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Title: Annual report
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association
Subjects: Methodist Episcopal Church
Publisher: (Ocean Grove, N.J.) : Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Contributing Library: New Jersey State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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were women whosenerves were broken with overwork and exposure, and the RestHome was made a physical as well as a spiritual blessing in re-storing the ability to labor. It deserves our highest appreciation. The Pavilions of Ross and Lillagore, with the others whichline our ocean front, have become increasingly attractive witheach succeeding year. Many of the people love to sit in themand read, or muse, or gaze upon the fishermen or bathers, orwatch the sparkle of the sea, or exercise a silent faith that some-times swells to rapture, while at the same time body and souldrink in the rejuvenating influences which freshen into newersense of life a debilitated system. The Report of the Chief of Police and Police Committeeexplains that during the excitement attendant upon robberiesaround the vicinity, a small addition was made to the force withgood result. ■ Forty-seven arrests were made, but in so quiet a manner asto produce no excitement, and all for minor offences. 54 OCEAN GROVE, X. J.
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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 55 Nearly four hundred persons were either sent off the grounds,or back to their homes, for attempting to bathe in apparel con-sidered to be improper. Three hundred and eight persons were stopped from bicycle-riding upon the Sabbath. Fifty-eight lost children were (restored to parents. Twenty-three unmuzzled dogs were killed. The patrol of the grounds, both night and day, has beenunintermitted, and has added much to our security. Taken altogether, our police system, with its committee, chiefand men, will not compare unfavorably with any of our sur-rounding neighbors. Bridges.—I deem it of more than average importance that weretain our present financial hold upon our bridges by charging tolls.If we loosen that hold (though we have all along made it clear thatthey were private property), and when once a free egress and in-gress is permitted, our power to enforce our own private rights ofseclusion will have practically passed away. I hope the Associ-ation w

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