Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-06-11
AN AR1srooRATIo RESORT.
Newport's Extravaganza and style-itS
Dinners and other Entertainmehls-
soclety Lehdera.


Dinners and other Entertainments
Society Leaders.
From the Ven York AClH and ErDfess.
Cottages are not renting rapidly at
Newport this year" said an old New
porter. "Three thousand dollars year
places are renting for $1,000, and the real
estate market is altogether depressed. Mr..
and Mrs John Jacob Ast0T, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Astor. Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre Loril-
lard. AR. and Mrs. Robert Goelet. and in
deed all the old-timers VIII be there, but
of the class who take a cottage for this
season and who may be in Europe or IN
California next season, there viii be very
few examples. II is really curious how
many nouve8uX riches come 10 New
port year after year, try to get into society
there, fail to do so and never
come again. The natives Of Newport are
certainly educated TO the point where
they look upon any freak OF fashion
without betraylng vulgar interest. Inc
most curious and outre equipaQe, for
instance, never startles them into the
slightest manifestation OF surprise. II a
cOtt2ger there chose To harness up white
elephants to his drag he might parade the
main streets absolutely safe from com
ment. I do not know Of another summer
city where this is true. Long Branch
and Saratoga still retain a moral flavor
and their inhabitants still smack OF the
plowed fields. At Newport there are
fashionable people all the year round.
There is no development of fashionable
life which is not familiar to Newporters.
They have seen more than many New
Workers, so that the incuriosity which |
have mentioned is quite to be expected
Living in Newport is much more eX-
pensite than in New York. The trades
men there have in many instances ac-
cumulated fortunes. Bateman, who kept
the Newport market, has recently retired
a wealthy man. Newport is famous tor
its artichOkes, its grapes, its asparagus
and its roses. Every farmer has hot
house and grows grapes. In consequence,
that fruit is very much cheaper than IN
New York. You can purchase Muscatee,
AleXandrias and black Hamburgs for 90
cents pound. The asparagus Is su-
periOr 10 that Of Oyster Bay. some years
ago August Belmont, Col. Warning and
other wealthy gentlemen established
model farms, and have achieved very sue
cesstul results. They have Wed with each
other in the production Of fine butter,
SOutbdOwn lambs aud other essentials
Of the table. Their bot houses are
filed to overlooking with peaches, april
cots and tropical fruits. Newport has
breed OF black turkeys which attain
usually the very fine weight Of thirty
pounds. The young ones appear on the
September dinner tables, and chickens
dandineauX a la Bordelaise is everywhere
regarded as one OF the features OF a stylish
dinner. The entertainments are now
much more pretenttOus than they were
few years ago. The AstOrs, who have
been coming 70 Newport about seven or
eight years, began the giving OF elaborate
dinners for twenty-five or thirty people,
with carefully gotten up menus and hand
sOmely decorated dinner tables. And ali
Newport has followed the example thus
set. The number of roses used in gar
nishing dinner tables is beyond all calcu-
lation. Mr. Aston bought his house OF the
Peruvian Minister Barreada when he
came to Newport. He paid 5000, 600 for it.