The morning times., 1896-07-19
LOTS OF POLITICIANS
/. c. Platt Affects a Dotted Shirt
and Hill Has a Habit of Keep.
ing His Hat On.

DedCH,
Beach is the place foreigners know about
as we know about Carlsbad aud Nice.
Everybody who crosses the water touchesat
these spots for day. Manhattan's reg
lister list shows more titles in one week Of
summers heat than all the other resorts in
two months of that time.
Bogus counts there be here as well us
real ones, bat after sauntering around
for u day the former pack tier trunks
and leave. They lad supposed that 10
come to Manhattan with foreign ac-
cent and a foreign title would insure in
PRODUCTION 10 all the heiresses OF Amer
lea. But when they find that Count Bo-
guski is OF no account unless suitably
presented with letters, they bid goodbye
10 Manhattan, and go away feeling that
Americans are much less title-craZy than
reported. The presence of three OF these
gentlemen, all wandering aimlcssly up
and down the pronienaaes, last week.
brought these facts strongly 10 mind.
Manhattan's three peculiarities are viz
idly present this year-its verandas, its mu-
sic andits politicians. The former are broad
er than ever the second louder, and the last
more anxious. Even the verandas and the
music fail TO hold them, and you see them
gathering along tie beach. anxiously ill.,
curing OF the wild waves the things they
Cd1EOt ask else WueTe
PLATT'.; SHIRT FRONT.
I. c. Plat, tire much pictured man, to
whom eacn new portrait is sword thrust,
and who wants TO he the power behind the
throne. wholly invisible from the front there
of. comes down TO Manhattan every after
noon as the sun cuo.s. He always takes the
same boat, sits upon the same corner of the
upper deck. puts mas hand in the same pocket
for penny for the mus clans. and waits
until a certain number have stepped off the
boat before he leaves his seat. People who
have been here twenty years back remein-
Der that he has aiwa Us done the same thing.
He never smiles on these trips, and relaXes
only after he has put on a dotted shirt for
dinner by the waves. The day he expected
Warner ilieriie wore. nOttwodotted shirts,
but a dotted shirt and dotteitie.
David b. III spends his summers on the
same water route. but a little way off. He
likes the Shrewsbury river famed for
oysters and catsup-and he has rooms in u
very beautiful hotel overlooking the river.
There are awnings and vines athIs windows,
and there is a back stairwa V. down which
he comes to escape observation. He drives
much in q little dogcart, and looks very
handsome. He is fine-lonninr man, ID. b.
Hill. His hair is black around his head. and
when he has hIs hat on andhis coat buttoned
he looks a beauideal. With hat off and coat
baroness and stoutness TO keep up the glory.
Mr.. HIS country place up the Hudson is
the finest private house in the world, but
Hill loves tie romantic shrewsbury.
The epidemic for going around the
world Continues, and Manhattan gets
its share of it. a trip around the globe
includes a stUp-uver ticket at this Babel
of America. Here all tongues are heard
and all dinners tasted. Here the Ferris
wheel and the merry-go Found revulvc
forever.
The next al l. the W ord FOUNDERS ex-
pected are the Baldwin bride and groom,
of California, married a week ago. Mrs.
Ia Twin, the BRIDE was Miss Hobart, IF
unquestioDed millions, and Mr.. Baldwin
the popular Charley Of all the New York
clubs. He is, by the way said to be the
"ungest brother of Mrs. Edward Parker
beacon, OF domestic fame, and is con-
nccted with all the aristocracy OF the coun-
.ry.
This couple, travelling overland with
trunks upholstered in white chiffon, will
DC given 4 genuine fetc mt Manhattan.
can they be hired TO it, they are to be
seated upon Il broad reranda hung with
-Thite ribbons and roses, and dined upon
tupids served in all forms.
A very odd mission visited here the other
cay. 1t wis headed by a well-known phi
who had in her charge six
-oung ladies'. They were Of the type known
as Settlement Girls young women OF
wealth. who renouDce the world in order to
reform the siums.
REFORM COMFY.
Coney Island, which is one end Of Nan.
haitian Beach, Was the object of their cru. |
sldc. They had never been on the streets
of Cairo, and were surprised TO find such |
pleasant walking, and as for the Coney Isl |
ind snake cliarmer, she really was a very |
delightful young person, If only she would |
veal skirts!
There are worse places than Coney.
Another mission passed through here |
the other day. In it were two daughters |
of Arson Phelps Stokes. who are on
their way around the world TO visit the |
missions thereof. Strange occupation for !
the summer girl,
beautiful summer matron is Mrs.
Frank Beard, who was Maude Howard, |
daughter of Joe, jr.'' Mr. Beard is |
one OF the best known gentlemen sportsinen |
of the country, and is said to own '.string"
that would reach from Washington Park |
to New York.
whist congress- wherein fish stories |
had Il strange way of declaring themselves |
truinps, has been in session, with the re- |
suit of calling the game into unusual sum- |
mer activity, and you see men whom you |
would not suspect guilty OF such hard work |
sitting soberly and solemnly down for a |
midsummer rubber with the thermometerat |
0S degrees.
Horse dinners" are popular. You invite
your guests. get up a menu. aud spend two
hours, after the coffee. telling horse