Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1891-09-08
WAKEMAN'S WANDEEINGS
The GREAT SEASIDE RESORTS or
ENGLAND.

Hournemouth-on-the-s - The Most
Aristocratic Health Resort In Britain.
Its Marvellous DeveIopment-The Home
ofthe sheIIeys-Interesting Associations
iCopyright. 1891. By Edgar l. wakeman.l
BoURNEMOUTu England. Aug 24--Re-
Rarded from almost any standpoint, 1
Bournemouth Is unique among the glSat /
seaside resorts Of England. IL is truly
health giving spot without oertiication- I
Its scenic outlook Is grandly beautiful
without appeal 70 guidebook, which il does
not possess. or 70 the imagination, which
IL lovingly prompts. Il is rich without
being vulgar. aristocratic. though not in
sufferably 80. popular. and yet dreamfully
quiet. The omnipresent AIRY. 'Arriet
and Tommy Atkins" Of every other
known resort Of England are here I'M
known. And. more noticeable than all
else 10 the American loiterer. it is in Eng
Land and yet glows with newness and
progress
Many romances Of sudden wealth have
been written in Bournemouth's growing.
Sidney Brown. one Of the men who helped
rebuild Chicago after the flames had swept
that city into world-heart fame, learned
there his lesson Of opportunity so well that
in building here be is now become one OF
the mfllionafres Of this Paradise Of
Pines" The great Durant estate, com
prising the entire Bourne valley. three
miles long. running through the center Of
Bournemouth, and covered by It's most
princely buildings and lovely pleasure gar
1 l. Ia All
a Miss DuranL This lady's father came
into possession Of the property after years
Of litigation and discouragement 80 great
that he finally offered his solicitor, one
Fox. an attorney Of Norwich. 5000 70 ac-
cept his equities in the property, pay the
costs and rid him Of responsibility. The
honest or hesitant Fox refused. but has
made in fees and commissions hundred
times that amount out OF the estate while
the lonely heiress Is worth millions The
Shelley estate formerly a few hundred
acres Of sand dunes and pines, now owned
by Iady Shelley, widow OF the late Baron
Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poets sou, i
valued al a million pounds sterling, and Is
receiving go annual ground rents fo
countless half acre lots. Il lies betweeT
Bournemouth pier and Christchurch Head
or what il known as East Clih
The present Lord Malvern. one OF thl
Rank OF ENGLAND directors, though Away
a man OF great wealth. added millions q
his properties through the peculiar inhu
ence be exercised over two old ladies'
Lady Talbot aud sister-who both die
within few months period at abov
ninety wears Of age some seven year
since. They owned 500 acres Of this ono
pine wilderness Lord Malvern accommS
datingly became their business adviser
"a sort u financial lady's maid 70 th
: eccentric old couple On their death q
community was startled TO learn tha
every iota OF the vast estate had been b.
ouegthed TO Lord Malvern. who immed
ately made short shrift Of all the old SER
ants and other dependents
I. Pages Of similar romances and tragedi'
In the marvellous increase Of values
Bournemouth. though the city's history
a brief one, could be related. The practic
side Of this development is also curio'
and entertaining The city has no streets
All its thoroughfares are ~roads. av
uues. ~crescents'' and ''quadranss- Th'
are an winding and there are no squares
The splendid improvements have been
most exclusively made by speculate
architects and builders. As values a
\, vanced, parcels OF tracts were appoItion
y. them by the agents Of various estates, g
latter providing improvements In adJoinil
"a thoroughfares- These sites are all acre
~ half acre lots, and with the exception
~ those Of one estate they are leaseholds
ninety and ninety-nine years duration.
'h annual ground rentals Of from $50 70 :
per lot, payable half yearly, and with VII
Is known here a. ''peppercorn," or n
ground rent for the first year. In deferen
to the builders risks
/ -. rll.ra an
1 residence property from first TO last
| that no sooner Is any villa erected a
| ready for occupancy. whatever its pri
than Il Is already sold 10 some Lond
gentleman or nobleman- Thestruggle hs
a not TO sell houses already built, but me
lv 70 force building sites from the rich
tates. The result must Be that with unli
tied outlying plney tracts, the city viii
corue one of tremendous area and Away
citv Of villas and garden-girdled. pa ias
homes. Only one estate sells freehold sit
and these are on conditions which rent
the word a ridiculous misnQmer. An ECU
of redemption Is securable on thil
years' purchase. To illustrates II a bui
ing site Is secured at s500 per year grou
rental, after thirty years and the paym'
altocethSrof el5, 900, it becomes "freeholi
subject 70 all manner Of restrictive co
used for business purposes, that the nH'
ing upon it shall not be In any mani
changed. that no additional buildings sh
be erected on the same site etc. kv
such change imposes new agreement
additional fees I believe IL requires q
cense fee Of Twenty-Five dollars to mer
add bow window to ones house A
rooms are being added 70 the Bourne
hotel property on Poole road, and th.
cense fee Cor the change il 800 50 g
while there are from 300 70 100 residen
in Bournemouth each Of which cost -
andupward. and from twenty to nfty WI
have each cost si25 900 and upward, n
are practically no people In Bournemo
= who Absolutely own their own homes, 3
the half dozen possessors Of the great
tates.
Mature aud invnldism have m
Bournemoufh. The climate 81 Great B
ain is Death velled in humidity, ever :
ing In nearly every household ineraIic.