The New York Herald Newspaper, July 2, 1879, Page 4

NO 5 TRIKES. Denials from Socialist and Trade Union Leaders. IN THE EAST «AND WEST. . Reduction ofthe Hour Of Reporis from Hoston, Yartiord, St, Lenis, ; Chicago aid Cingingati. (BY TELEGRarN To THE ALD.] wsron, July 1, 1879. publication im the Boston evening papers of ts fom the avtiele in to-day’s Heaaup inti- | @ general strike ot th eval trades in ¥ would begin July 4 created a good deal iment in this city. There scemed to be enough ground for a betief in the plan outlined, and the matter was discussed by mechanics, business men, and, in fact, ali classes of the community, The Hrnatp corre- conversed with a number of people this ping, Lar ed to in thearticle, and found tha, soston is concerned, there is no sign of any sach movem ong the trades. An effort was to find Jam O'Neill, whose name was mentioned in the interview with a New York Communist leader, bit without snecess, George E, M'Neill, who holds a high place in the International Trades Union organization, could not be found either, but others who are inside the ring Were geen and an assurance was gained that Boston ‘was not prepared to go into any such arrangement. NO SIRIKE TROVE? OF, E. M. Chamberlain, a very active labor agitator, stated positively that no “proposition looking to 4 general strike had been considered. He admitted that there was a good deal of interest among work- ingmen on the ight Hour law and that they were ready to work immediately for its enactment and enforcement. Mr. Chamberlain and his friends, and, in fact, all the agitators in trades unions, claimed that George McNeill was the person meant in the HeRaLp story, in- stead of James O'Neill, who was a politician | in South Boston, Thi opit the report originated in the fact that agitation meet- | ings by the trades orjanizations were to take place | i i y were all of the opinion that in some parts of the West. These meetings were all for the purpose of agi- tating the tion of hours of labor, the same as those to be held by the workingmen of Quincy and | at Faneuil Hall in'a few days. So far as the question of preparing for a general strike was concerned they sald, “tit was simply silly to entertain the idea—just at present at least. VOURIH OF | | | | Mr. George B. F Trades aud Labor Union, the organization ot whic 'y compris *, Carpen- ters’, Upholsterers’, Printer rs’, Tin- até Workers,’ "Longshoremen’s, Silver Gilders’, failors’, Iron Mouiders’, Coopers’ and Granite Cut- ters’ unions. He said that it would be impossible to get these unions to strike at present; in fact, the Matter had not been considered or proposed, tated that he was in communication with all ntral unions in all the large cities and had : thing abont a general strike. There was a good desl of agitation going on about the eight hour law, and other matters of interest to the laboring classes, mechanics, &c., but nothing that would war- rant the beliet in a The trades unions of Boston were to general strikes | anyway, and if the socialists had ed to enter into any combined movement of that nature they could not induce the men to follow them. He said | that « labor demonstration was set down for Friday .at which Con men Murch, of | ht, of Pennsylvania, were expected present. A'meeting would also be held in | uil Hall on Thursday night, to be addressed by yressinan $8, 8. Cox. Beyond these there was nothing. ALL PrEAC sPEROUS IN CONNECTI- cur. {BY TELEGRAPH 10 THE HERALD.) Hanrronp, July i, 1879. Diligent inquiry in this city does not develop any- thing indicating that the ram ‘Workiugmen on the 4th of July will affect this sec- | tion inany way. For months past there bas been Ro agitation among the working classes in Con- necticut, The strikes at Rockville and Bradford Bbout a year ago were the last worth noticing, and even these were inconsiderable affairs. Reports from all sections of the State show a great improve- Ment in the demand for labor iu the factories, and Sy with neariy all rauning full and some over time it is | not casy to organize a strike. In New Haven the only labor agitation at present reported affects the laborers employed by the city, as to whether they shall receive $1 25 or $1 50 per day, and a simi- lar question is discussed here in the matter of the compensation of the laborers on the new water works ; but in neither case does the matter excite any particular interest armong others than the laborers wyelves, So iar as cau bo ascertained no labor m held in Hartford for many months uere, when questioned on the troubie on the. Fourth, are strom. New Haven known labor re MeGuire, a well Lin to. 8 Hy port 3 'y, are that he left there several months ago. TIONS PROM THE AYOR ST, LOUIS AND POLICE rr tL, NOT BE ANY TROUBLE— THE WERALD.} This Albert Curriin, the most prominent socialist in Bt. Louis, to ascertain were on foot for t iY, or what were lo on that day. entiou i polite young age, and editor of Der Volicestin an ¢ i ocialists. He ve © courteously, Bort was contemplated by the socialisis on ¢ Fourth, submitted the statement, with hi Bit the ¢ from ven mon and citizens the societies which will take ing to take pla of tly upon Mayor Over- ‘It is nonsense ; the eity was never f the socialints, so far ) (ni, and I think r the papers to work up any excite- to talk wbout tureatened t1 More quiet. The intent as i am in it is unwise ment aa the SEATEMENT DY TU Chief of Police MeD Dpon being axkod it he Donough replied, + the giv preparal TRY OF POLICE, was next visited, trouble Mr. Me- Yo, sit; Tdo not.’* In answer to s department had made F on of trouble, he “Nothing more ordinary are monstration, but if there should ve this departinent will be ready to quell it.” 1 the socialist 1eade Bee, there is consid Of wiauy thet mor that tumuituous, if ocenr. Th anc while the Pownd to the adoptiog of quiet a Gress of their alle grievances there is also 9 Vicious eloment ready on the slightest provocation ah feared any im antici; sai¢ than readiness ; there ) sig@us of ariotous pice these pacific declarations on the part of he Mayor and the Chiet of Po- able apprehension in the minds or leas trouble not is impending and violent, scones socialists hie are Te niidable, atively dis- them are trations Proposed Favoring a | wed general strike of | P ALD to be living in | upon | ated any trouble from nd Light Hour League. | are liable to | to precipitate disorder. It was a knowledge of this which in part prompted the arrangements for the grand turnvat of the State militia which is to take place in this city on July 4. There will be a parade, act ry tournament anda sham battle, in which 1,500 intautry, three companies of artillery and one | of cavalry will participate. ruom 7H Mayor, xox Though the Mayor and Chief of Police declare they do uot ivok tor turbulence the former addressed je@ note to the latter to-day, and this is the 4 } go ux { the authorities are not ima to be :— tion tha vrehensive as the | Crry Hann, Ju Yaptain James MeDoyouen, Chief oi Po that the law p: ot firearms and display of fi