Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-06-30

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The season q Little Slovv-Gen. Grant
and His Stable-Tired OF MansfOns-
/ C00mOdOre Gaxris0n,s u nm IN Q r.
Spring Lake vislters-PersOnal Mas-
| sers-Weddinxs- George w. ChiIas,
Horace White, Senator Jones. Etc.
| Special Correspondence Of THE EVENING srAR
LONG BRANCH, June g.
The weather was pleasanter the morning left
Washington there than at any place found
along the route until came here, where 1t was
80 cool that shawl became necessary as soon
as the sun went down, and since came have
several times walked in the sun for mile at
high noon without suffering at all with heat.
The atmosphere has been perfectly clear and the
sea still aud skies cloudless on some days this
week, and by consequence Long Branch in all
its several divisions never looked more beauti.
| full.
The cool weather, lasting 80 late into the
hpring. has Aelst the watering place season back
II ald6ven hong Branch. whose season begins
earlier than at most resorts is not filing up as
rapidly as usual, but by the Sd Of July it will
i.base a,Very large company. General and Mrs.
\ Gfneeatid not come to their cottage until this
dHseeh nfe0Rn6e he has been building new and
livery hlgoaBtable, which was not completed in
| time for him to come earlier, since he did not
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| entity.
Judging from the size of the stable. which is
very much larger than his old one he means to
have more horses here than usual this season.
it IS very plain, square frame stable, with a
loft over 1t, and not Ornamented in any way as
are so many Of the stables here. For as the
| dwellings are placed on the bluff with only a
lawn between them and its edge, the stables
| nave to be as near as possible to Ocean avenue,
| the grand drive. Wherefore being so conspcu-
| GUS. they are often ornate fho 6u,ollinpc
MIR. Childs always has flowers in red pots on the
railing around the upper story Of his stable,
Just as he has along the balconies Of his house.
Hydrangeas, whose bright colors look very
pretty, indeed, against the dark houses and
| green lawns, seem to be in the ascendancy for
| such decoration here this season.
| AS his house is one of the largest and most
| snowy here, Commodore Garrison's stable is one
| OF the most ornate in It's architecture of any
| along Ocean avenue.
COTTAGE LIFE.
| But it really seems that no sooner do rich
| people get splendid mansion anywhere than
| they begin to grow restless and prefer to be
anywhere else rather than in it. Commodore
Garrison talks of spending most of his summer
at Saratoga, where he will, instead of having a
big luxurious house of his own, have four
small rooms, called by courtesy "a cottage at
| hotel and pay $2S per day for himself and his
wife and her sister, who, as Mrs. Garrison is
| delicate, always lives with her to share with her
| the duties of waiting on the Commodore, who
is often Ill. If they take their horses, carriage
| and cOachman to Saratoga with them, as they
will do If they stay there any length of time,
| the expense will be between SIS and $50 per
day. Commodore Garrison has been detained
| in New York, despite the heat there, by mere
| trife-a law suit pending against him for such
! pittance as $1,000, 600. He does not feel quite
equal to going from Long Branch daily, at his
age, to attend to this business and returning
every evening, so remains in town. keeping his
| wife and her sister, Miss Lille Randall, there
with him. while her parents are at the cottage
here putting it In order for the CommOdore's
Occupany, whenever he chooses to come down.
THE NEW CASINO.
| The Casino, which is being built by subscri-
bers among the families owning cottages here,
Is situated on the west side Of Ocean avenue;
that Is to say, the side away from the sea, among
| those of the Elberon cottages which are on that
side Of the drive. 1t will be fitted up as resort
for ladies as well as gentlemen, so card-playing,
except purely social game Of whist or enchre.
| or some such nOn-gambling game will be strictly
prohibited. There will be a bowling alley and
| billiard room, and on the first floor theater for
| amateur theatricals. On the second floor will
| be reading and conversation room as rem
| devious for ladies'
| SPRING LAKE.
Spring Lake. near here, will as usual be the
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in Washington. Mrs. Taylor, Of Capitol Hill,
and her daughter and sister, Miss E. G. Smith,
and their friend, Miss Thompson, of Cincinnati.
all expect to 60 there soon to spend the sum-
mer, having been much pleased during previous
visits. Miss Lou Taylor and Mr.. Stevens will be
| married In Washington early in the autumn and
will then go to Batopilas, Mexico.
| Mr.. Logan Murray, the cashier Of the United
| States National Bank, in New York, is In Cot
"a or 1olxn h hio mill, boo 1oo
| was last year.
Gen. Van Vliet and his son and wife. who are
| very delightfully."- located at Shrewsbury often
| come to Long Branch to sec their friends. The
distance Is short enough for pleasant drive
| but trains are very frequent between the two
places.
| AT THE WEST END.
The wife and daughter Of ex- Senator Mitchell
Of Oregon, and the first wife of the late Cen
Phil. Kearney, and her son, Mr.. John Watts
Kearney, formerly Of Louisville, are at the West
End hotel for few days.
| Miss Mitchell, regret to say, suffers greatly
| from rheumatism, young as she Is, and on that
account she will soon accompany her mother to
! Richfield springs, to take regular course of
the sulphur baths there.
| Mrs. Kearney and her son and his family and
| a married daughter and her family are spending
the summer at Cape May where she was before
coming here, and whittier she will go again to-
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expects to 90 toEurepe towards the close of the
summer. Though upwards Of sixty years DID,
she is still strikingly handsome, having an
almost faultless complexion and a thick suit of
silver hair.
| The widow Of the late George G.. Presbury is
living very quietly, indeed. in rer cottage adj
| joining the West End hotel, and her niece Mrs
Van Bibber. of Baltimore. is with her. All who
come to Long Branch express their grief for the
loss of Mr.. Presbury, who for thirteen years was
one of the most Jealous and enterprising work
ers for the advancement Of the place.
Mr.. d. NJ. Hildreth has all his family who have
been in Europe for two years, with him here
/ now. .tle- -
The wife and family Of the late Mr. William
Garrison, who died last summer after the acct
dent on the railroad between here and New
York, on June 10Th, are in Europe, and, it seems,
do not desire to live in their cottage here again.
| for they are Offering it tor sale or rent They
had lived in it only about two weeks when Mr..
Garrison died. and it cost nearly 100000.
The Francklyn cottage at the Elberon hotel is
| rented to Mr.. Augustine Smith, of New York.
| who is occupying 1t with his family. This is the
| cottage In which Gen. Garfield died. which a
false report says has never been used since It
was occupied by this family last summer also
| Mr.. ChildS only arrived this week which was