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31 THE BEOOKLYF DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1900. A DELIGHTFUL WEEK ON LONG MO, BRCOKLYNITES ANDJHEIR SUMMER HOMES, Frank Squier's Magnificent Country Place, The Columns Views of the Summer Home of Rodney. Ward New Houses at West hampton Brooklyn Tone of Belle Haven, Showers Laid the Dust and Cooled the Air and Brought Flower? Into Luxuriant Bloom Moonlight Sails on the Bay and Sound Big Bookings for August. most notable and the most interesting along the entire length of Belle Haven.

Last summer Mr. Squier moved into it. Only now, however, has this artistic and cleverly designed mansion come into its own. The Columns is what Mr. Squier has named it from a wealth columns of glistening white framed in trees, that make up a small courtyard for the driveway to end in, where carriage visitors may enter, and which will be further set oft by formal garden desisns.

Italian in conception are these columns, Italian the arrangement of the court. The house itself has the look of Old Colonial. Yet it harmonizes with these sixty odd columns, raised in the open air, set alongslde'of them, admirably. The Columns sits on a high hill. This columnar grouping is not this country seat's front, curious as this may be.

It is, on the other hand, the back of the hruse. The front has a range r.f unbroken turf before it, and then a fine grove which Mr. Squier is leaving untouched. Little has been done, little will be, in the way of "improving" these grounds. They will be left as nearly as possible in their natural state, with the fine old trees preserved, care only being lavished upon the proper turfing of the hillside that slopes down to the road.

Two admirable porticos adorn this front, under each what amounts to an out of door and Mrs. A. G. Troup, H. B.

Walker, Mrs. I. B. Van Ernburgh, Miss M. E.

Ross, K. r. Charlton, Miss Thomson, H. H. Gardner, W.

v. Wood, A. W. Walton, G. Howland Littel, the Misses Lennett, H.

S. Wheeler, C. M. Meyer. Theodore De Witt, Warren W.

Foster, L. Landwehr, U. V. Houghton. J.

T. Parrott. II. V. Day.

J. c. Nash, F. B. English, C.

B. Roberts. James Mcngls, E. A. Nell, F.

E. Cooksey, W. H. I'axlon. J.

D. Beck with. James W. Lapsley, w. Finley c.

D. Boyd. J. M. Culp, Mr.

and Mrs. Richard T. Carman, Emmet H. Jennings, w. T.

Mc Oord w. Hauxhurst, I. L. Graves, T. 1..

Mr Clung, W. H. Fitzgerald, R. J. Mooney.

Mr. and Mrs. William Tyler, F. X. Snyder.

James H. Hates, S. H. Hundlan, Mrs. Handian, Miss Handlan Misa Katharine Handlan, Mr.

and lira. iv. J. R. Beard, T.

J. Freer, W. C. Walters, J. N.

R. Cottrell. A. F. Whiting, Mr.

and Mrs. H. W. Berline, Miss F. Tryon.

Mrs. A. H. Whiting William C. Melllck, J.

T. Smith, v. A. Wi'nburn Mr. and Mrs.

L. Roy Smith. v. J. ('rait William Brookfield.

Frank Brookflelcl, M.irg.m Urooklle'd Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Farroll.

and Mrs James C. BeiKler, George H. Macy, Oliver C. Macy J. E.

Perkinson, R. W. Simrnuns. T. II.

Bowles Warren Ward, Mr. and Mrs. .1. c. League.

Irving Taylor. The arrivals at the Manhatt. Beach Hotel during the week were as follows: J. c. Whitney.

Miss K. Ersklne, Mrs. S. P. Saunders.

William Morton, E. Bryant, S. L. Jiau. II.

R. Hart, F. S. Adams. J.

B. Kempton. J. H. Corcoran.

J. M. Buzzell, T. E. Klbby.

William Davies. Mrs. Joyce. Mr. and Mrs.

George ('. lie Lacy, Sir. and Mrs. W. P.

Mangam, Mr. and Mrs. G. Radford Kelso, Miss Kins. Mr.

and Mrs. G. Is. Childs, Henry Hudson, J. W.

James, James I. McCarthy, Nat Roth. Charles Davis. G. W.

Curtis. W. 6. Morgan. Gail Morgan.

Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Snodi Curtls, Mrs.

Evans, C. V. Gerau. E. Cohen, H.

Rothenbn Robert Fulton. Charles D. Smith, Miss Bass. Mrs. Dorman.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Hecks.

Miss Lehmaler. The Fort Lowery Hotel and cottages are nearly full and the guests are thoroughly enjoying themselves. It will soon he time for straw rides and trolley parties and there is always a standing committee at this hotel which arranges for all the little affairs that take place during the season. At the Willomere are Mr. and Mrs.

Kane Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Rosenberg. Mrs. Heucr, Miss Lcheberg. tho Misses Heuer, Mr.

and Mrs. Lanskey. Charles Meyer, Miss Meyer. Charles Goldsmith. Miss Beatrice Lanskey.

the Misses Lanskey. William Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Kicklen.

The management of Avoca Villa has made some Improvements and haw furnished a good vaudeville show. The beautiful summer residence of Minstrel William H. West 1h again occupied by tliat popular entertainer and Pete Dally Is also there. The fair for the benefit of Flnbar's Roman Catholic Church during the weak of '1 is expected to be a great success, both llnancially and in point of attendance. The tales will be looked after by the following: Holy Name Miss Desmond, the Misses Woods, A.

Mahoney. S. Kimball. A. Costello.

J. Huott. E. Green. M.

Burke, May Fredenburgh: refreshments Miss Miss Hannah Hayes; Sacred Heart table Mrs. Peter J. Carey, Mrs. William J. Brown, Mrs.

J. Flanagan. Mrs. E. Huott, Mrs.

J. T. Hayes, Mrs. D. J.

Keller: Sodality table Miss Mamie Hayes, the Misses McMannin, E. Robinson. O. Fanning, A. Walsh: Japanese table Mrs.

