The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-09-11
AN A~IsISTOCRATIC RESORT.
N~ewport's Extravaganza and Style In Din.
ners and Entertainments.

N~ewport's Extravaganza and Style In Din.
ners and Entertainments.
New York Mail and Express.
Cottages are not renting rapidly at
Newport, this year." said an old New.
porter. ''Three thousand dollars a
year places are renting for fifteen hun
dred dollars, and the real estate mar
ket is altogether depressed. Mr.. and
Mrs. John Jacob Aston, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Aston, Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre
Lorillnrd, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Goelet
and indeed all the old timers will be
there, but of the class who take a cot
tage for this season and who may be
in Europe or III California next season
there will be very few examples. 1t is
really curious how many n%ouveaux
riches come to Newport year after
Year, try to get into society there,
flll 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 betraying vulgar in
terest. The most curious and outre
equipage, for instance, V startles
them into the slightest manifestation
o%fsurprise. ii IL cottage, there chose
to harness up white elephants to his
drag he might parade the main streets
absolutely safe from comment. l 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 N~ewporters. They have seen more
than Many New Workers, so that
the i%ncuriosity which Ihave mentioned
Is quite TO be expected"
Living in Newport is much more ex-
pensive than inNew York. Thetrades-
men there have in many instances ac-
cumulated fortunes. Bateman, who
kept the Newport market. has recently
retired Il wealthy man. Newport isfa-
nous for its artichokes, it's grapes, it's
asparagus an~ditsroses. Every farmer
has a ~hot-house and grows grapes. In
consequence that fruit is very much
cheaper III New York. You can pur-
chase Muscats, Alexandriasa and Black
Hamburgs for fifty cents a pound.
The asparagus is superior to that of
Oyster Bay. Some years ago August
Belmont, Colonel Warning and. other
wealthy gentlemen established model
farms and have achieved very success
full results. They have We'd with eacl,
other in the production of fine butter,
Southdown lamb and other essentials
ofthe table. 'Theirhothouses are filled
to overt1owing with peaches, april
cots and tropical fruits. Newport
has a breed OF black turkeys which at
tain usually the very fine weight OF
thirty pounds. The young ones APP
pear on the September dinner tables,
and chickens dandineaux a la Borde-
laise is everywhere regarded as one of
the features OF II stylish dinner. The
entertainments are now much more
~pretentious than they were afew years
ago. The Astors, who have been coming
to Newport about seven or eight years,
began the giving Of elaborate dinners
for twenty-five o L thirty people, with
carefully gotten up menu and hand
somely decorated dinner tables. And
all Newport has followed the example
thus set. The number of roses used in
garnishing dinner tablesis beyond all
calculation. Mr.. Astor bought his
house of the Peruvian Minister Bar
reada when he came to Newport. He
paid $2OO,OOOforit.