Popular resorts, and how to reach them . RIDING OUT THE STORM. POPULAR KESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. HI At the right is a building one thousand feet long by eighteen feet wide,built into the bluff, protected by a heavy bulkhead. This is used foramusements. The side is of glass, and opens to the sea. In front is abroad promenade, provided with seats. The roof is flat, covered withconcrete, and is also used for a walk, over which pavilions are placed atintervals, the whole overlooked by beautiful cottages. At the left of thehotel are hundreds of bathing-houses, with pavilions and seats for spe
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . RIDING OUT THE STORM. POPULAR KESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. HI At the right is a building one thousand feet long by eighteen feet wide,built into the bluff, protected by a heavy bulkhead. This is used foramusements. The side is of glass, and opens to the sea. In front is abroad promenade, provided with seats. The roof is flat, covered withconcrete, and is also used for a walk, over which pavilions are placed atintervals, the whole overlooked by beautiful cottages. At the left of thehotel are hundreds of bathing-houses, with pavilions and seats for spec-tators. Steamboats and yachts crowd the landing, while the wharves,the verandas, the balconies and bluffs, are filled with the life and gayetyof the scene. Over sixty-nine thousand guests visited this renownedresort during the season of SEA VIEW Bluffs, Marthas Vineyard. If the boat remains at the landing long enough to allow it, a visit tothe Sea View will amply repay the trouble. From the wharf, theentrance is made through an ornamental gate-house, which is devoted tooffices. In the tower at the right is the baggage-room, with a generalrailway ticket-office over it. At the left is the wharfingers office, overwhich is the office of the Oak Bluffs Company. The basement of thehotel is approached by a private entrance from the wharf, by which thebaggage and stores are taken, and, by the steam elevator, raised to anypart of the house. Wide passage-ways extend through the basement, cutting each other atright angles. At the left of the entrance, opening to the sea, are thebarbers shop, bath-rooms, and billiard-hall, beyond which is the engineers 112 POPULAK RESORTS, AND HOW TO KKACH THKM. and boiler room. &c. On the right are store-rooms, ice-house, chill-room,laundry, bakery, and servants rooms. The house a
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