ts: be'strivély Gbserved through- Tdirect the attention and request city hin y on the 4th inst, partment to the subjec NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, rights. He aud twenty other men kept back an army of Versailles soldiers for a whole night 1m Paris, he said, and a sword was awarded him by asap spb Minister of War—an American, ‘This was “ After that he and his brother were put at the wall to be shot, but were sued by two women, tnd in the fall of. 1871 he came to America, His brother been condemned to death four times, but succeeded in having his sentence revoked. are now paroled under the now law. A younger brother was | shot down in the street soon.after the Commuae. | It is one of the socialists’ strongest points, Marin | said, not 10 have any leader at all, "Phev go together as 2 body and do not desire leaders. The socialists } ¢ full Value Of their labor, and do not uy one to steal any part of that e in any shape, profit or mterest im ‘prop- ‘Ho believes ‘that.the success of . social- ism will come, sooner or later, It js not a | political party. It is more of a religion of labor. ‘It | is his claim that everywhere the capitalist Doaige tho | fight and not the laboring man, On the 5th of July | there will be a parade ot the Socialistic Labor Party that ers and their subordinates be particu- wil . emise! in Newark, Arrangements had been ade | he od ae te eSY OVERSTOLZ, Mayor. | £0F the holding ot “a picnic, but the idea” was m at vor | ybandoned, ® communication being receivedfrom | Commenting on this noteof the Mayor Mr: Curr | fe Exeoutive. Committee of the Soctalistic habor j2 id that tho socialists did not recognize the | party, whose headquarters are at Cinchunat , Ohio. | arms; that the two companies that would parade on | 1 the Fourth were* organized and armed under the { | State law, and if the Mayor’s order was in any man- { | ner intended for them they certainly would pay 20 attention to it. . NO STRIKE OR DEMONSTRATION THOUGHT OF AN TELE AFFAIR AT Post's FACTORY, | CINCINY (py TELEGRAPu ‘TO TH RALD-] H Crxeryyatt, July 1, 1879, Philip Von Paten is the secretary of tho | socialist labor party of Cincinnsti, an organ- | | Yvation numbering some fow® ‘hundred, or | | perhaps five hundred meny ‘Two years ago, | | when the railroad riots ocoutred here, they took | an active part in the trowPles, though Von Paton | | himself was not here untif atterward, He has an | office on the corner of Se¥enth and Pine streets, in | which he devotes most of his time to working for | the order. ‘Two woeks ago they held a meeting on | Fifth street marketspace, at which they passed some rathervswil aesolutions in favor of an | | eight hourvlaw, but since that time they have }doue nothing in the matter. The Hxnaup cor- | respondent asked Von Paten if, they intended to | make any demonstration on the Fourth of July. | “We shall not,” he repHed; “there are some local | differences in our society just at present which pre- | vent us making any demonstration,” “Will you pass resolutions or take any actions whatever looking to the proposed strike?” I inquired. “No, sir, we will not; it wouldn’t be expedient for | us to do so at this time and under the circumstances. Ilearn, however,” he added, ‘that in many other cities our friends have agreed to appear and urge their demands for a reduction of the hours of labor, | and many of our people here are in sympathy with | them.” | ‘This ended the conversation. The trouble among | the socialists here grew out of the action of a part of | their number in regard to the accident in Post & Co.'s factory, which, it willbe remgmbered, occurred | a few weeks ago, causing the deatf-of six workmen by reason oc the insecurity. of the building in which they were employed. After that | occurred two or three mectings of the | society were held and strong resolutions were passed denouncing Post Co. for having put their workmen ina building which, after being partially burned, proved insecure, But at these meetings William Haller, who is one of their foremost lead- | ers, protested against the action of the society, und drew away quite a number-of them. This created the dissatistaction which has been alluded to. SOCIALISTS IN CHICAGO CONTEMPLATE ONLY A PICNIC-—NEITHER STRIKES NOR VIOLENCE THOUGHT OF —LOCAL PBEPARATIONS TO MEET ANY TROUBLE. {BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.1 Cuicaco, July 1, 1879. There seems to be very little excitement in this city im regard to the “threatened outbreak’ on the Fourth, The Henazp correspondent called at the headquarters of the socialists this evering and held a tong conversation with their ‘leaders, They say emphatically that there is to be no strike and no violence on that day. They propose to hold a picnic simply, and perhaps will 49 unarmed. It had been the intention to carry arms for the parade, but since the law was pavsea prohibiting it they think they will yield the point. =. matter will be settled = to-morrow. It is intended to have two or threo of the Lehr and Wehr Verein ap- ed upon the stréct, to have them arrested to court to make atest case. stion as wo the constitutionality of the it it goes against them they say they will leave arms at home. There ll, however, be no | oncerted strike this summer, they say. ‘The au rities do not apprehend any trouble, but will be ready for the worst. General Torrance, of the | State militia, has quartered here the First and Second regiments and the Sixth and Sixteenth | battalions ot infantry, a company of cavalry, the | Zouaves, a company of artillery of six fleld pieces and aGatling gun. In addition to this force 500 of the | police are armed with Springfield rifles, making in | | alla force of about thirty-five hundred well drilled | and armed men, ‘The socialists have less than | 1,000 men, and they know they are outnumbered if | they felt disposed to do violence. Ali the troops in | command of the authorities will be held in readiness, | | With such preparations on the one hand und such | | professions on the other, there is not much prob- | ability of trouble. Your correspondent had a brief conversation with the Mayor, Carter H. Harrison, and he said he was | ready to show these people that they must | obey the laws or take the severest conse- | quences. The lives and property of the public | could not be trifled with as long as he is Mayor. It | may be said the trouble with the Bohemian picnic | hae no political significance, although they were | socialists and would act with the Lehr and Webr | Verein in case of another riot. | | thei | the YORK—ONLY PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS INTENDED, the men of Chicago and St. Louis—for from | jatter eity alarming reports have also been re_ | ed here—appear to be preparing for action, the k fellow we 3 seems to be The Ve eulung, the organ | , recently su r antount to any- | to curetully prepare a WHAT IS SAID IN N | | Ww | | is the tine uu action of all the trades or, to enforce it’ upon the | cay with irresistible enorgy, | must be “buried, in