The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-09
The Smaller This Requi-
site OF Society Is the
Better They Are Pleas
ed-Sorne of the Stories
of the Season.

Long Branch, Aug. Long Brunch.
after its long years Of struggle Tor SD
prcnacy us a summer city, has accomplished
1t at one master stroke. TIE new bicycle
path opened here u short time ago, has made
The branch" more quoted than any other
place along shore or in shore. This bicycle
path, know those who have not seen it, is
broad stretch of nagnificently sinoothcd-out
road, Reaching il would seem. entirely along
the Atlantic cuist, certainly through New
Jerseys long stretch OF coast, ana much
further. Now. even an average cyclist,
mounting a Long Branch, can wheel north,
going as far as Saratoga; or can go suuth
10 Washington, with reasonably good roads
III the way.
Those twovery interesting young matrons.
Mrs. e. Oliver iselin and Mrs. Hobart Chat
field Taylor. both of whom have been at
Southampton enjoying the delights of golf
ing on Lung Isla nd have been attracted out
10 enjoy the cycle path, and very pretty
they looked in their Datty wheel suits.
prcttier than when yachting or tramping
The Two respective joys OF these laGies.
1t cannot be said that the Puilmans
make Long Branch, for heir cottage
upon the read to Asbury Park is too
uDPretcn,ious for that. BIT they ale very
nDcfal Summer Visitors, and the Branch
Is glad TO see them. Therefore, when
George M Pullman and family arrived
last week in that special car Of theirs,
named by that special daughter of theirs,
there was much rejoicing. The natives,
the townSpeople, like TO have them in
stalled in the cottage because 1t means a
daily liberal supply OF produce for the
large house parties they entertain, and
the young people like them tecause OF their
RpnerDsatN Among nttsr tGtpps E.l is
always row OF bicycles ranged along the
path a tie front Of tine piazza Tor al 10 ride
who please.
The wives OF politicians are prominent
this summer. You see item aid hea them
perhaps more decoious TO say Lear of Tho M
las yea hear Of the politicians themselves
for one thing, they are expected TO ans wer
4 voiurrinous daily correspondence, reply
ING To Whoever may write; aIi for anot her
Ihey must bc hostess TO every other foliti-
clan WHO may happen TO he in that par; OF
tho country
Ii Is ON this account that Mrs Brice,
III Newport, has had to employ Sanford
Beattl. as Il mag doIno, to conduct her
Establishment and leave her time to Gu
Joy the summer. And il is for that reason
that Mrs. Levi p Morton has fled from
Ellerslie and from the camp in the Adj
rondacks to come to Long Branch and
~
the same hotel is Abner Mckinley, skin
ing with n fraternal light
Mrs. Roswell p. Flower too, has for
saSen home CARES for the summer and
Is living in 4 hotel in Saratoga. But
the greatest change is for the Mortons,
whose housekeeping tales at that cuun-
try place of theirs have made fine para
era phing for lime without tell They
are Resting very quietly here. Mr.. Nor
ton looks little shrunken and worn,
but his eye is bright, and that, they say,
Is the mark or n young man. he can
swim and dive. and eujoys driving fast
horses
Secretary Lamont is here. to be near
Senator Hin, who is only au hour away
by the cycle.
The young ladies drive great deal
here. They are accompanied always by
a little tiger who sits bolt upright
upon the box and gives dignity, safety
and chaperonage. The younger the tiger
the better he futiils his mission His at
titu'le on the box may be motto Hess.
There Is tale here current that half the
summer tigers ire not all they seem to Be
not real flesh and blood and bones Norma
Munro, the girl with a name familiar to
all, has tiger aged only seven years
He is black as coal and OF figure which
dressed in livery, is precisely like a great
black toy doll. Upon the high seat, the
it'll. tiger sits motioniess durir, the long
drives. One day some one started the
story that the little fe;l1w was q dummy.
stuffed and placed there by Miss Munro
OF course such story made excite
mcnt in a place like Long Branch, where
excitements are craved for a diet. and
the sumner men set out to find il
the boy was stuffed or real. They ex-
perimented with him. threw mud al lii:.,
tossed up fruit s!yiy To him; but all to no
avail. He did not turn an eyelash.
Then an idea occurred to some one
Getting Il great slice OF watermelon he
held it up tempttnrly one hot day as the
vehicle dashed by in the dust There was
the slightest tremor OF an eyelash. And
the little dark face relaxed into a grin.
1t was alive. hut that does not prevent
many stuffed figure from riding on
I'll" box when suitable tiger cannot
b. found.
Golring has caught Long Branch. One
of its clubs. disnified with the mime o.
the Norwood Park Field Club. has leased
n great deal OF land OF Mrs. Norman
Munro for a long lease and will build
clubhousrs and lay out extensive links.
Marshall Wilder and Thomas Q. Sea-
brooke, the long and short of Laugh
md grow fat' day. are holding forth each
Afternoon in their respective coihcrs OF
The piazza Like d. b. Hiil n { Norraps!ie-
by-the-Sea and Whitney ut Newport, these
two similarly minded men have to keen
apart, for both want TO talk at once
and upon the same thing. Clemcntine de
We're Sapio. who WIS the first church
choir singer 10 be paid concert prices Sun
day mornings: Marie Wainwright and
Adele Richie are all here for a production