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SEABRIGHT LAWN TENNIS CLUB.

Seabrlght y. j.. Aug. % (SpeciaD.-The original
members OF the Seabright Lawn Tennis Club IN
terest In which has been waning for some time are
loath to see 1t 80 down. The For Sale" card has
been visible for time yet It Is believed that In
terest will be revived Charles Macdonald has
taken the matter In hand and is working FOR a re.
organization 1t will cost something like $4,000 to
purchase the westerly half of the grounds incud-
ing all the buildings aud ample space for tennis
II has been suggested that association be
formed with a capital stock of $1,000 for the pur-
chase ard protection of the property. The club
could lease the grounds OF the association for $3.50
per annum The rent previously paid by the club
was 81 400 besides a considerable sum spent annu-
ally I'm improving the buildings
Mr. and Mrs Frederic Gilman, OF Cincinnati
Ohio are here for short stay They will divide
their time visiting Senator and Mrs G. Asa Francis
and Mr. and Mrs 7. +. Hoyt. of Atlantc-ave.
Mr. and Mrs A. h. Prcal OF Monmouth Beach,
are home from Saratoga. y. y. after a two weeks
absence
terestng study During the season hundreds Of
visitors from all parts of the country are intro
duced at the various entertainments and dances
provided and one has ever been known TO slip
away before registering Those who registered this
week were Miss Grace Hanna, OF Orange John Tor
rey ana u. ". Fye, OF New-YOrk, Miss Shear OF
Jersey City: G. Wooster, OF New-York; E. J. Fau-
bu OF Baltimore, Md; X, X Dennis. Chicago: s. r.
Reed Arson Baldwin. Mr.. and Mrs. H. 7 Imbrie
OF Bayonne: c. Quarter. Louisville Ky; G. l.. Mar
tin Summit, n. j.. Samuel ~. Potter. NewYork.
w b. Clylie New-York Jennings s. Cox, Jr. San
tiago do Cuba, and Miss Julia L. Street. Chicago.
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cheeress cleanliness. but yet cleanliness. This
is 10 be noticed we'll down Cherry-st
Further along. at the end Of Water-st within
a block Of Corlears Hook Park. is. however,
slum memory Of much nterest-'Swan's Castle.
1t is an old fashioned. dirty tenement house OF
no knows how many years age, yet occu-
pied by a cheerful race of happy go lucky Irish.
The name Swans Castle" goes with 1t be-
cause of the man, many years agone, who built
IT or first owned II. 1t Is at No Cos Cherry-st.,
and once upon time had a villanous repute.
Next door, to the south, certain Cat Alley
stood, and here a famous gang had its nightly
meeting place. raising pandemonium, commit
ting all sorts of crime, never asleep after night
fall.
That gang has long since passed out Of ex-
istence. and stable now occupies Cat Alleys
site The castle still tries hard TO live up to
its olden reputation. The neighbors say that
never a night passes without a fight within It's
walls, and it's dwellers are sodden and grewsome.
Women with gray shawls over their heads
lounge about its doorway, and de duck" Is
CHASED" with exceeding and frequent regu
larty by means Of battered pals.
IN RoOsevelt-st there some sights worth
seeing, too. At No. 81 Laght-st. a small colony
Of Greeks and Italians herd together. Lewis-st.
has some evil spots. And in -hundred-and-
twenty-fourth-st. between First-ave and the
river there is The Devils Frying Pan"
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were the Rev and Mrs. w. o. Baker. Justice IN
graham Mrs Frederick JOY, Miss Fanshawe' MI
Richardson. Miss Roe, Mr. Shepard. Miss Cochrahe'
Mr. and Mrs W. c. Allison. Miss Davis Miss van
Nest Mrs Baird James Ross Todd, Miss knoWi-
ton and Mr.. Lee.
Mr. and Mrs Philip Livingston's guests were MIS-
Jules Reynal. DR.. and Mrs. W. W. Seely MT ana
Mrs. MADDEN, Wett Van Nest, Peter Marie the
Count and Countess Laugier-Nillars, Mr.. and Mrs
j. j. Emery. Mr. and Mrs. Abercrombie, Mrs. Stew
art and Miss Furness. Mr.. and Mrs George Draper
gave a small dinner party In the Palm Garden, and
their guests were Mrs. Davie Miss Grace seely,
Miss Helen Seely. Miss Lawson, Miss Conner. Mr..
Cochran Glare Draper, Mr. Dayie, Mr. Richardson
and Preston Davie.
Mrs De Grasse Fox entertained Mr. and Mrs.
