwaters of the adjoining lake furnishing a fall of two hundred\\nhorse power. Nor is its agricultural attractiveness of less\\nimportance. The soil, with a little marl, is capable of high\\ncultivation, and the facilities for drainage are unsurpassed.\\nIn point of health and climate the locaHty is celebrated the\\nspring opens early the fall remains till late the air is mild\\nand inviting, and the water soft and pure. In short, to a\\nman of moderate means, desiring a quiet, peaceful home\\naway from the city, Bricksburg presents strong claims.\\nThen, too, the country about it is attractive; a drive,\\nwhether by stage or private vehicle, along or near the banks", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0049.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "30 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nWARM AND FERTILE IW JERSEY LAIS!\\nIN MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES.\\n12,000 COPIES,\\nSOLD IN LOTS TO SUIT PURCHASEES, AT $25 PER ACRE.\\n44 miles from New York, 50 from Philadelphia, on N. J. Southern Railroad, (One\\nHour from Long Branch.)\\nVILLAGE LOTS IN THE NEW SETTLEMENT,\\nBRICKSBURG, QH LAKE CARASALJO.\\nFarm, Fruit, and Cranberry Lands,\\nWith best Market Facilities. Time to Neio York soon to he reduced to Tivo\\nHours. Climate Mild, Salubrious and Curative.\\nNo Fever and Ague. No malarious diseases of any kind.\\nFor particulars, Circulars, c., address\\nR. CAMPBELL, 153 Broadway, N.Y.,\\nOr BRICKSBUEG, OCEAN CO., N. J.\\nof the Metedeconk, brings one in an hour to the pretty sea\\nside village of Point Pleasant, or to the nearer hamlet of\\nBurrsville, while in any direction one cannot but meet with\\nmany charming scenes.\\nLand can be purchased in or near Bricksburg at quite\\nreasonable figures, say from $25 an acre upward, or any\\nwhere from $150 to $800 for village lots, measuring 50x150\\nfeet. (See advertisement above.)\\nLeaving with, it must be confessed, some regret, this livey\\ntown, we find the country south of it considerably undulating\\nand broken, rising here ir/cO aorupt knolls, there sinking into\\ngulleys and hollo^7o. And next we cross the two branches of\\nTom s River, pass, on the left, a large vineyard sweeping over\\na long slop^: of hillside, then reach a point where we com-\\nmand a view of an unbroken waste of tree tops extending", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0050.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 31\\nmiles away on every side, cross Paqua Brook, and lo I here\\nwe are at\\nMANCHESTER,\\n(61 miles 3 hours, 12 min. 6 trains daily.)\\na village of eight hundred inhabitants, situated on both sides\\nof the track, mth streets regularly laid out, good stores and\\nhotels, three churches, (Presbyterian Methodist and Roman\\nCathoHc), two schools and one or two factories.\\nThe raikoad shops are located here. At one time, many\\nyears ago, a furnace which manufactured large quantities\\nof iron, was also in operation. From this point, too, diverges\\nour branch road to the flourishing town of Tom s River, seven\\nmiles distant. Over this we shah pass some other day.\\nSuffice it for the present to say that the branch road is older\\nthan our main Hne, having been laid thirty years ago. Since\\nthat time, however, it has been extended thirteen miles\\nfurther to Bamegat Junction, where it unites with the Tuck-\\nerton R R..\\nManchester possesses, among its natural beauties, a charm-\\ning sheet of water, Horicon Lake, which the passenger may\\ndiscern on the right hand just after we leave the depot. The\\ncultivation of cranberries forms in this \\\\dcinit}^ a prominent\\nbranch of industr}^ and from the car mndow just south of\\nIvlan Chester may be seen several-handsome cranberry patches.\\nThe process of growing this delicate fruit is an extremely\\ncurious and complicated one, attended with much expense\\nand risk, but if successful with profits vastly larger than those\\nrealized from ordinary crops of fruit or grain.\\nWe next reach", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0051.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "32 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nWHITINGS,\\n(66 miles 3 hours, 26 min. 6 trains daily,)\\nwhich, though a place of but few houses, is as a railroad\\npoint as important as any on our line, for here, center\\nrailroads from four different directions, tst, that over which\\nwe have come from New York 2d, that one to the right,\\nwhich takes us to Philadelphia 3d, that one in the center,\\nwhich forms our main line through to Vineland, Bridgeton,\\nAtlantic City, Cape May, and the States of Delaware and\\nMaryland; and, 4th, that on the left, which takes you to\\nTuckerton. We hope, reader, to traverse each of these\\ndiverging lines with you for the present we take the center\\nor main line. Medio tutissimus ibis. So, as one train\\nwhizzes away to the Quaker City, and another on the other\\nside to the sea shore, off go we midway between them, and\\nsoon their locomotives white puffs of smoke, rising above\\nthe distant pines, are no longer visible.\\nSo on we go again. Sand and pines, pines and sand,\\nalternating in endless succession bring us to a little signal\\nstation, Wheatland, where are a few houses and a tile (not a\\nsilk tile) factory. Then we cross the Keith Line, separating\\nOcean and Burlington Counties, sight Owens Hill, a quite\\nprominent elevation on our left, and reach the village of\\nIWOODMANSIE,\\n(74 miles 4 hours, 03 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nlocated at the intersection of our road with the Egg Harbor\\nturnpike, and consisting of a few small dwellings, principally\\ninhabited by workmen in the large charcoal pits close at hand,\\nThen on again, and presently we pass another high elevation.\\nGovernor s Hill, and reach", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0052.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 33\\nSHAMONG,\\n(79 miles 4 hours, 10 min. 2 trains daily.)\\na village of considerable attractions, with wide, well laid out\\nstreets, lined with shade trees, and boasting of a hotel,\\nseveral stores and a Post-Office. Then we cross the Wading\\nRiver, after that the Batsto, and next reach the good old\\nvillage of\\nATSION,\\n(90 miles 4 hours, 25 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nof which, said a writer, thirt}^ years ago, it contains 15 or\\n20 dwellings, a Methodist church and a furnace emplo}ing\\nabout 120 workmen.\\nAbout three miles north is the scene of the last Indian\\nsettlement in New Jersey, and where Brainard the missionary\\nlong resided. The remnant of the tribe emigrated westward\\nabout the year 1800.\\nAtsion is a quite important point now as the junction of\\nthe main line of our road with the branch to Atco, on the\\nCamden Atlantic R. R.., ten miles distant. It also has a\\nvery large cotton mill, which may be seen close to the depot\\njust north of the road. The Atsion River which flows through\\nthe village and which forms the boundary hne between\\nBurlington, Atlantic and Camden counties, furnishes a fine\\nwater power of which capitalists and manufacturers may\\nprofitably avail themselves.\\n.A ride, of nine miles, during which we pass Iron Mill\\nand North Hammonton Stations, brings us to\\nWINSLOW JUNCTION,\\n-99 miles: 4 hours, 50 min. 12 trains daily.)\\nwhere our-line intersects- that-of- the C-amden a^nd Atlantic\\nRx3ad. Here passenEers from New Yot\u00c2\u00a5 for Atlantic", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0053.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "34 HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE.\\nCity change cars and, if the reader will turn to page 60\\nof this book, he will there find, under the heading of From\\nNew York to Atlantic City, a fuller description of that\\nbeautiful sea-side city, and the facilities for reaching it. Just\\nbeyond the junction is the pretty village of\\nWINSLOW,\\n(105 miles 4 hours, 55 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nwith a population of six or eight hundred, most of whom\\nfind employment in the extensive glass works which have\\nbeen in operation by the Messrs. Hay for nearly half a\\ncentury.\\nCEDAR LAKE,\\n(105 miles 5 hours, 6 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nis a small village situated on the right of our track at its\\nintersection with the turnpike road to Mays Landing,* an\\nimportant village on the Egg Harbor River, about midway\\nbetween here and the sea-shore.\\nJust beyond Cedar Lake our line enters Atlantic County,\\nand brings us, after a ride of four or five miles, to the new\\ntown of\\nLANDISVILLE,\\n(i 10 miles 5 hours, 19 min. 2 train? daily.)\\nthe center of a fine district of country, and named in honor\\nof Chas. K. Landis, Esq., to whose energy and foresight is\\nprincipally due the astonishing growth of the neighboring\\ntown of Vineland. Indeed the broad streets and avenues of\\nthat thriving place extend their long lines hither, embracing\\nMays Landing was first setUed in 1710 by George M^, who opened a stoj\u00e2\u0082\u00ac\\nV3 1 sapplied v3i3\u00c2\u00abL3 witlj wopd. Hii dvvalliag was s^iaiiaj uoiU a 3J4t UiJ.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0054.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nLandisville as a sort of suburb, which is destined doubtless\\nat no distant day to become an active and prosperous section\\nof the community.