Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-02
THE SUMMER RESORTS.

The Long Branch hotels ill slowly. except
Saratoga did wen fer June. There were a
there.
Oakland and Deer Park promise to do wen
this season-better than last
The new Cresson hotel, on the P. R. r., Will
have many PittsbuTg and Cincinnati peop.e
Fortress Monroe is quite full. There are
many visitors there.
White Mountain travel begins today and
keeps up till September l.
Niagara Falls has daily paper which gives
pleasant personals respecting local hackmen.
Lawn tennis has commenced at Newport
and the daughters OF the arlstocracy are said co
play very ''too too" game.
The Marquis OF Lorne's visit to Manitoba and
the Canadian Northwest this summer, the Lon
don Times thinks will attract the attention OF
British emigrants to that region.
A number of distinguished Episcopal clergy
men will preach In ST. James Chapel, Long
Branchs during the summer. This is the chapel
for which Mr.. Chfds has shown so much in
tereSt
party from Saratoga returned recently from
the AolroIdacks, bringing with them about
seventy.hye pounds of black bass The fish
in about Elk hours.
Three Boston sisters intend to eIectrify Hamp-
ton this year with bathing suits of peacock
blue.
Capa May bathing has already begun. There
were hundreds In the waves on Tuesday last.
The hops begin July 10.
The Ocean House. the ultra fashionable hotel
OF New port, Is now blossoming out in red blinds.
That Is the seaside color.
Mount Desert people say that II New Workers.
Insist on coming there they must pay New
York prices.
This season. as usual, the most extrayagant
dressing on the part of the ladies VIII be at Sar-
atOga- Fashions are now so varied and bewfid-
eifng that the display Is likely, If not to wake
the dead, at least to drive the living crazy.
About fifty cottages have been built at Long
Branch since last season. most OF them In the
Queen Anne style, and painted India red black
and dark green. About half OF them have been
built by investors, and the yearly rental Is 3SI.
per cent of their cost. All OF them were rented
month ago.
Newport foliage is remarkably heavy this
year. Nowhere else are to be seen such beauu.
Iul and highly cultivated lawns as at Newport
The ocean and a fresh-water lake almost
within stones throw of each other is the
freak or nature which makes Spring Lake at
tTactive In New jersey.
Countess Lewenhaupt, the wife of the Danish
Minister at Washington Is In PIttSfield, Mass,
where she wiz remain throughout the sum.
mer.
Anything historical here?r he said at Mount
Desert to native. "Wall, yes" was the re-
ply. 'That there COW used TO belong to Ben
Butler"
Everybody wants an end seat at the theater.
and likewise every body must have at the sea-
SIDE room facing the ocean. The city woman
cant breathe In a land breeze"
The Virginia reel will be danced at Long
Branch and Cape May this season.
The owners OF FoxhaIl and Iroquois are both
summer residents OF Newport.
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage viii spend his vaca-
ton at White Sulphur Springs.
President Garfield will not be able to visit
Newport in July as he had expected.
Adirondack guides have their ghost stories
| fer the season already cut and dried
There will he more htnycln RIDING of fha
| shore this summer than ever before.
The Cataract House. at Niagara Falls, will
place at the rear OF the hotel one OF the Weston
electric lights Tor the purpose OF lighting up
| beautiful in the river. The light will pe one OF
aoout III, Geo candle power, and will be placed
| before parabolic reflector. This will admit OF
| lis being turned in any direction.
| Nearly all the Newport cottagers have put
| IN an appearance. and the beautiful old to Hn
| begins TO be gay and lively. The social festiv-
| lilies VIII begin few weeks hence, and despite
the exodus TO Europe, they Will be as brilliant
as ever.
| "There Is an observatory at Richf1eld," says
an exchange, 'perched on top OF one Of the
highest hills, from which the views are of sur
passing extent and beauty. 1t is said that upon
| one occasion, the atmosphere being eSoe cially
| clear. man up there saw his mother-in- law In
| New YORK, and was SO alarmed that he fell In a
| hI Another time man saw tailor In Al
| Dany to whom he owed money. No one should
| fall to visit this observatory
at the summer resort-First week, ladies'
is given to showing your dresses; second week,
| 10 Telling where you went last year; third week
| 10 talking about The Browns, who have gone
| hone; fourth weak. to complaints OF the house
| After The fourth week life az a summer resort
! Is 4 sufferably dulL-B0StoR Transcript.
| Regular steamboat lines have been running
| to the Thousand Islands since the 1st of the
| month. The tourists line began this week.
| IeW OF the private steam yachts are In U.s.
ara Leariy al the Others are being put In
| O, der fer the season.
| The most important Improvement at Old
| orchard Beach this season is the building OF a
| railroad four miles in length, just below the
| OiG orchard House, to connect with Eastern
| Taiifoad, three miles from Saco It Will b.
| II aGy Tor business about July /.
| The carriage costumes OF the Newport ladie %,
| this season are OF surprising elegance and mag
hlneen 1ce a few Years ago they would have
been locked upon as good enough to wear to
| the ball this evening, whereas now they are
| Oily regarded as the proper outfit for riding
| about Ia.
| railroad now runs through the heart of the
! Iask'lls ana there are few grander rides any
where The farmers don't like the advent of
| Tie iron horse. but when satiTicaliy asked what
say they don't know. -'''''' -
| Funny stories are told Of the Atlantic City
post once. II your name is John Jones and
your letters come addressed Jack you must
INQUIRE gu ior Jack" and John" both, or they
nay lay there for couple OF days. They are
careful about delivery. and always SHUT the
| doors until the mail is distributed.
lie ID said that the efforts of the Coney Island
| MOTEL Keepers to create sympathy In their favor
| by Ing that their losses are SIS Goa every
rainy gay, have proved failure. People do
! Lot Eel!eve them.
| The national reputation which Elberon has
! secured through the recent visit or the Presi-
| dent and bis Cabinet, has started the report
| that new and magnificent hotel VIII be erect
! ed On the site OF the present house before al
| oJEeT year.
! Tiny children drive huge horses ali about
i Newport, and the wonder is that some accident
| Is hot recorded every day. a local paper we'll
! says that parents must be quite Indifferent TO
the safety and welfare CT their little ones co
| subject them to such constant risks ana
! dangers.
Saratoga correspondent referring to the
| approaching races at that resort, says: There
| are now nearly 20 thorougnbreds at the track.
en- bracing several southern and western fiyer5
the track Is the scene of lively work these
bright June mornings as the Jockeys take their
| sWift-1oOted steedS out for their preliminary
spins There are many promising youngsters
among the throng. and there will De more sur
prises and fat French pool dividends this year
than ever before unless all the signs fail The
| grand stand has been repainted and some 60
stables have been added. There Is now room
| at the track for over 400 horses. and there ara
engagements TO Nil every one. The track has
betn Widened at the place where the five fur
long ana three quarter mile daSheS start The
lei0S are low SO large that until the noble
steeda get strung out in the race IL takes a
No.