New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-07
NEWPORT.
us EARLY AND LATER HISTORY.

CREASE IN REAL ESTATE PRiCEs-bhAoliEs M"
PBCu1IARrTIEs OF THE TowN-THR SEASON srilL
BACKWARD.
svHon THE sPEc1AL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBuSEJ
NEWPORT, June 2S.-NewpOrt is waxing up
and beginning 70 look its former self ana IL was
net for these cold shiverng winds IL would DC very
bright But now the green aud blue SKIES breezy
porticos and other eoncOmitants OF summer se"Sou
Soem ont Of place, when fires and warm CLOTHES SIe
HecessAries of comfort The hotels are stu compare
lively empty while Of the cottage residents have
arrived The last fact IS attested by the number Of
fashionable carriages which drive through Beevueave
during the afternoon and the many signs OF occupancy
about the cottages.
Among the latest arrivals are j L. Ruker, occupying
she Taft cottage OF Belevueave. and Victoria
ct d. W. James, who takes the Cliff Cottage No. 2; f.
T. Smelling stoCktons Kay-st; Charles Lanier, Wheat
lands Bellevueave. VIM. Brenton Greene, on NAL
Eoneave. A. s. Hatch Kay-st, all from New-York'
Mrs Gen. Wardsworth Of Boston is occupying cottage
In Narragansett-ave. n. 6. Clapp OF New-fork mas
taken cottage nearly opposite WetmoreS on Bellevue
ave The hotels are welcoming the early Corners Who'
desiring relief from past and future hot weather. nave
certainly found what they sought. Among those who
are stopping at the Atlantic House DR. j. b. Gates
of New York well known in insurance circles 8. ".
Rouse the artist in crayons; W. c. Wharton and George
A KIttrcdge Of Boston W s. HuntoOn and Mr.. and Mrs
r. s. Rowland OF Providence. Edward NJ Greenway' d.
Henry 6reenway and Samuel 5. Early aud family OF
Baltimore, Edward :. Wheeler and family OF Fhla-
delphia Mrs George r. Bowler OF CINCINNATI Charies
Mi1teI and daughter Of Beverly, Commodore Mulaney
Of the L. $ Navy samuel A. Devins and wife of Boston,
Nj and Mrs C. IL. Mccullough Of Philadelphia and
Prof Etenpe Lambert of New-York stopping at the
Aonidneck House. The Hon. Wm. Nj. Evarts paid the
city a flying visit a day or two ago.
The Ocean House has quietly opened its doors IT has
been improved IN appearance within and without ana
looks as attractive as such natural ugliness can. b.
N..rt,h .ls2ad he
Barreda villa himself this Summer instead Of renting it,
and is expected here in few days. The Marquis San
Mansardo Of Italy has taken Parkers on Beleyue-aVe
In order 10 enhance the outside attractions su0scrp
lions are now being solicited for series OF outdoor
concerts be given in TOuro Park and in one OF the
vacant lots on bellevue ave. below the Ocean House
Recognizing the needs and profits of place like this
the wandering mustres india-rubber balloon vendors
and other metropolitan famiars are fOclung here in
large numbers persistent and adhesive ever. But
they are minor evils and TO be thought Of when this
backward season is much more worthy OF complaint
IL Is more betting early Spring than fu-blOwn
summer Rain, too, is wanted: rain to lay the dust in
roads, make the trees look green instead OF gray
beside few drops for the farmers. 1t has been heard
Of IN places around here and probabilities" has
promised IT for several days, but none has come.
NEwPORT's PROGRESS As A CITY.