R. J. Webb, Mrs. J. Dobbins, Miss M.

Noonan, Miss M. Skelly. Mr. and Mrs. John Ray of the "Hot Old Willow street, who have taken the Peterson cottage for the year; Charles Bausher of Montclair, business partner of Henry E.

Noyes of Remsen street; Park Benjamin of the Borcugh of Manhattan, and Frank E.Wal bridge of Garfield place. Over at Oneck, to the west. Dr. W. M.

L. Fiske of 4S4 Bedford avenue lives, and to the east, at the entrance of the golf grounds, Charles Murphy, whose Brooklyn home Is now the old Duckwitz house on Henry street, between State and Joralemon. Of course, when it comes to a question of sports, golf has excluded practically all else. The Country Club, as has been said, once a famous resort, sees little beyond dancing these days. The Westhampton "navy" was once a great affair, and scores of small yachting craft used to moor at the foot of the club's meadow, but there are few water enthusiasts to day.

The Fiskes, over at Oneck, especially Lindsay Fiske, are very nearly the only very keen boatmen left, and the getting up of a regatta is attended with much difficulty. William S. Whitehead is the commodore of the W. C. C.

"navy." The golfing links are easily one of the best nine hole courses on Long Island, and the club here has a large and ardent membership. Much missed this year will be F. J. J. des Ralsmes and his son, Roy des Raismes, who were a power in the club last season, the younger Des Raismes, who is but a boy in years, because of his superb and wonderful playing.

The Des Raismes, who are a New York family, are spending their summer in the mountains. Yet the links do not lack fine scoring. Some of the most remarkable scores seen over them were shown on the Fourth of July, when a Brooklynite, Milton Goodwin, carried off both cups offered in the tournament, making both best gross and best net score. The three crack players of the moment seem to be, though this is too early in the season to gauge to any extent, Bowden, Tertius Van Dyck, son of Dr. Van Dyck, and H.

H. Sut phen. J. G. Jones from Lakewood is the club's professional golfer, and he is quite the man for the place.

Westhampton will soon see two new and fine houses, in which Brooklyn will be much concerned. The land has already been purchased for these and next summer will see them erected. It is Ralph Ladd Cutter of Clinton street who Is building them. To the north of Theodore F. Jackson's place is Sea Field Lane.

He has bought eight acres, this property including an old house, once occupied by the late Thomas S. Moore, father of Miss Ethel Moore and David Thomas Moore. This Moore cottage will be torn down, of course, and a very attractive country seat of the South Shore of Long Island type will rise here. Mr. Cutter and his family have been summer residents of Westhampton for many years, but have always boarded.

This will be their first essay at a permanent home 1 i v'vv'r 'V LANG, THE CRESCENT CLUB'S PROFESSIONAL, Negotiating a Stymie Laid Him by H. SI. Campbell in a Match. Europe is not altogether the Mecca for the fashionable world this summer that the forecasts of last winter led one to Imagine it might be. It is not for the entire summer, that Is.

Plenty of people, though really not very many in proportion, scurried across early in May, and are due on American shores again within the next fortnight. It has made some little difference for July, perhaps, and even this is not so very noticeable; it will make none worth the thinking for August. The custom of the sets in Manhattan as to foreign vacationing and journeying is a good one, and Brooklyn is beginning to adopt it. Never Europe for the entire repast, these people say. Europe is the entree that comes before the serious business of enjoying the summer days.

It must be taken in the season that is neither hay nor grass, when the only excitement of society is a few girls getting married, when country resorts would be dull and stupid if one went to them. So it is the thing to take the continent, England and Scotland dilute now, as if it were the Catskllls or the Jersey coast, Teadity to be reached again, possibly next year, a trip at all events of no great Importance. Back again you catch the fleeting gayeties of the summer season just at their height. Thus the philosophy, and who shall say it is not based on reason. Exponents of it, It may be noted, are the Stillmans and the Litchflelds of the Heights, who have been across the water for several months and will return for the best of the Lenox season, about the middle of August.

WESTHAMPTON'S GREAT YEAR. Possibly the summer colony at Westhamp ton. always a Brooklyn colony, though it numbers many a New Yorker of position and charm, is counting its chickens before they are hatched. Mid July is exceedingly early to predict "the moSt successful season ever In Westhampton annals." But the colony calmly asserts in answer to all incredulities that this is so. The last of the city's dust has scarcely been shaken oft and the new summer hardly launched.

It has opened with an enthusiasm that prompts the thought, however, that this reading of the immediate future may be true. "Some day," recently remarked a man who knows "Westhampton well, "we are going to be discovered." He feared it almost every year, he went on to say. As yet, nevertheless, this first of the Hamptons is an undiscovered country. The world at large has never found it out, and in this semi seclusion lies much of its fascination. Every one at Westhampton, boarders and cottagers alike, knows every one else.

No one unpleasant ever comes there. A country inn that is a very fashionable affair extends along one side of a rectangle. The beach marks the opposite side. In between are two lanes, planted with cottages old and new. The new rooftrees are gradually prevailing, yet the old are not torn down ruthlessly.

No attempt to make Westhampton spick, span and glossy, highly modern architecturally, exists. It rivals no other place, and perhaps this is why people fall so deeply in love with its lanes and high road. It was a Governor of New York State, it must always be remembered, John A. Dix, who was the pioneer cottager of Westhampton. His mansion yet stands, closest of all to the sea, a tall, old fashioned country house.

This season it will be occupied by Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton University. Beach lane, the highroad to the water, most important of all the thoroughfares of this summer settlement, has the old Dix home as its most easterly residence. The first of Westhampton's two lanes to be built up, this has some of the colony's chief notabilities. Next to where Dr.

