The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-04-30
Grave to Gay-Brilliant Prospect for the
Coming Summer Season.

Grave to Gay-Brilliant Prospect for the
| Coming Summer Season.
Now that the period ofgloom and sadness on
account of our crushing national affection may
be said to have expired with the imposing and
unprecedented demonstration of Tuesday, the
metropolis awakens as with a new life to its
wonted gayety and brilliancy. The opera, the
theatres and all other public places of amuse-
ment were reopened Wednesday evening, and
were fully attended. The splendid dry goods
palaces and fancy bazaars of Broadway and
elsewhere in the city are again visited by
multitudes Of lady purchasers, all seeking
after fashionable and costly goods, and pre-
pairing for the approaching summer season.
The transition from gravity to gayety is
as sudden with the American as with any
other progressive people. They mourn
deeply and sincerely when occasion requires;
but their active natures will not permit
them to succumb entirely to morbid OF
melancholic sentiment. Their liveliness and
goaheadativeness can never be permanently
overcome; and now, we say, that the season of
sorrow may be said to have fittingly passed,
they are alive to their usual business pursuits
as we'll as to the beauties and attractions that
so bountifully surround them.
But it is not to the metropolis alone that
this revivfying reaction is confined. We hear
from all parts of the country the welcome
tidings of an suspicious and glittering summer
season. The watering places are being put in
order for an unparalleled influx of pleasure
and health seekers. Places that were before
capacious enough to accommodate village Of
guests are being enlarged to mammoth proper
| lions, and attractions of the most enchanting
| character added to those presented at previous
seasons. Prominent among these may be men
| toned the improvements going on in Saratoga,
already one of the most fashionable and allur-
ing watering places on the American continent.
Here we find that the enterprising and pro-
gressive Lelands, besides vastly augmenting
the proportions of their splendid hotel (the
Union), have constructed a beautiful opera
house, which will prove charming and novel
feature to their already lovely hotel grounds.
This will make the Union Hotel at Saratoga
equal in attractiveness to any hotel in any Of
the fashionable spas in Europe, and give to
Saratoga itself reputation coextensive with
that of famous Baden Baden, celebrated as that
Is for fashion, frivolity and extravaganza. We
are already ahead of Europe in all the valu-
able inventions of the age, including yachts,
trotting horses, reaping machines, impenetrable
locks and other things, and we have completely
astounded her in demonstrating our ability to
carry on q war that would be magnificent were
it not 80 horrible. We will now Guido her in
the matter Of watering places, and hereby pit
Saratoga for elegance, style, beauty, healthful-
ness and water to suit all or any tastes, against
any watering place Europe can boast Of, beside
throwing in race track that is OF once model
and marvel for its completeness and finish.
Congress Hall, the United States, the unique
Clarendon, the cosy American, and all the
other hotels in Saratoga, are undergoing i'm
provements in view of the coming summer sea-
son, which commences there on the first Of
June, and which, we repeat, promises to be
one Of unexampled brilliancy. We should
not neglect to mention in connection with
Saratoga that the construction Of q new
and splendid drive to the lake, some three or
four miles in length and one hundred and twenty
feet wide, is to be commenced Immediately,
and will prove to that region what the grand
boulevard from the Park around by Harlem
and Hudson rivers, through the rich valley Of
Washington Heights, will to the metropolis
Besides Saratoga there are other favorite and
long established watering places-Newport,
the White Mountains, Long Branch, Rockaway,
Schooley's Mountain, Cape May, and we do
not call to mind how many others, that will be
all in blaze Of glory the coming fashionable
seasons season during which, after period
Of woe and tribulation, the American people
can rejoice in the respondent sunshine Of
peace and restored and reviviHed nationality.
HAS THE WAR BEEN A FAnURE!-The Chi
cago Convention, It will be remembered, in
constructing Its platform, declared the war a
failure. The prophets of that day, unlike the
prophets Of old, have not been sustained by
subsequent events. The sagacious. DR.. Lardner
| once pronounced transatlantic steam naviga-
ton an impossibility. So with the sagacious
history makers Of the Chicago Convention.
Now, we request Mr.. August Belmont to issue a
ulase, calling the convention together again,
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