New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-17
GAYETY WAKES AT NEWPORT
PRESENT INDICATIONS POINT TO
LIVELY SEASON
OPENING OF THE CASINO HoPs-LArE ARRIv-
AIS AT THE COTTAGES

Newport r. l. July 16 tSpeciaD.-It is to be
pretty lively season here after all, from present in
dications With but few exceptions the summer CO...
tages are already occupied either by their owners
lessees the hotels are all registering a large
number Of guests, the streets daily alive with
fashionable equipages and with pedestrians and
excursion parties landing people by the hun
dred from every boat and train arriving in the early
part Of the day. With the middle Of July, too.
comes the season for entertainments and Newport
is already feeling the social stir OF the summer.
That 1t is not TO be a dull season clearly
shown Monday night when the opening hop of the
summer was given in the Casino Theatre. At these
first dances II is expected that there will be
large gathering. but this year to the surprise prob
ably Of everybody the attendance was better than
Is often seen late in the season. the Casino officers
pronouncing the affair of tho best first hops in
their history. II notably however gather
ing OF the younger element In the cottage colony.
most OF those who have been conspicuous In other
years being absent is not inrrequenty the case
early in he summer.
Prominent among those present Miss DEL
richs daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs c. NJ. Oelrichs.
OF this years debutantes Miss Grant Miss Clapp.
Miss Gerry. Miss Rogers. Miss Brooks Miss Gray.
Miss Winthrop Miss Kane the Misses Stone, Mrs.
]. f. Plerson. Mrs y. d. Capp Mrs. Hermann
Ocrichs Mrs. G. NJ. Oelrichs. Judge and Mrs Gray.
Mrs. Gerry. Mrs. Walter l.. Kane Mrs Wysong.
Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Buchanan Winthrop. j. Kirk
Rensselaer, King. Peter Gerry. Willing Spencer.
Robert Gerry. W. x. Vanderbilt. jr.. Potter Pal
mer. Ir.. H. r. Winthrop. II. p. Rogers and J. S.
Rogers.
1t IS yet trne early FOR society to gather IN
large numbers at the Casino. but the daily morning
and bi-week!y evening concerts by the orchestra on
the horseshoe piazza listened to by constantly
swelling audiences At the Ocean House. too.
! which has entered upon the season with excellent
prospects the concerts are attracting many people
by their high quality. An unusually large number
OF guests already registered at this largest OF
the Newport hotels. and the bookings for the sum-
mer give promise Of fun house the season adj
vances. The opening dance week ago. was
pretty and informal affair.
AZ the New GINS Landlord Roberts secs every IN
dcation Of prosperous season. This is distinctive
/ ly family hotel. having in connection with 1t n
nu nber OF cottages for rental, where one may Sc
| cure all the comforts OF private house with
board in the hotel proper. Its location as the only
Newport hotel commanding view Of the ocean
gives IT many advantages and It has always at
tractod a desirable and exclusive coterie OF guests
/ It Is specially large house. and for this rea-
is liked all the better by many OF it, regular
fr,quenters Mr.. Roberts has had as his guest THIS
week his father-in-law William NJ Bates. OF the
Everett House. Ncw-York
The appointment this week Of Oliver III. =. Bel
4 mont to nj a vacancy the Board Of Park Com
mis.ioncrs gives to cottagc-owncrs from New
YORK majority representation thereon. 1neo-
dore *. Gibbs and ". Watts sherman being al
. ready members Mr.. Belmont has always been
much Interested IN all THAI pcrta.-s the prosper
ity and advancerna mt Of Newport. and should make
+ a valuable member OF the commission.
] Major Gibbs his colleague this week gave to the
/ local Young Mems Christian Association check
for 500 TO pay the OF tent in which is being
/ carried on successful work among tho soldiers Of
| tie 47th New-York Volunteers OF Brooklyn. who
/ L-,-f dam for vera al
! weeks
| An entertainment given early this week by the
dramatic organization Of the NewYork regimen
! in the local Opera House was great success in
/ every way. There was an audience which taxed tho
capacity OF the house. and the play, "All the Com
/ forts OF Home" was crcditably presented.
