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...footman is all but gone in Newport, R.I.-the golden day when it took some 30 servants to run a summer "cottage," when the Sunday lunch table was set for 250 as a matter of course, and creeping socialism was represented by the 16th Amendment, empowering the Government to levy an income tax. Another knell tolled for those high and far-off times last week as the auctioneer's hammer fell on the contents of The Elms, one of the last of the great houses that were still homes-until the death a year ago of Miss Julia Berwind...
...Many of Newport's amazing mansions have been leveled to save taxes (Villa Rosa, next door to The Elms, is slated for demolition soon), but some of the great ones still stand-many with things going on inside them that would give their former owners the cold shivers. Stoneacre, built in 1884 by John W. Ellis, has been a boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius...
Another profitable solution is to turn them into apartment houses, as a former mayor of Newport, James L. Maher, has done with The Crossways, built in 1898 for peppery Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. There is certainly plenty of space. In The Waves, for example, built in 1927 by John Russell Pope, a four-bedroom, two-bath apartment has been fitted into what was once the dining room...
Slightly farther from the Square (about two to three hours driving) are beaches in the nearby states of Maine and Rhode Island. The water is cold but brisk in Old Orchard and Ogunquit Maine, and Narrangansett, Newport, and Misquamicut, Rhode Island have fine swimming facilities...
Says Shields: "She is a very well-built boat, and a lot of clever, original thinking has gone into her design." Whatever U.S. boat defends against Gretel off Newport, R.I., this September will have to earn the right. Columbia, skippered by Corny's son "Glit," has been in drydock all winter getting a shorter, sharper keel, a new mast, new sails, and new "coffee grinder" winches. Says the senior Shields: "People ask, 'Why change a boat that is obviously very fast?' Well, we figure we need every advantage we can get to lick our competition." Chandler Hovey...