The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-07-16
NORTHERN WATERING PLACES.
A New, York letter, speaking of places Of

A New York letter, speaking of places OF
Summer resort in the North, says:
"An the pretty women and jolly fellows fwho
have any money! are out of town-more espe-
cially the pretty women. Some are drinking
Congress water (and champagne) at Saratoga
and the White Sulphur; others are studying
geology (and the way to get married) among
the Catskills and the Adirondacks; still others
| are fitting (and firtiog) over the fresh waters
of Lake George, Lake Champlain, ct al; and
still more of them revealing the pretty little
bare feet and their dear little forms (the latter
in bathing dress) among the cool, white-tipped
surges that fringe the beaten sands of Newport,
Nahant, Long Branch, etc. Poets may dream
and povelists twaddle about the beauty of
woman, robed in velvets and satins but the blue
bluff billow of the Atlantic could tell more
about the female form divine, as it falls upon
the white single and bursts into passionate tears
among the laughing bathers of Newport aud
! Nahant
Saratoga, and flying trip at that, has thus
far been the extent of my dissipation this sum-
mer. There were never before so many people
there as at present All the great hotels are
crowded to suffocation, aud | do not think there
is cottage to let. The latter, am very sorry
to say, are much in vogue among the demi-
monde, while many of the hotels contain so
many women of this class that it is difficult to
| distinguish them, at glance, from those who
arc supposed to retain their stand on the pedestal
of honor.
Indeed, during the last few years, this evil
has attained vast proportions, aud Saratoga is
the favorite resort for ladies without character.
At the very outset Of the season. it is the custom
for many of the "madames" of the better class
of Metropolitan houses of vice to go to Saratoga
and make arrangements for ample accommoda-
tons; and it is only after the season has fairly
opened that the unsuspecting proprietor finds
out that his choice cottages are to run through
the summer with stigma upon them, which
will seriously affect their value hereafter. It is
through the Vaccinations of these "madames"
that most of these women are brought to the
summer resorts; but the hotels are crowded
with hundreds (mostly accompanied by "gentle-
men, who leave the city for the country a
purely individual speculation And not the
least dsagreeable feature of this evil lies 10 the
fact that these women via certain recognition
everywhere. The pickpocket sliuks en- the
shady side, the confidence changes his
hotel frequently, and the wayside gamester is
compelled now and then to shift bis little
joker" from one position to another; only the
brazen and bedizened woman is permitted to
move whithersoever she will, without let or hin.
drance She can brush the skirts of your re-
lative on the promenade; her hired hack may
jostle the old family coach on the drive; the
hotel corridors and balconies are monopolized
by her; and generally she parades herself and
does as she pleases.
The gambler is another privileged character
at the watering places, and especially at Sarato
ga. The openness and extent with which
faro and ''keno" are carried on there at the
present time, recalls the scenes of California in
the early days, and will eventually rival the
shells" of Baden Baden and Heidelburgh
There three new establishments at Saratoga
this summer, and all the old ones are in full
blast Two OF these are said to be owned by
the Hon. John Morissey, whose blanks" were
| reported to have earned over half million of
dollars last year. Be that as it may, his chances
| for golden harvest this season appear to be
| equally ausncious