Van Dyke will be lives Aaron Penniman Whitehead. Adjoining him are Judge Henry R. Beekman of the Borough of Manhattan and Professor Charles E. 'Pellew of Columbia University. Each remaining square Inch of Beach Lane (save where the Westhampton Country Club stretches out) Brooklynites hold.

There Is "Snug Harbor," Rodney A. Ward's country home for many a year, a house of famous piazzas, of ample space within. An interesting feature of the establishment, which might well be added to many another country seat because of its ingenuity and utility, Is Mr. Ward's "den," which is a separate building a few steps away, a miniature edition in the same grey of "Snug Harbor" itself. Here of an evening Mr.

Ward's men guests will gather, for a late smoke when taps have been sounded in the big house. 0 the Brooklyn men Rodney Ward is very nearly the pioneer, he is and has been certainly the most active spirit. It is to him that the younger element of the colony looks for leadership in its sports and gayeties. The golf club is practically due to him, as Is also the Country Club, founded in the days before the Scotch game, now chiefly called into requisition for frequent little balls, though the tennis courts are still kept up and each season sees them fairly well patronized by enthusiasts. Beach Lane's other Brooklynites are Mr.

and Mrs. William Howard of Washington avenue, Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Ide, Mr.

and Mrs. B. Herbert Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.

Field, and Mr and Mrs. Crowell Hadden. and Mrs. Howard S. Hadden are at Quogue across the bay, and but a very few Biles away.

Elsewhere in Westhampton's bounds are Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Jackson (former Controller of Brooklyn), on Sea Field Lane, addition to the library and dining room. Like the columns, this house Is white.

Its main entrance is between the porticos, a simple doorway on a level with the ground, impressive as both exterior and interior are, indeed, because of their architectural good taste. A broad hall runs straight through the house a hall that is practically a sitting room unbroken by a view of stairs. These latter are tucked away at one side, into a secondary hallway, taking up the space that would have been given by a more conventional architect to another room. But the gain of this fine, spacious hall in the house's center is great. To the left of this hall is a library in white with foot rug of red.

The bookcases built into the walls are models of what bookcases should be. Here and all elsewhere the mantel designs and the woodwork have been cleverly modeled and designed. On the same Barnes. and Arthur Dodge, a son of Mrs. Arthur Dodge, which will occur within the next few weeks.

It is to take place at St. Andrews by the Sca. The following have been subscribers of the Club: William Baylls. James L. Krnochan.

Benjamin Nlcoll. Charles J. Fiske, Julian Kobbins and I.ouis L. L.aroaiue. The following guests have registered at the club: Charles K.

Beekman and Dr. Forest Grant, New York: Jules .1. Vnil. Paris. France.

The liouthaniplon Horse fihow Association recently held a meetinsr to determine plans for the coming show, which will be the most elab caate one ever witnessed here. ARRIVALS. Henry A. liarclay, in Sandhurst; W. Rossiter I'elts.

Alfred B. I3cardinan. in New RuRgles cot tasc; Jwnrd Anton, In D. H. Burnett's: Gen ma! Thomas H.

Barber, in Claverack; Charles T. Burncy. in Wlmlyburn William Baylls and Frederick Baiter, In Overlook; L. Barclay, In H. M.

Day's: Henry B. Barnes. In Edgecombe: Henry A. Beudlastun. in Miss M.

E. Herrick's; Edward Bell, the Crossways; H. Harper Benedict. In Sandymount: Frederick H. Betts, In Mocomento; G.

Boissevan. In Xestorla; John Bottom; in the Briars: J. Lawrence Breese. In the Orchard; Dr. George E.

Brewer, in the Sterling cottaco; G. Frank Brown. In the Clovers; Miss Helen T. Harmon Brown, in the Wayside: F. edoric Bruce.

William Allen Butler, In To Windward: W. Scott Cameron, In Morton cottage; John B. C'auldwell. In Darena; Mrs. Thomas G.

Cauldweil. in Dr. P. F. Chambers.

In Bon Aore; S. Q. Chllds. in West Moor: George C. Clark, in Over Dune: Henry E.

Coe. in the Appie Tree; Alfred R. Conkling. in Boyessen cot tace: Edmund A. Coffin, in the Oakman cottage; J.

J. Coogan. In Bonnie Brae; Charles Coster, in Edward Anthon's; George A. Crocker, in The Tempr st: Ci. M.

Curtis, in Keewayden: G. Warrington Curtis, in Keewayden: Mrs. Curtis, William E. Curtis. In the Brady cottage: Dr.

Georse A. Dixon, at By Vay: Mortlmor Delano, at the Fovtor Homestead; George DeWItt, at High Brink: Mrs. Arthur M. Dolge, at the Du. cortace: Edward Tiffari! Oyer, ut Agawam; N'ewbold i Msar.

lit Caj.tain Graves': Herman Ellis, nt East ICnovk Dr. A. H. Ely. ot W.

Kllbreth's: Mrs. John W. Karli, at the Arches; Charles .1. Flsk, at Fleur de Us; C. C.

Franklyn, Mrs. Augusta M. Frt noh. at Willow Lawn; Charles II. Godfrey, at Wyllye House; Albert V.

de Golevlona. at the iiuggles cottage: William C. Gulliver. Honrv P. Hull, at Schermerliorn cottage: the Misses Heiser.

at the Halscy cottage; Charles R. Henderson, at White Caps; Russell II. Hoadlev. at F. H.

BetU's Frank E. Holllns, at the Curtis cottage: William B. Homblower, at Penryker: H' nrv E. Rowland, at Stormalong: Charles I Hvde. at tho Mill; Mrs.

Sarah B. wett. at tho Kendall cottage: R. Kennedy, at Bonnie Dune: William J. T.

Kllbreth. at DaisvfieMs: Captain John W. Killjrerh. at Gras Georsre at E. H.

