Special Correspondence of The Inquirer.

Point Pleasant, N.J., Aug. 26.--August is proving itself to be a banner month at this resort, and it is far surpassing July, as July exceeded the season of last year. It is hardly to be wondered that the resort is a popular one. With a beautiful, smooth, hard, level sand beach and bathing that is nowhere surpassed, one side of the town reaching to the high bluffs that form the banks of the Manasquan River and lined with costly villas and handsome cottages, the other stretching down toward the north end of the far-famed Barnegat Bay, whose waters are thus easily accessible, the ground high and rolling, with a perfect natural surface drainage, and in the unbuilt portions back from the beach, covered with fine timber that makes rambling through the woods as much a delight as strolling along the shore.

Monday evening a delightful concert was given at the Edgewater under the direction of Miss Carry West Murphy and Mrs. Charles H. Marcy, for the benefit of the orphans of St. Vincent's Retreat.

A full-dress ball will take place at the Resort Home to-night, which promises to be a social success.

Special Correspondence of The Inquirer.

Island Heights, N.J., Aug. 26.--The heavy northeast storm that raged Wednesday night created much havoc here. Yachts were torn from their moorings and washed ashore with great holes stove in them, while many others were sunk in midstream. Thursday morning the water was up level with the railroad bridge and washing clear over the boardwalk nearly its entire length. It was the most severe blow experienced here for years.

Charles K. Wood, a young man wll known in Philadelphia and Island Heights society, is making quite a reputation as a water color artist. Though he has practically only been pursuing the art for less than a year, yet he is already finding a constant sale for his paintings. His style is rather broad and free, with fair coloring, and tastes usually inclined towards marines or partial water subjects. Among recent purchasers have been the Hon. Walter Phelps, ex-Minister to Germany; Miss Ellen M. Hutchinson, Mr. Edwin S. Megargee and Mr. Nathaniel H. Bishop, the well-known canoeist and author from Lake George, N.Y.

George Bacon and his wife from Chicago are being entertained at Arbutus Lodge.

The social function of the week, which was attended by all the elite of the Heights, was the concert Monday afternoon, given by the Rutgers Quartet at the handsome river front residence of Mrs. Robert Shoemaker for the benefit of Christ Episcopal Church.

Miss Helen S. Marshall, a vivacious and accomplished young lady who graces the inner circle of Trenton society, is being entertained at the cottage of Alfred Wood.
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Miss Clyde, sister of William P. Clyde, of the Clyde Steamship Company, is the guest of Mrs. F.F. Milne.

Special Correspondence of The Inquirer.

Forked River, N.J., Aug. 26.--Weakfish are biting well, and the sportsmen are largely turning their attention in that direction. There are still many bluefish and sea bass caught outside, however, and the supply seems never to diminish.

Snipe shooting along the meadows and on the beaches forms a favorite sport now, and the gunner is almost certain of a fine time of yellow legs, curlew, plover, butterballs, etc. Consequently the beach is dotted now and again with blinds and the decoy snipe have taken their stand in the sand. One of the favorite shooting places is the North Point of the beach, just opposite here, a wild stretch with nothing but two life-saving stations to break its tailed of loneliness.

S.M. Saunders is a New York wire broker and member of the "Old Guards," who is stopping at the Riverside House.

C. Marchauser, a Poughkeepsie, N.Y., legal light, is a guest at the Parker House.

​Special Correspondence of The Inquirer.

Waretown, N.J., Aug. 26.--With bluefish and weakfish biting plentifully Waretown is sure never to lack for visitors. And that is the situation at present. Weakfish are taking the hook voraciously in the bay right off our docks. Indeed, one day this week a party in one boat brought in over a hundred fine weakfish without going more than five hundred yards away from the Bay View House piazza.
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Bluefish and seabass are also in large quanitites and bite very freely. Flounder fishing is also at its best, and some sheepshead to reward the more patient of the anglers.

Many of the summer visitors here are of the Universalist faith and have been enjoying the campmeeting held at Murray Grove, Good Luck, at the spot where the first Universalist sermon in America was preached. As this campmeeting is but a few miles north of here it is easily accessible to our visitors, who drive up in large numbers.

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Barnegat, N.J., Aug. 26.--The week just passed has been one of both pleasure and benefit, notwithstanding the August storm that raged on Wednesday night, and which gave our summer visitors  an idea of what the shore is like during the wild and stormy wintry weather.  On the pleasant days fishing has been fine, and the many sportsmen who make this place their headquarters have had excellent luck. Boats have come in well laden with weak and bluefish, striped bass, flounders and the like. One gentleman, Mr. Shaw, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., who is stopping at the Clarence House, made the excellent catch of 26 fine striped bass, some of which weighed over six pounds.
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Professor R.B. Adams, of Philadelphia, gave a stereopticon exhibition here last week.

Special Correspondence of The Inquirer.

Bay Head, N.J., Aug. 26.--Bay Head in the summer is almost a college town. The boys from the big universities are the fad here, and none others can find favor in the eyes of the fair and charming maidens who bask upon the beach and promenade the boardwalk. Tall, athletic fellows, with huge shocks of tangled hair, clad in white duck trousers, spotlessly clean; flannel shirt or sweater, with the name of their "varsity" in its own proper colors; closely-fitting yachting caps with six-inch visors, bearing the initials of their baseball, football or boat club; their brawny arms and legs, sunburned to shoulder and knee--they make a close phalanx in the social world here that has never been broken. The young business man off on his vacation has tried it and failed, and even a brace of West Pointers, in their last year at that, with uniforms and military glory galore, failed to make the least headway against the irresistible though unseen influence.

Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, Columbia and University of Pennsylvania--these are the colors that form the prettiest and most striking costumes that are worn by the individual admirers of each young collegian among the summer girls, who are proud of their allegiance to learning's shrine, and who never fail to emphasize the fact. The lads, in addition to the other athletic sports, all affect yachting, and most of them can handle a catboat like a born Barnegat bayman. And in this, as in the others, the orange and black vies with the blue or the blue and red, so that there is no lack of pleasurable excitement.

As might be expected, this rivalry extends also to the fair sex, and gives rise to many amusing situations, but that only adds to the aforesaid pleasurable excitement.

Half-back Knipe, of the University of Pennsylvania football team, is a frequent and familiar figure on the beach and a favorite with both lads and lasses.

A pretty dance at the Ocean View was one of the pleasant features of the week. It was given by Mrs. Lincoln Eyre and Mrs. Howard Clark.

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Local Notable Side Note:
Alden Arthur Knipe (June 1870 – May 22, 1950) was an American football player and coach. He served as the sixth head football coach at the University of Iowa, serving from 1898 to 1902 and compiling a record of 30–11–4. Knipe was also the first head baseball coach at Iowa, coaching two seasons from 1900 to 1901 and tallying a mark 25–8. Knipe played college football at the University of Pennsylvania. After retiring from coaching, authored numerous books for children with his wife, Emilie.

Alden Knipe Wikipedia Page
Alden & Emilie Knipe on Writing Children's Books (The Writer, Vol. 30, 1918)
Knipe Children's Books Available Digitally Online

Special Correspondence of The Inquirer.

Beach Haven, N.J., Aug. 26.--Real estate men and capitalists who are interested in lands of Long Beach and in this immediate neighborhood, and who have been for years working for closer railroad connections with New York and Philadelphia, think that they have at last solved the problem.

It is proposed to build a line direct from Gloucester ferry, opposite Philadelphia, to this beach, which will make us within one hour of Philadelphia. It will also tap the main line of the New Jersey Southern Railroad at Atsion, and will thus materially shorten the present roundabout route from New York city. This proposed road would knock off two hours from the present time between this place and Philadelphia and at least one hour between this place and New York city. It would also give New Yorkers a straight through and almost air-line route to Atlantic City, as the scheme is to run a line from Atsion, the junction with the New Jersey Southern, direct to Atlantic, cutting off nearly an hour's time on that route.

"Duke" Thompson, of Gloucester City, is in the forefront of this movement, and it has back of it some of the foremost capitalists and shrewdest politicians in South Jersey; hence it is confidently predicted that it will be a success from the start.

Captain Joel Sprague's yacht Arimas is the champion of the Beach Haven fleet for the summer of 1893. The annual regatta was sailed last Saturday and there were 10 entries, including one from Toms River and one from Island Heights. THe course was a 10-mile one, and the prize the gold cup. Two of the contestants were built at Bristol by Herreshoff: they were the Sayonara and the Merry Thought. The winners were: First prize, Arimas; second, Cayonara; third, Fannie K.; fourth, Restless, all of Beach Haven; fifth, Comet, of Toms River; sixth, Merry Thought, of this place.

A garvey race will be held by the lady guests at the Engleside this afternoon and promises to be a most amusing affair. The small cockleshell boats will be sailed by ladies only, members of the sterner sex being barred out and only allowed to comment on the seamanship displayed by them. The judges of the regatta consist of a committee of ladies whose experience in yachting ably fits them for the position. Three prizes are offered, all of which are handsome and costly. The affair is under the management of the Misses Van Dusen and Mrs. B.K. Jamison, Jr.

Ex-Senator John Scott, general solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad, is a notable guest at the Engleside.

Welcome to Toms River Seaport Society’s (Mari)Time-Warp, taking our supporters back through the nautical history of the Barnegat Bay and Toms River watershed areas!

This time we reprint a vignette into stormy summer life of our area, August 1893, courtesy the Philadelphia Inquirer and Newspapers.com.

Toms River, N.J., Aug. 26.-- Wednesday night's storm gave some of the summer guests here a slight taste of what stormy weather means along the coast. A fierce northeast wind, with driving rain and high tides, caught several cruising parties from here out upon the bay. One party, composed of a number of college lads, who were spending the week upon the water, en route for Atlantic City, had experience enough to last them for some time.

An interesting game of base ball, which attracted many people from neighboring resorts, took place on Tuesday afternoon between the Toms River and Bay Head nines. Notwithstanding that the lads of the visiting team were encouraged by a bevy of fair spectators who had sailed down from Bay Head to see the victory Toms River won by a score of 11 to 5.

A pretty lawn festival and fair was held on Tuesday evening on the grounds adjoining the Presbyterian Church. Many of the summer guests were interested in this fair, and a large sum was netted for the church. The bright lights, many colored buntings and other accessories made a pretty scene.

Arrangements are being perfected for another regatta of the Toms River Yacht Club, which will take place early in September. Some new craft have been launched since the June race, and it is expected that they will figure in the contest. The yachtsmen are accordingly getting the fast boats in trim for the race, and the most exciting contest in the history of the catboat is expected. Barnegat Bay is the sailing ground which has developed this class and rig of yachts to their greatest speed, and the Toms River fleet has yet been unmatched for speed by any outsider.