New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-04
Delightful Season
Draws Near End at
Narragansett Pier
Ball at Casino Labor Day
Night Will Be Final Big
Social Function; One
More Weekend Dance
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

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With, the ushering in of the month of
September sojourners in the Narragan-
sett country realize that summer is
passing and that one of the most de-
lightful seasons in the history of the
region is nearing it's end. Several Of
the hotels, however, notably the Mas
sasoit and Green Inn, will reman open
until October 1 for those who wish to
stay for the most ideal month of the
year, and the villa colony will remain
virtually Intact for month or more.
Tomorrow will bring host of tour
lists to the Pier for over Labor Day,
and every one will meet at the Casino
on the night of Labor Day for the last
ball of the season. Tonight the last
Saturday nightahop called out large
assemblage at the Casino. A number
Of dinner parties preceded the dance :
At the Emerson villa on the Cliffs to-
night Mrs. Isaac E. Emerson, of Balti-
more, and her daughter, Mrs. F. H. Me-
Adoo, IF New York.; gave dance for
sevcnty-five or more of the gay young
set at the Pier. The dance took place
in the large hall and on the. terrace
overlooking the ocean, and supper WAS
served at midnight. Among those pres
emit were Mr. and MRS. Human Bird,
Mr.. and Mrs. James G. Blaine jr., Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Harrah, Mr.. and Mrs.
Philip Stevenson, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
r. Ryerson, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Dill
worth, Mr.. and Mrs. John R. Fell, Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas Harvey Dougherty
jr, Mr.. and Mrs. P. s. P. Randolph jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Ballard, Miss Lisa
No
Elizabeth Altemus, Miss Marguerite
Prescott, Mr.sand Mrs. Peter A. Porter,
Mr. and Mrs. Saunders p. Jones jr.,
Mr.. and Mrs. John Churchill, Miss
Lucia Chase.
Lieutenant Commander and Mrs.
Theodore Wilkinson; Mr.. and Mrs. r.
n. I. Goddard, Mr.. and. Mrs. Rush, Stur-
CESS, Mr.. and Mrs Richard S. Aldrich,
MIR. and Mrs. Frederic B. Read, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest T. H. Metcalf and G.
Pearce Metcalf.
Francois Gioja, manager Of the
Casino and also the Carlton, has an
nounced that a Saturday night dance
will be given at the Carlton on Sep
TENDER 10.
Plans for the season of 1922 are al
ready being discussed. These are not
ably the changes. and innovations to be
introduced by the Narragansett, I'M
provement Association, of which Cap
tain Isaac E. Emerson, of Baltimore,
is the president.
Captain Emerson announced during
the week that the old lighthouses alope
the boardwalk were to be wrecked be-
fore another season, and that they will
be replaced by 200 modern new bath
houses. An up-to-date boardwalk is
also to be built.
| smother improvement is a COM
modious sun room with shower in the
Sherry Bathing Pavilion. In the line
of sports at Narragansett for the sea-
son of 1922 it is said that the Point
Judith Country Club and the Point
Judith Polo Club will combine, and
that membership in one will mean
membership in both. Landscape i'm
provement also will be part of the
renaissance of Narragansett, notably
on the crest of the hill overlooking the
ocean and Narrow River, where Mrs
Avice Borda has Laid out a large tract
of land and named it Wheaton-by-thc-
Sea.