t be reached by all, An Struck at once, * * * When, ona en day, every shop and every ma- chine becomes idle, and no smoke issues either from factory or locom then we shall fuliy at- must and shall attain. Or tain the object which ¥ dh th e follow two significantly is ix the sort of t by thi thing but ‘nt in their denanciation of WHAT TH A reporter with NEW YORK LHADERS SAY, f the FraaLp a versed some of the | re of the moveme in New one voice, denied that any- smonstration in favor of the ntended for the Fourth, Mr. { the leaders of the labor relormers, who Ww terviewed at his residence on the crest of Muri i said, in auswer to he reporter’s gu do not know of any ition OF purpose in any quarter to intertere way whatever with. the publie peace yn the éth of { understand there will be many | meetings held in various cities of the country, suelt as Lrooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and San Francisco on the Fourth in favor of the eight-hour wor Ido not know of any organization extending } over all the cities in the eountry to take action then oratany other time; neither do I believe that any | | disturbance will grow outof or result from the work- | | ingmen’s meeting® on Independence Day. I do not b lieve any man desires other then ul agitation, | PEACE TILL NEXT Al Mr. Jonas, the «ditor of the Vollszeitung, and his | Associate, Dr. Douai, who 18 also a leader of the Ger- | | an socialists, were firm in their declarations that | | no disturvance was intended, Mr. Jonas said the object of the Internatio al Labor Union and sneial- | istic labor party, whoxe headquarters were at Chicago and Cincinnati, was simply to test the strength of the eight-hour movement on the Fourth, If they | fouud that the workingmen were nearly united and would meet the ‘foe with overwhelming | P force, then the ball would be started and a labor congress would be held next fall, at which perhaps a mouster strike might be ordered. Jonas was convinced that nothing beyond peaceful | “demonstration” in fayor of the eigit-honr work day would result before next fail, with the exception ot some isolated strikes of trade unions with which the central organizations had nothing to do, Mr, Jouas, in the course of the conversation, ad- | initted that while the hours of labor here were ten, they were twelve in France, Germany and Switzer- iand, and eleven in Bngland, and that at the same time the wor van in this country lived vastly better than he did in Europe, } se THA MOVEMENT IN‘ EWARK, In regard to the article published in yesterday's Henawy Mr, Charles Marin, of Newark, said last | evening that thete was much truth in it, butthat it sures for the re- | was not correct as to a general strike. Mo has nover | | sight of the Mayor to prevent them from beartng | ‘x In any case, Mr. ¢ The communication urged that every section of the ocislistie party iu the country join in a parade in their respective localities, on the Sth day of July, in favor of the eight hour movement, and that all workingmen be requested’ to ‘join in the rade, Imcompliance with this communication he Newark socialists sent invitations to the various trades unions of the city to jom them in a parade, Thus far the shoemakers, hatters, turners, cigar makers, journeymen masons, national greenback- labor party and others have accepted the invitition, In conclusion, Mr. Marin said he did not belisve there would be a strike in any part of the United States on account of this demonstration. MILFORD'S TROUBLE ENDED, Mu.vorp, Mass., July 1, 1879. The threatened strike of the boot bottomers has been averted. ‘They wsked for fifty cents additonal per case after July 1 and tho manufacturers have granted at, WORKINGMEN ORGANIZING. A conference between committees of the iwenty- first Assembly district workingmen took place last evening in the tavern at- the entrance to Hamilton Park, corner of Sixty-ninth street and’ Third avenue. The two organizations concerned are the Working- ‘men’s Union of the Twenty-first-Assembly district and the Workingmen’s Club of the same district. ‘The | former was, born about two months ago out of the shattered elements of the nationalist party of last fall. Its princt; echo Kearneyism. <All members of itare required to subscribe the celebrated Kearney pledge, which reads thus:— ae I do solemnly pledge my sacred word of honor as aman that Lwill ceasoall affiliation with every other politieal party, and will labor with earnest, zeal to the best of my ability to grganize and snpport the national workingmon’s parts of New York, and that { will do my best to propa; the principles dud platform of this purty, aud will voto ouly for those candidates for politienl office Who are nomi- nated by the national workingmen’s party, and who. are pledged to curry ont by legiclation the platform ut thie party, aud that I will consider the members of this party as my triends and its enemies as my enemies. The object of the conference 1ast evening was to effect the absorption of the old organization of the district, the Workingmen’s Club, by the Working- men’s Union. Mr, Jehn E. O'Sullivan, the president of the union, was chairman. ‘The result of the conference was an agreement as to the details of the consolidation. ‘The President of the club had already subscribed to the Kearney pledge, thus ina degree guaranteeing the action of the body of which he is the head. FOUL. PLAY SUSPECTED. Persons living im the neighborhood of the tene- ment house No. 317 East 109th street heard a cry for help on the night of June 23, proceeding from the second floor of the building. As the appeal soon died away no more was thought of the matter. On the same night Thomas Dunn, a laborer living at that address, called upon Charles B. Ellison, a phy- sician having an office at No. 216 East 132th street, and told him that his wife Honora Dunno had been taken very ill, and asked him to render professional aid. Dr. Ellison went to the house and found Mrs, Dunn lying un- conscious on a bed, with blood running from her mouth. The doctor sent for un ambulance and had the sick woman transferred to Bellevue Hospital. There she remained until last Saturday night, when death ensued. In consequence of the extreme hei she was buried on the following day in @alvary Cometery, her lmusband and his two childreh—one aged three and the other six years—following the grave. Nothing, more was thought of the matt until Monday, when Dr. Ellison had his suspicion: aroused by remarks dropped by the neighbors, and thinking there was something wrong, he acquainted This will de- | Captain Robbins, of the Twenty-third precinct, with © se cate Near mnidnight the Captain sent Detective: the facts. Sawyer to Dunn’s room. He was made to leave his bed and go to the station. house, in Kast Kighty- eighth street, near avenue A. An mitopsy was made and death declared to have resulted from natural causes. Justice Murray yesterday, however, com- mitted Dunn to await an examination. KILLED WITH A CART RUNG. James Alfred Osborne, @ young married man, died yesterday