The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-02

 Fish has decided to board up Cross roads, or sell it. Mrs Fish is wise wo- man. She reads the future with the clear vision of a Greek sibyl. The hand of the times is on Newport. By this I mean that in these days of great wealth the modo of living has changed and Newport Is sidetraoked In the evolution of fashion Houses or. grand scale have been erected and ball rooms and banquet halls await the minstrel and the chef These gentry are ready. but the guests. There comes the rub The young people do not care for Newport life the dances and the dinners. coun- try life has given them no love for closed rooms and midnight hours. Those who go to Newport are the new swells, those newer than the Vanderbilts oelrichs and Cews. l said swells, I should have said those who are moving earth and heaven to be swell.
 Mrs. Fish finds 1t difficult even with Harry Lehr, in pink pajamas, to attract youths to this place. She wants an es- , tate. Well, she will have it. It is anus ing however, to find that she has made a double discovery. Simultaneously she ClSCONerS the uecllne or NeNpOfls $ at fractions and that her husband finds it an unpleasant weekly journey. It took ten years to find this out.
 l may say that when the element that Mrs. Fish represents leaves this lovely spot. life. with all due respect to Mrs. Fish, will be vastly pleasanter. She brings with her a lot of dissatisfied, dis contented people, who pine for excite ment and introduce artificial pleasures. A o+f .f .,If Ilo.- in the false lights of her vaudeville dances and dinners.
 The pony races of the new race track of the Southampton Horse association, in Moses Lane. attracted a large number of people to Southampton. and many dinners were given in connection there with at the Meadow Brook club and the various cottages. These races are al- ways popular features of the Southamp- ton season. being strictly barred to pro- fessionals, and the gymkhana features in particular furnished much entertaIn- ment. Charles T. Barney, George R. Schieffelin. James l.. Breese and James L. Barclay were among those who had the management of the races in hand.
 number of well known people have chosen this time of the year for visiting
 
 man Francis Burton Harrison and Mrs. Harrison. who was Miss Crocker, of Cal ifornia; MT. and Mrs. Alfred Rutgers Whitney, who left their country place at Morristown a. week ago for San Fran cisco on their private car; Mrs. Ernest La Montague, who is booked to sail from San Francisco for Japan in Sep tember, and Prince He .ri de Croy, of Brussels and New York who is just now staying with friends at Monterey. Prince Henri. who is a scion of the mediatized ducal house of Croy, and brother of one of the principal ecclesiastical dgni- taries of the vatican. Is engaged in the real estate business in this city. and is a well known figure in society here.
 There is much interest in the Bayshore Horse show. which will be held the first week in August. All the south side peo- have taken boxes are MT. and Mrs. NJ. Orme Wilson. MT. and Mrs. Sidney Dill lon Ripley, Schuyler Parsons H. Dun can Wood. MT. and Mrs. Frederick G. Bourne. MT. and Mrs. Bradish Johnson. Mir. and Mrs. Harry Rollins. who are on their way home from Europe. and MT. II. o. Hayemeyer
 According to last reports William C.. Whitney will not pass the racing season at Saratoga. He has planned to sail on the Cedric on August IA with Mir. and Mrs Payne Whitney for England. MT. Whitney has shooting box at Durham. where he will remain until the autumn.
 
 There are many ominous mutterings, i notwithstanding the many announce ments of dances at Newport. as to the dull season at the resorts. The principal cry is the lack of men, The state of the stock market has been such that men are uneasy and cannot be persuaded to remain at either Newport. Bar Harbor or the Adirondacks. They want to be in town. and the consequence is that so far all attempts at dances have been failures and those available for dinners are either the very young or the aged.
 So much Is promised at Newport for August with the dances of Mrs. Astor. Mrs. Ogden Mills. Mrs Ogden Goelet. Mrs. w. E. Carter, and possibly Mrs Stuyvesant Fish. that with the turn of the tide of fortune in Vail street mat ters should mend The failure of several large houses will have an influence upon the entertaining in some families The death of the pope has also stopped many social arrangements contemplated by those of his church. The strikes at New port have also interfered with the get ting ready of some of the cottages for | the season. so that obstacles have been many against the fulfllment of the promise of brilliant summer.
 l Mir. and Mrs. William K Vanderbilt may come over to this country for the