Narragansett Herald

LOCALS.

The Printer's strike caused several Newspapers including the Herald to have but little if any home news last week. But when the home news is light plenty of What is going on at the World's Fair is quite as acceptable occasionally.

Mr. Thomas H. Evans the Eastern Manager of the San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune, after a week's sojourn at Narragansett Pier, and a week in mid ocean upon Block Island with our Press Club, returned to the metropolis last week. A delegation of our Press Club accompanied Mr. Evans as far as New London.

Mr. Arthur H. Watson and daughter, Miss Hattie, of Providence, are at the Revere.

Mr. McA. Smith, of Tacoma, Washington, with Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Smith, of Newport, are registered at Chandler's.

Wm. H. Hall, the prominent real estate agent at Providence, with his family and servants have a suite of rooms at the Berwick.

The Press Club Building has been carpeted and furnished up somewhat, and more necessary articles are upon the way to the Mushroom City.

Upon the Boulevard through Wakefield, which has now become the fashionable drive afternoons, a young lad manipulated the reins upon the tally ho coach of 4 horses Thursday with ease, showing great horsemanship.

Capt. Geo. Carmichael of Shannock was in town Thursday, and during his stay he was entertained at the New Press Club Building upon the beach.

Miss Lottie Germain of the New York Recorder, a guest at the Mathewson, enjoys our beautiful bathing mornings as well as she does dancing at the Casino hop evenings.

All now admit that the bill of fare at the Rockingham leads any hotel here among dainties of the season. Sunday at this well kept hotel was quail on toast, and the menu card would compare favorably with that of the Hotel Del Monte at Monterey, Cal., which claims to equal any hotel in the world. A guest of the Rockingham hotel has placed the bill of fare in the show case of Watson's Pharmacy, where all may see and believe all that the Herald has said.

Mrs. Geo. A. Spink of Auburn is at Chandler's for the summer.

The Casino Hops go a little slow as yet but among the prettily-gowned dancers were Miss Winnie Davis of Mississippi, the Misses Falconer, Miss Howard and Miss Sterett of New York, Misses Harris of Richmond, Miss Watson of Providence.

The Hotel Berwick had a large number of arrivals today as well as yesterday. The service at this hotel is first-class in every respect.

David Stevenson caught a 25-pound bass last week.

Wednesday morning a mammoth whale commenced disporting between Narragansett Pier and Block Island. Later in the day he was joined by three other similar leviathans. The crew of the steamer Block Island passed in close proximity to the big fish yesterday. As a drawing card whales are only second to sea serpents.

It requires only $17 now to go to the World's Fair at Chicago, and return via New York, Ontario and Western Railway, on Saturday, August 12; Wednesday, August 16. Leave Franklin Street Ferry at 9 A. M., West Forty-second street at 9:15, arrive at Chicago 4:20 P. M. following day. Both ways via Niagara Falls. Tickets good ten days. Full information at No. 37 Broadway, New York.

Narragansett Pier has always been noted for its beautiful women, and this season we have a charming widow, Mrs. Robert P. Hastings, of San Francisco, Cal. She has a suite of rooms at the Rockingham. Her features are exquisite, with large expressive brown eyes. Her hair has a reddish golden tint. She is a little above the medium height, graceful, and has a queenly poise of the head that is very attractive.

Our Press Club has been invited to go to Europe and pass three months next year, as the Chicago Press Club did last year, without money and without price. In its place, however, they expect plenty of printers' ink, that "makes millions think."

Our unsurpassed bathing beach draws out our beautiful ladies as well as our swells every morning from 11 A. M. to 2 P. M. The scene is one of rare beauty and great enthusiasm, being thronged with bathers, daintily costumed, while the large pavilion above is comfortably filled with people watching the movements of the swimmers and the movements also of those who do not swim, but who are satisfied to wade knee-deep or breast-high in the surf. Very picturesque groups are frequently formed on the beach, the bright colors of the gowns contrasting with the light gray of the sand.

Mrs. George N. Durfee, of Fall River, is the guest of Mrs. Charles Hazard, of Wakefield, where Mrs. Annie Huntington, of Brooklyn, is also spending the summer.

Our readers will be glad to know that the New York Yacht club will arrive at Newport next week. The Goelet cup races take place August 11, and the races for the Astor cup will be held a few days later.

The Continental Hotel had a large number of arrivals yesterday. This hotel, under Mr. Johnson's management, is first-class in every respect, and is enjoying a very good season.

