The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . g more than a re-markable page in New England history, isa most delightful central feature in the ^com-munity enterprise here. Oak Bluffs and theHighlands, and all the sections that individualand social enterprise have developed andbrightened, are progressing in the spirit ofthe age and day, and only enhance a situationupon which Nature has lavished the best ofher store. That wealthy men have spent much moneywithin and upon Cottage City is undeniable,but these disbursements have not been madeto build up a watering place for the rich, or
The tourist's guide to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard . g more than a re-markable page in New England history, isa most delightful central feature in the ^com-munity enterprise here. Oak Bluffs and theHighlands, and all the sections that individualand social enterprise have developed andbrightened, are progressing in the spirit ofthe age and day, and only enhance a situationupon which Nature has lavished the best ofher store. That wealthy men have spent much moneywithin and upon Cottage City is undeniable,but these disbursements have not been madeto build up a watering place for the rich, or torender exclusive a colony of wealth outlay has been put where it can be seen,and it may and does speak for itself. Theforty miles of concreted walks and driveways,acres of ornate cottages and public and privatebuildings, the fine music and festivals, races,and tournaments, of every summer, aid espec-ially the incomparable spring water, coursingin every nook and corner of this city of cot-tages, these, and such as these, are the objects. 146 MARTHAS VINEYARD. for which wealth and influence have been lav-ished in Cottage City, and all grades of citizen-ship have been enterested in the enterprise. As to the sports and pastimes of boating,bathing and iisi|ing, the Vineyard stands inthe forefront among summer resorts with rela-tion to these employments. The bathingbeaches of Cottage City are of the same classwith those of Newport, Narragansett Pier, CapeMay, and all the well-known establishments ofthis kind known up and down the Atlanticcoast. Great pains and expense have been in-curred here to utilize fully this grand naturalprovision. As to the visiting sailing craft,there is not a yacht in the North Atlanticwaters that does not know how pleasant anddesirable a thing it is to make a landfall at theVineyard, nor hardly a yachtsman who doesnot so arrange his cruising as to ensure anoccasional run ashore at Cottage City. InAugust, usually, of each year occurs in theV
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