morning, at Paterson, N. J., from in- juries said to have been received at the hands of John Hartley, his employer's son, on Sunday night, last. Osborne, who was a very quict and faithful man, was, highly esteemed by his employer, Joseph Hartley, and received tokens of favor denied to the son, John, who is somewhat dissolute in his habits, This caused a bitter jealousy of Osborne, and on the night in question young Hartley concealed him- welf in the stable where the horses were kept, and when Osborne came in, it is alleged, asgaulted him in the dark with a cart rung, chogsing 5 0} portant, when his victim was leaning over jet horses’ teed out of achest. Fracture of ull and con- cussion of the brain resulted, and atter lingering until est Morning Osborne died. As | soon is at “heoaae clear that fatal results might be expected = yor Hartley ied, ‘and has not since been found, Mayor Graham, of Paterson, is expected to offer # large reward for his arrest. One of the most painful features of the case is that if Hatley is found and placed on trial his little sister Annie, aged ten years, must be the principal witness ‘against him, as sho was present at the time.. Mr, Hartley the elder is a most ostimable citizen, and the family is | highly respected. Osborne Uved at No. 43 Jersey street, and besides his young wife leaves two little children. An inquest is to be held by Coroner Hurd at eleven o'clock this morning, TEMPHST IN A TEAPOT, The committee of organization of the national greenback labor party met last evening in Clarendon Hall, Whe previous mnieetings of the com- mitteo had been anythingé but harmonious, aud the loaders endeavored last evening to bring about some sort of harmony among the members, When the constitution, was first read #0 many objec: tious and th cers. noisy debate, ‘There wore eighty-five ballots depos- ited 4nd after an unconscionably long time taken in counting the youes it was declared that 1. Wilson Me- Donald was elected permauent chairman and Henry Nichols permanent secretary. committee proceeded to the election of offi- finally, after mach confusion, accomplished. ‘OR EUROPE, There were seventy-three horses xt the United States Bonded Stables, No. 600 Greenwich street, yesterday motning, awaiting shipment to Europe. Of thewe thirty-two had been ordered from Mr. Ambrose Hewitt, of Richmond, Ind., for service in ‘rance, and the lot will be shipped by the steamship leayes port this afternoon for ix of the number are for military Another bateh of y Mr, A. Crouse, will be sent 8, to be sold there, and Mr, in mes of the etables, has © will ship to Liver purposes and six for private use. twenty-eight, owned to Loudon in a few Robert Stoddart, who a third lot in the stalls which pool at the end of the week. WILL CONTEST. | THE HALL Frederick Hall. pacity. In addition to the testimony nd fully published heretofore in t evidence of Alice Waish, stepfather of the deceas son, were taken. FIRE IN NEWARK. ‘The frame baildings Non, 89 avenue, Newari’, were partially | $9,000. ‘The five broke out in No, 8 | liquer saloon by Blair Burn | bwidings, Burns’ loss is abou | $600, W. O'Brien, grocer, at Ne | partially insured, °8.0, Marsh, draggist, at No. } Joses $500 on stock; insured for $4,000; building, W; insured for $3,000, On the build 5, Luses $1,000 heard anything of the sort advocated by the social- | ints. They dO not bolleve in strikes, but are ready | of $4,000; insured tor $5,000, | vested. to help every workingman who wants to get his remains to thei}, at Ocean Grove, Thursday, July 31. hrown in that the rules were suspended This was also tho oceasiou ot a great deal of Then came up the question of adopting the constitution, which was ‘There was atother hearing yesterday before Sar- Toyate Calvin in the matter of the vontest over the will of the late Mrs, Mary G. Baker Hall, who left the bulk of her property to her husband, Dr, ‘The will is contested on the ground of vudue influence and want of testamentary cw | ready given Hpnarp the Mr. Nichéls, jackson, & ma ‘Their testimony went to show that the deceased war pertectly sane and had at va Tious times expressed Ler resolve not to leave any- thing to her brother. The case was then adjoarned. 85 and 87 Belleville destroyed by fire | | yesterday moruing. The total loss will be about , occupied as a and spread to other $100; insurance lows on ing No. 45, owned by Dennis Osborn, there i# a loss Biair Burns was ar- JULY 2, OUR WATERING PLACES. ASBURY PARK AND OCEAN GROVE. THE MECCAS OF THE METHODISTS—HOW NEP- TUNE HAS MADE KELIGION BAaSY—CHURCHES BY THE SEA AND REVIVALS IN THE SURF— WHAT |.00D CHRISTIANS ACCOMPLISH BY 8UC- CESSFUL SPECULATION. Asnuny Pang, N. J., June 30, 1879, About the year 1760 a physician visiting Brighton, | England, found it to be a village of fishermen. Be- lieving that it was specially adapted to the wants of those who were in search of health and pleasure he made certain improyements in the property he se- cured and established the nucleus of atown, It is now a beautiful city, with a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, In 1860 the town of Gravesend, L. I, which owns a portion of Coney Island, lease a piece of ground on the sea front for ten years ond received therefor the sum of $60, The lease expiring in 1810 the authorities renewed it again for ten years for $600, ‘To-day the value of the sea front on Couey Island, with all of its improve- ments, is probably not less than $15,000,000. A similar wonderful change in the character of property, and underenearly the same con- Gitions, is taking place here and across the creek at Ocean Grove, the famous Methodist resort. When you remember that ten years ago only a strag- gling house was to be found along the beach in a stretch of many mules; that the sea gull screamed untrightened and the ceaseless roar of the waves alone disturbed the all-prevailing silence, the sud- den development of these two localities is almost as startling as the legend of Jonah’s gourd. Listen to the story. 4 OCEAN GROVE. In. 1869 twelve ministers aud twelvo laymen, all Methodist brethren, desirous of securing a place at the seaside for camp meetings, subscribed $25 cach, ora total of $600, It was a rough and almost for- bidding locality, but was chosen after much’ discus- sion as the mpst available site in the ucighborhood. The first cottage, built in June, 1870, is now one in 1879.