Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-09-02

| hoRTHE4STER-k PooR SEGSoN-Tug ClUSy OF
p rA,LS Nh-IhR EATHERS-THE poGs-TEE NOS
| soNAL, ETC.
| le0'TeSpof'de7'ce o. The EnenjRq Sydr.l
CAFE MAY, August 81.
The weather bureau turned on a blast fr,rn
| Tue norm pole yesterday and cut the tail OF tho
| season IN TWAIN. The stockton. the last ana
me largest OF the hotels, closed to-day. The
! Congress declined to receive guests a wpe,, AGO
but kept the few On hand until FRIDAY las
! when il closed. Even the hotels that remain
| oren during the winter have but few guests.
| While the season has been a very successful ono
| in most every quarter. II has been a dismal
| failure here II is a short one a. the basr
compared with ether places but when length
entd with pleasant weather It fails to
n'neties In the cities the day was bright and
| cool here the bathing excellent, and yet there
wee hoi dozen. hotel arrivals. In former
.ntie were as nigh as five hundred
coi1nnallon or circumstances has contributed
| 10 0epiess and denete Cape May. This season
mas o.en very iaiEy Que. For ten days il
rained inceSSantiy. and when the weather
cleared tie Mosquitoes came IN clouds People
Stloa them Ill The trains left, and the toYn has
not recovered IRON the exodus OF It's guests in
TIE height OF the season. But there are Other
reasons why Cape May has not been Successful
sAls summer, and why II may not be successful
IL Inc seasons hereafter, II has not met The
aong the Long, Island aud Jersey coasts
IL has relied on It's magnificent bath.
t ,Sg beach -, and added no other at
G va, OK s.; the result is that people have
gore 10 the new places ana left the old ones 10
decay; The Philadelphia Tunes today takes
ms view CT the situation and very sensbIy SAYS
mat the Cape May people have traded TOO lofg
nron what mas been in the past ana what the99
Ile2n 10 have 10 the future. rt says at Is time
lew 70 leave on promising and substitute per
.oImaLce. They need, In the first place 70 per
ItcC their system OF drainage They need IN
cream up Their streets and mend their fences
a aId s sioewalRs; 10 bring soil and plant grass
Itey need to build the pier that they began To
Duiu ABOUT twenty years ago. And they need
10 improve Their hotels, net by adding more
&ooueh barracks, but by substituting substan-
tlai structures Of brick aud mortar. which shall
be durable and secure and dry and comforta-
pc, pie. Iney need, In short, TO look at what has
ger dcne elsewhere and profit BY the example.
bringing Cape May abreast OF modern prorresS
This means that they must spend money. Ilber.
Any Any ana ,o Wisely; II they do not they must
PecI 70 lose what they have already fnyesied
tcr without some such effort the place must
IneFl,3bly lail farther and farther behind" The
.afticie complains also OF the arrangement of
the bathing houses, which Is a little unirsf
shce the IRE the bathing facilities are su perIor
70 70 any oIneT place on the coast. The hotels,
too nave been bftter. kept this year, | bear
notbfng but praise In tina. direction. Ihe
MeSSrS. Clump, OF Philadelphia took Congress
nan which last year had very bad reputation
respects. The Stockton was always in tae front
rank, and outside OF Coney Island is the finest
uOttI ou lie coast.
TIE C0TT4GEI2s AND THE BATHgRs.
Although tie hotels have closed, all OF the
cottage population remains, and at bathing time
there are stu several hundred people lett for the
!urf The northeast storm does NOT jnrerrn-n
with the bathing. The air is chilly. b1t the
water is almost tepid, While the breakers come
fOihIg 10 nigh ana fast with the mulutudinollS
music OF a thousand ages gone" TIE sights on
The sands and in the SURF Increase with the
atSuIditieS OF each years fashions. Everybody
gets the benefit OF the new mania for stockings.
The ladies who,Yould hardly exhibit the size or
Their slippers on the piazZaS or the Stockton un-
Olushingly show OFF the full length or the new
colors In the bath. The sight Is a shapely one.
aid evil only 10 him, doubtless who evil thinks
There pave been no accidents this season and
but Few persons rescued from the breakers
This Is mainly attributable 10 the absence OF
the good swimmers (for they venture our anG
cannot get back) and TO the warning notice
posted In every bath room for the benefit OF the
rev cCiners. There is SO much shouting and
Hohcing Ia the water that IL Is difficult 10 de-
tect an earnest appeal for assistance. A rhymer
has put 1t pretty wei this way:
"Ch, take Z e in! oh. take me in"
Ahrightet, did she shout.
The breakers dread had turned her head
enc meant, 'Oh, take me oEt"
Forgive who can the cruel man
Who heard that frightened shout
aId Though the din cried out, swim inv
teT sEcuId have cried, Swim out''
THE DOGS.
The new fashions In dogs continue TO In.
crease-at least the dogs increase. Last sum-
ner the English pug with black battered nose
vas the rage, and he holds his own quite well
amCrg the childIeSS yotaries OF fash Ion. This
wear Lotlce new breed With which am not
Itni!lar, oul IL seems TO answer every purpose
as well as the pug. These pet brutes sleep in
Their mist1esses laps and are frequently fed
fiom the same table. though Col Duffy the
manager OF the stockton, has not Yielded TO
the demand for high chairs" for the little
pets On the contrary, he has tried 10 get rid
n n IN r{r1sr AN,
week Tor their board. which, TO his great sur
prise. has been paid IN every instance. The
sops OF pugs seem TO enjoy 1t very much, espe.
cially when they are tied with a blue ribbon to
the chair OF their mistress In the dining hall at
meal hours. The guests who have no dogs
stand this very well, but when it comes TO the
aHectionate part they feel very much as they
did on board OF Col. Young's yacht the other
day when she was endeavoring to make the
BreakWater In choPpng sea.tney want to be
piazza yesterday not only once but twice and
three, and declared that he was her 'little dar.
ing. pugzy wugzy-so he was" This is CON-
mon thing, but / have not seen it In print.
Next year Duffy says he proposes to add an
other cipher to The notice On the Stockton bull
letin, SO that 1t will read: Dogs board 800 per
week Tor the season OF 81 -
THE MOSQUITO WAR.
Cape May has TWO daily papers during the
stasoE-The Ware and The Star, and the
way they fight each other in type would make
the famous Eatonsvtlle Gazette controversy re-
spectacle. II they lived south OF the Potomac
one or both would have long since perished.
The present trouble arose over the editor or me
Wdce giving away Cape May" Il quote by
mentioning the TACT that there were mosquitoes
at certain concert. The editor or The Ware
says that the editor of The star rs ''Supersensi-
tive, and tries to make The Ware man out "a
willful liar and doer OF injustice" and goes
on TO show that The Star first gave away Cape
May On the mosquitoes" Ii says: This at
tempt at covering up the mosquitoes with the
mantle OF silence has long since played OFT.
me DGtIy .StGr was the first paper to give
away the TACT OF the presence OF great Swarms
OF mosquitoes at Cape May, and We didn't 20
out OF our way to say that the assertion is not
corIect. Covering up the mosquitoes with
mantle or silence, or anything else, is good. or
attempting to suppress their presence BY not
nMentlonlng them In type while people were
being peppered by them Is better, The Sidi.
man replies to this 10 the most violent ep1thets.
me mlldest OF which Is that The WAGE man is
Jasmine" and an ass, and so on TO the end Tt
Is hard to say who has the best OF it. but stae
Goer OF injustice" holds up his cpd very well
Both papers cease their daily issues today and
the contest is transferred to their weeklies.