Mrs. Phillip Conner, a sister of Mrs. Samuel Welsh, is to erect a cottage upon the Cliffs which will be colonial in its architecture, and sixty by forty-five feet in size. George Bullock is to do the stone work, Robert Burns the wood work and W. H. Griffith the plumbing.

Dr. S. H. King of Providence is at the Atwood, where Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grimes of Providence are also registered.

Watch Hill is at last filled up and the Herald now is having a good sale, both there and at Newport, which has also been very slow until August.

Playing whist mornings in our new Press Club building has become very popular the past week and in the Press Club reading room are newspapers from every city in the United States, also magazines and periodicals that are free to all for inspection.

Walter Mains' Circus which was at Wakefield last year exhibits in Providence on Saturday, Aug. 12th. The Barnum show was at Saratoga, N. Y., yesterday.

Wm. Nichols, Esq., died last week at his residence on Tower Hill, aged 80 years and two months, and Mr. Wm. Belling ton, the proprietor of Belling ton's cafe here, also died last week in his 59th year.

What is going on at the World's Fair in Chicago, is still the principal subject with our people who appreciate an article every week.

Three French Canadian bears gave a unique entertainment at Kingston Junction Thursday night, delighting the passengers who were waiting for a belated train.

Three hundred of the shoe and leather men of Providence were at Narragansett Pier Thursday afternoon. They came upon the steamer King Phillip.

The new Press Club Building upon the beach was dedicated on Tuesday last when the members of our Press Club and their ladies with guests, a party of over one hundred, notwithstanding the rain, were present at the 12th midsummer outing of the Club. The party were first driven to the Casino, where during the driving rain they put in two hours very acceptably. They were next driven over to The Sprague Mansion at Canonchet where another hour was pleasantly passed inspecting this magnificent palace as they termed it. At eleven o'clock the dedicatory exercises were held in the dining room of the new Press building, where after being called to order by the president, the presentation address was delivered by Col. G. S. Wheaton, who referred to the new life which had been infused into the club during the past year. Rev. W. N. Ackley replied in a fitting manner to the sentiments expressed by Col. Wheaton, after which Hon. George Carmichael gave a brief history of the club. Brief remarks were made by ex-Lieut. Gov. Wardwell, after which the party were introduced by the President to Miss Kate Stanton, the well known Anti-Slavery Advocate who arrived just before adjourning to the beach where Dandman photographed the party. Some of the party enjoyed a bath, others visited the casino, and not until after three o'clock was the banquet served at one of the leading hotels here, the Hotel Berwick, where the club enjoyed to the fullest extent the hospitality of Landlord S. B. Matthewson, who proved himself thoroughly a hotel man of experience and fully capable of running a first class hotel at this celebrated summer resort. While the party was at dinner the celebrated Casino Orchestra, under the able leadership of Theodore John, who furnished delightful music at the New York Press Club fair last winter in Madison Square Garden, did its part well to make the affair the grand success it proved to be in every respect. The post-prandial exercises were of an enjoyable nature. Col. Wheaton presided as toast-master. Ex-Gov. Sprague discussed "The Financial Outlook." Rev. W. N. Ackley responded to the toast "The Ministry and the Press," George J. West spoke concerning "The Law and the Press," and Mr. A. B. Crafts on "Narragansett Pier." Ex-Lieut. Gov. Wardwell and Gen. S. Furlough also responded briefly, after which the company was entertained by vocal music by Prof. J. M. Lander and his beautiful daughter who proved herself a fine contralto singer receiving several encores. Letters of regret were received from several members of the New York Press Club, The Boston Press Club and the Providence Press Club, also from Gov. Brown, Secretary of State, Utter, Judges Mattison, Stiness and Douglass, Mayor Pond, Mayor Horton and Mayor Smith. A letter of regret from the brainiest woman in America, Kate Field, who is passing the summer in Chicago, was also received, as were several others from prominent newspaper editors from abroad, or 160 in all, wishing the club great prosperity in the future. The festivities of the day closed with a coaching parade, in which were nearly all of the large teams of Narragansett filled with the newspaper men and their ladies, headed by the beautiful tally ho coach of William H. Hall, the real estate broker of Providence, which was pulled by four fine horses. All the principal places of interest, including Dunmere, Cliff Springs, and the drive among the cottages were taken in, finally landing the party at the depot, where the train moved out at six o'clock, and the party departing singing, "And he's a jolly good fellow," and "Narragansett is a royal great place."