Excerpt from Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Ocean Grove antedates Asbury Park by two years. It was first used as a campmeeting ground by a few Methodist churches nearby, and it was the intention of the Ocean Grove Association to reserve the property for that pur pose only, but the extraordinary growth of the place compelled a revision of the original plans. It is yet the largest campmeeting grounds in the world, although cottages have largely superseded tents and boarding houses have been replaced by finely equipped hotels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Asbury Park and Ocean Grove: With Their Points of Interest At first thought it seems decidedly odd that a town offering almost unequalled advantages as a summer resort should also hold out many and important advantages as a winter home, and it is not surprising that many who have experienced the grateful coolness of Asbury Park at times when residents of places a few miles inland were fairly sweltering under the burning rays of the summer sun, should laugh at the idea of Asbury being warmer than its inland neighbors during the-period when the arctic wind doth blow, and our old but erratic friend, Jack Frost, comes to the front. Yet such is the fact; and observations extend ing over several years show that Asbury Park is just about as much warmer than New York and Philadel phia in winter as it is cooler than those cities in summer, the temperature averaging about eight degrees warmer in winter and about eight degrees cooler in summer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting Held at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, New Jersey, July 3-7, 1905 Eminent educators not residing in America may be elected by the Directory to be corresponding members. The number of corresponding members shall at no time exceed fifty. Sec. 3. Any person eligible may become an active member upon application indorsed by two active members, and the payment of an enrollment fee of two dollars and the annual dues for the current year. Active members only have the right to vote and to hold office in the general Associa tion or in the several departments. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Displayed in over 275 precious views of hand-tinted and sepia-toned postcards from the late 1800s through more modern times, Ocean Grove's history comes alive.Travel within its three natural water borders, the Atlantic Ocean, Wesley Lake, and Fletcher Lake to view the Asbury Park boardwalk alive with visitors, the first railroad station, rare views of the magnificent Auditorium and other spectacular images.

Winner of the 2005 New Jersey Author Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.

Excerpt from Circular, Vol. 107: January 12, 1909 This species was introduced into the United States some time prior to 1879, in which year, on the authority of Mr. Jacob Doll, a living moth was captured in a spider's web at Hoboken, N. J In 1884 Dr. E. B. Southwick, then entomologist of the public parks of New York City, recognized the destructive Work of this species in Central Park. In 1887 it was seen at Newark, N. J but was not actually recorded as occurring in this country until the following year. In 1890 the junior author observed the moths at electric lights at Orange, N. J. Fortunately the spread of this insect, particularly in the immediate vicinity of New York City, has been very slow, a fact which may be attributed to several causes, (1) the slowness of the flight of the female, (2) the dominance of sparrows in large cities, causing our native birds, such as woodpeckers, to be driven to the country, where they destroy the moths, and (3) the bowl-shaped electric-light globes, hollow at the top and closed at the bottom, which were formerly in general use in our large cities. The males are strongly attracted to brilliant lights and many were captured and perished in these globes in earlier years. Other cities in New Jersey' where this species has been troublesome are Elizabeth, Irvington, Montclair, Arlington, Asbury Park, Ocean Grove, and New Brunswick. Mr. H. M. Russell of this Bureau collected specimens at Bridgeport, Conn, in 1901. The species is now an inhabitant also of Staten Island and has spread on Long Island well beyond the confines of greater New York. South ward it was reported a pest, in 1901, at Ocean Grove, N. J and by 1905 it was recorded by Felt as occurring at Kensico, N. Y., 25 miles north of New York City. By 1907 it was captured at New Haven, Conn, by Prof. H. W. Foote. It is now stated to be injurious in the vicinity of Boston, Mass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.