{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3201", "width": "1913", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "s f r\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-0 L-\\nVI,\\n.0^\\n.I D _r-S-W^ O\\n.0 SI ^0\\n^m\\no 0^\\n9:\\n.-x^\\nr o a6", "height": "3043", "width": "1732", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "J^\\n-^o.\\n0 X\\nX^^^,\\nV\\noo^\\ncc^ -n^.\\nk\\nX^ -^.o. -J\\n^7 OO^\\nt. V^\\n^0\u00c2\u00b0^,\\n^^,.-v\\nn\\\\^\\n-n^.\\nV^^^.\\n9\\nv\\nT^v-", "height": "3059", "width": "1701", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3048", "width": "1581", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3064", "width": "1631", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3043", "width": "1732", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "PRESS OF DELEEUW OPPENHEIMER, 231 WILLIAM ST., N. Y", "height": "3064", "width": "1631", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "^inwRm\\nV ^V.^\u00c2\u00bb iljjin.*", "height": "3043", "width": "1732", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "I^MK;\\nNew Jersey Coast\\nAND Pines.\\nAN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE-BOOK (WITH ROAD-MAPS).\\nBY\\nA -iiery good land to fall in ivith^ and a pleasant land to sec^^ Log-Book\\nOF THE Half Moon, Sept. 2, i6og.\\nA 271889\\n^71889\\nCo pvKiGHT, 18 89. ^-^AsHmGio^^\\nSHORT HILLS, N. J.\\n1889.\\nGUSTAV KOBB^.", "height": "3064", "width": "1701", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "fee-\\ntv\\n,m:mtMfr \u00c2\u00bbYiWU, a jl HtlJ M W W\\nj^^ ^r t if?\\nWit- ^WT V^f r^\\np\\na)i\\no\\no\\nz\\no\\nw\\nH\\nOQ\\nA U\\nm If\\nv.-.TC TOa^^t ^f*^\\n-7 0^", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nTHIS aims to be an accurate descriptive guide-book\\nto the Jersey Coast\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from Sandy Hook to At-\\nlantic Cit} and to the Jersey Pine Plains. New\\nYork City is taken as the starting-point, and the\\nSandy Hook and Jersey Southern routes as those\\nrespectively to the Coast and Pines although one\\nchapter, for the sake of completeness, describes the\\nall-rail route via the N. Y. and Long Branch R. P.,\\nwhose rates of fare are also included in the table of\\nrailroad fares in the Introduction.\\nThe illustrations, many of them from photographs\\nby the author, and the maps, the first four of which\\nare road-maps and almost in themselves a guide-book,\\nwere made especially for this work.\\nTwo fonts of type were adopted, in order to bring\\ninto sharp contrast the description of the Coast as it\\nis and the historical portions which refer to the Coast\\nas it was. Many historical incidents, some of them\\nthe result of original research, have been introduced\\nand doubtless not a few people who considered them-\\nselves familiar with the Coast and Pines will be\\nsurjirised to discover how much romantic interest\\nis attached to many of the places herein described.\\nThe author will esteem it a favor if any one dis-\\ncovering errors of commission or omission will call\\nhis attention to them.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "RATES OF RAILROAD FARE.\\n(Commutation, Single Thip and Excuusion.)\\nl^KW Y^OR-K AT*{0 I^0:NG BRAT^CH R. R.\\nNEW YOUK\\n1\\nMo.\\nSewareu\\nPerth Am boy,\\n$9 50\\n10 50\\nSouth Amboy\\nMorgau\\nCliffvvood\\nMatawan\\nHazlet\\nMiddletown.\\nRed liank\\n13 00\\n14 00\\n15 00\\n15 00\\n16 00\\n17 00\\n18 00\\nLittle Silver\\nBranchport.\\nLong Branch\\n23 00\\n25 00\\n25 00\\nWest End\\nElberon.\\nDeal Beach\\nNorth Asbury Park\\nOcean Grove and\\nAsbury Park\\nKey East\\nOcean Beach\\nComo\\nSpring Lake\\nSea Girt\\nManasquan\\nBrielle\\nPoint Pleasant\\n25 00\\n27 00\\n29 00\\n30 00\\n30 00\\n33 00\\n33 00\\n35 00\\n35 00\\n36 00\\n38 00\\n39 00\\n40 00\\n2\\nMos.\\n$18 50\\n18 50\\n23 70\\n23 70\\n27 34\\n28 90\\n30 00\\n81 00\\n33 00\\n38 00\\n42 00\\n42 00\\n42 00\\n44 00\\n47 00\\n49 00\\n49 00\\n52 00\\n52 00\\n55 00\\n55 00\\n56 00\\n58 00\\n59 00\\n59 00\\n3\\nMos.\\n$2:^00\\n24 00\\n31 80\\n31 00\\n37 26\\n39 GO\\n42 00\\n43 00\\n45 00\\n50 00\\n54 00\\n54 00\\n6\\nMos.\\n12\\nMos.\\n$42 00 $77 50\\n42 00 77 50\\n57 00\\n57 60\\n60 00\\n60 00\\n62 00\\n64 00\\n67 00\\n85 00\\n87 00\\n90 00\\n90 00\\n93 00\\n95 00\\n100 00\\n73 00,110 00\\n77 00 115 00\\n77 00 115 00\\n54 00\\n57 00\\n59 00\\n62 00\\n62 00\\n65 00\\n65 00\\n70 00\\n70 00\\n71 00\\n73 00\\n73 00\\n73 00\\n77 00\\n81 00\\n85 00\\n115 00\\n122 00\\n129 00\\n90 00 137 00\\n90 00 137 00\\n96 00\\n96 00\\n102 00\\n102 00\\n102 00\\n104 00\\n104 00\\n104 00\\n145 00\\n145 00\\n1.55 00\\n155 00\\n1.55 00\\n158 00\\n158 00\\n158 00\\nSingle\\nTrip.\\n$0 52\\nCO\\n70\\n70\\n70\\n70\\n75\\n85\\n1 00\\n1 00\\n1 00\\n1 00\\n1 00\\n1 00\\n1 10\\n1 20\\n1 20\\n1 50\\n1 50\\n1 50\\nNEMT JKRSEY SOVXHE^RX R. R.\\nTickets Good only via Sandy Hook and Boat.\\nNEW YORK\\nTO\\nAtlantic Highlands..\\nSandy Hook\\nHighland Beach\\nNavesink Beach\\nNormandie\\nRumson Beach\\nSea Bright\\nLow Moor\\nGalilee\\nMonmouth Beach\\nNorth Long Branch.\\nLong Branch. N. J. S.\\nBranchport.\\nOceanport\\nEatontown\\nLakewood.\\n1\\nMo.\\n$21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n21\\n23\\n24\\n24\\n24\\n25\\n25\\n25 00\\n25 00\\n25 00\\n39 00\\n2\\nMos.\\n3\\nMos.\\n54 00\\n54 00\\n54 00\\n72 00\\n6\\nMos.\\n$67\\n67\\n67\\n67\\n67\\n67\\n70\\n74\\n74\\n74\\n77\\n77\\n77 00\\n77 00\\n77 00\\n100 00\\n12\\nMos.\\n100 00\\n100 00\\n100 00\\n100 00\\n100 00\\n100 00\\n105 00\\n110 00\\nno 00\\n110 00\\n115 00\\n115 00\\nSiuirle\\nTrip.\\n115 00 1\\n115 00 1\\n115 00 1\\n1.50 00 1\\n3\\nm\\n1 Oit\\n1 00\\n1 00\\n1 45\\n9(\\nSingle Trip and Excursion Kates to other places: Toms River, ^_._\\n3.00 Barnegat Park, $2.00, 3.25 Cedar Creek, $2.10, 3.35 Forked Rivei\\n$2.20. 3.45 Waretovv^n, $2.25, 3.65 Barnegat, $2.35, 3.80 Atlantic Cit\\n$3.25, 4.75 Viueland, $3.25, 4.75 Bridgeton, $3.25, 5.25.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3068", "width": "1752", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "i^SlJ-i-^^^^;y^; B/iu/hton\\n(T6m_p*fcins \u00c2\u00a54,\\nifbn\\ntA\\n.No. as 1.5\\nFj I .Upper I\\nNo. 1^1 --feo-* I .-^9 !^1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \u00e2\u0080\u0094J?-^ A\\n/U0.9\\ntNo. 4\\n4\\njTci; t NO 8\\nNo 7 t ^Romer Shoal\\n^^1 Beacon\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2/if iNo.5\\n7|-a!!)?-5/C/(ica\u00c2\u00a3", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3058", "width": "1586", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nThe author loill be glad to have his atteiitio?i called, to an)/ errors of com-\\nmission or omission in any i^art of this book.\\\\\\nTopography and Geolosy.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The basis for what follows under this\\ntitle are the reports of the Geological Survey of New Jersey, of which\\nthe final report is now issuing. It promises to be, like the results of the\\nwork which preceded it, a monument to the enterprise of the State\\nwhich authorized it and to the learning of the State Geologist, Prof.\\nGeorge H. Cook.\\nThe topography of the State is readily classed in belts corresponding\\nwith the outcrops of various geological formations. The territory cov-\\nered by this work embraces the cretaceous plain, whose level is broken\\nby furrows and hills and the extremely level, sandy and pine-clad plain\\nof the tertiary formation, fringed seaward by a belt of tide-marsh, en-\\nclosed from the sea by sand beaches. The Jersey Pines are popularly\\nsupposed to be inland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 at least as far from the coast as Lakewood. As\\na matter of scientific fact, the Pines begin at Long Branch, the region\\nbeing triangular in shape, beginning in a point at Long Branch and\\nwidening to 50 miles at Delaware Bay, one line of the triangle being the\\nmain shore from Long Branch to Cape May. Throughout this region\\nthere is a great amount of water-power going to waste, which, consid-\\nering the location of this territory with regard to New York and Phila-\\ndelphia, could, it would seem, be profitably utilized by manufacturers.\\nThe streams of southern New Jersey have a strong, steady, equable\\nflow, unaffected by storms or tides.\\nIn popular parlance, the coast of New Jersey extends from the north\\npoint of Sandy Hook to the south point of Cape May, 127 miles. The\\nocean beats against a low, sandy barrier, curved like a bow, which for\\nits entire length, except from Monmouth Beach to Point Pleasant and\\nat the Cape May bluffs where the main shore comes down to the\\nocean, is separated from the mainland by bays, channels, sounds and\\nsalt marshes, and is divided by inlets and rivers into islands and penin-\\nsulas, long, narrow and parallel with the coast, and known as beaches.\\nThese are sand reef.s formed by wave action, and not a portion of the\\ncretaceous and tei tiary plains.\\nThe cretaceous formation is divided into two parts, which are very\\ndistinct in their history\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the plastic clay-beds, which are deposits from\\nfresh water, fresh-water shells. Impressions of land plants and even a\\nburied forest (at South Amboy) havingbeen found among them; and the\\nmarl-beds, whose fertilizing properties have done much to make Mon-\\nmoutli County the second richest agricultural county in the United\\nStates, and which, judging from the marine fossils discovered among\\nthem, are deposits from salt water. The conclusion arrived at is that\\nthe ground now occupied by this formation was near the shore of a\\nshallow ocean, which, perhaps, at times advanced upon the lands, and\\nat other times receded from it, so as to leave vegetation to thrive and\\nthen be destroyed again, until in course of time the deposited material\\naccumulated to the thickness of almost 800 feet.\\nThe whole of this ancient sea-bottom or flooded shore appears to\\nhave then been lifted to a height of 400 feet above the sea level, but to\\nhave again been v;orn down by some powerful agency like water or ice\\n(walrus skulls found in gravel near Long Branch indicate a period of\\narctic cold), the ridges and hills (f. i, the Highlands of Navesink) so\\nstrikingly in contrast with the present level character of the surface,\\nbeing the portions which resisted the onslaught of the agency, the mass\\nof the material having been carried south to form the newer tertiary\\nstrata.\\nThese data are interesting, because the process of alternate encroach-\\nment and recession on the part of the ocean is still going on, the", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "VI 11\\npresent era beinp: one of encroachment, the ocean havinsr apparently\\noversowed its forjiuM- shore, wiiich seems to have been alnnit 100 mih s\\nout from the present coast. For 100 miles out, namely, the ocean\\ndeepens (mly 3 feet to the mile at 100 miles out there is a sudden pre-\\ncipitous descent, the ocean deepeninj;: in VZ miles from 000 to 0,000 feet.\\nWhere the precipitous descent occurs is supposed to be the ancient sea-\\nshore. Then, loo, alons shore there is unimpeachable evidence of the\\nencroachment of beach upon salt marsh and a corresponding en-\\ncroacliment of salt marsh upon fast si-ound. Patches of .sod, some\\npreserving the tracks of horses and cattle made over a centuiy a^ro. are\\nexposed when severe storms blow the sand off some of the beaclies\\nand stumps to be seen off Asbuiy Park at very low tide, mark an old\\nmarsh bottom.\\nIt should be borne in mind, however, that for centuries the beaches\\nhave unaided fought their battle with the ocean, whereas now human\\niuijenuity is active in devisiiiir means for their preservation; and thus\\nthey may be preserved until another of those marvelous ^colojsrical\\nchanges takes place, and the sea again recedes as it did countless cen-\\nturies afro.\\nThe fo.ssils discovered in the strata to whi(di reference has been\\nmade show that the waters which once covered them weie ranf;ed by\\nhuije saurians and other marine monsters. Some of these saurians were\\n40 feet in length; there were crocodiles 25 feet long, and great snapping-\\nturtles, some of them G feet long. Remains of whales, of sharks, and of\\nnumerous fishes have also been found, and shells abound in the marl,\\nwhich derives its great fertilizing qualities from the chemical deposits\\nof salt water. Mastodon remains have also been discovered; and there\\nis plenty of evidence that the swamps were ranged by a species- of hog\\nrivaling in size the Indian rhinoceros. Dinosauiians\u00e2\u0080\u0094 half reptile, half\\nbird, and as large as the mastodons were also numerous.\\nThe marl strata underlying the top-soil are: tapper Marl-bed (Blue\\nMarl, Ash Marl, Green Marl); Yellow Sand; Middle Marl-bed (Yellow\\nLimestone and Lime-sand, Shell Layers, Green Marl, Chocolate Marl);\\nRed Sand, well exposed at Red Bank and the Navesink Highlands (In-\\ndurated Green Earth, Red Sand, Dark Micaceous Clay); Lower Marl-\\nbed (Marl and Clay, Blue Shell Marl, Sand Marl); Clay Marls (Laminated\\nSands. Clay containing Green Sand). Water is generally struck in the\\nSand Marl overlying the Laminated Sands.\\nNatural History.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The fauna of the territory covered by this book\\ndoes not differ from that of the Middle States in general, excepting in\\ncertain forms of seashore animal life. The great variety of shell-fish,\\nsquirts, polyps and jelly-fishes; star-fishes, sea-urchins and sea-cucum-\\nbers; crabs; moss-polyps and sponges, will be found fully described and\\nillustrated in a capital little book by Angelo Heilprin, The Animal Life\\nof Our Seashore. published by the J. B. Lippincott Company, in Phila-\\ndelphia. Among the fish caught off shore and in the bays are blue-fish,\\nbonito, sea-bass, black-fish, porgees, sheep s-head, weak-fish, king-fish,\\nmackerel, cod, haddock, flounder and halibut; and perch, pike and eels\\nare taken in most of the rivers.\\nThe bii ds which probably attract most attention are the fish-hawks,\\nwho build their nests on chimneys or in high trees. The killing of fish-\\nhawks is forbidden by law under penalty of a fine. The law is said to\\nbe a concession by the Legislature to the superstition of the fishermen,\\nbut the fact that the fish-hawks are the scavengers of the beach\\nprompted its passage. The singing birds are those of the Middle States\\nwith the water-thrush, shore-lark, seaside-finch and pine-finch in addi-\\ntion. Among the water-fowl are the heron, oyster-catcher and turn-\\nstone; and among the game-birds the quail, ruffled grouse, plover, snipe,\\nand many varieties of duck (see p. 68).\\nThe flora of the country back of the coast to the Pine Plains is also\\nsimilar to that of the Middle States in general. On the beach many\\nbeautiful algse are found. The most interesting plants in the rich flora\\nof the Pines are mentioned under Lakewood (p. 92); the little fern\\nSchizcea pusella is found nowhere else in the world.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "XI\\nfish in all the rivers and bays south of the Raritan, and to hunt on all\\nuninclosed lands. In 180:^ they removed to New Stockbridge, near\\nOneida Lake, N. Y. In 1832 the remnant of the Lenni Lenapes, forty in\\nnumber, were settled at Statesburgh, on Fox Kiver, Wis. Believing\\nthat they had never parted with the right to fish and hunt secured to\\nthem in 1758, they deputed one of their number, Wilted Grass, known\\namong the whites as Bartholomew S. Calvin, who had served with\\ncredit under Washington, to lay their claim before the New Jersey Leg-\\nislature. This he did in a memorial, couched in language simple and\\npathetic, beginning: I am old and weak and poor, and therefore a fit\\nrepresentative of my people. You are young and strong and rich, and\\ntherefore fit representatives of your people. The Legislature voted\\nS ^,000, the sum asked for. Wilted Grass addressed a letter of thanks to\\nthe Legislature in which the following noteworthy passage occurred\\nNot a drop of our blood have you spilled in battle not an acre of\\nour land have you taken but by our consent. These facts speak for\\nthemselves and need no comment. They place the character of New\\nJersey in bold relief and bright example to those States within whose\\nterritorial limits our brethren still remain. Nothing but beuisous can\\nfall upon her from the lips of a Lenni Lenape.\\nMany Indian relics have been discovered along the coast, especially\\nin the Indian shell-heaps which are to this country what the Kjoekken-\\nmoeddings are to Danemark\u00e2\u0080\u0094 kitchen-middens or kitchen-leavings\\nof the aborigines. Samuel Lockwood, Ph.D., of Freehold, recognized\\nthe significance of these Indian shell-heaps, and his discoveries in an\\nimmense deposit of this character near Keyport were reported in the\\nreport of the Smithsonian Institute, 1864, p. 371. Pottery, very rude,\\nstone knives, axes, arrow-heads, and many other implements have been\\ndiscovered.\\nTransportation.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The oldest routes of travel to the coast were the\\nIndian paths spoken of under INDIA^ History. Quaker preachers, who\\ntwo centuries ago traveled these paths, speak of crossing streams in\\ncanoes, with their horses swimming beside them and John Richardson\\nrecommends ht^rses with long tails, so that if a canoe were capsized a\\ntraveler unable to swim might save his life by grasping his horse s\\ntail. Later, as the country became more populated, highways were\\nlaid out and stage-routes established. A stage still leaves Freehold\\nevery morning and runs through Colt s Neck, Tinton Falls and Shrews-\\nbury to Eatontown, returning to Freehold in the afternoon.\\nThe delights of the Jersey coast as a summer resort were discovered\\nby Philadelphians (see Long Branch, p. 33), who traveled in their own\\nconveyances, or in fish and oyster carts on their return trips to the\\ncoast. The old method of reaching Long Branch from New York was\\nby steamboat, which entered the Shrewsbury by the Shrewsbury Inlet\\n(see p. 2) and landed its passengers at the Ocean House, about where\\nNormandie-by-the Sea now is, whence they drove to Long Branch\\n(see p. 34). In 1856, the Long Branch and Sandy Hook R. R. Co. was\\nincorporated. Passengers were carried then, as now, by steamer to the\\nHorseshoe. The Long Branch and Sea-shore R. R. Co. was incorpo-\\nrated in 1863 to run from Sandy Hook, through Squan village to Toms\\nRiver. Meanwhile, in 1854, the Raritan and Delaware Bay R. R. Co had\\nbeen incorporated, and had been in operation since 1861 from Port Mon-\\nmouth to Bricksburgh (now Lakewood), with a spur to Long Branch.\\nIn 1870 the name was changed to the New Jersey Southern Railway\\nCo. and it was united with the Long Branch and Seashore R. R. The\\nroad was opened to the Manasquan in 1876, and thence soon after down\\nthe beach to Sea-Side Park, across Barnegat Bay to Toms River and on\\nto Pemberton.\\nThe New York and liOng Branch R. R. Co. was incorporated in 1868.\\nIts northern terminus was to be at South Amboy, but several exten-\\nsions were authorized, and March 30, 1869, the road was extended to\\nits present junction with the Central R. R. of New Jersey at Elizabeth-\\nport. South of Long Branch it runs over the old Long Branch and\\nSea-shore or Jersey Southern tracks. The New York and Long Branch", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "XI 1\\nR. R. Co. is owned by the Central R. R. of New Jersey (foot of Liberty\\nstreet), but operated by both it and the Pennsylvania R. R. (foot of\\nCortlandt street). The trip by the Central R. R. of New Jersey is the\\npleasanter because from the start it follows the shore, so that its pas-\\nserif^ers enjoy many beautiful water views between Jersey City and\\nPerth Aml)oy, where the Pennsylvania R. R. brancli first reaches the\\nshore, having? left the main line at Rahway. The train service on the\\nNew York and Lon^ Branch R. R. is first-class and includes a nurr\\nof fast express trains with parlor cars. At Matawan the trains of\\nCentral E. R. of New Jersey make connection with the Freehold ai^*\\nNew York R. R. for Freehold and for Keyport and Atlantic Uighlahdh\\nat Red Bank for Atlantic Hij^hlands and Port Moimiouth, and for Lake-\\nwood and other places on its Jersey Southern branch, and at Branch-\\nport for the resorts between Long Branch and Sandy Hook. The\\nJersey Southern branch makes connection at Manchester for tlie\\nresorts on Barnegat Bay from Toms River to Barnegat village, whence\\nthe Tuckertf)n R. R. may be taken to Tuckerton or to Long Beach (Bar-\\nnegat City, Harvey Cedars and Beach Haven) at Whitings also wit!\\nthe Tuckerton R. R. and at Winslow Junction ff r Atlantic City via a\\nbranch of the Philadelphia and Reading R. R.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the shortest route from\\nNew York to Atlantic City.\\nThe Central R. R. of New Jersey also owns the Sandy Hook route,\\nthe most delightful and luxurious route to the Jersey coast resorts, thi.\\ntrip being in itself an exhilarating recreation. A fleet of the finest\\nsteamers leaving New York, including the two fast, twin-screw steamers\\nSandy Hook and Monmouth and the St. Johns, which, until the first two\\nnamed were built, was the fastest boat on the bay, ply between the\\nfoot of Rector street and the Horseshoe. A stranger can. on this trip,\\nfamiliarize himself with all the lieauties of the harbor and bay\u00e2\u0080\u0094 can see\\nthe Statue of Liberty, the Narrows, Coney Island and the Quarantine\\nislands, and observe the fleet of yachts, merchantmen and of coastwise\\nand ocean steamers which form a maritime processioii of never-ceasing,\\never-varying interest. The commuter, who has seen all these things many\\ntimes, can breatlie in the strong, salt air which, after a hot day in the\\ncity, acts like a tonic. As soon as the steamers leave New York, the\\nSuperintendent at Sandy Hook is informed by telegraph of the number\\nof passengers aboard, and the train at Sandy Hook is made up accord-\\ningly, so that the railroad accommodations are ample. The train, after\\nrunning for a short distance through the woods on Sandy Hook,\\nemerges upon the beach, in full view of the ocean on one side and the\\nNavesink River on the other, so that the railroad trip from the Hook is\\ncool and refreshing.\\nAt Elizabethport, connection is made from Newark and Elizabeth\\nfor the Central R. R. of New Jersey s all-rail system.\\nTickets between New York and stations on the N. Y. and Long Branch\\nR. R., from Long Branch to Point Pleasant inclusive, are good on the\\nSandy Hook route or the trains of either the Central R. R. of New\\nJersey or of the Pennsylvania R. R., whether issued by the Central R.\\nR. of New Jersey, the Pennsylvania R. R., the New York and Long\\nBranch R. R. or the New Jersey Southern Railway.\\nHotels, Board and Tottase Rents at the Summer and Winter\\nResorts.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The hotels are classified according to a very high standard.\\nIn most of the hotel lists, for instance, seventeen hotels at Atlantic City\\nare rated as first-class; in this book only nine are so rated, and the same\\nrigid test is applied at other places. If any reader disagrees with the\\nauthor in his rating of any hotel, he will confer a favor on the author\\nby notifying him thereof, and of his reasons for disagreeing.\\nKey: italics mean that, in the author s opinion, the hotel is first-class;\\nordinary type means that it is second-class; an asterisk, that the hotel s\\nrates are special according to location of rooms, the lowest rates jier\\ndiem being about the same as the other hotels of the same class; a dag-\\nger means that the hotel is very good of its class.\\nAsBURY Vauvl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Coleman House, $3.50 to $4; West End, S3 to $4; Ata-\\nianta;* Belvedere, $3; Brunswick, $2 to $3; Colonnade, $3; Continental,*", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "XIU\\nGrand Avenue, $2.50 to S3; Irvinjr House, $2.50 to $3; Metropolitan, $3;\\nMinot, $3; Ocean House.t $3; Oriental, S3; Sunset Hall, t 3: and some thirty\\nothers, from SI. 50 to $2. Board, SB to S15 per week. Cottages, S120 to\\nS800. Atlantic City: Dennis, $3 to S4; Haddon Hull, S3 to S4; Seaside,\\nS3 to S4; Shelburne, $3 to S4; Me,sbury (new);t* Brighton, S3.50: Hotel\\nAlbion, S3 to S3.50; United States, S3.50; Trayrnore, S3 to S3.50. Colon-\\n.nade, S3; Congress Hall, S3; Ell)eron, S2.50 to $3; Mansion House, $3;\\njiverly, S2.50 to S3; Windsor Dudley Arms, $2.50 Malatesta,\\n.50; Schaufler s, $2 50; and some eighty others ranging from $1.50\\n.o S2.50. Board, $8 to $25. Cottages from $200 up. Atlantic\\nHighlands: Grand View, $3.50; Bay YicAv,* Windsor,* Pavilion, $2\\nto $2.50. Good board at $8. Cottages. $200 to $500. Barnegat:\\nClarence, $2. Barnegat City: Oceanic,* Sunset.* Bay Head: John-\\nson House, $2. Beach Haven: Engleside, $3.50; The Baldwin, $3.50.\\nBrielle: Carteret, $3 to $3 50. Cottages, $250. Deal Beach: Hath-\\naway House,t $3 (old-fashioned and comfortable); Allen House, $2\\nEatontown: Hall Wheeler House, $2. Elberon: J7ie ElberonA* Cot-\\nI tages without kitche-n near The Elberon, $1,200; other cottages,\\n$1^200 to $4,000. Fair Haven: Fair Haven, $2. Forked River:\\nLafayette Houset* (a famous resort for sportsmen). Highlands: Swift\\nHouse,t $3 to $4; Pavilion, $3; East View House, $2..50; Grand View\\nHouse.* Key East: Avon /^t $4 to $5; Berwick Lodge, $2.50 to $3;\\nBuckingham,* Oxford,* Norwood.* Lakewood: Laurel House;\\\\* Clif-\\nton Hall, $3. Board, $10 to $18. Cottages, $500 to $1,800. Long Branch:\\nHollyivood\\\\-\\\\* West End;* Howland,t $4; Scarboro,t $4; Brighton;!*\\nOcean, t $4; LTnited States,t $4; Atlantic;* lauch s;* and about twelve\\nothers from $1.50 to $2.50. Board, $10 to $15. Cottages, $400 to $4,000.\\nManasquan: Osborne, $2; The Squan, $2. Board, $5 to $8. Cottages,\\n$100 to S20 V Monmouth Beach: Club House,i- board, $15 to $20 per\\nweek; one person in double room, $25 per W eek. Club House Cottages,\\n$300 to $600 for the season, with board to the cottagers at $15 per\\nweek. Cottages, $l,n00 to $4,000. Ocean Beach: Columbia,! $4; Bruns-\\nwick, $3; Neptune House, $2.50 to $3; and some ten others from $1.50\\nto $2.50 per day. Ocean Grove: Arlington, $2.50 to $3; Atlantic, $2 to\\n$3; La Pierre, $3: Ocean View, $2.50 to $3; Seaside, $2.50; Sheldon, $3\\nto $4; United States, $2 to $2. .50; Waverly, S2.50; and twenty five others\\nfrom $1 50 to $2.50. Board, $7 to $14. Cottages, $150 to $400. Oceanic:\\nOceanic Pavilion.* Pleasure Bay: Riverside. $2 to $2.50. Point\\nPleasant: Resort Hou-e, S2..50 to $3; Ocean House, $2 to $3; St. James,\\n$2.50; Arnold House, $2 to S2.50. Board, $10 to $15. Cottages, $2.50 to\\n$400. Red Bank: Globe, $2; Prospect House, .$2; Central House, $1.50\\nto $2. Board, $5 to $18. Rumson Neck: Cottages, $1,000 to $4,500.\\nSea Bright: Normandie-by-the-Seaf (p. 17); Octagon, $4; Sea Bright\\nInn, $4; Peninsula, $3.50: Hotel Shrewsbury,! $3..50. C ottages, $1,000\\nto $3,000. Sea Girt: Beach House, $4; Tremont, $3; Parker, $2.50 to $3;\\nAlton Towers, $2.50 to $3 Spring Lake: Essex;i* Sussex;-f* Monmouth\\nHouse, $3.i50 to $4; Wilburton (North Spring Lake), $3.50; Aldine, $3\\nBelmont, $3; Carleton, $3. Board, $12.50 to $25. Cottages. $250 to\\n$2,000. Toms River: Magnolia,! $3; Ocean House,! .$2; Toms River\\nHotel, $2. Vineland: Baker House, $2; Whitings Pine Forest\\nHouse.! $2.\\nChurches (at Suiniiier and Winter Besorts).\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Methodist-Episcopal\\nThere are one or more Methodist-Episcopal churches in every place\\nalong the coast or among the Pines. Episcopal: Asbury Park, Atlantic\\nCity, Beach Haven, Cape May, Eatontown, Elberon, Fair Haven, Lake-\\nwood, Long Branch, Monmouth Beach, Navesink, Ocean Beach, Point\\nPleasant, Red Bank, Rumson Neck, Shrewsbury, Spring Lake, Toms\\nRiver and Vineland. Presbyterian Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Barne-\\ngat, Lakewood, Long Branch, Manasquan, Oceanic, Ocean Beach, Point\\nPleasant, Red Bank, Rumson Neck (at Oceanic), Sea Bright, Shrewsbury,\\nToms River, Vineland, Whitings. Baptist: Asbury Park, Atlantic\\nHighlands, Cape May. Eatontown. Lakewood, Manasquan, Navesink. Red\\nBank, Vineland. lieforfued: Asbury Park, Highlands and Long Branch.\\nCongregational: Long Branch and Vineland. Universalist; Good Luck and", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "XIV\\nVineland. Eoman Catholic: Asbury Park. Atlantic City, Atlantic Hi^h\\nlands, Cape May, Eatontown, Highlands, Lakewood, Long Branch, jTlit\\nOceanic, Point Pleasant, Red Bank, Sea Bright, Spring Lake, Toms\\nRiver and Vineland.\\nAmusements and Sport.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Much specific information under this\\nhead will be found throughout the body of the book. It may be said in\\ngeneral, however, that bathing, boating and driving are the principal\\nrecreations. The bathing is especially pleasant from Highland Beach to\\nMonmouth Beach as one has the choice between tlie surf and the\\nNave sink and Shrewsbiu-y. There are pviblic bath-houses at all the sea-\\nshore resorts. The usual rate for the use of a bath-house is 2h cents, with\\n10 cents extra for a suit. For boating, row-boats can be hired for 25\\ncents an hour or $1 a day canoes 50 cents an hour sail-boats $1 an\\nhour, S5 a day. The rivers and lakes along the coast ^)ffer attractive\\nfacilities for boating and canoeing with incidental fishing and crabbing.\\nThe picturesque head- waters of the Navesink, the Swimming River, is\\nnavigable for row-boats for several miles above Red Bank and on the\\nManasquan, Allaire can be reached. Carriage-hire is from $1 to SI -50\\nan hour. The favorite drive between Highland Beach and Point Pleas-\\nant is that along the ocean of which Ocean avenue. Long Branch, is a\\npart, and which, although at points it swerves to the West, is the high-\\nway which affords the greatest number of water-views. From as far\\nSouth as Ocean Grove, people who seek variety add to the ocean drive\\nthat over the Rumson Road (p. 21). South of Ocean Grove the favorite\\nInland drive is to Allaire (p. 55). There is a toll-gate at Sea Bright and\\nthey are not infrequently met with in the interior. These are not the\\nonly relics of ancient days. There are several curious laws, such as\\nthose which provide that carriages going in opposite directions shall\\npass to the right and to the left when going in the same direction under\\npenalty of fine, arrest and liability for damages to the party injured by\\nnon-compliance. Another law provides that no carriage shall have its\\nwheels less than a certain distance ai art. This was neccessary when\\nthe roads were sandy and were worn into well-defined ruts. The whole\\nsubject of road-laws is, at this writing, before the New Jersey Legisla-\\nture, and it is probable that obsolete laws will be repealed and a new\\nlaw passed, one of whose important provisions will place important\\nroads under the jurisdiction of the county, to be maintained and kept\\nin good oi der by it.\\nWhere rates of bathing, boat and carriage hire are officially regu-\\nlated, they are given in their proper place in the body of the book.\\nInformation concerning the sport to be had on Barnegat Bay will\\nbe found on p. 34. The principal sport north of the bay is ocean fishing\\nfrom surf-boats. The best grounds are the Shrewsbury rocks (hardened\\nmarl) off Sea Bright (p. 17) but fishermen put off from all along the\\ncoast. The chai ges at Sea Bright for a morning s fishing vary from $5 to\\n$20, the higher charge being made when the fishing is very good, when,\\nindeed, it is difficult to get a fishei man to take you out at any price.\\nAt the resorts further south, better bargains may be driven, and. at\\nAsbury Park, sail boats lie off shore, ready to take passengers fishing,\\nfor SI each or sailing, for 50 cents each.\\nThe Game and Fish Laws of New Jersey may be found in Fur, Fin\\nand Feather, a pamphlet to be had of dealers in sporting goods.\\nLife-Saving Service.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The following is taken chiefly from an article\\ncontributed by the author to Harper s Weeklrj (January 21, 1888)\\nOur coasts are as thoroughly sentinelled from Septeml)er 1st to\\nMay 1st as is a fortress in time of war. Through the icy blast of a\\nwinter s tempest, through snow and sleet, the life-saver patrols the\\nshore, peering into the darkness beyond the roaring surf. The outlines\\nof a vessel barely to be seen in the mirk, the booming of a gun, a\\ncry for help, mean for him a perilous conflict with the sea for lives it\\nwould claim its victims. The signal which he flashes through the storm\\nrevives hope in those who had given themselves up for lost, and inspires\\nthem to hold out in their struggle for life until their rescue can be at-\\ntempted. Their peril is known to men sti ong of frame, stout of heart,", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "The natural history of the State will be treated of in the filial report\\nf I lof. (Jcor^re II. Co \u00c2\u00bbk, tlic State Cieolojiist. of New Mi-niiswick, N. J.\\nlie pulilications of tlie Survey can usually he oht;iiiie(i hy ihose who\\nre suttieiently interested in the siihjeets covered by it to ai)i)ly to tlie\\ntate (Jeoloffi.st.\\nClimate. The chniate of the Jersey coast is cooler in Summer and\\nlilder in Winter tlian tliat of the Middle and New i ^nylaiid States, anci\\nlie weather anioiii;- the pines in Winter is delijilitfully modei-ate aiul\\n((uuhle. In tlu; Winter months the proximity of tlie (Julf Stream has\\nhe effect of elevatin;; tlie temperature in tlie vicinity of the ocean:\\nhile in Summer the effect is reversed, tliis Ixmuk due to a cold euri-ent\\nunniniJ: southward between the coast and the Gulf Stream. Tlie sea\\nree/.es which render the Jersey coast such a cool retreat from the heat\\nf the city and the interior are caused by the uiu qual heatiny of the\\nmd and water surfaces. The air over the land is heated and expands\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ivini; rise to ascending; currents, when the cooler air over the water\\nh)ws toward the land. This movement begins with the heating; of the\\nand toward noon (about 11a. m.); reaches its Tuaximum v(docity about\\np. then lessens as the land cools and ceases about nijilit-fall.\\nThe thermometric record does not show clearly why the Jersevcoast\\ns a pleasant place of residence in Winter for the differences in tem-\\nlerature between New York and New England and this coast ajipear to\\n)e slight. Still it must be stated, says Prof. Cook, that as yet our\\nneteorological observatories cannot analyze, as it were, the air, and\\nloti^ small fractional percentage of constituents which may be in the\\nlir, and of which the consumption, in the course of a seaside visit is, in\\nhe aggregate, comparatively potent in its effect upon the human system.\\nThese uiimeasurable or rarely-noted factors may enliance the infiuence\\n)f a slightly milder and more eqiuible temperature in Winter. To per-\\nlons coming from New England and New York, or from the colder\\nNorthwest, these seashore places appear warm and i)leasant, and even\\n:o the residents of our large cities, whose inter temi)cratm es are not\\nnuch lower and whose climates are not greatly diffei-ent, the effect of\\n)ut-of-door life at the seaside is tonic. These facts are bec(miing gen-\\njraily recognized and the time may not be distant when Sea Bright,\\nLong Branch, Asbiu-y Park and the shores of Uarnegat Bay will be re-\\nported to in Winter almost as much as in Summer.\\nHistory.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 August 28, KiOi), Henry Hudson, in the employ of the Fast\\nIndia Company of Amsterdam, entered Delaware IJay in tlu; Ihilf Moon.\\nHaving explored the Pay, he sailed northward, and on the 3d of Sep-\\ntember aiKihored in Sandy Hook Pay, where he remained until Septem-\\nber I-^th, when h( jiassed through tin; NTirrows into New York P ay and\\nliscovered thiM-iver which hears his name. Not long after Hudson s\\netarii to Holland, the Amsterdam Licensed Trading West India Com-\\npany fitted out five shii)s. In oni; of these apt. Cornelius Jacobsen\\nMey explored and traced out the shores and channels of Pelaware Pay.\\nC;ap\u00c2\u00bb^ May was named in his honor. In 1()-,*1 the various Dutch exploring\\ncompanies were merged into the Dutch West India Company, and two\\nof its directors, Uodyn and Pioemart. i)nrchased of the Indians the i c-\\nninsula of Cape May and a considerable jiart of Cumbei-land County.\\nWhen, howev(!r, De Viies visited Capt^ May in 1G30, he found that the\\ncolonists had either pei ished or gone el.sewhei c.\\nIn March, lG(i4, (;liarles II, King of Knglainl, totally disregarding the\\nrights of the Dutch in New Netherlands, granted the whole i-egion ex-\\ntending from the w( stern bank of the Connecticut to the eastern bank\\nof the I)elawar*% together with Long Island, to Ids biv ther lames. Duke\\nof York, and Kichard Nicolls, who was despatched with a licet to New\\nAmsterdam, compelled the surrender of New Nethei-lands by I eter\\nStuyvesant to England, April IT. l(i()5. Nicolls, by a deed now known as\\nthe Monmouth Patent, granted unto certain patentees and their associ-\\nates a goodly portion of wliat is now Monnioiith County. .Meanwhile,\\nthe Duke of York liad granted to Lord Perkeley and Sir (ieorge Cartci-et\\nall that yiiwt of his grant between the Hudson and Delaware Pivers.and\\nsouth of 41\u00c2\u00b0 40 uorth latitude, said territory to be called New Jersey, in", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "X\\nhonor of Sil- George, who, as Governor of the Island of Jersey, had held,\\nit for the king in his contest with Parliament. Berkeley and Carteret\\nsent out Philip Carteret as Governor of New Jersey, and he, on May\\n28, 1672, confirmed the Nicolls Patent unto James Grover, John Bownc.\\nRichard Hartshorne, Jonathan Holmes, patentees, and James Ashon\\nand John Hanse, associates, impowered by the patentees and associates\\nof the towns of Middlttown and Shrewsbury, which had been estab-\\nlished under the Nicolis patent. In March, 1673, Berkeley sold his share\\nof the proprietorship to John Fenwick and Edward Byllinge, Quakers.