Foster's: Mrs. John M. I at the Hnlaey ottnge: Mrs. James G. Iv.

at Ed H. Foster's; Joseph aroyene. at the Sunflower: Miss Lazarus, at Hoi; hocks: Mrs. Lehman, at Wayside: Miss Sarah Lewis, at Easterlle: Goodhue Livingston, at the Dolphins: William Maurice. at Wakefield: Colonel Henry May.

at Holme Tea: Charles E. Miller, at Edwin Post's: Mrs. Forest Mlllehen at C. H. See's cottase: Eiiv.

ar. H. Mmn, at Villa Nova; Lieu'. ir.ant Ais L. Morton, at Wyandanch: A.

L. M'inson. Lewis C. Murdoi k. W.

A. Murdock, Delancey Nicoil, Benjamin Nlcoll. In Mrs. Mea I's nttajro: Joseph W. Oden.

Robert Oly phant, at Dam Exen; J. Victor Onativia, In the Chester cottage; Joseph C. Oudin. In Daisy Fields; DeWlt: Parshald. in the Arches; Slepheb.

Pea bo.lv. in the Gables: Mrs. John F. Pupke, In Dnn' Thomas W. Porter.

In Sunnyslde; J. Hamper. Robb. in the Dolphins: X. Thayer Robb, in Sanrlrift: Henry A.

Robbins. Jullen Robbins, in Kendall cottage: R. H. in Wynde cote; Elihu Root, Mrs. Ruggles.

in the Terry cottage: Horace Russell, in Willlston House; Mrs. S. Howland Russell, in Mrs. S. R.

Ilenick's: B. Aymar Sands, in Shoreham: Grange Lord. Alfred E. Schermerhorn. Genrge It.

Schieffelin. In Plas ar Slvn; Arthur G. agurlch. in J. H.

Pierson's: Mrs. 'Charles D. Smith, in Sunnyside; Charles Slute. Miss Steers. Lewis A.

Stowe, In H. A. Fordham's: General Wager Swayne. Miss Alice M. Swift.

In Mp. T. H. Talmage. in Bonnie Bourne: .1.

MetoaTTThornas. in the Dunes; Dr. T. Guilford Thomas, in the Dunes; Robert M. Thompson, in Fnirlawn: Howard Townsend.

In the Morgan cottage; Henry G. Trevore. In Meadow mere; Edward Van Dugen. in the MuIIervs; Edward H. Wales.

In the Reeves cottage: Salem H. Wales, in the Ox Pasture: Robert Waller, in Croft: Francis P. Wellnian. in Shady Cottage; Miss Wray. in Bide a Whlle; Dr.

Peter B. Wyckhoff. Sea Cliff. SEA CLIFF, L. July 14 The "Week here has been a very lively one and there have been many new arrivals.

The principal events of ihe week socially were a euchre at the Sea Cliff House, another at the Yacht Ciub and dances at the Sound View, the Plaza Park, ihe Kenwood, the Sea Cliff House. To night there was an entertain I mor nt Hip V.nhr fn lowed bv an rhiiiin'o ni'n nt thp Sea Cliff House on Thursday brought out the lit tle folks to try their prowess at bean bag. The Yacht Club's regatta to duy brought many visiting yachtsmen. NOTES. A.

T. Leonard and family of Chicago are spending the sumim at tho ltichaidson. Mr. and Mrs. Schoolles anJ and Mr.

Scl.oelK s. of Manhattan are spending a vacation here. The Very Rev. Dean Stephen Herbert Green, the Cathedral at Memphis. Tt has taken cf.

of the Lopez cottages. W. Walters and Howard Walters of Eouthington. are spending some weeks here. James E.

McLean of Manhattan Is spending his vacation here. Dr. and Mrs. W. A.

Ewing and Miss Marion Ewing and maid of Manhattan are at the Sea Cliff House for the season. Mrs. Margaret wing Noblo Chicago Is at the Sea Clirf House. Mr. and Mrs.

C. B. Tedcastle nt Manhattan are at the Sound View for the season, as are also Mr. and Mrs. Charles 5.

Shiebler of Brooklyn. Mr. Harvey and family of Manhattan have taken a ootfnce here for the season Mr. and Mrs. Rkleal of London are spending the season here.

ARRIVALS Sound View Mrs. A. Lakeland. S. H.

Andrews, Mr. and Mis. F. B. Wight.

Frank Wight. John Wight. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L.

Leuch and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. W. H.

Roinulne. Miss Carrie Batt. Mr. Rolker and family of Hronki' n. James R.

Viva! and family. A. J. Brinckerhoff. Mrs.

J. Burns. Miss Eurns. Mr. and Mrs.

George A. Eagge and children. Mr. and Mrs. Moran.

Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Aldrich.

Louis Aldrich. John F. Hearne. Mr. and Mrs.

James Vance. Mr. and Mrs. H. Freedhurgh of Manhattan.

Port Washington. Port Washington. L. July 14 Most of the season's visitors have arrived within the past week and the place is now pretty well filled. Many spend their time boating and fishing and large crowds may be seen on the beach every afternoon, where they enjoy tha bathing and the fine breeze that is always felt along the shores of the Sound.

Large numbers of members and their friends are entertained at the Manhassett Bay Yacht Club House. NOTES. Mrs. Arthur Odell of Manhattan is spending the summer with her mother, Mrs. Jacob Crooker.

William B. Bready. of Philadelphia Is a guest at the Mackev cottage. Mrs. Mary Burtls and Harry L.

Burtis of Flushing have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Carpenter, this week. The Port Washington Brass Band will, give an open air concert on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Miss Van Wicklen of Roslyn Is visiting Mrs.

L. L. Terrell. Postmaster Charles F. Lewis gave a lawn party to a number of his friends on Wednesday.

ARRIVALS. Prospect Hill House Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ash ton. Miss Ella and Christian Ashton of Green point; Mr.

and Mrs. T. Babus of Patterson, N. Mr. and Mrs.

William Kelley and Miss Kelley of Manhattan. Bradley House Mrs. Charles Scott, Miss Vivian Scott of Manhattan. Clarence Smock of Brooklyn. Central Hotel James A.

