Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-15

OLIVER DoUD BYRON Is In his cottage at
Monmouth Park.
AVALON, the young Jersey resort. is becom.
ing quite popular.
Ex-Governor PATrIsoN has sec ured cot
tage at Spring Lake, N. ].
THE larger streams and lakes in the Catskills
are well supplied with trout
The warm wave brought many people to
their cottages at Asbury Park.
HUNDREDS of new cottages have been
erected in the Catskills since last summer.
ALL the summer resort hotels will be in full
blast within the next two weeks. A splendid
season is expected all along the line.
THE Hotel Kaaterskill will open on June %
under the management of W. F. Paige, who
has had charge of it for six seasons.
MAYOR FITLER, of Philadelphia has pur-
chased and will occupy this summer the beau
tiful villa of the late Commodore c. Z. Garri-
son at Elberon.
COTTAGES are dirt cheap at Long Branch.
Between sthe Old Mansion House and the
United States correspondent saw i've ITO lets"
in a row of seven.
The selection of Marion, Mass, as q summer
home by Mrs. Cleveland has increased the popu.
larity of the place. Marion undoubtedly has q
future as summer resort.
MRS. FREDERICK w. VANDERBILT has pre-
sented to the Newport hackmen 100 copies of
Sewelrs BLACK Beauty" q story showing the
need of kindness to horses.
MOONLIGHT boating excursions are popular
on the Shrewsbury at Red Bank, N. ]. The
boats are gaily decorated with Chinese Ian.
terms, and most of them carry musicians.
SEAGIRT, Spring Lake and Belmar are now
in full summer dress, and old and new visitors
are dropping IN daily, some to their cottages
and some to secure home for the season.
THE regular cottagers both at Monmouth
Beach and Seabright and at the West End and
Elberon are rapidly taking possession of their
summer homes The cottage season has al
ready begun.
THE Saratoga season is starting off with an
early boom. Saratoga's lusty and beautiful
trees protect it from the hottest SUM- and its al
titude insures refreshing breeze on most days
of the summer.
The most remarkable things Oh the Atlantic
coast are the tin types displayed in the beach
photograph galleries, showing the singular de-
sire of the women to obtain portraits in their
surf costumes.
MRS. GENERAL CUSTER who is at her cabin
on the Pocono creek, Delaware Water Gap. is
preparing to spend July and August in the
West, accepting invitations and enjoying life
among her old frontier friends.
THERE are more pretty girls in minute at
Cape May than at Long Branch, Coney Island
or Rockaway in a season. They are what you
might call country pretty" But like all
Southern girls they are spoiled.
A RIDE by stage from Kaaterskill down the
ravines to Palenville and thence to Catslll
Village by the Catskill Railroad should not be
missed by people who desire to enjoy the de-
lights Of mountain and valley scenery.
IT is the custom at Cape May for the ladies
to dress for breakfast, to parade on the porticos
In pretty morning attire and then to disappear
in their rooms, presently to flock to the beach
in wrappers. 1t Is thing you have got to get
used to.
THE legalizing Of gambling at and around
race tracks by the recent Jersey Legislature
reioices the hearts of the big Long Branch
Monmouth Park races they expect to make
fortune.
JAMES: A. BRADLEY, the founder of AS
bury Park. has offered to give a lot 100 feet
square If DR.. Hugh Kinmouth would give q
like plot for the erection Of public school in
Ocean Park. The doctor has not yet re-
sponded.
ONE of the newest schemes to be talked up
this season is the erection of a roadhouse at
Point Judith, sort Of banqueting hall Of light
and graceful architecture, TO be used as a Mec-
ca for coaching parties driving from Narragan-
sett pier.
AT Cape May the bathing houses are many
times the finest on the coast. They are better
than the hotels. They are well built well
kept. tidy and picturesque little cities of
closets intersected by scores OF street.-The pas
sage ways.
NEWPORT is filling up with summer people
with astonishing rapidity. Arrivals of cottage
people for the summer are increasing almost
daily and there are more oottagers here TODAY
than ever before at the close of the second
week in June.
THE season has opened at Alexandria Bay.
the favorite resort on the st. Lawrence. with
many fine catches of bass 1t is probable that
no other bass grounds in the State are more in
favor with the vast army of anglers than those
of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario.
THEN there are merry-go-rounds by the
dozen, shooting galleries. toboggan slides,
coasters, museum wonders and attractive Jap
anese. Chinese and other booths in bewildering
succession, from the breezy Inlet down to the
new Excursion House, in Atlantic City.
ONE still hears great deal of talk about the
of race track that will be
worthy of Atlantic City. AS the matter is
still more or less nebulous, however, and as
other projects have fallen through in past
years. one Is not disposed to take too much for
granted.
THE steamboatmen, railroad employees, postal
clerks, telegraphers and expressmen are be-
ginning to see signs of the coming invasion by
city people of the Catslkill Mountains. Board.
ing house and hotel proprietors in the range are
in good spirits, and all say the outlook for a
season was never better.
THERE is more drinking by women at Cape
May than at any other coast resort. The prin-
cipal hotel has large drinking room purposely
20 there from any other place are always as-