Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-11

SKETCHES OF SUMNER TRAVEL.
Editorial Co-rsspoHdsHes Of Tia

A
ELY AND COMFORTABLY ACCOMMODATED IN A
SINGLE HOTBL-WAsHINGToN SERVANTS AT
SARATOGA THE FAsHIoNABLz rURN-oUrs
THERE-THAT OF Mrs. BENNETT The wIFK
OF Mr.. BENNETT, OF The Nsw YORK HERALD
THE LAKE DRIVE.
BY way Of informing the uninitiated precisely
how Thousand guests quietly and satisfactorily
accommodated at single boarding place-half
of them being people who from the enormity Of
their furbelOws and hounces occupy twice the
space, by the by, required by ordinary mortals Of
thelr own sex, (whO in these days of the fashion
Of hoops require probably three times as much
room as their grandmothers did } a brief descrp-
lion Of the proportions and some OF the arrange
ments OF Union Hall, Saratoga, may not be amiss
here. The front building, erected I'm 1SO2 bv the
grandfather Of one of its present proprietors for
the purpose to which It continues to be dedicated
to-day, is go feet long by 80 feet broad, and of
two stories, with dancing room 20 feet by 80 at
one end, and a building jutting out ehind 90 by
80 feet, both Of two stories To the south on the
same (Principall street 1t has a brick building Of
lodging rooms erected in 1858, $50 by so feet and
of four stories, near by which are a row Of gar
den cottages" three stories high, with three
stories Of deep piazzas This row is PAS by 30
feet, and was erected in 1853. This spring the
Of this seasons visitors to add still another
mammoth building to their establ shment; brick
wing on the north side, 2Il feet by SIS Its hight
is six stories, including the basement That (the
baSenent) is devoted TO culinary purposes laun-
dry, washtng-rO ice lined store rooms for but
ter and milk fruits and vegetables, and for meats
stewards Office, &c; the dining room for private
servants and children is also there, and seats two
hundred at time; also the dining room of the
servants employed by the proprietors, which seats
1903 time. In the washing, drying and ironing
room, though steam is made as seryiceable as
posi- Die, some thirty women are constantly en-
PlOyedi while in the kitchen there seemed to be
as many more regularly employed when | passed
through 1t while breakfast was being served to
guests in the story head; as well as quite as
many dining-rOOm servants down to fiji orders
for individual guests The clatter of the tongues
OF the latter as they repeated to the cooks the de-
mands made upon them, was not little amusing
was astonshed at the rapidity with which so
many ana so various such orders were filled amid
their noise and that Of the many maids engaged
IN washing plates, dishes, cups saucers, knives
rkS, glasses, 10. There were half a dozen
French cooks, fitting about in spotless white.
from their fat head-coverings down to their shoes
the pastry and confectionery rooms, the bakery
that forced all the cold and hot water required
anywhere in the buildings, all tbroug hout every
building and story Of the premises The single
steam-generating apparatus furnishes all the steam
required in the kitchen to operate the long series
OF huge steaming kettles for cooking the vege-
tables In the embarrassing, drying and ironing
rooHis, ana In the carving room above head. On
this moor were also various store rooms in which
groceries required in the cooking and making Of
the pastry and confectionery are kept Three
large and very conveniently arranged ranges for
cooking the meats attracted my attention there, as
well as an admirable cOatrivance Of one of the
prOpreors, for separating the refuse grease of the
kitchen from the water in which II is washed
from the china ware Ii will be found of Ureat
use in every kitchen, great or small and | pre-
sumo its cost for the use Of an ordinary privata
family could not be over two or three dollars In
tie second story Of this new wing is the dining
room, 2UO by S. feet, from the centre of which uts
out the carving room, 81 feet by Is from the leng
table Of which, covered with mammoth heater,
al the meats, vegetables, are directly served
to the guests as called for The rest of the length
al feetl Of this floor is used for the pantries 70
CURED for the proper service Of the dining hall.
In which no less than 100 walters are now en-
Ployed. The four upper stories Of this magnifi-
cent wing are devoted to spacious chambers wi III
a screen door and solid door to each as well AZ
fan lights and ventiators, and gas has been intro
duccd into every room. Water closets are upon
each floor The whole nun Der of sleeping rooms
upon the premises is some $50, while II embraces
also sutiiciency of all the other apartments re-
CURED in such mammoth Carayansera The
lawn by which the buildings ] have been de-
scribing is surrounded on three sides is about five
acres in extent and forms not only delightfully."-
cool retreat for the grown guests, but a most en-
tcing play ground for the multitude Of their
children.
mad more than dozen servants from Wash
ingtOn here, personally known to me: the Dro
pretors prefer those from Baltimore and the Fsd
erai NJ etrOpOlis, when they can get them. for the
reason Of their greater ciylity and tractabiIitv
than are evnced by the nor hern colored servants
competing with them for employment here It
gratlfed me exceedingly to hear from the pro-
Prietors of Union Hall this evidently well nerited
encoHlum upon those of w Washington; and trust
that, thus deserving the confidence of their en-
Ployers, hundreds, rather than dozens Of them,
will hereafter find profitable employment at
northern watering places throughout the summer
The scene In the principal avenue immediately
after breakfast and at ) p. m, when the visitors
are about to take their forenoon and afternoon
witnessed in this country. Hundreds here for the
season keep their own carriages, all Of which are
elegant "turn-outs;' those of the snobs multi
tude Of whom are always to be found here during
the season. being Of course the extremely dashing
ones Thus, at such times, one sees two or three
hundred private, aud really elegant public We
hicles, and the finest collection Of buggy and
carriage horses conceivable, either pacing to and
fro along the portion of the avenue on which the
main hotels Of Saratoga Immediately border, or
standing awaiting occupants.
The most elegant and recherche turnout at Sar-
atoga this season is that Of Mrs Bennett the wife
Of the editor of the New York Herald; a pony
phaeton, evidently built in Paris Mrs b. drives
her Pair-in- hand, herself, carrying jauntily, her
parasol, attached to a delicate ivory whip which
is thus made to serve, very gracefully indeed,
double purpose. She drives capitally, and there
are few teams there that can pass her ponies wheh
she fincies to put them upon their mettle AS
seen in her carriage she looks under thirty years
OF age which can hardly be, as she has a son
some eighteen or nineteen years old From
the remarks made around me, as she mounted her
n Nefg Is ri Lar hat uba - 49,