Newbod, Mr.. and Mrs. Johnston Mr.. Crosby, Miss
Trevor Mrs Baird Mr.. Love, Mr.. Rdgeway and G.
Galatn. Mrs Brock also gave a dinner for four
One OF the most brilliant dinners Of the week
was that given Friday night by Mr. and Mrs
Dave Hennen Morris, at Bogue Chitto. Covers
were laid for twenty, and the guests were Presi-
dent Harris Bishop and Mrs. Lawrence, Senator
and Mrs Henderson. Mrs. John A. Morris. Mr.. and
Mrs Redmond, Mrs Post Mrs. F. l. Morris Mr.
Phelps Mr.. and Mrs. Perrepont Edwards, NJ.
and Mrs. De Witt Cuyler. Mr.. and Mrs. Gardiner
Sherman and James Legendre.
E. j. Curley gave a dinner of thirty-fve covers
at the Malvern on Friday evening In honor OF the
American Ambassador TO Italy, General William
F. Draper and Mrs. Draper. The new palm gar
den at the Malvern never looked better. and the
table decorations were exquisite Mr.. Cureyss
guests were General and Mrs. Draper. General
and Mrs. John NJ Schofed. Senator Eugene Hale,
Baron Hengelmuller, the Austrian Minister, and
Baroness Hengelmuer Admiral Upshur. Count
and Countess Laugier- Villars Mr.. and Mrs. George
Davie Justice and Mrs. Edward Patterson, Or.
and Mrs. W w. Secly. Mr. and Mrs j. j. Elmer.
Mr. and Mrs Henry l. Barley Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Abercrombie, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles +.
Sprague Mr.. and Mrs John Brown. Jr, Mrs
Dodge Miss Christine Bidde, Mrs; Frederic JOY
Mrs Henry Whelen and Captain Thomas J. Bush.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank II. Plat entertained at the
Malvern Sunday evening. Their guests were
Miss Pomroy, Miss Patterson, Mr.. and Mrs. Beals.
Carroll Brant Chiffon and Henry Patterson.
On Tuesday reception Of more than ordinary
Importance and interest given at the Malvern
by c. Theodore Bjorksten assisted by Mrs. Ed,
ward Patterson. Mrs, Alexander Van Nest ana
Mrs Frederic JOY Miss Eleanor Stewart Pat
terson Miss Dodge. Miss Elizabeth Davis. Miss
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had light thrown into It by the razing Of some
Of the very worst of the Norfok-st tenement
houses and the planting of park where SUI
fok-st. meets the region Of East Broadway.
But much of the Ghetto is dark and unclean-
~ as before. Its wealthy coreligionists-men
with Jacob II. Schiff in the front rank-said
some years ago that the Ghetto could be made
habitable only by drawing many Of the people
away and transplanting them. and it seems as
81 these wise philanthropists were right. The
slum is there. in many a cross street and along
the highways. The Italians. too about Eliza
beth and Mott SITS. and over in the old negro
quarter on Sullivan and Thompson SITS. have
Yormed creditable limitations. in a small way, of
the old Mulberry Bend. Down by Corlears
Hook, despite the park. there are still tenement
houses homes Of sOdden humanity And in
Washington and Greenwich SITS. near the Bat
kery Greeks and Syrians swarm, the stroller or
philanthropc visitor finding there filthy dens
las ever disgraced this city on the banks Of the
hudson.
THE REAR TENEMENT HOUSE NOT ALL
A good proportion of the rear tenement houses
pre- gone, owing to the crusade made by Charles
&. Wilson, President of the Board Of Health some
months previous to the latest incoming Of Tam
many TO power Such not, however the
whole OF a Stun, does the slum vanish when
ahese disappear. Dirt. disease and the worst
OF sanitary conditions may quite as well Turk
Sn front tenement, a court or a yard, and
pvercrowding may be quite as marked and as
serious A very interesting and important dis
covery which the Charity Organization Society
has just made, and one which Lawrence WELLER
the latest tenement house expert. is at present
laying much stress upon is that many of the
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Henry and Mr. Bjorksten sang Among those pres
ent were Mr. and Mrs. William Jay SchieTeln.
General and Mrs. John NJ. Schofeld Mrs Dave
Hennen Norris Judge Ingrahami Count and cCun-
yerneur Morris A Grip Envoy OF Sweden: Peter
Marie Baron de Ledan, Charles Howe. c. b. Brnn.
the Danish Minister; NJ Aart. of the Belgian Lee
CATION: NJ Taigny, secretary OF the CHILEAN Lega-
zion; Mrs. Edgar n. Scott; Mrs Thomas A Scott.
Mrs j. Bddle Porter Mrs. j. Madison Taylor.
