The Fashions and Pleasures of New York

JOHN McMULLIN

WHEN the hot nights come it is a toss-up whether a New Yorker dines on the roof, or at some road house in the country. Of course, to dine in the country, a motor car is necessary, but who has not a friend who has a friend who has a car? That's the way a party is made up, and on these warm evenings it is pleasant to collect a party and go out to some attractive road house to dine.

Every summer there are new ventures by clever people to tempt us out of town. The latest of these is the Russian Pavilion at the Royal James Inn at Norwalk, Connecticut, which is being run by the Count and Countess Zichy. This means that it will no doubt be very smart, the food very good and the decorations very amusing. It is on the Post Road just six miles beyond Stamford. This is less than a two hours' run from New York, and almost next door to Greenwich.

Dining late on a summer evening is an excellent idea. No one in Paris dines now before eight-thirty or nine. By then it is dark and cooler and one's appetite is whetted by a run in the fresh air. Therefore, distance is not a factor when it comes to finding an ideal place to dine out of town. It is a good idea to collect a party at one's house before starting and serve sandwiches and shaken drinks to fortify them for the ride. Care in arranging these small details make excursions of this kind live as pleasant memories.

ALMOST everyone has a pet road house, They are all amusing for one reason or another. But in case the reader does not go in for frequenting the road-house restaurants, I am listing some of the most famous and their distance by road from New York.

Woodmansten Inn 22

Douglas Manor Inn 24

Peiham Heath Inn 16

Longue-Vue 17

Japanese Inn 17

Post Lodge 18

Tumble Inn 10

Blossom Heath Inn 19

Castles by the Sea 26

Pickwick Inn 28

Petit Trianon 53

Pelham Parkway

Douglaston

Pelham Bay

Hast ings-on-Hudson

Harmon

Post Road

Croton-on-Hudson

Lynbrook

Long Beach

Greenwich

Lake Ronkonkoma

Each of these has its special characteristics. The Blossom Heath Inn, the Pelham Heath Inn and the Woodmansten Inn have the reputation of being gay and amusing from the point of view of the crowd. Tumble Inn is famous for steaks. The food at the Japanese Inn is extremely good; this also applies to Pickwick Inn and Post Lodge where the music is excellent as well.

THE New York-Newport Air Service Inc., marks the beginning of an era of travel that will make the week-end of the future very different from that of the past. From the New York Terminal of this line, situated at 31st Street and the East River, it is possible to leave on Friday afternoon at two-thirty and be in Newport at four. It is just time to read the afternoon paper and there you are. The pleasing difference between this mode of traveling and the usual seven hours to Newport by train, with all the tiresome changing and fatiguing difficulties of the journey is immediately apparent. It makes one realize how air transportation will eliminate the boredom of traveling in the future. On Friday afternoon there are two air yachts, seating four passengers each, which make the trip, within a half hour of each other. At noon on Saturday, one plane leaves 31st Street and the East River, arriving in Newport for a one-thirty iunch. Sunday afternoon a plane leaves for New York at six o'clock and on Monday morning there will be planes returning, one at nine and one at nine-thirty. A special fare of $30 per seat, one way, is charged. During the summer there are j also planes that run regularly to Atlantic City. These may also be hired for a flight to Southampton or the North Shore of Massachusetts. The approximate rate for such flights is fifty cents per mile, per person. The Newport Air Service is being subsidized by all the people who keep Newport going and it will undoubtedly be very popular. If seats are not taken in advance, one is likely to be disappointed. Each yacht carries four passengers which limits the number of persons to twelve going up and back each week-end.