The New York herald., 1867-06-21
TIE WATERING PLACES.
SARATOGA SPRINGS.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.
sARAroaA Srnrxas, June /,

SARATOGA STRINGS. June 10, 1857.
This great head centre Of fashionable frivotes rta-
tions fops and funkes has just undergone thorough
brushing up In anticipation Of the approaching season
Of 1897 Congress Spring Park with its secluded walks
beautiful shade trees, remarkable marble statues ana
more remarkable Irritation stools has been improved by
the laying out OF new walks and the Introduction Of ad
dtonal trcea By the by, those alarming marble figures
have just perfected their summer toilets having been
thoroughly scrubbed BY small boy, who with nail
brush - we passed him this morning most vgor-
ousy polishing or "Ajax Defying the Lightning" or
anything else you choose to ca the very melancholy
gentleman who with one hand grasping his back hair
or waterfall and the other hid In breast pocket looks
with most beseechng expression toward Congress
Spring. a. u implorng one Of the dip boys for drink.
This statue, besides being ornamental frightens little
children out Of the Park.
Another evidence or the season having opened the
arrival Of Now York shopkeepers, who have already
resident merchants Representatives Of the lost tribes
Of Israel arc % be met behind every counter and every
monopolze the entire retail trade Of the village.
mo 70 umoian HOTEL which was destroyed by hre
ste-whsre Methodist church is to appear-but dow n
town. In ths vicinity Of that fashionable resort, the
CLARENDON HOTEL which WAS opened june and has been
greatly improved by repaintng, reurnishing and
larging. The band Will arrive at this house week,
and II one may judge from the style and number OF the
be, as in past season, the resort Of the quality.
The Union Hall was opened on the 10TH inst by Major
W. Leland. who has offered the of Opera House
TO the Constitutional Convention II currently re-
ported hero that the Convention will adjourn from
Albany July to Saratoga and here remain until the
final adjournment
Congress Hall has not progressed very rapidly of late
owing 10 the scarcity OF brck-a supply OF which has
now been obtained and full force will be employed,
and Il IL hoped the hotel will be ready for tho next
season.
Tho United States Hotel will certainly be rebuilt on
grand scale, but will not be completed before next
70 nide the ruins of what the chief
OF Saratoga
Bouquet Johnny has not arrived, but the blind man
mas come to hand and has anchored himself usual az
Congress Spring. There any number of most be-
wtching looking creatures with very high ciqnon to
% seen at the Clarendon where gentlemen are in great
reQues-or how s one TO do the spring before breakfast
or the round Of dances In the evening without a
cavalier High boots and lamenaby skirts prevail
~ the spring IN the morning. but the other is
painfully visible in the evenings when sure 70 be.
come entanRed in the fearful trails he encounters In the
hotels and streets.
The new avenue to the lake is now finished and Is In
pretty good condition. and the August races will occur
as usaa despite the efforts the clergy to prevent
them so says the Hon. John Morrissey
One word about The Rensselaer, and Saratoga Railroad
which fs most deploraby managed, the trains being
from ono to two hours behind time every day in dis
Ance OF forty miles Think OF consuming two hours in
running distance OF thirty six miles, from Albany here
commodore Vanderbilt will season build railroad
direct frem Troy through saltwater place. here to
connect with the Adirondack Railroad thus opening q
now route TO Saratoga and Niagara Falls.