—TRIPLE SHEET. futuro whon the unsdfd of the land shall come into the market as it must do, and command vices commensurate with the imerease of popula- jon. Itmay seem chimerical to you, butl look tor the time within twenty years when all the territory from Seabright to Greut Pond will be under the corpora- tion of Long Branch; when the corporation of Asbury Park will extend trom Great Pond to Shark liver, and all the territory between Shark River and Manasquan River, including Ocean Beach, Sprit Lake, 5ea Girt and Squan, will be under a th: corporation, Monmouth county, you must remem- ber, hus an Ovean front o: twenty-five miles, and frontage on New York Bay of fitteen mules more.” FIGURES, “What is your population ?” . “By the census completed in December, 1878, As- bury Park alone contained 1,235 permanent inhabi- tants—of which 72 are colored—an increasé of nearly one-third over the preceding year. ‘The proportional increase this year will be somewhat greater, The average population of the Park and the Grove during the anouths of July, August and September is up- ward of twenty thousand, Hundreds of thousands of railway tickets to transient visitors were sold last year. The amount of provisions necessary to sup- ply this influx of visitors affords a direct cash bene- fit tothe country and city where our supplies are urehased: that is incalculable, Where in 1869 but wo horses were kept there are now 218, independent of several hundred brought here by summer guests, making another expenditure of $16,000 a year for horse teed that goes into the pockets of the neigh- boring farmers,” “Aud about the increase of property?” “That depends entirely upon location. Take the average “here, and the value has been quidrupled in four or five years; but along the beach and in certain choice ts, what cost $1,000 is worth $5,000 or $6,000 now. Take the Columbia Hotel, for in- stance. Its owner paid $5,000 for the site. The land alone is now worth $35,000, and the same rule may be applied to the adjoining cottages. ‘The nearer the ocean, the higher the price. Good lots, 560x150 feet, range from $500 to $2,500, A drive througn the village verified the facts above given, The streets are broad and clean, laid out at right angles and aligned with neat cot that may have cost anywhere trom $800 to $5,000, ‘The shade is abundant and the aspect rural. Along the beach, where the surf is not inferior to the best that can be found along the coast, clusters of hand- some bathing houses are erected, and, what is not usual elsewhere, it is lighted at night by gas. ‘The large hovls are all in this neiyhborhood. Thoy consist of the Coleman, West End, Metropolitan and Ocean, of large capacity, and a half-dozen others that may accommodate trom seventy-five to one hundred persons each. The permanent board ranges from $10 to $15 a week, while transient board is number of boar houses, where, it you have a 500, and others sre going up more rapidly than at any former period. I am “credibly informed that from the beginning every dollar added to the original investment ‘of $600 has been | faithtully reinvested, aud that the personal prop- erty of the association is now represented by a very large sum. These good Christians, however, are te- markably exclusive, LikeSt. Peter they hold the keys of their paradise, and Whoever gains permanent ad- mission must run a moral gantlet to domonstrate that he is “not like as other men,"” Some of the regu- lations are almost Puritanic in their binding force, as, for instance, one which forbids riding on Sunday through the streets; and it is said that the real blue- blooded Christians abstain from eatiug anything but cold victuals on Sunday. The sale and use of liquor is, of course, peremptorily forbidden. The conse- quenco is that Ocean Grove and its inhabitants wear a goody-goody uspect that is eminently impressive and caleulated to disarm you trom all suspicion that on offering for sule a piece of property they havo at heart anything but your soul’s welfare. You will not fail to notice, however, what is not to be scen elsewhere this side of Sandy Hook, save at Long Brauch, that policemen uniformed, like the “‘clubbers’’ of New York, are always on hand to enforces the Ten Commandments, and that con- spicuously planted on the banks of Wesley Lake, as thin stream of water is called, isa representative of the Church militant in the shape of a rifled cannon. Architecturally viewed Ocean Grove is an exceptionally beautiful village, and its residents, whether transient or permanent, have every reason to be proud of the enterprise of its founders. Many of the cottages and smaller villas are quite valuable, and in their fresh, bright colors present a handsome contrast to the great uaases of foliage by which they are surrounded. Religious meetings of one kind and another are of frequent occurrence, as may be inferred from the following programme :— 1. One hundred and third anniversary of American Independence, Friday, July 4. 2. New Jersey State’ Sunday School Assembly, em- bracing all evangelical denominations, Saturday, July 12, to Sabbath, July 20, 3. Women’s C. T. Union—Mrs, Wittenmyer, Mrs. Lathrop, Mrs. Youmans and others—July 22, 23, 24. | 4, Benth anniversary of tirst religious service held 5. Six days’ Bible readings, by Rev. Daniel Steele, “Dp. D;, Salem, Mass., author of ‘‘Loye Euthroned,’’ and Key. B. M. Adams, New Haven, Conn., August 5 to loth. 6. Anniversary of the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society, Sabbath, August 17. 7. Annual camp mecting, Monday, August 18, to ‘Thursday, August 25, ‘The singing at the camp meeting will be led by the Buell family. The summer Sabbath schoo! will be opened on the first Sabbath in July. In addition to these special meetings religious ser- vices commence in the Grove as early in the season as circumstances require and continue as long’ us they may be needed, Services are also held in the church allthrough the year, unless it may be a few Sabbaths during the height of the meetings in the ove. . >i ASBURY PARK. ‘The great success of the projectors of the enter- prise above described, with 4 capital of only $600, speedily atiracted the attention of others, and some of the neighboring land was purchased by parties with the view of making an honest profit outside of the religious guise and on strictly business prin- ciples. Among these was a Mr. J. A, Bradley, of New York, a comparatively young man, probably not more than torty years of age, who became the founder, and is now the owner of the principal part of Asbury Park, which, as above statod, is soparated | from its neighbor only by @ narrow. strip of water from three to forty rods wide,’ the central line of which is the boundary of the two estates, The story of its acquirement und growth thus far is of suffi- cient interest to be told in his own words to the writer. Hoe said:— “*{ had just returned from an suction and was stand- in front of the Hrnatp office one day in May, 1870, when brother David H. Brown, the treasurer the Ocean Grove Association, came by and greeted me. I inquired how his company. was getting alo: ‘Very well,’ he replied. ‘Why don't you buy 1thought a minute and remarked, ‘Put me down tor two’ I think I purchased the first lot ever sold there, the premiuin being $85. A few days later, in company with wwo or three friends, I dro: down to the place, aud as it was a mere wilderne: carried a tent and servant. We went into camp on tho site of what is now the association's office, pil- lowed our heads on the carriage cushions’ and covered with the carriage viankets. The same spot to-day hears the click ot the telegraph instruments and Witnesses a vast throng of men and women call- ing for their letters when the muil arrives. During the camp meeting that took place in the following August the question was often asked, ‘Who owns the land on the other side of Wesley Lake?’ A min- ister and myself crossed over one day at the risk of having our clothes torn from our ies, until we came to a beautitul sheet of water that recalled to mind the word ‘Alabama’—‘here we rest.’ It was calied Sunset Lal Wild a they were the entire | surroundings impressed me, and returning by way of the beach Icoucocted a pian for the organization | | of » company to purchase the entire tract of 500 | acres, tor tt was only in a lump that the owner | would dispose of it. Nothing, however, came of it, | Leouldn't make anybody see a profit in that sand ana undergrowth, A BRAVE SPECULATOR. “Not disheartened, 1 deteriwined to buy the placo alone, and did so. I at once put a force of men at | work, cleared away the briers, for it was little better than a jungle, and at a cost of several thousand dol- lars began to open roads. Ly and by somebody came along, purchased a lot and built a cottage, and now— well, you see for yourseli—there are hotels, tive | churches, boarding bouses, stores of every variety necessary for a large population, a fine reading room open all the year round, « weekly paper with a circu- lation of oyer twenty-five han copies, & post offices, telegraph office,” public hall in the village, another in the centre of the park, kuown as Educa- tion Hall, being the same name it bore when it stood on the Centennial Grounds at Philadelphia, capable of seating fitteen hundred peopie; a onic lodge room, « $10,000 school, one of the finest in the State, and the extensive depot and depot grounds on the Long Branch division of the Central road, cover- ing four acres. 1n short, the property assessed in 1860 for $16,000 has now in 1879 an assessed valuation of $500,000, Several milos of streets, 200 feet wide, are completed, clayed and gravelled ; miles of gutters have been curbed, und from eight to ten miles of wooden wement four feet wide laid throughout the town. 4 that’s the story of my success. Whenever a | party purchases # piece of property Talways lay his wement for him, Ican do this at a cost of about 13 per 100 feet, The taxes of wil kinds, State, county aud township, do not exceed $10 60 on $1,000, In the two piaces—Asbury Park and Ocean Grove— over eight hundred cottages have been built within atacost of over $1 m. On my own tract about seventy buildings e been erected since last October. ‘There is no inalaria and few mosquitoes,” CONDITIONS AND RESULTS. “What are the conditions that attach to the sale of lots ?” inquired the writer, “When parties buy and do not build I require one- third of the parehase money down aud the balance in five years... When @ purchaser builds, how is required; but he may give a mortgage payable in ten years, with the privilege ot ten lar reuewuls, making the principal sum dne 100 he | lot?’ Yen per cont off Your correspondent learned from a third party . Bradley boiis mortgages of this character mounting to about $500,000 “1 pre rving the right to | $2 50 and $3 a Gey. Besides these there are a great family, you may make almost your own price, No intoxicating liquor is permitted to be sold any Ww! in the Park or Grove. This restriction accompanies the sale of every lot, and yet, asa hotel proprietor remarked, with ‘a sly wink, “nobody is allowed to go to bed or get up sick, if a little stimulant will cure him. We are not all Puritans, even though Gabriel may toot the first blast on his horn over yonder at Ocean Grove.” ‘Those who are most enthusiastically concerned in the growth of Asbury Park are awaiting the result of the experiment with the long pier at Long Branch. If that proves to be successful there are parties ready to build a similar pier here tor the purpose of establishing direct steamer communication with New York and thus opening direct commercial rela- tions. Dispassionately viewing what has already been achieved, there is no reason to doubt that the remarkable successincident to the colonization of the two localities will be continued. When religion and trade go hand in hand something has to give way, and with such an aily aa old Neptune stepping for- ward from the surf to aid tl speculation the prayers of the faithful can scarcely do otherwise than feed the contribution box. THE GREAT SOUTH BAY, L. L WHERE NEW YORKERS GO YOR FISHING AND SHOOTING—AN ISOLATED BATHING BEACH— A PART OF LONG ISLAND GROWING IN POPU- LARITY. Fing Istanp, June 30, 1879. The warm weather of the past few days is driving numerous visitors down in this direction and to va- rious points on the adjacent shores. The train from the city this morning was crowded with passengers, many of whom got off at Babylon and made their way here. At all the-villages on the south shore of Long Island—Belmore, Merrick, Ridgewood, Belmont, Breslau, Bayshore, Islip and Oakdale—the influx of the New Yorkers is reported to be unusually large. Babylon, which is across the bay trom here, an hour’s pleasant sail by steamboat, appears to have become a favorite resort, and many well known New Yorkers and Brooklynites have handsome summer residences within its limits, Among these are Houry Havemeyer, president of the Long Island Railroad; J. B. Clyde, of the Clyde line of steamers; H, B. Hyde, president of the , Equitable Life Insurance Company; Bradish dohnaon, George Wilmerding, R. 0, Colt, Richard Arnold, of Arnold, Constable & Co.; Felix Remsen, Graham Young, Judge McCue, E. B. Sutton, Brion Folk, John Ireland, George Thompson, Charles T, Duryea and John Lawrence. The Wawayanda Fishing Club, which formerly kept their headquarters on the shores of Greenwood Lake, have this year established themselves at Wiginlet, opposite Fire Island and about five miles from Babylon. They have builta club house sixty by thirty feet and fitted it up comforta- bly. They have a steam launch for communication between the railroad station snd the club house, They have two large catboats and a number of small boats for rowing and fishing purposes, The club numbers sixty members, among whom are Sheppard F. Knapp, president; ex-Sheriff William C. Conner, Judge Clancy, Ed Gale, Ed Kearney, Vincent ©. King, Colonel Van Tassel, Harry Felter, Samuel Weeks and other familiar names. CHANGE IN THR FORTUNES OF BABYLON, Babylon was a small obscure village till within « few years ago, when its attractions came to be per- ceived by the many people from New York passing back and forth on their way to Fire Island, To reach the latter place it is necessary to teke either sail or steamboat froin Babylon; but Babylon is now quite a place for summer sojourning. Mostly all the proporty of the village has been bought up by New Yorkers for residences and for speculative pur- poses. Its main attractions are its proximity to the Great South Bay, where the ishing and shooting are good and abundant, its old shade trees and its general heaithfulness. The two principal hotels are the American and