Brady, Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Reld. Miss Reld, A. A.

Bunce. T. B. Place. Mr.

and Mrs. A. N. Chapman, John Right of Brooklyn, Mr. and Mrs.

C. E. Marks, L. Jacob, Mr. and Mrs.

J. A. Kline of Manhattan, "Warner H. Nostrand and Mrs. B.

B. Nostrand of Sands Point, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Wilson of Lindhurst.

Whitestone. Whitestone, L. July 14 The social season at this pretty and busy little summer resort can be said to be on in earnest now. The hotels are well filled and the bookings for the balance of July indicate that thero are more guests to come. The Brooklyn contingent, as usual, is a large one.

Among the visitors from the City of Churches can be found the most fun making and entertaining people in town. The newly macadamized roads in this part of the island afford much pleasure to the wheelmen and wheel women. NOTES. Miss Carrie Evans and Miss Reba Cawley, both of Brooklyn, are among the social favorites of Whitestone. H.

De Witt Smith's homestead on the Shore road is very popular with the Brooklyn contingent. Mrs. Ira W. Henry and son of Manhattan, former residents of this place, are boarding at Mr. A.

Wright's house, on Eleventh avenue. Jit. HIS week has been one of the most delightful ever known at the summer resorts on Long Island. Copious show ers have laid the dust, cooled the atmosphere and stimulated the growth of flowers, fruits, and vegetables, making carriage riding or wheeling a positive delight. On all sides one sees evidence of good crops, and the grasses and wild flowers at the roadside, instead of being brown and dusty, as they often are at this season, are luxuriant in foliage and bloom.

At the seaside resorts the temperature has been Just right for sorts of sports, and the water has been just a lit tle warmer than the air, malting bathing a perfect luxury. Added to it all have been clear moonlight nights, so beautiful as to induce the young people to linger long on the hotel piazzas or enjoy moonlight sails on the Lay and sound. The patronage at tho more expensive hotels is for some unaccount able reason considerably below that of last year at this time, but the bookings for August are such as encourage the hope that the latter nart of the season will be prosper ous and make the general average a good one. There perhaps never was a time when city people could go out on Long Island with greater assurance of getting good service at reasonable prices with a ful' share of amusement and recreation. Long Beach.

ONG BEACH, L. July 14 This has been one of the most delightful weeks in the history of this conservative and aristocratic resort. The days have been clear and cool with brisk breezes from the ocean and the evenings have been almost as light as day, made so by the brilliant moonlight. All sorts of sports have been entered into with a relish unusual at this season of the year. There are no crowds anywhere, and it is only a question of taste whether one rests or participates in the various forms of social entertainments or sports.

The golf links on Barnum Island have been well patronized and are in excellent condition. Fishing was perhaps never better than it is this year. There is no difficulty in filling a barrel with sea bass, in a few hours at the Fishing Banks, when the weather will permit the fishing boats to go out of the inlet. The entertainments of the week include a Bendix Bloodgood recital, a progressive euchre party and the usual weekly hop. Among the distinguished guests of the week were James G.

Carlisle and wife of "ntucky. NOTES. A new walk from the Inn to the bathing beach is a great convenience. Colonel A. E.

Dick is an enthusiastic golf player. He finds time to go to the links frequently and is said to be training for the local championship. The new arrangement for bathers would seem to reduce the danger to a minimum. There is certainly no reason why any one should ven ture beyond the nte lines even in the smoothest sea. The conditions for bathing have been perfect.

The air has been cool and the water warm. Mr. Phillips of Phillips' "Elite Directory' has been greatly benefited by the ocean air. He has been there since the hotel opening. The dwellers In Cottage Row are as exclusive as ever.

Unless you have a friend at court you cannot Join the cottage set. The thunder storms have been entertaining when thev did not pass directly over the hotel. Almost every afternoon there is a storm either out at sea or on the north side of the Island. Judging from its past history the hotel Is an excellent place for ambitious matrons with marriageable daughters. Many matches have been made on the broad verandas or along the beach, and judging from the register this year, there are just as good fish in the sea as ever were caught.

Professor Rivers new dance was given at the hop to night. It is known as the Hanover Quadrille and was Introduced at the Hanover Club at a dance in honor of ex Mayor Wurster. It is somewhat like the Sicilian circle in the formation of the sets and two step time Is usd throughout the four figures. The children danced the new La Parisienne Two Step and the Royal Gavotte. A progressive euchre was given in the hotel parlors last Thursday night.

It was the first of the season and the participants were Jir. and Mrs. f. J. tveneay.

aamuei Aen. ur M. C. Maver. Mr.

and Mrs. F. W. Conn. and Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Pitou. MIhs Fish. Mr. ami T.

Connolv, Mtss Grace Hip pins. Mi? E. HiKgins. Mr. L.

Kenedy. Mrs. M. H. Ballo and Austin Rivers.

ARRIVALS. Charles L. Atkinson, Joseph A. McCord, Georpe L. Hubbell, Garden City; May A.

Locke. Mr. and Mrs. A. E.

Clarksnn. Miss the Misses Clarkson. Garden City: "William Stoffeli and family. Hempstead; Mr. and Mrs.

George W. Palmer, Eiweli Palmer. J. A. McKay.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Clarence Jones. F.

B. Goddard. Mr. and Mrs. R.

M. Speers. J. S. Waterman.

Edwin A. Showan, Charies W. Kellogg Hempstead; F. A. Cortelyou, Mr.

and Mrs. L. S. Valentine. Flushing; Stratford Brush.

A. M. TVeUer. H. S.

Weller. H. C. Weller. Thomas Jarvis.

Hempstead Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Dykes, Miss Belle Dykes. Flushing: Mrs. E.

H. Frecastine. children and maid: T. D. Hurlburt, Charies T.

Lipman, J. J. Franklin. George H. Milne.

