The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-08-27

erS far out in the SURF, is faNOrite re-
sort beneath the bluff where the mag
nificent 500-roomed Ocean View Hotel
lifts it's verandas and towers. This
portion of the island. as well as Mo-
hegan Bluffs, the South Light, Beacon
Head and other points, are favorte
resorts of the artist and the photo
2rapher.
The Block Island native is distinctly
slow. Even the mosquitoes, and they
have a few there this summer, n most
unusual circumstance. They are de-
lberatc in their movements, not at all
like the lovely insect familiar to Scran-
tOnians. but they wait placidly to be
smittcn by the heavy hand of the
aVenger, and do not even buzz. There
are many natives who have never been
off the island, and. of course, have
never seen railway train. They were
seized with CONSERVATION when the lit
tie street railway connecting the two
harhors was laid in July, and were
much exercised lest their steady old
horses would be frightened by the in
noVation. The cars are about rs large
as the Hotel Jermyn bus, and are
drawn by horses, and surely enough
the other horses of the island are ter
rorized by the sight Next year, when
the trolley is erected, they will proba-
bly, follow the example of the Biblical
swine and run down steep place into
the sea. Ok teams are popular among
the farming inhabitants, and they are
attached to wagons which appear to
run upside down and reversed as to
ends, for the small wheels are placed
| last.
Some of the epitaphs in the island
graveyard are unique. One reads:
| Here lies our darling baby boy;
He never cries or hollers;
| lie lived with us just six short weeks,
| And cost us forty dollars
] The Woonsocket House is popular
| place for Scrantonians. 1t is the most
| delightfully."- comfortable home inagin-
able, and is owned by family named
| Rose, one of the few original owners of
| the island. There have been Roses,
Balks. Rodgers, Littlefields and Rays
| almost ever since old Adrian Blok dis
covered it in 1914. Mrs. A. j. Rose,
| who is chief in charge, is a charming
person, cultured and refined, is an
| ideal hostess. Everybody likes her
go again year after year. Among the
prominent guests is Mr.. II. p Cham
berlain, the Well-known Standard Oil
| man of Buffalo, who with his family
have spent many summers here.
Sccantonians here this season have
| been Mr.. and Mrs. Rice, Mr.. and Mrs.
Pellio, Mr.. and Mrs. S. r. Henwood,
| w. II. Bradbury, NJ. Il. O'Malley. Miss
Benton Love. Honesdale; Mr.. and Mrs.
| Durham. Mr.. and Mrs s. II. Hayes,
Mr.. and Mrs. Heeley, Mr.. Warner and
Miss Ellen Searle, Montrose; John Will
liams, Fred w. Emerich Miss Anna
| r. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter l..
| IenwOod.
Another great point of interest is the
vicinity of the Vail Cottages, the
beautiful spot where Rev. Dr. and Mrs.
G. T.. Robinson spend much OF their
summers. At present the Misses Mat
tes of Scranton, are also guests there.
Beyond everything Block Island is
cool. There are no land breezes, for
there is but little breadth Of land, and
during the extreme weather of this
summer the dwellers here have known
nothing about the suffocating heat
Thin gowns are little worn and heavy
d-clothing has been used invariably
every night,
Today (Thursday) the weird doleful
notes of the fog horn are heard after a
weeks silence They sound like the
wailings of lost souls, but many are
the poor mariners who are saved from
the terrible rocks of this coast by theil
tombful cry. Fl. c. P.
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