Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-09-09

ATLANTIC cIrY's ATTRAorIoNs-THE FASHIONABLE
stAsoS CLOSED BUT MANY ATTRACTIONS REMAIN
ING.
Correspondence Of tie Commercial.
ATLANTIC CRY, Sept. 2.
The fashionable season at this watering place,
as at all others, has come to its close. 1t cul
minated in the gathering Of the last hop Of
summer, at the Sea View House last night.
There the cottage people, and the remaining
hotel guests met for final adeu until another
season perchance,,may bring them together in tie
broad avenues or upon the superb beach Of this
delightful summer resor'.
But although tho fashionable season has
closed, the pleasures of the natural season are
even more abundant than before. The crowds
have gone, but great ocean remains. Hasslers
orchestra and the other bands have folded their
tents like Arabs, and packed up their violina
and flutes like sensible men, but the magnificent
bass OF the surf still murmur5 through the day,
and roars through the night. The lights are
fewer and DINNER at the great hotels, but the
stars shine clearer aud more resplendent through
the
CALM AIR OF THE SEPTEMBER
evening. All nature is at her noblest; it is as
II the year were standing on tip toe for little
while before the coming OF the inevitable sink
ing and decay which belong to later autumn.
Let no man think, either that it is too cold to
battle in the Atlantic, now. The air itself is mild
and balmy. but the water warmer than the air.
The first shock Of the breaker dashing over ono
ls of delicious coolness after that You feel that
you are in a summer sea and smiled upon by a
summer sky. The exhilarating and invigoratlng
qualities OF the sea bath are never in fuller
force than just now.
But mans provident care has seen to it that
the waters of the ocean snail be tempered to the
| shorn lambs of society. For invalids aud those
OF delicate constitution who cannot bear tho
shock of the surf, there are large and we'll
equipped bathing establishments, whore one
may enter batn-tub like that in his own resi-
| deuce, filled however, not with water from the
Brandywine, but with real
sALr WATER, FRESH FROM THE HEAvINa MAIN.
Furthermore it can be regulated to that precise
degree OF temperature best suited to the taste
| and health OF the batber from natural coolnoss
up to as near tho boiling point human flesh
| can bear.
As for the sailing, that WAS meyer botter.
| The blue waters OF the Inlet "arnile to the blue
heavens above them bent, and the white wing
ed yachts hJat between the sapphire aud the
szure, things Of beauty that are joys forever.
1t is possible to go out upon the ocean itself in
one of these fairy craft, but it ia saier and
pleasanter to glide along between the low vor-
dsnt chores that skirt the inlet. The bret re
sings in the Fall the water rpples under the
pier, laughter and music rise from the deck.
Cleopatra barge was more magnificent, but
the swarthy queen never carried n lighter heart
than those that beat on board these stanncl little
vessels tha, dip and skim along the wave, like
swallows.
THERE Is PLENTY OF SOCIETY
here, too, CT the choicest kind. Tie cottage
residents remain. only a few OF them hayinl
returned to Philadelphia or their city homes
They arc To be met on the beach, upon thu
promenade and in the drives. The hotels art
far from empty either, although OF couree thu
great rush has passed away and there is
cordiality and courtesy among their guests, ,snfi
cient to make the stranger feel that he is no
an alien, but that he has found host of now
friends.