\\nIn July, 1673, the Dutch recaptured New York. New Jersey, which they\\ncalled Achter Kol Beyoud-the-Hills also fell into their hands.\\nTheir sway was brief. New Jersey reverting to England by treaty in\\n1674. July l, 1676, in adjustment of claims by those holding under Ber-\\nkeley and those holding under Carteret, New Jersey was divided by a\\nline drawn from Little Kgg Harbor Inlet to a point on the Delaware, in\\nlatitude 41*^ north, into East and West Jersey, the former remaining\\nsubject to Sir George Carteret. Numerous dissensions among the pro-\\nprietors in West Jersey led them, in 1702, to surrender the rights of\\ngovernment to the crown, and the Jerseys were reunited by Queen\\nAnne, who appointed Lord Cornbury Governor of New York and New\\nJersey. In 1708 New Jersey obtained an administration distinct from\\nthat of New York, and Lewis Morris was appointed governor. The last\\nroyal governor was William Franklin, the natural son of Benjamin\\nFranklin. New Jersey s Revolutionary governor was William Living-\\nston. The battle of Monmouth was fought within the territory covered |j\\nby this book, and the coast and Pines were the scene of many exciting\\nincidents. These and other historical data will be found in their proper\\nplace in the body of the work. Since the Revolution, the history of the\\nState has been that of its agricultural and industrial development.\\nIndian History.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The aborigines whom the white settlers found in\\nNew Jersey were a portion of the Delaware Nation. They were so\\ncalled by the whites, but were known among themselves as the Lenni\\nLenape Nation. The Jersey coast and the Pines were inhabited by two\\nbranches of the Lenni Lenape\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Unamis or Turtles and the Una-\\nlachtos or Turkeys These branches in turn comprised numerous tribes,\\namong them the Navesinks, Assanpinks, Matas, Shackamaxons, Chi-\\nchequaas (Cheesequakes), Raritans, Nanticokes and Tutelos.\\nThere were two Indian paths from the interior to the coast which in\\nthe early days were used by the whites as highways\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Minisink and\\nBurlington paths. The former, starting at Minisink, on the upper Dela-\\nware, passed through Sussex, Morris, Union and Middlesex counties,\\ncrossed the Raritan by a ford about three miles above its mouth, and\\nran through the village of Middletown to Clay Pit Creek on the Nave-\\nsink, and tlience to the mouth of that river. The Burlington path\\nstarted from Crosswicks, at a junction of two paths, i-espectively from\\nTrenton and Burlington; ran to Freehold, whose main street is on the\\nold path, and thence toward Middletown, near which place it joined\\nthe Minisink path. A branch from below Freehold led through Tinton\\nFalls to Long Branch. The only Indian settlements whose sites have\\nbeen identified are that at Crosswicks and one not far from the Nave-\\nsink ford on the Raritan. George Fox and John Burnyeate, distin-\\nguished members of the Society of Friends, crossed the State in March,\\n1672. Toward evening we got to an Indian town, says Burnyeale in\\nhis journal, and went to the Indian King s house, who received us very\\nkindly, and showed us very civil respect. But, alas! he was so poorly\\nprovided, having got so little that day, that most of us could neither\\nget to eat nor to drink in his wigwain; but it was because he had it not\\nso we lay, as well as he, upon the ground\u00e2\u0080\u0094 only a mat under us, and a\\npiece of wood or any such thing under our heads.\\nThe government of the province always recognized the title of the\\nIndians to the lands, and always insisted on a fair purchase of lands j\\nfrom them. For this reason the white settlers never had trouble with\\nthe aborigines. In 1758, most of the Indians having sold their land\\nagreed to the extinguishment of most of their titles, except the right to", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "XVI\\nand quick of thought, ready to risk their lives to save the lives of i\\nothers.\\nThis patrol of the coast distinguishes our Life-Saving Service from\\nthat of any other country. That it is an important feature of the\\nservice is self-evident. Many rescues have been effected off the coast\\nof the United States in instances w^hen those succored would v^dthouB\\na doubt have perished had their peril not been discovered by the lift\\nsaving patrol.\\nOur service was cradled in a hut put up at Cohasset, Mass. the first\\nlife-boat station on our coast\u00e2\u0080\u0094 by the Massachusetts Humane Society\\nThe first step taken by Congress in the direction of a National Life-\\nSaving Service was the designation, in 1837, of certain revenue cutters\\nto cruise along our coast in stormy weather. The first appropriatioji\\nfor the building of life-saving stations was secured for the New Jersey\\ncoast in 1848. It was not, however, until June. 1878, that Congress-\\npassed the bill which made the present efficient organization ot the\\ncoast possible.\\nThe ma.iority of the surfmen employed by the service on the Jersej\\nbeach are sons of fishermen, and even while still children aided in thoS\\nlaunching and beaching of boats through the surf. Sometimes a crew\\nmay have to stand on the beacli an hour, with hand on the gunwale and\\nmuscles strained, waiting for the keeper s command to launch. During\\nthat hour the words shove her in would have been the dcntli-warrant\\nof keeper and crew. When the command comes some sudden conflux\\nof breakers and undertow may for the moment have smoothed a patli-\\nway over which the launch can be effected. Surfmen Nos. 1 and 2 leap,\\ninto the bow, and with their o vs hold it steadily seaward. With tlie\\nmighty effort of the other four stalwart surfmen and the keeper the.\\nboat is pushed off the beach. Asthesm f boils around them the men\\nvault over the gunwale, and seizing the oars, pull out to sea, while the\\nkeeper with the steering-oar\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a rudder would be as useless as a piece of\\npaper in such seas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 pilots the little craft through the breakers, gauging:\\nevery wave as it approaches, so as to ride the boat safely over it. Be-\\nsides the life-boat, the life-line and breeches-buoy are often brought\\ninto requisition, a line being shot out to the vessel, whose crew makesl\\nit fast, when a hawser, over which runs a traveler, to which ai\\nbreeches-buoy is attached, can be hauled out to the ship. The firing of\\nthe line, and a rescue effected by this method are shown in the illus-\\ntration.\\nThere are 41 stations on the Jersey coast, which is the Fourth Dis-\\ntrict, and the drills which are held daily after September 1st are alwa\\\\ s\\nwatched with great interest by hotel guests and cottagers. The stations\\nare about five miles apart. Two surfmen from each station go on\\npatrol in opposite directions until each meets ri si)( ctively the patrol\\nfrom the next stations, north and south. The surfmen exchange checks,\\nwhich are delivered to the captains of the crews as evidence that the\\npatrol was faithfully carried out. The night is divided into three\\npatrols at sundown, 8 r. m., midnight, and 4 a. m. Each surfman carries\\na Costcju flash signal with which to warn vessels off shore or to notify\\nvess ls in distress that they have been discovered. A handy little book,\\ndescriptive of the methods of the service, printed in English, German\\nand French, by Lieutenant C. H. McLellan, U. S. R. M., is widely dis-\\ntributed among masters of vessels, and has in many instances enabled\\nthem to intelligently assist the life-savers, whose noble efforts were\\nformerly not infrequently frustrated l)y the ignorance of those they\\nwere trying to sav(\\\\ During the year covered by th(^ last report of tlie\\nservice vessels and cargoes valued at $7. 17j2,58() were in peril, and\\nthrough the efforts of the service $5,881,735 worth of this imperilled j\\nproperty was saved.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "r\\nR^ A\\nT m^,:H\\n^aV\\nV Sayrevil\\nf.-^/\\n-Ern3ton\\nLor^;\\nan\\n5 A\\n/C^r\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i^ Brook\\nV,\\nmwA i\\n207\\nIBrown !L\\nWtxck\\n^^r^ I\\n5238\\nfills c\\n7V\\n^L^-,\\ny/\\n141\\n,1\\nN HILL -fi\\n^208\\nkBrade^lt\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2f\\nergen MiUs\\n75\\n7\\nllachJiIill\\n[Oi.i\\nf^ /Vr V972 hp^^^V o\\ns^ it^t\\nqwdl JSta\\ni\u00c2\u00bb^/ -i^-^\\nCORRECTIO.N--THE STEAMER ROUTE SHOULD CONTINU", "height": "3068", "width": "1823", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "V E It B A TU|\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nScale of Statute Miles.\\nRand.McNally 4- Co.,Ilngrave -i Chicago.\\n^ook Beacon\\n/i Baj^side Beacpn 2^ ^^^^vi\\nOonover Bedeon ^l -en\\n---.-.0. v^ Vv.-^.\\n-HQS V^^\\nns. V. L ~N Y Sctmsink\\\\ tf-IS LAND BEACH/\\niLAHD^iyri. lUBeac h\\n-_, _,. yNavesink Beacn\\ntl ?J! U 5.ri s. StaX?)\\nV ^WKonnaudic\\nIK TO ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS. NOT TO HIGHLANDS L. H.", "height": "3024", "width": "1776", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER i.\\nSANDY HOOK TO BAY HEAD.\\nSANDY HOOK is a beach, five miles long and from one-half\\nto one mile broad, joined to tlie mainland by a strip of sand\\nrunning south to Monmouth Beach, with the Atlantic beating\\nagainst it on the east and the swift tide of the Navesink glid-\\ning past it on the west. By far its greater portion preserves\\nfor ns the aspect of this coast centuries ago. For it is a primeval\\nwilderness within short sailing distance from New York a\\ndreary waste of sand, here heaped up in dunes, there scooped\\nout into hollows by the wind, with storm-twisted cedars\\nand coarse salt grasses, bidding .defiance to 3,000 miles\\nof ocean, which of a winter s storm hurls its water in crash-\\ning confusion against this solitary outpost of the main-\\nland. An indescribable sense of desolation occasionally comes\\nover one while tramping through this wilderness. Fantastic\\ntrees, hirsute with streaming mosses, and the thick, soft layer\\nunder foot, formed by centuries sheddingof needles and leaves,\\nand deadening one s footsteps so that the muttering of the\\nsurf and the cries of hawks and gulls are heard with startling\\ndistinctness, give a touch of the weird to this remnant of our\\ncoast as it was in its savage state. Many a noble ship has been\\nflung upon this desolate beach, and many a corpse washed\\nashore; and with a grim regard for the decencies of death the\\nstorm following a disaster begins heaping up sand around and\\nover the victims of its predecessor; storm after storm lending a\\nhelping hand at the interment of ship and crew, until all evi-\\ndence of the catastrophe has been covered up. This process is\\ngoing on continuously. If, on the sea-beach, the ribs of a\\nvessel are barely protruding from the sand, here is a yet unfin-\\nislied grave. Sometimes one storm will ghoulishly disinter the\\nremains that previous storms have buried. This occurred in\\nthe case of the ship Clydey which, on her first voyage, was\\nwrecked on the Hook. Long after the sand had been heaped\\nover the remains it was blown off again, and the ghastly wreck\\nonce more exposed.\\nSandy Hook has quadrupled in size since 1685, when it was\\nfirst surveyed. The Old Hook is the undulating cedar-cov-", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "I\\nored area now bounded north, northeast, and southeast of tlie\\nN. J. S. R. R. pier in the Horseshoe by salt marshes. The\\nsea-front, one-quarter to one-half mile wide and one mile\\nto the north is new beach, formed by a current flowing north\\nfrom the vicinity of Long Branch between False Hook (shoal)\\nand the shore, which deposits along the Hook matter it has-\\ntaken into suspension on the way. The site of Sandy Hook\\nlight was in 1764, almost on the point of the Hook; since then\\nthe point has made to the northwest nearly a mile. The Old\\nHook is covered with a dense forest of cedars some of them\\nfour feet in circumference. The new formation is covered\\nwith a similar growth but on a smaller scale. Previous to\\n1778, Sandy Hook was connected with the Highlands of Nave-\\nsink by a narrow isthmus or bar, and the Navesinkand Shrews-\\nbury rivers were open to the ocean on the east through the\\nShrewsbury Inlet, there being no beach for about three miles\\nnorth of what is now Seabright. Between 1777-78 a passage\\nwas broken through the isthmus; and tidal currents flowing\\nthrough this channel allowed the waves to build up a sand reef\\nwhich, by 1810, had closed the old Shrewsbury Inlet so that\\nthe river flowed through its present outlet until 1830 or 1831\\nwhen a second inlet was made by a break in the sand reef,\\nand a bar, 50 yards wide, formed, again connecting Sandy\\nHook with the mainland by way of Island Beach, an island in\\nthe NavesiuK. About 1835, a ditch was cut through this bar,\\nand the outlet into Sandy Hook Bay gradually re-opened.\\nThis resulted in the closing of the Shrewsbury Inlet; l)ut it\\nopened again, and until 1848, when it closed, there were two\\ninlets. These changes took place on the beach extending from\\nthe site of the present Normandie to a point one and one-half\\nmiles north of Highland Beach, the Shrewsbury Inlet having\\nmoved one mile northeast before it closed in 1848. The beach\\nhas shown a wear of 300 feet in forty years, and about one and\\none-half miles north of Highland Beach is only 50 yards wide.\\nIts average width is 150 yards. Of latter years, bulkheads built\\nby the railroad and property owners have decreased the wear.\\nSandy Hook was discovered by Henry Hudson v^^ho, September 4, 1609,\\nanchored the Half Moon in the Horseslioe, Sandy Hook Bay. He found\\nthe Indians friendly. This day the people of the country came aboard\\nof us and seemed verj^ glad of our coming, and brought green tobacco\\nleaves and gave us of it for knives and beads. They go in deer skins\\nloose and w^ell dressed (From the log-book of thQ Half Moon). Sun-\\nday, September 6, John Coleman, one of Hudson s crew, started v^ ith\\nfour companif ns in a small boat to explore the main coast, which they\\ndid, to Newark Bay. On their way back they were attacked by Indians,\\nand Coleman was fatally wounded in the neck with an arrow. Cole-\\nman s burial place cannot be identified. His shipmates called the spot\\nColeman s Point, but no such locality is now known. Some think it was\\non Sandy Hook, others on Point Comfort on the west shore of Sandy\\nHook Bay.\\nThe first wreck on Sandy Hook, of which we have record, wa s that of\\na Dutch vessel in 1620. Among the passengers was a Dutch woman and\\nher husband, whose name is not known. The woman s maiden name was", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "Penelope VanPrincis, born in Amsterdam in 1602. The crew and othor\\npasseiif^ers got away to ;ew York, but Penelope s husband, having be ii\\ninjured in the wreck, she remained with him in the woods. When tlu;\\nIndians discovered them they slew the husband and left her for dead,\\nhaving fractured her skull, hacked her left shoulder and cut and\\nslashed her terribly in other places. She, however, survived, and,\\ncrawling into the hollow of a tree, existed there for seven days on tlie\\nexcrescences of it. The seventh day she saw a deer passing by with\\narrows sticking in it. Soon afterwards two Indians appeared. The\\nyounger attemjited to dispatch her, but was prevented by the elder,\\nwho carried her to his wigwam and cured her. He then took her to\\nNew York and made an Indian present of her (receiving ten times\\nher value in return) to her countrymen. She married Richard Stout,\\nlived to the age of 110, and saw her offspring multiplied unto G0 -2. In\\n164S, she and her husband settled in Middletown, where they aided in\\nestablishing the Baptist church.\\nThe Revolution formed another important epoch in the history of\\nSandy Hook. Hither, on July 2, 1778, the army of Sir Henry Clinton re-\\ntreated from the field of Monmouth Court House, crossing the Navesiiik\\non a pontoon bridge, while in the Horseshoe were innumerable trans-\\nports and men-of-war flying the royal cross of St. George.\\nDuring the war of 1812 the coast of New Jersey was exposed to depre-\\ndations by English naval vessels. The Americans, however, were not in-\\nactive, and both their navy and privateers were engaged in many daring\\nexploits. One of the most brilliant of these was executed by Sailing-mas-\\nter (afterwards Commodore) Percival Mad Jack Percival on Sunday\\nmorning, July 4, 1813. The sloop Eagle, tender to the Poictiers, 74, was\\ncruising off and on Sandy Hook. Commodore Lewis, who had com-\\nmand of the American flotilla at Sandy Hook, decided to take the Eagle\\nby stratagem, and for this purpose borrowed the fishing smack Yankee,\\nplacing Mad Jack Percival in command. Thirty men, well armed,\\nwere hidden in the cabin and forepeak, while a sheep, a calf and a\\ngoose were seciu ed on deck, Percival and another man on deck\\nbeing disguised as countrymen. When the smack, with every appear-\\nance of a market-boat stood out, the Eagle immediately gave chase.\\nOn her coming up and threatening to fire into the Yankee if she\\ndid not drop alongside, Percival answered, as if he were a half-\\nwitted boor: Dad s big molasses jug is on deck, and if you broke\\nthat he d make you sorry for it At the same time he put up the\\nhelm which brought him within three yards of the Eagle, when he\\ngave the watchword. Lawrence The armed men rushed on deck\\nand pt)ured a volley of musketry into the Eagle s crew which killed\\nand wounded several, and drove the others into the hold so pre-\\ncipitately that they didn t have time to strike the flag. The victors\\nput a crew aboard the Eagle and took her up the bay to the Battery,\\nwhere the prisoners were landed amid the shouts of the crowd, which\\nwas celebrating the Fourth,\\nThe harbor in which the railroad pier is situated is, from its\\npeculiar shape, called the Horseshoe, a name said to date from\\nits discovery by Hudson. It is a favorite rendezvous for yachts\\nand an admirtible refuge for vessels in storms, except during a\\nnorthwest hurricane. The west shore continues south from\\nthe Horseshoe two miles to Spermacetti Cove, so named because,\\nin 16(58, a whale was cast ashore there. The Cove is protected\\nsouth by a dike projecting from the east shore of the Navesink,\\nand is a perfect harbor for craft drawing not over five feet of\\nwater. South of Spermacetti Cove the beach narrows rapidly.\\nSandy Hook, as popularly spoken of, ends at a point directly op-\\nposite the south end of Island Beach, an island in the Navesink.\\nBesides the railroad buildings, which include a telegraph", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "office, there are at the Horseshoe a boarding-house for raih-oad\\neini)loyes, an old car, which some of the latter have fitted nj)\\nas a seaside villa, and a United States tidal station, where the\\nj rise and fall of the tides are observed and recorded, and re-\\nported to the Coast and Geodetic Survey. In sununer the Horse-\\nshoe and Spermacetti Cove are resorted to by clamniers, who\\nlive in odd-looking shanties built on scows, which they anchor\\nor draw up on to the salt meadows. The shanties are so low\\nthat when a clammer stands erect on his scow he towers above\\nhis abode. Some of these clauimers remain even through the\\nwinter. A footpath leads from the rear of the boarding-house\\ntlirough beautiful woods to the seashore. The railroad track is\\nthe shortest route to Spermacetti Cove. About 100 yards east of\\nthe track, one mile from the river pier, is a meadow on whose\\nnortheast edge is a tall pine, said to be the only pine on Sandy\\n1 look. These are called Kidd s meadow and Kidd s tree. Capt.\\nKidd, the pirate, is said to have buried treasure under this\\ntree, and the holes dug by treasure-seekers are still to be seen.\\nBefore the pilots cruised outside for incom.ing vessels, they made\\nthe Cove House, an inn on Spermacetti Cove, which was burned\\ndown in the winter of 1854-55, their headquarters, atul stationed\\ntheir look-out on Kidd s tree. The woods and underbrush be-\\ntween the track and the meadow form an almost impenetrable\\nthicket.\\nIn December, 1783, a storm, resembling in its fury the blizzard of\\nMarch, 1888, swept over the Jersey coast. On that day First Lieutenant\\nthe Hon. Hamilton Douglass Hamilton. James Champion. Lieutenant of\\nMarines, and twelve midshipmen, belonging to the British man-of-war\\nAssistance, were searching on the Hook for desertei S. Overtaken by\\nthe storm they wandered aimlessly through the cedars, until overcome\\nby cold and exhaustion they perished. A monument was erected over\\ntheir grave, near the Horseshoe, by Catharine, Countess Dowager of\\nMorton, but about the year 1807 it was destroyed by some men from a\\nFrench man-of-v^ ar. The remnants of it disappeared with the building\\nof the New Jersey Southern Railroad, whose bed, it is said, runs over\\nthe spot where the grave was.\\nA cart-track leading from the Horseshoe to the point of the\\nHook is sandy and heavy. It is preferable to follow the shore to\\nthe West Beacon, from which a plank-walk leads to the Sandy\\nHook light, the oldest light-house structure in the United\\nStates. It is a white stone tower, 90 feet high, and shows a\\nthird-order fixed white light, visible 15^ nautical miles. It\\nwas lighted for the first time on Monday, June 18, 17G4. The\\nkeeper s dwelling was a stone house until 1883, when it was torn\\ndown and the present frame dwelling erected. The tower and\\nthe old iiouse were known during the Revolution as the Light-\\nhouse Fort, or Refugees Town. The British fortified it, and\\nfrom there the Tory refugees made their bloody raids (pp. 22, 29).\\nRemnants of log fortifications are still to be seen near the\\nlarge wooden screen. 300 yards east of the West Beacon.\\nWorkmen, engaged about fifteen years ago in re-lining the light-", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "p\\nhouse, discovei cd a cell beneath the ^toiie floor of llie cellar,\\nand in it a rude lire-] )1 ace and hunuin remains. These latte*^.\\nare supposed to have been relics of llevolutionaiy tragedies.\\nIn 1776. in order that Sandy Hook liglit mij?lit not fjuide the British\\nfleet into New York Bay, Capt. John Cunover, under orders, destroyed\\nthe lamp. lie was afterwards taken pri^osier and eame so near beins\\nstrung up to the yard-arm of a British ship that the noose was pre-\\nl)ared. But his sen tenee was commuted to incarceration in one of the\\nNew York i-ugar-houses.\\nAlK ut two hundred yards east of Sandy Ilook light is a little grave-\\nyard, unkept and desolate. Here are buried unidentitied castaways, ship-\\nwrecked mariners and soldiers. The must interesi ing head-stone is that i\\nwhich marks the grave of Capt. Swain, of Cape May. who, with his two\\nsons and three sailors was wrecked on Sandy Hook, and drowned dur-|\\ning a wild winter storm in 1806\\nThe West Beacon (established 1842) is a white tower 30 feet highJ\\nand shows a sixth order fixed white lijjht. When obscured by the!\\nscreen it marks the edge of the bar, and when just clear to tlie north ofj\\nSandy Hook light, the turning point around the southwest spit into thej\\nmain channel. The East or Hook Beacon (established 1842) is a red iron,\\ntower on the north point of the Hook, 42 feet high, and shows a fourth\\norder fixed white light. Near it is the fog signal, a first-class steaml\\nsiren.\\nSatidy Hook is a Government reservation, though belonging^\\nfor town purposes to Middletown township. The light-house\\nwas erected by New York merchants, but it and four acres of\\nground about it were ceded to the United States by the State\\nof New York, February 3, 1790. That portion north of the\\nlight-house was conveyed to the United States by Richard Harts-\\nhorne, February 26, 1806. for $3,750; and the remaining portion\\nby the same, June 10, 1817, for |20,000. The United States Ord-\\nnance Department uses the reservation as a proving-ground for\\ncannon. There are usually several pieces of artillery in position\\nnear the Ordnance office, north of the Sandy Hook light-house.\\nThe range is two miles long, with targets at one mile and two\\nmiles distance, and butts nearer by. In the office is a delicate\\nelectrical apparatus for measuring the velocity of missiles. In\\nthe vicinity is the Ordnance Graveyard, strewn with frag-\\nments of bursted cannon and with guns which remain there as\\nmonuments of their own failure. Plank-walks lead to Life-\\nSaving Station No. 1, to the Western Union Tower (telegraph\\noffice), from which incoming and outgoing vessels are reported,\\nand to the house in which the electricity for lighting five buoys\\nin Gedney Channel is generated.\\nA unique news service, of which the Western Union Tower is the\\noutgrowth, was established on Sandy Hook about 1854, when the tele-\\ngraph line from New York to Ben con Hill. Highlands, was extended to\\nSandy Hook, a fine wire being stretched across the river from Beacon\\nHill to a high pole on the east bank of the Shrewsbury. When an\\nincoming vessel was sighted, James Farrell. anotedsurfman, put out to\\nher through the surf. The captain threw a can containing the news, in\\ncipher, overboard. Farrell fished out the can, attached the cipher\\nmessage to a carrier pigeon which bore it to the telegraph station (a mere\\nshanty) on the Ho k, whence it was telegraphed. viaBeacon Hill, to New\\nY ork. (See page 12). This service was_discontinued after the laying of", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "o\\nd\\no\\no", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "the Atlantic cable. An unfinished fort of granite blocks occupies a large\\nportion of the point of the Hook. It was commenced in 1857, but work\\nhas been suspended for many years. On the inner shore of the Point is\\nthe Government dock.\\nThe waters of Sandy Blook Bay are a fjivorite resoi t for fish-\\nermen. Members of Henry Hudson s crew caught, September 4,\\n1609, in a short time s netting, 10 great mullets,one and one-half\\nfeet long, a plaice and a ray, which four men had to haul aboard.\\nFish do not swarm in these waters as they did in those days,\\nbut there is still good fishing from the Government dock and\\nfrom the jetties north of the fort weakfish are plentiful on the\\nflats between this dock and the West Beacon and in a deep\\nhole, about 400 feet north-northwest of tiie railroad pier, king-\\nfish abound. There are no public-houses on Sandy Hook, but\\nfishermen and excursionists can obtain excellent meals on tlie\\nboats of the New Jersey Southern Railroad. There is superb still-\\nwater bathing on the bay shore and surf bathing f I om the strand.\\nBeach-plums, which make a delicious preserve, are found in\\nabundance early in September, a short distance north of the\\nHorseshoe. This fruit was highly prized by the Indians, who\\nclaimed in 1678 that, when they had sold Sandy Hook to Rich-\\nard Hartshorne, about 1670, they had reserved liberty to go\\non Sandy Hook to get plums.\\nThe marsh which bounds the old Hook runs north from the Horse\\nshoe about one-half mile, then curves southeast and finally due south,\\nin which direction it extends, broken at points by firm ground\\nislands and by Navy, Long and Round ponds, to Spermacetti\\nCove. There is a road through the marsh, beginning at the Sandy Hook\\nLight, which continues to Highland Beach, and is known as the Tele\\ngraph Road, probably because the first telegraph line from Beacon Hill\\nto the Point of the Hook ran along it.\\nOn the strip of sand, which separates the ocean from Shrews-\\nbury River and connects Sandy Hook with the mainland at Mon-\\nmouth Beach, are Highland Beach, Navesink Beach, Norman-\\ndie-by-the-Sea, Rumson Beach, Seabright, Low Moor and\\nGalilee. All these are on the old Eliakim Wardell tract,\\nwhich he secured by patent in 1670, and bought of the Indians\\nfor \u00c2\u00a34.\\nA mere glance at the map will reveal the admirable facilities for\\nbathing and boating offered by this sand reef between ocean and river.\\nBathers have their choice between a dash into the surf or a plunge into\\nthe Navesink or Shrewsbury. Both rivers are navigable for sailboats\\nof light draft, but shoals are numerous, and unless the boat is in charge\\nof a ski()per familiar with the channels, a sailing party, instead of\\nbeing a breezy ride over the waves, is apt to result in a broil on a flat.\\nThe swiftness of the tides makes it further advisable in planning a sail-\\ning party to time the return so as to catch a favorable tide. South of\\nSeabright the Shrewsbury broadens out into a lagoon among the creeks\\nat whose head are Parker s and Pleasure Bay, where boating parties\\ncan find entertainment respectively at Johnty Smith s (p. 44) aud\\nat Price s (p. 37).\\nThere is much confusion in the use of the names Shrewsbury and\\nNavesink. The latter name is often applied only to that portion which,\\nafter the union of the two rivers, extends between the beach and the", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00abh.a.ds, whUe t ,0 rivers^ ^--f^e S SJ-V StS-SJ^f\\nime Navesink to the noi th nvei and ^h^^^^^\\ntl ra?S?nSrr t^hr^eSux-y Inlet, see p. 2).\\nwirHT AND BEACH is an excursion resort, especially de-\\n^Tht following features and rates have^^^^^\\nmd Beach Improvement ComimnyBaUi^^oce\\nooms for family Pf ;V,^^V,^?v,^?j\u00c2\u00a3;th in the sm-f and river can be\\navilion a mie view of the bathers ^1^ ^re\\nad. In the restaurant ^hrev. simry umu^ v o clock on\\nerved at one hour s no ice oio^^^^^ a tnne^at These\\n,xcursion days \u00c2\u00abf ^f/J^f^ fooT Meals can also be had a la carte.\\ninners consist chiefly of statooamea Shrewsbury and the\\n^wo fast steam-launches P^^ .i^^Pf^ stoppinff at intermediate places,\\nJavesinktotheirheads f 1^^^,. rowboats, 25\\nIt 30 cents the round tup, f J^ 7 j^iver canoes, 50 cents an hour,\\nsents an hour, $1 a day Lawrence Kiv^^ ^^^^y.\\nlammocks, lawn-temiis, cioquet quo^^^^^^ cost.^ Stages\\nro-round, scups and see-sa\\\\\\\\s ^tlrnoon carriages for from $3 to $4\\n^^l.ior Fa J ori e^ Highlands, to Atlantic\\nS/hSTKum^BrNeck and to Long Branch.\\n,TTr.iiT AM-HQ OF NAVESINK.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A drawbridge 1,452 feet\\nHIGHLANDS 0* A V connects the beach with\\nr/eSncls o7 Na^e in^^^^^^^^^^ at the loot of Light-house\\nHill thd\\\\- S^^^ spui- From 1865 until the bmldmg of\\nthe bridge people were ferried over.\\nThe Highlands of Na-ink^^^^^^^^ ^^t^^lf^lSS^^J^^S^^\\nHeights, the name aPPiy^^^X-l we e mir^^^^^^ from the Indians, who\\nand^he Navesmk Kive^ The^^^^ Pl i,, 1663^\\ncalled this bold headland .NewaMii^^^^ ondon in 1669, ga ned possession\\nRichard Hartshorne who came flora LondoiM id i^^\\nof the Highlands in the folhm^^^^^ leaving his first\\n1687 he had erected a house on ms tion of the Highlands\\nColonial residence at WakakeyeeK. AMI ^_^\\ncontinues in the possession of the Hart\\ntenure of real estate V^ ^^Ji^foTmi the part of the Hartshorne estate\\ndwelling above alluded to stood on tnepaiioit ^.^_\\nnow called Portland, i,V. ^^Vrffm the^^Uvh lig thm of the High-\\nturn s Point, a mile southeast fom the tANmn^m\\nlands, although somewhat ta thei ^l ,.ift i\u00e2\u0080\u009eto tlu hands\\nHighlands, i elu lng sandy -;1^, ^^^ho tlms became p.-oprietor of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009ef William, son of l^Y i bVm M^iu The pnncelv estate nnnained\\nwhat inight be (-ailed 1 1 ManoK i ^e I^ ^^^^ii ^.j^en\\nnearly intact, held, as it w 1^1 *^eeii\\\\ j i^^ .,11 ^ut some 200 acres\\nEsek,- the elder of two bn.thes,wu.ha(U^^^^^^^^\\non the Navesink and C la 1 It C eek D domain,\\nagreed to release to his hn t^^^ j^ h^^^^^^^ to himself the northerji por-\\nsssf^ijs^ lJ!chl:;d^!is^sS?^s", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "10\\n.w^^^^ ^Tr V^^ o^-^ i l ios the PortlHiHl .nar\\nsion 1 his IS, however, a coinpamtively modern stnuiur\\nerectecl on the site of the ori^n.ml housef whicli was m J.\\ndown about forty years ago. It is a hirge but unpretento,,\\nm. ding near the water. The grounds are kept in gcmcl o le i\\nthe awn smoothly shaven, and apairol l,rass field-pieces ^nve a\\nold- ime air to one of the nu.st interesling familv residences oi\\nle ont.nen In early tnnes the Indians often encan.ped a\\nn.splace, and Indian relics are still turned up bv the pj\u00e2\u0080\u009ew Or\\niKM.pposites.deofthecoveisanotiierinlerestiiii^buildin-ofth^\\nU.lonial period which beloiiged to theestateof John llart slH.rne\\nApj arently an unjiretentioiis conventional white farm-hou^e\\nthe interior is of a character to stimulate the interest of the\\nantiquarian It stands on a lawn within a few yards of the\\nAavesink. It is said that in the war of 1812 shells thrown by\\n.hi It sh man-of-war lodged m these grounds. The buildin- is\\ndivisable into two sections, the earlierincluding a stone kitchoii\\nand a wo-scu-.ed section. The ground floor s occupied bs a\\niaige, low-stuuJed apartment, to one side of which is an im-\\nmense old-lashioned fire-i.lace. The black timbers hewn into\\nshape with the axe are in excellent order and the heavy frame\\nis also thoroug lily preserved. The partition walls are of ilie\\nmost massive character. The second section of this house isa\\naddition erected m 1788, and is almost as venerable in its\\npearance as the other parts of tlie building.\\nHIGHLANDS, a settlement which includes a number oa\\npretty villas, among them the summer houses of several i)onu!\\nlar actors and the Jackson Club, spreads out along the slop, of\\nLight-house 1 ill to Minturn s Point, a superb pJomontorv to\\nthe south, and to Parkertown (Sea Plain), about one-half i.nle\\nto the north.\\nLIGHT-HOUSE HILL is named from the twin light-hou-es\\nwhich stajid on its small, bare plateau, semi-encircled by thick\\nwoods The site was utilized as early as 1746 for a beacon, put,\\nup at the request o\u00c2\u00b1 Is e w ork merchants. England was theri\\nat war with prance, and the beacon was to give warning should\\nhostile yessels be sighted. About a month afterwards it was\\naccidentally fired, and, as it was not observed from New York\\nl-\u00c2\u00abo^^ useless. A light-house was built there in\\nl b3 and continued in use until 1828 when twin towers were\\nerected. In 1826 a semaphore, by means of which, before the\\ninyention of the electric telegraph, vessels were reported to\\nNew ork, was put up on the same plateau. The present\\nstructure which, with its twin towers and battlements is\\npicturesque enough to be worthy of a commanding position on\\nthe banks of the Rhine, was erected in 1802. The establish-\\nment IS of brown-stone and consists of two castellated towers\\nconnected by a castellated wall, 228 feet long, formino- the\\nI", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "12\\nfront of the keepers dwellings and of the oil and supply,\\nrooms. Ihe striu-ture is on a lir.e northwest and sonth.-ast\\nIhecentei-s of the lanterns are 5;j feet from tlie m-ou,ul the 1\\nlights are first order, 248 IVet above sea-level, and from a ves-\\nsel s deck can l.e seen 22i\u00c2\u00a3 miles out at sea, but have\\nbeen seen ,^0 mdes out, from aloft. The nortliwest tower\\nIS octagonal, the southeast tower square. The lami)s which\\nburn five wicks, the largest of which is 5A inches in di-\\nameter, consume, of long winter nights. 60 quarts of oil\\nJ he Light-house Board instructs keepers of light-houses to\\nshow visitors oyer their establishments free of charge whenever\\ntheir doing so does not interfere with their duties. As a rule\\night-houses are not open to the public after the lann)s are\\nlighted.\\nc\u00e2\u0080\u009e J^\u00c2\u00ae ^!u f ^\u00c2\u00abst from eitl.or of the twin towers ig\\nsuperb. To the north it overlooks Saiuly Hook a.ui exten(lsVs f-ir r hi\\nNarrows: to the n .rtheast, Coney Ishu.d, KocSn^^ly b^^^^^^^\\nLong Beach Hote can he seen while to the east is the nS fi(4 X\\npause of ocean witli iiumnierahie vessels, from the stnte v^T- m,.^^^^\\nthesaucy tuj:; fr .m the clipper, with its sw lini^sq m^^^^^\\nfi-ail but buoyant tishinj,-b\u00e2\u0080\u009eat scud.Unfr liome under yStsaU ar 1 ib\\nThese views are beautifully reflected in the Fres, el leK a,Vi ffi\\nlamps, and visitors should not fail to have this effectSnted out tJ\\nLif, ht-house Hill is an excellent point from whicli to watch the out\\nside yacht races .Samly Hook Lif, ht-ship (six ami five-eiSl tl^ h-s off\\nSandy Hook, red hull, two fixed red litrhts) and th^ w/7,,/./ t f i\\n(three and one-half miles off Sandy llodk,^ lead-cih)?ed two fixeS\\nwhite lif, hts) are objects of special interest In the sSward v evv As\\nmany as a thousand people have visited the Hi^rhlands of Navesink\\nLifrht-houses 111 a day. The cannon in front of the structure w-isw^^^^^^\\n1 he semaphore, referred to above, was an interesting annaratn^ nn\\nr^^ ed fafe noV4.Srl f^^^ T, *^V ^P^^ o wS t^^raTm^ we^^-S\\ntl7-fei1nL wfth i7p nt^^^^^^ t(, enable each to descril^e a circle without in-\\nto and irfi^tlfitnllr^M^^u^^ .MJ^ ^^VX?^ ^1 graduated from 1 to\\nlu, and with the words look out and repeat. If the pointer on\\nthe dial was set at any number between 1 and 6, the upper arm on the\\nTL-IT V ^*7r, ^\u00c2\u00abP^Vr position if set at any umber fjori 7 to\\nl?;^ LhS ^U V repeat, the lower arm moved Theoperato?\\nSx\u00c2\u00a34 Vhe L ST^f v f ^7 adopted by the Merchants\\nJb.xcnang;e. ine names of vessels and wTjrds ^f^nerallv in use were\\nrepresented by numbers. The number of the ship i\\\\iLo o\u00c2\u00ab forin\\n\u00c2\u00ab.vl w f7f o^ 1^ \u00e2\u0096\u00a0^PO -t her the operator s?t thi dia succes\\nsively at 6-3 3-0 and the upper arm moved successively into tlecorr?\\n^t1!l,1rffr J^ a semaphore on sSuly Hook which\\nsi-nalled the figures to an operator on the Staten Island side of the Nar\\nrows, who in turn signalled them to an observer in the Merchants Fx\\nchange The operators became so skillful that a vessel could be re\\nported from the Highlands of Navesink to New York in a minute The\\nold operator of the semaphore, who is one of the claractei-s of thi\\nHis:hlands. may be seen almost daily at the tele^fraph station on Li Jht\\nhouse Hill, where, with the old, well-thumbed Telk^ apWc Dictionary\\nin hand, he rehearses the story of vessel reporting in his youthful davs\\nhonsp mlT now reported from a station about half a mile sou h of LiSt^\\nhouse Hill. The original single tower, the semaphore and the first", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Highland Memories.