. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. c schoolsare excellent and there are several first-class private schools in the town. Not another community ofequal population in the State approaches Asbury Park as regards religious facilities : there is an excel-lent public library, an abundance of cultuied and truly lefined society tor \oinig people and adults, and, inshort, nothing is wanting thatwould tend to make life worth liv-ing. No intoxicants are sold,rowdyism is unknown, and a ladymav traverse the public streets atany hour without fear of insult oreven annoyance, and, unfonunately, that can be truly sa
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. c schoolsare excellent and there are several first-class private schools in the town. Not another community ofequal population in the State approaches Asbury Park as regards religious facilities : there is an excel-lent public library, an abundance of cultuied and truly lefined society tor \oinig people and adults, and, inshort, nothing is wanting thatwould tend to make life worth liv-ing. No intoxicants are sold,rowdyism is unknown, and a ladymav traverse the public streets atany hour without fear of insult oreven annoyance, and, unfonunately, that can be truly said ofbut very few other communities ofequal size in all America. The expense of winter lifehere is but small, for rents arevery low, groceries, provisions andother commodities are sold atreallv bottom prices, and thecharges at hotels and boarding-houses are uniformly Park is steadily gaining infavor as a winter resort: half a<lozen hotels are open now in win-ter, to every one that was open a thk lO ASBCK)- PARK A.\7) /TS PO/XTS OF IX TERE ST. decade a^o at that season, and one need not possess luiusiial powers of prophecy to foretell the day whenAsburv shall be a city in population, in winter as well as in summer, and shall at least share the honorswith the older but in manv respects less desirable vvniier-resorts which now enliven the Atlantic seaboard. ASBURV PARK AS A SUMMER-RESORT. To many persons a description of Asbury Iark as a summer-resort will appear as needless and super-fluous as an eulogy of the grandeur and sublimity of Niagara Falls or an account of the wealth and mag-nificence of New York City. But a description of Asbury Park containing no mention of its summeraspect, would be absurdly inadequate, and so, althotigh we have no idea of giving anything like a detailed account of warm weather happeningshere, let us strive in a few words to tellwhat the summer Asbury is, and how- itdiffers from every one of the almost in-numerable othe
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