At the Long Beach Inn are: Charles R. Butler. M. Francis K. Butler and maid, Mr.

and Mrs. T. T. Lines. Mr.

and Mrs. J. E. Dann, child and maid. Hempstead.

THE FAMOUS HAMPTONS Southampton. SOUTHAMPTON, L. July 14 While socially the season at this resort promises to equal if not surpass its predecessors ot past years, financially it may not be quite so successful. More than a score AT BELLE HAVEN, CONN. of cottages are still unoccupied, with little prospects ot securing tenants before the summer ends.

The decrease in the numbers of the summer colony this year is attributed principally to the Paris exhibition. NOTES. ugust will be replete with social and recreative events. There will bo the horse show, the four days' tennis tournament, the amateur eolf championships and the woman's national golf tournaments, with their attendant list of balls, dinners and luncheons. A sewing class hap been started among the summer visitors for the benefit of Bellevue Hospital and the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital Guild.

It will be held at the residence of Mrs. Stephen Feabody on Wednesdays of this month and that of August. The dues will be $5. which may be paid to Mrs. T.

W. Wyman Porter. a' wedding which will constitute one of the social events of the season Is that of Mlsa "Pinkie" Barnes, the daughter of Mr. and Mra, Henry DEN OF RODNEY A. WARD, AT WESTHAMPTON.

here. On a piece of land adjoining, two acres in extent, but facing on the main road that leads to Quirgue and Quogue, Mr. Cutter will build for his daughter and his son in law, Mr. and Mrs, B. Herbert Smith.

Mrs. Smith will be remembered as Miss Laura Cutter. BELLE HAVEN MEN. To all Intents and purposes Greenwich on the Sound, geographically Belle Haven, has really, a name and fame of its own. It is a peninsula, wide, rolling, varied, that juts out into the great yachting sea of the New York amateur just where Indian Harbor comes in.

Tweed first made Greenwich talked about, setting his Americus club there. Of latter days E. O. Benedict has been rather the king, his The Mansion being a wonderful country seat, an architectural picture of the shore, seeming an unsubstantial reality at sunset. HOUSE AND so perfectly do its walls and long colonnade harmonize with the landscape.

Belle Haven, Greenwich, Portchester, Rye, yield to no other territory in their sweep of superb country homes by the Sound's side and on the banks of her inlets and creeks. It Is a curious circumstance how Brooklynites make summer plans and select their summer residence sites. Belle Haven, for example, has for years been a favorite center for society in this borough. Rye, on the other haud, knows Brooklyn scarcely at all. It is a definitely New York colony that is established hpre, with but one notable Brooklyn family and these now Manhattanites attached to it, Mr.

and Mrs. William A. Read. And the Reads, though they still own a country house at Rye, are spending their summer at Lenox. Belle Haven, nevertheless, never fails to have a Brooklyn tinge and tone.

Mr. and Mrs. CharleB A. Moore started this years ago, when they set up their summer Lares and Penates here. Their lead was followed until Belle Haven is now quite as strongly Brooklyn as it is New York.

It is not alone the cottagers and the owners of country places that make up the Brooklyn set. A widely famous, quiet, fashionable hotel the Kent House plays an important part In the life ot July and August. There are Brooklyn families that have had rooms here for many years and hardly know any other regular summer homo. Such people have been identified with this Inn as Frank Squier (who now has built). Mr.

and Mrs. John B. Ladd, the Chaun ceys, the Donald S. L. Lee's Mrs.

John B. Woodward. Mr. and Mrs. George M.

Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dorman.

It is Frank Squier's house that Is now the Company, who have been In Europe for some time, are now settled in their summer home on Twenty third avenue. Greenport. GREENPORT, L. July 14 This has been a quiet week at Greenport. The summer folks have been spending most of the time sailing, driving and bicycling.

Next week a crowd is expected at the several houses. The event of the week was the cake walk Thursday evening. NOTES. Jack Reed and his brother of Toronto are registered at the Clark House. The Cleveland Fishing Club has established its headquarters at the foot of Main street.

W. R. Kf.vens has been re eiec ted cummuduie for the season, with Captain T. F. Price as pilot.

Frank Hedges and Clifford Tutter of Yale are spending their vacation with S. B. Hedges. Xat Corwin of Columbia is staying here. Dr.

Morse of Brooklyn is at his cottage. The Misses Comstock and mother of Brooklyn are located at their pretty cottage. James McKeon of Brooklyn is the guest ot J. Addison Corwin. Goodbroug of New York, who is stopping at the Ciarke House, caught S3 black fish in one day's lishing this week.

Thomas P. Burke of Long Island City spent the week at the Wyandnnk. A feature of the summer life here la the regular weekly open air concert given by the Green port Band. Mr. and Mrs.

Jesse B. Ketcham of Brooklyn have been visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Ketcham. Mr. and Mrs. A. C.

Ostrander of Brooklyn are guests of Mr. Burdick on Fifth avenue. J. H. Hallock of Brooklyn and F.

Sterns of Boston are cruising down the Sound on their yacht Knight Templar, and are expected here next week at the Stirlington. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Packer New York arrived here this week aboard their yacht India.

They are cruising along the coast. ARRIVALS. Stirlington House Mrs. J. H.

"Walling. Miss C. B. Walling, Mrs. L.

A. McNamara, M. A. McNamara, Kditlia Lockwood, Brooklyn; J. W.

Huflington. W. J. Lemon, George Ehler, C. V.

Kennedy, W. H. Dessare, Mr. and Mrs. L.

X. Olmsted of New York; Mrs. A. P. Tenitt.

Putnam, J. W. Westervelt, Newburgh, N. Y. W.

A. Kyte, Newark, N. J. Greenport House Miss Mallnonk, Frank Nicely, George J. Hodges, Thomas E.

Tarbox, George Tarbox, S. P. Bunker of New York; W. P. Dev.

