The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-07-06
SOME ODD BITS OF LIFE.
Fanciful Picture by a Stroller
on the Beach at
Newport.
Roscoe Conkling Kept His Feet
and Head In the
Blizzard.
Famous COcklOft Hall-.He Died for q
stowaway--shipping Gold to
Europe--Jay Gould.

Especial Correspondence of THE INDEPENDENT
NEWPORT, R. l., June 23.-There are many
lovely spots along the sea in Europe where
people idle and battle. Our own coast has
countless witching places for summer en-
ioyment. But after one has experienced all
their delights, think there is an excusable
longing in the heart to get back here to no.
BILE old Newport.
In former time the commerce of this
splendid harbor was but second in America.
No spot facing the aggression of the old
world is "a historically sacred to coastwise
thrilling scene and incident. Percy and
Clinton, Howe and D'Estaing, Wallace and
Burgoyne, all brought dismay or gladness
here. History, legend and romance of still
earlier days glow with piracy, prize and pri-
vateersmen, around which breezy and
stirring renaissance in American tale telling
might be haply built. In Brenton's Cove
there il q half hours pleasant idling, when
the cat-yawl skipper will spin you many an
olden yarn; and at Fort Adams, where an
interesting stroll may be commenced, the
city is first enjoyed.
From this point sunny days sauntering
il delightful, as are the clambering from
cli2 to shore past ancient Castle Hill and
ito dimly distinguished revolutionary ram
parts, around to the southernmost portion
of the Island, Graves Point. From here
along the entire southern reach of the
island, and thence by the eastern shore for
miles, there are point and promontory.
ledge 81 lseef and cove and bay innumera-
bic II S@aeet: with noble Villas grounds
and avenues behind you, and countless craft
white sails cleaning against matchless
horizon of blending sea and sky. Soft
and peaceful as may be the sea. this whole
shore-line is forever soundful with it's
hoarse songs and refrains, all the more en-
trancing for the sense of beauty and rest 40
near their rhythmic alarums: and when one
stands by the fnr-famed Spouting Rock, the
nuttered thunders of the surf within the
caves innermost caverns are portent with
all the magic and terror of the furied deep
beyond;
besuty, rest. Taking into no account what
wealth and art have done for the historic
hilled city behind, you cannot elsewhere
come upon such wealth of scene in shore
and bay, island and reef. headland and
beach is gained recall all reaches of wave
whipped ocean your eyes have rested upon
and there will be none that ever pictured K
yOu the inexpreesible, if almost unseen
magic Of Viewpoints surf.
From Ochfe Point across to Cormoran
Rock or Sachuset Point. q bit to it's north
II perhaps two miles. Across this distanc
Ct most times can be seen only shimmerin
ripples dancing in the sunlight. A mile an
. half to the north lies the beach, perfec
sami-eircie opening TO the south
LII the sea at the mouth of this sunni
cove have but a face Of ripples. mile fror
IL boaoh the eye can trace the forming q
aQntle undulations, far separate at frs
bot moving forward with increasing heigh
vooome 49, nearnsas. and, a. thsy advanc
q ReAua1ly but regularly shaping frol
DnSa1lel - oonvex lines. 6O0n these ha,
fooome tremendous waves. Suddenly