The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-16
SOME SWELL TURNOUTS.
How the Vanderbilts Enjoy a Sum
mer at Bar Harbor.
Fashion In Surveys, Wagonettes, Phatons,
Broughams and TaIlyhos-The Greet.
ing Party Sui Generfs-The
Vanderbilt Blackboard
IcopYRIGHr. 1927

| lcoPYRIGRr. 1927
II there is pleasure in the world it
is that of bowling along good road at
the mercy of champing steeds. itmight
be worth mentioning that those of the
fashionable world who take life easily
usually own stables replete with the
best horses that money can buy. Once,
to own a good family coach, lady's
vehicle and the wagon for general serv-
| ice, meant that one was somebody.
Now unless there is a coach, a wagon
cite, surrey, a surreyette, phaeton,
brougham and tally-ho coach the
master of summer estate feels him
self indeed mot on fashions list
1t is plain tosee that the Anglo-Saxon
idea of becoming 'horsey," just as soon
as the buds begin to bloom and the YER
dure takes on its coat of green, has per-
| meated the minds and habits of our Amer
lean aristocrats. and now there is not a
wealthy villa owner in the country who
does not pay as much attention to his
stable and his horses as to his drawing
room and the costly bric+a-brac therein.
There are some resorts where driving
seems second nature to the summer ar
rivals; where bathing is secondary
pleasure and social gatherings consist
principally of driving parties, mountain
excursions on buckboards or ph@tons,
lake picnics, straw rides and moonlight
coaching tours.
Bar Harbor is just this sort of pleas
ure retreat, where, as the duchess of
Marlborough, who was here last year,
remarked: Zone seems to live wholly in
ones carriage"
The past and gone French noblesse,
who loved nothing better than to be
drawn through the boulevards in their
grand turnouts and hold receptions all
the while, sitting in state in their COR
geous equipages, would have been per-
fectly content to'have been transplanted
from their beloved France to Bar Har-
Dor, where this odd fad seems to have
become a popular custom.
1t is an everyday occurrence for Mrs
Burton Harrison, of "Villa Sea Ur-
chins," the famous authoress and New
York society leader, to be seen on
Mount Desert avenue, the Ocean drive
or the Corniche Maui, seated in her
bamboo basket phaeton. drawn by
span of coal-black steeds, completely
surrounded by parade of beautiful
turnouts, whose occupants chatter, chat
ter. chatter to each other, and Mrs. Har-
rison in particular, until the new arriv-
ais look in vain for "fre," eight"
or some sort of an exciting accident,
only to be informed that it is the habit
of the rusticators to stop at the forks
in the roadways and hold these little |
greeting parties"
OF course the visitor smiles, and why |
shouldn't he, for who ever heard of |
such thing anywhere else? But then |
Blaine explained away all |
this when he said: There is but one |
Bar Harbor.'
How much the best society people be-
lieve this is proven by the rush they
are in to get away from their city
homes and quicken to it's shores at the
first burn of the July sunbeam.
For stables of thoroughbreds it is safe
to say the Vanderbilts, the Shepards,
the McMillans, of Detroit; the Gurnees,
Of New York; the Murchisons, of Balti-
moro; the Morrises, of New Orleans;
the Barneys, of Washington; the Ar
nours, of Chicago, and the Cushings, Of
Boston, take the lead.
Mr.. George Vanderbilt, the lord Of
Point dArcadie, the Bar Harbor homo
If the Vanderbilts, is lover of fine
horses. He does not love them from
only an esthetic standpoint, either. as
S the case with most social millionaires;
he loves them for the speed that is in
hem, and he chooses horse that can
never be ridiculed for his stylish halt.
This information is given because all
'r nearly all of the swell spans here
ire a .conglomeration of locked tails,
lalting gaits, shaclled heads, fat bod
ds, silver-harneSsed brutes who seem
'ut decorated machines, created only
or show. One can hardly see that
here is anything of the horse about