Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-27
EARLY SUMMER RESORT BREEzEs.
MOUNTAIN AND SEASIDE.

The Eiberon hotel is open for the summer.
The Coney Island hotels will open to-day
This is the sort Of weather summer hotel peo-
pie rejoice at.
Newport will have the benefit of electric light
this season.
The drives at Long Branch were seriously In
jured by the recent rains.
The Spanish Minister to Washington will spend
the summer with his family at Saratoga
Many improvements have been made In the
grounds adjoining the springs at Saratoga.
A Typographical survey of Mr.. James Gordon
BENEFITS cliff site, Newport, is being made.
Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket have both
Increased their hotel capacity since last season.
The Asbury Park code in relation to swearing,
drinking, &C., will be strictly enforced this
year.
Gen. c. A. Whittier, Of Boston, has taken the
G. L. Anthony cottage, on Bellevue avenue,
Newport.
Cape May hotel people are counting on the
heaviest seasons business they have ever en-
joyed.
Several of the White Mountain hotels have
already more applications for rooms than they
can fill
Neptune City is the name of a new resort few
miles below Long Branch. So far it is only
city on maps.
Prices at all the prominent resorts will be from
twenty-five to fifty per cent higher than they
were last year.
Old Orchard Beach, Me-, claims to have ''the
finest sea beach in the world" Cape May can
safely contest this claim.
UnimprOved real estate located on the cliffs
at Newport, when there is any of it for sale
commands 81, 500 per acre.
1t is contemplated having signal arranged
hoN ~
ment can be made OF the opening of the mails.
Viewpoints Casino is now open. Many i'm
provements in the interior are to be noted. and
the general appearance is very handsome and
effective.
All the garrets in the farm houses on the Cat
skis have been cleaned up. and now only await
the arrival Of families with four and six children
along with the crying baby.
If Yennor's representations prove correct
there will be frost about June and possibly
later. The possibilities are that Vennor will be
sunstruck about that time.
Any number of village maidens have gra-
cously accepted engagements to wait on table
at the alleged hotels and boarding houses of
Narragansett this season.
The wreck at Deal Beach came trifle too
early for business at the Long Branch hotels,
but people will have no difficulty in buying por-
lions of it for weeks to come.
Ocean Grove promises to be as prolific of
camp-meeting and religious influence as ever
1t is queer place, and one of which Dickens
would have loved to write about.
The recent fire at Rye Beach, NH, will not
| retard or have any effect on the season. which
is full OF promise to those who keep hotels.
Rye Beach was the favorite resort Of the late
Admiral Farragut.
Long Branch following the example of the
Coney Island people, is going into the fireworks
business on an extensive scale. The exhibitions
and displays will begin on the night of the
Fourth Of July.
new avenue at Long Branch, cut through
the Sternberger property, near the EIberon. has
been named Garfield Place." in honor of the
| late President and cottage colony below is to
be called Garfield by-the-Sea."
The Seventh Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y, is to
make trip to Newport in July. Such theater-
will probably find several Ieutenants similar to
Thorpe S,tyddns among the Seventies officers.
Unruly, disagreeable and impolite beings,
who intend to infiict the resorts this summer
with their presence should ever bear in mind
that true pOiteness is perfect ease and freedom.
1t simply consists in treating others just as you
love to be treated yourself.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars have been ex-
pended by the Stewart estate in further beau
tifying and improving the Grand Union, Sara
toga. which opens in June, with Mr.. Clair in
charge, as usual. 1t is one Of the largest and
handsomest of watering-plac hotels.
The popularity of Long Beach is undeniable
It's attractions as a summer resort multiply each
year, and 30 long as the moneyed aristOcracy
affect it as place of recreation its success is
assured. The great hotel at the place, with its
| addition OF 200 rooms this year, opens early
| next month.