The Evening Argus

Long Branch.—Long Branch has the misfortune to be in New Jersey. Otherwise there's nothing to be said against it. Any body can go to Long Branch who has a mind to. And has got plenty of money. Before starting it is advisable to draw all your capital out of the bank. Raise all you can on mortgage on your property. Collect all the money that is owing to you. Borrow all you can of your friends. You will find no difficulty in spending it all at Long Branch. Long Branch consists of beach and hotels. The hotels run along the beach, and the beach runs in front of the hotels. If you want a map of Long Branch, just draw a chalk line as long as you like, and suppose the hotels are on one side, the beach on the other.

The broad Atlantic rolls along the beach, and makes rollers into which the festive bathers plunge. The beach at Long Branch is quite a philosophic study at bathing-time. You see wonderful sights. The gorgeous butterflies have changed into shabby-looking grubs. And where, oh where, have those lovely figures gone? There is no delusion about the hotels. They take you in, in the most hospitable manner. They are wonderful hotels, some of them. There seems to be no end to them. The length of the building is to be compared to nothing, unless it be the length of their bills.