\\nTown lots (50x100) can be purchased here for $150, and\\ntimber land at moderate prices,, the timber at market valua-\\ntion, Aheady tlie infusion of energy is apparent in the\\nerection near the station of a handsome mansard cottage for\\nuse as a store and dwelling.\\nAnd now the indications of life and activity multiply about\\nus as we proceed. Farm houses and vineyards are numerous,\\nand on every side we see evidences of agricultural prosperity\\nand wealth. Here and there we are surprised by broad,\\nstraight, well-graded avenues, intersecting meadow, grove\\nand %dneyard, and teUing of a city close at hand. We cross\\nWheat Road, then J^Iain Avenue, each of them important\\nthoroughfares, and each with a depot at its intersecting point,\\nand, in a moment or two more, behold us safe and sound at\\nthe central depot in\\nVINELAND,\\n(115 miles 5 hours. 36 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nwhere in the autumn of 1861 dwelt but four families, and\\nwhere now is a population of over ten thousand thri\\\\dng and\\nindustrious people.\\nBut this rapid grow1:h, though at first surprising, is never-\\ntheless a healthful one, and based upon sound natural princi-\\nples. As from the tillage of the soil comes the surest, truest\\nwealth, and with it contentment and health so is it true\\nthat where the soil is most generous and genial, there,\\nespecially does Plenty fill her horn, and smiling Peace abide\\nas in a chosen home. The soil of Vineland being partly", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0055.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "36 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\na rich clay and partly a sandy loam is highly productive,*\\nand this fact combined with the genial cHmate and healthful\\nsurroundings are the attractions which have made Vineland\\na sort of modern Arcadia, where a man, weary of the turmoil\\nof business, may find prosperous repose for the remainder\\nof his days. (See advertisement on opposite page.)\\nThe climate of Vineland is mild and equable, and\\nespecially beneficial for pulmonary and asthmatic affections.\\nThe summer is no hotter than that in the Northern States,\\nwhile the winter is much milder and free from deep snow.\\nThe adjacent country being undulating and well drained,\\nthere are but few tracts of swampy land, no stagnant water,\\nand consequently no liabihty to miasmatic diseases.\\nIn point of improvement and convenience, Vineland may\\nchallenge comparison with most cities of older and larger\\ngrowth. All the principal religious denominations have\\nplaces of worship, there are a score of schools, (including a\\nHigh School and a Methodist Seminary), Masonic, Odd\\nFellows, and K. of P. Lodges, four or five weekly publications,\\nsix Post-Offices, a Safe Deposit Company, a Loan and Im-\\nprovement Association, and no end of useful manufacturing\\nindustries, employing about twelve hundred hands at wages\\nranging from fair to highly remunerative. The Maurice\\nRiver, which traverses the westerly part of the town, is by far\\nthe largest unoccupied water power in the State, with an un-\\nfailing supply, and a combined fall of 54 feet and this power\\nit is proposed to utilize shortly for the estabHshment of cot-\\nton, woolen and paper mills. In short, which ever way the\\nvisitor to Vineland may direct his glance, he will see about\\nhim thrift and a wondrous promise for the future. If, he\\nLast year, 1S72, Vineland shipped 8cxd tons of grapes, 10,108 crates of ber-\\nries, 6,156 of peaches, 1,360 of pears, and 2,838 barrels of sweet potatoes.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0056.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "HOaiES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 37\\nAll Wanting Farms.\\nGood Soil, specially adapted to\\nWHEAT, GRASS, FRUIT and VEGETABLES,\\nIn a mild climate, where the land can generally be plowed all winter, in a place\\nremarkabh healthful and Entirely Free from Fever and Ague. More fruit\\nis shipped from this location than from any other place of the same area in\\nthe United States. The land by mechanical division is just one-half clay and\\none-h lf sand. Besides forming a good soil, it makes the best of roads. Twenty\\nSchool Houses are now b-uilt, embracing a High School; and various rthodox\\nChurches, consisting of Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Episcopalians, and\\nother denominations. Some twelve different manufacturing establishments are\\nalso in the place, where both male and female members of families can find\\nemployment, consisting of work at Straw Sewing, Button Making, Cloth-\\ning, Shoes manufactured by Machinery, and other articles.\\nImproved Places, Well Fruited, from SIOOO to $5000,\\naccording to size and improvements.\\nTirgin Soil, $25 per Acre, Town Lots at $150 Each.\\nPresent Population Ten Thousand, and Rapidly Increasing.\\nFor papers, giving full information, address\\nCHARLES K. LANDIS, Proprietor,\\n^^inelanii, IlVe^v^ Jersey.\\nvisit the town center, he mil see handsome churches, resi-\\ndences, factories and school edifices, well laid out parks, good\\nsidewalks and abundant shade trees, and all the surroundings\\nof a civilized community, excepting rum shops, not one of\\nwhich is allowed in the town. As a consequence of this\\nrestriction, the Overseer of the Poor reports not a single\\ncitizen or settler of Vineland dependent upon him for reHef.\\nHere then we have the truest evidence of a substantial pros-\\nperity. Or if the visitor go farther, and stroll out any one of\\nthe avenues leading away antennae-like into the soft, hazy\\nlandscape beyond, he mil see well improved farms, with neat\\nhomes, and mth inmates whose cheeks glow with a hue as\\nruddy as that of their own grape-clusters.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0057.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "3^ HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nAt Vineland, passengers change cars for Millville and\\nCape May.\\nJust beyond Vineland Depot we cross the Maurice River,\\ncalled the Wahatquenack by the Indians, but deriving its\\npresent title from the circumstance of a ship, the Prince\\nMaurice, having been burnt by the savages at a point about\\ntwenty miles below here. Upon or near this river, between\\nthis and the sea, are to be found the flourishing city of Mill-\\nville, and the smaller but important villages of Port Elizabeth,\\nBricksboro, Mauricetown, Dorchester and Leesburg. Beyond\\nit, we intersect the Jersey Bridge Road, cross the Muddy\\nRiver, a tributary of the Maurice, and next halt for a\\nmoment at\\nBRADWAYS,\\n;ii8 miles 5 hours, 47 min. 2 trains daily.)\\na signal station, in the midst of an open farming country.\\nFrom the car window one sees on the right, a comfortable\\nlooking old farm house, with barns and orchards about it,\\nand long lines of fences stretching away in both directions,\\nteUing of well tilled acres, and substantial prosperity.\\nAbout a third of a mile northeast of our next stopping\\nplace is the village of\\nROSENHAYN,\\n(121 miles 5 hours, 50 min. 2 trains daily.)\\npossessing six or eight houses, a store, school, and postal\\nfacilities. Land at this point has been divided up into lots\\nand plots, and can be purchased, it is said, at moderate prices\\nby intending settlers. At", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0058.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 39\\nWOODRUFFS\\n(123 miles 6 hours. 2 trains daily.)\\nwe intersect with the turnpike for the adjacent camp meeting\\ngrounds at Pleasant Grove, a favorite resort of Methodists in\\nthis section of the State.\\nAnd now, a Httle further on, we cross the track of the West\\nJersey Raihoad, and approach\\nBRIDGETON,\\n(127 miles 6 hours, 8 min, 2 trains daily.)\\na time honored and prosperous city of eight thousand inhabi-\\ntants, situated on both sides of the Cohansey (named from\\nan ancient Indian chief, Cohanzick) River, embracing three\\npopulous wards, having a Mayor, Common Council, and pre-\\nsenting all the characteristics one would expect to find in the\\nactive, enterprising community which it is. The arriving\\npassenger, aHghting, sees before him the winding channel of\\nthe river before mentioned, spanned directly in front of where\\nhe stands by a long high bridge, while, a quarter of a mile\\naway, he discerns the spires, chimneys and housetops of the\\nthickly built portion of the city, embowered in a wealth of\\nfoliage, and divided about midway by the shining waters of\\nthe river, where drawbridges, smoke stacks and a little forest\\nof masts give evidence that he has reached a commercial, as\\nwell as a manufacturing, city.\\nThe approach to Bridgeton is exceedingly picturesque, the\\nlandscape abounding in a variety of pleasing surprises, in hill\\nand bluff, and wooded upland, and peaceful vales, stretch-\\ning in pensive quietness between. But before we enter the\\ntown a few reminiscences of its earlier history may not be", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0059.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "40 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nuninteresting.* Its first settlement dates back as far as\\n1754, and was due, probably, to there being here a conven-\\nient fording point on the Cohansey. In time, a bridge\\ncame to be built, and the settlement was dubbed Bridge-\\ntown, which title, on the estabHshment of a bank in 181 6,\\nwas modified to Bridgeton.