Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-27

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There is represented great demand for
hotel accommodations at the seaside re-
sorts along the New England coast. The
seasons prospect is AS fair as that from
the Rigi.
What are the Long Branch authorities |
going to do about Ocean Avenues II is
in an absolutely disgraceful condition
now, and dangerous for both houses and
pedestrians.
Block Islands well-known Ocean View
Hotel opens next month, and q visit there
is very good substitute for an ocean
voyage with all its advantages and none
of the discomforts.
English noblemen who are TO make
'return" visits to Newport people this
season, will be due in July, unless they
are detained at home by possible circus
among the Ulster men.
Virginia Sulphur Springs come into
notice two months hence when the +. i.
v. congregats there in Heirloom finery"
| TO discuss nature and current events in
leisurely southern style.
Amateur photographers are to hold an
| outdoor convention at Watkins Glen in
August, and nature, as we'll as any brides
that happen TO bearound, are to be took"
by instantaneous process.
Hacks made ut the time Of the suffer-
ings of the early Christians, to which are
attached horses believed to have been in
the ark, are already ''out" in Long Branch
in charge of tramp Jehus.
Asbury Park and Ocean Grove will
again draw the line at indecent and i'm
moral bathing costumes, no matter who
the wearers may be. 1.-The ''nudity craze"
is not cultivated down there.
Churches of all denominations at sum
mer resorts await the influx Of city people
to replenish the ecclesiastical treasury by
means of fairs, tableaux and warm
wrestles with cold ice cream.
One of the pleasant pecularities of Long
Beach is that ii is always cool. No mat
ter how hot the days or nights may be in
town, fresh sea breezes are perpetual
there. This is "frozen fact!"
A charming sheet of water is the lake
in front of the Argyle, at Babylon, L. l.,
not too deep for safety of children, but
deep enough for sailing and boating of
the best and most enjoyable kind.
Applications for accommodations at the
Clarendon, Saratoga, are increasing with
significant rapidity, assuring crowded
house. The Clarendon's shady grounds
are very strong recommendation.
GOOD wine needs no bush, and the
Ocean House, Newport, requires nc
endorsement. II opens next month
under the old management, reiitted and
additionally attractive in every way.
There is no little rejoicing at Newport
because of the defeat of The project fol
"horrid horse cars The idea of such {
city convenience is exceedingly repulsiv'
to the noble army of cottage people.
Stockbridge, Pittsfeld and Lenox, al
j more or less "Berkshirehillish, appea
to the conservative and anxious.to-be
exclusive social elements, who have tn
wherewithal to crafty their wishes.
The Duke of Newcastle and party, 500
to arrive i'll this country, and the En-
peror of Brazil's grandson, now in Nel
Orleans, will be among the enrly arrival
|, at the Clifton House, Niagara Falls.
II the advertisements are to be credited
the resorts where hay fever is 'positivel
IA cured" have multiplied since last yea
These are places referred to in the hymn
"There'll be no more sneezing there"
Among the features of the season
the new resort, Lake Hopatcong, N. J
where the beautiful Hotel Breslin Ii
n, been built, will be the encampment
: Company A, First Regiment of New Jerse
Under the proprietorship of Murray
Nutter, of the Sherwood House, Eff
avenue, season of marked brillian
and success is assured ut the Manhanst
House, Shelter Island, so favorably know
Rockets calling attention TO the Tho
sand Islands are already going up. La
year the hotels thereabouts did not ma
money enough to pay the national del
but better things are hoped for Il
season.
The new Stevens House, Lake Plac
. Adirondacks, is pronounced by tho
who have seen it to be an exceptions
handsome and thoroughly modern hou
superior to all others in that section
the country.
Interest in the new hotel at New Il
don, the Fort Griswold, increases as
time for its opening draws near. L
located ON Eastern Point stands on
torical ground, and is eminently mod,
in everything.
In anticipation of the beginning of
polo season at Newport, the local DIR
gists are laying in tons of sticking {
court plaster and lint, and oceans
arnica and iodine. Heroes are made
Newport out of fellows crippled at pC
0. Narragansett hotels have never been
pensive, and this year will be less so Il
usual, for the bonifacial idea is to ''p
ularizen the resort by offering low ri
for good accommodations. II is an exp
ment that ought to operate successful
"What funny things we see" to qr
Dixey, in some summer hotel advert
ments. For example, the Starr King
House, Jefferson, N. H., card rea
"Perfect drainage, roller skating i
connected" Is there not some etel
lad. fitness between roller skating and dr.
age?"
They claim to have discovered
mineral spring at Richfeld, and the Il
paper has exhausted all its display
in describing its really wonderful C
tive properties. II is so full of sulp
that hotel toothpicks once tipped in n
magnificent parlor matches that chi
used over and over again.