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "14\\ntwin towers are shown in the illustration, which is ;i reproduction o{ d\\ndrawintr made in the early thirties, when these structures were alii\\nstaudiniT.\\nPARKERTOWN is an odd little hamlet whose population is\\nengaged in clainniing. The soul of this original couununity is\\nwrapped up in clams. Tiiey are to it what wiiales once were to\\nNantucket. Parkertown is clamming, shelling, stringing or\\ncanning clams; devouring them, or dreaming of performing\\none or another of these acts. The idiosyncrasies of the clam\\nare as well-known to Parkertowners as are the whims of a\\nchild to its parents. Clam is said to be the first word lisped\\nby Parkertown babies. But while versed in all the arts of war|\\nfare ujxui the bivalve, this community has not shown itself\\nthoroughly versed in the arts of peace, and for this reason goei\\nby several graphic but not very complimentary soubri(]uel^\\nClamming: is one of the important pursuits of the inhabitants of the\\nJersey coast, and it is nowhere better exemplified than at Parkertowi\\nbecause there the whole community is aljsorbed in it. The clam\\npursued afoot and afloat. -The former method includes raking an^\\ntreading, and is of course followed only in shallow water. The tern\\nraking, explains itself. In treading the clammer w^ades with\\na boat or tub in tow. An expert treader when he feels a clam with hij\\nfoot, seizes the bivalve with his toes, raises his foot out of water an(\\nlets the clam drop into the tub or boat. Chugging for clams is ar\\noperation performed in deep water with a rake of 40 fine steel teethl\\nabout three-quarters of an inch apart, attached to a 30-foot polej\\nThe bobbing motion of the rowboat on the waves and the drift of the\\nboat with the tide causes the rake to bury itself in the sandy bottom. an( _\\nwhen the teeth strike against clams a gritting sound\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the kind of music\\nwe likes to hear \u00e2\u0080\u0094travels up the pole, and the clammer hauls up and\\nand dumps the catch into his boat. Clams are also dredged for from\\nsloops. A number of the Parkertown women and girls tread for clams,\\nbut as a rule the female element of the settlement is engaged in opening\\nand stringing clams, about S40,000 worth of which are annually\\nshipped from this queer hamlet to New York and sold as Little Necks\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nfor the Little Necks has the name though the Parkertowns has tlie\\nflavor.\\nAbout one-lialf mile north of Parkertown is Gravelly\\nPoint, from where the British army, after the battle of\\nMonmouth, crossed to Sandy Hook. Here, also, one of New\\nJersey s revolutionary heroes. Captain Joshua Huddy, whose\\nbrilliant story is told under Rumson Neck (p. 22), met a tragic\\ndeath. Proceeding westward from Parkertown about half a\\nmile by a winding and romantic drive in a depression of the\\nHighlands extending to All Saint s church, Navesink, we come\\nto the ruins of the famous mansion of Colonial times called\\nLust in Rust, where Cooper laid the scene of some of the\\nchief incidents of his famous Water Witch. The site is clo.se\\nto the road, not far from the Hill-side farm, upon a small\\nplateau overlooking Sandy Hook Bay and commanding an ex-\\ntensive and beautiful prospect the ocean and bay in front\\nand the lofty wooded hills in the rear. Nothing now remains\\nof the dwelling of portly Alderman Van BeveraTit, the dignified\\ni", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Clamming,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "16\\nburgher of New Amsterdam, and the fair Alida, the Lady\\nBarbarie, his lovely ward, except the cellar filled up by the\\ndebris of fallen walls overgrown with weeds and the chimney,\\nwhich stands alone on the eminence like a tower. Firmly con-\\nstructed ic may stand for ages yet if no ruthless vandal tears it\\ndown to erect another building on that site. It may be hoped\\nthat time and man may respect a spot rendered famous by the\\nWalter Scott of America. A few yards from the chimney the\\nold smoke-house of masonry yet remains; but it is in a dilapi-\\ndated condition and is evidently not long for this world. It\\nis not inappropriate to quote here the description of this\\nplace in the Water Wit/ch, probably as it was when Cooper\\nfirst saw it\\nThe western bank of the river is an abrupt and high aclivity, which\\nrises to the elevation of a mountain. It was near the base of the latttr\\nthat Alderman Van Beverant, for reasons that may be moie fully-\\ndeveloped in our tale, has seen fit to ei*ect his villa, which, agreeably to a\\nusage of Holland, he had called the Lust in Bust, The villa of\\nthe Lust in Rust was a low, irregular edifice, in bricks, whitewashed to\\nthe color of the driven snow, and in a taste that was altogether Dutch.\\nThere were many gables and weather-cocks, a dozen small and twisted\\nchimneys, with numberless facilities that were intended for the nests\\nof the storks. These airy sites were, however, untenanted, to the great\\ndisappointment of the honest architect, who, like many others that bring\\ninto this hemisphere habits and opinions that are better suited to the\\nother, never ceased expressing his surprise on the subject, although all\\nthe negroes of the neighborhood united in affirming there was no such\\nbird in America. In front of the house there was a narrow, but an exceed-\\ningly neat lawn, encircled by shrubbery, while two old elms that seemed\\ncoeval with the mountain, grew in the rich soil of which the base of the\\nlatter was composed. Nor was there a want of shade on any part of the\\nnatural terrace that was occupied by the buildings. It was thickly\\nsprinkled with fruit trees, and here and there was a pine or an oak of\\nnative growth. A declivity, that was rather rapid, fell away in front to\\nthe level of the mouth of the river. In short it was an ample, but an\\nunpretending country house, in which no domestic convenience had\\nbeen forgotten while it had little to boast of in the way of architecture\\nexcept its rustic eaves and twisted chimneys. A few outhouses for the\\naccommodation of the negroes were nigh and nearer to the river there\\nwere barns and stables of dimensions and materials altogether superior\\nto those that the appearance of arable land, or the condition of the\\nsmall farm would seem to render necessary. At the northern\\nextremity of the villa, which it will be remembered leaned against the\\nmountain, and facing the east, or fronting the river and the sea, there\\nstood a little wing, evenly more deeply embowered in shrubbery and\\nlow trees than the other parts of the edifice, and which was con-\\nstructed altogether in a different style. This was a pavilion erected\\nfor the particular accommodation and at the cost of la belle Borbarie.\\nHere the heiress of two fortunes was accustomed to keep her own little\\nmenage during the weeks passed in the country.\\nThe cove in which the Skimmer of the Sea anchored, and\\nthe path by which he clambered to tlie eyrie of Za belle Bar-\\nbarie, arc still pointed out.\\nThe drives througli the Highlands are of great beauty. Among\\nthem is tluit to Atlantic Highlands, to the sketch of which the\\nreader should turn to Sunset Hill, from where a beautiful\\n^new is had and to Navesink, whence the fine drive along the", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "17\\nNavesink River to Red Bank is easily reached. Just after\\ncrossing- Clay Pit Creek, this road runs along: the sh)pe of a\\nhill on the old Burdge property, west of tiie creek. F roin the\\ntop of this hill a view is had to the south of the coast as tar as\\nthe eye can reach, and to the north of the Bay and Narrows.\\nThose not desiring to return the same road, can drive down\\nRunison Neck and then up the beach. One of the prettiest\\nstretches of road in the country is that from Portland Manor\\nto All Saints Memorial church (Protestant Episcopal).\\nNAVESIXK.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This last-named village, formerly Riceville,\\nis near the head of Clay Pit Creek. The people follow farming,\\noystering and clamming.\\nAll Saints Memorial church was erected in 1864 by a gentlemen in\\nmemory of his daughter and other members of his family. The church\\nis of the Gothic order. Built of stone, of dark orange hue, and occupying\\na position ou a green knoll, and draped with ivy it presents a most\\npicturesque object in the landscape. A school-house and rectory\\ndesigned in the same style, and a church-yard within the same enclosure,\\nalmost lead the observer to imagine himself in some rural corner of Old\\nEngland. At this point the road turns in three directions, to Locust\\nPoint, and to the Highlands by the Water Witch house, and to the\\nHighland Lights through the Hartshorne Woods. Locust Point (New\\nAmsterdam) is a small village on the south side of Clay Pit Creek, an\\ninlet of the Navesink Kiver, reached by a short ride from Navesink,\\ncrossing by a wooden bridge. The people are chiefly occupied in\\ndredging oysters and clams, which abound at this point.\\nNot far from Portland Manor, between that and Minturn Point, is the\\nNeptune Club House, right on the shore of the Navesink. The club\\nwas chartered in 18.58, and numbers about forty members. A few rods\\nnorth of the club house is Black Fish Hole. This is a pool of considerable\\ndepth, separated from the Navesink by a strip of sand about 40 feet\\nwide. The pool receives its name from the fact that some years ago,\\nbefore the inlet by which the pond conmnmicated with the river was\\nfilled up, black fish found a congenial retreat in the dark waters of the\\npool, a singular freak in piscatology, as this species is rarely found so\\nfar away from the deep sea.\\nNAVESINK BEACH adjoins Highland Beach, and consists\\nof cottages extending to Normaiidie-by-tlie-Sea, a first-class\\nhotel (open June IS-Octcber 1), ca|)al)le of accommodating IJOO\\nguests. It commands a fine view of both ocean and river, the\\nrooms looking out upon one or the other, and ample i)orticoes\\nbeing on both sides.\\nIn addition to the surf and river batliiiig hot and cold soa-wator baths\\ncan be had in the hotel (.50 cent s). The fol lowing is the ofticial schedule of\\nprices Transient, S4 aiul S per day room for two persons, S45 to S70\\nper week room for one person, $2 to $;i.5 per week; maids or valets in\\nsingle room, S^^l Pfr week maids or valets in dormitory, ^14 per week\\ncoachman (room over stable). $10 per week horses, ponies and don-\\nkeys, $7 per week each row-boats l)y the day, week, month or s( ason\\nsteam-launches $10 a day bathing-houses $2 per week or by the sea-\\nson. p]xtending from this hotel to Seabright is Itunisou Beach (formerly\\nStokem s), a line of pretty summer cottages.\\nSEABRIGHT occupies a portion of the old Wardell Beach\\nand farm, extending from North Ijong Branch to aboutone mile\\nnorth of Seabright, which, in 18G5, was purchased by a physi-", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "18\\ncian of Freehold, at $5 an acre, and which in a short time he\\nwas able to dispose of at $100 an acre. It now sells in lots at\\nthe rate of $7,000 an acre.\\nThat little interest was taken in beach property in former years may\\nbe gathered from the fact that until 1869, when the Jumping Point\\nDrawbridge was built connecting Seabright with Rumson Neck, the\\nRumson Road had not been extended to the river bank. At the time of\\none of the sales of beach north of Seabright the Wardell title was dis-\\nputed, being, however, finally settled in favor of the Wardells, chiefly\\non the evidence of the Widow Wardell, to the effect that her boys had\\nalways whipped any other boys they ca.ught gathering driftwood on\\nthe beach.\\nSeabright is one of the gayest resorts on the coast. Most of\\nthe cottages are commodious, and the sandy tract between them\\nand the railroad track, and even to the river, has been sodded,\\nso tliat there are lawns and flower-beds, reaching, in some in-\\nstances, almost to the strand. This gives the place a fresh and\\nattractive appearance. Besides numerous private tennis-courts\\nhere and on Rumson Neck, there are, on the Rumson Road, not\\nfar from the Jumping Point Drawbridge, the house and grounds\\nof the Seabright Lawn-Tennis a]}d Cricket Club. These embrace\\ntennis-courts, cricket and base-ball grounds, and four bowling-\\nalleys. Tennis tournaments, base-ball and cricket matches are\\nplayed here every summer, the American tours of foreign\\ncricifet teams always including a visit to Seabright. In the\\nclub-house is a ball-room with a gallery and accommodations\\nfor theatricals. The grounds cover about five acres.\\nFor many years the popular route from New York to Long Branch\\nwas by the old Allaire steamboats (Orris, Osiris, Isis), whose course was\\noutside of Sandy Hook and through the old Shrewsbury Inlet, a short\\ndistance north of Seabright, about where Normandie-by-the-Sea now\\nstands, to a landing at the Ocean House, a short distance south. Some-\\ntimes there were as many as sixty stages around this old inn to convey\\npassengers to Long Branch over the beach road, which was so sandy\\nthat the drivers often hired negroes to spread salt meadow grass over it\\nin order to prevent the wheels from sinking down almost to the hubs.\\nThe passage through the inlet was at certain tides vei y exciting. The\\nsteamboats which w^ere fitted up with double engines would, on coming\\nabreast of it, swing around and rush through it as if they were running\\nrapids. (A history of Shrewsbury Inlet will be found onp. 2.)\\nThe most picturesque portion of Seabright is the old fishing\\nvillage of Nauvoo, the largest fishery on the coast. The prox-\\nimity of the Shrewsbury Rocks, a famous fishing ground, and\\nthe easy slope of the strand, making the launching of boats\\nfrequently less dangerous than elsewhere south along the coast,\\nattracted fishermen to this spot already some fifty years ago.\\nThey sailed down the Shrewsbury from Branchport and Pleasure\\nBay, hauled their boats from the river to the strand and\\nlaunched them through the surf. Soon, in order to save the\\nriver trip, some of them erected shanties and ice-houses, and\\nthe nucleus around which the settlement grew was formed.\\nNow, fishermen come hither ail the way from Cape May, and it", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "20\\ns a noteworthy fact that many Swedish sailors leave their vessels\\nor a summer s fishing off Nauvoo. There are about two hiin-\\nIred and fifty boats with crews of two each, and the average\\nfare to a boat is 150 pounds of fish a dav, so that the average\\nlaily fare of the fishery is 37,500 pounds or 4,575,000\\n)()uiids from June 1 to October 1. To any one with an eye for\\nirtistic effects, Nauvoo and the beach in front of it forin one\\n)f the most picturesque spots on the coast. Against the\\njuaintly })eaked ice-liouses nearest the strand winter storms\\nlave piled all sorts of flotsam. The beach is a scene of\\nvaried {i^tivity. A boat is lying with prow seaward and her\\nittle wliite jib and sprit sail hoisted. A fisherman stands at\\nler bow, another near her stern. They shove her through the\\nglistening surf, and, as she rises buoyantly on the incoming\\n)illow, leap into her as a rider leaps into the saddle. The\\nvind spreads out her sails and she skims over the water like a\\nea-gull. The boat is late launching, for most of the little fleet\\ns standing in for shore. Suddenly the sails are furled and the\\nnasts shijjped. The crews row to the line of surf, leap into it\\nmd run up their boats. The fare which has probably been\\nleaned on the homeward run is loaded into hand-carts, then\\n)acked in barrels with ice and then shipped to New York or\\nlown the coast. The nets are spread and the spritsails and\\nibs are again set so that t hey will dry in the sun. Hence some-\\nimes there is a whole fleet under sail high and diy on the\\n)each. There are some strong, storm-furrowed faces among\\nhe older fishermen, and many of the younger men are sturdy\\nooking fellows, especially when in their sou westers and surf\\n\u00c2\u00bboots.\\nThe usual method of fishini? is with hook and line from an anchored\\nloat, using menhaden for bait but there are also pound nets in the\\nicinity of Nauvoo. Blueflsh, bass, weakfish, blackfish\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in fact, all\\ninds of fish inhabiting the waters off this coast are caught in plenty,\\nhese, with the crabs and clams abounding in the river, make sea-food\\nbundant and cheap at Seabright and the resorts near it. Fishing is\\narried on, though on a smaller scale than at Nauvoo, and there is also\\nlenty of crabbing and clamming further south along the coast, so that\\nhe New Jersey coast resorts are not obliged to import fi Om New York\\nheir fish, clams and crabs fresh from the sea.\\nAt Seabright, carriages are let not only by the hour, at the\\nisual rates, but also by the morning, afternoon and\\nevening drives, $4 for the morning, $5 for the last two.\\nItages run from the station to Oceanic (25 cents).\\nThe Presbyterian church was erected in 1880 by the wife of\\nine of the residents of Rumson Neck. The pulpit is supplied\\nly visiting clergymen, some of the most prominent divines of\\nhe denomination being heard here during the summer. The\\nady who erected the church also donated a reading-room to\\nhe fishermen of Nauvoo.\\nThe steamer VAmerique, of the General Transatlantic Co., between\\nlavre and New York, stranded Sunday morning, January 11, 1877, 150", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "21\\nyards off Seabright, Twelve of her sailors lowered a boat and at-\\ntempted to reach shore, but the boat was swamped in the surf and\\nthree men were drowned, the other nine being rescued by Capt. Abner\\nH. West, of Life Saving Station ISIo. 3, and three of his crew, who\\nrushed up to their waists into a surf in which they had to contend with\\na strong undertow and masses of floating ice. The passengers and the\\nrest of the crew of the steamer were rescued with the life-car. The\\nvessel was eventually gotten off by the Coast Wrecking Co., but not\\nbefore she was again in danger of destruction in a fearful storm which\\nraged along the coast February 23, 1877, when the Life Saving crews of\\nStations 3 and 4 brought off 200 souls, wreckers and seamen, from her.\\nRUMSON NECK. This peninsula, between the Shrewsbury\\nand Navesink Rivers, is considered by many people the finest\\nsituation on the coast. Its shore opposite the beach is a bold\\nbluff, crowned with shrubs and grasses. Like the Highlands\\nof Navesink it was washed by the sea before the beach north\\nof Seabright was formed and when Sandy Hook was joined to\\nthe mainland at the Higlilands. A large part of Runison\\nNeck is a high, rolling ridge commanding such a beautiful\\nview of the rivers and Highlands and of the ocean that the\\nRidge Road (which is to be continued through to Red Bank)\\nhas become one of the favorite drives on the coast. The view\\ni- particularly fine from the tower of the house on Bingham\\nHill.\\nThis was once the property of U. S. Senator William Bingham, of\\nPhiladelphia, whose family made it their summer residence, where they\\nentertained lavishly, Mrs Bingham being one of Philadelphia s social\\nleaders. The eldest daughter, a famous American beauty, was married\\nin 1798 in the southeast room of the old mansion on Bingham Hill, to\\nLord Ashburton.\\nThe Rumson Road is the great thoroughfare of the Neck, as\\nit connects directly with Seabright by the drawbridge and\\nleads into other favorite roads, among them that which, cross-\\ning Little Silver Creek and Parker s Creek and Port-au-Peck,\\nthe site of an old Lidian camping-ground opposite Branchport,\\nis a short and beautiful drive to Long Branch, whence the re-\\nturn can be made by tlie road along the beach. The road\\nalong the Navesink is also popular, and is destined to become\\nmore so when the proposed bridge between Oceanic and the\\nHighlands is built. Now, in order to reach the Highlands\\nfrom Rumson Neck otherwise than by the beach drive, one is\\nobliged to cross the Navesink at Red Bank and drive down the\\nnorth shore of that river. The distance will be greatly short-\\nened by the Oceanic bridge, and there will then be to the north\\na driving circuit which should at least rival that through Long\\nBranch, as it will include mountain and woodland scenes as\\nwell as ocean and river views. The roads and walks through-\\nout Rumson Neck are kept in admirable order, and on all sides\\nthere is evidence that it is controlled by people of wealth and\\ntaste, the improvements made by summer visitors having\\nenhanced rather than destroyed the natural beauty of this superb", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "22\\npeninsula. St. George s Protestant Episcopal church is cen-\\ntrally and prominently located at the intersection of the Ridge\\nRoad and Bellevue Avenue. Another church, whose pretty\\narchitecture catches the eye, is the Presbyterian at Oceauic.\\nRunison Neck from Red Bank (which see) to Bhick Point is\\nsix miles long. The settlements on the Navesink aie Fair\\nHaven and Oceanic (formerly Port Washington and Commer-\\ncial Dock). Both places are delightfully situated on the river,\\nand afford ample facilities for boating and bathing. They are\\n(juiet, j)leasant resorts. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged\\nin dredging the famous Shrewsbury oysters. At the head of\\nthe Runison Road is the pretty settlement of Little Silver, so\\nnamed because it was said to have been purchased of the\\nIndians for a little silver.\\nRumson Neck has been the scene of several interesting his-\\ntorical incidents. The name is derived from the Intlian\\nSachem Navarumsunk, which in time became Narumsum\\nand Rumson. Narumsum, though not one of the most\\npoetical of Indian names, is certainly far preferable to the\\ncommonplace corruption of it now in use, and might well be\\nrevived. There is a ridiculous tradition that the peninsula\\nwas purchased of the Indians for some rum, of which words\\nRumsoni a prior corruption from Narumsum is said to be\\nthe inversion. As a matter of fact, the cost to the whites of\\nNavarumsunk and Pootapeck (Port-au-Peck) amounted to\\n\u00c2\u00a3359 10s. including the payment to the Indians in money,\\nblack and white peagne, guns, one anchor of brandy, tobacco,\\nclothing and wine; the services of men and boats for several\\nvoyages made, and for the recording of the deeds in New York.\\nThe point of the peninsula north of the Jumping Point drawbridge is\\nBlack Point. It was formerly known as Passage Point. When Col.\\nLewis Morris was operating his iron works at Tinton Falls, which are\\nmentioned as early as 1680, the products of the works were carted\\nthroufcth Shrewsbury and down the Rumson Road to Passage Point,\\nwhere his nephew, Lewis Morris, resided, and from where they were\\nsliipped. Hence the clauses in deeds of Black PoiTit property reserving\\nthe right of vessels to land and of wagons and beasts of burden to have\\ntiie rigiit of way to the shore. It is known that a tavern stood on Pas-\\nsage Point in Revolutionary times.\\nJUMPING POINT received its name from one of the most brilliant\\nexploits of Monmouth s Revolutionary hero, Capt. Joshua Huddy, wliose\\ncareer was a series of daring deeds in the guerrilla warfare waged all\\nalong the New Jersey coast between the Tory refugees and their former\\nneighbors. These refugees were banded together under the name\\nof the Board of Associated Loyalists, of which William Franklin, a\\nnatural son of Benjamin Franklin, and the last Tory Governor of :New\\nJersey, was at one time President. They made frequent raids from the\\nLight-house Foi t on Sandy Hook, and further down the coast acted as\\nguides to British marauding expeditions. Captain Huddy was the ter-\\nror of these refugees. An attempt was made to capture him in his\\nhouse on Colt s eck, in September, 1780. A party of sixty refugees,\\ncommanded by one of their most daring leaders. Col. Tye, a mulatto\\nslave, who usually led a mongrel band of negroes and Tories, sur-\\nrounded Huddy s dwelling. Huddy, his wife and a servant girl were the", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "I^mr^", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "24\\nonly occupants of the house. Nevertheless the American militiaman\\ndetermined to defend himself. There were in the house several mus^i\\nkets belonging to the guard usually stationed there. These the wome^\\nloaded while Huddy, by discharging them at the enemy through dift\\nferent windows, led the refugees to believe that a number of men wen\\ndefending the house. He succeeded in wounding several of the enemy\\nand at last, as the attacking party was firing the house, shot Col. Tye i\\nthe wrist. The flames spread so swiftly that he offered to surrender 1:\\nthe enemy would aid him in putting out the Are. When the refugees^\\nafter suppressing the flames, entered the house and discovered that thi\\nstubborn resistance they had encountered had been offered by one ma;\\naided by two women, they were so incensed that they were prevents\\nfrom butchering the defenders only by the stern commands of Ty\\nMeanwhile the neighboring settlements had been aroused, and a bod;\\nof militia appearing, the refugees beat a hasty retreat, carrying Hudd\\ncaptive with them to a place of embarkation near Black Point. Hardl\\nhad they embarked when they were fired upon by the militiamen, wh\\nhad reached the river bank. In the confusion Huddy jumped over-\\nboard and swam for the shore. Being wounded in the thigh by a she:\\nfrom the bank he held up a hand and shouted I am Huddy! I a:\\nHuddy 1 The firing then ceased and Huddy reached the shore 1;\\nsafety. Jumping Point is presumed to have derived its name from thii\\nepisode. The name of the heroic girl who aided Huddy s wife to loa*\\nthe muskets was Lucretia Emmons, afterwards Mrs. Chambers, o:\\nFreehold, where she died about 182:^. Col. Tye s wound caused a fataf\\nattack of lockjaw. He was more respected by the Americans than\\nmany of the white refugee leaders, as he had distinguished himself by\\nseveral acts similar to liis preserving the lives of Huddy, his wife and\\nLucretia Emmons. The Huddy house at Colt s Neck still stands, bear-\\ning the marks of the refugees attack upon it,\\nHuddy s subsequent career was brief and tragic. Sunday morning,\\nMarch 24, 1782, a block-house at Tom s River, commanded by him, was\\nattacked and captured by a greatly superior force of British soldiers and\\nrefugees. After Huddy was made prisoner he was confined in New York\\nuntil April 8th. He was then placed on board a sloop and conveyed to\\nSandy Hook. On the 12th of April he was taken to Gravelly Point, one\\nmile north of the Highland Lights, by a band of refugees commanded by\\nCaptain Lippiucott and hung on a trumped-up charge of having cruelly\\nput to death a captured refugee named Philip White, who, in fact, had\\nbeen made prisoner and was shot while attempting to escape at the\\ntime Huddy himself was a prisoner in New York. It is said that a num-\\nber of Lippincott s band rebelled at the barbarous proceeding and\\nwere forced to take part in it at the point of the commander s sword\\nand that even then three of them, bringing their bayonets to the charge,\\nadhered to their refusal. The gallows was built of three rails, and\\nHuddy was swung off from a barrel. Standing upon this, and with the\\nnoose around his neck, he dictated his will and signed it. One of Lip-\\npincott s party subsequently stated that Huddy met death with the\\nbraveness of a lion. The hanging took place at 10 in the morning at\\n4 in the afternoon a party of Americans cut down the body and took it\\nto Freehold, where it was buried with the honors of war. Before Huddy\\nwas swung off the barrel the following label was attached to his breast\\nWe, the refugees, having long with grief beheld the cruel murders\\nof our brethren, and finding nothing but such measures daily carrying\\ninto execution, we therefore determined not to suffer without taking\\nvengeance for the numerous cruelties and thus begin, having made\\niise of Captain Huddy as the first object to present to your view and\\nfurther determine to hang man for man while there is a refugee\\nliving.\\nUp goes Huddy for Philip White.\\nActing upon an address from the citizens of Monmouth County, and\\nwith the approval of Congress, Washington, then at Newburgh, de-\\ncided upon retaliatory measures, and ordered that lots be cast by the\\nBritish captains among the prisoners to decide who of their number\\nJ", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "/r..\\nr-\\nv^.,-\\n-rj\\nShrewsbury Church and Tinton Falls.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "26\\nshould be hung for Huddy. The lot fell to Captain, afterward\\nCharles, Asgill then but nineteen years of age. The affair caused su(\\nexcitement in Europe that a tragedy by De Sauvigny, based upon it w\\nbrought out m Pans Baron de Grimm, in his Memoirs says- TlJ\\npublic prints all oyer Europe resounded with the imhappy catastronl\\nwhich, for near eight months, impended over the life of this youii- of\\ncer. The general curiosity in regard to the events of the war viHde,\\nIf I may say so, to the interest which young Asgill inspired, and the fir\\nquestion asked of all vessels from any port in North America wis a I\\nways an inquiry as to the fate of that young man. LadyAsgillin\\nplored George III to order that Lippincott be deliverecl up to th\\nAmericans, a^id it is said that the King issued an order to that effec\\nbut that Clinton, influenced by prominent refugees, contrived to avoi\\ncarrying it out Lippincott was, indeed, tried by the British for Hue\\ndys murder but acquitted on the ground that he acted under verba\\norders from William Franklin. Holland interceded in vain for Asgill\\nrelease. Finally, Lady Asgdl addressed a piteous letter to theCoun.\\nde Vergennes, who laid the matter before the King and Queen o\\nFrance and under instructions from them, interceded with Washing\\nton in Asgill s behalf Meanwhile Americans, among them, it is sail\\neven members of Huddy s family, had petitioned for the young English\\nman s release.^ Under these circumstances, and as the war was aboui\\nclosing, V^ashington, with the approval of Congress, liberated Captair\\nAsgill In February, 1S37, the benefit of the Pension Laws was S\\ntended by Congress to Martha Piatt, Captain Buddy s daughter, and!\\nthe representatives of her deceased sister. It seems but proner thai\\nsome fitting memoriRl to Monmouth s hero martyr of the Revolution\\nrwln i V? H^^lf ^Z*^^ i^^^\u00c2\u00ae spot where he was so barbarously mur.\\naered, at Colt s Neck, or at Jumping Point\\n+u I^,\u00e2\u0084\u00a2ff the Revolution Rumson Neck was frequently traver.;ed hY\\nthe bands of refugees and American militiamen. In order to preserve\\ntheir property non-combatants were obliged to remain neutral, and to\\nentertain friend and foe alike. In the dwellings along the Rumson\\nRoad the table was always kept set, so as to soften the predatory im-\\npulses of the intruders. Sometimes, while refugees were partaking of\\na feast, mihtiamen would be seen approaching. The Tories would\\nsecrete themselves m the garret or cellar, the hostess would quicklv\\nclear the remnants of the meal from the table and set it anew for the\\nnew arrivals When they departed, the refugees would reappear with\\nfresh appetites to be appeased. The next time matters would be re-\\nversed UiUil within a few years a brook flowed through the ground\\nopposite the Keeler property, which was then low and swampy After\\nthe battle of Monmouth, Washington and Lafayette and their staffs\\nwho were riding down the Rumson Road, stopped and watered their\\nhorses at this brook. Seeing a ittle girl, named Rachel Hance, at a well\\nnear the house opposite, Washington rode up to her and asked MvJ\\nlittle girl, will you give me a drink of water^ Rachel ran in fhM\\nkitchen for a cup, filled it at the well and handed it to Washingtoni\\nShe lived to the good age of 89, as appears from the head stone over her\\ngrave in the old Rumson burying-ground adioining the propertv Th^\\nold house still stands, though additions have given it a modern look]\\nThe wellhas been boarded over, but could easily be restored to its ol*\\ntime quaintiiess. Durintr a skirmish near this property, in which some\\n400 men_ were engaired Rachel ran out to witness the exciting scene\\nHer curiosity was checked by a bullet which grazed her hair and lodged\\n111 a walnut tree, which still stands. i^u^au\\nThe old Rumson burying-ground is said to have been used for inter-\\nments by the Friends of Shrewsbury 200 years ago. Some of the stones\\nare so old that the inscn-iptions have become illegible On sevei-Hl the\\nyear is given both in old and new style. For instance, the date on Jovce\\nHance s head-stone is February 4, 172s. Tt is claimed that the New\\nLntr and Congregationalists who were the first settlers of Rumson\\nNeck, built a church which this burying-ground adioined; and it is\\nargued that, as the Friends had a meetinghouse and burying-ground of\\nI", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "27\\nI\\n|eir own at Shrewsbury as early as 1672, they would not have had need\\nI Vn, liur^rm^s have been discovered in various parts of the Neck.\\n1 lop of the grave. ,r^ -r. i ^u\\nC cn^iderinj? a line drawn southeast from Red Bank to the\\n-Hi of Parker s Creek as the western boundary oi Kumson\\nv ck the fascinatini? ol.l vilhige of Shrewsbury, so rich in\\niq\u00e2\u0080\u009erical memories, both religious and sangumarv, may prop-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ly be included in the settlements on the Pennisula.\\nSHREWSBURY was settled about 1G65, and is situated at a\\nri ,ss-road called the Four Corners, at the meeting ot t|ie Red\\nlank and Eatontown turnpike and the Tmton Falls and Rum-\\nm Neck road. At this point a King s Highway, laid out m\\n,isr crossed the Corners. The first settlers of the vil age\\n.,0 probably either Congregationalists or fugitive Quakers\\n,1,1 ilassachusetts. Three venerable churches are wUinn 100\\nardsof each other, each surrounded by an old church-yard.\\nr-by is the old Allen homestead. In the center of tlie cross-\\nIs stands the toll-house, with its quaint inscription Ihe\\nbroad streets are lined with stately shade-trees, and through\\ncenter of the Tinton Falls Road a row of venerable sycamores\\nt a dappled shade over the highway. Is is doubtful it any-\\nere in the United States can be found withm the same space\\nmany historic buildings, whose tranquil surroundings are in\\nMuseives a protest against the iconoclastic tendencies of this\\nstling period.\\nSoon after settling, in Shrewsbury, about 1072 the Q.iakers erected a\\nTippt in --house of wliich, liowever, nothing remauis. At tluit time u ey\\nSved a \\\\Sfrom the famous Quaker apostle George Fox. He e sse\\nIpw York Bav in a sh)op to Middletown Harbor (prol)ably Po t\\nMonnioutinlnd lodged with Ricliard Hartshorne, who had recently\\nKiasid he Highl m^^ district. Mr. Fox goes on to say m his .lonnml\\n^Srday we ride about thirty miles i to that eountiy, t u-oug^.^^t^^^\\nwoofls -uid over verv bad bogs, one worse than all the lest, tiie tipt^eni\\nKwhi^^^^ was so steep that we were fain to slide down with (.ur horses\\nLnd let tliem lie and breathe themselves before they go on 1 his p ace\\nthe people of tie place are fain to call Purgatory. We got at ^ength t\\nsK sury in Eist Jersey, and on First day had a precious meeting\\nthere They are building a meeting-house m the nndstf\\nthen The location of the meeting-house aUuded to by Fox ^f\\nknown In 1605 tliev bought the lot tlu^y now occupy on which a In i k\\nmeeting-house was ere -ted, which in IKIO was replaced by a sjl\\nSoryfnine building, the preset Quaker eeting-luniscot Shrews u\\nIt was retained by the llicksitcs after the schism of 1N28 the Oitlio(l.)X\\noc(unv IV a hired building until 1842, when they put up.the h t ie struct-\\nm4!whic l/sincrthe Orthodox meeting became extinct in 1880, has been\\n^Th7o,-ganizatiou of the Presbyterian church opposite the QuakcT\\nmeet ng-house dates bi-ck to the seventeenth eentury. but the fi st\\nChurch was not built ur.cil 1727. At this time dissenting el^^i V^.^^s cmi d\\nnot hold the title to land in New Jersey, and hence the h.t for the\\nR-Lbvterian^^^^^^ conveyed t Alexander Napier and others as\\nb dividna Is The famous Kev. John Tennent see Freehold) was one of\\nthe first ministers who had charge after the construction of the Prebby-\\nWO\\nceil\\nvl", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "28\\nterian church. That building wns replaced in 1821 by the nre.p,\\nOn the southeast angle of tlie Four Corners is Christ Prot\\nestant Episcopal church, one of the quaintest and most inter 1\\nest^ng old churches in the country. LTntil 1854 it belonged\\nwith Christ church, of Middletown, to one parish. Amom,\\nthe early staunch patrons of Episcopalianisni in this neighbor\\nhood were Lewis Morris, George Keith, a zealous convert fron\\nthe C^uakers and an Episcopal missionary, and Rev. Alexandei\\nInnes, who held occasional services in a private liouse in Shrews-\\nbury in 1689. As a result of the exertions of these ardent\\nchurchmen, the lot on which Christ church now stands wa\u00c2\u00ab\\ndeeded in 1706 to -ye Revd. and Honorable Society for ye\\npropagation of ye Gospel in Foreign Parts t, ust\\nforever for ye service and worship of God according\\nto ve way and manner of ye Church of England, as it is nol\\nby law established. It began on Nicholaf Bro;vn s land, at\\na walnut stump, bearing southwesterlv twelve degree we ^t-\\nerly from ye Quaker s Meeting-House Chimbley, and from John\\nWests great house chimbley north fifty-eight degrees easterly.