The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25
LIFE IN A COTTAGE.
w. f. Vanderbilt'S Housewarm.
ing at Newport.
FROM THE IsTHMUS OF PANAMA.
Specializing About French Intentions
Drunken Wife's Fate-Denver Kerosene
Fire Lighters Coming From Canada.

| Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. !
NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 24.-More than four
hundred were gathered at the summer
house of Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Vanderbilt
last evening at ball given by them, which
might be considered sort of house warm
ing, as the house has recently been built
and the greater part of the grounds have
been left for the present exactly in the
same shape as nature fashioned them. In
fact, these surroundings must be set down
as the chief attraction of the place. At the
rear of the brown stone cottage, with its
small towers, m assive proportions and bits
of medieval decoration here and there,
there is rough locking decline covered
with boulders and shrubbery and inter
sected by gravel path winding in and out
towards rocky promontory jutting out
into the sea- which stops at the waves.
On each side of this depression two
points run seward, an artificial rocky arch
joining the extremities of them and form
ing partial breakwater through whose
opening the waves roll into the tiny beach
beneath. The horizon alone shuts in the
view of the ocean to the southwark and
eastward, dotted as it is with the white
sails of all sorts of craft, from small pleas
ure boats to the ocean steamers. In front
OF the house the terraces are partially con-
cealed by shrubbery and huge trees, which
transform the place into small park,
whose especially pleasing appearance on
the present occasion was due in great
measure to the art of Mr.. Landers in ad-
justing his calcium lights and refectors,
which made the surroundings as light as
day. These Examinations were placed at
intervals about the verandas, and were
especially numerous in the vicinity of the
cliffs and the rocky beach iutting seward.
Four powerful calcium lights were focused
upon the latter and screens of changing
colorS lent throughout the night to it and
the crests of the breakers which rolled in
beneath and broke against rocks, all the
tints of the rainbow. Two rows of dimin-
utive lamps bordered the paths over the
lawns. The stageway was adorned with
garlands and large plants, which were con-
tinued up over the steps and along the side
of the piazza and to the rooms within, form
ing continuous wall of green foliage with
here and there incandescent lights among
the leaves and blossoms.
The piazza has been covered in byr ed
draperies in the same manner as at the
ball given by Mrs. D. o. Mills, in honor of her
sons marriage at Menlo, and thus con-
Verted by decorations and landings into a
right with the supper room apartment with
its deep mullioned windows and large tap
estry hangings, old furniture and stands of
arms and ancient weapons, were quite an
tique looking, which, however, accorded
with the inviting and artistic effects of
damask, silver, glass and delicacies upon
the tables and sideboards. Folding doors
communicated with the large two storied
dancing hall, whose polished, inlaid floor
reflected back the brilliancy of the hundred
electric lights. Adjoining was another
large room on left, also thrown open to the
dancers.
The German favors were more elaborate
than any which have been seen here re-
Gently. In the principal figure the ladies
were the recipients of French leghorn hats
prettily trimmed with watered silk ribbon,
several with blue and others with baby
pink. These two were the colors especially
employed for favors, and the sashes re-
ceived by the gentlemen were also of that
tint Upon these appeared the date of the
occasion in letters of solid silver. Another
sort of favor, and among the first of its kind
used in this country, was what appeared
to be veritable tennis balls, but when
opened were transformed into beautiful
and costly inkstands. Other favors were
of ribbons with silver bells at each end,
and when the guests began to dance, their
tinkling was musical in the extreme and
suggestive of dashing roadsters speeding
over frozen snow.