Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-08-18
HOW WOMEN Battle.
INTERESTING EPISODES AT SOME
OF OUR SEASIDE RESORTS.
Charming Miss Garrison's Shit
Coney Islands Mermaids-A
Long Branch Baroness.

suit, even to the ribbon that winds about
her charming head and protects the blonde
hair from struggling contact with the
salt waves. She looked quite charming as
/ watched her on the sands, after her maid
had relieved her of her wraps, lying full
length beneath Il vigorous sun, while de-
voted cousin shielded her from it's too
ardent rays by throwing bulwarks of sand
upon her. Miss Garrison chooses white
for her dress and heightens it by an enor-
nous bouquet of white flowers.
Vanderveer's bathing pavilion at Coney
Island has been sold for $73, $50. Under
the reign of Mrs Vanderveer this place
attained celebrity. Her husband was we'll
known in Brooklyn, and kept a hotel at
the island. He had trouble and his bust
ness was placed in his wife's hands. She
doomed up the bathing end CT it, and with
her two daughthers sold tickets for rooms
and suits,to the struggling mob that pat
ronized the place. The Misses Wander
yeer are handsome girls of the voluptuous
type, with a penchant for diamonds and
other precious stones, which they wear in
unstinted profusion and with the grace of
long association with such trihes. When
they become patrons of their own estab-
hshment the enthusiasm they kindle along
the beach Is extreme, for the conformation
of their construction is well displayed to
the unregenerate.
There is quite an undertow at Long
Beach, and bathing there, although al
ways delightful, is sometimes dangerous.
The other day, when | was taking an easy
afternoon of it on the sands, putting medi-
tatively at a solacing weed, caught sight
OF charming woman, who was apparently
determined that the waves should not take
her fair body out to sea, and cast it into
the mouths of big and little fishes. Her
husband, rotund, happy-faced, stalwart
individual, whose face is as familiar on
Wall street as it is plain on these pages,
was holding tightly to strong rope,
which was fastened to the tapering waist
of his charming spouse. l rather envied
him the job and the contact even at the
end of a rope several feet long, for the
lady filled my mind with admiration.
While the undertow at Long Beach is a
trife strong, | think, however, that its
dangerous qualities have been greatly ex-
aggerated. | have bathed there frequently
myself, and have never hem conscious of
the outward flow. The beach is usually
very much frequented, and the bathing
goes on without interruption.
There is photographer at Rock Island,
an Arab named Dougan, who makes his
stand upon the beach and catches the
bathers in their unguarded moments. He
has some very interesting negatives inter
esting, that is, to the wicked and lustful
outsider. He shows, with considerable
semblance Of secrecy, the flying trip of
stout lady boarder at the Spring House,
whose blouse was SO irremediably split by
the surf that she knew her only safety lay
in hasty speed to the bath-house and per-
NIT the crowd merely passing and light
ming glimpse of her rudy skin. But she
went too close to the camera and the sun
caught her, caught her on her most excit-
ing side, and caught her with such faith
fulness that not only her face is life itself.
but her figure is easily recognizable. 1t is
this eccentric photography that makes Mr..
Dougan's establishment popular with many
of the bathers. So many Young ladies
with PLAIN faces and magnificent develop
ment otherwise have taken advantage of
the license OF a bathing suit to indelibly
make known their attractions, that it has
become almost a craze.
1t is great mistake about it not being
fashionable TO battle at Newport Any fair
day one will see the beach crowded with
all the heavy swells. / spent few hours
there one morning last week, and the in
closure for carriages was literally packed
with people in all sorts of fashionable
vehicles. Among those on that day | saw
Mrs Vanderbilt, Mrs. DR.. VIM Hamilton.
with her friend, Miss Craven of New York,
who is visiting her, and William Apple
ton, with his two lovely children. The
afternoons are spent in riding and driving,
and the evenings are rather dull, as there
are only a few small dinner parties going
on at present. Every one is looking for
ward to Mr.. Van Aliens grand garden
party, which rumor says comes off in
August. Mrs. Swan see has had her new
cards printed, which bear her maiden
name. She is much of favorite and has
given several small luncheons. Her former
husband will give Newport wide berth at
this season, at all events.
a conspicuous and interesting figure at
Long Branch this season is q certain very
pretty Baroness, whose handsome husband
and army OF well-bred dogs make her the
observed of all observers. 1t is an agree
able sight to see her, rugged out in very
becoming bathing costume, scamper down
the beach followed by grand army of
small CANNES, each anxious to please, and
obedient to the instructions which put
them through variety of antics. l caught
sight of the Baroness the other day when
in the midst of her daily amusement-al-
though | must confess she had chosen
rather an isolated spot for the perform
ance. She is strikingly good-looking
woman, with pretty blonde hair and
taille which sets all the other women at
the beach wild with envy. know nothing
that keeps the village in a more constant
state of excitement than the presence of
this lady. l must admit, however, that it
is most pleasing excitement, and the at
tention she receives is born of nothing but
the most profound admiration.-Irmk.