The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-08
rur CLOSE OF THE FAsHI0NABLB SEASON

TIVE CLOSE OF THE FASHIONABLE SEA6oN.--
Tho season may be said to have closed ut Saratoga,
Newport, and all the fashionable watering places.
Al Saratoga, the number of visitants exceeded
that Of any former year, the total approaching
% twenty thousand The United States Hotel ac-
commoda,ed between four and Eve thousand guests,
Union Hall nearly the like number, Congress Hall
about three thousand and the remainder divided
among the other six hotels. Estimating the ex-
penses of each person to average ten dollars, the
limited States would have Melted over $4,000, the
Union Hall about the same amount, Congress Hall
$7 00O and the aggregate receipts OF all the hotels
would be somewhere about two hundred thousand
dollars OF this it may be fairly set down that
one half was clear profit, as, from the manner In
which guests we're huddled together, and the mean
ness Of the fare allowed them, there must have &C
crued to the proprietors fully fifty per cent profit
This has been considered an extremely good season
to the landlords at Saratoga, however agreeable u
may have been to visitersthe hotels being so very
crow died. the tables provided on such a very econo-
mical SCALE the liquors being sold at three hundred
per cent profit and the walters, on their part, being
so exacting in the enforcement of blackmail, and
the propretors being pinching TO the last degree
The complaints we have received from all quarters
about the short commons could not have been
groundless And such complaints have wonderfully
increased during the last two years, but they ar
rived at their highest point this season. Indeed, TO
such an extent have complaints on this score pro
ceeded. that we understand several capitalists
preparing to erect one or two large hotels for the
next season, to be conducted on liberal principles,
without short commons at table, the levying Of
| blackmal by walters. Some remedy of this kind
| was much needed
The fashionable watering season has also closed
| at the capital of Rhode Island. The fancy ball
| which, according to custom, celebrated its last
| days, bore more of the character OF requiem
| than of jubilee. In comparison to its former
| glories, it was q gloomy and melancholy affair.
| To keep up appearances, and perhaps with an
| idea that they might induce some soft-heads to
| patronize the ball. those interested in it named
some eighty or a hundred managers, composed OF
| all conditions and degrees-generals and tallow
| chambers, judges and shoemakers, governors and
taors colonies, aors, and captains, with matters,
| showmen. and rumdealers, and every other grada-
| tcn of rank But after all it was simply failure
The soft heads were proof against the inducements
| brought to bear on them. The HERALD even adver-
| tised that fair and handsome women were sadly IN
| need of partners but yet gallant young men feared
| that confounde Maine Liquor law, and the starva-
ton proviso. In such case, and against such OBJ
| jections even gallantry could not be expected to
| hold UP its head. The number on the floor, We are
| informed, meyer came up to the number OF mana
| gers, and very few of these officials came to dis
charge their duty at all.
| We have no details of the statistics of Newport.
but the probability is that there have not been
more than from fifteen hundred to two thou
sand persons during the season at any of the
| hotels. Its last days were dark and gloomy,
and few who witnessed them would like to live over
| their experiences again No life--no fun-no
amusement-no chances of picking up husband
few romantic young ladies, fresh from the board
ing school, might be seen walking along the beach,
and murmuring in unison with the sad sea wave,
on the absence Of all material out of which to select
| lover. One of them even so carried away by
her feelings as to wrte with tibet top of her paraso
| in the sand, the soliloquy of Selkrk:-
| Oh solitude, where the charms
4 That sages have seen in thy face!
| Better dwell in the midst of alarms.
| Than reign in this horrible place"
But the final day came. and with it came-not low
ers, not admirers, not dashipg young men-nothing
but Barnum and bis happy family 1t was too bad
thus to disappoint all the fair young ladies Of ~hom
|
care about Barnum's monkeys; they would rather
have some of their own choosing. The ball was,
therefore, dull and stupid affair Barnum and the
happy family did their best to make it jolly, but the
Temperance lecturer happened to stroll down to a
subterraneaD apartment, where he saw-what fright
ened him more than the drunken ghost of Joyce
Heth would do-a band of convivial souls swilling
champagne and cognac and bawling out that they
| wouldn't on any account 60 home till MORNING.
very unnecessary piece of information. seeing that
| was then very near three o'clock A. M. The show
man beat hasty retreat from the bachanal cave,
sigpalized the happy family that it was time for
them to make themselves scarce, and soon after,
| The lights fed,
4 The gar!ands dead.
| And all but the host departed
And he was left mourning the buried prospects
| Of Newport. Within the week, all the fashionable
watering places viii be deserted. and New York
az present full enough IN all conscieDce-will have
its utmost powers of crp5cty tested by tho crowds
focbing into it from the mountain springs, and sea-
1 shore
Here we will present to them the most elegant
| hotels, and the best of accommodation and atten-
tion during their stay, without the necessity OF
feeling servants. The table, in these houses, is
always abuDdantly supplied with all the delicacies
of the season. In excellences of every description
they not to be compared with houses in any part
! tine country. Those who remain in New York
will have opportunities for the next two or three
months Of seeing the greatest 0rastes of the world.
| comprising some of The finest vocasts dancers,
and musicians In fact. New York. during the
whole of that period, will be perfect festival day
| and night.
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