\\nPrior to the Revolution, there were not over 200 inhabi-\\ntants; but, though few in number, these were staunch\\nadherents of their country s cause^in that memorable strug-\\ngle. A company from Bridgeton served under Gen l Schuy-\\nler, and Dr. Jonathan Elmer, a Bridgetonian, was a member\\nof the Revolutionary Congress. In 1780, a letter of marque\\nschooner, called Gov. Livingston, was built here and made\\none successful trip, but on her return home from her second\\nvoyage, was captured near the Capes of Delav/are by a\\nBritish frigate.\\nIt is estimated that, at the beginning of the present cen-\\ntury, Bridgeton had a population of about four hundred.\\nIts growth since that time has been steady; in 1829 there\\nwere 1.736 inhabitants; in 1838, 2,315; in 1850, 3^3 ^3 j\\nand in i86o, 5,000. The first line of communication with\\nthe rest of the world was by stage to Philadelphia. At dif-\\nferent times, a steamboat line has also been in operation\\nbetween the two places, via. the Cohansey River, a ride of\\neighty miles, and at the present time, two trips per week are\\nmade to and from Bridgeton by a fleet and handsome steam-\\nboat. But, bye and bye, increased demands of travel\\nbrought enlarged traveling facilities, and now Bridgeton has\\n*The writer begs to acknowledge his indebtedness to the authors of Bar-\\nbour s Historical Collections of New Jersey, and Elmer s Hist6ry of Cumber-\\nani County, for these interesting facts.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0060.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "HOIVIES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 4I\\ndirect communication by rail ^nth the two largest cities in\\nthe country.\\nWith the Bridgeton of to-day it is, however, that we prin-\\ncipally have to do and the \\\\dsitor will find, on every side,\\nas he strolls through its principal business thoroughfares,\\ngrateful e^ddences of its commercial life and activity. Two\\nhandsome draw-bridges span the Cohansey, connecting the\\neast and west sides of the city. There are stores on Com-\\nmerce street which would be a credit to even the Metropolis\\nitself. The sidewalks are well laid, and the streets lit with\\ngas there are banks, insurance companies, some extensive\\nmanufactories, churches of all the prominent denominations,\\nunusually fine educational faciHties the New Jersey and\\nCohansey Academies ranking high among the institutions of\\nlearning in the State and several newspapers, one of which,\\nthe Bridgeton Chronicle, now published by Geo. F. Nixon,\\nEsq., has been in existence, under difierent names, since\\n1 8 15. The manufacturing industries of the place are\\nnumerous and extensive, one of them, the Cumberland\\nNail and Iron Works, having been estabHshed in 1S15.\\nShip building is also carried on to some extent.\\nAs a place of residence, Bridgeton is both healthful and\\nattractive, and one coming here in search of a home, will\\nfind, upon the broad avenues extending out into the\\nsuburbs, many choice and attractive building sites, combin-\\ning, with a natural beauty of scenery, all the convenient\\nsurroundings that refinement and civilization can bestow.\\nResuming our ride, we cross the Cohansey by the high\\nbridge before mentioned, enter a heavy cutting, then emerg-\\ning, traverse the westerly section of the city, and once more", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0061.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "42 HOMES ON THE SEA SHORE.\\nare in the open country beyond, in which our next stopping\\nplace is\\nBOWENTOWN.\\n(130 miles 6 hours, 16 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nHere we find a scattered settlement, with a nucleus of\\nfour or five houses about the depot. A turnpike road\\ncrosses here, affording a railroad outlet for a large farming\\ncountry on either side. At Sheppard s grist mills, a short\\ndistance beyond, is another cross-road, where trains stop on\\nsignal. The most important stopping place, however, be-\\ntween Brldgeton and the Delaware, is\\nGREENWICH,\\n(134 miles 6 hours, 26 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nwhich, although far outgrown by its prosperous neighbor,\\nwhich we have recently left, is coeval with it in history.\\nLand was purchased here from the Indians in 1677, and\\nshortly afterward a town, with a main street one hundred\\nfeet wide and two miles long, was laid out, and then\\nchurches. Episcopal, Presbyterian and Friends were erected\\nupon it. In 1697 semi annual fairs were established, and in\\n1748 Court was first held and a log jail put up. In 1774,\\nabout forty men, disguised as Indians, and emulous of their\\nBoston brethren, burned a cargo of tea, which had been\\nlanded at Greenwich and stored in a cellar. Suits were in-\\nstituted by the owners of the tea, but were subsequently\\ndropped. It is related, too, that a party of miHtia here re-\\npelled a foraging party from the British fleet, when it passed\\nup the Delaware.\\nGreenwich, to-day, has a population of about seven hun-\\ndred, with good churches and schools, and a considerable", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0062.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 43\\ntrade, not only with the inland, but by schooners with Phil-\\nadelphia and other ports.\\nBacon s Neck, a short distance further on, is a signal sta-\\ntion, and furnishes an outlet for those residing in the lower\\nend of Richmond township. Beyond it, we begin to realize\\nthat we once more approach the coast. We see long\\nstretches of marsh and meadow land, and, ere we are aware,\\nare on the pier at\\nBAYSIDE,\\n(137 mDes 6 hour, 30 min. 2 trains daily.)\\non the shore of the Delaware River, which, at this point, has\\na width of about five miles. Here a good hotel has been\\nerected; here the company have established an engine-\\nhouse, and here, upon the completion of the proposed ex\\ntension of the route across the State of Delaware to the\\nChesapeake, the cars will be transferred to boats, and ferried\\nover to the opposite side.\\nAnd here, for the present, our pleasant journey ends.\\nBut, ere long, Bay Side will cease to be the terminus of this\\ngreat thoroughfare will become but a way station on a\\ngreat popular trunk line from the Metropolis to Baltimore,\\nWashington, and all the southern sea-board cities. For,\\nwhizzing across the fields of Delaware, ere many months,\\nour iron horse will quench his thirst in the waters of the\\nChesapeake, and those whom he has transported thither will\\nfind themselves carried by a novel, quick and delightful\\nroute to the Monumental City; or, should their journey\\nbe southward, to a connection with the magnificent steamers\\nwhich ply on the Chesapeake, to Hampton Roads, Norfolk,\\nRichmond and Petersburg, Thus a new era of travel will be\\ninaugurated, and year by year will develop and increase the\\nsuccess and prosperity of the New Jersey Southern Railroad.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0063.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "44 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nTHE PHILADELPHIA EOUTE,\\nVIA THE\\nNEW JERSEY SOUTHERN RAILROAD.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094X\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nIf the reader will turn to the description of Whiting s\\nJunction, on page 32, he will find it mentioned that there\\ndiverges the line to Philadelphia. Let us now take up this\\nthread and follow it. The traveler has reached Whiting s,\\nby a sail and ride of but little over three hours from New\\nYork, and Philadelphia is but two hours distant. During\\nthe summer season especially, this line of travel between\\nthe two largest cities of the country will be found delightful\\nand convenient, introducing many features of interest, and\\naffording the traveler the- benefit of the cool, invigorating\\nsea-breezes during a great portion of his ride. By all\\nmeans, try a summer trip to Philadelphia, by the New Jer-\\nsey Southern route.\\nFor some distance beyond the junction, our route lies\\nthrough the pine barrens, as before. We pass from Ocean\\nto Burlington County, and first stop at\\nHANOVER,\\n(75 miles 3 hours, 40 min. 2 trains daily.)\\na station deriving its name from that formerly borne by the\\ntownship. About a mile to the south, is a settlement bear-\\ning the dejected title of Mt. Misery, and three times that", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0064.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 45\\ndistance northward, is a considerable village, Hanover Fur-\\nnace, where, in the revolution, cannon balls were cast for\\nuse by the patriot troops. Beyond Hanover station, we\\ncross a body of water, upon the banks of which is located\\nanother furnace, the Mary Ann, and from this point our\\ncourse lies parallel with the turnpike road, to\\nNEW LISBON,\\n(80 miles 3 hours, 50 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nwhere a junction is made with the Columbus Springville\\nR. R. New Lisbon itself is a small village on the Rancocus\\nRiver, and boasts, as its principal public edifice, the County\\nAlms House. And now, as our journey continues, we find\\nourselves traversing a fair and fertile farming country, dotted\\nwith dwellings, and watered by frequent brooks. Now we\\nsee the Rancocus on our right, a rapid stream, growing each\\nmoment larger and presently we stop, close to its banks, at\\nthe depot at\\nPEMBERTON.