The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-16
LIFE AS SEEN IN DINARD
THE PEOPLE THERE RISE LATE
 AND GO TO RED STILL LATER.

Dinard, July 22, 1895.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER;
 That New Haven is expiring for di- rect information about Dinard has long been known. Information to be accept ed by New Haven must not be second- hand, inferential, or maybe; but imme- diate from the party in Dinard to the party or parties in New Haven. The information, moreover, must be person. all individual. concrete. New Haven can buy guide book, sit down and read 1t just as we'll as anybody else. New Haven has the cash to purchase just as many histories and descriptions of Dinard as the next man; and doesn't put on any airs about 1t either. But New Haven wants its own historian, and wants Its own historians veracities told into it's own private ear and into no other fellows ear And what New Haven wants 1t generally gets. So here goes for Dinard.
 Tn the first place get down map of France and spread it out before you. Any map will do. With the map spread out you will see that the west of France projects with considerable abruptness into the sea. You will also see that on the north of the projection the coast line runs about east. It does not run due east; nor does it run on a mathe- nautical line. But with all its irregular l ities the direction is but a little north of east. After running about a hun dred and fifty miles in the above direc- tion the coast suddenly turns about due north, and continues north about an- other hundred miles till it reaches the neighborhood of Cherbourg. The pres ent point of interest to New Haveners l is where the coast line turns. There must have been tremendous geological and geographic convulsions to bring about the turn: for rocky strata are | heaved and torn in all directions as If
 by mighty and unexpected throes. Rocks are tossed aloft as on the wave crests of volcanic tempests. The azoic granite is in places cleft knife-like by
 a. keen propulsion of the volcanic trap.
 In other places the two must have met with solid and equal squadrons; for the
 masses of each are riven, splintered land tossed mountains high in a petri- l fled death-Struggle
 l Right at the very angle of the turn is a peaceful bay, the Bay of Cancale. In it's midst the tremendous rock of St. Michael rears its enormous height, won- dering why and how it alone should
 have been driven skyward amid such quiet surroundings.
 The Bay of Cancale is famous for Its oysters. Nine-tenths of all the oysters Iconsumed int France are germinated raised and bred in the Bay of Cancale You may like them; you may not lThey have that peculiar taste of all for eign oysters which we call coppery You get used to 1t after a while and 1maybe come to like it; at all events yoU come to understand why those who dc like it consider our oysters flat an6 i tCancafe is a confusion of rocks, beaches
 land bays stretching northward into thf ocean. Rounding the crags you come
 to long stretch of sand reaching to tht superb granite and trap prominence!
 and islands which mark the mouth O
 the Rance. The Rance is a gulf, or es
 tuary riven deep down into the earth which goes inward and southward fo,
 twenty miles or more. Toss rock
 mountains high on either side of tn
 Thames river and make the river alto
 gether too irregular for the annua Yale boat procession or for the possibtl Eity of seeing it from any of the tower ling and precipitous banks, and you wil have a faint idea of the Rance. On th fright where the Rance meets the Allan | tic is St. Malo; on the left is Dinard So here you are at last at Dfnard. Di nard is so rocky, so up and down. tha lit will take you quite a while to knoy
 where you are and which way you ar
 going. In the first place there is , small but very lovely beach facin : about due north. Its mountainou sides, stretching out into the ocean, ar , drowned by thick clustering villas of at tractive architecture. Here live lord f land ladies of high degree and of diff . cult social access-F'rench marquise! t English dukes and German Jew mi / lionaires At the head of the beach is l tnondescript building divided into thre parts; one part hotel, one part Casino 5 and the third part bathing establish
 ment The hotel is to the left as yo s face the beach and extends it's restau :. rant under the Casino. The bathing es I tablishment is at the other end of tn e iCasino and is so mixed up with bot = the Casino and the hotel that for sevt I ral days you don't know whether yo s are after a. bath, a bedroom or bal = room belle. All three parts are unde s one management and originally wer l not divided But the management COT ! cluded that if it attacked the publ c with three different names and fro, S three different points of pocket thel n would be more cash in the bushes : The result Is that all three are cramp and no one is large enough for the pc ,, formance of it's proper functions. Bac n of the tripartite building is a stree
 At one end 1t runs against a high hi e and stops. At the other end, not thrt t blocks away, it runs down a hill ar e disappears. This is the way with mo Dinard streets, and with all Dfnal
 straight lines. From the east end