The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-24
SOUTHAMPTONN NOW
 CONSIDERS ITSELF RIVAL 10 NEWPORT
Real Estate Men Dreaming of Time When the Rich Will Spend Summers Playing
 on Sands of Resort
By Associated Press

Southampton, N Y., September 24.- Southampton real estate men lie awake at night dreaming of the time when all the rich people will forget Newport and spend their summers playing on the sands of this Long Island resort. Their nocturnal imag- things, perhaps, may never come true, but they keep hoping, knowing that each recent season has seen greater numbers of the wealthy desert other scenes of warm weather enjoyment to take a place in the cottage colony here.
 The summer just closed was the best Southampton ever knew. Wealthy bankers and business men former diplomats and aspiring social scintillants of official Washington, spent many weeks at this place, mingling with rich sportsmen, titled foreigners and the folk who feel themselves the sparkling bubbles in She American melting pot. Idle deb utantes and carefree collegians added to the laughter and the gayety.
 Object to Minor Leaguers
 The transfusion of blue blood from the villas on the cliffs al Newport to the seaside at Sou hampton began several years ago. ReVoltes left one Rhode Island resort complaining the tone of the place had fallen because of the arrival of ambitious spenders who really were regarded as minor loagu in a social way. This terri ble immigration simply made New port impossible. some of villistas thought, and so they put the peki- nese in the tonneau and sallied forth in quest of d new rendezvous. They picked Southampton.
 There was everything here to make social summer capital. To the south, the sea- and just around the corner of Long Island, the sound with it's ample anchorage for yachts and bathing spots. for those who like to swim with ease instead of in combat with the breaking surf. There was solfing terrein of merit. refreshing climate and a sufficient distance in- tervening between the resort and New York city to lend a satisfactory entertainment of country life, And so the tiny village that the burghers knew became lively resort.
 Colony of Cottages
 But it was not initiative of New port. Few expensive villas were erected. Somehow the Newport habit of glancing at the bank book and signing something about building the more stately mansions, oh my roll, never became epidemic, and the col ony was established by cottages.
 Southampton has its own code of fashionable habits. For instance, the kind of colonists who use the social register for telephone book have a set time for the rally 1oll on the beach and dip into the surf. It is at mid- day, or Just little before. If one doesn't bathe at that hour, one may as well stay unwashed. Only the help and the unarrived climbers would think of being seen in the water at late afternoon. Milady may smoke on the beach, but her knees must be covered. Then there is the hour for the promenade, the regular weekly night for public dancing, the time for tennis and golf. It must be little disconcerting to have one of the other important parts of resort life irregular--that of the arrival of a rum schooner off shore. This event is dependent on the vagaries of the wind and the enforcement officers.