Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-08-10
Watering Place correspondence
The Season AT .SSGpori.

LSPeciUl Correspondence # The Ecreuing S'gr.l
NEWPORT, Il. l., August, lS12.
Editor Star As you DO not seem 10 have Ia
recently any correspondent in Newport l have
thought few lines from this quaint old place
might interest you and your readers. Newport,
as you know, is one OF our oldest towns, having
been a place of quite extensive commercial
business long before New York had obtanet
any prominence. 1t may in consequence be
very properly divided, like Edinburgh, into the
OLD AND NEW TOWN,
the former consisting chiefly of two long, mar
row streets (Thames and SPRING. running
parallel with and near the harbor, while the
latter Is built on more elevated ground, ami
lald out i'll streets of greater width and variety.
Thames street, the Broadway OF Newport, 50
far as business is concerned, is only thirty feet
wide, paved with Cobble-stOncs, and lined with
buildings 100 10 80 years old, occupied chiefly
as shops where everything you want can be
purchased OF excellent quality and generally at
reasonable prices. Fruits OF all kinds are abun-
dant but usually high. while most other sup
plies can be obtained at fair rates. Hence the
expense OF living is about the same as in most
other summer resorts.
THE HOTELS
charge from $50 to s. day, and houses or
cottages as they are called here, can be rented
(furnishej) for $500 TO 5000 for the "season'
according to style, size, and location. There
are probably 900 families keeping house in this
way-one half owning their own residences and
the remainder In nc uses Tentea for the summer.
OF these, many are very beautiful and costly
number being valued with the grounds az
SlGaO0o, built chiefly of wood, which Is PIE
Tered a being more dry and cOmtOTt4b'e
while a few gre Of brick or stone. The CrouY, =
from one to several acres in extent, are beauri-
fully laid out, with trees, grass and flowers IA
the highest style OF Landscape gardening. M
other place in this country OF -, 500 inhabitaut
can boast OF so many splendid residences a
this
are bathing on very hne and safe beach-driv
ing particularly in the afternoon with a grca
display OF costly carriages and snowy horses on
Bellevue and Ocean avenues, tie latter being
simply an extension OF Bellevue, making con
tinuous stretch OF or miles. AVID one Of tn,
finest drives in the wOrld-Belevue being lined
on each side with beautiful houses and grounds
and Ocean avenue presenting magnificent
views OF the great Atlantic. In addition excur-
SONS can be made by steamboats, TO Narrag3n-
set; distant, ; miles, Wexford 70, and Prov
dence 80 miles. Then there are sail bsats in
the harbOT with careful owners, who will carry
Dozen passengers for II an hour, a very de
lighttul mode OF spending an hour OF two in The
afternoon or morning. Row boats are
furnished Tor ten cents an hour, an eNcellCnt
and pleasant exercise for ladies and
gentlemen as well boys. For these aGualt-
amusements Newport possesses unrivalied facii!-
ties, having on one side Narragansett bay, the
best harboT on the coast, always safe and Quiet.
and on the other, the Atlantic ocean. There j.
ample provision, too, for the studious, Newport
having two good public llbraries-one of them,
called 'The Peoples, ;" free to everybody "a hint
for WashingtOD); the other at a small charge
and both having convenient reading rooms a.
tached. ADD to ali thee a club house for gen
tlemen and you have attractions enough to 81
isty the most fastidOus and exacting.
THE SOCIETY,
as a rule, is composed OF persons Of culture aui
| refnement-the MOrrisseys, Fisks and Gould
| not finding the atmosphere congenial. are IN
clned TO bestow their valuable patronage else
where. The climate is delightful, the mercury
seldom rising above 500 and generally rangir.
but little, If at all, above ZOE There is perhau-
rather more moisture than is agreeable, but even
in this respect it has greatly the advantage over
those parts of England where il is said to
rain once every week day and twice on Sunday,
There are, L believe. but few W ashiuptop
people here this summer. Among them ar.
Mrs. Marcy, DR.. Lindsly and family and Miss
Coleman. w