Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-03

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troops and citizens. The bells were runy.
cannon fired, houses illuminated and civic
PROFESSIONS formed, while the air was filed
With aeclamations Of welcome. In 1884
the town was ineorporatedas city; but the
obstruction OF its property and the disper-
sion OF its citizens had precluded its pros
Periy. The mould Of retIogression was on
II, and could not be removed. Three years
later it .- 81" 30 0''.|
Surrendered its Municipal Form,
which was not renewed TILL 1853. From
the close OF the revolution to 1880 the town
was cold and lifeleSs, but about the latter
date il became 70 be known as o watering
place, Southerners and Cubans being the
hrst 10 frequent IL. There was no public
house Of any extent or excellence, and the
guests put up with certain material discom-
forts for the sake of bathing and the balmy
air. The Ocean House was burned down
as all summer hotels are, sooner or later
nine years after il was built, but was re.
6ant promptly on its old and present site,
IN Bellevue Avenue. The town then con-
sisted of few streets near the beach, and
the era of cottages was not sven dreamed of.
But putting up cottages and villas soon be-
came the mode and from those of q plain
and unambitiouS sort sprang the
Most Expensive and Luxuriant Ones,
Within twenty years real estate has in
creased in Value twenty fold, and is now so
high that eligible cottage sites are oeyoad
the reach OF those not we'll blessed in thi,
worlds goods. The number of cottages
the more elaborate Of these are generally
called yillas-in and about the town must
be fully 500, some 800 of which are 10 let
every season, on account Of the absence OF
their owners in Europe or
elsewhere. They rent furnished. for
from 5000 TO $500 the reason, the latter
an extreme rate, 5000 TO 5, 900 being the
average. As q summer residence, Newport
has eroWn to be a luxury forbidden to
m0ny. The COST of erecting and furnishing
villa that would be thought in any sense
elegant, including the ground and the lay
ing out, is from $50, 900 to 100000. Some
Of the houses are really beautiful-all that
taste and money can make them. They are
in different styles. French villas, Swiss
Chalets, and English cottages most abound
ing, with few of so composite and inhar-
mOniOuS an order as TO defy determination.
Nowhere else are there so many dainty
roofs to
Cover the Oar IingS OF Fortune
from July and August floods of sunshine.
Rosewood, French walnut damask, lace,
marbles, bronzeS, engrayings, paintings.
cabinets, carvings, frescoes, acquaria, fern
cries, and porcelain, make interiors bril-
liantly attractive; and statues, grottoes,
terraces, Conservatives, FISH ponds, arbors,
summer-houses. hedges, and parterres
yield symmetry aud charmfulness to the
grounds and gardens, which cannot fail to
Csptivate the eye and stimulate the fancy.
There is an air of unmistakable gentility
about Newport that few watering places
have. Neither here or anywhere else under
the canopy are the majority OF the men and
women cultured and chiYalrouS, beautl-
ful and elegant; but the society is generally
good and
often Unexceptionable.
There are no horse-iOckeys, blscklegs, bill
liard-markers, nor gamblers masking in
the ill-ttting garments of gentlemen; no
ballet-dancers. clairyOyants, nor adyen-
turesseS flashing in jewels and jadery, with
a mistaken notion of fine ladyism. No
body need be offended by coarseness or
Haunting vulgsrity, but life here has GER
tain quiet neutral tint, notwithstanding its
under hue of richness, that cannot fail TO
charm and captiyate the seeker after peace
and puipt