The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-25
Oar Summer Season.


The watering places and seaside resorts
begin to claim attention, rs may be seen in
the increased space given to summer adver-
Using. The poets fancy, that God made the
country and man made the town, was never
more manifest than in the tendency Of all
city human nature to run to the mountain
or the seaside as soon as the thermometer runs
upto the nineties We may say what we please,
and with justice, of the attractions OF our
beautiful city, of the Battery and the parks,
and the cool breezes that come from the sea,
of what the metropolis might be made with
little money for our parks in the way Of
music and evening amusements We may
dwell upon the wondrous advantages of acity
which has the finest suburbs of any city in
the world, which is within an hour of noun
tain and lake and seaside, and which is sure,
no matter how warm the day, to have some
remembrancer of forest or the stream in the
breezes which como from the Palisades or
the Jersey shores. All of this looks well in
the columns Of newspaper, and if we have
to remain in the city we may as we'll make
the best of it. The tendency Of human ma
ture is to the green fields, the brook, the
hillside and the shining seashore, and
accordingly nothing interests us more than
the narratives which now begin to fill the
columns Of tho newspapers of the pleasures
of country life
There are three great summer resorts
which appeal especially to the New Yorker
Long Branch, Newport and Saratoga. Sara-
toga is rather later than our other summer
places, but it continues into the autumn,
and we sometimes wonder, considering that
it is sanitary more than a pleasure
resort, that it does not have an all-the-year-
round popularity. If there is any value in
the waters to tired human nature they are as
important in the December as in tho July
months. We presume there is fascination
in the fact that one can enjoy the breezes
the ride to the lake, the regatta and the
manifold comforts of magnificent hotel,
and have the consolation that it is not alto
gether recreation but health building. Sara
toga, with its races and it's regatta will have
an additional attraction in the presence of
foreign boating men. The centennial year
is to have return match between the Eng
lish and American crews, and the always
pleasant regattas will have new pleas
ure in tho emulation between the two
flags. 1t is something to have the colors of
rival colleges futtering down the lake. but
how much more to have the colors of Eng
land and America, with America just a
little ahead /! Saratoga has become part of
our summer life, and we are so accustomed
a summer resort. We may say the
same of Long Branch, which is really
metropolitan suburb. The value of
Long Branch is that the business man may
have his morning sea bath and be at his affairs
in New York at the opening of the days
citizen; and while Long Branch is neither
Saratoga nor Newport, but always in hurry,
as it were, it has genuine, solid value,
which we cannot but appreciate from year
to year.
Speaking of Newport, we suppose that all
watering place on the continent, if not in
the world. There is city as we'll as seaside
life. Old Newport is like an heirloom in
our family HISTORIAN antique gem, as it
were-with as much of renown and
tradition as can be found in our new Ameri-
can land. While our seaside resorts are
in many cases collection of pine shan
ties, uncomfortable forlorn, whitewashed
contrivances, Newport has oil the repose
and majesty of full grown city, The sum-
mer tide which pours in from Boston and
New York, from the populous New England
States, and in fact from all the country,
makes it the seaside metropolis Newport
has been, as general thing, conservative,
and giddy people have complained that it
was not as noisy as more ostentatious
places. To those who regard even summer
resort as q home this reproach is IN
just But Newport in the past year or
two has become as ambitious as Saratoga
What with steeplechasing the coming and
going of the yachts, polo, racing and coach
ing Newport may claim precedence in the
outside amusement-loving phases Of society
MS she has SO long held it in the solid
domestic qualities. Altogether, We con-
gratulate our people, or those Of them at
least who can 60 away, that the country and
the seaside will not lose their attractions in
this centennial season.