The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-11
TOWN SUMMER BOARDERS.
NEW FoRRERS VINO PREFER THE CITY
10 THE COUNTRY.

Out OF It's own marrow OF citizenship. its own
at-home. home-bred people. New York has
developed q habit and quality OF I'm town"
summer boarder rs dlstinctlvely ephemeral
OF the '.just for the season. type as is ever
known at mountain and seashore and farm
lands resort.
These are all summer people at these four
tables" said q clearinghouse keeper to an
applicant lately. by the middle or end OF
September at the furthest they will all be
gone. and n new set como In, or. rather. my
regular winter standbys will be getting home"
"Southorners, l suppose, your summer poo
ple are2' it was remarked. New York has
great attractions for Southern folks at the
slack season of the year"
"Southernersl' he repeated. Not a bit OF
it.ssThese are all out-and-out New Workers, who
deliberately break up housekeeping or apart
ment keeping. or whatever they do In tho
winter. and get board somewhere 1t Is easier,
aud they are free to run about on little cnd-of-
the-week excursions than II burdened with
an establishment. no matter how simple. The
lady and her two sons who sit at this table" in
dlcating a corner niche. don't live moro than
four blocks from this house in the winter.
There is q middle-aged couple over there
whose daughters are ava with friends at a
summer resort. but who find it more conven-
lent and more in keeping with their tastes TO
stay quietly in town. The family Just next,
father. mother and son. have my most desira-
BILE rooms. They live ut tho X mentioning
q well-known apartment housed in the sea-
son. but the management gets q little slack
there In the summer owing. 1 suppose. to SO
many being away. and'they come to me. Two
Of these parties have been with me now three
summers in succession. and l have come to
look upon them as summer people just as
those who come from the Bahamas-I have
had q family from that region several ummers
in succession-or from Alabama or from Jer-
sey. Now. 1 know you think it's queer that
people from as nearby as that should come to
New York for the hot months. some from
Elizabeth and such places. but they do. and
I have several Brooklyn people also. The
secret Of their being here is that the men. who
are In business here in town, get relief from
the long journeys back.and forth which Is their
daily winter schedule. e.
"One of my household. q busy lawyer, who
makes the daily trip to and'from his Jersey
h~ome-where l believe they are we'll fixed, have
a nice. big house and all that-tells me his
faded nerves are getting really toned'up and
restored merely from the quiet he gets here.
Another OF my folks is the assistant manager
of a Broadway store near Twentieth street.
He makes the long journey over to Brooklyn,
a journey involving three changes of cars.
twice daily. all the winter months. and says
that the quiet strolls 60 and from his Office
which he gets here while his familysis away
and the Brooklyn home shut up are most en-
joyable to him. The rest Of the year he rarely
has u chance for a walk except on Sundays or
holidays. and he calls this summering in a
New York boarding house within walking dis
lance Of his office and where it is so quiet that
you can hear u pin drop. his recreation time Of
the year. He says he is counting the weeks
when he will have TO go back to the tiresome
car trips. and yet his family requires a large
house, and New York rents are too much for
him.
The young couple who have the table to the
right continued the keeper Of this in-town
summer house. ARE really in the swim in the
winter so far as society is concerned. and
come here frankly for motives of econo-
keep up with the pace they are going.
He has only, his profession and good pros;
poets and didn't marry any money, and to all
intents and purposes they are as much seclud:
ed here. buried you may say. at this season Of
the year. from knowledge of all the people
they know or whose opinion they would care
about. as though, they were in, the Rocky
are laying low here in the Off season. going
through q sort OF shutting down, non.spending
period; that Is much what the ,h birds sustain
the necessary amount of good. Now and
again they are gone for several:days together.
revelling in an invitation to this or that coun-
try house. where they meet people OF their own
kind and have a festive time. but they don't
ItNS luLuIl VLiJuEh VI Ginb SoII bbillR
out over the entire season. and SO are glad 70
fall back on this, modest establishment. My
house holds at this moment twenty-siX peo-
pie. all Just summer b9arders. and only nine
q them Varp are from nywhere but right here in
This particular intown summer boarding
house Tor intoWn people has been at great
pains to make itself summery enough in CON
are eight private baths in il and three Of the
ordinary sort that those paying less tariff may
top to bottom every h~eat-Suggesting winter
accessory has been abolished. sent away with
the rugs u and and G and ehrt and sr1l t ME1 to Si tie c eaFe
at the right time and put them all in place
ransom cuttings. screens. WICKER and Nbahm::
boo furniture, simple ,drapery or Just holland
coverings have taken their place. The floors are
stairs mufled with cool-looking stuff rather
In winter. but so eye and sense w%earying In
summer, has been housed in unused closets
Other and even more important and usu-
ally h insi t To secu Tb. s1 1aaIans t GmIITt dh%Hwyss
from the Kitchen is one salient principle, u
The Keeping Out. of nies and bothersomo
winged intrnders from the dining room do;
linen given out with liberal allowance f1r the
]grateiu! feature. and in, the matter OF food
salads in plenty and variety, a supply, 81 Ice
limited only by individual demand, DOth IN
bedchamhers and dining room by day and
night. and the freshest fruits and vegetables
To be got are staple features,
1T was much trouble and expense to have
all my winter plunder d caTted 1Tay and d, IN r.
the house when l first began to cater to sum
mer people, but l am well repaid for the
landlord. Other boarding houses are either
empty during the summer season or else Allied
up with people paying much less than tho
usual rates. when my house is as full az dur,
ing, the season and with just as reliable and
we'll paying guests. Any house with the big.
lofty rooms that. these, old-style New York
houses haye can be made very comfortable in
summer II people are willing to take the
trouble to do 1t. Most of the people who are
sensitive in the matter Of, personal comfort
and wish TO have especial belongings for the
respective seasons are only too we'll pleased TO
patronize a house where there Il trouble taken
for them. They pack away their own per-
sonal etceteras, such as they habitually Keep
about them in winter, down TO tho merest