New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-16
TO STAY TILL SNOW FLIES.
NEWPORT HAS UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS FOR ITS
COTTAGE RESIDENTS THIS YEAR.

NEWPORT HAS UNUSUAL ATTRACTIONS FOR ITS
COTTAGE RESIDENTS THIS YEAR.
Newport, Il. l., oct. - (SpeciaD.-The Newport
season IS drawing TO close but It should be under
stood that nearly twothrs OF the cottasers are here
The Of 500 promises 10 beat the record. Az
performance at the Opera House Wednesday night
the body OF the building almost exclusively oc
cuped by the summer residents, and the square IN
front was filled with their carriages. The scene In
The Opera House Of exceptional brilliancy
and 1t served to prove the statement that the New
port seasons are unusually long. Other summer re-
sorts almost forgotten but NewpOrters find their
city peoped still BY several hundred cottagers Many
OF the visitors intend remaining until the snow flies
and II is the wish Of many to be here on
Thanksgiving Day. Newport is not a dull place by
any means even after the disractlng gayees Of the
fashionable season are over.
The real estate agents are b.sy, and they report
that usually large number OF cottages have been
rented for the season )f 1898 The Worlds Fair
means good deal TO Newport and next seasons
prospects more than hattering Even the hotel
keepers have had formal applications for rooms.
a large number II the cottagers went to New York
to the great Columbian demonstration, and they
more than pleased Parties taken TO New
York on board Of the steam yachts ltuna, Conlueror,
Nourmahal, Golden Fleece and Theresa.
Mrs Edgar. Mrs. lardlcy, Mrs. Creighton, Mrs G..
X. Warren. Mr. and Mrs. Walter l.. Kane, and Mrs.
Russell Forsyth. who rented their Newport cdtages,
have returned here for the fall sedson
Mr.. and Mrs. Christopher Robert who have pur.
chased the Duchess de Dino's villa IN Bellevueave;
Mrs. Whitney, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Frede kc nochan,
OF Newlork, have been spending week at the
Mucnchinger cottage. Mr.. Robert contcmplates I'm
proving the estate which he has purchased.
Cottage entertainments given during the week
by Thomas +. Cushing. Miss Iunnewell, Mrs. C. Z.
Moore, Mrs. c. H. Baldwin. Mrs. G.. b. de Forest,
Mrs j. +. Ficrson, and Mrs. George Tiffany.
II is reported here that Perry Belmont has pur.
chased the steam yacht Golden Fleece. which he had
under charter all the Newport was the head
quarters for the yacht.
Chauncey VI. Dcpew spoke to the Republicans -
the Opera House, which WAS more than crowded, TO-
night.
The city election, prevented from taking pace by
the Democratic city government who refused TO recos'
nize the law governing the ward boundaries I'M
Ill compelled to by the Legislature will occur week
after next The Republicans have every assurance
that they will recapture the city, which went to the
Democrats by the inactivity of the Republicans ono
year ago. The Republicans united and they VIII
work like beavers. The Democrats rule at present
for the first time Lieutenant Governor Melville BULL
brother OF Dr. W. T. Bull, of New York, is the cam
didac for Congress from this district, ana as ne -
very popular 1t is fair presme that lie Will defeas
the present incumbent, a Democrat, Enos Iopham.
who was elected by the ukewarmness OF the hepuU
leans two years ago. The Republicans with speaker
Capron also expect recaptre the other district ana
TO elect the Republican Presidential electors. Inc
Republican clectOr from this county Is Louis L. Lori
lard owner of Vinland at Oclue Point. which was be-
qucatheI to him by his aunt, the late catherine 4.
Nolfe OF NewYork. MIR. Lorillard is popular