Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-08-25
NOTES FROM THE SUMMER ne
SORTS.

For the Beneat Of the stay -a,-lsOnscs.
1t costs so cents to rent bath house at
Long Branch
The Grand Union, Saratoga, at the present
time has over 800 boarders.
"Madc-up women" predominant all along
the Summer resort line.
Suddenly made rich people are offensive
ly conspicuous at the fashionable watering
places.
For the last ten days 900 and odd people
have been domicilcd at the Hotel Kaa,er
skill Catskills.
He who goes to Newport and does not
know any cottages, is looked upon rs an OBJ
ject of social suspicion.
He who tried to see how many clans he
could eat at Coney Island last week has not
yet left the hospital.
Travel up Mount Washington has been nm
usually light thus far this season.
Vermont has n larger representation at the
beaches than ever before.
Block Island is having most successful
season, and has moved up to the front among
seaside resorts.
Nanasket Beach adds to its attractions
from week to week, and the crowd from Bos-
ton grows larger every day. 1t is Boston,
Coney Island on a refined scale.
Actresses set the fashions at some of the
Long Branch hotels, and are followed about
wherever they go by crowd OF women bent
on getting new ideas in dress
Perpetual fights between mosquitoes and
visitors take place at Atlantic City, and the
local police are powerless to interfere. In
nine cases out of ten the mosq iitoes are de-
cidedly victorious
Rosettes<1f yellow satin ribbon are worn
on the aristocratic ears of horses that pull
village carts At Newport.
There is II young lady in Saratoga who is
so modest that she always retres to her own
room to change her mind.
There are five meals a day at the West
End, Long Branch and many people anx.
ous to get their moneys worth paitakc of
all of them heartily.
Two Philadelphia ladies, sisters, carried oil
the palm al Saratoga for having the greatest
variety of dresses. One of them has fortv-
two different toilets, and the other nearly MS
many. 1t can hardly be said that such ladies
''toll not" even If they do not spin. The
labor of displaying 50 many dresses is no
slight task.
Lake George is now at its best, but every
body says the season this year Is by no means
up to the usual standard.
Up among the Thousand Islands the sea-
son is said to be fairly good, but does not
realize expectations.
Old Hebrew ladies in the parlors of Sum-
mcr hotels find absorbing recreation in COM
pairing the size Of their diamonds.
Pickpockets are Eecting with unprecedcnt
cd success on the Long Branch boats. One
night last week seven gentlemen were sitting
together on the West End hotel piazza, all of
whom had been relieved of their time pieces
during the day.
Long Beach and Long Branch are the
two best patroni2ed OF all tie seaside re-
sorts
There are few people going To Mount Des-
ert this season, and high prices and bad liv-
ing at the hotels are driving away many peo.
pile who are there. Petty eXtortions of all
kinds are practiced by the so-callcd natives
One can no longer see the beauties of the is
land without paying numerous fees. and the
eXtortions of the blackboard driver rival the
Niagara Falls hickman. The cotlagcrs have
made lovely walk along the shere, about
the only thing you can enjoy not subject to q
fee.
One thing which is sure to arrest the at
tention of the visitor to Saratoga for the first
time, says correspondent, is the large num-
her of ladies without hats or bonnets which
are met on Broadway, in Congress Springs
park aud other public places in the morning
and evening. In lieu of bonnet or hat,
sun umbrella is usually carried Some Of
them are deliberately gotten up, presenting
almost rs fantastic an appearance rs some of
the stunning hats which are worn in the
Qftnrnnnn nathan tl,ipn hinh ia
ed feature of Saratoga life is the great num-
Der OF people-mae and female, white and
black servants, boys and girls old men and
young men, young women and old women
vending their way through the streets early
in the morning and late at night with bottles
in their hands or under their arms, from the
springs, the water To be used by invalids or
Others who are unable or unwilling to visit
the springs themselves.
The society youth is at the Branch this
year, and is US great an object of pity, as
ever. He wears high collar, which meets
III front and acts as u razor on the down of
his chin. His breeches are made 50 tight
that every time he arises after having been
seated, he is Obliged to rely upon the assist
ance of the hotel bell-boy to pull them down
for him, in order that their upward tendency
may be thwarted. lie addresses the gushing
maiden with May be permitted the
transcendeut felicity OF "A revolution in the
mazes of this dance" This is set speech
of his, and he delivers it to perfection apart
from this his language is quite plain and
faulty. lie speaks Of his NAV" and his
Paw and OF the conquests he has made al
the other end of the beach. lie walks erect,
with his arms akimbo, swinging frail stick,
just libel on himself while he 'don't like
the company of men, you know, but perfect
" adores the girls you know r'-Long
Branch Letter, american Queen.