The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-08-08
CAFE MAY (ATLANrIC lIoUsE). .
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The Surroundings Of Cape May-7hs Interior Ar.
arrangements for the Pubiic-Sea Bathiag--Am
Erening Meal among The Quaksrs, &C., &c
State Of Society, and Style al the Cape, as COM
pared nth Saratoga aud Newport.
The village at this Cape looks as If il could mus
ter a LEGAL population Of at least thousand The
sea rolls heavily the fiat beach in 'front.' and
the settlement is backed by forests, and fields OF
corn which promise abundant crops of roasting
ears. IL has been said that
'rherc Is pleasure in the painless weeds,
There Is rapture on the lonely shore,
There "a society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its rolr.''
If this be the fact, if solitude is the element of
enjoyment, neither the pleasure, nor the rapture,
nor the society of which the complainant is so ena-
mored, are TO be found at Cape May There are
wagon roads here through the woods; there is no
loneliness the Shore for thousands not only in
trude upon 1t, but into the deep itself, every
morning, dressed principally in red flannel.
and as the mariner,
Sometimes, amid the isles, West indian sees
A swarm Of pirates strolliDg on the shore
In red and part coloTed shifts as IL
They had nothing else TO do; 70 here
The morning jewellers in the sea
Move down, 'barefooted on the sandy beach,
At eleven o clock in the srning;
Travelling like psrpoise- into the surf
And shouting high above the roaring waves.n
For which descriptive lines "ovcr-travel your
volume, dear reader, and If you ever find them,
take a note Of en-" until we hear from Captain
Cutie, or Bunsby.
The different watering places have each some
advantages of their own. The cont,uity OF Dos
ton furnishes eristocratic seasoning of hlgh
quality to the the summer society at Newport; and
the patronage OF Gotham gives TO Saratoga its pre-
emlnence Of style. The principal recommenda-
ton OF Cupe May is It's excellent beach and higi
rolling surf but tn the quiet and unprctendiog
vister, ITS comparatively unrestrained uslges aud
n N n tHAP ffnn
the company appears less excrucIatingy dressed
than al either Saratoga or Newport and less cut
up into contend ING cllques for the ascendancy IN
the ham ton. People dress here IA If more for
comfort and less for display, and they talk rs IL
more Tor eDloymrDt and less for the purpose
IT impressing the uninitiatcd with their inipor.
lance. ANY man or woman may find society al
Saratoga OF their particular but where the COM
pany seems not TO have undergone a regular
scientific classification, they mostly remain but
few days, and ere of and home; therefore no time
for caucuses and conclaves, determining the
standard OF A, Il and q in the social scale.
Alter all, however, there no place OF sumner
fashion, where people oil all sorts and OF pre-
tensions, from unpretendlng modcsty to inflated
arrogance, may lind 30 much Of the pleasures OF So
clev IN the aggregate as ut Saratoga; and there is
no place al any watering place, within the circuit
of our peran,bulauons, at oil comparable for
accommodates, TO the house OF the Maryin's at
Saratoga Springs, and the unos and the old Con-
At Cepc Moy we have the Atlantic, the Column
bia, the American, the Mansion House, Congress
Hall, the Centre liouse, and some others: and
though they have not that substantial AR
and elegance, and detail Of comfortable arrange
ments, Of the hotels at Saratoga, they answer
well the purposes OF the season, the best evi-
dcnce Of which II, that generally they are all
crowded, and even now pretty well filled The
propnetoIs and their attaches are polite and active
ia behalf OF their guests, the servants are obc-
dlent and ambitious TO please the fare IL good, the
charges moderate. and especially so for those nu.
mcTous lltilc contingencies, which, at some places
in the Interior, add much To the bill Of costs.
The great thing, however, - the bathing
along the beach, which IL scarcely surpassed by
the unsurpassed beach Of Coney Island.
There is.e little hotel here. at which we
got an excellent supper last night for three shil-
llDes, called the Ocean House, kept by n lady
named Leaning She has upwards Of a hundred
boardcrs, nearly all of whom we should Judge 10
be Of the Society Ct Fnends. Looking for our
card NJ the table, we passed over number Of
such mines as Deborah. Rachel, Ilannah. Ruth,
SAfGh, and Others significant Ct the simplicity of
the Quaker peoples and those high crowned mus
lin caps, and those drab colorrd plain dresses,
and those honest and peaceful looking faces, and
that quiet mcihodcal current OF conversation, SUBJ
Stimulated the identity of the company. The re-.
porter IT the Nc'c York Berufd was sitting among
q congregation of Quakcrs, ADD thee would have
been pleased, reader, h1d'st thou seen the be-
coming gravity with which he respected the grave
decortm that prevailed. These Quakers come
for tho benefit OF the sea bathing, OF course; but
we rather suspcct that they like the excitements
OF a mixed company well as other people, how
ever .studiously they may disguise the worldly pro-
pensiiy.
In our next we shall specify some Of the ceic-
britcs now at Cope May. W.