Identifier: bookofroyalblue24balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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North Long Branch, East LongBranch, Long Branch proper and west-ern sections are many cottages, too,but there is much else also, while inthe Pleasure Bay district along theShrewsbury River are the most popu- 6 THE JERSEY SHORE lar amuGcment features, and the shoredinner and clambake resorts. There is no resort attraction whichthe place doesnt afford. On thebeach there are ocean and salt waterpool bathing and also fishing. On theriver there are fishing and crabbing,yachting and all kinds of boating, andin winter there is the king of wintersports, ice yachting. At Hollywoodthere are fine i8-hole golf links. At the last week in July, at which someS8,ooo,ooo worth of horseflesh isshown; there are a dog show, flowershow, river carnival,Old Home Week,auto races and horses at the Elkwoodmile track, free beach, band concertsdaily and operas in the casino. Just below Elberon, which consti-tutes the southern section of LongBranch, come Deal Beach and Allen-hurst, high-class cottage communities.
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I CAKNIVAL IAKADE, KUAKDWALK, LONG BKAKCll Baseball Park there is baseball.Tennis courts are numerous. For theautomobilist there are 120 miles of im-proved roads in the city limits andbeautiful drives in every direction.Then there are the gay bluffwalk andbeach, three parks and three theaters,one of the last an open-air amphithea-ter over the river which seats 5,000.Of special attractions there is the great-est open-air horse show in the world each, however, with a few select hotels.The golf links at Deal have given theresort a national reputation for someof the most important tournaments areplayed there. Just across Deal Lake, and oppositeAllenhurst, is Asbury Park, whichwith its splendid bathing beach, itsfamous boardwalk, its music pavilions,attracts pleasure seekers and seasonand year-round residents from every THE JERSEY SHORE part of the country; indeed its summerpopulation is distinctly cosmopolitan.On the several bathing reservationsand on the crowded esplanade thatflanks the

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