New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-19
A BooKKEEPER's TESTIMONY
MOVEMENTS or THE PRESIDENT

THE GREAT SATURDAY NIGHT RUsH-DIsAP-
POINTMEST AT THE NON ARRIVAL OF PREsI-
DENT CONGRATULATIONS FOR HIS ENTER
TAINMENT-HoTEL PERSONALS, ETC.
Lone BRANCH, July 17.-Watering place life
has been often criticised and condemned by dsap
pointed pleasure seekers and experienced tourists that
wonders TO a continuance every returning sea-
son. Of the fearful rush to the popular People
leave comfortable homes and all the euoyments OF quiet
domestic life TO participate in the discomforts and an
noyances that mako up the OF existence az these
places and then call 1t pleasure seeking. Here they
submit TO DO crowded three or four in q
ROOM with scant furniture and no eleganoies
i've on the most ordinary food and frequently tho most
wreched hotel fare submit TO the arbitrary demands OF
10 twenty out Of every twenyionr 70 the varied
occupations that are 40 much more Weaving tnan SgG
lar business pursuts-bathng, walking, dressing dIly
ing eating Idancng drinking, RosspinR-beconie utterly
exhausted and broken down IN health ana Mteng' anu
morning tho BATH which must be taken before = or .
o'clock cannot be overlooked ana aer ne ost inc uu
zone through with, ahording no time for rect
until long a 10 because t Is fashionable Amo
can people both male and female are greater slaves
sSE t' For Fashions sakeor custom. II tnat is better
word-they would and do torture themselves 70 IeAh
and count it q pleasure 10 mako the saernoe lax OF
%eigIon Were Christian people TO work onequArer as
bard or make ttho OF the sacrifices for principles
sake the om TO long down
,,is aftsrnoon crowded almost beyond precedent Pas
sN WSIS psSfs from SS Vest to feed the East
dense was the crowd that lndlSlduals were 1cLuss3
and compelled to remain motonless to the
end Of tho trip. Hundreds stood u1 iSGIr
peiSSbors unn relieved by the arrival Of the boats at
Then shfy ur Teds on IN the sWssns
heat and dust, TO be finally dumped az tne NE S S
hotels mere roo n f6 IL seeking little recreation the
seasde Doubtless the rush OF to-day was greater tha
usual ond be here But the President failed to put IN
an appearance. Why he failed is not hS eI
p13Sds bv he u TSal world Of picture and
fashion at Cape May and held q prlsoGer thet err
a., until tuesday whereat the crowd that came
down from NewYork merely 70 spen9 p h,y a
tors, on the contrary are perfectly satisfied SHED inc
fact the season here has thus Tar peen anu
only the anticipation OF the arrival OF tne &
has served MI the houses the longer that IAN
be kept matter Of anticipation rather imam
In looking over the hotel registers nouce Dnt lew
prominent here as yet ars Sut cases
The crowd Is mainly composed OF the peoPi1S 0S o ~,
every n %a'' recognized by the old KnckeIbocker
Srisocracy OF tho metropolis stu there aLo Inyse so
gtbeTwlse than among the most select ana many % nc
ged standing The stetson House ss no S
Mrs Robert Lincoln, exsecretary Harlan ana Nie zen
J. H. Ledlle and Wife Attorney, General ,e Rrady
no photographer sheridan Shook the eTCoheetor anu
coo oshsf Stockton Huyck the Hon
m n Cougar and the Hon H. g. Little, All Of Newer
av helm 10 swell the multitude at the Mansion h0use
~ continental has captured the big indians Oh Tam
many Hail. from Grand sachem Tweed down 70 s Saga
"re Roome and Is doing good business with tnen
Zen Latin OF North Carolina, Col usher Oh nom Sn
Ida Uager and Capt BOrnham OF san FRANCISCO, neIP
sake up the company at the Metropolitan Inc stoE
0ns propose making sensation OF Gen uais u aen
Ss STAY here Beside the usual mop on IhuIsny IN 6Is
Special aud very select ball VIII be given ~ 10
ing nor ON some evening not yet determined upon h ~
ich invitations will be extended 70 all the ieah
W" Ian within reach. Charley StetsOns IouI'ihH"N"
nc men at the Presldents service during his stay
HIS ARRIVAL AT CAPE MAY.
CAPE MAY, N. j., July 1.-THE Iallapoosa
ITed here at five o'clock this morning and aier 'AA
breakfast Oh board, General Grant family anu sui'o
dove from the steamboat landing on the pay SUI W
,,d states Hotel The General and FANNY 'y S 1ha
bnaiS and, after partakng Of the osptockton House
ptd states Hotel, removed 10 the stSSn morning
Unlle" tbey will remain until until Tuesdsy a m Y}s
,r reaching the island this morning tT PseTyes The
Tomp Upton and reviewed the Gray ncers This
lens received their old commander VIII VIII The reception
trOOl the General and family Will nttenu ~, Monday
ey9she Gray Reserves AZ Congress Hail. al" W DAVNN"'
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