New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-12
AT WATCH HILL.
TIVE OCEAN HOUSE WELL KNOWN TO ALL FIRE
or-rNrr,RS OF THE r ,NOr'S RESORT


ouENrERs OF THE FAMOUS RESORT
Watch Hill. II. l.. is almost entirely surrounds
by water. The Atlantic Ocean on the east Long
Island Sound on the south and Little Narraganseu
Bay and the Pawcatuck River on the west. Thers
no marshes anywhere to breed malaria, ana 'hs
afr is pure and health giving fine carriage
road six miles long. connects the peninsula on
which Watch Hill is built with the mainland. Ths
beach Is beautiful expanse Of sand. with pictu'
rescue rocks and an undulating country as back
ground.
The air at Watch Inn is always cool and bracins
coming all sides directly from the open sea Tos
temperature is never In the least oppressive ana
the mercury always registers from five toNen de
grees below any resort on the New-Jersey coas.
Watch Hill may be reached from New-York ana
Boston by the New-Haven Railroad. The Coloni@
Express leaving Washington daily at 10 a M"
Baltimore. Philadelphia and New-iCrk conhec"
through TO Watch Hill without change OF cars
But all these advantages would count for llt'''
II the place were not we'll prepared for the to
c.ption OF guests. 1t has Of the most attrac'
tive hotels In Now-En gland. and the Ocean HOUSE
Al Watch Hn IL favorably known To all touns'.
who have spent any time there. Ii Will be opeh'.
for the season on June 10. and II will be manage
under the direct supervision OF J. +. champiin '"'
proprietor. A large addition 10 the hotel was com
peted last month. This new part connects VIE
the original structure. The main floor or the no'e'
is devoted to a new dining room. which has seat
ng capacity for four hundred people From eVe''
side of this room the guests have good ocea"
view The room is finished In old Colonial st!'~
the sides wainscoted Ia oak. and the ceiling M
shed with large panels. At one end is an orchesuof
platform. The second. third and fourth nocrs :;
the new part are devoted 10 well-arrsnSeu 81, So
handsomely furnished rooms. baths and parions
The hotel, standing the highest ground G T q
ma nds an excellent view from every room II -
also near the golf grounds and the residence pSs
of the place. The water supply for this no'ea ,,v
pure. coming from well which furnishes tsT
thousand gallons every twenty-four hours; lnu.1
are also two large ciserns holding eight hu,,s
barrels of pure filtered rain water Tor dr,t h ne
The entire sytem OF plumbing r ntted VIII, i.in.
latest approved appliances through cut nc " Snss
age Is perfect being conducted by large IRON Pas
direct from the hotel far into the ocean anu and ana
been pronounced by experts entireiy saie w."
healthfuL , 49,, ,,,mar
Golf players think Watch Hill an ideal suW ntte
resort and one of them says: 'The country ~ A.
distance back from Point Judith ana the shU.e scr
Watch Hill seems to have been made espe,cia" and
golf IL Is natural features tne vaIisnS II is
beauty OF ics rugged bowlder-topped nlli,cS came
exactiy suited ~ the delightful oid Scotcn rave
and there few II any golf clubs ,. when snroands
more attractive l..ere nearly perez -sr,enly
than those OF the Misqus,aicut Ciu3 "a iistsf.
none have moSs exQuisitely 0sau'su' anu
esting course"