\\nihe first church was built in 1715, of stone, a few feet north of\\nthe present structure. The bell hung from the branch of a\\nhuge oak tree Both the building and the tree are now gone\\nbut portions of the oak are preserved in the chancel chairs of\\nthe church The corner-stone of the present church was laid\\nin 1/bJ. At the centennial memorial services Bishop Oden-\\nheimer officiated, and among the distinguished attendant vis-\\nitors was the President of the United States. The building\\ncan accommodate 400 people. The exterior is shingled and un-\\npretentious but the plainness is relieved by the steeple which\\nhas given the name of The Spire to the cross-roads This\\nwas formerly on tlie gable, but when a porch was added in\\n1874, it was brought forward without altering its form It is\\nsurmounted by an iron crown under the copper vane, supported\\nby a rod springing from a gilded ball. Several holes, distinctly\\nvisible in this ball, were made by the bullets of Continental\\ntroops m their ettorts to bring down the iron crown, the hated\\nemblem of England. They also tried to burn down the Iniild-\\ning by lighting a fire on the floor, but it was smothered by Wil-\\nliam 1 arker, a Quaker, who rushed in and threw his coat over\\nthe starting flames. This spirit of desecration was doul)tless\\nin a measure due to the fact that Rev. Samuel Cooke, then in\\ncharge of the parish was in strong sympathy with the English\\nbamiiel Cooke was the first rector who preadhed in the present\\nbuilding.\\nAsone enters the porch he sees two tablets of marble that on fhP\\nright in memory of JJev. George Keith and Rey. Samuel Cooke thlt cm\\nthe left m meinory of William Leeds. The interior, altho I ^h r^novttpd\\nfrom tune to time, has retained the characteristic f eatu res t at sen e to", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "29\\nremind one of its age and associations. The pulpit has heen moved\\nticni the west to the east end where a chancel lias been added, and the\\noiuan has been placed at the west end. Among the numeruus objects\\n(if interest, the visitor will notice especially the carved canopies sup-\\njior ed by fluted pillars under which were once the pews of Lewis Mor-\\nris and of the rector. The pews have been removed, a handsome altar\\nfont now standing under the northeast canopy and under the other a\\nTiuMuorial to Rev. Harry Finch, who w as rector of Christ church for 34\\ny. .irs. The church owns two books of great interest -one a prayer-\\ni). lok printed at Cambridge, England, in 1760, and presented to the\\ncliurch in 1767 by Governor William Franklin the other a Bible printed\\n1)\\\\- John Basket, in Oxford, England, in 1717. It was presented by John\\nKlliston. Controller of the Customs of His Majestic at New* York,\\nand bears the Elliston coat of arms. The illustrations, by Thornhill,\\nengraved by Du Bose, merit examination. The communion cups and\\nl)latter of silver are gifts of Queen Anne in 1708. The largest of the\\ncliancel chairs, made of the great oak which served at one time as a\\nliclfry, is reserved for the bishop, and is occupied only when he visits\\nShrewsbury. The wife of Lewis Morris is buried in the north aisle, but,\\nand one marvels thereat, the slab over the grave is covered by the car-\\nl tt. Among numerous time-worn hv^adstones in the old church-yard of\\nthis venerable sanctuary the oldest now existing is that of Benjamin\\nsteile, who died in 1719 it stands by the northwest corner of the church,\\nnear the entrance.\\nDia.fjonally opposite to Christ cluirch, on the northwest of\\nthe Four Corners, stands the Allen house, reported to be the\\noldest building in Shrewsbury. It is ganibrel-roofed, and has\\nan old-time look notwithstanding the store which has been\\nattached to the eastern end. During part of the Revolution it\\nwas occupied as a tavern. The Tory refugees made several\\nraids through Shrewsbury, not scrupling to rob and even\\nmurder their former fellow-townsmen. The Allen house\\nwas tlib scene of one of their bloodiest deeds. A corporal s\\nguard of twelve Virginia Continentals were quartered in the\\ntavei u for the protection of the village. Five refugees, learn-\\ning of this, came up from Sandy Hook and, secreting them-\\nselves among the graves on the south side of Christ church,\\nwatched their opportunity to surprise the Continentals. F]n-\\ntirely, perhaps culpal)ly, unsus) icious of danger, the latter\\nhad released all vigilance and having stacked their arms in the\\nnorth room on the lower floor were idling away the afternoon\\nin a shady corner of the grounds in the rear. Meanwhile,\\nfrom among those quiet graves, the Tories were watching for\\nthe moment when the Four Corners would be free of passers-\\nby who might give the alarm. Suddenly the five refugees\\nleaped from their hiding place and made a dash for the open\\ndoor of the Allen House, tneir leader the moment they entered\\nthrowing his arms around the stack of muskets and locking\\nthem in his firm embrace. The Continentals hearing tiu noise,\\nrushed into the house unarmed, almost upon the bayonets of\\nthe Tories. With a thrust one of the refugees pierced the fore-\\nmost Virginian and pinned him to the floor, where lie died\\nwithout a struggle. Two others also received deadly wounds.\\nOne of them staggered through the door and a short distance", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "30\\nlip the Red Bank turnpike, where he fell at the foot of a tree\\nby the roadside; the other escaped a short distance up the Tin-\\nton Falls Road, where he was found by George White, a Quaker,\\nwho bore liim to his house and watched at his bedside till he\\nexpired at midnight. The rest of the guard, some wounded\\nand all unarmed, surrendered, were conveyed to Sandy Hook\\nand thence to New York, where they were cast into one of the\\ninfamous sugar-house prisons. The father of the present pro-\\nprietor of the Allen house, himself a descendant of the original\\nowner, employed every means to obliterate the blood-stains\\nfrom the floor, even planing the boards, but the blood had\\nsunk too deep to be effaced, and accordingly he laid another\\nfloor over the old one, the blood-stained planks remaining there\\nstill, mute witnesses of a deed of horror. After the peace,\\nthree of the refugees engaged in that tragedy Joseph Price,\\nRobert Pattison and Clayton Tilton ventured to return to\\nShrewsbury. They were obliged to conduct themselves with\\ncircumspection, however, so intense was the feeling against\\nthem; but Price always gloried in the part he took in that\\ntragedy, and talked of it freely when with those in whom he\\ncould confide. One of these was the Quaker, White, from\\nwhose son, now one of the oldest residents of Shrewsbury,\\nmany of the facts relating to this event were obtained.\\nTINTON FALLS, about two and a half miles from Shrewsbury, is\\nwell worth a visit, as it is one of the prettiest nooks in the country back\\nof the coast. The Hock Hcjckson branch of the Swimmin^s^ River broad-\\nens here into a pond whose waters rush over a mill-dam, sweep down\\nthe slope of a hu^e sandstone, and then flow on peacefully throuj!:h a\\nbeautifully shaded dell. The land came into the possession of James\\nGrover, one of the orip:inal Monmouth patentees, in 1667. As the\\nswamps were rich in iron ore he, with the aid of James and Henry\\nLeonard, after whom Leonardsville is named, erected iron works, the\\nfirst in New Jersey. The place was then known as the Falls of Shrews-\\nbury. In 1673 Col. Lewis Morris, then of Barbadoes, but originally of\\nMonmouthshire, Ens and proprietor of the Tintern estate, came to\\nNew York to administer the estate of his brother Richard, and to as-\\nsume the jD^uardianship of Richard s son, Lewis Morris and subse-\\nquently purchased the iron works and a large tract of surrounding- land.\\nHe named the place Tintern Palls, and when a county was established,\\nin 1675, his influence was sufficient to have it named Monmouth, after\\nhis native shire. He built a manor which still stands, and employed\\nabout liis iron works, a portion of which remain to this day, some eighty\\nnegroes. He died in May, 1691. at Morrisania, N. Y. Tintern Falls was\\ninherited l)y his nephew, the Lewis Moi-ris who became Governor, and\\nwho should not be confounded with Lewis Morris, of Passage Point,\\nanother nephew.\\nThe future Governor was a youth of rapid proclivities. Our first\\nknowledge of him is througli a presentmeiU at tlie Middletown C ouit of\\nSessions for running of races and playing of nyne-pins on the Sabbath\\nDay. Nevertheless, in 1700, desiring, for political purposes, to ally\\nhimself with the Church of England, he wrote a letter denouncing\\nmany of his neighbors for immorality. He was at odds with the Pro-\\nvincial government, yet was sufficiently prominent to be appointed, in\\n1712, Chief Justice of New Jersey, and in 1720, of New York. He was\\nremoved in 1733 by Governor Cosby, for a reason which would seem to\\nindicate that his early habits followed him into public life. Having\\nI", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "32\\nfailed to put in an appearance at court, the people went toward evening\\nto his manor to inquire the reason of his non-appearance, and found\\nhim still sleeping? off the effects of the previous night s dissipation.\\nWhen they awakened him he mistook the roseate hue of sunset for the\\nfirst blush of dawn, and berated them soundly for rousing him so early.\\nNevertheless, he continued leader of the opposition, and in 1738 was j\\nappointed the first Governor of Mew Jersey, as a province separate from I\\nNew York. He died at Kingsbury, near Trenton, May 21, 1746. and was\\nburied at Morrisania.\\nThere is a never-failing chalybeate spring at Tinton Falls, whose\\ncurative virtues the Indians prized so highly that they reserved it and\\nthe riglit of access to it, so that it remains public property. One of the\\npiazza posts in the Mineral Spring Hotel is a porti m of a large flag-staff\\nset up by the Continentals during the Eevolution.\\nMONMOUTH BEACH adjoins Seabright to the south. In\\n1871 there were only two houses between Seabright and North\\nLong Branch, a distance of over three miles. Now there are so\\nmany summer residences on this portion of the coast that there\\nis scarcely a stretch of a few hundred yards without a cottage,\\nand scarcely a foot that does not show evidence of the imi)rove- I\\nments made by the Monmouth Beach Association. liei-e, as i\\non Kumson Neck, it is apparent that expenditures for improve\\nments liave been guided by good judgment and refined taste\\nThere are thi-ee stations on the property Low Moore, Galilee,^\\nwhere there is a fishing village similar to, but snuiller than,,\\nNauvoo, and Monmouth Beach proper, where the railroad and\\nAssociation combined to erect a depot, whose architecture has\\nbeen justly admired. Most of the property of the Association\\nwas originally part of the old Wardell beach and farm.\\nThe great charms of Monmouth Beach are its |)rivacy and\\nrefinement. The nearest approach to an hotel is the Club House\\nthe old pre-Revolutionary Wardell farm-house, in which are a\\nfew sleeping apartments and a spacious dining-room, the latter\\nfor the use of tlie occupants of some 25 cottages, which are let\\nto friends of the I egular cottagers. There is a Casino, with a\\nhall and a stage for private tlieatricals, a bowling-alley and a\\nbilliard-room. The church of St. Peter of Galilee (Protestant\\nEpiscopal), one of the prettiest, most noted and most happily-\\nnamed churches on the coast, has no settled pastor, but promi-\\nnent divines of the denomination ofiiciate there during the sum-\\nmer. The Association havingbeen able to procure the removal of\\nt.he railroad from its old bed along the bluff to its present site,\\nsecured a continuous drive lor eight miles along the ocean from\\nSeabright to Elberon.\\nIt may be gathered from the foregoing that Monmouth Beach\\nis preeminently a settlement of private summer residences, dis-\\ntinguished for quiet elegance rather than for the excitement of\\nfashionable hotel life. The sand has been overlaid with fertile\\nsoil, and what was once an arid waste is now a stretch of lawn,\\ndotted with flower-beds. There are numerous private tennis-\\ncourts, boat-houses on the river, stables and bath-houses and\\nI", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "Use public stables and bath-houses. What has been accom-\\nplished by the Association affords one of those rare instances\\nvvhere natui-e has gained rather than lost through the handi-\\nwork of ni;iu and one regrets that there are no historic land-\\nlUarks on the property beside the Wardell farm-house, or his-\\ntoric associations connected with it, for one feels sure that the\\ntormer would have been preserved and the latter fostered.\\nLONG BRANCH. The general impression that Long\\n;Branch, like Monmouth Beach and Seabright and many other\\nresorts on the coast, is a watering-place of recent origin is\\nj3rroneous. It was known among Philadelphians, who, by the\\nwav, were the pioneer residents of the New Jersey coast, as early\\n[1^ 1788. Tucker s Beach and Long Beach further south, were\\nalso resorted to by them at that time. Li those old days the\\nIfishermen carted fish, oysters and crabs in shore-wagons to\\nPhiladelphia and Trenton, and on their return trips conveyed\\nthe summer visitors and their household effects to the seashore.\\nFrom the fish-cart to the parlor-car there is the history of\\ntriunimer travel to the New Jersey coast.\\nLong Branch derives its name from the adjacent branch of\\ntlio Shrewsbury river. It is known to have been in 1734 a\\nCI ni ping groimd of the Cran])erry Indians, two of whom, Tom\\nSi ire and Andrew Wooley, claimed the land between the Manas-\\nnan and the Shrewsbury. In 1753 a conference was held at\\nC lDSSwicks between the Indians and four settlers from Rhode\\nLI and to arrange for the purchase by the latter of a portion of\\nthe State which now includes Long Branch. After much\\npalaver, it was agreed that they should be allowed to buy as\\niiiuch land as a man could walk around in a day if one of them\\ncould throw an Indian champion in a wrestling match. John\\nSlocum, a man of large size and athletic strength, was the\\nwhite chami)ion. After a long struggle he threw his man. At\\nthe outbreak of the Revolution, Long Branch is said to have\\nbeen the property of Colonel White, a British officer residing\\nin New York. He erected a summer residence on his seaside\\nestate, which was, however, confiscated after the opening of\\nhostilities. Others say that this house belonged to Ebenezer\\nWardell and was confiscated because he sympathized with the\\nBritish. In 1788, Mr. Elliston Perot, of Philadelphia, per-\\nsuaded an old woman in charge of the house to allow him and\\nhis family to occupy it during the summer, on condition of\\nproviding the beds and food. Others begged the privilege of\\nsharing the house with Mr. Perot, and this suggested to a Mr.\\nMcKnight the idea of purcihasingthe building aiul eslablishinir\\na public resort. Borrowing 12,000, IMcKnight made additions\\nto the dwelling and was so successful that he cleared $40,000\\nfrom his venture, a large sum in those days. The best families\\nof Philadelphia resorted to it. McKnight s hotel was purchased,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "34\\nin 1820 by William Renshaw, whose widow continued the house\\nuntil 1837. The property then passed into the possession of\\nJames Green, who built the Bath Hotel. It burned down in\\n1867, the loss being $100,000. The Hotel Scarboro now occu-\\npies the site of the Bath Hotel.\\nBesides McKnight s house there was another hotel estab-\\nlished in Long Branch in 1792 by Herbert Chandler. Grad-\\nually, but steadily, the importance of Long Branch increased.\\nIt is not worth while to go into the history of every hotel of\\nthe place, but it may be interesting to compare the style in\\nvogue at this famous resort as late as 1840 with the style and\\ncustoms now the fashion there, by quotiug from a description\\nby Senator Stockton, who was an eye-witness of what he de-\\nscribes\\nThen one little steamer made the trip from New York, rounding\\nthe Hook and makinj? her way into the Shrewsbury through an inlet at\\nSeabri^ht (now closed) almost at the spot where the Octagon Hotel now\\nstands^ The water rushed through it as in a mill-race, and the passage\\nthrouiu h was an event of the day. From the little dock inside, stages,\\nwith the tires of their wheels eight inches broad, toiled slowly along\\nthe sands to a farm, the borders of which is now Monmouth Beach, and\\nthence to the upper end of Long Branch, and to a low tavern known as\\nthe Fish House, at about the point where the telegraph office now is\\n(1882). The foundations of this office are now almost washed by the\\nsea. The Fish House was then several hundred yards from the beach.\\nThere were but two other hotels\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Bath House, about half-way\\nbetween the present West End and Ocean, and the Conover House, still\\nstanding and occupied by the musicians employed in the West End\\nHotel. There was a bowling-alley on the beach, opposite the Bath^\\nHouse, the site of which is now three hundred yards out in the ocean,\\nThen all who came here drove from Philadelphia, or Trenton, or Prince\\nton in their own carriages few came from New York. The fare was\\nplain. Great dishes of boiled hard-shell crabs and lobsters were on\\nevery table There were beef, mutton and vegetables from New Jersey\\nfarms, and rich cream and milk, and in the kitchen were colored cooks\\nfrom the South. People came here for their health, and after supper\\neveryone went to the beach and there stayed until ten or eleven o clock,\\nunless a couple of fiddlers enticed the young people to a dance in the\\nparlors. Every one bathed in the sea a white flag gave notice that it\\nwas ladies hour, and no man except a husband then ventured on the\\nbeach. When the red flag was up the men crowded the surf, and there\\nwas no pretense of bathing suits. The hotels were then so far back\\nthat the bluffs concealed the bathei-s. The flag-hoisting was in vogue\\nas early as 1819, for it is mentioned in N iles f Eegisttr of that date, the\\nwriter adding A wag lately hoisted both flags together, which created\\nsome awful squinting and no little c(mfusion.\\nThe Long Branch of to-day is a sea-shore cosmopolis. The\\nfeatures which attract the vast summer throng to it probably\\nrepel as many, if not more, from it, a circumstance to which\\ntiie majority of the more rational resorts on the coast doubtless\\nowe their origin. The leadijig characteristics of Long Branch\\nmay be de.scribed in one sentence: It is the only resort on the\\ncoast which sufjports a synagogue; the tiger has two\\nsuperbly ap|)ointed jungles, in one of which at least one man\\nis known to have left of a single night $25,000 for the voracious\\nanimal to paw over and devour Tit is fashionable in the\\nI\\nI", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "11^\\nV.-^ ^^^f i\\niX^i- h- 7;\\n1", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "sense in which the word is used by those who fondly imagine\\nthat lavish disphiyof wealth is evidence of high social position.\\nIn fact, the display of wealth, whether in tlie equipages on\\nOcean Avenue, in the fabrics and jewels of evening toilets, at\\nthe gaming-table or on the race-track, seems to be the chief\\namusement of a large majority of the successors of tlie worthy\\nPhiladelphians who over a century ago discovered the resort.\\nIt may be judged from the foregoing that Long Branch is not\\na place whither a circumspect parent would take his family for\\na quiet summer by the sea; but for those who like to be in the\\nwhirl of a fashionable watering-place it is without a rival,\\nas it is also for the cynic who enjoys drawing his own conclu-\\nsions anent the madding crowd as it gads by.\\nYet, as there are islands in a rushing, roaring stream, so\\nthere are some spots in Long Branch where the noisy throng\\nhas not intruded. Besides many private cottages there are the\\nhotels, cottages and grounds of Holywood, near the West End\\nstation, a settlement within itself, under one management and\\nincluding a huge bathing pavilion shut in by high walls from\\nthe gaze of the ignohile vulgus and for the use of the Holly-\\nwood guests only. Another pavilion is that of the West End.\\nIt is connected with the second floor of the hotel by a bridge,\\nand has 400 bathing houses. There are also numerous bath-\\nhouses under the Iron Pier, the landing for excursion boats,\\nwhich extends on a level with the 20-foot high bluff 800 feet\\nout over the ocean. The bathing-hour, near full tide, is\\nannounced by the hoisting of a white flag on the hotels. The\\nbathers are carefully watched by life-savers in boats on the\\nline beyond the surf, and should bathing be dangerous the\\nflags are not hoisted.\\nOcean Av^enue toward evening is probably the liveliest\\nthf)roughfare in the United States. Here one can see almost\\nevery kind of vehicle stages crowded with excursionists, bug-\\ngies drawn by swift roadsters, tandems, four-in-hands, T-carts,\\netc., many of them perfectly appointed and each interesting in\\nits own way, as representing one of the many types of people to\\nbe found at this resort. Among the turnouts are many from\\nthe resorts north and south of Long Branch, wliose residents\\ndoubtless look with quiet amusement upon much of what they\\nsee. Even to those who would not care to live there Long\\nBranch is interesting, if only as an object-lesson in certain ex-\\ntreme phases of American life phases which could manifest\\nthemselves only in a country whose society is still undergoing\\nthe process of fermentation. Ocean Avenue in itself is a beau-\\ntiful thoroughfare, a broad drive-way along the five miles of\\nbluff, commanding a superb view of the ocean and swept by\\nits cooling breezes. It is a part of the famous Beach Drive\\nwhich extends from Highland Beach to Bay Head, a distance\\nof about twenty miles.\\nI l", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "37\\nLone: Branch is abundantly su|)|)lie(l with pure water obtained\\nfrom Green s Pond and Whale Pond Brook, the latter a stream\\nwiiich feeds Whale Pond, a picturesque lake between Elbei-on\\nand West End. The system of pijoes extends ten miles from\\nElberon to Highland Beach, and is under the control of the\\nLong Branch Water Supply Company. A thorough system of\\ngas and electric lights also ilUiminates the avenues and beach,\\nand the promenades are kept in excellent repair.\\nThe Long Branch theatrical colony, which at one time\\nincluded some of the most prominent members of the profes-\\nsion, has dwindled into insignificance. Edwin Booth, Jjester\\nWallack, the Blakes, Edwin Adams and Mary Anderson once\\noccupied summer villas there. Miss Anderson was literally\\nstared away. Maggie Mitchell still passes the summer in her\\ncottage.\\nJjong Branch practically includes North Long Branch (for-\\nmerly Atlanticville) East Long Branch, which boasts a\\nHeading Room and Library Association occupying a special\\nbuilding; Long Branch Village and Branchport.\\nLOXG BRANCH YILLUJE, aceessil)le from the Branchport station as\\nwell as from the Lon\u00c2\u00ab- Branch station, is one mile from the beach and is\\na business place rather than a summer resort. It was settled before the\\nKevcjlution, and in former years was locally known as The Pole,\\nowinjj to a lofty Liberty pole which stood near the center of the\\nvillage.\\nBKANCHPORT, closely adjoinint; Long Branch Yillas e, is pleasantly\\nsituated at the head of the network of creeks and inlets forming? the\\nLonsr Branch of the Shrewsbury. PIjEASUKK BAY, nearby, is a little\\nsettlement on the pretty bay of that name which enters the Shrewsbury.\\nBesides the hotels mentioned in the Introduction there is Price s, a re-\\nsort for boating parties. At Branchport the Sandy Hook Division of\\nthe Xew Jersey Southern R R. joins the New York and Long Branch\\nR. R., and crossing it, continues through Oceanport to IMonmouth Park\\nand Eatontown, at which latter place it joins the main line of the New\\nJersey Southern R. R. OCEAN POUT was once a flourishing settlement\\nwith considerable shipping trade, employing three steamboats and\\ntwenty sailing vessels. The products of the Allaire Works were o lce\\nshipped from here.\\nOceanport is on the site of the old Edwards estate and the Edwards\\nhomestead stood on a lot )iear Monmoiith Park. In the latter part of\\n1778 Stephen Edwards, a Tory refugee, was sent as a spy to his former\\nliome. l h(! Americans learning of this, C apt. Jonathan Forman was\\nsent on a Saturday night to lh(! Edwards homestead, where lie dis-\\ncovered IMwards in bed with a woman s night-cap on his head. In liis\\nclothes under the bed written instructions were found. Monday follow-\\ning, at 10 A. M., he was liung as a spy at Freehold, and his remains were\\ntaken l)ack tu t]\\\\o. homestead l)y his father and mother who, ignorant of\\nthe swiftness of military punishment in war times, liad gone to Free-\\nhold to see what they could do toward procuring his discharge.\\nIMOXMOUTH PARK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That IMonmouth County was a pro-\\nducer of swift horses was discovered already by Sir Henry Clinton\\non his retreat from Philadelphia to New York in June, 1779.\\nIn fact, New Jersey made its mark in breeding and developing", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "38\\nliorses very soon after Maryland and Virginia had become\\nfamous in the same line. But few efforts were made to estab-\\nlish racing under rules until after the war of 1812. Since then\\nthe State has more than held its own, with race tracks at Cam-\\nden, Trenton and Hoboken or Paul us Hook, as the latter place\\nwas called by some New Yorkers who raced there in 1819.\\nAway back in the twenties and thirties some of the\\nbest horses in the country were owned by Jerseymen, notably\\nthe famous Black Maria, by John C. Stevens; Shark, by R. F.\\nStockton and Henry Archy by the Lairds. Perhaps the most\\ncelebrated mare of the forties was Fashion. She was bred\\nin Morris county, was trained and raced by Samuel Laird, of\\nColt s Neck, Monmouth County, and ridden in nearly all her\\nraces by Joseph Laird the best jockey at the North, and who\\nis now the cashier of the First National Bank of Freehold. He\\nrode Fashion in her great race for four-mile heats against Bos-\\nton over the Union Course, L. L, May 10, 1842. It was North\\nvs. South for $20,000 a side and Fashion won easily in 7.323^\\nand 7.45.\\nIn the fifties but little was done in the State in racing. A\\nrevival came in the sixties with racing at Paterson, where,\\nin 1863, the famous Kentucky, then a two-year old, was a win-\\nner; where, in 1864, he w^as beaten by Norfolk and Tipperary\\nfor the Jersey Derby, bi^t in turn won the Sequel Stakes from\\nEclipse and Relief, the St. Leger from Lexicon, and a match\\nat two-mile heats from Aldebaran. Racing continued at Pater-\\nson with only fair success m 1865 and 1866, and then Jerome\\nPark practically wiped it out. In 1870, the residents of Long\\nBranch decided to add racing to the other attractions of\\nthe resort. The sport was a success at Saratoga, and\\nthere was no reason why it should not be at Long\\nBranch, with New York and Brooklyn only two hours away.\\nNear Oceanport and Eatontown there was a half-mile trotting\\ntrack, with ample ground on which to build a mile track. The\\nground was bought and a mile track laid out and racing was\\ninaugurated on Saturday, July 30, 1870.\\nThe programme was made up of three races. The first, a\\nhurdle race at two miles, was won by Jim Thompson s Lobelia,\\ncarrying 143 pounds, in 3.57, beating Sir Joseph, Oysterman\\nJr. and Morrjs. The second race was the Continental Hotel\\nstakes for three-year olds at mile heats which Gen. Abe Buford s\\nEnquirer won in 1.49 and 1.513.:^. Among the other starters\\nwere Maggie B. B., famous later in her life as the dam of Iro-\\nquois, the winner of the English Derby in 1881. The third\\nrace was the Monmouth stakes at two and one-half miles won\\nby W. R. Babcock s Helrabold in 4.33i^, beating Glenelg and\\nInvercauld. The meeting continued on August 2, 3, 4 and 6.\\nAmong other races run during the meeting was the West End", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "40\\nHotel stakes to which the proprietors added $1,000, as they\\nliave continued to do auiuially ever since. The race on that\\noccasion was won by John O Doimell s Marie Louise. Late in\\nAugust there was a trotting meeting at wliich St. Ehno, Col.\\nRussell, Western Girl, Goldsmith Maid and Black Crook were\\nwinners. In 1871 two meetings were held, the first in July, the\\nsecond in August. At the July meeting, Harry Bassett won\\nthe Jersey Derby; Longfellow won the Monmouth Cup; Wine\\nSap winning the West End Hotel stakes at the August meeting.\\nAmong the riders during that meeting who are still following\\ntheir profession were Billy Hayward, who owns a vei-ynice prop-\\nerty at Oceanport, and Billy Donohue a property owner in New\\nYork. Among those now ownei s and trainers who rode at the\\nsamemeeting were Jimmy Rowe, John McClelland, Billy Stoops,\\nCharley Miller and Billy Lakeland, with Harvey Welch,\\nJohn Hyland and the famous Touser, then steeple-chase\\nriders.\\nOn the second day of the July meeting in 1872, July 2, the\\ngreat race between Longfellow and Harry Bassett was run. It\\nwas for the Monmouth Cup at two and one-half miles. Harry\\nBassett was a tremendous favorite. He sulked in the race and\\nLongfellow beat him easily by one hundred yards in 4.84. The\\ncrowd on the occasion was enormous, considering the then lim-\\nited transportation facilities. That Harry Bassett beat Long-\\nfellow in turn for the Saratoga Cup, tlie latter breaking down\\nin the race, is a matter of turf history. In 1873, the success of\\nracing at Monmouth Park liad its first serious blow. It grew\\nout of the start for the Jersey I)erl)y run July 4, and won Ijy\\nthe late H. P. McGrath s Tom Bowling. It was claimed that\\nhe was given a running start, so unfair to the other horses, that\\nnone of them ever had a chance. The controversy caused a seri-\\nous quarrel between two prominent turfmen. The contest was\\nIjitter on both sides and although the Association was not at first\\nseriously affected, it gradually lost caste, and in 1878 the estate\\nwas sold by the Sheriff and purchased by a few gentlemen for\\nal)out $60,000. They at once organized the present Monmouth\\nPark Association with the late George L. Lorillard as President;\\nD. D. Withers, Treasurer and J. H. Coster, Secretary. From\\nthe Association s first meeting for four days in 1878, it has\\nsteadily increased in public favor and confidence. Direct rail-\\nroad communication from the track has been had for years.\\nNo greater evidence of the success of the present Monmouth\\nPark Association can be had than the following statement of\\nthe amounts of added money to stakes and purses given by the\\nAssociation from 1878 to 1888 inclusive, specially prepared for\\nthis book by Mr. G. M. Croft, the Association s Assistant Sec-\\nretary\\nI\\nr", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "41\\n1878, 4 days $12,600 00\\n1870, 9 :}0.440 (10\\n1880, 8 :5r),600 00\\n1881. 11 51,400 00\\n1882,10 02,250 00\\n1883,24 121,250 00\\n1884.24 120,000 00\\nl:s85, 28 132,450 00\\n1880, 24 154,850 00\\n1887.25 160,500 00\\n1888,25 210,850 00\\nTotal 11,131,190 00\\nTo this amount Mr. Croft estimates that there can be added\\n^,887.00 paid in by owners as stakes, declarations, forfeits,\\nand added money to purses, all of which was paid out to win-\\nners, and the owners of second and third horses.\\nAdditional proof of the success of the Monmouth Park Asso-\\nciation is shown by tlie fact that during the past winter\\n(1888-89) it purchased nearly 450 acres of ground to the west of\\nthe 250 acres previously owned. On the newly-purchased\\nground, which is between Little Silver and Eaton town, will be\\nmade a new track, of the usual oval two straights and two\\nturns one and three-quarter miles in length, to which will be\\nadded a straight track of one mile and three furlongs, begin-\\nning near Eatontown and running diagonally through the main\\ntrack finishing at the same line as races run on tlie main track.\\nThus with a short addition on a line with the back-stretch,\\nraces at one and one-half miles can be had with only one turn,\\nalso at all fractiomd distances less. The home-stretch is one-\\nhalf mile long, while for races of five furlongs, three-quarters of\\na mile, and for any distance up to one mile and three furlongs\\nthe straight track can be used if owners wish. The track at all\\nstarting points except immediately in front of the stand is 150\\nfeet wide with a width of 100 feet in the home-stretch. The\\nstand vfill be of enormous proportions, with sufficient elevation\\nto enable spectators to see all the racing even at the greatest\\ndistance. It will seat 10,000 and there will be ample accommo-\\ndations for 15,000 more on the lawn and surrounding grounds.\\nThe betting-shed will be the largest ever built. Transporta-\\ntion will also be in proportion, with no less than sixteen tracks\\nfrom which as many trains can pull out within fifteen minutes\\nafter the races, for New York, Philadelphia, Newark, Brooklyn,\\nLong Branch and way-stations on all tlie railroads. The\\ntrack will be built in 1889, as will all the foundations for the\\nstands and other buildings, all of which will be completed for\\nthe inauguration on July 4, 1890. The old track will b*^ used\\nfor training.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "42\\nin the vicinity of Monmouth Park are a number of well-\\nappointed stud-farms. Most notable is that of D. D, Withei-s,\\nBrookdale, near Holmdel. In his neighborhood he has B.\\nPryor, who still owns the ground on which he trained Lexing-\\nton in 1854 for his great time race at New Orleans Mrs. Har-\\nriet Brown, and the Lloyd Place. Near Eatontown, Jeta\\nWalden, Charles Littlefield and W. Lovell are located. Close\\nto Monmouth Park Mrs. Geo. L. Lorillard, Matt Byrne and\\nLewis Stuart have their homes, while at Shrewsbury Lucius\\nAppleby has recently bought and established for himself a\\nhome with both breeding and training stables.\\nThe proximity of Monmouth Park, doubtless, had something\\nto do with the clustering of so many stud-farms in this section\\nbut they hardly would have been located there had not the\\ncharacter of the soil and water, the equable climate and the\\nfacilities for transportation to the centers of population of New\\nYork and Pennsylvania been so admiral)le. With the addi-\\ntinal impetus given to racing by the new Monmouth Park, stud-\\nfarms in this attractive location are bound to multiply.\\nEATONTOWN, four miles from Long Branch, was founded\\nin 1670 by Thomas Eaton, who first settled in Rhode Island\\nin 1G60.\\nA curious ship-building experiment was witnessed at this village in\\n1808. Joseph Parker built a schooner of 30 tons, which implies a vessel\\nsome 45 feet long, on the lot behind the present printing-office. She\\nwas called the Eatontown. The distance to the water was one mile, and\\ntiie problem of getting her there was similar to that which puzzled\\nRobinson Crusoe when he built his first boat, a problem which he was\\nunable to solve. But Parker succeeded in mounting his schooner on a\\nplatform resting on sledges drawn by many yoke of oxen, and crowds\\nfrom the country round assembled to see the launching of the ship.\\nAccomplishing one third of a mile each day, the eccentric builder at\\nlast succeeded in safely floating his vessel in Parker Creek.\\nThe oldest building now standing in Eatontown is the residence of\\nDr. Joseph Eaton, who studied medicine in Massachusetts and returned\\nto his native place and began to practice there in 1735. He was one of\\nthe first Abolitionists of the country, warmly advocating the freedom\\nof the slaves until his death in 1761. The house has been somewhat al-\\ntered and has been moved from the corner opposite the Wheeler Hotel,\\na few yards below, on the opposite side of the road.\\nBut the most interesting and picturesque object in Eaton-\\ntown is the old grist-mill, which one passes on entering the vil-\\nlage by the Shrewsbury Road. At that point a stream, which\\nis one of the feeders of the Shrewsbury, crosses the village.\\nGrouped there, as if to give delight to an artist s eye, are\\na clump of fine old sycamores, rows of osiers waving over the\\nwhimpering waters of a brook, an arched bridge, a beautiful\\nmill-pond, a dam flanked by green banks and shrubbery and a\\nmost antique looking mill, altogether a combination of effects\\none might sooner expect to see in Old England than in America.\\nThomas Eaton built a dam and mill there about 1670. On this", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "^*^Y Cs ^Tam. wil-c*- cv^f-ti;) ^17.\\nAt Elberon", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "4^\\nsite the present mill was erected in 1780; and it may be doubted\\nif anywhere in the United States there is a grist-mill with so\\nlong a genealogy as that at Eatontown.\\nA well-known resort of Shrewsbury boating parties, and also of driv-\\ning parties and tourists generally, is Johnty Smitli s, whose house\\nor shanty is on Peggy s Point, directly on Parker s Creek. It is most\\neasily reached from Oceanport or Little Silver Station. Where the\\nOceanport road turns down to his place is a signboard To Johnty s.\\nAt the entrance of the premises is the warning All race-track clicks,\\ndrunken bums and peach-meddlers are not admitted under penalty of\\nthe law. A large, roughly-thrown-together dining room offers ample\\naccommodation for the numerous visitors to this curious haunt, where\\nthey can enjoy the best of oysters taken right out of the water, or pad-\\ndle or sail about the pretty stream in the boats provided by Johnty,\\nwho, with his wife, has kept this place for over thirty years. He is a\\nquaint, shrewd character, who knows how to turn his eccentricities to\\ngood account. Sunday afternoons in winter the old seadogs in the\\nneighborhood drop in and hold congenial chat on the w^ arm side of the\\nshanty.