. New England; a human interest geographical reader. s had disappeared, andthe wharves and slave pens were faUing to decay,prosperity revived. Since the Civil War Newport has been to a some-what predominant degree the resort of New Yorkersof wealth and fashion. Their Newport, however, isoff on the outskirts of the old town and is a settlementby itself. There the big-bugs, as they are some-times called bythe humblerislanders, havebuilt their man-sions on anupland thatjuts seawardwith a longragged front-age of offlookafforded is delightful, and the situation is ideal in itsbreezy summ
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. s had disappeared, andthe wharves and slave pens were faUing to decay,prosperity revived. Since the Civil War Newport has been to a some-what predominant degree the resort of New Yorkersof wealth and fashion. Their Newport, however, isoff on the outskirts of the old town and is a settlementby itself. There the big-bugs, as they are some-times called bythe humblerislanders, havebuilt their man-sions on anupland thatjuts seawardwith a longragged front-age of offlookafforded is delightful, and the situation is ideal in itsbreezy summer coolness. A notable attraction of thisvicinity is the Cliff Walk, which runs for three milesalong the brow of the bluffs that front the ocean. Onthe landward side are the beautiful grounds andmagnificent palaces of the summer colony, and in theother direction you can toss a pebble into the sea. Certain of those who belong to the fashionable New-port set go to astonishing extremes in entertainingthemselves. They like to create a sensation, and it. The arch on the cliff walk A City of Pleasure 233 is recorded that in one instance they took a pig outto ride in an automobile in order to do somethingreally new. The part ofthe place thatwas once soflourishing asa seaport, isnow a ratherquiet and ordi-nary old villagewith the nar-row streets andquaint crowdedwooden build-ings character-istic of so manyof the colonialtowns alongthe New Eng-land of itsstreets whichimpresses the traveller with its name, is FarewellStreet, so called because it leads to the is very little of the old sea traffic now, butevery evening the place is startled out of its dreams,after the curfew has rung, by the arrival of a hugeSound steamer, which glides along with a subdued
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