Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-24
THE SUMMER RESORTS.


now and more to come Ii is owned and man.
aged by Mr. Roessele, of the Arlington.
All of the watering places are doing well.
except the White Mountains
= Ocean Grove is filling up for the camp
meetings.
= Gen. Lee, a son Of the late Gen. Robert E.
Lee, is at Narragansett Pier
It is estimated tina: there were between
10000 and $1,000 people at Long Branch last
Sunday.
"A series of amateur theatricals will be
given at the Newport Casino Theater ut an early
date.
- Admiral and Mrs. Porter are domiciled in
one of the cottages Of the ElberOn Hotel, Long
Branch.
1t is claimed that the main avenue of New
port is so crowded with vehicles that it is almost
impossible eor persons on horseback to woEk
their way along.
- The hotel keepers in the White Mountains
deplore lamentable scarcity of brides, and
young men are so few that signing lasses have
to dance with female partners
= Weilto-do bachelors are loung;ng at Sara
toga. specializing in stocks and taking chances
on the pretty girls
Don't you make noise. or else YOU will
wake the baby :" is the csy OF fond mothers at
summer b5aIding-houses.
- At NaiitaSaSet Beach young ladies durin.
the early part of the day row or roam in dark
blue flannel suits, wide trimmed hats and base
ball shoes
- st. Johns COmE.andery. Knights Templar,
of Philadelphia, will visit Cape May August 18th.
and stay at Congress Hall A ball will be held
in their honor.
- notice at one o. the Cape May hotels
reads: Guests keeping dogs in the hotel will
be charged so per week extra There are
some two-legged puppies down here that 1
wouldn't board for so an hour, says the oldest
inEabital:, brusgUeiy.
- Whales are seen daily Off Block Island and
In unusually large schools. The other day one
rose. blew and disappeared within two hundred
yards OF the steamer George W. DanieIson on
her trip over from Newport.
= Although the effort for odd styles of archi-
lecture for the summer residences about Long
Branch is in some instances painfully over
strained, yet one must feel grateful that the
impetus to vary from the old stereOtyped style
OF country houses has been SO successfully
given
- In taking the pretty drives, which are as
numerous about Long Branch as mosquitoes are
at Cape May, through the many seaside resorts
which extend continuously for over 20 miles
along the Jersey shore. one is amazed to ind so
many picturesque dwellings, and scarcely two
alike.
The young society man of the day is said to
represent six distinct kinds of born idiot. and
his presence at the shore 'convuseS sensible peO-
pie with merriment.
-Saratoga's big houses are crowded this
week. and, to employ a saying not altogether
unconventional, the season at this resort is now
III Its height.
-Ex-Gov. Bullock, of Massachusetts. has
engaged one OF the cottages of the ElberOn
Hotel, Long Byanch. for himself and family for
the rest of the season.
-Coney Island Sunday last had it's largest
day this season so Tar; the hotel men looked
happy and smiled but it Is agreed that the place
Is not so well patroIzedas OF Old Long Beach
attracts many people from it.
- Ladies at the watering places are amusing
themselves this summer by making bead en-
broidery on laces as trimmings for their autumn
dresses. This is done by taking any desired.
leaf Tor model and cutting one by it i'm lace and
following the leaf tore of col0ring in Omber or
Illuminated beads. until. as a result they have
an autumn or bright hued leaf in perfect beauty
Prom this leaf may be suspended pendants or
strings of beads in the same hues forming a
most lovely fringe with an autumn leaf heading
producing charming effect
AT Long Branch on Saturday last the larg-
hibited. 1t was killed at Seabright by Capt. W.
s. Price and ]. Mexican 1t became entancled
IN the nets OF the large fish pond opposite the
Octagon house. and was only killed after a
struggle that lasted nearly an hour. The shark
was III feet long, feet and inches in cir
enmference, and weighed 80 pounds. 1t fins
were about two feet long.
The moonlight nights have been yery enioy-
able on the beach at Cape May. while the bath
ing is superb. Over three thousand people were
in the water one day this week
- Mr. James Fresh, of New York, who paid
the Long Branch fishermen IS to take him out
over the breakers, offered them $50 to bring him
back after they had only been out an hour, but
they refused, and then he said he would give
them al his money and watch if they would
throw him overheard.
well, Count Ramshackle what do you
think of the view!" said Mrs. Loverofnature, as
they stood on the piazza of the CatskiIl Noun
tain House, with considerable of the world at
Their feet Vel, / vas founddumbed mid ash
Punishment und pleasure. So help up me Moses
baylor, neffar such prospect came before me-
excuse me. Mrs. Loyerofnature, ish dot chain
vot you haf on genuine @old?"
These moonlight nights are glorious at the
seaside Isn't it heavenly" said Miss Sillyblly
to Nr. Polo. WHAT" he asked. '.Why, the
moon" 'Oh, yes. just too utterly heavenly
Aoi ciii thHlS 'On. Il 90 Just Q0te on the
moon. don't you:" .'Yes, it's awfully nice.
isn't it, and SO splendidly conspicuous. tool"
AT one Oh the Long Branch hotels a Lady ap-
Feared the other day in an alleged Paris cos
tune made entirely of little squares of pink and
blue satin. her bonnet being trimmed with huge
pink and blue feathers. 'if YOU tell me what
that is, said one lady who saw her to another.
you can nave it," Both gaze it up.
There must be something very fascinating
In the crowd at watering place to the aver
age mind, as it makes people patient of small
rooms and a thousand inconvenience. A
lady will stand on her trunk to dress. and will
endure the greatest Inconvenience as to bath
and absence Of wardrobe, will sleep on the
hardest bed. so that she may enjoy the pleas
ures of the crowd. Men give up their roomy
houses. their comforts, their good club din
ners, and their easy chairs, to enjoy the chat,
the variety, the gay tout ensemble Of water
ing place. Young people love the crowded
ballroom, the gay scramble on the beach, the
drive. the dinner at the lake. and, in fact ''the
crowd" They love the gayety of the watering
place. IL would be well it, in using it. they are
not abusing it and injuring themselves.
- Predictions made concerning the success OF
the season at Niagara Falls are being verified