New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-14
AT THE PIER.
FIN DE Steele SOCIETY TAKING IT'S SUM-
MER OUTING

! by degrees growing ever brilliant and more Drill
liant as the throng Of well-dressed women increases
They are women Of the kind that gives style to a
season. color to a beach. They are TALL slim, with
small waists drawn in by bits Of shining SATIN
| ribbon, wear great howery hats and white shoes,
! fluffy white skirts that blow like froth about
their ankles when the breezcs are abroad, have a
dozen different colored parasols, half dozen
trunks, dog. a maid n mamma, and-oVer sunday
! "A father and admirer or two
They have made the beach gay. Coming down
the board walk between the bath houses and the
struggling pvilions, one looks forward over long
reach of rough balconies crowded to dim,
blurred distance with lazy, lounging people. There
is level roofing of awnings overhead. between
which Sits OF sun fall, stripping the brilliant
company with yellow lines. For the rest, they
are gay as a bed of tulips showing a mingline of
tnts that would shame a Kaleidoscope, feckcd
with every bright color, and here and there dotted
with the white disks Of opened parasols. In clear
| transparency Of hue and variety of color TINS
radiant perspective looks like charmIngly exc
cuted waer-color.
On the beach there is sun-a grline sun that
casts an ink-back shadow from every spread par
asol. Here the white dresses OF the women are
binding. and whore girls sit together on the sand
there is a confused effect OF bright pink and blue
and yellow skirts dazzling in the glare and throw
ing little wavcring inky shadows on tho sand
Behind ALL the sea heaves like lucent eXpansc of
clear, green jelly with black dotting Of bathcrs
scattered over its surface, strung ont from where
the wave is only shining film to the further
raft. Against this background Of glistcning water
the slowly emerging bather shows like limp sil-
houette, Tagging through the shallow sea with
bowed head and dropping shoulders, stealing
dripping way sand as hard as wooden moor,
as clear as a mirror, in which mimic bather
shines below the real in tapcring reflection.
As to the bathers, however they may have
dccked themselves in giddy and audacious past
they are now az respectfully clad, as completely
covered, as dccorously bideous as any man or
woman who ever encased himself or herself in fan-
rel bags for the support and maintenance of men
with cameras The bathing hour at the Pier sees
long stream Of blue flannel and black-sergc women
30 slSurrynC shyly down the sand. go leapng and
shrcking into the sra, Jump about there like
company of corks, and then come ont loiterngly,
now and then urged forward by the blows OF
bostrrous breaking waves and. once in shallow
water pulling ut the skirts slappinQ about their
wet knees and pulling at their soaked hair.
But Narragansett seems determined to find sem
sation in its bathers, even though the hathcrs may
no shy about Offering it, lady going IN IN
dcmure black costume which She had mohfS'N
hcautifcd with white silk scarf was in default
Of something more striking regarded as the mad
dcst kind Of a sensation. The crowd gaped at
her and half dozen camera-mcn tracked her
10 the deep swapping her rs she fed before them
and sought shelter under the waves. Few
DAYS before that really sensational bothcr had
drawn al the hluc-fannel and SERGE squat our
Of the water and all tho elegant loungerS out oil
their seats. 70 stand AT ease and stare at her
Shc had como like a real mermaid from nowhere
appearing suddenly over the long-grasse' dunes
=, a black and white striped bathing suit, and
with yarl- Of long black hair 'i'tct ana tossr'i
hv the sal. sea breeze Before and behind her
.toIl,ed dog. innumerable. mostly shaggy deer
hounds with long legs and pointed noses, but there
y.o,o l,t,lc dors too And 40 their mistress walked
| do,yp tho sand with the CANNES nosing along
bo,ore and behind her the gapers saw She had
dark somhre eyes in dark, handsome race linen
with h,ir streaming out, dashed by the "in'' shc
nlunrcl into the sra, dove through the roo'S OF
| , b-c,linc wave came mp painting with the blhcN
hair Glued 10 her checks ani throat, whie 'ne
Io,, Good m the waves margin in Attitudes OF
silent watchfulrcss their paws Just we'. iooN'nS
ncnsivclv after her. with their lean bodie' mir
rored in the sand. .,
After tie bath and the study of th' pH'"e.''
yorracansctt lives for tho daily VISIT 10 ~"
Casino end thc daily gossip GOSSIP Is ''''
breath Of Narragansett's nostrlls y 'h'Ir - ~
,a, aossio ,bcrc will be- bogus gossip II there
are no exciting people TO gossip ABOUT, '"c WIZ"
., Tho Casino will Gossip about uneNciting peopc'
p.oa,,,,, ,bis Iittlc world stood on tpoes to
noon in =, one Of the Casino windows ana see
'o'nn man noin,el ont a. the Due dc Morny
80, III dinner II was said that he eats much
,t any o,bcr man. which was Disappointing
80 ono may cxpcct any sort of freak in duelihS
d,Lc For the rest, hc appeared TO Dr young
C,llic Gentleman. with fair hair ana mus
,ochc and white and pink noe when ia"
,ho somc bloomy appearance that ono may no'lce
in the visagc Of Mis- Fanny Davenport when s,c
ia made up for n star part And aiter all u'o
o,ci,ement he was not the Due dc Morhy ~
all, only plain W. dc Mauncy who spei' MN nm,
self the WRONG way. The people VINO iau c'"ne'
,bcr mock, 70 see how a duke cats felt the dis
appointmcnt very keenly.
pr, Varrarorsctt must have its sensations.
In this particular II resembles Miss blanche
Amary. when she remarked. I'll me fau' uc'
cmotious" The latest object OF the flers e'"o-
tional curiosity was mild and senue young
Fnclishman, whom it declared to ne iorn inc
Young man appeared 10 have been raised 10 tue
ncerapc against MS will, for he denied the sol,
Impeachment; but the Pier lubllanuy pcrs'S'e'
m regarding hin az member OF the arl''oo-
racy, whether he would or no. Then some one
announced that he was lord al nome, o"'
modcsrly dropped the title when abroad. mus
,ho matter stands. surrounded with pleasing
air Of uncertainty. But about the lords irieno
,Tcre was Mt first no possibility of creating
sensation. 4 tall, red. calm-eycd Engishmah'
with a wide, impassve glance, is not good mat'er
for romance. Just at the very mex oil ''ihe
some one announced that he was wrl'ihg
book. and this snatched him from thc JAWS y,
oblivion. To be sure Oscar Wline mas '"''
that, in the present day, one Is great zeal ino,'
arLah,. ,,hor ono does not write a book.