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Show EXCLU3IVENEU3 L03T. Mawpvrl Is U !otr ol lUlnr Ovarran by Ilia Common Hard. Social prophets ure beginning to say that Newport will not long hold Us own as tho most exclusive of American Ameri-can summer resort, although none ot them has yet named a place likely to succeed It, nor Indeed has that matter been touched on at all, says tho New York Sun They assert that tha Ilhoda Island town will follow tbe cxamplo of Saratoga aud Ionie ilrunch und thus lose Its character through precisely Ihs tame cause that deprived these places ot their former glory Tbey call attention at-tention to the fact that the number ot newcomers every summer at Newport grows larger and larger Villas formerly form-erly occupied by excluslvo members ot Newport society nre rented and sold to wealthy families from other pari nt the country and Iboir owners either go abroad or retire to some other place The other place has not yet been settled sufficiently tor any town to bo named as a possible successor to Newport, so Ihe present attitude ot social so-cial prophets Is destructive rather than creative Opponents of this view assert as-sert that no similarity between Newport New-port end Its two predecessors Saratoga Sara-toga and Long Branch could ever exist. ex-ist. It Is alwaya the hotel life that has never been characteristic of Newport, New-port, for so many millions of dollars are Invested In costly residences thst the character of the town can never change entirely. |