The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-09-03
AN AIeISTOCRATIC RESORT

Newport'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 Astor, Mr.. and Mrs. Pierre
Lorillard, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Goelet
and indeed all the old timers will be
there, but of the class who take 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 nouveaux
riches come to Newport 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 betraying vulgar in
terest. The most curious and outre
equipage, for instance, never startles
them into the slightest manifestation
ofsurprise. Ii q cottage, there chose
to harness up white elephants to his
drag he might parade the main streets
absolutely safe from comment. do
not know of another summer city
where this is true Long Branch ami
Saratoga still retain 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 fhave mentioned
is quite to be expected"
Living III Newport is much more ex-
pcnsive than in New York. The trades.
men there have III many instances &C.
cumulated fortunes. Bateman, who
kept the Newport market, has recently
retired wealthy man. Newport is ia
nous for it's artichokes, it's grapes, it's
asparagus and its roses. Every farmer
has II dollhouse and grows grapes. In
consequence that fruit is very much
cheaper in New York. You can pur-
chase Muscats, Alexandrias and Black
Hamburgs for fifty cents 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 each
other in the production OF fine butter,
Southdown lamb and other essentials
fthe table. Their lighthouses are filled
to Overlooking with peaches, apri.
cots and tropical fruits. Newport
has breed of black turkeys which at
tain usually the very fine weight OF
thirty pounds. The young ones ap-
pear on the September dinner tables,
and chickens dandineaux a la Borde.
laise is everywhere regarded as one of
the features of a stylish dinner. The
entertainments are now much more
pretentious than they were q few years
ago. The Astors, who have been coming
to 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
all Newport has followed the example
thus set. The number of roses used in
garnishing dinner tables is beyond all
calculation. Mr.. Aston bought his
house of the Peruvian Minister Bar.
reada when he came to Newport, He
paid 100000 forit,