Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-08
NEW YORK NOTES.
THE SUMMER WANDERERS RE-
TURNING.
MilliOnaIres at Stewards
StOres-FTee Baths-Pen Pictures
1.-THE Black Mantles."


begun again. as it always does with the return
Of September. OF late years everybody whose
income admits Of it, goes into the country in
July and August for a sojonrn of a few weeks.
If the head of the family is tied to business too
closely TO fly himself, he sends his family
When Saturday afternoon comes he goes the
full length Of his tether, and returns to his
| office or counting room on Monday morning
! Those who are too poor to go even to a country
farm house make daily trips to Coney Island
Rockaway, Long Beach, Long Branch, and the
resorts up the Hudson and Long Island Sound.
The summer travel this season has not been to
mountain resorts so much as in former years
but it has been more to the seaside retreats on
Long Island. Scores of quiet little watering
places have been established along theshOres
OF this island within a few years, ana people
who have found them out resort to them sum
mer after summer They fondly imagine that
they have discovered the most delightful re-
treat in the world, and that thew are infniteIv
better OF than their neighbors who are ic-no-
rant OF it and have gone elsewhere. for it
an unpleasant truth that much
OF our enjoyment comes through
qualification of the selfish principle IN man
At these little cOlonies-they are usually made
up of several small hotels and score of cot
tageS-there is round Of enjoyment kept up
that is IS unremittent as the whirl OF gayeties
at Newport or Saratoga But the amuse-
ments are of course Of a different nature
There are fishing, hunting and boating parties
suppers with dancing afterwards moonlight
rides in carts and road wagons,
parlor theatricals and tabIeaux. lawn
tennis, tournaments, ball games, sail
ing contests, surf bathing and hours of de-
light in the luxury of the sun bath. II one
resort has programme of particular interest
the soJourners of the neighboriDg resorts
swoop down upon it in wagons and carts SO
the summer wears away Those who have
been at these places, at Lake George Schroon
Lake, and at the various mountain and inland
resorts are seen in the streets again
is not even on the wane vet The
millionaires there are amusing themselves
as vigorously as ever with their fox hunting $50
they call it. but where is there an Englishman
who would not roar outright at the udicrous
show they makeD, dinners, balls. teas. poIo
and street parading. No, these great ones
(how they delight 10 be called great and how
unconscious they are of satire) will not come
back where we may look upon and admire
them until the leaves become scar and yellow
This may be put down as one of the Sensible
things they do.
The great name of A. T. Stewart is RAPIDLY
disappearing Practically, the great house at
the turn in Broadway at Tenth street has
been closed out and Judge Hilton is dis
posing Of the property belonging to the estate
He is negotiating for the sale of the old house
down town. near the City Hall, which has stood
grim and silent for years. This building
is massive and substantial being built |
Of marble, but less artistic than the up-
town house. IL was used for the wholesale es- |
tablishment IN Stewards best days. The prop
erty is held at 81, $50, 900. 1t may however be |
converted into a hotel and be made a rival to
the Astor House, which is only two SQUARES fur
ther down Broadway. Stewards hotel ventures l
have turned out TO be the most profitable of |
his investments, contrary to the expectation |
of everybody. The Grand Union and Windsor !
in Saratoga, and the Park Avenue in this CITY
are yielding handsome returns. The Park /
Avenue, which was built a hotel for women |
is one of the finest and best Conducted /
hotels in the metropolis Even Oscar |
Wilde has set the seal of his approval upon it /
by taking up his residence in it, But how he /
must swear Gf our mild poetic youth is given |
to sWearing) at the street car st ableg on the /
opposite side of the street. The odors that /
escape from the doors and windows are nv no |
means suggestive of the lily
One or the sights of the metropolis is the free /
baths. strolled into one yesterday, which is |
anchored at the sea wall down at the Battery
Park There was a crowd of ragamuffins at |
the entrance, waiting until the doorman would /
let them in The hair Of some of them was /
forked and only half dry. They had been in
before ana had not left the bath long
enough TO get dried out. Some of /
these who were the latest out
were sitting on the park benches in the sun /
undergoing the drying process Thev had |
strange companions, for the emigrants who |
land at Castle Garden stroll through here at |
will, and bask in the sun on the benches as if |
they possessed no desire to see more of the |
country than can be seen from the Battery |
wall. went inside.
