Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-07-28

- A strong religious element prevails at Cape |
May"
Niagara Falls is patronized mostly by we'd
ding parties.
There are abont seven thousand visitors at
the Saratoga hotels.
The season at Cape May is at its zenith
Wherever that may be-
There il but one French Count at Long
Branch, and lie doesn't count fer much.
There is great deal more Brass at the
Branch than that contained in Brass Bands.
President Grant has set aside two days of
the week for receptions at Il hotel.
= Miss Kate Field is the best lady rover at
Newport, and challenges any other lady rover to
row her.
The best dressed women at Saratoga, this
season, are the married ladies-but not the
most expensive.
There are a scarcity OF men at the Watering
places and the bellies pine for partners in the gay
| and festive waltz.
"A gentleman, at Newport, boasts that his
bill for carriage hire, in ten days was seven hun
dred and fifty dollars.
| NIorrissey's "club house" is the chief point
of attraction ut Saratoga. II is visited by LADIES',
and even clergymen.
| President Grant was received at Long
Branch. by George W. Childs, of the Philadcl-
pla Letpf.
Guests at certain hotel at Saratoga COM
plain of fareing badly in the matter of feed,
unless the walters are first feed.
y Everything is said to be on higher scale at
| Long Branch this year than ever before--includ-
ing the thermometer the prices, and the tide,
The ladies' at Saratoga take as much interest
in the races ~ the gentlemen, and frequently
| bet large sums on a favoiie horse.
Kate Field il on the Point, at Newport. pad
ding her own canoe, her hair flowing about her
shoulders IN great abundance.
They have rara oris at Cape May. 1t is a
dress We don't believe it.
1t is intimated that Saratoga is becoming
one of the most corrupt resorts we have. Nympls
dn pave do most congregate there.
There is an unusually large number of WISH
tors from the North, this Summer, at the White
Sulphur Springs, Va.
Anna Dickinson is practising equestrianism
at Newport. Her costume il dark green, very
plain, and becoming little velvet cap.
Saratoga mourns. II hasn't a live lord to
head its Committees. 1t also lacks iirst-class
BELLE" one about whom men rave and women
envy.
The foreign war tells upon the Watering
places, az well as other things. We read that
Long Branch doesn't have one "German a
week.
number about 800, occupying $50 rooms, and
nearly $40 persons arc employed to wait upon
! them.
Atlantic City is noted for the fun frolic,
fishing, and invigoratnS atmosphere to lie found
| there but it lacks fashionable society,"" you
know.
"A chap at one Of the Watering places says he
can always tell when it is Saturday by the defect
ed expression of many wives That is the da,
their husbands return.
The n. Y. Suns Long Branch correspondent
writes that lie attempted to enter Grants cottage
succeed. Here's enterprise, for you
Long Branch now possesses one of the hes
race courses i'll the country, which will be formal
ly opened next Saturday, when grand hurdle
race will take place for purse OF $1,000
! "A gentleman of fine tastes and having al
: eye for beauty after having done Newport, de
cared that lie had not seen beautiful woman
: from one end of the island to the other.
1 The older residents at Saratoga have an ide
that IIelmbold keeps his six-in-hand to gt
d around ut night when everybody is abed, letter
b ing the rocks and fences about his medicine.
o There are large number of young men a
the branch who affect the weekly story papers
y and call drinking glass of cider and going tt
It bed at II o'clock " wild life" Innocent youths
n There is Young lady at Newport who, whel
:, she goes into battle, carries All umbrella-not t
keep off the sun or rain, but to shed the glance
4 of ogling young men on the beach.
Il Hon. John Morrissey is the ruling spirit a
a the Saratoga races. John boasts that not
Il single bad character gained admission to til
N Union Course Where was John!
ID There are a large number of guests at til
1. | Delaware Water Gap this season, where the ia
,r vorite sport is trout-tislng and boating parte
" on the river i'll the evening.
4 The comfortable low basket wagons, wit
Is large, fancy umbrellas over the seat are yer
fashionable and popular among the ladies at on
u Summer resorts.
II "A chap at Cape May says the first thing h
- enjoys in the morning on getting awake, is 70
n over for a fresh snooze; then roll i'll tn
- surf, after which fresh rolls for breakfast.
Some of the ladies' at Long Branch
other watering places, as well-have muc
hair and 80 long, that when they take the pir
r. out it touches the fioor-but not the head
a disguised correspondent writes that I'll
as majority of the visitors at Long Branch hay
. ..more cents than sense y and when we rea
that Fisk, Jr, is the ''lion" there, we are boul
IL to believe that he il "kor-rect."
IL The great event of the day at one Of I'll
10 watering places is the :. arrival of lussesful
ar husbands. between six and seven in the evening
On meeting their wives, these 8 bussesful {
e husbands" become husbands full Of bussea
st There is lady at one of the watering-plact
d. who has registered n vow never to appear twic
during the season in the same dress, or with ht
~ hair in the same style. 1t is thought the amour
IL of work she will be compelled to perform wi
il reduce her to skeleton.
Mrs Fisk drives the most gorgeous tunl-or
Ill at Newport 1t is described as two black horse
s. and two white, black and white leading, a thre
Il thousand dollar harness, with hundred silve
% plated monograms ornamentin9 it an Englis
drag with thrsa out-riders, and Mrs Fisk in BIT
n velvet