tho Watson, At tho former there are stopping from New York William L. Peck and tamily, lra C. Bellou and family, A. 8. Roe, F, W. Otherman, Walter G. Schuyler, Rollin Hill, W. F. Norton, Dr. W. G. Provost, William J. Prall, A. E. Hawkins and Arthur iy. At the Watson, which has all its au, rooms “se there are from New York R. G. Elliott, W. H. Hamilton, Kd- ward Livingston and family, Platt K. Dickinson and family, Henry 8. Stearns, Louis Stearns, C. K. Gra- cle, C. J. Trowbridge, J, V. Bouvier and tam'ly, Will- jain H. Hurlbut and family, Henry Hart, i. N. Jerome, Dr, 8. Pewy, W. D. Strobell, Jr., aud family, A. F. Chrystie, W. F. Chrystie, J. A. Chrystie, Robert 8. Luqueer, Miss Amelia Luqueer and 8. B. Mil AN ISOLATED WATEMING PLACK. The. peculiar characteristic of Fire Island as & watering place is its complete isolation from the world, Coney Isiand is run in upon by @ halt dozen lines of railroad, Cape May and Newport have long since been compelled to surrender their insularity, Dut it is hatdiy possible that in this generation Fire Isiand will become annexed to the mainland, It is nine miles away from the steamboat pier at Babylon, and at that distance its outlines can searcety be dis tinguished with the naked eye, so like a mere pencil mark on the horizon does itseom. It is @ mere sand. bauk, the same as Coney Island, with the difference that itis much more extended and exposed to the surges of the restless Atlantic. Lt also presents a more even line of beach, and its tumbling and thundering breakers offer a wilder excitement to bathers than those of Coney Island. lt is occupied by but one hotel, originally built over twenty-four years ago b: Mr. D, 8. S. Sammis and since greatly extended, while cottages scattered here and there have been added from time to timo, ‘The steamboat Surf con- nects at Babylon with two arriving and two depart- ing trains datly, Passengers arriving at Babylon by the eight o’clock morning train from New York take cithor the street cars or the stages for the bout and get to the island about noon. Dy the afternoon four o'clock train they reach Babylon in time tor supper at seven o'clock. The sail across the level oxpauso of waters, especially in the morning, is delightful, The broad blue surface of the bay is usually at this season of the dotted with boats far as the oyo can reach, Ing & very picturesque sight an they come swiftly gliding into the foreground with white sails glowing in the swolight or are seen receding like shadows on the dim edge of the horion. The lighthouse, so familiar to the ocean steamships, stands near the western extreinity of the sand bank and makes & conspicuous object above the dead level of the island. When a» few miles from Babylon the loug low ‘building kuown ax the Surf Hotel looms into view, and the attered apart break the line of the hori- von, Jeaso Conklin’s hotel to the right and the Wawa- ‘anda Club House in the same direction on Cap Treo sland relieve the monotony of the view. When the steamboat on itsevening trip touches the pier at Fire Island the inmates of the hotel come swarming down to yreet the faces of old frieuds, or study curtonsly those of new arrivals. An irrepressible feeling of being cut off trom the world and its distracting yet strangely fascinating racket takes possession of the people thus voluntarily exiled to this insulated sand k, and they rejoice once @ day to see some sem { their fellow beings trom the big and teem- ity. IN SIGHT OF THE OCKAN BREAKERS, After landing from the litde steamer the visitor proceeds to the hotel under « long covered passage way upon at the sides, ond from there under # much longer covered plank walk to the beach. Here he r tw fro: yi « andidi Hi have not. My interest money amounts to very pittle move than the salary of @ first class | busifiees man, My real profit will only come in the alized very handsome | " sees the brow! Atlantic spreading out before him and rolling its eternal tides in upon and apparently ilimitable beach of purest isa sight of endless sutorent,to watch the great, frown. ing breakers lift themselves in translucent green high up into the air, slowly cur! into milk white foam and dash resistlessly on’ the glistening sands. The sound is like a prolouged peal of muted thunder, resembling the deep diapason of Niagara, Far away in the distance a faint line of smoke from the chimney of a passing steamer may be noted, and here and there a cloud of white sails relieves the wide and biue expanse. HOW THE GUESTS PASS THE TIME, On the inland or buy side of the island a fleet of broad treboard catboats are anchored near the steamboat pier, and these the guests tuke out in the course of the day on their fish- ing excursions. Fishing is the at Pecrea- tion of life at Fire Island. ‘he waters of the bay teem with fish, of which the biuefish variety is the great attraction. Pound nets haye been abolished, and it is now the custom to take the bluefish with’ rod and reel, by the mode known as “chumming.” The fish are compara- tively small, running to about three pounds weight, butt nore adventurous fisherman, who side of Fire Island Inlet and does not fear t! of Old Ocean, may catch monsters weighing from ten to fifteen pounds. These fishare also taken with the rod, and the sport is occasionally varied by hookiug a shark. Later on in the season the sum- mer flight of bay birds begins, and the gunner comes in for his share of the sport. The bay \bounds in geese, brant, canvasback, broadbills, red- heads, blackheads, mallards and other ducks, Along with bathing in the morning, fishing, boat- ing and shooting in the day, the guests contrive with billiards, bowling alleys, conversation, music and dancing to while away pleasantly the hours of the evening. NAMES OF THR GUESTS ON TIE ISLAND. Among the guests of the Surf Hotel are’ Williamr H. Pomeroy and family, R, G, Dun and family, ex- Mayor William H. Wickham ana family, Senator Alfred Wagstaff, William Habershaw and lady, Will- iam L, Pemeroy and family, John A, Foley and family, W. W. Wright and family, Mrs, ‘I. A. Bar- nard and family, Harry N. Alden and family, all of New York; Henry Crawford and F. W. Huidekoper, Chicago; W. E. Seer: and family, New Jersey; E. Stevens and family, ve! . N. Hand aud lady, Cleveland, Ohio: James M. Varnum and fam- ily, New York, and A. Bleecker Banks and family, ibany. HOW MAYOR WICKHAM RECREATES, Ex-Mayor Wickham yields bis time and mind to the fascination ot bluefishing. He thinks there is no such place on the Atlantic coast for the enjoy- ment of the pastime equal to Fire Island Inlet, When he seeks variety he takes his gun along tho beach and finds snipe, tern and curiew in abundance, while inland quail, partridge and grouse are cet & numerous, ‘The Long Islanders living on the sou' side are greatly delighted with the change which has come over the prospects of their villages within the past fouror five years. New Yorkers have taken kindly to the island of late, and every eligible site for a private residence in a healthy location and within view of