\\nOn the road from Long Branch to Eatontown, on a small stream\\nrunning into Pleasure Bay, is Turtle Mill. On this site a mill was in op-\\neration as early as 1730. Early in the Kevolution, Thomas Barclay, of\\nthe light-horse, while standing in front of the mill, was fired on from\\nambush. Having heard a rustling in the bushes he had stooped and the\\nbullets passed over his head and through the open door, and ai e still to\\nbe seen in the post in which they lodged.\\nELBERON is a continuation of Long Branch on the south,\\npractically belonging to it although not within the corporation\\nlimits. The ground was purchased of Benjamin Wooley by\\nLewis B. Brown (from whose initials and name Elberon was\\nformed) being an area of 100 acres. This plot was laid out\\nwith much taste, many improvements being added to a natur-\\nally attractive site, the result being one of the most complete\\nand elegant resorts on the Jersey coast, of much the same re-\\nfined and exclusive characteristics as Monmouth Beach. The\\nElberon Casino was incorporated in 1882 with a capital of\\n$50,000, and the company also erected the admirable hotel\\ncalled the Elberon. Among the handsome residences of this\\nj)lace is the Francklyn Cottage, rendered famous as the refuge to\\nwhich President Garfield was brought, and where he was\\nlulled into his final sleep by the murmur of the sea. General\\nGrant s former summer home is also at Elberon. The ground\\nat Elberon is hi2:her and more rolling than at the resorts\\ndirectly on the sea and thus gives the place a distinct topo-\\ngraphical character.\\nThe night of March 17, 1877, the steamer Fusland, of the Red Star\\nLine, came ashore opposite President Grant s cottage at Elberon.\\nMarch 3, 1859, the bark Adonis, with a cargo of grindstones, was\\nwrecked on the same spot, and the Budand, striking upon the old hull\\nand the grindstones, broke as if she had been dashed upon a rock and\\nproved a total loss, l ut liappily not before passengers and crew had\\nbeen rescued by the life-savers.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "r", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "212\\n201 West\\n202\\\\ \\\\Jf\\nSmithbui\\nliarleHton\\n2f2J^ /Springs_\\nSiloam\\nV\\n767\\n\\\\^^i\\niJ.-LlV\\n^^c\\n-N\\n[ofifL.\\n223 W^st Farms^^\\n[Georgia ^aIz5\u00c2\u00a3\\n276\\n226\\n191\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hincis ~Mill3\\n186\\n162\\n%w ^rospe\\\\\\nSouth\\niIHi^evillfj\\neriVett s\\n120 ^X^:\\nike\\n\\\\aiu\\nSuccess\\n3sy\\nnig^t6r^\\nIcoi i\\nfoTIi\\n775^\\n%I^V^Aj/ WliiteWle\\n190\\nf^Ahh\\n^^(tn^\\ns.\\n101\\nconjx\\nV\\nJ\\n^Boyd s\\nJnck Yards\\nM\\\\", "height": "3023", "width": "1843", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3054", "width": "1822", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "45\\nDEAL BEACH extends from Elboron to Deal Lake. Al-\\nready in 1G93 the portion north of the Hathaway estate bore\\nthis name.\\nThe sea front (1,320 feet) and lake shore (4,224 feet) of\\nLocli arbor (Deal Lake) have been laid out and a few cottages\\nerected. This should become a popular resort, as the lake is\\nnearly two miles long and the expanse of heaving ocean is\\nplainly seen over the low dike that separates lake and sea. The\\ndike, which is now controled by dike gates, was once full of\\nquicksands which contributed to the friglitful loss of life in-\\nvolved in the wreck of the Neiv Era during a heavy fog the\\nnight of December 13, 1854, at the head of Deal Lake, a few\\nyards from the present Life Saving Station, a catastrophe the\\nmore heartrending as it might have been avoided had not the\\ncaptain been intoxicated.\\nAfter the vessel struck she touched a quicksand wliicli drew down\\nthe hull, and the wind shifting to a piercing? cold blast from the north-\\nwest, froze the wretched sufferers until they dropped by the dozen\\nfrom the ringing into the roaring surf. Nearly 500 corpses, men, women\\nand children, were laid in rows in a long barn where the bowling-alley\\nof the Hathaway House now stands. They were buried in rough coffins\\nIn one common grave at Branchburg, over which an inscription, still to\\nbe seen, was placed. The passengers of the ill-fated vessel were of the\\nbetter class of emigrants, belts containing gold and jewelry being found\\non the bodies of many of the men. By some means the captain suc-\\nceeded in evading the penalty of his criminal carelessness and passed\\nout of sight.\\nThe winter temperature of the Jersey sea coast being con-\\nsiderably less rigorous than that of New York, and many\\ninland places, a fact not generally known, a number of cap-\\nitalists have purchased the fine tract of land between the forks\\nof Deal Lake, have named it Interlaken and intend developing\\nit into a winter resort.\\nASBURY PARK and its adjunct NORTH ASBURY\\nPARK are outgrowths of Ocean Grove. They are separated\\nonly by a narrow lake 300 feet wide. But while Ocean Grove\\nowes its origin and growth to a large association, Asbury Park\\nsprang from the enterprise of one man who, when the 500 acres\\nnorth of Wesley Lake were, in 1870, about to come into the\\nmarket and it was feared that they might fall into the hands of\\npeople not in sympathy with the methods pursued at Ocean\\nGrove, came forward and paid $90,000 for the tract, sliowing\\nthe intensity of his principles by naming itafter Bishop Asbury,\\nand giving no deeds witliout a clause against liquor-selling. So\\nfar resembling Ocean Grove, Asbury Park in other respects\\nconforms to the world, and stimulated by the fiery influence of\\nice-cream and ginger-pop, its permanent aiul floating popula-\\ntion may plunge into the vortex of social dissipation afforded\\nby pool, billiards, bowling, smoking and dancing The prop-\\nerty has been so well managed that what was in 1870 a wilder-", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "46\\nness of sand is now a thriving town with a permanent popula-\\ntion of some 4,000 and over 30,000 in the summer, a large\\nprinting establishment, three papers, three national banks an\\nopera house, a handsome library and a lecture hall (Educa-\\ntional lialJ), brought from the Centennial grounds at Phila\\ndelpnia and capable of holding 1,500 people, eight churches\\nan electric tramway and a system of drainage into the sea\\nunsurpassed on the coast for efficiency, with IS miles of mains\\nwithin a square mile, while an abundant supplv of pure water\\nIS furnished by the Artesian Well Company, the streets and\\nthe beach are also universally lighted by electricity all the year\\n1 onn^i TT i-esultof this enterprise\\nnearly 200 hotels and boarding-houses and some 800 private\\nresidences. ^vtvtc\\nThe place has been laid out with good taste, many natural\\nfeatures of beauty having been skillfully utilized On the\\nsouthern boundary is Wesley Lake. Sunset Lake, a beautiful\\noheet of water, with a picturesque wooded islet in its center lies\\nIstween Asbury Park and North Asbury, while Deal Lake, with\\nts abrupt banks called the Blutfs, is on the extreme northern\\nlimit. To the east the restless Atlantic laves the yellow strand\\nThe opport^inity offered by these features has not been\\nneglected. The streets are of ample dimensions, lined with\\n?00 W fn oon 7\\\\ ng,at fight angles to the sea are from\\n100 feet to 200 feet broad; the sidewalks and crossings are\\ncovered with flagging, asphaltum, cement or planks. In many\\nspots clumps of the primeval pine and cedar break pic-\\n?r\u00c2\u00abT /i\\\\ I T ;\u00c2\u00ab^e\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 fonnality. Along the beach there\\nIS a well-kept plank walk one mile long, with seats and\\npavilions, at intervals joining the esplanade of Ocean Grove\\nthus giving an unbroken promenade of nearly two miles At\\nthe bathing pavilion on the southern limit of Asbury Park is a\\nbronze statue of a soldier, dedicated to the memory of the 14th\\nNew Jersey Volunteers.\\nThe attractions of Asbury Park are enhanced by the orderly\\nadministration of affairs. Several hotels are kept open through\\nthe wmter, and as the climate is far less rigorous than that of\\nNew York, it is not impossible that in time Asbury Park may\\nbecome a winter as well as a summer resort, a remark which\\napplies to all the resorts on the coast. The place now nnvs\\ntaxes on $2,000,000 as against $16,000 in 1870, the pre^ntSe\\nprobably representing an actual value of $5,000,000.\\nFrancis Asbury, the first bishop of the Methodist EpiscoDal ehnrr-h\\noifmned in America was born at Handswcnth, Enffl Xiai^t 20\\nlt4o Atthea^eof fourteen he was apprenticed to n m^r^.o\\\\;v; i7 7\\ntw?f i ^^f. ^^^l^T ^J^ ^d bf?ts pV each?rs\\\\hovtitS W^^\\nfather s house, le^d nm to become one of the most zealous of We?lev\\nfollowers In 1771 he be^an his missionary labors in Wrica and it^s\\ndoubtful If any simTlar record of travel and preaching c^n be credited\\nto any other nnnister of any denomination. His valuable Journa^^^^^\\nShow that he traveled over 370,000 miles preached some 6,500 sermons", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "AsBURY Park and Ocean Grove,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "48\\nor nearly one a day for forty-five years presided at 224 annual confir-\\nences, and ordained more than 4,000 preachers. After the Revolution,\\nit vv^as deemed expedient to establish an independent Methodist Epis-\\ncopal Church for America, and Asburv was ordained bishop Decemlxr\\n24, 1784. He died at Spottsylvania, Va., March 31, 1816. As Monmouth\\nCounty came in for a larsre share of his labors (he preached at the White\\nhomestead in Shark River, and at Long: Branch and other places in their\\nvicinity), Asbury Park is not inaptly named.\\nOCEAN GROYE was formed with a view of bringing people\\nunder religious influence at a season when they are most at\\nleisure, by locating these influences amid agreeable surround-\\nings, and under a system the most rigid on the continent\\n25,000 to 30,000 people are kept within the space of half a\\nsquare mile under an autocratic form of government. The ex-\\nperiment is so extraordinary that the place merits the careful\\nexamination even of those whose religious convictions or sense\\nof individual dignity and independence revolt against such a\\nform of administration.\\nThe Vineland Camp-Meeting Grounds having proved unfit for the\\npurpose, the coast from Sandy Hook to Cape May was explored for a\\nmore favorable site. Ocean Grove was visited in February, 1868. It\\nwas a wild, wave-lashed solitude of sand, overgrown with pines and\\noaks and cedars. But the advantages of the location were apparent.\\nOnly one family then lived there, and only thirty-four people between\\nthe limits of Deal Beach and Ocean Beach. In July, 1869, twenty people\\npitched their tents at Ocean Grove and the first united religious service\\non this memorable spot was held in a tent July 31st. Twenty-two per-\\nsons were present. This was the beginning of the camp-meetings at the\\nplace which then received the name of Ocean Grove. Satisfied with the\\npoint selected as a permanent religious resort, an association was formed\\nDecember 22, 1860, composed of thirteen Methodist clergymen and thir-\\nteen laymen to put the proposed plan into execution. Soon after they\\nwere chartered by the New Jersey Legislature under the title of The\\nOcean Grove Camp-Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch. Up to the time of the meeting above mentioned no land had\\nbeen purchased excepting eleven acres on the beach for $50 but while\\ntwo of the promoters were examining the new possession one of them\\npicked up an old Spanish silver dollar on the sand. It seemed a favor-\\nable omen, and soon after a further tract was purchased in the grove\\nthat grew a little removed from the beach. Other land adjoining was\\npurchased by the Association until the present rectangular areaoi^ some\\n266 acres had been secured, surveyed and marked out with streets and\\nlots. The risk attending the purchase of this land was unusual, for\\nthe enterprise was an experiment and the association had no private\\nfunds of consequence. It was essentially a faith imdertaking, aided,\\nhowever, by business shrewdness. Once fairly started, the enterprise\\nwent off with a rush. In 1870 to 1871 no less than 373 building lots were\\nsold, and sixty cottages were up by the end of the year.\\nNow we find fit Ocean Grove, as a result of the efforts of its\\nfounders a flourishing, growing community, which seems fairly\\nto have passed from the period of experiment to that of actual\\nsuccess. The rules laid down by the Association, though main-\\ntained with unrelaxed severity, do not yet appear to check the\\ngrowth of the place. Religion or cui-iosity still draws crowds.\\nNature has admirably ministered to the maintenance of the\\ncharacteristics of Ocean Grove. On the west it is enclosed by", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "4i)\\na fonee and jifates: ontho north and south are two narrow lakes\\neiossed by foot-bridges. On entering Ocean Grove the stranger\\nis aware of something uncommon as lie reads the names of the\\nprincipal streets. He i)asses from Pilgrim Pathway to Tabor\\nWay, Herman Way, Embury Avenue, Cookman Avenue, Wliit-\\nfield Avenue, Carmel Way, Zion Way and tiie like. On Main\\nAvenue is the Association oifice, a neat brick buihling with a\\nclock tower and also containing the post-office. Before the en-\\ntrance is a large metal vase on a pedestal, on the sides of which\\nlatter the names of deceased incorporators of Ocean Grove are\\ninscribed. Just north of this spot is the park devoted to the\\nspecial purpose for wliich Ocean Grove was established. So far\\nas practicable the evergreens of the primeval woods have been\\nleft to give beauty and protection to the immense covered en-\\nclosure called the Auditorium. Open on all sides except at the\\nend where the platform stands, it allows the soft sea wind to\\ncool the vast audiences of upwards of 5,000 which are often\\ngathered there. Just south of the Auditorium is the Taber-\\nnacle in which the Holiness Meetings are held, and opposite to\\nit is the Young People s Temple. North of this, on permanent\\nexhibition, is a model of modern Jerusalem, stated to be x| oth\\nthe size of the original probuVjly an eri-or for, while the\\ndiameter nuiy be as stated, no allowance seems to have been\\nmade for the mathematical fact that with the enlargement of\\nthe circumference the area of square feet increases vastly in\\nexcess of the actual increase of the diameter. The error was,\\nof course, unintentional.\\nThe stables and lutching-places are near the eastern line.\\nProceeding eastward down Main Avenue, the handsomest street\\nof Ocean Grove, we come to the ocean. A metal statue of the\\nAngel of Peace faces the avenue, which widens at this end,\\nproducing an imposing effect, notwithstanding the somewhat\\ncrowded appearance of so many cottages and hotels. A broad\\nspace has been retained between the town and the beach, offer-\\ning a fine drive-way, and a well-kept plank-walk, 3,100 feet\\nlong, extends on the CTitire ocean front, along which pavilions\\nand numorous seats have been provided. The bathing-grounds\\nare at either end of the sea limit of the town, the bath-houses\\nbeing arranged in compact rows, in front of which are exten-\\nsive pavilions built over the water. At the northern end is a\\ncamera obscura, which, it is naively stated, will prove an\\nagreeable surprise to everybody.\\nOn the south of Ocean Grove is Fletcher Lake, a narrow,\\nwinding pond, crossed by two wooden bridges, and on the\\nnorth is the famous Wesley Lake, nearly three-(]uarters of a\\nmile long and 300 feet wide. It was one of the features which\\nled to the selection of Ocean Grove, and the disappointment\\nwas therefore great when, one morning, it was I ound to have\\nvanished over night, having broken through into the sea.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "r)U\\nHowever the opening was eventually closed, and as this, like\\nthe other lakes on this coast, is supplied by fresh- water springs\\nit again became available for the row-boats, which, on both\\nthese lakes, add so much to the pleasure of summer visitors\\nTwo handsome iron trestle bridges were completed in the win-\\nter of 1888-89, replacing the wooden bridges and the ticklish\\nterry, ihe Association has established a thorough system ol\\ndrainage, and for the better health of the place has artesian\\nwells, thus avoiding the use of ordinary wells in so thickly-\\npeopled a settlement,\\nIt is chiefly in the regulations by which it protects the ends\\nlor which It was founded, that Ocean Grove is most distin-\\nguished from other resorts. In order to maintain control over\\nthe character of the population, no lot is sold outright, but only\\nleased for 99 years, with privilege of renewal. The Ipa^e car-\\nries with it the burdens of ownership in the way of taxation\\nimprovements and repairs, and the privileges of ownership in^\\nc uding sale of lease during satisfactory tenancy and the ful-\\nhllment of the proviso that no liquor be sold or any nuisances\\ncreated on the premises. Xo person shall keep pigs or chick-\\nens, nor dogs, unless licensed and muzzled; and a large num-\\nber ot occupations require a license. No theatrical or other\\nlike entertainment is allowed, nor the distribution of hand-\\nbills and advertisements of the same, under penalty nor is it\\nlawtui for any organ-grinder, pack-peddler, scissors-grinder\\nhand-peddler, or person having for sale or selling anything in\\na push-cart, rag-gatherer, or for any person engaged in siniilar\\npursuits, or for any person exhibiting shows of any kind, to\\npursue their calling within the premises of the Association\\nIhe penalty IS a fine or imprisonment. The sale of tobacco\\nunder any form is strictly forbidden, under penalty, and smok-\\ning is not permitted in the neighborhood of the camp-meeting\\ngrounds. Spirituous liquors are forbidden, under severe pen-\\nalties, excepting under very strict regulations by the druggists.\\nBy special act of the Legislature, this prohibition extends for\\na statute mile from the limits of Ocean Grove. With the ta-\\nboed potables are included such seemingly innocent liquids as\\nSchiedamSchnapps, Tolu, Rock and Rye, Wild Cherry, Rockand\\niiitters, iippecanoe and the various so-called bitters, which are\\npreparations put up as medicine, but really intoxicating stimu-\\nants No carriages are permitted on the beach, no velocipedes\\nbicyces or wheelbarrows on the plank-walks, and it is forbidl\\nden to discharge any cannon or other piece of artillery or\\nsmall-arms, guns or pistols, rockets, squibs,fire-crackers,or other\\nfire-works, within the limits of said Association. No swearing is\\npermissible in the boats, where, it is presumed, parties mi|ht\\nbe inclined to indulge in unseemly speech, out of earshot of\\nthe Association. An efTicient police is employed day and night\\nto exclude tramps or other unsuitable persons, and enforce the", "height": "3053", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "SI\\notlior ro -ulntioll^^. Tlie gates arc closed at 10 P. M., daily, ami\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2dl ilay on t lie Sabbath, when no one can enter excei)t by tlie\\nbridges, uhieh are carefully watched, and only those desiring\\nto attend services can then cross, ])aying no tolls, but liable to\\na fine of $10 if crossing for other purposes. No papers can be\\nsold on Sunday, nor, by agreement with the authorities of As-\\nbin-y Park, within one block of the Aslmry end of the bridges.\\nNo boats are nsed on that day, no wheeled vehicles can be seen\\nin the streets, no milk is distributed, and even the physicians\\nthouo-h summoned to the bed of the dying, must go on foot. It\\nis needless to add, that no trains stop there on the Sabbath, nor\\nat Asbury Park. Of course no bathing is permitted on the\\nSabbath. i\\nThe bathing question has received the serious consideration\\nof the Association, lest the lessons of purity imparted at the\\ncamp-meetings should be forgotten under the influence ot Nep-\\ntune with whose bad reputation in mythology the Association\\nseems to be familiar, as it is enacted, under penalty of hue or\\nimprisonment, that bathing in improper or indecent bathing\\napparel, or passing through the streets or avenues to or from\\nthe bathing-grounds without suitable covering, is hereby pro-\\nhibited. As this ordinance did not seem to have the desired\\neffect, and great scandal was caused by bathers of both sexes\\npromenading the streets and doing their shopping m their\\nbathing-suits, to the injury of public morals, it became neces-\\nsary to post the following ordinance in prominent places about\\nthe town\\nModesty of apparel Is as herominff to a lady in ii tjathin^ dress as it\\nis to a ladv dressed in silk and satin. A word to the wise is sufficient.\\nFor the sake of example, all respectable people are requested to dis-\\ncountenance the practice of the sexes in assuming: attitudes on the sand\\nthat would be considered immoral at their city houses or elsewhere. It\\nthis rule is not observed, it becomes the dutyot the pt)l!ce to serve a\\nsmall card m the offcndhiir person, and it the thin.!,Ms repeated the\\noffender must be ordertsd from the beach. As a rule respectal)le peopie\\nretire fr( .m the beach at 10.80 o clock in the evemnfr. The electric lights\\nare extiimuished at 12 o\\\\ lock. All persons areexpected to be oft the\\nbeach one half-hour before that time.\\nThe organizations acting at Ocean Grove under the auspices\\nof the Methodist Episcopal Church are the Ocean Grove Sun-\\nday-School Assembly, the Inter-denominational Bible Heading\\nSociety, the National Temperance and l^iblication Society, the\\nHackettstown Institute, the New Jersey Sabbath Union, the\\nKing s Daughters, the National Reform Association, the\\nWoman s Foreign Missionary Association and the Wonuin s\\nChristian Temperance Union, whose headquarters for New\\nJersey are naturally found at Ocean Grove. With the religious\\nexercises of these societies are also included the African\\nMethodist Episcopal Church Jubilee, the Anniversary Prayer-\\nMeeting, the 0(!ean Grove i\\\\Iemorial Service, Dickinson College\\nDay, the Fourth of July celebration, tlicoi)eiiiiigof the season,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "52\\nJuly 1st, the Auditorium opening, numerous surf-meetings,\\nHoliness Meetings and Young People s Meetings, and finally,\\nbut not least, the grand annual Camp-Meeting. The throngs\\nwhich flock to all these devotional exercises indicate that after\\nleaving a wide margin for those who visit Ocean Grove from\\nmotives of curiosity, a larger number remain from motives of\\nearnest zeal and faith, while it maybe reasonably assumed that\\nof those who go to scoff some remain to jjray.\\nDuring: the season the number of religious exercises of various kinds,\\nprayer-meetings, baptisms, sermons, addresses, anniversaries, religious\\nsociety meetings, camp-meetings, sacraments (to which latter there\\nwere 3,228 communicants), Sabbatli-school sessions (which included\\n28,076 attendants), and the like, ag^ircyatcd the enormous number of\\n987, or an average of over sixteen each day for a season of sixty days.\\nBut for the cold figures it would be dilficult to believe that a community\\nlike this could be found anywhere at the present day, reminding one,\\nwith its set purpose, its organization and rigid ordinances, of the\\nmarch of the Israelites across the desert under a theocratic leadership.\\ni In order more perfectly to protect the interests at stake, the Associ-\\nation has recently purchased some of the wild land overgrown with\\nforests on the southern side of Fletcher Lake. It is proposed to lay out\\nand divide this up for sale, with restrictions as to the sale of liquors and\\ntobacco but otherwise to sell the fee outright to desirable purchasers.\\nThis new tract of the Association adjoins a plot which has been sur-\\nveyed for a summer resort and called Ocean Park. It is, however, as\\nyet entirely in the rough, its prospects and advantages remaining to be\\ndeveloped.\\nThe following are matters of official regulation: Carriages\\n$2 an hour, $1 for each additional hour; between the railway\\nstation and any part of the Association grounds, 10 cents;\\nboats, 25 cents an hour; bathing-houses, 75 cents a day, $4.50\\na week. Bathing suits let for not more than an hour, time\\nmarked on a card attached to the suit. Tent cottages of two\\nsizes, having respectively two 13x18 \u00c2\u00abnd 11x18 rooms furnished\\nand a tent in front with floor, a neat fence and front yard\\nsodded, according to location from $75 upwards, paid in three\\ninstalments, but invariably for the season. Tents with floor\\nand a small kitchen in the rear, from $2.50 per week, paid in\\nadvance, and for not less than two weeks from $2 per week\\nupwards for any period beyond first four weeks. Furniture\\nmay be hired of the Association at moderate rates.\\nFar-fetched as the comparison may seem, in view of the fact\\nthat Ocean Grove is a creation of the last quarter of the nine-\\nteenth century, I cannot think of the lake and bi idges by\\nwhich one enters this resort otherwise than of the moat and\\ndrawbridges of some mediaeval fortified town governed by an\\nautocrat.\\nKEY EAST is a comparatively new resort below Ocean\\nGrove. It fronts on the ocean and is bounded on the north by\\na small wooded tarn three-quarters of a mile long called Sylvan\\nLake, and on the south by Shark River, along whose lovely", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "53\\nshares it oxtpiids one and a f|nartcr miles. It consists of a\\nticic t ot 800 acres laid out in broad avenues and graded. I liese\\navenues are 80 feet wide no building can be erected withiu 20\\nfeet from the road, thus securing ample space for the thorough-\\nfares. An excellent system of drainage has been provided,\\nemptying into the ocean, the drain-pipes being fluslied from\\nthe waters of the lake, which is several feet higlier than Shark\\nRiver and the beach. The greater part of the area of Key\\nEast is somewhat higher than most of the Jersey coast, and\\nclumps of oak, pine, maple and cedar still renudn. Ample\\nmeans are afforded for bathing, and a picturesque pavilion is\\nnear the bath-houses. Excellent boating and fi.shing are to be\\nfound on Shark Hiver which, westward of the bridges, becomes\\na lake of eonsidei able size. The Seaside Assembly occupies a\\nblock near the center of Key East, and the American Institute\\nof Christian Philosophy hold its annual summer school in the\\ngrove of tiie Assembly grounds from July 26th to August 12th.\\nA summer home for crippled orphans, called the Home of the\\nMerciful Savior, is maintained at Key East under the auspices\\nof the Episcopal Church.\\nNeptune City, although still a separate borough, is now in-\\ncluded under the name of Key East, and reaches west of the\\nrailway along the north shore of Shark River. A number of\\nsummer cottages have been erected there.\\nOCEAN BEACH is a tract of 400 acres, bounded by the\\nocean on the east, by Shark River on the irregular northwest\\nside, and by Como on the south. Of this land, 229 acres be-\\nlonged to the White farm, and were purchased for $90,000.\\nThe original i)roprietors of the farm were Gawin and Robert\\nDrummoiul, to v/hoin it Vas patented in 1701. The White\\nhomestead, where that zealous Methodist missionary, Asbury,\\npreached in 1809, is still standing, near Shark River. The\\nOcean Beach Association was incorporated March 12, 1873.\\nThe spot they selected for a summer resort was well chosen,\\nfronting one mile on the ocean and one mile and a half on Shark\\nRiver, which is ])ractically a lake two miles wide, with several\\nbrandies. The shores are wooded and undu hi ting. In the western\\nhorizon the hills rise to a considerable height, and the genei al\\neffect on a calm day is one of rare })oetic beauty. Aci oss the\\ncenter of the i)lace extends Silver hake, asnudl pond su])plied by\\nfresh-water springs. It would be a great addition to the resort,\\nbut for the far superior attractions of Shai k Rivei-, both for\\nboating and fishing. Besides the famous Shark River oysters\\nplanted there, great sport nuiy be found in crabbing indeed,\\nmost of the soft-sliell crabs in the markets of New York are\\nfrom Shark River. Bluefish, bass, weakfish and flounders also\\nabound, and the sportsman has for years found capital shooting\\nwhen the water-fowl migrate in autumn.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "54\\nThe twelve chief avenues of Ocean Beach extend from the\\nsea to Shark River they are 80 feet wide, and each iiouse is\\nrequired to have a space of at least 20 feet between house and\\nfront line of lot, which insures a road-opening of 120 feet. The\\nplace has had a steady growth. A fine plank-walk extends\\nalong the beach as far as Sea Girt, and the bath-houses are\\nwell arranged.\\nOne of the most interesting drives in the neighborhood of\\nOcean Beach is along the southern banks of Shark River to the\\nnow deserted iron-works of Allaire, which in the last genera-\\ntion enjoyed wide prosperity and national fame. It may be\\nnoted here that the drive to Allaire is frequently taken from\\nall the resorts south of Ocean Beach to Bay Head.\\nLAKE COMO, sometimes called Como, consists of an irregu-\\nlarly-shaped tract of 240 acres, laid out and with a complete\\nsystem of drainage. Among the attractions of this place are\\nextensive woodlands of oak, pine and cedar, and the lake,\\nwhich is nearly three-quarters of a mile long and one-quarter\\nof a mile wide, offering opportunities for boating. There is a\\ntendency now to include the tract surveyed on the west side of\\nthe Long Branch R. R., and first known as Sea Plain, under\\nthe name of Como.\\nSPRING LAKE takes its name from a pretty sheet of water,\\na little over half a mile long. A plank and asphaltum walk\\nleads around its shore. A rustic bridge spans its west end.\\nThe Spring Lake tract, to which North Spring Lake properly\\nbelongs, although still a separate borough, was patented to\\nRobert Hunter Morris, in 1760. In .1875 a Philadelphia com-\\npany purchased the land from Wrack Pond for three-quarters\\nof a mile north, but sold it to its present proprietor. In 1875\\nthe Lake House Company was incorporated, and the following\\nyear erected the Monmouth House. Midway between the ocean\\nand the lake, 200 yards from each, this hotel served as a\\nnucleus for the growing settlement of summer residents, and in\\nits immediate neighborhood are streets, cottages and churches,\\nforming a resort conspicuous for the elegance of its exterior.\\nBesides tennis and bath iner there is boating on the lake, whose waters\\nare so clear that an object dropped into it is distinctly visible at a depth\\nof 25 feet. It is usual to make the test with coin, and a story is current\\nof a youth who, desiring to impress an heiress with his own wealth,\\ndropped a gold piece into the lake for her entertainment whenever he\\ntook her out rowing, which was pretty much every day. Finally, a\\nrival took it into his head to dive after one of the gold pieces. Great\\nwas his glee to discover that it was only one of the imitation coins used\\nas substitutes for poker chips, ^f course, the story got into circula-\\ntion, and the bold diver became master of the situation and subsequent-\\nly of the heiress. A night carnival on the lake, at which prizes are\\noffered for the most beautifully illuminated boats, is one of the features\\nof the season at this resort.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "The Allaire Ruins.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "56\\nSEA GIRT is, in every sense of the term, a seashore fesort,\\nfor it has but few permanent residents, they being farmers and\\nfishermen along- the shore of Wrack Pond, known also as Sea\\nGirt Inlet while the summer visitors are guests of the hotels\\nvi^hich are on the beach. Very few cottages have been built\\nthus far, and the dense pine woods, springing almost directly\\nfrom the coaj^t, have hardly been touched, except for the laying\\nout of beautiful rambles and tlrives. Sea Girt is one of the\\nmost exclusive resorts along the coast. The great majority of\\nits summer visitors are Philadelphians, and it is said that if you\\nshake the genealogical tree of a Sea Girt summer visitor, a\\nBinney or a Biddle is sure to drop off.\\nIn 1853 the late Commodore Robert F. Stockton purchased a tract of\\n288 acres and erected a commodious summer mansion, so near the surf\\nthat from a short distance back of the piazza rail the beach cannot be\\nseen, and one looks out over the expanse of ocean as from a vessel s\\ndeck. This piazza he ringed like a deck, with capstan, compass, cleats\\nand davits from which life-boats are suspended. The ship-like charac-\\nter has been retained by the Sea Girt Land and Improvement Co.,\\nwhich, in 1875, acquired the property and erected the Beach House, by\\nadding a wing to either side of the Stockton mansion. Those, and they\\nare many, whose imaginations are pleasantly stimulated by the nautical\\ncharacter of the piazza, will be pleased to learn that the mansion has a\\nveritable ship s bottom, so that, were it to be carried away by the sea,\\nit would ride the waves in gallant style.\\nThe State camp, where the N. G. s. N. J. holds its annual field exer-\\ncises during one week in August, is a beautiful tract of land whose en-\\ntrance is near the station. The glamor and bustle of military life and\\nthe ball given at the Beach House to the Governor and his staff make\\nthe encampment a welcome episode of the summer season.\\nBEACH DAY It was a custom among the Indians to flock\\nfor one day of the summer to the seashore, where they bathed\\nand feasted on baked clams. The custom survives, and on\\nBeach Day, the second Saturday in August, a point of beach\\nnear Wrack Pond is crowded with wagons, in which farmers,\\nfrom as far back as 20 miles in the country, have driven their\\nfamilies. Families coming from such a distance usiudly array\\nthemselves in their bathing-suits at home, and start on Friday\\nafternoon, sleeping in the wagons. It is said that before the\\nadvent of the summer visitor put a restraint u])on the proceed-\\nings ot Beach Day, they were decidedly unconventional. While\\nthe Indian clam-bake is no longer a feature of Beach Day, the\\nIndian method of baking clams yields more succulent I csults\\nthan any other. A hole is dug in the sand, in which faggots\\nare burned until it is thoroughly heated. The clams are then\\ndumped into it and covered with wet seaweed. When tliey\\nopen, it is found that the seaweed has imparted a most deli-\\ncate flavor to them. On clams the Indian cook was a LucuUus.\\nMANASQUAN is comparatively a new place, although more\\na farming (own than a summer resort. Tiie first clearing for\\na settlement was made in 1815, where the Osborne House now", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "i)l\\nf^tanci^ Tlio limits of tlie village arc bounded by tlie ocean and\\nt lie Maiia^ijuan liivt i wiiicii here enlarges t(\u00c2\u00bb {\\\\\\\\v size of a lake,\\nand olfei s exeelleiit facilities loi boating, bass and blue-iisliing,\\ncrabbing and duck-shooting. New York is lai gely su|)[)lied\\nwith soft-shell crabs from this place. But the oyster-beds of\\nthe Manasquan, at one time so })roductive, a})i)ear to be less\\nfertile at present. There is a canning factory at Manasquan.\\nAt Union, on the Manasquan, William Jirown built vessels as\\nfar back as 1808, and ship-building was continued there until\\nthe inlet and channel became too shoal for the passatie of any-\\nthing above a large sail-boat. Small craft are, however, still\\nbuilt there in large numbers, and the bridge to Point Pleasant\\nstill has a draw, and is bound to open for any craft able to float\\nthrough.\\nIn 1872 an investor purchas ed 30 acres south of the village,\\non the Manasquan, laid it out in lots, and called it Sea View.\\nIt is now built up, and is included in the village limits.\\nBRIELLE was founded by the Brielle Land Association,\\nwhich was incorporated in 1881. It purchased a tract of 150\\nacres of land southeast of Maiuisquan village, beautifully situ-\\nated on a cove of the Manasquan liivei once rejoicing in the\\nname of Mud Pond, but now euphonized to Glimmerglass.\\nThis land has been laid out in lots, and a pretty hotel, the Car-\\nteret Arms, and a number of cottages, have already been erected.\\nThe place has a railway station of its own, and a good road di-\\nrectly to the beach, which here adjoins Manasquan Inlet. This\\ninlet has of late nearly closed, owing to the wreck of a Spatiish\\nbrig on the north side. Laden with iron-ore, she has become\\nsolid as a rock the sand has filled all the cliinks, buried the\\ndeck and made a permanent landmark the masts, flrndy im-\\nbedded, stand as high as the top-gallant cross-trees. In a storm\\nthe surges sometimes sweep completely over the wreck up to\\nthe round tops, greatly adding to the grandeur and sentiment\\nof the scene. The Association runs a stage free for the hotel\\nguests and cottagers to the beach.\\nPOINT PLEASANT is essentially a summer resort. There\\nis a permanent farming population, and the two railroads meet-\\ning there add a eonsidei-able number of I esident employes but\\nit is in summer that the real character of Point Pleasant is seen.\\nWest Point Pleasant, the oldest portion of the village, is an\\nagricultural hamlet.