The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-02-18
NEWPORT IN FEBRUARY.

soMBRE ASPECTS OF TIE CITY, DESERTED AND
SWEPT BY wINTRY wINDs-BRIGHT ANTICI-
PATIoNs OF FUTURE SUMMERS, WHEN RAJ
PACIous TRADEsMEN WILL BE UNABLE TO
BRIDE TREACHERous SERVANTS.
NEWPORT Feb. l6, 1878.
A theatre in the day time Is not cheerful place.
unless perhaps at matinee neither Is the proverbal
deserted ballroom, ''whose lights are fud. whose
garlands Dead" SO is the city = hot August
afternoon, especially If financial preclude
ones leaving it; but 1t may be considered open
question whether the saddest Of these would
seem less gay than Newport just now. The
many villas. beautiful in summer, when,
framed in verdure and decked out with
flowers, they smile q summer sea, now, with
windows masked by shutters and piazzas beddod In
snow, blind and sad, only to listen 10 the wall
OF the dark gray waves lamenting the departed
glories OF the season. The avenue along which IN
summer thousand carriages roll, filled with beauty,
wealth and fashion, Is now totally deserted, save
when melancholy cart or wetched pedestrian takes
the middle OF the road hoedess Of the collision which
six months since might have been imminent from
newly purchased tandem or four-in-hand to whose
owner, more like Phaston than Apollo q successful
start was a subject Of reorganization, ana . safe
retuSn an unsolvsd conundrum. Still fey choice
spirits, constrained 10 remal either by temporary
casional reunions intuse into the ghastiy
gayety The people for the most part very old or
very young. tor Newport 10 now as was the Eternal
City when "rhoy lett but boys and aged men to
guard the walls OF Romen f..r
sUxMER COMING
But, looking forward. The does not bloom nor
does the vine bear lruit all the year. The has
only set the night 10 about eight months long, but
IL will be morning about the LIST Of June, when we
before eaddened the eyes Of the pra.ica tradesmen
the natives, who will then hoist the black nag and
start on the summer cruise Tor plunder Aprooos Of
servants as the following winter anecdote will show
Er tenebris luz
SERVANTS AND rRADEsxEx.
1t was only yesterday that an indignant blacksmith
an humblc representative OF the Yirtuous body OF
Newport tradesmen, came to gentleman living hero
ana bitterly complained that horses had been taken
other shop to be shod. 1t observed 10 him
that the horses shod By him we're In tho habit OF
interfering aud It was peasanter to drive them when
they didn't Gracefully o0nceding or rsther waving
that point he said that tho real reason Tor leaving him
more than a limited extent-$13-and that tue new
man had outDid him. He reinforced his statement
naming I'M who had large number Of horses, had
passed the summer here he had been outbidden In u
similar manner. The remark, expressed IN sufficiently
plain language 10 convey the idea to his Butian intel
gencc that he had put himself out OF court partt
cops crfmin,s did not seem to convince hm that no
was not an innocent and Injured individual
II possible that may be fairly inferred that this
system oil 'Iees' extends through the whole body
oil pirates that IT, tradesmen--and that the butler
COOK may not resist where the coachman's virtue
fails.
COOPERATIVE sELT-DgFENCR NE1DED.
What Is needed mere IL a grand cooperative estnb-
lishment which should furnish and regulate the
prices oil everything, from horseshoe to curtain,
from the egg the apple. This idea has been serl.
ousy discussed and thought OF by many Of Inc rich
residents, and It would not be surprising were IL 10
actual shape long II could be done by form
Ing an association TO be- governed by committee,
like club, VINO could make arrangements with the
large firms New York Boston to send representa-
the season. agreeing 10 sell 10 the members Of
ASSOCIATION at very nearly Wholesale prces iur
nishing ly the best articles This they would gladly
do on account Of the advertisement II guaranteed
against loss by association composed oil responsible
people. THIS would guard against The swindling and
collision between the servants and tradosncD winch
now adds some twenty per cent 10 the expenses Of
the summer residents.
ANTICIPATED PROSPERITY.
And now, yale! When began ielt sad and senti-
mentally Misunderstanding induced by the present ap
AMY mud that have become disausIngly pract.
cal thinking oil the activity TO come say activity ad-
viseiy, feeling sure that the will DO gay and
prosperous Tor II s undoubed TACT That the effect OF
hard mos like these Is to make the rich richer aud The
poor poorer Now, the continued success OF Newport
depends on its support ny the rich, Tor they only can
come mere and stay Others como, out are hcettng aud
evanescent, not permanent residents.