The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-28

The men that keep seaside hotels up on
the coast Of Maine, says Clara Belle in a
New York letter in the Republic, are appa-
rently quite as enterprising as those mans
aging the houses nearer TO the great and
wicked metropolis. Nothing, surely, ex-
hibits greater zeal and alertness than are
found in the plans of two rival proprietors
having hostelries at one of the large resorts
on the coast of that state. 1t Is we'll
known and accepted fact that the presence
of some one woman who IL particularly
beautiful and charming greatly enhances
the success and brilliancy of hotels season.
Each house requires a genuine "bele'
who is sufficiently striking in an
pearance and fascinating Of manner to at
once attract and hold the attention of
strangers. This belle becomes the central
figure OF the company. Everything in that
house revolves about her. The small boys
make perilous journeys to gather pond lilies
for her, the mon plead for her dancing card
and the women wonder what her next gown
will be. And If she is really deserving of
all this homage her fame spreads, and men
are willing to 60 out of their way to see her
Such queen of the shore is a young
woman from a western state who has been
coming east TO pass her summers at a Maine
resort during several years, and whose truly
extraordinary loneliness of feature and form
has all but made the fortune of the hotel
keeper whose hospitality she accepted. II
has been gossiped by certain effvious persons
that the young lady not only been in the
habit OF receiving her board free at the
hotel, but that her entire family, consisting
OF father. mother and three brothers, has
likewise lived at the expense of the hotel
man, who considered it very good
bargain even under that arrangement.
his hotel being crowded with
young men on every Saturday night of
the season. The chatter of the gossips
would never have been believed by the best
natured people had not a circumstance
arisen that brought the belle into disfavor
with the hotel keeper who had dealt SO
generously by her and her family for so
many years. Last year rival hotel of
pretensions equal to co those of the old-es-
tablished house. was built at the resort. 1t
did fairly well, but its manager could not
win for 1t that favor which the other house
enjoyed, and all the most brilliant hops and
cotiIlons occurred at the old place.
This summer, however, to the great sur
prise of everybody, and Co the deep chagrIn
of the hotel man, the western belle has
transferred Der beauty and magnetism to
the new house. She and her family are
placidly ensconced there, and the effect is
already plainly apparent. 1t is the new
hotel to which the Saturday night young
men all direct themselves, it Is the new
hotel which has the grandest hops and CO.
tillons. Gossip has been, naturally
enough, more rife than ever, and it
received ample encouragement recently,
when the hotel manager who was
deserted SO boldly announced that not only
had he always given board free TO the
beauty aud her people, but that the year
before he had paid her $500 not to go to the
new hotel. And now. he adds, she has left
him because the other fellow pays her $780,
the price she demanded from him and he
refused to pay. This story is generally
credited. but, strangely enough, it does not
affect the prestige of the Jelle, who actually
overcomes the effect of such very disparag-
ing statements by smiles that no man can
Withstand. Is