A. waterlnc-pace Newport can be compared with
no other place upon the American coast Other resorts
eousst Of a number Of handsome, fashionable hotels,
while here there just about enough custom TO for
keeping OF three hotels and none of them are stu
Aled directly upon the beach, at Long Branch and
'aEe May The nearest approach 20 that is the Cliff
Holso near the bathing beach which supplies the nine
elf cottages with meals and takes all such troublesome
details OF housekeeping of their occupants hands. IL
does pot pretend take much OF the transient custom
II the large number Of private residences, about
sec in all which make it distinctive from all other rivals,
,lg..
guarantee against any future decay Of greatness When
Newport wa laid out it expected to become
metropolis OF the country and the honest old burgh
Of Manhattan used TO come here TO buy their goods
But the Revolutionary devastated IT, and dissolved
All IT. visions OF future power. So il dawded along
nnul $50 when 1t first became known as
watering place. About that year, families from the
south began visit here during the Summer, living
entirely in boarding houses There were three at that
timt-One known then As the Jews House. kept by
Charles Whitfield, a lame man; the Bellevue House,
which was the old Brlndley mansion and Peters,"
occupied mainly by the Friends al Yearly Meeting time
The fret Ocean House was built about 1884 hat
DESTROYED by in 1881, and rebuilt on the same site
dining that year Al This time the city occupied only
few streets near front, and cottages had not
lsn thought Of The FIRST sale Of real estate made
about that year tOan Enellsnman named Robert Johnson
bo bought about Of the EastOn farm, situated
l.tWeeH the Bath Road and Narragansettsye- He did
not huId bal occupied building already on the land
b,aut the same time Alfred Smith, who has become
yer, prominent in The advancement Of the citv's inter
,sts induced Nj Sears TO buy 22 acres OF the
fam Tor $I0oOl Within the past year One-quarer
# that purchase has been sold Tor $4,000 William
Iracl, Lawrence Of New-YOrk also bought about that
tmr co acres Ochre Point FOR $1,000, which Is
worth half a million. soon after that, H. G. DE Rham
a. New York bought some land below the Eiston farm
and built a cottage upon IT, Henry Middleton formerly
ting nm
stone house the Ocean House. The property is
nov owned bv sydney Brooks Of New York. Mr.. Gen
Harper of Baltimore foOwedN buying part OF the
Russell aud Clark farm, and built cottage there. upon
what Is now Belevue-aye. The avenue extended then
lu a shor, distance below thc Ocean House. The next
Isrsou who bought samue Nicholson Of the firm
AZ Brown Bros & Co. OF New York. Robert johnson,
~, hst Summer settler, had died, and Mr.. Nicholson
bought part 90 his place. This fterWard improved
,uJ h1ilf uuou bv Delaney Kane Of New York This
property passed into The hands OF Charles J.
Peterson uf Philadelphia. JOhusOn's old cottage, look
successors standing the ground, OF j. VIII
thYOp Chanler OF New York. near the Bath Road. l.
N GibbcN William : WenOre Charles +. Lyman and
Tonert Isno1 Maitland. all of New York. were aiso
the earliest settlers. MI Aaluand after board
Or around for "A while nut cottage nj " Bay Side
EIFII-ONE THE FiEST PROSPEROUS YEAR
But all these operations spread over series Of
,ears between 1850 and 1851 1t was hardly more than
al Apartment: only few who had dared 10 try it ap
IIeeiated the Of the city. About 1851 the real
1nsh began y 10 that time most Of the cottages bnilt
had been in the neighbOrhOOd Of the Bath Road and
toward the south from that neighbOrhOOd In that year
the Bailey Farm below tbe Ocean House sold for
f.2oOO. and iu the following wear BelieVueaye. was
as, ned a. far a. Bailey Beach" Then, the rush
came cottages put up. right and left, along Belle
xueaye The city began to wake up 10 it, growing I'M
,ftance aud was injured TO leuds help toward needed
Jtrprovemeuts. George Bancroft built there; Daniel
Parish. Lindey Murray Hoffman, James Phaeu, and
Edward Curtis, Of New York; Gen. George Cadwdader
Of philadelphia and James T. Rhodes Of Providence
built ahOut the same time.
M,st Of the cottages which were built IN the early
Yoars we're sImpe and inexpensive, costing but a few
houssnd dQ.lars hut their number grew, emulation
aas excetrs TIE most capable architects. native and