4th of July, Asbury Park
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general conference of 1844 Ibid., 36.
37 The result was Sweet, Methodism, 277.
targets Ibid., 313-14.
Cape May Ibid., 329.
Post Reprinted in Daily Journal, July 21, 1885.
38 Galveston Ibid., August 17, 1885.
"Bradley always goes off' New York Times, July 12, 1886.
"two distinct factions" Shore Press, October 22, 1885.
39 welcome-home dinner Ibid.
lynching New York Times, March 8, 1886, 1.
editorial Ibid., March 16, 1886, 8.
"Why should I" Ibid., March 8, 1886, 1.
40 "uphill work" New York Times, March 31, 1886, 2.
signed simply "Citizen" Daily Journal, July 30, 1886.
letter from a writer Ibid., August 5, 1886.
41 "A Colored Man's View" Ibid., August 12, 1886.
unnamed hotel man Ibid., August 14, 1886.
letter from Wiesbaden Ibid., August 17, 1886.
42 "dens of iniquity" New York Times, July 12, 1886.
first issue Daily Journal, June 20, 1887.
43 open letter Asbury Shore Press, July 1, 1887.
250 people Ibid.
44 had it wrong Shore Press, July 1, 1887.
reprinted an editorial Ibid, "agitators" Daily Journal, June 29, 1887.
45 St. Mark's New York Times, July 6, 1887.
46 "all nuisances" Daily Journal, July 7, 1887.
Bradley statement Shore Press, July 8, 1887.
"commission hours" Asbury Park Journal, July 20, 1889.
AMERICAN DAY, 1892
48 Thin, with almond-shaped Stanley Wertheim and Paul Sorrentino, The Crane Log: A Documentary Life of Stephen Crane, 1871-1900 (New York: G.
K. Hall and Co., 1994), 72. Hereafter, uCrane Log."
born in Newark See R. W. Stallman, Stephen Crane: A Biography (New York: George Braziller, 1968). Hereafter, "Crane bio."
49 "as soon as he could walk" Ibid., 4.
a series of tracts Ibid., 5.
"guilty, condemned" Crane Log, 8-9.
Love Feast Christopher Benfey, The Double Life of Stephen Crane (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), 29.
At forty-five Crane bio, 1.
50 the white of an egg Crane Log, 14.
moved three times Benfey, Double Life, 30.
"I am much more concerned" Crane bio, 7.
inherited money Ibid., 9.
industrial school Crane Log, 19.
"Much encouragement" Crane bio, 6.
51 hotels See Pike, Images of America.
the melodeon Asbury Park Press, June 7, 1921.
Ocean Grove Record Crane Log, 32.
kill time Crane bio, 33.
52 "in and for religion" Ibid., 5.
fortunes fail Crane Log, 32.
"Strikes" Benfey, Double life, 31.
oyster-like Crane Log, 24.
"extremely ill" Ibid., 34.
"physical derelict" Ibid., 44.
53 beer Ibid., 15-16.
Roosevelt Gullason, Complete Short Stories, 25 first newspaper piece Crane Log, 37-38.
54 distillery Ibid., 42.
"Don't the people" New York Daily Tribune, July 13, 1890.
Baby Parade Ibid., July 27, 1890.
laudatory profile Ibid., August 2, 1890.
55 1891 column Crane Log, 63.
average summer visitor Uminowicz, "Sport in a Middle-Class Utopia," 56.
"a great lot of trouble" New York Daily Tribune, July 24, 1892.
56 "shriveling" Benfey, Double Life, 67.
nonfiction version Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, ed. Thomas A. Gullason (New York: W. W. Norton Critical Edition, 1979), 75-76.
57 "no way out" Ibid.
"The thousands" New York Daily Tribune, July 24, 1892.
"abjectly poor" Crane Log, 74.
Carousel House "New Jersey Register of Historic Places Nomination" for Palace Amusements, prepared by Asbury Park Historical Society, April 26, 2000. New Jersey Historic Preservation Offices, Trenton.
58 "watching the surf Crane Log, 74.
"There is probably" New York Daily Tribune, August 14, 1892.
59 "creates nothing" Crane Log, 77.
60 "made Stevie Crane famous" Crane bio, 53.
"uncalled-for" Crane Log, 78.
vice president Ibid.
"I seemed to have forgotten" Crane bio, 56.
61 July 1890 New York Tribune, July 27, 1890.
"noisy dwarf New York Times, July 24, 1885.
