. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. to call the absurd propriety of Asbury Parkbathing-costumes. But what are the facts in the case? Simply these. Decency is insisted upon;indecency or anv approach to it, is promptly detected and as promptly ended, and. if necessary, is not one paragraph, one sentence or one word in the few and simple bathing regulations towhich anv reasonable and wholesome-minded person can fairly take ; they are enforced strictlyand iinpartiallv, but intelligently and as gently as circumstances will permit, by an efficient police forceunder connnand of Cal
. Asbury Park & Ocean Grove. to call the absurd propriety of Asbury Parkbathing-costumes. But what are the facts in the case? Simply these. Decency is insisted upon;indecency or anv approach to it, is promptly detected and as promptly ended, and. if necessary, is not one paragraph, one sentence or one word in the few and simple bathing regulations towhich anv reasonable and wholesome-minded person can fairly take ; they are enforced strictlyand iinpartiallv, but intelligently and as gently as circumstances will permit, by an efficient police forceunder connnand of Caleb T. Bailey, than whom no more genial, popular and pleasant, but at the sametime determined, capable and efficient an officer can be fountl in the Slate. The result is that AsburyPark is one of the few |:laces where surf-bathing is largely practised, where one may walk along the beachat anv time and in anv company without having to ignore sights and soinids that should never be allowedto make themselves manifest in (IN THE SA-DS. ASBL/iV PARK AXP /TS IV/XTS OF /XTJiR/iSF. \ ft- , A^ r^^ \ >* 4 3^1 i % There are more liian 2,500 bath-houses al A>l)uiy , aiul eve-ry provision is nuulc for the safety,comfort and enjoyment of bathers. Hut perhapsthe most noticeable and gralifyin- of Asburv Parks beach is iho entire absence of loiul-mouiiied liawkers, popcorn-men, and tiie rest of that vociferousand higlily objectionable famil)-. DouIm-less many of our readers have sighed fora place where they could stroll and scantile sea line and their fellow promenad-ers, and listen to the roar and rush ofthe surf without being rudely disturbedby importunate demands that they buythis, that, or the other trash, or • trowder ring, or shoot der rifle, or dosome other thing for which they felt notthe sligliicst inclination. Well, such aplace is .\sbury Park. The entire oceanfront with its plaza, pavilions, bath-houses, broad plank walk and othergreat and costly convenie
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