\\nIn the cemetery of West Point Pleasjint an^ ])in-ie(l tlie 4 victims of\\nthe MiittuvH wreck. Slie was a fine i)ael et-sliii) that went on slioi c at a\\npoint near what is now called Seaside I ark, in a tenible storm, known\\nas the Mintvrn storm, February 14, 184(5. Tlie snow was so blindinfr\\nthat, although but a few yards fnmi the beach, the ship could only be\\nseen at intervals between the clouds of driving: snow. The jiassentrers\\nand crew sought refuge under the lee of the deck-houses, but were soon", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "58\\nfrozen and washed into the sea. As the corpses came on shore it was\\nfound that they were frozen stiff. The cajitain s face was as pla^-id as\\nif he were asleep, but others Ijore tlie marks of intense sufferina A\\nmother was found claspinj^- lier nursing babe to her bosom. Eye-wit-\\nnesses wept at tlie touching spectacle. The bodies were brought in an\\nold boat to Bay Head and buried at West Point Pleasant. Captain John\\nG. W. Havens, Superintendent of the Life Saving Service on the coast\\nof New Jersey since its organization, has, in the course of a long expe-\\nrience, gathered many interestmg relics of the numerous wrecks on\\nthat coast, which he is always ready to show to visitors at Point Pleas-\\nant. A romantic interest attaches to a sword with a hilt of gold which\\nis among the relics. It is firmly believed to be part of a treasure buried\\ni)y pirates near the present site of Life Saving Station No. 22, about two\\nand a quarter miles south of Beach Haven. The evening of Sunday,\\nSeptember 11, 1886, two men. representing themselves as surveyors,\\nasked a surfman of the station to point out two cedars about one hun-\\ndred yards northeast from the location of the old inlet. This the surf-\\nman was easily able t(^ do, as the cedars were well-known landmarks.\\nSomething in the manner of the men, who spent the night at the sta-\\ntion, led the crew to suspect that their visitors were not what they rep-\\nresented themselves to be, and the next morning, after the men had\\nleft the station, one of the crew climbed up to the look-out and trained\\na spy-glass on the cedars. He saw the two men busily engaged digging\\nup the sand. One of them, happening to glance up toward the station,\\nbecame aware that they were being watched, and they departed in\\nhaste, bearing something with them. Several surfmen then hurrying\\nover to the cedars, discovered that two holes had been dug there and\\nfound the valuable sword on the ed^e of one of the holes.\\nPoint Pleasant has two special points of attraction for those\\nwho visit it in summer, especially the cottagers. The hotels\\nare chiefly in the village, but near the southern bank of the\\nManasquan there is a broad avenue lined on one side with\\nsummer cottages and on the other by a beautiful pine grove,\\nthrough wliich the water is seen gleaming.\\nAnother cluster of cottages is on the shore facing the sea\\nnear the Land s End Hotel. This settlement, about one mile\\nfrom the station, is reached by a hoi se railroad and a plank\\nwalk. Here one finds bath-houses, a large and well-appointed\\npavilion commanding a bi eezy view of the ocean, and refresh-\\nment saloons. The coast at this point possesses remarkable\\nwildness, reminding one of the eastern side of Cape Cod, The\\nsand is heaped up in high, snow-like dunes, overgrown here\\nand there with tufts of salt grass. In stormy weather the\\ndrifting sand fills the air like the spray of the surf.\\nBefore leaving Point Pleasant the visitor should go to what is called\\nWill s Hole, a cove of the Manas(inan below a hill tufted with a clump\\nof cedars on the south side of the river. -The cove was at one time deep\\nenough to float small ships, but it is now nearly filled up. Indian Will was\\na noted chief of the Jersey Indians in the seventeenth century. He was\\na man of intelligence and vigorous character, and made an impression\\non the annals and traditions of the period. He had his camp for many\\nyears by the cove which goes by his name. Shell heaps still exist there\\nattributed to him. It is likely he and his family contributed a share of\\noyster and clam-shells to that deposit of crustaceans, but it must have\\ntaken several generations of Indians to collect those heaps. Tradition\\nstates that Indian Will, for reasons unknown but doubtless more satis-\\nfactory to himself than to his vi(;tim, murdered his wife by drowning\\nher in that pool. Such accidents not being unknown in the domestic", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "59\\nlife of the iioole red men of the forest, thei e seems no reason to (|Ues-\\ntion tlie authenticity of a tradition wiiieh casts a leifendary intex esl\\nover the placid waters of the Manasquan.\\nBAY HEAD, a small summer resort on the bluff, two miles\\nsouth of Point Pleasant, is reached by a carriage-road. This is\\na noted spot for shipwrecks on the Jersey coast, averaging one a\\nyear for the last eleven years. There is no apparent reason for\\nthis fact as there is no point making out there; it may possibly\\nbe because this spot is midway between Barnegat and Sandy\\nHook lights, and in thick weather a ship at that point loses\\nsight of both. It is a remarkable fact that no less than four\\nwrecks have occurred upon an identical part of the beach; in\\none case a ship passing directly over the remains of a previous\\nwreck. There is a curious breed of Manx cats (without tails)\\nin Bay Head and Point Pleasant, which sprung from two cats\\nthat came ashore in a wreck at the former place twenty years\\nago.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nBARNEGAT BAY AND ATLANTIC CITY.\\nThe earliest descripticn of Barnegat Bav is found in the log\\nof Henry Hudson s Half 3Ioon. After getting out to sea from\\nDelaware Bay, Hudson stood northeasterly making land Sep-\\ntember 2, 1609. probably near Great Egg Harbor. The same\\nday the Half 3Ioo7i passed Barnegat Bay and Barnegat Inlet.\\nFrom the loj^-book of the Half Moon, Septembers, 1609 The pom-se\\nalong the land we found to be northeast by north from the land which\\nwe first had si^ht of imtil we came to a g-reat lake of water, as we could\\n,iudj?e It to be. being drowned land which made its rise like islands\\nwhich was in length ten leagues. The mouth of the lake had mariv\\nshoals, and the sea breaks upon them as it is cast out of the mouth of it\\nAnd from that lake or bay the land lies north by east and we had a sreat\\nstream out of the bay.\\nThe lake mentioned in this extract is Barnegat Bay; the\\nmouth of the lake, Barnegat Inlet. The reference to shoals\\nproves that in those early days already the reefs on which many\\na gallant ship has fought its last fight existed. In fact, Barne-\\ngat Bay derives its name from the breakers whose foam hisses\\nover these shoals, the name being a corruption from the Dutch\\nBarning Gat, meaning Breakers Inlet, which was given to the\\ninlet by the Dutch navigator Captain Mey, after whom Cape\\nMay is named. The tide still rushes as furiously through the\\ninlet as it did when the sea was cast out of the mouth of it,\\nand the tall, slender light-house tower rises up from out of the\\ndunes on the south side like a finger raised in warning.\\nThe inlet has always jealously yarded its rights against the efforts of\\nthe Government to erect lights to warn vessels off the treacherous\\nshoals. It licked around the foundations of the light-house put up in\\n1834, until they melted away and the structure fell into the waves which\\nsince then have been hurling themselves with such destructive force\\nagainst the beach south of the inlet that there is now deep water where\\nthe old tower stood, and the site of that erected in 1858 is seriouslv\\nthreatened. This light-house, red and white, 16.5 feet above sea level\\nshowing a first order light, flashing white every 10 seconds is so exposed\\nto the fury of winter storms, that the vibrations of the structure are\\nviolent enough to cause water in a pail placed on the floor of the top\\nstory to splash over. The wear and rapid changes produced upon the\\nbeach by Barnegat and other inlets through the beaches south of it can\\nbe readily understood when it is remembered that, for instance the\\naverage rise and fall of tide in Barnegat Bay is 1 foot, which for its area", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "62\\nof 7214 square miles means that a volume of 2,016,000.000 cubic feet\\nof water passes through Barnegat Inlet four times daily, making in the\\nyear more than thrice the amount which flows from the water-shed of\\nthe Hudson m the same time and that to the impetuous i-ush of the tide\\nmust be added the destructive effect of wave action.\\nBarnegat Bay really resembles a lake more tliaii a bay, so\\nthat the description of it in the log of the Half 3Ioon is apt.\\nIt is separated from the ocean by two beaches, Squan and\\nLong. That portion of the former, from tiie site of the old\\nCranberry Inlet (now closed), opposite Tom s River, to Barnegat\\nInlet IS often called by its old name of Island Beach, the entire\\nlength of beach from the Manasquan to Barnegat Inlet being\\nabout twenty-four miles. Long Beach stretches from this in-\\nlet to Little Egg Harbor Inlet, a distance of about twenty-one\\nmdes. The depth of the bay north of the inlet scarcely exceeds\\nten feet anywhere, a considerable area next to the beach being\\nless than five feet. Southward it reaches twenty feet near\\nLovelady Island. Barnegat Inlet has now about seven feet of\\nwater on its bar at low water, and from eleven to twelve feet\\nat high tide. The bay is about twenty-seven miles long and\\nfrom one to four miles bi-oad. The west shore of the beach and\\nthe mainland across the bay are fringed with salt meadows,\\nand in the bay itself are many sedgy islands, these being so\\nnumerous in places as to form a net-work of narrow, sinuous\\nchannels which the natives call thoroughfares or slews\\n(sluice-ways). Metedeconk River, Kettle Creek, Tom s River,\\nCedar Cj-eek, Forked River, Oyster Creek, Gunning River, and\\nseveral smaller streams, flow into Barnegat Bay.\\nThere are settlements both on the narrow beaches and along the\\nmain shore. The beaches, having the ocean before them and the broad\\nbay HI then- rear, seem to offer delightful sites for summer settlements.\\nBetween Bay Head and the point where the Philadelphia Long\\nBranch Railroad extension of the New York Long Branch Railroad\\nleaves the beach and crosses the bay to Tom s River are Mantoloking,\\nChadwick s (a famous old-fashioned gunning resort), Lavalette, Ortlev,\\nBerkeley Arms and Seaside Park. South of Barnegat Inlet are Barne-\\ngat City and Harvey Cedars. The expectations of the founders of some\\not the summer settlements among the places named have unfortunately\\nnot been realized, for certain winds bring the mosquitoes over to the\\nbeaches in such swarms that life becomes almost unendurable Barne-\\ngat Pier IS a station about half way across the Philadelphia Long\\nBranch R.R. bridge, from where many pleasure-boats start for the fish-\\ning-grounds down the bay.\\nBarnegat Bay is the most northerly of a series of bays formed\\nby a strip of beach on the east and the main shore on the west,\\nand receiving the waters of the ocean through narrow inlets.\\nThose bays are separated from one another by encroachments\\nof the salt meadows fringing their shores and by sedgy islands.\\nThrough the channels between these islands one can pass from\\nbay to bay, so that it is possil)le to sail in small craft by au in-\\nland route fi-om any of the resorts on Barnegat Bay clear\\nthrough to Ca])e May.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "Tei\\n^J^erlilnLown\\n_-Pe??j! s Groveoi\\nUPPER \\\\m a N sL^\u00c2\u00bbt\\n\\\\tTlica\\nSpiVenoiiah m\\nHARRIS\\nJIarrtton\\nuStmeJl\\n-:Eiti\\nn\\n%.\u00e2\u0080\u009ei*\\nWhManr\\nqREAD,\\nltOD\\\\\\n^nliarnsTvX\\nClayti\\nZ) 7/!\\n-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^Mdi\\n^*I-^i.V L L W A Y V.\\nl o-\u00c2\u00abv E R Ho Gohan^ey\\nMala go\\n^..B )bana jV,\\n\\\\M a N R E\\nanklin J^exryikt:\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^iny IToTloii\\nA N K L I Nd-^\\nNcwfield\\n4\\nJ \u00e2\u0096\u00a0a.\\nA r L W A y S P \u00c2\u00bbl\u00c2\u00ab^l ,u t5 E E R\\n1- VJ YV TO LU\\nf R E E K o ^^^p, Hoairr ^2\\n^i;Hpmiard sI\\\\r J:^-\\nx.^-^-^^\\npGrn\\nI\\nForest\\n/rf ove\\nf o\\n^i^,\\nS Sliejipard s.ir\\n3ri(lgeton\\nRll\\ntn3xi\\nW\\n,H7rf\\nrsVV^^\\nJouibay Jfoo^\\nio-\\nOeM\\n^1\\nVineland\\nA,,3N b I\\njSout/i Vhieland\\n[illviUe 0f\\nJ\\nK.ManuiT\\naS\\\\)\\nSmyrna\\nfj^yy\\n-v^^t\\n^vJBeu Davis Pt.\\nOF\\nIBeaclon\\nOBrichh\\nUj\\nyville -5\\nO\\nDO W N Ej =o|\u00c2\u00ab r)l\u00c2\u00b0=\\nIS\\n3\\\\ f\\nTalselCgis IM Pt\\nZona ^e^cich csjf^- r,-\\nnc6 I ^VvJ /D\\nj:g. Island Pt. ;EastTo\\\\^^ f^\\n^Dovmit J) J5J X Ji ir A. J^ u\\nBAT\\nGosh\\niDias Greek\\n//W\\nGt^eeji Creel o\\nJiio Grdnde^\\nMshi)vj Crcek ^^7\\nBennett qY\\nColli Spring o/ i\\nIRialX .r^fi Zn tiding\\nOapeJ^ layToint\\nZ. S. S^", "height": "3028", "width": "1803", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "L L t\\nWeymo ilTi\\nS.i\\n_,larv\\nTceds\\nta/r^ !jfL. S. Sia,\\n,v-, -V ^J)bX #fe\u00c2\u00abach Haven/\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i -TNi^V \\\\o Port Republic\\nX Lee(Ss Point\\nQ -^XS?. GALLOWAY r V^^\\n^jy^^Qlarkstown/\\nijPomona _\\nDoug7ihf. i ^2\\nInlet 1\\nIsland Beach\\nL. S. Station\\nL^,\\nT\\nQAbsca/rt s\\nf.\\nV.\\n%te.lrnan y A t i^^^lB. Station\\nS^cmn^^^^^. Atlantic\\nX. S. Station:\\no c, ^c,./^y5?:0cean City\\nU P Rr E o R\\nBtigandlne\\ni. S. Station\\nBeach\\ni. S. Station\\nZ. S. Station A\\nATLANTIC CITY\\nyT Beach\\n\\\\4^ a -tL ^l/^L- S. Statiok)\\n;;y oi e(mUf(\u00c2\u00a3f Corson s Inlet\\n^Beach\\nJea Isle Qity\\n1 S~:5 1. S. Station\\nv ^^nscna Inlet\\nSea Island or\\n6euen Mile Beaelh,\\nt\\nJ. S\u00c2\u00aba\u00c2\u00abio\\nflesea\\nS\u00c2\u00abano\\neach\\nHon\\nS\\nScale of Statute Miles.\\nJtand, McNatly t o.^Bnprdivrs, Chicago.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "63\\nTHE PIRATES OF BAKNEOAT.-Many of the beachos sontli of Bay\\nHead retaiii their oriffiiial wild and desolate eliaractrr. One can wan-\\nder for miles auu)n,u the dunes without eoniinj^ upon hum;in hal)itation\\nother than the Life-8avinj^ stations or an occasional uuner s but.\\nThese beaches were settlecl by whalers as early as IWO, whales beinj?\\nthen plentiful off shoiv;. Afterwards, and until the establisliment of the\\nLife-Saving Service, it was on these 1)eaches that the Barnejiat Pirates\\nplied their infamy. These miscreants had not the venturesome spirit to\\ncruise the sea and attack every vessel they met, sometimes even accept-\\ning the risk of a fair battle. Their piratical acts were the more das-\\ntardly because they rarely involved peril to the lives of those who per-\\npetrated them. A man who coldly shoots down his fellow-man from\\nambush is not more cowardly than were these Barnejjat Pirates. Woe\\nto the ship and crew which in those times found themselves off one of\\nthe Jersey beaches of a stormy night! The elements were not half as\\npitiless as the wretch who trimmed the false beacon on the beach, while\\nthe band of wreckers stood among the dunes peering with straining eyes\\nthrough the gale and sleet in eager expectation that some vessel would\\nbe lured out of her (;oui se and driven on to the shoals It is easy to\\nimagine the scene which was then enacted. Suddenly a ghostly, heav-\\ning form is discerned through the storm. A ship is plunging toward the\\nbreaker.s. There is a crash, a wail of despair, lieard above the uproar of\\nthe tempest, and the false light has fulfilled its mission. The wreckers\\nare now watching the surf. Suddenly a dark oliject is tossed up from\\nthe hollow of a wave and rolled ashore tlirough the surf -the corpse of\\nthe first poor fellow to drop benund)ed from the ice-coated rigging. The\\nwreckers regard him with indifference\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he is only a sailor with no\\nmoney about him. Another is cast ashore and then another and then\\nthey come rolling in faster. Some object larger than a man s body\\ndarkens the surf. It is a door from which one of the panels has been\\nknocked out. A man has thrust an arm through the frame and hangs\\non to it, while with the other he clasps a woman so tightly that even the\\nfury of the elements has not availed to separate them. The wreckers\\npay more attention to these corpses. They search the captain s clothing\\ntill they find a wallet and then take his wife s ear-rings. The number\\nof corpses washed asliore has confirmed what the crash with which the\\nvessel went on the shoal told the wreckers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 she is a large ship, a prime\\nprize for the Barnegat Pirates in spars, timber and cargo. And the\\nchances are she will break up before daylight, so that they can secure a\\ngood shai e of the plunder under cover of the night. Such were some of\\nthe scenes once enacted on that desolate shore wdien the Pirates of\\nBarnegat were in league with the demon of the tempest. When one re-\\nflects upon the terror of a storm at sea the joy with which the tempest-\\ntossed mariner must have beheld what seemed to him a familiar bea(;on;\\nand the despair that must have come over him when he saw tlie line of\\nhissing breakers ahead, and realized that he had been lured to certain\\ndeath, one fails to find words strong enough to express one s sense of\\nthe vidainy of the Pirates of Barnegat.\\nTlie natives of the coast are nither chary of information regarding\\nthese matters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they are too nearly contemporaneous to be freely spoken\\nof. But sometimes, while sitting of a winter evening around tlu! open\\nfire-place of one or another of the old-fashioned iinis on the t;oast, one\\ncan gather no une(;rtain details of these crimes, and old sportsmen will\\ntell of taverns among thedun(\\\\s where wines of the finest vintages of\\nFrance and (iermaiiy coidd be had for a mere song. There is also a\\ndark tradition that of wild winter nights a white femak tiiiure can be\\nseen wandering up an l down Long Beach and suddeidy falling upon\\nher knees and bending over with clasped hands, as if over a corpse.\\nThis is said to be the specter of a young woman who was an active\\nmemlxu of a baud of wreckers of which liei father was the leader. One\\nnight, when the corpses were be;;-inniug to roll in from a vessel which\\nthis i)and had lured on to the shoals, the men heard tlieir leader s\\ndaughter give a shrit^k and saw her throw herself over one of tlie Ixulies.\\nIt was the corpse of her sailor lover, who, it was afterwards learned,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "64\\nhad escaped from a wreck on the British coast and had then shipped for\\nhome in the very vessel she had helped lure to destruction.\\nNowadays, the only men to be found on the beaches of a stormy\\nwinter night are the life-savers. The service has put an end to wrecking\\nas a business. For a living the natives now follow the bay or pro-\\nvide entertainment for summer visitors and the sportsmen who are at\\nall seasons attracted to this coast. Of a winter night, instead of hoist-\\ning false signals on a storm-swept beach, they draw up to the open fire-\\nplace or sit around the tap-room stove of their village inn, and their\\nsignalling is confined to tipping the wink to one another when to\\nbegin loading up some fresh, green youngster, down from the city\\non his first duck-shooting expedition, with stories of the wonderful\\nsport to be had on the Bay\u00e2\u0080\u0094 stories in which the b2 broad-bills bagged\\nin a day by one gunner at Wrangle Creek, or the 73 bagged in Sed^e\\nIslands thoroughfare, or the single haul of 200,000 pounds of fish in\\nMetedeconk River in 1847, usually figure in the expressive native ver-\\nnacular. Another story is perhaps cut short by a gust of wind caused\\nby the opening of the door. Three muffled figures seem to be fairly\\nblown in. When they have thrown off their great-coats the new-comers\\nturn out to be an ex-sheriff from Tom s River, with a spare, shrewd,\\ngray-whiskered face, and two friends who have come down to have a\\nquiet little game with the landlord. They jrin the circle around the\\nstove, and the ex-sheriff reminiscences for the benefit of the yoimg\\nsportsman of the days when he could beat every man in Ocean and ad-\\nioining counties at quoits. Then he invites ail hands up to the bar.\\nDrink hearty, gentlemen Drink hearty he says briskly, and tosses\\noff three fingers of rye, after which he and his friends retire with the\\nlandlord. The next morning, at breakfast, the landlord and the ex-sher-\\niff s two friends can hardly hold up their heads he has long ago hitched\\nup and is well on the road to Tom s River. It may be .iudged from this\\nbrief sketch that life along Barnegat Bay is quite different from that at\\nthe resorts north of Bay Head. There the visitors do not mingle with\\nthe natives. But along Barnegat Bay one is brought into quite different\\nrelations with them. You feel like knowing more of the man who\\nbrings down his red-head every time, who knows every fishing-ground,\\nand who can steer his yacht unerringly through all the channels, thor-\\noughfares and slews, and an entente corrliale, ^wch. as exists between\\nthe Adirondack hunter and his guide, is soon established between the\\nsportsman on Barnegat Bay and his boatman or gunner.\\nSPORT.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Barnegat Bay is all sport. In summer, hundreds\\nof little vessels scud over its waters to the fishing-grounds near\\nthe inlet; and of the early mornings in winter, the figures of\\ngunners may be seen dimly outlined against the gray horizon\\nas they row their sneak-boxes out of the creeks toward some\\nsedgy point or island. The earlier the start the better, for a\\nfew of the shooting points are considered to be more favor-\\nably located than the rest, and it is a gunner s ambition to get\\nhis man to one of these points that is, if he knows his man\\nto be a first-rate sportsman. There is amusing rivalry between\\nthe different places along the bay shore for pre-eminence as\\nsporting headquarters, especially between Forked River, Ware-\\ntown and Barnegat (not to be confounded with Barnegat Pier,\\nBarnegat Park or Barnegat City). At Forked River they will\\ntell you that at Barnegat you have to drive one and a half\\nmiles from the station to the landing, and that the gunners\\nthere are so numerous they will double up on the good\\npoints. At Barnegat they will tell you that their landing,\\nalthough one and a half miles from the station, is right on the", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Scenes on Barnegat Bay.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "6b\\nbay, while at Forked River, although the landing is near the\\nstation, it is far up the creek, and that unless wind and tide\\nare favorable you will be a long time reaching the bay. At\\nboth places they will say that, while Waretown is right on the\\nbay, so that you have neither to drive to the landing nor to\\nnaVigate a creek, the fact of there being no creek for a harbor\\nmakes landing there dangerous in stormy weather.\\nThe reason these three places are rivals for pre-eminence as\\nsporting resorts lies in the fact that the best fishing-grounds\\nand shooting points are in their vicinity. The great summer\\nsport is weak-fishing. Weak-fish from one to one and three-\\nquarters pounds in weight can be caught in great numbers a\\nshort distance from the mouth of Forked River, while in Oyster\\nCreek Channel, or in the Elbow near the Inlet, the large tide-\\nrunners are almost equally numerous. On a fine summer day\\nthere is always a large fleet of fishing-boats from Tom s River,\\nBarnegat Pier, Forked River and Waretown anchored over\\nthese grounds. Sheep s-head can also be caught in Oyster Creek\\nChannel during July and August, while many king-fish are\\ntaken from near Clam Island. The Barnegat fishermen have\\nan excellent weak-fishing ground a short distance from the\\nnorth mouth of Double Creek, where their landing is. In the\\nfall, there is also fine striped-bass fishing, especially in the gap\\nbetween Sandy and Marsh Elder Islands and in the Marsh\\nElder thoroughfare. From February, or even earlier, if the\\nbay is clear of ice, until May there is excellent sport fishing for\\nflounders through holes in the coral beds formed by worms.\\nIn point of fact, Waretown is the most favorably located of\\nthe three places for fishing excursions, because there a tongue\\nof solid ground penetrates the salt meadows to the edge of the\\nbay, and the landing is within a few miimtes of the railroad\\nstation and at the same time right on the bay. Nevertheless\\namong sportsmen Forked River is considered the fishing head-\\nquarters for Barnegat Bay, and Barnegat the headquarters for\\ngunning. Forked River undoubtedly owes much of its reputa-\\ntion among sportsmen to the fame of its comfortable, old-\\nfashioned sporting house, the Lafayette, which for many years\\nhas been kept by old Sheriff Parker, large of frame and of\\nheart, and as genial and cheery as the blaze of pine logs and\\nstumps, which in winter are piled up on the hearth of the\\nLafayette sitting-room. The house is noted for its plain but\\ndelicious cooking, and the variety of fish, oysters, clams, crabs\\nand game which the Sheriff makes a point of serving. To use\\nhis own expressive phrase, he feeds his guests off the bay.\\nA free stage is run from the railroad station to the house, and\\nfrom the house to the landing. Fishermen wishing to make an\\nearly start can have breakfast at 5 a. m., or earlier if they de-\\nsire, and the Sheriff will put up lunch for the party and the\\ncaptain. When boats return from fishing, a signal flag is", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "-it. ii", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "68\\nhoisted at the landing and a stage is dispatched thither. If,\\nwhile the boats are out, the horses are not in use, the Sheriff\\nbundles the mothers and children into the stages and sends\\nthem out for a drive. The house is picturesquely situated on\\ntlie most northerly of the three branches which give Forked\\nRiver its name. On the south bank of this branch is one of\\nthose beautiful stretches of dark cedar swamp which add so\\nmuch to the attractiveness of the scenes in this section of the\\ncoast, and which so temper the winter winds that the main\\nshore of Barnegat Bay is a pleasant dwelling-place during the\\nwinter months.\\nThe gunners make their headquarters at Barnegat because\\nthe principal shooting points are in its vicinity, Lovelady and\\nSandy Islands being considered the best points on the bay now\\nthat the Sedge Islands have become private. Nearly all the\\nislands and points south of Stout s Creek, and whether on the\\nmain shore or beach are, however, resorted to by gunners, the\\npoints of vantage shifting with the changes of the wind, prob-\\nlems of the sport, the solution of which is best left to the\\ngunner who is piloting the sportsman. The ducks which fre-\\nquent Barnegat Bay are teal, broad-bills, blacks, red-heads,\\nwhistlers, mallards and shelldrakes; occasionally canvas-\\nbacks stray up from the Chesapeake. From October 20th till\\nDecember 1st, and March and April are the best periods of the\\nyear for duck-shooting on Barnegat Bay. Brant are plentiful\\nin the spring. Goose shooting is followed with greatest success\\nfurther up the bay, around Tom s River and Chad wick s.\\nIn the woods back of the main shore are quail, rabbits, coons\\nand foxes, and on the meadows English sni[)e.\\nBoating, fishing and gunning on Barnegat Bay are not ex-\\npensive sports. One of the roomy, comfortable Barnegat Bay\\ncat-boats with cabin, can be hired for $4 a day. Bait is 75\\ncents a quart for shrimps; $1 a dozen for soft-shell crabs.\\nThe captain finds the tackle. Four should be the limit of a\\npa-rty for comfort, though the $4 allows you to make your party\\nas large as you choose. Gunning is $4 a day, the price covei-\\ning boats and decoys. Shooting through the woods or over the\\nmeadows is $2 a day. Row-boats range from nothing to 20\\ncents an hour.\\nTOM S RIVER.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Between Point Pleasant and Tom s River the settle-\\nments on the main shore of Barnegat Bay are small and strag^lingr.\\ni hey are Burrsville, Cedar Brido:e, Silverton and Cedar Grove. Tom s\\nHh is the county seat of Ocean County. The main settlement is\\nbeau \\\\illy situated on high ground on the north bank of the river\\nwliich ves it its name, This river is broad and deep from shore to\\nsiiore, 1 uis affording excellent facilities for boating. The yachting fleet\\nnumbers about 1.50 sail, and during the summer there are two yacht\\nraces. In this river, as in all streams which empty into the bay, tliere\\nis excellent fishing for perch, piclcerel and eels, and there is good fresh\\nwater bathing.\\nPown the north shore of the river are Money Island (now joined to", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "m\\nthe mainland), on whose summit tradition h)cates one of the numerous\\nburial-places of Kidd s treasure; the Methodist snmmer resort of Island\\nHeights, and Westwray s Point As the view of the bay and ocean\\nfrom Island Heijjhts is extensive and beautiful, the drive there is a\\nfavorite one. Other fine drives are to Lake wood and Bamber, and\\nalong the main bay shore, from which one has occasional lovely\\nglimpses of the water. On the south shore of Tom s Eiver is the house\\nm which Thomas Placide, the once famous actor, committed suicide.\\nTom s River probably derives its name from Captain William Tom,\\na stui dy settler on the Delaware some 200 years ag o, who, on an explor-\\ning expedition to the seashore, discovered, after penetrating ttie wilder-\\nness of pines, the river which now bears his name. On a map published\\nin 1740 there is marked on the point north of Mosquito Cove Barnegat\\nTom s Wigwam, and some think the stream was named after this\\nnoted Indian. On several old maps it goes by the prosaic name of\\nGoose Creek.\\nDuring the Revolution there were extensive salt-works on the mead-\\nows some one and a half miles north of the river s mouth, the water\\nbeing pumped up by a wind-mill which stood until about the middle of\\nthis century These salt-works, which had been established at great\\nexpense, were of such value to the American government that a mili-\\ntary post was established at Tom s River partly for their protection. At\\nthat time Cranberry Inlet, opposite Tom s River, was open, on which\\naccount the place formed a favorite base of operations for American\\nprivateers. A blockhouse fort was erected a short distance north of\\nthe bridge on a hill about 100 yards east of the road to Freehold. On\\nWednesday, March 20, 1782, an expedition of some 200 British soldiers\\nand refugees in armed whale-boats, under convoy of the armed brig\\nArrogant, proceeded to Sandy Hook, whence on the 23d they started for\\nCranberry Inlet. They landed near the mouth of the river at midnight\\nand marched to the blockhouse, which was commanded by Captain\\nJoshua Huddy, whose force was far inferior in numbers to the attacking\\nparty. He made a gallant defense, but was overwhelmed by superior\\nforce and captured. The enemy then plundered and burned the entire\\nplace, except two houses, to the ground. The tragic fate of Captain\\nHuddy is told on p. 24.\\nGood Luck Point, the southern point at the mouth of Tom s River,\\nderives its name from a revolutionary episode. A refugee named Mc-\\nMullen, of whom a party of militiamen were in hot pursuit, spurred his\\nhorse into the stream and was borne safely to the opposite shore wliere,\\nwaving his hat toward his baffled pursuers, he shouted Good luck\\nGood luck 1\\nThe first place south of Tom s River is the straggling settlement of\\nBayville. Here is the melancholy looking shell of an old free church.\\nIn this church it was first come first served, and within its sacred pre-\\ncincts, it is said, itinerant ministers would of a Sabbath morning come\\nto blows for the right to hold services and the accompanying privilege\\nof taking up a collection.\\nBARNKdIAT PARK, the railroad station for Bayville, is being de-\\nveloped into a summer and winter settlement iinder the auspices of\\nseveral officers of the Army and Navy. The Park comprises some 300\\nacres, around and through which flow Pine and Cedar creeks. At the\\nhead of the former is Crystal Lake, a pretty sheet of water. The entire\\ntract is covered with a growth of young pines, which will be allowed to\\nremain, so that Barnegat Park is among the pines as well as on the\\nBay. It is proinised that great attention will be paid to the roads. A\\nBoulevard 100 feet wide runs around the tract and on the west side\\nalong Pine Creek. Decatur Avenue is a graveled roadway running to\\nthe bay. The Park has ])een laid out in building lots and wide avenues,\\nthe latter named after prominent Army and Navy offi(!ers. A hunting\\ntract of 4,000 acres adjacent to the Park has been placed at the manage-\\nment s disposal and it is also proposed to run a steam-yacht from the\\nlanding. The erection of an inn is also under consideration.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "70\\nCEDAK TRKKK is the station next south of Riinn frat Park. It is a\\nsettlement of liaNintii, \\\\vlio in summer sail tlnir yaelils fi-oiii Seaside\\nI ariv or Barjiejrat I ier. Tlie ereei is one of tin- most lieautifui of the\\nmany eeclar-swami) streams wiiich cross tlie ro.id alttiiLT thr hay sliore\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094a swift, deep, clear, resiuous-colorcd current of icy cold, i)lcasiiiit\\ntastin.l,^ hcaltlilid water. It may he well to \u00c2\u00ab-ail attcjitioii hen to what\\nis said in the Introduction of this book of the line walcr-power still\\nunutilized in this part of the State.\\nriNE IIOIJMKKS. I he hridjrehy which the T oa l crosses t cdar (reek\\nwas, on December J7.17iS J, the seeiie of a biisk skirmish between a band\\nof refujjees, ci nunanded by one of their most noted leaders, Cajit. .John\\nHacon,an(l a party of militiamen, in which the latter were victoritius.\\nThe reVuj;ees liereabouts were known as Tine Kobbeis or oullaw.s of\\nthe I ines, because they concealed themselves in aves whi h tlayduj;\\ni)ack in th pine woods in the hijrh banks of the .streams emptyin;, into\\nthe l)ay. These eavt s are still to be found on I om s liiver. Cedar I reek,\\nOyster Creek and Korke l Kivt r, one of whose branches is namcil Cave\\nCabin Ihanch. liacon, on one of his raids, jilundered the Ibilmes House\\nat Forked l{iver, on the site of the iiresent Lafayette House, in OctoJHT,\\n178 -J, a cutter came ashore aliout a mile .snuth of narnc;rat lidet. Wdnl\\nwas sent across tlie bay, and a i arty of unarme l men proceeded to the\\nbeach and by hard work manaired to land nnich of the cai-^ o throutjh\\nthe surf. At ni^dit, wet and weary, tlu-y built lires and were soon\\nsleeping; soundly beside them. Uacim received word of this, and iaiid-\\niuj; on the beilch with a i arty of refu;;ees, cruelly mas.sacred the\\nsleepers. The? followin;; sprimr In; was snrprise l an l killed in a tavern\\nbetween West Creek and Tuck\u00c2\u00ab iton. other unlaws of the riiies wIkj\\nraided tlie shores of I)arne;:at iJay were Davenjtorl, aft -r whom Daven-\\nport Branch of Tom s iSiver is named, and linhard Bird. The latter\\nmet liis death in a singularly tratrie maimer. He and a cfunpanion\\nbeinj; observed on the road near Bayville, a party ol militiamen .-tart\u00c2\u00ab (l\\nin pursuit. Bird s compainon escai ed to a hidin;:-j)lace. and Bird hifji-\\nself niana{;e(l to elude his pursuers tcmjxirarily. They ha l heard,\\nhowi ver, that Bird was occasionally h,irbore l by a voun;; woman who\\niivecl in a ealiin in the woods between the road and tlie shore. At nijrlit\\nthey made their way to this cabin and throULdi the wiiwlow saw him\\nseated in the ii wVs lap. One of the party tired through the window and\\nthe refiii^ee fell dead upon the floor. When the militiamen entered, the\\ngirl was unconcernedly rillinir the dead mans pockets. The house in\\nwhich tiiis occurred is how jiart of a dwelling; on the road leadinj; from\\nthe main riiad near the t\u00c2\u00bbld free church at Bayville, to\\\\N ard the shore.\\n(JOOD LUCK is virtually pnrt of Cedar Creek, but boasts a sejiarate\\nname, because there is the site of the old Potter church in which the\\nfirst rniversalist sermon in this country was jireached. The buildijif;\\nwas put up about IVtiO. by Thomas Potter, as a free church, and as\\nAbbott and Asbury iireached in it and .lames Sterlinj; was married in it,\\nit is almost as noted in the annals of the Methodist as in those of the\\nUniversalist Church in America.\\nWhen Potter Iniilt the church, he stated to neijrhbors tliat. wliile it\\nwas to be a free church, he desired to liave rej;ular services ju-ovided\\nfor. and he was sure (iod wcuild in time send a miinstcr. In Septt ml)er.\\n1770, the hri^j; /Id iU in //c/// alioard which was .lohii Murray, a warm\\nadvocate of Universalisni. stranded on the outer bjir of Craiiiierry Inlet.\\nShe sot over this into deep water and was held by her anchors from\\ngoins? ashore. She lay there several days, and her jirovisions becominj?\\nexhausted, all hands proceetled in a 1)oat across the bay. Murray, sep-\\naratinj; from the rest, came to a house where he found a tall, rouerh-\\nlookiiifr man standing by a iiile of fish. Pray, sir. said Murray, will\\nyou have the troodness to sell me one of those tisli? No. sir. was\\nthe old man s abrupt reply. That is stranjje, replied Murray; when\\nyou have so many, to refuse me a single one. I did not refuse you a\\nfish, sir; you are welcome to as many as you please. But I do not sell\\nfish 1 haVe them for the taking up. and you may obtain them the same", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "[Georaetd-w\\n^2m\\n\\\\Fon)tUnn Grg^n\\n\\\\A \\\\N\\n7^\\nA^V^o^Y\\n\\\\m\\nm.^\\nMANGHEJ\\nM -St c\\n(Ct tfj^* \\\\\\\\Moi(?it 3nseT i^ JVUH/i\\nJ-^S/", "height": "3038", "width": "1777", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "INT,PLE-ASANT\\nif Vv^- Barnesat City j\\nf jr. S- Station\\nilL SSta. Scale of Stattite Miles.