Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-16
THE SUMMER RESORTS


- Deer Park and Oakland v-or, -.
Sunday.
- IL Is very quiet and dun at Lake ,;oor,,e
The great Fort William Henry uo,a, l,.. ,,,.-,,.
one hundred boarders. and the smaller -,
boarding houses are well nigh empty.
- new hotel called the fremont has besn
established at Sea Girt. \. J.. which is a very
superior seaside resort, and every successive
year grows in the estimation Of the pubic
- AT ali the watering places are Ia he rnu,d
ovcrdresscd mamnas and shabby -aftired chill
dren. The little ones are of small sccoup, ,r
fashionable life except upon particular Ora
sions. W."
-Cranston's Hotel, West Point. under the
new management, has materially advanced in
public opinion. and is fully deserving Of the ex.
ceient and thoroughly good patronage 1T has
thus far received.
- The quality Of the people who annually visit
Riohfeld has always been OF the best. and this
year is no exception 10 the rule Al last ac-
counts the Spring House and the American were
rapidly filling up.
- II Is useless TO deny the fact that thus far
the watering place season has not met eNpecta-
tions. With the exception of Long Branch. no
place Is well patronized, and the hotel keepers
while not alarmed, are n trihe Ill at ease
= They tell Of an alleged lady at one of the
n
she kept her little girl upstairs that none of the
other children In the house were good enough
to associate with her. II subsequently trans
p'red that the girl had only dress To her
name All of which may possibly account for
some OF the milk I'm the cocoa nut.
- Saratoga is not as full as il was expected it
would be at this time.
- Still another seaside resort has been sud-
denly sprang upon the public. II is called naw-
thorne Beach and is located on the sound near
the town Of Port Chester. n. Y.
- Sharon rejoices over the arrivals Of many
''select and exclusive families" who hold forth
at the Pavilion Hotel. which, IL all accounts are
true, was first opened 10 the public In l3i3
- The two pug dogs belonging 20 a woman
who is boarding at one of the Long Branch
hotels are brought to the table in nurses hall
three times daily and fed with the best OF every
thing from silver plates. This disgusting sight
the unfortunate nurses and maids have To sub
NIT to i'm silence, since the woman who owns the
dogs is rich, and at Long Branch, as at all other
places money will do anything
The display of private carriages at Long
Branch this season Is larger and finer than has
ever before been seen. Between and in the
afternoon is the fashionable riding and driving
time, and Ocean avenue is fairly crowded with
every variety Of equipage.
There Is lively competition among the sew
eral hotels up in the Catskill region and the
agents of the caravansaries tell visitors upon
their arrival on the dock great deal that Is the
exact opposite Of the truth. Meanwhile the
season progresses.
Among the guests In the Masconomo House,
Manchester-by -the-Sea. Mass. is John C. Ham,
ilton son Of the first Secretary Of the Treasury
of the United States.
Some remarkably elegant costumes have
1 alr DIV Isnx, a
| United States Hotel Saratoga. but there is a
decided tendency to what may be called fashion
able indecency. Immodesty in dress is tolerated
| now more than eyer-howeyer unfortunate the
| fact-and the extreme Of fashion in this particu-
| lar will no doubt be reached at Saratoga before
the summer is over. Then somebody will be
suddenly shocked. there will be whrlwind of
gossip and scandal, and thereafter more propliety
and decency will be mixed with the fashion
| again.
- Last Sunday morning all the ''help" in one
Of the new Catskill hotels struck" because Of
new rule enforced by the manager. and it was
| hard upon noon before breakfast could be
| served.
| All the Long Branch hotels Of the better
class are well filed, and this resort leads all
others I'm the number of its summer visitors
| This II what the Jersey bonifaces are now crow
| ing over.
| - II is rumored that the walters at the Coney
| Island hotels have combined for a grand strike
| about the LIST Of August. The hote-keepers are
aware OF IL. and have made preparations accord
ingly.
- Everybody is asking what is the matter
with Coney Island this year, because Of the
vastly reduced patronage OF the hotels and the
much inferior quality of the people who fire.
quent the place.
- Bathing is not general at any of the
m &bnrs sAa
and is still too cold for comfort and the gen
erallty of people prefer to look at rather than
walk into the sad sea waves.
Alleged gentlemen at Newport subject
themselves TO great deal of criticism by their
peculiar conduct i'm the streets at night when
all good citizens are supposed to be i'm bed, If
not asleep.
- There arc few sights prcttier or more in
spiriting than that of evening parade at West
Point. and small wonder il is that the hotel peo-
pie regularly turn out as il their lives de-
pended upon their presence at the military cere-
| mony.
| - Tourists should bear in mind that the CITY
hotel at Niagara from which full and complete
| view of the Falls can be had is the Clifton
House. which, located on the brink of the river,
commands the finest views in each and every di-
rection.
- The West End Hotel, Long Branch, has an
eActlent OTCuestta Oh Twelve musicians, whereas
| no other hotel has half as many The result is
that everybody" goes to the West end IN the
evening to hear the band play and to see the
young people dance.
Reports from Long Beach are Of thor
oughly satisfactory progress of the season. of
numerous distinguished" arrivals, and of fine
weather. The daily concerts are a great attrac-
| ton, and the various pieces are often demanded
| over and over again.
| - The news from the Adrondacks is not very
encouraging, for thus far tourists have been very
few and far between ihe guides stand around
all the day idle. swearing, and the sand flies pc
culiar to the place, are very mad because there
is nobody to bite.
VIII the Long Branch pier ever be COM
| pleted? 1t lis a misunderstanding affair as IL
stands to-day, covered with derricks and lumber,
and the last place in the world for a pleasure
promenade. Fat people hesitate a long time
before they venture to walk on it.
Many people wonder where those bird bath
tubs come from in which vegetables are served
at summer hotels. They hold barely a table
spoonful Of anything and are of very comical
appearance in front of fat people. who are sup
posed to have good and healthy appetite for
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