C. Kendall, James H. Hatfield of Brooklyn: J. F. McGovern, Meriden, Conn.

A. D. Ward, C. E. Robinson.

Alfred Phalkberg, Mrs. Nelson, New London, John F. Bahr, Jersey City, N. Robert O. Cobb, Providence.

R. S. Simon, John Seaman, John Kricson, Boston, A. P. Irish.

Grand Rapids. H. A. Hughes. St.

Louis; August Mortell, East Lyon. Conn. Booth House John C. Plebes. Mrs.

J. Piebes. Charles Piebes. Miss B. Jacobson.

Mr. and Mrs. S. Jacobson. Edward Jacobson.

Mrs. Horace G. Stupe, Frank E. Stupe, J. M.

McKee. Miss A. Conkling, of New York; F. R. Horton.

Mrs. Alfred K. Conklin, Irene R. Conklin, J. D.

Biencham of Brooklyn. Clarke House H. H. Homan, Mrs. H.

A. Grant. FRANK SQUIER'S XIBKABY Mrs. David Thomson. Miss Jeanle FaJconie, L.

W. Walker. Charles H. Leonard. Mr.

and Mrs. H. B. La Mon, R. H.

Howard. G. W. Howard. H.

Howard, Charles E. Mack. Mr. and Mrs. L.

li. Blffeiow, L. M. Conova, T. J.

McHale, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Curtis, w.

E. Halton. J. Alfred Chart. Ii.

B. Bokeleen. L. Glllman, H. P.

Freed man. Charles E. Crowell. E. D.

Wlrmwell. A. L. ubriskie, Mr. and Mrs.

J. L. Meyer of New York; P. H. Whitney, Wallace Tlebout, Georg H.

Hodses, Kuhn. C. D. Dlppell of Brooklyn: Miss Sarah Walker of Cooperstown, N. Y.

R. Corwin, Port Jefferson; Mr. D. Clarke, Mr. and Mrs.

Dudley H. Donnelly. Mr. J. T.

Kennedy. C. B. Greene of Now London, Conn. O.

J. Raynor, Columbus. O. Frank J. Sprague.

Freeport: George H. Hume. Chicago. Mr. and Mrs.

G. M. Smith. Hartford, Conn, In Siberia acetylene gas is largely used to light up various operations along the line where work is carried on at THE ISLAND'S EAST END Jm I ker, Miss Snedlker, O. M.

Cleveland, Miss Cleveland, Miss Hattie Cleveland, Miss Anna Cleveland, George H. Dety. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.

Knapp, Thomas F. Grady, John Davies, A. Sleight Jones, Mr. and Mrs. C.

M. Moore, W. A. Whitney, George L. Cottor.

A. J. Walter, Miss Walter, Mrs. Zimmerman, J. Fitzpatrick, William Robertson, John G.

Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Connington. Mr. and Mrs.

Melvin, Mrs. W. V. Parsons, R. F.

Moore, W. J. Stanley. Miss Alden. Miss Ellison, Miss Raymond, Miss Riley, E.

Rymer Jones, James M. Caldin, Al. Primrose, George H. Primrose, Lew Dockstader, George L. Johnson, N.

M. Strang, A. L. Joslin, Mr. and Mrs.

H. Francis, Anthony Bucek, T. H. Thompson, the Rev. Thomas F.

Lillis, Charles E. Hughes, Charles Adams. Charles J. Glidden, Charles P. Young, Mr.

and Mrs. John Gait, E. H. Wilson, M. Jonassan, Miss Jorssen, George H.

Barker, H. Pollak, I. Henry Drun, E. H. Williams.

Mrs. Williams, H. D. Lyman. Robert Pin kerton.

John Kent Macon, H. C. Spaulding, Mr. and A. Case, George Sealey, Oliver Con Mr.

and Mrs. George H. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. w.

E. Balch. Miss Ita Kample, J. A. Kerr.

G. H. Fera, Mrs. T. J.

McKenua, W. J. Sawver, D. O. Word, Mr.

and Mrs. James Judd. A. E. Johnstone, H.

N. Marvin, Mrs. J. K. Mason, Robert L.

Paddock. BRIGHTON BEACH. The week Just passed has been one of the liveliest of the season and the hotel has grown more popular than ever. XOTES. Large crowds have visited the place nightlv, where they are entertained by a very fine display of pyrotechnics, a popular concert by Slater's Marine Band or a well balanced vaudeville show In the Music Hall.

All of these have been veil patronized, and the management has announced several new attractions the fireworks display during the coming week. Those registered at the hotel during the week are as follows: Mrs. L. M. Donaghv.

Mips Do naghy, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rudolph Miss Clara Wilson. F.

F. Beals. T. S. Polnier.

Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Maxwell, Mr.

and Mrs. George C. Smith, R. E. E.

L. Hammond. Miss White, C. D. White.

P. J. Russell. R. Farland, J.

M. Goetinger. J. M. Conroy, Charles H.

Galloway, J. F. Sherlock. F. F.

Runyon, W. B. Lambert, Mr. and Mrs. K.

S. Poppe, Charles Gloecker. D. Goodman. Morris Marks.

L. Mathlas. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, Emil Schwab.

Miss L.vnn, Joseph L. Silverman. Mrs. A. "Walluston, Julius Silverman, Mr.

and Mrs. F. w. Davis, George B. Swift, A.

Woetzer. Denis H. Toomen, Mr. nnd Mrs. A.

B. Wilson. C. H. Wilson, w.

Tellau, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Shirley. Miss Mary D. Rice.

Miss Carrie Graham, E. B. Searle. George H. Anderson, E.

Greene, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Sherman, Mrs.

George C. Seitke. D. Hiffgins, P. J.

KJuger. E. J. Munenner, Hlanche Ring, Miss K. Fleisch man, R.