In aid 81 the work being carried forward by the
/ ladies ~ the Rhode Island Sanitary and Relief AS
J socaiion the Casino management has granted the
free Of the theatre FOR entertainments. and Of
rooms FOR sewing and the collection OF reading mat
! ter FOR distribution TO the Army and Navy and In
/ hospitals
\ series 81 handicap golf matches has been be-
! gun. and viii be- continued at weekly intervals
! At the opening confess, I'm spite Of unfavorable
weather conditions. there were about dozen who
/ completed their sores. This match was FOR cups
! offered by Reginald Brooks. which were won BY
/ John Bolt and H. NJ Brooks. the latter the father
OF the donor.
+ The So-footers arc dividing the honors in their
/ daily races fairly well. nearly every one OF the
| boats now here having taken at lease one prize.
/ Mr. Duryea's Naquero. however "a last year. Is
| thus far the champion OF her class.
Sea bass have begun strike In. two weighing
! respectively thlrty-lve and twelve pounds being
| taken in a single day recently by NewYork sports
men.
! Bishop Potter. Of New-York. who has been here
! some time preached and administered the rite OF
! ordination at Trinity Church week ago.
/ The first meeting u the Town and Country Club
| tho distinctvoly literary organization among the
summer residents Of Newport. which has been IN
! existence now for many years. WAS held this week.
| Mrs Julia Ward Howe reading paper on sixty
! Byihcsea the residence here OF Perry Belmont.
had been put in readiness for the occupancy OF It's
| owner but MIR. belmont has now entered the
! Army h" has given orders that II be closed for
| Mr. aud Mrs. Stuyvcsant Fish have taken pos
| cssion OF their new villa, Crossways. In Ocean-ave
As an Indication OF the expected arrival at no
distant date ol MIR. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
! the horses and stable employees OF the family ar
rived a, the Breakers this week.
Arrivals dnring me week inciude fserton IL
! Wuihrop. Of BeAeyue-ayo.. who has Just returned
from Europe; Andrew H. Sands and Mrs Victor
| Sorchan, OF lznaga-aye.. Mrs William b. ogden;
! Of Pnard cottages. Mrs. William II. Osgood and
iFfredsrick il. Aler and Mrs. William Aston. OF
| Bcechwood Bellevue-avc. Robert Goelet just back
Pe4Rns S nea sntes navy Of De- Rham cottage
Baron and Baroness de Scare. Of Paris. at Inchi-
| quin. Bclievue-ave.; Mrs. Edward r. Rock and
! Mss Rock recently returned from abroad, Jay
cottage: Professor charlcs W. Shields Hugh D.
|
| Mitchell Fearing villa Mrs Richard NJ Hunt.
| Alexander j. Bruen the berkeley; George Girls
| void Haven and Mr.. and Mrs. William Page
| THOMPSON Bruor Villino Bellcvue-ave.; Mr.. and
| Mrs Frederick r. Jones, Pen Craig. Harrison ave;
| C;oold Redmond. the Robinson. &. Oliver lseln.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed sin. u: Morgan. General Arson
| Mcdowell McCook. United States Army, retired,
| and family Conancut. and Reginald De Koven.
| Bishop Grafton. Of Fon du Lac, Wis. who has
| been the guest OF ex-Commodore T.. T. Gerry, Of
| Gciated las, Sunday at st. Johns Church.
| Herr Won Houtcn. formerly Minister OF the Meth
erlauds and Professor Mortimer l.. Earl. Of Bryn
| Mawr. and Mrs. Earl have been guests OF Judge
! II. VI. Booksaver. In Purgatory Road Robert l..
cutting Of l. Townsend Burden. jr. at Fair Lawn;
Henry 6. Gray; Of New-fork OF Judge !; Clinton
| GRAY: Robert Il. Hay. OF London, OF David II.
| King jr at Whitehall: Mrs. John Ellis Hoffman.
| of Mrs. Harold Brown; Miss Binnger. OF Miss Wet
| more at ChAteau-sur-M cr. Mrs. Bergman OF her
| daughters Mrs Lorillard Spencer and Mrs. II.
| Casimlr De Rham John NJ. Gaines OF w. s: *.
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