\\naa^,,, Id^\\nJ JUxnd. Morally, i Co., Engravers, Chicago.", "height": "3034", "width": "1726", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "71\\nway. The upshot of the singular conversation was that Murray, after\\ntaking some fish to a tavern where the crew had put up for the night,\\nreturned to Potter s house. Potter greeted him warmly, saying\\nCome, my friend, I am glad you have returned I have longed to see\\nyou I have been long expecting you. Noticing Murray s surprise, he\\ntold of the hope which had inspired him when he built the meeting-\\nhouse. When the house was finished, said Potter, I received an\\napplication from the Baptists, and I told them if they could make it\\nappear that God Almighty was a Baptist I would give it to them at\\nonce. My friends often asked me, Where is the preacher of\\nwhom you spoke? and my constant reply was, He will by-and-by\\nmake his appearance. The moment, sir, I saw your vessel on shore, it\\nseemed as if a voice had audibly sounded in my ears There, Potter,\\nin that vessel, cast away on that shore, is the preacher you have so long\\nbeen expecting.\\nMurray was astounded. He had preached in England, but had\\nsailed in the Hand in Hand as supercargo, having determined never to\\npreach again. Potter s earnestness, however, prevailed upon him, and\\nthe Sunday following he preached the first Universalist sermon in\\nAmerica. Murray named the place Good Luck. The old church still\\nstands, an unpretentious, white, oblong structure. There is, every\\nSeptember, a grove meeting of Universalists near the old church. This\\nnow belongs to the Methodists, but the Universalists have erected a\\nroomy brick church near by. A h^ad-stone marks the grave of Potter\\nin the little cemetery near the old church.\\nFORKED RIVER, WARETOWN and BARNEGAT have already been\\nspoken of under the division of Sport. Concerning Waretown, it may\\nbe added that it is named after Abraham Waeir, one of a band of Rog-\\nerine Baptists, who located there about 1737, remaining there about\\neleven years, when they left for Morris County where, previous to their\\ncoming to Waretown, they had been settled on Schooley s Mountain.\\nAt Barhegat the shipping of salt hay for packing purposes is an\\nindustry of considerable importance, arid there is an oyster packing\\nestablishment which ships oysters in large quantities.\\nA trainer of one of the large trotting stables has for several winters\\npast taken his string of trotters down to Barnegat. The w^eather is so\\nmild along the coast that there are few days when he cannot send his\\nhorses spinning over the fine hard roads, a fact to which horsemen may\\nbe glad t(^ have their attention called.\\nThe early spring, and the long duration of pleasantly warm weather,\\nhave induced some of the natives to experiment with vineyards and\\norchards in clearings in the pine-woods a short distance back from the\\nbay shore. These experiments have been uniformly successful.\\nThe Tom s River and Waretown branch of the Jersey Southern Rail-\\nroad has its terminus at Barnegat where, however, connection can be\\nmade with the Tuckerton Railroad for Manahawkin (Indian for Good-\\nCorn Land) and Tuckerton and via the Long Beach Railroad, which\\ncrosses Manahawkin Bay, for Harvey Cedars and Barnegat City on the\\nbeach shore of Barnegat Bay and for Peahala and Beach Haven on the\\nbeach shore of Little Egg Harbor. As Little Egg Harbor offers admir-\\nable opportunity for aquatic sports, Beach Haven is rapidly com ng\\ninto favor as a summer resort. The inn at Harvey Cedars is an old-\\nfashioned resort, of the same comfortable, imconventional character as\\nthe Lafayette House at Forked River, and a favorite headquarters for\\ngunners in winter.\\nATLANTIC CITY is virtually a seaside suburb of Philadel-\\nphia. It was founded by Pennsylvanians atid is frequented\\nchiefly by them, tiiough it has been ^rowinc: more popular\\nanioni^ New Yorkers since the Central Railroad of New Jersey\\n})ut on its fast express.\\nAtlantic City is situated on a long low sand spit or islet", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "v2\\ncalled Absecon Island, seven miles from the mainland, from\\nwhich it is separated by what is really a continuation of Barne-\\ngat Bay. At the northern end is Absecon Inlet, which runs\\nbetween Absecon Island and Brigantine Island, the latter a\\nlow stretch of sand containing two or three farm and fisher-\\nmen s houses and as many hotels and boarding places. The\\ninlet, navigable for vessels drawing not over eight feet of\\nwater, leads to the port of Atlantic City. The bay at this\\npoint is studded with low islands and offers admirable facilities\\nfor aouatic sports alike with sail, rod and gun.\\nThere is a tradition that a Portuguese adventurer, descended from\\nVasco de Gama, was wrecked on Absecon Island in the latter part of the\\nseventeenth century, and wandered thence to New York City, returning;\\neventually to Fortujtfal. There is an equally nebulous lejyend of an\\nIndian beauty called the Fair Ocean Maid, who, imitating Lord\\nUUin s dauf?hter, fled from an irate fatlier to Absecon Island on a\\nstormy night, aided by a chivalrous, copper-colored knight called\\nWan-Koo-Naby. She was pursued, but the affah- ended as a properly-\\nmanaged romance should\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Fair Ocean Maid becoming Mrs.\\nWan-Koo-Naby, and the blood-thirsty parent becoming reconciled.\\nAbsecon Island wheeled into line with the records of authentic history\\nnot earlier than 1818. No Indians had lived there for more than fifty\\nyears prior to that date. In 1818 Jeremiah Leeds settled on the island,\\nattracted to it probably by an attempt made at some vague previous\\ntime to establish salt-works there. Three or four other familes soon\\nfollowed, but until 1852 the population of the island was confined to six\\nfamilies.\\nTo a physician of Absecon Village, Atlantic City owes its\\norigin. He discerned the possibilities of the sandy islet on\\nwhich he had gazed for years, and especially its advantages for\\nthe people of Philadelphia. After great effort he succeeded\\nin forming a company and passing a railroad charter through\\nthe Legislature of New Jersey. When the railroad was com-\\npleted the trains proceeded the length of the avenue and\\nstopped at each hotel. It is needless to say that with the large\\nincrease of hotels, and the addition of several railways this\\nquaint usage, unique in the history of railways, is no longer\\npossible. No seaside resort in the United States has grown\\nmore rapidly than Atlan^^ic City, or stands on a more secure\\nfoundation as regards future prosperity. For it is both a win-\\nter and summer resort, and being free from the strict regula.-\\ntions which exist at some of our resorts, offers an assortment\\nof attractions which causes it to remind a New Yorker of Coney\\nIsland. As Atlantic City has been called the Long Branch of\\nthe Quaker City, we may assume that the Atlantic City merry-\\ngo-rounds with their incidental risks, take, with Philadelphians,\\nthe place which the tigers and other attractions in the line\\nof sport at Long Branch occupy with New Yorkers. Salt baths\\nof all temperatures are constantly provided, a fleet of sail-\\nboats for picnics, fishing and yachting flaji their pinions in the\\nbay and refreshment piazzjis built over the water offer special\\nfascinations when the broad moon is rising over a tranquil sea", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "74\\nand the night-birds are winging tlieir raysterions flight along\\nthe shore. A tramway runs the length of Atlantic Avenue to\\nthe Excursion House at the inlet.\\nPORT REPUBLIC\u00e2\u0080\u0094 One of the excursions which may be made by\\nsail-boat on a pleasant afternoon, starting from the Excursion House\\nwharf, is to Port Republic on Great Bay, near the mouth of the Mullica\\nKiver. One may still see there the remains of an old fort of the Revo-\\nluti m and fragments of the wreck of the English sloop-of-war Zebra,\\nwhich grounded on the point and was burned to prevent her falling\\ninto the hands of the Americans. As Egg Harbor was a port to which\\nour privateers took many rich prizes, the British despatched a fleet of\\nten vessels to break up the place. General Washington sent Count\\nPulaski with his legion to head off the attack; but Pulaski did not arrive\\nuntil the British had burned the villages of Chestnut Neck, Tucker s\\nMills and thirty prize ships sheltered there. Learning of the approach\\nof Pulaski, the enemy s fleet started to return, but the flagship Zebra\\ntouched on the point, and being unable to get off, was set on fire and\\nabandoned, after the enemy had succeeded in surprising and annihi-\\nlating one of Pulaski s outposts numbering thirty men.\\nSOMER S POINT, on Great Egg Harbor, is a small village which is a\\nport of entry, the inlet being deep enough for vessels drawing twelve\\nfeet of water. This village is notable as the birthplace of Captain\\nSomers, who gallantly lost his life in taking the ketch Intrepid into\\nTripoli in 1812, with the intention of blow^ing up the fleet of corsairs.\\nFor some reason never explained the Intrepid blew up at the entrance\\nto the harbor, with all on board.\\nThe most harrowing of the numerous shipwrecks on Absecon Island\\nwas that of the bark Foivhatan. of Baltimore. In a driving snow-storm\\nin the winter of 1854, she struck on the outer sands. Besides the crew,\\n311 passengers were on board the ill-fated ship, and not a soul was\\nsaved.\\nABSECON LIGHT. Strange to say, there was not even a\\nlight-house at this point until after 1858, when the government\\nappropriated $35,000 for the present structure, which towers\\nmajestically 167 feet above the sea. It stands about 150 yards\\nfrom the surf-line. Its light is a first order, fixed white,\\nvisible nineteen miles. The tower is red and white. The sea\\nis gradually eating its way up to the light-house, and in heavy\\nstorms the tide often surrounds the structure and imprisons\\nits inmates for days. The island is so low that sometimes the\\ntide reaches as far as Atlantic Avenue, some 400 yards from\\nthe beach. The light-house is open to the inspection of\\nvisitors, in clear weather on week days only, between 11a. m.\\nand noon.\\nGreat and Little Egg Harbors, the former at the south and\\nthe latter to the north of Absecon Island, were named from the\\neggs of the mud-hen which at one time were foun l in great\\nabundance on the islets of those bays. Great Egg Harbor is\\nby far the smaller of the two. But the apparent absurdity of\\nits name is explained from the fact that the bays were named\\nficcording to the size of the eggs they yielded.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "!^i^iiiiMi4-\\nPerth Amboy.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER 111.\\nJERSEY CITY TO RED BANK.\\nThe New York and Long Branch Railroad (see Transporta-\\ntion in the Introduclion) is owned by the Central li. K. of\\nM. J. and operated by both it and the Pennsylvania R. R. The\\nlatter follows its main line to Rahway and swerves eastward,\\nreachino: the shore at Perth Andjoy the former follows the\\nshore from the start, I unning over its main line, which crosses\\nNewark Bay on a bridge nearly two miles long to Elizabeth-\\nport, where connection is made from Newark and P]lizabeth.\\nBetween Elizabethport and Red B;ink are Tieniley Carteret (tlie\\nstation for Rahway) Sewaren (the station for Woodbridfj^c) Maurers\\nPerth Aniboy, settled in 1083 and in 1086 the seat of the government of\\nNew Jersey, with many fine Coh)nial bnildings in strange contrast with\\nthe busy life about them South Amboy, almost ecjually old, the Amboy\\nin botli places being of Indian derivation Morgan, Cliflfwood, Mata-\\nwan, Ilazlet and Middletown.\\nSewai-en is a pretty hamlet on the high banks of Staten island\\nSound, whose waters gleam as a foreground to the wooded uplands of\\nStaten Island. Founded in 1882, it has enjoyed steady growth both as\\na place of residence and as a summer resort. From Sewaren or its\\nneighboring Woodbridge to South Amboy (inclusive) are congeries of\\nfactories which are among the most important in tlie United States.\\nHere are vast beds of fire-clay (especially fine at Woodbridge), potter s\\nclay, lignite and sand essential for clay products and as a result we\\nfind factories for brick, furnace blocks, vitrified and glazed pipes and\\nsand tiles and for keramics\u00e2\u0080\u0094 yellow ware, Rockingham ware, white\\nmajolica, vases and plaques while several firms are devoted entirely\\nto the export of kaolin and fire and alum clays.\\nRED BANK is a modern town, incorporated in 1870, on the\\nreddish banks of the Navesink, and is the busy, thriving, dis-\\ntributing center for the northern part of Monmouth County.\\nIt boasts a number of fine residences. Those on the west side\\nof Riverside Avenue have grounds sloping to the river. There\\nare two National banks, an iron foundry and brush and carriage\\nfactories.\\nFrom the railroad bridge the view of the Navesink, enclosed in the\\ndistance by the Highlands, has a tranquil beauty quite in contrast with\\nthe views of heaving ocean on the coast, while there is a superb\\npanoiania of land, river and sea from Prospect Hill. There is plenty of\\nopportunity for aquatic sports, including ice-boating on the Mavesink,\\nand the Red Bank Yacht Club is a flourishing institution.\\nAbout a mile south from the station are the Newman Iron and Sul-\\nphur Springs and the Newman Springs Hotel, a summer resort on the", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "high bank of the Navesink, surrounded with groves, t^ cllowiiig tlm\\nroad from this spot, crossing the Navesink liy a new iron bridge, goiii\\nthrough the village of Leedsville, and crossing Hop Brook, a tributary\\nof Swimming River, which forms the Navesink, and is navigable for\\ncanoes and rowboats, the extensive stock farm of D. D. Withers is\\nreached. Just beyond is the Phalanx, where in 1844 a community was\\norganized on the Brook Farm principle, but was disbanded in I808\\nowing to friendly differences.\\nATLANTIC HIGHLANDS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A branch railroad runs from\\nRed Bank to Atlantic Highlands, whicli is, however, also\\nreached by steamer from the foot of Rector street and by an\\nextension of the Keyport branch of the Freehold and New\\nYork Railroad, which will doubtless open up the whole of the\\nMiddletown headland. Atlantic Highlands is superbly located\\non the west shore of Sandy Hook Bay. It was once known as\\nPortland Point, courts having been held there as early as\\n1667 (see Highlands of Navesink, p. 9). In 1879 the Atlantic\\nHighlands Association, organized to control lands for camp-\\nmeeting purposes, gave the tract its present name. Now we\\nfind here, instead of only half a dozen scattered farm-houses,\\na prosperous borough on the plain and a flourishing summer\\nresort on the heights. Its popularity is doubtless due in a large\\nmeasure to the natural beauty of its surroundings. The rapid\\nslope of the Highland hills, clothed with dense forests, is varied\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0on the seaside by a precipitous bluff, from 40 to 300 feet high,\\nterminating with the grand cliff called Greenland Bank, but\\nlocally known as the Slide. [The cliff, being washed under by\\nthe sea, suddenly gave way at that point in April, 1782, a large\\nmass of rock and earth slipping into the sea and leaving one\\nof the grandest precipices.] The view of these cliffs from the\\npier of a sunlit day aljout 11 A. m. is one of remarkable beauty,\\nwhile the prospect over the Bay, lighted by gleaming sails and\\nbordered by the opposite shores, is varied and attractive.\\nBeginning near the pier. Bay Side Avenue follows the bluff for some\\ndistance. Its broad drive and sidewalks, overlooking the ocean and the\\nhills, form a beautiful and imposing esplanade, the Bay washing at the\\nbase with the bold heights of Point Lookout and Mount Mitchell be-\\nyond. Near the Sea View Hotel the avenue branches into the Grand\\nAvenue and the Highlands Avenue, the latter following a romantic\\ncourse over the hills popularly known as the Breakneck Road on\\naccount of its steep, short turns. This is one of the most attractive\\nroads of the Highland region. The part of the town adjoining the\\nintersection of the avenues has been most carefully and systematically\\ndesigned one of the pi ominent features is the arrangement of streets\\nin circles, thus allowing most of the houses to share the sea prospect.\\nOn the top of a high knoll is the Park, forming a space enclosed by the\\ninner street of the system. It is reserved for the use of the proprietors\\nwhose cottages are on that street. Romantic rambles also lead into\\nthe shady recesses of the neighboring hills and groves, and steps on the\\ncliff side conduct one to the bath-houses built on piles above the water.\\nNear these bath-houses is the pier, so constructed as to serve as a\\nbreakwater or shelter for yachts and sail-boats. The Pavilion, a music\\nhall, stands near the Grand View Hotel, and next to it is the Tabei--\\nnacle. This building, obviously intended for summer services, reminds", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "79\\none of the purpose for which the Association was formed and the resort\\nof the Atlantic Highlands created. That purpose was to combine\\nhealth, pleasure and religion. For this reason no lands of the Associa-\\ntion are sold except with distinct restrictions intended to protect the\\nmorals of the place, and with the proviso that such lands continue\\nunder the municipal control of the Association. For the same reason\\nthe Association maintains possession of the springs which supply the\\ncomuuuiity with water, and also of the Tabernacle and the Auditorium,\\nlocally called the Amphitheater.\\nTHE AMPHITHEATER.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This is a very remarkable depression in the\\nhillside near Grand Avenue, having very nearly the form of an old\\nGreek amphitheater, oval and risiiig gradually from the stage. A sur-\\nprising fact is the symmetrical regularity of this cavity which art could\\nnot improve. It is also noteworthy that the pines which grow there\\nthrow out no branches until at a considerable height, and thus in sum-\\nmer time the place seems to be shaded by a roof of green resting on\\ngray columns. The acoustic properties of the Auditorium are also\\nextraordinary. The ordinary rhetorical tone can be distinctly heard in\\nevery part of an arena capable of seating over 20,000 people. The Asso-\\nciation has not been slow to perceive the advantages which nature or\\nProvidence has thrown in their way. Seats ft)r 4,000 have been placed\\nthere, and it is proposed to add to them. A platform extends across\\nthe lower end. Every summer a large attendance is seen at the services\\nof the Auditorium. In 1886 it witnessed one of the annual gatherings of\\nthe Chatauqua Association.\\n1 A mile east from this point through the woods is NAVESINK PARK,\\nsometimes called Hilton Park. It consists of a tract of 260 acres of\\nwoodland, including Mount Mitchell, purchased some years ago by a\\ncompany of capitalists and laid out with streets and building lots. It\\nwas also placed in communication with deep water navigation by a\\nlong i)ier. After the expenditure of large sums the scheme proceeded\\nno farther, but it is to be pushed forward again in the near future. In\\nquite the opposite direction the visitor may find a pleasant drive\\nthrough LEON AKDSYILLE to the light-house, a little over a mile distant,\\nknown as Conover s Beacon. This is a fixed light forming a range with\\nthe Chapel Hill Light. To one with an eye for the picturesque this\\ngraceful red and white tower, 55 feet high, on a low sandy point sur-\\nrounded by a ledge\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a beautiful foreground against the blue sea beyond\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094forms a very interesting combination of effects. A small creek\\ndivides Atlantic Highlands from the pretty summer settlement of\\nHILLSIDE PARK, which commands a noble prospect over land and\\nsea. In the vicinity of Atlantic Highlands are Chapel Hill and Port\\nMonmouth.\\nCHAPEL HILL, known for 150 years as High Point and receiving its\\npresent name from a little Baptist church erected in 1809, is a small vil-\\nlage 160 feet above the sea. Small fruits, especially strawberries, are\\ngrown with great success in its neighborhood.\\nChapel Hill Light, 224 feet above sea level, fixed white second order\\nlight, is a point of interest, as a beautiful view is had from the tower.\\nFar away in the north spreads the azure expanse of New Yoi k Bay,\\ndotted with white sails, enclosed by the delicately hued shores of Staten\\nIsland and Long Island and of Manhattan Island. In the extreme dis-\\ntance of a clear night Liberty Light is distinctly visible.\\nPORT MONMOUTH was once a place of considerable importance,\\nbeing the main point of arrival and departure for travelers thiouah\\nthe adjoining country. It was selected as one of the teimini of the\\nRaritan and Delaware Bay R. K. Company (now New Jersey Southern),\\nand ground for the railroad was there first broken with a silver spade\\nby a daughter of its most sanguine incorporator. May 20, 1856. It is\\npleasantly located and capable of development into a pleasant seaside\\nresort.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "80\\nTHE FREEHOLB-KEYPORT BRANCH.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At Matawan\\nconnection is made for Keyport, whence an extension forms a\\nquick all-rail route to Atlantic Highlands, and for Freehold, in\\nthe interior, about ten miles southwest in a straight line from\\nMatawan.\\nKEYPORT and its adjunct, Lockport, are prettily situated\\non a small cove of Raritan Bay, into which empty Matawan\\nCreek, navigable to Matawan Station, and Lupatcong Creek.\\nThe neighboring country is rolling; and tall, cypress-like\\nred cedars give a semi-oriental character to some of the scenes.\\nThe picturesque avenue of ancient cedars near Oak Shades is\\nespecially noteworthy. The wharf serves the double purpose of\\na deep water landing for freight steamers and of a breakwater.\\nThe advantages of Keyport for aquatic sports are unusually\\nfine, and the little port, as a rendezvous of a large fleet of\\noyster sloops, presents a very animated scene. The neighbor-\\ning waters are deeply planted with oysters.\\nAbout three miles east of Keyport are the Lorillard brick-works,\\nwhere by the means of an elaborate system of hot-air cells or ovens, in\\nwhich the clay is dried after being shaped, the process requiring sixteen\\nhours, bricks are made uninterruptedly the whole year round. There\\nare eight vast kilns in a row, each able to contain a million of bricks.\\nIt is claimed that not only can better bricks be made by the processes\\nemployed at this brick-yard, but that they can be furnished at lower\\nrates.\\nBetween Matawan and Freehold are a number of small settlements.\\nPhilip Freneau, the poet of the Ravolution (p. 84), is buried at Mount\\nPleasant, where the house in which he lived is still standing and where\\na monument to his memory h jS been erected. The old tavern in which\\nhe and his club companions v M is now occupied as a private dwelling.\\nAtWickatunk was the site of the old Scots Meeting-House (the burying-\\nground is still there), which was built in 1692 and was the predecessor\\nof the famous Tennent Church (p. 82), having been built by Scotch-\\nmen who, about 1687, were wrecked at South Amboy in the Caledonia.\\nMARLBORO deserves prominence in agricultural history as the first\\nplace in this country in which use was made of marl as a fertilizer. An\\nIrishman, who was ditching a meadow, came upon marl, and knowing\\nits virtue from the old country, made its uses known. Professor Cook\\nsays of the Marlboro marl that it is of the most durable kind\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that\\nwhich contains a considerable percentage of the carbonate of lime.\\n(See Geologt in the Introduction.)\\nFREEHOLD.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The history of Freehold begins with the\\nerection of a court-house there in 1715, since when it has been\\nthe county seat of Monmouth. The battle of Monmouth Court-\\nHouse, memorable in the history of the United States, occurred\\nthere on June 28, 1778. The British had decided to abandon\\nPhiladelphia, and Sir Henry Clinton, having learned, after\\ncrossing the Delaware, that Washington was in Jersey, prepared\\nto intercept a direct movement to New York, chose the route", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "81\\nhy Monmouth, with the purpose of reaching New York by way\\noi Sandy Hook Bay.\\nWashinjrton started in vigorous pursuit, despatching Gen. Charles\\nLee, in command of two divisions under Greene and Wayne, to harass\\nthe I ear of tlie enemy and impede their progress until he could bring up\\nall his forces. By the 27th the advance corps of the Continental army\\nwas within five miles of the enemy, and an engagement being no longer\\navoidable. General Clinton halted his forces in a strong position three\\nmiles west of Monmouth Court-House, extending a mile and a half\\nbeyond to the parting of the Shrewsbury and Middletown roads. The\\ngeneral direction of the British line was northeasterly, and the Ameri-\\ncans were advancing from the northwest. If victorious, they could\\nintercept Clinton s march to the sea, only ten to twelve miles distant.\\nGeneral Knyphausen therefore received orders to move at dawn of the\\nfollowing day.\\nGeneral Lee had under his command about .5.000 men, and a skirmish\\nimmediately ensued between General Dickinson s brigade and {he\\nenemy s light troops when Knyphausen put his division into motion.\\nSupposing he had to do with the whole army, Dickinson fell back, and\\nwas met by two brigades thrown forward by General Lee, who rightly\\nsurmised that Dickinson had only encountered a corps of light troops\\nIntended to cover the march of Clinton s army along the Middletown\\nroad. A second skirmish occurred on the ground on which the battle\\nmonument is erected. Colonel Butler attacked the Queen s Eangers,\\nwho retreated in some confusion, and General Wayne reported the\\nmovement of the enemy to General Lee, with the request for more\\ntroops to push a general attack. As Wayne advanced, Clinton halted\\nhis army and hurled a detachment of 300 horse against Butler s regi-\\nment. The charge he gallantly repulsed, this being the third skirmish,\\nwhich led to an engagement of General Lee s main body with the rear\\nof Clinton s army, composed of his best troops, which was faced about\\ntowards the west, the right leaning on Briar Hill and the left on a\\nravine, deeper then than now, which crosses the main street of the vil-\\nlage. The English commander brought his most efficient troops to bear\\non the advance of the Americans. This line was eventually supported by\\na division of Knyphausen s troops. Perceiving the determined appear-\\nance of the enemy. General Lee ordered a retreat. Whether, as a native-\\nborn Englishman, once in the British army, he was actuated in this\\nmovement by treason or by a mistaken prudence will ever remain an\\ninscrutable mystery. But that the great Washington suspected the\\nformer is evident from the fact that as he approached the battlefield\\nand observed his brigades retreating in confusion from a carefully\\nplanned attack, he was aroused to a remarkable display of energy anci\\nwrath. Hurrying his troops forward from the Tennent Meeting-House,\\nhe himself dashing furiously forward on his white charger, reformed\\nthe retreating regiments on the edge of a morass and sent them to meet\\nthe enemy again. Then Lee appeared, returning to the rear on hearing\\nthat the line had been reformed by the general-in-chief himself, and\\nhence inferring that he had been superseded. Th(^ interview which fol-\\nlowed was one of the most memorable and dramatic incidents in the\\nhistory of the Revolution. Uttering an oath which has become im-\\nmortal, Washington sternly demanded of his lieutenant an explanation\\nof his extraordinary conduct. Completely confounded by the majestic\\nindignation of his chief, Lee stammered that he was ready to die at the\\nhead of his troops and once more took command of his division, while\\nWashington himself rode down the lines and inspired the pati iot troops\\nto resist the onset of the enemy. Tlie British made several ineffectual\\nattacks with a hand-to-hand charge in which many a bayonet and blade\\ncrossed. Finally Colonel Monckton led his battalion of Royal Grena-\\ndiers, the finest troops in Clinton s army, to a desperate attack on\\nWayne s command. Before the charge, Monckton harangued his troops\\nin a clear, ringing voice, heai d in the American lines above the roar of\\nthe battle. Then the order Forward! rang over the field and this", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "82\\nmagnificent regiment moved to the attack with such superb precision\\nthat a shot from Knox s battery on Coomb s Hill, enfiladinji? a platoon,\\nshot away the musket of every man in the rank. Wayne ordered his\\nmen to hold their fire until the enemy were within close range, and the\\nterrific volley that followed swept three-fourths of the British officers\\ninto eternity, including the brave Monckton himself. He fell eight rods\\nnortheast of the old parsonage, and was buried in the Tennent church-\\nyard. This closed the battle, and left the Continentals masters of the\\nfield. The British retired to a strong position on the heijjhts, flanked\\nby dense woods and morasses. It was Washington s purpose to renew\\nthe attack early in the morning, convinced of the mettle of his troops,\\nwho, after retreating, had rallied and hurled back the flower of the\\nBritish army. But at midnight Sir Henry Clinton put his weary troops\\nin motion and stole rapidly away, reacliing an impregnable position\\namong the Navesink Highlands.\\nThe British army numbered lO.POO men, and the Americans about\\n18,000. As in many other famous battles, it does not appear that more\\nthan half of either army was actually in the action, pnrt of Clinton s\\nbeing engaged in conducting the bAggage trains to a point c)f safety,\\nand a large part of Washington s force not having reached the field in\\nseason to take part. It was the moral effect produced by the result\\nwhich gave such importance to the battle of Monmouth. This conflict\\nshowed that the patriot troops, though demoralized by the terrible\\nwinter at Valley Forge, were able, nevertheless, to cope successfully in\\nthe open field with the grizzled veterans of Europe s bloody campaigns.\\nIt was this fact which inspired the revolted Colonies with fresh courage,\\nand made this battle a turning-point in the march towards liberty A\\ncourt-martial subseqiaently convicted Lee of treason.\\nWith the story of this important battle, legend and history will\\nalways associate the name of Molly Pitcher, the Heroine of Mon-\\nmouth. She was the wife of a sturdy son of Erin marching in the\\nranks, and followed the ariny as a sort of cnnfiniere. While her hus-\\nband was serving one of the cannon she brought him water, for the\\nheat of the day was intense. When he fell dead by his gun, and the\\norder was given to withdi aw the piece, she seized the ramrod and\\nvowed she would take her husband s place and avenge his death. This\\nduty she performed with skill and unflinching heroism. Covered with\\ndust and blood, she was presented to General Washington, who pro-\\nmoted her to the rank of sergeant. Her grave, protected by a suitable\\nslab of marble, is at Carlisle, Penn., where she died in 1833. The Epis-\\ncopal church, built about 1763 and shown in the illustration, was one\\nof the buildings used as a hospital after the battle.\\nA battle monument has been erected in a park given for the purpose\\nby a lady of Freehold and her children. The monument was dedicated\\nin 1884, and it is noteworthy that the funds appropriated to this purpose\\nby Congress in addition to those raised by private subscription or from\\nthe State of New Jersey, were largely procured through the earnest\\ninfluence of Benjamin Harrison, then a member of the Military Com-\\nmittee of the Senate to which the matter was referred.\\nTENNENT CHURCH.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Three miles northwest from Freehold, just\\nover the line in Manalapan township, is the famous Tennent church,\\none of the most noted buildings in New Jersey. Manalapan formed\\npart of Freehold township until 1848, and Rev. William Tennent\\nwas hence a citizen of Freehold. The present church was built\\n130 years ago, and derives its fame partly on account of the\\nmany able men who have preached from its pulpit, but chiefly\\nbecause Mr. Tennent was its pastor. Aside from his abilities, which\\nmade him a power in the Presbyterian Church, Mr. Tennent will\\nalways be remembered for the extraordinary trance which he experi-\\nenced\u00e2\u0080\u0094the most remarkable on record. One day, while conversing^\\nwith his brother Gilbert, he fainted and apparently died. He M^as pre-\\npared for interment and the neighbors gathered to the funeral. His\\nphysician, from a sort of intuition, rather than because there were any", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Monmouth Battle Memories.", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "84\\nsymptoms to indicate life, plead for a postponement of the funeral.\\nSeveral times the exercises were postponed, until the relatives firmly\\ndecided that Mr Tennent should be buried. The doctor plead for an\\nhour for a half, and then for a (luarter of an hour. As the bearers\\nwere about to remove the body to the grave. Mr. Tennent gave an\\nagonizing groan, opened his eyes and closed them again, relapsing into\\nthe trance once more. After some days he returned to consciousness,\\nbut was unable to speak for six weeks. He lost his memory and was\\nobliged to begin with the alphabet again. He stated that during the\\ntrance he seemed to be carried into the presence of the angels, and that\\nwhen he opened his eyes with a gi oan it was when he was informed\\nthat he must return to earth again. Mr. Tennent v\\\\rote a full account\\nof what he experienced during this marvelous trance, but, strange to\\nsay, the narrative was lost in some inexplicable manner.\\nPhilip Freneau, one of the most verssftile and brilliant men of the\\nRevolutionary period, passed the last years of his life a mile and a half\\nsouth of Freehold, in a house now owned by A. J. Buck. He was a\\ngraduate of Princeton College, a sea-captain, editor, pamphleteer,\\nsatirist and poet, and the private secretary to Jefferson. Both Camp-\\nbell and Scott have condescended to borrow lines from the poems of\\nFreneau, poems which disjilayed poetic ability in no small degree. Born\\nin 17.52, he lost his life in 1832. in a snow-storm, near Freehold, and is\\nburied at Mount Pleasant (p. 80).\\nFreeliold was for inanv years a slumberinc^ country town,\\nmellow with aj2:e and history. The rai)id develoi)nient of the\\ncoast, which, in the days when Freehold was at its height was\\nregarded as no better than arid waste, caused the old town to\\nbe somewhat neglected at one time. But it is begin inng to be\\nrejuvenated by the magic touch of capital and of modern enter-\\nprise, and has already made sufficient progress to have more\\nimportance than as a mere county town. Not only is it the\\ncenter of a rich agricultural district (it is not far from the\\nfamous Cream Ridge), but now it is also beginning to make an\\nimpression as a manufacturing town. The Freehold Land Co.\\noffers to put up buildings for and to rent them to manufact-\\nurers. There are now established in Freehold an iron foundry,\\nof wide reputation for its light ornamental work, a factory\\nwhere rasps and files are made by machinery, and a shirt\\nfactory. The Freehold Institute (for boys) and the Freehold\\nYoune: Ladies Seminary, which are schools of established rep-\\nutation, and two National banks, are among the town s insti-\\ntutions. On extensive grounds nejir Freehold the county fair\\nis annually held in September, lasting three or four days.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nAMONG THE PINES.\\nAt Red Bank the Jersey Southern Division of the Central\\nR R of New Jersey leaves the New York and Long Branch\\nDivision and enters at Eatontown the Jersey Pine Plains, which\\nit traverses for about 100 miles to Bayside and Port Norris on\\nDelaware Bay. The interesting geological aspects ot this\\nreo-ion, which belong partly to the cretaceous and partly to ttie\\ntertiarV periods, is tpoken of under Geology in the Introduc-\\ntion where visitors to Lakewood, and the other resorts which\\nin time are bound to spring up among the pines may read ot\\nthe ancient ocean on whose bed they are now walking, dnving\\nor riding, and of the monsters which were at home in its\\n^rhe Pines are the wildest portion of the State. Except for\\nthe settlements along the railroad, the forest is broken only by\\na few lonely roads\u00e2\u0080\u0094 almost abandoned old-time stage routes and\\nlumber tracks; by narrow, swift, resinous-colored streams flow-\\nino- silently through the colonnades of pines, or the gloomy\\nlabvrinths of cedar swamps, toward the system ot bays to\\nthe east or toward Delaware Bay; or by deserted, decaying\\nshanties, grouped around the ruins of the forges which this\\nregion harbored in the days long since passed, when the manu-\\nfacture of iron from bog ore was one of the most important\\nindustries in the country. The most extensive and picturesque\\nruins of this kind are at Allaire, where the only stack still\\nstanding among the Pines may be seen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a pathetic reminder of\\nthe ^i)irit of enterprise which created the place and of the\\nactivity whose sounds once echoed through the now silent\\nforests (see illustration, p. 55).\\nThis wild territory is, however, begnming, as it were, to\\nrecognize its own possibilities. There are on the railroad two\\nplaces, Lakewood and Vineland, which respectively demon-\\nstrate that capital invested in winter resorts and truit larms\\ncan be made to yield lai-ge returns. The air, dry and temperate\\nand laden with the fragrance of the pines, the porous nature\\nof the soil which makes this region free of malaria, the nu-", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "86\\nmerous pretty little sheets of water near the sites of the old\\nforges and saw-mills but above all the success of Lake wood\\nseem like standing invitations to capital to come and multiply.