Mrs Walter Damrosch, Miss Furness. Admiral and
Mrs Upshur and Charles Robinson, Of the French
Embassy.
The largest dance OF the week was subscription
affair given at the Malvern Tuesday evening by
thirty OF Bar Harbor's fashionable women. over
four hundred guests attended. The women who
gave the dance were Mrs. William Lawrence Green.
Charles +. Sprague. Mrs. Charles Frey Mrs. Gar
diner sherman. Mrs Thomas \. Scott. Mrs Philip
Jules Reynal Mrs. Geoverneur Morris. Mrs. II. Hor-
ace Galatn. Mrs Edward Patterson, Mrs Herbert
dleton, Miss Christine Biddle. Mrs, John 3. Treyor.
Mrs Morgan G.. Barnwell Mrs. ketterlinus. Mrs.
De Grasse Fox and Mrs. Frank Ellis.
Although the Newly Yacht Club IA a feet will
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and well to the west, there have been fewer
changes than In any other part OF New York
The old buildings yet stand In unbroken rows
Tor many block; the builder is not nearly
the familiar figure he Is elsewhere in the city
Especially Is this so In lower Greenwich and
washington SITS Half century is the age OF
many OF the structures here, and in their prm
quaint red brick they look 1t. Some are even
Older. and are plainly the former residences OF
persons Of substance back in the thirties and
before. made over for many families where a
single household once was
SUGGESTION OF QUAINTNEss
All this gives these blocks a suggestion of
quaintness that the passing foreigners now
dwelling there accentuate. For many year
this quaintness has gone hand in hand with
much dirt. That is fashion quaintness fire.
quently has throughout the world Here Il has
been mixed with too much overcrowding to the
square foot. however This Is a portion OF the
town tenement students have long had an eye
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away: they only say that the work Is but just
begun.
If one with a nose and an eye for poverty
and filth would search out some OF the especiai
plague spots in the old city OF New-fork w.
day, let him wander In and out OF the 'ene-
ment houses and rookeries OF lower Green"'eh
and Washington SITS 1t should be SAID mere
that this account does not pretend to be ru'
directory or catalogue Of the existent New
York slums 1t simply touches upon rev OF
the most malodorous and remarkable. The sum
to-day in New-York is not picturesque. save
sometimes in the case of foreigners; 1t Is merely
sodden and drear.
THE PASSING OF THE GANGS
The passing Of gang" life has robbed IL OF a
great part of It's drama. There Is now no
"Border gang" such once terrorized Gouver-
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on. The odors and the herding Of the people,
two facts nut In plain evidence. Will repay the
study.
Greeks and Syrians. as has been said. dom'
nate this quarter They have made parts OF II.
assisted by the age OF the buildings. into
tenement house region OF dread. The word
parts" Is used to qualify a statement that
might otherwise be unjustly general Many OF
the Syrans here are Of the better class. and
keep their rooms and the buildings they occupy
neat and as clean possible under the circum-
stances But the Greeks above them In Wash
ington- st. and round about them follow none
OF the hygienic laws Of the scrubbing brush and
OF soap, while the Syrians OF the lower ordsr
fairly walIow in an uncleanlihess that Is pro-
found.
In the back yard Of Nos 101 and 1903 Green
wich-st a quaint looking rear tenement house
sets at right angles to the houses that face on
the street Like all of the back yards in this part
of town this space is dismal and depressing.
Not a vestige of life relieves 1t except the in
termnable gamins OF the street-ragged girls
especiaIly-who chase out and in from the dark
end noisome halls of the front building. OFT
and again some tired looking mother drags her
self from her rooms with the inevitable baby
OF the slums and sits listlessy on the doorstep,
holding the infant mechanically.
The Smell of must and dirt is inseparabe from
this yard, and even more marked is II inside
both front and rear buildings Poyglot nation
alities hold the fort here. and the one avenue
from which one might hope for fresh air and
sun,ight-the streets shut off because of the
elevated railroad structure overhead.
Here for blocks around the Orientals and
Eastern Europeans peaceful, quiet beings.
except on the rare occasions when they are once
aroused 1t may be that they know no better
than squaor or that they accept this phleg-
matically as "AIahs will" with the stodty
OF the men and women OF the East Whatever
the reason. they seem content with their lot and
make no effort to shake themselves free from
the CRIME and filth they dwell in. The "Poack"
Jew lives i'm poverty and discomfort only that
he may burst out in few years as capitalist.
The Italian saves money jan the mlCst OF MS
dirty surroundings, goes back TO his loved home
in Italy or II he stays here rises in small
way In the world. But Syrian and Greek seem
70 have no ambition at all. They continue IN
their squalor. spending what little they earn
and satisfied with what each day brings forth.