\\n(84 miles 3 hours, 57 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nThe land hereabout was originally owned by one David\\nBudd, who in 1758 sold out to a company of four persons,\\nwho built a grist and saw mill, and called the place New\\nMills. In 1826 the place was incorporated by its present\\nname, after James Pemberton. The water power on the\\nRancocus is one of the best in this region. The village\\nitself contains many features of interest and beauty. Its\\nprincipal street, a wide thoroughfare extending from end to\\nend, is shaded with fine old elm trees is Hned with brick\\nsidewalks, and fronted by many fine stores and brick dvv^ell-\\nings, in the white blinds and trim exteriors of which we see", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0065.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "46 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\ninfallible evidences of our near approach to the Quaker\\nCity. Pemberton has a population of two or three thous-\\nand, several churches and schools, two good hotels, and\\nstores of all kinds. The enterprise of its people is evinced,\\ntoo, in the handsome iron draw-bridge spanning the Ran-\\ncocus.\\nHalf a mile beyond the depot is\\nPEMBERTON JUNCTION,\\nwhere our road connects with the Camden and Burlington\\nCounty road. But, without change of cars, we hurry on to\\nCamden, and in another hour have crossed the Delaware by\\nthe Market street ferry, and, behold us in the good city of\\nPhiladelphia.\\nTurn we back now for a ride over the various branches\\nand connecting lines, the junction points of which we have\\nnoted in our passage over the main line. The first of these\\nis the\\nPOET MONMOUTH BEANCH,\\nwhich was, prior to the construction of the sea-shore Hnc\\nover which we passed from Sandy Hook to Long Branch,\\na portion of the main line of road. Now, however, it is\\noperated as a branch road. Yet, we shall find it an enjoy-\\nable ride, through a region teeming with pleasant residences,\\ndelightful scenery and thriving towns, the first of which is\\nSHREWSBURY,\\n(37 miles 2 hours, 13 min. 5 trains daily.)\\nthe most ancient village in this section, it having been first", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0066.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON tHfi SEA-SHORE. 4^\\nSjttled by Connecticut people in 1664. Two centuries ago\\nthere were quite extensive iron works in operation here,\\nowned by one Lewis Morris. The village itself, which is to\\nthe right hand, or eastward of the road, has a small popula-\\ntion, and is a quiet, pretty place, mostly made up of neat,\\nfresh looking residences, with here and there some relic of\\nantiquity. Chief among these may be noted the Episcopal\\nchurch edifice, erected in 1769. The silver communion\\nservice in use in this venerable building was presented in\\n1703 by Queen Anne (the church having been organized in\\nthe previous year), and the pulpit Bible has been in use\\nthrough four generations. There is also a Presbyterian\\nchurch, founded in 1749 and built in 1821.\\nAs a place of summer residence, Shrewsbury is quiet,\\nretired and attractive. The drives are numerous, and boat-\\ning and bathing faciHties are within easy distances.\\nA ride of two miles further, due north, brings us to\\nRED BANK,\\n(39 miles 2 hours, 20 min. 5 trains daily.)\\npleasantly situated on the south bank of the Navesink\\nRiver, at the head of navigation, and about five miles from\\nthe sea. Its singular title is derived from the color of the\\nadjacent soil. The growth of Red Bank to its present pop-\\nulation, about 3,000, has been rapid of late years, owing\\nmostly to its trade, by rail and steamboat, with New York.\\nIt was incorporated in 1869, and now boasts a National\\nBank, five churches, a fine new public school house, several\\nwell-conducted private schools, three hotels, and the most\\nextensive nurseries* to be found in this section of the State.\\nSee advertisement of A. Hance Son, published elsewhere.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0067.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a04^ HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nIts principal streets are well graded, with flagged sidev/alks,\\nand are lit with gas. Its stores are supplied with most of\\nthe luxuries, as well as necessaries of life; in short, one\\nfinds in this active little place a metropolis in miniature.\\nThe summer visitor at Red Bank will find its surrounding\\ncountry full of interest and beauty. The drive along the\\nnorth shore of Rumson Neck, past Fairhaven to Port Wash-\\nington, brings in a pleasing variety of scenery in a four mile\\nride, and discloses numbers of building sites, than which\\nnone more beautiful could be desired.\\nAnd now we cross the Navesink River, and, three miles\\nbeyond it, reach the station called\\nMIDDLETOWN,\\n(42 miles 2 hours, 36 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nin honor of the township. The village of the same name\\nis situated a mile or so to the west of the depot. Among its\\nfirst settlers was the Richard Hartshorne who is spoken of\\nelsewhere as the original owner of Sandy Hook, and who\\ncame hither in 1666.\\nNAVESINK,\\n(44 miles 2 hours, ^2 min. 2 trains daily,)\\nis another station, two miles beyond, at the intersection of the\\nmain turnpike road, from the Highlands on the east to Key-\\nport on the west. It is, therefore, the outlet for a quite\\nthickly settled region of country, wherein the summer visitor\\nmay find many quiet, peaceful homes, within easy distance\\nof town, yet surrounded by an invigorating atmosphere, and\\noffering a (to many) welcome freedom from the restraints im-\\nposed at the more fashionable summer resorts.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0068.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 49\\nFinally we reach Port I^Ionmouth, and catch a glorious\\nview of the lower bay, wdth Staten Island and the Narrows\\nin the distance. Here, a long pier extends out into the\\nwater, at which once landed the boats from New York,\\nand for a time Port Monmouth was a bnsy point of embark-\\nation. But now -it slumbers lazily on the sands, and patiently\\nawaits the day when direct communication shall again\\n.awaken it to life and activity. Yet the visitor in search of\\nquiet and seclusion, will find here many attractions worthy\\nof consideration, in his search for a Home on the Sea-\\nShore.\\nTOM S EIVEE BEANCH.\\nA t\u00c2\u00ab ent}^ minutes run from Manchester (See page 31,)\\nbrings us to\\nTOM S RIVER.\\n(68 miles, 3 h., 50 min. 3 trains daily.)\\nAnd the first apprisal of our arrival is a glimpse of the\\nbeautiful river, from which the place derives its name and\\nbeyond it, vre see numerous clusters of dwellings, marking\\nthe business center. Alighting, we find the river on our left,\\nspanned by a handsome iron bridge, leading up to the prin-\\ncipal street beyond, and even now the rows of buildings, the\\nbusy sidewalks, the e\\\\ddent activity prevaifing, give rise to\\nthe belief that sloth is a stranger in Toms River. As we\\ncross the bridge, there may be had an attractive view, look-\\ning seaward, including the gradually widening river, Good\\nLuck Point, the bay, and Island Beach beyond. Now, let", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0069.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "50 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nUS glance through the village, with its population of fifteen\\nhundred it makes a good showing. Here are four churches\\n(Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist), Masonic\\nLodge and Chapter, Odd-Fellows Lodge and Encampment,\\nKnights of Pythias -Lodge, a National Bank, a Building and\\nLoan Association, a well-conducted weekly paper, the New\\nJersey Courier, (published by Geo. M. Joy, Esq..) an excel-\\nlent graded school, two hotels, and all variety of stores.\\nThen, Tom s River, the county seat of Ocean county, has\\nthe Court House buildings in its limits; being, too, at the\\nhead of navigation on the river, it represents large shipping\\ninterests, and many of its people have acquired their for-\\ntunes in following the sea. It is the center, moreover, of a\\ncranberry interest, involving an investment of a million dol-\\nlars, and its annual business in whortleberries, fish and\\noysters is extensive.\\nTo the settler, whether laborer or capitalist, Tom s River\\noffers facilities in the forms of numerous fine water powers\\nof an abundance of timber in the adjacent cedar swamps\\nof clay beds convenient for brick manufacture, and of grass,\\nuseful for making paper. The city resident, in search of a\\nhome, will find here many fine villa sites, overlooking the\\nriver or the bay, and where splendid boating, fishing, shooting\\nand bathing can be enjoyed in season. Among those who\\nhave already availed themselves of such pleasant surround-\\nings, may be mentioned Thomas Placide, Esq., the well-\\nknown actor.\\nBAYVILLE,\\nour next stopping place, has a population of about three\\nhundred, with two churches, a school and a post office. At\\nthe small village of", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0070.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 5 1\\nCEDAR CREEK\\nwe cross the stream of the same name, and pass the scene\\nof another severe revolutionary encounter between mihtia\\nand refugees. The place has now about an hundred inhab-\\nitants.