The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-02
SUMMER RESORTS.
Saratoga-Its Floating POpulation-The H0.
tells and tho Opera House.

wheaton grits and long drawn prayers, are already
beginning to put In an appearance hereabouts.
IT'S the same old story every year, otherwise it
would not be Saratoga. The greasy old blind man,
who never ceases to exclam, 'Drink the water ana
try your weight" sits in his accustomed chair near
Congress spring and beside the same venerable
scales which he has balanced the floating popula-
tOn of Saratoga for a score OF years.
The floating population Is divided into two distinct
Glasses which may be termed respectively the fash
ionable class and the consideration" class. Under
each may be enumerated the foowng:-
FashionabeS. ConstderdtioniStS.
Lords. Indians
Counts, Gypsies
Dukes, Milliners,
BarOns, Neniers,
SnObs, Pork pie pedlers,
ShOddy, Organ grinders
Petroleum aristOcracy Faro bankers
Goldfish aristocracy, Keno Players
Imaginary inva!ids. Dice beavers.
All of that peculiar and checkered class which
c0mpOses Saratoga summer society and renders it
80 elevating inviting and enjoyable, including, of
course. the large muscular and energetic mosquitoes,
are already permanently located here for the
OF 1885,
NEW CONGRESS HALL,
with its imposing front OvershadOwing the Union
Hotel opposite, was completed and thrown open to
the public on the 18th instant. This monster hotel
has NOT Its equal In America, and besides furnishing
rooms for fourteen hundred guests 1t will furnish
twice that number OF items for newspaper correspond
ents who will vie with each other in descanting on
Its two hundred miles OF bell wire, and its dining
hall, capable of seating thirteen hundred hungry
souls.
There is a Bohemian deadhead now busy here
making calculation for "IIunts Magazine OF the
number or carpet tacks used in laying the carpets
by A. 1. Stewart who supplied all the carpets and
Inc Congress has front of five hundred feet and
is Ave stories high on Broadway and seven in the
hni a nn
from Broadway. Each corner Of the front is sur
mounted with towerlike structure, which looms
up from the Mansard roof to the height OF perhaps
thirty feet. Another OF these structures, on the
centre OF the building, Ia sixty feet square, The
travaganty large and as extravagantly furnished
One cannot do Justice to this evlathan Of hotels In
bref article. However, one must be allowed TO lin
ger moment on the grand piazza, which Is the most
Rlluring feature Of the new Congress Hall.
here Anna Kate my lea said the obese
merated az sh0ddy, land gaze down this unending
piazza"
Miss Anna Kate approached and gazing down it,
opened her irresistible pOutng lips and uttered that
profound word, splendid" with great emphasis,
and then glided out OF sight, munchiny her peanuts
Imagine three thousand square feet Of piazza,
densey populated with wei ganished, long trailed
lOveliness adorned In smiles and ortmps. Think Of
the long platoons OF gushing Emma James, who will
march and countermarch, coquet and CONQUER on
this battle field. Fancy the endless assortment OF
solitary corkscrew rlngets depending from elevated
chignOns, that will fioat to the breeze on this very
dulcianas who will here display that latest female
accomplishment, ''the Grecian bend" Who dare
attempt to compute the ininty OF feminine sweet
ness, who during the sultry months, will simPer In
these inviting piazza chairs and seek TO win the al.
mammas watch with eager eyes the progress Of
the nlrtat0nY Who Will carefully estimate the num-
Der OF ionS sweils ana dlstlnsmsaeG ioLegners"
selves on Tor more than they are currently worth at
home (which is the Chief study OF the average at
watering places. Human nature, SO full OF tncOn-
BistenceS. may be studied to advantage IN all its
phases on this piazza. Shoddy shall Toll in these
ditto, ditto. Goldfish shall stalk these boards. Pc
trolia shall here attempt refinement Fops shall here
stare virtue out OF countenance, and Flora McFlim
BY shall here wilt the exquisite MIR. Dazzle-for great
Ia Congress Hall, and greater its grand piazza
TIE CLARENDON,
which opened June l. contains larger population
than the other houses and maintains Its position as
the leading hotel OF Saratoga Its elevated location
charming surroundings aDd refined society make 1t
the resort OF that lofty class embraced In the upper
ten. The accomplished Knife swalowers, who en-
the naked eye at almost every other hotel,
have not as yet penera ed the Clarendon.
