The Washington herald., 1912-08-11

Nowhere do I know a more general
kindness and friendliness. or a greater
charity than among the "old New
porters." II is Of the sort which comes
OF more or less intimate companionship.
II the companionship be not intimate; 81
IT be but mere occasional meeting Of
one another, there is still the subtle IN
fuence Of years of meeting which fnally
takes on sentiment Of comradeship. as
in a club.
Some Prominent Presidents.
One has but to name some Of those
who have made Newport what It il TO
show the foolish fallacy which would
make it a place simply of polite rowdy-
ism. We have but Just lost such men
as Sidney Webster. Alexander Agassiz,
Frederick Sheldon, Watts Sherman Do
such men as these 90 to make up trivial
society? We have with us Theodore
Davis. the most noted to-day Egyptian
explorer: Raphael Pumpelly, geologist
and archaeologist; Lewis Ledyard, Henry
Taylor. Roderick Terry. George Gordon
King. Prof. Burgess date of Columbia),
Edward Berwind. Stuyvesant Fish. EI-
bridge Gerry. Robert Gammen. Thomp-
son Spencer. Henry Clews. I mention
these names as they are those of men
who belong TO the public. and are too
tion Objectionable.
Are such men here to give countenance
to folly? And / would mention, II
dared. the names OF women, not a few,
who. though Of large fortune, and with
some OF the great show places Of New
port lead quiet and unostentattous lives
OF charity and good works. For II is not
every one who has a fortune Of millions
who cares TO display IT, And / know no
rIyHA
in Newport.
Not Society of Foola,
II is time that newspaperdom should
look on the right side. the real life of
Newport. which is made by the many
and not by the few frivolous.
1t has made out that Newport Is a So
ciety Of fools: 1t has in doing so black
ened the character of our whole coun-
Try: or the name Of no American city
has such a vogue abroad. And no place,
would repeat. as / see 1t after this
lalf century OF intimate ACQUAINTANCE
With town and people. less deserves the
given IL. There have been
complaints OF the attitude of the police
toward the liquor trafic and Gambling
n the town, but these are municipal
questions in which comparatively very
few OF the people Of the special resi-
1ote, through their holding citizenship
elsewhere. The fault in these matters
les with the population proper Of New
port.
Finally. the harm done by reckless
'tatement has injured Newport seriously,
financially. 1t has kept away great
numbers of weil-to-do to whom Newport
would be the ideal residence which they
Ire seeking. For great fortune is not
necessary to live in Newport and form
part OF Its doings. There Is no place
Along our coast where much weIl-piaced
property Is so cheap. where a house can
'e rented for so little. where, take IL
LII In all. one can live more reasonably
Ideal Residence Place.
The house that will let for 81. 900 or S.eo
lere land often much less) will let for
double and sometimes treble at Southamp-
on or on the New Jersey coast. The
newspapers have frightened away those
rho. IL they hut understood. would be
'eeking such houses at a fairer rental
{ Is these people that Newport wants
n larger numbers. II they came they
would find all I have described and more
They would find a society which has in
I. In winter or summer. nothing Of the
provincial. 1t is one of travelled. and.
n the main, cultured. men and women,
which deserves more truly the descrip-
ion of cosmopolitan than any other in
he country, except possibly. Washing
on. And Boston is but two hours away;
Providence but an hour and a half. The
ibraries OF both. the music, the theaters,
re at the easy command OF the Newport
esident.
II the sensational newspapers would but
How true picture Of Newport to get
broad. there would. ] believe. be a SEN
ational rush for just that which no other
lace in our country can fulfill in any,
hing like the same degree: the ideal
esidence for the large class of well-to-do
hen and women OF cultivation and leis-
re who want an all-the-year-round
ONE. Newport fills this desideratum.
venture TO say. beyond any other place
] the world