The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-31
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
From our Special Correspondent.
NEW YORK. August 21st, 1877

From our Special Correspondent.
NEW YORK, August 21st, 1877
Ii was with much pleasure I fourd
myself sailing down the East River
and ont into the Sound Thursday even
ing, once more en route for Newport,
thai might be present at the fete al
Finisterre. There is no pleasanter sail
than that to Newport, starting at the
foot of Murray Street, rounding the
Battery, getting a charming view OF
our lovely Bay and then down past
the Islands where the City's criminals
and paupers are cared for. All bright
as they are with summers greenery
and ieweled with flowers of brightest
hue, while the great stone buildings
rise in their midst, they scarcely seem
as if the West criminals, aged poor,
raging mad people and harmless luna.
tics, with the sick and dying were the
population of these fair looking Islands.
Beyond these, past wooded shores and
elegant villas out into the open sound
at last its entrance guarded by forts
A few hours sleep, after one has watch
ed the changing hues of sunset and
twilight and longed for a pen Of n
Black or the pencil of Turner to por-
tray them. then a rounding of Point
Judith with rolling that brings back
memories of the salt sea waves, and
just in the gray of early dawn one lands
at Newport, our Lady of the Sea She
is sleeping stately and qriet. in the
dim light of the coming day, aud her
rest will scarcely be broken before ten
o'clock.
An hour earlier perhaps, a few
OF her visitors will be abroad, but at
Newport we breakfast about ten or
eleven and dine at three or four The
dinner hour is thus early to make time
for the evening drive. A few of the
villa residents still retain city tradi-
tions and have a 2 O'Clock luncheon,
and dinner at or eight alter the drive,
which must admit | think prefera
bic.
Mrs. Gardner Brewers garden party
was, you may remember in aid of the
fund for preserving the "Old South"
in Boston, that monument supposedly
dear to the Boston heart but which
when it became a question of dollars
and cents proved its commercial val e
outranked its historic or patriotic worth
to that same Bostonian.
They were found however,a noble
three" to stand in the breach and if
possible the sold South will yet be
saved from money grabbing Cloths and
Vandals. 70 give a garden party at
Finisterre, even if il is considered a
show place, and throw it open to the
eager crowd must have been al occasion
of pride and fear. Pride in its exquis
ite situation and decorations; fear, such
as the ministers wife must undergo,
when a donation party is expected.
However, so far rs could see, if
those who would not other wise gained
an entree to this lovely spot were in
clined to peer curiouSly about them,
all seemed to go off well. Scores of
women will no be able to talk of Fin
isterre as il they were bosom friends of
the chatelaine who may never meet
her again. However. that all goes for
nothing, SO long as they have been
there, have seen, and been seen there.
Finisterre, or less classically and
fancifully, Lands End, is situated at
the end of Bellevue Avenue, on
promotoiy jutting out into the ocean,
with a glorious sea view. Gentle
slopes lead from the drive to the house
and in the same way the lawn in its
unbroken verdure, soft and velvety,
and of the purest emerald green slopes
to the cliffs. To describe it further
would occupy too much space.
The greenhouses and conservatories
are very fine, and even the rare and
rocco articles in the drawing rooms
could not entice many to stay long
within doors.
Mrs. and Miss Brewer, received the
guests in the drawing room, the latter
commencing to arrive at about o'clock
and starting to return at z O'Clock.
The toilettes for the occasion were of
the most exquisise description. The
Fort Adams military band discourssd
sweet music, and a more lovely scene
could scarcely be imagined than the