\\nFORKED RIVER\\nis the most important illage upon the Branch, after Tom s\\nRiver, and is pleasantly situated, overlooking, and two miles\\ndistant from, the bay. It is an old settlement, once largely\\nengaged in exporting wood and charcoal, and now has a\\npopulation of four hundred and upwards, with a church,\\nschool and post-office.\\nWe cross successively the three branches of the Forked\\nRiver, then Oyster Creek, and come next to\\nWARETOWN,\\nwith a population of four hundred, most of whom depend\\nupon maritime pursuits for their livelihood. There are two\\nhotels and a post-office here, and just beyond the village\\nour branch connects, at\\nBARNEGAT JUNCTION,\\nwdth the Tuckerton Railroad from Whiting s for Barnegat,\\nManahawken, West Creek and Tuckerton, and the sea-side\\nresorts of Long Beach beyond.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0071.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "52 HOMES ON THE SEA-SAORE.\\nTHE TUCIERTON EAILROAD.\\n_t\\nTwo years ago, capital and enterprise joined hands to\\nform a much-needed Hnk of communication from some point\\non the main line of the New Jersey Southern Railroad to\\nTuckerton and the Little Egg Harbor region. From Whit-\\ning s, it was determined that this line should diverge (see\\npage 32); and let us, therefore, reader, betake ourselves\\nonce more to that important junction point. Important,\\nbecause there we find the cars in waiting to convey us, not\\nonly to pleasant villages and summer hotels, and fishing and\\nyachting grounds, but, better still, to Manahawken, a garden\\nparadise near the sea-shore, a region where the air is fra-\\ngrant with the odor of magnolias, and where broad, fertile\\nmeadows give promise of a rich recompense to the sower.\\nTravel from New York by this route is rapid and con-\\nvenient. The ride, three and a half hours to Whiting s, has\\nalready been described in pages 5 to 32. Then, a mile or\\ntwo more through the pine woods, bring us to\\nBAMBER,\\n(68 miles 3 hours, 42 min. 3 trains daily,)\\nsometimes called Ferrago. Here there are a commodious\\ndepot and a large store, while a short distance westward is a\\nfine body of water, Bamber Lake, in which Cedar Creek\\ntakes its rise. There is a saw mill here, and, in old times,\\nthere was a furnace. Large quantities of lumber are annu-\\nally prepared and shipped hence to market At", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0072.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 53\\nLACEY\\n(71 tnues 3 hour, 42 mm. 3 trains daily.)\\nwe cross the turnpike, or Wright s road, to Tom s River.\\nThe station derives its name from the towmship. There is\\nhere, too, a good depot, and considerable improvements are\\nin progress about it, under the direction of Rutherford Stuy-\\nvesant, Esq., of New York, who owns a large adjacent tract.\\nPassing Wareto\\\\\\\\Ti, the junction point of the branch road\\nfrom Tom s River, (see page 51), we next reach the consid-\\nerable \\\\-iilage of\\nBARNEGAT,\\n(79 miles 4 hours, 14 min. 3 trains daily.)\\na title time-honored in the sea-coast annals of New Jersey,\\nand known to sportsmen the countr}- over. Looking east-\\nward, we can discry the Bamegat Light House, tapering sky-\\nward, on the beach five miles away. If we alight, we shall\\nfind the village a quiet and VTQtty one, inhabited chiefly by\\nsea-faring people. The Friends ha^-e a meeting-house here,\\nand there are one or t\u00c2\u00ab^o other churches, t5\\\\^o hotels, and a\\ngood school. Gunning River, just south of the village, is a\\nfamous resort for game-hunters.\\nAnd nov/, as we resume our journey, sand and pine woods\\ndisappear, and e\\\\ddences of an increased agricultural wealth\\nappear to multiply about us. Here, on our right, we see a\\nwell-ordered fruit-farm, covering many acres; then, wide\\nand well-tilled meadows open away on both sides, a refresh-\\ning contrast to the sterilit)^ we have left behind. Now we\\nsee a cluster of houses among the trees, now neat fences and\\nside-walks and stores, now signs on the street comers now\\nthe whistle blows, the engine slackens its speed, and presently\\nthe brakeman calls out", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0073.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "54 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nMANAHAWKEN,\\n(82 miles 4 hours, 26 min. 3 trains daily.)\\nHere, for a few hours, we pause, for it is at this point that\\nthe Stafford Land Company, a party of capitaHsts from New\\nYork and Philadelphia, have placed upon the market a choice\\ntract of some thousands of acres, extending hence to the\\nshore of the bay, and embracing hundreds of desirable sites\\nfor homes on the sea shore. Our journey would be incom-\\nplete without a personal inspection of this beautiful and\\ninteresting locality.\\nBut first a word or two about the village itself. Mana-\\nhocking (an Indian name, signifying good corn ground), was\\noriginally its name. Thirty-one years ago it was spoken of\\nas a flourishing village, containing two taverns, three\\nstores, and about forty dwellings. It has now a population\\nof about a thousand, with churches, schools, shops, hotels,\\nmills, and a village library. A stream flows through the vil-\\nlage, furnishing opportunities for an excellent water power,\\nwhich, by the energy and ingenuity of Nathaniel H. Bishop,\\nEsq., an extensive cranberry planter, is to be utilized in fa-\\ncilitating the shipment of berries to the market. Mr. Bishop,\\nit may be remarked, is the owner of three large plantations,\\nMayeta, La Mia, and Oxycoccus, upon which he has\\nsuccessfully applied a knowledge acquired by years of scien-\\ntific research. Strohing through the quiet streets of this\\npeaceful village, the visitor will find much that is attractive\\nand pleasing in its quaint dwellings and antiquated sur-\\nroundings.\\nBut it is with the modern Manahawken that we have to\\ndo, and let us make the depot our starting point. Certainly\\nnowhere could we gain a better idea of the natural advan-", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0074.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 55\\ntages of the locality, and of the extent of the improvements\\nthat the Stafford Land Company are making. For, from the\\nrailway to the bay, a distance of two miles and a half, stretches\\naway a magnificent sweep of graveled avenue, eighty feet in\\nwidth, lined with sidewalks and shade trees, and forming\\none of the finest drives to be found in the State. Glancing\\ndown this broad vista, we catch a glimpse of the blue waters\\nof the bay, and the white sand, and the ocean beyond,\\nwhile, near by, the luxuriant verdure of the wayside groves\\nencases the picture in a setting of emerald.\\nFrom the same point, to our right, diverges Bay, and, to our\\nleft. Beach Avenue, each extending shoreward equi-distant\\nfrom Stafford Avenue, and comprising between them the\\nprincipal portion of the company s tract. The three avenues\\nare intersected at regular intervals by cross streets, Parker,\\nMontgomery, Kearny, Murray and Stockton Streets, upon\\neach of which are to be found many high, well drained and\\ndesirable building sites. Near the corner of Beach avenue\\nand Stockton Street stands the Staftord House, a well or-\\ndered hotel, where the visitor at Manahawken can always find\\na welcome. Following either avenue, further seaward, we\\nreach the tracts known as the Moor and Glen farms, com-\\nposed of several hundred acres, famed for their fertility, and\\ncommanding a glorious view of Barnegat Bay. Harvey\\nCedars, and the hotels on Long Beach. Here is just such\\na scene as was pictured by Longfellow in his description of\\nGrandpre, the home of the Acadian peasantry. Stafford\\nAvenue, it may here be stated, extends through the Moor\\nfarm, towards the shore of the bay.\\nNor should the natural advantages of this locality, in point\\nof healthfulness of climate and fertility of soil, be overlooked.\\nThe cool sea-breezes of summer blow landward with almost", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0075.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "5.6 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nthe same regularity as the trade winds, while the east winds\\ntempered by a warm moisture from the Gulf Stream, render\\nthe winters mild and pleasant, and devoid of that severity\\nfelt on the more northerly coasts. The central sea-coast of\\nNew Jersey is celebrated as the best, all-the-year-round,\\nclimate in the Northern and Eastern States. The surface of\\nthe land, too, sloping gently seaward, forms a natural water\\nshed, ensuring complete drainage, even after rains, and ob-\\nviating any danger of miasmatic complaints.\\nThe land, too, is singularly productive. Here, upon this\\noasis, this broad belt of rich gravel and sand loam,* grow\\nplentiful crops of fruit, grain and vegetables, and flowers and\\ntrees which, in their luxuriance, tell of the distant tropics-\\nHere grow the fragrant magnolia and laurel, and here the\\nnaturalist may find butterflies and other insects, scarcely\\never to be seen elsewhere in northern latitudes. Here abun-\\ndant crops of hay reward the mower, eight hundred tons hav-\\ning been cut and shipped from the Company s meadows\\nduring the last season and here the settler may come,\\nsecure a small tract, and, by good honest labor, aided by the\\ngenerous hand of Nature, rear about him a homestead where\\nneatness, beauty and prosperity shall have abiding.