The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-08
NEW Works. SUMMER VISITORS.
Tourists from the Country Who Have
Their Value Though They May Be Odd.

tourists from the country VINO have
Their Value Though They May Be Odd.
Beginning in the middle of June
there is for four weeks an influx of
country folk to New York, as may be
seen by the inspection of the hotel
registers or by observation in the cars
or roof gardens. The country folk
come from the various towns of the
interior, combining business with
pleasure on jaunt to New York, DUR
ing which they devote soma of the
time to seeing the sights, but larger
part to riding arounl and being looked
at. You can generally pick out sum
mer visitor in New York-a male Wis
itor, that is-by the size of histhat,
which, as rule, seems to be several
sizes too large. The hat of the aver
age male summer visitor in the early
days of sultry July fits his heat not
like q glove, but rather like a mften.
lie wears a soft hat, too, and is strong
ly addicted to black broadclotH and
low-cut waistcoats. 1t may be {nhos-
pitable to draw attention to such
things, but the feet of the male sum
mer visitor are usually large, and tight
shoes are not a besetting weakness
with him. He usually carries Yalise
or carpet bag, and his inquiries of the
conductor of car or the usher OF
theater or the elevator attendant OF
large building have varied range.
One question which he is sure to ask is
this:
Where does Broadway-sta -
The women country folk who come
to town at this season have a strong
Partially for bright colors in their
dress, and for hats or bonnets which
were at one time at the height of
fashion, but are so no more. One pc
culiar thing about these visitors is that
there seems to be more women in each
party of tourists than there are men.
1t is no uncommon thing in the early
weeks of July to see one countryman
escorting three, or perhaps four,
women, and the latter do not depend
upon the escort for showing them the
way about and for making such in
Quiries as may be a necessary part of
the tour, but they ask questions upon
their own account-sometimes stimuli
IIhCOuSlJ VIII hIlclT tSCOTI. oOulc uI-
thinking New Workers seem inclined
at the beginning of the summer season
to criticisc the newcomers who arrive
in New York in steady stream from
the railroad stations and ferry slips,
but more intelligent and appreciative
residents of the town which enjoys the
distinction of being surrounded by one
ship canal and three rivers know that
but for its summer visitors many parts
of New York would be great deal
quieter in summer than they are, and
that languor would rest upon many
sections of the city but for the oddly
cut clothes and ill-assorted head-gear
of some of New York's summer tour
lists. The hotels and roof gardens
especially prosper on account of these
visitors, and it is, perhaps, to them
rather than to the resident New York
ers that the roof gardens owe so much
OF their success. Indeed, the roof gar
den has como to be regarded in many
parts of the east as being as much of u
New York institution as terrapiu is of
Baltimore, Girard college of Philadel-
phia, the Common of Boston-or the
stock yards of Chicago. Very few of
these country folk who come to New
York leave the city without making
some expenditures, and they are well
come visitors at the dry-goods stores,
which might otherwise suffer from
dearth of trade. They also add mate
rally to the receipts of the railroads
of the city particularly the through
Hnes.-N Y. sun.