Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-20
The Summer Resorts.

FROM THE MOUNTAINS AND SEASIDE.
The cool weather is thinning out the resorts.
Cape May has had the best season since the
fire. 1t has had two weeks of sunny DAYS and
sea breezes in August.
The hay fever season opens at Oakland and
Deer Park to-day. Some of the ''sneezers' are
already on hand.
Ocean City continues to do we'll The hath
ing has been excellent, and the season other
wise a fine one.
The ATLANTIC City Rerie,o saws that 5000
people visited that seaside resort on Saturday
and Sunday.
Adirondacks since early June have returned as
lar as Saratoga. and will enjoy the remain
der of their vacation there.
Miss Nellie Hazeltne. the ''bee of ST. Louis"
has arrived at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs. A correspondent writes to the Wheel
ing Register "A dozen ladies said to me to-
night. Il don't think she's so beautiful do you?'"
10 is stated that there Is defect in the foun-
dalton for the Saratoga monument. and that ii
will have to be relaid.
AT Long Branch as at many other places this
week the mercury shot down to a figure that
made some people shiyer.
There is at Newport a swell Chicago girl whose
Ideas of bathers and bathing are in perfect keep
ing with the liberality Of views entertained by
the people of the untamed west.
The city society man is of very little account
at the hops given in camp by the West Point
cadets. He is obliged to stand around with his
hands in his pockets all the evening and looks
very much like an idiot
Efforts are making at Saratoga to secure a
sufficient purse for a regatta of professional
Oarsmen on the lake on or about September l.
Trickett and Riley, who are to take part i'm tie
Toronto bay regatta. will undoubtedly be in
cluded in the list of oarsmep,
Many of the NarraganSett Pier hotels viii keen
open till September Is. The early part of the
season there was discouraging. but the out
look is brighter now.
Narragansett Pier is sometimes called New
port IN NUTSHELL 1t is not a little strange
that the Pier. with all its boosted advantages.
attracts so few people.
Fire Island has more gentlemen in proportion
10 the size and facilities of the place than any
other seaside or summer resort
Scarcely any adults dance in the evening at
the Saratoga hotels, and most of the time child
dren have the parOrs and the music all to them
selves.
Great preparations are making for the subscrip-
ton ball which will take place at the Newport
Casino on the 23d instant.
The Catskill Mountains are now blue with
huckleberres, and the hotel ia bles are monot-
onously supplied with that native fruit
Martha's Vineyard offers great variety of at
tfactiohs this year-a camp meeting, a calico
party on Skates, polo twice a week. and a fox
hunt.
Some young fellows in bathing wear white
flannel or merino shirts embroidered with many
cOlored flowers.
4. 10 hhpooSiuIe W ucuy Uiidl Cue CflllUfen at
Long Branch, especially at the hotels are over
dressed and Over-eXhibited.
At Newport they play polo with Shetland
ponies hitched to baby carriages. If a crump-
pied rose leaf disturbs the surface of the course
it must be rolled over again. The winners re-
ceive the prizes at the hands of embroidered
fOOtmen.
The handsome Swiss chalet recently pur-
chased at Newport by Mr. Theodore A. Have
meyer of the heirs of the late Loring Andrews
at cost Of $4,000, is to be entirely rebuilt
this fall.
The National Telephone Convention will con-
vene at Saratoga on September and 8.
Moonlight bathing is too too. according to
some individuals of an amphbious and a
romantic nature The splendid nights last week
were duly improved at the beaches where sea
bathing seems to be the chief end and aim of
existence.
Brooklyn lady at Poland Springs is an
accomplished pianist. deXtrous croaUet PLAYER.
pulls good oar with any boy in the crowd is
an admirable fly fisher. and crack first base at
base ball. besides possessing unusual attain
ments in social culture.
At Cape May the bands play Dancing in the
Barn" four or i've times a day, and yet are
encored.