The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-07-18
WATERING PLACE NOTES.
E1curslons increase ard multiply.
Newport ia getting very crowded.

E1ctvslOns increase ard multiply.
Newport ia getting very crowded.
The st. Lawrence route is crowded.
Senator Sprague will spend August in Martha
Vineyard.
Niagara Falls. 1t is said, has been chosen for tn,
next reunion Of the Ninth Army Corps.
Saratoga has got beyond caring for counts. No
thing but earls are wanted there
Ex-General j. Longsreet, Confederate States
Army, is at Saratoga.
Saratoga has at last got It's steam FULLY up. and
social life has assumed its oldfashioned phase there
abOuts.
Croqueting and lOve-making are fashionable in.
dustries at the seaside.
The new billiard room OF the Union Hotel, Sara
toga, Is nearly finished.
The steamers now touch at all the island towns in
the lower end OF Lake Champlan.
Long Branch is to have circulating library for
the ladies'
The table linen OF many OF the summer resort hotels
is disgustingy dirty
wedding and several picnics ana fetes are on the
taps among Staten Island tashonables.
several prominent city cergymen are luxuriating
in the cool breezes OF the ocean at Newport
Horseback riding is fashionable for ladies at the
seaside and springs this season.
Governor Theodore +. Randolph of New Jersey;
ii. M Conger II. Little, W. Ii. Macklay and the Gov
ernor's stan arrived at Long Branch yesterday and
Monogram window shades and curtains and WIFI lite
cashmere d0oc mats are affected by many Of the
cottage elite at Newport.
inyalids should refrain from surf bathing. as the
sudden shock ID not calculated to improve their con
dition. =
Niagara hotels, evidently hurried away by the ex-
travagant charges.
Round about swings. or, as the say down East,
"fandangOs" have been erected near the Atlantic
House, Cape May
Three slides or falls Of rock from the wiloughby
Lake mountains have been seen in one week from
the Wiloughby House.
Excited frenchman at Niagara Falls-"Ah dis is
de grand spektakel Supaarb MagnifQue BY
gar. lie is come down first rate %
The proprietor Of the TlpTop House at Mount
Washington IS obliged TO keep constant fires in
order to keep the rooms comfortable for visitors
The proprletors OF the Mammoth Cave In Ken
lucky nave fitted up one OF the chambers ball
room, which IS to he opened this month with first
class mop.
At Newport the fishing in the harbor Is not as
good Just now as 1t has been but on saturday last
pounds Of striped bass They sold them at ten
cents per pound which made fourteen dollars for
The attractions OF Cape Ann for obtaining fresh
supply OF exhausted energy are quite in keeping
with the ideas OF most denzens Of the "Hubn Ii be-
ing easy Of access by rail or steamer quiet and re-
tired vet close at hand. Sundays, especially the
rush is great by boat from Boston.
Bathers should not be In the water more than
twenty minutes and not more than once a day. Ere
guent bathing produces cramps, and II these are
not produced the effect Of the Indulgence viii GER.
member the words Of the negro MINSTREL song:-
OH mother, may go out SWIM
Yes, darling daughter;
Hang your clothes o a hickory limb.
But don't 60 the water.
At a fashionable bah In Saratoga the other night
q man. tautessy dressed went from lady TO lady
vainy endeavorng TO secure q partner. All fled
from him, and at last the room was nearly vacated
OF the frightened creatures when the man quietly
seated himself TO await their return. He was, how
ever, marched out Of the hall BY policeman, 1t
being plainly evident that he was drunk though he
was himself sublhney unconscious Of the melancholy
fact From THIS We are to infer that excessive drink
ing II very shocking to our best society.
writer from Newport gets or the following
about TIE 'long beach:'Ths favorie resort Ia Just
now in oil Its glory, and hundreds daily invade Nep-
tnne's domains, aud toy with the lid waves. ON
niDuses commence running about nine IN the morn
Tug, and from tnat time a steady stream OF
carriages and pedestrians, from dawn until
one O'Clock. when the red Tag Is run
up and tie gentlemen alone are all0wn
on the premises. As rule the pebcians are on the
ground first, much TO the annoyance OF the aristoc
racy, when they arrive later, and some Indignation
Is manifested when they find the boxes all occupied
and are obiged To wait their turn But first come,
first served. In the surf all shades OF society are
represented, and fora time all social distinctions are
washed out The rich and the poor gay and
grave, cultivated aud uncultivatcd CON-
Dine 10 make up the scene. The fairest ladies
that yesterday graced the avenue and that last
night at the Ocean House, danced to the admiration
of every spectator are among them. But what q
stays, chignons, rats curls ana Planners. and all