the ocean is promptly pur- chased, either for immodiate personal occupation or with the object of disposing of it at an advantage in the future, Many of the residences around Baby- lon are palatial, the houses being built in the most ornate style of architecture, while the grounds are laid out with all the skiil aud taste of the gardener’s art. Informer times a brindled cow was supposed to bea match in speed for the average train on a Long Island railroad, and the cow frequently won in the betting; but that is all changed. Express trains with Puliman cars attached now make the journey from Hunter's Point to Babylon in fifty-five min- utes, so that a person can leaye New York in tho morning and spend a whole day fishing or shooting around the waters of the Great South Bay and have a dip in the surt of Fire Island, and yet be ack to bed at night in the city. The scenery im- mediately around Babylon is of the quiet, rural Kind. The houses for the most part are embowered in foliage, the trees consisting chiefly of maples, willows, locust, cottonwood, sycamore and butter- nut trees. Flower beds and trailing vines are fre- quent before the many snug cottages that are acat- tering about the village. Many of the dwellings are old and quaint, with high pitched roofs and towering brick’ chimneys. These have charm for the dweller among the streets an: nues of houses that are only the creation of ¥ day; It is pleasant to come across old, sleepy marti that antedate the Revolution, as many of th Babylon houses do, for the village was founded 200 years ago by Puritans from Connecticut, who gave it the starfling scriptural name that has naunted it ever since without hurting it to any extent. The visitor who comes to reside in Babylon for the sum- mer .makes it a point at some his sta to make a tri to Fire It not a visit. 166 feet high and is ascended by 204 steps. It holds revolving light of great power, and is attended to by a keeper and two assistants, who with their wives and families live in abiding harmony in # dwelling adjoining the lighthouse. At the hotel the ther- mometer on the hottest day never exceeds 75 de- greps of heat, so that a blanket may be worn at night with comfort. The beach is considered perfectly safe for bathing, and the hotel can care of five hundred guests. CONEY ISLAND PIER, The new pier opposite the West Brighton Beach Hotel was announced to be formally opened yester- day. The directors, however, decided to dispense with the formality and opened it to all who were «iia- posed to pay ten cents admission. Very few per sons availed themselves of this oppor-unity, for the pier is in ® very imperfect condition, though sufficiently complete for a promenade of more than @ thousand teet from land. There is an abundance of seats for those who wish to be at sea when the breezes blow. A number of excursion boats landed their passengers at the pier at intervals beer | the day without any difficulty. The steamer Grand Republic, on the morning trip for Rockaway, came in too near shore and grounded. She, how- ever, recovered herself in a few minutes and her Coney Island passengers were safely put on shore, PROFESSOR KING'S BALLOON. “Up. in a Balloon” was strack up by Gilmore’a Band, at Manhattan Beach, about half-past five o’clock last evening. After the first few bars of the melody were played all eyes and some footsteps in the immediate ueighborhood of the band were di- rected toward the bald head of the balloon, that was visible over the wooden enclosure at the back of the Manhattan Beach Hotel. The expectant curiosity of the muititude was, however, only pare tially satisfied. At ao quarter to six the silken “Pioneer” slowly ascended above the wooden enclosure and went skyward for about 200 yards. ‘This was the extent of yesterday's as- cension, and the time occupied in this performance did not extend over five minutes. Professor King is not yet ready, and it is said will not be ready until the Fourth of July, when the grand ascent may be looked tor with confidence. DROWNED AT BRIGHTON BEACH, Mr. Frost, manager of the New Market Mills, in New Hampshire, was drowned while bathing at Brighton Beuch yesterday afternoon. He, aecompanied by his two little sons and Mr. Frank Shepard, of this city, went in bathing. While showing Shepard how to float on his back Mr, Frost was suddenly taken with a fit of apoplexy and disappeared beneath the waves. Mr. Shepard brought him out as soon as possible, but he was dead. ‘The body was taken to the Pavilion and atterward to the Brooklyn Morgue, where it now is, Mr. Frost was about fifty-five years of age. THE SICK CHILDREN'S MISSION. The work of the Sick Children’s Mission nas just begun for the summer, it being a subordinate branch of the Children’s Aid Society's field of labor, For sevoral years: Mr. George Calder devoted much time and effort in superintending the mission, doing an immense amount of good among the tenement house children of the city, In fact, he demonstrated the necessity for such movement and was very successful. This year the cuperinentents of the work passes into the hands of Mr. M. Dupuy, anothor of the officers of the Chil- dron’s aid So 4 '¥, who has established his office at Wo, 709 East Eleventh street. The plan of operations ig nearly the sume as in former years—simply to fur. nish medical treatment, medicine’ and nourishing food to the sick children of the tenements. Tho roports turnished within a fow days show that the mortality among infants owing to the heat lately experienced is largely on the increase, The mission prenones to co-operate with the City Mission Society iu responding to the calls of their missionaries who may find worthy objects among the poor. Funds are required and an appeal is made for contributions, to be sent to William Ae Booth, Third National Bank; George 8. Coe, American Exchange Bank, and to No, 19 East Fourth street, DANCING BY THE RIVER, ‘The Kighth regiment, N.G.8.N.Y., Colonel Scott, with full band and drum corps, will go to Long Branch next Saturday morning on the steamer Ply- mouth Rock, On their return in the evening they will disembark at pier 1 North River, where a recep- tion and hop will be tendered them by Commodore Tooker and officers of the boat, A stand is to be erected in the contre of the pier, and on this the united bands of the regiment and of the steamer will play during the ball. The pier will bo lighted by two electric lights, An application to Superiu- tendent Walling for a foree of 250 policamen has ey GEORGE WASHINGTON POS'T, NO, 103, A large number of members of the Grand Army of the Republic assombled at the Stevens House, in Broadway, yesterday afternoon, and assisted at the orgunization of a now post, called George Washing: » No, 103, and the tt lation of its ofiicers, Department Commander Ja McQuade, assisted by Post Commander Heury A. Barnurn, conducted the coremonies and the following officers were in- stalled:—Commander of General M, MeMahon; Senior Vico Goneral, A, Davies; Jui Vice General, Jacob Sharpe; Quartermaster Obarien Trachea,