We saw this afternoon, on the north piazza, four
cane seat chairs, containing crinoine valued at the
moderate figure OF two millions (eurrencyl or an
81 h"e to he % e Hea
an opportunity for brilliant euterprlsng young
man, out OF q situation and having small capital
The Clarendon band Will arrive July g. and will per-
form ut Congress spring every iaorhing from six
until seven, during the guzzlng process at the
spring.
makes very respectable exhibit Of humanity in its
panors and on Its piazzas. The Messrs. Simeon,
Warren and William Leland the proprietors, are this
year assisted by their nephews, Lewis and George,
the former late OF the Occidental san Francisco The
inevitable Brown mot Isaac Brown, Of Grace church
fame), VINO is fixture ut the Union, il In his
toned place In the Office, waiting patiently to assign
one thousand guests rooms as soon as one thousand
shall arrive. Brown IL very genial; he can talk to
forty people at once aud make each think he has got
the best room In the house ; In short,
Brown Is only slightly excelcd by John Chamberlain,
a. the Clarendon, WHO would p rsuade Ben Butler
that stealing spoons was honorable aud that obliquc
eyes were fashionable, II he chose TO make Butler
happy. The Union will have new and elegant
white marble front built THIS ial Which VIII eclipse
are completed, and the Union next season will be
able to stare the Congress out OF eoanienance Hairs
Boston band Is Engaged TO dulcHy the guests at the
Union, aud win arrive July s.
LELASD's orEaA HOUSE
has been leased by Old Max, who promises to bring
"Bcie uelcne' and the "Grind Duchess 10 Saratoga
to recuperate. Harry Sandcr-Ou VIII again delight
several Saratoga audiences with mis- double octave
et,sdes and operate fantasies al the opera House.
and Professor Haner, tue brunswick pianist and
comic vocalist Is announced % give so,ree musicale
at the Berd0tha Water Cure, Tor the benefit Of poor
Horace Greeley's last ism, the "Freedmea's Naval
Academy" George w. Morgan wiil be due here ia
July, when he will organize Ia the Catholic church,
assisted by Sherr Campbell and George simpson.
The amateur musical talent exlihlied al the hotels
IA fearful TO contemplate, AMI 1t seems impossible TO
tell what terrible bores until the expert.
ment is tried. The amateur always assails the most
diiicult music and IS aiwa's conquered by It, Young
ladies were formerly more harmless. They made red
wOrstcd puppies and unavailable pinCushi0ns for
fancy fairs now, fOrsOOti, they must assault Doni
zetti Mercadane, Verdi, and other very respectable
masters. who no doubt have sinned deeply, but who
really do not deserve such treatment.
SARATOGA LLAGE
has perceptably improved since last season.
one hundred or more dwellings have been
erected within the past year, and the great
want OF additional private boarding houses Will
be supplied in thUse just butt. Congress Spring
Park. with Its remarkable Irritation stools and
Its hdcOus marble statue 81, which continue TO
brighten children is thronged WIN newly married
couples from Tie agricultural districts, VINO Indulge
In the most amusing connrbaiij'cS and perccptibe
brcastrins. Bran married couples are to DE met
on every corner and encountered la every hotel Yes,
they mOnOpOzc the npnd cars al the circular railway
and they drive out to the lc and gorge themselves on
Moons fried potatoes, anc occupy all his parlOrs and
private dining rooms. rep ihtO the bowling alleys
down by the lake, and there behold a score ~ per-