\\nThe many fruit farms in the neighborhood of Lakewood have\\nbeen worked with great success, and Vineland is the center of a\\nrich, fruit-growing district which was once a wilderness. The\\nsoil of this ancient sea-bottom is similar to that of the chalk\\ndistricts of England and France, whose fertility is well-known\\na top layer of rich loam with the fertilizing marl and swamp\\nmuck ready to hand. In this part of the State are numerous\\ncranberry bogs New Jersey supplying more than one-half of\\nthe cranberry crop of the whole country.\\nMany of the stations on this route are little more than a name, there\\nbeing no settlements, the station simply serving the uses of a small and\\nscattered population of woodmen and fruit-growers. These neighbor-\\nhoods all present the possibilities above mentioned, and at no distant\\nday there may be as many winter resorts among the pines as there are\\nnow summer resorts on the coast. Lakewood is the first place of im-\\nportance, though Farmingdale deserves mention as the headquarters\\nof a prosperous farming district.\\nLAKEWOOD is a little winter paradise created by good\\ntaste and sound judgment backed Ijy the necessary capital, on\\nthe site of one of the iron furnaces which formerly reared their\\nstacks among the pines. The water-power needed to run these\\nfurnaces or tlie saw-mills which often had preceded them, was\\nusually secured by damming the cedar swamp streams, causing\\nthem at these points to broaden out into pretty lakes, two of\\nwhich are at Lakewood.\\nThe first structure at what is now a favorite winter resort is said to\\nhave been the Three Partners Saw-mill, erected about 1786, on a branch\\nof the Metedeconk River. The mill was succeeded by the Washington\\nFurnace, which is known to have been in operation as early as 1814. It\\nfailed and was dismantled about 1832, but was again in blast in 1833 as\\nthe Bergen Iron Works, with Joseph W. Brick as proprietor. He died\\nin 1847, but the furnace continued in blast until 1854, being the last\\nfurnace among the pines to go out. The company removed to South\\nAmboy.\\nIn 1865 the place was named Bricksburgh, and in 1866 the Bricksburgh\\nLand and Improvement Company put the land on the market for fruit\\nfarms. Tliose so far started have prospered, the soil seeming well\\nadapted to the successful raising of strawberries, raspberries and\\ngrapes. In 1879 the Land Company sold its interests to the present pro-\\nprietors, who, a few years later, wisely changed the name if the place\\nand hotel from the unromantic Bricksburgh and Bricksburgh House to\\nthe attractive-sounding Lakewood and Laurel House the former name\\ndoubtless derived from the proximity of the two lakes, and that of the\\nhotel from the numerous laurel bushes which in spring beautify the\\npine woods with their bloom. The lakes are Carasaljo and Manetta.\\nCarasaljo is a contraction of the names of three daughters of Joseph\\nW. Brick\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Caroline, Sarah and Josephine Carrie, Sal and Joe j.\\nThere are few places which one recalls with as much affec-\\ntion as Lakewood. It has the tranquility of a refined home\\nwhile affording a varied range of amusements. Though a", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "88\\nhealth resort it is not over-run with invalids, so Hint a person\\nwho goes there for relaxation does not liave liis spirits damp-\\nened bv silent but no less piteous appeals to his sympathy. In\\nfact, Lakewood is a place of rest rather than a liealth resort.\\nPeople go there to recuperate after a rapid social season or\\nto tone up the nerves after they have V)een subjected to an\\nunusual strain. Then, too, a number of elderly couples, mostly\\nof easy means and assured social position, have come to regard\\nLakewood as a home during the rigorous months: and their\\npresence, whether they be toasting in front of the fire which\\ncrackles cheerily in the spacious sitting-hall of the Laurel\\nHouse, or promenading slowly along the village streets or\\ndriving at a comfortable pace through the sheltered avenues of\\nPine Park, gives a touch of old-time courtliness to the place\\nwell in keeping with the stateliness of the surrounding forest.\\nThe Land Association and the proprietors of the Laurel\\nHouse have played into one another s hands in developing\\nLakewood indeed, now, their interests are formally, as well\\nas in fact, identical. The Laurel House is old-fashioned in\\nthat it is home-like; and modern in that it lacks none of\\nthe latest improvements. Among its sources of comfort are\\nthe ample hearth in the sitting-hall already referred to; its\\nparlors and reading-room; its spacious and well-equipped\\nnursery; a smoking-room in which whist, a game as aristo-\\ncratic as the gout, is assiduously cultivated; its cuisine, ad-\\nmirable and abundant; its piazzas of 380 feet, which are\\nglassed over and kept at an agreeably warm temperature\\nso as to form a })leasant promenade in wet weather; and the\\nopen fire-places in all the l)ed-rooms, wood-fires being su{)plied\\nfree of charge. There is also a large hall for music and dancing.\\nThe village is a pretty, neat settlement consisting of stores,\\nprivate residences, a boys school and one for young ladies (both\\nof them excellent), a public library with a stage, and a sanita-\\nrium under the charge of Dr. Hamilton J. Cate. Terms for\\nboard at this sanitarium vary from $12 to $25 per week for one\\nin a room and from $25 to .$35 for two; the extra charge for\\ntreatment averages about ^5 per week, and the first examina-\\ntion is subject to a charge of $3 to $10. Board-walks extend\\nthroughout the village and as the soil of the surrounding woods\\nabsorbs the moisture rapidly, one can, very soon after a rain-\\nfall, take a walk dry under foot. There is a thorough drainage\\nsystem and water-supply.\\nThe company controls a tract of some 19,000 acres, including\\nthe village, and such portions as it has parted with have been\\nsold under certain judicious restrictions; therefore, the village\\nand the country for several miles about are virtually under the\\ncompany s jurisdiction. This surrounding country is for the\\nmost part covered with a healthy growth of deciduous trees.\\nFrom Cemetery Hill one has a view over the tops of pines and", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "90\\ncedars, with nothine: to break the waving, munnuriiii; expanse\\nof green until the eye rests upon tiie glittering waters of liar-\\nnegat Bay and the ocean, some nine miles distant. The foi est\\nwhich encircles Lakewood is its girdle of armor against the\\nchill gusts of winter. The wind which enters this forest an icy\\nblast emerges from the woods around Lakewood a breath laden\\nwith piney odors. Then, too, the place is situated at the bottom\\nof a depression in the Pine Plain a hole in the bed of the an-\\ncient sea so that an encircling ridge forms a natural shelter.\\nHence it is not surprising that in winter the temperature aver-\\nages some 12 higher than in New York. At the same time\\nthe Lakewood air is not enervating. It has that invigorating\\nelasticity over which Italian singers grow eloquent in sj)eaking\\nof the air of their native land, to which, they claim, they owe\\nthe resonance and pure timbre of their voices.\\nThe association hns laid out through the woods and around\\nLake Carasaljo a series of beautiful roads for driving, riding,\\ncycling and walking. The most popular of the drives is that\\nthrough Pine Park, a road some four miles long, winding\\nthrough a corridor of stately pines, and aptly named Cathedral\\nAvenue. This avenue has been thickly covered with pine\\nneedles, which deaden the sound of wheels, and it has been\\nmade made purposely narrow so as to exclude winds. The\\nwalk around the lake and the cedar swamp at its head is about\\nsix miles long and of great natural beauty, enhanced by rustic\\nseats and bridges. Glimpses of blue water, with perhaps a\\nlittle red boat as an enlivening ])it of color, and rounded off by\\nthe dark fringe of pines on the opposite shore; the plash of\\noars and the purling of the w^avelets as they ripple over the\\nlittle sandy beach, form a combination of effects which lingers\\nwith gracious persistency in one s memory. The drive around\\nthe lake is not so near the shore as the walk, but affords, never-\\ntheless, many pretty views. Longer drives are those past the\\nsite of the old Alligator tavern to Bennett s Mills, to Freehold,\\nto Allaire and toward the coast, past the old Seven Stars\\ntavern to Toms River, to Burrsville and Point Pleasant. The\\nAlligator derived its name from the figure-head of a wrecked\\nvessel, which was nailed to a tree opposite the tavern. Seven\\nStars, which is on the old stage-route from the villages on\\nBarnegat Bay to Freehold, was so named because a guest, as he\\nlay on his couch, was able to count seven stars through a hole\\nin the roof.\\nFollowing are the rates of carriage hire, double and single\\nteams Around the lake, |2, $1.50 Pine Park, |2.50, $2\\nToms River and Cranmoor Farm, $6, $3.50 Allaire, $5, $o\\nPoint Pleasant, $6, $3.50 Freehold, $7, $4 Cemetery Hill,\\nBurrsville, Sunnyside and North Woods (a pleasant, warm\\ndrive). Bennett s Mills, the Alligator, according to time, at the\\nrate of $2 and $1.50 per hour.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "o\\n2\\n03\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2XI\\ndd\\nu\\nO", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "92\\nIN THE OLD DAYS, when the furnaces were in operation, numerous\\ntaverns were scattered throuirh the jjincs. I liey were called juf;\\ntaverns, because tlieir eiitir( stock-in-trade usually consisted of a juj;\\nof apple-jack, out of which, however, the proprietor would pour any\\nliquid refrtjshment called for, ranyiiij; from lemonade to brandy, and\\neven mixed potables. St)me of the tavern-keepers were nottnl char-\\nacters. One of them, near Lakewood, was a measurer and counter of\\nlumber, the result of his surveys being scril)i d on the lumber in\\nlioman mimerals. hcn he ;iave credit at his bar he did not chalk\\ndown the debtor s name, but scril)cd some numeral to represent\\nhim, so that on his slate his debtors tij^ured as X, Y, LXI, etc. The chief\\namusements in those days were huckleberry parties in summer and\\noyster supi)ers in winter. The latter were lield in the taverns, and were\\npreceded and followed by dancini, A fiddler enthroned in a chair,\\nwhich had been elevated on to a table, scraped away at Hi, Betty\\nMartin, Camptown Kaces, and the Straiglit Four, dances which\\nwere perhaps varied by a challeiif^e jijr between two experts of the\\nPines. When the tiddler disapi)eared under the ta])le. as he invariably\\ndid, the girls sang the airs and dancing continued all tlie same.\\nSchools were then few and far between. One teacher made every\\nday a circuit of thirty mil(^s. His wife mowed in tlu; meadows, fenced\\nin their little farm, built a chimney, ajul occui)ied herself with similar\\nfeminine trifles. She is still living, eighty years old, with mental facul-\\nties unimpaired, and ready to do a day s work. Religion was supplied\\nusually by itinerant Methodist ministers. The best known among these\\nwas Saplin Newman, a man of huge frame and a great hunter, who\\ncould make the woods ring with his exhortations, lie often presided\\nat town-meetings, and conducted elections on the squad system,\\nordering those in favor of Brown to the right and thos(^ in favor of\\nJones to the left. When the itinerants came to Lakewood they stopped\\nwith the manager of the furnace at the J5ig House, the present\\nhomestead. It is related that, on one occasion, when an itinerant\\nminister, for whom breakfast had been kept waiting, piously suggested\\nfamily prayers before the meal, the manager, who wa^- soniewhat of a\\ncharacter, replied: Guess not\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the family s small.\\nThere was usually considerable charcoaling going on in the neigh-\\nborhood of the furnaces. The industry is still cari ied on in the woods\\nnear Jackson s Mills, an easy drive from Lakewood. A strikingly weird\\neffect is produced at night, when the smoking pits are watched by men\\nwho lie in log cubbies (the sides of which towards the pits are entirely\\nopen) and keep themselves warm by maintaining a blazing fire of pine\\nlogs.\\nSPORT. The men who ranged the woods before civiliza-\\ntion laid its hands upon Lakewood were a hardy race of hunt-\\ners and trappers. Bears were killed forty years ago in Job s\\nSwamp, not over a mile from Lakewood, and deer within thirty\\nyears. Teal still appear nearly every autumn on Carasaljo,\\nand geese sometimes lialt on their southward migration in No-\\nvember and on their return northward in February and March.\\nQuail and grouse are becoming more abundant with the strict\\nenforcement of the game laws by the Association, which has\\nalso stocked the lakes with black bass. Barnegat Bay, with all\\nits opportunities for sport, can be reached by rail in forty\\nminutes.\\nFLORA. The flora of Lakewood, as indeed of the Pine\\nPlains at large, is rich and varied. The gathering of flowers\\nis one of the favorite pastimes of visitors in the spring.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "94\\nArbutus, one of the earliest blooms to appear, is often found\\nin the same place with the pretty moss (Pyxidanthera bai-bu-\\nlata), which opens as early as March. Arbutus first appears\\non the banks of Lakes Carasaljo and Manetta, in sunny expos-\\nures. But it is most luxuriant and in greater perfection of\\nfragrance and blossom in May, in more shaded places. Mag-\\nnolia is found in great profusion on the borders of brooks and\\nalong Lake Carasaljo. Turkey-beard grows on the low bot-\\ntoms. It has a beautiful, stately white plume composed of large\\nclusters of small flowers on a single feathered or hairy\\nstem. Azalea is found on brook borders and on the north\\nbank of Carasaljo and the south bank of Manetta. Laurel is\\nprolific everywhere, but is particularly luxuriant on the south\\nbank of Carasaljo. Wintergreen is found in profusion near\\nthe village, especially south near Disbrow Swamp, and east\\nnear Job s Swamp.\\nMANCHESTER.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Connection is made here for the settlements on\\nBarnej^at Bay (p. 60). The place would probably be at a complete\\nstandstill were it not for this junction and for the railroad shops. Man-\\nchester has, however, great possibilities as a winter resort among the\\npines if some one with the necessary capital, judgment and energy\\nwould take hold of it. It occupies the site of the old Dover Forge,\\nwhich subsequently became the Federal Furnace and then Manchester\\nin 1841. There is a beautiful lake, two and a half miles in circumfer-\\nence, named Horicon, Indian for silvery water (which was also the\\noriginal name for Lake George) and a branch of Toms River, one of\\nthose deep, swift cedar swamp streams, of the color of liquid rosin,\\nflows through the woods east of the place, two miles from which was\\nthe site of New Furnace, A path along the bluff at the edge of a cedar\\nswamp, through which this stream runs a sinuous course, leads to this\\nfurnace site where the banks of the stream are high and where its\\nwaters, after rushing over the lichen-covered sluice of the old flood-\\ngates, plash tranquilly through a dark archway of cedar boughs. Here\\nand on the lake are fine sites for hotels.\\nWHITINGS, though among the pines, is an important dis-\\ntributing point for oysters, especially from Barnegat Bay. By\\nrecent data, 738,040 lbs. of oysters are re-billed at Whitings.\\nThere is no village, beyond two or three houses and a Metho-\\ndist chapel for the woodmen who live in the dense forests of\\nthe neighborhood. But an attempt is now in progress to make\\na health resort of Whitings. The Lancewood Land and Ln-\\nprovement Company has purchased a tract of 1,000 acres at\\nthis spot, laid out a number of agreeable drives and erected an\\nexcellent hotel, called the Pine Forest House, supplied with all\\nmodern improvements, and with an annex containing capital\\nbilliard-rooms, bowling-alley, etc. The sod is dry and sandy,\\nresembling that of Vineland well adapted for the raising of\\nfruits, as has already been proved by their successful cultiva-\\ntion. The elevation, 181 feet above the sea, and the surround-\\ning pine woods offer unusal advantages for a sanitarium at all\\nseasons, but especially in winter. The temperature is that of\\nNorfolk, Va.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "96\\nHARRIS is a station for the accommodation of the scattered farming\\npopulation of Shamong township. There is no town of this name, the\\ncliief settlement of the township being at Indian Mills, on Bread and\\nCheese Run. That place possesses especial interest as the spot where\\nthe celebrated missionary David Brainard preached to the remnant of\\nthe Delaware Indians called the Brotherton tribe.\\nATSIOX is a hamlet on the Atsion River. The people follow agri-\\nculture and there is considerable shipment of lumber from this place,\\nespecially cedar. The neighborhood abounds in woodland, and might\\nbe easily transformed into an agreeable winter resort. Near the station\\nis a mill which was used first as a paper-mill and later as a cotton fac-\\ntory. It is a good piece of pi-operty, which may look up again when\\ncertain matters have been settled among the heirs.\\nELM is the station for the shipment of the produce of the thriving\\ntownship of Hammonton. An average of thirty car-loads of straw-\\nberries and other fruits is sent from this station during good seasons.\\nWINSLOW was built up entirely by the three glass factories of the\\nplace. At present these factories are lying idle, and the village is prac-\\ntically dead. There is, however, some prospect that the factories may\\nbe again put in operation at no distant period, when certain proprietory\\nrights have been settled.\\nVINELAND was carved out of the forest. The first stake\\nfor the settlement was driven in August, 1861. Now it is the\\ncenter of an important fruit-growing tract extending into three\\ncounties, with a population of about 8,000. The city is laid\\nout on a liberal plan, with broad avenues, having double rows\\nof shade trees. The distance back from the roadway, at which\\nthe houses are required to stand, varies from 20 to 75 feet in\\ndifferent locations, and the purchaser of a city lot must stipu-\\nlate to seed the roadside with grass within two years, and keep\\nit seeded. As a result, Vineland is clad in verdure from spring\\nuntil winter.\\nFrom the outset it was determined that hedges should take the place\\nof fences throughout the tract, and after a vigorous onslaught upon\\nthe cattle which outsiders allowed to stray upon the Vineland territory,\\nthe anti-fence principle was established. The liquor question was then\\ntaken up and Vineland became, what it still is, one of the most enthusi-\\nastic leaders of the Prohibition movement continuing, liowever, wnth\\nequal enthusiasm to raise grapes and to manufacture and export wine.\\nThe observance of the Sabbath is strictly enforced, and the mutilation\\nof the language by profane swearing is prohibited in the same ordi-\\nnance which prohibits the mutilation of trees.\\nThere are fifty-three manufactories at Vineland, which in-\\nclude extensive glass-works. A Board of Trade is active in\\npromoting the industrial interests of the place, while agricul-\\ntural pursuits are promoted by an Agricultural and Horticul-\\ntural Society and Fruit Growers Club.\\nThe exports of the district average 250,000 quarts of straw-\\nberries, 600,000 quarts of otlier berries, 1,000,000 pounds of\\ngrapes, 15,000 crates of apples and pears, 180,000 bushels of\\nsweet potatoes, 215,000 dozen of eggs and nearly 60,000 poultry,\\nbesides 200,000 gallons of wine. This is certainly a very good", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "I i^!", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "98\\nshowing for a community of 8,000 people. The air of Vine-\\nland has also been found highly beneficial for rheumatic and\\npulmonary complaints, and for bronchial troubles, and the\\nplace is developing into a winter resort, more especially for\\npeople of moderate means. The interest with which the de-\\nvelopment of Vineland was watched was so great that, when\\nthe High School was dedicated, in 1874, President Grant and\\nGov. Parker participated in the exercises.\\nBRADWAY is one of the numerous outlying settlements of Landis\\ntownship and belonging to the Vineland system. The population is\\ncomposed entirely of Hebrews, numbering about 300, devoted to the\\nculture of fruits and the raising of horses.\\nBRIUGETON is one of the most flourishing places in New\\nJersey, and the most important in the southern section of the\\nState. It is situated on both sides of the Cohansey, twenty\\nmiles from the sea. The growth of Bridgeton has been steady,\\nattended by none of the phenomena which have characterized\\nthe rapid development of so many American communities,\\nand for this very reason there is good cause for considering\\nthe prosperity of this city thoroughly sound and permanent.\\nWhat it gains it will keep, its growth being due to money well\\ninvested at simple interest rather than of speculative invest-\\nments gaining rapidly at times and attended by as rapid\\nreactions.\\nBridgeton practically began with a tavern erected shortly before\\n1748 near the point now marked by the intersection of Commerce and\\nAtlantic streets. This tavern was torn down in 1825. There was in the\\nneighborhood a saw-mill built as early as 1686. But the tavern seems\\nto mark the first distinct recognition of Bridgeton as a settlement,\\nwhich at that time was known as Cohansey Bridge. It was made the\\ncounty seat in 1748. But it was not until 1848 that Cohansey Bridge was\\nset off as a separate township under the name of Bridgeton, having\\nuntil then belonged to Hopewell township.\\nThe first of the numerous manufactories which now indicate\\nthe prosperity of Bridgeton was the Cumberland Nail and Iron\\nCompany, which was started in 1815 and is still in operation.\\nA rolling-mill was built in 1847, and since then the place has\\nsteadily grown to its present enterprising and highly successful\\nstate. Certain manufactures are carried on there with especial\\nprominence, particularly that of glass, owing to the sand-beds\\nexisting abundantly in the vicinity. We find among numer-\\nous other branches of industry four brick-yards, six canneries,\\none hat factory, two iron-foundries, four machine-shops, two\\nsaw and planing-mills, one ship-yard, two wheelwrights, one\\noil-cloth factory aiul two fertilizers. Bridgeton has the ad-\\nvantage of being situated on a navigable stream it is a port\\nof entry, and vessels of several hundred tons come up to its\\nwharves, which present tlie appearance of a busy seaport.\\nThe river is crossed by several turning-bridges of iron. The", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "g-5-^_^^^ gs|, U r^^*^^^^^^^\\nNeah Bridgeton,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "100\\nbanks of the Cohansey are high and pictiiresquo, and the city\\nis built on lofty and sometimes precipitous hills, which add\\ngreatly to its aspect and present an appearance surprising and\\nuncommon in the generally flat landscapes of southern New\\nJersey. As one passes from the active business portion of the\\ncity to the handsome avenues in the outskirts, he is impressed\\nwith the attractions of the place for residence. This is espec-\\nially the case on the heights overlooking the Cohansey at the\\nmeeting of Atlantic and Cottage streets. Houses at that spot\\ncommand a most beautiful prospect of the broad, winding river\\npeacefully gliding from bend to bend toward Delaware Bay,\\nand dotted here and there with gleaming sails. A little care\\non the part of the corporation can easily preserve one of the\\nmost attractive spots in New Jersey from the smoke and dirt\\nand din of factories as a resort for those who seek agreeable\\nsites for summer residences. A very beautiful walk is that\\nalong the race on the west of the Cohansey. It is beautifully\\nwooded, and receives the waters of several ponds, on which\\nthere is pleasant boating. A picturesque old mill is also an\\nobject of interest.\\nThe manufacture of glass being one of the chief industries\\nof Bridgeton, it is of interest to note that this business began\\nin New Jersey in 1760, when a German named Wistar located a\\nglass factory at Alloway, Salem County. When he failed,\\nabout 1775, his workmen moved to Glassboro, in Gloucester\\nCounty, where new works were opened. Thus we see that this\\nis not only one of the most successful, but one of the earliest\\nindustries of New Jersey. Since that date glass-works have\\nbeen started at thirty-seven locations in the State. Bridgeton\\ncontinues to be one of the most important centers of this in-\\ndustry in the country. The manufacture of glass began there\\nin 1886 or 1837, and it has now one rough-plate-glass factory,\\nseven hollows-ware works and eleven window-glass factories. A\\nsteam sand wash-mill at Cedarville, on the branch from Bridge-\\nton to Port Norris, runs night and day to meet the demand of\\nthe Bridgeton and other glass factories in this section.\\nPORT NORRIS owes its importance to the oyster business,\\nthe oysters being landed at Long Reach, three-quarters of a\\nmile from the village, on the banks of the Maurice River.\\nSome two hundred and fifty sloops and schooners are owned\\nthere, chiefly by the men who sail them, and during the season\\nthis throng of saucy little craft at the wharves discharging\\ntheir cargoes or working in or out of port along the broad low-\\nbanked river present a busy spectacle. The oysters are planted\\nin Maurice River Cove in May or June.\\nThe oyster beds of Maurice River Cove extend over fifty square\\nmiles. The oysters are taken chiefly with a dredge formed of a scoop\\nnet attached to a heavy rectangular frame for scraping the sea bottom.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Port Norris,", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "102\\nThis frame is three times as lonff as it is high, the two longer sides hav-\\ning sharp edijes serving as scrapers. The net is of heavy twine or uf\\niron chain-work. The drawing-line is attached to two liandies. Tongs,\\nformed lil^e two raises facing each otlier and frcmi 7 to 21 feet in lenji-th,\\nare alst) used. Tliey require great muscuhir strenj,^th on tlie part ol the\\noystermen. According to Cliarlevoix, they were first used by tlie Frencli\\ncolonists in Acadia. A drag-rake, with teeth crowded close togetlier, is\\nalso used, although more often for clams. From September to January\\nis tlie impoi tant season for shipping tlie Port Norris oysters to market,\\nalthougli March and April are also busy mouths. Tlie bivalves are put\\nin sacks averaging 75U prime and 1,^00 cullings. No less than\\nsixteen firms are engaged in the business, and the amount sent during\\nthe season has been as high as thirty-eight car-loads to rhiladelphia and\\nNew York daily, although twenty-five car-loads per diem rej)resent\\nthe usual average. What is the actual importance of Port ISorrisiu\\nthis industry is shown by the following figures: The total number of\\noysters raised in New Jersey waters, by the latest reports, was 27,!i58,481\\npounds. Of this amount P()rt Norris alone furnislied 1H,9()1..5()8 pounds.\\nBesides the oyster business, there are also at Port Norris a marine\\nrailway for the repair of ships and a steam sawmill. This account of\\nPort Norris would be incomplete without an allusion to one of the\\ninteresting incidents which occurred in this part of the State during the\\nRevolution. In August, 1781, a party of Tory refujrees, fifteen in num-\\nber, attacked a squad of militia who were in a shallop under command\\nof Captain Kiggins. The Captain killed five of tliem with a clubbed\\nmusket. Jolin Peterson was wounded by a refugee and was on the\\npoint of being slain, when his little son raised a musket and sliot down\\nthe assailant. Seven of the Tories were killed and all the otliers were\\nwounded and captured.\\nGREENWICH virtually includes Sheppard s Mills, Bacon s\\nNeck and Bay Side, the terminus of another branch from\\nBridgeton. In the great prominence given to the destruction\\nof the tea in Boston harbor in 1773, the world has entirely\\nforgotten a siniihir and well autlienticated event wliich took\\nplace in an obscure seaport of Soutiiern New Jersey. Green-\\nwich at that period carried on quite a trade with the West\\nIndies and along the coast. Advantage was taken of this fact\\nto attempt to smuggle a cargo of tea into the colonies by way\\nof Greenwich, allot the colonies having at that time put an\\nembargo on the article in order to resist the Stamp Act. The\\nbrig Greyhound arrived in the Cohansey, December 12, 1774,\\nwith a quantity of tea o.stensibly from Rotterdam, but un-\\ndoubtedly shipped first from an English port. The tea was\\nsecretly landed and placed for safe keeping in Dan Bowen s\\ncellar at Greenwich. A committee of five was appointed, when\\nthe affair became noised abroad, to guard the tea until a County\\nCommittee could be chosen to decide on its fate. But before\\nthe Committee could take action a party of men disguised as\\nIndians broke into the cellar and burned the tea.", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "PAGE\\nAbsecon Island 71\\nAdonis, the, wreck of 44\\nAllaire Iron-works, ruins of .54, 85\\nAllen House, Shrewsbury, tragedy at, during the Revolution 29\\nAlloway, glass-works of 100\\nAmerican Institute of Christian Philosophy; time of sessions 5S\\nAsbury, Bishop Francis, account of 46, 53, 70\\nAsbury Park, description of 45\\nAsgill, Sir Charles, condemned to death in revenge for murder of\\nCaptain Huddy 26\\nAtlantic City, description and history of 71\\nAtlantic Highlands 81\\nAtsion 96\\nBacon, Captain John, leader of outlaws 70\\nBacon s Neck 10-3\\nBarclay, Thomas, attacked by Tories. 44\\nBarnegat Bay, description and history of 60, 62\\npirates of 63\\nsport of 64\\nfurther remarks on 71\\nBarnegat City 62\\nBarnegat Inlet, nee Barnegat Bay.\\nBarnegat Park, description of 69\\nBarnegat Pier 02\\nBay Head 59\\ncats of 59\\nw^recks of 59\\nBay Side 102\\nBayville, free chui ch of 69\\nBeach Day, see Sea Girt.\\nBerkeley Arms 62\\nBird, Richard, Pine robber 70\\nBlack fish Hole 17\\nBlack Point 22\\nBranchport 37\\nBradway 98\\nBricksburgh, see Lakewood.\\nBridgeton, description and manufactures of 98\\nBrielle, description of 57\\nBurrsville, see Toms River.\\nCaledonia, the, wreck of 86\\nCarasaljo Lake 86\\nCarteret 76\\nCedar Bridge, see Toms River.\\nCedar Creek 62\\nCedar Creek on Barnegat Bay 70\\nCedar Grove, see Toms River.\\nCedarville, sand vs^ash-mills of 100\\nChadwick s 62\\nChapel Hill 79\\nChrist Church. Shrewsbury 28\\nClay-beds of New Jersey 76\\nClay Pit Creek 17\\nCranberry Indians 33\\nCliffwood 76\\nClinton, Sir Henry, embarks his army at Sandy Hook 4", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "104\\nPAGE\\nCohansey River, 100\\nColeman, John, fight with Indians 2\\nColeman s Point 2\\nComo, see Lake Como.\\nConover s Beacon 28\\nConover, Capt. John, capture of 6\\nCooke, Rev. Samuel, rector at Shrewsbury 28\\ntablet to 28\\nCranberry Inlet, fight of (39\\nDavenport Branch 70\\nDeal Beach, description of 45\\nDeal Lake 45, 46\\nDuck Shooting, time for, at Barnegat Bay 68\\nEagle, sloop, captured by Mad Jack Percival 4\\nEatonto wn, description of 42\\ngrist mill of 42\\nJohnty Smith s resort 44\\nEdwards, Stephen, fate of, in the Revolution 37\\nElberon, description of 44\\nElizabethport 76\\nElm 96\\nFarrell. James, operates the news service 6\\nFinch, Rev. Harry, memorial to, Shrewsbury 2!)\\nFletcher Lake 49\\nForked River 62\\nsport of 64\\nFox, George, in New Jersey 27\\nFreehold 80, 84\\nFreehold\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Keyport Branch 80\\nFreneau, Philip, grave of 80\\nhouse of 80\\naccount of 84\\nGarfield, James A., cottage where he died 44\\nGlassboro 100\\nGlimmerglass, see Brielle.\\nGoodLuck 69, 70\\nGrant, Ulysses S., cottage of 44\\nGravelly Point 14\\nGreat Egg Harbor 74\\nGreenwich, history of 102\\ndestruction of tea at 102\\nGreenland Bank, see Atlantic Highlands.\\nGunning River 62\\nHamilton, Hon. Hamilton Douglas, fate of 5\\nHance, Rachel, interview with General Washington 26\\n//rt/irf f\u00c2\u00ab //a?2C?, the, wreck of 70\\nHarris 96\\nHartshorne, Benjamin 10\\nmansion of 10\\nHartshorne, John, house of 10\\nHartshorne, Richard, settles in the Highlands 9\\nHartshorne, Robert 9\\nHartshorne, William 9\\nHarvey Cedars 62\\nInn of 71\\nHavens, Captain John G. W 58\\nHazlet 76\\nHighlands 10\\ndrives 16\\nHighland Beach 9\\nHighlands of Navesink 9\\nHillside Park 79\\nHilton Park, see Navesink Park.\\nHollywood, description of 36", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "105\\nPAGE\\nHome of the Merciful Saviour, Key East 63\\nHop Brook 78\\nHorseshoe, the 2, 4, 5\\nBuddy, Captain Joshua 14\\nattacked 24\\nfate of 24\\ndefends Cranberry Inlet 69\\nHudson, Henry, discovers Sandy Hook 2\\nat Barneg at Bay 60\\nIndian Will, account of 58\\nInterlacken 45\\nIron Pier, Long Branch 36\\nIsland Beach 2, 4\\nJohnty Smith s Resort 44\\nJumping Point Drawbridge 18\\nhistory of 22\\nKeith, Rev. George, in New Jersey 28\\ntablet to 28\\nKettle Creek 62\\nKey East, description of 52\\nKeyport 80\\nKidd, Captain, tree and treasure of, Spermacetti Cove 5\\nat Money Island 69\\nLake Como, description of 54\\nLake wood 85\\ndescription of 86\\nflora of 92\\nsport of 92\\nZ Jmmgwe, stranding of 20\\nLancewood Land and Improvement Company, see Whitings.\\nLand s End Hotel, see Point Pleasant.\\nLavalette 62\\nLee, General Charles, at Battle of Monmouth 81\\nLeedsville 78\\nLeonardsville 79\\nLight-House Hill, Highlands 10\\nlight-houses of 10\\nsemaphore of 12\\nLittle Egg Harbor 71\\norigin of name 74\\nLittle Egg Harbor Inlet, see Barnegat Bay.\\nLocharbar 45\\nLong Beach, see Barnegat Bay.\\nLong Branch, description and history of 33\\ntheatrical colony of 37\\nLong Branch Village 37\\nLorillard Brick W^orks 80\\nLovelady, shooting at 68\\nLust in Rust, site of 14\\nMcKnight, opens first hotel at Long Branch 33\\nManahawkin 71\\nManalapan 82\\nManasquan, description of 56\\noyster beds of 57\\nManasquan Inlet 57\\nManasquan River 57 58\\nManchester 94\\nManetta, Lake 86\\nMantoloking 62\\nManx Cats, see Bay Head.\\nMarsh Elder Island, sporting at 66\\nMatawan 76, 80\\nMaurers 76\\nMaurice River Cove 100", "height": "3044", "width": "1711", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "106\\nPAGE\\nMete(lc(ionck River 62\\nMintiirn, the, wreck of 57\\nMiddletowii 70\\nMoney Island, see Toms River.\\nMonmouth, battle of 80\\nMonmouth Beach, description of 32\\nMonmouth Park, descripti )n and history of the races of 37\\nnewly purchased tract of 41\\nMorgan 76\\nMorris, Col. Lewis 30\\nMorris, Governor Lewis 28, 30\\nMorris, Robert Hunter, patentee of Spring Lake 54\\nMount Mitchell, see Atlantic Highlands.\\nMud Pond, see Brielle.\\nMurray, John, anecdote of 70\\nNauvoo, fishing? village of 18\\nfisheries of 20\\nNavesink, name of 8, 17\\nNavesink Beach 17\\nNavesink, Iligldands of 90\\nNavesink River 8\\nNavesink Park 91\\nNeptune City, see Key East.\\nNeptune Club House 17\\nNew Era, the, wreck of 4.5\\nNewman Springs 76\\nNormandie 2\\nNormandie-by the-Sea 17\\nNorth Asbury Park, see Asbury Park.\\nNorth Spring Lake, see Spring Lake.\\nOcean Avenue, Long Branch 36\\nOcean Beach, description of 52\\nOcean Grove, description of 48\\nfirst meeting at 48\\nregulations of 50\\naverage number of services 52\\nOcean Park 52\\nOceanport 37\\nOrtley 62\\nOyster business, see Whitings also Port Norris.\\nOyster Creek 62\\nsporting at 66\\nPine Robbers, or Outlaws of the Pines, history of 70\\nPines, the 85\\nlife of, in old days 92\\nPirates of Barnegat 63\\nPlacide, Tliomas, suicide of 09\\nPleasure Bay 37\\nPoint Comfort 2\\nPoint Pleasant, description of 57\\nWest Point Pleasant 57\\nWill s Hole 58\\nPole, the, see Long Branch village.\\nPortland Heights 9\\nParker, Joseph, builds schooner at Eatontown 42\\nParker, Sheriff, Forked River 66\\nParker Creek 44\\nParkertown 14\\nclamming at 14\\nPassage Point 22\\nPeahala 71\\nPenelope Van Princis, see Princis.\\nPerot, Elliston, suggests making a summer resort at Long Branch. 33\\nPerth Amboy 76", "height": "3043", "width": "1692", "jp2-path": "newjerseycoastpi00kobb_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "107\\nPAGE\\nPhalanx, the 78\\nPortland Mansion 10\\nPortland Point, see Atlantic Highlands.\\nPort Monmouth 79\\nPort Norris, description of 100\\noyster industry of 100\\nfight of, in Revolution 100\\nPort Eepublic, attacked by the English, and wreck of English man-\\nof-war 74\\nPotter, Thomas, anecdote of 70\\ngrave of 71\\nPrincis, Penelope Van, adventure of, with Indians 4\\nRed Bank 76\\nRiceville, see Navesink.\\nRumson Neck 21\\ndescription of 21\\norigin of name 22\\nburying-ground of 26\\nRusland, the, wreck of 94\\nSt. Peter in Galilee, church of 31\\nSandy Hook 1\\nlight of 2-5\\ngovernment reservation at 6\\nlife-saving station at 6\\nnews service of 6\\nbathing and fishing at 8\\nsemaphore 12\\nSandy Islands, shooting at 68\\nSea Bright 17. 18\\nSeaside Park 62\\nSea Girt, description of 56\\nBeach-day at 56\\nState Camp at 56\\nSeaside Assembly, Key East, time of sessions 53\\nSea View, see Manasquan.\\nSewaren 76\\nShark River 52,53, 54\\nSheppard s Mills 102\\nShrewsbury, history and description of 27\\nchurches of, 27\\nShrewsbury Inlet 2\\nShrewsbury River, confounded with name of Navesink River 8\\nSilverton, see Toms River.\\nSlide, the, see Greenland Bank.\\nSouth Amboy 76\\nSquan Beach, see Barnegat Bay.\\nSpermacetti Cove 4, 5\\nSport at Barnegat 64\\norigin of name 71\\nSpring Lake, description of 54\\nState Camp, see Sea Girt.\\nStockton, Commodore R. F., mansion of, see Sea Girt.\\nStore, Tom, Indian 33\\nSunset Lake 46, 53\\nSwimming River 78\\nTennent, Rev. 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