New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-06
SWAMPSCOTT.
BOsTONs FAvORITE RESORT.

| HOTEL-THE OTHER INNS.
| (FRoM AN occ AsIoNAL CORRESPONDENT TRIBUsgI
SwAMPscoTT, Aug. 3-NOminally the season
at this delightful little Essex village 10 now half
Whether 1t will prove 10 be az brilliant year Tor
swampscott usual be predicted YET. but In
point numbers the register Ia larger than before
the state Of trade. the attractions OF foreign
lands or the fashion Of home travel. there seldom
any vacancies here There are too many persons who
| own their own cottages here. and-aas, for the city
treasury Boston too many OF It's merchants who an
nualy appear the first Of MAY a. taxpayers here %
allow its attractions 70 fall into disrepue There ara
many pleasant little houses that 70 their
owners the Fourth as their brown-stone front on
Beacon their Christmas dinner eaten therein
Nor do the upperen necessarily live 10 cottages Hotel
life Is far from the plebean that fashion pro
nounees it to be at Newport for there less than
six here such as they arr and they are always red mp
bef".e the cottages or there many cottage,
| where boarders TAKEN and The prices are much
| lower than at the hotels
Tue existence OF Swampscott indepeD dent town
does not date far back Indeed 1t only passed It's twenty
first birthday last year, having been set OF from Tho
thriving shoe city OF Lynn in 1884,
year before tho residents Of Nahant
a similar Individuality for their little peninsula
It's desrabliity Summer resort established and
generally long before that however several
families have settled there during the Revolution For
more than OF years 1t has had established rep
utaOn watering place, ana each gear ito fame has
grown. The number Of Boston people who visit Their,
has increased steadily, and many from the West have
found It out only to again
| THE TOWN TRIM AND BRIGHT.
OF course this constant aud regular influx from tho
cities has gone for Daugh The streets are broad.
smooth. and hard, and always kept In good condition.
Vigorous efforts have yet brought Illuminating gas
from Lynn and kerosene still rules the night but enough
OF it used In the public highways " add materially 10
the light OF the pale moon
The enterprsine reaestate agent could hardly invite
a purchaser to come at a better time than Ine
season has been dry but that the lawns appear VI
healthy green and frequent visits OF the watering
carts keep the dust securely laid All the houses LOOK
neat TRIM and their red wicker furniture which every
affects this year, looks most hospitabe Buth he ~
wse he will take visitor by any other than the shore
road for In the strangers upurned nose would
give notice that the lighthouses were near ths IS
one OF the uuisances which still exist, and bid fair to
continue stencil in the nostrils for years to come.
THE HANDSOME ESTATES OF swAMPsCOrT.
The finest estate Is undoubtedly that OF the
Hon f. r. Nudge. whom the tax list represents az u
resident of swampscott though he lives Beacon-,t.
in Boston, aud does business Chauncyst IL consists
100 acres OF which fuy &c arc in the smooth
sloping lawn which stretches from the little story and
half stone cottage down 10 the seawa an eighh OF
mile distant Our largest landowner is probably
haven't got the assessors book before me-the next
The BOSTON fire. but his real estate in Swampscott, OF
which he had a large amount. has advanced materially
on his hands. He owns a large house on Atanic-Ne
where lives the year round. aud THIS year he mas
built three new residences in the vicinity Tor MS sons
which are already occupied His property on Beach
Bluff has been materially enhanced by the erection OF
the Hotel Preston on highest point. last year Tho
fine property OF Mrs. E. C. Bates Oceanst just De-
yond Phillips Point is held at sl25O0o but sSOO Is tho
yet been offered for IT, Between this ana
Philips Point estate OF Mr.. James L. Little Agent
of the Pacific Mills which supposed to be worth from
$4,000 to s7OOoO and Philips Point are the TWO es'
tates OF MI C. W. Gaoupe. which valued at about
the Mr. GallOupe is also large real estate
owner the city and enjoys the possession OF one eoo
of property on Safest for which be paid the largest
amount ever paid per foot for land in the city-some
thing s1Oo Another large landed proprietor Is COL
John JefTries jr. who owns the adjoining grounds.
RENTS AND THEIR UNCERTAINTIES.
Rents run from 1900 down to 500, the former SUN
being paid for Mr.. Gaoupes cottage on the summit Oh
the point This is of the best built houses Ia the
town. designed with especial reference to It's use
"a Summer house, and is finished throughout in hard
woods IT'S cost was in the neighborhood o. sl50O'in
Guiding the work on the grounds and when offered by
auction last year It bid in at that figure MI Gai-
loupe thinking that it ought TO bring 5000 Mr.
Nickerson has house lower land between this ana
the shore which year let for $500 One gentle
man. an old resident, comfortable house and gar
den with little cubby house in the of the lot
into which he moves about the first OF June and lets hs
residence for from $780, according TO the de-
mand The letting OF houses begins In the FAIL bat IL
has Deen by difficult TO get cottage even
application not made until June. This year some
people were the first time by hiring cheaper quar-
ters and then having reduce the price they asked Tor
the residences temporarily vacated In case, tho
owner let his house on first of July for oneha what
he asked at first There were but few new cottages ths
year. but they were all let, and now the real estate
agents say there but three cottages in town yes I'M
let The handsome place owned by the Marquis dc
Iousada the British Consul and since used as board
inghouse is closed this year and Mr. W. W. Warren OF
Boston, retired banker having returned from Europe
after three years absence occupies his cottage on The
extreme western end Of the beach, instead OF renting
as before. .., ,,,.sro>,
The story Of the hotels is easily told. Ihey are iu.
Tho house mar excellence on the beach is the Hotel
Preston which Mrs. Morgan built last year. Harvard
students all over the land recall the generous cno
tables which were spread at her house on Brates anu
when they know that she is proprietor and manager
the handsome house Beach Blum which pears ne'
maiden NAME will certainly. II they come TO swamp
scott, give her call before visiting elsewhere me
house Is handsome three-story structure VITA freDI
roof. conveniently arranged and furnished handsomely
which, with the exception or two were taken 10y lho
Haet OF the United statesI Court even made t"9 OF
visits while the carpenters were there 10 Sc 's
/ his closet provided WIN just
as lie wanted. This year the MsrOleneau IaVh n -,
road leaves passengers within three minutes Walk O the
house, which last year was as many iDles Hum tho
nearest railway depot. During the spring, Mrs Mo,gaa
moved away the stable and built on an ADDITION whcu
enlarged the capacity of the house oneha Dat Iet no
more room for transient visitors than before for when
she went down the day after Class Day there were no
rooms to spare. Mr.. John H. Barbour "a son . o.
Mrs Morgaus attends TO the manaeemsnt o Tue noa s
Among the permanent guests here arr MI A. u Mseks
OF Weeks Potter. Mr. l. L. Harding OF Freeianu haIu
ing LOOMS ana half dozen other Boston merchants
With their families, Hon. Isaac Lvermorc, Ms' An
| son BurlIngane and Joseph Mayer Of Ne"-Jerse!'
| OTHER HOTELS.