The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-16
Mr.. BENNETT AT NEWPORT.
His visit Last Week Brings Memo
RES Of Livelier Days.

His visit Last Week Brings Memo.
ries Of Livelier Days.
when James Gordon Benefits yacht
Lysistrata steamed into Newport har-
Dor early on Sunday morning. after
tire Lysistrata cup race of the preced-
ing afternoon, her owner must nave
noticed the great change in the place
since the days when he dominated its
summer social life with his always IN
teresting and virile personality. It was
Mr.. Benefits first visit to Newport in
a decade writes the Sanaterer in Town
Topics, and his coming aroused the
liyeliest anticipations. not only among
the toWnspeople, but also among the
advance guard in the summer. villas.
The widest reports were in circulation
the day before the yachts arrival as 70
the plans of THE Commodore" and the
duration Of his stay. Mrs. Charlie Gel
richs is said to have been extremely
agitated over report that Mr.. Bennett
was not only to remain through the.
season, but was to give a ball at his
stone villa which would eclipse any
ever given at Newport and efface the
memory Of that one he gave in 1880
which, in a way, marked his apotheosls
in Newport.
But Mrs. Charlie and those who
shared her expectation were doomed to
disappointment. Those who know THE
Commodore" as he is generally called
by his intimates, could have told her
and her novelty loving feminine friends
4hat he has been too long ahroad--has
100 long enjoyed his freedom from in
4eryieWers, sensational reporters and
Unfortunate friends and employees and
ever again to spend an appreciabbe
amount of time in this side of the wa
ter Newport interests him and he still
owns property there, but his interest is
languid and in a double sense far
away interest He is content to read
of Newport life and Newport doings
in the Paris Herald, glance over the
fuller stories in the New York Herald
and smile to himself at the FRANKS of
the youths and maidens and the new
matrons who now lead Newport social
life, and whom he knows not, as he
nautters to himself at Beaullieu or in
Paris Quorum pars magma fui.'
Could Mr.. Bennett have spared the
time and had he the inclination to re-
main at Newport until the season was
we'll under way his comments upon the
changes that a generation has brought
to the place and its life, which would
have undoubtedly floated in some way
into the Herald, would have been in
teresting reading. For, in the 18 years
that have elapsed since the summer of
1885. when the presence and doings of
Mr.. Bennett were the talk not only of
Newport, but of the country, New York
has grown from a large town to a
metropolis and Newport from a resort
chosen as a. summer RENDEZVOUS by some
hundreds of men and women from New
York of the same set to a place filled
with heterogeneous elements and DOM
mated by multi-millionaires from all
over the land =
That summer of 1885 was marked not
only by the famous domino ball given
by Mr.. Bennett, but by series of balls
given by the late William C. Whitney
and his first wife, then just coming into
social prominence; by Mrs. Frederick
Stevens, afterward the Duchess de
Dino; Mr.. and Mrs. Francis d. Carley,
fresh from Kentucky with their two
daughters destined to play an import
ant part in New York society, and
others of equal wealth, anxious to
make their mark in society. Mrs. Par
an Stevens was then at the. zenith of
her social glory and power. Polo,
which Mr.. Bennett had introduced into
America, was novelty; the days were
filled with picnics and luncheons and
the nights with dining and dancing.