The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-08-23
WATERING PLACE NOTES.

Visitors at Newport leave q, oooo 900 year.
Thousands went TO cool at Long Branch yester-
day.
Six dollars per day are charged at the White Noun
tains, exclusive OF 'extras.n
The beach at Darien Is among the finest on the
Atlantic seaboard.
Willard Fillmore is the beau among the old men
at Saratoga.
Stamford supports two 1ne hotels, and the guests
have recently been numerous.
People from Far Rockaway report that the intense
heat does not visit that quarter.
Lake Mlnnetonka Mn, is full OF big fish I; its bed
Is covered with ferns and mosses and as clear as
the finest grove on the Sound Is situated between
Norwalk and Darien. Biackflsnipg, free clam bakeg
and incomparable bathing are the attractions.
At The recent hop at the Long Island Hotel, Centre
Moricnes, the bellies OF the evening were Mrs, Dough-
esty, Miss Dunkin aud Mrs Galpin, all OF this city.
The country press is teeming with letters from the
various summer resorts. Their editors have no bills
to pay; in other words, they pay their board IN
Mount Mansfield ia now being visited by large
numbers, who find the scenery attractive and the
weather favorable enough to make the difficult
ascent.
new carriage road has been constructed up
Noun! Mansfield. The Summit House on the crest
is fine house and filed With guests.
Gettysburg Is fast Gng up with visitors to the ap-
proachng reunion IT Ia proposed TO close the Ia
bors of the officers with grand ball.
An exchange says there have been only about
l,00J Visitors 10 the Adirondack regions this season.
end the rush or that number constitutes one) Is
OG campers say That the parties VINO style them
serves Murray's fools are no sportsmen and can't
see beauty in nature unless they it very com.
Iorla~.". =. roo , ,.,
evenings SINCE The Revolution, says sac Is "a
handsome young lady OF about twenty-one years.
was beautifully attred in rich black SIX with q
white satin supcc and II the lecture she delivered
at the cape Is a fair sample Of her intellectual
powers she Is the way to become The brightest or
Dament on the platform Of human rights that we
have on tAls CoItlueut.n
A southern paper thus snars at Northern shod-
dy:-"The White sulphur Springs, In Greenbrier. Va
has been favorlte resort for the gentle folks Of the
South for hundred years. Shoddy, which has OF
late years held high carnival at oil the Northern
watering places has not been tolerate at the White
Sulphur. A few sporadic cases OF shoddy, imported
from the Morrill, are reported of late. The late great
event was 50 brilliant an affair ina, quite ecpsed
Of such creatures as HelmDoid and other shoddy
princes. our own city, 1t seems, was represented
II ID good thing to be at tue White Sulphur now,
and VIII be better to be there on the 25h, at the
next ba.'
From the long portico Of saratogas most fash
onabe hotel, from the glded salons o, Long Branch
and Newport ana even from the uttermost heights
OF the WHITE nountains and elsewhere there comes
and toll to send mamma Gushington and the dear
girls to these fashionable resorts The man OF the
period Will none Of t-cold n0sed dog that he sbe
WIN st him down under the trees and smoke Instead
Of doing his duty on the porch, in the surf and in
ties dressed unto death walk those drearv porches
with their arms twned lovingly around each others
| waists and giggle panteringy over each Others
shoulders, while he sits serene aud cool with his
| horrible cigar and won't bite, fish they never 30
| wisely.
Saratoga letter says:--''One OF the greatest
| nuisances at hotel Is a handsome young man. lie
~ an intoierabe bore TO all tue ladies' OF good sense
| In the house. II might be allowed suggestion
would advise every father who Is threatened WIN
handsome man IN the family Just 10 take clothes
| FOUNDER and batter his nose TO pumfce. For some
cause or other nine out Of ten Of the handsome mel
You meet are cobceited jackdaws, They cutivau
their hair and complexion SO much that they havt
no time TO think Of their brains BY the time the'
reach thirty their heads and hands are equally soit
Ihere are three or Tour OF these specimens OF M
mainly stopping at Congress Hall You are sure 4
mud them astride the piano stool or boring som
youfg lady 70 sing an ar from opera DOnGe. AZ be
| fore observed, they are an intoerable nuisance"