. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . rom the centers and the cor-ners of civilization meet in causual inter-course and join in kindred purposesand pastimes. The moral is the great diversity of its attractions—fashioned by Nature or developed byman—there is potent appeal to tastesand temperaments universal in theirscope. It is, in short, a worlds rendez-vous. No more forcible demonstrationof this can be had than by a perusal ofstatistics collated by the municipal pub-licity bureau, an institution directlyrespon
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . rom the centers and the cor-ners of civilization meet in causual inter-course and join in kindred purposesand pastimes. The moral is the great diversity of its attractions—fashioned by Nature or developed byman—there is potent appeal to tastesand temperaments universal in theirscope. It is, in short, a worlds rendez-vous. No more forcible demonstrationof this can be had than by a perusal ofstatistics collated by the municipal pub-licity bureau, an institution directlyresponsible for the far-reaching dissem-ination of the resorts fame. The Asbury Park of 1908 is a fresher,fairer, more brilliant Asbury Park thanhis heretofore pleased so widely andso effectively. To make it so the bor-ough fathers expended during the win-ter $150,000 for beach-front improve-ments alone and private capital hascooperated in betterments of hotelproperties and places of enumerate briefly, $25,000 was ap-plied to the erection of a large pavilionfor the special benefit of North Asbury. On the Beach at Ocean Grove THE SUBURBANITE hotel guests and cottagers. It is locat-ed at the foot of Seventh avenue andis a model of its type of building of a new free pavilion atthe Fourth avenue bathing grounds en-tailed an outlay of $10,000, while a likeamount was devoted to putting bathhouses into better condition and aug-menting their capacity. The board-walk has been extended around thearcade and hundreds of additional seatshave been added to the Casino whilethousands of dollars have been spent inthe construction of new jetties to com-bat the inroads of the surf. To providea much needed increase of bathing fa-cilities new bathing grounds have beenestablished between the fishing pierand the Casino and arrangements havebeen made to keep all beach bathingreservations open until October fact it is planned to continue theseason of summer activity i
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