L. Danenberg and J. c. Zutt. BATH BEACH AND BENS ONHURST.

The warm wave which struck town during the early part of last week caused a big boom in business at the hotels and boarding houses, and the season is gradually drawing to that point where everything is at its height. NOTES. The Beach Hotel seems to be the favorite place for a great many guests of other houses, probably because of the fact that some fine music can be heard on tlu broad, piazzas. During tho week an excellent programme was rendered and the people flocked into the grounds in large numbers. Those who registered during the week at the Avon Beach Hotel the following: F.

J. Nau, A. Kasner. W. H.

Van Luklen. George Arndt, H. McCulloch. Julius Ruff. Morris Rosett.

Theodore Baldwin. Joseph llesln, William (:. Nelson, S. Meller, P. llailiter, Robert Brldgeman, James Short.

Across the Arverne at the Sea View things have been lively durlntr the week and tills house is enjoying Its best and most prosperous season. Those registered are as follows: Mr. and MrB. H. H.

Cordon, Nathaniel Levy. Miss Daniels. Mr. and Mrs. James McBeth.

Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Macy.

Jacob Myers. Mr. air1 Mrs. C. W.

Miss Hurs man. D. J. O'Keefe. Alonzo Simmons.

Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Simpson.

.1. F. Johns. Mr. and Mrs.

L. P. Stubblnr Doctor R. Rosenthal, Mr. and Mrs.

Prlchard. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barrett. Mr.

and Mrs. Kalin. V. E. Freeman.

Mr. and Mrs. George Chapman. W. F.

Brenner, Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Thayer.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Drvs dale.

A. S. Frank. Mr. and Mrs.

P. D. Phillips. Radclifrc. jr: Mr.

and Mrp. H. Stewart. Mr. and Mrs.

J. V. Whitehead. Miss Curtin. Henry Hold.

Miss Edna Easlick. Mrs. G. B. Ball.

J. H. Spero, Mr. and Mrs. F.

P. Radcllfte. M. Flelsch man. Miss Gertrude Arden.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Lehman, W. R.

Cooper. Mrs. E. H. Peck.

Miss Peck. "Mr, and Mrs. Sanders. Mr. and Mrs.

John Rose, Mr. and Mrs. II. Brown, Mr. and Mrs H.

C. side of the house is a room that is being fitted up as a studio for the house's master, and is going to be worth a visit. All in all, The Columns is so unique that it fully deserves the space given to It here. There will be much re to say about it a little later on, when Mr. Squier's terraced garden, partly French, partly English, in a measure Italian, is set quite in order.

It takes several years to get a place of this sort in trim, and the garden is now only entering upon its second season. Complete, it will be a flower garden of the olden time, inclosed by a high white stucco wall, filled with old fashioned, brilliant posies, such as the heroine of a seventeenth century novel might readily step out of with the daintiest of courtesies. Ex Mayor Wurster, who rented a cottage here last summer, is not of the colony this year, but no other faces and forms aeem missing. The Moores are occupying Old Orchards again, one of the most comfortable i Adloining them are William R. 'h r's of hi Heigh Is in a house ot pe w'osi pi.

ii i. o.v. Ex Brook lynites to the number of two occupy very handsome places, W. R. H.

Martin, whose son, Leo Trowbridge Martin, married Miss Amelia Bowers of the Park Slope late this spring, and William Zieeler. The Martins have a curious, ornamental house of dark stone, one of the first country seats the visitor to Belle Haven comes to. The one thing it lacks is sufficient lawn to display its effectiveness propnrly. The Zieplers call their place Otter arid the house is perched upon a cliff close to the water. It has an exceedingly pretty entrance, a road approach and an arrangement of trees and flower beds in front that are highly decorative.

The S. E. Buchanans of Berkeley place also are cottaging here. A new Brooklyn comer is Frank Page' of Third street. MANHATTAN BEACH.

The ever popular Manhattan Beach is now the scene of much gayety and the big hotel is fast filling up. NOTES. Pain is meeting with great success this year in the fireworks lnclosure and some great nights have resulted. The greatest drawing curd, however, has been the minstrel show presented by Primrose nnd Dockstader in the hie theater and every nifjht the place la crowded. The band concerts durint? the afternoon are also enjoyed and Fan ciulll is making a big hit by his well selected programmes.

Over at the Oriental things are. as usual, very quiet. The guests keep coming and in a week or two it Is expected that every room will be taken. Thomas C. Piatt Is now settled at the hotel and enjoys the cool breezes from a seat on the pure ii.

i ne ncnttiur ih nut inunnm iuii, nut it is thought the wait air will work wonders with him. William Brookfield has also arrived at the hotel with his son and some quiet little political confnbs have hern hold ibirln" tho wopk. Among the arrivals during tho week were W. E. Benjamin, Mr.

and Mrs. George C. Lockwood. A. .1.

Nutting Henry H. ArmHlead. Mr. and Mrs. Edward D.

Adams, R. W. Stocking. H. T.

Knowles, Mrs. M. A. Stafford. Miss Florence Woods, E.

S. Chapin, Mrs. C. E. Patterson, Troy, N.

Y. Miss Patterson, Mrs. Van Cortlandt Hamilton, tho Misses Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs.

A. Graef, Thomas PInckncy, Morrlstown, N. Mr. THE COLUMNS, Frank Squier's Country Home at Belle Haven, Conn. whose house is the most exquisitely planned and carried out, without and within, within a radius of many miles.

It has lawns upon which much care has been lavished a flower 8Bow thst is of great attraction, these flowers being massed about tho piazzas. Inside hall and public rooms make up a suite of unusually artistic development. The rear of the house faces a little bay, and Is this mansion's finest feature. That his landscape effects and his width of lawns might in no wise be injured, Mr. Jackson placed his Stables and outhouses at a distance, concealing them, and established a telephone connection.

He hits been at Westhampton for 'Mr'y and built this house twenty years ago. This financier's near neighbors Include Miss IStbel Moore and David Thomas Mooro of.