. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. he whole property himself and unas-sisted. As the possibilities of the site became more apparent it was freely predicted that the purchaserwould reap an enormous profit on his investment, and so no doubt he would have, had money-making beenhis chief object, but this was so far from being the case that his very first important announcement con-cerning the sale of lots within the terrirory was declared to be suicidal from a financial point of view evenby most of those who applauded his motives in making it. The announcement was that every deed wouldcontain absolute p
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. he whole property himself and unas-sisted. As the possibilities of the site became more apparent it was freely predicted that the purchaserwould reap an enormous profit on his investment, and so no doubt he would have, had money-making beenhis chief object, but this was so far from being the case that his very first important announcement con-cerning the sale of lots within the terrirory was declared to be suicidal from a financial point of view evenby most of those who applauded his motives in making it. The announcement was that every deed wouldcontain absolute prohibition of the manufacture and sale of liquor on the premises to which it gave a title. Oh, you can never make a success of a seaside resort so near New York if you abide by that rule, saidmany to Mr. Bradley. But he was fully determined to siick to it. be the consequences what they may,and the outcome proved and proves that liquor selling can be very nearly if not absolutely prevented if onegoes to work in the right RESIDENCE OF MR. MIL.\N ROSS. 20 ASBURV PARK AXD ITS JOIXTS OF DRAINAGE SYSTEM AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS. Another example of the noii-moneyniaking spirit of the founder is the course taken in the seweragequesiion, Asburv Park having been the first seaside-resort on the continent to adopt a perfect system ofdrainage. Tlie usual course at the average beach-resort has been to discharge sewage anywhere andsvervwhere, trusting to the porous soil and the pure air from old ocean to avert the consequences of suchcarelessness (to use the mildest term by which it can be described). But that is not the way Mr. Bradley
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