The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-08-09
NEW YORK LETTER.
Cool Breezes for the Rich and Poor
Near New York.
The Two Silent Men of America at the
Present Time Are David Bennett
Hill and James Gillespie
Blaine.
TcopYR1eHT, 1927

TCopYRIGHT, 1927
At the writing of this letter the me-
tropolis is absolutely sweltering in
tropical heat. The discomforts of life
here just now are as great almost as
those of southern India, for we have al
most as much heat and very little prep
aration for tropical life. But it must
be said in behalf of New York city that
it is possessed of more advantages for a
summer residence than any other city
in the country, for the simple reason
that there is never an hour on a hot
day when one cannot find cool spot
within an hours journey. A resident
of one of the interior cities who finds
himself being broiled to death is COM
PEELED to spend from twenty to thirty
hours on railway train before he can
find good breathing spot. 1t is safe
to say that there are at least three hun
dred charming resorts accessible to
New York people and the purses of the
poor. One may attend to a days work
here and sleep under blanket in the
Catskill mountains. You may take a
a sail up the sound for fifty cents,
and lay in enough ozone to
last for the next day. You may
run over to the cool mountains of Jer-
sey, the Oranges, or may take sail
down the bay on one of the magnificent
Long Branch steamers. Then there is
Coney Island, Rochaway and all the
points along the southern Long island
coast, where surf bathing and still
water bathing may be had ad lib. ran
down to Long Branch day or two ago.
There is no excursion hereabouts that
will compare with the trip on either the
steamer Monmouth or Sandy Hook,
which connect with the Long Branch
railway at the Highlands. These boats
are models of marine architecture, fitted
up exclusively for passenger service,
and they make their trips with the
regularity of railway trains. They
travel at the rate of twenty miles an
hour, and when they choose to turn
themselves loose there is nothingi in this
part of the country in the shape OF naval
architecture that can keep up with
them. One of the swift-racing machines
known as the Vamoose undertook re-
Gently to show her heels to the Mon
mouth. She was vanquished in very
short order.
Long Branch to-day is enjoying new
lease of life. The place looks cleaner
and brighter and smarter in every
way than it has for years, but still the
hotel people are complaining, and this
Indicates that the public has not as yet
returned to its old love. The life and
center of fashionable Long Branch are,
of course the Hollywood hotel and cot
tages of Mr.. John Hoey. In his private
residence, his hotel, cottages, conserva-
tories, grounds, bathing houses, ETC.,
Mr.. Hoey must have invested to-day at
least $2,Oeo,oOO. There is no such
spot in this country; in fact, moth
ing that is quite SO distinctly European
as the Hollywood hotel and its sur
roundings. With its cacti and oriental
plants there is touch of southern
France about it which appeals to all old
world travellers.
COUNTS HAVE HEARD OF.
The theory that news events happen
in groups is well sustained by plausible
and ingenious arguments 1t has no
need of the support of those transcen-
dental theories which neurologists de-
light to PROFOUND when they speak of
cycles and epidemics of crime. The
death of Cyrus W. Field at once brought
to the fore the Atlantic cable and all
that pertains to its history and results
Readers of the newspapers must have
found that out weeks ago. 1t is not
my intention to do more than make an
allusion to that sad event. The Com
mercial cable-the newer transatlantic
line-is interesting just now, as always,
but especially perhaps on account of
lawsuit recently instituted by Count
Arthur Dillon, 'of the duchy of Luxem-
burg" who says he was the original
protector Of that cable company. He
is suing my friends, John W. Mackay
and James Gordon Bennett, the princi-
pal owners of the stock of the company,
on contract, by the terms of which he
says he was to have 260 shares out of
1000 shares of preferred Commercial
cable stock to be issued by the company
as bonus to it's three projectors. The
count is modest in his statements
of his relations to such great capital
lists as Mackay and Bennett in
this enterprise, for he owns that, while
they put in $3.50, 900, he put in only
$4,000. Of the merits of the counts
suit 1 know nothing. But couldn't
help thinking when heard of it of the
number of counts now and recently in
evidence in New York and their extern
sive operations in business affairs both
in this and other American cities.
Counting the counts have been SO for
tunate as to meet in barber shops and
hotel dining-rooms, where they had
learned to make themselves useful as
well as ornamental, yield to no man
in the number of my acquaintances
with counts. From what saw of the
ancestral estates of some of them ION
the Lake of Como and elsewhere in
Italy, as well as in Spain, where the
very bandits themselves are counts and
delight to hoax travelling American
journalists, may say l am not sur
prised at theonumber of counts who