The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-29

keeps its color A1d freshness well
enough; but the splendid carvings and
gildings, the frescoes and tie rich deco
ratlons of the interior are being injured
by the sea fogs that come up at night
and creep through the smallest crew
ices and sway and fit in the corridors
and vaulted rooms like shrouded ghosts
dancing weirdly in deserted halls.
After the mistress of Marble House
became mistress of Belcourt, one of the
Vanderbilt boys tried living there alone
with the small army of servants which
it takes to manage the place But he
found the house to depressing He
said it was like living in tomb, and
he fled after brief trial. The place
never has been occupied since. Some
day a millionaire may come along,
drive out the sea fogs light the fires
on the marble hearths and give the
great mansion a set of associations
more cheerful than it has now.
Marble House belongs, of course, en-
tirely to the modern world of Newport,
the summer colony. A few New York
people had heard of Newport as a sum-
mer home and had tested it before the
civil war, but they were not many. 1t
was distinctively southern as a sum-
mer city until after the great war be-
tween the States. AS soon as that war
closed the wealth of New York
swooped down upon Newport and made
the place it's own.
The southerners had not the means
left to enjoy it, even had the northern
invaders not taken it from them. When
the New York millionaire set UP his
household gods along the cliffs of New
A. I,- ,ok -, ha 6roV Of he
civil war was accomplished-the slave
holding aristocracy ceased to exist.
Even its playground had been seized
upon by the conquerors.
Every year the summer Newport be-
comes more artistic as regards its
houses and its grounds. The architec-
tural monstrosities which were perpe-
trated for rich men in the sixties and
seventies in all parts of the country
have their representatives at Newport,
but the millionaire of to-day knows a
thing or two about art and architec-
ture. and is able to pick out a compe-
tent architect to construct his villa.
OF late the Newport colony have been
going in for landscape gardening. 1tal-
ian gardens and such adjuncts to their
villas. And this is a good sign, an ex-
cellent sign, a sign of the appreciation
of the beautiful. Some of these Italian
gardens are elaborate affairs, costing
so much money that an ordinary fam
ilv would consider itself rich If 1t pos
sessed it. The garden of Mrs. Hugr
Auchincloss-a beautiful thing of the
kind-cost $50. 1000 and there are others
scattered about among the villas which
probably cost as much.
The gardens of Newport are not
nearly as well known as they deserve
to be. their possessors having adopted
the modern policy of "seclusion, whlch
has become a fad now among the col
ony" The Newport summer colonists
never seem to have struck the happy
medium concerning publicity and pri-
vacy. Many of them jump from self
advertising to strict seclusion OF them
selves and all that is theirs ana pack
again in a bewildering manner.
one wealthy New York woman VINO
onened her new house on the cliffs last
simmer has declared that the place
never shall be photographed. There is
no especial reason why II should OF
shonld NOT be- 10 is a good example
M a NEWPORT villa but there are many
others as handsome and as character
,stic But the lady's vehement calling
unon the gods 20 witness that her
house shall never be photographed mas
set every photographer In New YORK
snA Rhode Island keen with deter
Mutation 20 take a picture Of a.
There was nothing so shrinking about
a. california millions which built the
ba,.se mat a photograph 81 n would
~ a deeerratian. hut. bless you, New
s..,t nust have its fads N man of
Z voman Who can pay Tor Wbims -