Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-08-24
THE SUMMER RESORTS.
Notes aud q ossip for tho stny.a,-Hon


President Eliot says mount Desert" But
the Harvard professor Of rhetoric says
mount Desert"
Long Branch continues crowded, but au
other week will begin 10 thin out
the multitude there and give the hotel
keepers chance to turn round and figure
up about how much profit will be theirs this
year.
In comparison with former seasons, Sara
toga is very dull aud quiet. There seems
no disposition for gaycty and at the
hotels people sit around all day rs il
they had received an invitation to a fu-
neral.
All decent people have come to the con-
clusion that there is too much gambling at
Long Branch. No less than five gambling
houses are In full blast in open violation OF
alleged local laws.
at used to be simply no mosquitoes
on the summer hotel advertisement, but
now II Is mo flies," mo mosquitoes"
mo malaria" ''no hay fever" and "no
frogs" This is an age when Bonifaccs ''strike
the Tyre"
1t may or may not be n significant fact
that the most elegantly and deliberately
dressed ladies at the summer resorts this
year are Jewcsses. Their diamonds alone
represent about two hundred national
banks.
From Saratoga there now comes informa.
ton of change for the better in the condi-
ton of things, as there is a good prospect for
the balance of the month, allowing for any
thing like seasonable weather
Going up and down Mount Washington on
bicycles seems to be the correct thing just
now, especially among Boston's athletic
young men who are not avcrse to seeing their
names published in the newspapers,
| A fashionable woman at Newport, long
noted for her social courage and eccen-
| lricity, attended q dinner party the other
| day to which she had not been invited.
The hostess made the best of it, but oh
how she talked when the unlimited guest
left.
| Gambling is one of the chief night recrea-
tiors of q majority of the men who frequent
Long Branch, and the several "club houses
are doing a land.oilice business. Thousands
of dollars change hands every night, and
there is something like 80 per cent. in favor
of the Club house" all the time.
Mrs. A. j. Mercer of Philadelphia, guest
at the Dennis Cottage, Atlantic city, N. j.,
has given 1926, 900 to be used as foundation
fund for seashore home at that place for
invalid women. Scarcely hotel there has
failed to realize q considerable sum of money
already this season by informal parlor enter.
taDments for the benefit of this and the
Children's Scashore Home.
AT Quebec the picturesque garb of the
men among the summer visitors is said to be
noticeable. One, for instance wore cream
colored flannel trousers, bound at the waist
by broad vivid-blue belt, short cut-away
black coat, a cream-colored flannel shirt laced
with blue, and cream-coloIed felt hat with
a large poppy embroidered on the crown.
He was u gigantic fellow, and looked par
ticularly handsome in his fantastic rig.
Long Branch, on Long Island, Is suggest
i've of nothing more, and needing nothing
more than the view which is unfolded froul
the broad piazza of the hotel itself-white
sand that glistens with snowy lustre for sew.
en- miles along curved beach, so hard at
low tide that the jaintily rihboned sandals
leave no imprint upon it, fretted with the
creamy crest of the breakers, and beyO nd
the free expanse of the waters extending tc
where the blue of sea and sky blend into one
along the horison.
Blue Mountain Lake is the headwaters OF
the magnificent chain OF lakes and rivers
flowing through large portion of the region
known as the Great North Woods, and final
ly Joining the waters of the st. Lawrence.
Looming up apparently from the bosom OF
the lake is Blue Mountain, magnificent
elevation three thousand eighr hundred and
twenty-four feet high, covered with forest
groves of ash, beech, birch, maple evergreel a,
orr,icc and fir, whose dark leaves miugling
together give to the mountain that peculiar
color from, which il derives its name. From
the top of Blue Mountain no less than six
teen lakes can be seen on clear day, and
the summit is accessible by bride patti
leading up from the lake.
There is talk of making the Catskills Q
winter resort. 1t s said that the tempera-
ture, though cold, is even and steady There
are no thaws, the wind only occasionally
amounts to gale, and the clear, rarifed at.
mosphcrc, it is commended, would be speci-
fic for bronchial and lung troubles.
As in former seasons knee brooches are
feature at Mount Desert. A quite common
costume for the young men, ard handsomely
indeed does i, set them OFF, with stockings
and blous, coat of wooden goods in grays
and blues. The girls generally dress in gay
colored. tightly fitting Jerseys flannel skirts
generally of white; tcHnia or updresset
erther shoes, and jaunty hats or caps of al
shades and colors. Occasionally worship
or at fashions shrine hides her face from
the sun by a veil and parasol, but the girls
generally exhibit their compilations, which
|, the sea breczes and sun have painted will
the bright, healthy color which nature alone
eau give Among the new cottages which
attract attention by thor expensivepcss II
that of Mrs. Bowler of Cincinnati, costing
about hundred and fifty thousand dollars
The chateau" erected by the Chicago mil
: lionaire, William b. Howard, is even NOR
costly.
Block Island is most popular with that in
creasing class of far inland visitors who's
only acquaintance with the ocean is game,
during The weeks of their summer VACATION
writes correspondent. Coming from TN
shadow of the Rocky Mountains or the BLU
Ridge, one naturally seeks the ocean rathc
, than the hills Hence many Southern ant
Western visitors are at Block Island, al
though New York, New Haven, Hartford
and Providence arc well represented. Ma
+ ture seems to have designed the island TO
the former class its characteristics are en-
tirely nautical. Visitors remember it as
; mere speck on the ocean thirty miles out Il
5 sea, wrapped sometimes for days together il
dense ocean mists, its cliffs forever being dc
r voured by foaming breakers, aud its tradi
pendent on the sea.
The physical aspects of the island are pc
culiarly novel and picturesque these is n
bit Of land like it, except possibly the high
lands Of Montauk, Just opposite, which, b!
the way, old fishermen assert were once con
tinuous with the island; reef OF rocks nov
extending in unbroken line from one to tn
, other. There is scarcely level space OF
Block Island; where one hill ends anothe
begins, and the greatest problem with tn
landlords has been where TO find sites TO