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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The Atlantic Seashore Development. 
Article IX.—Famous Island Resorts. 
The shores of Connecticut bordering on the Long Is- 
land Sound do not properly come under the caption of 
' these articles. Also they have been now long developed 
and pre-empted for homes. But it is well to call atten- 
tion to them as instructive in prophesying the future of 
other shores. 
With cities like New Rochelle, Stamford, the Nor- 
walks, Bridgeport, New Haven, New London and others 
strung along the edge of the North Shore of Long Island 
Scund the intervening waterfront has long ago become 
the home of the wealthy suburbanites and the field for 
the unfolding of popular summer resorts and beautiful 
estates. 
From Throg’s Neck to Buzzard’s Bay it is one con- 
tinuous series of reserved seats before Neptune’s marine 
stage, where passes continually a panorama of every im- 
aginable craft in a roadstead from the Gulf of Mexico 
to the St. Lawrence for the commerce of the greatest 
continent on carth, presenting a scene of which the soul 
ot the seashore idler never tires. Here then are shores 
of rare beauty and limitless attraction easily reached by 
both palatial steamers and trains leading the van of the 
hosts gathering along the Atlantic. 
The real initial trend of seashore homes along perma- 
nent lines really began here in far famed Newport, also 
Narragansett, Watch Hill, and other places now as eager- 
ly sought as any. But Newport leads them all in having 
first established the idea of palace homes along the surf- 
swept ocean heights now considered everywhere as the 
‘‘eorrect thing’’ among the millionaire ‘‘smart set.’’ 
Newport is now but one of many American resorts that 
rank with famous old world watering places and out- 
rank some of those faded European resorts in the regal 
splendor of estates. 
The great islands off this coast of New England pre- 
sent an interesting study. These surf-encircled shores, 
onee desolate and baren, whose loneliness echoed only 
with the boom of the breakers and the sea gulls scream, 
now resound tc the sharp flapping of the sails of racing 
beats coming about and echo with the sputtering of 
tight motor boats and the euphonious signals of the mil- 
lionaire’s yacht. 
The unprecedented yearly increase in summer resi- 
dents astonishes the quaint old fisher folk who cannot 
keep up with the rush for accommodations for the 
stranger amorg whom are throngs of hearty westerners 
who come to look up locations where they finally settle 
with the air and solid comfort and luxury of people who 
have come to stay. 
Seven miles seaward from New London is Fisher’s Is- 
land, a popular seaside resort constantly growing in 
favor. 
Block Island—romantie ‘‘Isle of Manisses,’’ as it lays 
twenty-five miles out in the blue sea, is truly an ocean 
resort where wind and wave play unhindered over and 
around the throngs that come and go during the season. 
A stay here surpasses an ocean voyage. With concerts 
on the beach, with bathing. yachting, canoeing in the 
sheltered coves, with the excitement of fishing for shark, 
swordfish and blue fish in the deep sea, and with tennis, 
golf, teas, fish dinners, bridge parties and dancing on 
shore what more ¢ould the beaux and belles of the sea- 
shore demand? And laden with the stimulating salty 
tang of the sex, one is continually breathing in big lung- 
fuls of this ocean air for the very joy of breathing. 
And then there is the lure of old Martha’s Vineyard 
and Nantucket. Why search far afield for the ideal sum- 
mer retreat with these varied and beautiful ocean isles 
so near at hand?» Why travel the whole world round 
for a quaint setting to one’s dreams when it is found on 
our own shores? The dingy corners of the old world 
hold nothing more rare, more alluring. Here are old- 
fashioned villages centuries now in mellowing. Here 
are quaint character sketches in human nature in habits 
and forms ofspeech beyonc the story teller’s art to reveal 
and found only in life’s.realism, the true charm of plain 
folk, good simple folks, found in but few places in this 
new world of curs. The whole situation on land and sea 
has the flavor of some ripe old vintage about it that 
cheers and invigorates the jaded soul of the artificial 
dwellers of Gotham. 
Nothing cau surpass the charm of these sedative old 
towns with artistic urns in some fine road, evolved from 
a cowpath, to its final lazy windings across the whisper- 
ing moors. Here the clatter and whir of manufacturers, 
the ceaseless roar of toil is left far behind. 
land of rest, not the mart of grinding activity. 
The climate has the lulling, dreamy. effect of some 
southern isles without, however, the enervating influence 
found in those latitudes. And ‘yet with all this quieting 
and soothing effect upon mind and body there is nothing 
dull here. Pcople have been comng here now for over 
half a century to enjoy this peculiar rest and recreation 
of these rare islands. - 
Nantucket has shown a spirit of progress in a notable 
achievement during the past year in completing a new 
railroad system linking every town and community 
within its borders. And cottages have grown up every- 
where on Martha’s Vineyard and estates of ever increas- 
ing size and luxury are continually crowding the shores ~ 
aud hilltops, and from the porches of these summer 
homes the eyes are feasted upon such views as Vineyard 
Haven, and marine glasses widen a vision of. seashore 
glory unmatched for interest and charm. 
The waters of Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds are 
tempered to a dégreee where the bathing is simply ideal 
and the most delicate can live in and on the water for 
hours with perfect safety and delight. ~ 
Boat racing, from the dingy fisherman’s dory to the — 
trim racing yachts, and water sports of all sorts are ar- 
ranged in meets and carnivals of continual gaiety. 
This is the place of revelry in sea food in an endless 
round of cod, haddock, mackerel, sea trout and many 
other variety of fish, to clams, scallops and lucious lob- 
sters and crabs, climaxed by genuine old fashioned clam 
bekes, clam chowders and fish dinners to make the most. 
pessimistic dyspeptic sit up and take notice. 
But it is said you cannot drive these foolish fishes from ~ 
tnese shores. They love these islands and tradition says 
that often the overlo aded- is 
not explained—are compelled to feed them ginger 
cookies, which they come and eat out of the fisher- 
man’s hand, before they can be persuaded not to over- 
erowd the boats. 
The Creator has been kind to old New England’s shores, 
but nowhere more kind than in the gift of these island ~ 
gems. And He has not made any more like them so 
charmingly and centrally located in the choicest center 
ef the civilized world. 
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