The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-30
CA p E M AY.
A Glance at the Busy Bathers
In the Surf
A Critical Question Stocking
versus Skirt.
A WIFE SUSPECTED.
The Great and Mighty MilliOnnaires Of Penn
syIVania and Maryland.
Hopkins, Garrett, knight, Scott,
Thompson.
MUSINGS ON MOUNTAINEERING


This is, for popular purposes. of the first
watering places in America. 1t has q safe beach,
the best salt air, aud The thermometer stands from
ten to twelve degrees below Philadelphia in mid
summer, and ten to twelve degrees higher In win
ter. There are now 5000 visitors here, and the
hotel capacity Is inadequate. Last night Satur-
day. the town was full OF people, willing lodge
in bath houses, on hotel noors and lounges and In
servants quarters. The markets here not ex-
ceed In the world but the spot has not yet come
fully into the notice OF the metropolitan and West
eTn public. In my judgment II will be the great
opol,tan watering place OF the country in three
years; for now the Pennsylvania Railroad runs Its
palace cars through to Cape May from Jersey City
in five hours. We get the HERALD before noon.
CAPE MAY.
Here are 800 cottages, averaging s., 900 apiece.
The different hotel properties amount to 81, 500, 0O0
The Stockton Hotel cost s550,0OO, and Is railroad
property. The popular hotel, in private hands, is
Congress Hall, which has cost $3.50 600. bonded
for $25OOo at the time of It's grand extension, In
1869, and has paid off nearly the whole OF this sum
from earnings. For four years 1t has cleared
100000 per annum. The regular Winter popua-
ton here is $500. New York people who see the
place invariably like it ana return. New York
needs It, and will ultimately possess it. Asa water
ing place 1t Is as old Saratoga. The appearance
OF the ladies' in the bath is changed from former
years. We see this season more stocking and less
skirt. line figure of a woman is yonder bru-
nette. She wears blue worsted barred stockings
and is fond OF floating on the top OF the water the
stockings attract more attention than the face,
and so the young woman does her features great
injustice Yonder is another portly female, up
towards the thirties, with limb which might well
take the name Of a celebrated lighthouse at the
tip of the Isle Of Man, otherwise the Cali OF Man.
She does not look well, nevertheless, for when
women take bold attire they lose proportion and
aurement. The wink of a shoe under o skirt Is
thrice as attractive compared to brawny, undis-
guised and sun-defying limb.
THE WRONG ENVELOPE.
man was standing at hotel office at the Cape
the other day. laughing and happy with his child
by his side and another ut the door, waiting to be
taken out in his carriage. The mail had just come
in and the clerks were distributing letters to the
guests as they assorted them. This mans supply Of
letters was very great. He was quite the envy Of
people who received letters at all. He broke
the seal Of this and that, and said :-''Now, will
do what seldom have done. Here is a letter from
my wife's chum and confidential friend III peep
into their Secrets"
'Don't Blvensl" said friend
.Oh, she opens my mail at every opportunity.
1t III he joke"
He opened the letter, and In minute turned
CHASTITY white He staggered TO seat and read
little more and then to the barroOm and swallowed
some brandy.
"Sck man ~ said somebody.
What was within The disclosure that an
intrigue had long been going under his roof tree
IN the city mis- Children and carried on, at that
with the connivance OF the false guest and conf
dante, herself admitted therein to be the leman OF
some one unknown. All this burst upon the man In
or nut off nrfn WI pn no wa
proud and fond and welded to the sweetheart Of
his youth.
"Bliv's hurt {" said bystanders.
The next moment we heard loud report. Pts
tolls ? MOI Only champagne. Them in due time,
a drunken man was carried TO bed TO contend with
a staggered and rcmorseul woman, who called
her soul to testify that she had never been worse
than imprudent. But what could she proven Could
she prove out OF that DER fond memory, the hateful
suspicion-the brooding wretchedness-the awful
doubt Down, straight to perdition hand In hand,
90 a drunkard and o coquette, and poverty throws
wide the gate tor them to batten on its barren
moor. Next to a vicious man with diseased pro-
pensites there is nothing which can MAKE life so
durably uncomfortable as married c0quette,
playing with men whose resources, power and
baseness she cannot conceive of. Behind are the
freight and the family treasures-the years OF
trust and duty which the better angel has added
to the credit side of human kind: out there Is the
street; and, like a chain-gang condemned to tread
it, manacied together pair OF paupers and their
posterlty go down the dreary Vista, poor, broken,
unlOving and unloved.
QUAKERs AT THE HOTEL OFFICE.
Let us look for moment at u group In the great
office OF Congress Hall. Nearly every man in It IS
Quaker parentagc, descended from those Hop
kinses OF south River TO whom George Fox paid
frequent visits. He is richer than the lords pro-
prietors of Maryland, richer than Jerome Bona
parte who married his townswoman, and the
richest native Of the Chesapeake county. Twenty
ape, he can turn q new million quicker than he
could turn dollar IN old days when he came to
Baltimore grocer, and steadily increased his I'M
portations OF coffee until half the Southwest may
have been said to drink from his cup The little
Seeds has become great tree and the birds Of the
air alight In the branches thereof Constant, judi
clous, profitable money lending was the use Mr.;
become q banker and very rich, John w. Gar.
rett, whose son stands there by Hopkins side Still
over six feet high, this OF seventy eight, who
has arranged his worldly AFFAIRS by gifts Oh hve
yet to be Us city
men in the Middle states are Of Quaker extraction
said philosopher trace up the line and you'h
SAMUEL L. HARLAN.
Beside Hopkins is another man, very notable,
when we consider the relative opportunities OF his
town and state Samuel L. Harlan, OF Wilmington,
Delaware, as pioneer iron snip builder. Two quiet
Quaker mechanics were Harlan and Holingsworth,
who met in Philadelphia, intermarried aRd
made partnership on the Christiana side, giving
that little river such Importance IN the course OF
years that Pacific Mail steamships launched on
its tiny flood. Quaker-loOking, mild, unaggressive.
Harlan exemplfes the virtues or method frugal
ity and simplicity combined with enterprise.
JOHN HuLME
There, in the group, Is John Hume, q stancher,
heavier, more aggressive man, and also very rich.
He has national reputation as the mendacious
and non-concurring stockhoder in the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. He was Philadelphian who
removed to Louisville and made fortune there in
the digging Of a canal and in other WAYS. Bold,
incisve and rrepressible he attacked the policy Of
Thompson and Scott, while adirector In their road,
fur
Star fast freight line, which had been lostered BY
the officers until II has got to be, perhaps, the
| largest stakeholder in the company. Harlan
and Hume are both millionnaires. so is vii.
| liam T. Potts, iron merchant, beside them, who
has The Quaker In the stock and has three millions
| OF accumulations.
| YOUNG GARRETT,
In this group Is the son OF railroad president
n mor.n WE'VE m,lions. overworked, overfcd per-