The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-07-27
Watering Place Gossip.

COL JEROME BoNAPARTE is the social
lion at Newport.
DIRTY Indians are selling beads AID
fans at Saratoga
CRoQUET is one of the fashionable
designations at Rye Beach.
FIVE dollars per day is charged at
the leading watering place resorts
MANCHESTER, Vt, is the resort of
quiet knickerbocker families.
The first bathing accident of the sea-
son has occurred at Swampscot.
THERE is a new and elegant hotel at
North Conway, White Mountains.
SUMMIT, n j., has fashionable
caravansary called the Park House.
FASHIONABLE Philadelphia is we'll
represented at Howland's Long Branch
ExTRAvAGANT dressing has com
menced at the leading Saratoga hotels.
CoRNwALL-oN- THE HUDSON has
large number of New Workers this sea
son.
Mrs. GEN. LANDER has gone abroad
and rented her cottage at Swampscott.
GARRISON son THE HUDSON has sew
eral prominent New York families at
it's hotels
New LONDON has its aristocratic Pc
quot House comfortably filled, twenty
cottages occupied and several board
ing houses with permanent guests
CocPERsTowN, n. Y, has the reputa-
ton of being one of the pleasantest,
quiet places in which to spend the
summer within easy reach of New
York.
The st. Petersburg journals publish
| the text of a convention between the
| Emperor of Russia and the Sultan of
Turkey for facilitating correspondence
between their respective states by
means of a submarine cable between
Odessa and Constantinople.
The vicinity of Mineral Hill. Col, is
| becoming unpleasantly notorious az the
scene OF stage robberies. Not less
| than dozen acquisitions have been
made on the treasure-box of Wells,
Fargo & Co. within the last eighteen
months.
A WING $50 by 80 feet has been add
ed to the Surf house, Fire Island, since
| last year. 1t extends in the direction
of the ocean, and gives magnificent
views. The Surf house will now COM
fortably accommodate five hundred
people,
NEWPORT is very quiet, and it will be
weeks before festivities actually COM
mence No parties or balls have been
| held as yet, the guests who have arriv-
ed wisely choosing few weeks of quiet
repose to the endless round of fashion
able dissipation which will soon follow.
A DINNER dress recently worn at Sar-
atoga, had petticoat of rose de chine
faille, and the court train of delicate
haircheckered silk, trimmed with
fouuces and French lace The corsage
had a basque-front and vest, en- APP
pIque, and position back and the
sleeves are half flowing, trimmed with
founces and lace
NEWPORT has been improving itself
again; opening new streets and build
ing new villas. Tuckerman avenue is
one of the finest of the new thorough
fares. Fanny Fern and James Parton,
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Prof. Agassiz,
Col. Higginson, Bret Harte, Will
Carleton, G. G.. Leland and "Oliver
| Optic" will all summer here.
The Lake View house at lake Hopat-
cong, New Jersey, is fashionable re-
sort this reason 1t is said to be free
| from mosquitoes, and there is plenty
of opportunity for fishing and bath
ing. The beach has been cleared up
for bathing place, and the lawn fixed
for a croquet ground, the boats i'm
proved, and the house thoroughly re-
novated in the way of furniture.
A TRAVELLER In Florida writes "This
is the land where towns consist of one
house; where steamboats, make eight
miles an hour; where railroads carry
you four miles an hour (on my honor,
they are four hours going sixteen miles
from Tocoi to st. Augustine); where
the happy maxim rules, never do to-
day what you can put off till to-mor-
Iow: when the mail comes semi-occa-
sionally where the newspaper is al
most as Jare as a snow storm and
where kilograms are unknown.
A LETTER from New London, Conn,
says: During the summer the New
York and other yacht fleets will con
gregate here and regattas are the
order of the day Boat racing is one
of the institutions of the place, and
| course have also been formed, and
those who desire to amuse themselves
in that manner can find the means at
hand. As pleasure is what people seek
| at summer resorts, and as these are
| adjuncts of pleasure, it will be seen
that New London is particularly
| blessed
LAKE WACCABUC, q quiet little sheet
of water in the northeastern corner of
Westminster county, near the borders
of Connecticut, has become quite pop
ular as watering place. The lake is
about a mile and half in length and
| about quarter of a mile In average
width. II lies half encircled by slop-
ing hills, which extend eastward along
it's northern shore, inclose two smaller
lakes or ponds beyond it, and then
sweep gracefully away to the south. 1t
is called Long Pond by the farmers,
and the bill on its northern bank is ac-
cordingly named Long Pond Mountain.
Except at the western end, near the
hotel, where there are some open fields,
this mountain is entirely uninhabited
and uncultivated, and a dense, rich
vegetation of trees and bushes clothes
its sides and descends steeply to the
waters edge. As one looks at it from
the southern shore, its contour, taken
in connection with that of the high
ground adjoining it on the east, forms
as fine piece OF hill outline as can
easily be found Lake Waccabuc, on
It's southern side, is bounded by an IT.