\\nLet it be remembered, too, that the surroundings of the\\nlocality are in various ways attraxtive, affording opportu-\\nnities for abundance of fish and oysters, surf bathing, boat-\\ning and sailing, blue fishing and snipe and duck shooting in\\ntheir several seasons.\\nThe shoal water of the adjacent bay renders it a favorite\\n*Prof. Cook, State Geologist of N. J., in his report of 1868, says of this locality\\nThe surface soil of this formation is a fine sandy loam, with very little gravel,\\nand containing organic matter enough to make it a rich and productive soil. It\\ncorresponds to the alluvial soils on the river bottoms of inland districts.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0076.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HOUES OJS THE SEA-SHOEE. 57\\nfeeding gromid for s-iid duck. and. conseqiioitly, an espe-\\ncially attractive resort for sportsmen.\\nBut tiie fiiture of Manahawken derives a iargel}- increased\\nimportance, om the laxrt that, at this point, is afforded the\\nmost available line of railroad commimication to that popu-\\nlar summer resort Long Beach. For, by the confluence in\\nthe ba}-. here a Ettle over a mile wide, of the tides from\\nBamc^at Inlet on the north, and Little Egg Harbor Inlet on\\nthe south, have been formed, by accretion, a number of\\nsmall islands, links in a son of nanrai causeway, leading\\nonh- a space of eleven-sixteenths of a mile to be bridged,\\nand rendering the construction of a roadway to the Beach a\\ncomparatively easy matter.\\nIndeed, with this fact in -.iew, the Phi!ade^3iiia and Staf-\\nford Beach Railroad Co, has been organized, and has pro-\\njected a line which will bring Philadelphia within fQrt} -nine\\nmiles of the sea-shore, or several miles nearer than at pres-\\nent. Upon this line, intersecting Stafford avenue near the\\nshore, ^lanahawken. with its large business and agricultural\\ninterests, is manifesrl v destined to attain a substantial growth\\nand prosperity.\\nThe Company offer\\nBusiness Sites and Bidlding Plots in the -ii ge colter, at\\nm^AtTSC jt rates, \\\\zrfm^ according ta locatioiL\\nSm/iJI Farms of from five to twenty-ffve acres, within half a\\nmile of the depot at irom $60 to $ioq per acre, and\\nFarms for HcmesUads. atuated nearer the bay, at from $40\\nto $75 per acre,\\nand the intending purchaser wiH find their offer, paVB^ied\\neisewhexe, one well worthy his consderation-\\nEut TTc have vet a feK- miles to ride, so 1^ bs lesasnc our", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0077.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "58 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\njourney. Our course lies, generally, parallel with that of the\\nturnpike, which we can see at intervals, first on our right,\\nand then on our left. Next, we cross a stream, and, a\\nmoment or two later, reach the station, deriving, from it\\nits name,\\nWEST CREEK.\\n(87 miles 4 hours, 43 min. 2 trains daily.)\\nThe village, which is situated near the borders of Burling-\\nton county, has a population of about six hundred, and is\\nthe center of an extensive cranberry district. It was for-\\nmerly known as Westecunk.\\nAnd now, we are off again, and are approaching our\\njourney s end. For, straight ahead, and about two miles\\ndistant, is\\nTUCKERTON,\\n(89 miles 5 hours. 2 trains daily.)\\na place of about twelve hundred inhabitants, and famous as\\na summer resort from time immemorial. Fronting upon\\nLittle Egg Harbor, it possesses unusually good faciHties for\\nshipping, and is in fact the headquarters of a large coasting\\ntrade. It was first settled in 1669 by Long Islanders, but in\\n1765, one Reuben Tucker, a New Yorker, purchased here a\\nlarge tract of land, and in 1786, the village was given its\\npresent name. In those days Tuckerton had a custom-\\nhouse, and direct lumber trade with the West Indies. Du-\\nring the Revolution, two British prizes were brought into\\nTuckerton, and at one time upwards of thirty armed Ameri-\\ncan vessels rendezvoused here. An expedition having been\\nfitted out by the British at New York to destroy the place,", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 59\\nGeneral Washington sent Count Pulaski and his legion to\\ndefend it. The privateers being apprized of the approach\\nof the British, escaped, but Pulaski arrived too late to pre-\\nvent the destruction of several houses and thirty prize vessels\\nby the foe. One of his picket guards of thirty men also\\nwere captured and put to death. The British then retreated,\\nbut lost one of their vessels, the Zebra, which grounded in\\ngoing out of the harbor, and v^^as set on fire to keep her\\nfrom falhng into the American hands.\\nWith such stirring memories as these, the \\\\isitor mil not be\\nsurprised to find Tuckerton an active busy httle town, with\\nfour churches and schools, and considerable business. Many\\nof its people are wealthy, and the place has a general well-to-\\ndo and prosperous air. In summer time it is much fre-\\nquented, and is important, too, as the point of embarkation\\nfor the well kno^^-n Barnes Hotel on Long Beach. Under\\nthe general railroad law it is proposed to construct a rail-\\nroad from Tuckerton to Absecon (see page 6i), thus open-\\ning direct communication with Atlantic City and Philadel-\\nphia.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "6o HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nFROM\\nNEW TOEK TO ATLANTIC CITY,\\nVIA\\nNEW JERSEY SOUTHEEN M CAMDEN aM ATLANTIC RAILROADS.\\n4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nOf late years there has sprung up on Absecon Island,\\na great and growing sea-side city, possessing in an eminent\\ndegree, in its location and surroundings, all the pre-requisites\\nof a cool, .healthful and attractive v/atering place, and grow-\\ning with a rapidity which promises at no distant day to cover\\nthe island, over its entire extent of nine miles, with the villas\\nand cottages of the wealthier residents of the two great\\nneighboring cities. And it is to this delightful spot, fanned\\nby the invigorating breezes of the Atlantic, and remote from\\nthe hot dusty walls and pavements of the town, that we now\\nconduct the reader.\\nThe route from New York is a pleasant and an easy one.\\nFirst comes the sail down the bay, and the railroad ride past\\nLong Branch, and the many other points of interest men-\\ntioned in pages 5 to 33, until the traveler finds himself at\\nWINSLOW JUNCTION,\\nwhere the Atlantic City Express train (full of passengers, who\\nleft Vine Street Wharf, Philadelphia, a little over an hour\\nago) is in waiting, with elegant Woodruff parlor cars at-\\ntached, to convey him to his destination on the sea shore.*\\nThe Camden Atlantic Railroad is now the shortest route from Philadelphia\\nto the Sea Shore,", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 01\\nWe change cars, and in a moment are whizzing away to the\\neast, traversing a region differing very Httle materially from\\nthat through which the last twenty-five miles of our journey\\nhas lain. Now v/e pass Hammonton, a thrifty village of\\ntwelve hundred people, settled by New Englanders, princi-\\npally engaged in shoe manufactory and fruit grov/ing. Da\\nCosta, the next station, derives it name from a former Presi-\\ndent of the road.\\nAt Elwood, about five miles beyond, is another shoe fac-\\ntory, and a population of about five hundred. Then we come\\nto Egg Harbor, and observe, in passing, a large piano factory,\\nas an indication of local enterprise and industry. The place\\nis chiefly settled by Germans, is regularly laid out, covers\\na large territory, has a number of churches, schools and ho-\\ntels, and is quite a manufacturing town. At this point, too,\\ndiverges the branch road to May s Landing, (see mention\\nof May s Landing on page 34), the county seat, where are\\nlocated the extensive cotton mills of Richard D. Wood Co.\\nAbout six miles beyond, we pass a small station, Pomona,\\nand next reach the important village of Absecon, famed for\\nits fine oysters, through all the adjacent country.\\nAnd now we have reached the shore of the main land,\\nand already there comes to us, eager for our jour-\\nney s end, occasional whiffs, telling of the ocean beyond.\\nBut wait a moment or two railroad enterprise will not allow\\nus to stop here, for ahead of us stretches a wide expanse of\\nmeadow, and straight over it lies our roadway. Ah now\\nwe catch the glorious salt breeze, fragrant with odors of the\\ngrass and sea weed. Never was cup of cool water more grate-\\nful to the thirsty wayfarer than to us is this refreshing wind\\ncoming in fresh and free from the broad Atlantic. And what", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "62 HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE.\\na change it has wrought among our fellow passengers. Sleepy\\nold gentlemen awaken from their snooze, tired babies stop\\ncrying, and commence to crow, the young ladies no longer\\nfan and languish; no there is a new life and vigor in each.\\nLook there is the inlet there is Brigantine Beach to the\\nnorthward behind is the mainland, dotted with houses\\naround us, a sea of green before us the island, with its cu-\\npolas, and spires and chimneys, and the lighthouse at its\\nupper end. Now we cross the drawbridge, and in another\\nmoment are on the main avenue of\\nATLANTIC CITY.