The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-08-14
AT THE SUMNER RESORTS.

Men are scarce at all the resorts.
The mammoth Saratoga trunk has gone out
of style.
The tide of travel has set in toward the
mountains
Bar Harbor's floral boat parade will take
place Aug. II.
The tremendous exodus to Europe has hurt
the summer hotel business.
The fad at Schooley's Mountain is to take
horseback ride before breakfast.
A swordfsh that weighed 500 pounds was
captured last week off Stonington.
Twenty-six thousand people hired bathing
suits at Atlantic City in one day recently.
The crowds at Coney Island this season are
small as compared with the crowds of former
years.
A Chicago syndicate is said to be purchasing
land at Sturgeon Bay for summer resort pur-
poses.
The Hollywood road, fashionable driveway
at Long Branch, is made of pulverized blue
stone.
Remarked Mrs Prude: "The bathing dresses
are so short now they almost take ones breath
away"
Old settlers on Block island say they never
knew bluefish to be plentiful they are
this year.
There is not one summer hotel in forty that
has had TO turn people away this summer for
lack of room.
Visitors have registered at Chautauqua Lake
this year from every state in the Union, and
from twelve or more foreign countries
West Baden and Lake Maxinkuckee are
| crowded, principally with Indiana people, and
of these, large number are from Indianapolis.
Down at Atlantic City they call the young
women who put on bathing suits only to prom
euade in them, exhibition" or beach" bath
| ers
Millions of Portuguese men-of-war illuminate
! the sea around Block Island at night time with
/ their glow-worm-like light. 1t is a very pretty
/ sight.
An important stage coach-English, you
| know-makes three trips a week between the
Sycamore and Fl. William Henry hotels Lake
| George.
There vii be an out-of.door presentation of
the garden scene from Faust" on t he grounds
| of the charming Wissahickon Inn, near Phila-
| delphia, Aug. %.
| Last years dude has bloomed into this years
"girly boy" individual who wears corsets,
bright colored sash and effeminste articles of
| adornment on neck, wrists and feet
The "blazer" dance is popular at some of the
hotels where heretofore full dress only has
been countenanced at the hops and balls. The
blazer is cooler and more picturesque than the
claw-hammer.
The tenth annual meeting OF the American
! canoe association will be held on Stone island
/ IN tne LAWRENCE river from aug. ~ 10 Is.
/ 1t is expected that over thousand amateur
canoeists will attend.
a syndicate, composed largely of stockhold-
/ ers in the Chesapeake Il Ohio railroad, has
! purchased the Virginia warm springs, and will
| expend large sum of money in their develop
ment. The springs possess medicinal qualities
of high order.
| One dashing belle has created a sensation by
appearing on the piazza of fashionable hotel
| wearing yellow belt fastened around her
waist with diamond buckle The belt and
| buckle would probably not have excited COM
ment we're it not for the fact that the article in
] question was garter.
/ The finest salt water bathing in America is
/ said to be at Garfield beach. seventeen miles
| from Salt Lake City. There is large catering
/ establishment and several bath houses erected
/ there, and the place is expected some day TO
! become popular resort. Lava beds and alkali
/ plains form in great part the surrounding coun-
| try.
! The signal service officer stationed on Pixies
/ Peak, in n region of perpetual snow, varies the
monotony of life by every once in a while taxi
! ing his spy-glass and pointing il in the direc-
/ ton of Colorado Springs, twenty miles away,
/ where he can see the reSorters sitting around
/ on the hotel piazzas slipping iced drinks and
! tanning themselves to keep cool.