The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-30
GOOD DEEDS LIFT BEHIND.
Rich Women Who Summer 10 Eeyp;Ft
Remember Its Poor.
TEoSE DOB-TAIL TROLLEY CARS.
Ice Boating y New sport Introduced BY
Col Norman-"Divcs" Forget
teth Not Lazarus In
the Winter.

Winter visitors to Newport will be sur
prised by two things-onc. that the Sound
steamers are frequently so badly crowd
ed that passengers are compelled to seek
rest on tho mattress OF midsummer. the
other. that the town is not nearly so dead
as they expected It to be.
1t Is true that the mansions OF the mil
lionalres on Bellevue avenue are closed.
and as forbidding In their aspect as in
summer, when guarded by gentlemen OF
color. There are. however. few rich
people who live In Newport the year
round and form the native aristocracy
OF the place.
The Normans. OF Boston. also OF water
works fame. spend much Of their timc
on the Isle Of Peace"-which. by the
way. answers to Its Indian name much
better now than It will few months
hence.
one OF the young Normans. known as
Colonel Norman, because no was on
the Rhode Island governors stan. has in
troduced ice-boating as a winter amuse-
mert for himself and the other residents.
IL is the first time that an ice-boat has
been seen there, and his friends take
very kindly TO 1t. They go sailing on the
little reservoir which is close by the
Eastern Beach'-not very exciting re-
creation. to go round and round so small
a pond. but It is easier than skating and
can be INDUCED at the same time. a.
a rest from that active exercise.
The street cars are even more pro-
vinclal in winter than in summer. The
bob-tailed horse car though fast becom-
ing extinct. is familiar to all OF us. but
the bob-tailed trolley car Is peculiar to
Newport. so far as present reports ex-
tend. Ones sympathies. or temper ac-
cordng to digestion, are aroused over
the struggles of the conductor OF the or
binary car to keep the trolley In place.
but when the Newport car gets on its
trolley" and the motorman deliberately
fixes the brake and as deliberately gets
down off the platform TO walk around
the car before anything can be done to-
wards adjusting the pole, why then. one
begins to appreciate the use OF street
car conductor whose only function may
have heretofore appeared TO us to spend
itself in telling us to step lively wheF
there was no place to step, ana TO turn
a deaf ear To our frantic appeals to stop.
The accommodating disposition OF the New
port motorman Is unparalleled. As = rule.
the cars are not supposed to run down
TO the beach in the winter time, but II
you want to go down ne will take you
and come after you on the next trip
without extra charge.
The fashionable women who spend their
summers in gayety In this favorite OF
seaside resorts, may appear To the casual
observer to be selfish and careless of the
wants OF others. but he who visits New
port in winter will find that this little
city's poor are better provided for than
those OF any other city in proportion To
it's size, az result of the fact that
Dives liveth there for a season and for
getteth not Lazarus when he departs. La
zarus is largely represented by the thrift
less colored population, yet the rich wo-
men who come there for a short
time remember only that these
same dusky unfortunates have
served them. and they leave large
sums OF money every year in the
hands OF trusted agents 10 see that II II
wisely expended for the benefit Of the
poor. In summer. II is easy for the
average man or woman of good health In
earn living by working I'm hotels. as
| guides. cabmep and the like. not To mem
ton the odd Jobs which are done by
extra hands on the large estates OF the
wealthy, but in winter there Is nothing to
| do. and were It not for the contributions
OF humane and philanthropic millionalres
many unfortunates would suffer.
ANNIE LAURIE WOODS.