Morning journal and courier., 1893-08-17

you and 1t should arrive together. Your
 baggage will probably be along from six to twenty-four hours later. If you must
 have 1t at fixed time you had better check it the day before.
 Mir. Corbin discovered some time sgo
 that in the ordinary parlor car there is waste of space. So in his cars he intro duces cane bottom chairs which can be moved about and packed in till all space is proftably covered and no idle locomotion possible. When you are once seated you
 are fixture till your journeys end. Then
 the porter extricates you for about double
 the ordinary Brush you of" tribute. victim and with the length of the opera ton.
 Immediately after leaving Long Island City you plunge into the paradise of the oil reiners. All about, oil mills, oil bar
 rels, oil tanks, pools of oil, objects en-
 crusted with desicoated oil, streams
 skummed with oil in various stages of de-
 composition, everything black and odorous
 with oil. There rushes into the car and
 fills 1t full a stsnch as powerful and as
 pungent as blast from Chicago slsugh-
 ter-house. You bend before it as before a
 sulphurous hurricane from Hsdes. You
 struggle, gurgle, stife, choke; are sll but
 gone when you emerge from one horror
 into another.
 The dust of the Long Island railroad Is
 far famed for the fineness of its atoms and
 for their penetrating power. After expo
 sure to the ordinary dust of an ordinary
 American railroad a few wsshings, if thor
 ough, will generally suffice to reopen face
 orifces and to psrmit recognition, while sn
 energetic dsrky with an energetic brush
 will by the next morning reproduce clothes
 bearing fair degree of their original col
 or Not so on Long Island. For days
 you are begrimed. For days particles of
 soil continue to emerge from unexpected qusrries; while wool and warf of cloth ing are so saturated and solidified that you
 had better sell your duds for building pur- poses. Those who know what is coming wrap themselves from head to foot in linen clusters with tight rubber bands about
 head and limbs. Yet Corbin has so com pletely subdued and conquered the Long
 Islanders that through oil and dust not 8 word of complaint or protest Is peeped or heard. Shades of P. Henry, E,q.ln
 Southampton Is ss fiat as pancake and ss spread out ss flap jack. Southampton Is divided into two parts; the village proper, which Is near the railroad station and
 about mile and half from the sea; and the village improper, consisting of the cottages of a few swells and many would be sweils which stretches from the village proper down to the sea and surrounds a pond honored with the name Lake Agswan. To be very swell your cottage must be on the lake and you must have a ssil boat. With any kind of a breeze you can sail from one end of the pond to the other in three minutes and forty-fve seconds.
 Southampton islaid out broadly. The avenues-every road In Southampton Is sn svenue-lesding down to the sea on each side of the lake are bread. The side ave uues leading off from the main avenues are also broad. It seems to be the thing 70 have piece of property about thousand feet square on some one of the avenues with hedge along the avenue. Within the piece of property you can plant your cottage where you please; close up to the avenue, or ss far away as possible from the avenue. Nor does the size or style of the cottage matter much provided you possess the thousand feet square. Social position ! is relative to amount of land. Crowded cottages have no social position whatsoev- CT. The rule Is an excellent one. There | Is no crowding, no eRves-dropping, and | carriages are absolutely essential. You may be but five cottages off from your dearest and yet mile away. The proud- est man in Southampton Is he who claims and proves that the foundation of his house are four feet higher than those of any other house in the place. The beach where all the cottage people congresste about noon, and 8 few ba.he, is like all Long Island beaches. The sand Is soft. | lyin ia Tha hafhirr | eept to the expert and hardy swimmer, is | neither pleasant nor safe. Along the shore | 1t Is cool and comfortable. Half a mile back from the shore 1t Is as hot as the cen | tral point of an African desert. There | are no trees till you reach the village prop | CT. The sun pours down it's direct and un- oostruoted rays with force and vigor uu' known along the diversified coasts of Con | necticut and Rhode Island. Within a ra dius of four miles there must be hun | dred cottages worth from five to fifty thou | sand dollars apiece. What could hay,
 been the force, the skill or the accident tt | congregate people at such an utterly unat
 tractive, dreary and monotonoue shore
 It Is pretty now, for the cottages make i
 so, but there must be thousands of plscs
 between Maine and Delaware where tn
 same cottages would return their owner
 infinitely more enjoyment.
 | A queer fad of the Southsmptoners is tC | give their new avenues odd names, iudics
 ting antiquity. "Job's Lane, 1663," Is ol
 one corner; "Ox pasture road. Opened
 1876" on another. There must be som tickle to an upstart in such vorbisge, O | the fancy would not have been indulged | The idea that 1876 OK, going to and iron
 his pasture, in the simple performance O
 his duty and lead by the hand of nature should have marked out sn avenue for tn , future csperirg and oaracoling of fashion
 is not on idea that would have occurred t the ordinary and we'll balanced mind.
 The sign-bosrd craze is not limited t
 Southampton, but extend all over the is land. Wherever the eye eau pierce tn railroad dust it Is met by posts, spacin sand wastes and bearing high-soundln Drive" Sunset Terrace" are feT of th , favorites. The Lopg Islander is appl rently living in ths blissfui expectation c seeing his entire island covered with foul
 ishing cities. Happy Long Islsnderl
 3 Socially Southampton is disappointing 8 Southampton society lacks ths calm, al. 8 nifed, unrnffied repose of assured pos tion. There are, of course, sttrscdy l people at Southampton who by accident t of necessity, or of choice, may be passiu 0 summers in succession a. the place. Br :. | S0utlam mptOnerE are not tJ De luuSeu 0 these exceptions. The genuine Southsml @ toner is the party who has made the plaC - | what 1t Is, who is there every season, VII : swesrs by 1t and who would have you b 6 lieve that no place in the United Stat, d compares with 1t in social attractions, sr that 1t Is the one place in which to con l. mence and develop a social career.
 is there for that purpose. The villsI O proper of Southampton seems to be vel # comfortable village and undoubtedly co s tains many brave, virtuous and wortl IT men aud women; but the typical Sout ii smptoner ignores the village and everyol la In 1t; thus at the start showing bis ign V rance of social law.
 ]" Nobody Is more uncomfortable to h with than the party who Is not sure of | t. own social position; who is trying to ma
 cut that he Is more swell than he knows
 Is, and whose attentions are based on (
 pectsncy of social advantage. He will
 nore you, though a most excellent and e
 tertainipg human, If he deem you 8 soc 'e nobody. He will drop you when ' ,i cease contributing to his social advant i- If done on 6 false supposition 1t Is as . a- pleassnt to be adulated as to be ignors P If folks like the air of Southampton n- them go there and enjoy 1t; enjoy the { at mirsl drives, the resounding sea, the bro
 expsnse of land and water, the very f - club, the architecture of the cottages; of for social purposes Southampton is neitl
 | tptarsstinO nor frstruntiva 2outhau