\\nThe observant visitor needs but a glance to convince him\\nthat he has reached a prosperous and well-ordered commu-\\nnity. He sees broad, level, well -graded avenues stretching\\naway on each side, bordered v/ith wide sidewalks, and lined\\nwith buildings of every variety, from the trim cottage to the\\nmammoth summer hotel. Horse cars, street lamps, and\\nuniformed police, all help to assure him by their presence\\nthat Atlantic City is a city indeed. Yet, strange as it may\\nseem, all this portion of the island, where now fashion holds\\nhigh court, was but a few years ago an unbroken waste of\\nsand-hills, covered with stunted cedars, and numbering within\\nits limits only six dwellings. Now there are over as many\\nhundred, and a resident population of one or two thou-\\nsand. The sand hills have been leveled into oblivion, the\\nsurveyor has laid his Hnes, and lo as if by magic comes the\\nsound of hammer and saw, and a city springs into existence.\\nAlthough Absecon Island was first settled in 1818 by one\\nJeremiah Leeds, whose widow still resides here, it was not\\nuntil the organization of the Camden and Atlantic Railroad", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 6$\\nCompany in 1852, that public attention was turned to its\\nunusual eligibility as a site for Homes on the Sea-Shore.\\nIn July, two years later, the first excursion train arrived, and\\nabout the same time the United States, the first hotel of\\nany size, was opened. Since then the growth and popularity\\nof the place have rapidly increased. During the summer of\\n1872 there were, by actual count, 67,090 excursionists car-\\nried thither, and a resident population of between thirty-five\\nand fort}^ thousand people.\\nBut, v ^hen the reader comes to consider the natural ad-\\nvantages possessed by this particular locality as a place of\\nsummer resort, its rapid increase in public favor T\\\\ill not\\nseem remarkable. Take, for instance, the healthfulness of\\nthe atmosphere, which, while tempered by its proximit}- to\\nthe ocean, yet possesses a peculiar dr}mess, which renders it\\nextremely beneficial to those afflicted with diseases of the\\nthroat, chest or lungs. For the sufiferer with rheumatic or\\nscrofulous tendencies, the iodine in the air, the iodine and\\nsalt in the water, promise a speedy and, it may be, perma-\\nnent improvement. It is, beyond ca^il, the place for those\\nseeking relief from Hver complaints.\\nBut it is to invalid children that this atmosphere appears\\nto give its most healthful influences, and so well established\\nhas this fact become, that a few benevolent Philadelphians\\nhave established here a Children s Sea-Shore House,\\nwhere, during the past season, twent}-seven sick and wasted\\nlittle ones from the city were furnished maintenance and\\nattendance. During the present summer it is proposed to\\nerect a large and handsome building for this purpose, with\\naccommodation for fifty or sixt} children, ground having been\\ndonated by one of the members of the Association. The", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "64 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nenterprise appeals to the sympathies of every parent and de-\\nserves a generous support and encouragement.\\nIn point of convenience and attractiveness, moreover,\\nAtlantic (as it is familiarly called for short is especially\\nnoticeable to the summer visitor. Standing on any of the\\navenues crossing the island, one may look eastward to the\\nsea, and the horizon, and westward, over the wide meadow\\nland to the hazy blue of the main land beyond. The three\\navenues, Arctic, Atlantic and Pacific, which run parallel with\\nthe sea through the whole length of the city, afford excellent\\ndrives, while, beyond, one may go in one direction over the\\nPleasantville road to Absecon, or down along the surf, a\\nsplendid hard sand drive to Cedar Grove, at the Island s\\nsouthern end then, too, there are rare facilities for fish-\\ning, shooting and sailing in the adjacent creeks and bays\\nthe beach, long and shelving offers opportunity for safe surf\\nbathing the hotels are numerous and many of them well\\nkept, and on their broad verandahs, of summer evenings,\\nthere is no end of music, dancing and flirtations. Then, too,\\nwhen Sunday comes, you have your choice of attending\\nEpiscopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Roman CathoHc, or\\nQuaker worship in short, you will find in Atlantic City\\nchurches, schools, markets and stores on as liberal a scale as\\nat any watering place of its size in the country.\\nNew Yorkers in search of Homes on the Sea Shore,\\nwill do well to visit Atlantic City before deciding as to where\\nthey will pass the summer. They will find good furnished\\ncottages to rent for from $300 to $650, and eligible lots (50\\nX 150 feet) for $1,200,", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 65\\nA. M. DILENTASH CO.\\nDEALERS IN\\nForeign and Domestic Dry Goods,\\nIB^ XJI^lSr I SiEiX INTO G-OOXDS,\\nLaces, RililJOGS Toilet Articles, Stalloaery Jewelry, Wall Paper, c.\\nGL.ASS AND TIN IVARE, HARB^WARE,\\nProvisions, Garden and Field Seeds, Confeoiionery,\\nFmlis, Patent Meiicmes, YegetaWes, Flour, Feed and Grain, Oil Clotlis and Mattings.\\nAgents for the Neu York Dyeing and Printing Establishment.\\nCOE-NIB MAIN k PEABL STS., LONG- BEANGH, N. J.\\nBROOKLYN WHITE LEAO CO.\\nINCORPORATED 1825.\\nr^ _ i_ i. J- A .i, -i\u00c2\u00bb .i- .t^ .i. A L -i .-L A i A\\nFEiPfl! Hi f i1!l II\\nEver} package guaranteed to be\\nSTRICTLY PURE I\\n8 MiilBEJV ^AWEs M F\u00c2\u00bb", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "66 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nBmn hrseriss aii ha-lm\\no o :e] TsT lai :x: i^ o s TJ Si SI\\nit till, iiiiiiiii mil \u00c2\u00abi iiiii iiiii\\nThe following Catalogues will be forwarded Gratuitously on applica-\\ncation, viz.\\nE o. 1. Descriptive Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, o,\\nEo. 2. Descriptive Catalogue of Plants,\\n^0. 3. Semi-Annual Trade List for IJurserymen and Dealers.\\nASKER HANCB. BENJ. B. HANCS.\\nNurserymen and Florists\\nRED %km, NEW JERSEY.\\nNurseries and Green-Houses at BusHsom, N. J.\\nFIMM TIEEM ^E\u00c2\u00a7rS\\nNEAR AhSD ADJOIN!?\\\\3G OUR NURSERIES.\\nIW These Plots possess advantages of Beauty and Health over aU others\\nwithin the same distance of the City of New York.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 67\\nSEABRIGHT HOTEL.\\nROBERT EMEF^Y, Proprietor-.\\nAt SEABRIG-HT, N. J.\\nOn the Nevr Jersey Southern E. E., betvreeu LONG BRAIsCR and SANTjY HOOK,\\n25 imles from Nevr York situated on the beach, between ihe\\nSHREWSBrHY RIVER and SEA, with all con-\\nveniences for sea and river bathing.\\nThe Hotel has been enlarged and refitted thronghont, and will be open for\\nguests, May 1st, for the seasen. The efforts of the Proprietor daring the past\\nto accommodate and make his guests at home, \\\\\\\\-iiI be a guarantee for the fumre\\nThe boating and lishimi is unsurpassed, and fine oysters, clams and fish are\\nalways on hand, fresh from ocean and river every day, served at short notice.\\nAttached to the Hotel is a first-class Restaurant, where meals will be furnished\\nat all hours. A bather employed to attend to guests, and bathing suits always on\\nhand.\\nParties wishing to spend a day on the sea-shore will find this the most desira-\\nble place for pleasure and reasonable prices along the beach.\\nE. M. Axexaxdeu, W. Shippen,\\nBo2Rowr, fc. B. Pool-,\\nofiltc Equitable Life A isuraiu-e Co. U A-oken,\\nBORDEN MORRIS,\\nMain Street, Lonj Branch,\\nCiSlT Mill iinPIIL^Tm\\nFURNITURE\\nMade and Repaired in Good Sty e. and Upholstered to\\nOrder in Best Manner.\\nCottage Suits made to order of any desired material.\\nin all its branches. Bodies Preser^ ed ix Ice and trans-\\nported with personal attendance when desired.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "68 HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nLONG BRANCH HOTEL\\nLono Branch Villa o e. 3 7.\\nits\\nThis Hotel has been refitted aiui ret\\\\in\\\\ished, and is\\nOPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND\\nfor the accommodation of guests.\\nIt is pleasantly situated in a shady part of the Village, and gues\\nstopping at this house can enjoy all the ad\\\\-antages of the shore- Every\\nthing necessary for a first-dass house is constantly kept in the Dining\\nRoom and Bar.\\nJOHN VAN WOERT, Proprietor,\\nNEW YORK HOTEL,\\nF/^st Side of t-.e Se.v Shore R. R. S:-t:ion.\\nThis popular Hotel, (a branch of the New Ycrk house,) has l een\\nnewiy furnished, and all the rooms provided mth heating apparatus for\\nthe \\\\vintcr season. It is the only hotel on Long Branch that is\\nKEPT a^ THE \u00c2\u00a3uROPgA?r PLA?f t\\nand is alwaj-s supplied with the choicest edibles the New York market\\naSords. Charges very reasonable-", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE. 69\\nMORFORD VANDERVEER\\nfLate Morford, Vanderveer \u00c2\u00abfc Co.)\\n510 512 Main St., Long Branch.\\nDry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Furniture,\\nHARDWARE, TINWARE, CARPETS,\\nMATTINGS, (jlL CLOTHo. HOU^E FI]R!n::HlN^ GOODS, C., C.\\n5000 ARTICLES IN STOCK.\\nlibUiT to OM Habitues of the Branch. WeBteru Uuiou TeJfjgraplj to all points.\\nWHOLESALE AGENTS for PRATT S ASTRAL OIL.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r^- .S\u00c2\u00a3 D rOK CATALOGUE.\\nR. L. WHITE,\\nLONG BRANCH VILLAGE,\\nCalls attention to the fact thai he has the largest stock of goods in his line,\\nCO.NSlSnKG OF\\njuvfij, Imn. |ojii3f fUniiii,\\nTin, Sheet Iron, Plated and Britannia Ware, Toilet Sets,\\nTable Cuihry^ Lant^z,, ci c.\\nIRON IIj%.Y RACKH ^iND IF-EED BOXES,\\nto be found in the plate, if not in the country, which be will sell as low-\\nas the same goods can be bought elsewhere in the State or out of it.