New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
THE WEEK IN SOCIETY

Hollow village. undisturbed for a few pedes-
trians and innumerable bicycsts who, like fire
flies. are in their glory at this time OF the year
This Fourth of July seems to have inspired patri-
otc people with unbounded hospitality Every
one who has country place of any pretensons
are mere family gatherings others again are stiIl
aEnsd proPoftiqnS @ Of the rnods4n S5hsr6
WoTk viii be UNIVERSAL Even sgce 9y noise 6 and fire
Spain the pride and love of country. which at one
mode. has awakened. and, if one may use the
term. patriotism is a popular fad of the day.
The Fourth IS also the occasion for the begin
ming OF the summer resort season. The most tardv
hotel will throw open its doors this week and
from now until September fashionable life will be
at the seashore, the mountains. at country houses
and al the different retreats which this
vast country affords. Gradually Americans are
beginning TO appreciate the beauties and the re-
sources of their own land The yearly stav in
Europe becomes shorter each season, and new
and fishing stations being brought into notice
@ ana 8Pl'Sne t pace mas It's little summer colony,
ana ana II n Is moi NON aI4ns S al Newpqrt and Bar Harbor
length and breadth of the continent
The town is extremely dull Just now Houses
are barred, barricaded and deserted and the fash
ionable quarters are the sandy wastes of Sa-
nara When you meet one OF the fair members
OF the modish world in town, she Immediately be
comes apologize and gives her reasons for com
hitting this social solecism, even before you have
expressed any surprise It is the day of hansoms
and hired automobiles. The club restaurants are
never so well patronized as they summer
with The brisk competition Of their suburban
rivals which offer golf, comfortable rooms and
We'll served meals to the who must stay in
town. The Metropolitan and the Union have roof
gardens, and there is the balcony at the Knicker-
booker, where you find some one these
warm summer evenings There seems to be gen
eral idea that it is 10 be very hot July and the
hatters and tailors have brought out fashions
which should be popular in Manila, Honolulu and
Havana. The great broad brim white Alpine straw
hats, with a Fra Diavolo rakishness about them
RbjTe e3broidered bouses or those worked in lat
tice insertion, which gives them a deliciously cool
appearance
II IS quite surprising 10 find where many of the
unattached men have gone this summer. There
such colonies at Seabright, and again. at such
near localities as Bath Beach. Far Rockaway and
at Corey Island itself few people who do
not go Newport Bar Harbor until August
viii be found at the Oriental some Of the Long
Island hotels. Those who have country places
show disposition TO leave their very comfortable
quarters for the fashionable watering places. 1t
viii be a late and a short season. and gradually.
the English mode of country life is being
adopted by Americans. the fate Of nearly all the
resorts viii be determined. Newport will always
property there TO change it very much. but
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Outdoor sports supersede social functions. and
women and men are too tired after day of golf
tennis or driving or sailing racing to close
me egening with formal en{ertanme9t M an These
time in town. where has clear a visiting
a. the rher vateTinP niacas So1y % and tban 5,iee
large bali will be given and few who kee9 up
tie old traditions like Mrs Astor will entertaiR inter- in
al what are known as state dinners. But, on the
same night & al NewP0Ft tier may be half dozen
OF the other.
Men grow tired Of formal dinners. There was
story told last summer Of one Newport woman.
who in her despair, drove up and down in front
of the reading room, and then haunted the Golf
Club for hours in order to corral for dinner.
Scouts would absolutely be by different
hoftesses and the hunt became very ex-
citing It was occasion not to be missed, and
several young with social aspirations found
themselves in fashionable society. simply by going
there, staying boarding house and getting put
up at the reading room. And men who had
or not this viii be the situation this season re-
mains 70 be seen: It IS at the present moment,
are deserting Newport in focks for Canadian fish
i've For a JrbfIa IN coy3gIr+ go = toI,,+y f i
from social conventionalities.
In patriotic celebration Newport will lead 1t
stu hopes to have Admiral Dewey to head the
procession on the Fourth. The Admiral has said
that ne would appear a feature OF the
parade and the question seems unsettled. There
viii be plenty Of other attractions however. Will
IAN K. Vanderbilt, jr, Hermann Oelrichs and
others n have We offered handsome prizes for the yacht
me school children celebration, and eX-Commo
dore and Mrs. Ebrdge T Gerry, who have al
excursion on the Electra, which will be followed
ny dance in the evening There a number
o. dinner and fireworks parties, and the yachts in
the harbor viii be Illuminated.
This week Wakehurst will be opened, and James
J. Van Allen and the Misses Van Allen viii occupy
their summer home for the first time IN several
seasons Much In the way Of entertainment is ex-
pected Of them The house has been altered and
re6ecorated and the ballroom enlarged. The second
10 De a handsome girl, with all the grace of the
AStor women Those who remember her mother,
success as young unmarried woman in New-York
society: Mrs Astor sails next Saturday. and
she viii 90 10 Newport entertaining will begin at
Beechwood as soon she arrives.
Mrs- Hermann OeIrichs IS urging the worknen to
complete one part Of her house by July 10. This
has not seemed possible and on more than one
occasion Mrs Oelrichs has threatened to abandon
Newport for the season and return 10 Europe.
however, all haste is being made and the grounds
being laid out and there seems every indica-
ticn thar she viii gain her nort In The mean
a. the Munchinger cottage and have given several
eeIghttul luncheons and dinners.
One Of the first entertainments to be given at
Newport will be 2 dinner dance at the Crossways.
Mrs Stuyyesant Fish will have a guest this
week and probably the Fourth, Mrs. George
J. Gould. AIr and Mrs. Gould remained in town
Yesterday 10 greet Mrs. Kingdom, who arrived on
The 81. Louis. and then they their place
IN the CatskiIls for Sunday. George J. Gould
would miss the polo tomorrow, that he will
Undoubtedly be found at Prospect Park in the
poTt Wednesday. was driving up Fifth-ave in
cab Thursday morning was at Oakdale looking
which IS neaTly compieted and is supposed to be
~ Newport to-day.