. Baltimore & Ohio resorts and springs, summer 1905 . , with a population borderingwell toward seventy-five thousand. Asbury Park has aparticularly fine location for a summer outing, and thebeach front is one of the best on the North Atlanticcoast. It is bounded on the north and south by twobeautiful fresh-water lakes, that to the north beingknown as Sunset Lake, which is most irregular in out-line, its surface being dotted with many small and pictur-esque islands. Several hundred boats compose the liverythereon, and gala events are frequent occurrences. At. SUNSET L , ASBURY PARK. •^ J-fr^ —
. Baltimore & Ohio resorts and springs, summer 1905 . , with a population borderingwell toward seventy-five thousand. Asbury Park has aparticularly fine location for a summer outing, and thebeach front is one of the best on the North Atlanticcoast. It is bounded on the north and south by twobeautiful fresh-water lakes, that to the north beingknown as Sunset Lake, which is most irregular in out-line, its surface being dotted with many small and pictur-esque islands. Several hundred boats compose the liverythereon, and gala events are frequent occurrences. At. SUNSET L , ASBURY PARK. •^ J-fr^ — .„, , i r ^ / 1 ! i-^k ^^ 1 1 1^ 1 1 jy^^jl 1 THE INLET, ATLANTIC the south is Wesle} Lake, a long, narrow and picturesquebody of water separating Asburj Park from its sistercity. Ocean Grove, by all odds the most famous camp-meeting city in the country. The thoroughfares of Asbury Park are not onh- un-commonlv wide, but are verj well kept, and the greenswards and profuse shade surrounding the residencesadd materially to the citys attractiveness. The city has recently taken over the ownership of thebeach front, and much has already been done to makethe esplanade and boardwalk, which is eighty feet wideand some three miles in length, a special feature ofattraction. There has recently been built a casino of mammoth proportions on one of the piers extending into the ocean, and reached directly from the boardwalk, and in this amphitheater, mider the supervision of the municii:>al 20 SEASHORE RESORTS. BATTLEFIELDS. beach commission, is gi
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