\\nTin Roofing done at short notice, and in a ruanner v/arranted to give satis-\\nfac-tion. Gutters and Leaders jjut up in superior style. If you want anything\\nin my line of trade, you can save money by purchasing of me. Call and see for\\nyourselves. 53^ Leave your orders in person at my place of business, and\\nthc-y will receive immediate attention.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "70 HOMES ON THE SEA- SHORE.\\nESTAELISHED 1845.\\nThe Upper Shop in the Village, opposite Van Woert s Livery Stable.\\nWILLIAM H. MORRIS SON,\\nin all its branches. Especial attention given to Light and Heavy Carriage Work.\\nHOUSESHOEINC\\nexecuted in the neatest manner. Charges moderate, and all work warranted to\\ngive satisfaction.\\nIn connection with Blacksmithing, we have established a\\nCARRIAGE MANUFACTORY,\\nand beg to announce to our friends and the public generally, that we are\\nprepared to make to order\\nBuggies, Depots, Phaetons, Carryalls, Farm Wagons,\\nand other descriptions of vehicles, both light and heavy, of all the latest styles.\\nCarriages Painted and Repaired in the best manner, and at reasonable rates.\\nWM. H. MORRBS SON, Long Branch, N.J.\\nGROCERY AND PROVISION STORE\\nla connec don with the Post Office, Main St., next door to Steinbachs\\nTemple of Fashion,\\nEAST liONG BRANCH, N. J,\\nI have just enlarged my store, and laid in a large stock of\\n|tegiflg|, |geiM5n|, ^\\\\m. mi ^ni, |if, |lfiw ml |fili!,\\nfocden and Willow Ware, stone fare, Canned rruits and YegetaDles, c.\\nSEGARS AND SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO\\nof the best brands. My goods are all new and fresh, and will be sold at the\\nlowest market rates.\\nPolite and attentive clerks in attendance. Purchasers can have their goods\\ndelivered at short notice. Thanks are returned for the liberal patronage of the\\npast, and a continuance of favors is solicited from the public.\\nMATTHIAS WOOLLEY.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 7 1\\nGRANDIN VANNOTE,\\nFARMSNGDALE, NEW JERSEY,\\nDEALER IN\\nIIA.TS, CAPS,\\nAGENT FOR\\nEagle Mower, Eiggs Gang Plow, Fertilizers, Coal, Lime, Lmlier,\\nSTOVES AND FURNITURE.\\nGBNF.IiAL SF.WIXG 3IACIIINJE AGENCY\\nW. W. MENDENHALL,\\nOSBORN, BEO. CO.,\\nWest side R.R., in Store North side, Union Avenue.\\nSAMUEL S. OSBOEN,\\n0I?I1 Iigliief, Siff ij9i mi Geifijiieif\\nOF DEEDS, c.\\nMANCHESTER, N. J.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "72\\nHOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\n^SIVITEN YOU LEAVE THE\\nG-O RIGMIO: TO\\nSTEEL S HOTEL DINING ROOMS\\n316 318 GREENWICH STREET,\\nBet. Reade Duane Streets,\\nAND GET YOUR\\nBREAKFAST, DINNER OR TEA!\\nAt Reasonable Prices, and of the Best Quality,\\nX30 Hooiixs. 50 an i 75 Oents x er INlgflit;.\\n128 Nassau Street.\\nNear Beekman street, NEW YORK.\\nHAS A LARGE AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF\\nSTANDARD MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS,\\nFoolscap, Letter and Note Paper, Blank Books, Letter Presses and\\nCopying Books, Inks, Pens, Pencils and Office Stationery.\\nPHOTOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS,\\nEnvelopes, and Initial Stationery, Check Books, Letter and\\nBill Heads, and Cards.\\nPROTIXG AND LITHOGRAPHING A SPECIALTY\\nBefore starting for the Sea-Sh re call at No. 128 Nassau Street and sup-\\nply 3 -ourself with Stationery and Reading Matter at Moderate Prices. Also,\\nSubscribe for The V\\\\ orking Farmer. Price \u00c2\u00a71.50 per annum.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "HOMES OX THE SE.^-SHORE.\\n73\\nAND THE\\nWhite Mountains,\\n,1\\nZ?a//)/ at 5 P. M.,from Pier 40, N, R.\\nSTEAMERS\\nCity of New York,\\nCity of Boston,\\nAND\\nCity of Lawrence.\\nco:v^vlcti:nG vriTH\\nEZPRS3S TRAINS AT KBW LONDON for\\nBOSTON, and, via n^vJ OHCSSTER, for the\\nWHITS MOUNTAINS, also with\\nVERMONT CENTRAL R. R\u00e2\u0080\u009e forali points North,\\nWALTIE^F. PAEKEE, Agsnt.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "74\\nHOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\n^rMlt\u00c2\u00ae\\nm^w-mw\\nSHRUBS AND EVEHGREEHS\\nThe purchaser of a Ko^ie o^ the Sea-Shobe y -iH not. ha^/e made it com\\nplete nntil he shall have beaiitiiiecl aod adonj^-a the grounds about it in order to\\ndo this, let him visit the Seed and I laut. Store of\\nM2SS1S. B117SS SmONSON,\\nand glance over their ex\\nTrees, [ivJboHH I f-\\nNone bat the he.-,\\nas by any other 1;\\nIn no other hi.\\nthat success depends c i\\nbusiness is there a \\\\vi\\nutter impossibilitv vr, f,\\nthe eye. This fd\\nwell known and\\nfilF Seeds av^d\\nJersey Sourheni i.aiiiijad\\ntensive and attrac{i\\\\ s^tock of Fruit and Ornamental\\n-r, 7 T aof! Vf i e abii^, Floiver and Field iSctds.\\ni seeds are oitered, and at as low prices\\nbeen more satisfactorily demonstrated\\nthan in the Seed Trade and in no other\\nand deception. It i:\u00c2\u00ab, i^: most cases, an\\n_, in Vegeiable, Fic-ld and xlov/er Seeds by\\n.Ice r t^ed Purchasers to make their selections from\\nto any Post Office on the line of the New\\ns ou.y-\\nl: by lauij\\nAddi? ?s\\nREEVES Sli^O^iSON,\\n5i Cortlaiidt Street. Wew Tork.\\nTHl NATIONAL WOO D MANUFACTyEING- CO.\\n11 II z-^^-:^^^ ^SL--^ Broadway,\\nBet. a2d 23d Sts.\\nOffices, Stores, Kitchens,\\nSaloons, 25 cts. per foot.\\nDining Piooms, Halls,\\nVestibules and Libraries\\nin Elegant Parquet, from\\n35 cts. to $1 per square\\nfoot.\\nInlaid and Solid Hard\\nWood Floors, 60 cts. per\\nsquare foot, in new and\\nelegant designs.\\nC^ Send stamp for Il-\\nlustrated Pamphlet.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "HOMES ON THE SEA-SHORE. 75\\nKBOm THOEITE,\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\nDOORS, SMS, BLIiS,\\nWOOD ^GOLOtHOS, c.\\n254 S56 Canal Street,\\nNEW YORK.\\nSKJS-D WOR JS. PRICK LIST.\\nREEVES CO.\\nGenera! Office and Salesroom,\\nNo. 184 Water Street, New York,\\nDEALERS IX\\nGeneral Agents for THE IMPROVED CHASE REVOLVSNG\\nKARROV/.\\nAgents for THE IMPROVED EXCELS50R LAWN MOWER,\\nHead-Quarters for THE CELEBRATED MAPES SUPER-\\nPHOSPHATE OF LINIZ.\\n^VA^O, BOXE DUST, and other Fertilizers, always on hand.\\n1S4 Wafer Street, X. T.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "76\\nHOWES ON THE SEA-SHORE.\\nReliel PlaleE lor\\nBool[ and Catalogue Illnstrations\\neugraved in very Lard Type Metal, by a new chemical process, direct from all kinds\\nof Priuts, Peii-aud-Iuk Drawings, Original Designs, riiotographs, c. This pro-\\ncess is in many respects vastly superior to wood engraving. The plates have a\\nlirinting surface as smooth as glass, and the lines are deeper than those of hand-\\ncut engravings. We guarantee all our plates to iirmt ahHohiteh/cIean and sharp\\non either wet or dry paper, and on any kind of press where type or wood cuts can\\nhe printed. The attention of manufacturers proposing to issue Illustrated Cata-\\nlogues is particularly invited. Oirr Prices trill not averacte mtich more than Half\\nthose Charged for Wood Cuts. The Naps in this hook were engraved hy the Photo-\\nEngraviag Co.\\nJ. SMITH HOBART, Pres. J. C. MOSS, Supt. D. I. CAIISON, Gen. Agent.\\nATLAETIG CITY, K J.\\nt^- OJPJEW ^kX^X^ TIllU ^^Ej5lR. \u00e2\u0080\u009es^\\nJ. KEIM SONS, Proprietors.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab1I@MBS Wmm iBJ.\u00c2\u00abBH.\u00c2\u00a9BB\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb\\nNew\\nFamily\\nARE INCOMl I.ETE WITHOUT ONE OF THE\\nSINGER\\nMacliines\\nDURING 1872\\nTie Singer MaiinfactBriDi Company sold\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\Vheeler Wilson Manufacturing Company\\nHowe Machine Company (estimated)\\nGrover Baker Sewing Machine Company\\nDomestic Sewing Machine Company\\nWeed Sewing Machine Company\\nWilcox Gibbs Sewing Machine Company\\nWilson Sewing Machine Company\\nAmer. B. H. O. Sewing Machine Company\\nGold Medal Sewing Machine Company\\nFlorence Sewing Machine Company\\nB. P. Howe Sewing Machine Company\\nVictor Sewing Machine Company\\nDavis Sewing Machine Company\\nBlees Sewing Machine Company\\nRemington Empire Sewing Machine Company\\nJ. E. Braunsdorff Co.\\nKeystone Sewing Machine Company\\nBartlett Reversible Sewing Machine Company\\nBartram Fanton Manufacturing Company\\nSecor Sewing Machine Company\\n219,7i8Macliines.\\n174,088\\n14r),000\\nr 2,oio\\n40,5r)4\\n42,444\\n33,080\\n22,000\\n18,930\\n18,897\\n15,793\\n14,907\\n11,901\\n11,370\\n0,053\\n4,982\\n4,202\\n2,005\\n1,000\\n1,000\\n311\\nO. T, HOPPER CO., General Agents,\\n766 Broad Street, Hewark, N. J.\\nLOCAL AGENTS:\\nD. C. VAN DOREN, Red Bank.\\nJ. H. WILSON, Freehold.\\nD. B. STRONG, Matteawan.", "height": "3131", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "homesonseashoreo01catl_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "jrmr;\\nSTAFFORD LAND CO.\\nOFFER\\nHomes on the Sea-Shore\\nAT\\nlomssleiis, lams mi Mllimg Sites,\\nAT\\nWIODERATE PRICES\\nAND\\nEASY TERMS OF PAYMENT.\\ni^\u00c2\u00b0 Free passes from New York to the property are\\ngiven those desiring to settle.\\nJi@^ Visitors to Manahawken will find the Stafford House\\nconvenient and well kept Hotel, Hacks rnn in connec-\\ntion with this house to the depot, free of charge.\\nFor maps and prices, apply to\\nGen i W. N. GREER, Cavalry Cottage, Manahawken,\\nOR TO\\nGEOEGE W. CAMPBELL, JR.,\\nTreasurer Stafford Land Co.,\\n87 LIBERTY ST., 3 doors West of Broadway, ITEW YOEK OITY.\\nN. 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