This is chiefly remarkable for the reason that
the Syrians Of the better class evolute into eX-
cellent merchants and become very prosperous
Another backyard of the quarter picked
cut at random. is in the rear of No 100
Washington-st. Here. standing by a wooden
pump there was found a charming lit
tie girl of some dozen years, Greek girl
utterly different in her modest repose from
the bowling urchns Of both sexes who were
never quiet The charm of the girl could only
be perceived dimly, ii is true. 1t had to be de-
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neur Slip and its vicinity; mo Short Tails
no "Whyos' Forty Thieves" These and
others like them gave the slums a painted ex-
element an atmosphere of the delightfully."- I'M
expected. Now the stroller in these localities.
even by night has only to fear the petty. low
proved thief, the drunken wretch or. perhaps. a
guinea" knife, II he prizes With lack Of judg-
ment. The districts are grimly dismal. stale
beer" has almost thoroughly vanished with the
arrival Of beer pumps. but the denizens Of
these haunts seem to have found something to
make them quite dull witted.
on the way to the Syrians and the Greeks
profitable stop may be made at court filling
the centre of the block bounded by Cortlandt.
Washington. Dey and West SITS Its entrance
is in Washing ton-st., and the name for 1t Is
Little Fifth Avenue" No Satire phrase could
At 1t better In tenement house that backs
upon this court-an ordinary 25-foot house
sixteen families live A dramshop for long
shoremen and sailors in West-st. pours into 1t
much human scum. Little more than a wide
alley with the sun shut out of 1t much Of the
time by the tall buildings all four sides, II is
continually place Of filth The debris OF the
houses and from the streets without finds its
way unerringly within.
The air is thick with tapping clothes on sag
ging lines. II these cleaned clothes are ever
worn. however. there is indication Of 1t on
the part of any of the inhabitants Unwashed
children run in and out. under the carts stand
ing idle. and over the heaps Of rubbish and
fostering dirt. The picture is not a pleasant
one, but IT is typical Perhaps the "slum touch"
is laid on a little thicker here than In many
other places
Along the West Side. below Fourteenth-st
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recently erected tenement houses, especially OF
those on the East Side, are even less sanitary
than the old buildings were. Mr.. WELLER says
he has ample evidence that the air shafts
frequently insufficient, sending the vest odors
I'D from the lower floors and allowing for hard
iy an atom Of pure air. In such cases, he con-
tends, the last the modern state Of the New
York tenement house is worse than the first.
So seriously indeed. is the "slum menace"
regarded by thinking people that the Charity
Organization Society is arranging a complete
exposition and exhibition TO be held In this
city in December in which IL will catalogue
blocks and conditions and make public all
phases Of the problem. Records and recently
taken photographs in Mr.. Veiller's possession
and in the collections OF DR. William Howe
Tolman. of the League Cor Social Service in
dictate the gravity with which these experts look
upon the present status of the tenement hor-
ror." They do not minimize what has been
done, or undervalue what has been cleared
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MassApEoyA ENTERTAINMENTS.

Massapequa. Aug 8.-As September approaches
the MassapeQua Hotel remains well hIed' ana az
MANY of the sojourners who have been so COM
Portable and contented during the summer are
loath 10 60 Snedeker & Co. have decided 10 Keep
the house open well into the month The enter
tainments which have been almost continuous s'p0e
the opening still follow one another In rapid sue
cession and scarcely evening goes BY without
its special amusement On Wednesday decidedy
novel series OF tabeaus given. the SUBJECTS
being raken from the popular theatrical successes
OF the last season. Handsome prizes were onereu
for the correct naming Of each scene. Some OF
the stage settings extremely effective ana r.
fected great credit on the women by whom ,ns
affair Was directed DR. Homer b. Sprague won
first prize by correctly guessing all OF the taoeau'
ten I'm number and Mrs +. r. Baldwin. the secohui;
On Friday evening progressive euchre occ c h1
the time the first women's prize being won ~
Mrs w. II. Nottingham and that for the men %
w. H. Sanford. -, = vos,.r
and family Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Duryee. j. {. May
bury Mrs F. B. Hghet. Mrs w NJ R2 yos,n,}n
OF New-York and Mr. and Mrs Henry Balu"'nI
Mr. and and Mrs. J. W. Gaylor ana daughter u
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AT SAYVILLE.

Sayville, Long Island. Aug. 8-An the villages
along the South Side are affected more or less by
what goes on at the different resorts on Great
South Beach, across the bay. Therefore, Point o
Woods has been watched with great interest and
not little pleas sure this summer. 1t has been sue
cessful from the very beginning OF the season.
and although little advertised and shut on from
direct communication with Sayv.lle and Patch
ogue. IL has attracted many people A new yacht
club has been formed by the members OF me col.