Port Jervis lynching See Crane bio, 11, 565.
62 "The Monster" Gullason, Complete Short Stories, 430-75.
63 "Coney Island is" New York Journal, Summer Resort Supplement, August 16, 1896.
64 "a Jerseyman" Crane bio, 1.
65 "There is a mighty pathos" "Coney Island's Failing Days," in Gullason, Complete Short Stories, 181-86.
1893 story Ibid., 113-121.
FOURTH OF JULY, 1903
68 "greatest patriotic" Asbury Park Evening News, July 6, 1903.
"outdo Atlantic City" Ibid.
"In reality" Ibid., June 22, 1903.
68 "wideawake merchants" Asbury Park Journal, November 26, 1902.
"dingy by day" Ibid.
69 "his next walk" Ibid., November 28, 1902.
Prohibitionist Party Asbury Park Evening News, June 22, 1903.
70 the deciding vote See Bradley bio.
"riparian rights Asbury Park Evening News, June 23, 1903.
slot machines Asbury Park Journal, July 25, 1902, 1.
McKay Leonora Walker Mckay, Mama and Papa: Volume U, The Blacks of Monmouth County (self-published, 1984), 63.
71 African-American Ibid.
mob Asbury Park Evening News, July 6, 1903, 1.
"Mulatoe" See McKay, Mama and Papa.
"genus tramp" Uminowicz, "Sport in a Middle-Class Utopia," 64.
72 "patrino" Asbury Park Journal, November 14, 1902.
"the warm impulsive heart" Shore Press, April 23, 1903.
Joplin See Edward A. Baker, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
73 infection See Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
74 Sousa John Philip Sousa, Marching Along (Westerville, OH: Integrity Press, 1994. Originally published 1928.)
Chicago World Exposition Rudi Blesh and Harriet Janie, They All Played Ragtime (New York: Oak Publications, 1971), 73.
"ponderous echoes" Blesh and Janie, They All Played Ragtime, 74-76.
hits See Benjamin, "Arthur Pryor."
76 "ethnics" Uminowicz, "Sport in a Middle-Class Utopia," 62.
77 First National Bank "The Asbury Park Bank-Fraud Case: Twining v.
New Jersey," www.soc.umniedu/~samaha/cases/twining%20facts.html.
"If the beach" Asbury Park Journal, September 9, 1902.
"I must say" Ibid.
his pitch Ibid., November 19, 1902.
"people's" Ibid., November 7, 1902.
attorney Ibid.
Hotel Keepers Ibid., September 19, 1902.
78 "Silence Is Golden" Ibid., October 10, 1902.
CITY PROCEEDS Ibid., November 7, 1902.
Appleby Asbury Park Evening Press, December 15, 1924.
"remain silent" Asbury Park Journal, November 14, 1902.
"farce" Ibid.
79 For the Educational Hall meeting, including quotes See Asbury Park Journal, November 28, 1902, 1.
81 old-fashioned oompah music Ibid., November 21, 1902.
resignation and elections Ibid., December 25, 1902.
"injudicious" Shore Press, January 8, 1903.
4 to 3 Ibid.
82 "looked sadly" Ibid., April 23, 1903.
$20,000 Ibid., May 7, 1903.
The Crystal Maze See "New Jersey Register of Historic Places Nomination."
middle-class organizations Asbury Park Evening Press, June 27, 1903.
Olmsted Ibid.
83 Conterno's band ' Ibid.
Majestic Theater See Benjamin, "Arthur Pryor."
phonograph record Ibid.
269 concerts See Daniel F. Frizane and Frederick P. Williams, "Historical Notes" to Arthur Pryor, Trombone Soloist of the Sousa Band, Crystal Records, CD451.
84 Casino and improvement See Pike, Images of America.
"stand aside" Asbury Park Journal, February 20, 1906.
85 "most certainly oppose" Ibid., May 12, 1906.
Reverend Ballard Ibid., February 24, 1906.
editorial Ibid., March 15, 1906.
"festering cancer" Ibid., March 20, 1906.
Bradley See Asbury Park Journal, May 12, 1906.
86 "the longest purse" Ibid., March 20, 1906.
Appleby New York Times, December 15, 1924.
Booker T. Washington Asbury Park Journal, March 16, 1906.
87 the resolution passed Ibid., May 17, 1906.
"I want to look down" Bradley obit.
FOURTH OF JULY, 1924
88 lavender bunting Asbury Park Evening Press, March 25, 1924.
