The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-17

deserving Of comparison with the French
sssignats, the Continental money, or any ire
leemable issues, as we have proved it to be
lndeserving of comparison with wildcat, South
Sea or Mississippi bubbles.
The Watering Reconsideration and
Rctrenchment.
The approaching summer heats hint rural re-
creations and q trip to the watering places.
The approach Of the tax collector, who will be
knocking at our doors in o few weeks more, is
strongly admonitory Of retrenchment. On the
ane hand is the necessity Of recreation. On the
other hand is the necessity Of economy Pater
'amilias will find these two necessities as an
noying a. the Scylla and Charybdis Of ancient
navigation.
Managers Of places Of public amusement
have already discerned the problem of re-
trenchment and recreation, and have tried to
solve it by putting down their prices of ad-
mission. We now have the Opera, with . hash
the usual charge. The theatres, while affect
ing to keep up their old rates, exc out their
audiences by free tickets Such establishments
~ the Cremorne Garden, however, have .
greater attendance than any of the theatres;
Tor the entrance fee is less onerous, and
the combination Of town and coun-
try, performance and promenade, ice
cream and isolation, is more enjoyable. The
Central Park, free to all visitors, robed in
green, decorated with flowers and musical with
birds and Dodworth's band is more popular
than Opera, theatre or garden. Thus we dis
cover that the people patronize best that es-
Enlistment which gives them the most rural
felicity at the least expense. The Central Park
is just that establishment.
The watering places will suffer greatly this
year. Many of the best patrons of such sum-
mer haunts will content themselves with an oc-
casiona trip to the rural districts, an occasion
81 visit to a country cousin and an occasional
drive through the Central Park. Newport,
with its expensive hotels and more expensive
cottages. will be deserted; Saratoga, with its
Haunting turnouts and endless designations, will
be visited only by class Of persons who will
add little to the reputation Of the hotels or the
profits Of the landlords; Sharon Springs, with
Its conceited, half-breed airs, will be desolate,
and those persons who are obliged to 60 there
to drink the sulphur water will reside
in the comfortable little hotels by the springs
where the air il medicinal and invigorating,
and no longer frequent the former fashionable
houses, where the bad air, bad music and bad
hours did them more harm than all the sulphur
springs in the world could remedy. From the
fate OF these crack watering places judge that
of oil the rest, except, perhaps, those very near
this metropolis No one knows any one who is
going to fashionable watering place this year.
Everybody has decided either to remain in the
city or to spend . few weeks in the genuine
country. We expect that this season will in
augurate q complete change in the character Of
our watering places; and this change will pro-
badly be for the better, as it cannot possibly
be for the worse.
Deduct, then, the comparatively few people
who will board during the summer at those
little hotels upon Long and Staten Islands and
the Jersey shore, which offer the inducements
of reduced rates and an hours sail from
the city, and we still have . very large
majority OF our citizens who will depend
upon the Central Park for the staple Of their
summer rocreations. No impending imitation Of
the money market can alter this conclusion.
As far IS our experience goes, money is never
inflated in value, though it may be in size, just
- five coppcrs arc worth no more than five
cent piece, although they are great deal hea-
vier to carry about. Nor need any one com
miserate our citizens upon the prospect of q
summer in the city. There is no other place in
urban, are felicitously combined rs at our Gen.
eral Park An hours ride from the business
portion Of the city brings you to the Park
country, with lawns. lakes, groves and drives
prepared with the greatest taste, and with views
and vistas unsurpassed in beauty. This double
advantage Of being in the city and in the coun-
try at the Same time cannot be enjoyed at any
watering place. The Park is now in excellent
order, and would be nnexcsptionable were it
not for the fast trotting teams which infest its
vicinity. The Bowery butcher boys, who used
70 drive their ratlike ponies about the city.
have disappeared; but in their stead we have the
Fifth avenue butcher boys, with their cele-
brated studs. They are men with more wealth
than brains, who have made money easily, but
do not know how to spend it rightly. Instead
of driving their horses like gentlemen, they AZ
feet the jockey and the turtle. One refuses to
race, but gets up religious trots against time.
Another processes to be modest, bu. has his
horses and himself photographed together for
carte de visite, the horses making much better
appearance than the man. II the policemen at
The Park will order these aristocratic butcher
boys or the grounds the public will DO greatly
obliged, and wo may confidently rely upon the
tax collector TO complete the suppression OF
this silly, tastsless, unrsfned style of rowdy
recreation.
ANOTHER REBEL PRfyATEEg.--Some time ago