The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-06-29
MORNING EDITION--FRIDAY, JUNE 80, 1s4s.
The Summer Retreats.
UNITED STATES HOTEL, SARATOGA SPRINGS, !
June n, l849

UNITED STATES HOTEL, SARATOGA SPRINGS,
June n, l849.
First V,nt to the Sw,ngs-Mesns Marpin's Nsp
Hotel-Sple~did Ball Room Cooling Gaueries-
The Observation-Disclosures Visitsrs Of Distinction
False Report of CholeYa-A Great Season Err
pected-7hs Proprietors in High Spirits.
This being my first visit to this queen of water
ing places, which has been heard and discoursed
OF with pleasure approaching to enthusiasm where
ever civilization exists, everything appears to me
as partaking of the beautiful. have been at many
fashionable resorts in Europe, but, in my opinion,
the prize must be awarded TO Saratoga 1t is not
necessary to dwell at any length upon the comfort
and elegance Of the hotel suffice it to say, that it
affords everything which can tend to health, plea
sure and enjoyment. The popular and esteemed
propre,ors are building splendid house, which is
to be restaurant where gentlemen may, if they
wish, have dinner at almost any hour. and where
those who derive qualification from the merry
bowl may ego the whole figure" without incon-
venlencng any one. 1t Is to be the gentemrn's
establishment The ball room is los feet by 43
feet and It's height is twenty-five feet. At either
slde there is n promenade or cooling gallery where,
after The fatigue of the dance, the gay, and The
fashionable, and the light. hearied, may repair to
lnhale the " breeze that fans the cloudless sky"
The windows are eighteen feet long, nine of
which can be run up. SO that there il ample scope
tor the wind 10 rush in body and purify the air
Attached to the ball room are apartments for the
ladies' and gentlemen. The cost of the whole
building will be about twenty thousand dollars
In the garden there are twelve hundred feet of
columns, which give it highly classic appearance
here, under The shade Of natures rich and EN-
broidered canopy, the delicate lady may walk IN
The hopeful pursuit OF health; here the statesman
may unbend his mnd from the weghiy cares and
Rnxieties inseparabe from the affair Of the nation;
here the orator may catch some new ideas digest
"a tt,rf npNt
occasion, when some grand principle is to be con-
tended for, some intricate question of policy or
finance TO be debated, or some adversary to be an
nlhilated; and here the divine may learn another
lesson upon the wonderful works OF Providence
In this Elysian bower it is always cooler by eight
degress than It is IN the village. If there be hap
pness al this side OF the grave, here, assuredly it
can be experienced.
The hotel is much more crowded now than at
any former period, at this season the proof of
which If, that upwards of thousand dollars
beyond the receipts which have been taken
in the month of June, will, this year, fad
their way into the pockets Ct the proprie-
tors. Several families from Newport, who
have not been here for the last three years,
have engaged apartments. | mention these fact.
because of the reports respecting the cholera
which have been very industrionsly circulated and
as | understand, encouraged by rival establish
ments 1t this be true, II is most certainly very
UNIV oithy and unjust proceeding but there is one
thing to be said, VIZ: that such attempts to iure
always tall, and react upon the authors. The pro-
were in bt tier sprits-lhey have never
done a better buslness-and the number of their
servants will this summer amount to TWO hundred
Notwithstanding the efforts of the authors and pub
fishers of the cholera fable. am very far from
wishing to speak lightly of that terrible visitation,
but TO It's account is now charged almost every
death. This should not be. Nothing should be
done to create alarm.
There are at this hotel lat present, large numbers
Of the fashionable and distinguished among whom
is General Laght, of this State, the Camacks, of
New Orleans, the Sears, the Witmans, Mrs J.
Little, and high-life bridal party. In seven or
eight days the new building will be opened, and
the extensive preparations now gong forward de-
note that great and profitable season is alticl-
pated. hope that the most sangnne expectations
OF the deserving proprietors will be realized.
have disposition whatever to speak in the slight
est degree unfavorably of the other hotels at this
celebrated and justly esteemed seat of health but
the United States will certainly justify any COM
mendatlon which can be pronounced upon it,
Those family cottages, which are situated in the
garden, are sweet little palaces !; in them may be
found the comforts Of home, with all the advan-
tages and delights of a country residence. In
short, the United States hotel Is little village of
itself, and when it rs completed public establish
ment IN any watering place IN the world can COM
pare with II. The country about here is charming;
and with Byron, say
OFT does my heart indulge the rising thought,
Which st occurs, 'un looked for and unsought;
My soul TO fnncy's fond suggestion yields,
And roams romantic DER the airy fields
AIEruEPHAINOS.