89 "plan the home budget" Ibid., March 22, 1924.
A hundred city businesses Ibid., March 24, 1924.
sixty-thousand people Ibid., March 29, 1924.
"living reproduction" Ibid., March 24, 1924.
"twice the size" Ibid., March 30, 1924.
passing a resolution Ibid., March 26, 1924.
90 Tindall's affidavit See Asbury Park Evening Press, April 7, 1924, and New York Times, same date.
"the temperance movement" Halford E. Luccock and Paul Hutchinson, The Story of Methodism (New York, Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, 1926), 465.
"The Rum Coast" Asbury Park Sunday Press, October 7, 1923.
91 "the like of which" Asbury Park Evening Press, April 7, 1924.
"Sinners walk" Ibid.
front-page headline New York Times, April 7, 1924.
92 "There was no lewdness" Asbury Park Evening Press, April 8, 1924.
founding member "The Golden Medinah," in Dr. Alan S. Pine, Jean C.
Hershenov, and Dr. Aaron H. Lefkowitz, Peddler to Suburbanite: The History of the Jews of Monmouth County, New Jersey (Deal Park, NJ:
Monmouth Jewish Community Council, 1981).
"a rotten party" Asbury Park Evening Press, April 8, 1924.
laced with corruption January 6, 1915.
Income on the Casino Ibid., January 11, 1915.
93 fifty-seven candidates Ibid., January 1 and 6, 1915.
squeak-in Ibid., January 8, 1915.
on election day Ibid., January 12, 1915.
SOUND THE ALARM Ibid., January 9, 1915.
Hetrick was born "Shore Pioneers," Asbury Park Press, April 9, 1967.
"financial acumen" Asbury Park Evening Press, January 9, 1915.
On November 9 Ibid., November 10, 1910.
94 suspects Ibid., November 11, 1910.
"Black Diamond" Ibid., November 13, 1910.
"Swear that you" Ibid., November 14, 1910.
"Everything points" Ibid., November 20, 1910.
SWIFT JUSTICE Ibid., November 13, 1910.
"Criminal assault" Ibid., November 20, 1910.
95 mob Ibid., November 15 and 27, 1910.
three citizens Ibid., November 28, 1910.
Burns Detective Agency See American Legion magazine, January 19, 1970.
two thousand dollars' bail Asbury Park Evening Press, November 28, 1910.
fingerprints American Legion, January 19, 1970.
SUPREME EFFORT Asbury Park Evening Press, December 4, 1910.
96 "open breach" Ibid., November 28, 1910.
confessed Ibid., April 19, 1911.
shunned its endorsement Ibid., January 7, 1915.
eighteen-page pamphlet Ibid., October 13, 1941. Hereafter, "Hetrick obit."
refused to indict Ibid., April 11, 1924.
"weak-minded" Ibid., April 8, 1924.
"knew before" Ibid., April 7, 1924.
The next day Ibid., April 8, 1924.
a Republican in good standing See Hetrick obit.
97 1919 resolution Asbury Park Evening Press, September 27, 1924.
"determined to continue its fight" New York Times, April 8, 1924.
"do everything within our power" Ibid.
"the most powerful" Kenneth T. Jackson, The Ku Klux Klan in the City:
1915-1930 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), 251.
four and a half million Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (New York: HarperPerennial Library, 1980), 373.
"felt most at home" David M. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987), 3.
98 Woodrow Wilson Wyn Craig Wade, The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987), 115.
private screenings Ibid., 119-32.
Simmons Ibid., 140.
99 Southern Publicity Association Ibid., 157.
"If you are a Native Born" Ibid.
Within fifteen months Ibid.
expose' Jackson, Ku Klux Klan, 13.
"Congress" Wade, Fiery Cross, 166.
"the larger and more pretentious" New York Times, April 13, 1924.
one-tenth of one percent Zinn, People's History, 373.
bounced a seven-dollar check Asbury Park Evening Press, April 7, 1924.
100 "considerably disturbed" Ibid., April 9, 1924.
whispered a phone number Ibid., April 7, 1924, and New York Times, April 9, 1924.
riding in Bell's touring car Asbury Park Evening Press, April 9, 1924.
100 "more or less" Ibid., April 8, 1924.
exonerated Ibid., May 1, 1924.
red C Ibid., November 2, 1933.
the week of the orgy Ibid., April 9, 1924.
101 "The Klan is" Inspirational Addresses, Second Imperial Klonvokation, September 23-26, 1924, author's collection.
forty thousand fundamentalist Wade, Fiery Cross, 171.
