Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-06-30
SEASIDE SPRAY.

II has been arranged to open apart
of the great hotel at Rockaway Beach
next week, aud the part to be opened
will include the bar and restaurant,
where the popular price system 1t to
prevail.
At Manhattan Beach they point To
the place where the beach used To be, and
declare that it Is only a question Oftime
when il will come back again. The
fisherman laugh, shake their heads and
whistle.
An old lady died last week while
irving To count the number of new sea-
side reports that have sprung up all
along the New England coast. In her
will She cut of several of her relatives
who formerly kept hotel
Rural beauties who wait on the table
AT the ApplcdOrr House, Isle OF Shoals,
have caused a corner in pink calico, i'll
which they deck themselves out, and a
yard of gay colOrrd ribbon is not to he
had for love or money.
Preparations for the season at Attain
tic City have not been very elaborate,
for many of the hotels have been open
all winter and are considered in good
enough condition for the most fastidious
Philadclphian that ever walked the
sands.
Within the last ten days there has
been large increase OF arrivals ut
Long Branch, and Ofthe hotels that are
now open the West End has the great
est number The afternoon display
of equipagc~ on Ocean avenue Is now
extensive.
Electric light excitement has caused
some of the good people of Newport to
work themselves into q high state of in
diguation, and some have threatened
oil sorts of horrible things. And there
has not yet been a single spark of cleo
tricity.
Newport has fathered new paper
called the CUSltO Bulletin, which is to
be- daily during the season, and is to
he the organ OF the society people
The established dailies look upon it As
the huge Newfoundland does the tiny
black -and-tan dog.
Cape May will celebrate the fourth 10y
an ocean yacht race, a parade of the
fire department and fireworks in the
evening. There also will he full dress
hops in all the leading hotels in the
evening. There i to be nothing mean
about Cape May this year.
1t is a trifle absurd, Is it is inc"nsiS-
tent, for some of the seaside hotels
which 10 not afford modern comforts
and couvcnicnce> To adopt the transient
rate of i andS5 per day, and there is
reason 10 believe that they will make
discovery of the fact when it Is too
late.
Some of the doubling Thomascs at
A~bury Park now fear that the hotel
,,-hish laN-n han11
largely increased since last year, are
greater than the demand will bc, and
now the wonder i which of the many
ucw-lledgcd BOnifaceS will get LETT
\ number of the Old-fashiOned, but
none the less pleasant seaside resorts
on the New England coast are conduc--
ted by women, who are evidently well
qualified for the duties they have to
perform, and who have the art Of hand
ling city people without gloves when
occasion requires.
Possibly bOrrOwi ny an idea from the
London Lord Chamberlain, the GOV
ernOrS of the Newport Casino state
that they will have 10 read every play
before being produced there by proteS-
SIGNALS. By-and-by there may be
rules and regulations as to the style of
dress worn by the audience.
Nurse maids with children drive
about Newport in village carts in rath-
u reckless manner, and if they are not
upset or do not run over somebody be-
fore the summer is over it will be
wonder. The maids are under the
that good part of
Newport belongs to the family
they serve.