Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-28
uFR AT NEWPORT.
lGeorRe Alfred Townsend IN Cincin-
natl Enquirer.

Newport. II. I. This 10 perhaps the
stupidess place of q reputation along
the - coast Of the United States.
Nasufe has done every thing to make Il
beautiful. Suobbery and stupidity
have sacrificed its beauties and turned
into Q sounding formality what might
have been q common meeting place OF
New York and Boston and the coomo-
politan world.
No town has had % much written
about il ~ Newport, and none 90 CON-
plstely stupefes not only visitors, but
apparently it, residents also. There is
but one hotel in the town with an as
sumpsion Of being irst-class, and it
stands lust on the edge of the cottage or
villa district, and also removed from
the business and citizen quarter, and
here block or two of stores have been
put up containing such matters as the
cottagers may want, such as confecticn-
cry, bakeries, trimmings, drug store
and four or i've shops for bric-a- brae,
china and contemporary ornamentatlon
to suit the present day. Along this
block or tvo the visitor wa1ders, peep
ing into the same store again and again,
and be finally comes to the conclusion
that nearly all the people in the town
are dead, and that they are allowed to
break their spell about an hour IN the
afternoons and come forth corpses and
ride about until they get their flgnal
some way or other, and then glide back
into their graves, and SO must expiate
in the present the sins of the SUM uler
season in weird past. II has been re-
marked that the faces of these people
as they ride are screwed up into death
IA MT af
forts to make perfect imitation of the
latest English pronunciation, and at
the same time to hold their eye glasses
in the socket of their eyes, they seem
to exercise all their permitted vitality
to walk abroad. As they pass the Ocean
more corpse-Iike than ever, as If some
special curse lay in wait for them there.
A CLASSY film comes over their eyes,
their ohins lengthen ont, they look
neither to the left or right, and the word
seems to pass along the dead line:
"Yonder is a Publican sitting on the
hotel porch; thank God We are not as
he is."
On the other hand, the publicans are
extremely miserable, as can be noticed
when yeu look through the dining room
at the listless walters, all negroes, who
seem to have become stupe6ed at the
sight of those daily corpses going past,
and they have reached the extreme
hight of forgetfulness in a darkey
waiter. Ever since the close of the war
the negro has been losing his memory.
Fifteen years ago he could bring you an
| order of Eve dishes. He glided back
| until it was beyond his power to re-
member more than three dishes of the
same order, and saw the stupendous
performance at Newport of q waiter at
supper actually forgetting an order OF
one dish. Being told to bring Geld roast
beef he brought cold corn beef, and
when sent back returned with cold
chicken. The head waiter or the as
sistant head waiter "a it may have been
seemed to me to be wholly outside OF
his wits. People would complain at
the table Of imperfect serving; that
they got nothing that they ordered, and
net much that they did not o.deY; the
assistant head waiter would walk to the
sill of the kitchen, look in with his
mouth open as il he were afraid tC
enter. walk back q few steps and looh
tim0rously at the offended guests, theI
i
head waiter, and 80 the solemn Zero
the two days ] stayed there. / could
attribute all this absence Of mind tc
nothing but highly artificial conditions
has put il In the mind of man to do no.
body at Newport lnnst do. Nature has
made the two excellent beaches, one in
/ ~ pkSAWoav n nr><><2 -;kh .
6ne hard bottom, splendid surf, and nc
undcrtow; but when you 90 to The
beach you see begRarly array Of serv-
dence putting on bathing suits FOL
which they charge from u cents to q
cents, - il the yawnine chasm between
Democracy and aristoeraoy at New
pors nobody outside Of the high worlG
dared charge enough for any thing. /,
On the otner hand. the Newport higl
toned people seem 70 spend their day
driving wagons which no respectabl,
man brought mp to the light American
wagon would be seen conducting. You
will observe some young fellow with {
high two wheeled cart which seems &
most Of the time, desperately endeavor
ing to drive his lady up Bellevue ave
nue., and little funky, overdressed il
bcckskins and yellow CLOTHES, will b.
solemnly sticking on behind, all O
them looking az If there were invisibl,
no0ses around their necks and the,
were presently going to be swung uI
like Major Andre whom the cart &
pulled away from under them. Thos'
who do not have high carts ride in wha
appear to 30 Vanished dry goods boxes
suspended low to the ground. and like
wise two wheeled. These things the.
call cottage carts, and You can see tWl
women irving TO Londonize il with al
their might. timorously going behini
some little mare or pony and apinQ tn
motions OF buying . carrot or half ,
cabbage ut some of the small stores II
the town.
Now and them you zee q woman en-
deavoTing to drive . pair Of horses, AMI
dorful to bahold. She has been toll
that al high bred women graduate b,
driving . pair, and you can 80 III
edQe of the little lanes a. madam turn
and che, with that corpse like oounten
nore pallid b. human fear, proceeds
sort Of xia-mQ down tho avenue, Ia
horsse themselves somewhat awed. b.
!. Lvendsging What they have got behin'
then and Why Il u 90. .Undoobtedl
The air at Newport b - Ane q one oai
81 q q ~ seaside IL this country. bu
, even lam6ent and genial cir, With u
,, sosiAbility In Il, soon besomes foreigl
cir. and everybody that breathos
: seems 10 b In exile in his own country
That The viees do not depart frou
Newport beoause Of tho extent Of th
style there u evident in the evening"
when, b. pairs, you will find what lool
, 70 b tho nursemaids Of these exolusiy
families stealing through the town on
aly street walk, resolved even ct the e.
psnse Of virtue 70 break through tn
yoke Of AID elton which weighs on theu
ell day.
Il went 70 - the QamA OF polo playe,
J at the Newport grounds, and With
friend leaped into an omnibus and rod
10 within quarter of q mile or 20 o
the plaoe, and, seeing most of the peopl
turning into . piece Of woods, We fol
lowed them. imagining that il was th
way to the gate where We should pay on
entrance fee. But Ne suddenly foun,
ourselves emerging upon high plat
| fnpun NJ rsSoka nusfa outci6a ~ thn ~.