New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-14
SUMMER HOURS.
NEWPORT.
NEWPORT.
LITERARY LIOys-NEw PAGES AND TuHN-oUIo-
ACTIVITY IN REAL ESTATE.
rrRou AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT

ACTIVITY IN REAL Ec'"'i'
frRoY AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT
NEWPORT. r.. l.. Aug 9.-Would You like letter
from Ncwport without any gossip. AS Gehe'"i
rrlo Il seems to me that one man or woman WRITES u"
r ,o,tsrs from all the watering places His lctteTs
mr., like the plan of as.crcotypc catalogue once oe-
vised tv Mr. Jewett Of the Smithsonian which was
20 ho t, same thing for every large library, with
s titles added or Withdrawn to meet each particular
ose Somost of the watering place letters might be
tten bv one "ballocn post" with the names of the
hotels. and the principal bellies and barons and
governors. varied a little in each locality. In
dceJ tbay often save even this trouble, and repeat
tLes,me names, whether or no. | remember as
tiprtly. at the beginning of the season that b'1V
H9rtc and Charlotte Cushman had each taken coz
,are at halt-a-d,1en different resorts; each Lead
ing hotel seemed to wish to advertise them hHt
new eatable or drinllble Lions served here daily
at n a. m
Meantime Nevport rcioiccs that its lions, at
least are genuine, if others be counterfeit. ihat
,pn was fcti,n but this is reality 1t is one OF
the two forward steps taken by Newport this year.
th,tli,,s Of fine intellectual kind certainly more
oh,odoof than usual. For the first time within my
,,o,,,r, lt,r-~y prorle are chcap here. Not that
NAM, f t1;7 elias, have not fitted through New
rort with The rest heretofore, hut only few nave
aIirltod. Thsycar they have alghtcd, and stay all
Summer. counted the other evening, at single
mint "rcce ion" no less than Is people who had
nuil.Led 5oo'l5-5esid,saytist actors, &c. fancy
If would b. hard 10 match this ut any other watering
mace; at any rate ID would have been hard to mus
Ter hall that nrlheI IL single house In Newport,
during aly previous yclr. That makes the value Oh
the fact; literary people no doubt, may be as dull
1l,-.,.i- asrn,re fashonablcs but they add
apey element. Audit is variety of elements after
al that makes au, Watering place cosmopolitan ana
attractive.
In this merit Of variety Newport doubtless gains
ever. ycqy. "Ir,member the time" said to me a
Indy win, was confessed queen of society here
uudcr the old regime. when there was but one set
Of reopls in Newport during the Summer. Now
there are SO many sets that there is no leader.
P,orls may choose their society and 60 where they
please. tits certainly more independent" Possibly
she fclr in nor s. crct SOUL that it was not quite so
pleasant but in reality, it is the change from VII
hge 90 "a city. Newport has now become so large
thai an individual is hardly noticed on missed; no.
body has time OF strength to know everybody. and
peoplc are permitted to follow their own inclina-
tons and chose. Now at a smaller watering place
there is no choice; thcrc is thing to be done
at a time, and everybody must do that.
People say. and dOnbt not it is true that there
never were so many faces to be seen here as this
year. At any rate one hears more foreign languages
spoken while of stray Englishmen there seem to be
fewer than usual. have never seen so many credi-
table turn-outs the avenue while of those which
are absolutely stunning therc are not so many as
in former years. l should say that there were more
seateel pcople than ever before, and more of the
clever ungenteel. Imean no satire when add tn.
there are more BostOnians than usual and what Is
entirely new large deputatiOl of Harvard profess
,ors Are you afraid that Newport is i'll danger OF
becoming cycr-intellectual Look in upon Us when
the Yacht Club is in port and your fears will vanish
This then is one change that Newport is under
going the society is growing more varied. The
other change is typographical An extensive track OF
land at each end of the "bathing beach," has been
brought into the market by the recent death of ex
Sow Gibbs the last survivor Of family of brothers
lnd sisters for whom tins large estate had been hei'
in trust lis death and the subsequent action OF tn
heirs bring into the market farm of 40 acre
within The immediate limits Of Newport, and com
prising some of the most eligible buildnglots Ill th'
city. Those lots are so situated ana Lti
80 in with the previous tendency o.
population that is, Of the Summer popu
lationi IS TO promise marked change in the appear
,nco of things Catharine-st., which a few years
ago only a by-street leading TO the Fill
more House. is now likely to become the
kew TO q system of broad avenues and beautiful
es'at.a Already three houses have been built
an che south side Of Catharine-st those of MesSrs
Wariug Richardson and Appleton, which occupy
pclrly al the available space to where the Gibbs
estate Ieeins The most valuable lot on tins estate
int the corner of Catharine-st. and Rhode Island
ave, has been sold to Miss Charlotte Cushman; tine
next 70 the Rev. DIR. Potter, and the three ON the
oppostc side of Rhode Island-ave. to MI D u. ward,
Mr. /. Tuckcrrnan. and Mr.. II. G. Marquand, all OF
New-YOyk. Al of these purchasers are people OF
taste and cultivation and their estates will so fill the
oinin hot ('aIharlup-St, and
old I;each-road as to transform the whole aspect OF
Nc,yport in that direction Tnis space being filled,
tLe whole tendency of population points further i'll
fbc game direction and it is safe to say that within
few years the whole slope toward Eastons pond
will he covered with improved estates. For this
,lope varies from almost all that part Of Newport
now occupied in ailording everywhere a view OF the
beach aud the ocean.
The above lots were sold at prices varying from p
TO Ocents per foot They are, in manner city lots
and suitable for either Summer or Winter residence
This is however, but small portion of the Gibbs
estate There is also a large area of country prop
erty facing the preceding, and separated from II by
the bathing beach" and the large fresh water pond
behind the beach. There three farms in this di-
rection of which that remotest from the beach the
Honcyman Hill farm includes 100 acres and has
inst been sold for $4,000. The two others go and
100 acres respectively now being surveyed and
laid out They cover nearly the whole of the prom
ontory between the first and second beaches, and
offer everywhere the finest ocean views. Two roads
are now being laid ont through these farms; one
road furnishing new seaside drive, and the other
new means of access inland coming out upon the
"Honeyman Hi" road. These roads not yet
finished nor will these lands be offered for sale be-
fore another But at the present rate of pro-
gress it islikey that before many years that whole
hillside he laid estates. well