The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-11-05
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SARATOGA OUT OF SEASON.


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MARVIN HOUSE,. SARAroaA, Oct. as 1870
During the season which has passed one OF the
city papers had correspondent here who rejoced
In tho cognomcn OF Sparkle and his last letter. a.
we remember It, was rather deprecatory and lachry-
mous, and filed with lamentations Of departed
grandeur. II he were here now, where only the
sparkle OF the waters IL left he would see further
cause Of grief; for the ambent giores or Saratoga
have resolved themselves into the bottitng OF the
waters of these perennial springs. The crowds Of
visitors anu water drinkers have gone and left only
the remembrance OF them perpetuated by the hotel
registers which by and by may be deposited in some
autographs collection. The places where nocks Of
people lived and fed aud hoped and slept
are now deserted and shut mp, barred and
bolted without even q Waterman TO tell
the hour Of the night. ana these a few weeks
ago were In blaze OF brilliancy. Magnificent
houses are given up to emptiness and such prowl-
Ing tenants as may gain surrepttlous entrance.
Externally these houses Ill large space, have cost
heaps OF money, and make great show OF style and
amplitude, only equaled by the style and show and
amplitude displayed within them. The men and
women; the millionaire and the lesser stars OF
fashion; the thleE the gambler and the backlog;
The barber, the b0olbacx and the inevitable blue
stocking, together with all that large ana various
mass OF questionable humanity That goes TO make
up q sumner resort, have gone to their homes and
their oens. and Saratoga, f0rgetfu OF It's grandeur
friyollty, hops and horssracng. settles down into
the quiet and profitable pursuit OF bottllng This rs
not quite all. The city Ii yet making
in highways ana buildings. Even Broad
way Is not compieted but Is still reach
ing into the wilderness at both ends while
the work OF laying water pipes is going on through
Its length. The avenue to the lake has been laid out
100 feet wide. and this work u also going ON, and
dvi~,o
borhood, with scenery to match. In the way Of
building there are various demonstrations and I'm.
provements Morrissey Is enlarglng his club house,
and there are Indications OF the rebuilding Of the
United States Hotel destroyed i've or six years ago,
grand scale Some private houses OF good
dimeaiions ana snowy charac.er are also IN pro
boarding houses, which abound here, and many OF
which are yet open for guests.
The SaratOgasprings are wonder not commonly
appreciated, and the accounts published concerning
them are almost as wonderful. The existence OF
one one Q, these springs and the use Of dates
the Continent, and It's history through these
untold years Is said 70 be 'repls!e with
legends. garanded with oriental metaphors and
embelllshcd with oil the hi9h.wrought fiction SO
history ends with the beginning Of the eighteenth
century, when, in 17oi the whites obtained from the
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Republic, and IN which Was located ''the red mans
pool OF soam," which the historian chooses to call
many other springs have been discovered, each pos
sessing some remarkable quality or virtue in nature
markable OF these is the one which has been named
The 'Geyscr Spring." wei Known no doubt, TO
many readers OF the HERALD; but 1t is compare
lively OF very recent origin, having been opened In
March, 1870. II lies or to the south OF the village,
on the Ballston road, westerly from Saratoga Lake,
about mile and half from the principal hotels
on Broadway. 1t is remarkable not merely Tor tie
qualities OF the water, but also as ..spouting
spring. on account OF which It merits the name
with carbonic acid gas and each squirt OF the water
Is followed by one OF gas, SO that between the two
from side faucet Ike soda water, the fixed air fills
The glass with foa just as II drawn from an arti.
white glass bottles and there Is already large de-
mand for the water. visit TO this spring and the
VIII wen repay te tlme required very
season, IL has been visited by $4,000 persons, and
large number still daily register their names here.
water is thrown to height OF twenty feet. IL has
been Analysed by Professor Chandler, and found 10
and greater amount OF gas than the water Of any
other spring In the place. The water, II Is said,
ike the others Is in the infringement Of COM
pany, and will no doubt, yield the stockhoia-
the nag has n,da mot been so deeply
public. with The admonition, not elsewhere
seen BY ~, "Remember the dlpper boy,m but
presumed he had gone with the rest as dpper boys,
ike everything else here live with the season. and
Water cures from the time OF the Mohawk Indians,
have existed aud grown up with tho place and
AFFORD good opportunity for moderate amount OF
PLAIN high capacity II it could live here through the
year, might be very useful. Sir William johnson,
the great counsellor and arm friend Of the Six
Nations, was brought here IN 1857, the first dis
tlngushed white patient, and recovered his health
at the first water cure founded by the naive Indians
1t Is even nmatcd that tho successful treatment OF
his case by the medicine men OF that time made the
place more desirable to the whites and led to Its
fnol O a M 0rtt W
subjected TO the iron rule OF summer s0lsce and
open to invads as the springs at all Of
the year. and more or less substantially at all prices
In this thing, at least, Saraioga 10 not an annual
mushroom and Its springs are what the Mohawks
thought them to be, ga precious gift from the Great
Splrit,n which they only I'm solemn council agreed
to reveal to their beloved brother.n
this year than ever before, Notwithstanding the
Empress Eugene did not come over to occupy those
splendid cottages prepared for her, and which were
turned over TO some wealthy New York families.
instead Of what has happened, had her Majesty ful
filled the intention TO visit this country as she did
Egypt which was imputed to her? Perhaps she may
nnd It convenient ana agreeable 70 make tne visit
the races come Oh. ~
For 1870 the season OF Saratoga has closed The
gaudy procession has passed by: the gay splendor,
brilliant dressings glitterng diamonds fascinating
faces, charming forms, loves or bonnets; the Sc
cuded walks beautiful drives, bcwIldering hops
all these have passed by AMI the vast vacuum, until
another season comes round may become vast
water cure--a character which 1t loses during the
reign OF fashion. The grow Ing destinations OF New
port and Long Branch within few years past have,
doubtless retarded the growth OF Saratoga; but 80
bathing and drinking. and so long as the devotees
Of pleasure become paed and debilitated, so long
viii Saratoga be necessary and popular and renew
It's gay life year by year.