Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-07-13
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Some Notes of Interest from them

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Fire Island Is already welLnigh crowded.
but, as 1t is place where people come and
20 all the time, accommodations can nearly
always be had.
Since the enlargement, six hundred people
can be accommodated at the Ocean View
Hotel, Block Island, q genuine seaside re-
sort that every successive year grove III ia
vor and popularity. --4 l-..Ir ..
| Polo players will soon commence 10 give
exhibitions at Newport, and the excitement
among their lady friends IL something In
tense. Not TO be polo player at Newport
Is to be little better than dude Of the first
class.
| Large arrival al Saratoga hotels arc re-
ported. The village is all hustle and &C.
tivity, and looks neat, clean and attractive.
Everybody is on the QH rice for the forth
coming races. .'.- -
A. pretty military ceremony at West Point
is guard mount every morning before the
sun has got up too high. There Is always a
number of interested spectators from the
hotel, aud no doubt tho cadets appreciate
folks getting up so early. ..-..
Over ono Thousand summer visitors have
already put in appearance at Narragansott
Pier, and are distributed at the many hotels
and boarding houses that abound there.
Narrangansett would come TO the front more
rapidly IL the Inhabitants were more enter
pfising.
| Pugs arc apparently indispensable to vii
agc cart at Long Branch, and no young
woman's tout ensemble is regarded as com
plete without one Of the ugly little things
sitting next to her on the seat of the two
wheeled cart. 1t is denied that the pug is
used for contrast.
| On the 14th inst. tho National rifles OF
Washington go into quarters at Congress
Hall, Cape May, for two weeks. They will
military swells will have ball given in their
honor, and the band will give series Of
gratuitous lawn concerts.
| Nothing moro fairy like or beautiful can he
imagined than the nightly illumination of
Niagara Falls by electricity, and the sight
alone is worth long journey. 1t is about
the only free exhibition at Niagara, and this,
no doubt, is the reason II is 80 highly appre-
ciated by all visitors.
One of the most attractive features OF the
present season at Manhattan Beach is the
display OF fireworks tri-weekly under the
direction of James Pain OF. London.
| A lawn tennis tournament Is to begin IL,
Newport August 80, and 1t is stated that
some of the finest players in the country will
be there. In September there will be alleg-
ed fox hunt and steeplc chases and other
allied sports to- eeI the young men busy and
tue noble army of cottagers amused.
Newport people are uneasy about the rapid
increase of the liquor traffic ut that place, and
are trying to decide what they had better do
about it. Cottage people have sent to the
board of aldermen remonstrance against the
further encouragement Of the whiskey bust
ness, and the aldermen have put it on ice.
A few days have made great difference in
the condition of matters and things at Sarato.
ga. All is life and activity now, and every
day adds to the number of people at the ho
tells. 1t is the watering place of all others tc
see fashionable life. -.
Seventy-five thousand people are said tc
have enjoyed themselves at Coney Island or
the alleged GLORIOUS Fourth" aud the re-
ceipts at all the hotels were very large. Ii
is easy to see, however, that the quality
of the class of Coney Island patrons hs
considerably changed within the last two Sea
sons.
All the Long Branch hotels are now com
forably filled aud the season is under full
Roadway. Never before lave the accommo
dations been better, aud prices generally ar,
INohoiotSut, nui, Ill SDuoiuSiSui itooUu
able.
There is one thing at Niagara for which NJ
. charge is made, and that is tue nightly illum
ination of the Falls, which is one of the mos
beautiful and fairy-likc scenes that Can b
imagined. 1t breaks the hearts of the nj
agara people to think that the illumination
, cannot be "fcnccd in."
RI Large arrivals arc reported at Lake George
and telegram from the Fort William llenr
Hotel says the people are now coming with
rush. Lake George is not appreciated u
fully as it should be, and very few pcopl
= stay there long enough to enjoy its many at
: fractions.
Narragansettis represented TO be well fl
t vorcd with ten dollar u week boarders VIII
c make fuss enough at the hotels to warrar
{ their paying three times that sum for the
iboard and lodging.