Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-01

Chalmfng Place for the Rfch-The COl- Ored Inhabftants-ProudC COaehmen and
 FOotmen-gprinkIers Needed-ReaI Es- tats-Churches.
 NEWPORT, R. l., June 26. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: Everything nowadays is so full of New port and it's charms that how can the place be anything but an isle of delight? People abroad. writing to friends who happen to be staying at Newport, mention other friends whom they will be sure to meet in the course of the summer. for, they say, ''everybo is sure to como up at Newport" Foreigners who have spent time at Newport dwell upon it's beauties and glories when they return to their native land. Books are written with Newport for title, and even it's proverbial fogs are claimed by fond enthusiasts to have an inspiriting and exhilarating effect. What wfetched and unfashionable taste must that man have who is not at once enraptured with the dear old city. Dare he be so bold and barefaced as to confess that he has failed to appreciate the charm of the Newport fog, coming so often and staying so long ? Dare he admit that he has an ear and soul so un- tuned to harmony that when the fog horn blows and the fog bell rings the whole night through he is not Boothed thereby to gentlest slumbers?
 Coming to Newport very early in the sea- son, have had an opportunity of seeing something of the little city as it is to it's or dinary inhabitants the greater part of the year, and have found it hard to COAX up the proper amount of enthusiasm for 1t as specially enjoyable place of sojourn, even at the height of it's gaisty. have met a good many whose interests and occupation, or studies, have brought them to Newport sew eral summers, and they almost universally consider it a rather humdrum place, except for the wealthy. Those who can occupy choice sites upon the cliffs, keep horses and dogs, indulge in yachting and polo and loung- ing at the Casino, not to speak of the social pleasures of dining lunching, balls and in door and out door parties of every sort, and who delight in all these, may well call New port charming. But others of simpler tastes may find, it seems to me, within an hours drive of their own homes, many spot equal ly charming. Admission to the fashionable Casino for the short season of about three months is twenty five dollars, and for sim gle day one dollar. To the polo games there is, of course. charge for admission, but, fortunately for plebeians, there Is what Is called Dead head hill,'' just adjoining the polo ground, where they can sit on the rocks under the trees and watch the games free gratis.
 What used to be the Newport Academy of Music, just of Tonro street, is now occupied as 8 meeting house by the colored people. It is an immense room, and such an assembly of colored people as is there to be found of Sunday evening is rare to see, and the sing ing of this large congregation Is really flne The perfect time and the rich volume Of sound that rolls out in the sweet old we'll known tunes is often absolutely thrilling Newport is certainly the place, par excellence, for solored people, and their style and airs are simply captivating Very many of them come on from Baltimore to summer at New port knew some one who wanted cook a few days ago for private family A motherly y-looking colored woman just arrived from Baltimore, was the first to apply. She said she didn't know much about the hifalu- tins. but she guessed she could suit any body for good, plain cooking. Seven dollars week was her price, she said. and she "wouldn't 90 for a cent less than SIX dollars anyhow" The same family have since hired three colored servants, and they all turn out to have just come from Baltimore. It seems to be the opinion here that colored help are more willing to make themselves generally useful than white help, who are apt to demur 8. doing anything that isn't their special part A funny story is told, however, Of an old nanny from the South. She was set to making the beds "Oh, I never do dat, she exclaimed. "Well, who made the beds down where you carue from f'' ssJulie, she used to do dat.' Well, did you sweep and dust off the furniture ?" "Oh, no, Sally she did dat" "Well, what did you do? What was your particular part in the old home that you talk 30 much about ?" q used to keep the flies of de old missus"
 The fashion in coachmen and footmen seems to be for white men rather than col ored made the remark the other day that <; mar nhlIORd narAd6 about in tall hats and screwed up in white cloth pantaloons, but was told that they con sidered it their badge of nobility and actually talked down to persons of ordinary conol- tion. No establishment Is at all complete unless it disports both driver and footman in white cloth brooches. But some do say among themselves that Newport is ''too aw- fully swell"
 The dust upon the roads in the envlrons of Newport has been so stifing of late as to in spire me with an idea which l should like to get patented. It is that every vehicle of any sort whatever be obliged by law to furnish itself with a sprinkler attachment, for why should not the ones that raise the dust be the ones to do the sprinkling? Between the hours of three and six on 8 recent Sun day afternoon 496 teams were reported to have passed certain point on Broadway of this place, going in the direction of One Mile Corner. If each of those 496 vehicles had done it's share in the way above suggest ed the road would have been for miles de- liehtfuIly watered. It may be objected that every body here has to s'come down with the dust" quite enough now.
 I saw Mr. Bancroft, the venerable histori an, few days ago riding horseback on the beach, accompanied by his handsome mulat- to footman MT. Bancroft is enthusiastically fond of the culture of roses, and he has most exquisite rose garden, one of the finest to be found anywhere He lives five months of the year at Newport end the rest of the year at Washington.
 The places here for sale or to rent seem innumerable, and many of them have the signs of three or four different real estate agents nailed to the fences. Not long since the boys played 8 mischievous joke on the agents by changing the signs in the night, and not only changing them about, but put ting up many of them upon places that were not for sale, and the poor agents had time of it getting things lighted. Very genial and popular gentleman are the real estate jokes and pranks. Prices for cottages are much higher than was expected by parties who came to Newport with the intention of buying know of a gentleman who came here a month ago with the expectation ot finding modest house with door yard and a bit of lawn for about ten thousand dollars This gentleman has offered seventeen thou sand dollars for two different places, neither of which contained more than hundred and fifty feet front and less depth, and cottage thereon, the same not being in the most de- sirable part of Newport, and neither of these offers was accepted, 50 that the gentleman making them has hired house for the sea- son and deferred buying til property is low CT. Another gentleman who offered twenty thousand dollars for an old place really worth about half that sum, and whose offer was not accepted, has gone to Europe without buy ing. But these very high prices will proba- ply have to come down, for many houses are renting very low this season. know of furnished house which has rented as high some years as seventeen hundred dollars for the four summer months, that rents this summer for eight hundred.
 But to leave the subject of houses and re- vert fer a moment to the subject of church. es From chance allusion to Old Trinity in Lathrop's Newport" one would be likely to fancy said church to be venerable stone edifice, and it's adjacent burying ground shady, contemplstige spot. But the reality proves to be wooden building of very sim pie form, painted white, with green blinds and tall, pointed spire, and standing upon the corner of two narrow, unattractive, tree less streets, and in the midst of mean and