New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-11
THE SEASIDE HOTEL HOP.
AN INSTITUTION THAT FLOURISHES MILDLY
IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS.


IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS.
The seaside hotel hop IS an institution peculiar unto
itself 1t Is generally hold on saturday evening
when a few extra dancing mon come down In the
pursuit OF sunday rest o.. There usually from
200 TO 500 people LOOKING on. and occasionally many
rs six couple the floor. though this hghwator mark
Is often reached The music varies with the
character OF the hotel but i likely TO consist OF
walng cornet and piano which resemble Christian
who hath not charity. I'm that It long ago became
as sounding brass and unkllng cymbal. The music
plays right along by the hour whether anybody Is
dancing or not. Occasionally the hotel proprietor
looks in rubbing his hands and bAming on The scene
with an air that says, Enjoy yourselves, my people,
these rlotous festivities given away with every
package Of twenty meal tickets
Early I'm the evening the floor Is taken up b. skinny
little girls with curlS short white dresses and super
abundance Of blue ribbon. who perform dancing in
the barn. and other gems Of the dancing school, to the
delight Of admlrlng parents. After an army OF
nurses. have cleared the floor Of the small fry, the
sunbrowned summer girl comes In from her retreat
around OH the dark side Of the veranda. Her ball
dress Is evidently cut lower In the neck than her
bathing suit which makes her look like doll with
bronze head on porcelain body. She dances some
what recklessly ms who Is that the eyes OF
seventeen ancient and honorable spnsters In the front
row are upon her. and has determined 10 show her
contempt for and independence OF. the horrfd old
things Her partner Is young man with tender,
warming eyes a struggling mustache, tennis shirt
and russell shoes. lie holds ber-wel, as II he were
afraid Of losing her.
When a set Is made up for the lanciers II Is com
posed OF people from different states. As the
figures for the anccrs danced alike In any
two localities. and there is prompter, general
tangle results. Brother Tom, from college, Gre
ates an additional ructlon by pressing all the girls
hands in the grand right and LETT and swinging
them off their feet at balance the corners" y
number Of men In evening dress wander YEARLY
about and do the "hcavy standing around" but never
dance Only the men in tennis shirts dance
In the hotel dnlngroom paror where the hop IS
going on It Is hot as furnace. The windows are
blocked up with people who too old or too weary
OF life 10 dance and with visitors from the neghboring
boarding houses which have not risen 10 the dignity OF
a hon. In secluded OF the veranda the
coterie OF dashing widows and young married women
have cnsconced themselves with their following OF ma
ture admirers Throughout the evening they dis
nose OF endless lemonades containing certain per
centace OF woody fibre commonly called -" stick"
Al zen minutes to IL O'Clock the cornet walls Its
,ast wall and the piano tAumps It's last thump The
hronzed maidens OF tho dance drag themselves up
staI, lin ding their mkeys ind dropping an oc
men smoke their good night cigars the veranda while
they cool OF and listen to The booming pFeakers on
the shore A sunday quiet setues down over lho
fr,,l fabric OF q summer hotel. unless the FORTY
seven babies wake up ana howi heir miansht oho,us
or the fat man with thtyt foot dlapason snore
gets cast" his back and ro'ses the Iurthermost
echoes OF the whispering gallery into which NM
roople are packed.