The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-24
SaratOga'S
New Hotel
Brings Boom
New York Resort Will Be
Worthy Rival Of
Newport.
BY HELEN WORDEN
INES Special Writer

NEW YORK. July 24.-Saratoga
~ is going to give Newport a run
for its money this year.
The opening of the Gideon Put
nam on Friday is attracting a crowd
Of fashionable folk.
7 haven't seen anything north Of
Palm Beach quite as luxurious as
this hotel. It is colonial IN architec-
cure, pink brick with white Georgian
pillars. A turquoise blue tiled swim
ming pool and a fragrant grove OF
rich green pine trees and a terraced
garden, offer brilliant color notes.
Martin Sweeney's brother. Ed
ward. IS the manager Of the Gideon
Putnam. Il Is named after the first
tavern keeper Of Saratoga.
The Sweeney brothers were
brought up II Saratoga.
Edward Sweeney owns the WOr-
den House, one OF the towns Old
est hotels.
In the winter he goes TO Palm
Beach and takes a fling at the
Whitehall, which Martin Sweeney,
manager OF the Chatham and the
Berkshire, runs.
In the past the season at Sara
toga began Aug. l and ended
promptly on the last day Of the
same month.
Custom to Be Changed
The hotels opened and closed
with clOck-like precision. Saratoga
was as dead as a doornail during
the lOveliest seasons Of the year
June and September.
The Gideon Putnam is to be an
an-year-rOund hotel. This will alter
conditions.
The state has spent millions of
dollars developing the baths and
springs. The Gideon Putnam gives
the set-up, the luxurious touch of
a continental spa.
Things never get started at New
port until Dr. and Mrs. Hamilton
Rice put in an appearance.
They keep things humming with
all sorts OF gay balls and parties.
The Rices are expected in Newport
next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forsyth Wickes.
also factors in Newport doings, have
only returned this week from Eu-
rope.
So far, life in the Rhode Island
resort has been pleasantly casual.
The daily routine of the summer
coloniStS takes in golf in the morn
ing, swim at Bailey's Beach at
noon and a picnic lunch on the
shore. tennis at the Casino in the
afternoon and cocktails at The Web
erley BOgerJS or John Russell
PopeS around 6.
More Friendliness
Strangers are much more vel
come in Newport than they used to
be. Nice persons with a fair amount
of background are taken on their
face value. The depression has
made the Bellevue-av crowd much
more democratic and friendly.
The new families who have turned
up in Newport this summer are au-
tomatically being included in all of
the resort activities. Most of these
are tenants in big Bellevue-av man
sions.
The Vincent Astors have rented
Beechwood to some very pleasant
persons, they say, who are already
being taken the cocktail and clam
bake club rounds.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is proba-
bly, turning over in her grave at the
letting down of the social bars.
Old-timerS still recall the deter
mined campaign the Jay CoOgans
conducted in Newport for several
years.
Their once-beautiful mansion on
Catherine-st stands, a dreary mon
ument, to blasted social aspirations.
The late Mrs j. j. Brown, Denver,
was another valiant soul who
charged the social citadel at New
port.
Memories of her musicales, her
dinners and her amazing equipages,
linger in Newport. The social
climbers Of the past, who were for
tunate enough to interest Marie
BriaIle. Viewpoints celebrated social
secretary. made the grade.
Miss Brialle was high-handed but
successful. The money she got for
pulling wires went to a little Cath
Ole Church when she died.