Ony and the first regatta was sailed last
Saturday afternoon over ten mile IRAN
GUAR course. The first prize. an American yacht
ensign was awarded TO Eugene Y. Brewster, the
clubs commodore who sailed the Emile IS among
the officers and members of the club are william
H. Terry, John g Dempsey; j huntington E wall sa6
Babylon is making great preparations for the
entertainment OF the l21rh RegimentT5,ihe Su HIN
bee and Captain Joshua H. Smallng were APP
pointed at a recent meeting OF Babylon citizens as
the committee in charge of the plans Tor the enter
tainment of the regiment. -
The ew-Rochelle 6remen are camping in Bay
Shore In the vacant lot at the foot OF CHnton,aNe
Miss Marion A. Short. who reclted a, tue hosan
benefit, is to give recital on THURSDAY evea a
August 81 at the Prospect House Tor the pehet' ot
St Peters Church. Bay Shore. 90. .N.t-
SCHUYLER Parsons and family nave leit tneH
country home Islp for short stay az par .
bor and Mrs samuel Harh6r M for as few weeks
The Marine Club OF Patchogue held It's annual
bali tonight at the Clifton House II Is the chlet
affair OF the season In Patchogue and all the nelgh
boring villages. , ....,,
Miss Kathleen Gilbert. OF Pachogue. Is entertain-
ing a large house party at Brightwood, one OF 'ne
n est beautiful places In this vicinity Mrs gilbert
Miss Eva Woods OF Killcare. .Bayport. has Teen
entertaining Miss Grace Swallow, OF Brooklyn
among other guests.
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tected through thick coating Of dirt. But the
suggestion was quite enough. A funny foreign
baby blinked in this girls arms. Both We're
l!etless. torpid The background Of the picture
had reason TO make them so. Again dirty
pavement. pump the relic OF primitive days,
and odorous ramshacke sheds
THE TURKEY HOTEL"
One could very nearly imagine himself in the
low quarters of Naples, so Italianes1uo in STUN
effect. 50 foreign in every detail is the Turkey
Hotel" the barrack like tercment house OF Nos.
% and u WESTINGHOUSE. The police speak of
this as absolutely the dirtiest tenement house
in this part of town. some say In all New-York
to-day. WashingtOn-st. tenement houses Of this
order have been profitable real estate holdings
these last few years-they have had little or
nothing in the way Of repair Turkey Hotel
Is the hotbed of Syrian improvidents lost 10
cleanliness. Its little rooms are full OF strange
smells, stale odors remain in plentiful profuson.
the evidence OF animal herding. Gay, gaudy
prints Of Greek Church saints hang on these
walls icons burn here and there. 1t Is with
squeamishness that one tours through THIS ana
adjoining buildings. He finds filthy little shops
on the street and always the hum OF a strange
people. people that, remarkable to say do not
mind any of this rather delight in 1t all.
From the back windows Of Turkey Hoter'
there Is. however, a picture worth the seeing;
a grimy interior Of a block. but one Astounding
in old time architectural effects, especially
view OF a series OF wooden balconies such as
not indeed Of the New-York Of to-day. 1t Is
the old New York. applied to evil uses
Where negroes once held high revel ana the
verse element of them piaged unmercifully-
the region OF Thompson and Sullivan SITS. near
Prince st.-.stands a bitterly bad sum the de-
struction OF which wac promised two years ago.
A street extension improvement has been
ranged to stamp II out. This Is "Sullivans
Alley" "Murderer's Alley" by better known
name so called on account OF the negro crimes
committed there. Ions since deserted by the
African race, who driven out by the In
vasion OF the Italians First crime and dirt.
from the earliest sixties. when neRrodom settled
there In great numbers then dirt without crime
"a peaceabie body OF Italians-but such dirt ~
the negroes could never have stood.
MoTT-ST. BARRACKS.
Another slum that should gO-but this. alasl
shows no signs of demolition-is that under tho
very nose of Police Headquarters. also Italian
That historic bane OF the Health Department
the "Mott-st. Barracks" almost directly oppo-
site the rear door of Headquarters is still there
doing business at the same old stand" though
II must be confessed that there have been i'm
proyements In paint and plumbing. Elzabeth-s
Just below Houston-st Is. however. the same
old spot. Its rank tenement houses bristle with
grimy balconies and fire escapes. desalation is
the streets name. despite the surging crowds
and the uncared for. wild children. No picture OF