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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ingprocession, of course, with the result ofsocial and political rather than aesthetic cheer to the sj^ectator. The accursedbut convenient trolley system clangsand sizzes through erstwhile sedateSpring Street and out the wide e\))anseof elm - lined Broad Street, now cliar-acteristically become Broadway. Thecolored population has increased afterits 23roliiic racial fashion, and the anom-aly of a barouclie full of darky dandiesand dusky belles conducted by an Irish,or even, as I have before mentioned, anative Newj^ort driver is a frequentphenomenon. The a23palling excursion-ist from Providence and Pawtucket,with his and her j^aj^er bags and odorof i^eanuts and ginger-j^op, infests tliesquares, the cliffs, the beach, and awak-ens echoes with enjoyment. The Irishcontingent has augmented proj^ortion-ally with the African. The city govern-ment is largely in its hands, with per-haps the usual consequence of its ownprosperity and a deterioration of publicworks in general. There are larger 143
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Yachting. crowds of expectorating loafers aroundthe Post-office and the City Hall. Thecommercial traveller, with his samplesand his manners, is more numerous.In fine, the city is no longer, to the eyeas well as in fact, composed of a sum-mer aristocracy and a resident bour-geoisie, its self-respecting admirers. Ithas moved with the rest of the worldand with similar results. And with allits changes, which the dilettante or thelover of old Newport may deplore, it isperhaps more pre-eminenth than everthe loveliest, the serenest, and mostsmiling, the most refined and decorouscivic en.srmble that the country pos-sesses. The quality of the summer life is itselegance, its defect is its artificiality.It is undoubtedly elegant, but its ele-gance is not quite a natural evolution.It is surrounded with ease, comfort, anddistinction not merely material, butaesthetic. Its stage is carpeted with theloveliest of lawns and decorated withthe greatest jorofusion of flowers an)--wliere to be seen. It is

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