Excerpt from The Boardwalk

It begins by the Allenwood flume, where the little boys go to catch herring in the spring. It stretches down for about two miles, diving through the Arches Pavilion, where the young lovers go to look at the water on lonely days when they hope they will not be disturbed.

Further on it passes Knockers' Row, where the middle-aged women sit and tell each other their thoughts about the passersby. Then comes Wesley Pavilion, circled with booths and full of dancers in summer, most desolate of all places in the winter. Then it goes in a wide outward circle, as if it were not over-religious, around the roofed place in the Grove where the praise meetings are held, more lumpily and bumpily, for the Grove authorities are canny souls. They do not replace their part of the Boardwalk as often as the Park Council, which handles money not its own and hence votes it away royally for improvements.

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