. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. Branch Railroad. The facilities are admirable, the road-bed being of the highest class,the rolling-stock of the best, and the service frequent, accurate and conveniently timed; but the ]3ricesfor passage and for freight are a little high when compared with those quoted at other important stations. ASBCR] PARK ) /7S POfXTS OF /.\T/iRI-:ST. 5 and tl)cic slioiild ho an early and radical readjustment of them. Some idea of the Miaf;nitiide of thesummer tratlic iiere may be gained from tlie fact that tiie passenger receipts at this station often aggregate$2,000 and t
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. Branch Railroad. The facilities are admirable, the road-bed being of the highest class,the rolling-stock of the best, and the service frequent, accurate and conveniently timed; but the ]3ricesfor passage and for freight are a little high when compared with those quoted at other important stations. ASBCR] PARK ) /7S POfXTS OF /.\T/iRI-:ST. 5 and tl)cic slioiild ho an early and radical readjustment of them. Some idea of the Miaf;nitiide of thesummer tratlic iiere may be gained from tlie fact that tiie passenger receipts at this station often aggregate$2,000 and tile freight receipts Si,000 in a single day. The grounils connected with tlie station are themost spacious and most attractive on tlie railroad, and the station itself is a large and convenientlyarranged structure, but as regards beauty it is far surpassed by the North Asbury Park station, ahandsome stone building, completed in 1892, and situated nearly half a mile north from the main orAsburv Park and Ocean Grove METHODIST EPISCOPAL. ZION METHODIST. AND CATHOLIC. PRESBYTERIAN ( North .\sburv Park already contains many fine residences and is destined to become the aristocraticportion of the town, although in other portions of it one may also find so-called cottages that inelegance and beauty are matclied in but very few watering-places. 6 ASBLKV PARK AXD ITS POIXlS OF IXTEREST. ASBURY PARK AS A WINTER-RESORT. 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 thatmany who have experienced the grateful coolness of Asbury Park at times when residents of places a fewmiles inland were fairly sweltering under the burning rays of the summer sun, should laugh at the idea ofAsbury being warmer than its inland neighbors during the period when the arctic wind doth blow, andour old but errati
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