New-York tribune., 1879-09-02


NEw-LoNDoN, Aug. 29.-For three days at the
beginning of the week the wind lay here in the
sour northeast. The butterfly life of the coast and
| shore which would shrivel under such a visitation
IN the middle of the season, in the last week OF
August lifts Its wings and fits away inland. West
and southwest everything flies before the wind.
The whitess led yachts go hurrying home, tripping
with slppered feet along tho sloppy wayj the great
three-masters tumble up through Fishers Island
Sound and disappear round Bartletts Reef schoon-
ers and sloOps. and vessels outward bound slip by
New London light and drop their anchors under
friendly lee winds howl. rains fall and by these
tokens the long vacation nears Its cad. Now the
infuriated baggage-master lays q heavy hand on
the returning trunk and fires it westward with
curse, and the nddle-aged female fills four seats
with shawls and parcels. variegated parasols and
pug-nosed pups, and lifts upon the wayfarer
the large disdain which all Summer long has been
SIZED upon the casual visitor the piazzas. The
ladies who lately discussed each others small
foibles without mercy, aud their small weaknesses
without charity, have kissed each other goodbye
effusively the paZzas where they lately
fought and tho heads of families have
signed checks in n thoughtful way and
fallen into the absent-mindcd, meditative moods
peculiar to the season. Had these easterly winds
postponed their coming little we should have had
a longer season by week, to the great delight
and profit of landlords and perhaps somewhat
more to the comfort of guests. The season ends
naturally the first week in September. Then the
school bells ring and college terms begin, and the
boys and girls for whom chiefly these play spells
are 90 home bronzed with exposure and healthy
with exercise and pure air, TO their books and
studies.
All along the Connecticut shore from Greenwich
10 atc done
year fair but not unusual business. The weather
In the early Summer was cool and comfortable
that the current of travel did begin TO set shore
ward quite so early Is usual and il well along
In July before the landlords began TO feel their own
superiority and the dependence of the average
guest upon their good nature, the clerks to look
stra ght over the shoulders Of the arrivals and
keep men standing round in linen busters while
they made leisurely search for seven-by-nlne
room on the top floor or chance for a cot in the
biard-room. And the season, as have intimated,
has been shortened at the end week or more by the
easteIly storm which began four or five days ago.
There have been. | should judge, about six weeks
of good business. better Mt some of the more popu-
lar resorts Of than at Others but fair at all
of them, and not remarkably profitable at any. One
doesn't always find things just 10 his liking ut any
of these places; there are plenty Of things to COM
plain of, and as O rule plenty of complaints made.
but after all when one considers that most OF the
seaside hotels ar oncn only about three months in
the year, aud that the bulk Of the business is
crowded into six weeks It ls strange there are so
few reasonable grounds for complaint OF extorton,
overcharges. DegligeI CO poor service and other
annOyances. 1t Is -ry short harvest season, ond
everybody from the landlord TO the bootblack, has
to make the most of 1t while 1t lasts. One of the
worst abuses at these Uaces is the system OF per-
QuIsltes. which preva ; everywhere, high aud low.
1t isn't pleasant to t'.nk that after paying the
landlords prices for rooms board, and attend
ance, you have still TO purchase the consideration
Of that stately functlouary. the headwaiter bribe
your immediate attendant at the table, aud
subsidize the various kitchen departments before
Won can be sure OF ypuT seat at table, faithful
service and wcl-cookcd food. But everybody
does it, aud is obliged to do it. or be copiousy
neglected. suppose II would be possible for a man
who had the "sprit and purpose of reform AS
they call ito set his face against the system,
take his summerng without ever crossing the
palm of the sable servitor behind his chair, and
bear patiently the mere prvaions such noble
course would entail. The neglect he might bear;
but there's something worse than negiect-ii Is the
black mans contumely. He makes you teel it every
day you withhold the gratuity: and that no or
dipary reformer can stand man can bear being
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to an error in the bill everybody has to do that;
but TO be dcspised by the colOred waiter. when IL
Is possible to change his contempt into something
like alteration by moderate pccunary offering. is
FOO much for anybody. SO / presume the practice
will continue.
From New-York up as far New-Haven there
are not many seaside hotels which coniine them
selves To Summer business. Around New-liaven,
on the east and west shOr OF the beautiful New
Haven Bay, there are several hotels OF TINS class
and two or three colonies OF cottages. Inc lat
ter are occupied by people from the vicinity
of New-Haven. and the hotels have good deal on
transient business growing out OF their accessible
ity to the city. Along the shore from Sew-fiaVeh
east summer resorts abound AT Branford Stony
Creek Gniliord Madison and Clinton are good
houses we'll kept. with no pretensons to style,
where sen food cool breczcs, salt water bathing and
home comforts invite hundreds OF visitors every
Summer from New-IIaven aud the Interior Con-
necticut towns At Saybrook is more amDl 'ious
estaDlishment--the Fenwch-built several years ago
os a Hartford speculation 1t is not wholly uuoon-
pecred with the Charter Oak Lie Insurance Com
many, whose varying fortunes il has III some meas
IRE shared Ii ls the finest house on the Connect-
cut shore but is unfortunately located. snaH not
invite controversy by intimatiDg that the mosquito
makes his ialr ia its recesses, but thhk may
safely say that it would be more popular and more
successful if it were little nearer the water and
not quite so remote from anywhere else on land Ii
has had good management this year and has been
pretty constantly full of pleasant people from Hart
ford and New-York. This side of Connecticut
River is Mantle. pleasant little village
ON the Shore Line Road. whose main street
INNS tangent to the semI-crce OF wide
deep bay that offers fine facilities for sailing.
bathing and fishing. Tie two hotels here have
been full most If the season.
AT New-London is the Pequot House, which has
perhaps a extended reputation Us laShion-