New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-22
NEWPORT ARRIVALS EARLY
cottagers Find Estates Ablaze
with Floral Glories.

INV Telegraph TO The Tribune.
,..u,,ort June 21.-With another week
- newport season will have been opened
w II its glory and activity. Even now
,be last three weeks the summer col
~ 80 have been arriving with almost
80 boat and train and number Of the
'4nas and larger cottages have never be-
,,,e been opened so early.
Ss,doro have the larger estates present
more attractive appearance than just
BELLEVUE avenue and Ochrc Point,
as we'll as the ocean avenue section. seem
lie with vari-colored foliage. Rho
ssao,drons have always been popular
- the summer residents and there are
.onv beautiful dumps in full bloom at
this time
c.-o,or George Peabody Wetmores es-
- tbere IS large number Of rhododen-
s,ons together with other Towering
~hr,hs on the estate Of Mr.. and Mrs
v5vard J. Berwind. The Elms, there is an
.Suraarce of the popular aower and there
biz group en- the Whiting estate, at
webster street
Almost every estate has its rhodoien-
.s-,,s and these al Beaulieu, the estate
rat has been occupied for years by Mr..
ars Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, on the
c.ores Scott estate. the estate Of William
s,orrs Wells. the Thomas estate ana the
p,own prorc1ty ere well worth seeing
one OF the early features OF the New
cort season that are attracting the atten-
80, If the cottagers is the big open air
so,rar and fruit show which IS TO Hc
r,,en m the estate of Mrs John Nicholas
prour the latter part OF next week uncer
me auspices of the Garden Association
which is made up entirely of summer
jewellers. with Mrs l. Townsend Burden
&C president. and Mrs William Storr'
We'ls as viec-p~esiient and the NcwPo'l
Eo-ticuluraI Society. the members oi
which are for tho most part the garden
ers employed by the cottagers.
The Horticultural Society has always
had a June show Of flowers and fruit
tho rroduets OF the cottage gardens cad
Greenhouses. but this year the Garden
Association. organized 20 create more do
terest in gardens and outdoor ite' Is
ioinire hands with the Hortculturists'
and q show that will eclipse anNthiE-
that has yet been attempted in this ln'
will be the result.
Women Of the summer colony are 10
assist in the serving OF tea, ices ana
candy. There is To bee music ON o''h
afternoons Of tine show. and the affair
will be made more of a garden party inan
that Of the exhibition of professionally
grown flowers and fruits.
Mrs. Brown. Ms. Hope slater. Mrs.
Charles F. Hoffman. Mrs r. l. Gail-
nell. Mrs Lewis Cass Ledyard, Mrs. j..
H.G. Slater, Nrs George /. Rives. MIS-.
B. Andrews Mrs Hugh d. Auchil-
Gloss and Mrs. Hmnton Fish Webst'T
are few Of the other women. -nterest"I
in the Garden Association.
Though MS O. ID. p. Belmont is cA-
pending about $4,000 in the erection Of
japanese tea house on the cliff side 81
her Marble House estate. this villa WIN
uot be opened This summer unless MIS-.
Belmont changes her plans. Maroie
House has been opened for the last two
summers. and Mrs Belmont has taken am
active part ion the promotion Of the cause
Of woman suffrage. She has thrown her
home open for meetings and has lent
willing hand to the Newport County
League Consequently the members al
the league regret very much that Mrs
Belmont will not be in Newport, eSoe-
cIally as the Newport branch OF IN"
Rhode Island Association Opposed 70
Woman Suffrage intends to wage not
campaign in this city this summer TINS
branch has already started recruiting
among the women Of the summer colony
and includes on its membership roll Mr.
Charles Warren Lippitt Of Providence
Mrs Charles NJ Bull Of Brooklyn; Mrs.
Theodore Edding, of Philadelphia. anu
Mrs Arnold Hague. Miss Wetmore ana
Mrs T. H. G. Slater. Of Washington.
The branch has q membership OF sixty
and It is now planned 10 have big mass
meeting some time during the summer on
the lawn Of some one Of the estates.
Il IS not certain as yet that Mrs. Van
cerbilt is 10 open The Breakers this sum-