They're reg lar water rats, said the keeper.
jerking his thumb over his shoulder at school |
of urchins gamboling in the water. 'sIf Won |
didn't let em in ere. do you know what thev'd |
dor I'll tell you. They'd go swimming in fhe |
docks, an you might as well try to catch an /
eel as them"
Most of the boys were from seven to fourteen
years old, and Of that class that live in the /
streets and in the tenement house quarters of |
the city. Their dress at this season is meagre
and consists of a checked shirt (blue and /
white) a pair of ragged trousers and a hat
that has seen so much wear tn It it is altogether
without shape and of uncertain color Their
faces are white and pinched, and their bodies |
poorly nOurished. When they 90 into the little
bath houses, they are only out of sight for
moment. They fairly jump out of their clothes
and then head first into the water II must |
have been their inclination to dive and swim
under water, disappearing with their heels in
the air and reappearing again thar kept I'M
such swashing and splashing Late in the
afternoon the men who frequent these ba hs |
stroll in. They come in with their working |
clothes on. tired and sweaty, from their davis
work One man Noticed had a car hook stuck
"caacker' in his hand. They don't cut |
as many didos as the boys, but are given more
to floating around like tubs on their backs with
their toes out OF water The fat man, particu-
this. Three days of the week are set apart for
women, and the keeper said that the women |
OF the poor quarters avail themselves of The |
privilege at all or the free baths on both rivers
They are required to wear costumes (men |
escape this restriction), but as a female keener
is in charge the bathing suits are far from con
ventionaL A calico gown is usually worn by |
those who do not swim. Some of the younger |
women, despite their condition in life are pret- |
ty and dive and swim with much skill and
grace. There are ten swimmers among vUo- /
men now to one at the time the free haths |
were opened less than five years ago, Occa- |
sionaly some weak timid girl gets strangled |
when a great uproar is raised, every 6odV /
screaming, from grand-mothers of seventy TO |
youngsters or seven, and the male-keeper
Fushes out of his retirement and plunges in to
the rescue. He gets his clothes wet very often |
over a useless fright As we were leaving the |
bath house we encountered a new brigade al |
the entrance 1t was a company of Charity
boys from an institution uptown, with a priest
at their head. They were well clad in orexz |
less look of the charity boy. There was the
usual number of moist noses.
The arrival OF Miss Helen Lenoir from Eu-
OF Doggy Carte. to whom we are in
debted for our best amusement in the line of
comic opera met her on the day of her
arrival, and asked her If she had any new
pieces in the travelling bag she was
carrying. She replied that she had
brought over several new operas
one OF which would be produced at the opening |
Of the season at the Standard Theatre Sen. |
tember 2 This will probably be Les Man
tes ux Noirs" CIhe Black Mantles), as Gilbert
libretto of Les Manteaux Noirs'' is by Park |
and POulten, and the music by Bocaiassi a |
musician Of some distinction. It is the story /
Of young girl who is the beauty of a village |
and has young miller for her lover By one |
Of those accidents Of life she is rescued |
from great danger by a cavalier, who |
Is muff1ed up in black mantle She cannot /
see his face, but she is charmed with his voice |
When the King and his Lord Chamberlain ar |
rive on the scene in similar DISCUSSES, complica-
ions arise as the girl is only able to recognize
ler bold cavalier by his B1dntedu nOET The new |
opera by Gilbert has not been named, Miss Lee |
1oir said, but it would probably be called ''The
Princess" 1t has the piquancy and !
,harm OF all of his works. Some of |
he complications arise by a blending |
II the actual and mythical The hero Is a |
7oung man OF twenty-five. His mother is a |
airy of seventeen, who never gets any older |
Is fairies do not grow any older There is also |
pretty maiden in this piece. who is the pride /
If the village, and who is beloved by this youth
md the Lord Chancellor. The part of the Lord |
Chancellor is highly humorous, and will be
AIKEN by Mr. Riley, who made such a |
lit last season as 'BunthOrne" in Patience" |
)ne of the feature of the opera will be i
male chorus representing English peers |
Who in one scene gravely walk across the |
tage in their sOmbre gowns playing brass in
The vivaciOus little directress also |
aid she had two other new operas in her hand |
Van Wrinkle" and the "Vicar of |
3rag" The first of these is founded on Ir-
Ting's sketch, with new incidents and change |
II character, as for example. Gretchen instead |
f being the shrew she is in Jefferson's per
ormance, is a beautiful and amiable voI1no
woman. As Mr.. Carte seldom makes a mis-, |
axe, he will certainly not lack for comic opera
4 the best and most entertaining sort this