"exceptionally large audience" Asbury Park Evening Press, June 27, 1924.
"primitive rhythms" Sousa, Marching Along, 357-58.
102 "unwept" Ibid.
"the parasite" See Frizane and Williams, "Historical Notes."
"the abominable jazz" Paula S. Fass, The Damned and The Beautiful:
American Youth in the 1920's (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 22.
William Basie See William Basie, as told to Albert Murray, Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie (New York: Random House, 1985).
piano contest Ibid., 35.
Ellington See John Edward Hasse, The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).
"the main stem" Basie, Good Morning Blues, 39.
"a very big house" Ibid., 44.
103 a cutting contest Ibid.
Fats Waller See liner notes to Duke Ellington Masterpieces, 1926-1949, Proper Records, SV6033.
"the greatest living Negro leader" McKay, Mama and Papa, 52.
"hopeless economic" "Convention of Universal Negro Improvement Association," August 1924, New York, www.marcusgarvey.com/c23.htm.
"eighty-seven thousand cases" Chalmers, Hooded Americanism, 245.
"The Negro is not a menace" Inspirational Addresses.
104 "Foreign people" Asbury Park Evening Press, March 3, 1924.
butcher shop Pine, Hershenov, and Lefkowitz, "The Golden Medinah."
Bradley was donating See Pike, Images of America.
"the most dangerous" Jackson, Ku Klux Klan, 22.
forty-four thousand Italians See Allesandra Di Beneditto, Italian Immigration to the United States, Institutus Survey Paper 1/2000, A FAST-US 2(PP2D) U.S.
one out of five Chalmers, Hooded Americanism, 244.
YMCA Asbury Park Evening Press, March 31, 1924.
105 "extending their power" Chalmers, Hooded Americanism, 245.
"borrowed time" Zinn, People's History, 374.
"the fir
st time" Asbury Park Evening Press, March 10, 1924.
"monster crowd" Ibid., July 5, 1924.
"old maids" Ibid., March 10, 1924.
106 jazz clubs McKay, Mama and Papa, 78.
ASCAP ban Ortiz Walton, Music: Black, White and Blue (New York:
William Morrow, 1972), 64-65.
"Jailhouse Blues" Gunther Schuller, Early Jazz'- Its Roots and Musical Development (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), 143, 230.
Original Dixieland Jazz Band Ibid., 181-82.
four thousand men, women, and children Asbury Park Evening Press, July 5, 1924.
"We want" Ibid.
Imperial Palace Ibid., June 26, 1924.
107 baseball game, etc. Ibid., July 5, 1924.
souvenir program "TriState Klonklave," July 4, 1924, souvenir program, author's collection.
"Amid the bluffs" Chalmers, Hooded Americanism, 243.
"cosmopolitans" Inspirational Addresses.
"no one but" Asbury Park Evening Press, July 5, 1924.
"the cloud o?' Ibid., June 28, 1924.
"the most un-American" Jackson, Ku Klux Klan, 175.
"first allegiance" Inspirational Addresses.
108 throw hardballs Asbury Park Evening Press, July 5, 1924.
"the multitudes" Ibid.
four thousand a year Zinn, People's History, 373.
"protect the public" Asbury Park Evening Press, March 3, 1924.
Vanderpool New York Times, August 1, 1924.
"one of the most earnest" Ibid., December 15, 1924.
109 platform Ibid., September 19, 1924.
"absolutely false" Ibid., September 22, 1924.
"The Klan is not" Ibid., September 20, 1924.
SHALL THE KLAN Asbury Park Evening Press, September 22, 1924.
110 Tindall Ibid.
The next day Ibid., September 24, 1924.
KU KLUX BEAT WASHBURN New York Times, September 25, 1924.
"It is clear" Asbury Park Evening Press, September 24, 1924.
"a crushing blow" New York Times, September 25, 1924.
Monmouth County Equal Rights Association Asbury Park Evening Press, November 1, 1924.
111 elected Appleby Ibid., November 5, 1924.
VICTORIES New York Times, November 6, 1924.
"in closer touch" Asbury Park Evening Press, June 23, 1925.
112 disastrous fire Asbury Park Sunday Press, October 9, 1923.
113 "I pressed my nose" McKay, Mama and Papa, 81.
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114 "gigantic patriotic" Asbury Park Evening Press, July 2, 1941.
"palmy days" Ibid.
Germans capturing Ibid., July 3, 1941.