, 1877-09-16
Great Crowds Come from New York, and
Boston, and PreEidence, and
thc Country ToHns.
The MayAowers in Their Fine Carriages,
and the Country Folk.
The General Good Behavior and Good
Tiu,e---Shodly and Refinement.

t44C AColA*3l ~ ANtI ltaAG ~ ~" @AAA a.A4 ~
Newport is, and full of fcstal appearance, it ha:
seen nothing like these two days of the steeple
chascs in point Of the crowd and the genera
holiday taking. The weather Saturday was mo-
So favorable as Monday, though the clouds O
tho morning dispersed and the air and sky vert
clear, but the wind blowing up from the north
and, coming as it did with all the stiffness OF
eca-saltcz it nearly took the hats oil Of most o
the masculine heads, which some Of the owner:
were wise enough at last to tie on with thci'
pockct-handkerehieis, giving themselves th.
aspect Of an Euglish traveller with "puggcry.'
ONE GENTLEMAN LOOKED VERY PICTURESQUE
with some fair friends long blue veil twisted
round his hat. What that fair friend did for herself
after such sacrifice doesn't transpirc, for the
way that cri11ps and curls blew straight out like
streaming pennants WAS something to see AND
the color, rot Of tlc.rose. but Of the violet that
noses and checks took On was not pleasant
thing to see. But the day was SO much OF a
surcess in every way that the second day OF tho
races, Monday, brought out IN enormous crowd,
won there partly by the fine start of Saturday,
aud partly s,y the perfect weather, which WAS
one of Ncwpor.'s perfect days Of soft breeze
and life-giring air, with a cloudless sky. In
readiue Mr.. Henry James, description OF tue
= Derby-Day - in the September number Of the
Ga'aru one gets al idea how like the homo
gc1lcous quality OF the ENGLISH spectacle was
tins of New England. James says in this ar:i-
Gle: f. fou get for the first time j sort OF
notion of what the London population really
consists Of 1t has piled itself into carts, into
oninibuscs, into every possible and impossible
species Ut trap"
And 50 on this oceasion Of the stccplccllasc
q! Monday, every conceivable kind of vehicle,
:rom stylish laudau to = vegetable WAGON, WAS
to be seen going to the COURSE and, after
time, snugly stationed on the grounds.
ALI. THE MAirLowEE FAMILY WE'RE THERE
FROM FAR AND NEAR,
and they we're jostlcl nncegcrnoniously BY the
larger family Of Sl,oddys, anu the honest and
independent groundlings. La,alaus, do.-carts,
7 carts, drays, St.nhopes, Viclorias, pi,aetons,
barouchcs. four-in-hands, buggics, new-iash-
loncd and cid, and wagons and wagoncttcs Ut
every description, together with the oltl-fash-
1:'ncd omnibus, some OF which last, by the way,
were sent down from Providence to meet the
demand Tie people came from New York,
and from Boston, and from Providence. and
poured in from Ill the OUTLYING. towns in great
force, and not only were all the available We
1iccs hired By those who lid not have their :
own teams, hut thosr who come ton late, or
were too poor to pay the dollar Tor the omnibus
drive, footed it s'ycr the dusty road, determined
to see the stccple-chases. 1t WAS great and 4
motley sight; unlike the Eu=lsll Dcrby-Day i'll
Que particular certainly,-if VIC may credit Mr..
James desert iption,-alld that, the element OF
Inv yulgar:ty OF rowdyis1n. The police declared
that it was
That they had ever seen. And all English gen.
tleman who was very familiar with the Derby !
Day carried out this opinion by saying that,
notwithstanding the late lawlcssness Of our
Strikes he Thought that tho strong element OF
sclt-rcspect which is ingram in the American,
and which nowhere showed itself SO plainly to a
stranger IS in our holiday crowd, was the great
saving element which would control and rescue |
the Republic at any vital, threatening crisis |
sup;,psc if he had declared the whole Of his |
mind he would have said that in ] country where |
every man feels, or may feel, that he may ]
become the President OF the United States, or I
Tree anu .equal'' system, tic feeling Of |
e;;ualitv is also i,1crait,cd and not to be thrown
overheard or dis.Taecd easily. But, from what
ever cause the result Monday Of general good
manners was somcthine To le preud OF. Ono
thInr am sure OF: that the Great portion of
+ h. crowd were nafiyc Observation-Disclosures sons
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