The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-28
NEWPORT AS SIZE SAW 1T.
GERTRUDE ATHERTON ON ITS
FADS AND FOIsLEs.


bilts-Dr. Seward Webb's Predica-
msnt In Trying to Get Into Their
Home-Bad Dencers-The Pepys of
the Nineteenth Century Coaching
Parties.
Gertrude Atherton in the Netu York Netas
NEWPORT, Aug. 19-Newport TO the OBJ
server is very much like well written and
we'll acted society play; Its people always
do exactly what is expected of them and
trot their little round day after day like
well trained race horses. He who goes to
Newport for the first time finds exactly
what he has expected, even TO costumes and
the conversation which floats to him from
here and there. There are no surprises
not a sointilla Of individuality anywhere.
1nvoluntarily he becomes colossal egotiss
and imagines that all these people are SO
many mechanically animated msrionettes,
who are set in motion aud made to do their
little tricks for his benefit by some unseen
Snowman.
Exactly at 430 o'clock. for instance, as If
to the RIGGING Of bell and the raising of q
curtain, Bellevue avenue becomes alive
with carriages; the "oottsgers' are taking
their afternoon drive. There are no strag-
Cling couriers, all the stately gates appear
to be thrown open at the same moment; all
the handsome equipages, with their feather
duster tailed, housekeeping horses, their
bright gowns and vivid paras0ls, between
which is placid, well-fed something that
looks as If turned out by the dozen by some
fashionable Pygmalion, bowl forth as
punctually as If their pay would not be
forthcoming from the business manager
Ward McAllister, for instance-were they
late
OLD WOMEN on VIEW.
Some, many in fact, of the carriages con-
tain only old old women, blOOdless, de-
crepit, but with millions enough to keep
them alive for macy year TO come, They
do not even glance at their neighbOrs in the
q afternoon revellle; they just drive down the
green shaded avenue out over the bleak
nils by the ocean, back to their tea and
their trained nurses.
Ward McAllister. the immortal Pepys of
the nineteenth century, is there, OF course,
huddled in Que corner of his carriage. Be
hind him comes man whom he would
characterize as Internally swell" but who
Is less rsvereaty known as ~ he Poodle"
and who assurediv looks out Of place stand
ing on his mind legs. Mrs. Willie Wander
bit, who is not in mourning, by the way,
comes down the avenue at q high rate of
speed, and driving herself. Her seat is
raised just q little higher III, n that of any
other woman driving, as betiCS the mount
ing preiensions of her tribe. But of this
moro anon.
Behind her comes Birdie Fair, sister of
Mrs. Hermann Oelrlchs, a little girl who
rejoices ia the present income of 81 800
mon b and prospective millions. She is
known as the most intrepid driver ia New
port-the only woman who does not fling
her reinJ to the coachman the moment a
predicament occurs.
feel ia duty bound to say that she has
improved since l saw her last summer
prancing about the veTandas of Des Monte.
making all the noise her wealth permitted
and borrowing books and magazines of the
news stand. She has put up her curls. and
although she is very much embarrassed by
the recent length of skirt, still, on the
whole, she has now the budding manners of
a young lady," and her half mourning be-
comes her. AS one Of the employees of the
Casino remarked, however, there is room
for Improvement YETI Eul | cannot inn
ngine better training school FOR the wild
and woody western than Newport
ON THE POLO GROUNDS.
At $50 about half the crowd drives TO the
polo grounds to see SIX OF thelr youth tear
about the field on small and excited ponies
after "a ball. The young men are dressed
and ride much Ike jockeys, and it must be
admitted that they rtie with absolute fear
les,ness GoldsmiJh's Citizen Of the World
would have probably bitten of his cue won
derng at this strange device Of the rich TO
amuse thems lives, but at least it is as sem
slble 90 lawn tennis and croGuet.
Sometimes for variety here is fox hunt
ms cad OF q polo match. a Dag OF uniss
seed is dragged along ten miles OF hill and
dale as Il trail for the hounds. The recent
law of prevention 10 cruelty to animals
ha Vi n raj T. m wi
suits the hunter just WE'LL however.
although | was unable to learn for what
prize they now rode-probably for the New
port spoon.
They started the day | say them from
Zone Mile Corner" half dozen gentlemen
in bright red coats, technically known as
"piuk," imposing black casques, white
breaches aud top boots. Again this ego
tisticsl correspondent was possessed by the
idea that they were costumed and wouni
up for her benefit. They were accompanied
by two or three pre- " girls-''nstives,
Lot "cottagers.n A native of the other Sc Z
would not be admitted under any circum-
stances to this exclusive riding club, but
the line is never drawn at pretty girls.
HUNTING THE ANIsE SEED BAG.
They started, TO begin agaiu, from a
brearhless crowd of cottagers in their ca.
riages, natives on foo5 and two gentlemen
In an Ice wagon, win some others l sat
about mile off, on Honeymau hill, and
watched the dogs start, yelping is If on the
track of a runaway negro, and the pleasure
seekers careering madly after them, down
the steep hill, up another. over fences,
Through brush. through briar, =" following
the dogs along the eccentric orbit OF the
anise bag. 1t was about as exciting to the
Spectator as a Fourth OF July procession.
Not half as much so as tarantula fight.
Everything has its redeeming feature,
however, aud a remark of my driver en-
livened the gloom.
"You see those felds," he said, pointing
his whip to the hills over which the hunters
were racing, "well, they're the burying
grounds of hundreds Of men. A big battle
took place there between the English and
Americans, and the men were buried where
they fell"
remarked that IL was rather irreverent
to use cemetery as hunting ground, and
he replied:
40, you see, that happened 300 or 400
years ago, 50 it don't MAKE so much differ
ence."
That night there was hop at the Casino,
the first of the season, and as 1t was ex-
pected to be well and representatively at
tended, l went and sat where l could have
an uninterrupted view Of this particular
act in the Newport drama. Most of the
people on the floor were 'coftaCars the